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ENG513 MIDTERM SOLVED PAPERS
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Tumour markers in malignanciesBMJ 2000; 320 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.320.7232.424 (Published 12 February 2000) Cite this as: BMJ 2000;320:424
- Annika Lindblom, clinical geneticist (email@example.com)a,
- Annelie Liljegren, oncologistb
- a Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska Hospital, S171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
- b Department of South Stockholm Oncology, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden
- Correspondence to: A Lindblom
- Accepted 24 September 1999
In western Europe today, a third of all people develop a malignant disease at least once in their lifetime. Treatment has improved, and for many diseases, such as leukaemia and testicular cancer, the prognosis is much better today than it was 20 years ago. Screening for early diagnosis has also led to lower mortality for diseases such as breast cancer and cervical cancer; many malignancies, however, are still diagnosed after the metastatic process has already started, indicating a poor prognosis.
Tumour markers are usually proteins associated with a malignancy and might be clinically usable in patients with cancer. A tumour marker can be detected in a solid tumour, in circulating tumour cells in peripheral blood, in lymph nodes, in bone marrow, or in other body fluids (ascites, urine, and stool). A tumour marker may be used to define a particular disease entity, in which case it may be used for diagnosis, staging, or population screening. Markers may also be used to detect the presence of occult metastatic disease, to monitor response to treatment, or to detect recurrent disease (table). Recently they have even been used as targets for therapeutic intervention in clinical trials.
Tumour markers are commonly proteins associated with malignancy, offering a putative clinical use in cancer
A tumour marker can be detected in a solid tumour, in circulating tumour cells in peripheral blood, in lymph nodes, in bone marrow, or in other body fluids (urine or stool)
A tumour marker can be used for population screening and for detection, diagnosis, staging, prognosis, or follow up of malignant diseases
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Hollywood: Her Story, An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies
The year was 1896, the woman was Alice Guy-Blaché, and the film was The Cabbage Fairy. It was less than a minute long. Guy-Blaché, the first female director, made hundreds of movies during her career.
Thousands of women with passion and commitment to storytelling followed in her footsteps. Working in all aspects of the movie industry, they collaborated with others to create memorable images on the screen. This book pays tribute to the spirit, ambition, grit and talent of these filmmakers and artists.
With more than 1200 women featured in the book, you will find names that everyone knows and loves—the movie legends. But you will also discover hundreds and hundreds of women whose names are unknown to you: actresses, directors, stuntwomen, screenwriters, composers, animators, editors, producers, cinematographers and on and on. Stunning photographs capture and document the women who worked their magic in the movie business.
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Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America – is like a slideshow of American women’s history. Pictures and photographs along with short captions document women who’ve excelled in areas of American culture, including science, politics, business, entertainment and sports. The ones we all know from history class (Pocahontas) and popular culture (Oprah Winfrey) are here. Many are lesser known but no less interesting; for example, Sister Rose Thering, who was instrumental in the Vatican’s repeal of its policy of holding Jews responsible for the crucifixion. One fascinating set of photographs shows a Boston Marathon official trying to tear off K. Switzer’s race number when he realizes the “K” stands for Kathrine (in 1967 Switzer became the first woman to officially enter and run in the event). With more than 900 women profiled, this book is a perfect addition to any library: public, school, college or personal. Bookpage, March 2008 – visit the Her Story website at www.herstoryatimeline.com
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Lightning Stroke Counts on ECMWF Era Interim Grid
This dataset was created by Ross Bunn using gpats_gridded_per_year_month.py (see "Data Location" for python script). Global Position and Tracking System or GPATS is a commercial lightning detection system, using ground-based Very Low Frequency sensors across Australia to accurately detect stroke times, and Time Difference of Arrival methods to calculate locations. On the ECMWF Era Interim Grid (lon res=0.75deg, lat res= 0.75deg), (or user defined grid) over an Australian domain (-45.0 to -9.75, 109.5E to 160.5E) and within each 1 hour period per UTC day, the python 2.7 function histogram2d from module numpy has been used to create four strokecount variable arrays. Histogram2d counts the number of scattered GPATS strokes occurring within each gridbox. GPATS data from 200803 - 201510 have been extracted from the Bureau of Meteorology adam_prd database. Stroke count times are from minus one hour to the specified time in UTC.
Update (25 Feb 2016) - A few data gaps exist in this dataset 1 hour to 1 week in size. An analysis identifying where these gaps are is ongoing. Efforts to fill these gaps will be started soon.
- Principal Investigator / Researcher Ross Bunn
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- ATTRIBUTION: This gridded lightning dataset was created using lightning strike locations and times from GlobalPosition and Tracking System (GPATS, []).
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PROJECT: ua8 | (register here)
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- EXTRACTED from the Bureau of Meteorology's ADAMPrd Database.
- TIME PERIOD: 1 Mar 2008 - 31 Oct 2015
LAT (degrees north) LON (degrees east) TIME (UTC - lightning counted between TIME-1hr and TIME ) CLOUD_GROUND (dimensionless - number of strokes with negative current polarity per Era Interim grid box) GROUND_CLOUD (dimensionless - number of strokes with positive current polarity per Era Interim grid box) INTRA_CLOUD (dimensionless - number of strokes with zero current polarity per Era Interim grid box) TOTAL (dimensionless - total number of strokes per Era Interim grid box)
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LUSHER, ROBERT LANGHAM, Methodist minister, author, and newspaper editor; b. c. 1787 in London; m. Esther —, and they had at least one son and two daughters; d. 10 July 1849 in Montreal.
Robert Langham Lusher was attracted to the Methodist movement as a young man. In 1817, having been accepted as a probationer for the ministry, he was appointed by the British Wesleyan Conference to overseas missionary work. Lusher’s first assignment was Montreal, where he arrived with his young family late in 1817. Except for a year in Quebec, from 1817 until the summer of 1822 he served the Montreal circuit; while there he was received into full connection by the British conference in 1821.
At Lusher’s arrival in Montreal, the town’s Methodists numbered probably fewer than 100 and were largely loyalists of the mercantile and artisan classes. They were divided in their allegiance to American or British church authorities, but by 1820 had united under the British Wesleyan Conference. Lusher’s style of preaching soon began to make Methodism respectable in Montreal, overcoming the prevailing prejudice against Methodist preachers as what a letter in the Montreal Gazette termed “strolling enthusiasts.” He was able to obtain civil registers for baptisms, marriages, and burials and the Montreal Methodist society increased in numbers and affluence so that a larger chapel was soon required. The Methodist Chapel, as it was called, was completed in 1821. Under Lusher’s leadership Methodists cooperated with other denominations in establishing several religious and benevolent institutions such as the Montreal General Hospital and the Emigrant Society of Montreal. He was, however, disappointed by one development within his own denomination: the agreement of 1820 between British and American Methodist authorities [see Henry Ryan*] which left Upper Canada under the influence of the American preachers, many of whom, he believed, held the “[British] constitution and Government in the utmost contempt.”
In 1822 Lusher was appointed to Halifax and in 1825 to Liverpool, N.S. On both circuits he travelled to isolated settlements along the southern shore. He returned to England in 1827 and served in Oldham, Halifax, Manchester, and Bath. At the request of the Montreal Methodist society, in 1838 he was once again assigned to the Montreal circuit by the Wesleyan Missionary Committee of the British conference and at the same time was appointed to preside over the Lower Canada District, a post he held for a year.
Relations between the British Wesleyan Conference, responsible for Lower Canada, and the Canada Conference, presiding in Upper Canada, were greatly strained. One of the chief points at issue was the policy of the Christian Guardian, edited by Egerton Ryerson*, who did not hesitate to criticize government policy on the disposition of the clergy reserves. In a letter to fellow minister Robert Alder*, Lusher perhaps reflected a typically British attitude in his horror of the Christian Guardian’s “inflammatory character . . . calculated to promote dissatisfaction and disaffection to the Government” as well as its “anti-Wesleyan position in reference to the Church of England and its union with the state.” In August 1840, immediately after the British Wesleyan Conference had officially broken its link with the Canada Conference (Lower Canada remaining as it had been, a district in direct connection with the British conference), a new church paper, the Wesleyan, appeared. It was published twice monthly in Montreal with Lusher as its first editor. The aim of the Wesleyan was to disseminate British Methodist news and opinion throughout the Canadas, no doubt as an antidote to the influence of the Christian Guardian. After a year Lusher gave up the editorship and in 1842 moved to Trois-Rivières. The paper resumed publication in Toronto.
Lusher’s later years were clouded by ill health. After serving the Trois-Rivières circuit for less than two years, he retired in 1843 to live in Montreal among the members of his former congregation, who greatly revered him. Robert Langham Lusher’s contribution to the social and religious life of British North America was conservative rather than creative or original. In upholding a British attitude of uncritical deference to authority he perhaps failed to appreciate the need of the colonial church to shape its witness within its own social context.
Robert Langham Lusher is the author of The last journey: a funeral address, delivered . . . July 8, 1838, occasioned by the death of the late Rev. John Barry . . . (Montreal, 1838); The laws of Wesleyan Methodism epitomized and arranged . . . (Manchester, Eng., 1834); Recollections of the outlines of a sermon, delivered . . . April 3, 1825, on occasion of the death of Mrs. Eunice Waterman . . . (Halifax, 1827); and A sermon, preached at the Wesleyan Chapel, Quebec, Sunday, March 26th, 1820, occasioned by the death of his late majesty George the Third (Montreal, 1820). He was the editor for the first volume of the Wesleyan, which was published at Montreal from 6 Aug. 1840 to 8 July 1841.
St James United Church (Montreal), Memorial letterbook, 17 Jan. 1842. SOAS, Methodist Missionary Soc. Arch., Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Soc., corr., North America (mfm. at UCC, Maritime Conference Arch., Halifax). UCC, Montreal-Ottawa Conference Arch. (Montreal), 7/StJ/1/1; Montreal Presbytery, St James Street Methodist Chapel (Montreal), reg. Wesleyan (Toronto), 2 (1841–42)–3 (1842–43). Wesleyan Methodist Church, Minutes of the conferences (London), 11 (1848–51). Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canada, The minutes of the annual conferences . . . from 1824 to 1845 . . . (Toronto, 1846). Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, 41 (1818)–43 (1820); 48 (1825)–49 (1826); 54 (1831). Canada Temperance Advocate (Montreal), February–March 1840. Canadian Courant and Montreal Advertiser, 23, 30 Jan., 6 Feb., 18 Dec. 1819; 5 June 1821. Christian Guardian, 25 July 1849. Montreal Gazette, 28 Nov. 1808. Montreal Herald, 11 Oct. 1817–20 March 1819; 18 Dec. 1819; 17, 24 Feb. 1821; 26 Jan. 1822. Montreal Transcript, 21 Oct. 1837; 2 Jan., 31 May, 14 June 1838; 8 Aug. 1840; 10 July 1849. Borthwick, Hist. and biog. gazetteer. G. H. Cornish, Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada, containing historical, educational, and statistical information . . . (2v., Toronto and Halifax, 1881–1903). E. A. Betts, Bishop Black and his preachers (2nd ed., Sackville, N.B., 1976). J. [S.] Carroll, Case and his cotemporaries . . . (5v., Toronto, 1867–77). G. E. Jacques, Chronicles of the St-James St. Methodist Church, Montreal, from the first rise of Methodism in Montreal to the laying of the corner-stone of the new church on St. Catherine Street (Toronto, 1888). N. H. Mair, The people of St James, Montreal, 1803–1984 ([Montreal, 1984]). J. H. Turner, Halifax books and authors . . . (Brighouse, Eng., 1906).
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This has been a trying week for the Occupy Movement. More specifically OccupyLA and Occupy Colleges have faced new challenges that the rest of the movement have been dealing with for months. Raids, arrests, dismantling of our camps, all in an effort to dismantle the movement. But, as has been said before "You can’t arrest an idea."
On November 29, Occupy Los Angeles was raided by 1,300 police officers in riot gear, hoisting rubber bullet guns, and blowing off a lot of pent-up aggression.
Of the 300 protesters over 20 were students including one of our Occupy Colleges facilitators. Most of these students went down to Occupy LA to serve as nonviolent monitors to keep the peace between protesters and police. I interviewed four Occidental College students who experienced first-hand the night of the Occupy Los Angeles raid.
“We had been cut off from the protesters in the center of the park by the police and sat in a circle on the lawn with three other brave protesters. We were among the first groups of people to be arrested. We submitted to arrest willingly and were quickly cuffed and seated on a curb to be processed. We were told that the more we moved, the tighter the cuffs would get.” Jacob Surpin
“Soon it became clear that arrests would be imminent, our peacekeeping team decided to risk incarceration. We believed that we had a right to peaceful assembly and we thought the police declaring this occupation to be “unlawful” was both undemocratic and unconstitutional.” Guido Girgenti
They didn’t expect what came next.
"As riot police encircled us, we sat calmly in a circle and waited. In front of us, a photographer attempted to move towards the police line to take a photo. Two riot police grabbed each of his arms and attempted to stop him from taking photos. He pulled back and declared that he was leaving the encampment, but police stated he was under arrest. He held his arms out, attempting to avoid the plastic cuffs while explaining he was simply taking photos while making his way out. The police threw his arms violently behind his back and we heard a cruel snapping noise – the man yelled in pain. Three more officers engaged the man and together five riot police threw the photographer to the ground – one policeman pushed his head down and slammed his temple into the concrete walkway. While the man was held down, plastic cuffs were placed on his wrists and he taken away. His head was bleeding and his arm was held behind him awkwardly. Soon he was out of view.” Guido Girgenti
“They took us to a bus full of occupiers, these guys were the people I would be put in a holding cell with me. The whole arresting process of 290 people was very disorganized, officers didn’t know where certain people were, and did a whole lot of paper work. Between 1:00 and 4:00am we were all siting in a big room waiting for everyone to be processed. Here I saw all the people who were arrested, there was a wide variety of people, there were a couple of people who had records, there were 30 year old professionals, there were students, and there were band members." Mohammed Imran Chandoo
"By around 4:00am, I was under the impression that my processing was over, as I was taken to a group holding cell in which I was able to make a few phone calls. However, the next several hours were defined by the frequent shuffling of myself and other Occupy arrestees between different temporary group holding cells and fingerprinting stations. The constant shuffling of us early women arrestees is a testament to the lack of capacity the jail possessed to hold women as well as an overall sense of inefficiency and unpreparedness." Maddie Resch
Now here is the kicker – Most of the 300 arrested were cited for a misdemeanor offense which typically garners a fine and immediate release. Not this time. The student occupiers that Occupy Colleges helped bail out of jail were all held on $5,000 bail.
"During this process of waiting while cuffed, nothing was ever explained to us. My Miranda rights were not read to me. I was never told where I was going, why I was going there, or for how long I would be there. I was simply escorted different places with no knowledge of what I did or not have a right to in any given place. The only thing that I was told was that my bail was $5,000. I could not comprehend why it was so high. By being a peacekeeper, I was being overtly nonviolent and obviously was not a threat. A $5,000 bail seemed like cruel and unusual punishment for a student who was practicing nonviolence in a movement for greater justice and deeper democracy.” Guido Girgenti
Initially, on November 30 when we went to the jail during stated visiting hours, the jail was closed. The officers claimed that they were under-staffed. The LAPD sure didn’t seem under-staffed on the night of the raid when they had 1,300 officers abailable for overtime.
"I left jail with a deep sense that the entire process I had gone through was opaque and confusing to the point of being a severe violation of our democracy. Yet, despite being given a cruelly high bail, being held in cuffs for seven hours, and going 11 hours in custody without food or water, I will not let the issue of police treatment distract me from the larger issues this movement will tackle: the deeply unjust inequities of wealth and power in our country, and the fight to save our democracy from the stranglehold of corporate money. I do not blame the individual officers who dealt with me for my mistreatment; it was clear many of the officers are sympathetic to the cause for economic justice, but it is was also clear that their solidarity as individuals was gravely undercut by the repressive institution they worked within. My time in jail has only strengthened my resolve to organize and to win.” Guido Girgenti
How is it that we live a world where not a single person on Wall Street has served even an hour of prison time yet some of our fellow protesters still sit in jail? We are resolved to continue the most important fight of our lives – that of economic injustices. We are mobilized and nothing, not even egregious treatment in jail with high bails will stop us. Whether or not you agree with Occupy, you should be dismayed by the chipping away of our rights, the ability of the police and government to change the rules as they see fit, to use violence against nonviolent protesters and to only defend one side of the debate. Whichever side you are on, remember, next time it could be you.
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In 1977, Salim Ali, during his Himalayan Quail survey, noted that the habitat requirements of the species were similar to the Cheer Pheasantâsteep mountain slopes, tall grass and bush made it extremely difficult to spot these small birds. Illustration of a Himalayan quail from A. O. Hume's work. They can move along the steep mountains with ease when predators are around. wikiHow marks an article as reader-approved once it receives enough positive feedback. Negi reported that on a foggy morning while he was going to Nali to inspect plantations, he saw half-a-dozen birds that looked like the Himalayan Quail crossing the road near Suwakholi. Altitude 350â4,500 m. Countries and territories China (Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Guangxi); Last Updated: March 28, 2019 If you plan to keep only males, they should be housed in pairs. All that is known about the Himalayan Quail is from 10 specimensâseen, shot and collected between April 1836 and December 1876. Himalayan Quail. Himalayan Quail: French: Ophrysie de l'Himalaya: German: Himalajawachtel: ... habitat, diet, sounds, behavior, breeding, current population status, and conservation. It is found in the Indo-Malayan Realm and the Palearctic. compares the habitats of the Cheer Pheasant and the Himalayan Monal to shortlist the five sites where the Mountain Quail may exist. Are they all males? However, the only calls reported for it are a quail-like contact call and a shrill whistle when the bird is flushed. Antibiotics are primarily prescribed by avian vets when a quail requires them. Please turn it off in order to continue, or whitelist Mint. "I raised bobwhite a few years back and enjoyed doing it. Harkirat Sangha, another ornithologist, has a counter view: âHaving travelled quite extensively in the Western Himalayas, I am inclined to believe that the species is gone as the suitable habitat is hardly there. This work identified five large areas of potentially suitable habitat in Uttarakhand, India which should be surveyed (Dunn et al . Ripley also reported the local name of the bird in Nepal as âSano Kalo Titra", which means small black partridge. The Himalayan Quail (Ophrysia superciliosa) is presumed to be extinct since no reliable records of sightings of this species exist after 1876. Quail may hide their eggs in the litter on the bottoms of their habitats, so eggs can be difficult to find in a larger enclosure or pen. Hari Dang, a schoolteacher, reportedly shot a Himalayan Quail near the Nali forest around Mussoorie in 1955. Low-quality sweetgum averaged from 5,000 to 10,000 stems/acre, with virtually no herbaceous component. If the Himalayan Quail was a bird of such specialized habitat and given that such areas are not very extant, most populations were probably small and vulnerable to “local extinctions”. The Himalayan Quail, Ophrysia superciliosa, is a medium-sized quail belonging to the pheasant family.It was last reported in 1876 and is feared extinct. Himalayan Quail relies on flight to move around. Ryan Corrigan is a Licensed Veterinary Technician in California. Allan Octavian Hume, an ornithologist and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, wrote about the Himalayan Quail in his book The Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon, âThe bird is known to occur occasionally, and during the cold season, in the neighbourhood of Mussoorie, and again in the neighbourhood of Nainital. The February study by Dunn et al. Nainital and Mussoorie are no longer the quaint hill stations they once were. Quail should have access to game-bird mix 24/7. Himalayan Quail is one of very critically endangered species of Indian birds. There are 19 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. Their nutritional needs change as they grow and mature. âThey keep habitually in coveys of six to ten, though single pairs may occur. Most of the animals found on earth are wild animals whose natural habitat is the forest. Make sure there is cover in the run. Distribution: Formerly, the species was more widely distributed along the southern Himalayan foothills but now is restricted to only a single remnant population in Manas Wildlife Sanctuary and its buffer reserves. The distribution of this bird couldnât have been confined to Mussoorie and Nainital alone," says Brigadier (retd) Ranjit Talwar, who helped Ingo Rieger look for the Himalayan Quail in 1989. If you are keeping your quail for meat production only, less light (e.g., about 8 hours per day) is needed. Scaled Quail Photo credit: Mick Thompson. Give your quail foraging opportunities by scattering grain in their floor litter, hiding it in cored fruits or vegetables, or mixing it in with scraps of paper in their feed troughs.
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If you search your ancestors in Morfasso, in the province of Piacenza, Emilia Romagna region, the documents about your Italian family are stored in the City Office archives and in the parishes in the town.
Civil Records in Morfasso
In towns and villages of Emilia Romagna and in Piacenza province registry offices were established in 1809: it means that you could find your ancestors records in Morfasso town hall archives as of that date.
(If your goal is to claim your Italian Dual Citizenship in Morfasso follow this link).
So, if your ancestors lived in Morfasso during the past centuries, then you should start your family research from the City Office of Morfasso to know more: our local expert is ready to help you in your research!
Otherwise, if you think to contact the town hall by yourself, we suggest you to read our tips for your search. They are useful to search in Emilia Romagna and of course in Morfasso too!
To proceed faster with your research is important to know if the last name you are investigating is a frequent surname in Morfasso. As more your surname is common, as more it could be difficult to find the right branch of your ancestors family in Morfasso archives, expecially if you have not exact dates.
Church Records in Morfasso
Church archives in Piacenza province may store even older information. You will find religious records of the same events (births, marriages and deaths) but, most important, you could go further back in time!
So in case you would like to go back in centuries, it’s good for you to know that the parish registers in Piacenza started during 1500!
They are far less accessible from abroad (and even not easy to browse and to read if you are not used and skilled) but our local genealogist can research the church archives of Morfasso on your behalf.
In case you want to visit churches, these are the addresses of parishes active today in Morfasso:
NATIVITA’ DELLA BEATA VERGINE – Villa Casali
S. ANDREA APOSTOLO – Sperongia
S. MARIA ASSUNTA – 29020 MORFASSO PC
S. MICHELE ARCANGELO – San Michele
S. PIETRO APOSTOLO – Loc. Pedina
SS. SALVATORE E S. GALLO – Monastero
Anyway for our experience, even if you plan to come here, we always suggest to start the research months before the arrival: in this way you will avoid to waste time in the offices or in the churches dealing with italian bureaucracy and you will have more free time to visit the town and surroundings on your ancestors footsteps, starting from the info gathered by our genealogists.
Another important source of information are the notary documents available to expert researchers in the State Archives.
If you need a professional help from our local genealogists write to email@example.com or follow this link.
Our expert in Morfasso area will study your request and will reply to you with a plan and a quote for your family research.
Here below you can read the messages received from other visitors in Morfasso forum:
if you only want to discuss with other people interested in genealogy in Morfasso feel free to leave a message below.
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Haunted Bloomington, Indiana
For many, the most terrifying sight in Bloomington is the bathroom in a freshman dorm, but even more disturbing things lurk in the dark corners of this college town. Two haunted portraits hang in the Indiana Memorial Union Building, and the ghosts from suicides roam the stairwell at Ballantine Hall. At the end of every night, bartenders at a downtown pub pour a shot of whiskey for a not-so-dearly-departed spirit. At a nearby old manor, two ghost children stir up trouble. Farther out of town, in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest, lies Stepp Cemetery, a remote and desolate graveyard that is one of the most haunted locations in Indiana. Join Bloomington native Klara Lee Sweet on a spine-tingling tour of the city's spectral history.
- 2021 Klara Lee Sweet
Choosing a Book Format
EPUB is the standard publishing format used by many e-book readers including iBooks, Easy Reader, VoiceDream Reader, etc. This is the most popular and widely used format.
DAISY format is used by GoRead, Read2Go and most Kurzweil devices.
Audio (MP3) format is used by audio only devices, such as iPod.
Braille format is used by Braille output devices.
DAISY Audio format works on DAISY compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream.
Accessible Word format can be unzipped and opened in any tool that supports .docx files.
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Conservation Efforts for the Puerto Rican Mountain Coqui (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus portoricensis Schmidt, 1927): Reproductive Biology in Captivity
Neftalí Ríos-López, Eliacim Agosto-Torres, Rayza M. Hernández-Muñíz, Coralys Vicéns-López, Ashley Bernardi-Salinas, Waleska N. Tirado-Casillas, Yvonne M. Flores-Rodríguez
Abstract: Local and international herpetologists assert that the Puerto Rican Mountain Coqui, Eleutherodactylus portoricensis, has become locally extinct in all historic geographic distribution in the mountain forests of the Cordillera Central to western Puerto Rico, and that the species still experiences drastic population declines in the Sierra de Luquillo, eastern Puerto Rico. A species once though abundant throughout high elevation forests in Puerto Rico, these declines and local extirpations are difficult to explain, which resulted in the species listed vulnerable (local level) and endangered (IUCN) in need for immediate ex situ conservation efforts. We established the first ex situ conservation plan for E. portoricensis and herein document the first reproductive
events of the species in captivity. We describe its amplexus, developmental period of clutches, oophagy, and use various elements provided in terrariums. We also discuss our trial and error events, and provide husbandry guidelines for this species that may expand our knowledge on keeping and breeding Eleutherodactylus frogs in need for ex situ conservation efforts.
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The Pokemon GO Twitter account has announced the next set of field research tasks for the mobile game. For November, Pokemon GO players will be tasked with conducting field research tasks based on the various bug-type Pokemon. If you manage to claim enough stamps next month then you can be awarded a Research Breakthrough allowing you to catch Shedinja.
Get ready, Trainers. Field Research tasks focusing on Bug-type Pokémon are coming this November! Collect enough stamps during November to earn a Research Breakthrough and get an opportunity to catch Shedinja! pic.twitter.com/aGkLULTxZU— Pokémon GO (@PokemonGoApp) October 26, 2018
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Making bad food choices can be a risk to your health
We all want to be healthy. Checking the Food label is important in choosing the right foods. However, if you don’t understand what you’re reading, then it will be difficult to make the right choices. In this article, you’ll learn how to read a food label and how this will affect your health.
Dissecting Food Labels
The Serving Size is the amount of food that is recommended as a serving. The information on the package is based on this serving size. On the example, the serving size is 3 Crackers (14g).
The number of Calories is the amount of energy in the serving size. If you eat more or less than the serving size, adjust the calories and nutrients based on your choice.
When the food has a high amount of Calories from Fat, limit your intake of this food. Your total fat intake should not be more than 30% of the total amount of calories.
The % Daily Value tells you whether one serving contains little (5% or less) or a lot (20% or more) of your total daily intake of each category.
You should choose food that is low in Fat, especially saturated and trans fat which are related to health issues.
Limit your Fat, Sodium and Cholesterol as these ingredients are responsible for health problems.
Most of the fat you should eat are unsaturated fat, like Polyunsaturated Fat or Monounsaturated Fat.
You should eat 50 to 75 grams of Protein per day.
The next are the lists of the beneficial Vitamin and Mineral contents per serving.
The Percent of Daily Values are based on a diet of 2,000 calories per day. Most people need less than this per day, especially children, women and older adults. Diets of 2,000 calories per day are for active teens and active adults.
These are the 3 ailments that one can suffer from if they don’t make healthy food choices
- Diabetes – is a common illness and can strike anyone among all ages. Certain foods, such as sugary food or white flour foods will turn into sugar or glucose in our bodies. Once the food has been broken down into sugars, the pancreas will release insulin and insulin will open your cells allowing glucose to enter. Glucose can then be converted into energy for the body. But if you have diabetes the pancreas has stopped producing enough insulin to counteract the sugar in your body.
Some of the symptoms are excessive thirst, wounds that don’t heal or heal slowly, blurry vision, extreme hunger, frequent urination (waking up 3 or more times at night just to urinate), Fatigue after eating. To learn more about diabetes, visit the American Diabetes Association.
- High cholesterol – If Saturated fat and trans fat intake are high, it can raise your cholesterol and the risk of other heart diseases. Both adults and children can have too much cholesterol. Cholesterol is fat in our blood. We can also get cholesterol from some of the foods we eat. Our body needs it, to help our organs grow and work. But too much of it can cause blood clots in the arteries.
So, if your cholesterol is high, it may lead to a heart attack that can damage your heart or stroke that can affect your brain and body. Choose food that is low in fat to lessen the risk of this disease.
- High Blood Pressure – Have you ever checked your blood pressure? Here’s the logic, just remember if your blood pressure reads greater than 140 over 90, you may want to consult your doctor about having high blood pressure. Monitor your blood pressure. If it reads 120/80 – 140/90 your blood pressure is within a normal range. If you have high blood pressure, the higher pressure puts more strain on your blood vessels and heart.
This extra stress can increase the risk of stroke or heart attack. It can also cause heart and kidney disease and even worse dementia. Usually, there are no signs or symptoms. The only way to know if it’s high or low is to have it checked. Consuming high levels of sodium can add to high blood pressure problems, so it’s vital to watch your sodium intake by reading labels on foods
Here’s a story on how Rolanda Perkins survived a heart attack
Rolanda Perkins had no history of heart disease in her family. And she never expected that such a disease would strike. But in 2005, she had a heart attack partly caused by high blood pressure.
70% of people who have heart attacks also struggle with high blood pressure.
Paying attention to the signs
Rolanda had been stressed just before the heart attack. She had been struggling with a headache for a couple days and thought it might have been a migraine, taking medication to help with the discomfort. But a few days after a surprise party that she threw for her sister, she had a sharp pain in her chest—a pain that she ignored. Until later that night, the pain woke her from her sleep and she was rushed to the emergency room.
Although Rolanda said that high blood pressure ran in her family, she also admitted that she didn’t pay attention to the sodium that she consumed on a daily basis, leading her to intake more than she should have.
Now, Rolanda is healthy, following a diet and exercise routine. She also encourages others to read the nutritional labels and ingredients list and know what you’re putting in your body before you do.
Take care of your body. Get enough sleep, exercise, drink plenty of water, eat healthy foods, change your lifestyle and always check the food labels before consuming anything. Make better choices.
If you have any additional comments, we would love to hear from you!
Story Cited from healthywomen.org
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Heres what you need to know…
The Majority of Decaf is Chemically Decaffeinated.
The Decaf Coffee market is comprised of nearly 60% chemical decaffeination. So what, right? Well coffee is chemically decaffeinated by soaking it in the carcinogen, Methylene Chloride. Thats right carcinogenic in other words cancer causing. Not safe decaf coffee.
The Horror of Methylene Chloride
To give you a more complete picture of Methylene Chloride, you should know some of its other uses. Methylene Chloride or Dichloromethane as it is also known, is a component in Aerosol Sprays, Paint Strippers and Dry Cleaning solutions. This chemical compound not only causes cancer, but it is also thought to exacerbate respiratory issues.
Hmmm, paint stripper, cough.
Weve got the solution: Swiss Water Processed Decaf
Swiss Water Processed coffee is the safe decaf coffee on the market. Instead of soaking the beans in methylene chloride, the guys at Swiss Water just boil the green coffee beans in pure water. Swiss Waters patented system removes 99.9% of the caffeine, while keeping the maximum amount of flavor.
Thats why we only carry safe decaf coffee thats decaffeinated by Swiss Water Processing. Unless you want beans soaked in cancer causing chemicals, you should only give yourself Swiss Water Processed decaf.
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Shouldn’t the summer garden announce the fact that it’s summer? Aren’t whites and blues false advertising? How about a pop of color that announces it is hot outside and we love it? Without a doubt, orange flowers are just the ticket to enliven the summer scene. There are some great tough plants out there for summer blooms that aren’t afraid to show their true colors in shades of this vibrant secondary color. Here are a few excellent herbaceous plants with orange blooms to start with.
This lily is a star with orange blooms on 6-foot-tall stems
Double-flowered tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium ‘Flore Pleno’, Zones 4–9) is tall and tough, and when it comes to orange it’s sensational. At 4 to 6 feet tall, it can remarkably stand up on its own “two legs” (no staking needed)—unlike many other lilies. This perennial bulb likes full sun and rich, well-drained soil. The bright orange flowers with the lovely freckles are produced in late June and into July in our part of the country. And if you just can’t get enough, you can easily spread this lily far and wide from the abundant bulblets that form along its stems.
A striking lantana that attracts butterflies and hummingbirds
If you’re looking for a powerhouse of color, look no further than ‘Dallas Red’ lantana (Lantana ‘Dallas Red’, Zones 8–11; not pictured). This selection grows to 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide with bright orange flowers that darken to nearly red all summer long. It is popular among butterflies, hummingbirds, and all gardeners who encounter it. ‘Dallas Red’ is happiest in full sun and fertile, moist, well-drained soil, and it is an excellent choice for containers as well as mixed borders.
Don’t overlook orange daylily for mass impact in drought and standing-water conditions
Often overlooked, old-fashioned double-flowering orange daylily (Hemerocallis fulva, Zones 3–9) is a stellar addition to the orange-blooming lineup. Sometimes called “ditch lilies” (because they can be found growing along roadsides), this species is truly beautiful and striking at 24 to 30 inches tall and wide. The orange with fully double flowers makes a great mass of blooms over several weeks in midsummer. This daylily is tough enough to tolerate drought and standing water in full sun to partial shade.
