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Nearly seven years after the end of the Great Recession, there are still two areas of concern in the labor market. The first is the low labor force participation rate, and the second is the slack in the labor market, as evidenced by the elevated levels of involuntary part-time work. According to the White House Council of Economic Advisors, the decline in labor force participation is attributable to a combination of cyclical and structural factors. To the extent that the decline is cyclical, perhaps, as the economy continues to recover, we will see an increase in participation rates of prime-age workers in the labor market, the current pool of discouraged workers will re-enter to look for work, and involuntary part-time workers will find full-time jobs. However, there is an area where we could potentially improve participation rates, particularly for prime age workers, through the adoption of the right types of policies. This has to do with women’s labor force participation.
Participation rates in prime-age years
In the chart below, I use data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to show how participation rates vary over the lifecycle for women versus men. In the early years (16-24), women and men tend to have fairly similar participation rates. Men only outpace women by 3 percentage points. However, as they enter their prime working age years, women tend to fall behind men significantly. On average, in the ages of 25-54, the participation rate for men, at 88%, is 14 percentage points higher than for women, at 74%. This gap widens over time, and reaches a peak at the ages of 35-44 when 90% of men are in the labor force compared to 74% of women.
But participation is not the end of the story, since participation by itself is no guarantee of a good, well-paying job. The picture is far more dire when we look at the types of jobs that women are in, particularly in their prime-age years. Data from the BLS further show that 66% of part-time workers are women. In fact, over the course of the Great Recession, it was women who overwhelmingly reported themselves as being involuntary part-time workers. In 2014, 4.5% of women reported being in involuntary part-time work as opposed to 3.7% of men.
In addition, in the ages of 25-54, my own calculations using data from the BLS show that 19% of women were in part-time work in 2014. This is more than double the percentage of men in part-time jobs for that age range.
It is not particularly hard to surmise the reasons for the decline in labor force participation rates for women in their prime working years. These years are also the ones in which women face childbearing and childcare responsibilities, which often results in their leaving the labor force entirely or taking up part-time work in order to better balance work and family needs. The participation rate for mothers with children under 3 years was at 61% in 2012.
To the extent that these are voluntary choices that women make, this drop in participation and growth in part-time work in prime working age years is unlikely to reverse. However, often these choices are made under constraints, since the U.S. lacks a system of paid family leave with a guarantee that the job will be protected during the duration of leave. Similarly, the high costs of childcare often force women to opt out of the workforce entirely or take up part-time or jobs with irregular schedules that enable them to do both.
It is no surprise that, according to Pew Research Center, women are much more likely to feel financially insecure than men. It is clear that if participation in the labor market is low in the years that are critical to investments in one’s career, human capital and skills, then that impacts their ability to have high lifetime earnings, build financial assets and create savings and security for retirement.
Hence the solution to this particular participation and slack issue is to address the twin challenges facing working families today: the lack of paid family leave systems and high childcare costs. This is critical not just for working women in America, but also for the families they are raising today.
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HUSUM, Wash. -- Driving upstream along the curves of the White Salmon River brings you to Husum. Just before the raft and kayak guide shops and the thunder of Husum Falls, Indian Creek Road branches to the right and leads to Indian Cemetery Road, running past signs that highlight settlers' wagon tracks.
Tony Washines, 66, stands in the cemetery's deepest corner, in front of the oldest stone. Streaks of gray run through his ponytail, dark green firs reflect in his thick glasses.
His great-great-grandfather and tribal leader, Jacob Hunt Sr., was buried here in 1913. That's the year Condit Dam went up near the mouth of the White Salmon, supplying electricity to a paper mill but stopping salmon cold.
It's scheduled to be breached Wednesday. With 700 pounds of dynamite,
contractors will set off a final charge to complete a drain tunnel blasted into the bottom of the dam, creating a hole that will
and begin the dam's demise.
After two decades of controversy, Condit is the latest and, at 125 feet tall, among the biggest U.S. hydroelectric dams to fall. PacifiCorp concluded that upgrading Condit for fish passage would cost roughly three times more than the $35 million to take it down.
In the Northwest, it follows the breaching of Marmot Dam on the Sandy River, Powerdale Dam on the Hood River and
. Removal of
in Washington's Olympic National Park -- the largest dam demolition to date -- started in September.
Condit's fall will unleash one of the Northwest's cleanest and wildest rivers, originating from glaciers on Mount Adams. The White Salmon is a one-hour drive east from Portland, a magnet for kayakers and rafters, and a potential haven for wild salmon that have teetered on the edge of extinction for nearly a century.
For Washines and two others stamped by the White Salmon -- an expert kayaker drawn by the river's power and a spirited government scientist exhilarated by the prospects for wild salmon -- it's a time for both celebration and reflection.
"I'm elated for our people," says Washines, a
tribal elder. "But I have some sense of misgiving. We'll never go back and re-create history. We'll never have our own tepees and longhouses here and live here."
As a boy, Washines "grew up in the forest and on the rivers," roaming from the reservation in the high desert of eastern Washington to Mount Adams to the Columbia River, picking strawberries and huckleberries, eating leached and baked acorns, canning, spearfishing and floating on the mid-Columbia rivers.
His travels reflected the tribes' historic lifestyle, traveling by season to where food, fish and game were abundant.
"It was a wonderful utopia for a teenager, to live off the land literally," he says. "We have a sense of independence and taking care of our own and being self-sufficient. That's what this land taught us."
Lewis and Clark saw fishermen on the White Salmon when they passed by in October 1805. Historically, Washines says, some 3,000 people lived near the White Salmon. Husum Falls is a sacred site.
That ended in the 1850s when 14 bands and tribes, now the Yakama Nation, were forced onto the reservation -- to "an unirrigated, high desert valley that was basically sagebrush and rattlesnakes," Washines says.
Development squeezed the tribes' traditional fishing grounds, including 10.8 million acres ceded across central Washington. The Dalles Dam on the Columbia River submerged the epic tribal fishing site at
. Condit and other dams blocked salmon, steelhead and lamprey from Columbia tributaries.
But Washines says he's not pointing fingers. The reservation has its own logging, road building and development.
"I can't get up on a soapbox and holler," he says. "We live in a contemporary world, too."
Many of his father's ancestors left Husum for the reservation, where Washines was born. But he remembers visiting Husum and the White Salmon often as a child, and the sounds of his grandmothers bantering in two traditional languages.
His father and older brother, Clifford Washines Casseseka, are buried at Husum. "Everyone in this cemetery is my relation," he says, "either by blood or marriage."
Clifford died in 2009 after years of advocating to remove Condit, part of a two-decade effort by the Yakama Nation. He was wrapped in traditional tule mats and untanned buckskin, and lies under a painstakingly decorated mound about four miles from the dam.
"He was on the threshold of seeing this become a reality," Washines says. "I think he'd be very, very satisfied knowing his grandchildren will benefit from a clean salmon river."
Susan Hollingsworth's scariest swim on the White Salmon came this spring, when her well-traveled kayak got stuck in a churning hole just downstream of Condit.
With her boat flipping and turning, she climbed out and pulled herself into a ball. Her plan was to go under and let the river's flow carry her free. It didn't work.
For maybe 15 seconds, she whipped around, surfacing for air but losing energy fast. Her kayaking partner waved for her to move to one side. She kicked, then shot out into safer water.
"I know this river," Hollingsworth says. "I'm familiar with its power in ways that sometimes I would not have chosen, but most of the time in the extremely rewarding ways you get when you surrender to a natural force."
At 28, Hollingsworth is lean and lively, unadorned except for a tattoo inside her left wrist marking the Tibetan phrase for "light energy."
She's camped, taught and guided on the White Salmon for the past two years and wants to make it a home base after years of journeying to expert-only whitewater.
She feels fear -- she'll pass on a rapid or falls if her heart rate rises or her focus wavers. After that spin in the hole, she passed more often this summer.
But running a tough stretch also brings incredible clarity, she says, a bond with the friends who've run it with you, and a connection with some of the most beautiful, inaccessible places on Earth.
This summer, she also worked on getting through holes.
"I used to freak out, and I realized it doesn't help," she says. "You develop this ability to sharpen your focus to one point and not let fear take over. You trust in your ability."
Hollingsworth explored her first stream as a kid in South Carolina, got a taste of rafting in high school, then set off on her first kayaking road trip after graduation.
Since then, she's kayaked around the globe. She met her boyfriend, fellow kayaker Adam Elliott, in China two years ago and is planning a Costa Rica kayaking trip with girlfriends next year.
But she's putting down roots along the White Salmon.
She camped beside the river most of this summer, teaching kayaking and yoga, guiding for Wet Planet in Husum, and working with
on Condit removal events.
The river has five runnable falls -- Lava Falls, Big Brother, Little Brother, BZ Falls and Husum Falls -- a "green truss" stretch of continuous, expert-only whitewater lined by basalt cliffs, and long sections for intermediate kayakers and rafters.
When other rivers get too low to navigate in late summer and early fall, "the White Salmon is still flying," Hollingsworth says, courtesy of plentiful springs and the melting snow on Mount Adams. By August, it's typically the only Class 5 whitewater -- the toughest category -- available in the gorge.
Hollingsworth is one of 40,000 boaters who hit the White Salmon each year, American Rivers estimates. The group counts 10 outfitters on the river.
Condit's removal will open five miles of river, including the rapid that challenged Hollingsworth, which feeds into a canyon of unique "pillow" basalt formations. She plans to work on White Salmon restoration and better river access for boaters.
Hollingsworth has an ecology degree from Penn State and wants to go to graduate school with a focus on conservation.
"I spent a season here and a season there, then I came to the White Salmon and I don't ever want to leave," she says. "There's such a richness to the river culture of the Northwest. That's huge for me."
Near a dock just upstream of what used to be Northwestern Lake, a female tule fall chinook slowly circles her redd, a river-bottom nest that holds thousands of eggs.
Her tail is chalk white, the scales worn off from scraping away big gravel. She'll die soon. She's still guarding the redd from invading females.
"This is just classic," Rod Engle says. "She's just holding on. This is the goal. This is what's important."
Engle, 38, is a fish biologist for the
. He played offensive guard on the University of South Dakota's football team. With salmon in sight, he's a 6-foot-5, 290-pound package of intensity.
This summer and fall, Engle and others from the service and Yakama Nation colleagues moved 679 tules from below the dam to well-preserved spawning grounds upstream.
The idea was to protect the fish -- and their offspring -- from the sediment deluge expected when the dam is breached.
Some 180 redds on the upper river offer a glimpse of what could come once sediment below the lake and downstream washes out.
"I'm hoping for an absolutely horrid winter, the worst winter on record, because it will move that sediment out," Engle says. "These fish will have a clean palette."
Engle grew up in Rapid City, S.D., trout fishing and retrieving thousands of golf balls from Rapid Creek, which runs by a public golf course through the center of town. With a graduate degree from Humboldt State in tow, he arrived at the White Salmon 10 years ago, working in Columbia Gorge hatcheries and rivers.
Tule fall chinook, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, return from Alaska and British Columbia, then spawn after a relatively short trip on the Columbia River. That quick sexual maturity leaves their flesh white or light pink. They pass just one dam, Bonneville. And they're big -- up to 50 pounds -- the better to move the big gravel they spawn in.
Nearly 90 percent of the tules Engle and crew collected this fall were wild, a sign the White Salmon's wild population, genetically distinct from tules in other rivers, hung on for a century in the 3-mile niche downstream of the dam.
Strays from the nearby
, which raises some 15 million tule a year, are likely mixed in. But the genetic stock of the wild fish doesn't seem to have changed, largely because the 1901 hatchery used returning White Salmon tules as brood stock for seven decades.
That's unusual on the Columbia, where hatcheries often imported fish, watering down the genetic makeup of wild fish.
"Do you realize how special these fish are?" Engle says. "These fish have got a foothold in next to nothing."
Condit's removal will open 5 miles of spawning grounds for fall chinook and up to 33 miles for steelhead, also listed under the Endangered Species Act. The renewed river has enough spawning grounds to accommodate more than 600 steelhead spawners and 1,200 fall chinook. Coho, lamprey and spring chinook will also benefit.
The White Salmon won't generate a big bump in the Northwest's overall salmon returns, Engle says. But it's another move in the right direction.
Along the dock, big, dark-skinned tule males swim powerfully upstream. American Dippers dart into the water, searching for salmon eggs. Redds, dark blotches on the riverbed, spread across the water.
"The folks who live here are going to see fish every fall," Engle says. "Their kids and their grandkids are going to say, 'I never grew up without salmon in my backyard.'"
This article reflects a correction published Oct. 26, 2011:
American Rivers estimates that 40,000 boaters use the White Salmon River each year. A front-page Sunday story misstated the number.
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President Trump presented a compelling editorial to the American people, focusing on the economic recovery that has taken place under GOP leadership. Fox News published the President’s Oped:
For many Americans, the Great Recession brought dark days we will never forget – and never want to repeat. It wasn’t long ago that economists told us sluggish growth and flat wages were here to stay.
Pundits talked about a “jobless recovery.” And politicians promised hope and change but never delivered.
But now, thanks to Republican leadership, the United States has the best economy in the history of our country – and hope has finally returned to cities and towns across America.
Since I was elected, we have created 4.5 million new jobs. In the last month alone, we added another 250,000 jobs, and nearly a half-million Americans returned to the workforce. We have added nearly 500,000 manufacturing jobs to our economy – jobs that many self-proclaimed experts said would never return.
This focused delivery is targeting swing voters, who aren’t sure whether the President’s overall performance merits further backing. With a strong job record, President Trump hopes that Americans will trust the current direction the country is going in, with a Dem control of Congress risking all the paycheck gains they’ve received.
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Content from the Brookings Institution India Center is now archived. After seven years of an impactful partnership, as of September 11, 2020, Brookings India is now the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, an independent public policy institution based in India.
Organizations, news outlets, and activists are focused on increasing attention to the growing climate crisis. On September 23, the United Nations Climate Action Summit happens in New York, part of the UN General Assembly meeting. In this edition of Charts of the Week, a look at some research related to energy and climate.
Coal declining, natural gas rising as US electricity sources
In a report titled, “The Risk of Fiscal Collapse in Coal-Reliant Communities,” expert authors from Brookings and the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University examine risks to the 53,000 U.S. workers and their communities employed in the coal industry. As they show, over 80% of U.S.-coal was used in electricity generation, but the share of overall electricity generated from coal is steadily declining.
COAL DOMINATES INDIA’S POWER SUPPLY
Coal remains the dominant source of electricity power generation in India. Rahul Tongia and Samantha Gross write that “Despite expected growth in RE [renewable energy], we project that coal will remain the dominant fuel for electricity generation in India through 2030 and beyond, even though its share of generation will fall.” In their paper, the authors examine India’s use of coal, and its aims to increase alternative sources of energy to meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement.
US CLIMATE COSTS WILL BE WIDESPREAD BUT UNEVEN BY CENTURY’S END
A team of Brookings researchers examine the geography of climate change with the help of county-level data from the Climate Impact Lab. The data include assessments of climate-change impact in various areas, including agriculture, mortality, coastal damage, and labor supply risk. The chart below aggregates these factors. The researchers conclude, among other things, that mortality represents the largest cause of the variability, and also climate change could “bestow net economic benefits” to some areas of the country.
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As home inspectors in the Phoenix area, one of the driest areas of the country, it would seem that grading and drainage problems would be of no concern. Actually, the opposite is the case. We are very concerned about the way rainwater will affect the property.
Several considerations make a home inspector’s job very difficult in the cities surrounding the normally dry Phoenix metro area. Let’s take a look at what a local home inspector might obsess about:
- The Phoenix area only receives about 8” of rainfall annually. Some parts of the country receive that amount in a weekend or in a single rain event. The problem is that much of the rain comes down rapidly during the monsoon season in the summer during the months of July and August. A single day of more than 1” of rainfall locally can be a big deal and a deluge of rainwater needs to be accounted for during the property design phase.
- Builders and homeowners can often get away with an amazing amount of disregard for grading and drainage locally. Our dry climate can take years for that one massive localized storm to reveal the drainage defects at a property. Just look around at how the homes here have flat sites with minimally elevated finish floors inside.
- The vast majority of local housing does not have gutters installed to control rainwater from the roof. Think of the roof as a huge area of collection for rainwater and roof designs often concentrate the roof runoff into zones around the perimeter of the structure. Most of the rest of the country routinely installs gutters with downspout leaders that extend 4 feet from the structure walls. Not here, we go without gutters and just see what happens.
- Final site grading is established by the builders during construction and has some portion of the property designed to retain a portion of the rainwater on site. The water is retained to allow for percolation into the soil on-site and avoid dumping all of the rainwater onto the streets.
- Normally, the design and final site grading is fine. These designs can have very little room for error and problems arise after the builder hands over the keys to the homeowner. Landscaping projects get installed by folks with little concern for maintaining the integrity of the site drainage design. Retention areas can get eliminated or removed, drainage paths can be altered and blockages to rainwater exit are often inadvertently created.
- Older properties may have additions installed that do not have the proper elevated finish floor height inside. Without the inside elevation being higher, the home is at risk of flooding.
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Choosing One's Way - Resistance in Auschwitz-Birkenau
This video permits the ashes of Auschwitz to bear eloquent testimony. The focus of this documentary is a heretofore little-known story of resistance. Accomplished through the smuggling of gun powder from a nearby munitions factory, the inmates succeeded in the destruction of Crematorium #4. The film features thirteen survivors, each of whom contributes to the piecing together of this incredible story of heroism. (HS). Color. (30 min)
Cohen Center materials are available for school libraries to borrow for classroom use. If your school would like to borrow any of these materials, please contact Mason Library Interlibrary Loan at firstname.lastname@example.org to register for a Lending Web account.
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January 15, 2017 (by Paul Hibbeln and Nathan Simmons) - When the Gulf War began, the footage of precision weaponry striking Iraqi government buildings, military installations, and tanks impressed the nation. Laser guided bombs and high speed anti-radiation missiles (HARMs), carried by the new stealthy F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-111 Aardvark caught the world's attention.
USAF F-16C block 40 #88-0476 from the 4th TFS flies out on a mission during Operation Desert Storm. The aircraft is armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles and Mark 84 2,000-pound bombs on February 1st, 1991. [USAF photo by TSgt. Marvin Lynchard]
The tank-busting A-10 Warthog also came in for its share of the Gulf War glory. The F-16 Fighting Falcon, which had arrived at the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing in 1979 played a vital role in the 1991 American air power campaign between the opening strikes in the very early morning of Jan. 17, and the end of the war on Feb. 28. Carrying air-to-air missiles, a heavy bomb load, and equipped with the Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN
) pods, 48 of the 388th's F-16s from the 4th and 421st Tactical Fighter Squadrons flew 3,944 sorties in support of the overall mission of destroying Iraq
's army and liberating Kuwait.
Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990. President George H.W. Bush almost immediately received an invitation from King Fahd of Saudi Arabia to station U.S. forces in the kingdom, first for the defense of the Arabian Peninsula and then for the liberation of Kuwait. Soon after, many of the other states in the Gulf followed. By mid-September 800 U.S. aircraft and their crews had arrived. Among them were the 4th and 421st TFS, which had shipped out of Hill AFB
in late August. Both flew non-stop to Al Minhad Air Base in the United Arab Emirates
, refueling in flight 10 times over the 16 hour trip.
In September 1990, the Air Force reorganized its forces in the Gulf. The 388th Tactical Fighter Wing (Provisional) became the operational lead at Al Minhad, and its wing commander, Col. Michael Navarro, took command of his squadrons as well as the 69th TFS, part of the 347th TFW from Moody AFB. The squadrons at Al Minhad provided 72 of the 210 F-16s employed during the war. Meanwhile, the 34 TFS deployed to Torrejon Air Base, Spain, to provide attrition replacements.
On Jan. 8, 1991, as the wing continued to train for the upcoming campaign to liberate Kuwait, 4th TFS pilot Capt. Michael Chinburg crashed and was killed flying his F-16. Chinburg was the only casualty for the 388th TFW (P) during the campaign.
By the time the air campaign commenced, the United States had nearly 1,200 combat aircraft deployed, supported by another 1,200 tankers, tactical and heavy lifters, and other support aircraft. All together, the in-theater aircraft filled 25 bases in five countries. This was over a quarter of all U.S. Air Force assets and included 80 percent of the strategic airlift available, half the tanker force, and nearly all aircraft capable of dropping precision munitions.
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition forces, and his air commanders had extremely high expectations for the aerial campaign that would precede the ground assault on Iraqi troops. The American goal was to reduce Iraqi combat effectiveness by 50 percent, which entailed striking targets in Iraq and Kuwait for 38 days. This was a tremendously difficult task which demanded superior performance on the part of every piece of the air power machine. The 388th TFW (P) flew missions against Iraq from the very moment that the aerial campaign began in the early morning hours of Jan. 17, 1991.
During the campaign the 421st TFS flew over 1,300 sorties, most of which occurred at night. The 4th TFS flew a similar number of day-time sorties. Along with the 69th TFS, they dropped nearly three million pounds of bombs on targets all over Iraq and Kuwait.
The 388th's missions during the first few days of the war were complicated and sometimes chaotic. Flying from Al Minhad to the top of the gulf was a journey of 530 nautical miles. The multi-ship groups that flew into Iraq during the first days of the war would routinely refuel more than once before the planes assembled, and the F-16s would be flying for up to eight hours, sometimes on very little notice.
On the first day the wing sent 24 F-16s, divided into eight-ship flights, to prevent the movement of the Iraqi Republican Guard, the elite corps of the Iraqi Army. They bombed the Republican Guard's headquarters, command and control centers, and its communications facilities. The next day, the F-16s struck them again, along with the Kuwaiti air bases at Al Jaber and Ali Al Salem.
On the third day of the war, the Air Force organized the largest mission of the campaign. Known as "Package Q," this strike at Iraq's capital, Baghdad, was designed to be larger and more comprehensive than the previous strikes by F-117s using single "smart" bombs. Fifty-six of the 388th's F-16s, along with F-15s, F-111s and various support aircraft, would converge on Baghdad and attack the centers of the Iraqi government. Each F-16 was heavily loaded with extra fuel, air-to-air missiles, and two Mark-84 2,000 pound bombs.
Iraqi air defenses over Baghdad had been severely compromised by F-117 attacks, but individual surface-to-air missile emplacements were still operational, as were the hundreds of anti-aircraft guns surrounding the city. U.S. forces were heavily engaged by these defenses, and the F-16s diverted rather than jettison their ordnance. The 388th's F-16s struck the research center at Tuwaitha, the center of the Iraqi nuclear program, a target it would revisit more than once over the course of the next month.
SCUD HUNTING AND KILL-BOXES
In the following weeks the 388th TFW expanded its mission set. When the air campaign began, the Iraqis swiftly responded by attempting to complicate the coalition's political stability. It did so by launching its Scud ballistic missiles into Saudi Arabia and Israel
. The missiles did not carry large warheads and they were not very accurate. But in order to remove the threat of indiscriminate strikes on Israel's cities by a desperate Iraq, the wing added "Scud-hunting" to its list of tasks. Fixed launch sites were easy to find, but the Iraqis had a number of mobile launchers as well. They attempted to move supplies and equipment during the night, because moving their forces during the day was dangerous with American jets flying constantly. This made the wing's LANTIRN capability extremely valuable. Striking day and night, it hit Al Jaber and Ali Al Salem repeatedly to destroy the shelters where the Iraqis stored Scud parts. Large formations of F-16s also attacked Scud production facilities and hunted for mobile launch sites.
As the ground attack by U.S. and coalition forces drew closer, the 388th's missions expanded even further, and became more specialized and innovative. Weather and oil fires started by the Iraqis significantly degraded any aircraft's ability to accurately target its objectives from medium altitudes. Col. Navarro and his commanders, including Lt. Col. Mark Welsh, then commander of the 4 TFS, were tasked to hunt for Iraqi formations in what became known as "kill-boxes," twenty-mile grids in southern Iraq and Kuwait. Initially bombing from over 25,000 feet with limited effectiveness, the wing's pilots quickly became frustrated. They redesigned a Vietnam-era tactic for the modern battlefield, and operated as "Killer Scouts," with a two-plane formation going over the same kill-box every sortie, one flying high, ready to strike, and the other flying low, marking targets. Pilots became familiar with the terrain and with the environment of their kill-box, and so, as one put it, "The Iraqis couldn't make a move without the Killer Scouts knowing about it."
SUPPORTING THE GROUND ATTACK
On Feb. 24, 1991, the ground campaign began, and up to the moment it rolled into action, the fog of war prevented planners from knowing just how effective the air campaign had been. However, due to the air war, the Iraqi Army had become disorganized and their resistance was half-hearted. Thanks to tactics like those employed by the Killer Scouts, the Iraqis avoided using or moving much of their heavy equipment, which were great targets for U.S. planes.
The result was an uncoordinated response to U.S. attacks, with many units surrendering without attempting to man their tanks or artillery. Even where the attacking American planes had failed to destroy their targets, surrendering Iraqi soldiers complained about the continual presence of air raids and how U.S. interdiction efforts had prevented any kind of coordinated defense. The result was a 100 hour offensive that routed the Iraqis in only four days.
When the 388th's warfighters returned to Hill AFB at the end of the war, they returned as combat veterans who had operated the F-16 in every mission the aircraft had been designed for under harsh desert conditions. The wing suffered only two damaged aircraft in 44 days of combat with no losses. With this experience, and with the technological advances that followed from the use of the LANTIRN and precision munitions, the 388th was set up for continued success in the battlespace of the 21st century.
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Terrorist plots against transit systems in the New York City and Washington demonstrate the threats faced by rail systems. Intelligence recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound indicates that U.S. rail systems were a potential target, and earlier attacks on rail systems in London, Spain, Russia, and India demonstrate the need for heightened security.
The Transportation Security Administration oversees rail security but the agency has struggled to meet security guidelines required by the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.
The Government Accountability Office found that some rail stakeholders do not receive security information from TSA and that less than half of public transit agencies, 34, had access to the Homeland Security Information Network (HISN). TSA relies on HISN to share security-related information with transportation officials. Nineteen transit agencies did not have HSIN access, 12 had never heard of it, and an additional 11 agencies did not know whether they had access to HSIN.
Rail security stakeholders from three of the seven Class I railroads—freight carriers with operating revenues of over $359 million—said information provided by TSA does not offer details that could help them develop or adjust their current counter-terrorism measures. Officials said they often receive the same information that TSA provides from the media or other sources before it is actually distributed from TSA.
“Opportunities exist to streamline security information for transit agencies, and preliminary results of ongoing work indicate that some freight rail agencies do not receive actionable information from TSA,” the GAO said.
Securing rail systems presents a number of challenges. The open architecture of rail systems makes it vulnerable to attack and multiple access points are difficult to secure. The high concentration of riders, costly infrastructure, economic and symbolic importance in major cities and tourist locations make trains an attractive target for terrorists.
Security cameras, handheld explosive trace detection systems and X-ray imaging offer potential security measures rail systems could employ. However, technologies are at varying levels of maturity and sometimes compromise mobility and privacy. Advanced Imaging Technologies (AIT) has the ability to detect hidden objects but they would require rail passengers to walk through the equipment, limiting ridership and increasing lines. AIT technologies also raise privacy concerns because they create images of individuals underneath their clothing.
FAST FACT: The Transportation Security Grant Program spent $13 million to help implement the “If You See Something, Say Something,” campaign on New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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Lessons from recession will help SMEs’ future roadmapBy ANI
Monday, November 30, 2009
NEW DELHI - Learning lessons from recession important for future upswing
SMEs should graduate from growth by default to growth by design
SME Credit rating can act as bridge between SMEs and lending institutions
The issue of raising a robust tech-aligned SME in India came in for intensive discussion at the “Envisioning the Wired SME” conference, organized by The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and IndiaMART.com, at the Sheraton, Saket, in New Delhi on Saturday.
Discussing the issue of propelling the growth of SMEs in a focused session, Rakesh Rewari, Deputy Managing Director, SIDBI, who also chaired the session, noted, “Despite the recession, the Indian SME has been able to produce winners in the midst of a global slowdown, because they largely do not have any capital expenditure or big buck spends.”
Exhorting SMEs to learn from their showing in the past two years and prepare for the post-recession upswing, Rewari said, “Product diversification and tapping the overseas market will always allow an SME to sustain its value and grow faster.” Panelists for the session included Praful Jain, Head, Enterprise Practice, Markets, KPMG, R. Ganesh, Deputy General Manager, ICICI Bank and Parag Patki, CEO, SME Rating Agency of India.
Addressing the importance of growth, at a time many SMEs have managed to make a standing for themselves in the market, Praful Jain, Head, Enterprise Practice, Markets, KPMG, emphasized on the criticality of courage and conviction and a dire need to innovate, which would go a long way in overcoming resource crunch, something that plagues almost every SME. “With a problem-solving approach, if SMEs can use their existing resources judiciously, there is a conscious effort required to convert growth by default into growth by design. That will become a pillar for its growth.”
Addressing the need gap of SMEs’ needing small funding, R. Ganesh, Deputy General Manager of ICICI Bank, underlined the bank’s commitment to SMEs, which gets addressed by a separate dedicated SME unit, which addresses the needs of SMEs, which are not big enough to attract the attention of venture capital funds or angel investors. Asking SMEs to become more transparent and accountable for better credit support, Ganesh said, “There are limitations. Banks are extremely conscious about an SME’s transaction history, and that is where most SMEs cannot sail through.”
Parag Palki, CEO, SME Rating Agency of India, outlined the gradually increasing significance of a credit rating regime, which helps SMEs liaise with banks and funding agencies, by proving their credentials. “The mission is to act as a bridge between SMEs and lending institutions. A good rating will automatically aid and support an SME’s growth story.” (ANI)
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Exciting Changes at Bridge2Aid
Oral diseases currently affect around 3.5 billion people in the world and it is primarily the poorest, most disadvantaged and most marginalised populations that are suffering the most.
Bridge2Aid is working in exciting new ways to ensure we make a bigger impact on oral health, and a lower impact on the environment! We are going to be flying fewer volunteers to Africa, and working much more closely with African dental professionals. These local professionals are going to be delivering the majority of our training. And our training is going to cover much more! This also means that we will be more nimble, able to support projects in a wider range of countries, and positively impact on many thousands more lives.
In February, we worked in partnership with Tanzanian dentists to deliver training and education around the issue of infant oral mutilation to nearly 500 health workers, community educators, school teachers and teachers in northern Tanzania.
In March we worked with dental therapists in Malawi to train 90 community health workers, teachers and youth workers to become Oral Health Promoters in their villages. We have much more planned for the rest of the year.
If you would like to support our work, and help prevent oral disease and pain, sign up to our Treat 1: Train 1 scheme. Just donate the income from treating 1 patient in pain in your practice in the UK each month and we can train 1 Oral Health Promoter in a rural community in East Africa.
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There are a number of different ALDs available with the most commonly chosen type being Personal Amplifiers.
Personal Amplifiers can be supplied with a variety of microphones that can be placed near the sound source, not just pointed from a distance. They can also be supplied with a variety of earpieces, not just headphones.
Neckloops or Silhouette Couplers can also be used to work with hearing aids or implants switched to 'Telecoil'.
Some Personal Amplifiers have a detachable microphone that can be positioned nearer to the sound source and can deliver quality sound from a distance significantly better than a standard hearing aid. Personal Amplifiers that have provision for an external microphone can also use special purpose microphones (e.g. conference microphones) to further enhance their performance. The microphones used with most Personal Amplifiers have larger diaphragms and therefore a greater pickup range - both in frequency and distance.
Some ALDs are designed primarily for use with TV. These devices may also use a microphone to pick up the sound from the TV. For systems that use this approach, there is also a benefit that the device can be used as a conversation aid as anyone needing assistance with the TV will also commonly need assistance with conversational speech.
Some TV Devices can be supplied with a variety of earpieces, not just headphones. Most can also use neckloops for use with hearing aids or implants that have a telecoil function and there are some that are just personal or small area loop systems for use with the telecoil in an aid or implant.
The ALD may also be connected directly to the TV audio out sockets. However, there are increasing complications with the direct connection approach as more TVs are now delivering High Definition Video and using different audio out formats (optical, HDMI, or digital coaxial).
For HD Video televisions there is a noticeable delay between the picture on the screen and the sound (as broadcast). This delay difference is compensated for internally by the TV circuitry so that the sound from the TV speaker is delayed to keep in step with the picture; however, the direct connection for audio out is not delayed.
Compatibility between the direct connection format on the TV Device (commonly RCA inputs) and the TV audio out connections (HDMI, Optical, Digital Coaxial) can also be problematic but there are converters available.
The delay and connectivity problems are not an issue if you use a TV Device with a microphone.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Appeals judges at the United Nations' Yugoslav war crimes tribunal reinstated Thursday a genocide charge against Radovan Karadzic linked to a campaign of killing and mistreating non-Serbs at the start of the Bosnian war in 1992.
The decision reversed the former Bosnian Serb president's acquittal last year on one of the two genocide charges he faces, but it does not amount to a conviction.
Presiding Judge Theodor Meron said appeals judges believe that prosecution evidence presented at Karadzic's trial "could indicate that Karadzic possessed genocidal intent" during a campaign in 1992 aimed at driving Muslims and Croats out of towns and villages claimed by Serbs as their territory.
The decision will draw out Karadzic's trial on charges including orchestrating Europe's worst massacre since World War II, the 1995 murder by Serb forces of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica.
The ruling in The Hague came on the day survivors gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 18th anniversary of the massacre by reburying 409 recently identified sets of remains exhumed from mass graves.
Karadzic's trial began in 2009, and prosecutors rested their case last year. Karadzic, who is defending himself in The Hague, called for acquittal on all 11 charges at the end of the prosecution case, saying there was insufficient evidence to convict him.
Judges rejected his request in all but the genocide charge covering the killings and mistreatment of non-Serbs in 1992 — the charge which has now been reinstated.
Karadzic also had argued that reinstating the charge would "disrupt the ongoing trial ... and would represent an irresponsible use of public funds," Meron said.
The 68-year-old former Bosnian Serb leader showed no emotion as Meron ordered him to stand in court and told him the charge had been reinstated.
Peter Robinson, an American lawyer helping Karadzic with his defense, said his client was disappointed by the five-judge panel's decision, "but he is taking on board their comments about the crimes and his intent and we are determined to go on and put on a strong case in the defense phase."
