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Matt Bernacki, a researcher who has studied students’ learning with technology, is joining UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Education. He is one of six new tenure-line faculty members recruited to join Carolina this year.
Bernacki, who previously was an assistant professor in educational psychology and learning sciences programs in the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, joins Carolina’s learning sciences faculty.
“I’m looking forward to Dr. Bernacki joining our school,” said Dean Fouad Abd-El-Khalick. “We continue to build our strengths in the learning sciences, and we are confident he will contribute to that work right away — especially in the areas of big data and data analytics.”
Bernacki’s research has focused on students’ motivational and metacognitive processes when learning with technology. His work uses “digital traces” of learning events to model students’ self-regulation of learning and relations to achievement. A chapter describing methods of digitally tracing learning appeared in the latest “Handbook of Self-Regulated Learning and Performance.”
He also conducts research on the personalization of math instruction to students’ out-of-school interests. His recent scholarship on personalization appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of Experimental Education and in the March edition of the Journal of Educational Psychology.
Bernacki is the principal investigator of the National Science Foundation-funded “Learning Theory and Analytics as Guides to Improve Undergraduate STEM Education” project and serves as co-principal investigator on a recently awarded NSF S-STEM project at the UNLV School of Life Sciences. In each project, he leads efforts to develop students’ learning skills through the digital “Science of Learning to Learn” training program, and to develop behavior-based prediction models that use students’ activity in their learning management system course site to provide real time alerts to struggling students before they begin high-stakes exams.
Bernacki earned his Ph.D. in educational psychology in 2010 from Temple University. He also holds master’s degrees in experimental psychology from Saint Joseph’s University and social work from Temple University. He joined the UNLV faculty in 2013.
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Romanticism in Poland, a literary, artistic and intellectual period in the evolution of Polish culture, began around 1820, coinciding with the publication of Adam Mickiewicz's first poems in 1822. It ended with the suppression of the January 1863 Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1864. The latter event ushered in a new era in Polish culture known as Positivism.
Polish Romanticism, unlike Romanticism in some other parts of Europe, was not limited to literary and artistic concerns. Due to specific Polish historical circumstances, notably the partitions of Poland, it was also an ideological, philosophical and political movement that expressed the ideals and way of life of a large portion[which?] of Polish society subjected to foreign rule as well as to ethnic and religious discrimination.
Polish Romanticism had two distinct periods in terms of its literary forms: 1820–1832, and 1832–1864. In the first period, Polish Romantics were strongly influenced by other European Romantics. Their art featured emotionalism and irrationality, fantasy and imagination, personality cults, folklore and country life, and the propagation of ideals of freedom. The most famous writers of the period were Adam Mickiewicz, Seweryn Goszczyński, Tomasz Zan and Maurycy Mochnacki.
In the second period, many of the Polish Romantics worked abroad, often banished from Poland by the occupying powers due to their politically subversive ideas. Their work became increasingly dominated by the ideals of political struggle for freedom and their country's sovereignty. Elements of mysticism became more prominent. There developed the idea of the poeta wieszcz (the prophet). The wieszcz (bard) functioned as spiritual leader to the nation fighting for its independence. The most notable poet so recognized was Adam Mickiewicz. His famous verse epic Pan Tadeusz describes his love for the partitioned homeland and people of his native country:
"O Lithuania, my country, thou
Art like good health; I never knew till now
How precious, till I lost thee. Now I see
Thy beauty whole, because I yearn for thee."
(— Opening stanza of Pan Tadeusz, Kenneth R. Mackenzie translation)
Other notable Polish Romantic writers active abroad included Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński and Cyprian Kamil Norwid. A number of Romantics remained active in divided and occupied Poland, including Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Wincenty Pol, Władysław Syrokomla, and Narcyza Żmichowska. One of Polish Romanticism's unique qualities was its relation to and inspiration from Polish history from before the invasion. Polish Romanticism revived the old "Sarmatic" traditions of Polish nobility, the szlachta. Old traditions and customs were portrayed favourably in the Polish messianic movement and in the leading works of virtually all Polish national poets, most notably in Pan Tadeusz, but also in the epic works of prose writers including Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trylogia. This close connection between Polish Romanticism and the past became one of the defining qualities of the literature of Polish Romantic period, differentiating it from that of other countries who did not suffer the loss of statehood as was the case with Poland.
Romantic ideas informed not only literature but also painting and music. Polish Romantic painting is exemplified in the work of Artur Grottger, Henryk Rodakowski, or the equestrian master artist Piotr Michałowski (now at Sukiennice), and Jan Nepomucen Głowacki considered the father of Polish school of landscape painting, as well as the renowned historical painter Leopold Loeffler invited to Kraków by Matejko to teach the future luminaries of the Young Poland movement including Wyspiański, Tetmajer, Malczewski and Weiss among others. The music of Frédéric Chopin and Stanisław Moniuszko inspired the development of Polish Romantic movement in all fields of creative expression.
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Summer camp to focus on STEM activities
For Hub City Times
MARSHFIELD — STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) Scouts Summer Day Camp is open to the public in Marshfield, and children have the chance to work in teams, meet new friends, and perform hands-on STEM-related experiments.
The program will feature STEM activities in an outdoor setting. The camp is located at Wildwood Zoo in the Soo Line Room on Aug. 2 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. with early drop off starting at 7:30 a.m. Boys and girls in grades three-eight are eligible for the camp.
There will be separate activities for elementary and middle school participants. Lunch will be provided. Those interested can sign up at samoset.org/stem. For more information, contact Amanda Flannery at [email protected] or 715-355-1450, ext. 315.
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Do you feel like you’re just making it through day after grueling day of work while only barely keeping up with your bills? Maybe it’s time you considered a low stress job that pays well. They do exist, according to the fortunate folks who have discovered them.
Online salary database PayScale.com recently conducted a survey and asked workers about their stress levels at work. Those jobs considered “low stress” were rated as “a little stressful,” “not stressful” or “relaxing” by at least 40 percent of the respondents in the survey.
And, it turns out that many of these jobs pay well. The following are 10 well-paid, low stress gigs. We’ve included the requirements for getting started in these jobs and how much they pay per year, according to PayScale.com.
1. Biostatistician $86,000/year
If you’re a natural number cruncher and lover of science, biostatistics will keep you employed, well-funded and, apparently, happy. Most statistician jobs require a master’s degree and 30 percent of statisticians are employed by the government, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
2. Software Developer $70,000/year
Here’s a great job that’s expected to be in very high demand in the coming years, according to the BLS. Applicants with a bachelor’s degree or higher will have better job prospects and earnings. Obviously, some developer jobs are more stressful than others depending on the company you work for, but many developers attest that the low-stress gigs do exist.
3. Business Analyst, IT $69,000/year
As companies adopt more complicated technologies going forward, business analysts with IT skills will be in high demand. A bachelor’s degree will get you started, though a master’s will put you ahead of the competition.
4. Physical Therapist (PT) $69,000 /year
This gig puts you in direct contact with people and offers the satisfaction of helping others. Plus, it has great prospects for the future as demand for physical therapists is growing, according to the BLS. You must complete at least a master’s degree, pass a national exam and gain licensure in your state.
5. Mechanical Engineer $68,000/year
Mechanical engineers design industrial equipment and consumer products of all kinds. Perhaps being able to actually create something makes this job satisfying and lower in stress. You need a bachelor’s degree to enter the field.
6. Aircraft Pilot, Corporate Jet $64,000/year
While pilots who fly jumbo jets for major airlines or take military planes into enemy territory may feel a lot of stress, the pilots who fly corporate jets report little stress on the job. Getting this gig requires extensive training, thousands of hours of flight time and, increasingly, a bachelor’s degree.
7. Database Analyst $60,000/year
Database experts will be in very high demand through 2018, according to the BLS. Analysts help companies optimize how they store, organize, use and present data. A bachelor’s degree is common, though an associate’s degree, professional certifications and work experience may also get you a job.
8. Financial Analyst $59,000/year
Financial analysts advise people or companies on investment decisions. Their work can be very highly paid, depending on expertise and the size of the investments. A bachelor’s degree is required, as well as various professional certifications and licenses.
9. Technical Writer $56,000/year
A technical writer has a knack for making complicated topics easy to understand. The job requires a bachelor’s degree, ideally in communications, journalism and English, and it helps to have expertise in a technical topic. Job prospects here are good, especially when writing for the Web.
10. Internal Auditor $56,000/year
As business regulations become more stringent, internal auditors will be more in demand. An internal auditor checks to make sure that a company’s internal financial controls are working and looks for waste or fraud. The work requires a bachelor’s degree, at least, though a master’s degree and further certification improves earnings and job prospects.
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|User Experience Designer||$82,000||Bachelor’s|
|Risk Management Analyst||$63,000||Bachelor’s|
|Social Media Manager||$56,000||Bachelor’s|
|Web Content Editor||$52,000||Bachelor’s|
Source: All salary data is from PayScale.com. The salaries listed are median, annual salaries for full-time workers with 5-8 years of experience and include any bonuses, commissions or profit sharing. For updated salary information, see the Career Research Center.
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Is WordPress a tool that you have often wondered about? Perhaps it is a plaform you have used, but just on a surface level. If you have long wondered how to maximize your use of WordPress and get even more out of the experience, this article should prove extremely useful.
Make your theme current on your website to draw more traffic. Switch to a new theme that accentuates your colors and logos. Also, you may want to opt for a more professioanl theme if you are planning on showing your site off to a high volume of potential customers each day.
If you plan to start a WordPress blog, make sure that you offer readers more than just content. Even if you say many useful things, it may be quite difficult to engage readers with text. It would be a great idea to implement videos and pictures since this is a great attention grabber.
With WordPress you have lots of choices in themes so you can have a really good looking blog. Take plenty of time to peruse all of your choices so that you can select just the right one to suit your style and your topic. For a truly unique theme, select a premium theme. This will really help your blog stand out from the crowd.
Most templates come with a landing page built in, so make use of it. This stripped down page allows you to focus their intention on exactly what you want them to look at, be it a sign-up form or a “Buy Now” link. This ensures they take the actions you want them to.
Learn about WordPress before you install it. The more you plan, the better your results will be. Learn about SEO, creating effective content, and using WordPress and its many features to help ease your workflow.
Take out any special characters in the URLs of your blog entries. They can give search engines a hassle when trying to spider your site, so it is best if you remove them completely. You should also shorten all URLs so that they aren’t overwhelming to anyone coming to your site, so only include the key words.
Have an easy to find library. Time is money and you don’t need to check tons of folders to find one thing. It is easier to find things in your WordPress theme when everything is in one integrated folder. This makes searching through your Media Library much easier since it only involves inputting a keyword for what you’re looking for.
As you begin getting comments on your posts, consider allowing people to post with an avatar. It helps your site feel like more of a community, and it only takes a minute to do. Simply go to the settings area of your dashboard and then click on “discussion.” You should see the option there to enable avatars.
Your WordPress is nothing without plugins, and lucky for you, there are plenty to choose from. However, it is very important that you use caution when installing plugins and keep in mind that they aren’t disposable. You can uninstall them, but most of the time they will still affect your content and leave shortcodes behind.
When you are choosing a WordPress template to use, pick something that gets frequent updates. You do not want to use a template whose creator has abandoned updates because sometimes you have to address security issues. A creator who is proactive in updating his template will give you a better product.
Use images properly on your WordPress site. They can add everything from beauty to interest to your pages. Use their alternative text tags and title tags properly. Don’t settle for generic descriptions. You need to make them specific so that your visitors know exactly what they are. This also helps them figure out what your site is about.
Sticky the posts the you want to stay at the top of your page. If there are posts you want your visitors to see first, sticky them by going to the ‘visibility’ option on the ‘edit posts’ screen. Choose to sticky the selected messages to the first page, and that is it.
When searching for plugins, check their reviews. Keep in mind that plugins can be developed by virtually anyone able to write programs. You want to avoid downloading a plugin full of flaws and bugs. Plugins that have been downloaded in great volumes are generally safe.
Highlighting can come in handy, particularly when you are making note of an author’s comments. There are often concerns and questions in the comments. The author’s response to these comments can easily be missed, especially if there are many comments. Use a different color for the author’s comments. Finding them will be much easier this way.
Far too many people have merely scratched the surface of what WordPress is capable of doing for their online content presentations. The truth is that there are numerous features and tricks to learn that can make WordPress even more valuable than ever before. Hopefully your review of this article has pointed you in the right direction.
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THE LONG VIEW
Out of touch
THE JOKE FROM THE PINK PANTHER SHOULD be familiar. Inspector Clouseau sits beside a man and a dog. Clouseau smiles at the man and the dog. “Does your dog bite?” Clouseau asks the man. The man says, “No.” Clouseau pets the dog, which promptly bites him. Clouseau protests: “I thought you said your dog does not bite!” The man looks at Clouseau and the dog and says, “That is not my dog.”
Nature bit Southeast Asia when an earthquake in Taiwan cut several submarine cables, leading to a regional slowdown in Internet speeds, which we feel up to the present. Our government has hardly taken notice of the fact, as the man who witnessed Clouseau being bitten by a dog. Not even with a dry “but it’s not our fault.” Media and the telecom companies have reacted similarly – that is, they have hardly reacted at all.
In Singapore, angry letters were sent to the controlled press, expressing dissatisfaction with the government’s emergency response – shifting traffic from undersea cables to satellites. In Hong Kong, the Telecom Authority assumed emergency powers; in Indonesia, it was decreed that aid workers would have priority with regard to Internet usage. Last Saturday, Telekom Malaysia (TM) issued a thorough update on the causes for the Internet slowdown, its extent and how long it would last.
It then went on to look toward the future: “This episode has clearly pointed out how dependent the Asian countries are on these links and it has certainly persuaded many providers, TM included, to rethink our respective business continuity strategies for the future in view of the Pacific basin’s susceptibility to natural disasters.” Online, I’ve seen people point out US investment to prevent such a catastrophic scenario. India, too, has invested in many alternate routes so as to avoid being unduly dependent on a few cables.
At home, PLDT sent an informative e-mail to its Internet subscribers soon after the earthquake. It hasn’t sent any updates since – and certainly with nowhere near the detail in TM’s. A PLDT official did make soothing reassurances: the company is “doing their best.” A customer appreciates reassurances, but expects more than assurances based on faith. In the information age, the lack of information, even about things beyond a company’s control, only leads to suspicions that the company isn’t quite up to speed.
For example, it took an entry in a Singaporean blog to show that there’s a ray of sunshine on the horizon: a new submarine cable is in the works, and the Philippines is part of the consortium. The blogger, James Seng, says “the new 20,000 km Asia-America Gateway (AAG) is likely to follow the North Asia route … since the members include AiTi (Brunei), CAT Telekom (Thailand), PLDT (Philippines), REACH (Hong Kong), StarHub (Singapore) and VNPT (Vietnam) led by Telecom Malaysia (Malaysia).” This is good, because it provides another cable; it’s bad, Seng says, because it follows the path that has proven so troublesome – going through the regional earthquake belt.
An anonymous commenter proposed an alternate route: “A reasonable alternative route to the usual North Asia path would be SG or Malaysia or eastern Thailand, and then to either Philippines or Viet Nam, then to Guam and then to Hawaii, then over to North America. The fibre routes that transit Guam from east, west and south were not harmed by this incident. Although Guam looks small … lots of potential for traffic add/drop there because it is the western-most US territory in the mid-Pacific. Manila and Viet Nam also have a fair bit of add/drop potential, particularly southern parts of Viet Nam where the newest ‘tiger’ economy is booming.”
Now these are solutions in ordinary people’s blogs; but no forward-thinking seems to be emanating from Filipinos. For the tens of thousands of Filipinos gainfully employed – most of them young people who have been affected by the Taiwan earthquake – the only person who had anything to say was a foreigner: Peter Wallace, who in his Friday column focused on the call center industry: 150,000 employees over 120 call centers, he said, were affected, totally cut off from their clients on the day of the earthquake, with capacity still down by 40 percent three days after the quake.
Wallace pointed out how neighboring governments and telecom companies moved heaven and earth to restore the flow of data, or at least prioritize traffic so that businesses were less handicapped than they otherwise might have been. Some governments found their investments in existing submarine cables or telecom companies paying off, in terms of clout: they could shove aside countries (like the Philippines) which have no investments or other means to demand priority access to the pipelines.
This means, he said, that future expansion might be affected since the country wasn’t able to respond swiftly – in fact, it seemed to him it didn’t even respond at all. And he was just talking about the call center industry. There are others: medical transcriptionists, online tutors in English, Math and other subjects; editors, copy writers, animators, web designers, and so on.
We’re poised to finally play host to the Asean Summit in Cebu, which finally will allow the Queen City of the South to put its best foot forward. However an opportunity to do something tangible is going to be missed, because the only things government will be concentrating on are beautification and crowd management. The Philippines has a timely opportunity to make a call to action for a concerted effort to do something about the regional slowdown in Internet traffic, but our country won’t. It only shows how divorced our political situation is from reality, and how out of touch our leadership is from the modern world.
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The Sounder Sleep System is based on the discovery that specific small, slow, repeated physical movements can shift us from the active, waking state to a state of profound physical and mental repose. When we reach that tranquil state, if we need sleep, we will fall asleep.
I personally have found this work to be hugely beneficial not only to my sleep, but to my general level of anxiety and tension, and even to the specific issues I faced with the chronic hand tension that led me to Feldenkrais work in the first place. I honestly do not think I would have been able to beat the tendonitis and play again if it were not for the Sounder Sleep System.
Have you been having a harder time keeping a steady sleep schedule lately? You’re not alone! Insomnia has been on a steady rise in our culture for some time now, and has been a particular challenge for many since the pandemic began.
This online class will give you the skills to calm your nervous system throughout the day, and prepare you for restorative sleep at night.
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The American economic recovery continues to slow, stranding millions who have yet to find a new job after being thrown out of work by the coronavirus pandemic.
The latest evidence came Friday when the Labor Department reported that employers added 245,000 jobs in November, the fifth month in a row that the pace of hiring has tapered off. The figure for October was revised downward to 610,000, from the initially stated 638,000.
The unemployment rate in November was 6.7 percent, down from the previous month’s rate of 6.9 percent. But that figure does not fully capture the extent of the joblessness because it doesn’t include people who have dropped out of the labor force and are not actively searching for work.
By Ella Koeze·Unemployment rates are seasonally adjusted.·Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
November’s job totals were dragged down in part by the loss of 93,000 temporary census workers who are no longer needed now that the official counting has wound down.
More than half those knocked out of a job early in the pandemic have been rehired, but there are still roughly 10 million fewer jobs than there were in February. Many people in that group are weeks away from losing their unemployment benefits, as the emergency assistance approved by Congress last spring is set to expire at the end of the year.
“We’re in an unusual position right now in the economy,” said Ernie Tedeschi, an economist at the accounting firm Evercore ISI. “Far off in the distance there is sunlight” because of progress on a vaccine, he said, but until then, “we’re going to have a few of the toughest months of this pandemic, and there will be a lot of scars left to heal.”
The number of people who have been unemployed long-term is still rising
Share of unemployed who have been out of work 27 weeks or longer
By Ella Koeze·Data is seasonally adjusted.·Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Covid-19 caseloads have doubled in the past month, leading to new restrictions and…
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COLLEGE MATHEMATICS FOR BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, LIFE SCIENCES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 14E GE - RAYMOND BARNETT 9781292270494
TITLE : COLLEGE MATHEMATICS FOR BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, LIFE SCIENCES, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES - RAYMOND BARNETT / MICHEAL ZIEGLER
PUBLISHER : PEARSON (2019)
EDITION : 14TH GLOBAL EDITION PAPERBACK
PAGES : 1016 PAGES
For two-semester courses in Finite Math & Applied Calculus or Mathematics for Business.
College Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences, 14th Edition offers more built-in guidance than any other text for this course - with special emphasis on applications and prerequisite skills - and a host of student-friendly features to help students catch up or learn on their own. Its emphasis on helping students "get the idea" is enhanced in the new edition by a design refresh, updated data and applications.
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Placement for IT jobs has always been a challenge, even in the best of times. Cross border talent sourcing can seem downright impossible. There are companies springing up however, that are building a business model around connecting cross border talent with employers and project development clients. This is especially true for cross-border IT work between Mexico and the United States.
According to HSBC’s Economics and Equity Strategy Mexico Handbook, Mexico is the 12th largest economy in the world and the second largest in Latin America in terms of GDP, and is expected to be the eighth largest in the world in 2050. HSBC notes that “highly developed economic sectors offer competitive costs and Mexico has benefitted from large amounts of direct foreign investment, in the automotive, manufacturing, aviation, information technology and tourism.”
One company, Intugo, which recently rebranded from Vangtel Nearshore Solutions, cites data furnished by theNational Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) and the National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES), which states that over 745,000 students – 30% of the country’s total university population– were enrolled in STEM (engineering and technology) courses, which yield some 115,000 graduates every year.
In a statement HSBC said, “Rising labor costs in China, and escalating distribution costs from East to West, are driving firms to re-look at production possibilities closer to home. With its wide network of Free Trade Agreements, competitive costs and its strategic geographic location to large markets, Mexico is re-emerging as an attractive trade hub.”
Intugo describes itself as a connector. Under its business model, companies establish a near-shore software development or tech support operation and have total control of it—in Intugo’s facilities, operational support and human resources support. Clients benefit from modern facilities that are company owned or long term leased from Hermosillo and Obregon in the state of Sonora and Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco. The client’s operation is theirs to manage and run as they see fit—all with Intugo support services.
What sets Intugo apart from the competition is the level of control that clients have over nearshore Mexican operations. The client company is able to protect intellectual property, maintain their business culture and run their operation as they see fit. “Many small and midsize companies in different industries now can enter the Mexico market as if they were a Fortune 500 company,” Marketing manager Larry Carlson said. That means that the employees in the near-sourced operation become part of the company’s culture and processes, providing a seamless experience for customers and staff.
Carlson explains, “Let’s say company X in Silicon Valley has had enormous difficulty getting PhP senior level mid-level talent so they are looking for options. They could choose insourcing, US-based, near shore or offshore. By choosing Intugo, they can benefit from a 50% saving, because they will have hiring control and screen these folks with our help plus their Mexican operation retains the corporate culture look and feel of that company.”
Carlson emphasizes that the IT market has been consolidating in Guadalajara. “We have noticed in particular a growing trend for new operations for INC 500 companies. There is ample talent in Guadalajara as big players have set up key resource centers as well: Microsoft, Dell, HP, IBM,” he said.
Mexico is a good fit for US companies because of its proximity, similar time zones and, for the most part, cultural and linguistic similarities. Intugo ensures that the talent specifications meet the client needs, so if English fluency is paramount, only candidates with those skills will be provided as options.
Carlson says that Mexican government is committed to growing its nearshore industries. There are a number of coding campuses in Guadalajara. “Engineering graduates become engineers, graduate and either start businesses or look for unique companies that have that entrepreneurial spirit. This mirrors what our needs are in US-based companies. The talent managing these enterprises is looking for the same,” he said.
Mexico is continuing to put resources into the IT and engineering industries. In fact, Silicon Valley has had Guadalajara on the radar for years and Guadalajara is often described as the Silicon Valley of Mexico. Intugo has seen a great deal of venture capital and private money flowing into Mexico to capitalize on this over the past few years. “The innovation and technology are coming together. Start-ups are growing in Mexico. You can compare what’s happening there with what happened in Silicon Valley.”
Carlson is quick to point out that technology has played a role in enabling the kind of remote operations that Intugo specializes in. “With all of the new tech, with the cloud, what we don’t talk enough about is how easy it is to manage a remote operation using the cloud,” he said.
“We created something called an accelerator, which has made it possible now for small and mid-sized companies to start their own operation in Mexico with just a few people and be up and running in 30 to 45 days.” Carlson adds that it is an affordable solution, giving small business the opportunity to tap into Mexican talent and save 50% on software development.
While outsourcing, even to the near-shore, is not without its controversy and companies are often criticized for taking jobs away from America, Intugo has a different business model than BPO; operating more as a nearshore branch-office facilitator that provides packaged real-estate, staffing, and support services.
“By achieving their goals with their mobile deployment and software development, companies are able to achieve what they need to do to be competitive and expand their business with Latin America and Mexico as the solution. Many companies are doing it. It’s a global economy,” says Carlson, who is confident that the Mexican wave is still going. “We expect double-digit growth annually at least for the next few years.” Carlson further expects niche markets to develop and industries such as mobile development and animation to thrive.
This story was originally appeared on NSAM’s sister publication Global Delivery Report
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The Kem Weber papers span 54 linear feet and date from circa 1920 to circa 1959. The collection contains correspondence in
the form of telegrams and handwritten notes, Weber’s published articles, newspapers and magazine clippings regarding his work,
black-and-white photographs of his projects, negatives (including glass plate negatives), small design sketches, presentations
boards for buildings, interiors, furniture, and household objects; and architectural drawings and reprographic copies. Some
of his more notable projects are: the Walt Disney Studios, the Zachos Department Store (1939), the David Grey residence (1953),
Barker Brothers Department Store, the Bixby residence (1935-1937), Union Oil Stations, as well as many other projects.
The architect and designer Karl Emanuel Martin Weber was born in Berlin, Germany in 1889. In 1904, Weber entered the workshop
of the royal cabinet maker Eduard Schulz in Potsdam, where he learned the craft of furniture design and production. After
graduating in 1907, he went on to the Royal Academy of Applied Arts in Berlin where he studied under architect and designer
Bruno Paul. From 1911 to 1913, Weber worked in Paul’s private studio and in 1914 was recommended by him to help design the
German section of the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Weber traveled to San Francisco to oversee the construction
of the exhibit. He remained in the United States and established a practice as a designer and architect in 1919, first in
Santa Barbara, and later in Los Angeles. Until 1924 he was the Art Director for Barker Brothers, a large furniture store in
Los Angeles. His work was included in the International Exposition of Art in Industry at Macy’s department store in New York
City, and by 1930 he was one of America’s best known industrial designers. Weber is known for the "Airline" chair of 1934
and known for being the designer of the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Weber taught at the University of Southern
California and at The Art Center School, based at that time in Los Angeles. Weber died in 1963.
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1.C.70 The Streptococcal Pore-forming CAMP Factor (CAMP-F) Family
Streptococcus pyogenes, S. agalastiae, S. uberis and S. canis contain related pore-forming toxins called CAMP factors. They are about 255 aas long and have a single N-terminal TMS. The S. pyogenes and S. agalactiae homologues are 60% identical. CAMP factors are hemolytic and form discrete transmembrane oligomeric pores with diameters of about 1.6 nm. Electron microscopy reveals circular membrane lesions of heterogeneous sizes, up to 12-15 nm in diameter (Lang and Palmer, 2003). The toxin allows the passive diffusion of small molecules across the membrane. Toxic activity depends on the presence of sphingomyelin (50%, 20% and 19% in sheep, human and rabbit red blood cells, respectively).
The structure of this toxin has been determined, revealing a structural fold composed of 5 + 3-helix bundles. The N-terminal 5-helix bundle is responsible for membrane permeabilization, whereas the C-terminal 3-helix bundle is likely responsible for host receptor binding. The C-terminal domain inhibited the activity of both full-length toxin and its N-terminal domain. The linker region is highly conserved and has a conserved DLXXXDXAT sequence motif. This linker region interacted with both terminal CAMP factor domains, and mutagenesis disclosed that the conserved sequence motif is required for CAMP factor's co-hemolytic activity (Jin et al. 2018).
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This is the second time the Malawian government has prevented a precious stone from being exported.
Malawi halts exportation of ‘precious stone’ to China
Malawi has stopped the export of “a precious stone” to China because it was sold below true value.
The Chinese said that they were exporting the precious stone to China for “analysis”.
The sale of the precious stone was approved for sale at two million kwacha ($2,500) last week by some government officials. It was due to be exported to China this week.
The Minister for Mines Rashid Gaffar in an interview with the BBC said he ordered for the halt of the shipping because he did not believe a stone, for which two Chinese nationals were fined seven million kwacha ($8,800) when trying to export it two years ago, could be sold for less than the fine.
“All I want is for an investigation to be carried out to ascertain if officials in my ministry sold the stone for a price that represents its true value,” the minister said.
Below is a video of the stone in a shipping container.
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An autonomous shuttle will transport passengers around Harwell Science and Innovation Campus during a one-year trial funded by the UK Space Agency and European Space Agency (ESA) ~ The service will help to demonstrate how self-driving vehicles operate in a real-world setting, with data transmitted via O2’s 4G and 5G networks and Hispasat’s satellites ~ The electric shuttle emits zero CO2, showing how the future of public transportation can be both autonomous and green.
A fully autonomous passenger shuttle service has began trials at Harwell Campus, Science Minister George Freeman has announced.
The new service is being trialled by Darwin Innovation Group, with support from ESA and the UK Space Agency. An autonomous shuttle will transport passengers around Harwell Campus, home to some of the UK’s most innovative companies and research organisations.
The shuttle, created by Navya, uses LiDAR sensors, cameras and ultrasound sensors to navigate safely around any obstacles. It also features a satellite (GNSS) antenna for positioning. There is no steering wheel, but it does have safety controls, which will be managed by an on-board operator throughout the trial.
Darwin will maintain and monitor the service, tracking the shuttle’s location and gathering information about its operation as it travels. Telematics data will be transmitted from the shuttle in real time using Hispasat’s satellite communication channels and O2’s 4G and 5G networks.
The use of satellite communications in this trial is significant. In previous trials, autonomous vehicles have relied on terrestrial Wi-Fi to stay connected. By making use of satellites in addition to 4G and 5G, autonomous vehicles can operate even in rural or remote areas that may not yet have complete terrestrial coverage.
This shuttle service will help demonstrate the potential of self-driving vehicles to operate in a real-world setting, serving as a step towards the wider use of this technology in the UK. Similar Navya shuttles have been used in an urban setting in Switzerland and have safely transported tens of thousands of passengers.
The shuttle, which is battery powered, shows that the future of public transportation can be green as well as autonomous. The potential to transport passengers while emitting zero carbon, if put in place more widely, could help the UK towards its emission targets.
Science Minister George Freeman said: “Until now autonomous vehicles have relied on terrestrial Wi-Fi, which means they can struggle to operate in remote and rural areas. By unlocking the power of space and satellite technology, these shuttles can stay connected all the time.
“Our National Space Strategy promises to put space technology at the heart of our efforts to make the UK a science and innovation superpower. Autonomous vehicle technology has huge applications in key industries, and the UK is committed to lead in adoption as well as technological innovation.”
The shuttle service has already created new jobs at the campus: shuttle safety operators and shuttle mechanics. The people working with the shuttle will be able to share their experience with technology colleges and help improve the available courses.
The autonomous shuttle service operates at Harwell Science Campus during weekdays, morning to evening. It travels two routes, one along Fermi Avenue and one along Eighth Avenue, with the ESA building being the central stop for both routes. There is no cost to ride the shuttle, which is currently available to campus pass-holders and registered guests of pass-holders.
Stuart Grant, Chief Executive at Harwell Science Campus, said: “At Harwell, we’ve created a scale-up ecosystem that promotes collaboration, multidisciplinary innovation and the creation of smart technology. We’re delighted to be able to support campus-based Darwin with the launch and operation of this next-generation autonomous shuttle. The Harwell shuttle will transport over 6,000 employees around the campus, showcasing the future of travel and urban mobility.”
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Economic espionage should not only concern nation-states; any company, regardless of size, is at risk of losing intellectual property to attackers and rivals. What can enterprises do to defend against these attacks?
Ransomware has already raked in around US$209 million from enterprises alone in the first quarter of 2016. Unfortunately, it's just one of the many possible threat types that exploit kits can deliver to vulnerable systems.
Cybercrime as a service (CaaS) in Deep Web forums puts cybercriminal tools and services in the hands of more threat actors, including ones that target large enterprise networks. This is a matter that IT administrators need to be ready for.
Relying on a social network site’s privacy settings is just the start, but there are other ways your personal information can leak out. Addressing these potential privacy risks can help you protect your data.
Unlike the generations before them, the kids of today are more connected to the Internet, and have access to an unimaginable wealth of knowledge just by tapping on a screen. But in reality, the Internet isn’t all that child-friendly.
As you spend more time online—whether you’re sharing your thoughts, photos, stories, or simply browsing pages—you reveal more data than you think. Your normal browsing activities can actually become the very thing that violates your own privacy.
Are you a digital hoarder? Unnecessary files can strain on your computer’s memory. But there are ways to rid your life of digital clutter. You can start by taking account of those things you use to access and exchange digital information.
If you think how you’re using your mobile device is secure enough, you may want to reconsider. You may be guilty of doing things that are jeopardizing your own security every time you're on your tablet or smartphone.
Getting a new computer or smartphone is always exciting, but do you know what to do with your old one? Remember that the information stored in your old devices can still be recovered, and can compromise security.
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Written By: Nick Todorovic and Brock Turville, Student-at-Law
Every driver should be vigilant of cyclists on the road, whether driving in a bustling downtown core or in a quieter suburban neighbourhood. Failing to signal or check your blind spot and mirrors, even once, could lead to tragic consequences.
As reported by Ontario Public Health, although the injury and fatality rates have been decreasing for those inside vehicles, that has not happened for vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians and cyclists. The City and province are taking some steps to educate drivers and cyclists on their rights and obligations, but more progress must be made. A sound understanding of applicable laws and the right of way can help further reduce the number of cyclists getting struck down and killed each year.
Keeping a proper lookout
Some drivers do not see cyclists at all before impact, remaining entirely oblivious to their presence. Yet cyclists do not appear out of nowhere.
A reasonable driver monitors the space around them through continuous mirror and shoulder checks, both before and during any turn or maneuver. A reasonable and attentive driver knows that the traffic around them could change at any moment and adapts to those changes (just because the road was clear does not mean it will be 10 seconds later). A reasonable and defensive driver anticipates that a cyclist may appear “out of nowhere” and is ready to react.
These attitudes should prevail amongst motorists due to cyclist vulnerability. When pitted against a three thousand pound vehicle, cyclists may lose their life while the driver may sustain a small dent on their car. Instead of viewing cyclists as being “in the way”, understand that cyclists under the law have just as much of a right to be on the roadway as you do.
One of the most problematic occurrences in the city is when drivers turn right across bike lanes. Another common maneuver that leads to collisions is left-hand turns in front of cyclists travelling in the opposite direction. Some cycling trails in downtown Toronto, including the off-street multi-use trails on Queens Quay, are high-collision areas where some drivers turn left or right into the paths of oncoming cyclists.
There is a misconception that drivers cannot enter a bike lane before turning right and that these lanes are solely for cyclists. This is wrong. Whether a driver can enter a bike lane before a turn and who has the right of way depends on the type of bike lane and any applicable signage.
Types of bike lanes
- Bike lanes with dashed white lines
A dashed white line leading up to the intersection means a driver can fully enter the bike lane before turning when it is safe to do so. Safe to do so means when they can enter the lane without impeding the flow of cyclists coming from behind. The same concept of changing car lanes applies. A cyclist ahead of the vehicle is entitled to maintain the lane. The cyclist approaching a right turning vehicle from behind has two options: wait behind the vehicle or pass on the left-hand side when it is safe.
