text stringlengths 160 608k | id stringlengths 47 47 | dump stringclasses 2 values | url stringlengths 13 2.97k | file_path stringlengths 125 140 | language stringclasses 1 value | language_score float64 0.65 1 | token_count int64 48 145k | score float64 1.5 5 | int_score int64 2 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
This legislative session, Colorado is on its way toward modernizing how electricity infrastructure is built and propelling the interstate conversation on grid regionalization. Passed by the Colorado Senate and approved by its first committee in the House, bipartisan Senate Bill 72 would put Colorado on the map for leading the West toward a regional electricity market that helps the Rocky Mountain State capitalize on its immense resources and give households and businesses from New Mexico to Washington State the affordable clean energy they want. All it will take is one last push in the Colorado House of Representatives.
Colorado is poised to lead on advanced energy in the West, but its ability to capitalize on its resource advantage is constrained by an outdated electrical transmission system that creates unnecessary risk for new project development and is ill-equipped to meet increasing consumer demand for affordable advanced energy. Simply put, Colorado’s transmission planning is overdue for an upgrade to better serve ratepayers and the power grid. SB 72 (Hansen, Coram, A. Valdez, and Catlin) would provide that upgrade. It would establish a streamlined, one-stop shop – based on successful models in other states – for transmission projects to be evaluated, financed, and built. This would minimize cost and inefficiencies in how energy is moved across the state and across state lines.
Importantly, SB 72 also sets a clear goal for Colorado utilities to join a regional transmission organization (RTO) no later than 2030.
Across the West, a number of states have set their sights on transitioning to 100% clean energy. Their success in achieving a clean grid will depend on the region working together to address supply and demand challenges and keeping the system reliable as extreme weather events and climate risk increase stress on the system. Updating Colorado’s transmission system and putting utilities on a path to RTO participation are essential to meeting the goals outlined in the Polis Administration’s Roadmap to 100% Renewable Energy by 2040 and Bold Climate Action without driving up energy costs to ratepayers and businesses. This also puts Colorado in a leadership position to drive the RTO conversation in the West as other states look to meet their energy needs and discuss pathways to achieve their climate goals.
Colorado is surrounded by other renewables-rich states – New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada among them – that also see an opportunity to attract Fortune 500 companies that rely on access to low-cost advanced energy to fulfill their sustainability commitments and power their operations affordably. For corporate energy buyers seeking out competitive renewable energy options, regions with established RTO markets are a winning value proposition. Removing barriers to continued voluntary purchases of advanced energy by these companies will remain an important component to realizing Colorado’s 100% clean energy by 2040 goal.
AEE has been a strong supporter of SB 72 from the beginning, recognizing that it makes little sense for states to go it alone on the road to pursuing the deep cost reductions and GHG-emission reductions most efficiently afforded by a regionally integrated grid. The combined economic and environmental prospects of a better transmission and power delivery network has motivated a diverse coalition of allies, including electric cooperatives serving rural communities across the state, environmental groups, advanced energy business associations, renewable energy developers, and corporate energy buyers, to support this bill.
SB 72 got off on a promising footing in the Legislature with its passage in the Senate Transportation and Energy Committee on a 5-1 bipartisan vote. Weeks later, the bill cleared the Senate Appropriations Committee to move to the Senate Floor on a similarly solid 5-2 vote with bipartisan support. Throughout these initial milestones, AEE has worked alongside other advocacy groups to underscore the comprehensive economic development opportunity inherent to the in-state transmission infrastructure and advanced energy projects unlocked by an optimized grid system. On April 14, the bill completed its journey through the first chamber, securing passage out of the Senate on an impressive and bipartisan 28-6 vote, encompassing the support of all Democratic legislators (save one absence) and several Republican lawmakers, including Senate minority leadership.
After several rounds of constructive discussion, labor has taken a neutral position on the bill. This leaves investor-owned utilities as the chief opponents to the bill going into the House Floor vote. There have been multiple attempts to derail the bill and water down key provisions. Thus far these attempts have failed, but opponents are expected to continue their efforts to stall the bill progress.
SB 72 has gotten off to a great start in the House. On April 29, the bill cleared the House Energy and Environment Committee on another strong bipartisan vote (11-2). The bill is now en route to the Appropriations Committee before its decisive moment on the House Floor.
In this final stretch, AEE and the coalition of supporters will continue to underscore why this bill is the right step forward for Colorado ratepayers, businesses, and the Governor’s legacy. SB 72 is a win-win solution that Colorado cannot afford to pass up. By putting this bill into law, Colorado is poised to reap the rewards for its readiness to act as a leader in the West.
Coloradans who want to join the push for a modern grid in Colorado and the West can urge their representatives to support SB 72 by clicking below. | <urn:uuid:1f49ca8d-cd98-428c-b173-92fa3a53d2df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.aee.net/with-senate-approval-and-early-success-in-the-house-colorado-bill-promises-modern-grid-and-regional-market | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952005 | 1,052 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Gone are the days of pen and paper! With the advances in technology, programming and computer coding have made life so much simpler for us. Whether it’s in the digital community, the automobile industry, banks, hospitals, engineering, or other areas that have specific impacts in our daily lives, coding is here to stay. Computer skills have become the most essential and main character in every type of company that runs on a data basis, analysis, web designing, research, among many others. Nowadays, in order to store and access your information, you absolutely need computers, even social networks need programming management.
You may not realize it yet, but programming is one of the most interesting and demanding jobs in the market. If you’re thinking about getting into this world, there are a number of new programming languages that are coming up, suitable for every type of developer: beginners, intermediate, and experts. Whether it’s a web application, game development, mobile applications, or distributed system, these languages will definitely help you. For example, video games have become a large industry in the modern world, with companies like Gearbox Software, co-founded by Randy Pitchford making huge motions in the video gaming universe, especially in 2020 when the entire world has been hit by Covid-19 and is in need of some fun entertainment, which therefore makes this a very advantageous career to be in today.
We all need a bit of programming in our lives, so let me give you a quick look at this year’s top ever-growing list of programming languages and protocols:
1 – Python
Perfect for new beginners, Python has been and continues to be the favorite among specialists. It offers a clean and well-structured code, efficient enough to build a decent web application. It has an immersive community-support and provides you with several open-source frameworks, libraries, and modules that make application development a piece-of-cake. Python can be used for desktop and web applications, GUI-based desktop applications, data science, machine working, and even network servers.
If you’re thinking about starting a freelancing business, this is the right option for you! It has the ability to scale even the most complex applications, although it’s not that suitable for mobile computing.
Popular among developers, Java is not heading for retirement any soon. In fact, the most common language for Android apps is Java. Impeccable to work on server-side and client-side programming, and due to its compatibility to run with several other programming languages, you can let your creativity fly as high as you can! It also allows you to create animations, set up buttons, and manage multimedia.
Java is the ultimate IT domain, due to its high speed and regular annual updates, as it allows you to create dynamic web pages super fast and in a secure manner. This happens with major platforms such as Netflix, Uber, and Paypal, for example. It’s highly versatile and gives a richer and more user-friendly interface to any website. The downside is that it runs with the absence of a copy or equivalent method, allowing only single inheritance.
But still, Jave Script is the bomb in every digital environment, nowadays! Learning this language makes complete sense, and you’ll probably come across your fair share of Java Interview Questions when going for jobs in this field. Specialists advise beginners to start with online courses before advancing to one specific programming language, as you’ll get a wider vision in the programming universe, and study every possibility so you can take your time in choosing the right one for you.
3 – Kotlin
Since we’ve talked about Java, Kotlin is designed to be completely interoperable with it. If you’re into mobile developing this programming language should be your daily bread. It had a huge impact with its first appearance with Android, and now it has become into strong tooling support, due to its features that effortlessly combine object-oriented and functional programming abilities within them.
Most web applications are now moving to Kotlin, for example – Pinterest. For that matter, in the past few years, Google has been promoting it much more than Java. Kotlin offers an easy-to-learn interaction, an open-source environment, and swift language for Android app development that removes any adoption-related barriers. Lastly, it’s also an important tool in web development, desktop development, and server-side development.
Coders start typing! If you’re having a thirsty appetite for computer coding and digital language skills, these are the most popular programming tools in the market of 2020. To ensure a more stable career growth, it’s always better if you prioritize learning them first. Make sure you take your notes out of this article, pick the one that’s most suitable for your own needs, and then study it and go as deep on it as you can. Always remember that programming languages are a non-stop environment and there are new upcoming features every day, so make sure you manage them well enough before you launch yourself into the business. Thanks for reading, and good luck! | <urn:uuid:ffa8b9ec-a573-410b-9fc5-8b7c0df079e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://futureplay.org/which-programming-languages-should-you-be-learning-in-2020/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948427 | 1,072 | 2.453125 | 2 |
When a cold, the flu, a tummy bug, or head lice arrive uninvited into your home, there are measures you can take to reduce the risk of everyone in the family getting infected. Here are a few tips for various types of infection.
GENERAL PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Regular handwashing is the easiest and most effective way to reduce the transmission of germs. Provided you use the proper washing technique, running water and plain soap are all you need. The key is to scrub the entire hand surface (including beneath your nails and between your fingers) with soap for at least 20 seconds. Alcohol-based products should only be used when running water and soap are not available, as they can irritate skin and are no more effective than a thorough wash with soap and water.
Regular housecleaning is also a good way to limit germ transmission. Pay special attention to surfaces that the whole family touches frequently: door handles, telephones, computer keyboards, etc.
It is recommended that all Canadians get the flu vaccine, especially those who are at risk of complications (young children, the elderly, and those with certain diseases). In Canada, the flu results in thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths every year.
MEASURES TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS (COLD AND FLU)
- Place your arm in front of your mouth or nose when you cough or sneeze, to reduce the spread of the virus in the air.
- Wash your hands after coughing, sneezing, or blowing your nose.
- Dispose of tissues immediately after use. Do not keep them in your pocket.
- Limit or avoid contact with family and friends who are in fragile health (grandparents, infants, and people with certain chronic diseases).
WHAT TO DO IF SOMEONE HAS THE STOMACH FLU
Since stomach flu (gastroenteritis) is highly contagious, only one member of the family should be assigned to care for the sick individual, where possible. The sick person should not handle food that will be eaten by other members of the family and should avoid direct contact with others.
- Wash hands frequently, especially after cleaning surfaces soiled by vomit or feces, and after handling soiled clothing, objects, or bed linens.
- Disinfect surfaces that may have been contaminated by the sick person’s vomit or feces, e.g., floors or toilet seats, with a commercial disinfectant or a bleach solution (2 cups of bleach diluted in 4 litres of water).
- Separately wash the sick person’s clothing, bed linens, and towels in hot water and tumble dry on high heat.
- The sick person should stay at home and avoid going to work, school or day care up until 48 hours after diarrhea or vomiting stops.
PREVENTION TIPS FOR HEAD LICE
- Avoid direct head-to-head contact. Keep long hair braided.
- Explain to your children that they should never share clothing or objects that touch their heads (hats, caps, hair accessories, hairbrushes, and combs).
- Check your children’s hair with a fine-tooth comb once a week, or every day during lice outbreak.
- Treat only if you find live lice. If you only see nits (head lice eggs), check hair every day for a week to make sure there are no live lice.
Additional measures if a member of your family has lice
- Check the hair of all the members of the family regularly until the infestation is under control.
- Since head lice cannot survive long off their human host, and they cannot jump or fly, there is no need to clean the house beyond your regular housecleaning routine.
- Wash all clothing (including hats, scarves, etc.), bed linens, and towels the infected person has used over the previous two days in hot water, and tumble dry on high heat.
- If an item used by the infected person cannot be washed (ex. stuffed toy), seal it in a plastic bag and store for two weeks.
- Soak any hair accessories the infected person has used in the previous two days in very hot water for 10 minutes.
Several treatments are available at the pharmacy to treat lice. Your pharmacist will recommend a product and explain how to use it.
PREVENTION IS KEY!
Taking preventative measures such as receiving the flu vaccine and regular hand washing is key to stop spreading germs to others. Follow our tips to better protect your loved ones and don’t hesitate to ask your pharmacist for tips and tricks. | <urn:uuid:b5ab7c85-1280-42d8-aec0-9607d624cfa9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://myniagaraonline.com/southcoast/protect-your-loved-ones-from-germs-and-contamination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939468 | 968 | 3.59375 | 4 |
End finally in sight for East Devon housing plan
- Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto
The completion of a long-awaited blueprint, which will determine where scores of new homes are built, is now ‘within sight’, according to the leader of East Devon District Council.
Councillor Paul Diviani says he is hopeful that the district’s new Local Plan will be in place by ‘early next year’.
The finished plan will form the basis for future development of homes and jobs until 2031 and beyond.
A latest round of consultation on recent changes to the document finished at the end of November.
The Government inspector tasked with scrutinising the document will now be reporting back to the council.
Councillor Diviani said: “It gives me enormous pleasure to say that the finalisation of our Local Plan is now within sight and we are anticipating being able to adopt it early next year.
“This detailed and robust document will help us deliver the aspirations and housing needs of local people, as well as land for employment.
- 1 Bathing still banned at Exmouth due to pollution but restrictions lifted for Budleigh
- 2 Passenger banned from sitting next to girls on the bus
- 3 A-level results day for students at Exmouth Community College
- 4 Bathing banned at Exmouth and Budleigh due to pollution
- 5 CANCELLED - McFly's Exmouth concert called off
- 6 Exe Estuary cleared of ‘navigational obstructions’ by harbour patrol team
- 7 'Step aside, Salcombe' - travel article names Exmouth as Devon's up-and-coming destination
- 8 Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir come to Topsham
- 9 Recycle collection boxes installed at Exmouth Specsavers
- 10 Exeter College achieve 'amazing results' as students discover their higher education grades
“It will also help protect our beautiful countryside from unwanted and inappropriate development.” | <urn:uuid:17c223c1-13f1-4cee-9b53-07c8b8f368b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/lifestyle/property/end-finally-in-sight-for-east-devon-housing-plan-5744998 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.93068 | 418 | 1.523438 | 2 |
China efficiently launched its second module, known as Wentian, to the Tiangong house station early Sunday morning (via SpaceNews). Wentian took off aboard a Lengthy March 5B rocket from the Wenchang House Launch Web site in Hainan, China at 2:22AM ET (2:22PM native), docking on the Tiangong house station about 13 hours later at 3:13PM ET (3:13AM native).
The Wentian module accommodates gear that enables the Chinese language astronauts, often known as taikonauts, to carry out numerous scientific experiments throughout their time on the station. As noted by The New York Times, the extra module will even present three additional areas to sleep, in addition to one other airlock that crewmembers can use to conduct spacewalks.
In June, China sent the three-person Shenzhou 14 crew to Tiangong to arrange for Wentian’s arrival. Mengtian, the station’s third and last lab module, is about to launch on a Lengthy March 5B in October. This can full the Tiangong house station, forming a T-shaped construction as soon as the ultimate module has docked.
There are some issues about the place the massive Long March 5B rocket will find yourself now that it delivered Wentian, although. Whereas most rockets safely drop their decrease phases into the ocean beneath, any such rocket does issues in a different way. As SpaceNews notes, it delivers its payload by launching its whole first stage into low-Earth orbit, with no method to redirect or management its motion when it comes crashing right down to Earth.
In 2020, the rocket was blamed for the metal debris that wound up in Côte d’Ivoire. It additionally made an uncontrolled descent into the Indian Ocean after it delivered the Tianhe core module to house final 12 months. | <urn:uuid:09897938-1326-4d46-a30b-6a2d3a22cf79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lrntube.com/china-successfully-launches-wentian-module-as-space-station-nears-completion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952058 | 388 | 2.359375 | 2 |
- Tuberculosis is a disease of poverty, and economic distress with 1.4 million deaths annually1 and the growing challenge of drug resistance is adding to the global health crisis
- WHO guidelines support the expansion of tuberculosis diagnostics in resource-limited countries, enabling patients to receive timely diagnosis leading to proper treatment, which benefits their recovery and slows the transmission of disease
- Roche’s Global Access Program aids clinicians in improving disease and patient management through increased access to innovative diagnostic solutions, allowing more patients to get test results promptly
Basel, 09 July 2021 - Roche today announced that the cobas MTB and cobas MTB-RIF/INH tests for use on the cobas 6800/8800 Systems are included as part of the updated World Health Organization (WHO) policy guidelines on nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) to detect tuberculosis (TB) and drug-resistant TB. The new guidance expands the number of rapid molecular tests available to national TB programmes in high-burden countries, enabling multi-partner diagnostic approaches that can benefit patients and communities.
The WHO estimates that about 1.7 billion people are living with tuberculosis globally, with an estimated 10 million new active tuberculosis cases and 1.4 million deaths annually. Approximately 29% of new infections were undiagnosed and untreated, potentially contributing to further transmission. When drug-resistant TB (RR/MDR-TB) is present, the challenge is greater, with only 44% properly diagnosed.1 Although TB can be cured once it is diagnosed, people affected are often faced by vulnerability, marginalization, stigma and discrimination.
To increase early detection, diagnosis, and treatment of TB among vulnerable populations, the updated WHO guidelines aim to help countries identify populations at highest risk of infection and the locations most affected. This includes 30 lowand middle-income countries (LMICs), which bear the majority of the TB burden.1 These countries rely on the WHO to evaluate test performance and provide centralised testing guidance and diagnostic guidelines prior to the use of any TB test. The new policy guidance enables LMICs to use donor funds for implementation and purchase of TB tests, increasing diagnostic options for people living with TB and drug-resistant TB.
"Roche’s diagnostic solutions detect both TB and drug-resistant TB, enabling patients to be diagnosed earlier and treated with the appropriate regimen to stop the spread of the disease," said Thomas Schinecker, CEO Roche Diagnostics. "Roche plays a significant role in the fight against TB through our Global Access Program, which focuses on sustainable solutions that can help diagnose infections and save lives."
WHO guidelines are an important step toward ending the global TB epidemic by increasing patient access to high-quality diagnostics. The organisation’s multi-faceted End TB Strategy aims in part for a 90 percent overall reduction in TB incidence and a 95 percent reduction in TB deaths by 2035. High-volume, multi-disease testing systems and innovative diagnostic tests can accelerate eradication efforts and further improve health outcomes for people living with TB.
About the Global Access Program In 2014, Roche announced the Global Access Program for increased access to HIV diagnostics. Roche partnered with national governments, local healthcare facilities, communities and international agencies, including UNAIDS, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), Unitaid, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Global Fund and Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish programmes that would go beyond providing diagnostic tests.
Since its inception, the program has expanded substantially in menu and geographic footprint to provide increased access to diagnostics at affordable pricing for qualifying organisations in eligible countries with the highest disease burden. The Global Access Program includes diagnostic solutions for HIV, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), Hepatitis B and C (HBV and HCV) and human papillomavirus (HPV) to help towards implementation of elimination programmes in efforts to eradicate disease and in line with the 2030 elimination goals.
About the cobas MTB and cobas MTB-RIF/INH tests The cobas MTB and cobas MTB-RIF/INH molecular tests provide clinicians flexibility to detect a combination of tuberculosis and drug-resistant tuberculosis infections from a single patient sample. When a patient presents with symptoms of tuberculosis, the highly sensitive cobas MTB test is performed. If positive, the patient should be evaluated for drug resistance using cobas MTB-RIF/INH test. Roche’s mycobacteria tests are for use on the cobas 6800/8800 Systems.
About the cobas 6800/8800 Systems When every moment matters, the fully automated cobas 6800/8800 Systems offer the fastest time to results with the highest throughput and the longest walk-away time available among automated molecular platforms. The cobas 6800/8800 Systems are part of the Molecular Work Area-a fully integrated laboratory workflow strategy that empowers labs to further elevate their levels of efficiency, flexibility and scalability. With proven performance, absolute automation, and unmatched flexibility delivering unparalleled throughput 24/7, cobas 6800/8800 Systems are designed to ensure a lab’s long-term sustainability and success... now, more than ever. Learn more: www.molecularworkarea.com.
About Roche Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, as well as growing capabilities in the area of data-driven medical insights help Roche deliver truly personalised healthcare. Roche is working with partners across the healthcare sector to provide the best care for each person.
Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. In recent years, Roche has invested in genomic profiling and real-world data partnerships and has become an industry-leading partner for medical insights.
Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. More than thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Moreover, for the twelfth consecutive year, Roche has been recognised as one of the most sustainable companies in the Pharmaceuticals Industry by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
The Roche Group, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, is active in over 100 countries and in 2020 employed more than 100,000 people worldwide. In 2020, Roche invested CHF 12.2 billion in R&D and posted sales of CHF 58.3 billion. Genentech, in the United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche is the majority shareholder in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan. roche.com.
All trademarks used or mentioned in this release are protected by law.
References Global tuberculosis report 2020. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
Roche Group Media Relations
Phone: +41 61 688 8888 / e-mail:
Dr. Karl Mahler
Phone: +41 61 68-78503
Jon Kaspar Bayard
Phone: +41 61 68-83894
Dr. Sabine Borngräber
Phone: +41 61 68-88027
Dr. Bruno Eschli
Phone: +41 61 68-75284
Dr. Birgit Masjost
Phone: +41 61 68-84814
Dr. Gerard Tobin
Phone: +41 61 68-72942
Phone: +1 650 225 3217 | <urn:uuid:c14b2be6-8d12-41af-bb04-640070d2285d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.myscience.ch/en/news/wire/who_guidelines_now_include_roche_diagnostic_tests_expanded_effort_eliminate_tuberculosis_providi-2021-roche | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.892003 | 1,785 | 2.671875 | 3 |
The Djindubari, also written Jindoobarrie or Joondubarri, are or were an Aboriginal Australian people of southern Queensland, whose traditional lands were located on Bribie Island. They are thought to be a horde or clan of the Undanbi.
According to Tom Petrie, the word koala apparently derived from the Djindubari language, where it was called kulla. According to Archibald Meston the dialect itself was called Nhulla. Meston took down a wordlist of 300 items, together with 40 sentences to illustrate the grammar, in 1874.
Generally Europeans described the Djindubari as 'a race of tall fine men and women. The women of Bribie Island generally were described by a member of Oxley's party in 1823 as: 'Tall, straight, well-formed women, far superior in beauty to the men; in fact, to any natives of this country I have ever seen, two of them as handsome as any white women.' Their population at the earliest colonial reckoning was estimated at around 66, roughly 30 men, 16 women and 20 children.
The word for the Bora ceremonial rites of initiation on Bribie Island was Dooroo. Colonial observers considered the Djindubari very warlike, regarded with terror by the tribes on the mainland opposite, and, putatively unlike the latter, given to cannibalism.
Yarun was the name given by the Djindubari to their land, which was subsequently renamed Bribie Island. Norman Tindale regarded the Djindubari as a horde, restricted to Bribie Island, and thus a subunit of a larger tribe, the Undanbi, which he describes as occupying some 900 square miles (2,300 km2) of territory including the coastal land along Coolum Beach and Moreton Bay, extending from Noosa Heads southwards to the mouth of the Brisbane River, and inland for some ten miles, towards the Pine River district. They were also around the Glasshouse Mountains. The Djindubari formed part of the Gubbi Gubbi tribe. The islanders were described in the 1820s as being settled in fishing villages, composed of clusters of huts, some of them of substantial size, one being described as extending over 24 metres in length, and built with arches, rooms and passageways which, he added, 'would not have disgraced a European architect'.
Matthew Flinders was the first European surveyor known to have landed on the island and to have come into contact with the Djindubari. The incident took place in 1799, and a skirmish broke out, due to a misunderstanding over trading negotiations for a fishing net, in which an attempt was made to snatch Flinders' hat. As Flinders' boat drew away, sticks and, finally, a spear was thrown at them by the jeering Djindubari. Flinders, desiring to impress the islanders with his power, ordered musketeers to open fire, wounding two or three natives, who then fled. After a week, Flinders revisited the island, and it would appear no long term enmity had been aroused, since relations were described as friendly. Some Scottish sailors danced a Highland jig, while the Djindubari responded with a plaintive song that was 'musical and soothing'. Flinders remarked on their large heads, though derogatively characterising one as baboon-like. Two men of the tribe were victims of the massacre of aborigines by poisoning while they visited Kilcoy.
By 1894 Meston stated that the tribe had been reduced to just one man and woman. | <urn:uuid:17f373d0-c831-40dd-9347-201a13c184e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://db0nus869y26v.cloudfront.net/en/Djindubari | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.982854 | 798 | 3.109375 | 3 |
🏡 Carbon Positive vs. Carbon Negative
There's a pretty substantial difference (obviously), but some publishers don't seem to understand...
Happy belated Earth day…
In retrospect, we should have probably published a special edition, butttt here we are.
Today’s newsletter will take ~ 4 minutes
Study finds eco-friendly homes sell faster
A Zillow survey previously found that 2/3 of young adults believe climate change will affect their homes & communities within their lifetime.
With a stronger conciseness of their environmental impact, this generation’s buying habits are in stark contrasts to those before them, making purchase decisions that align with personal values and principals.
Developers in the UK are trying to tackle the climate crisis by reducing the amount of embodied carbon in “new” developments by redeveloping old buildings. When in construction, 95%-98% of a development’s emissions come from new materials.
Deals & Developments
Populus Hotel breaks ground in Denver
The nation’s first carbon negative hotel officially broke ground (read on to see why headlines are inaccurate). With expected completion in 2023, the Studio Gang designed hotel looks to replicate the scalloped bark of aspen trees, populus tremuloides.
Cosmic’s prefab ADUs come outfitted complete with solar panels, heats pumps, and highly efficient appliances.
In addition, the company looks to offer power packs to serve as energy and heat storage that can remain separate from the primary home and ADU.
Baltimore Mayor signs net-zero 2045 bill
Though the deadline is five years later than that of the accord, the bill calls for a complete elimination of the emitting of greenhouse gasses by 2050, meaning no offsets. This stipulation takes the bill further than that of Maryland’s state-wide net zero bill with its inability to use carbon offsets to achieve net zero.
Executive Order to Strengthen Forests and Boost Wildfire Resilience
President Biden on Earth Day signed in an executive order to support local economies, protect against wildfires, and reduce climate pollution, allocating more money to safeguard old-growth forests and outlining forestry and planting requirements for developers.
Fact for Thought
On one hand we’re outraged at the incompetence, on the other we’re chuckling to ourselves. Several articles were published on Earth Day regarding a new development in Denver, CO that they purport to be “the first carbon positive hotel in the US.”
I hope that if you subscribe to this Built to Zero, you understand the unimpressiveness of this statement. Unfortunately, most all publishers have been ignorant to this fact and have yet to adjust their arcticles. This includes Forbes, ArchDaily, 9news, and more.
The kicker is that the building, jointly developed by internationally recognized Studio Gang and local firm Urban Villages will will most certainly not be carbon negative. With the lead developer Grant McCargo speaking how the carbon footprint will be minimized and offset with the planting of trees, it is non-sequitur for the building to be carbon positive.
We do believe the intention is to in fact achieve carbon negative. Unfortunately, at the ground breaking ceremony, the co-founder of Urban Villages quoted saying the building would be “the first carbon positive hotel in the US.” Oh well…
Drop a comment! | <urn:uuid:9098133a-06f5-4c67-b189-c0e696f5a5df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://builttozero.substack.com/p/-carbon-positive-vs-carbon-negative | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938021 | 714 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Rothwell Primitive Methodist chapel
Marsh St Rothwell West Yorkshire LS26 0AE
John Marius Wilson’s Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales tells us that in Rothwell 1870-72, ”there are several Wesleyan chapels, two Primitive Methodist chapels, several public schools, and charities”
The better known Primitive Methodist chapel in Rothwell was Ebenezer in Marsh Street. It was one of the chapels used when the Primitive Methodist Conference came to Leeds in 1898.
It no longer exists and on its site in Marsh Street is the Joseph Priestley College. The manse for the chapel survives and is converted for use as a surgery at 4 Marsh Street. | <urn:uuid:8a1fd30f-25e2-444e-9ba7-5187470094b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.myprimitivemethodists.org.uk/content/chapels/yorkshire/r-yorkshire/leeds_rothwell_primitive_methodist_chapel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.93669 | 146 | 1.835938 | 2 |
A Ridgid shop vac is perfect for picking up water. It has a large capacity and a powerful motor that can easily suck up liquid. To use the Ridgid shop vac to pick up water, start by disconnecting the hose from the unit. Next, insert the hose into the liquid and turn on the vacuum. Hold the hose in place until all of the liquid is gone. Finally, reconnect the hose to the unit and turn it off.
How To Use Ridgid Shop Vac To Pick Up Water
There is no one definitive answer to this question. Each user may have a different method of using a Ridgid shop vac to pick up water, depending on the specific model of shop vac they are using and the layout of the area where the water is pooled. Some users may find it helpful to use the crevice tool to suck up the water in tight spaces, while others may find it more efficient to use the hose attachment to direct a stream of suction directly at the water.
-Ridgid shop vac -water
- Put the shop vac hose into a bucket or container of water
- Set the shop vac to wet pickup
- Turn on the vacuum and start sucking up the water
- Plug in the ridgid shop vac and turn it on
– Make sure the shop vac is unplugged before you begin – Check to ensure that the filters are in place and that the dust cover is securely fastened – Locate the intake valve and open it by turning it counterclockwise – Hold the shop vac upright and insert the intake hose into the water – Turn on the shop vac and allow it to suck up the water – When the shop vac is full, turn it off and unplug it – Remove
Frequently Asked Questions
How Do You Use A Shop Vac To Pick Up Water?
A shop vac can be used to pick up water by using the crevice tool to vacuum up the water and the hose to suck it up.
When Using A Wet Vac Do You Leave The Filter In?
The filter should be left in while using a wet vac.
How Do You Use A Wet Vac Water Pump?
I use a wet vac water pump for a variety of reasons. I often use it to clean up liquid messes, such as spilled water or cleaning solution. I also use it to suction up small objects that may have fallen into tight spaces, such as between the couch cushions.
How Do I Turn My Shop Vac Into A Wet Vac?
To turn your shop vac into a wet vac, you will need to attach a hose to the exhaust port and another to the inlet. You can then use the vac to suck up water.
Can Ridgid Shop Vac Pick Up Water?
A Ridgid shop vac should not be used to pick up water as it is not designed to do so. Attempting to do so may damage the vac and could potentially lead to electric shock.
How Do I Use My Ridgid Shop Vac As A Water Pump?
If you need to move water from one place to another and don’t have a water pump, your Ridgid shop vac might do the trick. You can use it as a water pump by connecting the vacuum hose to the spigot on one end and the other end of the hose to the opening you want the water to come out of. Turn on the shop vac and hold the hose in place. The vacuum will create suction and suck the water through the hose and out the other end.
Can You Use A Shop Vac Like A Water Pump?
I don’t believe you can use a shop vac like a water pump.
Do I Need A Filter To Pick Up Water With Shop Vac?
You would need a filter to pick up water with a shop vac because the filter is what will keep the water from going back into the vacuum and ruining it.
How Do I Turn My Shop Vac Into A Water Pump?
Shop vacuums are not typically designed to pump water. However, there are a few ways to convert them into water pumps. One way is to use a garden hose to connect the shop vacuum to the water source, and then use the vacuum to suck the water up. Another way is to use a tubing adapter that allows you to connect the shop vacuum to a standard garden hose.
How Do You Use A Shop Vac Water Pump?
I use a shop vac water pump to suck up water and debris from my driveway and garage. It’s a really handy tool to have around for quick cleanups.
How Does Wet Shop Vac Work?
A wet shop vac uses a pump to suck water up through the hose and into the canister. The water is then expelled from the outlet nozzle.
Whats The Difference Between A Shop Vac And A Wet Vac?
A shop vac is a vacuum cleaner that is typically used to clean up debris and liquids from floors, carpets, and surfaces. A wet vac is a vacuum cleaner that is specifically designed to clean up liquid spills and liquid messes.
A ridgid shop vac can be used to pick up water from a variety of surfaces. It is important to read the manufacturer’s instructions to ensure that the proper attachments are used for the desired surface. | <urn:uuid:0d286acd-e612-4ddb-9821-cd8d6d5bf8a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://princejamesnyc.com/how-to-use-ridgid-shop-vac-to-pick-up-water/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936271 | 1,090 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Police Gear What gear do police officers use? Like the military, our nation's police officers depend on high-quality tactical gear that works as hard as they do. Police officers use a wide range of gear, including body armor, modular accessories, weaponlights, tactical vests, and and much more. Must have police gear:
Get Your Military Bag. Military packs and bags can be used in a variety of situations. In the desert on a mission, on the trail in the woods, or even around campus carrying books. Army surplus bags are a great way to get affordable and high-quality backpacks and pouches you can rely on to carry your important equipment. Whether it's a first-aid kit or survival gear, you'll find …
Military equipment is traditionally excellent stuff; it combines durability with very affordable prices. Army surplus finds its way to the civilian market in the following way: the armed forces of one country or other decides to get rid of big batches of perfectly serviceable gear due to cuts in military budgets, said gear becoming obsolete or redundant or some other similar reason.
T96 - Tactical Mini Patches - USA Flag - 4-Pack. Suggested Price: Sale Price: Now: $14.00. Regular Price: $17.95. Each of these injection molded silicone patches packs include a 4 pack collection of small US flags. These patches are considered to be extremely durable and will not peel like traditional embroidered patches.
2013 Ford F-350 XL Super Duty 4x4 Flatbed Dump Truck Snow Plow
Total Ratings 62, $38.05 New. $16.00 Used. Redneck Convent 30 and 50 Cal Metal Ammo Can 2 Pack Military Army Solid. 5 out of 5 stars. (15) Total Ratings 15, $37.99 New. 50 Cal Metal Ammo Case Can 1-pack – Long-term Shotgun Rifle Nerf Gun Military.
Different versions of BTS official amry bomb are available now.Take BTS army bomb ver 3 for example, it can connect to your phone,and change colors. and These light sticks are intelligent! Among these concert BTS official light stick,BTS light stick ver …
About products and suppliers: Choose from a vast collection of durable and customized shoulder epaulettes at Alibaba.com for all types of tactical military and police requirements. These items can be completely customized according to your requirements and are made of high-quality materials to last for a long time and deliver consistent performance.
Black Patrol Bag NI Pack genuine MOD Army Issue Black 30 Litre Field bag / Rucksack. £24.99 . Aqua Bladder Kombat 2.5 Litre US Style Hydration Bladder, New . £14.99 . Assault pack Sand Coyote Medium 40 Litre Tactical Molle Bag Pack. £39.99 .
Browse throughout a vast selection of military-style rucksacks, tactical backpacks and accessories available at Military 1st online store. Our wide range of products includes high-quality patrol packs, shoulder bags and even luggage in a variety of colours, styles and sizes.
Ask for a uniform of any sort in Kuwait and you will most likely be directed to Bhasin Company.Bhasin Co.was established in 11/20/2018 6:55:24 AM Kuwaiti Violinist Creates Waves among Indians through his Magical Strings
Vintage German Army Soup Bowl - RZM Marked. $29.95. Add to Cart. German Utility Worker Overalls. View as Grid List. Sort By Position Product Name Price Bestselling Most Reviewed Highly Rated. Items 1 - 15 of 83. Page. You're currently reading page.
Army Combat Shirt - Multi Cam/OCP - Fire Resistant. $59.99 (41) In Stock. Select Options. Quick View. Army PT Gear Long Sleeve T-Shirt - Grey. $14.99 $3.99 Sale (7) Out of Stock. Quick View. Military Issue Black Socks/Liners - 3 Pack. $7.99 $4.99 Sale (3) In Stock. Select Options. Quick View. DRIFIRE Gen 4 FR Light-Weight Shirt. $29.99 (3) In ...
China Military Outdoor Equipment catalog of Camouflage Backpack-Military Backpack-Military Rucksack-Alice Backpack, Military Sunglasses-Tactical Sunglasses-Military Glasses-Army Goggles-Military Goggles provided by China manufacturer - …
3 Ply Mask, 3 M N95 1860 and 8210, Kn95 Mask, Full Face Shield
Keep your gear organized and protected for your next weekend journey with the 3-day backpack from LA Police Gear. This bag makes the perfect addition to your collection of gear for the outdoors field, missions, and more. A police backpack is a must-have for law enforcement, military personnel, and anyone who just wants to keep important equipment stored safely.
Regular Price. $59.99. Special Price. $24.49. Reversible Belt. Shop All. MORE ABOUT MEN'S TACTICAL APPAREL. Our men's tactical apparel is the cornerstone of our apparel and gear. From inception of the 5.11 Tactical Pant, our men's clothing has gone onto outfit operators, officers, and professionals all around the globe.
ANSgear.com has a great selection of Paintball Guns On Sale today. We have hundreds of paintball guns on sale at great prices. A lot of the sale guns sell quick due to …
Hydration Pack. 17" x 10" x 6". $49.00. 18US-17106. Shipping to the 50 states $12.00. Includes 2.5 Liter Hydration Badder. Colors: Coyote, Olive, Gray, Black. Canteen you wear on your back. There is a 2 foot flexible plastic tube you drink from.
MOLLE Tactical Packs. Magazine / Molle Pouches. Law Enforcement & Duty Gear. Tactical Vest & Chest Rigs. Weapons Cases. Holsters & Drop Leg. Tactical Clothing & Accessories. Gun & Shooting Supplies. Range & Gear Bags.
Become a Dealer. Thank you for your interest in becoming a dealer of Chase Tactical products. Chase Tactical is a leading manufacturer of tactical nylon products to the U.S. Military, Law Enforcement, and Government Agencies throughout the world. In the production of our nylon products we use only the highest quality U.S. sourced Mil-Spec ...
3 Packs Tactical American Flag with Dog Paw Dog Tracker Patch, Military K9 Police Army Dog Service Dog Patches with Hook and Loop Fastener for Medium Large Dog Vests Harnesses Collar. 4.6 out of 5 stars 36. $8.92 $ 8. 92. Get it as soon as Tue, Dec 7. FREE Shipping on orders over $25 shipped by Amazon.
The U.S. Army Command Structure, which includes all Army Commands (ACOM), Army Service Component Commands (ASCC) and Direct Reporting Units (DRU).
Pokémon TCG: Sword & Shield-Fusion Strike Sleeved Booster Pack (10 Cards) $3.99.
USA Made Products. Show your love for the motherland by not just serving in the police and military but also choosing the USA made products for your tactical gear.Yes, that's how you rise as a nation and we, at LA Police Gear, help you achieve just that.We have a history of promoting the American brands and we bring highest-quality tactical products for the security guards, …
Stun guns for self-defence. Stun guns are currently some of the most effective and affordable self-defense weapons available. A stun gun, or a teaser, as it is often referred to, is a hand held device that puts out a high voltage shock and stuns the attacker.
Jake Designs goal is to strive to provide graphics, decals and other graphic related items to cover every occupation, hobby, lifestyle and sport you can imagine. Jake Designs has one of the largest selections of Fire and Rescue related graphics and apparel and a tremendous amount of political and trade style graphics. We provide high quality exterior window decals with the best vinyl on …
Updated Version Emergency Uniform Pack Law & Order 8.0 | New Tactical EUP Uniforms https:// Here To Subscribe & Help ...
The World's Foremost Supplier of Military, Tactical, Outdoor Clothing and Gear Featured Items New Arrivals Clothing Military & Tactical Gear Outerwear Footwear Headwear Camo Bags & Packs Personal Accessories & Novelties Military Branches Thin Blue Line Gear Women's Clothing Kid's Clothing & Accessories
Police Gear. Streicher's is your police equipment headquarters! From batons and handcuffs to irritants and optics, Streicher's has the largest selection of law enforcement equipment from the brands that you trust. Shop top manufacturers such as Safariland, Bianchi, Uncle Mike's, and ASP. We also carry a full line of public safety officer ...
Find B2B Buying Leads for Your Business: Tradewheel is a supreme leader among the B2B platforms. For renowned suppliers and wholesalers who are thinking of setting foot in the market with their export quality goods, our platform is providing you a one-stop shop where you can get your products the exposure they need.
All Pants. BDU Pants Camo Pants Tactical Pants EMT Pants Uniform Pants Military Fatigue Pants Vintage Military Pants Women's Military Pants Kids Pants. From their intuitive design and performance fabrics, Rothco's Tactical Pants are the perfect pant for military and law enforcement personnel. Sort by Arrival Date Best Sellers Rating.
Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) for Sale. Buy retired Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV), inlcuding Light Medium Tactical Vehicles (LMTVs) and Medium Tactical Vehicles (MTVs) previously used by the military. You can be sure to find exactly what you need at a price that works for your budget. Saved!
LBX- Mini Modular Assaulters Pack – LBX 0306 Inland Taipan LBT LBX. $29.95. Free shipping. 20 sold. | <urn:uuid:818d54dd-f950-4d0f-bb84-71df4ca65dc7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mementocab.fr/2022/04/06-26751.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.907074 | 2,092 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Acute Renal Failure (ARF)
Acute Renal Failure (ARF) is a condition that results in a sudden decrease in kidney function or kidney damage within a few hours or a few days.
Causes of Acute Renal Failure
Conditions that may lead to ARF may include:
- Decreased blood flow to the kidneys, due to blood loss, low blood pressure or shock
- Direct damage to the kidneys caused by infection, severe dehydration or other conditions
- A blockage along the urinary tract
- Any condition that impairs the flow of oxygen and blood to the kidneys, such as heart attack
Symptoms of Acute Renal Failure
The most common symptoms of ARF include:
- Poor appetite
- Severe vomiting
- Abdominal pain
- Back pain
- Muscle cramps
- No urine output or high urine output
- Pale skin
- Inflammation of the eye
Treating Acute Renal Failure
When life brings you face to face with kidney disease, you want the best care possible. And the best team. That’s why the Crozer Health team brings together physicians, surgeons and other healthcare professionals from across the hospital—nephrology, cardiology, oncology, endocrinology and the largest dialysis center in the Delaware Valley—to deliver a compassionate, multi-disciplined team approach to treating kidney disease.
- Dialysis: For patients with kidney disease, dialysis (cleansing of the blood with an artificial kidney machine) may be needed to perform the tasks that the kidney once performed.
- Kidney Transplant: For patients with end-stage renal disease or those who cannot or do not want to depend on dialysis, kidney transplant surgery can be lifesaving and life-changing. | <urn:uuid:23e9a143-9b19-42e6-a358-e77827dda23b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.crozerhealth.org/conditions/kidney-transplant/acute-renal-failure-arf/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.906757 | 396 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Learn how to make a cute and useful origami clover bookmark. This origami clover is easy to make from 1 sheet of square paper.
Zakka Workshop was kind enough to send me a copy of Hello Origami, which has 30 cute origami projects to make inside.
All of the origami models are pretty easy to make, this book also has some neat ideas on how to decorate and embellish them with hand-drawn designs and washi tape.
This book is great for beginners at origami, the simple diagrams are not scary and the layout of the book is very appealing. This book is aimed at younger crafters that enjoy writing notes to their friends and decorating school or collage projects. That being said, people of all ages will like this cute book. It’s a very good gift to give to those who have an interest in paper crafts and origami.
There are 30 different origami models in the book, including things like strawberries, donuts, panda bookmarks, socks, gift tags, nail polish bottles and way more. Included in the book are inspiration for decorating the origami, which will make it easy for those of use who cannot come up with these things on their own.
Hello Origami is a great book for anyone wanting to get started with origami, and you can actually use the origami you make as gifts or gift tags and cards.
Hello Origami is available to buy on Amazon here.
Today I am following the origami clover bookmark diagram. You can pause the video at the start in order to use it, or follow along with me.
You will need:
▸ 1 sheet of square paper. Example: 17 x 17 cm
Final model size: 8.5 x 8.5 cm
Paper used in the tutorial and photos is from Tuttle’s Pastel Origami Paper pack. | <urn:uuid:448ebe07-3049-452e-97d3-8d8155389201> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.paperkawaii.com/origami-clover-bookmark-tutorial-from-hello-origami-by-mizutama/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947226 | 406 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Headache Hot Flashes Dizziness Fatigue
Vertigo, likewise called dizziness, is a loved one term to the more familiar vertigo, also known as queasiness. A feeling that your whole body is dizzy as well as moving in a strange means. The dizziness comes on all of a sudden, without alerting as well as is normally for brief amount of times. Vertigo, like dizziness, is really frightening as well as is the main sign of various conditions that affect the brain, from hypertension to fainting. Headache Hot Flashes Dizziness Fatigue
Benign positional vertigo (BPV) is most likely the most typical source of vertigo, the sensation that the interior of your head or that your whole body is turning strangely. Commonly this is accompanied by light-headedness, nausea or vomiting, throwing up, fainting, and a sensation of detachment from your environments. BPV commonly causes only brief episodes of lightheadedness, generally no greater than 10 mins. It is often triggered by muscle spasms or by an absence of blood flow to the nerves in the inner ear. Some individuals have no signs at all. Headache Hot Flashes Dizziness Fatigue
Headache Hot Flashes Dizziness Fatigue
The majority of situations of wooziness are caused by several of the problems that affect the brain as well as interfere with its capacity to work properly. If you are experiencing signs and symptoms that you believe are vertigo, your physician will certainly more than likely recommend antihistamines or tricyclic antidepressants as therapies for these conditions. Antihistamines reduce the task of the chemicals in the body that cause the response that triggers vertigo. Tricyclic antidepressants are made use of to treat allergies, anxiety, and also other comparable problems. Headache Hot Flashes Dizziness Fatigue
Certain medicines may additionally cause vertigo. Doxycycline can lower the toughness of your muscular tissues that support your balance. This lowers the quantity of fluid in your brain that triggers your dizziness. Various other medications that might include doxycycline are Prednisone, Acetylcholine, Phenytoin, and NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs).
Vertigo that does not improve with over the counter treatment can be treated by your physician. These therapies include prescription medications, surgical treatment, and also antihistamines. If your wooziness is severe, your doctor may suggest you to have a committed echocardiography system or VASER (vesicular stentibular shutoff excitement) procedure. This treatment uses a laser to open up the tightened capillary that trigger the wooziness. The laser may also decrease the amount of liquid accumulation in your mind that creates wooziness.
Some individuals have problems with dizziness without treatment. In these situations, it is necessary to determine why you experience the signs. Your doctor might require to do examinations such as an MRI or CT scan to identify the underlying trouble. He might likewise execute some basic laboratory examinations in order to eliminate or verify the medical diagnosis.
Some of the reasons that might cause wooziness include a condition called sensorineural hearing loss. This problem takes place when there is damages to the internal ear. This can be triggered by an ear infection, an injury, or a side effect of particular medicines. Various other causes can be high fevers, ear infection, meniere’s condition, Meniere’s disorder, or vestibular neurons.
If you are experiencing wooziness, you should make note of where your dizziness is impacting your equilibrium. You should additionally know if the modifications in balance are taking place for a long period of time or if they are just taking place in a short period of time. This will aid your doctor to establish the root cause of vertigo and additionally the proper therapy. If you believe that your lightheadedness results from a lack of balance, you must consult your physician. Your healthcare professional will be able to offer you with important info about vertigo and how you can manage the symptoms.
In order to figure out the specific source of vertigo, your health care expert will certainly most likely have you go through an extensive examination to dismiss any kind of underlying physical causes. Among one of the most common sources of dizziness is low blood pressure or hypertension. If you have been identified with either of these problems, you need to follow your medical professional’s orders and also adhere to your routine drug. By reducing your blood pressure, your wooziness could be removed. Nevertheless, your problem might need treatment to reduce your high blood pressure naturally.
Another typical root cause of vertigo is experiencing hearing loss. As we age, our hearing ends up being less effective, which may result to vertigo. If you have actually been experiencing lightheadedness without any other signs and symptoms, it might be tough to determine the problem. However, as quickly as you begin experiencing any sort of sound or sound in your ear, you need to immediately call your physician.
Some signs that can suggest the visibility of a vestibular migraine headache consist of: nausea or vomiting, vomiting, impaired thinking, as well as fainting. Because these signs can be combined, your physician might perform tests to validate the visibility of vertigo. If your signs and symptoms correspond, your doctor might execute additional examinations such as catheterizations, magnetic vibration imaging (MRI), and computerized tomography (CT) check. | <urn:uuid:4deffcf3-6157-4bd1-8ea1-a979b0c22b02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.grupocpd.com/headache-hot-flashes-dizziness-fatigue/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.944989 | 1,127 | 2.328125 | 2 |
With regards to auto insurance policies, there are several different factors that could have an affect on your top quality. You are able to lower your top quality by driving safely and responsibly. Other aspects to consider when comparing charges contain your vehicle make and product, the value of your vehicle, And the way you employ it. If you frequently travel extended distances, you are more likely to be involved with accidents. Eventually, The easiest method to lower your insurance policies top quality is to locate a policy that fits your requirements.