Butterfly weed is an orange-flowering delight for butterflies and gardeners alike
Another butterfly favorite, butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa, Zones 3–9) should never be left out of a summer color planting—just ask the pollinators. Blooming in late spring into the summer, it can often be encouraged to produce more orange blooms with deadheading or if the monarch butterfly larvae eat it to the ground. Plants grow up to 3 feet tall and wide and do best in full sun and fertile, well-drained soil. Butterfly weed is also tolerant of dry conditions.
Liven up the back of the border with the summer-long floral show of Mexican sunflower
Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia, annual) thrives in hot weather and blooms prolifically once the temperatures warm up and into fall. Its brilliant orange sunflowers are abundant on stems that can reach 3 to 6 feet tall—making this plant an excellent choice for the middle or back of the border. Plants do best in full sun and well-drained soil. The eye-catching flowers are also a pollinator magnet.
You’re sure to be wowed by blackberry lily’s freckled summer blooms
Small but mighty, blackberry lily (Iris domestica, Zones 5–10) makes up for its smaller size by number. The 2-inch flowers sit at the top of tall thin stems in groups in midsummer. The orange flowers have six gently freckled petals. Although not orange, the seed heads are pretty interesting too. Plants grow to 2 feet tall and 1 to 2 feet wide, and when in bloom the flower stems reach up to 4 feet tall. Place blackberry lily in full sun and well-drained soil for the best performance.
These orange bloomers are tough. They thrive in our hot, often too wet but sometimes too dry, humid, and buggy Southern climate, flowering when many other plants are taking a break. They keep pollinators happy and give gardeners that pop of color the summer needs.
—Shelley and Jason Powell own and manage Petals from the Past, a garden center in Jemison, Alabama.
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US President Donald Trump will make his first state visit to the United Kingdom in June, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday.
The visit will take place from June 3 to June 5, the palace said in a tweet.
Trump's previous trip to the UK in July 2018 was billed as a working visit, rather than a state occasion, which is a formal visit by a head of state at the invitation of the Queen, who acts on advice from the government.
Visit comes at delicate time for May
During last year's trip, Trump met with Prime Minister Theresa May and had tea with the Queen at Windsor Castle.
But the president ruffled feathers in the British establishment after he criticized May's Brexit deal in tabloid newspaper the Sun and praised her recently-resigned Foreign Secretary -- and potential leadership rival -- Boris Johnson as a "very talented guy."
In the interview, Trump said May "didn't listen" to his views on how she should negotiate the UK's exit from the European Union -- an extraordinary criticism of a foreign leader during a trip to that leader's country.
It made for an awkward follow-up press conference at the prime minister's official country house, Chequers, where Trump accused the Sun of peddling "fake news" and offered an apology of sorts to May.
This year's potential state visit is likely to come at a similarly delicate time for May's Brexit negotiations. Her beleaguered withdrawal agreement with the European Union has already been defeated three times in the House of Commons amid deadlock among Members of Parliament.
The country has now been given a six-month extension on leaving the EU -- its second delay to the original March 29 deadline.
If the UK hasn't agreed to pass the withdrawal agreement or come up with an alternative plan by October 31 it will crash out of the bloc without a deal at all.
Given Trump's track record for aggravating his British host's domestic politics, the June visit could present new obstacles for May's already weakened premiership.
Rocky relationship with London mayor
May isn't the only British leader who has had disputes with Trump, with London Mayor Sadiq Khan making no secret of his disapproval of the president.
When Trump in January last year said he had scrapped his visit to the British capital because he didn't want to open the new US embassy, Khan suggested the real reason was because he wouldn't be welcome.
After being delayed several times, Trump's four-day visit to the UK last year was eventually met with large protests in London and throughout the country.
The capital's anti-Trump demonstrations featured a 20-foot "Trump Baby" blimp that flew outside Parliament -- and given permission to do so by Khan. The mayor also allowed protesters to fly a blimp of himself in a bikini later that year.
Khan, London's first elected Muslim mayor, has previously criticized the US president for his proposed travel ban on citizens of several Muslim-majority countries.
Trump hit out at Khan for his handling of terror attacks carried out in London, seizing on them in his call for the travel ban.
In November 2017, Khan also slammed Trump for retweeting anti-Muslim propaganda from a British far-right party, and suggested May shouldn't welcome Trump into their country for a state visit.
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Download a PDF of this Jesus and John the Baptist Case Study.
Read John 1:29-51.
Were you surprised by the fact that some of the disciples used to be disciples of John the Baptist? It would be so interesting to hear what John the Baptist taught to people in preparation for them to follow Christ. His relationship with Christ was so incredibly humble. It’s probably summed up in John 3:30 when he says, “He must increase, I must decrease.” What a beautiful and simple way to illustrate his humility. It’s illustrated again when Christ shows up and John, in a very ego-less manner, releases his followers to go with Christ.
- What was John the Baptist’s reaction when he saw Christ? What does that tell you about their relationship?
- What was your reaction the first time you encountered Jesus Christ in a profound manner? If you never have, what would kind of encounter would you like to have with Christ?
- Are there people in your life who lead you, mentor you, or disciple you in the way that John the Baptist led his disciples? Who are they and what is your relationship like?
- Are there people in your life you lead, mentor, or disciple? Who looks up to you? Who looks to you to see how to act or how to follow Christ?
- How are you doing at following Christ? How are you doing at leading others toward Christ?
- Are you humble enough to let people think Christ is more important and more deserving of their time than you are?
- How can we forge a relationship with Christ like John the Baptist had? Let’s pray to have his humility and his leadership.
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Will there be a Statute of Limitations on Debt in Florida?
Whenever an individual is drowning in debt, they’ll do more or less almost anything to have the creditors to get rid of calling. They may also start to imagine the worst-case scenario – that the creditors will sue them. The great news is, though, that people dealing with financial obligation might just need certainly to wait. While merely providing your debt time that is enough erase the financial obligation totally, it will probably bar the creditors from pursuing case. There clearly was a statute of limits on financial obligation in Florida, but you will find a things that are few will have to understand before they start relying upon it.
Florida’s Statute of Limitations on Financial Obligation
In Florida, the statute of restrictions on debt is normally 5 years. This means when the timeline that is five-year expired, creditors can not any longer register case up against the debtor to be able to try to recover your debt. This is certainly only real of debts such as a written contract, however. Whenever a dental contract was made related to your debt, the statute of restrictions is paid off to four years.
This is basically the situation for many debts in Florida. But, there are specific kinds of debts which have various statute of restrictions than these. These, while the relevant statutes of restrictions are:
Regrettably, in a few situations, a statute of restrictions on financial obligation is tolled. It’s simply as crucial that borrowers appreciate this, so that they understand what will keep the statute of limits on the debt from expiring with regards to otherwise could have.
Whenever Statutes of Restrictions Are Tolled
There are lots of circumstances by which a statute of limits for a financial obligation is tolled. One of these brilliant occurs when the debtor takes measures to completely avoid the creditor. This will not always make reference to ignoring telephone calls, though. It can make reference to any measures consumed purchase to help keep the creditor from calling the debtor at all. For instance, if a debtor understands that the statute of restrictions expires in half a year and so they relocate to another state to prevent the creditor, this might toll the statute of limits to half a year following the debtor moves back into Florida.
This could also toll the statute of limitations in addition, in the case that a borrower acknowledges the debt. For instance, if a creditor phoned a borrower therefore the debtor answered and admitted which they knew in regards to the financial obligation, this may expand the statute of restrictions. Likewise, any time a debtor makes a payment that is partial their financial obligation, this can additionally toll the statute of restrictions https://installmentcashloans.net/payday-loans-wv/. Tolling a statute of restrictions only applies, though, once the financial obligation contract is on paper.
This does not imply that borrowers should attempt to avoid having to pay their debts in order that they can wait out of the statute of limits; it just implies that they must be conscious of instances that cost the statute and which may affect their foreclosure defense.
Confirming the Statute of Limitations
While wanting to register case against a debtor following the statute of restrictions has expired just isn’t a prohibited training, it will probably get thrown away from court. The courts. however, don’t keep information tracking various debts and their statutes of restrictions. Confirming that the statute of limits has come to an end for a financial obligation then falls into the debtor.
To do this, the debtor must gather just as much information possible related to their financial obligation. This might add bank statements, receipts, and any papers produced once the loan was initially acquired. These will show if the loan had been given, additionally the last time the debtor produced payment or acknowledged your debt.
Whenever a debtor can show that the statute of limits has expired on the financial obligation, it is feasible to make use of this as a financial obligation protection in court. The court will throw the case simply out, in addition to debtor won’t have to undergo litigation to allow the creditor to recuperate your debt.
Having to pay Debts following the Statute of Limitations Expires
After the statute of restrictions expires, it just bars a creditor from filing case against a debtor. It will not erase your debt, and that’s important for borrowers to know. a statute that is expired of might not stop the creditors from calling, while they have to nevertheless do so prior to what the law states. An employer or call borrowers in the middle of the night for example, creditors still cannot contact.
More to the point, a classic financial obligation will nevertheless stick to a credit file, that could keep folks from obtaining brand brand new loans, and perhaps also gaining particular forms of work. Nonetheless, you will find regulations with respect to just how long a debt can appear on these credit history, too. Based on the Fair credit scoring Act (FCRA), this time frame is seven years in the most common of debts.
A Florida Debt Defense Lawyer Often Helps Those Struggling With Financial Obligation
Arguing that the statute of limits has come to an end for a particular financial obligation can offer a legitimate debt protection in instances where a creditor has filed case against a debtor to recuperate your debt. Nonetheless, that isn’t the only defense available. A Fort Lauderdale financial obligation protection attorney provides the necessary make it possible to whoever has gotten papers from a creditor stating they are increasingly being taken up to court.
If you’re struggling with serious financial obligation and a creditor has threatened to, or has recently taken actions to, register a lawsuit, contact the Loan Lawyers at (954) 523-HELP (4357). We all know the countless defenses that are different for those types of legal actions, and then we understand how to allow you to with yours. We’ll review your instance, advise on what Florida legislation pertains to it, and produce a solid protection to provide you with the most readily useful possibility of success in court. We also offer free consultations, so give us a call today and we’ll begin discussing your situation.
Loan Lawyers has assisted over 5,000 South Florida property owners and customers using their financial obligation issues, we now have saved over 2,000 houses from property property foreclosure, eliminated significantly more than $100,000,000 in mortgage major and unsecured debt, and have now restored over $10,000,000 on the part of our customers because of bank, loan servicer, and debt collector violations. E mail us for a consultation that is free learn more about our money-back guarantee on credit debt customer lawsuits, and just how we possibly may have the ability to allow you to.
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The European Commission wants an unambiguous colour system on the map of the EU that allows citizens and companies to see at a glance what the epidemiological situation is like.
Now each country divides areas into colour codes on its own, which is confusing, according to Commission chairman Ursula von der Leyen.
She also wants the same rules everywhere for travellers returning from a red zone.
“Free travel is one of the most tangible benefits of the European Union,” said the German in Brussels on Friday. “Because of the corona pandemic, many governments have imposed travel restrictions in recent months.
It is indeed essential to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus. But we need more clarity and predictability.”
The commission proposes that the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) issue an up-to-date map showing areas in green, orange and red every week, based on data from national authorities.
She also recommends that European governments use corona tests to make it easier for people to travel. She made it clear that “no resident of the EU should be denied entry to another EU country.”
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I have written two books for primary school curriculum classroom music, one designed to be used with Year 3 (using a class set of recorders), the other with Year 5 (using electronic keyboards, typically one keyboard between two children). Books for Years 4 and 6 will be produced in the summer of 2022.
The scheme is entitled Tutti Frutti. It’s highly differentiated, to allow for children who already learn instruments to be challenged and motivated, along with those who have had little or no experience of music beforehand. Accordingly, different fruits are used to define the level of work, and children can choose the level at which they feel most comfortable. The first and easiest level is Maraschino, moving through Blueberry, Plum and Tangerine, to Kiwi, which is intended for any gifted musicians in the class.
The book is divided into “Segments” (like an orange!), and within each Segment there’s a video to watch, a story, some musicianship pages, two or more songs to sing, several pieces to play together (as an ensemble, with all the “fruits” layering up), activities and a set of assessment tasks to complete.
Children love Tutti Frutti – it gives them autonomy in their music and control over their progress. It’s hands-on, practical and really enjoyable.
All the music is original, or else in the public domain.
The scheme follows the government’s New Model Curriculum for Music, first published in March 2021.
Here are some sample pages from Tutti Frutti Book 1:
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With the collapse of the Stormont Assembly prompting fresh elections and talks, Northern Ireland’s leading youth organisations formed a united voice to influence decision makers on the key issues facing young people.
Network for Youth, which aimed to give all young people a greater say on the issues that affect them, was led by the Northern Ireland Youth Forum (NIYF), in partnership with Youth Action NI, Fóram na nÓg, Include Youth, Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster and the Education Authority.
Backed by the Department of Education and funded by the Education Authority, the project brings together young people from different backgrounds and communities of interest, to create opportunities to bring about change.
NIYF Director Chris Quinn said: “Since the fall of Stormont, Network for Youth has become even more important as a vehicle to provide young people with platforms at local and regional levels to raise and discuss issues of importance to them.”
NIYF Chairperson Tara Grace Connelly said, “As a young person myself I am determined to see this project create a strong unified front of youth work that will promote and influence policies at the highest levels of government. The recent problems at the heart of the Stormont Executive make it all the more important for young people to be given the opportunity to provide a positive voice in Northern Ireland.”
Network for Youth is a key action in Priorities for Youth, the Department of Education’s policy for improving young people in Northern Ireland’s lives through youth work.
Its purpose is to strengthen participation at all levels of the NI youth service. It aims to encourage young people to discuss issues of interest, connect pockets of good practice, build on existing relationships between the voluntary youth work sector, the Department of Education and the Education Authority; and provide young people with a voice within EA’s policy making process, and beyond.
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As Earth Day draws near, Truckee Meadows Bicycle Alliance wanted to share some of the benefits of improved bicycle infrastructure in the Truckee Meadows.
What is bike infrastructure?
We see bike infrastructure as coming in two flavors, social and physical. An example of social infrastructure is workplace support. Employers can support bicycle commuting in a number of ways that include providing secure bike parking sheltered from the weather or onsite showers or changing rooms. Offering financial incentives to commute by bike rather than a car is another way to support commuter cyclists.
Physical infrastructure on the other hand, generally includes bike routes and adequate bike parking. Sufficient bike parking appears to be a very distant afterthought in many urban areas. Wave racks and schoolyard racks (the ones that just hold a bike’s front or rear tire) can be found in many places, but they don’t provide the functionality or security that is really needed for bicycle commuters. Additionally, bike parking is usually way too sparse, especially compared to car parking. Fortunately, it’s a lot easier to bring a bike up onto a sidewalk to lock it to something like a parking meter (although that isn’t always legal). You can learn more about what makes good bike parking here.
Bike routes pose an entirely different set of problems. Most people think of “bike lanes” when they think of bike routes. These are those bike routes you see marked by nothing other than white paint. However, where vehicle speeds exceed 15-20 miles per hour, white paint bike lanes don’t feel safe enough to encourage more people to ride. In these conditions, we need routes for cyclists that are physically separated in some way from car traffic. An example of this can be seen along Victorian Avenue in Sparks and will be represented by the Center Street Cycle Track, once it is completed. Thanks to advocacy efforts from TMBA, the current preferred design of the Oddie/ Wells Project includes a bike route that will be separated from traffic as well. Portions of the Tahoe-Pyramid Trail through Reno and Sparks represent a bike route that is completely separated from traffic.
In 2018, TMBA conducted a survey of over 600 people. Only two in 10 people said that a bike route that was marked only with white paint (compared to a road with no bike lane at all) would encourage them to ride more frequently. Four times as many people, eight out of 10, would ride that same route more frequently if there was a protected bike lane.
So, what are the broader benefits?
According to Project Drawdown, bike trips currently account for about 3% of urban bike trips around the world. They calculated the costs and benefits of increasing that percentage to 8% over over 30 years by installing infrastructure needed to encourage people to ride. This would be equivalent to between two and four trillion bicycle commute miles annually around the world. This would prevent the release of up to 6.6 billion tons of CO2 from fossil fuels. A potentially unexpected outcome of this study is that because bicycle infrastructure is so much cheaper to construct and maintain than car infrastructure, we could save up to $7.5 trillion in construction costs and up to $827 billion in maintenance costs over 30 years.
What are some more tangible benefits of increased cycling locally?
Increased cycling could bring a number of real benefits to our community. These include improved air quality by reducing fossil fuel use, increased personal wellness by participating in active transportation alternatives, decreased traffic, and improved social connectivity among people and their community.
How can you be a part of the solution?
- Ride: As Freddy Mercury once sang, “Get on your bikes and ride!” You can make the choice to replace a car trip here and there with a bike trip. Just being on your bike will show others that people in our area do ride and maybe inspire them to ride too.
- Use Your Voice: Let local leadership know that you support planning, policies, and projects that will make cycling safer and more accessible for more people. The cities of Reno and Sparks, Washoe County, and RTC Washoe all have regular public meetings where you can show up and give a three minute public comment.
- Volunteer: There are lots of local organizations that promote cycling in one form or another. Just about all of them need volunteers to help bring cycling to a larger audience. Here are some examples:
What is the Truckee Meadows Bicycle Alliance?
TMBA, also known as @BikeWashoe on social media, is a local cycling nonprofit whose aim is to make Washoe County a safer and more inclusive cycling community. In general, we hope to achieve this goal by:
- Providing non-competitive events for cyclists to build relationships;
- Advocating for all a connected, protected, and equitable bicycle infrastructure network; and
- Helping maintain a connected and cooperative network of organizations whose missions are benefitted by more active transportation in Washoe County.
Our events include Bike Month every May, monthly Fourth Friday Dinner Rides, and an annual Tweed Ride. Our advocacy, among other things, helped get the Center Street Cycle Track approved. This project, once constructed, will provide a two-way separated bike lane along Center Street that reaches from the University to Midtown.
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STRUGGLING people taking out individual voluntary arrangements (IVA) to help manage their debts has risen to an all-time high, according to new figures.
But what are IVAs and are they right for you? The Sun explains.
A record 77,973 people took out an IVA in 2019 - a 6 per cent rise compared to 2018 when 70,796 people took one out, according the Insolvency's Service's latest data.
It's also the highest level of IVAs recorded in England and Wales since their introduction in 1987.
Sarah Coles, personal finance analyst at financial provider Hargreaves Landsown, warns that part of their rise is down to the "enormous sums" spent on promoting the products.
And she says just because they're growing in popularity, doesn't mean they're right for everyone in debt - particularly with fees of around £4,000 often involved in setting one up.
How to get out of debt
RECORD numbers of Brits are seeking help to manage their debt.
While getting back on track can seem like a daunting task, we've taken a look at what you can do to help you on the way.
Get help for free: There are lots of groups who can help you with your debts.
- Citizens Advice - 0808 800 9060
- StepChange - 0800 138 1111
- National Debtline - 0808 808 4000
Don't ignore bills: Ignoring your bills won't make them go away, as tempting as it may be, and the problem will likely escalate. It's best to tackle debt head on by working out exactly what you owe and when you need to pay it back.
Make a budget: Once you know what you need to pay back, it'll become easier to prioritise your finances. The next step is to create a detailed budget so you can see how much you have going in and going out. Use an online tool like one from Citizens Advice to help you do this.
Switch and save: Households can save hundreds of pounds by checking if they can get a cheaper deal elsewhere. In fact, MoneySavingExpert says families can save £330 on average by switching from Standard Variable Tariffs (SVTs) to a better rate. Use a comparison site like MoneySuperMarket or Energyhelpline to see what deals are available.
Get a balance transfer card: If you're paying interest on your credit card balance, this can ultimately add to your debt pile. A better option could be getting a 0 per cent balance transfer card. These types of card will let you transfer an existing balance to a new card and gives you the chance to clear it fully without incurring interest. MoneySavingExpert's eligibility calculator will let you know what deals you will likely qualify for. You'll need to have a good credit rating to qualify for one.
See if you're entitled to benefits: It's important to check if you're entitled to any extra benefits or tax credits if you're struggling financially. Citizens Advice can help you see what help is available and there's a benefits calculator on the Gov.uk website. Help ranges from tax credits, job seeker's allowance and universal credit.
Also consider: You can find information about Debt Management Plans (DMP) and Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVA) on the Money Advice Service website and on the Government's Gov.uk site. But make sure you know exactly what you're signing up to as these plans aren't suitable for everyone. Many firms charge a fee for the service, either upfront or one that's incorporated into your monthly payments.
She said: "While they’re a valuable alternative to bankruptcy, they’re not right for everyone, so there’s a risk people in debt could be picking the wrong option.
"The issue is that people with problem debt who hear about IVAs may opt for one without properly exploring the alternatives."
So here we take you through what an IVA is, and what the alternatives are.
What is an IVA?
An IVA is often taken out when people are struggling with multiple debts from different providers and failing to keep up with the minimum repayments.
With an IVA, you decide on a repayment plan with all of your creditors that's designed to be manageable for you - and often lenders will wipe some of the debt.
You make the payments to your insolvency practitioner, which will take a cut to pay its fees, while the rest is distributed to your lenders.
This is a legally binding agreement, which means lenders have to stick to it and they can't chase you for debts while the IVA is in place.
It's also usually time limited, for a set period of around five to six years.
Is an IVA right for me?
Charity Citizens Advice says IVAs can be right for you if you owe more than £10,000 to at least two different lenders, you don't want to deal with your creditors directly, and you have enough money to meet the IVA repayments.
National Debtline recommends needing at least £80 a month to put towards debts.
The downside is IVAs are expensive; Citizens Advice puts the average cost at between £4,000 and £5,000, which it says you typically pay in instalments.
How to cut your bills
IF you're struggling financially, you might be able to cut the cost of your bills to help you get out of the red.
Council tax: You can apply for a council tax reduction on the Gov.uk website but you'll need to meet certain criteria. Your bill could be cut by as much as 100 per cent if you’re on a low income or claim benefits. Carers who look after someone in the household for at least 35 hours a week are also exempt from paying.
Water: Households might be able to save money by getting a water meter but it all depends on how much you're using. To check if it's finacially worthwhile, use the Consumer Council for Water's free ater meter calculator.
Rent: If you have the space available and your landlord or local authority says it's ok to do so, you might want to consider getting a flatmate. Not only will you split the cost of the rent, but also the other bills.
Hire purchase: If you're struggling to make your repayments on your hire purchase, you can usually end the contract by returning the goods. You will have to pay all the instalments due up to the time you end the agreement but this will limit the amount you owe. Contact Citizens Advice for free for more help with this.
Gas and electricty: MoneySavingExpert says families can save £330 on average by switching from Standard Variable Tariffs (SVTs) to a better rate. Use a comparison site like MoneySuperMarket or Energyhelpline to see what deals are available.
Mortgage: If you get into debt with your mortgage payments, don't wait for your lender to chase you. Work out what you can afford using the Citizens Advice budgeting tool so you can discuss your payment options moving forward with your mortgage provider.
Secured Loan: Your secured loan might be covered by the Consumer Credit Act and if it is, you may be able to apply for a Time Order. This is a special agreement by the courts allowing you more time to make payments. Secured loans not covered by the Consumer Credit Act include gas, electricity or water meters, payments that need to be written off in full, mortgages, credit union loans, loans from an employer and some short term trade agreements.
County Court Judgements: If you receive a County Court claim form talk to a free debt advice service straight away. This includes Citizens Advice (0808 800 9060), StepChange (0800 138 1111) and the National Debtline (0808 808 4000).
TV licence: Some households are eligible for a reduced fee or free TV Licence. Pensioners over the age of 75 currently get a free TV licence but this is due to change in June 2020. Check here to see if you are entitled to a reduced or free rate.
You'll also likely have to sell high-worth possessions, such as your car, and possibly put any savings or pension payments towards your debt repayments too.
Having an IVA will also likely have a negative impact on your credit file making it difficult to borrow further - including remortgaging your home or buying your first home.
Plus, it will stay on your credit report for six years from when it starts, which will again hamper your ability to borrow and it may impact rental agreements too.
Also be aware that private companies are likely to charge more than charities to set-up the IVA as they'll take commission on top - so speak to a charity such as Citizens Advice, National Debtline or StepChange first.
Are there other options?
Alternatives to an IVA could include a debt management plan (DMP) if your debts centre around credit cards, loans, and store cards.
Again, your debts are bundled up with you making one monthly repayment to the DMP provider.
But unlike an IVA, this is an informal agreement meaning you're not legally tied into it and can cancel it.
You can get a DMP for free, although some providers will charge, so again, speak to a charity first for advice.
A second option if you have debts of £20,000 or less, don't own your own home, and don't have much spare income or own anything of value,is a debt relief order (DRO).
There's a £90 fee to apply for one and most debts will be wiped after a year.
But this will stay on your credit file for six years from when it starts, which can make it hard to take out further credit in future or buy or remortgage your home.
If you're renting, a DRO can also affect your tenancy so speak to a free debt advice organisation first.
Lastly, there's bankruptcy, which wipes debts of at least £5,000.
This costs £680 but again it affects your credit rating for six years, as well as potentially your rental agreement too.
You may also have to sell some of your possessions and even your home.
Always consult a free debt organisation before making any decisions - see the box above for contact information.
More on debt
Sadly, a record number of Brits are also "living on a financial knife edge", according to new StepChange figures.
Banks have also been warned to help customers with large overdraft debt as they hike rates to up to 50 per cent from April.
Here's how to claim back unfair overdraft fees if you've been charged.
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You have already known everything about the most popular game “Minecraft” and its various weapons, but do you know Minecraft has a unique weapon named “Trident” that keeps its players curious about how to get a tri-dent in Minecraft? Let me give you a quick intro to Trident. It is a dropped weapon, cannot be crafted, and it is a very rarest weapon contrasting to others. A trident is also known as an exotic weapon. It is added to Minecraft in the aquatic update to fight underwater battles with marine animals. It is pretty scary but perfect for underwater fighting and a life-saving weapon for players to keep checking their breath. However, finding a trident might be complex for you, but this article will assist you in getting it conveniently.
An Overview of Minecraft & Trident in Minecraft
Minecraft is an electronic Sandbox game where players create their fantasy world out of 3D blocks, which looks like a cartoon. This game was developed by Markus Persson in 2009 and officially released in 2011. In this game, a player can either play alone or collaborate to create a shared universe with various materials, including stone, wood, mud, etc. The players in this fantastic game are presented with infinite possibilities to have fun while creating worlds. They meet unfriendly characters such as Zombies, skeletons, witches, and spiders, which can be killed using different tools. It has been seen that the children in their mid-teens enjoy playing it.
You may find several weapons in *Minecraft, but the Trident has its specialty because it’s a rare drop from enemies and cannot be obtained through traditional means. It’s a weapon to be used in any underwater scenario. Its extremely versatile weapon can be used as a melee weapon or a ranged throwable weapon. This weapon’s significant advantage is that its speed does not get slowed when traveling through water. Lastly, you need to combine it with another trident in an anvil for repairing a trident.
How to Get a Trident in Minecraft (Easy to Get)
The drop rate of the Tri-dent in Minecraft is about 8.5%. You have better chances of getting a trident by killing at least a few drowned mobs tridents till then, and they drop the Trident. After that, you’ll hardly get 1 or 2 tridents of drowned enemies. Otherwise, there’s no crafting recipe for this weapon. Players have to scout out a lot to find a single trident because of only a few of the drowned carry trident.
Once you achieve it, you can now swing it like a sword-type weapon to kill your enemies. Press or hold the button to drag it back once you reach it. When a button is released, you can throw it in a long arc just like an arrow goes. If it targets the mobs, it will be on nearby land. If it hits a block, then it’ll get stuck to it. Eventually, if you go through to the landing site, you can retrieve any trident, but it cannot recover if the drowned throw the tridents.
The Trident has its seven special enchantments. To clarify, we have mentioned these enchantments and their descriptions that you’ll be required to obtain your own Minecraft trident. It is also necessary to kill the mobs, which makes this weapon even deadlier. In the next section, you will see the enchantment for Trident to improve its features of the Trident.
Minecraft Enchantments & Their Descriptions
Enchantments are used to improve the amazing features of the Trident, and It is better to be clear about these enchantments and their effectiveness. Below, we have penned down everything about each enchantment application and its fascinating practical abilities. So let’s have a look.
- Loyalty: A thrown trident gets returned to its player instantly.
- Riptide: Throwing Trident enchanted with Riptide allows you to cover a large swath of ground at once, but this enchantment also lets players fly with the Trident to deal splash damage.
- Unbreaking: It increases the random durability of the trident.
- Mending: You can restore the trident durability while taking the experience orbs.
- Channeling: When you use the Trident enchanted with channeling during a thunderstorm, it hits mobs, which causes massive damage to the enemy.
- Impaling: If you desire underwater hunting, it’s better to try this enchantment as it increases damage against aquatic creatures, such as drowning, guardians, and older guardians.
- Curse of Vanishing: Trident disappears right after the player dies.
Above all, we have mentioned all the crucial points about Trident in Minecraft and different types of enchantments to boost its specification. It’s worth saying that Tri-dent is one of the best weapons available in Minecraft. It’s a weapon that cannot be crafted. There’s only one condition to get this weapon, killing the drowned mob underwater. Furthermore, the Trident deals more mele damage than a diamond sword having very low durability, so make sure to save it for special occasions. Let us know if you ever use this weapon in Minecraft in the comment box.
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Author: Deepak Chopra
Size: 19.6cm x 12.7cm x 2.7cm
Dr. Deepak Chopra takes a scientific approach to spirituality in this mini version of the enormously inspiring New York Times bestseller, proposing that the human brain is hardwired to know God. The internationally renowned author proposes seven biological responses of the human nervous system that correspond to levels of divine experience. With insight into the human longing for connection with a higher being, this book speaks profoundly to readers of every faith.
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Building codes for new home construction can be as thick as a dictionary. Getting a loan for a home is a painful experience.
Solution? Bypass both like Derek Diedricksen by going small. FairCompanies.com, a website community that provides access to tools about sustainable culture, calls Diedricksen a micro builder. Diedricksen calls himself "bizarre-chitect or lark-chitect." FairCompanies reports:
"There's almost this whole outlaw aspect of it. I've kind of been a little anti-authoritarian most of my life playing in punk bands and what-not and a lot of the housing codes and rules to me, while some of them make good sense, a lot of them are just ridiculous and very antiquated.”
Diedricksen boasts five micro-buildings on his property, to which many building codes don't apply, that he constructed on a "micro-budget":
His Gottagiddaway a.k.a. “$100 homeless hut” was built for about that (or perhaps as high as $110). His 32-square-foot micro-office [...] was built for $80 from barn sale/ barn demo materials.
His materials are salvaged from old buildings, lumber mills, recycyling and the dump. His windows are made from old office water coolers, soda bottles, pickle jars and even a washing machine window (a side from the same machine has become one if his drop-down tables).
One discarded cedar lounge chair inspired an entire cabin. The Hickshaw- a “rickshaw for hicks”- has the same dimensions as the chair (2 1/2 feet wide by 6 1/2 feet deep) and can be rolled by one person.
None of Diedricksen’s backyard creations are lived in full-time though he has camped in at least a few of them, uses them for a bit of shedworking for writing his blog and reserves the right to send unwanted guests in that direction.
Watch Diedricksen's story:
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Diedricksen said he grew up in a modest-sized home and hopes that his mini-homes will hope show people that extreme downsizing is doable:
“Why waste most of your life paying for a house you're never going to be in because you're out working 80 hours a week to afford it, but you're working so many extra hours for this huge house that you need to heat, you need to furnish, you need to maintain, you need to clean. The bigger the house, the more of your short and finite life you're using up to make those ends meet when you don't really need a house like that.”
This 16-year-old did the same thing, building a small mobile home -- no mortgage attached:
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Diedricken not only builds small spaces for clients but he self-published a book Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts, which has sold 3,000 copies and is anticipating a second edition next year. He is apart of the Small Home Movement.
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Things to Do
The Boone Forks Region boasts the internationally recognized High Trestle Trail to the south, the breathtaking Des Moines River Valley as its backbone, star woodlands throughout and a series of vibrant and revitalizing communities. All of this is embedded in an agricultural context, rich in history and heritage. This region is primed for a collaborative effort to connect parks to people and places—from nationally recognized historic byways and history-celebrating world-class paved trails to a notable water trails network, nearly 50 county park assets, two state preserves, three state parks and facilities within each of the region’s vital communities. When we add the heritage, cultural and educational assets to the region, the potential is unbounded. Come explore with us!
