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The right time to prepare for an emergency is now. If you have not yet taken steps to have systems and procedures in place for an unexpected disaster or catastrophe, the loss and damage could be irreparable. Here are some areas to consider as you prepare for business for emergencies.
How much better to avoid a disastrous event in the first place! Checking safety and fire prevention systems regularly will give your property the best chance of coming through a disaster with the least amount of harm. Be sure to adhere to the installation of fire code California so that you will have the correct equipment in place.
Supplies at the Ready
A comprehensive emergency kit that is easily accessible is a necessity for every business. Here are some items that should be on hand:
- First aid kit
- Whistles to signal for help
- Dust masks
- Spare batteries
- Radio(s) that can run off of solar, battery, or windup
- Waterproof tape
- Waterproof matches
- Soap, paper towels, and toilet paper
- Basic tool kit
- Nonperishable food
- Bottled water
While by no means exhaustive, have these items stocked as well as with whatever your local government and emergency services recommend as necessary for your locale.
Routes for Evacuation
Highly visible evacuation routes should be posted. Be sure to designate two or three different escape plans in case-specific routes or pathways are blocked. Regular safety meetings should include reviewing these plans so that all staff is fully aware of them.
Protection of Records
Ensure that vital documents have duplicates that are kept in a fireproof and waterproof safe. Enlist a service that can offer cloud solutions for continuous backup of critical programs and data.
Emergencies rarely strike with much advanced warning. When you have well-planned arrangements in place, you can minimize loss and get back to normal much sooner than later. | <urn:uuid:a0ddd008-8ebd-41e5-99fb-6f65fabf0b79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://luisdelia.org/vital-elements-of-a-business-emergency-preparedness-plan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948035 | 401 | 2.09375 | 2 |
(MyRecipes.com) -- Since Aphrodite, Greek Goddess of Love, appeared on the scene in mythology, modern-day diners have been trying to bring her back to the dinner table. We can help.
Foods of love
Dating back to the Aztecs, a sultry rumor existed that certain foods could either increase sex drive or enhance fertility. According to the buzz-kills at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, sampling chocolate, oysters, and asparagus might make you feel more amorous, but it won't do a thing for your sex drive. Myths and legends aside, we choose to believe that you can make a little magic with a mouthwatering recipe. Why not try a few using these alleged aphrodisiac foods and see what happens?
The Aztecs called chocolate the "food of the gods", perhaps because it contains chemicals thought to affect neurotransmitters in the brain. Chocolate also contains a caffeine-related compound called theobromine, which acts as a mild stimulant. Whether it was their minds or their hearts racing after nibbling on the rich treat, we're confident that everyone left the ancient dessert buffet happy.
A second century A.D. writer documented oysters as an aphrodisiac when he described the wanton ways of women after they had been eating oysters and drinking wine. Oysters also contain zinc, a mineral famous for fighting cold symptoms, that also controls libido-altering progesterone levels and is rumored to stave off impotence.
While some foods get all the hype for their flavor or texture, others shoot into aphrodisiac stardom solely based on their shape. Rich in potassium and B-vitamins, vitamins necessary for the production of certain steamy hormones, bananas rule the symbolically suggestive category for Mood Foods.
Dating back to the days of Samson and Delilah, when it's reputed that Samson pursued the long-haired beauty with branches from an almond tree, the nuts have been a symbol of fertility. Plus, the aroma of almonds was thought to induce passion in a woman.
In Medieval times, mead--a fermented drink made from honey--was used as an aid to seduction. In many parts of Europe, newly married couples were supplied with enough mead for a month in order to sweeten the marriage. From this practice comes the modern tradition of the honeymoon.
Also known as "rocket", the seed of this leafy green has been documented as an aphrodisiac since the first century A.D. It was often combined with pine nuts and pistachios. Representing "the seed," foods such as bulbs, eggs, snails were considered to have sexual powers stemming from their ability to grow, produce, or just remind diners of the possibility of an after-dinner dessert to remember.
The Queen of The Nile, Cleopatra herself, often craved this juicy fruit. Long-celebrated for its ancient reputation for boosting fertility (they can boast over 1000 tiny seeds inside each piece of fruit), figs also get added Mood Food status for their overall appearance.
The next time you start to dip your chip, remember that the Aztecs heralded the avocado tree as loincloth-girding ground. The fruit from the tree hangs in pairs, making it a symbol of male strength and fertility.
Nineteenth century bridegrooms were served three courses of asparagus because of its reported aphrodisiac powers. This recipe offers double the love power because ginger is considered an aphrodisiac spice. | <urn:uuid:9ae5d0c7-b2e2-42f3-a5a0-68715b898694> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/homestyle/02/05/mr.in.mood.foods/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962441 | 779 | 1.953125 | 2 |
In the midst of heatwave conditions, even for La Mancha in August, a small team from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) returned to Barrax to conduct a second set of reflectance measurements. Our aim was straightforward: collect surface reflectance (specifically hemispherical-conical reflectance factor – HCRF) data to internationally recognised fiducial reference measurement (FRM) standards, coincide with the satellite overpasses of Sentinel-2A, the twin Sentinel-3 pair orbiting in tandem, PROBA-V and Landsat 8 – all within a measurement window of 90 minutes. So the date was set for Thursday the 2nd August 2018.
On Wednesday morning, the day before the overpass, we found ourselves in the familiar surroundings of the Barrax – Las Tiasas experimental farm, greeted by clear blue skies. We set to work assessing the current crop conditions and formulating plans for the next day. The plan was to take two sets of measurements within the overpass window – one over the low reflectance alfalfa field (from the pea family) and one from high reflectance bare soil.
At the height of summer, most fields in the vicinity were not cultivated, except where the rotating hydration system was activated (hence the circular fields). The image below is the Sentinel 2 image on the day. Although it would appear at a glance that most of the area was in a ‘bare soil’ phase, in reality the closest fields to the green alfalfa area contained crop or other debris from previous farming cycles, so discounted as test sites. After some walking around two sites were selected, all we had to do was wait for the satellites!
Plots, of dimension 200 m by 200 m, were paced out using GPS, and measurement locations within these plots marked with flags. Every preparation was made to save time in the critical period of the following day – a schedule was scrupulously prepared to account for every precious minute of the multi-overpass window.
As Thursday dawned, the team set out provisioned with copious water supplies. At each point, the spectroradiometer was normalised to the reference Spectralon panel (tuning the sensor configuration: integration time, etc.) with two panel reflectance measurements made either side of four reflectances measurements. With bare soil readings completed, we rapidly shifted operations to the alfalfa field and took a further set of measurements there, carrying the heavy calibration panel and other equipment through the dense field all the while watching out for the (well-concealed) irrigation channels that criss-crossed the field. At the time of the overpass it was easy to imagine the satellites zooming over ahead, though of course invisible to us in the bright skies. A couple of hours spent shunting all measurement and calibration equipment around the fields in 40 degree temperatures was sufficient to complete our practical work, in time for a late lunch of refreshing gazpacho soup at the local roadhouse cafe.
We are now in the process of analysing the results, and, furthermore, applying FRM techniques to these data.
Thank you to Dr José González Piqueras and Alonso Garrido, of the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM), for generously assisting with logistics and storage of equipment. Their department does a great deal of work on both Earth Observation and long-term in-situ monitoring at this field site – check out their website (in Spanish – click small flag for the English version). We’d also like to thank ‘super-sub’ Dr Paul Green, of NPL, for stepping up to the plate to very ably assist with transport and field assistant duties. | <urn:uuid:2ab1f1f5-4ee0-43b6-a1bb-da38bc627e01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://frm4veg.org/2018/09/03/the-return-to-barrax-las-tiesas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943747 | 771 | 2.390625 | 2 |
The legislative bill for the SPACE Act of 2015 has passed both houses of Congress. Any day now, it will head off to the Oval Office for President Barack Obama’s signature. If it becomes a law — and it most probably will — the SPACE Act (the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act) will have big effects on how humans conduct space travel operations.
The first major thing the law would do is give private spaceflight companies (SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin, etc.) an extended eight-year buffer before government rules kick in to regulate innovations and technology standards. Government regulations are enacted to reduce the risk of something bad happening during a commercial spaceflight. That’s not an entirely bad idea, especially when you consider how many privately-launched rockets and ships have blown up in the last couple of years.
Of course, that’s the price of R&D. You don’t get better at something unless you’ve tested it out multiple times, and that’s exactly what Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and other billionaire space oligarchs are trying to do: Get better at spaceflight so that they can finally meet government standards. The regulatory reprieve — now extended to September 2023, will allow these companies some more time to learn without fear of reprisal.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has emphasized the need for private companies to (literally) take off and play a more prominent role in space travel and exploration. For spaceflight to move forward into the 21st century and become a bigger part of our lives, NASA will need to start handing the reins off of some operations to other entities that have the capital to invest in launches and pull things off.
The second part of the bill — about space resource rights — is much more crucial. The law would provide companies with property rights for resources found and mined from asteroids and other rocks floating around in space. The SPACE Act is the first piece of U.S. legislation to address the issue of natural resources behind Earth’s orbit — and it basically says, “finders-keepers.” Title IV of the law defines ‘space resource’ as “an abiotic resource in situ in outer space.” That means pretty much anything that someone can find a use for.
While the law specifically forbids ownership of asteroids and planets — which would be in violation of international treaties anyways — it paves the way for companies to begin making plans to mine asteroids, and even the moon, for resources. NASA has already received proposals for how people might go about landing a robot on the surface of a near-Earth asteroid and dig into it for resources.
What resources exactly would people be looking for? The answer is water. Water isn’t just an important resource for keeping humans alive. It also has a strong potential for use as a rocket fuel. If humans currently want to travel to other worlds, they have to carry all their fuel with them, creating storage constraints and also necessitating more fuel in order to lug all of it around. But if we’re able to mine different places in space for water, we could refuel ships on the go.
There’s even water on the moon — perhaps billions of tons of it — sitting below the rocky surface. NASA itself is actually developing two different missions that will explore how to mine it out and store it, and at least a few companies like Moon Express and Shackleton Energy Resources are also developing technologies for such operations as well.
Water mining on the lunar surface suddenly transforms the moon into an essential stopping point for any crewed ships heading towards Mars and beyond. As I’ve mentioned many times before, the moon will play a crucial role in helping us to send astronauts to Mars. NASA is looking to use the upcoming Asteroid Redirect Mission as a proof of concept for pulling giant rocks off the surface of near-Earth asteroids and putting them in lunar orbit. The practical reasons why are unclear, but I strongly suspect that if NASA is expecting to use water as a jet propellent in the future, it is looking to use the moon as a hub for water storage. This might not just be limited to mining water out of the ground; it might also extend to keeping plenty of rocks in lunar orbit from which water can be easily extracted.
Water is basically the most important resource we’ll be looking for and using when space travel finally becomes a normal way of life for human beings. And the SPACE Act is the first step toward turning the solar system into our own vast sandbox — where we race around for buried treasure before anyone else can get to it. As the prospect of getting astronauts to Mars becomes more likely, we can expect to see the moon transform from a beacon of discovery into a continent attracting attention from industrialists across the globe. | <urn:uuid:eaa6ea5a-0c69-4c76-8cfc-34234a4814e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inverse.com/article/8357-the-space-act-will-make-it-legal-to-mine-for-water-in-space | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951915 | 992 | 2.828125 | 3 |
The gap between fresh water supply and demand is steadily widening in the People’s Republic of China, home to approximately 20% of the world’s population. Demand for water supplies continues to grow as both personal and industrial consumption surges. Underground water resources, meanwhile, are already overused and badly polluted, and the deep wells now being drilled are frequently tapping into arsenic-rich aquifers, posing safety risks to as much as 30% of the country’s population.
To help combat shortages, desalination, in the form of sea water reverse osmosis (SWRO), has become an integral part of China’s long-term water management strategy. Historically used on a small scale, desalination is now becoming more widely accepted for large-scale water production, particularly in highly populated coastal areas. In recent years, China announced plans to grow its desalination capacity to 2.2 million m3/d (581 million GPD) by 2015, and Chinese water authorities formed partnerships with global water treatment companies to construct large SWRO facilities.
So far, this initiative has resulted in the construction of the nation’s two largest SWRO plants — the Qingdao and Tianjin Dagang SWRO desalination facilities. Designed, constructed and operated by Abengoa and Hyflux, respectively, the two plants together add 200,000 m3/d (52 MGD) of installed capacity to China’s water network. Half of that comes from the Tianjin facility, which began delivering desalinated water to the northern China city’s industrial zone in July 2009. Three years later in eastern China, Qingdao’s municipal water supply began receiving a comparable amount of water from the new SWRO plant there. Both of these state-of-the-art facilities use the latest desalination technologies, including rotary-type isobaric energy recovery devices (ERD).
By considering not only initial capital expenses, but also operational and maintenance expenses, material alternatives and expected uptime of the Energy Recovery System (ERS), these plants demonstrate how sustained long-term energy efficiency can be achieved in large-scale SWRO plants. By displaying proper system design and energy recovery device (ERD) selection, both mega-plants provide an excellent model for future desalination projects in China. | <urn:uuid:3baeb979-1a15-470a-8abd-8fce63c3555f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://eri-new.icscreative.com/resource/chinas-mega-desalination-plant-experience/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940982 | 482 | 2.9375 | 3 |
The EU must lead the dance at UN Summit for Refugees & Migrants and address the local level!
The United Nations Summit for Migrants and Refugees, scheduled for today (19 September) in New York, cannot be just another Summit. The world leaders must come up with an action agenda that addresses the complexity of today’s world and systematically includes a local perspective.
Addressing the root causes of migration will again be the main subject of the high-level round table, but no discussion is so far explicitly targeting the local dimension of migration and forced displacement.
The EU has a particular responsibility. Internally, it has yet to fully deliver on its pledges regarding the relocation and resettlement of refugees across its territory. Externally, its recently launched Migration Partnership Framework with third countries and the accompanying External Investment Plan also raise a few questions concerning their suitability and feasibility [see our video].
Against this background, PLATFORMA is launching a position paper on migration where it calls on the EU to:
- Remove the link between development aid and partner countries’ performance in migration and reject the diversion of development funds to security-related projects.
- Give local governments in partner countries a voice in the design, implementation and evaluation of the “compacts” between the European Union and their national governments – particularly in three core policy fields for local governments such as:
o Resilience to crises
o Administrative reform and decentralisation
- Promote city to city cooperation between Europe and partner countries as a key instrument for the implementation of the new approach. | <urn:uuid:fbe44530-e68f-4de5-b410-bf5fbdcbeafa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://platforma-dev.eu/the-eu-must-lead-the-dance-at-un-summit-for-refugees-migrants-and-address-the-local-level/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.917766 | 317 | 1.921875 | 2 |
NPQ Overview: Introduction to NPQs
National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) have been around for nearly two decades but have recently had an overhaul. What has changed and what can you expect if you sign-up to do an NPQ?
First, the wider context. The transformation of NPQs has taken place as part of a broad package of reform looking at all areas of Government funded professional development. This starts with the creation of the Core Content Framework for Initial Teacher Training (ITT) and the introduction of a new induction offer for teachers called the Early Career Framework (ECF). Both of these place the latest evidence about effective teacher practice at their heart, in terms of what teachers do in the classroom and also in terms of how teachers best learn themselves. Reformed NPQs do the same, helping to develop a more consistent approach to teacher development funded by Government, using the same evidence base to create what is often referred to as a ‘golden thread’ running from the very beginning of a trainee teacher’s career all the way through to supporting executive leaders running federations and trusts.
Second, the introduction of specialist NPQs has led to a much more specific set of qualifications to replace the old, generic ‘middle leader’ NPQ. These specialist NPQs – in Leading Behaviour and Culture (NPQLBC), Leading Teaching (NPQLT), and Leading Teacher Development (NPQLTD) allow for a more in-depth look at these core areas to support teachers in role. They sit alongside the leadership NPQs – in senior leadership (NPQSL, headship (NPQH), and executive leadership (NPQEL) so that we have a comprehensive suite of qualifications. And from September this year they are being joined by a specialist NPQ in Leading Literacy (NPQLL) and a new Early Years Leadership qualification (NPQEYL).
These new NPQs are being delivered in a different way too. In particular, in line with the ‘golden thread’, the evidence base underpinning each of the NPQs is much more tightly defined than before, helping to create a consistent rhythm of delivery that combines the best knowledge and evidence with the tangible experiences of teachers and leaders.
Lincolnshire Lead Providers
We believe that leadership is at the heart of effective school improvement. L.E.A.D. Teaching School Hub Lincolnshire will endeavour to support leadership at every layer of the school workforce, to help set direction, build an inspiring vision and shape the future. Leadership is about a culture which inspires and motivates others to bring about the best outcomes for children. We are therefore working with partners from Anthem Multi Academy Trust and Priory Federation of Academies Trust to ensure that the aspirant leaders have access to the highest quality professional development. All NPQs will remain fully funded for this year.
For 2022 -23 we are proud to announce that we will be working with TWO Lead Providers.
Education Development Trust (EDT) will remain the lead provider for:
NPQEL – National Professional Executive Leadership
NPQH - National Professional Headship
NPQSL - National Professional Senior Leadership
NPQLT - National Professional for Leading Teaching
NPQLTD - National Professional for Leading Teacher Development
NPQBC - National Professional for Behaviour and Culture
Teacher Development Trust (TDT) will be the lead provider for the two NEW Professional Qualifications added to the DfE suite of NPQs for 2022/23.
NPQEYL - National Professional Early Years Leadership
NPQLL - National Professional Leading Literacy
All of the NPQ programmes have been designed to work for you, and some common features include:
- Local Cohort Groups meaning less travel time, and online self-study that can be accessed at any time and from anywhere, for easy access and reference whenever needed.
- Tailored content through regular assessments and surveys and real-life situations so you can see yourself in examples which in turn support you to apply new techniques quickly.
- Access to National Specialist Tutors for each phase and subject who will provide additional support throughout each Programme. | <urn:uuid:24c69697-e70f-4b8f-a4d5-39c645ec6311> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.leadtshublincs.co.uk/page/?title=NPQ+Overview&pid=8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94235 | 885 | 1.804688 | 2 |
You can use many technologies to virtualize the enterprise network. Regardless of the technologies of choice, they must provide the functionality required in the three areas discussed:
- Transport virtualization
- Edge authorization
- Central services access (VN perimeter)
The network architect should be well aware of how these functional blocks interface with each other and always keep in mind that virtualizing the network must not come at the expense of important resiliency and performance characteristics in the network. However, because of the new technologies put in place, there will be an impact in the operations and processes for the maintenance of the network. In the long term, this impact is likely to be a positive one as new operational efficiencies are gained and operational costs tend to diminish.
It is also important to remember that when virtualizing a network, not everything must be migrated onto the VNs created. VN technologies are overlaid onto the existing operational network infrastructure. Therefore, the network continues to function as it did before the virtualization, but now has VNs overlaid on top of it. The endpoints using the network could belong to the original network or to a VN. This provides a clear path to a phased migration and support for groups that do not require a dedicated VN. | <urn:uuid:26549f62-391c-4d1e-acf6-1472254fd351> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=603918&seqNum=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938338 | 258 | 1.953125 | 2 |
The present study was designed to determine whether exogenous leptin reduces remote organ injury in the rats with thermal burn trauma. Leptin (10 mug/kg) or saline was administered intraperitoneally after burn injury, and the rats were decapitated at either 6 or 24 h. Plasma samples of 24-h burn group were assayed for the determination of monocyte and neutrophil apoptosis. Thermal injury increased tissue-associated myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity and microscopic damage scores in the lung, liver, stomach, colon and kidney of both 6- and 24-h burn groups. In the 6-h burn group, leptin reduced microscopic damage score in the liver and kidney only, while damage scores in the 24-h burn group were reduced in all the tissues except the lung. Also, in both burn groups, leptin reduced elevated MPO activity in all tissues except the lung. The percentage of mononuclear cells was significantly reduced at the 24 h of burn injury, while the granulocyte percentage was increased. Leptin treatment, however, had no significant effect on burn-induced reversal of white blood cell ratios. On the other hand, burn-induced increase in the death of mononuclear cells and granulocytes was significantly reduced in leptin-treated rats. The results of the present study suggest that leptin may provide a therapeutic benefit in diminishing burn-induced inflammation and associated multiple organ failure. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | <urn:uuid:d9c18520-ebf9-4fdf-8eae-3e7995a726d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.marmara.edu.tr/publication/details/8e83b82b-0b87-4e04-92ce-4ea7b36ffe94/leptin-ameliorates-burn-induced-multiple-organ-damage-and-modulates-postburn-immune-response-in-rats | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956992 | 301 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The European Voluntary Service of the European Union is thought to play a key role in promoting and encouraging volunteering among young people. Integrating the social work of EVS volunteers into activities through sport organizations is believed to help develop the perception of volunteering as an element of social commitment. The aim of this study is to therefore examine a case of youth volunteering practice in an EVS project in Turkey within the context of the benefits of volunteering. Data was collected using various tools. These included semi-structured interviews, participant observation (non-structured), and document analyses. Content analyses were applied to the interview data. The study established that the EVS is a beneficial channel for youth volunteering and provides benefits for each of the parties: the volunteers, the organization, and the sport participants. | <urn:uuid:6e45a1f5-5b6b-421f-9b0a-3ac15ab5d304> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://psjd.icm.edu.pl/psjd/element/bwmeta1.element.-psjd-doi-10_2478_pcssr-2014-0028?printView=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946749 | 156 | 1.875 | 2 |
Galileo can resend messages if a successful response code is not received, using standard exponential backoff. Work with your PM/AM to set product parameters
RTRDL, the initial delay (in seconds), and
RETRY, the total number of retries. When these parameters are not set, RETRY defaults to
0 (no retries) and RTRDL defaults to 60 seconds.
To be concrete, the following table shows an example, assuming
RTRDL is set to 60 seconds and
RETRY is 5.
Attemptis the total number of attempts, over time. The first attempt is the first time Galileo tries to send the event to the client, so with
RETRY = 5, there will be 6 attempts total.
Retry Delay Secondsis how many seconds Galileo will wait to do the next attempt if the current attempt fails. (
Retry Delay Minutesand
Retry Delay Hoursis the same information but in different units.)
Retry Seconds increases exponentially for each retry by multiplying
Attempt^2. The first retry attempt has a value of 1, so the first delay will be
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Animation movies are the best medium to inculcate love for a country’s culture among their children. These movies can speak exclusively to the children and the child in us, says Iraqi-Hungarian filmmaker Thamer Al Zedi.
Al Zedi, who has been considered as a pioneer in the Arab animation field, believes that the best way to reach out to children is animation. The scope of digital media has to be further explored for the benefit of children, he told The Peninsula here yesterday.
Al Zedi’s latest feature narrative Assila is to be screened at Doha Tribeca Film Festival today. His Open Sesame was a great hit and another one is running into thousand episode.
In this digital era, animation movies can be used as best tool to promote culture.
Currently, the animation movies are invading the minds of Arab children through their Western-centric themes. Many of them are packed with western ideologies and veiled statements against Arab culture, he said.
The western producers are bombarding the studies of Arab children with movies packed with horror and violence. There is a need for developing a counter culture in the animation sector.
Another problem with the Western productions are they are largely Western-centric and the themes are alien to the Arab social milieu, he said.
Al Zedi said his teaming up with the Dubai-based Rahbani Production to produce Assila was aimed at getting rid off the children from this kind of movies.
In Assila, Al Zedi has created a stunning and artistic world to take families and kids on an animated journey in to the the life of beautiful mare, Assila. Abandoned as a filly and facing death, Assila finds happiness when rescued by village children Meedo, Teefa and Marmar.
But when here new life and community are threatened by greedy bandits years later, Assila is forced to run the most challenging race of her life to protect those she loves.
“With themes of family, loyalty, love and courage, Assila is an inspirational story for the whole family”, feels Amanda Palmer, Executive Director, Doha Tribeca Film Festival.
Born in Iraq, Al Zedi studied fine arts before starting his directing studies in Hungary in the early “80s. Since then Al Zedi has directed theatre and film with particular emphasis on an animated features and is considered as a pioneer in the Arab animation features.
A leading figure of once Iraq’s theatre movements, Al Zedi was forced to leave his home country after he refused to produce works as directed by the country’s then political leadership.
“An artist has to be free, he cannot accept ideas blindly from political leadership’, Al Zedi believes.
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When a person comes to study Judaism, although I hope! they're welcomed and greeted warmly in shuls and classes, the stark truth is we don't need you. The message isn't quite "go away," but just, "we don't need you."
I grew up knowing Jews don't proselytize: we don't seek to bring in converts. In general, we believe that as long as a non-Jew follows the seven laws of Noach's descendents, they're doing okay. "We don't need you."
But the truth is, the world wasn't in great shape after Noach's time. Hashem promised he wouldn't send another flood, but we know the majority of people were ovdei avodah zara [idol worshippers]. The world was desperate for a message of truth, for a messenger of Hashem.
Then, as we read in yesterday's parsha, along came Avraham and Sara. Actually, Avram and Sarai, but they shed their old names as they stepped into the greater role that Hashem had prepared for them: bringing the truth of Hashem into the world.
We know that when Avraham had the courage to leave his family and become the first geir [convert], Hashem didn't just promise him bracha [blessing]. He said "Veh'yeh bracha" "and you shall be bracha."
What does it mean to be bracha? It means "we need you."
I am convinced that the entire Jewish world needs geirim and giyoros tzedek [righteous converts - male and female]. They are a bracha to us for their energy, their depth of learning, and also perhaps just to make us aware and proud of our own heritage. We should never take it for granted.
When you stepped into the water today, just as Rus and Naomi promised each other, your fate, your future, is forever bound up in ours. "Kol Yisrael areivim zeh ba zeh." All of klal Yisrael are responsible for one another.
Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis challenges us with this responsibility. "Will we parrot the infamous words of Kayin, "Hashomer Ochi anochi? - Am I my brother's keeper?" or will we respond like Avraham Avinu who said, "HINENI - HERE I AM" and kindled the light of G-d in the hearts of all those with whom he came in contact."
You have already chosen the footsteps of Avraham Avinu. So it's the least those of us here can do to meet you halfway to say "hinenu." Here we are we are your community now.
I have sat before bais din and been turned away so many times. There's a story, from a long time ago, that helps me think about that long journey from no to yes.
The Rambam writes that "before the Kohen Gadol went out to do the Yom Kippur service, the elders of the Sanhedrin would make him swear to do the service exactly according to halacha. Specifically, they would make him swear to burn the incense only inside the Kodesh haKodashim as the Torah she b'al peh, the Oral Torah, mandates.
The influential Tzadukim, who denied the authority of Torah she b'al peh, claimed that the incense should first be lit outside the Kodesh haKodashim and then carried inside already burning. The elders made the Kohen Gadol swear not to perform the service this way.
But then both the Kohen Gadol and the elders would turn aside from each other and weep.
The Kohen Gadol would weep because they suspected him of being a Tzaduki. The elders would weep because there was reason to suspect him.
The lesson in this: sometimes, those who guard the Torah must make really hard decisions; decisions which bring both sides to tears. But they have no choice; they are guarding a priceless treasure.
Imagine, then, their simcha, the overwhelming joy when these Torah guardians, these gatekeepers finally have an opportunity to say yes. To offer the treasure: it's yours to share.
To say YES: "We need you."
I am so happy and proud to be able to join in your own, personal Matan Torah, your own personal Shavuos. Your neshama was standing with mine at Har Sinai, though, so I guess we're all really just here to welcome you back.
Rambam on the Yom Kippur avodah: http://ohr.edu/yhiy/article.php/3887
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Tulcea is located in eastern Romania, and is the administrative center of the Tulcea county. The city is filled with tour guides, thanks to the many structures from the communist era.
The first time Tulcea was mentioned in an official document was in the 16th century, during the Ottoman occupation. In 1878, after the Russo-Turkish War, northern Dobruja and Tulcea were given to Romania. During the communist era, the city began to develop at a rapid pace in order to meet the needs of the Romanian industrial sector. The port is the city’s economic center, where at the time many ships were built and repaired, which, along with the river opened Tulcea to the world. Economic relations began to develop between Tulcea and other cities on the Danube: Galati, Braila, Orshova, Belgrade and Budapest. However, excessive liberalism caused Tulcea to stop production in 1990, eventually leading the city to bankruptcy.
The Geography, history and economy of the city attracts many foreigners, and gradually Tulcea has become a cosmopolitan city. The population of the city is about 90,000, less than 80% of them are Romanians. There are many Russian Lippovans, Turks, Roma, and Ukrainians found in the streets of Tulcea. From a tourist point of view, Tulcea is considered the door to the Danube Delta. Most of the Black Sea shipping routes start from Tulcea, where they depart into the three main branches of the Danube Delta: the Chilia branch (north), the St. George branch (middle), and the Sulina branch (south). The increased tourism activities have allowed for the port to be renovated in order to provide transport for tourists, but not without lots of effort.
Tulcea, however, is not only the gateway to the Danube Delta. The city offers various activities! The main attractions are the Museum of the Danube Delta (featuring an aquarium), the EthnoGraphic Museum of Folk Art, the ancient city of Aegyssus and the city harbor. | <urn:uuid:9b92a2d1-e4ce-4ad2-8db2-7f3103a76baf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.balkania-tour.com/en/trip-romania/visit-romania/view/211/Tulcea+-+Gateway+to+the+Danube+Delta | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96931 | 438 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Star-shaped flowers are beautiful additions to any flower garden.
If you’re looking for flowers shaped like stars to plant in your garden, you’re sure to find some great options on this list.
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10 BEAUTIFUL STAR-SHAPED FLOWERS
1. Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)
Star Jasmine is a popular climbing plant with small white star-shaped flowers that are highly fragrant.
It’s an evergreen vine that will grow well in full sun or partial shade.
Star Jasmine is ideal for growing on an arbor, pergola, trellis or fence.
It can also be grown as a flowering ground cover.
2. Pentas (Pentas lanceolata)
Another plant with flowers shaped like stars is Pentas, also called Egyptian Stars.
It’s great for attracting pollinators to the garden and it blooms throughout summer.
In warm, tropical areas Pentas will grow as a perennial but in cooler climates it can be grown as an annual.
You can also plant Pentas in containers and it will grow indoors if there is plenty of light available.
3. Impala Lily (Adenium obesum)
The Impala Lily is an evergreen succulent shrub with large star-shaped flowers that can be pink, red or white.
It flowers throughout the year and can grow up to 6.5 feet (2 metres) high.
Impala lilies are easy to grow but they need well-draining soil and only minimal watering.
Dahlias are stunning flowers that bloom from late summer until fall.
They come in a range of sizes, shapes and colors including some spectacular star-shaped varieties.