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Master of Science (MS)
In 2017, it is estimated that breast cancer will be the most prevalent newly diagnosed cancer in females, at 30% in the U.S. alone1. From the early 1990s to 2014 the death rate in females from breast cancer has dropped by 10% but still stands as the second highest cancer related death in females in the U.S.2. One of the biggest hurdles in breast cancer research is disease heterogeneity. New mechanisms of disease development and progression are encountered frequently. One mechanism studied in the past decades is epigenetics. It has been theorized that the cancer epigenome can maintain an abnormal state and possibly cooperate with genetic mutations3 and/or epigenetic modulators can be mutated which may become critical for cancer survival4. MLL1 (KMT2A), an epigenetic modulator that regulates gene expression by trimethylation of H3K4 near gene promoters, has recently been implicated in cancer. Data mining of publicly available primary patient databases revealed that high MLL1 expression is associated with decreased probability of recurrence-free survival in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). In breast cancer cell lines that represent different breast cancer subtypes we tested the efficacy of pharmacological MLL1 inhibition and MLL1 knockdown. Our data suggests that MLL1 is crucial for anchorage independent growth of the MDA-MB-468 cell line and this is not dependent on high MLL1 expression. The use of an MLL1-specific inhibitor in combination with standard of care chemotherapeutic agents was shown to be more effective for all breast cancer cell lines tested; the drugs could be used at much lower doses when combined. Some of the many MLL1 specific gene targets (ABCG2, AMIGO2 and EMP1) were interrogated for changes in gene expression with MLL1 inhibition. To our surprise the observed changes varied between the cell lines suggesting that MLL1 inhibition differentially affects expression of specific genes in different cellular contexts. In conclusion, we demonstrate that MLL1 may be a viable target for breast cancer therapy in combination with standard of care agents. We also suggest that MLL1-dependent gene expression mechanisms could decrease drug resistance or impact cell survival.
Holmes, Austin Gable, "Potential Efficacy of Targeting MLL1 in Breast Cancer" (2017). Master's Theses. 3678.
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Alternative finance — Is it the best option for business owners? Most business owners assume that accessing a traditional business loan from banks is a walk in the park. They presume that you only need to walk into your preferred bank, answer a few questions and subsequently sign some paperwork after which your loan application is granted. Regrettably, that is not the case as there are many things that could impede your chances of acquiring a traditional bank loan. They include having a credit score below 640, requiring a small business financing that is less than 250,000 and operating a business below two years old. To secure a business loan despite failing to meet these requirements, you may need to opt for alternative finance.
What is Alternative Finance?
Alternative finance is the type of finance, which stretches beyond the traditional asset types such as bonds, cash and stocks. It is a term which describes wide range of loan options available to startups, entrepreneurs, small business owners and other consumers outside of traditional financing options. These loans are commonly preferred by the borrowers when their loan application got rejected by the banks due to variety of reasons like bad credit history, improper business model or not having any asset to keep as a security against loan amount.
Advantages of Alternative Financing over traditional financing options
Though banks tend to offer loans to the borrower with high credit history and with any collateral, some people choose an alternative lender to meet their business funding requirement. Also, on contrary to banks, alternative lenders are not critical about what you plan to use the money. They offer instant funding to the needy even if an individual has a low credit score. They are known to lend money for commercial uses and are an ideal option for business owners who want to cover the cost of business expenses without any delay.
The rise of Alternative Financing:
The rise of Alternative Financing after the global recession of 2008
Before the global recession of 2008, early observers had a clue regarding the likelihood of facing a global recession based on the 2006 occurrences. During that time, the subprime mortgage crisis had erupted resulting in a drop in the new home permits. In August 2008, the famous Mortgage giants, Fannie and Freddie went bankrupt as a result of the subprime crisis.In September 2008, the stock market crashed, contributing to the recession.
After the global recession of 2008, traditional lenders become more conservative in the underwriting of financing. This prompted the introduction of alternative financing to help fund small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Entrepreneurs couldn’t rely entirely on traditional banks for small business loans. Consequently, the number of alternative lenders offering small business funding increased.
The rise of Alternative Financing market in Australia
Despite traditional financing being the primary source of funding for Australian businesses, alternative financing in Australia has continued to experience a steady growth. This is because a majority of businesses in Australia are SMEs and encounter financial issues consequently prompting them to solicit alternative funding.
How does Alternative Financing work?
To access alternative financing, borrowers need to submit their details to their preferred lenders for approval. It usually takes up to 24 hours for the borrower to know their fate regarding their application and access funds in their business accounts. The borrower then begins to pay off the loan based on the agreement.
Lenders typically receive a variety of loan applications from their prospective borrowers. Subsequently, they may assess the credit history of the borrower to determine the risk of the borrower. In the wake of satisfaction, they then commence the processing of the business loans and avail the funds to their borrowers.
Why is Alternative Funding a good small business financing option?
Several loan options
Alternative lending offers an abundance of loan options to meet the various demands of business owners. Business competition may prompt some entrepreneurs to seek fast business loans to purchase new stock, purchase new equipment, renovate a business, hire staff, open new stores or locations and obtain general working capital. Alternative lenders can always offer their borrowers a customised small business financing to meet their business requirements.
Less strict qualifications
Most alternative lenders are much willing to offer loans to their potential borrowers with fewer qualifications. Once they are assured that you can repay your loan, they may proceed to offer you a business loan regardless of your credit history.
Quick approval process
Compared to traditional bank loans, alternative financing generally involve short approval processes. This saves more time consequently expediting the access of funds for borrowers, who may be in dire need of business funding.
Types of Alternative Financing services
Some alternative lenders offer unsecured business loans. These loans don’t require collateral. However, the borrower may have to pay higher interest rates.Unsecured loans are very reliable especially in cases where you need to access funds quickly. Since there is minimal paperwork required to secure the loan, you can access funds within 24 hours of making a loan application. Some alternative lenders like Hubbe offer unsecured business loans ranging from $5,000 to $500,000.
Alternative lenders offer vehicle loans to small business owners seeking finance for cars to be used in the company. Typically, these lenders may offer a loan term ranging from 12 to 60 months. Also, they may require the borrower to have an authentic Australian Business Number(ABN) besides intending to use the product primarily for business purposes. Some of the business car loan products offered by most alternative lenders include hire purchase, car leasing and chattel mortgage.
Invoice finance is offered to business owners to help them secure or improve their cash flow by turning unpaid invoices into fast and efficient cash flow. Invoice finance is suitable in cases where business owners require cash to manage and grow their businesses, where businesses use account receivables for operations, where business owners require quick finance approval but unwilling to use their personal assets as security and where business owners require a steady supply of cash to pay their suppliers on time.
Alternative lenders offer equipment finance to help their prospective borrowers access fast business loans for the purchase of equipment, technology or new vehicles. Typically, alternative lenders assess the existing finance or customise new equipment loans for the business owner.
Secured business loan
Secured business loans are long-term loans offered to borrowers in exchange for collateral. They are generally available in larger amounts and have lower interest rates. The loans may range from $50,000 to $500,000. The lender may use this type of loan for any business purpose. A secured business loan offers a convenient redraw feature that allows the borrower to access additional repayments he or she has made on the loan.
A business line of credit
Some alternative lenders offer a business line of credit, which is a revolving facility that allows the borrower to transact within their approved credit limit. The borrower needs to pay only for the funds drawn making this type of alternative financing a cost-effective way to fund supplier purchases.
Alternative financing is proving to offer a lot of convenience for many business owners. It has eased the access of business loans making it more reliable. Why stress yourself waiting for months to qualify for a traditional bank loan? Apply for a business loan from Hubbe and save yourself the hassle of moving from one bank to another in search of a business loan.
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Italy Says It’s Proven Vase at Met Was Looted
In their decade-long investigation of the illicit antiquities trade, Italian authorities have amassed the strongest evidence to date that the most prized ancient Greek vase in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art was looted.
The Euphronios krater, described as one of the finest antiquities ever obtained by the Met, has been a source of controversy since the museum acquired it 33 years ago.
Italian authorities have long maintained that the vase was looted from a tomb north of Rome, but the Met has refused to return it, saying the Italians lack “irrefutable proof.”
Italians prosecutors now believe they have it, according to previously undisclosed court records obtained by The Times.
The records include excerpts from the handwritten memoir of Robert E. Hecht Jr., the American dealer who sold the krater, a terracotta bowl, to the Met in 1972. At the time, he told museum officials that he had acquired it from a Lebanese man whose family purchased it well before a 1939 Italian law prohibited the unauthorized export of antiquities.
But in his memoir, seized during a raid of his Paris apartment in 2001, Hecht tells a very different story. Instead of buying the krater from a reputable dealer with a documented ownership history, he says he purchased it in 1971 from an Italian dealer, Giacomo Medici, who was convicted last year of trafficking in looted art.
Medici turned up one morning at Hecht’s apartment in Rome and showed him a Polaroid photograph of a krater signed by Euphronios, a master vase painter of ancient Greece, the memoir says.
Within an hour, Hecht writes, the two men flew to Milan and caught a train north to Lugano, Switzerland, where Medici had the bowl in a safe-deposit box. Hecht says he offered Medici 1.5 million Swiss francs -- about $380,000 at the time -- for the krater on the spot, making a cash down payment of about $40,000. He then headed straight to Zurich, he writes, where he left the krater with a restorer before heading back to Rome to go on a family ski trip.
In this account, he makes no reference to documentation establishing that the object had been legally excavated and exported from Italy.
Thomas Hoving, who acquired the krater when he was the Met’s director, said Thursday in an interview that Hecht’s memoir is “a very important piece of evidence.”
“It proves, as the final nail in the coffin, where it came from,” Hoving said.
Hecht said Thursday that this version from his memoir involving Medici was a fiction. Medici, in a recent interview in Rome, also denied the account.
The Italians’ new evidence about the krater’s origins emerges at a time of heightened controversy over the ethics of antiquities acquisitions, with Italy, Greece and other source countries pressing claims for the return of rare items they say were illegally removed.
Hecht and Marion True, the J. Paul Getty Museum’s former antiquities curator, are now facing trial in Rome for allegedly trafficking in looted art. Medici was convicted last year in the same case and is appealing a 10-year prison sentence. Italy is also demanding the return of 42 objects from the Getty.
Among the other new evidence cited by the Italians is a sworn deposition by True before an Italian prosecutor. In the document, also obtained by The Times, she said Met antiquities curator Dietrich von Bothmer showed her an aerial photograph and pointed to the exact tomb in a heavily looted necropolis north of Rome where the krater had been excavated.
The Italians say Von Bothmer could not possibly have learned this from Hecht’s Lebanese dealer, who said he had inherited the vase from his father and did not know where it was originally found. Von Bothmer denies True’s account.
Additionally, Italian officials said in recent interviews in Rome that two men from Cerveteri, site of the ancient necropolis, have told them that they helped illegally remove the krater from a tomb in 1971.
Finally, the Italians say in court records that they have photographs of Hecht and Medici posing next to the vase at the Met. Medici, the records say, has traveled the world, posing next to objects he has sold to major museums.
Toward the end of Hecht’s memoir, he briefly restates the official version of how he acquired the Euphronios Krater from the Lebanese dealer, the court records show.
But Italian authorities dismiss this version in court records as “a story told to hinder penal and civil actions in Italy,” citing contradictions in the account.
On the basis of this new evidence, Italian authorities have renewed their demands for the return of the 2,500-year-old krater.
Used for mixing water and wine, the bowl portrays the death of Sarpedon, a son of Zeus, in a rarely depicted scene from Homer’s “Iliad.” It is considered one of the finest Greek vases to have survived antiquity. Only about two dozen kraters painted by Euphronios have survived, and experts say this is among the best preserved and most beautiful.
Today the krater is displayed in a first-floor gallery off the main corridor of the Met’s Greek and Roman wing among dozens of other Greek vases.
The museum refused to comment on Hecht’s memoirs. In a statement, the museum said that in February, it requested a meeting with the Italian Ministry of Culture for a “full discussion of works in the Metropolitan’s collection that were the subject of the ministry’s concern.”
“The Metropolitan has reiterated its request for a meeting on several occasions this summer, and looks forward to such a discussion,” the statement said.
Acquisition of the krater in 1972 sparked a media frenzy and judicial investigations in both the United States and Italy. But the Met has clung to Hecht’s official story for decades.
Hoving called the piece “one of the two or three finest works of art ever gained by the museum.”
But he later changed camps and called it “a hot pot,” writing in a 1993 memoir about his stewardship of the museum that he was convinced it had been looted from Italy and that Hecht had duped the museum with the story of the Lebanese dealer.
Italian officials acknowledge that the statute of limitations has expired on possible civil and criminal claims that could have been used in the 1970s to repatriate the krater. They say the new case they are mounting is largely a moral one.
But they also note that substantial evidence implicating other antiquities at the Met has emerged in their investigation, and they suggest that criminal cases targeting the Met and other American museums may be in the works.
Hecht, reached by phone at his New York apartment, said of the two versions in his memoir, “One is the fact and the other is a fancy invention.”
When pressed, he said the story of the Lebanese dealer was the truth and that he wrote the other version in the hope of selling more copies of the memoir, which he wanted to have published.
In a lengthy interview with The Times, Medici denied having anything to do with the Euphronios krater and cast doubt on the account in Hecht’s memoir, saying Hecht got Medici’s age wrong at one point in the account. He also provided The Times with photographs of him in front of the krater and other famous antiquities and paintings, saying it was his practice to take pictures in front of beautiful art -- not just objects he bought or sold.
The material in Hecht’s journals is only the latest evidence suggesting that the Euphronios krater was the product of illicit excavations.
Days after the acquisition, experts called Hecht’s story of the Lebanese dealer suspicious. It led to inquiries by legal authorities in the United States and Italy.
In the mid-1970s, the Italian government pursued an unsuccessful criminal case against Hecht. A grand jury was convened in New York to investigate the transaction involving Hecht, Hoving and Von Bothmer. The grand jury found insufficient evidence for an indictment.
Since then, Italy’s repeated requests for the vase’s return have been turned down by the Met.
In the next three decades, the dispute over the krater became an emblem for Italy of questionable acquisition practices by prominent museums, much as the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum are a symbol for Greece.
In addition to Hecht’s memoir, the Italians say True’s deposition supports their claim that the krater was looted from the Cerveteri site long after Italian law prohibited the unauthorized removal of antiquities from the country.
True told Italian prosecutors in the deposition, obtained by The Times, that it was “not easy for me to talk about people that I don’t like to drag in,” referring to Von Bothmer, the Met curator who was her dissertation advisor.
But she went on to recount a conversation she said the two had about the Met’s krater.
“Professor Von Bothmer wanted me to be his successor at the Met,” True told Italian prosecutor Paolo Ferri. “And at one point I was in his office, and he had a photograph, an aerial photograph, which showed the Necropolis of Cerveteri. And looking at the Necropolis, he pointed to a certain spot on the photograph, and he said this is the place where the Euphronios krater was found.”
“Did he show you a particular tomb?” the prosecutor asked.
“Yes,” True replied.
Von Bothmer, reached at his house in Manhattan, said, “I never said anything like that.” He said True was trying to shift the blame from her own actions.
Italian officials say they have long known the identities of the seven looters who allegedly excavated the krater from the necropolis of Cerveteri. The men refused to testify during a criminal investigation in the 1970s, saying they feared Hecht “because he was considered a Mafioso,” Italian court records show. Hecht on Thursday denied having any ties to the Mafia, but admitted with a chuckle that he enjoys Mafia movies.
Three of the reputed looters are still alive today, Italian officials said, and have recently confirmed their participation in the excavation in informal conversations with Italian law enforcement, but not in sworn declarations. The Times visited two of the men at their homes in Cerveteri.
One refused to comment. The other, Giuseppe Masala, denied having played any role in the excavation of the Euphronios but admitted that he has been a tombaroli, or grave robber, for much of his life, and sold objects to Medici.
Standing outside a Cerveteri store called Metropolitan Museum Reproductions, Masala, who now makes imitations of Etruscan vases, said he heard that the krater had been excavated from a tomb in a nearby town.
But it is Hecht’s account of his purchase of the krater that the Italians said provides the best evidence yet.
In the memoir, he describes Medici as a “faithful supplier” who since his youth “used to tour all the Etruscan sites, visiting all the clandestine excavators,” according to the court records quoting Hecht’s journal.
Medici “became prosperous, selling mainly to me,” the records quote Hecht as writing.
After detailing Medici’s early career, Hecht writes about when he first heard of the krater.
“He appeared at our apartment ... with a Polaroid of a krater signed by Euphronios,” Hecht writes, according to the court records. “I could not believe my eyes. I took the train to Lugano, where Medici had the krater in a safe-deposit box. The negotiations did not take long.”
Special correspondent Livia Borghese contributed to this report.
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After the grand jury decision not to indict the New York police officer who used an illegal chokehold to kill Eric Garner on camera—the latest reminder of the petty regard in which we hold black life in this country—the backlash was swift.
Thousands of people, no doubt already energized by the demonstrations in Ferguson and the recent shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, took to the streets around the country. On Twitter, the reaction was immediate, as it always is.
One particular hashtag began to pick up steam in response to the decision. #CrimingWhileWhite, I have no doubt, began with good intentions. Still, as we apparently constantly need to be reminded: intention is not the same as impact.
#CrimingWhileWhite was a way for white people to share stories about interactions they've had with the police that, had it not been for their whiteness, would have likely been handled with aggression, violence or callousness. I imagine the goal was to show the disparity between the way black and white people are treated by the police in America, although I'm not sure we needed that spelled out, as we were literally watching it happen in real time.
Maybe, for some people, the stories told by #CrimingWhileWhite were surprising. Maybe they revealed the utter magic that comes with being a white person in this country, which to many white people just feels like well-deserved life itself. But truly, is this anything new? Was anyone legitimately surprised to learn that white people are able to get away with damn near anything by the police?
My initial response to #CrimingWhileWhite was indifference, but as the night went on, my irritation grew. I thought: Wow, look at all these stories about the times white people were treated nicely and fairly and humanely by cops. I'm real happy for you, but Eric Garner is still dead.
This doesn't mean I can't appreciate the effort. For people who consider themselves allies with any oppressed group, I imagine there is a certain feeling of confusion and helplessness. These people I'm sure just wanted to help in some way.
However, this ain't the way.
Who is this helping? How is this helping? These are questions that all allies should be asking themselves. Because really, what are black people supposed to do with these stories? They don't really make us feel better. They don't embolden us with knowledge or tactics that we can use to fight the system. And they simply confirm what we already know: white privilege is fucking amazing.
In response to #CrimingWhileWhite, Ebony.com editor Jamilah Lemieux started the hashtag #AliveWhileBlack for black people to share stories of their interactions with the cops—not while committing crimes, but just while living—where they were treated with violence, carelessness and general inhumanity.
See, now, this is helpful. It amplifies the voices of the exact people being disproportionally targeted by police. It helps those who might be less familiar understand the breadth of this epidemic, and perhaps some white people will be able to see how many of their blacks friends have personally experienced injustice at the hands of cops. These experiences are often invisible to the privileged, where the extent of white privilege is—or should be—lost on no one.
We see people co-opt conversations about race all the time, but probably nowhere else more than Twitter. One of the best things about Twitter is that it allows us to cultivate conversations and engage in dialogue with people we have no access to otherwise. Still, as New York Times reporter Jenna Wortham pointed out, it can feel like a performance, as if these people are putting on a sort of show to prove how down they are with the cause by publicly recognizing their privilege.
That's all good and well, but once you've had the epiphany—once you've recognized that you benefit constantly from this thing called white privilege—there's no real need to trot it out all the time. The only prize for recognizing your privilege is that it illuminates the world around you and allows you to see the hypocrisy and injustice and bullshit. That clarity is your prize.
If you want to be about the cause, be about the cause. Talking about all the ways you personally aren't hurt by the cause is helping nobody and smacks of narcissism.
Nothing is more important to constructive dialogue than people who are already heard at great volume realizing that it's not about them, or their voices. It is about a specific group of people in this country and the system that allows them to be targeted by our law enforcement. The #CrimingWhileWhite anecdotes misdirect the conversation and add nothing of value. Arthur Chu articulated this exact point perfectly in response to people on Twitter changing the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter to #AllLivesMatter:
Nobody wants white allies to stop trying and stop fighting, but there are times when it is best to just sit down and listen. The immediate aftermath of the shooting of an unarmed black person by the police or the announcement that their killer will walk free is almost always one of those times.
I want your solace and support and action, but perhaps take a moment and think: I know this is horrible but I still cannot begin to imagine how you're feeling right now because I am not a black person living in a country that continues to prove that my life is worth less than others.
Because no matter what, you will not feel this pain the way we feel this pain. You will not fear the way we fear. And in times like these, your voice is not the one that needs to be heard.
Image via Getty.
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Whether you work in corporate offices or run your own small business, you probably spend some of your days using mainstays of the Microsoft Office Suite.
You’ll want to get the most out of these applications that you can. And with some functions not being especially obvious, you might be missing out.
That’s why we’re going to tell you some expert tricks that will help you get the most out of Word and Excel. Read on for these tips and start enjoying a better experience today.
1. Get a total without a formula
If you’ve ever used Excel, you know you can input formulas in cells, and the program will run them for you. Excel formulas can help you find things like the total sum of a set of numbers, or their average or median.
Generally, you need to know and type out the formulas for functions in order for Excel to run them. But Excel has a secret shortcut when it comes to totals — you can find the total of a row or column in your Excel table without having to personally input a formula at all.
Just click on a cell below or beside the numbers you want to get the sum of in your Excel sheet. Then press Ctrl+Shift+T (or Cmd+Shift+T if you use a Mac).
The formula will automatically generate, giving you a chance to select or deselect certain cells from the sum by clicking and dragging the area you want to add up, or just hit enter to have the formula run. And that’s it, you’ll have your total!
This is definitely a tip that can really speed up making things like expense and budget sheets, or anything else with a lot of addition. Use it often to enjoy extra efficiency while you make your spreadsheets.
2. Collaborate on a document in Word
You can always email a Word document back and forth if you’re working on a project with someone. But Word has a simpler method of collaboration — sharing the document, so there can be one version of it that everyone can access at the same time.
You can share a document by saving it to OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud service, and clicking “Share,” sending the document to colleagues or friends who you want to have access to it.
From there, you and your colleagues can work on the document together in real-time, leaving comments and making edits as much as you need to. You can also write whole sections independently at the same time.
A shared Word document can be edited in Word Online — which is what you’ll be linked to if a colleague sends you a shared document. Or, you can edit it in your Word application if you’d prefer having Word’s full functionality.
You’ll be able to see who else is accessing the document at the same time you are and you’ll be able to collaborate that much better because no one will ever be left off an email chain, or miss an update.
3. Go from rows to columns, or columns to rows in Excel
Ever make a table in Excel, only to decide that the layout would be better in the opposite direction? Or maybe when inputting data, you make a mistake and put things that should be in rows into columns.
Thankfully, there’s a quick way to switch the orientation of your data without having to type it all again. Simply select the area you want to switch around, and copy it.
Then, in the Home tab in Excel, click on the arrow below or beside the Paste icon (the clipboard). Slide down to “Transpose” on that list, and you’ll have the data you’ve input flipped from row to column, or column to row.
The transposition will happen on whatever cell you have highlighted when you click “Transpose,” so keep that in mind after you copy your data. It can be tricky to paste over the data you’ve copied with this trick, so plan on pasting elsewhere and shifting the data over by clicking and dragging your selected cells wherever you want them later.
4. Make things look nice in Word using themes
To make reports or write papers with impact, they have to be well-written. But it can help to have them look nice, too. Fortunately, you can quickly make any document look good in Microsoft Word, and you don’t need to know anything about graphic design or fonts for it to work either.
Under the Design tab for versions of Word after 2016, and on the Home tab for earlier ones, click “Themes” in the Document Formatting group.
You’ll be shown a menu of premade options that will determine the color scheme, font, and heading styles of your document, and you can select whichever one you think is best for your needs. For a community newsletter, you can make things fun and bright. For a corporate report, you can make things sleek and easy to read.
Themes are customizable if you want to make your own. Simply click “Custom” under the Theme menu, and you can set your own colors and designs based on your own preferences.
But the pre-loaded themes, with their handy preview images, will give you some gorgeous options that will take any drab document and make it more professional or fun.
5. Freeze column and row headers in Excel
Sometimes, a table or list on Excel gets incredibly long and you can’t see the headers at the top that explain what the data you’re looking at means or what it applies to. Prevent that problem by freezing panes in your Excel view, so you can scroll and always keep headers in your view.
To freeze panels, go to the View tab in later versions of Excel, or the Layout tab in earlier ones. Click on the “Freeze Panes” dropdown menu, which has an icon of a spreadsheet with some crossed out boxes in the top and left rows, and usually a blue cell in it.
To freeze the top row and capture headers there, click the “Freeze Top Row” option. Keep in mind the top row that will be frozen will be the one in your current view of the spreadsheet, so make sure you’ve scrolled to the top of the table before selecting this option.
To freeze the left-most column, click the “Freeze First Column” option. Once again, it’s the first column in your current view that will be frozen, so make sure you’re all the way left where you want to be.
To freeze both the top row and the first column in your spreadsheet, click on the top, leftmost cell in your spreadsheet that contains data; a cell where data begins. If you have headers in row 1, and headers in column A, this cell will likely be B2.
Click the “Freeze Panes” option from the “Freeze Panes” menu, and the row and column immediately above and to the left of your selected point will be frozen, letting you scroll through your data as much as you need without losing headers.
Frozen panes will stay frozen when you save and exit a spreadsheet, which can be really helpful in keeping a spreadsheet easy to scroll through, particularly as you re-enter it to add more data.
To unfreeze panes if you ever need to, simply click the “Unfreeze” option under the “Freeze Panes” menu, which is usually your only option once you have panes frozen. You can freeze again in a new view later, or leave the spreadsheet as is if that’s your preference.
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King British Original Formula WS3 White Spot Control is a veterinary medicine for the treatment of fish infected with White Spot. Also known as Ich or Ichthyopthirius, this is a persistent protozoan parasite that exhibits itself as pinhead-sized white spots.Costia & Trichodina can also be controlled with this product. Suitable for both coldwater & tropical aquariums. WS3 is our strongest strength formulation against white spot – One 50ml bottle will treat up to 4,500 litres of tank water.
Active Ingredients: Malachite green (4% solution) 10.0% w/w, Acriflavine 0.05% w/w, and Quinine sulphate 0.04% w/w.
Available in a 50ml bottle.
How to use
- Carefully calculate the volume of water to be treated making adequate allowance for the displacement of water by gravel, rocks & equipment.
- Ensuring cap is tightly sealed, shake bottle well before use.
- Using the pipette add 1ml of Original Formula WS3 for every 90 litres (20 gals) of water. Use half the normal dose when adding to tanks containing sharks, loaches, & other sensitive or light scaled fish.
- Continue filtration during treatment but remove any filter carbon.
- Repeat treatment at 48-hour intervals while symptoms persist and for 48 hours after all spots have gone. White Spot can take up to two weeks to clear.
- After five doses carry out a 10% water change and continue with the treatment if the problem persists.
- A 10% water change is recommended after the problem has been terminated.
- Renew filter carbon.
DO NOT EXCEED STATED DOSE
Use medicines responsibly; www.noah.co.ukwww.noah.co.uk
Health & Safety
Warnings: Avoid contact with skin and eyes. Wash off any splashes immediately with clean water. Wash your hands with soap and water after use. Keep away from pets. Keep away from food and drink. This product will stain if spilt. Not to be used with other fish treatments or medicines. KEEP OUTOF REACH OF CHILDREN. READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE USE
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DER FREISCHUTZ TRAVESTIE: by Septimus Globus. With twelve etchings by George Cruikshank, from drawings by an amateur; and the original tale whereon the German opera is founded.
London.C. Baldwyn. 1824. [iv], , 2 - 68pp. With 12 hand-coloured etchings by Cruikshank after drawings by Alfred Crowquill. Contemporary half morocco, gilt. t.e.g. One leaf has a closed tear, extending from the bottom margin into two lines of text (no loss); some light soiling and wear to corners; else a very good copy of the scarcest issue. See Cohn 36.
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Thanks to advanced technology, many surgeries, like alimentary tract and abdominal surgery, can now be minimally invasive. Using minimally invasive, or laparoscopic, techniques, surgeons can operate with smaller incisions.
Sometimes, they even use tiny video cameras to help with the procedure. Minimally invasive surgery means that patients have less blood loss, less pain, and smaller scars. There is also a lower risk of infection with these procedures and patients can leave the hospital sooner.
This is a great option for people who require surgery but want to heal quicker and have a less painful experience.
However, it is not right for everyone. The most common types of laparoscopic procedures for GI conditions are:
- Adrenalectomy- Removes growths in the adrenal glands.
- Appendectomy- removes an infected appendix.
- Bariatric surgery- makes the stomach smaller to help with weight loss.
- Cholecystectomy- removes the gallbladder. Typically used to treat gallstones.
- Colon and Rectal Surgery- treats conditions of the large intestine.
- Foregut Surgery- used to treat upper GI tract conditions. Can involve the esophagus, stomach, or upper portion of the small intestines.
- Hiatal Hernia Repair- Fixes hiatal hernias and paraesophageal hernias.
- Nissen- Treats severe gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
- Nephrectomy- Removes a diseased or cancerous kidney.
- Pancreatic Surgery-Used to treat several pancreatic conditions.
- Retroperitoneum Surgery- treats testicular cancer.
- Splenectomy- Removes the spleen.
Open GI Surgical Procedures
While we do perform minimally invasive surgical procedures whenever possible, sometimes a traditional open surgery is required. This can be due to several reasons. Traditional open surgeries include:
- Abdominal Surgery
- Nissen Fundoplication
- Whipple Procedure (Pancreaticoduodenectomy)
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There are many people that feel that we should never borrow money. We may have had grandparents that had the motto ‘never a borrower or a lender be’ but actually some borrowing can be a good thing and it is wise to understand when borrowing can be helpful as well as when it can be detrimental.
Most people would not be able to buy their own home without borrowing money. This is because the price of a home is so large that it takes most people at least twenty-five years to pay for it. However, if they were living in rental accommodation for twenty-five years they would be unlikely to be able to save up a lump sum big enough to pay for a home because they would be paying out rent. Therefore by getting a mortgage they can buy a home, live in it rent free and pay it back over twenty-five years or longer. This will not only save them the rent they would have paid in the mortgage period but they then have a home to live in rent free for the rest of their lives.
There are some people though, that get into trouble with their mortgage. We hear about houses being repossessed by banks because the mortgage has been unpaid for so long or people getting into negative equity due to house prices falling. This is why we have to be sensible when we are considering a mortgage. We need to be confident that we will be able to make the repayments and that we will not want to sell the house in the near future. It is worth imagining what might happen in the future with regards to our employment, family and things like that to see whether you think it is the right time to borrow money. If you plan it all well, then borrowing to buy a home should be a positive experience.
However, some types of borrowing can be very negative from the outset. If we borrow without thinking too hard about it and without considering how we will repay the debt, we can get into trouble. By spending on a credit card, for example and buying a lot of things without considering how to pay them back, we can end up with a lot of debt. A credit card does not need to be paid back, so people can end up just paying the interest each month and maybe a tiny bit off the debt. By doing this it could take them decades to pay off the debt and the amount of interest they are paying on it could be really high. It can be tricky to see exactly how much interest you have paid overall as it is calculated monthly and so unless you actually add it up and work out how much you have paid over the years, you may not notice that you are paying out a lot money. It can be easy to have a selection of cards and just paying a little off each and get into a lot of debt. Then when you do decide to pay it back, you may not be able to remember what you even spent the money on and you may feel regret for having done it. However, had you planned carefully and come up with a repayment plan, you could have had a very different approach to it and had a more positive outlook as well.
So borrowing money can be either a positive or negative experience. How it is for you will depend on how well you manage the debt as well as your personal feeling about debt. If you feel in control then you are more likely to have a positive experience of debt. This is why it is so important to plan what you are doing carefully. Comparing different types of lenders and different lenders can also be very worthwhile as you could end up saving money which will help to keep the experience a good one. If you feel that you are gaining something significant as a result of the loan will also help the experience be a much more positive one for you.
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Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) developed a new set of software tools to evaluate cybersecurity risk capabilities and flag potential risks at federal buildings and commercial facilities, free of charge. Called the “Training Game,” the game helps familiarize users with key cybersecurity issues, using real-world scenarios. A report card is generated at the end of the game to show the results of the choices made.
The PNNL development team evaluated real-world operational technology attacks to create the game software.
Beyond gaming for cybersecurity, researchers at PNNL’s Center for Advanced Technology Evaluation (CENATE) developed a system to ferret out questionable uses of super computers within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). As computing power increases, cyber-attacks with malicious software are proliferating. To combat this threat, CENATE researchers developed a nonintrusive profiling framework that analyzes a computer’s legitimate workload while allowing system administrators in identify and remove unauthorized workloads and intruders.
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Entrepreneurs in developing countries should be allowed to register firms in the UK as “e-citizens”, as part of Boris Johnson's push for a Global Britain, the Prime Minister's former business adviser has said.
In a new report, James Sproule calls on Mr Johnson to allow a new generation of start-ups to operate within UK company law from abroad - beginning with Commonwealth countries such as Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia.
The report, published by the Centre for Policy Studies think tank, says the move would help entrepreneurs in developing countries to draw investment to countries where the "start-up spirit" is currently "stifled", including, in some cases, by corruption and maladministration.
It would also give British investors an opportunity to gain the "higher returns" available in developing countries, knowing that their investments would be protected by UK law, Mr Sproule states.
Speaking earlier this year, Mr Johnson said that Brexit gave the UK the opportunity to "go ... out into the world", adding that free trade "has done more than any other single economic idea to raise billions out of poverty and incredibly fast."
Mr Sproule, who is now UK Chief Economist at Sweden's Handelsbanken, said his proposals were intended to "help flesh out that vision" by putting the UK "at the heart of the global trade in services ideas" and supporting entrepreneurship across the world.
Under the proposals, the UK would introduce "e-citizenship" akin to a scheme set up in Estonia in 2014 to allow entrepreneurs to set up Estonian firms from anywhere in the world.
The scheme was originally targeted at nearby countries where red tape and problems with the rule of law acted as impediments to those seeking to set up new firms.