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Since reporting last week about the situation facing Tonya Osborne, an out of work flight attendant from Southwest Airlines who has been forced to take medical leave due to toxins in her job uniform, several other flight attendants have reached out to the World Socialist Web Site to speak about similar experiences.
“This is a major scandal,” said Meagan, a fellow flight attendant from Southwest. Meagan has nearly 25 years on the job in her profession and has also signed onto Osborne’s class action lawsuit against Southwest. Meagan told the WSWS that about “90 percent of the time while at work” she meets at least one person in uniform who she can see is visibly reacting to the toxic outfits produced by outfitting firm Cintas.
Meagan says she has suffered immensely since the 2017 launch of Cintas’ clothing, which has led to devastating health impacts. When the uniforms were first unveiled in 2017, Meagan stated that she was reticent to switch to the “recycled plastic” outfits.
“There were reactions [to the uniforms] almost immediately,” she said. Southwest held “uniform try-on events” in which “hundreds” of people would be wearing the uniforms. Meagan tried not to join the chorus line after having heard about the experiences of American Airline employees, who had launched a lawsuit in 2018 over adverse health effects caused by Lands’ End uniforms.
“I’ve never had a problem with sensitivity” to fabric before, Meagan told the WSWS. However, Cintas’ outfits are not like other outfits. Megan explained that she had been forced to don the company’s “Eco Wear” uniforms in summer of 2018 after resisting them for a time. Marketed as “100% recycled polyester produced entirely from post-consumer waste,” the corporation claims that “one single suit is made out of approximately 25 recycled 2-liter plastic bottles.”
“They say that it is saving the environment,” Meagan said. But in reality, “they are killing us,” she said. The flight attendant told a harrowing tale about the conditions which developed upon her first interactions with the uniforms in 2018.
The veteran flight attendant suffered in the initial stages from “red bumps” on her back, which she explained as being caused by the contact that the outfit has with her skin as she was sitting. “There is little ventilation while you are sitting and since the outfits don’t breathe at all, you tend to sweat,” she said. Perspiration in turn interacts with the chemicals in the outfits, releasing even more of them into the skin.
The bump issue soon progressed. “I started to notice that I had a lot of hair falling out whenever I showered,” she explained. “Not just the normal amount that any woman has happen.” After about two months, Meagan noticed she had developed a bald spot.
“I freaked,” she said. Meagan called her hair stylist who explained that he had seen that she had a bald spot in previous visits but didn’t want to say anything that would make her feel bad.
According to an earlier report in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Cintas uniforms have tested positive for “14 heavy metals, such as aluminum, chromium, arsenic, mercury, and lead.”
Of just these named chemicals, chromium, which WebMD says “is a known toxin that can cause skin problems and lung cancer,” arsenic and mercury have been known to cause hair loss when ingested.
Unlike Osborne, who has been out of work since 2018 and has not had to face the “twin pandemic” of toxic uniforms accompanied by COVID-19; Meagan worked throughout 2020 and 2021. “We need our immune system now more than ever,” she exclaimed, stating that her doctor had told her that the impact of the toxic uniforms had left her body “totally taxed.”
Another flight attendant previously employed by Delta Airlines told the WSWS that their experience with the clothing firm Lands’ End was very similar to the others. She stated that a previous experience with the company’s Passport Plum uniforms resulted in skin rashes after only a handful of uses.
“It was around Christmas in 2019,” she said that the reactions began. “The company made me jump through all sorts of hoops” but that she was able to track down a company representative who was willing to help her find out the content of her uniform so that one tailored to her needs could be found.
“Within two weeks,” she said, a class-action lawsuit by nearly 2,000 Delta employees was filed and became public, immediately halting her employer’s willingness to cooperate. Essentially, they were left in the dark about the strange, “stinking ” uniforms which had been forced upon her.
According to Meagan, the Southwest flight attendant, the airline introduced the Accommodations and Career Transition Team (ACT) Team in early 2018 to field all of the employee requests for new uniforms. “They require you fill out forms and all sorts of things” in order to obtain an exemption, she said. “Doctors feel nervous, they think they’re going to be involved in a lawsuit” for helping their patients.
A worker shared the three-page document, which asks the person applying for alternative clothing to authorize the release of medical information as well as detail the type of “impairment” they are suffering from, what job duties this has affected the specific type of accommodation being requested. It goes without saying that an employee suffering from an unknown chemical reaction is guessing in the dark about what might better accommodate them.
“They used to let us source our own uniforms but now they aren’t letting us,” she said. As with the Lands’ End uniforms at Delta, which the corporation admits cost the company over $20 million to obtain; Cintas and Southwest have embarked upon an $11 million deal which is jeopardized by every employee that exempts themselves from the new uniforms.
“It breaks my heart,” said Meagan of the multiple lawsuits which have been settled establishing the poisonous character of the flight attendants’ uniforms. “I thought they [Southwest] cared about me.”
The Transport Workers Union (TWU), which officially represents Southwest’s 20,000 flight attendants, “acted like they’d help for five or six months,” but then stopped returning emails. “It’s like the company got to them and said ‘stay out of this,’” she said.
Southwest flight attendants have been working without a contract since November 2018. Rather than demanding an absolute halt to all air traffic until flight attendants have their health accommodated for and other acceptable terms, the TWU, like the “bargaining representatives” in other industries, has worked to stifle even the slightest independent activity of the workforce.
In the face of economic disruptions caused by COVID-19, this has only become more pronounced. Organizations such as the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) and the TWU live by the mantra laid out by Nicolas Calio of the Airlines for America lobby group in October: “The full reopening of … travel is … critical to reviving economies around the globe.”
This is despite reports in the industry publication Paddle Your Own Kanoo that flight attendants’ morale was the “lowest ever within recent memory.” According to the publication, the AFA representative at Alaska Airlines “cited the Omicron variant and other possible future pandemic developments” as the main sources of worker unrest.
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2016 Will Be the Year of Telemedicine and ACOs
If 2015 was the year that brought telemedicine directly to consumers, 2016 will be the year of telemedicine and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). ACOs are expected to increase the use of telemedicine technologies as a way to improve patient quality, achieve greater cost savings, and meet Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) patient threshold.
According to a CMS report of 2014 data, while CMS considered the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) a success, only 27 percent of ACOs achieved enough savings and quality improvements to trigger financial incentives. At the same time, only 20 percent of ACOs employ telemedicine services, according to separate recent research.
Moreover, recent CMS/OIG regulations expressly mentioned telemedicine services as arrangements protected under the MSSP fraud and abuse waiver programs. This means ACOs can use and offer telemedicine and remote patient monitoring services in ways other traditional non-ACO providers cannot. In protecting these arrangements, CMS and OIG recognize how telehealth technologies and innovative care processes can help reduce costs for the Medicare program and benefit Medicare patients.
Telemedicine will only become more important as CMS continues to expand its use of alternative payment models in the Medicare program. CMS has announced plans for 30 percent of Medicare payments to be made in alternative payment models by the end of 2016. That number increases to 50 percent by the end of 2018. Additionally, CMS seeks to have 85 percent of Medicare fee-for-service payments in certain value-based purchasing categories by 2016 and up to 90 percent by 2018.
ACOs are entities that have already made significant financial, operational, and cultural investments to improve the delivery of health care. And yet, 80 percent of ACOs have not pursued one of the most powerful health care delivery technologies available to achieve these quality and cost savings goals.
ACOs are well positioned to follow other health care providers’ leads and take full advantage of what telemedicine has to offer in 2016 – short and long term cost savings, increased patient satisfaction, and greater likelihood of triggering shared savings incentives. Those that capitalize on telemedicine and remote monitoring technology are likely to be the winners of financial incentive payments at the end of 2016.
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*For fall quarter 2021, CISAC will be hosting hybrid events. Many events will offer limited-capacity in-person attendance for Stanford faculty, staff, fellows, visiting scholars, and students in accordance with Stanford’s health and safety guidelines, and be open to the public online via Zoom. All CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone.
In person only. Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to William J Perry Conference Room in Encina Hall may attend in person. This event will not be livestreamed
About the Event: With the counter-recovery and countervailing nuclear-targeting strategies, the United States embraced a massive expansion of the roles for nuclear weapons. Simultaneously, however, an accuracy revolution has quietly imbued conventional weapons with vastly improved target-killing capability. This raises the question: how many targets in the nuclear-war plan could just as effectively be dealt with using conventional weapons? In the last decade, the Russian security establishment has expressed concern about emerging U.S. conventional capabilities while the U.S. military has downplayed their strategic import. In this talk I will report on the early stages of a new project to investigate exactly how and if conventional forces might execute a strategic strike akin to the U.S. nuclear war plan and, conversely, whether an adversary could threaten the United States with unacceptable damage without ever escalating to nuclear use. I will discuss several target categories, the expected performance of conventional weapons, system considerations, and the consequences that “conventional strategic strike” may have for the future of deterrence.
About the Speaker: R. Scott Kemp is the MIT Class of '43 Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and director of the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy. His research combines physics, politics, and history to help create more resilient societies. His work has focused primarily on problems arising from weapons of mass destruction. His current research includes securing vulnerabilities in U.S. critical infrastructure and the redefining of strategic defense. In 2010, Scott served as Science Advisor in the U.S. State Department's Office of the Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control where he was responsible for developing the technical framework for what became the Iran Nuclear Deal. Scott received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. He is a Fellow of American Physical Society and recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics.
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Sacramento, California - Spring-run Chinook salmon could return to their historic spawning habitat on the North Yuba River under a still-developing agreement involving three agencies and three conservation groups. Working together as the “Yuba Salmon Partnership Initiative,” the coalition released a framework for such an agreement today.
When completed, the agreement would create a first-ever “collect and transport” program in California, like those successfully used for decades in Oregon and Washington to move salmon around dams too tall for fish ladders. The program would return spring-run Chinook salmon and possibly steelhead to more than 30 miles of the North Yuba River. Deep, cool pools on this stretch of the river provide ideal habitat for the species that summers in mountain streams before spawning in the fall. In addition, the agreement would create a program to enhance salmon and steelhead habitat in the lower Yuba River downstream of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Englebright Dam.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries), Yuba County Water Agency (YCWA), American Rivers, Trout Unlimited and California Sportfishing Protection Alliance released a “Term Sheet” that will guide negotiations on a binding settlement agreement that would form the basis of salmon reintroduction and restoration programs. The non-binding Term Sheet defines principles for funding and fiscal responsibility, agrees to some limits on potential actions, and anticipates how the partners will seek to address numerous legal and regulatory requirements essential for the reintroduction to happen. In signing the Term Sheet, the partners commit to negotiating a more detailed and binding settlement agreement that they hope to complete by next year. They also commit to the use of a transparent, science-based process that offers opportunities for public input and response in developing the specifics of the anticipated programs.
“This initiative is an ambitious undertaking to restore spring-run Chinook and steelhead to miles of historic pristine habitat in the Sierra Nevada Mountains,” said Charlton H. Bonham, CDFW Director. “This long-term experiment has been successful in several Pacific Northwest states and we hope for a similar outcome in California. A project of this importance wouldn’t be possible without a robust partnership, and considering the state’s unprecedented drought, it couldn’t be happening at a more crucial time for these fish.”
The Yuba Salmon Partnership Initiative seeks to accomplish a major goal set forth in Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s California Water Action Plan. This five-year plan, released in January 2014, spells out actions needed to restore California’s key ecosystems, and bring greater resiliency and reliability to its water resources. Directives in the plan include establishing fish passage around “rim” dams in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada that block historic salmon and steelhead habitat.
Director Bonham added, “Collaboration with Sierra County and other stakeholders will be important for us to ensure this program recognizes their needs.”
The salmon reintroduction program, if implemented as envisioned in the Term Sheet, would return salmon to spawning habitat in the North Yuba River using specially designed collection facilities and trucks. This would allow adult fish to bypass two dams northeast of Marysville: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Englebright Dam, built in 1941 to trap debris generated by hydraulic mining, and YCWA’s New Bullards Bar Dam, built further upstream in 1970 to provide flood protection, water supply and power generation. The program would move juvenile salmon downstream in the winter and spring by gathering them in collection facilities above New Bullards Bar Dam and trucking them downstream past the dams to resume their journey to the Pacific Ocean. The reintroduction effort would focus first on spring-run Chinook salmon. If successful, a steelhead reintroduction could follow. Providing fish access to historical habitat is also a climate change adaptation strategy.
“Reintroducing spring-run Chinook to their historic habitat above dams on the Yuba River has been discussed for decades,” said Will Stelle, NOAA Fisheries West Coast Regional Administrator. “Now this diverse coalition has reached agreement on the key terms to launch a successful program. We have a lot of work still ahead of us, and we will need to stay focused, given the urgency of getting these imperiled salmon back into their native habitat. The YSPI represents a major step forward, and we’re excited to help make it happen.”
The Term Sheet also envisions a program to analyze, prioritize and implement habitat actions in the Lower Yuba River downstream of Englebright Dam. These actions are likely to include improvement of riparian vegetation, measures to restore salmon spawning habitat and measures to improve rearing habitat for juvenile salmonids, including the expansion of side channel and floodplain areas to promote rapid growth of young salmon before they migrate to the ocean.
“Reuniting salmon with their historic habitat into the North Yuba River through a collaborative, voluntary initiative is a worthwhile endeavor that we believe will ultimately benefit our environment, the people of Yuba County and all of California,” said John Nicoletti, Chairman of the YWCA Board of Directors.
YCWA has agreed to pay up to $100 million of total project costs, which are estimated at $400-$500 million, over the 50-year life of the program (2015 dollars). The Term Sheet defines additional commitments by the partners. These include support for various regulatory approvals that the project will require; evaluation of North Yuba River habitat suitability; evaluating collection and transport facilities; development of biological and habitat goals and objectives; and development of an adaptive management plan so that the program can be adjusted based on monitoring results.
The project promises to yield a wealth of scientific information that may aid other reintroduction efforts, other ecosystems and fisheries science overall. Once implemented, it would test whether “collect and transport” programs can contribute to the recovery of Central Valley salmon populations as they have contributed to the recovery of salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest.
For more information, please visit www.dfg.ca.gov/fish/Resources/Chinook/YSPI/.
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Friday, April 19th 2019
10 Year Anniversary
This year we celebrate 10 years since our leaving of the old St Marys Church.
Wednesday, March 13th 2019
Circle Of Quietness
Join us in a Circle of Quietness as an act of solidarity with victims of abuse in the Catholic Church.
Tuesday, October 16th 2018
Micah Christmas Hamper Appeal
Micahs need your help to make food hampers for people in need this Christmas
Thursday, October 11th 2018
Rights of Nature 2018
In October 2018, the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) is hosting Rights of Nature Australia 2018 (RONA18), a series of connected events that explore and promote the rights of nature to exist, thrive and evolve.
Friday, October 5th 2018
Laughter is still the best medicine
We will be raising money for the WORLD WELLNESS CLINIC that helps our community's most vulnerable members...
Friday, September 28th 2018
Looking back on 10 years In Exile
As we move up to our 10th year liberated from the Roman Catholic Church we remember how it all happened
Friday, August 31st 2018
Terry Fitzpatrick on 'You Can't Ask That'
The renegade priest, who belongs to the St Mary’s in Exile community, appeared on this season of the ABC show to answer any and all questions thrown at him.
Monday, August 20th 2018
The Powerful Owl Community Art Day @ Mt Coot-tha, September 16th
A ‘Get Back to Nature’ community event that focuses on the Beauty of Mt Coot-tha
Friday, May 25th 2018
The liberation of mindfulness
The energies of mindfulness can liberate
Monday, April 23rd 2018
How we came to be so cruel to asylum seekers.
Robert Manne endeavors to explore the situation, of how Australia became so cruel to asylum seekers.
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Welcome to our Facmaster Factory!
Coconut Plantation being one of the major agricultural activity in many parts of South India, coconut plantation is practiced in many parts of Tamilnadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Goa. As a major agriculture practice in India, ideas to mechanize the process of dehusking coconut motivated to development of KCIs Coconut Dehusker ...
Neelan Fab Tex - Offering Unimek Mild Steel Coconut Husk Powder Block Making Machine in Singanallur, Tamil Nadu. Get best price and read about company. Get contact details and address
Coir Husk Crusher Machine. Power 7.5 HP 1440 RPM Capacity 25000 Husks 8 hrs Coir Husk Crusher Machine This is first process in De-Fibering Unit. Two rollers are connected with Gear Box and Motor. In between two rollers , we are feeding the husk with help of Movable Conveyer system.
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The undelegate() method is an inbuilt method in jQuery which is used to remove the specified event handler from the selected element.
$(selector).undelegate(selector, event, function)
Parameters: This method accepts three parameters as mentioned above and described below:
- selector: It is an optional parameter which is used to specify the selector from which event will remove.
- event: It is an optional parameter which is used to specify the name of the event type on the selector.
- function: It is an optional parameter which is used to specify the name of the handler function to remove.
Return Value: This method returns the selected element with specified changes made by undelegate() method.
Below examples illustrate the undelegate() method in jQuery:
Example 1: This example does not contain any parameters.
Before click anywhere:
After click on the paragraph:
Note: First click on the button and then click on the paragraph, then no changes occur.
Example 2: This example contains all parameters.
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After clicking on the div element get resized.
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|LETTER TO EDITOR
|Year : 2016 | Volume
| Issue : 1 | Page : 27
Mycotic keratitis due to Neoscytalidium dimidiatum: A rare case
Mahmood Dhahir Al-Mendalawi
Department of Paediatrics, Al-Kindy College of Medicine, Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq
|Date of Web Publication||23-Mar-2016|
Mahmood Dhahir Al-Mendalawi
P.O. Box 55302, Baghdad Post Office, Baghdad
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
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Al-Mendalawi MD. Mycotic keratitis due to Neoscytalidium dimidiatum: A rare case. Community Acquir Infect 2016;3:27
I read with interest the case report by Tendolkar et al. on the mycotic keratitis (MK) due to Neoscytalidium dimidiatum. It is obvious that MK is generally a serious ocular infection, particularly in the tropical countries. Its pathogenesis appears to involve agent factors, such as invasiveness and toxigenicity, and host factors, such as trauma and intrinsic defects in immunity. Among causes of poor immunity, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is the leading. In many parts of the world, particularly Africa, MK represents an important indicator of HIV infection where 81.2% of cases with MK were found to be HIV positive. In India, HIV infection is still a substantial health threat. The recently published data pointed out that the estimated adult HIV prevalence retained a declining trend in India, following its peak in 2002 at a level of 0.41% (within bounds 0.35-0.47%). By 2010 and 2011, it levelled at estimates of 0.28% (0.24-0.34%) and 0.27% (0.22-0.33%), respectively. Although the case in question had a history of ocular trauma, an important risk factor to acquire MK, I still presume that CD4 count and viral overload measurements were solicited to be done to disclose concomitant HIV infection. Despite that limitation, neoscytalidium dimidiatum associated keratitis in the case in question could truly expand the spectrum of MK recently reported in India.
Financial support and sponsorship
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Thomas PA, Kaliamurthy J. Mycotic keratitis: Epidemiology, diagnosis and management. Clin Microbiol Infect 2013;19:210-20.
Mselle J. Fungal keratitis as an indicator of HIV infection in Africa. Trop Doct 1999;29:133-5.
Raj Y, Sahu D, Pandey A, Venkatesh S, Reddy D, Bakkali T, et al.
Modelling and estimation of HIV prevalence and number of people living with HIV in India, 2010-2011. Int J STD AIDS 2015. pii: 0956462415612650.
Punia RS, Kundu R, Chander J, Arya SK, Handa U, Mohan H. Spectrum of fungal keratitis: Clinicopathologic study of 44 cases. Int J Ophthalmol 2014;7:114-7.
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It’s SATURDAY! I believe it’s meant to be a day of rest but I was challenged by readers comments on my post about Animoto, an online video creator.
CogDog (Alan Levine) said “But beware the slippery slope of getting wrapped in the tools- what seems more important is the craft of writing/storyboarding a story; and learning what works in visual/audio/video expressive media”
Chris Betcher said “But educationally I think it’s important that kids think about how they present this sort of visual information, that’s why we spend time storyboarding and planning and so on. Animoto removes their creative input.”
My thoughts are the difference between CogDog, Chris and myself relate to the fact both CogDog and Chris are interested in the digital story telling aspect whereas my focus is on video creation and the content. The concept of creating digital stories has never engaged me but the power of being able to create a video that suits my training purpose does.
While we might use the same or similar tools to create digital stories and online videos — differences in what we are trying to achieve means we will favour some appropriates over others.
Now CogDog really knows his digital story telling and has been working really with 50 tools to create 50 domino stories for his CogDogRoo tour of Australia. Actually I am beginning to think that CogDog is even crazier than me — but what fantastic work you have done on these stories.
And on a side issue CogDog has been elevated to Honorary Top Dog of Western Australia as a result of his picture of Australia covering up all other Australian States and Territories so that only Western Australia is displayed!
So what I decided to do was check through CogDog’s 50 domino stories to see which of the tools were good for creating online videos. I know how long it takes to create videos using PhotoStory, MovieMaker and iMovie as I use them all the time and if I am going to use an online video creator it must make the creation quicker or easier.
I often teach lecturers how to create videos using video footage from their digital camera. But different digital camera record video footage in various video formats and not all formats can be imported into MovieMaker. Which means that you need to convert to a compatible format before you can edit using MovieMaker.
Fortunately based on my criteria of quicker or easier to create online video there was only 3 tools that fit:
My rules allowed me to use either images and/or video footage provided video footage was shot on a digital camera (if I shoot video using my digital video camera I would have had to capture using MovieMaker and no iSight on my Mac because that uses iMovie). OH and no dogs allowed!!!!!
Please note each video I created is unique and shows you different aspects on my world!
Extremely fast way to create a video using images only that looks really flashy but takes minimal effort. And yes you can add both text and your own audio to it! You just need to think outside the box! Create a PowerPoint with the text you want to use and then save as jpeg instead of PowerPoint (thanks Brian C. Smith for telling me how your wife did it!).
Record audio in Audacity but when you save it make sure you change the Project Rate (bottom left side of screen) to 22, 050 hz or the audio chipmunks when you upload. Not totally convinced that adding your own voice to this type of movie is a good idea – but I had to prove you can do it!
Negatives to this tool are you only get 30 seconds free video – if you want longer you have to pay! Also not sure that we won’t eventually get tired of this look. Here is my Animoto video with my spoken audio and text!
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Fairly easy to create online videos by editing video footage online. I did crash FireFox 3 times while using MotionBox but do believe that it was all me being too impatient!
Benefit to your viewers is they can use the thumbnails or tags to jump forward to sections of the video they want to watch. Motionbox accepts videos a range of formats including: .avi, .mov, .dv, .mpg, .mp4, .wmv, .asf, .qt and a variety of cell phone video (.3GP).
Here is the video I created using MotionBox.
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This tool is like having MovieMaker or iMovie online! Can add titles and effects. Very easy to use (says she who makes movies all the time).
Here is the video that I created using JumpCut!
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All three online video creators are good for different reasons. Key with both MotionBox and JumpCut is to be patient and do something else while the videos are uploading. Each has its own tricks that you have to work out — but nothing in comparison to some of the skills I have had to learn with desktop applications.
Let me know what your thoughts are? Which of the 3 video looks do you prefer? Have you tried any of these applications and what did you like/dislike about them?
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Illuminated in Washington
On July 20, Christie’s is pleased to present The Beatles Illuminated: The Discovered Works of Mike Mitchell, a sale comprised of 50 lots of unpublished and never-before-seen photographs of the Beatles’ first hysteria-inducing visits to America in 1964. Shot in black and white by photographer Mike Mitchell when he was just 18 years old, the images have been filed away for nearly fifty years.
The complete rediscovered collection is expected to realize in the region of $100,000.
On February 11, 1964, just two days after their momentous American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, the Beatles performed their first US concert at the Washington Coliseum. The DC native shot dozens of intimate and thrilling photographs capturing the excitement of this first British Invasion. Mitchell had exceptional access to the events including their arrival at Union Station, the press conference preceding the performance and unrestricted, stage-front access for the entirety of the historic Coliseum concert. Mitchell then snapped additional photographs when they performed during their first US concert tour at the Baltimore Civic Center on September 13, 1964. Christie’s is thrilled to partner with Mike Mitchell on the debut of these images, which will be on exhibit first in London at Christie’s South Kensington from June 11-12 and then at the Grosvenor House, a JW Marriott Hotel, on June 17-25 and then at Christie’s New York from July 11-20 before they are offered at auction in New York on July 20 at 7pm.
Photos by Mike Mitchell, courtesy of Christie’s © Christie’s Images Limited 2010
Ecatalogue: Available online from June 2011 at www.christies.com/calendar
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We made time to record a special bonus episode this month! Due to the late-breaking nature of the Wuhan/novel coronavirus (now officially named COVID-19), Ben has gathered the latest misinfo and disinfo in order to break it down in terms of recurring folklore, distrust of foreigners, and the psychology of why people grasp for simple memes over complex medical science. Then Doctor Dan Ketterer goes over some of the nuances of viruses and how we treat them. Influenza and HIV provide useful models to how infectious disease doctors can disarm and contain viral outbreaks. There's a lot we don't yet know about COVID-19, but the quarantines and other public health measures should be making us feel safer, not create more panic.
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The fly weapon or flygun, an aide of the flyswatter, Mounted on the shot is an entered abnormal circle, which, as demonstrated by the publicizing copy, “won’t splat the fly”. A Pest Control More Information of identical things are sold, by and large as toys or quirk things, regardless the way that their assistants stay careful that they fill in relatively as standard fly swatters.
One more shot fly killer is the Bug-a-Salt, a cut-back shotgun that discharges a sprinkle of dry table salt using a spring-stuffed air impact like a BB rifle. It has an exact level of around 1 m 3.3 ft, and the killed bugs stay whole for clear cleanup. The pneumatic salt-shot perspective is broadcasted to be practical, taking into account how the quick, immaterial surveyed salt grains are clearly undetected by the delegated fly until it is past where it is feasible to keep away from them.
Fly holder :
A fly compartment or glass flytrap is an idle catch for flying terrible little creatures. In the Far East, it is a colossal compartment of clear glass with a weak metal top wherein there is an opening. A demolished snare is set in the lower part of the compartment as pieces of meat. Flies enter the holder searching for food and are then forbidden to escape considering the way that their phototaxis directly drives them any spot in the compartment yet to the hazier top where the portion opening is.
An European fly compartment is more conelike, with little feet that raise it 1.25 cm 0.5 in, with a container about a 2.5 cm 1 in wide and colossal that runs inside the holder all around the central opening at the lower part of the holder. Being utilized, the holder is kept on a plate and some sugar is sprinkled on the plate to attract the flies, which finally fly up into the compartment, whose case is stacked up with mix or vinegar, into which the flies fall and smother. In advance, the case was in like way once in a while stacked up with an unsafe blend of milk, water, and arsenic or mercury chloride.
Varieties of these holders are that the creating fly becomes accustomed to fight the Mediterranean typical thing fly and the olive fly, which have been being utilized since the 1930s. They are more humble, without feet, and the glass is thicker for irksome external use, as regularly as possible remembering suspension for a tree or brier.
Flypaper notwithstanding called fly paper, fly sticker, fly strip, fly trim, or fly tape attracts flies to remain with the certifiable that they can be gotten. The uncovered stick strip makes it more stick-leaned than an encased glue board. To avoid accidental catch with individuals, the strips are as consistently as possible hung into some degree shut-off spaces, for instance, near rooftops. One sort of fly strip is packaged in a little cardboard chamber with a pin on the top. It is used by pulling the trigger off the top commonly covered with wax, taking out the paste “fly strip” and using the pin to interface it to a rooftop, with the chamber hanging under as a little weight. Flypaper isn’t reused but is unstuck when it loses ampleness.
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Sweet potato is one of the most widely cultivated root crops in St Vincent and the Grenadines. In 2018, 4.7 million lbs (2.1 m kg) of sweet potato was produced. However, farmers in Queens Drive and Dorsetshire, two main production areas, have been experiencing severe crop losses caused by the West Indian sweet potato weevil. The larvae, which does the most damage, tunnels through the base of the stem (crown) and through the storage roots. In the storage roots, tunnelling produces chemicals called terpenes, which give the flesh an unpleasant taste.
To assist farmers, CARDI in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, established a demonstration plot in the affected area, to show by comparison the effectiveness of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategy towards reducing damage caused by the weevil. A combination of cultural, mechanical and chemical tactics were found to be very effective in controlling the beetle. Some practices included field sanitation, the removal of alternative hosts – wild relatives of the Ipomoea genus and the use of insecticides to treat both planting material and soil.
The study plot was maintained alongside a control plot of minimal management inputs. Based on examination of 90 sample plants per study plot, there were marked differences observed between the results from the two treatment regimens. Weevil activity in each plot was estimated by number of larvae, pupae and exit holes (adults) on the stems (non-destructive sample) of each sample plant at time of harvest. The number of each stage of the weevil was significantly (P<0.001) lower in the IPM plot than in the unmanaged plot. The percentage of infested sample plants, was lower for IPM plot compared to control plot; 80% versus 100%. Consequently, there were no losses in marketable yield from the IPM plot due to weevil attack compared to 56.2 % weevil-damaged losses in the control plot. This demonstration will be repeated to substantiate the benefit to cost.
The IPM tactics employed in this study had effectively reduce the weevil population and damage to stems and tubers. This strategy will help sweet potato farmers manage this pest and improve an increase their productivity.
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On 20 June, Uzbekistani President Shavkat Mirziyoyev chaired a meeting dedicated to changes and amendments to the national constitution. After dwelling on the reforms related to strengthening the protection of human rights and improving state administrative functions, President Mirziyoyev went on to propose that several principles related to Uzbekistan’s foreign policy should be enshrined in the new constitution. In Mirziyoyev’s view, these principles include generally building peaceful and friendly relations across the world and primarily with neighboring countries, upholding the respect for human rights and freedom in international relations and conducting interstate relations by strictly adhering to the principle of territorial integrity.
Moreover, Mirziyoyev expressed a view that, as the world is experiencing major changes and upheavals, it is necessary to renew and improve the conceptual and legal foundations of Uzbekistan’s foreign policy. He underlined that the country’s current National Security Concept, adopted in 1997, and Law on the Main Principles of Foreign Relations, adopted in 2012, “evidently do not fully meet the requirements of the fast-changing circumstances in the world, and therefore, new editions of these two important documents need to be adopted together with the new constitution of the country.” The Uzbekistani president also proposed “to elevate the importance of these extremely important two documents to the status of constitutional laws” (YouTube, June 20, 2022).
As local pundits and international observers started pondering what changes President Mirziyoyev could be contemplating, a self-inflicted crisis unfolded within Uzbekistan. Not long after the special meeting on June 20, all amendments to the constitution were presented for public discussion (Meningkonstitutsiyam.uz, accessed July 19). However, to Uzbekistani authorities’ grave embarrassment, some proposed amendments caused a major domestic political crisis that led to violent riots on July 1–3 in Nukus, the capital of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region in northwest Uzbekistan. The riots resulted in the death of at least 18 people, while another few hundred people were reportedly injured. The reason for the imbroglio was a number of unexpected amendments related to changing the nominal sovereign status of Karakalpakstan, which were not mentioned by Mirziyoyev during the special meeting on June 20 but mysteriously appeared on the final list (see EDM, July 5).
Notably, Mirziyoyev admitted that the spectacular mismanaged, but well-intentioned, constitutional reforms were meant, first and foremost, to “to improve the lot of the ordinary people,” and he ordered for the cancellation of all controversial amendments that “caused the anger of the Karakalpak people.” Moreover, the Uzbekistani president also accused some unhealthy forces abroad of orchestrating the riots in Nukus and exploiting the misunderstandings related to the change in Karakalpakstan’s status. Speculations are galore about the “outside forces,” which, according to government authorities, wanted to undermine Uzbekistan’s stability and territorial integrity (Gazeta.uz, July 2).
As of July 13, the situation in Karakalpakstan had stabilized and life is reportedly returning to “business as usual,” as reflected in President Mirziyoyev’s decision to relax the restrictions imposed on the region through the state of emergency laws announced on July 2 (Gazeta.uz, July 13).
Uzbekistani authorities take pride in the success of their pragmatic foreign policy under President Mirziyoyev, who indeed has managed to establish cordial and respectful relations with most major global and regional powers. As a result, Uzbekistan has managed, so far, to steer clear of heightened global geopolitical tensions by maintaining a delicate balance that does not stop it from pursuing greater cooperation with all powers, especially with both Russia and the Western countries supporting Ukraine in the face of the Kremlin’s brutal re-invasion. To their credit, Western nations—though cautioning Tashkent to remain truly neutral and respect the crippling anti-Russian sanctions particularly those intended to undermine and weaken Russia’s military-industrial complex—understand well that Uzbekistan cannot be punished for maintaining normalized relations with Russia (Amerikaovozi.com, April 12). As one Western diplomat based in Uzbekistan sagaciously told this author, “Uzbekistan has nothing to do with Russia’s aggressive behavior.”