Dahlias can be grown from seed or tubers and they need at least 6 hours of sunlight each day.
It’s best to plant Dahlias where they’re protected from strong winds.
5. Bellflower (Campanula)
Bellflowers are perennials with beautiful purple or blue flowers.
They grow best in areas with cool summer temperatures and depending on the variety, they can range from small groundcovers to large plants.
Bellflowers can be propagated by division or cuttings.
6. Hyacinth ‘Blue Star’
Hyacinth Blue Star has beautiful fragrant blooms that appear in mid spring.
The bulbs can be planted in a garden bed or container in fall for spring flowers.
They also make beautiful cut flowers.
Bromeliads have stunning, long lasting blooms that aren’t really flowers; they’re modified leaves called bracts.
They grow best in humid, tropical areas and they’re an ideal plant for the bathroom.
Bromeliads are easy care house plants that thrive in indirect light, but it’s best to keep them away from direct sunlight as it can burn the leaves.
Their leaves can be misted with water during hot dry weather.
8. Hoya (Hoya carnosa)
Hoya, also known as Wax plant, is an evergreen perennial with clusters of small star shaped flowers.
In the wild they commonly grow on the surface of trees and get their nutrients and water from the air and rain.
Hoya plants can also be grown indoors as a house plant and the most popular indoor variety is Hoya carnosa, which has white and pink flowers.
Hoyas growing indoors will need bright, indirect sunlight.
9. Star Tulip
Star Tulip bulbs need to be exposed to cold temperatures before they’re planted.
In cool climates, the bulbs can be stored in a cool, dry place before planting or in warmer climates they can be stored in the fridge.
The best time to plant tulips is in early fall for beautiful spring flowers.
Water the bulbs after planting and you won’t need to water them again until springtime.
10. Starfish Plant (Stapelia gigantean)
Starfish plants are large succulents native to Tanzania and South Africa.
Their large star shaped flowers can be red or yellow and they grow as high as 10 inches (25 cm wide).
The flowers smell like rotting meat, so you may not be popular with the neighbors if you have this plant growing in your backyard!
The rotten smell is used to attract flies for pollination.
So there are 10 interesting flowers shaped like stars to plant in your garden.
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Objective: To determine whether socioeconomic disparities exist in the financial burden of out-of-pocket (OOP) health care expenditures for families with children, and whether health insurance coverage decreases financial burden for low-income families.
Data source: The Household Component of the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
Study design: Cross-sectional family-level analysis. We used bivariate statistics to examine whether financial burden varied by poverty level. Multivariate regression models were used to assess whether family insurance coverage was associated with level of financial burden for low-income families. The main outcome was financial burden, defined as the proportion of family income spent on OOP health care expenditures, including premiums, for all family members.
Data collection/extraction: We aggregated annual OOP expenditures for all members of 4,531 families with a child <18 years old. Family insurance coverage was categorized as follows: (1) all members publicly insured all year, (2) all members privately insured all year, (3) all members uninsured all year, (4) partial coverage, or (5) mix of public and private with no uninsured periods.
Principal findings: A regressive gradient was noted for financial burden across income groups, with families with incomes <100 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) spending a mean of 119.66 US dollars OOP per 1,000 US dollars of family income and families with incomes 100-199 percent FPL spending 66.30 US dollars OOP per 1,000 US dollars, compared with 37.75 US dollars for families with incomes >400 percent FPL. For low-income families (<200 percent FPL), there was a 785 percent decrease in financial burden for those with full-year public coverage compared with those with full-year private insurance (p < .001).
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Magic Words are the most important words in reading and writing
Magic Words are the most commonly used words in English and are the most important words in learning to read and write.
Magic 100 Words make up, on average, half of all the words in reading and writing. These best-selling Magic Words are ideal for playing at home and school to master reading, spelling and writing.
Magic 100 Words (1–100 words) makes up 50%, Magic 200 Words (101–200 words) makes up 65%, and together with the Magic 300 Words (201–300 words) make up 70% of all the words used, on average, in reading and writing.
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Assignment: Pain Management
Assignment: Pain Management
In this Discussion, you will consider case studies that describe abnormal findings in patients seen in a clinical setting.
Assigned to one of the following specific case studies for this Discussion. Also, your Discussion post should be in the SOAP Note format, rather than the traditional narrative style Discussion posting format.
Case 2: Ankle Pain
A 46-year-old female reports pain in both of her ankles, but she is more concerned about her right ankle. She was playing soccer over the weekend and heard a “pop.” She is able to bear weight, but it is uncomfortable. In determining the cause of the ankle pain, based on your knowledge of anatomy, what foot structures are likely involved? What other symptoms need to be explored? What are your differential diagnoses for ankle pain? What physical examination will you perform? What special maneuvers will you perform? Should you apply the Ottowa ankle rules to determine if you need additional testing? SEE ATTACHMENT FOR THE ANKLE X-RAY.
With regard to the case study you were assigned:
•Review this week’s Learning Resources, and consider the insights they provide about the case study.
•Consider what history would be necessary to collect from the patient in the case study you were assigned.
•Consider what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate to gather more information about the patient’s condition. How would the results be used to make a diagnosis?
•Identify at least five possible conditions that may be considered in a differential diagnosis for the patient.
Post on 1 TO 2 PAGES OF SOAP NOTE ON : A description of the health history you would need to collect from the patient in the case study to which you were assigned. Explain what physical exams and diagnostic tests would be appropriate and how the results would be used to make a diagnosis. List five different possible conditions for the patient’s differential diagnosis, and justify why you selected each. Include how the patient X-ray helped you to refine the differential diagnosis.
•Ball, J. W., Dains, J. E., Flynn, J. A., Solomon, B. S., & Stewart, R. W. (2015). Seidel’s guide to physical examination (8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby.
◦ Chapter 4, “Vital Signs and Pain Assessment” (pp. 50-63)
◦Chapter 21, “Musculoskeletal System” (pp. 501-543
Dains, J. E., Baumann, L. C., & Scheibel, P. (2016). Advanced health assessment and clinical diagnosis in primary care (5th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby
. ◦Chapter 22, “Limb Pain” (pp. 356-374)
Sullivan, D. D. (2012). Guide to clinical documentation (2nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis.
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We always urge people to call us right away if they ever have a water leak in a home or business because it only takes 48 hours for mold to form in wet spaces, such as insulation, sheetrock and flooring. Green Star Eco Services owner Marc Patel was recently en route to a routine meeting when he got a call from a property owner about a leaking water heater in a rental home. He got the address and turned the truck around to immediately respond to the water damage.
Upon his arrival at the Sugar Land home, he found the water leak was active and raced up to the attic to turn off the water heater valve. While quickly shutting off the water source is an essential first step, it’s just the beginning in a water restoration job.
Still, halting the leak quickly meant that the water damage was limited to a 9’ ceiling area over a balcony and was not able to spread to two nearby areas with 20’ ceilings. Green Star moisture-mapped the area using an infrared and standard moisture meters, then set up a containment barrier with plastic sheeting around the balcony before proceeding to remove the ceiling and the soggy insulation materials. This prevented further environmental disruption to the other areas of the house.
Once all the wet materials were removed, a two-and-a-half day dryout process began. Our equipment includes large dehumidifiers and axial fans to move air and dry out a space.
An area affected by a leak must be properly dried out or mold will start growing.
“After 48 hours, it can become a moldy mess,” Marc said. And, the damage will always be more extensive if allowed to leak longer, he added.
To curtail water damage, keep these tips in mind:
• Whenever working with plumbing or repairing or moving appliances that use plumbing, such as washing machines, dishwashers or refrigerators, cut off the water to the house. Sometimes a valve directly connected to the appliance can fail, so a better precaution is to turn off all the water to the home or building.
• As soon as you notice a leak, turn off the water source.
Our ability to quickly work the situation should mitigate the extent of the damage. In the example of the water heater leak above, had the residents not immediately reported the situation, the water would have flowed into more and more of the building materials and potentially caused a ceiling collapse, which is not an uncommon event with water heater leaks.
Based on our experience in responding to such extreme cases, the residents must move out, the furniture must be removed and the work is far more time consuming and expensive.
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HAVANA TIMES — The visual arts produced in Cuba in the 1990s were characterized by their direct and unflinching messages – by multitudes of rafts, islands drifting aimlessly across the open ocean and bleeding hammer-and-sickles. These features are not common in contemporary Cuban art, making its conceptualization rather difficult.
This art world is marked not only by the coexistence of several generations of artists (from those trained in the sixties to those who have just stepped out of the art academy), but also by the medium used: here, we come across traditional art forms (paintings, engravings, sculptures) and so-called post-modern formats (installations, video-art, performances and others).
Post-It, Cuba’s first art exhibition and sale event, organized by the National Visual Arts Center and displaying the works of contemporary Cuban artists under the age of 35, began on November 1.
A total of 56 pieces, selected from 106 submissions, were put on display for this first exhibition-sale. The works will remain on display, and in the competition, until January of 2014. A jury will then select the winning artists, who could be awarded as much as 3,000 Cuban Convertible Pesos (CUC), art materials for a value of 1,500 CUC and support for the development of personal exhibitions. (1 USD = 0.87 CUC)
The declared aim of selling art pieces makes Post-It stand out among Cuban exhibitions.
The exhibition may also be an attempt at giving Cuban art greater visibility and overcome some of its difficulties in terms of entering the international market.
The event could well be the response of State visual arts institutions to criticisms regarding the legislative vacuum that appears to exist in connection with art collections and the promotion of art through private channels, as well as the limited number of art scholarships currently in existence.
Post-It, to be held annually, has opened its doors to the public at the Galiano and Collage galleries in Havana, inviting us to come into contact with a different, pluralistic and heterogeneous way of making art.
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The time has come for backpacks and books, school supply shopping and lunch packing. We are in full swing back-to-school mode over here, except this time I am officially sending my daughter off to Kindergarten. This means that I will be packing lunches for her 5 days every week. I need more in my arsenal than just PB&J sandwiches. I know the idea of packing cutesy Pinterest inspired lunches might be daunting for some parents, but for me it’s my one chance to make my daughter smile during her busy school day, since I can’t be there with her. So, this summer, I tried out some fun school lunches. They are fairly simple, kid-tested and approved AND have a lot of repeat ingredients to make for an easy shopping trip!
To start things off, make sure you have a good Bento box or Tupperware to send your lunches in. We like the Bentgo Kids box and the Rubbermaid kids lunchblox. I also like to make sure when I am menu planning to have a protein, fruit, veggie, dairy and grain in each meal. I also made sure to pack a small treat. Use my plan or adjust based on your child’s favorite fruits, veggies, and dietary needs.
Week 1 Shopping List: Sandwich Bread, milk, juice boxes, bananas, celery, carrots, ranch dressing, gummy worms, alphabet cookies, whole grain English muffins, pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, olives, (other desired pizza toppings), yogurt, rotisserie chicken, mayo, grapes, pretzels, lunch meat, cheese slices, and raisins.
Monday: “Worm in Apple Sandwich”- Make your child’s favorite sandwich for the first day of school! Trim off the crust and form an apple shape with kitchen shears. Stick in a pretzel as a stem. Poke a couple holes through the sandwich and add the gummy worm to the sandwich. Pack some carrots and ranch dressing. Jot a note onto a banana and finish it off with some milk.
Tuesday: “DIY Pizzas”- The Bento Box was perfect for this lunch! I toasted a whole grain English muffin as the “crust” for the pizza. Then I added pizza sauce, cheese, pepperoni and olives as toppings. (Of course, these toppings can vary based on your child’s taste buds) I finished off the meal with a yogurt, juice box and some alphabet cookies (These are also good for sight word practice!) Don’t forget to send a spoon!
Wednesday: “Chicken Salad Sandwich” – Mix things up with a fun chicken salad sandwich! For our chicken salad I shredded rotisserie chicken. Then added mayo, celery, salt, pepper, dill and raisins, but feel free to experiment or use a favorite recipe. I ended up using this chicken salad in my daughters’ lunch 2x and then I was able to eat the leftovers throughout the week. I again turned the sandwich into an “apple” with the kitchen shears and pretzel. Then I added carrots and ranch, grapes, yogurt, a juice and some alphabet cookies!
Thursday: “Open Face Owl Sandwich” -Cut off the crust of the bread and make pointed owl ears with kitchen shears. Then add on your child’s favorite lunchmeat. Add pepperoni and olive eyes then add a beak and feet made from cheese triangles. Finish off this lunch with carrots and ranch, grapes, yogurt, a juice box and some gummy worms.
Friday: “Chicken Salad Ants on a Log”- Top celery sticks with leftover chicken salad and raisins to create Ants on a log. Write another note on a banana, add in some pretzels (Note my child insisted on cheese it crackers this particular day, but I intended to use pretzel sticks), milk and some gummy worms.
Week 2 Shopping List: (Hopefully you can reuse some of the non-perishable items from the previous week but here is a full list for the week) sandwich bread, lunch meat, string cheese, clementines, cheese slices, juice boxes, milk boxes, alphabet cookies, cucumber, ranch dressing, peanut butter, jelly, raisins, hummus, mayo, celery, banana, berries, carrots, goldfish crackers, gummy worms, tortilla, shell pasta, pepperoni, cherry tomato (or desired veggie for pasta salad) Italian dressing, and parmesan cheese.
Monday: “Book Sandwiches” – You can use bread or tortillas for these, just fold lunchmeat and cheese into a slice of bread or cut tortilla. Top with alphabet cookies (or If you want to get super fancy: write on them with a food coloring marker) Use a marker to write a note on a clementine and draw a pencil onto the string cheese. Include a juice box, cucumber and ranch dressing and some more cookies.
Tuesday: “PB&J Monkey”- Use a glass or cookie cutter to make a circle out of the bread. Make a PB&J and top with raisin eyes. Use the “end bread slice” and cut out 3 small circles with a small cookie cutter or bottle cap. Stick them on as ears and a mouth with peanut butter. Pack celery and hummus, milk, alphabet cookies and a banana. Note: Pictured are berries because my daughter refused a banana this day (KIDS!) but my plan was to write “I am bananas for you!” on the banana.
Wednesday: “Under the Sea Pasta”- Make up a quick pasta salad for the week. I used it 2 days in my daughter’s lunch and I enjoyed it a few times as well. I usually use whatever I have on hand for pasta salad. This time I used shell pasta and added pepperoni, cucumber, cherry tomato, Parmesan and Italian dressing, but get creative. I have used olives before and sometimes I use pesto instead of Italian dressing. Top your pasta with a clementine “Octopus” add in some “sea” cucumber with ranch, goldfish, milk and gummy eels…I mean worms. Don’t forget a fork!
Thursday: “Garden Turkey and cheese pinwheels”- Really you can use any lunchmeat for these, but my girl likes turkey. Just spread tortilla with mayo and add turkey and cheese slices. Roll and cut into pinwheels. Write a note or draw a flower on the clementine, then add in goldfish, carrots and ranch, milk and some gummy worms.
Friday: “Shells on the Beach Pasta”- Another day of pasta salad. This time use some hummus for “sand” add in some berries for “bubbles”, gummy “eels” some carrots for dipping, draw a shark on a string cheese and finish off with a juice box. Remember the fork!
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Hastings and Area Past and Present… On 14th August 1888, television pioneer John Logie Baird was born in Dumbartonshire. He died on this day, 14th June 1946 in Bexhill aged just 57. In early 1923, and in poor health, Baird moved to 21 Linton Crescent, Hastings, on the south coast of England and later rented a workshop in the Queen’s Arcade in the town. Baird built what was to become the world’s first working television set using items including an old hatbox and a pair of scissors, some darning needles, a few bicycle light lenses, a used tea chest, sealing wax and glue that he had purchased.
Alan Esdaile… He should be celebrated more locally and have a dedicated major attraction to him.
Fiona Evans… Yes, we should make more of our local history & culture. Most famous date in history, birthplace of TV, May bank holiday celebrations, pirates, Alan Turin etc. Could we not impress upon the council to do more/encourage entrepreneurs to make more of Hastings?
Marcus de Mowbray… Hastings: Home of TV, Home of lousy TV reception!
Kate Recknell-Page… I remember coming home from Guides with Heather one night to find mum & dad sitting in darkness watching TV in black/white on a 14” John Logie Baird – our very first TV !!! Wow
Mike Waghorne… Baird House was by Bexhill station it has been knocked down and replaced by a block of flats aptly named Baird House !
Andy Qunta… What we would have missed without his invention!
Colin Bell… Andy, Why does Charlie’s Angels come to mind?!..
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Wilderness First Aid/ Standard First Aid with CPR and AED for Remote Locations is a short and intensive course for those working, playing, and traveling, in remote environments. The training prepares students to make decisions on whether injuries are serious or not, improvise equipment, provide life-saving treatments, and assist those who have more training.
Our Wilderness First Aid/ Standard First Aid with CPR and AED for Remote Locations course differs significantly from standard first aid courses and other training that are oriented toward urban environments.
Who Can Benefit From This Course
Persons assigned to respond to emergencies in remote locations as well as those who want to learn first aid, CPR and AED skills. | <urn:uuid:4eb1ded6-5706-48a2-8cdd-69291c157cce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rescue7.net/training/wilderness-first-aid-course/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950733 | 141 | 2.078125 | 2 |
GitHub has become one of the most important places for open source software developers to publish code and collaborate on projects. But, ironically, most projects hosted publicly on GitHub aren't open source, at least according to the letter of open source law.
Aaron Williamson, a lawyer specializing in open source issues, analyzed over 1.7 million public GitHub code repositories earlier this year, and of these, only 14.9 percent had clearly specified an open source license, as reported by The Register.
Developers sharing code publicly on GitHub agree to a terms of service that allows other users to view and copy code, but if a license isn't explicitly chosen, other developers won't have the right to actually change or redistribute the code. According to the definition set by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), a license isn't considered open source unless it grants users permission to not just view source code but also modify code and distribute their changes.
GitHub, however, is taking steps to address the issue. Users are now prompted to select an OSI approved open source license when they create a new code repository on the service. Users aren't forced to select a license, but if they select "No License," they'll get a warning explaining that "nobody else may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work. This might not be what you intend."
The change is a huge reversal for GitHub, says James Governor, co-founder of the IT industry analysis firm RedMonk. "Something they said was unnecessary and not their role, is now apparently necessary, and part of their role," he says. "Pragmatism wins. Customers win. But 22 year old software developers may be confused."
To reduce confusion, GitHub prompts developers to select only from a small list of licenses, and has built a site called choosealicense.com to explain the differences between them.
Williamson thinks the change is a good thing, but he isn't sold on the execution. "Just including the option will encourage developers to consider licensing from the outset of their projects, and leave fewer new projects in license limbo," he says. But he also says that GitHub's education program is too simplistic.
"With such a short list, their choices can't help but appear rather political: MIT over BSD, GPLv2 over v3 (or AGPL), and an emphasis on permissive licenses," he says. GitHub includes links to a few other licenses, but it's still a short list relative to the myriad options available. "Community organizations like the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, and the Software Freedom Law Center have been working to educate developers about the available license choices for a long time; if GitHub wants to get involved in license education, it should consider reaching out to these organizations and to the community."
By "permissive licensing," Williamson is referring to software licenses, such as the MIT, BSD and Apache licenses that allow developers and companies to include open source code in non-open source products. This stands in contrast to "copyleft" licenses, such as the GPL and AGPL, which require developers to release any changes they make to the code under the same license. GitHub's emphasis on permissive licensing likely reflects a general shift towards these licenses in the open source community.
And there's another challenge for opens source licensing. "Of course, while this is a good step toward improving license disclosure among GitHub projects, it won't guarantee accuracy," says Williamson. For example, it's possible that not every piece of code used in an open source project will use the same license. For instance, a project using an MIT license may include some code from a different project that used an Apache license. The use of multiple licenses needs to be communicated to developers that want to modify and redistribute the project. But Williamson notes that this problem isn't specific to GitHub, anyone incorporating open source code from other projects has to deal with this.
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By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home prices jumped in January from a year earlier at the fastest pace in nearly 2 ½ years, as a tight supply of houses for sale spurred bidding wars in many cities.
The Standard & Poor’s CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20-city home price index, released Tuesday, increased 5.7 percent in January, the most since July 2014.
Americans stepped up home buying in January, even as mortgage rates rose. Many buyers likely sought to close their deals before rates increased further. The Federal Reserve implemented its third rate hike in two years March 15, but economists at S&P Dow Jones Indices say higher rates won’t slow sales until later this year.
The biggest price gains were in Seattle, Portland, and Denver, which have topped the other cities in the index for months.
Mark Fleming, chief economist at First American, said that still-low mortgage rates and steady hiring will likely support further housing demand.
“Low mortgage rates and economic growth set against a low inventory of homes for sale will drive a strong sellers’ market and further rising prices this spring,” Fleming said.
David Blitzer, chairman of the S&P Dow Jones Index Committee, said that the Fed’s most recent increase won’t push up mortgage rates very much and shouldn’t affect sales. Average 30-year mortgage rates typically track the yield on the 10-year Treasury note. That yield is usually driven by several factors, including broader economic conditions and investor demand for safe assets such as Treasurys.
Still, should the Fed raise rates three or four more times this year, “rising mortgage rates could become a concern,” Blitzer said. Fed officials currently forecast two additional hikes.
Robust price gains could eventually make housing less affordable, Blitzer said. That may already be discouraging some homeowners from “trading up” to a new home, making the supply crunch worse as fewer people put their homes up for sale.
“At some point, this process will force prices to level off and decline — however we don’t appear to be there yet,” Blitzer said.
There were just 1.75 million homes listed for sale in February, 6.4 percent lower than a year ago, near the lowest level since the National Association of Realtors began tracking the data in 1999.
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|Founded by||Ndebele people|
|• Total||130,899 square kilometres (50,540 sq mi)|
Matabeleland is a region located in southwestern Zimbabwe that is divided into three provinces: Matabeleland North, Bulawayo, and Matabeleland South. These provinces are in the west and south-west of Zimbabwe, between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers and are further separated from Midlands by the Shangani River in central Zimbabwe. The region is named after its inhabitants, the Ndebele people who were called "Amatabele"(people with long spears - Mzilikazi 's group of people who were escaping the Mfecani wars). Other ethnic groups who inhabit parts of Matabeleland include the Tonga, Bakalanga, Venda, Nambya, Khoisan, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, and Tsonga. The population of Matabeleland is just over 20% of the Zimbabwe's total.
The capital and largest city is Bulawayo, other notable towns are Plumtree, Victoria Falls, Beitbridge, Lupane, Esigodini, Hwange and Gwanda. The land is fertile but semi arid. This area has coal and gold deposits. Industries include gold and other mineral mines, and engineering. There has been a decline in the industries in this region as water is in short supply due to scarce rainfall. Promises by the government to draw water for the region through the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project have not been carried out, continuing water shortages.
|History of Zimbabwe|
White settlement pre-1923
Around the 10th and 11th centuries, the Bantu-speaking Bakalanga/vakaranga arrived from the south and settled in Mapungubwe on the Limpopo and Shashi river valleys. Later they moved north to Great Zimbabwe. By the 15th century, the Bakalanga/vakaranga had established a strong empire at Khami under a powerful ruler called Dlembeu. This empire was split by the end of the 15th century and were later conquered by the Nguni people.
In the late 1830s, Mzilikazi Khumalo, led a group of Nguni and other tribes into the Rozvi Empire of the Bakalanga. Many of the Bakalanga people were incorporated to create a large state called Ndebele Kingdom. Mzilikazi organised this ethnically diverse nation into a militaristic system of regimental towns and established his capital at Bulawayo ("the place of killing"). Mzilikazi was a statesman of considerable stature, able to weld the many conquered tribes into a strong, centralised kingdom.
In 1840, Matabeleland was founded.
In 1852, the Boer government in the Transvaal made a treaty with Mzilikazi. Gold was discovered in northern Ndebele in 1867. The area, settled by the Zezuru people, remnants of the Mwenemutapa kingdom, while the European powers increasingly became interested in the region. Mzilikazi died on 9 September 1868, near Bulawayo. His son, Lobengula, succeeded him as king. In exchange for wealth and arms, Lobengula granted several concessions to the British, but it was not until twenty years later that the most prominent of these, the 1888 Rudd Concession gave Cecil Rhodes exclusive mineral rights in much of the lands east of Lobengula's main territory. Gold was already known to exist, but with the Rudd concession, Rhodes was able in 1889 to obtain a Royal Charter to form the British South Africa Company.
British South Africa Company
In 1890, Rhodes sent a group of settlers, known as the Pioneer Column, into Mashonaland where they founded Fort Salisbury (now Harare). In 1891 an Order-in-Council declared Matabeleland and Mashonaland British protectorates. Rhodes had a vested interest in the continued expansion of white settlements in the region, so now with the cover of a legal mandate, he used a brutal attack by Ndebele against the Shona near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo) in 1893 as a pretext for attacking the kingdom of Lobengula. Also in 1893, a concession awarded to Sir John Swinburne was detached from Matabeleland to be administered by the British Resident Commissioner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, to which the territory was formally annexed in 1911 and it remains part of modern Botswana, known as the Tati Concessions Land.
First Matabele War
The first decisive battle was fought on 1 November 1893, when a laager was attacked on open ground near the Bembesi River by Imbizo and Ingubo regiments. The laager consisted of 670 British soldiers, 400 of whom were mounted along with a small force of native allies, and fought off the Imbizo and Ingubo forces, which were considered by Sir John Willoughby to number 1,700 warriors in all. The laager had with it small artillery: 5 Maxim guns, 2 seven-pounders, 1 Gardner gun, and 1 Hotchkiss gun. The Maxim machine guns took center stage and decimated the native force at the Battle of the Shangani.
Although Lobengula's forces totaled 8,000 spearmen and 2,000 riflemen, versus fewer than 700 soldiers of the British South Africa Police, the Ndebele warriors were not equipped to match the British machine guns. Leander Starr Jameson sent his troops to Bulawayo to try to capture Lobengula, but the king escaped and left Bulawayo in ruins behind him.
An attempt to bring the king and his forces to submit led to the disaster of the Shangani Patrol when a Ndebele Impi defeated a British South Africa Company patrol led by Major Allan Wilson at the Shangani river in December 1893. Except for Frederick Russell Burnham and two other scouts sent for reinforcements, the detachment was surrounded and wiped out. This incident had a lasting influence on Matabeleland nationalism and spirit of resistance and the colonists who died in this battle are buried at Matobo Hills along with Jameson and Cecil Rhodes. In white Rhodesian history, Wilson's battle takes on the status of General Custer's stand at Little Big Horn in the United States. The Matabele fighters honoured the dead men with a salute to their bravery in battle and reportedly told the king, "They were men of men and their fathers were men before them."
Lobengula died in January 1894, under mysterious circumstances; within a few short months the British South Africa Company controlled Matabeleland, and white settlers continued to arrive.
Second Matebele War
In March 1896, the Ndebele revolted against the authority of the British South Africa Company in what is now celebrated in Zimbabwe as the First Chimurenga, i.e., First War of Independence. Mlimo, the Ndebele spiritual/religious leader, is credited with fomenting much of the anger that led to this confrontation. He convinced the Ndebele that the white settlers (almost 4,000 strong by then) were responsible for the drought, locust plagues and the cattle disease rinderpest ravaging the country at the time.
Mlimo's call to battle was well-timed. Only a few months earlier, the British South Africa Company's Administrator General for Matabeleland, Leander Starr Jameson, had sent most of his troops and armaments to fight the Transvaal Republic in the ill-fated Jameson Raid. This left the country's security in disarray. In June 1896, the Shona too joined the war, but they stayed mostly on the defensive. The British would immediately send troops to suppress the Ndebele and the Shona, only it would take months and cost many hundreds of lives before the territory would be once again be at peace. Shortly after learning of the assassination of Mlimo at the hands of the American scout Frederick Russell Burnham, Cecil Rhodes walked unarmed into the Ndebele stronghold in Matobo Hills and persuaded the impi to lay down their arms, thus bringing the war to a close in October 1896. Matabeleland and Mashonaland would continue on only as provinces of the larger state of Rhodesia.
Birthplace of Scouting
It was in Matabeleland during the Second Matabele War that Robert Baden-Powell, who later became the founder of the Scout Movement, and the younger Frederick Russell Burnham, the American born Chief of Scouts for the British Army, first met and began their lifelong friendship. Baden-Powell had already, in 1884, published a book called "Reconnaissance and Scouting". In mid-June 1896, while scouting in the Matobo Hills, Burnham passed on to Baden-Powell aspects of woodcraft he had acquired in America, and it was during this time with Burnham that perhaps the seeds were sown for the program and the code of honour eventually crystallised in Baden-Powell's 1899 "Aids to Scouting for NCOs and Men" and his later (1908) "Scouting for Boys", which was written after his experience of how useful and reliable the boys at Mafeking had been. Practiced by frontiersmen of the American Old West and Indigenous peoples of the Americas, woodcraft was generally unknown to the British. These skills eventually formed the basis of what is now called scoutcraft, the fundamentals of Scouting. Baden-Powell recognised that wars in Africa were changing markedly and the British Army needed to adapt; so during their joint scouting missions, Baden-Powell and Burnham discussed the concept of a broad training programme in woodcraft for young men, rich in exploration, tracking, fieldcraft, and self-reliance. It was also during these scouting missions in the Matobo Hills that Baden-Powell first started to wear his signature campaign hat like the one worn by Burnham. Later, Baden-Powell wrote a number of books on Scouting, and even started to train and make use of adolescent boys, most famously during the Siege of Mafeking, during the Second Boer War.
British settlement of Rhodesia continued, and by October 1923, the territory of Southern Rhodesia was annexed to the Crown. The Ndebele thereby became British subjects and the colony received its first basic constitution and first parliamentary election. Ten years later, the British South Africa Company ceded its mineral rights to the territory's government for £2 million. The deep recession of the 1930s gave way to a post-war boom of British immigration.
After the onset of self-government, a major issue in Southern Rhodesia was the relationship between the white settlers and the Ndebele and Shona populations. One major consequence was the white settlers were able to enact discriminatory legislation concerning land tenure. The Land Apportionment and Tenure Acts reserved 45% of the land area for exclusively white ownership. 25% was designated "Tribal Trust Land", which was available to be worked on a collective basis by the already settled farmers and where individual title was not offered.
In 1965, the white government of Rhodesia, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, unilaterally declared independence from Britain — only the second state to do so, the other being the United States in 1776. Initially, the state proclaimed its loyalty to Queen Elizabeth II as "Queen of Rhodesia" (a title to which she never consented), but by 1970 even that link was severed, and Rhodesia claimed to be an independent republic. This was not recognised by any other state in the world; legally, Rhodesia remained a British colony.
