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LMC30DRCXO - LMC 30 Doradus Complex Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
This HEASARC table contains both the primary high-significance X-ray sources as well as some lower-significance tentative X-ray sources. The latter sources should not be considered definitive. A subsequent Chandra observation of this field, with several times the exposure of this observation, will result in a longer, more complete list of point sources than that given in this paper.
A Chandra/ACIS Study of 30 Doradus II. X-ray Point Sources in the Massive Star Cluster R136 and Beyond Townsley L.K., Broos P.S., Feigelson E.D., Garmire G.P., Getman K.V. <Astron. J., 131, 2164-2184 (2006)> =2006AJ....131.2164T
A running X-ray source number in order of increasing J2000.0 Right Ascension.
An alternative name for the X-ray source using the '[TBF2006]' prefix (for Townsley, Broos and Feigelson 2006) and the source number, as recommended by the CDS Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects.
The standard Chandra X-ray source designation using the 'CXOU J' prefix and the truncated J2000.0 coordinates of the source (HHMMSS.ss-DDMMSS.s).
The Right Ascension of the X-ray source in the selected equinox. This was given in J2000.0 decimal degrees to a precision of 10-6 degrees in the original tables.
The Declination of the X-ray source in the selected equinox. This was given in J2000.0 decimal degrees to a precision of 10-6 degrees in the original tables.
The Galactic Longitude of the X-ray source.
The Galactic Latitude of the X-ray source.
The formal 1-sigma radial positional uncertainty (not including any systematic uncertainty) based on source counts, as calculated by acis_extract, in arcseconds. See Section 3.1 of the reference paper for a more detailed discussion of the total positional uncertainty.
The off-axis angle of the X-ray source, in arcminutes.
The net full-band (0.5 - 8 keV) extracted source counts.
The 1-sigma error in the net full-band source counts, calculated using Gehrels' (1986, ApJ, 303, 336) equation 7.
The estimated number of background counts in the source extraction region.
The net hard-band (2 - 8 keV) extracted source counts.
The fraction of the PSF used to extract the source counts. Sources are extracted with a 90% PSF fraction unless they are in a crowded region. Thus, a value of less than 90% for the PSF fraction indicates that the source was crowded and that its properties may be influenced by nearby sources.
The photometric significance (signal-to-noise ratio) of the X-ray source, i.e., the ratio of the full-band counts to the error in the counts.
This flag parameter is set to '<' if the probability that the source is a background fluctuation rather than a true point source is an upper limit rather than an actual value.
The (logarithm of the) probability log(PB) that the source is solely a background fluctuation in the full-band counts rather than a true point source. This represents the authors' primary test of source validity. As described in Section 2.1 of the reference paper, this quantity differentiates the 117 sources in the main source catalog (Table 1; those entries in this HEASARC table with source_sample = 'primary') which have values of PB <= 0.003 from the 63 tentative source in Table 2 (those with source_sample = 'tentative') which have final values of PB > 0.003.
This parameter contains a set of flags which can note the presence of various observational anomalies:
g = fractional time that source was on a detector (FRACEXPO) is <0.9 e = source on field edge p = source piled up
This parameter contains a flag which indicates the likelihood that the X-ray source is displaying variability, based on a calculation of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic as first defined in Feigelson & Lawson (2004, ApJ, 614, 267). Notice that no variability test was performed for sources with fewer than 4 total full-band counts, and that no value is reported for sources in chip gaps or on field edges. The flag values are as follows:
a = no evidence for variability b = possibly variable
The effective exposure time of the X-ray source, in seconds, namely the length of time that the source would have to be observed at the Chandra aimpoint in order to collect the same number of counts as were actually obtained in the observation as performed.
The estimated background-corrected median energy of the X-ray source in the full spectral band, in keV (see Section 3.1 of the reference paper for more details).
The angular separation between the Chandra source and its counterpart, using a hierarchy of matching catalogs, in arcseconds, as follows: if a match from Malumuth and Heap (1994, AJ, 107, 1054 = MH94) was available, then that separation is noted; if there was no MH94 match, then the separation from the 2MASS counterpart is noted; if neither of these matches exists, the separation between the ACIS source and its match from SIMBAD or Vizier is given.
The spectral type of the counterpart star or multiple stellar system, if known, taken from Breysacher et al. (1999, A&AS, 137, 117 = BAT99), Crowther & Dessart (1998, MNRAS, 296, 622), or SIMBAD.
The Breysacher et al. (1999) catalog number of the counterpart star. BAT99 is a catalog of Wolf-Rayet stars in the LMC.
The Parker (1993, AJ, 106, 560 = P93) catalog number of the counterpart star. P93 is a ground-based UBV photometric study of 30 Dor.
The MH94 catalog number of the counterpart star. MH94 is a UBV photometric study of 30 Dor performed with the Hubble Space Telescope.
The X-ray source identification from Portegies Zwart et al. (2002, ApJ, 574, 762 = PPL02)
The Right Ascension (J2000) of the 2MASS counterpart, in decimal degrees.
The Declination (J2000) of the 2MASS counterpart, in decimal degrees.
This field contains matches to the Chandra X-ray source from other catalogs, common names for well-known sources, and other notes.
The HEASARC has combined the main list of primary X-ray sources given in Table 1 of the reference paper with the list of tentative sources given in Table 2 of the same. In order to clearly identify which table an entry was taken from, the HEASARC has created this parameter which is set to 'primary' for entries from Table 1 and to 'tentative' for entries from Table 2.
The HEASARC Browse object classification based on the value of the spect_type parameter, when the latter is populated.
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The P&B Bus Company has been transporting people since June 9, 1889. The bus company was started in 1888 in Plymouth, Massachusetts to build an electric powered street railway service between the towns of Plymouth and Kingston. The light rail line was originally planned for 2.5 miles and was expanded to 4 miles when service started. P&B has a history of investing in state-of-the-art technology that has ensured its success for more than 130 years.
The founders of the transportation company went with, at the time, a new power source–electricity instead of the established method of horse drawn vehicles. Then in 1923, the company purchased its first motor-powered bus which enabled passengers to travel beyond street railway that was tethered to electrical wire. By 1928, the company was using motor-powered buses for all its respective lines of transportation service. During World War II, to support the war effort, the bus company expanded service to the Hanover Fireworks and the Quincy Shipyards.
In 1949, P&B Bus Company applied for rights to operate buses from Plymouth to Boston via Route 3 (now Route 3A and Route 53). However, the regulatory agency kept bus service as a supplemental to train service which was on the decline for passenger travel. In 1959, Old Colony Rail Line ceased passenger train operations and P&B provided the needed transportation service. P&B bus service expanded from Hyannis to Boston in 1961. In 1983, P&B began providing bus service from Hyannis to Logan Airport.
P&B Bus Company continues to be the premier carrier from Cape Cod and the South Shore to Boston and Logan Airport. P&B provides the most reliable and frequent daily bus service from Hyannis to Boston and Logan Airport. In 2021, P&B started daily bus service from Falmouth, Woods Hole and West Bridgewater to Downtown Boston and Logan Airport.
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|Roughly five weeks ago, Donald Tusk, president of the European Council and one of the European Union’s most powerful political figures, issued a blunt warning to its 28 countries: Come up with a coherent plan to tackle the refugee crisis within two months, or risk chaos.
Surprisingly, given the plodding pace of European Union policy making, many of Europe’s national leaders are now moving swiftly, announcing tough new border policies and guidelines on asylum.
Austria joined with many of the Balkan countries to approve a tough border policy in what some are wryly calling the return of the Hapsburg Empire. Four former Soviet satellites, led by Poland and Hungary, have become another opposition power bloc.
All the while, a call for unity by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is increasingly being ignored, even as she struggles to tamp down on a political revolt at home while searching for a formula to reduce the number of refugees still trying to reach Germany.
“We are now entering a situation in which everybody is trying to stop the refugees before they reach their borders,” said Ivan Krastev, chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies, a research institute in Sofia, Bulgaria. Krastev added, “The basic question is, which country turns into a parking lot for refugees?” … Greece [is] the so-called refugee parking lot.
While European Union leaders agreed to pay 3 billion euros, roughly $3.3 billion, to aid organizations in Turkey to help stanch the flow of migrants departing the Turkish coast for the Greek islands, record numbers of migrants keep coming.
[New York Times]
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Summer Science Camp, hosted at Carriage Barn Academy, includes morning and afternoon camp sessions during the summer. Kids discover the fun in science through various hands-on, educational, thematic activities, including edible science snacks, exciting experiments, and interactive experiences that will spark their interest and curiosity. They also have music with Dan, Dan, the Music Man every Friday.
The content in each program is age appropriate and engaging for children ages 3-9. We break into smaller age groups for many activities. Each program costs $175 per child per camp, and it includes an edible science snack and materials for all experiments and activities. If your child attends the morning and afternoon sessions in the same week, they are invited to stay for the lunch hour and eat together at no additional cost.
This optional program is separate from Carriage Barn Academy Programs during the academic year which is licensed by the Private Academic School Office of the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
If you have questions, you may call Dr. Chris Simrell at 570-335-1750.
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VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C- A new storm system is headed for Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast.
According to Environment Canada, the next Pacific storm headed towards the area has potential for strong winds and heavy rainfall.
“A developing low-pressure system over the Pacific will intensify rapidly tonight as it tracks towards the BC coast,” read part of a special weather statement issued by the agency.
“The low is expected to make landfall somewhere along Vancouver Island on Thursday.”
The agency stated that computer weather models are predicting the low will move in on Thursday, but the exact path and timing remains unknown.
“With this system, there is the potential for both damaging winds and heavy rainfall but determining which regions will be most impacted depends on the precise details of the track and timing,” read the statement.
“So, stay tuned… wind and rainfall warnings will likely be issued for some regions later today as the storm details become more certain.”
The statement is in effect for the following areas:
- East Vancouver Island – Courtenay to Campbell River
- East Vancouver Island – Duncan to Nanaimo
- East Vancouver Island – Nanoose Bay to Fanny Bay
- Sunshine Coast – Gibsons to Earls Cove
- Sunshine Coast – Saltery Bay to Powell River
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COVID-19 Data Lesson Plan
As a way to help educators connect with students about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the links below offer a lesson plan and supporting documentation based on the information presented on this site. Target audience is 8-10th grade and conforms to Minnesota teaching standards.