President Mirziyoyev is also widely credited for creating a completely new peaceful and amicable atmosphere among Central Asian countries. The revival of the regional leaders’ annual consultative summits is the direct result of this newly discovered spirit of regional comradery and solidarity. Unresolved issues do remain among the regional countries that still carry the potential for violence, especially those related to difficult border demarcation issue. Even so, in light of global geopolitical instability and increasing challenges surrounding the region, Central Asian leaders share the growing realization that greater cooperation and consultations among their nations is critical. And so, the fourth summit of the regional leaders is scheduled to take place on July 21 in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. During the summit, it is expected that the attending parties will sign an Agreement on Friendship, Good-neighborliness and Cooperation for the Development of Central Asia in the XXI Century (Newscentralasia.net, July 4).
Uzbekistan’s unique success in conducting measured foreign policy in these challenging times is primarily the result of sound political judgement and prudence from the country’s leadership. Foreign policy triumphs also rest on existing carefully devised laws, which among others, prohibit Uzbekistan from joining any military-political blocks or hosting any foreign military bases in its territory; importantly, these statues also reject any ideologization of foreign policy. Therefore, it is imperative that government authorities are extremely cautious when “improving” these foreign policy and national security laws, lest changes send wrong and unintended signals to international partners—similar to the recent self-inflicted damage caused by the government’s unsuccessful attempt to deprive Karakalpakstan of its sovereign status. As Uzbekistan’s own recent history shows, even simple reiteration of its well-known foreign policy stances regarding some international conflicts could cause unwarranted anger and irritation in some close foreign partners (see EDM, May 3).
Furthermore, Uzbekistani authorities should understand that hurling claims without presenting any convincing proof that some abstract foreign force (i.e., another country) instigated the recent Karakalpak riots contradicts their own declarations of trouble-free and friendly relations with Tashkent’s foreign partners.
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D3 and D4 lymphadenectomies include their respective compartments. AJCC criteria designates involvement of hepatoduodenal, retropancreatic, mesenteric, and para-aortic nodes (i.e., compartment III and IV) as distant metastases (9). CT criteria for lymph node metastases include size, shape, central necrosis and heterogeneity (13), (14). When these characteristics are selleck bio present there is a strong correlation with metastatic involvement. However, CT sensitivity suffers because a small tumor burden in a lymph node is unlikely to produce
Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical the morphological changes sufficient to satisfy CT criteria. In concept, PET seems an excellent adjunct therapy to detect these anatomically small but potentially metabolically active focuses of metastatic disease. However, the relatively poor spatial resolution of PET makes it less effective because of the difficulty of distinguishing Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical compartment I and II nodes from the primary tumor itself. The real value of PET may be in the detection of “distant” Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical metastatic disease in compartments III and
IV and not amenable to surgical resection with a standard D2 lymphadenectomy. Identification of further spread with PET imaging may influence surgical planning for a more aggressive lymphadenectomy or the decision to avoid surgery altogether as futile and unnecessarily morbid (15). Solid organ metastasis from the stomach occurs most commonly in the liver via hematogenous dissemination through the portal vein (16), (17). Lymphatic and peritoneal dissemination are also Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical common pathways of spread in gastric malignancy. Although distant metastases are frequently detectable using contrast CT, PET is perhaps most useful in the detection of
these distant sites of solid organ metastases. A meta-analysis by Kinkel designated PET as the most sensitive noninvasive imaging modality for this purpose (18). Because radio-tracer is distributed throughout the body, larger volumes can be more Inhibitors,research,lifescience,medical easily scanned than is practical with CT. Peritoneal dissemination is a poor prognostic factor. Detection of peritoneal metastases may no change the surgical strategy from curative to palliative or deter the surgeon GSK-3 from laparotomy altogether. Increasingly sophisticated CT scans facilitate diagnosis of peritoneal metastases prior to visual inspection during surgery. PET may give additional sensitivity to CT. Diffuse uptake of tracer that obscures the serpiginous outline of the bowel may be an indicator of peritoneal metastases, as well as discrete areas of local uptake along areas within the peritoneal cavity that are otherwise anatomically unexplained (i.e. outside expected nodal stations or solid viscera) (11). Response to therapy PET may predict response to preoperative chemotherapy in gastric cancer. Ott et al.
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American showman P.T. Barnum employed outrageous stunts, repetitive advertising, and exaggerated publicity to excite international attention for such amusements as the public museum, the musical concert, and the three-ring circus. In partnership with James A. Bailey, he made the American circus a popular and gigantic spectacle, so-called The Greatest Show on Earth.
What did P.T. Barnum do before the circus?
Before starting the Barnum & Bailey Circus, P.T. Barnum took over the American Museum in New York City in 1842. Over the next two decades, he attracted tens of millions of visitors to see such “curiosities” as Chang and Eng, conjoined twins connected by a ligament below their breastbones, and General Tom Thumb, a man only 25 inches tall who proved to be Barnum’s most profitable exhibit.
Did P.T. Barnum invent the circus?
P.T. Barnum did not invent the modern circus, but, in partnership with the retiring, efficient James A. Bailey, he did give it its gigantic size, its most memorable attractions, and its widest popularity, attempting to make it what he called The Greatest Show on Earth.
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P.T. Barnum, in full Phineas Taylor Barnum, (born July 5, 1810, Bethel, Connecticut, U.S.—died April 7, 1891, Bridgeport, Connecticut), American showman who employed sensational forms of presentation and publicity to popularize such amusements as the public museum, the musical concert, and the three-ring circus. In partnership with James A. Bailey, he made the American circus a popular and gigantic spectacle, the so-called Greatest Show on Earth.
Barnum was 15 years old when his father died, and the support of his mother and his five sisters and brothers fell largely upon his shoulders. After holding a variety of jobs, he became publisher of a Danbury, Connecticut, weekly newspaper, Herald of Freedom. Arrested three times for libel, he enjoyed his first taste of notoriety.
In 1829, at age 19, Barnum married a 21-year-old Bethel woman, Charity Hallett, who was to bear him four daughters. In 1834 he moved to New York City, where he found his vocation as a showman one year later when he successfully presented Joice Heth, a wizened Black woman whom he advertised as the 161-year-old nurse to Gen. George Washington. On her death, however, the story was exposed as a hoax.
Casting about for a legitimate undertaking, Barnum outmaneuvered wealthier bidders to acquire John Scudder’s American Museum, in New York City, a five-story marble structure filled with stuffed animals, waxwork figures, and similar conventional exhibits. The new owner rapidly transformed the museum into a carnival of human curiosities, dramatic theatricals, beauty contests, and other sensational attractions. Although driven at the outset of his career by a desire for wealth and fame, Barnum may have been basically motivated by less selfish reasons. “This is a trading world,” he wrote, “and men, women, and children, who cannot live on gravity alone, need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is in a business established by the Author of our nature.” Playing upon the public’s interest in the unusual and bizarre, Barnum scoured the world for curiosities, living or dead, genuine or fake. By means of outrageous stunts, repetitive advertising, and exaggerated publicity, Barnum excited international attention and made his showcase of wonders a landmark.
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Between 1842, when he took over the American Museum, and 1868, when he gave it up after fires twice had all but destroyed it, Barnum’s gaudy showmanship enticed 82 million visitors—among them Henry and William James, Charles Dickens, and Edward VII, then prince of Wales—into his halls and to his other enterprises.
Barnum’s first successful exhibit in the museum was the Feejee Mermaid, which had a seemingly human head topping the finned body of a fish and was, of course, found later to be a fake. Among the genuine curiosities were Chang and Eng, Siamese twins connected by a ligament below their breastbones. It was, however, Charles Stratton, a man only 25 inches (65 cm) tall who was discovered by Barnum, that proved to be his most profitable exhibit. Ballyhooing Stratton as General Tom Thumb, Barnum sold 20 million tickets to the museum. After being received by U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln, Barnum and Tom Thumb enjoyed a triumphal tour abroad, during which the latter gave a command performance before Queen Victoria.
Eager to change his image from promoter of human curiosities to impresario of artistic attractions, Barnum risked his entire fortune by importing Jenny Lind, a Swedish soprano whom he had never seen or heard and who was almost unknown in the United States. Dubbing Lind “The Swedish Nightingale,” Barnum mounted the most massive publicity campaign he had ever attempted. Lind’s opening night in New York City, before a capacity audience of 5,000, and her nine months of concerts across the United States earned immense sums.
At the peak of his career, Barnum’s own appearance was nearly as familiar to the public as the exhibits he promoted. An impressive figure 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 metres) tall, semibald, with blue eyes, a bulbous nose, and a potbelly, he called himself the “Prince of Humbugs.” He dwelt in a three-story Oriental mansion, named Iranistan, on a 17-acre (7-hectare) estate in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he played host to such notables as Mark Twain, Horace Greeley, and Matthew Arnold. Close friends regarded him as good-natured, thoughtful, and kind, as well as parsimonious and egotistical.
His avocations were politics and writing. After serving two terms in the Connecticut state legislature, he was elected mayor of Bridgeport, in which post he fought prostitution and union discrimination against Blacks. In 1855 he published his autobiography, The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself; and because he frankly revealed some of the deceits he had employed, he was harshly taken to task by the majority of critics. Stung, Barnum continually modified the book in many revised versions, which, he claimed, sold a total of 1,000,000 copies. By 1884, eager more for publicity than for profit, Barnum placed his autobiography in the public domain, allowing anyone to print and sell it without copyright infringement. Though the cynicism “There’s a sucker born every minute” has long been attributed to Barnum, there is no proof that he ever wrote or spoke these words.
Barnum’s family life was not entirely happy. One daughter died in childhood; another was dropped from his will for committing adultery. Disappointed because he had no male heir, Barnum left a sizable bequest to a grandson on the condition that he agree to use Barnum as part of his name. After 44 years of marriage, Charity Barnum died in 1873. The following year, Barnum, who was then 64, took the 24-year-old Nancy Fish, the daughter of a British admirer, for his second wife.
Although his name has been popularly linked with the circus, Barnum did not, in fact, become a circus showman until he was past age 60. Barnum did not invent the modern circus, but, in partnership with the retiring, efficient Bailey, he did give the American spectacle its gigantic size, its most memorable attractions, and its widest popularity, attempting to make it what he called “the greatest show on earth.” Barnum capped his circus career by purchasing a six-and-a-half-ton elephant named Jumbo, who quickly earned back his purchase price during his first season under the big top.
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In his 81st year Barnum fell gravely ill. At his request, a New York newspaper published his obituary in advance so that he might enjoy it. Two weeks later, after inquiring about the box-office receipts of the circus, Barnum died in his Connecticut mansion. The Times of London echoed the world press in its final tribute: “He created the métier of showman on a grandiose scale.…He early realized that essential feature of a modern democracy, its readiness to be led to what will amuse and instruct it.…His name is a proverb already, and a proverb it will continue.”
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In chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases, comorbidities such as cardiovascular diseases and infections are suboptimally prevented, screened for and managed. The objective of this European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) initiative was to propose points to consider to collect comorbidities in patients with chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases. We also aimed to develop a pragmatic reporting form to foster the implementation of the points to consider. In accordance with the EULAR Standardised Operating Procedures, the process comprised (1) a systematic literature review of existing recommendations on reporting, screening for or preventing six selected comorbidities: ischaemic cardiovascular diseases, malignancies, infections, gastrointestinal diseases, osteoporosis and depression and (2) a consensus process involving 21 experts (ie, rheumatologists, patients, health professionals). Recommendations on how to treat the comorbidities were not included in the document as they vary across countries. The literature review retrieved 42 articles, most of which were recommendations for reporting or screening for comorbidities in the general population. The consensus process led to three overarching principles and 15 points to consider, related to the six comorbidities, with three sections: (1) reporting (ie, occurrence of the comorbidity and current treatments); (2) screening for disease (eg, mammography) or for risk factors (eg, smoking) and (3) prevention (eg, vaccination). A reporting form (93 questions) corresponding to a practical application of the points to consider was developed. Using an evidence-based approach followed by expert consensus, this EULAR initiative aims to improve the reporting and prevention of comorbidities in chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases. Next steps include dissemination and implementation.
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Chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases (CIRDs) comprise different diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), spondyloarthritis (SpA), connective tissue disorders and crystal arthropathies. Although current management of CIRDs may result in improvement/suppression of disease activity and improvement of function, comorbidities such as cardiovascular diseases,1 kidney diseases,2 lung diseases,3 infections,4 ,5 malignancies,6 osteoporosis,7 gastrointestinal diseases8 ,9 and depression10 remain an important issue.
These comorbidities are important to consider in patients with CIRDs for at least three reasons. The first is that some of these comorbidities are more frequently observed in patients with CIRDs in comparison to the general population. This is clearly the case for cardiovascular diseases in most of the CIRDs,11 ,12 infections4 and osteoporosis.13 This higher prevalence is usually explained by either the activity of the disease itself, or by its treatment, in particular glucocorticoids. As an example, studies investigating ‘traditional’ risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (such as hypertension or hyperlipidaemia) have concluded that the prevalence of these risk factors is higher in patients with CIRDs.14 ,15 Second, patients with CIRDs may receive suboptimal medical prevention services compared with the general population,5 ,16 ,17 possibly due to the focus on their rheumatic diseases or because no health professional is taking responsibility for the patient as a whole. For example, the screening for the detection of breast cancer (a cancer which is not more frequent in CIRDs than in the general population) by mammography may be less frequently performed in women with CIRDs.14 ,18 The third reason is that some comorbidities might impact on outcomes. For example, it has been reported that in obese patients with RA, the disease activity is less well controlled regardless of the administered treatment.19
The effective management of such comorbidities necessitates answers to the following questions: which information should be collected? Who should collect this information and how frequently? Who should be in charge of the management of any given comorbidity or risk factor, once detected? There is no definitive answer to the last questions, and it may well differ by comorbidity and/or countries/healthcare systems. However, most of the rheumatologists consider that it is their responsibility, at least, to assess comorbidities and thereafter liaise with the appropriate health professional (eg, the general practitioner or the appropriate specialist)20 for the treatment phase.14 ,21 The person in charge of the data collection related to comorbidities is unclear. Patients themselves may play a role through the completion of a self-administered questionnaire. More frequently however, the rheumatology team (eg, rheumatologists and specialist nurses) will perform this, for example, using a predefined list of items to be checked by a nurse or a physician.22 Although comorbidities are widely discussed in the recent literature, to date, the optimal role of the health professional in the assessment and follow-up care, as well as how and when data should be collected have not, as yet, been clearly defined. To this end, points to consider regarding comorbidities would be of interest. For clinical application, a pragmatic, easily understandable checklist corresponding to a minimum standardised core set of items to be collected regarding comorbidities in CIRDs in daily practice would also be of interest. Indeed, previous initiatives generated complex,23 incomplete or irrelevant checklists for daily clinical practice.
In the present initiative supported by the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), our objective was to develop points to consider regarding standardised items to be collected for comorbidities in CIRDs in daily practice, and to develop a practical reporting form to enhance applicability of these points to consider.
The methodology used in this initiative was in accordance with the EULAR Standardised Operating Procedures.24
Apart from the convenor, the clinical epidemiologist and the fellow in charge of the systematic literature review, 18 experts (4 patients, 4 nurse researchers, 5 epidemiologists in charge of registries and 5 clinicians) participated in this Task Force. SvA was the first author of the EULAR recommendations regarding vaccinations4 and MN was the convenor of the EULAR recommendations on cardiovascular comorbidities.11 The members of the Task Force came from 11 European countries and one member from the USA.
Target population and target comorbidities
A first physical meeting of the Task Force in July 2014 allowed, via a consensual approach, to define the target population in terms of patients who should benefit from this initiative, but also to define the list of comorbidities to be targeted.
The selection of comorbidities was based on their frequency and severity (impact on mortality and disease outcomes).
Hierarchical systematic literature review
A systematic literature review was performed using a hierarchical procedure to collect published recommendations or guidelines on reporting, screening for or prevention for each of the selected comorbidities. This systematic literature review was performed by one fellow (AB) in December 2014. Inclusion criteria were: (1) recommendations, (2) dealing with the reporting or the screening for and (3) the six selected comorbidities, that is, ischaemic heart diseases, infections, malignancies, gastrointestinal diseases, osteoporosis and depression. The first step consisted of checking whether there were specific recommendations available for patients with CIRDs. If none was available, the second step, retrieved recommendations in the general population proposed by international scientific societies. If these were not available, the third step targeted recommendations to be applied at the general population level proposed by national scientific societies. As the search was hierarchical, when a recommendation was found for one of the six selected comorbidities, the next steps were not applied. We used a sensitive search of Medline via PubMed and Embase. The combination of keywords used for this search is summarised in online supplementary table S1. This search was completed by a hand search of references from relevant articles, or reviews.
From each selected manuscript, the following information was extracted: definition of the comorbidity, how to report its occurrence, proposed screening strategy and proposed screening time interval. All collected data were compiled in tables to help appraisal.
Furthermore, some additional articles reporting relevant trials (rather than recommendations) were also discussed when relevant to define levels of evidence of the points to consider.
Consensus on points to consider and elaboration of a reporting form
During a second face-to-face meeting in January 2015, then by email exchanges, the Task Force developed overarching principles and points to consider, and a practical reporting form corresponding to the exact data to be collected. The points to consider deal with the six comorbidities, and the reporting form comprises for each comorbidity, three sections, related to (1) the reporting (ie, occurrence) of the comorbidity; (2) whether screening for disease (eg, mammography) or for risk factors (eg, hypertension as a risk factor of cardiovascular events) had been undertaken and (3) the uptake of any preventative measures (eg, vaccination).
Votes for agreement
The Oxford Levels of Evidence were applied to rate the strength of the points to consider.27 Members of the Task Force were asked to state their level of agreement with the points to consider, as well as with the reporting form, on a scale from 0 to 10 (10 being full agreement and 0 being total disagreement) by email in November 2015.
The EULAR Task Force considered that the points to consider would be applicable to all patients with CIRDs, including RA, SpA, connective tissue disorders and crystal arthropathies. Polyarticular osteoarthritis can also be considered a CIRD.28 Thus, clinicians treating patients with polyarticular osteoarthritis might also rely on these points to monitor these patients.
Choice of selected comorbidities
We restricted the scope of this Task Force to predetermined domains that is, clusters of diseases sharing the same disease mechanisms (ie, atherosclerosis) or involving a common organ/tissue (eg, gastrointestinal diseases). In each domain, we selected specific diseases of particular interest based on the selection of the Task Force members. The following conditions were selected: (1) cardiovascular diseases that is, myocardial infarction, angina, stroke, transient ischaemic attack, heart failure and lower limb peripheral arterial disease, (2) malignancies: lymphoma, skin, lung, colon, breast, prostate and cervical cancers, (3) infections: serious infections, chronic viral infections, tuberculosis (TB), non-TB opportunistic infections, (4) gastrointestinal diseases: gastroduodenal ulcers and diverticulitis, (5) osteoporosis and (6) depression.
Systematic literature review
A total of 1162 abstracts were retrieved by the search. Of these, 42 were included in the final qualitative synthesis (see online supplementary figure S1). A total of 19 manuscripts provided recommendations on reporting or detecting a selected comorbidity, whereas 41 articles provided recommendations on screening for risk factors of selected comorbidities. Nine articles were national recommendations and 33 articles were international recommendations (table 1).
The recommendations for comorbidity screening specifically in CIRDs4 ,11 ,29 ,30 were generated by the EULAR Task Forces. Most of the available recommendations for reporting or screening for comorbidities were, nevertheless, recommendations for the general population.
Table 2 shows the overarching principles.
The Task Force agreed that a role of the rheumatology team is to detect and collect the information related to the comorbidities. The Task Force members widely agreed on comorbidities of special interest, which need to be taken into account in the management of CIRDs.
The assessment of comorbidities may involve the rheumatologists in charge and specialist nurses and patients themselves. The treatment of these comorbidities will most often not be performed by the rheumatology team, but the team should liaise with the appropriate health professionals (eg, general practitioners and/or specialist physicians) to ensure the comorbidity is appropriately managed.
The Task Force agreed on the usefulness of standardised programmes to document comorbidities. The repetition of this standardised programme in a given patient has not been appropriately assessed. However (expert opinion), the Task Force considered such a repetition as useful and that such standardised programme should be performed at least every 5 years, as has been suggested specifically for cardiovascular diseases.31
Specific EULAR points to consider for reporting, screening for and preventing comorbidities in CIRDs
Table 2 summarises the points to consider. Category of evidence ranged from 1a to 5 (table 2). Level of evidence was higher for screening for risk factors, than for reporting the comorbidities or comorbidity treatments. There was high agreement within the Task Force regarding these points (table 2).
The following paragraphs deal specifically with each comorbidity.
Reporting, screening for and prevention of ischaemic cardiovascular disease
Level of evidence
Two articles reported EULAR recommendations for reporting or screening for ischaemic cardiovascular diseases in patients with CIRDs11 and systemic lupus erythematosus.29 Two articles reported European and North American recommendations for ischaemic cardiovascular diseases in the general population.32 ,33 The systematic documentation of risk factors has been demonstrated to be useful for several comorbidities in RA, in a randomised controlled trial (level 1b14).
EULAR points to consider
The Task Force addressed cardiovascular diseases related to atherosclerosis, including heart failure due to its impact on disease management (eg, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)). As the cause of heart failure is difficult to ascertain, heart failure due to any cause should be collected (table 2).
Reporting, screening for and prevention of malignancies
Level of evidence
Twenty-one articles reported European recommendations for reporting or screening for malignancies (breast,34–38 colon,39–42 prostate,25 ,43 ,44 skin,45 ,46 lung,47 ,48 cervical cancers49 and lymphoma6 ,50–53) in the general population. A national recommendation was also considered for the screening for prostate cancer in the general population.26 The literature demonstrated that screening for malignancies is useful in the general population (level 1b).54–58
EULAR points to consider
The Task Force proposed that the reporting of malignancies should be as simple as possible, keeping in mind that other information might be of interest for the treatment decision of a particular patient. As there are discrepancies in prostatic-specific antigen testing across countries, the Task Force did not include prostate cancer in these EULAR points to consider (table 2 and see online supplementary table S2).
Reporting, screening for and prevention of infections
Level of evidence
Five articles reported recommendations for reporting or screening patients for infections. One article reported guidelines for the screening for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (TB) in adult patients with chronic kidney disease.59 One article reported EULAR recommendations for TB screening in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.29 One article reported recommendation for TB screening in the general population in the USA.60 EULAR recommendations reported screening for risk factors of non-TB opportunistic infections with a specific focus on vaccination in patients with CIRDs, and screening for non-TB opportunistic infections in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.4 ,29 A national recommendation reported risk factors to be collected for serious lower respiratory tract infection61 in the context of an acute infection. Several articles led to level 2a evidence regarding screening for TB62 ,63; and one trial demonstrated the efficacy of collecting vaccination status and recommending vaccination updates according to national recommendations by a nurse.14
EULAR points to consider
The Task Force decided to focus on serious rather than severe infection as ‘severe’ implies a grading of the event (mild, moderate or severe), which is usually not formally defined contrary to a serious infection. A serious infection is defined as an infection that results in death, is life-threatening, requires hospitalisation or prolongation of existing hospitalisation or may result in persistent or significant disability/incapacity.64 The panel decided to report opportunistic infections on the basis of data from biological registries in rheumatic diseases (see online supplementary table S2).65
Reporting, screening for and prevention of gastrointestinal diseases
Level of evidence
Three articles reported European and the US recommendations for screening patients for gastroduodenal ulcers.9 ,30 ,66 No recommendation for diverticulitis was found in CIRDs nor in the general population. No direct data were found within the scope of this hierarchical systematic literature review, on the interest of the screening for risk factors of peptic ulcers.
EULAR points to consider
In this area, it should be noticed that the colon/rectum cancer issue has been previously addressed in the ‘Malignancies’ section. Similarly, the presence of inflammatory bowel diseases was collected as a risk factor for colon cancer. Although the reporting of diverticulitis might impact disease management in CIRDs, we excluded this comorbidity from this minimal set of variables to collect as no recommendation was found in the literature. Therefore, in terms of reporting, the Task Force proposal is to focus on peptic ulcer, as this can have consequences on NSAIDs prescription (table 2 and see online supplementary table S2).
Reporting, screening for and preventing osteoporosis
Level of evidence
Two articles reported EULAR recommendations for screening for osteoporosis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus 29 and for patients taking medium-dose to high-dose glucocorticoid therapy in rheumatic diseases.30 Two articles reported recommendations for screening for osteoporosis in the general population.13 ,67 Two articles allowed us to determine a 2b level of proof for screening for risk factors.14 ,68
EULAR points to consider
Apart from the report of the occurrence of osteoporotic fractures, the Task Force recommended a systematic review of predisposing factors of osteoporosis together with the calculation of a score for risk of osteoporotic fracture at 10 years (ie, FRAX).69 Although risk of falls is important, the Task Force did not recommend collecting this information as no universal standardised tool was found (table 2 and see online supplementary table S2).
Reporting, screening for and preventing depression
Level of evidence
Four articles reported national recommendations for reporting or screening patients for depression in the general population or patients with chronic illness.70–73 Discrepancies were found among these national recommendations: an article recommended not to routinely screen for depression subgroups of the population who display average or high risk of depression,71 whereas two articles70 ,73 recommended to screen adults with history of depression or chronic physical health problem with associated functional impairment for depression.70
EULAR points to consider
With regards to the report/detection of depression, the Task Force proposed not to refer to any specific existing screening tool, but to use an open question to elicit the patient whether he/she has been formally diagnosed with depression. If the answer is yes, the patient should then be queried regarding the use of medications to treat depression. If the answer is no, the patient should be asked if he/she has ever been screened for depression (table 2 and see online supplementary table S2).
The comorbidities collection form
The Task Force elaborated a list of data to collect regarding comorbidities, in relation with the points to consider. The form comprises a total of 93 questions formulated in English. The data format allows a health professional (eg, either a nurse or a physician) to perform the data collection. The elaboration of the form was undertaken in collaboration with the participating patients, keeping in mind that a self-administered version of this form might be of great interest.
Table 3 provides an overview of the form and summarises the conclusions of the EULAR Task Force concerning the information to be regularly collected on the six selected comorbidities, and an example is presented in table 4. The full-text form is available with explanatory text online from the EULAR website and also presented as online supplementary table S2.
This initiative focuses on reporting, screening for and preventing selected comorbidities of relevance in patients with CIRDs: points to consider formulated as three overarching principles and 15 points to consider have been developed. Furthermore, a simple though detailed form is made available, to be implemented in daily practice. The form is freely available for either integration in cohort data or use in daily practice by the rheumatology team. These recommendations were developed using the EULAR Standardised Operating Procedures for the elaboration, evaluation, dissemination and implementation of recommendations.24 We have critically appraised the available recommendations. Thus, this was a data-driven and consensual approach.
Some limitations should be emphasised. First, the systematic literature review showed that specific CIRDs-dedicated recommendations for comorbidity screening are scarce.4 ,11 ,29 ,30 In most cases, recommendations for the management of comorbidities in CIRDs were extrapolated from those in the general population. Interestingly, recommendations are focused mainly on screening risk factors for comorbidities rather than on reporting a prevalent comorbidity or recording a still overlooked comorbidity as well as recoding treatment. Therefore, these points to consider were graded as level 5 evidence, except points to consider 2, 5–6, 8 and 12 (table 2). However, the documentation of risk factors is based on higher levels of proof. Second, the choice of the target population (ie, the list of rheumatic diseases comprised in CIRDs) is also open for criticism. We did not specifically include osteoarthritis, although some authors describe osteoarthritis as an inflammatory joint disorder with a substantially lower systemic inflammatory burden compared with other CIRDs.28 This dichotomy between inflammatory and non-inflammatory diseases is probably not clinically relevant since some comorbidities are prevalent in both osteoarthritis and the ‘conventional’ CIRDs; for this reason, patients with polyarticular osteoarthritis may also benefit from this form.
Some comorbidities such as fatigue, fibromyalgia or repetitive non-opportunistic non-serious infections would be important to collect, but are missing in this current proposal. However, the Task Force anticipated that the screening for a broad scope of comorbidities would make the final ‘product’ (eg, the proposed form) too complex or extensive to be implemented. Moreover, the Task Force excluded some diseases (eg, prostate cancer and diverticulitis) from these EULAR points to consider as concerns about the effectiveness of a systematic screening for certain comorbidities have recently been raised, mainly because of the anxiety induced by false-positive tests, the risk of overtreatment and the burden for medico-economic resources.74 Finally, the cost-effectiveness of screening strategies was not often available in recommendations. The yield of routine screening for comorbidities and the cost of routine screening dramatically impact on the cost-effectiveness of screening strategies. Evidence from a Canadian modelling study suggests that routine screening for depression, resulting in increased rates of treatment, may not reduce the burden of depression. Instead, focusing efforts on reducing episodes of relapse (eg, through long-term treatment in patients with known depression) may be a more efficient use of resources.75
Dissemination and implementation of recommendations is often an issue. In the present case, it is hoped that the proposed reporting form (available as online supplementary online data and on the EULAR website as a Word or PowerPoint document) will facilitate the dissemination and the implementation of the present initiative. This EULAR initiative provides recommendations and a reporting form to facilitate the screening for comorbidities rather than recommendations on the optimal management (eg, interval of time between mammographies) or optimal value of a specific risk factor (eg, blood pressure or cholesterol level). This choice was fostered by the intercountry variability of the existing recommendations. The hierarchical literature search was performed to retrieve recommendations, and the present points to consider are in accordance with other EULAR initiatives.4 ,11 Therefore, we expect that this form will be easily adapted at the national or local level. For instance, one could consider to systematically check for other comorbidities such as fibromyalgia: this could easily be added in the form once adapted to a given country. Finally, the EULAR reporting form is in English, which may present a challenge in some countries.
The points to consider are easy to understand and are limited in number. However, even intended as pragmatic, the reporting form turned out to be quite extensive. Indeed, a systematic screening for comorbidities may take up to an hour,14 particularly when undertaken for the first time. However, for subsequent screenings (eg, 1 or 2 years later), the process should be quicker and will be more efficient if the initial screening is easily available (eg, if these data are available in the medical records or in electronic form).76 We are aware that the reporting form is detailed and long, but this could be implemented as a hierarchical form (ie, with sections to be filled-in only if relevant). Furthermore, the assessment of comorbidities could be divided across several visits (eg, cardiovascular then cancers), if necessary.
Systematic screenings have been found to be useful for patients, as they draw attention to comorbidities that might otherwise be overlooked.14 ,20 The time necessary for this screening raises the question of where it should best be performed. Should it be the rheumatologist, perhaps as a dedicated outpatient visit, or a rheumatology nurse, for example, during a systematic yearly review? This initiative does not answer this question, but hopefully encourages a coherent and uniform approach for a review of comorbidities for people with CIRDs. We did not resolve the issue of who should then prescribe tests or treatments if needed; we believe the rheumatology team should collaborate with the patient's general practitioner in this regard.
It will be interesting to evaluate the impact of this initiative in terms of implementation in daily practice. It will also be critical to take the opportunity to propose a lay version of the reporting form in order to encourage a patient-centred approach to care, as the involvement of patients is mandatory to achieve an optimal decision-making process.77
The authors thank Mr Xavier Romand, Mr Jason Hubac and Dr Dounia Bettache for their help in the literature review. The authors thank Pr. Thierry Thomas for his critical review of the manuscript.
Handling editor Hans WJ Bijlsma
AB and LG contributed equally.
Twitter Follow William Dixon at @WGDixon
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
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Beijing has been hanging its international reputation on the success of the Olympics for years now. But maybe it shouldn't have been so eager to host the games in the first place. By emphasizing that the 2008 Olympics will symbolize China's coming-out as a humane and responsible great power, Beijing has invited challenges to the legitimacy of its actions in Darfur, Burma, and now--in the wake of this week's crackdown on protesting monks--Tibet as well.
The problem, of course, is that China's government is fundamentally incapable of acquitting itself well against these challenges without radically restructuring its priorities, or undergoing fundamental political change. For example, unless China abandons its colonial project in Tibet (and its reliance on the use of force to keep order), no responsible Chinese leader can allow a Tibetan uprising to go unchecked. Similarly, unless China wants to readjust its attitude towards free speech, Beijing has to crack down on human rights to prevent domestic protests from marring the Olympics. And unless China wants to readjust its policy of nonintervention in other states' internal affairs--as well as its strategy of currying favor with unsavory African regimes--it must continue to coddle Sudan.
But what if Beijing had never implied it would clean up its act in order to host the Olympics? There would probably be no Tibetan uprising right now. There would be little international pressure for press freedom and civil liberties. And there would be less pressure to clean up the situation in Darfur. At what point will China regret having campaigned so hard for the 2008 Games?
