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A major developer in Dubai is to create 105 kilometres of new bike paths, as cycling increases in popularity.
The newly-created cycle tracks will be part of the Dubai government's 'Cycling Master Plan' strategy to promote cycling as part of a healthy lifestyle. The new paths will cost a total of 150million United Arab Emirates Dirham (just over £33 million).
The paths will include what developer Nakheel is dubbing a 10km 'super loop', which will be designed for faster cyclists.
"Cycling in Dubai has seen a huge surge in popularity over the last few years, with the Government promoting the sport through world class events like the Dubai Tour and by building hundreds of kilometres of bike routes across the city," said Nakheel chairman Ali Rashid Lootah.
“Our new cycle track network will make cycling more accessible and inspire people to get pedalling as a way to keep fit, socialise and help the environment. Under our plan, people will be able to bike their way to the shops, school and friends’ houses without getting in the car.
“Our plan will encourage people to take up cycling as a sport and recreational activity, in turn promoting health and fitness among all age groups. It will also offer something for experienced riders, who will benefit from new routes linked to Dubai’s existing bike path network as well as our 10km super loop.”
Five areas will get new cycle paths, with the longest 40km route linking up Al Furjan, The Gardens, Discovery Gardens and Garden View Villas.
Construction of the first phase of the cycle tracks has already started, with works completed in mid-2019.
The Dubai Tour is an annual stage race that was created in 2014. This year's edition takes place from January 31 to February 4.
UAE also supports a WorldTour team, with Abu Dhabi stepping in as title sponsor of the former Lampre-Merida team after Chinese backers failed to provide sponsorship money.
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Nigel Wynn worked as associate editor on CyclingWeekly.com, he worked almost single-handedly on the Cycling Weekly website in its early days. His passion for cycling, his writing and his creativity, as well as his hard work and dedication, were the original driving force behind the website’s success. Without him, CyclingWeekly.com would certainly not exist on the size and scale that it enjoys today. Nigel sadly passed away, following a brave battle with a cancer-related illness, in 2018. He was a highly valued colleague, and more importantly, n exceptional person to work with - his presence is sorely missed.
Ethan Hayter focused on winning at Vuelta a España: 'I'll go for stage opportunities myself'
The 23-year-old is lining up for his Grand Tour debut in Spain, and admitted he won't be leading Ineos Grenadiers at the race
By Ryan Dabbs • Published
Vuelta a España 2022 start list: All the riders expected to line up at the Spanish Grand Tour
Three-time winner Primož Roglič and recent Giro d'Italia victor Jai Hindley are both expected to start the 77th edition of the race
By Ryan Dabbs • Published
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Whether for transport, storage of Montessori materials or for the presentation of self-developed free work material. Hard-wearing wooden trays are an indispensable part of Montessori education. A lot of materials can be neatly and neatly stowed away and the tray also serves as a work surface for the learning material. So no pearl rolls off the table or gets lost in the depths of the work carpet.
Thanks to the milled handles in the high edge, the wooden tray is easy to carry even by small children. The surface is sealed with clear varnish and thus protected from moisture.
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Some Jesuits enter the Society of Jesus not knowing whether they’re called to priesthood or to the vocation of being a Jesuit brother. Read how one brother discovered his particular vocation.
Posts in Series
Jesuit brothers live out the Jesuit charism and remind priests who they really are and who they are meant to serve by bringing home the smell of the sheep. Ken Homan, SJ, shares his vocation as a brother.
We keep hearing about synodality in the Catholic Church, but what does it mean? What does it look like? Daniel Leckman, SJ, draws a connection with his vocation as a Jesuit Brother.
In his thirteenth installment, Deacon Steve relies on his routine to prepare for the long-awaited day.
What is a Jesuit brother? In short, they are models of radical availability and accompaniment. Learn more about the vocation of Jesuit brothers, including their history, great examples and saints, and what it’s like to be a brother today.
The Catholic Church’s stance on nuclear arms is a radical teaching in the face of a radical threat.
In his twelfth installment, Deacon Steve’s friends all ask him if he’s excited for impending priestly ordination. The answer…. well it’s complicated.
Jesuit values at public universities? The Newman Center at UCSD is taking to heart Fr. Arrupe’s call to form men and women for others, one service project, one retreat at a time.
If you went to a Jesuit school, you likely heard about being a ‘person for others.’ Do you really know what that means?
Praying to God can seem like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be that complicated.
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Content of the material
- How Conventional Vehicle Batteries Work
- Battery Light FAQs
- What Does It Mean When the Battery Light Comes On?
- Is It Safe to Drive My Car With the Battery Light On?
- What Do You Do When the Battery Light Comes On?
- How Can You Tell If It’s the Battery or the Alternator?
- Will a Car Start With a Bad Alternator?
- 3 FAQs About Battery Light Activation
- 1. How Does A Vehicle Battery Work?
- 2. What Does The Battery Light Do?
- 3. Is It Safe To Drive With My Battery Light On?
- What Is a Car’s Charging System?
- Is it safe to drive with the alternator warning light on?
- What to Do When Your Car Battery Light Is (Still) On
How Conventional Vehicle Batteries Work
Batteries are used to store energy to keep the vehicle and its power accessories working. Chemical energy stored in the battery is how the vehicle can be started initially and then as it runs, the battery is recharged.
Recharging happens when the crankshaft pulley turns the alternator belt (also known as serpentine belt or accessory belt) which spins a rotor inside the alternator (which is sometimes referred to as a generator).
The alternator takes kinetic energy from the rotating pulley and converts some of this energy into AC power, which is then converted into DC current and stored in the battery. This energy is then used to power things such as headlights, power windows, heated seats, radio, air conditioner, DVD players, and cell phone chargers.
Note: Older vehicles may use a dynamo (also called a DC generator) instead of an alternator.
The voltage regulator maintains the desired voltage while charging the battery. It is often a component of the engine control unit (ECU).
The current (made of electrons) flows from one post of the battery, through the accessories, then into the other battery post. Various wires around the engine bay called ground straps connect parts of the wiring harness to the chassis, which help complete different circuits.
Battery Light FAQs
You have the questions, The Drive has the answers!
What Does It Mean When the Battery Light Comes On?
It means there’s an issue with the vehicle’s charging system, which includes the battery, the alternator, the wires, and the ECU.
Is It Safe to Drive My Car With the Battery Light On?
If something in the vehicle’s charge system isn’t functioning properly, there is risk of the car shutting off without warning. It’s also possible that if the vehicle dies, it might not be possible to start it back up. Because of this, we do not recommend or suggest driving with the battery light on to any place other than back to your house or a service center. If the light comes on before driving, we do not recommend driving.
What Do You Do When the Battery Light Comes On?
Slowly drive your car home, to a service center, or to an auto parts store. Then, diagnose and fix.
How Can You Tell If It’s the Battery or the Alternator?
Use a multimeter to check the voltage on both the battery and alternator to verify they’re functioning at the correct levels.
Will a Car Start With a Bad Alternator?
It is possible for a car to start with a bad alternator, but it will likely immediately die.
3 FAQs About Battery Light Activation
Here are answers to the three most commonly asked questions related to car battery light activation:
1. How Does A Vehicle Battery Work?
A vehicle battery stores and converts chemical energy into electrical energy (electricity).
Usually, your car battery would contain a set of six electrochemical cells that generate a total of 12 Volts.
The vehicle’s battery powers the ignition system, air conditioner, interior lights, power windows, and more. Essentially, the battery brings to life the different electrical components in your vehicle!
But won’t the battery run out of juice from powering so many things?
Typically, it wouldn’t.
And it has to do with how your vehicle’s battery system works:
- Once the battery starts your engine, a component known as the crank pulley uses the power generated by your engine to turn the alternator belt or serpentine belt
- This alternator belt then spins your alternator, power steering pump, and more to generate kinetic energy
- The alternator then converts this kinetic energy into electrical energy
- And the electrical energy is used to charge your vehicle’s battery, power your interior lights, and do so much more
In short, once the engine is fired up, the vehicle’s battery usually has the means to charge itself.
2. What Does The Battery Light Do?
Every time you start your car, the dashboard lights come on. This includes the check engine light, brake light, coolant warning light, power steering light, the battery dashboard warning light, etc.
And, in a few seconds, these lights would go off.
However, if the car battery light (aka charging system light or battery indicator light) doesn’t turn off for some reason and stays on while you’re driving, you might have a problem on your hands.
The battery light staying on is your vehicle’s way of indicating that there are issues with the:
- Battery voltage or battery power that’s generated
- Battery charging system
- Electrical system or electrical components, etc.
3. Is It Safe To Drive With My Battery Light On?
While it could be possible to drive your car with the battery light on, we advise against it.
Chances are that your vehicle’s battery is running on whatever juice was left from the last battery recharge cycle. But there’s a high chance that the battery power will get drained entirely, and your engine may stop running.
Essentially, you might not be able to drive for very long with the battery indicator light on.
Moreover, if you turn off your engine, you may be unable to restart the ignition system without:
- Jump starting your battery with jumper cables
- Fixing the underlying issue causing the car battery light to come on
- Or getting a new battery for your vehicle
What Is a Car’s Charging System?
A modern vehicle’s charging system, which functions to keep the battery charged, includes a battery, wiring, an alternator, and the electronic control unit (ECU). Older vehicles also had a voltage regulator.
Alternator: The alternator accepts mechanical energy from the engine and turns it into electrical energy to power accessories and charge the battery.
Battery: The battery provides energy to start the vehicle and to power its electronics.
ECU: The electronic control unit, not to be confused with the engine control unit, is a device that manages the linked electronic system. It regulates where, when, and how power is held or flowing.
Is it safe to drive with the alternator warning light on?
When this light is illuminated, your car is still somewhat safe to drive as you will have enough battery power to run the engine. However, it is still dangerous to continue driving for long distances or at high speeds as the battery will run out of juice and the car will be harder to stop without the assistance of the engine. If you are on the freeway and this light comes on, you should pull off the freeway and move to lower speed areas as soon as possible.
What to Do When Your Car Battery Light Is (Still) On
You’ve checked for and cleaned off any corrosion, and you’ve tightened up any loose battery cables. But your battery light is still on?! The culprit could be a mechanical issue, like a problem with the alternator or voltage regulator. Or, it could be something systematic, like faulty wiring.
What’s next? Head to Firestone Complete Auto Care for a fast and free battery check. We’ll take a look at your battery’s health, then recommend repairs or a new battery if needed. Don’t get stranded because of battery issues! Find your nearest Firestone Complete Auto Care today and recharge your peace of mind.
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LONDON (AP) — Britain said Thursday it will lift a cap on the number of visas granted to foreign doctors and nurses to help ease staffing shortfalls in the country's National Health Service. Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said the government would remove non-European Union doctors and nurses from a cap on the number of skilled-worker visas that can be issued each year.
The cap currently restricts Tier Two visas for non-EU workers to 20,700 people per year. The move is expected to be formally announced by the Home Office on Friday. The Royal College of General Practitioners said it would be a "much-needed victory for common sense and patient care."
It's the first easing of immigration rules by a Conservative government with a longstanding — and unmet — goal of cutting net immigration to below 100,000. It's currently more than double that. Critics say the target is arbitrary, unrealistic and economically harmful.
People from all 28 EU countries can currently live in Britain under the bloc's free-movement rules. They will lose that automatic right when the U.K. leaves the EU next March. Britain's 2016 vote to leave the bloc was followed by an increase in the number of EU medical staff leaving Britain, adding to pressures on the country's overstretched state-funded health care service.
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GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
- Contributions should not exceed 5000 words including Charts, Tables and other Graphics.
- The Research Paper should be preceded by an Abstract, not exceeding 150 words.
- British spellings should be followed throughout (eg. programme, not program)
- Tables and Charts should be in black & white only. These should be serially numbered sequentially, following references to them in the text and presented on separate sheets.
- Two good Prints of the Article, in A-4 size stationary are required to be submitted. Matter should be formatted in Times New Roman, font size 12. The Title should be in upper case with font size 14. The main headings should be in upper case with font size 14 and sub headings should be formatted in lower case with font size 13.The manuscript should be clearly typed in double space with 1 and ½” wide margin on the left and ½” on the right side. The authors may note that the hard copy will be considered final and authentic.
Additionally, the matter should be sent either as an e-mail attachment or on a CD formatted in Word for Windows.
- Introduction and Conclusion must be added. This should be brief and state the relation with the present status of knowledge in the field.
- All the Articles should be duly signed at the end.
- Citation in the text should simply give the name of the author and the year of publication quoted. For example: A.S.Agarwal (1970)
- References should be given separately at the end of the paper and arranged alphabetically. The list should include only the work that the author/s has cited.
- References should include full details of the name(s) of the author(s), title of the article or book, name of the journal, details of the publishers, year & month of publication including page numbers, as appropriate. The following style should be strictly followed:
a .For Periodicals:
The author(s) name, year of publication, title of the article, journal name, volume and issue number and the page numbers of the article should be provided. For example:
Mishra, K.M. (2002) Knowledge Management, New Delhi: Pearson Education MA: Allyn & Bacon.
b .For books:
Rowling,J.K.(2001) Harry Potter and the Socerer’s Stone.London: Bloomsburg Children’s.
c .For Magazine Article:
Kuttner, R. (2003, September 8) The great American pension-fund robbery. Business Week, 24-26.
d.If an article has no author, the periodical or newspaper is referenced as follows: The Hindustan Times (2008) RIL finds new gas basin, November27: 2010
e.For unpublished works such as workings papers, dissertations and papers presented at meetings, seminars, conferences etc:
Tyagi, R.M, and Malik, S.P. (2007) Job Satisfaction Working Paper No 46, Indian Institute of Travel Management, Gwalior
Thakur,Reema,(2001) Effectiveness of different leadership styles on job satisfaction of factory workers.Unpublished doctoral dissertation.Jawahar Lal Nehru University,New Delhi
f.For Article in Online Journal:
Jacoby, W. G. (1994). Public attitudes toward government spending. American Journal of Political Science, 38(2), 336-361. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.
The Manuscript should be accompanied by:
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- A declaration that the paper is original and has not been Submitted / Published elsewhere or presented.
- Two passport size photographs should be sent with brief resume.
- Manuscripts not considered for publication will not be sent back. Acceptance of Papers for Presentation in Seminar and subsequent Publication in IPEM Journal of Management (as per the Prescribed Norms specially with reference to Plagiarism ) shall be informed through e-mail or through normal mail
- Manuscripts that fail to conform to the guidelines will not be considered for publication.
- The ultimate decision to accept or reject a paper rests with the editorial board. The final draft of an accepted paper may be subjected to editorial amendments to suit the IPEM Journal Requirements.
- The author whose paper is published will receive one free copy of journal that carries the paper.
- IPEM does not accept any responsibility for the views expressed in the articles by the authors or for any inadvertent omissions. No part of the articles published in this JOURNAL should be reproduced without written permission from the Editor.
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The identification of wheat and barley genes controlling important agronomic traits using positional cloning has traditionally been a challenging and time-consuming procedure. This is due to the enormous genome size and high repeat content from transposable elements (TEs). Low marker density, suppressed recombination, and the high cost of generating a physical contig across a genetically defined map interval have further restricted the application of positional approximation. Over the past decade, the cost of DNA sequencing has significantly dropped, as has our ability to computationally analyze large quantities of DNA sequence data. This has enabled researchers to exploit next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies more routinely to accelerate the gene cloning process. In this chapter, we discuss several newly emerging cloning methods that combine NGS technologies with recent advances in molecular genomics to overcome previous limitations of gene cloning in wheat and barley.
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- 1 How do you write an Acknowledgement for a college project?
- 2 How do you write an Acknowledgement in a project report?
- 3 How do you write a good Acknowledgement?
- 4 What is Project Acknowledgement?
- 5 What do we write in Acknowledgement?
- 6 How do you write an Acknowledgement for a group project?
- 7 How do you write an introduction for a project?
- 8 How do you write content for a project?
- 9 What comes first Acknowledgement or index?
- 10 How do you acknowledge someone?
- 11 How do you write an Acknowledgement of a country?
- 12 How do you acknowledge an email?
- 13 What is index in a project?
- 14 How do you write an Acknowledgement for a final year project?
- 15 How do you write an Acknowledgement for a math project?
How do you write an Acknowledgement for a college project?
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. I would like to express my gratitude towards _________ (Teacher name) for guiding me throughout the project. I also feel thankful and express my kind gratitude towards our Principal ________ (Name of the Principal) for allowing me to conduct ____________ ( Project Name) project.
How do you write an Acknowledgement in a project report?
I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my teacher (Name of the teacher) as well as our principal (Name of the principal)who gave me the golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the topic ( Write the topic name), which also helped me in doing a lot of Research and i came to know about so many
How do you write a good Acknowledgement?
How To Write Acknowledgments for Your Book
- Remember: people will read this, so make it good. People will read the Acknowledgment section and it will impact them.
- Start with a list of who will go in (by full name).
- Be specific for the important people.
- Be sincere in your thanks.
- Don’t worry about length.
What is Project Acknowledgement?
What is acknowledgement in project writing? Acknowledgement in project writing is a section where the write acknowledges and show appreciation to everyone who has helped in the project. Acknowledgement is also included in research project writing to recognize and thank everyone who was involved in the research.
What do we write in Acknowledgement?
Acknowledgements enable you to thank all those who have helped in carrying out the research. Careful thought needs to be given concerning those whose help should be acknowledged and in what order. The general advice is to express your appreciation in a concise manner and to avoid strong emotive language.
How do you write an Acknowledgement for a group project?
In performing our assignment, we had to take the help and guideline of some respected persons, who deserve our greatest gratitude. The completion of this assignment gives us much Pleasure. We would like to show our gratitude Mr./Ms.
How do you write an introduction for a project?
Guidelines for preparing the Introduction for project work:
- Be short and crisp:
- Be clear in what you write:
- Give background information:
- Explain the reasons in the introduction:
- The problems should be highlighted:
- Explain why it is important to you:
- The outline or the blueprint of the content:
How do you write content for a project?
Tips to Creating a Good Table of Content
- Tips to Creating a Good Table of Content.
- Make the Chapter One Your Introduction: In most project work the first chapter is used to introduce basic concepts, issues and scope to be discussed in the main project work.
- Most Times Chapter Two is for Review of Related Literature:
What comes first Acknowledgement or index?
Answer. Answer: first your introduction page. then acknowledgement,preface, index,then your project work and at last conclusion and bibliography.
How do you acknowledge someone?
Here are ten ways of them:
- Say “Thank You” Think about a time when you did something nice for someone and he or she never even acknowledged it with thanks.
- Focus on the Positive.
- Give Gifts.
- Speak Your Appreciation.
- Be a Hugger.
- Make Eye Contact.
- Brag in Public.
- Be Present.
How do you write an Acknowledgement of a country?
The words are: ‘I would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we <gather/meet> today, and pay my respects to their Elders past and present. I extend that respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today. ‘
How do you acknowledge an email?
2) Acknowledge: An acknowledgement of an email means that you received it, read it and the recipient acknowledges the content. An acknowledgement can be as simple as “Got it, thanks!” or “I am not sure, but will ask NAME.” or “We have a meeting about this next week, and I will circle back after that.”
What is index in a project?
An index is an alphabetical list of keywords contained in the text of a book or other lengthy writing project. It includes pointers to where those keywords or concepts are mentioned in the book—typically page numbers, but sometimes footnote numbers, chapters, or sections.
How do you write an Acknowledgement for a final year project?
The most important thing when writing acknowledgement for a final year project is to acknowledge contributions made by your supervisor and institution that supported your work. However, you may also consider acknowledging the support you have received from: Staff/colleagues that provided you inputs. University /
How do you write an Acknowledgement for a math project?
I would like to express my gratitude and thanks to my mathematics teacher Mr. Sinth for his wonderful guidance throughout this project. During this project, I acquired many valuable skills, and I hope that in the years to come, those skills will be put to good use.
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It’s Monday, What are You Reading is a meme hosted by Jen from Teach Mentor Texts and Kellee and Ricki from Unleashing Readers (new host of Monday reading: Kathryn T at Book Date). Since two of our friends, Linda from Teacher Dance and Tara from A Teaching Life have been joining this meme for quite awhile now, we thought of joining this warm and inviting community.
These two artist-inspired picturebooks celebrate the surreal and the otherworldly through exquisite artworks and unique storytelling. I am happy to have discovered them by accident while visiting the Zayed Central Library (see my post here).
Magritte’s Apple [Amazon | Book Depository]
Written and Illustrated by Klaas Verplancke
Published by Thames & Hudson (2016)
ISBN: 0500651035 (ISBN13: 9780500651032). Borrowed from Zayed Central Library. Book photos taken by me.
The book begins by introducing the reader to a man named René (ostensibly referring to Magritte) who is unable to sleep because of all the ideas in his head that he wants to paint. In the morning, he dragged an empty canvas, but seemed unable to begin with the swarm of possibilities in his mind.
Perhaps it is meant to encourage young people to persist – and that even among great painters, #TheStruggleIsReal. What I especially loved about this picturebook is how Verplancke was able to seamlessly interweave Magritte’s famous paintings into the visual narrative.
I especially enjoyed the meta quality of this book. I liked how Verplancke treated his young readers as intelligent enough to be able to appreciate the visual codes and illusions and puns in his tribute to Magritte:
At the end of the book, one is able to see actual photographs of some of Magritte’s famous paintings and the man himself. This is a great visual primer to the strange, surreal, otherworldly quality of “Magritte’s Apple.”
The Magical Tree: A Children’s Book Inspired by Gustav Klimt [Amazon | Book Depository]
Written by Myriam Ouyessad Illustrated by Anja Klauss
Published by Prestel Publishing (2016)
ISBN: 3791372149 (ISBN13: 9783791372143) Borrowed from Zayed Central Library. Book photos taken by me.
In contrast to the first book, this one has a clear structure, an evident arc to the narrative. I read this aloud to myself and enjoyed the lyrical storytelling that gradually but inevitably builds up into something magical and otherworldly:
While the protagonist here is a young boy named Djalil, it was the mysterious old woman named Minoa “who spoke to trees” who captured my attention. She has this druid-like, ageless, endless quality to her. She intended to pass on her legacy to this bright-eyed young person worthy enough to serve as the caretaker of a rare single seed that can not be found anywhere on earth: the one she held protectively in the black and white box in the image above.
Djalil, thankfully, proved to be worthy indeed – although unsure of the magnitude of his responsibility, he knew he was ready for it regardless. What the powers are of this magical tree, I shall leave for you to discover.
But it did bring Djalil face to face with beauty, a kingdom in peril, and love everlasting – as befits a fairytale-like, magical story. While I loved the book, the art especially, I felt the ending was abrupt. I kept flipping the pages wondering if it was all there is. There is a detailed afterword that talks about Gustav Klimt and his art and how it inspired the story in the book. Definitely worth finding.
#ReadIntl2020 Update: 7, 8, 9 of 30 (country): France | Germany (Myriam Ouyessad is from France | Anja Klauss is from Germany)
Belgium (Klaas Verplancke is from Belgium)
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When sending cryptocurrencies…Crypto Bubbles… The problem that often develops is confirming that you have the ideal address, because it is a complex string of letters and numbers, even doing a copy and paste most likely lead to you meticulously validating that whatever pasted properly, despite the fact that it needs to have.
This is where Unstoppable Domains intends to assist drive adoption of crypto with their blockchain domains. These domains can not just be used as totally practical webpages, with decentralized applications (dApps) built-in, but also as a payment center address where users can get over 275 different crypto coins and tokens. By giving intricate crypto addresses a human legible name, Unstoppable Domains intends to be the domain addresses of the future.
unstoppable domain names is a san francisco-based company that is offering domain name extensions that are tied to the blockchain instead of being tied to the dns system specifically you can get a dot crypto which is tied to the ethereum blockchain or you can get a zillow domain name extension which is connected to the silica blockchain which is an alternative to ethereum the benefit of using these blockchain based domain name extensions is just that they are decentralized so the dns system is managed and operated by icann so anything always requires approval from that governing body however something like a dot crypto or zillow these are based on the blockchain and they are just entirely decentralized so there’s no governing body there’s nothing that needs any kind of approval or consent you as the owner own your domain so in this video i wish to discuss to you whatever that you require to called a newbie about unstoppable domain names ensure to inspect the links in the description for time stamps and any resources discussed in this video so let’s start how does domain name registration actually work i believe
people are going to be quite stunned that it’s way more complicated and technical than you thought of so when you go to someplace like namecheap.com or godaddy.com you’re not in fact buying the domain what you’re doing is you’re launching the domain through a icann licensed domain register why do i state i can license since you can’t get your domain names straight from i can which is once again the nonprofit company that handles the dns system you need to go through an icann certified domain name register in order to get a domain and that’s just how it works like you’re like why do i have to do that i do not know why asking me those are just the guidelines which’s what people have actually been providing for the last couple of years in order to get a domain so that’s why you require to pay an annual cost on your domain names because you’re not in fact buying an owning domain what you’re doing is renting their domain so you’re going to namecheap.com to get your.com what they’re doing is then they’re going through the registry that manages that domain extension which is then completely managed and organized by icann broadly speaking so like when you get it.com.net.org the computer registry for that extension
Is unstoppable domains on Ethereum? Crypto Bubbles
is a verisign for example so all these various domain extensions have various registries and the role of the computer system registry is just to handle the administrative data for that particular domain name nft domain versus the conventional dns system what’s the distinction well the standard dns system is a centralized system as i alluded to earlier based around icann so you have icann you have your domain pc registries then you have your icann certified domain name registrars nfts by contrast are non-fungible tokens non-fungal meaning like you can’t jump in and change it but like what does that specifically indicate a non-fungible token is just a piece of data discovered on a blockchain that is verifiable and represents a distinct digital product in this circumstances our domain names dot crypto versus dot zill what’s the distinction with these 2 so if you jump over to unstoppabledomainnames.com link in the description you’re going to learn that you can’t geta.com.net.org why well you can’t you must already kind of understand why since those are handled by verisign which is a domain name pc registry which is managed by icann that belongs to the dns system that’s why you can’t get those types of domain through unstoppable domain names you can just get blockchain based domain names today they only have a dot crypto in dot zo at the time of taping this video the primary difference is that these 2 are tied to various block chains that’s it so you have Crypto Bubbles
your dot crypto which is connected to the ethereum blockchain you have your dot zill which is connected to the silica block durian blockchain is way more industrialized and you have a little bit more features and services constructed around uh at the ethereum blockchain with a dot crypto domain than you make with a dot zill but functionally speaking they are the same tailored crypto addresses that can be established as a payment entrance so this is the primary function of unstoppable domain obviously in time as like we have decentralized web host develop in time it will be possible to use like a decentralized domain name and a decentralized web host to produce your own decentralized site presently it’s not truly possible i mean you can do it however it’s quite technical uh.
One-time purchase of domain.
Simplifies way in which people communicate with crypto addresses.
Censor resistant domain kept in your wallet.
More performance than conventional domains.
Supports 276 crypto properties.
Have to spend ETH to claim domain.
Still some question as to whether Unstoppable Domains will attain extensive adoption.
Some domains are still pre-sale just.
What is Unstoppable Domains?
Unstoppable Domains was founded in 2018 by Matthew Gould, the current CEO, who saw a need for it to be easier for users to communicate with crypto addresses. The objective of Unstoppable Domains is to be like the DNS system that entered into location, so users did not have to learn IP addresses in order to get to sites, except for crypto addresses.
In this way they have been successful greatly, as they have developed a domain system that permits users to set up payments for 276 digital possessions under a single domain, while likewise having the ability to be utilized as a totally operating site that can even have actually dApps developed onto them because the domain is hosted on the blockchain. With a single payment and no annual renewal costs, Unstoppable Domains is an interesting tool for crypto users.
Is Unstoppable Domains Safe?
Unstoppable Domains is extremely safe because when claimed the domains exist under your address on blockchain, meaning they are as safe and secure as the blockchain itself.
It is doubly safe because this likewise indicates that the domain can not be blocked by anyone aside from you, so your site is never ever at risk of being down due to censorship. The website for buying the domains is safe also and can be secured with two-factor authentication.
How Much is Unstoppable Domains?
The cost of Unstoppable Domains depends on a two main factors, though it should be noted that buying a domain is a one-time cost and needs no annual renewals of any sort.
The very first element is the expense of the domain itself, this can range from $20 USD to well over $1000 USD depending upon the domain you select, as cost is based on domain type (. crypto is more than.wallet for example), and the length of the domain, with much shorter domains costing additional. In addition, there are superior domains that cost 10s of thousands.
The next element is the gas costs connected with using the Ethereum blockchain to claim your domain, since the domains are kept on the Ethereum blockchain, the transaction to declare them is available in ETH and is not consisted of in your initial purchase. The gas charges you will pay will depend upon the existing cost of ETH and the network congestion at the time of the deal. Overall you can get most likely yourself a cheap.crypto domain and claim it for under $50 total.
What Are the Best Features of Unstoppable Domains?
There are a couple of functions of Unstoppable Domains that stand out. The reality that it is a one-time purchase with no yearly renewal is very appealing thinking about the way conventional domain ownership works, and in addition, the domain is censor resistant, indicating it can not be removed by anyone besides the owner.
The domains likewise have more performance than standard domains because they can be used to a payment router, however likewise used to create websites with dApps developed straight on them because they exist on the blockchain, allowing the use of wise agreements on your site. Crypto Bubbles
Perhaps the best and most appealing feature of Unstoppable Domains is that is provides you a way to have one address for you to get 276 various crypto possessions, meaning when you set it up you will only ever need to know your domain and your payments will be routed to the wallets you established for each cryptocurrency. It is simpler not just for you, but for anyone who you want to get funds from.
There is only one genuine potential dealbreaker when it comes to utilizing Unstoppable Domains, which is the cost of declaring your domain with Ethereum.
This might just be a dealbreaker because you do not have any Ethereum at your address and require to buy some in order to claim your domain, or if for some reason you think it is unreasonable to pay the gas charges. However, this is a one-time transaction charge, and unless you choose to sell/transfer your domain to somebody else it will be the extra cost related to getting your domain.
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عنوان انگلیسی مقاله:
An automatic multi-view disease detection system via Collective Deep Region-based Feature Representation
ترجمه فارسی عنوان مقاله:
یک سیستم تشخیص بیماری چند نمایه از طریق نمایندگی ویژگی مبتنی بر منطقه جمعی
Sciencedirect - Elsevier - Future Generation Computer Systems, 115 (2021) 59-75: doi:10:1016/j:future:2020:08:038
With today’s growing requirements in disease diagnosis, we are constantly looking for better solutions. To meet the current demands, a disease detection system being highly effective as well as efficient is required. Existing and popular medical biometrics methods mainly focus on the local features extracted from raw medical image data, rather than study them globally. Meanwhile, prior knowledge is pre- defined in these methods so that procedures are inconsistent and require more manual operations. To address these, we present an automatic multi-view disease detection system, which contains a series of automatic procedures. The system first takes a tuple of images containing the face, tongue, and sublingual vein as the multi-view input, before directly outputting the predicted class label. To perform multi-view disease diagnosis, we propose a collective deep region-based feature representation. In summary, there are three real innovations in this paper: (1) Automated end-to-end medical biometrics system, (2) Deep region-based feature representation, (3) Multi-view multi-disease medical biometrics diagnosis. Extensive experiments were conducted on four diseases and one healthy control group using binary classification, showing both the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed system. The average accuracy achieved was 95.8%, 96.49%, 96%, and 96.8% for breast tumor, heart disease, fatty liver, and lung tumor versus healthy control group taking 0.0031s, 0.003s, 0.0046s, and 0.0033s to process each sample respectively.© 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Disease detection system | Multi-view learning | Feature representation | Medical biometrics | Image segmentation
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Deadline for July issue is June 24
The Ins and Outs of Horse Rescue Organizations
Samson, the big Belgian, is one of our sanctuary horses due to his special needs with his feet. Splash, the weanling, was born at one of our foster farms and is the son of Daphne, who survived one of the worst cruelty cases we ever handled.
