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Canada Is Going To Compel YouTube TikTok And The Other Streamers To Boost Their Domestic Content.
Canada is going to compel YouTube, TikTok and the other streamers to boost their domestic content in a bid to bring in their own regulations off the back of the EU legislation. Their government says that there are measures needed to foster growth in the domestic culture sector and to make Canadian content more accessible.
This sets a precedent for other countries. Perhaps the US will be next to follow along with other leading countries outside of the EU and Canada. The YouTube channel for one of our clients started ranking on the first page of Google for many targeted terms and following this, their Maps listing then actually improved positions as well. Google may be treating the YouTube subscribers as high authority backlinks because you are getting a high quantity of new subscribers, engagement and traffic. Both Google and YouTube know the subscriber is likely real, so there is little risk of the traffic being spam compared to say a directory link. At the same time as this improvement in Map ranks, there was no improvement in the ratings, nor the number of reviews on Google Maps when their Google Maps listings started to improve. The only major change was the focus on their YouTube strategy.
This legislation affects Netflix and Hulu as well, so it is also the streaming channels that the Canadians are also looking to regulate.
Facebook's Parent Meta Agrees To End Alleged Discriminatory Practices In Housing Ads
Facebook’s parent, Meta, has agrees to end alleged discriminatory practices in housing ads. The US government has claimed that Facebook Ads discriminated against Facebook users based on their race, religion, gender, and other factors.
Why Is This An Issue?
Because they are federally protected attributes, you cannot discriminate against people at all. Based on the allegations made, Facebook was being investigated for discriminating against people based on their race, religion, gender, etc.
How Would You Do That As An Advertiser?
Facebook’s algorithm is trying to show the most suitable Ads to users that are most likely to convert. However, it has ended up being inadvertently discriminatory by race, religion, etc.
We believe that the financial outcome for Facebook is an increase in their advertising revenues. Users will be shown less relevant ads. In my opinion, it’s a lose-lose situation for society despite the best of intentions.
Is There Anything Advertisers Can Do About This To Protect Themselves?
If Facebook decides they are going to remove the targeting from ads, you are going to serve more ‘generic ads’ to more ‘generic people’, because that way, advertisers will obviously sell less, and spend more. You will still be able to add audiences and targeting to reduce the number of irrelevant people, but it might become more difficult to really personalize.
What About Advertisers Increasing the Uploading Of Goal-Driven Offline Conversions?
Jobs and homes that this legislation targets are not going to usually complete online. However, you can bet Facebook have so many data points that they could remove contentious demographic markers and still get to the same conclusion of whether a person is going to convert better than someone else.
It should be highlighted that there is no actual ad demographic specifically targeting for race or religion. Therefore you would have to be stereotyping and employing audiences that include such groups.
Who Are Going To Be The Winners And Losers In This Action?
Advertisers will lose as you cannot target as effectively, and you will be charged at least as much, or more for poorer targeting. Facebook will likely make more money.
What Will Happen To Performance Max On Google Shopping?
This leads us to more questions than answers when it comes to how these government actions may affect other platforms. Are regulators saying that jobs and housing are special areas in terms of discrimination with algorithms allowed to discriminate generally in other areas?
How is Google going to deal with this? We have also not seen anything on this issue affecting LinkedIn. That will be an obvious place for this same issue given how focused LinkedIn is on jobs.
In terms of the Department of Justice, we do not see any mention of other social networks being targeted. Many retailers have far less Caucasian models than previously seen, yet how reflective are models to individual customers? Some argue that many websites are now unrepresentative of the demographic split in the UK.
Let’s say you are trying to match an ad for clothing or makeup to the typical user. Are governments going to say “Well, actually, we don’t care if it’s relevant? What about products that are not appropriate for your skin type? There have been a few startups that have focused on makeup for non-Caucasians because commonly makeup shades are not effectively catering for non-white, fair skin.
Similarly, if you cannot afford to buy a great big, luxury home somewhere, aren’t you going to be miffed that you are being served ads for such a residence rather than ones that are relevant?
Also, if you live in an area where you are known to have big houses, and they are serving smaller properties to you, again, you are going to have a lack of relevance there and the user experience is going to be poor.
We seem to be returning towards the old world of three TV channels of generic content!
YouTube Shorts Is A Huge Hit In India, And Now It's Going After Tik Tok In The US.
YouTube shorts is now competing with TikTok in terms of the total number of views
According to the WSJ: “Social media users create full-screen videos that often make use of clips from popular songs and incorporate dazzling video effects like filters that can digitally apply makeup or put a user’s face on the body of a panda. YouTube said this week that shorts that allow users to post videos for up to 60 seconds are reaching 1.5 billion monthly users.”
We have tried this with some of our gym videos where you might get 50 views and we’re regularly seeing 1600 to 2000 view on shorts by comparison. The number of views you get with Short video content is extremely impressive! These short videos are also showing on google search, so it’s a very effective way to drive organic traffic to your business.
Who Is YouTube Shorts Good For? Just People With Short Attention Spans?
With YouTube shorts let’s say you’re posting educational content and there’s an obvious under 1-minute hook section, that makes them want to see more and subscribe to your channel. This is what YouTube Shorts are really for.
Does YouTube Shorts Cost Anything?
YouTube Shorts is mostly free, although ads started rolling out last month. Reels are now the fastest growing content of Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms, so it’s just tremendous growth across all these short-form videos regardless of the platform in question. | <urn:uuid:31714c1c-1ca8-4d78-b9fa-e450421bfa61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dreamagility.com/2022/06/24/whats-in-the-wall-street-journal-and-ft-this-week-that-relates-to-us-in-the-uk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952828 | 1,431 | 1.789063 | 2 |
“To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.” – bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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October is the perfect month to take a closer look at spiders! Try this Quick and Simple spider craft. Perfect follow up to the singing of Itsy Bitsy Spider!
- Black construction paper
Glue an old advertising magnet to the back of the spider to make a refrigerator toy.
Watch the busy spider,
He’s helpful as can be,
Eating insects all day long
Now they won’t bite me.
The itsy-bitsy spider,
Climbed up the water spout.
Down came the rain,
And washed the spider out.
Out came the sun,
And dried up all the rain,
And the itsy-bitsy spider,
Climbed up the spout again
The world is home to more than 30,000 species of spiders. They live practically everywhere. Spiders can be found from high atop mountains to deep in caves. They can be seen in deserts, swamps, and even underwater!
- Spiders are carnivorous organisms.
- The scientific name for spiders is Arachnid. They were named after a Greek maiden named Arachne. It is said that she was a great weaver.
- Spiders are made of two main body parts – head/thorax and abdomen
- A spider’s eight legs are attached to its head/thorax
- Most Spiders have eight eyes – some have only six
- Spiders make silk inside their body. The silk is used to make webs, hold eggs, and escape from predators. | <urn:uuid:2d945d50-dfdb-4587-8735-8d3894bd8650> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://schoolhousetoys.com/simple-spiders/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.932705 | 361 | 3.203125 | 3 |
I can write something myself by finding zero-crossings of the first derivative or something, but it seems like a common-enough function to be included in standard libraries. Anyone know of one?
My particular application is a 2D array, but usually it would be used for finding peaks in FFTs, etc.
Specifically, in these kinds of problems, there are multiple strong peaks, and then lots of smaller "peaks" that are just caused by noise that should be ignored. These are just examples; not my actual data:
The peak-finding algorithm would find the location of these peaks (not just their values), and ideally would find the true inter-sample peak, not just the index with maximum value, probably using quadratic interpolation or something.
Typically you only care about a few strong peaks, so they'd either be chosen because they're above a certain threshold, or because they're the first n peaks of an ordered list, ranked by amplitude.
As I said, I know how to write something like this myself. I'm just asking if there's a pre-existing function or package that's known to work well.
I translated a MATLAB script and it works decently for the 1-D case, but could be better.
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“How does solar energy work when there’s no sun?” is a simple question that cuts right to the core of a pretty huge idea.
It’s the type of question that brought solar energy from an obscure experiment to a feasible source of electricity that powers millions of homes around the world.
Solar farms are power-plant-scale versions of this concept.
They can be built in the middle of a desert where the sun is incredibly powerful and cloudy days are rare. The panels can even pivot automatically to follow the sun’s path across the sky.
After the panels attract as much energy as they can, the energy is transported to nearby cities. There’s a solar farm in Austin, Texas, that produces enough power for 5,000 homes and offsets over 1 billion pounds of carbon dioxide emissions.
Oh and, yes, solar panels can still collect energy on cloudy days. They’re just not as efficient about it.
That’s because clouds don’t block all the sunlight, just some of it. If you walk outside on a cloudy day and can still see, that’s because there’s still sunlight, even if it’s a bit more muted than usual.
That’s where storage and the grid comes in. Energy companies rely on the grid to offset any dip in production they might experience on a cloudy day.
“All of the reputable solar panel producers calculate out that it takes 20 to 30 years of weather data based on region,” Whitson said. “So they can predict how much sun you’re going to get throughout the course of a year. Most predictions are taking into consideration that it’s not going to be sunny every day.”
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For most Andover homeowners, the garbage disposal is an essential kitchen convenience. Food preparation and cooking become much easier when peelings and scraps can just be whisked into the sink and down the drain.
There are a number of common misconceptions about humidity and air conditioning and how one affects the other. In truth, humidity is a major part of the discomfort we feel when the mercury rises. It can be 78 degrees outside but feel miserable...
Humidity is a big problem for a some families in Anoka. When not properly controlled, excess humidity can lead to damage to your furniture, excess mold growth and dust mites. In the warmer months of the year, this is a big problem. Fortunately, if you have recently had a heat pump installation, you have a strong weapon against excess humidity.
Homeowners in Linwood all want to save money on household expenses and utility bills. We turn off lights when we leave the room, take shorter showers and make sure the kids don’t keep the refrigerator door open. These small habits help, but still we all want to save a little wherever we can, right?
A geothermal heating system in your East Bethel home has three basic components and some add-on ones as well. Its most distinguishing feature is the ground loops. The most common is the “closed” ground loop system...
One of the biggest problems many families face with indoor air quality in their Fridley home is the ever persistent presence of allergens. Especially if you have pets or plants, allergens will be in your home from the day you move in.
There are developments being made in air conditioning just about every day, as you can see in Hopkins. This is a huge business, and so manufacturers are constantly trying to outdo each other as it is their only way to compete for customers. Energy efficiency is one of the main selling points for any air conditioning system. For that reason, manufacturers are constantly working to come up with new and better models. The most advanced air conditioning systems on the market have energy efficiency ratings that by far surpass what was available even ten years ago and it is only going to keep getting better.
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9 Copywriting Tips for Digital Marketers
Copywriting is an essential part of any digital marketing strategy. You can use it for various marketing purposes, including blogs, ad copy, landing pages, and other initiatives that support your business goals. Ultimately, it should prompt readers to purchase one of your products or services. Copywriting typically follows a specific structure by developing content that attracts and interests readers while addressing their pain points. It should always include a call to action (CTA) that encourages readers to make a decision. Follow these 9 copywriting tips to strategically develop, refine, and publish content that builds brand recognition and increases conversions.
1. Write with a Purpose
Before you start writing copy, you should understand the objectives, including your target audience and which marketing channels you’re going to distribute it on. Understanding who’s going to read your content and in what context will determine the relevance of your marketing copy.
2. Create Catchy Headlines
You only have a few seconds to catch a reader’s attention, so headlines will ultimately determine whether someone reads a piece of your content. Your headline should be useful, urgent, unique, and ultra-specific. It’s essential to understand your audience, so you can use language that appeals to them. Creating headlines that inform or provide a solution can help catch the reader’s attention. Additionally, you should optimize your headline for SEO. Using numbers in your headline, specifically odd ones, can help your content rank higher in search engines.
3. Use the Power of Storytelling
Customers aren’t looking for products, but solutions and emotions can help guide their decision-making. The power of storytelling will evoke an emotional response from your audience, encouraging them to read your entire piece of content. Additionally, it will help your audience better understand your product and its meaning. Embedding a solution into a narrative that consumers can emotionally connect with will help inform your audience’s decision.
4. Organize Your Ideas
The organization is critical to your content’s success. For effective copywriting, you should use headings and subheadings and organize the copy in a logical progression that makes sense to the reader. Headings and subheadings help break up your content, so your audience can easily determine which sections interest them. Your content should be long enough to cover the topic but short enough to keep the reader engaged. Bullet points are also an excellent way to spread your ideas and highlight important information when writing copy.
5. Make it Clear and Concise
Don’t overwhelm your audience with large blocks of text. Writing copy with shorter paragraphs is an effective tactic that will help keep your readers engaged. Keeping your content concise while still covering crucial information will give your audience everything they need to inform their decision.
6. Be Persuasive
Once you draw your audience’s attention, it’s essential to inform them of what to do with the information. A strong CTA will persuade readers to learn more about your company, engage in a discussion, or purchase your products or services.
7. Keep it Relevant
Every digital marketer knows that you can’t write copy that sells if it doesn’t speak to your audience. Your prospects and existing customers should inform your copy. Combining your copy with a personalized touch that meets users where they are in the sales funnel, can help make your content more appealing. It’s also essential to address your audience’s interests and pain points. Effective copywriting combines intention with best SEO writing practices.
8. Use Statistics and Links
Relevant facts, statistics, and links provide evidence that supports your copy, positioning yourself as a trustworthy thought leader in your industry. However, it’s essential not to throw out stats without context to support them. Make sure to link to authoritative sites. This encourages other websites to cite your content and can help improve your search engine rankings.
9. Proofread Your Copy
Reading your copy aloud can help you determine how well it delivers the message to your audience. It also allows you to check your grammar and paragraph readability, so your content doesn’t sound sloppy. Reading it over can give you a competitive edge and help your brand shine. However, it’s easy to overlook these mistakes when reading your content. Therefore, having someone else read it or using tools such as Grammarly can help you spot any errors and polish your content.
Digital marketing copywriting is an essential tool that will make or break your content strategy. Following these copywriting tips will help improve your content and help you remain relevant among your prospects and existing customers. Additionally, you should continually develop your skills by following copywriting best practices and monitoring your efforts. These copywriting tips will help you serve your audience better and meet your content marketing goals. | <urn:uuid:e3510f53-a415-401f-98a5-e37fa8e6d790> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://astute.co/9-copywriting-tips-for-digital-marketers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.921124 | 1,000 | 1.625 | 2 |
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Have you been stuck on a problem for ages and don’t know how to solve it? Do you desperately want to fight climate change, but don’t know where to start? The problem might be in how you are approaching the problems, and “Think Like a Freak” could provide the answers. Thinking like a freak means reframing the problem, retraining your brain, and getting that “aha” moment you’ve been waiting for. So, get ready to learn how to think like a freak!
Most of us will always put our personal interests first, and the benefits to society last. While we may pretend to look out for society first when directly asked about it, how we behave in a situation is usually determined by the personal benefit we gain from it. So how can you get people to go beyond their individual interests and work towards a common, greater good?
It’s as easy as changing the way we think about problems. We need to think more productively, creatively, and rationally, especially in today’s ever-evolving, increasingly complex world. Thinking like a freak requires us to approach problems with an unbiased, clear mind, and a new set of expectations. It requires us to step back from and question conventional wisdom.
Just because two events happen at the same time, doesn’t mean there is a causality. And conventional wisdom such as “quitters never win” have been proven wrong by people brave enough to question commonly held beliefs. Thinking like a freak is inspired by an economic approach: it relies on data rather than on ideology, or the so-called “moral compass” to allow you to approach a problem in an unbiased way.
The first step to approaching a problem with a clear mind is to admit that you don’t know everything. This is incredibly difficult, as it often connects individuals to feelings of shame. But blatantly pretending to know everything can have dire effects for entire societies.
The so-called experts of our time – politicians, scientists, investors, meteorologists – don’t know everything. Studies have shown that these experts, when trying to predict the future, have an overall accuracy rate of 47.4%. You’d get better odds by flipping a coin.
And this “not-knowing-but-doing-it-anyway” strategy can have terrible effects in real life. Just consider the Iraq war. It was based on the assumption that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was cooperating with al-Qaeda. The war cost the U.S. $800 billion and 4,500 lives, not to mention the more than 100,000 fatalities on the Iraqi side – and could have probably been prevented if just one leader had simply admitted that they didn’t know for sure if Saddam Hussein posed a threat.
Another reason why so many people are convinced by what they know is because of their moral compass. When we believe in the rightness or wrongness of an issue, the discussion often gets side-tracked from the actual issue. So put away your moral compass to accurately deal with an issue clearly. Only once you admit that you don’t know everything can you start investigating a problem at its true source.
It might be hard to admit that you don’t have all the answers, so it’s probably even harder to admit that you don’t even know the question. Think about a problem you’d like to see solved, such as the climate crisis. Now, how did you come to define the problem as you see it? It’s likely that the popular press has had a strong influence on how you see this particular issue.
This can often obscure the view of the actual problem, the authors say: “Whatever problem you’re trying to solve, make sure you’re not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that happens to capture your attention. Before spending all your time and resources, it’s incredibly important to properly define the problem—or, better yet, redefine the problem.”
Consider the example of Kobi, a young, skinny, Japanese college student who entered a hot dog eating competition in 2000. Obviously, he wasn’t seen as a threat by the other competitors. But not only did he win the competition, he doubled the previous record by eating 50 hot dogs in just 12 minutes! How had he managed to do this?
Simple: before starting the competition, Kobi had reframed the problem. Most competitors approached the competition by eating the hot dogs in the conventional way. Kobi decided to try a different technique - he separated buns and sausages, allowing him to eat them much more quickly. Kobi’s example doesn’t only show that it can be useful to redefine a problem, but also to think critically about the limits we accept.
Redefining a problem means thinking about what causes it. An interesting example is the following: In the early 1990s, there was a staggering fall in U.S. crime rates. By looking at conventional factors that might have caused this - such as people in prison at the time and a fall in drug use - the drop in crime could still not be explained.
It was only when researchers reframed the problem that the answer became clear: the drop in crime was actually a result of the legalization of abortion in the 1970s. There were simply fewer children who had grown up in the circumstances that lead to crime, as abortion had become an option for unwanted pregnancies.
So, how can you succinctly approach and define a problem? The answer is: to think like a freak, you have to think like a child. Children’s thinking is defined by a relentless curiosity and relative impartiality. When faced with new problems, children keep an open mind and approach the problem from different angles.
To do this, think small, rather than big. The big problems have been around for such a long time because they are highly complex and difficult to solve. So instead, focus on the small ones. These are questions that have not likely been asked before, and will provide excellent grounds for learning. You are also more likely to instigate change on a small issue. “Thinking big” on the other hand, involves imprecision and guesswork.
Thinking like a child also involves not being scared of the obvious. If we go back to the abortion example, the U.S. recorded about 1.6 million abortions a year after the law had passed. Most people, reading this number, would immediately jump to the political ramifications, But the more obvious answer would be to think, “Wow, such a great increase must have had an effect on something!”
Finally, thinking like a freak also means having fun! Children are unstoppable in their pursuit of fun. And looking serious doesn’t necessarily mean you’re good at what you do, so enjoy what you’re doing! The authors used this approach in an attempt to raise money for charity. Since so many people enjoy gambling anyways, they created an online spinning game where winnings could be donated to a favorite charity. It proved to be much more effective than using guilt or persuasion.
People respond to incentives, so it’s important to find out what these are. Successful problem-solving includes knowing what motivates the individual players. This can range from financial to social, moral, and legal incentives and will have different effects on different people.
To find out what motivates another person, you must step into their minds and try to understand them. It’s not as easy as simply asking – because often we say one thing and do another. This, in economics, is known as the declared preferences and the revealed preferences, and to truly understand what incentives would work on another person, you should watch the gap between the two.
Studies can also give an idea of how incentives work. Psychologist Robert Cialdini, tried to find out what would motivate people to use less electricity at home. They ranked their incentives as such: 1. Protecting the environment, 2. Benefiting society, 3. Saving money, and 4. Other people are doing it. When following up on this, it became clear that most people would conserve energy because others did so as well.
Contrary to what people might say, herd mentality seems to be a strong motivator for many. When designing an incentive scheme, you can make use of this knowledge by highlighting how others are doing the same thing.
Knowing about incentives will also help in identifying liars. Take the example of King Solomon from the Bible. There is a story where two women come to him and the first woman says that the second one has stolen her baby because hers died. The second woman claims it is her baby. King Solomon then says that he will just cut the baby in half, since none will let the other have it.
The first woman begs for the life of the child, saying the second woman can have it, while the second woman says nothing. To which King Solomon gives the baby to the first woman, as only a real mother could be so distressed at the thought of the death of the child - only she had the right incentive.
It is always hard to persuade others of your position. No matter how well-founded your argument may be, people will always be more likely to accept evidence and arguments that confirm what they already know.
Take climate change, for example. Even though most climate scientists are convinced of the future dire effects of the current climate emergency, the subject still sparks a great amount of controversy. Interestingly, it is not lay people who are likely to disagree with the experts, but rather those who have the highest scientific literacy and numerical ability. Since they are knowledgeable, they are more likely to disagree, as their education has led them to think they know everything.
So, if you want to build an argument that convinces others, here’s what you have to do: admit that you don’t know everything. This will make you more believable when you actually claim to know something. Don’t pretend your argument is perfect. Also, acknowledge the strength of the other person’s argument. This makes your opponent more likely to engage with what you have to say.
It might seem like a no-brainer, but don’t insult the other person, no matter how strongly you feel on the subject. A study on German school teachers - who are more likely to retire early than those in other professions - linked their retirement to poor mental health. It also found out that this poor mental health was caused by verbal insults from the students.
Finally, to get the other person to really listen to you, frame your argument as a story. Stories are much easier to engage with and much more remembered than factual arguments.
Thinking like a freak requires you to completely reframe your mind. Get rid of conventional wisdom and your moral compass and focus on the actual problem. What causes it? What are the motivational factors? Start small and have fun on the way!
“Think Like a Freak” is a bestselling book and is filled to the brim with interesting examples and fun stories. If you want to retrain your brain, read it!
Find a small problem you want to solve and then try and think about it unconventionally – what causes the problem, what are the incentives involved?
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MBA in Sports Management can lead you to a treasure trove!
Why MBA in Sports Management?
The reason is simple MBA in Sports Management is an emerging field. You may not be an early bird, but you are not too late.
Now, to obtain an MBA, you must enroll in an approved MBA college. To do that, you must crack the CMAT/Mat/GMAT/CAT. Since other popular streams of an MBA course like Finance, HR, etc., are overcrowded, and unless you are pass out of an institution of repute, the prospect of job placement is bleak. And of course, you know that an almost 100 percentile score in CAT can ensure your entry to a big Institution. It's too much demanding.
However, if your choice is Sports Management, the entry-level competition is less demanding.
Is Sports Management is an easy go for MBA aspirants?
The answer is an emphatic 'NO.' Remember, you are pursuing a post-graduate degree/diploma, and it implies that you will acquire knowledge at the Masters' level. And there is no known easy course at the Master's level. However, the entry-level competition is not that stiff. And the buck stops there. Thence, you must prove your mettle.
If you are not a sports enthusiast and deeply love sports events, and ready to travel a lot, Sports Management is not your forte.
If you run for a professional degree/diploma, you must delve deep into the subject. Moreover, the course can cost you anything between 1.80 K to a million bucks in India. And ROI will depend on your final score. Every MBA course is a do-or-die affair.
If you fit the bill, let's move on.
What is the scope of the course?
The course will cover event management of all types of sports. It will train you up about different aspects of sports management, from concept level to implementation. You will understand the importance and the role of every stakeholder. The course objective is to equip the students with the real-world scenario of event management. The training will help to face the challenge with the necessary skill and professional precision.
Another field of training is the use of technology in sports. The use of technology in sport is nothing new. But the application of AI (artificial intelligence) and DL (deep learning) has changed the perspective of strategy-analysis in a big way. The computer applications made the life of strategy-planners, event-managers, and sports marketing personals life easy. But it needs a learning process for optimal use of the application. The course offers hands-on training and study of live cases to understand the subject through and through.
You will also learn the nuances of Sports Marketing. Marketing is the life-blood of every business. In a market where demand by far exceeds the supply, you may ignore the marketing part. Unfortunately, it's a rarity. Therefore, you must understand the nitty-gritty of the Sports Marketing world. And there are different segments in the sports world, for which you must plan a different strategy to market your company. Planning for a sponsor to fund a club-event depends on the client's profile. So, the learning curve is stiff. Marketing skill is a dynamic feature. The strategy to market an item changes with socio-economic changes. Naturally, it demands continuous learning. The course on Sports Marketing trains you up, what to learn and how to improvise your stratagem.
The career Prospect
An MBA in Sports Managementhas excellent career prospects. The field is still a virgin, rather greenfield. That does not ease your growth path in any way but may give you enough time to hone your skills.
To attain a commanding position, you must acquire the skill of thinking out of the box. Like a game of chase, you must out-think your competitor. And unlike the game of chase, the rule of play may change anytime due to unforeseen circumstances. Who thought of the Covid-19 pandemic? The devastation it caused, or its impact on the social life all over the world! But the leader must take the disadvantage in its stride and transpose it to his advantage.
The course includes guest lecturers and leading experts from the field. There will be interactive sessions with the market leaders. The training is invaluable and helps you to expand your vision.
As explained, the course offers an exciting career path. Since the field is not yet overcrowded, entry to the golden gateway is comparatively easy. Therefore, if you are ready to take the pain of the grinding training, take the plunge. Always remember the maxim, 'there is no shortcut to the glory.' A professional course is a tough race. Like a gladiator, you must curve your path to liberty. There is little scope to copy and paste.
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Psychotherapy is a journey you take toward self-improvement and understanding with a trained professional who can help you identify and address mental health, behavioral, and emotional issues that prevent you from living the life you want to live.
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During individual therapy, you learn about your your moods, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. Individual therapy helps you learn how to take control of your life, develop insight, and respond to challenging situations with healthy coping skills.
Group therapy is a type of psychotherapy that involves one or more therapists working with several people at the same time, each of whom shares common goals and challenges.
Working in a group provides many advantages:
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He volunteers at a variety of places, enjoying the different experiences, and has no idea what his Assignment will be. Today, he goes to the House of the Old, where he notices Asher’s bike is parked. In the bathing room, he gives a bath to an elderly woman.
Where does Jonas spend his volunteer hours what does he do what do you learn in the giver?
” Jonas decides to join his friends and signs in with the woman at the front desk. She gives him the sign-up sheet so that ”his volunteer hours would be carefully tabulated at the Hall of Open Records. ” This careful monitoring of volunteer hours emphasizes how closely citizens in the community are watched.
Where does Jonas volunteer at?
At the beginning of Chapter 4, Jonas finds his friends, Asher and Fiona, volunteering in the House of the Old, which is like a present-day nursing home. He volunteers there also. In the House of the Old, the community’s elderly people live while awaiting their release.
Where were Jonas Fiona and Asher spending their volunteer hours at the beginning of Chapter 4?
“Let’s see. Asher and Fiona are helping in the bathing room.
Why doesn’t Jonas spend his volunteer hours with Asher?
Why doesn’t Jonas typically spend his volunteer hours with Asher? The elders forbid best friends to spend their hours together. Asher lives too far away from Jonas. The elders suggested that they spend some time apart from each other.
Where does Fiona spend her volunteer hours?
Where did Asher and Fiona work? They worked in the House of Old.
How is volunteering different in the giver?
Volunteering is the first step toward the assignment, which is the ushering into adulthood. Once the children get their assignments, they begin their training and no longer volunteer. The assignment itself symbolizes, quite dramatically, the end of childhood.
What was the task that Jonas was helping with?
He is given the task of helping to bathe an old woman named Larissa. Jonas does not balk at the task like most eleven year olds would. He is gentle and caring when helping her into the bath. Jonas also learns about the Ceremony of Release during the bath.
What volunteer work did Asher Fiona and Jonas do together in the book The Giver?
4-5 Who had an exiciting life? Chp. 4-5 What volunteer work did Asher, Fiona, and Jonas do together? Chp.
How did Benjamin spend his volunteer hours?
Benjamin is the Eleven who has spent most of his volunteer hours at the Rehabilitation Center where injured people are treated. Because of his experience there, Benjamin is said to be as skilled as the Directors at the Center, and his Assignment will most likely be at the Rehabilitation Center.
Why does Jonas spend most of his volunteer hours at multiple places instead of just once place?
Jonas volunteers in many different places around the community instead of gravitating toward one role. He evidently enjoys the rare opportunity to choose how to spend his time and appreciates the freedom to experience the different roles.
Why did Larissa laugh at Jonas’s words?
4, why did Larissa “chortle with laughter” and “hoot” at Jonas’s words words? … They were laughing because their parents had said the same thing about bathing the old. They were laughing because they enjoyed working in the House of the Old.
What excited Jonas volunteer hours?
Jonas enjoys volunteer hours because they are less regulated than other hours of his day—he gets to choose where he spends them. He volunteers at a variety of places, enjoying the different experiences, and has no idea what his Assignment will be.
Where does Lily decide to start her volunteer hours?
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In this essay, Hayek, Polanyi, Smith, and Keynes’s views on the harmony of the market will be examined.
Although Hayek is liberal, he thinks differently from classical liberals on many issues. He thinks that in their economic system, the state intervenes in the market too much. State intervention is very harmful to the market because once the state intervenes in the market, its intervention will increase day by day. The state will try to dominate all areas of life in order to organize the market. This situation will cause the state to turn into a totalitarian regime like Nazism over time. According to him, individuals are very important for the market. They are the foundation of the economy. If the state does not intervene in the market, creative entrepreneurs will emerge among these individuals, and they will solve the problems in the economy.
Also, according to him, the market has a complex structure. The intervention of the state in the market can easily disrupt this complex structure. Furthermore, the market is individual choices and decentralized and it has a complex structure thanks to factors. In other words, he advocates a decentralized structure in which the individual stands out instead of community decisions. In addition, it does not exclude the state from the market completely. Governors should know and know the market very well. They should know when to intervene in the market. Also, he claims that a market is an unequal place. However, he says that this inequality will be eliminated not by the intervention of the state, but by the individuals in time. Finally, according to him, although there are many problems in the market, the market is a harmonic place. The problems in the market will also be solved by individuals over time, but if the state intervenes in the market to solve the conflicts, the structure of the market will be disrupted, and very big problems will occur.
Adam Smith is known as the father of modern economics. His ideas played a very important role in shaping the modern economy. According to him, the market occurred in an evolutionary and natural way. Therefore, the market naturally has a harmonic structure. This harmonic structure becomes possible thanks to some factors. Firstly, all individual workers want to maximize profit. These individual efforts affect the society in a very positive way. In addition, the efforts of individuals to maximize their profits do not conflict with each other. Namely, these actions are like an invisible hand. Also, it also removes the inequalities in the market over time. That is, it coordinates different classes with each other.
Secondly, he calls society commercial, and petit bourgeoises have a very important place in this society. They profit and get richer, and because they get richer, society gets richer. Also, Smith dislikes nobles because he doesn't think they can maximize their profits and benefit the market like petit bourgeoises. Thirdly, he sees the division of labour as a crucial factor for the market, so professions should be more specialize. If professions are specialized in a society; production is done faster and more effectively. If an artisan does each process of a job alone, it takes quite a while to finish the job. Furthermore, Adam Smith thinks that virtue is also very important. Especially the feeling of sympathy is the feeling at the foundation of society according to him. This feeling creates a distance between people in the commercial society. People don't think too much about other people, and they focus on their own work and try to improve it. Hence, he thinks that a market is a harmonic place and every individual can work and become rich thanks to the market.
Keynes thinks that the market is not an egalitarian and harmonic place. According to him, if state intervention in the market is limited, totalitarian governments may emerge over time. That is, the market creates conflict. In order to resolve this conflict, the state must intervene in the market in many ways.
Firstly, it is very important to coordinate long-term investments and socialize the investment. Thanks to these, the market becomes more certain. Therefore, Keynes sees the market as uncertain and the uncertain market does not give confidence to the investor. However, if the government turns this uncertain market into a safe one, investors will invest more comfortably. Also, human is a social creatures. Especially in times of crisis, he can act excessively irrational because of society. Namely, these factors make the market more unstable and more confrontational.
Furthermore, Polanyi claims that the market is not in a natural way. According to him, the market was formed over time with the intervention of the state. This market is based on 3 fictious commodity: labour, land and money. According to him, these should not actually be commodities. For example, money is an exchange tool, but in a market economy, money has value due to interest rates. He thinks that these three commodities will cause many economic crises. Then thinks that these economic crises will lead to the formation of totalitarian governments. Hence, the market naturally does not have a harmonic structure. It causes conflicts.
Finally, four scientists think quite differently about the harmony of the market. While Adam Smith thinks that the market will cause harmonic, Polanyi thinks that the market is not harmonic. Keynes thinks that government intervention will make the market harmonic, but Hayek argues that government intervention will be quite bad for the market.
Polanyi, Karl. 1945. Origins of Our Time: The Great Transformation. London: V. Gollancz.