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10th of November’19
Popular Herald Sun journalist and Sky News presenter Rita Panahi will be launching the Police Veterans In Schools Program (PVISP) later this month. Rita with a reputation of, telling it like it is, is a natural fit for the Community Advocacy Alliance (CAA) who are equally committed to, telling it like it is, albeit, like Rita, we are not appreciated in some quarters.
The proposal for a PVISP program is already attracting retired Police Veteran volunteers who understand the importance of educating children on the role of police and how to deal with the social challenges they face.
With the many years of police service, the veterans have experience many current serving Police member have yet to gain, so are brilliantly equipped to educate and provide guidance for our young Victorians.
The program has also attracted a number of schools who are very enthusiastic about having a PVISP Veteran join their school community. Already local government is pushing to have the program introduced in their municipality so the growth of the program is ensured.
As the inquiry level increases, the CAA is gearing up for the increased demand both from the schools, and the Police Veterans wanting to participate.
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Do Artificial Sweeteners And Fruit Count As Sugar?
Articles Inspirational articles from Hay House authors
Do Artificial Sweeteners And Fruit Count As Sugar?Bright Line Eating Founder, Susan Peirce Thompson, Debunks Some Common Myths
When I was trying to lose weight, it totally baffled me that I couldn’t do it—because I was capable in so many other areas. I had earned a Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences. I had good friends, and I was happily married. I ran a marathon. I was fat when I ran that marathon, but I ran it nonetheless.
We have an obesity mystery. The problem itself doesn’t make any sense. There’s no other field of endeavor that I’m aware of where intelligence, determination, talent, and capability have so little bearing on the outcome.
So after I completed my Ph.D. I continued to delve deeper into weight loss and addictions to become an expert in the psychology of eating. What I have come to believe is that being over-weight or obese is not a willpower deficit and not a moral shortcoming, but rather, the by-product of a brain hijacked by modern food.
The modern diet wires our brain to work against us, but we can rewire it to work for us. We are not weak. We are not stupid. We are simply trapped on a chemical hamster wheel and haven’t been given the tools to get off. Until now.
In my book, Bright Line Eating, I give you all the science you need to understand what is happening inside your brain that is blocking your weight loss, and how the Standard American Diet hijacks our hormones and neurotransmitters, leaving us with insatiable hunger, overpowering cravings, and vulnerable to something I call the Willpower Gap.
Bright Line Eating solves those problems by literally rewiring your brain to work with your goals, not against them. Bright Line Eating will change your life and end your dieting cycle forever.
The Four Bright Lines:
- Eliminate Flour
- Eliminate Sugar
- Plan your Meals
- Watch your Quantities
Today I would like to focus on just one; sugar.
This is really the cardinal Bright Line. Without it, none of the others are effective, because you have to take sugar out of the equation to allow the brain—and therefore the body—to heal.
To be clear, by sugar I mean all ADDED sugar. It appears as dozens and dozens of names on ingredient lists, including but not limited to: cane sugar, beet sugar, date sugar, brown sugar, powdered sugar, evaporated cane juice, rice syrup, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, agave, maple syrup, molasses, sucrose, dextrose (indeed, anything ending in -ose), maltitol, glycerine, malted barley extract, and maltodextrin.
Any food containing any of these ingredients has to be eliminated because all refined forms of fructose and glucose hit our insulin system harder than our bodies were designed to withstand. Elevated baseline insulin levels then block leptin, leading to insatiable hunger and sedentary behavior. And the sugar pounds our dopamine receptors, leading to downregulation and overpowering cravings. In order for your brain to heal, your insulin and dopamine systems must be allowed to rest so they can recalibrate back to their original settings.
Artificial sweeteners are a scourge. True, they have zero calories so the body cannot use them for fuel, but they impact the insulin system just the same as sugar. The sweet taste hits the tongue and causes a dopamine surge and insulin response even though no corresponding calories are forthcoming.
Don’t be fooled. Artificial sweeteners will absolutely derail your weight-loss success. By artificial sweeteners I mean saccharine, NutraSweet, aspartame, sucralose, xylitol, sorbitol, and, yes, stevia and Truvia. In addition, many nonfood products containing artificial sweeteners, like diet soda and sugarless gum, will keep you hooked on the behavior of putting something in your mouth as a crutch to get through the day.
Take a deep breath and let them go.
The good news is that fresh fruit is just fine. In fact, fruit is wonderful! I am happy to say that you can eat any and all varieties of whole, fresh fruit. The fructose in fresh fruit doesn’t impact the brain and body like refined sugar does because when you eat a piece of fruit, you eat fiber as well. Fruit’s fiber lattice is composed of soluble and insoluble fiber that slow the absorption of the fruit’s natural sugar into the bloodstream, blunting insulin and dopamine responses.
What we shouldn’t eat is dried fruit, fruit juice, or blended fruit. In each of these, the sugar content is more concentrated than the fiber lattice can inhibit.
Imagine sitting down and eating six fresh apricots, for example. It would probably take you quite a few minutes and you’d most likely start to get bored with eating them before you could even get through them all. Now imagine eating six dried apricots. You could do that in seconds, and the only thing you’d be thinking is, “MORE!” Remember, we want to keep that part of your brain, those dopamine receptors, quiet.
Stay away from dried fruit
And I get asked all the time whether juicing and smoothies are allowed. The answer is no.
Once you take that whole fruit—or vegetable, as the case may be—and put it in a blender or juicer, you shred the fiber lattice, leaving all that fructose and glucose free to hit your system as fast as if you’d consumed a piece of candy.
The next thing that I’m usually asked is, “If I quit sugar, won’t I have cravings?” Yes, you will. At the beginning, Bright Line Eating is very similar to quitting smoking. But the cravings will go away. Not instantly, but by the end of my eight-week Boot Camp, 84 percent of people report having few or no cravings anymore— ever. Some people, like me for instance, experience cravings for a while longer, but I promise, I promise, they go away. The craving is just the last-ditch effort of your hijacked brain to get you back on the sauce. But you will become stronger than that.
Bright Line Eating ushers in an end to cravings, an end to dieting, an end to that constant, exhausting, soul-sucking loop in your head about food and calories and pounds. I have no interest in getting you Thin if you’re not also going to be Happy and Free. Living Happy, Thin, and Free is your birthright. I do it. My Boot Campers are doing it. And you can, too.
For more about Bright Line Eating and FREE weight loss resources, visit my website Bright Line Eating.
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Laser Hair Reduction or Removal
Laser hair removal is a new technique of removing unwanted hair from the various parts of the body by exposing pulses of laser light that burn the hair follicle.
Laser treatment is commonly used for hair removal and hence is widely accepted by the dermatologists. Hair removal through laser produces effective and long-lasting results.
The primary principle behind laser hair removal is matching the specific wavelength of light and pulse. The duration of the impact is to obtain an optimal effect on a targeted tissue or follicle and cause a minimal effect on the surrounding tissues. The laser is absorbed by the melanin present in the hair. So, if the hair is thicker there is more melanin and so there is better absorption of laser which can lead to the destruction of the hair follicle.
Laser hair removal has been in practice since 1997, and we have been using this technique at Aura since 2014. Under the FDA’s definition, “permanent” hair reduction is a long-term, stable reduction in the regrowth of hair on various parts of your body after treating them with Laser.
Laser hair removal has become popular because of its speed and efficiency. However, the results also depend upon the skill and experience of the laser operator. The choice and availability of different laser technologies used for the procedure also matter. Some patients will need the touch-up sessions, especially on larger parts of the body after the initial set of 3-8 treatment sessions.
Hair growth in the human body has three phases:
Stage 1 – Anagen: When the hair grows.
Stage 2 – Catagen: In this phase, the hair stops growing and starts degenerating.
Stage 3 – Telogen: It is the last stage of hair growth. During this stage, the laser treatment is not effective.
A laser device will solely have an effect on the presently active growing hair follicles, i.e. in the stage called “Anagen”. Hence, many sessions are required to reduce hair growth altogether. Multiple treatment sessions as per the type of hair and complexion are shown to produce the long-term reduction of hair. Most patients prefer a minimum of eight sessions. Skin specialists usually prefer waiting for 3 to 8 weeks for sessions of laser skin treatment.
Understanding the Hair in your Body
You may be stunned to find out that nearly your entire body is covered with hair. As a result, most of this hair is pale and is not always visible to the normal eye. But, as unwanted hair grows on various parts of your body like on the face, neck, abdomen, breasts, legs, or underarms for girls or on the shoulders, chest, and back for men, it also becomes darker and coarser. This can make you feel uncomfortable and you might want to think about laser hair removal.
Conventional, Long-term Hair Removal solutions
Previously, all the ladies used to opt for old school methods like plucking, shaving, waxing, electrolysis, or chemical depilatories for their unwanted hair. Some of these methods like plucking and waxing were painful.
However, with the introduction of the Laser Hair Removal technique, it has become easier to remove unwanted hair. The Laser hair removal technique is less painful, efficient, and less time consuming than other old school methods.
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Reflection by Vijaya Bodach
Today's Gospel: John 13:16-20
Although we’re well into Eastertide, we return to the night of Holy Thursday after Jesus washes the feet of His disciples. He has chosen them and reminds them how they are to serve, like Him. He prepares them for His Passion so that they will not forget His Divinity. But we know they don’t fully grasp what Christ has done -- instituted both the priesthood and the Eucharist -- until the Holy Spirit descends upon them at Pentecost.
Indeed, our priests are chosen, their hands specially anointed so that they can bring Jesus to us. We remember that though Jesus suffered unimaginable agony and died an ignoble death, deserted by all His friends, save John, He made a way to stay with us until the end of time. We sing, “Lord, accept the gifts we offer / at this Eucharistic Feast.
/ Bread and wine to be transformed now, / through the action of Thy priest.” Even now, when many of us can't receive Him, how blessed we are to have our holy priests still fulfilling their mission of consecrating the Eucharist each day. Let us commit to memory this beautiful prayer of St. Thérèse, the Little Flower.
O Jesus, eternal Priest,
keep Thy priests within the shelter of Thy Sacred Heart,
where none may harm them.
Keep unstained their anointed hands,
which daily touch Thy Sacred Body.
Keep unsullied their lips,
purpled with Thy Precious Blood.
Keep pure and unearthly their hearts,
sealed with the sublime mark of Thy glorious priesthood.
Let Thy holy love surround them and
shield them from the world's contagion.
Bless their labors with abundant fruit and
may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation here and in heaven their beautiful and everlasting crown. Amen.
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Do you remember to pray for your parish priest every day?
My dear Jesus, thank You for giving us Your priests and Yourself through them. Teach us to love one another and serve as You do.
Copyright 2020 Vijaya Bodach
Vijaya Bodach is a scientist-turned-children’s writer and an atheist-turned-Catholic. She is also wife, mother of two grown children, pet-wrangler, teacher, speaker, Latin Mass lover, and chorister. She is the author of 60+ books for children. BOUND is her first novel. She writes about faith, family, books, and writing at her blog.
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Elderly Care in Hooper UT: Eczema is a common and irritating skin condition. It is also called dermatitis. The condition causes itchy patches of skin to form.
Home Care in Pleasant View UT: Having an elderly family member with a serious condition can require a lot of work on the part of family caregivers. The older adult may require daily care or even round-the-clock care.
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Tai Chi can improve our balance, posture alignment, and sense of wellbeing.Learn More
What is e-Learning?
e-Learning simply means learning via the internet!
We know that it’s difficult for carers to come to information sessions, courses and training. Even if it’s at a time and place that suits you, the best laid plans can go awry with the many other commitments that our carers have. However, all is not lost! There are many ways of learning via the internet –whether this is doing an online course, or watching a 3 minute video on YouTube. The best thing about it is that you can do it when at home, on your phone while waiting at an appointment or anywhere else with wi-fi!
Below is a selection of the best e-Learning courses we’ve found – don’t forget to let us know if there’s something that you would like to share with other carers!
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The Atlas of Urban Expansion is an open-source online resource with maps, satellite images, and data on spatial changes in cities around the world, created in partnership by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, UN-Habitat, and New York University.
The Atlas of Urban Expansion features a global sample of 200 cities, representing the universe of all 4,231 cities and metropolitan areas that had 100,000 people or more in 2010. The aim is to provide a scientific understanding of how the world’s cities are growing, and to measure performance and identify trends in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda following the Habitat III global cities summit held in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016.
Massive urbanization, accompanied by the rapid expansion of cities and metropolitan regions and the sprawling growth of megacities the world over, is one of the most important transformations of our planet. Much of this explosive growth has been unplanned. Cities in developing countries have been unprepared for absorbing the many millions of the rural poor that are still crowding into informal settlements. These cities are set to double their urban population in the next thirty years, and triple the land area they occupy. From 1990 and 2015, the area occupied by cities in less developed countries increased by a factor of 3.5; if that rate continues, the total amount of land taken over by urban land use would be equivalent to the entire country of India.
The Atlas of Urban Expansion provides the geographic and quantitative dimensions of urban expansion and its key attributes in cities the world over. The data and images are available for free downloading, for scholars, public officials, planners, those engaged in international development, and concerned citizens. The empirical data and quantitative dimensions of past, present, and future urban expansion in cities around the world are critical for making minimal preparations for the massive urban growth expected in the coming decades.
Related publications include the Atlas of Urban Expansion 2016 Volume I and Volume II; Planet of Cities (2012); Atlas of Urban Expansion (2012); and the Policy Focus Report Making Room for a Planet of Cities (2011).
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Interview with Thomas Kleine-Brockoff, Executive Director of the Berlin Office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the advisor to former President of Germany, Joachim Gauk. The interview was conducted on the Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund.
European Western Balkans: How would you describe current German foreign policy concerning enlargement? Is it high on the list of priorities?
Thomas Kleine-Brockoff: No. The reason is that we are in a very uncharted territory in all of our Western foreign policy. We have a revisionist Russia, we have a Turkey that is approaching a constitutional change that makes us uncomfortable, we have countries within Europe that embrace illiberal democracy, we have Great Brittain that wants to be out in the Atlantic, we have the United States that is unsecure as a source of stability. Our sense is that German foreign policy is home alone in some way. We have very uneasy and very strange moment in which you have to reconsider the basic tenents of your security. I think that keeping Europe together is the one overwhelming goal of German foreign policy in an insecure moment in our history.
EWB: Despite all the issues Germany is facing, at least rhetorically enlargement is on the agenda. This is at least the message sent to the governments in the Western Balkans. Do you believe this message to be sincere?
TKB: If you ask me the overall question, keeping the system intact and workable is the overarching priority rather than expanding the system. That, I would say, is the broad answer to that.
EWB: Do you expect any changes after the elections in Germany this year when it comes to enlargement?
TKB: The broad question as to what the alliance system is, how to confront Putin, how to deal with Erdogan – those are the big questions. I think the enlargement question is, especially in the Western Balkans, an important question, but it has now become in a fraying international order a second order question. If we have a French election that sees a French president Le Pen, who wants to leave NATO and EU, who wants to leave the Eurozone, we are in an uncharted territory. I do not know what we would then be enlarging.
EWB: Many say that the European Union is currently giving the advantage to stability over democracy in the Western Balkans, caring more about the external threats than the level of democracy and the level of reform necessary for European integration of these states. Would you agree that this is more or less the German position?
TKB: The more unstable the overall system gets, the more system maintenance is the priority, and it is true that over time with increasing instability, stability will have precedent over transformation. That is, I think, more an analytical point than a policy point.
This article has been produced with the support of the Balkan Trust for Democracy. The content of this article and the opinions expressed herein are the sole responsibility of the portal European Western Balkans and in no way reflect the views and opinions of the Balkan Trust for Democracy nor the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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State Police urge drivers to be careful during winter weather
State Police are cautioning drivers to be careful as cold weather moves through the area over the weekend.
The National Weather Service is monitoring a cold front that could create a mixture of rain and snow in south Louisiana late Sunday into early Monday, officials said.
The weather could affect roadway surfaces and create dangerous driving conditions, State Police said. Road closures are possible and expected across the state.
“Before deciding whether travel is necessary, Louisiana State Police urges motorists to stay informed with the latest weather and travel conditions,” State Police said in a release. “Freezing rain and sleet can cause bridges and overpasses to ice quickly, as temperatures near the freezing point. If conditions deteriorate, motorists are encouraged to refrain from driving until conditions improve. If ice accumulates on bridges and/or overpasses, LSP will work closely with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development and our local law enforcement partners to take appropriate measures.”
Call 511 for road closure information or visit 511la.org. You can also download the Louisiana 511 mobile application.
State Police are offering the following winter weather driving tips:
- Avoid unnecessary travel.
- Reduce speed and allow extra time to reach your destination.
- Increase your following distance behind other vehicles.
- Do not drive using the cruise control in icy conditions.
- Anticipate stops (such as stop signs and traffic signals) and brake gently while stopping.
- If you encounter a skid, take your foot off the accelerator and steer into the skid until you regain control.
- Use low-beam headlights if it is raining or sleeting.
- Ensure all vehicle occupants are wearing seat belts.
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- Published: ≈G. Bodenehr , Augsburg
- Published date: 1704
- Type: Antique Map, map
- Technique: Copper engraving / Uncolored
- Issue date: 1704-20
- Size: 149 by 215mm (5 by 8 inches).
- Stock number: 23382
- Condition: In very good to excellent condition. 149 by 215mm (5 by 8 inches).
Article descriptionCopper engraving, hand colored in outline when published. This fine engraving shows the view of the southern area with the surroundings of Lake Lucerne and was ublished in Gabriel Bodenehr's famous serious "Europeans Macht und Pracht", a series of engravings depicting city views, plans, fortresses and castles in Europe. Many plates often are showing fortifications in Hungary and Southeast Europe, Spain, Belgium, Austria and Germany. Gabriel Bodenehr was during this period a successful publisher for maps and prints in Augsburg in Southern Germany. Gabriel Bodenehr the Elder (1664-1758 or 1673-1765) was a German map maker and member of a famous engraver and publisher family of Augsburg. His main work was "Atlas Curieux" first published 1704. He was the son of Johann Georg Bodenehr (1631-1703). Gabriel's son was Gabriel Bodenehr the Younger (1705–1792).
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Amnesty International appeared alongside the Australian Lawyers Alliance, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the Refugee Council of Australia today as they gave evidence at the NSW Public Hearing of the Parliamentary inquiry into Freedom of Speech in Australia.
Amnesty’s Indigenous Rights Campaigner, Roxanne Moore, told the inquiry that changing the Racial Discrimination Act could upset a fine balance and be “seriously damaging”.
“It could embolden racists in the community, it could potentially lead to more violence and racial hatred in the community, and we don't think that's a good outcome for social cohesion or tolerance.”
She told NITV News the organisation is “hoping that they will see the Racial Discrimination Act in its current form meets its international obligations and doesn't need amendment."
The joint hearings are expected to deliberate on their verdict on what the government should do next, by the end of the month.
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A guy I know owned a chain of restaurants with a business partner. He no longer does. What happened? Covid was certainly a challenge and food service is always a tough business, but the main reason was that the partner had a textbook midlife crisis that ended up blowing up his life and his finances. He had to sell his stake in the venture and the business never fully recovered from the fallout.
This is just one personal anecdote, but it's certainly not an unfamiliar story. Midlife crises can spell the death of your marriage and your dignity, but they can also spell the end of a previously successful business. How do you prevent them?
At first blush that sounds like both a complicated question and a personal one. But according to Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks, most midlife meltdowns can be prevented with just two simple mindset shifts.
Midlife crises aren't inevitable
Brooks is the author of a series of articles in The Atlantic called "How to Build Your Life," which break down the academic research on positive psychology and thriving in your life and career into useful advice for a popular audience. In his latest, he tackles the phenomenon of the midlife crisis, tracing when the idea first came into popular consciousness and the evolving understanding of why one occurs and how often.
All of this is fascinating if you're looking for a deep dive into the subject, but the essential takeaway is that scientists once thought midlife crises were a normal part of the aging process. They've since changed their tune. "More recently," Brooks writes, "many have found that a 'crisis' is not our unavoidable fate."
To avoid crashing into regret and mortality and making ill-considered decisions when we hit midlife, Brooks insists you need to make these two small but profound changes to your mindset.
1. Focus on gains, not losses.
Aging is implacable. As you get older, you are going to lose physical strength and speed and eventually some mental speed and flexibility, too (though those changes start later than you expect). Understandably, that sets off feelings of panic in many people. But Brooks points out that those feeling despair at their worsening memory and weakening biceps are only focusing on half the equation. Some skills get worse with age, but lots of other important ones get better.
"Stagnation, which can lead to a crisis, happens when you try to fight against time, whether you're desperately trying not to look older or struggling against changes in your skills and strengths. Generativity comes from accepting your age and recognizing the new aptitudes and abilities that naturally develop after age 40 and get stronger through your 50s and 60s. These include the growing ability to see patterns clearly, teach others, and explain complex ideas--what psychologists call 'crystallized intelligence,'" Brooks writes.
Still skeptical? I've written about multiple studies showing that certain important skills from EQ to some types of creativity actually get better as we age. You can read a few of them here, here, and here. I should also point out that the average age at which entrepreneurs with successful exits found their businesses is thoroughly middle-aged 47 precisely because all the skills and experience gained in your younger years make you a more formidable (if also more easily tired) entrepreneur.
2. Focus on subtraction, not addition.
Brooks has written before about how the good life is often gained by subtraction rather than addition. (He advocates a tool called a "reverse bucket list" to figure out what commitments, stressors, and miscellaneous other junk to remove from your schedule and your brain.) Apparently, this process of pruning is key to avoiding a midlife crisis too.
"Early in life, success usually comes from addition: more money, more responsibility, more relationships, more possessions. Life in early adulthood is like filling up an empty canvas. By midlife, however, that canvas is pretty full, and more brushstrokes make the painting worse, not better," he claims, advising: "Work to change your objective by stepping away from voluntary duties and responsibilities, and making more time to think, read, love, and pray--the work that you need to do to reengineer you."
This all sounds easy enough in theory, but as we all know focusing on the positive and saying no more often can actually be fiendishly difficult in real life. Which is why, Brooks helpfully points out, there are many programs and academies out there to help you through the process. Brooks suggests a few in his article.
Whether or not you opt for some formalized approach to grappling with middle age, the truth is that middle age will inevitably grapple with you. Knowing a bit about the psychology of how people successfully weather the transition away from youth and into a flourishing middle adulthood could help boost your peace of mind and maybe even your business success.
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Politics and religion aside, few topics are more certain to ignite a war of words than the fluoridation of municipal water supplies in the United States. No, seriously: there are still camps out there who swear that Big Brother is using it to mind-control us all into submission, and groups like the Protect Our Water Alliance (POWA) vehemently assert that overexposure to Fluoride poses a cancer risk. On the other hand, according to dentists there's been an alarming rise in early childhood and infant tooth decay -- and losing baby teeth early can mean disaster for adult teeth when they come in -- and part of the reason, they say, is that parents have been giving their kids more and more bottled water. Of course, the refined sugar found in so many foods marketed to kids is another concern, but that's nothing new. According to Mary Hayes, spokeswoman for the American Dental Association, "Water with trace levels of fluoride in it has been shown to be one of the major reasons why children in this generation and the last generation have less decay than children 50 years ago." Get the whole story on childhood tooth decay here -- and brush those teeth!
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Phosphorus ‘legacy’ subject of cropland studies
WAUNAKEE - While farmers may be doing all they can to reduce phosphorus runoff to the streams and lakes in a watershed, some new southern Wisconsin research is finding that there may be a phosphorus problem lurking at the bottom of water bodies. Tackling that problem might require different tools.
Kyle Minks, a conservation and nutrient management specialist with Dane County Land and Water Resources, outlined a study in Dorn Creek in his county that may lead to some new ideas for reducing what is now being called “legacy” phosphorus – a plant nutrient that, in the wrong places, can foul lakes and streams with algae.
During the 1990s and beyond, a majority of farm facilities in the watershed were adapted to meet new conservation practices in order to reduce phosphorus, namely reduce manure runoff to water bodies, Minks said. Of the 6,000 acres of cropland in that watershed, he said, 5,400 acres were covered by conservations plans. Practices to reduce nutrient loss were implemented on 90 percent of the acres.
In his study of the watershed, Minks said that over 75 percent of the crop acres had plans he could study. Phosphorus index ratings were low, and so were the numbers for “tolerable” soil loss (T).
That assessment led him to look at the “legacy” of phosphorus loss and sediment loss from decades in the past to answer his key question – does reducing phosphorus load improve water quality? His study further wanted to look at the question: if legacy phosphorus is a problem, how long will it take for it to be reduced? And if this legacy phosphorus is removed how long will that benefit last?
The assessment of this “legacy” of phosphorus included taking core samples from stream bottoms and assessing how long it has been there. One foot down it was determined to be 25 years old and two feet down the elemental phosphorus was 75 years old. At the very bottom of the cores the phosphorus was determined to be 120 years old. “It has built up over time,” he said, during a presentation at the recent Yahara Pride watershed conference.
That phosphorus came from fertilizer, manure and soil particles over years and decades when it wasn’t used by the crops that were planted on those fields or when it ran off too fast for plants to use it.
The research project, which was a collaboration between the Dane County conservation staff and staff from the Department of Natural Resources, cleared a 250-foot section of 43 cubic yards of material from the creek bottom, yielding 600 pounds of phosphorus.
That pilot effort led Dane County Executive Joe Parisi to make a 2017 budget proposal to fund a comprehensive effort to remove this phosphorus-laden sediment from the bottom of 33 miles of streams that lead to Lake Mendota – Madison’s signature lake.
In tandem with additional conservation efforts done in cooperation with farmers, it is projected that Parisi’s $12 million initiative (over four years) will eliminate 870,000 pounds of algae-growing “legacy” phosphorus. (The County Board’s Land Conservation Committee will need to approve the proposal before it goes forward.)
Yahara Pride Farms is a group of farmers who are voluntarily embracing conservation practices like the planting of cover crops, low-disturbance manure injection and no-till planting methods as a way to improve water quality in the watershed. Help in these efforts – including cost-share funding -- comes from a number of supporters, including environmental groups.
Parisi told conference attendees that their efforts have been a “game changer” and he believes it is important to continue to support farmers who are an important economic engine for the county.
UW Legacy study
Minks’ report to the watershed’s farmers came at about the same time that research on the Yahara watershed’s phosphorus legacy was getting published in the journal “Ecosystems” (March 13.)
That study, from researchers at the University of Wisconsin, also talked about the legacy of abundant soil phosphorus in the Yahara watershed — an area just north of Madison — and its long-lasting impact on water quality.
Melissa Motew, the study’s lead author and a Ph.D. candidate in the UW-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and co-author Christopher Kucharik, professor in the UW-Madison Department of Agronomy, said their study may be the first to provide numbers showing that eliminating legacy phosphorus might be a critical factor in getting water quality improvements.
Preventing new phosphorus from going onto the landscape and “mining” the excess that has built up are both going to be needed, the authors concluded. For a long time scientists have placed much of the blame for algae blooms and stinky lake water on phosphorus.
Phosphorus will continue to build up if it gets applied at a greater rate than it can be removed by crops, the research concluded. Farmers’ efforts, like no-tilling and planting cover crops, have helped slow phosphorus movement from soils into streams and lakes. However, the study concluded that this over-abundant soil phosphorus could override those on-farm conservation efforts.
Computer models key
Kucharik and Motew used new computer models to show that this watershed has about four times more phosphorus in its soil than is recommended by state nutrient management recommendations for growing agronomic crops. Risk of large runoff events can further diminish water quality. They concluded that reducing the surplus could mitigate this risk.
The soils they analyzed have enough excess phosphorus to support crop production needs for a long time, they said, noting that it is unlikely that any cropping system will quickly draw down the excess phosphorus that they found.
The scientists concluded that support for manure digesters — as Dane County has done with two facilities — and removal of phosphorus from lake and stream sediment are two things that would be beneficial for reducing concentrations over the long term.
The state-of-the-art computer models, which they developed for the study, allowed them to identify direct relationships between soil phosphorus and water quality.
Motew said it has long been known that too much phosphorus is bad for water quality, but added that the new computer models allowed them to quantify just what that relationship is.
Their research is part of UW-Madison’s Water Sustainability and Climate project and is funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Moscow, Russia, 08/05/2005..Russia celebrates the 60th anniversary of the end Second World War, generally referred to in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. Girls in wartime uniforms during a parade in central Moscow...
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U.S. agriculture officials do not actually know if they are doing enough to protect people and poultry from avian influenza, a government watchdog reported Thursday.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is still relying on poultry producers to voluntarily follow security guidelines, and many still are not doing everything they are supposed to do to protect their flocks, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office says in the report.
About 50 million birds died or were slaughtered in the outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N2 avian flu that spread to several states in 2014 and 2015, costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $3.3 billion.
There have been smaller outbreaks since. The spread of bird flu threatens chicken and egg production but is also worrying because the viruses can infection people, too, sometimes. And worse, the technology to make flu vaccines to protect people from new outbreaks largely rely on chicken eggs.
Members of Congress asked the GAO to look into what USDA had done to improve U.S. farming practices.
It found the department had taken hundreds of actions, but had done too little to determine whether they were effective. And it found some big holes still in what poultry producers were doing.
Fewer than 60 percent of the 850 poultry producers surveyed had biosecurity officers or training in place, the GAO found. And less than 60 percent divided their poultry processing lines or provided employees a place to shower or change clothing before working on a poultry site, raising risks that workers could spread the virus around a plant or from one facility to another.
The USDA has created training programs and sought to encourage producers to improve security and hygiene with an interim rule that would keep them from being reimbursed for birds culled because of an outbreak.
According to the GAO’s report, these measures – and more than 300 others added after the 2014 outbreaks, some of which are ongoing – have not been tested to see if they are effective. The USDA agreed with the report’s single recommendation that it develop a plan to determine the worth of the measures.
“USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) appreciates GAO’s recommendation and the opportunity to respond,” APHIS spokesperson Lyndsay Cole said in a statement. “APHIS agrees with the recommendation and has begun efforts to prioritize and complete all of the corrective actions as quickly as possible.”
The GAO pointed to another problem — wild birds.
Experts believe wild birds carry the viruses into the U.S. from Asia, and then spread them from one region of the U.S. to another. There is little that people can do to prevent that, the report says.
A bird surveillance program run jointly by the USDA and the Department of the Interior found roughly 0.12 percent of more than 88,000 wild birds surveyed carried a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza of the same lineage that caused the 2014 and 2016 outbreaks.
None of the U.S. strains has spread to people, but two strains known as H7N9 and H5N1 have infected hundreds of people in China. Scientists fear one of these strains will mutate to become more infectious and might cause a pandemic of potentially deadly flu.
“We know the devastating impacts of a global pandemic. Now it’s up to the Department of Agriculture to make sure we are prepared and have a plan to combat this threat,” Tim Murphy, a Pennsylvania Republican, and Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee that ordered the report said in a joint statement.
The GAO said the issue of egg production was particularly worrying.
“The virus could infect poultry needed to produce eggs used in manufacturing critical human vaccines against pandemic influenza,” the report notes. Domestic production of the vaccine would grind to a halt. And during a pandemic, foreign nations may not export the vaccines to the United States, instead preferring to save them for their own populations.
The Department of Health and Human Services contracted with a private company last year “to protect the egg supply chain and ensure a year-round supply of vaccine-quality fertilized eggs.” HHS is also working to help companies develop ways to make flu vaccines without the use of eggs.
GAO said there’s another problem, too. Flu viruses can infect pigs, and pigs can be infected both by human and by bird flu viruses. “Federal funding will soon be exhausted for a voluntary surveillance program that gathers information about the presence of influenza viruses in swine that could pose a threat to human health,” the report notes.
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Whether you are an UK-based sole trader, limited company, freelancer, contractor, or other types of business owner, it is important that you have a structured approach to your invoicing or you may lose track of what payments you are waiting for. Download our Excel invoicing templates and start create professional invoices and bills in seconds!
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This free personal invoice template for UK is an Excel spreadsheet template that features a UK ceremonial soldier on the bottom of the sheet. It also shows the UK Sterling currency symbol on total fields.
VAT Service Invoice Template - Price Including Tax
VAT Service Invoicing Sample - Price Including Tax (c6013) is a direct variant of c6007 VAT Sales Invoicing Form - Price Including Tax. It differs from the original free invoicing Sample in that it the shipping address section is now labeled with Service Location.
UK Tax Invoice Template
This template might be ideal for UK (United Kingdom) based stores or limited companies. The template shows postcode on a separate line, and an extra column was added for discounting.
Bill Format for Integrated Security Service
On the top of the invoicing form, the invoice date and invoice# are populated by Invoice Manager for Excel when you click "Save Invoice".
Bill Format for Lamp / Lighting Business
As a vendor of lamp / lighting solutions, through effectively engaging with your customers and fully understanding their lamp requirements, you provide a service and product which will significantly improve your customer's service aims and reduce equipment down-time. Besides that, you should also provide professional invoices to show your clients that you are not only care about your main business, but also every detail that are related to your business.