It’s hard to believe that the rescue organization I work with, Animal Response Foundation (ARF), is already celebrating its fifth year in operation. ARF has worked on dozens of cases and saved hundreds of animals’ lives and, I am proud to say, has worked hard to make a difference in its corner of the world, here in west Tennessee.
A rescue horse is simply a horse who through no fault of his own has ended up in a bad situation. Horses end up with ARF, or in similar rescues, for a variety of reasons, none of which are their fault. The majority of the horses who come to ARF are from animal cruelty cases, and ARF is known for taking some of the worst of the worst, horses too weak to stand without our Anderson Sling or too anemic to survive without a blood transfusion. Some are abandoned with no known owners and some are owner surrenders due to an owner’s difficult change in circumstances. I’ve seen rescue horses come through with papers/sales receipts recorded of upwards of $50,000 and others who were once valued, but now are no more due to age, injury or behavioral issues.
Each horse is special and has its own unique story to tell. It is critical to give these horses the time and effort they deserve to help them decompress, get healthy, form new bonds with people and other horses, and then get trained and ready to be adopted. From the time a severely neglected horse comes in until the time it is adopted, it generally takes about 4-6 months. A lot of blood, sweat, and tears go into pulling these horses through.
When doing rescue with horses, it is important to make sure you have appropriate equipment to keep the horses, your team, and yourself safe. This includes adequate staffing, trailers, feed, hay, enclosures, and veterinarians and farriers. Many of the horses we see in rescue situations are not halter broken and may be very nervous around people, so we move slowly and ease them onto a trailer using round pen panels. Once we get them where they need to go, we gently unload them into a secure area where they can decompress and we can safely water, feed, and access them for care.
The harsh reality is that the most important pieces of equipment you need to do this kind of work are funds and resources. Rescue is expensive. This is why unpaid volunteers are worth their weight in gold, and why donations and fundraisers are so very important, since a sound business and financial plan must be in place for a rescue to be sustainable. I have many colleagues and friends in the rescue community and one of the hard truths that all rescues face is that they do not have the funds to save them all. I’ve been doing this a long time and it is the hardest thing in the world for a rescue to turn someone down. None of the rescues have the funds to save them all, but 100% of the rescues wish they did. It is heartbreaking to have to turn down a case or an animal because a rescue cannot afford to take on “just one more;” but it is the only way a rescue can afford to care for the ones they have. Some of the hoarding cases I have handled were once good legitimate rescues. But their “switch was flipped” and they began taking in more animals than they could adequately care for, in part, due to the pressure they put on themselves and the pressure others put on them to “save them all.” Of course, in hoarding situations, there are also significant mental health issues, which more courts are addressing in sentencing during a court case.
So, what can you do to help a rescue and the horses in your community? I like to shop local and I am writing this as I gaze out at the 15 pumpkins on my porch that I bought at a local farmers market. However, I must own up to the fact that about ten are for one of my dogs who considers pumpkins his favorite treat. You can not only shop local, but also support local. You can get to know the organization you want to support that way.
Train your horse to be a solid citizen. There is an old saying that a well trained horse will never want for a home. God forbid something happen to anyone, but if the day should come that your horse needs a new home, give him or her his best shot at getting a great one by teaching them to halter, load on a trailer, quietly stand for grooming, get adequate veterinary care and farrier care and, if possible, to be ridden. Most horse rescues primarily focus on animal cruelty cases, but most of the ones I know also take a few owner surrenders once in a while. Which one do you think they are more likely to take: the 15-year-old friendly riding horse or the 10-year-old who has never been handled and is not halter broken?
Finally, I want to give a plug for gelding your colt/stallion. I think there is a place for rescue and for well bred horses. A good breeder will either take back a horse they have bred or will assist in finding a new home for that horse, if needed. But for the most part, in the world of animal cruelty, when we see 20-30 horses on a farm, at least 10-15 of those are stallions. This makes it more difficult to find placement for those horses and, many times, those horses have roughed up one another quite a bit with that many stallions in close quarters. It is cheaper and easier on the horse if castrations are done when they are young. Due to COVID-19 we were not able to hold my TN/MS Geldathon this year, but we will be holding it next summer with availability to do ten colts/stallions. This program pairs a colt with my fourth year vet student externs, who assist in the castration. Each colt/stallion gets castrated and vaccinated for $120. This is a great program for my externs and for the horse population in our area. You can reach out to me for the details if this is something you are interested in.
Rescue is a labor of love and community support is what enables the great saves and the happy endings, so please consider supporting a horse rescue in your area today either as a volunteer, a foster home, an adopter, and/or financial supporter.
If you wish to donate to ARF, please visit www.animalresponse.org. See more on facebook at: Animal Response Foundation. I also work with Redemption Road Rescue in Jackson, Tennessee. Visit them at: https://redemptionroadrescue.com/
Editor’s note: There’s also Mississippi Horse Rescue. Find information at: www.mississippihorses.org.
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We introduce the Into Math Graph tool, which students use to graph how “into" mathematics they are over time. Using this tool can help teachers foster conversations with students and design experiences that focus on engagement from the student’s perspective.
Amanda K. Riske, Catherine E. Cullicott, Amanda Mohammad Mirzaei, Amanda Jansen, and James Middleton
The mathematical concept of slope can be made real through a set of simple, inexpensive, and safe experiments that can be conducted in the classroom or at home. The experiments help connect the idea of slope with physical phenomena related to surface tension. In the experiments, changes in surface tension across the surface of the water, which correspond to greater slopes on the graph, lead to increased motion of the fluid. The mathematical content, targeted to middle school and high school students, can be used in a classroom or workshop setting and can be tailored to a single session of thirty to ninety minutes.
Kristy B. McGowan and Nathan J. Lowe Spicer
Students analyze items from the media to answer mathematical questions related to the article. The clips this month, from the Colorado State lottery and a Marilyn vos Savant column on probability, involve probability and counting problems.
Becky Hall and Rich Giacin
Tying your teaching approach to the Common Core Standard for Geometry and Congruence will help students understand why functions behave as they do.
Mika Munakata and Leslie A. Cheteyan
The walls along the walkway leading to Shanghai's Guilin Garden are lined with geometric panels. The following questions refer to the wall panels shown in photographs 1–8. When answering these questions, assume that the patterns continue in all directions.
Michael A. Jones and Brittany Shelton
This year , July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens once every 823 years.
The relationship between a midpoint and an average showcases the interplay between procedural knowledge and conceptual knowledge in learning mathematics for teaching.
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Students analyze items from the media to answer mathematical questions related to the article. This month's clips discuss misrepresented formulas.
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The Measure-Trace-Algebratize (MTA) approach allows students to uncover algebraic relationships within familiar geometric objects.
Adam Poetzel, Joseph Muskin, Anne Munroe, and Craig Russell
Using simple materials, a Mathematica software application, and their knowledge of function transformations, students design and create real mathematical sculptures.
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Stop Operating Your Models in the Dark! Lessons Learned From the Field
As AI is becoming ubiquitous, machine learning practitioners are faced with a new challenge: the day after production. As ML systems are inherently data-dependent, trying to ensure their proper behaviour “in production” can be thorny: from drifts to bias or data quality issues, through missing labels.
In this session, we will share best practices to monitor AI in production in the financial sector, and maximize the value of your AI program for all stakeholders.
Key Takeaways: • To stop the "black box effect" of models in production you need to monitor them • AI assurance is about monitoring metrics and empowering data scientists as well as operations stakeholders • You can't scale your AI activities without proper assurance
Pearl Lieberman is the head of product marketing at superwise.ai, the startup devoted to assuring the health of AI models in production. With over 10 years experience translating sophisticated technology into valuable business benefits for the financial sector, Pearl has a track record of bringing together teams across the enterprise to advance and scale innovation.
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Like for everyone who isn’t living under a rock, Tuesday was spent in gravely shaking the head, moaning, groaning and pontification over how India now enjoys the dubious distinction of being the most unsafe country for women among UN’s 193-member nations, based on a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of 548 global experts. This brooding over the human condition soon gave way to clever, glib and pithy headlines, with the general agreed-upon sentiment being that India is ‘No country for women’ and ‘Finally India is number one at something’.
In the grand tradition of the great Indian political tamasha, the Maneka Gandhi-led Ministry of Women and Child Development, at first, declined to comment on the poll’s findings and, later, rejected it altogether because, according to them, the methodology was based on respondents’ perceptions, not data. The National Commission of Women (NCW) quickly followed suit, claiming that the sample size of respondents was too small and could not encapsulate the reality of a country of 1.3 billion people.
Never mind that even government records of the severely under-reported crimes against women show that while there has been a sharp increase in the number of crimes, conviction rates continue to be pitifully low. In the last decade, the number of reported crimes against women has gone up by 83 per cent — from 1,85,312 in 2007 to 3,38,954 in 2016 — according to National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) latest data. The year 2016 also saw the lowest conviction rate for crimes against women in a decade — a mere 18.9 per cent of the cases in which trials were completed. The 2016 data also shows that rape cases have gone up 88 per cent in the last decade. In 2016, the majority of cases that fell in the category of crimes against women — 32.6 per cent — were registered under ‘cruelty by husband or his relatives’.
Incidentally, of the six key areas that the survey focussed on, the three that India tops are sexual violence (sexual harassment, rape, and lack of access to justice), human trafficking (domestic abuse, forced marriage, and sexual slavery) and culture and religion-related violence (acid attacks, forced/child marriage, physical abuse, female infanticide).
Clearly, data-wise, the findings of the survey are not as far off the mark as the government agencies meant to protect and uplift us would like us to believe.
But who are we kidding, none of us were really surprised, were we? Do we really need a poll or a survey to tell us that India is rapidly devolving into a fiery pit of hell for its women? We live in a country where members closely affiliated to the ruling party proudly rally around child rapists (Kathua case) and disrupt legal process with impunity because they are protected by the benevolence reserved for Hindu religious fanatics. We also live in a country where a rape victim and her family has to threaten to immolate themselves in public to get justice. And the crown jewel of this kingdom is a prime minister who takes months to (half-heartedly) condemn such stomach-curling violent crimes.
In decrying the survey’s findings, NCW Chairperson Rekha Sharma unwittingly zeroed in on the real issue that has our panties in a twist. “There is no way we could be ranked number one in such a survey,” Ms Sharma said. “The countries that have been ranked after India have women who are not even allowed to speak in public.”
Basically, what’s really gotten under our skins is not how objectively poorly our country treats its women, but how we rank, subjectively, when compared to other countries. We don’t need a survey to tell us how increasingly difficult it has gotten to navigate daily life in a climate where crimes go unpunished and even applauded, and ministers routinely air sexist opinions, make uneducated comments and put forth unscientific theories for their equally uninformed and sexist followers to lap up — we already know all of that. And we’ve learned to fasten the blinkers and get on with life despite it all, because what other option do we have, really?
What’s rankling us, to some extent, and insulted the powers-that-be is the suggestion that we’re worse than Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and, so many other countries we consider ourselves superior to. We’re not offended by the fact that the sex ratio in the country has been declining for many years now and World Bank projections suggest that it will continue to decline drastically until 2031 — from 939 in 2011 to 904 in 2021, and 898 in 2031. We’re pissed that someone has the temerity to suggest that, horror of horrors, even Pakistan is better than us when it comes to the safety of women, given that it is sixth on the list.
We’re not surprised, angry or upset, we’re indignant about this global unveiling of how bad things really are. What does that say about how little we’ve come to expect of our government? And how much we’ve come to accept our deep-seated antipathy as par for the course.
And even as we hastily scribble witty headlines and faintly amused social media updates about our global embarrassment, here’s a sobering thought. We, you and I, the privileged urban yuppies of India who get to write these shiny op-eds and bemoan the state of the nation while sipping spiced lattes and flat white cappuccinos at Starbucks are not the people that India is unsafe for. We don’t die due to lack of access to basic health care like Dalit and other lower caste women in India do. Thanks to discrimination and economic deprivation, they lag behind on almost every health parameter. According to 2018 data by the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), 70.4 per cent Dalit women said that they had problems accessing healthcare in the country. Given that total government spending on health in 2012 was a scarce 4.8 percent of the GDP, and that as of 2017, India had 0.6 doctors per 1000 patients, as per Medical Council of India data, it is no surprise then, that the average age of death for Dalit women is 39.5 years, compared to 54.1 years of upper caste women. To put that into perspective, the average age of death for Dalit women is significantly lower than that of Uganda with its lengthy civil war, and Botswana with 25 per cent of its population suffering from HIV/AIDS.
It’s not just healthcare, an analysis of 2007 rape statistics of Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, by People’s Union of Civil Liberties, showed that a staggering 90 percent victims were Dalit women and over 85 per cent of them were underage girls. Most cases of caste-based violence are never reported, and among the few that are registered, conviction rates are notoriously low — according to 2012 data, more than half of all cases are closed even before they reach the courts.
So no, as much as people like you and me would like to claim the awfulness of our country as our cross to bear, it really isn’t, and it will never be in the way it is for the tens of millions of women who probably neither know nor care about embarrassing global surveys and international races of who is worse than whom.
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To call on God as Mother is a characteristic feature of Hinduism. Devi-mahatmyam or Durga-saptasati, also popularly known as Candi, is one of the sacred texts chanted during the worship of The Divine Mother.
We have much pleasure in presenting to our readers the English Edition of Candi. This will make the chanting possible for those who have no access to Sanskrit. The original text has been transliterated in English accompanied by a lucid English translation. Footnote have been added wherever necessary.
The Candi is divided into 13 chapters and consists of 700 mantras and hence it is called the Saptasati. Three aspects of the Divine Mother have been depicted in the book; they are (I) Mahakali (Chapter 1), (2) Mahalaksmi (Chapter II to IV) and (3) Mahasarasvati (Chapter V to XIII) and meditation on each of them has been added.
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The simple script filter_licences.pl can be used to filter all but a desired tenement type from the Tenements_Live.kml listing provided by WA Dept of Mines, Industry, Regulation and Safety:
https://dasc.dmp.wa.gov.au/dasc/ -> Statewide spatial datasets -> Tenements -> Current (live and pending)
Direct link for the dataset zipfile is currently:
The dataset zipfile contains several .kmz files, ie Tenements_Live.kmz and Tenements_Pending.kmz
Unzip the Tenements_Live.kmz so it becomes Tenements_Live.kml, and then you can use this script to filter it for particular lease or licence types.
The complete listing of live tenements is more than 20,000 tenements, of various types. This is a bloated mess if you’re only interested in, for example, Exploration Licences. Filtering out the other licence types and leaving only the Exploration Licences will cut the list down to 5000 or so, making the dataset much more manageable in tools like Google Earth. In spite of all Google’s resources, Google Earth has some serious bugs which are being ignored, and so it has trouble handling large datasets without crashing.
usage> ./filter_licences.pl Tenements_Live.kml “EXPLORATION LICENCE” > Tenements_Live_Exploration.kml
usage> cat Tenements_Live.kml | ./filter_licences.pl “tenement type” > Tenements_Live_Exploration.kml
“EXPLORATION LICENCE OFFSHORE”
“CHRISTMAS ISLAND EXPLORATION LICENCE”
“LICENCE TO TREAT TAILINGS”
“COAL MINING LEASE”
“MINERAL LEASE S.A.”
“GENERAL PURPOSE LEASE”
“GENERAL PURPOSE LEASE S.A.”
And possibly others.
The resulting output file contains only tenements of the specified type and can be imported into Google Earth.
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In a new report sponsored by its Industrial Technologies Program (ITP), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) identified the U.S. steel industry as the world leader in achieving the lowest energy intensity per ton of steel produced as compared to steel industries in other nations. The U.S. ranked as the second-lowest in terms of CO2 emissions per ton of steel produced, behind only South Korea. The report, “Meeting Energy Efficiency and Emissions Reduction Goals in the U.S. Steel Industry: A Need for Breakthrough Production Technologies,” was released in late March by the DOE.
The report also concludes that “the U.S. steel industry has almost fully achieved the energy efficiency and carbon emission reductions that can be obtained using today’s best available technologies. Additional breakthrough steelmaking technologies and processes will be needed to achieve proposed domestic and global policy goals for energy efficiency and carbon emission reductions.”
U.S. Steel Industry Tops in Energy Efficiency
April 6, 2011
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Shoulder surgery can be a particularly painful ordeal, and pain management is an important part of the treatment process. <"https://www.yourlawyer.com/topics/overview/pain_pump_shoulder_injury">Intra-articular pain pumps are one of a number of techniques used for managing pain. Use of the pump is thought to prolong the effects of other numbing agents for several days. Unfortunately, this relief often comes at a cost. Evidence is growing that use of these devices has been associated with a painful condition called Postarthroscopic Glenohumeral Chondrolysis (PAGCL).
Intra-articular pain pumps are implanted into the shoulder joint during surgery and release pain medications directly to the joint. In most cases, the pumps do what they are meant to, and offer patients effective pain control. However, some patients experience PAGCL, a progressive loss of cartilage in the shoulder joint following this surgery. For a long time, physicians were unable to determine what caused this damage. Last year, one of the first studies to look at this problem was published. The study looked at the medical charts of 152 patients who had undergone anthroscopic shoulder surgeries. Twelve of the patients developed PAGCL, and all of them had received pain pumps during their surgeries. The use of the intra-articular pain pump was the only factor that the PAGCL patients had in common. While this analysis is not conclusive, it does point to a need for more investigation of this problem.
PAGCL is extremely painful and can cause life-long disability. Cartilage is a flexible tissue that cushions the bones of a joint. If cartilage is lacking, the bones will grind together. The result is extreme pain, and sometimes chronic arthritis. Symptoms of PAGCL include pain at the shoulder when it is in motion or at rest; increased shoulder stiffness; popping or grinding when the shoulder is in motion; decrease in range of motion; and a loss of strength in the joint. PAGCL is usually diagnosed with an x-ray showing the narrowing of the shoulder joint space.
A patient diagnosed with PAGCL usually has to undergo more surgery. However, surgery does not always provide complete relief, and patients can end up with more shoulder pain than they had prior to their initial surgery. Anyone contemplating shoulder surgery should discuss pain pumps with their doctors, and they must notify their physicians if they experience any of the symptoms associated with PAGCL.
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There are only 15 kilometer (9 miles) left to finish the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany that bypasses Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
The $11 billion project doubling the capacity of the first Nord Stream pipeline to 110 billion cubic meters a year has been a focal point of tensions between Moscow and the West.
Despite US sanctions, Nord Stream 2 is almost complete and the key question is how Russia will ship its gas to Europe once a current transit deal between Kyiv and Moscow expires in 2024.
After meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Kremlin on Friday, Putin said Russia planned to fully comply with its obligations on gas transit via Ukraine.
He said Moscow was ready to send gas via its neighbor even after 2024 but Russia needed to understand the scale of demand for its fossil fuel first.
“And for this, we need to get an answer from our European partners on how much they are ready to buy,” Putin told a news conference. “We cannot sign a transit contract if we don’t have supply contracts with our consumers in Europe.”
The European gas market is eagerly awaiting Russian flows via Nord Stream 2 as European gas prices have reached record highs due to low liquefied natural gas supplies.
Putin said future gas supplies were a matter for talks given Europe’s green energy drive.
Ukraine has opposed the construction of Nord Stream 2, saying it was politically motivated.
Before the Putin-Merkel talks on Friday, Ukraine’s state energy firm Naftogaz said the project breached European Union regulations, could not work commercially and should be stopped.
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Topiary Park is a landscaped garden in Chandigarh. The Park is surrounded by eye-captivating beauty from all the sides. It is located in sector 35 and is very close to the centre of the city.
Topiary Park, Chandigarh was established in 1987. It has a number of ornamental plants and shrubs cropped into different shapes. Also, the plants and creepers are transformed into the shape of animals like elephants, bears, giraffe, which makes it popular among children. This beautiful Park is all green and shines bright with colourful flowers all around.
Topiary Park is a preferred place for morning and evening walks. It offers a pleasant atmosphere, soothing one's mind, body and soul. Along with the peaceful ambiance, it gives plenty of space for kids to enjoy their play hour. Also, the unique shapes of the plants and trees are a major attraction. This work of art is highly appreciable. The Topiary Park is well maintained. The best time to visit the Topiary Park of Chandigarh is during the winter months of October to February as the flowers blossom brightly during this time. It is best admired in the evenings, just before the sunset. Visitors spend around 1 hour in the park.
You often find some of the people here, who are engaged in getting into shape, or just relaxing in the lap of nature, school picnics, family outings, or just for a morning/evening stroll in the cool breeze. For every kind of visitor, the Topiary Park has a thing to offer. When in Chandigarh, it demands a visit. The Park is open on all days of the week during timings 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM. There is no entry fee.
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Rising energy and water prices will boost the value of existing green homes and commercial premises, according to industry experts and with rising energy prices becoming a highly identified cost in every family, homeowner, builder, government and of every business.
To find out why our products are the best Timber Frame and Solid Log Buildings available in the UK today, CONTACT US for a FREE Information Pack.
Log Homes and School Classrooms and Nurserys are the mainstay of business at New Forest Log Cabins. Our knowledge of designing and building experience with log construction is unparalleled in the UK. Many modern log buildings constructed by New Forest Log Cabins use technologies and materials which have been truly tested by the British climate. Log building have been around for centuries and proven to be one of the strongest, most durable ways to build. Not to mention the eco friendly materials and green credentials of using timber.
Our buildings are well-designed and insulated from a 30% Energy Saving at day one to the future incorporating Passive methods of construction which could see hundreds of pounds a year cut from their energy bills as prices escalate dramatically with the pressure of affordable housing today and not just in the initial building or purchase costs, but the whole spread of services such as power, water and gas needed to run a home.
John Rudd - Sales Director at NFLC is sure the property market will become increasingly driven by running costs that will automatically be factored in by buyers who are looking at balancing their utility costs," he said. "The reality is the payback period for solar panels and other energy saving technology has shortened dramatically with power costs in the past two years increasing like never before. Not only will the continuing increased energy prices boost property values, they will also put a strong focus on the quality of construction and New Builds in the future in relation to energy efficiency and sustainability,"
The team at New Forest Log Cabins is committed to helping you achieve your green building goals, in addition to satisfying your overall design requirements. We realise that each client will have their own green objectives. It is our responsibility to provide you with options and expertise that suit your custom design.
Helping to build sustainable log buildings is our focus, but we at New Forest Log Cabins believe it's also important to act responsibly within our own environment. Here are some of the actions we've taken so far:
Just think for a minute about all the energy that goes into creating building materials. If you think about logs, really they are not that different from a tree standing in a forest. Bricks, blocks, metals, plastics and other building materials require massive amounts of energy to process into a suitable building material. Building your home or building from wood could save a huge amount of energy in comparison to using more conventional materials.
What is more sustainable than timber when it comes down to building materials? Trees are grown all over the world and are vital to the balance of our whole environment. They absorb CO2 from the atmosphere which has been produced by factories that are polluting the air. Forests in Baltics where we source all of our trees from are also strictly managed and monitored to make sure that the timber is harvested in a sustainable manner.
So not only do our log buildings consume a lot less energy to manufacture, but as they are very thermally efficient they can save energy and money to keep warm too. In fact, our customers have done the calculations and show that there is a saving of over 30% on energy usage in our standard Timber Frame buildings and a well insulated log building needs very little heating, but also needs less cooling during hot times too. Buildings being made from a natural materials will breath and be part of the Environment.
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Professor Brian Butterworth, author of Dyscalculia: From science to education.
Judy has a genius for helping struggling learners enjoy numbers.
Dr. Steve Chinn, Visiting Professor, University of Derby
This is a cleverly organised, clearly presented collection of games and activities which will help build an understanding of maths in learners. It's a great example of, 'If you ask the right questions, then children learn.'
Bobby Seagull, school maths teacher, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Numbers and BBC presenter for the Monkman & Seagull Genius Guides
Sweaty palms? Racing heart? A lump in the back of your throat? As a maths teacher, I know that maths anxiety can prevent people, young and old, from accessing this beautiful subject. Judy draws upon her vast and rich experience in education to create this book that all teachers and parents should have. This engaging, fun and playful book has gathered together a wonderful collection of maths activities and curiosities that will engage maths fans but equally importantly, inspire those that need a little encouragement too!
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- June 9, 2022
Malibu and Mars
CuriousMars: California Dreamin’ on a Martian Day, Craig Covault, SpaceRef
“There are already plenty of stars around Malibu, California, but could the place be actually like the planet Mars? The NASA rover Curiosity is about to find out.
Two California locations, including an area near the Santa Monica Mountains stretching north from Malibu, were searched in late January for rocks strikingly similar to the Martian rocks that Curiosity is about to drill into on Mars. The samples found are completing final tests for use in assessing the success of the first rock drilling and sampling on another planet.
The drilling and analysis of samples from the inside of a Martian rock should be underway next week with the first shallow drilling tests as early as Feb. 2-4, according to Robert C. Anderson, a member of the Surface Sampling System (SSS) Team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.”
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Do Terpenes in Pet CBD Really Matter?
With CBD being readily available in most pet stores, it feels a little bit like buying bread. I mean, bread is bread, right? Interchangeable without much notice. Or is it? I happen to be a bread connoisseur. There’s a world of difference in crusts, thickness, and yeast. Same is true for pet CBD. Do terpenes in pet CBD really matter? You bet they do – and are one of the reasons you need to analyze pet CBD labels.
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What Terpenes Are & What They Do
First, terpenes are natural. They’ve been around since the dawn of time. It’s our awareness that’s new. Basically terpenes are aromatic compounds that create the smell, color, and flavor of plants. This includes cannabis and hemp. There are over 20,000 known terpenes, with over 100 of them in the plants responsible for making CBD.
Are All CBD Terpenes the Same?
Yes and no. So, while a specific set of terpenes come from a cannabis or hemp plant, the quality and compounds are different. This all depends on the plant and how it was grown. How terpenes function is dependent upon the amount of light the plants receive, soil management, humidity, and crop practices. Calculating the variety of terpene sub-elements that affect CBD is nearly impossible.
Quality farmers put intense focus on the standardization of growing conditions in order to maintain quality terpenes, and thus CBD product.
But How Do Terpenes Get Into CBD?
When you look closely at female plants, likely through a microscope, you’ll notice little hair-like features. These are called glandular trichomes. Cannabis and hemp plant terpenes tuck themselves into these little hairs for safety from pollinators and the like.
The goal of a CBD farmer is to disturb the trichomes as little as necessary in an effort to retain as much terpenes as possible. This results in CBD that is powerful, and has specific colors, smells, and tastes.
Are Terpenes Just About Aromatics?
We thought so until relatively recent times. Research now indicates that CBD terpenes have an impact on a chemical level (source).
Terpenes have a direct interplay with the endocannabinoid system. So, while they provide smell and taste, they also deliver a different experience within a pet’s body. This is why some CBD works well for some dogs or cats, but not on others. It’s all interweaving through your pet’s body and each is unique.
That’s why when people say, “CBD doesn’t work for my dog,” it’s often because they haven’t found the right one yet!
What Terpenes Are in CBD?
Remember from above that there are at least 100 terpenes involved, each with variations based on growing conditions. But it’s important to understand the terpenes in pet CBD. For general awareness, the following terpenes tend to be found in CBD.
Smelling of pine trees, this terpene has the following potential benefits:
- Asthma Reduction
- Anxiety Management
- Cancer Prevention
- Memory Retention
- Pain Relief
- Ulcer Reduction
This terpene has the smell of black pepper. Also, this one has a strong interplay with CB2 receptors dealing with immune systems. This terpene has the following potential benefits:
- Decreased Brain Aging
- Inflammation Management
- Pain Relief
This aromatic terpene smells of fruity, citrus aromas and has the following potential benefits:
- Anxiety Management
- Cancer Prevention
- Depression Management
- Elevated Mood
- Inflammation Management
- Pain Relief
- Stress Relief
This highly aromatic terpene smells of rich, heady, ripe fruit and has the following potential benefits:
- Inflammation Management
- Pain Relief
- Reduces Mutations
With a mixture of herbal, floral, and pine scents, this terpene has the following potential benefits:
- Cancer Prevention
The Importance of Full-Spectrum CBD and Terpenes
When you purchase a full-spectrum CBD you know that the terpenes and cannabinoids have not been damaged in the manufacturing and packing of a product. Putting the pieces together from what we’ve read above, that means that your pet’s body will receive a great deal more benefit from a full-spectrum CBD.
What Are Terpenes?
The hemp plant is a promising therapeutic agent for ailments like anxiety, pain, and inflammatory conditions. These potential benefits are accented and potentiated by terpenes, one of 700 chemicals found in the cannabis plants, including hemp.
While research on terpenes is still growing, there’s evidence that they are powerful compounds that enhance the benefits of cannabis products for both pets and humans.
The Definition of Terpenes: What Are They?
Plant terpenes are essentially fragrant oils composed of hydrogen and carbon molecules (AKA hydrocarbons). They’re what give plants—from lavender and pepper to cinnamon and pine—their distinctive fragrances and flavors.
Terpenes are the largest family of natural compounds with over 55,000 identified to date and at least half are synthesized by plants. In nature, plants produce terpenes to attract pollinators like bees, ward off predators, and protect themselves from disease-causing microorganisms. In addition, they act as building blocks (called isoprene units) for more complex compounds, such as steroids, hormones, vitamins and even cannabinoids. All living organisms manufacture terpenes for certain essential physiological functions.
Some organic terpenes, like bisabolol (present in the chamomile plant) were used in ancient times as health preventatives and remedies for a variety of maladies. Today, manufacturers use terpenes as additives in foods, cosmetics, insect repellants, household cleaners and essential oils, and they’re increasingly being investigated for their therapeutic properties.
The cannabis plant (including hemp) contains more than 200 different terpenes .
Each variety of the hemp plant ( Cannabis sativa) has a unique terpene profile, consisting of different types of terpenes in varying concentrations. These distinct profiles give each plant variety, a unique scent, and a set of physiologic properties.
The specific terpene profile is based on factors such as plant genetics and environment (humidity, quality of soil, light and temperature).
What Are Terpenoids?
The terms terpene and terpenoid are used interchangeably, but they are slightly different compounds.
Terpenes are unaltered, consisting solely of organic hydrocarbons.
Terpenoids are a derivative of terpenes , modified when the hemp plant is processed by drying and preserving (curing) or by chemical means. This results in oxidation, or the addition of atoms (usually an oxygen).
Differences (and Similarities) Between Phytocannabinoids and Terpenes
One important distinction between phytocannabinoids and terpenes is that phytocannabinoids are found predominantly in the cannabis plant, while terpenes are contained in all plants.
It was recently discovered that other plants besides cannabis contain similar chemical compounds that interact with our endocannabinoid system. These compounds—called cannabimimetics—are more prevalent than you might think and include echinacea, curcumin and the cocoa tree.
Another interesting fact is that terpenes are responsible for the aroma and flavor of the cannabis plant, while cannabinoids have no scent at all. The cannabis plant contains more than 100 phytocannabinoids, two of which are tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD).
CBD and THC share the same chemical composition and even have essentially identical molecular weights, but their atomic arrangements differ. Despite the slight variance in atomic structure, the physiologic effects of both compounds vary greatly.
A good example is that both CBD and THC bind to receptors in the brain and impact factors like sleep, mood, and anxiety, but only THC produces intoxicating effects that have been associated with high THC marijuana varieties.
What Are Terpenes Used For?