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. 2003. Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-Form. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Hayek, Friedrich a. 2015. The Road to Serfdom. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
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Happy British Science Week everyone! Scottish Friendly Children’s Book Tour is celebrating all things Science by heading to Inverclyde, West Lothian and Dundee with the exciting author Christiane Dorion. If you’d like to follow our progress while on tour and learn some fascinating facts you can follow us on Twitter by searching #HowTheWorldWorksTour
To celebrate British Science Week and Christiane’s upcoming tour we are giving away a signed and dedicated copy of her interactive and insightful new pop-up book How the World Began..
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According to Christiane’s book, how did the world begin?
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About Christiane Dorion
Born in Quebec, Canada, Christiane is a brilliant nonfiction author and expert in education for sustainable development, and produced environmental education guidelines for the National Curriculum.
Her stunning pop up books encourage children to explore the world around them and ask big questions such as how did the universe begin and how do polar bears keep warm?
Author Fact File
- Before writing pop-up books Christiane has worked for the WWF.
- She aims to inspire children to take positive action to protect our planet.
- She moved from her native Canada to the UK to study for a PhD in environmental education.
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How the World Began
How did the universe begin? Where did humans come from? Why did Darwin cause such a commotion? And how did the Romans conquer the world? Through the use of pop-ups, flaps and booklets, ‘How the World Began’ is an exploration of the history of our planet, from the birth of the universe to ancient civilisations, the present and even the future of the earth.
How Animals Live
Why is the rainforest so popular? How do polar bears keep warm? Which creature is so tough it has survived in outer space? Answering these questions and many more, ‘How Animals Live’ takes children on a world tour to find out how animals have cleverly adapted to life, from the freezing poles to the hottest, driest deserts. | <urn:uuid:3567c908-7964-4377-87fa-0f7193b9725f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scottishfriendly.co.uk/blog/2016/03/win-a-signed-copy-of-christiane-dorions-new-pop-up-book-how-the-world-began/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.912551 | 515 | 3.28125 | 3 |
On October 16, researchers at a Belgian University announced their discovery of a new vulnerability called KRACK that can affect any Wi-Fi enabled device. KRACK, an acronym for Key Reinstallation Attack, exploits a flaw in the WPA2 Wi-Fi encryption system, and can be used to steal sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, and photos.
Security researcher Mathy Vanhoef of Belgian university KU Leuven uncovered the vulnerability. He describes the danger of KRACK on his website: “This can be abused to steal sensitive information… The attack works against all modern protected Wi-Fi networks. Depending on the network configuration, it is also possible to inject and manipulate data. For example, an attacker might be able to inject ransomware or other malware into websites.”
The effects of KRACK will likely be seen for decades, given that KRACK could affect all aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT includes fitness trackers, smart speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home, Bluetooth trackers, Internet-connected vehicles, and other smart devices.
Millions of routers and other IoT devices, such as internet-connected garage doors or security cameras, will probably never be fixed, since they don’t get the necessary software updates like other devices. Oftentimes, the best option is to buy new equipment once patched ones become available on the market.
It’s important to note that many businesses are now employing IoT devices, and that number is increasing all the time.
To protect yourself from the KRACK vulnerability, update your Wi-Fi devices and your router’s firmware when updates become available. Major platforms like iOS, macOS, and Windows have been already patched or haven’t been affected.
KRACK shows the impact of vulnerabilities and the importance of improving basic cybersecurity hygiene.
So, how does this affect insurance agents?
- IoT coverage is available, but isn’t necessarily always covered in cyber policies – so you have to know the needs of the insured and make sure you have coverage that actually includes IoT devices. It’s important to note how a given policy defines terms such as “computer system” or “computer program.”
- Robust, state-of-the-art cyber policies offer broad coverage at very reasonable prices, so there is no reason why your insureds should be without coverage for potential IoT-related losses.
- Potential costs from an IoT hack can include extortion, business interruption, and third-party lawsuits.
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The American rapper, Snoop Dogg has dropped his tribute track called “Nipsey Blue,” to marks late Nipsey Hussle’s 35th birthday. Listen to the full song below.
On 13th Aug(Yesterday), the rapper announced teased the tribute song and sharing a photograph of himself standing next to a Nipsey mural via Instagram and wrote that “a tribute to my neffew Nip comin tomorrow 🙏🏾.” It has been one year, He continues to celebrate the life and legacy of Nipsey Hussle.
Snoop said, “After Nipsey Hussle passed away, a lot of gang members that hadn’t talked in 30, 40 years came together. They really loved each other as friends, but through all the madness and ignorant bullshit they could never get any conversation going.
“It’s like when the [Los Angeles] riots happened in 1992 and we later made The Chronic. That’s what this track is like, the same feeling. I wanted to have a record that can unify people based off of a tragic event that can lead to some positivity and peace. We all need to be together now: Bloods, Crips, black people in general.”
This is not the first time Snoop paid tribute to Nip through music, Snoop’s track samples Dorothy Moore’s 1976 record “Misty Blue,” and first options the rapper singing together with the pattern altering a few of the lyrics, like “baby” to “homie” and “Misty” to “Nipsey.”
Snoop Dogg Tribute Song “Nipsey Blue” For Nipsey’s 35th birthday
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Join Lt. Governor Pinnell as he interviews current and former students of Oklahoma CareerTech programs in his "A Look at Oklahoma CareerTech" series. This episode features Christina Perez, a Computer Repair and Programming student at Canadian Valley Technology Center. Christina shares how her instructors are empowering her and preparing her for a successful career.
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According to Padma Purana, there used to live an Asura by the name of Tarakasura who had enslaved the Devas. After pleasing Lord Brahma, he had received a boon that he can only be destroyed by a power equal to Lord Shiva, and not even Shiva himself. He thought that that way he had outsmarted Gods and that way he could be immortal since he believed that there was no one equal to Shiva.
But yet still, somewhere within, he had doubts. He went to Lord Brahma to know who could be equal to Shiva, and Brahma stated that there would be a son born to Shiva who would be equal to Shiva in all aspects, and he had the capacity to destroy Tarakasura. After the loss of Sati, Shiva had gone crazy and become a recluse. So, Tarakasura thought that Shiva would never bear a child. So, it came as a shock to him when Shiva married Parvati, who was Sati reborn.
Then again, Rati, the wife of Kamadeva, had cursed Parvati when her husband was burned down by Shiva. This was when he tried to induce lust in Shiva’s mind for Parvati while she was still serving as a devotee upon the request of the Devas. When Rati was grieving on the loss of her husband, she cursed Parvati that she would never be able to bear any Shiva’s child even though she got married to Shiva.
Tarakasura thought that that curse would protect him too since Shiva would not be able to bear any child with Rati’s curse. But Shiva had his own ways. He acquired a sixth face that looked downward at the suffering of Devas and then became Shanmukha, also known as the six-faced lord.
Kartikeya – The Six-Faced Lord
From the six faces, light emerged that was carried by Agni, the god of fire, and Vayu, the god of the wind to river Ganga. Six of the wives of Saptarishis held them in their wombs and later deposited them on six lotus flowers at shara vana, the forest of reeds. From them, six babies emerged that were nurtured by six Karthigai ladies, a constellation of six stars. Then these babies became the six-faced Lord, Shanmukha, (Kartikeya) also known as Murugan and Muruga in Tamil. (In Tamil, Muruga means handsome or beautiful and Muruga means the one who is very handsome). He was said to be the son of Shiva and Parvati. And he was the one who decided the fate of Tarakasura and his two other brothers – Simamukha and Surapadma. After that, the Devas were freed.
The Logic Behind the Birth of Kartikey (Murugan)
You might be wondering how is it even possible to have a child without the physical union of male and a female. Considering what science we have today, we don’t necessarily need the union of female and male to reproduce a child.
This is said to be the test-tube baby, whereby the ovum of the female can be fertilized with the sperm in water in a separate, artificial environment. The environment needs appropriate temperate, air, and fluid to survive, which in this case, were provided by Agni, Vayu, and the river Ganga respectively. In case the woman cannot bear the embryo, then the produced embryo can be placed in the womb of another female, the concept is known as surrogacy.
And in our case, the wives of saptarishis were the surrogate mothers. If the babies are born prematurely, then the baby is placed in an incubator with the warm environment with necessary air, fluid, and nutrition, which were again provided by shara vana, the incubator; Agni, the warm environment; Vayu, the air; Ganga, the fluid; and mother earth, the nutrition. In today’s case, the nurses take care of the baby meanwhile. And in this case, Karthigai ladies took care of the baby.
If we consider the psychological logic, then Muruga is the alter ego of Shiva. It can be thought of as a second self, the hidden self of a person, that can be liable for another. For instance, the parents live their own lives and dreams through their children. What they couldn’t achieve themselves, they want their children to achieve it and take pleasure in that accomplishment. Likewise, what Shiva could not achieve by not being able to kill Tarakasura, he achieved it via Murugan.
The question now is that why didn’t the scriptures and books talk directly about these logics, why have they been depicted in legends. The thing is the logic cannot be explained to everyone, and it cannot make sense to even a six-year-old. Thus, we need legends, so that in the future, we use our logic to understand what the legend could have actually meant.
The Murugan Is known with six names: Guha, the cave, since he is the secret that lives in the cave in the heart of Shiva; Kumara, son of Parvati; Skanda; Gangeya since he was carried by Ganga; Sharavana, since he was nurtured by sharavana, the forest of reeds; and Kartikeya since he was raised by six Karthigai ladies (Amba, Thula, Nitharthini, Apragenthi, Mehanthi & Varthayendhi).(Last Updated On: March 10, 2022) | <urn:uuid:2555c7d4-ad43-485c-a067-db54efc618d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vedicfeed.com/science-behind-the-birth-of-shanmukha-kartikeya/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.985118 | 1,188 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Russian courts have begun to cancel decisions on the expulsion of Ukrainian citizens to their homeland due to “the absence of the actual possibility of their execution,” the Kommersant newspaper writes on Monday, August 1.
After Russian invasion of Ukraine suspended an agreement between the two states on the expulsion of wanted people. Due to the fact that it has become physically impossible for Ukrainians to be sent home, more than 100 people have been “stuck” in the Russian Temporary Detention Centers for Foreign Citizens (TsVSIG), the newspaper notes.
According to the Moscow Helsinki Group, the courts have already canceled the decisions to expel at least 21 people from the center near Moscow. In addition, another 30 Ukrainians were released in St. Petersburg. Despite the decisions of the courts, some Ukrainian citizens are refused to be released from the TsVSIG, human rights activists reported.
Over 350 Ukrainians in pre-trial detention centers and special detention centers in Moscow
As of mid-June, there were more than 350 citizens of Ukraine. Some of them were detained at the request of the Ukrainian side, as they are wanted in their homeland for committing crimes.
Georgy Ivanov, a representative of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow, noted that before the war, the expulsion of Ukrainians took place “quite quickly.” AT TsVSIG in the village of Sakharovo in New Moscow, no more than 40 people were kept at the same time, and already in June there were 113 Ukrainians in the center.
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On June 27, around 200 activists, supporters, friends and allies marched in solidarity against LGBT discrimination in the main streets of Belgrade, taking part in a series of equal rights campaigns across the Balkans this May and June.
Representatives from NGOs, embassies, and the LGBT and ally community waved rainbow-clad banners in honor of International Pride Day, joining a worldwide celebration—and accelerating social movement—for the equal rights of all genders, sexes, and sexual orientations. This year, marchers also displayed messages of support for flood victims, strengthening the event’s overall message of peace.
For the second year in a row, the march’s guiding message was Zona Slobodna Od Mržnje or “”Hate-Free Zone.” “”Hate-Free Zone” comprises a campaign that has been held in various locations, each time in memorial of a different hate crime. This year, participants solidified the relationship between the LGBT and Roma rights movements by dedicating the walk to the 1997 murder of a Roma boy, Dušan Jovanović. Organizers including Women in Black (ŽUC), Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), IDAHO Belgrade, Gay Lesbian Info Center (GLIC), Association “Rainbow”, Center for Queer Studies (CKS), Novi Sad Lesbian Organization (NLO), “Hestia” Organization, and Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) envisioned the “Hate-Free Zone” as a statement against far more than LGBT discrimination alone. According to the Serbian Gay Straight Alliance, marchers demonstrated against “all forms of xenophobia, racism, homophobia, chauvinism, hatred, and intolerance.”
International leaders and locals alike welcomed the event. The Serbian GSA reports that Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovički, The Council of Europe Office in Belgrade, The EU Delegation in Serbia, and the OSCE, among others, declared official support for the event. Participant and activist with the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) (IDAHO Belgrade) Lazara Marinković told Balkanist that marchers had no clashes with authorities or passerbys; on the contrary, “a lot of people greeted the participants, waving or taking pictures of flags and banners.” She says, “positive curiosity would be the best words to describe their reactions.”
The march comprises a climax of LGBT events across the Balkans in recent months. Despite a lack of funding, IDAHO Belgrade organized a series of programs on the status of the Serbian LGBT movement with a particular focus on educating the public and promoting the arts. According to Marinković, these events “mapped and promoted the existing local queer art practices and investigated the status of local production in this field.”
IDAHOT day was marked in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina with a similar program, which was attended by U.S. Embassy, Council of Europe, and European Union representatives, and protected by local authorities. The event included two speakers from the trans community who wish to remain anonymous to protect themselves against potential threats. Each speaker, strikingly willing to make himself vulnerable to the audience, shared the story of his transition. Of special note were the speakers’ experiences in Bosnian society, including professors’ refusals to address them by their chosen gender identity.
Marinković told Balkanist that several additional events organized by IDAHO Belgrade are underway for this summer and fall. As with the June march in Belgrade, Marinković reports that thus far, the organization has cooperated with local authorities and experienced no incidents of violence.
LGBT activists and supporters also look forward to a potential pride parade in Belgrade this autumn. (Originally scheduled for May, the parade was delayed due to Serbia’s devastating floods.)
It remains unclear whether pride parade participants will experience the same support from authorities and locals that characterized this spring’s events — or whether they will be allowed to march at all.
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Stress is something that all of us will experience at some point. Luckily, there are ways to reduce its effect on our physical and mental health. On Stress National Awareness Day, we want to focus on this topic, along with some coping skills you need to successfully overcome stress.
National Stress Awareness Day lands every first Wednesday of November, which is November 3 this year. It is a 24-hour stress-free celebration where we promote not stressing about situations you cannot control.
The event is sponsored by the International Stress Management Association or ISMA, a known and registered charity worldwide. It aims to promote essential knowledge of stress and wellbeing as well as best practices for stress management.
On this day, we encourage everyone to take some time out for yourselves. While doing so, we also want you to take advantage of this special occasion and learn more information on managing life’s little challenges. These include handling difficult situations at work, dealing with burnout, coping up with emotions, and more.
Millions of Australians ages 18 and above experience stress that can be damaging to their health. At some point in 2018, 2.4 million people, or 13% of the population experienced high or very high levels of psychological stress. This National Stress Awareness Day, we want you to take a long deep breath and embrace peace.
What is Stress and Why is it Important
Everyone has stress, and some of it is good for us. Controlled stress helps us respond to life’s challenges. It is also our body’s way of protecting itself from harm. However, too much stress can bring harm to our physical health and relationship with others.
Stress is defined as a state of mental or emotional tension as a response to crisis and fears. If stress gets overwhelming, it can result in mental health problems, emotional exhaustion, and even physical illness. It can impact the way we work, handle relationships, and every aspect of life.
Prolonged stress or chronic stress is failure to deal with stressors for a long time. It is the constant feeling of stress that can lead to life-threatening medical problems. It can result in hypertension, heart diseases, decreased immune system function and decreased mental vitality. For this reason, stress is not be taken lightly.
Identify Your Stressors
Stressors are conditions or events that may trigger stress and the release of stress hormones. Several factors can bring stress, and it can be from a health condition or an external stressor. The most common causes include:
- Underlying health issues
- physical abuse
- stressful work environments or working long hours
- financial stressors
- family health issues.
- Fear and uncertainty
- Unrealistic expectations
- Sudden change
Note that stress level differs based on how you respond to situations and your personality.
How to celebrate Stress Awareness Day
- Treat yourself
Treat yourself on a trip to your favorite spa or eat a handful of immune-boosting deserts. Eating fresh fruits, honey, and whole-grain foods make a wonderful indulgence for this day. Even chocolate can bring health benefits when consumed in moderation.
- Get moving
Do some exercise and be amazed at how physical movements can improve your mental perspective. You can take a walk in your neighborhood or do a good jog in the park. Do whatever makes you feel good that can pump the endorphins in your brain. Endorphins are chemicals that lend a feeling of relaxation and wellbeing.
Take time to breathe and collect your thoughts. Meditation often led to increased energy and stamina.
- Get enough rest
Stress often makes it difficult to sleep and can result in a vicious cycle of sleeplessness. To get a good night’s rest, consciously shut off thoughts that are bothering you. You can deal with them again in the morning, but meanwhile, sweet dreams.
A body that receives a deep sleep often leaves you to feel rejuvenated and ready to face the world again.
- Learn Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First aid (MHFA) is the care you give to someone who may be developing or experiencing a mental crisis. Taking an MHFA course lets you learn the topics of crisis de-escalation, as well as first aid strategies.
Stress Less, Enjoy More
Take part in the National Stress Awareness Day by keeping yourself happy and healthy. Make some effort to cut stress in your life and focus on what is coming.
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More women fear breast cancer than any other disease. Yet cardiovascular disease (CVD) claims over ten times as many women’s lives as breast cancer. In fact, CVD is the nation’s leading cause of death for both men and women. That’s the bad news. The good news is that CVD is almost entirely preventable. nutraOrigin, makers of high quality vitamins for women, shares the secrets of cardiovascular wellness.
What influences cardiovascular health?
One way to support cardiovascular health is to play by the numbers. All five of the following measurements tell you something about the state of your heart.
Cholesterol: excess cholesterol gets deposited in, and narrows, the artery walls
Triglycerides: elevated triglycerides are associated with a higher risk of coronary artery disease
Blood pressure: high blood pressure puts stress on the artery walls and increases the heart’s workload
Homocysteine: too much homocysteine degrades the structural integrity of the arteries
C-reactive protein: elevated C-reactive protein is associated with a higher risk for hypertension and CVD
Risk Factor Desirable Borderline Undesirable
Total cholesterol Below 200 200-239 240 and above
Triglycerides Below 150 150-199 Above 200
Blood pressure Below 120/80 120/80-140/90 Above 140/90
Homocysteine Below 10 mmol/L 10-18 mmol/L Above 18 mmol/L
c-reactive protein (CRP) Below 1.0 1.0-3.0 Above 3.0
Supplement secrets for heart health
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Developed by nutraOrigin, Cardio Balance features 10 mg of high quality policosanol. Multiple studies indicate that natural policosanol provides a worry-free way to support healthy cholesterol levels. Cardio Balance features policosanol from sugar cane – not the rice or wheat used in lower-quality products – which is the only form of policosanol proven to deliver cholesterol benefits. This policosanol supplement is produced using a proprietary, all-natural extraction process that delivers the highest quality finished product.
Chances are you’ve heard about Omega 3 fatty acids, because they’re good for so many things. At nutraOrigin, we believe supplementing with Omega 3 fish oil, or Omega 3 for short, is one of the best things you can do for your heart. Here are just some Omega 3 benefits:
• Helps maintain healthy levels of triglycerides and C-reactive protein
• Promotes a desirable blood pressure
• Supports a regular heart rhythm
You can buy these essential fats as liquid Omega 3 oil, but most people prefer the convenience of Omega 3 pills. Whichever Omega 3 supplement you choose, just keep in mind that quality differs tremendously among different brands. nutraOrigin’s Omega 3 pills are highly concentrated, purity-certified, readily absorbed, and stabilized with antioxidants.
Nutra Multi Iron-Free
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We must have pure air, to begin with ; freedom to breathe ; power of seeing, unhindered by clouds of smoke and dust. We must have, also, parks and gardens for open-air recreation. We must have, again, public buildings, ample and stately, and rich enough in their ornament to symbolize and to dignify the corporate life. Then our authorities should have and exercise power to deal with street architecture of all kinds, for this exerts a powerful and constant influence for good or evil upon public taste, and through this upon manners and morals. If Art were thought of as it should be, and if municipal powers were sufficient and were rightly exercised, the character of our streets would undergo a marked and rapid change. We should deny, or limit, the right of an individual to disfigure the main thoroughfares of a great town by monstrosities or basenesses in brick, or stone, or plaster, according to the measure of his ignorance, or vulgarity, or parsimony, or lack of the sense of beauty and fitness. Take, for example, such streets as High Street, Exeter, or High Street, Oxford; no man should have the power—now unrestricted in our intense reverence for the rights of property—to demolish at his caprice their characteristic features, or to improve them by building, say a manufactory or other incongruous edifice upon their exquisitely beautiful lines. The railway companies, again, should be put under severe restraint: the Thames, for example, should not be disfigured by the horrible bridges that are run across it; the view of St. Paul's from Ludgate Hill should not be blotted out or hopelessly ruined by the arch of a viaduct. We want, in such matters, a wholesome tyranny. Of course the convenience of the public must be considered, traffic must be carried on, railways and telegraphs must, somewhere or other, cross our streets. But we need not, as we do now, groan under the tasteless rule of the engineers, and their passion for cast iron, and their detestable invention of the girder style. Necessary though these things may be, they can be made, if not perfectly beautiful, at least somewhat less hideous than they are now. It is a misfortune, in some respects, that we are proud of being a practical people, for the worship of the practical is a superstition which kills the desire for beauty, and casts out Art, and turns, sooner or later, from all directions to the shrine of the deity who unites ancient and modern mythology in the common adoration of the God of Riches. He has a wide-reaching priesthood, described by the comprehensive name of the Business Man; and when this personage and his supposed necessities come into contact with Art, then, certainly so far as Art interferes with or hinders him, Art has to give way. It is he who lines our streets with uniform warehouse-like houses, propped up on girders, and built as plainly as possible, to save the cost of space in light and shade, and thickness of wall, and variety of line and projection, which are
essential to all good and picturesque building. It is he who pulls down the relics of antiquity, let them be ever so venerable or so graceful, because by destroying them he can get more rent out of the sites they occupy. He is the person who hangs hideous bunches of telegraph wires across our public ways; it is he who straightens the curved street lines; it is he who throws a railway bridge—a huge tube, or a couple of lofty iron walls—across such a thoroughfare as the Foregate at Worcester; or who, with another such bridge, shuts out the view of St. Paul's from Ludgate Hill; or who spans the Thames with his girders, and puts up vast black yawning sheds of stations on the river bank. He does all this because he knows or cares nothing about Art, and never thinks that the community may care for it, and because he wants to go straight, to save time. To gain ten minutes he would level St. Paul's or Westminster Abbey, or plant a station on the site of Ely, or sweep away Tintern, or turn Valle Crucis into a goods station, or put up a mass of contractor's masonry—as, indeed, he has done-in front of Conway, or cut a railway right through the Lledr Valley, as he is doing now. There are places and occasions on which the business man may, with general advantage, and to his own benefit, if he only knew it, be invited to go round instead of driving right on, through and over everything, and to take his practical ideas, and his straight cuts, and his engineers and their cast-iron girders, along with him; and this is one of the lessons which an Art-knowing and an Art-loving community has to teach him. Indeed, to put it on the very lowest ground, the lesson is worth learning, even for profit's sake. Dwell for a moment upon our street architecture. Practical-minded people—remember, it is they who assume the designation--are much comforted by the spectacle of so many boxes of brick and stone, ranged in regular order side by side, as close as they can be, with openings to go in by and to look out of, and with bits of carving or moulding (very often in plaster, which peels off in patches) stuck on here and there, and mostly where they ought not to be. These boxes are called houses, the openings are described as doors and windows, the bits and dabs of plaster are spoken of as ornaments, and the whole dismal combination is regarded as being solid, comfortable, practical, unpretentious, and
thoroughly English.” Now, in fact, as Mr. Ruskin showed long ago in his Stones of Venice, the so-called practical is really the most absolutely unpractical. “At Venice,” he says, “and the cities
" grouped around it, Vicenza, Padua, and Verona, the traveller may ascertain, by actual experience, the effect which would be produced upon the comfort and luxury of daily life by the revival of the Gothic school of architecture. He can still stand upon the marble balcony in the soft summer air, and feel its smooth surface warm from
the noon-tide, as he leans on it in the twilight; he can still see the strong sweep of the unruined traceries drawn on the deep serenity of the starry sky, and watch the fantastic shadows of the clustered arches shorten in the moonlight on the chequered floor; or he may close the casements fitted to their unshaken shafts against such wintry winds as would have made an English house vibrate to its foundation, and in either case compare their influence on his daily home-feeling with that of the square openings in his English wall. And let him be assured, if he find there is more to be enjoyed in the Gothic window, there is also more to be trusted. It is the best and strongest building, as it is the most beautiful. I am not now speaking of the particular form of the Venetian Gothic, but of the general strength of the pointed arch as opposed to that of the level lintel of the square window; and I plead for the introduction of the Gothic form into our domestic architecture, not merely because it is lovely, but because it is the only form of faithful, strong, enduring, and honourable building, in such materials as come duly to our hands. By increase of scale and cost, it is possible to build, in any style, what will last for ages; but only in the Gothic is it possible to give security and dignity to work wrought with imperfect means and materials.”
Thus, the beautiful and the useful—the true practical work -are united ; and if people who build would only build in this way, thinking for others, and for the general good and improvement, as well as of themselves, then, in street architecture—the commonest and most obvious means of expressing taste—we should have a development of Art in the community for which all of us would be the stronger and the better, and in due time the community itself might rise to the dignity of its dwelling-places. Local authorities, surely, might be invested with some control over this matter, and over the materials as well as the design of building. There is a chance now of trying to exercise some such influence, in the new streets which are being made in London and other towns under the Artisans' Dwellings Act. Here the corporations may make themselves owners of the sites, and, in letting them for building, may impose their own conditions on the character, style, and material of the edifices to be erected. They may also secure, what are much
, needed in all large towns, open spaces, adorned with trees and flowerbeds, with fountains and statues : oases in the deserts of brick and stone-places of rest for the aged, and of healthful play for the children, and of recreation and enjoyment for citizens of all classes. This is work which the community, by means of its recognised authorities, may easily do for Art, if it is so minded. also take care to see that while public edifices, for the business of the community, are made stately without, they are also made beautiful as well as commodious within. These works of internal decoration may take any range you will, may be simple or
elaborate, costly or inexpensive ; but they should always be found wherever the corporate life has to be expressed, or the corporate business to be conducted. Even the roughest elements of the most turbulent popular assemblies are all the better—are, indeed, insensibly educated — by such decoration. Most of our great towns have histories which, with honour and profit, are capable of being recorded in pictorial decorations of their public edifices. Manchester links our modern days with the earliest in our history, for it was a Roman station, and then a fortified place in early English times; and it was for a while the head-quarters of the Pretender, when England was last threatened with military revolution. These are events worthy of commemoration, and so are the leading incidents of its later history—the Reform struggles at the beginning of this century; the Anti-Corn Law agitation; the rise and progress of its great textile industry; the eminent men who have conferred lustre upon its annals. Liverpool, a free borough so far back as the thirteenth century, furnishes subjects of illustration in abundance in the development of its magnificent commerce, and the birth of the great system of navigation which constitutes a daily union between the old world and the new. Birmingham might record with honest pride the help its people gave to Simon de Montfort in the great war of the barons, its gallant resistance to Prince Rupert in the civil wars, its powerful demonstrations in the Reform period of 1832,
, and the contests and victories, greater even than these, endured or won by its most notable citizens—by Priestley over bigotry and prejudice, by Watt and Boulton in the application of steam to industry, and by Murdock in the invention of gas.
There is other work, too, that might be done in the same direction with advantage—the formation of museums of Industrial Art adapted to the staple trades of each community : gold and silver work, jewellery, brass and iron, and arms in Birmingham — thanks to the liberality of the gun trade, the last named is already richly provided in a special museum ; cutlery, ancient and modern, in Sheffield ; pottery in Stoke, and Hanley, and Burslem (where the Wedgwood Institute has made a good beginning); lace at Nottingham and Norwich; carpets at Kidderminster; ribbons and watches at Coventry; cottons at Manchester; and woollen fabrics at Leeds. In such work a revival of the old trade guilds might take an honourable and useful part; no longer confining and restricting trade, but helping to bring together all the best examples of ancient work from which anything has to be learned, and of modern work to illustrate progress, to correct mistakes, and to stimulate honourable rivalry with foreign competitors.
These are some of the means of cultivating Art in the community, and of bringing it home to the minds and hearts of the people. There are others, familiar to most of us. Picture exhibitions, for example—not merely great collections, hung closely, good and bad together, and left to tell their own story; but selections of a few great pictures, so hung as to be seen separately, and explained to the less instructed by competent critics, from time to time, in public lectures. Collections, again, of special works—drawings, etchings, engravings—such as those which have been, to their great honour, brought together by the Burlington Fine Arts Club in London, and by the Liverpool Art Club. In the churches, again, and in all places of worship, there is ample scope for effort by covering the walls with suitable pictures, by stained glass in the windows, by carving and other decorations-gifts for which individuals, in the true spirit of sacrifice, might well make themselves responsible. In the theatres, also, Art in the community might be materially helped by care and thought in the production of scenes, painted as works of Art, perfected in detail, and thus conveying solid lessons to those who can be instructed in no better way.
While much might and should be done by corporate effort, or by those whose business is intimately associated with Art, we must, after all, in the present state of our knowledge, and with our present organization, rely to a great extent upon personal and individual effort. The idea of the community should be present to the minds of our richer classes, so that from private stores and accumulations something might be spared for the general benefit. It is lamentable to note the growth and dispersion of a noble collection of picturesbrought together with infinite pains and labour, kept in privacy during the owner's life, and then, at his death, broken up in the saleroom, and scattered throughout the land. It is too much, perhaps, to ask that such collections may be dedicated to the public—though Vernon, and Sheepshanks, and Ellis set admirable examples of such devotion ; but, at least, the man who has taken pride in the formation
; of a gallery might spare some example of a great master for the benefit of his countrymen or his townsfolk. By such means inadequate corporate funds might be helped and supplemented, or set free for use in other ways. When we think of the private wealth of our great towns, of the fortunes made in them, of the millionaires who grow silently, and whose accumulations are revealed to the admiration and envy of the country after their death, we cannot but reflect with sadness upon the rarity of the instances in which any portion of such wealth is devoted to the benefit of the vast numbers of poorer people who have helped to make it. There is no considerable town in England in which there are not some people who, without feeling the loss themselves, or without injuring their families, could build a picture gallery, or give the public some fine work of Art, or decorate a building, or lay out a park or a garden, or endow a library with precious collections, or in numberless other ways-- | <urn:uuid:613692cb-6c47-45fd-8751-1dbba90265ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.ee/books?id=gccRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA350&focus=viewport&vq=%22slowly+descend+in+front+of+her,+turning+round+gradually+to+show+off+both+back+and+front.+The%22&dq=editions:ISBN0226042197&hl=et&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970586 | 3,245 | 1.835938 | 2 |
With the rise of social media platforms soaring in the last 10 years, it is very likely that a high percentage of your employees have social media accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or now, TikTok.
The misuse of social media by employees can have consequences for employers, irrespective of whether it occurred in the workplace. This can especially be the case when the employer is managing an already stressful situation, such as the Coronavirus pandemic. We have seen a rise in incidents of employees sharing views about how their employer has or is dealing with the pandemic which can have an adverse effect on any strategic plan in place or reputational consequences. Actions an employer can take to limit potential damage caused by employees’ use of social media are explored below.
- The importance of managing the use of social media by employees
It is not just negative comments about an employer that can be damaging for an organisation. Employees posting inappropriate content about other employees or even customers or students, if working within a school, can also have an adverse impact in the workplace. In a school setting, employers must also be alive to any potential safeguarding issues and teachers’ standards that may be infringed from the use of social media by staff.
- How to manage the use of social media by employees
The main method of managing the use of social media by employees is to ensure you have an effective social media policy in place. This allows employers to minimise any risk associated with employee’s use of social media. This policy should set out what is and what is not an acceptable use of social media and outline disciplinary measures the employer will take as a result of any breaches of the policy. Publishing confidential information on social media would for an example be a clear breach as is posting negative reviews of an employer that have the potential of harming their reputation.
It will be important to ensure that the policy does not have the effect of silencing employees and that the boundary between work-related and personal social media use is not crossed. Employers must be careful to avoid infringing on an employee’s private life or restricting their freedom of expression which are protected under Articles 8 and 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998. On the other hand, the policy should aim to protect other employees against bullying via social media as well as ensure effective reputational protections are in place.
The policy should further make clear the consequences of any breach such commencing disciplinary procedures. Normal disciplinary processes should be followed and a fair process should be adopted throughout which takes into account the seriousness of that breach. It is also important to ensure that the policy is enforceable by making it widely available to employees and that it is regularly kept up to date.
For serious reputational damage as a result of an employee’s use of social media, employers could also consider pursing an action for defamation or malicious falsehood against the employee, provided the conditions have been met.