When it comes to insurance policies, the typical motor vehicle proprietor is answerable for paying out anywhere from $one,100 to above $5,000 a 12 months. It’s important to understand that costs can vary broadly from condition to condition. In some states, whole coverage expenditures 2 times around minimal coverage. Stated below are a few strategies that can assist you get the very best cost. A minimal liability Restrict is barely expected in some states, though whole coverage usually features a $five hundred deductible.
Deciding on the ideal motor vehicle is significant mainly because some automobiles are costlier than Some others, causing increased insurance policies premiums. Furthermore, some automobiles are costlier to repair service and swap, so their insurance policies premiums are usually increased. Drivers with a clean driving history tend to receive much more affordable costs. Age and gender also play a part in determining insurance policies costs. Younger drivers are usually much more dangerous than more mature drivers. Furthermore, some insurers use credit rating scores to determine insurance policies premiums. Even so, some states have passed laws prohibiting this sort of use.
There are actually 6 standard kinds of auto coverage coverages. This protection means that you can customize your plan to include a range of different situations. You’ll also want to make certain that you have liability protection. Liability coverage is required by law in many states, however you can select a distinct kind of protection if you’d choose. Liability coverage addresses you just in case you’re at fault in a collision, but In addition, it addresses other drivers in your vehicle. It pays for Other individuals’s damages or injuries, and it may include professional medical payments.
A typical plan will include several kinds of protection, including liability, collision, detailed, uninsured/underinsured motorist, and professional medical payments. These are typically all crucial, and you’ll want to get enough of them. Many of these coverages might be mandatory in a few states, while others may well not. To discover the most effective car coverage protection for your requirements, stop by a website for instance Freeway Insurance policies. You will find lots of protection choices and preserve time and cash.
Just about every point out sets its possess least car insurance plan requirements, and these legal guidelines are damaged down into 3 separate numbers. In California, such as, you might be necessary to carry at the least fifteen/thirty/5 in bodily injuries legal responsibility coverage, and thirty/50/5 in property damage legal responsibility. These numbers can vary broadly, so it’s best to check your point out’s requirements prior to driving. Although different insurance plan might be a choice, it isn’t usually a good suggestion.
The least coverage needed by your point out is frequently legal responsibility coverage, but lots of lenders have to have entire coverage. Entire coverage refers to each collision and detailed insurance plan, and it might be needed by your lender if you are funding your automobile. Legal responsibility coverage addresses damages to Other individuals’s property during the function of a mishap but not your personal automobile or self. Bodily injuries legal responsibility and property damage legal responsibility insurance plan is often mixed to offer you the most beneficial coverage at an exceedingly reasonable cost.
Whether or not you’ve got collision coverage on your vehicle insurance policies coverage is dependent upon your situations. Whilst you might not be essential by regulation to have this coverage, lenders will probably demand it if you propose on funding your vehicle. Lenders could also demand you to carry collision insurance policies if you have a mortgage, which means you must purchase comprehensive coverage car insurance policies. This coverage is a necessity for most people who finance an automobile, irrespective of whether new or used.
Collision coverage pays the full value of your vehicle within the party of a collision. Whilst the insurance company pays your complete cost of repairs, it might not be adequate to replace the vehicle if It is really stolen or totaled. You may additionally must pay some individual income to replace the vehicle. For those who have such a coverage, ensure you fully grasp the terms and conditions prior to purchasing vehicle insurance policies. It’s also advisable to fully grasp the deductible, which can be independent with the collision deductible.
There are lots of elements to think about when purchasing a car insurance policy Monthly bill. Some states demand minimal restrictions on House and Uninsured motorist coverage, which pays to the distinction between your costs as well as the policy limit with the at-fault driver. Other states don’t demand underinsured motorist coverage. Here are some strategies that may help you buy the correct insurance policy policy for your needs. With any luck ,, these tips will make the procedure a little bit less complicated and help you save you revenue.
Liability protection for car insurance policy is important so that you can guard yourself along with your house versus statements of harm or house harm. This protection can include the price of defense or settlement in the event you be found at fault for an accident. There are many types of protection, so it is important to know the distinction between them to prevent costly surprises. Point out Farm presents normal fees for various amounts of protection. Chances are you’ll discover it a lot more beneficial to choose a medium protection degree.
For most states, you are necessary to carry legal responsibility coverage with your plan, which handles damages to Other individuals’s house and accidents to Other individuals. This sort of coverage also safeguards you in case you bring about a collision with Yet another driver. This coverage is definitely the default plan in most states, and is recommended for motorists in many international locations. Nonetheless, it is vital to recognize that legal responsibility insurance policy restrictions are extremely distinctive in Each individual state. Your legal responsibility Restrict will establish exactly how much you will have to pay to go over damages.
In practically each and every state, it is unlawful to generate without legal responsibility coverage, which includes house hurt legal responsibility. In the event you bring about damage to someone else’s house, legal responsibility coverage pays for repairs. Nonetheless, your auto insurance policy plan isn’t going to go over your own automobile’s damages. Your state could possibly have distinctive minimum necessities for legal responsibility coverage, so it’s important to check your plan before you purchase it. Residence coverage is additionally crucial in your fiscal security. It can help you stay away from becoming remaining with large insurance policy costs for those who bring about a collision.
Your insurance policy plan needs to have some type of house hurt coverage to compensate you during the occasion of the collision. This coverage pays for almost any damages you bring about to another individual’s automobile, including repairs. Additionally, it pays to the removing of particles after a collision. Residence coverage is often composed with three numbers, including bodily injuries coverage for each accident and house hurt coverage for each accident. Higher restrictions, on the other hand, present more coverage. Be sure you go through your plan and talk to your insurance policy representative if there are any exclusions or restrictions.
In The big apple, it is possible to assert uninsured motorist coverage if the opposite driver does not have plenty of insurance policy to go over the cost of your collision. This coverage applies when the opposite driver is not really discovered in any way plus the accident is a success-and-run. The Insurance Legislation SS 5217 specifies which the uninsured motorist coverage have to be purchased in any Actual physical collision, but courts have interpreted this provision to only utilize within a Actual physical collision.
Underinsured and uninsured motorist coverage are optional in a few states, but in other states, you needs to have them each. Shopping for each coverages will present you with additional coverage in case you have to pay back health care costs or other fees. Should the uninsured driver leaves you using a destroyed automobile, the uninsured motorist coverage can purchase the repairs. While this coverage is just not required, it might be a smart plan to carry no less than the minimum amount of legal responsibility coverage.
In the event you’ve in no way thought of it, auto insurance policy discount rates are a terrific way to lower your expenses and continue to be green. Quite a few new cars have basic safety characteristics such as airbags and anti-lock brakes that could reduce your rates. You can also get further discount rates for possessing basic safety characteristics with your car or truck, such as daytime operating lights or anti-theft alarms. Spending your quality in total yearly may even eliminate payment anxieties for twelve months. In actual fact, about fifty percent of insurers provide a reduction for this type of payment.
You may also be qualified for discount rates for those who’ve experienced your plan for several a long time. These discount rates fluctuate based on the period of time you have experienced your plan, but a lot of firms provide discount rates for becoming faithful for their shoppers. You could be qualified for a reduction of approximately 15% if you purchase your plan no less than seven days right before your renewal day. Except for these discount rates, some firms even provide discount rates to Those people in certain occupations. Such as, teachers acquire 10% off their rates from Liberty Mutual. Army personnel receive a 15% low cost from Geico.
Do you think you’re a young driver seeking auto insurance policy low-priced rates? Here are a few recommendations it is possible to abide by to economize on auto insurance policy coverage: Increasing your deductibles, acquiring a no statements low cost, and getting a plan using a regional insurance provider. The following pointers can help you save numerous dollars on a yearly basis in your auto insurance policy plan. In addition they make it easier to get the bottom costs achievable. Keep reading to see more. You’re going to be happy you probably did!
Youthful motorists can lower your expenses on auto insurance policy by driving more safely, reducing the volume of miles they generate, and permitting the insurance provider observe their driving habits. You can also reduce your rates by shopping all-around for auto insurance policy. Quite a few insurers demand the next amount for young motorists, so it’s important to buy all-around. Fortunately, there are free of charge on the web quote comparison resources that make this quick. On top of that, it is possible to ask for a reduction For those who have various cars and possess them insured by precisely the same company.
When seeking a plan, Ensure that you Look at various rates and select the greatest benefit and good quality. You can also seek out an insurance policy agent who will mature along with you, allowing for you for making adjustments as your driving record alterations. Ensure that you Look at guidelines offering similar kinds of coverage, as deductibles and restrictions could make a huge distinction. If you’re a young driver, It’s also advisable to get plenty of coverage in order to avoid fiscal catastrophe.
Acquiring a no statements low cost on automobile go over is a terrific way to lower your expenses in your rates, and it might be really worth inquiring your insurance provider how to apply it. Based on the insurance provider, the low cost could be really worth between thirty% after a year to up to sixty five% after five years. Keep in mind that For those who have a collision, you will lose two a long time of no statements reward. On top of that, various statements may even wipe out your entire no statements reward. It can be important to notify your insurance provider right away of any incidents you have, as failing to do so could signify that upcoming statements will likely be turned down.
Most insurers provide no statements low cost defense for a price of all-around PS25. It allows you to make a particular variety of statements per annum without stressing regarding your rates heading up. It is additionally achievable to include it to a new plan For those who have a no statements reward. On top of that, it is possible to transfer your no statements low cost to another insurance provider if you want. To maintain your no statements low cost, you ought to think about switching companies on a yearly basis or two.
When seeking a low-priced automobile insurance policy quote, boosting your deductibles is a terrific way to get reduce rates. Some estimates say It can save you in between 15 and thirty per cent in your quality by boosting your deductibles. These financial savings can vary widely dependant upon your driving record, the kind of automobile you generate, plus your state’s legal guidelines. Increasing your deductibles also can reduce your yearly quality by up to 40%.
Even though boosting your deductible isn’t the suitable choice for everybody, it will help you conserve Many dollars about the long run. Even though the quantity you select to boost your deductible will rely upon your fiscal predicament, experts propose preserving no less than two months’ really worth of residing fees. Furthermore, it is going to reduce your insurance policy charges every month. You will also conserve a big sum of money for those who ever generate a assert.
Acquiring a plan using a regional insurance provider could be beneficial for motorists using a very poor credit score record. It can help you save cash every month in your every month insurance policy bill, and you can benefit from discount rates and exceptional customer service. Acquiring a plan using a regional insurance provider is offered in all fifty states, and you can Look at costs by state to search out the bottom costs. Nonetheless, it is vital to note that it may have a handful of months to boost your credit score score, and many motorists using a very poor credit score record can end up having to pay about $four hundred a year.
Erie Insurance is yet another regional insurance provider that provides low-priced auto insurance policy. This company is based in Pennsylvania, and has been in organization considering the fact that 1925. Erie offers auto insurance policy, existence, and house insurance policy. Despite the fact that Erie only offers coverage in certain states, it’s got more than 13,000 impartial insurance policy agents during America. You can pick out an agent or even a regional insurance provider In keeping with your preferences. Nonetheless, it is recommended that you go through all fantastic print before making a decision.
If you’re a higher-risk driver, you’ll want to Look at automobile insurance policy rates and locate the cheapest plan for your preferences. You should also take a look at exactly how much coverage is offered in your area to help you establish if a reduce amount is feasible. It might be more cost-effective to buy more coverage For those who have reduce risk or if you agree for the next deductible. Everything depends on your preferences. Fortunately, there are lots of alternatives accessible to you.
In the event you are searhing for the cheapest automobile insurance policy quote for prime-risk motorists, you might be in luck. You can easily locate 1 using a handful of clicks online. The web can give you various rates for coverage at a portion of the cost of traditional automobile insurance policy. Don’t just that, nevertheless it may even make signing up for insurance policy a lot much easier. All You must do is fill out a simple on the web form, pay back your quality, and you also’re accomplished! The insurance provider will then print you a card as evidence of your insurance policy coverage and you will have a plan over the road.
When you’ve got a very poor credit score record, you might be thought of a higher-risk driver by a lot of insurance policy firms. It’s because you usually tend to file an insurance policy assert than a driver with great credit score. Your credit score score is often a Consider how insurance policy firms view you, and a prior DUI/DWI will raise your quality by approximately sixty five%. This is certainly reminiscent of an extra $477 over a six-thirty day period plan. Yet another factor that insurers think about is your driving record. A DUI/DWI can enhance your quality by approximately $174, and a speeding ticket can include up to about 45%.
When you’ve got a DUI in your document, it is possible to pick out the cheapest auto insurance policy supplier. Businesses such as State Farm, American Family, and Progressive have some great alternatives offering reduce rates for prime-risk motorists. In addition they think about your credit score score when figuring out your quality. Insurers think about these factors when choosing exactly how much you pay back in your plan. A very poor credit score score may cause insurance policy costs to skyrocket, so It truly is crucial to find out your credit score score before making a decision.
There are a variety of factors to consider When picking the cheapest auto insurance policy for young motorists. Your age and marital standing Enjoy a huge purpose with your auto insurance policy costs. The kind of car or truck you generate may additionally have an impact in your quality. For instance, higher-effectiveness autos are typically more expensive to insure than small-effectiveness autos. Thus, step one to find the cheapest car or truck insurance policy for young motorists is to find a car or truck with several basic safety characteristics.
A terrific way to reduce the cost of car or truck insurance policy for young motorists is usually to reduce the coverage you’ll need. Quite a few insurers provide discount rates if you’re an excellent student, or If you’re in driver coaching. Nonetheless, reducing your coverage could bring about large out-of-pocket fees For those who have a collision. Thus, make sure to weigh the hazards of this option diligently, and generally err over the aspect of obtaining better benefit.
Teenagers have a tough time securing low-priced auto insurance policy. Even though the cost of a plan for a 16-year-previous driver is much larger than that of an adult, it can be minimized by adding a teen to an present plan. This feature boosts costs by a median of $1,461 a year, but is often more affordable than getting a independent plan. Additionally, if you’re a young driver, seek out discount rates together with other methods to avoid wasting.
The price of auto insurance policy differs widely dependant upon your profile, which can signify that you need to shop all-around for the cheapest insurance policy for small-risk motorists. Insurers think about a variety of factors when choosing on an insurance policy plan, including your driving document, demographics, and All round risk level. Listed under will be the 5 most crucial factors to consider when comparing insurance policy rates. Keep in mind that reduce insurance policy costs Really don’t signify you have to sacrifice good quality.
First of all, think about your zip code. These in higher-crime parts will experience larger costs. Furthermore, insurance policy firms get site visitors volume into consideration. Also, be sure you don’t have any incidents or statements in your document, as these will enhance your rates. And lastly, Remember that you ought to Look at rates each and every 6 months in order to avoid having to pay more than You must. You should also think about getting a multi-plan low cost if you’ve multiple plan with a particular insurance provider.
Even though credit score scores are not lawfully used by insurers in a few states, They are even now crucial issues when comparing auto insurance policy costs. In Hawaii, motorists with very poor credit score pays 168% more than similar cleanse motorists. In Massachusetts, higher-risk motorists pay back thirty% more than cleanse motorists. For new motorists, a DUI, speeding ticket, and lousy credit score will maximize costs more than Other folks. Be sure you attain a number of rates before making a decision.
The zip code you live in is a major Consider the cost of insurance policy. If you live in an area with higher crime and accident costs, it is possible to hope to pay more for insurance policy rates. Furthermore, factors like site visitors volume and accident record can boost the cost of insurance policy. Most insurance policy firms also look into a driver’s driving record to determine what amount they ought to demand for their plan. Normally, motorists using a very poor driving record pay back more for coverage than Those people using a cleanse driving document.
Motor vehicle insurance policy has risen by $fifty – $a hundred in the final five years, as wellness care charges are already rising. Motorists also are necessary to carry uninsured and PIP insurance policy, that are previously mentioned-common state necessities. Quite a few states only need legal responsibility insurance policy, but The big apple calls for motorists to carry each. These optional coverages boost the cost of insurance policy, and can normally boost the full quality. And lastly, motorists should really check their coverage restrictions, as some guidelines have a reduce minimum amount of coverage than Other folks.
In The big apple, the common individual spends two.8 per cent of their money on car or truck insurance policy, which happens to be a little bit larger than the countrywide common of two.40 per cent. Individuals of their 30s, 40s, and 50s pays a little bit less than the common. The 70+ age group pays larger rates than motorists with much less driving working experience. Those people who are married pays a little bit larger rates, but nonetheless reduce than single folks.
Along with reduce costs, motorists also can get defensive driving courses. These courses are 320 minutes in duration, and incorporate discussions of driver attitude and site visitors legal guidelines. In addition they teach defensive driving methods that can drastically reduce the cost of insurance policy. They also can aid to boost their driving document, so completing a study course can reduce the cost of a car or truck insurance policy quote. Nonetheless, if you’re Not sure about the precise coverage you’ll need, it is possible to check Together with the Insurance Information Institute.
Even though fuel selling prices fluctuate by state, the cost of a car or truck insurance policy quote in other states may be larger or reduce than your own. Some factors may perhaps account for this, including the percentage of uninsured motorists, state insurance policy legal guidelines, and the rate of theft. Also, the incidence of lousy weather conditions can adjust the cost of insurance policy in different states. The next desk displays common automobile insurance policy rates in different states. These estimates are based upon a comparison of state insurance policy necessities.
Missouri is the cheapest state for total-coverage auto insurance policy, having to pay just $944 less than Louisiana. On top of that, this state has among the bottom charges for each capita, and is particularly rated fifth concerning cost of residing. In contrast, Texas motorists pay back the most for their automobile insurance policy, having to pay approximately 33% of their annual money in full. This disparity may be as a consequence of The truth that the state provides a higher variety of uninsured motorists and many lawsuits.
The countrywide common for total coverage auto insurance policy is $1,771 a year. The state with the most expensive insurance policy quality is Louisiana, using a quality of $two,839, a 19% maximize from 2020. Conversely, Maine’s common insurance policy quality is just $858. It’s because no-fault states have larger insurance policy rates. The price of a car or truck insurance policy plan in other states can differ drastically. There are numerous factors to consider, including your state’s legal guidelines on insurance policy.
In the event you are searhing for higher-risk driver automobile insurance policy close to me, you may be asking yourself how to get a small-Expense plan. High-risk motorists pay back larger insurance policy rates than common motorists. It’s because they have a tendency to possess more incidents or violations on their document. Based on the state, the Restrict may very well be three a long time or five years. Occasionally, you will get discount rates if you’re taking a driver basic safety study course.
Even though the countrywide averages for prime-risk driver automobile insurance policy close to me are really dependable, you’ll discover that rates fluctuate wildly from state to state. Some firms regulate their costs to distinctive states, so if you live in a particular state, you might learn that 1 insurance provider offers you the top coverage for a small price. The most affordable higher-risk driver automobile insurance policy close to me comes from State Farm, that has a lengthy-standing popularity for supplying exceptional service.
The obvious way to locate a higher-risk driver automobile insurance policy close to me is usually to enter your ZIP code and Look at rates. The price of higher-risk automobile insurance policy close to me can vary from state to state, but most massive insurers provide this sort of coverage. Some of these firms concentrate on higher-risk coverage, such as Countrywide Basic. You could possibly even be able to find a less expensive plan For those who have great grades and a small-risk car or truck.
There are numerous benefits of comparing automobile insurance policy firms. On this page, We’re going to go over some of The most crucial characteristics, such as ratings, discount rates, and customer service. Deciding on the greatest plan is important for your basic safety and defense, so go to the trouble to compare the several guidelines from distinctive firms. By the point you end reading this short article, you will have an idea of which insurance provider offers the top coverage at the bottom Expense. Here are some tricks to select the suitable 1 for yourself:
To find the greatest amount, you ought to Look at automobile insurance policy rates from distinctive firms. Insurers use a lot of factors to determine the cost of insurance policy. You need to identify your specific desires and Look at selling prices from several companies. For instance, sporting activities cars can Expense more to insure than normal cars. On top of that, your locality and driving record also can impact the costs that you will be quoted. By making use of a comparison Software, you could find the bottom amount on precisely the same coverage Together with the very same deductibles.
Insurance rates can vary drastically, so it truly is important to know how Each individual plan performs. Amongst the factors that impact rates are driving record, age, and credit score record. You can also Look at the benefits that every company offers, such as roadside aid or accident forgiveness. Despite the fact that this could appear to be a frightening activity, it can assist to compare rates from distinctive companies and select the suitable 1. Listed under are some tricks to get you begun.
On the subject of comparing auto insurance policy firms, you should get started with the J.D. Power automobile insurance provider ratings. They’re based upon client gratification surveys that study Many auto insurance policy shoppers nationwide. The effects are compiled into numerical scores that stand for the companies’ common client gratification score. These rankings are printed every year, and the top automobile insurance policy firms in Each individual group are awarded gold medals. But how do you know if the companies you are thinking about are any great?
There are numerous methods to evaluate the fiscal toughness of automobile insurance policy firms. To start with, it is possible to check the AM Finest insurance provider ranking, which offers fiscal steadiness scores for automobile insurance policy firms. Whether or not the automobile insurance provider has an A, B, C, or File ranking, it’s important to know how stable it truly is right before choosing a plan. This is an important aspect of customer service, so make sure to go through the evaluations and browse the fantastic print before making a decision.
Motor vehicle insurance policy firms provide various discount rates. Quite a few of such discount rates is probably not readily available for Everybody, so it’s important to check the business Web site to ensure that you qualify to the discount rates that utilize for you. Some firms provide various discount rates, and You can even talk to your insurance policy agent When they are qualified for almost any particular low cost. Nonetheless, the method is easy and sometimes usually takes less than one hour. Underneath are some examples of achievable automobile insurance policy discount rates.
Legacy Discounts: A car or truck insurance provider may perhaps provide a reduction to new motorists who buy their plan by means of their mother and father’ company. This low cost is mostly all-around 10 per cent. This is certainly one method to thank your mother and father for your enterprise over the years, and it can help you save cash on your car insurance policy coverage. Quite a few firms provide legacy discount rates to young motorists, and It truly is really worth checking to view if your insurance provider offers 1. You can also look into guidelines supplied by American Family, Farmers, or USAA.
While in the insurance policy market, There are some firms that constantly excel at customer service. Esurance, for instance, scored four out of five during the J.D. Power rankings for customer service, a higher mark for a company whose mother or father company does not. The corporation scored larger than its competition in all other parts, including plan offerings and prices, and also the good quality of service furnished by its Call center representatives and Web site.(customized service)
An important ingredient of auto insurance policy for the majority of buyers is its coverage, but it’s the customer service that matters most. Customers would like to Call their insurers and acquire prompt, courteous service. Which means that they want to receive a reaction for their e-mails and cellphone calls rapidly, and they want to talk to an agent who will pay attention to their concerns and provide options. Even though all auto insurance policy firms may perhaps provide exceptional customer service, some do perform a lot better than Other folks.(rideshare insurance policy)(only a few clicks)(insurance policy alternatives)
A number of factors impact the rates of automobile insurance policy firms. Driving record and age are two main factors. A driver using a very poor driving record or even a very poor credit score score will have larger rates. Also, the cost of residing in your area will impact the rates. Because of this, it’s important to compare the rates of several insurance policy firms to find the 1 that could accommodate your spending plan plus your driving habits. There are many tips on how to reduce your rates, such as chopping coverage or using a defensive driving study course. You can also opt to purchase a full year of coverage up front.(bill on the web)(worker discount rates)(at fault accident)(included accident)
Along with the above-stated factors, all kinds of other matters can enhance your quality. For instance, for those who’ve just lately created a assert or logged a site visitors violation, your insurance policy supplier will reassess your rates. On top of that, if you’re taking a secure driving study course, you may be qualified for a reduction. Insurance firms are continually tweaking their designs to determine the costs, and you would possibly notice a distinction with your rates Even though you’ve in no way adjusted your driving record.(use centered insurance policy)(rental cars)(automobile repairs)(Harmless driver low cost)
A car or truck insurance policy Look at is a terrific way to stay away from disreputable insurance policy companies. Such as, small rates from a specific insurance provider could be misleading Should the quote excludes certain coverage or makes inaccurate assumptions regarding your driving profile. By hunting up insurance policy firms’ ratings plus the A.M. Finest ranking, you could find the cheapest insurance policy firms in your area. Read this short article to Learn the way automobile insurance policy compares can help you save cash. Then, Get the rates within the top rated firms and see which 1 is the best for yourself.(accident free of charge)
Your credit score-centered insurance policy score is often a helpful indicator of exactly how much risk you are likely to pose, but you shouldn’t Allow it dictate your costs. The federal authorities isn’t going to enable insurers to make use of your credit score record as the sole cause for an increase in your costs. Nonetheless, states such as California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Utah, and Vermont have legal guidelines in position that restrict insurers from working with credit score record to determine insurance policy costs.(could conserve)(new automobile)(auto assert)
Nonetheless, this kind of insurance policy does not utilize to each state, so buyers don’t have any way to determine if a company is utilizing your score to decide exactly how much to demand them. Some states, such as California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Michigan, do ban credit score-centered insurance policy. Many other states also have constraints on the usage of credit score-centered insurance policy scores. In the end, you will have to choose on your own whether or not your credit score-centered insurance policy score is suitable for you.(motorcycle insurance policy)(roadside aid coverage)(bundling auto)(get yourself a automobile insurance policy)(pet insurance policy)(actual income benefit)(superior statements service)(yacht insurance policy)
Quite a few factors impact the cost of automobile insurance policy discount rates, including age. Age impacts your amount by more than thirty per cent, and in a few states, a young driver pays Practically four situations approximately a thirty-year-previous. Inexperience is yet another main factor, as young young adults usually tend to enter into incidents. By being familiar with what factors impact your rates, it is possible to negotiate reduce charges on your own. Listed under are several of the ways that age impacts your car insurance policy.
Normally, the youthful you might be, the reduce your rates will likely be. But If you’re a person, age does impact the cost of automobile insurance policy. Even though young male motorists pay back less than their older counterparts, rates for motorists of their sixties and seventies skyrocket. Statistically, males are two and a fifty percent situations as likely to be linked to a car or truck crash than Females, so the gender hole decreases with age.(coverage alternatives)(homeowners insurance policy)
The point that a person pays the next quality for automobile insurance policy than a lady is not really completely astonishing. Quite a few Males make very poor choices though driving, causing more incidents and statements. Nonetheless, There are some factors that make Males more expensive to insure. Here are some of the very best explanations why. Please read on to find more about the preferred factors that impact auto insurance policy costs by gender. And when you are still confused, think about the following tips for reducing your rates.(auto insurance policy guidelines)(auto insurance policy quote)(automobile insurance policy amount)
The Oregon Division of monetary Regulation has instructed auto insurers to support buyers who Really don’t specify their gender. Discrimination against non-binary folks could be grounds for unfair discrimination rates, and insurers should file costs for people motorists setting up in January 2019. These costs may be larger than Those people for male and woman motorists. Provided that they’re not extreme, Females can lower your expenses. Also, Don’t be concerned with regard to the “non-binary” amount for young motorists.(automobile insurance policy assert)(hole insurance policy)(auto plan) | <urn:uuid:1008c85a-6730-44eb-877f-952301002a95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://backlinkhut.in/car-insurance-in-honey-brook-pa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951798 | 7,299 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The 66 meter long s-class sub was commissioned on November 11, 1942 in England. From her first day of duty, the “Stubborn” was operating against German U-Boats and the German supply lines in the north Atlantic and the Baltic Sea. After continued depth charging at February 13, 1944, the sub sunk outside Trondheim (Norway) to a depth of more than 500 ft. The yard was rating the s-class sub to a depth of 290 ft. The never giving up crew survived and brought the severely damaged ship back to the surface. With jammed hydroplanes, a free moving rudder and the ballast pumps out of action the “Stubborn” stayed a drift with a bow up angle of about 60 degrees for 5 days until two destroyers arrived to tow her to safety. In 1945 the “Stubborn” en route to Suez and the Far East called in to Malta for the fist time. She was ordered to help the allied navy against the struggle with Japan. After sinking of various Japanese ships and various counterstrikes it proofed, that the damage from Norway was more than expected. The sub now sailed back to Malta, where she was decommissioned and sunk as ASDIC target just outside St. Pauls Bay.
Due to the depth is this dive only for very experienced divers. You got to accept short bottom times and necessary deco stops on ascend. There for you have the pleasure to dive an intact submarine.
Max. depth 56 meters Depth at cunning tower 48 meters | <urn:uuid:c9a18669-89eb-4e95-b9e5-40f7548c5537> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://madsharkmalta.com/html/english.php?site=tauchen/wrack/mad-shark-diving-wreck-submarine-stubborn | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970163 | 318 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Providence Health Insurance Company
Providence Health Insurance operates under Providence Health Plan and is part of Providence Health & Services. Run by the Sisters of Providence, its history dates back over 160 years to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1843. Currently based in Oregon and serving Oregon and southwest Washington, Providence Health Plan is a not for profit health insurance organization. Read this Providence Health Insurance Company Review and then enter your zip code in above to start comparing health insurance quotes online!
The History of Providence Health Insurance
In 1856, a group of Sisters of Providence moved from Montreal to Washington territory under the direction of Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Once they arrived, they began caring for the ill as well as for elderly women and children that were orphaned. This nurturing took place in what was called The Providence Enclosure and then in 1858 they opened Saint Joseph Hospital.
In 1984 a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) formed between Providence Portland Medical Center and Saint Vincent Medical Center. One year later, Physician InterHospital Plan, known as The Good Health Plan, was approved by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. By 1987 the Sisters of Providence in Oregon established a new care system that included both HMO’s and Preferred Provider Networks (PPO’s).
Later, in 1997, Oregon health plans merged with Washington health plans and The Good Health Plan became Providence Health Plan. Providence Health Plan’s membership reached 326,000 by the year 2000, which included over 50,000 Medicare members and more than 35,000 Medicaid members. With their commitment to care for those most at risk in society, they continued to move away from HMOs toward PPOs and Point of Service (POS) plans. Today they offer a variety of commercial plans, individual and family coverage, Medicaid, and Medicare.
Rated “A” from A.M. Best, Providence Health Plan has received numerous awards and recognitions. In 2009 they received the highest rating of four stars from J.D. Power and Associates in their National Health Insurance Plan Study. The Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International tied them for first place in 2001 through 2007 for “Best in US for Chronic Conditions” and also gave them Recognition of Excellence in Disease Management in 2008 and 2009. They also received two awards for Excellence in Disease Management from Health Industries Research Companies.
American’s Health Insurance Plans honored Providence Health Insurance with a Community Leadership Award. The American Association of Health Plans named them the Winner of Managed Care Achievements in Tobacco Control Awards Program in 2001 and 2002. SDI recognized them as the top nine for the past nine years in the Top 100 Most Integrated Health Networks. They also received a Top 10 Ranking in Corporate Philanthropy Awards from Portland Business Journal in 2008.
Oregon and southwest Washington have benefited from millions of dollars contributed to different health care projects since 1987 by Providence Health Plan. Furthermore, their employees volunteer for numerous charitable organizations such as Camp Erin, Medical Teams International, Mercy Corps, Our House of Portland, Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, and United Way. Employees also save 36,000 trees by recycling 1849 tons of materials annually. In addition, all materials provided by Providence Health Plan to their members are available electronically and everything that is printed uses paper that is at least 50% recycled and 25% consumer waste.
Providence Health Plan has over 16,000 employees, making them the largest employer in Oregon. They have been named in “100 Best Employers to work for in Oregon” ten times in a row by Oregon Business Magazine and the Portland Business Journal named them one of the “Top 10 Most Admired Health Care Companies” three years in a row.
Insurance Plans Offered by Providence Health Insurance
Individual and family plans have three options with both in-network and out-of-network coverage. The network contains over 540,000 providers and 4,000 hospitals. Nationwide, 78,000 network clinics and hospitals are available for members. Plans vary widely and can range in premiums from $55 per month to $1236 per month. All fees mentioned here are for individual coverage (family coverage will cost more) and are subject to change.
There are five choices within the Optimum Plan with deductibles ranging from $500 to $10,000. There is an annual out of pocket cost of $2,500 with a lifetime maximum of $2 million. The deductible is waived for the Accidental Injury Benefit. There is a $20 co-payment for annual gynecological exams, health exams, mammograms, office visits, well-baby visits, and routine vaccines, and the deductible is waived for these services. After your deductible is applied, you are responsible for a $20 co-payment for office visits to specialists.
Once your deductible is met you are responsible for 20% of the following services: inpatient hospital visits, observation, maternity care, rehabilitation services, surgery and other services. There is a $125 co-payment for emergency services and you pay 20% for urgent care with a waived deductible. You are responsible for 20% of emergency transportation services after your deductible is waived.
Additional coverage after meeting your deductible includes chemotherapy, home and health care (with limitations), lab work, medical and diabetes supplies (with limitations), mental health and alcohol treatment (with limitations), outpatient surgery, radiation therapy, and x-rays. Prescription drugs are available from participating pharmacies and mail-order at a cost of $10 for generic drugs and 50% for brand name drugs. All services that go out-of-network are at a higher rate, typically costing you 40% of the charges.
The Value Plans also have five choices with deductibles ranging from $500 to $7,500 and out of pocket costs ranging from $4,000 to $11,000. Some of the copayments are the same as the Optimum Plans, but most of the services cost more, such as 30 % for inpatient hospital visits, maternity care, specialists, and urgent care. Out-of-network costs are also higher, typically 50% of the benefits covered.
Two Health Savings Accounts (HSA) Plans are available with a choice of a $1,200 deductible or a $2,500 deductible. The annual out of pocket goes from $5,250 to $5,000 but the lifetime maximum is the same for both plans, $2 million per individual. The Accidental Injury Benefit does not apply with the HSA plans, but if you stay in the network, many of the deductibles are waived and you only have a $20 co-payment. Other services will cost you 20 % after your deductible has been met. All drugs, generic or brand, are covered at 50 % the cost. If you choose to go out-of-network, your costs will be approximately 40 % of the benefits received.
No matter which plan you choose, they all include vision benefits that are administered by VSP. Provided you stay in the network, you have a $30 co-payment for annual routine vision exams. Every two years you receive an $80 benefit for frames or contact lenses and there is no charge for basic lenses whether they are single, bifocal, or trifocal. Additionally you receive 15% off of the fitting and evaluation of your contact lenses and 15% off of laser vision correction from contracted facilities. Note, you will only receive 5% off of laser vision correction if you are being offered a promotional price for the service.
Other benefits of membership include a deductible carryover and member discounts for family attractions, health classes, health clubs, hearing services, massage therapy, and sporting events. Individual coverage is available for people aged eighteen to sixty-four who live in the service area and are not eligible for Medicare. A family includes you, a spouse or domestic partner, and/or dependent children aged newborn to twenty-two. The premiums for a family plan are based on the oldest person that will be covered. Child-only plans are also available for children aged newborn to 17 who live in the service area.
Insurance plans are also available for employer group plans. Since Oregon state law prohibits an employer from paying premiums for individual health coverage, employers must consider commercial products. Teachers have three health insurance options through the Oregon Educators Benefit Board (OEBB). Those qualifying for Medicare will find two choices, each one with an optional drug benefit. Providence Medicare Extra™ is for in-network services and Providence Medicare Choice™ is for out-of-network services.
New Oregon Laws Affecting Providence Health Insurance
New Oregon laws go into effect in 2010 that will affect health insurance carriers. One new law is the 1 % premium tax for group plans, which will tax group plans 1 % to help fund health care for 80,000 uninsured children in Oregon and 35,000 low income adults. A telemedicine law provides for the inclusion of medical video conferencing services same as in person services. Carriers must also now provide a minimum $500 for tobacco use cessation. Benefit coverage will also have to include hearing aids for dependents under the age of eighteen.
Insurance carriers are required to update their new contracts with current laws and are typically shown as benefits in a new quote. Quote tools are helpful in comparing benefits and costs so that you are making informed choices with your health care. Look for an online quote tool that lets you compare your options before you commit to any single insurance provider.
Enter your zip above to start comparing health insurance quotes online! | <urn:uuid:613b932e-aab8-447c-963e-8b18b365b076> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthinsuranceproviders.com/providence-health-insurance-company-review/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958447 | 1,948 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Coaching Generation “Why?”
Posted by Kurt Earl in Public
What generation are you from? You know what I mean. Are you a Gen Xer? Are you an old Millennial, like me? Maybe you’ve been coaching for a few decades and you’re a Baby Boomer.
Naming generations help us to understand each other better. While prone to unfair stereotypes and bias, each generation name teaches us something unique and special about the people who make up the generation.
Virtually everyone playing youth, junior high, high school, and college football today is part of Generation Z. I have no idea what “Z” means, so I made up a more useful name for Generation Z. I call them “Generation Why?”
Because they always ask “Why?” Not only do they always ask why, but most of them, in most situations, aren’t too inclined to do much of anything until they know exactly why they are doing it and they have decided that doing it is worthy of their time.
This characteristic is both frustrating and worth commending. It’s frustrating because even after you have established a great deal of trust with your players they still refuse to do much of anything if you haven’t clearly articulated why they should do it. They need to be constantly reminded of the why behind every aspect of the football program. Not only that, but many of them aren’t going to remember the why or understand the why until you’ve clearly articulated it multiple times and in multiple ways. Doing so takes a lot of time and energy.
When you were playing, how often did you do something with no questions asked merely because Coach said to do it? Constantly, right? Generation Why? isn’t wired that way. They essentially demand that the why behind everything is constantly being explained to them. You can resist that reality or embrace it? It’s your choice.
As frustrating as Generation Why? can be, they’re also to be commended. Thinking this way means that Generation Why? will choose their actions intentionally. As their perspective on life and motivations mature they’re going to be purposeful people who carefully plot out their path and follow a plan. Doesn’t that sound like the type of person that would make a great football player and teammates?
Our teams are full of players who are just waiting to work hard for a coach who will take the time to constantly and clearly articulate the why behind the everything the program does. But it’s important to recognize that merely teaching the why isn’t enough for this generation of young people. They’re also craving another characteristic from their coaches. Generation Why? demands that their coaches love them and care about them as people, not merely players.
There’s an old cliche ringing more true every minute: They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
This has never been more true about high school football players than it is today. Today’s athletes are more relational than ever before. As a result, they value advice and instruction from someone they know well far more than they do from someone who knows well. In other words, they don’t care if you’re an expert if they don’t know you care about them.
But this isn’t news to you. As a football coach you’re experiencing this reality everyday. You know from experience that inspiring and motivating your players is a completely different ball game than it was when you were a player. This is true if you’re a seasoned coach with decades of experience or a young gun just getting started. Things have changed rapidly.
These rapid changes can be summarized in two words: relationships and purpose. Study after study has shown that today’s young people long for deep relationships and deep purpose in all that they do, especially something that demands as much commitment to the team as the game of football. The bottom line is that if your football program doesn’t offer the opportunity to forge deep relationships and a sense of deep purpose your football team won’t attract today’s athletes.
What you need is a system for building a culture founded on relationships and purpose. You need a system that will help your program develop not just young men who are great football players, but young men who are great members of your school’s community.
Cultures founded on relationships and purpose that develop young men who are great football players and great members of your school’s community use a simple 1-2-3 process for communicating. In everything that you do you must always communicate to your players (1) The Why, (2) The What, and (3) The How. You must teach you players, your staff, your parents, your administration, and yourself to use The Why, The What, and The How as the lens through which you observe all things pertaining to the building of your football program.
When your players and coaches understand The Why, The What, and The How that motivates every aspect of your football program you will free your players and coaches from the chains of selfish motivators and unleash their potential as they serve the team with their unique gifts and abilities. Players and coaches who don’t understand your Why, or your What, or your How will always be motivated by fear, shame, and pride. When your program lacks purpose and deep relationships your players and coaches will lack loyalty and industriousness and your parents and fans will follow suit.
Once players and coaches begin to understand your Why, What, and How, however, they are free to be motivated by love for self, love for the game, love for teammates, and ultimately a love for the team.
The Culture Coordinator system for building your culture will show you how to create a Why, What, and How that is unique to your program. The system also includes an assessment that allows you, as the head coach, to know exactly what is currently motivating your players and coaches and provides action steps for helping them move towards being motivated by a love for the team.
If you’re interested in the Culture Coordinator Motivation Assessment click here to learn more.
Ready to join the movement of Culture Coordinators from around the country? Click here to learn about the benefits of becoming a member of the Culture Coordinator community. | <urn:uuid:36ca7ab5-d441-48ac-b0fe-e312d47a36aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.culturecoordinator.com/2017/07/17/coaching-generation-why/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97432 | 1,333 | 1.554688 | 2 |
By Cameron Houston
Police are investigating a potentially anti-Semitic attack on two Jewish men outside a supermarket in Melbourne’s south-east which left one of the victims in hospital.
Sunday night’s alleged assault is the latest incident involving Melbourne’s Jewish community following the introduction of landmark legislation last week to ban the public display of the Nazi swastika.
Yacov Gozlan told The Age he was leaving the Coles supermarket near the corner of Glen Huntly and Orrong roads in Elsternwick about 10.30 when he saw someone allegedly attacking an Orthodox Jewish man.
“He was holding the religious man’s hat behind his back and pushing him back with the other hand towards a transit van,” Gozlan said.
“I said to him ‘I’m Jewish, he’s Jewish, leave us alone’, and he started bashing me straight away.”
The 50-year-old says he ran inside the supermarket, where the assault continued. Gozlan alleges he was gouged in both eyes during the altercation, which left him with severe bruising and lacerations. He spent Sunday evening at the Austin Hospital.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman confirmed a 33-year-old man was arrested at the scene and was assisting police with enquiries. No charges have been laid.
“A 50-year-old man stepped in to assist after witnessing another man being allegedly subjected to anti-Semitic abuse. Upon doing so, the man was allegedly then punched and knocked to the ground by a 33-year-old man,” the police spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman said officers were looking to identify the person who was allegedly on the receiving end of the anti-Semitic abuse and urged them to come forward.
“Victoria Police understand incidents of anti-Semitism can leave communities feeling targeted, threatened, and vulnerable. We treat any reports of anti-Semitism seriously,” the spokeswoman said.
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich said many members of Melbourne’s Jewish community no longer felt safe.
“We cannot allow anti-Semitism to become the new normal, and I understand why many feel on edge and believe it is open season on the Jewish community,” Abramovich said.
“Though Jewish Victorians should be able to walk the streets of Melbourne safely and free from physical attacks, we have now reached a staggering stage whereby being identifiably Jewish makes one a likely target for harassment and abuse,” he said.
Last week, two men were charged by police after allegedly plastering Nazi swastika stickers on fences, light poles, bus stops and a Jewish community centre in Caulfield – just a day after the Andrews government introduced legislation to criminalise public displays of the Nazi swastika.
The legislation, which has bipartisan support, will mean Victoria is the first jurisdiction in the country to ban the display of the hate symbol, enabling police to remove and confiscate items that breach the ban.
“We know that this is a symbol of hate and division, and it is incredibly harmful and damaging, the messaging it sends,” Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes told The Age last week.
Cut through the noise of the federal election campaign with news, views and expert analysis from Jacqueline Maley. Sign up to our Australia Votes 2022 newsletter here. | <urn:uuid:4a377f76-2375-47c1-9ca7-c789e6c03574> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/victoria/police-investigate-attack-on-two-jewish-men-outside-supermarket-20220517-p5aly8.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965927 | 700 | 1.515625 | 2 |
In this post I’d like to test limits of python aiohttp and check its performance in terms of requests per minute. Everyone knows that asynchronous code performs better when applied to network operations, but it’s still interesting to check this assumption and understand how exactly it is better and why it’s is better. I’m going to check it by trying to make 1 million requests with aiohttp client. How many requests per minute will aiohttp make? What kind of exceptions and crashes can you expect when you try to make such volume of requests with very primitive scripts? What are main gotchas that you need to think about when trying to make such volume of requests?
Async programming is not easy. It’s not easy because using callbacks and thinking in terms of events and event handlers requires more effort than usual synchronous programming. But it is also difficult because asyncio is still relatively new and there are few blog posts, tutorials about it. Official docs are very terse and contain only basic examples. There are some Stack Overflow questions but not that many only 410 as of time of writing (compare with 2 585 questions tagged “twisted”) There are couple of nice blog posts and articles about asyncio over there such as this, that, that or perhaps even this or this.
To make it easier let’s start with the basics - simple HTTP hello world - just making GET and fetching one single HTTP response.
In synchronous world you just do:
How does that look in aiohttp?
hmm looks like I had to write lots of code for such a basic task… There is “async def” and “async with” and two “awaits” here. It seems really confusing at first sight, let’s try to explain it then.
You make your function asynchronous by using async keyword before function definition and using await keyword. There are actually two asynchronous operations that our hello() function performs. First it fetches response asynchronously, then it reads response body in asynchronous manner.
Aiohttp recommends to use ClientSession as primary interface to make requests. ClientSession
allows you to store cookies between requests and keeps objects that are common for
all requests (event loop, connection and other things). Session needs to be closed after using it,
and closing session is another asynchronous operation, this is why you need
every time you deal with sessions.
After you open client session you can use it to make requests. This is where another asynchronous
operation starts, downloading request. Just as in case of client sessions responses must be closed
explicitly, and context manager’s
with statement ensures it will be closed properly in all
To start your program you need to run it in event loop, so you need to create instance of asyncio loop and put task into this loop.
It all does sound bit difficult but it’s not that complex and looks logical if you spend some time trying to understand it.
Fetch multiple urls
Now let’s try to do something more interesting, fetching multiple urls one after another. With synchronous code you would do just:
This is really quick and easy, async will not be that easy, so you should always consider if something more complex
is actually necessary for your needs. If your app works nice with synchronous code maybe there
is no need to bother with async code? If you do need to bother with async code here’s how you do
hello() async function stays the same but we need to wrap it in asyncio
and pass whole lists of Future objects as tasks to be executed in the loop.
Now let’s say we want to collect all responses in one list and do some postprocessing on them. At the moment we’re not keeping response body anywhere, we just print it, let’s return this response, keep it in list, and print all responses at the end.
To collect bunch of responses you probably need to write something along the lines of:
Notice usage of
asyncio.gather(), this collects bunch of Future objects in one place
and waits for all of them to finish.
Now let’s simulate real process of learning and let’s make mistake in above script and try to debug it, this should be really helpful for demonstration purposes.
This is how sample broken async function looks like:
This code is broken, but it’s not that easy to figure out why if you dont know much about asyncio. Even if you know Python well but you dont know asyncio or aiohttp well you’ll be in trouble to figure out what happens.
What is output of above function?
It produces following output:
What happens here? You expected to get response objects after all processing is done, but here you actually get bunch of generators, why is that?
It happens because as I’ve mentioned earlier
response.read() is async
operation, this means that it does not return result immediately, it just returns generator.
This generator still needs to be called and
executed, and this does not happen by default,
yield from in Python 3.4 and
await in Python 3.5 were
added exactly for this purpose: to actually iterate over generator function. Fix to above error
is just adding await before
Let’s break our code in some other way.
Again above code is broken but it’s not easy to figure out why if you’re just learning asyncio.
Above produces following output:
What happens here? If you examine your localhost logs you may see that requests are not reaching
your server at all. Clearly no requests are performed. Print statement prints that
responses variable contains
<_GatheringFuture pending> object, and later it alerts that
pending tasks were destroyed. Why is it happening? Again you forgot about await
faulty line is this
it should be:
I guess main lesson from those mistakes is: always remember about using “await” if you’re actually awaiting something.
Sync vs Async
Finally time for some fun. Let’s check if async is really worth the hassle. What’s the difference in efficiency between asynchronous client and blocking client? How many requests per minute can I send with my async client?
With this questions in mind I set up simple (async) aiohttp server. My server is going to read full html text of Frankenstein by Marry Shelley. It will add random delays between responses. Some responses will have zero delay, and some will have maximum of 3 seconds delay. This should resemble real applications, few apps respond to all requests with same latency, usually latency differs from response to response.
Server code looks like this:
Synchronous client looks like this:
How long will it take to run this?
On my machine running above synchronous client took 2:45.54 minutes.
My async code looks just like above code samples above. How long will async client take?
On my machine it took 0:03.48 seconds.
It is interesting that it took exactly as long as longest delay from my server. If you look into messages printed by client script you can see how great async HTTP client is. Some responses had 0 delay but others got 3 seconds delay. In synchronous client they would be blocking and waiting, your machine would simply stay idle for this time. Async client does not waste time, when something is delayed it simply does something else, issues other requests or processes all other responses. You can see this clearly in logs, first there are responses with 0 delay, then after they arrrived you can see responses with 1 seconds delay, and so on until most delayed responses arrive.
Testing the limits
Now that we know our async client is better let’s try to test its limits and try to crash our localhost. I’m going to reset server delays to zero now (so no more random.choice of delays) and just see how fast we can go.
I’m going to start with sending 1k async requests. I’m curious how many requests my client can handle.