Support items provided:
Feed back is welcome at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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This smaller set is ideal for smaller gardens, adult beginners and children. The 4 hardwood mallets have smaller sized heads. The set contains everything you need to enjoy the game in full.
The object of croquet is to put your balls through the hoops in a particular order and then hit the centre peg with them before your opponent does so with his balls. The winner scores 26 points (one for each ball through its course of hoops and one for hitting it on to the centre peg). The loser scores anything from 0 to 25.
One player has the red and yellow balls and the other the blue and black.
The players take it in turns to play, as in snooker, with the "outplayer" sitting on the sidelines waiting for the opponent to finish, either by making a mistake or by playing a safety shot.
At the start of a turn a player may play whichever of his two balls he likes. A turn consists basically of one shot, but just as in snooker, a player can earn extra shots. In snooker there is only one way to do this (by potting a ball of the right colour) but in croquet there are two quite different ways of earning extra strokes: by hitting your ball through its hoop or by making your ball hit one of the others—a roquet.
Roquets and Croquets
A roquet is made when a player makes his ball hit one of the others. He earns two extra strokes by making a roquet: a croquet and a continuation shot.
When he has made a roquet the player picks up the ball he’s been playing (let’s say red) and puts it down in contact with the ball he has roqueted (let’s say blue) wherever it has come to rest. He follows this with a croquet stroke in which he again hits red with his mallet, moving both red and blue.
He then takes one further shot called a continuation stroke, in which he may either run his hoop or else make another roquet. However a player cannot go like this forever, because he is not allowed to roquet the same ball again until either he has run his hoop or his opponent has had a turn
|Ball Size||320g/11.5oz (min) 12oz avg Croquet Balls|
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Garden Games began in 1997 when Stuart Cardy made the first Hi-Tower for his twins' first birthday party. Stuart invented this first truly Giant Tower game to keep his guests entertained at a family barbecue and from that very first step Garden Games Limited was born, and will always remain exactly one year younger than his twins.
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Garden Games is now the Leading Manufacturer of games for the garden, croquet sets and play equipment in the UK and across the world.
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- Great starter set
- Everything you need to play
- Classic game
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A single Tweet on Twitter consists of 280 characters. Is that enough to get poetic? Does the shortness of the posts explain the popularity of literary Tweets on Twitter known as Twit Lit? Much quicker, always accessible, and easy to share.
When Twitter was launched in 2006, it was defined by so-called “bursts of inconsequential information” resembling the cheep of a bird. By 2020, Twitter had become the largest source of breaking news in the world: Trump, Coronavirus, and celebrity gossip. Welcome to Twitter!
The platform is also used by writers as their creative writing diary. They can publish short stories, novels, and poems in a series of Tweets. But can we read literature via social media? Since Twitter is not designed as a platform for literature, the surrounding memes, trends, and shitstorms can render the reading experience of Twit Lit difficult. As long as you stay on the poet’s Twitter page, you stay safe from being dragged into the endless chirping of Twitter users.
Reading books is supposedly more conducive for achieving a more engaging reading experience. But is Twit Lit even trying to imitate the reading experience of a 400-page novel? Isn’t the attractiveness of TwitLit its preciseness, the 280 characters that promise to be more because they are less, the things left unsaid between single Tweets? Comparing the reading experience of Twit Lit to reading a book is like comparing Coca Cola to Fanta. Both are sodas but the taste is different.
In 2018, Jeffrey Koenig decided to turn his German great uncle’s diary into a Twitter account. After all, it was not only a way to learn about his family’s ancestry but served as a historical account of one of the most important years in German history. Berlin in the 1930s marked the end of the Weimar Republic, the first parliamentary democracy in Germany, and the rise of the Nazis.
Through these entries, the reader is suddenly drawn back to the past- inasmuch as that is possible while accessing social media via the internet on your mobile phone in 2020. It can be hard to imagine what the world was like almost 100 years ago but isn’t the juxtaposition of the medium of Twitter and a diary from the 1930s what makes it even more interesting? The short diary entries fit the 280 characters of a Tweet uncannily perfectly.
See for yourself: https://twitter.com/berlin_diary
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- 1 How does the South Indian food differ from the north Indian food?
- 2 Is South Indian food healthier than North Indian food?
- 3 Is biryani North Indian or South India?
- 4 What is North Indian food known for?
- 5 Is north or south Indian food better?
- 6 Why is North Indian food so popular?
- 7 Is Dosa a junk food?
- 8 Which food is more spicy North Indian or South Indian?
- 9 Is biryani Pakistani or Indian?
- 10 Who is the father of biryani?
- 11 Who made biryani first?
- 12 Is North Indian a cuisine?
- 13 What is special about South Indian food?
- 14 What is Indian cuisine famous for?
How does the South Indian food differ from the north Indian food?
One of the biggest differences between Northern and Southern Indian food is the staple grain. North India makes more use of meat and dairy products, whereas the south has a stronger focus on vegetables and seafood. Both Northern and Southern Indian food is known to make use of curry and other strong, spicy dishes.
Is South Indian food healthier than North Indian food?
North Indian dishes that often trend would be the Rajma dal, Lacha paratha, Dal Bati, Dum Aloo, Palak Paneer, and many more. Figuring out which cuisine is healthier than the other is never simple! However, both South and North Indian dishes are absolutely loaded with healthy nutrients and an unbeatable taste.
Is biryani North Indian or South India?
According to Pratibha Karan, who wrote the book Biryani, biryani is of South Indian origin, derived from pilaf varieties brought to the Indian subcontinent by Arab traders. She speculates that the pulao was an army dish in medieval India. Armies would prepare a one-pot dish of rice with whichever meat was available.
What is North Indian food known for?
Prominent dishes: You’ll find lots of breads and curries in the North. Much of what you eat in the restaurants in the West—such as naan bread, rotis, samosas, curries such as palak paneer (spinach and cheese) and aloo ghobi (potato and cauliflower), and the like—is North Indian.
Is north or south Indian food better?
Due to heavy rainfall, South Indian food incorporates a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables that are native to the region. You’ll also find that many of the typical dishes in South Indian food are vegetarian, which is the main difference when comparing North Indian food to South Indian food.
Why is North Indian food so popular?
North Indian food is a mix of vegetarian and non-vegetarian fare – from simple to very elegant. On the other hand the non-vegetarian dishes, like chicken and lamb dishes, heavily seasoned with spices, onion, ginger and garlic are always on demand.
Is Dosa a junk food?
Celebrity cardiologist Dr Devi Shetty states that the masala dosa is a junk food. This is because an amalgam of potato and butter makes it high on calories. In India a product which contains less than 0.2 gms of trans fats per serving, is considered to be trans fat free as per food safety norms.
Which food is more spicy North Indian or South Indian?
In Northern India, the cuisine tends to be less spicy, using mild to moderate spices such as masala. Southern India, on the other hand, tends toward much spicier food, as many tropical cultures do.
Is biryani Pakistani or Indian?
Biriyani has its origins among the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent and is popular beyond the region. The word “biryani” comes from the Persian word “birian” which means “fried before cooking.” This South Asian mixed rice dish has its origins among the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent.
Who is the father of biryani?
While there are multiple theories about how biryani made its way to India, it is generally accepted that it originated in West Asia. One legend has it that the Turk-Mongol conqueror, Timur, brought the precursor to the biryani with him when he arrived at the frontiers of India in 1398.
Who made biryani first?
Many historians believe that biryani originated from Persia and was brought to India by the Mughals. Biryani was further developed in the Mughal royal kitchen. the Mughal soldiers looked undernourished. In order to provide a balanced diet to the soldiers, she asked the chefs to prepare dish with meat and rice.
Is North Indian a cuisine?
North Indian cuisine is collectively the cuisine of Northern India, which includes the cuisines of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and adjoining western Bihar. Sub-types of North Indian cuisine include: Awadhi cuisine.
What is special about South Indian food?
Native vegetables and fruits The similarities among the five states’ cuisines include the presence of rice as a staple food, the use of lentils and spices, dried red chilies and fresh green chilies, coconut, and native fruits and vegetables including tamarind, plantain, jackfruit, snake gourd, garlic, and ginger.
What is Indian cuisine famous for?
To help you navigate India’s epic food scene, we’ve put together this list of 10 traditional must-try foods to eat in India.
- 1) Masala dosa. Arguably South India’s most renowned culinary export, masala dosas are famous the world over.
- 2) Chaat.
- 3) Dal makhani.
- 4) Vada pav.
- 5) Stuffed paratha.
- 6) Dhokla.
- 7) Barfi.
- 8) Pani puri.
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My black tulip magnolia has some damage to its trunk. How can I repair this? The bark is stripped to the bare trunk – about nine inches and there is a crack in the trunk. I do not want to lose this tree. I am still waiting for it to flower.
Thank you for contacting the Toronto Master Gardeners with your magnolia question.
Black Tulip Magnolia is best grown in moist, well-drained, preferably acidic to neutral soil in sun or partial shade. Although magnolias are quite pest and disease resistant, they can be susceptible to several bark diseases. They have thin bark and any injury or pruning damage can allow bacteria or fungus to enter the tree. Some of the possible bark diseases are Nectria Canker, Wetwood and Armillaria Root Rot. I have attached a link to a site that explains these three diseases and what you can do to help your tree. If the condition continues, you may wish to consult a certified arborist who may be able to help you save your tree.
Because of their thin bark, magnolias are also susceptible to bark damage from frost cracking and sunscald, particularly if the damage is on the south or southwest side of the tree. Click here for an article that explains this occurrence.
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Get hands-on, real-world experience in the classroom: You’ll do that here.
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Updated 11:55 a.m.
The Justice Department on Thursday morning delivered a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report to Congress.
Attorney General William Barr presented the House and Senate Judiciary Committees with copies of the redacted report, which was also published on the Justice Department website.
Barr held a press conference earlier in the morning in which he said President Trump and Trump’s lawyers offered no input on any of the redactions.
“No material has been redacted based on executive privilege,” Barr said. “The president’s personal lawyers were not permitted to make, and did not request, any redactions.”