With the use of social media rising each day, it is essential employers have an effective policy in place to mitigate any risk of damage. If you require any assistance in the preparation of a social media policy or if you are seeking advice following a damaging post published by an employee on social media, please do get in touch with one of our employment lawyers. | <urn:uuid:6b6f0794-1376-4426-8f59-fa68a5667678> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stoneking.co.uk/literature/e-bulletins/how-can-employers-manage-use-social-media-employees?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Employment%20Bulletin%20-%20September%202020&utm_content=Employment%20Bulletin%20-%20September%202020+CID_be7dc493adf33904c3790a380d856f87&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=Read%20more | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955221 | 671 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Today in research: staying in a good mood, drinking a bit, mapping a land grab, and more about apples.
- Ways to not be an angry person: eat food and try not to get stressed out. Got that? By following those straightforward, research-driven directives, you may get enough serotonin in your system, which helps curb aggression. That's what we learned, anyway, from a study published by Cambridge University researchers that's being touted as the first "to show how this chemical helps regulate behavior in the brain as well as why some individuals may be more prone to aggression." [Reuters]
- We don't have a drinking problem, per se. But since World War II a meta-analysis of 31 alcohol studies finds a trend, loosely paraphrased as: every American generation drinks more than the last. Maybe that's why we've seen all those "moderate alcohol consumption is good for you" studies out there. [The Los Angeles Times]
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by Katie Shands, author of Finding Franklin
1. Watson House (214 3rd Avenue South)
ABOUT THE WATSON HOUSE:
With its mansard roof and projecting central tower, the Watson House is hard to miss on Third Avenue. Susan Catherine “Kitty” Puryear Watson built this monumental Second French Empire style home in 1881 at an estimated cost of $18,000 (the second most expensive house in Franklin at the time). Kitty and her husband Thomas J. Watson were living in The Willows on old West Harpeth Road, but when Thomas died, Kitty constructed a new house closer to town so their children could be educated in Franklin schools.
Her father Mordecai Puryear, owner of one of the first self-sustaining plantations in the county (located on Lewisburg Pike), helped her purchase the property. Kitty promptly tore down the original home built by Joseph Frye and hired Hugh Cathcart Thompson—the same architect who designed Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and the Franklin Cumberland Presbyterian Church—to make her dream home a reality.
The Watson House remained in the family for about a century. When it was sold, the new owner built a large addition in the back.
WHY I LOVE THIS HOUSE:
The Second French Empire style was meant to exude character and a sense of permanence, which is precisely the effect of the Watson House. When my family first visited Franklin before moving here, this home immediately caught my attention and made quite an impression. It reminds me of the dramatic mansion in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, but with much more elegance. The Watson House seems brimful of mystery and intrigue—can’t you just imagine networks of hidden passages and an attic bursting with treasures? What I wouldn’t give for a peek inside… | <urn:uuid:07e9dcb5-6085-4e3e-a057-a35b71215e07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://williamsonsource.com/tour-8-of-franklins-most-charming-historic-homes-the-watson-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951572 | 378 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Do we really want universities fighting over the same Iowa students?
At first glance, the Iowa Board of Regents’ decision to distribute state appropriations to the three state universities based on the number of Iowa students they educate makes a lot of sense.
In the past, appropriations for the state universities broke down to 40 percent for the University of Iowa, 40 per cent for Iowa State University and 20 percent for the University of Northern Iowa. It has been kind of a tradition for over 50 years.
But as it has turned out UNI and ISU have had a higher percentage of Iowa students enroll in their programs. The UI’s percentage has been lower.
It would stand to reason the state appropriation for each Iowa student should be the same at each university. The regents thought so and are implementing plans to make it so.
But if you look at the effect of what is going to happen now, it doesn’t make any sense at all. The UI, trying to keep its traditional share of state appropriation, is developing aggressive marketing plans to increase the number of Iowa students it attracts. UI President Sally Mason took up the cause this way: “Hawkeyes love a challenge. I love a challenge. I have every intention of making certain that we get out there and get aggressive in terms of recruiting more undergraduate Iowa students.”
Let’s think about the short-term effect of what will happen now. The most likely target market for the UI’s campaign will be the same prospective students that the two other universities are attracting. These are apt to be high school students who have already decided they want to attend a state university and are just trying to figure out which one would be the best fit for them.
Is the state actually going to pay for marketing so our three state universities can compete more aggressively for the same students? If successful, the UI’s gain will be ISU’s and UNI’s loss. Also, if successful, ISU and UNI will need to come up with advertising efforts to hold onto their students.
Great news for the highway billboard industry. Not so much for Iowa taxpayers.
And still we have a situation where we have our three universities competing to get these kids $30,000 in debt by the time they graduate. Now, per instructions from the Iowa Board of Regents, they will spend even more time and money doing just that.
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Email forwarding helps you to forward all your emails from one email-id to another. It is very helpful if you have many email ids and you want all e-mails to come to one single mail id. There are two types of e-mail forwarders which can help you with this:
It forwards incoming mails from one e-mail account to another e-mail account. Also, you can setup multiple forwarders and forward e-mails from one to multiple accounts.
This type of forwarder forwards all incoming e-mail from one domain to another domain. For example, you could forward all incoming e-mail for the website1.com domain to the website2.com domain.
Follow the below steps, to set up e-mail forwarding.
1. Log in to your cPanel account.
2. Scroll or search for “Forwarders ” and click.
3. In next page, you will get two options.
- If you want to forward e-mail from one email account to another, then click on the Add Forwarder icon.
- If you want to forward the all emails from one website to another website email, click the Add Domain Forwarder icon.
Single account forwarder (Account forwarders)
To forward e-mail from one mail id to another:
- Type in the e-mail id name before @ sign.
- Choose the domain of the e-mail address.
- Fill in the email address you would like the e-mail to be forwarded to.
- Click Add Forwarder
To forward all email of a domain to another domain(Domain forwarders)
To forward all the e-mail of domain to another domain e-mail id.
- Choose the domain.
- Type email address you would like the all email to be forwarded to.
- Click “Add Domain Forwarder”.
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With the mounting credit card bills, not making credit card payments might sound rather appealing. It would come as a major relief not to pay a large sum of your income or savings every month, especially if you face financial difficulties.
Unfortunately, you will face damaging consequences that would place you in even worse financial trouble. Initially, the impact might not seem too big, but you will soon find yourself in debt. So, what happens when you stop paying credit card bills? Let’s find out.
Multiple Stages of Credit Card Nonpayment
Your credit card payment will be considered late after 30 days of nonpayment, but it won’t be included in the credit report yet. In some credit cards, the late payment is charged after 60 days.
While missed payment or two won’t be added to your credit score or reported to the credit bureaus, you will face late fee charges. More missed payments will result in more severe consequences that would significantly impact your financial situation.
The impact and timeline might vary based on the credit card company, but you will go through the following stages:
- Day one to Day 30: A late fee will be added to your outstanding balance, along with an interest rate.
- Day 60: The creditor may report you to the credit bureaus, and an APR penalty might be charged.
- Day 90 to Day 150: The interest rate and late fee will continue to increase.
- Day 180: Your account could be blocked or closed if the creditor hasn’t done this already. The case will be forwarded to the credit collection agency.
- After Day 180: The collection agency or creditor could file a lawsuit against you for unpaid debt.
Consequences of Not Paying the Credit Card Bills
Here are some of the major things that you would have to face when you stop paying your credit cards:
Interest Rate and Late Fees Starts to Accumulate
Firstly, your creditor will charge a late fee, and your minimum payable monthly amount will also increase. One of the most damaging parts is the high-interest rate you will be charged for missing the payment, particularly after 60 days of non-payment.
The minimum payment due will increase every month, with more late-payment fees being included in your balance. Once the penalty rate starts, it will also increase the finance charges. As a result, your outstanding balance gets larger, making it more difficult for you to catch up.
Credit Score is Drastically Impacted
After 30 to 60 days of nonpayment, your credit card issuer would report your missed payments to the credit card bureaus. The credit card payment history plays an integral role in the credit score.
Missed payment will reduce your credit score and damage your creditworthiness. The number of points you might lose would depend on your credit profile. Individuals with excellent or good credit scores tend to lose a high number of points from a late payment. While people with a poor score would also lose points, the drop won’t be as much.
Your account will continue to be reported as late with more missed payments. It is integral to note that late or missed payments are kept on your credit report for as long as seven years and continue to affect the credit scores.
A High APR Penalty is Charged
You will be charged with an APR penalty after 60 days of nonpayment, which will be applicable to your future transactions and your existing balance. Your account will be restored to the standard APR after making six consecutive timely payments.
Collection Agency gets Involved
When you continue to neglect to pay your credit card bills, your account will be reported to the credit collection agency. All the charge-off accounts are continuously moved from one agency to the other once they are either completely paid or eventually get bankrupt.
Possibility of Being Sued Increases
The debt collector or your creditor might also file a case against you to force you to make the due payment. If they win the case, it might allow them to directly take money from your paycheck or your bank account, depending on the judgment.
The judgment will automatically favor the creditor if you ignore the case after being served with the lawsuit.
All of these consequences can significantly impact not just your credit score and financial situation but also different aspects of your life.
Measures to Take When You are Late on Credit Card Payments
It is essential to understand that the longer you neglect making the credit card payments, things will continue to get worse for you. To avoid being in this situation, here are some steps you can take for better credit and debt management:
Assess your Budget
Reviewing your budget will help identify areas where you can decrease your expenses to make timely credit card payments. Figure out ways you can further save money or increase your monthly income.
These steps will enable you to at least make the minimum due payment every month. Moreover, avoid using credit cards until you are caught up on all the outstanding amounts.
Contact your Credit Card Company
You can always contact your creditor to explain how you are experiencing difficulties paying the credit card bills. Often, creditors are willing to provide a suitable repayment plan or even waive off the late fee to make payment easier.
It is best to contact them when you realize you could miss the payment or have already missed a payment. Many people are afraid to call up their creditors to inform them about their financial struggles, but you would be surprised at the assistance you may receive.
Go for Debt Consolidation
You also can use a debt consolidation loan or credit card balance transfer to manage your payments effectively.
The debt consolidation loan places your entire credit card bills into a single payment spread out in affordable monthly payments to manage your finances better.
The credit card balance transfer comes with a 0% APR for a year and enables you to transfer the outstanding balance with a promotional interest rate.
Consult Credit Counseling Agency
Credit counseling agencies will review your finances and create a debt management plan and an efficient budget to make it easier to make the payments. It is integral to immediately seek expert consultation when you start struggling with your finances.
Certain credit counseling agencies even offer the initial consultation for free, but a debt management plan does require a fee. However, a good credit counseling agency can get you out of the financial burden and give you more control over the situation.
You can also consider filing for bankruptcy in case of overwhelming credit card debts. There are two types of bankruptcy that could help you based on your situation:
- Chapter 13: You can create a plan for debt repayment while keeping your assets. This bankruptcy remains on a credit report for up to seven years.
- Chapter 7: You can get all your debts erased but some of your assets will be sold to pay your creditors.
Setting Up for Success
Not making credit card payments can result in credit-damaging and expensive consequences. You can avoid this by making the minimum due payment on time to avoid impacting your credit score and getting APR penalties and late fee charges.
Keeping track of your expenses and income by creating a budget can be a major step in avoiding missed payments. You can also set up automatic payments to make timely payments.
However, if you are struggling with your finances and know you would miss a payment or two, it is ideal to talk to your creditor to develop a better credit payment plan or consult a credit counseling agency for assistance.
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Race: It’s gotten personal for Obama
Finally, President Obama has spoken as a black man.
It wasn’t entirely on his own initiative, but a question he was asked about Trayvon Martin left him no choice. When he finally spoke, he began haltingly, as if his words were taking him out on a high wire with no net below. This was risky.
He said the safe things first: that the death of 17-year-old Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman in a Florida suburb was a tragedy. He said he sympathized with the parents, and that various law enforcement agencies should diligently investigate the matter. Then he took the plunge: “If I had a son,” Obama said, “he’d look like Trayvon.”
In other words, there but for the grace of God goes my son, another young black man likely to be put in harm’s way simply because of his skin color. In front of the cameras and microphones, Obama acknowledged not only that he is black but that even the president isn’t immune to stereotypes that can sometimes turn deadly. And it’s true. If Obama himself had been walking through a gated Florida community dressed in a hoodie with his face hidden, it’s not hard to imagine an overzealous neighborhood watch captain reporting his presence to the cops and trailing him as a suspicious-looking black guy.
Identifying as black is risky for Obama always, but identifying with working-class blacks — the kind the country sees as criminal, or at the very least potentially criminal — is risky on a whole other scale. That breaks the fantasy (if there’s any fantasy left) of Obama as the magic black “other,” a man who has little in common with young black men in hoodies with names like Trayvon. For Obama to embrace Trayvon Martin — linking him with his own children and calling him “this boy” with fatherly concern — gives the racially anxious one more reason for concern about the president.
The last time Obama commented publicly on a case of possible racial profiling was after Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.was arrested trying to force open the jammed door of his Cambridge home in 2009. After criticizing the arrest as “stupid,” the president got an avalanche of criticism and wound up sitting down for a beer in the White House garden with Gates and the white cop who arrested him. That meeting sent the wrong message, implying that racial profiling is an individual problem rather than a systemic one.
This time, Obama was speaking clearly to the systemic. But his almost physical struggle to strike the right tone was evidence of the kind of “double consciousness” that W.E.B. DuBois identified more than a century ago as the peculiar burden black folks bear in trying to be both black and American at the same time. Watching Obama trying to resolve that age-old conflict was truly historic and unexpectedly poignant.
The first time I heard Obama speak on this issue was in 2007, when he came to Los Angeles’ Crenshaw district to hold a campaign rally. I had watched his celebrated Philadelphia speech at the Democratic convention, the speech that put him on the map of national politics. It was brilliantly delivered but too soft-focus for my taste. But one of the things he said that day in Crenshaw was that voters were rightly fed up with the fact that too many people were in prison. He was partly telling the blacks in the crowd what they wanted to hear, but he was also giving voice to a long-standing racial grievance rarely expressed by any elected officials, much less presidential candidates.
Obama didn’t quite go all the way — he didn’t say “too many people of color are in prison” — but the implication was clear. He went further in his Trayvon Martin remarks by implying that a son of his who looked like Trayvon could have met the same end. He never used the word “black.” But his grave tone and choice of words had the ring of morality, stressing the idea of justice being done, advising us all to do some soul-searching. Most striking was how rattled the president appeared to be; for the master of cool, this truly seemed personal. It was a rare moment in which the normally abstract issues of black American injustice had a face, one of the most famous in the world.
But it was only a moment. Obama will now retreat from the fray and sincerely hope that he won’t be pressed to say anything else about Trayvon Martin, not in a reelection year. But the damage — or the liberation — has happened: the truth about Obama the black man has been revealed.
Erin Aubry Kaplan is a contributing writer to The Times’ Opinion pages and the author of “Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line.”
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Photographer Jim M. Goldstein discusses 9 types of lighting and how to harness these to improve your photographs. In an article posted at the Digital Photography School website, Jim says right lighting can make or break an image, setting the stage for others to see it as a snapshot or a photograph.
“Just as finding and seeing a subject is challenging, so too is finding lighting conducive to taking dramatic photographs,†Jim writes. “The Golden Hour is always referenced as a great time to take photos, but its not the only time to take photos with dramatic lighting. Training your eye to see dramatic light and the different variations of it takes some self-training.â€
In his post, Jim elaborates on side lighting, back lighting, rim lighting, ambient lighting, soft or diffuse light, hard light, spotlight, artificial lighting and the various combinations of lighting.
[Via: Digital Photography School]
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90 percent attend online classes, 76 students and 167 teachers infected with COVID-19
Asked whether an analysis was made of the teaching in primary and secondary schools, because the national platform is not fully used, Minister Carovska said that they regularly inform the public what challenges they face in such a year that affects all countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
90% of pupils and teachers, Carovska underlined, had no trouble taking part in online classes.
“The first trimester wrapped up by finalizing grades on Friday, without major challenges. Elementary and high school principals have stressed no significant issues and when obstacles arose they overcame them together with teaches and students’ families,” Carovka told the news briefing.
As of December 4, the Minister added, a total of 76 students and 167 teachers are currently infected with coronavirus.
“The shows that protocols are being fully implemented and the diseases has not spread in schools. Therefore, the current learning model should remain in place,” Carovska noted.
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This report describes the estimation of differences in price levels across 38 geographic areas in the United States. It is based on prices collected for the 2003 Consumer Price Index (CPI) comprising eight expenditure components: Apparel, Education, Food and Beverages, Housing, Medical Goods and Services, Recreation, Transport and Other Goods and Services. The geographic areas represent large metropolitan areas and combinations of smaller PSUs (primary sampling units) that are urban but not metropolitan, such as Bend in Oregon. This research follows the work of Kokoski, Moulton and Zieschang (1999) on interarea price levels that referred to the year 1989. One difference from the earlier studies is the procedure used in estimating the average prices of detailed items. A second difference is that an overall price level for all goods and services is presented, in addition to the price level for each of the component headings. The third difference is in the aggregation method, a relatively simple and transparent one that has been recently used in the international price comparison literature, the weighted Country Product Dummy (CPD) method [Deaton, Friedman, Alatas (2004), Sergey (2004), Diewert (2002), Rao (2002) and Selvanathan and Rao (1994), Silver (2004)].
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Indoor plants are one of the joys of life. It can make your living room or any other inner space appear surreal. But some indoor plants may need more care and others less. If you are searching for plants that need less care then you can find many options here. These low maintenance plants will heighten the beauty of your home environment. Your guests will get impressed.
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List of the Plants That Need Less care
Taking care of Pothos plants are simple. They are suitable for all kinds of indoor environments. You can even keep it in your powder rooms too. The plants can also handle low light. However, you have to keep the plant in soil rich in nutrients. Pothos also grow really well so you can keep them in places where there is more space.
There are many well-known species in the Cactaceae family that you can keep in your home. They are different to look at because of their shapes and spikes. So if you want to decorate your home then this is the best plant. It will provide a positive atmosphere in your home. So choose from the different varieties of plants indoors. You did not even have to water the plants as they can thrive in a dry atmosphere.
3. Heartleaf Philodendron
This plant can grow in any place in your house. You do not need to keep it always in the sun. If you like to keep the plants at hanging pots then this plant is suitable. The plants get the name Heartleaf Philodendron because of its heart-shaped leaves. So choose these plants for the indoors.
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4. Spider plant
This plant only needs less sun for its growth. However, if you keep it by the windows at your house the colour of the leaves will come out very well. The plants will also be able to thrive in artificial lighting. It will purify the air inside the house and keeps it always fresh. Hence this is a great addition to your home.
The colour of the lavender plants will give a pleasant feel for your home. It is one of the best plants that are best for indoor use. They do not grow well in areas where the humidity is high. So you can keep the plants in a pot at less humidity. So with the right light, the lavender plants can grow well indoors. You can water the plants one or two times a week. This is enough for the plants to thrive indoors. Give the best possible look at your house with gorgeous lavender plants.
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Taking care and growing the snake plant is very easy. Keep the plants at indirect sunlight for it to grow well. The soil needs to get drained well for it to grow. You can use a simple fertilizer for the plants to grow well. There are many types of snake plants available for you. Choose the one you love the most and grow it at your house.
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The aloe plant does not need more water to grow. The plant can also thrive at dry soil. There are also many beauty and health benefits offered by aloe plants so this is a definite addition. Keep the plant at a warm place for it to grow well. The aloe plants grow in similar shapes that will offer your home a good appeal. To make your home look green and serene this is the best plant.
8. Peace Lily
Many plant lovers prefer peace lily because of its pretty flowers and leaves. The plant is an adaptable variety. It is also low maintenance so taking care of it is easy for many. This plant is available in many sizes too so pick the size that suits your home.
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It sounds like an assignment from a creative writing class -- make up a story about how the captain and crew vanished from a boat found drifting on the high seas.
It's not. It's a real-life riddle that Australian investigators are trying to solve by piecing together the movements of the High Aim 6 between Oct. 31, when it left the port of Liuchiu, and Jan. 8, when it was boarded by navy personnel 250km off the west coast of Broome in Western Australia.
The first guess was that the Taiwanese-owned, Indonesian-flagged fishing boat ran out of fuel, leaving those on board with the option of drifting out into the Indian Ocean or taking to the lifeboats and seeking a safe shore on Australia's west coast.
But that theory is easily dismissed. There was plenty of fuel, as well as food and water, on the modern long-line fishing boat -- and there is no evidence that lifeboats were launched.
Another possibility is that the 20m vessel was boarded by pirates sometime late in December after the owners, Tsai Huang Shueh-er, spoke by radio telephone to the captain.
This also seems unlikely. There was no sign of a struggle and the hijackers almost certainly would have made off with the boat.
Personal belongings were found on the 130-tonne vessel. There were seven toothbrushes -- indicating that as well as the Taiwanese captain and first mate there were at least five Indonesian crew.
The initial suspicions were that the High Aim 6 was carrying illegal migrants intending to claim asylum when they reached Australia.
But in the hold was a catch of rotting fish, evidence that the ship was a legitimate fishing vessel.
Australian investigators freely admit that they are stumped.
Geoff Rohan, of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, is even considering the possibility that the High Aim 6 may have drifted without a crew from the US' Marshall Islands, its last known location.
A search of 24,000km2 around where the boat was intercepted has failed to find any trace of the captain and crew.
Police spokesman Bill Graham said that "as time goes on, the prospects of locating the crew alive decrease."
Among the oddities is that when the High Aim 6 was first sighted, the motor was running and the propeller was turning. The ship was underway.
But when it was boarded five days later, the engine was dead. The rudder lock was on, forcing the ship to drift in one direction rather than float around in circles.
A line of enquiry is that the boat was in the vicinity of South Pacific cyclones at the start of the month. The gale-force winds could have sparked an emergency that forced the crew to leave their ship.
But that, too, is a long shot.
Lee Ah-duey, director of the Liu Chiou District Fishing Association in southern Taiwan said that the best clue into their fate is a record of calls made on Bali with a mobile phone belonging to the chief engineer, Lin Chung-lee (林中立).
Phone records show that 87 local calls were made on Bali with the phone, said Lee, who had no other details.
The crew's disappearance in calm waters is reminiscent of the ill-fated Marie Celeste, found drifting in the Atlantic in 1872.
That mystery wasn't solved.
Police have detained a Taoyuan couple suspected of over the past two months colluding with human trafficking rings and employment scammers in Southeast Asia to send nearly 100 Taiwanese jobseekers to Cambodia. At a media briefing in Taipei yesterday, the Criminal Investigation Bureau presented items seized from the couple, including alleged victims’ passports, forged COVID-19 vaccination records, mobile phones, bank documents, checks and cash. The man, surnamed Tsai (蔡), and his girlfriend, surnamed Tsan (詹), were taken into custody last month, after police at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport stopped four jobseekers from boarding a flight to Phnom Penh, said Dustin Lee (李泱輯),
BILINGUAL PLAN: The 17 educators were recruited under a program that seeks to empower Taiwanese, the envoy to the Philippines said The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines on Thursday hosted a send-off event for the first group of English-language teachers from the country who were recruited for a Ministry of Education-initiated program to advance bilingual education in Taiwan. The 14 teachers and three teaching assistants are part of the Taiwan Foreign English Teacher Program, which aims to help find English-language instructors for Taiwan’s public elementary and junior-high schools, the office said. Seventy-seven teachers and 11 teaching assistants from the Philippines have been hired to teach in Taiwan in the coming school year, office data showed. Among the first group is 57-year-old
TRICKED INTO MOVING: Local governments in China do not offer any help, and Taiwanese there must compete with Chinese in an unfamiliar setting, a researcher said Beijing’s incentives for Taiwanese businesspeople to invest in China are only intended to lure them across the Taiwan Strait, after which they receive no real support, an expert said on Sunday. Over the past few years, Beijing has been offering a number of incentives that “benefit Taiwanese in name, while benefiting China in reality,” a cross-strait affairs expert said on condition of anonymity. Strategies such as the “31 incentives” are intended to lure Taiwanese talent, capital and technology to help address China’s economic issues while also furthering its “united front” efforts, they said. Local governments in China do not offer much practical
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A lot of discussion can be had over whether the guitar should be tuned by ear or with the help of an electronic device. As we’re about to see, tuning by ear has multiple benefits over the “easier” path of using a tuner.
Guitars go out of tune for all sorts of different reasons, and you won’t always have an electronic tuner around to help you out. For quick, on-the-fly tuning, tuning by ear reigns supreme.
By the end of this guide on how to tune a guitar for beginners, you’ll know how to tune your guitar with just your hands and ears, popular alternate tunings, and how to check that you’ve tuned correctly by using a piano.
Why You Should Tune Your Guitar By Ear (Instead of Relying on an Electronic Tuner)
Learning how to tune a guitar with a tuner is easy. You’ve probably got one of the thousand-and-one guitar tuner phone apps or software that can pick up your guitar sound, analyse the frequencies and tell you how you should turn your tuning pegs. You can find electronic tuner boxes all around any guitar shop. Maybe there’s even one built into your acoustic guitar.
So why am I encouraging you to practice tuning by ear?
It’s because it lays the foundation of pitch ear training. If you can understand the pitch relationships between notes and become sensitive to details of tuning just by consistently tuning your guitar every day, you’ll have built a solid foundation of pitch skills.
After a month’s practice, you’ll be able to strum once and instantly tell whether the guitar is in tune or not, and a little after that you will even be able to tell straight-off which string sounds different than it should. So tuning by ear lays the basic foundation for understanding notes just by listening. Some guitarists even use it as the basis for developing perfect pitch.
Step By Step Instructions For Tuning A Guitar By Ear
Here is our guide to how to standard tune your guitar by ear. But before we dive into the nitty-gritty of tuning, it’s important to understand the basics of your guitar.
Prepare: Check Your Pegs
If you haven’t tuned your guitar before, take a moment to familiarise yourself with your tuning pegs. Depending on whether your pegs are all on one side (electric style) or three on each side (acoustic style) and whether the guitar has been strung in the normal way, the directionality of each peg might vary.
You want to find out: does turning the peg clockwise make the string tighter (and its pitch higher) or looser (and its pitch lower)?
Once you get familiar with this setup on your guitar it will become instinctive and you won’t need to think about it again.
Prepare: Understand How Guitar Strings Work
When you’re looking down at the six strings of your guitar, you’ll notice that the strings go from thickest to thinnest. The topmost thickest one is your low E string, also called the sixth string. Following that, the next thickest is A, or the fifth string, and so on, all the way to your first string (the high E). The pitch order of strings in standard tuning, from sixth string to first string, and therefore from lowest to highest, is EADGBE. We always tune in “reverse” order, starting with the sixth string, or low E, and continuing in order all the way to the first string, or high E.
You can help yourself remember this pitch sequence with a mnemonic, such as “Every Apple Does Go Bad Eventually”. For for something more ominous, you can use “Eddie Ate Dynamite Good Bye Eddie”.
Now that you know how pegs and strings work, you are ready to begin. Lowest string first…
Sixth String: Low E
Listen to any example of a “correct” E note as your reference pitch. For example you can use a recording of a standard E note like the one below and play it in your speakers, or use a pitch pipe. Listen, and play the E string of your guitar.
If you use a guitar sound, pitch pipe or other simple “tone” it is comparatively easy to tune by ear. If you have to use another instrument such as a nearby piano, you might find the difference in timbre makes it harder to compare the notes’ pitches.
Now, after playing the reference E note, let the sixth string of your guitar ring, and if you find the two sound perfectly the same, then your sixth string is in tune. More likely you will hear a slight clash (discord) which means your guitar string is slightly out of tune.
As you practice tuning and do pitch ear training you’ll find you can directly hear whether your guitar string is too high or too low. At first it might take a bit of experimentation.
Slowly rotate the tuning peg of your sixth string, gradually adjusting in one direction to see if the two notes come into agreement. If they don’t, and you hear that the pitches are becoming further apart, simply reverse your direction and adjust pitch until the two notes match.
Note: The tension of the string shouldn’t become too high (i.e. tight) or too low (i.e. loose). This means you are trying to tune the string into either a higher octave, where the note would match but the string would become so tight it might snap, or a lower octave, where the string would become unplayably loose.
Fifth string: A
Once the E string is in tune, you can put your reference note aside – from here you can tune the other strings based on your (now nicely-tuned) sixth string.
On the E string, playing the 5th fret should produce the same note as the open A string. So, place your finger on the 5th fret and play both the E string and the A string one by one. If the A string sounds higher, rotate its tuning peg to lower its pitch. If it sounds lower, rotate it the other way. Until and unless you feel that the notes sound exactly the same when played in unison, you should adjust the tuning peg accordingly.
Fourth string: D
The note on the 5th fret of the A string you just tuned will be same as the open note of the D string you’ll tune next. Play the two strings in unison, by placing your finger of 5th fret of the fifth string and ringing the open note of the fourth string. Listen for whether the two notes are the same, in close discord, or have a noticeable gap in pitch. Adjust your tuning peg until you hear they are perfectly tuned.
Third string: G
Timbre problems may arise when you try to tune your third string (which represents the G note) to the fourth string. This is because on both acoustic and electric guitars there is typically a change in string type: either from nylon to steel or from single strings to wound strings. This affects the timbre of the note and can make it harder to directly compare pitches. Don’t worry, you’ll get the hang of this soon enough!
Now you should be getting the hang of the process as you tune your third string, which should be a G note. On the 5th fret of your fourth string is a G, so you can use this to tune your third string’s open note. Once again, listen to it and check if they sound similar. If not, turn the tuning peg for higher or lower pitch until they match.
Second string: B
Place your finger on the 4th fret of the third string, which will produce a B, the same as the open note of your second string. Or at least, it will be once you tune up that second string! Adjust your B string, until the two notes sound alike.
Pro Tip: It’s the 4th fret we use this time, not the 5th!
First string: High E
Finally the last one, your high E string. You can tune this in two ways:
- Since your low E string is already tuned, you can tune your high E by referring to this one. However, note that they are actually two octaves apart, so you may find this gap makes it difficult to compare the two pitches.
- If you are new to tuning you might want to avoid that, and instead continue with the method we have been using: place your finger on the 5th fret of the second (B) string, and you will play an E which exactly matches your open first string. Again, rotate counter-clockwise for higher pitch and clockwise for lower pitch.
Finish up the tuning process by checking each of those note pairs in turn, from your low E and A string on up. Check the low E against your source note again. If any don’t sound quite correct, adjust the peg to make them match, but make sure you follow the low-to-high sequence again. This means that if the pair of notes don’t match, adjust the tuning of the higher string to match the lower one. This way your tuning is always rooted on your low E string. If you have access to a reference note for the high E string you can also check that one directly.
Finally, strum a few chords and play a riff or two. Does anything sound strange or wrong with the tuning? If so, listen carefully and try to identify which string is to blame. Then return to your note pair comparisons to make the required fix.
Pro Tip: The above method also works for the 12-string guitar, with some tweaks. Also, because its four strings follow the same tuning as the lowest four strings of the guitar (EADG), this method can be used to tune the bass.
How Do I Know If I’ve Tuned Correctly?
When you’re just starting to tune your guitar by ear, you’ll want to check that you’ve done it right. This can be achieved in several ways. You’ll feel tempted to simply tune with these methods to begin with, but we encourage you to resist the temptation! Use these methods to double-check that your tuning by ear was done correctly.
Check with a Tuner
Broadly speaking, there are three types of tuners out there that you can use, with each suited to different scenarios.
A standard tuner is a rectangular, “box-shape” tuner that tells you if and by how much your note is off-pitch from standard tuning. It can be used with both electric and acoustic guitars; the built-in microphone picks up on the pitch you are playing, or you can use the tuner’s input jack for a more precise reading for electric or electroacoustic guitars.
A pedal tuner is simply a guitar pedal that simply checks the pitch of your strings instead of laying fuzz or distortion over your sound. They are incredibly precise, but unfortunately only work with electric or electroacoustic guitars.
A headstock tuner will clip onto your guitar, sensing the pitch of a string through the vibrations created when you pluck a string, and telling you whether your note is flattened, sharpened, or just right. If you’re wondering how to most accurately tune a classical guitar, this is it.
Also, if you were wondering whether you can tune a ukulele with a guitar tuner, the answer is absolutely yes: many headstock tuners have a “ukulele” setting.
Pick one that works with your guitar, and see how accurate your tuning by ear is!
Check with a Piano
As well as being an easy and reliable way to check your tuning, this is a good ear training exercise for recognizing the same pitch on two different instruments. Simply compare the pitch of each string to the pitch of the corresponding key on the piano.
The best part is, you don’t even have to worry about an octave difference. Here’s a cheat sheet for which keys correspond to each pitch for guitar standard tuning; the numbers designate the note’s position from the left on a standard piano keyboard. For example, D3 is the third-lowest D key on the piano. Middle C is shown in orange:
The tuning method we’ve presented above is the most common method used by guitarists for many years. However, there are other ways.
Our friend Gerald Klickstein, classical guitarists and author of The Musician’s Way, has gone quite deep on the subject and even written a whole book on guitar tuning – Tuning the Guitar by Ear. Yet even with his erudition, his goal has been to make tuning more simple, fast, and effective. Read a wonderful summary of his method of Pain-Free Tuning.
The tuning EADGBE is known as standard tuning, and is the most popular.
However, it is far from being your only option. You can alter the tuning of a string or two to open up a whole new way of playing, with chords that would be impossible in standard tuning! The best part: you can do this with just your hands and ears, no tuner necessary. Electronic tuners often don’t have settings for these alternate tunings, so it’s incredibly useful to be able to do this by ear!