The criteria for e-citizenship would be more stringent than for a business visa application, allowing those who are approved to also qualify for working visas.
E-citizens would be able to set up UK-registered "e-businesses" and open an international British bank account, under the report's proposals.
The report states: "If e-Residency was a natural fit with Estonia’s digital-first culture of government, an e-citizenship programme is an even better fit for Britain. Britain’s legal system, and its financial institutions, are among the most trusted in the world. We are the home not just to Europe’s financial services and industry and its largest capital markets, but dominate in fields such as accountancy and legal services."
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Faced with a growing number of homeless people, Las Vegas has passed a controversial law that bans sleeping on the street and imposes punishments of a $1,000 fine and six months in prison.
The ordinance — the latest in a series of measures by US cities to grapple with rising vagrancy — comes into force Sunday, but its criminal provisions will not be applied until February.
Sleeping on the streets of the gambling hub will only be illegal in downtown Las Vegas and residential areas — not the famous casino “Strip,” which comes under a different jurisdiction.
It will not apply when homeless shelters are full.
Opponents of the law focused their anger on Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman before and during the vote late Wednesday.
Demonstrators outside City Hall chanted “Housing, not handcuffs” and held signs proclaiming “Poverty is not a crime,” local media reported.
Goodman said the law is necessary for a city that is highly dependent on tourism revenues and to protect “the health and safety of the entire community.”
The law is not intended to punish the homeless but to help with their reintegration into society, she said, according to NPR radio.
It has been backed by Las Vegas’s Chamber of Commerce.
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SOURCE: Yahoo! News / AFP
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FOIA REQUESTS BY SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION TO EPA PRODUCES MOSTLY REDACTED, INCOMPLETE DOCUMENTS – LACK OF TRANSPARENCY APPARENT
Recently, the Atlanta-based Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF) filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for allegedly violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), by stalling requests, denying fee waivers for document production, and producing mostly redacted or incomplete documents.
FOIA – established under President Lyndon Johnson – and amended by Congress throughout the past four decades – was established as a way to provide a citizen microscope to view the inner workings of federal agencies. In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with SLF that the Obama Administration enacted overreaching efforts to install wholesale changes to the Clean Air Act, and the FOIA documents sought were relative to this case and the EPA’s ongoing unilateral efforts to enforce new regulations without Congressional approval.
“The EPA has engaged in a regular pattern of stall, deny, stall, deny, and ultimately produce some of the requested documents that have been so thoroughly redacted as to be useless,” said Shannon Goessling, SLF executive director and chief legal counsel.
“According to Congress, Americans are entitled to the information as part of the full exercise of First Amendment rights under the Constitution. To deny and play ‘hide the ball’ confirms that, far from being the ‘most transparent administration in U.S. history,’ as President Obama declared, his administration is in fact the least transparent in history.” said Goessling.
President Obama had often used the term “transparency” when referring to his administration, although it is clear that the EPA has not practiced this as seen in the visuals above.
Southeastern Legal Foundation, founded in 1976, is a constitutional public interest law firm and policy center that regularly appears before the U.S. Supreme Court and has been involved in more than three dozen landmark Supreme Court decisions on issues including property rights, free speech, government accountability, economic liberty, and the Census. For additional information, please visit www.southeasternlegal.org and www.epalawsuit.org.
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The mission of The Savannah Children's Theatre is to inspire, educate & entertain children & families through the experience of quality theatre both on & off the stage.
As a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, the mission of The Savannah Children's Theatre is to inspire, educate and entertain children & families through the experience of quality theatre both on &off the stage. We exist to provide children with a safe & creative environment where they are encouraged to be themselves & to provide them with opportunities for personal growth, character development & an appreciation for cultural arts. Thanks to an ever-growing roster of local donors &volunteers, we are able to fulfill our mission daily through the many programs offered by our theatre arts school, educational field trips & volunteer-driven community theatre productions. Theatre is a collaborative effort involving many people with a variety of talents. We find that the families who benefit the most from all that SCT has to offer are the ones who see volunteering at the theatre as quality time spent together in a fun, imaginative & mutually rewarding environment. Please remember that the objective of rehearsing & presenting a community theatre production is not to make your child 'a star' but to provide them with opportunities to build essential life skills, friendships, & most of all, to have fun!
If you or any member of your extended family would like to become involved with SCT in any capacity, please do not hesitate to let us know. We welcome with open arms anyone who shares even a little bit of our passion for childhood and all of its dreams. Please help us to continue making fairy tales come true.
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Recently I was looking in a drawer and came upon two pieces of paper. One was a note typed on a typewriter written to two different groups of people. The first group she counted as her “friends in Christ” and the second group she lovingly called her “friends without Christ.” To her friends in Christ she said, “I thank you all for the part you have had in my life, for prayers, for words of encouragement, and just for your friendship.” She encouraged this group to “keep fighting the fight of faith.” She closed with “See you in the Lord’s time, by the Blood, For His Praise, in glory, Joyfully, Shirley.” She was teaching and encouraging even in her final words to these friends.
She said something different and used more words to talk to her “friends without Christ.” One thing she said was “I really didn’t try to upset you, or make things hard on you, but mostly I did and said things to make you THINK FOR YOURSELF.” (The capital letters are in mom’s original!) She then continued with “THINK about yourself, THINK about your soul and your real need of salvation.” She then shared the simple gospel. We are sinners and under God’s wrath. But God, rich in mercy, sent His only Son Jesus “to die for all your sins, and mine.”
Mom was seeking to speak and teach even from the grave. Her passion was that truth would be received and that people would seriously think about the truth. She closed her note to her second group of friends this way (which also teaches): “Your friend, Saved by his grace, Kept by his grace, and Satisfied in Him, Shirley Winquist.” That closing line is the gospel, taught and lived by mom. I dare not forget my mother’s teaching.
“Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.” Proverbs 1:8-9
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How to create a startup product roadmapAmr Saafan
When you’re organizing a wonderful family vacation, you make a precise itinerary, look up the fastest or most scenic routes to your destination, pick a nice hotel to stay the night, tell your family about your plans, and estimate your costs.
When it comes to releasing a viable software project, you’ll undoubtedly want to do something similar. That is the purpose of a product roadmap.
But how can you create a roadmap when your aim is more than just going on vacation?
After reading this post, you’ll be able to develop a product roadmap as effortlessly as you would plan a vacation to Hawaii. Prepare to learn about the role of a product roadmap in project discovery, as well as some dos and don’ts for establishing a product roadmap and how a well-designed roadmap can save you time, effort, and money.
The importance of a product roadmap during the discovery phase of a project
You must first picture something amazing before you begin working on it.
How do you want your product to assist you or your potential customers? Will it amuse consumers or aid them in their studies when they use your app? Or will you be able to sell your goods over the internet? What is the project’s expected outcome?
Why do you wish to make your concept a reality?
A project discovery phase can assist you in answering these questions accurately, avoiding errors, and reducing the cost of project development. Multiple deliverables emerge from the discovery process, as described in one of our previous articles. In this post, you’ll learn how four of them – the project’s foundations — are connected.
The product vision explains why your project should be created in the first place and what competitive advantage it will have over competitors.
This is the idea that will assist you realize how to convert your product vision into a reality.
The roadmap describes how to put your strategy into action; it’s a simple but adaptable plan of action for achieving your objectives. We’ll come back to it later.
The product backlog comprises all of the information needed by the development team to provide the desired functionality.
These four deliverables are inextricably linked to one another. The clearer your vision is, the better your strategy will be, the more precise your roadmap will be, and the more detailed your backlog will be.
At the same time, if your product vision is hazy, there’s no way you’ll be able to establish a viable strategy and plan.
As a result, the first stage in creating your roadmap is to ensure that you have a clear vision of your strategy – a high-resolution picture of how your product will flourish in the market. Make sure you understand all of your product’s benefits and drawbacks, and that you believe in its success. “Life is too short to work on something you don’t believe in,” says Roman Pichler, an Agile trainer and consultant.
What is a product roadmap?
Now that you understand the need of developing a specific vision for your product, it’s time to learn about a product roadmap.
A product roadmap, according to Marty Cagan’s book Inspired, is “a prioritised list of features and tasks your team has been requested to focus on.”
You can start shortlisting and prioritising product features once you have a precise vision of your future product. That’s when difficulties may arise.
You may try to explain what you’re going to do next to your partners, demand a feature soup from your development team, establish excessive expectations and schedules, and waste time on development that won’t lead to a successful deployment.
A product roadmap comes to the rescue. It lets you express your project vision with all stakeholders by converting business decisions into actions.
Who are the people involved in the product roadmap?
When it comes to starting a business, you should never go it alone. The people who surround you are stakeholders who must share your vision and participate in the creation of the product roadmap.
A startup’s typical stakeholders include:
- Project owner
- Project manager
- Project development team
- Sales and marketing team
These are the professionals who help with project planning, management, and product promotion.
You could also wish to create an external product roadmap that you can share with potential clients. This roadmap could be utilised in a marketing campaign. It’s critical that the plans outlined in your internal product roadmap match those displayed in an external document.
You’ll need the input and expertise of stakeholders to establish and approve the product plan. It may take no more than four to six hours to complete this process once all stakeholders are well-prepared to build the product plan.
If you work on the roadmap by yourself, you’ll not only need more time to deal with it, but you’ll also be more likely to make important errors and waste time on a document that won’t benefit you.
How to prepare for product roadmap development?
To emphasize, establishing a product vision is your top priority. Continue your preparation when you’ve finalized your vision:
Consider the stability of the market
If you’re developing software for an existing company, you already have all the information you need about the target market and its needs. Building forecasts and plans is nothing new for you, and you may use this strategy to establish a roadmap for your software project.
When you work for a startup, however, you may find yourself in a red ocean of uncertainty and fierce competition. Occasionally, similar goods will appear; industry leaders may augment their apps with feature that overlaps with your product’s planned capabilities. All of these things entice your target audience and reduce your chances of attracting their attention. As a result, you’ll need to act quickly, be adaptable, and pivot if necessary.
Analyze the target market, set your goals, and plan future activities to better understand what you should build and how quickly.
Analyze the value your product will provide
Users will not download your software simply because it is available. They will only install it if they have a pressing need for it or if they are enticed to do so.
Is your software valuable enough to draw attention and entice customers to hit the download button?
To stay afloat, your product must provide something unique. Create a unique selling proposition that not only explains how your app is superior than others, but also underlines why potential users should select your app over another one and how it will deliver more value.
Before you begin planning your strategy, demonstrate the value and distinctiveness of your solution.
Make your goals as specific as possible when you set them.
I want my app to succeed, but that isn’t a goal because success is a vague notion.
It’s better if my app has been downloaded more than 100K times, but that’s still ambiguous. In six months or five years, your app could have 100K downloads. Furthermore, downloads may be the result of a good marketing campaign rather than the utility of the product.
Make your accomplishments quantifiable. Consider the following elements to best represent your app’s success: net revenue, collected investments, app store rating, or any other important indicators.
Decide on the primary success factor and add several secondary ones. You’ll need them for your roadmap.
Are you pressed for time? What is the size of your engineering team? Do you have a budget constraint? How do you secure funding for your startup? What are the most obvious roadblocks to a successful app launch?
Identify restrictions and pin them to a visible surface so you don’t forget about them when you create your product plan. If you ignore these limits today, they could become problems, issues, or even project failure later.
How to create a product roadmap?
It’s time to rearrange your objectives and priorities and create a product roadmap now that you’re familiar with the market condition, your strengths, and your deficiencies.
How can agile methodologies be used to generate a product roadmap? Follow the steps in this instruction:
1. Choose your focus
A product roadmap is essentially a timeline that depicts the progress of your project. During the early phases of a startup, you should decide what exactly constitutes progress. Is the introduction of new features a good way to explain the evolution of your product? Or achieving specific objectives over a set length of time?
Depending on what you map on a roadmap, you will get a:
- Feature-based roadmap
This is a common sort of roadmap used by IT departments. It provides information on each feature, including its priority and due date, as well as a map of these features.
- Goal-oriented roadmap
A goal-oriented roadmap gives product development additional context. Why did you include each feature? What is the purpose of a certain sprint of development?
You move closer to a common vision of product success and assure the results will meet your expectations when you define your aims in greater detail to the development team.
2. Master prioritization
The following step is to identify and priorities crucial goals (and features).
Make a list of your primary objectives and decide which ones should go first on your roadmap. To focus on the most helpful aims and tools, conduct a cost–benefit analysis. Compare the amount of work required to achieve a specific objective to the influence that goal will have on the overall outcome.
Answer the following questions to help you prioritise features:
- What benefits do I expect the product to provide?
- Are there any risks if I do not add this feature?
There’s no need to cram hundreds of features into your two-week sprints and expect your development staff to deliver them all. Take a step-by-step strategy, adding key features one at a time. In the meanwhile, assess their impact on the product. There may be ample time to improve and expand your product’s functionality. However, if you don’t priorities features and release on time, you’ll be disappointed.
3. Determine your resources
Investigate the time and budget at your disposal. Think about the team you can work with.
- Time and window of opportunity
People often use the phrase window of opportunity to describe a time period during which an opportunity must be seized or lost (perhaps forever). The notion of a window that opens for a while and then closes highlights the fleeting nature of opportunities, where timing is everything. Too early can be as bad as too late.Harvard Business School
What is the duration of your window of opportunity? How much time do you have to provide a particular feature to your clients before another company does the same?
It’s all about the correct timing. If you can clearly see that market demand is increasing, don’t spend any more time and begin looking for ways to meet it.
Calculate how much time you have and set realistic deadlines.
- Budget and rough development cost estimate
Let’s return to the topic of vacation planning on a tight budget. When you do this, you strive to maximize the amount of money available by optimizing resources. You look for toll-free highways on Google Maps, look for cheap Airbnb stays, check your email for petrol coupon codes or other special offers, look for budget travel advice, and so on.
However, before you get into the mechanics of MVP development, you should know what your budget is.
For effective development, an estimate is insufficient. When making yes/no decisions, take the following approach:
- Say yes and go for product development if the rough estimate matches your budget.
- Say no, adjust your startup product roadmap, or change the entire product strategy if the estimate is much higher than your available budget.
- Development team size and composition
With how many specialists do you collaborate? Is your team capable of delivering prioritized functionality on time and within sprints? Speak with your technical team and try to come to an agreement on the development process’ vision.
To ensure that your capacity is sufficient, add more professionals to your development team.
To avoid future problems, talk to your software development partners and expand your team as soon as possible.
4. Understand the dependencies
To build your roadmap correctly, you need to understand what your releases may depend on. There are three main possibilities:
- Releases depend on one another
The end of the first release is the start of the second. Besides all the mistakes made in the previous release, improvements and bug fixes also impact the next release.
Keep this in mind when prioritizing your goals and creating lists of features for each release.
- Releases depend on people
A software engineer can’t invest more than 40 hours per week and 80 hours per sprint in your product. No matter how hard you want to implement complex functionality in a sprint, the development team may simply not have enough capacity to deal with the tasks.
Thus, you need to involve your development team in time estimates and let them set reasonable deadlines for each technical task.
- Releases depend on other products
The external APIs, plugins, cloud services, and SaaS solutions you use also impact your releases.
Once, our team spent more than four weeks investigating how social media APIs worked and how to implement them in a marketing app for one of our clients. It may take much effort to connect your app to a particular service, and you should take this into account.
5. Make your roadmap measurable
What criteria do you use to determine the success of each release? How can you be certain you’ve followed the appropriate steps?
To assure the product’s success, use data-driven analysis. Set quantifiable goals and decide what to measure.
For your metrics, use this basic flow:
Goal -> How? -> By when?
Describe each objective you established for this release. Give an example of a quantitative metric that would be used to demonstrate its success. Set a deadline for finishing each goal or releasing each feature, and revisit it during the sprint review.
How often should you make changes to the startup product roadmap?
Your product lives as long as you work on it.
Your product roadmap works as long as you keep updating it.
How often should you do that?
Roman Pichler answers this question in his book Strategize by defining four key review factors:
- Market and product maturity
When launching a product for an SMB, you enter a stable, well-known market. When working for a startup, the market is unpredictable and swiftly changing.
- Changes to your vision and product strategy
You should update your roadmap if your vision changes or you modify your product strategy.
- Development progress
When working with a skilled team, you may notice that your development speed is higher than planned. Your team finishes sprints faster with no harm to the product’s quality, and you can add more features to your backlog.
In this case, you should update your product roadmap accordingly.
- Feedback from users
Whatever you build, you build for your users. Their feedback is the most important source of information about your product, its progress, and its success.
Listen to customers’ opinions and adjust your product roadmap to their demands. Ask what customers need most and reprioritize your features in response. The satisfaction of your target audience indicates that you’re on the right track.
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This page was last updated on 22 March 2021.
It was announced back in January that all parts of the UK were entering a national lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus, save lives and protect the NHS. As cases have been coming down, the UK has now begun to cautiously lift some of these restrictions.
We all must continue to remain vigilant as coronavirus is very much still in our communities and continues to take lives. It is essential that everyone continues to act to stop the spread of virus.
Wash your hands, cover your face, make space. These are the three most effective ways we can all control the spread of the virus.
Remember if you have any coronavirus symptoms; high temperature, a new continuous cough, or a loss or change in your sense of taste or smell, get a free test by calling 119 or book online.
Together, we will control the virus and stop the spread.
Don’t forget, Hands, Face, Space.
To make sure you receive the most up-to-date guidance on symptoms, how to look after yourself and others and information on self-isolation and social distancing, please visit nhs.uk/coronavirus.
Click the below links to find out what support is avaliable to you.
The NHS has begun vaccinating people in mid and south Essex against coronavirus as part of the biggest immunisation programme in NHS history.
Please note, the NHS will contact people when it is their turn, please do not contact your GP practice for the vaccine.
Find out more about the local vaccination programme
The NHS website has the latest advice, which is updated regularly: nhs.uk/coronavirus
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The Nung are a Vietnamese minority group of ethnic Chinese descent, though there has been some debate among anthropologists as to their proper identification and classification. Some Nung groups were heavily influenced by the Vietnamese, though reports indicate their continued use of Chinese calligraphy and the continued influence of certain Chinese social, religious and agricultural practices. Also, the names of some of the subgroups of the Nung in Vietnam continued to reflect their places of origin in China (1).
Their history no doubt dates back further than the year 939, when the Vietnamese threw off the Chinese occupiers who had maintained a thousand years of direct control. A millenium of effort to absorb the Vietnamese into the culture of their Chinese conquerors resulted in various degrees of assimilation and the resultant anthropological confusion referred to above (2). Various sources report identifiable populations of Nung in Vietnam which ranged from 100,000 to just over 300,000 in the early 1960’s (1, 3).
The Nungs had a reputation as fierce fighters, and their presence was reassuring to those who fought with them. They served widely and in a variety of roles with the U.S. Army Special Forces once the American buildup began. A number of Special Forces detachments worked in widely scattered camps whose personnel often included unreliable strike forces. After the Special Forces camp at Hiep Hoa was overrun by the Viet Cong on the night of 23-24 November 1963, more precautions were taken to build up security in these far-flung ouposts. One of the measures frequently taken was to hire tough Nung camp guards (4).
The presence of a Nung guard force in itself could not always guarantee security from treachery, however. In the early morning darkness of 4 July 1964, a Viet Cong attack overran the camp at Polei Krong in Kontum Province. Two companies of the camp’s strike force were on overnight leave, and many of the remaining strikers simply refused to fight or were secretly VC themselves. Low on ammunition, the Nungs fought tenaciously but were forced to retreat from the camp along with other survivors (5).
Two nights later a similar attack was staged on the camp at Nam Dong in Thua Thien Province. The camp, commanded by CPT Roger Donlon, was scheduled to be closed and its defenses were not in the best condition. Though forced into the camp’s inner defensive perimiter by repeated attacks, the Special Forces soldiers, Nungs and other surviving defenders held out until daylight (6). CPT Donlon received the Medal of Honor for his actions at Nam Dong.
A Nung Security Platoon was established in 1964 to guard the headquarters of 5th Special Forces Group in Nha Trang, and soon grew to three full companies. It took on operational responsibilities as well, guarding approaches to the city itself. With the growth of the Mike Force (ready reaction force) concept in Special Forces, this group took on country- wide reaction missions to assist units which found themselves in trouble (7). Nungs were used in a number of other Mike Force units as well.
Whether responding to a call for help from a trapped six-man reconnaissance team or guarding the 5th Special Forces Group Headquarters, Nungs wound up accompanying their American Special Forces employers until the end of the war in Southeast Asia. They remained a tough, tenacious force, respected by their allies and feared by their adversaries.
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Garrison's Gorillas was an American TV series broadcast from 1967 to 1968; a total of 26 hour-long episodes were produced.
The Garrison's Gorillas pilot episode, entitled "The Big Con", was filmed as an episode of Combat! which it replaced, but never aired. It was instead broadcast as the first episode of Garrison's Gorillas when it was aired.
The series focused on a motley group of commandos recruited from stateside prisons to use their special skills against the Germans in World War II. They had been promised a parole at the end of the war if they worked out—and if they lived. The alternative was an immediate return to prison. If they ran, they could expect execution for desertion. The four were: Actor (Cesare Danova), a handsome, resonant-voiced Con Man; Casino (Rudy Solari), a tough, wiry safe-cracker and mechanic; Goniff (Christopher Cary), a slender, likable Cockney cat burglar; and Chief (Brendon Boone), a rugged, somber American Indian who handled a switchblade like he was born to it.
Led by West Pointer First Lt. Craig Garrison (Ron Harper) and headquartered in a secluded mansion in England, this slippery group ranged all over Europe in exploits that often took them behind enemy lines. Other recruits were sometimes brought in where special skills were required.
- Appropriated Appellation: Lt. Hanley from Combat! referred to Lt. Garrison's team as "Gorillas" in the pilot episode. The team adopts this as their unofficial title.
- Back Door Pilot/Poorly Disguised Pilot: The pilot was made an episode of Combat!, although it ended up not being shown as part of that series, turning it into a Spinoff Sendoff instead.
- Boxed Crook: If the cons join the Gorillas, they'll be pardoned for their crimes after the war. If they don't join, they go back to prison. If they try to desert, they'll be killed. No wonder they go along with Garrison.
- Clear My Name: The team goes to great lengths to do this for Garrison in "The Death Sentence".
- Only Known by Their Nickname: All four cons.
- Recruiting the Criminal: Because the cons have unique skills that can be used against the Nazis.
- Spiritual Successor: To Jericho (1966), another short-lived series from The '60s in which the heroes go on covert missions against the Nazis.
- The Squad: The Gorillas are a five-member Badass Crew who stomp Nazis on a regular basis.
- Surprisingly Elite Cannon Fodder: The Gorillas.
- Trading Bars for Stripes
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Maine’s insurance superintendent has approved double-digit rate increases for 2018 marketplace health insurance plans.
Average rates will increase between about 18 and 27 percent for plans offered by Community Health Options, Anthem, and Harvard Pilgrim. Steve Butterfield of Consumers for Affordable Health Care says higher health care costs as well the uncertainty the Trump administration has created about the future of the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace are to blame.
“I mean this administration seems very intent on destroying the ACA from the inside, and I think insurers are questioning how they can hedge against that risk. And I think the superintendent reflected that in his decisions,” he says.
Insurance rates could rise even more if the Trump administrations discontinues cost-sharing reduction payments to insurers.
“But Congress could help long term by coming back in September, and very quickly passing a bill that funds these cost-sharing reduction reimbursements permanently. And we think they should do that,” Butterfield says.
Maine’s Insurance Superintendent Eric Cioppa approved rate increases that range from 20 to 37 percent if the cost-sharing payments end.
This article appears through a media partnership with Maine Public.
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You have toiled many years starting a small business bring success to your invention and tomorrow now seems in order to become approaching quickly. Suddenly, you realize that during all period while you were staying up shortly before bedtime and working weekends toward marketing or licensing your invention, you failed in giving any thought right into a basic business fundamentals: Should you form a corporation to work your newly acquired business? A limited partnership perhaps or simply a sole-proprietorship? What always be tax repercussions of choosing one of possibilities over the other? What potential legal liability may you encounter? These numerous cases asked questions, and those that possess the correct answers might find out some careful thought and planning can now prove quite beneficial in the future.
To begin with, we need to take a cursory examine some fundamental business structures. The most well known is the enterprise. To many, the term “corporation” connotes a complex legal and financial structure, but this isn’t actually so. A corporation, once formed, is treated as though it were a distinct person. It is able buy, sell and lease property, to initiate contracts, to sue or be sued in a court and to conduct almost any other types of legitimate business. Greater a corporation, as you might well know, are that its liabilities (i.e. debts) can’t be charged against the corporations, shareholders. Various other words, if you have formed a small corporation and you and a friend are the only shareholders, neither of you may be held liable for debts entered into by the corporation (i.e. debts that either of your or any employees of the corporation entered into as agents of the corporation, and on its behalf).
The benefits of this occurence are of course quite obvious. With and selling your manufactured invention along with corporation, you are protected from any debts that the corporation incurs (rent, utilities, etc.). More importantly, you are insulated from any legal judgments which can be levied against the corporation. For example, if you include the inventor of product X, and have got formed corporation ABC to manufacture promote X, you are personally immune from liability in the big event that someone is harmed by X and wins a procedure liability judgment against corporation ABC (the seller and manufacturer of X). In a broad sense, these are the basic concepts of corporate law relating to personal liability. You must be aware, however that there exist a few scenarios in which you can be sued personally, and you should therefore always consult an attorney.
In the event that your corporation is sued upon a delinquent debt or product liability claim, any assets owned by the corporation are subject to a court judgment. Accordingly, while your personal belongings are insulated from corporate liabilities, any assets which your corporation owns are completely vulnerable. In case you have bought real estate, computers, automobiles, office furnishings and such through the corporation, these are outright corporate assets and also can be attached, liened, or seized to satisfy a judgment rendered contrary to the corporation. And just as these assets possibly be affected by a judgment, so too may your patent if it is owned by this provider. Remember, patent rights are almost equivalent to tangible property. A patent may be bought, inventhelp products sold, inherited and then lost to satisfy a court common sense.
What can you do, then, to prevent this problem? The response is simple. If you consider hiring to go the business route to conduct business, do not sell or assign your patent for a corporation. Hold your patent personally, and license it on the corporation. Make sure you do not entangle your personal finances with the corporate finances. Always always write a corporate check to yourself personally as royalty/licensing compensation. This way, your personal assets (the patent) as well as the corporate assets are distinct.
So you might wonder, Invent Help with every one of these positive attributes, recognize someone choose to conduct business through a corporation? It sounds too good to be true!. Well, it is. Conducting business through a corporation has substantial tax drawbacks. In corporate finance circles, the problem is known as “double taxation”. If your corporation earns a $50,000 profit selling your invention, this profit is first taxed to this business (at an exceptionally high corporate tax rate which can approach 50%). Any moneys remaining after this first layer of taxation (let us assume $25,000 for our own example) will then be taxed for you personally as a shareholder dividend. If other $25,000 is taxed to you personally at, for example, a combined rate of 35% after federal, state and local taxes, all that’ll be left as a post-tax profit is $16,250 from a short $50,000 profit.
As you can see, this is really a hefty tax burden because the income is being taxed twice: once at the organization tax level so when again at the personal level. Since the business is treated the individual entity for liability purposes, it’s also treated as such for tax purposes, and taxed for this reason. This is the trade-off for minimizing your liability. (note: there is a method to shield yourself from personal liability though avoid double taxation – it is known as a “subchapter S corporation” and is usually quite sufficient for most inventors who are operating small to mid size business concerns. I highly recommend that you consult an accountant and discuss this option if you have further questions). If you do choose to incorporate, you should have the ability to locate an attorney to perform straightforward for under $1000. In addition it does often be accomplished within 10 to twenty days if so needed.
And now in order to one of essentially the most common of business entities – a common proprietorship. A sole proprietorship requires no more then just operating your business through your own name. If you would like to function within company name which is distinct from your given name, neighborhood township or city may often must register the name you choose to use, but the actual reason being a simple treatment. So, for example, if you desire to market your invention under an agency name such as ABC Company, have to register the name and proceed to conduct business. Individuals completely different against the example above, the would need to go to through the more and expensive associated with forming a corporation to conduct business as ABC Inc.
In addition to the ease of start-up, a sole proprietorship has the a look at not being already familiar with double taxation. All profits earned by the sole proprietorship business are taxed to your owner personally. Of course, there is often a negative side for the sole proprietorship in your you are personally liable for any debts and liabilities incurred by the company. This is the trade-off for not being subjected to double taxation.
A partnership end up being another viable choice for many inventors. A partnership is a connection of two much more persons or entities engaging in business together. Like a sole proprietorship, profits earned by the partnership are taxed personally to the owners (partners) and double taxation is definitely avoided. Also, similar to a sole proprietorship, the owners of partnership are personally liable for partnership debts and financial obligations. However, in a partnership, each partner is personally liable for the debts, contracts and new invention ideas liabilities of the additional partners. So, if your partner injures someone in his capacity as a partner in the business, you can be held personally liable for your financial repercussions flowing from his manners. Similarly, if your partner enters into a contract or incurs debt within the partnership name, great your approval or knowledge, you can be held personally accountable.
Limited partnerships evolved in response towards liability problems inherent in regular partnerships. From a limited partnership, certain partners are “general partners” and control the day to day operations among the business. These partners, as in a regular partnership, may take place personally liable for partnership debts. “Limited partners” are those partners who may not participate in day time to day functioning of the business, but are protected against liability in that their liability may never exceed the regarding their initial capital investment. If constrained partner does gets involved in the day to day functioning with the business, he or she will then be deemed a “general partner” and will be subject to full liability for partnership debts.
It should be understood that weight reduction . general business law principles and are living in no way designed be a replacement for thorough research on your part, or for retaining an attorney, accountant or business adviser. The principles I have outlined above are very general in scope. There are many exceptions and limitations which space constraints do not permit me to see into further. Nevertheless, this article has most likely furnished you with enough background so which you will have a rough idea as to which option might be best for you at the appropriate time.
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From acts of nature to city permitting delays, the project team confronted back-to-back difficulties and challenges throughout design and construction.
Once they broke ground on the project and began demolition and major sitework in May 2018, the team ran into a major challenge – a jurisdictional permitting approval delay by the state fire marshal that brought work to a standstill for three months.
In addition to the delay, critical utilities and campus fiber optic networks had to be relocated early on, as they served the nearby data center and the entire university campus. Crews worked diligently to complete rerouting work and new utility tie-ins within the scheduled shutdown window.
By November of 2018, construction work was in full swing, but the team then faced another major hurdle: the most destructive and deadly wildfire in California history swept through the area and decimated the nearby town of Paradise, CA. The project and the entire region suffered widespread impact from the Camp Fire, including poor air quality for weeks. Project workers and staff were personally affected, including a key client representative who was one of many in the region to lose his home.
Finally, as the project moved into the last stages of construction, it was again impacted with another unforeseen challenge – COVID-19. New protocols and procedures, which were continuously updated every week, had to be implemented to keep workers safe. When one craftworker tested positive early on, the entire project immediately halted operations for two weeks, adding to the schedule delays.
The highly collaborative design-build team worked seamlessly to make up time where possible to overcome the unexpected delays. Extensive communication and coordinated efforts enabled them to successfully accomplish the utility relocation and stay on track to meet key milestones.
DPR self-perform crews played a vital role in helping drive the aggressive schedule, mitigate the limited labor pool in the region and elevate the level of quality workmanship.
The project team and design-build MEP trade partners delivered numerous energy savings strategies for the facility. They worked closely with the university’s Institute for Sustainable Development to identify and incorporate features that go beyond what was required. The HVAC system was tailored within each space to optimize energy efficiency while providing health and safety benefits to occupants. Chilled beams and displacement ventilation systems contribute to the energy-saving solutions.
"Despite these tremendous challenges, I have been overly impressed with the “Can Do” attitude of DPR and SmithGroup, and their awesome team-first mentality. I truly feel they approach problems not from a customer/contractor perspective, but from a one team, one fight mentality where we are linked arm-in-arm working a problem to conclusion. The building itself will be an icon on campus for years to come and I’m extremely proud to have been a part of the team that’s making it a reality for our students, faculty, and staff.”
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Community policing is an important strategy of not only dealing with crime but helping forge relationships between law enforcement officers and the communities within which they serve. The establishment of these relationships under the community policing umbrella helps the police to better understand the communities they serve and gain their trust. Law enforcement officers can then leverage the relationships they build to gain information that helps them prevent as well as solve crimes. However, community law enforcement officers face a lot of challenges as they dispatch their duties.
Suspicion and Mistrust
Perhaps one of the most common challenges for community law enforcement officers is suspicion and mistrust. The conduct of some police officers has led whole communities to pull away from law enforcement. The people do not trust law enforcement and are suspicious of what they will do with the information they might gather from the community,
In addition, if the police do not have a clear mandate and do not do everything that they can to reach out to the communities they serve, that often fosters feelings of mistrust and suspicion because people do not know why the police are there.
Many parts of the world have been reducing the budget available to law enforcement for years now. This often happens when countries find areas where they can use the money instead of increasing the budgets for their law enforcement officers.
When budgets get strained, the first area that often suffers is community policing. The irony is that with the number of law enforcement officers used in community living reduced, crime is likely to spike, meaning that these areas will end up needing more law enforcement officers than they would have if the law enforcement officers did not leave in the first place.
Additionally, the social and economic impact of the spike in crime might take some time to reverse and cost a local government more than what it would have cost them to keep the community law enforcement officers in place.
A hierarchical structure is very important to law enforcement. It is this hierarchical structure that keeps law enforcement on its feet. However, a centralised system of decision-making is a massive challenge for community law enforcement officers. Since information has to be passed from the officers on the ground to someone who can make the call and is often higher in the chain of common, decisions are made slowly.
The minutes that are wasted can be the difference between life and death. This is why the decentralisation of decision-making in law enforcement is crucial, especially in cases where officers need to make decisions quickly under new and unknown circumstances and in unusual circumstances such as during the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are many other challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic gives law enforcement officers. Wilfrid Laurier University has an in-depth guide that explains the different challenges law enforcement officers are facing and some of the solutions proposed to help them out. You can click here to read it.
In these situations where decisions have to be made quickly, law enforcement officers have to be given the autonomy to make day-to-day decisions and take the necessary risks to solve a problem and precautions to protect themselves.