Terpenes have a wide range of commercial uses—in food, personal care items, and household products. You’ll find terpenes in chewing gum, cleaning products, soaps, perfumes, and cosmetics.
Terpenes are also key compounds found in the cannabis plant and have physiologic effects on their own. In addition, they enhance the absorption of cannabinoids. Some of the terpenes found in hemp plants have therapeutic properties that vary depending on a plant’s terpene profile and concentration, according to the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry .
These benefits include:
- Analgesic (pain reduction)
- Neuroprotective (protects the nervous system: brain and spinal cord)
- Anticonvulsant (controls seizures)
- Anticancer (controls cancer)
- Anti-allergic (controls allergies)
One great example of a well-known terpene is a chemotherapeutic drug called paclitaxel, which is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew tree (Taxus brevifolia). It was originally used in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of a variety of types of cancers ( 1 ).
Terpenes also work in concert with the other compounds within the plant. This herbal synergy between cannabinoids, terpenes and flavonoids is what is referred to as the entourage effect. This theory is typically exemplified by the amplifying effects of the multiple compounds, however another example of entourage effect is evidenced by the ability of CBD to reduce the side effects of THC.
Common Types of Terpenes
The hemp plant contains over 200 different terpenes. The following—also present in other plants—are some of the more commonly found and well-researched terpenes:
Myrcene is a terpene that is common in plants like lemongrass, mangoes, eucalyptus, and thyme. It’s also the most common terpene in the cannabis plant, and responsible for producing its earthy smell.
There’s evidence that myrcene can reduce inflammation and pain, relax muscles, act as a sedative, and induce sleep ( 2 ). Its sedative properties are enhanced when combined with THC.
In a study published in Chemico-Biological Reactions , myrcene was shown to help prevent gastric and duodenal peptic ulcers.
β – Caryophyllene is found in many herbs and vegetables like basil, cinnamon leaves, cloves, and black pepper.
β -Caryophyllene is a potent anti-inflammatory, analgesic (acting to relieve pain), gastrointestinal tract protectant, and it also shows promise as an application for contact dermatitis ( 2 ). The greatest revelation regarding β -caryophyllene is its ability to bind directly to the cannabinoid receptor 2 (CB2) which is one of the ways it works to reduce inflammation.
A major component in citrus fruit rinds (like lemons), limonene is also present in rosemary, juniper, peppermint, and pine needles. Hemp varieties with high concentrations of limonene have a citrusy scent and provide an uplifting effect. It is the second most widely distributed terpene in nature and is also the precursor to all other terpenes.
Limonene has been shown to have anti-anxiety, anti-depressive, gastroprotective, and antitumor properties. In fact, in one human study, hospitalized depressed patients exposed to citrus fragrances in ambient air showed improvement and discontinuation of antidepressant medication was noted in 9 out of 12 patients ( 2 ).
C ommon in plants like sage and rosemary, this terpene tends to have an herbal aroma.
Terpinolene has been shown to induce drowsiness and sedation, according to a study published in the Journal of Natural Medicines . According to Oncology Letters , it can also prevent cancer growth by inhibiting specific survival pathways.
Humulene is present in plants like clove and ginger, as well as in hops, which is what gives beer its earthy smell. It has a similar structure to beta-caryophyllene and is sometimes referred to as alpha-caryophyllene.
Humulene has strong anti-inflammatory properties ( 3 ). Also, this terpene may be helpful to combat allergies. A study published in British Journal of Pharmacology , found that humulene resulted in marked reduction in inflammatory allergic airway disease in mice models. Research also shows that humulene inhibits tumor growth by producing reactive oxygen species, chemicals that help destroy cancer cells ( 4 ).
Lastly, humulene also has antibacterial properties ( 5 ) , and may work as an appetite suppressant.
Alpha-pinene is the most common terpene found in the natural world and is found in pine woods and balsamic resin, and produces a scent of pine needles.
Alpha-pinene has anti-inflammatory, bronchodilator (relaxes and opens airways), antitumor and antibacterial properties. It also aids in memory retention, which can be very helpful to counteract the short-term memory loss induced by THC intoxication ( 2 ).
Linalool is most abundant in the lavender plant. It’s most notable for its use as a sleep aid, sedative, and anti-anxiety agent and is widely used for aromatherapy. Linalool is the key to lavender’s therapeutic properties .
Linalool demonstrates potent anti-inflammatory, analgesic and local anesthetic properties. Interestingly, the local anesthetic effects of linalool are equal to commonly used agents such as procaine and menthol ( 6 ).
Another important property of linalool is its powerful ability to promote anticonvulsant effects. Therefore, finding strains rich in this particular terpene may potentially aid in seizure control ( 2 ).
Bisabolol is found primarily in the chamomile plant and has anti-inflammatory, antitumor and antibacterial properties ( 7 ). Two studies published in Anticancer Research found that alpha-bisabolol has multiple antitumor effects on pancreatic cancer cells ( 8 ) ( 9 ).
German chamomile also relieves anxiety and many other conditions, according to a study published in Molecular Medicine Reports , which is why chamomile tea is widely used to promote stress relief.
Keep in mind that the terpenes studied for medicinal properties are more concentrated than the terpenes contained in food and commercial products. Eating a mango, for example, will not impart the same health benefits as a hemp CBD product extracted from a plant with high levels of myrcene.
Possible Terpene Benefits for Pets
While studies pointing specifically to the benefits of terpenes for pets are lacking, based on the studies performed in the laboratory and in rodent and human models, there is evidence to support the therapeutic usefulness of these compounds.
Some of the roles we believe terpenes can play, typically in conjunction with key cannabinoids, in supporting pets health include:
- Reduction in anxiety
- Reduction in pain and inflammation
- Reduction in seizure activity
- Overall nervous system support
- Reduction in tumor growth
- Potent antioxidant
As mentioned above, one of the most impressive benefits of terpenes is their ability to work harmoniously with the other plant compounds and there is an intricate synergy that occurs to boost the therapeutic effect. The general rule is there is a greater effect on the body when exposed to a combination of compounds versus individual ones.
A good example of this concept is a 2015 Israeli study where researchers demonstrated that a larger therapeutic impact was achieved when using a whole plant extract over purified CBD. It concluded that it is likely that other components (minor cannabinoids and terpenes) found in the extract created an additive or synergistic interaction with CBD and was found to be superior in reducing inflammation compared to a CBD isolate ( 10 ).
Are Terpenes Safe for Pets?
Holistic veterinary practitioners have been incorporating terpenes safely into their practices for centuries.
Without thorough clinical trials, we do not know all the details regarding safety parameters for pets, but dogs and cats are already exposed to terpenes on a regular basis. If you give your pet food or treats flavored with mango, citrus, black pepper or rosemary or bathe your dog using a lavender-based shampoo, you’re essentially using products containing terpenes.
In fact, terpenes have been widely used in commercial products as additives and flavorings in the human diet and are generally recognized as safe (GRAS) to consume by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. If in doubt about giving products containing terpenes to your pet, check with your veterinarian.
While there is still much research needed to elucidate the various mechanisms of terpenes and the specific dosing needed to treat different disease processes, it is evident that cannabis terpenes have enormous potential for medicinal benefit, both on their own, and when used in combination with the other components of the cannabis plant.
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It's just a proposal for now, but it certainly has caught the attention of New York City bike riders: Manhattan borough president Mark Levine has suggested turning one lane of car traffic on the West Side Highway into a two-way protected bike lane. Specifically, according to the plan, one of the lanes would be repurposed into four miles of cyclable path between Chambers Street and 57th Street.
The politician sent a letter to state and city transportation department heads outlining his proposal, which seeks to reduce congestion on one of the busiest bikeway in the nation, Hudson River Greenway. Levine asked the various agency to check on the feasibility of the project.
"The Hudson River Greenway is one of the most heavily used greenways in the country, but it is overcrowded—bicyclists have to weave around people, pedestrians have to steel themselves for two-way bike traffic, and e-bikes are forced into the highway. It doesn’t have to be this way, and we could do much better," Levine said in an official statement. "Taking a lane of traffic on the highway and turning that into a dedicated, protected space for cyclists and e-bike users, including delivery workers, so that they all have a safer space to get around the city must be a key component of the city's work to reduce congestion, reduce emissions, and create safer streets for all New Yorkers."
The timing of Levine's proposal isn't random. In fact, the official explained that he hopes for the eventual opening of the bike lane to coincide with the kickoff to congestion pricing, which is supposedly happening by the end of 2023.
"We are timing this with the implementation of congestion pricing and the need to begin to create the infrastructure that can support and encourage the increased use of non-vehicular modes of travel by New Yorkers," Levine said. "We expect the decrease in traffic to Manhattan to make this project feasible, and it would be a huge win for everyone traveling on foot and bikes."
This isn't the first time a proposal of the sort has been brought forward. In the midst of the pandemic, a number of local officials asked the state's transportation department to convert one lane of Route 9A (the West Side Highway's official name) into a bike lane given a reduction of traffic sparked by the pandemic.
At the time, Streetsblog reported that the letter was ignored by then-Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Department of Transportation.
A more successful attempt was carried forward on the Brooklyn Bridge, where a new two-way bike lane opened less than a year ago, taking over the innermost Manhattan-bound car lane on the bridge.
Officials have recently showed renewed interest in the two-wheel mode of transportation all across the city. Back in May, mayor Eric Adams backed a plan called NYC 25x25, which seeks to turn a quarter of the city's streets into plazas and bike lanes.
Here's to hoping at least some of these suggestions will soon become our new reality.
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As a rural development advisor, I always look for opportunities to interact with different actors in my community, especially with farmers. When I heard that I was selected to participate in the ToToT in Cameroon, I was very excited. This was an opportunity for me to learn more about how to better communicate the benefits of organic farming.
The ToToT is designed to support national teams of Lead Trainers, who will in turn train Rural Service Providers (RSPs) and change agents in strengthening ecological organic agriculture in Africa, in their respective regions and countries.
Having worked as a program supervisor of farmer organizations between 2014 and 2016, I witnessed how farmers used synthetic inputs in the production of potatoes for consumption. Later on, these farmers and producers started seeing how the synthetic inputs were damaging their soil and farm produce. Dan la Menoua, one of the producers I talked with said that he saw how the soil kept declining in fertility and how that affected the biodiversity that once thrived on the farm.
This encouraged me to learn about alternative ways of farming and organic farming was my preferred way of encouraging sustainable food production. Now as a trainer in organic farming within the Groupement d’Appui pour le Développement Durable (GADD), my aim is to show the advantages of farming organically has on soil, biodiversity and our health. This involves me raising awareness amongst farmers on the risks of using synthetic inputs s and the benefits of organic food amongst consumers.
However, even with this amount of knowledge and experience that I have accumulated, there is so much more learnt at the ToToT that I can definitely include in my work. For instance;
- I experienced the importance of having open spaces for knowledge exchange
- Creative ways of training, for example, using the concept of World Cafes, animation techniques, among others
- Organizing excursions to farms and processing plants to have firsthand information and discussions with anyone involved in the food supply chain such as farmers.
It definitely makes a difference having organizations like IFOAM – Organics International recognizing the need to empower people on the ground with the necessary tools and knowledge to improve food systems in our individual communities. Thanks to the training facilitators from GADD, IFOAM – Organics International and Centre Polyvalent de Formation (CPF), I really enjoyed the practical element of the training which enabled us see the mistakes we often make and more importantly, learn how to think on spot and correct those mistakes.
I am confident that the next time I am conducting a training session on organic agriculture, it will have elements of the techniques I learnt. The thought of that alone makes me feel empowered as I look forward to those training sessions I will conduct.
The training in Cameroon was held in French and delivered by Hervé Bouagnimbeck on behalf of GADD, with the support of Patricia Flores and Francia Berger from IFOAM – Organics International, and a team from CPF. The ToToT aims to give lead trainers the necessary knowledge and practical skills to not only train RSPs, but also inspire and motivate them to share and disseminate their knowledge as well as skills.
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Homeowner’s daily lives are absolutely subject to electricity. A one-hour power outage can send a few people into a tornado not comprehending what to do, can’t get any critical work completed, what they will manage without electricity to charge their PCs and mobile phones and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. The reliance on electricity is expanding so the time has come to learn now and then about electrical wellbeing.
Electrical wellbeing is vital to know on the grounds that there are many perils that can happen from not taking after the rudiments of taking care of electrical machines and electricity as a rule. It you misuse electrical machines or handle them without utilizing the correct security measures can bring about electrical flames. Many flames that happen every year are because of electricity misusing or not taking after electricity wellbeing. Grown-ups and youngsters both ought to find out about electrical wellbeing.
A standout amongst the most critical things to recall as to electrical security is to abstain from uncovering apparatuses and electrical outlets to water. This sort of blend can be exceptionally unsafe so on the off chance that you have wet hands don’t plug or unplug electrical apparatuses or touch electrical outlets. On the off chance that you have any electrical outlets in regions that are water inclined like your kitchen or bathroom you ought to have a Ground Blame Circuit Interrupter (GFCI). This bit of electrical gear, if there should be an occurrence of introduction to water, will avoid stuns.
When you are unplugging a string ensure that you don’t pull on the string yet rather haul out the fitting. In the event that you pull on the line as opposed to hauling it out by the connect it can result to the introduction of electrical wires. It can likewise be destructive. Any machine that you are not always utilizing ought to be unplugged. There are a few apparatuses that produce warm, similar to your fridge and TV, which ought to be situated in regions that have an open space around them. This will standardize the high temperatures they put out. Ensure that any machines that create warmth are not confined up with different apparatuses around them since they could overheat and cause issues.
Before you connect to any apparatus ensure that you are checking the wattage in light of the fact that there could be a variety in wattage that could bring about shortcircuits and electrical stuns, which can be hazardous. Ensure that you don’t over-burden an electrical attachment with an excessive number of machines. On the off chance that you have to utilize a surge defender rather than an electrical rope. Cover any open electrical outlets with a face place to keep any introduction of open wires.
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On April 8th, 1995, a fight card would transpire where Larry Holmes attempted to repeat what George Foreman was able to do, and capture the heavyweight title. Holmes came within inches of achieving that feat, losing a close and debatable decision to the then WBC Heavyweight Champion, Oliver McCall. On the same card, Felix Trinidad would destroy Roger Turner in two rounds and Terry Norris would get disqualified for the second time in a row against the over-matched Luis Santana. The other memorable bout on the card was a contest for the vacant WBA Heavyweight Title between former champ, Tony Tucker, and Bruce Seldon.
Tony Tucker won the IBF Heavyweight Title in 1987, stopping James “Buster” Douglas in ten rounds and lost his crown three months later to Iron Mike Tyson, but gave a very good account of himself and, up to that point, gave “Kid Dynamite” the toughest fight of his career. After that bout, he would linger, putting together wins against relatively nondescript opponents. It was obvious to many that he was beyond his better days, eking by Orlin Norris and Oliver McCall before losing a wide decision to Lennox Lewis in 1993 in a bid for the WBC Title.
After some meaningless wins, he was back in position to challenge for the title as a mandatory, perhaps more evidence that Don King had a lot of push with the sanctioning bodies. When champion, George Foreman declined the challenge, the WBA crown became vacant and Bruce Seldon was put in as the opponent. Despite the incredible skill of “The Atlantic City Express,” he has always been a punching bag for the media and was considered a stepping stone for Tucker en route to a rematch with Mike Tyson. Seldon would throw a wrench in the works.
The biggest moments in the boxing career of Bruce Seldon were defeats. He lost by TKO to Oliver McCall on an ESPN card, and would try to rebound quickly on a PPV event against Riddick Bowe. It was over quickly. In one round, Seldon was dropped twice and couldn’t recover to continue. This was the end of his run as a contender according to most, but he would rebound with knockout wins over Jesse Ferguson, Greg Page, undefeated Russian prospect, Alexander Popov, as well as a dominant unanimous decision over Mike Dixon. He was 13-1, 12 KO’s, since the loss to Bowe, with his only defeat was to the cagey former champion, Tony Tubbs.
The Tubbs defeat showed the best of Seldon, as he got off the canvas in the first round to forge on and do his best to find his elusive opponent. He would lose a decision but he may have regained some supporters as well as regained some confidence in himself. What he also had going into the Tucker fight was the best jab in boxing. Momentum and that punch would be too much for the older ex-champ to handle on that April night in 1995.
From the opening round, the jab bothered Tucker, but it seemed that many were still waiting for Tucker to lower the boom and drop Seldon. It never happened. Seldon’s jab would TKO Tucker, when he couldn’t see anymore out of his very swollen eye. There was much complaint from both Tucker and Don King that the fight was stopped too soon, and I think that there was a lot of disbelief. Seldon was supposed to be easy and he brought his A game, which was more than enough to secure the 7th round TKO win. A rematch was spoken of by both King and Tucker, but it was never to be. Tucker would fade away and Seldon would move on to his first defense.
Joe Hipp, 30-3, 19 KO’s, didn’t deserve a shot at the title. His two biggest fights were TKO defeats to Bert Cooper and Tommy Morrison. This bout with Seldon proved to be a mismatch and showed once again the skill of the WBA Champion. He used his jackhammer jab to destroy Hipp’s face and force him into submission in the 10th round. This bout was supporting the main event between the returning Mike Tyson against the hapless Peter McNeeley. Seldon wanted the fight and the money that came with a title defense against Iron Mike, and Don King wanted his moneymaker, Tyson, to have all the titles. Seldon-Tyson was in the making.
The Tyson defense would take over a year to put together. In the meantime, Tyson had fought and defeated Buster Mathis, JR., and Frank Bruno for the WBC Title, heading into this bout with Seldon with a full head of steam. The hype going into the event would be like nothing Seldon had ever seen and it was obvious that he was falling victim to the mystique of Tyson, as many in the past had done. Bonecrusher Smith stated that he “bought into the hype,” and clutched him the entire time, only opening up in the final seconds of the last round to land a right hand that stunned Tyson. Mike’s biggest asset at times was his ability to intimidate his opponent and beat him before the first bell rang for the fight.
The ring rust that was such a concern for Iron Mike was nearly silenced when Frank Bruno noted that the Tyson he faced in 1996 was the same Tyson that he lost to in 1989. In fact, Iron Mike disposed of Bruno in three rounds in 1996, two rounds less then it took him to do it in 1989. Buster Mathis, JR., was another impressive TKO for Tyson. Mathis had put together a record of 20-0, 6 KO’s, and was very good defensively. He was the type of guy that may have had the key to exploit a spent Tyson, but he would find himself out of the fight in just three rounds. From those two victories, it was fair to say that the pieces were starting to fall into place for Mike and if he was going to face Seldon’s jab, he’d have to bring some of the old Tyson to the ring.
September 7th, 1996, would be the date where the two would finally meet for the WBA Heavyweight Title. Tyson entered the ring with a record of 44-1, 38 KO’s, and with a menacing look on his face. This was the seek and destroy Tyson and he may have also sensed that Seldon wasn’t mentally strong and was very worried about this title defense. As he came down to the ring, Seldon sported a very big smile…a sure sign that he was terrified. As George Foreman always said, he was “whistling through the graveyard,” trying to convince himself that he wasn’t afraid.
Seldon, 33-3, 29 KO’s, maintained the smile during the announcements and even hits his gloves together in a show of confidence. As they announced his record and statistics, he threw some jabs, saying “bop” as he did it, letting the world know just what his plan was. He was going to throw the jab as early and often as he could.
The opening bell rang and a looping right hand immediately missed by Tyson, but let Seldon know that his opponent had no intentions of going the distance. Seldon was throwing his jab but he wasn’t stepping forward with it. He was making the mistake of going backwards while throwing, which is the ideal circumstances for a Mike Tyson knockout. A left hook in the first twenty seconds rattles Seldon, who stumbles into the ropes. It was obvious that this wasn’t going to go long.
Seldon was full of nervous energy as he frantically moved around the ring, throwing jabs while going backwards. Tyson was swarming. Seldon threw a nice two punch combination as Tyson came in, but he was still trying to shake the nerves. It seemed like he was succeeding as he began to throw some decent jabs and land some body shots on the incoming Tyson.
An unimpressive right cross landed high on Seldon’s head and dropped him right onto his stomach. Referee Richard Steele assumed it was a slip until he saw the condition that Seldon was in. Glossy-eyed, he made it to his feet but the little bit of confidence that he mustered up was eradicated with that right hand. Tyson had been in this position many times before with a stunned opponent standing across the ring from him. Steele asked for Seldon to walk forward and he did but it was clear that his legs weren’t good. He never saw that punch and Tyson was not the type of fighter to let you off of the hook.
A trademark Tyson left hook would land moments later and drop Seldon for the final time. He made it to his feet, but when he tried to shake the cobwebs, he fell backwards into the turnbuckle, prompting Steele to call the fight at 1:49 of the first round. Tyson picked up the WBA Crown to add to his WBC Title that he possessed. Chants of “fix” were heard from the audience as the fight was waved off and the bad press that followed Seldon throughout his career would start up again with a vengeance. This was a night that he would not easily live down.
After the fight, Seldon placed his arm around Mike and sang his praises, being a good sport, but obviously happy too that the fight was over with. Seldon was not the first man to lose the fight before getting into the ring with Iron Mike, but he has been the most harshly criticized for it. The Tyson win was not the biggest story of the night however. This would be the night that Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive by.
Mike and Tupac were actually supposed to meet up at Club 662 where many rappers were supposed to perform. Shakur was hit three times by a gunman in a Cadillac and died six days later. It was a tragic ending to an unsatisfying night of boxing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Tyson would give up his WBC Heavyweight Title instead of defending it against the number 1 contender, Lennox Lewis, and opt to face Evander Holyfield in a WBA Title defense. Holyfield was supposed to be a much easier challenge and another example of the ferocity of Iron Mike. It didn’t turn out that way.
Seldon took a long break from boxing. You get the feeling that no other bout had ever had the mental effect that this one did on Bruce. The media trashed him, he won the “glass jaw award” in several publications in their end of the year awards, and the consensus was that he basically threw the fight. From my perspective, Bruce was no different than Bonecrusher Smith, Alex Stewart, Michael Spinks, or Clifford Etienne. They all let the hype get to them prior to their fights and the end results were self explanatory. Seldon froze under pressure and couldn’t do what he needed to do to win this fight.
Evander Holyfield called Seldon a disgrace, which may just be what he considers any fighter that doesn’t use his head as a battering ram. It was a cheap shot at a man that was already down, and Seldon stayed down until 2004 when he made his comeback to the ring, stringing together a couple wins against very weak opposition and nearly pulled an upset when he knocked down the undefeated prospect, Gerald Nobles, before getting stopped in the 9th round. Tye Fields would stop Seldon in two rounds in a bout where “The Atlantic City Express” entered the ring at 263 pounds.
Seldon has fought twice in 2007, winning both by knockout. He is in shape again and may have gotten over the one fight that has seemingly defined his career to many. I personally think that he was a great fighter with one of the best jabs in heavyweight history and has nothing to be ashamed of. He is not the only man to get stopped by Mike Tyson in one round. There were 21 others.
I recently read an article concerning Bruce Seldon, where he was listed in the top 10 worst heavyweight champions of all time. It’s an unfortunate and incorrect title that they branded him with, but he is one of the few men that can be labeled “heavyweight champion,” and that is something that can never be taken away, although most people will remember him as the man that fell down with ease against Tyson rather than a man that once stood on top of the boxing world.
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How is Coronavirus Affecting Oil Demand?
''Global Oil Demand Shrinks, Hit by Coronavirus, IEA Says
Global oil demand is expected to fall in the first three months of the year—the first quarterly drop in more than a decade—according to a closely watched forecast from the International Energy Agency, which blamed a likely economic slowdown in China related to the novel coronavirus outbreak there.
The IEA also slashed its oil demand growth forecast for 2020 by 365,000 barrels a day, a cut of 30% to its previous forecast made in January. The IEA warned of a drop in oil demand this quarter of 435,000 barrels a day, compared with a year ago. That would represent the first quarterly drop in demand since the height of the financial crisis. Brent crude, the global gauge of oil prices, rose 1% to $56.34 a barrel Thursday but is still 18% below a peak hit early last month. U.S. crude oil added 0.5% to $51.42 a barrel and has also tumbled in recent weeks.
The IEA’s cut to its forecast demand growth was significantly larger than the one announced Wednesday by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which reduced its estimate by 230,000 barrels a day. “The consequences of [the virus] for global oil demand will be significant,” the IEA said in its report. It said “there is already a major slowdown in oil consumption and the wider economy in China.”
The Paris-based energy watchdog said China accounted for more than three-quarters of global oil demand growth in 2019, and its oil demand has more than doubled since the outbreak of the SARS virus in 2003. “There is little doubt that the virus will have a larger impact on the economy and oil demand than did SARS,” the IEA said. Economists have lowered their forecasts for Chinese economic growth since the city of Wuhan was sealed off on Jan. 23, and it became clear that factories and other businesses would suffer a loss of output as officials scrambled to contain the spread of the virus.
Assuming that and other lockdowns are lifted in April, most economists expect the damage to Chinese growth to be limited, with gross domestic product likely to be around 3% to 4% higher than a year earlier in the first three months of the year. Growth had previously been forecast at 5%, although economists expect much of that lost output to be recouped as the year advances, with only a limited impact on the global economy. Releasing new forecasts Thursday, the European Commission said it expects to see “relatively limited global spillovers.”
Weaker forecasts for oil demand come in the wake of double-digit-percentage drops in oil prices so far this year, with the spread of the pathogen forcing border closures, flight cancellations, and other travel restrictions across China.
The IEA reported that Chinese jet-fuel demand will fall 14% below last month’s forecast for 2020’s first quarter, while the country’s diesel and gasoline demand figures would fall 12% and 13% below last month’s forecasts, respectively. Reduced demand as a result of the coronavirus will also sting global refiners, the agency said, reducing its global refinery runs forecast for 2020 to 700,000 barrels a day. New bunker fuel regulations stipulated by the International Maritime Organization boosted sweet crude refinery margins, though.
Had the coronavirus not hit global demand, OPEC might have succeeded in balancing the oil market this year, the IEA said. The bloc’s cuts, now in their fourth year, were implemented to counteract rising non-OPEC production growth which the IEA says is now tailing off. The IEA held its 2020 non-OPEC production growth forecast at 2.1 million barrels a day and while U.S. growth will slow, that drop off will be partly mitigated by Norway, Brazil, Canada and Guyana.''
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During the ’80s and ’90s, large firms took advantage of the availability of specialized consulting firms and outsourced many of their internal IT functions, allowing their internal staffs to focus on their primary product deliverables.
Now, as these specialized consulting services have become more affordable and available, outsourcing of IT and business process functions is heating up in the small- and mid-sized business (SMB) space. In fact, according to International Data Corp. (IDC), the U.S. outsourcing market will increase by 6.6 percent to $268.7 billion in 2005 and ultimately reach $355 billion by 2009 — driven in part by an increase in spending by SMBs, which accounted for 23 percent of spending in 2004 and are expected to account for 27 percent by 2009.
In order to realize the full advantage of outsourcing and maximize their return on investment, SMBs should take a hard look at their organization and define what type of outsourcing model would be the most viable alternative for their particular business situation — Personnel, Function or Project.
1. Personnel: Personnel Outsourcing is the most basic form of outsourcing. It’s essentially the use of consulting personnel to perform a variety of tasks without the burden of additional full time equivalent headcount (FTEs). This is similar to simple staff augmentation; however, an onsite lead or account manager independently manages the outsourced personnel, and deliverables are provided based on the changing needs of the organization. In other words, if what you need is a stable of self-managed IT professionals of varying skill sets to tap as necessary — for example when you need additional help to backfill on basic duties during a project rollout — the flexibility of personnel outsourcing makes it a viable option.
2. Function: The Function Outsourcing model allows an organization to break off a particular IT task and move it to an outsourcing provider similar to what many companies have been doing with payroll for years. This model works best for compartmentalized responsibilities that can be grouped individually and require little collaboration with other internal functions. Popular functions to outsource are support related, such as help desk support, desk side services and server maintenance. For example, employee-based service requests are dispatched to the outsourced team to handle the problem, freeing your internal IT staff to focus on more critical company issues.
Other common areas are procurement, warranty and maintenance; almost any task that doesn’t integrate heavily with the internal structure of your IT department. Outsourcing a particular function may carry a higher price tag in terms of hourly bill rates, but savings are generally realized because the task is completed more efficiently; service level agreements can be assured; in-house staff and supervisors are freed to focus on core responsibilities; and the soft costs such as retention/hiring and benefits that you’d need to pay a full-time employee are eliminated.
3. Project: Project Outsourcing is the easiest model to define. Simply put, any engagement that has a defined deliverable and a set start and end point is a project that can be outsourced. Most are typically one-time engagements that encompass skill sets your department may be lacking, or that you simply don’t have the manpower to accomplish while still handling core responsibilities. A good example is a standard desktop upgrade; completing the task creates a temporary spike in demand for your IT department, but hiring additional full-time staff doesn’t make fiscal sense. Implementing the Project Outsourcing model gets the job done quickly and eliminates any ongoing costs you’d incur if you had to hire additional full time staff.
Once you understand the three outsourcing models, there are other factors that must be considered before deciding which — if any — is the best fit for your company:
Once you’ve made the determination that utilizing an IT outsourcing solution is the best thing for your SMB, you need to identify the right outsourcing partner. Look for a firm with a history of providing the particular solution you need. Youre looking for a team that can do the job as well or better than you could yourself; there is no reason for them to learn on your nickel. Also, make sure they take a consultative approach toward designing a solution and that the model ultimately implemented truly is the best for your company.
Size is another consideration; a smaller firm may offer greater attention to its clients and typically carries a smaller price tag, but a bigger firm has access to a larger pool of experts, has a larger geographic footprint, and is more likely to be financially stable.
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Being a medical doctor comes with a huge responsibility. You will not only have the responsibility of treating people you haven’t met in your life, saving lives in emergency cases, but handle numerous pressures. What about the harassment from families of the deceased who get the sad news of their relative’s demise from the doctor? Such cases happen a lot across the country. But after these experiences and the stress of going through medical school, most people believe doctors are being overpaid. So here’s the question we will be looking at in this post;
Why are doctors paid so much?
The answer to this question is dicey. That’s because doctors don’t earn more than most professions. One also needs to be a consultant to make a relatively high salary. Having MBBS or post-graduation from a quack institution won’t hike up your pay. However, doctors’ high salary is justifiable. They spend almost 11 years or more of their life studying to better lives. And throughout their time studying, they aren’t paid a dime. So, the amount of hard work and training they go through to be accurate in the discharge of their duties contribute to justifying their high salary. But truth be told, most doctors in some countries earn less than their counterparts in other countries.
Continue reading for more information on the topic regarding doctors’ salaries!
Why Doctors Should Receive Higher Salaries
You may have stumbled upon such arguments one or more times. The truth is most people that argue don’t about doctors’ high pay don’t know what becoming a doctor entails.
At the beginning of this post, I spoke about the enormous responsibilities doctors carry on their shoulders week in, week out. Most doctors even work overtime without being compensated. Let’s not forget that doctors are humans and have financial responsibilities, too.
There is this notion relatives have about their sibling once that person becomes a medical doctor. In the eyes of most of these relatives, once you become a medical doctor, you are made for life!
The thing is not all doctors go home with fat salaries. Most of them don’t. The only prestige they have is the name. Medical doctors are also respected by members of the society a lot. It’s a noble profession, and such is expected anyway.
So, back to the big question, are doctors’ hefty salaries justifiable? Well, let’s assume they receive much. Let’s assume all doctors are receiving fat salaries. The answer to the question would be, yes! It wouldn’t be a bad idea to see doctors the world over being paid fat salaries. They are worth it.