If you want to push limits of your guitar playing and songwriting, try one of the following alternate tunings. With each one, you’ll want to start in standard EADGBE tuning, and tweak accordingly.
How to Tune a Guitar a Half-Step Down
You may see some guitar tabs asking that you tune each string a half-step down. Fear not – this isn’t nearly as much of a pain as you may think.
- Fret the fifth (A) string at the sixth fret. This will produce an Eb, which you will use as a reference note to tune your sixth string.
- Fret the newly Eb-tuned sixth string at the fifth fret. This will produce an Ab, which you will use as a reference note to tune your fifth string.
- Fret the newly Ab-tuned fifth string at the fifth fret. This will produce a Db, which you will use as a reference note to tune your fourth string.
- Fret the newly Db-tuned fourth string at the fifth fret. This will produce a Gb, which you will use as a reference note to tune your third string.
- Fret the newly Gb-tuned third string at the fourth fret. This will produce a Bb, which you will use as a reference note to tune your second string.
- Fret the newly Bb-tuned second string at the fifth fret. This will produce an Eb, which you will use as a reference note to tune your first (top) string.
How to Tune a Guitar to Drop D
Drop D tuning differs from standard tuning in only one way: the sixth string is tuned down one tone, from E to D, resulting in DADGBE tuning.
To drop D tune a guitar, simply lower your sixth string by a whole tone by comparing it to the open fourth D string:
This is one of the simplest tunings, and is popular in blues, country, and folk.
How to Tune a Guitar to Open G
In this tuning, strumming your guitar without putting any fingers on the fretboard will result in a G chord. The pitch pattern will be DGDGBD.
Start by lowering your sixth and first strings from E to D by comparing them to the open fourth string. Then, lower your fifth string by a whole tone by comparing it to the third string. This may take a bit of practice because of the octave difference, but will soon become second nature!
In this tuning, you can play any major chord simply by barring your finger across different frets – no need for complicated chord shapes!
Open G tuning is popular in blues and rock, most notably because of Keith Richards, who wrote the riffs for many of the Rolling Stones’ most popular songs with this tuning. If you want to cover “Brown Sugar” or “Gimme Shelter”, do it in open G!
How to Tune a Guitar to Drop C
Drop C tuning, or CGCFAD, creates a heavier, lower sound on your guitar. This tuning is more advanced than the previous ones, as it requires you to change the pitch of every string. As always, start in standard tuning. Then:
- Fret the fifth (A) string at the third fret. This is your reference for what the sixth string should sound like, although the sixth string should be one octave lower.
- Fret the newly C-tuned sixth string at the seventh fret. This will produce a G, which you will use as a reference note to tune your fifth string.
- Fret the newly G-tuned fifth string at the fifth fret. This will produce a C, which you will use as a reference note to tune your fourth string.
- Fret the newly C-tuned fourth string at the fifth fret. This will produce an F, which you will use as a reference note to tune your third string.
- Fret the newly F-tuned third string at the fourth fret. This will produce an A, which you will use as a reference note to tune your second string.
- Fret the newly A-tuned second string at the fifth fret. This will produce a D, which you will use as a reference note to tune your second string.
Tuning By Ear While Training Your Ear
The first few times you tune a guitar by ear, it can be frustrating – sometimes you just can’t track down that strange-sounding string. It may be tempting to reach for that electronic tuner, but don’t give up! Your ear will steadily get better and better at recognizing those “off” notes, and tweaking them to the right pitch.
Best of all, your sensitivity to pitch will improve considerably, making you a better musician all-round, and helping you with your improvisation, singing, songwriting, and more.
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On the campaign trail, Mauricio Macri vowed to fight inflation. Now, three years into his administration, it looks like that requires more commitment than he and his team of economic advisors envisioned. Argentina ended 2018 with an annual inflation rate of 47.6 percent. That is the highest rate since the early 1990s, when Argentina’s bout with hyperinflation came to an end. With this in mind, some (including John Cochrane, Steve Hanke, and Mary Anastasia O’Grady) have called for Argentina to abandon the peso in favor of the dollar.
Dollarization became a relevant policy option in Latin America beginning around 2000. Ecuador dollarized in January 2000. El Salvador dollarized in 2001. But Argentina, which had established a currency board in 1991, moved in the opposite direction following its 2001 crisis. On January 6, 2002, it broke its one-for-one peg with the dollar. The results have been disastrous.
The argument for dollarization is relatively straightforward. Argentina has shown itself incapable of managing the money supply appropriately. The annual rate of inflation has averaged an astounding 55 percent since the central bank was founded in 1935. It would do better by outsourcing its monetary policy. Half measures, like adopting a fixed exchange rate or establishing an orthodox currency board, might work elsewhere. But Argentina has in the past broken the promises implicit in those reforms. In order for its commitment to be credible now, it must go all the way. Replacing the peso with the dollar would remove any potential for the central bank to monetize government debts and put pressure on the Treasury to balance its budget. Inflation expectations would plummet. And low and stable inflation would follow.
Straightforward as the reform is, calls for dollarization in Argentina have largely fallen on deaf ears. Some fret about the consequent loss of monetary policy. Some argue that the requisite reforms would make dollarization unnecessary. Those holding such views cling to the possible, while ignoring the probable.
Dollarization and Domestic Monetary Policy
When a country adopts the dollar, it loses the ability to conduct independent monetary policy. It has no control over the supply of dollars in circulation. If the Federal Reserve engages in expansionary monetary policy, dollarized countries get expansionary monetary policy. If the Fed engages in contractionary monetary policy, dollarized countries get contractionary monetary policy. In other words, dollarized countries are stuck with whatever monetary policy the Fed pursues—and there is little reason to think the Fed will take those dollarized countries into account when setting policy.
Those opposed to dollarization see the outsourcing of monetary policy as a cost. They note that a well-functioning central bank might do a better job than the monetary policy imported from abroad. If the demand for money were to increase in Argentina, for example, the domestic central bank could offset the increase in demand with a corresponding increase in supply to prevent a recession. Without a domestic central bank, changes in the demand for money in Argentina are likely to be ignored. Hence, those opposed to dollarization conclude, Argentina would be better off having its own currency managed by a domestic central bank.
There is no denying that dollarization would prevent Argentina from conducting effective monetary policy. But that is hardly a cost if Argentina is unlikely to conduct effective monetary policy anyway. Argentina has not conducted effective monetary policy in the past. And there is little reason to believe it will conduct monetary policy any better in the future. One should not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. The first-best solution, where the central bank carefully manages the supply of pesos, is possible. But it is highly improbable. Therefore, the second-best solution of dollarization is probably the best one can hope for.
Dollarization and the Requisite Institutional Reforms
Dollarization is not a panacea. Argentina faces many problems. Its structural deficit, for example, is out of control. The government spends too much and taxes too little. If Argentina is to prosper going forward, fiscal reform is essential.
But the structural deficit—and corresponding ballooning of outstanding debt—is in large part why peso holders have such high inflation expectations. They worry, quite reasonably, that the central bank will print money to extinguish growing debts, that their deposit balances will be converted to treasury bonds prior to an inevitable default. And, perversely, these high inflation expectations necessitate monetary expansion in order to keep money from becoming too tight. By relieving the underlying pressure responsible for high inflation, those opposed to dollarization claim, the requisite fiscal reforms make dollarization unnecessary.
They are correct, so far as it goes. If the requisite fiscal reform were made, there would be little reason to dollarize. But, once again, one must distinguish the possible from the probable. It is possible that the fiscal authority will submit to the requisite reform despite having access to a central bank that might be called upon to monetize the debt. But the odds of implementing such reforms are much improved when the potential for monetization is removed.
The Case for Dollarization
As noted, dollarization is not a first-best solution. It precludes effective monetary policy. It is unnecessary when a country has its fiscal affairs are in order. For these reasons, dollarization is entirely inappropriate for most countries.
But Argentina is not like most countries. It has a history of fiscal profligacy and monetary mismanagement. It has failed, time and time again, to honor its commitments. As a result, the first-best solution is unobtainable in Argentina. It must settle for second-best.
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The MutL family of mismatch repair proteins belongs to the GHKL class of ATPases, which contains also type II topoisomerases, HSP90, and histidine kinases. The nucleotide binding domains of these polypeptides are highly conserved, but this similarity has failed to help us understand the biological role of the ATPase activity of the MutL proteins in mismatch repair. hMutLalpha is a heterodimer of the human MutL homologues hMLH1 and hPMS2, and we decided to exploit its asymmetry to study this function. We now show that although the two subunits contribute differently to the ATPase activity of the heterodimer, hMutLalpha variants in which one subunit was able to bind but not hydrolyze ATP displayed similarly reduced mismatch repair activities in vitro. In contrast, variants in which either subunit was unable to bind the nucleotide were inactive. Mutation of the catalytic sites of both subunits abolished repair without altering the ability of these peptides to interact with one another. Since the binding of the nucleotide in hMutLalpha was not required for the formation of ternary complexes with the mismatch recognition factor hMutSalpha bound to a heteroduplex substrate, we propose that the ATPase activity of hMutLalpha is required downstream from this process. | <urn:uuid:0c5bca6b-2ef8-426d-ba23-125ba979c942> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/31260/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941265 | 280 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Have you ever wondered what are the main threats have concerns the banks and financial institutions? Several survey have been conducted and apart small differenced of on numbers they all have evidenced that Top fraud threats are
When these frauds are detected? The major part of the incidents are evidenced by the customers, the final victims. We are speaking of a percentage that is around the 80%,numbers that are worrying and highlight the difficulty of approaching a problem. Institutions feel prepared to prevent classic card fraud like check fraud and money laundering but it is not a new that these institutions are not so skilled to fight the new threat represented by cybercrime. We have observed an exponential escalation of malware attacks which target transactions, this kind of fraud is increasing respect the others.
Cyber threats are among those that are of particular concern and the reason is understandable analyzing the number of transitions that are made every second all over the word. A boundless ocean from which to “fish” and within each control and prevention is very difficult. Compounding the scenario is the same technological evolution, increasingly complex and sophisticated malware able to attack advanced platforms to provide miscellaneous services to customers and internal staff. Easy for those malware typically found before then next-generation agents that take advantage of 0 day vulnerability and from them is really hard to implement prevention policies.
But what are the main threats that the world of finance is concerned?
Attacck DDOS, spearphishing, malware as Zeus and SpyEye … but what would happen if all these components come together in one combined action? The threat could cause much damages, and if you think that is the result of my paranoia then read what I have to tell you:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recently warned consumers about a scam multiprong That Involves the use of spearphishing, the Zeus Trojan horses, DDoS attacks, and a jewelry heist.The spam campaign pretends to be Legitimate e-mails from the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA), advising the user there is a problem with the ACH transaction at Their bank. They click on the link Once They Are infected with a variant of the Zeus Trojan known as GameOver, Which Is Able to keylog and steal information Their Their online banking credentials, the Denver FBI Cyber Squad explained. “After the accounts are compromised, the perpetrators conduct a DDoS attack on the financial institution. The belief is the DDoS is used to deflect attention from the wire transfers as well to make them unable to reverse the transactions (if found). A portion of the wire transfers (not all) are being transmitted directly to high-end jewelry stores, wherein the money mule comes to the actual store to pick up his $100K in jewels (or whatever dollar amount was wired)”, the FBI explained.
I could finally give some additional information on the potential related to a malware that is designed to attack the banking sector.Let’s introduce for example Zeus, a Trojan developed to steal banking information by keystroke logging and form grabbing. Zeus is spread mainly through drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. In June 2009 the company Prevx has discovered that Zeus had compromised over 75,000 FTP accounts on websites of such companies as the Bank of America, NASA, Monster, ABC, Oracle, Play.com, Cisco, Amazon, and BusinessWeek. To give a dimension of the phenomenon the various Zeus’ botnets has been calculated to include to include aroind 4 millions of compromised computers only in USA. As of October 28, 2009 over 1.5 million phishing messages were sent on Facebook with the purpose of spreading the Zeus’ trojan.
It was still active in 2010.On July 14, 2010, security firm Trusteer filed a report, which says that the credit cards of more than 15 unnamed US banks have been compromised. The number of computers infected with the ZeuS banking trojan is four times higher than that of systems infected with SpyEye, according to statistics compiled by Trusteer.
Consider that the economic impact on the institutions is really high due direct fraud and other indirect voices like loss of productivity and loss of customer confidence. Of course, managing customer trust is tricky in consideration of the increase of cyber attacks like the phishing threat, where customers may think their institution has been breached even though that’s not the case.
Banks and similar institutions are responding to the threat in different way:
The awareness of the threat and the attention that the economic/financial world are paying for these new forms of fraud, a hopeful sign that the fight will be tough but that we are ready to deal with the right energy.
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Located along Florida’s I-4 High Tech Corridor, Florida Poly opened
its doors in August 2014 as the state’s 12th university and the
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Enrollment Data Scientist & Econometrician
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Florida’s only public university exclusively teaching science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is looking for exceptional
candidates to serve as the Enrollment Data Scientist &
The enrollment data scientist & econometrician will assist
enrollment operations to build forecasts and analytical reports
through quantitative data mining, statistical analyses, and
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- Employ statistical / microeconomics/econometrics / behavioral
economics to assess and analyze student consumer data by working
directly with data sources and the admissions and financial aid
- Explore new data sources related to student consumers. Work
with various data sources and platforms to gather data.
- Develop analytic frameworks to support research efforts in
demand forecasting to enhance the University’s capability in making
strategic recruitment decisions in a public STEM university and
highly competitive market environment.
- Support the deployment of analytical tools to business
partners. Maintain and enhance previously developed models and
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results. Help staff uncover hidden opportunities using data and
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recommendations for new metrics, techniques, and strategies to
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models, metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key
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APPLICATION DEADLINE DATE
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APPLICATION DEADLINE DATE
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Florida Polytechnic University is an equal opportunity/equal access
institution. It is the policy of the Board of Trustees to provide
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all (including applicants for employment, employees, applicants for
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without regard to race, color, national origin, ethnicity, sex,
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- Only during the first semester of 2022, 3 murders of medical trainees were reported in the country.
- All students must complete 12 months of social work in order to graduate from university.
- One of the main problems at this point is that the model has not been updated in more than half a century.
Over the past few days there has been a discussion Social work in medicine. Every part of the conditions youngsters face during this stage of the race. Although not all but a large number of them were sent to rural areas where high levels of insecurity prevail. For this reason, assaults on aspiring physicians are constantly reported.
An old and outdated practice
Part of the problem is that there are no updates for this commit. For more than 70 years, no changes have been made in legislation despite the fact that the world is not what it used to be.
While the discussion escalated due to the fact that students not only face blows or verbal insults. There were also reports of students being killed in the line of duty. During the first half of 2022 alone, three fatal accidents occurred, each with a name and surname.
- Mariana Sanchez – January 28.
- Luis Fernando Montes de Oca Armas – June 30.
- Eric David Andrade Ramirez – July 15th.
Faced with this scenario, there are more and more voices asking Abolition of social service in medicine. In addition to the danger, it is also criticized that the supplies available to young people are few and not sufficient to care for the sick. Basics like diabetes test strips or baby scales have been documented not working.
Similarly it is mentioned that To provide a professional service to patients, you must have real health professionals, not students. Although one of the reasons, although the government does not recognize this, is the lack of budget.
Little and insignificant support during social service in medicine
In view of the above, it is preferable to send only young people who They get a minimum scholarship of 2500-3000 pesos per month. It is a minimum number that is not sufficient to cover basic expenses.
For the same reason, students often have to live inside health centers or ask any rural citizen about elderly care.
After all the above mentioned the doctor and the analyst Xavier Tello He became one of the main critics Social work in medicine. Although he didn’t ask for it to be removed, he said the ideal would be to change the last year of student training entirely.
Greetings, Dr. Gamba.
Four proposals if we really want year six to be one of learning. pic.twitter.com/WKh8cJJlUC
– Xavier Tello (@StratCons) 25 July 2022
Since it is not only about cash but also presentation, you have four options that would be it They will replace the sixth year of racing. Anyone can help train students and not expose them as it is currently happening.
- An additional year of university training in a hospital.
- 12 months internship in a research lab.
- One year of supervised practice in formal family medicine units.
- Academic development in new fields to disseminate knowledge in the field of health.
At the moment, what is your opinion of social work in medicine?
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A friend of mine got a new router/modem for his Verizon 5G home internet, and he noticed the installation tech visiting a hidden UI that wasn’t available to him. Naturally, we both thought that was unacceptable and set about hacking the router so we could see what secrets it held. We discovered something interesting: the single box contained two separate Linux systems, running a Frankenstein combination of OpenWRT and Android and communicating across a hidden virtual Ethernet link. We also got some CVEs, including a backdoor password generation system and some good ol' unauthenticated command injection.
You can find our writeup here: https://github.com/JousterL/SecWriteups/blob/main/Verizon%20LVSKIHP%205G%20Modem/readme.md
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All - آل meanings in English
All - آل Definitions
Please find 6 English and definitions related to the word All - آل.
- (noun) : a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- (noun) : people descended from a common ancestor
- (noun) : an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
- (noun) : a person having kinship with another or others
- (noun) : (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
- (noun) : primary social group; parents and children
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What do you mean by all?
Meanings of all are aquosity and family
Whats the definition of all?
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- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
- people descended from a common ancestor
- an association of people who share common beliefs or activities
- a person having kinship with another or others
- (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera
- primary social group; parents and children
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Synonym of word all are نمی, تری, گیل, سیل, آل, گھر, خاندان, قبیلہ, کٹمب, کنبہ
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- Dead men are of no family and are akin to none
- It is easier to rule a kingdom than a family
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Hackers always try to stay at least one step ahead of their victims. This often means using the technology we know and love as a launching pad to wreak havoc.
Fortunately, you can protect yourself. Below, we’ll reveal some telling examples of different types of hacks, and provide some tips to keep you and your family safe.
How problematic is smart home tech hacking?
Many homes today are progressively “smarter,” allowing residents to unlock doors, change room lights, adjust the thermostat, and play their favorite songs, all with just a few clicks in the room. a smartphone application. Indeed, these houses offer an increasingly vast assortment of connected gadgets.
In 2021, 32% of households in the United States had smart speakers, up from 24% in 2020. These gadgets allow people to check the weather, purchase products, check the status of a shipment, and even book taxis using specific voice commands. .
People generally appreciate the convenience of smart home technology. For example, someone might change the settings so that they always come home from work in a warm, well-lit house on a cold winter evening. Alternatively, they could have a smart lock allow a dog walker to enter their empty house, but not a delivery driver.
Smart home technology is convenient, but hackers can use it in sinister ways. In 2019, for example, a couple with numerous smart home devices in Wisconsin said an unknown party had exploited the technology. The intruder spoke to them through a speaker, made the house temperature extremely high, and played loud music through a connected video system.
How to stay safe from smart home hackers
There are several things you can do to protect yourself. First and foremost, make sure that your smart home’s software and hardware are always up to date.
It’s also worth thinking about the company you buy your devices from. Not all brands use the same levels of security; prioritize those who take it most seriously.
Of course, it’s also crucial to take action once you’ve purchased and updated your smart home technology. Make sure you don’t share device details with people outside your household, and the same goes for sharing your Wi-Fi password.
Bluetooth scanner hacking
Most people know how important it is to put their laptops in the trunk of the car or not see them if they leave them unattended. Unfortunately, keeping computers hidden is not necessarily a strong enough measure against theft.
Perhaps you’ve read a relevant news article or listened to the experience of a friend walking to a parked car and finding someone smashed the windows. However, these so-called smash-and-grab incidents are not always random occurrences.
It is increasingly common for thieves to take advantage of the built-in Bluetooth technology associated with most laptops and many other devices. They use readily available and easy to use bluetooth scanners that help them find gadgets.
A person who was the victim of laptop theft due to a car break-in said they had many other valuables in the car, but the thieves left these items intact. This made him suspect that the criminal had a specific tool to locate nearby electronic devices.
Many Bluetooth enabled devices emit signal beacons, even in sleep mode or when someone puts a closed laptop in a bag. If a person has a scanner, they can easily wander the rows of parked cars, waiting for signs of activity that they will use to plan which vehicles to hit.
How to protect yourself from bluetooth scanner hackers
You can protect yourself from bluetooth scanner hacks by keeping your laptop with you when possible. If you need to get away from it, consider storing it somewhere that’s hard for others to reach.
While your laptop is stored away, it’s also worth checking to see if you can temporarily turn off the Bluetooth signal. If you can, make sure you do.
Hackers will stop at nothing to orchestrate their attacks. As an example, they often use someone’s death as the basis of their strategy. They could even take content from a deceased person and use it to create scams that affect people in that person’s network.
Consider a case where a deceased person used an easy-to-guess social media password and failed to take steps to have the account remembered after their death. A hacker could use the account for questionable purposes. In one case, a woman received harassing messages from the social media account of a deceased friend. She knew that blocking the account would silence the offending party, but hesitated as she had no other connection to her deceased loved one.
Cybercriminals could also pose as someone who is no longer alive and target people who are unaware of the death. There might be several people in your friend network that you don’t follow outside of social media, and haven’t seen in person for many years. If so, you know how easily it can happen.
However, hackers don’t always rely on social media for their death-related hacks. For example, many inheritance scams attempt to trick supposed heirs to pay money for taxes or fees and in return get millions of dollars transferred to their bank accounts. These scams usually arrive via email and claim that the recipient unknowingly had a relative in a faraway country.
How to protect yourself from death-related hacks
It might seem a bit difficult to take care of yourself when you no longer exist, but there are several things you can do while you are still alive. First, give someone you trust access to your account after you die.
If you are taking care of someone else’s business after they die, it is important to be wary of any new “surprises” about inheritances or heirs. This is especially important if you don’t know the person who is communicating with you.
Credit card hacking
Most people have occasionally found unexpected charges on their credit cards. Hacking enhancements make it even easier for criminals to plan such attacks.
A recently discovered flaw with Apple Pay allowed hackers to steal money from someone’s account through their locked iPhone. This is a dangerous problem, especially as more and more people choose to pay by contactless methods these days.
Criminals also set up tiny card skimmers that exploit people who pay for gasoline at the pump, buy things from convenience stores, and perform other daily transactions. These devices collect and transmit card data, which means hackers could easily receive payment details and then try to use them to complete large transactions without the card user’s financial institution reporting it. .
Credit card hacks also happen online. Specifically, cybercriminals install malware that can capture people’s keystrokes while entering payment information. This technique works the same as a physical protein skimmer. It’s easier to get by on poorly maintained websites that have outdated software or other vulnerabilities.
How to protect yourself from credit card hacks
Credit card hacks are hard to solve, but you can protect yourself by being proactive. It is important to look for signs that a card reader has been compromised. For example, you need to look for moving parts.
It’s also important to check your bank accounts and check for any unexpected activity. If anything seems suspicious to you, contact your supplier as soon as possible.
Protect yourself from hackers
You can’t prevent all of these hacks, but being careful not to trust people too quickly is a great way to stay safe. Keep your private information as well protected as possible. Don’t immediately believe people, even if they claim to know some of the same people as you.
Technology brings extraordinary benefits to society, but it also increases risk. Staying on top of hacker tactics is a convenient way to avoid possible problems.
Activist hackers sound pretty scary, but maybe you’ve misunderstood them. Find out who these tech crusaders are and what motivates them to take action.
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By Irene Klotz (Reuters) - A pioneering robotic spacecraft shut down on Saturday after radioing results of its first and probably last batch of scientific experiments from the surface of a comet, scientists said. Batteries aboard the European Space Agency’s Philae comet lander drained, shutting down the washing machine-sized probe after an adventurous and largely unscripted 57-hour mission. Carried aboard the orbiting Rosetta mothership, Philae floated to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Thursday, but failed to deploy anchoring harpoons. Upon contacting the comet’s unexpectedly hard surface, it bounced back up into space twice then came to rest at a still-unknown location about 1 km (0.6 mile) from its original target. Photos and other data relayed by Philae show it finally landed against a cliff or crater wall where there was little sunlight to recharge its batteries. Racing against the clock, scientists activated a series of automated experiments, the first to be conducted from the surface of a comet. Before dying, Philae defied the odds and radioed its science results back to Earth for analysis. Its last task was to reposition itself so that as the comet soars toward the sun, Philae’s batteries may recharge enough for a follow-on mission. “Perhaps when we are nearer to the sun we might have enough solar illumination to wake up the lander and re-establish communication,” spacecraft operations manager Stephan Ulamec said in a statement. Scientists are particularly interested in learning about the chemical composition of any organic molecules in samples drilled out from the comet’s body. Comets are believed to be pristine remnants from the formation of our solar system some 4.6 billion years ago. They contain rock and ice that have preserved ancient organic molecules like a time capsule and may provide insight into how the planets and life evolved. Philae's drill descended more than 25 cm (10 inches) on Friday, penetrating the comet’s surface. Rosetta in August became the first spacecraft to put itself into orbit around a comet. It will accompany the comet as it travels toward the sun for at least another 13 months. (Reporting by Irene Klotz in Cape Canaveral, Florida; Editing by Dale Hudson)
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The "Tonight Show" host mocked the president for a move he made as he signed a climate and health care bill into law.
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“I wish I could be as brave as this raccoon!”
Kate Middleton's dresses from designer Alessandra Rich always include this "naughty" detail.
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The fight against Britain's biggest killer diseases could be hit by NHS plans to cut the number of dedicated teams of experts widely lauded for their work to improve care, doctors and health charities have warned.
Hundreds of specialists in cancer, heart disease and strokes face being made redundant as a result of the new NHS commissioning board's decision to shrink the number of clinical "networks" which are intended to drive up standards of treatment in hospital and help patients affected by those three conditions.
The board, the powerful new body that will take over running the NHS in England from next April, has decided to replace the 28 cancer networks and 28 combined heart and stroke networks with 12 of each. But the successor bodies will have far fewer staff and smaller budgets than the existing groupings of experts, which the NHS's medical director, Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, has praised as "an NHS success story".
The board said more patients would benefit because the new bodies would focus on a greater number of conditions.
The 700 staff working for the 56 networks may be cut to fewer than 100. Directors of the networks fear their slimmed-down replacements will be able to do far less to promote take-up of new forms of surgery and help patients throughout their treatment and recovery.
The rationalisation has prompted fears that it will affect patient care and set back the NHS's efforts to improve how it treats cancer, heart disease and strokes, which account for six in 10 of all deaths.
Prof Tony Rudd, the NHS's stroke director for London, said although the treatment of stroke patients had got better in the capital and Manchester, "there's a risk that future improvements in stroke care, which are still needed in many parts of the country, now won't happen".
"Heart and stroke networks will be severely reduced in size and number and therefore much less able to do some of the things they've been doing previously to improve care for the 100,000 people a year in England who have a stroke," Rudd added.
"I'm very concerned about the current plans. It would be a tragedy if we started losing things we have already gained. Heart and stroke networks do very important work. They have made a huge contribution to the NHS. But it's unclear what's going to happen to them. We are lobbying [the Department of Health and the NHS strategic health authority for London] hard to ensure that their expertise will be retained because there's a danger it won't be retained."
As things stand the three heart and stroke networks covering London's seven million-strong population are likely to be merged and there may be only a handful of specialists left driving up standards across the city under the new arrangements, he said. "There will be far fewer people than at present and less money for them."
Rudd feels the reorganisation puts at risk work to continue building on progress over the past decade, which has seen the number of people having a stroke and the death rate from strokes fall as well as victims' chances of recovering without having a major disability increase. The NHS's cash squeeze probably explains the board's decision, he said.
The British Heart Foundation is seeking "assurances that adequate funding will be provided [from April] and that cardiac specific expertise will be retained where needed".
Office for National Statistics figures show that heart conditions and strokes between them killed 158,084 people in England and Wales in 2010 while cancer claimed another 141,446 lives – 299,530 in all, or 60% of the 493,242 people who died that year. Across the UK, those conditions claimed 348,162 lives.
A survey of directors of 23 of the 28 cancer networks by Macmillan Cancer Support has revealed deep unease that key elements of their work may no longer be done from April. "The majority of network directors expressed concerns about the impact of the structure change on their ability to deliver their functions in the reformed NHS," it found.
Several directors described networks as "the glue" that provides "stability and knowledge" to GPs, hospitals and charities involved in efforts to improve treatment of disease. Others fear that downsizing cancer networks could result in services undergoing "fragmentation" or "disintegration", hit efforts to improve patients' experience of NHS cancer care and mean relationships of trust built up over years disappear because fewer staff will be covering a much bigger area.
John Baron, the Conservative MP who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on cancer, said: "Cancer networks provide a valuable service to patients. Their expertise provides support where necessary. This allows clinicians to spend more of their time on what is most important – their patient. It is essential that this expertise is retained within the NHS, yet we risk losing it."
The Cancer Campaigning Group, which represents 40 cancer charities, said shrinking cancer networks could deprive the new GP-led clinical commissioning groups of key insights. "Research we have undertaken showed that 82% of GPs with a responsibility for commissioning will need specialist advice. Plans to move away from specialist support teams would severely limit the ability of cancer networks to provide the vital knowledge commissioners need and we urge the government to reconsider these proposals."
The commissioning board plans to spend £42m to create 12 "network support areas". Each will manage new "strategic clinical networks" in their regions, which will cover four, instead of the existing two major types of healthcare: cancer; cardiovascular disease; maternity and children; and mental health, dementia and neurological conditions. There is likely to be one network in each of the 12 regions covering each of these four areas of care.
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Dr. Russ Ballard has a CV of some weight, having been a scientist, senior public servant, and Chancellor of Massey University. He is also a member and past President of the Rotary Club of Wellington.
Last evening he came to talk to the club (and numerous visitors) about the Peace, Remembrance, and Community Forests Trust.
As part of its centenary celebrations, Wellington Rotary decided to start three projects, one of which was the planting of 200,000 trees, which would fit nicely with the government’s ‘billion trees’ employment and climate change initiative. This has since been given further impetus by the report of the Climate Change Commission.
To make it happen, the Peace, Remembrance and Community Forests Trust was formed and Dr. Ballard was appointed chair. The Ministry for Primary Industries gave a project-scoping grant of $70,000 and then a full grant of $1.4M which takes the project through to May 2022. This will enough to reach the target of 200,000 trees planted, and probably many more.
The Trust works with partner organisations throughout the country and has contracted Conservation Volunteers NZ to manage the various sub-projects.
Russ took us through some of the complexities of the project, including the contractual and financial issues. In-kind contributions must be at least 50% of total costs, under the agreement with MPI. It costs about $16 to plant a native tree, to which MPI contributes $6.80 and partners $7.00-9.00. Volunteer labour is assessed at $22 per hour.
Carbon Credits are payable to the Trust at $3.50 per hectare planted, per annum, and will be on-sold to provide funds for more plantings.
This project is a fine example of an initiative exploiting the various skills available within Rotary, with many clubs involved throughout the country. Our own Taupo Swamp/Plimmerton Domain planting and conservation project will contribute 10,000 trees to the total, assisted by the City Council who are providing the young trees at cost.
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One of our Hot Air Balloon Pilots, Andrew Parker has recently set off on the next leg of an incredible journey. This inspirational story all started with a passionate Pilot with a hot air balloon and a vision to make a difference. When Andrew is not busy with taking our Guests on the most memorable Hot Air Balloon rides across the Dubai desert, he pursues a personal passion project, called the Flying High For Kids World Balloon Project. He travels around the world flying a UNICEF branded balloon in different countries, bringing smiles to kids’ faces to raise awareness for UNICEF’s important work and to encourage children to follow their dreams. We touched base with him before he left for the next part of his journey which will be taking him through South America, to chat to him about the connection between Hot Air Balloons, children’s dreams and unique travel experiences.
For Andrew, Hot Air Balloons have always symbolised freedom and adventure (for us too)! He explains how “when you fly in a balloon, you never know exactly where you’ll end up, therefore every flight is unique”. As a pilot, he feels at one with the wind and shares how when he is flying, he is constantly thinking, looking for changes in wind direction and speed; this is what makes being a Hot Air Balloon pilot both challenging and fun! Flying a Hot Air Balloon around the world to some of the most remote corners of the globe, all with the aim to promote the message that children should follow their dreams is quite a feat. When asked to explain why, Andrew recounts the first time he saw a balloon: “It was amazing to see such a huge thing which floats almost silently across the sky. It was big, bright and colourful, which always captivates the imagination”. Of course, we agree with him that there is a certain magic to balloons and we can understand why they fascinate and enchant not only children, but all of us!
Andrew shared that one of his best memories of this journey so far was during the first flight of a balloon in Tajikistan when 5000 children gathered in cheers of excitement to watch the balloon take off. This ongoing journey has taken Andrew and his multi-coloured UNICEF branded balloon to some of the most isolated places in the world, like rural villages in Africa. It’s places like this which are truly special as the children these parts will probably never get the chance to see a Hot Air Balloon like this. Once you start travelling, the world feels like a smaller place. For many travellers, meeting new people, experiencing different cultures, viewpoints, religions, seeing how different people live and having unique travel experiences like hot air ballooning, gives people a better perspective on life and more meaningful travel stories to go home with.