- Bike lanes with solid white lines extending to the intersection
A solid white line means cyclists have the right of way. Motorists must yield and may not enter the bike lane until the way is clear and they can safely turn into the opposing lane. This applies to bike lanes with a solid white line that extends to the intersection. Put simply, drivers should not cross or enter the portion of the bike lane with a solid white line. These solid white lines transition to dashed white lines at intersections. This dashed portion is where drivers are permitted to cross the bike lane and complete their turn. Before doing so, motorists must yield to cyclists passing through the intersection on their right and should take care not to block the path of cyclists before completing their turn.
- Shared right turn bike lanes
These lanes can be confusing for drivers and cyclists. Most people do not know how they work.
Motorists that intend to turn right at these shared turn lanes should enter the green paint before the turn, preferably as far back as possible. This allows time to straighten out and to avoid making a sharp turn across the entire lane. Motorists may enter the bike lane only when it is safe to do so and the lane is clear of cyclists. Vehicles turning right should “hug” the curb as far to the right as possible so that cyclists can pass on the driver’s side.
Cyclists travelling through the intersection follow the “sharrow” marking on the left hand side of the bike lane, which is considered far safer and prevents cyclists from getting “right hooked” by vehicles.
The Toronto Star monitored activity at this intersection for two hours and identified 609 infractions by drivers and cyclists. Many road users do not fully understand how these lanes work. Be patient and be prepared to yield.
Below is a diagram of how these lanes operate in theory:
Watch this video to see how these lanes work in practice.
- Bike boxes
Bike boxes are designated spaces for cyclists to stop in front of vehicles at a red light. Drivers must stop at the stop line behind the bike box. Vehicles are not permitted to stop within the bike box or turn right on a red light. When the light turns green, cyclists are entitled to proceed first.
“Sharrows” or no bike lanes
On roads with “sharrows”, motorists may only pass cyclists if there is a 1-metre clearance. Drivers who fail to keep a 1-metre distance when passing cyclists face a fine of $110 and up to $500 and 2 demerit points if they choose to contest the charge and are subsequently convicted. If there is not enough room to pass, keep a safe distance behind cyclists.
Stopping and parking in or near bike lanes
It is illegal for most vehicles to stop or park in a marked bike lane. The fine for doing so is $150. Exemptions include ambulances, police or fire service vehicles (or any other vehicle responding to an emergency), loading or unloading of disabled persons from a Wheel-Trans vehicle, or vehicles actively engaged in public works (such as utilities works). Transit/school buses and taxis are also permitted to stop in bike lanes while loading and unloading passengers.
Drivers and their passengers must take extra caution when exiting a vehicle near a bike lane to avoid “dooring” passing cyclists. Drivers could face a fine of $365 and 3 demerit points or up to $1,000 and 3 demerit points if they choose to contest a “dooring” charge and are subsequently convicted.
To avoid dooring cyclists, you should perform the “Dutch Reach” when exiting your vehicle.
With all of that said, bike lanes were meant and do reduce injuries and death to cyclists. But they only work when people use them correctly and they are properly designed and repaired. Not all drivers or cyclists are aware of who is entitled to go first. If there is confusion, it is often best to be patient, remain calm, and yield to cyclists even if you have the right of way. Drivers should ensure they signal, check all mirrors and blind spots, and keep a proper lookout for cyclists travelling in all directions. Always scan for cyclists as you approach an intersection and be prepared to slow down or stop at any time.
Equipped with this knowledge, it is hoped that drivers and cyclists will be able to travel safely and free from harm.
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Household spending on food, non-alcoholic beverages above EU avg
In 2019, households in Hungary spent 17.3% of their total consumption expenditure on food and non-alcoholic beverages, according to data released by statistical agency Eurostat.
In the EU as a whole, household spending on food and non-alcoholic beverages reached EUR 956 billion in 2019, accounting for 13% of total consumption expenditure. This made food and non-alcoholic beverages the third-largest category of household expenditure after housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels, which accounted for 23.5% of household expenditure, and transport (13.1%).
The share of expenditure on food and non-alcoholic beverages was higher than 20% in Romania (26%), and Lithuania (20.2%). The third highest share was registered in Estonia (19.3%).
In contrast, the share was less than 10% in three member states: Ireland (8.6%), Luxembourg (8.9%), and Austria (9.7%).
Food expenditure in Hungary up between 2009 and 2019
Between 2009 and 2019, the share of total household expenditure on food fell or remained stable in most member states. However, there were seven EU members which registered an increase over the period. The largest increase was recorded in the Czech Republic (from 14.2% in 2009 to 15.5% in 2019, +1.3 pp), followed by Slovakia (+1.1 pp), Hungary (+0.5 pp), and the Netherlands (+0.4 pp).
The largest decrease was recorded in Lithuania (from 25.4% in 2009 to 20.2% in 2019, -5.2 pp), followed by Malta (-3.5 pp) and Poland (-3 pp).
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STEP 2. CHOOSE CERTIFICATION SYSTEM
Determine whether the project will pursue green building certification through LEED or an alternative third-party rating system. Consider the following when choosing a certification strategy:
• Approved non-LEED rating systems must include review by an IAF-accredited third-party certifier, to the standards listed in the prerequisite requirements. Rating systems that have third-party accreditation in alignment with the IAF standards listed, but not accredited by those specific standards, should seek additional guidance before the review process.
• If the local government has requirements for using a particular approved green building certification system, investigate whether the same certification system would be eligible for LEED ND.
• Even if the local regulations require a different rating system, teams may wish to pursue LEED certification for this credit to maintain consistency in third-party certification across the LEED ND application. Additionally, single-building projects will automatically be awarded points for their location in a LEED ND neighborhood, which may further streamline documentation.
• See Further Explanation, Using Non-LEED Green Building Rating Systems
Further Explanation> USING NON-LEED GREEN BUILDING RATING SYSTEMS
Non-LEED green building rating systems should be comprehensive in nature encompassing multiple categories of evaluation, documentation for evaluation methodology and stated rating system outcomes . The certification entities of any green building rating system used to demonstrate prerequisite compliance must have a documented quality system that covers aligns with the following elements of ISO/IEC Guide 65 or 17065:
• Initial and continuing training of personnel
• Periodic (usually annual) assessment of staff performance
• Confidentiality controls
• Conflict-of-interest statement
• Organizational chart
• Roles and responsibilities and/or job descriptions
• Document control
• Internal audit
• Management review
• Financial stability
Projects that align with the elements of ISO/IEC Guide 65 or 17065, but that are not accredited by the standard may still be eligible. In these instances, projects should submit a narrative describing how the rating system meets the ISO/IEC Guide 65 or 17065 standards. Consult the full text of either standard for additional information. This requirement applies to both U.S. and non- U.S. projects.
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War reveals the true story of what our country has faced since that fateful Tuesday in 2001. Featuring 223 photographs, insightful vignettes and three thought-provoking major essays, War is a powerful collaborative effort from VII, a cutting-edge photo agency cooperatively owned by nine elite photojournalists. The three full-length essays, written by eminent journalists Peter Maass, Remy Ourdan and David Rieff, discuss the three major crises of the twenty-first century from a social, political and militaristic standpoint and further illuminate the powerful photographic images in War. The photographers of VII-Christopher Anderson, Alexandra Boulat, Lauren Greenfield, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and John Stanmeyer-are used to witnessing, up close and in person, events of international turmoil. That is the duty of a photojournalist-to bear witness and to document history-and few would dispute that these photojournalists are the world’s very best. In addition to documenting the experience of 9/11, War takes an incisive look at the images from Afghanistan and the hunt for Osama bin Laden, as well as the airstrikes and US occupation of Iraq. In War, the photographers of VII have created a shockingly intimate portrait of US foreign policy and the most critical moments of American history in the beginning of the twenty-first century. What you see here will stun you. War has received the Picture of the Year Best Photography Book, the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers Selected Book, the Photo District News Best Book Selection and the Independent Publisher Awards Best Current Events.
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A series of scathing reports from Canada’s climate watchdog have laid bare decades of failure to reduce emissions, with the current government tarred with “policy incoherence” across several files.
Used by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development Jerry DeMarco to describe Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s major initiatives, like the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline and Onshore Emissions Reduction Fund, “policy incoherence” is, in this case, a euphemism for policies that undermine long-term climate goals.
The Trans Mountain expansion would nearly triple capacity for the pipeline stretching from Edmonton to Burnaby, helping to facilitate increased production in the oilsands. Meanwhile, the emissions reduction fund was so poorly designed that it amounts to little more than a fossil fuel subsidy that may have actually increased emissions, the commissioner found.
DeMarco compared Ottawa’s climate policy to pushing a boulder up a hill, and said policies like those supporting the fossil fuel sector run counter to the goal.
“When departments are then pushing up the hill … there's other departments pushing on the other side of the rock pushing it back down, that's essentially what's happening,” he said.
The federal government under Trudeau’s watch famously declared a climate emergency and then approved the Trans Mountain pipeline the next day from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion to ensure the expansion’s construction. Though the official price tag for the project has swollen from $5.4 billion to $12.6 billion, some have calculated that with continued delays and increased insurance costs, it is likely approaching $20 billion.
A growing chorus of international energy forecasts says there is no room for any new fossil fuel development in a world that holds global warming to the Paris Agreement target of 1.5 C, and that oil demand will decline in every scenario. But as recently as this month, Trudeau said it’s important for Canada to make money off its oil and gas sector as part of his justification for following through on the pipeline’s construction. Ottawa has repeatedly said the pipeline’s revenue will be deployed to environmentally friendly projects.
However, a cost-benefit analysis from Simon Fraser University earlier this year found there “is no likely scenario in which (the Trans Mountain expansion project) will generate a net benefit to Canada.” Rather, the net cost is expected to range from $8.3 billion to $18.5 billion, with the “base case assumptions” projecting a loss of $11.9 billion to Canadians.
The “federal government is relying on years-old talking points about Trans Mountain that just don't match the science or economics,” said climate advocacy group 350 Canada’s Cam Fenton.
“It's becoming increasingly clear that the government doesn't have an answer for this incoherence and that threatens to undermine their entire climate agenda."
“We asked for the data on how much value for money are you getting, what is the dollar cost per job saved, for example, and they can't show us that … because they aren't tracking that,” says climate watchdog Jerry DeMarco.
Government messaging around the onshore emissions reduction fund has similarly not held up to scrutiny. The fund was started with the purpose of helping oil and gas companies reduce emissions while remaining economically competitive. DeMarco’s findings, however, show the majority of companies that tapped the fund said it would increase fossil fuel production, and that some of the emissions targeted by the funding were already covered by other programs, leading to the risk of double counting. In other words, it was a cash handout to the oil and gas industry.
DeMarco said his primary interest was its impact on emissions, but the government said there were other objectives around investments and job retention and suggested he take a more “holistic” approach. DeMarco says he asked for data and the government couldn’t provide it.
“We asked for the data on how much value for money are you getting, what is the dollar cost per job saved, for example, and they can't show us that … because they aren't tracking that,” he said.
“They have to be able to say to taxpayers: We've gathered the $600 (million) to $700 million from the tax base of Canada, we're redistributing it to the fossil fuel industry, (and) here's the value you're going to get out of that. There just can't be assertions that there will be emissions reductions, or job retention, or investment, there needs to be data to back that up,” he said.
Not being able to track stated goals “goes contrary to the basics of performance management in government,” DeMarco said.
DeMarco makes several recommendations in his report covering the past 30 years of Canada missing climate targets. Among them are calls to centralize responsibility for climate change with the federal government, diversifying energy production to lower the risk of stranded assets, protecting workers and communities from any harmful impacts of a transition to a clean economy, developing a national energy strategy, and improving transparency.
Environmental Defence senior program manager Julia Levin called the report “a scathing indictment of a failure of leadership put in gentler words.”
“A huge part of why they're not wearing this as much as they should be — why they can get away with continuing these big policy decisions that make fighting climate change even harder … is because they know they're not being closely watched,” she said.
Still, Levin said the Liberal Party is starting to pay the price for dragging its heels as the climate crisis continues to barrel down on Canadians.
“Twice in a row they weren't given a majority government,” she said.
Speaking with reporters, Climate Minister Steven Guilbeault acknowledged Canada has been poor at policy implementation but said since 2015, the federal government has been making progress.
“We have to do more, and in the last election, Canadians told us very clearly: We want you to do more and to do it faster when it comes to climate change. And that’s certainly a message that I’ve taken at heart and so has the rest of our government and the prime minister,” he said.
Opposition climate critics were quick to weigh in.
In a statement, NDP environment critic Laurel Collins challenged the idea that since Trudeau took office, progress has been made, highlighting that, unlike its G7 peers, Canada’s total emissions are still growing, its per-capita emissions are the highest in the world, and the country ranks in the top 10 for countries that have contributed the most to climate change since the Industrial Revolution.
“While Mr. Trudeau pretends to be a climate leader, he continues to give big oil and gas billions in fossil fuel subsidies,” she said.
The Conservative Party’s shadow ministers for climate, natural resources, and official languages, MPs Dan Albas, Michelle Rempel Garner, and Alain Rayes, respectively, also issued a joint statement, taking a swing at the federal government.
“The finding that the Natural Resources Canada’s Emissions Reduction Fund was so poorly designed that the funding may have actually led to an increase in carbon emissions is ridiculous. We urgently need policies that incent the continued development of low-carbon energy and carbon reduction,” the statement read.
Green Party parliamentary leader Elizabeth May told Canada’s National Observer that confronting the climate crisis requires leadership from the top to encourage a genuine whole-of-government approach.
“Clearly, there's something wrong when you look at 30 years of failure,” she said, adding, “the failure to have the response to climate be seen as a whole-of-government responsibility is, I think, key.”
May described how U.S. President Joe Biden tapped former secretary of state John Kerry, who signed the Paris Agreement on the U.S.’s behalf, to be a special climate envoy and sit on the National Security Council.
“It's a very different approach than Justin Trudeau saying, ‘Here's your new environment minister and he's going to fix it all,’” May said.
“The environment minister should not be in charge of the climate crisis file. No one minister should unless it's the prime minister. This requires leadership.”
John Woodside / Local Journalism Initiative / Canada's National Observer
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It’s taken over a hundred years of sustained advocacy to bring the issues of women empowerment into the zeitgeist. As Melinda Gates has so eloquently said in her magnum opus ‘The Moment of Lift’: “When you lift up women, you lift up everybody – families, communities, entire countries…”. It really is in all of our interests to lift women up. When we empower women to truly strive to fulfill all of their potentials, we unlock a vast untapped treasure trove that for so long has been ignored, but now can be deployed to great effect in our societies. Not to mention, the personal fulfillment and meaning that is on offer to women who have never had the opportunity to express themselves fully in the working world.
This empowerment doesn’t just happen though. It can’t just be some marketing-speak that pays lip service to the social progress that we’re in the process of making. It has to come down to the gritty decisions we make every day to give women the tools they need to break the patterns of the past. When there is a lack of role models, a lack of a well-worn path – we need to do everything within our power to support and nurture those who seek more than what society has offered them up until this point.
It starts with coaching. In every sphere of life, the best of the best have coaches who nurture development, provide accountability, stress discipline, and much more. Women empowerment is no different. Coaching is extremely important for personal and professional development because it provides the support structure that an ambitious career so desperately needs.
This coaching comes in two different pillars:
- Personal and Professional Development: To compete in the labor force of today, you need to be constantly upskilling yourself to keep up with the speed of change in the modern world. It’s not enough to rest on your laurels, consistent personal and professional development is required in the skills that matter for your chosen industry. A coach is invaluable here because they have walked down that road before and can be your guide as you take on new skills and seek to develop the strengths you already possess. This is even more important for women because of the glass ceiling they still face in so many contexts. Your skills need to be razor-sharp and the only way you get there is through great coaching.
- Leadership Coaching: Once you’ve got the skills, you then need to be able to lead people in order to truly maximize what you’re capable of. For women, who have been looked over for decades now, leadership coaching can be an absolute superpower to train the softer skills that are needed to successfully lead teams and organizations. Again, without any role models to look up to, coaching fills that gap and can transfer learned expertise to boost women who strive to be at the top.
We have to put our money where our mouth is and stand with the brave women who fight stereotypes, glass ceilings, societal expectations, and the insecurities that come with going first. We must stand with them because they form the bedrock of our families and communities. The way we do this is by giving these warriors the coaching and professional development that they need to upskill themselves and gain the confidence to unleash what they’re truly capable of. If we get it right, it might just be the most important social progress of our civilization because, harking back to Melinda Gates’ quote at the beginning – lifting women uplifts everyone up.
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The Michaëlle Jean Coat of Arms
Just prior to her installation as Governor General, Jean was granted a personal coat of arms that depicted her Haitian roots.
The shield shows a sand dollar, a special talisman for Jean, and the Crown symbolising her viceregal authority. The shell in a broken chain refers to Albert Mangonès' sculpture in Port-au-Prince, Marron Inconnu, which depicts an escaped slave blowing a seashell to call to arms his fellow enslaved people; this symbolises Jean's ancestors' escape from slavery.
The two Simbis are water spirits in Haitian culture, who, by legend, calm rough seas and give wisdom; they stand in before a rocky terrain upon which are rooted a palm tree — a Haitian symbol of peace — and a pine tree — representative of the natural riches of Canada.
The motto Briser les solitudes, which means "Breaking down solitudes," is at the heart of the objectives Michaëlle Jean intends to follow.
Michaëlle Jean delivers tearful statement on Haiti, 13 Jan 2010
I love real life inspirational stories. Which is why I wrote this hub about a little-known role model of our time.
What is most striking about Madame Jean is her luminous beauty. A media darling, she is stylish and poised in every picture, charismatic and classy, not a hair out of place. And a radiant smile that warms the heart.
Yes, the camera loves her. Which also might have worked against her. "More glamour than substance at Rideau Hall" may be a common sentiment toward her governor general career.
When Prime Minister Paul Martin chose Quebec reporter/broadcaster Michaëlle Jean for the position in 2005, he described her as "a woman of talent and achievement. Her personal story is nothing short of extraordinary. And extraordinary is precisely what we seek in a governor generalship — who after all must represent all of Canada to all Canadians and to the rest of the world as well."
Born in Port-au-Prince September 6, 1957, she fled Haiti in 1968 to escape the regime of dictator François Duvalier and came to Quebec, Canada as a refugee. Jean received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Italian and Hispanic languages and literature from the University of Montreal, and, from 1984 to 1986, taught Italian studies while completing her Master of Arts degree in comparative literature. She then went on with language and literature studies at the University of Florence, the University of Perugia, and the Catholic University of Milan. Besides French and English, Jean is fluent in Spanish, Italian, and Haitian Creole, and can read Portuguese. She married French-born, Canadian filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond, and the couple adopted as their daughter Marie-Éden, an orphaned child from Jacmel, Haiti.
Despite low popularity ratings early in her tenure, 58% of Canadians think she has done a good or excellent job according to a Harris Decima poll in May 2010. Nearly half believe Prime Minister Harper should reappoint her for another two years.
Prof. Peter Russell, a constitutional expert at the University of Toronto, called Jean a “superb” Governor General. “Ninety five per cent or more of her time is spent representing Canadians to themselves, and she represents, it seems to me, so much that’s great about this country, and has done it intelligently, eloquently and beautifully,” he said.
Fortunately for Canada the timing of her appointment was dead on. She was the perfect host to the first African-American President. And of course who can forget her tearful statement of the Haiti earthquake devastation -- we couldn't help but cry along with her because we know genuine sorrow when we see it. These are rare historical moments we thank her for.
We must give credit where credit is due, as one newspaper wrote:
Whether championing the cause of female victims of violence, seeking to get children involved in the arts, or raising awareness of the plight of the Haitian people, as governor-general, Ms. Jean embodied the adage "the personal is political." She took her job to heart -- and opened her heart to Canada. In return, her country did the same.
In her farewell speech on September 29 , 2010, an emotional Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean was given a 21-gun salute during her final appearance before the Canadian Forces as their commander in chief.
She spoke at length with many of the soldiers in line, even hugging one. Throughout her five years in the post, Jean has been closely involved with the military, even wearing a uniform on one of her two visits to Afghanistan.
"I have never once hesitated to don the military uniforms of the three branches of the Canadian Armed Forces to honour the women and men who wear them so proudly," Jean said during her final address to the troops.
"This gesture was hardly insignificant for me, having grown up under the yoke of a merciless dictatorship where military uniforms were associated with the brutal repression of the population," Jean added, referring to her upbringing in Haiti.
She is Canada's first governor general to have a Facebook page and a Twitter account, as well as having chatted with Canadians online.
NOTABLE MOMENTS OF HER GOVERNOR GENERAL CAREER
Sept. 27, 2005 — At 48, Jean becomes the first black Governor General, as well as the third woman, the fourth-youngest, and the fourth journalist to assume the post.
Dec. 4, 2008 — Jean ends a parliamentary standoff by granting Prime Minister Stephen Harper his request to prorogue Parliament. This comes after opposition parties agreed to defeat his Tory government and form a coalition. Her decision buys Harper the time he needs to escape the controversy relatively unscathed.
May 25, 2009 — Jean stirs international debate when she joins Inuit in Rankin Inlet in cutting up a seal carcass, consuming a piece of its heart, and subsequently accepting an invitation to join a seal hunt. Harper voices his support for the gesture in the face of a European ban on Canadian seal products.
Dec. 30, 2009 — With his government facing a growing storm of controversy over the handling of detainees in Afghanistan and MPs' access to critical documents on the issue, Jean grants Harper another request for prorogation based on his claim he needed to "recalibrate'' government policy amid changing economic conditions. MPs don't sit again until early March, after the Vancouver Olympics. Meanwhile, a raft of legislation goes by the wayside and Harper appoints more senators, shifting the balance in the upper chamber.
Jan. 13, 2010 — Jean weeps during a news conference on the Haitian earthquake which killed thousands — including her daughter's godmother — and left millions of Haitians homeless. "Now more than ever, it is time for us to show our solidarity with the most vulnerable people in the Americas, our brothers and sisters in Haiti,'' she said, her hand suddenly flying to her mouth to stifle a sob, "whose courage is once again being so harshly tested.'' She concluded with a Creole message directly to her Haitian homeland.
Feb. 12, 2010 — Michaelle Jean is the first black person to declare the Olympic Games open—an honor reserved for the hosting country head of state.
April 14, 2010 — Jean announces she expects to be leaving her job in September. Harper later confirms her term will not be extended, and the search for a successor begins. Polls suggest a majority of Canadians think she's done a good or excellent job.
May 2, 2010 — In an unusual break with non-partisan tradition, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff calls on the prime minister to extend Jean's term, saying she has served her country with "distinction and honour'' and deserves Canada's thanks.
May 12, 2010 — Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveiled the Michaëlle Jean Tulip — a dark maroon tulip (a new cultivar of the “Triumph” class) honouring Canada's Governor General that will be registered with the Dutch Royal General Bulb Growers' Association. A bouquet of tulips were presented to the GG at Rideau Hall, Ottawa.
As a former governor general, Jean will be sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, giving her the accordant style of The Honourable; however, also as a former governor general of Canada, Jean is entitled to be styled for life with the superior form of The Right Honourable. Jean will serve as Special Envoy to Haiti for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. An eponymous foundation is also planned, as was done for several previous governors general; the Michaëlle Jean Foundation will focus on promoting education, culture, and creativity among youth from rural, northern, and/or poor communities in Canada.
This content is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and individualized advice from a qualified professional.
Michael on June 16, 2011:
Amazing blog, nice work, keep it up!
Maggie Griess from Ontario, Canada on October 05, 2010:
Michaella Jean sure won hearts and you are right, she will be missed. I am sure she will be around in other capacities for a long time to come because she is so charismatic!
Post a photo of your kitty in one of your Hubs! I have become rather fond of these ones, apparently they are loyal and can be quite the handful at the vets. so far I agree with that...lol
Tranquilheart (author) from Canada on October 04, 2010:
Hey Scribenet, ain't she great?! A unique lady. I'm gonna miss her as our GG.
PS: I've got a cute kitty that looks just like yours!
Maggie Griess from Ontario, Canada on October 04, 2010:
Great Hub Tranquilheart!
Michaella Jean sure captured Canadian's hearts as the Governor General and I am very glad you posted a timely Hub about her!
Tranquilheart (author) from Canada on October 04, 2010:
Hi HSchneider, I'm pleased you found my hub useful.
Howard Schneider from Parsippany, New Jersey on October 04, 2010:
Thank you tranquilheart. I also had no knowledge of this remarkable woman. Hopefully we will hear about many more such good works. Very informative Hub.
Tranquilheart (author) from Canada on October 03, 2010:
You are so sweet, Melinda. Thanks for stopping by to read this.
msorensson on October 03, 2010:
Thank you for sharing this. I would never have known about her...I don't watch the news...
She is beautiful in form and at heart and you did a wonderful write up on her. I salute you both.
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CHAN Chuu Ling
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLLSoM)
Chuu Ling shares her team’s experience of setting up and using a filming studio in the laboratory to facilitate blended learning of practical sessions, and how it has changed the way practicals are conducted.
Chan C. L. (2021, Oct 25). Establishing a filming studio in a teaching laboratory: Enhancing teaching practices in the COVID-19 era and beyond.Teaching Connections. https://blog.nus.edu.sg/teachingconnections/2021/10/25/establishing-a-filming-studio-in-a-teaching-laboratory-enhancing-teaching-practices-in-the-covid-19-era-and-beyond/.
Setting up the Department Education Excellence Programme (DEEP) Filming Studio
Figure 1. In this video, the author introduces the DEEP filming studio and describes the impetus for setting it up.
Capabilities of the DEEP Studio
Under the efficient supervision of Dr. Ch’ng Jun Hong, Deputy Head of DEEP, the DEEP studio was set up and ready for use by August 2020. The DEEP studio’s capabilities include performing close-ups of on-screen live demonstrations to students in class, enabling live streaming via Zoom for students both in class and at home, and filming high-quality videos to demonstrate equipment use and experimental techniques (Figure 2). We can easily edit and annotate videos taken using the video-editing studio, which is located on a separate level and equipped with a high-performance computer.
To What Extent has the DEEP Studio Changed Teaching Practices in the Lab?
Previously, the Teaching Assistants (TAs) would gather students (in groups of about 12) to demonstrate microbiological techniques, show them details of microbial cultures, explain experimental procedures, and conduct tutorials. However, with in-person class size restrictions and safe distancing measures being imposed due to COVID-19, such group observations were difficult for the TAs to implement.
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- they can view the techniques they need to learn up close;
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We also used the DEEP studio to do live demonstrations on-screen and give practical briefings/tutorials explaining the experiments and their underlying principles. With the cameras zoomed in, students could see details of the techniques even more clearly than during in-person TA demonstrations. Such on-screen live demonstrations had the added benefit of standardising technical demonstrations and information as a more experienced TA could perform this for the entire class. The other TAs would walk around their assigned groups to help individual students with queries or were experiencing technical difficulties. In this way, we combined the benefits of consistent high-quality teaching with personalised attention to each student. Furthermore, filming of live microorganisms was possible with the integrated microscope (Figure 3).
Figure 3. A video clip showing snippets of various videos created for the students to view experiments/techniques performed in practical classes.
Student feedback regarding the DEEP studio was generally positive, and negative comments were mainly related to unfamiliarity and students experiencing technical difficulties with the digital tools, issues which could be rectified with practice. That said, a drawback to this approach was the reduced interaction with students. For example, during live demonstrations and briefings, students were reluctant to speak up when they had to respond to questions posed via the camera. The TA would have to leave the filming area and approach the student seating area to obtain the answers. To address this issue, an iPad was purchased to increase the TA’s mobility while still being able to control and annotate documents digitally. Students also did not have an opportunity to clarify doubts when watching the videos. This made it necessary for the instructors and TAs to set aside time during class to address this or incorporate digital tools like PollEverywhere or Kahoot! to gauge students’ understanding of the content. Additionally, video editing was highly time-consuming but when done well, these edited videos could be used for subsequent classes and would ultimately benefit many cohorts of students.
In summary, having a recording studio in the laboratory has proven very beneficial for the students, not only during the pandemic but also beyond. Students are encouraged to prepare prior to attending their practicals, with the actual sessions serving as opportunities to clarify doubts and to further reinforce their learning. They can view experimental procedures in greater detail (both live demonstrations and videos) and use the videos for revision. The information given to the entire class can now be standardised, without neglecting the individual student. Furthermore, the reduction in student engagement can be alleviated with some effort on the TA’s part to connect with students, as well as utilising interactive digital tools. Student feedback has been crucial in this whole process and will continue to be sought as we continue refining our teaching practices.
CHAN Chuu Ling is an Instructor from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLLSoM). She seeks to excite students about learning and draws joy from seeing students reach their lightbulb moments. She is also interested in learning ways to personalise education and about how technology can change the teaching environment.
Chuu Ling can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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If you are deciding between asphalt pavement and concrete for your next paving project, there are several important factors to consider.
Our team of asphalt paving contractors has pulled together a handy list to help you compare what surface type will meet your unique project needs.
Consider the Climate
The first thing to consider is the climate where the project is located. In colder climates, where there is a hard winter, there is no doubt that asphalt is the better material to use for driveways, roadways and parking lots. Here are a few key reasons why:
- Concrete is prone to frost heaves, expansion and contraction, which will cause damage and deterioration.
- Concrete deteriorates with salt use, which is spread on roads to melt snow and ice.
- Asphalt is not affected by the cold and does not deteriorate from salt use.
- Asphalt pavement absorbs more heat from the sun causing snow and ice to melt much quicker than concrete.
While there are clear benefits of choosing asphalt pavement in cold climates, the opposite is true for warmer climate areas. Concrete tends to be a better material in these areas. Asphalt pavement tends to soften in extreme heat and become oily. This happens in areas, like the southern United States, where summer time temperatures can exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit, causing the asphalt pavement to become extremely hot.
Consider the Environmental Impact of Paving Materials
Did you know? Asphalt paving material is environmentally friendly. It is considered a green technology because it can be recycled. When asphalt pavement is recycled, the old asphalt is ground up and reused. This is not always the case with concrete, which must be hauled away and disposed of in an environmentally approved facility.
Certain types of asphalt, such as porous or permeable asphalt, also helps with water drainage by allowing the water to percolate through the pavement into the soil below. With concrete, the water must run off the sides into streams and the local water table.
Consider the Ease of Installation and General Maintenance
Asphalt is often considered superior to concrete for certain paving projects because asphalt is much easier to work with than concrete.
- Asphalt can be installed and used more quickly than concrete.
- When asphalt needs maintenance or replacement, usually only the top layer is repaved, the base layer and middle layer are considered permanent, which can make it more cost-effective than concrete.
- Typically, concrete is around 35% more costly than asphalt.
There may be more preventative maintenance with asphalt materials, but this serves to keep the asphalt looking and functioning like new for a longer period of time. Concrete, on the other hand, often loses its new look much more quickly. With proper maintenance, asphalt pavement can last more than twenty years and when it is replaced, the cost is often significantly less than concrete.
Still not sure about the difference?
Contact Wolf Paving with your questions and receive knowledgeable answers from the experts.
To learn more about caring for asphalt visit our Everything You Need To Know About Asphalt Paving resource page.
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For more information on Wolf Paving or to request a free estimate for your next paving project contact one of our two offices. If you live or work in the Milwaukee area, call us at 262-965-2121. For the Madison area, call us at 608-249-7931.
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It is a privilege to be the Principal of Davallia Primary School. Our school is a live and vibrant place of learning which is built on our four core values of Respect, Responsibility, Perseverance and Innovation. These values underpin, drive and are reflected in all operations of our school.
Learning at Davallia Primary School is not solely about academic attainment. We believe learning should focus on the development of the whole child. This is achieved through the delivery of a well-balanced and carefully crafted learning program reflective of the academic, emotional, social and physical development of each and every child. All this is carefully wrapped up in a whole lot of healthy fun.
I believe each and every child is differently able. As such, the individual needs of each child is our focus. The development of a healthy partnership with each family ensures the staff at Davallia Primary School are well placed to deliver an engaging, stimulating and enjoyable learning program tailored to meet each child’s needs.
Davallia Primary School is a special place of belonging and learning. We would love for you to become part of our community.
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Lightweight, durable, simple-to-move resin and fiberglass plant pots have the appearance of heavy, expensive clay or ceramic containers. They make container gardening easier, but they may become stained, somewhat scuffed or worn-looking. Instead of stacking them out of sight or banishing them to the recycling bin, give them new life by repainting them. Use paints meant for plastics. Both resin and fiberglass pots contain epoxy plastics, and paints meant for non-plastic items don't stay on them.
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Clean and Prepare
Preparing the plant pots you want to repaint, assembling your equipment and finding a good spot to work are essential tasks before you start painting. The pots need to be clean for paint to adhere well to them. So remove all dirt, hard-water stains, rust, wax, grease, oil and old paint from the pots. If you want to wash the pots, do so a few days in advance to give them a chance to dry completely before they are repainted. Choose a well-ventilated area in which to paint, and protect its work surface and the nearby areas from paint with layers of old newspaper or sheets of plastic. Wear gloves, safety glasses and a dust mask to protect your skin, eyes and breathing passages. Depending on the paint product, its label instructions may advise you to sand each plant pot's surface with sandpaper or to wipe the pots with paint thinner before painting them or to put a layer of plastic primer paint on them before applying a finish paint.
Apply Spray Paint
Plastic paint is made in a number of decorator colors. Use the color of your house's trim, or use a tint that contrasts with or complements the colors of the plants you'll grow in the pots. If you use spray paint, shake its can well, and then hold the can about 8 to 10 inches from a pot while using sweeping, side-to-side motions to apply a thin layer of paint over the pot's surface. After you wait for the first coat of paint to dry, you can spray another thin layer of paint on the pot. Repeat this procedure as many times as needed to give the pot total, smooth, paint coverage. Follow the same paint process for each pot you repaint. Although a pot's last coat of paint dries in about 15 minutes, it may not cure completely to resist chips and scratches until after seven days.
Apply Brush-On Paint
Brush-on paint designed for plastics comes in multiple colors and provides faster, thicker coverage than spray paint. Also, brush-on paint doesn't require special preparations such as sanding or priming the plant pots. Just start with clean pots, and use paintbrushes that are sizes appropriate for the paint effect you want. Protect your skin from contacting the paint by wearing gloves, but the danger of inhaling paint or of paint getting into your eyes decreases when you use brush-on paint instead of spray paint. If this thicker paint threatens to clog the plant pots' drainage holes, then remove it from the holes while it is still wet.
Create Special Effects
Spray-on paint comes in several special-effect finishes, such as metallic, hammered and textured, which help lend variety to repainted pots. Add designs by taping parts of the pots and using different colors of spray paint to create stripes, squares and other patterns on them. If you want to create more complex designs, use stencils with either spray-on or brush-on paint for single or repeated motifs.
Brush-on paints allow for creative, freehand designs made with paintbrushes of various widths and/or tools such as pencil erasers and sponges used to stamp on colors. If a pot has raised designs on its sides, try highlighting them with a color different from the rest of the pots' color.