Many law enforcement officers want to serve their communities to the best of their abilities. They want to integrate themselves with the members of these communities, get to know them and become part of these communities. However, that is often not possible because law enforcement officers are moved from certain areas due to several reasons. By moving law enforcement officers around like this, they are not given enough time to have an impact in the community which means their presence there is not beneficial to anyone.
Most community law enforcement officers live in the communities they work in. This often leads to conflicts and ethical dilemmas. For example, will the police officer arrest people they know from their community when they are off duty? Will they use necessary force when confronted with a threatening situation when serving the people that they know so well? If they do, how will they use it?
Combating the Drug Pandemic
Some parts of Canada are experiencing a drug pandemic right now. Drug use in these areas is so rampant that the ideal solution is to open drug distribution clinics where addicts can get drugs in a safe environment. Although this is a real solution that has had some tangible effects on the fight against the drug pandemic, a lot more still needs to be done.
One of these is the prevention of crime by law enforcement officers. The only problem is that it is impossible to arrest everyone who uses drugs. In any case, arresting them would leave those who are selling the drugs on the streets.
For local enforcement officers, fighting the drug pandemic without putting everyone in jail is a challenge that needs the police to work together with the communities they serve to come up with and implement creative solutions such as those discussed above.
Depending on the communities they serve, law enforcement officers might need to work together with a large number of law enforcement officers. Unfortunately, community law enforcement officers often find out there are not enough law enforcement officers to go around.
This means there are too few officers to serve a particular area, and the community policing initiatives that have been put in place have little chance of success.
Inadequate manpower does not only mean raw numbers, but also expertise. Community policing is a lot more sensitive than traditional policing, meaning that all the police officers involved should have adequate training if the police department wants to see good results.
Unfortunately, some community law enforcement officers do not have adequate training to adequately deal with and address the issues found in the communities they should be serving.
Challenges Caused by Technology
Technology has always been a welcome addition to policing. We all understand that ensuring all law enforcement officers wear body cams and use other devices that allow for the easy collection of evidence makes law enforcement more transparent. It is true that law enforcement officers behave differently when there is evidence being collected about them, but the amount of video and digital data is becoming a problem for police officers. Many of them say they are spending too much time reviewing all the collected evidence and writing reports based on this data.
This leaves very little time for them to spend out on the streets. A proposed solution is to either automate or accelerate the review of digital evidence and report generation. This way, police can spend less time at the station and more on the streets.
The world is changing all the time. However, some police departments have to implement new training modules. The areas that seem to be most affected include areas where technology is concerned and reaching out to diverse racial groups.
If community law enforcement officers are not taught how to use the latest technologies to make their work easier and to improve their results, as well as how to deal with people of different races, they are unlikely to see the results they seek to achieve.
Overcoming the Challenges Facing Community Law Enforcement Officers
There are several ways community law enforcement officers can overcome some of the challenges they face. Many of the solutions proposed include talking candidly to the communities they serve. Talking to members of society is a great way to build trust and get them on law enforcement’s side. It is also a great way to understand the issues facing the communities you are in charge of.
For example, one community might have a high crime rate due to low-income levels while another might have the same problem due to drug use. By talking to members of these communities, you not only get to understand what their problems are, but also the underlying cause of these problems.
Another way to overcome these challenges is communications within the law enforcement officers themselves. Issues like decentralising decision-making, updating training and trying to find ways to increase law enforcement budgets can only be solved through the appropriate structures via law enforcement hierarchy.
Lastly, some issues can be solved through proper training. An ethical dilemma is a great example of one such area. Proper training can be undertaken to learn not only how to identify the dilemmas that may come up in their jobs, but to also learn how to solve these dilemmas.
Training is also important in helping police officers know how to deal with people of different racial backgrounds. Racial tensions are very high right now and learning to deal with people who come from different backgrounds is a great first step to making a difference.
Community law enforcement is a critical part of keeping law and order in many communities. Although its importance cannot be overstated, it still faces some challenges, and if these challenges were to be eliminated, that would open a path to better, safer communities.
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GSERB Shikshan Sahayak Syllabus 2016
Gujarat State Education Recruitment Board has successfully released the GSERB Shikshan Sahayak Syllabus through it’s official website. A huge number of candidates have applied for this posts. Gujarat State Education Recruitment Board is the eminent board it is responsible for conducting various examinations every year. This board is very famous in Gujarat. It had invited the applicants to fill the application forms for the purpose of filling up the vacant positions of 5508 Shikshan Sahayak.
Gujarat State Education Recruitment Board detailed syllabus
The subjects consists in the GSERB is English, Reasoning, General Awareness, Static GK, General Science, Current affairs, Numerical Ability, Marathi. The candidates who have applied can start preparation for their exam by downloading GSERB Syllabus. English syllabus Vocabulary, Fill in the blanks, Grammar, Spot the error, Antonyms, Synonyms/ Homonyms, Sentence structure, Spellings, Detecting Mis-spelt words, One word substitutions, Idioms and phrases, Improvement, passage, Verbal Comprehension passage, Verbs, Adjectives, Clauses. Number Series. Reasoning syllabus Letter and Symbol Series, Verbal Classification, Essential Part, Analogies, Artificial Language, Matching Definitions, Making Judgments, Verbal Reasoning, Logical Problems, Logical Games, Analyzing Arguments, Statement and Assumption, The course of Action, Statement and Conclusion, Theme Detection, Cause and Effect, Statement and Argument, Logical Deduction. Static GK. General Awareness: General Science, Current Affairs, Topics for Static GK. Topics for Static GK : Indian History, Politics, Geography, Arts, Cultur. Topics for General Science: Physics, Chemistry, Defence, Agriculture, Space, Environment, Biology, Agriculture. Topics For Current Affairs : Economy, Banking, Awards, Sports, International Affairs, Current Events.
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Operations Research & Linear Programming, Algebra, Differential Geometry, Differential Equations, Dynamics, Statistics, Basic Mathematics, Analytical Geometry, Calculus, Statics, Real Analysis, Numbers, Fundamental arithmetical operations, Number Systems, Computation of Whole Numbers, Percentages.Menstruation, Time and Distance, Ratio and Time, Ratio and Proportion, Averages, Interest, Profit and Loss, Discount, use of Tables and Graphs.
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There are five sections in the GSERB each subject consists 50 marks total marks in the exam is 250 and duration of the exam is 3 hours.
Gujarat State Education Recruitment Board is also called as GSERB. GSERB was established in the year 1 May 1960. GSERB is very popular board in Gujarat State. GSEB is a government of Gujarat body responsible for determining the policy-related, administrative, cognitive, and intellectual direction the state’s higher educational system takes. The primary task of the GSERB is to recruit the candidates for the secondary education. GSERB will also prepare the textbooks and syllabus which are taught in the secondary school.
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Great Barrier Reef may never recover from bleaching: study
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef may never recover from last year’s warming-driven coral bleaching, said a study that called for urgent action in the face of ineffective conservation efforts.
Record-high temperatures in 2015 and 2016 drove an unprecedented bleaching episode, which occurs when stressed corals expel the algae that live in their tissue and provide them with food.
Bleached coral is more susceptible to disease, and without sufficient time to recover — which can take one decade or several depending on the species — it can die.
For the new study released late Wednesday, an Australian-led team examined the impact of three major bleaching events — in 1998, 2002 and 2016 — over the reef’s entire 2,300-kilometer length.
In 2016, they found, the proportion of constituent reefs experiencing extreme bleaching was over four times higher than in the two previous episodes.
Only nine percent escaped bleaching altogether, compared with more than 40 percent in 2002 and 1998.
“The chances of the northern Great Barrier Reef returning to its pre-bleaching assemblage structure are slim given the scale of damage that occurred in 2016 and the likelihood of a fourth bleaching event occurring within the next decade or two as global temperatures continue to rise,” the team wrote.
Earlier this month, researchers warned that the reef was already experiencing an unprecedented second straight year of bleaching.
Local reef protection “affords little or no resistance” to extreme heat, the researchers wrote in the journal Nature./AFP
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Our team is constantly keeping up to date on new cyber threats through a variety of communication channels.
We are members of several key organizations that provide us with continuous updates.
- Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis (REN-ISAC): The REN-ISAC mission is to aid and promote cybersecurity operational protection and response within the research and higher education (R&E) communities. The mission is conducted through private information sharing within a community of trusted representatives at member organizations, and as a computer security incident response team (CSIRT) supporting the R&E community at-large.
- Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center: The MS-ISAC is the focal point for cyber threat prevention, protection, response and recovery for the nation's state, local, tribal and territorial (SLTT) governments.
- GIAC Advisory Board: Some of our team are members of this invitation only group, which is made up of GIAC certified professionals who wish to give back to the security community. The Advisory Board provides a forum where IT Security professionals can exchange ideas and advise, along with information regarding the latest threats.
- Law Enforcement: In addition to interacting regularly with the University Police Department, one of our team members is an active Infragard member. InfraGard is a partnership between the FBI and the private sector. It is an association of persons who represent businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the U.S.
There are several public resources our team views as valuable sources of intelligence and we encourage others to visit regularly:
- Internet Storm Center: https://isc.sans.edu/
- United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT): https://www.us-cert.gov/
- Security Blogs & Newsletters:
We also leverage the collective knowledge of our IT Partners, DoIT staff, managed security software provider (MSSP) and overall activity on our network to analyze threats and trends unique to Stony Brook University’s environment.
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In a leak measuring device (relative pressure or differential pressure method), the measuring phase is the time interval over which the pressure drop is measured.
The duration of this interval is dependent on the test object and the limit values:
The larger the volume, the more time is needed to determine a discernible pressure drop.
The smaller the leak, the more time is needed to determine a discernible pressure drop.
The higher the desired measuring accuracy, the more time is needed to achieve a stable result.
In leak testing with the flow method, this phase corresponds to the time interval during which the flow rate, which directly reflects the leak rate, is read. The duration of the phase is very short and it has a negligible effect on the measurement results.
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Make a gift to help keep Atlanta Contemporary free, safe, and open to all.
Holley is a man of many myths and talents. Born in Jim Crow-era Birmingham, Alabama, as the seventh of 27 children, Holley traveled across the South and held a wide array of jobs (grave digger, cotton picker, and short-order cook at Disney World) before making his first artwork at the age of 29. Self taught, he started carving sculptures from sandstone and then settled on his preferred material: found objects. Holley has made totemic sculptures from items such as steel scrap, plastic flowers, melted televisions, defunct machines, and crosses.
Holley was included in the seminal exhibition More than Land and Sky: Art From Appalachia at the National Museum of American Art in 1981. In 2013 The Whitney Museum, NY, most recently hosted Holley’s debut New York performance concurrent to the museum’s Blues for Smoke exhibition. His work is included in museum collections, including; Smithsonian American Museum of Art, Washington, DC; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; and the American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY. Holley has also gained recognition for his music, and he has collaborated with the indie-rock bands Dirty Projectors and Animal Collective.
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What do you mean by demo trade account in online trading?
Demo trading account defines the buying and selling of shares, bonds, currencies or any financial instruments through virtual cash money.
It means you have the money but not in reality, it is virtual cash like that you play in many games or you can say it as points.
Demo trading account is provided by some of the brokers as it is not so profitable to brokerage companies rather than it is more profitable to customers.
If you want to practice and gain knowledge about the overall market then you can create a demo account first and then play in the real market.
Brokerage companies like Olymp trading companies provide the facility of playing demo olymp trade account and they provide virtual cash money to each individual account to gain practical experience about the stock market.
Are Demo Accounts An Indicator of Investing Skills?
These records are promoted everywhere throughout the web, and individuals who surf budgetary locales are frequently presented to numerous advertisements prompting them to open a demo account. Demo account exchanging is the new type of paper exchanging. The good old paper exchange included recording passages and ways out to perceive how a strategy happened in the market.
Demo accounts permit the broker to do this on a mechanized test system. The re-enacted exchanging condition provides a merchant with the chance to become acclimated to the product they will use with their intermediary to exchange the business sectors, when individual moves to live exchanging after the demo account, there are a few stuns they have to plan for.
Features of Demo trading account
Demo accounts give preferred execution over live exchanging
Demo records will regularly take care of a market request at the value appearing on the screen. At the point when a request is set in the live market, it is dependent upon slippage, and in this way, it is very normal for showcase requests to not be filled at the cost expected, or on account of huge requests, for in any event a part of the situation to be obtained at an unexpected cost in comparison to is normal.
Demo accounts regularly give virtual money to general information
Demo Olymp trade account is the most part that permits the dealer to pick the measure of capital they might want to mimic exchanging with. The sums fluctuate, however, they are frequently extremely enormous and past the genuine capital. The dealer has for exchanging their own record. Increasingly capital takes into account little misfortunes to be all the more handily recovered, while a misfortune on a littler record is more earnestly to recover.
Demo account can’t recreate the feelings of dread and expectation that the broker will involvement in genuine cash
This is one of the most bumping contrasts among reproduced and live to exchange. The dread of losing one’s own capital can unleash destruction on a demonstrated exchanging framework and keep the dealer from executing it appropriately. Covetousness (or trusting a losing position will return to productivity) can have a similar impact, keeping the broker in an exchange long after it ought to have been left.
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There is BUS 308 Week 5 Final Part II Analysis Paper on Gas Prices Linear Regression in this pack
Part II:Imagine that you are a manager at a delivery service and you are creating a report to project theeffects on your company of rising gas prices in the next ten years. Using the preceding statisticalanalysis as your basis and outside scholarly resources to support your claims, write a 3 to 5 page paper interpreting the results from this perspective. Include the following considerations:1. Introduce the project and its significance to the company.2. Explain the statistical analysis that you completed in Part I. Be sure to explain where the datacame from, what analysis was done, and what the results were.3. Give conclusions that you have drawn from the data. Consider the effects of your gas price predictions on the delivery business. Also consider whether or not you believe your predicted gas prices are accurate. What could occur in the future that would change your linear regression lineand therefore your prediction?
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Swirls, streaks, and splashes of color create a colorful ornament that’s one of a kind. You’ll never duplicate the same pattern twice, which makes this handmade decoration truly unique.
- Remove the metal top from the clear glass ornament.
- Select a paint color and place 2 to 3 drops of paint into the opening at the top of the ornament. Place your thumb over the opening, and roll paint around so that it begins to spread.
- Once all of the paint is toward the bottom, flip the ornament over into the plastic cup so the opening is facing down. (Make sure that the top of the ornament is not touching the bottom of the cup.)
- Allow the paint to slowly drip as it covers the inside of the ornament. This process takes awhile, so leave your ornament to dry overnight.
- After the paint has dried, remove the ornament from the plastic cup. (Be careful not to spill the excess paint at the bottom of the cup.)
- For an ornament with more than one color, select another paint color and repeat steps 2 through 5.
- Secure the top back on the ornament, and decorate with ribbon or a bow.
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Washington, 18 December 1996 (RFE/RL) - The U.S. Agriculture Department has raised its estimate of how much food and farm output America expects to sell to the nations of the former Soviet Union in the current financial year to $1.9 billion, with most of it -- $1.5 billion worth -- expected to be sold to Russia.
The department, in its quarterly review of export forecasts and food production around the world, says the U.S. exports in the 1997 fiscal year which began October 1st will be up 15 percent from what was sold to the ex-USSR countries in the 1996 fiscal year.
The U.S. says meat is now the major food product Russia and the other CIS countries buy and "will continue to dominate U.S. exports" to the region for the foreseeable future. It says the main reason is the "continued contraction" of the livestock sector which is suffering reduced inventories mostly due to the very high cost of feed and other required inputs.
U.S. farm exports to the nations of Central and Eastern Europe are also expected to rise slightly in the 1997 financial year, totaling about $408 million, with animal products and grains accounting for the increase.
The Agriculture Department says grain exports to the region are expected to increase because of poor 1996-1997 grain crops and purchases of U.S. poultry meat are expected to increase because of the higher local cost of maintaining livestock. Poland remains America's largest customer for farm goods, but U.S. exports to the region have never recovered to the levels of the 1980s.
However, says the report, the nations of the region are now buying a broader array of products, including such things as popcorn, processed grain products and nuts.
In its review of production outlook, the U.S. experts say that unusually mild weather since early November favored winter grains throughout the former Soviet Union, and allowed Russia and Ukraine to complete more late-harvest activities. However, it also caused many crops to enter dormancy four to five weeks later than usual. The combination of mild weather and a lack of snow cover has left crops "highly vulnerable to potential winterkill," says the department.
The U.S. says it expects wheat production in the ex-USSR nations to total around 64 million tons in the coming year, an improvement over the 1995-1996 years, but still below earlier forecasts.
Oilseed production among these countries is estimated at eight million tons, down from earlier estimates because dry conditions have reduced yields of Russian sunflowerseed. The U.S. says cottonseed output in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan is also expected to be down.
A U.S. agricultural attach�'s report on the harvest in Ukraine was not very positive, concluding that "about the only encouraging news for the Ukrainian agriculture sector is that winter-crop sowing for 1997-1998 was completed without notable problems and conditions were favorable for crop germination and establishment."
The report says Ukraine's crop production for 1996-1997 "fell substantially below last year's levels for nearly all major commodities."
The report says the assessment is based on the travels of U.S. experts to farming areas in Ukraine, as well as meetings with Republic level officials, crop forecasters and independent agricultural observers.
"While weather is chiefly to blame for the poor harvest results, the inadequate application of fertilizers and plant-protection agents continues to take its toll on grain and oilseed yields," said the report.
Grain production in Ukraine is estimated at around 24.5 million tons, down 7.4 million tons from last year. It says wheat output is estimated at 14.5 million tons, down 1.8 million tons from last year "despite a 14 percent increase in harvest areas."
In other crops, output is also well short of 1995 levels, says the U.S. report. Sunflowerseed production is estimated to drop 30 percent to two million tons while corn production is estimated at 1.5 million tons compared to 3.4 million tons last year.
Weather caused most of the problems, the U.S. analysts say, but a significant factor continues to be the lack of fertilizer and other chemicals. "The situation does not stem from an actual shortage of products," says the report, noting that 70 percent of the nitrogen fertilizer produced in Ukraine is exported.
Rather, it says, fertilizers and plant-production chemicals "remain prohibitively expensive for cash-strapped farms." The positive side of that, it says, is that many farms are now increasing their use of organic fertilizers, adjusting crop rotations and applying mineral fertilizers with "great efficiency." Still, it says insect pests continue to have a "considerable negative impact" on the quality of grain.
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What Makes Internet Trolls Tick?
New research on the Dark Tetrad and loneliness illuminates online abuse.
Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable—but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being ‘alone’: You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I’m talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age. —Amy Tan
Loneliness is a powerful psychological, emotional, and behavioral state, associated with significant risks to mental and physical health. Online trolling is a huge and growing problem, as well. According to the Pew Research Center (Online Harassment, 2017), 41 percent of Americans have themselves experienced online harassment, and over 60 percent report having been witness to such actions.
While many of these behaviors are of the milder variety, nearly 20 percent of people in the Pew survey reported they had “been subjected to particularly severe forms of harassment online, such as physical threats, harassment over a sustained period, sexual harassment or stalking.” Given rising rates of both loneliness and online harassment, and the research reviewed below, are they related?
Loneliness and aggression are correlated
As researcher Keita Masui from the Department of Psychology of Otemon Gakuin University in Japan notes, loneliness, in addition to being a source of unwellness and personal suffering, can spell trouble for others as well. Masui reviews the literature on loneliness and aggression. Because loneliness represents a state of chronic frustration and unmet need, it can trigger aggression toward others as a way to discharge tension or express oneself—even if in maladaptive ways.
Research shows that experiences and traits related to loneliness have been found, for example, in perpetrators of school shootings, where a history of bullying and rejection sets the stage for tragedy. Other studies reviewed confirm that lonely adolescents are more likely to be physically and emotionally aggressive and that when people are bullied in the real world, they are more likely to act out on the internet.
So one would expect loneliness to be a multiplier when it comes to internet trolling, which is itself correlated with Dark Tetrad personality traits of Machiavellianism, psychopathy, everyday sadism, and narcissism. The Dark Tetrad is different from the Dark Triad in that in addition to narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, it also includes a direct measure of sadism. Sadism is when people get pleasure and gratification, especially with a sexual charge, from the pain, suffering, or humiliation of others.
Of the four Tetrad traits, psychopathy and everyday sadism have been found to correlate more strongly with internet trolling in previous studies, as well as with cyberbullying.
Masui notes that while loneliness and Dark Triad traits haven’t been well-studied, more narcissistic people tend to lash out at others when they feel rejected, according to one study, and another study found that social support may buffer against aggression for people higher in psychopathic traits.
Because no studies to date have looked at whether loneliness interacts with the Dark Triad traits to predict online trolling, Masui designed the current study to look at data from 513 people, between the ages of 20 and 69 years old, via an internet survey of a cross-section of a large pool of potential respondents. The survey covered several ratings: the Global Assessment of Internet Trolling-Revised; the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen Scale; the Varieties of Sadistic Tendencies instrument (measuring both direct and vicarious sadism); and the UCLA Loneliness Scale.
Loneliness, trolling, and the Dark Tetrad
There were several significant findings. Men were more likely than women to troll the internet and scored significantly higher on all the Dark Tetrad traits. Internet trolling correlated with Machiavellianism, sadism, and psychopathy, but not narcissism. Psychopathy was significantly correlated with higher reported loneliness, showing that in spite of common conceptions, more psychopathic people still register the absence of a relationship.
Looking more closely at whether loneliness affected how Dark Triad traits correlate with internet trolling, moderation analysis showed several important areas of possible connections. In the presence of loneliness, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism all were associated with increased internet trolling. Moreover, when higher levels of loneliness accompanied higher levels of Machiavellianism or psychopathy, internet trolling was even more likely. This effect was not present with sadism or narcissism, where greater loneliness did not significantly affect the chance of tipping over into trolling.
More sadistic study participants were more likely to troll, regardless of loneliness, and narcissism, loneliness and chance of trolling did not correlate with each other.
Creating online safety
Internet trolling is a reprehensible behavior according to conventional standards of civil discourse, regardless of the underlying factors. No one likes being trolled, though some folks seem to like to counter-troll, giving it back just as hard as it is doled out, even resorting to troll-baiting to get a good fight going. Others may have a bit of vicarious sadism and may enjoy watching. But for most of us, trolling just feels terrible, at best, Ignoring and unfriending trolls, when possible, is the path chosen, alongside maintaining community standards to disallow trolling.
The present research sheds light on how we understand trolling, not just as a function of “Dark” personality traits, but driven also by relatable feelings of loneliness. While we don’t tend to empathize with perpetrators, and I doubt bringing up loneliness in an internet altercation would be a constructive move, realizing that people who troll may be feeling isolated could be a first step to distancing oneself from the trolling in order to blunt the impact.
While trolls—to use a dehumanizing term—may be more likely to be manipulative, sadistic, and psychopathic, they may also be suffering, feeling lonely and isolated with no clear socially acceptable outlets. Approaching such people with the intention to offer support and connection is, at best, likely to go nowhere… and more troubling, may lead to harm to the would-be helper and ultimately greater isolation for the person trolling.
On an online community or systemic level, interventions designed to provide more community support, potentially programmable into popular social network platforms, could meaningfully reduce the amount of trolling which takes place. Future research is needed to further spell-out how loneliness and online trolling interact, and what interventions may be effective to create a safer online space for our ever-more-connected society.
The need for containment has to be balanced with individual self-expression. For those high in certain Dark Triad traits, self-expression and the safety of others are incompatible, making it difficult to alleviate loneliness in healthy ways.
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6th International Media for All Conference – Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility:
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This annual meeting is a great opportunity for language professionals, educators and media industry representatives from the region and all around the world to join their forces in search of innovative and effective ways to incorporate AVT and media accessibility in different areas. It is important that there are numerous groups that could benefit from more widespread use of subtitling, voice-over or audiodescription, including visually or audibly impaired but also language learners, social media users or international corporation workers.
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The NDA government would kick-start building 100 smart cities, as envisaged in the BJP’s poll manifesto, union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said.
“Our mission is to build 100 smart cities across the country with GIS (Geographic Information Systems)-based town planning, using the latest technology and infrastructure, integrated waste management and advanced transport system,” Naidu told reporters here.
Naidu, a Bharatiya Janata Party Rajya Sabha lawmaker from Karnataka, is on a maiden visit to the city after his cabinet induction Monday.
In line with the 100-day timetable Prime Minister Narendra Modi had set Thursday to all the central ministers, Naidu has called for a meeting of urban development ministers from all states in New Delhi June 2 to discuss modalities on achieving the objectives, including development of 100 smart cities, infrastructure development in metros, cities and towns and housing for all by 2022.
“Irrespective of party affiliations, there will be no politics on development issues and my ministry will reach out to every state as urban infrastructure development is one of our top priorities to improve the quality of live and regulate growth of metros and decongest cities,” Naidu asserted.
According to the 2011 census, 32 percent (377 million) of the country’s population live in urban areas as against 28 percent in 2001 and 17 percent in 1991.
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US-based toy company Hasbro has announced plans to eliminate plastic from new toy and game product packaging from next year.
The company will also remove plastic elements such as polybags, elastic bands, shrink wrap, window sheets and blister packs from its portfolio.
This move complements the company’s goal to phase out plastic in all new product packaging by the end of 2022.
Hasbro chairman and CEO Brian Goldner said: “Removing plastic from our packaging is the latest advancement in our more than decade-long journey to create a more sustainable future for our business and our world.
“We have an experienced, cross-functional team in place to manage the complexity of this undertaking and will look to actively engage employees, customers, and partners as we continue to innovate and drive progress as a leader in sustainability.”
As part of its commitment to environmental sustainability, the company announced a range of initiatives over the past nine years. It removed wire ties in 2010, added How2Recycle labelling in 2016 and used plant-based biological polyethene terephthalate (bioPET) in 2018, as well as introducing toy recycling programme in collaboration with TerraCycle.
Hasbro president and chief operating officer John Frascotti said: “We know consumers share our commitment to protecting the environment, and we want families to feel good knowing that our packaging will be virtually plastic-free, and our products can be easily recycled through our Toy Recycling Program with TerraCycle.”
The toymaker has recently expanded its Toy Recycling Program to France, Germany and Brazil, and plans to introduce it to other markets.
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“When will the justice system start working to protect the victims of gender-based violence and femicide?” said Kaylynn Palm, Action Centre coordinator at Action Society. “It is a disgrace that a violent abuser can get bail while his victim can barely see out of her swollen eyes in court.”
Action Society assisted a young woman who was allegedly severely beaten by her boyfriend more than a week ago at Khayelitsha Court today. She sat in court with visible injuries – including red and purple bruises and eyes swollen shut.
According to her, the suspect became angry after she slept over at a friend’s house and returned home late. He burned her clothes and personal belongings. When she returned, he locked her up, beat her and shoved her into the street almost naked.
The police arrested the suspect days later, and he appeared in court for the second time today. The court granted him bail of R2 000, and the matter was postponed to September.
“The woman must return to the hospital next week to repair fractured bones in her face,” said Palm. “She told us that she cannot understand why he is allowed to go free after severely assaulting her.
“We are seeing more and more cases where abusers receive bail after brutally attacking their victims. And, in so many cases, they attack their victims again. These women go through so much trauma, and then they have to fear for their lives when the attackers walk around freely.”
In the past month, Action Society offered support to the family of Siphokazi Booi’s family after her case was postponed yet again after the suspect in her case – her boyfriend – attacked, murdered and burned her body in September last year. He was out on bail at the time.
“We will continue the fight to change the justice system in favour of victims,” said Palm.
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CLOPIDOGREL BISULFATE- clopidogrel bisulfate tablet
PD-Rx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
WARNING: DIMINISHED ANTIPLATELET EFFECT IN PATIENTS WITH TWO LOSS-OF-FUNCTION ALLELES OF THE CYP2C19 GENE
The effectiveness of clopidogrel bisulfate results from its antiplatelet activity, which is dependent on its conversion to an active metabolite by the cytochrome P450 (CYP) system, principally CYP2C19 [see Warnings and Precautions ( 5.1), Clinical Pharmacology ( 12.3)] . Clopidogrel bisulfate at recommended doses forms less of the active metabolite and so has a reduced effect on platelet activity in patients who are homozygous for nonfunctional alleles of the CYP2C19 gene, (termed “CYP2C19 poor metabolizers”). Tests are available to identify patients who are CYP2C19 poor metabolizers [see Clinical Pharmacology ( 12.5)] . Consider use of another platelet P2Y12 inhibitor in patients identified as CYP2C19 poor metabolizers.
- Clopidogrel tablets are indicated to reduce the rate of myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke in patients with non–ST-segment elevation ACS (unstable angina [UA]/non–ST-elevation myocardial infarction [NSTEMI]), including patients who are to be managed medically and those who are to be managed with coronary revascularization. Clopidogrel tablets should be administered in conjunction with aspirin.
- Clopidogrel tablets are indicated to reduce the rate of myocardial infarction and stroke in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) who are to be managed medically. Clopidogrel tablets should be administered in conjunction with aspirin.
In patients with established peripheral arterial disease or with a history of recent myocardial infarction (MI) or recent stroke clopidogrel bisulfate tablets is indicated to reduce the rate of MI and stroke.
In patients who need an antiplatelet effect within hours, initiate clopidogrel tablets with a single 300 mg oral loading dose and then continue at 75 mg once daily. Initiating clopidogrel tablets without a loading dose will delay establishment of an antiplatelet effect by several days [see Clinical Pharmacology ( 12.3) and Clinical Studies ( 14.1)] .
- 75 mg tablets: Light pink colored, round, beveled edge, biconvex film coated tablets printed “41” with black ink on one side and plain on the other side.
Clopidogrel tablets are contraindicated in patients with hypersensitivity (e.g., anaphylaxis) to clopidogrel or any component of the product [see Adverse Reactions ( 6.2)] .
Clopidogrel is a prodrug. Inhibition of platelet aggregation by clopidogrel is achieved through an active metabolite. The metabolism of clopidogrel to its active metabolite can be impaired by genetic variations in CYP2C19 [see Boxed Warning].
The metabolism of clopidogrel can also be impaired by drugs that inhibit CYP2C19, such as omeprazole or esomeprazole. Avoid concomitant use of clopidogrel bisulfate with omeprazole or esomeprazole because both significantly reduce the antiplatelet activity of clopidogrel bisulfate [see Drug Interactions ( 7.1)] .
P2Y12 inhibitors (Thienopyridines), inhibit platelet aggregation for the lifetime of the platelet (7 to 10 days). Because the half-life of clopidogrel’s active metabolite is short, it may be possible to restore hemostasis by administering exogenous platelets; however, platelet transfusions within 4 hours of the loading dose or 2 hours of the maintenance dose may be less effective.
Use of drugs that induce the activity of CYP2C19 would be expected to result in increased drug levels of the active metabolite of clopidogrel and might potentiate the bleeding risk. As a precaution, avoid concomitant use of strong CYP2C19 inducers [see Drug Interactions ( 7.1) and Clinical Pharmacology ( 12.3)].
Discontinuation of clopidogrel bisulfate increases the risk of cardiovascular events. If clopidogrel bisulfate must be temporarily discontinued (e.g., to treat bleeding or for surgery with a major risk of bleeding), restart it as soon as possible. When possible, interrupt therapy with clopidogrel bisulfate for five days prior to such surgery. Resume clopidogrel bisulfate as soon as hemostasis is achieved.
TTP, sometimes fatal, has been reported following use of clopidogrel bisulfate, sometimes after a short exposure (<2 weeks). TTP is a serious condition that requires urgent treatment including plasmapheresis (plasma exchange). It is characterized by thrombocytopenia, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (schistocytes [fragmented RBCs] seen on peripheral smear), neurological findings, renal dysfunction, and fever [see Adverse Reactions ( 6.2)].
Hypersensitivity including rash, angioedema or hematologic reaction has been reported in patients receiving clopidogrel bisulfate, including patients with a history of hypersensitivity or hematologic reaction to other thienopyridines [see Contraindications ( 4.2) and Adverse Reactions ( 6.2)] .
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It’s not hard to install Windows 10. The primary work starts after the operating system has been installed. Most of us first install all the drivers and software we need to use the system every day. Besides installing the software, you need to review and handle some Windows settings for a better experience. These are some of the environments.
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1. Default Apps
For multiple stuff like browsing, emails, music, etc., Windows 10 utilizes its own apps as default apps. The embedded apps are not as nice compared to third-party apps like Chrome, Thunderbird, VLC, etc. The first thing you should do is manually set up the default apps. This eliminates the need to alter the default apps every time you are asked by an application to select it as the default application. To do so, go to “Applications-> Default Applications” and open the Settings folder. Choose a fresh default request in each category in the correct pane. If your favorite application is not viewed, make sure that it is installed.
2. Startup Apps
We will need to install all the apps we need for our daily use after installing Windows. Most apps are added to the list of startups. These applications will automatically start with Windows once they are added. The longer the startup time for Windows, the more applications there are in the startup list.
You don’t need all the applications starting with Windows most of the time. Disabling applications you don’t need will reduce Windows 10’s start time.
Open the Settings system to remove an application from the start list, go to the “Applications-> Start” section and transfer the switch to the Off place next to the application.
3. Active Hours
One of Windows 10’s most prevalent complaints is that it reboots the system to install updates automatically. By allowing and configuring the Active Hours feature, you can prevent this conduct.
Open the Configuration app and go to “Update and Security-> Windows Update” to enable the Active Hours function. Click the “Change active hours” button in the correct panel.
Then press on the link “Change” to set the active time. If you want Windows to use your machine to handle the active hours, activate the button in the activity section “Automatically adjust the active hours for this device.”
4. Delivery Optimization
Windows 10 is using something called Delivery Optimization to create Windows application and update downloads quicker. Windows can download or upload updates from other local PCs and connect to the Internet with this function.
Windows automatically verifies download and upload authenticity through Delivery Optimization to avoid worrying about damaged downloads. If you don’t like this behavior, the Delivery Optimization feature can be deactivated.
To do so, go to the “Update and Security-> Delivery Optimization” section to open the settings application and transfer the button to “Allow downloads from other PCs” to the off place.
5. Find My Device
Like mobile phones, Windows 10 has a built-in device monitoring function called “Find My Device.” If you’re using a laptop, allowing this function will assist you a lot if needed.