Andrew loves the unique challenge of this project as no one has ever attempted such a project before. He is able to share his passion for ballooning with children around the world and inspire others to follow their dreams and take on greater challenges. As part of the Balloon Adventures family, we wish our pilot all the luck in the world as he embarks on this next leg of his mission. To support the cause, you can donate on his website and follow his story on Facebook or look out for him in the sky – he will be travelling in a colourful balloon carrying the message “DREAM BIG!” | <urn:uuid:8ad7cc8d-1b13-4cec-8cf7-bb6eb969e7fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.balloon-adventures.com/blog/hot-air-balloon-project/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961192 | 693 | 1.632813 | 2 |
KEMET has announced the world’s smallest high-voltage surface mount multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) with internal arc protection. The EIA 0603 case size has been added to KEMET’s High-Voltage ArcShield product portfolio with voltage ratings up to 1,000 volts.
High-voltage capacitors are typically limited by size due to arcing concerns. KEMET’s patented ArcShield technology is designed to suppress arc-over events, while allowing for the smallest available footprint and highest capacitance values in the industry.
“ArcShield is unique in that it provides permanent internal protection that prevents arcing in both coated and uncoated printed circuit board assemblies,” said Dr. John Bultitude, KEMET Vice President and Technical Fellow. “Most competitive technologies cannot prevent arcing within the capacitors’ voltage rating and require an external coating, which can be damaged during handling. KEMET’s patented ArcShield technology prevents arcing without the need of a surface coating. It also allows for the realization of smaller case size devices with exceptional lightning strike performance.”
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A series of smart energy projects in the town of Alice Springs in central Australia could be exemplary to the direction of travel for the energy transition across the country if successful.
Last week, financial support for the Alice Springs Future Grid project was confirmed by the central government, which, through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), will provide AU$2.17 million (US$1.57 million) towards the expected total project cost of AU$9.3 million. The project is being led by the locally headquartered renewable energy centre for excellence, the Intyalheme Centre for Future Energy, part-funded by the government agency Desert Knowledge Australia (DKA) – which in turn received around AU$5 million towards the Centre’s creation via the local Northern Territories state government. The Australian government also put money into DKA through its AU$50 million Regional and Remote Communities Microgrid Fund
The overall aim of the project will be to ensure reliable electricity supplies for the 300,000 local residents and communities in the area up to 130km away. Significantly, the project also aims to support Alice Springs’ local electricity grid get to 50% renewable energy by 2030 by helping to create a planning roadmap.
The town has a place in Australian infrastructure history as the site of a telegraph station built in the 19th Century to relay messages across the country from Darwin in the far north towards Adelaide in the south.
“The Alice Springs Future Grid project (Future Grid) encompasses a series of interdependent sub-projects, each incorporating technical, regulatory, social and economic elements,” ARENA spokesman Tristan Simons told Energy-Storage.news.
Project will ‘holistically transform town into a robust, dynamic and renewable Future Grid’
The Future Grid will incorporate distributed battery energy storage at up to 50 residential households, as well as a commercial microgrid that could have a battery with a maximum size of 1MW / 1.3MWh, Simons said.
“It is designed to holistically transform Alice Springs into a robust, dynamic, and renewable Future Grid in to achieve the current RET of 50% by 2030. These sub-projects will look at various trials including: developing a multi-objective optimisation tool, in order to strategically target and plan future renewable energy investments, a new combined solar and load forecast tool to potentially reduce current spinning reserve requirements, and dynamic export of solar at a local school.”
The residential battery deployments will trial their aggregation while also being used to test out “new tariff options for the provision of energy and essential system services (ancillary services),” following the removal of a feed-in tariff (FiT) policy which previously incentivised household solar.
With the FiT expiring across Northern Territories regions such as the regulated electricity network in Alice Springs, spokesman Tristan Simons said that “there is now a push to start incentivising more behind-the-meter (BTM) batteries”.
Meanwhile, the community microgrid will be paired with existing solar and used not only as a technical trial, but more importantly to determine how users will tolerate being islanded from the grid, to identify what regulatory barriers exist to implementation of such solutions, to trial a management system with the local System Controller and finally to figure out who should carry liability for electricity supply when the microgrid is disconnected from the local grid.
However, according to ARENA’s Tristan Simons, while the optimum sizing of the microgrid battery is yet to be determined, and site to be selected from two possible options, it’s unlikely the project will later include a utility-scale battery to be connected at a substation or transformer on the grid, as the Future Grid project is already ambitious in scope as it is.
Optimal location, valuable lessons to be learned
The project could be exemplary for showing the way forward, according to Tristan Simons, with the electricity sector in Australia at a “critical inflection point as solar, battery and wind generation technologies become – or already are – the lowest-cost ways to generate electricity”.
“As investment costs of a wide range of low emission generation technologies are projected to continue to fall, the challenge is now one of system integration – not just of generation. The rise of the prosumer has seen both additional opportunities and challenges: residents and businesses are more engaged and willing participants in the energy transition, but managing this increasing engagement poses its own set of technical and social challenges.”
While a relatively small community, Alice Springs is at the “forefront of the energy transition”, with over 300 days of sunshine a year and a “strong history of supporting solar, community buy-in and engagement”.
It is, Tristan Simons said, “…the optimal location to test a series of interventions on a large scale with valuable lessons transferred to networks and markets across the NT and Australia. In order to make managing this transition a success we know that planning for a carbon constrained future must start today, in order to deliver a clean, secure and reliable power system tomorrow. | <urn:uuid:aec381d0-0412-4ce3-a535-f58d789364af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.energy-storage.news/future-grid-project-puts-historic-town-in-centre-of-australia-at-forefront-of-energy-transition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.932965 | 1,052 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Software Defined Network Security Benefits
What is SDN?
Traditional networking uses integrated hardware and software to direct traffic across a series of routers and switches.
Originally SDN was designed to virtualize the network by separating the control plane that manages the network from the data plane where traffic flows. There is a smart controller running specialized software that manages all network traffic in the data centre, and a series of routers and switches that forward packets of traffic.
There are a number of advantages to virtualizing the network:
- it can be spun up and down dynamically,
- it can be fine-tuned for specific application uses cases,
- security policies can be installed on each individual network.
Nowadays SDN is being used in many more areas than just within the confines of the data centre such as in the Wide Area Network to control how enterprises connect to their branch offices. This application is called SD-WAN and it uses software to aggregate multiple types of network connections, such as broadband, MPLS or wireless to create strong and cost-effective connections.
SDN security benefits
Due to their non-hardware origin Software Defined Networks enable many new types of security controls, such as:
– it is considerably easier to map as many isolated networks as required due to the lack of constraints inherent in the physical hardware. Any number of applications can be run on their own virtual network and only connecting those networks as needed. Which in practical terms means that in case of a security breach of one network the attacker can no longer pivot to other assets of the infrastructure. And there is no increase in capital expenses since cloud microsegmentation is based on software configurations. It can however increase operational expenses due to managing multiple overlapping networks and connectivity.
SDN firewalls (e.g., security groups)
– SDN firewalls are usually policy sets that define rules for inbound and outbound traffic to a single asset or a group of assets, independent of network location (within a given virtual network). For example, you can create a set of firewall rules applicable to assets with a particular tag. The tagging capability however depends on the platform
Automatically generated rule sets
– it is possible to create firewall rulesets that will apply to assets such as virtual machines deployed in multiple subnets, regardless of their subnet IP address.
Deny by default
– often the default setting for an SDN firewall is set to ‘deny’, opposite to most physical networks. It is then up to the user to setup desired permissions.
– software firewalls are managed outside the system they apply to, without additional hardware costs or the need for provisioning. This hugely simplifies managing them, for example if there is the need to isolate every single virtual machine on the same virtual subnet. Compared, host firewalls are difficult to manage at scale, and if the system they are on is compromised, they are easy to alter and disable. It is also not viable from a cost perspective to route all internal traffic through a network firewall.
Default elimination of network attacks
– when used in the cloud environment, depending on the cloud provider many network attacks – e.g., ARP spoofing – are neutralised by default.
– possibility to encrypt packets as they are encapsulated.
Dynamic routing and design
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The Springer series on demographic methods and population analysis 41
Cham, Springer (2017)
The positive relationship between income and old-age survival is well established. It is, however, less clear whether wealthier individuals live longer because they can afford certain goods and services not available to people with lower incomes, or because of indirect factors. This project investigates the role of intergenerational exchange in the relationship between income and mortality. In the previous literature on the link between income and longevity, this factor has seldom been analysed. We develop an agent-based model to examine the exchange relationship in a two-generational family. In the model, older parents use increases in their pension income as intergenerational transfers to younger family members, and receive emotional or functional support in return. Taking advantage of the natural experiment of the German reunification, we estimate our model using realistic demographic, economic, and time use data. Our results imply that intra-familial resource exchange is beneficial for both the health of older parents and the living conditions of adult children in times of economic uncertainty. The findings therefore suggest that increases in pension income may affect old-age survival, both directly through the amenities elderly people can buy with the additional income, and indirectly through intergenerational transfers that incentivise adult children to provide support to their parents.
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I think many of you would be interested in this personally, as parents, as educators, or as policymakers (or some combination thereof). To give you a taste, it starts with 6 propositions:
- College is just too expensive.
- Higher education and college are not the same thing.
- You can give yourself a higher education without college.
- Skipping college isn't the best idea for everyone.
- It's a gamble either way.
- There's a culture of fear around college, but it's the wrong fear.
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Teaching physics using virtual reality.
Lead Institution: The Australian National University
Report of a project investigating university physics students' learning using computer simulations. The project focused on the teaching and learning of special relativity. The authors developed a simulation of a relativistic world called 'Real Time Relativity'. Around this they create...
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University of Queensland. School of Mathematics and Physics
Australian National University. Research School of Physics and Engineering
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Character Texturing for Games
Character Texturing for Games and VFX
After finding a good Skin Shader to use for our realistic 3D Characters, we get to the texturing bit. This requires us to use more than one map to create realistic Character texturing results for Games and VFX.
The first map and of the most essential ones for texturing purposes is an Skin Opacity map. This is when one of our artists will define where skin is thick, like in the scull, and where it is more opaque and translucent, like in the case of earlobes or the nose.
Sometimes it is important to also define other areas of opaqueness like in fingers to create the desired effect, but it is also easy to overdo it.
Skin Roughness Texture
The next important texture map to consider adding to your character is the skin roughness map.
The reason for this map is that it determines where the skin is more oily and where the skin is more dry. For example, eyelid areas, nose and even more so under the nose and ears are the most common areas to add more wetness to. Not only that, it is also stretched areas that must also get more shine due to all micro bumps being stretched or sparsely distributed.
The skin oiliness is also very easy to overdo and most of the time it is safer to give this texture a small degree of effect, but just enough to break up that CG look and improve character texturing.
Texturing with Micro Detail
Very often to achieve the realistic look of digital human skin we need to layer effects one on top of another to add to your character another dimension of realism.
If you look closely at skin, you will notice that skin is way more complex than what a 24k texture can provide you with. So, what we have to do is add yet another layer of micro detail and mask areas of stretched skin out. Nose, lips, ears, eyelids, and perhaps cheeks and fingers must also be masked out.
This effect will contribute even more to the whole complexity of the look of your Digital Double.
If you have any wishes, suggestions or feel this article could be improved, please, do not hesitate to leave us your comments in the section below.
Professional 3D Modeler with 17 years of combined VFX and Games experience, managing Vancouver-based 3D Scanning Studio,
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Earlier this year, I called on Congress to work together on a balanced approach to a budget that grows our economy faster and creates more jobs – not through aimless, reckless spending cuts that harm our economy now, but by making sure we can afford to invest in the things that have always grown our economy and strengthened our middle class. Today’s bipartisan budget agreement is a good first step.
This agreement replaces a portion of the across-the-board spending cuts known as “the sequester” that have harmed students, seniors, and middle-class families and served as a mindless drag on our economy over the last year. It clears the path for critical investments in things like scientific research, which has the potential to unleash new innovation and new industries. It’s balanced, and includes targeted fee increases and spending cuts designed in a way that doesn’t hurt our economy or break the ironclad promises we’ve made to our seniors. It does all this while slightly reducing our deficits over time – coming on top of four years of the fastest deficit reduction since the end of World War II. And because it’s the first budget that leaders of both parties have agreed to in a few years, the American people should not have to endure the pain of another government shutdown for the next two years.
This agreement doesn’t include everything I’d like – and I know many Republicans feel the same way. That’s the nature of compromise. But it’s a good sign that Democrats and Republicans in Congress were able to come together and break the cycle of short-sighted, crisis-driven decision-making to get this done. That’s the way the American people expect Washington to work. I want to thank Senator Murray, Congressman Ryan and all the other leaders who helped forge this bipartisan agreement. And I want to call on Members of Congress from both parties to take the next step and actually pass a budget based on this agreement so I can sign it into law and our economy can continue growing and creating jobs without more Washington headwinds.
But, as I said last week, the defining challenge of our time is not whether Congress can pass a budget – it’s whether we can make sure our economy works for every working American. And while today’s agreement is a good first step, Congress has a lot more to do on that front. In the immediate term, Congress should extend unemployment insurance, so more than a million Americans looking for work don’t lose a vital economic lifeline right after Christmas, and our economy doesn’t take a hit. And beyond that, they should do more to expand broad-based growth and opportunity – by creating more jobs that pay better wages, by growing our economy, and by offering a path into the middle class for every American willing to work for it. | <urn:uuid:66b84515-654a-43b2-8180-1a3b2e96e83e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://northiowatoday.com/2013/12/10/statement-by-the-president-on-the-budget/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951585 | 584 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The consumption of raw milk is growing in popularity. Raw milk is milk that has not been pasteurized. Consumers looking for a healthier lifestyle may make the decision to drink raw milk because they believe that it is more nutritious or that it can solve or prevent health problems. They may not realize that instead of improving health, they may be putting themselves at risk.
Raw milk contains bacteria that can cause sickness and death. Bacterial contamination can occur even when good hygienic practices are in place. Common sources of contamination include:
- Cow feces coming into contact with the milk
- Infection of the cow’s udder (mastitis)
- Cow diseases (bovine tuberculosis)
- Bacteria on the cow’s skin or in the environment (dirt, processing equipment)
- Insects, rodents, animal vectors
- Humans (1)
The number of outbreaks in the United States caused by unpasteurized milk has increased in recent years. From 2007-2012, 81 outbreaks were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), resulting in 979 illnesses and 73 hospitalizations. Between 2007-2009, 30 outbreaks were linked to raw milk. This increased to 51 outbreaks from 2010-2012 (3).
- The CDC reported that unpasteurized milk is 150 times more likely to cause foodborne illness than pasteurized milk (2).
- The most common bacterial cause of outbreaks was Campylobacter (81%) followed by coli (17%) and Salmonella (3%).
- Those with the highest risk of getting sick from drinking raw milk were young children, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems (3).
Many misconceptions and unsupported claims exist concerning the benefits of raw milk versus pasteurized milk. Some of the more common myths are:
- MYTH: Raw milk contains natural antimicrobial components that make it safe.
- FACT: Naturally occurring antimicrobial compounds do exist in milk, but their concentration is not high enough to ensure the safety of raw milk (4,5).
- MYTH: Pasteurization reduces the nutritional value of milk.
- FACT: Pasteurization does not significantly change the nutritional value of milk. Vitamins that are found in milk at high levels, such as riboflavin, B6 and B12, are relatively heat stable. The only vitamin that is significantly reduced by heat is Vitamin C, but milk is not a major source of vitamin C (4). Pasteurization does not change protein quality. Minor levels of whey denaturation have been reported, but protein denaturation does not affect the nutritional quality of protein. Minerals are heat stable and not affected by pasteurization (5).
- MYTH: Raw milk can cure lactose intolerance.
- FACT: People who are lactose intolerant lack the lactase enzyme necessary for breaking down lactose during digestion. All milk, raw or pasteurized, contains lactose. Lactase does not naturally occur in milk (4). A 2014 randomized controlled study found that raw milk did not reduce lactose malabsorption or lactose intolerance symptoms compared with pasteurized milk among adults positive for lactose malabsorption (6).
- MYTH: Raw milk can cure or treat asthma and allergy.
- FACT: A 2007 study often cited by raw milk advocates found an inverse association of farm milk (not raw milk) with asthma and allergy. Many farm residents boil their milk prior to consumption, and the authors had no objective confirmation that the farm milk samples were raw. The study concluded that consumption of raw farm milk cannot be recommended as a preventive measure (7).
Consumers seeking health benefits can safely enjoy pasteurized milk and milk products. Pasteurization effectively destroys pathogens found in raw milk without significantly changing its nutritional value.
To learn more, please contact a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist on the Idaho Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics website by clicking Find a RD.
Written by Idaho State University Dietetic Student,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). Raw milk questions and answers. Retrieved March 18, 2016, from http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/rawmilk-questions-and-answers
U.S Food and Drug Administration. (n.d.). The dangers of raw milk: Unpasteurized milk can pose a serious health risk. Retrieved March 18, 2016, from http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm079516.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2016, March 16). Increase in outbreaks associated with nonpasteurized milk, United States, 2007-2012. Retrieved March 18, 2016, from http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/rawmilk/nonpasteurized-outbreaks-2012.html
U.S Food and Drug Administration. (2011, November 1). Raw milk misconceptions and the danger of raw milk consumption. Retrieved March 18, 2016, from http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodborneIllnessContaminants/BuyStoreServeSafeFood/ucm277854.htm
Lucey, J. A. (2015). Raw milk consumption. Nutrition Today, 50(4), 189-193. doi:10.1097/nt.0000000000000108
Mummah, S., Oelrich, B., Hope, J., Vu, Q., & Gardner, C. D. (2014). Effect of raw milk on lactose intolerance: A randomized controlled pilot study. The Annals of Family Medicine, 12(2), 134-141. doi:10.1370/afm.1618
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This article was published in Dawn, Young World, sometime in 2001. The ellipses (…) in the text do not mean omissions but rather they appear just like that in the original. An insertion that appears in square brackets is new addition for clarification.
When I was seven years old my parents got worried because I didn’t show interest in reading. My favourite pastimes were painting and building models from recycled objects.
One day Papa took me to the bookshop and I was delighted to see storybooks with colorful covers. The shopkeeper showed us Tarzan, a novel for children from Ferozsons Ltd. But Papa had better plans. He picked up Jamaluddin Afghani from a pocket book series of biographies also published by Ferozsons. “Afghani was a great man,” he said to me. “You must read about him.” The book was a bit too advanced for my age but still it was written for children, so my father read out the first page to me when we got home and then left me to finish it. Now, Mr. Afghani might have done wonderful job for the glory of his nation but frankly, I didn’t find him very exciting for a kid of age 7 and carried on with my watercolor, brush and used up battery cells.
The next year I became interested in snakes after watching a movie about them. After I had painted too many snakes I one day found a small children’s book titled Saanp ka Tohfa. I brought it home and started reading it. But my speed was pathetic. When I got tired I asked my mother to read out a few pages while I was catching breath. That was the beginning.
In those days, Shiekh Ghulam Ali & Sons Publishers used to print these small storybooks for children, which we used to call “8 Anna Books” and “One Rupee Books,” because that was how they were priced. I think they still print them. I used to check them out to find anything about snakes, but sadly they had forgotten to include that interesting topic in their wonderful treasury.
So I hit upon another type of books, the film stories. In those good old days when a film was released in the cinema (VCR had not become common yet), many smaller publishers printed their stories so that people who were too busy to go to the cinema and still didn’t wish to miss the show could read them. Also, people who liked a particular movie could then purchase its book (usually priced at 36 paisas). These books were often poorly written and badly printed but I was happy to forgive the printer when I found some books that were based on films about snakes, such as Nag Muni.
My uncles and aunts were horrified when during one family reunion I took out my collection of film stories and displayed it against my cousins’ dinky cars. It wasn’t appropriate for a child of tender age to spend so much time thinking about filmstars! But Papa had decided never to interfere with my choices again since Jamaluddin Afghani fiasco. His only response was to give me more money and telling the driver to take me to the market so that I could purchase more film stories.
And soon afterwards my world changed. It changed entirely, radically, absolutely… you name an adverb and I would say, “Yes!” I can never forget the day when I first hit upon a 124-page children’s novel with one of the loveliest pictures: a black cobra swimming upstream on the surface of a blue river. With great effort (my reading was still quite pathetic) I succeeded in reading its title: Naag Zindah Ho Gaya. I remember that its price was Rs. 3.50, and I was 25 paisa short. So I went home and told Papa. By that time even he was getting weary of my sinister choices, and his first reaction was, “Oh! Not one of those snake things again!” But he relented when he saw my excitement (I was breathing so fast that he thought I would choke myself if I didn’t get the book immediately). I finished the 124-page novel – again, with much help form my mother. And only then did I realize what I had been booked for.
That novel was just the number 21 in a series of 50 episodes called Maut Ka Taaqub, (The Pursuit of Death) written by A. Hameed! Only 29 were out by that time, and Papa got me all of them.
The story was based around three characters (one of them a snake), who travel through history and miraculously survive for thousands of years. They play important roles in the lives of such famous people like Helen of Troy, Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Cleopatra… They gave me an overview of the entire human history and some wonderful fantasy trips over the snow clad mountains of Tibet and scorching deserts of Gobi. (Nineteen years later I had the opportunity to interview A. Hameed to write his profile in Dawn, and that was indeed one of the most delightful moments in my life).
Anyway, Maut Ka Taaqub was the turning point in my readings… within a year I had not only finished all available episodes (10 more came out soon), but also a number of those pocket book biographies too (yes, including Jamaluddin Afghani!).
And I gathered a large collection of other storybooks. My sisters, younger to me, also joined the club and together we used to have a competition about who would read more pages everyday – in which I usually lost to one of my sisters who read faster than me!
About the same time, I stumbled upon some pictures of historic personalities and places sold outside our school. Soon, I had a large collection of those too, and wanted to arrange them in the chronological order. In the beginning my father helped me but then he told me to do it myself, and brought me an advanced textbook of history.
That was my beginning into books that weren’t written for junior readers. I tried Iqbal’s poetry and Herald Lamb’s biography of Alexander the Great (translated into Urdu) while I was still nine years old, and since many of the history books quoted verses in Persian, I had to get some knowledge in the basic grammar of that language too.
Now the elders in the family were worried again, because I was reading all these books in Urdu, but none in English. My parents, though they had tried to teach me English before they taught me Urdu, made a display of patience again. “Let’s not confuse him,” Papa said. And hence it wasn’t until I was twelve that I first took up reading English [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][outside the school syllabus] – with the Adventure series of Willard Price, Sherlock Holmes stories and, of course, Harold Lamb’s Alexander of Macedon, this time the original English version.
One important discovery in my road to reading was the mystery stories of Ibn-e-Safi (whom I discovered through the books of Ishtiaq Ahmed). Ibn-e-Safi’s characters had this habit of referring to other books, authors and their ideas. I naturally felt curious about all those references and tried to follow them up. Through Ibne Safi I got interested in thinkers such as Confucius, Nieztsche, Freud and Jung and writers such as Rider Haggard and Earle Stanley Gardner.
Looking back on my readings, I think the one factor that helped me most was that my parents left me to myself. They never forced me to read anything I didn’t like, and they never stopped me from reading anything I wanted to. Except at school, where my interest in reading was endangered by boring textbooks, reading always remained a fun for me, never a punishment.
Today, when I have to write a lot about history, I am sometimes asked if I ever get fed up with all these personalities dead for so long. “Dead?” I wonder. “No way! They are my buddies since I was a kid.” And truly, I had a better understanding with them than I had with any of the friends my own age. | <urn:uuid:4877cb97-54d3-43be-9d3e-10ad31f3a5f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marghdeen.com/books-i-will-never-forget/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.980514 | 1,965 | 1.5625 | 2 |
A wild flower (or wildflower) is a flower that grows in the wild, meaning that it was not intentionally seeded or planted. There are many hundreds of them in the UK. Some, like orchids, are rare but others, like the dandelion, are so common that they are often referred to as weeds. Other common species are well known and well appreciated by the public. The spring-blooming primroses and bluebells are in this category and it is always a delight to find them when out for a woodland walk.
Their place in the Landscape
Whether they are considered iconic symbols of the countryside or just get in the way of gardeners, wildflowers are an essential building block of all our various landscapes and habitats. Very broadly, important groups are to be found in woodland, grassland and wetland but the variations are immense. Farnham is fortunate in having a very varied landscape and as a result there are widely differing groups of wildflowers on the chalk grasslands of the Hogs Back and Farnham Park, the wetlands of Wey valley through the centre of the town, the woodland of Alice Holt Forest and the sandy heathlands of Farnham Heath and Frensham Common. These differences of plant life are reflected in the populations of birds, bees, butterflies, moths and other animals that are to be found in these areas. For wildflowers are not just an attractive feature of the landscape, they are a vital source of pollen and nectar.
The serious reduction in wildflowers
Sadly wildflowers are not nearly as common as they once were. A hundred years ago Britain’s countryside was a very different place to that of today. At that time it would have been awash with colourful, flower-rich meadows and grasslands that were an intrinsic part of agriculture and people’s daily lives. Meadows developed as a result of traditional farming practices. Each small farm would have grown a few crops, had permanent pasture for grazing and fields for hay that were cut and stored to feed the livestock over the winter. Management followed an annual cycle of growing in spring and summer, cutting in late summer and grazing in winter. The turning point came during the Second World War when six million acres of grassland were ploughed to grow cereals, starting the inevitable decline. Since then the process has continued with evermore intensive agricultural practices. Other factors hastening the decline have included the unintentional introduction of alien invasive species such as Himalayan balsam, Japanese knotweed , gaultheria and rhododendron which take over large areas and overwhelm the natural biodiversity.
It was not until about 30 years ago that the true impact this combination of intensive farming, invasive species and increased building of housing and roads was having on the countryside. Since 1945 40% of broadleaved woodland, 80% of heaths, 95% of unimproved meadows and 125,000 miles of hedgerows have disappeared. This has had a dramatically negative effect on wildflowers and the ecosystems of which they are part.
The fight back
Once the problems had been recognised, moves were taken to try to redress the balance. In the “set-aside” initiative farmers were encouraged to leave strips around the edges of their large fields where wildflowers and farmland birds could flourish, gardeners were encouraged to plant what many had previously considered weeds in their plots and councils were required to introduce road verge habitat plans to help conserve wildflowers. A very recent drive is to encourage gardeners to cut their lawns less to allow buttercups, daises and other wildflowers to flourish once again.
This wildflower meadow
In a small way The Bourne Conservation Group is doing what it can to reverse these undesirable trends in our local landscape. A good example is the removal of Himalayan balsam along the valley of The Bourne stream to allow native wild flowers to flourish again. Also, many wildflowers have been planted in the local area. The spring-flowering daffodils and crocuses along roadside verges such as on Gravel Hill are the most obvious examples. Those generated from seeds or plants have proved less easy to get started. In this little meadow wildflowers have been grown from seeds, the latest attempt being from a new mix of 40 species of flowers and grasses claiming to be suitable for any type of soil. An attractive plant called yellow rattle has been added as this weakens aggressive grasses, thus assisting the wildflowers to flourish. Many other mixes are available and new ways of planting have emerged such as the use of seeds already
Working to improve the local environment
Planting wildflowers is one of a number of ways in which The Bourne Conservation Group is striving to enhance the biodiversity of the local area while, at the same time, improving the landscape for residents throughout the year
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By the second half of 1942, the German economy was dependent on millions of forced laborers. The majority of them were young women from Poland and the occupied Soviet territories, but others included prisoners of war and Jewish concentration camp prisoners. Forced laborers were a visible presence in German cities and villages.1
This image of young Ukrainian women walking past a group of curious onlookers—with their hands behind their backs and their heads down—reflects a common sight in nearly every industrialized German city. Taken in the German city of Bielefeld sometime in the middle of 1942, the photographer—perhaps a passerby, a German official, a soldier, or a reporter—is unknown.2
Was this a common street scene or a specific event? Are the workers, who appear well dressed, headed to church services? Or perhaps they have been chosen for domestic work in German private homes and are expected to dress appropriately?3 It is also possible that they were not provided with a change of clothes when they were brought to Germany and simply wore what was available, regardless of how poorly suited these clothes may have been to their new positions.
Though they appear to be carefully watching the laborers, much about the onlookers is also unknown.4 Are they all German? Are they there for a specific reason, or are they merely encountering the laborers as they pass by? We can speculate that the image of young foreign women from Ukraine in the streets was still relatively out of the ordinary given the date when the photograph was taken. Eventually, however, according to one scholar, “the foreigners were simply there, a familiar fixture in the landscape of everyday life in wartime, like ration cards or air-raid shelters."5
Women like those pictured here were subject to harsh regulations and initially were not permitted to leave the premises of the factories or camps where they were held. Only after the brutal treatment of these workers became economically unsustainable did German officials begin to ease certain restrictions.6 The move to improve conditions was also directly related to German losses on the battlefield, as it became clear that forced laborers were going to remain in Germany for far longer than expected.7 Even then, so-called "eastern workers" were treated very differently than their counterparts from central and western European countries. French, Dutch, and Belgian laborers were allowed to move freely around the cities where they worked and could attend social events—a right never granted to those from Poland and the Soviet Union. | <urn:uuid:dcd04af8-511d-4ae6-b293-9cce37602bbf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/photograph-of-ukrainian-women-brought-to-germany-as-forced-laborers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.988241 | 490 | 4.15625 | 4 |
As business leaders, we like to think of ourselves as thoughtful, rational creatures that carefully weigh all the evidence and then make logical, informed decisions.
If only it were that simple.
Far too often, our “rational” decision-making processes fall victim to our own preconceived notions about how the world should work, as well as a myriad of largely unconscious behavior patterns.
For years I’ve been talking about how our “thought bubbles” — the attitudes, beliefs and assumptions through which we view the world — negatively impact the planning process. But thought bubbles aren’t the only human trait to impact our leadership abilities. We also have a bundle of behavioral biases to deal with.
Earlier this year, the McKinsey Quarterly Journal (March 2010) published an article entitled “The Case for Behavioral Strategy.” In it, the authors identified five categories of behavioral biases that have the same negative effects on the planning process as our thought bubbles.
Action-oriented biases drive us to take action without considering all the potential ramifications of those actions. These biases cause us to overestimate the odds of positive outcomes while underestimating the chances of negative ones. We put too much faith in our ability to produce the desired outcomes, while taking too much credit for past successes. And we discount or ignore possible competitive responses during the planning process.
Interest biases stem from conflicting incentives, including non-monetary and emotional ones. They show up as misaligned incentives that reward individual effort at the expense of team, unit or organizational outcomes; inappropriate emotional attachments to certain elements of the business, such as “legacy” employees, products or brands; and disagreements (often unspoken) concerning the relative importance of key corporate objectives.
Pattern recognition biases lead us to recognize patterns where none exist. They include behaviors like putting too much stock in evidence that supports favored beliefs. Minimizing or ignoring evidence that contradicts them. Using comparisons with situations that are not directly comparable. And supporting plans based on the status of the person presenting them rather than on factual evidence.
Stability biases create a tendency toward inertia in the face of uncertainty. We lock on so hard to a treasured value that we refuse to make necessary adjustments. We allow the pain of unrecoverable historical costs to guide future courses of action. Or we fight to maintain the status quo in the absence of pressure to change it.
Social biases arise from the preference for harmony over conflict. They manifest themselves in things like the desire to quickly reach consensus rather than explore alternative courses of action, and the tendency for groups to align with the leader’s viewpoint.
Recognize any of these biases in your organization?
If not, make a list and distribute it to each member of your team prior to your next management meeting. Ask team members to put a red checkmark next to each bias that comes up during the meeting. Don’t be surprised if those lists come back with a lot of red on them!
To counter these biases, the article recommends strategies such as getting comfortable with uncertainty, and populating teams and meetings with diverse participants who bring different ways of thinking and perspectives to the table. It also recommends changing people’s “angle of vision” by learning to look at the data in new and different ways. And to deliberately shake up the status quo by challenging long-standing beliefs and assumptions, including the notion that the way we have always done things will continue to make us successful.
In the past, perhaps the most important leadership skill (from a planning standpoint) was the ability to gather information, analyze it, and then project what the future would look like three to five years out. But in today’s world, we can never have all the information. And for most companies, planning more than 12 to 18 months ahead is an exercise in futility.
The current business environment demands strategic agility — the ability to react swiftly to rapidly changing marketing conditions without losing focus. In order to develop that skill, today’s leaders must get very good at three things:
Identifying and constantly challenging our underlying assumptions
Identifying and eliminating our organization’s behavioral biases
Constantly assessing and evaluating how we process information and make decisions
Our thought bubbles and behavioral biases are out to get us. As leaders, we can continue to buy into the illusion that all our decisions are rational and carefully thought out. Or we can learn to recognize our thought bubbles and biases when they occur, employ the appropriate strategies to counter their affects, and significantly improve our planning and decision-making processes.
I’m going with option B. How about you?
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HAVANA: Future top leaders of Cuba's Communist party should retire at 70 to let in younger blood, President Raul Castro said on Saturday, suggesting older members of the party hoping for promotion to the top table could play with their grandchildren instead.
Cuba's current leaders include several septagenarian or octogenarian veterans of Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. There is a growing urgency for them to make succession plans to keep the party alive once they are gone.