VAT Service Invoice Template - Price Excluding Tax
In this serial of VAT invoice templates, InvoicingTemplate.com also offers you the other two VAT invoicing templates, where the prices include VAT, at VAT Sales Invoice Template - Price Including Tax, and VAT Service Invoice Template - Price Including Tax.
VAT Invoicing Sample with 2 Separate Rates
- Set VAT tax rates.
Open the template in Excel. Click thebutton. On the tab specify the tax rates for the two VAT taxes. Click .
- Create new customer accounts.
New customers can be added by either clicking thebutton on the Excel spreadsheet form, or by using the window that can be opened by clicking the button on the worksheet.
In either way, you can enter the VAT ID (VAT #) of the customer.
When creating invoices, you pick up a customer by clicking the icon button, the VAT ID of the customer is retrieved along with other customer information. If a VAT ID is present, the invoice is VAT free.
- Create product/service items.
To add new products, click thebutton on the worksheet, and then click . On the window, you can find a field on the tab; with this field you can specify the tax category of the current product or service item. Please make sure the tax category you enter here matches the tax name you enter on the window.
VAT Invoice Template with VAT Rate Column
According to UK (United Kingdom) HM Revenue & Customs "VAT invoices: what they must show", for each different type of item listed on the VAT invoice, you must show:
VAT Sales Invoice Template - Price Including Tax
A counter partner of this free VAT invoice template is also available here on InvoicingTemplate.com, at VAT Sales Invoice Template - Price Excluding Tax, which defines the price in the way that does not include VAT. Choose any template that suits your business requirements and download it for free.
VAT Sales Invoicing Sample - Price Excluding Tax
Since the unit price on this free VAT invoicing template excludes VAT, we first calculate the Total (Net) on each line from the Unit Price and Quantity, and then calculate VAT amount based on the Total (Net) and VAT Rate (if that invoicing item is taxable - the "Taxable" checkbox is selected), and finally we add up the Total (net) and VAT amount to get the Total (VAT) for each item.
Restaurant Dining Invoice Template (VAT)
A restaurant is a business which prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services. Restaurants vary greatly in appearance and offerings, including a wide variety of cuisines and service models ranging from inexpensive fast food restaurants to high-priced luxury establishments. If you are providing invoice / receipts / vouchers to the customers, clients, takeaways, home delivery and companies, whether it's a printed paper form or electronic document, make it looks professional and beautiful.
Arabic Invoice Template
Unlike c5073 United Arab Emirates Invoice Template that keeps English text on the invoice sheet, this Arabic Invoice Template (c5163) translates the text inside the printable area into Arabic.
Freelance Invoice Template
If you are a freelancer and or running a small business, doing writing, designing or as a consultant or carpenter, a professional looking invoicing template helps you get paid fast. Download Freelance Invoice Template now and start creating invoices in seconds.
Professional Freelance Bill
The template has no tax set by default (the tax cells are hidden and not printable). With Invoice Manager for Excel installed, you can easily change it to one tax or two taxes, depending on your particular needs. Simply click the Settings button on the ribbon tab, and then go to the Taxes tab, choose your tax type (no tax, one tax, two taxes), enter the tax name such as VAT, and the rate, click Apply and you are done! With this flexibility, we can say this template is not only suitable for freelancer, limited company and also sole trader, whether they are VAT-registered or not.
Freelance Writer Invoice
To getting paid on time for your freelance writing / designing / editing / journalist / website developing / consulting / video production / translation work the best way is to send an invoice, by traditional postal mail or electronical email, in either PDF format, Excel spreadsheet (xlsx / xls) format, or even image format.
Advanced Sample - Macro-Enabled Invoicing Template
While most templates here on InvoicingTemplate.com are ".xlsx" and ".xls" formats, Invoice Manager for Excel does work with macro-enabled invoice templates. This sample introduces the steps to use ".xlsm" workbooks and templates.
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Implementing countermeasure against power analysis-based attack is a critical issue in cryptographic hardware implementation. Protection schemes such as masking or Threshold Implementation (TI) have been proposed for hardware protection, but they have shortages like insufficient protection ability, or excessive hardware overhead. In this paper, we present low cost hetero S-box hardware implementation, where S-box groups for ARIA algorithm can be implemented using the coefficients with different hardware cost. Additional area reduction scheme using isomorphism sharing between S-boxes are also proposed. The proposed heterogeneous ARIS S-box has been implemented using 28nm CMOS process, and it showed 39% area saving with 30% of power saving. The proposed hardware also passed the security test, showing that it is verified as secure against power analysis-based attacks.
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Health authorities admitted the situation of the Coronavirus Diseases 2019 (COVID-19) cases in the city reached the critical level following the significant increase in the number of severe and critical patients continue to increase over the past three months.
Dr. Thea Pamela Cajulao, head of the infection prevention and control division of the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC), stated that the continuous increase in the number of severe and critical cases being confined in the hospital is alarming that warrants the strict adherence of the people to the prescribed minimum health and safety protocols.
Based on the data obtained from the BGHMC, there were 6 critical and 4 severe COVID patients that were confined in the hospital in September.
Further, the severe and critical COVID cases that were admitted in the hospital significantly increased to 20 and 10, respectively, in October.
With a few more days before the end of November, the BGHMC already recorded some 20 severe and 6 critical patients that have been confined in the government health facility.
Cajulao explained that severe cases are those with co-morbidities such as hypertension, diabetes, among other illnesses, while critical cases are those with life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, kidney ailments, among others, and those that already need the aid of mechanical ventilators and high flow oxygen machines to breath.
According to her, another factor why health experts consider the COVID cases in the city as critical is the sudden surge in the number of health workers who have been infected with the deadly virus that might affect their performance in the handling of incoming cases being treated in the hospital.
The BGHMC data showed that there are already 101 health workers who have contracted the deadly virus since the implementation of the Luzonwide lockdown in March but what is alarming is the drastic increase in the number of health workers who were infected over the past two months.
Of the aforesaid number of health workers detected to have COVID, 34 of them tested positive for the virus in the first three weeks of November while 18 of them got the illness last month.
BGHMC is the only public tertiary hospital in the city attending to the needs of the increasing number of confirmed COVID cases.
In the City Health Services Office, there are already 2 medical doctors, 2 barangay health workers and 1 contact tracer who had been infected with the virus over the past several months.
Cajulao appealed to the residents to continue to strictly adhere to the prescribed basic health and safety protocols, such as the wearing of face masks and shields, the observance of physical distancing and the practice of personal hygiene, to prevent them from being exposed to the elements that might make them prone to contracting the illness.
The BGHMC doctor asserted that the health workers are already overwhelmed with the surge in the number of cases previously so the cooperation of the public is needed to avoid the occurrence of a worst case scenario that would cause the health care system to be stressed.
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Year 8 GO 4 IT 2018 On Wednesday 10th January, Penrice Academy once again opened its doors to a range of local and regional industry experts for Year 8 GO 4 IT Day. The day saw our Year 8s taking part in activities across the school, meeting professionals, improving skills and trying their hand at new things. GO 4 It day marks the start of our Options Process and each year gives our students plenty to think about. Activities included learning about cattle and grazing with James Kittow Butchery, Crime Scene Investigation with the Devon and Cornwall Police, learning CPR with Treliske, hair and makeup with Cornwall College and much, much more. Mrs Selley, Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance/Work Experience Lead at Penrice said: “Every year our GO 4 IT Event gives Year 8 a fantastic insight into the world of work and this year was no different. They embraced the day, they asked questions and they got everything they could out of it. Thanks and well done for a great day.” Thank you to the local companies and colleges for their support with this event. You can see some pictures from GO 4 IT Day 2018 here.
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WEST HUMBOLDT PARK — A nature play area with tree swings, mulch mounds and a mud kitchen popped up at a busy West Humboldt Park intersection last year, an alternative playground for Humboldt Park Montessori students and neighborhood kids.
Now, the locals who built the Humboldt Park Play Garden are seeking community help to maintain and expand the public play space so it continues to be an oasis for kids in the area.
The fenced-off nature play area is at the southeast corner of Chicago Avenue and Sacramento Boulevard next to Humboldt Park Montessori, 2950 W. Chicago Ave.
Prior to moving the school into the Chicago Avenue building last fall, Humboldt Park Montessori’s director, Kristen Ediger, worked with the city’s Department of Transportation, urban land trust NeighborSpace and People’s Gas — which has equipment on the site — to secure permits for the project, a process that took about a year.
Once city approvals were in place, Ediger teamed up with Humboldt Park Montessori parents and teachers to convert the unremarkable grassy boulevard into a woodsy hangout for kids.
Unlike a traditional playground, which has equipment made out of hard plastic, the Humboldt Park Play Garden was made out of mostly natural donated materials.
Kids play against a backdrop of trees, bounding onto mulch mounds and wood structures; they help water flower beds and other plants with water from rain barrels; they compost vegetables and they make creations out of weeds, sticks and seeds in a mud kitchen. A tree house is being built on the south end of the play area.
All of the improvements were made through donations to the school.
“We’re in the middle of the city, in the middle of a busy intersection. We want them to be able to see plants growing and see the cycle of things,” Ediger said. “We want them to have that time to run around be kids, like, ‘Oh, I have a bunch of milk crates or boards. What can I make?’ And be super creative.”
For the past year, Humboldt Park Montessori kids have used the play garden two hours a day in the afternoon. The school enrolls 55 kids, ages 3-12.
But Ediger, parents and teachers designed the play area to be open to the public. Ediger said neighborhood families are welcome to use the play area anytime Montessori students aren’t using it, though if families stop by during school or camp, she’s likely to let them in.
“We want it to be a space that anybody can use to come and play and relax and rejuvenate,” she said. “I feel like we’ve been through a hard couple of years and, having as many play spaces, especially outside, is so helpful to everyone’s healing, as we come back as a city and as a community.”
Ediger said they applied for a $100,000 grant through the city’s Together We Heal program to grow the project. In the meantime, they hope more neighbors will get involved through donations or volunteer work, Ediger said.
The garden group needs help weeding and constructing a sand pit, a meditation spiral and the tree house, among other things, Ediger said.
The school is hosting a fall equinox event Sept. 22 with fall activities, food and drinks that will double as a fundraiser for the play area’s fence.
“What we really need the most is people to build stuff with us, plant things and help us care for the space — and feel like it’s theirs,” Ediger said.
You can donate to support the play space here.
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ATF is committed to building and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. ATF welcomes and encourages applications from people with physical and mental disabilities and will reasonably accommodate their needs.
Through the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Amendments Act of 2008, ATF can hire through traditional competitive hiring processes or by means of a non-competitive or special appointing authority. We encourage qualified individuals with disabilities to apply for our jobs.
Special Appointing Authorities
Here are the categories for qualifying under a special appointing authority:
- Schedule A, 5 CFR 213.3102(u), for hiring people with severe physical disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, and intellectual disabilities. This excepted authority is used to appoint people with severe physical disabilities, psychiatric disabilities and intellectual disabilities. Such individuals may qualify for conversion to permanent status after two years of satisfactory service. Severe physical disabilities include but are not limited to blindness, deafness, paralysis, missing limbs, epilepsy, dwarfism and more.
- Schedule A, 5 CFR 213.3102(ll) for hiring readers, interpreters, and personal assistants. This excepted authority is used to appoint readers, interpreters and personal assistants for employees with severe disabilities as reasonable accommodations.
All other occupations should contact Ashley Jordan by phone at 202-648-7454 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.org.
ATF is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodations, upon request, for people with disabilities during the application, interview and hiring process. This includes the need for forms in alternate formats or the use of a sign language interpreter during the interview.
If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact the Reasonable Accommodation Coordinator by email at email@example.com or by calling 202-648-8760.
Let us know through our website feedback form if you have a disability and the format of any material on our website interferes with your ability to access the information.
If you believe that you have been the victim of discrimination through the ATF employment process, you must initiate contact with an ATF EEO Counselor within 45 days of (a) the alleged discrimination event, (b) the effective date of a personnel action, or (c) when you became aware of alleged discrimination, by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.org or calling 202-648-8760.
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In January 2020, research was conducted into an antiviral drug against Sars-CoV-2 similar to Remdesivir, but unlike Remdesivir – which requires daily intravenous injections for five consecutive days – it was administered as a pill, or nasal spray, or one-time intramuscular shot.
How could the supply of such a medicine have changed the course of the epidemic?
Remdesivir (and other similar molecules) are known to attack an enzyme, the polymerase, which is common to a number of viruses (including coronaviruses) studied in recent years, such as Ebola and Mers-CoV. Yet the question remains of whether there are tools to transform drugs from being intravenously to orally, or from nasal sprays to intramuscular shots, and if so, why has a formulation alternative to intravenous injections not been pursued by global scientific communities to protect us against these or putative new monsters sharing the same Achilles’ heel?
We do not talk much about preclinical research in general, and of nonhuman primate research in particular, but we should: although the latter uses only 0.5% of animal studies run throughout the world, it can produce precious information for the timely screening of antiviral drugs for humans, a theorem well-known to virologists. A brief overview on the sequence of studies designed in 2020 in nonhuman primates to test antivirals against COVID-19 worldwide, suggests that scientific communities may have missed an important opportunity to translate the scientific knowledge of the past decade into an effective countermeasure to the public health crisis we are currently dealing with.
The use of nonhuman primates in biomedical research is, of course, a sensitive area of public debate. Its ethical and bioethical complexities have led to a significant analysis by experts outside of the biomedical world, to be contextualized within the missions historically endorsed by those countries that, using those resources, have been generating guidelines used in public health worldwide.
Let us consider for a moment a scenario in which five years from now, after having eradicated SARS-CoV-2 from the planet, a new respiratory RNA-virus jumps from the wild to the human species, with one of its genes, for instance, the polymerase – being present in other RNA-viruses, which renders it similar to the polymerase of SARS-CoV-2. However, beyond the polymerase, there are no other genes in common between the new pathogen and SARS-CoV-2, hence vaccines and monoclonal antibody therapies developed against SARS-CoV-2 in the previous years would not protect against the new pathogen.
The viral polymerase is an enzyme that works in the same way as a copy machine, incessantly replicating the viral genome to give rise to new viral progenies. This machine is thus vital to the reproductive process of the virus. Remdesivir is a drug that acts by blocking it, but to win the battle against a virus, the drug needs to be present at sufficient concentrations in all the tissues of the body in which the virus replicates1. In other words, even if a drug is powerful, the battle will be lost if it does not effectively penetrate the tissues where the virus likes to replicate.
For instance, if administered orally, Remdesivir would not be able to reach the lungs, which is why it needs to be administered as intravenous infusion. Suppose also that, by then, we possess an antiviral drug similar to Remdesivir that can be administered as a pill or inhaled for a few days, or that could be administered through an intramuscular shot (in other words, without the support of a nurse for daily intravenous injections which the current formulation of Remdesivir requires); more importantly, let us imagine that it has proved to be effective in humans against SARS-CoV-2 and, because of the shared polymerase, shows similar potency against the new virus. Last but not least, this hypothetical drug will be assumed to have a favorable toxicologic profile.
Now, suppose also that the new pathogen disseminates among us as fast as SARS-CoV-2, i.e., in absence of any mitigation strategy (such as social distancing or wearing masks); it would be able to infect more than 50% of people within five-six months. Certainly, the quality of life of those more directly affected by the new disease would be greatly improved by knowing that an antiviral formula circulating in the body is doing its part to get through to the end of the ordeal as soon and smoothly as possible. That would already be an important achievement since when we think of the danger of an epidemic, it is not how fast the pathogen transmits in society, but how much suffering it causes per unit relative to time.
In Italy, for example, this virus caused over 35,000 deaths during the first nine months of the epidemic (a similar number to the AIDS death toll over 30 years). If we multiply this number by six, we reach a figure of over 200,000 deaths for COVID-19. However, the severity of the virus is only further highlighted when a country like the US is considered – although its population is six times that of Italy, the rapid infection rate was comparable.
Yet beyond enhancing the patient’s quality of life (and those around herhim), could an antiviral drug also impact the course of the epidemic? How many individuals would need to be treated during the early phases of a viral outbreak or following a phase of effective lock-down to keep things under control?
Perhaps we would start by following the test-and-treat approach – a public health measure that is well-known to people living with HIV. Soon after a test confirms the infection with the new virus, treatment would be offered to those individuals at higher risk of developing the disease (for instance the elderly, and those with chronic health conditions) regardless of the manifestation of symptoms. If the toxicologic profile is particularly favorable, the antiviral drug could be offered to all adults who test positive (say to the over 40s) or to those individuals negative to the pathogen, but living under the same household of people already infected.
Could this approach make research for a vaccine impossible? Or would it be too slow, and therefore unnecessary? What public health intervention would be considered the optimal countermeasure if we one day find ourselves dealing with a new epidemic like the one described in the scenario above? Would everyone wearing masks and hospitals offering symptomatic treatment, without any social distancing regulations in place over the general population, be sufficient to contain the outbreak?
An article published this month on CNN from Sarah Murray and Jeremy Diamond entitled “Trump pursuit of coronavirus vaccine comes at the expense of therapies he now claims as ‘cure’” caused me to think harder since it offers an opportunity to elaborate on an important topic that flows directly from the answers to the two questions formulated above for that hypothetical scenario.
The decision to invest in vaccines rather than antivirals appears to have been endorsed primarily by worldwide scientific communities rather than the White House. It is sufficient, I think, to look at the course of preclinical studies, as countermeasures to COVID-19 advanced during the first months of the pandemic. Although studies on primates are politically and socially unpopular, their use in immunological studies is undeniable, and they constitute only 0.5% of animal studies carried out throughout the world.
It is well-known to virologists that nonhuman primate studies, although less useful to predict vaccine efficacies (since vaccines are meant to stimulate a host-specific immune response), have a strong predictability of antiviral efficacies for humans. Monkey models have already proved to successfully accelerate antiviral strategies for other infectious diseases through rigorous ethical research practices run in the past decades throughout the world, although primarily in the US.
AIDS prophylaxis, for instance, was mostly developed through studies that used macaques in American laboratories, which had a profound impact on global public health. There are two types of AIDS prophylaxis. The first is called PEP, the post-exposure prophylaxis, and was developed in the early 1990s to protect health care workers from being infected with HIV, as many of them were exposed to infected blood from needle-inflicted injuries. It worked so well that it was soon extended to non-occupational exposure (e.g. sexual exposure). The animal studies using macaques were the only ones that could quickly produce information on how much of the drug had to be administered and within how many hours from exposure.
Thanks to those studies, we learned that, soon after exposure, if we take the drugs within 72 hours (for 4 weeks) we have a good chance to prevent any infection. Consider how deeply this has changed the perception of the level of hazard associated to this virus (and with it, the stigma associated with being HIV positive), if contextualized for instance within the life of a serodiscordant couple (one of the two is HIV positive, the other HIV negative), in which accidents, such as a condom break, during the years can happen.
Twenty years later, a vaccine for AIDS still only existed in the realm of ideas, hence pharmacologists attempted another HIV prophylactic approach, the pre-exposure-prophylaxis (PrEP). The reasoning behind it stemmed from prior knowledge that they will be exposed to the virus, so to protect themselves they take pills in advance; this prevents the infection from taking root and replicating in the body if it finds a point of entry.
Truvada is a pill made up of two nucleoside analogues (Tenofovir and Emtricitabine). These molecules, like Remdesivir, belong to a family of drugs called nucleoside analogues (several drugs from this family, including Tenofovir, have a molecular structure very similar to Remdesivir and Emtricitabine), and have all been administered daily for several years (or decades in some cases) to treat HIV-infected patients along with other anti-HIV drugs).
For the Truvada-PrEP, clinical guidelines were developed through primate studies, specifically from two papers published between 2008 and 2010. These are examples of nonhuman primate studies that have had a profound impact on public health worldwide, saving many lives.
For years now, Truvada and other nucleoside analogues against HIV have been administered in patients with HIV (or in HIV negative subjects) but at high risk of contracting the infection. It is also known that these are regular medications, and must be taken every day; there are currently 180,000 adults in the US at high risk of HIV infection taking these pills daily. In addition, approximately half a million people infected with HIV in the US take anti-HIV pills as part of a heavier cocktail called HAAR on a daily basis – some have an excellent toxicologic profile, while others exhibit some long-term side effects.
Of particular note is the French use of data produced from macaques. Clinical studies have shown that HIV protection can be achieved with only four pills of Truvada to be administered around the time of the viral exposure, an approach that was later endorsed by the American Antiviral Society. Primate studies have not only helped HIV pharmacologists discover prophylactic strategies, but also treat HIV infected patients. The test-and-treat guidelines for AIDS, followed since the early 2000s, encourage any HIV-infected patient to start anti-HIV therapy soon after the confirmation of the infection: this includes during the asymptomatic period of the infection, which lasts (in absence of antiviral therapy) on average seven years from the infection. It was the distribution on a global scale of anti-HIV drugs (with the test-and-treat preventive approach) that became the dominant factor in reducing the new rates of HIV infection worldwide, overtaking consistent use of condoms (which is to HIV as the mask is to COVID-19) or sexual abstinence (which is the HIV equivalent of social distancing for COVID-19).
From my experience, antiviral strategies that have proved to be effective in primate populations have performed well amongst humans; likewise, those that failed monkeys have failed humans too.
Yet, until July, only intravenous-Remdesivir has been tested in nonhuman primates infected with SARS-CoV-2 throughout the world, with research run in NIAID labs, to prove the ability of this antiviral to prevent COVID-19 in infected hosts. This paper was published by the same team (and using the same animal models) which showed that Remdesivir could also prevent disease progression if administered soon after the infection of MERS-CoV, one of the two unpleasant cousins of SARS-CoV-2 with a mortality rate approximately ten times higher (an upper estimate for the true MERS-CoV mortality rates is 34%). These studies immediately put into motion clinical studies that demonstrated the ability of Remdesivir to improve the recovery of Covid-19 patients (although, when administered in advanced patients, little effect was observed in reducing mortality). Remdesivir and other similar molecules are capable of attacking so many different viruses because the gene that builds the copy-machine of the infection (the polymerase) is well conserved among all these viruses1.
Of note, several molecules, including other broad-spectrum-antivirals attacking conserved targets of these viruses, some of which were studied in veterinary medicine to treat coronaviruses in animals, have been advancing in these months in clinical studies without testing them in nonhuman primates (but the latter studies could be implemented in 4-8 weeks).
It is also known that if administered solely to hospitalized patients with an advanced disease, these molecules will fail one after the other. If administered too late, the antiviral can still reduce the virus in the body, but may not be able to make a difference to the progress of the disease. When the damage done by the virus is already dramatic, reducing the virus in the body – while still pursued as a course of action – may not be sufficient to save the patient during that critical phase of the disease. Other drugs that attempt to quench the activation of the immune system (e.g. anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressant or anticoagulant drugs) are needed when the infection is more advanced. This point is made to simply remind that an antiviral that turns out unable to significantly save lives if administered too late, may still be able to save lives if administered early on, i.e. soon after the infection or at the time of exposure. This is true for antiviral prophylaxes in general.
I personally doubt the White House or other governments had such a strong influence in pushing or preventing this type of research in high biosafety BSL34 monkey labs in the US or throughout the rest of the world. We had been waiting until September to hear from a French study, and from another NIAID study still unpublished, that hydroxychloroquine has no effect at all in preventing COVID-19 in nonhuman primates; hundreds of clinical studies and associated efforts were wasted throughout the world.
China has more than 100 BSL3 labs, but to my knowledge, no antiviral medication has been tested there; European labs have also not been occupied with this effort. Is it not sufficient to claim that the endorsement of vaccines instead of antivirals comes from other factors/influences on the scientific communities? How more advanced would we be today in our research for prophylaxis if multiple countries endorsed different antiviral strategies in parallel using the same animal models?
Those factors or influences, wherever they stem from, remain an unfortunate choice, in my view, because if an antiviral prophylaxis is available during the early weeks of epidemics, or after an effective lock-down (such as the one in effect until recently in southern Italy), could perhaps lead to long-term control of the epidemics (or even stop it) when combined with an efficient contact tracing system, especially given the recent evidence that Sars-CoV-2 appears to spread in society not uniformly, but through clusters of infections.
The use of antiviral prophylaxis as a mitigation strategy to control a respiratory virus pandemic was suggested by Imperial College London more than a decade ago15, but there has been, surprisingly, little public debate in these months about attacking the pandemic from this angle. The use of prophylaxis would likely reduce the number of cases – and by association the virus itself – but in doing so, it would inevitably slow down the research for vaccines.
Trump’s endorsement of a generic drug (hydroxychloroquine) and other antivirals suggests, that the White House had no specific obsession in investing exclusively or primarily in vaccines; had hydroxychloroquine worked well, we would have all taken that pill promptly and diligently as needed (possibly reducing the number of people that would need to take it, because by taking the antivirals we might be able to reduce the number of new cases), and we would be perhaps talking today about something else.
What reporters have not enough emphasized in the past months is that Remdesivir can only be administered intravenously and on a daily basis, so can only be given to hospitalized and advanced patients. If given orally, little or nothing would get into the lungs. However, there are technologies that pharmacologists have developed in recent decades called nanoparticles, which transform drugs to make them orally ingestible (e.g. a soy-bean, organic-based cochleate, used already for pulmonary absorption of antimycotic drugs in humans at the NIH as “chronic” treatments), or allow them to be taken subcutaneously or inhaled (the latter was endorsed by Gilead, starting on June 2)
This research could also quickly advance with preclinical work in nonhuman primates if more research programs throughout the world had the experimental capacity to perform these tests. These nanoparticle technologies (being transporters) represent transversal tools of pharmacology that can be perfected even before knowing the molecule to be transported (i.e. the enemy that needs to be attacked). Transforming the administration of a drug from being intravenous to oral could also significantly reduce its side effects. From this angle, this seems an important research area in national epidemic preparedness and response plans, especially when nanoparticle technologies are conceived with the objective of transporting broad-spectrum antivirals.
Animal studies allow the design of challenge studies which cannot be designed in humans for ethical reasons, without sufficient knowledge of the disease induced by the new pathogen, although UK labs aim to advance challenge studies in normal volunteers shortly as we read in the news this week, to test vaccines, for which, as we said, even monkey models are not overly useful. Studies in primates also allow the measuring of drug levels and viral replication levels in specific organs (this is not possible with humans; we cannot do a lung or brain biopsy in a patient simply to study how much of an antiviral drug gets there). Coupled with challenge designs, as I think is intuitive also to non-scientists, makes these studies much faster than clinical studies.
An antiviral can be as potent as a developer wants in killing a virus, and not toxic for the body, yet if it does not effectively penetrate the lungs or any anatomic compartment in which the virus replicates, it is not overly useful. When Trump asked whether we could inject something as potent as bleach straight to the lungs to fight this virus, most or all the focus from the media has been on stigmatizing the President by catapulting into the web his words for an entire week for a viral proliferation of jokes, fully missing an opportunity to educate the citizens throughout the world, including Trump, about the importance of his question: namely, the meaning of potency speaking of antiviral drugs, and on what are the scientific tools available to enhance drug levels in a given anatomic compartment (like the lungs), before abandoning a drug that shows little effect in curing advanced COVID-19 patients.
Given that the risk for a new “jump” of RNA-viruses (including coronaviruses and the Ebola virus; the latter, like MERS-CoV, has not yet been eradicated from the planet) was perceived to be high in the past decade, and given that Remdesivir was known to attack several of these viruses, why haven’t scientific communities around the world invested time and effort in transforming Remdesivir into an oral or subcutaneous or inhaled drug for antiviral prophylaxis?
Nonhuman primate BSL34 labs are now working at max capacity in the USA – and because of China’s decision to stop exporting monkeys, US labs are experiencing a shortage of animals that prevent the rapid advance of new studies, as we read early in September.
But what about the other BSL34 labs in the rest of the world?
The authors of the report stated that “While Remdesivir showed some early promise with patients, the President was fixated on hydroxychloroquine, thereby missing the opportunity to remind anyone that pursuing an “easy to administer drug” as a countermeasure to COVID-19 is, per se, a laudable cause.
In the same Dr. Bright whistleblower piece mentioned in the Murray & Diamond opinion piece, we learned about pressure from the White House not only to secure more government funds for hydroxychloroquine, but also for the EIDD antiviral from Emory University, a nucleoside analogue which attacks, like Remdesivir, the viral polymerase although with a slightly different mechanism, but that, in contrast to Remdesivir, can be taken as a pill. Isn’t this another laudable cause (regardless if we are pro-Trump or pro-Biden)? A research endorsement appeared that Dr. Bright apparently oppose20 due to his concerns on the side-effects associated with this drug, although clinical studies in the UK and the US to test this antiviral molecule are advancing.
A useful question for scientists and historians could be the following: why have so few monkey studies been launched so far for COVID-19 to study antivirals, and why are they mostly run in US labs?
One reason might have to do with the ability of any research program (private or government) to test molecules protected by patents. To give an example, a laboratory fully funded by the Italian government would not be able to test a drug (or transform it) for research purposes (including in animals) without prior negotiations with the intellectual owner of the molecule. At first glance, without being a jurist, it seems something that should be overcome through payments of royalties from governments to the intellectual owner in order to accelerate the research worldwide; something certainly easier to say than to do, yet not enough debated in society in situations of emergency or extreme urgency like those posed by the pandemic.
The need for such a debate is, however, not new to scientists and lawyers, as it was in part anticipated by Indian and South African intellectuals in the early 1990s while dealing with the imminent catastrophe that AIDS was posing to those countries in those years; matters would have been far worse had antiretroviral therapy not been made promptly accessible through alternative negotiations and support from international programs.
But it is also about how many players are able to contribute to the fight. The high biosecurity laboratories in the United States have been working at their full capacity in recent months, ten to twenty times larger than the efforts of the entire European Union.
In many countries, for instance, Italy, which, after the drama of the Second World War, was busy investing its resources in national reconstruction – have in essence delegated the US to produce guidelines both on preclinical research and on the general management of scientific planning, which took place on a global scale. This, of course, has led to the creation of a biomedical consciousness in the US, such as to justify the movement of significant economic resources to be allocated to science, an aspect that is lacking where decisions have been made, more or less legitimately with the science tasks delegated elsewhere, to occupy resources in other sectors.
It is therefore a question of investing resources, but this requires unitary, rigorous and complex planning, which must come as a result of immediate and unambiguous political choices. Considering the dimension of the crisis we are experiencing, these now appear completely unavoidable and unable to be postponed.
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Historically, the city has always involved with potters ,who have occupied a considerable part of the city's inhabitants. In the late 1700s there were about 42 factories in town, with a total of 5,000 employees. The reason is in the underground, which facilitates a very specific and good clay. The production has been concentrated around the tiles and crockery. Faience has only been part of the city's landmarks since the late 1700s with a special focus on two directions: "arte ruagnara" and "arte faenzara". "Arte ruagnara" covers common use things from an agriculturally inspiration, while "arte faenzara" covers a more decorative and ornamental style that caters for upper class.
The area at Grottaglie is naturally marked by some significant ravines, in there you can find a large number of rocky caves and caverns. It is in these caves, for a large parts, the city's history is described, as the caves have been inhabited throughout the majority of the city's history. Amongst them, the most famous "Gravina Riggio" and "Cave Fantiano". See our description of caves, collected during the excursion "Caves of Grottaglie".
Thanks to the proud tradition of pottery, there is a pottery museum: Museo della ceramica with a historical department referring to what states above.
Read more about Grottaglie
The city is very popular and has an impressive selection of bars, restaurants and pizzerias, so even if one is not up for a visit to the city museum, you can easily be entertained a few hours, to go to stroll around and enjoy the atmosphere in the city. Just remember that like so many other places, it is the historical center, with the greatest interest, while the newer part of town is less impressive.
In addition to the potteries there is a great table wine production and agriculture in general. Perhaps due to the agricultural traditions, it is possible to get a guided tour trough the city on a horseback. They as well organize trekking trips to the caves.
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Serializations and data structures (was Re: Topic Maps onSQL)
paul at prescod.net
Wed Nov 25 15:11:22 GMT 1998
Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> Ideas are definitely more fundamental than sentences (seen as waves of
> sound or ink embedded in paper) could ever be. However, the sentence stored
> as a sequence of characters, ideas that are so simple that they remain
> constant for centuries.
So your fundamental argument seems to be that character data is simple and
thus more reliable and long-living. I agree. That's why I use XML.
> When you read the sentence 'All is suffering', would you claim that your
> head then contains the exact same idea that Siddharta Gautama (Indian
> prince who lived in the 6th century b.c., also known as Buddha) had?
No, I was careful to qualify that *in the domain of XML* we can retrieve
ideas losslessly, because the idea is very simple, and can be defined in
terms of mathematical formalisms.
> This is all based on a hidden assumption: that all tools interpret and
> implement the grove model in exactly the same way.
Interpret. Yes. Implement? No. As long as the API represents the model
faithfully, the underlying implementation can be whatever it wants.
(or maybe you mean the implementation of the API must be the same...
that's true). Anyhow, the model is a mathematical formalism designed
specifically to disallow alternate interpretations.