So 1k requests take 7 seconds, pretty nice! How about 10k? Trying to make 10k requests unfortunately fails…
That’s bad, seems like I stumbled across 10k connections problem.
It says “too many open files”, and probably refers to number of open sockets.
Why does it call them files? Sockets are just file descriptors, operating systems limit number of open sockets
allowed. How many files are too many? I checked with python resource module and it seems like it’s around 1024.
How can we bypass this? Primitive way is just increasing limit of open files. But this
is probably not the good way to go. Much better way is just adding some synchronization
in your client limiting number of concurrent requests it can process. I’m going to do this
asyncio.Semaphore() with max tasks of 1000.
Modified client code looks like this now:
At this point I can process 10k urls. It takes 23 seconds and returns some exceptions but overall it’s pretty nice!
How about 100 000? This really makes my computer work hard but suprisingly
it works ok. Server turns out to be suprisingly stable although
you can see that ram usage gets pretty high at this point, cpu usage is around
100% all the time. What I find interesting is that my server takes significantly less cpu than client.
Here’s snapshot of linux
Overall it took around 53 seconds to process.
Pretty powerful if you ask me.
Finally I’m going to try 1 million requests. I really hope my laptop is not going to explode when testing that.
1 000 000 requests finished in 9 minutes.
It means average request per minute rate of 111 111. Impressive.
You can see that asynchronous HTTP clients can be pretty powerful. Performing 1 million requests from async client is not difficult, and the client performs really well in comparison to synchronous code.
I wonder how it compares to other languages and async frameworks? Perhaps in some future post I could compare Twisted Treq with aiohttp. There is also question how many concurrent requests can be issued by async libraries in other languages. E.g. what would be results of benchmarks for some Java async frameworks? Or C++ frameworks? Or some Rust HTTP clients?
- improved code sample that uses Semaphore
- added comment about using executor when opening file
- added link to HN comment about EADDRNOTAVAIL exception
Earlier version of this post contained problematic usage of ClientSession that caused client to crash. You can find this older version of article here. For more details about this issue see this GitHub ticket.
Fixed minor bugs in code samples:
- removed useless positional argument ‘loop’ to run()
- added positional argument url to hello() async def
- added missing colon in requests sync code sample | <urn:uuid:66df9f7f-ecf6-437f-bd93-9972e8254b71> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pawelmhm.github.io/asyncio/python/aiohttp/2016/04/22/asyncio-aiohttp.html?utm_source=romain.dorgueil.net&utm_medium=content&utm_name=stream&utm_term=image | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.929414 | 2,409 | 2.03125 | 2 |
- 1 How do I become an independent delivery driver?
- 2 Can you make money as a self-employed courier?
- 3 What qualifications do you need to be a courier?
- 4 How much does it cost to start a courier business?
- 5 Is being a self employed courier worth it?
- 6 Is a self employed courier a good job?
- 7 Do couriers make good money?
- 8 Is a courier a good job?
- 9 How many hours do couriers work?
- 10 How do I start a self-employed courier?
- 11 How do courier services get clients?
- 12 How much should a courier charge?
- 13 What is the most profitable small business to start?
How do I become an independent delivery driver?
To become an independent contractor cargo van delivery driver, you need to have several qualifications. The most important is a clean driving record and an up-to-date driver’s license. A high school diploma or a GED certificate is useful, but it is not always necessary since you are technically self-employed.
Can you make money as a self-employed courier?
Self employed courier drivers can earn an attractive wage, and you don’t need to invest much to become a courier driver. All you need is a vehicle of your own for self-employed courier work.
What qualifications do you need to be a courier?
You’ll need driving experience, English and maths skills, and a good knowledge of your local area. Experience in storage or warehousing can be useful.
How much does it cost to start a courier business?
It’s a simple business to start and operate, so you don’t need a lot of money to start up. in fact, you can start a courier service with $900 or less! What does a courier do? They pick up and deliver packages, documents, even pets, for businesses and individuals.
Is being a self employed courier worth it?
It will take some time to establish yourself and to increase your ROI, but be patient – it’s worth it. You can expect to earn up to 45% more than an employed driver. Learning to make use of networks like Courier Exchange will help you maximise your profits.
Is a self employed courier a good job?
Self employed Courier jobs are becoming increasingly popular amongst those searching for a role outside the typical 9-5. Flexible and varied work mean that no two days are ever the same. Working as a courier means that you can fit work around your schedule, explore different places and meet new people every day.
Do couriers make good money?
Couriers make on average $36 an hour, and provide a much-needed service for any community. With a little hard work, your courier business can be profitable in no time.
Is a courier a good job?
Courier jobs can be a full-time income or a part-time way to make extra cash. When you manage your own workday you have the freedom to adjust based on your needs. Another bonus is that you don’t have to rely on others to get the job done. Quite the opposite, it’s a great job for those among us who prefer to work alone.
How many hours do couriers work?
As a Self-employed courier working hours can be really flexible depending on a number of factors such as your availability, the location of your round and the amount of parcels that particular round generates. On average a courier works approximately 5-6 hours a day.
How do I start a self-employed courier?
How to become a self-employed courier driver
- Get a vehicle. First things first you will need to have a reliable van or car – depending on what type of courier you’d like to be.
- Work out your earnings.
- Finding work.
- Focus on your business.
- Look at your insurance needs.
How do courier services get clients?
Here are five to get you started:
- Networking. Like any business, networking is a great way to promote your courier service.
- Press release. Write a press release that tells about your business.
- Craigslist.org. There are many web sites online where you can advertise your services completely free.
- Web site or blog.
How much should a courier charge?
A few of the top trusted and reliable delivery couriers sources in the country include Indian Post service, FedEx, First, and DTDC. Most of these courier services offer logistics convenience to over 4500 pins in the country and charge anywhere between INR 30-90 per 500 gm.
What is the most profitable small business to start?
Most profitable small businesses
- Personal wellness.
- Courses in other hobbies.
- Bookkeeping and accounting.
- Graphic design.
- Social media management.
- Marketing copywriter.
- Virtual assistant services. Finally, last on our list of the most profitable small businesses: virtual assistant services. | <urn:uuid:23a8222d-dcca-4e64-9ac3-f567c7a09bea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pioneerbd.com/courier/how-do-i-become-an-independent-courier.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.933505 | 1,059 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Dear Mr. President and members of Congress:
In the months that follow Tuesday’s midterm elections, and into the New Year, you all face three very significant challenges. You must:
- Find a solution to the Bush-tax-cuts controversy.
- Rein in the huge-and-growing U.S. budget deficit.
- And better police Wall Street, which got us into this mess in the first place.
You can solve all three of these problems with a single, simple proposition. And you can do so without having to ask U.S. taxpayers to dig into their wallets or savings.
Let me explain.
A Single Solution
On Dec.1, just one month after Tuesday’s midterm elections, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform will propose spending cuts and tax increases to reduce the nation’s dangerous budget deficit.[ad#Google Adsense]As taxpayers, we hope that the majority of those recommendations will involve cutbacks in wasteful public spending, which has grown excessively in the last decade and is a dangerous cancer on the national economy.
That’s because the other option is for the government to increase taxes.
There’s an unfortunate reality here: Most of the tax increases that would help slash the dangerous deficit – including some of the Bush tax cuts (those relating to dividend taxes, for instance) – would also damage the fragile U.S. economic recovery.
But there is an exception.
There is one tax increase that would generate substantial revenue, help knock down the deficit, and even produce major improvements in the operation of the capital markets in both the United States and abroad.
It wouldn’t increase taxes to U.S. households or most U.S. businesses, meaning it also wouldn’t harm the U.S. recovery.
I’m talking about a “Tobin tax” on financial-market transactions.
Tobin Tax Basics
The Tobin tax, proposed by Nobel laureate James Tobin in 1974, would tax transactions, whether on the stock market, in foreign exchanges, in the derivatives market, or potentially in the ordinary transfers we always use to make an income and pay our bills.
We do not propose instituting a broad-based Tobin tax at a high rate such as 1%. A tax at that rate would be hugely damaging to economic life in general, as it would suck appreciable amounts of money out of every transaction we undertake (at that rate, we’d be talking about taking $3 out of a $300 grocery bill, for example). It would drive everybody back to using untraceable cash, a huge boost for the illegal “black economy” and a major loss in efficiency and security. On Wall Street, it would force the derivatives and other businesses offshore, or close them down entirely.
That’s certainly not our goal.
However, a Tobin tax at a low rate – perhaps 0.01% or 0.02% per transaction – is a different matter, entirely. Even if that tax were extended to all transactions in the economy, it would have only a small effect on day-to-day transactions.
For instance, someone with an after-tax income of $70,000, receiving pay-slips net of tax, would have total annual transactions – including credit card spending, withdrawals of cash and other expected transactions – of less than $100,000. With a Tobin tax, a person in that financial situation would incur an annual tax of no more than $10 to $20, which could be painlessly extracted by computer. It would also be possible to exempt “retail” banking and credit-card transactions from the tax.
A More-Tightly Controlled Wall Street
The Tobin tax would play out very differently for Wall Street, however. Most affected would be the “high-speed trading” business (also known as “high-frequency trading”), in which investment banks set up powerful computers in the same building as the stock exchange. This enables these institutions to get the “tape” of trades more quickly than their competitors, and then use this information via computerized “algorithms” to execute very fast trades, profiting from the result.
The margins on this business are very slim – perhaps as little as 1 cent to 2 cents per share on a $20-per-share trade. So even a 0.01% tax, costing 0.2 cents per share, would reduce those margins substantially. At the same time, this business is very profitable, making Wall Street more than $20 billion in 2009, with the leading firm, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), reaping perhaps $5 billion of this profit. Thus, the Tobin tax at even 0.01% would tax 10% to 20% of this profit, producing $2 billion to $4 billion in revenue from this tax alone.
However, a Tobin tax would also have a similar effect on the massive derivatives market. The total current nominal value of derivatives contracts outstanding was $542 trillion as of December, the most recent figures available. Since most of these are short-term in nature, we can assume that annual trading volume totals at least this amount, with netting of contracts between the major houses probably increasing it further.
A 0.01% Tobin tax, which would have to be imposed in all the major financial centers to catch the full flow, would thus yield about $54 billion per annum in tax revenue, of which perhaps $15 billion to $20 billion would accrue to the U.S. government.
The most beneficial effect of a Tobin tax – beyond the revenue it raises – would be its effectiveness in cutting down on the so-called “rent-seeking” activities of Wall Street.
Both high-speed trading and derivatives operations are insider markets, in which the majority of profits are derived from knowledge of the trade flow of transactions in the market. That knowledge is not available to ordinary investors; indeed, in the case of high-speed trading, it is not even available to those with marginally slower or more-distant computer systems. High-speed trading and most derivatives operations are distortions of the free market, artificially enabled by modern computer technology.
While the derivatives market can provide a useful hedging function, only a small proportion of the $542 trillion of derivatives outstanding can possibly contribute to that function; there simply isn’t that much risk exposure to hedge.
As for high-speed trading, the liquidity it provides is of very poor quality. Indeed, systems such as this frequently produce “flash crashes” – like the one that hit the U.S. stock market back in May – as well as other pricing anomalies. And they are generally shut down in a one-way market, when liquidity is most critical.
Removing Wall Street’s “rent” profits from these sources is thus pure gain for the rest of the economy – and for the general public.[ad#Google Adsense]If a Tobin tax cut down derivatives and high-speed trading activities by two-thirds, it would contribute maybe $10 billion in government revenue, or $20 billion if a 0.02% tax was imposed. And that isn’t the whole story. By cutting down these counterproductive activities, this new levy would release several times this amount in profits from Wall Street to the rest of the economy, generating jobs and productive economic activity at a time when the country needs it most.
We hate taxes. But the reality is that a “Tobin tax” – in addition to producing needed federal revenue – will level the playing field between Wall Street and the U.S. general public. And for the reasons we just mentioned, it will also pave the way for healthy economic growth – and productivity enhancements that will restore the United States to its rightful place as one of the most competitive economies in the world.
Given those projected bullish outcomes, this is a tax we can live with.
Action to Take: Support our campaign to institute a Tobin tax to repay the American people for trillions of dollars in bailouts and to curb the one-sided, “rent-seeking” trading that’s become a Wall Street hallmark, and that services no real useful economic benefit.
If you wish to do so, we urge you to contact your elected representative in Congress right away. Here’s what you need to do.
Step 2: You can either write them your own letter, or feel free to cut and paste the model e-mail note that we’ve displayed just below.
In either case, we suggest using the following subject line (by using a consistent subject line, Congress will understand that a true taxpayer campaign is underway).
Subject Line: Support a Tobin Tax on Wall Street
Step 3: Make sure to include a link to this “open letter”
Step 4: Lastly, drop us a note to let us know that you’ve joined us in taking steps to fix this country’s budgetary and economic problems. Write to us at email@example.com.
Feel free to use this letter:
Dear [Decision Maker],
I am writing to urge you to support the introduction of a Tobin tax to curb excessive “high-speed” trading on Wall Street, to attack the ruinous federal deficit and to reimburse the American people for the bailouts of those financial institutions deemed “too big to fail” by the government.
I do not support additional taxes on an already beleaguered American public. Instead, I believe it is the responsibility of the big investment banks to pay us back for the financial mess they helped get our economy into. That is why I support the introduction of small Tobin tax on transactions in the stock and derivatives markets.
A Tobin tax of around 0.01% or 0.02% would barely impact taxpayers, but it would impact the big investment banks that got us into this mess. It would minimize the “high-speed trading” that creates market instability and “flash crashes.” This small tax could potentially generate $2 billion to $4 billion in revenue from the investment banks – instead of saddling the American people with a higher tax burden.
Most importantly, it would curb Wall Street’s “rent-seeking” profits – a net gain for the rest of the economy and for the general public.
As a member of your constituency, I urge you to support this tax to level the playing field between Wall Street and the public you are representing in Congress.
For more information on how the Tobin tax would help the American public, please read this recent commentary published by Money Morning: http://moneymorning.com/2010/10/28/deficit-debate-tobin-tax-cuts/
— Martin Hutchinson[ad#jack p.s.]
Source: Money Morning | <urn:uuid:5611e4a3-4cc1-4aca-b093-d44709fef626> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailytradealert.com/2010/10/31/an-open-letter-to-washington-how-to-fix-the-deficit-and-end-the-bush-tax-cuts-debate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95677 | 2,293 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Echo words are a characteristic feature of colloquial dialects of all languages spoken in the Indian sub continent and Sri Lanka.
In spoken colloquial dialects of Tamil, we often come across partial word repeats (reduplication) of the type contained in the following examples. The first syllable of the oriɡinal (or ‘base’) word is replaced or prefixed by the syllable /கி, ki / or /கீ, ki:/ to form the second or “echo” word of the pair. Apart from this change the echo word is a copy of the base word.
1. காசு கீசு இருந்தால் வாழ்க்கை சுகம் [kaːcu kiːcu iruntaːl vaːɭk:ai cuxam]
2. கோப்பி கீப்பி குடிக்கிறீங்களா ? koːpːi kiːpːi kudikːiriːŋɡaɭaː ʔ
3. ஓடி கீடி விளையாட வேணும் [o:di kiːdi viɭaya:da ve:ɳum]
4. அடுப்பு கிடுப்பு ப் பக்கம் போகக் கூடாது [ adupːu kidupːu pakːam poːxa kuːdatɨ]
5.புட்டு கிட்டு சாப்பிடலாமா? [ pudːu kidːu ca ːpːidalaːmaː ?]
6.புட்டை கிட்டை சாப்பிடலாமா?” [pud:ai kidːai caːpːidalaːmaː ?]
7. புட்டும் சாப்பிட இல்லை, கிட்டும் சாப்பிட இல்லை [ pudːum caːpːida ilːai, kidːum caːpːida ilːai]
8. சிவப்பு ச் சீலையும் கூடாது கிவப்பு ச் சீலையும் கூடாது; வெள்ளைச் சீலை தான் வேணும்.
Literary Tamil (செந்தமிழ்) uses other types of word reduplication, such as the well-known இரட்டைக் கிழவி where short onomatopoeic (click here for definition) words are exactly reduplicated, as in சல சல, கட கட, சுறு சுறு etc. But it does not permit the use of Echo Words of the particular type seen in the previous numbered examples. These Echo Words are however used in everyday speech in interesting ways to convey a range of subtle meanings. Nearly all everyday spoken languages in and around the Indian subcontinent, including colloquial sinhala, use Echo Words, though there are interesting differences in the actual replacement sounds used to form the echo word. There are also interesting differences between the various languages in the nuanced meanings associated with these echo words.
Phonology and grammar
In Tamil, the way the echo word system works is fairly straight forward. To form the echo word, the first syllable, represented in the writing system of Tamil by the first complete letter in the word, is changed to the syllable ki (கி) for short syllables and Ki: (கீ) for long syllables. If the first syllable of the base word is a vowel only syllable [V(V) or உயிரெழுத்து] , as in examples 3 and 4, Ki or Ki: is prefixed to the base word to form the echo word.
[Note: I take the view that the writing system of Tamil is entirely syllabic. This will be the subject of another post in the near furture but see this link if you want to read a formal theoretical account].
In words which begin with Ki or Ki:, such as கிளங்கு (root vegetable), echo word formation cannot occur in Tamil dialects where the word is pronounced as kiɭaŋɡu. As an aside, it is interesting to note that in most South Indian spoken dialects, the word is usually pronounced keɭaŋɡu, and echo word formation is actually possible, as keɭaŋɡu kiɭaŋɡu.
The process is mostly applied to simple nouns, but may also apply to words of any other grammatical category such as verbs (example 3), adjectives (example 8) and also to words with grammatical suffixes as in the accusative case inflected புட்டை, pudːai in example 6. The echo word may be separated from the original word in sentences where negative clauses are joined together using the /-um, (உம்/ clitic, as seen in examples 7 and 8.
Semantics and sociolinguistics
What meanings do these echo words convey? The echo word itself, taken separately on its own, does not have any semantic content. As a pair, the most obvious semantic function is to ‘spread’ or widen the semantic or lexical field of the original word so as to include all the other words of closely similar meaning in the context of the conversation i.e. ” X and other similar things/activities/qualities”. To go back to the examples above, ‘ puddu and other similar non-staple milled-cereal based foods’, ‘running or other similar playful exertions’, ‘hearth or other sources of fire’, ‘money or other forms of wealth’, ‘red or other coloured sarees’ ‘coffee, tea, coke, juice, water or another beverage’. Their usage therefore may contribute to economy of expression in everyday speech.
It could also be said that the base word-echo word pair conveys a sense of increased ‘indefiniteness’, ‘generalisation’ or ‘de-centering’ of the meaning associated with the base word alone. Consider example 8. It would seem somewhat inappropriate to just answer ‘ஏனக்கு கோப்பி வேண்டாம்’ to the question containing the echo word pair. One would be expected to choose a preferred/available beverage or decline to have any.
In addition to widening lexical field, echo words may be used, as in examples 6 and 7 , to convey, without being overtly confrontational, the speakers disapointment/ disapproval/ disdain/ disgust.
In addition to the linguistic purposes discussed above, echo words may serve important social purposes: to create a casual, non-threatening and relaxed tone to facilitate informal dialogue or negotiation. They are usually avoided in conversations with social superiors or in formal situations.
Echo words in other South Asian languages
Nearly all the spoken colloquial dialects in and around the the Indian subcontinent make use of Echo words. Most of the South Indian languages use a system similar to Tamil. The tribal language Toda as well as Malayalam use Ki or Ki: exactly as in Tamil, but most of the dialects of Andra Pradesh and Kannada use gi or gi: as the replacement syllable. Both /k/ and /g/ are ‘velar’ stop consonants i.e. formed by bringing the body of the tongue up against the soft palate (velum) at the roof of the mouth. They differ only in the fact that vocal cord vibration occurs when the /g/ sound is produced, a process called ‘voicing’. whereas /k/ is not accompanied by vocal cord activity i.e ‘unvoiced’. Occasionally, the actual sound may be a velar fricative rather than a stop (i.e. some air is allowed to pass between the tongue and the soft palate). This sound is represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) by the symbol /x/ and sounds more like the /ha/ sound that is actually produceed in the middle of the word when saying /மேகம் , meːxam (cloud)/. The phonetics of velar sounds are explained at this link
Echo words are commonly used in colloquial Sinhala, but the system in Sinhala has some significant differences when compared to the South Indian languages. Firstly, the sound involved is not velar, but labial i.e. formed at the lips, most often /p/ or /b/. Less commonly other sounds may be used. Secondly, the change does not involve the whole of the first syllable, but only the initial consonant of the echo word. And thirdly, a wider range of sounds are used, in contrast to the single velar sound that is used in Tamil and other South Indian languages.
Some examples in Sinhala: daŋɡa paŋɡa (mischief, naughtiness), œdak pœdak (a bend or curvature), hit pit (thought, conciousness), ivum pivum (cooking etc), kata bata (conversation, talk), yakku bakku (devils etc), kavicci bavicci (couches) , kaːr baːr ( car etc), saːri baːri (saree etc), kœːli baːli (pieces), suːt buːt ( suits etc), sereppu bereppu (sandals).
Sometimes, there may be a change in the first vowel of the echo word as well as the initial consonant, or consonants other than /p/ or /b/ may be used: ɡaman biman (journeys), kaːsi buːsi (money etc), udav padav (help etc) , iɖam kaɖam (lands) , vihilu tahalu (jokes).
In these three features Sinhala is more in line with languages in North India (see below) than with the neighbouring languages of South India.
More examples and a discussion are given in a brief but interesting paper by Dr DE Hettiaratchi, ‘Echo Words in colloquial Sinhala’, which is available here.
North Indian languages
All the major languages of North India use echo word formation in colloquial speech to convey very similar meanings as described for the South Indian languages. The sound changes used however are rather different. The substitution usually involves a single consonant sound rather than the whole first syllable. In standard Hindi, /v/, a labial sound, is the most common substitution e.g. pen ven (pen or other writing implement), sha:di va:di (marriage etc), ca:y va:y (tea etc), a:tma va:tma (soul etc), prem vrem (love etc), english vinglish (you work this one out!). An excellent description and discussion of the semantics of echo words in Hindi/Urdu is given in this article by Annie Montaut, pages 38-52. In Punjabi dialects the replacement sound most commonly used is /sh/or /s/ and in Bengali the sound most often used is /t/.
Echo Words have been the focus of a fair amount of research in modern linguistics. Two recent Doctoral theses are of particular interest with regard to south Indian languages. A full pdf version of Dr Parimalagantham’s PhD thesis which includes an extensive comparative study of Echo Words in Tamil and Telugu is available at this link . An Oxford D Phil Thesis on Echo Words in Tamil by Dr Elinor Keane can be accessed in abstract form via this link.
It is apparent from the above that echo word usage is an informal, flexible, subtle and intriguing component of the grammar of many spoken languages. Every native speaker of these languages would have an intuitive and unique understanding of this aspect of grammar. What are your views? Let us know! | <urn:uuid:d9ead415-c3a6-42b1-b7bf-5f7a46672780> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://xavieremmanuel.org/2012/12/23/echo-words-in-tamil-and-other-south-asian-languages/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.847435 | 3,534 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Birthday: February 08, 1917
Birthplace: Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Family: Ferdinend and Marie Guelzow
Unit: Philippine Division, 31st Infantry, Co A
Post: Frontline Machine Gunner
Stationed in the Philippines.
"I enlisted in February 1941. I would have been drafted so I enlisted so I could pick a good place to go to. We were sworn in at Milwaukee and from there we went to San Francisco. From there we shipped out to what was Angels Island. The unit I was in had never done duty in the U.S. I did my infantry training in Manila. It was a foreign legion unit, the 31st Infantry. It was the only American infantry unit in the Philippines when the war started."
By November 27, 1941 the American government had decided that Japan was bent on war. In the Philippines the base was on constant alert. "We even had sentinels and guards on the highest buildings with binoculars watching for things..." Even though an attack from Japan was expected, her aggression on December 7 and 8 seem to take the United States completely by surprise.
As for the Filipinos themselves "the biggest problem there, they weren't well organized. There was one unit called the Philippine Scouts which was a good unit. They were very well trained, in fact they were part of our division. Our division was made up of the Philippine Scouts, Philippine Constabulary, Calvary and ours which was the U.S. 31st Infantry.
...The Filipinos had the draft. They were being drafted and they would take the non-commissioned officers from our unit and make them in charge of different units of the Filipinos and get them trained. But it wasn't soon enough. The war started.
The war started December 8th. Manila was declared an open city so the Japs wouldn't bomb it. See they moved us out, that was about Christmas Eve. We moved out of there and went over to Corregidor Island and we stayed there a day after Corregidor got bombed. Scared the heck out of me and alot of other ones....The troops that were on Corregidor they were in charge of artillery batteries. They had the Manlinta tunnel which was one big tunnel like a city in the mountain but we were outside.
Then we were run over to the Bataan Peninsula and from there we were put on buses and transported up to the Lingayen Gulf area. Up in that area, that's where the Japs were. They had landed before we came in. The Filipinos were the only ones there to keep them out. So the Japs were already established when we got there.
When the war started we were put on two meals a day, they were cut to one meal a day and for the last couple of weeks we were issued nothing, just what we could find to eat. There were bananas, they had the banana trees and sugar cane...had alot of juice in them as well as sugar.
We was in very poor condition and we was practically out of ammunition. (When) we started out I was in the light weapons platoon of a rifle company. The light weapons were 30 caliber air cooled machine guns. They didn't stand up if you fired them too fast or too long. They warped. So we ran out of machine guns and then I was transferred over to D Company which was a heavy weapons company. There they had 50 caliber water cooled machine guns. That's a good weapon.
We had good rifles. We had a new rifle that just came out. Otherwise we had WWI ...uniforms, WWI helmets and the mortars were WWI and the ammunition for the mortars WWI. The biggest percentage of the mortar ammunition ended up as dikes. They'd fire up and wouldn't explode. But the biggest thing we were out of was food. And we were out of ammunition."
The American and Filipino troops repulsed the relentless onslaught of the Japanese from within the protective jungle terrain of the Bataan Peninsula. This epic battle began on January 9th of 1942 with 80,000 defenders bracing themselves against the bombardment of the Japanese 70-mm batteries along with the vicious assault of 100,000 seasoned troops. Cut off from all aid and reinforcement, disease and starvation began to take its toll. Finally on April 9th, 1942, after a final four barrage from 150 heavy guns, after Japanese air support set the jungles aflame with incinderary bombs, the starving and bloody defenders of Bataan capitulated. 76,000 Filipino and American troops laid down their arms.
"After we were captured we would move everyday. There would be a common hole dug the day before just for those that were gonna be buried the next day. Anywheres from twenty to thirty to forty a day would be buried in that hole." The prisoners were herded together and force marched 140 miles. Their condition was critical at the time of surrender but irregardless of this the Japanese denied the fallen troops any water or aid throughout their grueling journey. Prisoners were beaten, clubbed, bayoneted and beheaded. No attempt was made to provide transportation and only twice during the week long march were the ailing captives fed. Mr. Guelzow endured the cruel treatment and along with 21,916 other Americans and over approximately 43,000 Filipinos was held captive in one of several camps. Mr. Guelzow's first camp was Camp O'Donnell.
"That was a terrible place. I was down and out for along time. We called this the hospital section, just Americans in there. The Japs never came down into that section. There were Americans in charge of each building and then we were split up into wards, one, two, three, four and so on.
There was also the zero ward which I was carried into and that held forty patients and there would be oh, two, three, four, five, six a day go out of there (died). There were some International Red Cross medical supplies, quinine and so. I know I had blood plasma, sulpha and quinine drugs and so forth. Pretty soon I got so I could get up....it took a couple of weeks." By the fall of 1942 "I could wrap my thumb and finger around my wrist and after a while you're skin and bones. I could wrap my thumb and finger around my wrist and go all the way up to my elbow...just skin and bones..."
Red Cross packages were rare in the camps. "I don't think the
Japs would let them come in. They let this shipload come in in '42, the end of
'42 when so many were dieing. You know there were alot more Filipinos
then there were us. When we were burying forty a day, fifty a day, they
were burying one-hundred because there were so many of them."
The Filipino people tried to help "but if they ever did they would be in big trouble. But even on the Death March they would set water out along the sides of the road or they would be out there and hand stuff to some of the guys on the edge of the group...they were beaten then. The Japs would even kick over the water that was left."
In June of 1942 Mr. Guelzow was moved to Camp Cabanatuan. " Now I know there was three guys...they had bribed the Jap guard so that they could get out and when he was on...duty they would go to a village...they could buy food...When they went back one time they had changed guards, they couldn't get in see? And they took them and they tied each one to a post...No food, water, nothing. One time it rained and the poor guys out there just holding his head up...When they couldn't stand anymore why they would get them out to a hole they had other prisoners dig for them and executed them, shot them. And they also burned the village."
In 1944 the Japanese shipped Mr. Guelzow to Japan to work in the copper mines north of Tokyo. He'll always remember what he was told upon arriving at the mines. "You are Americans and you are our enemy and you will always be our enemy. Now you will go work in the mines and there you will work until you die."
"After we went to Japan then we had British, Australians...we were all together. You had to do so much work...most of the time I worked with a Japanese blaster. You know you drill holes in the sides and fill them with explosives...A Japanese was always in charge of this but I was there with the helpers. We were using these big long bits, a couple of inches in diameter, and then drilling the hole and the bits would get stuck and you'd have to work them out again...it was a lot of work."
The food "it would be rice or it would be beans. We had a lot of soup. It was our own people that made it though. The stuff would be given to the kitchen ...and they would prepare it. But there was nothing, not very much to do other then put it all together and make a soup...There was one portion of rice and it was called a lugow and it was like oatmeal...it wasn't the best and it wasn't enough.
We knew (the Americans) were getting closer. One of the guys that worked in the kitchen was Chinese and he could read the Japanese papers..." When the atomic bomb was finally dropped "we didn't know what it was. There were some guys that said they had seen a flash and noise way off in the distance...We didn't see a military plane until it came over and dropped supplies down to us. I think it was the 15th of August that we got released from the Japanese. Probably it was later than that, you know we didn't have any calendars...I was bad enough that I was shipped back on a plane...I had never been on an airplane before in my life...They took us to a general hospital, I think it was Letterman General, in San Francisco
I called from Frisco. I didn't know when I was coming home. We were put on a train and shipped home. Nobody knew I was coming, got to Fond du Lac, took a cab...out to Oakfield which is where my folks live, went out there and surprised them.
In Europe they lost around 2% of their prisoners. We lost anywheres from 40% to 50%...I have no desire to go back there."
under Learn and Serve American Grant #00LSFWI104 | <urn:uuid:3f31d60e-4ef3-4291-8177-94967bb9a5ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://veteraneyes.com/pages/clint_guelzow.php?section=priwar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.994185 | 2,257 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Pelvic pain is discomfort that occurs in the lowest part of the abdomen. Pain that occurs externally in the genital area (vulva, or labia) is called vulvar pain. Many women have pelvic pain. Pain is considered chronic if it continues to occur for more than 3 to 6 months.
Pelvic pain can be a gynecologic symptom. That is, it can result from a problem affecting the female reproductive system. Or it may be caused by problems in the urinary, digestive, or musculoskeletal system.
The pain may start suddenly or gradually. The pain may gradually increase in intensity, sometimes occurring in waves. It may be constant or come and go. It may be sharp or dull or crampy (like menstrual cramps), or some combination.
The pelvic area may feel tender if touched. Depending on the cause, women may have bleeding Vaginal Bleeding Abnormal vaginal bleeding includes any vaginal bleeding that occurs Before puberty Between menstrual periods During pregnancy After menopause (12 months or more after the last menstrual period) read more or a discharge Vaginal Discharge A discharge from the vagina may occur normally or may result from inflammation of the vagina (vaginitis), often due to an infection. The genital area (vulva)—the area around the opening of the... read more from the vagina. The pain may also be accompanied by fever, nausea, vomiting, and/or light-headedness.
Causes of Pelvic Pain
Pelvic pain is often related to the menstrual cycle Menstrual Cycle Menstruation is the shedding of the lining of the uterus (endometrium) accompanied by bleeding. It occurs in approximately monthly cycles throughout a woman's reproductive life, except during... read more or common gynecologic issues. However, several disorders that cause pelvic pain can lead to peritonitis Peritonitis Abdominal pain is common and often minor. Severe abdominal pain that comes on quickly, however, almost always indicates a significant problem. The pain may be the only sign of the need for surgery... read more (inflammation and usually infection of the abdominal cavity), which is a serious disorder.
Disorders that can cause pelvic pain include
Gynecologic disorders—those that affect the reproductive organs (vagina, cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries)
Disorders that affect other organs in the pelvis, such as the bladder, lower part of the ureters, urethra, rectum, appendix, or pelvic floor (the muscles, ligaments, and tissues that support the organs of the pelvis)
Disorders that affect structures near but outside the pelvis, such as the abdominal wall, intestine, kidneys, or upper part of the ureters
Often, it is difficult for doctors to identify what is causing pelvic pain.
Gynecologic disorders may be related to the menstrual cycle or not.
Overall, the most common gynecologic causes of pelvic pain include
Endometriosis Endometriosis In endometriosis, patches of endometrial tissue—normally occurring only in the lining of the uterus (endometrium)—appear outside the uterus. Why endometrial tissue appears outside the uterus... read more (abnormally located patches of tissue that is normally located only in the lining of the uterus)
Fibroids Fibroids A fibroid is a noncancerous tumor composed of muscle and fibrous tissue. It is located in the uterus. Fibroids can cause pain, abnormal vaginal bleeding, constipation, repeated miscarriages... read more in the uterus are noncancerous tumors composed of muscle and fibrous tissue. They can cause pelvic pain if they put pressure on other organs, are degenerating, or cause excessive bleeding or cramping. Most uterine fibroids do not cause pain.
Other causes of pelvic pain include
Digestive tract disorders: Gastroenteritis Overview of Gastroenteritis Gastroenteritis is inflammation of the lining of the stomach and small and large intestines. It is usually caused by infection with a microorganism but can also be caused by ingestion of chemical... read more , constipation Constipation in Adults Constipation is difficult or infrequent bowel movements, hard stool, or a feeling that the rectum is not totally empty after a bowel movement (incomplete evacuation). (See also Constipation... read more , diverticulitis Diverticulitis Diverticulitis is inflammation of one or more balloon-like sacs (diverticula). Infection may or may not develop. Diverticulitis usually affects the large intestine (colon). Left lower abdominal... read more , irritable bowel syndrome Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Irritable bowel syndrome is a disorder of the digestive tract that causes recurring abdominal pain and constipation or diarrhea. Symptoms vary but often include lower abdominal pain, bloating... read more , inflammatory bowel disease Overview of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) In inflammatory bowel diseases, the intestine (bowel) becomes inflamed, often causing recurring abdominal pain and diarrhea. The two primary types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are Crohn... read more , collections of pus (abscesses), and tumors (cancerous or not), such as colon cancer Colorectal Cancer Family history and some dietary factors (low fiber, high fat) increase a person’s risk of colorectal cancer. Typical symptoms include bleeding during a bowel movement, fatigue, and weakness... read more
Urinary disorders: Urinary tract infections Bladder Infection Cystitis is infection of the bladder. Usually, bacteria are the cause of cystitis. A frequent need to urinate and pain or burning while urinating are the most common symptoms. Doctors can often... read more , kidney stones Stones in the Urinary Tract Stones (calculi) are hard masses that form in the urinary tract and may cause pain, bleeding, or an infection or block of the flow of urine. Tiny stones may cause no symptoms, but larger stones... read more that have passed into the lower urinary tract, and inflammation of the bladder without infection (such as interstitial cystitis Interstitial Cystitis Interstitial cystitis is noninfectious bladder inflammation. Interstitial cystitis causes pain above the bladder, in the pelvis, or in the lower abdomen, and the frequent and urgent need to... read more )
Musculoskeletal disorders: Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia Fibromyalgia is characterized by poor sleep, fatigue, mental cloudiness, and widespread aching and stiffness in soft tissues, including muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Poor sleep, stress, strains... read more or chronic myofascial pain (pain that is caused by tension and tenderness in areas of muscle called trigger points)
Psychologic factors, especially stress and depression Depression A short discussion of prolonged grief disorder. Depression is a feeling of sadness and/or a decreased interest or pleasure in activities that becomes a disorder when it is intense enough to... read more , may contribute to any kind of pain, including pelvic pain, but, by themselves, rarely cause pelvic pain. Women or girls that have had sexual trauma may develop chronic pelvic pain.
Evaluation of Pelvic Pain
Usually, pelvic pain is not an emergency, but when a woman has new, sudden, very severe pain in the lower abdomen or pelvis, medical attention should be sought as soon as possible. Sometimes, emergency surgery is required. Disorders that usually require emergency surgery include
A ruptured ectopic pregnancy Ectopic Pregnancy Ectopic pregnancy is attachment (implantation) of a fertilized egg in an abnormal location. In an ectopic pregnancy, the fetus cannot survive. When an ectopic pregnancy ruptures, women often... read more (an abnormally located pregnancy—not in its usual place in the uterus)
A ruptured abscess in the pelvis
A tear in the intestine
Doctors check for pregnancy in all girls and women of childbearing age.
In women with pelvic pain, certain symptoms are cause for concern:
Light-headedness or sudden loss of consciousness (fainting, or syncope), however brief
Sudden, severe pain, especially when accompanied by nausea, vomiting, excessive sweating, or agitation
Fever or chills
Vaginal bleeding after menopause
When to see a doctor
Women with most warning signs should see a doctor immediately.
Women may need to be seen the same day or within a few days if they have
Vaginal bleeding after menopause
Pain that is constant or steadily worsening
If women have new pain that is not constant and is not worsening or if they have pain that is recurring or chronic, they should schedule a visit when practical, but a delay of several days is usually not harmful.
Mild menstrual cramps are normal. Menstrual cramps do not require evaluation unless they are very painful.
What the doctor does
The doctor does a quick evaluation to see if emergency treatment is needed. Doctors ask the woman questions about her symptoms and medical history. Doctors then do a physical examination. What they find during the history and physical examination often suggests a cause and the tests that may need to be done (see table Some Gynecologic Causes of Pelvic Pain Some Causes of Pelvic Pain in Women* ).
Doctors ask about the pain:
Whether it begins suddenly or gradually
Whether it is sharp or dull
How severe it is
When it occurs in relation to the menstrual cycle, eating, sleeping, sexual intercourse, physical activity, urination, and bowel movements
Whether any other factors worsen or ease the pain
The woman is asked about other symptoms, such as vaginal bleeding, a discharge, and light-headedness.
The woman is asked to describe past pregnancies and menstrual periods. Doctors also ask whether she has had any disorders that can cause pelvic pain and whether she has had abdominal or pelvic surgery.
Doctors may ask about stress, depression, and other psychologic factors to determine whether these factors may be contributing to the pain, especially if the pain is chronic.
Certain groups of symptoms that accompany pelvic pain suggest a type of medical condition. For example,
Fever and chills suggest an infection.
A vaginal discharge suggests an infection, such as pelvic inflammatory disease Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) Pelvic inflammatory disease is an infection of the upper female reproductive organs (the cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries). Pelvic inflammatory disease is usually transmitted during... read more .
Abdominal pain, a change in bowel movements, or rectal bleeding suggests a digestive tract disorder.
Vaginal bleeding during pregnancy suggests an ectopic pregnancy Ectopic Pregnancy Ectopic pregnancy is attachment (implantation) of a fertilized egg in an abnormal location. In an ectopic pregnancy, the fetus cannot survive. When an ectopic pregnancy ruptures, women often... read more or a possible miscarriage Miscarriage A miscarriage is the loss of a fetus due to natural causes before 20 weeks of pregnancy. Miscarriages may occur because of a problem in the fetus (such as a genetic disorder or birth defect)... read more .
The physical examination starts with checking vital signs, such as temperature, blood pressure, and pulse. Then doctors focus on the abdomen and pelvis. Doctors gently feel the abdomen and do a pelvic examination Gynecologic Examination For gynecologic care, a woman should choose a health care practitioner with whom she can comfortably discuss sensitive topics, such as sex, birth control, pregnancy, and problems related to... read more . During an examination, the abdomen or other areas may feel tender if touched. This evaluation helps doctors determine which organs are affected and whether an infection is present. Often, doctors also check the rectum for abnormalities.
The following tests are routinely done:
A pregnancy test if women are of childbearing age
Urinalysis Urinalysis and Urine Culture Urinalysis, the testing of urine, may be necessary in the evaluation of kidney and urinary tract disorders and can also help evaluate bodywide disorders such as diabetes or liver problems. A... read more is a simple, fast urine test that is a first step to check for many common causes of pelvic disorders such as a bladder infection or most kidney stones. A urine culture is done if a urinary tract infection Bladder Infection Cystitis is infection of the bladder. Usually, bacteria are the cause of cystitis. A frequent need to urinate and pain or burning while urinating are the most common symptoms. Doctors can often... read more is suspected.
A pregnancy test is done if a woman is in her reproductive years. A urine pregnancy test is usually done first. If a very early pregnancy is possible and the urine test is negative, a blood test for pregnancy is done. The blood test is more accurate than the urine test when a pregnancy is less than 5 weeks.
If a woman is pregnant and has pain or vaginal bleeding, ultrasonography is done to rule out an ectopic pregnancy Ectopic Pregnancy Ectopic pregnancy is attachment (implantation) of a fertilized egg in an abnormal location. In an ectopic pregnancy, the fetus cannot survive. When an ectopic pregnancy ruptures, women often... read more . For ultrasonography, doctors use a handheld ultrasound device that is placed on the abdomen or inside the vagina. Ultrasonography of the pelvis is done for many reasons. It is done whenever doctors think a gynecologic disorder may be the cause of the symptoms and the symptoms have begun suddenly, recur, or are severe.
If results of ultrasonography are unclear, other tests, such as a series of blood tests or laparoscopy, are done to rule out ectopic pregnancy. For the blood tests, doctors measure levels of a hormone produced by the placenta called human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). If hCG levels are low, the pregnancy may be too early for ultrasonography to detect. If levels are high and ultrasonography does not detect a pregnancy, ectopic pregnancy is possible. For laparoscopy, doctors make a small incision just below the navel and insert a viewing tube (laparoscope) to directly look for an ectopic pregnancy or other causes of pelvic pain.
Tests depend on which disorders are suspected. Tests may include
Urine tests or testing of samples from the vagina or cervix to check for infections that can cause pelvic pain
Ultrasonography, computed tomography (CT), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen and pelvis to check for masses Introduction to Miscellaneous Gynecologic Abnormalities Noncancerous (benign) gynecologic growths include cysts, polyps, and myomas. Noncancerous growths can develop on the vulva (the area containing the external genital organs) or in the vagina... read more and tumors
If other tests do not identify the cause of severe or persistent pain and a serious cause (such as a ruptured ectopic pregnancy) is suspected, sometimes laparoscopy or laparotomy
Treatment of Pelvic Pain
If the cause of the pelvic pain is identified, it is treated if possible. Pain related to the menstrual cycle (such as cramps or endometriosis) may be treated with hormonal contraceptives Hormonal Methods of Contraception Contraceptive hormones can be Taken by mouth (oral contraceptives) Inserted into the vagina (vaginal rings) Applied to the skin (patch) Implanted under the skin read more .
Pain relievers may also be needed. Initially, pain is treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen. Women who do not respond well to one NSAID may respond to another. If NSAIDs are ineffective, other pain relievers or hypnosis may be tried.
If the pain involves muscles, rest, heat, or physical therapy may help.
Rarely, when women have severe pain that persists despite treatment, surgery, such as laparoscopy to treat endometriosis or an ovarian cyst or hysterectomy (surgery to remove the uterus), can be done.
Essentials for Older Women: Pelvic Pain
In older women, common causes of pelvic pain may be different because some disorders that cause pelvic pain or discomfort become more common as women age, particularly after menopause. Obviously, disorders related to menstrual periods are no longer possible causes.
Common disorders in older women include
Cancers of the reproductive tract Overview of Female Reproductive System Cancers Cancers can occur in any part of the female reproductive system—the vulva, vagina, cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, or ovaries. These cancers are called gynecologic cancers. The most common... read more , including cancers of the lining of the uterus (endometrial cancer), ovaries, and vulva (labia)
After menopause, estrogen levels decrease, weakening many tissues, including bone, muscles (such as those supporting the bladder), and tissues around the vagina and urethra. As a result, pelvic fractures and bladder infections become more common.
Also, this weakening may contribute to pelvic organ prolapse, which may cause symptoms as women become older. In these disorders, weakened or damaged tissues in the pelvis can no longer hold the uterus, vagina, or other organs in the pelvis in place. As a result, one or more of these organs may drop down (prolapse) and women may feel pressure in the vagina or have urinary incontinence or difficulty having a bowel movement.
Symptoms that affect the vagina and urinary tract after menopause are called the genitourinary syndrome of menopause (formerly called vaginal atrophy or atrophic vaginitis). These symptoms include vaginal dryness, pain during sexual intercourse, urinary urgency, and urinary tract infections. This condition may make sexual intercourse painful, and women may describe or experience this pain as pelvic pain.
Evaluation is similar to that for younger women, except doctors pay particular attention to symptoms of urinary and digestive tract disorders that are common in older women. Older women should see a doctor promptly if they
Suddenly lose weight or their appetite
Suddenly start having indigestion
Have a sudden change in bowel movements
The doctor then does an examination to make sure that the cause is not ovarian or endometrial cancer.
Many women have pelvic pain.
Many disorders (related to reproductive organs or other nearby organs) can cause pelvic pain.
Doctors can determine likely causes based on a description of the pain, its relationship to the menstrual cycle, and results of a physical examination.
If women are of childbearing age, a pregnancy test is always done.
Urine tests and usually other tests, such as blood tests and ultrasonography of the pelvis, are done to confirm the suspected diagnosis.
Drugs Mentioned In This Article
|Generic Name||Select Brand Names|
|ADVIL, MOTRIN IB| | <urn:uuid:26ed662a-0cb7-413e-b250-06f8253e7f2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/women-s-health-issues/symptoms-of-gynecologic-disorders/pelvic-pain-in-women?autoredirectid=18691 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.916455 | 3,979 | 3.125 | 3 |
In terms of Dan Savage Betterhelp…Psychological health professionals offer talk treatment in an environment where you can feel safe to start resolving your concerns. This short article needs to help you clarify the difference between a therapist, a psychologist, and other behavioral health companies.
How Do You Determine What Type Of Therapist Is Right For You?
Get the Right Company For Your Requirements and Mental Health
Discovering the ideal certified professional to help you begin your healing procedure is no easy job. The good news is that there are mental health care specialists committed to providing good therapy and realistic solutions to handling life’s everyday issues. The majority of mental health care companies provide a free consultation to discuss your sensations and ideas.
This is where online therapy comes in (gone over in more detail later). Typical issues dealt with by psychologists and therapists consist of:
Anger management concerns
Binge eating disorders
Participating in professional therapy (with a licensed therapist) will help you to mitigate the discomforts associated with the issues above, and other problems consisting of anxiety, stress, and anxiety. Finding the right therapist is important to beginning to discover how to manage your feelings and ideas to alter your life.
A great therapist will describe the restorative procedure step-by-step along with their preferred approach of treatment. When you start to search for therapists, take note of what preferred methods that your chosen supplier registers for. Validate that your health company is licensed to practice by visiting your state licensing board online.
You can find out more about your chosen psychological health care service provider by paying attention to their online presence in the form of sites and social evaluations when you browse the web to discover a therapist.
What Can Cognitive Behavior Modification Do? Dan Savage Betterhelp
Many psychologists and therapists in the United States are professionally trained to practice Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, also called CBT. This is a kind of behavior therapy that teaches you to catch negative idea patterns and reframe them to more positive ideas, which causes favorable behaviors. Talk treatment sessions for CBT can occur in a range of settings, including therapy centers, medical facilities, or private practices. Behavioral therapy can be life-changing for some individuals.
No matter the place of your sessions, a good therapist will develop an environment where you can feel safe sufficient to begin fixing your problems. Participating in CBT can assist people feel more empowered when dealing with issues like anger management, stress and anxiety, trauma, and other concerns. Below are a couple of things cognitive behavioral therapy can do for you.
Cope with Anxiety and Depression
Anxiety and stress and anxiety often happen at the same time. Anxiety disorder brings worry and unreasonable ideas. Stress and anxiety condition tends to feed into itself, making it tough to break. Anxiety deals with unfavorable thoughts, a lot of which will make you feel even worse. It tends to be a hard cycle since your depression can make you more upset by throwing you out of your routine. Cognitive-behavioral handle depression, stress and anxiety, or both. Here’s how.
You discard or dismiss the bad ideas related to stress and anxiety and anxiety.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy assists the side effects of anxiety and anxiety as well, such as insomnia and heading out of regular.