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字幕列表 影片播放 列印英文字幕 In this American English pronunciation video, you're going to get even better at speaking with rhythmic contrast. We're going to practice 3-syllable words with third syllable stress. First, if you are just going to watch this video, don't. That would be very boring. This video only works if you’re willing to practice your English out loud. So, if you're somewhere where you can't do that, make sure to come back to this video later. When learning English as a second language, most people don't make unstressed syllables as fast, low in pitch, or quiet, as they should. The tendency is to over-pronounce them, but that's not good English. In English, we have clearer, stressed syllables: DA, and less clear unstressed syllables: da. So for these syllables, don’t be afraid to be less clear. In this video, we're just going to do 3-syllable words, with third syllable stress, like this: da-da-DA. da-da-DA. That's all you're going to hear. You're going to get into a groove with the rhythm. After each repetition of the word, repeat it just like you hear it. Don't over-pronounce unstressed syllables. This is going to move quickly. See if you can keep up. Everyday. da-da-DA. Everyday. Fifty-one. da-da-DA. Fifty-one. Cigarette. da-da-DA. Cigarette. Volunteer. da-da-DA. Volunteer. Guarantee. da-da-DA. Guarantee. Japanese. da-da-DA. Japanese. Disagree. da-da-DA. Disagree. Engineer. da-da-DA. Engineer. Kitchenette. da-da-DA. Kitchenette. Pioneer. da-da-DA. Pioneer. Matinee. da-da-DA. Matinee. Picturesque. da-da-DA. Picturesque. Recommend. da-da-DA. Recommend. Afternoon. da-da-DA. Afternoon. Understand. da-da-DA. Understand. Now, we're going to go back to the beginning and just do the words one time each. Repeat each word and don't worry too much about the sounds. This is a drill exercise in rhythm. Everyday Fifty-one Cigarette Volunteer Guarantee Japanese Disagree Engineer Kitchenette Pioneer Matinee Picturesque Recommend Afternoon Understand Now we're going to go back to the beginning and just do the words one time each with a short sentence. Repeat the word and the sentence keeping the right rhythm when it's in a sentence. Everyday – I jog almost everyday. Fifty-one – I just turned fifty-one. Cigarette – Cigarettes are expensive. Volunteer – I’d like to volunteer there. Guarantee – I guarantee it. Japanese – I love Japanese food. Disagree – I disagree. Engineer – The engineer will check. Kitchenette – It only has a kitchenette. Pioneer – She’s a pioneer in her field. Matinee – We’ll see the matinee. Picturesque – It’s very picturesque. Recommend – I highly recommend it. Afternoon – I’ll come by this afternoon. Understand – I understand completely. What other three-syllable words with third syllable stress can you think of? Put them in the comments below to give everyone more words to practice with. Stress is something I stress in my book American English Pronunciation. If you want an organized, step-by-step resource to build your American accent, click here to buy the book. I think you’re going to love it. That’s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.
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Leadership is a serious business. In the same vein, Good Leadership or Good Governance is never a tea party affair.
Good Leadership involves the deployment of courage, vision, charisma, compassion, wealth of experience, strength of character, positive passion, transformative statesmanship and creativity in solving human problems.
Ekiti State is still largely a civil service State and is one of States with the lowest Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in Nigeria.
Invariably, the drastic transformation of Ekiti State demands an urgent critical intervention of a leader with clear-cut vision, development agenda, deep focus, clear direction as well as the requisite local and international exposure.
Transforming Ekiti State from its present status of limited opportunities to a hub of industry and commercial activities demands the emergence of a GAME CHANGER on the scene, an outstanding Manager of human and material resources, a seasoned public administrator, an impressive statesman who had proved his mettle in previous assignments at the State and Federal levels; someone whose remarkable courage and commanding zeal is capable of sunmmounting any barrier or obstacle in the course and cause of progress.
Ekiti State, the nation’s fountain of knowledge urgently craves for a People’s leader whose charismatic posture and populist carriage is capable of steering the wheel of progress, a builder of modern cities, a comely personality whose professional and political pedigree could command the respect of Ekiti sons and daughters and also attract foreign investors as well as development partners from any part of the world.
Ekiti State is in dire need of a MORAL CHANGE AGENT, a transformative leader, an excellent bridge builder between the town and gown, a Nan who has his vision written on his chest, a man who runs with a definite mission and an accomplished statesman with good courage and candour.
Given the lofty strides of the Governor Fayemi administration, the restoration of Ekiti value and culture as well as other developmental achievements of the government, it is imperative at this juncture of the State’s trajectory that the State should take a giant leap in the areas of Industrial growth, agricultural revolution, solid mineral exploration and infrastructural development, such that the State would have a space in the global map of development.
Owing to the peculiarities of Ekiti State and its ripeness for large-scale industrialization, we cannot afford to entrust our future in the hands of an impostor, a political neophyte, a Yes Man, a Man Friday, a Stooge or Puppet who does not know what exactly he needs to do and where to even start.
We don’t need a TRIAL and ERROR leader, a leader lacking the requisite vision and experience to lead , a push over or a man without focus and direction. The die is cast already. There is no going back. Ekiti State will never go back to Egypt! To settle for someone of less pedigree to the current Governor is a highway to nowhere. God forbid bad thing!
Sen. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele (M.O.B) has got what it takes to transform Ekiti State and make Ekiti State to stand tall among it’s compeers across the nation.
M.O B has got what it takes to turn around our dear State to a Model City State, a hub of industries and dynamo of economic exploits. Bamidele”s wealth of experience in Megacity planning and development as a three -term Member of the prestigious Lagos Cabinet, his extensive legal background, his excellent legislative exploits in 7th and 9th National Assembly, his intercontinental exposure and remarkable networks in the public and private sectors are what is urgently and obviously needed to rebrand, rejig and reconstruct our dear Ekiti State and make it a beautiful bride for all positive comers, the local news foreign investors, tourist visitors, solid mineral explorers, captains of industry, business magnates, commercial banks, commercial farmers, exporters of raw materials and cash crops, high tech innovators, wealth creators, employers of labour, seasoned professionals in all fields of human endeavour, law abiding fellow Nigerians from across the nation as well as the illustrous sons and daughters of Ekiti State in the diaspora.
In an environment where there is no enduring security and stability, development becomes a mirage. In other words, to create an enabling environment that is peaceful, secured, stable, accommodating and virile and to encourage large scale industrialization and massive commercial activities, a new legal regime is imperative.
Interestingly, of all the Governorship hopefuls across the party divide, Bamidele is the sure man with all the required professional skills, legal expertize, legislative acumen, independent-mindedness and political will cum vision to set the ball rolling and progressively rebrand the nation’s fountain of knowledge.
Therefore, as we collectively March Onward for a Brighter and Better Ekiti State, M.O.B is, no doubt, the Captain we must hire to steer the ship of our dear State. With him, we are sure we shall get to our desired El-dorado without much ado. M.O.B is the man the cap fit.
Ekiti people earnestly beckon on Sen. Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, a man with strength of character, an epitome of integrity, a symbol of humility and sacrificial leadership, a proven and well accomplished public administrator, a quintessential Federal lawmaker, a lawyer without border, a great man of vision and courage, an exemplary leader with compassionate heart, a man with passion for the welfare of other people, a lover of the masses, a friend of the people, a listening Leader, a Promise Keeper, a fighter for democracy and good governance, a man who almost lost his life for Ekiti State and above all, a MAN WHO HAS THE FEAR OF GOD.
M.O.B is surely the best man for the job. Ekiti people cannot afford to miss this golden opportunity of choosing the best leader of all. Let’s us put the round peg in the round hole.
*M.O.B* *IS* *SURELY* *THE* *ANSWER* !!! *!* !!
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Machine learning has been around for quite some time. However, most businesses are only just noticing its rapid adoption. By the end of 2020, marketing research firm Technavio estimates that machine learning will see an accumulated growth of 38%. And by 2024, the industry is expected to be worth more than $11 billion.
So what exactly are the key factors driving machine learning’s growth in the business world? Below, we outline some of this technology’s best applications
Also known as “demand pricing,” dynamic pricing involves analyzing clusters of data to be able to put a price tag on products and services that maximizes revenue. It works by filtering all possible data to determine the cost—such as the level of consumer-interest, demand at the time of purchase, the market’s reaction to an ongoing campaign, and more.
Acquiring new customers is very expensive. In fact, studies on Small Biz Genius detail that it could cost you five times more than retaining current buyers. This is why businesses are always looking for ways to keep their active consumers.
With this principle, the machine-run Churn algorithm divides the number of order cancellations by the number of active customers within a set period. It’s a very simple format, but one with a lot of insights. It helps businesses identify which of their customers are likely to stop buying their products and why, thus helping them come up with solutions to improve customer retention rates.
Customer segmentation is the process of dividing your customers into groups based on common characteristics. Much like dynamic pricing, this learning algorithm also analyzes multiple sets of data to be able to segregate customers.
For instance, businesses might divide them according to age, gender, profession, location, purchasing history, and more. This helps companies come up with multiple marketing strategies that can target the different groups in their consumer base simultaneously.
Machine learning and cybersecurity go hand-in-hand. After all, most (if not all) security systems are powered by machine learning programs.
HP’s guide to the most effective antivirus options outlines how even the most fundamental of security tools rely on complex algorithms to detect hidden threats. Every executable file that attempts to enter your systems goes through a scanner. If it matches any code in the antivirus’ updating malware database, it then bars it from entering.
Similar cybersecurity essentials like anti-spyware systems, behavioral blockers, and VPNs are run by machine learning algorithms, too. No business is exempt from cyber attacks and data theft, so cybersecurity is indeed an important part of every operation.
Machine learning has a lot of uses in recruitment, from talent sourcing to candidate assessment.
For instance, Canadian-based tech startup Ideal created a system to complement existing HR software. It works by connecting to third-party recruitment websites and automatically searches for potential candidates based on the given parameters, thus helping you make more informed talent decisions.
The same technology also screens résumés to quickly identify a position’s desirable skills through set-pattern recognition. Other machine learning recruitment tools like Sourcehub and Textio have similar functions.
Chatbots are a one-time, big-time investment that will save businesses 30% of their customer service expenditures, according to Chatbots Life.
By integrating a chatbot into your website, you can open customer service inquiries 24/7. Many of the customer’s questions are simple enough that your bot can be programmed to answer them. But for special cases, the machine can also transfer the concern to a live agent.
This way, employees will spend less time replying to questions, and focus more on providing meaningful solutions to complex problems.
Visual search is an emerging technology that’s revolutionizing how people find and buy products.
As more users are opting to search Google for images rather than by product description, marketing experts from Social Media Today predict that early adopters of this technology will see a notable increase in revenue by 2021.
Big eCommerce brands like Alibaba and eBay, as well as online retailers like Nordstrom and Neiman Marcus, are already using this technology.
A recommendation engine is one of the most widespread applications of machine learning in the business world. It’s a system that suggests products and services to individual users based on analysing their data.
A very popular use of this feature is Netflix and Amazon recommendations. Based on a range of data—such as users’ search queries and purchase or watch history—the machine can suggest similar movies and products. Incidentally, chatbots can also be programmed to do the recommending, so that the list of products get delivered straight to consumers’ inboxes.
Machine learning has a lot of applications, be it data analytics or product recommendations. As such, no matter what business you have, it’s important to understand that new advancements like machine learning are important to keep business moving forward.
And if this sounds like something you want to do for a living, we’ve compiled some of the Best Machine Learning Courses & Training of 2020 to help you get started.
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In 2019, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan sold an intrepid little piece of art entitled “Comedian,” for $120,000, a move which gained significant media attention. The reception of “Comedian” was mixed — some praised Cattelan who remains a notable prankster in his field, and some questioned whether “Comedian” was even art at all. This was the artist who cast a fully functioning toilet in solid gold and titled it “America.”
But I remember reading about this absurd banana that was sold for $120,000 and being captivated by the brilliance of such a statement — because that’s what it was for Cattelan — a statement that would unquestionably spark intense debate about how our culture values pieces of art and pieces of commodity. “Comedian” is a commonplace, low value object taped to the wall with little care for the quality of exhibition. Bananas are an easily accessible item of food with a short shelf-life. This opposes traditional works of art which have remained intact for hundreds of years. The banana is duct-taped to the wall, and not protected whatsoever. If one thinks about it as a reflection on what we now consider art, the possibilities of Cattelan’s inflected meanings are endless.
Global consumerism may have infected most forms of artistic expression in our culture…”
With the current trajectory of expression, a work like “Comedian” was clearly inevitable. Everyone, more or less, is perplexed by the status of paintings, drawings, photography and sculpture, whose purposes and beauty have become inaccessible to anyone without a college degree. The casual observer missed the jump that artists took from narrative — which was truly more of a plunge off the cliff of reality — until all that is perceptible now is the meaninglessness of their falling. Now, art depends on context. Without it, no one knows what they are looking at.
That’s why “Comedian” is essential for anyone who wishes to gain perspective. This work of art deserves to be in the genre of contemporary art as it both questions and celebrates the current movement — although most artists and passionate observers would argue that art is now defying structure, time and genre.
Truthfully I loathe almost everything that art in my time has to offer. From Max Ernst to Yayoi Kusama, all of it is so brutally pretentious that I’m cringing at my keyboard thinking of the inordinate amount of money made at the creation and auctioning of these ‘works of art.’ Global consumerism may have infected most forms of artistic expression in our culture, but it’s for damn sure that contemporary art has maintained all of its integrity. It is a rightfully sequestered community of crackpots that feed off of an imagined genius. Need I mention the sheer depth of money laundering that takes place within this high society, and the evidence is within a moment’s reach. It’s a $67.4 billion market and it’s expanding into a smaller collection of members.
A good example of this absurdity is “Onement VI,” a painting by Barnett Newman. It’s a blue square with a line down the middle. Those who admire it have a great deal of things wrong with them. Newman describes his work as revolutionary, one that features a “zip” down the middle which his passionate observers term as “a rip that opens the universe, a crack in space and time.” Legitimate ‘critics’ say that it has never been done before, but they clearly haven’t seen much of anything below their penthouses. Anyone, and I mean anyone with a rational mind and an able body can do that.
To end this on a positive note, I’ll submit my hope for a future in contemporary art that most likely will never come. I would like people to accept reality for what it is, and for them to maintain some solid structure while also subverting it, showing the ordinary man or woman how they can escape. A great example of this is “Portrait of An Artist,” by David Hockney. This painting can represent many things to many people, just like any work of abstract expressionism. It makes me think of the division between the subconscious and the conscious. But unlike Newman’s “Onement VI,”this one was difficult to produce and is a lot more interesting to look at than a dumb, big blue square.
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When it comes to getting pregnant it’s hard to narrow success down to one thing because there is no one silver bullet that we can all do to improve our fertility. But there is one thing that research has shown to improve fertility that is “easy”, cheap, and some might even say enjoyable:
Get more sleep.
Importance of Sleep
Getting enough sleep is one of the single best things we can do for our general health. Getting enough quality sleep at the right times can help protect your mental health, physical health, quality of life, accident prevention, and fertility.
Sleep and Infertility for Women
Lack of adequate sleep can affect a woman’s menstrual cycles, which obviously affects her fertility. Too little sleep leads to low leptin levels, a hormone that can impact ovulation.
Sleep also improves a woman’s follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) levels. Studies have found that FSH levels were 20% higher in women who got adequate sleep over sleep-deprived women. Most important, this improvement in FSH levels was across the board whatever the age or weight or body mass index of the woman.
Too little sleep also increases the risk of obesity. The National Institute of Health reports that sleep helps maintain a healthy balance of the hormones that make you feel hungry (ghrelin) or full (leptin). When you don’t get enough sleep, your level of ghrelin goes up and your level of leptin goes down, thus when you are sleep deprived you tend to eat more.
Further, sleep affects how your body reacts to insulin, the hormone that controls your blood glucose (sugar) level. Sleep deficiency results in a higher than normal blood sugar level, which may increase your risk for diabetes.
Sleep and Infertility Treatment (IVF)
Research has also shown that women who get an adequate amount of sleep have significantly improved rates of success with IVF. Infertility doctors (reproductive endocrinologist) routinely ask about their patients sleep habit before IVF. Research has shown that patients who keep to the same bedtimes and wake up times will have higher success rates with IVF.
Sleep and Male Infertility
Sleep is important for male fertility as well. Recent research looking at more than 700 men found that men who slept less than 6 or more than 9 hours a night had a 42 percent reduced probability of conception in any given month.
Researchers believe that the impact of sleep on male fertility is likely hormonal. Testosterone is crucial for reproduction and sleep is crucial for testosterone production. The majority of daily testosterone release in men occurs during sleep. Numerous studies have shown that the length and quality of sleep impacts testosterone levels in men.
Sleep Helps Us Cope with Infertility
Infertility is stressful. That one sentence may win the award for Understatement of the Year.
Infertility demands that we make decision, solve problems, and cope with stress. And we need to do all this without losing our cool and alienating those around us. Do you know the one thing that helps us make decision, solve problems, cope with stress and regulate our emotions? Yep—sleep.
The National Institute of Health reports that numerous studies have shown that people who do not get enough sleep may have trouble making decisions, solving problems, controlling their emotions and behavior, and coping with change. Sleep deficiency also has been linked to depression.
How Much Sleep Do We Need for Optimum Fertility
Perhaps surprisingly, more is not necessarily better when it comes to sleep. For both women and men the best amount of sleep to optimizes fertility appears to be between 7 to 8 hours.
In a study of 656 women having IVF, they found those who had between seven and eight hours sleep a night were about 25% more likely to become pregnant than those who got nine+ hours or six or less hours.
Although this study focused on women using IVF to get pregnant, it suggests that all women trying for a baby would benefit from having seven or eight hours sleep a night. The researchers suggested women should start working on improving their sleep at least three weeks before trying to conceive.
How much sleep do you get at night? What are your tricks for getting a better night’s sleep?
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The cycle of spliceosome assembly, intron excision, and spliceosome disassembly involves large-scale structural rearrangements of U6 snRNA that are functionally essential. from U6 RNA, and thus a destabilized U6CPrp24 complex renders stable U4/U6 pairing nonessential. restoring U4/U6 complex formation. The resulting triple mutant contains little or no detectable U4/U6 snRNP and instead accumulates free U4 snRNP, protein-free U6 RNA, and a novel complex made up of U2/U6 snRNP. A substitution in the Prp24 residue that contacts U6CA91 partially rescues the U6CA62G/U4CG14U strain, suggesting that Prp24 release is an essential function of U4/U6 pairing. Further, the two U6 mutations increase the stability of U2/U6 in vitro, consistent with the observed accumulation of a U2/U6 complex in the triple mutant. Our data show that three point mutations in the RNA core of the spliceosome can profoundly alter the distribution of snRNP complexes in vivo without preventing the spliceosome from conducting its essential functions. RESULTS A genetic conversation network between two mutations in U6 RNA and one in U4 RNA To better understand the molecular basis for the phenotypes of mutations in U4 and U6 RNAs, we examined the genetic interactions between three such mutations (Fig. 2A). Shannon and Guthrie (1991) showed that this U4CG14C and U4CG14U NVP-BSK805 mutations, which disrupt a GCC base pair in U4/U6 Stem II, cause a strong cold-sensitive growth defect, with the G14C mutation being more severe. In our strain background, the U4CG14C mutation was slow-growing even at 30C, so we used U4CG14U (Fig. 2B, row 2). Shannon and Guthrie isolated the U6CA91G mutation as a spontaneous suppressor of the cold-sensitivity of U4CG14C, and we show here that it also strongly suppresses the cold-sensitivity of U4CG14U (Fig. 2B, compare row 2 to row 3). However, because U6CA91 CLTB is usually outside of the base-paired region of U4/U6, its mechanism of suppression isn’t crystal clear immediately. FIGURE 2. U6CA91G rescues a lethal dual mutation in U6 and U4 RNAs. (mutation at 30C), the steady-state degree of Prp24-free of charge U6 RNA is certainly high enough to permit an adequate degree of U4CG14U.U5.U6CA62G tri-snRNP assembly. U4 RNA still comes with an important function in the current presence of the U6CA62G/A91G dual mutant (Supplemental Fig. S2). Probably binding of U4 snRNP to U5 snRNP must allosterically activate Prp8 or another U5 snRNP proteins for U6 RNA binding, or U4 snRNP straight stabilizes U6 RNA binding towards the U5 snRNP in the triple mutant stress, despite the obvious absence of free of charge U4/U6 di-snRNP. We can not exclude that transient, unpredictable NVP-BSK805 pairing of U4 with U6 is necessary for association using the U5 snRNP. We attemptedto observe transient development of U4/U6 NVP-BSK805 snRNP in triple mutant ingredients by UV-induced psoralen crosslinking. Psoralen crosslinks individual U4/U6 complicated in Stem I and individual U2/U6 complicated in Helix II (Bringmann et al. 1984; Hausner et al. 1990; Wassarman and Steitz 1992). We didn’t observe a U4CU6 crosslink in wild-type ingredients also, due to series distinctions between fungus and individual Stems We presumably. However, we do observe a U6-formulated with crosslinked species constant in flexibility with U2/U6 complicated, that was enriched in the triple mutant remove (data not proven). Is Prp24 a U6 RNA recycling aspect primarily? Prp24 is still important in the triple mutant stress (Supplemental Fig. S2B,C), recommending it comes with an important function apart from U4/U6 annealing. A feasible important function of Prp24 is certainly recycling of U6 RNA through the.
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Vatican City, Nov 17, 2015 / 10:17 am
In wake of Friday's violent terror attacks in Paris, the Vatican's Secretary of State said that while the small country is also on extremists' horizons, they won't let themselves be "paralyzed" by fear.
He also backed global military action against ISIS militants, who claimed responsibility for Friday's attack, by echoing Pope Francis' declaration in August 2014 on his way back from South Korea that "stopping the unjust aggressor is legitimate" when it comes to international intervention in Iraq.
"What happened in France highlights the fact that no one can consider themselves excluded from (the threat of) terrorism," Cardinal Pietro Parolin told French paper La Croix in an interview published Nov. 15.
"The Vatican could be a target because of its religious significance. We are capable of increasing the level of security in the Vatican and the surrounding area. But we will not let ourselves be paralyzed by fear."
Cardinal Parolin's comments come after Islamic terrorists carried out a series of attacks in Paris Nov. 13, killing at least 120 people and leaving more than 350 others injured, 99 of whom are in critical condition.
Numerous reports note that a video released by ISIS following the attacks said other member-countries of the U.S.-led military coalition against them in Iraq and Syria could be next on the list of targets.
Among the locations threatened with attacks similar to those in Paris were London, Washington, Rome and Iran.
Though Pope Francis is likely the biggest target in Rome and the Vatican City State, Cardinal Parolin said that the pontiff won't let fear deter him from moving forward. "These events don't change the Pope's agenda at all," he said.
He referred to the Pope's Nov. 14 comments the day after the Paris attacks, in which Francis referred to them as part of "a piecemeal third world war."
The cardinal explained that "piecemeal" refers to a war "that has not been declared, an asymmetric war. A war fought away from the battlefields, in which the victims are innocent young, adult and elderly people."
It also means that "we do not know where the next incident is going to take place," he said. After Paris, "Daesh shockingly warned that this was only the beginning. Everywhere, these are acts of terrorism linked to Islamist fundamentalism."
When asked if the Holy See takes Pope Francis' stance that "stopping the unjust aggressor is legitimate" when it comes to ongoing airstrikes in Syria, Cardinal Parolin said "yes, because blind violence is intolerable, whatever its origin may be."
Pope Francis voiced his support for international intervention in Iraq while on board his flight from Seoul, South Korea to Rome Aug. 18, 2014.
"In these cases where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor," Pope Francis told reporters.
"I underscore the verb 'stop.' I don't say 'to bomb' or 'make war,' (but) 'stop it,'" he said in response to the question, posed by CNA and EWTN News Rome bureau chief Alan Holdren.
Parolin explained that Francis wasn't saying anything new, but was quoting the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which states in paragraph 2308 that while "all citizens and all governments are obliged to work for the avoidance of war," governments "cannot be denied the right of lawful self-defense" when the danger of war persists, there is no international authority with the necessary competence or power, and when all efforts for peace have failed.
"For this reason, those who legitimately hold authority also have the right to use arms to repel aggressors against the civil community entrusted to their responsibility," Cardinal Parolin said.
Promulgated by St. John Paul II in 1992, the Catechism serves as a summary and outline of the teachings of the Catholic Church.
In paragraph 2309, the catechism lays out the "strict conditions" under which military force is a legitimate response for self-defense, and which constitute part of the Church's "just war" doctrine:
- The damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave and certain;
- All other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
- There must be serious prospects of success;
- The use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated.
Cardinal Parolin said that these conditions also correspond "to the legitimate defense of a State within its borders to protect its citizens and repel terrorists."
"In occasion of a foreign intervention, it is necessary to seek out legitimacy through the organizations which the international community has given itself," he said, clarifying that the role of the Holy See "is to remember these conditions, not to specify means to stop the aggressor."
In his August 2014 comments, Pope Francis also stressed the catechism's point that the means of stopping violence must be evaluated and that the violence cannot be used as a pretext for other goals.
"To stop the unjust aggressor is licit," he said, yet lamented that "many times under this excuse of stopping the unjust aggressor the powers have taken control of nations."
"One single nation cannot judge how you stop this, how you stop an unjust aggressor," the Pope said.
In his interview with La Croix, Cardinal Parolin said that "there is no justification for what happened" in Paris, and that a global mobilization of forces is needed in response.
"A mobilization of all means of security, of police forces and of information, to root out this evil of terrorism," he said, and noted that this would also include spiritual resources, in order to provide "a positive response to evil."
This response will come about through educating people on the importance of refuting hatred, and offering answers to youth that leave home to join jihad activities.
People at every level of society ought to be involved in this education, he said, including those in both the political and religious spheres, as well as nationally and internationally.
"There is a great need to combat this together. Without this union, this difficult battle will not be won."
Pope Francis has previously voiced his opinion on dialoguing with extremists in order to reach some sort of agreement, saying that while difficult, it's possible.
Speaking to journalists in-flight on his way back from Strasbourg Nov. 25, 2014, Pope Francis said it's important to "Never give up anything for lost, never."
"Possibly you can't have dialogue but never close a door," the Pope said. Although dialogue might be challenging – "you could say almost impossible" – the "door is always open, no?"
Cardinal Parolin isn't quite as optimistic. He told CNA Oct. 29 that "I don't think it's possible" to dialogue with fundamentalists.
Dialogue, he said "is done with the small talk (between those) who enter into a relationship, no? So interventions here are not at all reasonable with those who refuse to dialogue."
"I don't think that it's possible to dialogue with fundamentalists. One can offer to dialogue, but I don't see many opportunities of establishing a dialogue."
However, while dialogue with extremists might seem unrealistic to the Vatican's secretary of State, he told La Croix that ordinary Muslims must be involved and included in the community, and that they too "must be part of the solution" to terrorism.
This is especially true in the context of the upcoming Jubilee of Mercy. "In this world torn by violence, now is the right time to launch an offensive of mercy," the cardinal said.
He said that feelings of revenge are natural after attacks such as those in Paris, but stressed that "we must fight against this urge."
"The Pope wants the Jubilee to help people see eye-to-eye, understand one another and overcome hatred. After these attacks, this goal is strengthened. We receive the mercy of God to adopt this attitude toward others."
Cardinal Parolin pointed to the Muslim name for God "The Merciful," and said it is "the most beautiful name" they have given him. He expressed his hope that Muslims would also be involved in the Holy Year, which is an explicit wish of the Pope.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Despite the temporary suspension of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine mandate for companies with 100 or more workers, it appears the Biden Administration is nonetheless eyeballing the possibility of extending the mandate in the future to encompass smaller businesses as well.
According to The Daily Wire, OSHA opened a public comment period earlier this month for their recently-released Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) text – which typically features new rules governing the workplace – and feedback was requested from employers on several proposed initiatives. These included plans to expand the business vaccination mandate to cover companies with fewer than 100 workers – including workers who may have acquired so-called “natural immunity” from a previous infection – and requiring full-vaccinated individuals to nonetheless wear masks while working.
OSHA asked employers with fewer than 100 employees what issues they may possibly encounter setting up inoculation or testing programs if the vaccination mandate was adjusted to include them.
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“The agency is moving in a stepwise fashion on the short timeline necessitated by the danger presented by COVID-19 while soliciting stakeholder comment and additional information to determine whether to adjust the scope of the ETS to address smaller employers in the future,” the ETS document says. “OSHA seeks information about the ability of employers with fewer than 100 employees to implement COVID-19 vaccination and/or testing programs. Have you instituted vaccination mandates (with or without alternatives), or requirements for regular COVID-19 testing or face covering use? What have been the benefits of your approach? What challenges have you had or could you foresee in implementing such programs?”
The document also stated that employees would be required to wear face coverings while at work, and even people who may have natural immunity to COVID-19 after having recovered from a previous case would be mandated to get the jab.
“How should the scope of the rule change to address the significant risk posed by COVID-19 in the workplace? Should portions of the rule, such as face coverings, apply to fully vaccinated persons?” the document asks. “OSHA determined that workers who have been infected with COVID-19 but have not been fully vaccinated still face a grave danger from workplace exposure to SARS-CoV-2. Given scientific uncertainty and limitations in testing for infection and immunity, OSHA is concerned that it would be infeasible for employers to operationalize a standard that would permit or require an exception from vaccination or testing and face covering based on prior infection with COVID-19.”
People may submit comments about these proposed rule changes by visiting the regulations.gov website. The comment period is open until December 6. As of publication nearly 60,000 comments have been received
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Jason Cormier is one of the co-founders and managing partners of Room 214, a social media agency that leverages marketing automation, research, social networking, and online advertising. His background is in web development, and his partner’s background is in public relations; They worked together in 2003 to find a new way of marketing. Between SEO, Google AdWords, and other communications strategies, they realized they could combine their backgrounds to form one cohesive company dedicated to leveraging online tools to benefit the online visibility of businesses. Now, social media plays a primary role in their ability to help companies extend their reach. Jason recently joined AMP UP Your Social Media’s host Glenn Gaudet to discuss ways in which a company can utilize social media to connect and engage with more users.
“It’s always easier to join a conversation than to start one, and I believe that there’s a general lack of social listening that’s happening. Pay attention in order to recognize conversations and have that help shape your social media strategy.”
Jason discusses tips for using social media marketing as a way to generate traffic:
- The real value in Public Relations is Media Relations. Community management and content calendar editing and creation is important, but if the PR firm couldn’t drive hits on major social media sites that were relevant to the company, then they didn’t provide much value. Companies that can, for instance, provide a press release and keyword optimize it to generate search engine visibility are the ones that make the biggest impact and create the most value in social media.
- Social media is now about distinguishing your company among the social noise. Most companies now produce their own content and know how to navigate social media, so companies are now focused on how to overcome the social noise, and it begins with social listening. Whether it’s a small company or a fortune 500 company, you need a strategy that connects with your other marketing channels. People are looking for agencies that can connect the dots, so to say.
- Know your goals. This sounds basic, but many companies aren’t entirely sure of their goals. Broadly, you may want more awareness or to use social media to help drive leads, but you need a more quantitative assignment to go with your goal.
- Understand your existing team and the roles within the team. This helps you to better understand your process and procedures as well as the tools you have available to achieve your social media goals. Also, make sure that whoever is in charge of marketing is implementing systems that can be used by others should they happen to leave your company.
- B2B is generally more focused on lead generation and longer sales cycles. B2C can be quick purchases that are less expensive, and that separates the way that marketers may approach social media depending on the type of business they’re marketing for. B2B offerings are oftentimes approached via software platforms and really gets into the lead lifecycles. Another big difference is in the type of content that’s being produced.
- Your themes need to relate to existing conversations. Your brand message can be shaped by the current conversations on social media, and those conversations need to play an integral role in your social presence and the way that you create content.
About Jason Cormier
Hailing from Boulder, Colorado, Jason spends his free time on the Board of Advisors for Give Hope Global, a non-profit corporation which is involved in 5 specific activities in SW Haiti. All of these activities are aimed at realizing the organization’s vision which is “To see the young people we serve become able to help others both physically and spiritually.”
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The asset of a lock is that it completes the notion of security. When one has a properly installed locking system in his or her house and car, he or she feels safe and secure, however when one does not have a properly installed locking system in his or her home and vehicle, he or she is always concerned about losing his or her valuable belongings.
But what exactly are locksmiths?
Locksmiths are craftsmen who are qualified and licensed to repair, manufacture, and install locks on doors to houses, workplaces, and automobiles, among other things. Home and commercial locksmiths provide a variety of services such as car alarm security, vehicle servicing, residential lockouts, and business locking services.
The following are short descriptions of the locksmith services described above:
Car Alarm Security System
This is the most effective method of assuring the safety of a vehicle on the road. The alarm is installed inside the vehicle in such a manner that anytime somebody approaches within a certain distance of the vehicle, the alarm emits a loud buzzing sound, alerting everyone to the fact that someone is tampering with the vehicle. As a result, even the most cunning of criminals would have to touch the vehicle in order to unlock it in order to steal it, and the buzzer would prevent him from doing so, it is a very effective technique for auto theft protection.
A residential locksmith may replace any kind of defective lock in the house, including those in the garage, using this service. It goes so far as to add door bolts, which serve as effective locking devices. After obtaining locksmith services, one does not have to be concerned about the security of his or her property.
The Locksmith in Dallas is quite capable of dealing with any locking situation.
In addition to the aforementioned services, locksmiths may also supply duplicate keys, transponder keys, and keyless remotes for automobiles, allowing one to keep his or her vehicle safe from theft or misapplication. Additionally, if a car owner accidentally locks himself out of his vehicle, the locksmiths will arrive at the location in a short period of time and will get the vehicle unlocked in minutes.
Obviously, one’s business shop and office must be kept under strict security at all times. Locksmiths can help with this by providing excellent security systems such as CCTVs and other gadgets. As a result, one can keep track of everything that takes place in and around the workplace space, as well as maintain his office or business secure from any kind of assault.
A person in need of a Locksmith in Dallas service may do a search on the Internet for different locksmith firms by entering basic keywords such as “locksmith in Cleveland Ohio” and then selecting the most appropriate locksmith from the results provided and according to his or her requirements.
The key is to choose the most dependable locksmith service possible since once money has been spent, it cannot be refunded. Check if the locksmiths are completely insured and licensed, whether they provide emergency services or not, whether they have industry-wide certification or not, and whether they are within one’s financial limits or not when hiring locksmiths.
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- butter - 60 g;
- bread crumbs – 2 tbsp;
- white fish (e.g. cod) – 0,5 kg;
- salt – 1,5 tsp.;
- freshly ground white pepper;
- flour – 2 tbsp;
- heavy cream – 300 g;
- chicken egg – 2 PCs;
- for registration of meals will need shrimp.
- To bring the oven to 200 degrees. A piece of butter (about 20g) grease an oblong dish or a circular shape. A sprinkling of bread crumbs.
- Fish wash, peel and remove all the bones. Slice fish pieces and place in a food processor. To prepare fish mince, sprinkle with a little salt and mix well. Add white pepper, freshly ground, flour, egg and softened with a fork the butter.
- To reintroduce a food processor with the tomatoes and gradually add the heavy cream, continue to stir. Repeat the procedure until the mixture is homogeneous. The main thing is not to overdo it - the mixture can flake.
- Prepared mixture pour into a greased dish or form. Important: the mixture should not occupy 2/3 of the height of the food, because while cooking the fish mixture will rise. Cover the mixture with foil or parchment paper. Place the form in a container for frying in which to pour water. Fluid should be up to the middle of the sides of the form.