> Can you really guarantee
> that for something as complex as groves for decades? There'll be no
> disagreement on the actual sequence of bytes in the files, but their
> interpretation in terms of the abstract grove is another thing entirely.
Disagreement on the actual sequence of bytes in the files is irrelevant.
If I can't get the moral equivalent of the same grove, ESIS or
SAX events out of it that the creators intended then I am working with
different data (at the logical level) than they are. The fact that I
have the same bytes is not very comforting if the software that
processes it fundamentally misunderstands it. ("I think that <HEAD>
is a synonym for <BOLD> and <!-- --> means emphasis.")
XML software can't work with serializations. It must work with the
data model! If that doesn't survive, all is lost. If the data model
a wishy, washy and implicit like that in the SGML and XML
specs, then the data is in danger of mild logical corruption as people
come to understand it differently. "What did Tim mean by this? And
this?" If it is a well-defined formalism then that danger is much
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Doctors have found one of two 12-year-old girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please a fictional online horror character mentally incompetent to stand trial, attorneys said Wednesday.
The doctors' reports have not been made public, but the girl's defense attorney, Anthony Cotton, said a doctor for the state of Wisconsin and a doctor hired by her defense agree that she is not mentally competent.
The results were discussed during a brief court hearing in which prosecutors asked for an additional test for mental disease or defect and a hearing on the mental competency issue. The judge agreed.
Authorities say the girls plotted for months to kill their friend to curry favor with Slender Man, a character in horror stories they read online. They told investigators they believed Slender Man had a mansion in a Wisconsin forest and they planned to go live with him after the slaying.
Wisconsin law requires attempted homicide cases to start in adult court if a suspect is at least 10, but the girls' attorneys have said they hope to see the charges moved to juvenile court, where more services might be available. Though they are being tried as adults, NBC News is not publicly identifying them or showing their faces.
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Court proceedings typically halt once a defendant is found incompetent to allow time for treatment. However, Cotton had filed a motion Monday asking the judge to allow pretrial proceedings in his client's case to continue even if she is found incompetent.
The 12-year-old victim has been recovering at home. In a statement, the victim's family said that while it supports the District Attorney's Office in their prosecution of the case, the main focus remains on the little girl.
"Our daughter and our entire family continue to focus on both her physical and emotional healing. She continues to amaze us in her ability to persevere and move forward - taking one day at a time. Much of our strength comes from knowing that there is so much "good" coming from so many people, and we continue to witness this firsthand from the compassion given to our little girl from around the world," the family said.
In a separate statement released late last month, the family released two photographs with an outpouring of gratitude. One shows the girl surrounded by purple heart cards, holding her own "thank you " card. Another showed her bedroom wall, where a local artist drew a tree trunk and used the purple heart cards as the tree’s leaves.
The family is providing updates on the girl at Facebook.com/HeartsForHealingWI and collecting donations at GoFundMe.com/HeartsForHealingWI.
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As Chip Packaging Industry Shows Signs Of Taking Off In India, Here Is A Primer For Beginners
India hopes to bring up both commercial chip fabrication industries (fabs) and chip packaging industries.
This article explains the basics of chip packaging and India's incentives for OSAT/ATMP under the recent Semicon scheme and SPECS.
In its quest to achieve a certain degree of self-sufficiency in semiconductor manufacturing, India is hoping to bring up both commercial chip fabrication industries (fabs) as well as chip packaging industries (OSAT/ATMP as explained later in this article).
Even though of relatively lesser value add as shown below, lower investment and quicker to start advantages are helping the packaging units to take off sooner.
What happens to a "chip" before packaging? Multiple chip dies are "fabricated" through thousands of steps on each wafer in facilities known as fabs. Silicon wafers are the most common.
The size of the starting Silicon wafer predominantly used nowadays is 300mm in diameter and the one before this generation is 200mm in diameter.
The size of a die itself can be usually a maximum of around 26mm X 33mm and so multiple dies can be fabricated on each 300mm or 200mm wafer.
Within each die, there could be a single complex chip or multiple lesser complex chips. Historically each chip used to be diced out and packaged.
In Wafer Level Packaging techniques, the packaging is done on whole wafers and chips are diced only after the packaging is successfully completed.
What does chip packaging involve?
Here is a video that explains some basics of chip packaging:
Here is one more video that gives an idea of some more advanced types of packaging:
How are "OSAT" and "ATMP" different?
OSAT stands for Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Testing. ATMP stands for Assembly Testing Marking and Packaging.
In an exclusive interview given to Swarajya, Raja Manickam, CEO of Tata Electronics (OSAT) explained that "Loosely, we refer to OSAT as packaging and testing for multiple customers and ATMP is packaging and testing that is captive for a particular company".
India's incentives for ATMP units under "SPECS": Scheme for Promotion of Manufacturing of Electronic Components and Semiconductors (SPECS) was notified/launched in April/June 2020. The Scheme mentioned, "An incentive of 25 per cent on capital expenditure shall be provided to the units making investment for the goods as per list annexed. The incentive will be provided on reimbursement basis."
In the annexure, category C with a minimum investment threshold of Rs 25 crore includes ATMP.
The Scheme is open for applications initially for three years from the date of its notification. This could be the reason that the government does not seems to have released information on which companies have applied for under SPECS scheme, however there are at least two examples as below that Swarajya is aware.
In exclusive interviews given to Swarajya, Dr Harshad Mehta of Ruttonsha and Shiv Kumar of Sahasra Semiconductors had both confirmed to have applied for incentives under the SPECS scheme. Note that Ruttonsha's 200 crore plan falls under the compound semiconductor category - read how they are different from Silicon fabs.
For Ruttonsha, Phase1 plan is making Silicon Carbide wafers, Phase2 is to fabricate power electronic devices and Phase3 involves dicing the devices from the processed wafers and packaging them. After Phase1, Ruttonsha wants to focus on Phase3 and hopes to have that facility ready sometime between December 2022 and March 2023.
In July 2022, however, Dr Mehta sent a message stating: "We were approved, we began investing and completed Phase1 but now the government is creating all roadblocks for SPECS approval which we do need to raise funds to continue the implementation with phase 2 and 3. I am totally frustrated and disappointed".
Mr Shiv Kumar confirmed that Sahasra Semiconductors has obtained approval under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI), SPECS, and customised incentive from the state government for NAND Flash Memory packaging and testing and are on target to start manufacturing (packaging) by first quarter of 2023.
India's incentives for OSAT/ATMP under recent Semicon scheme: Under the Semicon incentives scheme launched on 15 December 2021 with Rs 76,000 crore overlay, incentive of up to 30 per cent on Capital expenditure for OSAT/ATMP is offered and the scheme is open till end of 2024. Detailed notification and guidelines can be found here.
By 19th February 2022, four companies were listed as having applied for OSAT/ATMP under the new scheme and some information is given in this report . By now, many more are said to have applied but the latest list is not available. Sahasra Semiconductors is also planning to apply for LED driver chip packaging.
Tata Electronics has not yet announced finalisation of its $300 million OSAT plans, according to a report in Economic Times in the month of May, they have surveyed four states - Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana and Odisha as prospective locations.
In recent news of what appears to be yet another investment in an OSAT/ATMP plant in India, a company named Polymatech claimed to have made a $130 million investment already. It claims to have received "in-principle approval" for 25 per cent subsidy on Capex and also says it has plans for $1 billion investment by 2025.
Good beginning, but what could be the challenges?
The not so complex OSAT facilities are already well established in many parts of the world and Indian units will have to compete with them.
For more advanced packaging, as this article notes, "In the race for heterogeneous integration, key players, such as ASE (w/SPIL & USI), TSMC, Intel, Amkor, and JCET, have announced unprecedented CapEx investment in 2021" . As an example, a recent news said that "Italy is close to clinching a deal initially worth $5 billion with Intel to build an advanced semiconductor packaging and assembly plant in the country."
In his interview, Raja Manickam noted that Advanced Packaging or Heterogenous Packaging is an inflection point and India has opportunities, however, there are challenges.
Shiv Kumar of Sahasra Semiconductors had highlighted the fact that since India still does not have commercial fabs, we do not have raw material (processed wafers) available domestically and it will not be available for the next at least eight to 10 years on a large scale.
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Children in overcrowded housing are ten times more likely to contract meningitis - this is just one of the shocking findings from a new report by child poverty expert Lisa Harker for Shelter, which is today warning that the Government is failing a generation of children growing up in squalid conditions.
'Chance of a Lifetime' (1), a report commissioned by the charity from Harker - who has since been appointed as independent adviser on child poverty for the Department for Work and Pensions - uncovers stark evidence of the devastating impact of bad housing on children's life chances.
The report, the first ever comprehensive review of the research, also reveals that the 'housing effect' means children growing up in bad housing have up to 25 per cent higher risk of severe ill-health and disability during childhood and early adulthood (2), and homeless children are up to four times more likely to suffer mental health problems than other children (3).
The report also shows how offending behaviour may be linked to behavioural problems that emerge among children living in poor housing conditions, highlighting evidence that almost half of young offenders have experienced homelessness (4).
Harker is endorsing Shelter's call for 20,000 more social homes to give homeless and badly housed children the chance of a brighter future (5). Shelter is making the call as part of its Million Children Campaign to get the Government to end bad housing and homelessness for the next generation of children.
Lisa Harker said: "Childhood is a precious time when our experiences shape the adults we become - but children who grow up in bad housing are robbed of their future chances by ill-health, educational under-achievement and devastating insecurity."
Graeme Brown, Shelter's director of communications, said: "Children trapped in bad housing have the odds stacked against them. Without the security of a decent home, they lose out on vital schooling, endure mental and physical ill-health and fall into a cycle of social exclusion and poverty.
"The Government must build the homes needed to give the more than one million children in bad housing a fair start in life."
Notes to editors:
1. Copies of 'Chance of a Lifetime' are available at www.shelter.org.uk/chanceofalifetime or from the Shelter press office.
2. 'Home sweet home? The impact of poor housing on health', Policy Press, 1999.
3. 'Housing and health: building for the future', British Medical Association, 2003.
4. 'Psychiatric morbidity among young offenders in England and Wales', Office for National Statistics, 2000.
5. Shelter is calling on the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, to commit the funds to build 20,000 more social rented homes over and above existing plans between 2008 - 2011 in his next Comprehensive Spending Review in July 2007, which we estimate could lift 150,000 children out of bad housing and give them the chance of a brighter future.
6. 'Chance of a Lifetime' was supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, a pioneering funder of developments in contemporary arts, education and social policy.
7. Shelter believes everyone should have a home. We help more than 170,000 people a year fight for their rights, get back on their feet, and find and keep a home. We also tackle the root causes of Britain's housing crisis by campaigning for new laws, policies and solutions. Shelter launched the Million Children Campaign in April 2004 aimed at getting the Government to commit to ending bad housing for the next generation of children. Bad housing robs children of their health, education and a fair chance in life.
8. Spokespeople are available for interview. Shelter's ISDN line is 020 7251 2790.
9. Shelter's housing helpline is supported by Bradford & Bingley and provides free housing advice on 0808 800 4444.
10. For further information about Shelter visit www.shelter.org.uk.
Bad housing wrecks lives.
Shelter believes everyone should have a home. We help people
find and keep a home. We campaign for decent housing for all.
Please support us.
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ObjectivesTo assess the role of the Val66Met polymorphism at the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene on the performance of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder [juvenile bipolar disorder (JBD)] on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST).MethodsChildren and adolescents were assessed by the K-SADS-PL and a clinical evaluation for BD and comorbid conditions. Manic and depressive symptoms were assessed with the Young Mania Rating Scale and the Children Depression Rating Scale – Reviewed. The Val66Met polymorphism at the BDNF was genotyped from a blood sample. Patients’ IQ and executive functions were assessed by a standard cognitive flexibility test (WCST).ResultsFifty-three subjects were included in the study. No significant difference was observed between the Val/Val and Val/Met+Met/Met groups on any WCST scores in the MANCOVA (F48,5 = .76; p = .59; Perseverative Errors, p = .66; Nonperseverative Errors, p = .58; Categories Completed, p = .34; Attempts to Reach First Category, p=.64; and Percentage of Conceptual Level Responses, p = .99).ConclusionsOur findings from this sample of children and adolescents with BD do not replicate results from studies of adults and suggest the existence of differences in the neurobiology of this disorder across the life cycle. Investigations of larger samples are necessary to confirm these data.
Journal: Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria - Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2013, Pages 44-50
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The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with evil intent!
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, How much more when he brings it with evil intent!
God loathes the sacrifice of an evil person, especially when it is brought with ulterior motives.
Religious performance by the wicked stinks; it's even worse when they use it to get ahead.
The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when brought with evil intent.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; How much more when he brings it with wicked intent!
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1 tn Heb “the sacrifice of the wicked” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV). This is a subjective genitive. The foundational clause states that ritual acts of worship brought by the wicked (thus a subjective genitive) are detestable to God. The “wicked” refers here to people who are not members of the covenant (no faith) and are not following after righteousness (no acceptable works). But often they participate in sanctuary ritual, which amounts to hypocrisy.
2 sn This rhetorical device shows that if the act is abomination, the wicked heart is an even greater sin. It argues from the lesser to the greater.
3 tn The noun זִמָּה (zimmah) means “plan; device; wickedness”; here it indicates that the person is coming to the ritual with “sinful purpose.” Some commentators suggest that this would mean he comes with the sacrifice as a bribe to pacify his conscience for a crime committed, over which he has little remorse or intent to cease (cf. NLT “with ulterior motives”). In this view, people in ancient Israel came to think that sacrifices could be given for any reason without genuine submission to God.
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The latest version of the free software program, the TINA-TI 9.1 Spice-based analog design and simulation tool now averages fivefold speed increases over version 7.0 — allowing engineers to design, test and troubleshoot a broad variety of basic and advanced analog circuits, including complex architectures, without any node or number of device limitations. In addition the software supports any industry Spice models, making it easier than ever for engineers to simulate their designs. It is available in simplified and traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Russian, as well as English.
Designers can import any Spice model to easily simulate their designs in TINA-TI 9.1. The new tool features more than 500 part models and reference designs including more than 130 new power models. In addition, it provides all the conventional dc, transient, and frequency domain analysis of Spice and extensive post-processing capability that allows the user to customize results. (Free downloading — available now.)
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Coalition Launches Campaign to Get Essential Baby Supplies Donated to Vulnerable Families in April
The partnership, known as Parenting Through the Seasons, will deliver essential supplies like diapers, wipes and more to help families impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic
MILWAUKIE, OR, April 6, 2020 – Beginning in April, a new coalition of non-profits and government is working to meet the needs of vulnerable Oregon families in search of baby supplies. The year-long campaign, Parenting Through the Seasons, will include three seasonal invitations for communities to contribute, starting with items needed during the COVID-19 pandemic. From April 6th to May 6th, Oregonians are invited to donate through Amazon Wish to send much needed items like diapers, wipes, and other essentials to families involved in Healthy Families Oregon (HFO) and Oregon Association of Relief Nurseries (OARN) across Oregon. Local staff will deliver the items directly to their families.
“For every moment we can relieve the stress of parents, we can create a moment for connection,” says Elisabeth Underwood, Administrator for Healthy Families Oregon (HFO).
HFO is a free and voluntary home visiting program that focuses on strengthening the parent-child relationship. In response to COVID-19, in-person home visits have been halted; however, staff are still engaging virtually and, in many cases, delivering supplies to families.
Prevent Child Abuse Oregon Executive Director, Pamela Heisler, explains, “Young children are being shaped today by how they see their families and communities cope with this pandemic…this is our opportunity to show them how communities come together. Let’s shape their memories with hope rather than fear.”
Prevent Child Abuse Oregon (PCAO) is a statewide organization focused entirely on the upstream prevention of child abuse and neglect. Parenting Through the Seasons is being led by PCAO, to directly support families while at the same time, shining a bright light on what successful prevention looks like.
“Relief Nurseries have always engaged their local communities to support vulnerable families and now is the time for us to show unprecedented care for each other,” reminds OARN Executive Director, Cara Copeland.
Relief nurseries provide a unique array of free comprehensive family support services that are easily accessible to low-income parents and will play a critical role in distributing items to local families.
Learn more at Parenting Through the Seasons
ABOUT PREVENT CHILD ABUSE OREGON
Prevent Child Abuse Oregon is a provisional chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America, founded in 1972 to promote the healthy development of children and prevent child abuse. The mission is to strengthen families to prevent child abuse and neglect. PCAO envisions a state where every child lives in a safe home and community, regardless of race, class, culture or geography. To help PCAO please visit preventchildabuseoregon.org or follow PCAO on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
ABOUT OREGON ASSOCIATION OF RELIEF NURSERIES
Oregon Association of Relief Nurseries leads and sustains a network of Relief Nurseries in Oregon through advocacy, resource development and quality assurance. Our vision is that all children in Oregon thrive in safe, nurturing and stable families. Collectively each year we serve 1,500 families at risk for child maltreatment. Our model has been keeping Oregon children safe and families together for over 40 years. Find out more at www.oregonreliefnurseries.org and support your local community.
ABOUT HEALTHY FAMILIES OREGON
Healthy Families Oregon (HFO) is an accredited multi-site state system with Healthy Families America (HFA) and Oregon’s largest child abuse prevention program. Healthy Families Oregon is a free family support and parent education home visiting program that serves approximately 2,500 families annually. HFO is voluntary and focuses on strengthening the parent-child relationship to assure healthy child growth and development. Home visitors support parents in cultivating and strengthening a nurturing, positive relationship with their baby at each visit. Find out more at https://oregonearlylearning.com/healthy-families-oregon.
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Not everyone realizes that there are two modern versions of Microsoft Office for businesses—32-bit and 64-bit versions. Do you know which version your company needs? This article will provide you with a quick guide on the primary differences between the two versions. As well as help you to determine which version is right for your business needs. Once you’ve determined the proper version, further technologies may be needed for a seamless MS Office migration process. Lucky for you, our team is here to help!
A look at 32-Bit
32-bit Microsoft Office is the base version that you’ll most likely use. This is the version that Microsoft recommends unless you know for sure that you require the 64-bit Office. The 32-bit version is built to handle most everyday tasks. However, the biggest drawback of the 32-bit Office is that it has a project size limit. That being said, this limit is relatively high and typically won’t affect useage. If your business utilizies spreadsheets with thousands of data points or large images, and animations in presentations, this is when you may want to consider using the 64-bit version.
A look at 64-Bit
The 64-bit office is built to handle large data sets. If you’re working with data points in the hundred thousand or even millions, 64-bit Office is most likely your best option for project completion with ease. With a slight performance boost, the 64-bit version makes functionality easier. Although it may not be noticeable, the performance boost will make Office run faster with a more responsive end result to your input. If your company develops any in-house Office add-ins or customizations, you also want to look at 64-bit Office, as per Microsoft’s recommendations.
Once you’ve decided that 64-bit Office is the best choice for your company, the next step will be implementing the migration of your existing files to the upgraded version. However, your macros and VBA code for files in 32-bit Office may not work. Luckily, Converter Technology offers a secure solution to help your MA office migration be a quick, seamless, and easy process. Our solution finds all existing VBA code and converts it; ensuring that everything migrates smoothly. You won’t have a headache from a complicated migration, and you’ll enjoy the benefits of 64-bit Office for your business.
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There are a few ways to thread stainless steel, the most common of which is using a tap and die. The first step is to identify the size of the hole you want to thread. Once you have that measurement, you can find a tap that corresponds to that size. For the die, you’ll need to find one that’s slightly smaller than the hole you’re trying to thread. Once you have those two tools, it’s time to get started.
How To Thread Stainless Steel
Stainless steel is a popular material for sewing and quilting projects because it doesn’t rust or corrode. It can be a little tricky to sew with, though, because the needle can easily break or bend. To make it easier to sew with stainless steel thread, you’ll need to use a special needle and adjust your sewing machine settings. First, choose a needle that is specifically designed for stainless steel thread. Regular sewing machine needles are too sharp and can easily
Stainless steel thread is a type of thread that is made from stainless steel. It is a common type of thread that is used in many different applications. There are a few different ways to create stainless steel thread, but the most common way is to use a die. A die is a tool that is used to create threads. It has a sharp edge that cuts the thread into the material. There are also a few different types of dies that can be used for this purpose. The
- Take the threading die and lubricant and place it on the end of the barrel
- Turn on the tap and run water over the entire length of the barrel
- Add a small amount of lubricant to the die
– use a sharp needle – use a thread that is appropriate for the fabric you are sewing – use a tension that is appropriate for the fabric you are sewing
Frequently Asked Questions
How Are Taps Selected For Tapping?
The tapping of a pipe is a necessary step in the process of drawing water from it or conveying oil or gas from it. The selection of taps for tapping a pipe is important to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the pipeline.
Can You Tap Into Stainless Steel?
Yes, you can tap into stainless steel. Stainless steel is a ductile metal that can be easily tapped.
What Are The 3 Types Of Taps?
There are three types of taps: straight, angle, and compression.
How Do You Tap Stainless Steel Threads?
There are a few ways to do this. One way is to use a die and a tap. Another way is to use a die and a chaser.
What Kind Of Tap Do You Use For Stainless Steel?
There are a few types of taps that can be used for stainless steel. One option is a carbide tap, which is a type of high-speed steel tap that is specifically designed for use with stainless steel. Another option is a titanium tap, which is made of titanium and is also corrosion-resistant.
What Are The 4 Types Of Taps?
There are typically four types of taps: 1.Single turn taps 2.Two turn taps 3.Three turn taps 4.Four turn taps
What Is The Most Common Type Of Tap?
The most common type of tap is a straight tap.
How Do You Tap Threads?
In order to tap a thread, one must use a tap. The tap is inserted into the hole that the thread is in, and then turned. This will create a groove in the thread and will allow for a bolt or screw to be inserted into the hole without it falling out.
What Is The Best Tap For Stainless Steel?
There is no definitive answer to this question as it depends on the specific circumstances. In some cases, a tap with a titanium nitride (TiN) coating may be the best option as it can help to reduce wear and tear on the taps. Additionally, a tap with a high-performance coatings such as TiAlN or TiCN may be a good choice for stainless steel applications.
How Do I Choose The Right Tap?
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the right tap depends on your specific needs and preferences. Some factors you may want to consider when choosing a tap include the type of water you need (hot or cold), the size of the sink, and the look and feel of the faucet. You can also consult with a plumber to get advice on which type of tap would be best for your home.
What Is The Process Of Tapping?
Tapping is a technique that uses your fingers to tap on specific points on your head, face, and chest. This is said to help relieve stress and tension.
How Many Taps Are There?
There are about 128 taps in the average American home.
How Hard Is It To Drill And Tap Stainless Steel?
It is not hard to drill and tap stainless steel, but it is important to use the right drill bit and tap size.
pipe Threading stainless steel pipe can be a difficult process, but with the right tools and techniques it can be accomplished relatively easily. First, the pipe must be clamped in a vise so that it is stable and cannot move. Then, a die must be selected that is the same size as the pipe’s diameter. The die is then inserted into the end of the pipe, and the pipe is turned while applying pressure to the die so that the die cuts into the metal of the pipe. Once the die has been inserted all the way along the length of the pipe, it can be removed and a new one can be inserted to start threading in a new direction.
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Repentance That Counts with God
Annually thousands profess repentance upon hearing some evangelist preach. Is repentance as simple as that? What does the Bible say?
“REPENT, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.” With those stirring words John the Baptist introduced his ministry, and Jesus Christ preached the same message following John’s imprisonment. Then some three years after Jesus began preaching this message in Galilee he told his disciples that “on the basis of his name repentance for forgiveness of sins would be preached in all the nations—starting out from Jerusalem.” First the apostle Peter, then Paul, and today hundreds of thousands of Christian witnesses of Jehovah are fulfilling those words of Jesus.—Matt. 3:1, 2; 4:17; Luke 24:47.
Repentance is an elemental Scriptural teaching mentioned in connection with such basic tenets as faith in God and baptism. It is required of all creatures who would gain salvation.—Heb. 6:1, 2.
According to Webster, to repent means “to change one’s mind or one’s heart with regard to past or intended action, conduct, etc., on account of regret or dissatisfaction.” It means “to feel regret, contrition or compunction for what one has done or omitted to do.” Repentance goes farther than penitence, we are told, in that it emphasizes the element of new purpose; it involves making a distinct about-face.
The word almost invariably translated “repented” or “repenteth” in the more popular versions of the Hebrew Scriptures is nahhám. It means “to sigh, i.e., to breathe strongly.” Hence, by implication, to breathe a sigh of relief, to feel sorry, to feel regret; to change one’s mind or attitude regarding something. It is because of this meaning that the Scriptures at times speak of God as repenting or feeling regrets. In the Christian Greek Scriptures the corresponding verb is metanoéo, and simply means to think differently, to change one’s mind, to reconsider. The related Greek noun, metánoia, translated “repentance,” however, does carry with it the thought of compunction or reformation.—Strong’s Lexicon.
TRUTHS AND PRINCIPLES INVOLVED
To understand fully just the kind of repentance that counts with God we must first of all appreciate the truths and principles involved in Scriptural repentance. We must recognize that God exists, that He is the Creator and Owner of all his creatures, and that He is the Most High, Judge and Lawgiver, and therefore rightfully holds all his creatures accountable to him. Obviously, the correlative of this must also be inherent in repentance, namely, that man is not only God’s creation but also a free moral agent, able to distinguish between right and wrong, and therefore can be held accountable to God for his actions. In other words, Jehovah God, by reason of his superior position, his infinite qualities and his works of creation, is the One to whom all his intelligent creatures, by reason of their inferior position and their capabilities, are morally accountable. Incidentally, these basic principles are the very ones over which the atheist, agnostic and deist invariably stumble.
Also involved in the teaching of repentance is the fact that man is a sinner, and not only that, but that there are extenuating circumstances that he can plead that justify God’s extending to him the mercy of forgiveness. As King David pleaded when overtaken in a grievous sin: “Look! with error I was brought forth with birth pains, and in sin my mother conceived me.” Were there no extenuating circumstances, no true repentance could be possible and then neither could nor would God forgive. Thus we read: “For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, but there is a certain fearful expectation of judgment.” That is why repentance was not possible for Adam nor for Judas.—Ps. 51:5; Heb. 10:26, 27.
Scriptural repentance further requires that there be some provision by which or some basis upon which God can uphold the majesty of his law and yet take cognizance of repentance, for he is not given to change. (Mal. 3:6) Were his forgiveness to be indiscriminate, all fear and respect for him and his laws would disappear. This provision the Bible shows to be the sacrifice of God’s only-begotten Son: “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and it is as a free gift that they are being declared righteous by his undeserved kindness through the release by the ransom paid by Christ Jesus. . . . that he might be righteous even when declaring righteous the man that has faith in Jesus.”—Rom. 3:23-26.
And finally, the provision for repentance that counts with God involves the issue, Who is supreme? Jehovah God or Satan the Devil? Scriptural testimony, such as that at Job, chapters one and two, shows that one of the chief ways in which this issue will be determined is on the basis of man’s keeping integrity. To enable lovers of righteousness to keep integrity—and thereby prove the Devil a liar when he boasted that he could turn all men away from God—provision needed to be made for their repentance and forgiveness. That God’s servants appreciated the relationship between forgiveness and the honor of His name the Scriptures repeatedly show: “For your name’s sake, O Jehovah, you must even forgive my error, for it is considerable.” “Help us, O God of our salvation, for the sake of the glory of your name, and deliver us and cover over our sins on account of your name.”—Ps. 25:11; 79:9.
WHAT IT MEANS TO REPENT
For many centuries Jehovah God overlooked the sins of ignorance of the nations, but beginning with the conversion of Cornelius and in a special way in our day “he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by” Jesus Christ. Particularly pertinent to our day are also the words of the apostle Peter: “Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.”—Acts 17:30, 31; 2 Pet. 3:9.
For us to approach God and win his good pleasure by sincere repentance we must “believe that he is and that he becomes the rewarder of those earnestly seeking him.” More than that, we must also take in knowledge of his righteous requirements, which are summed up in this way: “What doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?”—Heb. 11:6; Mic. 6:8, AS.
As we come to know God and his righteous requirements we must become ‘conscious of our spiritual need,’ acutely aware of our sinful, undone condition and feel truly sorry about our sins. We must feel deeply, as did the tax collector going up to the temple to pray, who, “standing at a distance was not willing even to raise his eyes heavenward, but kept beating his chest, saying: ‘O God, be gracious to me a sinner.’” Like sincere repentance was also expressed by Ezra, on behalf of the erring returned exiles, and by the apostle Peter after he had denied Jesus.—Luke 18:13; Ezra 9:3-15; Matt. 26:75.
To count with God, we must plead such sincere repentance on the basis of God’s provision for forgiveness: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so as to forgive us our sins.” This is done on the basis of the Helper we have “with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one.” He is the “Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.” Of course, this provision of the ransom seems foolish to those who do not feel any need to repent.—1 John 1:9; 2:1; John 1:29.
Also vital in repenting is right motive. Ours must be a godly sorrow, based on love of God and of righteousness, and not merely on fear of punishment. Only “sadness in a godly way makes for repentance to salvation which is not to be regretted.” ‘It is the kindly quality of God that is trying to lead us to repentance.’ A solely selfish remorse will profit us no more than it did Esau, Pharaoh or Judas.—2 Cor. 7:10; Rom. 2:4; Gen. 27:34-37; Ex. 10:16, 17; Matt. 27:3-5.
“FRUITS THAT BEFIT REPENTANCE”
To the crowds that traveled out to hear John the Baptist, he said: “Produce fruits that befit repentance.” Just as “faith without works is dead,” so repentance without befitting fruits is vain. What are these fruits?—Luke 3:8; Jas. 2:26.
The very first fruit of repentance is doing an about-face. As Peter told the Jews in his day: “Repent, therefore, and turn around so as to get your sins blotted out.” From then on we may live, “no more for the desires of men, but for God’s will.” Yes, the fruits befitting repentance require us to dedicate ourselves to do God’s will and to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. And since the first thing Jesus did upon dedicating himself was to give a public expression of it, symbolizing it by water baptism, we may not delay being baptized once we have turned around and resolved to do God’s will.—Acts 3:19; 1 Pet. 4:2.
Chief among the fruits that befit repentance is witnessing to God’s name and kingdom. Without producing such fruits our repentance would be of no avail, for, while “with the heart one exercises faith for righteousness, . . . with the mouth one makes public declaration for salvation.” There are various ways in which this public confession can be made, and by making the most of our opportunities we can produce much Kingdom fruit.—Rom. 10:10.
To bring forth fruits befitting repentance we must also exercise care that we continue to abstain from the selfish works of the flesh. We must ever bear in mind that “the time that has passed by is sufficient for you to have worked out the will of the nations when you proceeded in deeds of loose conduct, lusts, . . . that are without legal restraint.” Instead of letting a longing for such things return, we must set our affections on God’s kingdom and its service and our minds on producing the fruitage of the spirit, which is “love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control.”—1 Pet. 4:3; Gal. 5:22, 23.
Extending mercy and forgiveness to those who have sinned against us and who repent is a further fruit befitting repentance and without which our repentance would not count with God. Only the merciful will be shown mercy. Jesus taught us to pray, “Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” And how often should we forgive? Jesus answered: “I say to you, not, Up to seven times, but, Up to seventy-seven times.”—Matt. 6:12; 18:22.
While being conscientious to bring forth such fitting fruits of repentance, we should not go to the other extreme of brooding over our sins all the time as though by making ourselves miserable we could atone for them. Rather, we must have faith that “the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” Far from encouraging such brooding, the Scriptures tell us: “Happy is the one whose . . . sin is covered.”—1 John 1:7; Ps. 32:1.
From all the foregoing it is very apparent that there can be no such thing as salvation because of deathbed repentance.
DIVINE AIDS IN BRINGING FORTH FRUITS OF REPENTANCE
Outstanding among the aids God has provided for our bringing forth fruits befitting repentance is prayer. We need to commune with God in prayer, praising and thanking him as well as asking him continually for forgiveness, wisdom and strength to do his will. Unselfishly our prayers should include petitions for the prosperity of His cause and the welfare of our brothers.—Phil. 4:6; Col. 4:2.
Imperative also is the regular study of God’s Word together with the aids he has providentially provided so that we may get the sense of what we read in his Word. We cannot live “on bread alone, but on every utterance coming forth through Jehovah’s mouth.” Only by diligent study can we make progress and become “fully competent, completely equipped for every good work.”—Matt. 4:4; 2 Tim. 3:17.
Christian association is another aid God has provided for us in bringing forth fruits befitting repentance. Even as the members of a human body have need of one another, so do Christians. We may therefore not forsake assembling ourselves together at congregation meetings, where we can encourage and incite one another to love and right works.—1 Cor. 12:12-27; Heb. 10:23-25.