Raul Castro himself is 84 and after his planned retirement from government in two years time the country is likely to be led by somebody with a different surname for the first time since his brother overthrew a pro-U.S. government nearly 60 years ago.
His comments during a two hour speech at the inauguration of the Communist Party's twice-per-decade congress were met with silence, perhaps because some members were disappointed with the idea. "So serious! What silence is caused by this subject. Don't think that just because you can't be in the leadership of the country you can't do anything," Castro said, suggesting the elderly continue as party activists and spend more time with their grandchildren.
Before the congress, the current party leadership faced some discontent among younger members critical of the slow delivery on promised economic reforms in the past five years and a lack of transparency.
Fidel Castro, whose 90th birthday is in August, retired in 2008 after a serious illness and his younger brother took over, introducing a limit of two five-year terms for leaders. That limit has yet to be tested. The proposed new rules would affect new entrants into the leadership and must be approved by the party over the course of the four-day congress.
Castro said there should then be a constitutional amendment and a referendum to codify this and other reforms. Castro proposed that 60 years be fixed as the age limit for entering the party's central committee and up to 70 years as the maximum age to perform duties in the party leadership, saying the new rules would have a knock-on effect of bringing younger leaders up through the ranks more quickly.
"Somebody who is 65 or 70 is useful for important activities, but not the activities of an important leader," he said. On Monday, the party is due to vote for a new leadership, and is expected to re-elect Castro and the party number two Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, 85.
Presumably the new rules would not apply to them because they are already within the leadership. Castro said the same age rules should be applied to other state bodies and the government. He reiterated that he would step down as president of the nation in 2018.
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Dynamic self-stabilization in the electronic and nanomechanical properties of an organic polymer semiconductor.
Spalek, Leszek J
Claesson, Per M
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Dobryden, I., Korolkov, V. V., Lemaur, V., Waldrip, M., Un, H., Simatos, D., Spalek, L. J., et al. (2022). Dynamic self-stabilization in the electronic and nanomechanical properties of an organic polymer semiconductor.. Nat Commun, 13 (1) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30801-x
The field of organic electronics has profited from the discovery of new conjugated semiconducting polymers that have molecular backbones which exhibit resilience to conformational fluctuations, accompanied by charge carrier mobilities that routinely cross the 1 cm2/Vs benchmark. One such polymer is indacenodithiophene-co-benzothiadiazole. Previously understood to be lacking in microstructural order, we show here direct evidence of nanosized domains of high order in its thin films. We also demonstrate that its device-based high-performance electrical and thermoelectric properties are not intrinsic but undergo rapid stabilization following a burst of ambient air exposure. The polymer's nanomechanical properties equilibrate on longer timescales owing to an orthogonal mechanism; the gradual sweating-out of residual low molecular weight solvent molecules from its surface. We snapshot the quasistatic temporal evolution of the electrical, thermoelectric and nanomechanical properties of this prototypical organic semiconductor and investigate the subtleties which play on competing timescales. Our study documents the untold and often overlooked story of a polymer device's dynamic evolution toward stability.
Is supplemented by: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.84546
Royal Society, National Science Foundation
Royal Society (URF\R1\201590)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L015889/1)
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) (964677)
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Bathroom tissue isn't the only way to clean your delicates after using the lavatory, and asin response to -inspired panic buying, you may want to consider options besides TP. One alternative I recently discovered is to add a simple bidet attachment to your existing toilet, which allows you to clean up using water instead of tissue paper -- a win for both your hygiene needs and the environment.
If you've never worked a bidet before, it may seem confusing at first: How do you use it correctly? Do you still need to wipe afterwards? You might feel like it's too complicated, too expensive or maybe just too icky to consider adding one to your bathroom.
Although bidet attachments that fit onto existing toilets start as low as $20, I tried out a more advanced $60 version. I discovered that a bidet is actually quite easy to use, affordable and a perfectly hygienic way to keep your nether regions clean. Here's everything you need to know to install one in your home. Note that online supply may vary at this time.
What exactly is a bidet?
A bidet (pronounced "buh-DAY" in America, "bee-DAY" elsewhere) is a bathroom plumbing fixture used to wash one's nether regions. Bidets can include either a faucet-style spout or a pressurized jet -- or both! -- and can be either a part of a toilet or a totally separate fixture. The first bidet was invented in early 18th century France. The word "bidet" means "tiny horse", a name that serves as a succinct if playful instruction on how to use it.
Why don't we have bidets in America?
We do, they're just not nearly as popular as they are in other places, like Latin America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Even though bidets aren't common here, research from toilet maker Kohler indicates that 63% of Americans would be interested in their home toilet having a personal cleaning feature. That number balloons to 75% for adults age 18-34 and 77% for parents of children under 18.
Are bidets expensive?
Like almost any plumbing fixture, the cost of adding a bidet to your bathroom is limited by your budget. At the low end, the least expensive options can cost as little as $20, like this. A standalone, low-tech bidet can be had for a few hundred dollars, like .
On the high end, this $6,750 Kohler smart toilet available at Home Depot has a heated seat and Bluetooth, as well as an integrated bidet.
For my bidet, I chose this $60 attachment from manufacturer Luxe, mostly because you can connect both cold and hot water to it so it can dial in your perfect temperature. Read: No need to make my bathroom the setting to Frozen 3.
What features are important in a bidet?
You'll want to consider temperature control and whether the bidet offers one all-purpose nozzle or two -- one for feminine washing (the Luxe model I installed has both).
How do you use a bidet?
First and foremost, if your bidet has temperature controls, you may want to let the hot water line heat up by running the tap in the sink while you're getting down to business. There will still be a short blast of room-temperature water as the hot water line clears, but it'll be brief.
When you're ready to clean up, adjust the temperature to between cold and hot, then select either the all-purpose or feminine nozzle (or both). Next, slowly move the water control switch until the water jet reaches a pressure level that feels comfortable.
Do not flip the water on full blast or you may be in for quite a shock. If the water is too hot or too cold, readjust the temperature knob until it's perfect.
To wipe or not to wipe?
Thanks to several decades' worth of conditioning, I'm not comfortable going completely paperless in the bathroom. Others, however, may find they don't need the added psychological reassurance of a paper tissue finale.
Opinions and practices vary among cultures and individuals who use bidets, so do whatever feels comfortable for you. There really isn't a right or wrong way to use a bidet, but this YouTube video will walk you through the process if you still can't wrap your mind around how to do it.
Whatever you do, resist the temptation to test out your new bidet before you actually sit on the toilet. Unless, of course, the wall, sink or mirror across the bathroom from your bidet needs to be cleaned anyway, but even then you're probably better off sticking with Windex.
How do you install a bidet attachment?
Installing the Luxe Bidet attachment was relatively easy, although be prepared to take apart your water line connections -- possibly multiple times -- and start over if they leak. The process breaks down into five fairly simple steps:
1. Remove your existing toilet seat, including any hardware attached to the base.
2. Center the bidet attachment on the back rim of your toilet bowl and align the adjustment plates with the bolt holes in the commode, then reconnect the bolts and reattach the toilet seat.
3. Turn off the cold water supply behind the toilet and attach a T-adapter to the commode's water tank, then turn off the sink's hot water supply and attach a T-adapter just after the water valve.
4. Connect one cold water supply hose to the water tank and one to the bidet, then connect one hot water line to the sink and one to the bidet.
5. Turn the cold water valve on all the way and examine for leaks, then repeat with the hot water line.
If I had it to do over again there's one step I'd perform out of order: I would connect the hot and cold water supplies to the bidet before attaching the bidet to the toilet. Once the attachment was mounted, I had very little room and some pretty awkward angles to work with to get the water lines connected. In fact, it took me three attempts to get everything hooked up with no leaks.
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This year, I seem to be really enjoying a shortlist challenge and, this time, it is the Yoto Carnegie Medal Shortlist.
Miss W sent me a copy of ‘Cane Warriors’, so I knew it had to be the first book that I chose to read from the shortlist. And, of course, with the day job being all about history, I guess it was an obvious place to start.
I absolutely devoured this book and hope that so many young adults will read it. There are so many lessons amongst its pages – and not just the history lessons.
Moa is fourteen years old, and all he has ever known is life on the plantation; a life that has consumed him, his mother, his father, his friends and, soon, his younger sister, too. However, he understands that this is not the only way that life has to be and, maybe, there is a way to fight for their freedom and their rights. This leads to Moa becoming a Cane Warrior, fighting for the freedom of the enslaved people on the island of Jamaica – however difficult the challenges he will face will be.
This novel follows the true story of Tacky’s War in Jamaica in 1760, and really brings the events to life for the reader. Especially from the point of view of a young adult character.
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Penny Appeal’s Mini CEO, 11-year-old Shakira Rahman launched the MY (Muslim Youth) Helpline, providing listening and mental health support for young people between the ages of 11 to 24. The MY Helpline is a confidential and nonjudgmental service for young Muslims across the UK. It will provide faith and culturally sensitive support for any young Muslim facing challenges such as sexuality, family abuse, bullying and cultural or religious pressures, which affect many in modern British society.
Anyone who calls the MY Helpline will be put through to a fully trained and experienced practitioner, who will talk with each caller for as long as they wish. Practitioners will listen and support callers through the emotions they are experiencing, providing the necessary support. The MY service can also provide access to counsellors with Islamic knowledge (via email) within 48 hours. If needed, callers can be transferred to specialist organizations that can assist them with issues that require extra care.
The helpline’s team is headed by Hinna Zafar, a qualified counsellor in psychology.
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See Hawaii Island’s Kilauea Volcano by air with Paradise Helicopters
A visitor views the raw, untethered power of one of the world’s most active volcanoes.
A crackle comes through the two-way headset snug over my ears. “Have you been on a helicopter before?” our pilot, Keith, asks me.
“This is my first time,” I say.
“How about that,” he answers. “Me, too!”
Keith, of course, is joking. He’s a skilled pilot, trained and certified, with Paradise Helicopters. A locally owned and operated company since 1997, a tour with Paradise Helicopters offers a bird’s-eye view of Hawaii Island, and if you want to see the lava as it simultaneously creates and consumes, there’s no better time than right now.
On a sunny Wednesday afternoon, Keith deftly maneuvers a Bell 407 helicopter above the clouds as he briefly narrates the history of Hilo town and gives our six-person tour group the latest information on the Kilauea eruption.
We’re on the Lava and Rainforests Adventure tour. Lasting roughly 45 minutes, the trip begins with the good stuff: fiery, flowing lava. We hover above the southeast coastline to the former Kapoho Bay, now filled in by lava. From here, I see the billowing white plumes as the lava connects with the sea.
Next, we head to the source of the eruption: the Fissure 8 cinder cone. It was the eighth fissure vent to open during the eruption that began May 3. The cinder cone’s peak is now 180 feet and feeds a glowing river that flows approximately 8 miles to the Pacific Ocean. The volume of lava is astonishing. I stop taking photos and videos on my cellphone and simply take in the neon orange lava spitting from the center of the cinder cone, and the surprisingly fast flowing river of red-hot lava.
Near the end of the tour, Keith swoops us to our last stop. It might as well be a whole other world. In stark contrast to the fiery, charcoal colors of the lava, the sapphire blues and emerald greens of the Wailuku River and surrounding rain forest are almost jarring at first. We fly over a section of the 28-mile-long river, Hawaii’s longest, as it descends into a series of waterfalls and pools. One of its most notable features is the 80-foot tall Waianuenue, or Rainbow Falls, named for the rainbows that form in the morning at its misty base.
As we touch down back at Hilo International Airport, I reflect on the sheer power of Mother Nature, from fire to water. I joke to Keith that he did a good job flying, especially since it was his first time.
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The themes and meanings of Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane are more numerous, darker, and more important than may be readily apparent. The play is known for its implied commentary on society’s attitude toward homosexuals and heterosexual practice out of wedlock; but certain other, perhaps less obvious messages are even more fundamental.
Sloane comments on the emptiness of life, and how the characters attempt to distract themselves from it with material objects. “Kath’s house in Entertaining Mr. Sloane is in the middle of a rubbish dump. Everyone who enters it is tainted with a sense of waste. The characters live off the scraps of life and their conversation consists of vernacular throwaways. In a society without a heroic mission, surrounded literally by industrial rubbish, Sloane becomes his own most valuable project. He is a model of narcissistic noncommitment.” (John Lahr, Prick up your Ears, U. of California Press, 2000, p. 148) Ed brags about his two cars and two bank accounts (Entertaining Mr Sloane, 50th Anniversary Edition, Bloomsbury, 2014, pp. 64, 95); Sloane is delighted with a potential gift of a sports car from Ed (p. 94); Kath fusses over her garden gnome and shepherdess figurine (pp. 81, 115). When Sloane is about to abandon her, Kath asks him if the color of the curtains in his room is the problem (p. 126). Ed forges a relationship with Sloane by offering him the various, partly leather components of a chauffer’s uniform (p. 64).
Self-delusion in supposed love relationships is a stronger theme. Sloane is obviously an amoral, manipulative, self-serving person, with little genuine affection to offer, yet both Ed and Kath want to consider him their lover. After learning that Sloane is having sex with Kath, Ed condemns him; then, after Sloane pleads for pity, Ed forgives him; Sloane then ostensibly accepts Ed as “a pal,” “one of my mates”; their relationship is to continue. Ed reacts with enough emotion that it’s clear he wants more than sex from Sloane, though the audience easily perceives Sloane as a manipulative, self-serving person (pp. 100-103). Kath displays even more need for Sloane and, even after Sloane chooses Ed over her, even after Sloane attacks her physically, she says, “I’ll still forgive and forget” (p. 132) and asks Sloane, not Ed, to help her up (p. 133). One may be left wondering if all romantic relationships are to a great extent delusory.
Lack of morality is another theme of this dark comedy. Despite Ed’s abundant preaching about principles (p. 118, for example) and Kath’s pronouncements against perjury (p. 130, “I’m a firm believer in truth”), both ultimately decide to falsify their accounts of their father’s death to save Sloane from prison, in order to keep him as a supposed lover. As both Ed and Kath may be perceived as somewhat normal individuals in some ways, this outcome calls into question the entire justice system—how often is testimony false?
Our play also suggests that people repeat their past behaviors no matter how disastrous the results. Sloane has already killed one man unintentionally with his fists (p. 107); when Sloane later attacks Kemp, death again isn’t Sloane’s intention but is the result (pp. 108-109, 111). Ed and Kath, prior to getting involved with Sloane, created a love triangle including one Tommy; as with Sloane, a problem pregnancy was one outcome (pp. 86-87). Kemp’s sternly unforgiving side is also repeated. Years earlier, after catching Ed in bed with another young man, Kemp broke off with his son Ed for 20 years (p. 45). On realizing that Sloane has killed a man, Kemp tells Sloane he’ll report Sloane to the police and is beaten to death as a result (pp. 108-109). One might well agree that Kemp would be right to report the killing, but the point is that Kemp behaves sternly and punitively in the two incidents and suffers terrible consequences. Thus all the characters repeat their past behaviors and suffer as a result; one of Orton’s meanings may be that humans fail to learn.
Finally, the denial of serious problems is also a theme of this comedy. The final spoken line is Ed’s “Well, it’s been a pleasant morning. See you later.” (p. 136) when his father has just been killed by Sloane and he and Kath have just arranged a sharing of Sloane’s services, by means of blackmail. At the final curtain, Kath enjoys a sweet. Her chattering about the garden gnome and ceramic shepherdess, her reassuring Sloane, “You’re not that type of young man” after Sloane has beaten her father, her calmly going about housework just after Sloane has seriously assaulted her father (pp. 111-112) convey the theme of denial.
And so Sloane may be one of the most nihilistic plays in existence. By emphasizing certain problems, however, it may serve as one starting point toward self-awareness and consequent improvements in our attitudes and actions. Granted that few of us are as extreme as the characters, we may share some of their flaws in less blatant ways.
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It is extremely important to begin treatments as soon as possible after a rare neuroimmune diagnosis. Treatment in the acute or early stages involves quieting down the immune system as quickly as possible, before damage is done. Time is critical. While not all individuals present alike, the following are possible treatments in the management of an acute event.
Although there are no clinical trials that support a unique approach to treat patients experiencing Transverse Myelitis (TM) or Optic Neuritis (ON), it is well recognized as a standard of care to give high-dose intravenous methylprednisolone for suspected acute myelitis, generally for 5 days, unless there are compelling reasons not to. The decision to offer continued steroids or add a new treatment is often based on the clinical course and MRI appearance at the end of 5 days of steroids.
Plasma Exchange (PLEX)
PLEX is often recommended for moderate to aggressive forms of TM and ON, as is very often the case with NMOSD, if there is not much improvement after being treated with intravenous steroids. If presenting symptoms are severe, PLEX may be initiated concurrently with steroids. There have been no prospective clinical trials that prove PLEX’s effectiveness in NMOSD, but retrospective studies of TM treated with IV steroids followed by PLEX have shown a beneficial outcome. PLEX also has been shown to be effective in other autoimmune or inflammatory central nervous system disorders. Early treatment is beneficial – PLEX is typically started within days of administering steroids, very often before the course of steroids has finished. Particular benefit has been shown if started within the acute or sub-acute stage of the myelitis or if there is continued active inflammation on MRI.
Other Acute Treatments
In cases of no response to either steroids or PLEX therapy and continued presence of active inflammation in the spinal cord, other forms of immune-based interventions may be required. The use of immunosuppressants or immunomodulatory agents may be considered in some cases. One of those approaches is the use of intravenous cyclophosphamide (a chemotherapy drug often used for lymphomas or leukemia). Initial presentation with aggressive forms of myelitis, or if particularly refractory to treatment with steroids and/or PLEX, aggressive immunosuppression with cyclophosphamide is considered. Individuals should be monitored carefully as potential complications may arise from immunosuppression. As with all medications, risks versus benefits of aggressive immunosuppression need to be considered and discussed with the clinical care team.
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We support spin-offs
Using inventions and scientific discoveries to found a company. The Technical University of Munich wants to motivate its researchers even more to do this - with "TUMentrepreneurship".
Forming the start-up idea from a discovery: TUMentrepreneurship accompanies researchers in this process, especially in the scientific fields of the future with great added value for society:
The goal of TUMentrepreneurship is to actively promote start-ups from research. The strategy therefore focuses on four pillars. They support each other and are continuously developed further:
- Spin-Off Process
- International Entrepreneurship Network
- Best practice methods for people interested in founding a company
- Vibrant start-up culture
At the heart of TUMentrepreneurship lies the spin-off process, through which more start-ups are initiated from academia and continuously supported until they successfully enter the market.
The process is divided into three parts:
- utilization of research results / technologies in spin-offs.
- Development of entrepreneurial talent from science
- Establishment of growth-oriented companies
Measures relevant to success are offered for each phase of the spin-off process. In special formats, possible applications of new technologies are identified, selected and evaluated at an early stage. In workshops and seminars, those interested in founding a company are given entrepreneurial qualifications. The start-up consultancy accompanies technology teams individually during the start-up phase. The exchange in our start-up network supports and motivates researchers in the pre-start-up phase of their company.
International Entrepreneurship Network
TUM is part of a strong regional, national and international entrepreneurship network. With TUMentrepreneurship, this network is made accessible to TUM founders. Internally, the network actors include start-up ambassadors who represent the start-up topic as ambassadors, multipliers and role models at each of the 15 faculties. Scientific advisors are available to advise start-up projects on the state of the art in technology and research and establish contacts with other experts from science and industry. Externally, experts from industry are involved as mentors for start-up teams.
Best practice methods for people interested in founding a company
The effective implementation of the proactive spin-off process of TUMentrepreneurship requires the use of modern methods and tools to support founders. These tools concern e.g. business development, business process management, team building, growth and quality management. Entrepreneurship Research develops specific methods and tools for founders in close cooperation with the start-up consultancy. The use and success of the measures, methods and tools are checked by Entrepreneurship Research via a feedback and monitoring system. All entrepreneurship research activities are bundled in the TUMentrepreneurship Research Institute (TUM ERI).
The Entrepreneurship Steering Committee steers the entrepreneurship activities of TUM and advises the Presidential Board on strategic entrepreneurship decisions. The UnternehmerTUM, a legally independent affiliated institute of the university, is also represented on this committee. Coordinators in TUM's central entrepreneurship institutions ensure the implementation of the strategy, processes and activities.
We accompany tech founders on their way to success.
In our incubation program for students, scientists, and alumni, we strengthen ideas and explore opportunities, providing support, training, and resources such as tools and co-working spaces.
Our community inspires entrepreneurial talent and strengthens teams to build leading global companies with a significant positive impact on society.
2020: Establishment of the TUM Venture Labs in key technology fields with the aim of making Munich the leading European metropolis for technology start-ups.
2019: For the third time in a row, TUM achieved the title of "University of Excellence" with the future concept "TUM Agenda 2030".
2019: Winner of the EXIST Potentials funding by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy with the concept application "TUM Global DeepTech Venture".
2018: TUM launches Global Food Venture Initiative in the EIT Food Initiative and thus actively supports start-up projects in the food sector.
2015: Opening of the new building in Garching by TUM and UnternehmerTUM, which will be home to the TUM Entrepreneurship Center (incl. Entrepreneurship Research Institute and TUM Incubator), as well as UnternehmerTUM and the MakerSpace.
2015: The "European Venture Program" is launched as a joint initiative of TUM and the partner universities of the EuroTech Alliance.
2015: AMBA accreditation of the Executive MBA Program in Innovation and Business Creation.
2013: TUM hosts the "TUM Entrepreneurship Day" with integrated start-up fair for the first time, which from then on takes place annually and grows steadily.
2012: together with UnternehmerTUM and the Zeidler Research Foundation, the "TUM IdeAward" is launched to honor outstanding start-up ideas from academia
2012: TUM as winner of the second round of the Excellence Initiative and founding of the TUM Entrepreneurship Research Institute.
2012: TUM wins multi-year funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy within the program "EXIST IV - die Gründerhochschule" with the concept "TUMentrepreneurship
2010: Establishment of the first chair for entrepreneurship at TUM
2006: TUM as winner of the Excellence Initiative with the strategy "TUM. The Entrepreneurial University"
2002: The founding of the affiliated institute UnternehmerTUM GmbH - Center for Innovation and Founding.
2021: Third Unicorn from TUM is Personio TUM thus takes first place in the Unicorn success list of German universities.
2020: Second Unicorn from TUM is Lilium.
2020: TUM spin-off Kumovis wins the German Innovation Award.
2019: Successful nomination of TUM rewards start-up Celonis with highly endowed award of the German Future Prize by the German Federal President
2018: For the third time in a row, TUM ranks first in the German Stifterverband's start-up radar as the most start-up-friendly among major German universities
2018: First unicorn among TUM spin-offs is chosen: Celonis receives billion US dollar valuation
2016: TUM is once again awarded first place among major universities in the Gründungsradar, the ranking of the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany
2016: TUM takes top spot in the "Reuters Top 100: Europe's Most Innovative Universities" ranking, making it one of the five most innovative universities in Europe
2015: TUM spin-off Dynamic Biosensors wins German Innovation Award 2015
2014: TUM ranked #1 in the Start-up Radar and the best large university for entrepreneurs in Germany
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J. N. Darby.
(Notes and Comments Vol. 4.)
Note the expression "Throne of Grace," Hebrews 4:16. "Throne" is connected with government, and the principles and character of Him who governs. God deals in grace, and governs in grace, but He does so according to His own nature and character - He governs. Israel, on Moses' intercession, was dealt with in grace, but that was not exactly a throne, and Israel was replaced under law. Here God governs a people who walk in this world, but, on the principles of grace, we come boldly to a throne of grace, to obtain mercy and seek grace to help in time of need. The Father takes a positive interest, as from his own heart, in the children, but an "Advocate with the Father" (1 John 2) is not simply "their Father" - that would not do - it is "the Father" "of whom ye say he is your God." The Son has revealed God, necessarily thus as Son. He Himself loves us because we have loved Christ, but it is a revelation of God the Father by the Son - not in the way of a relationship with us, though that be true. But it is a much fuller revelation of God, and in a new way. A child has not an advocate exactly with his father, but "if any one sin, we have an advocate with the Father." We have communion with the Father and with the Son, but it is with God who is Light. On sinning and getting out of communion, the nature of the revelation is not changed to put me under Law and Jehovah, but restoration is needed according to its nature.
Remark, here, that in John, however high the privilege spoken of, the saint is always looked at as in this world.
Note, further, that in Hebrews 4, we have, at the end, three great and important principles for going through the wilderness - the Word, the Priesthood, and the Throne. This is very instructive. The Word searches the thoughts and intents of the heart - all that is working in the mind (desire) and will - as the eye of God. The Priesthood sustains, in grace, in every infirmity and in difficulty and trial. The Throne is perfect grace, but it is a Throne - absolute sovereign power, positive government though in grace, and according to the character and majesty of Him who sits there. We go there "boldly," for all is grace, and the great High Priest is for us with God. Still the Throne rules according to its own principles, though I am sure to find mercy and help there, for He who sits there is sovereign goodness, and can bless righteously and graciously because of the Priest. Our privilege is to go there, but it acts as a throne when we do not, still in connection with the Priest. | <urn:uuid:83218827-372c-4d5f-b1d6-ee05bea90463> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stempublishing.com/authors/darby/NOTESCOM/44012E.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97852 | 611 | 2.078125 | 2 |
The latest data from the National Science Foundation reveal that there were more science and engineering graduates in the U.S. in 2006 than there were in 2003 and that there appears to be plenty of opportunity for those graduates in the S&E workforce. NSF and US News detail the results of three recent studies released by NSF that indicate this “strong labor market for scientists and engineers.”
According to the studies, the number of individuals working in science and engineering (S&E) occupations grew by 4.3 percent between 2003 and 2006, while their unemployment rate dropped to 2.5 percent in 2006, its lowest since the early 1990s. “On the supply side, we can say that the current S&E labor force is expanding, new graduates are coming out, and people are able to find employment, or are continuing their education,” says Nimmi Kannankutty, the National Science Foundation (NSF) program manager responsible for compiling the data, which NSF released last month.
CRA’s Jay Vegso has some additional data detailing how computer science graduates appear to be faring in this market. The short answer is: quite well. According to the NSF data, “CS graduates tied for second with health majors for the highest median salary at the bachelor’s level ($45,000) and tied for first with engineering at the master’s level ($65,000).” Both figures are well above the median salaries among all science, engineering and health fields ($39,000 for bachelor’s and $56,000 for master’s).
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the inhabitants of Emerita
Ēmerita, ae, f., a city of Lusitania, now Merida, Mela, 2, 6, 4; Plin. 9, 41, 65, § 141.
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The Basic Elements You Need To Find The Best Home For Your Situation
There are a number of things that you have to keep in mind when buying a new home. Having an A-Z checklist will help you to remember all of the things that you are looking for in your new property.
A: Attractiveness: This is important for social, personal, and resale value reasons. You want to live in a home that you find attractive, and that others will as well. In some cases it will be possible to do renovations that can improve the look of a space. You also need to evaluate the appearance of the neighborhood.
B: Basements: You should always evaluate the basement of a home to determine whether there may be water or flooding issues. These spaces are often prone to mold. However a finished basement can be an attractive feature that can exponentially increase the size and function of your home.
C. Ceilings: Higher ceiling on the interior of a home will make the space feel larger, and more expansive. However they will also be harder to clean.
D. Dining Rooms: Not every property will have a full room set aside for dining. Some will have a dinette area, and others will require you to eat in the kitchen. If the kitchen is too small then you may not have a place to put a table for gathering and eating at all.
E. Environmental Concerns: Is the property that you are purchasing ecologically friendly? There are a number of large appliances and features that can save energy, generate energy naturally, and keep your comfortable with green practices.
F. Flooring: The type of floors that exist in a space will have a dramatic effect on how it will feel, and how it can be used. Some materials will require constant maintenance, while others may be easy to keep clean.
G. Garage: If you have a car then a garage can be a luxury, as well as a safety element when purchasing a home. Placing your vehicle in an enclosed building will keep it safe from both burglary and the elements.
H. Housing Needs: How many people will be living in this space? You need to match the size and number of rooms to the population of your family in order to ensure you have enough room for everyone. If there are children involved then it will be necessary to decide whether they will have to share a bedroom.
I. Investment Potential: Real estate is not just a place to live, it is also one of the best investments that you can make. However some properties will increase and hold value better than others. Researching the relative value of different homes in the area over time can give you an idea of the potential profit you might stand to make.
J. Justification: You need to make sure that your goals are clear before purchasing a home. This will depend on whether you want to start a family, as well as your projected career path. Only by looking at all of the different aspects of your life can you determine if it is time to purchase a home, and what kind of property it should be.
K. Kitchen: This is often the most important room in the house. It can act as a social center for the entire family, as well as a source of nourishment, and warmth. The features in this space such as refrigerators, ovens, counters, and cabinets can all be quite expensive, and the style of these pieces can effect the price of a home dramatically. If you spend a lot of time in the kitchen then it is important for you to choose one that you feel comfortable, and at ease in.
L. Living Room: This room is also vital as it is the space that will most often bring friends and family together. It is also very visible to guests as it will be the environment where you’ll be most likely to interact with them. That is why it is important for this space to have a relaxed feel that helps promote a sense of social flow.
M. Mortgage: Home’s are generally too expensive to purchase outright, requiring a loan known as a mortgage to be taken out in order to pay for them over time. The monthly payments as well as the interest should be calculated carefully so that you don’t go over budget.
N. Neighborhood: Before you purchase a home it is often useful to spend some time in the neighborhood, getting to know the feel and flow of the environment to ensure that you actually want to live there.
O. Opportunities: Some cities offer more of a specific job then others. That causes many people to move to those locations in order to pursue further employment opportunities.
P. Parking: If the house being purchased is in a crowded neighborhood or city then having a dedicated parking spot can be a vital element to a home.
Q. Quantity: The more rooms you have the more upkeep will be required to maintain the look of the home. At the same time you want to ensure that there is plenty of space for everyone who will be living there to have their own privacy.
R. Return On Investment: When purchasing a house as an investment it is always important to look at the key factors that will influence its short-term value. This can involve the popularity of the neighborhood and the quality of the property.
S. Stairs: Older people, or those who have small children, might want to stay away from purchasing homes that have stairs. Those can be dangerous obstacles that may lead to serious accidental injuries.
T. Time: You should know what your long term goals are so that you can pick a house that will fit your needs.
U. Underlayment: Have a professional check the padding or material underneath the floor for the presence of mold, mildew, or other harmful microorganisms.
V. Viability: Some houses are very private, fenced in and nestled away in neighborhoods. Others are out right on the edge of street corners. This can raise important safety concerns for families.
W. Water: If there are water features nearby such as lakes, rivers, or an ocean, then the home may be prone to flooding.
X. The X Factor: Sometimes you just fall in love with a house. While it is best to let logic rule your decision, you also have to live in this place so you need to at least enjoy it a little on a personal level.
Y. Yard: A yard is great if you have children, or pets, but can be a problem to care for over time.
Z. Zeal: At the end of the day you have to be excited about the property. If you find that you’re taking a lackluster approach to the process then you may be looking at the wrong opportunity. | <urn:uuid:9a782e27-e3ac-441e-8e24-590c1dcb570e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thecurciogroup.com/2016/09/08/house-hunting-checklist-z-guide-finding-perfect-home/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963356 | 1,378 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Letters to the Editor - Issue 127
Missing Phil Bolger Thanks to Peter Spectre for “The Last Laugh” (A Postcard in Time, Issue #125, July 2013) about Phil Bolger and Dynamite Payson launching a folding schooner. Phil was noted for weird-looking boats and many people were skeptical about his designs. The reality is that Phil put more people on the water than anyone did, by showing that they could go down to the local lumberyard, buy some stuff, and build a simple, fun, and useful boat. Purchasing is never as satisfying as building. Phil also had an eye for lovely traditional designs. He contributed a lot to all of us. I miss Phil Bolger.
Paul Schwartz (a.k.a. Captain Gnat)
Beverly, MassachusettsRed roof explained I was reading the letters section of the May issue (MBH&H #124), wherein a fellow from Idaho asked why lighthouse buildings are nearly always white with red roofs. To find out, I contacted Ted Panayotoff, who played a big part in the renovation of the Rockland Lighthouse and is as close to a lighthouse expert as anyone I know. Here is his response: “The color scheme of white building with red roof was specified for visibility from the water. The availability of red shingles today is an issue. When the new roof [on the lightkeeper’s house] at Curtis Island in Camden Harbor was put on it took me a bit of research to locate the correct shingles. The company was Certainteed and the model was Hatteras.”