The ruling white Rhodesian government did not gain international recognition and faced serious economic problems as a result of sanctions. Some states, such as South Africa and Portugal, did support the white minority government of Rhodesia. In 1967, the Zimbabwe African People's Union began a lengthy armed campaign against Rhodesia's white minority government in what became known as the "Bush War" by White Rhodesians and as the "Second Umvukela" (or rebellion in Ndebele language) by supporters of the rebels. The Shona, backed by China, set up a separate war front from neighbouring Mozambique.
The Rhodesian government agreed to a ceasefire in 1979. For a brief period, Rhodesia reverted to the status of British colony, until early 1980 when elections were held. The ZANU party, led by the Shona independence leader Robert Mugabe, defeated the popular Ndebele candidate Joshua Nkomo, solidified their rule over independent Zimbabwe. The former state of Matabeleland and Mashonaland now exist as provinces of Zimbabwe, but the former, after suffering a genocide after independence at the hands of the latter,
Following independence in 1980, Zimbabwe initially made significant economic and social progress,
Gukurahundi Genocide 1983-87
Gukurahundi was a series of massacres of Northern Ndebele people (formerly known as Matabele) carried out by the Zimbabwe National Army from early 1983 to late 1987. The International Association of Genocide Scholars estimates that more than 20,000 people were killed and have classified the massacres as a genocide. The government has repeatedly destroyed local plaques commemorating the massacres.
By early 1984, the army disrupted food supplies in Matabeleland and much of the Ndebele population suffered food shortages. Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo finally reconciled their political differences by late 1987. The roots of discord remained, however, and in some ways increased as Mugabe's rule became increasingly autocratic into the 21st century.
In the early 1990s, a Land Acquisition Act was passed, calling for the Mugabe government to purchase mostly white-owned commercial farming land for redistribution to native Africans. Matabeleland has rich central plains, watered by tributaries of the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers, allowing it to sustain cattle and consistently produce large amounts of cotton and maize. But land grabbing, squatting, and repossessions of large commercial farms under Mugabe's program resulted in a 90% loss in productivity in large-scale farming, ever higher unemployment, and hyperinflation.
- Victoria Falls
- Joshua Nkomo
- Matabeleland football team
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- York, Geoffrey (12 January 2022). "Why Zimbabwe's simple plaque with a not-so-simple history keeps getting destroyed and rebuilt". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 12 January 2022. | <urn:uuid:8ff36df6-d7c0-48d2-94f2-0e4e789ee3f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matabeleland | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95523 | 3,682 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Elastic properties of rocks control the behavior of seismic waves such as wave amplitudes and speeds. Usually, elastic properties of rocks are measured in the laboratory. Unfortunately, some laboratory measurements are invasive. Digital Rock Physics (DRP) provides an alternative solution by simulating common measurements on computerized tomography images (CT-images) of the samples. However, evaluating the elastic properties of rocks using "segmentation-based DRP" is not accurate. Here, we propose an automatic inversion-based algorithm to estimate the elastic properties of monomineralic rocks. The method is based on the "segmentation-less DRP" where elastic moduli of rocks are estimated from CT-images without the need for initial segmentation of minerals or pore space. The proposed strategy iteratively evaluates the spatial distribution of pore spaces in the CT-images until the predicted porosity of the sample matches the porosity measured in the laboratory. The method is tested on a Berea sandstone plug. Numerical wave simulations are performed on the CT-images of the sample in order to estimate the elastic properties of the sample. Numerical results are compared with laboratory measurements. The proposed method, the inversion-assisted segmentation-less approach, shows a significant improvement over the traditional segmentation based DRP approach. The proposed method has a mismatch of +4.1% and +10% with respect to the measured P-wave and S-wave speeds. The segmentation approach overestimates P- and S-wave velocities by 38% and 28%, respectively. Future studies are still needed to improve the accuracy and extend the method to multimineralic rocks.
Presentation Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Session Start Time: 1:50 PM
Presentation Start Time: 2:15 PM
Location: Poster Station 1
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As we all know, 2 weeks ago the rail workers went on strike. All services were disrupted, and many who were reliant on public transport were majorly inconvenienced. But the worst thing is that since negotiations still haven’t been successful, the chances of further strike action this month are incredibly high. The RMT secretary Mick Lynch himself said that the strike actions on the 25th won’t be the last.
One thing that some people have pondered is why haven’t rail workers taken a similar action to what bus drivers did in Japan. In Okayama in 2018, unhappy bus drivers declared that they were going on strike. However they carried on turning up to work. They just failed to charge customers using the bus service. By doing this, they made sure the people didn’t pay for the failings of their company, and in turn got greater support from the general public. If train drivers and ticket staff who were on strike operated this maneuver, no doubt the everyday worker in the UK would be on their side over the government.
At the end of the day though, our railway is a vital infrastructure, and is in constant need of maintenance. Knowing this, one action that the Government is looking at taking is to repeal the ban on using agency workers. This has been widely seen as a negative move, with this proposed law ‘fundamentally undermining a worker’s democratic right to strike and stifling their civil liberties.’
We’ll finish with a message to Network Rail. We don’t do temporary roles, but if you ever need any long-term staff, we’d be more than happy to help. We have recently placed café and retail staff in a few nearby stations and have started working with companies to place engineers. | <urn:uuid:a8fcba39-1789-42bb-ba14-27ed97740f77> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.zooprecruitment.co.uk/2022/07/04/rail-worker-strikes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.981447 | 366 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Sphere produced a series of posters and matching postcards illustrating the core principles embedded in the Humanitarian Charter through the use of cartoons. The cartoons explain a complex issue through a simple visual image, helping people retain the information more easily. The cartoons help disseminate information and raise awareness on the Humanitarian Charter and on the basic rights of affected populations.
To produce the illustrations, Sphere partnered with artists from the Cartoon Movement and with the Centre for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action (CERAH).
They are available in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic. To know more, please get in touch. | <urn:uuid:349921e9-9538-462d-81aa-4887eda3d105> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spherestandards.org/humanitarian-standards/cartoons-campaign/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.890205 | 123 | 1.960938 | 2 |
I talked to someone today who was an early employee at a now publicly traded company. He shared an observation that stuck with me: some companies won’t ever be more than what they are today because they won’t (or can’t) level up.
He elaborated on this: Having big goals and dreams are great. But to do the impossible and enjoy outsize success, you must level up as a founder and as an organization. If you don’t level up, you will stall or struggle. As an early employee of a company that went on to be worth billions and to be publicly traded, he saw firsthand what it means to level up and how it can lead to success.
I totally agree. A buddy framed it well: the biggest throttle on your success is how fast you can improve yourself. This applies to founders and to companies. | <urn:uuid:babc42ea-2419-490b-a510-0ebdd174e99b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jermainebrown.org/posts/success-requires-leveling-up | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.973615 | 178 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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Dispersal 'B' #21971
13 x 19 7/8 in. (33 x 50 cm)
Jack Whitten (Bessemer, Alabama, 1939 - ) Primary
Object Type: Work on paper
Medium and Support: Dry pigment and Rhoplex AC-33 on paper
Credit Line: Courtesy of the artist
Accession Number: 2014.15
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Light Years: Jack Whitten, 1971-1973 Rose Art Museum , 9/16/2013 - 12/8/2013
- Collection in Focus , 2/10/2015 - 6/7/2015
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What is the best way to cook with beer? Beer can be used to marinate or tenderize meats, bringing flavor to bread and also adding a unique flavor to desserts. Beer can help moisten food and also helps bakeries rise as it’s a yeast-based ingredient. It’s possible to use any kind of beer for cooking but it is important to select the correct beer for the recipe you are making.
Beer is among the oldest alcoholic drinks and is among the most well-known of all alcoholic beverages consumed to this day. Over hundreds and hundreds of years and, more specifically, since the advent of modern technology in the production of beer There are thousands of varieties of beers.
Beer has surpassed all expectations and, even if you’re not the greatest beer lover we can promise you there will be plenty on the market that you’ll enjoy.
Have you thought of making your own beer-based dishes? What is the process and what effect does it have on your food? How can you integrate it into your diet? What beers do you prefer to use to accomplish what?
There’s an inexplicably large number of questions about beer, but there are very few concise guides to cooking specifically with beer.
This guide can serve as your go-to source for anything information you may require. Without further due, The Chef’s Guide To Cooking With Beer.
How Is Beer Made?
We won’t be taking an in-depth look into the making of beers, and the various types they are, since that’s an entire book by itself. We will, however, provide a description of how it functions in order to be aware of how each element will impact your food and the final taste.
Beer is made using four basic ingredients:
The most basic idea (and goal for brewers) is to extract the sugars from the grains to convert them into alcohol and carbon dioxide (CO2) to ultimately create beer.
Step 1: Malting
The process of malting is where the grains germinate by moving them until they attain a moisture content of about 45 percent. After that, the grains are dried and then roasted.
Step 2: Mash and then lauter
The grains are again stepped to activate the enzymes in starch that cause the grains to release sugars. The water is then drained leaving the liquid sweet and syrupy. Lautering is used to get rid of any extra grains left.
Step 3: Adding hops
Other spices and hops are included in the liquid to give it flavor. This is how the majority of beers obtain their distinct aromas and flavors.
Hops are the reason for their bitterness in the mix i.e. the higher the number of hops, the greater the bitterness of the drink. There are over 150 hop varieties each with its own distinctive flavor.
Step 4: Fermentation
This is among the steps that are required before the bottling stage and involves yeast being added to the mix in order to ferment (break into) to break down sugars.
As the different types of hops can alter the taste, the type of yeast used will also have a major impact.
Every step of the process, from the harvesting until the final bottling (storing) will affect the final result in terms of appearance, aroma, taste, and mouth-feel. All of these aspects are to be considered when making use of food products.
Like wines, which are served with food, so too are beers, and it’s equally important to be aware of the right flavor combination.
Different Types Of Beer
Beers are classified into two major types: ales and Lagers.
Ales are produced at higher temperatures and can be ready for drinking in about 3 weeks.
Ales is a larger class of beers than the lagers and includes a variety of sub-categories (too numerous to mention all of them).
Here are some of the significant categories that you need to know and will likely be utilized in your recipes:
- Brown Ales
- Amber/Red Ales
- Pale Ales
Lagers are fermented at lower temperatures than ales and are then stored for weeks or months at temperatures that are close to freezing.
There are five main kinds of Lagers. Each one also has different sub-categories. Each kind of lager is unique in its characteristics and tastes. There’s no beer that tastes exactly the same as the other, which is what makes it so thrilling.
|Park Lager||Amber Lager||Bock||Dark Lager||Speciality Lager|
|American Light Lager||Marzen/Oktoberfest||Traditional Bock||Munich Dunkel||Winter warmers / holiday beers|
|Pilsner||Vienna Lager||Helles Bock||Schwarzbier||Herb & Spice|
How Can Beer Be Used In Cooking?
As you can see from the concise description of how beers are produced and the types of beers they are you can imagine the number of varieties each subcategory comes with and more.
Each step in the process of making from the initial harvesting to the final bottling techniques will affect the result in terms of flavor, and quality.
That means that there is an infinity of textures, flavors, and attributes, which leads to a wide range of applications. Each beer (not just one category, but the type of beer it is made from and the year in which the beer was produced) will affect the final taste that the dish you pair it with.
Beers are often used in soups, stews, casseroles, and other types of braised dishes and recipes.
They can be used to make stunning sauces and marinades that be served with other meals and add an extra taste.
Beers are commonly employed to help lighten batters to cook crunchy fish or onion rings and virtually every other food item that is deep-fried – sure, even chicken.
It’s another well-known cooking method that utilizes an opened beer can which is put inside a chicken or turkey cavity in order for its liquid (beer) to evaporate in the cavity. This results in a delicious and moist roast chicken.
Surprisingly enough, there are numerous beers that are suitable for the preparation of meals with seafood. Jamaican beers are great for barbecued fish that is smoky.
Are you thinking of the addition of beer to the cake batter? It’s a good idea to test it!
Beer is made up of naturally-occurring yeast which allows the beer to function as a flavoring agent, a consistency adjuster, as well as a rising agent in bakes and cakes.
In the end, you can use beers to make the most delicious bread you’ve ever had. Similar to cakes, they function as a flavoring agent and raising agent. The beer will provide excellent and distinctive flavor and texture to numerous bread.
What Beers Are Good For Cooking?
This is all about the flavor pairings. Wine, as you’ve probably guessed, is often served with food that complements it best. These pairings can be made by making use of wine for drinking as well as using it in the food as a whole.
There aren’t any better or worse beers to be used in food preparation. You must consider the food items you intend to put the beer for (marinades cakes, bread, etc.)) and what taste profile you want to achieve (smokey sweet, yeasty, spicy light, etc. ).
The bottom line is that it’s completely up to you and your own personal preferences. You will need to conduct lots of experiments to find the right taste.
Here’s a short illustration of food and beer pairings. This will assist you in choosing (flavor-wise in any case) what kind of beer to pair with specific food items or ingredients.
Don’t forget, it doesn’t mean that all beverages in this category work well. You’ll need to test with various brands, etc.
This is a good beginning point to help guide you.
|Component||Examples of ingredients||Examples of beer types|
|Grains||Farro Quinoa Arborio rice Wild rice Polenta||American Amber Ale|
|Protector Organic American Amber Ale|
Societe The Heiress Pilsner
|Beans & Legumes||Green beans Butter beans Lentils Chickpeas Fava beans Split peas||Brown Ale|
|Modern Times Black House Coffee Ale|
Garage Imperial Oatmeal Brown Ale
|Shellfish||Lobster Shrimp Crab Clams||Saison|
|Allagash Saison Violette|
Enegren Schoner Tag
|Rich meats||Lamb Beef loin Beef rib-eye||American Brett|
|Crooked Stave Wild Brett|
|Pork||Virtually any pork cut||Indian Pale Ale|
|AleSmith for Hope Hazy IPA|
|Poultry||Chicken Turkey||Pale Lager||Black Plague Acid Drop Light Lager|
|Game birds||Duck Guinea fowl Quail||American Pale Ale|
American Brown Ale
|Cooperage Captain Curt Pale Ale|
|Grilled vegetables||Virtually any grilled vegetable||Dry Stout|
|AleSmith Speedway Stout|
Does Beer Lose Alcohol When It’s Cooked?
As with any alcohol-based wine beer, beer, liquors, etc. The alcohol itself is vaporized during the cooking process.
In the event of stirring beer into hot liquid, such as soup, it instantly loses about 15 percent of the ABV (alcohol per volume) content.
If you simmer the liquid for about 15 mins and you decide that you are making mulled wine this percentage could increase to 20 20%.
If you use alcohol to prepare curries or stews that require one hour to simmer around 75 percent of the alcohol will evaporate over the course of that time.
To cook for a longer time, for example, roasts that require cooking for approximately 2 1/2 hours(2 hours and 30 minutes) most of the alcohol will be evaporated and 95% of it will be specific.
It is unlikely that you will be able to completely evaporate all of the alcohol, so it’s best to use it in moderate amounts.
Is Cooking With Beer Healthy?
Would you be amazed when we tell you the cooking process using beer could actually be healthier!
A typical 12-ounce beer bottle has around 150 calories. Most beers aren’t loaded with cholesterol or any other fat.
It’s also extremely poor in sodium (salt) and is surprisingly abundant in many minerals and vitamins like B-type vitamins, magnesium selenium, potassium, as well as mineral phosphorus.
Naturally drinking beer as it is, excessive quantities of alcohol will not be good for any body part. Alcohol consumption that is excessive can trigger numerous issues with your digestive system, liver and brain function, heart issues, and motor functions.
When cooking with beer, as the alcohol is evaporated and thus calories are reduced could be reduced, it’s an ideal way to flavor your food and is a great alternative to other methods or the addition of other ingredients.
Another advantage is that when you cook with beer, the vitamins and minerals stay in their original form and don’t get diluted by the alcohol. This means that you have an added nutritional benefit when you use beer in place of liquids like broth or water.
Dos And Don’ts When Cooking With Beer
While drinking beer and cooking doesn’t have to be a science-fiction endeavor There are a few rules and guidelines you need to be aware of.
- Substitute the entire liquid that the recipe calls for (the stock or water) by drinking beer. Beer adds more flavor and is more nutritious than the other ingredients used in the recipe.
- Take note of the flavors of the food you’re creating and the beverage you’re using. There aren’t any beers that go well with every food the same way wine does.
- Consider the amount of moisture. When you marinate meat in beer prior to cooking it lets the meat absorb the entire moisture and create a soft and juicy product.
- Avoid using large quantities of alcohol regardless of how low its alcohol percentage is while cooking meals. The alcohol’s flavor can overwhelm the taste of the primary ingredients and also cause and increase the flavor of strange foods.
- Alcohol is not able to completely evaporate when cooking. Therefore, ensure you are able to consume alcohol safely by your guests and you don’t make use of excessive amounts.
- Avoid the flames! There will always be alcohol left over after cooking, unless you’re skilled to master the art of flame, you should not keep food near the flame.
If you’re cooking by a fire that is open be cautious and make sure you have blankets or fire extinguishers nearby.
What Does Cooking Meat In Beer Do?
There are many ways to make use of beer during the process of cooking meat.
If you are you marinate your cut of meat in beer the beer will soften the meat as well as add tons of flavors. Beer is also a great source of nutrients, as we’ve discussed previously.
Beer is loaded with enzymes that can help break down any fibrous fibers the meat piece has and, in essence, soften it. This makes the meat more tender and tasty.
The majority of recipes that use beer help meat become tender – particularly in more prolonged cooking techniques.
Beer also adds lots of flavors. This is incredible because the taste and style of the beer you choose to drink will be infused with the meat you’re marinating.
Beer is a great choice as a flavoring ingredient during grilling or roasting. Beer will give a dark and deep color to the sauce that is used for basting. It is infused into the meat piece while cooking.
If beer is utilized as an alternative to water (so that it does not get diluted) it will improve the flavor of the ingredients and meats in a stew. The alcohol is evaporated leaving the flavor that the beverage has to perform its job.
How To Pair Meat And Beer
The use of beer to cook meat is a common method. However, there are a few suggestions and tricks that we can offer to help select the right beer for your particular meat.
Choose flavors that are similar to yours
For instance, light beers (such as pale lager) can be enjoyed with light meals (such as a basic Chicken sandwich).
If you’re planning to cook a dish using lemons, consider the beer that has lemon flavor (or comparable flavors) like that of the Robinsons Trooper ale (Iron Maiden beer).
Use contrasting flavors
We’ve all heard what we’ve mentioned about matching flavors, but if you’re wanting to be adventurous, consider using opposite food and drink tastes(that are still compatible).
As an example, you can mix the sweet taste of barbecued food items such as barbecue pork ribs and bitter-tasting beer, such as the Sunriver Vicious Mosquito IPA.
Utilize subtle flavorings
It is impossible to be wrong when it comes to pairing when you choose lighter beer with subtle flavor. These flavors won’t dominate your food or drink in any manner.
Its Duck Foot Logger Export Lager is a fantastic example of a delicious taste light beer.
Flavors for cleansing
When you prepare food items that are fried, fat or spicy meals it is crucial to select refreshing beverages like a light, fresh beer. Look into the Almanac Vibes Hoppy Pilsner.
|Item||Types of beer||Try this|
|Turkey (roasted)||Dark malts|
|Ground Breaker Dark Ale|
Protector Organic American Amber Ale
|Beefsteak (grilled)||Red ale||Evans Joaquin Dead Mexican Red Ale|
|Porterhouse steak (grilled)||Porters||Left Hand Hard Wired NITRO Coffee Porter|
Second Chance Tabula Rasa Toasted Porter
|Rare steak and raw beef (steak tartare)||Stout||Belching Beaver Peanut Butter Milk Stout|
Black Plaque Medusa Imperial Milk Stout
|Pulled pork (make sure the base flavor matches the type of beer)||Pale Ales||AleSmith San Diego Pale Ale .394|
|Pulled pork (for spicy pulled pork dishes)||Honey Ale ||Pizza Port California Honey Ale|
|Beef burgers (high-fat content)||Pale Ale||Duck Foot Old Bro Hazy Pale Ale|
|Beef burgers (lean)||Pilsner||Fremont Golden Pilsner|
|Vegetarian burgers (grilled vegetables)||Wheat beers||Maui Pineapple Mana Wheat|
|Chicken Wings (spicy buffalo)||Pale Ales|
Indian Pale Ales
|Temescal Patio Pale Ale|
Abnormal Boss Pour IPA
|Chicken Wings (spiced dry rub)||Brown Ale||Big Sky Moose Drool Brown Ale|
|Chicken Wings (grilled barbeque)||Porters||Barrel Brothers Dark Sarcasm Porter|
|Roast Chicken||Amber Ales|
|Bell’s Amber Ale|
Enegren Rasenmaher-Bier Lager
Can You Bake With Beer?
There is a tonne of ways to bake using beers, both in sweet and savory categories. There are many cakes you can bake as well as muffins, pancakes, and pancakes. biscuits as well as bread.
Beer is a flavoring agent in addition to having various other purposes. Because it contains yeast (and carbonation) within it, it is in a position to be a lettuce agent in certain baked goods and allow the cake to rise in baking and cooking.
However, there are a few rules to be aware of when baking with beer because baked goods are highly technical and require precise quantities and procedures.
How To Choose A Beer For Dessert Items
When baking using beer, it’s crucial to take into consideration the taste profile of the product and beer before making a decision.
For baking cakes and other desserts, always start with the porters or stouts. Due to the way they’re made (brewed using malt that has been roasted) they are infused with some cocoa and coffee in their brews.
The top beers for desserts:
- Porters are characterized by a chocolate-like taste The flavor profile of chocolate is more distinct and is a much less bitter flavor than Stouts.
- Stouts will be perfect with coffee-flavored food items since they tend to have a more bitter, intense coffee flavor.
- Brown Ales also have an excellent flavor profile with hints of nuttiness and caramels. They’re well with sweet sauces.
- Amber Ale is also a fantastic dessert beer because of its complex yet simple flavor selections.
Tips For Making Desserts With Beer
It is essential to use an unopened beer that has been kept at room temperature. In general, making use of ingredients that are at room temperature for desserts is extremely advantageous and highly advised.
Pour the beer at room temperature and let it rest for five minutes before adding it to the recipe. This allows the foam to disperse and the carbonation that is excessive to evaporate.
Beer pairs well when paired with dairy products with full fat and not the fat-free or low-fat types. It is acidic and could be able to curdle low-fat ingredients.
Desserts made with beer are best prepared and eaten fresh. The taste of beer when opened may change dramatically and can alter the flavor of the dessert.
You can try various beers with different flavors and use this table to select the most appropriate beer for those desserts.
|Items||Types of beers||Try this|
|New York Cheesecake||Lambic beers||3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze|
|Tiramisu or Chocolate Chip cookies||Brown Ale||Garage Imperial Oatmeal Brown Ale|
|Ice cream (butterscotch)||Sour beers||Prairie Slush Sour|
|Carrot cake||Indian Pale Ale|
Imperial Red Ale
|El Segundo Broken Skull IPA|
|Creme Brulee||Belgium-styled Quad|
Indian Pale Ale
|Urban Roots Where Our Hearts Truly Lie|
|Key Lime Pie||Hefeweizen||Enegren Schoner Tag|
|Lemon Shortbread||Pilsner||Brouwerij West Popfuji Pilsner|
|Orange sorbet||Witbier||Avery Liliko-i Kepolo Passionfruit Witbier|
|Spice cake||Indian Pale Ale||32 North Nelson IPA|
|Caramel Apple Tart||Brown Ale||Modern Times Black House Coffee Ale|
|Pumpkin flan||Pale Ale||Ground Breaker Inclusion Dry Hopped Pale Ale|
The pairings of these flavors are fixed in stone, The only method of knowing which flavors go well together is to test and test your own.
How To Choose A Beer For Making Bread
It’s possible it is possible, and we would strongly recommend that you try baking bread with only beers (no yeast, or any other typical leavening substances).
It is important to select the appropriate beer to make the bread you wish to bake. As with all bread, we suggest you test different kinds of beers at your own discretion to get the best results that you like.
Below are some things to consider when baking bread using beers:
- Stouts, brown ales and a few porters are most effective when you are making bread. (flavor-wise at the very least).).
- If you choose to drink a beverage that is too strong of a taste (too heavy) it can create a very bitter loaf. But, if you select one with very little flavor, you’ll not be able to taste beer even a bit.
- When you are substitution of other liquid ingredients In the recipe for bread (such as buttermilk or milk) make sure you’re eliminating all the fat that bread needs to provide the perfect texture and flavor.
- It is therefore important to consider how you can incorporate fat in your recipe. This is a trial and error exercise.
- Always let your beer get to Room temperature to get more outcomes.
- As with desserts baked in the oven, do not allow the beer to sit open for long. It is important to get the highest amount of carbonation so that the bread can rise in the baking.
Best Beers To Use For Bread Making
As we said that brown ales, stouts, and porters are the most secure choices to make bread.
Here are some alternatives for making bread with beer:
- Garage Imperial Oatmeal Brown Ale – Barrel Aged
- Belching Beaver Belching Beaver La Beaver Mexican Chocolate Peanut Butter Stout
- Clown Shoes Hammer of the Loin Imperial Stout
- Jackie O’s Hell Bettie Imperial Porter
- Pohjala Ohtu American Porter
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The crazy thing is that disability is an issue that could easily directly affect any of us at any moment, whether though accident, terrorism, illness or age and yet most of us pass it off as someone else’s problem. I once asked a wheelchair user what the correct term was for someone who wasn’t disabled, as non-disabled or abled seem clunky or inaccurate (I may not be disabled, but I am certainly not very able). She said, “We call you the “not-yet disabled.” I don’t think a harsh truth of existence has ever been so succinctly and eloquently expressed.
Anyway, we were lucky enough to get an after hours guided tour around the spookily empty Abbey. I was hoping it would be like Hollyoaks After Hours and be a bit sexier than the daytime tours. And I wasn’t disappointed. It wasn’t sexy for most people, but luckily I get off on being in close proximity to the dusty bones of ex-monarchs.
What an amazing building it is, both in terms of architectural splendour and history but also as a monument to poets, scientists, reformers and other Great Britons. The tomb of the unknown soldier is particularly moving. An anonymous and unidentified Tommy from World War One, representing all those regular citizens who fell in our many wars, past and future.
I knew about Poets’ Corner but was surprised to see a section of the Cathedral dedicated to science. There’s a massive monument to Isaac Newton, celebrating his formulae and his ordering of the planets (if Westminster Abbey had any style there would be a giant marble apple that descended and bonked you on the head every time you stood in front of it). Newton was at least was religious, if unconventionally so. Stranger to see Darwin buried here, given his life’s work was a huge challenge to the church. But there’s something wonderfully British about that sense of fair play and acceptance.
They don’t bury bodies in the Abbey any more (because it’s already full to the brim with sexy dead king femurs), but vowed to my wife that they would make an exception for me. One day my bones will be laid to rest amongst the great and the good and the frankly wickedly awful. She seemed skeptical, but I still have time to become Prime Minister. Or write some era-defining poetry. Or save the planet from an alien invasion. Perhaps I could be interred as the Unknown Comedian. Not anonymous, just unknown. “Here lies Richard Herring, the Unknown Comedian. Just another death in a long line and by no means the worst”.
Anyway, my final resting place will be Westminster Abbey, even if I have to sneak in at night and bury myself. I’ll probably hide in the tomb of Edward Longshanks – it’s a cliché I know, but for me the longer the shanks the sexier the snuffed monarch. It’d be nice to hammer the Hammer of the Scots before I go.
In a doomed attempt to get fit my wife and I are giving up drinking alcohol for 100 days. It’s been easy and I couldn’t even tell you how long we’ve done. But it’s roughly 18 days, 10 hours and 43 minutes.
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How to repair the radiator?
how to put a radiator on
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CAUTION: As long as there is pressure in the cooling system, the temperature can be considerably higher than the boiling temperature of the solution in the radiator without causing the solution to boil. Removal of the pressure cap while the engine is hot and pressure is high will cause the solution to boil instantaneously - possibly with explosive force - spewing the solution over the engine, fenders and the person removing the cap.
Park on a level surface, turn the ignition off and disconnect the negative battery cable. Drain the radiator fluid as described in the manual :" Draining Procedure
1. Park the vehicle on a level surface.
2. When the engine is cool, remove the surge tank cap by following these steps:
2.1. Slowly rotate the surge tank cap counterclockwise about a 1/4 turn and then stop.
2.2. Wait until any residual pressure is relieved. Residual pressure is indicated by a hissing sound.
2.3. After all hissing stops, continue to rotate the surge tank cap counterclockwise until the cap is removed.
3. Use a 1/4 inch square drive or a 3/16 inch hex drive to open the radiator drain valve. The radiator drain valve is located at the bottom of the radiator tank.
4. Remove the engine block drain plug.
5. Allow the coolant to drain completely.
6. Inspect the drained coolant:
Important: Dispose of used coolant in a proper fashion, such as in a used coolant holding tank. Never pour used coolant down the drain. Ethylene glycol antifreeze is a very toxic chemical. Disposing of ethylene glycol antifreeze into the sewer system is both illegal and ecologically unsound.
Disconnect the lower radiator hose and drain the rest of the radiator into a resealable container. Disconnect the fan and the fan shroud, if so equipped. Remove the other radiator hoses. Check the hoses for tears, wear and they should not feel spongy with soft spots. Replace with new ones as needed.Detach the transmission cooler lines. You'll need a with a flare nut wrench for that. Remove the fasteners that hold the radiator in place and lift out the radiator.
1. Close the radiator drain plug.
2. If previously removed, install the engine block drain plugs.
When installing the drain plugs, use pipe sealer GM P/N 12346004 (Canadian P/N 10953480).
Important: On vehicles equipped with the 3.4L engine, open the coolant air bleed valve. The coolant air bleed valve is located on the top of the thermostat bypass pipe/heater pipe assembly. Close the valve once a continuous stream of coolant is expelled from the valve.
3. Fill the surge tank to the base of the filler neck.
4. Start the engine with the pressure cap off. Run the engine until the upper radiator hose starts to get hot.
5. If the coolant level in the surge tank is low, add the proper mix of coolant until the level reaches the full cold line.
Important: After servicing the cooling system, and if the vehicle is equipped with an intermittent low coolant light, an occasional low coolant light may be encountered during some extreme driving maneuvers. This complaint should be eliminated by removing the surge tank cap and adding coolant to a level just at or above the full cold line when the system is cold.
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By James M. Dorsey
A violent display of racism by extreme nationalist supporters of storied Israeli football club Beitar Jerusalem coupled with recent Ethiopian Israeli protests against discrimination and the government’s handling of the capture of two Israelis by Hamas has moved racist attitudes towards dark-skinned Jews and Israeli Palestinian up the government’s agenda.