By practicing it routinely, CBT becomes your frame of mind. Depression, stress and anxiety, and other psychological health problems don’t stand a possibility..
You will find out more about the difference between a psychologist and a therapist as we delve deeper into these 2 occupations in this article.
Psychologists. Dan Savage Betterhelp
Psychologists have a degree in psychology, and typically have actually taken innovative research studies in the same field, including doctorate or Ph.D. study levels. They may also research subjects that interest them, along with their coworkers or as professors for college centers. Their task is to detect clients and clients and figure out treatments based on their observations.
One of the founding fathers of psychology is Carl Rogers. He is understood for altering therapy from being concentrated on the therapist as the specialist to understanding the character of the client and human relationships. Psychologists have a strong role in supplying support and guidance and can help patients make decisions, understand what they’re going through, and clarify their sensations to identify the next actions better. They often work as part of a team when it concerns tackling a client’s issues, frequently with a psychiatrist. While they can’t prescribe medication, the psychiatrist can, so these occupations match each other well in treatment.
Therapists can incorporate any variety of different occupations consisting of social work. The term therapist has often been used to incorporate social workers and a range of therapists. Because of this, they may hold a degree in various fields consisting of an MD, Ph.D., or Masters.
There are many kinds of therapists out there. Therapy with grownups is talked about more than pediatric counseling.
While they may also offer guidance and support, a therapist’s function is different based upon their area of proficiency and their level of credentials. Let’s look at various kinds of therapists in more detail.
Types of Therapists for Your Mental Health.
We must mention that there are many types of therapists, all of which cover different elements of psychological health. To find the right therapist, find out more about what approaches are an excellent suitable for your situation.
Do not be scared to ask particular questions while you’re in the process of finding the right therapist. You might learn that you carry out better as a member of a therapy group vs. getting involved in individually talk treatment sessions.
Below are a few examples of therapists that practice in the United States based on the types of therapy they offer.
Household therapy or household counseling covers adults, couples, and households. Household therapy involves helping a household, or a group of people like a family, handle the many issues they may have. Household therapists provide social job-related services, couple therapy, and couples counseling in family counseling centers. Examples of what household therapy covers include:.
When dealing with a psychologically ill family member, individuals feel overwhelmed at times. The therapist may assist the relative with mental disorder discover how to manage themselves much better, or they might assist the other family members with handling a mental illness.
Teaching grownups, couples, and households ways they can handle conflict. Households are going to fight quite a lot, and a household therapist may be able to assist combating households handle their disputes without turning to domestic violence or other unhealthy coping mechanisms.
Household therapists may consist of social workers too. You might have an idea what a social worker is, but there are many mistaken beliefs about them. Social workers tend to take a look at their households and see if any problems need to be managed. Social workers do not have to be somebody who takes the kids away, in spite of what the social worker credibility tends to be. A social worker can be somebody who assists the family grow stronger.
How long are BetterHelp sessions? Dan Savage Betterhelp
Overall, household therapists are great for any grownups, couples, and families by offering new ways to execute acceptance and commitment therapy methods into daily life.
Marriage and Household Therapist.
The past two years have actually been difficult for everyone, and I have actually found one theme dominates the majority of my conversations with friends: psychological health. Time in isolation and unpredictability over lost income sources and the wellness of people we appreciate can’t benefit anybody’s stress levels. It definitely hasn’t been for mine. Dan Savage Betterhelp
I keep in mind talking to my BetterHelp therapist at the start of the pandemic about whatever that was taking place and how these sensations of stress and anxiety creeping up were an eery reminder of the dark location I remained in a few years ago, and she asked me what has actually altered with me ever since.
Well, I have you to speak to..
And after that she made me list through all the tools she’s taught me over the past year to handle distressed sensations, like a freaking pop quiz.
I’ve written a bit about losing a dear friend a few years ago, and how hard it was to deal with that sorrow by myself in a brand-new town. I remember feeling so alone in my unhappiness, and wishing to share my experience so that others struggling may feel less alone. Or at least, when I was my lowest I understand I discovered a lot of comfort in hearing other people’s stories of dealing with difficult times.
But then I never really spoke about the actions I required to rejoice once again.
I had also gone through a separation a couple of months before Rachel passed away, but while I might see that time was gradually healing that distress, I knew that dealing with this would take more than time. And I had likewise seen the future damage that not working through sorrow could cause.
Several of my friends speak with therapists– in fact I think all but among my friends in the United States have therapists– is this a very American thing? At any rate, after Rachel’s death they all encouraged me to find an expert to speak to, and one of my friends even discussed my scenario with her own therapist to use some tools to discover convenience. | <urn:uuid:2ac4114e-c185-48b9-a624-6da567033798> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.helpingpawsnw.com/dan-savage-betterhelp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953988 | 1,931 | 2.0625 | 2 |
A client told me something very funny this week: “I’m glad I have so many stressful exams next week… it’s been the push I needed to get all my laundry folded and mop the floors!”.
Has this ever happened to you? When exams are suddenly only a few days away, we often get motivated for all the wrong reasons, remembering that project we left unfinished or some other menial tasks that could wait for another day. So why do we procrastinate? And what can you do to overcome it?
Procrastination often happens when we’re stressed. Most people find tests and exams a little bit stressful. In small doses, stress can be helpful. A small amount of stress or anxiety can be a strong motivator to engage in activities like studying or revising. If you felt absolutely no stress about an exam (due to a lack of caring about the result; or over-confidence) you’re much less likely to study for it, and therefore be more likely to get a bad result! Or, if you’re not even a little bit worried, you might feel very sleepy and apathetic – not the ideal space to be in when you need to memorise information.
Too much Stress
However, the opposite is also true. TOO much stress can completely overwhelm us and hijack the part of our brain responsible for planning, learning and organisation – the cerebral cortex. When we’re stressed out, our body goes into survival mode and switches off the bits necessary for our normal intelligent selves.
This relationship between stress and performance can be mapped out onto what psychologists call a ‘Yerkes-Dodson Bell Curve’:
Yerkes Bell Curve
What does this all mean?
You might be sitting there, thinking about all the study you need to get done, and all the lectures you need to catch up on, and how important your final grade is, and what exact percentage you need to pass the subject/unit – and feel very anxious.
Because we don’t often like feeling very anxious, we sometimes avoid whatever the thing is that is making us feel that way – for example, by avoiding studying to go and put a load of washing on. In the short term, it can feel very relieving to walk away from our textbooks to concentrate on something much more in our control. But in the long-term, it increases our anxiety as we haven’t done much to reduce the source of the stress.
So, what can you do?
Recognise when you’re procrastinating and understand that while it feels good now, the anxiety is likely to catch up with you later. As much as possible, avoid avoiding.
If you start to feel the symptoms of anxiety in your body (increased heart rate, tight muscles, faster breathing) engage in strategies that help us feel calm again: deep breathing, muscle relaxation, mindfulness, or meditation.
Our brains like small tasks with frequent rewards. It’s much easier to complete a small task than a big one, and it feels much more in our control, and therefore less anxiety-provoking. Something like “watch four hours of lectures and read all three months’ worth of my notes” can feel like an impossible task likely to trigger anyone’s fear response. However, ‘watch 30 minutes of one lecture and then take a break’ feels much more achievable.
Set a ‘contract’ with yourself to do as much as you can done in a set amount of time (e.g., 20 minutes). Once the 20 minutes is up, you can either match the same time, or halve it, and keep doing this process. Most people will find that after 20 minutes, they will build some momentum up and be happy to keep going. However, if you hit 20 minutes and don’t have it in you to keep going, take a short break and start the process again.
Plan what you need to achieve ahead of time, so you aren’t cramming information the night before the exam. Cramming can make us feel anxious and is not a particularly effective way of storing information in our brains. Smaller chunks of study over a longer period are a much more efficient way of learning.
Make sure you’re engaging in regular self-care, like sleeping well, eating a healthy and varied diet, and getting exercise in your day. Self-care helps ‘reset’ our stress levels and can make it easier to cope with anxiety-provoking situations.
Reach out to other people for support. Having a study buddy or someone who can keep you accountable are two great ways of staying focussed on a task.
What to do now?
And finally, if it feels like your stress or anxiety is unmanageable, consider contacting a psychologist for professional support.
Speak to your psychologist today about Stress & Procrastination.
Written By Frieda Scholten-Laidler, Provisional Registered Psychologist | <urn:uuid:88063b44-38ed-4d74-a64a-96a5bf107e50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.revivehealthandhappiness.com.au/procrastination-stress/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941517 | 1,047 | 2.5 | 2 |
8th October, 2020
Determines partition based on key-value(s). One or more keys with different data types are supported.
Example: Key is State. All “CA” rows go into one partition; all “MA” rows go into one partition. Two rows of the same state never go into different partitions.
Partition based on the modulus of key divided by the number of partitions. The Key is an Integer type.
Example: Key is OrderNumber (Integer type). Rows with the same order number will all go into the same partition.
Matches DB2 EEE partitioning
Example: This partition is used when loading data into the DB2 table. It takes the partition key from the loading DB2 table and inserts the records effectively. If the partition key is defined in the DB2 database then it takes that Partition key otherwise it defaults to the primary key.
This figure gives a clear view of Key-based Partitioning and repartitioning.
Ascential parallel technology operates by a divide-and-conquer technique, splitting the largest integration jobs into subsets ("partition parallelism") and flowing these subsets concurrently across all available processors ("pipeline parallelism"). This combination of pipeline and partition parallelism delivers true linear scalability (defined as an increase in performance proportional to the number of processors) and makes hardware the only mitigating factor to performance. However, downstream processes may need data partitioned differently. Consider a transformation that is based on customer last name, but the enriching needs to occur on zip code - for house-holding purposes - with loading into the warehouse based on customer credit card number (more on parallel database interfaces below). With dynamic data re-partitioning, data is re-partitioned on-the-fly between processes - without landing the data to disk-based on the downstream process data partitioning needs.
The first record goes to the first processing node, the second to the second processing node, and so on. When DataStage reaches the last processing node in the system, it starts over. This method is useful for resizing partitions of an input data set that are not equal in size. The round-robin method always creates approximately equal-sized partitions. This method is the one normally used when DataStage initially partitions data.
Example: Assume 8 nodes are allocated to store the records then 1st record will go into the first node and the 2nd record will go into the second node ……8th record will go into the eighth node and the 9th record will go into the first node and so on….
Send all rows down all partitions
Example: Assume 8 nodes are allocated, then in all the 8 nodes all the records will be passed.
Preserve the same partitioning.
Example: Two stages in a job (Sort and Dataset). In the sort stage, you have done “Hash” partition and in the dataset, you have given the “Same” partition. In the dataset, the data will be preserved with the hash partition.
In the first slot of the below figure sequential execution is shown. A parallel job can be executed in two processing, SMP and MPP, in the second and third slots of the below figure it is shown.
|S. No||No of Ways||Volume of Data||Best way of Partition||Allocation of Configuration File (Node)|
|DB2 EEE extraction in serial||Low||-||1|
|2.||DB2 EEE extraction in parallel||High||Node number = current node (key)||64 (Depends on how many nodes are allocated)|
|3.||Partition or Repartition in the Stages of DataStage||Any||Modulus (It should be a single key that to integer) Hash (Any number of keys with different data type)||8 (Depends on how many nodes are allocated for the job)|
|4.||Writing into DB2||Any||DB2||-|
|5.||Writing into Dataset||Any||Same||1,2,4,8,16,32,64 etc… (Based on the incoming records it writes into it.)|
|6.||Writing into Sequential File||Low||-||1|
|S. No||Stage||Best way of Partition||Important points|
|1.||Join||Left and Right link: Hash or Modulus||All the input links should be sorted based on the joining key and partitioned with higher key order.|
|2.||Lookup||Main link: Hash or same Reference link: Entire||Both the links need not be in the sorted order|
|3.||Merge||Master and update link: Hash or Modulus||All the input links should be sorted based on the merging key and partitioned with higher key order. Pre-sort makes merge “lightweight” for memory.|
|4.||Remove Duplicate, Aggregator||Hash or Modulus||If the input link is in sorted order based on the key it will perform better.|
|5.||Sort||Hash or Modulus||Sorting happens after partitioning|
|6.||Transformer, Funnel, Copy, Filter||Same||None|
|7.||Change Capture||Left and Right link: Hash or Modulus||Both the input links should be in the sorted order based on the key and partitioned with higher key order.|
Inclined to build a profession as Datastage Developer? Then here is the blog post on, explore Datastage Training
In this job, extraction is made serial in both the DB2 stages. All the records will reside in 1 partition. As input link1 of the Sort stage has been “hash” partitioned, 1 partition will split into 8 partitions based on the given key(s), and records are also sorted based on the joining key(s). In the Join stage for link2, the “same” partition is given, and on the other side for link3 with the same key(s) “hash” partition and internal sorting is done so that records from 1 partition will split into 8 partitions and also sorted within the partition. Now joining will be done effectively and the records are captured in the dataset with the “same” partition, which will maintain the records in 8 partitions. For 1 partition, 1 page will be created. So, for the entire job, 32 pages will be created.
This will be one of the best ways to design the job for a huge volume of data. But, extracting the records in serial makes performance to go down. Multiple instances can be enabled in this job and can be called in parallel to attain parallelism.
This job is the same as the previous job but extraction alone made in parallel. In extracting the records in the DB2 side, 64 partitions will be created.
This will be one of the best ways to design jobs for a huge volume of data. But, the number of database connections been established is huge.
As the extraction is done in a serial mode in both the DB2 stages, the allocated node will be 1 that is all the records will be in one partition and in all the remaining stages have the “same” partition, so the number of partition is retained as 1 in all the stages. So, the page created for this job will be 4.
This job will work fine for the low records. But for the huge records, it will hang. Since the entire job is in serial mode.
Here the extraction is made parallel in both the DB2 stages. So, the allocated node will be 64 and in all the other stage the partition are “same” so for every stage the allocated node will be 64. So the page created for this job will be 256.
For less or huge records this job will work very fast but it will occupy maximum space in the system. For this job wastage of memory (Paging Issue may come up) happens because 256 pages will be created and sometimes this kind of job will make the entire system to come down.
An unpredictable thing may happen here because it all depends on the stages it will decide on its own since it is an auto partition.
Never use auto partition in the job.
In this case performance wise no issues but will lose the data on the Join stage because on the Link2 it is coming as 8 nodes and on the other side Link3 in 64 nodes so DataStage cannot join the data accurately since Join Stage is depended on the master link. In this case, Link2 is the master link so it will join only with the 8 nodes and it will leave the other 56 nodes which is coming from the Link3. Therefore data coming from that 56 nodes will not be considered.
Never join the link without having the same partitioning key on both sides otherwise data loss may occur and also sort the records before joining.
TekSlate is the best online training provider in delivering world-class IT skills to individuals and corporates from all parts of the globe. We are proven experts in accumulating every need of an IT skills upgrade aspirant and have delivered excellent services. We aim to bring you all the essentials to learn and master new technologies in the market with our articles, blogs, and videos. Build your career success with us, enhancing most in-demand skills .
Write For Us | <urn:uuid:e585fc23-91c7-48b7-b270-bbac054567f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tekslate.com/different-types-of-partition-datastage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.900578 | 2,007 | 3.125 | 3 |
In the country of Macedonia, a lot of the traditional wedding ceremony rituals happen to be unique for this country, and has its own history. Many customs have been about for thousands of years, and some are still applied today. While some traditions may appear quaint and needless, others are generally around for hundreds of years. If you’re organizing your wedding in Macedonia, these types of rituals will make ” special ” day much more special.
The most exceptional of the wedding rituals in Macedonia are the bride’s family. The groom’s is usually presented a amount of cash, yet this tailor made has downed out of favor coming from towards the greed of some fathers-in-law. In place of the conventional dowry, a silver money is given for the groom’s father, who will keep bride protected from any harm. This is among the oldest traditions in the country, and has existed for centuries.
The wedding is known as a large event that involves the complete community, including relatives and tourists out of all over the world. A traditional wedding ceremony celebration is normally held on St Peter’s Day, which declines on the second weekend macedonian women dating of the month. All lovers must be local people of Galicnik, where bride was created. The groom and bride will operate traditional dances, including the well known “Teskoto. inch
A second traditional Macedonian wedding ritual involves the groom being shaved by a girl named Nunko on the early morning of the wedding ceremony. The bridegroom is also rejected drinking alcohol throughout the wedding. The reason for this is that it is actually believed that drunkenness should eliminate the bride’s mother, and her daddy will pass on of heart disease. The personalized has become element of many Macedonian wedding rituals. If you want to know more about this custom, read on.
There are many classic Macedonian dances, food, and music. The star of the event and groom’s family complete ‘Oro’ as part of the wedding special event. This kind of dance signifies the ring of existence and friends and family. There is also the ‘Pig’ party, in which man members maintain a device and a roasted pig. A conventional Macedonian wedding is actually a celebration of affection and delight, and many in the rituals involve drinking wine beverages and ingesting a roasting pig.
Galicnik, a tiny town near the border with Albania, is another site where traditional Macedonian marriage rituals happen to be performed. It’s a three-day-long feast that features music, music, dancing, and eating. The tradition of the wedding in Galicnik is indeed unique that it provides attracted worldwide attention. And, because it’s a traditional wedding, it can truly one of a kind.
Whilst a typical Macedonian wedding ceremony in Feet. Wayne varies from a traditional peasant wedding ceremony in Macedonia, the wedding is always a central part of the folk ritual complicated. No various other ceremony features the Macedonian heritage in such a way. And while the traditions in Feet. Wayne are unique, the community is pretty pleased to continue the marriage in different cultures practices and rituals that situation it together. | <urn:uuid:c2235349-51ee-47aa-8d84-676311b22495> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://treysta-formation.fr/actu/macedonian-wedding-traditions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958125 | 659 | 2.140625 | 2 |
What is functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS)?
Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery is a minimally invasive technique performed to improve ventilation of the sinus. The surgery is performed using nasal endoscopes to widen the paranasal sinus nasal pathways.
Functional Endoscopic Surgery is usually necessary when medicine has failed to cure or improve chronic sinusitis.
Book your appointment today for understanding whether you need aFunctional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery.
How to perform Endoscopic Sinus Surgery?
An endoscope (thin, flexible, lighted viewing instrument) is inserted into the sinus enabling the doctor inside view of the sinuses.
Surgical instruments are inserted inside the sinuses alongside the endoscope. This allows the doctor to remove small amount of bones, or other material blocking the sinus openings and remove growths (polyps) of the mucous membrane.
In some cases, laser is also used to buzz the tissue blocking the sinus opening.
Patient has to rinse their sinuses and follow up regularly
How Long Does the Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Procedure Take?
Depends on the complexity of the surgery. Ranges from 30 mins for simple single sinus cases to 4 hours for more complex procedures.
What should you expect?
Minor discomfort and bleeding are common during fisrt 2 weeks after the surgery is performed.
You should visit us weekly once to have dried mucous or blood clots removed.
Edoscopic Sinus Surgery
Is Endoscopic Sinus Surgery painful? How do they perform it? – Dr. Gaurav Medikeri
What is the recovery time post Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery? – Dr. Gaurav Medikeri
Do’s and Don’t after Endoscopic Sinus Surgery 1. Take Prescribed Medication: 2. W ash Your Sinus Cavities Thoroughly.
3. Do Not Drink Alcohol
4. Do Not Have Spicy Food
5. Do Not Blow your Nose Heavily:
6. Regular Follow up If Required
Take a Look at our successful surgeries
At Medikeri’s ENT Super Speciality Center, we treat conditions such as complex disorders of the nose and sinuses such as sinus tumors, cerebrospinal fluid leaks, recurrent nasal polyps and complicated chronic sinusitis (i.e., sinusitis associated with cystic fibrosis, auto-immune disease, immune deficiency and damage from prior surgery).
Nasastent results – 15 days post endoscopic sinus surgery | <urn:uuid:1f6eb65d-8665-4145-8b44-1d604cf6ad54> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.enthospital.org/functional-endoscopic-sinus-surgery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.845928 | 537 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Renewing your low-emission vehicle registration is a great way to help the environment and protect yourself. Renewing it before its expiration date helps you save money and prevents fines and other penalties.
In order to maintain the air quality in our communities, it is important to renew your low-emission vehicle registration every four years.
When you register your low-emission vehicle with the state, you are committing to following the guidelines set forth by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Image Source: Google
Low-emission vehicles are vehicles that produce no more than 95 g/km of CO2 emissions when tested on a motorcycle or equivalent vehicle.
If your vehicle falls outside of this range, you will need to purchase an emissions reduction plan in order to maintain registration.
The benefits of registering your low-emission vehicle include:
You are taking an important step toward reducing pollution in your community.
You are making sure that the vehicle you drive meets the latest environmental standards.
You will receive updates about new emission regulations and how to comply with them.
How to Renew Your Low Emission Vehicle Registration
It is important to renew your low-emission vehicle registration because if the registration is not updated, the state might suspend your right to operate a low-emission vehicle. Suspension of the license could mean you will have to take a test or go through an educational program in order to get your license back. The state may also charge you a fee for suspension.
If you do not renew your registration, your vehicle may not be eligible for discounts or rebates at participating dealerships. You may also be subject to fines. | <urn:uuid:877a8358-d627-410f-ac6a-f6dfeaeecfdd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sportsdesktopwallpaper.net/tag/low-emission-vehicle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938467 | 336 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Editor’s note: The following letter is addressed to the Royal Palm Beach Village Council. A copy was sent to the Town-Crier for publication.
Dear Council Members:
I am bringing this to your attention because of my deep concern for safety, brought on by the newly installed signalized traffic intersection on Crestwood Blvd. for the Renaissance Academy at Palms West.
Heading south on Crestwood Blvd., because of the left curving of the road and landscaping in the median just before the entrance to the Renaissance Academy, a driver cannot see the traffic lights or any other signals associated with the intersection. There appears to be no provision at all for warning oncoming drivers of this newly signalized intersection.
To properly alert the driver, there needs to be flashing warnings of the signals, preferably a light system showing the status of the light (green/red). Static signage before the left curve, while probably the cheapest option, would be inadequate. There needs to be an active system that draws the driver’s attention to the approaching intersection and the status of the traffic light.
One could make the point that eventually drivers will get used to it. However, this approach quickly fails because it will take drivers a while to get used to it, there will always be drivers new to the area, drivers do not always pay attention to their driving and, if crossing guards are in place, they would be in danger.
Taking this a step further, if this intersection is for the school children to cross a busy six-lane road, why take any chances at all?
There are ways to prevent a tragedy from occurring. Please give this the utmost attention and study it deserves. Develop a solution and implement it with all due speed. The safety and lives of these school children depend on addressing this situation. This applies as well to drivers traversing this area outside of the school sessions.
Tom Parker, Royal Palm Beach | <urn:uuid:ec2a1af1-a529-4222-b045-7a5ff83145c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gotowncrier.com/2013/08/letter-study-traffic-at-crestwood-blvd-intersection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94848 | 391 | 1.71875 | 2 |
The Library Staff at Zervas invites all students, faculty, staff and families
to celebrate Poem In Your Pocket Day on
Thursday, April 26, 2012!
It’s time to celebrate Poetry Month! For the 3rd year, Zervas will be abuzz with poetry on Poem in Your Pocket Day. To participate, students and staff will select a poem they love during the next two weeks and then carry it with them to share with classmates, students, teachers, and staff on April 26, 2012. Nationally, poems from pockets will be unfolded throughout the day with events in parks, libraries, schools, workplaces, and bookstores. We are even hoping to connect with schools around the country via Skype!
Before then, check out our poetry bulletin board as you come into the school, and feel free to “share” a poem in the white border (there will be pens provided!). We want this to be as interactive as possible!
If you would like, please help your child find a poem to bring to school on the 26th. They may choose a poem from your home collection, they can write their own, or they can use books from school. Each class is also working on this during library time, so your child may find one at school, too. If you need additional resources, or are interested, we’ve compiled some Internet resources to assist you with the project.
Zervas Library website: http://www2.newton.k12.ma.us/~erin_broderick – The new Poetry Resources link has some great online poetry creation tools, as well as some links to finding poems online.
The Library Happenings link showcases a slideshow of what is going on in the library each week, and there are sure to be more poetry related pictures to come!
Ms. Broderick’s Book Blog: http://msbrodericksbookblog.blogspot.com/ – I have challenged myself to write a haiku for each day of April (poetry month). Some will be blogged about here, along with pictures and stories from library class, and suggested reading!
Thank you in advance for helping to make this a wonderful community-wide celebration of poetry!
Zervas Elementary School | <urn:uuid:0be6c7ee-002f-403f-a86b-6f34ce556312> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zervaspto.org/2012/04/its-time-to-celebrate-poetry-month/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951354 | 501 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Nominations for GNPS Plant of the Year opened at 7:00 p.m. on October 11th. You must be a member to participate. Get all the details at our previous post about how to submit a nomination, and complete the form at this address as soon as possible (click this link, or... read more
For many years we have created and sold t-shirts and logo items at our in-person meetings. With the pandemic as well as the increase in broader statewide membership, doing that has not been practical this year. We want our members to be able to get t-shirts and logo... read more
The GNPS Plant of the Year (POY) program recognizes native plants that are of benefit to Georgia’s ecology and wildlife. If you are a GNPS member and have a native plant that you think is outstanding, please consider nominating it for POY 2022. Besides beauty, some... read more
The GNPS Board of Directors has created the following statement on using cultivars of native plants.
Chapter tours the University of Georgia Mountain Research & Education Center (GMREC) native plant gardens. Tour guides included members of the Union/Townes County Master Gardeners. We thank GMREC and the Master Gardeners for hosting the group. read more
The City of Roswell unanimously passed a resolution to use native plants in city landscaping on June 14th, 2021. This resolution was the product of a grassroots effort of a few residents who shared a passion for native plants and preserving the local ecosystem.... read more | <urn:uuid:db2b3b2c-f142-4048-a8ae-9a50f4d68125> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gnps.org/category/news-announcements/page/4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963212 | 319 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Written by SMH Oncology Clinical Counselor Elizabeth Bornstein
Music. Such a powerful medium. It crosses all boundaries — age, ability, culture, language, time, geography — to move us in infinite ways and to connect us, with each other and with ourselves. Whether it’s lyrical or instrumental, heard or felt, live or a recording, music is a universal language that speaks to every human on so many levels.
Health Benefits of Experiencing Music
Music has been used as an instrument of healing for centuries. It has measurable, proven effects on the brain and other body systems. Regardless of the age or stage of health of the person experiencing it, music can:
• Regulate breathing and blood pressure.
• Improve mood.
• Reduce stress and anxiety.
• Enhance rest and relaxation.
• Reduce the perception of pain, nausea or other distressing symptoms.
• Improve cognition and memory.
Music as Medicine
In healthcare, music is often used to support the emotional/mental health and physical healing or rehabilitation of those managing chronic, acute or terminal health conditions, and other challenges.
Incorporating music into medical care has been proven to help with a range of health concerns, including Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, autism, cancer, cardiac issues, depression, Parkinson’s disease, trauma and challenges related to premature birth.
Hospitals and rehabilitation facilities provide therapeutic music in a variety of ways. It might be performed live by musicians, played through speakers for a group, or actively experienced by patients playing instruments themselves. Other technologies allow patients to self-select music, either via channels on patient-room television or using a portable listening device.
What is Music Therapy?
While all music can offer therapeutic benefits, not all experiences are considered music therapy—even if they take place in a hospital or rehab facility.
Music therapy is a specialized, evidence-based field of medicine practiced by specially trained and certified clinicians called “music therapists.” By involving their patients in active and passive live-music experiences, music therapists evaluate a patient’s emotional well-being, physical health, communication capabilities and cognition.
Music at SMH
At Sarasota Memorial, our clinical and wellness programs embrace the healing power of music, and many incorporate it in comprehensive patient care plans. From our purposefully designed Pediatric Music Room to live performances in inpatient common spaces, SMH aims to provide unique, music-oriented healing experiences for our patients and their loved ones.
Therapeutic music offerings at Sarasota Memorial include:
- The Pediatric Unit features a specially designed music room, where our young patients can make music using a variety of donated musical instruments, including drums, guitars and keyboard. The unique, healing space not only offers a distraction from being in the hospital, it gives them an outlet for emotional expression and creative play.
- Live music is regularly provided for our patients in the Oncology and Orthopedic inpatient units, both bedside and in common spaces.
- Patients and visitors can tune in to soothing music paired with nature scenes, 24 hours a day, on televisions in patient rooms and hospital waiting rooms and lounges.
- SMH community partners and talented musicians, the Upward Notes regularly perform live concerts in the hospital courtyard for patients, visitors and staff.
- Throughout the hospital’s first floor, visitors and staff may hear live concerts on the baby grand piano located in the Courtyard Tower lobby or “Brahms Lullaby” being played overhead to herald a new baby born at SMH.
At Sarasota Memorial, we’re committed to treating the whole patient, offering care beyond treatment. Pairing music — in all its forms — with first-class healthcare allows us to do just that.
Elizabeth Bornstein, MSSA, LCSW, OSW-C, is a licensed and oncology-certified clinical social worker, with advanced training in mind-body medicine and expressive arts. She has provided oncology counseling at Sarasota Memorial for nearly two decades. | <urn:uuid:37f4398d-84c1-41e8-8b7f-74d206f49169> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smh.com/blog/tuning-in-to-the-healing-power-of-music | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.925928 | 842 | 2.84375 | 3 |
•Do not stick labels on the CD surface or write on the
recorded surface with pencils or pens.
•Do not use CDs that are very scratched, flawed,
distorted, etc. Using discs like these will result in
malfunctions or damage to the player.
•The use of original CD media is required for the best
quality audio production. Correct operation is not
guaranteed when CD-R/RW media are used that were
not correctly burned and/or with a maximum capacity
above 650 Mb.
•Do not use commercially available protective sheets
for CDs or discs, with stabilizers, etc. as they could get
stuck in the internal mechanism and damage the disc.
•If a copy-protected CD is used, it may take a few
seconds before the system starts to play it. The CD
player cannot be guaranteed to play all protected
discs. The fact that the CD is protected from being
copied is often shown in very small letters or is
difficult to read on the actual CD cover where it may
be, for example, “COPY CONTROL,” “COPY PRO-
TECTED,” “THIS CD CANNOT BE PLAYED ON A
•The CD player is capable of reading most compression
systems currently in use, following the development of
these systems, the reading of all compression formats
is not guaranteed.
UNDERSTANDING YOUR INSTRUMENT PANEL 175 | <urn:uuid:c6878049-df7f-4609-a755-0f65e9701590> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.carmanualsonline.info/fiat-500e-2015-2-g-owners-manual/?srch=compression+ratio | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.876713 | 323 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Back to Blog Home
|Thursday, June 16, 2022|
It’s become a morning ritual. Yawning in the kitchen, my wife and I ask each other, How did you sleep? Often, the answer is, “Not so good.” For many of us, there’s a story that usually tumbles out—accompanied by a complaint:
Now, I like (and need) sleep as much as the next person. A European study of almost 25,000 people demonstrated that sleeping six hours or less was associated with a 40 percent increased risk of developing cancer compared to folks getting seven hours of sleep or more. But where do any of us get the notion that we somehow deserve good sleep?
Ecclesiastes 5:12 comments, “Sweet is the sleep of a laborer.” That generalization is true, but there’s no promise implied. Psalm 4:8 remarks, "In peace, I will both lie down and sleep, for you alone O Lord, make me dwell in safety." Lovely testimony—but again, no bulletproof guarantees.
Here’s what I think. Sleep is a gift. It’s always been a gift. And because we’ve enjoyed so much of it for so many years, we’ve come to view sleep as an entitlement: We should experience sleep whenever we want, as much as we want, as often as we want. But maybe we need to learn to see sleep as the gracious gift of a merciful Creator rather than an inherent right.
The truth is, you and I live in a fallen world. Sin has impacted everything—including our quality of sleep. How could that not be so? Why, then, should we complain when we don’t get as much as we think we need?
What if we turned our daily whining into daily gratitude toward God? Example: Thanks for the sleep I DID enjoy. I had no right to a single snore—but thank you for your kindness, Lord.
We are forgiven sinners, you and I, indebted forever to a merciful God. Which means sleep is not a right—it’s a gift.
Back to Blog Home | <urn:uuid:268be076-1df1-4187-b55f-204c6f3dd249> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.jongauger.com/blogpage.php?blogdata2Page=7&bdKey=1091 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958708 | 491 | 1.617188 | 2 |
How to Build a Free Standing Closet
Table of Contents
Build an “out of the box” free-standing closet to maximize your wall space and to create an alternative way to divide your living space. A free-standing closet gets its support from its cubicle construction upon a very strong foundation.
When your free-standing closet is done, enjoy walking around your new storage solution.
Things You Will Need
- 2-by-4-inch wood studs, several
- 1-by-12-inch wood, 10 feet
- 1-by-2-inch wood, 12 or more feet
- Pneumatic air nailer and 2 ½ inch nails
- Compound miter saw
- Masonry screws, 2 ½ inches
- Wood screws, 2 ½ inches
- Drywall screws, 1 ½ inches
- Sheetrock, 5/8 inch thick
- Utility knife
- Joint compound
- Paper or mesh sheetrock tape
- Putty knife
- Feathering knife
- Staple gun
- Door Framing
- Hanger rod
- Hanger rod hardware
Building the Closet Base
Measure the desired area--width and length--of your free-standing closet.
Cut pieces of 2-by-4-inch wood to frame the base of the closet on the floor. Leave an opening for the door--the door’s width plus 6 ¼ inches for the wood studs and door framing.
Cut the same length pieces of 2-by-4-inch wood, without leaving an opening for the door, for the top or roof of your free-standing closet. Set this wood aside.
Line up the 2-by-4-inch wood on the floor and screw it into the floor with a regular power drill for wood floors or with a hammer drill for concrete floors. Pre-drill the holes and place anchors in them before screwing them securely to the floor.
Framing the Walls
Build each side wall of the closet on the floor. Use the height measurement of your closet wall, minus 4 inches for the base and 2 inches for the top--to cut your wall studs. Cut as many wall studs that are necessary to space them every 12 inches along each wall.
Cut a base piece and a top piece of 2-by-4-inch wood for each wall using the same width measurement as the base plates already secured to the floor.
Lay the 2-by-4-inch wood wall studs in between and perpendicular to the top and base pieces, space them 12 inches apart and nail them into the top and base pieces of 2-by-4-inch wood.
Lift each wall onto its base plate secured to the floor. Screw these into the base plates at several places using heavy-duty 3- or 4-inch deck screws or bolts.
Reinforce each closet corner with an extra 2-by-4-in-wood stud aligned against each wall’s end 2-by-4-inch wood studs. Screw the corner wood together, and screw the extra 2-by-4-inch wood into these studs.
Frame the Top
Measure the length across the top of the free-standing closet from one side wall to the opposite side.
Cut enough 2-by-4-inch wood pieces to space them every 12 inches across the top.
Bolt them through the top framing of the side walls and screw 2-inch-wide 90-degree-angled metal plates into both sides of the ends of each ceiling stud and into the top of the side wall framing.
Insert Door Frame
Build the door header just above the height measurement for the door by inserting a piece of 2-by-4-inch wood cut to the door’s width measurement and nailing it into the side studs.
Measure the height between the base of the door header and the closet’s top plate. Cut three to four 2-by-4-inch wood pieces and evenly space them into the door header and nail them into place.
Cut two pieces of 2-by-4-inch wood for the two sides of the doorway opening. Nail these into their adjoining wood studs.
Insert the door framing into the closet door opening. Nail the framing into the wood studs.
Hang the door to the door framing using hinges and screws. Bore a hole into the door framing for the door handle latch and screw the strike plate over the hole.
Finish the Free-Standing Closet
Cut sheetrock to finish the walls and ceiling of the free-standing closet. Transfer each wall’s width and length measurements to the sheetrock, draw a straight line with a straight edge and a pencil and then score the line with a utility knife.
Bend the sheetrock on the cut line until it snaps in two, and then cut through the backing with the utility knife to separate the pieces.
Line up the sheetrock to the wall with each end falling on a wood stud and screw along each wood stud that the sheetrock covers.
Smooth joint compound over the screw holes and the seams. Smooth paper tape over the seams, tack corner beads over each outside corner of the closet. Feather a smooth layer of joint compound over the paper tape with a putty knife and a feathering tool.
Prime and paint your new free-standing closet.
The Drip Cap
- Build an “out of the box” free-standing closet to maximize your wall space and to create an alternative way to divide your living space.
- Cut pieces of 2-by-4-inch wood to frame the base of the closet on the floor.
- Cut as many wall studs that are necessary to space them every 12 inches along each wall.
- Lay the 2-by-4-inch wood wall studs in between and perpendicular to the top and base pieces, space them 12 inches apart and nail them into the top and base pieces of 2-by-4-inch wood.
- Measure the length across the top of the free-standing closet from one side wall to the opposite side.
- Nail these into their adjoining wood studs.
- Insert the door framing into the closet door opening.
- Transfer each wall’s width and length measurements to the sheetrock, draw a straight line with a straight edge and a pencil and then score the line with a utility knife.
Naima Manal's articles on health, diet, nutrition, alternative medicine, education, parenting, crafts, travel, home and garden and home improvement have appeared on various websites. Manal received her Bachelor of Science in biology/pre-medical studies from Molloy College in 1994 and has been a freelance writer, teacher and homeschooling mom since 1993.
- babies closet image by jedphoto from Fotolia.com
- babies closet image by jedphoto from Fotolia.com | <urn:uuid:4481d7a4-9096-43cb-a529-0165b9768a3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://homesteady.com/13402419/how-to-build-a-free-standing-closet | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.884833 | 1,514 | 1.703125 | 2 |
As the global climate shifts and changes the frequency and intensity of natural disasters, they are expected to increase. It is, therefore, not surprising that there has been increasing interest among the global community in financing adaptation measures and the means to mobilise investments. In this context, there is a developing discourse emerging from recent Conferences of the Parties around loss and damage, risk-insurance facilities, climate-risk pooling, and other insurance solutions. The insurance industry is increasingly aware of the emerging challenges associated with disasters and climate change. An emphasis on loss and damage by itself runs the risk of limiting this risk to being reactive and compensatory as opposed to promoting measures that contribute to risk-reduction strategies and affirmative action. The scope for the development of products that provide an incentive for proactive policies and interventions poses a particular challenge in developing countries. This is in part due to weak and indebted economies, income disparities, and the often less than equitable provision of basic services.
Many products and initiatives have been developed, but it is not always clear what their effects have been and to what extent they prompt actions to reduce climate risks and build resilience (Gerber and Mirzabaev, 2017). It is necessary to explore the question of how climate-related risk-transfer mechanisms, including insurance, can mobilise water-related disaster risk reduction investments and, by so doing, contribute to development. As the focus is on risk transfer, this paper will cover its role in promoting actions and measures that contribute to the reduction of loss and damage caused by water-related events and, by extension, disaster risk-reduction measures that provide protection from extreme weather events. This paper does not set out to provide solutions or answers to that question. Rather, it seeks to promote a discussion between the insurance and water sectors around this question. | <urn:uuid:2d6d589a-723b-4e70-8912-f9dd8b295472> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ceowatermandate.org/resources/climate-insurance-and-water-related-disaster-risk-management-2018/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96114 | 367 | 2.3125 | 2 |
|Posted:||December 2, 2020 10:09 AM|
|From:||Representative Seth M. Grove|
|To:||All House members|
|Recovery Audits or Recovery Audits Contracts (RACs) were originally developed by retail businesses in the 1970's to detect unpaid invoices, duplicate payments, discounts and allowances not received, and general overpayments.
This practice has since been adopted by the federal government and state governments, including Pennsylvania under our Medicaid program. This legislation directs of the Governor's Office of the Budget to expand RACs to any program within state government which expends over $50 million.
RACS have been a succuessful and proven tool to protect taxpayer dollars, prevent fraud, and uncover government waste.
Please join me in cosponsoring this legislation.
Introduced as HB39 | <urn:uuid:e953f5f0-41e5-490a-9e35-407ba58ae2a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/Legis/CSM/showMemoPublic.cfm?chamber=H&SPick=20210&cosponId=32845 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.928717 | 189 | 1.539063 | 2 |
A feature of Japanese culture.
Like other arts, Ikebana expresses creativity by using specific floral arrangement rules. The harmonious combination of branches, leaves, grass, and fresh flowers recreates the beauty of nature. In literature, Ikebana means “living flower”; the art of expressing emotions when enjoying nature; the art of recreating the space of the landscape with a tree branch and a blade of grass revealing the emotional nuances through the colorful ranks of flowers. Ikebana is also considered art like painting or sculpture with a long recorded history. In Japan, Ikebana arrangements are used as decorations like paintings or other works of art. Only natural materials are used, never artificial flowers.
Ikebana, also known as Kado, originated from the ceremony of offering flowers to Buddha, and developed into a special art form from the 15th century, with many styles and schools.
In the mid-15th century, with the emergence of early classical styles, Ikebana became a religious art, although it continued to retain its symbolic and philosophical significance.
By the 16th and 17th centuries, although the Ikenobo school was still popular, many rikka schools (an elaborate flower arrangement seeking to reflect the majesty of nature) were born and flourished under the patronage of nobilities.
At the end of the 16th century, a new form of flower arrangement called Nageire began to be used in tea ceremony with a very elegant rustic tendency.
At the end of the 17th century, the emergence of Seika (生花) school, the flower arrangement of nobility and monks, changed dramatically. Seika was becoming the most popular style in the late 18th century.
After the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and the emergence of Western culture, traditional Japanese art, including Ikebana, was neglected. However, it was revived strongly in the late 19th century and continues to thrive today, with many new flower arrangement styles appearing.
Today, there are about 3,000 ikebana schools in Japan, with about 15 to 20 million people enrolled, worldwide, most of them women. The most popular schools are Ikenobo, Ohara, and Sogetsu, each with a somewhat different style, attracting about 3 million students. There are still Shoka flower arrangements, as well as many other more modern styles.
Styles of Ikebana
Rikka style flower arrangement was born first and is still popular. Rikka means vertical flower arrangement, the requirement of this flower arrangement is that the vase used for flower arrangements must be tall and the flowers in the vase are in an upright position. Rikka shows the beauty of nature. A vase of Rikka always has 7 branches representing hills, waterfalls, valleys, and other things in nature.
A free-style floral arrangement developed from artistic advances in the early 20th century. Jiyuka is not bound by any traditional rules. The artists can use any material to freely create according to their personality. As a new style of flower arrangement, Jiyuka is suitable for the industrial and urban era; therefore, it was warmly welcomed by the Japanese in the 1920s.
This emphasizes vitality, the growing energy source. Seika-style vases are usually arranged on the corner of Tokonoma by the Japanese, the most traditional place in the room. | <urn:uuid:8f6755b9-3b92-47d6-96b2-9ad48c7d814b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greshamsistercity.org/ikebana/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.964266 | 723 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Morning dawns on Gorjana Bezmalinovic with a nuzzle and smooch from Rey, her German shepherd. Since mid-March, life for USC’s lab manager of undergraduate biology classes has been a case study in extreme multitasking. Since she began working at home, she’s had to help homeschool her two children, support her husband during hard times and shift all 800 of her students to online learning.
“I had peace and quiet when I was at work, but I don’t now,” Bezmalinovic said. “Working at home means working more than ever.”
Out of bed and into the kitchen, she makes coffee and scans emails “because students love to send emails in the middle of the night.” Her daughter Lara, 8, gets up first, followed by her son, Niko, 15. Then it’s time to make breakfast. Next, the 47-year-old mom helps Lara get started on her homework before returning to her USC responsibilities.
Biology lab manager tackles new online challenges
On a good day, it’s not easy managing two introductory biology classes, one honors class, 20 teaching assistants, seven professors and 800 students. But life for Bezmalinovic, who coordinates the needs of this sprawling enterprise, changed dramatically when classes moved online last month.
Many of the students are pre-med, pre-veterinary or pre-dental. They study evolution, ecology, cell biology and physiology. “The courses are not easy-peasy. Kids who come from small towns are shocked at the size of the classes,” she said.
Her biggest challenge was figuring out how to teach dissection online. Students were disappointed that they might miss disassembling a frog or lamb heart or testing blood types — rites of passage in undergraduate biology. Bezmalinovic scrambled for solutions.
Working with her assistants, she cobbled together online instructional videos that helped students complete the exercises from the lab manual, YouTube dissection videos and an online blood transfusion video game. Her lab instructors recorded their Zoom lectures, and voilà, she had a virtual lab.
USC biology students can always turn to Mrs. B
Lunchtime at home means preparing a meal for the kids, then sending them outside to walk the dog “so I gain 30 minutes of peace and quiet,” she said. The rest of the afternoon, she works with her teaching assistants. The living room is her office. Her family uses the other rooms for school and business.
Bezmalinovic came to USC in 2006 as a lecturer after completing her graduate degree at California State University, Long Beach. Prior, she lived in Croatia and attended college there. She loved science and jumped at the opportunity to manage USC’s biology courses.
Most of all, she enjoys working with the students. She remembers their names; they call her “Mrs. B.” She’s their advisor, lecturer, administrator and counselor, available at all times of the day.
As spring 2020 semester wraps, there’s still work for this biology lab manager to do
Then comes dinner time and Mrs. B is mom again, feeding a hungry family. She helps her kids with their studies then spends time with her husband.
“He says, ‘I thought now that you’re working from home we’d have more time, but it’s crazier than usual.’ He wants to talk at 8 or 9 p.m., but I can’t because there’s always something to do. If I leave a task for tomorrow, I’ll have much more to do the next day,” Bezmalinovic said.
At the end of the semester, she’s working on a lab exam and student presentations. Then come the final exams and grading, followed by planning for online summer classes. In a normal year, her family would vacation with relatives in Croatia, but COVID-19 wiped out that summer trip.
If there’s consolation, it’s the fact she doesn’t have to commute to work or worry about picking up her daughter from school.
“I’m more relieved that I don’t have to be stuck in traffic, but there’s too little time in the day to do everything,” she said. “But you know, I love helping the students. They like me, and I’m always in a good mood with them. I love my job. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
At day’s end, she walks Rey around the neighborhood, unplugged with no phone. It’s 40 minutes of quiet comfort with the dog that will be there in the morning to get her started all over again.
Karla Reid contributed to this story. | <urn:uuid:f99932d9-75e3-4b5d-a47f-8e1128eae43b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.usc.edu/169385/a-day-in-the-covid-19-life-of-a-working-mom-and-uscs-biology-lab-manager/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96218 | 1,035 | 2.09375 | 2 |
I spend some time to find the good way to create own SSL certificate for my apache server running on Raspberry PI. There is a lot of information on the internet for one or tow points bellow, but no one it telling own to make all these requierement working all gether.
This was my needs :
- ssl encription between server (PI) and client
- No warning from browser saying that server certificate is not approved
- Authentification with :
- client certificate
- or :
- Basis authentification with user/password
- Totaly free $$$
The last requierement “totaly free” requiere concession, this means that you will not pay a Certificate autority to have your certificate signed, but the contrepart is you will have to manualy add in your browser(s) the certificate authority you have created. But this is not a big deal… Main references used are :
(the step bellow assume you already have your rasberry PI running with apache see here to see how to install apache first).
Ready ? So let’s go !!
Step 1 : Create your own certificate authority
Log on raspberry as root and create the directory :
mkdir /etc/apache2/cert cd /etc/apache2/cert openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 2048 -sha512 openssl req -new -key ./ca.key -out ./ca.csr openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in ./ca.csr -out ./ca.crt -signkey ./ca.key -sha512 openssl x509 -in ca.crt -text openssl rsa -in ca.key -pubout -out ca.public.key
3650 is representing the validity of your certificate, here it is 10 years, but you can change this value as you want.
You will be promted for several information like passphrase. For test porpose I advise to put always the same. Keep it somewhere, it will be necessary in nexts steps.
For the “Common Name” you can put someting like “My Private SSL Auth.” or whatever you want. For informaiton this will be display at login.
Step 2 : Create server certificate
openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 2048 openssl req -new -key ./server.key -out server.csr -sha512 openssl x509 -req -in ./server.csr -CA ./ca.crt -CAkey ./ca.key -CAcreateserial -out ./server.crt -days 3650 -sha512 openssl pkcs12 -export -in server.crt -inkey server.key -out server.p12 -name "Server certificate" openssl pkcs12 -info -in server.p12 openssl rsa -in server.key -pubout -out server.public.key openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.nopassphrase.key
For the “Common Name” you have to put the url used to acess your server
- ex with local adresses : localhost, pi, raspberry
- ex if you access the server from the internet : myprivatepi.mydomain.net or something else
This is the critical point as the certificate trust will be based on this information.