Camden, MaineFrankenfish what-ifs I’ve been enjoying MBH&H all the way from Boise, Idaho, for years. I find myself disagreeing with a comment by Peter Bass (“View from the Porch,” Boat Show Issue 2013) about GMO-altered Atlantic salmon. I feel as a biologist that it is important for me to comment on Mr. Bass’s stated view concerning “Frankenfish” that for scientific reasons it not be outlawed. His reasoning was that an additional source of inexpensive protein is needed these days. That may be true, but a simplistic solution to a complex problem is often not really a solution at all. Lack of protein is not the problem; it is one of many symptoms. The problem not being addressed seriously is overpopulation. Another symptom of that key problem is very-well known in Maine—the overharvest of wild fish stocks. Another point—an ecological one—is that we don’t know the biological and ecological implications of what we do. We don’t even know what we don’t know. On the left coast of this continent we are pen-growing Atlantic salmon, a species that is non-native to the Pacific Ocean. Now on the right coast there are efforts to grow GMO-“enhanced” Atlantic salmon whose genome is spliced with a gene from Chinook salmon—a Pacific species that is non-native to the Atlantic. There are so many what ifs: What if individuals of these pen-raised fish escape to the wild on either coast? What is the effect of concentrating numbers of penned-raised fish on wild populations? How do such operations alter near-shore water chemistry, fauna, and flora? Fishery scientists know some portion of the answers to these questions. Would that science rules the day… Or would that politics rules the day? I think Mr. Bass prefers the latter and not the former…at least at the time of his writing. However, I look forward to more. Feet up…
US Fish and Wildlife Service (retired)Maritime navigation and time Since picking up a copy of MBH&H while waiting for a meeting at the University of Maine, Orono, a few years ago, I haven’t missed an edition. I enjoy visiting Maine through your magazine. During a lengthy career in the US Navy, I served on several ships and was the first designated “Navigator of the Navy.” Therefore, I took particular interest in your article “Tick, Tock, Buzz: To understand navigation, you have to understand time” (MBH&H #126). For your readers who share my interest in maritime navigation, I suggest the book Longitude by Dava Sobel.
RADM Dick West, USN (ret)
Coventry, Rhode IslandA word from the editors You may notice a few changes in this issue of the magazine, with the arrival of the new Editor in Chief Polly Saltonstall and Managing Editor Jennifer McIntosh. We bid farewell to Peter H. Spectre, who has retired from editing but not writing, and Gretchen Piston Ogden who is transitioning to new endeavors. We look forward to sharing the journey with you, our readers and customers, and as ever, welcome your thoughts and ideas for how to make the magazine, website, and annual summer show the very best reflection of coastal life. | <urn:uuid:a1a89a98-54fc-44f9-89a7-37bd8f807be8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://maineboats.com/print/issue-127/letters-to-the-editor-127 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968111 | 1,060 | 1.640625 | 2 |
NEW YORK -- It's a big day for the New York Aquarium at Coney Island.
It has fully reopened for the first time since Superstorm Sandy hit nearly 10 years ago.
Exhibition spaces were flooded after the storm made landfall in October 2012.
The aquarium spent the last decade rebuilding and making improvements to protect it from future storms.
A new exhibition called "Sea Change" that focuses on the changing climate and its impact on marine ecosystems also opened Friday.
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Page 24 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 24 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 24 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking off...
Page 39 - The tears that flow on this fond recital will never dry up. My heart, penetrated with the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I write, and I could pour it out like water.
Page 23 - Northern cities, where the pavements have been worn off by the tread of commerce. We will carry war where it is easy to advance — where food for the sword and torch await our armies in the densely populated cities...
Page 22 - I say that the Constitution of the United States, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, must be enforced ; and they who stand across the path of that enforcement must either destroy the power of the United States, or it will destroy them.
Page 33 - Union, and submission the path to victory, shall throw down their arms before the advancing foe ; when vast chasms across every State shall make apparent to every eye, when too late to remedy it, that division from the South is...
Page 18 - ... or grave-makers I am become stupid, or have forgot the apprehension of mortality; but that marshalling all the horrors, and contemplating the extremities thereof, I find not anything therein able to daunt the courage of a man, much less a well resolved Christian...
Page 34 - ... banner of the Republic, still pointing onward, floats proudly in the face of the enemy; that vast regions are reduced to obedience to the laws, and that a great host in armed array now presses with steady step into the dark regions of the rebellion.
Page 27 - Though not elected, he never ceased his efforts. With us it was a struggle for homes, hearths, and lives. He said at Brooklyn, " You see the conflagration from a distance ; it blisters me at my side. You can survive the integrity of the nation ; we in Maryland would live on the side of a gulf, perpetually tending to plunge into its depths. It is for us life and liberty; it is for you greatness, strength, and prosperity. | <urn:uuid:7e6716c4-f49c-42f6-aa5c-9de1557c095a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.bs/books?id=-jFCAAAAIAAJ&dq=editions:LCCN04001603&output=html&lr= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.935883 | 802 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Today I wish to talk about forgiveness. I think this is important as we approach Easter the time of which Jesus Christ died for our Sins. The subject of forgiveness is often not an easy one, there is often a cloud floating over us and it can be a very emotional time. There can be times of great sadness and anger towards others that have done wrong by you and this can often lead to a harsh judgement of them.
With that in mind, I would like to start with a verse from Romans 2:1 which says “So you have no reason, whoever you are, for judging: for in judging another you are judging yourself, for you do the same things. This certainly speaks for itself, but I do not wish to talk about judgement today it is about the forgiveness of others.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines forgiveness as being the action or process of forgiving or being forgiven. This can be seen as being intertwined with our own free will which again does not leave us when we are baptised. Through this we can still Sin and we can still stray from the Lord but our faith and love for him helps us stay on our path.
In talking about our own sins and moving forward towards baptism, a quote comes to mind. It comes from Colossians 3:13 and it says bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. I think that this is quite powerful because it shows that the Lord has forgiven us for our past sins and welcomed us into his Kingdom and if he can do that then how can we not forgive others?
Philippians 1:6 also portrays a powerful message through saying “and I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns. It is also considered that forgiving is not an easy task for us but we must continue forgiving until the matter is settled in our heart and this is important to the Lord. This can be seen in Matthew 18:21-22 “Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times? Jesus answered, I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times”
In Luke 6:37 we are given another message about forgiveness “Do not judge, and you will not be judged, Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. forgive and you shall be forgiven. This tells us that we shall continue to be forgiven for our sins as long as we are able to forgive others
The most well known prayer also shares this message of us forgiving others for ourselves to be forgiven. The Lord’s prayer says “and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. | <urn:uuid:5e983329-9ec5-4c69-8682-6d888f43f83c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onlinebaptist.com/blogs/entry/174-forgiveness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975086 | 578 | 2.328125 | 2 |
pyLEMS is a Python package which provides an API, as well as a simulator for the LEMS language. It can also be used to run NeuroML2 models.
pyNeuroML builds on pyLEMS and includes additional functions.
Please cite Vella et al. ([VCC+14]) if you use pyLEMS.
Python is generally pre-installed on all computers nowadays. However, if you do not have Python installed on your system, please follow the official installation instructions to install Python on your computer. A number of Free/Open source Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are also available that make working with Python (even) easier. An example list is here.
Install pyLEMS with pip#
Tip: Use a virtual environment
While using Python packages, it is suggested to use a virtual environment to isolate the software you install from each other. Learn more about using virtual environments in Python here.
The easiest way to install the latest version of pyLEMS is using the default Python package manager,
pip install pyLEMS
Installation on Fedora Linux#
sudo dnf install python3-pyLEMS
Detailed API documentation for PyLEMS can be found here.
pyLEMS provides the
pylems command line utility that can be used to simulate LEMS files.
pylems is self documented, and you can learn about its usage using the
pylems -h usage: pylems [-h] [-I <Include directory>] [-nogui] [-dlems] <LEMS file> positional arguments: <LEMS file> LEMS file to be simulated optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -I <Include directory> Directory to be searched for included files -nogui If this is specified, just parse & simulate the model, but don't show any plots -dlems If this is specified, export the LEMS file as dLEMS (distilled LEMS in JSON format, see https://github.com/borismarin/som-codegen)
To simulate a LEMS file:
Please note that if you are simulating a NeuroML file you will have to also specify the location of the NeuroML 2 LEMS definitions with the
We suggest that you use pyNeuroML where this is not required:
pylems -I <dir of NeuroML2 install>/NeuroML2CoreTypes/ LEMS_NeuroML2_Model.xml
Detailed API documentation for pyNeuroML can be found here.
The pyLEMS API is also self documented.
You can use Python’s in-built documentation viewer
pydoc to view the documentation for any of the package’s modules and their functions:
Help on package lems: NAME lems DESCRIPTION @author: Gautham Ganapathy @organization: LEMS (http://neuroml.org/lems/, https://github.com/organizations/LEMS) @contact: email@example.com PACKAGE CONTENTS api base (package) dlems (package) model (package) parser (package) run sim (package) DATA logger = <Logger LEMS (WARNING)> VERSION 0.5.2 FILE /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/lems/__init__.py
Most IDEs are able to show you this information as you use them in your Python scripts.
For any questions regarding pyLEMS, please open an issue on the GitHub issue tracker here. Any bugs and feature requests can also be filed there.
You can also use any of the communication channels of the NeuroML community.
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EMBOA is an acronym for project ” Affective loop in Socially Assistive Robotics as an intervention tool for children with autism”. The project is conducted by an international consortium and aims at the development of guidelines and practical evaluation of applying emotion recognition technologies in robot-supported intervention in children with autism.ith autism.
It combines three domains: autism therapy, social robots and automatic emotion recognition.
The EMBOA project goal is to confirm the possibility of the application (feasibility study), and in particular, we aim at the identification of the best practices and obstacles in using the combination of the technologies. What we hope to obtain is a novel approach for creating an affective loop in child-robot interaction that would enhance interventions regarding emotional intelligence building in children with autism. The lessons learned, summarized in the form of guidelines, might be used in higher education in all involved countries in robotics, computer science, and special pedagogy fields of study.
EMBOA is a mixed research and didactic project under EU Erasmus Plus Strategic Partnership for Higher Education Programme. Years: 2019-2022.
The objectives of our project are matching the UE horisontal priority of Social Inclusion with regards to supporting the actions for improvement of learning performance of disadvantaged learners (testing of a novel approach for improvement of learning performances of children with autism).
As in all Erasmus Plus projects, the findings of the project will be widely disseminated in higher education, in research, among autism therapy specialists as well as to the general public in the variety of forms:
- 2 short-term joint staff training events;
- 1 intensive program for higher education learners;
- 6 multiplier events for autism therapy professionals and caregivers in all participating countries;
- openly available guidelines;
- scientific and technical papers,
- papers, posters and presentations to general public.
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) suffer from multiple deficits, and limited social and emotional skills are among those, that influence their ability to involve in interaction and communication. Limited communication occurs in human-human interaction and affects relations with family members, peers, and therapists. There are promising results in the use of robots in supporting the social and emotional development of children with autism.
We do not know, why children with autism are eager to interact with human-like looking robots and not with humans. Regardless of the reason, social robots proved to be a way to get through the social obstacles of a child and make him/her involved in the interaction. Once the interaction happens, we have a unique opportunity to engage a child in gradually building and practicing social and emotional skills.
Robot-assisted therapy in autism has been a growing area of research in recent years. Many robots have been used to encourage social interaction and collaborative play amongst children with ASD, e.g. mobile robot IROMEC creature/cartoon-like robots such as Probo and Keepon, artificial pets like the teddy bear Huggable and the baby seal robot Paro and more. Humanoid robots, e.g., Robota, Nao, Kaspar, Milo have been used with children with autism to help mediate interactions with peers and adults. Studies examined the use of these robots as mediators focusing on communication and social interaction, e.g. self-initiated interactions, collaboration, verbal communication, turn-taking, imitation, joint attention, etc. The ASD practitioners expressed the robot Kaspar to be of added value to ASD objectives in domains such as communication, interpersonal interaction, social relations, and emotional wellbeing. In the project we use Kaspar robot to study child-robot interaction. Kaspar robot was not used in conjunction with emotion recognition technologies before.
Kaspar social robot
There are several works on facial expressions in children with autism. Multiple studies suggest that participants with ASD display facial expressions less frequently and shortly, and they are less likely to share facial expressions with others. Their facial expressions are also judged to be lower in quality and less accurate. However, participants with ASD do not express emotions less intensely, nor is their reaction time of expression onset slower. The findings were observed in several studies that analyzed spontaneous expressions and used diverse play activities: free, semi-structured or structured. None of the studies reported were based on interaction with a social robot, however some studies reported emotional expressions in autism analyzed with automatic recognition software. The approach of the EMBOA project is to combine social robots with automatic emotion recognition in the therapy of children with autism. | <urn:uuid:5940fb1b-a30b-4f68-84dd-277e70c7f06b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://emboa.eu/emboa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934418 | 930 | 2.796875 | 3 |
The septic tank that is located in your home is among the most vital features. They deal with wastewater once it drains out of the house.
The cleansing of the septic tank generally requires the assistance of a qualified. Sometimes, there’s not enough time to call one. This article will provide information on how to maintain a septic system in a great condition. It also includes another product that is able to be used, called Septifix. Let’s go! Septifix Australia
For those of you who prefer a more visual experience, here is a video review by Kate from Kate’s Journey’s YouTube channel. Do check out our article below, however, because it has a comprehensive overview of Septifix.
What You Should Know About Septic Tank Cleaning Septifix Australia
Cleaning a septic tank is difficult task. Most tanks are made out of plastic, fiberglass, or concrete. After many years of usage there is an accumulation of sludge and bacteria. The septic tank cleaning comes in.
It is recommended to clean your septic tank at least once every year or every two years. Doing this will make the tank’s system efficient. There are four aspects you need to think about:
- Check frequency and frequency of pump inspection
- Utilizing water to the best of your ability
- Proper waste disposal
- The maintenance of the drain field is
Inspection and Pump Frequency
This part usually involves a professional, but it is possible to see what you can do. The tank must be pumped in intervals of three to five years. If the septic tank is comprised of deteriorating parts like mechanical components and electrical switches, as well as pumps, they must be inspected. There are four factors in how it should be checked:
- Your home’s size home
- The quantity of solids that are present in the wastewater
- Your septic tank’s size
- The quantity of wastewater generated in your home.
When You Should Consult a Professional
If your septic tank is producing more problems within your household, it’s recommended to seek help from a professional. They can tell you what to do and where to put in new pipes to your home. This is the case for the septic tank. They will examine the Scum and sludge layers, while also finding leaks simultaneously. It is important that this information be recorded to be used in the future. When cleaning is not yet needed, you still need to make sure you check it each time.
Septic Tank Cleaning and Septifix Tablets
The pump in the septic tank has a T-shaped outlet that prevents the sludge from exiting the tank. When the bottommost layer of the tank is filled with sediment within twelve inches from the outlet it is necessary to remove the scum. If you don’t have the time to ask for a professional, one alternative is possible and that is Septifix tablet. Septifix tablet.
Septifix tablets address most issues with septic tanks. Each dosage can eliminate unpleasant odors from the sludge, and the formulation breaks down the bacteria.
Three tablets flushed down the toilet need to be taken before the effects kick in in one use. Once the tablets enter the water tank, they disintegrate the sludge. It could take 3-5 days for any odor to change. The majority of tanks have sodium carbonate that acts as a water-resistant barrier. This means that corrosion can be prevented in the house’s pumps. The Septifix tablet Septifix tablet is capable of tackling oil, toilet paper, soap and grease to reduce the amount of scum that the tank pumps out.
Pros and Cons of Septifix
- A thorough purification of the Septic tank
- Odor reduction
- Growth of live bacteria
- 60-day money-back guarantee
- Only available through their official website
- Tablets can cause itchiness to hands, so be sure to wash them often with water
Septifix Tablets Usage
Septifix tablets, if used with your bare hands will not cause any harm. Only clean your hands after use. It is highly not recommended to take or ingest a tablet to your body. Why? The tablet contains sodium carbonate, which is a powerful ingredient against sludge.
The importance of the tablet will make live bacteria thrive within the tank. The bacteria degrade the sludge to improve oxygen levels, with less septic tank waste. Who wouldn’t like to have a an unpleasant septic tank at all? You’ll save money in the end instead of having to rely on an expert.
If in case you are in need of help from professional plumbers as well. It all depends on the pipes and the quality that your tank is in.
Septifix Tablet Formulation
A tablet of Septifix weighs 55 grams. It is packed with 14 different aerobic bacteria and pH regulating elements that help healthy bacteria. The effect will be felt once it goes inside the septic tank. The same live bacteria will stop pipes from leaks, corroding, and neutralizing the acid.
Cost of Septifix
The price of Septifix tablets comes in 6 month supply. While you will only be able to find the product on the official website You can save up to $300 per year. There are three packages you can choose from:
- A six-month supply of $69
- A 12 month supply of $59
- An 18-month supply costs $49
Note the first package comes with an additional cost for shipping. Following packages offer the option of free delivery instead. You can save money with more supplies however it is contingent on your needs. Each offer comes with a 60-day guarantee on money back.
In short the Septifix tablet can solve your septic tank woes.
It is possible to say goodbye to unpleasant smells by using the expertise of trustworthy plumbers. While it takes time, you can see the results of your plumbing system in your home. It can increase oxygen levels to thrive the healthy bacteria. A further benefit is the fact that it is less the possibility of oxidizing pipes. It is not necessary to pay more!
The only drawback is that it is accessible via their website. If you are managing your tank, ensure that regular maintenance of the pipes is essential to maintaining the proper functioning of your septic tank.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Septifix Australia
How do you take care of cleaning the septic tank?
A professional should clean a septic tank once a one or two times. After cleaning the pumping system, it should be examined as well. Any water leaks or cracks in the pipe leading into the tank need to be repaired or replaced in order to stop odors of foul coming out.
What is Septifix precisely?
Septifix is a solution for plumbing tablet created by Richard V. He owns the plumbing company. He assists customers with their pipes. The tablet was created following three years of study by his team of scientists.
How does Septifix operate?
Three tablets are sufficient to place them in the toilet, and then flush them down. Once the tablets reach the tank for septic, allow it to work its magic. It will take 3-5 days for any changes to occur. You do not need to inspect the tank yourself because the tablet contains chemical substances.
Is Septifix appropriate for use?
Yes. Septifix tablet are suitable to use, however it is advised to wash one’s hands after the use. The properties of the tablets contains sodium carbonate and oxygen which could cause irritation to the skin.
What are the advantages that come with Septifix tablets?
Septifix tablets can dissolve the sludges inside the tank with its proven formula. Along the way, the odor of the septic tank will improve which makes the smell more bearable to take in. In the case of the environment, it diffuses oxygen that makes waste change into nutrients. The most significant help will reduce the rate of corrosion on pipes.
What happens if I’m unhappy with Septifix tablets?
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As soon as the war got over, the Russian General made a quick decision to establish an Akhal-Teke breeding farm for himself. He must have been really impressed with these horses because he acted on this rather quickly. The incredible strength and undeniable effort exhibited by the horse during the battle was something that the Empire needed to hold possession of. These horses, according to him had the perfect pedigree. During this time was when these horses were given the breed name.
Naming The Breed
So then when the General Kuropatkin finally had the opportunity to breed these special horses, there was a very important task handed to him. He was going to have to take the responsibility of naming the breed of the horse. He made sure he honored the courageous fighters of the war, namely the Teke tribesman that his Empire had fought in the war. They were also residing nearby the Akhal oasis. So it was only fitting that he went on to name the horses: Akhal-Teke.
So what are these horses used for these days since the time of war and epic battles have long passed us by? Well in more recent days, the Akhal-Teke has been bred mostly for showing and racing only. Because of their beauty and endurance, it only makes sense that they compete in such type of events. Even on such platforms and competitions they also become a fan favorite. People can always see how beautiful they are, and immediately get impressed by their physical abilities.
There have been many problems that these horses have faced in recent times. One big example of the issues that the breed has faced would definitely have to be the horror of cross-breeding. This was done initially with good intentions. Taking an effort to create even stronger, more resilient racehorses, the breeders started to cross breed other stallions with the Akhal-Teke. This was done so as to try and create a super horse that would be able to beat out any other horse.
Decline in Population
Crossbreeding is responsible for the drastic decrease in the Akhal-Teke population. Turkmenistan minister of horses, Geldy Kyarizov who had become a strong advocate for the Akhal-Teke, found out the cross-breeding of the Thoroughbreds with the Akhal Teke. There was nothing he could do to stop it. Horse racers were doing whatever they can to create stronger, faster horses. On a lighter note, crossbreeding has resulted in the creation of many powerful horses.
So then, how did these cross breeds turn out to be you ask? Well, one of the most popular crossbreeds would have to be the Arabian-American. This horse is an American crossbreed and has been an English favorites show horse. It is among the favorite breeds by horse enthusiasts. Just look at the special speckled skin which makes it stand out when placed with other breeds of horses. When talking about horses standing out, this other horse has to be mentioned. | <urn:uuid:38982727-96d9-47de-9af9-db3e772392ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsd.co/perfect-horse-exists-horse-right-case-youre-wondering/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.984067 | 629 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Back in 2017, in Deloitte’s Human Capital Trends report, it has been revealed that people analytics was a top trend and a top priority for every respectable organisation. 71% of companies that were surveyed for the report have stated that people analytics is of great priority.
It has become more and more evident that data analytics in HR have become to matter more than ever before. Although people skills remain a top priority for every HR manager, there are numerous companies and non-profit organisations that are using data and are calculating everything from talent acquisition and productivity to retention and job structure. This shift towards data and analytics is saving businesses tremendous amounts of money.
Furthermore, the data which is being collected is being used by analytics experts and HR managers alike to study and learn more about employee behaviour, overtime patterns, how people relate with each other in the workplace, time management – all of this to better understand their workforce and how to boost the company’s performance and production.
Oracle is another company that has been doing its very own global survey in order to better grasp where HR is in terms of analytical functionality within an organisation. Their findings have revealed that HR departments are one of the most analytical in various companies, and it’s even pulling ahead a bit in relation to the Finance department. Some HR departments are actually using the latest technology in predictive and prescriptive models and, in some specific cases, artificial intelligence.
This is an enormous shift from ten years ago when studies began to arise in talent analytics. At that time, the only player that was using sophisticated HR analytics was Google. Back in those days, there was a ‘normal’ amount of reporting that was happening, but there wasn’t anyone designated to predict. A minority of HR organisations even had an analytics employee. To better put things into perspective, ‘HR analytics’ was typically understood as a conversation about the total number of employees the company had and how to better measure the employees’ level of engagement.
Even before the surveys from Deloitte or Oracle came out, there was a definite shift in trends in today’s modern organisation. Most multinational corporations have a few employees, specifically, to just analyse data. Nowadays, there are various conferences around the world tailored to this specific topic. Organisations now alter or adapt the way they do business in order to shape growth, engagement and other variables which are considered key.
The aforementioned Oracle survey involved 1,510 respondents from 5 continents and 23 countries. Through these respondents, there were senior managers, vice-presidents and directors from HR (61%), 28% from Finance and 10% from general management. It is also important to know that all executives that have participated were from businesses with at least 100 million dollars in revenue. The detailed statistics are as follows:
- 51% of HR respondents could perform predictive or prescriptive analytics, by contrast only 37% of Finance respondents could tackle these advanced forms of analytics.
- 89% were in agreement with the statement “My HR function is highly skilled at using data to determine future workforce plans currently (e.g. talent needed),” and only 1% disagreed.
- 94% of respondents agreed that “We are able to predict the likelihood of turnover in critical roles with a high degree of confidence currently.”
- 94% also concurred that “We have accurate, real-time insight into our employees’ career development goals currently.”
- When respondents answered this question “Which of the following analytics are you using?” “artificial intelligence” had the highest response rate, 31%. When asked to further explain how they used AI, the most common answer was “identifying at-risk talent through attrition modelling,” “predicting high-performing recruits,” and “sourcing best-fit candidates with resume analysis.”
So why is it that HR departments have become more ‘natural’ in their use of advanced analytics than Finance, which is theoretically work based around numbers? In most cases, this is because Finance organisations and the respective CFOs that have lead them found it extremely difficult to move from reporting and descriptive analytics towards advanced analytics that are being used nowadays.
The reason why Oracle has chosen to survey both the HR and Finance executives and managers is due to the simple fact that there has been a serious increase in their need to cooperate. Given the fact that most often than not employee expenditures represent a company’s highest costs and because an organisation’s financial position will always guide the size of the business, there is a clear need for symbiosis. Fortunately, the Oracle survey has found that high levels of collaboration are already in place. In the same survey, it has been discovered that 82% of respondents agreed and strongly agreed, with only 5% of them disagreeing, that “Integrating HR and Finance data is a top priority for us this year.” However, not everything is pitch perfect. Numerous interviews conducted post-survey have brought to light the fact that there are many more opportunities to be seized further than sharing of data and cooperating on analytics.
In conclusion, it would be stretch to think that analytics will solve HR’s every problem, but they can definitely provide a deeper understanding of every department within an organisation, help train HR specialists into developing projects that can enhance talent investments whilst also monitoring and developing recruitment, engagement, development, retention, productivity and many more workplace activities.
There is a real value in providing companies with the tools to carry out regular organisational assessments and this is where Great People Inside comes to your aid. Our online platform offers the best solutions and tools for your company to thrive in every type of industry and any possible situation your organisation may find itself. In terms of lowering your employee turnover rates, we recommend our GR8 Full Spectrum assessment for hiring and 360° Survey for retention. Finding the right talent, the best fit for the job and your organisation can be a very challenging task. It requires deep knowledge of your own organisation’s culture and a keen understanding of the candidate’s personality, strengths, interests, work style and other characteristics. Our technology and solutions will do the work for you, helping you find employees who can flourish and reach the highest performance required to constantly bring your company forward.
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In March of this year, Chinese hackers penetrated the networks of six different U.S. state government agencies in an espionage operation. Hackers used the Log4j loophole to access their networks, while also attacking many other vulnerable applications.
In May, Hackers from Russia crippled Italian websites with a DDoS attack, which included the Ministry of Defense, the Senate and the National Health Institute. Their prime target was Ukraine and the NATO countries.
These are only a few of the many recent cyberattacks on government agencies across the world. The coronavirus pandemic-induced hybrid work culture is a boon for many, but it brings its own share of pitfalls — high vulnerability to cybercrime being the top concern among organizations. Cybercriminals are playing a highly sophisticated game and are continuously improving their techniques. However, government agencies have not evolved their cybersecurity mechanisms to keep up with the growing risks. Consequently, hackers have enjoyed success in penetrating government websites — further emboldening them for future attacks.
Empowering People to Empower Governments
Any government agency’s first line of defense against cyber risks is its employees. However, they can also be the weakest security link. According to a recent study, more than 80% of security breaches involved the human element. The only key to turn this human weakness into strength is cybersecurity awareness.
In the widespread trend of remote and hybrid working, digital identity is the cornerstone of today’s technology. For a government body, it is highly imperative to protect the identity and data privacy of its users. For instance, a data breach in a government agency can cost more than just a million dollars — critical information can end up with an enemy country which could potentially start a war and cost precious lives.
Therefore, the first step that state and national governments can take is to empower their people with cybersecurity awareness training. Educating users on cyber risks is a crucial part of the overall security strategy and policy of a government agency.
Upskilling Governments: Making Security-first Thinking Universal
Cybersecurity training of employees is a necessity that government organizations can’t ignore anymore. The repercussions and stakes are too high when the security stance of a government agency is compromised. Being prepared and aware is the most fundamental step towards building a secure online ecosystem. Here are some key areas for government organizations to focus their upskilling efforts on:
- Preventing data breaches.
- Preventing accidental data exposure.
- Continuing security.
- Security for all.
Preventing Data Breaches
Data breaches are frequently linked to a phishing attempt at some point. A user or an employee can fall prey to a phishing email or message, and the consequences can be disastrous. The user’s system can be infected by ransomware or malware that could lead to credential theft and/or data theft.
A robust cybersecurity training program equips government staff and users to quickly spot the tell-tale signs of a phishing campaign. Phishing simulations used in the training can help educate users while extracting metrics to check if the training has been effective.
Preventing Accidental Data Exposure
Accidental exposure of data covers several possibilities by which sensitive data can fall into the wrong hands. An email mis-delivery or forgetting to lock your computer when you leave your seat are some of the most common ways in which critical information can be leaked and misused. A thorough cybersecurity training strategy educates users not just on the hygiene elements of security, but also the more technical and complex ones. Employees and staff can be trained on good security practices such as creating strong passwords, ensuring user privacy and maintaining a clean desk policy.
Hackers and cyber attackers are constantly looking for loopholes in traditional security measures to break into a network. Therefore, they are continuously devising new tricks and tactics to fool employees to try and get them to perform malicious activities on their behalf. To ensure that a government organization and its employees are aware of the changes in the cybersecurity threat landscape, the security training strategy should also be a continuous process rather than a one-off event. It helps government organizations stay on top of the latest threats and be prepared to identify and mitigate cyber risks.
Security For All
A cybersecurity training program shouldn’t just be limited to the information technology (IT) department in a government organization. Every staff member, consultant, partner and supplier can be a potential target for a hacker to prey on. Also, any employee or supplier can cause an accidental data exposure due to human error or negligence. Therefore, cybersecurity training is effective only when it is imparted across the organization and also aims to include channel partners and suppliers. Since government institutions are outsourcing services and human resources, this aspect of cybersecurity training is crucial. For cybersecurity to be effective, awareness needs to be universal. | <urn:uuid:27c9775a-cdd0-46fd-b012-20c0be8f916d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://trainingindustry.com/articles/it-and-technical-training/the-key-role-of-security-upskilling-in-government-agencies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.944012 | 977 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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4 • FOLKLORE Benin's nickname is "Land of Songs" because singing is important in daily life. Through singing, people express their feelings and tell their history. Songs vary from pleasant to dramatic in order to convey the proper emotion. Each ethnic group has its own songs and dances. When my brother and I were young, my mom decided to pass the time driving us to our Taekwondo lessons by making up a super spooky story about an abandoned warehouse we always passed along the . Benin and Togo are the Land of the Vodũ and I would be willing to give a % guarantee that if one ever deigned to visit, especially under the guidance of Erick Gbodossou, one would be maximally impacted, willingly or no. Gbodossou is a practicing physician born and raised in Benin – the epicenter of the old empire of Dahomey – who. This book covers the main historical aspects of Benin Kingdom from its early development through to its destruction in The text is filled with high quality glossy pictures of artefacts and objects from Benin Kingdom and is a good introduction to some of the key historical sources.
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Whichever way you slice it, there’s simply no denying the fact that vaping is experiencing what could be called a moment. Such is the runaway nature of vaping’s burgeoning popularity, indeed, that it is swiftly absorbing markets once dominated by old-school tobacco. Well and good as all this commercial momentum may be from a business perspective, it shouldn’t disguise the fact that there is still much about this popular phenomenon that remains misunderstood. In particular, greater clarity is needed on health-related concerns like, for example, what does vaping do to your body? As luck would have it, answers to this and other similar questions are slowly revealing themselves. To mark this, here is a quick rundown of 5 vaping facts you need to know. Vaping is Highly Addictive Although vaping is widely marketed as a means to quit smoking, there’s just no getting away from the fact that it’s highly addictive in its own right. Every bit as addictive as smoking, in fact. Or, for that matter, as heroin or cocaine. The reason that vaping is quite so addictive is, of course, that e-cigarettes contain nicotine. This highly toxic substance, effectively, compels the brain’s reward system to deliver a hit of the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine. Simply put, nicotine is highly addictive because it makes you feel good. The thing with e-cigarettes, however, is that they can be modified to discharge higher quantities of nicotine than even traditional cigarettes release. Extra strength cartridges, for example, are purposefully designed to contain higher concentrations of nicotine. What’s more, by simply upping their e-cigarette’s voltage, users can, in effect, manufacture an even bigger nicotine hit. To cap things off, even some e-cigarettes branded as nicotine-free have been found to contain nicotine. Vaping is Far from Risk-Free Even if vaping isn’t quite as harmful as smoking, that’s not to say it’s good for you. In fact, truth be told, it’s quite the opposite. You see, what research is unequivocally telling us is that vaping increases the risk of a whole host of adverse health conditions. As if to underline that fact, there’s even a condition called EVALI (E-cigarette or Vaping Use-Associated Lung Injury), which results exclusively from vaping. More to the point, as of late January 2020, 60 people had died of this condition in the United States alone. But, in truth, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Vaping has likewise been linked to everything from lung disease to cell dysfunction, delayed cognitive development to heart disease, and malignant tumors to oral health deficits. Vaping Exposes the Body to Toxins An inescapable reality is that vaping entails inhaling toxic chemicals and particulates. There’s just no sugar-coating that fact. To make matters worse, however, it turns out that many of those toxins happen to be harmful. In that vein, it’s perhaps predictable that nicotine should head the list of toxic ingredients. But that’s just a starting point. Among other toxins, Vaping exposes users to; Diacetyl: a chemical linked with the development of “popcorn-lung.” Acrolein: a herbicide associated with irreversible lung conditions Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines: among the most potent carcinogens present in tobacco products. These chemical compounds have been linked to various forms of cancer Heavy Metals: including chromium, zinc, lead, and cadmium Vaping is Not the Best Way to Quit Smoking Plainly put, vaping is not recognized by the FDA as a way to quit smoking. Moreover, lending credence to this stance, the CDC has responded to the EVALI outbreak by recommending that people should stick to FDA-approved methods when looking to quit. To be fair, there is some evidence that under certain circumstances vaping can, in fact, be of some benefit. But, even here, the overall picture is somewhat murky. Other research, for example, refutes such claims, arguing instead that the method simply encourages smokers to vape on top of smoking. All of which goes to show that although vaping is regularly billed as a method to quit smoking, the empirical basis for such claims is still sorely lacking. Vaping Acts as a Gateway to Smoking in Teens Recent findings suggest that teens who start vaping are three times more likely to go on to smoke cigarettes. As if that weren’t bad enough, the results suggest that this gateway effect is particularly pronounced among so-called “low risk” teens. Now bear in mind that the FDA estimated that as many as 3.6 million high school and middle school students used e-cigarettes in 2018. Worse still, this may only hint at things to come. For instance, the US Surgeon General reports a steep upward curve in the number of high school students taking up the vaping habit. Boiled down to the cold hard numbers, it is estimated that 5,700 teens start vaping every single day. But why so many? Well, in many regards, that’s the million-dollar question. For their part, experts attribute the boom to a constellation of interlinked factors. Expressly, they suggest a complex web of factors which include; Aggressive marketing strategies Peer-pressure Youth-oriented flavors Societal misconception regarding the health risks The relative affordability of vaping products in comparison with traditional cigarettes
Family is an essential part of our life, as they are always there for you in times when you need them the most. ‘Care’ and ‘affection’ are two terms that make the most sense when they are associated with the family. But there are times when you haven’t given your family what they deserve, and it’s time for you to understand that. So, here are some ways and methods through which you can show that you care about your family.