- Bake fish in the oven for about an hour. To check whether the casserole, you need to pierce it with a sharp knife – its consistency must be thick.
- Cool the casserole and release the edges with a spatula or knife. Casserole chop and put on a plate. Decorate a casserole cooked and peeled shrimp.
Serve the casserole with mashed potatoes, rice or boiled potatoes. Watering prawn, mushroom or white wine sauce.
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Whether it is a house, a public area, or any type of business area, a yard is something that can include elegance to the landscape. Various kinds of grasses are made use of to serve as turf for the grass. Each person will have a various landscape design requirement. Therefore, it would certainly be much better to look into the type of lawn and check out before investing cash on its acquisition.
Turf is mainly laid to repair the spots of the landscapes that have actually been harmed. It is much easier to acquire grass from a lawn supplying firm. A good idea is that most of the grass grass supplied is of high quality and it can be utilized to boost the lawn while appreciating expense saving benefit.
Turf is basically a layer of the planet that has thick grass growth and also matted origins. Grass does not can be found in areas. It is simply a surface layer. If you wish to repair your lawn with turf, then you can do it yourself too. Use a sharp half-moonedging tool for cutting the damaged location of your grass. You have to loosen up the dirt below. Lawn turf of the same dimension need to be cut as well as placed it there. Do not forget to make use of fining sand grass dressing to dirt it. Moreover, if there are some spaces left, you can position items of lawn there also. The sides of the turf demand to be pressed. You can do that with your feet. Hereafter, water that piece as well as leave it for a few days. Ensure that nobody walks on it. Within a few days, it will begin rooting.
If you are including brand-new landscape, after that you may like making use of seed due to the fact that it is less pricey. It would certainly be better to lay grass instead due to the fact that seeds call for even more time to grow and also their upkeep will turn out to be pricey for you. Right here are some standards for your convenience:
It is recommended to lay turf in modest temperature. Early spring or autumn is mosting likely to be a great time for this objective.
The soil must be prepared before getting the lawn.
The area where you are going to roll the grass on should be detailed. You can make use of garden string as well as spikes for laying out.
It will be fine if the turf is overlapped due to the fact that the concept is to lay each grass close to another. Half inch overlapping is bearable.
You can also reduce turf strips to fill out the vacant areas to offer a natural appearance.
It is much better not to stroll on the land where you have newly included grass. If you have to stroll, see to it that you walk carefully without interrupting the placement.
Once you are performed with laying the turf, it is advised to touch the turf with a backside of the garden spade. Make certain that you do that carefully. This will certainly guarantee the call of the turf with soil.
After this, you will prepare to hydrate the grass with water.
As long as the lawn grass supplied by the turf providing business is of top quality, your landscape is mosting likely to look terrific.
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FACTS & FIGURES
Founded in 1958
3,195 Faculty Staff
Fuzhou University (FZU) is a national key university designated as a "National Double First-Clas" University Project institution and a "National 211 Project" institution. The development of the university is supported jointly by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense under agreements separately signed with the Fujian Provincial People's Government. Founded in 1958 with a focus on engineering, FZU has now developed into a key university that specializes in engineering and science and supports the study of a wide spectrum of disciplines covering science, engineering, economics, management, humanities, laws and the arts.
FZU has a number of campuses in Fuzhou, Xiamen and Quanzhou with a combined are of 4.7 Km². It is made up of 19 colleges for undergraduate and postgraduate education and one independent college. The university takes pride in the strengths of its disciplines, including one "Double First-Class" discipline group, one national key discipline, one national key (developing) discipline, 5 provincial innovation platforms for prime disciplines, 6 provincial special key disciplines and 26 provincial key disciplines. Three of the university's disciplines, namely chemistry, engineering and material sciences, are ranked among the top 1% according to Essential Science Indicators.
FZU has a faculty and staff of 3,195, of whom 2,078 are full-time teachers. Currently there are over 24,000 undergraduate students and over 11,000 postgraduate students in the various disciplines. Since its founding, over 210,000 students have graduated from doctoral, masters, undergraduate and secondary programmes at FZU.
FZU has set up a state-level university science and technology park. Of the university's 12 state-level and 121 provincial level science and technology innovation platforms, there are one national key laboratory, 8 state-level engineering research centres, 3 national bases for international science and technology co-operation, 3 MOE key laboratories and one MOE engineering research centre.
The university vigorously develops external co-operation and exchanges, and has forged partnerships with over 140 universities, research institutes and famous enterprises in the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia and China's Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. As a university that receives international students funded by the Chinese Government Scholarship, FZU has enrolled international students from nearly 30 countries. It has hired over 50 overseas experts and scholars to teach here and set up "Look West Library", the first centre in China to be dedicated to Western literature and codes and records. The university currently has 3 Sino-foreign co-operation programmes available to undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students. Exchanges with Taiwan have been strengthened, now featuring a two way communication mode. The university has implemented a national key pilot project for the reform of Fujian-Taiwan co-operation in running schools, with its two-way communication training model being a highlight in Fujian-Taiwan education exchanges and co-operation. FZU has become an important window for science, education and culture exchanges between Fujian and foreign countries and Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao.
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Tropolone emerged in the screening of the chelator fragment collection (CFL) seeing that an inhibitor from the Zn2+-reliant virulence aspect, elastase (LasB). atoms to bind steel ions (we.e. O,O donor ligand, Body 1), as well as the work of tropolone-based systems in the look of metalloprotein inhibitors continues to be explored.[5, 6] Tropolone continues to be defined as an inhibitor of several Zn2+-dependent metalloenzymes including carboxypeptidase A, thermolysin, matrix metalloproteases (MMP-2 and -3), and anthrax lethal factor (LF) with IC50 values which range from 0.003C1.4 mM.[1, 4, 7] Tropolone in addition has been found to be always a potent inhibitor from the dinuclear copper-dependent enzyme tyrosinase (IC50 worth of ~400 nM); however, a recently available crystal framework of tropolone destined to tyrosinase revealed the fact that natural product will not act by coordinating towards the steel ion. Open up in another window Body 1 Metal-binding groups (MBGs) and derived inhibitors with IC50 values shown for Rabbit polyclonal to ADAMTS3 LasB inhibition. In order to identify ideal metal-binding groupings (MBGs) for concentrating on metalloprotein energetic sites, a fragment-based medication discovery (FBDD) strategy has been used via the advancement SAR131675 supplier of chelator fragment libraries (CFLs). CFLs are particularly made with fragments that may coordinate steel ions in the energetic site of metalloproteins. This process has revealed book scaffolds such as for example hydroxypyrones, hydroxypyridiones, hydroxyquinolines, and quinolone sulfonamides to work MBGs against a number of metalloproteins, including MMPs, LF, and many others.[4, 7, 10] LasB[11, 12] is one of the virulence factors made by to promote infections within a bunch.[13, 14] Previous mutation- and vaccine-based research have got revealed that LasB has a critical function to advertise virulence through targeted proteolysis of web host tissue protein and disease fighting capability elements. Moreover, LasB in addition has SAR131675 supplier been from the establishment of antibiotic-resistant biofilm and swarm colonies.[18, 19] Because proof exists helping the analysis of virulence factors seeing that promising new antibiotic goals,[20C22] the quest for non-peptidic, little molecule inhibitors of LasB is of curiosity. Recently, the testing of CFL-1.1 against elastase (LasB) was proven to make several strikes. Among the original strikes was 3-hydroxy-1,2-dimethylpyridine-4(1to form swarm colonies continues to be from the advancement of antibiotic level of resistance,[27, 28] indicating that little molecule inhibitors of LasB could possibly be used as adjuvants with traditional antibiotics to improve the susceptibility of antibiotic-resistant to these medicines. To examine the anti-swarming activity of compound 7a, strain PA14 was grown SAR131675 supplier on swarm agar plates containing either DMSO (control) or 25 M of 7a. As demonstrated in Number 5, this tropolone-based inhibitor could totally inhibit the swarming phenotype as of this focus, exhibiting swarming inhibitory properties much like 2. Importantly, 7a was found to become non-cytotoxic to PA14 at a focus of 25 M (Number S6?). Finally, substance 10, which includes an acetylated tropolone MBG, was discovered to be significantly less able to inhibiting swarming (Number S7?). Therefore, these outcomes demonstrate the of this organic product-based chelating moiety for the look of antimicrobial metalloprotease inhibitors. Open up in another window Number 5 Swarming of stress PA14 in the lack (still left, DMSO control) or existence of 7a (correct, 25 M). Conclusions To conclude, the initial tropolone-based metalloprotein inhibitors have already been produced by a chelator-focused FBDD strategy. These compounds will be the strongest non-peptidic small-molecule inhibitors of LasB reported to time and show exceptional activity within a cell-based swarming assay. Significantly, the tropolone MBG-derived inhibitors are more vigorous and even more selective compared to the previously discovered HOPTO-based compounds. The task presented here’s consistent with previously research on tropolone-based metalloprotein inhibitors. As the majority of the prior tropolone-based inhibitors had been discovered by testing of natural basic products, this research demonstrates how usage of chelator fragment libraries and sublibraries can quickly identify network marketing leads for the introduction of such inhibitors. Today’s findings clearly claim that id of privileged chelating scaffolds for confirmed metalloenzyme can result in the realization of both metalloprotein inhibitors. Supplementary Materials ESIClick here to see.(1.9M, SAR131675 supplier pdf) Footnotes ?Electronic supplementary information (ESI) obtainable: Detailed synthesis, charaterization, and assay procedures. Find DOI: 10.1039/b000000x/. ?We thank Dr. Yongxuan Su (UCSD) as well as the Molecular Mass Spectrometry Service for.
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Family is one of those things you are born into. You don't get to choose your family, it's just kind of what you are given...and your family is different than mine. In an ideal scenario, members of the family support each other, live together, and have relationships with each other.
While it sounds like I'm talking about mom, dad, and siblings, I'm using family as a metaphor for the organs in your body. Your heart, liver, kidneys, lungs, etc., they are the proverbial members the family living with you.
When your family gets along, the world can feel balanced, at peace, and life is wonderful. When there is disruption, chaos, or when one member of the family isn't cooperating with the rest...life is hard and difficult for everyone. Funny the way it is....that during times of difficulty members bind together to support and supplement any issues that one member might be having... to keep the community protected.
A good family needs care. If yours is doing great, then do all you can to keep them great. If there are members that are struggling, then do what needs to be done, to provide relief to the community protecting you. Your body is the only thing you are guaranteed to have until the day that you die. If you want to live long...don't neglect your family.
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With an estimated energy cost of only $2.35 per year and an anticipated savings of 507 pounds of carbon emissions per occupant, Australian architectural firms The Sociable Weaver and Clare Cousins Architects have created a luxurious, cost-effective, yet modern 10-star sustainable home. This is Australia’s first 10-star carbon positive home and judging from the ending list of features, it’s rather impressive. iReviews has covered the recent uptick in smart homes extensively (Bert’s Box, The Coodo modular home, the solar-powered Koda micro home, and The Kasita Home) but none have been branded with a 10-Star rating.
“The 10-Star home is Victoria’s first home to have a 10-Star energy rating,” Nat Woods from the Sociable Weaver told New Atlas. “We believe it also to be the first home in Australia that is 10-Star, carbon positive and built to zero-waste and building biology philosophies – we like to call it the full sustainable package deal.”
The Fully Sustainable Package Deal
The fully sustainable package deal includes a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) hardwood clad exterior, industrial concrete flooring with under slab insulation, passive solar design features, a butterfly-shaped roof equipped with 5 kW of solar panels, and super high interior ceilings – all to maximize solar penetration. The 1,722-sq ft home was built using conventional construction methods but all subcontractors were required to limit waste during the building process. The end result: only three bags of landfill trash from the project. Unprecedented.
“The home follows standard construction processes,” says Woods. “We deliberately opted for processes and technology that are readily available in the market and affordable. We didn’t want to design a home that requires expensive technology or complex processes that not all builders are familiar with. All efforts were taken to ensure as little waste to landfill was generated during construction.”
10-Star Home Features
Both The Sociable Weaver and Clare Cousins Architects had a clear-cut mission: design a home that will exceed its carbon footprint over its lifetime and make it aesthetically pleasing. Proving, once again, that eco-friendly does not mean compromising on the integration of beautiful, yet functional design elements. This is especially true when you consider the built-in 10,000 liters (2,642 gallons) rainwater tank, the double-glazed windows, LED lighting throughout, and the strategically placed non-toxic furnishings. The home is the perfect balance between rustic and modern without going too overboard with eco-friendly everything.
“Through Life Cycle Analysis by eTool, modeling shows that over the lifetime of the home, the 10 Star Home will not only negate its carbon footprint but will positively exceed it,” said The Social Weaver. This equates to 203 kilograms of carbon emissions saved per year per occupant, equivalent to planting 9,553 trees or removing 48 million balloons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.”
What would a carbon-positive home be without solar power? “The passive solar design maximizes solar penetration through the long north-facing window and thermal mass to trap heat during the day and then release it at night,” says Woods. “We have used a new insulation technology called Bio-phase Change Material (bioPCM) which is installed in the walls and ceilings to trap and release heat. Even on a cold Victorian’s winter’s day, the home is still noticeably warm inside without the need for any mechanical heating.”
The Mission: To Revolutionize Green Design
The interior of the 10-Star home features a large open kitchen/living room/dining layout which brings the outdoors inside the home. There is plenty of room for hosting guests, especially when you consider the floor to ceiling glass windows which always add a more open feel to interior spaces. From timber furniture made with reclaimed/sustainable-sourced wood to organic cotton mattresses/bedding, occupants get to experience eco-friendly amenities in each room of the house. With the goal of keeping indoor pollutants at bay, the 10-Star home comes with air-purifying indoor plants and is finished with non-toxic paints.
“We love the warm and welcoming feel the home has,” says Woods. “As soon as you step inside you feel relaxed and at peace – which is fantastic seeing as we use the home as our office.”
Future Green Design Plan of Attack
Australia’s first 10-Star carbon-positive home is priced at $386,400 (AUD 490,000). Next up on the docket for Sociable Weaver: building a home in the Mullum Creek eco-village development “sometime in 2018”. In the meantime, the goal is to revolutionize green design. “We want to continue to push the boundaries of sustainable building in Australia, encouraging all builders and designers to think about simple ways that they can build homes that are kinder to the planet,” says Woods.
About The Sociable Weaver
The Sociable Weaver is a design and building company that creates healthy, sustainable, community-minded, functional homes. Our thoughtfully designed houses encourage connection to nature, to community, to family, to friends and to ourselves.
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Class teacher: Mrs Mali
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Cant
Daily reading is essential. Reading with your child and discussing the text with them is significant in developing their comprehension and inference skills. Please ensure your child has their reading record in school as this is checked daily.
Spellings will be sent home on a Friday and books need to be handed in on a Wednesday. Children will be tested every Friday and they will have the opportunity to learn their spellings at school.
Mental Arithmetic Maths books will also be sent home on a Friday and books need to be handed in on a Wednesday. Please ensure children complete only one test per week and no more or less.
Every week, children will play the Golden 100 Times Tables game. It is a great and fun way to practise those times tables. We also practise our tables daily through chanting them as a song and compete against each other in fun timed activities.
A fantastic website that children can access at home is ‘Hit the Button’.
Children will have PE lessons every Wednesday and swimming on Friday. Please ensure children have suitable footwear please and the correct PE kit/swim wear. Please do not forget that all Kit should be labelled.
Welcome back to another exciting new term. We have got lots going on and it is going to be a very busy one!
This term in literacy the children will be reading many stories written by David Walliams. They will then write their own humorous stories in the style of David Walliams. Children will also be writing descriptive poems and reading various short stories from other cultures. They will also be learning how to write their own non chronological report linked to their Geography topic.
This term, children will focus on mastering key skills, such as, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. They will also learn about time, angles and shape.
Our RE lessons will be learning about Sacred Texts. Children will understand the term sacred and what makes a text sacred. They will learn about the different sacred texts in Christianity, Sikhism and Hinduism.
This term, the children will be leaning about Ancient Egypt. They will begin to understand what makes Ancient Egyptians significant, the Pharaohs, Pyramids and Obelisks and create a timeline to show the main events that occurred in Ancient Egypt history.
This summer term, the children will be learning about International Trade. They will learn about food miles and use maps to how far food travels to the United Kingdom. They will also learn about travel and tourism in different countries and research the popular tourist attractions.
In Science the children will learn about Electricity. The children will explain ways that electricity is generated and identify electrical appliances and their uses. Children will also investigate the differences between complete and incomplete switches.
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About This Course
The Noble Wisdom of the Time of Death is a Mahāyāna sūtra taught by Buddha Śākyamuni. In the Tibetan language it is titled: ‘phags pa ‘da ka ye shes bya ba’i mdo.
The sūtra teaches the definitive meaning, or ultimate meaning, relating to Buddha nature. Because this sūtra teaches the single essential point, the result, it is classified as belonging to the third turning of the Dharma wheel.
Under the direction of Phakchok Rinpoche, we have brought together video and audio teachings on The Noble Wisdom of the Time of Death Sūtra. In addition, you will find here materials to aid in contemplation and guides to apply the wisdom of the text in practice.
Rinpoche teaches this sūtra often because he believes that it gives very clear instruction. It outlines how to practice vipaśyanā (clear insight) meditation authentically. Here, in a short video, Rinpoche gives a brief introduction and explains why he finds this teaching helpful.
The module offers reflection questions and reminders from the text in addition to teachings. Also, the text of the sūtra is offered with two classical commentaries. Here you can learn how to practice by hearing, reading, and contemplating. In this way, you can engage with the teachings and repeatedly reflect on the meaning in depth. The sūtra consists of five major topics. Thus, in the material provided here, you will find guidance and teachings on each topic.
The Sūtra’s Five Points:
- Great compassion
- Freedom from reference points
Here, Rinpoche explains each point in depth. Then he also demonstrates how to practically apply these points in our meditation.
Practical Tips and Advice
Phakchok Rinpoche’s teachings here are divided into 8 units. Although you have access to all the units at the same time, we suggest that you spend some time contemplating each unit and following the meditation or practice instructions given there. You might wish to spend at least a week working with each unit and gaining familiarity.
Additionally, we have included reflection questions. We hope that these questions provoke additional contemplation, and allow you to review key element of each talk section. Also, please make use of the discussion forum to offer your comments on these reflections, or to raise points of your own.
We recommend that you give yourself the time to proceed through the units slowly and carefully. The sūtra itself is very short, but the meaning is quite profound. As Rinpoche notes, we can apply the instructions of this text to every type of practice we undertake, throughout our lives. You will notice that Rinpoche repeats the sūtra itself frequently. This is a traditional method of internalizing a teaching and it can be very helpful. Every time that we read the text, we may discover new layers of meaning, and find points that strike our hearts.
We hope that this support program is of great benefit, and we encourage you to discuss the teachings in the student forum. By doing so, we keep this teaching alive and very meaningful.
Thank you for undertaking this study and may all be auspicious!
The Noble Wisdom of the Time of Death is a Mahāyāna sūtra taught by Buddha Śākyamuni. In this brief text, the Buddha gives pith instructions on the mind. Phakchok Rinpoche teaches this text frequently as it offers clear advice on key points of practice.
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Succession involves the practice of passing on private property, title, debts, rights and obligations upon the death of an individual. As a legal terminology, succession encompasses “taking the rights of another as his or her successor”. In the context of property, succession is a kind of transfer of title to property of descendent under the law. It entails the transfer of legal or official power from an individual who formally held them to another who undertakes current responsibilities to execute those powers.
Further, the law of succession defines the rules of devolution of property in case a person dies without making a “will”. A will is a legal declaration. A valid will must comply with certain formalities. A will is intended to dispose of/transfer the property. There must be some property to be transferred to others after the death of the owner.
Below is some information regarding succession as per the Civil Code, 2017, in Nepal.
Order of preference of heirs for succession
The order of preference of nearest heirs for succession is as follows:
- Husband or wife living in the undivided family
- Son, daughter, widow daughter-in-law living in the undivided family
- Father, mother, stepmother, grandson, granddaughter, granddaughter-in-law on the side of son or daughter, living in the undivided family
- Separated husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, stepmother
- Separated grandson, granddaughter from the son’s generation
- Separated grandfather, grandmother,
- Grandfather, grandmother, elder brother, younger brother, elder sister, younger sister, elder brother’s wife or younger brother’s wife (widow) living in the undivided family
- Uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, living in the joint family
- Separated elder brother, younger brother, elder sister, younger sister, elder brother’s wife or younger brother’s wife (widow).
- The person who is in the first order of preference listed above at the time when succession to one’s property is open but who is serving the person in the subsequent order of preference shall not be entitled to succession.
- Further, if there are more than one heirs in the same order of preference, all of them shall equally be entitled to the succession. If any heir in the order of preference entitled to succession does not intend to succeed, the other heirs in the same order shall be entitled to succession. If any heir in that order of preference does not intend to accept succession, the heir in the successive order of preference shall be entitled to the succession.
Distant heir’s entitlement to succession
According to section 240 of Civil Code,2017, if a person dies when he or she was staying with any distant heir after taking his or her partition share of property in spite of having his or her nearer heir and succession to him or her open, the heir with whom that person was so staying shall be entitled to his or her property succession.
In addition to this, section 241 of the same code provides that if a close heir has not taken good care of a person but a distant heir has done so, the distant heir who has so taken care of him or her shall be entitled to succession.
Obligations and rights of the person upon whom succession is devolved
The obligations and rights of the person upon whom succession is devolved shall be as follows:
- To perform funeral and obsequies of the deceased according to his or her rites and rituals. However, if the funeral and obsequies of a deceased have been performed by a person other than one who is entitled to the succession, the person so entitled shall pay the costs incurred in the performance of funeral and obsequies and additional 25 per cent of such costs to the person who has performed such rites
- To repay the debt borrowed by the deceased to the creditor
- To have right over the debt lent and investments made by the deceased.
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Burnley Grammar School
Item #: 1607
Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, December 1959
Hugh on 8th August 2022 at 19:16
Thank you, one a gain a post full of common sense and information.
From what has been posted it is clear that in some schools punishments were severe, especially those administered to a bare bottom, but I did not realise that it has been stated that parents used the same punishment on a bare bottom. I must have been treated leniently. My dad never used a cane or anything like it. However, because I was in shorts until about the age of 13 or 14 , punishment was a sharp slap round the bare legs and that stung. I am glad that my dad did not make me stand and take down my trousers and pants because I think that would be as demeaning as receiving the punishment.
Rich C, thank you for your posts about your time growing up. I went to a boys state grammar school but the lad who lived next door went to another school in town that was an Irish Christian Brothers grammar school.
I remember he gave a very similar account of events to you of daily strapping of hands at the front of the class for something as minor as a spelling mistake or failing at a mental maths question and then the much more serious 'bare arse leathering' for anything a bit more serious.
I experienced nothing llike that though the cane was in use at my grammar school and I would say most of us got it at one time or another, I certainly did.
In those days of course it wasn't uncommon for you to be 'dealt with' by your mates parents if you misbehaved at their house or on their watch and my mates father who was Irish had a hefty leather belt that on occasion was applied with force to our bare bottoms and equally, when at my house, my father was not averse to delivering a bare bottom caning when he thought it was required. We both thought the cane was a lot worse but it was used less often.
I've said before, I'm retired but was a GP for many years. I almost hesitate to make this comment because of some of the sheer antagonism that has gone on here both in recent days but also in the past.
In very many years of practice in a reasonbly big GP practice - 10 partners and as many again as juniors, only on two occasions in the last ten years did we have a case of abuse, in neither case was it my patient but these things are discussed at clinical meetings. In both cases, social services were involved and all protocols were followed. On a small number of occasions we suspected abuse we always followed protocols but on those occasions we were proven wrong.
I must therefore conclude that actual instances of abuse are so few and far between they cannot in any context be considered common and I doubt they ever were. No doubt things happened but also, memories change with time. Personally, I would not wish to trust a memory of many years ago to make a serious allegation about anyone, others of course feel differently.
With that, I will let the matter rest.
Sorry for such a rapid reappearance, but this has just come up on the BBC news website, in connection with the Nicky Campbell story I mentioned last week:
I am not, and have never, for one minute, suggested that every school had pests like this "man", but I was just making the point that far too many teachers in the past got away with behaviour which would have been highly questionable and/or illegal even back in the days when it occurred, except that the lads who complained were either not believed or made to shut up about it,
Andy: "Oh dear, here he goes again and posting in the middle of the night, a true keyboard warrior who posts all night and skives all day."
What a truly rancorous little man you are. FYI I am self-employed and I happen to work better early in the day, but today I "clocked off".so to speak, at 1830 this evening, having started at 0500 this morning. I was awake early this morning as it was a very warm night and I needed to shower. Is that alright with you?. haven't broken any "Andy" rules have I?. .As for "skiving", well you were scribbling away with your latest little insult at 1530 this afternoon.....
I have no idea why you have this personal vendetta against me, and I can only suggest that if you have some axe to grind you take up my offer and email me directly, instead of boring the whole board with your neurotic tantrums on this forum. It is not what it was designed for, and i am sure many others are as bored by your antics as I am. But I will not just "go away" if and when I have something I want to say. If it upsets your sensibilities that much, I suggest you just don't read what I write.
The post placed at 3.26pm this afternoon seems to illustrate that its author does not have a clear head for obvious reasons for anyone who reads it.
Alan on 5th August 2022 at 04:14
Oh dear, here he goes again and posting in the middle of the night, a true keyboard warrior who posts all night and skives all day.
Several weeks ago, Andy said he was withdrawing from this board and for a few weeks he did and it was a peaceful place with adult discussion taking place and some excellent posts but then he couldn't stay away, up he pops with his usual drivel about abuse everywhere.
The number of lads, as has been pointed out among the millions who went through schools is statistically insignificant but Andy and his handles have to find abuse everywhere, something most lads have no concept of and continuing to insist it took place everywhere actually belittles the experience of those who did experience it. I maintain this is the behaviour of someone who carries guilt.
The poster in question continually throws out the allegation that I am an amateur psychologist. I know in what I say next I will have the Andy handles calling me a liar and challenging me to prove what I say, don't bother, I'm not going to any more than anyone else here is asked to prove what they do. I'm not and 'amateur' psychologist but I do recognise someone who is utterly sick and posting the same nonsense repeatedly and has for years.
I do wish he would cease, desist and seek treatment or alternatively hand himself to the proper authorities to investigate his earlier behaviour.
There has been some throwing around of the word 'troll' on here, so I decided to take a look at the dictionary definition to be clear to myself what it really means in the context of a discussion, and here it is;
'a person who intentionally antagonizes others online by posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content'
I'll let others judge who they think this definition clearly fits best.
@ Robbie - thanks for your post - especially about night-time work. It deserves a fuller reply than this which I'll try and do later.
Andy wrote: "
"On the other hand we have Alan, Laura, Nick, John, Biff and a few more who post the same repetitive drivel".
Drivel?. Other people's experiences are written off by you in that ill-mannered way?. One might make the same accusation about you, with your pseudo-intellectual amateur psychology.
If you can't keep it civil , I would ask you to address any complaints you have about me TO me - I gave my email address expressly for that purpose once on here, as you trawl old posts you will find it easily enough, but I assume you haven't got the guts to do that. You are one of those people who conduct your ill-natured campaigns in public, and probably don't have the guts to do it on a person to person basis. That says more about you than it does about me, or any of the other people you seem to have problems with,.
What on earth is happening in this day and age when people with different opinions cannot simply disagree in an agreeable manner with each other and remain polite despite even the strongest differences of opinion they hold on subjects. Civilised discourse. I recommend it.
Do we really need to try and recreate some of the worst aspects of the old school playground within a benign school memory board setting groups of people against each other.
My goodness, the Alan handles are busy this afternoon and in recent days uncovering abuse where people say there isn't any and looking though old posts looking for things that are only coincidences but of course they can't be because abuse is everywhere.
Thank goodness we have Robbie, Rich C, Roy C, Johan, Richard, Tim H, Paul J, Bob, Marcus, Bernard, Billy, Paul, Devon Lad, Hugh, Trevor, Stan and many more who post their innocent memories.
On the other hand we have Alan, Laura, Nick, John, Biff and a few more who post the same repetitive drivel uncovering abuse in every post even when the poster is clear there isn't any and believing that everyone else who posts here is in some way involved. It's called reaction formation, something of an over reaction by guilty people for the sins in their past.
School bully stories like the one here from 1973 are always a welcome read. If I'd ever let my fist fly at one then I'd probably have been the kind who hurt herself with a broken wrist or knuckles and gone away nursing my own injury. It always feels like a risk to do that but it's good when it pays off.
Andy + Johan. These two names reappeared at much the same time and have both acted in a remarkably similar fashion in tone and style with a focus on attacking one specific individual, Alan, who also reappeared. I believe the impression is trying to be given that multiple people are attacking Alan when infact he is being singled out for the most part by just one.
I do not understand why people waste their time doing this and being so angry in what should be a pleasant discussion with friendly arguments being made and debated.
For what it's worth I found the comment placed under the Johan name in reply to Laura to be nothing short of absolutely disgraceful and lacking any class.
John hits the bullseye there.
I remember the afternoon break on 5th April 1973 when I cracked a well timed right hander straight at the face of a 14 year old bullying the younger brother of my best friend in school. Over a few weeks he'd extorted a lot of money in silver coins from him. He done the same to some others and taken food from them too. I left him with a great shiner of a black eye for days afterwards. You should have seen those who swarmed around this threatening maniac melt away from him in the days afterwards isolating him and I got a few pats on the back for having the gumption to go for him and it gave me some credibility and respect. I was always quiet and introverted and I acted completely out of character in a fleeting moment of fury and adrenaline which made what I did all the more powerful. I never got into trouble for landing one on him, even though the teachers saw his black eye and knew I'd done it, although no teacher saw me actually do it. I even managed to get a lot of the money he extorted returned. What I learned that day was that many school bullies actually have a glass jaw and they might look all big and threatening, this guy was bigger than me, but with one well aimed launch like you really mean it you can bring them crumbling back down to size in seconds with an intimidatory reputation they can't recover very easily.
TimH on 3rd August 2022 said;
Rich C - agree with you pretty much whole-heartedly.
Roy C - agree with you.
I'm always a bit bothered about people who post messages on these boards in the middle-of-the-night.
Agree with you Tim on the first two points. What a great poster Rich C is.
As Roy C said, the best comes from first hand experiences and I like to hear how similar or different other peoples school life was and the attitudes they took to things like PE. There seems to be a definite divide of opinion much like how I remember the sporty and non sporty kids divide in my own classes.
Worried about night posting, I suppose you might mean myself as one of those who has stuck a couple of night time posts. Quite simple really, as I work at a media organisation on their night desk and have some quieter moments and a break that gives me a chance to read up when I grab a quick moment. I'm not one of those quiet solitary insomniacs sitting in a pokey old bedroom browsing social media all night and sleeping all day with no job to go to. At work in an air conditioned building is the best place to be on a humid summer night rather than trying to sleep back at home in a stuffy bedroom. In the best place right now before I start work shortly. I live increasingly in the 24 hour society and it suits me very well. I'd have probably chosen to go to school from 12am to 6am if the chance had ever been available. Love the night time.
Rich C is everything that this history thread should be about.
Well written, intelligent, informative and deeply personal. Plus answers asked questions put to him in a nice manner.
Rich I thought your philosophy on life was hugely inspiring following the childhood you described to us here. It's to your immense credit that you overcame that and achieved so much and it was so pleasing to read your ultimate positivity.
Johan to Laura - "your post is totally inappropriate and full of breath taking arrogance."
No it wasn't - but yours was.
Some people don't seem to like seeing some professional level headed common sense being written on this thread do they.
I wonder why?
Laura on 3rd August 2022 at 00:14
I suspect you would be able to find abuse anywhere, congratulations. Please do not patronise me, your post is totally inappropriate and full of breath taking arrogance.
A well made and brilliantly written post Laura.
A little tale of mine from the past weekend around where I live. There are two 17 year old boys (Jake and Leo) living either side of me a couple of homes along the road. Both go to the same school. I know one very well, Jake. The other lad, Leo is considered a very quiet and polite young man who has never been a bother to anyone and never makes a nuisance of himself in any way at all, and comes from a decent family and upbringing. Both boys do actually and the neighbourhood is a good one and the school they go to is too.
Yet at the weekend speaking to the family of Jake, the boy that I know very well I was shocked to discover a very different side to this other quiet polite boy in our road, Leo. I found out much to my amazement that in school for the past couple of years this well regarded 17 year old Leo had actually been making the life of the 17 year old Jake that I know an absolute misery and unhappy with persistant low level petty bullying in school and even outside of school. I would never have believed it possible as Leo projects a completely unassuming, quiet personality who keeps his head down and behaves himself and has never given anyone living nearby any reason to doubt this.
But speaking with Jake's grandmother, not his mother, at their house I mentioned the other lad Leo in a positive way and then suddenly found myself confronted with indignation and a lesson in what quiet respectful Leo had been getting up to in school, with another boy, against Jake who was also present while I was talking to his gran. It seemed like a targetted campaign of bullying harrassment had been ongoing for two years. Jake is a boy who is thoughtful, polite and quite sensitive but when younger was actually a bit of a hyper child but has calmed down into what you'd call a rather nice sweet young man with a caring attitude. The other quiet lad Leo is more sporty, plays football a lot and all that kind of thing. I'd say he's quietly confident, but as I've said never a problem in any way ever. Yet in school and with another lad his own age who lives in the same road he has been creating trouble and making Jake unhappy for a long period of time.
I thought it was worth a mention here.
Rich C - agree with you pretty much whole-heartedly.
Roy C - agree with you.
Johan - interesting comments - Thanks for posting. Unfortunately some people look to have their own agenda.
I'm always a bit bothered about people who post messages on these boards in the middle-of-the-night.
Gentlemen, how about we stop feeding the troll?
Through the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s many millions of boys passed through secondary schools. Most had a healthy and fulfilling time there and gained a decent education and I count themselves among them.
A few, a statistically insignficant number had a bad time including being abused perhaps sexually but the number was in relative terms very small and there is no evidence to the contrary.
On the child abuse enquiry, do remember that initially it was to be chaired by a judge, she was removed amidst allegations she was not independent, another lawyer was appointed who was also ousted and then a second judge was brought in from New Zealand, she could not have been anything but independent but she also quit. Judges would not have allowed hearsay evidence, do you see a theme?
Finally, a social worker was appointed, a social worker who had given credence to the most spurious claims in the past and all proceeded so the account of allegations being accepted about someone long dead by two people who were contradicted by many more would be par for the course.
Those who are obsessed with abuse generally have one of two backgrounds. They either have been abused or are abusers trying to cover their tracks. In either case, this isn't the place for them to be airing their thinking, as has been said before, this is a place for innocent memories and in the main that is what the vast majority post here, diverted at times by a couple of posters who I will refrain from naming but they know who they are. One is fortunately fairly scarce these days in their contributions, the other less so.
I would suggest we stop feeding the current poster or other handles with similar issues, as either an abuser or abused, they are not going to find what they need here.
There he goes again - Andy, the amateur psychologist. I didnt say EVERY school was tainted, but a good many were, except that people like yourself either were lucky enough not to attend a bad school or if you did, you were so morally superior you didn't notice what was going on.