Doctors add value to human lives. Thanks to them, the majority of us are alive today. If not for their knowledge and dedication, most of us would have been snatched away from this earth by certain diseases.
Another thing that justifies their high salary is the number of years they spend studying. Let’s not even mention the numerous examinations they have to write and the high standards of these exams.
A medical doctor could spend more than 15 years of his or her life studying for one purpose. I know many would claim that the goal is to make money. But once you venture into the profession, your utmost priority would be to save lives.
You also need to be in the best frame of mind as a medical doctor when attending to your patients. There’s no room for error. I know doctors are humans, which makes them prone to mistakes. But it is expected that surgical operations or treatments by a doctor should always be error-free. Otherwise, one could lose his or her license to practice medicine.
The thing is doctors add value to life. Life is a precious and valuable gift. Thus, since their responsibility is to protect lives, doctors need to be taken seriously.
I could make references to one or two professions that are paying well. Professionals in such fields even earn higher salaries than most doctors do. Examples include data scientists, petroleum engineers, or even air traffic controllers.
Becoming A Medical Doctor: Steps One Needs To Take
Before we dive further into the hefty pay doctors receive, let’s look at how strenuous and demanding the journey to becoming a doctor is. It’s the same everywhere. What I meant is wannabe doctors in other countries go through the same heat or face a more arduous journey than medical students in the United States do.
A look at the various steps will tell you how time-consuming, energy-sapping, and financially draining the journey to becoming a medical doctor is.
Let’s start with the first step. To become a medical doctor, most schools require interested students to have completed a bachelor’s degree. However, one can choose from a wide variety of majors for the undergraduate program. Nevertheless, it is best to ensure that the course load consists of a sizeable amount of science subjects. This section takes four years to complete.
The next step is to sit for the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test). It is a compulsory test for all students interested in gaining admission to medical school. The aim of the trial, which is a multiple-choice examination, is to enable the admission committee to figure out if an applicant will be able to succeed in medical school.
After passing your MCAT, next would be to apply to medical school. At this stage, students have the liberty to pick their school of choice. Medical school takes four years to complete. Here, students are rotated between the classroom and clinic, where they get to learn both theoretical and practical aspects of the field to gain on-the-job skills.
However, students don’t graduate from medical school just like that. One has to sit for numerous examinations considered dreadful. In the United States, the examination is called the USLME. The full meaning is; United States Medical License Examination. This examination is also in three parts. The first two parts are written while one is still in medical school.
Another step is for a medical student to progress from medical school to residency program. Based on one’s course of study, the residency program could take between 3 – 8 years. And upon completion of the program, a student needs to sit for the third (final part) of the USLME (United States Medical License Examination).
It’s not easy to pass the USLME. What makes it worse is that most states have a limit a student can attempt to pass this exam. Once you pass this examination, then you can obtain a license to practice as a medical doctor.
So, you can see the rigorous training doctors go through. It takes sacrifices, finances, and focus on becoming a doctor. It would appear as a surprise to you that not everyone that started the journey in medical school finishes.
How Long It Would Take For An Individual To Become A Medical Doctor
Becoming a medical doctor takes quite a long time. It’s one of the few professions whose training takes much time. After completing a bachelor’s degree for four years, one needs to attend medical school for another four years.
After completing the medical school, next is residency, which could take between 3 – 8 years. You could even find most students staying longer because they couldn’t pass their USMLE at once. Most states allow medical students to sit for this professional examination for countless times. But in some states, there’s a limit to the number of times students can retake this professional examination.
How Much Are Medical Doctors Paid?
Now let’s talk figures. We have been discussing the workload and stress the journey to becoming a medical doctor, and working as one, entails.
According to the highly respected Bureau of Labor Statistics, medical doctors are among the highest paying profession in the country. The profession accounts for at least 45 percent of the 20 top paying professions in the United States of America.
Also, know that most physicians and surgeons earn huge salaries. The majority of them earn over $400,000. Nevertheless, several factors help to determine the earning potentials of medical doctors. These include the education the individual has, location, and specialization.
If you are one of those asking, “Why are doctors paid so much,” you need to understand that being a medical doctor is no joke. Imagine spending 15-20 years of your life training for a career, and after obtaining your certificate and securing a job, you are being paid peanuts as salaries. Then there’s the pressure that comes with being a medical doctor. You will even find some putting in extra hours of work most of the time. So, the high pay that doctors receive is justifiable. I think that they should even be earning more money.
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The America that Robert Rauschenberg encountered in 1953 was a country in the midst of epic changes — in everything from the arts to technology to politics. Color TVs were sold for the first time that year. Playboy debuted. A U.S. test pilot flew at twice the speed of sound. And Americans had just elected as president Dwight Eisenhower, an Army general with no political experience who would become the first president to ride in a helicopter — and who’d say in his 1953 inaugural address, “We have passed through the anxieties of depression and of war to a summit unmatched in man’s history.”
At the art world’s summit stood abstract expressionists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. Rauschenberg, who turned 28 that year, wanted to upend that state of affairs. He wanted to participate in abstraction but also marry it to elements beyond the museum’s walls — to create works that, as he put it, mirrored “the gap between art and life.” That gap is embodied in two pieces that Rauschenberg made in 1953: Erased de Kooning Drawing and Automobile Tire Print, which anchor one corner of the new SFMOMA exhibit “Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules.”
For Erased de Kooning Drawing, Rauschenberg had the temerity to ask de Kooning for a work whose outlines he could eliminate — and de Kooning complied. The result is a framed parchment with a title but no discernible images. It’s art that, in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp, asks art-goers to question the very idea of art. De Kooning recognized the value of Rauschenberg’s ask — and tested Rauschenberg’s ability to pull it off.
“Bill de Kooning understood it — he got it — but he said, ‘I’m going to make it as difficult as I can,’ ” Gary Garrels, SFMOMA’s senior curator of painting and sculpture, said on a press tour of the exhibit as he stood in front of Erased de Kooning Drawing alongside Sarah Roberts, an associate curator at SFMOMA who is project director of the museum’s Rauschenberg Research Project. “He got him a really richly worked, fully developed drawing. It wasn’t like some toss-away sketch. It was a full-on great de Kooning drawing. Bob used a lot [of erasers].” Garrels continues.
Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg’s romantic partner, stenciled the artwork’s title in 1955, when it was first exhibited at a small gallery before being exhibited more widely in 1964. SFMOMA owns the piece, which Roberts calls a progenitor of the Conceptual Art movement that emerged in the 1960s. With Erased de Kooning Drawing, Rauschenberg created an influential work that will always have importance in the art world.
“I think,” Garrels says, “this is the work in the museum’s collection that is the most requested for loans.”
Automobile Tire Print has that same groundbreaking foundation. Rauschenberg asked his friend, the minimalist composer John Cage, to drive his Model A Ford across paint in the street, then over 20 sheets of white paper. The result: a horizon of grids that, from a distance, could pass for abstract art that is brush-stroked and plotted. Hanging on a wall, the work becomes, like Erased de Kooning Drawing, a kind of performance piece, where Rauschenberg can engage with art-goers without being there himself.
Cage and Rauschenberg were friends who shared a belief that art should challenge, inspire, and provoke — as Cage did in 1952 with 4’33’’, a composition that has musicians play nothing for four-plus minutes, rendering the audience’s sounds (whether coughing, sniffling, or just silence) the piece’s “music.” Rauschenberg’s 1951 White Paintings — completely white, as if they were untouched — inspired Cage’s 4’33’’. One White Paintings iteration is in the exhibit.
If Erased de Kooning Drawing and White Paintings are Rauschenberg at his minimal best, Monogram (1955-1959) and Persimmon (1964) are Rauschenberg at his most expansive, where torrents of figures crowd into the same frame and create colorful collage-ish connections that exalt (and play with) the senses. Monogram is centered around a taxidermied goat. Rauschenberg encircled the animal with a tire whose tread he painted white. And he turned the goat’s nose into an artist’s palette — as if the domesticated creature were some kind of odd, animal-kingdom muse or oracle.
The goat stands on a floor of slats painted with half-letters, along with splashes and smears of black, white, and other colors. And on the floor’s right side is a small astronaut with arms bent at the waist, looking directly at art-goers. Monogram, named after the way the goat and tire intermingle to form a new symbol, isn’t quite a sculpture. And it’s certainly not just a painting. “Combines” are what Rauschenberg called these new pieces that he did into the mid-’60s. In its time, Monogram was rebellious, strange, funny, and open to interpretation. More than 50 years later, it still is. Rauschenberg, who died in 2008, wanted it that way.
“Adding the tire is the transformative act, and there’s been a lot of speculation about what the possible meanings could be of the goat having come through the tire,” Garrels says. “In the early 1980s, when Bob had started doing photography again — he had a show in Boston, and I was living and working there and writing occasional reviews for a little regional newspaper — I got to interview Bob and I tried to ask him about meanings of images and photographs and why things were put together, and he just relentlessly would not talk about it. He really felt that he was creating something for you to have your own imagination fired — to create your own speculations. It wasn’t to give you the answers that he had somehow distilled.”
Persimmon was part of Rauschenberg’s early-1960s’ silkscreen paintings that, as Stanford scholar Richard Meyer notes in an exhibit catalogue essay, were an outgrowth of Rauschenberg’s new quest: Transform the Combines’ multi-dimensionality onto a flat surface, where the odd connections and juxtapositions could still exist in full. Rauschenberg mixed his own photography with historic and everyday imagery, so Persimmon features a giant eyeball, a glass of water, a street scene, a cutout from Peter Paul Rubens’ 17th-century Venus at a Mirror, and splashes of paint here and there. It’s the old and the new bumping into each other, in a silk-screen process that Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol adopted around the exact same time — yet another example of Rauschenberg’s originality. Before Rauschenberg and Warhol, silkscreen painting with photography didn’t really exist in the fine art world, so Persimmon — like Warhol’s Triple Elvis [Ferus type], which SFMOMA has on its fifth floor — is both timeless art and art history.
“Erasing the Rules” features some of the technology pieces that also cemented Rauschenberg’s reputation for innovation and rule-breaking. Mud Muse (1968-1971) is a noisy, gurgling mass of clay and water on a 10-foot bed of glass and aluminum that’s activated through a compressed-air system — a strange, volcanic art piece with NASA-like console that looks like it’s from the set of Lost in Space. A few years before starting Mud Muse,
Rauschenberg cofounded the organization Experiments in Art and Technology, which paired artists with engineers and grew to some 5,000 members.
Rauschenberg was a restless collaborator who designed sets for dancer Merce Cunningham and did a collaged LP cover for Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues, for which he won a Grammy Award. “Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules” had earlier runs at London’s Tate Modern and New York’s MoMA, which co-organized the exhibit in association with SFMOMA. SFMOMA was like a second home for Rauschenberg because of its interest in his work and because of Phyllis Wattis, a trustee and patron who arranged for purchases of Rauschenberg’s output, including Erased de Kooning Drawing and Automobile Tire Print.
Rauschenberg and Wattis became friends, and in 1999, he was inspired to give SFMOMA an art piece called Hiccups — a work of 97 small panels of handmade paper connected by zippers. Each panel is its own distinct collage of images, among them a repeated planet, houses overlaid with lines, a turtle, a test-crash car, and a field of yellow flowers. The zippers mean that SFMOMA can rework the 1978 artwork however it wants — creating what associate curator Sarah Roberts calls a “life of its own” and a “different character.” The work, in other words, has no rules. It will always be new — always involve input from the museum’s curators, who can keep art-goers guessing what the next iteration will be.
Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules, through March 25 at SFMOMA, 151 Third St., $19-$25; 415-357-4000 or sfmoma.org
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In the late nineteen sixties, a group of Swedish artists working as 'The Language Group' of a recently re-organized chamber music society, known as Fylkingen along with members from the Literary Unit of the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, began producing a new kind of literary work for the tape recorder. It was a form of language art realized solely for the audio domain -- either projected from a loudspeaker, from the radio or in some similar sonic performance venue. In the early nineteen sixties, Fylkingen began to introduce Sweden to all kinds of artistic experimentation contemporary to the times such as concrete poetry, FLUXUS, electro-acoustic music, what eventually became known as performance art, and ways of working which were called 'borderline transgressors' since they were not easily categorized as being in any one particular field of art. After returning from a meeting of contemporary radio producers in Holland in 1967, two members of the Fylkingen group, Bengt Emil Johnson and Lars-Gunnar Bodin, coined a term to both separate what they were doing from some of the similar material which they had been hearing, as well as to give their material a descriptive flourish and cohesive identity. Their term was text-ljudkomposition, or text-sound composition
In 1968, Fylkingen organized a three-day event which they called the International Festival of Text-Sound Composition. François Dufrêne and Bernard Heidsieck from France and Bob Cobbing from England were invited to come to Stockholm to use the recording and electronic music facilities along with the Swedish practitioners, to produced new pieces, as well as to perform and discuss their works. These individuals had been using the tape recorder, since the fifties, to produce works for the spoken voice. The Text-Sound Festival was expanded and held for at least a dozen more times in various places in the world. However by 1975, it had changed its name to the International Festival of Sound Poetry, with the term sound poetry being much more widely known and to include an acoustic, 'unplugged' version of the art.
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Besides temporal and sequenced-based distortion effects, tape allowed the individual speaker to have a dialogue with multiple copies of their own voice. A unique timbre which does not exist between different individuals in a group could be explored among several simultaneous narrative flows. Dialogs between the flows ranging from one layer accenting or underscoring the effects of another, to a 'call and response' kind of structure, on up to a fully responsive, conversation between the layers, could be produced. Such layers or narrative flows could also be presented as continuous or discontinuous derivatives of the flows adjacent to them. The parsing out and recognition of a specific, single narrative line could be arbitrary, though its perception as a sub-entity within the piece could be enhanced if there were something unique or 'strange' exhibited in terms of its acoustical characteristics.
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The first impulse towards the use of a new media, is to present 'old wine in new bottles' -- the forms and models for its manifestation are just copied from the previous media's art. In the case of recording technology, it allowed the voice of a poet or a writer to be distributed over the airwaves or through the sales of recordings, with the same kind of gestures that are used in private and public poetry readings and book sales. Considering that the promotion and wide scale acceptance of any new innovation in media is largely controlled by economic/political concerns, only a partition (the size of which is dependent upon the stability of the supporting economic/political system) is available for experimental or progressive work, since the rest is required to support the system that created it. Often, a gap has to be pried open and maintained for any new form of expression to survive. This partition is generally marginalized and ghettoized, so that only those elements which support the overall stability of the system are co-opted from it.
By existing on the borderlines and within that compartmentalized space grudgingly allocated to it, text-sound composition is outside of the 'accepted' forms of communications. Its isolation reminds us of other experiments both present and past and harks back to the discarded form of what we imagine to be as preliterate, oral traditional poetry. If one could compress the simultaneous narrative flows of a text-sound piece and represent it as a semantic and serial voice, a singular kind of articulatory line would result -- one which would traverse an area of description in one direction and eventually snap back to its originating point of declaration and then begin another digression, to repeat the process until exhaustion. It is the kind of narrative reminiscent of someone attempting to recount some event that they barely remember -- they will go over pieces of the event several times, focusing on some different aspect with each reiteration.
As one peels back the onion skin abstractions of media technology, voice as sound is revealed as the forgotten memory of a culture steeped in vision. If recollection is too vague (which it is fated to be), the snap-backs and digressions are only partially implied, then the line-of-sight connective tissue between logical movement deteriorates. A fragmentary and 'noisy' structure is strung together in an arbitrary serial fashion -- a genetic code gone nuts, composed of repetitive and episodic anecdotes, where a particular sign might be reversed, exchanged, or confused with another. We are forever lost in a maze of signs which erases our remembrance of the actual event.
This is a characteristic we often observe in the recounting of a myth. There is no linear beginning, middle, and end. Rather the story exists at the interface between the receding, imagined past and an ever-changing, incomprehensible present -- its historicity can now only exist as the mirror of the present. It is a form of narrative which hypertext is attempting to inherit as it replaces print culture-- a rhizomic structure in which linear hierarchy implodes upon itself to become the point from which all logical movement is directed by frenzied spurts that constantly disassembles and reassembles partial and random inventories. It is narrative as genealogy.
to Switch, Vol. 4 Table of Contents
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The purpose of a sworn proof of loss is to document the amount claimed is accurate and a genuine loss. If it later turns out the claim was inflated or fraudulent, the sworn statement can be used by a prosecutor for insurance fraud in a criminal case or denial of the claim for insurance for fraud in Oklahoma.
According to Oklahoma insurance law attorneys, there is a wide and varied practice in the insurance industry concerning the requirement for a signed, sworn proof of loss before payment of an insurance claim. Some insurers insist on a signed proof of loss and others could care less.
Oklahoma law provides an insurer cannot assert the failure of the insured to tender a proof of loss as a defense to payment of the homeowners’ claim unless the insurance company has furnished the policy holder with two blank proof of loss forms and warned the insured that the proof of loss must be tendered to the insurer within 60 days from the date of receipt of the blank forms. An insurer adjusting a loss under a fire policy can waive the requirement for a signed proof of loss if it doesn’t make demand within a suitable time.
Insurers sometimes overlook the requirement to submit two blank proof of loss forms. Many Oklahoma insurance defense lawyers are critical of the requirement. The reason for providing two forms appears to be a carryover from many years ago when scanners, copiers, and other means of reproduction were not as common and convenient. The second blank form was so the insured would have a copy for their own records. Insurance attorneys in Oklahoma see the requirement for submission of duplicate blank forms as a requirement that no longer meets any real need of the insured.
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Índice / Contents
Well … encaustic and solvent are words that should not go in the same sentence …
The use of solvent, or not, in encaustic painting is a question that arises to many artists. There is much confusion about the different types of encaustic painting that we will try to clarify:
Painting techniques using beeswax:
Encaustic: The simplest technique to paint with beeswax is encaustic. No solvents are used as only heat is used to melt the paint.
Cold wax (or cold encaustic): The technique of painting with beeswax that uses solvents to melt the paint. No heat is necessary. As it is not heated, it should therefore not be called encaustic (which means “burn in” in Greek “). In English properly named is Cold wax painting.
The water-soluble wax: This is a wax soap that can be diluted with water.
Instead of encaustic and solvent, better, cold wax and solvent
If for whatever reason you decided to paint with Cold Wax, you have to use solvent to make the Cold Wax Medium or Cold paste.
In today’s post we will try to give some basic ideas of how to choose and use the solvent. If possible, without the need for a master in organic chemistry …
Choosing solvent in 3 tips
Avoid using complex solvents that are defined by the word “universal” they are very complex mixes and include all kinds of substances. The simpler, the better. To know the composition, you can look at the safety data sheet and see if it includes more than one substance, checking the famous CAS number. If you have more than one CAS number is that it is a mixture..
In the case of solvents you will always find: flammable, harmful, irritant etc … if you use solvents this is the price you have to pay…
However You should check and avoid if very toxic (skull) or very harmful to health (a torso with a white star-shaped mark) appear.
Below you’ll find pictograms that may appear. There are two versions, red is the new and orange is the old. You will find the equivalences in the figures below.
It is always a risk to have it stored and in the end have to throw it away. warning! you can never throw solvents down the drain, since they are also very toxic to the environment.
Using solvent in 6 tips
Sometimes we forget the contact risk since it does not have immediate effects. Just think that drugs like Vicks VapoRub or Reflex contain as active ingredient turpentine for example (at minimum concentration) and its use is topical. There must be a reason…
It is convenient always wear glasses and do not let bare skin. If clothing becomes contaminated clothing should be removed immediately and wash skin with plenty of water. Wear gloves.
Toxicity of solvents
All solvents are toxic, irritant and harmful for people and for the environment. Solvents contain volatile organic compounds (VOC). These substances evaporate easily, are flammable and can dissolve fats (those from the skin for instance). The risk of exposure during use is therefore very high.
Toxicity can be acute or chronic (immediate effects) or (long term effects), most often the effects are of the two types.
Some solvents can trigger allergies (derived from turpentine for example). Some solvents may cause cancer (benzene, formaldehyde) and/ or serious problems in the endocrine system and reproductive systems.
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Calling for innovation with Call for Code
As the impact from the pandemic kept students indoors, Rani GS felt that there was a very real need for teachers to be able to reach their students – not just in the cities, but in places beyond.
Vinoth Kumar Krishnan Vijayakumar, on the other hand, felt that existing medical devices could be used to reduce the time taken to ascertain the possibility that someone is Covid-19 positive.
These, and many more relevant ideas were formed when Infosys joined hands with IBM for Call for Code, a hackathon aimed at solving very real and pressing issues.
The reason to do this is simple, says Priya Mallya, Country Leader, Developer Ecosystem Group for ISA, IBM India Software Labs.
“It's all about we all wanting to make a change. And that one weapon that we as developers have is of code,” she says, while also adding that satisfaction for engineers comes when they’re able to use of the weapon for a good cause.
Quite visibly so, not only the ability to make use of technology to solve a problem but seeking opportunities for the future is also essential.
“We wanted to build a completely open source-based solution, which would make use of modern technologies like chat bot, AR, VR, gamification, etc,” Rani GS Tweet
For instance, when Rani saw that remote education was one of the use cases for the hackathon, she and her team immediately started working on building a solution to explore the opportunities in the remote education sector, especially during the Pandemic.
“We wanted to build a completely open source-based solution, which would make use of modern technologies like chat bot, AR, VR, gamification, etc.,” she says, adding, “Giving educators a set of open source tools, backed by IBM Cloud and Watson services would help them to make their content more easily available to the students.”
Coding for Good
Call for Code, says Mallya, is the largest tech for good challenge of its kind. “In short, or in very simple words, it's a coding hack,” she says.
“It invites developers all over the world, anybody who can think of an idea and who can write some code, to come and create practical, very effective, and high-quality applications,” she adds. Indeed, the focus was clear.
“Infosys team focused on COVID-19, and worked on three themes - collaboration, communication and education,” says Saroj Senapathy, Unit Client Solution Head, Modernization Practice, Infosys, adding that the teams also got an opportunity to learn new tools and technologies.
“It invites developers all over the world, anybody who can think of an idea and who can write some code, to come and create practical, very effective, and high-quality applications,” Priya Mallya, Country Leader, Developer Ecosystem Group for ISA, IBM India Software Labs Tweet
For Vijayakumar, who was seeking a diagnostic solution, reducing the time for tests was paramount, for which he felt using radiation devices such as X-Ray, or CT scanners could be used.
Open to opportunities
Mallya also felt that some of the solutions were not only built keeping in mind the specific hack but went a step ahead and find possible opportunities of monetization, or alignment to business opportunities.
Rajib Deb, Head of Architechture – Modernization Practice, Infosys, and his team worked on a solution that is extensible and can be used not just for COVID-19, but for any such pandemic in the future.
“So, the architecture has been designed in such a way that it can adapt to the future needs of data collection, data analysis, and information dissemination for any such future pandemic,” says Deb.
What also helped was a beginner’s mindset, notes Mallya.
“Not just understanding the problem statement, but also exploring the technology areas that were required to solve that problem,” she says.
“This is the beauty of a hackathon like this, where you get to interact with many people, both from Infosys and partner organization… So the learning is accelerated through a crowdsourcing of knowledge,” Rajib Deb, Head of Architechture – Modernization Practice, Infosys Tweet
There were tools such as IBM’s Watson Assistant, Blockchain, Visual recognition, and Video Transcriber, among others, that the participants used to build their solutions.
Learning at the core
Learning was at the core of the process, according to Senapathy.
“Participants got an opportunity to learn new tools and apply them in a live project, while being guided by master hacks who were supporting them throughout the program,” he says.
The participants too appreciate this guidance.
While Rani feels that the teams managed to find solutions within the short time frame only because of the consistent guidance, and Vijayakumara credits the hackathon as a means for personal growth.
Deb calls it an excellent learning experience.
“This is the beauty of a hackathon like this, where you get to interact with many people, both from Infosys and partner organizations… So, the learning is accelerated through a crowdsourcing of knowledge,” he says.
For Mallya, coding is akin to falling in love with problem solving, and hackathons like Call for Code are a part of an ongoing conversation.
“I hope the conversation has just begun. And we take forward these conversations into building wonderful and creative communities for a better technology ecosystem for the future,” says Mallya.
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Before setting off to negotiate what was to become the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the founder of the Red Army Leon Trotsky promised to use the negotiations to put the entire conduct of the War on trial:
“Sitting at one table with [the representatives of our adversaries] we shall ask them explicit questions which do not allow of any evasion, and the entire course of negotiations, every word that they or we utter, will be taken down and reported by radio telegraph to all peoples who will be the judges of our discussions. Under the influence of the masses, the German and Austrian governments have already agreed to put themselves in the dock. You may be sure, comrades, that the prosecutor, in the person of the Russian revolutionary delegation, will be in its place and will in due time make a thundering speech for the prosecution about the diplomacy of all imperialists.”
The military imbalance between a Russia desperate for peace and a German army still 12 months from disintegration dictated that Trotsky was not able to carry through, except briefly, on this promise. But he had his moments. At one stage, his antagonist General Hoffmann denounced the Bolsheviks because their government was supported by force. Trotsky replied:
The general was quite right when he said that our government rests on force. Up to the present moment there has been no government dispensing with force. It will always be so as long as society is composed of hostile classes … What in our conduct strikes and antagonises other governments is the fact that instead of arresting strikers we arrest capitalists who organise lockouts; instead of shooting the peasants who demand land, we arrest and we shoot the landlords and the officers who try to fire upon the peasants …
If you have not yet watched the meeting between the Greek minister of finance Varoufakis and his German counterpart Schäuble, I would urge you to do so, for their encounter reflects two ways of thinking no less implacably at odds than the encounter of Hoffman with the Bolsheviks.
Much has been made of Varoufakis’ untactful remark that Germany, by imposing poverty on Greece, was opening a path to the re-emergence of the neo-Nazis of Golden Dawn. But it is Schäuble who, on this occasion, interests me more.
Do not think that only Varoufakis uses his clothes to express an ideology. Wolfgang Schäuble, who normally dresses in a more authoritarian dark grey bordering on black, wore on this occasion a lighter grey suit which to anyone used to watching London politicians would appear loosely-fitting and cheaply-tailored. Far from wanting to come over as the official representative of one of the largest national economies on earth, everything about his demeanour conveyed a provincial bank manager on temporary secondment to head office.
His message was deliberately pedestrian; Greece has made progress in recent years in so far as its economy has shrunk, its state’s expenditure has declined and its operating costs were reduced. “Problems in Greece have not been solved but significant progress has been made in implementing the programme … Greece has achieved a primary budget surplus”.
The problems which Varoufakis determined to present as political, and therefore capable of discussion and potentially resolution, Schäuble described as problems of accountancy: Greek was in debt, that debt had to be paid. In so far as it proposes to spend more the Syriza government is in an error as basic as that of the schoolchild who adds up their seven times table wrongly in their head.
Of course, in order to convince yourself and to tell the world that an economic problem avails of only a single solution you have to be the servant of an ideology, and in Schäuble’s case it is the conviction that debt is only ever the product of recklessness by a debtor, and that all debts have to be repaid in full, even if (by this stage) the debts involve Greek citizens paying German banks at artificial rates appropriate to an economy which was then twenty-five percent larger than it is now. One of Varoufakis’ favourite approaches is to accept the analogy neo-liberals always draw between national and household economics. But for over a century, he responds, we would have allowed citizens to declare themselves insolvent, clear their debts and begin anew. What other than deliberate blindness prevents us from applying the same logic to an indebted national economy?
Deeper than this initial conflict, there is a much more profound clash about what economies are for – serving banks and companies, or people?
The logic of their clash shapes the areas into which the two economics ministers were constantly seeking to turn the discussion: for Varoufakis, the Greek debt was something that required an answer now, where the will of the people was sovereign, for Schäuble, no matter how people vote there is never an alternative to the rule of the investors. Let Greece starve a little, he sent the message back, and surely her people would come round.
For more than thirty years, we have let the Schäubles of the world rule, and it is not only Greece which has been impoverished: we can see their hand in the ever shrinking portion of the American and European economies that goes to wages, and the ever increasing portion of wealth taken by the 1%.
At Brest-Litovsk, of course, the Bolsheviks had to concede a humiliating peace, once almost worse than a continuation of the war, and yet within a further 12 months, their government had been entrenched, and it was the Hoffmans who had been consigned to history.
So it might still be – if in Spain, Podemos wins the election, if the struggle depends in Greece and if those resisting austerity in Greece can find solidarity in London and Berlin. If we are going to be free to breathe, the Europe of the future must first overcome the rule of the accountants.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a lot of tragedy in the lives of the front-line workers and the public. Since we now have effective vaccines against the virus, one of the best solutions to the pandemic is to implement nationwide vaccination campaigns. In a democratic and overpopulated country like India, conducting a vaccination campaign is not easy. The best way to solve this challenge is to use the latest cloud call center software and cloud telephony solutions. Some ways to make it efficient are:
The initial stage is to bring awareness among the public regarding COVID-19, the type of vaccinations available for different age groups, and explain how the vaccination works to prevent the COVID-19 using the cloud call center solution.
Using cloud telephony solutions, a recorded custom message can be played before the connection of the call, explaining the importance of vaccines and other necessary information to convince the listener to get the shot.
Also, vaccines must be made free of cost to make them accessible to all communities across the nation. It is only then that the vaccination campaign will be successful.
An automated IVR cloud telephony system can be used for booking the vaccination slot across the nation, which can save cost and time for all the people. The booking can be done by dialing a number and selecting the date, time slot, and location.
An automated message can be sent to whoever has booked the vaccination slots.
Not everyone may need the same type of cloud-based IVR solution; therefore, Knowlarity has the facility to customize the cloud call center software and cloud telephony solutions depending on the subject so as to accommodate a perfect plan for the slot that they need.
Call Masking or Number Masking is an advanced data protection measure to mask the caller’s personal details and provide some privacy for the agent without disclosing the phone numbers. This paves the way for ensuring trust and data security among people seeking vaccination when sending bulk messages or cloud telephony solutions.
A custom message can be sent to any specific category of people to bring them to get vaccinated.
If integrated with the electronic medical records of the patients, their latest health reports that they have taken up during the vaccination drive can be shared with the vaccine administrators.
One of the most needed features is the notification and alerts to remind the users to take up vaccination and provide regular alerts through call or SMS to book slots. Once vaccinated, the vaccination completed alert should also be sent. The alert can be a customized message sent to the registered mobile number of the user.
Cloud telephony solution with the cloud call center software would possess the overall data for the IVR calls. Reminder calls for taking up the vaccination can also be triggered using this cloud telephony solution would be the best way to remind the customers to get the vaccination without missing it.
One of the important steps to show our care to the customers is following up with a person after their vaccination.
Getting feedback from the customers is effortless as calls are recorded for the activities that are performed. Each customer can give us feedback and ratings in the same call when the issue is fixed by our cloud-based IVR solutions.
Post-vaccination certifications or reports can be stored in cloud call center software. It can be sent to the customers in a customized message to download with a click.
Vaccinating the world’s largest democracy is difficult, but using the cloud call center software and cloud telephony solutions would empower both the government and the public.
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Presented by:Brianna Heggeseth & Richard De Veaux, Williams College
AbstractIn the current Data Revolution, learning to think about and with data, as well as communicate results has become an important aspect of critical thinking and problem solving. Whether or not they end up with the job title of Data Scientist, our students will use data to address a problem at some point in their lives. Most, however, will only take one course in statistics so we as statistics educators need to make the most of our one opportunity. We describe our attempt at making the Intro Stats course more relevant for our data-driven students by changing what concepts we teach by tackling more multivariate questions, how we teach them with relevant technology, and when we teach them to make sure students are thinking with data from day one.