Step 3 : Create client certificate
If you want to ensure the connection with a trrusted client certificate you can create client certificate and the send this certificate to user (for ex you) to access the server.
openssl genrsa -des3 -out client.key 2048 openssl req -new -key ./client.key -out client.csr -sha512 openssl x509 -req -in ./client.csr -CA ./ca.crt -CAkey ./ca.key -CAcreateserial -out ./client.crt -days 3650 -sha512 openssl pkcs12 -export -in client.crt -inkey client.key -out client.p12 -name "Client certificate" openssl pkcs12 -info -in client.p12 openssl rsa -in client.key -pubout -out client.public.key
Here for the “Common Name” you can put user name like admin, Toto or your own name…
If you need to create several client certificates just change the name and replace “client” by “client1” or better by the name of the user for which this cert if for like “admin”
Next step : Configure apache server for SSL | <urn:uuid:b412a3eb-48e5-424e-9652-7e4f47559525> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://domoticz.web2diz.net/sha-2-ssl-certificate-with-trusted-apache-web-server/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.790954 | 999 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Trying times in HIV research
Since he began working on the development of a vaccine against HIV in 1984, Phillip Berman, Ph.D., has encountered many obstacles, both scientific and otherwise. There are the technical difficulties of actually engineering a vaccine, of course. But there are also the problems posed by working in a field that garners so much public attention. For the background on Berman's research, read a profile of him in the Fall 2011 issue of Dartmouth Medicine. And below, find a timeline of important events in the history of HIV vaccine research, including links to relevant articles in scientific journals and the popular press.
Doctors in New York and California begin to see a number of cases of what will come to be known as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
Luc Montagnier, M.D., a French scientist, and Robert Gallo, M.D., an American scientist, identify HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) as the cause of AIDS.
A vaccine developed by Berman and colleagues at Genentech proves to be effective in chimpanzees.
As the NIH considers whether to fund a phase III trial of the Genentech vaccine, an article in the Chicago Tribune raises fears about the safety of the vaccine.
After the NIH's decision not to fund a phase III trial, an extensive New York Times article investigates the history of the gp120 vaccine and its future.
Berman and Donald Francis, M.D., Ph.D., publish their plans for a phase III trial of the gp120 vaccine.
With the phase III trials of the gp120 vaccine underway, science writer Patricia Thomas publishes a comprehensive look at attempts by Berman, Francis, and other groups to develop an HIV vaccine and discusses some of the many obstacles they faced in their efforts. Wired magazine also covers the phase III trial, recapping the problems Berman and Francis faced along the way.
- Thomas's book, Big Shot
- an interview with Patricia Thomas
- Wired article: Testing the First AIDS Vaccine
At a conference in Canada, Berman announces the disappointing results of the trial.
- Berman, Francis, and their colleagues publish the results of the phase III trial and discuss what was learned.
- Science article on the results of the trial.
Despite the failure of the gp120 vaccine, another research group decides to combine it with a second vaccine and test the combination in a large trial in Thailand. Surprisingly, the combination proves to be 30% effective—the first such success of any HIV vaccine.
If you'd like to offer feedback about this article, we'd welcome getting your comments at firstname.lastname@example.org.
This article may not be reproduced or reposted without permission. To inquire about permission, contact email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:76db6e38-b1e8-4808-a769-d8f835c74260> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dartmed.dartmouth.edu/fall11/html/alumni_album_we/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.928056 | 593 | 2.734375 | 3 |
So what now?
Is this a temporary rise in a bear market or a Real Recovery. That's capitalized because, if true, it would be headline-worthy. The subhead: This Could be the Best Time in Decades to Invest in Stocks.
A slump from the past
Truth is, nobody knows whether this is a sucker's rally or the real thing. It will take weeks, and probably months, to know for sure. In the interim, the best we can offer is a little perspective.
The market has already experienced a downturn eerily similar to the first leg of the Great Depression. (How similar? Click here.) Then in just over two months – from Dec. 16, 1930, to Feb. 24, 1931 – the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied a spectacular 23.4 percent.
But that rally didn't last. By July 1932, the index had fallen again – a breathtaking 78.8 percent.
Markets fell back then because the US government made several monumental errors that deepened the Depression, including the enactment of the Smoot-Hawley tariffs, which decimated international trade, and the Federal Reserve's tight money policy, which squeezed credit.
The good news is that so far, the Obama administration has avoided those mistakes. In fact, the Fed has swung to the opposite extreme and pursued a monetary policy so loose that it looks cockeyed. (Really. Click here.)
The not-so-good news is that this Great Recession is not a replay of the Depression and it may contain new pitfalls that no one knows about.
Beyond the rollercoaster
So one take away is that we don't know what we don't know. Just because traders feel better this week means absolutely nothing until the real economy begins to improve. (Click here to see how the latest signs are pointing.)
The other take away is that even in Great Depressions, markets swing wildly. Investors who are agile enough and disciplined enough can profit handsomely from the emotional ups and downs on Wall Street. | <urn:uuid:ab2ae816-10d8-4567-b37f-8ea5f99ac954> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/new-economy/2009/0317/is-wall-streets-rally-real | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947164 | 424 | 1.679688 | 2 |
That character is used so much in Persian writing. And it makes the text difficult to read. I tried to make my terminal display it correctly but I couldn't I was wondering maybe I could use vim syntax concealing to get rid of it. Can I? How?
Vi and Vim Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for people using the vi and Vim families of text editors. It only takes a minute to sign up.Sign up to join this community | <urn:uuid:2cc2aa31-5522-4d72-9848-391d644bb099> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/20745/how-to-conceal-zerowidth-special-characters-like-u200c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974886 | 93 | 1.5 | 2 |
Kellyn Hodges Orthodontics's Blog Archives
Dealing with Cavities When You Have Braces
Cavities can form while you are wearing braces. For successful orthodontic care, it's important that patients prevent tooth decay from occurring.
Periodontal Disease, otherwise known as Gum Disease, should not prevent you from getting a beautiful smile. | <urn:uuid:b80f1911-b498-4123-b643-ac2411d4985c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hodgesortho.com/blog/2015/3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.91503 | 83 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Kristin Billerbeck Quotes
“There are plenty of fish in the sea. But really, there's not. It's not just our imaginations. It would be great if decent men were as plentiful as jumping salmon in a rushing river, but they aren't. For every Mr. Darcy (and he's married, incidentally) there are a hundred Mr. Wickhams. Or in more contemporary terms, for ever one of Colin Firth, there are several thousand Hugh Grants. The odds are against us. But what can I say--I'm a romantic, and I can't abandon the fantasy of Prince Charming altogether. What girl with a heart can? I mean, I'm not asking to feed the five thousand; I just want one good fish!”
“I'm at the mall the other day and there's a 'brow bar.' To get your eyebrows shaped inside the makeup department. Right by the door where everyone is coming and going, can you imagine? There is no feminine mystique left. Remember how we were taught not to have our Mary Janes so polished that a boy could see up our dresses? Now they wear their underwear instead of clothes. No need for boys to peek any longer.”
- Born: in The United States.
- Description: About Kristin
I grew up with a strong sense of justice. I simply knew the way things should be. And since I’m not smart enough to be a district attorney, I am a novelist. My childhood was slightly confusing. I blame my parents for this. Oh heck, I’m going to blame them for everything. I think I would have turned out normal if it weren’t for them.
Okay, probably not. I am a fourth-generation Californian, and an American mutt, but identify most strongly with my Italian heritage. My mother’s family, of strong Norwegian/German descent, tried to teach me how to do things right. How to cook, clean, sew, budget accordingly – all the things a proper young girl should know to be a contributing member of society. I, however, failed miserably. For my 40th birthday, my grandmother gave me a cookie gun, so it’s clear she hasn’t given up on me yet! That is eternal optimism!
My dad’s Italian family taught me about the good life. The indulgent life. How to eat, shop and be merry. My Nana had very tiny feet and a penchant for shoes (she worked at the Emporium, no doubt to fund her shoe addiction). My afternoons at her house had no lessons, other than how to walk in her high heels, drape myself in her mink stole and drip myself with rhinestones. Tastefully, of course. I picked up on this lifestyle much quicker.
I graduated San Jose State University with a degree in Journalism & Mass Communications (emphasis in Advertising), gave my life to Jesus during college and found my true love in a Christian Singles’ Group, which yes, I skewer in “What a Girl Wants”. He is German. Practical. And a Contributing Member of Society. I am still Italian, fluffy and an aficionado of fine shoes & handbags.
Together, we have four children and now it’s our turn to confuse them. The circle of life. Dysfunctional family style. | <urn:uuid:92817751-8305-4049-b8e2-7e65a783171e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bukrate.com/author/kristin-billerbeck-quotes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956659 | 735 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Driveways & Parking Lots
We take pride in the fact that our driveways last, even under the heaviest of traffic.
The type of soil you have and the function of your parking lot or driveway are all factors that go into its creation. First, we begin by stripping out 4-6 inches of topsoil. This is done to assure there is a good, solid base of clay before the stone is put on. If a driveway or parking lot is going to be asphalted or concreted, we cut an extra 6-inch width out on each side so that the edges of your surface won’t crumble. All things considered, we will make recommendations according to your situation. We will work with you to develop driveways and parking lots that stand the test of time.
Some lots have low spots that tend to accumulate water during heavy rainfalls and, consequently, if these spots are near or beside your driveway, it will wash it out after a few months. In this case, we recommend that you install some sort of drainage tile to keep the water out. You can avoid the soft spots this can create by putting down an excavation fabric under the # 2 stone to solidify the driveway.
Whether a business or residential area, it is inconvenient to have a parking lot that is consistently holding water. We usually recommend putting in catch basins for parking lot drainage. These collect the surface water and send it through a tile to an outlet. This keeps the water out and your lot clear and functional.
Good driveways and parking lots are an important part of building a quality property. Repeated daily use can cause parking lots and driveways tend to break down over time. Contact us today to learn more. Treck through your property confidently with our driveways and parking lots! | <urn:uuid:58750b68-feb0-4be3-9dea-ffebaef9494f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jmillerexcavating.com/driveways/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957879 | 368 | 1.59375 | 2 |
If you’ve engaged in purchasing and disposing of cryptocurrency assets in the last year or two you may be left wondering where you stand when you file your tax return. Put simply, if you have disposed of cryptocurrency then the Australian Tax Office is interested in knowing about it. The reality of actually accurately reporting your cryptocurrency disposals can be quite difficult in practice and can be notoriously tedious. What is recommended to everyone when starting is to figure out whether they are classified as an Investor or Trader.
An investor is broadly classified as someone who is engaging in buying or selling of cryptocurrency tokens and income from these assets is derived from long-term capital gains, forks in the blockchain which create two separate coins, staking benefits derived from DeFi or Proof of Stake coins. For the vast majority of people, they will fall into this category. For everyone else they are likely to fall into the trader category. A trader is classified as someone who is conducting a business of earning an income from speculating on price movements by buying and disposing of cryptocurrency assets. Rather than assessing each transaction, traders are meant to treat profits as business income instead, however this status is scrutinised and evidence of trading activity is necessary. To get regarded as a trader the ATO needs to see actions that suggest either explicitly or implicitly that you are using trading as a means to deriving income.
How am I taxed?
As the ATO classifies digital currency as an asset, just as equity in a company or a house, every time you dispose of cryptocurrency assets you need to assess your capital gains every time you sell, trade or give away crypto. In most cases calculating your capital gain is a simple matter of calculating the difference between the prices you bought and sold at. You can use our Crypto Profit and Loss calculator to help you. The Australian Taxation Office has organised a thorough, though slightly technical page about calculating capital gains here.
Long-term CGT Discount
In most cases calculating your capital gain is a simple matter of calculating the difference between the prices you bought and sold at. However in Australia there is a tax benefit for anyone who holds an asset for over 12 months. For Australian residents including partnerships and trusts your capital gain tax is reduced by 50% as long as you maintain ownership of the asset for the required time. You can use our crypto tax calculator to estimate how much tax you will need to pay.
In the case where your cryptocurrency assets are worth less when you decide to sell them, this is regarded as a capital loss. Though this may be disheartening, capital losses when recorded can be used to offset other capital gains taxes accrued in the financial year or in future financial years. There currently is no time limit to how long capital losses can be carried forward but if you make a capital gain in a subsequent year then they must be used.
There are some slight exceptions to how capital gains taxes are implemented on cryptocurrency and there are two major exceptions that can lead them to not be subject to capital gains tax.
Personal use exemptions are given on cryptocurrency transactions if you are holding less than $10,000 AUD in cryptocurrency and you use it to purchase goods and services. In these cases the ATO regards it as a personal use asset and it will not be subject to CGT.
Personal use is something which is assessed on a per transaction basis and generally does not hold if you otherwise hold the cryptocurrency in question as investment or if you’ve held the asset for an extended period, or if you acquired the cryptocurrency as part of doing business.
In short, this exemption generally just alleviates some of the burden which may be involved in quickly purchasing something with Bitcoin or Ethereum at a pub or restaurant with recently acquired crypto.
For some greater clarity you can find examples on the ATO website.
Donations are also regarded as exceptions if you donate cryptocurrency to a registered charity it is also not considered a taxable event and since it is for charity you can then claim the amount (calculated by the fair price of the cryptocurrency asset at the time of donation) as a deduction on your tax return like any other charitable donation.
Lost or Stolen Cryptocurrency is one final exception in cases where you have permanently lost access to coins either through misplacement of private keys, fraud or theft, you may be able to record this also as a capital loss as explained above. Be aware however as you will be expected to provide solid evidence that you owned the coins, ideally probably through transaction history going back to a KYC (‘Know Your Customer’) verified exchange account, and in the case of theft, evidence of the crime and even police reports. As this is something that could be abused, extra scrutiny should be expected.
What's my tax rate?
For individual investors your tax rate is simply determined by your individual tax rate which is determined by what your total assessable income is. If you are a trader then your tax rate is calculated still on the same individual tax rate, only your capital gains or losses won't be assessed but rather your overall trading gains or losses.
For businesses (i.e. partnerships and companies limited by shares) then your tax rate will be the same as it is for all business related income after deductions at 27.5% as it currently stands.
Currently stable coins such as USDT, USDC and BUSD are regarded in the same way as any other crypto asset is regarded. Trading Bitcoin for USDT or USDT for Bitcoin are both examples of a capital gains event which you will need to record or be able to record.
Recommended record keeping
What every investor should do on all asset purchases is have an accurate and comprehensive record of purchases. As cryptocurrency can be a wild west and prices can fluctuate violently it is vitally important for your own defensibility to keep the best records you possible can including information such as:
- The transaction date and time
- The value of the of each asset being traded in AUD at the time of the transaction
- The transaction purpose
- Any additional information including crypto addresses to and from
It is also highly recommended that you keep evidence of cryptocurrency purchases and transfers, records from the exchange itself, as well as any wallet information you might be able to back up including seed words and wallet.dat or similar files. Many Australian exchanges now offer users the ability to simply download complete records of transactions which will give you a document which is useful for calculating your taxes, however if you move funds to exchanges based overseas or third party wallets it is highly recommended you keep any information you can from these transaction movements as well. You can see our list of the best crypto tax software in Australia, to help you calculate your taxes easily.
Advice for people unsure about how to approach tax
Give yourself the strongest legs to stand on when it comes to tax time and any potential future audits or investigations. Keeping records which accurately reflect your transaction and trading history, ideally with evidence on the blockchain itself, can give you the best possible means to defend yourself. If you are excited by the growth of the industry and ecosystem then it is wise to keep holding onto your crypto assets for more than 12 months so you can take advantage of the 50% long term CGT discount. Disclose everything you can. It is an erroneous and mistaken belief to think that Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchains are anonymous. Their privacy model is strictly one of pseudonomy, meaning that identity is separate from transactions. It is wise especially when dealing in large amounts to prove when you had control of the asset and when you didn’t. Due to reporting requirements from Australian exchanges and companies such as Chainalysis which help governments trace proceeds of crime, forums such as Reddit and Australian centric crypto groups on Facebook are sending enthusiasts some alarming letters about neglectful accounting. | <urn:uuid:09d2297a-d1be-41c0-aa0a-289458abbde2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.marketplacefairness.org/au/cryptocurrency/cryptocurrency-tax-australia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960849 | 1,596 | 1.515625 | 2 |
When your heart or a blood vessel needs medical care, an interventional cardiologist at Genesis Heart Institute may help. During interventional cardiovascular procedures, a specially trained doctor inserts a thin, flexible tube called a catheter and other tiny medical tools into an artery. A special dye visible with fluoroscopy, or real-time X-ray images, is injected into your blood vessels so the physician can guide the catheter to the right spot and diagnose and treat the problem.
Interventional techniques offer a minimally invasive alternative to open surgery. They require only a tiny incision, reduce discomfort and speed your recovery.
The Heart Institute performs more interventional procedures each year than any other health care facility in the Quad Cities. You’ll benefit from highly skilled doctors who have experience in completing even the most complex heart and blood vessel treatments. And you’re more likely to receive helpful medication before or after a procedure here than at comparable hospitals. That’s one reason patients who get an interventional procedure at one of our cardiac catheterization labs are less likely to later be readmitted to a hospital than patients on average nationwide.
Comprehensive Interventional Procedures
Let the Heart Institute improve the flow of blood through your heart and blood vessels with interventional techniques such as:
- Angioplasty, or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) – Widens a blocked or narrowed artery with a tiny balloon, and then places a stent to keep the artery open. The Heart Institute maintains one of the lowest rates of hospital readmission following PCI in the country. You’ll receive the treatment at Genesis locations in Davenport or Silvis during a heart attack. You may qualify to receive an angioplasty in Silvis even if you’re not experiencing a medical emergency.
- Carotid artery stenting – Could reduce your risk of stroke by thinning plaque buildup in your carotid artery, which sends blood and oxygen to your brain
- Stenting and balloon angioplasty for peripheral artery disease (PAD) – Widens arteries in your legs and feet
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) – Implants a prosthetic heart valve inside a diseased aortic valve and is available at only three hospitals in Iowa, including The Heart Institute
- Atherectomy – Removes plaque from blood vessels
- Embolectomy – Eliminates blood vessel blockages in an emergency
- Valvuloplasty – Widens narrowed heart valves
At the beginning of your procedure, a doctor will insert a catheter through either the femoral artery in your thigh or the radial artery in your forearm. Whenever possible, we’ll use radial access, which lets you recover more quickly and comfortably.
Minimally Invasive Aneurysm Repair
If a bulge or aneurysm develops in your aorta, the body’s main artery, you may qualify for an interventional treatment called endovascular grafting. A doctor will use a catheter to put a stent graft inside your aorta, reinforce the weak area and help prevent the aneurysm from rupturing. This procedure minimizes blood loss and reduces recovery time.
Stents help keep blood vessels open but may create scar tissue that could contribute to future blockages. That’s why the Heart Institute was one of the first facilities to use drug-eluting stents coated with medication to help prevent scar tissue from developing. Ask your doctor whether a drug-eluting stent is right for your interventional procedure and overall health.
Peripheral Drug-Eluting Balloons
Stents help keep blood vessels open but may create scar tissue that could contribute to future blockages. New drug-eluting balloons developed for use in the peripheral blood vessels may prevent the use of a stent by applying special medication directly to blockages which may help prevent scar tissue from developing. Ask your doctor whether a peripheral drug-eluting balloon angioplasty is right for your interventional procedure and overall health. | <urn:uuid:d79b2b00-b55b-42e2-8361-a34d1069c5b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.genesishealth.com/ghi/tests/cardiac-interventional-program/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.904701 | 855 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Propagating the CLT Abroad
Community-Based Land Leasing Outside the USA
American pioneers of the community land trust “stole” some of their best ideas from the Garden Cities in England, the Gramdan villages in India, and the moshav settlements in Israel. It seems only fair, therefore, for CLT pioneers in other countries to be “stealing” ideas from CLT practitioners in the United States, adding organizational and operational innovations of their own, and planting these new varieties in their native soil. CLTs have begun to sprout in England, Australia, Canada, and Belgium. So recent and rapid has been the growth of CLTs outside of the United that there is little history to record. Nevertheless, we shall collect and catalogue materials from the CLT movements in other countries as their stories unfold and these materials become available. | <urn:uuid:5ae81fb4-262d-4389-b5b5-30ddab2d8dd0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cltroots.org/the-guide/many-gardens-community-based-land-leasing-outside-the-usa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948961 | 177 | 1.789063 | 2 |
If you're a cat person, like me, and you share your home with a healthy cat or kitten, then you know the great laughter, companionship, and love your feline companion can bring to your life.
If you're an experienced cat lover, you know the subtle differences between a seemingly aloof tomcat and a furry being of higher intelligence and discernment.
No matter what anyone else says about the feline species, cats rock!
And if your kitty sleeps in the center of your pillow at night and you're banished to a small corner, so what!
Or better yet, if the little furball sleeps on top of you and you can't get up in the middle of the night because you don't want to disturb him. Who cares?! This cat likes you!
In exchange for the incredible pleasure and companionship a healthy cat brings us, we have certain obligations and responsibilities. Taking care of our kitties is one of our greatest purposes in life!
Your cat or kitten's continued health and happiness depend on the choices you make and the care you provide.
On a daily basis, our feline friends need lots of love, care, and attention to ensure a long and healthy life.
And, of course, we must provide our domestic cats with all of their basic needs.
Making the best choices for our cats and kittens every day is the best way to keep them (and ourselves!) healthy and happy.
New kitty parents, and long-time parents with new challenges, can find the cat care information they need to keep their cats or kittens happy and healthy.
It's all here: from how to make your home "cat-ready" to how to choose the best cat food; from choosing safe and interactive toys (and how to make some of your own) to the reasons our kitties scratch our best furniture (and how to protect it!); from cat pregnancy symptoms to preparing for a new cat or kitten and choosing a name; plus info on common cat health problems, and lots more feline findings and facts.
"Your Practical Guide to Everyday Cat Care" is written by a long-time cat "owner" who loves these furry little sweethearts more than anything!
Use this Google Search Box to find what you're looking for right away.
Thank you for visiting and for taking good care of our precious kitties!
If you suspect your cat is ill, please contact your veterinarian immediately.
The material presented in this site is for informational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to replace your veterinarian's advice.
Copyright 2003-2022 © www.myhealthycat.com | <urn:uuid:0e90b535-245f-4c33-ab96-67f6b554d03a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.myhealthycat.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.935068 | 547 | 1.804688 | 2 |
ADDISON, Texas, July 9, 2021 (Newswire.com) - Americans are returning to work post-pandemic, but with trepidation. Workplace sanitation has become a key responsibility of employers and building owners. One of the greatest sanitation challenges is the elevator. CASPR Group and Stanley Elevator are providing a savvy solution that addresses COVID-19 concerns and year-round pathogen, mold and odor reduction of up to 99.96% with patent-pending, easy-to-install, safe and effective technology.
Elevators provide a unique challenge. Even when cleaned daily, elevators contain numerous high-touch areas that accumulate germs. Infection Control Today states that the level of bacteria on an elevator button is 40 times higher than on a public toilet seat. The most common bacteria found are E. coli, Staph, and MRSA, which are contagious and lead to illnesses.
At the pandemic onset, Stanley recommitted sourcing safe solutions and chose to partner with CASPR. They hoped to test and implement a disinfecting technology designed for commercial elevators. CASPR welcomed the opportunity to work with the industry leader.
"We wanted to identify the leading technology in elevator sanitation," said Cory Hussey, COO of Stanley Elevator. "CASPR provided an elegant solution for a perennial problem. We've been thrilled to improve this experience for our clients."
The CASPR 200e was developed with the medical-grade technology upon which CASPR was founded addressing the constraints of a commercial elevator. The product converts humidity in the air from H2O (water) to H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide). The continuously disinfecting natural catalytic converter technology uses ultraviolet lighting and a photocatalyst to create the advanced oxidation process. It's silent, easy to install, and serves a space up to 200 ft2.
Stanley and CASPR tested the product utilizing a third-party to conduct and verify results. They selected settings including apartment buildings and colleges with successful results. All sites showed reductions up to 99% in pathogen levels on high-touch surfaces and in the air. This mirrored what CASPR experienced in the healthcare industry.
This technology helps create another level of risk mitigation. In multi-story buildings or apartment complexes, elevators are required. This creates an impossible social-distancing situation.
Stanley customers like Pride & Service, a 30-year industry leader, are enthusiastic about the CASPR 200e.
"I was raised in this industry," explained President Christopher Todd. "I constantly seek the newest technology in the industry, and during the pandemic, I sought air-quality improvement for our customers."
Pride & Service initially tested five CASPR units and were thrilled to discover that tests showed greater than 98% pathogen reduction.
CASPR CEO Scott Wheeler is heartened by the results CASPR provided this industry.
"As the leader in the disinfectant category, we've worked to ensure the indoor air we breathe is the healthiest it can be," explained Wheeler. "Being able to translate our technology to serve the elevator industry is a success story of which we're proud, and we hope to continue our advances to make American workplaces safer."
Kelly Hunter, firstname.lastname@example.org
Source: CASPR Group | <urn:uuid:1d900e18-863e-4942-a28f-3bcf231e4ffe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newswire.com/news/caspr-and-stanley-work-to-raise-the-level-of-elevator-sanitation-21439520 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940453 | 681 | 1.625 | 2 |
When impermeable ground bearing slabs are installed in old buildings without a damp-proof course, it is a common belief of conservation practitioners that ground moisture will be ‘driven’ up adjacent walls by capillary action. However, there is limited evidence to test this hypothesis.
An experiment was used to determine if the installation of a vapour-proof barrier above a flagstone floor in a historic building would increase moisture content levels in an adjacent stone rubble wall. This was achieved by undertaking measurements of wall, soil and atmospheric moisture content over a three-year period. Measurements taken using timber dowels showed that the moisture content within the wall did not vary in response to wall evaporation rates and did not increase following the installation of a vapour-proof barrier above the floor. This indicates that the moisture levels in the rubble wall were not influenced by changes in the vapour-permeability of the floor. | <urn:uuid:3be864d4-1d95-4509-b913-9fa00888e557> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ucl.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/111.444/000111.v2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945084 | 187 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Dogs make us happy – so here are some little things dogs want more than anything else from their owners – so we can make them happy right back!
Dogs are gurus. It sounds like a crazy thing to say, but it’s true. If they have food and shelter, they’re happy.
They’re not like people, always looking for the next thing.
For them, the mere act of waking up in the morning is sufficient for it to be a “good day.”
As you might know, I’m a bestselling author and happiness researcher.
I wrote a book called Happy Habits.
In my research, I learned that hanging out with adorable pets can greatly boost our happiness. Plus so does making other humans happy! Well, guess what – making your dog happy ALSO makes you happy!
In light of this, what can owners do to show their appreciation to their dogs?
Let’s take a look at some things we humans can do to make our dogs wag their tails with joy.
Dogs love belly scratches. It makes them feel cosy and simulates the grooming the pack would have provided in the wild. It also helps to loosen up any fleas that might have taken up residence in their coats.
According to experts, though, you shouldn’t hug your dog. Being in a full embrace actually makes them feel quite uneasy, especially if you pull their face close to yours. It’s always important to take care of your beloved pet.
Plus, according to anythinggermanshepherd.com you need to be extra careful with pregnant dogs – to make sure that your dog has a smooth pregnancy.
You can feed them biscuits all day long. But, according to Freshpet dog food reviews, what they really want is the best dog food. Fresh is more interesting, tastes better, and actually provides the kind of nutrition that suits them best.
Incredibly, dogs seem to understand the nuances of property rights. They like the idea of having toys of their own, instead of those that they have to share with people and other animals.
Toys serve several purposes in dogs. One is to provide mental stimulation, keeping their minds active and providing an enjoyable activity.
Another is for communication. Dogs, it turns out, also use toys to tell their owners that they want something. Often pups will chew when they want attention or need to go for a walk.
Dogs love nothing more than taking a peaceful nap in a quiet spot. While they can always sleep through kids screaming, they prefer to sleep in tranquillity, just like people.
If you know that your dog loves to sleep during the day, provide them with a separate space they can go to get some shut-eye. Perhaps provide a dog bed and a blanket for them to stay warm.
Dogs also want their human masters to be strong leaders for them – which means you should learn good dog training.
Doggies are naturally wary animals by themselves. But when they know who’s in charge, they feel much more comfortable. When you set the schedule and provide consistent rules, they feel safe and secure. Failing to provide strong leadership can lead to behavioural issues, such as bedwetting and excessive barking.
Related to this idea is the notion that dogs want a regular routine. Dogs like the idea that things happen at certain times of the day.
For instance, they like it when their owners take them for exercise at the same time – say 7 am. They also like it when mealtimes arrive at specific times.
Grooming can also be part of the routine, as this activity has many benefits. In addition to health positives, the bonding between your dog and you can intensify. However, the frequency depends on your pup’s breed, coat type, and temperament. Grooming can include bathing, brushing, and trimming. You can also do the latter at home if you have a suitable dog clipper.
Dogs don’t understand the nuances of language. But they can understand your tone. It is critical, therefore, to speak in soft, delicate tones. Try not to raise your voice when telling them off. They will just think you are trying to play the “who can be the loudest dog?” game. | <urn:uuid:d151b1a4-47be-4bb3-be56-0c2b48877739> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.notsalmon.com/2021/04/08/7-little-things-dogs-want-more-than-anything-else-from-their-owners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972212 | 896 | 1.71875 | 2 |
G-7 leaders continue attempts to resolve differences over a proposal to reallocate $100 billion from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) war chest to help countries struggling to cope with the COVID-19 crisis.
An almost final version of the G-7 communique seen by Reuters showed Germany and Italy had yet to back the inclusion of the $100 billion figure in the final statement by leaders.
The IMF's members agreed in April to a $650 billion increase in IMF's Special Drawing Rights, and the G-7 countries are considering whether to reallocate $100 billion of their rights to help poor countries fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
SDRs are the IMF's reserve asset and are exchangeable for dollars, euros, sterling, yen and Chinese yuan. Member states can loan or donate their SDR reserves to other countries for their use.
The head of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, told reporters on the sidelines of the summit that she had been heartened by the G-7's support for the plan and that she expected a clear indication later on how best to proceed, adding that the $100 billion target had been in discussion.
Georgieva also warned of a deepening divergence in the pace of economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic as some countries struggle to access vaccines.
Addressing reporters at the G-7 summit in southwestern England, Georgieva said: "We have been warning about dangerously diverging recoveries. Most recent data confirms this trend not only continues, it deepens."
The IMF chief added that while she expected a rise in inflation to be transitory, the world could not take that for granted and she was most worried about inflation in emerging economies.
Please click to read our informative text prepared pursuant to the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 and to get information about the cookies used on our website in accordance with the relevant legislation.
6698 sayılı Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu uyarınca hazırlanmış aydınlatma metnimizi okumak ve sitemizde ilgili mevzuata uygun olarak kullanılan çerezlerle ilgili bilgi almak için lütfen tıklayınız. | <urn:uuid:49976b5f-9c19-438b-b4c8-239995ddcfe2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailysabah.com/business/economy/g-7-split-on-reallocating-100b-imf-funds-to-covid-hit-nations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.929189 | 498 | 1.585938 | 2 |
In India’s first of its kind, Lakshadweep islands will soon be home to Maldives style water villas.
To establish a robust base for economic growth with tourism at its core, the administration of this union territory has floated global tenders for this project on Saturday (31 July).
The three premium projects will come up in Minicoy, Kadmat and Suheli islands at the cost of Rs 800 crore.
“In a first of its kind initiative in the country, three premium water villa projects are identified in Minicoy (150 keys, project cost of Rs 319 crore), Suheli (110 keys, Rs 247 crore) and Kadmat (110 keys, Rs 240 crore) islands, based on comprehensive location suitability analysis, technical and financial feasibility and project structuring,” the administration said in a statement.
The Eco-tourism resort at Minicoy Island consists of an 8.53 Ha land area, 6.00 Ha lagoon area, 110 keys for Beach villas and 40 keys for Water villas. Supporting infrastructure to be created by the developer include 114 KLD RO/Desalination Plant and 2152 kW (Rooftop + Floating) Solar Power Source.
“Lakshadweep Administration shall facilitate the concessionaire in obtaining applicable permits subject to concessionaire submitting timely complete application,” the UT administration said in the RFP document.
Eco-friendly materials and pre-cast concrete technology are mandated for these projects to decrease the ecological footprint. | <urn:uuid:cb5bd0b6-f3c0-484e-b7f3-df00b97c6029> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://indiainfrahub.com/2021/main-featured/tourism-lakshadweep-floats-global-tenders-for-maldives-style-water-villas-at-rs-800-crore/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.890128 | 319 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Standard of Care laws vary from state to state and are unique to that jurisdiction.
The following from the New Jersey Supreme Court in the case of Rider v. Lynch 201 A.2d 561, 42 N.J. 465, 1964.NJ.40172is an example and is unique to New Jersey.
One who holds himself out to the public as an insurance broker is required to have the degree of skill and knowledge requisite to the calling. When engaged by a member of the public to obtain insurance, the law holds him to the exercise of good faith and reasonable skill, care and diligence in the execution of the commission. He is expected to possess reasonable knowledge of the types of policies, their different terms, and the coverage available in the area in which his principal seeks to be protected. If he neglects to procure the insurance or if the policy is void or materially deficient or does not provide the coverage he undertook to supply, because of his failure to exercise the requisite skill or diligence, he becomes liable to his principal for the loss sustained thereby.
While Ryder v. Lynch and similar cases outline the requisites for an insurance agent, they leave terms like degree of skill and knowledge, good faith, reasonable skill, care and diligence, and knowledge requisite to the calling mostly unqualified and undefined.
Lee Hoffman has over forty-three years of insurance industry experience. He is a licensed insurance agent, licensed insurance counselor and certified insurance counselor with the expertise to qualify, define and offer expert opinion on insurance industry Standard of Care. | <urn:uuid:c56d2e25-1d29-485b-be7c-8b8bd5a3656b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://leemhoffman.com/content/standard-care | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961228 | 312 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Home is where one is loved.
Letters are the poems of communication.
This is how life goes: one never knows. This is what life is about: you carry your body around. Action is the key. Only action brings satisfaction and happiness. Live every minute as if it were your last, this way you are closest … weiterlesen
Usually only winners win.
There is no one God. Everything is God. Everyone is God. There are many Gods. And God. But no one God. | <urn:uuid:1f7f46e2-ae96-4f5d-8981-1b322a17ec50> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.marionschneider.com/category/aphorisms-and-tips/aphorisms/page/7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962884 | 106 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Rejection is one thing that nurse entrepreneurs ought to be taught to simply accept. Every profitable entrepreneur has skilled rejections not less than once in their life. If they have never been rejected, they’ll by no means know the feeling of success. Each rejection must be taken as a lesson. Lately, online nursing colleges have gotten common. Some colleges provide Paramedic to RN programs, BS in Nursing Levels, and the like. With so many nursing schools sprouting like mushrooms, certainly they’ve no less than been rejected once or twice by their potential college students. The actual concern shouldn’t be about rejection, but whether or not one can learn from rejection and transfer on to doing something higher.
Recidivism won’t ever disappear. There is no sure treatment. Felons are typically losers, and only some of them straighten out. So, recidivism is just not going to hit zero, not in our lifetimes. But it could drop significantly with fundamental modifications: instructing, guiding, mentoring and training
This is be being as straight ahead as I can.
When “No Little one Left Behind” was signed into public legislation in 2002, I had already moved from the “common” classroom in California, and was teaching a “special day class”. Without totally understanding what was happening, I was already beginning to really feel the squeeze. By working with students in special education, I used to be given the liberty to proceed to work individually with my students. Their Individual Education Plans (IEP’s) made allowances that were turning into much less common in the common education classroom. If we began our day by rolling out play-dough, marching around the classroom, or waving a brightly coloured parachute on the playground and nobody observed or, in the event that they did, they turned their head the opposite manner.
The distribution of gifted program amenities is generally done by making a single facility inside the district a “gifted” college. In very massive districts, a magnet faculty is designed to bring college students from everywhere in the district. Having a central location has the advantage of isolating the instruction of the gifted group but this can be very competitive and a number of other gifted students are rejected. A more practical technique of gifted pupil distribution is to have an in-house gifted program in every faculty that may doubtlessly reach many more college students. This may also have the benefit of permitting lecturers to create more diversified gifted applications and curriculum that would widen the actions throughout the district.
It caused larger states of consciousness that:
The home is a present or is acquired through inheritance. Out of the many individuals within the ear coaching on-line enterprise there are very few who dare to discover innovative methods to open and tune the ears of their prospects. Jerry Dior created the emblem in a single afternoon. Opposite to what some individuals imagine, the silhouetted man wasn’t really modeled on a particular participant. It was actually drawn with regards to pictures of several gamers.
OKAY, that heading could also be a bit of a stretch. Nevertheless, last year when I was in the hospital fighting for my life, my wife Maggie would ask the doctors and nurses all types of questions during visiting hours. Then she would go home and spend a couple hours during the evening Googling all of the circumstances and phrases she picked up earlier. The next day she returned armed with pages of notes and better questions. At a certain level, she felt my major doctor was tap-dancing round some important issues. Consequently we sought a second opinion and ended up switching to another care giver where I’ve been in a position to make a fairly remarkable recovery.
Whereas a diabetic should limit their carbohydrate intake, they should also improve their protein consumption. A superb diabetic diet could be similar to a ‘low carb’ food plan which have been common some years again. These diets either limited or fully eradicated carbohydrates. | <urn:uuid:b89b1506-8854-4aa0-973f-23adf0a4c832> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jamesdawsonbooks.com/before-you-are-put-aside-what-you-have-to-do-to-discover-about-education-news.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974361 | 819 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Eb Melodic minor Ukulele Scale - Baritone
View this scale in: Standard Tuning (gCEA) D-Tuning (ADF#B) Slack-key Tuning (gCEG)
In this scale we simply change the sixth and seventh notes to a major, giving us; C, D, Eb, F, G, A, B. This scale sometimes can be considered to be a little awkward for vocal melodies given the change on the sixth note so it is often used in jazz.
Staff Line Notation
Type : Melodic minor
Number of notes : 7
Formula : 1,2,b3,4,5,6,7
Notes : E♭, F, G♭, A♭, B♭, C, D
Intervals : W,H,W,W,W,W,H
Degrees : E♭ ( I - tonic), F ( II - supertonic), G♭ ( III - mediant), A♭ ( IV - subdominant), B♭ ( V - dominant), C ( VI - submediant), D ( VII - leading tone) Chords that fit
: Cdim, Cm7/b5, Daug, Ddim, D-5, D7-5, Dm7/b5, D7maj5, Ebm, Eb5, Ebsus4, Ebsus2, Ebm6, Fm, F5, Fsus4, F7sus4, Fm6, Fm7, Gbaug, Gb-5, Ab, Ab5, Ab7, Absus2, Ab6, Ab9, Abadd9, Ab-5, Ab7-5, Bb, Bb5, Bbaug, Bb7, Bbsus4, Bbsus2, Bb7sus4, Bb9, Bbadd9, Bb11, Bb7maj5,
Got questions? Want to share a tip or simply talk uke? Join the conversation!
Spread the world | <urn:uuid:0bf206e9-1f5b-4264-bd0f-377e1f10e87d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ukulelescales.com/baritone/Eb-melodic-minor | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.718177 | 472 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Power reduction for media-rich mobile devices
Manufacturers must develop innovative ways to reduce power consumption or increase battery capacity
BY ANTONY CHRISTIAN
Analog Devices, Norwood, MA
The demand for mobile devices with high-end features is rapidly increasing. Features like text messaging, gaming, GPS navigation, Web browsing and video playback on high-resolution color displays are becoming the norm in today’s portable consumer electronics market. While consumers are asking for these high-end features, they also want reasonable battery life. Unfortunately, the larger high-resolution displays are backlight and processor intensive, which translates to longer and larger drain on the already limited battery capacity.
Despite recent advances in battery technology, battery capacity has not evolved fast enough to keep up with the extra energy demands of multimedia devices. Since battery technology has not improved at the same pace as battery usage, device manufacturers have encountered difficulties with meeting consumer expectations. Unless they develop innovative ways to reduce power consumption or increase battery capacity, the system will need to sacrifice battery run time for features.
The display backlight has become a major battery drain for most portable device manufacturers. Media intensive devices with high-resolution color displays require proper backlighting at all time to avoid degrading optical performance and readability.
In addition to techniques such as time based dimming, display timeouts, and user selectable brightness settings, many device manufacturers are implementing ambient light sensing (ALS), and content adaptive backlight control (cABC) to improve system efficiency by reducing current drain.
While devices save power by dimming the backlight during times of inactivity, many applications, such as Web browsing, e-mails, GPS navigation, gaming, or video playback require the backlight to remain on during long periods of user interaction.
The brightness control in the products settings menu allows the user to adjust the backlight intensity to save power during these use cases, but requires user input and needs multiple changes for different ambient light conditions to really be effective. These techniques are no longer practical, nor sufficient to meet today’s intensive and unique use cases.
Ambient light sensing
The amount of backlight required by an LCD or keypad varies with changes in the lighting environment. With ambient light sensing (ALS), a photo diode or transistor measures the local light intensity and translates it into current or voltage. Based on preset thresholds, the backlight driver or processor can determine how much backlight is required.
The high current required during sunny conditions wastes energy during dim light conditions, and can cause eye strain in dark conditions. Changing backlight intensity based on ambient light can save more than 60% of the current necessary to drive the backlight in bright conditions for typical use cases.
ALS implementation methods
Analog or digital light sensors can be used to measure the ambient light. Regardless of which sensor is used, the output needs to be decoded in order to be useful. Many designs use the host processor to decode the sensor output and control the backlight. However, the host processor must be fast enough to provide multimedia features, so its higher speed and bandwidth also means higher current drain for ALS polling functions. Minimizing processor involvement is essential to keep down battery consumption.
Some ICs integrate light input decoding and backlight driver control. Integrating the light sensor intelligence in the backlight driver has several advantages. First, the driver uses a simple state machine, reducing the current required for decoding and backlight control to less than 20 μA. Second, everything is in one package, thus minimizing the number of connections and traces in the PCB layout. Third, it minimizes back and forth communication between the backlight driver and the host processor.
Because all mechanical designs are different, it is essential that the intelligent driver have enough flexibility to handle all conditions. To provide the required flexibility, these integrated devices have implemented programmable threshold, hysteresis and filter time, making it easy for handset manufacturers to correct for product to product variances.
Fig. 1. Series backlight driver with integrated photo-sensor input, and mini keypad/GPIO expander
Display backlight analysis
A display backlight using six series LEDs driven at 18 mA draws 111 mA from the battery (assuming 3.5-V LED forward voltage, 85% driver efficiency, and a 4-V battery). So, the display backlight alone can drain a 1,100-mAh battery in 9.9 hours if driven at maximum intensity all of the time. The display does not have to be illuminated at maximum backlight intensity under all conditions, allowing significant power to be saved in lower light environments, such as offices, movie theaters, and outdoors at night.
Sunny day luminance can vary from 32,000 to 100,000 lux, two orders of magnitude greater than a 400-lux brightly lit office, so cutting the backlight intensity by half, or even more, when going from outside to inside will not cause any loss of display readability. Most people spend an average of 60% of their time indoors, so lowering the backlight brightness can reduce current drain by approximately 50% or more. Using ALS, The backlight current in the previous example will go from 111 mA to 55.5 mA and will last 19.8 hours on a 1,100-mAh battery.
Content adaptive backlight control (cABC)
As shown in Fig. 2, cABC is a method that analyzes display content and adjusts the display backlight based on the grayscale content of the image and gamma correction techniques. The display driver outputs a PWM waveform to the backlight driver, with varying duty cycle based on video grayscale content and gamma correction. Backlight brightness is reduced for dark images, in turn reduces backlight power consumption and enhances display contrast while maintaining vivid display quality. This method is particularly useful in video playback where scenes can change from bright to dark for extended time periods. cABC can also reduce current drain for still images and standard menu screens.
The user interface on the mobile product can be tailored to take advantage of these savings. Depending on image data, cABC can reduce display power by 20% to 50%. When combined with ALS, power saving can exceed 70%. Backlight driver ICs, like Analog Devices’ ADP8870, are already taking advantage of the combined power saving of ALS and cABC. Table 1 illustrates power savings with ALS in different lighting environments.
Table 1. ALS impact on backlight current drain in different light environment
Fig. 2. Content adaptive backlight control (cABC)
In addition to display backlight, ALS can also save power on keypad backlight. Most keypads have a visible silkscreen, so no backlighting is required when ambient light is available. An average size keypad backlight draws about 30 mA from the battery. Without ALS, the keypad must be backlit at all times, wasting a lot of energy. With ALS, the backlight driver can turn off or dim the keypad backlight, saving hundreds of mAh. Backlight drivers with integrated ALS control provide interrupt notifications between light changes, allowing the processor to make changes in keypad or other peripheral lighting.
Demands for larger, higher-resolution color displays will continue to rise in the years to come. Devices equipped with cABC, ALS and other current saving techniques are allowing consumers to watch videos, browse the Web and send text messages with vivid display quality, all while keeping backlight power consumption in check. Continuing to find ways to curtail backlight power consumption will be a challenge, but new methods are being developed to address the high power consumption of displays and processors. Using ALS, cABC, and other innovative power reduction techniques will enable manufacturers to provide the media rich devices craved by today’s consumers without compromising multimedia features or extended battery life. ■
Learn more about Analog Devices | <urn:uuid:68799c54-c5c8-4df6-af9a-412f409eafa4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.electronicproducts.com/power-reduction-for-media-rich-mobile-devices/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.905457 | 1,626 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Turkey’s ruling party spokesman on Friday accused France of committing crimes in civil war-torn Libya.
“France has committed crimes in Libya,” said Omer Celik, spokesman for the Justice and Development (AK) Party.
Celik said as France’s crimes have surfaced with mass graves, it is posing as a human rights defender to get away with the crimes by blaming Turkey.
Recalling France’s colonial history, he said: “France is guilty.”
“[France] cannot cover those mass graves by excessive attacks on Turkey or on our president.”
Libya has been torn by civil war since the ouster of late ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The country’s new government was founded in 2015 under a UN-led agreement, but efforts for a long-term political settlement failed due to a military offensive by warlord Khalifa Haftar’s forces.
The UN recognizes the Libyan government headed by Fayez al-Sarraj as the country’s legitimate authority, as Tripoli has battled Haftar’s militias since April 2019, a conflict that has taken over 1,000 lives.
After the discovery of mass graves in areas left behind by retreating Haftar militias, the UN and international jurists have expressed concern over possible war crimes. While Turkey continues to support Libya’s internationally recognized government, Haftar has been supported by Russia, France, Egypt, and the UAE.
Copyright 2022 Anadolu Agency. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. | <urn:uuid:faddc44a-495c-4ce2-b312-9aaf1002b0ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://turkishpress.com/turkey-accuses-france-of-committing-crimes-in-libya/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954069 | 342 | 1.65625 | 2 |
According to reports, the Polish government promised to provide cheering crowds for President Donald Trump’s July 5 visit.
Polish government has figured out a way to make Trump feel comfortable in their country — by busing in people to cheer him.
Polish news agencies are reporting that the Polish government “promised the White House a reception of cheering crowds as part of its invitation” to the president, and is going so far as to “bus in groups from the provinces to hear Trump’s speech.” According to the Associated Press,
“Poland is, in some ways, a poster child for some of the issues that the Trump administration has been stressing. They’re betting that this relationship with the United States on defense will balance their concerns about the possible directions of U.S.-Russia policy.” According to News Wire as spoken with Jeffrey Rathke, deputy director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Poland’s right-wing government has violated European Union quotas by refusing to accept any relocated refugees; Hungary and Austria have also violated the EU.
The Polish government will reportedly raise the issue of Russia’s military aggression in the Ukraine with Trump and highlight how that is a threat to Europe.
The Guardian reported on June 21 that Trump told U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May he would not visit that country if there were large numbers of people protesting his visit.
An unidentified member of May’s administration told the British newspaper that May was surprised by Trump’s reluctance to visit the U.K., which was revealed during a phone call.
May reportedly extended the invitation to Trump only seven days after his inauguration. The inauguration in Washington, D.C., was the focus of many protests.
May told the press she extended the invitation on behalf of Queen Elizabeth, who is technically the sovereign leader of U.K., to Trump and was “delighted that the president has accepted that invitation.”
The Telegraph reported in June that a possible Trump visit was not mentioned in Queen Elizabeth’s state speech, which usually includes planned state visits. This omission by the queen could mean Trump’s visit has been delayed for at least two years.
The rift between Trump and the U.K. may have happened when he tweeted disparaging remarks about London Mayor Sadiq Khan following the London Bridge and Borough Market terror attacks.
Jeremy Corbyn, who leads the left-wing Labor Party in the U.K., tweeted his joy about Trump not coming on June 11: “Cancellation of President Trump’s State Visit is welcome, especially after his attack on London’s mayor & withdrawal from #ParisClimateDeal.”