Stop with the insults, and don't presume to tell, others if they are allowed to post or not in your not-so-humble opinion.
As someone who has spoken to many people down the years on this kind of subject matter I'd like to raise a point related to what Johan has written.
The part where you wrote about the two people in class being listened to whilst the other fifteen were ignored.
First, I think all comers should be heard, not dismissed. Listened to with the views taken on board.
But there might be a bit of a misconception here. Where abusive behaviour takes place in a situation such as a school or workplace with many people present, abusers only ever tend to focus attention on a very small amount of individuals at any one time, often just one, maybe a couple, possibly a few more in rare cases. It would be highly improbable that an active serial criminal abuser would take on an entire class in one go or even a large number of anybody in a school year. It would be more likely picking individuals off bit by bit over a period of time if it was ongoing persisitant addictive behaviour rather than a one time concern.
This is why Johan you could quite easily have a group of your 15 boys including yourself who think your schoolmaster was a right and proper respected teacher whilst another two had a completely different opinion within the same close environment and might have been abused in some way by him. In this case I am talking potential sexual, physical and mental abuse as a cover all. Do not for one moment think that one or two boys being abused by a teacher away from others eyes would necessarily choose to confide in their friends in the class. A lot of the time this just does not happen for various reasons such as shame for instance, and as seems to have been proved here, the believability issue.
Johan, without meaning to, and you wrote a fair minded piece, you have illustrated quite well issues surrounding the believability issue and why some of those who did face abusive people, in school, at home or in the workplace often don't say anything at all, wait many years and then fail to be taken seriously. I've dealt with the after effects of quite a few in my job and while some speak out at the time it is notable just how many bottle such traumas up for an incredible amount of time before finally being able to speak.
One thing I have heard from numerous people is that silence was always far easier to them than speaking out.
I'd like to suggest a little more kindness towards others who may have been affected goes a long way.
Alan on 2nd August 2022 at 18:58
Further evidence, not that any is needed of your pathological obsession that there was an abuser disguised as every adult member of staff in a boy's school.
Please seek professional help and stop posting here.
Andy wrote: "This poster is obsessed with there having been abuse everywhere even though most people who post here do not share that point of view, he continues to insist it was happening."
As I pointed out to Johan - because he - and presumably you - did not see it, witness it, or experience it personally, it is an insult to those who did to continue to insist it didn't happen. There is always the danger in single sex schools of that sort of behaviour, because some people will be unwilling to admit it happened and even try to see base motives in those who speak out about it. Hopefully, with all the extra precautions taken today, it does not happen now, but it certainly did well into the 1980s.
Alan, you wrote this -
'There are posts I read (for example grown men looking at old TV shows which should by now have been wiped, commenting on the physiques of young pre-pubescent boys naked in the shower), which leave me feeling very uncomfortable indeed'
This is presumably about the Fit & Healthy school show much talked about on here. From what I've read on recent comments it has been perfectly acceptable OBSERVATIONS on the general appearance of schoolchildren a number of years ago compared to the likely change on today that have been made, citing how slim, lean, etc they all were. An innocent and wholly accurate and normal thing to say as part of the conversation around that programme. That should not make anybody feel uncomfortable in my opinion. These were just factual and historical comments based on what could clearly be seen in a real life situation.
Where I would have agreed with you would have been if people had come on here and made personal comments with specifics about the boys physiques/appearances, such as backsides or privates to name two. That would be worth your ire. But nobody has done so.
It just feels to me that you are in danger of blurring the line a bit here from what is not a problem and is genuine to that which might be less so. I hope and think I'm grown up enough to understand the difference.
For example, it was clear to me a few months ago that constant repetition of underwear and jockstrap talk clearly was being undertaken with less than genuine motivations at times.
Richard on 1st August 2022 at 01:11
Thank you for your comments. I only learned about Song for a Raggy Boy relatively recently by which I mean in the last year. I have watched it and it is indeed shocking, while my experience was brutal, it was as nothing next to that. By what I have read, this may have been more representative of an Industrial School in Ireland where the Irish Christian Brothers held great sway over decades. These schools have not had the same publicity as the Magdalene Laundries where many girls endured horrific conditions a the hands of nuns and of course that wasn't limited to Ireland either, they existed in the UK too but have not had the same degree of publicity of honesty about them.
The reasons boys were sent to Industrial Schools were similar to the ones girls were sent to laundries - with the obvious exception and many had done nothing to deserve it though they could be sent to one after a court appearance or just because they seemed a bit 'wayward'.
My experience, while brutal, was nothing like that.
Another film that is around which I saw years ago was the Leaving of Liverpool showing the role of the Brothers in the child migration programme and the brutality of that. The UK government was party to this in no uncertain terms but unlike in Ireland it has not had the same degree of publicity here.
Robbie on 1st August 2022 at 03:09
Thank you also for your comments.
IMO, there is no point whatever in hanging on to bad things in life, I've seen people do it and they only eat you up, life is all too short. I watched my grandmother hang on to the memories of both her husband and eldest son being killed during WW2 and her life had really stopped when that happened, she died while I was about 14 and I was determined never to be like that. Her treatment of my mother was shocking and my mother was often made to feel guilty simply for being alive when her brother was dead and of course that guilt trip had consequences for how I and my brothers were treated but somehow I was able to stand back from it all and be determined I would never be like that. I think I succeeded!
My mother was the ardent catholic, my father was a bit more luke warm but it was my mother who drove our religious practice which meant going to mass daily and confession weekly! Her view of the Brothers was that they could never do anything wrong and nothing, at the time would have swayed her view. My father would not have challenged those views but he was no push over.
As for my education, well I left school with twelve top grade O levels and four top grade A levels and went to Cambridge where I graduated with a distinction so academically, I succeeded I suppose. I also left with a number of friends who have remained friends for life so I'm not sure what more I could have wanted.
I really don't believe the Brothers, at least in my school acted with malice, it was their job to educate and they did. On the day I left though at eighteen, I was determined to never look back and never to dwell on what had happened and that in future, I would sieze every opportunity that was offered to me with both hands and I think I have! I rose as high as I ever wanted to in my professional practice and now am retired with a decent pension, a very loving partner and a comfortable lifestyle that perhaps some would see as aspirational.
One thing I determined I would never do again as I went to Cambridge was that I would never set foot in a catholic church again and apart from the odd christening, weddings and funerals I never have. I also, but like many more, moved away from my parents during the time I was at university and we were never close again if indeed we ever were close.
When the whole thing of abuse and the behaviour of the Brothers came to light I was very tempted to raise it with my parents reminding them of how I used to vomit in the mornings before going to school but what good would it have done? The past couldn't be undone, they believed they were doing their best for me and why guilt trip them? My father was just as capable as any of the Brothers of delivering a serious arse warming and did when he thought it was required so he would not have seen anything wrong with what the Brothers meted out. It was no secret it happened, parents did used to comment that the Brothers use the right means to keep lads in line in a world where corporal punishment was normal. Lads I knew who went to other schools certainly received corporal punishment though probably not on the same scale as we did but certainly I can remember going to the swimming pool and lads in the changing room with a reddened of cane striped arse was not so unusual.
So, to summarise again, IMO, there is no point in holding on to the bad things in the past, you can't change them so let them go and get on with what's in front of you now!
Take care all.
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Good Dialogue is essential to your story. Dialogue moves the action along better than any other medium. Dialogue can be used effectively in fictional stories, personal experience stories, devotionals, and anecdotes within articles and nonfiction books. Here are some tips for using authentic dialogue in your manuscripts.
Multiple Characters: When possible, have two people in your story, so they can talk to each other. If this is not possible and only one person is involved in a happening, perhaps you could relay that incident after it occurred through a telephone conversation or a chat over coffee. Staying in someone’s mind and listening to their thoughts is a boring place for the reader to be.
Tags: Be careful of the tags you use for dialogue. “He said” is better than “he articulated” or “he uttered.” After all, what is important is the information between the quotation marks, not the word used for “said.” An exception would be if you needed to show strong emotion or a certain voice tone that the words by themselves didn’t express. Examples: He shouted, he whispered.
A word of warning: you can’t smile, sigh, or laugh words. Instead of writing, “You’re cute,” he smiled, use: “You’re cute,” he said with a boyish grin.
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UFO Hunters – the UFO before Roswell
Roswell USA has been the reported crash site of six unidentified flying objects, but what was deemed by many to be the crash site of UFOs was the fact that immediately after the incident, 2 Air Force officers were sent to the site for investigation. What was found there was not made public. The incident remains to this day one of the most publicly notorious UFO based stories and the fact that it has been kept under wraps for such a long period furthermore gave fuel to the public for such a prolonged period of time.
The incident took place in 1947 and it is one of the first incidents that, aided by the mainstream TV broadcasts, by the general public distrust in authorities and by many inconsistent reports over the time, it has given rise to the sprawling UFO pop culture phenomenon.
Just before this massive UFO incident took place, 2 weeks before it, another less massive incident was reported in Washington State. Two people were killed as well and there was still physical evidence of materials that were reported as being non human made in the wreckage.
Materials and debris was found under water and in the crash sites. Whether the people were killed to keep the incident under wraps or it was the aliens trying to reduce the traces of the first encounter that might have took place. In terms of physical evidence a number of objects were found that could not be explained as to how they materialized. It was a few discs made out of a composite of stone with some metal contents inside, metals that were not identifiable at the moment when the crashes were investigated.
The search for evidence and for corroborating the results continues, but one fact remains certain – 4 people were killed or died mysteriously just because they happened to be linked to the incidents.
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1) Rest when you have nothing to do. When Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn is fighting Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace, a transparent door closes, dividing them. Darth Maul paces back and forth ready to continue their battle while Qui-Gon simply sits and rests, seemingly doing nothing. In modern society we all feel like we have to be like Darth Maul. Pacing, finding a “purpose,” being anxious, stressed, waiting for doors to open. But it is great to just rest and be happy and not move when you don’t have to. I will tell you those doors will open, and it’s great.
2) Rid yourself of everything you don’t need. Obi-Wan lives a simple life in exile for 40 years when he’s on Tatooine. Yoda, Jedi Master, lives in a simple swamp hut after he loses his battle with the Emperor. They were still capable of laughing, of living, of staying healthy, and were able to train the next generation. They didn’t need anything to keep them entertained. It’s a story. But this is the way I would like to live: with my friend and my health intact, and not a material care in the world.
3) Practice being “good.” Being a good, compassionate person is a quality we develop over years and thousands of hours of practice. Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every “world” I’ve been in, most people I meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty. Supposedly it takes 10,000 hours to master something. Unfortunately, most people spend 10,000 hours trying to be a jerk to others. If all you do is put in your 10,000 with small kindnesses, then the universe will return that many times over.
4) Prioritize your health. In all of the movies I never saw an out of shape Jedi. Although there seems to be a deep spiritual component to being a Jedi, but clearly there is a physical aspect as well. They are jumping out of spaceships, fighting with light sabers, and they can probably run a four-minute mile. Heck, even Yoda at the age of 800 is jumping all over the place. Health is not important. But sickness is. If you are sick, then your thoughts will be stapled to that sickness. You can’t get rid of it. You’re in pain and pain takes up the mind and precludes you from doing the things you’d like to do. This is why yoga is not about looking good in a yoga studio. It’s about staying physically and emotionally healthy so you can focus on your spiritual life.
5) Be around other Jedis. Once Anakin Skywalker starts hanging out with Darth Sidious he becomes a bad guy (see above). Here are some things that are hard in life: being honest, being kind, and trying to add value to others. These things take time and energy. When you are around people who steal your energy then those things become even harder. As a wise man once said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
6) Be open-minded. This is a difference between Luke Skywalker and Han Solo in the original Star Wars. Luke is willing to believe. There’s a lot of issues people get “stapled to” almost as if they were sicknesses. When you find yourself thinking, “This side is DEFINITELY right,” be willing to open your mind and look at why the other side thinks the way they do. It’s never for the reasons you think. Issues are just ways for the mind to practice being open-minded.
7) Trust that life is cyclical. Luke has to watch Obi-Wan die. Han has to be captured by bounty hunters. Anakin has to be recruited as a little kid. Qui-Gon has to die. Yoda has to go into exile. Bad things happen. But if you follow steps one through six, bad things happen in cycles. Good things also. Trusting that the kindness you are putting out there is compounding in a secret bank account for you means waiting for that bank account to deliver its returns. It will.
May the force be with you on this fine day.
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Moderna Is Growing 2 New Vaccines
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This Psychiatric Hospital Used To Chain Sufferers Now It Treats Them
From our nurses who treat the whole person not the illness, to our specialty care applications, and our community outreach that meets the needs of the underserved, UNC Health is always in search of new ways to care for all North Carolinians. Learn more about how we’re working to supply one of the best care attainable to our patients. In addition to our current safety procedures, we are taking additional steps to attenuate risks at our clinics and hospitals. Learn more about our dedication to security at our healthcare facilities and doctor’s workplaces. Systematic actions to prevent or remedy health issues and promote good health in humans are undertaken by health care suppliers.
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COVID-19’s influence on the weak long-term care population has been dramatic and disproportionate to the final population. RIDOH’s objective is to mitigate COVID’s results on this population by requiring long-term care amenities to screen visitors for proof of COVID-19 vaccination and to have guests mask up while in the facility. A personalized experience motivates folks to take charge of their health. If back pain is making it difficult to accomplish daily duties, backbone injections are a low-risk remedy option that provide quick aid without surgical procedure. Here, Duke’s Michael Guo, MD, a physiatrist who specializes in treating spine-related problems with injections, explains common kinds of injections and the kinds of back and neck ache they deal with.
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Parenting Well: Post-Pandemic Metal Wellness
Parenting Well is a mental health and wellness educational and supportive space for foster, adoptive and kinship parents. Parenting Well focuses on the well-being of caregivers including their mental, emotional, and psychological health. It is not therapy but will provide psychoeducational information and strategies to help improve mental wellness.
As the country moves with hope and optimism towards reopening, some may have lingering fears, anxiety and unresolved grief resulting from the past two years. This session will provide insights on how the pandemic impacted our mental health and provide strategies to achieve mental wellness in the transition to post-pandemic life.
Facilitator: Dianne Kelly, MS, LPC
Dianne Kelly is a licensed professional counselor in private practice. She has extensive professional experience in child welfare as well as personal lived experience as a parent, stepparent, and relative caregiver.
*All participants should RSVP separately even if you will be listening on the same device.
Topics for this course
Parenting Well: Post-Pandemic Mental Wellness
After training Question
About the instructors
Much needed information
It will enhance my knowledge of the subject.
Using resources to help kids in foster care such as one on one counseling is good.
Enjoyed course. Very well spoken and thought out. Enjoyed being able to participate.great reminder to take care of myself.
The Training was excellent, Great information
very good course
I learned how to not let this bother me and breath and think positive
It was a good match for me, The presenter had a calming soothing voice and I was able to follow along
was a good course, enjoyed it
I liked this course beause it talked about how to deal with certain things as a parent. Which in turn will help me be a better foster parent.
Great course by Dianne on mental wellness post pandemic
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It is this sort of a reduction to use an induction cooktop after many years of possessing patronized electrical cookers that labored extremely slowly. You will locate it to be the most practical device for cooking. It performs more quickly than any other cooking equipment, using gas. The contents in the pan are boiled swiftly and very like any gasoline cooker, you can established it instantaneously when lower temperature is essential.
The most valuable function of an induction cooker, when compared to gas cooker or any other cooker for that matter, is the security of its use, which you will recognize much better when you have little ones at home. Given that this cooker makes use of the theory of magnetism for heating the pan, the rings do not get heated. That at some point lowers the hazard of burn up injuries that might outcome from exposed flames.
An added aspect of basic safety even though in use, is that when you start off it, the ring is heated only when you preserve a metallic pan on it, indicating you require not fear if you inadvertently left a spoon or this sort of on the hob. Make sure that the induction cooker is switched off following each and every use.
Considering that the cooker will not get scorching, you will uncover cleansing it so convenient. That implies you can simply clean the stains and splatters triggered while cooking and have no fear of receiving damage or scorched. Soon soon after finishing your cooking, you can distinct the hob in a matter of seconds, with no offering it whenever to get cool. It is very normal to have some spills and stains although utilizing any normal cooker, but not so with an induction cooker. You is not going to discover any foods getting trapped in the cooker to make it filthy. That tends to make cleaning of such cookers extremely hassle-free and rapid. The very best thing is you don’t want any injurious chemical compounds for keeping it thoroughly clean. You may just wipe it off, employing a gentle duster.
Induction cookers are going to be about for prolonged as they have manufactured the task of cooking so basic and comfy. These cookers not only hasten the method of cooking but also of cleansing.
Some of the salient attributes of the induction cooktop are:
one. site employs about ninety% of its vitality for the real cooking approach due to the fact all the process transfers all the vitality to the vessel, while in the gas prime appliances only fifty five% of the power provided is in fact consumed for cooking because its principal energy has demands conversion to warmth strength prior to it can transfer it to the vessel.
2. The induction heater, utilizing the engineering of magnetism, takes only a brief time to warmth and cools down equally quickly with no leaving any residual warmth from the cooking procedure.
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Ashland water came close to hitting bottom this year
Following a devastating shortage of water access during the Almeda fire in early September, Ashland officials turned to short-term mandatory water curtailment and improvements to long-term planning to better manage water sources in the valley.
During a meeting of the Conservation and Climate Outreach Commission Wednesday, city water conservation staff member Julie Smitherman reflected on how domestic water consumption influenced access during a critical moment in the year.
Ashland’s water is funneled via the east and west forks of Ashland Creek into Reeder Reservoir, which holds about 280 million gallons of water. But to maintain water quality and retain reserves in case of fire, drawdown can drop only to a low of 35%, Smitherman explained.
In a typical year, flow into the reservoir hovered around 15 million to 18 million gallons per day. The 2020 summer brought less than one-fifth of that amount, which is insufficient to sustain the community through the season. In the lowest recent years, only about 2 million gallons flowed in, largely depending on snowpack — just enough to cover wintertime domestic consumption.
“This might be the new norm that we’re looking at,” Smitherman said, based on multiyear trends of reduced flows into the reservoir.
Also complicating annual water management in recent years, summer consumption has nearly breached water treatment plant capacity at 7 million gallons, spurring a call for community-wide usage reduction.
Ashland’s secondary water source, the Talent Irrigation District, provides up to 2 million gallons per day through a drinking water plant, but is available only from May through mid-September. A tertiary water source, Talent-Ashland-Phoenix intertie, brings in another 2 million gallons daily, but with limited reservoir capacity to hold it.
“There are some system drawbacks that are keeping us, right now, from pumping that entire amount of water,” Smitherman said. “We’re still pulling from the reservoir as we’re pumping TAP water.”
The year began with thin snowpack and a quick spring melt, prompting community outreach about the need for irrigation evaluations and other water conservation efforts. Expecting a low water year, the city began pumping from multiple sources in July, supplementing to keep the reservoir as full as possible for September and October use, when TID shuts off, Smitherman said.
On the peak community demand day of the summer, July 31, Ashlanders consumed about 5.5 million gallons — just shy of what was used Sept. 8 to fight the Almeda fire and cover domestic use. Peak days are shifting annually toward later in the summer, Smitherman noted.
TID drawdown ceased Sept. 4, as staff started seeing poor water quality from test results. They had intended to begin pumping TAP Sept. 8, before the fire episode occurred and compromised the line.
“So now we have no TID, we have no TAP, and our reservoir has drawn down to 50%, which still sounds like a lot ... we can only draw it down safely to about 35% — that doesn’t give us much room,” Smitherman said.
With no substantial rain in the forecast and higher than normal water use, the city implemented mandatory stage one water curtailment Sept. 14. TAP came back online Oct. 1 at partial capacity. By Oct. 8, the reservoir had dropped to 36% of capacity.
Today, Reeder Reservoir continues to gradually refill — at nearly 40% as of Wednesday, when staff intended to officially end curtailment.
Interim Public Works Director Scott Fleury previously reported curtailment effectively reined in the public’s water usage, though more slowly than expected.
The city lifted mandatory stage one curtailment Oct. 29, with requests to continue voluntary water use reduction strategies whenever possible.
Conservation strategies are part of a longterm plan for reducing water use community-wide, such as irrigation smart controllers, indoor water use evaluations, gray water system usage and rain catchment, she said. The strategies have effectively helped to surpass Ashland’s goals established in the last master plan in 2012: Reduce demand on the water system 5% by 2020 and 15% by 2030. The city has already met a 15% reduction goal and reset a new objective to reduce by another 15% over the next decade.
Even with more people staying at home, consuming water both indoors and outdoors due to COVID-19, Smitherman expects to see more than 3 million gallons in water savings by the end of the year.
“Just because we said it last year doesn’t mean we’re done. We have to say it again this year — that’s how this field works,” Smitherman said. “We have to continue to remind people how they’re using their water and the best ways to reduce and use it efficiently.”
Contact Ashland Tidings reporter Allayana Darrow at email@example.com or 541-776-4497 and follow her on Twitter @AllayanaD.
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LANSDOWNE – One of the Democratic candidates for Delaware County Council discussed the importance of trap-neuter-and-return programs for stray cats in light of ongoing animal control issues in the county during a meeting Friday morning.
Dawn Manning, president of the Animal Friends of Lansdowne, showed Democrat Patricia Worrell how to set up a trap for feral cats in a neighborhood in Lansdowne. She said a good way for residents to determine whether a cat already has been neutered or spayed is if the cat has a clipped ear. The feral cat’s ears are usually clipped during the surgery.
Manning showed Worrell how to set up a cage to trap the cats. She suggested putting some food inside the cage and covering it with either a blanket or foliage. She said some of the cats can become adoptable after they have been neutered or spayed for about $30.
“It’s an effective process – not an end all to the problem – but it’s a great start,” said Worrell, the owner of a cleaning service business and chairwoman of the Chester Zoning Hearing Board.
Manning said it’s important to educate county residents about the benefits of trap-neuter-and-return programs. She said it’s easy to set up the traps anywhere, but suggested county residents check their municipality’s ordinances first. She said the Animal Friends of Lansdowne will be conducting an educational workshop for residents at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 6 at the Lansdowne Borough Hall. Manning’s organization partners with the Spayed Club Clinic in Sharon Hill for spaying and neutering services, and Petco in Clifton Heights for adoption services.
Using estimates by the Feral Cat Project, Delaware County might have as many as 100,000 feral cats, according to Jed Grobstein, campaign manager for the Democratic countywide slate.
The animal control saga in Delaware County began a few years ago when the Delaware County SPCA announced it was becoming a no-kill facility. County council stepped in and tried to develop a plan to build a new facility to handle stray animals, but it became too expensive and the idea was eventually tossed.
Council then created an Animal Protection Board, which developed a contract with the Chester County SPCA. The board pays the Chester County SPCA $30,000 a month and bills municipalities for the services of transporting stray animals to the facility in West Goshen. The contract runs through 2017.
In recent months, there have been reports about overcrowding at the Chester County SPCA. State Sen. Andy Dinniman, D-19, of West Whiteland, recently got involved with this issue and now the Chester County SPCA wants to expand its board of directors to include three representatives from Delaware County. County council Vice Chairman Mario Civera has welcomed the idea and said he is currently in the process of selecting three Delaware County representatives.
There are two seats up on the five-member county council in the Nov. 5 election. Worrell and Upper Providence Democrat Bill Clinton are running against Civera, an Upper Darby Republican and former longtime state legislator, and Republican county Councilman Dave White, a former Ridley Township commissioner and owner of a mechanical contractor company. Clinton is an Upper Providence councilman and a faculty member at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Worrell called the contract between the county’s Animal Protection Board and the Chester County SPCA irresponsible. She said she does not believe it’s a good idea to send Delaware County animals to Chester County where they might end up getting euthanized. She said she does not believe the deal with the Chester County SPCA is solving the animal control issues in Delaware County and described it as a “slow-motion, cost-prohibitive train wreck.”
White and Civera both said they have no problem with municipalities implementing policies that allow for trap-neuter-and-return programs for cats.
Civera said the animal control issue was “laid on our lap” and said county council initially stepped in to help municipalities after the Delaware County SPCA announced it was becoming a no-kill shelter. He said the price of building a new shelter in Delaware County would have been as high as $2.5 million. He said it’s still his desire to have a shelter, but it’s too expensive right now and the county was unable to secure any state or federal funding assistance.
“The thing that has bothered me about the Democratic slate (members) is they took a pledge not to raise taxes, but where are they going to get money without raising the taxes?” he asked.
When the Democrats kicked off their campaign earlier this month, they signed a pledge that they would not vote in favor of any county budget that includes a tax increase.
White echoed the fact that it is currently too expensive to build a shelter here in Delaware County. He said while the county put money toward the contract with the Chester County SPCA last year when the Animal Control Board was in its infancy stages, it has not put any money toward the deal this year.
White challenged the Democrats to outline what their alternative solution would be for the animal control problem.
“They can’t just say something is not working if they can’t give an alternative that works,” he said.
The entire Democratic countywide slate received the endorsement of Lansdowne Mayor Jayne Young, Swarthmore Mayor Rick Lowe and Yeadon Mayor Dolores Jones-Butler on Friday.
“Today, we endorse the Delaware County Democratic ticket for their strong commitment to small business growth, leadership and transparency,” the Democratic mayors said in a joint statement.
The three mayors also lauded the Democratic candidates for their commitment to trap-neuter-and-return programs.
“This common-sense, low-cost initiative will finally provide a blueprint for Delaware County government to address an issue that has been plaguing this county for years,” the mayors said.
The Republican countywide slate has picked up its share of endorsements in recent weeks. The entire slate received the endorsement of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council. White and Civera recently picked up the endorsement of Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals.
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Foot and Leg Torment Revelation frequently have you been it
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With an aim to contain crime, Jharkhand police should adopt the Pune police model.
The model is based on a belief that the establishment of communication between the police and citizens is necessary. In Pune, to create a better link between the police and the people, the police have assigned mobile phones with dedicated phone numbers to senior police officials.
In fact, mobile phones have been assigned to five Zonal Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs), 10 Divisional Assistant commissioners of Police (ACPs), who are in charge of the 10 divisions, and 30 Police Inspectors, who are in charge of police stations in Pune of Maharashtra.
"Zonal DCPs, divisional ACPs, and senior police inspectors, who are in charge of police stations, are officials with whom citizens, complainants and victims communicate on a regular basis," Sunil Deshmukh, ACP (campaigns) told media persons in Pune.
The prime objective behind distributing these mobile handsets, with dedicated numbers, is to improve the link between people and the cops and address grievances in a quick and objective manner.
Against this backdrop, a retired police officer from Jharkhand said; 'This Pune model is simple. It should be adopted by the police in our state to empower people and contain crime."
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This is the first installment in a new series on the pastor-scholar.
John Calvin was certain God had called and gifted him to serve the burgeoning reform movement in France through biblical scholarship. He would retire to Strasbourg and lead the quiet life of a scholar. Having published the first edition of his Institutes, Calvin had unwittingly invented a new category of investigation: systematic theology. The ivory tower beckoned.
But divine providence, by means of a red-haired firebrand of a preacher named William (or Guillaume) Farel, intercepted the would-be academic on a summer evening in 1536. Forced by the Hapsburg-Valois War to travel an alternate path from Basel to Strasbourg, Calvin ended up spending a night in Geneva. There he encountered Farel, who urged Calvin to stay and serve the reformation’s cause as a pastor. Calvin viewed himself as an academic, not a pastor, so he resisted Farel’s overtures. In desperation, Farel called down a curse on his studies and, surprisingly, Calvin caved.
Calvin spent much of the remainder of his life as a pastor, penning many of the works that provided theological pillars for the Protestant Reformation and set a standard for biblical and theological scholarship that endures today.
Calvin hardly stands alone on the landscape of church history as a pastor who also labored to produce works of enduring scholarship for the instruction and edification of Christ’s church. Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430) was a preacher of God’s Word and a scholar. Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), arguably America’s greatest theological mind, was a longtime pastor in Northampton, Massachusetts. When he died unexpectedly at the age of 54, Edwards had just been elected president of the College of New Jersey (Princeton). His pastoral, philosophical, and theological works are voluminous—a result of rigorous study. And Edwards’s Puritan forebears, consistent with the broader Reformed tradition, valued a well-educated pulpit.
Of course, the pastor-scholar or pastor-theologian par excellence is found in the apostle Paul. Having studied at the feet of the Jewish rabbi Gamaliel, he was converted to Christ and then planted churches across the Mediterranean Basin. His letters are among the greatest theological treatises ever written. Paul’s pen dripped pastoral love—a shepherd’s heart and a scholar’s mind, both inspired by God’s Spirit.
Contemporary Dilemma Too
Today, the church is rich with pastors who produce rigorous scholarship and scholars who are skilled pastors or local church leaders, including men such as TGC co-founders Don Carson and Tim Keller; John Piper; R. C. Sproul; Ligon Duncan; and Sinclair Ferguson, among scores of others. Carson and Piper’s helpful 2011 book (edited by Owen Strachan and David Mathis) The Pastor as Scholar and the Scholar as Pastor: Reflections on Life and Ministry (Crossway) examines this question through the ministries of Piper and Carson. It is recommended reading for all prayerfully weighing their ministerial options.
Many training for the ministry still face Calvin’s dilemma: Has God called me to be a pastor, a professor, or both? Is it possible to do both well, or will that lead to a ministerial mediocrity that’ll sap my strength and dishonor God? There have been fruitful, ongoing discussions on these issues of late. One of the most insightful articles is Michael Kruger’s taxonomy of the various combinations of the pastor-scholar. Others, including Andrew Wilson and Mark Jones, have offered valuable pushback on wedding the two.
For me, the question is filled with personal and practical significance.
In 1997 I surrendered to the gospel ministry with a strong desire to plant a theologically solid church in my hometown and spend the rest of my life shepherding that flock. I attended seminary, and soon realized that I loved reading, studying, teaching, and writing about theology and church history. Encouraged by mentors and church elders, I pursued a PhD—a profound course change for my family. I also gained opportunities to teach and found it particularly satisfying. Still, I possessed a gnawing desire to preach God’s Word and shepherd his flock. Was I a pastor or was I a scholar? I spent years prayerfully wrestling with the Lord over my calling and ministerial identity. Numerous seminary friends were pursuing the same degrees and asking the same questions.
Someone suggested it could be determined by my level of desire. But I’m moved in both the pulpit and sick room because I believe the gospel is the unique saving, sanctifying, healing balm from the Lord. I also enjoy what Pulitzer-winning historian David McCullough once called “picking through other people’s mail”: historical research. Teaching future pastors about giants in church history—Augustine, Athanasius, Luther, Calvin, Bunyan, Edwards, Ryle, Spurgeon, Lloyd-Jones—excites me. Writing about the past and showing how it can help the church today is exhilarating. My affections didn’t really settled the matter.
Some insisted it boils down to personality. I’m a pretty serious extrovert. I’m comfortable in a lively conversation. Does this mean I should pastor? Not necessarily. Many of my pastoral heroes are serious introverts. Besides, my most skilled professors took a relational approach to students and were also devoted churchmen. Many were or had been pastors. Personality may be a determinative for some, but it wasn’t in my case.
Two economic factors weighed—and weigh still—heavily in favor of the pastorate: supply and demand. Dozens of churches in my denomination needed men trained to preach the Word of God faithfully. Vast swaths of spiritual wilderness across the globe needed Christ-centered, gospel-driven churches planted—including my hometown. I knew scores of men who, PhD in hand, stood waiting in long lines for few teaching opportunities. I knew the odds of teaching full-time basis at a seminary or Bible college were slim. This remains the difficult dilemma facing many pursuing terminal degrees, and it promises to grow more acute as theological education moves increasingly in the direction of online delivery systems.
My wife and I, along with our friends and church leaders, prayed for months. I sent résumés by the dozen to churches and academic institutions alike. Providence would settle it, I decided, and to a great degree it did. So far, this is the most satisfying personal answer to the question. For several years I served as a full-time pastor in Alabama. I continued to teach as an adjunct professor and remained semi-active in ETS. A fellow elder would tease in his delightful Walker County brogue that I had nine toes in the church, but one stuck in seminary. Last Sunday, I began a new ministry as pastor of a church plant in Louisville, one I’m privileged to co-lead with three fellow elders. I am a bivocational pastor, serving as senior editor at TGC and adjunct professor at Southern Seminary. Additionally, I’m involved in a long-term academic project, helping a team of historians—several of whom also serve as pastors—edit critical editions of the works of Andrew Fuller, a model pastor-theologian from the 18th century.
So have I answered the question? Perhaps not. Up to now, it has simply been a matter of seeking to serve the local church with the gifts God has given me through providentially opened doors. The church is my first love, and all my labors—pastoral, TGC, academic—must serve God’s people. That is the most important answer.
A few years ago a wise pastor-friend who’s logged more than four decades in the foxhole of the church helped me profoundly. He posed a simple but poignant question: If you could only do one, which would it be? It didn’t take me long to answer: I would pastor a church. Maybe that’s the final answer.
5 Lessons to Light the Path
God doesn’t waste our strivings, and he has taught me some valuable and humbling lessons through the wrestling. Here are five that have helped me to see the similarities between the offices of pastor and scholar, what should be required of each, and why it’s no surprise some are drawn to both.
1. Scholars, like pastors, serve the local church.
Christian education must serve the local church. Here I’m indebted to Southern Seminary’s founding president James Petigru Boyce and his 1856 essay “Three Changes in Theological Institutions.” Boyce’s three points argue forcefully that a Christian institute exists fundamentally to train leaders for service in the local church.
2. Both pastors and scholars are called and gifted by God for his glory.
Both heart and mind must be calibrated to glorify God, not self. Neither church ministry nor scholarship exists as an end in itself.
3. Both pastors and scholars are lashed to the Word of God.
Higher-critical scholarship washed ashore from Germany in the late 19th century and positioned the scholar as arbiter over God’s Word. By contrast, historic orthodox Christianity has insisted that all—scholar, pastor, parishioner—sit under the Word. It judges us, not vice-versa. Neither the scholar nor the pastor is called to proclaim theological or practical novelties, but the unadorned Word of God. This is priority one. Theology matters supremely for scholar and pastor alike.
4. Pastors should strive to be public theologians.
I’m grateful for the thoughtful new book by Strachan and Kevin Vanhoozer, The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision (Baker Academic, 2015), which explores this assertion fully. They contend the pastorate is properly seen as a theological office provided by God to help his people think biblically about all aspects of life. Vanhoozer’s “55 Summary Theses on the Pastor as Public Theologian” provides a brilliant exposition of this point. Another thoughtful contribution is Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson’s new book, The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision (Zondervan, 2015). Likewise, the Center for Pastor Theologians is devoted to restoring this lost vision to its rightful place within evangelical churches.
5. Scholars should strive to be committed churchmen.
Godly scholars are a gift to pastors and to the church. I’ve found the more deeply a scholar is embedded in the life of his local church, the more effectively he serves the body of Christ in practical ways. Professors who approach students as Christ’s sheep and theology as a matter of doxology are a powerful instrument in the Redeemer’s hands. My doctoral supervisor and father in the faith, Baptist historian Tom Nettles, is a profound example of the committed churchman. If you left his classes with a cold heart for Christ’s church, you simply weren’t listening.