Mueller’s team was not able to reach a conclusion that “no criminal conduct occurred,” according to the report.
“The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred,” the report says. “Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
The report added that Congress still has the authority to find Trump obstructed justice, i.e. to “prohibit a President’s corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice.”
The special counsel’s team also said it concluded that it could have subpoenaed Trump to testify, but decided against it in the interest of avoiding the “substantial delay that such an investigative step would likely produce at a late stage in our investigation.”
“We had sufficient evidence to understand relevant events and to make certain assessments without the President’s testimony,” the report says.
Prosecutors added that while the investigation confirmed that Trump campaign associates believed they would benefit from “information stolen and released through Russian efforts” and “showed interest” in WikiLeaks’ publishing of damaging emails stolen from the Clinton campaign, no criminal actions on the part of the president’s campaign were uncovered.
“Publication of these types of materials would not be criminal unless the publisher also participated in the underlying hacking conspiracy,” Barr said during his press conference.
President Trump, reacting to the report’s release, said there “never was” and “never will be” any collusion.
“I’m having a good day,” Trump said to applause from the audience during a White House address to the Wounded Warrior Project’s Soldier Ride. “This should never happen to another president again, this hoax.”
Many Democrats, including House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff, have requested Mueller testify on Capitol Hill about the report.
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Gel seats are designed to disperse body weight equally in all directions. They help in preventing pressure at a single point in the body. They are safe and reliable while cycling and biking. Gel seats are mostly used by bicycle and bike riders, elderly people, and office goers. They are designed for use in bicycle, bike, and car seats and chairs. They can also be used in medical cases such as the decrease in blood circulation and orthopedic problems. Gel seats assist in relieving tension pressure points on the spine, hips, and lower back. They also helps in reducing friction, and therefore, saddle sores. They are available in different sizes and types. The pros and cons of each gel seats depend on its type. However, compatibility of each gel seats may vary with its application. Moreover, choosing a suitable gel seat depends on various parameters such as size, reliability, quality, comfort, budget, and raw material. The gel seats market is expected to expand at a considerable pace in the near future.
Increase in awareness about cycling as part of exercise, physical activity, and overall fitness is anticipated to augment the gel seats market in the coming years. Moreover, a rise in need for comfort during traveling, increase in spending power of the population, and expansion in the automotive industry are estimated to boost the gel seats market. Furthermore, increase in medical problems and health consciousness are other factors that are likely to drive the gel seats market. However, concerns about the quality of gel seats that do not support stability in riding bikes and are susceptible to leaks and ruptures are projected to restrain the gel seats market. Moreover, most gel seats are heavy in weight and slightly expensive compared to alternatives such as foam seat and air seats. These factors are expected to hamper the global gel seats market. Nevertheless, a rise in awareness about riding bicycles, bikes, cars and other vehicles with greater care and caution, increase in medical problems among the working class, and unhealthy lifestyles are expected to create significant opportunities for the global gel seats market. Moreover, improvements in product quality, design, features, and weight are projected to offer attractive opportunities for manufacturers of gel seats. In addition, an increase in bumps on roads are likely to drive the gel seats market.
The global gel seats market can be classified based on product, distribution channel, end-user, and region. Based on product, the market can be segmented into ordinary and medical. In terms of distribution channel, the market can be classified into supermarkets, hypermarkets, independent stores, and e-commerce platforms. Based on end-user, the global gel seats market can be categorized into household & everyday commuting, fitness & exercise, leisure rides, and commercial (office and medical purpose).
In terms of region, the global gel seats market can be classified into North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico), Europe (Germany, U.K., Spain, Russia, France, and Italy), Asia Pacific (China, Japan, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, South Korea, Indonesia, and Australia), Middle East & Africa, and South America.
Major players operating in gel seats market include Grand Rapids Foam Technologies, Graham Field, Regency Products, Gelsmith, Pride Mobility, Drive DeVilbiss, NY Ortho, Gel O Kare, Secureguard, JYM, Only Geal, Xtreme Comforts, The Comfort Company, Vive, Xtra-Comfort, Gel Seat Cushions, K2 Health Products, ZIRAKI Coccyx, FOMI, Proactive Medical, Drive, Sunrise Medical, Kieba Coccyx, and GSeat. Market players compete with each other based on their product portfolio in order to survive in the market. Top companies are focusing on acquisitions, offering the most competitive wholesale pricing, manufacturing new structured innovative products with sustainable designs, and increasing their research services to strengthen their presence in the global gel seats market.
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During Dive 3 at Maug, remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer documented an exciting interaction between two crabs, including a unique-looking spider crab. Video courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas. Download (mp4, 106.0 MB)
Dive 3 was the first-ever exploration of the outer edge of the Maug cone. The dive was conducted on a small ridge feature northeast of the crater to survey precious coral, commercially important bottom fish habitats, and fauna in the water column surrounding this island. The dive started at a depth of 470 meters in a very productive area with an abundance of fish, crinoids, sea stars, a diversity of corals, and other organisms. As remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer surveyed the edge of the ridge, likely a side vent from the Maug volcano, volcaniclastics of varying sizes and graded bedding in the steep inner wall of the vent were documented. Biology highlights during today's dive included: several different species of bamboo corals; a sponge that has never been reported in the Pacific; an abundance and diversity of echinoderms - basket stars, crinoids, and sea stars; a deepwater sand tiger; slit shells; thousands of small knobby lithistid sponges; and the bright yellow, pseudocolonial coral (Eguchisammia serpentine) which was very common at the shallower depths. We also documented the "gold coral" Kulamanamana haumeaae (a precious coral species). As Kulamanamana can live for thousands of years, these could easily be hundreds of years old. The biggest challenge today was deciding which biological samples to collect: there were so many new and different organisms. At the conclusion of the benthic exploration, we completed a long midwater transect to target the deep scattering layer observed in our EK60 sonars. We observed salps, siphonophores, shrimp, chaetognaths, and ctenophores, as well as what appears to have been an interesting avoidance behavior of the scattering layer.
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Collection Development Policy
Switzerland County Public Library
Collection Development Policy
Purpose of the Policy
This collection development policy has been created:
- To clearly state the policies of the Library Board
- To identify responsibility for collection development
- To provide a process for public input
- To assist in budget allocation for materials
- To defend freedom of information and protect against censorship
The Library’s mission statement is as follows:
“The Switzerland County Public Library will foster a culture of reading and thought by serving Switzerland County’s information, life-long learning and leisure pursuits.”
- BILL OF RIGHTS: The Switzerland County Public Library Board of Trustees and staff subscribe to the principles set forth in the American Library Association Bill of Rights.
- RESPONSIBILITY: The responsibility for book selection lies with the library director, who operates within the framework of the policies adopted by the Switzerland County Public Library Board of Trustees. Patron requests will be considered but the final decision rests with the library director.
- GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR SELECTION:
- The basic policy is to select the best in print and non-print on topics of interest to and within the comprehension of the people of the community; to judge each item on its own merits; to think of it in relation to the collection as a whole, and in relation to the public for whom it is intended. Because the library serves a public embracing a wide range of ages, educational backgrounds, and reading skills, it will seek to select materials of varying complexity and interest.
- In selecting materials to serve the citizens of the community, emphasis is placed on the educational, informational and recreational functions of the public library.
- The library recognizes that many library materials are controversial, and that any given item may offend some patrons. Selection will not be made on the basis of any anticipated approval or disapproval, but solely on the merits of the work in relation to the building of the collection and to serving the interests of the readers.
- Library materials will not be marked or identified to show approval or disapproval of the contents.
- Responsibility for the reading of children rests with their parents and legal guardians. Selection of adult books will not be inhibited by the possibility that books may inadvertently come into the possession of children.
- In the selection of books to be added to the collection, generally only those which have been reviewed in standard reviewing sources are considered. Exceptions to this are items of local interest and information which do not usually reach the reviewing media. An effort is continually made to secure items of social, economic and historical importance to Switzerland County, and items written by and about local people within the general guidelines for selection.
- The Switzerland County Public Library’s collection is by necessity governed to some extent by budgetary controls and limitations of space. Thus it cannot buy everything, but attempts to buy the best that is being published, with representation from as many authors and subjects as possible.
- CHALLENGED MATERIAL
Should a book be challenged as unsuitable for the collection by an individual or group, a printed form to challenge said material shall be given to the patron for completion. Upon receipt of the completed form, it will be reviewed by the library director and the Board of Trustees and appropriate action taken within the guidelines herein set forth.
- CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT
- The Board of Trustees of the Switzerland County Public Library specifically recognizes its circulation records and other records identifying the name of library users to be confidential in nature, in accordance with provisions in the Indiana Code IC 5-14-3-4(b) and IC 5-14-3-4(b)16
- Further, the Board subscribes to the American Library Code of Ethics, which says in part that “We protect each library user’s right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and materials consulted, borrowed, acquired, or transmitted.”
- All library employees are advised that such records shall not be made available to any agency of state, federal or local government except pursuant to such process, order, or subpoena as may by authorized under the authority of, and pursuant to, federal, state, or local law relating to civil, criminal, or administrative discovery procedures or legislative investigative power.
- Upon receipt of such process, order, or subpoena, the library’s officers will consult with their legal counsel to determine if such process, order, or subpoena is in proper form, and if there is a showing of good cause for its issuance; if the good cause has not been shown, they will insist that such defects be cured.
- AREAS OF LIMITED ACQUISITION
- Law and Medical Books: Only very general or basic reference books will be purchased in certain areas. The books are not to be too specialized or considered beyond the province of public service. These areas include law and medicine.
- Research Material: The Switzerland County Public Library does not attempt to provide specialized material for scholarly research or for extensive genealogical investigation due to limited funds and the availability of large research collections in the Indiana State Library. However, this library does have a responsibility to obtain and preserve materials connected with Switzerland County and Indiana.
- Textbooks: Textbooks will be considered for purchase only when they are the best or only resource on a topic for reference or research. The library is in no way obligated to provide textbooks for regularly assigned formal classroom, distance learning, or homeschool instruction.