Driving calls for the banning of La Familia, the racist anti-Arab, anti-Muslim fan group of Beitar is concern about damage the group did to Israel’s image abroad rather than a worrisome trend in society at a time that Israel is anxious about the gathering momentum of calls to boycott, disinvest from and sanction the Jewish state for its policy towards the West Bank and Gaza.
Israeli foreign ministry officials charged that an incident in Belgium in which Beitar fans waved flags of the outlawed racist Kach party founded by assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane and threw flares and smoke guns on to the pitch as well as a missile that hit a goalkeeper during their club’s Europa League qualifier against Charleloi SC had damaged Israel’s international image. La Familia hung the Kach flags next to the Israeli flag in the stadium. The Israeli fans were welcomed in the stadium by neo-Nazi supporters of Charleroi with swastikas and Palestinian flags.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the incident, saying that he had discussed possible legal action against La Familia, believed to have several thousand followers, with internal security minister Gilad Erdan. “We will not allow them to besmirch the club’s entire fan base or harm the country’s image,” Netanyahu said.
In an editorial liberal newspaper Haaretz warned that “the problem is not Israel’s image in the world, but the overt racism that is fuelled by exactly those same officials who are now condemning it. Netanyahu and (culture and sports minister Miri) Regev are preaching to others what they themselves do not practice. With their racist remarks (‘The Arabs are flocking to the polling stations’), their conduct (threatening the funding of Arab cultural institutions) and their antidemocratic legislation – which is so typical of the government they head – they legitimize the phenomenon called Beitar Jerusalem,” Haaretz said. The paper was referring to Mr. Netanyahu’s fearmongering during the May election in which he warned that strong Palestinian participation threatened the outcome of the vote.
Founded by the revanchist wing of the Zionist movement with strong links to the right-wing nationalist Jewish underground in pre-state Palestine, Beitar has long been a darling of the Israeli right that counted nationalist leaders, including Mr. Netanyahu, among its supporters.
The only club to have consistently refused to hire a Palestinian in a country in which Palestinians ranks among its top players, Beitar has maintained its racist stance despite repeatedly being penalized by the Israel Football Association (IFA).
The economy ministry’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in a historic break with past IFA and government policy of only mildly chastising Beitar, summoned the club days before the Belgium incident to justify its racist hiring policies.
The move came weeks after the IFA had narrowly pre-empted adoption of a resolution put forward by the Palestine Football Association (PFA) to suspend Israel’s membership in world soccer body FIFA in part because of its failure to crack down on racism in Israeli soccer. In a compromise, the PFA withdrew its demand in favour of the establishment of a FIFA committee that would monitor Israeli efforts to address Palestinian grievances.
“The more deeply one looks into the reasons and motives for Beitar’s racist conduct, the more strongly the impression emerges that the problem stems from the forgiving attitude of the authorities around it – from the Israel Football Association to the league administration, all the way to ministerial level. These bodies, using various and sundry pretexts, lend a hand to the phenomenon and allow it to exist – whether by turning a blind eye to it or giving convoluted and evasive explanations,” Haaretz said.
“The time has come to stop talking about image, ‘education’ or ‘processes,’ and start taking practical steps. Alongside harsh penalties for manifestations of racism, Beitar Jerusalem must be given a limited window of time during which it will be required to sign Arab players – even at the cost of a major confrontation with its fans. Instead of condemnation, the time has come to act,” the paper said.
The focus on Beitar’s racism further comes on the heels of protests in recent months by Ethiopian Israelis who first demonstrated against the beating up in April by police of an Israeli soldier of Ethiopian extraction and the subsequent closing of an investigation into the incident.
Ethiopian activists have since agreed to a request by the family of Avera Mengistu not to protest against the government’s handling of his disappearance in Gaza some ten months ago. The government issued a gag order on reporting of the incident that was lifted earlier this month under pressure from the media and various politicians. As a result of the gag order, even members of Mr. Netanyahu’s security cabinet and parliament’s foreign affairs and security committee were kept in the dark
Similarly, Mr. Netanyahu did not visit the Ethiopian family until earlier this month and only after his hostages and missing persons coordinator, Col. (Res.) Lior Lotan, was forced to apologize for telling the family that their son’s release would be delayed if they criticized the prime minister.
Col. Lotan also insisted that the family refrain from connecting the government’s handling of their son’s case to the Ethiopian protests against discrimination. “I’m going to tell you this in the toughest way possible: Whoever puts on Avera the story of what’s between the Ethiopians and the State of Israel will leave him in Gaza for another year,” Col. Lotan was heard saying on tape.
Mr. Mengistu was detained after he climbed over a fence to enter Gaza. Hamas said it had released him after questioning but was still holding an Israeli Bedouin who legally crossed into Gaza in April. Mr. Mengistu is still missing.
Israeli media charged that the government had kept Mr. Mengistu’s disappearance secret because of his skin colour, noting that his family speaks poor Hebrew, lives in poverty, and does not have the wherewithal to stand up for their son’s rights.
Some analysts argue that the government’s handling of the case of Mr. Mengistu and the Bedouin, whose name has not been released, are not unique. Families of past Hamas prisoners and soldiers missing in action who are not of Ethiopian or Arab descent said they too had been humiliated and forcibly silenced by the government during their ordeal.
Nevertheless, the combustible mix of Israel’s image being on the line as a result of the violence of Beitar fans as well as Palestinian soccer efforts to force changes in Israeli policy, the protests against discrimination against dark-skinned Israelis, and the disappearance of Israeli nationals in Gaza puts Israeli racism in the spotlight. Israel cannot afford to be seen to be ignoring a dark side of its society and culture.
James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies as Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, co-director of the Institute of Fan Culture of the University of Würzburg and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer, and a forthcoming book with the same title. | <urn:uuid:aee7af05-1b99-4777-a467-63bb00bdf0ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://fankultur-institut.de/israeli-soccer-violence-moves-racism-up-the-governments-agenda | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962848 | 1,572 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Can you believe it's almost 2018? That means it's time to look back at some of the notable library-related stories from the past year.
10. Librarians Fight Fake News
The problems with fake news caused many of us to revamp our web evaluation handouts into guides for spotting bogus information sources.
9. Elsivier Roundup
Elsivier made several headlines this year, in the form of boycotts and resignations. Their buyout of bepress also raised eyebrows.
In related news, Beall's List went dark in January.
8. ALA's Trump Statements
Late last year, many librarians were quick to jump on an initial (and now retracted) press release by the American Library Association about being "ready to work with President-elect Trump." Recent statements have taken a far more militant tone.
7. Milo's Book Cancelled
Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos found himself out of a book deal after making pro-pedophilia comments. The use of sensitivity readers and related author edits also made the news this year.
6. Whither the Open Web?
It's too early to tell what the end of net neutrality will mean for the Internet, although most experts predict it won't be a good thing.
Bonus: Favorite Presentation
For anyone sick of hearing about how, "during these hardships, it's time for you to demonstrate your coping skills," the ACRL talk, Resilience, Grit, and Other Lies: Academic Libraries and the Myth of Resiliency is for you.
5. Remember Electronic Reserve?
I first heard about the Georgia State e-reserve lawsuit in grade school. Well, not quite, but after almost a decade, the case is still open.
4. Chinese Censorship
Both Springer and Cambridge found themselves in hot water this year for agreeing to self-censor parts of their web publications for Chinese readers.
3. Little Free "Libraries" Criticism
An interesting point about those community bookshelves was made recently: they don't often reside in "book deserts" where the need is greatest.
2. The Opioid Crisis
A staggering number of people die every day from overdoses in the United States. This year, public libraries found themselves on the front lines in the fight against opioid overdoses.
1. The Paradox of Tolerance
In the wake of neo-Nazi protests, librarians found themselves discussing the fine line between protected and hate speech.
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Common dolphins found in New Zealand waters belong to the species now known as the short-beaked common dolphin. The colouration of this dolphin is very distinctive with a criss-cross or hour-glass type pattern centred on the flanks. Colours include purplish black, grey, white and yellowish tan. The dorsal fin is high with a concave hind edge. The head is low and smooth-sloping.
The common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) is found in offshore warm-temperate waters in the Atlantic and Pacific and is the most numerous dolphin within this range. It is closely related to the long-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus capensis) which prefers shallower and warmer water.
Short-beaked common dolphins are found in waters throughout New Zealand and Australia. In New Zealand, this species tends to remain a few kilometres from the coast and is particularly common in the Hauraki Gulf and off Northland.
Common dolphin leaping out of the water, seen during a whale survey, Cook Strait Area
Common dolphins may form enormous schools of several thousand individuals. They are also known to associate with schools of pilot whales and other dolphin species such as dusky dolphins. This species is abundant but precise population estimates are largely unknown.
Diet and foraging
Common dolphins feed on a variety of prey, including surface schooling fish species and small mid-water fish and squids. They are known to dive to depths of 280 metres in search of prey and hunt cooperatively within schools. Dives can last up to 8 minutes but are usually between 10 seconds and 2 minutes. These animals are vocal and show a wide range of acrobatic behaviour.
Gestation lasts for around 10-11 months and the calving interval varies from 1 to 3 years. Age at sexual maturity is estimated to vary with region but for the Pacific is thought to range from 7-12 years for males and 6-7 years for females. Maximum age is estimated to be 22 years.
Common dolphin pod in the Cook Strait Area
Killer whales are the principal predators of common dolphins. When under threat individuals can be seen moving closer together. Dolphins have also been spotted with shark-bite scars indicating that sharks may predate on this species.
Large numbers of short-beaked common dolphins die in tuna purse seine fisheries in the eastern tropical Pacific and in set net fisheries around the world. In New Zealand common dolphins are caught in trawl fisheries each year. Tourism activities have also been found to affect the normal behaviour of these dolphins and studies have shown them attempting to avoid approaching vessels through the use of evasive behaviours (Au & Perryman, 1982). Boat strike is also a threat in areas of high boating activity such as in the Bay of Islands. Again, common sense rules should apply when boating around these dolphins to reduce stress on the animals. Such rules are outlined in the Marine Mammal Protection Regulations (1992).
We are assessing the impacts of tourism on common dolphins in the Bay of Islands and is using photo-identification in the Bay of Plenty to study their population ecology. Future assessment will look at the effects of developing marine farm operations.
We are also responsible for managing stranding events.
You can report sightings of dolphins to our conservation hotline 0800 DOCHOT (0800 362 468). You can also report a sighting online.
Reports of sightings are always valuable and help increase our knowledge of dolphin distribution and movements around New Zealand.
Record the details
Include as much information as possible with your sighting:
- the date, time and location (GPS coordinates if possible)
- the number of dolphins and estimated sizes
- the direction they were travelling
- take photographs or video if possible.
You can help
How to approach dolphins
From a commercial or recreational boat:
- Carefully approach dolphins from their side and slightly to the rear.
- Operate your boat slowly and quietly at ‘no wake’ speed within 300 m.
- Don't approach a group of dolphins if three or more boats are already within 300 m of the group.
- Manoeuvre your boat carefully. Do not obstruct their path, cut through a group, or separate mothers from calves.
From a recreational boat or swimming:
- Avoid loud or sudden noises that could startle dolphins.
- Don't swim with dolphins when calves are present.
- Don't try to touch the dolphins or feed them.
- Cooperate with others so all may see the dolphins without putting them at risk.
Stranded, injured, entangled, or deceased dolphins
Call DOC's emergency hotline immediately 0800 DOC HOT (0800 362 468) and follow any instructions from DOC staff. Prompt reporting increases the likelihood that we can save dolphins in distress and learn more about deceased dolphins, including conducting necropsies in some situations to identify the cause of death and to collect important scientific data that may help us manage threats to dolphins.
If you catch or harm a dolphin
It is not illegal to accidentally catch a dolphin, but you must report it.
If you accidentally catch, harm or kill a dolphin you must report it as soon as possible to our emergency hotline 0800 DOCHOT (0800 362 468) or the Ministry for Primary Industries (0800 008 333).
If a dolphin is alive you should release it back into the water as quickly and gently as possible, provided it is safe to do so.
If the dolphin is dead, take photos, and either release the carcass at sea or preferably bring it to shore for us to recover, particularly if you have caught a Hector's or Māui dolphin.
If you are set netting always remain with your net. Remove your net from the water if dolphins are seen in the area.
If you see set nets being used within areas closed for netting, contact the Ministry for Primary Industries on 0800 4 POACHER (0800 4 76224).
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Technology reports is a popular subject for many people, but how can you inform if it’s great or bad? Technology journalism is a product and activity of media who discuss subjects in relation to technology. Here are some of the most crucial technology news sources:
Computer and video games happen to be heavily influenced by technological enhancements. News regarding new cpu chips and computer electrical power are tightly watched in the video game sector. The latest news from these industries may help people understand how powerful the future personal computers will be. Likewise, technology media stories about new gizmos, gaming systems, and other scientific developments are sometimes fascinating. They can also give you a unique regarding the healthcare industry. And finally, technology https://www.technologyactive.com/5-trends-that-will-impact-popular-technologies-in-the-coming-decades/ news will let you make an informed decision regarding the latest gadget.
Technology media can be confusing. You will discover countless weblogs and websites offering the latest changes. Not all are trustworthy. Thankfully, there are some dependable sources that will help you navigate through the maze of tech news. To make the most of the subscription to technology reports, follow these guidelines. Here’s an example:
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In this intensive course you develop an essential understanding of Visual Design, tools and approaches and how thay can be applied to develop visual interface designs for the web and native apps. This workshop is an active and participatory introduction to the core principles of Visual Design.
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New research and writing on the history of women in the visual arts in Ireland
To mark the launch of the Sarah Cecilia Harrison archive to the public, and in honour of Harrison’s legacy in the arts and as a social campaigner, the National Gallery of Ireland is establishing the Sarah Cecilia Harrison Essay Prize in art history. This award will recognise the best new research and writing on the history of women in the visual arts in Ireland.
The prize is open to all members of the public over 18 years of age, and the author of the winning essay will be awarded a €1000 prize at a reception held in the National Gallery of Ireland on 17 November 2022 (date subject to change).
This prize is generously supported by the descendants of the sister of Sarah Cecilia Harrison, Beatrice Chisholm.
How to enter
Read the competition rules
Before entering the competition, read the eligibility requirements and competition rules in full.
- Must be new research and writing on the history of women in the visual arts in Ireland
- Must be in English only
- No longer than 5,000 words in length, inclusive of cover pages, footnotes and endnotes
How to submit
Email your entry to [email protected] before midnight (IST) on Friday 9 September 2022.
You must include the following information in the body of your email:
- Your full name
- Your address
- Your telephone number
- Your date of birth
- A statement of permission for the Gallery to share your name and locality (if shortlisted) with press, media and other promotional purposes in connection with the competition, including on the Gallery’s social media platforms
- Social media handles (optional)
You must add the following documents as attachments to your email:
- Essay (attached as a Word or PDF)
- 500-word abstract (attached as Word or PDF)
- 200-500 word biography of the author (attached as Word or PDF)
Include your full name in the filename of each document.
Complete entries must be emailed to [email protected] by midnight (IST) on Friday 9 September 2022.
The Hugh Lane/Sarah Cecilia Harrison archive collection
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941) was an accomplished artist and curator, as well as an advocate of social reform and women’s rights in Ireland in the early twentieth century.
The Gallery acquired the Sarah Cecilia Harrison archive in 2019. Comprising over 400 letters from Sir Hugh Lane to the artist, the archive (dating from 1905–1915) provides insight into the world in which both Lane and Harrison lived and worked. This important collection will be made available to researchers in autumn 2022.
The Gallery's Library and Archive
The Gallery’s Library and Archive form important and valuable collections of research material held at the ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art (ESB CSIA), Yeats Archive and Gallery's institutional archives. These collections support the study and scholarly interpretation of visual art in Ireland.
The central role played by women artists in the development and dissemination of modernist art in Ireland is well documented. However, the broader story of women artists in Ireland and their achievements has often been forgotten, or viewed as ancillary to the standard canon.
Archives and primary research are essential to understanding and revealing these stories. Through the development of our collections, engagement and learning programmes, the Library and Archives department, including the ESB CSIA, has worked to promote Irish women artists as well as female-led collectives and industries.
Eligibility and Entry Requirements: Sarah Cecilia Harrison Essay Prize 2022
Read the rules before entering the competition
ESB Centre for the Study of Irish Art
Houses the Gallery’s comprehensive Irish art library & archives
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This plugin allows you to display pre-formatted random numbers for testing or demonstration purposes.
range: Two numbers separated by a comma. The output will contain a number between the mininum and maximum value, in that order.
format: Any string containing at least the # character. The # character is a placeholder for the generated number. If a single digit integer follows the #, the number will be formatted with the amount of decimals it specifies. By default, the output will be the nubmer by itself. Any other string specified in the format declaration will be echoed as is.
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Many friends like to share the food they make in the circle of friends, but no matter how good your meal is, how can you do without a good-looking tableware? If you want to make your own meals more dazzling, the choice of tableware is very important. A good set of tableware can enhance the style of the food and make others think that you are a person who understands the taste of life and will leave a good impression on others.
The tableware we usually use at home also plays a very important role in our lives! We have to eat three meals a day every day, and we have to be exposed to household tableware, so household tableware is related to our health. I don’t know what kind of tableware to choose is best. Come and take a look at the following household tableware. Get an in-depth understanding of them, and then choose the one that suits you to take home!
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The porcelain craftsmanship that has been passed down for thousands of years has created countless amazing ceramic crafts, which have been passed down to this day. With five thousand years of history and civilization in China, its ceramic craftsmanship has witnessed the evolution of the entire history, and the ceramic dishes themselves have a fresh breath and elegant appearance, you will not be conscious of it. Fall in love with it! Using this dish at home can fully reflect your unique temperament.
It’s a pity that there are delicious food but no beauty! As a necessity in daily life, tableware can add a lot of fun to our lives! It can also improve happiness. Why do you always find the food in those five-star hotels so charming and delicious? Why can't I make such a delicious food at home? In fact, it's not that your craftsmanship is not good, but the dining tools we match are not very good. Sometimes changing a tableware will make the food different!
With the rapid development of the technological age, microwave ovens have spread to thousands of households. Although the microwave oven is easy to use, it pays special attention to many items. Among them, special attention should be paid to the dishes used when heating food in the microwave oven. The temperature inside is extremely high during operation, and ordinary dishes are too easy to be damaged, so prepare such dishes at home instead of buying a special bowl for microwave heating!
Different bone china tableware suits different home decoration styles. Nowadays, many people especially like European style home style, so choosing European style tableware to match European style home furnishing effect will be very good! This European-style tableware, with a simple design style and elegant patterns, gives us a beautiful atmosphere, exquisite and elegant feeling in the dark, and this tableware is scratch-resistant and wear-resistant, which is a cost-effective choice.
There are many choices of tableware, and the fancy and exquisite ceramics have always been dominant. This is not only because of its various patterns and dazzling arrays, which make consumers pleasing to the eye, but more importantly, it is mainly made of inorganic non-metallic minerals such as clay. The element is the raw material, it is safer to use, the performance is also very stable, and combined with the popular color glaze, it gives people a warm and energetic feeling.
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John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men paints a grim portrait of humanity and of the social and economic circumstances in which the characters live. Throughout the novel, Steinbeck explores themes such as loneliness, friendship, and the American dream. The message is related particularly to Lennie and the story’s tragic end: that the good and the innocent are doomed to fail in this harsh world.
Loneliness is one of the novel’s main themes. It is notable that many of the characters in the novel are lonely. For example, Candy’s only companion is his old dog, which he has had since it was a puppy. When one of the others wants to shoot it, it is clear that Candy does not want to, but he doesn’t get any support from the other men. He allows them to take the dog. Later, he is drawn in by George and Lennie’s dream of owning a small farm and offers them his savings if they will let him join them (p. 56). It seems that part of the appeal of George and Lennie’s dream for Candy is that he wouldn’t be alone.
The African-American farm worker Crooks also feels lonely, but unlike Candy he is actively excluded by the other men because of his race, both through the racism of the others and through the laws of segregation that require him to live separately. Crooks explains that he is the only African American on the farm and that there are hardly any African-American people in the area: “ ‘There ain’t a colored man on this ranch an’ there’s jus’ one ... | <urn:uuid:78e1c3af-d8b8-4c98-9a02-0c9ecee9aae4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lektuerehilfe.de/of-mice-and-men-john-steinbeck/themes-and-message | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979572 | 348 | 3.546875 | 4 |
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‘Hunger hormone’ ghrelin affects monetary decision making
Higher levels of the stomach-derived hormone ghrelin, which stimulates appetite, predict a greater preference for smaller immediate monetary rewards over larger delayed financial rewards, a new study finds. The study results will be presented at ENDO 2021, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting.
This research presents novel evidence in humans that ghrelin, the so-called “hunger hormone,” affects monetary decision making, said co-investigator Franziska Plessow, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. She said recent research findings in rodents suggested that ghrelin may play a part in impulsive choices and behaviors.
“Our results indicate that ghrelin might play a broader role than previously acknowledged in human reward-related behavior and decision making, such as monetary choices,” Plessow said. “This will hopefully inspire future research into its role in food-independent human perception and behavior.”
Ghrelin signals the brain for the need to eat and may modulate brain pathways that control reward processing. Levels of ghrelin fluctuate throughout the day, depending on food intake and individual metabolism.
This study included 84 female participants ages 10 to 22 years: 50 with a low-weight eating disorder, such as anorexia nervosa, and 34 healthy control participants. Plessow’s research team tested blood levels of total ghrelin before and after a standardized meal that was the same for all participants, who had fasted beforehand. After the meal, participants took a test of hypothetical financial decisions, called the delay discounting task. They were asked to make a series of choices to indicate their preference for a smaller immediate monetary reward or a larger delayed amount of money, for instance, $20 today or $80 in 14 days.
Healthy girls and young women with higher ghrelin levels were more likely to choose the immediate but smaller monetary reward rather than waiting for a larger amount of money, the researchers reported. This preference indicates more impulsive choices, Plessow said.
The relationship between ghrelin level and monetary choices was absent in age-matched participants with a low-weight eating disorder. People with this eating disorder are known to have ghrelin resistance, and Plessow said their finding might be another indicator of a disconnect between ghrelin signaling and behavior in this population. | <urn:uuid:57015a41-1c70-4e84-9537-4f0374af7cd1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pandemicsinfo.com/health-news/hunger-hormone-ghrelin-affects-monetary-decision-making/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949572 | 535 | 2.59375 | 3 |
In about two years, July 2023, the Scarborough RT will shut down and be replaced by bus services until a Line 2 Scarborough Subway Extension opens in 2030. For seven years or more, riders will use buses to reach Kennedy terminal on Line 2, a change that will strain both the transit service and roads.
The TTC has a survey underway to July 16, 2021, to find out how riders think the bus service should operate, and to get a sense of how they use the bus network today.
The SRT operates primarily as a link between Scarborough Centre (aka STC) and Kennedy Stations with Lawrence East Station in a distant third place mainly because of transfer traffic from the 54/954 Lawrence East bus services. A replacement service does not have to duplicate the route of the SRT, but rather serve travel patterns between the major nodes.
The TTC plans to extend many routes now terminating at STC to Kennedy, but the challenge lies in the route that they will take. The combined service at peak will be about 1 minute, and that will strain road capacity. A saving grace is that buses will not stop often, and so they will not queue at curbside, but this bring an operational challenge for any mixture of local and express services. A reserved lane works best if buses do not have to pass each other by merging into other traffic.
There are many ways to get from STC to Kennedy on the road system, and the right-of-way of the existing RT presents another option. However, there are trade-offs.
- Traffic conditions vary at various places on these routes.
- Any location where vehicles must turn will be a pinch point.
- Construction on the Line 2 extension will disrupt Eglinton Avenue east of Kennedy Station as well as at the future Lawrence East Station on McCowan Road.
The SRT right-of-way presents an option for at least part of the route, but its varying character limits what can be done.
- The corridor is widest between Kennedy and Lawrence East Stations. If this is converted to a bus roadway, it would provide direct access to Kennedy Station at the south bypassing construction on Eglinton, and buses could use existing access roads at Lawrence.
- Between Lawrence and Ellesmere Stations, the corridor is narrower in places making it more challenging for a two-way bus roadway.
- North of Ellesmere Station the SRT runs through a tunnel that is only big enough for an SRT vehicle which is slightly smaller than a standard city bus, and requires less dynamic clearance because it runs on rails.
- From the tunnel east to McCowan Station the line runs on an elevated structure which at a minimum would require access ramps for buses at street level to climb onto and off of the elevated.
The tunnel portal north of Ellesmere Station where the SRT passes under the GO Stouffville corridor gives a sense of the limited space available. Dimensions of SRT cars and a New Flyer eBuses are shown below.
|SRT Car||12.7m (41’8″)||2.49m (8’2″)||3.184m (10’7″)|
|New Flyer eBus||12.5m (41’0″)||2.59m (8’6″)||3.38m (11’1″)|
During a recent online consultation session, a question about using the Hydro corridor came up. This corridor, quite visible on the maps, runs north beside the SRT from Kennedy Station, but ends south of Lawrence. The broad Gatineau corridor crosses south of Lawrence East Station, but this only reaches to Lawrence or slightly further depending on which north-south street would be used to complete the link to STC.
TTC staff noted that the Hydro lands do not give the TTC anything they would not get simply by using the SRT corridor, and moreover that Hydro can be difficult to deal with in accommodating new infrastructure on their lands. Use of the Gatineau corridor would also require an underpass for buses to cross below the GO tracks much as the SRT now crosses north of Ellesmere Station.
On-Street and SRT Corridor Options
Several possible routes are suggested by the TTC between STC and Kennedy including dogleg alignments via Lawrence to avoid construction east of Kennedy Station. For any services that will make intermediate stops, a consistent route would be ideal as a focused transfer point to east-west lines like 95 Ellesmere and 54 Lawrence East. However, any route that would run non-stop can take any path. The real issue is whether multiple reserved bus lanes on different streets would be created to handle separate local and express volumes and what the effect on traffic in central Scarborough would be.
The TTC and City are studying how an aggressive Transit Signal Priority scheme might be implemented at key locations. This is a challenge with a headway of one minute on roads that have a considerably longer cycle time for intersection signals, not to mention the effect of pedestrians at locations where buses will turn. Distributing buses to multiple routes, or onto the SRT corridor, could reduce problems with fitting in a major new bus service.
If some or all of the SRT corridor were used, this presents a different, smaller set of options. Between STC and Ellesmere Station, either a route on the SRT guideway or via Ellesmere are possible. Although Ellesmere Station does not have a bus interchange, there is an access road now used by the 95C branch of the Ellesmere bus. The number of buses that would loop through here would be substantial.
Lawrence East station has a bus loop today.
An important issue with using the SRT corridor will be the time needed to convert each segment for BRT operation. For an initial period, only the street options shown above will be workable. Any staging plan should consider opening BRT first on the southern segment to gain an off-street access at Kennedy Station as early as possible. The more of the corridor that can be reused, the faster buses will travel without traffic interference and without disturbing existing streets.
In the report discussing the SRT’s future, management presented three options. The first of these, a hybrid SRT and bus operation, was discarded because there would be no guarantee that a reduced SRT service could be reliably maintained until 2030. The remaining two options on the table are:
- Option 2: SRT to 2023 and Bus Replacement service 2023 to 2030 with new buses.
- Option 3: SRT to 2023 and Bus Replacement Service within current fleet 2023 to 2026 and new buses 2027 to 2030.
Even without the pandemic’s reduction in peak bus fleet requirements, the TTC has a surplus of buses. In January 2020, peak bus requirements were 1,622, but the fleet is over 2,000 vehicles, a comfortable ratio of spares to service needs of 25%, somewhat higher than the TTC’s target level of 18%. To put it another way, 7% of a 2,000 vehicle fleet is 140 buses that could be providing service but instead sit in garages padding out the maintenance pool. Whether these 140 are actually fit for service is a separate question I will not pursue here.
The TTC claims that 60 additional buses will be required to operate the extension of services to Kennedy Station. This can easily be handled within the current fleet. Whether net new buses are actually required must be addressed as part of an overall fleet plan, something TTC management appears loath to produce. Buying 60 new buses charged to the SRT project would reduce capital requirements in routine fleet replacement plans that are currently underfunded.
One issue both for street and right-of-way operation is the additional noise of frequent bus service in affected neighbourhoods. With the TTC poised to begin “greening” of its fleet in earnest, the SRT replacement has the political allure of a tailor-made place to show off the new technology. If only things were that simple.
The fleet that collectively would operate over the replacement route(s), wherever it/they might be, is not just the buses one would need for an STC-to-Kennedy shuttle. The outer ends of all routes that now terminate at STC require buses too, and if they will be through-routed to Kennedy, they must also be eBuses.
A further challenge is the rollout plan for garage electrification. If there will be a large eBus fleet in Scarborough to operate the SRT replacement, then there must also be garage capacity to charge and maintain the new fleet. TTC plans for system migration to eBuses are not yet settled, but they will have to include a concentration of eBuses in Scarborough at least in the medium term, to make an all eBus SRT replacement practical.
During a recent online consultation session, the TTC mentioned the possibility of on-route eBus charging. This is a different approach from the garage-based charging they appear to have favoured in earlier studies. Each has its benefits and limitations, and on-route charging would require additional road and terminal capacity for buses to sit, albeit briefly, at each stop to top up their charge. That operating model may not fit well with an “express” service.
As a sidebar to all this, a proponent of eBuses with on-rail capability has pitched an adapted version of the New Flyer vehicle to the TTC. If the SRT replacement depends on railed vehicles using the existing corridor, this could drive up the requirement for new buses. There are also basic clearance issues with existing structures given the placement of existing tracks and platforms based on SRT train geometry. Sadly, this is another case of a technology pitch made directly to the TTC Board who lob it over to staff for “evaluation”.
One way or another, it is unlikely that Scarborough will see full eBus operation as a replacement SRT service from opening day.
The table below shows the service levels and vehicle requirements as of January 2020 (pre-pandemic) on the routes TTC plans to extend. This does not include service for demand that originates on other routes connecting to the SRT, or walk-in traffic.
Additional space will be needed at Kennedy Station to accommodate the new bus traffic, and more would be needed to provide for on-route recharging of eBuses here.
|38 Highland Creek||10’30”||5.7||7|
|129 McCowan North||5’00”||12||13|
|131/903 Nugget/STC Express||8′||7.5||13|
|954 Lawrence East Express||9’20”||6.4||9|
One issue that comes up from time to time is the future of McCowan Yard and whether it would be suitable as a bus garage, at least in the short term. There are a few interlocking issues here:
- Are more buses actually needed to operate the replacement service, and should we be building a small garage for what is supposed to be a temporary situation?