There is no single correct answer to these questions. There may be seasons in a minister’s life when God calls him from the pastoral office to the academy, or vice-versa, and then back again. It seems difficult to imagine one man doing both simultaneously to the highest level of competency each office demands—maybe not impossible, but exceedingly difficult. That much I see with clarity. Thus I am fairly certain at this point it’s best to do one primarily and, at most, dabble in the other as opportunities determine.
This series will seek to address the issues I’ve raised here and a host of others—including the role of seminaries in helping students, when it’s wise or unwise to pursue a doctorate degree for ministry, and the possibility or impossibility of serving in both roles. Perhaps God will be pleased to use this series like a call from Farel to Calvin to help you reach a final answer to this question.
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Credit Cards are amongst the most popular financial products in this day and age. With various benefits they offer, it is no surprise that the Credit Card customer base is rising rapidly in the last few years.
Some of the significant benefits that Credit Cards offer include an interest-free repayment period, ease in making online transactions, making purchases in foreign currency, availing instant loans, converting the cost of purchase into easy EMIs and much more. That being said, in order to maximize the benefits you can avail from your Credit Card, you must exercise financial discipline.
With the high APR that Credit Cards come with, it is easy to fall into a debt trap if you fail to manage your card bills. One of the major aspects of avoiding any such instance is to understand your Credit Card Statement properly.
Credit Card statement is the monthly transactional summary that you receive from your card issuer at the end of card statement cycle each month. It includes all the information and details pertaining to your Credit Card transactions. The elaborate details which are included in a Credit Card statement allow you to understand your Credit Card usage patterns perfectly.
Your Credit Card issuer will send you a statement every month, which records all the transactions you have made during the previous month. The credit card statement will be delivered to you through your preferred channel(s), i.e., registered email IDor a printed statement mailed to your registered postal address. The monthly Credit Card statement is an important document with a lot of useful information and has to be read and checked carefully. It is advisable to contact your respective card issuing company/ bank if you find any suspicious or unauthorised transaction in the monthly statement.
If you are new to the world of Credit Cards and do not understand as to how you should read your credit card statement, then here are some insights on important aspects card statement you should know about. Whether you have SBI Credit Cards or HDFC Cards, the information is true to all card providers.
This section lists all the transactions of the previous month in chronological order with details like the date and time of the transactions, deducted amount, any extra charges incurred, place of the transaction, etc. Apart from the list of transactions, details about any extra charges that have been levied on your Credit Card by the bank such as any interest rate changes, tax-related changes, etc. It is important to check each and every transaction, and the charges levied carefully.If you are unable to understand anything or have spotted a mistake, then contact the issuing bank immediately.
Credit Card companies allow the customers to pay a percentage of the total outstanding amount if they are not able to pay the entire amount for any reason. The minimum amount due will be a small fraction of the total outstanding, which ranges between 5% to 10%, subject to the card issuer’s policy. If you pay the minimum amount due, there won’t be any late payment fee; however, interest on the remaining outstanding amount will be charged for the time period it stays unpaid in your statement.
The late payment fee may range from Rs. 100 – Rs. 1000 depending upon the total outstanding amount and the policy of the provider. Any late payments or cheque bouncing will affect your credit score negatively.
This is the total amount that has to be paid for the month, including any EMIs and charges levied in the current billing cycle as well as amount outstanding for the last billing cycle. The total outstanding amount should be paid to avoid any interest charges on the Credit Card. Most Credit Card companies offer an interest-free period of up to 50 days if you pay the entire outstanding amount before the due date.
This is the section with three types of limits mentioned, i.e.:
The available credit limit can be used for any types of transactions like shopping, payment of utility bills, etc. However, the cash limit can be used only to withdraw cash from the ATM.
Another important part of a Credit Card statement is the due date for payment. If the payment of even the minimum amount due is delayed past the due date for any reason, two types of charges will be levied. Interest will be applicable on the total outstanding amount, and a late fee will be levied. The interest charges will be a percentage of the total outstanding amount, and the late fee is usually a fixed amount set by the bank. However, the late fee will be charged only when you fail to pay the minimum amount due on the card before the due date. Failure to pay the minimum amount due might affect your credit score, as it is reflected in your credit report.
The DPD (Days Past Due) section of your credit report shows all the late payments. It is advisable to make at least the payment for the minimum amount due in case you are not able to pay the total outstanding for the billing cycle.
This section offers a quick overview of your Credit Card. This section shows details like the opening balance, which is the available limit of your Credit Card at the start of a new billing cycle, the amount spent in the current cycle, the payments made towards the card and any extra charges levied in the current billing cycle.
This is the section of the Credit Card report that highlights the reward points you have accumulated during the billing cycle and the total reward points available. It also notifies if any reward points are likely to expire and the information about the reward points claimed by you.
This section of the card statement indicates any special offers available on your Credit Card.
It is important to understand the terms and conditions related to a Credit Card before applying for one. You must also understand how to read and analyse a Credit Card statement. In case of any dispute with regards to transactions and charges or need any information, you must immediately get in touch with your Credit Card issuer.
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The three Roosevelt High School seniors sat down at computers and solved their problems by going to "Cyber High," an experimental program being tried in California as a model for the nation.
The online-learning program, under development over five years with a $2.8 million federal grant, is aimed at helping migrant students and other students who need more education and access to technology than they are getting.
"We believe that Cyber High indeed levels the playing field and brings down the digital divide," said Guido Prambs, who directs the state program and is based in the Fresno County Office of Education. "Cyber High brings to the poor and disadvantaged what other schools already have big-time."
Cyber High has its roots in a 22-year-old California program aimed at helping migrant teens finish high school despite frequent moves.
PASS, or Portable Assisted Study Sequence, began in California in 1978 to address dropout problems among migrant teens. It is funded with $900,000 a year in federal money and is now used in 30 other states.
PASS consists of standardized high school courses, each broken into five units and taken using paper and pencil.
The typical migrant teen is two years behind in high school credits, said Mr. Prambs, who also oversees PASS for the state. If a student tried to take a regular high school course, the family might move before it ended and the student would get no credit.
Instead, he or she can take a PASS course at one of the 260 participating high schools in the state. There is no deadline to complete the course and the student can progress at his or her own pace. When the student finishes one of the five units, that credit is sent to the PASS office in Fresno.
Under an agreement with the Fresno Unified School District, Roosevelt High School officially grants the credits to the student.
Then, when the student's family moves to another town, the student can continue the same course at a different school. The PASS office keeps the student's records in its central database.
About 8,000 students a year have been taking PASS courses in California, Prambs said.
Cyber High takes the PASS courses a step further to provide not only high school credits but also computer skills valuable for jobs.
Developers spent the first three years writing special Cyber High courses that they tried out last year at nine high schools around the state. This year, the fourth year of the grant, they are offering the 14 courses they currently have to 30 high schools.
They hired "Web authors," teachers with computer skills, to design the courses. Instead of just putting the old PASS courses onto a computer, they wrote new courses that use the power of computers and the Internet.
For example, a student studying the sound unit in physical science is given Internet links to university Web pages showing the workings of the ear and may also be shown a video of an orchestra.
"You just can't compare a black-and-white paper system with video and multimedia," said Carol Lopez, Cyber High's curriculum coordinator.
"It's so much more stimulating and dynamic."
The courses are designed to be overseen by a teacher. The computer scores some multiple-choice quizzes, but a teacher must grade most assignments and tests, particularly the many writing assignments.
After the program spreads in California, it will start in Florida and New York, Mr. Prambs said.
U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley visited the program last spring and called it the "next step in the technology revolution."
Each of the nine pilot high schools chose the kind of students they wanted to try the new courses.
Roosevelt, a 3,500-student school in downtown Fresno, targeted juniors and seniors who were behind in credits.
Ms. Dalke, 17, made up English credits last spring and is taking more Cyber High courses this year, in addition to her regular schedule, so she can graduate on time next spring.
"I got lazy and Cyber High was there for me," she said.
Mr. Snyder, 17, had flunked math and was ineligible for football. He said he liked the pre-algebra course that he completed to be able to play sports again.
"You didn't have to worry about the teacher getting ahead of you because you could go back," he said.
Ms. Mao, 16, took physical science and English courses so she can graduate a year early. She liked zipping through the courses.
None of the three is in a migrant family.
Their teacher, Rudy Torres, said the self-paced Cyber High courses work for students at both ends of the spectrum – those who want to zoom ahead and those who need to catch up.
The program is exploring working with Mexican education officials on standardizing the two nations' requirements so migrant students whose parents travel between the two countries could keep up their schooling.
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I'm having some writing done for a website aimed at a Canadian audience. In order to leverage our resources more, I'd like to focus on American English or British English.
So, is written Canadian English closer to American English or British English?
Note: My current understanding is that Canadians tend to use American vocabulary but British spelling, except for certain -ize words (in which case they use the American spelling). How accurate is this understanding?
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In the case of an emergency evacuation of the nursery, the fire drill procedure would be followed as normal and a head count taken at the designated assembly points.
The children would then be escorted through the rear garden gate and walk across to the Clive Booth staff rest room where they can wait in safety until the Fire Brigade arrives.
If the Fire Brigade deem the building to be unsafe to re-enter, the parents would be contacted and asked to collect their child/ren. Staff will all remain with the group until all the children are collected.
The building will only be re-entered when and if the Fire Brigade confirm it is safe to do so.
The Nursery Manager would inform Ofsted of the incident.
Regular fire drills will be carried out and the name of the staff who were in attendance recorded to ensure that all staff have regular practise.
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Here we have the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel. You can see that they are all different.
As Jacob blesses his sons, he speaks of their character as it connects to their future. Clearly a spirit of prophecy comes upon Jacob as he speaks. You can see this clearly in what he says over Judah.
He says “your hand shall be upon the neck of your enemies.” And “the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet.” Finally, “He washed his garments in wine and his clothes in the blood of grapes.”
All of these are images of Jesus, who will come from the tribe of Judah.
If people today would realize the significance of the words they speak over their children, there would be some changes made. The words of parents can define a life for their children. So don’t let their aberrant behavior move you off of what God has already said about them. Stick with what God says.
Speak boldly what God has already said concerning your offspring. Your children are blessed. Say it, say it, and say it again.
Jacob is taken back to Canaan to be buried beside Leah.
Joseph remains in Egypt after his death, but he knows that God’s word is true and the nation will eventually return to their own land. He asks his sons to remember that when that day comes for them to return, his bones should go with them to be buried in his homeland.
God’s plan continues.
Have you ever walked on water? Sometimes I feel like I have.
Well, not physical water, as Peter does in this passage. I mean, spiritually speaking. I’ll bet you have too.
God calls you to do something that seems impossible. Maybe it’s a mission, maybe it’s walking in forgiveness toward a mean, ornery person in your life. Someone who is there – maybe a relative or co-worker – someone you can’t get away from, but one who continually brings strife to the scene.
The key, I have found, is to keep your eyes on Jesus. As soon as Peter looks at the waves, he thinks he can’t do it. His faith fails. The same with you. As soon as you look at the circumstances, your faith will fail. Look straight ahead.
Isn’t it interesting that Jesus doesn’t say, “Good job, Peter.” He says, “Oh you of little faith. Why did you doubt?”
The two things Jesus marvelled about during His earthly life were the faith of people who weren’t Jews and the doubt of those who were.
Makes you think, doesn’t it? He is still looking for great faith in the land.
Great faith in a great God. A God who can do anything. With God all things are possible.
Blessings, Suellen Estes
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Tips to support reading at home:
Here are more of our top tips to encourage family reading time at home:
- Try to prioritise reading in your own life. Children who see their parents reading regularly, are far more likely to become readers themselves
- Read to your child every day. The importance of reading to your children cannot be underestimated. We can sometimes forget about this and will just hear our child read their school reading book, but reading to our children is so important! Most children – even the older children – love listening to books read aloud. Even if it’s just 1 page a night
- Involve your child in choosing the book. Choosing from a variety of books (fairy tales, history, nature, science, mysteries etc…), will soon have your child developing a preference for a certain book or genre
- Re-read their favourite books often. Young children love hearing the same books read aloud over and over (and over) again! This re-reading helps the child to learn parts of the book off by heart and eventually they will begin to join in with their favourite parts
- Use different voices for the characters – this makes it fun!
- Make it quality family time together. For younger children, use this time for a cuddle or sit them on your lap. As they grow, have them snuggled sat beside you on the couch.
- Keeping their attention is key. Allowing children to doodle, draw or even colour while listening is ok and can actually help many to focus. No games, phones or screens though!
- When reading chapter books, don’t feel like you have to finish an entire chapter in one sitting. But do try to end at an exciting part so everyone is eager for the next day’s reading time.
- For those most reluctant readers – try using magazines instead. These are a great way to grab your child’s attention.
And finally, but most importantly, have fun! Bring the books to life. There’s nothing more children love than dressing up and acting out their favourite stories. Even some of your everyday household objects could open up your child’s imagination and have them begging you to read more the next day.
The National Literacy Trust has some fantastic resources worth exploring:
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Hydraulic fracturing also referred to as ‘fracking’ is a method usually used to stimulate flow of fluid from the crustal rocks to the surface. This process is a modern technique involving pumping of fluid that is rich in water and other chemicals into a deeply dug borehole to an extent that the high pressure of the fluid fractures the rocks containing the required substance. The fluid pumped usually contains in it fine particles referred to as prop pant whose purpose is to create the fissures in rocks. After the whole process of fracking the pressure is released out of the well and the fluid that contains natural gas flows out of the borehole onto the surface. The boreholes are in normal circumstances shifted away from the vertical to horizontal alignment to enable a relatively efficient exploration of the shale reservoirs of the gas being targeted. The fluid that is being used for fracking has small proportions of chemical elements such as acids to aid in initiation of fractures, inhibitors and corrosion and to a greater extent protect the lining of the borehole and also serve as agents to change the fluid viscosity to ease flow (Sangaramoorthy 27-37).
Hydraulic fracturing technology dates back to early 1940s and was further researched in1970s by Unites States of America’s department of energy (Feyrer and Mansur 31-34).
It was recognized henceforth as a milestone in the oil and gas mining industries globally. Before then, oil and gas mining industries could extract attract useful resources lying beneath and above the layers of the shale and left behind the hydrocarbon compounds inside the shale and therefore remained untapped for use.
How Fracking works
In hydraulic fracturing, fractures are created by pumping huge volumes of fluid mixed with small particles of sand through a wellbore into the crustal rock. Fracking a well that is as long as 2 kilometers horizontally requires water which may amount to 20 million liters and about 200,000 liters of chemicals including hydrochloric acid used to clean the fractures during the process, sodium chlorides compounds usually to serve in slowing down the melting of polymers, polyacrylamide to aid in minimizing friction and ethyl glycol to reduce deposits of other compounds in the pipes. After drilling and fracturing process, about 80% of fluid used flows out to the surface for a number of days while some others flows for a longer time. This process is referred to as flow back and resultant water flowing with it to the surface is ordinarily known as produced water. They contain in them heavy metals and other compounds known to emit high frequency radiations. These resultant products are temporarily stored in separate pits for further treatment, reuse or disposal (Gregor and Mathias 703-712).
Effects of fracking to Economy
Technological innovations in hydraulic fracturing integrated with advanced directional drilling abilities have transformed oil and gas production and economies of US and other countries using it.
It has created more job opportunities in some states in the United States. More sites imply more jobs. The oil and gas industries increased an estimate of 169,000 jobs between the year 2010 and 2012 with Texas and North Dakota ripping the hugest benefits
Higher growth of economy in the US is partly as a result of fracking that has increased exports. Economists have argued that fracking has increased the economy. Different modules suggested that the US economy increased from between 0.3 to 0.5 percentage growth in the year 2013 alone (Mazur and Allan 207-222).
This process has led to lower energy prices in some occasions. Oil prices are still relatively high because of the rising prices of crude oil that is dependent on global supply chains and factors affecting demands. However, the US gas prices significantly fell over the last 20 years. This saved on public funds (Hine 556). It also would imply that power plants are likely to bend towards use of natural gas for its production of electric power.
The use of coal has fallen reducing air pollution and carbon IV oxide gases that would lead to global warming. This trend has however lead to a close down of the United States’ number of coal power plants by 25% since 2011.
Fracking has boosted the US manufacturing sector. The cheap source of power from natural gas has attracted the manufacturing enterprises to the united states (Throupe 205-232).
America’s availability of relatively low costing sources of natural gas invites manufacturers. Factories being built in Texas and Pennsylvania for instance will convert the natural gas products to ethylene used to make plastic materials (William and Laurence 89-104).
The United States imports less oil products since fracking has availed them cheaply. It’s one of the main reasons for the fall of imbalance of payments and trade deficits over the last two decades. Many multinational corporations argue that the US government should lightly lessen their policies and restrictions on trading of the oil and gas products from US due to its potential influence on global economy.
Impacts of Fracking on the environment
Extremely large amounts of water are needed in the fracking process reducing the quantity available for use by people residing within those ecological environments. The logistical transportation of water from their catchment areas when there is no sufficient water for use within mining cites is likely to cause a severe contamination reducing the water supply. Leakage of chemicals to these sources also lead to contamination of water sources.
According to the research by GAO oil and natural gas poses threats and compromises on quality of the air in a wide variety of ways. These would include the gases that are burnt and released to the air. Methane is the major chemical that is released in the process and about 4% finds its way into the atmosphere posing dangers in the fracking surrounding environments (Donald and Hine 586-598).
. Other activities conducted during the fracking process pose a lot of harm. These may include the trucks and emissions from the engines of machines on sites. All these hazardous components increase smog in the surroundings and thus decrease the quality of air.
Other environmental concerns about fracking is that it increases the unintentional oil spillage. This is associated with harms on the soils and water due to underground destabilization resulting from crustal disturbance.
Fracking also causes mild to severe tremors and earthquakes as a result of their high pressure applied in extraction, resulting in landslides and potential loss of human and animal life, property and environmental degradation.
The advancement in fracking technology is however associated with several benefits. It has increased government revenues and has assisted the respective countries to be more competitive on regional and global markets. It is also said to provide the access to a cleaner forms of energy since the risks involved with natural gas are less when compared to those that are likely to be cause by coal (Somerset 757-758).
Relatively low amounts of solid particles are released to the environment when natural gas burns, minimizing on the pollution to the environment.
Fracking has helped develop clean-capture technologies. It has made the col industries stay relevant and effectively compete. For instance, in the clean coal industries where the hazardous release can be cut down by 70% with high technology filtration and carbon IV oxide capture. Because capture of the natural gas through fracking process is relatively cheap and easily available, it eases the competition and makes it cheap. This is to say that more can be acquired without having to invest a lot in it. Fracking method of natural oil and gas extraction is therefore relatively sustainable source of energy despite its devastating impacts on the environment such as water and air pollution
Hine, Donald W., et al. “Feelings About Fracking: Using the Affect Heuristic to Understand Opposition to Coal Seam Gas Production.” Risk Analysis 39.3 (2019): 586-598.
Jackson, Will, Joanna Gilmore, and Helen Monk. “Policing unacceptable protest in England and Wales: A case study of the policing of anti-fracking protests.” Critical social policy 39.1 (2019): 23-43.
Markl, Gregor, Mathias Burisch, and Udo Neumann. “Natural fracking and the genesis of five-element veins.” Mineralium Deposita 51.6 (2016): 703-712.
Mazur, Allan. “How did the fracking controversy emerge in the period 2010-2012?” Public Understanding of Science 25.2 (2016): 207-222.
Sangaramoorthy, Thurka, et al. “Place-based perceptions of the impacts of fracking along the Marcellus Shale.” Social Science & Medicine 151 (2016): 27-37.
Williams, Laurence, et al. “Framing ‘fracking’: Exploring public perceptions of hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom.” Public Understanding of Science 26.1 (2017): 89-104.
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Business Email Etiquette: Proper from Subject to Closing
Sending emails to your boss, your colleagues, potential customers, or anyone else you already do or potentially may do business with is fraught with many potential hazards making it a veritable minefield of professional decorum, with each inappropriate joke and incorrectly capitalized letter an invitation to disaster. Emailing is incredibly convenient and should not be seen as something that may anger someone or something to avoid but rather as an invaluable communication tool used to accomplish the goals of the company and its workers.
Below, we will discuss the various pitfalls people succumb to when emailing in a business environment and how to avoid them. From the subject line to the closing, after reading this article along with this email etiquette course, you should be ready to fire off email after email like it’s your job… because it is.
- Don’t use emails as an excuse to avoid personal contact. If you’re sending a potentially confusing email or one that may be somewhat emotional, either call the person or speak with them face-to-face.
- Be aware of cultural differences when sending an email to someone from another culture. Be aware that, depending on where they’re from, they may need to be dealt with in a specific manner.
- Try to reply to all emails sent to you. Even if it seems as though you were sent a message accidentally, you should still reply to make sure it was a mistake. Also, try to respond to emails within 24 hours of a business day. This inbox zero class will help you get your inbox to 0.
- Remember that email is not private. Email is considered business property and the sender of an inappropriate email can be fired. Assume the email is unsecured and will be read by everyone. It may help to create a template to send emails that you know will be consistent and ready to be read by anyone. Outlook can help do that, and this course can help you learn how to use Outlook.
- Finally, check over your email twice before sending it out. Not only do you want to make sure it’s clear and is spelled and written correctly, you also want to check to see if you forgot anything: subject line, correct address, any attachments you needed to send, anything that may be misinterpreted, spellcheck, etc.
Subject Line, Cc, and Bcc
- Make sure you use your professional email address when sending interoffice emails or emails to a customer on behalf of your company. If you work for yourself and are sending a professional email, make sure your address is appropriate, ideally something with your name in it. Conversely, don’t use your business email for personal matters.
- Include a clear and direct subject line. Great examples include “Proposal ideas” or “Presentation date changed.” This is what the recipient will see in their inbox and will decide if it’s worth opening based on this line, so make it count.
- Don’t use Bcc (blind copy) to keep others from seeing who you copied. It shows that you have nothing to hide when you directly Cc (courtesy copy) anyone receiving a copy. However, do use Bcc when sending to a large distribution list so recipient’s messages won’t be cluttered with a long list of names. Be wary with your use of Cc as overuse clutters inboxes and may annoy people. Copy only people who are directly involved.
Greeting and Body
- When opening a business email, salutations such as “Dear…”, “Hi…”,”Good Morning…”, “Hello…”, etc. are appropriate. Depending on how familiar you, the writer, are with the receiver, you may use their first name, their last name (with Mr., Ms. Mrs.) or a combination of the two. More rules for composing salutations for business letters and emails can be found here.
- Keep messages brief and to the point, concentrating on one subject per message if possible. At one point, everyone has had to wade through clunky, wordy emails that took two paragraphs to ask one question.
- Do not be sloppy with grammar. This is a big one. Don’t write all in caps, as IT LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE YELLING. Conversely, don’t write in all lower case, because that looks lazy. Use exclamation points sparingly and only to convey excitement. Overuse may indicate immaturity and over-emoting. Finally, use good grammar. Not only are you representing your company, you are also representing yourself as a competent worker. Follow traditional grammar, spelling, and punctuation rules. Also, do not use informal words such as “ain’t”, “gotta”, “coz”, etc.
- Don’t use fancy fonts and colors. Not only are they unprofessional, not everyone is able to display these images, especially if they’re checking email on their mobile devices.
- When closing out a business email, treat it as you would a business letter. Use phrases such as “Sincerely”, “Yours sincerely”, “Thank you”, “Thank you again”, “Respectfully yours”, etc. Also, don’t forget to thank the recipient for their time. Lastly, include your name and title, your employer’s name, the business’ postal address, and their phone number.
- In order to speed up the email writing process, use an email signature that contains your contact information. Doing this will prevent you from having to write out all of your contact information every time you compose an email. Not only does this look professional, it gives the recipient more options to contact you as well as saves you time in writing.
And there you have it: direct, inoffensive, professional-looking business emails. Hopefully your email etiquette wasn’t an issue to begin with, but it never hurts to brush up on the basics. There are more guidelines out there, and, depending on your line of business, industry-specific specifications for your business emails, but these basics should get you pointed in the right direction. Whether your business emails are interoffice, international, used for building up your own business, like in this email marketing course, or whatever it may be, keep it to-the-point, clear, and classy and you shouldn’t have any problems.
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Paper should be a minimum of 3 pages long, not including the
title and reference pages.
Case Study Questions:
1. Introduction with thesis statement that provides a
brief history, overview etc. of the company and describes its strategic
2. What is the organization’s mission, vision and
values? How are these aligned with the company’s strategic approach?
3. Discuss external influences and internal capabilities.
a. Describe the company’s responses to external
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The is the area within the where changes in hydrology due to exceed defined thresholds for both and . The and analysis presented in Section 3.4 and Section 3.5 focuses mainly on and ecological that intersect with this zone. Any landscape class or asset wholly outside of the zone of potential hydrological change is generally considered (less than 5% chance) to be impacted due to additional coal resource development. However, an important exception to this rule is for cases where impact and risk analysis is undertaken for assets that are interpreted to source groundwater from deeper systems (i.e. deeper below the level of the upper Quaternary alluvium and Cenozoic sediment aquifer in the , such as the Clematis Group aquifer). Examples of such assets include discharge and their local , and groundwater that tap deeper groundwater sources (as further discussed in Section 3.4.3 and in the economic assets analysis in Section 3.5.3). In these cases, a similar type of analysis is done as for the zone of potential hydrological change, with the focus being on the probabilistic groundwater results obtained for the deeper source aquifers instead of the upper Quaternary alluvium and Cenozoic sediment aquifer (companion product 2.6.2 for the Galilee subregion ()). Of course, such analysis is predicated on the source aquifer for the relevant springs or bores being accurately known and, in cases where ambiguity may exist as to the source, the analysis presented here has relied on the best available data and information available. This has been supplemented in some cases by additional review and analysis to guide the Assessment team’s conceptual understanding.
The groundwater zone of potential hydrological change is defined as the area with a greater than 5% chance of exceeding 0.2 m drawdown in the uppermost aquifer, due to additional coal resource development (Figure 20). As previously discussed, the relevant aquifer in the Galilee subregion used to define the zone is the near-surface (unconfined) Quaternary alluvium and Cenozoic sediment layer (Section 3.2.3). The 5% chance is determined based on the analysis described in Section 220.127.116.11 of companion product 2.6.2 for the Galilee subregion (). It means that, for each assessment unit in the groundwater zone, at least 5% of groundwater model runs exceeded this specified level of drawdown. Groundwater impacts of coal mines and CSG projects are regulated under Queensland and Australian Government legislation, and various state regulatory and management frameworks also apply. The 0.2 m drawdown threshold adopted in BAs is consistent with the most precautionary minimal impact threshold under Queensland’s Water Act 2000.
The groundwater component of the zone of potential hydrological change consists of two separate areas near the central-eastern margin of the Galilee subregion (Figure 20). The two drawdown zones extend to the east beyond the boundary of the Galilee Basin, as the upper alluvial/sediment aquifer is geologically younger than the rocks of the Galilee Basin and is not constrained (conceptually) to only occur within the basin extents. To the west, the area of each drawdown zone does not overlap with the eastern boundary of the geologically younger Eromanga Basin sequence that overlies much of the Galilee Basin beyond this line. The Eromanga Basin contains most of the main productive aquifers of the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) ().
An important point to note here is that some eastern parts of the zone of potential hydrological change extend beyond the boundary of the Galilee (Figure 20). This boundary was used to define the area in which landscape classes were developed for this BA, as well as defining the area in which the were identified for the BA . Consequently, this means that it is not possible to assess impacts and risks to both landscape classes and water-dependent assets in the part of the zone that occurs beyond the boundary of the assessment extent. Although this is a recognised limitation of the current BA, the area of the zone beyond the assessment extent equates to only about 6% of the total area of the zone of potential hydrological change. Additionally, most of this area is predicted to have a relatively low chance of a small level of drawdown, ranging from a 5% to 10 % chance of 0.2 m of drawdown in the upper Quaternary alluvium and Cenozoic sediment aquifer. Within this area there is no drawdown impact predicted to affect the aquifers of either the Clematis Group or upper Permian Coal Measures, as both of these geological units do not exist in the eastern part of the zone.
The two areas depicted here are defined based on at least a 5% chance of groundwater drawdown exceeding 0.2 m in the Quaternary alluvium and Cenozoic sediment aquifer due to additional coal resource development. Coal mine development footprints as used in the groundwater modelling for the Galilee subregion are shown.
ACRD = additional coal resource development
The separate groundwater drawdown zones defined here for the BA of the Galilee subregion cover an area in which cumulative groundwater impacts in the upper aquifer may occur due to multiple coal mining operations. These zones clearly indicate that, at the 95th of groundwater model results, drawdown from individual mines may overlap spatially and temporally, thereby potentially leading to cumulative hydrological impacts. Such impacts as modelled at the upper probabilistic range for this BA exceed the extent of drawdown in aquifers previously reported for the individual mine developments (e.g. in the environmental impact statements (EIS) for each proposed mine – see Section 18.104.22.168 in companion product 2.6.2 for further information about the groundwater models previously developed for each proposed mine). However, when the BA modelling is considered across the entire range of results (i.e. from the 5th to the 95th percentile), the predicted groundwater impacts of individual mines all fall within this probabilistic range.
The southern cumulative drawdown zone is the larger of the two polygons that comprise the groundwater zone and covers approximately 7898 km2, including the proposed coal mining operations at South Galilee, China First, Alpha and Kevin’s Corner. The northern part of the zone encompasses about 5466 km2 and includes the Carmichael, China Stone and Hyde Park coal mines. Overall, the combined area of the groundwater zone of potential hydrological change is 13,364 km2, which includes the 986 km2 area covered by the (Section 22.214.171.124).
Many and ecological assets, as well as some economic assets, are interpreted to source their water requirements from the shallow (near-surface) groundwater system. Hence, the zone of potential hydrological change provides an entirely appropriate construct in the BA for ruling out impacts to such ecosystems and assets (i.e. if they occur beyond the extent of the zone then they are considered very unlikely to be impacted due to additional coal resource development). In the Galilee subregion, the near-surface aquifer is represented by the Quaternary alluvium and Cenozoic sediment layer, which is one of three layers modelled in the analytic element model (AEM) for the Galilee subregion where drawdown predictions are made.
However, the zone of potential hydrological change is not suitable for assessing impacts to ecological or economic assets that may rely on access to deeper water sources. In the Galilee AEM, there are two deeper groundwater systems modelled –1) the aquifers of the Clematis Group and 2) the upper Permian coal measures (companion product 2.6.2 (). For any assets that are interpreted to source their water requirements from these two deeper aquifers, a similar 0.2 m threshold of drawdown at the 95th percentile is applied to identify assets that can be ruled out from potential impact, or if there may be potential for groundwater changes to cause adverse impacts. This process of defining a deeper analysis zone to assess potential impacts to some water-dependent assets is further discussed in Section 3.4.3 (for springs) and Section 3.5.3 (for economic assets).
The thresholds to define surface water changes for the impact and risk analysis for the BA of the Galilee subregion are presented in Table 9. These thresholds apply to the suite of hydrological response variables reported in companion product 2.6.1 for the Galilee subregion (), and were used to define the surface water component of the . Together, the hydrological response variables (see Table 9) represent potential changes across the surface water flow regime, ranging from low flows (i.e. (ZFD), (LFD), (LFS) and length of the longest low-flow spell (LLFS)) to high flows (daily flow at the 99th (P99) and high-flow days ()), and include two other variables to represent changes in volume () and (IQR) (see companion submethodology M06 (as listed in Table 1) for surface water modelling () for further details). As previously explained, none of the streams experience any baseline hydrological changes due to coal resource development in the Galilee subregion.
Table 9 Surface water hydrological response variables and the thresholds used in defining the surface water component of the zone of potential hydrological change
A location on the modelled stream network is deemed to be in the zone of potential hydrological change if the change in at least one of the eight hydrological response variables in Table 9 exceeds its specified threshold. Probability estimates are derived from the predictions of 347 modelling replicates (companion product 2.6.1 for the Galilee subregion ()), each of which uses a unique set of model parameter values. A 5% threshold implies that at least 17 of the 347 replicates have modelled changes that exceed the relevant change threshold. If fewer than 17 replicates have modelled changes that exceed the threshold at a particular location, then the change in that hydrological response variable (at that location) is considered very unlikely to impact water-dependent and assets. The results of surface water modelling are presented in Section 126.96.36.199 of companion product 2.6.1 for the Galilee subregion (). Within companion product 2.6.1 () Figure 12 to Figure 19 (inclusive) identify the 16 model nodes in the surface water network (out of the 61 nodes in total) where hydrological changes do not exceed the specified threshold values for each variable listed in Table 9. The location of these 16 surface water nodes with hydrological response variable changes below threshold values is shown in Figure 12 (Section 188.8.131.52), and include nodes 12, 17, 21, 23, 26, 28, 31, 46 to 50, 52, 54, 57 and 59.
The surface water zone of potential hydrological change includes all stream reaches that represent the links between model nodes (Figure 12) where the surface water modelling has predicted hydrological changes due to . The rule set used to interpolate results from surface water model nodes to adjacent stream reaches is shown schematically in Figure 13 and Figure 14 in Section 184.108.40.206 . However, there are also stream reaches included in the surface water zone that were not explicitly modelled, but which may potentially be impacted due to additional coal resource development (e.g. non-modelled streams that occur near to mines). Consequently, these stream reaches could not be ruled out from potential impact and, consistent with the precautionary principle adopted for this BA, they have been included in the definition of the zone. The non-modelled stream reaches included in the surface water zone of potential hydrological change include:
- streams that intersect with areas of proposed coal mining
- some temporary streams within the that are considered (e.g. on the basis of independent lines of evidence such as remotely sensed data) to receive some level of contribution
- temporary streams with assumed hydrological change that could not be quantified.
220.127.116.11.1 Streams intersecting proposed coal mines
On the basis that all of the proposed coal mining operations will substantially alter the pre-development state of any watercourses on the mining lease, any part of the non-modelled stream network that intersects an area of open-cut mining, the surface area above underground longwall panels or a mine-site infrastructure area (including proposed dams) at one of the seven is flagged as being potentially impacted. During mine development, each operation will implement various management strategies to address flows along such watercourses, including potential stream around the mine. Consequently, these site-specific operational plans are better able to incorporate and model any local-scale to watercourses or drainage lines that may arise during initial development, and as mining progresses over the course of the entire mine life. The inclusion of streams in the zone above areas of proposed longwall mining is based on the potential for land surface and/or enhanced surface fracturing to potentially affect various aspects of these watercourses, such as the timing and magnitude of flow, as well as possibly enhancing local to . Any stream segments that partially intersect such mining areas have also been flagged as potentially impacted along any upstream and/or downstream parts of the same reach.
The component of the (Figure 20) encompasses many minor, temporary streams that were not specifically included in the modelling network. Some of these stream segments were classed as (GDE) streams using the general approach taken to develop the landscape classification for the (refer to Section 2.3.3 in companion product 2.3 for the Galilee subregion () for further details about the landscape classification approach). This suggests that some of these streams could potentially be affected by in the near-surface (e.g. reducing the magnitude and timing of any contribution to streams). However, as the landscape classification was done using a standardised regional mapping approach at the scale of the entire (which meant that once the various input had been assessed as suitable and fit for purpose for defining the , they were not subjected to further desktop or field-based verification), some further independent validation of potential surface water – groundwater interaction within the zone was undertaken to improve upon these initial interpretations at the smaller scale of the zone of potential hydrological change.