The Independent reported in March that Corbyn has a lower poll rating in the U.K. than Trump.
The GfK survey found that Corbyn had a 17 percent approval rating with the British public, while Trump was at 18 percent and May came in at 46 percent.
“Whilst Donald Trump’s approval rating among British adults will be the least of the President’s worries following his healthcare struggles last week, it will be of great concern to Labor supporters that Jeremy Corbyn’s approval rating among Brits is no better,” GfK Research Director Keiran Pedley commented at the time.\
Video Credit: VOA News | <urn:uuid:3530cf3c-1130-40a8-9b3a-9dae3b754f7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailyheadlines.com/trumps-poland-visit-gets-weird-when-secret-service-hears-what-people-are-chanting-video/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975391 | 704 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Texture Nodes
|Applicable Blender version: 2.67.|
Texture nodes allow you to produce textures that are the result of complex computations. This tutorial will just scratch the surface of what’s possible.
A Simple “Rainbow” Texture[edit | edit source]
Start with a new Blender document. Delete the default cube. Add a new plane object. In the Material context in the Object Properties window, click the icon to the left of the material name to assign a material to the plane (there should already be a default unused one called “Material”). In the Texture context, there should already be a texture called “Tex” assigned to this material. Now split the area showing the 3D view into two side-by-side areas. In the right-hand area, bring up the Node Editor. In its area header, you should see a group of 3 little icons next to the menu ; click on the middle one for Texture Nodes. You will see appear, further along the area header, a popup menu containing the names of the textures so far created in your document: this should be showing the name “Tex” of the texture you assigned to the material for your plane object. And to the right of that, there should be a checkbox titled “Use Nodes”. Check that, and you should see a pair of initial nodes immediately appear in the editor: an input node titled “Checker” and an output node titled “Output”, with an editable field in it containing “Default”.
There must be at least one output node in the texture definition; the data fed to this will make up the final texture. The names you assign in the Name field will appear in the Texture context in the Object Properties window, in a popup menu titled “Output:”, with one item for each output node. Initially this may show “Not Specified”: change it to “Default”.
Navigation in the Node Editor: As in most Blender windows, you can scroll around by dragging with, and zoom the view in and out with the mouse wheel.
Each node window has little coloured circles (terminals) on its left and right edges; the ones on the left edge (if any) are inputs for feeding data from other nodes, and the ones on the right edge (if any) are for supplying data to other nodes. Thus, output nodes have no outputs (they’re the final destination for the data), while input nodes have no inputs. Other node types represent intermediate stages in the processing, so they will have both inputs and outputs.
Back in the Node Editor, click on the titlebar of the “Checker” node window and use eitheror to delete it. Note that, unlike deleting objects in the 3D view, there is no confirmation popup: the node immediately disappears. (Of course, you can use + to undo operations in the usual way.)
Now go to the “Add” menu (or use the usual+ shortcut), find the “Input” submenu, and select the “Coordinates” item. This will add a new input node, which just produces the unadorned texture coordinates as its data. The newly-added node will follow the mouse around; press once you have moved it to a convenient place. You will see the new node has one output terminal, titled “Coordinates”. Left-click on this, and drag to the input terminal in the Output window with the word “Color” and a small rectangular colour swatch next to it. Voilà! A line (effectively a wire) should appear connecting the two terminals, and you should see the big square colour swatch in the Output window change from black to a whole rainbow of colours. That’s your texture!
If you make a wrong connection, you can move or cut it by dragging the output end of the wire away from the input terminal it is attached to with, to either a new input terminal or simply into an unoccupied space between nodes; when you let go the button, the wire will attach to the new input terminal in the former case, or disappear in the latter case.
At this point, you should be able to hitto render, and you will see your plane object with the rainbow texture applied. You can see why I chose a Plane object: being flat, the entire texture is visible from one camera angle.
Scalars Versus Vectors[edit | edit source]
The wires carry numbers between nodes. These numbers can be of two kinds: a scalar is a single real quantity, like “0.5”, while a vector can consist of two, three or four scalars in a sequence, like “(0.5, 0.75, 0.2, 1.0)”. The number of components in a vector is also known as the dimension of the vector. Two-dimensional vectors can be used to represent texture coordinates, while three-dimensional vectors can represent positions in space. Colours can be represented with 3 dimensions (R, G,B or H, S, V) or 4 dimensions (RGB or HSV plus alpha channel).
Some nodes operate on scalars, while others operate on vectors. And there are nodes where some terminals input or output scalars, while others input or output vectors.
Try this. To the above Coordinates and Output nodes, add a “Separate RGBA” node (under the “Color” submenu of the “Add” menu). Feed the output from the Coordinates node to the “Color” input node of the Separate node. Now connect just the “Red” output terminal from the Separate node to the output node (if you move the newly-created node on top of the existing wire, this should happen automatically):
See how the Output swatch shows just a greyscale ramp running from black on the left to white on the right? This shows how the first dimension of a vector is interpreted as the red component in an RGB colour, but as the X coordinate in a position. Remove the output from the Red terminal (delete the existing wire), and take it from the Green terminal instead (by dragging a new wire from Green to the Color terminal on the Output node); now you will see the ramp going from black at the bottom to white at the top. The second dimension of a vector is the green component in an RGB colour, and the Y coordinate in a position.
The terminals have different colours to remind you what type of data they should be used for (purplish for coordinates, yellow for colours, grey for scalars), but as far as Blender’s Node Editor is concerned, colours and positions are not actually different types. Both are vectors, and one can be interpreted as the other. This can be (ab)used for some creative effects! For example, the name of the “Separate RGBA” node says it’s for separating an RGBA colour into its components, but here we are using it to take apart a coordinate vector instead.
Note also in the above, that the Color terminal on the Output node expects a vector RGB colour, but when you feed it a single colour component (i.e. a scalar), it simply replicates it the necessary number of times to make a vector of the required dimension. Since all components of the RGB colour are the same, you get a shade of grey. | <urn:uuid:d301790a-85e4-4616-a66b-3e8a2b687f9b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Texture_Nodes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.884843 | 1,596 | 2.640625 | 3 |
This post may contain affiliate links. Read the full disclosure here.
Building your plant care routine is a pretty personal business. It depends a lot on how much time you have, why you have plants (I hoard them like a goblin, you may too, or you might have them for decor reasons etc etc), and the types of plants you have.
If you have primarily succulents, you could get away with shoving them outside all summer, ignoring them in winter, and occasionally throwing some fertiliser their way. Those of us with plants like orchids and hoya that we want to bloom need a *slightly* more hands-on approach.
The problem with establishing a plant care routine is that plants don’t follow routines.
I can’t design a checklist that says ‘water once a fortnight’ or whatever, because it doesn’t work like that.
Your plants need watering more in summer and less in winter.
Same with repotting.
There’s no hard or fast rule about when you should repot. I have plants with shallow roots systems that have been in the same pot for YEARS and they’re fine. I fertilise them regularly and you can add stuff to the soil to recharge it.
So this plant care routine checklist is a checklist of, er, checking. Check if your plant needs water weekly. Water it if it does, don’t if it’s not.
So, we’ve set aside some time for plant care every week. What do we do with it?
Btw, I like to set aside an hour, but it doesn’t take that long every week, so I use the extra time to have little nap. You’ll find that every so often you’ll need to spend a couple of hours repotting, or treating pests, so it all works out in the end.
Daily House Plant Care Routine
You don’t have to actually do anything for your plants on a daily basis, but it’s a good idea to just…have a look at them. Check that nothing’s gone drastically wrong.
A mushroom randomly sprouted in my Monstera Dubia yesterday. Mushrooms in house plants aren’t usually a problem, but I’m glad I didn’t miss it! They popped up yesterday and already look like they’re drooping a bit, so I’m guessing they won’t be hanging around for long.
So yeah, cast your eye over your plants every day if you can. This is not mandatory, but it might help you deal with issues more quickly.
Weekly house plant checklist
If weekly is too often, feel free to do this fortnightly. Weekly is the best case scenario, but I definitely can eak this out to more of a fortnightly or even monthly appointment.
How often you carry out these tasks also depends a tonne on the types of plants you have. As I said before, if you have primarily succulents you can probably do these things every couple of months. If you have, for example, a White Fusion Calathea, you’ll have to do them every day (jokes, but also extremely true).
Check the soil
This is how we check whether or not we need to water. If the soil is dry, water it.
I often see ‘if the top inch of soil is dry, water it’ and this advice is of no use to anyone. For starters, that’s really gonna depend on the size of the pot.
Also, just because the top inch of the soil is dry doesn’t mean that the rest of it isn’t a soggy quagmire.
If you’re a newbie, use a moisture metre. No, they’re not particularly accurate, but I can tell you from experience that they’re way more accurate than someone that has no idea what they’re doing. They’re only a few quid, and definitely worth it.
Check for pests
Checking for pests is a pain but it’s so so necessary. The earlier you catch them, the less chance they have to move onto your other plants.
If you see pests, isolate the plant as quickly as possible and move it somewhere that you can see it everyday.
This may just be my ADHD talking, but if you see it everyday you’re more likely to remember to treat it.
Places to check for pests:
- The underside of leaves, especially where the leaf meets the petiole
- Any new growth
- Damaged parts of the leaves
- The ‘veins’ of leaves
Hold plants up to the light to check for spidermites.
Remove dead leaves
Dead leaves are a perfectly normal occurance in house plants. Leaves don’t last forever, and often plants will shed smaller older leaves because they take more energy to maintain than they provide for the plant.
Also…sometimes plants dry out too much, have a bad batch of pests and end up looking sad.
Sometimes peace lilies have hiss fits because they’ve been repotted and look like this:
If you look closely, she’s blooming a LOT, so she’s FINE (admittedly, I think she’s due a feed). She’s just a drama queen. Still, those yellow leaves ain’t coming back, so I may as well chop them and make her a bit tidier. It als might make her think twice about being so dramatic again.
Dead leaves aren’t just messy, they can create a lovely, nurturing haven for things like fungus gnats.
The leaves will disintegrate over time (pretty quickly in plants that like to stay quite damp) and they’re grow fungus, which fungus gnats are…pretty fond of.
Remove the leaves asap. It’s a lot easier to discourage fungus gnats from setting up camp in the first place than it is to get rid of them.
Monthly House Plant Care Tasks
Monthly is easier for these tasks, but 6 weekly is also fine.
Fertilise your plants
Plants need nutrients to help them grow. Whilst good humidity, consisent watering and approriate light is key to healthy growth, you can end up with mottled, yellowig leaves if you don’t feed your plants.
I use the General Hydroponics Flora series, but any house plant fertiliser will do. I typically recommend to use half the amount the manufacturer recommends, one because it’s reduces the chace of your burning the roots, and two, it’s cheaper.
Check any new growth
Keeping an eye on any new growth can help you head off any issues before they, er, kill your plant.
If it’s weird and blackened, it’s probably a pest issue. If the leaf didn’t really unfurl and then sort of rotted off, that’s usually a sign of inconsistent watering (it happens a lot in summer when the soil dries out super quickly) but can also be root rot.
Smaller new growth can be a sign that the plant isn’t getting as much light as it once did. LAck of fenestrations can mean the same thing.
Just remember that leaves grow once they’ve unfurled, so wait until they’ve reached full size and hardened off before changing anything. Anthurium leaves, for example, start off teeny weeny and grow loads once theyv’e unfurled. Schefflera leaves start off like little tiny claws and gradually grow to full size.
If there isn’t any new growth, keep a close eye on the plant. Some plants, such as ZZ plants don’t grow very quickly, but sometimes there’s an issue. My ZZ didn’t grow for a year or more, so I repotted it from a terracotta pot into a plastic one and it immediately took off.
Plants should grow if they’re being cared for properly. If they aren’t it could be a sign that there’s a issue. I have an article here that can help you identify what the problem might be.
Flush leca plants
This definitely a case of do as I say and not as I do. I’m terrible for remembering to flush my leca and I’m at the point now where the mineral deposits have hardened and won’t dissolve when I flush them. I’ll probably have to boil the leca to shift them and I really can’t be bothered. FIngers crossed it doesn’t damage my plants!
Yearly/6-Monthly House Plant Care Tasks
Check the roots
You should be checking the roots if you notice any issues, but every year or so I like to check the roots to see I need to up-pot.
There’s a fine line between keeping an eye on the roots and potentially damaging them by poking around in them too often. Some plants (in my experience, Hoya and Ponytail Palm) keep being quite severly rootbound to themselves.
Tbh, being root bound isn’t that big of a deal as long as the plant is able to absirb enough water BUT it can be more difficult to repot a plant that’s very tightly rootbound. Checking once or twice a year can ensure that repotting is less stressful for the plant.
See? Not too much to do!
AND YET I DON’T DO IT.
I’m really good at bringing plants back from the brink of death, but not so good at regular maintenance. I’m trying, guys.
I’ve made this printable for myself (gonna put it on my iPad home screen where it will glare at me at least once a day), but you can download it if you so wish. If you think there’s anything I’ve missed off, leave me a comment or DM me on Instagram. | <urn:uuid:d6b2fa5a-7e52-4f39-a19f-24e8e90f1387> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://planethouseplant.com/indoor-plant-care-routine-plus-printable-checklist/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.93136 | 2,161 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Across large swathes of New South Wales the stark skeletons of once healthy eucalyptus trees dot the landscape in alarming numbers.
From the manna gums of the Monaro high plains to the snow gums of the Australian alps, the scale of eucalypt dieback is confronting and it has accelerated dramatically over the past decade.
Scientists know that in the case of the snow gums, the native wood borer is essentially eating trees from the top down.
They also know that on the Monaro plains, manna gums have suffered the ravages of leaf-eating eucalyptus weevils.
But what they’re yet to fully grasp is why those insects have been able to take hold in such numbers and do so much damage, and what underlying stressors have left eucalyptus trees vulnerable to attack.
On Wednesday, the NSW government stumped up $1.2 million for six research projects that should add more detail to the big picture.
Climate change, drought, insects and soil microbes are all thought to contribute to dieback. The grants mean scientists now have the cash they need to try to work out exactly what’s happening in terms of those potential influences.
Dr Matthew Brookhouse is an expert in plant physiology at the Australian National University and has been studying the devastating impact of native wood borers on snow gums in the high country.
He has a nice analogy that sums up the challenge he faces.
“We know who the doorman is,” he says of the borer that kills snow gums by essentially ringbarking them. “But we simply do not know what’s powering the whole process.
“There is a bigger picture that we need to understand and that is what stressor, or stressors, are driving the insect outbreaks, andhow they are driving it. How long have those stressors been in place, and has the impact of them become greater in terms of the last decade, when we’ve really seen this phenomenon take off?”
In the northern hemisphere, delving into the past is a relatively simple task.
There, the winters are cold enough to stop trees from growing, and halted growth is what creates annual rings that can tell scientists so much about the history of a tree, and what it was responding to at particular points in time.
But that’s generally not the case in Australia. Only the snow gum grows at a high enough altitude to stop growth during the winter and produce rings that can be reliably identified and measured.
One of two grants won by the ANU means that tree ring work can proceed.
“It’s a real opportunity for us to look back in time. We don’t just need a cause of death, we need to know what led to the death. That’s where the real action can happen,” Brookhouse says.
“We can date them and we can measure them and that opens the door for us to understand the ultimate drivers, not just the proximal cause, which in this case is an insect.”
The grants also mean money for more sophisticated mapping of dieback events, and gene-based research to identify eucalypt species that can cope with increasingly extreme conditions.
There is much at stake, the NSW environment minister, Matt Kean, said on Wednesday, with millions of trees killed over a relatively short time frame, from Bourke to the New England tablelands, north coast, Sydney’s hinterland and down to the Snowy Mountains.
The result is damaged ecosystems and decreased biodiversity.
“By engaging some of the country’s best scientific minds we are hoping to find ways to remedy the current dieback areas and prevent future outbreaks,” Kean said. | <urn:uuid:19382289-ba31-4c06-b581-8d74a0b5dc15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.degroeneprins.nl/australia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952408 | 796 | 3.65625 | 4 |
Are you wondering what to do while in London? If you trust in the thoughts of others, and would like to go the the places most popular in London, we have a list here presenting some of the most popular activities in London. Quite some of these are museums with millions of visitors every year, and quite a lot of these have free entrance, making it both cheap and interesting.
Top 10 London activities
– British Museum – the incredible museum by Tottenham Court Road
– National Gallery – fantastic art in the centre of London
– London Eye – beautiful view
– Madame Tussauds – wax figures
– Tower of London – one of Londons most famous buildings
– Museums of Greenwich – for example the Royal Observatory
– Victoria and Albert museum – interesting for everyone
– Science Museum – where you can try yourself, not only see
– Natural History Museum – see a life-sized Blue Whale
– Tate Modern – beautiful art museum
This list is based on the visitor numbers from 2010. | <urn:uuid:765a7af3-7d34-4ce1-90ff-db5522c955ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.guidetolondon.net/top-10-list-london-activities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.897141 | 214 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook,
A Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss,
originally published by Museums and the Web 2001, Archives & Museum Informatics
A Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss
"Museums consider having web presence as obligatory - as membership, information, e.commerce, etc. and then eventually an art space. The art space is not quite an afterthought, but it is not the prime focus."
Benjamin Weil, SFMOMA (Sins of Change conference, 2000)
"... the Susan Collins artwork Audio Zone is spread around the exhibition space. The audience must wear infra-red headphones, which at certain points receive seductive voices urging you to 'touch' and 'stroke' the triggered video projections of nipples, lips and keyboard buttons. The desk staff who issue the headphones quickly noticed a very common misconception in the audience, and now carefully explain to each person that this is NOT 'a guide to the exhibition.' "
Beryl Graham (1994).
The problem with curating new media art is that the fascinating range of challenges is matched only by the dearth of data and material available to help curators. Comparatively, the field of museum interpretative and educational new media is well resourced and debated. On seeing a piece of new technology in a gallery or museum, a member of the public is justifiably likely to assume that it is some kind of interpretative aid rather than an artwork in itself.
General new media theory seems to be in plentiful supply, so much so, that the few accomplished new media artworks which manage to get produced, tend to emerge staggering under the weight of eager academics. When it comes to the practical issues of presenting new media to the public however, even Peter Weibel of ZKM admits that it is "difficult not to make an error because there is not much information ..." (2000). There have been some conferences, and some skirmishing on discussion lists concerning new media art curating in particular, but nothing like the regular, archived, published events devoted to the web as interpretation.
It is this relative absence which the Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss attempts to address, starting with the collection and presentation of some pithy information and opinion relevant to overworked new media curators. CRUMB forages beneath the tables of education, museum evaluation and media theory for tasty morsels, as well as going straight to the horses' mouth of curators and artists for useful experience and hindsight. The website includes bibliographies, links, interviews with leading curators, and some useful nitty-gritty concerning contracts etc. The CRUMB website, and this paper, draw from a wider research interest in new media curating at the University of Sunderland, and particularly from the experience of Sarah Cook and myself. Working both in new media and mixed visual arts contexts, between us we have experience of working with budgets from £200 to £200,000, and of research in places from Banff and Minneapolis to Bangalore and Ljubljana. Having worked with institutions from artists-run centres to local authority galleries, we have sympathy with various devils, and can commiserate with Barbara London when she says that "Its tough to get museums to change, to keep moving in new directions. In early days of video we didn't have access - parcel post is how they got around." (Sins of Change conference, 2000).
It is very much early days for any discussion of new media art curatorship: At times the debate seems to move very fast, and at others seems fossilised, with huge disparities in awareness and expectations. In Britain in 1997, the announcement of the Turner Prize nominees unleashed a surprising flood of popular press puzzlement that video could be considered to be art. On the other hand, in India, a healthily hybrid approach means that artists like Shilpa Gupta (http://members.tripod.com/shilpagupta/) can move between sculptural installation and Internet-based art fairly comfortably. The field of 'new', new-ish or upstart media is rather difficult to discuss, when neither the terminology nor the genres are fixed. The conference Computing Culture: Defining New Media Genres (1998) suggested that artifacts could be considered within the genres of Database, Interface, Spatialisation and Navigation. Festivals and institutions do seem to be starting to divide their calls for work into rough categories of Net.Art, Single Screen, Performative, and some variety of interactive or non-interactive Installation (Public Art and 2D Digital Images being occasional orbiting companions). Whilst net.art has netted the majority of debate and controversy, CRUMB also covers physical new media works in conventional gallery spaces.
This paper uses some resources from the CRUMB website to consider some current debates for curating new media art, falling under four headings: Artists, Archives, Audiences, and Aesthetics.
"His idea was clear: a museum has to follow what artists are doing. Art history has to follow art. Not the opposite. Too much today the museum wants to prescribe what art is."
Peter Weibel (2000), referring to Alfred H. Barr of MOMA.
"Curatorial decisions are made through a need to justify hardware and software investments. Artists are a test case."
Vuk Cosic, net.art pioneer (Sins of Change conference, 2000).
Art and science institutions have sometimes invited artists in to play with their equipment, only to find them fundamentally challenging their whole value systems:
"[new media art] practice challenges the notion of authorship, has to do with collective authorship; non western ideas of discourse is something the museum has always had trouble with. And what has happened on the net is a brain of a social collectivity, that allows discursive practice ... How do you support and preserve a critical practice that is inclusive ... how can you do that when it is difficult to pin down authorship?" - Sara Diamond, Banff Centre for the Arts (Sins of Change conference, 2000).
Artists, whether individually or collectively, have not only presented museums with major conceptual headaches, but have been implicated in major shifts in how educational and commercial research institutions think about what they do. As Lynn Hershman says: "digital artists have to adopt interdisciplinary ways of researching", not least in order to get access to equipment. In the USA, for example, the Xerox PARC experience (Harris, 1999) openly explores the creative conflicts between art and science research, whilst in the UK the development of 'art-practice-led' PhDs has been involved with a fundamental questioning of 'what is research?' (Malins and Gray, 1999). It is the artists who make and push the new forms of media art, even if these forms are risky, challenging or an unfinished process: "... only the net allows us to make these works in progress. If you are a curator it is a crime not to use it." Olia Lialina, net.art pioneer (Sins of Change conference, 2000). Certain generous and brave curators have benefited from the spirit of this openness, by making their research trips public (such as Barbara London's Japan journal ) or by sharing their process and knowledge (very notably, Steve Dietz's publications ).
Artists tend to ask the most difficult questions concerning audience, archiving and economics, such as Ester Robinson's queries: "Who is paying for what you are doing? ... Does it live in a place that no one should care about it? ...Who has ownership? ... How does it give the audience sustenance?" (Sins of Change conference, 2000). Of obvious importance to artists is the whole question of how they can make a living. Olia Lialina has stated that "My contribution to this discussion was the first net art gallery, Teleportica. It was to show that net artists are not the cheapest artists on the market." (Sins of Change conference, 2000). Should museums be paying 'per screening' like video or cinema, should they be funding co-productions like films, and how do web artists fit into the Exhibition Payment Right (UK) or CARFAC schedules (Canada)?
"... unless museums start to pay artists fair amounts for linking to their work... amounts that are comparable with what any other artist showing in a gallery space in the museum would expect to receive for a whole body of work... one net site is usually not the equivalent to one painting ... more like a major body of work - a large installation, a substantial video, a series of sculptures." (Rackham, 2000)
Other artists may see the more popular debate concerning payment and intellectual property as part of the commercialization of the Internet rather than an art debate per se (but these may, of course, be artists with other sources of income):
"I'm always struck by how the mainstream press is obsessed with the question of how Internet artists are ever going to make a buck ... I recently plodded through stacks of reviews from the '60s of Fluxus artists smashing violins and pissing in buckets. At the time plenty of journalists asked 'Why is this art?' or 'Is it theater?' or 'Is it any good?', but I never saw a single article that raised the question of how these artists were going to make a living." (Ippolito, 2000).
The struggle for artists' access to money, resources and presentation facilities will no doubt continue, but as artists are the ones who are making the debate as well as the work, they may be "a test case" in a positive as well as a negative sense - testing the institutions in unpredictable and productive ways.
"How can we address the preservation of ideas as opposed to objects" Benjamin Weil, SFMOMA (Sins of Change conference, 2000).
"Lev Manovich: I understand your position regarding museums, art institutions, preserving, archiving, databasing - but its so different from the Futurists who said 'shoot the painters, burn the museum.' Here we are - the avant-garde - and we want to keep all the stuff. (...) Maybe we should be looking towards the future.
Sara Diamond: It's different when a canon is being created, as opposed to a movement." (Sins of Change conference, 2000)
It seems that every media art festival of the past year had a panel to address the question of archiving - often as art (for example the panel at ISEA2000 moderated by Karen O'Rourke with Patricia d'Isola, Christophe Le Francois, Eduardo Kac, Georges Legrady, and Lev Manovich), but also as a curatorial strategy. Yet despite all the discussions there remains an ambivalence toward the notion of archiving - we don't know what to keep yet but we need to be able to refer to it.
"We either let it decay online and that's fine or we preserve the memory and find a form to represent it in a manner that makes sense. Who in this room has seen the spiral jetty? But we all know about it, at least we have a sense of what the intent was. Going backwards to understand how this work was produced is a good lesson." Benjamin Weil, SFMOMA (Sins of Change conference, 2000).
"... art critics have suddenly found pioneering figures in video installation, all from the early 90s. There is in fact a half-century of pioneers, and now we have to get the word out, not just the work out. (...) the genesis of this conference was to address the amnesia of recent art critics. You must get up and think about them [the early media artists], teach them, write about them, make people watch them." Bruce Jenkins, film and video curator at Harvard University (Sins of Change conference, 2000).
Furthermore, we're aware that technologically, we're using media which have, in Bruce Sterling's words, "the life-span of a hamster" (1995). Showing the work in order to keep it alive, in order to make it part of a canon, is in fact destroying the work. In the case of film and video, the work is deteriorating as we watch and learn about it.
So, if we can't count on being able to keep the obsolescent technology, we need to be able to keep the intent, the words. Yet, the question of archiving even the discourse which surrounds new media practice (which we anticipate will be useful to future curators) is itself debated. For every book published by MIT press, for example, there are a thousand e-mails on listservs across the globe that get read and deleted. Jennifer Crowe, also speaking at this conference, is constantly revising the guidelines for submissions of projects and information to the Rhizome database (http://www.rhizome.org). Then there's the question of whether the discourse exists in the first place:
"people in art worlds didn't know how to look at my work, or treat it. So I wrote my own reviews [under the pseudonym of] Prudence Juris. The reviews would talk about and argue about the work. Then I would take those articles and show them to the galleries to develop my own credibility. You have to create the language yourself to promote, historicize your work. Just doing the work isn't enough. you have to create preservation on your own." Lynn Hershman, artist (Sins of Change conference, 2000).
E-mail has made even the museum tradition of filing correspondence with artists more complicated (few people in the museum world are consistently diligent enough to print and file a letter about the making or exhibiting of even a painting, let alone the details of a web commission).
The Walker and other museums have been questioning the feasibility of offering open source, shared server space to artists. Oliver Grau at the University of Humboldt in Berlin (http:// www.arthist.hu-berlin.de) is developing a database of virtual art that documents not only the work of art but also all its different versions, each time it was presented, what the publicity/criticism of its exhibition was, even who the technicians were who worked on it. This is an academic (and highly theoretical) endeavor, but once online could be a model for the preservation of ideas as well as of the documentation of inherently transitory work.
This, after all, is the mandate of the ZKM. But on that front there is also the curatorial dilemma of the authority of authoring through the practice of archiving. How many future new media curators will see the exhibition net_condition produced by the ZKM as the official history of net.art? Why isn't Heath Bunting and Irational.org in the show?
"They [ZKM] had a show on Internet art - I'd like this to go on the record - very, very late in the game. They came very late to discover Internet art. They trailed on the coattails of other curators. They picked up and accumulated the choices of other curators. They accumulated them in their show." From an interview with Kathy Rae Huffman (2000).
"Sarah Cook: So then what is the future of a new media curator?
Peter Weibel: to protect media art against the takeover of the historical art world. Seriously. It's not an easy job.
Sarah Cook: But the historical art world is founded in part on museums where they collect art. That is why you have new media institutions like the one we're in now, ZKM, which also collects, so how is that protecting media art from the art world if museums the world over are collecting new media art?
Weibel: By two things. First by emphasizing production, of contemporary, risky, young artists, and then by preserving the work which is discounted and marginalized by the art institutions." From an interview with Peter Weibel (2000).
In the field of new media art, the canons are beginning to appear amongst the hand -to-hand combat concerning archiving. Dust may continue to obscure the view for some time, but by archiving documents and records of the early exhibitions as well as recording the work itself, the history of new media may perhaps be usefully retained. By utilising the possibilities of new media, the archives may even be creative tools in their own right.
"Who wants to walk around a gallery if it's full of toffee-nosed elitists?" James Bloom of Wired magazine at the First UK Internet Art Festival (quoted in Cavendish, 1995, p.23)
"If interactive art simply mirrors the game - its themes and values - it becomes symptomatic of uncritical postmodernism where there is no difference between entertainment and art, where consumerism reigns. And when, loaded down as amusement, it knocks on the museum door, it insists on altering how and why museums functions, further institutionalizing art as consumer fun."
(Cornwell, 1993, p.12)
In the early nineties, the utopian excitement about new and different audiences contrasted sharply with fears that the allure of 'hands-on technology fun' might be deeply implicated in the 'Disneyfication' of museums. Some time later, the debate is perhaps less polarised, but still rather contradictory. Shankar Barua (2000) summarised a situation that has international resonance: "In India the audience for art galleries is a thin elite. The audience for new media art is also an elite, but a different one."
Is the audience for net.art a new audience or just the regular art audience logging on when they should be doing something else? How does the audience find it? How does the number of hits to a website relate to actual use, benefit and pleasure? Is it more about participation than audience anyway? And how about 'hacktivist' net.art, which may be deliberately anonymous and covert in its baiting of multinationals, rather than seeking an audience? For all the internationalist rhetoric, how does the Internet cope with the practicalities of cross-cultural art communication? For all of these questions, certain exhibitions and artifacts provide particular examples, but there is much less information available from curators and artists about behind-the-scenes data, illuminating failures, or audience feedback. Those who design museum interpretative sites have been gathering information for some time on who uses the sites, how and when. Artists may have very different parameters for judging the 'success' of their sites, but some data on who visits, and whether they stay for two seconds or two hours, might be useful, even if only to discover how best to shock and appall.
As for new media art installations displayed in conventional gallery and museum spaces, there are some scattered items of information concerning audience demographics. For example, for one exhibition of interactive installations in a regional British art museum, the show, when compared to other contemporary and historical art exhibitions in the same year, showed little difference in gender numbers, but a significantly higher proportion of visitors from the "under-20" age bracket (Graham, 1997, p. 102).
Gathering demographic information is one thing, but judging the subtleties of audience interaction is another. The entry of new media art into museums was very much spearheaded by 'the romance of interactivity':
"The word interactive sounds like it will alleviate the alienation of modern life by generating a dynamic alliance between artists and their audiences, joining them together in a splendid waltz that lets viewers become equal partners with artists in creating art." (Wooster, 1991, p. 294)
Since then, the romance has been tempered by some more critical views on exactly how interactive artifacts are: "For a multimedia program, a human audience is just a random number generator." (Cubitt, 1999). The knowledge of those designing educational exhibits has also become pertinent: "To interact is to act reciprocally, to act on each other. ... not merely a machine that the visitor operates ... 'Non-interactive mechanisms' perhaps sums them up adequately." (Miles, 1988, p.95). Although artists are understandably wary of 'audience evaluation', they may be interested in, for example, the results of Stevenson's (1994) research into hands-on science exhibits, which indicates that there are significant impacts on the long-term memories and understanding of the audience, rather than merely a case of 'running around pushing things'.
Some of the commentary on the audience's use of interactive artworks in galleries has come from critics "... you really need an hour alone with the thing, which is impossible under the circumstances of everyday museum attendance." (Coleman, 1994, p.14). Some has come from artists themselves, such as David Rokeby's detailed observations on "command" gestures versus "tentative questioning gestures" in his interactive art systems (1995, p. 148). Weinbren (1995) and Feingold (1995, p.401) have also made useful observations on 'control' and 'mastery' in their own artworks. My own research into interactive artworks in galleries (Graham; 1997, 1999) expected interesting gender differences, but uncovered instead a surprising tendency for groups to want to use artworks together, even when this meant squashing uncomfortably into spaces designed for an individual. This led to a particular interest in artworks which encourage interaction between audience members, rather than solely between artwork and audience.
There is still a great deal of uncertainty amongst curators (and the audience) as to what kind of experience is being offered by new media art: Quick-fire game pleasure? Information pleasure? Sculptural pleasure? Sit-on-a-hard-chair-and-watch-a-video pleasure? (Graham, 2001). As with the Audio Zone artwork using infra-red headphones, this confusion may be used creatively, but the incredibly diverse range of expectations about new media art means that it's more than usually important to try to get some kind of feedback. Matthew Gansallo (2000), when interviewed about the Mongrel commission for the Tate (http://www.tate.org.uk/webart/), revealed a wide range of reactions:
"... we got a lot of responses back: 'who did it?' and 'how scary!', and 'is this a site for knowledge?' and 'what is it?' and 'anyone can put this typically Tate shock tactics crap [up]!' And we got responses that were 'gosh this is interesting,' and 'I'm glad they've done this,' and 'it's good the Tate is large enough to say what you want.' "
Whoever the target audience for new media art may be, and whatever their feedback, Robert Atkins has some pithy parting advice:
"The Top Five strategies for overcoming sloth in your artistic/curatorial practice in relation to the issue of having your audience gain access to the work:
5. Don't think technological barriers will fall - there are ever-increasing barriers of technology business ...
4. Focus your energy on technology that is beginning to arise, something not too far away ...
3. Don't lose sight of producers and of quality for audiences; the more you watch the less you know.
2. Do think hybrid, not just hardware or software. Digital culture can be simultaneously many things at once; producers and audiences can both be content creators ... The art-world mix of producers [can create] another form of knowledge - from media into media art. (i.e. Muntadas' Archive Project and mediachannel.org)
1. Don't censor yourself, don't wimp out, don't think anyone knows more than you do ... Find niche opportunities ..." Robert Atkins, art historian, writer, media content producer (Sins of Change conference, 2000).
"User experience is what art does best. To change the interface is to dramatically change the work." Lev Manovich, artist and theorist (Sins of Change conference, 2000).
"It's only under huge pressure that a visual arts curator would agree to hang a video projector, and only if it is agreed the projector will project an image on the wall and take us back to painting. Only under threat of torture will a visual arts curator put a computer in the galleries ..."
Philippe Verge, Walker Art Center (Sins of Change conference, 2000).
The aesthetics of new media art is easily ignored in favour of its function. Moreover, the way of piece of new media art looks and holds up within the realm of aesthetics is usually masked behind a whack of media and communication theory - about networks, about spectacle, about invisible architectures. Aesthetics, as a philosophy, is an old-fashioned one, and certainly not one taught in most media schools. It is, however, a philosophy taught to curators. Hegel taught that to each age there is an art form, from painting to sculpture to the architecture of the temple itself; from this we learned not to see art as separate from the age in which it was produced. New media's very nature - interactivity for one - has demanded of curators different criteria for the aesthetic evaluation of the work. Would Hegel have placed net.art as the highest art form for our age?
In his article "The Death of Computer Art", Lev Manovich (1996) made a distinction between two worlds where art is made and shown, but where the social definitions of art differ enormously. The first he called "Duchamp-land" and defined it as: "galleries, major museums, prestigious art journals", the second he called "Turing-land" and defined its parameters as: "ISEA, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH art shows, etc." Manovich's point was that the two worlds would not converge, that we should not expect what is being made in Turing-land to be shown in Duchamp-land. The reason for this, he surmised, was that the typical object admitted to Duchamp-land prioritizes content and fits within a discourse of irony, self-referentiality and other things generally postmodern, but that the objects being made in Turing-land are not ironic because they are oriented towards the ever-new technology rather than content, they are simple in ideas, and they take their technology very seriously.
This distinction is still valid. Manovich established a criteria for the type of art accepted in each land, but what he didn't mention then, and what has become paramount now in 2001, is the criteria for art to be shown in each land - namely, the question of exhibition practices and the field of curatorship. For art to be shown in Turing-land, it need only apply. Some money, a truck, a power-bar, a plug, a network connection plus a space in a fair in a convention center, or maybe none of that but ftp and a server. For art to be shown in Duchamp-land it has to have the interest of a curator, and with that comes the backing of an institution, a board of directors, a funding body, an intellectual mass. Unlike the art made in Turing-land, art in Duchamp-land goes through some process of curatorial legitimization before it is shown. Curators make regular visits to Turing-land in order to find things to bring to Duchamp-land (that's how Lev Manovich ended up in the Walker Art Center - one of the powerhouses of Duchamp-land). So in that respect, it might have very little to do with what the work is actually about. While the two worlds may not have converged, the way curators move between them has had an effect on the work being produced in each. Where do you think curators have learned the communication theory behind which they can hide the lackluster aesthetics of much of new media art? What is found readymade in Turing-land can always be signed and exhibited in Duchamp-land.
And has this curatorial "research" had an effect on the way the work is presented in each? You betcha. Curators beware: 'changing interface' can change the work. One only has to think of the different experience of visiting a convention center from visiting a white cube to realize that the interface is the interaction. The same is the case on the web - seeing art in the context of a commercial product-based site and seeing it in the context of a cultural content-based site can drastically affect how that work is interpreted.
The best recent example of this was Vivian Selbo's design for the exhibition Art Entertainment Network (http://aen.walkerart.org). Creating a customizable interface for the works on view was the artwork in itself. There was a place to shop, a place to read, a place to listen, a place to chat ... all things we expect from our web-experience whether commercial or cultural. These types of interfaces are clearly needed as curators have recognized that Duchamp-land-type media art simply doesn't fly in any place where its irony and content-based form is subsumed by the pressures of the bottom line.
Though who says aesthetic culture isn't commercial anyway? Obviously it always has been. Nevertheless, the curating of media art into Duchamp-land has caused a number of Turing-land artists to reconsider how they want their work to evolve in the world. Why should it be self-referential and postmodern just to get the money to be shown in Duchamp-land when now they can get a lot more money by masking the irony and selling their skills to the market (which is neither Duchamp nor Turing aware) instead? As such, a number of web-based artists have turned the lion's share of their attention away from simply making works of net.art to starting dot.coms: Vuk Cosic and the Slovenian start-up Literal (http://www.literal.si), the boys from etoy selling shares as art (http://www.etoy.com), hans_extrem and his self-professed very expensive consulting company, Ubermorgen (http://www.ubermorgen.com).
This has created a third problem and brings us back to the beginning of the vicious circle. How do curators present this type of overtly commercial and yet slyly Duchampian practice when museums structures have traditionally dictated that the art shown is not explicitly commercial, and when at the same time the commercial galleries won't touch new media art with a ten foot pole because they can't see its inherent ephemerality as an investment? Should they even exhibit it? Until Turing-land and Duchamp-land (and now perhaps Monopoly-land) get themselves sorted out it seems that the answer is that curators tend to go back to their philosophies of aesthetics, and mask the work behind more theory: beauty and seduction always sells.
The reason why curators expose themselves to the confusion and challenge (and carping) of new media art, might be that the whole mess is undeniably fascinating, and offers opportunities for trying a bold experiment, and getting it right (or more right than anyone so far). CRUMB aims to provide some information which might help avoid the alternative of getting it spectacularly wrong (in a way that someone else has previously got it wrong). We aim to extend the life-span of the media art hamster by filling our cheeks with crumbs dropped by curators and others, and all thanks should go to those who share the knowledge (Steve Dietz and Sara Diamond particularly), and to all those who agreed to be interviewed about awkward subjects.
The Museums and the Web conference is one of the few occasions on which educators and archivists get to meet artists and art curators, and to share information from their various experience. We hope that people will contribute to the CRUMB site and discussion list, and add to the public body of knowledge concerning new media curating.
Barua, Shankar (2000) unpublished interview by Beryl Graham, 4 December, New Delhi.
Cavendish, Dominic (1995) "The virtual state of the art." The Independent, 27 March. 23.
Coleman, A.D. (1994) "Letter from New York." Photo Metro (Jan). 28-29.
Computing Culture: Defining New Media Genres (1998). San Diego: University of California San Diego. Available from URL: .
Cornwell, Regina (1993) "Interactive art and the video game: Separating the siblings." Camerawork (San Francisco), 20 (1). 10-13.
Cubitt, Sean (1999) presentation at Matrix (art research conference) July. London: Central St. Martins School of Art.
Feingold, Ken (1995) "Ou: Interactivity as divination as vending machine." Leonardo, 28 (5). 399-402.
Gansallo, Matthew (2000) unpublished interview by Sarah Cook, December. Forthcoming edited transcript on URL:
Graham, Beryl (1994) unpublished notes from observational case study of the exhibition V-topia, July-Sept 1994 at The Tramway, Glasgow.
Graham, Beryl (1997) A study of audience relationships with interactive computer-based visual artworks in gallery settings, through observation, art practice, and curation. Unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Sunderland.
Graham, Beryl (1999) "A study of audience relationships with interactive computer-based visual artworks." Leonardo, 32 (4). 326-328.
Graham, Beryl (forthcoming 2001) "Fun * pleasure: Games and interactive computer-based art in mainstream galleries." In: Erkki Huhtamo (ed.) Mariosofia: Elektronisten pelien kulttuuri (Mariology: Electronic game culture). Helsinki: Gaudeamus.
Harris, Craig (ed.) (1999) Art and Innovation: The Xerox Parc Artist-In-Residence Program. Cambridge and London: MIT Press.
Huffman, Kathy Rae (2000) unpublished interview, in conversation with Julie Lazar. Forthcoming edited transcript on URL:
Ippolito, Jon (2000) EAT digest. [Online] Digest 8 March 2000. Available from URL: .
Malins, Julian and Carole Gray (1999) "The digital thesis: Recent developments in practice-based PhD research in art and design." Digital Creativity, 10 (1). 18-28.
Manovich, Lev (1996) The Death of Computer Art. [Online]. Available from URL: OR .
Miles, R.S. (1988) The Design of Educational Exhibits. 2nd edition. London: Unwin Hyman.
Net_condition (1999). Curated by Peter Weibel, ZKM, MECAD, and NTT: Sept. 23 - Nov. 19, 1999. [Online] Available from URL:
Rackham, Melinda (2000) EAT digest. [Online] Digest 8 March 2000. Available from URL: .
Rokeby, David (1995) "Transforming mirrors: Subjectivity and control in interactive media." In: Simon Penny (ed.) Critical issues in electronic media. New York: SUNY.
Sins of Change: Media Arts in Transition Again (2000) Conference at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, April 2000. Transcriptions of panel discussions by Sarah Cook.
Sterling, Bruce (1995) "Dead media." Presentation at International Symposium of Electronic Arts. Montreal: ISEA 95.
Stevenson, John (1994) "Getting to grips." Museums Journal (UK) May. 30-32.
Weibel, Peter (2000) unpublished interview by Sarah Cook, September. Forthcoming edited transcript on URL: http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/
Weinbren, Grahame String (1995) "Mastery: Computer games, intuitive interfaces, and interactive multimedia." Leonardo, 28 (5). 403-408.
Wooster, Ann-Sargent (1991) "Reach out and touch someone: The romance of interactivity." In: Hall and Fifer (eds.) lluminating video. New York: Aperture. 275-303. | <urn:uuid:d5102c40-1689-4938-843a-6329248e8138> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://absoluteone.ljudmila.org/beryl_graham.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943184 | 7,577 | 1.898438 | 2 |
|CERES No. 111 (FAO Ceres, 1986, 50 p.)|
by Pran Chopra
The tourist literature rightly describes Bhutan as "A Kingdom in the Sky...a paradise in the real sense...unmarred by modern highways, railroads, and industrial plants". At the same time, from its seclusion in the fastness of the Himalayas, Bhutan is beginning to look out on the modern world, carefully choosing such pieces of our times as it thinks will fit its own timeless world, but the choice is not easy. The need for change pulls one way, the cultural enchantment of Bhutan's colourful past pulls the other. Now that China's modern-minded rulers are opening up its contiguous neighbour, Tibet, Bhutan is probably the most closed country in the world. It is closed by its geography as well as by its strongly conservationist monarchy, a religious and cultural child of Tibet. Nevertheless, Bhutan has begun to put a foot out the door.
The quickest and most modern way of reaching Bhutan is by a 90-minute flight from Calcutta in one of Bhutan's two 16-passenger planes. The aircraft lands at Paro, itself a gem, at the country's only airstrip, then follows an equally lovely one-hour drive to the capital, Thimpu, nearly 2 500 metres above sea level. The alternative is a 14-hour drive to Thimpu from Baggdogra, the largest air services junction in northeastern India.
Either journey gives you a good view of two of the three distinguishing features of Bhutan's topography. One is the forest cover over half the country's 46 500 km2. The other is the dragon's-tooth pattern of narrow valleys, most of them running north to south, which appear abruptly above the Indian plains. The third feature is the snow-covered peaks of the Himalayan barrier in the north and the bleak glacial wastes that lie at their feet. If you fly to Thimpu on a clear day, you see some of the snow ranges, if you go by road, you can rest by the banks of the many beautiful snow-fed rivers and streams, which are one of Bhutan's outlets to the changing times.
South of the Himalayan watershed, which separates India from China, and moving further south to the Indo-Gangetic plains, lie the 360 000 km2 of the Himalayan region. This area is an enormous water trap. All the great rivers that water the 4.5 million km2 of South Asia are indebted to this catchment. Some-the greatest of the rivers of Pakistan, northern India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh-are indebted directly, because much, if not most, of their water comes from the melting of the snows in the Himalayas or from the rains that fall on the Himalayan slopes. Others-the more distant rivers of South India and Sri Lanka-are indebted to the Himalayas indirectly, because, with the Indian Ocean, this mountain barrier creates the monsoon cycle, the source of most of the water of South Asia, surface and underground, that does not come directly from melting snows.
A fragile ecology. These waters are the greatest economic asset of the billion people of South Asia, apart from their own labour and the farms to which they apply it. But acute problems have also arisen from the close juxtaposition between the Himalayan ecology and the enormous mass of the South Asian humanity, especially the Indo-Gangetic population. The Himalayan ecology is young and fragile. The pressure of humanity upon it is great. Even where the population is small in relation to the total area, it is very great in relation to the cultivable area, three or four times as great as in the plains. Therefore, cultivation keeps creeping further and further up on steeper and steeper slopes, first causing loss of precious forest, then loss of soil, and then flood havoc both in the hills and on the plains. In the Indian mid-Himalayas, the forest cover is generally estimated to have declined from over 25 per cent to below 10 per cent in the last decades. The drop in the man-land ratio has also been sharp: in parts of the Indian Himalayas it fell by almost half in the two decades between 1961 and 1981. Downstream silting has become devastating. According to studies of 21 river projects in India, the siltation is occurring more than two-and-a-half times faster than was estimated when the projects were drawn up. Since ill-considered siting of dams and inadequate reinforcing of their upstream ecology are themselves causing erosion and the resultant silting, many projects have turned out to be self-defeating. The average annual flood damage from these causes in India alone is estimated at about $135 million.
Awareness of this problem is far more acute now than it used to be, and the debate on it in India has become increasingly sharp. One healthy consequence has been that the cost of protecting the surrounding ecology, at site as well as upstream and down, is now included in the cost estimates of a project. This means that the downstream beneficiaries must pay for the protection of the ecological interests of the upstream local populations-and in the process, of course, they also fortify their own interests against loss through damage to the ecology of the project zone. But one kind of damage is proving difficult to overcome: a suspicion that has grown among the hill peoples about the motives of the people in the plains, which is retarding what could be a very healthy symbiosis between the Himalayan hills and the plains below.
One of the most important resources of the hill areas is gravity, which alone can convert their enormous water flows into cash. Water harnessed for downstream uses can be their most lucrative export. This can indeed mean some loss of their scarce and precious land. But few alternative uses of that land can yield as much income for the people who own it as the rent they would get if true rent for the land were fairly charged to the downstream user as part of the price of the project's benefits to him. And even with this fair rent, the downstream user would still find hydroelectric power cheaper than any other source of bulk power. The scope for this mutual benefit is enormous. But so far it has barely been touched. Recent Indian studies have estimated that between now and the year 2000 the demand for electrical energy will grow more than four times in Bangladesh and three times in India, Nepal, and Pakistan. That there is plenty of scope for hydroelectric power to meet that demand can be judged from the fact that, even taking into account hydroelectric power projects still under construction, India has developed only 16.9 per cent of its hydroelectric power potential, Pakistan 12 per cent, Bangladesh 3.5 per cent, and Nepal 0.23 per cent.