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“Storytelling is an ancient and sacred act that cultures around the world have been doing for hundreds and thousands of years. In this time of rapid technology and quick sound bites, it is more important than ever to come together as a community to hear the wisdom that the old stories have to share.” – Brian Rohr
Each month, from August to December, Mythteller Brian Rohr will bring forward a sacred storytelling performance utilizing the drum and the spoken word. Each performance in this series offers a different theme to help us connect to the deeper levels of our culture’s seasonal celebrations and to honor the changes in the physical world as we cycle from bright summer to dark winter:
Thursday, Aug 21 – Water, Floods and the Sacred Wound
In honor of the time when the mountain snows melt, feeding the rivers and the oceans, as well as our psyches, with the power and potential of this sacred element.
Sept 19 – Jewish Wisdom
In honor of the harvest and the start of the Jewish New Year.
Oct 23 – Trickster Stories
As many explore shifting identities and celebrate Halloween, Samhain or the Day of the Dead.
Nov 21 – Surrendering in Gratitude
At the time of the year we appreciate bounty and give gratitude for what we have.
Dec 19 – Honoring the Dark, Waking the Light
As many traditions turn inward and celebrate the darkening time and renewing light via Christmas, Chanukah, Solstice and other winter festivals.
$15 – Advanced Tickets can be purchased. Please click on link above for individual events.
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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 165, 201812th International Fatigue Congress (FATIGUE 2018)
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Effects of thermomechanical history and environment on the fatigue behavior of (β)-Ti-Nb implant alloys
Technical University Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
2 University Hospital Gießen-Marburg GmbH, 35385 Gießen, Germany
3 Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, 01062 Dresden, Germany
* Corresponding author: email@example.com
This study examined the fatigue properties of a newly developed cast and thermomechanical processed (β)-Ti-40Nb alloy for a possible application as biomedical alloy due to exceptional low Young’s modulus (64-73 GPa), high corrosion resistance and ductility (20-26%). Focusing on the influence of two microstructural states with fully recrystallized β-grain structure as well as an aged condition with nanometer-sized ω-precipitates, tension-compression fatigue tests (R=-1) were carried out under lab-air and showed significant differences depending on the β-phase stability under cyclic loading. Present ω- precipitates stabilized the β-phase against martensitic α’’ phase transformations leading to an increased fatigue limit of 288 MPa compared to the recrystallized state (225 MPa), where mechanical polishing and subsequent cyclic loading led to formation of α’’-phase due to the metastability of the β-phase. Additional studied commercially available (β)-Ti-45Nb alloy revealed slightly higher fatigue strength (300 MPa) and suggest a change in the dominating cyclic deformation mechanisms according to the sensitive dependence on the Nb-content. Further tests in simulated body fluid (SBF) at 37°C showed no decrease in fatigue strength due to the effect of corrosion and prove the excellent corrosion fatigue resistance of this alloy type under given test conditions.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
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Here at St. Albert Alliance Church, we take the practical experience of being an apprentice of Jesus seriously. We want to be a community of people who live like Jesus, engaging in a lifestyle that reflects his day-to-day priorities.
In its simplest form, our heart is to help each other learn to listen to, trust and obey Jesus, that we might see heaven come to earth.
We use the word ‘apprentice’ (another word for ‘disciple’) because an apprentice is someone who has decided to arrange their lives around being and learning from another person so that they can become capable of doing what that person does or to become who that person is.*
Apprenticeship to Jesus is not about going to a church service or knowing the right answers in a game of Bible trivia, but is about actually following Jesus and being formed into His likeness by the Holy Spirit. It doesn’t happen by accident or without our deliberate engagement.
We are convinced that a pursuit of the DEEPER LIFE with Christ leads to fruitful and life-changing participation in His MISSION and we seek to give expression to this pursuit through some foundational commitments:
* Thanks to John Ortberg and Dallas Willard for this definition.
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Jerry Natanine is an Inuk hunter and father and the current mayor of Clyde River, a hamlet of less than 1,000 residents on the northeast shore of Baffin Island, in the Baffin mountain range. The area is host to many coastal fiords where Indigenous hunters have always harvested a variety of sea mammals. When the Clyde River community learned about new plans to conduct seismic surveys in search of hydrocarbon deposits off the coast, Natanine says, “Our first concern [was] the effect on the animals, marine mammals, because that’s our way of life.”
Since 2011, when a consortium led by Multi-Klient Invest AS (MKI) first put forward the proposal to conduct seismic surveying off the coast, residents of Clyde River have been waging a political battle against the oil and gas industry. The proposal has faced consistent and committed resistance, with petitions opposing the seismic work submitted to the National Energy Board (NEB) by residents of Clyde River in 2011 and Pond Inlet in 2013. The hamlet council and the Hunters and Trappers Association of Clyde River passed joint motions opposing the surveys in 2013 and 2014. In March of 2014, a meeting of all mayors from the Baffin Island region unanimously passed a motion in opposition to the proposed surveys.
Despite this widespread opposition, the proposal by MKI was recently approved by the NEB. The northeastern Canada 2D marine seismic survey would involve ships using air guns to blast bursts of sound into the water to study the geology below the ocean floor. The survey would take place seasonally, over five years, and cover areas in Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. The information collected would then be sold by MKI to oil and gas companies and used to help locate hydrocarbon deposits.
“We heard about seismic testing being done in the western Arctic and people experiencing what they did, and in the early ’80s they did a little seismic testing right near Clyde,” says Mayor Natanine over the phone. “And people saw what that did to the seals. And this time around, people know a little bit about it, and they didn’t want anything to do with it.”
Concerns with the impact of seismic surveys on marine mammals, including seals, whales, and walruses, have been expressed by Indigenous peoples and conservationists worldwide. These animals form the basis of Inuit hunting culture on Baffin Island.
Natanine explains that the community also does not necessarily need the potential employment and contracting opportunities oil and gas development may bring to the region. The massive Mary River iron ore mine, operated by Baffinland, is currently under construction northwest of Clyde River. Once operating at full capacity, the Mary River mine would be the largest industrial project in Canada’s North. Baffinland’s project will likely exhaust the community’s industrial labour force and local business capacity into the foreseeable future.
“In our community meetings … there was a consensus – and that’s my view, too – that Mary River is enough for the time being for all of north Baffin,” says Natanine.
When it comes to oil and gas development, he says, “not this time, not right now.”
The Inuit of Baffin Island have been subjected to numerous colonial injustices. In the mid-20th century, Inuit experienced residential schooling, the slaughter of sled dogs by the RCMP, the imposition of colonial hunting regulations, and population relocations by the federal government. Later, in the early 1980s, anti-fur activists undermined the Inuit hunting economy by lobbying the United States and European Economic Community to ban the import of sealskins from Canada. To this day, Inuit struggle against the animal rights lobby to keep markets open for products of Inuit harvesting – most notably seal and polar bear pelts, as well as walrus and narwhal ivory.
For Natanine, MKI’s proposed seismic survey and the NEB’s review process are the latest in the long line of injustices the Inuit of Baffin Island have suffered.
“We’ve experienced injustices through the settlers settling and dog slaughter and stuff like that. What these companies want to do with seismic testing and oil extraction, I saw this as an injustice to people, and people not having a voice to fight it. That’s why I took it up.”
The movement to stop the MKI proposal is the latest in a series of battles Inuit in Nunavut have fought against offshore oil and gas extraction.
1971: Inuit in Coral Harbour successfully lobby the federal government to place a moratorium on offshore oil development near their community.
1978: The government of Canada places a temporary moratorium on oil development in Lancaster Sound in response to Inuit opposition to a proposal to drill an exploratory well.
2010: Inuit on Baffin Island successfully oppose a proposal to conduct seismic surveys in an area that includes Lancaster Sound.
The Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) – the representative Inuit organization for the Inuit of Baffin Island – responded to the massive public opposition to seismic surveys by calling on the federal government to conduct a strategic environmental assessment into the broader question of opening the region to offshore oil and gas development. QIA has insisted that MKI’s seismic survey not be approved until the broader strategic environmental assessment is complete. In February, the ministry of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) initiated the strategic environmental assessment.
Natanine says he was pleased that a broader environmental assessment is being carried out, but he has some reservations. He wants information on the impacts of seismic surveys to be provided in an accessible format so Inuit in Clyde River came make their minds up for themselves about the issue.
“I like the fact that there’s a process like that, but one main concern is that people want to see [film of the sound blasts] and let us watch that there’s no effects,” Natanine says. “We’re visual people and we react to what we see. If it’s going to be the same just empty words, that’s what people don’t want to see.”
Natanine is also concerned that there is no public registry or other public record being kept of the assessment process. “I think there should be a public record of it available to anyone. But the way they’re doing it, they’re really secretive.”
In April, QIA and Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) – the representative Inuit organization for all Inuit in Nunavut – wrote a joint letter addressed to the NEB chairman and the minister of AANDC. The letter reiterated the position that the seismic survey should not be approved until the strategic environmental assessment is complete.
On May 26, the NEB responded to the joint letter from QIA and NTI, saying it would release its decision and report once other federal government agencies had approved benefit plans for MKI’s seismic survey. The letter made no direct reference to QIA and NTI’s appeal to have the process halted until the first stage of a strategic environmental assessment is complete.
On June 10, AANDC Minister Bernard Valcourt responded to QIA and NTI’s letter, stating that he sees “neither the need nor the benefit to put seismic exploration on hold while strategic environmental assessment work is underway.”
On June 26, the NEB announced its approval of MKI’s seismic survey. In a press release, the board boasted that “never before has there been this level of public participation in the Board’s Environmental Assessment process.” The press release neglected to mention that the vast majority of public input was opposed to the proposed surveys. The consortium led by MKI responded with a July 16 letter to the NEB stating they plan to begin work next year.
The Hamlet of Clyde River responded to the NEB decision by starting a petition to send to the House of Commons, calling on the federal government to reverse the decision. At the time of writing, the hamlet was seeking a member of Parliament to table the petition and weighing options for litigation.
Regardless of what course of action Clyde River ultimately decides upon, Natanine stresses that it is important for Canadians everywhere to follow Arctic politics and support Inuit when they take a stand against extractive projects to which they do not consent.
“There are few of us Inuit in this country, under 30,000 Inuit in the territory. We need all the support we can get from other Canadians in the South, especially when Inuit take action,” says Natanine. “When our community first took a stance against seismic testing off our coast, no environmental group engaged with us at all; that’s the way they’ve always been. That has to stop, and we have to work together to fight the destroyers. When Inuit stand up to fight the oil industry, we need people in the South standing up with us to let the world know of what is happening here.”
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The lessor claims to be the first leasing company to offer these special swaps and over the coming 12 months it will add a total of 45 lightweight swap tank containers; each of which has a volume of 35,000 litres and four sets of the new V-Aerofoil baffle inside.
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One has to tread carefully when presenting information that can be interpreted as critical of "civil servants," be they policemen, public school teachers, or, as in this case, firemen. With that in mind, I'll note at the start that the embedded graph is deceptive, because the vertical scale has been truncated. The trend certainly is valid, but the implied amplitude has been exaggerated. Now, on to the text, excerpted from Marginal Revolution, via The Dish:
Taxpayers are unlikely to support budget increases for fire departments if they see firemen lolling about the firehouse. So cities have created new, highly visible jobs for their firemen. The Wall Street Journal reported recently, “In Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami, for example, 90% of the emergency calls to firehouses are to accompany ambulances to the scene of auto accidents and other medical emergencies. Elsewhere, to keep their employees busy, fire departments have expanded into neighborhood beautification, gang intervention, substitute-teaching and other downtime pursuits.” In the Illinois township where I live, the fire department drives its trucks to accompany all medical emergency vehicles, then directs traffic around the ambulance—a task which, however valuable, seemingly does not require a hook-and-ladder.I can vouch for the type of incident described, because at the senior living complex where my mother previously resided, both an ambulance and a fire truck responded to all non-fire emergencies. I never understood the justification for this duplication.
Moreover, most of the time the call is not for a fire but for a minor medical problem. In many cities, both fire trucks and ambulances respond to the same calls. The paramedics do a great job but it is hard to believe that this is an efficient way to deliver medical care and transportation.
See this link for a more detailed discussion.
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Work is underway by SANParks and WWF to establish a high-altitude national park in the mountains of the Eastern Cape close to the Lesotho border and the spectacular Naude’s Nek pass – South Africa’s highest lying road at over 2500m. The establishment of this national park will mark a new and innovative approach to protected area expansion as it will be located within a working agricultural landscape. Not only is this area rich in biodiversity and endemic species, but it also lies within the Eastern Cape Drakensberg Strategic Water Source Area which is a natural source of freshwater for people downstream. When declared the park will also improve formal protection of South Africa’s grasslands which have been identified as a national conservation priority.
The proposed NE Cape Grasslands National Park will take a somewhat different form to traditional parks, in that the landowners will have the opportunity, through stewardship, to incorporate their land in the park on a voluntary basis. As such, they also stand to benefit from a range of financial incentives for private and communal land that is formally protected. The project aims to raise significant government funding for the restoration and maintenance of the landscape for water security, bringing much-needed employment opportunities to the area through alien plant clearing and wetland restoration. Furthermore, because of its rugged, unspoilt landscape, the area has rich potential for adventure and cultural tourism which could help to build an all-year-round tourism industry, further unlocking potential jobs. The declaration of a national park will also be a motivation for the inclusion of this area into the adjacent Drakensberg World Heritage Site.
There is incredible excitement about the project, which has a range of collaborators and funders, including the national Department of Environmental Affairs, the Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency, Joe Gqabi District Municipality, and the WWF Nedbank Green Trust.
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You are invited to join us for a tour of our school to learn more about what we have to offer your child.
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St Joseph's O'Connor Primary School is open to all who are willing to commit to support the philosophy, values and aims of Catholic education. We encourage you meet with the Principal for a tour of our school community.
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Our Extra Virgin Olive Oil must be extracted entirely by mechanical means and under the standards for the cold extraction. Besides the continued control of the conditions that the production follows we make additional chemical analysis to testify the quality characteristics by the official laboratories that we cooperate.
In chemical terms Extra Virgin Olive Oil is described as having an acidity of less than 0,80%. We offer Extra Virgin Olive Oil of acidity that islower than 0,45% making our product even more pure and tasteful.
Olive Oil is the key component of the Mediterranean diet. It offers not only fruity bitter tastes that can elevate all kinds of dishes but also many proven benefits to human health. It is considered a product of a high nutritional value mainly due to its content of monounsaturated fats.
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The greatest advantage of the Greek Olive Oil is its Superior Quality and this is because:
How to store olive oil
The flavor, aroma and all of the nutritional elements of olive oil can remain stable, if you follow some simple storage guidelines. Light, oxygen and high heat should be avoided.
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Olive oil has been used for thousands of years in cooking especially in the healthy Mediterranean diet. It is very versatile and, with its unique flavor and aroma, has become a must-have in every kitchen. Olive oil can be used for sautéing, browning, stir-frying, deep frying, as an ingredient in marinades and sauces such as mayonnaise, pesto, or romesco. It can be used uncooked in fresh salads and as a condiment, drizzled over various dishes. It is appropriate to use it in any kind of food as meat, fish and vegetables.
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This study began shortly before 1960 by the American Ancel Keys and his associates on the occasion of the impressively low mortality rates and cardiovascular diseases that were observed in the area of Crete.
What Ancel Keys and his associates studied was the particular eating habits that characterized this region in order to explain the lower incidence of coronary heart disease and cancer and also the low all-cause mortality compared to the other selected countries under investigation. According to UN figures no other region of the Mediterranean has had such low levels of mortality as Crete, both before and after, the World War II.
The study involved a total of about 13,000 men, who were selected from sixteen different areas of seven countries (Finland, the Netherlands, Japan, United States, Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece) in order to explore the ambiguous relationship between diet and cardiovascular diseases.
The comparisons between different populations showed that the population of Crete had a better health status and lower mortality rates of coronary heart disease and cancer, compared to all other populations studied.
After 20 years of observation, Cretans had smaller percentages of all-cause deaths, while after 25 years of monitoring deaths from coronary heart disease in Crete, it was concluded that they were dramatically fewer than the deaths observed in populations of the United States and Northern Europe but even compared to deaths observed in other parts of southern Europe, such as Italy, Yugoslavia and Japan.
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After the study of the 7 countries, the French researchers Serge Renaud and Michel de Longeril conducted the “Lyon Heart Study” which showed that administration of Cretan-type diet in patients who had suffered acute myocardial infarction reduced the rate of death within 27 months after the episode by 70 %, compared to administration of the diet recommended by the American Heart Association. Furthermore, after 4 years the Cretan formula diet was associated with a decrease in the percentage of all deaths by 56% and a decrease in the incidences of cancer by 61%.
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We’re going to continue sewing and assemble the front and back bodices of our Orchid dresses. We will attach the yokes, sew on bias binding, and learn how to clean finish the yokes and shoulder seams.
ATTACH FRONT YOKE TO FRONT BODICE
With the right sides together, pin the front yoke to the front bodice, adjusting the gathering to match the notches. Sew at 3/8” (1 cm) and finish the seam. Remove any visible basting stitches and press the seam allowance up.
ATTACH THE BIAS TO THE FRONT NECKLINE
With the right sides together, pin the front bias to the center front edge of the bodice and sew at 3/8” (1 cm). The bias will be longer than the front bodice edge. Trim the seam allowance to 1/4” (0.6 cm) to reduce bulk.
UNDERSTITCH THE BIAS
Press the seam allowance towards the bias. Understitch the bias and catch the seam allowance with your stitching.
Flip the bodice so it’s wrong side up. Fold and press the bias edge so it meets the stitch line.
FOLD BIAS AGAIN AND EDGESTITCH
Fold one more time so the bias is lying on the inside of the bodice. Pin in place. Edgestitch the bias from the wrong side, catching the very edge. Trim bias excess at the shoulder and waist edges. Press. Repeat for the other front bodice.
ATTACH BACK YOKE TO THE BACK BODICE
With the right sides together, pin the back yoke (no Interfacing) to the back bodice, adjusting the gathering to match the notches. Sew at 1/4” (0.6 cm). Press the yoke seam allowances up.
ATTACH THE BACK YOKE FACING AT THE NECKLINE
With the back bodice and yoke (no interfacing) up, place the yoke facing (with interfacing) face down, right sides together. Pin at the neckline, sew the neck seam at 3/8” (1 cm) and clip the curved edges. Turn the yokes right side out.
UNDERSTITCH THE NECKLINE
Open the facing, lay flat and press the seam allowance towards the yoke facing (with interfacing). Understitch the yoke facing. Make sure to catch the seam allowance towards the facing (with interfacing) and stop 1” (2.5 cm) from each shoulder seam. Turn right side out and press.
ROLL HEM UP
Take the bodice and roll it from the hem towards the yoke. Continue all the way up until all of the bodice is rolled up.
CLEAN FINISH THE YOKE SEAM
Flip the yokes so the right sides are together with the bodice rolled between the neckline and yoke seam. Pin the yoke seams and sew at 3/8” (1 cm) to clean finish the yoke. Trim the seam (with interfacing) to reduce bulk.
TURN RIGHT SIDE OUT AND PRESS
Turn the back bodice right side out and remove any visible basting stitches. Press the yoke and neckline seams.
ATTACH SHOULDER SEAM
Place the front bodice right side down on the back yoke. Pin the back yoke (no interfacing) and the front yoke at the shoulder. Be careful to match the seams at the neckline. Sew a baste stitch at 1/4” (0.6 cm) to secure in place. Twist the shoulder seam and pin the right side of the back facing (with interfacing) to the wrong side of the front yoke at the shoulder seam. Sew at 3/8” (1 cm) to enclose the shoulder seams.
Trim the seam (with interfacing) and clip the neckline corner to reduce bulk.
TURN SHOULDER RIGHT SIDE OUT AND PRESS
Turn the front and back bodices right side out and press the yoke and neckline seams. Repeat for the other shoulder seam.
Next, we’ll sew the side seams and add the ruffle sleeves to View A and the long gathered sleeves to View B.
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Sometimes emotional testimony before a State Senate committee today on the question of whether Texas needs a government-sponsored official Museum of Texas Music to highlight the state' s varied musical traditions, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.
State Sen. Kirk Watson (D-Austin) says since Austin bills itself as the 'Live Music Capital of the World' and is also the Capitol City, visitors come to Austin looking for some way to check out the state's music history.
"The purpose of establishing an official Texas State Music Museum is to help preserve and celebrate the heritage of Texas music, and educate the citizens and visitors of our state of the history and tradition of the great music that we have," Watson said.
The idea for a Texas Music Museum is based on the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, a place where the history and evolution of music can be explored in one location.
With the possible exception of Louisiana, there is no state in the country that has such a rich pageant of musical history as Texas can claim.
From the Germans who brought the accordion to Texas in the 1840s to the Tejanos who used it to create an entirely new musical form, Texas music also embraces Black blues legends like Leadbelly and Big Mama Thornton.
From Bob Willis to Lefty Frizell, Texas' country music history is as rich as any state, and Texas musicians from Buddy Holly to Janis Joplin to Stevie Ray Vaughn helped popularize and develop Rock and Roll.
Just a short list of musicians who were either born in Texas or who prospered here could be a lot longer than this: Scott Joplin, Gene Austin, Waylon Jennings, Garry P. Nunn, Willie Nelson, Tex Ritter, Augie Meyers, Jim Reeves, Van Cliburn, Kenny Rogers, George Strait, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Selena, Lightnin' Hopkins, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Billy Gibbons, Don Henley, Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, Roy Orbison, Bill Haley, Beyonce, Doug Sahm, Flaco Jimenez, Freddy Fender, the Big Bopper, Robert Earl Keen, Gene Autry, Michael Martin Murphy, Barbara Mandrell, Michael Nesmith, George Jones, Emilio, Peter Bey, Reckless Kelly, Jerry Jeff Walker, and on and on.
But the proposal was not without opposition, and some of it was dramatic.
Tammy Huerta, the daughter of Tejano legend Freddy Fender, said the establishment of a Texas Museum of Music would damage her goal of preserving a museum in her father's memory in his hometown of San Benito.
"Every town in the state deserves to honor their artists, their stars," she said.
The committee also heard opposition from existing museums dedicated to music.
Tom Creeson and his wife fun the Texas Musicians Museum, and he said he's afraid that an official state, taxpayer funded museum would put him out of business and put his collection of items at risk.
"We have Willie Nelson stuff, we even have Willie's pigtails from back in the day," he said. "We have Waylong Jennings stuff, we even have Blind Lemon Jefferson's guitar."
One musician said the idea of establishing one statewide museum to incorporate all Texas music 'makes me want to puke.
'The Committee left the issue pending without taking a vote.
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A team headed by Hideharu Mikami from the University of Tokyo recently determined an imaging method based on optomechanics that overcomes the performance and utility of imaging flow cytometry (IFC).
Image Credit: Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock.com
The method enables high throughput imaging of single cells traveling at >10,000 cells sec-1 without compromising sensitivity or resolution and enabling robust statistical analysis and accurate classification of cells.
Traditional IFC offers several advantages over traditional flow cytometry by providing quantitative image data. This data permits the characterization of single cells across heterogeneous populations. The big data resulting from IFC methodology is relevant in a time where deep learning necessary to improve clinical decision-making in the biomedical and clinical settings.
The limitations of traditional imaging flow cytometry
IFC is particularly effective for the enumeration of a range of macromolecules including proteins, nucleic acids, the analysis of cell-cell interaction, and the characterization of DNA damage and repair. However, the performance and utility of IFC suffer as a result of attempts to increase throughput, spatial resolution, and sensitivity.
By increasing the flow speed for high-throughput, a shortened integration period results, enabling the collection of blur-free images; however, the effect is reduced sensitivity or pixel resolution to combat this.
To overcome this, time delay and integration (TDI) with an image sensor based on a charged coupled device (CCD) has been used. TDI accumulates several exposures of cells in flow, with several rows of CCD photosensitive elements. However, this limits throughput as the CCD readout rate is decreased.
An additional problem suffered by CCD is readout noise, which limits its sensitivity of detection. Some attempts to overcome the trade-off are single-pixel imaging and use of a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor – but these, in turn, limit sensitivity.
The unifying trait of these compensatory techniques is the compromise of one of the key parameters in favor of others. This prevents applying IFC to niche applications, which motivates the study by the team at the University of Tokyo.
A novel optomechanical imaging method
Mikami et al. refer to their improved imaging method as virtual freezing fluorescence imaging (VIFFI). Crucially, tradeoffs are circumvented whilst high throughput (>10,000 cells sec-1), spatial resolution at approximately 700nm, and high sensitivity are ensured.
The method is based on freezing a flowing cell on the image sensor by canceling the motion of a single cell to increase the exposure time of the image sensor. This produces a fluorescence image with a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).
The essential elements of VIFFI flow cytometry is an excitation beam scanner that scans over the field of view (FOV) and simultaneous timing of the image senses exposure and the excitation beams illumination. In combination, virtual freezing translates to 1000 times greater times for signal integration on the image sensor. This results in microscopy-level fluorescence imaging of cells at 1 m s-1.
The methodology behind the group’s technique involved the optical design of the VIFI flow cytometer, the performance of an excitation beam scan to extend the exposure time for the fast-flowing cells, acquisition of data, and the processing of the digital images and deep learning.
Applying virtual freezing fluorescence imaging
The group used two colors. The team pointed out that several colors can be used for fluorescence imaging when dichroic beamsplitters are used. The group also remark on the compatibility of VIFFI flow cytometry with advanced image-sensor-based fluorescence microscopy technique – enabling super-resolution fluorescence.
Additionally, the technique enables the flow speed to be varied so long as it conforms to the tradeoff relationship between the FOV, exposure time, and flow speed. Along with this advancement, machine learning will allow the depth of data analysis achieved to be expanded. Similarly, as advances in image sensor technology are achieved, high-throughput and number of fluorescence color options are hoped to be increased. VIFFI also enables the depth of field to be expanded. This is useful for FSIH imaging and imaging of large cells.
Owing to sensitivity spatial resolution on high throughput of this fluorescence imaging, the applications in biology, pharmacy, and medicine are expanded. Firstly, high throughput FISH analysis is capable; this technique is especially useful in diagnosis, identification, and detection of minimal residual disease. Traditional microscopy is insufficient as screening of large populations of cells is not possible.
As proof of concept, the team demonstrated large scale analysis based on morphological phenotype. This suggests that this technique is invaluable when determining genotype-phenotype relation. Specifically, the high spatial resolution enables accurate characterization of key features such as area and perimeter of each cell and intracellular organelles.
The group also illustrated through imaging of mutants of C. reinhardtii, VIFF I flow cytometry can be used for evaluating mutagenesis.
Finally, VIFFI flow cytometry can both detect and count circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from heterogeneous blood samples. Single CTC’s and clusters can be visualized and counted; this is expected to aid the study of the correlation between cluster size and metastatic potential/spread of CTCS.
- Mikami, H. et al (2020) Virtual-freezing fluorescence imaging flow cytometry. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14929-2.
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Hidaya is a science communications enthusiast who has recently graduated and is embarking on a career in the science and medical copywriting. She has a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from The University of Manchester. She is passionate about writing and is particularly interested in microbiology, immunology, and biochemistry.
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Kansas DMV Driving Signs Test (KS) 2
Studying road signs for the Kansas DMV test? Don't pass by this driving practice test! 20 essential road signs for the 2022 permit test!
Kansas Permit Test Facts
- Questions: 25
- Correct answers to pass: 20
- Passing score: 80%
- Test locations: Department of Revenue (DOR) Offices
- Test languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Vietnamese
- Based upon: Kansas driving handbook
This free DMV practice test for 2022 applicants will challenge your knowledge of Kansas road signs and their meanings, with 20 real permit test questions from the general knowledge assessment. To show you roughly how difficult it will be to hit the pass threshold on the real permit test, our team have designed this Kansas drivers license practice test with the 80% pass requirement used on the exam. On this marginally shorter test, 80% equates to 16 correct permit test answers from the 20 questions included. You are free to answer the road sign test questions on our practice driving test for Kansas learners by referring to the driving handbook, utilizing our study aids, or relying exclusively on your own knowledge of Kansas traffic signs. It is not important how many attempts it takes for you to hit the 80% requirement, as the driving test signs quiz is available for free, unlimited use.
Using our study aids is the best way to answer challenging questions if you would like to improve your grade on this Kansas driving test practice quiz as quickly as possible. This will also allow you to work through the round of Kansas driving signs test questions much faster, by saving you from having to look up information in the driver’s handbook every time you get stuck. The study aids are remarkably easy to work with and are available during every question on the Kansas sign test! Hit the ‘hint’ button whenever you would like to view a clue about the correct permit test answers, or the ‘50/50’ button to eliminate 50% of the incorrect road signs or road sign meanings. It may be necessary to rely on these support features quite heavily during your initial rounds with this Kansas drivers practice test, but this need not be cause for concern. As your knowledge of road signs in Kansas and your overall confidence improves, you will find yourself using the study aids less with each round.
Besides common traffic signs like ‘STOP’, ‘DO NOT ENTER’ and ‘YIELD’, there are hundreds of Kansas road signs which you will not encounter frequently while driving. These signs are sorted into four main categories in the Kansas driving handbook: guide signs, work zone signs, regulatory signs and warning signs. Keep in mind that you could be asked about any of these signs during the official road signs test for Kansas residents. As there is so much information to memorize in the signs chapter of the study guide, you should reserve regular slots of time to challenge and reinforce your memory with this Kansas practice driving test. Otherwise, it is extremely likely that you will forget certain key information as you work through the study material from section to section. Our Kansas DMV practice test will also support your study of road signs by making the entire process much more enjoyable. Thanks to this road sign test for Kansas learners, you have a fun and effective way to take breaks and improve your knowledge, whenever you tire of reading through the manual.
Following this learners permit practice test Kansas signs quiz, learners should take their study of traffic signs to the next level with our 25-question road signs cheat sheet. Alternatively, you can move on to an entirely different drivers permit test subject by using one of our other beginner tests. However your preparation for the exam works out, keep in mind that you should complete and pass all our Kansas drivers test practice quizzes before attempting the real general knowledge driving exam. While the study of road signs is important, remember that you will eventually need to cover further subjects as the real Kansas driving test has 25 questions which also cover road rules, traffic signals and other important information.
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Linus Pauling, Ph.D. (1901-1994), was the only person ever to win two unshared Nobel prizes. He received these awards for chemistry in 1954 and for peace in 1962. He contributed greatly to the development of chemical theories. His impact on the health marketplace, however, was anything but laudable.
Pauling is largely responsible for the widespread misbelief that high doses of vitamin C are effective against colds and other illnesses. In 1968, he postulated that people’s needs for vitamins and other nutrients vary markedly and that to maintain good health, many people need amounts of nutrients much greater than the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs). And he speculated that megadoses of certain vitamins and minerals might well be the treatment of choice for some forms of mental illness. He termed this approach «orthomolecular,» meaning «right molecule.» After that, he steadily expanded the list of illnesses he believed could be influenced by «orthomolecular» therapy and the number of nutrients suitable for such use. No responsible medical or nutrition scientists share these view
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Many criminal law practitioners believe the criminal justice system is broken. Most believe the reason it is broken is because the plea-bargaining system is broken. Federal Judge Jed Rakoff offered his own insight in a New York Daily News piece that was released today. Judge Rakoff basically asserts that the presence of mandatory minimum sentences has shifted the balance so far to the prosecution side, that just about everybody who is accused of a federal crime elects to plead guilty to a lesser charge instead of choosing to fight the case. Therefore, the actual evidence of guilt in a case never sees the light of day because everybody pleads guilty. This leads to a prison population that is filled with innocent people. To the non-criminal law practitioner it seems like that can’t possibly be true. Unfortunately it is.