Several lines of evidence were used to improve the understanding of potential surface water – groundwater interaction for the minor non-modelled streams in the zone of potential hydrological change. This included analysis of the available groundwater records of standing water levels in the zone, which were sourced primarily from information in the Queensland groundwater bore database, and supplemented by data available from some coal mine environmental impact statement (EIS) documentation. This information is presented in Figure 39 in Section 3.4, and clearly shows that the depth to the in much of the zone is greater than 20 m, implying that surface water – groundwater interaction along watercourses in these areas is very unlikely to occur.
Further verification was undertaken using a suite of remote sensing techniques that are currently in development as part of work being undertaken by Digital Earth Australia (). A summary of the methods applied using these remote sensing applications is provided in Section 3.2, focused mainly on evaluating temporal trends in vegetation greenness and detectable surface water using the archive of Landsat imagery. Using Digital Earth Australia outputs (), the Assessment team visually inspected a variety of that covered the zone of potential hydrological change. Focusing on the data from several drought periods over the past 30 years allowed watercourses to be evaluated for the that groundwater contribution played an important role in maintaining vegetation health and/or available surface water during such times. Streams that maintained vegetation cover even during long periods of drought were flagged as being more likely to receive some groundwater contribution than streams that mostly lacked consistently green vegetation during these drier times.
Applying this remote sensing method helped to determine that the main non-modelled stream network in the zone that potentially receives some baseflow contribution occurs along the upper tributaries that feed the Carmichael River. In particular, Dyllingo Creek, Cattle Creek, and lower parts of Surprise Creek may all receive some (at present unquantified) volume of groundwater contribution. belonging to the Doongmabulla Springs complex also occur in the vicinity of reaches of these streams. Sparse groundwater level data suggest that the watertable is relatively shallow (within a few metres of the surface) within these areas (Figure 39 in Section 3.4).
From the analysis of these independent datasets, the Assessment team interpreted that the upper parts of Carmichael River and its tributary network are likely to be the only non-modelled streams in the zone of potential hydrological change that are (at least partially) connected to shallow groundwater flow systems. Consequently, these streams were included in the , and identified as being potentially impacted (but not quantified) due to groundwater drawdown, which could affect any baseflow contribution that supports these streams. The reaches upstream of the boundary of the were not included in this surface water zone.
18.104.22.168.3 Temporary streams with assumed hydrological change
Some reaches of the modelled stream network consist of multiple anabranches (commonly anastomosing reaches) between . This makes it especially difficult to reliably interpolate the surface water changes from model nodes to any particular anabranch segment. However, if hydrological changes occur at the model nodes upstream and downstream of an anabranch reach it is assumed that a hydrological change will also occur between the two modelled nodes. An example from the is for the stream reach that occurs between model nodes 44 and 34 (Figure 12), which joins the southern and northern zones. This stretch of the Belyando River consists of multiple anastomosing channels, all of which are likely to receive surface water flows of variable magnitude, timing and duration. This makes it challenging to reliably assign modelled changes in the from the adjacent nodes.
In reporting the total length of streams identified as being ‘potentially impacted but not quantified’, there is no distinction made between the three different categories as explained above. Thus, all of the surface water maps shown later in this section simply describe such streams as having ‘unquantified potential hydrological change’. Streams for which the surface water modelling identified that there was no change are not included in the (e.g. the modelled parts of the Cape River and the Suttor River above their respective junctions with the Belyando River, where all surface water model results were below threshold values (Figure 12)).
22.214.171.124.4 Characteristics of the surface water zone of potential hydrological change
In all, about 3012 km of the total 6285 km (Bioregional Assessment Programme, ) of streams in the were identified as potentially impacted. These streams were used to select the 1 km x 1 km (Bioregional Assessment Programme, ) that intersect the stream network (Bureau of Meteorology, ), to define the . The surface water zone of potential hydrological change is shown in Figure 21, including the footprints of the seven proposed coal mines that were included in the modelling.
For the purpose of producing some of the analysis results, it is necessary to prioritise a single stream segment in assessment units containing multiple stream segments. The prioritisation takes into account the stream order of each segment, stream segment lengths and the and relevant to each particular . Rules are applied according to the specific circumstances at each assessment unit. A summary of the various rules used in this prioritisation approach is provided in Section 126.96.36.199.2.
The surface water zone of potential hydrological change covers an area of 4115 km2 and encompasses much of the Belyando river basin upstream of Lake Dalrymple (the Burdekin Falls Dam). There is some variability in the application of the rules used to interpolate the node data to the adjacent reaches, and this depends on the hydrological response variables (as node data for some variables allowed for more extensive interpolation from nodes to reaches). This means that the total stream lengths that cannot be quantified can vary depending on the chosen hydrological response variables, ranging from 54% for and , and up to 65% for . Surface water modelling suggests that the catchments of the Cape River, and the Suttor River upstream of its junction with the Belyando River, are very unlikely to be impacted by the seven coal mines that comprise the modelled component of the .
Mine names are shown on Figure 20. Due to variations in the timing of the respective surface water and groundwater modelling workflows undertaken for this bioregional assessment, and the different emphasis placed on defining the extent of mining operations, there may be minor differences in the size and shape of some mine footprints used, respectively, for the surface water and groundwater modelling.
ACRD = additional coal resource development
Hydrological changes assessed as part of the for the are summarised for the . This is derived from the union of the (Figure 20) and the (Figure 21), and is shown in Figure 22. The Galilee zone of potential hydrological change covers an area of about 14,030 km2, which is less than 3% of the entire Galilee . Within the zone there are approximately 6285 km of streams (of which 96% are classed as temporary streams in the landscape classification), and about 46% of these may potentially be impacted due to coal resource development (Section 3.3.3). The remaining streams are generally low-order ephemeral watercourses (commonly in upland areas), and although to these were not specifically modelled there are multiple lines of evidence (e.g. depth to , remotely sensed Landsat data) that indicate low potential for hydrological changes to occur due to . For reporting purposes in this product, two separate reporting areas, one in the north and one in the south (Table 10), are defined to provide greater resolution of the potential hydrological impacts.
The zone of potential hydrological change is the first filter applied to and in the Galilee subregion as part of a ‘rule-out’ process for the impact and analysis. Landscape classes and that are completely outside the zone are very unlikely (less than 5% chance) to be impacted due to additional coal resource development and consequently these do not have qualitative landscape models or . As previously mentioned, the exception to this general rule is for or that may access deeper that are not specifically considered in developing the zone of potential hydrological change. The potential impacts on these types of water-dependent assets are further discussed in Section 3.4.3 and Section 3.5.3.
Applying the rule-out process as an initial step in the impact and risk analysis identifies the landscape classes that occur in the zone and that may potentially be impacted due to additional coal resource development. Importantly though, this does not definitively mean that all landscape classes and assets within the zone will be impacted, only that the potential for impact cannot be discounted and further analysis may be required. This subsequent phase of assessment is the focus of the more detailed impact analysis undertaken in this product. In these cases, qualitative mathematical models and/or receptor impact models are used to assess the potential impact of the modelled hydrological changes on relevant . Details of the qualitative mathematical models and receptor impact models are provided in companion product 2.7 for the Galilee subregion (), including the main evidence to support the development of these types of ecosystem models. The specific application of the receptor impact modelling described in to many of the landscape classes in the Galilee zone of potential hydrological change is presented in Section 3.4.
The defined for the is based on the open-cut mine footprints and the areas above underground longwall mines within the (Figure 22). The mine exclusion zone identifies areas within the zone that are within, or proximal to, areas of active mining, and where:
- modelled from the regional-scale are highly uncertain due to the very steep gradients that will exist at the mine working interface
- changes in drawdown are inevitable where the mine pits intersect the
- other factors, such as physical removal of a wetland or creek, may have a larger impact on a than the predicted decrease in groundwater level
- are predominantly site scale, and assumed to be adequately addressed through existing development approval processes, and hence not the primary focus of .
The modelled estimates of drawdown in the mine exclusion zone are considered unreliable for use in the receptor impact modelling. In most cases, the areas underlain by the mine exclusion zone will have a consistent 10 m of drawdown due to the implementation of the mining upon the uppermost in the AEM for the Galilee subregion (companion product 2.6.2 ()). In total, the mine exclusion zone within the zone of potential hydrological change (which includes the footprints of all seven of the proposed coal mines modelled in this BA) covers an area of 986 km2.
In the impacts on landscape classes and sections (Section 3.4 and Section 3.5, respectively), the initial rule-out assessment summarises what is in the zone of potential hydrological change and, within that, what is in the mine exclusion zone. For landscape classes and assets that have a groundwater dependency, lengths and areas were differentiated by attribute class for areas within the zone of potential hydrological change, but no differentiation by attribute class was undertaken for such features in the mine exclusion zone.
188.8.131.52.2 Reporting areas
The has two discrete areas that correspond to the main areas potentially impacted due to . Two separate reporting areas, which encompass the drawdown and potentially impacted network associated with distinct mining clusters (north and south), have been defined to summarise results (Figure 22). In the Belyando river basin, the two drawdown areas are connected by the . This means that results reported for the northern part of the zone may include some hydrological changes that have propagated from further upstream, thereby reflecting cumulative hydrological across the zone (Table 10).
Table 10 Reporting areas and modelled additional coal resource development
Additional coal resource development (modelled)
Carmichael, China Stone, Hyde Park
Includes all modelled areas of potential impact downstream of surface water model node 44, extending along reaches of the Belyando and Suttor rivers to Lake Dalrymple (Burdekin Falls Dam)
South Galilee, China First, Alpha, Kevin’s Corner
Restricted to the area of the southern groundwater zone, upstream of surface water model node 44 (Figure 12)
184.108.40.206.3 Presentation of surface water changes
The seven coal mines that are the focus of the numerical modelling for this are clustered at the central-eastern margin of the Galilee Basin. The mines are aligned along a north-trending axis that extends for nearly 250 km from the southern-most mine (South Galilee) to the northern-most mine (Hyde Park). Within this area are the edges of several distinct boundaries developed during the course of the BA for the , including the respective boundaries for the subregion, and (Figure 23). One of having multiple proximal boundaries in this area is that it is very difficult to clearly display node and interpolated modelling results (i.e. on maps) along much of the stream network, especially at the scale required to display the entire surface water modelling domain.
To overcome what would otherwise appear as a selection of cluttered and hard-to-read surface water maps, the various administrative boundaries that occur in this area are deliberately not included on all of the surface water maps presented in this product. Removing these boundaries, several of which also overlap with each other, means that the critical surface water modelling results at individual nodes, as well as the adjacent interpolated stream reaches, are more clearly displayed. To put these results into the of the various boundary locations, readers are advised to visually cross-check locations with the various boundaries as depicted in Figure 23.
ACRD = additional coal resource development
Product Finalisation date
- 3.1 Overview
- 3.2 Methods
- 3.3 Potential hydrological changes
- 3.4 Impacts on and risks to landscape classes
- 3.4.1 Overview
- 3.4.2 Landscape classes that are unlikely to be impacted
- 3.4.3 'Springs' landscape group
- 3.4.4 'Streams, GDE' landscape group
- 3.4.5 'Streams, non-GDE' landscape group
- 3.4.6 'Floodplain, terrestrial GDE' landscape group
- 3.4.7 'Non-floodplain, terrestrial GDE' landscape group
- 3.5 Impacts on and risks to water-dependent assets
- 3.6 Commentary for coal resource developments that are not modelled
- 3.7 Conclusion
- Contributors to the Technical Programme
- About this technical product
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The day in March'2021 when we completed one hundred 1:1 lessons.
Donating one of the checks to Sparta Ecumenical Food Bank during COVID.
Donating 30 bags to Project Self Sufficiency
Donated to International Rescue Committee for Ukraine Refugee Relief
So far, we have...
Taught for more than 5+ years (our first summer camp was in 2017)
Have taught more than 300 1:1 lessons
Taught a total of 38 students the strategies of playing Chess
More than $5,000 raised for charity
We have grown and added hand made chess products in our chess store
Taught in Chess Camp for 15 kids at a local school
Donation to Sparta Community Food Pantry
Donated $2,500 to Dept of Neuroscience at Muhlenberg College, in memory of Erin Beebe
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Sparta Community Food Pantry
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Project Self Sufficiency
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Learning about depression
Depression is feeling sad, blue, unhappy, or down in the dumps. Most people feel this way once in a while.
Clinical depression is a mood disorder. It occurs when feelings of sadness, loss, anger, or frustration get in the way of your life over a long period of time. It also changes how your body works.
Depression is caused by changes in the chemicals in your brain. The condition may start during or after a painful event in your life. It may happen when you take certain medicines. It can also start during or after pregnancy.
Sometimes there is no clear trigger or reason.
What are the Signs of Depression?
You may notice some or all of the following problems. Talk to your doctor if you have symptoms that last for 2 weeks or longer.
You will always have changes in your daily moods or feelings when you are depressed. You may:
- Feel sad or blue most or all of the time
- Feel bad-tempered or irritable most of the time, with sudden bursts of anger
- Not enjoy activities that normally make you happy, including sex
- Feel hopeless or helpless
- Not feel good about yourself, or have feelings of worthlessness, self-hate, and guilt
Normal daily activities also change when you are depressed. You may:
- Have trouble sleeping or sleep more than normal
- Have a hard time concentrating
- Move around more slowly or seem "jumpy" or agitated
- Feel much less hungry than before, or even lose weight
- Feel tired and lack energy
- Become less active or stop doing usual activities
Depression can lead to thoughts of death or suicide, which can be dangerous. Always talk to a friend or family member and call your doctor when you have these feelings.
Taking Care of Your Depression at Home
There are many things you can do at home to help manage your depression, such as:
- Get enough sleep.
- Follow a healthy diet.
- Take medicines correctly. Learn how to manage side effects.
- Watch for early signs that depression is getting worse. Have a plan if it does.
- Try to exercise more.
- Look for activities that make you happy.
Avoid alcohol and illegal drugs. These can make depression worse over time. They may also get in the way of your judgment about suicide.
Talk to someone you trust about your feelings of depression. Try to be around people who are caring and positive. Volunteering or getting involved in group activities may help.
If you are depressed in the fall or winter, ask your doctor about light therapy. This treatment uses a special lamp that acts like the sun.
Taking Medicines for Depression
Some people may feel better after a few weeks of taking antidepressant medicines. Many people need to take these medicines for 4 to 9 months. They need this to get a full response and prevent depression from coming back.
If you need antidepressant medicines, you should take them every day. Your doctor may need to change the type of medicine you take or the dose.
Do not stop taking your medicine on your own, even if you feel better or have side effects. Always call your doctor first. When it is time to stop your medicine, your doctor will slowly cut down the amount you take over time.
Talk therapy and counseling can help many people with depression. It also helps you learn ways to deal with your feelings and thoughts.
There are many different types of talk therapy. Effective treatment often combines:
- Talk therapy
- Lifestyle changes
American Psychiatric Association. Major depressive disorder. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-5. 5th ed. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing. 2013:160-168.
Fava M, Østergaard SD, Cassano P. Mood disorders: depressive disorders (major depressive disorder). In: Stern TA, Fava M, Wilens TE, Rosenbaum JF, eds. Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2016:chap 29.
National Institute of Mental Health website. Depression. www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression/index.shtml. Updated February 2018. Accessed March17, 2021.
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Tempted to cheat on a written exam? Artificial intelligence is 90 percent certain to nab you
Combining big data with artificial intelligence has allowed University of Copenhagen researchers to determine whether you wrote your assignment or whether a ghostwriter penned it for you - with nearly 90 percent accuracy.
Several studies have shown that cheating on assignments is widespread and becoming increasingly prevalent among high school students. At the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer Science, efforts to detect cheating on assignments through writing analysis by way of artificial intelligence have been underway for a few years. Now, based on analyses of 130,000 written Danish assignments, scientists can, with nearly 90 percent accuracy, detect whether a student has written an assignment on their own or had it composed by a ghostwriter.
Danish high schools currently use the Lectio platform to check if a student has handed in plagiarized work that has passages copied directly from a previously submitted assignment. High schools have a harder time discovering if a student has enlisted someone else to write the assignment for them, something that happens to a more or less systematized degree via online services. The case of the SRP, a major written assignment in the final year of Danish high school, is particularly telling. Because the assignment counts for double, students have gone as far as tendering out their writing assignments on the Danish classified website, Den Blå Avis.
"The problem today is that if someone is hired to write an assignment, Lectio won’t spot it. Our program identifies discrepancies in writing styles by comparing recently submitted writing against a student’s previously submitted work. Among other variables, the program looks at: word length, sentence structure and how words are used. For instance, whether ‘for example’ is written as ‘ex.’ or ‘e.g.’,” explains PhD student Stephan Lorenzen of the Department of Computer Science. He, along with the rest of the DIKU-DABAI research group, recently presented their findings at a major European AI conference.
Prior to setting the trap, an ethical debate
The program, Ghostwriter, is built around machine learning and neural networks – branches of artificial intelligence that are particularly useful for recognizing patterns in images and texts. MaCom, the company that provides Lectio to Danish high schools, has made a dataset of 130,000 written assignments from 10,000 different high school students available to Ghostwriter project researchers at the Department of Computer Science. For now, it is still a research project.
Stephan Lorenzen doesn’t think that it is unrealistic for the program to find its way into high schools in the not too distant future, as schools must constantly stay apace with technological developments to address ‘authorship verification’.
“I think that it is realistic to expect that high schools will begin using it at some point. But before they do, there needs to be an ethical discussion of how the technology ought to be applied. Any result delivered by the program should never stand on its own, but serve to support and substantiate a suspicion of cheating," believes Lorenzen.
Police and fake news
Ghostwriter’s technological foundation can be applied elsewhere in society. For example, the program could be used in police work to supplement forged document analysis, a task carried out by forensic document examiners and others.
"It would be fun to collaborate with the police, who currently deploy forensic document examiners to look for qualitative similarities and differences between the texts they are comparing. We can look at large amounts of data and find patterns. I imagine that this combination would benefit police work," says Lorenzen, who emphasizes that ethical discussions are needed here as well.
The artificial intelligence used by researchers at the Department of Computer Science to detect cheating on assignments has a wide range of applications. It has already been used to analyze Twitter tweets to determine whether they were composed by actual users or penned by paid imposters or robots.
- The ghostwriter program uses what is known as a Siamese neural network to distinguish the writing styles of two texts. The network is trained on large amounts of data to learn from representations of writing styles, which are then compared.
- When a student submits an assignment, the network compares it against their previous assignments. For each previous assignment, the network provides a percentage score for writing style similarity against the new assignment.
- In the end, a weighted average of these scores is calculated using a calculation that also takes other factors, such as delivery time, into account. This final score is presented as a percentage and indicates the similarity between the new assignment and the student's writing style.
- The research group behind the result is DIKU-DABAI (Danish Center for Big Data Analytics driven Innovation). The group is headed by Professor Stephen Alstrup.
- Access the research article "Detecting Ghostwriters in High Schools" that was published at the ESANN 2019 conference.
- The research is supported by Innovation Fund Denmark.
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Miniature switches have various applications. They can be utilized at homes and in a ton of modern conditions. For instance, you can track down them in homes and the security and mechanization of structures. In this article, we will dig further into the purposes of these gadgets.
Robotization and Security
Today, miniature switches are utilized for various purposes, like security and robotization. Given underneath are a portion of the normal instances of the purposes of these gadgets.
They can be found as pushbuttons, call focuses, and alerts. In a crisis, these buttons are squeezed to enact a caution so the concerned specialists can be alarmed.
They are additionally utilized as triggers to keep these units from being gotten off. A few normal gadgets that have these units in them incorporate access control boards, card perusers, and infrared discovery caution. The caution goes off the second somebody attempts to eliminate harm or descent the unit.
They are utilized in turning gadgets for surveillance cameras. The miniature switch gets actuated the second the turning gadget goes past the mark of movement. The thought is to ensure that the camera isn’t moved somewhere unexpected.
The gadgets are utilized for HVAC applications also. All in all, these are utilized to identify changes in gaseous tension.
These units are utilized for access control also. For instance, they are utilized for electric entryway locks. The motivation behind their establishment is to distinguish the locking, opening, opening, and shutting of various kinds of entryways.
Furthermore, miniature switches are likewise introduced to recognize the kickoff of a roller entryway. They are essential for circuit breakers to identify the situation with turning on and off. Aside from this, these gadgets are utilized to identify the place of safe entryway locks.
Miniature switches can likewise be found in clock controls. When time expires, the switch is set off.
Miniature switches can likewise be tracked down in lots of home machines. A portion of these applications are recorded beneath:
Clothes washers: These little gadgets are utilized in clothes washers to turn them on and off. In addition, they identify exchanging power and the point of channel and drums. At the point when the entryway of the machine is opened or shut, these gadgets can identify it. Aside from this, miniature switches can likewise distinguish the water level inside the lodge.
Coolers: these gadgets can likewise be utilized in fridges where they can distinguish the place of the ice creator.
Climate control systems: These units can recognize the situation with the entryway boards to see whether they are opened or shut. Aside from this, they are likewise utilized as a reset button on the forced air system.
Microwaves and rice cookers: In these apparatuses, miniature switches can identify the situation with the cover. Aside from this, they additionally capability as wellbeing shortcircuits. They likewise function as control board switches.
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8th Workshop, Barcelona: “Impact of the EU Paediatric Regulation on Orphan Drug Development”
8th Workshop of the Eurordis Round Table of Companies:
“Impact of the EU Paediatric Regulation on Orphan Drug Development”
June 20th, 2008
One year after the adoption of the EU Paediatric Regulation, this workshop was an opportunity to learn how the regulatory professionals interpret and implement it in practice. In particular, how setting up a paediatric investigation plan links up with the various phases of orphan drug development (designation, protocol assistance, marketing authorisation). The afternoon discussion clarified the distinctive nature of the development of medicines for use in children and how to facilitate it.
Key feature: first time that the orphan drug community analysed the benefits of the newly implemented paediatric regulation.
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Typography is the term used to describe the font (or typeface) used in your branding materials. It’s important to pick logo and brand fonts carefully. Typography is classified into four broad categories:
- Serif sans
Serif fonts (for example, Times New Roman or Garamond) have an anchor (or, to others, small feet) at the end of each letter. This conventional typography is ideal if you want your brand to look trustworthy, traditional, and somewhat retro.
If “serif” refers to the foot, “sans serif” refers to the absence of the foot. Sans serif fonts (such as Helvetica or Franklin Gothic) have flat edges and lack the anchor or “heads” that serif fonts have. Sans serif fonts lend brands a more elegant, streamlined appearance.
Script typography is designed to resemble cursive handwriting (so much for those cursive lessons in grade school!). These fonts (such as Allura or Pacifico) can be an excellent way to give the brand a luxurious or feminine feel.
Display fonts are in a class by themselves. Each show font has a distinct characteristic, whether it’s an irregular letter form, outlines, shadowing, or a more artistic/hand-drawn edge (think Metallica’s lightning bolt font). Want to make a bold declaration and create a brand name that will endure? A view font is an excellent way to do this.
The typography you chose will communicate a great deal about your brand, so make wise font selections.
Your logo design serves as the foundation for the brand identity. When working with your artist, you should strive to ensure that your logo checks the following boxes:
- Clearly expresses who you are as a brand and what you value;
- Is aesthetically pleasing: keeping things plain, tidy, and uncluttered goes a long way;
- Is timeless, not trendy: the last thing you want is for your logo to become dated after six months.
- Adheres to the industry’s standards—and if you deviate, do so purposefully;
- Leaves an indelible effect on the viewers.
Additionally, you want to ensure that your branding partner produces the logo in a variety of formats (such as a black and white edition or different sizes) to ensure that you still have the logo you need—and that each version is consistent with your brand identity.
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A monogenic disorder is caused by a mutation or alteration in a single locus or gene in one or both members of a gene pair. Approximately 2 percent of the population will have a monogenic disorder diagnosed during their lifetime. Monogenic disorders are also called mendelian if their transmission follows the laws of inheritance proposed by Gregor Mendel. Modes of mendelian inheritance include autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, X linked, and Y linked. Other monogenic patterns of inheritance, including mitochondrial inheritance, trinucleotide repeat expansion, uniparental disomy, and imprinting, are discussed in Chapter 7. As of May 2012, the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) listed more than 13,800 unique genes with known sequence, of which greater than 13,000 are autosomal dominant or recessive and more than 680 are X or Y linked. Some common mendelian disorders affecting adults are listed in Table 6-1. Although transmission patterns of these diseases are consistent with mendelian inheritance, the phenotypes are strongly influenced by modifying genes and environmental factors.
TABLE 6-1. Some Common Single-Gene Disorders
AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDERS
If only one member of a gene pair determines the phenotype, that gene is considered to be dominant. The carrier of a gene causing an autosomal dominant disease has a 50 percent chance of passing on the affected gene with each conception. Factors that influence the ultimate phenotype of an individual carrying an autosomal dominant disease include penetrance, expressivity, and occasionally, presence of codominant genes.
This term describes whether or not an autosomal dominant gene is expressed at all (yes or no). The degree of penetrance of a gene is the ratio of gene carriers who have any phenotypic characteristics to the total number of gene carriers. For example, a gene that is 80 percent penetrant is expressed in some way in 80 percent of individuals who have that gene. Incomplete or reduced penetrance explains why some autosomal dominant diseases appear to “skip” generations.
This refers to the degree to which the phenotypic features are expressed. If all individuals carrying the affected gene do not have identical phenotypes, the gene has variable expressivity. Expressivity of a gene can range from complete or severe manifestations to only mild features of the disease. An example of a disease with variable expressivity is neurofibromatosis.
If alleles in a gene pair are different from each other, but both are expressed in a phenotype, they are considered to be codominant. A common example is the human major blood groups—because their genes are codominant, both A and B red-cell antigens can be expressed simultaneously in one individual.
AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDERS
Autosomal recessive diseases develop only when both gene copies are abnormal. Phenotypic alterations in gene carriers—that is, heterozygotes—usually are undetectable clinically but may be recognized at the biochemical or cellular level. For example, many enzyme deficiency diseases are autosomal recessive. The enzyme level in the carrier will be about half of normal, but this reduction usually does not cause disease. A couple whose child has an autosomal recessive disease has a 25 percent recurrence risk with each conception. The likelihood that a normal sibling of an affected child is a carrier of the gene is two out of three—one-forth of offspring will be homozygous normal, two-forth will be heterozygote carriers, and one-forth will be homozygous abnormal. Because genes leading to rare autosomal recessive conditions have a low prevalence in the general population, the chance that a partner will be a gene carrier is low unless the couple is related a member of an at-risk population. Important examples of autosomal recessive disorders are phenylketonuria and cystic fibrosis.
This term is used when two individuals have at least one recent ancestor in common. First-degree relatives share half their genes, second-degree relatives share one-fourth, and third-degree relatives (cousins) share one-eighth. Consanguineous unions are at increased risk to produce children with otherwise rare autosomal recessive diseases and multifactorial conditions. First-cousin marriages carry a twofold increased risk of abnormal offspring—4 to 6 percent if there is no family history of genetic disease.
X-LINKED AND Y-LINKED DISEASES
Most X-linked diseases are inherited in a recessive fashion. Females carrying an X-linked recessive gene are generally unaffected, unless unfavorable lyonization—inactivation of one X chromosome in every cell—results in the majority of cells expressing the abnormal gene. When a woman carries a gene causing an X-linked recessive condition, each son has a 50 percent risk of being affected and each daughter has a 50 percent chance of being a carrier. Males carrying an X-linked recessive gene are usually affected because they lack a second X chromosome to express the normal dominant gene. When a man has an X-linked disease, all his sons will be unaffected because they cannot receive his affected X chromosome. X-linked dominant disorders affect females predominantly because they tend to be lethal in male offspring.
The Y chromosome carries genes important for sex determination and a variety of cellular functions such as spermatogenesis and bone development. Deletion of genes on the long arm results in severe spermatogenetic defects, whereas genes at the tip of the short arm are critical for chromosomal pairing during meiosis and for fertility.
For further reading in Williams Obstetrics, 23rd ed.,
see Chapter 12, “Genetics.”
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Global AI in FashionScope and Market Size
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Global AI in Fashion Market:Regional Segment Analysis(Regional Production Volume, Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate):
- North America (United States, Canada and Mexico)
- Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Russia, Spain and Benelux)
- Asia Pacific (China, Japan, India, Southeast Asia and Australia)
- Latin America (Brazil, Argentina and Colombia)
- Middle East and Africa
Detailed TOC of Global AI in Fashion Market Research Report:
1 Study Coverage
1.1 AI in Fashion Product Introduction
1.2 Market by Type
1.3 Market by Application
1.4 Study Objectives
1.5 Years Considered
2 Global AI in Fashion Production
2.1 Global AI in Fashion Production Capacity (2017-2028)
2.2 Global AI in Fashion Production by Region: 2017 VS 2021 VS 2028
2.3 Global AI in Fashion Production by Region
2.3.1 Global AI in Fashion Historic Production by Region (2017-2022)
2.3.2 Global AI in Fashion Forecasted Production by Region (2023-2028)
2.4 North America
3 Global AI in Fashion Sales in Volume and Value Estimates and Forecasts
3.1 Global AI in Fashion Sales Estimates and Forecasts 2017-2028
3.2 Global AI in Fashion Revenue Estimates and Forecasts 2017-2028
3.3 Global AI in Fashion Revenue by Region: 2017 VS 2021 VS 2028
3.4 Global AI in Fashion Sales by Region
3.4.1 Global AI in Fashion Sales by Region (2017-2022)
3.4.2 Global Sales AI in Fashion by Region (2023-2028)
3.5 Global AI in Fashion Revenue by Region
3.5.1 Global AI in Fashion Revenue by Region (2017-2022)
3.5.2 Global AI in Fashion Revenue by Region (2023-2028)
3.6 North America
3.9 Latin America
3.10 Middle East and Africa
4 Competition by Manufactures
4.1 Global AI in Fashion Production Capacity by Manufacturers
4.2 Global AI in Fashion Sales by Manufacturers
4.3 Global AI in Fashion Revenue by Manufacturers
4.4 Global AI in Fashion Sales Price by Manufacturers
4.5 Analysis of Competitive Landscape
4.6 Mergers and Acquisitions, Expansion Plans
5 Market Size by Type
5.1 Global AI in Fashion Sales by Type
5.2 Global AI in Fashion Revenue by Type
5.3 Global AI in Fashion Price by Type
6 Market Size by Application
6.1 Global AI in Fashion Sales by Application
6.2 Global AI in Fashion Revenue by Application
6.3 Global AI in Fashion Price by Application
7 North America
7.1 North America AI in Fashion Market Size by Type
7.2 North America AI in Fashion Market Size by Application
7.3 North America AI in Fashion Sales by Country
8.1 Europe AI in Fashion Market Size by Type
8.2 Europe AI in Fashion Market Size by Application
8.3 Europe AI in Fashion Sales by Country
9 Asia Pacific
9.1 Asia Pacific AI in Fashion Market Size by Type
9.2 Asia Pacific AI in Fashion Market Size by Application
9.3 Asia Pacific AI in Fashion Sales by Region
10 Latin America
10.1 Latin America AI in Fashion Market Size by Type
10.2 Latin America AI in Fashion Market Size by Application
10.3 Latin America AI in Fashion Sales by Country
11 Middle East and Africa
11.1 Middle East and Africa AI in Fashion Market Size by Type
11.2 Middle East and Africa AI in Fashion Market Size by Application
11.3 Middle East and Africa AI in Fashion Sales by Country
12 Corporate Profiles
13 Industry Chain and Sales Channels Analysis
13.1 AI in Fashion Industry Chain Analysis
13.2 AI in Fashion Key Raw Materials
13.3 AI in Fashion Production Mode and Process
13.4 AI in Fashion Sales and Marketing
13.5 AI in Fashion Customers
14 Market Drivers, Opportunities, Challenges and Risks Factors Analysis
14.1 AI in Fashion Industry Trends
14.2 AI in Fashion Market Drivers
14.3 AI in Fashion Market Challenges
14.4 AI in Fashion Market Restraints
15 Key Finding in The Global AI in Fashion Study
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Version 15.5 of the Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL), which was previously named Electronic Government Reference Library (EGRL), has been published as of December 15, 2019. The library now contains 12,546 references of predominantly English-language, peer-reviewed work in the study domains of digital government, digital governance, and digital democracy.
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One might postulate that the United States is regularly supporting so-called allies whose very nature will eventually generate blowback that will do terrible damage to actual American interests. The recent example of the mass shooting at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida by Saudi Second Lieutenant Mohammed Alshamrani is illustrative. Alshamrani killed three American sailors while three other Saudi students filmed what was taking place, presumably for posting on social media.
Though the US and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have no actual alliance, the American and Saudi militaries have a relationship that began during the Second World War. Currently, Washington supports Riyadh as a force multiplier and extension of US power in the Persian Gulf region to serve as a check on what if perceives to be as hostile Iran. Saudi Arabia, nurturing its own regional ambitions, clearly sees Iran as its principal enemy. As the White House also appears keen to do whatever is necessary to bring about regime change in Tehran, the tendency in Washington to serve as an apologist for whatever Riyadh does will continue for the foreseeable future. And, as an added bonus, the Saudis buy billions of dollars’ worth of American made weapons annually.
Someone has to train the people who fly the expensive warplanes, so Saudi Air Force “students” are sent to American bases like Pensacola where they undergo language and flight training that is normally conducted by civilian contractors. The student pilots, surely carefully screened by Saudi security, would be unlikely candidates for staging a terrorist attack in the United States, but the Alshamrani incident suggests that there is more dissidence bubbling beneath the surface than is apparent from the rosy assurances about The Kingdom coming out of the White House and the Royal Palace in Riyadh.
The investigation of Alshamrani continues, but it seems clear that he was unhappy with aspects of America’s pro-Israel and interventionist foreign policy. He also connected with radical websites on social media and his colleagues report that he would periodically return to the US from home leave in Saudi Arabia “more religious.” On the night before the incident, he showed a film that included a mass shooting.
Alshamrani is just one element in the considerable potential downside inherent in the undeclared bilateral relationship. Apart from the regional instability created by the fact that Washington has to look the other way while the Saudis use American weapons to carry out genocide in neighboring Yemen, many observers believe that Saudi Arabia is basically unstable. Its prevailing fundamentalist Islamic sect referred to as Wahhabism is backward looking and hostile to the United States and the West. Some have even suggested that a large majority of ordinary Saudis, i.e. not those who benefit from the bilateral relationship, hate the US One recalls that fifteen out of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were Saudi nationals.
All of which means that the United States is training and arming people who just might turn their training and weapons against Washington if the al-Saud royal family cannot stay in power. The situation is somewhat comparable to that in Afghanistan, where so-called “green-on-blue” incidents in which Afghan army recruits kill their foreign trainers occur on a regular basis. The chief difference is that should the Saudi dissidents gain power, they would have a huge and much more lethally sophisticated arsenal to play around with.