- Should a new storage facility be dedicated to eBuses to avoid the need for diesel fueling and maintenance capability?
- Should a new facility be intended simply for storage and simple servicing with buses cycling back to a “home” division for any significant maintenance?
- McCowan Yard is relatively small and oddly shaped for bus storage. It currently handles 28 bus-sized SRT cars plus the line’s works fleet. There is vacant property north of the yard, but it is unclear what its status would be over the next decade.
- The yard has an existing electrical feed for the SRT although this would have to be modified for eBus charging.
The Future of the SRT Corridor
Part of the online survey addresses the question of what might be done with the SRT corridor and structures once they are decommissioned. Among the options are walking and cycling paths, parkland, and repurposing existing station buildings as community centres or bike stations.
The type of function possible at stations will depend on the station location and what kind of transit service it will have, if any, once the subway extension opens. As a cycling route, the corridor would provide a long, off-road bikeway.
The elevated structure from McCowan to Midland Station has been proposed by some as a Scarborough “High Line” by analogy to New York.
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Sick of seeing animals like this?
Thousands of animals die each year because of human negligence, and our poor attitudes towards environmental sustainability. Those that don’t die are permanently deformed, like this turtle, Peanut. 20 years after she was cut free from 6-pack rings, she still looks the same (but that doesn’t stop her from enjoying life as a mascot against littering).
Enter Saltwater Brewery and We Believers. The beer company and New York ad agency have banded together to create a plastic-free six-pack that feeds marine life, instead of choking or trapping them.
The Edible Six Pack Ring is made from byproducts of the brewing process such as wheat and barley, making it the first 100 percent biodegradable, compostable and edible packaging implemented in the beer industry.
3D printers were used to manufacture the first batch of 500 edible and biodegradable six-pack rings for Saltwater Brewery’s main brand IPA. The plan is to produce 400,000 edible six-pack rings per month, enough for the current monthly production of Saltwater Brewery. The product, designed with a team of engineers at a small startup in Mexico, is as resilient and efficient as the current plastic six-pack ring option, according to We Believers co-founders Marco Vega and Gustavo Lauria.
The first mass-produced batch will cost between 10 and 15 cents per unit, for craft beer that costs more than $10 for a six-pack, Lauria said. While this seems a bit steep, the developers admit that the price of their product is currently a downside. The hope is that if more brands or investors hop on board the prices will fall.
“We hope to influence the big guys and hopefully inspire them to get on board,” said Saltwater Brewery president Chris Goves.
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During the Summer 2020 semester, Off the Grid, led by Professor Jon Spielman, was one of three remote programs being offered. This studio investigated new ways of exploring systems requiring energy established by the man-made grid system.
Published August 1, 2020
Winter rendering winter showing an experience within the landscape that provides shelter and warmth.
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Off the Grid was structured in an attempt to allow students to understand utilities such as gas, electric, water, sewer systems, telephones, and more to design structures that could be self-reliant. Students sought out remote locations where they could safely and comfortably research local materials and how to use them as technologies that could take advantage of on-site resources. In their research, students explored passive heating and cooling, energy generation and harnessing systems, daylighting, and performance assessment tools and used this knowledge along with knowledge of material characteristics to develop environmentally efficient structures.
Students began this process by researching sustainable homes within different regions of the United States and considered the local climate and systems that are most effective in these areas. This was coupled with research on building systems implemented in Frank Lloyd Wright’s work and other inspirations, such as earth shelters, found by students. Within the seminar, students designed a habitable thermal mass structure for two to three people to inhabit for up to 24 hours. This structure was intended to harness an energy flow identified by the student in their area of choice. Further, they considered the use of materials relative to their ability to conduct, absorb, radiate, insulate, and transfer energy.
The remainder of the semester was focused on using the knowledge obtained in seminar and applying it to plans. Each student designed a twoto-three bedroom house with minimal adverse effects on the environment. Again, within a safe and remote location of their choice, students used their knowledge of natural energies to choose materials, systems, and methods of design that would accomplish this goal.
Student Denice Guillermo chose Montauk Point State Park on Long Island, NY. This is a coastal area that hosts a multitude of visitors who arrive year-round to enjoy the uninterrupted views of the Atlantic Ocean. With its large territory, social distancing was easy to maintain during site visits and was a welcome excursion; it proved to be an enjoyable change of scenery from the quarantine and "work-from-home" routine that many students became accustomed to. Guillermo designed an occupiable thermal mass structure, focused on harnessing sea breezes for cooling in the Summer. The structure had a pipeline system built into the ground to harvest coastline breezes directly from the ocean, and transport those breezes to the center of the mass, where they would then spiral and radiate out of the structure. In the Winter, this mass was designed to radiate heat with a fire pit in the center, allowing the structure to gain heat within its walls, and radiate out from its core.
Guillermo chose to stay in the same vicinity of the previous site for her twoto-three-bedroom house design. She believed that this project offered an opportunity to think about sustainable and renewable energy sources that are inherent to the area and how they could support an individual’s needs during and post-pandemic. Guillermo again looked to sea and land breezes, which were naturally occurring at coasts, that would serve as the initial passive energy system for her design process. To do this, Guillermo chose to lift the house above the ground to offer stack effect ventilation through uplift; this also provided opportunity to avoid potential flooding. This action also had the perk of creating a carport and isolated entrance for the building, as well. Guillermo organized the space to include kitchen, living and dining spaces facing the south of the site, with more private areas to the north. The house included a structural thermal mass wall, operating much like a Trombe wall in the space. The effect of the modified Trombe wall was enhanced by the decision to set the wall back in space and enclose the south façade in glazing for a double skin system and greenhouse. By incorporating a greenhouse, the house could naturally warm itself in the Winter and encourage cool air to circulate in the Summer. Guillermo also included roof gardens within her design, providing the opportunity to filter and collect rain water for greywater usage. There was also the use of geothermal wells to allow for additional temperature regulation within the house by embedding radiant tubes into the walls. | <urn:uuid:3e816b7d-b74b-4ae6-a516-42b4788a980f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archplan.buffalo.edu/our-work.host.html/content/shared/ap/articles/work/2020/off-the-grid.detail.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96577 | 933 | 2.78125 | 3 |
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Trustees Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, SUNY Stony Brook
Editor in Chief, Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics
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The Beech Bonanza was initially introduced just after WWII. Compared to the strut-braced, fixed-gear Cessnas and the fabric-covered Pipers, the Bonanza was a real "hot rod" when it was introduced. Today, the Bonanza family continues its production into the 21st century.
The 36 series Bonanzas are regarded as some of the best single-engine piston aircraft ever made, with over 3,300 produced. While the Bonanza line had its beginnings in 1947, the Model 36 was introduced in 1968 and the turbocharged A36TC was introduced in 1979. The current production B36TC was introduced in 1982. The turbocharged 36TCs have the 300 hp Continental engine.
The 36 series has a 10-inch longer cabin than the 35, giving it room for six seats. While short on baggage space, the cabin is considered comfortable. With a longer fuselage and traditional tail, the 36 series has a smoother ride than its V-tailed cousin.
As with any high-performance single-engine airplane, the addition of optional equipment can quickly eat up available payload. Performance is respectable and the turbocharging really shows its worth in hot and high conditions. The B36TC has 40 gallons more fuel than the A36TC, higher gross weight, and a longer wing for better high-altitude performance. | <urn:uuid:baf9d9c2-297f-4b1c-8e45-5e8dbf06af84> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://conklindedecker.jetsupport.com/details/Beechcraft%20Bonanza%20B36TC | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970175 | 276 | 1.570313 | 2 |
"Glass for Good" - Exciting Developments whilst trying to raise match funding for a Heritage Lottery Funding application for the internal fit out of the new White House Cone - museum of glass.
Building conservation and other construction works of the new museum building are nearing completion, ready for final fit out and occupation by the BGF.
The British Glass Foundation, which is an entirely voluntary body, was formed to find and operate a permanent new home for the Dudley Glass Collection, following Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council’s announcement of its intention to close the Collection’s then home at Broadfield House. Subject to raising the remaining funding required and completing final lease agreements with DMBC, The BGF anticipates formally opening White House Auntumn 2018.
To see the building of the furnace and the creation of the hot glass studio including the lighting of the furnace - please take a look at the YouTube link below - but do come back to our crowdfunding page!
Allister Malcolm - The Crowd Funder
(And Trustee of The British Glass Foundation).
Examples of paperweights and other rewards
(paperweights approximately 7cm in diameter).
The picture below shows a finished plaque. As the example shows the supporters name is engraved on the centre section. These plaques are to be incorporated in a display here at the White House Cone museum of glass.
A voucher to cast your hand in glass
"Glass for Good" - lecture
Charles R. Hajdamach & Steven Piper Sat 26th August (evening)
The White house Cone - museum of glass, Vine St, Stourbridge, DY8 4FB
6:30pm Wine and nibbles - 7pm prompt start; approx 2hrs
Charles R. Hajdamach is one of the top authorities on glass in the country. For 30 years he was in charge of the glass collections at Broadfield House Glass Museum in Kingswinford which opened in 1980 and quickly became one of the top glass museums in the world. Charles has lectured on glass in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, South Africa, Ireland, Belgium and Germany. He also writes extensively on the subject from antique to contemporary glass. His two books, 'British Glass 1800-1914' published in 1991, and '20th Century British Glass' from 2009, remain the standard works on the subject. In 2000 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Glass Technology for services to glass and glassmaking and in 2009 he was elected as Life-President of the Glass Association of which he was a founder member.
At the age of 15 Steve started working at Webb Corbett Glassworks which had at the time been acquired by Royal Doulton. During his time at Webb Corbett he trained at Dudley College gaining a certificate (grade “A”) in glass design and technology. After 13 years Steve left Royal Doulton to pursue a career as a freelance engraver and has become one of the country's most accomplished engravers of the day.
Items that we need support for and their costs
Our fundraising, ie your contributions will go directly to help to pay towards some of the following;
(as you can see the list is extensive and itemises well over £20,000 of expenses).
Window Solar Shields Price - £750
Security Door - Price £1000
Mobile Family Activity Cart (x 2) Price - £5000 each
80" LCD screen with media player Price - £6000
AV - Projector For high level overhead projection within the introductory space. (Scrolling images of historic locations of Stourbridge Glass Factories and their owners). Price £6900
Glass blowing Chair Interactive
Includes the film of blowing glass whilst the visitors sits in the Chair and handles the tools used in the making process £8000
Digital interactive with tactile glass.
The interactive focuses on 3 techniques of cameo glass, rock crystal and engraved glass £12000
An introductory AV (audio visual display) with a map of Stourbridge giving an account of the history of Stourbridge Glass with a focus on the quality of the art and design of the glass but also of the people, past workers, owner families and the 19 factories that produced Stourbridge Glass. £14000
Display Cases We are looking to purchase flexible modular display system - an example of which may be seen in the image below.
The price of a triple module unit is approximately £16,000 (we have plans that include 3 of these an an addittional 3 double modular units and further single units)
Temporary Exhibition Space - Fit out of Front Gallery Space and purchase of 'temporary' partitions -£25000
Glassblowing Studio Interpretation and fit out for public display. £35000
Education and Activity Room Fit Out including tables and chairs, fitted storage and equipment £52000
Cataloguing, digitization and display of archive material and display materials for objects inside and outside showcases. £60000
If you would like to learn more about the British Glass Foundation then please click on the link
If you're a UK taxpayer, Gift Aid increases the value of your charity donations by 25% because the charity can reclaim the basic rate of tax on your gift at no extra cost to you.
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March 31, 2021 | By Cricket Fuller
The mother I met on a May evening in 2019 at the Pittsburgh Youth Filmmakers premiere had never heard of the local student film program before that night. But after seeing a flyer for Remake Learning Days, she and her daughter attended the event and began to discover a region’s worth of creative learning opportunities like it. Across town the next day at the Citizen Science Lab, I met children and parents who were similarly enthralled as they looked through microscopes—and a new pathway into STEM.
These families aren’t alone. This spring, from April 22 through May 23, they will join tens of thousands of youth and their families participating in Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA), a festival of hands-on learning experiences for families hosted in 17 regions across the country. The festival will look a bit different this year due to the pandemic—many of the events are virtual or will happen outdoors in a COVID-safe way. But whether online or in person, families will discover new ways and places to learn, build more connected ecosystems, and participate in more equitable opportunities around the future of learning.
Remake Learning Days began in the Pittsburgh region five years ago, and in 2019, it launched nationally in nine regions with more than 50,000 participants, 850 events, and 500 host organizations. RLDAA now stretches from San Diego’s beaches to Kentucky’s Appalachian hollers to the streets of Washington, D.C., led by Remake Learning in cooperation with national partners Digital Promise, PBS Kids for Parents, Common Sense Media, Learning Heroes, and Noggin. The event is made possible by generous support from The Grable Foundation, Schmidt Futures, Carnegie Corporation of New York, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
Events are hosted by a wide range of organizations in each community—from churches to tech companies, rec centers to sewing shops, libraries to schools, makerspaces to barbershops, parks to museums, restaurants to laundromats, and everywhere in between. Activities are designed to be hands-on, relevant, and engaging, to give kids and caregivers opportunities to experience future-facing learning together.
Remake Learning Days events are celebrations—settings where young people can develop their sense of creativity, perseverance, and curiosity. And as regions are discovering, the impact of RLDAA extends far beyond the magic of the festival each spring.
Hosting RLDAA helps regions ensure that youth and families have equitable access to powerful learning experiences—and to strengthen the ecosystem that supports them. RLDAA regions begin their work with a diverse planning team, representative of marginalized groups and voices in their community. Many then map learning opportunities and spaces across neighborhoods, choosing to focus resources in areas where there are gaps. (Read more about Chicago Learning Exchange’s asset mapping work.) RLDAA can help regions to allocate investments and opportunities more equitably in under-resourced communities, and it can also celebrate the assets that reside within them. By identifying learning partners, activities, and spaces in each neighborhood, RLDAA shines a light on the existing richness in all communities, especially those at the margins.
Now, regions are finding that the connections built during RLDAA can lay the foundation for a year-round network. (Learn more about the network in Southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia through their innovation portfolio.) RLDAA ecosystems have seeded new programming, new partnerships, and more awareness of the opportunities for youth across the region—and not just during RLDAA. This awareness has also been critical in helping to galvanize communities as advocates for more youth-centered, powerful learning both in and out of school. Learn more about this and other impacts we heard from communities on our “listening tour” of RLDAA regions.
Preparing students for a future we cannot yet imagine means that we must prepare them to be lifelong, adaptable learners. Over the past year, Remake Learning has chronicled the resilience and discoveries of students and families navigating new challenges and opportunities for learning under the #LearningLessons campaign.
As regions prepare for RLDAA 2021, they are also building—and deepening—coalitions dedicated to championing youth and their families. Many of those community partnerships were forged and expanded amid the COVID-19 crisis to meet the needs of learners and their families. Now, they are re-envisioning a better tomorrow together. Read more about this work across the Remake Learning network in Pittsburgh and other regions, and learn how your community can be part of the movement. | <urn:uuid:34c3eaff-2d41-4d23-893b-175778d0b63c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalpromise.org/2021/03/31/remaking-the-future-of-learning-one-community-at-a-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95218 | 947 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Chris Underhill MBE
I have developed and run organisations for many years and during this period I have come to understand how important mentoring is. It was well over 30 years ago that I noticed people approaching me wishing to talk over issues in their work or their personal life. Today, mentoring has become a vocation since it is the perfect way to support those who are solving complex and important matters in their lives.
How does mentoring work?
I meet with a person for an agreed period and, after some very simple preliminaries and an agreement of confidentiality, the mentee is invited to open with the subject that they have on their mind. The topics are at times reorganised as the subject becomes clearer, and I think it important for the mentee to depart with a better idea as to how the next few steps will map out. Together with my experience, active listening is probably the most obvious and useful tool that I bring to the session. Although often in powerful positions, mentees can find themselves feeling out of control of an important dimension of their work or personal life and this requires careful listening so as to understand the complex nature of the problem to hand. As can be imagined, there is a real sense of satisfaction when people leave with their ideas better ordered and the decisions that they need to make beginning to crystallise.
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Rosemary: Gaining Confidence with Every Home-cooked Meal
Being able to cook allows me to have a greater sense of control when grocery shopping and in the kitchen. I also have a far greater sense of confidence when it comes to preparing food for others.
Name: Rosemary Fritz Grabowska
City, State: Poughkeepsie, NY
I cook for: myself and my vegetarian husband.
Outside of the kitchen I: work at a not-for-profit which operates a food pantry and soup kitchen. I go for runs with my dog, Chico, and love hanging out in my garden. I’m also a committed Doctor Who fan.
Being able to cook allows me to: have a greater sense of control when grocery shopping and in the kitchen. I also have a far greater sense of confidence when it comes to preparing food for others.
Favorite Cook Smarts meal so far: I loved the hummus and avocado melts and also the kale salad with lemony dressing.
How did you learn to cook?
I helped my parents when I was a kid with simple things, like making a salad. But in college I lived off campus and realized I pretty much only knew how to make pasta. So I started looking online for recipes.
What’s been your biggest cooking challenge in the past?
Knowing what I had in the cupboard! Since I rarely, if ever, had a plan for meals, I’d see something online that I liked, and start to prepare it, only to realize I was missing half the ingredients.
How has your cooking routine changed recently?
This may sound so silly, but I’m a lot more patient with heating the oil first thing. I used to be so frustrated that I’d dump a bunch of chopped garlic or onions into a pan of lukewarm oil, but I’d be so scared that it would start smoking or catching fire (silly, right).
“One of the reasons I love Cook Smarts recipes is because they taste amazing, but without being overly complicated or fussy.”
What new skill or dish have you cooked that you’re most proud of?
One of the reasons I love Cook Smarts recipes is because they taste amazing, but without being overly complicated or fussy. One dish that is a perfect example is the Tilapia en Papillote. It looks so fancy, and sounds so fancy, and is so flavorful, I would have no problem making it for a fancy dinner party. But it’s so easy and quick that I made it after a 12 hour work day instead of going to McDonald’s!
What advice would you give to other moms (and kids) who want to be cooking more family dinners?
While I’m not a mother, I’m definitely grateful to my parents, who involved me in the kitchen. Eating dinner tasted so much more satisfying when I had a part in it, even if it was just washing and spinning lettuce.
Also, please give up the “Try it, you’ll like it!” I was much more willing to choke down something I didn’t like when my mother said I only had to eat an inch of it or 3 more forkfuls.
There’s nothing silly when it comes to cooking, Rosemary! After all, we all have to start somewhere, and you are proof that with practice, you can gain more confidence in the kitchen. So kudos to you for overcoming your cooking challenges and getting better with each meal you cook!
To join Rosemary and cook meals like her favorite Tomato, Avocado, Hummus Melts and Lemony Kale Salad, check out our meal plan service. You can get started for free! | <urn:uuid:f5b84041-05e3-47bb-9491-4eebba4a6021> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cooksmarts.com/articles/rosemary-hero-in-the-kitchen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954882 | 791 | 1.5 | 2 |
Saturday, December 30, 2017
Message to the Sunken Place
Dear Black Republicans,
You support an earlier observation of mine, that Blacks have never had a problem building wealth. There were wealthy free Blacks during the very heart of the slavery era. The problem is that were it not for racism, MORE Blacks would be wealthy, and poverty among our communities would actually be rare, but we've been prevented from building legacy wealth over the generations. Our wealth has been continuously siphoned off -- our property STOLEN -- and used to feed the hoarded money bins of the dominant class of our racist aristocracy (which explains where the "lazy" stereotype comes from, as whites encourage you to continue to "work twice as hard as anyone else" since you are supporting your household AND his). When I point this fact out, you keep coming to refute it using your individual success story as the proof that there is no racism, or that it's "not really a big factor." The facts of history demonstrate that you will need something stronger as proof. What do you have?
Throw Down Your Rod!
Justice Department, CFPB Say Mortgage Lender Overcharged African-American and Hispanic Borrowers
U.S. Government Uses Race Test for $80 Million in Payments
Survey Finds Insurance Companies Charge Black Drivers Living in Predominately African-American Neighborhoods 70% More for Auto Insurance
City Council alert: Fifth Third Bank hiked interest rates on minority customers
Wells Fargo Deliberately Pushed Dangerous Loans On Blacks, Hispanics: Lawsuit
Feds: BancorpSouth illegally denied black consumers fair access to mortgages
Just FOUR Home Loans Were Given To African-Americans In This Major City In A Whole Year
Credit Card Debt’s Mighty Grip on Black America
5 Big Companies Sued for Racial Discrimination
‘I Put in White Tenants’: The Grim, Racist (and Likely Illegal) Methods of One Brooklyn Landlord
Hasidic neighborhood in South Williamsburg is a top beneficiary of Section 8, but some question whether law is strictly followed
Just as I Suspected, Paying Rent Is Racist
[INTERVIEW] Richard Rothstein "The Color of Law"
BOSTON. RACISM. IMAGE. REALITY.
That was no typo: The median net worth of black Bostonians really is $8
Homes owned by Black Americans are undervalued by billions of dollars
[REVIEW] The History Thieves by Ian Cobain – how Britain covered up its imperial crimes
The Case for Reparations
Black Workers Really Do Need to Be Twice as Good
Honda to pay $25M for overcharging minority buyers on loans
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A touching picture shows an orphan orangutan being fed with a baby’s bottle after it was rescued from a forest when its mother died.
The three-month-old male, named Paijo by rescuers, is the youngest ape to be taken in by the International Animal Rescue Orangutan Centre (IAR) in Ketapang, Borneo.
Rescue workers made a six hour journey to Randau Jekak in Sandai District after a villager told them that someone had handed him a baby orangutan before Christmas.
Paijo was taken back to the centre and put into a quarantine to ensure he is disease-free.
He will now be sent to “baby school” to teach him how to survive in the wild.
“The mothers are fiercely protective and usually babies stay with the mother for six or seven years. There is no way a mother orangutan would leave its baby.
“Baby school is where he will meet other baby orangutans. They will be taken into the forests and taught how to be with other orangutans, forage for food and climb trees.
“They learn from each other all the things that their mother should have been able to teach them.
“They can also become too reliant on each other, clinging and cuddling each other for support.”
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When difficult circumstances arise or life becomes mundane, we find ourselves either overwhelmed or numb or a combination of the two. I find in my own life these are the very seasons when I most struggle to see and acknowledge God's presence and goodness. Instead of worshiping, I grumble. Instead of seeking him, I grow passive and apathetic. Sometimes even the busyness created by good things makes me prone to seek solace in the created rather than the Creator. Where is God? And what is he doing? A fog rolls in, clouding my view of him, and I start to believe the fog is what's most true.
But God is there, available, having made himself reachable to us. How, then, can we find God's goodness when we've started believing it's not actually there to find? Where do we find him when the fog has rolled in?
Come Awake to Creation
Psalm 19:1-2 says, "The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of his hands. Day to day pours forth speech. And night to night reveals knowledge." In other words, we must notice the created: the stars, the rain, the blade of grass, the barren tree in winter. All speak of a God who has designed and who continues to nourish and who brings forth life out of silence. He has set rhythms in nature that he's sustained since time began, and noticing these things speaks so much to us of his goodness to care for all he's created, including us. Though he is silent--the winter speaks this most of all--he is never still. He is ever working.
When was the last time you truly noticed God's creation? Are you too distracted by the manmade and perhaps allowing your own heart's cloudiness? Go outside and look. If all you can see today is manmade, look up at the sky. How does what you see speak of the One who created it?
Search Scripture for Security
Creation is called God's general revelation while the Bible is called his specific revelation, meaning we can look more specifically at who he is through the Scripture and what the walking, talking Christ reveals about his character. I grew up believing the Bible was one giant to-do (or don't do) list, but that only placed a focus on self and an attempt to earn God's goodness. When I began instead to look for God's character and his actions on behalf of his people, I discovered a God who is infinitely good, and I found my place within his people as a recipient of his goodness through Christ.
Are you a student of the Scriptures? If not, what are you looking to for security? Confess this to the Lord, because nothing else is truly secure and he is jealous for you. Start your search of the Scripture by reading Ephesians 1:3-14 and making two lists: 1) What has God done on your behalf? and 2) What does that say about who you are?
Label Life Correctly
John 3:27 says, "A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven." Even one thing. In other words, all the gifts in your life, including the hope and perseverance you've learned through trials, have come from God's good hands. The place where you live, the gifts and skills you use in your daily life, the relationships you enjoy, and those circumstances you count as blessings--all are God's grace to you.
In my life I've found it especially helpful to consider my successes and recognize those as not from my own hard work and unique skill but as opportunities and blessings from God. This perspective breeds thanksgiving and humility and helps me rest, knowing it's not up to me to "keep" success or develop future success on my own. Knowing all of life is a gift means we don't have to fear the future.
What gifts in your life do you enjoy? Write them out and thank God for each one. If you don't know where to start, you can begin with the breath in your lungs and the bread on your dinner table. Each are a simple gift of grace.
Connect the Dots Between Failures and God's Good Discipline
Hebrews 12:7-8 says, "It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline. If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons."
Sometimes God disciplines us. He points out our idolatry and calls us back to himself. He allows us to suffer the consequences of our sin. Even in our confession and repentance, we feel the weight of choosing something other than him, and this can often feel like a bit of fogginess and heaviness rather than God's goodness. How good it is, however, that God has pointed out what we couldn't see and has made a way for our return to him. How good it is that God patiently and lovingly disciplines, showing us the path of life.
How is God convicting and disciplining you? Are you confessing, repenting, and waiting on him to do what work needs to be done in your heart? Name out loud to him and to others that this is his goodness to you that he has not left you in destructive sin patterns.
Seek Refuge in the Psalms
When we are questioning God's goodness to us, we are often also at our most emotional. We're grieving, feeling abandoned or rejected, questioning and uncertain. Emotions, however, are not the enemy. In fact, they often act as arrows, pointing us to what lies deep in the heart and offering us an invitation to connect intimately with the one who knows our hearts more than we know them ourselves. In other words, we take our feelings to God, and we find that he cares, and when we find that he cares, we know that he can carry the full weight of our emotions. We seek refuge as we cast our cares upon him.
One way we find God's goodness in the midst of deep emotion is to seek God in the Psalms. The Psalms show the range of human emotion and how humans wrestle their way back to trusting God. They give voice to our own thoughts. They teach us that God isn't impatient with our emotion and is close to the brokenhearted.
What emotions characterize the fog you're in? Have you laid your feelings out before God and applied the truth of the Psalms to them? Read Psalm 40 today and find God's character in answer to your deepest cry.
Listen and Learn from Others
First Corinthians 12 describes the church as a body, with Christ as its head. We are united with others, there for one another's edification and sanctification. In other words, we need the ministry of others, and they need our ministry to them. When we cannot see the goodness of God, when a fog has rolled in and the truth of who God is remains clouded, we often need others to help us see. We must listen to their stories of God's faithfulness and learn truth spoken from human lips. Fellow believers are a gift of God's goodness to us.
Are you in community with others at the relational level where you are sharing and hearing stories of God's faithfulness? Are you listening to the proclamation of God's Word? Are you placing yourself under the authority of Scripture and learning from the "great cloud of witnesses" who've gone before us?
Know What God Has Promised
In my own life when I've questioned the goodness of God, it's often because he's allowed a circumstance in my life I believed I didn't deserve. The truth is that, although Jesus promised we'd have trouble in this world, we often want to believe the very opposite, that Jesus will save us from trouble and fix our every trouble if we simply have enough faith. I heard someone say recently that God's promise is his presence, and I think this is the heart and foundation of all his promises. If we're a Christian, we have God's indwelling presence with us always. We can't be separated from him, and thus we can't be separated from his love. Because He is always with us, we have security when the fog of circumstances rolls in or our emotions are disconcerting. This is his goodness, indeed.
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$5M gift helps cultivate empathetic culture at VCUarts Theatre
The Department of Theatre in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University has received a $5 million gift that will create three endowed funds to promote education and social awareness. The funds will be used to examine social justice through the lens of theatre and will serve to cultivate and support a culture that is equitable and inclusive for all students, faculty and staff.
“It is important to create art that informs us and challenges our point of view,” says Bonnie McCoy, chair of the Department of Theatre. “There are many contemporary topics that we can use theatre as a tool to examine issues related to social justice.”
The donor, James H.T. McConnell Jr. of Charlottesville, Virginia, has been a supporter of public education and children’s education for most of his adult life. For almost two decades, he has supported the National Jewish Theater Foundation. His love of theatre dates back even further to secondary school. In boarding school before he was old enough to drive, McConnell operated the carbon arc lamps for school plays. In college, he expanded his knowledge from simple lighting to sound and stage craft construction and did tech work at a dinner theatre.
“Social justice theatre is focused on getting the audience involved,” McConnell says. “The purpose is very appropriate today. VCU is the best school in the commonwealth for this purpose.
“The theatre drama department is a great way to reach a lot of people with a lot of messages,” McConnell says. “There is no right or wrong interpretation of the performance one just saw. It is that each audience member can come out with a different interpretation. The performance can still be very successful. It is a very rare type of educational experience where different people come out from the same exposure with different feelings. It's a nice teaching tool to not limit the response or the outcome.”
Carmenita Higginbotham, dean of the School of the Arts, says, “These funds will continue to support rigorous work and expand our interests in the theatre department and social justice. We are excited and honored to receive this gift to the School of the Arts.”
Of the funds, $1.5 million will be used to establish the James H.T. McConnell Jr. Theatre Fellowship in Social Justice, which will support graduate students with a focus on advocating for social justice through theatre. The remaining funds will establish the James H.T. McConnell Jr. Theatre Chair in Social Justice and the James H.T. McConnell Jr. Theatre Faculty Fund in Social Justice, which will support a chair and faculty whose work, teaching curriculum and community focus demonstrate a commitment to social justice.
“It’s important to have grad students in the field who are able to go out and use theatre as a medium of education,” McConnell says. “Whether it be for simply lighthearted performances or something more serious.”
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The cost of brand-name antiseizure medications (ASMs) has increased since 2010, according to a study published in Neurology. Samuel Waller Terman, MD, MS, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients with epilepsy. From 2008-2018, brand-name, first-generation, and enzyme-inducing ASMs all decreased as a proportion of pill days (56% to 14%, 55% to 32%, and 44% to 24%, respectively). From 2008-2010, there was a decrease observed in total brand-name costs per year, followed by an increase after 2010 ($150 million, $72 million, and $256 million in 2008, 2010, and 2018, respectively). Brand-name ASMs represented 79% of costs in 2018, despite accounting for only 14% of pill days; over time, a 1-year pill supply became 277% more expensive for brand-name drugs and 42% less expensive for generic medications. Compared with generic equivalents, many brandname ASMs cost about 10-fold more per pill day. “Doctors should consider the societal cost when judging whether the increased expense of brand-name drugs is worth the possible benefits,” Dr. Terman said in a statement.