Counting the political cost. Here then is a vast untapped reservoir of wealth for all these countries, whether one looks at hydroelectric power as a product for direct sales or as an input into the economy with a strong multiplier effect. But because of past experience of long-term benefits of the people of the plains, the hill people have become very resentful of future hydroelectric projects. As a result, political costs have been added to the other costs of these projects.
While there is reluctance enough among a country's own hill people to have in their midst more projects for their own plains people, there is even greater reluctance, much more difficult to overcome, among hill countries like Nepal and Bhutan to accommodate more projects for the benefit of other countries. This affects India particularly because it is the main customer, and an insatiable one, for the hydroelectric potential of these two mountain kingdoms. And yet, Nepal and Bhutan cannot wish away the fact that sale of hydroelectric power to the growing industries of the Indo-Gangetic plain can be a richer source of income for them (and for India's own Himalayan area) than any other resources that they possess. Nor can India wish away the fact that on account of their proximity, suitable hydroelectric sites in the Himalayas can be the most economical source of power for the northern Indian industries.
This is the essence of the Himalayan symbiosis. But the past lies heavy upon it. This is the background against which the hesitant development of hydroelectric power in Bhutan should be viewed, though there are some other factors which explain the hesitation. Bhutan is even more conveniently located than Nepal as the source of hydroelectric power to the Bihar-West Bengal industrial belt, which has traditionally been the biggest in India. Bhutan's topography too makes it very suitable. Only short runs down from their snow sources, which are more steadily reliable than rain sources, the rivers of Bhutan reach convenient sites for the generation of hydroelectric power. Because their valleys are narrow and their gradients fast, with relatively small amounts of run-off, these rivers can build up high heads and deep drops for generating power. Because the valley floors are narrow, not much land is submerged, and such submersion as may be unavoidable would not affect many people because Bhutan is the most thinly populated of the South Asian states. Any loss of agricultural produce could easily be met from India as part of the costs of the project. In all respects Bhutan is distinctly better placed than Nepal. Yet Bhutan has some quite understandable objections to overcome in working out any mutually beneficial arrangement with India.
A perpetual resource. In the absence of any systematic survey, an authoritative guess, cited by the World Bank among others, is that Bhutan's hydroelectric potential is about 20 000 megawatts. As a resource it exceeds the country's forest wealth, great though that is, not only in absolute terms. If the forests were to be exploited as a competing resource, they would very soon go into diminishing returns, whereas a hydroelectric resource perpetually renews itself as soon as it is tapped, if its exploitation is well planned. Yet, Bhutan so far generates only three-and-a-half megawatts of hydroelectric power. It imports about half that amount from India, and meets most of the rest of its energy needs by burning wood, of which an average Bhutanese consumes about one-third more than an average Sri Lankan and half again as much as an average Nepalese, even though Sri Lanka and even Nepal have a much wider per caput energy consumption than Bhutan.
Power generation has been given a big boost in Bhutan's current development plan, in which it gets 16.5 per cent of the total outlay and 22 per cent of the investment in development, as against 17.4 per cent and 22.7 per cent for industry, mining, commerce, and trade put together. But a better example of the possible is a project which does not figure in the plan at all. It is the Chukha hydroelectric project, being built by India. Unfortunately, this project is also a good example of the impediments to the possible. This project on the Wangchu in southwestern Bhutan involves no storage and little denial of land to other uses. Yet it will have a peak generating capacity of 336 megawatts, or about a hundred times the entire hydroelectric generating capacity installed at present. Even its lean season firm power will be 100 megawatts. It will divert the waters of the Wangchu through an underground channel into an underground drop of 465 metres to work four generators of 84 megawatts each, all of them housed entirely underground in one of the largest manmade cavities ever dug into a mountain anywhere in the world. The first two generators were scheduled to go into production by the spring of 1986 and the remaining two by the end of the year. The project has been financed, designed, and executed entirely by India, 60 per cent as an outright grant and 40 per cent as a 5 per cent loan. But the project will be owned by Bhutan and run by a joint Indo-Bhutanese management authority. Bhutan will have the first and unlimited right to the power for its own present and future needs; India will buy the rest at a negotiated rate. Bhutan gets three things from the project: power for its needs, income from the sale of a big bulk of power to India, and ownership of a project which, on the scale of Bhutan, is so large that by now it accounts for more than 15 per cent of the gross domestic product. The outlays upon it in the current plan are, according to the World Bank, equal to all the other outlays put together. The net return to Bhutan from the project will be equal to about 70 per cent of the total government receipts from all sources in 1982-83. What India gets out of it is the right to buy power that is surplus to Bhutan's needs for eastern India's industries, which could be as much as 300 megawatts.
Bhutan's priorities. And yet, further development of the hydroelectric potential of the Wangchu, even on such favourable terms, encounters Bhutanese hesitation. Downstream from Chukha, additional projects with a capacity of 2 000 megawatts have been identified, but there is some reluctance to go ahead with them. While reluctance may seem strange to downstream users, it makes some sense in terms of Bhutanese priorities, though it is open to doubt whether all aspects thereof have received due consideration.
The first hesitation, and one which is openly articulated, is the most understandable. Chukha represents a quantum jump in project development in Bhutan. It is 15 times the size of the next largest project, a 300-tons-per-day cement plant at Penden, in western Bhutan, which was also built by India and is working at nearly 100 per tent capacity. (The use pattern here is also the same: it meets Bhutan's entire domestic needs and India buys the rest.) Experiencing such a sudden stepping up of scale for the first time, Bhutan wants to see how well the present Chukha phase works for it before committing itself to further phases-and not just how well it works as a power plant, but what happens when a stone of this size is thrown into the quiet of the secluded cultural and ecological pond of Bhutan. The resistance of India's own hill people to projects meant for India reverberates in Bhutan as well. As Bhutan sees it, more projects mean more imported workers at all levels, because Bhutan has so few of its own to contribute. The projects would mean more money for Bhutan. But Bhutan wonders what more money would do to the habits of the Bhutanese.
It is precisely for these hesitations that, so far, Bhutan has also kept at bay foreign tourism developers who have been pressing hard to come in. Bhutan prefers to raise its tourism income by charging more per tourist than by letting in more of them. Power projects themselves may be culturally more neutral than foreign tourists are, but they do tend to open up the country more rapidly than the rulers in Thimpu are willing to see happen yet. Anxiety on this score appears frequently in the King's speeches. The current five-year plan also says that "the satisfaction of rising expectations must be consistent with the framework of the traditional institutions that characterize Bhutan as a unique national and cultural entity.... The government is clear that education must also serve another fundamental end, viz. that of preserving the traditional values and rich culture of the country."
Hesitations about a more rapid pace of development have another dimension too. Over 90 per cent of Bhutan's imports and exports are with India. Even without counting Chukha and another important Indian-aided item, the development of roads, about 50 per cent of Bhutan's expenditure on development comes in the form of assistance from India. Bhutan sees this as a kind of single-country relationship which will only grow deeper unless Bhutan has a choice of customers for the fruits of its development. This choice is not yet visible. Sources of aid to Bhutan have grown, but not sources of supply and markets for produce. So Bhutan thinks it may be better to wait and to let development proceed at a slower pace.
But in the midst of these priorities, most of them not only understandable but sensible too, Bhutan has given less thought to the idea that it is better to depend upon a customer than upon a donor. Most of the aid it gets from India today comes in the form of direct or indirect grants and near-grants. What it will get from Chukha, however, will be in the form of sale of what is made in Bhutan. Once it gets going, this will be a buyer-seller relationship, despite the fact that Chukha itself is also a product of the same system of grants and near-grants. If further development of its river waters takes Bhutan further into that buyer seller relationship, perhaps with Bhutan diverting some of its earnings from Chukha into buying a real ownership share in future projects, Thimpu might be able to buy at quite a low price a relationship with India which would be more satisfying for it. | <urn:uuid:c4a79edf-e28e-4c06-afe6-0010b2b52742> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library?e=d-00000-00---off-0cdl--00-0----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-------0-0l--11-en-50---20-about---00-0-1-00-0-0-11----0-0-&cl=CL4.63&d=HASH01e452b5e273335e07efb1fb.4.1&x=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96384 | 3,514 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Remember Alias Smith & Jones?
Alias Smith & Jones was a TV series and a western which first aired during the years 1971-1973, and of course later in other parts of the world. The series was indeed popular internationally, also in countries which only had about one or two TV channels at this time, which increased the chances that viewers would find the series – and those who did liked it. Unfortunately the series is also well known for the suicide committed by one of the actors when he was 31 years old, Pete Duel (previously Peter Deuel), early New Year’s eve 1971. He was found naked and dead under the Christmas tree after having shot himself through the ear.
This suicide seems to have been truly spontaneous, where he left no suicide note, no explanation and he had even arranged wake up calls for the following morning in order to get up to work at Universal where he and his colleagues were finalizing a new episode of the show. His parents were travelling by plane in order to make their planned visit the following day. Pete’s girlfriend was, based on her own account, sleeping in the bedroom when Pete turned up to take his gun and said “I’ll see you later”, before the shot was heard moments later.
“But Peter’s most serious personal crisis occurred when he was 16. “My father took great pains to get me ready for college,” he pointed out. “But I had been watching the world and I didn’t see one thing in my future that I really wanted. Everything seemed phony. I was down, terribly depressed. I knew that if I went to college I’d be educated like every other guy who ever went to college. I’d be given little chance to become Peter Deuel. People I didn’t even know, would never even meet, had planned my life for me. I said the devil with it.” / PETER DEUEL: HE KISSES THE GIRLS AND MAKES THEM CRY by Lou LarkinModern Screen, March 1967
“A series disrupts your life and makes you think. You have to do a lot of thinking. The pressures and the time involved in doing a series are the things that can either make you grow or beat you into the mud. I allowed myself to be beaten into the mud last year. I just didn’t really choose to deal with reality.”/ WHAT IS PETE DUEL AFRAID OF ? by Fiona MacDougall ‘TEEN Magazine, February 1972
Peter sometimes felt lonely and depressed also later in his life and sadly too much alcohol became one of his problems He had a couple of DUI’s against him and pleaded guilty to a serious felony drunken driving charge. Two persons almost got killed in the accident and he had unfortunately removed himself from the scene of the accident (something he deeply regretted and couldn’t fathom that he even contemplated). He gave up his driver’s license for a period of time, and he was therefore driven to and from work by his stand-in at the series.
This type of personality change suggests that he was highly unreliable under the influence of alcohol. Moreover, this ordeal together with the fact that he was supposed to stay away from heavy drinking based on the court order, plus the fact that his work wore him out, plus his history of depression should all have motivated him to make precautions and to keep two things away from his house: alcohol and weapons. Unfortunately both were present. What might have happened if at least one of those two things were not present that particular night?
If Pete’s addiction to alcohol was so intense that he couldn’t keep it away from his house (which apparently was the case), then wouldn’t it have been a wise safety measure to at least keep weapons away from the house considering his shaky background and the risk for mood swings during too much drinking? Of course, when you’re sober you might not think that there is a risk of doing anything that foolish when you’re drunk …
Pete had already reached out to Alcoholics Anonymous for help.
It’s hard to know if a small argument with his girlfriend took place that evening, but at least it was established that they had split up a few months earlier and had tried to get back together. It’s quite possible that it still didn’t work out. It’s also possible that a number of factors caused him to drink heavily this evening, and which resulted in his unfortunate decision in the midst of his daze to kill himself.
Unlike his colleague Ben Murphy, Pete didn’t want to be in Alias Smith & Jones in the first place (or any series), but rather in film productions.
Pete was no criminal, and he got his weapon due to the risk of intruders who might try to enter his house. Intruders are still to be preferred over the risk of self inflicted injuries made under the influence of alcohol. A week prior to the death, he had shot a hole in a telegram which he had pinned to the wall and which was telling him he had lost the election to the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild. (This extra shot is quite significant since the Police wanted to figure out why there were two bullets used in his gun.) Reportedly he shot at the document due to being disappointed at the rejection, and when looking at the result he declared to his friend that the statement of the document was now official thanks to the new period that he had inflicted on the paper.
As a European, I feel that it’s way too easy to get hold of guns in the US. Many spontaneous murders and suicides would have been prevented if people wouldn’t have guns laying around despite that they are neither hunters nor active in gun clubs. If there were more conditions involved for gun ownership (like extensive education about safety procedures, being required to store the weapon in a heavy gun cabinet, being active in a gun club, etc), then these obstacles would eliminate a lot of people from acquiring a gun, and especially criminals. If criminals can’t come by weapons easily, neither will the rest of us feel the need to own guns for protection. Criminals can get hold of guns anyway? Yes, in America! So criminals can never come by guns illegally in Europe? Of course some do, and the homicide rate is not zero in Europe – but the homicide rate in the US is towering compared to the rest of the western world. To me it’s not real freedom to walk around feeling you need to own a gun for protection due to too many criminals owning guns. The day I start to feel that I need a gun in my purse, is the day when I lose my freedom. In order to not head in that direction, I want to continue preventing criminals from owning guns.
Still, if there would be a new American law requiring people to turn in their guns unless they register in an extensive gun safety education class, then of course the criminals would be the last ones to turn in their guns. Maybe it’s too late for America because the guns are already in circulation. If Europe would change the gun laws and make guns more accessible (more like America), the criminals would of course laugh heartily and be the very first ones in line to get guns. THEN (unlike before) the rest of the people would start feeling they need guns for protection. I pray it will never go that way.
Americans might suggest that they want to increase their chances to survive a threatening gun attack by possessing guns themselves which they could use for protection, but my attitude is that it’s the attackers who shouldn’t have guns in the first place. If they don’t have guns, then neither would you need a gun. There are criminals also in Europe who will come by weapons despite serious gun control laws, and those guns are almost exclusively used against other criminals or used in large crimes like a bank robbery. If people would be able to acquire guns more easily, the risk will increase that even criminal teenagers can get hold of them and use them to threaten people on the streets.
If I lived in the US (or if I worked as a farmer in South Africa…), maybe I too would like to own a gun for protection due to the many guns in circulation in the wrong hands, but would an American moving to Europe really want Europe to become just as unsafe as America with the same enormous homicide rate? In America it’s a “leftist” thing to be for strict gun control rules, but I’m definitely not a leftist either by American or Swedish standards.
Let’s suppose you want to change the airline rules by suggesting that weapons should be allowed to bring on board the plane, unless the airline could absolutely guarantee that you will not be threatened or harmed by other passengers with weapons or other threatening tools. It’s hard to guarantee something like this because it has happened, even if rarely, that passengers have used all sorts of things as weapons (if they haven’t been able to smuggle real guns or knives on board). Let’s suppose that the airline will start to accomodate your request and allow weapons on board because “If a passenger is threatened by someone with a weapon, he/she has no way to turn in a plane, so if we allow passengers to carry on board weapons for protection, their chances of surviving a threat will increase!”. Who are you really kidding? Of course the risks will instead increase.
Japan is a country where homicides are rare (they say it’s because it’s illegal ….), and the risk of being shot by a gun is just a tiny percentage. On top of this it’s the same thing there, that criminals with guns aim at other criminals, so if you stay away from being a criminal yourself your chances of encountering a gun aimed against you is indeed very small. Still, what if you managed to change the gun laws in Japan and started to apply American gun laws? Maybe because you feel that you must protect yourself due to the 1% chance of being shot? Criminals will thank you and of course buy guns, but not for protection but in order to aim at you and others. THEN you will start to feel threatened.
Starting to apply American gun laws in Europe equals placing more guns in the hands of criminals. | <urn:uuid:ed3a81c0-e152-47ca-a6d8-31984994dd6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bjorkbloggen.com/tag/western/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.987047 | 2,165 | 1.515625 | 2 |
One of President Obama's highest-profile and longest-serving cabinet members, Attorney General Eric Holder, is prepared to step down from his post as the nation's top law-enforcement official.
Attorney General Eric Holder plans to announce Thursday that he will resign after nearly six years, a Justice Department official told NBC News. Holder plans to stay on the job until a successor is confirmed, the official said.
There will reportedly be a formal event at the White House later this afternoon, when the official announcement will be made.
It's too soon to say who the president may nominate as a successor, or when that nomination may come, though the timing matters -- if Republicans win a Senate majority in the November elections, Senate Democrats may feel the need to confirm Holder's successor quickly, during the lame-duck session, taking advantage of post-nuclear-option rules.
The alternative is a GOP-led Senate that may reject any Obama nominee to lead the Justice Department for the rest of the president's term.
Political procedures aside, Holder is leaving the Attorney General's office with a legacy more impressive than much of the political world generally appreciates.
Regular readers may recall that I've long been impressed with Holder's progressive accomplishments, which haven't always been front-page news, but which have made a significant difference in the lives of millions of Americans.
The A.G., for example, has shown amazing leadership on the issue of LGBT rights. He's challenged Republican restrictions on voting rights. He's fought for sentencing reforms. He's condemned "Stand Your Ground" laws and showed effective leadership during the crisis in Ferguson. He cleared the way for Colorado and the state of Washington to pursue marijuana legalization. He's worked to reverse the disenfranchisement of the formerly incarcerated.
We don't usually think of the office of Attorney General as one in which a policymaker can become one of the nation's champions of a progressive agenda, but that's exactly what Eric Holder has done.
This obviously isn't to say that Holder's tenure has been perfect -- I would have liked to have seen far more Wall Street prosecutions, and congressional Republicans have demanded his impeachment on more than a few occasions for a variety of strange, perceived failings -- but I'd argue Holder leaves his post as one of the most accomplished and important Attorneys General in modern American history. | <urn:uuid:80b286fb-922a-4a09-bc9b-8e9f76e35ddd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ag-holder-step-down-following-six-year-tenure-msna420696 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972561 | 475 | 1.5 | 2 |
The Mineral orthoclase
Orthoclase is one of the most common minerals, and occurs in numerous mineral environments. It is polymorphous with the minerals Microcline and Sanidine. These three minerals form the Potassium Feldspar group. They are almost identical in physical properties, and it is sometimes impossible to distinguish one another without x-ray analysis. The only difference between them is their crystal structure. Microcline crystallizes in the triclinic system, and Orthoclase and Sanidine crystallize in the monoclinic system. Sanidine forms at high temperatures and has a disordered monoclinic symmetry, whereas Orthoclase forms at low temperatures and cools slowly, forming more ordered monoclinic crystals.
In some mineral reference guides, Microcline and Sanidine are wrongly categorized as variety of Orthoclase. Since it is so difficult to distinguish between Orthoclase, Sanidine, and Microcline, they may be simply called "Potassium Feldspar".
White, yellow, colorless, pink, orange, light blue, light green, brown, gray
Transparent to opaque
Vitreous to pearly
2,1 - basal ; 2,1 - prismatic ; 3,1 - pinacoidal. The cleavage angle is about 90º.
Conchoidal to uneven
Describes a transparent, yellow variety of Orthoclase from Madagascar.
Orthoclase is industrially important in the manufacture of glass and ceramics. Orthoclase crystals and twins provide information on the formation of minerals and environmental factors. Well shaped crystals and twins are highly sought after by mineral collectors, and the Moonstone variety is used as a gemstone.
For additional information, see the gemstone section on Orthoclase and Moonstone.
Orthoclase is one of the most common minerals, and is found worldwide. Only a select few localities are mentioned.
The original Carlsbad twins were described from Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Bohemia, Czech Republic. Some of the best crystals come from Baveno, Piedmont, Italy, especially the famous Baveno twins. Good crystals come from San Piero in Campo on the Island of Elba, Italy; and Zarzalejo, Madrid, Spain; Switzerland contains numerous good localities in the pegmatites of Uri.
Light blue crystals came from the the Lake Baikal area in Russia, and large masses from Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Transparent gemmy yellow crystals that have recently become very popular come from a pegmatite in Madagascar, at Itrongay, Tulear Province.
In the U.S., enormous crystals were found on Sandia Mountain, Bernalillo Co, New Mexico. Good collector specimens have come from the Organ Mountains, Dona Ana Co., New Mexico; Robinson Gulch, Jefferson Co., Colorado; and Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada. Orthoclase has also come from the French Creek mine, St. Peters, Chester Co., Pennsylvania.
Distingushing Similar Minerals
Sanidine - Indistinguishable without complex methods. Sanidine, however, is never opaque.
Microcline - Indistinguishable without complex methods. However, Microcline can have a deep green color that Orthoclase cannot achieve.
Plagioclase Feldspars - May exhibit striations on twinned crystal surfaces, otherwise difficult to distinguish.
Spodumene - Has a splintery fracture.
Calcite - much softer (3). | <urn:uuid:2381b3ab-30fb-48d1-b0b2-dec42e9e6fca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://m.minerals.net/mineral/orthoclase.aspx?ver=mobile | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.866593 | 838 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Dry mix mortar plants
Dry Mix Mortar Plants
An Advance Technology Based Product!
List of ingredients for a concrete countertop mix
Listed below are the ingredients for a concrete countertop mix that you can make yourself from scratch. There's a lot of ways you can mix concrete for countertops, but this recipe is a proven, high quality mix from our friends over at
How to Make Hypertufa
Hypertufa Vs. Cement and Concrete Products. A hypertufa mix is preferred when you desire a lighter weight material than concrete, also for more of an aged and ornamental looking finish. You would need to use concrete mix instead when safety is involved, like with benches, tall fountains and pedestal bird baths where children might climb on them.
Mixing Concrete by hand, cement mixer or using ready mix
Mixing Concrete When it comes to mixing concrete, there are three options to choose from: Mix by hand - where less than ¼m³ of concrete is needed, it can be mixed by hand by a reasonably fit person. Use a cement mixer - where the quantity is between about ¼m³ and 2m³, a powered concrete mixer is useful
Easy DIY: Modern Succulent Planter Using Concrete
2018/04/19 · Working quickly (especially if using quick-setting cement or concrete), fill your larger container(s) about 3/4 full with the concrete mix. Image Credit: Maya Marin Still working quickly, agitate the container by simultaneously tapping on the sides and shaking the container from side to side in order to release trapped air.
Speed in the construction practices followed in ready mix concrete plant is followed continuously by having mechanized operations. The output obtained from a site mix concrete plant using a 8/12 mixer is 4 to 5 metric cubes per hour which is 30-60 metric cubes per hour in a ready mix concrete plant.
How To Mix Concrete - Easy Step By Step Instructions For
how to mix concrete You can use this guide on how to mix concrete by hand for a pre-mixed bag like quikcrete or if you're using a bag of cement, sand, gravel, and water. The instructions are very similar, the only difference being with the pre-mixed bag the dry materials are already combined.
crusher plants in qatar automatic concrete batcher for sale portable concrete batch hzs75 mobile acc rmc plants in visakhapatnam in cavite
concrete mixing machine suppliers in bremen at market cm260d diesel engine small cement mixer with 260l drum popular export yhzs75 israel co il dry type concrete batching plant manufacturer
How to Make Concrete Blocks – Manufacturing
2018/11/12 · The concrete blocks also known as cement brick or hollow cement brick or cement stock brick. This article will explain how to make concrete blocks and how to start a home business of concrete block making.
crusher plants in qatar cactus and succulents stationary hzs50 building materials concrete mixing machine shandong jianke
How to Make Ultra High Performance Concrete
Ultra high performance concrete is a modern creation that is changing the way we look at construction. While normal concrete has a strength rating in the range of 3,000 to 4,000 psi (pounds per square inch), ultra high performance concrete has a strength rating many times that.
Top 6 Important Quality Tests Of Concrete
Aug 05, 2015 · You can approach the Land Surveyor to get the designed level from the current level of the concrete so that you can compute the volume required. Once you get the amount of concrete per volume then you can convert the cost per area. You can approach also your Quantity Surveyor, he is the one who could help you with statistic or formula kind of ...
Ready mix concrete - What really is Ready-Mix Concrete?
Aug 31, 2015 · Ready-mix concrete (RMC) is a type of concrete which is manufactured in a cement factory, or specifically known as the batching plant, according to a given set of proportions, and then delivered to a work site, by truck mounted with mixers.
Step-by-Step DIY to Create Cement Planter with Old Towel
Mar 21, 2016 · Decorative plant holders make a great addition to any indoor or outdoor space. You can add a personalized touch to your space by creating a DIY planter and utilize green thumb in a more creative way. But instead of using ordinary raw materials, you can make a hypertufa planter using an old towel or a fleece blanket dipped in concrete.
Mixing Concrete By Hand
Aug 16, 2015 · This means that the various ingredients have been mixed at the batch plant and are trucked to the site in a special mixing truck. Another means of obtaining ready-mix concrete is to purchase it from a plant that will supply it in a trailer that can be towed behind a vehicle.
Ready Mix Concrete Plant, Advantages of Using Ready Mix
Information on ready mix concrete plant, advantages of using ready mix concrete plant, RMC plant, concrete batching plant, concrete construction equipment, concrete pavers, concrete pipe machines, concrete plant, concrete pump by Apollo Infratech Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, India.
Analysis of total chloride content in concrete
Hence, the limits of total chloride content in concrete could be violated even though the limits of chloride content for mix ingredients are satisfied. Therefore, it can be stated that chloride limits of concrete ingredients and total concrete could not be consistent, especially with mix designs that have water cement ratios higher than 0.48.
hzs50 stationary concrete batching plant best quality embroidery digitizing servicest
What Is the Formula for Concrete Mix?
The formula for concrete mix is one part cement, two parts sand and three parts gravel or crushed stone. If hand mixing, it's inadvisable to exceed a water to cement ratio of 0.55, which translates...
Types of Concrete Construction Equipment
A concrete plant or batching plant is very important equipment for the concrete construction. With the help of concrete batching plant, concrete used for the construction is produced by proper mixing of all the ingredients like sand, gravel, water and cement and then transported to concrete construction site ready to be poured for use.
(PDF) NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CONCRETE STRUCTURES
2013/08/18 · concrete were manufactured in early days of nuclear power plant construction using primary ingredients coarse aggregate, fine aggregate, cement and water; mix design being done by volumetric method.
Concrete Batching Plant Works - Ready Mix Machine
2017/06/17 · This video is one of my animation project. in this video explain how concrete batching plant works, from loading cement until loading into mixer truck. Batching Plant parts : - Cement Transfer ...
wamgroup concrete production equipment free dj software free download full version 25m3h mini wet mix 25m3h cement simple process flow diagram in powerpoint vendor
A POWERPOINT PRESENTAION ON READY-MIX CONCRETE
Jul 10, 2015 · A POWERPOINT PRESENTAION ON READY-MIX CONCRETE 1. A POWERPOINT PRESENTAION ON READY-MIX CONCRETE 2. • RMC IN INDIA: In India RMC was first initially was used in 1950 during the construction sites of Dams like Bhakra Nangal, Koyna. At the construction the transportation of conc
A central-mix plant offers more accurate control of the concrete quality through better measurements of the amount of water added, but must be placed closer to the work site where the concrete will be used, since hydration truck.
crusher plants in qatar low investment dry mixed mortarexporter in ratanankiri hzs75 bridges and culverts in nigeria
How to Make Organic N-P-K Fertilizer Mixes at Home and
2019/11/29 · Fortunately, you can make your own fertilizer mix at home for much less. Similar to buying things like toilet paper and flour in bulk, you will need to spend money up front to purchase large quantities of amendments. But, you can
Concrete Mix Ratios - Cement, Sand, Aggregate and Water
Concrete mix ratio is a vital topic in concrete mix design. The four basic ingredients for making concrete are: Portland cement, sand, aggregate (stone) and water. The strength of concrete mixture depends on the ratio in which these four ingredients are mixed.
How to Mix Your Own Soil for Container Plantings
To make your own planting mix for container gardening, buy a wholesale mixture of a general peat-based growing mix and then customize it to meet your needs. For example, you can save money by purchasing a large bale of compressed seed-starting mix at the beginning of the season. Use as much as you need to …
- concrete mixing machine suppliers in bremen at market free dj software free download full version
- akash ganga vsi crusher concrete grinding equipment rental rental
- bnm 100 belt conveyor asphalt plants woodland ca
- high performance hzs60 high dperformance durable stationary hzs120x philippines
- portable cement silo on plant of new structure acom advanced center oncology ready mixed plant algeria market
- doctors have created new categories including pre high which latest job vacancies at unibeton ready mix
- akash ganga vsi crusher portable cement silo on plant of new structure
- enviroment friendlymovable cement high efficiencydry mortar mixing equipment for sale in patheint in kenya
- wamgroup concrete production equipment free dj software free download full version
- advanced composites materials and their manufacture portable cement silo on plant of new structure
Process Flow Diagram | <urn:uuid:6fbbc186-efa4-468e-89a9-04947fea6b63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mylovelylife.nl/V86cZj | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.892327 | 2,063 | 1.585938 | 2 |
EdTech gadgets mean technological gadgets which are associated with education. It’s true that technology is a part and parcel of our daily life.
The concept of “classroom” is changing. As we all know, a classroom is already comprised of modern technological gadgets. These gadgets help to transform the classroom environment completely.
With the help of these gadgets, the education system becomes more simplifying. It is no longer a boring classroom.
So, here in this article, we are going to discuss the best 10 EdTech gadgets which are really helpful in transforming the learning process.
Apple iPad Pro
Apple is one of the best brands to provide us with tech-tools. Similarly, iPad Pro is a tool, which is a master to drag the attention of the students. It comprises the feelings of touch, sound, and, motion.
With the help of this gadget, students can explore the area of knowledge and code their curriculum too.
Initially, Apple came with Apple TV and Mac. But, the present version proves to be more efficient and feature-packed.
Apple knows how to utilize the power of technology. Teachers can take the help of iPad Pro to teach their students in an innovative way.
It is made with an automatic sensor chip. It contains easy software and hardware. So, with the aid of this kit, students can construct and work with any gadget. Arduino offers various kits for the young engineers. Some of them are-‘Makeblock Educational starter Robot Build Kit’, ‘Makeblock mBot Educational Robot Kit for Kids’, ‘Arduino Ultimate Uno Starter ‘, ‘ArcBtics Sparky’, ‘The Arduino Starter Kit’ etc. So, it’s a new technology you can use in your classroom.
3D Printer enables us to get the three-dimensional image of an object. It finds its usage in the field of fashion, footwear designing, architecture etc.
Additionally, we can see this machine in many classrooms too. With the help of this tool, students are able to understand the diagrams of specific subjects. It smoothes the learning process further.
Using 3D Printer is really advantageous. It promotes the creativity, interactivity, and invests in the engagement of the students.
An e-book is the new emerging trend of this generation. E-book means electronic books through which you can read all the books of your syllabus. Moreover, you just need to download the books from specific websites and enjoy the reading.
It is very cost-effective and comforting too. There is no need for students to carry the heavy books in their bag. It is very portable.
Students can install a number of books within a single device. So, with the help of e-books, you can make your own library too. It induces more life in the learning process.
With the help of this camera, you can record the class behavior, guidance for the specific subjects, lab presentation etc.
It enhances the learning relationship between a teacher and a student by smoothening the teaching process. So, we can say that the GoPro Camera is can be an excellent choice for the classroom.
iPhone and iPad Projector
The projector is very common in the classroom. More or less every classroom has a projector. But, move with your projector is a unique concept.
iPhone and iPad Projector bring this innovation. This projector weighs just 1.8 pounds. So, it is very portable to move anywhere.
This technology helps you not only in learning a particular concept but also you can feel it.
For eg, Oculus Rift co-operates to build an architectural model as well as to make you feel that you are in that spot too. This is the asset of this technology.
Apart from that, it uses in other subjects also, like-history, natural science etc. So, Oculus Rift helps you to experience a specific context psychologically. It is really good for keeping the attention of the students.
Smart Board is another most used gadget in the present scenario. It’s a smart whiteboard. It enhances the interactivity among the students.
Also, it helps to stop the class from being boring. Additionally, it enables a touchpad to move the content over the smart board. Usually, a digital projector connects to the board to operate it.
In this board, you can write a text, edit your writing, and explain using a typical whiteboard technology. You can also convert a note into a text and save it to guide your students in a more convenient manner. So, this technology helps to boost up the participation of students in an effective way.
The smart marker is a small and handy tool. With this marker, you can write anywhere and take a snapshot of the same.
You can share it with your students very easily. This device is accessible with Dropbox and cloud too. With this marker, you can arrange your notes in a very systematic manner.
Additionally, Smart Marker has a capturing capacity of 10,000 pages. You can charge it very easily. Moreover, it can work for 8 hours continuously. It is portable and highly energy efficient.
The steam kit is all in one box. There are 26 kinds of kits avail in the market. Each kit provides with DVDs, guidebooks, and with other necessary tools.
Apart from this, it is appropriate for any subject, like math, science, engineering, arts, designing etc. This kit is fantastic and flexible to learn for all generations. It induces group motive and self-confidence too.
So, these are the top 10 gadgets you can implement in your classroom and make the classroom vibrant and full of life. | <urn:uuid:84f243b7-b2ad-436f-8ccd-b48316321809> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alanemrich.com/edtech-gadgets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941325 | 1,201 | 2.59375 | 3 |
So Luna caught a mole yesterday evening… I’ve no idea where she found it, as there are no evident mole hills in the garden, but she was exceptionally pleased with herself. She refused to relinquish her prize in the garden, and carried it triumphantly into the house, where she was eventually persuaded to part with it in exchange for three biscuits – a deal which she subsequently regretted, if her disappointed searching was anything to go by…
The mole was, sadly, deceased by this point and was decently interred under the hedgerow across the lane. Cat families will often be distressingly familiar with this scenario, but with our dogs it is not so frequent (although certainly not unheard of!).
We somehow forget, when we are throwing the fluffy, squeaky toy in a fun game of chase, fetch and throw-in-the-air before chasing again, that in addition to the joyful interaction we are both having, we are also assisting our little hairy friends to hone their hunting skills…
Dogs are natural predators – it is their essential nature to hunt small, squeaky, furry or feathered things. Why should we expect them to be less dog, and more human, just because we choose to share our lives, our homes and our sofas with them?
...and the Canine Members of Staff | <urn:uuid:a40993bb-b58d-47a0-955f-cf3685c4de2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scnlh.org/scnlh-blog/teachings-of-dog-dogs-will-be-dogs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972351 | 304 | 1.617188 | 2 |
A trio of space travelers has launched successfully to the International Space Station, for the first time using a fast-track maneuver to reach the orbiting outpost in just three hours.
NASA’s Kate Rubins and Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos lifted off as scheduled Wednesday morning from the Russia-leased Baikonur space launch facility in Kazakhstan for a six-month stint on the station.
For the first time, they are trying a two-orbit, three-hour approach to the orbiting outpost. Previously it took twice as long for the crews to reach the station.
The trio will join the station’s NASA commander, Chris Cassidy, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner, who have been aboard the complex since April and are scheduled to return to Earth a week later.
Speaking during Tuesday’s pre-launch news conference at Baikonur, Rubins emphasized that the crew spent weeks in quarantine at the Star City training facility outside Moscow and then on Baikonur to avoid any threat from the coronavirus.
"We spent two weeks at Star City and then 17 days at Baikonur in a very strict quarantine,” Rubins said. "During all communications with crew members, we were wearing masks. We made PCR tests twice and we also made three times antigen fast tests.”
She said she was looking forward to scientific experiments planned for the mission. "We’re planning to try some really interesting things like bioprinting tissues and growing cells in space and, of course, continuing our work on sequencing DNA,” Rubins said.
Please click to read our informative text prepared pursuant to the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 and to get information about the cookies used on our website in accordance with the relevant legislation.
6698 sayılı Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu uyarınca hazırlanmış aydınlatma metnimizi okumak ve sitemizde ilgili mevzuata uygun olarak kullanılan çerezlerle ilgili bilgi almak için lütfen tıklayınız. | <urn:uuid:b2d25436-0f1b-4330-8aab-1c8639be5415> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailysabah.com/life/science/russian-us-astronauts-launch-to-iss | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.925845 | 494 | 2.25 | 2 |
(WHTM) — The heat is on here in Pennsylvania!
With a long stretch of hot and humid weather in the forecast, the heat can be absolutely unbearable to most people, and cause injuries and death if proper precautions are not taken.
Heat can take many people by surprise. Many people overexert themselves each year and either get injured or die from heat-related illnesses such as heat exhaustion or heat stroke. The signs of heat-related illnesses can vary from person to person.
There are three main levels of heat-related illnesses. There are heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and the most serious: heat stroke.
Get daily news, weather, breaking news and alerts straight to your inbox! Sign up for the abc27 newsletters here.
According to ready.gov, the main signs of having heat cramps are muscle pains or spasms in the stomach, arms, or legs.
Heat Exhaustion is the second level of heat-related illnesses. Symptoms of this include:
- Heavy sweating
- Fast or weak pulse
If you or someone is suffering from heat cramps or exhaustion, go to a cooler location, remove excess clothing and take sips of water or sports drinks
The last level of heat illness is heat stroke. Symptoms of heat stroke include:
- Extremely high body temperature (above 103 degrees) taken orally
- Red, hot and dry skin with no sweat
- Rapid, strong pulse
- Dizziness, confusion, or unconsciousness
If you suspect heatstroke, call 911 immediately or get the person to a hospital. Cool them down with whatever methods are available until medical help arrives. According to Dr. Solti-Grasz with Baptist Health, he does not recommend drinking liquids, as fluids may enter the lungs through the trachea, or airway.
To stay cool in the hot weather, ready.gov suggests the following:
- Cover windows with drapes or shade. This will keep the heat out and the cool air in
- Do not rely on a fan to keep you cool. Fans only create airflow and create a false sense of comfort
- Take cool showers or baths
- Drink fluids and stay hydrated
- Avoid high-energy activities or work outside during the midday heat, if possible
- Consider pet safety. Make sure all pets have adequate water and shade. Dark pavement can burn a dog’s pads if the surface is hot enough
- Use your oven less to help reduce the temperature in your home.
The humidity also can make the air feel much hotter than it is. This is something called the heat index which factors in the heat and humidity. According to the National Weather Service, the heat index is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature. This has important considerations for the human body’s comfort. | <urn:uuid:48f11b6e-43a5-4b62-bfaa-cabcda73b8d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abc27.com/pennsylvania/how-to-keep-cool-in-the-pennsylvania-heat-and-humidity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.922484 | 633 | 2.75 | 3 |
We live in an era where the rise in healthcare costs for insurers and employers parallels the rise in chronic disease. Our reactive medical model sits still, patiently waiting for illness to strike before taking action. As individuals, we are identified as patients by our diseases, not by what makes us truly unique.
It is evident that our current system is flawed; however, knowing why we are failing sets us up for the excitement of how we can succeed.
Stanford Medicine recently noted that, “We are on the brink of an amazing transformation in how we approach health. Instead of a frantic race to cure disease after the fact, we can increasingly prevent disease before it strikes”.1 At a recent biomedicine conference, Stanford’s Dean of Medicine, Lloyd Minor, discussed this transformation using a relatively new idea termed “Precision Health”.
Precision health is an approach that aims to prevent disease, not just treat it. It does this using health data to provide targeted, predictive, and hyper-personalized care. Health data is collected through a variety of means, and this information is then analyzed and used to predict disease risk. It also provides hyper-personalized engagement strategies to eliminate risk before it escalates causing harm and spiralling costs upward.
Some of the data that is being explored lies in the field of genetics. Since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2004, there has been growing interest in the use of genetic testing for diagnostics and therapeutics, but there has been little discussion about the power of genetic engagement to spark positive behavior change. We know that each and every person is unique, and we differ in everything from body chemistry, physical makeup, personality, motivation, and metabolism to our susceptibilities to illness. Why, then, do we group anyone with the same medical condition into one basket or curriculum and treat them all the same way? And when did we begin associating ‘patients’ with their disease states instead of individual characteristics and symptoms?
Exploring the information that our genes contain isn’t about determining our ultimate health destiny. Instead, genetic analysis is used for the valuable information it can provide on understanding the different disease risk that two people may have, even if they are similar in age, gender, and background. Genetic testing also provides information required to personalize or further refine treatment strategies. Again, two individuals may appear quite similar and have the same medical condition; however, what works for one, might not be what works for the other. A third and very powerful use of genetic testing is to engage and spark positive behavior change towards a healthier lifestyle. When genetic testing is used in this manner, it helps an individual open up to the possibility of change which combined with the right personalized action plan and support can make all the difference in taking those positive steps towards living healthier everyday which is where the rubber hits the road for preventing conditions like obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and stroke.
Genetics is already proving to be a game changer for engagement in disease prevention programs. In these programs, genetic testing is being used to better understand struggles with weight gain and obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other cardiometabolic conditions. These programs are able to identify individuals who are more likely to gain weight in the mid-section as a direct result of dietary struggles related to blood sugar and carbohydrate utilization. The results allow for more effective dietary advice that corresponds with lower carbohydrate intake, which offsets the difficulties in carb metabolism. Some programs also explore the link between behavior and genes, and how this effects why some people tend to use food and other addictions as a reward mechanism, or why some individuals tend to eat more in response to emotions and stress. Having this valuable information allows recommendations to be more suited to the individual and removes the guess work.
While still new and on the leading edge, genetic testing and precision health can be a way that we migrate away from our traditional one-size-fits all system. It allows us to shift our focus from disease management to disease prevention – a much needed change – and a more personalized treatment plan, where the right engagement approach can be designed for each participant. Using precision health has proven to be effective in disease prevention and, also honors the unique attributes of each of us. It’s time for ‘n of 1’ to become the standard for inspiring individuals to live healthier every day to prevent disease. | <urn:uuid:8c2ef320-263e-46c5-9c75-ac177ddfd00d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newtopia.com/precision-health-for-disease-prevention/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936913 | 897 | 2.84375 | 3 |
The objective of this paper is to evaluate different inverse methods with application to off-line model parameter estimation using data from a field-operated chiller. In HVAC&R data analysis, there is sometimes a need to evaluate and use estimation techniques that are more subtle than the ordinary least square (OLS) method. One example is in fault detection and diagnosis of HVAC&R equipment and systems using performance data obtained from field monitoring. By identifying a better performance model, the fault detection process is more likely to be refined and accurate. In this paper a number of exploratory, diagnostic, and classical estimation methods are reviewed to determine the circumstances in which they are likely to be superior to the OLS method. These methods are then evaluated using monitored data from a field-operated chiller. This study provides a reference on parameter estimation methods for the HVAC&R community.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Building and Construction | <urn:uuid:568a5585-5e4b-45a4-b628-43e62f75cac1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asu.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/an-evaluation-of-classical-steady-state-off-line-linear-parameter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.881882 | 193 | 1.9375 | 2 |
In this study, granulated activated charcoal (GAC) and bio charcoal (BC) is used as a filler in P3 biosand bag filter to study their filtration performance against a range of fluoride impurities from 1-1400 mg/L. A set of experiments are done to analyze the filtration efficiency of the sandbag filter against fluoride impurities after incorporating different amounts (e.g., 0.2, 2 kg) and a combination of GAC and BC. A combination of filler GAC and BC (1 kg each) have exhibited excellent results with 100% fluoride removal efficiency against 5 mg/L fluoride impurities for an entire experimental time of 165 min. It is because of the synergetic effect of adsorption caused by the high surface area (739 m2/g) of GAC and hydroxyapatite groups in BC. The data from remediation experiments using individual GAC and BC are fitted into the Langmuir and Freundlich Isotherm Models to check their adsorption mechanism and determine GAC and BC’s maximum adsorption capacity (Qm). The remediation data for both GAC and BC have shown the better fitting to the Langmuir Isotherm Model with a high R2 value of 0.994 and 0.970, respectively, showing the excellent conformity with monolayer adsorption. While the GAC and BC have presented negative Kf values of -1.08 and -0.72, respectively, for Freundlich Model, showing the non-conformity to multilayer adsorption. The Qm values obtained from Langmuir Model for GAC is 6.23 mg/g, and for BC, it is 9.13 mg/g. The pH study on adsorption efficiency of individual GAC and BC against 5 mg/L of fluoride impurities indicates the decrease in removal efficiency with an increase in pH from 3 to 9. For example, BC has shown removal efficiency of 99.8% at pH 3 and 99.5% at pH 9, while GAC has exhibited removal efficiency of 96.1% at pH 3 and 95.9% at pH 9. Importantly, this study presents the significance of the synergetic application of GAC and BC in the filters, where GAC and BC are different in their origin, functionalities, and surface characteristics.
Keywords: Langmuir Isotherm; adsorption; bio charcoal; biosand filter; granulated activated charcoal.
*Free full-text study online at https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/11/11/868/htm | <urn:uuid:ac562ccf-41e7-4051-888c-abd2616a6572> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fluoridealert.org/news/study-the-use-of-activated-carbon-and-bone-char-on-the-performance-of-gravity-sand-bag-water-filter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.915573 | 555 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The Hubble Space Telescope observations of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa have revealed the presence of persistent water vapour, suggesting potential conditions hospitable for life, according to NASA.
Hubble is an international cooperation between the US space agency and the European Space Agency.
Astronomers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Space and Plasma Physics, Sweden found that Europa harbours a vast ocean underneath its icy surface, but, mysteriously, only in one hemisphere.
Previous observations of water vapour on Europa have been associated with plumes erupting through the ice, as photographed by Hubble in 2013. They extend more than 60 miles high and produce transient blobs of water vapour in the moon’s atmosphere, which is only one-billionth the surface pressure of Earth’s atmosphere, NASA said.
The new results, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, show similar amounts of water vapour spread over a larger area of Europa in Hubble observations spanning from 1999 to 2015.
This suggests a long-term presence of a water vapour atmosphere only in Europa’s trailing hemisphere — that portion of the moon that is always opposite its direction of motion along its orbit. The cause of this asymmetry between the leading and trailing hemisphere is not fully understood.
To make this discovery, KTH’s Lorenz Roth delved into archival Hubble datasets, selecting ultraviolet observations of Europa from 1999, 2012, 2014 and 2015 while the moon was at various orbital positions.
The observations were all taken with Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). The ultraviolet STIS observations allowed Roth to determine the abundance of oxygen — one of the constituents of water — in Europa’s atmosphere, and by interpreting the strength of emission at different wavelengths he was able to infer the presence of water vapour.
The same technique recently resulted in the discovery of water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.
“The observation of water vapour on Ganymede, and on the trailing side of Europa, advances our understanding of the atmospheres of icy moons.
“However, the detection of a stable water abundance on Europa is a bit more surprising than on Ganymede because Europa’s surface temperatures are lower than Ganymede’s,” Roth said.
Europa reflects more sunlight than Ganymede, keeping the surface 60 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than Ganymede. The daytime high on Europa is a frigid minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit.
Yet, even at the lower temperature, the new observations suggest water ice is sublimating – that is, transforming directly from solid to vapour without a liquid phase – off Europa’s surface, just like on Ganymede, the team said.
The findings helps lay the groundwork for planned science missions to the Jovian system to, in part, explore whether an environment half-a-billion miles from the Sun could support life.
(With the inputs of Agency). | <urn:uuid:fc1cddd6-c014-4bbf-be5b-d6b7956de27a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iasmind.com/upsc/hubble-finds-persistent-water-vapour-in-jupiters-moon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.884094 | 624 | 3.890625 | 4 |
Clue: Desolate land of Siberia
We have 1 answer for the clue Desolate land of Siberia. See the results below.
- Treeless plain
- Ukrainian geographical feature
- Treeless tract
- Unforested tract
- Russian plain
- Grassy expanse
- Part of the Kazakhstan landscape
- Siberian plain
- Eurasian expanse
Last Seen In:
- Washington Post - September 01, 2006
Found an answer for the clue Desolate land of Siberia that we don't have? Then please submit it to us so we can make the clue database even better! | <urn:uuid:58c4d58f-3c7f-480a-8c00-384e40578bf9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://crosswordheaven.com/clues/desolate-land-of-siberia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.789019 | 136 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Arabinogalactan made of Siberian larch for sell export.
- stimulates the growth and development of beneficial gut microflora,
- improves peristalsis of the intestine,
- promotes regular elimination adsorbs and removes toxic substances, radionuclides and heavy metals lowers cholesterol and blood sugar,
- strengthens the immune system,
- regulates the appetite and is recommended in weight loss programs,
- protects from the negative effects of antibiotics, protects beneficial microflora of the intestine from the damaging effects of antibiotics,
- contributes to the enhancement of therapeutic effect with simultaneous use with drugs - prebiotics that contain live lactobacilli and bifidus bacteria.
Arabinogalactan in the pharmaceutical industry used in two ways:
1) As an auxiliary component
Having membranotropic properties and could prospectively be used as
"carriers" of drugs. Arabinogalactan allows to increase the solubility
sparingly soluble medicinal substances.
Arabinogalactan is a dietary Supplement that has a wide range of biological activity: gastroprotective, immunobiological properties. That is why the use of arabinogalactan as a carrier allows you to significantly expand the range of composite dosage forms and to improve their performance.