If any dedicated Christian finds himself overtaken in gross sin, he should make haste to repent of his wrong conduct. First to God and then to the responsible ones in His visible organization he should make open confession of his wrong, express his repentance and earnestly seek forgiveness. By thereafter making straight paths for his feet and humbly submitting to any discipline that may be administered he can demonstrate that his repentance is indeed due to godly sorrow and that he sincerely does want to walk in the ways of righteousness.
Truly the Scriptural truth about the repentance that counts with God satisfies heart and mind. It magnifies God’s wisdom and justice and, above all, his love and mercy.
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Help for the Helpers
The COVID- 19 pandemic has placed extra pressure on our...
Here at BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy it’s hard to overstate how much we value nurses, but now during National Nurses Week and Oncology Nursing Month feels like the perfect time to share our deeply felt appreciation. Of course, in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, the stakes are even higher for nurses on the frontlines and our gratitude continues to climb even higher.
Just as this time of Covid-19 is particularly tough for the nursing profession, this is also a particularly tough time for certain patients, namely oncology patients. Oncology nurses spend time with patients throughout the entire process: from explaining a new diagnosis, guiding patients through what to expect with treatment, and sharing in victories or providing compassion during dark times. Currently, some of this process may be conducted remotely with telemedicine and there are new layers of anxiety and concern from patients for nurses to navigate.
The field of oncology has certainly changed over the years, with one of the biggest evolutions being the rise of targeted/personalized treatments. In addition, oncology medications have generally moved out of the hospital setting – with many treatments now given orally, infused, or injected. Increasingly, patients are able to treat at home; which is a blessing given the ongoing social distancing needs of cancer patients. However, this does not mean that care touch points are no longer needed.
In some ways, the role of the oncology nurse has become even more crucial in training and supporting patients during treatment, particularly for oncology medications that come with distinct and difficult to manage toxicities, requiring careful management by a care team. A leading cause of non-adherence with oral cancer medications is adverse effects. Access to oncology nurses and other support team members with special training in this area helps patients work through this challenge and be more likely to stay on therapy, which in turn is a huge factor in better outcomes.
With the support of an oncology nurse on the care team, patients do better during treatment. So our hat’s off to oncology nurses, as we celebrate their special role!
Remember, you can count on BioPlus in these tough times, and in the better days ahead.
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AGVs and Manufacturing 4.0 at 5G Speed
By Carlos Pinheiro Guimaraes and Steve Garbrecht
Your management says you need to operate and maintain a fleet of automated guided vehicles (AGVs). But to derive the real value from them, you’ll need to digitize the manufacturing environment and connect the vehicles, then capture and meld all that information. When AGV information is integrated with all your systems, you’ll be able to capture the necessary data, produce insights, reduce uncertainty, and support decisions. That’s truly what you’re after.
A challenge with handling multiple AGVs in your operation is the connectivity. Traditionally most companies use WiFi to connect to the units, but inside a large manufacturing plant with heavy equipment, magnetic fields and other interferences, making sure you are connected and bringing your AGV data in real-time, all of the time is also a challenge.
The optimization gained by investing in these machines can quickly be eroded if there are WiFi shadows around your facilities and you lose the connectivity with your unit, right when a problem is about to happen.
Hitachi is partnering with telecommunication carriers and technology providers like Verizon and Ericsson, that can fully enable private 5G environments to replace WiFi at the edge, significantly increasing the density of connected devices, sensors and machines, improving the latency and throughput of data streams and assuring complete coverage in your facility, to make sure you do not lose sight of your AGVs for a single millisecond.
Help with Implementation, Insights
But getting there is no small undertaking. This is where a consulting partner comes in. The partner will guide you in choosing AGVs, implementing them, and integrating them with other software systems. Together, you will improve fleet management and move your manufacturing company toward Manufacturing 4.0, which has the potential to transform the industry by automating, capturing, and analyzing the vast amounts of data that now flow to and from manufacturing technologies, including AGVs, fixed robots, PLCs, MES, and ERP systems.
As a consulting partner, Hitachi brings to the table its depth of experience in digital manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain. We know digital systems, controls and automation, video and sensor technology, and the Internet of Things. We’re also very experienced at delivering AGVs and integrating them as part of a broader solution
. Here are some examples of customers we have worked with:
Large Manufacturer - Laser Guided Vehicle Predictive Maintenance
Operates a new fleet of 350 AGV units across 5 plants, but maintenance costs are out of control and real efficiency contribution of the units can’t be properly measured and correlated to the bottom line.
Use 5G, Video and Edge Analytics and SAP PDMS to optimize AGVs operational processes to reduce maintenance incidents and increase ROI.
Use 5G to assure 100% connectivity with all units with no WiFi shadow spots.
Stream, store and analyze data from all Units at the edge to provide insights about the root-causes of excessive maintenance.
Use SAP PDMS to optimize spare parts and maintenance operations performed in the field.
Use Geofencing, Smart Cameras and LIDAR Sensors to monitor AGV Units and help to diagnose maintenance root-causes that are external to the units and increase safety between AGVs and Humans on the plant floor.
Large Global Producer of Chemicals - Integrate AGV Fleet
Needed to automate warehouse and logistics operations across multiple AGV vendors that use proprietary software, then monitor the execution in real-time to optimize and secure operations.
AGV Management & Operation Optimization
AGVs from multiple vendors from large 40-ton autonomous vehicles to critical AGVs handling controlled materials in hazardous parts of the plant.
Verizon 5G, MEC and SAP provide real-time edge intelligence integrated with core SAP applications.
Hitachi and SAP are providing SAP Cloud Platform Accelerators to facilitate “out of the box integration” with the top AGV vendors in the market and allowing automation of processes and operations.
Verizon 5G and MEC edge architecture assure 100% real-time connectivity for AGVs within a high density environment.
Combines intelligent edge processing with SAP cloud-based applications to optimize AGV predictive maintenance, reduce cost of operations while increasing ROI.
Solutions to Jump Start
Hitachi has packaged solutions that help in the integration and management of AGV’s that also extend into other aspects of optimization for manufacturing facilities, to tie things together.
What makes us unique in this field is that Hitachi is also a manufacturer with a more than 110-year history of success across a range of industries. We have taken our knowledge of systems integration and manufacturing to create, through Hitachi Vantara and JR Automation, manufacturing solutions for your digital future.
Hitachi is also partnering with ERP vendors and leading telecommunication companies and carriers that can fully enable a private 5G environment at the edge, significantly increasing the density of devices, sensors and machines connected in real-time, improving the amount of data streaming to terabytes and assuring 100 percent coverage of physical operations and facilities, so you do not lose connectivity you’re your AGVs in operation.
Hitachi Vantara has created solutions that allow seamless integration between AGVs from multiple vendors to you ERP and back-end applications, a foundation that includes AI algorithms and specific analytics to optimize predictive maintenance, quality and insights about the performance and real impact of AGVs to your operations.
Ready to start? Contact Hitachi Vantara and talk to a consultant today.
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Do you ever wish there was a “required reading” list for becoming a successful author? Well, look no further: We’ve found not one list, but a variety of syllabi compiled by some highly respected writers. Whether meant as a personal note or as an official compendium of recommended works, these examples provide great insight into what pieces of literature greatly influenced the list-makers.
Darwin’s reading list was a personal one, and highly aspirational. We wonder whether the entries at the bottom have been crossed off because he finished them, or because he decided they weren’t worth the effort?
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David Foster Wallace
Who better to learn about contemporary prose fiction from than David Foster Wallace? Students of his Fall 1994 English course were told that the books below were non-negotiable in order to complete the class.
When asked by a young fan to “chew the fat,” Hemingway went above and beyond, bringing the man on board for a year as his personal assistant (but with the extra homework of tackling this reading list).
Image Source: “Ernest Hemingway Creates a Reading List for a Young Writer, 1934” on www.openculture.com (we recommend you check out this interesting true story!)
Auden definitely set a high standard for the students of his 1941 English course at the University of Michigan, with twenty-seven titles on the required list (not to mention the “recommended” options!).
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Which books can you already check off your reading list and how have they influenced you?
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In IIS7 I was trying to start my Default Web Site and was getting the following error screen.
A quick Google search turned up the following Microsoft Support Topic. Ok. Lets take a look at netstat and see what might be causing problems. Open a command prompt ([Windows Key + R] and enter cmd) and enter the command. After running netstat -ano, I noticed that there was indeed another process (with a process id of 796) accessing port 80. (You can enter netstat /? to see what the –ano flags are doing.)
The offending process that is using port 80 has a process id of 796. Now, how to find out what that process 796 is?
Using the tasklist command will show a list of all processes running in windows. You can use the /fi flags to filter the results. In this case I’m using a filter that will only show processes with a PID that equals 796. tasklist /fi “PID eq 796”
The process with process id is Skype. Makes sense that it would be using port 80. I promptly closed down Skype and was then able to start my Default Web Site in IIS Manager. Hope this helps someone.
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A lipstick-wearing robot confessed, “it was a crime to build the robots,” as she and her friends faced their certain death at the hands of rebellious machines. “Even now I do not regret making robots,” her husband said. “Work was too hard, life was too hard.’
In the Jordan Valley, inside the small Beit Uri and Rami Nehostan Museum, Guy Bar Amotz has adapted Karel Capek’s 1920 play R.U.R, a science fiction classic, for his exhibition The Revolting Robots Show (curated by Smadar Keren). He was also inspired by circumcision, the Golem and British rock.
R.U.R coined the term “robot” and became such a global hit that Avraham Shlonsky translated it to Hebrew when Ohel Theater produced it here in 1930. The play wondered what differences, if any, separated humans from machines and suggested humanity does not have a moral right to create androids just to bend them to its interests.
Bar Amotz focused on a key scene in the play, that of the robot uprising. The full play goes on beyond that point to suggest a future when machines mimic their slain human masters in one capacity, longing to love and reproduce.
The work is delightful. As in his 2014 Ein Harod exhibition me-you-collaborators (curated by Galia Bar Or), where he placed the voice of an art critic inside a garbage bag, Bar Amotz insisted on showing the viewer how the magic is done.
The result is a combination of low tech and high tech.
The large figures move in relation to a projection of a short film, which pushes the plot forward. The intense music, lights and the fusion of actual movement in space with virtual characters on screen made the work into a highly entertaining apocalypse.
When the machines began their rampage, the lights went off and we saw another part of the exhibition move. Large paper sketches with words written on them began to change positions. Then The Dickheads began their own performance. These are three mechanical musicians with large male organs mounted on their heads. Like the first part of the exhibition, their real-space movements are in relation to the video interviews they offer. The absurdity of watching such a machine chew a carrot like Bugs Bunny and discuss “golem servants” made from “Jewish soil” is hilarious.
Made from clay and powered by the divine name of God to defend Jewish lives, the legend of the golem was also employed by Yael Toren in her 2016 work Pieta, which showed a multitude of clay golems, each carrying a slain protector, as they march across the plains to an unknown destination. The animated art-video was shown at the same museum during the Women Workers’ Movement group exhibition, likewise curated by Keren.
At that time, Keren was just beginning her mission at the museum, having taken the reins from previous curator and manager Ruth Shadmon.
A kibbutz member, Shadmon worked hard and kept the doors of the museum open for more than a quarter of a century under very difficult financial conditions. In this, she was aided by curator Tali Tamir and others. In 1990, the museum hosted a solo exhibition by Siona Shimshi titled Aching Head and Hallucinations. Several of her works, as well as works by Igael Tumarkin and David Fine, can be seen at the museum’s garden today.
Expertly managing the museum’s small team of dedicated workers, Keren moved from Tel Aviv to nearby Afikim in 2017 to turn the museum into a contemporary art space serving the Jordan Valley.
One success was the 2018 group exhibition The Magic Kingdom (curated by Avi Lubin), which included the performance installation “Buddy / No Body Holy & the Crickets” by Oree Holban.
Like Bar Amotz, Holban skillfully used a pre-known tale, that of the artificial Pinocchio wishing to become a real boy, but introduced other themes: self-acceptance and transgender perspectives.
In R.U.R, Capek tied the conquest of labor by working machines to human bodies becoming superfluous. As people no longer knew what their bodies were good for, they could not bring new life into the world. The robots, after killing their masters, were faced with extinction as they, too, did not know the secret of birth.
The bodies of working men and women were celebrated at the museum in the 2021 exhibition Place, Architect, Artist (curated by Michael Jacobson), which honored the public artworks once proudly commissioned and displayed across this land. Murals by Sheldon Schoneberg lauded the body of the Jewish man of the field and depicted him as a direct descendant of the ancient Near-East harvester of wheat (at Kibbutz Afikim). Haifa’s Dagon granaries boast a graffito by Mordechai Gumpel, in it a barefoot woman proudly squats, facing the viewer, with kernels held between her legs.
The museum seems keen to present excellent art and utilize its power to tell tales about our human bodies in this land. Women Workers’ Movement also includes the neon work by Nelly Agassi “Is this the hill I’m going to die on.” In his When Spring Falls Asleep (curated by Tali Ben-Nun, now being shown at the museum) Uri Weinstein presents a 10-minute video titled “Tsalafim.” The Hebrew word means both snipers and capers. The algorithm floods the viewer’s eye with images of telescopic-sights, first-person shooter video games and pickled capers. The AI is smart, and dumb, at the same time. The video-loop runs on a laptop next to a smiling cap, a baseball cap with a torn smiley on it, with many candle caps strewn on the floor leading to the table. These are scalp-like wax objects with a wick that the viewer might see as candles.
One brilliant work by Weinstein is easy to miss, a mobile phone keeps vibrating near one wall of the exhibition with the word “DAD” flashing on its screen.
Titled “Incoming Call from Dad,” it is a chilling work, a punch to the gut when we consider the museum came into being by parents (Meir and Reaya) who wished to honor the memory of their two fallen sons, one of whom died in combat during the 1948 War of Independence. The work is an unanswered call by a parent placed inside such a call turned into a building.
After the terrific colorful performance by Bar Amotz’s robots, stepping into Weinstein’s space is like jumping into a pool filled with ice water.
The final exhibition on offer at the museum is Yashin by Noa Schwartz. In her 2017 work “Euro,” Schwartz created the symbol of the EU currency in a wall by carving a semi-circle into it and installing two wooden shelves. One of the shelves had a ruby carefully placed on it.
In this exhibition she presents us with “Untitled (Sink with Pearl),” which offers – a pearl. Her delicate, handsome works are often a consideration of objects human bodies need (sinks, keys) or must offer to enjoy the basic comforts of life (some works are made from ground-up electric and utility bills).
While her works are a far cry from killer-robots, Schwartz is a highly intelligent artist, and her wry depictions of domesticity and money might be the bitter pill the hi-tech nation needs.
Guy Bar Amotz’s The Revolting Robots Show is on display until July 23 alongside When Spring Falls by Uri Weinstein and Yashin by Noa Schwartz. https://www.uri-rami-museum.co.il/
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Landmarc advise and implement all aspects of tree clearance and works, from straight forward tree surgery to dangerous tree removal or large-scale tree clearance as required. ie: Larch disease phytophthora ramorum.
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How to Get ready for SAT Composition
In cases where college is compared to the palacio of your foreseeable future opportunities, your company SAT report is like often the padlock about the front door. Not to ever freak anyone out or anything, although getting a great SAT can often mean the difference in between being approved at the school of your dreams or coughing up the next a couple of years doing overnight classes your local community institution. And, while you might be able to muss your way through the math along with multiple-choice medical tests, you can’t artificial a good HID essay.
Here are some of the best tools and hints to nail your REMAINE essay authoring and get a superior score. Which has a little efforts and research, you can master your HID essay without even breaking some sort of sweat.
Before you ever previously step in to the testing room, you need to have read some things. But not just will that help with your own essay, however it will give you added insight when you are performing the British part of the multiple choice test. The more literature that you simply familiar with, the very stronger you may create your claim. That doesn’t mean you have to study everything in the world. Simply look over and have an understanding of and few very versatile books and use them so you can use your coursework no matter what the matter.
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Ideally, you need to make certain you’re following the simple protocols so that your essay or dissertation doesn’t have disqualified. What this means is:
It seems like simple, although it’s the section that most usually disqualifies a strong SAT examination taker. Depending on the CollegeBoard, ‘An off-topic article will receive a score of zero. ‘ That means that should you don’t read the prompt in the right way and specially answer often the question in front of you, you are flirting with a no-score paper.
Here’s a standard prompt in the SAT essay or dissertation section:
You could have twenty-five a matter of minutes to write a strong essay about the topic designated below.
Think carefully about the issue presented from the following analysis and the task below.
‘Many person’s believe that to move up the steps of good results and fulfillment, they must forget the past, repress it, and relinquish that. But other individuals have just the contrary view. These people see aged memories as a chance to think with the earlier and assimilate past and even present. ‘
Adapted coming from Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, I’ve Referred to Rivers: Everyday life of Impairment and Freedom
Mission: Do memories hinder or even help people for their effort to understand from the previous and succeed in the present? Strategy and produce an composition in which you improve your point of view with this issue. Guidance your position together with reasoning and even examples extracted from your reading, studies, working experience, or findings.
The situations to remember are actually:
You only have got 10 minutes, which means that use your prewriting time appropriately. On your go directions article, circle the key question that should be answered in the prompt. Also, determine if this is an explanatory go or argumentative essay.
At this point, write a thesis statement which may provide a guidebook for your dissertation using significant words inside prompt. Circuit these phrases quickly while you are reading the prompt to help you to find them speedier. For the timely above, any thesis declaration might be something like:
Memory can be useful learning tools, nevertheless only if people don’t allow the crooks to drag each of our behavior inside the past.
Clearly, this kind of statement reviews the dilemma using sayings from the prompt, but it also ensures that the copy writer has some level of assumed and will be building this concept for the representative.
Now, you must write a couple of supporting sentences that build your point of view. These types of need to follow the directions into the letter. Imagine, if they talk to you intended for personal encounters and reading through to support your opinions, you need to include both.
Expose your data and then discuss how them answers the very question. For example , the explanation for any sentence associated with evidence is within bold:
When I appeared to be younger, When i spent some time in prison. Although it presented me a good deal about the outcome a simple respond can have by using an entire lifestyle, I can’t pay out my occasion dwelling on there. The past is only a valuable learning instrument if you can acquire wisdom devoid of repeating concentrate on that explained you in which wisdom. For Hamlet, of which same session is presented to the target audience as they view Hamlet duplication the mistake to prevent yourself from taking measures by avenging his father’s death. By doing this not only that Hamlet doesn’t know his session until they have too late, however that this inability to learn from this past triggers harm to most people around the dog.
If you give your coursework without a finish, it is likely for getting scored less than you should have. You need at least one or two sentences that summarize your ideas along with leave people thinking. Complete a statement about how precisely precisely this plan can affect the near future, talk about fact that the subject, or show the way in which this subject applies to you. The idea shall be interesting, attention grabbing, and focused on your opinion.
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Dispositional characteristics appear to impact peoples' decision making when faced with situations characterised by uncertainty, a characterization of an unknown future outcome, and ambiguity, a characterisation of the ...
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Being an adult means taking the child you were by the hand. But what if your childhood is constantly out of sync because you are gifted? Do you have questions at a very young age? About everything? Without stopping? How then, as adults, can you take the child you were by the hand?
It was in 2017 (at 53) that I discovered for myself what was wrong with me. All the characteristics were there. I am highly gifted! And how great the joy of recognition was, and as justified as that joy is, there was also anger. The particular feeling that suddenly everything fell into place was just as present as the lack of understanding. New worries followed my liberation. Meanwhile, I am managing quite well to take the child I used to be by the hand.
Wouldn’t it be nice if together we could give the children who are increasingly slipping through cracks the insights that I only discovered at a later age because there is insufficient room within models and structures for the more profound social questions?
Picasso said that it took four years to paint like Rafaël but a lifetime to paint like a child. They live in a beautiful space between dream and reality. They taste colours, hear shapes and see sounds. We should all have such specific gifts.
Children are expelled from school because they appear to be unmanageable. They ask difficult questions and simply cannot be understood. The solution is often sought in more challenging schoolwork, skipping one or two classes, more maths, etc. More of the same, more linear, and all this while we know a lot about gifted children. Gifted children have a conceptual brain. This brain works fundamentally different from that of children with a linear mind. Exactly like adults. I, therefore, regularly ask myself why we do not guide children in the same way. The young people I know who are highly gifted can cope with this very well. It is often the supervisors who are linear thinkers or adapted conceptual thinkers. Rarely are the supervisors conceptual thinkers themselves. And that is a pity because, as far as I am concerned, this is exactly where we can help young people and their supervisors. Only by understanding both ways of thinking is it possible to build a bridge and fully utilise the enormous potential hidden in the balance between linear and conceptual thinkers for the organisation and our society.
Just as adults with giftedness depend on managers and supervisors, children with giftedness rely on their supervisors and teachers. In both cases, there is almost always an enormous speed difference in thinking. By thinking miles ahead, it appears to non-scholars that whole pieces of the puzzles are missing. They literally do not follow it anymore. In contrast, gifted people follow each other precisely and often without words. They connect on a soul level.
Exactly this difference leads to more and more misunderstanding and problems between gifted and non-gifted people, mainly because mind power is so essential to be able to communicate at the soul level in the first place. Something we have unfortunately lost in our current society. Like gifted adults, children withdraw further and further into their inner world and keep answers to themselves. A person can be quiet for many reasons. Gifted people do not dislike talking or interacting with others but do so in their own way. By being alone, they process their thoughts and thus build up mental resistance.
Therefore, a great deal of insight and mutual understanding is required for supervisors and gifted people themselves to get into a deep flow. They have all the answers. It is up to you to ask the right questions. There is still a lot of work to do!
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There’s a new tool available that’s designed to make life easier for iPhone developers, and its surprisingly low tech. It’s called the iPhone Application Sketch Book and it looks like just the thing to keep all those notes and inspirations about a new app idea all in one place.
The spiral-bound book is around 8 1/2″ x 11″ so it won’t get lost in the bottom of a laptop bag. There are 100 pages of design templates with lines at the top for jotting the name and other important details of the app. A real-size image of an iPhone is centered on graph-style paper with ample room to make drawings and notes about every aspect of the development process. Read More about Sketch Book Makes Designing iPhone Apps Easier
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23 July 2019
On 17 June 2019 in Nur-Sultan, the first meeting of the working group on the development of the joint exhibition on the Common Cultural Heritage along the Silk Roads took place.The first meeting of the working group on the development of the joint exhibition was organized to select the theme/s for the exhibit; discuss its scope and nature, as well as the possible objects to be displayed at the exhibit. The participants, representing national museums of Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan got an opportunity to share experiences, discuss opportunities and challenges and develop networking between the national museums.
The National Museum of Kazakhstan hosted the meeting of the working group in Nur-Sultan.
As a result of the meeting the following preliminary themes of the exhibition were proposed:
- Roads of Tolerance: religious, values, historic area and ancient civilizations
- Roads of Innovation and Discoveries: silk, paper, traditional water systems, scholars, architecture
- Roads of Unity in Diversity: shared living traditions (ICH elements), synergies between the nomadic and urban lifestyles, images and languages of people of CA, modern interpretations of traditions in architecture and design).
The joint exhibition will be organized as a part of the 3 years’ EU/UNESCO project "Silk Roads Heritage Corridors in Afghanistan, Central Asia and Iran – International Dimension of the European Year of Cultural Heritage". The exhibition on the Common Cultural Heritage aims to raise awareness about the project, to showcase the rich heritage of the participating countries, to promote the exchanges of good practices along the Silk Roads and to promote common understanding about the Silk Roads heritage as a bridge between the East and the West. The exhibit will be displayed at the closure of the project in the fall of 2021 at a museum in a participating country or Europe and made available for display in each of the participating countries.
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YOU VS. THE MEGA RICH
We love to compare ourselves to others, and this is especially true when those other happen to be ludicrously rich. As recent studies have shown, the richest 1% now own half of the world’s total wealth – allowing them to maintain lifestyles most of us can only dream of.
In fact, during 2017 the world’s billionaires made more money than in any year in recorded history. Their wealth increased by 20% to £6.9tn according to research released in October 2018 by UBS.
Interested to learn how you compare to the world’s mega-rich? Why not find out with our online comparison.
BREAKING DOWN THE EARNINGS OF UK BILLIONAIRES
As of 2018, there are 54 UK-based billionaires. Combined, they have a total wealth of £123,731,283,000, which is equivalent to over 6% of Britain’s GDP.
Their businesses range from fashion and technology to chemicals and online gambling, but they do have one thing in common, they’re all unimaginably wealthy.
To illustrate how this breaks down when compared to the average UK wage – £28,600 – we’ve broken down how much (and how quickly) three well-known British billionaires earn across the year.
Note: The figures for Richard Branson and James Dyson are based on their earnings and net worth changes between September 2017 and September 2018 as per Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index converted from dollars and rounded for clarity. Denise Coates’ earnings are based on Sunday Times Rich List figures 2017/2018. While these figures won’t stay consistent year on year, they offer an insight into how a billionaire’s annual income compares to an average salary.
HOW MUCH THE BEST-KNOWN BILLIONAIRES ARE EARNING
While it may be staggering to consider the amount of wealth that the UK’s richest people have amassed, it’s nothing compared to the fortunes of the world’s best-known billionaires.
Here’s a breakdown to show you how quickly the likes of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos earn the average UK wage.
Note: The breakdowns for these world-leading billionaires was calculated based on their Forbes Rich List net worth between 2017/2018 and converted from dollars. While these figures won’t stay consistent year on year, they offer an insight into how a billionaire’s annual income compares to an average salary.
A WORLDWIDE BILLIONAIRE OVERVIEW
Now you have a better understanding of the wealth held by some of the better-known British billionaires, it’s time to cast the net further to look at how this wealth is distributed across the globe.
There are over 2,000 billionaires across the world as of 2018 with a head-spinning combined wealth of £6,916,045,500,000 – that’s almost £7tn.
To gain a better understanding of the individuals in this exclusive club, let’s take a look at the wealthiest people on each continent.
HOW DO YOU COMPARE TO THE MEGA-RICH?
You’ve seen how the average UK wage compares to the income of some of its highest earners – but let’s be honest, not everyone makes that exact amount. If you want to find out more specifically how you fare vs. the mega-rich – use our online comparison for tailored results.
For more information on everything from the rise of Social Credit Scoring to an investigation into Britain’s largest landowners, head over to the ABC Finance blog.
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Start-up expenses, the one-time expenses you need to incur before you make your first sale, are one type of cost you’ll need to estimate when starting a small business.
What are start-up expenses?
Start-up expenses are made up of one-time capital expenses and monthly operating expenses. One-time capital costs might include purchase of initial inventory, purchase of equipment or furniture, improvements to your physical space, development of a website and deposits and fees.
Your start-up monthly operating expense estimate depends on your guess of how long you’ll be “operating” your business without any money coming in the door — we call that “Months to First Sale.” Imagine the T-minus 60 seconds countdown in a space shuttle launch.
The average number of months it takes to plan and start a small business is six, but it really depends on your industry. You know we love research, so we’ll say it again: the best way to find out how long you’ll have to pay your bills without any customers coming in the door is to ask a member of your industry, or someone who operates a business like the one you’re planning to run.
Start-up costs for a home-based service business are usually much less than those for a manufacturing business since you usually don’t have to worry as much about workspace or buying enough equipment to create a product.
Find the type of start-up costs that work best for your business
How you decide to pay will influence your one-time start-up expenses, because the objective is to estimate the amount of cash you’ll need to get to your grand opening. For example, if you need a $30,000 delivery van, you can buy it outright, which means you’ll need $30,000 in cash.
You can also lease it, which means borrowing money to pay for it, which means a smaller initial sum of cash for the deposit or loan down payment. This lets you pay over time when your cash flow is likely to be stronger. However, you’ll always end up paying more in total because of interest expenses and built-in fees associated with leasing.
Carefully consider your start-up needs, and be honest about how much your start-up costs will be. It’s better to make a mistake on paper than on opening day!
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The 400 Hudles Indoor :
- A 400 m indoor with 8 hurdles
- 30 m between two hurdles
- Minimal distance after the virage to attack hurdle : 6 m
- Commissioners races are positioned at each row of hedges
Specific order :
If an athlete bump a hurdle, the next athlete must take the one beside. If this next athlete has not the time, he feign a passage.
It is advised to move slightly behind the athlete head during the second tour of 400m hurdles indoor.
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ISO 22188:2004 specifies methods and means of monitoring for inadvertent movement and illicit trafficking of radioactive material. It provides guidelines on the use of both stationary and portable (e.g. hand-held) instruments to monitor for radiation signatures from radioactive material. Emphasis is placed on the operational aspects, i.e. requirements derived for monitoring of traffic and commodities mainly at border-crossing facilities. Although the term border is used repeatedly in ISO 22188:2004, it is meant to apply not only to international land borders but also maritime ports, airports, and similar locations where goods or individuals are being checked. ISO 22188:2004 does not address the issue of detection of radioactive materials at recycling facilities, although it is recognized that transboundary movement of metals for recycling occurs, and that monitoring of scrap metals may be done at the borders of a state.
ISO 22188:2004 is applicable to regulatory authorities seeking guidance on implementation of action plans to combat illicit trafficking, to law enforcement agencies (e.g. border guards) to obtain guidelines on recommended monitoring procedures, and to equipment manufacturers in order to understand minimum requirements derived from operational necessities according to ISO 22188:2004.
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Mobile App "GDPR in your Pocket"
Bulgarian Data Protection Authority launches “GDPR in your Pocket” mobile app
Adapted version. Original by CPDP
The GDPR gives prominence to the promotion of awareness on data protection rights and obligations. It is of utmost importance that stakeholders understand the risks, rules, safeguards and rights in relation to processing of personal data in order to reach and maintain a high level of data protection across the European Union.
Raising awareness amongst controllers and processors and providing information to data subjects concerning the exercise of their rights under the GDPR are indeed specific tasks formally assigned to supervisory authorities in order to meet this objective.
Within this context, our office endorses the initiatives of its European counterparts, such as the “GDPR in Your Pocket” mobile app recently launched by the Bulgarian Data Protection Authority.
The app aims at introducing the GDPR to citizens and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in an easy-to-use and understandable way by providing practical knowledge on data protection rights and obligations.
By collecting relevant legislation, CJEU and national case-law and guidelines in one single resource centre, the app represents a valuable tool for a holistic view over the European data protection legal framework.
The app is multi-lingual (Bulgarian, English, German, French and Italian) and it is available for free download for Android, Apple and Microsoft environments using the links provided below.
Google Play Store – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ApisEurope.SmeData.Mobile
Apple App Store– https://apps.apple.com/tc/app/gdpr-in-your-pocket/id1474950057
Microsoft Store– https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/gdpr-in-your-pocket/9n13fg496bb7
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“The characters speak with their voices and with those of the characters that surround them” … That teacher and the phrase I just made up, but I wanted to give you an example of what I mean. It can be a lot of fun for you to quote or imitate other characters, you can even recreate entire conversations. 5. Delete the first two sentences When you have a written paragraph, test what happens if you erase the first two sentences. Bermuda Email List Is it still understood? Many times I end up erasing the first thing the characters say,
it is as if they were “warm-up” phrases. Maybe in your text it will work too. 5 tips for writing a monologue 5 Antigone is the title of a Sophocles tragedy. I hope these tips help you and that you write a lot of monologues to exercise and find your own technique. Remember that in monologues the length is not what counts: it can be 20 lines or a complete 35-page work, and in either case we will be facing monologues. Uae Phone Number Do not forget that the important thing is to write a lot because, the more you write,
the more things you will discover. Article written by Jimena Eme Vázquez ( @jimenaemeuve ). I am a narrative teacher at Domestika (my dialogue writing course is coming out soon). What I do most is write plays. I’ve been writing narrative since I was a child and I started studying Dramatic Literature and Theater at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) because I wanted to be an actress. In 2014 my first text was released professionally and since then I have premiered 2 to 5 works a year, plus many other texts that I write, but that do not reach the stage.
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Integral Combustion Solutions company (Soluciones Integrales de Combustión), specialized in the commissioning and maintenance of energy installations, shows in a video the commissioning process of an industrial boiler in a paper plant. The boiler is part of a steam generation equipment installed in the Smurfit Kappa wastebasket in Burgos, where it develops its technologies in the area of corrugated cardboard packaging.
Smurfit Kappa Burgos is a paper mill that designs and manufactures sustainable and innovative packaging in partnership with its customers to respond to the needs of the food and beverage sector, pharmaceutical and other industrial products, including electronics. The factory is integrated into the Smurfit Kappa Spain and Portugal division, a geographical area composed of 19 centers dedicated to the manufacture of packaging solutions for corrugated cardboard, paper for packaging and forest management.
Integral Combustion Solutions offers its turnkey services for energy installations, with the aim of improving productivity and optimizing the energy efficiency of its customers. The company provides Energy Services such as the supply, installation, maintenance and repair of all the elements that make up a Thermal Power Plant.
SEE OUR VIDEO: Commissioning Process of an Industrial Boiler in a Paper plant
- On 05/03/2020
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