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What is an example of a keyword?
Anything searched on a search engine, whether a single word or a phrase, is considered a keyword. For example, here’s the results page for the keyword what plants grow in the desert.
What are keywords in a sentence?
a word that serves as a key, as to the meaning of another word, a sentence, passage, or the like.
What you mean by keywords?
A keyword is a term used in digital marketing to describe a word or a group of words an Internet user uses to perform a search in a search engine or search bar. In an SEO strategy, keywords are very important and should be the core of any copy written for the web (present in the content, titles and SEO elements).
How do you write keywords?
Keywords should ideally be phrases of 2-4 words; single word keywords are acceptable, but they may lead to many false matches. 3. Keywords should contain words and phrases that suggest what the topic is about. Also include words and phrases that are closely related to your topic.
What makes a good keyword?
Your target keywords need to meet four criteria — significant search volume, high relevance, strong conversion value, and reasonable competition.
How do I know what keywords to use?
How to do keyword researchStep 1: Study your niche. Step 2: Define your goals. Step 3: Make a list of relevant topics. Step 4: Create a list of seed keywords. Step 5: Use good keyword research tools. Step 6: Study the search intent. Step 7: Identify long tail keywords. Step 8: Find out about your competitors.
How many times do you use keywords in an article?
While this is more of an inexact science, the general rule of thumb is to include specific keywords no more than five times in a standard blog post. Anything else can be considered spammy to the reader and negatively impact the user experience.
Should keywords be single words?
Strictly speaking, a keyword means one single word. When the first search engines were launched, they had relatively simple algorithms and many users used single words for their searches. But search engines are constantly evolving and now they support large key phrases with 2 or more keywords.
How many keywords should I use per page?
At the bare minimum, one; some pages may have a singular focus that answers only one query. It’s much more likely that you’ll want to target two or three keywords per page, even if they’re just close variations. Any more than four is a bit crowded; after all, each page only has one title tag and meta description.
How do you use keywords in an article?
You should insert keywords into your content writing using the following steps:Use Keywords in Your Meta Description. Insert Keywords in Your SEO Title Tag. Use Keywords in Your Article Title. Use Keyword Within the First 200 Words. Insert Keywords Naturally Throughout the Article. Use Keywords in the Last 200 Words.
How do I rank more keywords?
Here are the ten steps to rank for a keyword in Google.Step 1: Lay the Groundwork. Step 2: Do Your Initial Keyword Research. Step 3: Check Out the Competition. Step 4: Consider Intent. Step 5: Conceptualize the Content. Step 6: Execute. Step 7: Optimize for Your Keyword. Step 8: Publish.
How many keywords is too many?
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The hypothalamic NPY system plays an important role in regulating food intake and energy expenditure. Different biological actions of NPY are assigned to NPY receptor subtypes. Recent studies demonstrated a close relationship between food intake and growth hormone (GH) secretion; however, the mechanism through which endogenous NPY modulates GH release remains unknown. Moreover, conclusive evidence demonstrating a role for NPY and Y-receptors in regulating the endogenous pulsatile release of GH does not exist. We used genetically modified mice (germline Npy, Y1, and Y2 receptor knock-out mice) to assess pulsatileGHsecretion under both fed and fasting conditions. Deletion ofNPYdid not impact fedGHrelease; however, it reversed the fasting-induced suppression of pulsatileGHsecretion. The recovery ofGHsecretion was associated with a reduction in hypothalamic somatotropin release inhibiting factor (Srif; somatostatin) mRNA expression. Moreover, observations revealed a differential role for Y1 and Y2 receptors, wherein the postsynaptic Y1 receptor suppressesGHsecretion in fasting. In contrast, the presynaptic Y2 receptor maintains normalGHoutput under long-term ad libitum-fed conditions. These data demonstrate an integrated neural circuit that modulates GH release relative to food intake, and provide essential information to address the differential roles of Y1 and Y2 receptors in regulating the release of GH under fed and fasting states.
- Growth hormone
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ROCHESTER, NY (WROC) – Road salt is used throughout the winter season to help make our roads, sidewalks and other pathways safer for travel. It is often believed that common road salt is solely used to melt the snow and ice that covers our roads and sidewalks, but there’s actually more to it than that. The salt isn’t used specifically just to melt the ice as much as it is to prevent the additional formation of ice. The process involves a little bit of chemistry, so let’s break it down:
Salt lowers the freezing point of water, so when you mix the two together it takes the water longer to freeze.
Water freezes at 32°F or 0°C, but when salt is added to water it works to delay the freezing process as salt ions are broken down into sodium and chloride ions (yellow circles). It is these ions that help disperse the water molecules (blue circles) and spread them apart, making them harder to reform into ice, even at below freezing temperatures.
This method can lower the freezing point of water to around 15° or so, but get any colder than that and it won’t work as well, or not at all. Sand can be used as an alternative in this situation to help provide more friction between tires and the slick ice. Road salt works most effectively above this point, and when this salt is mixed in with liquid water.
As mentioned above, road salt is used more as an agent to prevent additional ice from forming. Adding salt to roadways helps create more friction between the tires and ice to make it safer and easier to drive on. The salt can also work more efficiently with a little help from the sun as it melts some of that existing ice into water, which then allows the salt to mix in with the water a lot quicker.
Fun Fact: There’s a very thin layer of water that constantly coats the surface of ice, so you don’t necessarily need a huge amount of water to mix with the salt for this process to work, but this certainly helps the salt do its job. This is also why ice is so slippery!
With that said, a pre-wetting agent is often sprayed along with the salt to help this process along when needed. Bridges are much more difficult to pre-treat than roads are since they become colder much quicker, hence why you see bridges freeze before road signs.
Types of Road Salt
Different types of salt are used depending on how cold temperatures are. One of the most common forms of road salt is Sodium Chloride, also known as halite, or the salt you find at your kitchen table. They are essentially the same thing, only road salt is mixed with other chemicals and particles. This is the most inexpensive form as pre-wetting agents are used along with the salt to help prevent it scattering, and the need for any additional salt to be used which lowers the cost.
Magnesium chloride is used in its liquid form as a pre-wetting agent, and can be obtained through the evaporation of salt lakes. It works as a melting agent for snow and ice as heat is released while it dissolves. Calcium Chloride can help melt ice at extremely low temperatures, but is expensive and not as widely used. Potassium Chloride is often mixed in with other materials as it’s not quite as effective at de-icing on its own.
Using salt on roadways is important to ensure safety while people are traveling and getting where they need to go, but it’s not the best for the environment. There are eco-friendly salts around that are naturally produced from salt lakes that can be used as an alternate option.
Road salts can also be harmful to pets and get stuck in their fur and between their paws. Be sure to always check them after they’ve been outside in the winter to ensure they aren’t tracking salt or possibly any other harmful chemicals around your home!
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Gartner, the research and analysis firm, has identified its top 10 strategic trends in tech for most organisations in 2013.
Strategic technology trends, according to Gartner, are those with the potential for significant impact on business in the next three years.
“Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt,” it said.
The group added that the technologies may already exist, having matured into a wider range of uses – or they may be new and emerging.
David Cearley, vice president and Gartner Fellow, noted further that these technologies are emerging amidst a nexus of converging forces – social, mobile, cloud and information.
Gartner predicts that by 2013 mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common web access device, worldwide; and that by 2015, over 80 per cent of the handsets sold in mature markets will be smartphones.
This means the end of the Windows-dominated era, as consumerisation will mean organisations won’t be able to force users to drop or adopt specific devices.
“Businesses will need to support a greater variety of form factors, reducing the ability to standardise PC and tablet hardware. The implications for IT is that the era of PC dominance with Windows as the single platform will be replaced,” Gartner said.
The market for tools to create consumer and enterprise facing apps is complex with well over 100 potential tools vendors, the research firm said.
“For the next few years, no single tool will be optimal for all types of mobile application so expect to employ several. Six mobile architectures – native, special, hybrid, HTML 5, Message and No Client will remain popular,” Gartner said.
However, Gartner noted that there will be a long term shift away from native apps to web apps as HTML5 becomes more capable.
“nevertheless, native apps won’t disappear, [they] will always offer the best user experiences and most sophisticated features,” it said.
The personal cloud will gradually replace the PC as the location where individuals keep their personal content, access their services and personal preferences and centre their digital lives.
“It will be the glue that connects the web of devices they choose to use during different aspects of their daily lives,” Gartner said.
As no one platform, form factor, technology or vendor will dominate the market – and managed diversity and mobile device management will be an imperative – the personal cloud shifts the focus from the client device to cloud-based services delivered across devices, gartner said.
By 2014, Gartner said that many organisations will deliver mobile applications to workers through private application stores.
This is due to the current complex nature of purchasing and distributing applications from multiple stores, using multiple platforms and multiple payment methods.
“With enterprise app stores the role of IT shifts from that of a centralised planner to a market manager providing governance and brokerage services to users and potentially an ecosystem to support ‘apptrepreneurs’,” gartner said.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept that describes how the internet will expand as physical items, such as consumer devices and physical assets, are connected to the internet.
Key elements of the IoT which are being embedded in a variety of mobile devices include embedded sensors, image recognition technologies and NFC payment.
“As a result, mobile no longer refers only to use of cellular handsets or tablets,” Gartner said.
Cellular technology is being embedded in many new types of devices and smartphones and other devices don’t just use the cellular network – they communicate via NFC, Bluetooth, LE and Wi-Fi to a wide range of devices and peripherals.
“The IoT will enable a wide range of new applications and services while raising many new challenges,” Gartner said.
A recent Gartner IT services survey revealed that the internal cloud services brokerage (CSB) is an emerging role within organisations.
This is because businesses realise that they have a responsibility to help improve complex cloud services for their internal users and external business partners, the firm noted.
“The internal CSB role represents a means for the IT organisation to retain and build influence inside its organisation and to become a value centre in the face of challenging new requirements relating to increasing adoption of cloud as an approach to IT consumption,” Gartner said.
Big Data is moving from a focus on individual projects to an influence on enterprises’ strategic information architecture.
Dealing with data volume, variety, velocity and complexity is forcing changes to many traditional approaches.
“This realisation is leading organisations to abandon the concept of a single enterprise data warehouse containing all information needed for decisions,” Gartner said.
“Instead they are moving towards multiple systems, including content management, data warehouses, data marts and specialised file systems tied together with data services and metadata, which will become the “logical” enterprise data warehouse.”
Analytics is increasingly delivered to users at the point of action and in context.
With the improvement of performance and costs, IT leaders can afford to perform analytics and simulation for every action taken in the business, Gartner said.
This means that mobile client linked to cloud-based analytic engines and big data repositories, potentially enables the use of optimisation and simulation each time.
“This new step provides simulation, prediction, optimisation and other analytics, to empower even more decision flexibility at the time and place of every business process action,” said Gartner.
The execution of certain-types of hours-long batch processes can be squeezed into minutes or even seconds, allowing processes to be provided in the form of real-time, or near real-time services.
“Millions of events can be scanned in a matter of a few tens of millisecond to detect correlations and patterns pointing at emerging opportunities and threats ‘as things happen’.”
“The possibility of concurrently running transactional and analytical applications against the same dataset opens unexplored possibilities for business innovation,” Gartner said.
Numerous vendors will deliver in-memory-based solutions over the next two years driving this approach into mainstream use.
“The market is undergoing a shift to more integrated systems and ecosystems and away from loosely coupled heterogeneous approaches. Driving this trend is the user desire for lower cost, simplicity, and more assured security,” Gartner said.
For vendors, the ability to have more control of the solution stack and obtain greater margin in the sale, as well as offer a complete solution stack in a controlled environment without the need to provide any actual hardware, is a driving factor.
This trend will manifest in three levels, Gartner said:
- Appliances: combining hardware and software, and software and services packaged to address and infrastructure or application workload.
- Cloud: cloud-based marketplaces and brokerages to facilitate purchase, consumption and/or use of capabilities from multiple vendors.
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Final willpower of the acceptability of such programs is the responsibility of the Center for Academic Advising and Professional Development. Bachelor of Science programs supply a larger focus in major coursework, whereas Bachelor of Arts packages supply a higher variety of coursework. All programs provide undergraduates the chance to work with distinguished faculty and a richly-numerous and stimulating student physique as they put together for energetic roles in society. Curriculum decisions in our master’s and specialist applications are designed to enable students to turn into trainer leaders, college instructors, in addition to curriculum specialists, state testing specialists and textbook firm representatives.
However, some studies present that college students are more likely to study more, as measured by getting the right reply more incessantly, if instructors reward correct answers with factors, likely as a result of it increases student accountability (James 2006; Willoughby and Gustafson 2009). Yet, as Megan’s quote suggests, penalizing college students who give incorrect answers by not awarding factors might encourage students to focus their attention on factors as an alternative of focusing their attention on learning. Thus, it’s possible that by timing clicker questions, instructors are inadvertently shifting college students to adopt more efficiency-oriented attitudes, which may heighten their anxiousness. However, we suggest that there are methods to implement clicker questions which will cut back anxiety while nonetheless rising pupil accountability.
For undergraduate college students pursuing a first bachelor’s diploma, the main would require an approved College of Liberal Arts and Sciences main as a co-requisite. The M.A. Pre-Service program in Science Education supplies college students with opportunities to review science schooling principle, the discipline of science (including its histories, philosophies, and epistemologies), and skilled training.
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Though already inexpensive, NCSU makes graduate research even more inexpensive by way of its scholarship packages. Online students can apply for one of the practically dozen education-related scholarships or fellowships supplied by the University. For example, the Agnes and Garfield Stiff Scholarship awards as much as $1,000 to graduate college students finding out science schooling. In the College of Sciences, we empower our college students to design their very own path to success. With lively learning approaches, ample opportunities for hands-on and applied learning, and chances to have interaction with different students and the group, our college students are skilled in tutorial scholarship and real-world skills to be the scientific leaders of tomorrow.
With a multitude of diploma packages to choose from, we have a program that matches who you are. All college students are required to finish the General Education (GenEd) necessities. Students of their first semester at Temple University who want to switch into CST will be automatically accredited. CST students in their first semester at Temple University who wish to add or change majors or minors within the CST might be mechanically accredited. | <urn:uuid:948d2bc9-d538-4881-888b-9f97ec362fb7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://university-acs.com/our-schools-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952304 | 601 | 1.953125 | 2 |
There is a revolution happening. A revolution in the way we think, talk, shop, live, make money and do business. It is the Internet.
The Internet is a boon for entrepreneurs. It offers opportunities for the small business owners that were unheard of 5-10 years ago.
Obviously, you need a web site right? It is the latest and greatest thing happening in the business world. Why anybody who is anybody has one. You register you domain name, throw up a site and now your with the “in” crowd. It’s back to business as usual. Or are you still at the ” I know I should have one stage but…”
Did you fit in one of the above scenarios or somewhere in between? Are you really using your web site to it’s full potential? Is it that important to be connected?
Many businesses put up a site just to have their business online. They don’t thinking about the potential and impact it can have on their business.
Why Should You Have a Web site? Why should your business be online?
Here are some serious reasons you as an entrepreneur should think about.
- It expands the marketplace. Boundaries are nonexistent and less restrictive. Making it easier to reach new customer markets.
- Decrease administrative cost compared with managing paper based information.
- Lower telecommunication cost. The Internet is more economical than traditional communication channels.
- You can test a product for acceptance quicker before launching.(See article about pricing)
- Reduce time in building customer and brand awareness.
- Increase automation at reduce cost.
- You can customize and personalize products and services more economically. You can reduce the need for keeping large inventory on hand.
- News Releases and media can be distributed over the Internet quicker and cheaper.
- The best one is that the Internet is a great market research tool
Did you know this already? Kudos for you. Why not share how your web site has helped your business.
If not, take another look at your site. Are you using it to it’s full potential? Redesign and market your site with these features in mind. Don’t have your web site yet? How much potential business are you losing. The Internet can be a powerful communication and marketing tool for your business.
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The risk of your water and sewer lines deteriorating, blocking up or collapsing can become a serious concern. This can cause reduced or restricted water flow in your home. Our plumbers are experts in water line repairs and can diagnose, repair or replace any water or sewer lines to restore your plumbing system to its original state. We also offer 24/7 emergency service.
Your home’s water supply is provided by your external water line. This pipe is responsible for water supply to your home. It supplies water to everything, including your dishwasher, clothes washer, toilets and showers. You are responsible for any repairs to your water lines from your home to the street. Frozen pipes and tree roots are some common reasons water flow will slow or even stop altogether. When this happens you need to call a sewer line company right away.
You may need water line repair if you are experiencing any of these symptoms:
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I am of the mind that the #MeToo movement has done significant damage to our culture and what little confidence we had in our system of justice. If one needs proof, Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono has eagerly provided it. Nearly hysterical, during a testy press interview she confidently instructed those who cared to listen, “Just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change.”¹ In full support of the Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh’s accuser, Senator Hirono went on to inform us, “Not only do women like Dr. [Christine Blasey] Ford, who bravely comes forward need to be heard, but they need to be believed…They need to be believed!” So important was her message, Senator Hirono chose not to disclose that it was in fact fellow Senator Dianne Feinstein who had leaked Dr. Ford’s identity, violating her promise to not involve her or disclose her name to anyone.
Not only has the movement been selective in choosing the victims it celebrates, it has brought to our campuses the foolishness of safe-spaces, speech codes, and the introduction of the use of hot cocoa and cuddly stuffed toy animals to comfort our young distraught and defenseless victims. With remarkable and apparently seamless efficiency, it shifted the burden of proof from the accuser to the accused. In many ways, having done so, it rebirthed a mindset last experienced in America in the mid-19th century, when women were also widely considered defenseless and powerless. Though that movement gave way to the Progressive Era along with calls for temperance, women’s education, suffrage, and moral purity. The Dress Reform movement called for emancipation from the “dictates of fashion,” freeing not only the body, but the mind, and one’s choice of dress.
Cultural changes have never been easy. Looking back, many of those changes were necessary and appropriate. Who today, would oppose a woman’s right to vote, wear pants, or ride a bicycle? But not all shifts and cultural changes are healthy, nor do they all produce good. If one is truly rational, shouldn’t he or she still ask should all victims be believed and is our society better when we insist the accused must prove his innocence? Who gains from such ideas and why must we trust those who embrace them? Remember it was in the 1960’s we were introduced to bra-burnings and free love. So convinced of the women’s liberation movement’s momentum, America’s largest corporations joined the charge. In 1967, Virginia Slims cigarette commercials reminded women, “You’ve come a long way, Baby!” And a mere five years later, Title IX became the law of the land.
From 1973 to today, women have made great advances. At times against terrific resistance and discrimination, however, they marshalled on, opened doors, and penetrated or brought down countless barriers. Our children, our society, and our country is better for it. But I believe that there can always be a bridge too far.
On March 23, 2006, forty-six of forty-seven members of the Duke University Lacrosse team complied with a judge’s order to provide DNA after a young woman told Durham, North Carolina police that she was forced into a bathroom by three men and beaten, raped, and sodomized during a party at which she was a dancer. The sole black member of the team was not tested, because the accuser said all of her attackers were white. Though the DNA testing failed to identify a single attacker, a grand jury indicted the three the victim had identified as her assailants. After a year of agony, uncertainty, and soul-searching, on April 11, 2007, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper dropped all charges against the three innocent young men.
In light of AG Cooper’s unequivocal declaration of innocence, a handful of journalists who had rushed to judgment, issued apologies. The most heartfelt came from ESPN reporter/commentator, Jemele Hill. In an open letter to Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans posted on the news service’s website, Hill acknowledged an apology was, “not enough…For the last year, your lives and those of your families have been more difficult than any of us can possibly imagine. I’ll never know what it was like walking around normal society labeled a rapist. I’ll never know what it’s like to lose everything—your school, your program, and your life—because of one unproven accusation…I can’t deny that your race, gender, and class [had] everything to do with how you were treated then…Some people believe white men are exempt from sympathy and incapable of being maligned, so they will not swallow their pride and offer you the decency you should have received in the first place.”
Though she had never advanced the idea that the players were guilty, Hill admitted that she had “felt it”, believing it was, “just as bad.” Sadly, many of District Attorney Mike Nifong’s enablers in the media and the elites who had invested in their guilt, simply refused to accept their innocence. To this day, nary a murmur or apology they gave the young innocent men. Must we believe someone simply because of their gender? Must we always side with the accuser? What is it that we gain when we fail to consider the possibility that the accused may be innocent? Must everyone join Senator Hirono and those who hold her beliefs? Or may those who believe In The Defense of The Innocent continue to hold onto a world where We Are All Innocent Until Proven Guilty?
Eugene F. Ferraro, SPHR, CPP, is the author of the recently released book, In Defense of the Innocent: How to Respond and Recover When Falsely Accused of Sexual Assault or Other Serious Misconduct in our New #MeToo World Where Men are Considered Guilty until Proven Innocent (it can be found on Amazon). He has specialized in the investigation of allegations of behavioral and criminal misconduct for over 32 years. He is board certified in both Human Resources and Security Management (SPHR and CPP designations respectively) and the author of over 20 books. He frequently speaks and trains on the topics of complex investigations involving allegations of harassment, discrimination, sexual assault, and other serious misconduct in the workplace and schools. He is the founder and former Chairman of the whistle-blower technology company, Convercent, Inc. He is a former U.S. Marine Corps pilot and a graduate of the Naval Justice School. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida Institute of Technology. | <urn:uuid:c2c2981c-4a02-4405-bc8f-a3dcc9514175> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://probativity.com/in-defense-of-the-innocent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.967092 | 1,404 | 2.015625 | 2 |
It was the late 1970s and Theo Colborn was, like pretty much everyone else in the ’70s, getting divorced. She was in her 50s and already retired from a career as a pharmacist.
She’d moved to a farm that was close to the Rocky Mountain Biological
Station Laboratory in Colorado and volunteered as a field researcher, sampling water and insects for signs that they were picking up toxins released by mining operations in the area. When she thought about what she should do next with her life, the answer that came to her was “become an expert in water sampling techniques.”
So Colborn went back to school. In 1985, at 58, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Ph.D. in zoology and minors in epidemiology, toxicology, and water chemistry. “I wanted to get the education,” she said, in a 1988 Frontline interview, “so that I could maybe undo some of the things that my generation basically foisted on society.”
By the time Colborn died on Sunday, at the age of 87, she had immersed herself in decades of research — and inspired even more research — that sought to do just that. The many, many proposed BPA bans? Go back to the very beginning, and you’ll find Colborn. The concern over dwindling sperm counts? Same thing.
After she graduated, Colborn went to work in Washington, D.C., first as a Congressional Fellow and then as an analyst, researching industrial emissions and ozone for the Clean Air Act. When those projects ended, she was hired by two conservation organizations, the World Wildlife Fund and The Conservation Foundation, to put together an overview of Great Lakes water quality with another researcher, Richard Liroff. In the Frontline interview, she talked about what happened next:
I was working on a book on the state of the environment of the Great Lakes. And I pulled all this literature together, lots of papers, you know: fellows working in Canada, people working in the United States, one out on Lake Superior, others over, way over on Lake Ontario had done some work, written their papers, had them published in a number of different journals. None of them knew what the other was doing.
And basically, I sat in a wonderful position where I pulled all this information together. And looking at it I said, “There is something wrong here.” And the easiest thing for me to do is to use — thank goodness for computers — use a spreadsheet at a computer and start producing these spreadsheets.
And as I plotted those names of the animals in the column on the left-hand side, this is called the “Y” column, and then on the “X” column I plotted the effects that were seen in the animals, it began to fall out that there were serious problems and actually population declines, population crashes, actually extirpation of some populations. They disappeared in some places.
What Colborn was seeing was the result of a wide variety of synthetic chemicals that had come into being in the 1950s and ’60s. Even though they were present in the water at very low concentrations, they were subtly changing how the animals in that system developed — how their genes were programmed, how their cells differentiated and spread out through their bodies, and, ultimately, how they were able to survive and reproduce into the next generation. The healthy wildlife around the Great Lakes, often, were those animals that had grown up elsewhere and migrated as adults. When their offspring failed to reach adulthood, or couldn’t reproduce, they were replaced by a fresh fleet of new arrivals. The lakes looked healthy, in other words, but they were a death trap.
Colborn credited this breakthrough, in part, to her unconventional scientific background.
I looked at it from an entirely different perspective. I looked at endocrinology differently. I began to look at toxicology. I was not trained in toxicology. I was trained in pharmacology until I went back to college to get my Ph.D. in my old age. Only then did I begin to sit in on toxicology courses.
There is a reductionism in scientists, in the scientific community. I have never been a reductionist. I am always thinking about the big picture. My thesis committee for my Ph.D. will tell you that. They had trouble with me.
At the time, Colborn said, scientists working on environmental issues had primarily been looking for cancer, which she described as “the big bugaboo.” Cancer was a rare event: In order to emerge, it had to circumvent the body’s defenses, and in a polluted community, not everyone would come down with it. What Colborn found was different: To a developing organism, even an infinitesimally small exposure could alter fetal development and the possible effects — lower IQ, organ damage, trouble reproducing — could be spread out across a community like jam on toast. The concept was so new there wasn’t even a term for it. In 1991, Colborn and a team of 21 international scientists working on the issue came up with one: endocrine disruption.
Unlike a lot of scientists, Colborn was not shy about becoming a public figure. She co-authored a popular science book with the dramatic title of Our Stolen Future. She founded a nonprofit called the Endocrine Disruption Exchange, which, among other things, helped fund and cheerlead more research into endocrine disruption and its causes.
Colborn continued to do solid research and she also went pretty far out on quite a few limbs, blaming chemicals derived from fossil fuels for everything from Parkinson’s to Alzheimer’s to obesity to autism spectrum disorder. “Governments must take heed immediately,” she wrote, earlier this year, “or there will be too few healthy, intelligent individuals left to preserve our humanitarian society and create some semblance of world peace.” (As if we don’t have a pretty significant historical record showing that humans were more than eager to be complete jerks to each other long before anyone started messing with the benzene ring.)
Still, her big message was incontestable — that over 60 years ago, we began to introduce all of these chemicals into the environment, and we still have no idea what most of them do to us. In raising these questions, Colburn got us closer to looking for answers.
Correction: This post originally referred to Colborn’s farm as a “hobby farm.” Dianne Dumanoski, one of Colborn’s collaborators on Our Stolen Future, has informed us that Colborn was actually an accomplished sheep farmer in addition to her other skills — her ranch was quite successful and hardly a hobby. We’ve changed the wording, and sentenced the author to a fortnight’s labor on the nearest hobby farm we can find. | <urn:uuid:06193a74-6373-4b3c-9a8c-6fd22236be38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://grist.org/business-technology/remembering-the-genius-who-got-bpa-out-of-your-water-bottles-and-so-much-more/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.984043 | 1,439 | 2.15625 | 2 |
We are living in a Internet of Things (IoT) world where every device can be connected to the Internet. Everything from your refrigerator to your lights and cars can communicate. IoT’s glitter is often dimmed by legitimate security concerns. Just as the power of this new technology can make our lives easier and immensely more delightful, IoT put into the wrong hands could lead to very undesirable results.
Consider how car break-ins are done in the past and in the future. With a car that is not connected to the Internet, the car’s physical security is at risk and customers may bear the loss of a music system or personal valuables. With a connected car, we are talking about a systemic cybersecurity threat with results that could be as severe as a remote car hijacking with you still in the driver’s seat. This is one example of where a lack of security poses life-threatening dangers. As more and more devices around us are connected to the Internet, we become more susceptible to these types of threats.
Recent incidents involving connected cars, such as the Chrysler Jeep Cherokee hack, pose a threat to customer confidence in IoT technology. Chrysler had to physically recall 1.4 million vehicles. If it had happened to Tesla cars, the fix would be possible with a remote software patch overnight.
Securing the realm of IoT requires applying two basic principles of information security: strong authentication and secure communication. The current leading solution to apply these principles has existed for decades in the form of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
PKI is a foundation of trust that enables security by providing strong authentication and encryption services.
Take the connected car from above as an example. Communications between the car and its connected services needs to have strong authentication. The car system must not accept commands from a third party without properly ensuring the commands actually came from an authorized user of the car. One way to mitigate this risk is to perform mutual authentication where the car authenticates the service, and the service authenticates the car.
In addition to strong mutual authentication, devices need a secure channel to communicate with the service to ensure confidentiality and integrity of data. This can be implemented using high-strength encryption protocols between the device and connected services. Digital certificate and asymmetric encryption technology enables such strong encryption when devices and services are configured to leverage them appropriately. The common technology that enables strong authentication and secure communications leverages PKI.
When you use a computer to connect to an Internet service such as your email, you would normally input a username, password, and in some cases a token for authentication. Because most IoT devices have a small form factor, they do not possess interfaces such as a keyboard. This is where PKI becomes the solution. With PKI, a device can have a digital certificate installed and managed by a secure service that allows the device to mutually authenticate without further human interaction.
PKI has a number of use cases beyond IoTs, including mutual authentication for APIs, endpoint authentication, and secure remote access to production systems. We, at Zuora, have built a PKI for secure distribution of digital certificates to endpoints for secure authentication and communication with internal systems. We also go to great lengths to test our security. We proactively validate security of our systems with industry testing leaders like IOActive. This is the same security consultancy that discovered the Jeep Cherokee hack.
Although PKI has the potential to solve all of the above considerations, it brings about its own unique set of challenges. The Internet of Things is a constantly evolving and growing field. The potential volume of devices presents many scaling challenges never before encountered, from digital certificate provisioning to validation.
There is no longer any doubt that security must join physical safety at the top of every IoT company’s primary consideration. The Jeep Cherokee hack wasn’t just a wake-up call for the automobile industry–it was also a lesson for all companies with devices that connect to the Internet. | <urn:uuid:4f312d84-f5c0-4cb7-a98a-b173968368fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jp.zuora.com/guides/breaking-entering-iot-security/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946259 | 803 | 3.125 | 3 |
iPad Music Hub
This space is for you, if you want to use the iPad as a music tool. In other words, whenever you jump online and search iPad Music, we hope that our iClass will provide what you need.
iClass, how should I use it? I hear you say!
This blog is split into four sections.
iClass – Posts aimed at teachers and dedicated to iPad music . An ongoing discussion of apps, lessons, resources and other iPad music topics.
Whenever you visit Music Hands online and find something of interest, contact us. We like to hear from our readers.