Arabinogalactan is also used as a binding nontoxic agent for tabletting
dosage forms with high strength. Arabinogalactan enhances the activity and effectiveness the release of various water-soluble drugs. It is used to improve absorbability other drugs with low bioavailability. In addition, having mefloquineuine and dispersing properties, arabinogalactan is used as an emulsifier stabilization of emulsions.
2) As a separate component
Arabinogalactan can be used as the main component of biologically active
additives used for prevention of cardiovascular, respiratory, infectious
disease; the normalization of the gastrointestinal tract; enhancing the immune system.
Studies have shown that arabinogalactan derived from Siberian larch, stimulates the activity of natural killer cells, cytokines and macrophages.
Natural killers – NK-lymphocytes, large lymphocytes with cytotoxicity against tumor cells and cells infected with viruses are one of the most important components of cellular innate immunity.
Cytokines regulate intercellular and intersystem interactions determine cell survival, stimulation or the suppression of their growth, differentiation, functional activity and apoptosis, as well as provide consistency the action of the immune, endocrine and nervous systems in normal conditions and in response to pathological effects.
Macrophages – cells capable of active capture and digestion of bacteria, debris dead cells and other foreign or toxic to the body particles.
Arabinogalactan supports the natural immune function, helps to increase the number of active immune cells and the production of antibodies based on the T-regulatory cells, T-suppressor cells to call appropriate immune response.
It stimulates the activity of natural killer cells (cytotoxic lymphocytes).
Arabinogalactan allows to induce circulation of a number of cytokines such as interferon gamma (Ifny), necrosis factor the tumor (TNF) and various interleukins (IL1, or IL6).
It also supports the functioning of macrophages, which are important elements in protective systems body.
It also increases the level of leukocytes. Studies have shown that arabinogalactan significantly increases the number circulating white blood cells. This is primarily related to an increase in the concentration of neutrophils.
Recent studies have shown that arabinogalactan causes the adaptive immune response to specific antigens.
In particular, a higher immune response immunoglobulin G vaccine was observed during 10 weeks after vaccination.
About Arabinogalactan (in Russian):
While Arabinogalactan has a huge impact on the health of the digestive system, he got even more attention for its ability to improve the health of our immune system.
Substances that promote a balanced response to stress, are called "adaptogens". Larch Arabinogalactan acts as an "adaptogenic" agent on our immune system, by identifying weaknesses and balancing to normal. Simply put - the immune system, which can work better in a balanced and appropriate way viewset weaknesses and eliminates voznikayuschie problems that adversely affect the operation of its protective functions.
Powder prebiotic, optionally fortified with Taxifolin, which is present in the arabinogalactan, but in small dosages (no more than 1-2%). Dihydroquercetin in this product is about 20% of arabinogalactan and clean around 78% -80%.
The appearance of white powder, with a very slight pine smell and sweet taste. It is 100% soluble in water and produces low solutions. Because of its excellent solubility and mild taste, the powder will satisfy even the smallest, for example, for children it can be mixed with juices.
Arabinogalactan is a highly branched polysaccharide consisting of galactinol the foundations of the side chains of the sugars arabinose and galactose. Larch arabinogalactan is an excellent source of fiber, and also approved as a food additive by the FDA.
Arabinogalactan is a natural immune stimulator, significantly activates the protective cells of the body. Is a source of soluble dietary fibers, necessary for the proper functioning of the immune system. Arabinogalactan has significant hepatoprotective and membranotropic properties. Due to the high concentration of the drug and ability to increase vascular permeability, arabinogalactan can be used as a therapeutic agent designed for the liver. Arabinogalactan is able to protect and strengthen cell membrane, and, consequently, reduce the osmotic swelling and disintegration of cells acidosis. In addition, Arabinogalactan can effectively prevent stress-induced liver damage, as well as to correct disorders of the liver structure, developing into a stage of anxiety stress reactions.
If taking the extract arabinogalactan and digidrokvertsetina has a significant impact on increasing beneficial bacteria and improving the intestinal microflora, in particular increasing anaerobes such as bifidobacteria and lactobacilli. Experimental studies have shown that larch arabinogalactan can stimulate natural cell-the"killer" (NK) cell cytotoxicity, enhance other functional aspects of the immune system, as well as to inhibit metastasis of cancer cells in the liver. The use in the preventive purposes - to create more flexible the immune system. Application in clinical medicine as a therapeutic agent in conditions associated with lowered immune function, reduction of NK activity or chronic viral infection.
Arabinogalactan also acts as a power source for beneficial bacteria. A term used to describe this effect is "prebiotic". The most well-known prebiotic substance "fructooligosaccharides" or "FOS". Arabinogalactan acts in the same way as fructooligosaccharides in the human body, promotes the growth of beneficial bacteria and short-chain fatty acids in the body, which is essential for maintaining normal functioning of the gastro-intestinal tract, as well as anti-inflammatory, gastroprotective, membranotropic activity. Arabinogalactan can be widely used in the production of functional foods. In fact, when we consume extract, arabinogalactan, we get positive effect in the microflora of our intestine, namely, its balance. In particular, this fiber increases good bacteria such as bifidobacteria and lactobacilli and at the same time reduces harmful bacteria. Friendly bacteria we need, as critical to the health of our digestive and immune systems, detoxification and hormone regulating the development and assimilation of nutrients. | <urn:uuid:097953a6-d479-42ce-a7f8-ac1ca99f5f42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://flavitax.jimdo.com/arabinogalactan-for-sell-export/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.892476 | 1,751 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Attended and unattended automation in Control Room
You might have heard the terms "attended automation" and "unattended automation". This page explains what they mean, what is the difference between them, and what tools and configuration to use in Control Room to support your specific use case.
What is the difference between attended and unattended automation?
In unattended automation, the Robot can complete its task autonomously from start to finish. All inputs and logic are programmed into the robot, and all choices have been considered. No human operator is required during the process, even though the process itself can still be triggered manually, in addition to running on a schedule or as a response to an API call.
Attended automation allows for a human operator to interact with the robot during the execution of its tasks. For example, the Robot might require confirmation before a specific operation, present the operator with a list of possible choices or require a file input to continue. The automation is triggered manually by the operator, which is required to be present during the execution, ready to interact with the robot using a UI.
Unattended automation in Control Room: Robot Workforce
If your use case can be solved using unattended automation, use the Robot Workforce features of Control Room.
A Robot Workforce process can be triggered manually via the Cloud UI interface, or using API calls. It can also be set to trigger on a schedule. Each run of the process is accurately logged. Any artifacts are stored in the cloud and are accessible for inspection. In case of errors, a report will be sent to selected users.
Workforce processes can run completely in the cloud using robocorp-hosted containers, or on a physical or virtual machine running Robocorp Workforce Agent, accomodating a variety of use cases.
Triggering Robot Workforce processes with email
In addition to the manual, scheduled, and API triggers the Robot Workforce processes also support triggering runs with emails. You can find the configuration details here.
Attended automation in Control Room: Robot Assistants
For attended automation use cases, use the Robot Assistant feature of Control Room.
Once a robot is added as an assistant, it can be triggered and interacted with by a human operator using Robocorp Assistant. Logs, reports and any generated artifacts will be stored in Control Room, and will be easily accessible for privileged users.
Using both Assistant and Workforce Agent on the same machine
You can install and run both Robocorp Assistant and Robocorp Workforce Agent on the same machine. They can even trigger executions simultaneously, but this is not recommended as the robots themselves can collide when accessing the same local applications or resources. | <urn:uuid:09360420-2820-4b3e-8707-3e0d2c5bc8ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://robocorp.com/docs/control-room/attended-or-unattended | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.917938 | 551 | 2.171875 | 2 |
This post is one of a series of entries that has looked at ethical problems with cost arguments made in opposition to the adoption of climate change legislation and policies.
As we have seen in prior ClimateEthics’ posts, with the possible exception of arguments that claim the science of climate change does not support action on climate change, by far the most common arguments against action on climate change are claims that proposed climate change policies should be opposed on grounds that they cost too much.
These arguments are of various types such as claims that climate change legislation will destroy jobs, reduce GDP, damage specific businesses such as the coal and petroleum industries, increase the cost of fuel, or simply that proposed climate change legislation can’t be afforded by the public. This post is one of a series that identifies ethical problems with these cost arguments made against the adoption of climate change policies and legislation.
In the entry entitled Ethical Problems With Cost Arguments Against Climate Change Policies: The Failure To Recognize Duties To Non-citizens, ClimateEthics explained how cost arguments were often deeply ethically problematic because they ignored duties, responsibilities, and obligations to others to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That is, cost arguments usually appeal to matters of self-interest and ignore responsibilities to others including the tens of millions of poor people around the world that are already suffering from climate change impacts or are vulnerable to harsh climate change impacts in the future.
In an entry entitled Ethical Issues in the Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Programs< ClimateEthics explained why cost arguments were also ethically flawed because they often:
(a) ignore the fact that costs would be imposed on those who are causing the problem yet the victims of climate change that would benefit from taking action are some of the poorest people around the world, and thereby are inconsistent with theories of distributive justice; and
(b) implicitly rely on “preference utilitarianism,” a justification for non-action on climate change that is ethically flawed when applied to climate change for several reasons.
In another recent post entitled recent post, ClimateEthics explained why costs arguments could not be made against climate change policies if greenhouse gas emissions led to human rights violations Climate Change Policies: Increased Costs May Not Justify Human Rights Violations,
This post now looks at how cost-benefit arguments made in opposition to climate change policies are also often ethically problematic because they fail to accurately identify the full damages of doing nothing on climate change.
The failure to adequately deal with the full costs of doing nothing stems from two problems with how the values of the benefits of taking action are calculated.
First cost arguments fail to fully identify all potential harms and damages from climate change.
Second cost arguments usually discount the values of future benefits to be experienced from climate change, an approach which raises numerous ethical problems.
This post looks at ethical issues that arise because of the failure to fully identify and appropriately value all potential damages and harms that will be avoided if climate change policies and programs are enacted. A later post will look at the problems of discounting future benefits. | <urn:uuid:0fef883f-bab3-437c-aba8-e25304c17d59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ethicsandclimate.org/category/climate-change-and-markets/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940015 | 630 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Journalists Discuss Right to Know in a Post 9/11 World
Posted in The Gnovis Blog
On the sixth anniversary of September 11 several members of the print media and a representative from the National Security Archive gathered at American University to discuss “The Freedom of Press in a Post 9-11 Era.” Washington D.C.’s public radio station, WAMU, has archived a recording of the discussion on their website. The panel lasts about an hour and touches on a number of issues the media, particularly the print media, face under the current administration. Panelists argue that current climate of secrecy and fear has hurt the media’s standing in the public sphere. Ken Paulsons contends that “without an aggressive marketing campaign” the First Amendment probably wouldn’t be approved today. He goes on to say that in the weeks after 9/11 fifty percent of Americans felt the First Amendment went “too far.” Journalists ought to do a better job, Paulson says, reminding the public that they work for them. In addition, viewing freedom of the press and national security as mutually exclusive overly simplifies the situation; tension will always exist between the secrecy required for national security and the transparency our democratic system engenders. All the journalists on the panel say that they take the administration’s requests to hold or kill a story seriously, but ultimately have to weigh these requests against the public’s right to know. The panelists assert that part of the way we preserve liberty is to use the freedoms guaranteed to us in the Constitution. If journalists push for information and transparency it is only in an effort to hold the government accountable– not callous indifference to the fate of the nation. Near the end of the discussion (around minute 49) the journalists on the panel discuss the differences between print journalism and the kind of information presented on TV and the Internet. Needless to say, they come down solidly on the side of the print media. American Forum is sponsored by the School of Journalism at American University. They host a number of events throughout the year examining the state of the media. | <urn:uuid:60615472-3cc7-4d81-8a3e-6ac8c7a341a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gnovisjournal.georgetown.edu/the-gnovis-blog/journalists-discuss-right-to-know-in-a-post-911-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.931563 | 433 | 2.125 | 2 |
Isolation of inmates rising in crowded prisons
Ombudsman concerned segregation being used to house 'marginalized, vulnerable' inmates
The number of Canadian prisoners placed in isolation has climbed sharply in the last decade — and continued to rise after the high-profile death of teen inmate Ashley Smith put the dangers of segregation in the national spotlight.
Statistics obtained by CBC News Network's Power & Politics under access to information laws show there were 8,221 admissions into segregation in 2012-13 — up from 7,137 in 2003-04.
The figures, provided by the Correctional Service of Canada, show the greatest increases were in Ontario, Quebec and the Prairies.
Canada's correctional investigator, Howard Sapers, told CBC News he has "serious concerns" about the overuse of segregation, its impact on vulnerable inmates and ultimately on rehabilitation and public safety.
"Segregation is an inappropriate way to deal with prison population management pressures. The law requires that the Correctional Service of Canada use the least restrictive means of custody, the least restrictive means necessary in terms of managing risk," he said.
"So some offenders may have to be segregated — but certainly not as many as we're seeing and not for the length of time that we’re seeing."
Risk management or population management?
CSC policy allows for the segregation of offenders for three reasons:
- When the inmate jeopardizes the security of the institution or safety of another person.
- If allowing the inmate to associate with others could interfere with a criminal or serious disciplinary investigation.
- If the inmate’s association with others could jeopardize his or her own safety.
But Sapers said there has been an "over-reliance" on segregation to deal with other prison problems — and that it has become more of a population-management tool than a risk-management tool.
"Canadian penitentiaries are becoming very crowded, and when they are crowded they are much more difficult to manage," he said. Sapers also raised concerns that a disproportionate number of aboriginals, offenders with mental health issues and women are held away from the general prison population.
"Segregation units are being used to house a marginalized, compromised, vulnerable population," he said.
"Some of those folks may need medical supervision and instead they're getting security supervision in a segregation cell. And the result of that is we're seeing a rise in the number of self-injury incidents in segregation, attempted suicides in segregation and completed suicides in segregation."
An inquest into the death of Ashley Smith heard expert testimony on the harmful effects of prolonged isolation, and how mentally ill prisoners often wind up in segregation instead of getting proper treatment. Sapers said he expects some of the recommendations that ultimately come from that inquiry when it resumes next month will be around the use and monitoring of segregation.
"There have been policy changes and new training, but we have not seen a decrease in the use of segregation since Ashley Smith's death. If anything, we've seen an increase," he said. Sapers said isolation exacerbates existing mental health conditions and can create anxiety, depression and sleep disorders.
'More complex' inmate population
In a statement to CBC News, the CSC said the rise in segregation admissions can be attributed to an increase in the total prison population and to a more diverse and complex inmate population.
"The complexity of the offender population has been documented in CSC reports consistently since 2005, and offenders with more extensive histories of substance abuse, violence, gang affiliations and weapon use have characterized the federal offender population since that time," said Lynn Brunette.
Brunette added that the more recent rise in segregation numbers would be affected by "improved contraband detection capacity" since 2009.
Catherine Latimer, executive director of the John Howard Society of Canada, said segregation has become a means of managing mentally ill offenders.
"They tend to deal with difficult inmates by putting people in administrative segregation — particularly people who are frankly difficult to control in the prison population because they have mental health issues," she said.
Latimer said a number of legal challenges have been mounted in Canada and the U.S. against the broad use of segregation, especially for younger offenders and those with mental health problems.
In California, human rights advocates and celebrities such as Jay Leno, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bonnie Raitt and Gloria Steinem have condemned the solitary confinement of inmates, and have written to the state's governor calling the units "extensions of the same inhumanity practiced at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay." Hundreds of prisoners have been on a hunger strike to protest the practice.
Sapers said there have even been incidents of double-bunking in segregation cells in Canada because of overcrowding.
CSC is creating 2,700 new cells to add capacity, but Sapers questions whether they will be used in a way that eases the reliance on segregation.
"One of the sad realities of corrections is that we tend to fill the space when we have it, so I expect we could be having this conversation five years from now…. about the need for enhancing capacity, training, policy and accountability and monitoring," he said. | <urn:uuid:9cd7893d-930c-4e17-bcf0-255b2c3cb431> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/isolation-of-inmates-rising-in-crowded-prisons-1.1310608 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952282 | 1,056 | 2.375 | 2 |
The Society of Folk Dance Historians (SFDH)
Sound Image Records
CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE
Information: Producers of sound recordings.
A set of phonograph albums combining sound recordings, photographs, and text. The recordings came from field recordings of the Society for the Dissemination of National Music.
Jim Metzner initiated the project, the same Jim Metzner who did Pulse of the Planet for National Public Radio (NPR).
This page © 2018 by Ron Houston.
Please do not copy any part of this page without including this copyright notice.
Please do not copy small portions out of context.
Please do not copy large portions without permission from Ron Houston. | <urn:uuid:3dfd0a5f-eb15-49be-88e7-a87cfb7bef3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sfdh.us/encyclopedia/sound_image_records.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.794546 | 160 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Oceano Dunes Safety Tips
Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area (SVRA) cares for the safety of all of our visitors enjoying the dunes whether you are camping, surfing, operating an off-highway vehicle (OHV) or riding your horse along the beach. We remind our visitors to employ safe practices and always be aware of your surroundings. Below you will find safety tips and regulations while riding and recreating in the park.
Personal Safety Equipment
Always wear a properly sized and secured Department of Transportation compliant helmet. Other riding gear and equipment such as goggles, neck braces, long sleeves, pants, over-the-ankle boots, and gloves are strongly recommended. Be sure to familiarize yourself with OHV laws, rules and regulations, such as helmet requirements while operating All-Terrain Vehicles (ATV) and Recreational Off-Highway Vehicles (ROV).
Speed limits on the beach and shoreline and within campsites or near concentrations of people are 15MPH and are enforced at Oceano Dunes SVRA. Remember that you are sharing the beach with other vehicles, pedestrians, shorebirds and other wildlife, so relax, enjoy the scenery and take your time.
While recreating in the OHV area, always maintain appropriate speeds that are safe for the conditions with the ability to control, turn or stop your vehicle if necessary. Remember to adjust your speed if wind, fog or light conditions limit visibility.
Whip & Flag Safety Regulations
California State Parks requires a whip and flag for all vehicles recreating at Oceano Dunes SVRA. A whip and flag is a safety equipment requirement intended to provide increased visibility while recreating in the dunes.
- A whip is any pole, rod, or antenna securely mounted on the vehicle that extends at least eight feet from the surface of the ground, and must stand upright when the vehicle is stopped
- The flag must be solid red or orange colored, a minimum size of 6" x 12", and within 10" of the top of the whip
Know Your Limits
Accidents may be avoided by simply taking your time, being aware of your surroundings and recreating in a safe and responsible manner. Never attempt to exceed your skill level and training and always consider your options as you explore the dunes. Additional considerations while you explore Oceano Dunes SVRA,
- Make sure to drink plenty of water, take breaks, be aware of rider fatigue
- Keep your ears open. Wearing earbuds or listening to loud music may limit your ability to communicate or be aware of approaching vehicles
- Never operate a vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs
Scout Your Route
Learn to read the dunes. Take time to explore the terrain and understand where steep drop-offs occur. The prevailing winds that blow in from the ocean sweep sand particles unto wave-like crests that run north and south. On the west or windward side, the slope is gentle. On the east or leeward side, the slope is steep. For this reason, the leeward slope is called the slipface. When approaching the top of a dune, scout the other side before proceeding. Be careful at midday as the lack of shadows makes it hard to spot hazards. Avoid riding on vegetation or wet sand, do not ride beyond the fence lines, and please contact a Ranger to report any hazards or safety concerns you may discover.
Reach and Operate
Remember that every operator is required to be able to reach and operate all controls necessary to safely operate the vehicle. Placing children on ATV’s or other OHV’s that are too large for them, may not only be unsafe but may also be against the law and parents may be held responsible.
Other Operational Tips
While recreating in Oceano Dunes SVRA or other OHV areas, some other operational and safety considerations for you,
- While driving up a dune, sounding your horn may alert other drivers of your presence
- You should always use a spotter and look before you jump
- Always supervise younger riders
- When approaching the top of a ridge, approach at an angle to see if it is safe to proceed
In California, there are laws specific to operating an ATV on public lands.
- Double riding is against the law. Unless specifically designed to carry a passenger, it is against the law for an operator to carry a passenger on an ATV
- Operators are required to wear a helmet at all times while riding an ATV on public lands
ATV SAFETY CERTIFICATE REQUIREMENT
All riders ages 14 to 17 must:
- Possess an ATV Safety Certificate, or
- Be under the direct supervision of a parent or guardian who has completed an ATV safety course and has an ATV Safety Certificate in his/her possession
- Additionally, riders 13 years of age and younger must be directly supervised by a parent or guardian at all times
In California, there are laws specific to operating an ROV on public lands.
- An operator of an ROV must be 16 years of age or be under the direct supervision of a parent, guardian, or other adult
- A helmet is required for operator and passenger(s)
- Seatbelts or safety harness is required for all occupants
- Passengers must occupy a separate seat location designed and provided by the manufacturer and must be seated upright, with back against the seatback and able to grasp the occupant handhold when seatbelt/safety harness is properly fastened
- All OHVs must be registered through the Department of Motor Vehicles and display a current green or red sticker. | <urn:uuid:179e1dca-0b8b-498d-b632-170db6027ca3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ohv.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=25980 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.919016 | 1,183 | 1.859375 | 2 |
12th June 2020
iHV is working collaboratively with Public Health England to capture the stories, workarounds, innovation and rapid learning that has taken place in the health visiting service since the country went into lockdown in March.
We plan to publish these in a special edition of our case study series as a record of this time when history is being made. Capturing your experiences in this way will help us celebrate your successes, learn from each other and provide a legacy for future generations to reflect on.
We invite you to be part of this by submitting your experiences in a variety of ways listed below.
Tell us what it has been like for you
Demonstrate why health visiting matters
Whilst working in a pandemic has presented numerous challenges for the health visiting profession and the families that we work with, it has also provided a unique opportunity for the profession to demonstrate its crucial role, supporting children and families across the breadth of clinical, social and statutory need.
The pace and scale of change has been second to none and health visitors have risen to this challenge with professionalism and autonomy, flexing and developing innovative service “workarounds” to ensure that families receive the best possible support. Different areas have responded in different ways. No doubt some innovations have worked better than others – it is only by testing and refining that we can really learn and drive quality improvement.
It is imperative that we capture this learning to ensure that we are better prepared for any future pandemics.
What do we need to celebrate? and what have we collectively learned to strengthen future planning?
To avoid reinventing the wheel, or investing time in ideas that have been proven not to work elsewhere, it is important that we all learn from our collective successes as well as our failures.
Help us to capture this by submitting:
- Service level case studies that describe your journey and the ways you adapted your service. We are particularly interested to include case studies which detail the ways you managed social distancing, including use of PPE and technology.
What issues did you face locally? What were the most pressing needs of the families in your area? How did you address these? What did you learn along the way (what worked – what didn’t/ benefits and limitation)? What was the impact/ outcomes (include any data/ direct service user feedback and quotes).
(Your case study should be written following the PHE case study guidelines for standard format, and the additional information listed in the iHV case study template – 1800 words maximum)
- Family stories – families have faced considerable challenges – tell their story. What challenges did they face, why did this matter? what did you do? and how did your intervention make a difference? – what would the outcomes have looked like without health visiting input? We are interested to receive submissions from the breadth of the health visiting role outlined in the 15 High Impact Areas in the iHV Vision (800 words maximum)
- Creative submission – for those of you with a creative flair – have you captured your experiences of working in a pandemic in an artistic way? A poem, a piece of art? We would love to share your stories of working during a pandemic through a variety of mediums.
How to submit
If you would like the work that you are doing to be considered for this publication, please complete your application following the guidelines (please use the iHV case study template).
We welcome the inclusion of photographs which capture your experiences and the ways that your service has adapted during the pandemic. Please ensure that you have gained consent from all subjects in the photographs (service users and staff) for their use within the iHV case study publication.
Please send your completed application to [email protected]g.uk by midnight on Monday 29 June.
All submissions will be peer reviewed and applicants will be notified of the outcome within 3 weeks of the closing date.
If you would like to talk through your ideas – please contact Alison Morton [email protected] | <urn:uuid:630c967a-43a7-471e-a974-87d55a881467> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ihv.org.uk/news-and-views/news/call-for-case-studies-making-history-health-visiting-during-covid-19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966588 | 818 | 1.554688 | 2 |
« PreviousContinue »
Author of the Columbian Orator, Child's Companion, &c.
TRAIN UP A CHILL IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO-
ELEVENTH NEW-YORK EDITION REVISED.
No. 68, WATER-STREET,
District of Massachuselts, io wit:
DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the thirtieth day of L. S.
August, A. D. 1819, in the Forty Fourth Year of the
Jodependence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, C. Bingham and Co. of the said District, have deposited in this Office the Title of a Book the Right whereof they claim as Proprietors--in the words following, to wit: “ The American Preceptor improved; being a new Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking. Designed for the use of Schools. By Caleb Bingham, A. M. Author of the Columbian Orator, Child's Companion, &c. “Trajn up a child in the way he should go.” Sixty first (First Improved) Edition.
In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, “ An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned :" and also to an act entitled, “An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragemant of Learning by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historieal, and other prints."
J. W. DAVIS,
WARD M. GAZLAY, FRINTER, NEWBURGA.
Singular adventure of eral Putnam | <urn:uuid:4d6e3437-1f7b-49ef-b289-e012e85ec172> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=1E8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3&focus=viewport&vq=%22peasant+into+a+veteran,+and+supplied+by+discipline+the+absence+of+experience.+As+a+statesman,+he+enlarged+the+policy+of%22&dq=editions:UOM39015064575429&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.886677 | 455 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Don't Forget to Save! The Impact of User Experience Design on Effectiveness of Authoring Video Game Narratives
Authors: Green, D.
Conference: Creative Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology
Since their inception, video games have been a capable storytelling device. This is only amplified as technology improves. Contemporary video games boast a wide range of interaction and presentational techniques that can enrich the narrative experience. Supporting authors with tools to prototype their stories, or even as direct integration into a game, is vital. This is especially important as the complexity and length of such narratives continues to increase.
Designing these kinds of tools is no easy feat. In order to develop authoring systems for game developers that support prototyping or implementation of their envisioned narratives, we must gain an understanding of the underlying constituents that make up video game narrative and their structural and relational properties. Additionally, when designing the interface of and interactions with such systems, the User Experience (UX) design decisions taken may impact the effectiveness of the authors to implement their vision. Therefore, we must also gain an understanding of how various UX design paradigms alter the usability of our programs.
This thesis investigates the existing literature on modeling of interactive narrative and video game narrative. Conclusions are drawn upon the ability for existing models to represent the complexities and nuances that are found in video game narrative. Initial work into the experimental identification of UX paradigms and their impact on authoring effectiveness is also described in detail.
To begin capturing difficult areas of video game narrative, a model of discovered, observed, or experienced narrative, Discoverable Narrative, is presented with examples. Additionally, a new theoretical model of interactive narrative, chiefly focusing on video game narrative, Novella, is proposed and explored in detail with worked examples. The model is designed on the bases of extension and integration with runtime systems and targets particular difficulties of video game narrative that other existing models struggled to capture. The described models pave the way for further development and research, particularly in a full implementation of Novella into a prototype authoring system that will be used in further experiments. | <urn:uuid:ec83b70c-bacd-426c-bb16-223232467afa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/thesis/314647 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939869 | 448 | 1.828125 | 2 |
WASHINGTON (CNS) — News that officials in the Trump administration are considering “zeroing out” the number of refugees accepted by the United States brought an immediate outcry from Catholic and other faith-based agencies urging the government to reconsider such a move.
“The last couple of years have been historically low in terms of refugee resettlement here in the U.S.,” said Bill Canny, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services. “Of the millions of refugees around the world, only about 1% will be resettled, that number will decrease and leave more people vulnerable if these actions come to fruition.”
“I would implore the decision-makers to reconsider these devastating cuts,” Canny said July 19 in remarks to Catholic News Service. “Our military relies on the work of interpreters while in the field and those interpreters are putting their lives and their families lives on the line. To not open our arms to them when they have done so for us, would go against who we are as a nation.”
Setting caps on the number of refugees to be accepted from five global regions is done at the beginning of each fiscal year by the president, in consultation with Congress.
A U.S. State Department report said that in fiscal year 2019, the top 10 countries of origin for refugees admitted into the U.S. to be resettled were: Congo, Myanmar, Ukraine, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Burundi and Colombia.
In a news release issued late July 18, the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service said that as the Trump administration prepares to announce the new ceiling for refugee arrivals in fiscal year 2020, reports emerged that “the White House is seriously considering effectively shuttering the U.S. refugee resettlement program by setting the refugee ceiling at zero.”
“It is horrifying to think that, by the stroke of a pen, the president can make a decision that will destroy a legacy of welcome that has been centuries in the making,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of LIRS, which with MRS is one of a handful of voluntary agencies currently charged with refugee resettlement in the U.S.
“LIRS has been doing this work for 80 years. We have seen firsthand the life-changing impact of this crucial program,” LIRS added. She herself is a former refugee, having come to the U.S. with her family from Sri Lanka when she was 9 months old.
“Setting the U.S. refugee ceiling at zero would be an egregious assault on fundamental American values. And quite frankly, the humanitarian implications of this decision would be enough to nullify our global reputation as leaders of the free world,” Vignarajah said. “(President Donald Trump) simply cannot afford to move forward with this proposal — not if he seeks ongoing support from people of faith all across the United States.”
Since Congress passed the Refugee Act in 1980, the U.S. had admitted on average 95,000 refugees annually. In recent years, the U.S. has accepted between 50,000 to 75,000 refugees per year.
Before admission to the U.S., each refugee undergoes an extensive interviewing, screening and security clearance process.
The number of refugees allowed into the country was capped at 45,000 after Trump became president in 2017 and was scaled back to 30,000 refugees for fiscal year 2019.
Refugee Council USA, a coalition of organizations committed to refugee resettlement and protection that includes MRS and Vignarajah, said July 18 it was “appalled” by the proposal to “zero out” the refugee number.
“The administration has all but confirmed that our country will reach the 30,000 refugee admission goal for FY2019,” Canny, of MRS, said in a statement released by the council, which he chairs. “We have been relieved by that important sign of the program getting back on track after a couple of extremely difficult years. In light of that hopeful sign, reports of further reducing the refugee goal to zero make no sense at all.”
He added: “There continue to be refugees who need the protection that resettlement provides, including refugees who are fleeing religious persecution. Faith based communities and volunteers across the U.S. have the desire, capacity and resources to return to at least our historically normal level of welcoming refugees.”
Join the CatholicPhilly.com family
CatholicPhilly.com works to strengthen the connections between people, families and communities every day by delivering the news people need to know about the Catholic Church, especially in the Philadelphia region, and the world in which we live.
By your donation in any amount, you and hundreds of other people become part of our mission to inform, form in the Catholic faith and inspire the thousands of readers who visit every month.
Here is how you can help:
- A $100 gift allows us to present award-winning photos of Catholic life in our neighborhoods.
- A $50 gift enables us to cover a news event in a local parish, school or Catholic institution.
- A $20 gift lets us obtain solid faith formation resources that can deepen your spirituality and knowledge of the faith.
- A small, automated monthly donation means you can support us continually and easily.
Won't you consider making a gift today?
Please join in the church's vital mission of communications by offering a gift in whatever amount that you can ― a single gift of $40, $50, $100, or more, or a monthly donation. Your gift will strengthen the fabric of our entire Catholic community and sustain CatholicPhilly.com as your trusted news source. Thank you in advance!
Make your donation by credit card here:
Or make your donation by check:
222 N. 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103 | <urn:uuid:29a0cfcd-42f6-427c-89e9-b443dbb9a4c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catholicphilly.com/2019/07/news/national-news/agencies-appalled-by-reports-u-s-could-end-refugee-admissions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959601 | 1,254 | 2 | 2 |
I am trying to become a healthier eater, and I want to eat more vegetables. However, I find that after boiling or steaming them they lack flavor. Can you give me some ideas on making them more flavorful without those rich cream sauces?
You are on the right track by eating more vegetables. You can boost flavor by cooking the veggies with seasoned broths. Either make your own with herbs, spices and aromatics or buy canned, seasoned broth at the supermarket.
You are looking for flavor ingredients. The aromatics I mentioned earlier include sliced or diced onions, minced garlic or grated gingerroot. Any one will add spark to either boiled or steamed veggies. All three combine well with tamari soy sauce and a dash of sesame oil – and blast vegetables out of this orbit with flavor. Prepared horseradish is wonderful mixed with cooked carrots or cooked red beets.
I crave a textural variety in the foods I eat. One of my solutions is to toss dry-toasted nuts and seeds with barely-cooked fresh vegetables. Dry toasting is done in a heavy skillet with no fat or liquid. Purchase raw pepitas, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds or blanched almonds, pecans or hickory nuts. Raw seeds are less likely to be rancid. Vigorously agitate ½ cup of seeds or nuts in a hot, dry skillet over medium high heat for 3-5 minutes. Keep them moving, so they don’t burn. Toss the toasted crunchies with freshly steamed veggies. You’ll want seconds and thirds.
Fresh green herbs are everywhere these days. Get some potent rosemary, chop it and toss with steamed zucchini or yellow squash. Tarragon takes fresh asparagus to new heights on your palate. Dill and chives jump fresh corn over the butter hurdle. Fresh sage surprises everyone when tossed with potatoes or Brussels sprouts. And there’s no better marriage than fresh basil and fresh tomatoes. Add fresh garlic for even more flavor.
Don’t ever turn your nose up at canned foods. Take a gander at the selection of flavored canned tomato products and flavored beans on your local supermarket shelves. Anyone of those handy cans of flavor will enhance a pot of fresh veggies. Check it out. | <urn:uuid:c5364423-10dd-46a7-865d-3eb9fb86778d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.egofelix.com/flavor-to-veggies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.929958 | 474 | 1.710938 | 2 |
South University NSG6435 Week 4 Quiz / South University NSG 6435 Week 4 Quiz
NSG6435: Week 4 Quiz
Question 1 1 / 1 point
A school-age client presents to the clinic to establish care. The child has autism, facial dysmorphia, and growth retardation. The provider suspects the child has what condition?
A. Down Syndrome
B. Fetal alcohol syndrome
C. Prader- Willi syndrome
D. Turner syndrome
Autism, facial dysmorphia, and growth retardation are differential diagnoses of fetal alcohol syndrome.
Question 2 1 / 1 point
A 8-year-old client was recently discharged from the hospital following an episode of meningitis. The client presented to the clinic for a follow-up appointment post discharge. The provider understands that the client’s is at increased risk for which complication(s)? (check all that apply)
A. Hearing Impairment
C. Loss of Speech
Question 3 1 / 1 point
A client with history of bilateral tympanostomy tube insertion presents to the clinic c/o otorrhea. The provider confirms the complaint. What is the best treatment for this condition?
A. Combination antibiotic and corticosteroid otic drops
B. Anaglesics and watchful waiting
C. Oral antibiotics and antifungal cream
D. Corticosteroid otic drops
Question 4 1 / 1 point
The gold standard in diagnosing acute otitis media is:
A. Immobile ™
B. Pearly gray TM
C. Flat TM
D. Perforated TM
The diagnosis of acute otitis media is based on presence of one or several of the following: bulging TM, decreased translucency of TM, absent or decreased mobility of the TM, air-fluid level behind the TM and otorrhea
Question 5 1 / 1 point
A provider is caring for a new client whose had recurrent episodes of and failed treatment for acute otitis media. What is the next best intervention?
A. Refer to audiologist
B. Refer to an otolaryngology
C. Prescribe a broad spectrum antibiotic for 30 days
D. Prescribe an anti- inflammatory
Question 6 1 / 1 point
A 16 year-old-client presents to your clinic c/o sore throat and 101°F temperature. The provider learns that the client had a sore throat approximately 1 week ago. On exam, client is positive for cervical lymphadenopathy, enlarged left tonsil, edematous pharynx and uvula displacement. What condition does this client most likely have?
A. Acute uvulitis
B. Infectious mononucleosis
D. Peritonsillar abscess
Question 7 1 / 1 point
A 5-year-old client presents to the clinic for an annual physical. While performing the physical exam, the provider attempts to examine the client’s ears. What does the provider do?
A. Gently pull outer ear down and back **
B. Gently pull outer ear up and back
C. Gently pull outer ear down
D. Gently pull outer ear back
To correctly examine the ear of a child older than 12 months gently pull outer ear down and back
Question 8 1 / 1 point
What are the most common causes of bacterial pneumonia in neonates (select all that apply)?
A. Staphylococcus Aureus
B. Group B Streptococcus **
C. Listeria Monocytogenes
D. E. Coli **
The most common organisms responsible for bacterial pneumonia in neonates are still group B streptococcus and Escherichia coli. The next most common causes are coagulase negative Staph and Listeria in the early neonatal period. After four days of age, the differential needs to be expanded to include S. aureus, Enterobacter, Pseudomonas, Serratia, Candida, Acinetobacter, and anaerobes.
Question 9 1 / 1 point
An ill appearing 3-month-old-infant is presented to your clinic. The parent reports that their child has a fever, persistent cough, rhinorrhea, wheezing, hypoxemia, and anorexia for 4 days. After the provider’s exam and work-up, the child is diagnosed with Bronchiolitis. What is the most likely treatment option for this infant?
A. Refer patient for hospitalization
B. Refer patient for Pulmonologist
C. Refer patient for Bronchoscopy
D. Refer patient for Chest X- ray
Bronchiolitis is the term used for an infant seen with wheezing for the very first time and is the leading cause of hospitalizations for infants. It presents with cough, fever, coryza, tachypnea, expiratory wheezing, air trapping, and inspiratory crackles. In mild cases, symptoms can last for 1 to 3 days. In severe cases, cyanosis, air hunger, retractions, and nasal flaring with symptoms of severe respiratory distress within a few hours may be seen. Apnea can occur and may require mechanical ventilation.
Question 10 1 / 1 point
An ill-appearing child is presented to your clinic with a fever, sore throat, restless behavior, dysphagia, drooling, and inspiratory distress without stridor. The child tests positive for Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). What is the most likely diagnosis?
B. Epiglottitis **
D. Retropharyngeal abscess | <urn:uuid:f08f0147-6bbb-481a-ae86-d60ef0d2c0a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acegraderesearch.com/nsg6435-week-4-quiz/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.877813 | 1,229 | 2.078125 | 2 |
While imperfect, the elements of name, image, likeness are in place to make NIL a permanent success. Seventeen percent of student athletes at Division I schools are participating in NIL, with about 65% of student athletes interested in pursuing it in the future. Despite only 35% of athletic administrators saying they personally support NIL, D-I schools have developed decent NIL policies and education. Marketplaces like NOCAP, Opendorse, and others are in abundance. Governance is unsteady, but it’s evolving at the state level. And it wouldn’t be college athletics if we didn’t have over-involved boosters — we’ve got that covered with 70-plus collectives.
What’s lacking that would ensure NIL success is best-in-class brand activation — the kind that sports industry pros have grown accustomed to. Why does it matter that we get student-athlete brand activation powered up? Because brands are the engine in the sports industry. They provide both the money and the visibility that far exceeds what an athlete or property can create on their own.
While student athletes can sell directly to consumers (via instruction, cameos, merch sales), those combined make up less than 10% of NIL activities. For student athletes to access the full breadth of opportunities, brands need to be involved. But the usual sponsors have been slow to sponsor and activate NIL deals. My surveys with brand managers reveal three main reasons for this:
1) The supply side of the NIL marketplace has been flooded with over half a million student athletes (for some perspective, there are about 10,000 pro athletes in the U.S.), so brands don’t feel the urgency to act.
2) Sports sponsors are sophisticated, calculating, and risk-averse, and they’ve wanted to see the results of the first year’s NIL deals.
3) Experienced brands don’t sign athletes without an activation plan and there have been unknowns about what a college athlete activation would look like.
With a year of NIL behind us, we can now more confidently address No. 3 and begin building successful activation plans that accept its limitations, while capitalizing on what’s unique about student-athlete marketing.
Target: The access and impact a brand gets through NIL is among the strongest and most unique that I’ve seen in my 25 years in youth/teen/young adult marketing. Student athletes provide to a brand:
■ An authentic connection with fans, alumni, and others who follow them, their team, and their university.
■ Influence among their peers on-campus and with their followers online.
■ Visibility with youth sports consumers (for many of the non-revenue sports, college athletes are the heroes to youth athletes).
Online: Of course brands will activate their student-athlete partnership online, but a few things to understand: 1) Contrary to what many believe, not every student athlete has a large social media presence, because many coaches and administrators actively dissuade student athletes from being active on social media. 2) Brands shouldn’t assume that their sponsored athlete will have the time (or the skills) to develop social content. Brands should treat a college athlete like they would a pro athlete and create the content — or at least the framework — for them.
On-air: Student athletes have extremely limited time for a shoot. Unlike a pro athlete, who may simply choose not to make themselves available, student athletes’ time (and priorities) are not in their control. In season, they report spending 23 hours per week in practice (even though the NCAA mandates a maximum of 20 hours). In addition, they say they spend 10-plus hours on voluntary team activities, treatments and travel. Add to that classes, eating, and sleeping and the result is little time for a brand partnership. Shoots need to be in the offseason and will need to work around the academic calendar.
Retail activation will be a growth area for NIL, such as Brennan Armstrong’s combo meal deal with McDonald’s.getty images
Retail: Other than in-store appearances and autograph sessions, we have not seen much retail activation yet, but that’s likely to change in 2022. UVA quarterback Brennan Armstrong recently signed a deal with McDonald’s in Charlottesville, Va., that will include a combo meal named for him.
I think retail activation will be the biggest growth area in the 2022-23 academic year. I know of multiple brands in the early stages of planning retail activations that include on-pack, point-of-purchase, and more.
Events: My surveys indicate that appearances at live events make up only about 7% of NIL activity right now. But brands shouldn’t underestimate the value of event activation. Student athletes want to do events (again, when it doesn’t conflict with their mandatory team activities and academic obligations) and consumers really want the access to athletes. Football players at Michigan State and Auburn recently announced player-owned “clubs” that will offer fans access to players at private events.
We are now in Year 2 of the name, image, and likeness era. This new ecosystem’s growth and development will be driven by brands and in large part by the activations that only brands can provide.
Bill Carter is the founder of the youth marketing agency Fuse and an SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree in 2001. In 2019, he launched Student-Athlete Insights and uses that data to consult with brands, agencies and properties about NIL. He teaches a class on name, image and likeness in the business school at the University of Vermont.
Questions about OPED guidelines or letters to the editor? Email editor Jake Kyler at firstname.lastname@example.org | <urn:uuid:5e70a967-2063-494d-9344-bf54319962b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/en/Journal/Issues/2022/08/01/Opinion/Carter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952122 | 1,214 | 1.65625 | 2 |
By U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)October 20, 2015
Recent headlines have celebrated the success of women chief executives at Facebook, IBM, General Motors and other corporate giants. But this misses a much bigger story: women-owned small businesses - already numbering nearly 10 million - are starting up at twice the rate of men-owned businesses, and they are succeeding despite an all too real glass ceiling. At the same time, women in Congress are leading the legislative fight to crack that glass ceiling and level the playing field for women-owned businesses.
As the lead Democrat on the Senate's Small Business Committee, I've had countless conversations with businesswomen from across the US. They are proud to be successful business owners and job creators. But they tell disturbing stories of barriers confronting women entrepreneurs that aren't encountered by their male counterparts. They face longer odds in getting access to credit and capital, winning government contracts, and accessing the business counseling they need to succeed.
In a Harvard Business School study, potential investors watched two videotaped entrepreneurial pitches, one with a voiceover using a man's voice and the other using a woman's voice. The content of the pitch was identical; the only difference was the gender of the person delivering it. Sixty-eight percent of the investors chose to fund the venture pitched by the man's voice, and only 32 percent chose to fund the one pitched by the woman's voice.
It is a shocking fact that, as recently as 1988, many states had laws requiring women to obtain the signature of a husband or other man in order to establish business credit.
This legacy of sexism and discrimination partially explains why women, today, receive just 7 percent of venture capital funds, and why women-owned small businesses secure less than 5 percent of federal government contracts and account for less than 5 percent of the total value of all conventional business loans.
The good news is that big changes are underway, led by women in Congress in concert with organizations such as Women Impacting Public Policy and the Association of Women's Business Centers.
In July 2014, women entrepreneurs from across the country packed a hearing of the Senate's Small Business Committee to demand reforms aimed at increasing women-owned small businesses' access to federal contracts, capital and business counseling. It is unacceptable that the nearly 10 million women-owned small businesses are awarded less than five percent of federal contracts. Soon after the hearing, I joined with Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) to pass key elements of the Women's Small Business Procurement Parity Act. This law will give women-owned small businesses more opportunities to compete for federal contracts, on par with other traditionally disadvantaged groups.
Access to credit is another huge challenge facing women-owned businesses. Unable to obtain a traditional bank loan, many women rely on personal credit, loans from family and friends, credit cards, or even liquidating retirement accounts. These unstable and costly sources of financing put women-owned small businesses at a sharp competitive disadvantage.
Since most women-owned start-ups require modest capital and are up to five times more likely to be approved for a Small Business Administration (SBA) loan than a conventional loan, we passed the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 to increase the maximum SBA Microloan amount from $35,000 to $50,000, while also creating a new Intermediary Lending Pilot Program to provide SBA loans between $50,000 and $200,000.
Our next priority is to improve women's access to specialized business counseling and training, especially in economically disadvantaged communities. More than 100 SBA-funded Women's Business Centers serve tens of thousands of clients annually, helping women-owned businesses to get off the ground or rise to the next level. For years, these centers have been hamstrung by funding uncertainty and a 1990s law that does not meet the needs of the 21st century. This month - in a fitting salute to National Women's Small Business Month - our Small Business Committee passed legislation to reauthorize and modernize this very successful program.
Forbes says that women-owned businesses have become "the nation's job-creation machine." Between 1997 and 2014, according to an American Express study, the number of women-owned firms grew at 1½ times the national average; revenue and employment growth among women-owned firms tops that of all other firms except for the largest, publicly traded corporations.
This is progress, but we must do better. The glass ceiling in small business is not only holding back women; it is also depriving our economy of vast human capital, creativity, and innovation. We need to level the playing for women in small business, ensuring more equal access to credit, capital, counseling, and contracts.
Warren Buffett famously said that one reason for his extraordinary success is that he was competing with only half of the world. It's time to fully unleash the other half.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen is the lead Democrat on the Senate's Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. | <urn:uuid:e1903990-1bd4-4b8a-b947-dd4e11763456> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=CBF0C295-B5DD-45C8-A79F-F0E7F9062369 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963521 | 1,033 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Homelessness is an issue that is continuously prevalent all over the United States. In January of 2007, a state-wide survey estimated that 15,394 people were homeless in Colorado. The same survey found that 37.3 % were households with youth under the age of eighteen. In northern Colorado, homelessness is not addressed to the degree that it is in more urban areas of Colorado. A study from January of this year found that in Fort Collins alone, 250 people reported to be homeless and 20% of those people were under the age of eighteen. Since 2007, the number of people who are in need of a place to live is increasing.
There are a handful of charities that provide shelter for the homeless people of northern Colorado, but are only geared towards families, have religious affiliations, or their services are not available twenty-four hours a day. Local Fort Collins residents Travis Campbell, Eli Aknin, and Philip Shellabarger are working to create a new charity for the struggling youth of northern Colorado called A Place to Stay. According to their facebook page, “A Place To Stay is a not-for-profit, non-religious affiliated homeless shelter/venue. APTS is centered around aiding the struggling members of northern Colorado. Guests will be provided with a safe, and comfortable environment.” Every month, APTS hosts three to four benefit concerts in Fort Collins that raise money towards their $10,000 goal. When asked what kind of bands are featured at their benefit shows Campell explained, “We welcome all different types of music at our benefits, but it is mainly punk bands that play. The majority of the bands that play are local, but on occasion small touring bands play when they come through Fort Collins.” These benefit shows not only help a wonderful cause, but they also support the booming northern Colorado local music scene.
On Saturday June 22nd, APTS is hosting one of their benefit concerts at the Art Lab in Fort Collins featuring punk, ska, and rockabilly music. Fort Collins bands The Tramps and Drunk Diggery will be playing alongside Police Lingo (touring), and Moonraker (also touring). The event is only $5 at the door, and all of the proceeds go to funding APTS. When BandWagon Magazine asked Campbell about the ideal future of A Place to Stay he replied, “I’d like to see APTS open, and thriving. I’d like to see us offering a warm, safe place where people can stay when they have nowhere else. A place without religious pressures. We hope that this will allow the struggling people of Fort Collins to have a secure foundation that they can use to rebuild their life.” | <urn:uuid:36f249a0-07f8-42d6-bbe8-3c878e5c4100> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bandwagmag.com/2013/06/a-place-to-stay-helping-the-fort-collins-youth-one-punk-at-a-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96932 | 553 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.