Open the Settings app and go to the “Update and Security-> Find My Device” page to allow the Find My Device function. Click on the Change button in the correct panel and then move the switch to the On place.
If the option is not viewed or dimmed, make sure that you are logged in with your Microsoft account.
6. Enhanced Search
Microsoft has launched a fresh function called Enhanced Search Mode in Windows 10 v1903. When activated, Windows will crawl your entire system so that from the start menu you can search and open nearly any file or folder.
Open the settings request to allow improved mode and go to the “Search-> Windows Search” section. In the Search My Files section, pick the “Enhanced” option on the correct side. If you don’t want to index or track a particular folder, press the “Add an Excluded Folder” button to add that particular folder.
Note that this function can boost CPU consumption and decrease battery life when activated for the first time.
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Printable grant proposal budget template prolifica download foundation proposal template excel, The term company proposition is most commonly employed by sales representatives, advertising and business personal. Writing a business proposal is the most significant part a business deal. No matter how experienced your sales team is and how powerful you are. There are chances you will loose certain possible business contracts. However, you’re still able to make each and every proposal you make to grow your small business growth. Loosing contract isn’t necessarily a terrible thing. A lost contract can help you by giving you opportunities to get valuable feedback and allow you to analyze what wrong thing happened at your end and the way it is possible to better your products, solutions and proposals.
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A Christmas Carol – İngilizceYazar: Charles Dickens
“The ghosts make the story very exciting, and the pictures are absolutely brilliant.” Reem, 11
‘Bah, humbug! Fools wishing me a Merry Christmas should be forced to sit on cushions stuffed with holly leaves or boiled with their own Christmas puddings.’
Miserable old miser Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas. Can somebody so selfish, so harsh and so horribly lonely ever change his ways?
In one terrifying night, poor Scrooge is haunted by four ghosts. Why do they show him visions of his past? Why do they show him other people enjoying Christmas? Why do they show him the deaths of a young boy and of a miserable old miser?
Weep and laugh as you read this much-loved Christmas story. Will Scrooge always think that Christmas is ‘Humbug’, or will he learn to shout ‘Merry Christmas, one and all’?
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The slight improvement in cod stocks in recent years off Newfoundland and Labrador is already on a downward trend, according to the latest surveys by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
Stocks have been showing encouraging signs since 2012, but according to the valuation released on Friday, 2017 has been a difficult year. Inventories would have decreased by 30% to 315,000 tonnes.
The biggest cause of this decline is the natural fish mortality rate, There is a high probability that the fall in stocks will continue this year, according to Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
“This kind of increase in natural fish mortality can happen and is very difficult to predict,” says Karen Dwyer, a scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
There are indications that capelin and shrimp, sources of food for cod, are not present enough either, she says.
When asked if the commercial cod fishery will be back soon, Ms. Dwyer says it is a game of patience.
“We are still in a critical area,” she says. We see improvements in some places, but to others, things are not going so well. ”
The department has no deadline for the reinstatement of the commercial cod fishery.
The fishing mortality rate has also been rising since 2015. This is a sign that the industry is still in a critical zone, according to Ms. Dwyer.
The preservation of quotas as low as possible is, for the moment, the recommendation of scientists.
The union representing fishers in Newfoundland and Labrador is cautious when it comes to assessing stocks.
“Although this is not the news the fishermen wanted to hear, there are still fluctuations in this type of assessment. That was to be expected, “says union president Keith Sullivan in a press release.
The World Wildlife Fund, for its part, described the situation as a “major setback”.
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Latin Americanists Among Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship Recipients
April 12, 2014
Of the five University of New Mexico doctoral students who will receive a 2014 Russel J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship for their dissertation work, two are Latin Americanists - and both have been previously recognized by the Latin American and Iberian Institute (LAII) as LAII Ph.D. Fellows. Rebecca Ellis and Rachael Spaulding, respectively, research education among blind students in Argentina and the experiences of early modern Afro-women. The three other students who will receive the Fellowship are Mary Henderson, Nicholas Schwarz, and Gino Signoracci.
Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski's goal in life was to be independent and challenged intellectually. Both Bilinski's were true intellectuals; Adventuresome, independent and driven, Russell was a researcher, academician and an entrepreneur. Doro was an accomplished artist and patron of the arts. They believed that education was a means to obtain independence, and this is the legacy they wished to pass on to others.
The Bilinski Fellowship is offered to full time doctoral students studying English, American Studies, Foreign Languages & Literatures, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, or Spanish & Portuguese. They include a $12,000 stipend per academic semester for up to three semesters. The Bilinski Educational Foundation provides fellowship funds for students who maintain the highest academic achievement, but who lack the financial resources to pay for the highest caliber post-secondary education.
Rebecca Ellis is an advanced Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History. She spent the last year working and living in Argentina where she was developing her current dissertation project. In her research, Rebecca examines the creation of political communities among blind students and immigrants in Argentina during the first half of the twentieth century. Her project attempts to understand how the blind attempted to generate better and more diverse labor opportunities by differentiating themselves from other disability categories that policy makers in Argentina increasingly labelled as dangerous. Understanding how disability was differentiated in Argentina both internally and externally to the blind movement will help further our understanding of the ways in which early twentieth century political movements promoting the interests of disabled persons established the basis of later twentieth century movements grouping persons with disabilities into a single cause.
Rachel Spaulding is an advanced Ph.D. candidate in colonial literature in the Spanish and Portuguese Department. Her dissertation focuses on the textual productions and mystical experiences of three early modern Afro-women: Spain's Sister Teresa Juliana de Santo Domingo, also known as Chicaba, Peru's Úrsula de Jesés and Brazil's Rosa Maria Egipçíaca. Her interdisciplinary research applies performance theory to explain how these women's texts foster a reading of transformation from slave subject to mystical agent. She received the LAII PhD fellowship for the academic year of 2013-2014. During this time she completed two chapters of her dissertation and research for her final chapters. The research she completed during her time as an LAII PhD Fellowship recipient frames her literary analysis of the Afro-women's text within the historiography of the Ibero-Atlantic field. The Bilinski PhD Fellowship will facilitate the completion of her dissertation by May of 2015.
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CD4 antibody | CC30
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|Mouse anti Bovine CD4 antibody, clone CC30 recognizes a ~50 kDa transmembrane molecule considered to be the bovine homologue of human CD4. The phenotype, tissue distribution and function of T-cells expressing the bovine CD4 antigen are similar to those in other species. However, expression on macrophages has not yet been detected.
Mouse anti Bovine CD4, clone CC30 has successfully been used for immunohistochemical localization of CD4 on paraffin embedded material using zinc salt fixation (Cantón et al. 2013). Additionally, clone CC30 has been reported as being suitable for use on formal dichromate (FD5) fixed paraffin embedded tissue with amplification and antigen retrieval techniques (Gutierrez et al. 1999).
- Target Species
- Species Cross-Reactivity
Target Species Cross Reactivity Bison
- N.B. Antibody reactivity and working conditions may vary between species.
- Product Form
- Purified IgG - liquid
- Purified IgG prepared by affinity chromatography on Protein A from tissue culture supernatant
- Buffer Solution
- Phosphate buffered saline
- Preservative Stabilisers
- 0.09% Sodium Azide (NaN3)
- Carrier Free
- Bovine thymocytes.
- Approx. Protein Concentrations
- IgG concentration 1.0 mg/ml
- Fusion Partners
- Spleen cells from an immunised mouse were fused with cells of the mouse NS1 myeloma cell line.
- For research purposes only
- 12 months from date of despatch
Avoid repeated freezing and thawing as this may denature the antibody. Storage in frost-free freezers is not recommended.
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Clone CC30 has been reported as being suitable for use on formal dichromate (FD5) fixed paraffin embedded tissue with amplification and antigen retrieval techniques, see Gutierrez et al. for details.
- Flow Cytometry
- Use 10ul of the suggested working dilution to label 106 cells in 100ul.
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Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 27 (1-3): 215-22.
Gutierrez, M. et al. (1999) The detection of CD2+, CD4+, CD8+, and WC1+ T lymphocytes, B cells and macrophages in fixed and paraffin embedded bovine tissue using a range of antigen recovery and signal amplification techniques.
Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 71 (3-4): 321-34.
Winkler, M.T. et al. (1999) Bovine herpesvirus 1 can infect CD4(+) T lymphocytes and induce programmed cell death during acute infection of cattle.
J Virol. 73 (10): 8657-68.
Winkler, M.T. et al. (2000) Persistence and reactivation of bovine herpesvirus 1 in the tonsils of latently infected calves.
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Riondato, F. et al. (2008) Effects of road transportation on lymphocyte subsets in calves
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Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 68: 193-207.
Liebana, E. et al. (2007) Distribution and activation of T-lymphocyte subsets in tuberculous bovine lymph-node granulomas.
Vet Pathol. 44: 366-72.
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Parasitol Res. 106: 595-605.
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Machugh, N.D. et al. (1997) Identification of two distinct subsets of bovine gamma delta T cells with unique cell surface phenotype and tissue distribution.
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Childerstone, A.J. et al. (1999) Demonstration of bovine CD8+ T-cell responses to foot-and-mouth disease virus.
J Gen Virol. 80: 663-9.
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Knowles, G. et al. (1996) Phenotypical characterization of lymphocytes infiltrating regressing papillomas.
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Hein, W.R. and Dudler, L. (1997) TCR gamma delta+ cells are prominent in normal bovine skin and express a diverse repertoire of antigen receptors.
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Hope, J.C. et al. (2005) Exposure to Mycobacterium avium induces low-level protection from Mycobacterium bovis infection but compromises diagnosis of disease in cattle.
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Clin Vaccine Immunol. 13: 1343-8.
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30 September 2015: The Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) has welcomed an amendment to legislation which will allow people on a lower income and with few assets to have debts of up to €35,000 completely written off.
The Debt Relief Notice, also referred to as a DRN, is one of the legally binding debt solutions provided under the Personal Insolvency Act available through the ISI. It allows for the complete write-off of debts such as personal loans, credit card loans, store card debts, credit union loans and overdrafts. An application for a Debt Relief Notice is approved by the Court and once it is granted, the person can no longer be contacted by creditors asking for those debts to be repaid.
Commenting on the legislative amendment, the Director of the ISI, Mr. Lorcan O’Connor stated:
“The Debt Relief Notice is intended for people with very limited means who are in genuine financial distress and we know from the hundreds of people who have availed of this debt solution already that it is life changing. I fully expect that the increase in the maximum debt limit to €35,000 will enable the ISI to help many more people get back on track financially through our court backed solutions.”
Applications for a Debt Relief Notice are made at no charge through Approved Intermediaries – part of a network of qualified debt advice professionals authorised by the ISI. Approved Intermediaries are located around the country and at present the majority are based within certain MABS centres
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The UN Security Council met on May 15, 1948 and had before it the following documents:
The representative of the Jewish Agency (for Israel) demanded an enforceable Chapter VII resolution condemning Arab aggression.
The representative of the Arab Higher Committee (for the Palestinians), supported by Syria and Egypt, questioned the right of the Jewish Agency to term as aggression the entry of Arab forces which had been invited by the Arab Higher Committee to maintain law and order. With the termination of the Mandate, he asserted, Palestine had become an independent nation and the Jews constituted a rebellious minority.
The Security Council did not assign blame to either side. After several days of discussions it passed Resolution 49, calling for a cease-fire.
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With almost a month since the start of the second round of family assessment in Baguio City, only 24,571 or 31% out of the target 78,313 households have been assessed by the field staff of the joint project of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Listahanan and the City Government of Baguio.
The data gathered from the assessment showed that there are 421 reported vacant houses or families currently not in Baguio City while there are 203 households that refused to be assessed.
Area Supervisor Melyrine D. Tamale shared that they have encountered respondents believing that the enumerators conducting the assessment were doing surveillance to the households.
During the assessment, the enumerators are required to go inside the houses of the respondents and get the socio-economic and basic family members’ information of the households using the Family Assessment Forms (FAF).
Furthermore, National Household Targeting Office Project Development Officer Euberto B. Gregorio assured the confidentiality of the households’ information gathered in the assessment.
Meanwhile, another Area Supervisor, Cristy Morales, shared that two of the hindering factors they have encountered were that most of the houses they visited have no qualified respondents or that there were no respondents at the time of the visit.
528 houses were reported to have no qualified respondents during the assessment in their barangays which would be revisited during the callbacks.
“Isa sa mga strategy naming gagawin ay sa gabi kami mag-aassess, hanggang alas-nuwebe ng gabi, kasama ng mga barangay tanod at iba pang barangay officials. Karamihan kasi ng mga bahay na napupuntahan namin sa umaga ay walang respondents sa mga bahay dahil oras ng trabaho,” Morales said.
They have also been assessing during weekends when the respondents are expected to be at home.
Meanwhile, City Social Welfare and Development Officer Betty Fangasan asked for the cooperation of everyone so that this assessment will produce a good and updated database of all residents of Baguio City which would then be used by the city government for evidence-based planning and programming to come up with responsive programs and services.
“Everybody should take advantage of the assessment, which was funded through the Grassroots Participatory Budgeting Process (GPBP), since this is once in a lifetime opportunity that all the 128 barangays of Baguio City will be assessed,” Fangasan said.
Fangasan also reminded the public that for them to ensure that the field staff (Area Supervisors and Enumerators) conducting the assessment is really employed by the Listahanan, the public should look for the staff’s identification cards signed by DSWD-CAR Regional Director Janet P. Armas and City Mayor Mauricio Domogan. They must also be accompanied by the bgry. officials. Further, the public should also sign the family assessment forms where the family’s basic information has been gathered and DSWD stickers will be posted to the houses after the assessment. # DSWD-CAR, SOCIAL MARKETING UNIT, Kaye Ann O. Mapalo
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There’s nothing quite like a long Minnesota autumn season filled with 60 degree days and multiple trips to the apple orchard. It’s a staple of our season, and one that never gets old.
Whether you’ve been going to an apple orchard for as long as you can remember or you simply reap the benefits of someone else’s trip, you know just how good and crisp a Minnesota-grown apple is. As the apple season comes along, many in the state wait anxiously for the highly coveted Honeycrisp, SweeTango and First Kiss apples to hit the fruit stands and grocery stores.
While going to an apple orchard to pick one of these tasty apples is an incredible fall-time activity, having your own apple trees can also be an amazing experience.
Growing Your Own Apple Trees
As we continue serving Twin Cities residents with high quality tree care services, we have been seeing an increased number of clients beginning to grow their own apple trees. While it remains easy to go to the local grocery store to buy apples, there’s just something about growing your own apples that has a unique appeal.
From August until the cool temperatures of October arrive, those with apple trees can experience the amazing opportunity of going outside their home to the nearby apple tree and picking off a sweet afternoon treat. Though this is an amazing benefit itself, apple trees include many more benefits!
Benefits Of Apple Trees
Yes, apple trees provide incredible sweet treats during the late-summer and fall seasons, but they also have many other benefits. Here are just three of them!
- Healthy Bee Population: Having apple trees on your property will promote a healthy bee population because of their work in pollination. Since apple trees need cross-pollination in order to ensure genetic diversity, it’s important to remember to plant different trees next to each other.
- Care For Nature: If you have an apple tree on your property, this will require a certain work to maintain the tree and keep it healthy and producing. Especially if you have children, this will teach them the importance of taking care of the nature around them – making sure the tree get enough water, is pruned, picked and protected.
- Healthy Snacks: Lastly, you will have the opportunity to always have a healthy snack option close to you. You no longer need to dig through your pantry to find a sweet treat, but instead, you have a sweet-treat-producing apple tree outside that you can pick from at any time.
Growing Healthy Apple Trees
Now that we’ve talked a little bit about the benefits of having an apple tree on your property, it’s time to share some helpful tips regarding making sure your tree grows healthy and maintains its fruit-producing capabilities.
Here are 3 tips to growing healthy apple trees:
1. Water Your Apple Tree Regularly
While caring for apple trees may differ depending on the age of the tree, it’s important to make sure it receives regular watering, whether it be from rainfall or irrigation. If you’re planting a new tree, watering regularly will help make sure the root system develops properly and has a solid base from which to grow. For mature trees, the University of Minnesota Extension suggests the tree receives about one inch of watering weekly during its primary growing/producing season (May-October).
2. Protect The Tree
Having apple trees in your yard brings many benefits, but it also takes some work to make sure the tree stays healthy over the course of its life. One way to ensure its long life is to protect it from insects and ground animals such as rabbits and deer. Bugs of all kinds love apple trees because of the fruit it produces. Whether its Apple Maggots, Codling Moths, Japanese Beetles or any other insect, these bugs can bore into the apple and destroy it.
To protect against these critters, you can spray insecticide on the tree, but be careful about what kind you’re using. You don’t want to affect or kill the pollinators that benefit the tree. To avoid this situation, use horticulture oil to get rid of the insects and any eggs they lay. Also, make sure to perform this in the evening or night to prevent any negative situations with the pollinators in the area.
Other threats to protect the tree from are various ground animals. Many times, deer will eat the low hanging younger shoots of the tree and consequently destroy the young branches. They will also eat the leaves and main trunk because they smell the sweetness that lies underneath. This is what other animals such as rabbits do as well. They will oftentimes eat the bark around the entire circumference of the tree and girdle it.
To protect against these animals, you can use a tree guard that wraps around the trunk of the tree, but doesn’t harm it. Another strategy you can use is fencing to keep the animals away from the entire tree area.
3. Prune The Branches
Lastly, it’s important to prune the apple tree branches in order to make sure it grows with a strong structure and can have healthy fruit production. In addition to these benefits, pruning your apple tree will allow more sunlight and air circulation to enter the innermost branches of the tree which will help produce a more evenly balanced fruit distribution.
Pruning your apple tree is a very good thing to do, but it’s extremely important to do this at the correct time. In order to not negatively affect the tree and its fruit production, it’s best to prune during the winter or very early spring months. By pruning your tree in the colder months, your tree will have a chance to properly heal before the warm weather insects arrive and attempt to enter the tree.
Apple Tree Pruning Services
Apple trees are amazing additions to homes and their surrounding properties. Not only can they benefit the environment around them, but they can be great additions to your family. If you’re needing assistance with your apple tree care or apple tree pruning, contact the tree care experts at Pro-Tree Outdoor Services today!
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by Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, published in World Literature Today, May 10, 2017
The new American Writers Museum, opening this May in Chicago, celebrates American literature in a lively, interactive space that honors America’s writers past and present.
Located on the second floor of a grand old building on Michigan Avenue’s “Cultural Corridor,” the American Writers Museum is the realization of a seven-year journey that began with a question: Why was there no national museum in the US honoring writers? Malcolm O’Hagan, a dedicated reader and retired engineer and businessman, had visited the Dublin Writers Museum in his native Ireland and began to talk with friends and professionals about developing an American museum. He brought on writers, scholars, and publishers to develop the idea and curate the selection of writers. All agreed the focus should be on writers no longer living who’ve stood the test of time, but the museum should also celebrate contemporary literature with readings, book signings, and programs.
“I see the museum as a literary jewel box where a visitor can enjoy old friends—the books, words, characters of writers they know and also get to meet new ones,” O’Hagan says. Chicago was selected because of its central location, the support of the city, and its rich literary heritage, which includes writers like Carl Sandburg, Saul Bellow, and Gwendolyn Brooks.
One of the governing principles was not to create a museum for static artifacts—though there will be some artifacts—but a place where readers, writers, and visitors can learn. “Books in glass cases don’t make for much engagement,” O’Hagan notes.
A large US map greets visitors with a Nation of Writers introductory film playing on it. On one side of the map is a room dedicated to children’s literature with places to read, word games, and story times with authors. Down the corridor runs the Gallery of 100 American Voices—from early Native American storytelling to Thomas Jefferson, Sojourner Truth, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, John Steinbeck, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, and many others, a rich collection spanning American history. On the facing wall a Surprise Bookshelf features illuminated boxes showcasing samples of great American literature. A Word Waterfall stands at the end of the corridor where quotes by writers from Emerson to George Carlin stream down the wall.
As you turn into the Readers Hall, which is also an event space, kiosks let readers explore their favorite books and compare them. At the end of Readers Hall, a changing display space launches with the return of Jack Kerouac’s scroll of On the Road after a decade out of the country. Another space features W. S. Merwin.
In the nearby Writers Room a visitor can glimpse the creative process in an exhibit entitled Mind of a Writer. Two eight-foot touchscreen tables display book titles the visitor can open to view edits on manuscripts such as The Fall of the House of Usher and A Streetcar Named Desire. The display Anatomy of a Masterpiece includes quotes from writers about the creative process.
A large, windowed alcove is dedicated to Chicago writers. Another feature, Hometown Authors, lets a visitor enter a zip code and find writers past and present in his or her area, including local museum affiliates. The over sixty affiliates are houses and smaller museums around the country dedicated to single authors.
The museum plans to partner with literary and educational institutions nationwide. AWM president Carey Cranston says, “Once our doors open, we will learn from people coming through, and ideas will flow day by day. The feedback will help us going forward.”
“Whatever we do, we must represent all of America’s diversity,” adds Program Director Allison Sansone. “What makes American literature different is the diversity of voices and our willingness for self-examination.”
Novelist and journalist Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is vice president of PEN International and sits on the boards of Poets & Writers, PEN Faulkner Foundation, International Center for Journalists, Words Without Borders, and the American Writers Museum.
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Our family has been trying to visit the aquarium for months now. On three separate occasions we’ve arrived at Stanley Park and promptly driven home again in order to avoid parking chaos and hordes of swarming tourists. But eventually, our determination to introduce our son to the bubbly world of undersea creatures outweighed our desire to avoid pushy crowds. And so, one overcast October morning, we were delighted to finally find ourselves inside a relatively quiet Vancouver Aquarium.
With an Aquarium stamp on our hand, humming “Baby Beluga” under our breath, we made our way past tanks filled with both local and tropical marine life. From the Amazon Gallery to Penguin Point, the exhibits teemed with poison frogs, giant turtles, colourful fish, and countless other animals. We spent the day marveling at the incredible array of beautiful and intricate creatures displayed before us.
As a self-supporting, non-profit society with a strong emphasis on marine conservation and research, the Aquarium is more than just an entertaining afternoon or great educational experience.
Going out of their way to give interesting and creative presentations to guests, the Vancouver Aquarium puts a different spin on the “usual” aquarium experience. The Caring for Dolphins show is just one of many examples of this: rather than solely providing the crowd-pleasing flips and tricks, this presentation gives visitors a look at an actual dolphin training session. This behind-the-scenes style show gives guests unique insight into what it takes to train and keep dolphins healthy.
Beyond the numerous shows, guests can spend hours studying and watching thousands of different intriguing animals, insects, and fish. From hanging lanterns powered by an electric eel, to a cave full of fruit bats, there’s something here for the entire family.
And with a fifteen-month-old, this was the perfect time for our first visit to the aquarium. Bubbling with curiosity and on the verge of mobility, our little one was completely amazed by world around him (and obsessed with the jellyfish!) And while the exhibits are fascinating enough, the aquarium has also set up Clownfish Cove. This area is specially designed to provide children under eight with a fun and interactive play experience while simultaneously teaching them about caring for marine life.
Things I love about the Vancouver Aquarium:
1. This is a great activity for rainy days. While the Dolphin / Beluga shows (and some of the other animal tanks) are located outside, there is an abundance of indoor exhibits to keep you busy. Some of the larger tanks also have “underwater” viewing areas where you can stay out of the rain but still hear the show.
2. The Aquarium really emphasizes the local marine life that can be found along our coast. I love learning about the creatures found in our very own “backyard.”
3. It’s a full day activity. While it doesn’t seem that large from the outside, there is no lack of informative activities, shows, or things to see.
4. It’s “Baby Friendly.” While it might be a different story during the peak season, we had no difficulty navigating the Aquarium with our jumbo-sized stroller. The cafeteria has a designated “stroller parking area” and I also stumbled across a cozy corner marked specifically for breastfeeding mothers. These little things go a long way in making an outing easier for families with younger children.
Other things to note:
1. This is a major tourist destination and, as expected, can be quite crowded during summer break, holidays, and weekends. For a quieter visit, try to plan for an off-season or mid-week visit.
2. Aquarium parking is limited and while there is plenty of other parking located around Stanley Park, keep in mind that you may be required to walk a ways.
3. Admission can seem a bit steep for a family on a tight budget but after seeing how much my little one loved the Aquarium, I would definitely consider purchasing an annual membership. Membership pays for itself in two visits and comes with several other perks / benefits.
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Cultural appropriation involves treating another culture like a fashion trend or a fad. Belittling the culture in this way is a form of racism.
Culture should not be reduced to a fashion accessory. Recent examples of cultural appropriation in the fashion industry include Gucci appropriating the Sikh turban on catwalks, Victoria Secret dressing their lingerie models in Native American headdresses, and Marc Jacobs having numerous white models walk down the catwalk wearing dreadlocks. Appropriation does not only exist within the world of high fashion; a white person wearing a removable bindi, wearing their hair in cornrows, or getting a henna tattoo are also examples of cultural appropriation. These trends are damaging because they treat an entire culture like a disposable fashion trend and only engage with a culture superficially. This debasement of an entire culture is racist. The fashion industry is one of the worst culprits for cultural appropriation, as they fail to acknowledge the history of the clothing and culture they attempt to replicate. Fashion may not seem inherently political, but it is. We have to acknowledge the entire journey of an item of clothing, taking into consideration the way it is manufactured, consumed, marketed, and experienced. When we look closely at all of these things, it is clear that fashion perpetuates themes from violent colonialism. The fashion industry tokenizes models of colour and uses them as interchangeable props, while also using predominantly white models. This racist behaviour discredits any claims from brands that they use cultural appropriation to encourage cultural exchange and diversity. Fashion brands also combine styling elements from completely different cultures, particularly from Eastern Asia, demonstrating a disregard for the cultures they are claiming to explore.
Cultural appropriation in fashion can be a good thing, creating a cultural exchange and diversifying the content we consume. Appropriation has the power to break down barriers between cultures by encouraging the sharing of fashion and cultural practices. Wearing clothing from other cultures teaches people more about that culture and how to respect it. Outside of fashion, we embrace cultural fusion. The music industry would be nowhere without sampling and cultural remix, and we can learn about another culture by cooking and eating their cuisine. Why should the fashion industry be any different?
[P1] Cultural appropriation can involve borrowing elements of another culture for use in fashion. [P2] This engages with the culture in a superficial and disposable way and treats the culture like a fashion trend or fad. [P3] This is a debasement of the culture, which is racist.
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Kevin Choi’s Need to Snack While WFH Led to a Dextrous Device
Kevin Choi, ’09 BFA Toy Design
I came up with my Snactiv idea years back when I found myself snacking while playing a game of Counter Strike. I only ever thought the idea could be useful for me, so I never went as far as creating a prototype or even a sketch for it because I was completely fine being a slob and clicking my mouse with my pinky finger when things got heated in the game. And to be quite honest, I loved licking my Cheeto fingers.
Fast forward to October 2019, I had just started WKC Designs, Inc., an industrial design consultancy business, and things were going well for me, even as a startup. I was busier than ever and most days I would need to snack and eat at my desk to keep up with all the work that was coming in. That’s when I noticed how disgusting my workspace started to look and feel. I had orange Cheeto stains all over my workspace, my keyboard was all greased up, and my shirts were starting to change in color—permanently! But the thing that got to me the most was that I, who thought I was saving time by snacking and eating at my desk, was spending more time licking and wiping my fingers than getting actual work done. And that’s when I knew there had to be a cleaner, better, and more efficient way for me to snack while I had things to get done.
So, what did I do? I googled “Clean way to snack without using my fingers.” I was certain there would be something out there already, but to my surprise there was no real solution, and the best one I had come up with were generic chopsticks. So I started using chopsticks while working to keep my area clean.
Weeks went by as I continued to snack/eat at my desk with chopsticks and that’s when I noticed the same inefficiency problem I saw before. I was spending more time picking up the chopsticks, aligning the chopsticks, grabbing the food item, eating, and then placing the chopsticks back down. The constant cycle of picking up, aligning, eating, and placing down was driving me crazy! Just writing it here is driving me crazy. And that’s when I said enough is enough and the very first Snactiv was born.
Snactiv is a patented, multi-tasking snacking tool of the future! You can think of them as an extra pair of fingers that sit on top of your actual fingers. With sticky, chopstick-like grips that you maneuver to pick up snack items, it keeps your fingers and tech devices clean and, most importantly, it frees up your hands so you can type, text, click, and swipe, streamlining your snacking experience while working or gaming.
All that said, I wasn’t expecting much out of Snactiv. It was basically meant for a problem I had while WFH. I wouldn’t and couldn’t have fathomed how many people had the same issues as I did. It started with my friends and family stating how much they needed something like Snactiv, and evolved to watching complete strangers fund my product on Kickstarter, and then finally going on ABC’s Shark Tank and getting an immense amount of exposure for my idea there as well.
As of March 2022, it’s been 11 months since our Kickstarter launch, and five months since our official launch date. In the short time that we have been live, we have partnered with corporate giants like Doordash, among others. These new partnerships will create one of the biggest marketing initiatives we have planned to help Snactiv become a household name. Today, we have done over $900K in sales and have frozen over $1.9 million dollars on more than 230 trademark and copyright infringers’ accounts (and still counting). Think of these 230 infringers as a sales team I never asked for—they sell their fake product, they get fined, and Snactiv continues to grow.
If you’re reading this and thinking of inventing something to introduce to the world, a word of advice: Be sure to protect your inventions pronto! Utility patents, design patents, the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), national phase patents, trademarks, and copyrights are all equally important to fight infringers around the world. Don’t let your hard work go in vain!
Lastly, I would like to thank my family and kids for their patience, love, and support throughout this process. To my wife, SeoHyun (Sunny) Kim, also an Otis College alum (’09 BFA Toy Design), I want to thank her for all she has sacrificed, for believing in me, and letting me chase after my dreams.
Choi is the president and founder of Inoobi, Inc., the company behind Snactiv. He also has worked at Disney Consumer Products, Hasbro, and Fuhu, a start-up company that was acquired by Mattel. You can follow Snactiv on Instagram, @snactiv.
If you are an Otis alumnx who would like to be featured in a future spotlight, please let us know here.
Alan Nakagawa’s Installation Celebrates “Orphan Objects” at the USC Pacific Asia Museum
Alan Nakagawa, ’86 BFA Fine Arts
tamashiP galactic was a multimedia installation I created for a 50th anniversary exhibition at the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California that ran from November 2021 to February 2022. The show, titled Interventions: Fresh Perspectives After 50 Years, included original responses to the museum’s collection and was curated by Rebecca Hall.
We were given 12 months to research the collection and create a new work in response to whatever we gravitated to. I had a meeting with the museum’s Collection Manager, Annie Lee. It was through Annie that I learned about a group of objects that were obtained by the museum before they had a proper registrar system, so these objects had no data and therefore were not of value to the museum—no date of acquisition, how they were obtained, no background information. When I heard that there were 2,400 of these objects and that the museum was planning to get rid of them, I called them “orphan objects” and decided to focus on them for my contribution to the group show.
What I developed was a fake sci-fi movie where the protagonists in the story were selected to fly not just these 2,400 objects, but every orphan object from every museum on earth, to a parallel universe where museums don’t care if there’s no background data to objects. My installation was mimicking a movie theater lobby that displayed schwag and memorabilia from this imaginary movie, i.e. the spaceship used in the movie, a movie poster, and merchandise like t-shirts, stickers, custom wallets, and high-top sneakers. I also collaborated with Pasadena-based sewing club, Sumire Kai, which fabricated a dozen dolls of the main character from the fake movie, Sarcie.
There’s also a soundtrack to the movie, which played on a loop coming out of the spaceship. In the belly of the spaceship is a video monitor that shows a loop of 240 of the 2,400 orphan objects, the soundtrack, and the lyrics to each song, much like a karaoke screen. I wrote and recorded a dozen songs that supported the narrative of the fake sci-fi movie. I tried to compose an eclectic group of songs. I also asked friends who sing to record the vocal tracks to each song to make it appear that each song was a different artist/band.
I was inspired by a workshop the museum produced early on about museum accessibility, which was a dialogue between Museum Accessibility Designer Amanda Cachia and accessibility advocate and author Alice Wong. At the end of this amazing Zoom lecture Amanda said, “Basically, we can’t wait for policy changes or legislation, we simply have to start making the change ourselves.” I decided to design my installation with many of the design points discussed during the event. The museum also arranged a meeting with Amanda, which was highly educational for me. I made adjustments in my installation, i.e. the sight line was lowered by 10 inches to accommodate visitors in wheelchairs and those who might benefit from a lower sight line than what is standard at museums. Everything that was text in my installation also had a QR code for accessible audio. The music from the spaceship was also coming out of an aluminum sound bed in front of the ship, which visitors were encouraged to sit on or touch. You could feel the vibrations of the music. It was my first time trying to be aware of accessibility issues in my installation art and I hope to learn more as I continue to present my work.
Nakagawa was recently interviewed by Devin Tsuno in the Los Angeles Times. He’s in his fourth year as the artist-in-resident at the Pasadena Buddhist Temple through Side Street Projects, creating work related to the history of the temple and the Post-WWII Japanese American community that founded it. He has a book by Writ Large Press coming out this fall that documents the artistic journey that led to his nine residencies in six years. You can find out more about Nakagawa at this link, and follow him on Instagram, @nakagawa2015.
If you are an Otis alumnx who would like to be featured in a future spotlight, please let us know here.
Carlyle Nuera Pieces Together a Personal Project with the Literal Fabric of His Filipino Roots
Carlyle Nuera, ’10 BFA Product Design
This is “U.S.ako,” a flag in the formation of the American flag, but in the colors of the Pride flag and made with Filipino materials. It’s a visual allegory of being Filipino and American and queer all at the same time. Of being the child of immigrants trying to fit into spaces that were not made for you. Of not feeling like one particular flag represents you.
“Ako” of course means “me” or “I.” When I think about my own history, about how my family ended up building our lives here in the U.S., it all goes back to my grandpa Tate, my mom’s dad. He was half-Filipino, half-white, and had U.S. citizenship through his American dad. It was through my grandpa’s U.S. citizenship that my mom and her siblings immigrated to the U.S. at different times. That’s how it came to be that my older siblings were born in the Philippines and I was born here in the U.S. My mom used to joke that because I was U.S.-born I could be president, but I went to art school and became a Barbie designer at Mattel instead.