News: Information about our services, workshops, and latest updates. Plus links to other sites and ongoing projects!
In addition we will regularly share our latest social media posts from Twitter, Facebook and Soundcloud.
Free Resources – iPad music aid for teachers, educators and students. E.g GarageBand Tips & Tricks. Content from Music Hands and the best free resources we find.
How to Play – Video Guides, tutorials and instructional videos from across the internet.
As a result of the large number of articles online discussing the best apps for teachers, as well as many detailed reviews and opinion pieces, we decided the focus of iClass is, “the implementation of iPad music in education.”
iClass, an online hub for iPad Music, continued professional development.
In the light of this aim, some articles featured will provide general information, in contrast others will be detailed and thus important for those interested in learning and developing new skills.
If you have any queries or simply want more information regarding CPD contact us via email@example.com
Finally, it’s time to start your CPD journey. If you’re interested in Music Apps, news and reviews we recommend visiting Tim Webb’s well established www.discchord.com.
Music Apps, News and Reviews
In all honesty this site is aimed at tech minded individuals, especially synth and DAW fans. However Discchord pools a wide database of knowledge from across the web into one location. Considering this, you’re likely to find a post on your topic of choice. | <urn:uuid:86315405-afd8-43c3-a17d-6b876613b54d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://musichands.co.uk/iclass-ipad-music-online-hub-resources-link-reviews/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.900951 | 464 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Health assessments are required at the following months of age: 2,4,6,9,12,15,18, and 24. After age 24 months, assessments are due annually.
If your child is due, you may download the health assessment form here: Health Assessment Form
The foundation for your child's well-being involves their physical health. Understanding the importance of physical fitness, healthy eating, and knowing the tools to nurse your child back to health when they are sick can be found here: http://www.education.com/topic/child-health/
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As part of my research I worked with chronically ill academics to create representations of experiences.
This is an example for an illustrated poem that was created from actual statements in interview transcripts.
This illustrated poem was first published in February 2018 as part of the Anthology “Translating Chronic Pain”.
The process of how to create an illustrated poem is described in more detail in my publication “Listen to Your Gut”: A Reflexive Approach to Data Analysis. However, here is a brief explanation from that publication:
The creation of the illustrated poem was an iterative analytical process, which commenced with a first stage of watching back the video-recordings of conversations, while reading along the transcripts of those conversations. Rather than actively seeking out emerging themes or attempting to code in a traditional sense, I focused on the nature and tonality of speech. I let words, phrases and sentences speak to me.
I kept re-reading the transcripts, trying to identify sections where emotions became particularly foregrounded. From these sections I extracted individual phrases and words, which I then copied into a new document. This new document contains extracts from conversations with five different participants, and yet, there are recurring themes of the broken body, the continuous experience of illness and the experience of progressive development of fibromyalgia. I subsequently rearranged the phrases to better connect and reinforce the themes. Through applying a range of fonts and font sizes I attempted to indicate tonality, but also the individuals whose speeches the sections were drawn from.
The illustration ties in with the metaphorical representations and explanations often used to describe experiences. In order to capture the multitude of descriptions, I chose to use a shattered mug. The brokenness represents the broken body, but at the same time the mug also stands for the attachment we have to special objects that we feel we cannot throw away, although they no longer fulfill their original purpose.
If you are interested in the analytical process of engaging in data, you may also be interested in my article Identity boxes: using materials and metaphors to elicit experiences. | <urn:uuid:fff27bc1-1186-48f6-8263-e812e3d2f048> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nicole-brown.co.uk/chronically-ill-academics/?tag=inquiry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954141 | 422 | 1.796875 | 2 |
- Takes note that Algeria, Mali and Niger have nominated Practices and knowledge linked to the Imzad of the Tuareg communities of Algeria, Mali and Niger (No. 00891) for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity:
Imzad music is a characteristic feature of Tuareg communities and is performed by women on a single-stringed bowed instrument known as the Imzad. The musician sits with the instrument on her knees and plays it with a wooden, arched bow. Imzad combines music and poetry and is frequently performed on ceremonial occasions in Tuareg camps. The instrument provides melodic accompaniment to poetic or popular songs glorifying the adventures and feats of past heroes: the songs are composed, recited or sung by men, with both men and women participating by producing modulated or high-pitched cries. The music also has a therapeutic function, being played to drive away evil spirits and alleviate the pain of the sick. The sound of the Imzad reflects the player’s feelings and moods, and an inability to master a performance is considered a misfortune. Women craft the instrument from half a dried, hollowed-out gourd: a skin is stretched across the open side and pierced with sound holes in the shape of rosettes, and a wooden bridge in the shape of a V is then added. Imzad musical knowledge is transmitted orally according to traditional methods of observation and assimilation.
- Decides that, from the information included in the file, the nomination satisfies the following criteria for inscription on the Representative List:
R.1: Transmitted orally through generations, the music of the Imzad plays an important role in strengthening spiritual and cultural values among the Tuareg communities; the importance of women in its practice and transmission is particularly noteworthy;
R.2: Inscription of the element on the Representative List could contribute to raising awareness of the intangible cultural heritage and particularly the role of women in its transmission, while encouraging cultural dialogue and respect for human creativity among Tuareg communities of the Sahel and others;
R.3: Safeguarding measures proposed include the development of inventories, research, promotion of practices and the strengthening of transmission, as well as the establishment of management mechanisms;
R.4: Practitioners of Imzad in all three countries contributed information during the nomination process and provided their free, prior and informed consent;
R.5: The element was included in 2010 in the National Database of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture in Algeria; in Mali it was included in 2012 in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory maintained by the Ministry of Culture; Niger included the element in its General Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2011.
- Inscribes Practices and knowledge linked to the Imzad of the Tuareg communities of Algeria, Mali and Niger on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity;
- Calls the attention of the submitting States to the need to monitor the implementation of safeguarding measures and to report on them through their periodic reports. | <urn:uuid:bed4fd1e-0b26-4818-8591-b2f64ddd065d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ich.unesco.org/en/Decisions/8.COM/8.2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951418 | 639 | 2.84375 | 3 |
For many, going out for dinner is a treat at the end of a long week of hard work. It’s a way to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life, to spend time with the important people in their life and connect over a good meal. Since the Coronavirus pandemic has forced many restaurants to close their dining rooms, it seems the most common solution for many has become delivery. In a year where so much of business remains in flux, Uber Eats seems to have found a way to capitalize on the resultant discomfort.
Gig workers don’t have many protections in place. They don’t have guaranteed wages, and they don’t have sick pay or health care – things that are crucial in a public health crisis. Now, many gig workers face a dilemma: break the lockdown orders to try to pay the bills or stay home without pay. | <urn:uuid:eab4a3a4-d2aa-4349-b097-a8e78e58b0ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marshall-johnstonmm.com/tag/gig-economy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974065 | 185 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The orangery is the forerunner to the conservatory and dates back to the 17th century, originally designed to protect valuable and exotic plants and fruits during the cold winter months.
Early orangeries had large windows and doors within a stone building. Today, orangeries retain a unique character that sets them apart from all conservatories, but the distinction between them has evolved over the years and now orangeries are generally defined as the next generation of conservatory.
Orangeries represent the ideal combination of the benefits and looks of conservatories and more conventional extensions. They are wonderfully light and airy spaces due to the glazed roofs as well as being comfortable and inviting throughout the year.
For this reason orangeries will provide a unique living space. Recently we have seen a significant growth in popularity – customers who might have opted for a bespoke conservatory or brick extension are now just as likely to choose an orangery.
However you choose to use it, a tailor made orangery will transform the way you live in and around your home – it will quickly become your favourite room.
Your tailor made orangery will be designed and built to meticulously high standards to suit your unique needs, your lifestyle and your home – the choice of styles and finishing details is entirely up to you.
Huge choice of styles & finishes
Ideal for creating additional living space
Adds space & light all year round
Elegant & stylish
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8 December 2021 (Wed)
11.00AM - 12.00PM (GMT +8)
Is cancer preventable? (Online)
Lifestyle choices, such as smoking, overuse of alcohol, poor diet, lack of physical activity and inadequate relief of stress are key contributors in the development and progression of preventable chronic diseases. These include obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and several types of cancer.
Most people understand the reasoning behind a healthy lifestyle but many are inadequately prepared to either start or maintain these appropriate healthy changes. This talk will equip you with the knowledge to start on a good diet and provide you with behavioural skills to sustain these good habits.
(Do note that the session will be conducted in English only)
Limited slots available!
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Four years ago, Newsweek proclaimed „the end of conservatism.” Newsweek announced this week that it would reach its end as a print publication on New Year’s Eve. Don’t expect conservatives to break into „Auld Lang Syne.”
Henry Hazlitt, whose „Business Tides” column graced Newsweek’s pages from 1946 to 1966, got an early bead on the magazine’s downward spiral when the Graham family publishing tycoons purchased the magazine in the early sixties. The Economics in One Lesson author didn’t exactly predict his employer would spike the biggest sex scandal in American political history or run a demeaning cover photo of a conservative woman in running shorts. But when Newsweek axed Hazlitt after writing articles that had run afoul of the Graham family’s liberal politics, he knew it was not the same magazine that had hired him. Hazlitt could see the writing on the wall once he couldn’t see his writing on Newsweek’s pages.
That was the beginning of the end. The end of the end was painful and protracted. Like its competitors, Newsweek faced challenges from the Internet and a less literate public. Unlike its competitors, Newsweek didn’t meet those challenges.
Why will shelves hold Time in 2013 but not Newsweek?
The answer lies more in Newsweek’s print past than in its digital future, which, given that the subset of the Daily Beast doesn’t even have its own independent web address, doesn’t appear very promising. The weekly undermined its credibility and advertised its bias. How long can you insult the bulk of your readership and retain a readership?
Newsweek inflicted a damaging blow to itself in 2007 when it published an overheated cover story on global warming that referred twelve times to questioners of the human-causation theory as „the denial machine.” Lacking both a thesaurus and perspective, Sharon Begley implicitly compared global-warming skeptics to Holocaust deniers, the latter rejecting historical truth and the former rejecting scientific truth. The „denial machine,” you see, had unleashed „a paralyzing fog of doubt” upon blissful uniformity. And questioning is just not science – at least according to Newsweek.
In an unusual move, Robert J. Samuelson, one of the magazine’s longest serving and most respected writers, dubbed the piece „a highly contrived story” and a case study of how „self-righteous indignation can undermine good journalism.” A few years later, the publication – which in 1975 had so worried about an Ice Age that it discussed artificially melting the polar caps – declared that „green politics has fallen from its lofty heights.”
The point here isn’t necessarily that Newsweek is wrong. It’s that the publication is other-directed. A magazine caught up in trends can’t help but become a casualty of them.
The style and substance of the current issue’s four book reviews, collectively titled „Illicit Loves: Four New Novels on Desire and Fear” and individually allocated less than 70 words apiece, demonstrate the degree to which the publication has thrown in the towel. The bizarre solution to declining readership of directing content toward nonreaders takes an even more farcical turn in book reviews slightly longer, and far less insightful, than a child’s haiku. That the subject matter (incest and a woman’s affair with a boy) of two of the books would be unfit for Penthouse „Forum” says much about why Newsweek has become so marginalized. When they take the silly so seriously even the silly cease taking them seriously.
Like the book reviewers, Newsweek’s reporters put their heads in the toilet.
The 2005 report that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had flushed a Koran down the toilet could have been written by a sandwich-board protester at a Bush-era International Answer rally. The basis of the story was a Pentagon official’s „no comment.” Don Imus queried Newsweek’s Howard Fineman: „He [the Pentagon official] didn’t confirm it or didn’t deny it or anything, right?” Fineman answered: „Well, he didn’t deny it.” A flummoxed Imus retorted: „He didn’t confirm it either.”
Newsweek lied. More than a dozen rioting Muslims died.
When a radio shock-jock schools a venerable publication on journalistic ethics, it’s a sign that the magazine will soon cease being both venerable and a magazine. The pattern of ideologues seizing an institution with a sterling reputation – see any number of foundations or universities – only to sully it is by now a familiar one.
Two years ago, Sidney Harman bought Newsweek for $1. He got ripped off. The weekly, which had become untrustworthy to a huge segment of its target audience, bled money. Newsweek outliving its nonagenarian owner startled the actuarial tables.
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(Maria Peychär [Geburtsname])
Born 25 April 1875 in Innsbruck
Died 15 May 1959 in Innsbruck
Cofounder of the Social Democratic women’s movement of Tyrol and the first Social Democratic woman in the Tyrolean Parliament.
50th anniversary of death on 15 May 2009
Maria Ducia was one of the most important women in the Social Democratic women’s movement of Tyrol. She called for the political participation of women at a time when it was against the law for them even to form political associations, let alone vote. In the national parliamentary elections of 1907 all males over 24 were granted the general, equal and direct franchise. Women had to struggle another eleven years; not until 1918 did they gain the right to vote and run for elected office.
In 1910 the “Action Committee of the Free Political Women’s Organisation” was founded. Maria Ducia was involved from the beginning, first as its secretary and after 1911 as its chairwoman. She is mentioned as a politically active woman for the first time in reports of the “Volkszeitung” from 30 May and 15 June 1910. In 1911 she called for active and passive voting rights for all women. She spoke out forcefully and eloquently for woman suffrage at the first Austria-wide International Women’s Day held in the Lienz restaurant Glöckelturm. In Innsbruck, Landeck, Merano, Bolzano, Franzensfeste and Lienz she campaigned tirelessly as the “Tyrolean Suffragist,” demanding “We want votes for women!” and passionately and convincingly expounding on the inequality between the sexes and the resulting injustice toward women. She was the first Tyrolean woman to speak at a public political meeting. Her success in winning many women over to her cause gave rise to the Social Democratic women’s movement in Tyrol. Maria Ducia pursued a form of “politics by women for women;” her political and philosophical mentors and models included the Viennese Social Democrats Adelheid Popp, Amalie Seidl, Gabriele Proft and Emmy Freundlich, with whom she also maintained personal contact.
Together with North Tyrolean colleagues Maria Ducia organized the first Tyrolean state women’s conference in March 1912 – an important date in the history of the Social Democratic women of Tyrol. Ducia was elected to the six-person State Women’s Committee and chosen as state representative (Landesvertrauensperson). She remained in these positions until 1934 except for a break between 1926 and 1930. From 1924 on she represented Tyrol in the national Social Democratic Women’s Committee.
Maria Ducia is a modern thinker. She demanded equal rights for both sexes, hence also a woman’s right to to have a job outside the home; she called for stronger female representation in all bodies; she spoke out against grievous social conditions and for the liberation of the working class and campaigned for the political, economic and social equality of women. Educational policy was of particular concern to her; she especially wanted to abolish the requirement of celibacy for female teachers. She argued that a teaching career has much in common with motherhood and, using somewhat biologistic logic, described the enforced unmarried status of female teachers as a “perversity of their entire life.” The red thread of her activity was consistent: emancipation of the women of Tyrol.
In 1919 she joined the Tyrolean Parliament as a Social Democratic representative. An intelligent and quick-witted politician, who saw herself above all as a representative of women. She was actively engaged in women’s politics for 25 years.
Maria was born on 25 April 1875 in Innsbruck as the fourth child of the midwife Monika Neuner and Josef Peychär, a master tailor who hailed from Bohemia. Up to her fourth birthday little Maria was cared for by peasants in Sistrans. After elementary school she worked as a sales person. At 16 she ran away from home, going first to South Tyrol. She learned Italian and turned up in a bookstore in Rovereto, then in St. Gallen in Switzerland, where she worked as a sales person and had her first child in 1898. The single mother had little Karl cared for by a farm family. Her next stop was Munich; here she worked in a tobacco factory and took an evening course at the Academy of Art. In 1900 she gave birth to Leopoldine, returned with her to Innsbruck, and found a job with the furniture dealer Eugen Walter. Around 1900 she went to Lienz to open and manage a branch for him.
In 1903 she married the locomotive operator Anton Ducia and bore three girls and a boy between 1903 and 1907. She lived with her husband and six children in a 60-square-meter apartment in Lienz in railroad employee housing in the Rindermarkt. Railroad workers, who had been coming to East Tyrol since 1870 with the construction of the Pustertal railway, brought ideas of Social Democracy to the province which were felt to be “threatening” in the Christian-socialist Lienz of the time. It was considered disreputable to be a “Red” living in the housing of the Südbahn (southern railway).
Maria Ducia purchased the furniture store at 144 Rosengasse and became financially independent. In 1907, however, she was forced to give it up again because of the pressure of competition.
Soon afterwards Maria Ducia began her political career….
As an entrepreneur, political figure and mother Maria Ducia was a thorn in the side of the residents of Lienz. The agitator for women’s rights and the emancipation of the proletariat did not fit their ideal of “home and hearth” one bit.
The Ducia family moved to Innsbruck in 1919.
In her old age Maria Ducia lived with her daughter Amalie and her family at 18 Müllerstraße in Innsbruck. She died at age 84 on 15 May 1959.
In December 2007 competition for the Maria Ducia Womens’ Research Prize, sponsored by the Tyrolean parliament-club of the SPÖ for the amount of 1500 Euros, was announced for the first time at the University of Innsbruck. Feminist and women-focused topics for diploma theses and dissertations may be submitted.
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Space probes definition
Types of space probes
Some space probes make a fly by, getting near a space object. Others are called orbiters, that go into orbit around a space object such as a planet or moon. Landers make a touchdown on the surface of a space object and rovers are designed to move on the surface.
Many successful flyby’s took place to space objects such as Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Several orbiters visited Venus and Mars, landers have reached the moon, Venus, Mars, Saturn’s moon – Titan, asteroids Eros and Itokawa and comer Churyumov – Gerasimenko. Rovers have explored the surface of the Moon and Mars.
History of space probes
- In 1962, Mariner 2 was the first successful planetary probe and flew past Venus.
- In 1965, Mariner 4 got the first close-up images of Mars .
- In 1972, Pioneer 10 flew past Jupiter, studied its radiation and magnetic field and discovered its liquid interior before heading out of the solar system.
- In 1973, Pioneer 10 flew past Jupiter and Saturn.
- In 1974, Mariner 10 flew by Mercury and Venus. It was also the first spacecraft to use the gravitational pull of one planet (Venus) to reach another (Mercury), and the first spacecraft mission to visit two planets.
- In 1976, USA’s Viking 1 and 2 landed on Mars and returned images of the surface.
- In 1979, Pioneer 11 was the first to visit Saturn.
- Voyager 1 and 2 were sent to study the outer Solar System. Voyager 1 made the historic entry into interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago. Voyager 2 passed by Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1986, Neptune in 1989 and entered interstellar space in 2018. Both voyagers used the “slingshot” effect to hurl them over from Jupiter’s gravity towards Saturn.
- In 1985, the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) made the first flyby of a comet, and passed by Giacobini–Zinner.
- In 1991, the Galileo space probe made the first flyby of asteroids, which imaged both 951 Gaspra (in 1991) and 243 Ida (in 1993) on its way to Jupiter.
- In 1997, US Sojourner was the first Mars Rover.
- In 2015, the New Horizon Probe flew by Pluto.
How do probes save fuel?
Probes with missions to explore distant space objects save fuel using the “slingshot” theory. Probes may use a nearby planet gravity to catapult them on their way, such as the Mariner 10.
What happens to probes in space?
Most space probes are not designed to return to Earth. Some probes are still in space sending data to mankind. For example current active missions incude:
- Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977 are in interstellar space and expected to beam back data past 2020 as they travel out of the solar system.
- The Pioneers 10 and 11 are now at the edge of the Solar system and may reach the vicinity of the Star Aldebran in about 2 million years.
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Chapter 12. Spiders
So far we have focused on the mechanics of getting and parsing data off the Web, just a page here and a page there, without much attention to the ramifications. In this section, we consider issues that arise from writing programs that send more than a few requests to given web sites. Then we move on to how to writing recursive web user agents, or spiders. With these skills, you’ll be able to write programs that automatically navigate web sites, from simple link checkers to powerful bulk-download tools.
Types of Web-Querying Programs
Let’s say your boss comes to you and says “I need you to write a spider.” What does he mean by “spider”? Is he talking about the simple one-page screen scrapers we wrote in earlier chapters? Or does he want to extract many pages from a single server? Or maybe he wants you to write a new Google, which attempts to find and download every page on the Web. Roughly speaking, there are four kinds of programs that make requests to web servers:
- Type One Requester
This program requests a couple items from a server, knowing ahead of time the URL of each. An example of this is our program in Chapter 7 that requested just the front page of the BBC News web site.
- Type Two Requester
This program requests a few items from a server, then requests the pages to which those link (or possibly just a subset of those). An example of this is the program we alluded to in Chapter 11 that would download the front page of the New York Times web site, then downloaded ... | <urn:uuid:c7771c40-9b11-4b36-8cd2-d169df895496> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/perl-lwp/0596001789/ch12.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939366 | 340 | 2.890625 | 3 |
Is haggis a Scrabble word?
Yes, haggis is a Scrabble word!
...and is worth 11 points in Scrabble, and 12 points in Words with Friends
Haggis is a valid Scrabble word.
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1 definition of the word haggis.
- Made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach
What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in haggis?
Words that can be created with an extra letter added to haggis:
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HoL has made this video assembling a number of clips from the London Weekend Television play, 'One Fine Day'. This was the fifth in LWT's series of Six Plays by Alan Bennett. Shot in 1978, it screened in 1979.
To watch the video in a larger format on HoL's YouTube channel, start playing it, then click the box icon at the bottom right of the video, in the black strip.
Learn more about the TV programme at Screen Online
View the full play in two parts on YouTube:
Thanks to Bruce Castle Museum for surfacing this TV programme. Bruce Castle Museum archivists wrote the following:
Council departments only began moving into this building from other sites 15 years ago – in 2005.
River Park House’s name today is taken from its location right by River Park Road. Built in 1973, the building replaced the old Wood Green Library. The new building was originally known as Sunley House.
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Each team is initially given one draft selection in each round. However, many end up changing hands by way of trades. The league then awards compensatory picks, meaning that most rounds exceed 32 picks. Ultimately, assuming that no NFL Draft rules are broken, there are 259 total picks in each NFL Draft.
How many NFL players are drafted each year?
How many players get drafted NFL?
In addition to the 32 selections in each of the seven rounds, a total of 32 compensatory picks are awarded to teams based on the players they lost and gained in free agency.
How are NFL Draft picks determined?
The order is determined by the standings at the end of the regular season: The club with the worst record will pick first, and the one with the best record will pick 20th. Teams that did qualify for the playoffs are assigned draft slots 21-32. … The team that lost the Super Bowl has the 31st pick in the draft.
Can a player refuse a draft pick NFL?
Technically yes, practically no. If the player doesn’t like the term of the contract, they can decline, at which point the team will likely cut him and he would become a free agent. Another team could then make him an offer, but it’s unlikely that it would be as lucrative as the original.
Can a football player go back to college if not drafted?
Originally Answered: Can players return to college if not drafted? Yes, you can return to college to finish your degree. But you cannot play football or basketball, if you have declared for the draft. You are considered to have turned Pro, and are no longer eligible to play in college.
What is the average NFL salary?
According to overthecap.com, a site that tracks NFL contracts, 34 NFL players currently make $20 million a season in average annual salary. To top it all, the highest paid player in the league right now makes a $45 million ‘per season’ in average annual salary.
What happens if a player is not drafted?
Any player who goes through the draft without being selected becomes an Undrafted Free Agent, who is free to sign with any team of his choice. For most, that essentially means the end of their football career and they head off to the world of work or grad school.
Who gets #1 NFL draft?
For the second straight year, the Jacksonville Jaguars have secured the first overall pick in the NFL draft. The Jaguars improved to 3-14 with Sunday’s stunning upset of the Colts, while the team with the second-worst record in the league, the Lions (3-13-1), closed out the regular season by locking up the No.
Do players have to enter the NFL draft?
Not anyone can enter the NFL Draft but the requirement is quite simple. … This is the only requirement to enter the NFL draft. There’s no minimum age required to become draft-eligible also. This is why some of the youngest NFL players are only 19 or 20 years old when they got drafted in the league.
Has anyone went straight to the NFL from high school?
And while the drafted rookies enter the NFL from a variety of different backgrounds, one thing they generally all have in common is an outstanding experience playing high school football. A total of 228 high schools contributed to the 259 players selected in the seven rounds of the April 29-May 1 Draft.
Who is the youngest player in the NFL?
He played college football at Louisville and was drafted by the Houston Texans tenth overall in the 2007 NFL Draft, the youngest player in NFL history to be drafted in the first round at 19.
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What draft pick was Tom Brady?
Tom Brady was the 199th pick in the NFL Draft and is now considered the greatest quarterback ever.
How many rounds are in NFL Draft 2021?
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Hammock Amok in Jakarta
Aid in the rehabilitation of rescued animals in nine beneficiary centres in Indonesia.
Many species of animals are endangered and threatened throughout Indonesia. Several centres throughout the country serve as the home of thousands of rescued animals.
To help preserve and propagate Indonesian wildlife, fifty-five AirAsia Allstars gathered at the Taman Margasatwa Ragunan to build 256 pieces of enrichment tools for rescued animals in nine beneficiary centres in Indonesia: Ragunan Zoological Gardens, Cikananga Wildlife Center (Pusat Penyelamatan Satwa Cikananga-PPSC), KWPLH-Kawasan Wisata Pendidikan Lingkungan Hidup – ProNatura, WRC Jogja-Yayasan Konservasi Alam Yogyakarta, Animal Sanctuary Trust Indonesia, IAR Indonesia, BOS Foundation, Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN) and the Centre for Orangutan Protection.
Animals in these centres include siamangs, oranggutans, tigers, elephants, sun bears, macaques, slow lorises, and gibbons.
About Our Allstars
AirAsia’s biggest asset is our 24,000 Allstars who span over 60 nationalities and a multitude of skills, from engineering to marketing, from flying an aircraft to build a world-class brand. Our diversity is our strength and together, we aim to make a difference to the communities that AirAsia connects.
Working with Asia’s leading low-cost airline also means that Allstars are trained to be efficient, versatile and innovative. Passion is an essential part of our work, including in doing our part for local communities.
To date, Allstars have raised over US$2.5 million to support emergency relief and post-disaster rebuilding programmes. Through our ‘Allstars do GOOD’ initiative, Allstars contribute their time, efforts and skills to join AirAsia Foundation in supporting social enterprises seeking to address social and environmental issues affecting the region sustainably.
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Information can be an invaluable asset. This is especially evident in the technology sector, where companies use increasingly sophisticated methods to collect, aggregate, and analyze data. Exclusive possession of data can, of course, confer significant competitive advantages—but may also prompt legal challenges from competitors or scrutiny from regulators. Authorities in France and Germany have investigations underway into whether the collection and use of consumer data by major online platforms including Facebook and Google are having anticompetitive effects. And on December 19, 2017, Germany’s competition authority—the Bundeskartellamt— informed Facebook that it “holds the view that Facebook is abusing [a dominant market position] by making the use of its social network conditional on its being allowed to limitlessly amass every kind of data generated by using third-party websites and merge it with the user’s Facebook account.”
So far, however, the United States has not followed the European example. Speaking earlier this month at a New York conference on Tech, Media & Telecom Competition, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Barry Nigro suggested that the Department of Justice has no current plans to do so, expressing “skeptic[ism]” of using federal antitrust laws to force companies to share their data.
Nigro distinguished between two uses of data. First, companies may use data in a more traditional way—to “become more efficient” and to obtain “important feedback and insights” to “solve problems and improve its products and offerings.” Second, recent technological developments have allowed the “aggregation and commercial use of large quantities of data,” which can “give a firm a competitive advantage over its rivals.” Such advantages may be compounded by network effects “as the data becomes more comprehensive or the platform gains more users.” It is this second use, he observed, that has caused “some enforcers” to express concerns—either that “amassing data, and not sharing it with rivals” may in itself be anticompetitive, or that, if “certain critical data” is a source of market power, refusing access to it means that potential competitors in downstream markets might not be able to overcome barriers to entry. Indeed, these concerns are animating the German Facebook proceeding: the Bundeskartellamt based its preliminary assessment of Facebook’s dominance in part on findings that direct network effects make users “effectively ‘locked in’” and indirect network effects disadvantage would-be competitors, because user-base-driven advertising revenue is impossible to earn when competitors cannot attract users. More to the point, it found that “Facebook has superior access to the personal data of its users and other competition-relevant data,” and “[b]ecause social networks are data-driven products, access to such data is an essential factor for competition in the market.”
In response to such concerns, Nigro pointed out that the Antitrust Division already looks at data, among other assets, in determining whether a merger or acquisition would result in reduced competition under Section 7 of the Clayton Act. It asks, for example, whether “the transaction combines substitutable datasets” or “transfers control of critical data on which the acquiring firm’s competitors depend and for which there are inadequate alternatives.” He explained that such concerns prompted the Antitrust Division to require Thomson to divest several financial datasets before approving its 2008 merger with Reuters.
But apart from the DOJ’s routine Clayton Act review, Nigro observed, United States “antitrust law generally does not impose a unilateral duty to share one’s assets with competitors.” He added that such claims have only been recognized in very limited, almost unique circumstances and are “very rare, and for good reason.” “There are many reasons to be skeptical of using the antitrust laws to force the sharing of data,” he explained:
First, “forced sharing of critical access reduces the incentive to invest in innovation” because “[d]ata collection, storage, and analysis is not free and not always easily accomplished.” While acknowledging the potential for forced sharing to promote competition within a market, Nigro suggested that such benefits were outweighed by the prospect of “undermining future incentives to invest in innovation” to create new markets, and would incentivize free riding by competitors. In his view, “stretch[ing] antitrust law to create competition within the market” by “[m]andating access to data is just as (or perhaps more) likely to result in less . . . innovation as it is to enable new competition within existing markets.”
Second, forced sharing “is an inherently regulatory approach” and, in his view, outside the proper purview of antitrust enforcement. Nigro invoked Justice Scalia’s warning in Verizon Communications Inc. v. Law Offices of Curtis V. Trinko, LLP—which affirmed dismissal of a Sherman Act claim against Verizon for refusing to share its telephone network—that forced sharing “requires antitrust courts to act as central planners,” a role for which they are fundamentally unsuited. Nigro noted that after Trinko, there remain some narrow circumstances under which forced sharing may be appropriate, such as the FTC’s requirement that branded prescription drug manufacturers make drug samples available to potential developers of generic versions. But, importantly, he indicated that this requirement does not discourage competition or innovation—rather, it was imposed to “facilitate compliance” with an explicitly prescribed statutory process.