- The Switzerland County Library welcomes gifts of new and used books, audio recordings, videos, and similar materials. Items will be added to the collection in accordance with the selection policy of the library. Once donated, items become the property of the Switzerland County Library, and may be given to other libraries and non-profit agencies, sold, traded, or discarded if they are not added to the collection. Donated items will not be returned to the donor and the library will not accept any item that is not an outright gift. The library will acknowledge receipt of donated items but is unable to set fair market or appraisal values. It is recommended that the donor make a list of items donated. If items are being donated to obtain a tax benefit, it is the donor’s responsibility to establish fair market value or obtain expert assistance is establishing any value. The library also reserves the right to decide when a gift added to the collection must be withdrawn.
- Monetary gifts, bequests, and memorial or honorary contributions are particularly welcome. Funds donated will be used to purchase items in accordance with the selection policy of the library for materials such as books, audio recording, and videos. Monetary gifts may also be used to purchase other items allowed for within budget constraints such as equipment and services. Monetary gifts, unless specifically designated, will be spent only for purchases in allocated fund categories as specified by the State Board of Accounts. Books and other library materials will be identified with special donor plates whenever possible. If requested, notification of memorial or honorary contributions will be sent to the family of the person being recognized. Suggestions for subject areas or other areas of interest are welcome and will be followed to the extent possible.
- Acceptance of donations of equipment, real estate, stock, artifacts, works of art, collections, etc. will be determined by the library board based on their suitability to the purposes and needs of the library, laws and regulations that govern the ownership of the gift, and the library’s ability to cover insurance and maintenance costs associated with the donation.
- DESELECTION OF MATERIALS
- Materials that no longer fit the stated service roles of the library will be withdrawn from the collection. This may include materials that are damaged, include obsolete information, or are no longer used. Decisions will be based on accepted professional practice, such as those described in The CREW Method and the professional judgment of the library director or designated staff. When necessary, local specialists will be consulted to determine the continued relevancy and reliability of materials.
- Items withdrawn from the collection will be disposed of in accordance with local law, which permits discarding into the trash, recycling of paper, or to be sold at the library book sale. Discarded books, magazines and newspapers may also be given to other area libraries, social or community agencies at the discretion of the library director.
Adopted by the Switzerland County Public Library Board of Trustees on June 17, 2003
Revisions adopted July 9, 2013.
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Elephant rescued from well using excavator in eastern India
An elephant fell into a well and was later pulled out in a village in eastern India’s Jharkhand.
The incident happened at the Hulu village in the Gola block of Ramgarh district on June 26.
Visuals showed the pachyderm inside the well filled with muddy water. The water level was so high that the elephant was almost submerged. It kept wading inside the well trying to make a way out.
A forest department team led by Range Officer Arun Kumar came in to rescue the trapped elephant. An excavator was used to dig up a path beside the well, through which the elephant could be taken out.
Later, the excavator was seen pushing the elephant as it was slowly making its way out of the well. It came out amidst loud cheers by the people, who had gathered at the spot.
The crowd then started following the elephant as it walked away towards the Sangrampur forest after being rescued from the well.
It was learnt that this elephant was part of a herd that was heading from the Tandil Bisa to the Hulu village at night. This elephant had fallen into a well and the forest department, which were in pursuit of the herd, noticed its absence and started the four-hour-long rescue operation, which began early in the morning at 3 am and ended at 7 am.
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Originally written for www.leanfit.com
1. It’s not always as simple as calories in vs. calories out.
For people looking to lose weight or gain muscle, it isn’t always as simple as eating in a calorie deficit or calorie surplus. Depending on where you are in your nutritional journey, this may be a good starting point, but it will only take you so far. The type of calories (or macronutrients) consumed will have an impact on how much energy you expend during your daily activities. Various foods have a different metabolic effect on your body, and that’s an important consideration when working towards composition goals. Protein, for example, has a high thermic effect, which means the body literally burns more calories when breaking it down than, say, carbohydrates. For example, when you eat 100 calories of carbs, and 100 calories of protein, your body will actually burn more calories processing the protein. This is quite a complicated topic, with plenty of related science to consider, but if you can remember that a calorie is not just a calorie, this information will take you a long way.
2. What works for your neighbour will not necessarily work for you.
Nutrition is a complex topic, and our bodies are even more complex. People are often quick to jump on the diet bandwagon as soon as they witness someone having success with a particular eating plan. When they don’t experience the same success, they are left feeling confused and discouraged. Instead of playing the never-ending game of musical diets, jumping from one nutrition fad to the next, be consistent. Make simple and realistic changes to your daily eating habits. Choose sustainable practices that you can maintain and that work with your lifestyle. This is the first step on the road to healthy eating.
3. A little tough love: you might be eating too much.
This is a bit of a sensitive topic, because I meet many women, in particular, who are actually not eating enough. They’ve been on a calorie-restricted diet for years, and as a result, are experiencing some level of metabolic damage. Or, people limit their calories for days at a time, resulting in a huge binge at the end of the week, and consuming far too many calories for their body type. However, more often than not, people are fooling themselves. They believe that as long as they make healthy choices and are consuming nourishing foods, they should be good to go. The fat will take care of itself. And, although I wish it were as simple as this, calories do play a role. Now, this may seem contradictory to my first point of calories in vs. calories out, but we can’t deny that calories are important. If you are eating too much on a consistent basis, you will gain fat. It’s science. So that extra handful of nuts in the afternoon, eating mindlessly straight from the cereal box (guilty), or taking too many samples from the lady in Costco can really add up. All of the sudden, you’ve eaten 400 calories over your daily goal and you didn’t even notice! 400 calories x 7 days = 2,800 extra calories a week! Another example is falling into what I call “the smoothie trap.” Don’t get me wrong—smoothies and shakes are a convenient, nutrient dense meal to add into your nutrition routine. I have at least one every day. But, too often, people begin loading in the fruits and fats, without being cognizant of serving size. And, sure, every ingredient is real, nutritious food. But, suddenly, they’ve made a 900 calorie smoothie without even knowing it. It’s important to gain an understanding of what you are consuming in a day. Try tracking your food for a week, using an app like My Fitness Pal (see my previous post for more info). This will provide you with an overview of what you are consuming on a daily basis and areas of nutrition where you may be falling short (or going over!).
So, to sum here, here are the top 3 things I wish everyone knew about nutrition:
1. It isn’t always as simple as calories in vs. calories out. Our bodies process different foods in different ways. Pay attention to the types of foods you are consuming and find a balance between macronutrients.
2. Just because a particular eating plan works for your neighbour, does not necessarily mean it will work for you. Find sustainable and healthy practices that fit your lifestyle and be consistent.
3. You may be eating too much. Try tracking your food and begin to gain an understanding of what you are actually consuming in a day and changes that may need to be made. Knowledge is power.
Originally written for www.leanfit.com
Client question: What is the best way to track my nutrition?
Tracking nutrition is a great tool for those looking to gain a better understanding of what their daily food intake is. It helps build awareness of nutrition and often shines light on areas of our diet where we may be falling short. Although it isn’t for everyone, and certainly not a strategy that needs to be used daily, all year long, it is a tool that people can utilize to get their nutrition on track and learn how their eating style may be affecting their body composition and goals.
In today’s era of technology, tracking is easier than ever. Numerous aps and online programs have been developed that allow people to simply track their daily food intake. By far, the most popular of these aps is My Fitness Pal. MFP offers a variety of features, including goal setting, macro, calorie and exercise tracking, progress reports, and sharing your journey with friends.
MFP is an awesome tool, particularly for those who are working towards a specific goal. Remember: the more specific your health and/or fitness goal, the more dedicated you must be to your diet. MFP allows you to track each meal and lets you know when you have hit your calorie and macronutrient goals.
As much as I love this tool, there are certainly downfalls to be aware of. First, anyone can add foods to the MFP database, and it’s not always clear whether the nutritional information on these items is correct. The best way to combat this problem is to use the barcode scanning feature (available through the app, but not the online interface) if the food is packaged, or look for similar foods with the green checkmark beside them. This means the content has been verified. Another tip to remember when tracking your food is that “eyeballing it” isn’t always the most reliable method. Serving sizes may be misjudged, and that can be enough to throw you into a calorie surplus when you’re trying to eat in a deficit (or vise versa). Unless you are loosely tracking to ensure you remain relatively on point with your diet, I do recommend weighing and measuring your food when possible. Again, this is for those individuals who are striving to reach a specific goal within a given time frame. Otherwise, a more relaxed approach to tracking is acceptable and recommended.
Another factor to be aware of is that, by no means, is tracking a perfect science. Not only can there be error in the data, but everyone processes calories and nutrients differently. So it’s very difficult to know how your body will absorb and utilize the amount of calories documented for a specific food.
If you are working with a professional, nutrition tracking may be as simple as keeping a food journal. Your coach or nutritionist can then view your log and provide suggestions moving forward.
In conclusion, I think food tracking is an excellent tool to have in your nutritional toolbox. It can help build food awareness and support you in reaching your goals. That being said, it can be time consuming and inaccurate. So take it with a grain of salt and only use it if it makes sense to do so. Tracking is not a strategy that needs to be employed 24/7, so take advantage of it when it can be most useful to you. If you find yourself obsessing over the numbers, it may be time to opt for a less all-consuming nutrition approach.
I love the holidays. Although there is Christmas buzz everywhere you go, everything also seems so much quieter. There are fewer things open, no deadlines to worry about, and a pull to just snuggle in with the family on snowy days. And of course, my other favourite part: consuming copious amounts of delicious food.
Unfortunately, all of the indulging can often lead to a feeling of full-until-it-hurts, and the infamous food (or other) hangover the next morning. So how can you indulge without losing sight of your goals or feeling like you have to deprive yourself for weeks, post-Christmas? Well, with these challenges in mind, I decided to share my tips for surviving the holidays without sacrificing your waistline:
1. Backload your day
This is my favourite trick of the season. If I know I have a holiday event in the evening or afternoon, I will plan my meals accordingly. This might mean a light breakfast that is higher in protein and fats (knowing I will be having a meal wuite high in carbohydrates later), or I may even remain in a fasted state until late morning or lunch, if that feels right. Fasting during the first half of the day not only sets you to eat more in the evening, but it also puts your blood sugar in a good position for eating more insulin-inducing foods (think shortbread, assorted chocolates, and sausage rolls. Oh my). These practices can also support your energy levels. By keeping sugar low during the first part of the day, you encourage healthy cortisol levels (providing energy), and limit your insulin response. Later in the day, when you are indulging in some yummy holiday treats, cortisol levels decrease as insulin levels are heightened. This is also helpful for our hormone levels, as the pattern supports a natural sleep cycle. Have you ever noticed how you become a bit sluggish after a large meal? That’s the power of a high insulin response. So keeping insulin levels low in the morning, can help aid in supporting a natural sleep cycle. Ultimately saving your calories for the afternoon/evening will allow you to really enjoy the holiday treats without worrying about limiting yourself.