The framers of the United States Constitution and the subsequent Bill of Rights went out of their way to create a legal system that was fair to the criminally accused. They created amendments that not only protected people against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government, but they also created rights which insured that if accused of a crime, a person has the right to have a lawyer, has the right to confront witnesses against him in open court, has the right to be free from being compelled to testify, has the right to a speedy trial, etc. The framers must have concluded that no innocent person would ever go to jail with all these checks on the government. Unfortunately, these rights have been systematically eradicated due to the enactment of harsh mandatory minimum sentences. Here is why.
When the government chooses to charge somebody with a crime, they have the access to the evidence of guilt. Discovery laws mandate that prosecutors only need to turn over the evidence if a trial is imminent. The idea, however, is that the accused has the right to say to the government, “Okay, you want to charge me with this crime? I want you to prove it in court and I want to be able to question the witnesses because I’ll show them to be the liars that they are!” “Great” says the government in response. Then at trial, a jury examines the evidence and if there is evidence of guilt, they convict. And if there isn’t, they acquit.
But what happens in a situation in which the government accuses the person of a crime in which the mandatory minimum sentence is 20 years in prison?What happens when the government offers for the accused to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of only two years, but the government refuses to disclose the evidence unless the person elects a trial? What does the person do?
All of those wonderful rights are thrown out simply because of the very real and rational fear that exercising them means a lifetime in prison.
In my opinion, the only way for people to get their rights back is for the government to eliminate all mandatory minimums. The problem though is that politicians are unwilling to take laws off the books. They fear they’ll appear as “soft” on crime. However, whenever something tragic happens, these very same politicians are quick to pass laws that make the offensive conduct more severe. As a result, you get sentences that are perpetually increased. This then shifts the power away from the court and towards the prosecutor who now can force a plea to what the conduct used to merit (instead of the person being sentenced to that if convicted after trial).
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Emerging Security Challenges for Information Systems in Mobile Computing Environment in Universities
Daniel Otanga; Kibabii University
Frankin Wabwoba; Kibabii University
@IJRIT International Journal of Research in Information Technology, Volume 4, Issue 9, September 2016, Pg 31-41
Universities are shifting from partially computerized to fully automated environments and technology is equally shifting from point to point to broadcasting options. These trends are resulting in mobile computing for most university users with systems accumulating enormous amount of public, private as well as confidential data on employee, students and the institution. However, mobile computing systems normally come with security challenges and different vulnerabilities that make users hesitate adopting them despite the many benefits they bring.The purpose of this Paper was to establish the emerging security challenges of information systems in mobile computing environments in universities. The study was undertaken using multi-case method andthrough scrutiny of literature on security challenges in information system. Stratified random sampling and purposeful sampling was used to select respondents from six public and two private universities. It was established that the emerging security challenges in universities in mobile computing to be rising as technology advances. The findings will help the mobile computing implementers and university management determine when there is need for enhancement of existing security approaches to mobile computing and mitigate on the future trends in security for the information systems.
Key words: Information System, Mobile computing, Security challenges, Approaches, Threats, Vulnerability.
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5 Tips for Reducing Your Homeownership Costs
Owning a home remains to be a big part of the American Dream, but it can be expensive to reach this dream, and even more to continue living in it. According to an article on TheBalance.com, it takes an average of $40,224 to purchase a home upfront. This includes the closing costs as well as the down payment. However, American homeowners will have to pay $1,480 each month in homeownership costs that include mortgage payments, insurance premiums, taxes, and utilities.
The American Dream will cost you a lot in the long run, but the hefty expenses shouldn\’t keep you from buying the perfect home for your family. You just need to follow a few ways to keep your home expenses down. Follow these tips and save more money for the most important things.
1. Set realistic expectations
If you haven’t bought a home yet, you might as well pick one that won’t cost a lot to maintain. For this, you need to check your lifestyle needs and financial situation.
You can always think about buying a bigger home, but it won\’t be practical considering how much you earn each month. In addition, you may not require amenities such as a swimming pool or a home entertainment area. You need to be realistic by checking whether you can afford a more expensive home.
To be safe, apply the 28%/36% rule. According to Nerd Wallet, this rule involves setting aside 28% of your gross monthly income for home-related expenses like insurance premiums and 36% on debts such as your mortgage. With this, you can adjust your home buying budget to a manageable level.
2. Move into an affordable community
Apart from setting your home buying needs based on your financial situation, you will also need to look for an affordable neighborhood. Aside from mortgage and maintenance costs, you will also have to pay taxes and spend for your family\’s daily needs.
If you don’t have much to spend in places like New York City where living expenses for a family of four could reach $7,208. In that case, you might as well look for neighborhoods where the median home price and cost of living are well within your reach. You should also check tax rates, utility costs, and HOA fees.
Taking the time to research a neighborhood before buying and moving in will help you steer clear of hefty homeownership costs. Reach out to a local real estate professional who can suggest affordable neighborhoods where you can begin your home search.
3. Lock in on a low mortgage rate
One of the advantages of homeownership is the fact that you get to qualify for a fixed-rate mortgage. This type of loan offers a fixed interest rate throughout. If you are applying for a home loan that has a low rate, you get to pay the same rate over the life of the loan. This provides you with an effective hedge against rising prices that could impact your finances.
Today, mortgage rates remain historically low even though the FRS is planning interest hikes this year. If you are going to pick the perfect time to purchase a home, you might as well do it in today’s market to lock in on rates you and your family can afford.
Once you have built enough equity, you can choose to refinance your mortgage so you can lower your interest payments. That way, you can save more money for purchasing your next home.
4. Shop for the best homeowners insurance
Your home is a long-term investment, so it’s important to look for ways on how you can protect it from fires, natural disasters, and burglary. Not only that, but your lender requires home insurance as part of your mortgage deal.
On average, Americans pay at least $104 in insurance premiums each month. You can reduce that by shopping for insurance deals that provide the quality protection you need. For that, consider requesting quotes from different insurers. Compare their rates and inclusions so you can choose which policy best fits your finances.
You can save even more by bundling up your homeowner’s insurance with your auto insurance policy. Insurers offer big discounts. Another way you can lower your insurance costs is to raise your deductible, especially if you live in an area that’s safe from disasters and low on crime.
5. Reduce your utility costs
Homeowners spend less than $500 a month on water and electricity. You could be paying more depending on the size of your home and the appliances you are using. Still, you can reduce your utility expenses simply by applying the right improvements.
For one, you can start by upgrading your water lines and checking for and patching leaks. You can also reuse rainwater for irrigating your lawn so you won’t have to use water from your mainline. In addition, you should use your dishwasher for full loads and replace your washing machine with an Energy Star-rated one.
When it comes to reducing your monthly electricity bills, you can replace your LED lights and check your windows and doors for air leaks. You can also shop around for an energy plan you can afford. If you are in Houston, check sustainable electricity companies like Energy Texas that offer fixed-rate plans.
The cost of homeownership shouldn’t be a reason not to live the American Dream. Keep these tips in mind as you live your best life.
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Symbolism has been part of Brahui poetry and other languages from ancient. The impact, value and utilization of symbolism has enhanced with passage of time. In this regard if we evaluate the poetry of Brahui poets i.e. Meer Gul Khan Naseer, Nadir Qambarani and Babu Abdul Rehman kurd, we find that they have used symbolism in their poetry regarding their passionately love, respect and relation with their motherland as well as pursuit of justice and ethical values. The impact, value and beauty of poetry rely on use of symbolism which foretell as about future and coming age. Poetry that incorporates Symbolism never becomes obsolete or insignificant; rather, owing to fascinating subject and visionary thinking such poetry becomes classical. This topic is an Endeavour to look into the essence and disposition of symbolism in poetry; a comparison of thoughts of three contemporary poets, and a discussion about the demands of symbolism in modern poetry. It is also an attempt to tell that use of symbolism in poetry not only rejuvenates the thoughts of poets but also makes it impressive.
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How are you coping with your diagnosis? Do you feel you need help with coping tools, mental health and how to help not only yourself but those around you understand Acromegaly and the mental toll it can take on you and those around you? Join us as Catherine Jonas, CMC, LMFT joins us for a free webinar to discuss Acromegaly and Mental Health.
Acromegaly Community Proudly Presents: Education by The Experts
Catherine Jonas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Board Certified Expert in Trauma Stress, specializes in working with patients, their families to help them cope with Pituitary Conditions.
She works with the Department of Neurosciences Pituitary Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center under Dr. Shlomo Melmed, Vice President of Academic Affairs. Her role has been specifically designed to help patients who visit Cedars-Sinai for treatment with Pituitary Conditions. The Center is focused on a multi-disciplinary approach to treating Pituitary Conditions encompassing not only diagnosis and treatment but the psychosocial aspects of how the condition affects the patient and his/her family. As a psychological consultant, she is responsible for a number of patient support groups and leads courses on coping skills. She provides therapy and community resources to patients and families. She speaks extensively on Pituitary related illnesses, such as Cushing’s and acromegaly, helping both the patient and his/her support system. She also is a consultant with the Department of Human Resources at Cedars-Sinai providing Critical Incident Stress Management to employees who are affected by in-house or local traumatic situations.
In addition to her role in the Department of Neurosciences and Human Resources at Cedars-Sinai, she is a Certified Geriatric Care Manager and runs her own Geriatric Care Management & Counseling company in Los Angeles called CJ & Associates Care Consulting. The company helps those with neurocognitive disorders such as dementia, stroke, and Parkinson’s Disease.
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Beyond choosing a new governor to succeed outgoing Governor Kayode Fayemi, the recent governorship election in Ekiti State was significant in many other ways. It was an opportunity to put the recently amended Electoral Act 2010 into practice.
The transfer of results from voting booths to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s, central servers is the most intriguing part of that amendment, which President Muhammadu Buhari recently signed into law following a protracted wrangling with the National Assembly.
In doing so, the mechanical results collation becomes more of a formality. The previous vote-rigging techniques, such as ballot theft, result fabrication, and protracted result delays, were stopped.
Even hours after the votes closed, the electoral dashboard created by YIAGA Africa and Channels Television indicated the general direction of the outcome. Surprisingly, no reports of violence were found.
However, widespread vote-buying ruined what should have been a smooth process. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, whose agents were assigned to stop vote-buying, claimed that only 15 of the perpetrators of the blatantly purchased and sold election were detained.
Since the beginning of time, money politics have been a component of our electoral culture. However, as seen during the presidential primaries of the two main political parties, the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the trend has changed for the worst.
In order to entice the delegates, politicians had removed the dollar from the system. The primaries were also put up for auction.
We are pleased that the INEC’s efforts to reduce electoral fraud by using technology and reducing human meddling in our electoral administration have produced some encouraging results.
For the upcoming Osun governor’s race as well as the national general elections in February and March 2023, we anticipate that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, or BVAS, will make voter authentication more effective.
More significantly, we need to find new ways to stop vote-buying since it drives up the amount of money politicians spend running for office.
Either the public coffers or individual wallets hold the funds. In any case, the people will suffer greatly. Politicians that buy their way into office won’t feel any responsibility to the public.
They are aware that they can always buy again four years from now.
Politicians in Nigeria have made misrule and poverty weapons to the point where the populace is too starved to refuse a few thousand naira in exchange for their votes. If we continue in this manner, Nigeria will never change.
No politician who sincerely wants to help the populace will spend his hard-earned cash to win over supporters.
Vote-buying needs to be addressed and stopped.
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Before the so-called refugee influx into Germany peaked in 2015, the term Willkommens- und Anerkennungskultur [welcome culture] emerged as a political response to the negative attitude towards immigrants within the German society. During the summer and autumn of 2015, a new set of welcoming practices emerged as large groups of local Berliners engaged in the refugee situation – some by housing refugees in their own home. At this stage, the concept of welcome culture was no longer nourished by the input of political actors alone, it had become a part of a public discourse. The present article is based on ethnographical fieldwork, and is a part of a comprehensive master thesis that is focused on Willkommens- und Anerkennungskultur – more specifically, how different forms of welcome culture in light of the refugee influx into Europe in 2015 emerged in the everyday life, of civic initiators in Berlin, Germany. With inspiration from John Law’s Modes of Ordering I examine the informants’ different practices and rationales for engaging in the refugee crisis. Taking inspiration from the concept of conviviality I analyze how the home and certain notions of solidarity, inclusion and ‘homeliness’ become part of the practices and rationales for housing refugees, and perform different versions of engagement. I conclude that the informants’ welcoming practices and rationales are in and out of sync, with each other and the political concept of welcome culture.
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September 2010: Sydney Alliance
Want to start a program for the homeless? Get people involved in social ministry? Revitalise your congregation and at the same time really change the rules of the game to give people at the bottom a better chance?
Why don’t you look into community organising? According to a recent edition of Sojourners magazine, it’s got the answer.
Congregation-based or institution-based community organising is a process by which ordinary people, working through their faith community, become involved in public action to make social change on issues that they themselves have identified as important.
Now one of the largest social movements on the American scene — it’s where Barack Obama started out — congregation-based community organising had its roots in the work of Saul Alinsky. From the 1930s, Alinsky had great success building neighbourhood organisations founded on the democratic principle that the people of a community should have a say in the decisions that affect their lives.
Today, as local institutions disappear and cities devolve into collections of suburbs, organisers strive to create federations of member organisations that span an entire metropolitan area or region.
According to Sojourners, the most important institutions in which people still meet face-to-face to consider questions of value and meaning are churches, synagogues and mosques.
Alliances including congregations, schools and unions can become practical models of interracial and interreligious cooperation and “universities of public life”.
Organisers and leaders are trained to listen and to help people develop the skills and confidence to express their own values and interests in the public arena.
Pastors Sojourners talked to said that their participation in community organising had enriched both their ministry and the faith life of their people.
The method has caught on in the UK, where London Citizens is a powerful grassroots charity working with local people for local people. Its goal is social, economic and environmental justice and it trains people of all ages, faiths and backgrounds to take action together for change.
London Citizens says its experience of practising broad-based community organising across the UK confirmed that the threads that once connected the individual to the family, the family to their community and the community to the wider society were fraying and in danger of breaking altogether. “We believe these strands, connections and alliances are vital for a healthy democracy and should be the building blocks of any vibrant civil society.
“We believe that UK public life should be occupied not just by a few celebrities and politicians — but also by the people themselves seeking a part of the action.”
Now, with the Advent of Sydney Alliance, a similar opportunity for change has been presented to communities in New South Wales and the ACT.
With the Uniting Church a key participant, Synod Moderator Niall Reid says, “Not only will we be contributing to creating a better, stronger, more cohesive society, but also providing the opportunity for others to ‘meet Jesus’ through the relationships we build.”
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Some York parents pull students from class over Wi-Fi
TORONTO - A group of parents in a school district north of Toronto kept their children out of school Wednesday to protest the use of Wi-Fi in classrooms.
About 40 people, including a dozen kids from Grades 1 to 5, joined a picket line outside the York Region District School Board offices in Aurora, spokeswoman Christine Marrin said.
Parents are concerned that Wi-Fi could be exposing their children to radiation six hours a day, five days a week, for 40 weeks of the year, she said.
"There have been no studies on children to determine whether that level of exposure for that length of time is safe," said Marrin.
Earlier this year, the World Health Organization warned about a possible link between radiation from wireless devices such as cellphones and cancer.
Some believe wireless access to the Internet could pose similar risks. But while Health Canada cautioned parents to limit the use of cellphones by children, it said that based on scientific evidence, low-level exposure to Wi-Fi is not dangerous.
Marrin says it's too early to make that determination.
"This is the first generation of children that has been in that particular learning environment, so how Health Canada can say that it's safe is really quite a mystery to us," she said.
The Ontario government said in June it would examine the WHO warning but wouldn't take any immediate action to require warnings on wireless devices. The legislative buildings in Toronto will themselves soon have Wi-Fi.
Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten says it's up to school boards in the province to make decisions about whether to use Wi-Fi or not.
"The best available information clearly indicates at this point in time that it is safe," said Broten.
"I am not a scientist but I can tell you it is important to us that our schools are safe and we believe that school boards each and every day make decisions to make sure that kids are safe in their schools."
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says she realizes many parents are concerned about the issue.
"It's worth keeping an eye on," she said.
Some Canadian private schools and at least one public school board in British Columbia have removed or strictly limited Wi-Fi due to safety concerns. But York Region and many other public school boards across Canada continue to use it.
"They are very firm in their position, they are standing behind Health Canada's assertion that Wi-Fi is safe for children. Of course, we disagree," said Marrin, adding the concerned parents have been asking for a face-to-face meeting with the York board.
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Back problems that cause chronic pain are experienced by many people. Sometimes, the back pain is caused by bad posture. Many people can develop chronic back problems from office work, while others suffer from pain due to accidents or aging.
85-year-old Anna Pesce had been coping for decades with constant pain caused by a herniated disc, scoliosis and osteoporosis that left her largely immobile and wheelchair-bound. Despite visiting numerous doctors, chiropractors, back specialists and acupuncturists, they were unable to help improve her back and the pain persisted.
That’s when she decided to try something she could do on her own and began yoga therapy. At first, the lessons were painful for her. The poses were difficult, but as she progressed her body became stronger and more agile. Within two months, Anna underwent an incredible transformation. She could straighten her back and “stand tall” once again! Watch more of her story in the short video below.
Yoga therapy and stretching can have such positive benefits!
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Share Anna’s positive story with your family and friends.
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Read and download the article HERE.
CALSAVERS: A NEW KIND OF RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN FOR CALIFORNIA
OH, AND IT’S MANDATORY
By the Firm’s Labor & Employment Group
To assist the 7 million-plus California employees whose employers have not established a retirement savings plan, the state has launched CalSavers, a mandatory statewide retirement savings program. Oregon and Illinois have already established similar plans. CalSavers is being phased in with a series of deadlines for enrollment based on company size with the final deadline, for companies with between 5 and 50 employees, June 30.
What is CalSavers?
In response to a lack of retirement savings, CalSavers ensures that nearly all working Californians can make easy, consistent payroll contributions. It offers limited simple investment options, including default settings designed to promote long-term savings. The program is intended to deliver progressively lower administrative fees over time, as economies of scale take effect.
Who Should Register for CalSavers?
Both nonprofit and for-profit employers are required to register for CalSavers if they have at least five California-based employees and don’t sponsor at least one of these qualified retirement plans:
- 401(a) – Qualified Plan (including profit-sharing plans and defined benefit plans)
- 401(k) plans (including multiple employer plans or pooled employer plans)
- 403(a) – Qualified Annuity Plan or 403(b) Tax-Sheltered Annuity Plan
- 408(k) – Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) plans
- 408(p) – Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees of Small Employers (SIMPLE) IRA Plan
- Payroll deduction IRAs with automatic enrollment
Employers offering one of these qualified plans will, however, still be required to register, but can indicate their exempt status and opt out of CalSavers.
Penalties for Not Registering for CalSavers
There are significant penalties for employer noncompliance – absent good cause, they’re penalized $250 per eligible employee for the first 90 days after receiving notice of their failure to comply. The penalty rises to $500 per eligible employee if they’re not in compliance 180 days after receiving notice.
Registering for CalSavers
CalSavers is designed to be simple, straightforward, and require as little administrative cost or involvement from employers as possible. Employers cannot contribute to employee accounts, provide investment guidance, or encourage or discourage participation in the program. Employers are also not charged any maintenance fees. They are also not responsible for providing information about the program, processing distributions, or administering employee accounts. State law also protects employers from liability for employee participation in the program, including investment decisions and results.
Employers are responsible for registering for CalSavers, and providing basic information for eligible employees, including name, date of birth, Social Security Number or ITIN, and contact information, and handling payroll deductions for contributions with each paycheck. They are also permitted to delegate employee facilitation to a payroll service.
Special regulations cover certain categories of multiparty employers. For employers who use temporary services or a leasing employer, the temporary services/leasing employer is the eligible employer. Employers who contract with a professional employer organization (PEO) are the eligible employer, not the PEO. And for a motion picture production company that uses a motion picture payroll services company, the production company is the eligible employer.
What Happens After Registration?
Once employee information is provided, CalSavers will contact employees directly to provide information on how the program works, opening an account, or opting out. However, it’s important to note that enrollment is the default outcome. If an employee does nothing within 30 days of being contacted by CalSavers, they are automatically enrolled with default saving settings. If they want to make changes or opt out, they must contact CalSavers.
CalSavers offers materials and sample emails for employers to inform employees about the program. This material is optional, but employers are not permitted to take a position on the program when discussing it with employees. In other words, an employer cannot attempt to convince employees not to sign up, hoping to save the company money.
Once an employee is registered in CalSavers, the employer is responsible for deducting and remitting their contributions each pay period. Employers are also responsible for adding new eligible employees to the program within 30 days of their date of hire or eligibility.
What are the Eligibility Requirements?
Eligibility requirements are minimal. Employees must be at least eighteen, with a bank account, and are eligible to participate from the first day they’re hired. There are no requirements for hours worked or tenure with their employer. For 2022, the contribution limit is $6,000 for employees under the age of 50. For employees over 50, it’s $7,000.
Who Is Responsible for Tracking the Amounts Contributed?
Employees are also responsible for tracking their own annual contribution limits across all the Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA) they maintain, including CalSavers account. CalSavers will notify employees when their account is close to reaching the federal annual contribution limits for an IRA and will tell employers to end contributions when the limit is reached. However, CalSavers can’t track additional retirement plans and won’t factor those into this calculation.
Many employers are reluctant to create a qualified retirement program for their employees and some employees are not comfortable saving through such a program because they need every dollar. Unfortunately, social security is not enough so CalSavers will help those employers who cannot afford their own program and employees who need to save for their own retirement because Uncle Sam may not pay enough to retire comfortably. It is thus important for all employers to comply with these new requirements.
The Labor and Employment Practice Group advises employers of all sizes on laws that impact their business and represents them in disputes arising from the employer/employee relationship. If you have any questions regarding this article, contact Greg Norys, head of the Labor and Employment Practice Group, at (559) 248-4820 or email@example.com.
About the Firm:
Established in 1994, Coleman & Horowitt is a state-wide law firm focused on delivering responsive and value driven service and preventive law. The firm represents businesses and their owners in matters involving transactions, litigation, agriculture and environmental regulation and litigation, intellectual property, real estate, estate planning and probate.
The Firm has been recognized as a “Top Law Firm” (Martindale Hubbell) and a “Go-To” Law Firm (Corporate Counsel). From six offices in California, and the Firm’s membership in Primerus, a national and international society of highly rated law firms (www.primerus.com), the Firm has helped individuals and businesses solve their most difficult legal problems. For more information, see www.ch-law.com and www.Primerus.com.
Disclaimer: This article is intended to provide the reader with general information regarding current legal issues. It is not to be construed as specific legal advice or as a substitute for the need to seek competent legal advice on specific legal matters. This publication is not meant to serve as a solicitation of business. To the extent that this may be considered as advertising, then it is expressly identified as such.
CalSavors Fresno, Bakersfield
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by: Cheryl Hauer, International Vice President
Security threats are a certainty in Israel. Every area of society is impacted by the ongoing existence of very real enemies—both inside and outside the nation’s borders—who make no secret of their intention to use whatever means necessary to de-Judaize the Jewish state and rid the neighborhood of Jews. Some say this has, by necessity, created an aggressive, imperialistic society whose political, defense and social branches are overtly militaristic in their worldview.
In practice, however, it seems the opposite is true. Although in matters of national security, military considerations are sometimes prioritized over political, economic or ideological concerns, Israel has actually demonstrated significant and ongoing restraint over the last several decades. Even right-wing leaders such as former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was famous for his hardline rhetoric, preferred the use of foreign policy tools such as economic carrots and sticks, diplomacy and international pressure, with military intervention only as a very last resort and most often as a deterrent. Such policies have coalesced into what many call “containment,” an approach much like that of the United States in dealing with the post-World War II Soviet Union. It was believed that communism contained within itself the seeds of its own decay and would eventually crumble on its own if it could be contained, kept from expansion and held under the steady pressure of these “measures short of all-out war.”
Opponents of Israel’s strategy of containment are quick to point out that the issues Israel faces in 2022 are essentially different than those faced by the United States in the 1950s. Although the long-term threats posed by the Soviet Union included expansionism and the upending of the international balance of power, it was recognized that the post-World War II Soviet Union had neither the will nor the ability to launch any kind of military attack on America. Israel, on the other hand, deals with armed insurgency, violence against civilians and the threat of terrorism on literally a daily basis.
Intifada is an Arabic word which literally means “to shudder” or “to shake off” as a dog shakes off water or as desert dwellers shake the dust from their sandals. It was first used in its current context in what is known as the Iraqi Intifada of 1952. Today, it is a key concept in Arabic usage referring to a rebellion or a resistance movement. The Soviet Union posed no such threat to America, but Israel has faced two such uprisings in its comparatively short life.
The First Intifada began in 1987. According to the Jewish Virtual Library: “This uprising or intifada was violent from the start. During the first four years of the uprising, more than 3,600 Molotov cocktail attacks, 100 hand grenade attacks and 600 assaults with guns or explosives were reported by the Israel Defense Forces [IDF]. The violence was directed at soldiers and civilians alike. During this period, 16 Israeli civilians and 11 soldiers were killed by Palestinians in the territories; more than 1,400 Israeli civilians and 1,700 Israeli soldiers were injured. Approximately 1,100 Palestinians were killed in clashes with Israeli troops. Jews were not the only victims of the violence. In fact, as the intifada waned around the time of the Gulf War in 1991, the number of Arabs killed for political and other reasons by Palestinian death squads in what amounted to an “intrafada” exceeded the number killed in clashes with Israeli troops.”
The violence ended in 1993 with thousands of dead and injured on both sides.
The Second Intifada—sometimes called the Al-Aqsa Intifada—began in 2002 and “ended” in 2005. It was much more violent than the first, with hundreds of suicide bombings and thousands of victims. The Jewish Virtual Library explains: “According to the rules of engagement for Israeli troops in the territories, the use of weapons is authorized solely in life-threatening situations or in the exercise of the arrest of an individual suspected of having committed a grave security offense. In all cases, IDF activities have been governed by an overriding policy of restraint, the requirement of proportionality and the necessity to take all possible measures to prevent harm to innocent civilians. Meanwhile, the Palestinians escalated their violent attacks against Israelis by using mortars and anti-tank missiles illegally smuggled into the Gaza Strip. Palestinians fired mortar shells into Jewish communities in Gaza and Israel proper and IDF reports indicate that anti-tank missiles were fired at Israeli forces.”
It has been suggested that the monikers “first” and “second” are not presenting an accurate picture of the Palestinians’ strategy in terms of this conflict. Some say Israel has been in a constant state of intifada since the beginning of the uprising in 1987 or perhaps as far back as the Israeli victory in the 1967 Six Day War. Scarcely a month has passed in the ensuing years without a terrorist attack of some sort somewhere in Israel or aimed at Israelis in other parts of the world. Thousands have been killed or maimed in an ongoing conflict that continues to this day. Samaria experiences attacks daily, most of which do not attract media attention because no one is killed or injured. Weapons of choice have evolved from rocks and Molotov cocktails to knives, guns, rockets, axes, scissors, incendiary balloons or even bulldozers. But the violence never really ceases. At the writing of this article, Israeli leaders are expecting a very difficult summer with a dramatic uptick in numbers and intensity of attacks.
For the US, containment brought about decades of Cold War. But in December of 1991, the Soviet Union breathed its last—without a shot being fired. Some say containment did, in fact, have the desired effect.
For Israel, however, there is no cold war, only a very long and deadly daily conflict with no end in sight. But proponents of containment say that it is working. The face of the Middle East is changing. Israel is building a network of strong relationships in Africa, Eastern Europe and even with its Arab neighbors. As Israel and those neighbors unite against their common enemy Iran, the plight of the Palestinians seems to be less important than military and political alliances. The Jewish state is in the best position it has been in since its inception, proponents say. Israel has recently concluded the largest and most comprehensive war games in the nation’s history and has seen the economy recover from the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in a matter of months. So, is Israel’s strategy of containment working? All the above factors point to a resounding yes. But then again, this is the Middle East, one of the most unpredictable and volatile neighborhoods on earth. Here, even one tiny seemingly insignificant spark is enough to set everything ablaze and turn decades of containment to ashes. Perhaps the most accurate answer is that only time will tell.
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The Animal Services Division is responsible for protection of our citizens by enforcing all City ordinances related to Animal Safety and Welfare. Pet owners who do not comply with the laws are issued citations for their appearance in Municipal Court. In addition, Animal Services Staff has responsibility for stray animals in Little Rock. Stray animals are collected and housed at the Animal Village where care is provided for them or they are held for owner pickup, adoption or rescue. Adoption programs attempt to place these animals in loving homes with responsible owners. Animal Service Officers respond to complaints about stray, injured, neglected and abused animals.
Looking for a furry companion? We might just have the pet for you. Adopt-A-Pet places hundreds of quality animals in good homes every year. Stop in and visit our animals at the Animal Village. This shelter was built with the animals care in mind. The kennels open at 9:30 a.m. every business day.
We have a large number of dogs and cats in need of a loving home. Visit our great facility to meet some of our adoptable animals. Adoption fees range from $80-$100. This fee pays for sterilization as well as shots and initial medical care. Give one of our wonderful dogs or cats a home. You'll be saving a life and gaining a lifelong friend!
Hours of Operation
The Animal Services office and shelter is located at 4500 Kramer Street, just off the 4600 block of South University Avenue and First Tee Way.
Office Hours: Tuesday - Saturday / 8:00am to 5:00pm
Kennels open to the public at 10:00 AM
Basic Animal Control Laws
Every dog or cat four (4) months or older must be vaccinated for Rabies and be licensed by the City of Little Rock (the animal must wear the license on a collar or harness at all times).
All dogs must be confined on the owner’s property by a fence, pen or by tethering to an approved trolley system. Any loose animals in your neighborhood should be reported to Animal Services for their safety and yours. Dogs in an open vehicle or pickup must be confined within a crate or carrier, or inside vehicle cab.
Residents may not exceed four (4) dogs and four (4) cats per household unless a kennel permit is obtained.
Penned animals must be kept clean and sanitary and should not give off offensive odors. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS IS AGAINST THE LAW. This includes intentional cruelty, such as shooting or poisoning, and neglect. Cruelty to animals (including neglect) is a punishable crime in Little Rock. Cruelty includes physical abuse and abuse by neglect, which is failure to provide adequate shelter, food, water and medical care.
Animal bites that break the victim's skin must be reported to Animal Services immediately. These animals must be quarantined for a period of ten (10) days regardless of vaccination status (Rabies is not common to pets in Arkansas but precautions must be taken). The owner of the animal is responsible for all costs. The keeping of exotic wildlife including carnivore, innately wild animals, non-human primates and venomous reptiles is prohibited.
Contact Animal Services for complete listing of applicable Animal Control Laws or additional information.
REMEMBER: As a pet owner, you are responsible for following all animal ordinances in Little Rock. Failure to do so not only harms the animal, but also can cost you up to $500 in fines.
Solid Waste Services is responsible for picking up and disposing of dead animals. To have an animal removed, call Little Rock Solid Waste Collection Operations at (501) 562-5102.
Potentially Dangerous Breeds
In February 2008, the Little Rock City Board of Directors passed an ordinance requiring individuals within the City of Little Rock who are owners of certain breeds of dogs to register these animals. The dogs that must be registered are those with a primary breed that is American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier or Staffordshire Terrier. These must be registered at the Little Rock Animal Village, 4500 Kramer Street, Little Rock by May 20, 2008. The Animal Village will be open on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of March, April and May for this registration. The requirements and documents needed for registration are:
- Proof of Spay or Neuter (or Veterinarian documentation of medical condition that would not allow sterilization)
- Photo with owner will be taken at the Animal Village. Dog must be present at registration so that the photo can be taken.