My grandpa Tate passed away in October 2013; the old white t-shirt on the flag is one of his that he used to always wear at home. He was part of my entire family’s immigration, so he’s part of this flag’s narrative and physicality. The stars are made of capiz shells, a material common in Philippine home décor, like parols at Christmastime. In my head I was hoping they’d be perfect stars, but they broke and cracked and were difficult to cut. They weren’t meant to be cut into stars, the way we weren’t always meant to fit into strict rules of what an “American” is. The stripes are made of different fabrics from different regions in the Philippines: Binakol from the Ilokanos and Itneg communities of Ilocos and the Cordillera region; Hablon from the Argao people in Cebu province; Abaca Pinangabol from the Daraghuyan community from Bukidnon; and Tiniro from Mang Abel Ti Abra in Abra, Ilocos Norte.
Nuera is a Lead Designer at Barbie Signature, having worked at Mattel for over 11 years. He has designed the Holiday Barbie three times, in 2017, 2018 and 2021, and also designed the A Wrinkle in Time and Mary Poppins Returns Barbie collections, among other movie tie-ins. The Filipina Mutya Barbie he designed as part of the Global Glamour Collection was inspired by his mother, and the Naomi Osaka Barbie, which he designed as part of the Role Model series, sold out within hours of its launch. In 2019 Nuera was awarded the Global Pinoy Award for Design by One Mega Group, a Filipino content publishing company. You can follow Neura on Instagram, @carlylenuera.
Jessica Silverman’s Eponymous Gallery in San Francisco Opens a New, Larger Space
Jessica Silverman, ’05 BFA Fine Arts
In January 2020, I signed a new lease at 621 Grant Avenue in San Francisco, and in February 2020, I started demo. As we all remember, things started shutting down in March 2020, which meant that the renovation of my new gallery would be delayed. Materials were behind, factories had COVID breakouts that caused interruptions, and the permit process was incredibly slow. Thankfully, with much persistence, we finished our new gallery construction in April 2021. Seeing this vision through from start to finish was incredibly rewarding. This new space is double the size of my old one, is closer to downtown, and is a much better working environment. It is also a space that our artists love making exhibitions for. Our lighting is versatile, our ceilings are high, and the volume of the space is ambitious. Our business had grown so much that this new space was needed for our continued success. It seems that the saying, “If you build it, they will come,” is true.
Jessica Silverman currently is showing the work of Andrea Bowers, a faculty member in Otis College’s MFA Fine Arts program, through April 23. The gallery recently participated in the Frieze L.A. and EXPO Chicago art fairs. When the new gallery space opened last year, ARTNews called Jessica Silverman “one of the country’s leading galleries.” You can follow the gallery on Instagram, @jessicasilvermangallery.
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All businesses must address the three main workplace security concerns – staff safety and asset security as well as the protection of confidential information and data. These security concerns require a strong workplace security system in order to minimize any risks to the business. This could include theft, robbery, system hacking, and physical damage. The most important aspect of workplace safety is physical security.
This article will examine the importance of security guard and physical safety in the workplace. It will also discuss some of the most important elements.
Physical access control can be described as determining who has access to buildings, grounds, equipment, or sensitive areas.
This is an important aspect of preventative security measures at workplaces all over the world. For both crime prevention and emergency response, it is important to know who is on and inside your buildings.
Unauthorized access to the workplace’s assets and workplace must be strictly controlled using ID-based physical restrictions.
No employee should have access to restricted areas if a company has sensitive data, equipment, and chemicals. They could not only damage equipment or cause harm to themselves but could also share information that they shouldn’t have.
There are many physical security access control options that can be used to provide strong security at work, such as computer-based automated controls or manual controls.
Every business has a duty to ensure that their employees have a safe working environment. This includes keeping a close eye on what is coming in and going out using security systems such as CCTV.
For maintaining high levels of security, physical surveillance at work is an effective tool. It can be used to track incidents and is a great preventative security measure.
Workplace security and safety can be improved by having reliable, real-time video surveillance systems. An up-to-date CCTV surveillance camera system should monitor all exit and entry points as well as other areas such IT rooms and critical data centers.
A well-thought-out security plan is essential to your business’s success. It reduces insurance claims, liabilities, closures, and any other expenses that can impact your bottom line.
Your security policy should include information about identity authentication, employee access and alarm systems.
Alarm systems are crucial to prevent malicious activity and security breaches. High-quality security lighting is also important for workplace safety.
Exterior lighting that is not adequate or insufficient can lead to dangerous night-time conditions. Poorly lit spaces can lead to accidents and encourage crime.
Only then can proper surveillance and monitoring be effective. These are where badges or tokens come in. They are especially useful for larger areas of workplace security.
Larger workplaces today require employees to have an identification card. This will usually include their name, title and photo as well as your logo.
These ID cards are used to verify identity. Access control badges for employees ensure that everyone is safe. It also makes it easier to protect restricted areas within a company.
Why are these Physical Aspects so Important in Security?
A business must protect its employees and valuable information against theft, damage, and loss.
Small Biz Trends recently conducted a survey that found that a 5% retention rate could help increase a company’s profit margins by between 25% and 95%.
These figures are significant because they show that a secure and productive workplace environment can improve productivity and efficiency, which directly impacts customer satisfaction and leads to customer retention.
A business’s workplace security system must be reliable and effective. This reduces the costs of insurance, compensation, and other expenses it has to pay its stakeholders. It ultimately leads to higher business revenues and lower operational costs.
How To Implement a Strong Physical Workplace Security System
These steps will create a safe and reliable working environment for all employees in your company.
- Assess and evaluate the security needs of your workplace.
- Next, create a policy that covers all of the safety aspects.
- Request recommendations from regulatory agencies by consulting contractors or regulatory consultants.
- Third-party contractors can be hired to install your physical security system. The scope of work will be determined.
- Verify that your security system meets all regulatory requirements.
- You should commission your system for real-world operations.
- Follow your workplace security policy to maintain your security system.
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The Security Guard’s Role
Security guards are responsible for protecting people, property, and information. They have different obligations to different groups.
As a security guard, your employer has a responsibility for ensuring the security and protection their property. This includes:
-Making every effort to protect property and premises from natural and criminal threats in a proper and effective manner. This covers vandalism, theft, and any other damage to the property. A single burst pipe or fire can cause more damage than a burglar to a business.
-Detection, prevention and response to any criminal or other damaging acts on or against client property.
Security guards are required to conduct their duties professionally and with thought. This allows clients to feel confident that they won’t lose business or face a civil suit.
The public is also responsible. A security guard is frequently assigned the responsibility of protecting the public against injury or loss while on client premises. This includes:
Keeping the public safe by directing them to avoid dangerous work areas and areas where they could hurt themselves.
-A duty to cooperate with law enforcement officials when necessary and appropriate. For example, detaining someone who is convicted of a crime. A security guard might be able to complement the efforts of the police by either performing preliminary investigations, preventing a crime from being committed, or securing the crime scene until police arrive. The police can also use security personnel to provide valuable information about building layouts, entry and exit points, and dangerous conditions.
Security guards can sometimes be viewed as leaders and guides in emergency situations.
Security guards are able to assist other emergency personnel because of their authority and knowledge. This knowledge can help firefighters and emergency medical teams arrive faster and safer on the scene.
-A security guard who has provided information to police to enable them to make a criminal arrest will be required to give professional testimony to the court.
A security guard must also accept responsibility for their actions. Security guards need to realize that they are professionals and have a lot of responsibility. Protection and Security agents often have to protect thousands or even millions of items and property. Guards must be professional and responsible at all times.
Observe, prevent and record. Report, assist, and report. While the daily routine of a security guard may change, there is one constant. The primary responsibility of a security guard is to protect the personnel, property, and information of clients.
What’s the purpose of a security officer?
Five Top Responsibilities for Security Personnel:
Be a visible deterrent to crime
A security guard will make it less likely that criminals commit theft, vandalism, or assaults. Shoplifters, muggers, and burglars will be stopped by the presence of security personnel.
Identifying suspicious behavior
Your employees may be busy working, but criminals could also be there. A dedicated team that monitors suspicious and irregular behavior is a great asset for businesses. It is unrealistic to expect employees to be able to spot suspicious behavior. Security guards are trained and skilled to recognize abnormal smells, sounds or sights and get immediate attention.
Contacting the authorities and communicating with them
Security guards can be a point of contact and a resource for authorities in an emergency situation. Security guards are trained in observing and gathering the necessary information for law enforcement or fire departments to complete their work. Security guards are partners with the business owners, fire and police services.
Access control to properties
Unauthorized access to property is one of the greatest threats to businesses. Hospitals, construction sites and schools, as well as other prominent organizations, understand the importance of monitoring their exits and entrances. Security guards are able to check credentials and keep logs of visitors and vendors.
In emergency situations, take action
Security guards are equipped with the necessary skills and training to handle any emergency that may arise. Security personnel act as a watchdog and are often the first ones to notice a security emergency and to respond. They can assist with evacuations and other serious security incidents.
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→ Scabs on a Cat’s Back
The presence of singular or multiple scabs on a cat’s back is a common symptom and one I battled with this in one of my cats for quite some time. We look at this, as well as other causes of scabs on a cat’s back.
Flea bite allergy
The most common cause of scabs on a cat’s back is miliary dermatitis caused by an allergic reaction to the saliva of a flea bite. This makes up approximately 80% of cats with miliary dermatitis. Just one flea bite is enough to trigger an allergic response.
Food, inhaled, and contact allergies.
Most skin infections are due to an underlying condition which may include hypothyroidism, Cushing’s disease,
Cheyletiellosis, notoedric mange, and demodicosis.
A parasitic fungal infection which occurs most often in cats in over-crowded conditions, young kittens and immunocompromised cats.
A walled-off collection of pus most commonly due to a cat bite. Eventually, the abscess will rupture and scab over.
Small, dry, hard, millet-like scabs on a cat’s back, close to the tail and around the neck. The skin on the back feels dry and gritty, and the cat’s skin may twitch.
As the neck is easier for the cat to scratch, trauma to the area can occur, resulting in open wounds where the cat has damaged the skin.
Other symptoms associated with miliary dermatitis include itching and hair loss.
Circular, scaly red lesions which start small and increase in size, pustules, and itchiness. Lesions are most common on the head and ears although can develop on any part of the body.
Areas of thinning hair or hair loss, crusting skin, intense itching. Secondary skin infections are common.
A singular, firm, marble-sized painful lump. Other symptoms include fever, lethargy, and loss of appetite.
As the abscess grows in size, the skin thins out and eventually, the abscess will rupture. There will be a foul-smelling discharge from the affected area.
Crusts and scales, often with short hairs which are easy to pull out. Alopecia (baldness), itching may or may not be present and an unpleasant odour to the skin.
The veterinarian will perform a complete physical examination of your cat and obtain a medical history from you. Questions they may ask include:
- How long have the symptoms been present?
- Is the cat up to date on flea treatment?
- What product are you using for fleas?
- Does the cat go outside?
- Do symptoms come and go?
- Are there any other symptoms you have noticed?
- What is the cat eating?
- Is the cat on any medications?
Miliary dermatitis is easy to diagnose based on presenting symptoms. Other tests the veterinarian may recommend include:
- Analysis of coat brushings and fur samples: To check for parasitic infections such as mites, fleas or fungal infections.
- Skin prick test: An area of skin is shaved, and a tiny amount of several common allergens are pricked onto the skin to see if there is a localised reaction, which can pinpoint an allergy to a particular substance.
- DTM (dermatophyte) culture: Hair is plucked from the affected area, or a toothbrush will be used to collect samples which are then cultured on a special medium to check for fungal or yeast infections.
- IgE test: To look for the presence of IgE antibodies in the clear portion of blood.
- Skin scrapings: Scrapings of several layers of skin which are then evaluated under a microscope to look for the presence of mites, fungal infections, and bacterial infection.
- Skin culture: A sample of skin is taken from the affected area and added to a culture which promotes the growth of microorganisms which can identify a bacterial infection.
- Food trials: If a food allergy is suspected, the cat will be switched to a hypoallergenic diet for several weeks to see if symptoms improve. If they do, the cat is challenged with his old diet to see if symptoms return.
- As the most common cause of miliary dermatitis if cat fleas, the veterinarian may prescribe a flea treatment to see if symptoms improve. Not all cats respond to all flea treatments.
- Only the adult flea lives on the cat, the majority of the cat’s flea life-cycle is in the environment; therefore, it is important to treat the home as well as the cat.
- Corticosteroids to relieve itching.
- Antibiotics to treat secondary bacterial infections.
- Identification and elimination of the substance causing contact allergy.
- Corticosteroids or antihistamines to relieve itching.
- Antibiotics if a secondary bacterial infection has developed.
Treatment may vary depending on the type of mite, but can include the following:
- Weekly dipping with either lime sulfur or pyrethrin for 6 – 8 weeks. It may be necessary to clip cats with long hair.
- Daily or weekly oral ivermectin for four weeks. It is important to monitor the cat during treatment.
- Wash bedding and blankets in hot water, hang in the sun to dry.
- Treat all cats in the household.
- Oral anti-fungal drugs, medicated baths and/or medicated shampoos and dips. It is important to clean the environment at the same time as the cat is treated with a 1:10 bleach solution.
- Find and address the underlying cause where possible as well as antibiotics to treat the infection.
- Surgery to open the abscess if it has not ruptured, followed by flushing the wound with antiseptic and antibiotics.
Write comment below to us about: Have you ever seen scabs on your cat? How did you treat them? What was the cause of scabs on cats in your case?
A source: Cat-world.com
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Disability is being differently able, it is most definitely not inability. Being disabled should not be perceived or branded as shameful and disgraceful. And as a society we should help to fight the disability stigma. Therefore, there is a need for us to reach out to the disabled people. There is a great need for us to love them; to make them feel very much part of the society because they too have something to offer. This is what we exactly did on 28th/10/2017, we went to the Kampala School of the Physically Handicapped in Kampala Mengo to visit these beautiful young people.
This is not something that we do yearly, it’s a regular activity that we do monthly with a main reason celebrating the birthdays of these lovely kids. So on that date it was the turn for the October babies to be celebrated and indeed it was a successful day as we left everyone at the school very happy and excited. “you can do anything another person can, disability is a not a limitation. You are going to be great people.” Those are the words they heard from one of the Love Uganda Foundation members which inspired and encouraged them. They then had a taste of the delicious cake that was baked by Jakin Confectionary our partners in this activity.
As we said earlier on that the disabled also have something to offer, indeed these kids at KSPH really proved it to us and we just couldn’t believe our eyes. Having heard those encouraging words and each a piece of the tasty cake, they were now enthusiastic and they gave us their best. Truth be told, they are talented even more than the normal people. Within these kids were fantastic rappers that got talent, and girls who can really sing very well.
For real we would have stayed much longer but the kids got exhausted due to the activities and the fun we had. We then had a photo session and left though with tears in our hearts, wondering why we totally had nothing to do about their disability, we wish we could at least do something, even if it was as a small as an insect, we would drag our lives to see that they also live normal lives. And this is the very reason that takes us to their school each month that comes such that we make them feel loved and thought of.
This way we can make the world a better place for them because it is one of the sweetest feelings knowing that someone thinks, cares and loves you. Together lets show the disabled some love.
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At present, stem cell therapy is one of the most promising potential treatments of Parkinson’s as it enables renewal of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra possible.
Stem cell therapy is based on cultivating stem cells and differentiating them to grow into dopamine secreting neurons which can be transplanted into the brain. Cultivating stem cells and maturing them requires additional application of growth factors which can induce turour growth after transplantation. Additionally, this method could have difficulties in growing fully matured cells resembling the brain neurons and have short life span.
The invention of nanostructures by a research team led by Professor Ken Yung Kin-lam, Professor of the Department of Biology and Dr Jeffrey Huang Zhifeng, Associate Professor of the Department of Physics at HKBU can stimulate growth of stem cells into miniature substantia nigra like stem cells (mini-SLSs).
The nanostructure or nanamatrix consist of a silica plate coated with trillions of nanozigzag structures which can initiate the growth of neural stem cells into mini-SLSs without the use of chemical growth factors.
The research team has further studied the nanomatrix in rat models of Parkinson’s where at 8 weeks rats showed improvements in motor symptoms.
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The Committee considered the following report:
“1.0 Purpose of Report or Summary of Main Issues
1.1 The purpose of this report is to update Members on existing and future work plans to challenge the taboo around mental health and suicide, in support of the issues highlighted in the Motion proposed by Councillor M. Kelly and seconded by Councillor Long at the Council meeting on 1st July, 2020.
2.1 The committee is requested to note the content of the report.
3.0 Main Report
3.1 In recognition of the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on the current mental health crisis, Councillor Kelly proposed a motion to ensure continuing Council support to challenge the taboos of mental health and suicide and ensure people are aware of the signs and understand the questions to ask someone we are worried about and what help they can get. At its meeting in August, the Committee agreed that a report be prepared detailing how a programme of suicide awareness training for staff and elected members would be facilitated, resourced and managed.
Staff Training and Mental Health Champions
3.2 The Council has had in place a positive health and wellbeing training programme (including suicide awareness) in place for staff since 2012. It was developed in response to an initiative launched by the then Lord Mayor, to raise awareness of suicide in the city. Two specific training programmes were rolled out; Positive Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing and Stress Awareness Training for Managers, a programme specifically aimed at managers on how to recognise and manage stress related issues. Since 2012, 645 staff have received training on positive mental health and emotional wellbeing and 434 managers have been trained on stress awareness. The current Covid restrictions have prevented delivery of this programme since March however, Corporate HR, as part of its recovery process, is currently assessing how to deliver both training programmes remotely.
3.3 In addition, in 2017, as part of the our employee Health and Wellbeing Strategy, we commissioned Action Mental Health to deliver Mental Health First Aid training for staff. The Mental Health First Aid training mirrors the aims and principles of the certified SafeTALK training and has similar outcomes in that it equips individuals to recognise the early warning signs of mental health problems; provide initial help and advice and guide a person towards appropriate sources of professional help.
3.4 To date, a total of 30 staff have been trained and are recognised mental health first aiders and four additional programmes are planned to be delivered remotely between November and March 2021. Further classroom based programmes to facilitate those staff who do not have access to a PC will be organised as soon as current restrictions allow. It is proposed, with their permission, that the names of those staff who have attended the Mental Health First Aider training programme will be displayed on staff noticeboards and on Interlink for staff to contact, as required.
3.5 The opportunity to undertake the online training and become recognised Mental Health First Aiders will be offered to elected members.
3.6 The general health and wellbeing programme is further supported by a dedicated employee counselling service, accessible to all employees, through the council’s current employee counselling contract with Apheido Associates. Line managers can make referrals to this service or employees can also self-refer on a confidential basis.
The Mersey Care Trust Foundation video.
3.7 This short, free online course in Suicide Awareness which is currently used widely by NI Health and Social Care Trusts, will be made available to staff and Elected Members and staff will be encouraged to take time to participate in the training. Managers will be asked to set aside time for staff to do so.
3.8 Additional support and guidance is available on the staff intranet site with a section on health and wellbeing which is updated on a continuing basis with helpful information and signposting to further mental health information and resources.
3.9 The Local Government Staff Commission’s, Health and Wellbeing Group, has recently launched a Mental Health Strategy for local government to assist councils to plan to address the mental health crisis through the provision of support for their staff. It will be used in conjunction with our own staff Health and Wellbeing Strategy to influence future work planning in this area.
Financial and Resource Implications
3.10 The Mental Health First Aid training will be funded by the Local Government Training Group as part of its annual funding provision. Any other costs associated with delivery of the Health and Wellbeing Strategy activity will be covered by the existing corporate Organisational Development budget.
Equality or Good Relations Implications/Rural Needs Assessment
3.11 The recommendations in the report will assist the council to deliver on its Section 75 duties and comply with the requirements set out in the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. In addition, it will help further the aims and priorities of the Council’s Disability Action Plan and Equality Scheme.”
The Committee noted the contents of the report.
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Standing along side affordable housing advocates yesterday, Mayor Ed Murray unveiled his latest legislative proposal to tackle rising housing costs that are pushing lower income residents out of Seattle. In sum, the proposal would create new requirements for most multi-family residential development to set aside a certain percentage of units as affordable housing. This legislation will form an integral piece of the Mayor’s affordable housing framework, known as the Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda (HALA), by helping to directly contribute toward the larger goal of creating 6,000 new affordable housing units over the next 10 years. The HALA framework itself is built upon a subset of far reaching policy objectives ranging from enhanced tenant protections and backyard cottage reform to the adoption of a new Housing Levy and changes to state law.
Late last year, the City adopted a similar affordable housing proposal to the one that the Mayor is now seeking, except in that case it was to require affordable housing to be set aside for new commercial development. The two affordable housing policies are meant to work in concert with each other as a complete toolkit: one as Mandatory Housing Affordability-Commercial (MHA-C), the other as Mandatory Housing Affordability-Residential (MHA-R). Once both toolkits are formally established, the City can begin to unlock their fruits in phases. Both policies are predicated on giving additional value to developers in exchange for guaranteed affordable housing units. The City plans to use additional development capacity (i.e., rezones), typically through the additional allowance of one to two stories of floor area, as a carrot to bring developers onboard with the policy framework.
How It Will Work
The proposal has a few key aspects to it, and they’re important to understand. Firstly, the legislation will be applicable to new residential development only, specifically in areas of the city where development capacity has been increased. That means that a piece of property is only subject to the requirements of the legislation if a rezone would result in the allowance of additional residential development capacity. Assuming that has occurred, new development would only be captured by the MHA-R requirements if new residential units would be added.
Secondly, developers will have flexibility in deciding how to provide MHA-R units. A developer could construct affordable housing units on-site (performance option) as part of their project or pay a fee in-lieu (payment option) to the City so as to fund the acquisition of affordable housing. Assuming a developer proposes affordable housing on-site, they will have two options: rental units or ownership units. In both cases, the units must be affordable to tenants for at least 50 years; the only difference is the targeted area median income (AMI) requirement.
Affordable rental units will be required to serve households with incomes no more than 60% of the AMI while affordable ownership units will be required to serve households with incomes no more than 80% of the AMI. If a developer chooses to forego on-site affordable housing, then they’ll automatically be subject to the payment option. Any fees collected for affordable housing will be used to produce or preserve affordable rental units with a target to serve renters at 60% of the AMI or less.
For context of how AMI plays into all of this, the Office of Housing has a handy set of tables that outline the income limits for individuals and families as well as the maximum rent for affordable units:
It’s also worth bearing in mind that the average rent for new market rate units ranges between $1,399 and $1,887 per month. Individuals and families that would be able to partake in the affordable housing program will get the benefit of quality units entering the housing market at substantially reduced rates.
Thirdly, the amount of affordable housing that would be required from residential development will differ by area of the city. Developers choosing to provide on-site affordable units could be required to provide between 5% and 8% of their units as affordable, depending upon the location. A commensurate amount of units could be paid for by fee if the developer elects to forego the provision of on-site units.
Fourthly, the legislation will be applicable to more than just what one might ordinarily think of as new development. Developers will be required to participate in MHA-R whenever:
- A new structure with residential units is constructed;
- An alteration of an existing building would result in net new residential units (e.g., adding basement units to an apartment);
- A change of use would add new residential units (e.g., converting commercial space to residential units); and
- An addition to an existing structure would add new residential units.
Fifthly, developers that choose to participate in the on-site affordable housing performance option will have to abide by strict rules on the quality of housing. In essence, affordable housing units will have to be comparable to other units in the development. That means that the status of the affordable housing units (live-work, congregate, or standard apartment/condo) will need to be functionally the same with regards to square footage, number and size of bedrooms and bathrooms, unit amenities, access to building amenities, and the term of lease.
And sixthly, the legislation makes it clear that any affordable units created through the MHA-R program cannot benefit from public subsidy (e.g., the Multifamily Tax Exemption program). The obvious reason here is that the City doesn’t want developers to double dip from added development bonuses and public expenditure on social welfare. Instead, developers have an obligation to first meet their affordable housing requirements and secondarily can assign additional units for separate housing subsidy programs.
Baked into the legislation is monitoring and fail safes. The Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections will be responsible for monitoring implementation of the MHA program and delivery on the goal for 6,000 affordable housing units by 2026. The first MHA report is due by the end of the second quarter in 2018 and thence annually by July 1st. The primary purpose of this is to determine the effectiveness of the program and if additional amendments to the ordinance are necessary. Four circumstances are laid out in which the Council could consider amending the ordinance:
- The program fails to meet the expectations for performance in the first five years;
- There are major positive or negative changes to the real estate market for development;
- There is a need to adjust the amounts required for the payment or performance options; or
- If none above circumstances are applicable, then the ordinance could be amended generally after 10 years.
With the introduction of the legislation to Council, the timeline for review, deliberations, and adoption is targeted to be short. The Planning, Land Use, and Zoning Committee will take up the proposal on Tuesday (May 3rd) for the first time and a second committee review is planned again in early June. The Mayor anticipates that the legislation could make it out of committee by mid-July and end up on the full council consent agenda for July 25th. Once approved, the MHA-R will complete the MHA framework and allow the Council to pivot to legislation concerning rezones that will help implement MHA.
In fact, the first set of rezones that could find approval by the Council are expected this summer. The University District Urban Design Framework has been waiting in the wings for nearly a year and will likely kick off the slate of rezones immediately after the adoption of MHA-R. Rezones on 23rd Avenue could also be approved in fall, but the biggest set of rezones — area-wide/zone-wide rezones — will wait until a more robust series of discussion in 2017. Under the HALA framework, those are expected to come in the Summer 2017/Fall 2017 timeframe.
Stephen is a professional urban planner in Puget Sound with a passion for sustainable, livable, and diverse cities. He is especially interested in how policies, regulations, and programs can promote positive outcomes for communities. With stints in great cities like Bellingham and Cork, Stephen currently lives in Seattle. He primarily covers land use and transportation issues and has been with The Urbanist since 2014.
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UNITED THROUGH LOVE
(Racial Reconciliation Field)
Our goal in the "United Through Love" field is to build relationships and connections across racial divides through convening over thoughtful, honest, intentional conversation.
These conversations are not meant to be hard work but HEART work.
A few ways we live it out...
Connection vs. Collision Live Episodes
J.E.D.I. Council (Justice. Equity. Diversity. Inclusion)
Cultural Humility with James Knight
See below to learn more about these important encounters!
>> Connection vs. Collision
Connection vs. Collision is a regular Live episode that serves as a platform for moving our community forward by creating a dialogue about racism, implicit bias, and having open conversations about the inequitable disparities that exist in our world and communities.
>> J.E.D.I. Council
The purpose of the J.E.D.I. Council is to provide the opportunity to encounter individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop a better understanding of each other and a strong connection together. Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion is our goal as we listen, learn, and lead responsibly together.
>> Cultural Humility
Love Akron is partnering with James Knight and Leading with Humility to build dynamic and inclusive communities and spaces where people collaborate, innovate, and engage in fearless dialogue.
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Professor Ulf Lindh, Sweden
Chairman of the Research Fund at Tandvårdsskadeförbundet
Prof. Lindh from Uppsala University, Sweden, has spent many of his years in academia studying and teaching the biology of metals and other elements, and their implications in human health.
The initiative for the conference was taken by Prof. Lindh together with Tandvårdsskadeförbundet (a Swedish association for patients with ill health associated with dental materials), where prof. Lindh is the chairman of the research fund. They have recognised a need for an international gathering of experts in the fields of metal biology and geology to come together to present the developments of the research field and current projects.
Dr Eleonore Blaurock-Busch, Germany
Micro Trace Minerals Analytical Laboratory
Eleonore Blaurock-Busch, PhD, is the research director of Micro Trace Minerals Analytical Laboratory in Germany and Trace Mineral International Laboratory of Boulder, Colorado. She specialises in metal toxicology and human nutrition. She is a founding member and co-chairman of the International Association of Trace Element Research and Cancer and is a scientific advisor to the German Medical Association for Clinical Metal Toxicology. Dr Blaurock-Busch is also a member of the European Academy for Environmental Medicine and the British Society for Ecological Medicine. She has specialised in testing and has published several studies on the toxic burden in metal toxicology, including epidemiological studies that evaluated the toxic burden of people of India, Egypt, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Mexico.
Dr Olle Selinus, Sweden
Geological Survey of Sweden
Dr Olle Selinus is a PhD geologist working with the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU). After his retirement he is a guest professor at the Linneaus University, Kalmar, Sweden. During the 1960s and 1970s he worked in mineral exploration and since the beginning of the 1980s his research work has been focused on environmental geochemistry, including research on medical geology. Dr Selinus has published over 100 papers and was in charge of external research and development at SGU. He started the concept of medical geology and was the cofounder, and later the president, of the International Medical Geology Association, IMGA. He has been appointed Geologist of the Year in Sweden. He was also chairing the ”Earth and Health” team of the International Year of Planet Earth 2008-2009 by UN General Assembly. He has also been chief editor for several other books on medical geology. He is now retired but affiliated as guest professor at the Linneaus University in Kalmar Sweden.
Prof. em. Boyd Haley, USA
Boyd Haley is prof. em. of medicinal chemistry. He received his doctorate at Washington State University and performed postdoctoral studies at Yale University Medical School. He has been a professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky since 1996. Central themes in his research have been Alzheimer’s disease, mercury toxicity and protein-nucleotide interactions in the regulation of enzymatic activity in celluler energy production. Prof. Haley has together with a team developed a N,N’bis-(2-mercaptoethyl) isophthalamide (NBMI), a lipophilic chelating agent which specifically binds mercury. It is currently being studied in Phase II clinical trials.
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Stretch marks are long, stripes, or lines that develop on the skin. They occur when the skin is suddenly stretched due to numerous reasons . Weight gain and sudden weight loss is the most common cause of those streaky lines. Stretch marks tend to affect more women than men.
The marks initially develop as wrinkly, raised streaks that can be red, purple, pink, reddish-brown or dark brown, depending on skin color. The streaks eventually fade and flatten and tend to change to a silvery color over time. They can occur on a range of body parts, including the stomach, thighs, hips, breasts, upper arms, and lower back.
The scarring can be temporary or permanent and currently there are no proper treatments to get rid of stretch marks entirely. They can fade over months or years and there are no health concerns due to it. They can lowen anyones confidence and make them anxious low towards self image.
Collagen is a protein that makes your skin more elastic. If your skin doesn’t have enough, the marks may show up as it stretches
In young skin, the collagen framework is intact and the skin remains moisturized and elastic. It’s resilient to the many facial expressions we adopt, as well as everyday environmental exposure. But, over time, the support structure weakens and the skin loses its elasticity. The skin begins to lose its tone as the collagen support wears down. Every time you smile, frown, or squint, you put stress on the collagen in your skin. The effect of these facial expressions is cumulative and facial lines begin to appear.
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This Week’s Theme
After Jesus laid out the conditions for true discipleship for all those wishing to follow him, he took Peter, James, and John with him to the top of a mountain to pray. As our Lord was praying, he was transfigured – his face shone with heavenly splendor, and his clothing became dazzling white. Moses and Elijah appeared with splendor and conversed with him of his “departure” (Greek, exodon – exit, exodus) he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
In his ignorance and shock, Peter suggested they build three shelters – one for Jesus, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. From a cloud which overshadowed them, the frightened apostles heard a voice come out of the cloud saying, “This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him!” When the voice had spoken and the cloud lifted, Jesus was found alone.
Indeed, as the voice spoke which came out of the cloud, Jesus of Nazareth is the Elect of God, the Son and Chosen One of the Father. He alone is the one anointed by the Lord to redeem and restore creation under God’s reign once more. To know God’s will and Word, we need only listen to him.
Preparing Our Hearts
Invocation: Our Prayer of Acclamation
O God, in the transfiguration of your Son you confirmed the mysteries of the faith by the witness of Moses and Elijah, and in the voice from the bright cloud declaring Jesus your beloved Son, you foreshadowed our adoption as your children. Make us heirs with Christ of your glory, and bring us to enjoy its fullness, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
~ Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Conference of Bishops, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, p. 41)
Call to Worship
Blessed are you, O God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And blessed is your Kingdom, both now and forever, Amen.
Praising Our God
Te Deum Laudamus
You are God: we praise you; you are the Lord; we acclaim you; you are the eternal Father: All creation worships you. To you all angels, all the powers of heaven, Cherubim and Seraphim, sing in endless praise: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory.
The glorious company of apostles praise you. The noble fellowship of prophets praise you. The white-robed army of martyrs praise you. Throughout the world the holy Church acclaims you; Father, of majesty unbounded, your true and only Son, worthy of all worship, and the Holy Spirit, advocate and guide.
You, Christ, are the king of glory, the eternal Son of the Father. When you became man to set us free you did not shun the Virgin’s womb. You overcame the sting of death and opened the kingdom of heaven to all believers. You are seated at God’s right hand in glory. We believe that you will come and be our judge. Come then, Lord, and help your people, bought with the price of your own blood, and bring us with your saints to glory everlasting.
Praise and Thanksgiving (songs and prayers)
Glory be to the Father,
And to the Son and to the Holy Spirit:
As it was in the beginning,
Is now, and ever shall be,
World without end. Amen, amen.
Listening to His Voice
Chronological Reading for the Day
Sunday: Judg. 7-9
Lectionary Readings for the Day
Psalm: Ps. 99
OT: Exod. 34.29-35
Gospel: Luke 9.28-43a
Reflection: Silence and/or Journaling
Responding in Faith
The Apostles’ Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he arose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven and sits on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic* church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
*In the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds, the term catholic refers to the Church’s universality, through all ages and times, of all languages and peoples. It refers to no particular tradition or denominational expression (e.g., as in Roman Catholic).
Prayers of Confession
Let us now confess our sins to God and receive mercy and grace to help in our time of need.
Assurance of Pardon
Having faithfully confessed and renounced your sin, Christ also has been faithful to forgive your sins and to purify you from all unrighteousness. It is certain, that there is One who has spoken to the Father in your defense, Jesus Christ, the Righteous One who is the atoning sacrifice for our sins and for the sins of the whole world. His grace and peace are with you now. Amen.