2. Find time for activity
So you ate until you couldn’t move last night and washed it down with four glasses of eggnog. So what? You had a blast and laughed with friends and family until your sides hurt. Sounds like an evening well spent. But now is a really awesome opportunity to put that food to work. Once you awake from your food coma, engage in some resistance training. You might as well turn those carbs into muscle, am I right? You are stocked up on glycogen stores and your body can use those to help you hit new PRs. I like to focus on large muscle groups on these days (such as legs or back) to ensure I get the biggest bang for my buck. I will also incorporate some full-body movements, just because… it can’t hurt. My bet is you have a great workout!
3. Show you body's systems some love when you can
After a bit of an indulgent meal, I like to fill the following day with lots of detoxifying foods, like lemon and greens. In fact, I generally start my morning with a green smoothie, incorporating lots of mixed greens (or greens powder) and lemon juice, usually with a fruit of some sort. Grab my free smoothie guide here to get your hands on some fresh recipes! Get lots of vegetables in during the rest of the day, and drink plenty of water and herbal teas so encourage your body to move things along…
4. Ditch the crap
It never fails that, during the holidays, my counter top and refrigerator become filled with a variety of Christmas treats. But let’s be honest: there’s enough of these items at the 17 get-togethers we all inevitably have (other than in the year 2020). So get rid of the extras. There’s no need to pick at a plate of Aunt Carol's traditional Christmas baked goods every day of the week (sorry, Aunt Carol). Save the treats for social gatherings and your regular diet the rest of the time. I may keep my favourite dark chocolate in the freezer, but I usually chuck the rest after a day or two. I have a sweet tooth myself, and definitely don’t need Christmas cookies taunting me 24-7, because I know overindulging doesn't make me feel well. I become low-energy and foggy. So you can wait until Boxing Day or January 1st for the traditional trashing-of-the-treats, but I recommend just doing it now. You’ll be thankful you did.
Last but not least: enjoy. The Christmas season comes around once a year. There is no reason why yours should be filled with endless moments of temptation, post-binge guilt, and social gathering avoidance (again.. unless it's 2020). Set yourself up for success using the tips listed above, and enjoy time spent with family and friends, while eating delicious meals. Food is one of the great pleasures in life. Why deprive yourself of something so wonderful? I am a huge proponent of balance, and believe that the holidays are meant to be enjoyed, whatever that may mean for you. So indulge. Eat and drink until your heart desires, but plan accordingly and put strategies in place that allow you to do so with minimal damage.
From my family to yours, happy celebrating, and Merry Christmas!
Dave and I at our own family Christmas celebration. Matching by accident, I swear.
For the last few of years, I have immersed myself in the health and fitness world. Social media is an incredibly powerful tool and it has allowed me to be constantly surrounded by inspiring, strong, fearless women who motivate me to be better every day. I feel so fortunate to not only be able to learn and grow from these individuals, but to share my own journey with them and connect with others when I am in need of support or guidance. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and of course other blogs and podcasts have made this so easy, and have literally connected me with incredible people all over the world. There’s nothing more comforting than surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals.
Nutrition and fitness are my passion. Learning about and practicing both ignites something in me. It is when I feel the most like myself (does that make sense?). And there is nothing I love more than sharing this passion with others.
This interest has sparked conversations with many women in my life, some of who have become clients, and some who are just looking to chat or grab my opinion on a particular topic. This is often when the reality of mainstream media sinks in. I am dumbfounded when I learn that women are still doing an hour on the treadmill a day while consuming 1000 calories--and not getting the results they’re looking for.
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Purchasing supplements can be an overwhelming process, whether it’s protein powder, fish oil, or an every-day multi vitamin. There are so many brands available, all with varying formulas, claims and reviews. It’s difficult to know what you should be purchasing and incorporating into your daily routine.
Over the past five years, I have been asked countless times what which plant-based protein powder I recommend. I have tried a number of brands, always hunting for the best taste, consistency, nutritional profile and ingredient list. Although I like to get the majority of my protein through whole foods, this can be challenge particularly in the morning, or if you're on the-go. This is when turning to a powdered protein supplement can be helpful.
When comparing protein ingredients, it's often easier to find a higher quality whey than it is plant-based brand. So, if you're not choosing plant-based protein for any ethical or digestive reasons, take some time to explore whey based and use these guidelines:
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The problem with many plant-based proteins is that they can be grainy, chalky, and lacking in the flavour department. That said, over the years I have seen many brands step up their game as they work to stay competitive in the market.
Here, I will review four brands of plant-based protein powders and, hopefully, take some of the guess work out for you when purchasing.
The four brands I am going to review are:
Vega Sport Performance Protein (vanilla)
Garden of Life Raw Protein (chocolate)
Lean Fit Naturals Complete Green Protein (vanilla bean)
Tropeaka Protein (Vanilla)
When you're looking at the nutrition profile of a protein powder, you want to look first at the balance between proteins, fat and carbs. If you're planning on using it as a meal replacement on its own, you may want a more even balance between macronutrients. If you want to incorporate a protein powder into a smoothie, look for a solid dose of protein (around the 20g mark per serving) and lower carbs and fats. You can easily add whole foods into a smoothie to make a complete meal. If you follow a keto lifestyle, you may be ok with high protein and fat but low carb. Reflect on what you want from a powder and go from there.
Vega Sport Performance Protein (vanilla)
Vega Sport boasts an impressive 30g of protein per scoop, which you don't see that often in a vegan brand. With only 3g of carbs and fat each, the macronutrient breakdown is solid. If that's where your interest ends, this this a great choice for you.
If we dive into the ingredient list, we see a mix of conventional and organic protein sources. Non-organic pea protein isn't ideal, as it can be a heavily sprayed crop. That said, the sweetener is stevia, which is a pretty good choice. Like most protein powders, it does contain natural flvours (another word for artificial flavours), but it's the last ingredient listed, telling us the content is low compared to other ingredients used.
In terms of taste, I found it good with a smooth texture.
Final thoughts: Although I appreciate the accessibility, 100% organic proteins sources would be best.
Garden of Life Raw Protein (chocolate)
Garden of Life is another popular plant-based protein brand, and this is for a couple of reasons. The nutrition is good, with 22g of protein per serving, 5g of carbs and 2.5g of fat. But the real star of the show is their ingredient list. All protein sources are organic, including organic sprouted rice powder, sprouted meaning there is more nutritional benefits. Like Vega, it's sweetened with stevia and contains natural flavours.
You may find the texture not quite as satisfying as other brands, but if we're talking ingredients, these are best in class.
Final thoughts: Texture not perfect, but super high quality production for such an accessible brand.
LeanFit Completegreen Organic Protein (vanilla)
LeanFit is a Canadian company based in Vancouver. Their plant-based (and whey) protein can be found at Costco, which a lot of people love. The price is right too. But how do the nutritionals compare to other brands?
LeanFit provides 21g of protein, 7g of carbs and 0g of fat. Like Garden of Life, LeanFit Completegreen organic uses a full organic plant-based protein blend. It's sweetened with stevia, but uses natural flavours, a mix of organic and conventional.
Final thoughts: the taste and texture are decent. Like most, it includes natural flavours, but in terms of price point and nutritionals, it's a solid choice for the average consumer.
Tropeaka Lean Protein (vanilla)
Tropeaka is an Australian company with a North American warehouse. So, although you'll have to order online, it's pretty easy to get your hands on this brand. The ingredient list includes some unique items that I haven't seen in many other brands, like macca powder, MCT oil and monkfruit. But I'm so torn because the protein combo is not organic! And, as mentioned, could mean the product would score high in pesticides. That said, if you're really interested in diving into this, I'd research the farming differences in Australia vs. those in North America. My guess is we'd see some differences there, potentially making organic less of an issue.
Final Thoughts: The flavour, texture and macro breakdown is on-point. With 16g of protein, 4g of carbs and 2.5g of fat in a 2Tbsp serving, Tropeaka is one you may want to keep in your pantry for its unique ingredient list and related benefits.
With so many protein companies on the market today, it's a confusing world out there for the consumer. Hopefully the checklist provided above, as well as a peek into the nutrition and taste profile of a few brands, will help guide you when making your next plant-based protein purchase.
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The world of nutrition is a complicated one. Head to the Health and Wellbeing section at your local Chapters and you’ll see what I mean. There are literally walls of books telling us what to eat, what not to eat, how to cook it, and when to eat it. This would all be well and good… except that they all seem to contradict each other in varying ways. So how are we expected to make it through this life with a healthy approach if the so-called professionals can’t even agree?
I pride myself in being able to read nutrition advice with an objective eye. I gather what I have learned from past resources and make my own judgments on what is truth and what is fad. Are all of my ideas surrounding health accurate? Probably not. Nutritional information is so vast, how could I possible know it all? But, I don’t feel too bad about it, considering that even world-class scientists haven’t got it all figured out yet. It is an ever-growing body of knowledge. That’s part of what I love about the industry. Things never get old.
However, as confident as I am in my own journey, if I’m not careful, I too can find myself feeling muddled by over exposure to information. I start to give in to the confidently worded, persuasive writing offered up by some health guru, meditating on a beach in California. I begin to question what I know to be true or effective. Although questioning your awareness and constantly building upon what you already know is an important part of learning, it isn’t always necessary, depending on your information source.
Protein. It’s difficult to consult any piece of nutrition literature without reading about the importance of it. Well, there’s a reason for that: protein is really important.
What is it?