Years spent together should not be held as a reason for you not to flirt with your significant other. Flirting helps you both bring back memories and keeps the spark alive for as long as you guys breathe.
ConversationsThis is the most straightforward way of showcasing affection and proving that you care for them. Conversations are the ideal way to start things, and you can do it by telling them how much you love them. Even if you are an individual who has not done it before, then you need to try it, as you might feel good. As the tone of the conversation shifts, people will get to know each other further.
SurprisesSurprises are underrated, and often individuals don’t believe in them. But in reality, people love surprises as it uniquely displays love and care. The fact that you went through a process to make someone happy speaks for itself and might even leave tears in people’s eyes.
CallsIf you are not able to maintain conversations on a regular basis, then calling is the preferred method. Calling helps, you understand the current state of affairs in a particular individual’s life and that talk will soothe people who really miss you. So if you are someone living far away, then call those distant ones regularly.
Time for ChildrenParents who have hectic job schedules might not notice the tears in the eyes of their children, as they continue to miss them. So despite all your important meetings, you need to understand that your kids need you more than your boss. Spending adequate time with them will help you make the most out of the moment, as displayed by happy faces.
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DinnerThe dinner table is the place for discussions, meetings, and understanding each other to a large extent. Having dinner together will help the entire family get together as they go about talking about each individual’s day to day events. The conversations that take place at the dinner table will also benefit the kids in case they are dealing with trouble at school. Hence, make sure that the entire family gets together on a daily basis.
Patients are carefully monitored daily by a caring staff of medical professionals. Progressive classes and workshops taught by medical staff, registered dietitians, therapists, exercise physiologists, certified stress management instructors and other health care professionals are designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to make lasting lifestyle changes. On completion of the program, resources are available for participants to continue with a healthy lifestyle and to maintain the improved health gained while attending our Durham program.
How does the diet workMedical Care Daily interaction with medical staff and ongoing progress reports. Nutrition Our staff will teach you how a low fat, low salt diet can optimize your health. Instruction We’ll help you prepare the mind as well as the body for lifelong health. Support We work together to continuously create a caring and cooperative community. The Rice Diet Solution explains how the program works integrating nutrition, exercise, meditation, yoga and journalizing. It examine the root causes of health issues and includes more than a hundred recipes to inspire results. The Rice Diet Cookbook has over 150 easy to follow, recipes using grains, fruit, vegetables, beans and fish.
Are you wondering if acupuncture could really provide benefits to people? Believe it or not, according to expert’s studies, acupuncture delivers its expected result however, not all illness can be cured by it. Generally speaking, depression, angina, infertility, headaches and many more are just some of the health condition that it can cure. If you would like to discover other ailments that this medical approach could cure, kindly read below. Depression – in treating the associated symptoms in this disorder, patients who are depressed can take advantage of this treatment. It doesn’t only ease the symptoms but at the same time, it works in improving the benefits anti depressive drugs. Angina – otherwise known as heart or chest pain. Through the use of electro-acupuncture, studies have revealed that it could be relieved. This type of service utilizes pair of needles and is connected to batteries. This way, it could create an electric impulse that is being used in helping patients with this condition. Infertility – the effect of acupuncture in enhancing the strength and quality of male’s semen is greatly beneficial according to researches and experts who have conducted the study. On the other hand, to ensure expected results, be certain that the entire procedure will be carried out by a medically trained and certified acupuncturist. You can learn what to mean while brown semen or other color sperms. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome – acupuncture can provide relief for patients who are currently experiencing pains and aches in their fingers and hands. CTS is basically the cause of repetitive movements and motions similar to the use of mouse or keyboard. Morning Sickness – during on the early pregnancy stages of women, this is frequently experienced. Various studies suggested that the procedure can effectively relieve this symptom. Epicondylitis – a type of condition that frequently involve soreness of the elbow and chronic tenderness and is sometimes called as the Tennis Elbow. The process can assist in easing the condition most especially if it is done regularly. Numerous studies have actually supported this claim. Weight Loss – for anyone who would like to reduce weight fast and naturally, acupuncture can be a great help. At the same time, this is also a healthier choice rather than not eating anything which is really harmful to your health. Hypertension – after going through a session of acupuncture, many patients have actually reacted positively. With that being said, assuming that you have hypertension, scheduling an appointment with an acupuncturist is going to be very helpful to your health.
The first meal of the day needs to be special and energetic. It should be able to boost an individual, and they should go ahead and have a wonderful day. The type of ingredients that need to go on a plate should be the ones that add energy to any individual. Kids require such energy boosters, as their days are filled with various activities. Hence, here are some breakfast ideas to make your children perform exceptionally well in school.
You might be aware of the breakfast burrito and that you can add anything to them. Although you can add anything, make sure that you add something healthy and nutritional. Eggs, spinach, salsa are some items that make a complete Breakfast Burrito.
OatmealOatmeal is a versatile breakfast and is sure to delight kids to a large extent due to the availability of options. Since you can also make them by using the oven, the process gets over in a faster manner. Raisins, walnuts and pecans are essentials in Oatmeal, as children will like them to a large extent. If you do not have sufficient time in the morning to make all this, then make sure that you add at least one of them. Hence make an Oatmeal for your kid.
Scrambled EggsScrambled eggs are the ideal ones that blend well with anything. You can either serve them with some bread or even serve them separately. Starting the day with some eggs are necessary requirements that act as boosters to have the best day. Adding some fruit with bread and scrambled eggs is a good option that you need to consider immediately.
English MuffinsThere are very fewer chances for kids not to like an English Muffin. Whole-wheat English muffins served with some eggs is one of the most desired breakfasts for many individuals. You can also serve them based on the interests of your children and can even go further to add cheese, fruit juice, and so on.
ToastsToast is considered to be the ideal breakfast by many, and it still continues to be the most ordered breakfast on the menu. The best part about toasts is that you get the liberty to add an item of your choice along with it. Toast, cheese, fruit and juice is a perfect and complete breakfast that kids will enjoy thoroughly. An egg can also be considered as an option if your kid loves them.
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Wheat PancakesWheat pancakes served with some walnuts and fruits is another option that you need to consider. Serving these options throughout the week makes the most out of the morning, and your children will be happy and will go to school with a smile.
For a country bumpkin from the Midwest, the avocado seemed like an alien species. I found myself considering mankind’s first encounter with this bumpy green fruit and wondering whatever possessed them to think of it as food. My first culinary encounter with the avocado came while standing in line at a “health food” deli and sandwich bar watching lunch being prepared. With flourish and flair, the cafe owner sliced an avocado, removed it from its rind and splayed it across my liverwurst and bean sprout sandwich. What finesse! Such embellishment of skill and beauty. It was a shame to close the sandwich! After many years of intent observation and practice in my own kitchen, I feel prepared to share the secrets of avocado preparation. CHOOSE AN AVOCADO that is not mushy or easy to dent under the press of your finger. It should be soft, yes, but close to firm. GRIP THE AVOCADO gently on one side with one hand. CUT THE AVOCADO lengthwise, using a sharp knife (larger than a paring knife but no bigger than a steak knife). The knife should make contact with the pit or seed but not pierce it. TWIST THE AVOCADO SLIGHTLY to separate the halves and expose the pit. REMOVE THE PIT. This can be done in a variety of ways but I prefer using a teaspoon to scoop out the pit. Other popular ways include piercing the pit with the blade of a sharp knife and “rocking” it out. Inevitably, I slice my hand. SLICE THE AVOCADO “MEAT” without removing the skin. For the sandwich with an avocado “fan”, run the knifepoint vertically through the meat, creating thin slices of equal thickness. Use a rather large spoon to scoop out the slices. Place on the open face of a sandwich and splay into a fan shape. CHOPPED AVOCADO is a delectable addition to any green salad. Simply follow the same instructions as above, making thicker slices vertically. Then repeat horizontally and remove the chunks with a large spoon. Avocados are higher in potassium than a medium banana. Avocados are a good source of vitamin K, dietary fiber, vitamin B6, vitamin C, folate and copper. Avocados have a high fat content of up to 88% of their total calories. One cup of avocado slices contain about 235 calories.
SGOT Blood Test: Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase, the molecule that is normally seen in hard working liver and coronary heart tissues. SGOT is definitely unveiled inside blood if your poorly liver or perhaps body is certainly injured. The blood SGOT amounts can be subsequently elevated using liver destruction (from viral liver disease) or else large be mean to for the heart (for instance, coming from heart disease). A few medications might also improve SGOT levels. SGOT will be described as aspartate aminotransferase (AST). A preliminary part of uncovering lean meats hurt is a straightforward blood test to ascertain the inclusion of some lean meats minerals inside the blood. Of typical factors, some of these digestive enzymes take up residence inside cellular material in the hardworking liver. And yet after the hardworking liver is definitely harmed, such enzymes tend to be leaking into your blood stream. Being among the most sensitive and traditionally of them hardworking liver enzymes may very well be aminotransferases. Some people incorporate aspartate aminotransferase (AST and even SGOT) and even alanine aminotransferase (ALT or perhaps SGPT). These types of minerals tend to be secure inside liver organ panels. If your hard working liver is hurt, all the poorly liver units pour typically the enzymes within blood, improving all the enzyme concentrations within a blood and then signaling the particular liver wear and tear.
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Which are the Aminotransferases?Your aminotransferases catalyze chemical type doubts within the panels when a powerful amino class is without a doubt completed by a contributor compound to the target compound. That’s why, what they are called “aminotransferases”. Health-related phrases are often complicated, while is the case you can rest assured digestive enzymes. One additional reputation for aminotransferase is usually transaminase. Any molecule aspartate aminotransferase (AST) is certainly also referred to as serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT); and then alanine aminotransferase (ALT) is actually generally known as serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (SGPT). Position concerns in short, AST = SGOT as well as ALT = SGPT.
Commonly, When Might possibly be the Aminotransferases?AST (SGOT) is generally within a good diverseness from skin for example ailing liver, cardiovascular, muscle, 4, not to mention head. It truly is revealed within serum any time any sort of one of these brilliant regions is definitely affected. One example is, the tier with serum increases having cardiac arrest may be overweight cells diseases. Can give accomplish exceptionally targeted gauge associated with hard working liver problem. ALT (SGPT) is certainly, by comparison, normally discovered generally at the busy. This may not be to imply to be particularly situated hard working liver although this really is where it really is most concentrated. It is usually released towards the bloodstream as the result of lean meats issues. The following therefore is a good quite detailed warning connected with busy position.
Today, the media has flooded the public with different soft drink ads, but the increased focus on rising obesity statistics, should help some individuals cut back on their soft drink consumption. Even though soft drinks remain a popular choice for beverage consumption today, there are steps to help a person cut back on soft drinks. Here are some suggestions to help a person curb their soft drink consumption. First of all, if you are used to drinking one or more soft drinks a day, try alternating sparkling mineral water, in lieu of your usual soft drink. It might be that you are accustomed to the carbonation and fizz of a soft drink, and therefore have acquired a taste for that particular beverage. While you are still getting the carbonation in sparkling mineral water, you’re not consuming the added sugar and caffeine associated with many soft drinks. This of course, with daily use, over prolonged periods of time, can contribute to added calories, possibly obesity, and other health problems. The best scenario is that gradually, you may actually prefer or become accustomed to the mineral water, as your beverage choice. Try to incorporate more fruit juices into your diet. There are so many fruit juices available for the consumer on the market today, such as new tropical fruit blends, as well as the familiar orange, grape, apple, pear, and others. It’s recommended that you choose 100 % fruit juice, to avoid any added sugars that aren’t necessary or good for a healthy diet. Adding fruit juices to a person’s diet is an excellent way to obtain vitamins and minerals, to help maintain a healthy body. Adding more milk to your diet is also an excellent choice for another beverage choice. Milk supplies a person with protein, vitamins, and of course, calcium for strong bones and teeth. It is true, what the classic milk commercial states, is that, “milk likes you”. If, however, you have a milk allergy, there is an alternative, such as soy milk, which also is fortified with vitamins and calcium, along with providing essential protein. Drink more water. Drinking water may help to curb the desire for a soft drink. An increase in a person’s fluid intake may make them less likely to reach for the daily soft drinks that were part of their routine. A person’s body is about 72% water weight, which is an important fact to note, since about 2/3 of people don’t drink enough water daily to prevent some forms of dehydration. Cut back on purchasing and keeping many, or any soft drinks on hand, at home, work, or on the go. You won’t be tempted as much to consume soft drinks if you don’t have them around. Instead keep more fruit juice, mineral water, and milk available as a beverage choice. If you’re packing a beverage to take along to the gym or any outdoor sports activity, grab a bottle of water instead of the usual sports drink. Finally, although cutting back on soft drink consumption may be a challenge, it can be more attainable when healthier drink choices are added to your daily routine. | <urn:uuid:a094effc-4a43-4cd1-bfb7-56b6f8a2f339> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://eruditejournals.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953824 | 4,854 | 2 | 2 |
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Slaking is a Normal type Pokemon introduced in Generation III. It evolves from Vigoroth starting at level 36. It is the final form of Slakoth. Take a look below for 25 awesome and fascinating facts about Slaking.
1. Slaking is a large, bulky, ape-like bipedal Pokemon.
2. Most of its shaggy fur is brown, along with the semi-circle patterning under its eyes.
3. Its face, chest, hands, and feet are lighter in color.
4. Its brows are thick and jutting, and it has a large, pink, pig-like nose.
5. Around its neck is a white collar of fur that extends over the top of its head before ending in a small tuft.
6. It has large, five-fingered hands and two-toed feet.
7. During most of the day, Slaking lolls around and sleeps.
8. It is considered the laziest Pokémon, but even when it is lounging it’s saving energy.
9. It can exert a lot of power by releasing built up energy all at once, and can regain lost energy through the use of its former signature move, Slack Off.
10. Slaking lives in tropical forests, where it feeds on grass and ripened fruit that falls from trees.
11. It only moves around when there is no more food within reach for it to eat.
12. Slaking has several similarities to Regigigas. They are both Normal types, have hindering Abilities (Truant and Slow Start), have the highest base Attack stat of all Normal-type Pokémon, and have the same base stat totals.
13. A pre-alpha sketch from the development of Capsule Monsters depicts a Pokémon that bears a slight resemblance to Slaking.
14. Slaking appears to draw inspiration from sloths and some form of ape.
15. The inspiration from sloths makes it somewhat resemble a Megatherium, also known as the giant ground sloth; however, it more closely resembles a gorilla.
16. Slaking is a combination of slake (to slacken) or a corruption of slack (to become lazy) and king. It may also be a play on slacking.
17. Slaking debuted in Love, Petalburg Style, belonging to May’s father, Norman, the Gym Leader of Petalburg City. In the following episode, Ash’s Grovyle defeated it during a Gym battle, winning Ash the Balance Badge. Slaking appeared again in Strategy With a Smile!, where it was seen watching the Wallace Cup on television with Norman.
18. Multiple Slaking appeared in Slaking Kong, where they played a major role.
19. A Slaking debuted in Valuable Experience for All!, under the ownership of Sawyer. He used it in the Lumiose Conference, during which it defeated a Trainer’s Medicham. It was later used in Analysis Versus Passion! during Sawyer’s Full Battle against Ash, where it defeated Hawlucha before losing to Talonflame.
20. A Slaking appeared in the opening sequence of Destiny Deoxys.
21. A Trainer’s Slaking appeared in The Journalist from Another Region!, where it was entered in the Pokémon Sumo Tournament on Harvest Island. It was Ash’s Pignite’s second opponent, and it lost due to not even trying to make an effort in the battle.
22. Norman’s Slaking briefly appeared in the Pokémon Masters Animated Trailer as part of a team with its Trainer and Brendan.
23. Norman’s Slaking appeared in I’ll Win With My Own Battle Style!!.
24. Norman’s signature Pokémon is a Slaking, who first appeared in Brushing Past Breloom. Although it would seem that his Ability would be of major hindrance, he shows that by having a Spinda tag alongside him and use Skill Swap in times of need, his impressive strength and speed would be wielded to their maximum. Additionally, the move Bulk Up allows him to bolster his stats even more.
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Professor Bakker is an organizer and speaker for the AAAS symposium Water Security: Multidisciplinary Responses to a Global Challenge, Friday, Feb. 17, 1:30 – 4:30 p.m., and a topical speaker on the same subject.
Without integrated water management, communities are vulnerable
Why worry about water security? Take, for example, the case of Hurricane Katrina: the largest natural disaster ever to occur in the continental United States, and a tragic example of the consequences of water insecurity. The aftermath of the Hurricane in New Orleans clearly demonstrated the need for integrated watershed planning to deal with flood risk, and the interrelationship between land use and water use. Without integrated water management, more communities may be increasingly vulnerable to extreme hydrological events (which are predicted to increase in frequency and amplitude under many climate change scenarios).
Improving water security requires integrated, interdisciplinary research at the appropriate scales that can be of use to policy-makers. Ontario’s new water management framework is a good example. Responding to the Walkerton E-coli contamination incident in 2000 causing seven deaths and thousands to fall ill, the new Clean Water Act establishes a framework for “source water protection,” in which ground and surface water sources are protected on a watershed basis .A new governance approach—with an unprecedented degree of collaboration between land-users, water suppliers and policy makers—has been developed.
The science is lagging when it comes to integration
Despite the recognition by policy-makers of the need for integration, scientific research on water security remains fragmented. Research has ramped up in recent years, yet no standardized definition or agreed-upon assessment methods exist. Our review of the literature indicates that over 400 water security publications have been published over the past two decades, in over 20 disciplines. But there is no apparent trend towards integration: In many instances, scientific assessments were conducted at scales that are not meaningful for the implementation of management solutions.
In short, it seems that the scientific agenda is lagging. There are, of course, exceptions, such as the Canadian Water Network’s interdisciplinary mandate and the launch of Harvard’s Water Security Initiative in 2010. But these are exceptions that prove the rule.
Without such a research agenda, the gaps and overlaps that characterize water security research will continue. To take just one example: our recent survey found that over 350 fresh-water related indicators have been developed by government and university scientists in Canada. Our survey also found that almost none of these indicators are being used because they do not provide the integrated assessment that policy-makers and water managers are demanding.
How might we construct such a research agenda? We could begin with an integrative definition of water security: sustainable access, on a watershed basis, to adequate quantities of water of acceptable quality, to ensure human and ecosystem health. This definition implies that assessments of water security need to incorporate both human health and ecosystem variables. Moreover, the assessment of the drivers of water insecurity requires risk assessment of ‘built’ and ‘natural’ systems (or approaches which do away with this increasingly artificial divide).
Social scientists need to be equal partners
Finally, water security assessment should incorporate governance, but not through bringing in social scientists as an after-thought, or assigning them the role of ‘knowledge disseminators’. Governance, as anyone living in a large third world city will tell you, is a major contributor to water insecurity. Good governance is a precondition for the technological capacity to respond and minimize threats to water security . Accordingly, research agendas involving collaboration between medical and natural scientists must incorporate social scientists as equal partners.This will, in turn, foster the participation of stakeholders and policy-makers in research design, which is one of the most efficient approaches to orienting science towards the needs of those who need it most: water and land managers.
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Have you ever noticed that your kitchen is the heart of your home? No matter what type of social gathering I have been to in someone’s home, the kitchen is usually the most popular area to hang out. The kitchen can also be the dirtiest, most germ infested area as well. From trash cans to chicken in the sink, the germs are setting and spreading unnoticeable to the human eye. If we consistently treat five particular areas in the kitchen, we can keep the presence of germs down and from spreading. In this series of blog articles, I will be focusing on five items in your kitchen that could potentially be making you and your family sick. So, let’s begin with the first…
The Sponge In Your Kitchen Is Gross!
The kitchen sponge is most likely the dirtiest thing in your house and we typically use it to clean, which doesn’t make much sense. What you can’t see, you can’t be aware of. You don’t see last night’s chicken juice on a sponge, or bacteria growing in left-over food as it sits in water all night long while you sleep.
The sponge is porous and there is a constant food supply for the bacteria to grow. The moisture of the sponge keeps the bacteria alive and growing. ICK!!!
How Often Should You Replace The Sponge In Your Kitchen?
Replace it weekly. They are cheap! In between replacements, throw it in the microwave in a bowl with equal parts water and white distilled vinegar for 5 minutes or toss it in the dishwasher daily with the dishes.
Regular hot tap water does not get hot enough to disinfect.
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The Cancer-Killing Nanorobots are Coming
Posted on April 26th, 2019 by Elia Lima-Walton, MD in Pharma R&D
The Cancer-Killing Nanorobots are Coming
Scientists have shown –and continue to show – endless ingenuity as they develop drugs and therapies that can help the body fight cancer. But sometimes, in order to be fully effective, medicines need a little ‘helping hand’ as they do their work inside a patient. Nanorobots are a developing technology that have the potential to provide that assistance.
One of the most exciting breakthroughs in nanomedicine came just last year when scientists at Arizona State University, working in conjunction with National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) researchers, announced that they had used nanorobots to shrink tumors. Their study involved deploying nanorobots, programmed to cut off the bloody supply of tumors, into mice through intravenous injection.
“The molecular chemists have built a folding, origami-inspired, DNA-based system that carries blood-clot causing enzymes on the inside, shielded outside by tumor-hunting pieces of DNA,” writes Hilary Brueck in Business Insider. “When the cancer-sniffing, cylindrical robot floats its way to the site of a tumor, the otherwise harmless machine immediately attacks, unfurling its cancer-finding shell and dumping out a potent enzyme called thrombin. Then the thrombin gets to work, making a blood clot, and suffocating the tumor.”
As if this science fiction-come-to-life process wasn’t fascinating enough, Brueck notes that it all takes place at a scale smaller than 1/1,000th of a human hair.
This fully autonomous system for targeted cancer therapy has proved to be safe and didn’t affect healthy tissue. And Hao Yan, director of the ASU Biodesign Institute’s Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics, told Science Daily that this technology can be used for many different kinds of cancer “since all solid tumor-feeding blood vessels are essentially the same.”
Many Nano Approaches in the Works
Researchers are building nanorobots that do everything from identifying cancer growths (see this paper published in Procedia Computer Science) to delivering treatments. Ed Gent of NBC News highlights robots “built from elastic polymers filled with magnetic particles that can be dragged through fluids and triggered to grasp objects,” which University of Toronto professor Eric Diller says could be used to collect tissue biopsies or carry drug capsules.
For example, there has been exploration as to how they can improve medicine by including the potential correction of genetic defects or by transversing capillaries to reach cancer cells.
Gent also notes a recent German study in which sperm cells were loaded with anti-cancer drugs and fitted with magnetic harnesses. “The sperm tails provided propulsion but the harnesses let the researchers guide them using a magnetic field toward mini cervical cancer tumors that had been grown in a petri dish. They killed 87 percent of the tumors’ cells within three days.”
These technologies are in various stages of development and most not yet ready for humans. But as advances in nanomedicine move forward rapidly, it likely won’t be long until intelligent, mighty little bots are battling cancer within our bodies – and hopefully winning the fight.
Elia Suzette Lima-Walton, MD is part of the Elsevier Content Transformation & Health Analytics team in her role as a Clinical Knowledge Representation Specialist. She applies her clinical knowledge and analytics experience to support clinical ontologies, Smart Content applications, precision medicine, clinical decision support and inference products.
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If you noticed black stains and streaks affecting your roof, your witnessing an infestation of organisms that's impacting your home appearance and property value. These organisms (or “pests”, as we like to call them) are algae, mold, moss, lichen and bacteria. These unwanted guests will eat and destroy wood, deteriorate roofing materials, and make your roof retain heat (raising cooling costs). Simply put, these pests are costing you money! Abron's Pressure Washing is your go to expert for professional roof cleaning solutions.
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What Is Green Coffee Bean Extract? Green Bean Coffee Extract
Green coffee beans are unroasted regular coffee beans. Coffee brew work comes from roasted beans to accomplish the taste of coffee. The roasting of green coffee beans rids of chlorogenic acid, antioxidants, as well as a few digestive system governing features. The green coffee bean extract is beneficial for weight management and fat decrease because of its homes by chlorogenic acid. There are numerous advantages of green coffee beans, a few of which you will make from this write-up. Green Bean Coffee Extract
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Blogger and Instagram Star Explains How Sharing Stories Reduced Her Feelings of Isolation
Samantha MacDougall runs her public instagram account @AnxiouslyAwesome. Her bio says, “<3 Mental Illness Warrior <3 Anxiety, Depression Bipolar, Depersonalization”. She has just released her blog, anxiouslyawesome.com.
I’ve always dreamt of starting my own blog. I don’t remember the exact moment I decided to create Anxiously Awesome but I remember being in a very dark place and needing something to get me out. I was tired of feeling so isolated and alone and I wanted to create something where I could openly talk about my mental illness and mental health. I just started posting pictures of my life and what I was doing and it just took it off from there. At the time, I was away at university and wanted to connect with others and I also needed a place to vent about my struggles.
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A view of Ambaghat, Maharashtra. Photo: Roshni Sidapara/Unsplash
As the impact of our species on the natural world intensifies, so does the knowledge of our dependency on it: from crop-pollinating critters and wild fish populations that nourish millions, to ecosystems that inhale carbon emissions and filter air and water.
These connections have bolstered a legal argument around the importance of a healthy environment – that is, intact ecosystems and animal and plant populations, as well as a stable climate. To John Knox, an expert on international environmental law and human rights law at Wake Forest University, a healthy environment is as important to human life as freedom of expression, health, work, education and other rights generally accepted under international human rights law.
Between 2012 and 2018, Knox was appointed by the United Nations to investigate the relationship between human rights and the environment as an independent expert and special rapporteur. As he concluded his term, Knox urged the UN General Assembly to formally recognise the right to a healthy environment through a treaty or resolution. Yet the right to a healthy environment still remains a “ missing human right” at the UN level, Knox writes in the 2020 Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
Over 150 of the 193 UN member nations already recognise the right to a healthy environment, through constitutions, general legislation or regional human rights treaties – albeit with varying degrees of enforcement and impact. Recognising the right at the UN level, Knox argues in an interview with Knowable Magazine, could help communities around the world make more powerful legal arguments to preserve nature. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
This idea that we all have a fundamental right to a healthy environment – where does that come from?
The idea has really been around since the dawn of the modern environmental movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Since then, many countries have adopted the right in their constitutions. And in the last 25 years, you have thousands of decisions from courts around the world interpreting the constitutional right to a healthy environment.
How do we decide what counts as a human right? And why should nature – or a healthy environment – be included?
Every single human right you might want to exercise depends on having some place where you can live. You can’t really have a life of dignity, freedom and equality without having some minimum environmental standard.
How far has this right spread around the world?
The human right to a healthy environment has been recognised in a number of regional human rights treaties, including in Africa and Latin America. And in fact, the majority of the world’s countries have recognised in their national constitutions a right to a healthy environment.
In the United States and some other influential countries, this right has never been included in the national constitution. And the United Nations has never recognised it.
In the countries that already recognise this right, what impact is that having?
David Boyd, who later became my successor at the UN, wrote a book, The Environmental Rights Revolution, in which he looked at the worldwide spread of the right to a healthy environment. He found that countries that had adopted the right tended to perform better across a whole host of different environmental indicators.
For example, in Costa Rica, the constitutional right to a healthy environment is cited by legal experts I’ve spoken with as being one of the main reasons why the country’s environmental policies are as strong as they are. Of course, there’s always a question about causality — maybe countries already more interested in protecting the environment are more likely to adopt that right.
A human rights perspective also gives you a way of applying an already developed area of law without having to create everything from scratch, and a path into forums that might not otherwise be open to discussing environmental issues. Courts will listen to human rights arguments.
In a remarkable decision in December 2019, for instance, the Dutch Supreme Court held that the government had failed to comply with its climate change obligations under human rights law and ordered it to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions more quickly. I doubt that would have been possible without casting climate change as a human rights issue.
What difference would it make to acknowledge this right at the UN level?
For one, things would be much simpler if I could just say, “There is a human right to a healthy environment,” rather than having to argue how other human rights depend on environmental health. I think that’s actually quite important.
It would also clarify the basis for United Nations institutions to examine this right. The United Nations Human Rights Council has something called the Universal Periodic Review, through which it reviews the human rights record of every country. Environmental issues do come up because they’re related to other rights. But if you had a human right to a healthy environment, it would be a much more logical review process.
Finally, it would push countries that have not adopted it yet to accept and implement it domestically. And it would put more pressure on countries that have adopted it but haven’t done anything to implement it.
Practically speaking, what would this mean for communities on the ground who are suffering from environmental injustice?
Of course, recognising something as a right, even if it’s recognised in a formal way in the law, doesn’t necessarily mean that it’ll be implemented — many countries’ constitutional right to a healthy environment is aspirational. There are really powerful interests in our societies operating against it. There’s a desire around the world for greater economic growth, which is driven by extraction and exploitation of natural resources. Many of the people who are most dependent on natural resources such as forests, rivers or coastlines are often marginalised already. The forces trying to exploit these resources often roll over the rights of these already marginalised groups.
But say you’re a community that’s being adversely affected by a mining operation. It’s much easier to make your case in court if you can say your rights are being violated because someone’s destroying the environment on which your community depends, than if you have to indirectly argue that your right to health, for instance, is affected by environmental destruction.
It also provides a clearer legal framework for local, national or regional human rights bodies that review these kinds of claims. If the courts haven’t been particularly friendly to your claim, maybe you’d like to raise it with your own country’s national human rights institution, or with a regional human rights tribunal or global human rights body. The clearer the recognition at the international level, the stronger a basis you’ll have at that review level.
I want to emphasise, though, that many local communities can make human rights arguments already in relation to environmental protection. For example, there’s no doubt that it violates human rights if a member of a local community is receiving death threats or is even killed because of the work they’re doing on behalf of their community to protect the environment.
Is there any reason not to acknowledge the right to a healthy environment as a human right?
For a long time, environmentalists have been concerned that we spend too much time thinking about the environment in terms of its benefits to human beings, and that the environment has intrinsic benefits we shouldn’t subordinate to human interests. But the more we understand the ways in which we humans are dependent on a healthy environment, the less gap there is between a human-centered and an ecocentric approach to environmental protection. We can’t really have a healthy environment unless the environment is healthy for everything else that lives here as well.
A second way you could respond to this concern is to say, well, why don’t we just give nature its own rights? Some states have started to do that, such as New Zealand, which granted the Whanganui River legal personhood a few years ago. That approach hasn’t been incorporated into international law or adopted at the UN level yet.
What about those countries that are opposed to recognising a clean environment as a human right?
Governments like the United States and the United Kingdom have never been particularly happy about adopting economic, social and cultural rights. For instance, the United States is not a party to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and such rights aren’t reflected in the US Bill of Rights. The United States has been, let’s say, cool to the idea that you could have rights to things like health, water or food.
Other countries that have not accepted the right to a healthy environment at the national level include China and Japan. While it’s only a minority of countries that haven’t accepted this right in any form, some of those countries are quite powerful. So it’s understandable that this hasn’t happened yet at the United Nations.
Do you see any signs that the UN is moving closer to formally recognising the right?
There is a great deal of support for it at the UN Human Rights Council. Many states have taken positions in favor of a resolution supporting the right to a healthy environment. Another sign of growing support is that several heads of major UN agencies have recently come out in favor of UN recognition; an example is Inger Andersen, the head of the UN Environment Programme. She recently issued a statement to the Human Rights Council on behalf of 15 agencies, expressing support for the right to a healthy environment to be adopted at the UN level.
This is unprecedented. The Human Rights Council’s resolution this year did not refer to the right to a healthy environment, but the Council is coming closer to doing so. If and when the Human Rights Council does adopt a resolution, then the next step would be for the General Assembly to do so in the fall.
All that’s required for the United Nations to formally recognise the right is a majority vote. I could imagine it being adopted maybe as soon as this year, or in 2022, which will be the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Stockholm Declaration, the first major international instrument that links human rights and environmental protection.
Katarina Zimmer is a freelance journalist covering life science and environmental issues for various publications, including The Scientist, BBC Future, The Counter, National Geographic and more.
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