- Micro Chipping of Dog
- Current Rabies Vaccination
- Current City License
- $150.00 Fee (per Animal) for Registration is Required
- All Dogs of these Breeds must be Confined by a Fence or in a Structure.
Note: A maximum of Two (2) dogs of these breeds will be allowed to be owned.
Be a responsible pet owner!
- Make sure your pet is always wearing its tag.
- Follow all animal ordinances for your pet's safety and for your own.
- Have your pet checked regularly by a veterinarian, and make sure your pet is current on all vaccinations.
- Provide adequate confinement for your pet. A properly fenced dog will not be in danger of being hit by a car or possibly contracting disease.
- Take heed of weather conditions. Just like humans, pets are sensitive to extreme temperatures.
- For more information on properly caring for your pet, call your veterinarian.
- Adopt-A-Pet!: The Animal Village has a number of dogs and cats that need loving homes. Visit our facility to meet some of our eligible animals. Our adoption fees range from $80-$100. Give a lonely dog or cat a home. You'll be saving a life and gaining a lifelong friend!
- Volunteer!: Our volunteers are indispensable, and there are never enough of them. We need extra help in adoption services, foster care, and a variety of other animal services. Call our facility, or come by for a visit anytime.
- Children must be taught how to properly treat our furry friends. Teaching a child responsibility and respect for animals reduces the chance of animal bites and scratches, and makes them a responsible pet owner in the future. Call Animal Services or your veterinarian for more information on teaching children the basics of pet care and interaction.
- Animal Service Officers work to protect you. The Animal Services Staff appreciates your cooperation with animal control situations.
- Your pet cannot talk. If he is lost, the only hope of identifying him is his city dog license or a microchip. You should have a picture of your pet, as well as a description including height, weight, age, color and distinctive markings. These items will help us determine whether or not your pet is in our care.
Little Rock Animal Services will be offering a volunteer workshop. This workshop will entail an intense look at Animal Services and the Animal Shelter to give citizens an in-depth look at the challenges that face staff daily in public safety, animal welfare, animal care as well as adoptions. This program will allow staff to better care for the animals in custody of the City as well as inform citizens on ordinances and proper animal care.
The program will be offered in four (4) parts:
1. Animal Services and Basic Care: This segment will teach all the different aspects of Animal Services to include history and current policies. This portion of the program will also include basic tips to caring and socializing our adoptable animals.
2. Animal Care: This segment of the training will get into the other aspects of cleaning kennels, laundry, dealing with the dogs in the sheltered kennels and proper health care.
3. Customer Service: Will teach volunteers to interact with the public and assist in adoptions, relinquishments and reclaiming lost pets.
4. Temperament evaluations: Will assist staff in making sure the animals ready for adoption are ready for a family and ensure that those coming into adopt are able to pick the best dog or cat for their family.
For More Information
Tracy Roark, Manager
Little Rock Animal Village and Education Center
4500 Kramer Street
Little Rock, AR 72204
(501) 376-7856 (Fax)
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What Everyone Ought to Know About Diabetes and Sleep
You probably know that watching what you eat is important for managing your diabetes, but you may not realize that how you sleep can have a big impact too. In fact, the relationship between diabetes and sleep runs two ways.
Sleep issues can increase your risk for diabetes, and diabetes can interfere with your sleep.
If you’re living with diabetes, ask yourself whether you’re tossing and turning at night. Learning more about the connection between diabetes and sleep can help you to protect your health.
Discover how you can boost brainpower, enhance your mood, restore energy levels, and nourish and protect your brain.
There are several common symptoms of diabetes that are likely to keep you up at night:
– Always thirsty
– Frequent Hunger
– Blurry Vision
– Tingling in the legs
– Numbness in the legs, feet
– Frequent urination
– Slow to heal wounds or bruises
1. Eat a balanced diet. When you’re tired, you may be tempted to seek energy from junk food and excess calories, but that backfires by spiking your blood sugar levels, which means you’ll be making frequent trips to the bathroom at night to urinate. Break the cycle by consuming adequate portions of wholesome foods earlier in the day.
2. Stay hydrated. Diabetes can also make you thirsty. Keep a water bottle by your bed in case you need a sip.
3. Treat apnea. Apnea causes pauses in breathing while you sleep, and it’s often associated with diabetes. Masks and other devices are available that can open your airways and provide relief.
4. Attend to RLS. Restless Leg Syndrome is another condition that may accompany diabetes. Massage, exercise, and medication may help if you’re bothered by the urge to move your legs at night.
5. Lose weight. Slimming down can help you to prevent diabetes or reduce the symptoms. It also lowers your risk for apnea.
6. Talk with your doctor. If you’re still up at night, your doctor may suggest a sleep study. Being monitored while you sleep is an effective way to target your individual needs.
1. Sleep deprivation can cause hormonal changes similar to diabetes. When you’re short on rest, your body may have trouble using insulin efficiently, so your blood sugar rises. In addition, lack of sleep can contribute to weight gain, which is also a risk factor for diabetes.
2. Keep a consistent schedule. Try to go to bed and wake up at about the same time each day. That includes weekends and holidays.
3. Deal with stress. Knowing how to relax makes it easier to drop off to sleep faster. Develop a daily meditation practice or find a hobby that helps you release tension.
4. Darken your bedroom. Bright lights stimulate your brain. Stay away from television and computer screens for at least a couple of hours before bedtime. Consider installing blackout curtains in your bedroom.
5. Block out the noise. If noisy neighbors and car alarms are disrupting your dreams, screen out the background sounds. Use a white noise machine or turn on a fan.
6. Change your bedding. It may be time to replace your mattress if it’s causing discomfort. Strategically placed pillows can help too. For example, support your hips with a small cushion between your knees if you lie on your side.
7. Exercise regularly. Many studies show that adults who exercise report having better sleep. Aim to work out for at least 30 minutes on at least 3 days a week. Find a variety of activities you enjoy and will want to stick with.
More than 30 million Americans are currently living with diabetes and that number is expected to double or triple by 2050, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sleeping well can help you to reduce your risk or manage the symptoms of diabetes so you can lead a longer and more active life.
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Many types of physical therapy exist, but therapists can choose to specialize in one. They include:
Orthopedic physical Therapy: Treats musculoskeletal injuries involving muscles, bones and ligaments. You can use it for injuries such as bursitis or tendinitis, fractures and chronic conditions. You can have joint mobilizations, manual therapies, strength training and mobility training for patients.
Geriatric physical Therapy: This therapy is designed to help seniors who are suffering from conditions that limit their mobility. This intervention is designed to improve mobility, decrease pain and enhance physical fitness.
Cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation: This can benefit people affected by some cardiopulmonary conditions and surgical procedures. You can get more endurance and strength from your cardiovascular system.
Wound care therapy can be used to ensure that wounds heal properly by increasing blood flow and oxygen. Physical therapy may include the use of manual therapies, e-stim, compression therapy, and wound care.
Vestibular Therapy: It treats balance issues that may be caused by inner ear disorders. There are a variety of manual exercises that vestibular physical therapists can use to assist patients in regaining their coordination and balance.
Decongestive therapy: This is a treatment that drains accumulated fluid from patients suffering from lymphedema or other fluid conditions.
Treatment of pelvic floor problems: These can include urinary and physical fecal urgency, urinary urgency, pelvic pain, injuries or other conditions.
What To Expect
As a physical therapist, you can help patients through all stages of healing. A physical therapist can provide a single option for patients or may complement other treatments.
Some patients are referred to a physical therapist by a doctor, while others seek therapy themselves.
According to World Confederation for Physical Therapy a physical therapy professional receives training to enable them to:
A physical exam is conducted to assess a person's performance and movement.
Provide a diagnostic, prognosis and treatment plan with both short-term and long-term goals.
Perform physical therapy intervention
Offer self-management advice, with exercises that anyone can do at their home.
Apart from physical manipulation, physical therapy treatment may involve:
E-stimulation (e-stim), there are two kinds of e. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation reduces pain. By contrast, neuromuscular electrical stimulation works to stimulate muscular motor units to improve muscular engagement.
Light therapy: This involves using special lights and lasers to treat certain medical conditions.
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The Museum Studies Program is an interdisciplinary course of study designed to provide students with academic training in essential aspects of museology. The curriculum equips students with a range of museum skills and enables them to tailor learning to their career objectives.
The Program offers three courses of study: an undergraduate certificate, a graduate minor, and a master's degree in Museum Studies.
The Program prepares students for a variety of museum related occupations, including: collections managers, registrars, museum educators, exhibit developers, park interpreters, curators, and administrators.
The Maxwell Museum is an integral partner with the Museum Studies Program; staff teach courses and offer practicum providing invaluable real-world experience in collections management, curation, education, and exhibits.
Go to the Museum Studies Program website for more information.
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Essay: Significance of Cockpit Resource Management
If all the airlines could acknowledge the fact that CRM is an important aspect in reducing the chances of accidents then the aviation industry would go a long way in ensuring the safety of all passengers. If one assumes that he or she is not vulnerable to error, then this increases the chances of the said person of doing an error. Procedures that are to be followed should be analyzed to make sure that they take into consideration all the avenues that can cause a risk or threat. The persons involved should then ensure that they follow the procedure fully and not assume that you have memorized the procedure so there is no need of reading a manual. Such an assumption can go a long way in increasing the chances of errors occurring. Most of the errors that occur are because of violations of laid down procedures and are mostly caused by assumptions. People should be trained on the importance of following the laid down procedures to the letter and be made to understand that this is for the sake of their safety as well as for the others that they are working together. (Edkins & Pfister 2003 pps 66-102)
Given the magnitude of damage that can result due to a simple mistake by an individual in the cockpit, it is important for all the members of the crew to observe maximum care before they make any important decision. Some behaviors that are exhibited by people in their day-to-day lives can be dangerous if they are carried on to the cockpit. These behaviors include “leadership, briefings, monitoring and cross checking, decision making, and review and modification of plans.” (Helmreich 2000) CRM is important in training crewmembers on how to change some of their behaviors and attitudes that can be dangerous if applied in the cockpit.
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Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, has urged countries to do more to combat serious crime against wildlife.
The prince was speaking in a special video message to delegates at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species that's taking place in Thailand.
Officials from countries all over the world are meeting there to discuss how they can control the illegal trade of endangered species.
Prince William said the illegal killing of African elephants and rhino had reached shocking levels in the past few years.
But he hoped that the work of the delegates could make a difference in helping to protect these animals and other wildlife under threat.
Watch the clip and see what else Prince William had to say...
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Whether it’s government officials or company employees, e-mail users who send messages outside their official government or corporate networks could be putting their organizations at risk for legal action, regulatory compliance problems, intellectual property thefts and more.
Last week’s decision by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to look at the apparent use of outside e-mail accounts by some high-ranking White House staff members illustrates such worries in government, but the issue should also be very much on the minds of corporate leaders, experts say.
The House committee this week plans to interview White House counsel Fred Fielding and the chairmen of the Republican National Committee and the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign to learn more about the use of the outside e-mail accounts and whether the messages on them were archived.
The White House has said that the outside e-mail accounts were used for political communications that would not have been permissible under federal law using the official White House e-mail system. The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from being involved in political activities through their workplaces.
“What’s come to light are individuals not being clear which roles they’re performing when they’re logged in to different e-mail accounts,” said Richi Jennings, an e-mail security analyst with San Francisco-based Ferris Research Inc. “It actually turns out to be quite difficult for all the people all the time to be disciplined enough to use the right e-mail address for the right role.”
The problem is exacerbated by the normal pattern of an e-mail exchange between two or more users, where the original topic can ebb and flow into wider topics as the message thread expands, Jennings said. “It could start out with government topics and then become something more political. People have to have their antennas up, to say ‘maybe we should stop talking about this subject now and switch to the official e-mail system.'”
“People are going to get it wrong,” he said. “I think it’s inevitable that someone’s going to look at this.”
One answer for government and corporate users is to have clear policies in place to let users know what is expected of them at all times to protect their organizations, he said, and to have technological controls to be able to watch and control the way users send and receive e-mails.
Clive Horton, CEO of e-mail security consultants ReSoft International LLC in New Canaan, Conn., said such issues are “an interesting dilemma for a lot of companies because a lot of companies think they’re not under any regulatory requirements” for e-mail retention, archiving and controls. But if an employee sends some kinds of messages, including information on corporate secrets, intellectual property and other sensitive subjects, then such controls could be necessary, Horton said.
“In many cases, it’s not necessarily malicious,” he said, but is still something companies wouldn’t want their employees sending outside of their corporate networks.
A wide range of software tools are available to help companies control what goes in and out of their e-mail systems, including software that can scan messages and categorize them into subjects for analysis. Some applications can allow companies to lock out external consumer e-mail accounts such as Yahoo! Mail, AOL’s AIM mail, Microsoft’s Hotmail and Google Inc.’s Gmail. But with a myriad of free account services available on the Web, not all of the free services can likely be locked out, he said.
Corporate users can choose the appropriate e-mail protection systems, from archiving and tracking software to access lock-downs and perimeter filters that watch what comes in and out and send alerts and other notifications to administrators.
The concern is that if company communications are being conducted outside official corporate e-mail systems, there’s no way to control their security, preservation or use.
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Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR) is the highest volume general purpose synthetic rubber. It can be used in similar applications as NR / IR elastomers, except in severe dynamic application due to the inferior fatigue resistance. Typical applications include drive couplings, haul-off pads, conveyor belts, shoe soles and heels, adhesives, roll coverings and car tires (but not truck tires) and various other molded rubber goods. The typical working temperature range is -25°C to +100°C for static sealing.
Styrene-butadiene rubber market is segmented on the basis of type, end use, and region. Based on the type, the market is segmented into emulsion styrene butadiene rubber, and solution styrene butadiene rubber.
On the basis of the end user, the market is segmented into automotive, construction, industrial, adhesives & sealants, footwear making, electrical & electronics, and others. Geographically, the global styrene butadiene rubber market is segmented into Asia Pacific, North America, Europe, the Middle East & Africa, and Latin America. Among them, Asia Pacific is estimated to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period.
Some of the prominent players in the global styrene butadiene rubber are China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (China), KUMHO PETROCHEMICAL (South Korea), LANXESS (Germany), JSR Corporation (Japan), Trinseo (U.S.), Sibur Holding PAO (Russia), Michelin Corporation (France), Bridgestone Corporation (Japan), Reliance Industries Limited (India), and Versalis S.p.A. (Italy), among others.
The Middle East & Africa is estimated to be the largest SBR market followed by North America and Europe due to strong existence of construction projects. In Europe, Germany, Russia, and Spain are predicted to register a strong growth on account of tremendous demand for SBR in tires manufacturing. In Asia Pacific, countries such as China, India, and South Korea are the fastest growing market for SBR and is estimated to grow with the same pace over the forecast period. Improving living standards along with the flourishing growth of electrical industry is predicted to contribute to the regional market growth.
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There are various types of scheduling algorithm which are used by the operating system to schedule the process on the processor.
Objective of Scheduling Algorithms
There are the following objectives of Scheduling Algorithms:
- Fare allocation of CPU
- Increased throughput
- Improved CPU Utilization
- Minimum Turnaround time
- Minimum response time
- Minimum waiting time
Types of Scheduling Algorithms
There are various types of Scheduling Algorithms:
- First come, first serve (FCFS).
- Shortest Job first (SJF).
- Shortest remaining time first(SRTF).
- Round Robin (RR)
- Priority-based Scheduling
- Highest Response Ration Next
- First Come First Serve (FCFS): - FCFS (First Come First Serve) is either a preemptive or non-preemptive Scheduling algorithm. It is easy to use and understand. In FCFS, jobs are executed on a first-come, first-serve manner. FCFS performance is poor due to the high average waiting time.
- Shortest Job First (SJF): - Shortest Job First is a Non-Preemptive algorithm. In the shortest job first algorithm, the job having shortest or less burst time will get the CPU first. It is a good approach to minimize the waiting time. It is simple to implement in the batch operating system because in this CPU time is known in advance, but it is not used in interactive systems because, in an interactive system, CPU time is not known.
- Shortest Remaining Time First (SRTF): - Shortest Remaining Time First is a Preemptive Scheduling Algorithm in which the operating system schedules the job, based on the remaining time of the execution. The job having the shortest remaining time is executed first.
- Round Robin (RR): - Round Robin is a Preemptive Scheduling Algorithm, which is the most commonly used algorithm in CPU Scheduling.In this, each process is assigned a fix time interval to execute. It is called quantum. In the round-robin, if a process executes in a given time period, then it gets preempted. Round robin is a starvation free CPU scheduling algorithm because all the processes get fair sharing of CPU.
- Priority Based Scheduling: - In Priority-Based Scheduling, all the processes are assigned some priority, and according to the priority, the process gets the CPU. Priority is assigned on the basis of time requirements, memory requirements, and resource requirements. In this, if two processes have the same priority, then the scheduling is done according to their time of arrival or first-come, first-served basis.
- Highest Response Ratio Next: - In Highest Response Ration Next algorithm, the highest response ratio process is scheduled next. This algorithm reduced the problem of starvation in the system.
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Misinformation and the Role of Social Media in Elections
Perhaps no topic from 2016 remains quite as unresolved as the role social media and big tech play in American democracy. Professors and authors Lisa Singh and Ceren Budak will appear in conversation with Peter Hamby (C ’03), Host of Snapchat’s Good Luck America, and Jenna Lowenstein (C ’09), Deputy Campaign Manager for Cory Booker’s 2020 Presidential Campaign and Digital Director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign. Moderated by Issie Lapowsky, a senior reporter for Protocol covering politics and technology, this discussion will explore how misinformation was created and spread during the 2016 election, what has changed since 2016, and what can be done about the problem of misinformation. Join us for this exciting discussion on the roles and responsibility of social media and big technology in the 2020 election.
This event will be live-streamed on GU Politics’ social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube). Or, register here to receive a Zoom link: https://forms.gle/6eypzrcxbLro5u2K9
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Picturesquely set amid volcanoes, Antigua may be antigua (old), but these days there’s always something new percolating along these cobblestone streets, alive with Guatemalans hawking their wares; local commerce; tourists from all over the world; North American kids in town to learn Spanish at the many language school and of course do some partying; expatriates going about their business; and weekenders from Guatemala City.
Some call this Guate’s most charming city, and that’s largely due to the fact that it was the capital of the colony for some 200 years until the 1770s, when so many building were knocked down by an earthquake the Spanish Crown ordered a new capital built. Not that, for the most part, you’d really much notice today; yes, there are ruins here and there, but its square colonial quarter, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is still one of the best preserved and most appealing in the Americas. It’s a romantic, mostly low-slung cityscape of arches, fountains, wrought-iron grills, cupolas, and columns, in varying shades of ochre, pink, yellow, and blue.
Ground zero is of course the Parque Central, around which you’ll find the Cathedral of San José (below), the archbishop’s palace, the Palace of the Captains General, the city hall, and the Portal de las Panaderas (Portico of the Bakers). Nearby Calle del Arco is lined with restaurants, shops, boutique hotels, and a crafts market, and provides one of the signature photo ops, of the eponymous Santa Catalina Arch (above), part of an adjacent former convent. Convents, churches, and monasteries are thick on the ground here, numbering more than 40. Several worth visiting include Santa Catalina, Santa Clara, Las Capuchinas, San Francisco, and La Merced. Others have been deconsecrated and put to work in tourism, such as the Santo Domingo Monastery, which is a splendid luxury hotel and also welcomes visitors to its exhibits and tropical gardens home to exotic twittering birds.
Along the way, be sure to indulge in one of Guatemala’s most typical and tasty products – el café, which will make the coffee you buy in the supermarket back home taste like dirty dishwater. Savour a cup with a delicious local pastry made with coconut, dulce de leche, or sweet potato from the historic Doña María Gordillo sweet shop on Calle Oriente.
Hit the local outdoor market, and the colours multiply like mad. Great photo ops (and tasty fruit for snacks) of course, and right next to it you’ll find another handicrafts market where you will be hard pressed not to drop a few quetzales (the local currency, not the bird) on some of the gorgeous work here, including brilliantly coloured weaving, woodwork, silver, ceramics, and jade. And by the way, if you’re in the market for more contemporary flavours of art, there is no shortage of galleries showcasing the high-quality work of Guatemalan and expat artists in various media.
At day’s end, head to the roof deck of Café Sky (1a Avenida Sur) to catch the spectacular sunset against the craggy peaks of the surrounding volcanoes, then it’s time for a dinner of Guatemalan delicacies at one of the city’s most celebrated restaurants, La Fonda de la Calle Real (5a Avenida Norte; try the exquisite pepián de pollo, chicken in a complex sauce of ground pumpkin seeds, spices, and chiles). Afterward, a stroll along the lamplit cobblestones, less hectic with the daytime traffic gone, brings its own special magic. But if you’re up for something more intense, there are plenty of packed bars and clubs with vibes including salsa, electronic, whatever you want – where the party rocks on till the wee hours. Because in Antigua the draw may be the past, but the feel is very here-and-now.
- Antigua has 45,000 inhabitants.
- The temperature varies from 15 to 22° Celsius (59-72°F). The best time to visit is the dry season from November through May.
- The currency is the quetzal.
- Iberia deals to Guatemala City: from Spain, London.
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If you own a dog then at some point you will probably have a problem with fleas. Flea control is important for both you and your dog. If fleas are on your dog then they are probably in your home. Summer is generally the time when fleas appear in large numbers so flea control around this time is vital.
Fleas can be seen with the naked eye and can be found anywhere on your dog but are more commonly seen on the lower back near the tail. For effective flea control you need to treat the fleas when they are spotted. The longer you wait the more fleas you will get.
There are a large number of products available to control fleas but for effective flea control you need to kill fleas not only on your dog but also in their bedding, in your house and in your garden.
- Millers Forge Deluxe Flea Comb For Pets – This comb can be used easily to remove fleas from your pet. Chrome plated steel with rounded teeth for a gentle touch. The teeth are spaced ultra close to trap fleas when combing. Complete with easy instructions for maximum effectiveness.
- 8oz PPP Flea & Tick Mousse – The easy-to-use product that not only kills fleas and ticks very quickly, but also cleans the animals skin and coat, leaving it shining and pleasantly scented, and no rinsing is required!
Flea collars are an effective form of flea control with herbal flea collars becoming more and more popular. Flea collars are generally a deterrent rather than a cure and should be used as such.
Flea combs are quite effective as they are made specifically to catch fleas and drag them out. Use the comb everyday and also after each wash.
Ensure your dog is bathed regularly. Bathing will kill some of the fleas but not all of them. Use your flea comb after each wash as any fleas that aren’t killed will be stunned and easier to remove.
Wash your dogs bedding regularly and keep the area around your pet’s bed as clean as possible.
Vacuum regularly. Shake flea powder into the vacuum bag before using otherwise the fleas will just jump back out once vacuumed. Better yet, if you can afford to, throw away the vacuum bag after each vacuum.
Products such as Frontline have been known to be a highly effective form of flea control as they kill not only the fleas but also the eggs and the larvae for up to three months. It is easily applied to your pet and is completely waterproof so your dog can continue to swim and be bathed without losing the effectiveness of the product.
Flea control can be difficult but fortunately there are products out there that can help. By following the tips described above and using some of these products you should find your flea problems are over.
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The standards of modesty for most of the inhabitants of Israel, who generally belong to the Christian, Muslim and Jewish faiths, are very conservative. We recommend that your styles are not immodest to offend them and that you will represent our group well. Some areas require women especially to not have bare arms or legs. The Following is the direction to the BYU students :
"Although clothing standards vary from region to region in the Middle East, many contemporary clothing styles violate local modesty standards, in particular those of Jerusalem’s orthodox, conservative Christian, Muslim, or Jewish inhabitants. Even commonly accepted clothing styles worn by students at BYU would be considered immodest by many in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the Middle East."
We suggest that you bring clothing that can be easily hand washed if needed. Jeans are fine to wear but take several days to dry on a clothes line. Laundromat facilities are sometimes available at the hotel for a fee.
Refrain from t-shirts with slogans that may not be understood or political.
Over the shoulder bag is convenient to hold your guide book, camera, money etc. or a jacket with several pockets
I use zip lock plastic bags or packing cubes to pack all groups of things in my suit case. We may have our bags opened and searched so putting it back together in bags is much easier and less embarrassing.
Another tip that has worked well is to put a smaller suitcase inside a larger one and then pack your things in the small one and around the inside of the larger one. This allows you to bring home more souvenirs in the extra bag, instead of paying high shipping costs.
We like to take a paper list of phone numbers, credit card numbers for additional reference.
Make a copy of your passport and pack it in a suitcase as a backup. During the day your passport stays in your room hotel safe.
1 sweater or sweat shirt
1 church clothes – after church we will continue to see Christ centered sites. You could stay in your church clothes or change before getting back into the bus. Men usually bring a white shirt and tie and women a skirt. We can change after Sacrament meeting in the BYU center. We wear our walking shoes to church.
10 undergarments and pairs of socks or 5 to wash half way through the trip
1 pair of good walking shoes (make sure they are comfortable)
1 pair water shoes or old tennis shoes or water proof sandals - for Hezekiah’s tunnel and the Dead Sea.
1 modest swim suit (inexpensive one – the Dead Sea is harsh on fabric)
1 pair pants - to roll up to wade through Hezekiah’s tunnel. The water goes from knee to hip depth,
(We strongly suggest that you don’t miss either Hezekiah’s tunnel or floating in the Dead Sea)
1 pair pajamas, robe, slippers
1 large scarf (pashmina) for women – at some sites you will be asked to cover your head and can be wrapped over regular clothes. Scarves are sold everywhere and make a nice souvenir.
Toiletries and make-up as needed
Small containers of shampoo and conditioner – if you want different than the hospitality ones
Hair dryers are usually in our hotel rooms
Curling irons – take appropriate adaptors and or converters
Laundry soap to wash out clothing. Usually, a clothesline is in the bathrooms. Laundry services are usually available at the hotel for a fee.
Camera- enough memory and batteries for the trip
Laptops, tablets other electrical equipment – back up battery is recommended. Due to the
electrical difference in Israel, these devices will run slower even with a converter.
Snacks: granola bars, dried apples, nuts, jerky etc. these are for your comfort if lunch time is not consistent.
mini Flashlight - for Hezekiah’s tunnel. A cell phone also works fine.
Make sure you have enough prescription medicine for the 11 day trip. Bring a copy of your prescription might be helpful, just in case.
Over the counter medicine as needed: Pain relievers, sore throat lozenges, antacid tablets, anti-diarrhea medications, anti-bacterial gel, laxatives to have for your convenience. Sometimes new foods, culture and travel can cause changes in digestion.
There are pharmacies for emergencies but the brands and language will not be the same and the price will be much higher. More importantly, taking time from our itinerary to find medication will affect our schedule.
The United States uses 110 volt alternating current (AC) at 60 cycles, while the majority of the world operates on 220 volt AC at 50 cycles. The unfortunate result is that when you plug an American appliance into a foreign outlet, it draws too much current and is damaged or burned out.
Some appliances have the proper converters on the outlet cord but you still need an adaptor, having two small round-shaped pins that fit into the outlets. We have used converters and had mixed results depending on the device. Our laptop has usually worked because of the converters - that brick looking, black box connecting to the cord. Internet is available in the hotels.
International calling plans are available through your provider. Internet communications like Skype or FaceTime often work pretty well in the hotels.
Cash is preferred – the current rate for a shekel is 0.31. So if something is 4 shekels it is $1.22
We like to take $100.00 in ones and roll them up separately in our pocket. They are easy to take out one at a time and all the street vendors love dollars. You will get change in shekels.
Credit cards are accepted at most stores but they might want to add 3% unless it is a high priced item.
Travelers checks - You do not need to buy them, unless that is your preference.
Many stores, especially because we are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will take a personal check. But please remember the reputation of trust that the church has created in Israel and do not bounce a check. If a BYU Student bounces a check they must pay the vendor double and could be sent home. The church has invested greatly in our public relations.
Lunch – The average lunch is $12.00-20.00. All the food is delicious Mediterranean fare. Falafel and Shawarma are common meals. There are many other options of vegetables, juices, nuts and fruit available most everywhere. We recommend that you also pack snack food, because our stop time for lunch will vary each day. One day it will be at 11:30am or 1:30pm so having something with you is more comfortable. Some travelers don’t buy a lunch because the breakfasts and dinners are plentiful so snacks are enough.
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In Reply The focus of much current research has been the role of human papilloma virus (HPV) in oropharyngeal cancer, especially as a separate risk factor, or even disease process, compared with smoking-related cancer of the oropharynx. Our data1 support previous research showing that oral cavity cancer is slightly more prevalent than oropharyngeal cancer, and that this disparity is largely due to increased numbers of nonsmokers, especially women, who develop oral cavity cancers. In our series, oral cavity cancers occurred in lifelong nonsmokers in 87 patients compared with only 48 patients with oropharyngeal cancer. Mentioning HPV in the title of our article1 was partly to bring attention to the fact that despite the significant research focus on HPV oropharyngeal cancers, nonsmokers are much more likely to develop oral cavity cancers, and a risk factor more important than HPV may be as yet be unrecognized or underinvestigated.
Perry BJ, Zammit AP, Perry CFL. Bringing Light to Dental Trauma and Oral Cavity Cancer—Reply. JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2015;141(11):1029–1030. doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2015.2410
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Considering the collapse in home prices in 2007 and 2008, you might think that housing would have gotten more affordable. You would be wrong.
More Americans found housing unaffordable last year, even though home prices across the U.S. have taken a major fall. More than 40 million spent 30% or more of their household income on housing costs, 600,000 more than in 2007, according to 2008 Census data released Monday. That includes homeowners with and without mortgages, as well as renters.
From 2007 to 2008 the homeownership rate fell more than half a percentage point, to 66.6% — the lowest level since 2002, says Mark Mather, a vice president at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C.
Many of those former homeowners have become renters, a segment feeling the brunt of steep housing costs. About half of renters spend at least 30% of their before-tax pay for housing.
Overall, the number of renters swelled by nearly 900,000 in 2008 compared with 2007. In the same time, renters stretching financially to make their rent rose by 601,000.
The new Census data show affordability remains difficult in many states, even in those hard hit by foreclosures and falling home values. Median housing costs for owners with mortgages, after adjusting for inflation, increased in 2008 from 2007 for nine states and decreased for eight states.
That's partly because existing homeowners aren't receiving the benefits of cheaper housing. They are often stuck in their properties, owing more than their homes are worth but unable to find a buyer.
Unless you are in the inflating portion of a speculative bubble, then affordability is key. With rising foreclosure rates and negative equity spreading across the board, bankruptcy filings approaching an all-time high, a falling rate of affordability dooms any talk of a bottom in housing.
It's just another sign that the housing bust still has a very long ways to go.
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Madawaska, Maine - If you are frustrated with cross-border travel, don't be. Customs and Border Protection officers in the St. John Valley are here to assist you with your cross-border travel during the holidays. These officers are a part of America's first line of defense and you can have peace of mind knowing these men and women are serving to protect our northern borders in the valley 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
CBP officers will treat each person who enters through a port of entry equally throughout each step of the inspection process. Be cognizant that while each officer is upholding the law and fulfilling their daily duties in protecting America, each traveler also serves a very important role in the process. To assist travelers in their role and expedite travelers at the border, CBP has provided 10 holiday season border travel tips. For more information, please visit the "Know Before You Go" website.
- Have your document ready, for example a valid passport, passport card, nexus card, "green card" or other Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) acceptable document. For more information, please visit the WHTI website.
- Vehicle occupants should not use cell phones while approaching the port or during the inspection process. Cell phone usage slows down the inspection process and causes delays for everyone in line.