Petitions and Supplications, Ending with The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
~ Matthew 6.9-13 (KJV)
Doxology (and/or closing song)
Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him all creatures here below;
Praise Him above ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Departing to Serve
O God, glorious and faithful, to those who seek you with a sincere heart you reveal the beauty of your face. Strengthen us in faith to embrace the mystery of the cross, and open our hearts to its transfiguring power; that, clinging in love to your will for us, we may walk the path of discipleship as followers of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
~ Messale Romano (The Theological and Worship Ministry Unit, p. 215)
Affirmation for the Day
Jesus of Nazareth is the elect of God, the Messiah, the Lord.
Pray without Ceasing – Flash Prayer for the Day
Hear the Father’s testimony: “This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him!”
Let God Arise! Seasonal Focus
Becoming Fishers of Men
Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism
Special Church Year Service
Ash Wednesday: Wednesday, March 6, 2019
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Athens Metro Line 3 Extension - Ghella s.p.a. - 2020
Curated by Alessandro Dandini de Sylva
Marina Caneve and Alessandro Dandini de Sylva in Conversation
AD: It is traditional to name mechanical cutters (commonly known as moles or TBM, as in Tunnel Boring Machine) after women. Nonetheless, the mole that dug the section of the Metro 3 in Athens, connecting Haidari, a suburb in the western part of the city, to Piraeus, was given the name Ippodamo, after Hippodamus of Miletus. Hippodamus was one of the first to have theorized not just an urban plan but also an actual master plan, using the earliest practices of zoning. Your work, which can easily be divided up into several chapters or groups of images, seems to be inspired by that practical archaic division of the territory.
MC: Photography and urban planning, at least according
to how I have learned to view them, have in common the need for an approach that is, on the one hand, rigorous, and, on the other, curious, exploratory. Hippodamus is considered one of the fathers of modern urban planning, the “inventor” of the grid framework for the city – also used to build the port of Piraeus. Aristoteles uses the name μετεωρολοᾒγος to refer to him, which could be translated scholar of celestial phenomena, or, with a hint of irony, he who gazes at the sky. Precisely because of his eclectic, eccentric, almost mocking biography, Hippodamus was a crucial travel companion in my own work because, on the one hand, he reminded me that I had to go by the rules, yet, on the other, that I was free to break them. Dividing is the same as zoning the elements while delving deep into the relationship between the parts, overturning them in an implacable yet delicate way, to reassemble them in con- figurations of balance. If we imagine a mosaic, its effect is produced via the deformation of a grid; each stone has its own value, based on its position, shape, colour, but, above all, its individual specificity, which is unique and unrepeatable.1 Though the individual stones share certain features, their position is determined by a more complex design. Furthermore, the fact that the TBM that was used to dig the tunnel that completes the route plan of Athens’ Metro 3 – which connects Eleftherios Venizelos Airport to the Port of Piraeus – bears its name has driven the initial idea of the division, or rather organization, even more to the limit, forcing me to reason, on the one hand, on tech- nological innovations, and, on the other, on the origin of places. A reminder that if the sky is traversed by Apollo’s Chariot, in the sea we have Poseidon.
AD: The pictures you took are arranged in the book in an intricate forest of themes that can be related to the rela- tionship between the city (present), contemporary plan- ning (future), and historical memory (past). In turn, the latter is articulated in historical, geological, and industrial archaeology. Views of the city and the building site are alternated with archaeological finds, core drillings, and TBM parts. A visual stratification that is a common thread in your artistic practice.
MC: In the stratifications – and it is especially for this reason that they interest me – the elements contribute to suggest- ing stories that can shift in space and in time. My work unfolds around a series of fragments. Arranging them is a mnemotechnical operation, where the ability of our intellect lies in the capacity to pay attention to individual things and to their assembly at the same time. Hence, it lies in the ability to discern and to synthesize. If we ana- lyze the relationships between the images and the strati- fications of “archaeologies”, I am enthralled by the idea that our relationship with history is a relationship with images that are predetermined and etched in our mind. In today’s age, we find traces of our origins, and manifested in the stratification is the architecture of our imaginary. Besides being similar to that of the urban planner, the photographer’s work is not so different from that of the archaeologist: in both cases it involves finding traces and bringing them to light. Agamben teaches us that archae- ology is the search into the past for the possibility of the present, where it itself can be understood as the search for a point of the outset of what is possible, where the column fragments that lie on the ground in flakes go back to being columns.2
AD: Your working method seems to coincide with that of the modern archaeological dig, and more precisely with the stratigraphic dig, whose aim is not limited to the extraction of artefacts from the earth that hides them, but consists in a historical understanding of the human traces hidden in the stratification.
MC: When thinking to Athens it is natural to think to archaeology. In archaeological digs we can find a conso- nance of nature, a contemporary way, and artefacts (often naturalized by the fact that they are in ruins). I wanted to view the building site with this approach, as though I were observing an archaeological dig, analyzing the elements from broad and all-encompassing visions down to the microscopic details. I arrived in Athens at a time in the life of the building site when the traces of the digging of the tunnel were fading. A backwards tunnelling, which I was able to approach right when it was being closed, seeking the signs in the design of the city, in the environment, and in the pre-existing urban fabric. The views are proof of this process. They do not just tell the story of the mor- phology of a territory characterized by dense urbaniza- tion, but they also let us glimpse traces of a complex work process, its healing and disappearing beneath the skin, to become new lifeblood for the city.
AD: In a recent exchange of ideas and references, you spoke to me about the thoughts of Giancarlo De Carlo, Italian architect, urban planner, and academic, who for over thirty years travelled across the Greek archipelago, visiting its monuments and cities. De Carlo believed in complexity, in disorder as order in a complex nature that we cannot decipher. Building an image with a new impressive infra- structure in relation to the city of Athens leads to accept- ing its complicated order as part and parcel of the work.
MC: De Carlo’s journeys to Greece tell us about “Athens, immense and studded with myths”, but also about Athens being totally balanced amidst the chaos. When you told me I was going to go to Athens I was eager because it is a place whose nature – stratified and chaotic – is very close to my way of thinking, my work, and where, in the disar- ray, I have the feeling I can find the quiet of the ideal city of Piero della Francesca. In truth, the disarray is a place where lateral narratives overlap, they are like the branches that are grafted onto the main story, information, news, pieces and conjectures overlap.3 The best way to under- stand a place is to observe the signs left by the architecture in nature. I imagined the tunnel like a tree trunk, with branches that, on the one hand, are the grafts – the shafts, the emergency exits –, on which I chose to stop my gaze because, as is customary for me, I don’t so much seek the spectacular and the magnificent, the direct, as much as I try to look at things from a peaceful and angular perspec- tive. Along with these ramifications, all the digressions possible were manifested, starting from the question of the tunnel. The finding of ancient wells filled with archaeolog- ical finds, the problems related to the city’s geology, and, lastly, the components of the TBM that, in turn, become archaeological finds, albeit on a totally different scale, and that tell us of the relationship between the machine and the contemporary city. The lateral vision pushes us towards an agnosticism of thinking. Inspired by the litera- ture by Sebald, the constant rambling produces a hypnotic narrative that ends up representing life and its branches, perhaps more faithfully with respect to documentary reproductions, where each thing happens to satisfy an internal logic and a coherence that is not really realistic. All these very important angular visions allow me to think about how the city takes shape, where the significance and the meaning of the monuments (and by extension of our cities) do not depend on their original destination, but rather it is we, modern subjects, who attribute them.4
1. Yona Friedman, L’ordine complicato. Come costruire un’im- magine (Macerata: Quodlibet, 2018).
2. Giancarlo de Carlo, Viaggi in Grecia (Macerata: Quodlibet Abitare, 2010).
4. Alois Riegl, Le culte moderne des monuments: son essence et sa genèse, (Paris: Éditions du Seuil 1984).
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Ever wondered what it’s like to be a maritime archaeologist? Now you can learn more! ‘Dive Into Maritime Archaeology!’ is an opportunity to share your questions with those who explore heritage underwater as their profession.
Go beyond the classroom and see our archaeologists in action! All you have to do is submit a question online which will be answered by our dive boat team on Monday 25th July. The video with answers will be posted on our socials and Youtube channel next week. You can submit by emailing us or going on our instagram, facebook, twitter or tik tok page, submissions can also be asked to the archaeologists anonymously.
Whether you’re wondering… how do I start a career in archaeology? Or… what’s the purpose of flint? Our archaeologists are happy to answer. Who knows, this may be the first step in your journey to becoming a maritime archaeologist!
Sneak preview of our dive boat team in action: https://www.facebook.com/maritimearchaeologytrust/videos/551422406636500
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Since I’ve been out of the classroom, I’ve been on my own to seek out professional development. As a classroom teacher, I had numerous district-mandated PD sessions before school started every year, not to mention in-service days throughout the school year. My district also offered summer PD for a couple of weeks every July, and because I’m a big nerd when it comes to learning more about teaching, I always took advantage of what they offered me.
Nowadays I don’t have a district planning and offering PD to me on a regular basis, so I have to do a bit more legwork to make it happen. However, the benefit is that I tend to seek out and find things I’m personally interested in rather than doing something dictated by my district or principal. (Not that I disliked what they offered, mind you, but there is something be said for making your own PD choices.)
Last year, for example, I took @joboaler’s online course How To Learn Math. Considering I have 8 years of experience teaching math, I felt silly telling my co-workers that I was taking a course with that title. However, the course was fantastic and I’m glad I took part. As a foster parent, it was particularly beneficial because it helped me think more about how I’m talking math with a kiddo every single day and how different that is from talking math with a class of students for about 60 minutes per day, 5 days per week, for only 36 weeks a year.
Right now I’m taking a course called Teaching Middle School Math with Sketchpad. I was kind of hoping to take the elementary school version of the course because I have an elementary school teaching background, but unfortunately there weren’t enough people signed up for that course to make. I’m actually happy I’m taking the middle school version because I think the elementary one would have been too much reaffirming of things I already know, whereas the middle school course is making me re-examine content that I took in school but I haven’t personally taught to kids.
Basically, I get to learn all the cool ways to teach these concepts and feel jealous that way back when I was in middle school, I was taught a very traditional approach where everything was step-by-step with little to no exploration. I won’t go so far as to say kids have it easy these days, but they sure do have a lot of tools available to make it interesting work!
In addition to learning how Sketchpad can help students explore math concepts in interactive, visual ways, I’m also learning how to apply it to my job. As I mentioned yesterday, I’m leading a team that is converting grade 4 and 5 curriculum into our new Digital Teaching Platform. Unfortunately, as part of the upgrade to the new platform, we did change some functionality, and I have had to periodically do some problem solving to ensure that lessons aren’t adversely affected.
Sketchpad can’t solve all of my problems, but it has come in handy already. For example, in a lesson on multiplying by 10 and 100, the original lesson included two Excel spreadsheets that acted as calculation machines. Students could use a slider to change the first factor while the second was locked at 10 or 100. They explored changing the first factor and watching what happened to the product. In our new DTP, we don’t want to have to send students out to a program like Excel, so I had to think of a way to recreate these calculating machines in another way.
We just so happen to have an applet in our content generation studio that lets us embed interactive sketches within lesson screens. What perfect timing that I’m in the middle of this 6-week Sketchpad course! I’m no pro at Sketchpad, but I was pretty proud of myself that in about 15 minutes I was able to create a sketch that exactly mimics the functionality of the Excel file from the original lesson.
Well, that’s a lie. It was more like 30 minutes. I encountered a problem with the slider I made. Despite everything *looking* like it worked, the value of the first factor multiplied by 10 or 100 was not giving me the correct product. (I can only imagine the conclusions students would draw if they used this version of my sketch.) To make a long story short, and because it really is hard to explain with no pictures, I called my co-worker Meredith and together we brainstormed and figured out that Sketchpad has an ability to truncate values which solved my problem. Yay!
I’m not sure I’ll have the time to become a Sketchpad expert, but I am happy to have it in my toolbox now. As new design challenges arise in my job, even if I can’t personally make something I want, I’m learning enough about the program to know if it could provide the right solution and to be able to talk to an expert to get it made.
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Shandong provincial wetland protection
(November 28, 2012 136th meeting consideration of the people's Government of Shandong province on December 26, 2012 announced order No. 257 of Shandong province, as of March 1, 2013) Chapter I General provisions
First in order to strengthen wetland protection, maintenance of wetland functions, improve the ecological environment, promoting sustainable economic and social development, in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations, combined with the facts of the province, these measures are formulated.
Article in the province engaged in wetland protection, supervision and management activities in the administrative area, these procedures apply.
Wetlands in these measures refers to strong ecological function, suitable for growth of wildlife year round or seasonal water inland areas, rivers into the lakes into the sea area, water is much more humid regions and at low tide the water depth does not exceed 6 meters of sea area.
Wetland protection should follow article and manpower planning, protection, rational utilization and sustainable development of the principle of priority, integrated coordination, the Department of management.
Fourth wetland protection work in people's Governments above the county level shall be incorporated into the national economic and social development planning, Organization for wetland conservation education and scientific research, solve the wetland management agencies, funding guarantees, protection and utilization and other major issues.
Fifth forestry authority of the people's Governments above the county level shall be responsible for the administrative area of wetland protection organization, coordination and supervision.
Development and reform, finance, agriculture, water resources, land and resources, housing and urban-rural construction, environmental protection, marine and fisheries sectors in accordance with their respective responsibilities, complete the wetland conservation work.
Sixth article of any units and individuals have the obligation to protect wetlands, and the right to damages, encroachment on wetlands impeach or accuse any practices.
Wetland protection have made remarkable achievements in the people's Governments above the county level shall units and individuals give awards.
Chapter II wetland conservation planning
Article seventh wetland is internationally important wetlands, wetlands of national importance, important wetlands, and other wetlands.
Directory of important wetlands, and the scope of protection, organized by the provincial forestry authorities concerned departments and experts in wetland Certification Committee, submitted to the provincial people's Government announced other wetland and the scope of protection, the local city divided into districts, counties (cities and districts) forestry authorities, in conjunction with relevant departments, reported the people's Governments at the corresponding level approved for issue.
Wetlands of international importance, national directory of important wetlands and the scope of protection, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the International Convention on wetlands and the national.
Eighth forestry authority of the people's Governments above the county level shall, jointly with relevant departments of the administrative areas of wetland conservation planning, the people's Governments at the corresponding level for approval.
Wetland conservation plan should clearly wetland protection goals, safeguard measures, the prohibition of the development and construction of regional, limited areas of development and construction, and the use, protection, repair, and so on.
Nineth wetland conservation planning should be depending on wetland type, scope of protection, ecosystem function and water resources, and wildlife resources such as scientific establishment and land use planning, environmental planning, urban and rural planning, water resource planning, marine function zoning and other link.
Preparation of wetland conservation planning should be through feasibility study meeting, hearing and other forms and widely seek the views of relevant authorities, experts and the public.
Article tenth people's Governments and relevant departments at all levels should strictly implement wetland conservation plan, subject to planning approval and construction projects or other development activities.
Wetland conservation plan needed adjustments or modifications, shall be subject to approval of the original examination and approval procedures.
Chapter three wetland nature reserve and a wetland park
11th with one of the following conditions, shall establish a wetland nature reserve:
(A) be included in the list of wetlands of international importance, or list of wetlands of national importance;
(B) with rich biodiversity characteristics or to rare and endangered species are concentrated;
(C) national and local protection of birds and waterfowl breeding, wintering and migration route of the major stops;
(D) represents a different type of special protection or natural wetland of great scientific research value; (E) other special protection and important ecological value, economy or a major scientific and cultural value of wetlands.
Construction and management of wetland nature reserve, in accordance with the provisions of relevant national and provincial nature reserve.
12th do not have established conditions of wetland nature reserve, but with one of the following conditions, shall establish a wetland park:
(A) wetlands ecological features, has a certain ecological and cultural value of wetland landscape and biological diversity;
(B) in typical wetland ecosystem or regional position, the main function of wetland in the province or region-wide exemplary;
(C) the beautiful natural landscape of wetland, important or special environmental protection, scientific research, publicity and educational value;
(D) approved by the people's Governments above the county level, needs to be focused on the protection of wetland areas. Wetland Park established approval process by the Provincial Forestry Department.
Wetland Park is a cancellation and change scope ' shall be subject to approval of the original examination and approval procedures.
13th people's Governments above the county level shall organize relevant departments to set up boundary markers, indicating the scope of the Wetland Park.
Any unit or individual is allowed to move or destruction of wetlands Park landmark. Article 14th wetland regionalisation.
According to the actual needs of wetland protection, Wetland Park can be divided into the wetland conservation area, restoration area, missionary exhibition area, rational utilization and management service area.
The wetland conservation and reconstruction areas, in addition to wetland conservation, monitoring, training and repair necessary activities, shall not carry out any other activities not related to wetland ecosystem protection and management.
In the mission area, rational use and management of the service area, you can show proper ecological, science education, eco-tourism and other activities, without prejudice to the basic functions of wetland ecosystem.
15th Wetland Park wetland park construction must be in accordance with the approved master plan, maintaining the wetland biodiversity and integrity of the wetland ecosystem structure and function, harmony with the surrounding landscape, and no construction of any damage or affect Wildlife Habitat, the destruction of natural landscapes and geological sites, pollution engineering facilities.
16th wetland does not have the conditions of establishing nature reserves and wetlands Park, through the establishment of wetland protection area, multiple-use management areas of wetlands and other forms of protection.
Supervision and administration of the fourth chapter
17th forestry authority of the people's Governments above the county level shall, in conjunction with agriculture, water resources, land and natural resources, environmental protection, marine and fisheries sector, organize regular investigation of wetland resources, establishment of wetland resource files, publish report on the State of wetland resources.
Once every five years the province's wetland resources, organized by the provincial forestry authority.
18th people's Governments above the county level forestry, agriculture, water resources, land resources, environmental protection, marine and fisheries sector should be based on the Division of responsibilities, dynamic monitoring of wetland ecological condition, discover wetlands area, issues such as ecological degradation, and to take effective measures to address them.
19th prohibits any unit or individual to engage in the following acts of destruction of wetlands:
(A) unauthorized reclamation, landfill, wetland occupied or altering the use of wetlands;
(B) illegal mining, sand (stone), soil or building facilities;
(C) unauthorized emissions wetland impoundment, truncating the wetland and the connected peripheral;
(D) illegal grazing, burning and deforestation;
(E) the discharge into the wetland and surrounding area of toxic and harmful substances or disposal of solid waste;
(Vi) damage aquatic organisms such as fish migration routes and important breeding area and Habitat of wildlife;
(VII) without hunting, gathering of national and provincial protected wild fauna and flora, seizures, destruction of eggs or extinction, fishing for fish and other aquatic organisms;
(VIII) other acts of destruction of wetlands.
20th people's Governments above the county level shall, according to the wetland conservation planning, scientific assessment of the degradation and destruction of wetland, Habitat construction, restoration, converting (Ken) or wet enclosure, limited grazing, pollution control, biological control, integrated measures to fix them. 21st people's Governments above the county level shall take measures to protect the wetland ecological water use.
Functional degradation of natural wetlands due to water shortage, water engineering and technical measures should be adopted to maintain wetland ecological functions. The people's Government above the county level should encourage the construction of water conservancy projects and wetlands protection and manpower planning, flood control and water storage, bio-environmental and wetland resource sharing.
Water as well as other relevant sectors in the formulation of water resources development and utilization planning and dispatching of water resources, should maintain the proper water level of rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and maintain the natural purification capacity of water.
22nd the people's Governments above the county level shall, in river interchange, into the Lake (sea), as well as focusing on regions such as pollution prevention section, planning and construction of the necessary artificial wetland, and purify the water.
Article 23rd in the wetlands of international importance and national directory of important wetlands and natural wetlands located within the nature reserve, any unit and individual is prohibited to settle, take up or altering the use of wetlands.
In the province, important wetlands and wetland protection development and construction activities in the context of other, must conform to the wetland conservation plan, and the relevant procedures under the law. 24th construction projects which may have an impact on wetlands, their environmental impact assessment reports should contain wetland protection and prevention of pollution of wetlands.
Or ocean and fishery Department of environmental protection approved environmental impact assessment documents, shall solicit the views of forestry and other related departments. 25th due to building public facilities or other activities, temporary occupation of wetlands, who occupy the flats should propose viable wetland restoration program.
Wetland restoration programmes should conform to the wetland conservation plan, and agreed by the people's Governments above the county level forestry authorities.
Approved a temporary occupation of wetlands may not build permanent buildings or structures shall not change the basic functions of the wetland ecosystem.
Temporary occupation of wetlands for the longest period of not more than two years.
After the expiration of a temporary occupation, occupation should, according to the wetland restoration programme restored in a timely manner. Article 26th in wetland conservation within the fishing, grazing, collecting, harvesting, farming, tourism and other activities, should develop a wetlands protection program.
When the relevant departments in handling approval procedures shall consult the competent departments of the people's Governments above the county level forestry.
Approved to engage in activities in the preceding paragraph shall follow the waterfowl migration and growth of wetland plants, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the timing, scope and protection program, and supervised by the forestry authorities to check.
27th at the national and provincial wildlife focused distribution of important wetland areas, Governments at all levels should be actively encouraged, enabling local residents to develop alternative and ecological agricultural wetlands, prevent the wetland area is reduced and pollution of wetlands, maintain the ecological functions of wetlands.
28th people's Governments above the county level forestry, agriculture, marine and fisheries sectors and related management should establish a sound mechanism for rare wildlife rescue and, to receive first-aid reports in a timely manner, of rare wild animals that are injured, stranded or trapped taking emergency measures.
29th prohibits the introduction of harmful species of wetland areas.
The introduction of exotic species into wetlands or wetland within the cast of drug should be in accordance with the relevant provisions of the approval procedures, and tested in accordance with the relevant technical specifications.
The people's Government above the county level forestry, agriculture, marine and fisheries sectors for dynamic monitoring of the introduction of alien species should be found harmful, shall promptly take effective measures to eliminate the hazard, and promptly report to the competent Department of the people's Governments at the corresponding level and upper level.
30th due to contamination or other emergencies occur, causing or likely to cause pollution of wetlands, relevant units and individuals shall take immediate measures to deal with, and informed in a timely manner may be compromised by units and individuals, and to report to the local people's Government departments such as forestry, environmental protection.
People's Governments above the county level forestry, environmental protection and other sectors after receiving the report, shall take effective measures to eliminate the hazards in a timely manner. 31st people's Governments above the county level shall develop wetland protection and restoration policies, arranging funds, establish and improve the system of compensation for wetland conservation.
Specific measures shall be formulated by the Provincial Forestry Department, in conjunction with the Ministry of finance.
32nd people's Governments above the county level shall organize forestry, land and natural resources, oceans and fisheries sectors, in accordance with national wetland register, indeed, certification, and so on.
33rd forestry authority of the people's Governments above the county level shall, jointly with relevant departments of the wetland resource protection and utilization of conducting supervision and inspection, wetland protection and timely reports to the people's Governments at the corresponding level.
The fifth chapter legal liability
Article 34th acts in violation of these rules, laws and regulations provides for liability from its provisions; liability not provided by laws and regulations, in accordance with the provisions of these measures.
35th article violates these rules, in the context of wetland, one of the following acts, by the people's Governments above the county level forestry, land and natural resources, agriculture, water conservancy, Ocean and fisheries and environment protection sectors according to the Division of duties shall be ordered to desist from the illegal act and take appropriate remedial measures, and in accordance with the following provisions for punishment constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law:
(A) unauthorized reclamation, landfill, wetland occupied or altering the use of wetlands, more than 10 yuan per square meter at below 30 yuan fines;
(B) unauthorized discharge of wetland and wetland filling, truncated peripheral connected, fined a maximum of 3000 Yuan and 10,000 yuan in serious cases, fines of between 10,000 yuan and 30,000 yuan;
(C) illegal grazing, burning, between below 1000 Yuan and 200 Yuan fines; logging, logging more than twice times the value fined a maximum of 5 times;
(D) illegal seizures, destruction of eggs or extinction, fishing for fish and other aquatic organisms, fined a maximum of between 3000 and 500 yuan in serious cases, fined a maximum of 3000 Yuan and 10,000 yuan;
(E) destruction of aquatic organisms such as fish migration routes and important breeding area and Habitat of wildlife, fined a maximum of between 5000 and 1000 Yuan in serious cases, more than 5000 Yuan and fined a maximum of 20,000 yuan;
(Vi) or move or destruction of wetlands protection of landmarks, or facilities, fined a maximum of between 5000 and 1000 Yuan, and compensation for damages under the law.
The preceding paragraph (a), (c) the penalties provided for, shall not exceed a maximum 30,000 yuan.
36th article violates these rules, causing wetlands pollution or expiration of a temporary occupation of wetlands and refusing to take measures of reparation, restitution, by the competent authorities and the Environmental Protection Department of the people's Governments above the county level forestry organizations to take remedial measures, the persons responsible for fines of between 10,000 yuan and 30,000 yuan, and compensation for damages under the law.
37th article violates these rules, without authorization, the introduction of exotic species into the wetlands or wetland within the cast of drug from the Forestry Department or other relevant departments of the people's Governments above the county level shall be ordered to desist from the illegal act, fined a maximum of between 5000 and 1000 Yuan in serious cases, fined a maximum of more than 5000 Yuan and 30,000 yuan.
38th article violates these rules, the people's Government above the county level forestry departments and other departments concerned, of any of the following acts, the directly responsible person in charge and other direct liable persons shall be given disciplinary action constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with law:
(A) failing to the formulation and implementation of wetland conservation plan;
(B) failing to take the wetland protection measures;
(C) finding investigation of wetland protection in violation of the provisions of the law;
(Iv) lack of offence causing serious pollution of wetlands to stop;
(E) other acts of abuse of authority, dereliction of duty or engages in.
The sixth chapter supplementary articles 39th article of the rules take effect on March 1, 2013.
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Toyota Aims to Make Self-Driving Cars by 2020 – Wall Street Journal
TOKYO— Toyota Motor Corp. plans to make some of its cars fully capable of self-driving on highways by around 2020, it said Tuesday, accelerating the rollout of its autonomous-drive technology and countering Silicon Valley rivals like Google Inc.
Toyota used the term “automated driving” to describe its new system, which allows vehicles to get on and off the highway and change lanes without driver input. That was a shift from its past approach, under which it preferred calling such technologies “advanced driver support.”
“We were afraid that by using the term ‘automated driving,’ people would misunderstand that humans are not involved at all,” said Masahiro Iwasaki, an engineer involved in the development of the technology.
But rival auto makers and Silicon Valley players started to use such terms frequently, and the world’s biggest auto maker by unit sales realized that it needed to market its technology differently, Mr. Iwasaki said.
“Our goal remains the same—improving mobility and decreasing accidents,” he said.
Google’s strategy of developing self-driving cars and aggressively promoting its technology has frequently left Toyota out of the limelight and created the impression that Silicon Valley is ahead. Toyota officials say they don’t think so, because the company has been studying autonomous driving for two decades—since before Google existed.
“We have spent a long time to develop the technology. We have advantages and we want to maintain them as we push forward,” Moritaka Yoshida, Toyota’s chief safety executive, said Tuesday in introducing the self-driving cars.
Toyota believes there are two routes in pursuing the technology, Mr. Iwasaki said. The first is fully autonomous driving cars, which companies like Toyota and Google are testing on U.S. streets. The second category encompasses more reliable, semiautonomous technologies that can be introduced to mass-market cars sooner, possibly within the next few years.
A prototype car that carried reporters onto a highway in Tokyo went into automatic driving mode when a driver pressed a button on the steering wheel near the highway entrance. Without driver input, the car drove onto the highway, switched lanes and exited v ia an off-ramp.
When the car got off the highway, an announcement said the automated mode was ending and urged the driver to take over again.
The Lexus GS-based prototype car uses map data to determine where it should run and when it should change lanes, Toyota said.
It also has 12 sensors for capturing data—one camera behind the front mirror, five radar devices that use radio waves to capture the speed of other vehicles and six lasers that grasp the position of objects around the car.
Toyota named the prototype car “Highway Teammate,” emphasizing that it is intended to help drivers, not replace them. Mr. Iwasaki said the cost of the sensors must be reduced significantly to introduce the technology in mass-market vehicles.
Last week, Toyota started selling vehicles with a device that can communicate with other cars or traffic lights. That could allow for smoother lane-control driving on the highway or help alert drivers about the location of other cars. Toyota is set to introduce the technology, which it calls ITS Connect, in the redesigned Prius that will go on sale in Japan later this year, a person knowledgeable about the matter said.
In September, the company said it would work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford on artificial intelligence research, and it hired a former official from the Pentagon’s research arm studying autonomous driving.
Write to Yoko Kubota at firstname.lastname@example.org
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Centers or Stations can be an engaging way to remove yourself from the front of the classroom. They engage students in a variety of activities without full-class, teacher-led instruction. Depending on how Centers/Stations are structured, they can be tools to work with the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines and the UDL Progression Rubric to empower students to engage in their own learning, rather than waiting passively for a teacher to tell them what to do.
As soon as the structure of Centers/Stations includes a required time constraint, the UDL aspect of it is negated. If all students are expected to complete Centers/Stations in a given time, those students are not empowered to take control of their own learning. They are not reflecting on their own needs and progress to make choices based on those needs. They are not adjusting their work based on self-reflection. Instead, they are just passively moving when the bell rings.
Unfortunately, much of the literature about Centers/Stations includes working within a time constraint and/or requiring all students to do all Stations/Centers within a given time/period/day, which amounts to the same thing–even without a bell going off to spur movement between Stations/Centers, students are still forced to move on someone else’s pace. This hurts students on both ends of the spectrum. Students who are proficient in a given topic are required to practice it regardless, which can lead to boredom and behavior issues. Other students are left with not enough time to learn the material. No one benefits.
So, if we need to create Stations/Centers that don’t have requirements on time, how can we implement them effectively? Here are some ideas:
I love the way using Centers/Stations allows students to work with a variety of activities. However, the classic format, where students physically move around the room from one fixed location to the next, can create problems of set-up, mobility, spacing, and discomfort on the part of students who are not moving at the same pace as peers. When I set up Stations/Centers, I put all materials in one place in the room and students go get what they need. They can then access flexible seating–playing games on the floor, doing timed drills at a desk–and they can still move through a range of activities, but the whole experience is much more casual and relaxed, which reduces student anxiety.
I often identify one or two Stations/Centers that are critical for all students to experience, which allows students to focus on those key topics and skip others (or do them for homework). This way, I can be sure students are getting the content I want them to explore, but I also provide options so students are empowered to make choices within that structure.
Allow students to set the time:
I have no argument with building fluency and speed with math computation and skills. However, I think it’s a disaster to do that full-class by forcing all students to rotate through Centers/Stations on a timer. Instead, my colleague and I sometimes offer a Station/Center with a timed component. For example, students might do a Sprint from our 7th grade Eureka lesson…but they set the timer themselves and decide for how long. Again, when we return the idea of “empowering,” this approach allows students to be in charge of their learning while also meeting the curricular needs teachers are responsible for.
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Last night Bay Area startup BRD officially unveiled the RedShift MX motocrosser and the RedShift SM supermoto — two new all-electric, zero-emissions motorcycles aimed at converting the gas-guzzling enthusiast who likes to ride hard and fast. The sporty vehicles were designed by a team of riders who weren’t satisfied with the electric bikes currently on the market. They harness the power of 40 horses and can go 50 miles on a charge, but with price tags around $15,000, these bikes better impress or BRD won’t see many making their way through the assembly line onto the hilly roads of California.
It turns out that the team at BRD had more in mind than the environment when they set out to make a line of electric motorcycles. “We build electric bikes because we are in love with instant throttle response and flat, endless torque,” notes their website, adding, “We love going fast. And we love finding new ways and new places to go fast. Our goal from the beginning was to create motos that are easier to ride fast than anything else out there.”
The RedShift chassis, designed by the BRD team, is modeled after a standard MX chassis and uses the battery and motor as weight bearing design elements. This design brings the bike’s total weight down, therefore allowing the battery to push the bike farther — the lighter the weight, the less energy needed. Each bike comes with a 5.2 kilowatt-hour battery pack and though the team estimates the bikes will run for about 50 miles on a charge, they are expecting to bump that range higher in the very near future. In addition to the two commercial, street legal electric bikes, they’ve also created the RedShift PD, an electric bike for urban police.
All images courtesy of BRD
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Please fill out the fields below so we can help you better. Note: you must provide your domain name to get help. Domain names for issued certificates are all made public in Certificate Transparency logs (e.g. https://crt.sh/?q=example.com), so withholding your domain name here does not increase secrecy, but only makes it harder for us to provide help.
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Dimensions: 53 x 57″
Media: acrylic on panel
Igor Melnikov’s acrylic on panel work, The Railroad, exhibits the artist’s fascination with the natural world; with its loose formality and simple color palette, Melnikov’s landscape suggests a world simultaneously ageless and untouched by human influence. The work encourages a layered viewing process, whereby the audience’s eyes are both easily led around the work due to its simple subject matter, and drawn in through Melnikov’s rich texturing and subtle manipulations of shade. In the same way that his children’s expressions are often indecipherable, the work’s landscape cannot be tied to a specific season or physical location.
Russian born artist, Igor Melnivok, upends traditional associations with portraiture through his haunting and intrinsically psychological paintings of emotionally ambiguous children and within his subtle natural explorations. Rather than focusing on the individual identity of those within his works, Melnikov instead looks to viewers as dynamic participants in the interpretation of his paintings, allowing them to determine whether the children might burst into tears or laughter, based on personal experience, thought, and upbringing. Melnikov is fascinated with the simultaneity of happiness and suffering, which he believes function as an expression of the ‘complexity of the human personality’ and exist as a component of the ‘meaning of being’. Melnikov’s paintings are collage-like, yet not in the traditional, material sense of the process—instead layering his own psychological explorations onto his attempted understandings of the human condition and expression. While his muted color palettes might at first appear to be reductive, they instead focus viewers’ attention on the figures within the work and encourage slow and thorough readings of the detailing that remains visually available. While people and the human condition remain the primary subjects within his paintings, Melnikov also expresses an artistic concern for the natural world, whether expressed in landscape surroundings or in its more material and familiar manifestations, seen in the figure’s clothing and simple possessions.
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Shareholders of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., may be interested to read the article on the Chemical & Engineering News website (http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/83/i40/8340cambrios.html) entitled "At the Crossroads of Biology, Electronics," by Michael McCoy.