When speaking in terms of food, protein is one of the three macronutrients that we consume through our diet (its two counterparts being carbohydrates and fats). If you’re looking for a more scientific explanation, proteins in the human body are made up of complex chemical compounds called amino acids. There are two categories of amino acids in the body: essential and non-essential. Our bodies are unable to make essential amino acids, and therefore, we need to consume them through our diet. Protein plays many important roles within the body, but let’s talk about it from a nutrition standpoint (otherwise, we could be here all day).
Why is it important?
Most women I talk to have similar goals when it comes to changing their bodies: they want to lose fat and look ‘fit.’ It is important to realize that looking fit tends to come from building or maintaining lean muscle mass. There’s a stereotype often associated with the so-called ‘gym rats’. You know the picture I’m talking about: the one with a 250lb body builder drinking a watery chocolate drink from his shaker bottle. As much as this visual may make you roll your eyes a bit, there’s something to be said about it. When we complete a hard workout, we put our muscles through the ringer and tear them down. In order to prevent a loss of lean muscle (that lovely material that gives us the nice toned look), it’s important to feed them with protein so they are able to repair and rebuild themselves.
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Drones have, once again, opened up the possibility of experimenting with the aerodynamic design of flying objects. The aircraft industry itself spent decades experimenting with the design of aircraft, both in civilian and military applications. Indeed, numerous technologies failed and some succeeded before the outlines of the general dominant designs emerged.
Drones have also represented an opportunity for novel designs: they are light-weight, battery-powered, and electrically-propelled. All these components can be arranged in many new novel ways, which in the past few years led to an explosion of designs. This report provides you with the insight and understanding to make insightful decisions about this key market area.
Different drones have different applications. Rotary drones are typically more efficient designs for smaller drone sizes. This is due to their design. With four fixed-pitch props, there are few moving parts and this reduces the cost of the drone. However, this design does not scale up very well.
Quadcopters require stabilization for each of their motors in order to fly. In order for the drone to stay stable in the air, it needs to individually adjust the thrust in each of its props. As a quadcopter requires its motors to speed up or slow down to adjust the thrust, there needs to be a built-in time delay to how fast the drone can react, as it takes time to change the speed of the prop due to its inertia.
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As a result of this, fixed wing drones are typically used for longer distances, where less dynamic handling is required. Use cases include surveying or mapping, where the drone can follow a fixed path and map a large area whilst remaining in the VLOS of the drone pilot.
With different designs of drones, different use cases are more suited to them. This report provides you with insight into the different applications for drone technologies. In this report, the use cases of agricultural, search and rescue, mapping and localization, delivery, and consumer drones are considered and analyzed with forecasts for both 2021-2031 and 2031-2041.
This report will provide you with an understanding in each of these use case areas and their market predictions for the next two decades. One key area of importance is regulations for different use cases. For example, there are restrictions over where the drone can fly. It cannot fly in built-up areas, around airports (up to 5km) away, and similar urban situations.
This limits applications such as drone delivery, as the drones will only be able to deliver to rural locations. Furthermore, privacy restrictions do not permit recordings over private property in some countries. This limits the use cases in delivery or infrastructure management for a domestic setting. The report covers the different country restrictions for drones and summarizes the impact of these on the drone market in the future.
What key questions does ‘Drone Market and Industries 2021-2041’ answer?
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Many years ago when I was still on the Oxford farmers Market Uptown governing board I made the suggestion that we should figure out a way to get the left over food that farmers have at the end of every market to people who need food, i.e. a food pantry. Everyone on the board thought that was a great idea and voted it in. And we thought from there it would be easy to set up a system to get food from market to the needy.
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The first couple of years were hit and miss. It was obvious it was up to the farmers market to get things together such as coolers and humans to get the job done and this happened (we have a really great support system and community with this market). But it was not possible to find people every week to pick up food from the vendors and take it to the food pantry location and I know on at least one occasion the food pantry forgot about the Saturday delivery and the volunteers had no way to deliver the food. And there was also the issue that the needy people who were getting this food were not familiar with much of the produce being donated like arugula, heirloom tomatoes, specialty peppers, eggplant, daikon, fennel, etc., etc.. So they were not using the food and it often went to waste.
But that was 4 or 5 years ago. Than in 2007 the two pantries merged into Choice Pantry, run by St Mary's Catholic Church. They are well run and have refrigeration (because they knew about us farmers when they set this new pantry up and made sure they could utilize us). And they have Miami students hold classes to teach the food needy about cooking, nutrition, etc., so these people can use the food from the farmers market (more utilization). And we have Mike coming by just about every Saturday at noon to gather together food that would other wise be wasted (okay not exactly wasted as we and most other farmers at the market would do something like compost the produce or feed it to livestock-it would not be land filled in most cases) and he takes that food to the pantry for distribution that very day (unlike the past where the fresh food would sit around until Monday before distribution). It has become a very workable system.
So we have been donating a lot of food most weeks. Most weeks the pantry gets about 3 bushels of food. I think there have been only 2 or 3 weeks where we did not have much of anything left to give (and what we had was probably too weird for the food pantry-we do grow and sell a lot of unusual varieties). Over the season we have probably donated more than a ton of food.
It feels good to be able to do good works but it sure ain't easy to get these good works started up. But happily, in Oxford, OH they have it figured out.
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The ability of AutoCAD to function on a PC in 1985 was first demonstrated at the 1987 Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas, NV. At the time, AutoCAD was the only vector graphics program on the market. The Autodesk AutoCAD user group, a group of AutoCAD users who also used MS-DOS, later allowed Autodesk to share source code, enabling the release of the Windows version of AutoCAD and the beginning of cross-platform development. Windows 3.0, released in July 1990, allowed AutoCAD to be downloaded and installed by users via an internet connection.
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Samsung is known to bring out the most innovative products and bring advanced software technology to the digital market. This time too it has come out with a convertible/hybrid tablet called ATIV Q. It is said to be one of its kind providing dual OS booting that gives you the best of both worlds in terms of technology and software.
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AN INDUSTRIAL-sized tannery discovered at Fountains Abbey, in Yorkshire, is a “missing link” in the history of the Cistercian community who worshipped and worked there.
Archaeologists used ground-penetrating radar to examine the foundations of a mystery “bowling-alley-style” building in the precinct of the World Heritage site near Ripon, which has long puzzled the experts.
The team found two large stone buildings with lined pits close to the River Skell, which runs through the abbey site. They were about 50 ft wide, and one was 100 ft long and more than one storey high. The National Trust, which manages the site, believes that the design of the structures and their proximity to the river — water is a key requirement in the tanning process — mean that it must have been used to process leather.
Stadtbibliothek im Bildungscampus NürnbergAn illustration of a tanner steeping the animal skins in a vat, from Die Hausbücher der Nürnberger Zwölfbrüderstiftungen
One of the Trust’s archaeologists, Mark Newman, said: “A tannery of this size reveals an operation on an industrial scale.” The scope of the complex, the largest yet discovered at a British monastic site, “really takes one aback”, he said. “It would have served a community of hundreds and reflected the productivity of the huge herds Fountains managed.”
He was surprised at its closeness to the abbey. “Given the noise, activity, and stench that emanated from a tannery, we previously thought that it would have been sited further away from the monks and their worship. We see now that the tannery was much closer, and a far cry from the idea of a quiet, tranquil abbey community. In the 12th and 13th centuries, in particular, it was as busy and industrialised a piece of landscape as you would have found anywhere in Britain.”
Stadtbibliothek im Bildungscampus NürnbergAn illustration of a tanner sorting skins after drying, from Die Hausbücher der Nürnberger Zwölfbrüderstiftungen
It would have played a crucial part in abbey life, providing materials for clothing, bedding, book bindings, and vellum or parchment for reproducing religious texts. It would have been operated by lay Brothers recruited to free the monks in Holy Orders from physical work so that they could concentrate on contemplation.
The director-general of the National Trust, Hilary McGrady, said that the discovery provided a “missing link” in the abbey’s history, and enabled the identification of some key buildings on the site.
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Ernst Zundel, a German-born publisher, author and civil rights activist, has been a major figure in the worldwide Holocaust revisionist movement. For seven years he was held behind bars, first in Canada and then in Germany, solely for the peaceful expression of non-conformist views. He has been the most prominent political prisoner in the western world.
He is the author of countless booklets, newsletters and essays. He has been a prodigious publisher, a one-man public relations firm, and an able public speaker and organizer. Energetic, tenacious and courageous, he has been dauntless in struggle against apparently insurmountable odds and seemingly invincible adversaries.
Zundel is an outgoing, good-humored man who is blessed with a rare combination of unflagging optimism and practical ability. He maintains this infectious spirit even under very trying conditions. He is an unusually alert and sensitive individual with a keen understanding of human nature. He knows how to persuade, cajole and encourage others to give their best for the greater good. He inspires confidence, loyalty and affection.
Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel was born on April 24, 1939, in the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany. He emigrated to Canada at the age of 19,
Zundel Webite – http://www.zundelsite.org
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Antarctica, considered to be the coldest place on earth, witnessed mercury rise like never before.
It recorded its highest temperature at 18.3°C, according to a news report by The Guardian.
It is in fact higher than many places in the Northeast during this time of the year.
Last time when such temperatures were recorded was in March 2015 when the mercury level had gone up to 17.5°C.
It was a tweet from the meteorological station in Argentina, which has been recording temperatures since 1961, that revealed the rise in temperature in Antarctica:
However, the latest reading is yet to be verified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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• A daybook containing information about rituals and celebrations that have for centuries been associated with the changing seasons of the year.
• Includes charts of equinoxes and solstices, movable holy days, and monthly lunar phases through 2033
• First edition sold more than 30,000 copies
Pagan rites and festivals are at the root of many traditional holidays in the Western world. Embracing a sensitivity we have lost, the Pagan traditions emphasize mystical spirituality, reverence for the feminine principle, and the links between people and the earth. This unique daybook contains a treasury of information about rituals and celebrations that have for centuries been associated with the changing seasons of the year. Included are the observances of the ancient Greek, Roman, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Norse traditions, as well as Wiccan traditions and the worship of the Goddess.