Other regional powers are watching how the situation involving the American presence in Saudi Arabia develops. Recently Iran’s leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei commented on media reports that the Saudis would be constructing US provided nuclear reactors. He said "I do not know of any regime in the region and perhaps the world as bad as the Saudi government. It is not only despotic, dictatorial, corrupt and tyrannical but also sycophantic. [The Americans] want to supply [the Saudis] with nuclear equipment. They have announced to build missile manufacturing centers for it [and] they see no problem because Saudi Arabia depends on them and belongs to them. Of course, if they build them, I personally will not be upset because I know that God willing [all the weapons] will fall into the hands of Muslim Mujahedin [for use against the Americans] in the not too distant future.”
The current situation with the House of Saud is not good. It is a regime that is under considerable pressure because of its corruption. Internationally, it has few friends due to its widely condemned war in Yemen as well as from the consequences arising over the killing and dismembering in Istanbul of Jamal Khashoggi. The situation also invites comparison with other current and past US relationships in the region. Washington props up an unpopular and unstable regime headed by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt while also funding and training the country’s military. In the past, the US was the main arms supplier for the Shah’s Iran, ignoring abuses committed by the regime because Iran was perceived to be a major regional power, reliably stable and apparently western looking.
The United States is also in trouble with its other major regional partner in the Middle East, Israel. As is the case with Saudi Arabia, the United States has no actual alliance or pact with the Jewish state, though such an arrangement is currently being considered. As in the case of Saudi Arabia, the United States has no say in the military actions being undertaken by its client Israel. The Jewish state regularly bombs targets in Gaza, Syria and in Lebanon, just as the Saudis do in Yemen. As the United States is the arms supplier to both nations and is more-or-less the de facto guarantor of a one-sided stability in the region, it has self-assumed responsibilities without having any input into the decisions making process. Trump’s obsession with destroying Iran, which has promised to do in his next term, makes him blind to the deficiencies in the allies he seeks to use to that end.
The situation with Israel is particularly dangerous as the Jewish state possesses a nuclear arsenal and it is widely believed that many in its military command structure are prepared to use those devices against Iran. In 2015, Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya’alon explained how Israel might have to strike Iran hard to prevent a long war. He cited the examples of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and then describing the process for making such a decision as “at the end, we might take certain steps.”
Either way, the United States of America is burdened with a number of false allies that use the relationship with Washington to enable their own schemes. If and when the whole house of cards begins to collapse, the US will plausibly find itself with no friends and confronted by enemies that it empowered and also helped to train and equip.
Reprinted with permission from American Herald Tribune.
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M.A. Master of Arts
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For Zoe Frazer-Klotz and Lizy Szanton, a collaborative social-developmental psychology thesis project emerged as a way to effectively engage with intersectionality in research and to find inspiration and energy in a world of pandemic Zoom classes.
Their theses explored children’s perceptions of race and gender nonconformity through the theoretical prism of the third-party prejudice effect—the idea that people often accommodate prejudices held by powerful third-party actors even if they don’t hold these prejudices themselves—and intersectional invisibility theory, which posits that people oppressed in multiple ways aren’t seen as such. “Our work supports this theory of intersectional invisibility and shows how gender presentation, race, etc. may intersect to mediate how children interpret societal messages about who they should associate with and who they should exclude,” said Frazer-Klotz.
Conducted in Assistant Professor of Psychology Ryan Lei’s Intersectionality in the Social Mind Lab, Frazer-Klotz’s and Szanton’s study built on their previous collaborative developmental psychology research project that examined gender essentialism and gender nonconformity in children. “Our thesis project has essentially two novel contributions,” said Szanton. “ First, it applies the concept [of third-party prejudice] to children for the first time (previous work is with adults), and second, it looks at prejudice that encompasses multiple social categories simultaneously, in this case, race and gender conformity, whereas previous work has only looked at sexism.”
Starting this summer, Frazer-Klotz will be working at Epic Systems in Madison, WI, doing quality management. Next year, Szanton will be researching motivation for prosocial behavior in a social psychology lab at Boston College. Both graduates plan to eventually pursue graduate study in psychology after spending a couple of years in the industry or research, and both note how valuable their analytical and research skills are for their career choices.
How did your thesis advisor help you develop your thesis topic, conduct your research, and/or interpret your results?
Zoe: I would say that we worked very closely with our advisor: we had our normal weekly meetings where we would discuss findings from papers and our methodology, and we were also all on Slack. Lizy and I would send Ryan questions through instant messages all the time, which was really helpful as problems and questions arose. Even after graduation, we’re still working with Ryan on other, non-thesis-related projects.
Lizy: Ryan really balanced guiding us through the various stages of research while also trusting us to figure things out on our own. There were a lot of skills, from designing stimuli to coding for statistical analysis in R [a programming language used in statistical computing], that we learned through some guiding instruction, but also largely through trial and error and collaboration with the other seniors in the lab. Though at times it felt like we were being tossed in the deep end, I think we came out of this project with a lot more independent knowledge than we would have otherwise.
What did you learn from working on your thesis? What is your biggest takeaway from the project?
Zoe: When you are working as a research assistant, you usually don’t get to see a project through from start to finish; you just work on little chunks. Working on our thesis project definitely taught me about the process of conceptualizing, creating, and reporting a full scientific study. I’d say my biggest takeaway from the project is probably the value of teamwork and maintaining a strong working relationship.
Lizy: Working on this project really hammered in the importance of using intersectional paradigms in social and developmental research. Most research until now has only considered one facet of a person’s identity—for instance, gender—when examining social phenomena. In our project, we captured a lot of effects and interesting interactions that we wouldn’t have seen if we had worked within a non-intersectional framework. This is definitely a lesson that I will take with me in my future work.
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As I noted the other day, I am a little mixed on badges, so I am exploring their use and creation where I can. Paul Oh has used the badge tool at P2PU to create a badge for Making Learning Connected MOOC. He and Sherri Edwards even posted a Google Hangout about how it works. I went through the process and added a mapping project to earn my badge. While the badge is at P2PU (an open source learning space, which ties in nicely to the MOOC), I found I could also put the badge there into my Mozilla Badge Backpack, which is another place I need to fool around with a bit more.
What I like, and what Paul articulated somewhere, is that the CLMOOC Badge is more than just a stamp of experience; It represents yet another space where people are sharing out and reflecting on some project that exemplifies their exploration in the CLMOOC summer. It’s a way for us to honor what we did and celebrate our own efforts.
Did you make something this summer? Come get your CLMOOC badge.
Peace (in the backpack),
PS — Here is the hangout with Paul and Sherri
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Rose Nankervis manages Wicca Farm on the north coast of Cornwall. In this video, Rose explains why she decided to take part in the Sustainable Farming Incentive pilot.
Grazing is an important part of our farming industry and, for many, management of livestock is more than an occupation: it is a way of life. In this guest post, Rob Cooke, Director of the Greener Farming and Fisheries Programme in Natural England explains the relationship between grazing and environmental outcomes.
I recently joined the Sustainable Farming Incentive team to help develop some of the standards for 2022/23. In particular, those focused on upland farming and moorland management. In this post, I'll share more about the Moorland and Rough Grazing Standard.
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of May 18, 2015 No. 103
About outside video surveillance
Accepted by Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic on April 23, 2015
According to the constitutional regulations of protection of homeland security, public order, health protection and morality of the population, protection of the rights and freedoms of other persons, this Law obligatory equipment of buildings and constructions irrespective of patterns of ownership is entered by system of outside video surveillance.
This Law establishes the main directions of creation, upgrade and development of system of outside video surveillance of objects.
The purpose of this Law is establishment of additional measure for the prevention, suppression of crime and to ensuring public safety.
1. Operation of this Law extends to the legal entities and physical persons operating the objects which are subject to equipment by system of outside video surveillance in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic.
2. This Law is applied after adoption by the local kenesh of the decision on establishment of system of outside video surveillance to the objects of public nature located in the territory of the corresponding administrative and territorial unit.
In this Law the following concepts are used:
video surveillance is the process performed by means of the optical-electronic devices intended for visual inspection or the automatic analysis of images for the purpose of automatic fixing of violations and storage for subsequent use in the cases provided by this Law;
the operator - the state body, municipal body, legal entity or physical person organizing and (or) performing video surveillance processing;
information of personal nature (personal data) - the fixed information on the material carrier on the specific person identified with the specific person or which can be identified with the specific person, allowing to identify this person directly or indirectly by means of the reference to one or several factors specific to its biological, economic, cultural, civil or social identity.
Bio and identification data, personal characteristics, data on marital status, financial position, the state of health and other belong to personal data;
system of outside video surveillance (further - SNVN) - the equipment for record of the image and sound with possibility of the subsequent reproduction;
the third parties are all persons, except the owner, the head, the operator of object of SNVN.
The legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of outside video surveillance consists of the Constitution, this Law and other regulatory legal acts of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Tasks of SNVN are:
1) ensuring public safety from illegal actions of other persons;
2) fixation of events for the purpose of identification of illegal actions;
3) monitoring of movement on SNVN objects;
4) creation of additional measures for the prevention, suppression and disclosure of crimes and offenses;
5) recovery of real picture of the event in the territories of the equipped SNVN of objects by means of viewing of videoarchives.
To SNVN objects, except for objects of the facilitated type with a total area no more than 40 sq.m, belong:
1) the places open for public access (the areas, the markets, parks, squares, highways, streets, boulevards, intersections, bridges, railway crossings, transport hubs, tunnels), and the territories adjoining to them;
2) the adjacent territory of buildings, constructions in which industrial and other productive or other business activity is performed;
3) adjacent territory of buildings: residential, public, administrative, multipurpose and non-productive;
4) parkings, cooperative garages.
1. State regulation in the field of equipment of SNVN is performed by the state authorized body in the field of ensuring public order, safety of the personality, society and fight against crime together with local government bodies.
Technical requirements to SNVN are determined by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic.
2. In the field of ensuring public order, safety of the personality, society and fight against crime treat competence of authorized state body:
1) realization of state policy in the field of creation, upgrades and developments of SNVN;
2) approval of corner of foreshortening and visibility in case of the SNVN installation;
3) development of requirements and SNVN target programs;
4) coordination of works on preparation of the projects directed to increase in efficiency of works of SNVN;
5) maintaining the register of the objects equipped with SNVN.
3. Approval by the local kenesh on representation of executive bodies of local self-government of the list of objects of the organizations, companies and organizations located in the territory of the corresponding administrative and territorial unit, which are subject to establishment of SNVN, except for the objects which are in state-owned property is within the competence of local government bodies.
1. Objects of public nature are subject to equipment of SNVN in case of their inclusion in the list of objects of the organizations, companies and organizations which are subject to equipment of SNVN, approved according to part 3 of article 8 of this Law.
2. In case of establishment of SNVN on the corresponding object the owner (head) shall approve corner of foreshortening and visibility of the established SNVN with authorized state body.
Officials of authorized state body during approval of establishment of SNVN are forbidden to require additional rules in technical parameters of the equipment.
3. Expenses on acquisition and establishment of SNVN devices are made at the expense of means of the owner of the object which is subject to equipment of SNVN according to this Law, except for the residential objects which are not connected with implementation of business activity.
4. Establishment of SNVN in the places open for public access (the area, the municipal markets, parks, squares, highways, streets, boulevards, intersections, bridges, railway crossings, transport hubs, tunnels), is provided with local government bodies.
1. Confidentiality of such data shall be provided with the operators and persons having access to personal data.
2. All objects equipped with SNVN shall have special warning labels in the state and official languages.
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By Susan Snyder
This is day three of a series of six blogs about the AHPS workshop, “Best of the West”. Watch for day four on November 5th.
You roll into Page in the early afternoon. Get checked into your hotel room and actually unpack your bags a little because you get two whole days in Page! Will it be enough? You don’t have much time for a rest, however, as sunset is once again approaching and you get to capture it at Horseshoe Bend today. Horseshoe Bend is part of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, upstream from the Grand Canyon. To the east of the canyon, the Colorado river has carved the stone into the shape of a horseshoe. This is a place where the clouds would be welcome at sunset as long as they aren’t too thick and could add drama to the scene like they have for the past couple of days. However, when you arrive there isn’t a cloud in the sky, but boy is it windy!
Walking along the edge of the precipice, you are on the lookout for the scene you want to portray in your images. You see the wind is rippling the water of the Colorado river causing the sun to glint playfully across the surface. You wonder what you are going to do about the bright sun, cloudless blue sky and the dark canyon below and how you can incorporate all of that into a single image. Our instructor, LeRoy DeJolie suggests that you use a graduated neutral density (ND) filter and the high dynamic range (HDR) technique. You find your spot among the many spectators that are here with you to watch the sun slide beneath the horizon.
In order to use the HDR technique you know you must use your tripod and cable shutter release. You get that set and put your graduated ND filter in place. The graduated filter is an optical filter that has variable light transmission, typically one side is darker than the other to allow you to properly expose both the foreground and sky in uneven lighting conditions. Coupling this with the HDR should allow you to capture everything properly exposed. The high dynamic range technique consists of using a series of images that are underexposed, properly exposed and overexposed according to the histogram and combining them together using post-processing software to get a single image with everything properly exposed. In this situation, you’ve decided to use a 3-image series for your final image as the sun moves quickly and you need to catch it.
Just at the moment when the sun starts to dip below the mountains in the west, you capture the burst of light through your camera lens and the rays beam down into the canyon helping to illuminate the walls of the canyon closest to you. The sun sets quickly from that point on and blue light fades to purple while you make your way back to the van and dinner at a local restaurant.
It’s a good thing you get to sleep in a bit tomorrow because one of your photography bucket list items is on the agenda for tomorrow, a slot canyon. How are you ever going to sleep knowing you’re only hours away from photographing your first slot canyon?
Susan Snyder is a Photo Guide with Arizona Highways PhotoScapes.
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Do you know what is the Boxer syndrome? In the book Animal Farm, Animals helped each other to kick out the master and his family and take control over the farm. The first thing they do after is to set Seven Commandments that said all animals are equal and nobody should claim itself master of others.
But it won’t take long that a pig who became the dictatorial president changes the commandments slowly to put advantages and privileges for itself and those around it.
Ultimately, Napoleon, the president pig, becomes an oppressive dictator and begins to adopt many aspects of human behavior. The pigs start walking on their hind legs, drinking alcohol, wearing clothes, and carrying whips near the end of the book. The commandments are changed to say, famously, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Meanwhile, there’s a working horse named Boxer which is very kind and is morally and behaviorally approved by all farm animals. The animals ask Boxer to help them change the situation (or decide what to do) but Boxer doesn’t pay any attention to its surroundings and is only busy with its hard work.
Boxer’s slogans are “Comrade Napoleon is always right” and “I will work harder!” Boxer feels it should work very hard and should not have anything to do with others.
Although Boxer could prevent the terrible events that fall on the animal farm, he worked hard and had nothing to do with others. He was busy with its own work and only found out about the incidents around itself when Napoleon, the dictator pig, sold it to a butcher.
In our lives, we meet so many people who are busy with their honest hard work and have no idea how the system, state, country, or people are moving or where we’re heading.
In a scene in the Titanic movie, while the ship hit the iceberg and was sinking, while people where screaming and running for their lives, while everybody were trying to be saved, there were a group of musicians/players who were performing classic music masterpieces.
They were doing their best, they were true hard-working people who tried to avoid their work be influenced by the environment/situation they were in. But in a sinking ship, while everybody is busy saving themselves or other people, when nobody is even paying attention or cares about your work, when your work has no good effect on the situation, why and how does it matter?
Many people we know are effected with the Boxer syndrome and forget when is the correct time to take a position or change the situation, or even do anything that matters, sadly.
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It seems like a simple task, but can end up being a bit tricky depending on how you write your code. I’ve seen a lot of examples of getting the start date and end date for a month but a lot of them are inaccurate or even incomplete and fail to take certain situations into account. In this article I’ll go through an example of playing around with getting the start day and end day of the previous month along with finding the right starting and ending times.
When you are coding to calculate the start and end of the previous month there are several factors your code will have to take into consideration.
Don’t try to Calculate things Yourself
For starters, you shouldn’t try to manually compute the ending day of each month. There are a lot of exceptions to the calendar, especially leap years. Using the inbuilt DateTime function will save you a lot of headache.
Another reason not to try to calculate the dates yourself is the year transition. Your code will need to consider that if you are in January, you’ll want to have the start and end dates of the December of the previous year returned.
Consider the Time Part of the Date Range
A related point is that when you are using the DateTime function to get the last day of the month the time needs to be accurate as well. You can easily go wrong and end up with 12:00 AM of the last day of the month (in other words, the start of the last day. Depending on your needs this may be a problem if you want to account for the full last day.(to get the full last day you want 11:59PM).
The Example Code
In the example code below we are setting our current date to January 11 2020. We expect the code to return us the prior month’s start and end dates and times. In other words, we would want to see the start date as December 1st 2019 12AM and the end date as December 31st 2019 11:59PM.
Here is what the code will output:
DateTime dtToday = new DateTime(2020,1,11); // DateTime today = DateTime.Today; DateTime dtThisMonthStart = new DateTime(dtToday.Year, dtToday.Month, 1); DateTime dtFirst = dtThisMonthStart.AddMonths(-1); DateTime dtLast = dtThisMonthStart.AddDays(-1); Console.WriteLine("Start dt (Midnight): " + dtFirst); Console.WriteLine("End dt (Wrong time): " + dtLast); DateTime dtLastTime = new DateTime(dtLast.Year, dtLast.Month, 1).AddMonths(1).AddSeconds(-1); Console.WriteLine("Correct End dt & Time: " + dtLastTime);
In the code above, notice that we care about time and correct the time part of the end of the month date by going forward a month (the first of this month) and then subtracting a second in order to get the last instance of the prior month.
If you don’t actually care about the times it gets a lot simpler. You can output each date part as:
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10 Ways to Boost Your Energy After Lunch
While the midday fatigue is common, it’s not inevitable, especially not if you follow these tips.
Take a Tea Break
Get into the routine of a mid-afternoon cup of tea. It’s a good step towards beating the afternoon doldrums thanks to that little bit of a caffeine burst and the few quiet minutes it entails. When fatigue hits, brew yourself a cup and sit somewhere quiet (not your office) to sip and reflect. The meditative time will soothe you and give you the kick-start you need for the rest of the day.
After lunch, clean up your desk and clear out your email inbox. Both are relatively mindless tasks that don’t require great amounts of concentration or clear thinking, and both will leave you feeling more energized because you’ll have accomplished something visible as well as having reduced energy-sapping clutter.
Call your wife husband, child, siblings, parents or friends. A five-minute keep-in-touch call will lift your spirits for hours and reinvigorate you to get your work done.
Have an Afternoon Snack
That doesn’t mean a whole milk chocolate bar. Opt for snacks like low-fat milk and high fibre cereal, peanut butter on wholemeal bread, cut-up vegetables, or even tomato juice. Snacks that combine protein, fibre and complex carbohydrates raise blood-sugar levels steadily and keep them up.
Go for a 10-Minute Walk
When American researchers compared study participants who ate a chocolate bar or who walked 10 minutes, they found the chocolate bar subjects felt more tense in the hour afterwards, while those who walked not only had higher energy levels for 1 to 2 hours afterwards, but also reduced their tension.
Save Enjoyable Tasks for the End of the Day
Defer the work you most want to do to the time of day when you feel least like working. Get through the stuff you like least when you’re productive and use the interesting tasks to wake you up in the afternoon.
Exercise Your Shoulders
Roll Your Shoulders forwards, then backwards, timing each roll with a deep breath in and out. Repeat for two minutes.
Chew Spicy Gum
Chewing gum with strong minty flavours are stimulating, and the mere act of chewing is something of a tonic to a brain succumbing to lethargy. Plus, chewing stimulates saliva, which helps to clear out bacteria responsible for cavities and gum disease from lunch. Just be sure to choose sugar-free gum.
Plan Group Activities for Midday
If you often work on your own, try to organize work involving others at the time of day when your concentration might otherwise be waning. We are social animals, and interactions always rev us up. But make sure it’s an interesting, interactive activity. Sitting in a room listening to someone else drone on and on will just send you snoozing.
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Eugene O'Neill Theatre – New York, NY | IBDB
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Desire Under the Elms
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Last Reviewed and Updated on August 1, 2022
The dwarf planet Pluto is one of the most known astronomical bodies in our Solar System, probably right after the planets and some of the largest moons. Discover some of the most interesting facts about Pluto, a dwarf planet that used to be a full-fledged planet for 76 years.
1. Pluto was discovered on February 18, 1930
The existence of Pluto was suggested for a few decades before it was discovered as astronomers speculated that the orbit of Uranus was disturbed by another planet besides Neptune.
Pluto was officially discovered and confirmed on February 18, 1930, using a blink comparator, a viewing apparatus that was used by astronomers to find differences between two photographs of the night sky.
2. This dwarf planet used to be classified as a planet
One of the coolest facts about Pluto is used to be the ninth planet in our Solar System. Following its discovery, Pluto was classified as a planet, and our Solar System officially had nine planets. It was classified as a planet for over 70 years until it was “demoted” to a dwarf planet in 2006.
3. It is likely the largest dwarf planet in our Solar System
Because it was once a planet, Pluto may well be the most known of all dwarf planets in our Solar System, but it’s far from being the only one. By diameter, Pluto is the largest of the dwarf planets in our Solar System, closely followed by Eris.
Eris was discovered in 2005, and it at first appeared to be bigger than Pluto.
By diameter, Pluto is the largest known dwarf planet in our Solar System, but we may yet discover a larger one in the outer regions of our Solar System.
4. Pluto has about the same surface area as Russia
The surface area of pluto is measured and calculated to be about 16,647,940km2, which makes the surface area of Pluto smaller than the surface area of Russia, the largest of all countries.
Some calculations and measurements, however, put this fact at a higher number, where the surface area of Pluto is slightly larger than Russia, so let’s settle on “about the same.”
5. The name Pluto was proposed by an 11-year-old girl
Venetia Burney, an eleven-year-old girl, who had an interest in classical mythology, suggested the name Pluto. The name was taken into consideration along with Minerva and Cronus, and the name Pluto was chosen. Pretty cool as far as facts about Pluto go.
In ancient Greek religion, Pluto is the god of the underworld.
6. As a planet, it was sometimes the 8th and sometimes the 9th
Pluto has a different orbit than the planets of our Solar System, so it didn’t really behave when it was a planet. The orbit of planets is mostly circular, while the orbit of Pluto is more elliptical and inclined.
Most of the time, Neptune, the eighth planet from the Sun, is closer to the Sun than Pluto is; however, a part of Pluto’s orbit gets this dwarf planet closer to the Sun than Neptune on occasion (every two centuries or so).
7. Pluto rotates on its side like Uranus
Looking from the orbital plane of Pluto, it rotates on its side with an axial tilt of 120°. This also means a part of Pluto is continuously exposed to sunlight, while on the other side, a part of it is continuously dark.
8. This dwarf planet is smaller than our Moon
With its radius of about 1,188.3 km, it is about two-thirds of our Moon.
9. It has its own moons; one might even be another dwarf planet
Pluto has at least five moons. They are Charon, Hydra, Kerberos, Nix, and Styx.
Charon is the largest known moon in relation to a planet or a dwarf planet. It is about half the size of Pluto, and both bodies orbit a common point in space.
What is one of the most interesting facts about Pluto is it might be classified as a double dwarf planetary system. It is possible, as both Charon and Pluto orbit a point in space and Charon thus doesn’t orbit Pluto, that the two will be classified as a double dwarf planet.
10. Pluto is one of the most contrastive bodies in our Solar System
There are many different colored regions on Pluto, and contrasts between them are very noticeable. The color varies from charcoal black to dark orange and white.
11. It has a blue sky
This dwarf planet has an atmosphere covered by a multi-layered haze (dust or cloudy appearance) covering the entire planet. The haze is blue-colored.
12. It takes Pluto 248 years to orbit the Sun
One Pluto year takes 248 Earth years.
13. A day on Pluto lasts 6.4 Earth days (or forever, depending how you look at it)
It takes Pluto 6.4 Earth days to complete one rotation around its axis.
However, as it rotates on its side, and one part (about a quarter) of this dwarf planet is constantly exposed to the Sun, the Sun never sets or rises in that part. If you defined a day as a night and day cycle, a day would last forever in some parts of Pluto.
Found this fact interesting? You will love our list of 100 space facts.
14. Pluto was photographed more than a decade before it was discovered
While discovered in 1930, the first photographs and observations of Pluto were made in at least 1909.
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How long does it take for Advil to affect a dog?
Ibuprofen is an antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic medication, and is usually administered orally. If given to dogs, it can be absorbed into their system in as little as 30 minutes, depending on how recently they’ve eaten.
How long does it take to know if your dog ate something bad?
Your dog may vomit after eating something harmful, but it’s more likely that symptoms will take a couple of days to develop (depending on what they has eaten). Contact your vet immediately for an emergency appointment if you think that your dog may have eaten something harmful.
Will one Advil hurt my dog?
Advil (Ibuprofen) Dogs and cats are extremely sensitive to the adverse effects of this class of drugs, called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and ibuprofen is one of the worst offenders. Ingestion of ibuprofen causes renal failure in dogs and cats. Even a single high dose is enough.
When to take your dog to the vet for Advil?
If you think your dog has swallowed an Advil tablet or two, then heading to the vet’s office immediately is the safest plan. Dogs absorb ibuprofen quickly, and the concentration of the substance in their blood peaks within three hours. However, you may not notice any visible signs until the pills have been digested completely.
How can you tell if your dog has ibuprofen poisoning?
Ibuprofen poisoning causes many different clinical signs because many different organ systems can be affected. The signs also depend on how much ibuprofen was eaten.
How long does it take for a dog to absorb ibuprofen?
Dogs absorb ibuprofen quickly, and the concentration of the substance in their blood peaks within three hours. However, you may not notice any visible signs until the pills have been digested completely.
What happens when a dog eats a pain medication?
When a dog eats pain medications, they not only cause wounds, sores, and perforations to occur, but also prevent them from healing. When blood flow to the kidneys is compromised, it is easier to understand why a dog might have trouble controlling or managing their bladder function.
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
PURE MATERIA MEDICA
By TIMOTHY F. ALLEN, A.M., M.D.
Presented by Médi-T
Nat. order, Compositæ. Common names, Roman Chamomile; Hunds-Kamile. Preparation, Tincture from the whole plant beginning to flower.
Authority.Dr. Berridge (M. H. Rev., 13, 475). Provings with the tincture.
MIND.► Very low spirits; feeling as if something were about to happen; as if he would like to get alone, and unburden himself by crying for an hour or two; worse from 3 to 5 P.M. (eighteenth day). ► Exceedingly cheerful spirits for fifty-four hours (after twelve hours). ► Rather low spirits (thirty-eighth day). ► Feeling as if something was about to happen to him (fifteenth day). ► Dislike to go out of doors (thirty-eighth day). ► On going out of doors, in evening, felt nervous, and exceedingly afraid of being run over (eighteenth day). ► Much desire for reading and deep thinking, which he could do without tiring his brain; lasting forty-eight hours (after twelve hours). ► Thoughts wandered; had little command over mind; distaste for hard study; lasting, more or less, for about thirty hours (fifth day).
HEAD.► Dull, frontal headache (after four hours). [10.] ► Very slight headache, 8.30 A.M., as if from congestion in forehead, increased by bending head down; worse, also, for three or four hours, about two hours after food; very severe about two hours after dinner (third day). ► 6 P.M., a boring, oppressive headache, affecting the entire forehead, with feeling of general languor, lasting till he went to bed, but disappearing before morning (fourth day).
EYES.► After rising from bed, eyes water, chiefly indoors; at same time, running of clear water (not acrid) from left nostril; worse indoors, and increased immediately on going into a colder room (forty-fifth day). ► Eyes watered much, especially on exposure to cold (first day). ► Eyes slightly painful, as though something pressed against posterior part of ball; worse on bending head downward (third day). ► Tenderness of eyeballs on pressure (after four hours).
NOSE.► Sneezing when indoors (had not been exposed to cold) (forty-fifth day).
FACE.► Looks pale (nineteenth day). ► Lips very dry (fourth day).
MOUTH.► Tongue with a slight, moist, white coating, especially in centre (after four hours). [20.] ► Sense of taste greatly intensified, so that he enjoyed food very much (immediately). ► Bitterness in mouth, as from indigestion (first day).
THROAT.► Slight rawness of throat, with disposition to swallow saliva every two or three minutes, with a view to relieve it, which it does not do (forty-eighth day). ► Back of pharynx feels raw, increasing from morning to evenings; worse on swallowing saliva, and in the open, cold air (forty-fourth day). ► When drinking, a feeling of constriction of pharynx, apparently about the junction of pharynx and sophagus, causing a slight difficulty in swallowing liquids, but not solids.
STOMACH.► Appetite greatly increased; food relished, especially meat (third day). ► Loss of appetite (fifth day). ► No appetite (after four hours). ► Loss of appetite for food and drink at all his meals (seventeenth day). ► Considerable thirst, relieved by drinking cold water (fourth day). [30.] ► On drinking tea, had no relish for it; it seemed as though it would be vomited, because the pharynx felt as if contracted, especially at posterior part, as if the liquid would not go down. ► Solid food, on the other hand, he enjoyed, and swallowed without difficulty (first day). ► A qualmish feeling in stomach, nearly amounting to sickness; worse indoors, passing off out of doors in about an hour (after fifteen minutes). ► Considerable nausea in stomach, ceasing on going into the open air. ► Much pleasant warmth in stomach, followed in fifteen minutes, by desire for food, which dinner removed (immediately).
ABDOMEN.► Pain in right hypochondrium, as from distension with fæces, followed by a great desire to evacuate, which resulted only in a slight passage of hard mucus. ► The pain continued constantly afterwards all day (fifth day). ► Dull aching pain over the whole region of the liver, abiding in all situations or postures, lasting twelve hours; no aggravation on pressure, but a little on walking (third day). ► 9.30 A.M., Wearying pain in loins, especially left, as from muscular exertion, worse in walking; it increased gradually, then gradually decreased; by 3 P.M. it was gone (eighth day).
STOOL AND ANUS.► Continued itching of anus, as from ascarides; worse when sitting in evening (fifth day). ► Bowels freer; fæces softer, easier, and continuous (second day). ► Bowels easily moved, early in morning; fæces softer than usual; pale yellow; not very offensive. ► (Bowels would act in evening), (second day). [40.] ► Bowels slightly open: fæces hard, dark (more so than usual), (sixth day). ► Yellowness of the fæces (one ounce of tincture in water). ► For a fortnight, bowels have acted only twice a week; stools otherwise natural (fortieth day). ► Constipation for three days. ► Constipation for five days.
URINARY ORGANS.► Intense pain in and over bladder, as from distension, extending along both spermatic cords (as far as contained in inguinal canal), which felt as if varicose. ► The pain continued, with varying severity, for three or four hours, then intermitted, varying in severity, for thirty hours (after eight hours). ► Desire to urinate, with intense pain, varying in severity, at neck of bladder, as from distension; pain not relieved by urinating, though the desire was (after six hours). ► Awoke at 2 A.M., with great desire to urinate; passed a normal quantity of urine, but the desire was felt whenever he awoke, for four or five hours afterwards (after eight hours). ► Urinated much more frequently than usual, an ordinary amount each time, all apparently normal; this lasted about twelve hours during the day, not during the night (first day). ► Had to urinate four or five times during the night; a small quantity each time, so that the total amount was not more than usual (third day).
SEXUAL ORGANS.[50.] ► Seminal emission, about 4 A.M. (after ten hours).
RESPIRATORY APPARATUS.► In afternoon, dry cough in paroxysms, caused by tickling at back of larynx, which was momentarily relieved by the cough; cough worse directly he went into a warm room, but not when in bed at night (sixteenth day).
HEART AND PULSE.► Pulse 96 (usually 75-78), full and soft (third day). ► Pulse (at 2.30 P.M.), 108; (usually 80), small and weak; it gradually decreased towards night, resuming its normal rate next morning (after five and a half hours).
NECK AND BACK.► Carotid vessels in neck feel a little turgid; this feeling was especially marked below, decreasing upward (third day).
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.► Veins in extremities reduced in size (after four hours). ► Extremities, from wrists and ankles downwards, extremely cold (third day). ► Dull, aching pains in limbs, especially large joints and loins (after four hours).
LOWER EXTREMITIES.► Soles of feet itched, as from chilblains (third day).
GENERALITIES.► In forenoon, and lasting till evening, dislike to touch or drink anything cold; e. g., cold water, the fire-irons, etc. ► (This is not so when he naturally takes cold), (forty-fifth day). [60.] ► Extremely lazy; no desire to leave bed, or read; with a little peevishness (second day). ► Great lassitude, especially in gluteal region (after four hours). ► General malaise and weakness (fifteenth day). ► General malaise (thirty-eighth day).
SKIN.► Cutis anserina (after four hours). ► Skin dry (after four hours).
SLEEP AND DREAMS.► At night, slept badly; kept waking; could not sleep for long together; kept getting up and walking about room (eighteenth day).
FEVER.► Cold creeping all over the body, especially on scalp, where it began; increased on leaving the fire (after four hours). ► Extreme feeling of cold when dressing, beginning in legs, where it was most felt; then in neck; then in whole body; when it became general, it was most felt in neck; increased by going into open air (after one and three-quarter hours). ► Did not feel cold in open air, though the thermometer stood at 20° (first day). [70.] ► After very little exertion in walking, got hot with much warm perspiration all over the body, chiefly on head and face, though the weather was very cold (fourth day).
CONDITIONS.► Aggravation. ► (Morning till evening), Back of pharynx feels raw. ► (Forenoon), Dislike to anything cold. ► (Afternoon), Dry cough. ► (8.30 A.M.), Slight headache. ► (3 to 5 P.M.), Low spirits, etc. ► (6 P.M.), Boring, etc., headache. ► (Open air), Feeling of cold. ► (Bending head down), Headache; eyes painful. ► (Exposure to cold), Eyes water. ► (Open, cold air), Back of pharynx feels raw. ► (Going into colder room), Immediately, eyes water; running of water from nose. ► (When drinking), Felling of constriction of pharynx, etc. ► (After eating), Headache. ► (Leaving fire), Cold creeping over body. ► (Indoors), Eyes water; running of water from left nostril; sneezing; qualmish feeling in stomach. ► (After rising from bed), Eyes water. ► (Sitting), In evening itching in anus. ► (Swallowing saliva), Back of pharynx feels raw. ► (Walking), Pain over region of liver; pain in loins. ► (Going into warm room), Cough worse. ► Amelioration. ► (Open air), Qualmish feeling in stomach passes off; nausea in stomach. ► (Drinking cold water), Thirst.
SUPPLEMENT: ANTHEMIS NOBILIS.
Authority. 2, J. C. Burnett, M.D., Month, Hom. Rv., 1877, p. 408, a lady, aged twenty-five years, drank the dregs of some tea.
►Pain in belly from side to side just above navel, corresponding to the transverse colon, commencing on the right side and going over to the left; then the bowels became relaxed, the stools were at first white, then putty-like; then pretty severe vomiting with griping, and great ineffectual desire for stool. Feeling of griping, and coldness and chilliness in the inside of abdomen, passing downwards into the legs as far as the knees. Tongue coated white, with islands on it. An intense headache on the top of the head as from pressure from within, and feeling as if the top of her head were blown off, .
Copyright © Médi-T ® 2000
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