- Goods and gifts -When crossing the border, each vehicle and its contents are subject to search. Please keep this in mind when transporting gifts for special occasions and the holidays. Remember to "declare everything purchased or acquired outside of the United States." If duty is applicable, credit cards or cash payment in U.S. currency is acceptable.
- Food items - Prepared foods for personal consumption or for family/friend gatherings is allowed. If bringing food items for resale or for commercial holiday parties go to the FDA Web site or contact your local CBP office for more information. However, if you plan to cross the border with fresh meats, fruits, and vegetables and you're not sure if they are allowed into the United States, please check with your local CBP office before arrival.
- Trees/Wreaths - Though many Christmas trees/wreaths sold commercially in the U.S. originated from Canada, personal importation of trees or wreaths may require certain agricultural documentation at the border. Again, it is always best to check with your local CBP office if you have any questions.
- Firewood - When roasting chestnuts on an open fire during the holidays, please remember, since Jan. 1, 2009, all firewood is prohibited from entering the U.S. unless it has been properly "treated." See your local CBP office for more information.
- Alcohol/Tobacco/Firearms - In addition to federal laws, travelers entering the U.S. at Maine ports of entry are also subject to all state alcohol/tobacco/firearm laws. Often times, state laws can be more restrictive than federal laws. If transporting any of these items over the holidays, please check with local law enforcement to see if any restrictions apply.
- Pets - Cats and dogs must be free of disease and illness when entering the U.S. In addition, dog owners must be able to show proof of rabies vaccination. If crossing with a "puppy for Christmas", certain paperwork will need to be completed at the border for the "new addition to the family."
- Medicine/Narcotics - Travelers must declare medications at the border. All valid non-expired prescription medications should be in the original prescription containers with all pertinent information listed on the outside. Narcotics and dangerous drugs are prohibited entry. There are severe civil and/or criminal penalties if imported.
- Currency - There is no limit on total amount of monetary instruments that may be brought in or taken out of the U.S. However, if you are transporting more than $10,000 you must file a Report of International Transportation of International Currency or Monetary Instruments (FinCen 105). Failure to properly declare or report the importation or exportation of currency or monetary instruments in excess of $10,000 could result in seizure.
The 10 border travel tips will be of assistance in averting any potential frustrations when crossing the border during the holiday season. For more information on traveling to or from the U.S. or locating a CBP office, please visit the CBP website.
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A great deal has already been said and written about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email address during her time as Secretary of State, and I’m sure there will be more such conversation over the 19 months leading up to the 2016 election. But little has been made of what I consider one of the more significant stories in response to this controversy/scandal/tempest in a teapot: Colin Powell’s statement that he also used a private email address during his time as Secretary of State, and that many of the messages he sent in that role have thus likely been lost.
There are, of course, reasons for the lack of widespread outrage about Powell’s revelations and actions; for one thing, he’s probably not running for president. But seen through the lens of history, the outrage over Hillary’s emails falls in line with one of America’s most longstanding social traditions: the overt application of double standards to men and women in both public and private life.
The second-wave feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s worked consistently to highlight and push back on such double standards. Whether responding to wage gaps and other social inequalities with the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, supporting domestic abuse and spousal rape laws to combat marital imbalances, arguing for birth control and other means for women to achieve comparable sexual freedom to men, or critiquing popular culture’s more limiting and damaging depictions of women than those of men, these activists made double standards a focus of their ideas and efforts. But the American tradition of gendered double standards goes back much further than the mid-20th century, and better engaging with those histories helps us understand the depth and breadth of the issue.
Take communal responses to moments of cross-dressing, for example. In 1837, Harvard undergraduate James Russell Lowell famously dressed in women’s clothing to perform the role of Abby Roe in the Hasty Pudding Club’s annual theatrical production. Lowell’s drag performance was an instant hit and became an annual part of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, one that has continued for more than a century and a half to nothing but laughter and applause. Similarly, the moment did not in any way derail Lowell’s Harvard career, nor his professional trajectory toward a role as one of the era’s most popular and beloved poets.
In “A Law More Nice than Just,” a July 1858 newspaper column for the New York Ledger, popular journalist Fanny Fern (a pseudonym for Sara Payson Willis Parton) highlighted a far different moment for a woman in public. Emma Wilson, like Fern a resident of New York City, had been recently arrested “for wearing men’s apparel,” in violation of a law prohibiting women for wearing “breeches” and other clothing deemed male. Fern would continue to write about similar laws and arrests, including a June 1866 column on an arrest of a San Francisco woman for the same offense. The same action that drew laughter and applause for Lowell, and inaugurated one of Harvard’s most famous annual traditions, led to dire and damaging outcomes for these women.
In her private life, Fern experienced another set of gendered double standards: those related to marriage, law, and property. Widowed young and raising two small children (after the death of a third), unable to find work in the few fields open to women in the era, and barely supported by either her parents or her in-laws, Fern remarried Samuel P. Farrington in 1849. Farrington turned out to be abusive and violent, and two years later Fern moved out. Because Fern was not legally able to file for divorce, however, Farrington maintained the upper hand—moving away from the area to avoid having to support his wife, spreading malicious rumors that impacted her ability to find work or other support, and filing for divorce after two years on grounds of “desertion.” Had Fern not begun publishing her newspaper columns in this period—and even there her brother, writer and editor N.P. Willis, attempted to block the publication of her writing in his and other papers—she and her daughters might well have been unable to survive. Thanks to these kinds of marital and legal double standards, many 19th century women were left in precisely that situation.
The 2016 presidential campaign will no doubt include many more such double standards, questions or perceptions that affect men and women in distinct and contradictory ways. The more we can remember that gendered American history, the more we’ll be able to recognize and push back on those narratives in this potentially historic moment as well.
Ben Railton is an Associate Professor of English at Fitchburg State University and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network.
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And the Tide Comes In…Exploring a Georgia Salt Marsh
Illustrated by Joyce Mihran Turley
And the Tide Comes In… Exploring a Georgia Salt Marsh is a children’s picture book in which a young girl shows her visiting cousin the beautiful local salt marsh, and teaches her about its ecological complexity, including the twice-daily tides that submerge it! From the life cycles of shrimp and snails, to roaming raccoons and skittering crabs, the salt marsh is shared by a wide variety of amazing and busy animals! The story is told in the style of a friendly narrative, supplemented with fact-filled sidebars. “All salt marshes are covered by salty water brought in from the ocean during high tide, and exposed to the air during low tide. Although the particular plants and animals found in marshes do differ from one area to another, they are all shared by land and marine animals, and they’re all covered by grasses that can withstand getting flooded by salt water.” Wonderful color illustrations enhance this enjoyable and educational treasury, highly recommended especially for public library children’s collections. 2012, Taylor Trade Publishing, Ages 8 to 11, $15.95. REVIEWER: Midwest Book Review (Children’s Bookwatch).
And Then It’s Spring
Illustrated by Erin E. Stead
A bespectacled lad in a red scarf and mittens surveys the brown of an early spring landscape, plants a few seeds and waits. With every page turn, as the season advances, the boy’s attire changes from rain slicker to blue jacket to striped t-shirt and the earth evolves from a “hopeful” brown to a “greenish hum” underground to a rich, lively green. The text by first-time author Julie Fogliano is spare and soft as a breath, with the story drama being carried largely by Erin Stead’s illustrations. As she did so beautifully in A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Caldecott Medal 2011), Stead conveys changes in mood and time through her color palette and the result is well paced and visually arresting. 2012, Roaring Brook/Macmillan, Ages 3 to 7, $16.99. REVIEWER: Mary Quattlebaum (Children’s Literature).
Backyard Biology: Investigate Habitats Outside Your Door with 25 Projects
This addition to the Build It Yourself series incorporates 25 projects for kids to try as they explore the “ecosystems that are outside your door.” The book’s eight chapters cover biology (and microbiology), cells, and the life cycles of both plants and animals, among other topics; definitions of key terms appear throughout, as do Hetland’s cartoons and diagrams. Latham’s accessible, encouraging tone, along with such experiments as creating habitats for woodlice (aka roly-polies) and building bird nests using natural materials, should pique kids’ interest and get them outdoors. 2013, Nomad Press, Ages 9–12, $15.95. REVIEWER: Publishers Weekly.
Denise Dowling Mortenson
Illustrated by Cece Bell
Cece Bell provides fun illustrations for Bug Patrol, which follows Captain Bob the bug as he’s on the beat getting bugs out of trouble in a busy world. His first job, a donut attack by rude urban ants, is quickly solved by enforcing manners – and beetle bumping at the mall is treated with admonishments to be more patient with fellow bugs. A whimsical dialogue and fun encounters make this a winning pick for beginning readers. 2012, Clarion Books, Ages 4+, $16.99. REVIEWER: Midwest Book Review (Children’s Bookwatch).
Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery From Your Own Backyard
Loree Griffin Burns
Photographs by Ellen Harasimowicz
The subtitle on the cover gives a big clue as to the contents: “Be a part of scientific discovery from your own backyard.” The definitions of a citizen, science and citizen science are presented in the introduction. Everyday people who use their senses and smarts to understand the world can be citizen scientists. There are four major sections which follow the seasons and start with fall. During the fall keep your eyes open for butterflies and follow the directions for capturing one in your butterfly net, carefully remove it and study the four wings and especially the beautiful markings–sometimes you may find that you have caught a lookalike, but that is fine too. If you want a bigger challenge determine what sex the butterfly is by again following the explanation and directions in the text. Only males have scent pouches. Next tag the butterfly and then let it go free. It was through this tagging that Dr. Fred Urquhart was able to determine when monarchs spent the winter and with the help of hundreds of citizens he was able to determine the two migratory paths depending on whether the monarchs lived to the east or west of the Rocky Mountains. There is much more information about the butterflies and birds, frogs and ladybugs in the other sections of the book. The text is engaging and informative. The illustrations which are mostly photographs are excellent and of high quality. This is a science book that will definitely lure in young readers and they will leave them anxious to participate and be informed about these creatures that for the most part live right in our backyards. 2012, Henry Holt, Ages 8 to 12, $19.99. REVIEWER: Marilyn Courtot (Children’s Literature).
by Brenda Guiberson
Illustrations by Gennady Spirin
The team behind Life in the Boreal Forest focuses on a single animal: frogs. The magnificently gifted Spirin paints larger-than-life portraits of 11 frog species from every corner of the world, showing the texture of their skin and the gleam of their eyes in intricately worked, tapestry-like spreads. Many of the frogs have unique, even startling childbearing behaviors. In some species, males tend the developing frog eggs. The Darwin’s frog, from Chile, wins the prize for the strangest place to keep them: “They slither into his vocal sacs, where he keeps them safe and moist for 7 weeks. Then he gives a big yawn, and little froglets pop out.” The consciousness of the fragility of frogs and their dependence on clean air and water to survive is emphasized throughout. Guiberson speaks of frog voices as a beacon, a signal of the Earth’s continued health: “A frog song is a celebration of clean water, plants, and insects to eat. Chiroop. Pribble!” Back matter supplies additional information about frog species, resources, and threats. Spirin’s paintings make this a book to treasure. 2012, Henry Holt, Ages 4–8, $17.99. REVIEWER: Publishers Weekly.
Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard
Annette LeBlanc Cate
Cate has packed this small format book with all sorts of information about birding and lots of humor. She makes no presumptions about the reader’s interest but is sure to draw them in with her chatty style and humorous sketches. She starts small, with emphasizing just looking around where you live, whether it be city, suburb, or country, and gives basic tips about what to do and bring, using a minimalist approach. Readers are encouraged to sketch, look and focus—observing shape, size, plumage, behavior, sounds, habitat, and even migration. Birds banter in dialogue balloons, adding more information to the text. Cate’s chatty style keeps readers going; they won’t want to skip a single page for fear of missing some of the repartee. While the pages appear jam-packed with the pen-and-ink and watercolor illustrations, the captivating illustrations are such fun that it’s OK. It’s the kind of book that a reader can read cover-to-cover or put down, even for weeks, and still be learning from it. Her enthusiasm is catching and youngsters will return to these pages again and again. Hopefully they follow her advice to draw, draw, draw. An annotated bibliography, index, and tips for drawing complete this excellent nonfiction book. 2013, Candlewick, Ages 8 to 12, $18.00. REVIEWER: Peg Glisson(Children’s Literature)
Nasty Bugs : Poems
Compiled by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated by Will Terry
Sixteen poems, three of which were commissioned for this book, inform and entertain readers. Poets include Hopkins, X. J. Kennedy, Marilyn Singer, J. Patrick Lewis, Alice Schertle, Douglas Florian, and several other well-known poets. Their creatures bite and suck their ways through plants, animals, humans, and other things like wood in poems of free verse or tight rhythm and rhyme. The vocabulary is marvelous, with inventive words such as “yum-yucky” and “pediculous;” descriptive terms such as writhing, stealthy, and blood-filled; and rich language filled with words like armament, marbled, gobble, and genealogy. These poems aren’t just for fun, though, as they are packed with information about the bugs’ modus operandi and/or consequences of their actions. Many familiar insects, including bedbugs, fleas, lice, mosquitoes, and wasps, are included along with some less familiar insects (boll weevil, potato beetle, chigger). Will Terry’s brightly colored illustrations mostly fill the pages, with the poems lying over each illustration. His bugs feature exaggerated eyes, legs, and stingers as they skitter, crawl, or eat their way across each page. His focus is always the bug’s line and shape, but each drawing is filled with other details to add to the ick-factor. His perspectives vary and draw the reader into the situation. I guarantee these poems and illustrations will have you scratching before the end of the book! Three pages of information on each bug are an added plus; this back matter includes a thumbprint size illustration, a one-liner from the poem, each bug’s scientific name or order, and facts about each bug. The poems read aloud well and offer some opportunities for dramatic readings. This is not just for budding entomologists; even those grossed out by bugs of all shapes and sizes will be smiling as they learn. 2012, Dial/Penguin, Ages 5 to 9, $17.99. REVIEWER: Peg Glisson (Children’s Literature).
Plant a Little Seed
Planting a little seed, taking care to give it the things it needs like water and weeding, also takes a lot of patience–or as this lovely picture book says, a lot of waiting and dreaming as the seed takes its time to send down roots and send up sprouts and leaves; eventually the fruits and vegetables begin to show and grow. In autumn, all that dreaming and waiting ends up in a harvest of the garden’s gifts. Some will be pickled, baked, frozen or dried but there will be plenty for a glorious autumn feast with family and friends. Christensen’s simple lyrical text recounts the garden growing cycle. However, her wood cut illustrations contribute strongly to the magic of a garden. She follows two children, a blond girl and dark-skinned boy who begin by planting and end by using the seeds from last year’s produce to plant a new garden the following spring. These two are shown doing the all-important job of waiting and dreaming. This is an excellent book for early childhood classrooms (Pre-k to 3rd) that are exploring plants or doing an inquiry around food, especially if they are looking at the farm to table cycle. 2012, Roaring Brook Press, Ages 5 to 8, $17.99. REVIEWER: Mary Hynes-Berry (Children’s Literature).
Pug: And Other Animal Poems
Pictures by Steve Jenkins
Following up on Animal Poems, Jenkins again selects an array of elegant free verse by classic twentieth-century poet Valerie Worth, combining each of the eighteen verses with a dramatic cut-paper portrait of its animal subject. Worth’s poems are precise and gemlike in their glittering compactness; some are gently playful (pugs are “what/ Some people/ Might call plug-ugly/ Perhaps because, for/ Dogs, they look/ A lot like people”), others reach heights of grandeur (“The bull/ Would not/ Melt: but/ Had to be/ Hacked out,/ Rough-hewn,/ From the planet’s/ Hard side”), and all display her delight in consonance, assonance, and careful wordsmithing. Jenkins ramps up the impact with compositions of tight focus, posing animals mostly against contrasting backdrops of solid rich color (the bull’s dark bulk looms across a three-quarter spread of flame red; a firefly, lacework wings in stop-motion stillness mid-flight, floats in a sea of nocturnal dark blue). His birds especially transcend the static genre, with geese bodies contracting and flexing as they soar and pigeons’ wing-beats fluttering across a city skyline. The sonorousness of the poems make them terrific readalouds, their compactness and engaging subject will appeal to reluctant readers, and their craftsmanship will draw established poetry fans. 2013, Ferguson/Farrar, Grades 3-7, $16.99. Grades 3-7. REVIEWER: Deborah Stevenson (The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books).
Secrets of the Garden: Food Chains and the Food Web in Our Backyard
Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Illustrated by Priscilla Lamont
Gardens green and growing–both author and illustrator have been inspired by special ones. Zoehfeld remembers her mother’s carrots, sweet peas, and tomatoes, while Lamont’s garden in England’s Kent produces spinach, apples, and plums. Their collaboration blossoms, too, as young Alice (named perhaps after Alice Waters, creator of the “Edible Schoolyard”) works with her family to plant seeds in spring, water them, and watch them sprout. Each member has his or her own plot; Alice plants zucchini, radishes, and carrots. As the season progresses, two feisty and very well-informed hens explain to readers the intricacies of food chains they can see in their own gardens. Lamont’s gorgeous watercolors bring to life the luscious vegetables, predators like hawks, and prey like mice (the cat, Honey, is especially fond of them). Bugs are of interest, too, as ladybugs, spiders, caterpillars, and potato bugs are investigated and pictured by Lamont (earthworms, too). Summer brings harvests and a flurry of canning tomatoes, pickling beans, and freezing corn for the winter, when the family plans next year’s garden (strawberries? pumpkins?) in their snug wooden farmhouse. Especially appealing are a page that follows an underground earthworm tunnel with winding words, the garden’s food web charted by the chickens, and lovely endpapers showing a painted plan of house, yard, and garden plots, where plants, animals, and humans come together to make their own teeming ecosystem. Presented with imagination, humor, and love by two talented artists, these garden secrets will work their magic in the classroom, for a family, or as a very special gift for a young gardener. 2012, Knopf/Random House, Ages 5 to 10, $16.99. REVIEWER: Barbara L. Talcroft (Children’s Literature).
Seeds, Bees, Butterflies, and More! : Poems For Two Voices
Illustrated by Eugene Yelchin
Yelchin’s cheerful gouache illustrations call to mind sidewalk chalk art in this collection of nature- and spring-themed poems designed to be recited by two readers. The poems’ alternating parts are differentiated by color, with multicolored phrases intended to be read in unison. Gerber’s poems are casually conversational (“It’s springtime!/ Will you be up soon?/ I feel sure you’ll be cute,” a hungry rabbit urges a green sprout), while she sneaks in a surprising amount of information about flowers, berries, bugs, and more, as well as topics including germination and pollination. The airy poems are pleasing, but maybe not perennial. 2013, Henry Holt, Ages 4–up, $17.99. REVIEWER: Publishers Weekly.
Illustrated by Leslie Evans
Cataloging in Publication
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2013.
Bright magenta and pink cherry blossoms reach out to a high-swinging girl in a deep pink top and sandals—it is spring! Open the book for a blast of brilliant new-leaf green as the girl and a friend in turquoise take off for the park to check out the trees, “dressed up for their yearly show.” The predominant color is the pink of cherry, magnolia, and redbud with a deeper rosy-red for red maple blossoms; even the white dogwood and crab apple petals are outlined in pale pink. Beeches and white oaks put forth green-gold flowers in clusters, while the conifers—white pine and balsam fir—sprout tiny yellow blossoms and cones with some touches of pink on female and male flowers hidden under their twigs. As a windy spring rain begins to fall, the girls are showered with pink magnolia petals and race to catch them. Gerber tells the story in rhyming quatrains, two lines to a page, deftly incorporating the information into her verses. Artist Lewis has created her linoleum block prints with watercolor additions in her Maine letterpress studio, producing an overall impression of spring in its pink and delicate green garb, not exactly realistic but making use of line and color to evoke the season. The girls provide action to move the tale along and keep the pages turning. Especially decorative is a double-page layout of stylized flowers from each of the ten trees. Since further information about tree lifecycles is added for teachers or parents, the book would make a wonderful introduction for a spring field trip to a park or botanical garden, though these are mainly eastern or northeastern trees. Spring is different in other environments. REVIEWER: Barbara L. Talcroft (Children’s Literature).
A Stick is an Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play
Illustrated by LeUyen Pham
Boys and girls go outside to enjoy all kinds of outdoor games from morning to night. There is a jolly poem for each activity, from playing ball and racing: “Everything’s a blast / when you do it really fast,” jacks and bubble-blowing, jumping rope and swinging, to running in the sprinkler, hide-and-seek, hopscotch, and catching fireflies. Each activity is celebrated with joy, an encouragement to youngsters to get out of the house into the great outdoors. Pham creates a festive cast of kids engaging playfully in the various games. The double-page scenes focus on them and such simple props as a splashing sprinkler, an upside down world as seen from the monkey bars, or a spinning basketball over some outstretched hands. There is a clean-cut style to the pencil and ink figures generated digitally that liberates them from the mostly solid colored backgrounds, adding to the energetic projections. 2012, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Ages 4 to 8, $16.99. REVIEWERS: Ken Marantz and Sylvia Marantz (Children’s Literature).
Spare poetic text describes the multitude of activities that can be found taking place beneath the soil: “Creatures dig/ and run around./ Past highways and byways./ Squirm-ways and worm-ways./ Digging furrows and burrows,/ round roots and bones,/ rocks and stones.” A rhyming refrain (“Low down./ Way down./ Underground”) opens and closes this introduction to animal life under the dirt, and a closing spread helpfully names and describes the various creatures that are depicted throughout the book. The information presented in this end matter is brief and concise in accordance with its youthful audience, and the thumbnail illustrations will prove immensely useful to readers, who may have some trouble identifying a few of the animals pictured on the previous pages. It can occasionally be a bit tricky to find the burrowing creatures amid the earth they inhabit, so viewers will appreciate additional time for closer exploration; the intriguing inclusion of “copy transfer elements, such as a photocopied key, toy car, or wrench that are “hidden” in the soil, also add further reward for poring over the pages. Despite the slight visual confusion of some pictures, this is a very serviceable and age-appropriate introduction to studies of underground fauna, and a fine book to share before going outside to dig in the dirt. 2012, Beach Lane/Simon, Ages 3 to 6 yrs, $17.99. REVIEWER: Jeannette Hulick (The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books).
The World is Waiting For You
As she did in One World, One Day, Kerley pairs lean prose with exquisite photographs (many from National Geographic’s archives) in this exuberant celebration of the boundless possibilities life holds for children. As in the earlier book, smaller versions of the photos also appear at book’s end, annotated with information about the activities and locations depicted, as well as comments from the photographers. Kerley uses two visual narratives to encourage readers to explore the world around them. Photographs of children involved in outdoor activities alternate with thematically linked images of scientists and adventurers. A photograph of a child playing under a waterfall in Bali (“Make a splash. Get a little too wet”) is followed by a shot of oceanographer Sylvia Earle diving with dolphins near the Bahamas (“Dive in”); an image of a girl standing on a Florida beach (“face the wind…”) leads into a shot of a biologist/photographer paragliding over Patagonia (“…and soar”). Whether portraying an everyday activity or an extraordinary feat of science and exploration, the daring photographs and invigorating text aim to inspire—and succeed. 2013, National Geographic, Ages 4–8, $17.95. REVIEWER: Publishers Weekly.
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No human remains were thought to be found as a result.
"And the main thing they're looking for is human remains."
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To date, 600 human remains have been found, including about 50 children and 100 women.
Hundreds of small human remains have also been found there.
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Spoken into Being
Divine Encounters Through StoryMichael E. Williams • July 2017
"Tell me a story." Countless parents and grandparents have heard that request from children. People of all ages are captivated by a good story.
Storytelling helps us makes sense of the events of our lives, the world around us, and God. When we tell stories, we speak a world into being—just as God did in the creation accounts in the book of Genesis.
"Everyone is a storyteller," says author Michael Williams. You don't have to be a professional storyteller to be able to tell good stories. In this book on storytelling as spiritual exploration, Williams shares stories from his life and offers practical prompts that guide us to tell our own stories. He reminds us that we have been spoken into being as part of a much larger story. Using poetry, personal narrative, and retellings of biblical stories, Williams leads us to a deeper knowledge of the power of narrative.
The stories that capture our attention shape us into who we are now and the persons we will become. Not all stories serve us well, however. Stories of fear stop us in our tracks and become roadblocks on the journey, while stories of fantasy, no matter how alluring, are dead-end streets.
Spoken into Being points to a path beyond fear and fantasy, a way toward encounters with God, in whom all things are being made new.
Kindle ISBN: 978-0-8358-1708-0
EPub ISBN: 978-0-8358-1709-7
Imprint: Upper Room
Pub Date: July 2017
Trim Size: 5 in (w) x 8 in (h) x 0.234 in (d)
Page Count: 112
BISAC Categories: RELIGION / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth
—Ray Buckley Author of Dancing with Words and Hard to Dance with the Devil on Your Back
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The role of women in World War 2 on the home front and overseas is seen in five National Film Board documentaries produced during the war.
Posts Tagged “The World in Action”
The history of the National Film Board of Canada's newsreel unit is explored including the production of the popular Eye Witness series.
Our new feature doc compiles some 500 wartime propaganda films (1939-1945) in an effort to understand what being Canadian meant then, and maybe even what it means now. This film is streaming for free online.
During World War 2 the National Film Board was actively involved in producing films that would provide a uniquely Canadian view of the war effort at home and on the...
On February 26, 1942, National Film Board of Canada Commissioner John Grierson accepted the Academy Award for documentary short for the film Churchill’s Island. Originally produced for a Canadian audience...
The story behind the World in Action theatrical series of propaganda films
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Around the World for a Good Book selection for: Chile
Author: Isabel Allende
Title: The House of the Spirits
Publication Info: Bantam (1986)
This is an epic tale following several generations of one dysfunctional family: the wealthy Trueba family of Chile. There story is set against the trials and tribulations of 20th-century Chile leading up to the Pinochet dictatorship (although Pinochet and other real-life characters are never mentioned by name) creating a historical novel with a touch of magical realism. Esteban Trueba is the patriarch of the family, a hot-headed character who rapes and abuses the tenants of his estate and when he’s unable to control his family, channels his angry energy into right-wing politics. His wife Clara is a clairvoyant and more-focused on spiritualism and the afterlife than the world around her, yet holds her family together all the same. Their daughter Blanca causes scandal by her affair with the son of her father’s foreman Pedro Tercero García. Their daughter is Alba who will go on to get involved with the socialist revolutionaries.
The book’s strength is its characters and Allende manages to make each of them sympathetic, even the loathsome Esteban Trueba. It’s also subtle in how it builds up to the revolutions of the 1970s. For much of the book, the characters seem aloof from the political nature of Chile so it’s quite shocking how they are thrust into major roles in the later chapters.
This is an excellent book, a deserved classic, and definitely one of the best books I’ve read this year.
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The Pushkin Museum presents advertising posters of the London Underground from its collection at an exhibition in the Moscow Metro Automatic translate
In the Metro gallery at Vystavochnaya station from 15 to 31 January 2021, the Pushkin Museum is showing reproductions of advertising posters of the famous London Underground from its collection. The project is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Moscow Metro and demonstrates one of the sections of the exhibition Advertising as Art. British poster of the late XIX - early XX century from the collection of the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin ”in the Gallery of Art from Europe and America of the XIX-XX centuries, which will resume its work after the opening of the museum.
Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin owns a collection of applied graphics of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries, unique in terms of completeness and value, the most interesting period associated with the emergence and development of national schools of artistic advertising. Images of 30 advertising posters of the London Underground from the museum’s collection have been selected for the exhibition in the Moscow Metro. Recognized masterpieces of commercial lithography accounted for the glory of British design in the 1930s. The development of the advertising service in the metropolitan subway began with the arrival of Frank Pick as head of the department. He managed to create an image of a modern and elegant, reliable and affordable mode of transport that saves time and opens up huge opportunities for passengers. Dynamic and bright images, an economical recognizable font and a common sign-symbol with which the subway will henceforth be associated,defined the nature of transport advertising for decades.
Illustrated advertising of the subway informed passengers about cultural events, announced exhibitions and concerts, tennis tournaments and horse races, military holidays and festivals in the capital. She informed tourists about sights and museums that they can find in the vicinity of the stations. She carefully suggested routes and transfer schemes, thereby non-intrusively, delicately promoting her services in British style. In addition, advertising for the London Underground was directly related to contemporary art trends in the 20th century. The works of renowned modernist advertising designers - Fred Taylor, Edward Coffer, Austin Cooper, Clifford and Rosemary Ellis reflect all the significant phenomena that took place on the European art scene - cubism, futurism, surrealism and, of course, the dominant style of the era - Art Deco.
Exhibition “Advertising as Art. British poster of the late XIX - early XX century from the collection of the Pushkin Museum. Alexander Pushkin "(October 20, 2020 - March 2021, Gallery of Art of Europe and America of the XIX-XX centuries, Volkhonka, 14). The exhibition includes more than 150 advertising posters from the museum collection, representing the work of the best English artists and designers - Aubrey Beardsley, Edward McKnight Coffer, Baggarstaffs, Tom Purvis, Edward Bowden, Austin Cooper and other masters. The exposition is timed to coincide with the release of the catalog of the British poster collection at the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin and continues a series of museum projects dedicated to the results of research and restoration work to restore fragile documents of the era.
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Apple‘s new iPod Nano does more than just play music. If you start browsing through the menus, you’ll discover several cool new features, including a World Clock.
World Clock Features
The World Clock is easy to use. Just set the clock, and you can see the current time in multiple locations all at once. Seemingly trivial, but surprisingly helpful for someone who does a lot of international business or traveling.
Our favorite little detail was how the clock faces turn black/white when it is night/day time in a particular city (see image on right). This makes it even easier to digest multiple world time zones with a single glance.
You can also set alarms in various time zones, set the clocks to change at Daylight Saving Time (or not, if you don’t observe DST like Arizona residents) and sleep timers in different cities.
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This environmentally friendly window cleaner has been certified by the Polish Centre for Testing and Certification. The certificates are awarded to products meeting the criteria of environmental friendliness as stipulated in the Regulation (EC) No 1980/2000 and the requirements contained in the Commission Decision 2005/344/EC. Ecolabel – an EU marking of environmentally friendly products is a main distinction awarded in Europe to products meeting higher environmental standards. Ecolabel was introduced in the year 1992.
Proper dosing saves costs and reduces environmental impact to a minimum.
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Food is an essential part of human existence. Eating is often perceived as an act designed only to "refuel" the body with energy, described often in terms of calories and vitamins. Unfortunately this mindset might be detrimental to our health. Instead we should begin viewing food also as a way to preserve and enhance our health!
Let’s follow Hippocrates’ advice, "Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food!”
We eat to feed our bodies. We also eat to celebrate and socialize. But food can also be a disease fighting weapon. Scientific research highlights the powerful cancer-protective properties of many foods. Research indicates that a healthy diet can be very beneficial for people diagnosed with cancer, or those seeking to prevent cancer. 30% of cancer is a result of poor dietary habits! Many foods possess therapeutic properties similar to, or even better than, synthetic drugs. We can use these anticancer compounds that occur naturally in certain foods to prevent cancer as well as a complement to common cancer
Link to TED talk on nutrition
It is worthwhile mentioning an important report that came as a combined document from AICR ( American Institute of Cancer Research) and WCR (World Cancer Research). WCRF/AICR Expert Report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective. This report discusses all the accumulated evidence that support current approach to nutrition and cancer.
2012 Nutrition and physical activity guidelines for cancer survivors
Nutritionfacts.org- A website with extensive information on nutrition
A video by worthwhile watching on the value of Plant Based Diet and its effect on mortality
Dean Ornish Approach
HEALTHY FOOD PYRAMID
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