In The Pagan Book of Days the author provides details on auspicious and inauspicious days, holy days of ancient gods and goddesses, and the eight stations of the year (the solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter days). He also includes lunar and solar charts indicating dates of major Pagan celebrations from the year 2011 through 2033. Illustrations throughout depict images from the classical and northern European traditions. The Pagan Book of Days is an enlightening way to incorporate these ancient cultural and spiritual practices and awarenesses into your daily life.
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Your tooth and surrounding gum tissue may be slightly tender for several days as a result of manipulation during treatment and previous condition of your tooth. This tenderness is normal and is no cause for alarm. Do not chew food on the affected side until your endodontic therapy is completed and your tooth is covered with a protective restoration provided by your restorative dentist. You may continue your regular dental hygiene regimen. Discomfort may be alleviated by taking ibuprofen (Advil), aspirin, or acetaminophen (Tylenol) as directed.
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After Completion of Endodontic Treatment:
Endodontic treatment has now been completed. The root canal system has been permanently sealed. However, the outer surface is sealed with a temporary restoration. A follow-up restoration must be placed to protect your tooth against fracture and decay. Please telephone your restorative dentist for an appointment. A complete report of treatment will be sent to your restorative dentist. Our endodontists may wish to schedule you for a follow-up examination. This appointment will require only a few minutes.
One year after your root canal treatment is completed; our staff will contact you to schedule a recall examination. An x-ray will be taken in order to see if proper healing has occurred. This is a short but very important appointment.
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Practice Relating to Rule 147. Reprisals against Protected Objects
Section B. Medical objects
The Military Manual (1993) of the Netherlands, in the chapter dealing with the protection of the wounded and sick and referring to Article 20 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I, states: “Measures of reprisal are prohibited against … medical units and medical means of transportation, in short against all protected persons and objects.”
The Military Manual (2005) of the Netherlands states that “reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited”.
The manual further states that “[r]eprisal measures against … medical units and medical means of transport … are prohibited”.
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The Disability Royal Commission wants to hear from all Australians about their experiences of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability.
A submission is the main way people and organisations can provide information to the Royal Commission about their experiences of violence, neglect, abuse or exploitation of people with disability. Anybody can make a submission.
The Royal Commission particularly wants to hear about:
Incidents of violence, neglect, abuse or exploitation of people with disability
Complaints processes and outcomes
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Quality of disability support services
Examples of best practice and innovation
The Royal Commission cannot resolve individual cases. It cannot award compensation or force a person or organisation to take actions.
Rights in Action can assist people to write their submission who live in Atherton, Babinda, Cairns – North, Cairns – South, Kuranda, Malanda – Yungaburra, Tablelands and Yarrabah.
If you want to raise concerns about the quality of care and NDIS services of being delivered to people with disability, you can also contact the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
Protect your rights
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Provide advice in your best interest
Act on your behalf to get the supports you need
Please complete the online Rights in Action Royal Commission Referral Form and submit.
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It is irrefutable fact that every democratic country is regulated by Law. Law provides rights to the citizens and those rights can be bifurcated into two categories i.e. Fundamental Rights and Civil Rights. In India, Fundamental Rights have been defined in the Constitution of India which is also called Grundnorm and all the civil rights are inferior to fundamental rights because in violation of fundamental rights a person can stand in the highest court of land whereas in case of breach of civil rights the same has to approach the lowest court.
Now the question arises whether the law imposes duty upon lower courts (Trial courts) to protect the fundamental rights of the person as well?
The answer is Yes in absolute terms when there is misuse of process of law. This issue came before the Apex court in the case Kishan lal Chawla versus State of U.P. criminal appeal number 283 of 2021. The Hon'ble Supreme Court clearly retreated that As aforesaid, the trial courts and the Magistrates have an important role in curbing this injustice. They are the first lines of defence for both the integrity of the criminal justice system, and the harassed and distraught litigant.
We are of the considered opinion that the trial courts have the power to not merely decide on acquittal or conviction of the accused person after the trial, but also the duty to nip frivolous litigations in the bud even before they reach the stage of trial by discharging the accused in fit cases.
This would not only save judicial time that comes at the cost of public money, but would also protect the right to liberty that every person is entitled to under Article 21 of the Constitution. In this context, the trial Judges have as much, if not more, responsibility in safeguarding the fundamental rights of the citizens of India as the highest court of this land.
Therefore, the time has now been started to understand the raising the issue of breach of fundamental rights at the lowest level rather to approach the constitutional courts first.
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Blogs is one particular thing and realistically, everybody can blog. Blogging and site-building is shown to secure you more prospects. Blogging is known as a rather interesting activity. Blog may be a simple way of posting things which are on your mind via your own DIY site. Blog is absolutely, the best platforms that you have a voice with minimal obstacles to obtain.
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Climate change is making California hotter, drier, and harder for people and wildlife. Beaver can help.
Please join us on April 7 (International Beaver Day) and April 9 for the California Beaver Summit. During two online half-day sessions the summit will explore the many benefits that beavers offer to the ecosystems they occupy.
BEAVER ESSENTIALS: History and Management
Keynote Address: Beaver Habitat and Salmonids – Michael Pollock
- Beaver Introduction
- California Beaver History
- Climate change and how beavers can help
- Tribal Restoration Partners
- Beavers, Amphibians and Birds
- CDFW Policy and habitat
- Common conflicts and how to manage
- Local examples of beaver management
BEAVER DYNAMICS: Ecosystems and Restoration
Keynote Address: Keynote Address: Beavers & Fire Refugia –
- Human Dimensions of Beaver Restoration
- Beavers, BDAs & Coho Salmon Recovery
- Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration of Riverscapes
- Beavers for Restoration & Conservation
- Barriers to beaver Restoration
- Bring Back the Beaver Campaign Updates
- Community Involvement and SLO Beaver Brigade
Science News looks at how humans and beavers can work together to help streams survive wildfire and drought, with CA Beaver Summit speakers Joe Wheaton & Emily Fairfax. Low-tech restoration gains popularity as an effective fix for ailing waterways in the American West.
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Commerce Minister Nirmala, Sitharaman has said that the government is in the process of formulating a Rs 2,000 crore credit guarantee scheme to enable startups to raise loans without any collateral, parliament was told.
“Government is formulating a Credit Guarantee Scheme for Startups (CGSS) with a corpus contribution of Rs 2,000 crore that will enable startups to raise loans without any collateral for their business purposes,” Sitharaman told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply.
The proposed scheme will provide credit guarantee up to Rs 500 lakh per case inclusive of term loan, working capital or any other instrument of assistance extended by Member Lending Institutions (MLIs) to finance a startup recognised by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), she said.
MLIs may provide loans to up to any amount required by an eligible borrower. However, under the scheme, the exposure for availing credit guarantee will be limited to Rs 500 lakh per eligible borrower. Such loan will be extended by MLIs without any collateral security and/or third party guarantee.
For all resident directors/partners of the startup, Aadhaar shall be mandatory and for non-resident directors/partners, the passport number shall be a mandatory part of Know Your Customer (KYC) norms.
MLIs under the scheme can be scheduled commercial banks and financial institutions, Reserve Bank of India-registered Non-Banking Financial Companies and Securities and Exchange Board of India-registered Alternative Investment Funds.
The scheme, which will function under the trusteeship management of the National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company, will provide portfolio-based credit guarantee. Each portfolio shall comprise at least 10 eligible start up loans, during a particular financial year.
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(Reuters Health) - Whether surgical trainees should be able to work long shifts is a matter of fierce debate, and the methods of a controversial study aimed at answering that question were outlined Wednesday in a top surgical journal.
The results won’t be available until February. In the meantime, critics of the study say it exposed doctors-in-training - known as residents - and their patients to unnecessary risks by extending work hours. But supporters say the study did not increase risk and will lead to policies backed by evidence.
Public concern surrounding residents’ work hours led the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to impose restrictions in 2003 and again in 2011. Current policy limits the work week to a maximum 80 hours, regulates mandatory time off between shifts and limits on-call periods.
Until now, however, there had been no randomized controlled trials to confirm that long or short shifts are beneficial or harmful for residents or patients. Only lesser-quality evidence from observational studies existed.
As reported in JAMA Surgery, the new Flexibility in Duty Hour Requirements for Surgical Trainees (FIRST) Trial involved residents from 117 training programs. In all the participating programs, in accordance with ACGME rules, work weeks were still limited to 80 hours, residents still had one day off per week and they weren’t on call more often than every third night.
In half the programs, however, three ACGME rules were eliminated. First-year residents’ shifts weren’t limited to 16 hours. For more advanced residents, shifts weren’t limited to 28 hours. And there was no guarantee of at least 14 hours off after a 24-hour shift or at least 8 hours off after a regular shift.
In a November 19 letter to regulators, the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen and the American Medical Student Association raised concerns over the trial and over a similar study, iCOMPARE, being conducted with internal medicine residents .
The organizations took issue with the institutional review board (IRB) at Northwestern University in Chicago, where researchers are heading up the study, because it ruled the study did not constitute research with human subjects and so did not require the supervision typical of clinical trials.
Dr. Sidney Wolfe, senior advisor of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, told Reuters Health that doctors and patients were not given the chance to agree or decline to participate in the research.
“Some surgeons may want to do it but others may not want to do it,” Wolfe said.
The trial’s lead investigator, Dr. Karl Bilimoria of Northwestern, said that while FIRST wasn’t classified as human research, an independent data monitoring board was established to check for safety concerns.
He added that aside from programs in New York, which regulates resident hours by law, only six sites declined to participate. All sites were free to run the trial through their individual IRBs.
“We left it up to everybody to do what was best for them locally,” he said.
In a letter to Public Citizen and the American Medical Student Association, ACGME noted that tired residents can hand off patients at any time, are advised to nap after 16 hours and are given adequate sleep facilities and/or safe transportation options.
Two JAMA editors, Drs. Julie Ann Sosa and Howard Bauchner, write in a commentary published with the paper, “We recognize the controversy about the ethics of the study and believe that transparency about the way in which it was approved and conducted should be reviewed and discussed.”
The ethical issues are complex, agreed Dr. Robert Klitzman, director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University in New York City.