Cambrios is a privately held company based in Mountain View, California that is developing commercial applications in the electronics industry based on a host of fabrication methodologies related to biologically-directed synthesis of inorganic materials. The approach is based on the directed-evolution technology invented by the company's founders, Dr. Angela Belcher of MIT and her longtime collaborator, Dr. Evelyn Hu of the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital company that now makes initial investments exclusively in tiny technology, including nanotechnology, microsystems and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The Company's last 24 initial private equity investments have been in tiny-technology enabled companies. The Company has 20,756,345 shares of common stock outstanding.
Detailed information about Harris & Harris Group and its holdings can be found on its website at www.TinyTechVC.com.
This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to the inherent uncertainties in predicting future results and conditions. These statements reflect the Company's current beliefs, and a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in this news release. Please see the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, for a more detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, including but not limited to the risks and uncertainties associated with venture capital investing and other significant factors that could affect the Company's actual results. Except as otherwise required by Federal securities laws, Harris & Harris Group, Inc.®, undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new events or uncertainties. The reference to the websites www.TinyTechVC.com and http://pubs.acs.org has been provided as a convenience, and the information contained on such websites is not incorporated by reference into this news release.
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7 online courses to master digital arts
Staying up-to-date with the latest trends, whatever your profession is, is a necessity, and as the online channel allows us to maintain comprehensive training in flexible hours,
this type of education becomes more necessary, especially in the current era. In this article, we will talk about a selection of perfect courses for you to enhance your digital talent.
The training programs that we have selected are taught by Escuela Des Arts, which has degrees specially designed for professionals who seek to expand their knowledge while combining their working life with their studies. Its online courses to master the digital arts are very flexible so that students can add new skills and competencies to their curriculum and have tutorials that respond in a personalized way to doubts and queries that arise during the academic year.
- Master in Marketing and communication + Master in Food Styling
With this course you will obtain the double degree of Master in Marketing and Communication and Master in Food Styling, obtaining knowledge about marketing and communication strategies, and obtaining the specialization in a culinary stylist, acquiring the skills to dedicate yourself to professional food photography and artistic presentation of gastronomic dishes.
Its study modules, each with its teaching units and theoretical and practical contents, are:
Market information systems
Launch and implementation of products and services
Marketing and communication event management
Organization and control of the media plan
Preparation of self-editable marketing and communication materials
Professional English for business activities
You can do this double master in two modalities: online, with which you will obtain the access codes to the virtual field where you will find all the study material, or remotely, where you will receive the study manuals and the exercise book at your home.
- Course on creating multimedia content in the classroom
If you want to specialize in creating digital products for educational use, this is the ideal course. During your training, the Course on creating multimedia content in the classroom will allow you to learn how to create this type of content based on digital image, video and sound as well as 3D didactic material.
In this course you will be able to learn the following training content :
Introduction to multimedia content
Design of multimedia content in education
Relevant aspects of creating multimedia content in the classroom
Creation of 3D teaching material
Multimedia authoring programs
The workload is 300 hours in online and distance modes, personalized tutorials and duration up to one year, extendable.
- Master in digital photography and Photoshop
Entrepreneurs, managers, entrepreneurs, students and workers … today practically anyone must have the necessary knowledge to handle and edit digital photography.
With this Master in digital photography and Photoshop, you will learn the following teaching units in 2 modules :
Introduction to digital photography
Digital image processing
Theory of colour
The photographic camera
Photoshop CS6 presentation
Panels and menus
Drawing and editing tools
Retouching and transformation
The workload of this master is 600 hours, online or remotely, and the duration is up to one year, extendable.
- Master in cartography + Master in AutoCAD 3D Studio Max
This double master’s degree in Cartography + Master’s degree in AutoCAD 3D Studio Max will allow you to know cartography, the positioning of information transmission in the natural environment, the preparation of reports, minutes and certificates on control and protection of the natural environment, the recognition and identification of the archaeological and monumental heritage as well as the instrumentation and cartographic interpretation and representation of topography plans and AutoCAD.
It consists of three modules whose training content includes specialized teaching units where you will obtain the necessary knowledge in relation to this professional field.
The hours of this master’s degree is 600 hours, with online and mixed modalities, personalized tutorials and a one-year duration, extendable.
- Master in Music Production with Pro-Tools
Studying this Master in Music Production and Audio Recording with Pro Tools will train you with the necessary knowledge in audio recording and editing, as well as the most used tools in the sector to carry it out.
You will learn to work on the quality of the audio and edit it in order to achieve the best results, as well as the techniques for mixing and mastering through the following key points :
Editing commands and tools
Audio file processing
The workload of the master is 300 hours, distance and online modalities, personalized tutorials and an extendable duration of one year.
- Master in Prepress in graphic arts + Master in digital printing
With a Master in Prepress in graphic arts and a Master in digital printing, you will be able to acquire the necessary knowledge about composition rules, you will learn to handle layout programs and you will specialize in the process of digitizing images and graphic arts.
The training content is divided into two parts:
Part 1 Prepress in Graphic Arts
Assembling and filming of texts and images
Assembling and obtaining the printing form
Graphic arts processes
Part 2 Digital printing
Graphic arts processes
Preparing files for digital printing
Printing with digital devices
The workload of this master is 600 hours, in online and distance modes, it has personalized tutorials and a duration of one year that can be extended.
- Postgraduate in Model Design and Graphic Representation
Businessmen, managers, student entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to acquire the necessary knowledge can take the Postgraduate Degree in Model Design and Graphic Representation to learn about image processing applications in construction projects, pixels, entities, solid, objects, layer management, the use of apps for creating three-dimensional drawings, modelling and animation, among other educational content.
The workload of this postgraduate course is 600 hours, with online and distance modalities, personalized tutorials and an extendable duration of up to one year
In both modalities and for all online courses, students who have mastered digital arts at the end of their studies and passed the evaluation tests will receive a diploma from the European School of Arts, endorsed by their status as members of the CECAP and AEC, top Spanish institutions in training and quality.
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Being a mom
What is Perinatal Mental Health?
Perinatal mental health, also know as maternal mental health, applies to the mental challenges before, during, and up to one year after childbirth.
Therapy for Moms
Maternal Mental Health is often overlooked in most women, but research has gathered evidence that Women of Color have been most affected by the lack of quality of treatment in maternal care. Women of Color are 4 times more likely to die from pregnancy complications compared to their White counterparts. Women of Color are 3 times more likely to experience Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders. In 2020, the rates of severe maternal morbidity was 63% higher in Black communities than White communities. 38% of Women of Color struggle with postpartum depression. Black babies are twice as likely to die before the age of one. However, it does not diminish the passion that we have for perinatal mental health in ALL women.
What clients are saying...
"Knowing I have this space for me as a new mom has been a game changer in my postpartum journey"
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Reiki is an energy-transfer technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. The Reiki healer will lay hands on various parts of the body in order to administer and “top-up” the “life force energy” that keeps us vibrant and alive.
When your life force energy is low, you’re more likely to feel tired, stressed, depressed or overwhelmed, and are vulnerable to falling ill quickly. You might feel the tingling of the energy running through your body as you lie, fully clothed, in a meditative state. The entire process is extremely relaxing and restorative.
- Dissolve energy blocks
- Increased sense of calm and peace
- Increased awareness and clarity
- Increased energy levels
- Increased creativity
- Emotional balance and feeling of security
- Strengthened and protected immune system
- Detoxify the body
- Deep relaxation
- Overall improvement of wellbeing and enjoyment of life
A one-hour session of Reiki is the equivalent of three hours of sleep, which is one of the most natural stress releases available.
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When embarking on a journey of self growth either by choice…or when life tosses us a pair of hiking boots and tells us we better get going, it’s easy to get impatient. We tell ourselves stories like “I should be over this by now, what’s wrong with me?” or, “no matter what I try or how much work I do, I will always end up repeating the same dysfunctional patterns”.We feel that any amount of “backsliding”, failing to repress every memory, painful emotion, or preventing a life long pattern from surfacing, means that we aren’t moving forward. But is that really true?
A quote by M.H. Clark sums up what I’ve been telling clients (and myself) for years as both a Life Coach and Victim’s Advocate. “Slow and quiet progress is progress, too. Remember to give yourself credit”. If we fixate solely on our macro lens and ignore the seeming infinitesimal, unglamorous, and less than news worthy progress, we are denying ourselves the celebration we deserve.
Regardless of how small or slow the progress, it is no less important. For those of us who’d prefer to skip doing the work and go straight to being perfectly happy and self actualized, we aren’t doing ourselves any favors. If I’ve learned anything in my life and through my work it’s that slow change is lasting change. I know you’ve heard this before but hear me out. Anytime we are making a shift that involves deep seeded patterns from coping skills to self esteem to unhealthy relationship patterns, we literally need to rewire our brains. And unfortunately for the instant gratification seekers in all of us, this takes time and effort.
By making a conscious choice to begin changing our default thought patterns and habits we have already begun weakening brain connections that no longer serve us, and are simultaneously strengthen the ones that do. This can be a slow process but if we consider how long it took to create our current thought and belief structures, it makes sense that long term change wouldn’t happen overnight.
On a slightly different tangent…I think it’s worth mentioning that at the point when these automatic go-to brain connections were put in place, it was probably for a very good reason or it may be all we had known at the time. Consider if you are clutching to an old belief that you must alway put others before yourself, for example. Did your attachment to this belief begin when a parent or role model repeatedly told or showed you as a child that it made you a selfish person to do otherwise? And you fell into this pattern to gain their love and approval? Or maybe you find yourself too quickly in romantic relationships that you know deep down aren’t for you, but long ago found it to be an effective short term distraction, a way you kept yourself sane, protected, and/or numbed to survive an horrible time in your life? As much as old patterning may be hurting us, our relationships, our happiness, or our ability to create the life we want, now, it may have served a crucial purpose at one time. It can be healing to acknowledge how a particular belief, thought, coping mechanism, etc., served a crucial, protective role at one time in our lives, while also reminding ourselves that we no longer need as we once did. We are each a different person than we were even 6 months ago with more experiences, knowledge and tools.
Chances are, if we have the wherewithal to know what needs to change (not what someone else wants for us), and know the reasons why we want to create these shifts, we’re already off to a meaningful start. The more we support the small efforts and triumphs, no matter how imperfect, the stronger each of the new brain connections will become. This is exactly why celebrating when learn to say “no”, say “yes”, or simply catching ourselves, during or even after we have fallen back into an old pattern but then purposely course corrected, is vitally important. If these successes go unnoticed by ourselves, chances are the old pattern is regaining traction in our lives.
Change, whether we’ve set out to create it or it was catalyzed by a serious life event, invariably never looks the way we want it to but if you’re already got your hiking boots laced up, every microscopic step along the journey counts and I invite you to give each one the credit it deserves.
Have questions or comments? Please don’t hesitate to reach out! If you find yourself wanting to working through old patterns that no longer serve you but aren’t sure how, that’s what I’m here for…I offer one-on-one coaching for people who are ready to make shifts in their lives, even if they don’t know exactly what they want those shifts to look like. My philosophy is all about calling all of the pieces of yourself home to what I call “The Inner Hive”. Meaning, claiming and expressing all aspect of who you are, embracing your complexity, accepting your “flaws” and freeing yourself from other’s ideas of what you life should be like.
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Addison Lee Group and Oxbotica begin mapping Canary Wharf for autonomous vehicle services. First stage of process for 2021 service launch.
Addison Lee Group, the global ground transportation business, and Oxbotica, the British leader in self-driving vehicle software, have launched a unique, 3D street mapping exercise in London’s iconic Canary Wharf – a significant milestone in the roll out of Addison Lee’s autonomous services by 2021. The mapping process will create the backdrop for new, autonomous services which meet urban requirements for efficient transport, reduced congestion and improved air quality.
The companies, together with Canary Wharf Group and insurer AXA XL, have already started the process, using a vehicle equipped with mapping technology to record every kerb, road sign, landmark and traffic light in Canary Wharf’s 128-acre estate. This is the first stage of a mapping exercise across London, where more than 250,000 miles of public roads will be mapped in order to better understand the requirements for rolling out a fully autonomous service.
Mark Nallen, Head of Technology and Innovation at Canary Wharf Group, said:
“With an expanding estate, and visitor and commuter numbers growing, we need to plan our future transport needs, and the mapping exercise with our partners at Addison Lee Group, Oxbotica and AXA XL is the first stage on this journey.”
Partnership vehicles have already started the mapping exercise, with radars that help Oxbotica understand the environment, cameras to take in images of the streets and lidar sensors that send out laser pulses to sense the surroundings. This enables Oxbotica to build a rich 3D map of the area, which is then analysed to identify important features such as traffic lights, pedestrian crossings and road markings.
Oxbotica will use this data to help understand the contents of street signs, and the meanings of the lane markings on the road to enable the vehicle to be as knowledgeable as a local resident about the complexities of each street. The company will repeat this process many times, and at different times, improving the understanding of how the streets change in different lighting conditions, weather and seasons of the year.
When the autonomous vehicle travels down these same streets, it builds the same picture and matches it to the map, using the knowledge about traffic light location and lane markings to help localise itself and be aware of what’s around the next corner.
Oxbotica’s insurance partner, AXA XL – a division of AXA – is insuring the exercise. AXA XL has significant experience in the field of autonomous technologies, having signed a landmark agreement with Oxbotica in 2016 to examine the technology’s potential impact on risk management. In May 2018, it announced a suite of insurance solutions to support the commercial adoption of mobile robotic solutions.
Canary Wharf Group’s Nallen said:
“Canary Wharf now has over 120,000 daily commuters and around 30,000 visitors coming to the Estate every day. Canary Wharf Group has consistently pioneered new technologies to ensure tenants have access to the best possible infrastructure. Transport is clearly vital to any growing population and as public transport routes become more heavily used, it is crucial we provide additional capacity to meet the increasing scale of their transport needs. We believe the types of services envisaged by Addison Lee Group and Oxbotica could be part of the solution and we are delighted to be at the forefront of autonomous vehicle innovation.”
Andy Boland, Addison Lee Group’s CEO, said:
“With its’ campus-style arrangement and high number of commuters, Canary Wharf is the perfect place to begin our mapping of London with Oxbotica and a possible location for new Addison Lee Group services.”
Graeme Smith, CEO of Oxbotica added:
“This mapping is another step towards making autonomous vehicles a reality in complex urban environments such as Canary Wharf. This partnership shows the trust we have gained to deploy our integrated autonomous vehicle and fleet management software in even the most challenging of environments. We look forward to bringing autonomous vehicles into mainstream use on the streets of London in the very near future.”
Speaking on the importance of the partnership, Vincent Branch, Chief Executive of Accelerate*, AXA XL’s innovation team, said:
“Autonomous technologies will – in the near future – directly impact our working environments, the design of our cities and transport infrastructures. This ground-breaking mapping project positions Addison Lee Group and Canary Wharf at the forefront of this exciting development and we are delighted, along with Oxbotica, to be enabling it.”
Canary Wharf has emerged as one of the fastest growing tech clusters in London. Level39, the tech community with over 200-member companies, has become the home to start-ups looking to scale at pace. Previous tenants included both Digital Shadows and Revolut, the UK’s latest tech unicorn. Canary Wharf Group has just completed the first live trial of 5G technology in the UK and announced plans for a new development called Wood Wharf, which adjoins Canary Wharf and will house 20,000 tech and creative jobs.
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The earliest surviving Christian art is preserved on the walls of tombs belonging to wealthy Christians in the catacombs of Rome. From literary evidence there may also have been panel icons. However, like almost all paintings from classical times, these have disappeared. Possibly the earliest known image of the Virgin Mary independent of the Magi episode, is a fresco dated about 150 CE in the Catacomb of Priscilla on the Via Salaria in Rome that shows her nursing the infant Jesus on her lap.
"Initially Jesus was represented indirectly by pictogram symbols such as the Ichthys (fish), the peacock, or an anchor (the Labarum or Chi-Rho was a later development). Later personified symbols were used, including Jonah, whose three days in the belly of the whale pre-figured the interval between Christ's death and Resurrection; Daniel in the lion's den; or Orpheus charming the animals. The Tomb of the Julii has a famous but unique mosaic of Christ as Sol Invictus, a sun-god. The image of "The Good Shepherd", a beardless youth in pastoral scenes collecting sheep, was the commonest of these images, and was probably not understood as a portrait of the historical Jesus at this period. It continues the classical Kriophoros, and in some cases may also represent the Shepherd of Hermas, a popular Christian literary work of the 2nd century.
"Among the earliest depictions clearly intended to directly represent Jesus himself are many showing him as a baby, usually held by his mother, especially in the Adoration of the Magi, seen as the first theophany, or display of the incarnate Christ to the world at large" (Wikipedia article on Depiction of Jesus, accessed 10-03-2010).
Situated in what was a quarry in Roman times, the Catacombs of Priscilla were used for underground Christian burials from the late second century through the fourth century. The catacombs extend for roughly 13 kilometers on several levels.
"Some of the walls and ceilings display fine decorations illustrating Biblical scenes. The Catacombs of Priscilla are believed to be named after Priscilla, a member of the gens Acilia and who was probably the wife of the Consul Acilius who became a Christian and was killed on the orders of Domitian. They contain a number of wall paintings of saints and early Christian symbols. Particularly notable is the 'Greek Chapel' (Capella Greca), a square chamber with an arch which contains second century frescoes generally interpreted to be Old and New Testament scenes, including the Fractio Panis. Above the apse is a Last Judgment. New, and somewhat controversial research has begun to suggest that the scenes traditionally interpreted as the deuterocanonical story of Susannah (Dn 13) may actually be scenes from the life of a prestigious Christian woman of the second century AD. Near this are figures of the Madonna and Child and the Prophet Isaiah, also dating from the second century" (Wikipedia article on Catacomb of Priscilla, accessed 10-02-2010).
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Edward R. Callender, proprietor of the Callender Printing Company of Kansas City, Kansas, had lived in this state for over thirty-five years and for a quarter of a century had been a resident of Kansas City, Kansas. He learned printing when a boy, and his name is widely known through his connection with the printing trade and also at different times as a publisher of newspapers.
Mr. Callender was born at Berlin, Wisconsin, August 31, 1867, the third in a family of six children whose parents were John H. and Marian (Russell) Callender. His father was a native of Canada and his mother of New York State. The grandparents came from Scotland, lived in Canada, and afterwards moved to Wisconsin. John H. Callender grew up in Ripon, a city where the first political organization took the name republican and thus gave substantial claim to the distinction of being the birthplace of the party. John H. Callender became a dentist. He practiced at Ripon for a number of years and then seeking a change of climate and a more active life he came to Kansas when the Osage District was opened. In 1878 he located near Anthony when only a few houses stood on the townsite. He brought his household furniture and lumber from Wisconsin, carrying the goods on a wagon sixty-five miles to Harper County. He took up a claim of 160 acres, proved up on it, but as a result of several years of successive drought he had to abandon farming and resume his practice as a dentist. Later he sold his farm and gave his entire attention to his practice at Anthony. He finally retired to Wichita and died there in 1903. His widow died in 1909. Doctor Callender was a republican, was a member of the Masonic order and was always interested in the welfare of schools and churches. He was a Methodist, was trustee of his church many years and also superintendent of the Sunday school.
Edward R. Callender attended school in Wisconsin and had later the advantages of the dugout schools at Anthony. He was also a student in the Wellington High School. It was a mere accident that he formed a connection which became permanent with the printing trade. Without any specific intentions as to the future he worked for a time as a printer’s devil on the Belle Plaine News, and having learned the trade put in three years there and since then had never been long separated from printing and newspaper work. At Anthony he worked on the Anthony Republican, and in 1887 established with a partner named Markwell the Anthony Free Press. This paper was published daily. Anthony was then enjoying a boom, and the paper was highly successful. After two years he sold his interest and having realized that Kansas City, Kansas, had exceptional advantages of location he moved to that city and in 1890 opened a printing shop on Minnesota Avenue. He began there with modest equipment and on a small scale, but from year to year increased the business and enlarged his service until the was competing on terms of equality with the larger printing shops of the city. Associated with the Greer boys he established the Kansas City Tribune. He operated the daily for about a year and then sold to Judge Charles E. Lobdell. From the Tribune he once more devoted his attention to the printing business opening a new shop on Sixth Street in the basement of the Husted Building. His plant and facilities were enlarged from time to time and he finally removed to his present location at 708-710 North Sixth Street.
In October, 1891, Mr. Callender married Louise Cable of Wyandotte County, daughter of Judge R. E. Cable, elsewhere referred to. They are the parents of four children: Harold, who is assistant city editor of the Kansas City Times; Leonard, teller in the People’s National Bank of Kansas City, Kansas; Louise, now in high school; and Edward, a pupil in the graded schools.
Mr. Callender in Masonry had attained the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite, belongs to the Mystic Shrine at Leavenworth, to the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Maccabees. He had held all the chairs in the Knights of Pythias. He is well known in business and social circles of the city, is a member of the Mercantile Club, a former director of the Rotary Club, and belongs to the Union Club. The only public office he ever consented to accept was clerk of Circuit Court, the result of an appointment by Governor Hoch. He remained in the office one year. He is a republican and is an active member of the Christian Science Church.
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Used PDAs and Smartphones Pose Data Risk
Used smartphones and PDAs for sale on eBay and other online sites can be loaded with sensitive personal and corporate information ranging from banking records to text messages and corporate emails that can be easily retrieved by hackers and data thieves, according to a sampling by mobile security software provider Trust Digital.
Trust Digital engineers recovered nearly 27,000 pages of personal, corporate, and device data from nine of 10 mobile devices purchased through eBay for the project, including a smartphone sold by an employee of a major corporation. The salvaged data included personal banking and tax information, corporate sales activity notes, corporate client records, product roadmaps, contact address books, phone and Web logs, calendar records, personal and business correspondence, computer passwords, user medication information, and other private, competitive or potentially damaging material.
The information was retained in the flash memory of the devices because of users’ failure to perform the advanced hard reset required to delete the data. The nine devices with retrievable data included those belonging to a former employee of a publicly traded security software company, an employee of a web services firm, and a corporate counsel of a multi-billion dollar technology company serving the legal market. The tenth device in the test was never used.
The analysis highlighted the vulnerability of individuals and organizations that fail to secure the data on their smartphones and PDAs. Loss or theft of the devices could lead to embarrassment, major breaches of corporate security, or even blackmail.
“Personal and corporate data is being sold on the open market through eBay, and it’s also available to anyone who finds, steals or purchases a used smartphone or PDA from any other source. With nearly 2 billion smartphones currently on the market, the potential for having this information fall into the wrong hands is staggering,” said Nick Magliato, CEO of Trust Digital. “The general public needs to immediately be made aware of this fact. Whether you’re talking about pilfering an individual’s private files or stealing corporate secrets, this adds up to a very real data theft epidemic,” Magliato noted.
Consumers can protect themselves by enabling the password function on their devices, asking their cellular carriers for information about data security, and “hard wiping” their devices before selling them. Owners of Palm Treo 650s and RIM devices should consult the respective vendors to access the built-in hard wipe function. For other devices, commercial hard wipe products are available.
Palm Zero Out Reset
For Palm devices with NVFS memory a "Zero out reset" is needed to properly delete all data on the device. The former hard-reset method does not completely remove personal data from flash memory. Palm has step by step instructions on how to perform a Zreo Out Reset in this Knowledge Base article.
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Strategic Family Therapy
Jossey-Bass, 1981 - 240 sidor
"Madanes' lucid, coherent, and practical guide for family therapists is a welcome addition to the proliferating literature by family therapy theorists and practitioners.... The book is concise, well organized and clearly written.''
A classic work which uses imaginative techniques to help achieve balance within the family. It gives attention to specific problems such as violence, drug abuse, and depression, and seeks the hidden meaning in these symptoms, which are clues to the underlying family structure.Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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She made the sign of the cross on his forehead to protect him from the devil . She explained that she thought ... But when she protected him , she frightened him more , by talking about God and the devil . Mother and son were caught in ...
The message that resulted from this failure to act out the scene correctly was that the mother was a capable person who would defend herself ; she did not need the son's protection . This is an example of how the consequences of the ...
The advantage that the child derives from his symptomatic behavior is to protect the parents by providing a focus of concern that helps them avoid their own difficulties and overcome their own deficiencies .
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For Bob Whitney, the new Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service organic program specialist based at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Stephenville, agriculture has been a “worldly” experience.
Whitney, who served as an AgriLife Extension agent and then retired after 28 years to helm his own consulting company, has provided his agricultural expertise in 26 countries.
In May, he rejoined AgriLife Extension to take on his new specialist role.
“In this new position, I provide guidance to people or operations seeking organic certification,” Whitney said. “I also serve as a liaison connecting operators to AgriLife Extension and Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists for guidance on general and sector-specific questions about organic production, as well as coordinate with the Texas Department of Agriculture and other organic certifiers to facilitate compliance with certification requirements.”
Going organic in Texas
There are currently an estimated 372 certified organic crop and livestock operations in Texas, with most of them relatively small- to medium-size compared to their commercial counterparts. More than 260 of those producers are in the South Plains and High Plains, mostly involved in peanut and cotton production.
Whitney said both his experience as an AgriLife Extension agent serving Parker, Tarrant, Comanche and Williamson counties, as well as his work in international agriculture have done much to prepare him for this new position.
“As an agent, I did a lot of work with organic producers, especially dairy producers in Central Texas where Texas’ organic dairy production started, as well as others involved in organic agriculture,” he said. “I also worked with the Texas Peanut Board and with the wheat industry here in Texas.
“There’s lot of organic wheat production going on, especially in the High Plains. And there’s a lot of organic cotton production that happens in rotation with organic peanut production.”
Whitney said Texas has about 30,000 acres of organic peanut production and leads the world in that area.
“This is a big deal since we produce 98% of the nation’s organic peanuts on the South Plains,” he said.
Whitney said while he had not previously worked with rice producers in Texas, his agricultural experiences with that crop in Asia have prepared him to work with the 71 organic rice producers in the state. Texas is one of the largest organic rice producers in the nation.
Texas also compares well to California and Wisconsin in organic milk production, but those numbers are harder to pin down, Whitney said.
He said currently Texas producers can grow almost any crop organically as there are few serious plant diseases and insect pests that might impede them from doing so.
“However, there’s not a market for everything. If there’s a very large organic price difference – the consumer may not care if it is organic – then while you can grow it, there’s not a market that will pay the difference,” Whitney said.
He noted it typically costs twice as much to produce anything organically.
“Interest in organic farming has really increased over the years along with consumer interest in how and under what conditions food is produced,” Whitney said.
Whitney’s worldwide agricultural efforts
In his most recent in-country effort, Whitney collaborated with the Norman Borlaug Institute of International Agriculture, part of the Texas A&M University System, to assist the Ukulima Farm Research Center in Limpopo Province, South Africa.
“I was asked to be the farm manager at the center,” he explained. “The center is a partnership of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the Borlaug Institute, and its mission is to promote African agricultural research and education. The center supports the application of science to increase African agricultural production, enhance rural livelihoods and conserve natural resources.”
Whitney’s additional experience with international agriculture projects included work in Iraq and Honduras, as well as helping faith-based organizations with agriculture projects throughout the world.
“I have done lots of agriculture work in many countries developing training and demonstration projects focused on conserving soil, cropping systems, livestock production and marketing,” Whitney said. “While many of the subsistence farmers throughout the world are not technically organic producers, they do employ many of the practices associated with organic production.”
In collaboration with the Borlaug Institute, Whitney served as chief of party and team leader for the Iraq Agricultural Extension Revitalization Project, IAER, active from 2006-2012. The project, a partnership of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the Foreign Agriculture Service, was funded by the U.S. Department of State.
Additionally, as owner of the Whitney Consulting Group, he provided consulting and research services in agriculture and community development in the U.S. and other countries. This included consultation with agricultural businesses, organizations and agencies in India, Honduras, Guatemala, Kenya, Cuba and China, as well as assistance to Christian mission groups and non-governmental organizations.
Bringing it back home
Whitney said he is eager to help expand the practice of organic farming in Texas and teach those interested in the requirements and practices that must be implemented to be granted organic certification.
“I feel my combined experience in both Texas and internationally will be of use in helping farmers throughout the state,” he said. “We can apply many of the organic soil improvement techniques used, such as intercropping or planting cover crops in between main crops, the proper spacing of crops and organic composting.”
He also said he will be involved in the practical application of research into the development of additional crops that may be grown organically in the state.
“In addition to the organic crops we already grow here, such as cotton, wheat, peanuts, rice and vegetables, we are looking into specialty crops like sesame, cowpeas, lentils, indigo, guar and hemp. We’re also looking at any other vegetables or fruits that might be produced organically in the state. Currently we are evaluating organic raspberry production under shade cloth in controlled experiments.”
He said his efforts will also include researching new crop varieties and investigating organically acceptable ways to improve their quality and yield.
“Some ways this might be done would be through the use of microbial and biological seed treatments as well as plant selection and breeding,” he said.
Whitney said the potential for organic production in Texas is great, and he feels it will continue to increase as long as consumer interest persists.
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Kenilworth History 2022 – 60th Anniversary Edition
The latest KHAS annual booklet Kenilworth History 2022: Recent Research into Local History is now available, priced £5 or free to members. This is a special 60th Anniversary edition, commemorating the foundation of the KHAS in 1962.
Once again, our contributors have been very busy, despite the ongoing Covid lockdown. This year’s edition comes has a very respectable 104 pages, so there’s even more fascinating material than the previous year, which was a record length in itself!
As ever, Kenilworth History 2022 will be available for purchase from Kenilworth Books in Talisman Square, following the AGM on February the 14th. It will also be available from the Abbey ‘Barn’ Museum & Heritage Centre, when it reopens.
The contents of this years edition are as follows. We start with a fascinating series of articles by Nick King and Robin Leach about W. H. Draper (featured on the cover image, above) and his account of the 1891 excavation of the Abbey, followed by Nick’s analysis of the various extensions to the St Nicholas’ churchyard over the years. Next, an article by Chris Blunt about nine long-depopulated mediæval villages around Kenilworth. David Brock ponders the reason behind Alexander Neckham’s visit to Kenilworth Abbey in 1213. Chairman Jan Cooper brings us a transcript documenting the visit of naturalist and explorer Joseph Banks to Kenilworth in 1768. Joanna Illingworth writes about Joseph Crouch’s designs for Fieldgate Lane.
Then there’s another article from Chris Blunt about the etymology of some weird and wonderful names of historic features and fields around the town. George Evans-Hulme provides some valuable guidance on the use of references in history articles. Nick Green provides something of a rarity in these pages – a tale of maritime disaster! Paul and Sally Newsome have penned an insightful article about the family home at Elmdene. Henny Denny writes of the treasures to be found at nearby Twycross church. And finally Norman Stevens has contributed an item for the record regarding the death of the Very Reverend Derek Hole.
We hope you enjoy this bumper edition and wish you a happy and healthy 2022!
Kenilworth History on CD – 1981 to 2015
A CD containing every issue of Kenilworth History from 1981 to 2015 (inclusive) is now available. It has on it also a file of all the ‘Tables of Content’, six spreadsheets of those contents sorted by date, author, title, and three subject categories, and one continuous file of all the KHs so that it can subjected to a wordsearch from beginning to end – a really valuable resource for any researcher. The Society is charging £5 a CD, which, if you consider that people in the Town bought over 60 copies of KH2015 alone for £5 from the Bookshop, is incredibly good value for money:
The Siege of Kenilworth – 750th Anniversary Programme
The Siege of Kenilworth – 750th Anniversary Programme is still available from various sources, including Kenilworth Books in Talisman Square:
A Guide to the Historic Town of Kenilworth
Some years ago the Society produced a guidebook covering the historic sites of Kenilworth, which is still available from various sources, including Kenilworth Books in Talisman Square:
A number of pamphlets are available at a nominal fee, as well as books at a discounted rate, at KHAS meetings – see the KHAS programme page for details of where and when these take place.
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A longtime Boydell author, John D. Grainger has published no fewer than eight books with us over the past sixteen years. All remain in print, and many are available in paperback. Grainger is an excellent source for detailed examinations of a wide range of military conflicts involving Britain, as well as sweeping studies of British naval history. A well-respected independent scholar, Grainger’s work is often praised for being clear, highly readable, and engaging. We are very much looking forward to his forthcoming publication, The British Navy in the Caribbean, in 2021!
Grainger’s latest volume provides a comprehensive overview of the activities of the British navy in the Mediterranean from the earliest times until the present.
Written on the same model as the above title, this book covers the British navy’s actions in the Baltic Sea from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth century. It includes ample detail on the Napoleonic Wars, when the British navy’s involvement was at its height.
“Grainger is an admirably clear-headed guide through the historical quicksands and thickets of his subject matter. [He] has produced a learned, deeply considered and tightly written book that deserves to be seen as the definitive version of a momentous episode in the making of the Middle East.” BBC HISTORY
“Incredible. . . . No one with an interest in British naval engagements . . . can afford to be without a copy of this essential reference.” THE NELSON DESPATCH
This survey of the neglected naval campaign of the Crimean War highlights its impact on international relations with China and Japan as well as Russia.
“[Grainger] writes in a provocative and engrossing style and orders and arranges his account in a way that makes sense out of what was a confusing and complex situation. His command of the available sources is excellent. [The book] is an exceptional study worthy of the widest readership.” VICTORIAN STUDIES
The story of Allied victory in the Holy Land, far from the carnage of the Western Front but a crucial, morale-boosting success under the aggressive and forward-thinking General Allenby.
“Grainger’s analysis is informed, critical, readable and supported by a wealth of unpublished and printed primary material. . . . Makes good use of soldiers’ experiences bringing to life the human dimension to the fighting in southern Palestine. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
“[P]rovides an excellent rationale for studying the campaign as a test case in military deception, inter-service working, strategic opportunism, and the organization of swift movements of forces to a culminating engagement.” WAR IN HISTORY
“A valuable resource for historians who need an accessible, but comprehensive, account of the peace negotiations. . . . A work of original scholarship that analyzes for the first time a crucial episode in the history of the Napoleonic era.” NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES
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A metal roof is basically a roofing system composed of metal sheets or tiles characterized by their high tensile strength, durability and resistance to fire. It is essentially part of the building envelope, which is generally comprised of claddings, membrane roofs, ridge vents and gables.
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Despite the disadvantages, metal roofs offer a lot of advantages when compared to the traditional types of roofs like ceramic tiles, clay tiles, slate, and wood shakes. They are durable and strong. And aside from its strength and durability, it is also environment friendly.
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