Nigro concluded by addressing the argument, advanced by advocates of more aggressive enforcement, that “network effects,” the “winner-take-all nature of digital markets[,] and the existence of tipping points” require “new tools” to assess market power, or make data inherently different from other assets. Economic theory, Nigro observed, indicates that, while network effects may diminish competition within existing markets, they do not stifle competition for markets, i.e., “compet[ing] intensely to become the solution most people choose” by developing “innovative products and services.” For this reason, he concluded, the traditional antitrust framework—which already accounts for network effects, as in the Antitrust Division’s Microsoft case in the late 1990s and recent Clayton Act merger reviews—remains adequate to the task of evaluating and policing competition in data-driven digital markets.
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Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA-04) chats with fellow Western Caucus members, industry leaders, and advocates on issues important to rural America.
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Collaborating to Prevent Catastrophic Wildfires
In this episode of A Voice for Rural America, Vice Chair John Curtis (UT-03) and Utah State University Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air Executive Director Brian Steed join Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) to discuss the collaboration and land management efforts needed to combat catastrophic wildfires across the West. In addition to massive swaths of federal lands, land managers in Utah and in rural communities throughout the West face several challenges – from oppressive federal regulations to historic drought conditions.
Promoting Species Recovery Through Transparency, Flexibility, and Scientific Credibility
In this episode of A Voice for Rural America, we are celebrating our second annual Species Week! Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) and Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) President and CEO Brian Yablonski discussed the reforms Congress should make to improve the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Rep. Mike Simpson (ID-02) and Idaho Governor Brad Little also joined to discuss the ongoing efforts to protect and restore habitats for the greater sage-grouse in the Gem State.
Grid Reliability in the Pacific Northwest
In this episode of A Voice for Rural America, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), Energy Northwest CEO Bob Schuetz, and Schweitzer Engineering Labs President & Founder Dr. Ed Schweitzer joined Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) to discuss the diverse, all-of-the-above energy strategy in the Pacific Northwest and the region's world-class grid resilience research. They emphasized the role baseload energy resources like hydro and nuclear power play in maintaining a stable, reliable energy grid for Washington's communities.
Showcasing Ohio's Energy Producers
In this episode of A Voice for Rural America, Rep. Bill Johnson (OH-06) and American Exploration and Production Council (AXPC) Vice President for Government Affairs Troy Lyons joined Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) to showcase energy producers in Ohio, highlight the recent Congressional Western Caucus Ohio Energy Field Tour, and discuss how Members of Congress can continue to support American energy production and dominance.
In May, Chairman Newhouse and Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-02) joined Rep. Johnson for a field tour of eastern Ohio where they visited an active oil rig and well pad, toured a mine safety training center, and heard firsthand from the region's coal, oil, and gas producers. Click here to learn more.
Farmers, Fertilizers, and the 2023 Farm Bill
In this episode of A Voice for Rural America, Rep. Frank Lucas (OK-03) joined Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) to discuss the challenges facing farmers and ranchers in Oklahoma and across the United States, solutions to protect producers from skyrocketing input costs and government overreach, and priorities for the 2023 Farm Bill.
As two of only a handful of farmers in Congress, Chairman Newhouse and Rep. Lucas have a unique perspective on how federal policies will impact agricultural communities across the country. Rep. Lucas previously served as Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and recently led a letter to President Biden urging action on rising fertilizer prices.
Combatting Russia's Uranium Monopoly
On this episode of a Voice for Rural America, Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) is joined by Vice Chair Liz Cheney (WY-AL) and enCore Energy Corp. CEO Paul Goranson to discuss the importance of a domestic uranium supply and the need to bolster American production for both fuel and non-fuel uses.
With Russia being the only commercial supplier of high-assay low-enriched uranium and increased scrutiny over Russia's involvement in the global nuclear fuel cycle, Western Caucus Members have strongly advocated for increased domestic development of uranium. In April, Chairman Newhouse and Vice Chair Cheney led a letter to U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm expressing concerns about her delay in implementing a national uranium reserve. Click here to read more. | <urn:uuid:cf154eb9-8038-476b-8c3a-7f9943e2b91c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-voice-for-rural-america/id1603121256 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.906226 | 950 | 1.625 | 2 |
One-line solution summary:
Thaki bridges the digital gap by bringing e-learning and digital literacy to refugee and vulnerable children in the Middle East while reducing e-waste.
Which Challenge does your solution most closely address?Equitable Classrooms: How can all young learners have access to quality, safe, and equitable learning environments?
Pitch your solution.
Thaki acts as an educational bridge between the latest in ed-tech solutions and vulnerable communities, enabling children and teachers to interact with the digital world that would otherwise not be available to them.
We tackle essential learning gaps for those whose education has been compromised through a unique technology-based model by:
- Filling an essential learning gap for those with limited or no access to education.
- Offering an off-line solution to address poor internet connectivity in recipient communities.
- Creating a circular economy model of hardware reuse and lifetime extension by repurposing donated laptops and turning them into valuable learning tools using a bespoke content platform in Arabic and English.
- Building the digital competence and skills of poorly trained educators to better support students for a rapidly changing world.
- Providing educational content and teaching training resources (Digital Toolkit) that empower teachers and children to self-learn through the equivalence of hundreds of books and tools teaching about the UN SDGs, digital literacy, STEM, life-skills, values, coding, language, and many other competencies.
Our circular economy model is based on collaboration and low-effort contributions from the private sector along the entire value chain, leading to huge social impact.
In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?The Hague, Netherlands
Our solution's stage of development:Growth
Is this a new solution, an existing solution, or an adaptation of an existing solution?New solution
How does your solution incorporate research?
Thaki was born out of a need to respond to the refugee crisis in the Middle East where Lebanon hosts the largest number of refugees per capita. In 2015 there were 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, 350,000 of whom were out of school children. Thaki founder Rudayna, daughter of Palestinian refugees who herself was displaced from Lebanon during the civil war, started making ‘sensing’ trips to Lebanon to understand the context, needs and challenges on the ground. Her initial investigations led to a model of collaboration has been foundational to address the need:
- Corporations and institutions have assets (laptops) that they retire when these assets still have a long shelf life.
- Vulnerable children are missing out on their education and do not have access to digital skills that, today, are essential for future employability.
Curated content that supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals, digital literacy and other future focused skills is sorely lacking in the educational offerings to these marginalized children. As is reliable internet connectivity.
Currently, we track and iterate our findings following a user-center approach collecting data directly from the teachers and partner organizations using feedback surveys, field observations and interviews. This year we will start collecting user feedback surveys from the students as well.
We are in the process of implementing a robust impact assessment system that will allow us to aggregate, manage and analyze data for monitoring, evaluation and insights to inform planning, design, implementation and decision-making. This impact assessment will form an important evidence-based component of our research and evaluation.
In a concurrent ongoing 15-month pilot study with 6 user organizations, the data collected will be systematically analyzed by a multidisciplinary team led by the Centre for Lebanese Studies, a research center, working alongside our team that includes the expertise of educators.
Who is the Team Lead for your solution?
What makes your solution innovative?
Thaki is unlocking the untapped potential of refugee and vulnerable children through a model that serves as a mechanism to lessen the strain on corporate and government financial solicitations and creates a circular economy model of hardware reuse for global benefit.
A number of other organizations recycle laptops for social impact while others focus on content creation (software). Our distinction is that we offer a low-cost solution based on the following 3 essential components:
- Hardware (used laptops): without which digital literacy would be impossible.
- Offline learning: a 'plug and play' system that is loaded with interactive, high-quality offline learning content in Arabic, English and (to a lesser extent) French.
- Training: a user-friendly, self-guided teacher training Digital Toolkit of courses, lesson plans and resources for teachers to become comfortable with computers and incorporate ICT pedagogy with their students – adapted for remote or hybrid learning. This is an additional part of Thaki's work to enable the teachers to support the young learners.
Our solution satisfies CSR for corporations while vastly reducing capital expenditure for electronic devices for recipient organizations.
Our solution is catalytic and we expect it to both change the market through the redirection of retired laptops to social impact (rather than private sector commercial benefit), as well as enable broader positive impacts from others in this space. In fact, we have been collaborating from Day 1 with others on all aspects of the value chain with partnerships from hardware to content to in-kind providers.
What is your theory of change?
Our long-term goal is that e-learning and digital literacy can help empower refugee and vulnerable children to learn and thrive through self-paced, motivational electronic tools and find a direct path out of the confinement of low-income livelihoods.
Refugee and marginalized children out of school are missing out on their education given the lack of tools and educational material.
Laptops loaded with educational content for offline learning are given to organizations that are working with the children.
Students get to spend some time working on the laptops every week.
Increase children’s ability to seek future employment outside of the confines of low paying jobs due to new skills and mindset.
Short term changes:
- Get laptops from companies
- Load the laptops with quality learning content
- Provide laptops to the children
- Teach soft learning skills to the children
- Teach digital literacy and other core skills to the children
Thaki will measure the impact on teachers by evaluating:
- Increased confidence in using digital learning tools [for teaching],
- improved attitudes towards ease and utility of digital tools,
- increased digital skill set,
- increased knowledge and confidence to apply their knowledge on how digital skills relate to their teaching practice and their students’ future plans.
The impact on students will be measured based on:
- Increased confidence in using digital learning tools,
- improved attitudes about learning and learning motivation,
- improved attitudes towards ease and utility of digital tools, increased digital skill set,
- increased knowledge and confidence to apply their knowledge on how digital skills relate to a variety of life and work settings.
Select the key characteristics of your target population.
In which countries do you currently operate?
In which countries do you plan to be operating within the next year?
What are your impact goals for the next year and the next five years, and how will you achieve them?
In all future horizons our goal is to support disadvantaged young children in their education rights, personal growth and future economic aspirations with tools they would otherwise have difficulty accessing.
By May we will have reached an estimated 13,500 children through 78 organizations in schools and centers in marginalized communities in Lebanon and Jordan, with plans to grow further in the region. Our goal for the next year is to empower 14,000 children with digital literacy tools, and by the end of 2026 is to have reached 130,000 children and 4,700 teachers throughout the Middle East through our platform.
Thaki’s model is both scalable as well as replicable – in other regions of the world. It can be contextualized to other cultural and linguistic settings and our offline learning solution is relevant in every corner of the world since COVID taught us that almost half of the world is disconnected from the internet.
We would like to focus on securing a pathway of education that promotes the SDGs with a focus on gender equality for vulnerable girls in particular, by deepening our offerings and programs that focus on inclusion and leadership.
On the environmental sustainability spectrum, we also see Thaki becoming more directly active in electronic waste. The Arab world is far lagging in environmental stewardship with Lebanon grappling with a waste crisis for many years. We envision Thaki being integral in elevating environmental awareness and leading to a radical shift in civic behavior and outcomes.
What barriers currently exist for you to accomplish your goals in the next year and in the next five years?
The demand for Thaki is growing, and we have never felt such a sense of responsibility to expand our efforts, especially given the global pandemic, the explosion in August that destroyed much of Beirut and crippled Lebanon even further, and the rise of poverty and educational inequity in the Middle East.
Thaki's current business model of charging $50 per laptop, inclusive of shipping costs, is limited when our turnover is low. This cost is multitude times lower than the market for second hand laptops – and those are laptops without all of the amazing content that we load and the teacher training resources that we are creating.
At our current charge rate, which is extremely low but sensitive to local market conditions, we can be financially self-sufficient if we can secure 6,000 donated laptops annually. At a higher charge rate, or with the addition of project funded support, we can reach financial sustainability sooner.
Sourcing viable laptops is at the core of Thaki's value proposition. The supply chain is fragmented and corporates do not always have a clear policy for donating laptops, or have complex internal sign-off structures. To address this challenge, we make it easy for organizations to hand over their hardware through our partnerships with logistics companies. But we require access to an exponential market. For the 5-year horizon, we want to have a model of predictable throughput in order to plan for operational, programmatic and impact growth.
How do you plan to overcome these barriers?
Thaki is taking a number of steps to overcome these challenges, noting that the current pandemic has put an unprecedented demand on laptops, including used laptops, making access to the second hand market much harder. We are taking a number of approaches to tackle this challenge. We recently retained 2 part time sales and communications consultants to pitch organizations for their retired laptops and secure partnerships for now and the long term.
We are focusing attention on geographies where we can consolidate donations and fill shipping containers. This has both cost efficiencies as well as a reduction in carbon emissions from transportation by using sea freight.
Currently, the Gulf region, and the UAE in particular, are our prime markets for retired laptops since the circular computing system there is not as mature as the West's and therefore opportune to capture. While we have been successful in the UAE, having sourced most of our laptops there, we are hitting dead ends sometimes as Thaki is not registered locally as a nonprofit entity. We continue to investigate the complex undertaking of making that happen as we understand the benefits it will bring to Thaki.
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Step 1: Export your data
First you need to export your data from Registration. See TODO for tips on doing this. Ensure that you have chipcodes in your registration data. Save the generated .csv file on your local disk.
Step 2: Import chipcodes.
First you need to import the chipcodes.
- Start T&S and create/open your event file
- Click Athletes
- Click Import Athletes
- Select File and select the file you've exported, select the delimiter and click Ok
- Now you should see a screen that allows you to map columns to the import file.
- You can map the fields from the Excel to T&S using this mapping:
ChipCode = Is Chipcode field
BibNumber = BIB
FirstName = FIRST_NAME
Gender = SEX
LastName = LAST_NAME
RaceDayAge = AGE
RaceName = RACE
Ensure that the Import checkmark is selected for all these fields.
- Click Import and verify mapping by pressing Ok.
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Confronting Death: Who Chooses? Who Controls? A Dialogue between Dax Cowart and Robert Burt http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/706/
1. Write A summary of the impact on social values, morals, norms, and nursing practice.
Appropriately identifies own position on issue, drawing support from lecture content, experience, and information beyond assigned sources. Integrates ethical theory and/or principle to substantiate position.
Case summary and position
The question of who chooses to live or to die in cases where the patient is in a bad condition is a complex question that raises numerous questions as to how far doctors and other caretakers can go in providing treatment to such a patient before allowing him to die. However, despite all the complexities associated with assisted euthanasia, it remains the patient’s decision as to whether he wants to live or to die (Werren, Yuksel & Smith, 2012). The medical professionals do not have a right to force certain treatments upon patients who are mentally competent, if such patients do not want to be treated because they have decided to die. Patients who want to choose assisted euthanasia should be fully apprised of their current condition and the treatment options available to them before being allowed to make their decision. It is important for a patient’s medical team to explore all the available options with the patient and to listen in order to address the patient’s main concerns about further treatment (Randall & Downie, 2010). For example, in Cowart’s case, the medical team would have been in a better position to convince him of the viability of treatment, if they had addressed his main concern about the excruciating pain he was going through.
The impact on social values, morals and norms
The medical profession and society at large has an unspoken belief that a patient’s life should be preserved at all costs, regardless of the patient’s wishes, until the point where no further measures can be taken to help the patient. However, this belief goes against the patient’s right to autonomy where a patient has the right to chose if he wants treatment, the type of treatment he wants, or if he wants to abandon treatment and die. This option is usually treated as a taboo subject as it is assumed that no person in their right mind would ever want to end their life, which as Dax Cowart has proven is not true. A patient in his right mind can decide to end his life for a variety of reasons and the medical professionals or his family should not take this decision away from him. It is an accepted norm within society that doctors and nurses should do everything in their power to save the lives of patients because it is the moral thing to do. However, assisted euthanasia challenges this norm by proposing that patients be allowed to choose whether they want to live or die (Varelius, 2013b). This proposition places the moral responsibility of living or dying on the patient and absolves society and other caregivers of the moral responsibility of preserving the patient’s life, especially if the patient wants to die.
Ethical theory that supports my position
At the heart of this debate lies the critical question of the right and freedom for a person to do whatever he desires with his life, which is a fundamental human right. In most cases where patients chose to die by undergoing assisted euthanasia, the patient is usually in excruciating pain or in a hopeless life situation whereby death might be a better alternative to living. In this regard, the medical professionals have the responsibility to determine if there is anything that can be done to alleviate the person’s suffering (Varelius, 2013a). However, if there is no medical remedy available and the patient is of competent mental state and has chosen to die, his wishes should be considered and granted. In such cases, allowing the patient to die relieves him of his pain and allows him to exercise his autonomy.
Randall, F., & Downie, R. (2010). Assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia: role contradictions for physicians. Clinical Medicine (London, England), 10(4), 323-325.
Varelius, J. (2013). Ending Life, Morality, and Meaning. Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, 16(3), 559-574.
Varelius, J. (2013). Voluntary euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, and the right to do wrong. HEC Forum: An Interdisciplinary Journal On Hospitals’ Ethical And Legal Issues, 25(3), 229-243.
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Incredible Pieces of Art Works at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, which was founded in 1972, features artwork from both international as well as regional artists. The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art strives to bring cutting-edge art from around the world and into its display. They have a vast collection spanning centuries, with pieces that are both modern in their make-up as well as historical – you’re sure to find something for everyone at this museum.
This museum of contemporary art in Boulder is a must-see for anyone who loves art. The galleries are filled with incredible pieces from around the world, and you can enjoy them without having to travel too far away from home.
If you’re an art lover who enjoys museum-quality exhibits, then the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts is worth checking out. This institute has numerous galleries and displays that will leave your jaw on floors.
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art has many fun programs for kids, educational workshops to help you learn more about the museum’s fascinating exhibits. They also offer ADA-accessible tours so that disabled visitors can enjoy their beautiful art tour with ease. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity if your family is looking forward to any place cool enough that they would love an art day trip together.
The BMoCA is a great place to spend some time looking through the many displays featuring skilled artists. You could spend hours just flipping through this museum, and you’ll want every minute dedicated fully when it comes down to what’s inside.
Situated at 1750 13th St, Boulder, CO 80302, USA, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is home to a vast collection that covers modern art from around the world. The museum offers guided tours for you or your family members who want more information on what they’re showcasing, as well as youth programs where kids can learn something new about their local culture through interactive exhibits and activities. For those looking forward to buying some souvenirs like books written by visiting artists at BMoCA – there’s even an amazing selection in store with top-of-trend gifts perfect for both adults and kids alike.
Therefore, in case you’re looking for a place to bring your family this weekend in Boulder, look no further than the Museum of Contemporary Art. It features fascinating works by famous artists like Picasso and Monet as well as photo galleries that will feed any imagination with thirst-quenching thoughts. Not only do they host fantastic events, but they also have an excellent children’s program that will keep kids entertained.
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Drone take off and vertical landing, or VTOL, has several major advantages over other types. There is also a trade-off, the Latvian-made Fixar designed to cope.
The VTOL took off and landed like a helicopter, become even faster and more efficient fixed-wing flight while sailing. This means that they don’t need a runway or launch a slingshot like a fixed-wing drone. They also use less power than the quadcopter in flight forwards – plus they reach their destination faster.
Typically, they have four (or more) horizontally-oriented propeller/motor units to move vertically, along with a vertically-orientated rear prop/motor that pushes the plane forward while sailing. However, once the drone enters a fixed-wing mode, all four vertical buffers are turned off, becoming dead weight and creating an aerodynamic style.
One alternative is to use electrically angled propellers from horizontal to vertical orientation, even though this adds to the mechanical complexity, weight, and power usage. Instead, four Fixar mounts/motors are mounted onto a frame that swings forward and backward relative to the rest of the drone.
When taking off and landing, the skeleton sits horizontally parallel to the fuselage, enabling it to function as a quadcopter. However, it is time to fix the wings, the torque decreases in the front of buffer, and increases in the rear buffer. This causes the tilted frame to be passively forward and the attached propeller now sit vertically to the entire drone.
Consequently, only four (as opposed to five) propeller is needed, none of them is silent at all times, and no servos are required to tilt it. And because Fixar wings provide lift while moving, the motor does not need to work as hard as it is in the quadcopter when in the flight ahead.
We actually saw the same system before, in the Vogi Coriolis G drone, although it used more complex relationship settings.
Fixar’s representatives told us that their company drones had a maximum flight time is up to one hour, a top speed of 72 km/h (45 mph), a payload capacity of 2 kg (4.4 lb), and fully capable of autonomous aviation. The Price is about US $20,000.
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Howard County Receives 43 NACo Achievement Awards, the Most in Maryland
On May 16th, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced that Howard County received a record 43 Achievement Awards in 2022 from the National Association of Counties (NACo), the leading organization representing county-level government operations.
NACO Achievement Awards recognize innovative and transformative programs that provide new services for county residents, improve existing programs, upgrade working conditions, and enhance citizen participation and public policymaking.
“Our dedicated Howard County employees and partners have demonstrated their commitment to innovation to serve our community,” County Executive Ball said. “Every program and initiative that received recognition reflects the solutions that Howard County government staff have brought to the toughest challenges.”
Howard County received more NACO awards than any other county in Maryland. Of the 43 awards, six were for projects spearheaded by the Office of Community Sustainability. Winning projects and programs include:
- EV Infrastructure and Greening the Fleet: Moving to an all-electric county fleet to reduce greenhouse gasses.
- Innovative Solar Power Expansion: Largest power purchase agreement in the state of Maryland.
- Plastic Reduction and Environmental Protection: Program to reduce the prevalence of plastics.
- Removing Barriers to Solar Energy: Assisting conversions to renewable energy sources.
- Roving RadishMarketplace: Increasing access to locally sourced healthy foods at reasonable prices.
- Howard County and Non-Profit Environmental Equity Partnership: Addressing climate change through partnerships.
Other winning awards relate to sustainability, such as the Department of Public Works’ Retro-Commissioning project, which reduces energy use through the renovation of mechanical systems within existing buildings, and the Bureau of Highway’s LED Street Light Conversion Program.
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NanoPubli: A look into nanotechnology offered to the public at large
Tiny great nanoparts
Our daily lives are influenced by tiny nanoparticles. These small units are present in such common products as artificial hip joints, metal cake containers, ties, bicycles or holograms, to name a few. At the recent Nano Publi Fair in St. Gallen, EMPA together with 13 Nanotechnology firms and organizations exhibited and expounded to students and the public at large the opportunities and risks of nanotechnology.
The NanoPubli Fair took place at the Olma Exhibition Halls in St. Gallen from September, 12 to 14, while a scientific conference on Nanotechnology was in progress next door. As in the previous NanoPubli Fair, various aspects of the ever booming nano research were reported, in an easy to understand manner, designed to inform a wider public.
An eye opener for opportunities and risks
Nano components with mega effects, and The hard disc possible with nano magnetism were two of the new topics about which information was presented by Empa experts. The various demonstration experiments were very popular, and more than 400 students and other visitors from the Eastern part of Switzerland could participate. One student from the St. Gallen Canton School who tried and failed to break a gossamer thin ceramic stick said:The Nano film we saw gave us a good background, and I now understand why I had no chance of breaking this ceramic rod. Afterwards, his curiosity aroused, he talked at length with Empa-expert Thomas Graule, about the nanostructure of the ceramic stick.
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In show presentations, the public could see several times a day how small a nanometer actually is. Peter Wick, the Empa expert, explained to the astounded audience, that the relation of a nanometer to the height of an average person is like the relation between that persons height and the size of the sun. In another experiment, the audience readily saw one of the many advantages of nanoparticles that can only be seen with the aid of a atomic force microscope: many small particles together have a larger surface than a large individual particle, and therefore react better chemically.
A demonstration with sugar was presented: while small powder sugar particles with their large surface dissolved instantly in water, the same amount of sugar in the form of one rock crystal with a smaller surface, remained solid for some minutes.
The discussions dealt not only with the opportunities presented by the new technology, but also with the risks thereof. Empa is a leader in research in this field as well, and at the NanoPubli Fair, Empa showed how, for example, it attempts to measure and determine risks posed by the effects of nanoparticles on biological materials.
Invisibly small and yet present everywhere
In addition to Empa, 13 nanotechnology firms and organizations also exhibited their products at the NanoPubli Fair. A manufacturer of kitchenware demonstrated how thanks to a coating by nanoparticles, cake tins need no longer be scrubbed; a proud Swiss textile entrepreneur showed his tie collection from which a stain made by salad oil can easily be washed off; at a bicycle makers display, one could see ultra light bicycles strengthened with nano particles, and yet another business man explained how with the aid of nano holograms he can be certain that currencies from 70 various countries are genuine.
The largest European conference
The NanoPubli Fair took place during the NanoEurope Fair & Conference. NanoEurope is the largest of its type in Europe and was organized for the fourth time by OLMA Messen St. Gallen and the Micro and Nanotechnology Center Euregio, Lake Constance(MNCB), an international nanotech professional center. This year, scientists from many countries discussed nano applications in medical technology, in the textile industry and in plastics. Another important discussion topic dealt with the legal regulations of nanotechnology.
The NanoPubli Fair was rated highly as part of the NanoEurope Fair & Conference. As Hanspeter Egli, the director of the OLMA said: The NanoPubli Fair is important because it disseminates knowledge in concrete form. Walter Muster, a member of Empas Board of Directors added: Nanotechnology sets new trends, for example in sport equipment, and holds a great potential for new professional opportunities. Therefore it is especially of great interest to young people about to embark on a career.
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Background: The startle reflex and its potentiation by aversive states was used as a possible vulnerability marker for anxiety disorders in adolescent offspring of parents with this condition.
Methods: The participants were 39 low-risk adolescents (16 male/23 female) with a parental history of no psychiatric disorder and 35 high-risk adolescents (18 male/17 female) with a parental history of anxiety disorders. The magnitude of startle was examined at baseline and during anticipation of an aversive stimulus (fear-potentiated startle).
Results: Startle was found to discriminate between children at high and low risk for anxiety disorders; however, different abnormalities for high-risk male and female subjects were observed. Startle levels, overall, were elevated among high-risk female subjects, whereas high-risk male subjects exhibited greater magnitude of startle potentiation during aversive anticipation.
Conclusions: Startle reactivity may serve as a vulnerability marker for the development of anxiety disorders. With its basic grounding in animal and human behavioral research, startle may enhance our understanding of the underlying neurobiological bases of human anxiety states. | <urn:uuid:16f67c38-ac98-495b-aff7-933777280936> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9821563/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96217 | 226 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Acute kidney damage (AKI) (previously called severe renal failing) is seen as a a reversible upsurge in the bloodstream focus of creatinine and nitrogenous waste material and by the shortcoming from the kidney to modify liquid and electrolyte homeostasis appropriately. Many interventions such as for example renal-dose dopamine and diuretic therapy have already been shown never to alter the span of AKI. The prognosis of AKI is usually highly Mouse monoclonal antibody to Pyruvate Dehydrogenase. The pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex is a nuclear-encoded mitochondrial multienzymecomplex that catalyzes the overall conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA and CO(2), andprovides the primary link between glycolysis and the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle. The PDHcomplex is composed of multiple copies of three enzymatic components: pyruvatedehydrogenase (E1), dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase (E2) and lipoamide dehydrogenase(E3). The E1 enzyme is a heterotetramer of two alpha and two beta subunits. This gene encodesthe E1 alpha 1 subunit containing the E1 active site, and plays a key role in the function of thePDH complex. Mutations in this gene are associated with pyruvate dehydrogenase E1-alphadeficiency and X-linked Leigh syndrome. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encodingdifferent isoforms have been found for this gene reliant on the root etiology from the AKI. Kids who have experienced AKI from any trigger are in risk for past due advancement of kidney disease many years after the preliminary insult. Restorative interventions in AKI have already been largely disappointing, most likely because of the complicated nature from the pathophysiology of AKI, the actual fact that this serum creatinine focus can be an insensitive way of measuring kidney function, and due to co-morbid elements in treated individuals. Improved knowledge of the pathophysiology of AKI, early biomarkers of AKI, and better classification of AKI are necessary for the introduction of effective therapeutic approaches for the treating AKI. risk for renal dysfunction, problems for the kidney, failing of kidney function, lack of kidney function, and end-stage renal disease) continues to be proposed like a standardized classification of severe kidney damage in adults and continues to be modified for pediatric individuals . The pediatric RIFLE (pRIFLE) was discovered to classify pediatric AKI better also to reveal the span of AKI in kids admitted towards the intense care device (ICU) . The pediatric RIFLE requirements seem to be quite appealing for better characterization of AKI and continues to be validated in kids; additional research are had a need to validate this classification further . Further validation and usage of pRIFLE requirements allows inter-center evaluations to be produced of AKI in kids. 84-26-4 manufacture 84-26-4 manufacture The RIFLE requirements are utilized with the Acute Kidney Damage Network (AKIN), which really is a band of adult nephrologists, pediatric nephrologists, important care doctors and societal agencies thinking about AKI analysis; the concentrate of AKIN is certainly to facilitate worldwide, interdisciplinary and intersociety collaborations to make sure progress in neuro-scientific AKI . AKI could be split into pre-renal damage, intrinsic renal disease, including vascular insults, and obstructive uropathies (find Desk?1). Some factors behind AKI, such as for example cortical necrosis and renal vein thrombosis, take place additionally in neonates, whereas HUS is certainly more prevalent in small children, and RPGN generally takes place in teenagers and adolescents. A significant reason behind AKI in neonates is certainly contact with maternal medications in utero that hinder nephrogenesis such as for example angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications [22C25]. The annals, physical evaluation, and laboratory exams such as for example urinalysis and radiographic research can establish the most likely trigger(s) of AKI. In most cases, such as for example AKI taking place in hospitalized 84-26-4 manufacture kids, multiple factors will tend to be implicated in the etiology of AKI. Pre-renal damage Pre-renal damage takes place when blood circulation towards the kidney is certainly reduced because of true intravascular quantity contraction or even to reduced effective bloodstream volume. Because the kidneys are intrinsically regular, pre-renal damage is certainly reversible after the bloodstream quantity and hemodynamic circumstances have already been restored on track. Prolonged pre-renal damage can lead to intrinsic AKI because of hypoxic/ischemic severe tubular necrosis (ATN). The progression of pre-renal problems for intrinsic renal damage is not unexpected, and many compensatory systems maintain renal perfusion when renal hemodynamics aren’t optimum. When renal perfusion is certainly affected, the afferent arterioles loosen up their vascular build to diminish renal vascular level of resistance and keep maintaining renal blood circulation. During renal hypoperfusion, the intrarenal era of vasodilatory prostaglandins, including prostacyclin, mediates vasodilatation from the renal microvasculature to keep renal perfusion. Administration of cyclo-oxygenase inhibitors such as for example aspirin or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications can inhibit this compensatory system and precipitate severe renal insufficiency . Likewise, when renal perfusion pressure is certainly low, such as renal artery stenosis, the intraglomerular pressure essential to drive filtration is certainly, in. | <urn:uuid:460e00bf-b43b-466a-9b82-94718764abe8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://stopvivisection.info/acute-kidney-damage-aki-previously-called-severe-renal-failing-is-seen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.916476 | 1,224 | 2.5625 | 3 |
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