He noted that a 2014 report in JAMA showed no improvement in patient outcomes after the 2011 ACGME resident hour restrictions were imposed. While he’s sympathetic to the concerns of Public Citizen, Klitzman said, “I think it’s very powerful evidence that there was no danger to patients” before then.
He agrees with Public Citizen and the American Medical Student Association, however, that the trial should be considered human research.
“It’s much more complicated than a short shift and long shift,” said Dr. Sanjay Desai, residency program director at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
For example, he said, shorter shifts lead to more transitions or “handoffs” in care, which are known to contribute to miscommunication and errors.
Desai, who is not involved with FIRST but is involved with iCOMPARE, also said shorter shifts are often worked at night and can be as tiring as longer shifts.
“The logic of the argument makes sense only at the surface, but when you consider night shifts and handoffs, the complexity becomes immediately clear,” Desai said.
Although the study is done, Klitzman said the Office for Human Research Protections, which was contacted by Public Citizen and the American Medical Student Association, may still take action or decline to act on the complaint.
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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Inmarsat has entered into a partnership with Beijing Marine Communication & Navigation Company and Aviation Data Communication Corp. to provide aviation safety and cockpit communication services in China.
MCN and ADCC will offer Inmarsat’s Classic Aero voice and data safety service and SwiftBroadband-Safety cockpit and aircraft operations connectivity platform under the memorandum of understanding signed during ATC Global 2016, Inmarsat said Wednesday.
The partnership is set to be finalized by the end of the year in line with MCN and Inmarsat’s plans to establish a joint venture to supply aircraft cabin and connectivity services in China.
“Our partnerships with MCN and ADCC… reinforce Inmarsat's commitment to supporting China's One Belt One Road strategic vision,” said Otto Gergye, vice president of airline market development at Inmarsat’s aviation subsidiary.
He added that the country’s aviation market has at least a five-percent annual growth rate with both in-service aircraft and passenger levels predicted to double in the next two decades.
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WATCH: Bill Nye Becomes the Abortion Guy Who Gets The Science All Wrong
An internet “scientist” made some outrageous comments about those who believe life begins at conception.
Bill Nye “the science guy”- who is, in fact, NOT a scientist – starred in a video explaining his position on the idea that life begins at conception. His argument that life does not begin at conception is beyond flawed and jumbled.
The clumsy video was published on “Big Think”, a YouTube channel that describes themself as, “the leading source of expert-driven, actionable, educational content — with thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, we help you get smarter, faster.”
Receiving a lot of backlash on YouTube and Twitter for his anti-science views on life at conception, Nye claims that people who believe in life at conception “literally don’t know what you’re talking about.” Equating a natural fertilized egg that does not attach to the uterine wall as the same thing as abortion, did not sit well with many viewers.
This poor attempt to justify abortion indicates that Bill Nye should stick to mechanical engineering and leave the biological sciences to those with the appropriate degree.
Let’s start with his far from accurate claim that the Bible is 5,000 years old. The group this video, Big Think, has an article from 2016 about the age of the Bible:
“So the oldest Biblical text we found is about 2700 years old.” Of course giving themselves some leeway, “most Biblical scholars believe the Book of Genesis was the first book to be written down. This would have happened around 1450 BC to 1400 BC. So perhaps about 3400 years or so ago.”
It’s interesting that the same organization producing this video misrepresenting the Bible, also put out an article dating the Bible to a much different time than Nye proposes.
While Nye states “we have so many more important things to be dealing with”, he certainly has a mouthful to say about the subject, albeit the majority of it does not make sense.
Asking, “Who are you going to sue? Who are you going to imprison? Every woman who has had a fertilized egg pass through her?” Nye fails to realize that no one gets sued for having an abortion – abortion is legal.
The “guys of European dissent” comment almost explains itself. Nye indicates that males of white skin color should have no say in ‘reproductive health’ legislation. However, it seems he is perfectly fine with the original nine males of European dissent that made abortion legal in 1973.
In a cluster of phrases that make no sense whatsoever, Nye says:
“You wouldn’t know how big a human egg was if it weren’t for microscopes, if it weren’t for scientists, medical researchers looking diligently.You wouldn’t know the process. You wouldn’t have that shot, the famous shot or shots where the sperm are bumping up against the egg. You wouldn’t have that without science. So then to claim that you know the next step when you obviously don’t is trouble. Let me do that again. At some point we have to respect the facts.”
Nye is trying (I think) to downplay the moment of conception where there is a burst of light. But, does Nye respect the scientific fact that the majority of abortions end a heartbeat which means ending a life?
“Closing abortion clinics, closing – not giving women access to birth control has not been an effective way to lead to healthier societies.” Nye changes his argument from that of “there is no such thing as life at conception” to “abortion clinics give women birth control”. While at one point he says, “no one likes abortion”, he turns around and advocates for their clinics. Which one is it?
It’s easy for Bill Nye to take this surface level approach to the issue. There are few and far between “life at conception” bills floating around states, however there are multiple heartbeat bills going around. Nye does not venture into the question of when he thinks abortion is morally wrong. He plays it safe by trying to target the conception argument and label all pro-lifers as not being educated. Ending his video with “just really be objective about this”.
Yes, let’s. Let’s recognize that the large issue at hand here is about abortion that ends beating hearts. The majority of abortions are performed beyond 21 days, which is when a fetal heartbeat is detected – before most women even know they’re pregnant! To debunk Nye’s argument, a fertilized egg that naturally (not medically induced) does not attach to the uterine wall is not an abortion. A medically induced detachment from the uterine wall is. This video is a poor attempt to equate the two.
One would think that Bill Nye who believes that all life began via the Big Bang – all from one tiny cell – would also believe that the rapid reproduction of cells after fertilization constitutes as life, too. Apparently cells only equate to life in regards to the creation of the world, not in our present world. Yes, life begins at conception, Bill. Dead things don’t grow.
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This class can get the location of an address with FreeGoIP API.
It can take an IP address, a domain name or the current user IP address and sends HTTP requests to the FreeGoIP API server to retrieve the geographic location associated with that IP address including country, latitude, longitude, city, zip code and time zone.
The class can decode the response in either CSV, JSON or XML and returns it.
FreeGoIP - A PHP wrapper for FreeGoIP reverse geolocation API.
freegeoip.net is a service providing a public HTTP API for software developers to search the geolocation of IP addresses.
It uses a database of IP addresses associated to cities along with other relevant information such as time zone, latitude and longitude.
The freegeoip web server is free and open source but the public service limit up to 10,000 queries per hour by default. Once this limit is reached, all requests from the IP will result in HTTP 403, forbidden, until the quota is cleared.
Developed by Ivan Melgrati
The recommended installation method is through
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Please open an issue to request a feature or submit a bug report. Or even if
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New studies being presented at the Australasian Sexual Health Conference in Sydney today reveal a consistent proportion of lesbian and bisexual women are never receiving the routine Papanicolaou (Pap smear) test. Medical experts are warning this could leave them at increased risk of cervical cancer.
“The results of this study are concerning,” says lead researcher Dr Julie Mooney-Somers from the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney.
“Routine Papanicolaou (Pap smear) tests have been very successful at reducing cervical cancer. Like all women, lesbian and bisexual women should be testing regularly. While we didn’t find the significant testing disparity between lesbian and heterosexual women reported in other countries, the lower rate of screening among women with no sexual history with men is something we need to address urgently,” she says.
Cervical cancer is the second most prevalent cancer among women worldwide. In most western industrialised countries such as Australia, women are encouraged to have routine Pap smears, which identify pre-cancers before they can turn into invasive cancer.
The vast majority of women diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer have not had regular Pap smear tests or were never screened. The NSW incidence of cervical cancer has almost halved since the introduction of the NSW Cervical Screening Program in 1991 and mortality rates have decreased.
The study explored testing rates, changes in testing between 2002 and 2012, and predictors of test attendance among lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women in New South Wales.
It found that women who have never had sex with a man are 2.7 times less likely to have ever had a Pap smear. This is despite educational campaigns and Australian national guidelines stating all women who have ever had sex should have regular screening.
A relationship between STI testing and Pap smear testing was also shown.
“We’ve found that for a significant minority of lesbian and bisexual women, sexual or reproductive health is not part of their health care experience. Even if women have no need to discuss contraception with their GP, aren’t on the contraceptive pill for other reasons or don’t need testing for or advice on preventing STIs, we need to find other opportunities to talk about Pap smear tests,” says Mooney-Somers.
“More work is needed to understand why we have these lower rates of screening and what can be done to change it.”
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Industrial output growth slowed down to a 20-month low of 0.1 per cent in February, mainly because of a contraction in the manufacturing sector, official data showed.
The government also released the figures for retail inflation for March. It rose to 2.86 per cent on a month-on-month basis but remained below the RBI benchmark of 4 per cent.
Factory output, measured in terms of the index of industrial production (IIP), had grown 6.9 per cent in February 2018, according to data released by the Central Statistics Office.
IIP growth for November 2018 was revised downwards to 0.2 per cent from 0.3 per cent released earlier.
The previous low in IIP growth was recorded in June 2017, when factory output had contracted 0.3 per cent.
The manufacturing sector, which constitutes 77.63 per cent of IIP, contracted 0.3 per cent in February against 8.4 per cent expansion a year ago.
Capital goods output fell 8.8 per cent against a 16.6 per cent growth in February 2018. Power sector growth slowed to 1.2 per cent compared with 4.5 per cent a year ago. Mining sector output grew 2 per cent compared with a contraction of 0.4 per cent earlier.
Retail inflation ticked up to 2.86 per cent in March as consumers spent more to buy food items and fuel.
The consumer price index (CPI)-based retail inflation was at 2.57 per cent in February this year. On a yearly basis, it was 4.28 per cent in March 2018.
Retail inflation remains well within the RBI’s comfort level of 4 per cent for about eight months now, coming down from 4.17 per cent in July 2018. The overall food inflation, measured as change in prices of articles in food basket, rose to 0.3 per cent in March, against (-) 0.66 per cent in February, according to official data.
Tushar Arora, senior economist at HDFC Bank, said, “A modest rise in inflation was on the cards. Some sequential pick-up in food is expected in the summer months.
“What’s comforting is that inflation still remains within the targeted range of the Reserve Bank of India and in line with the trajectory outlined by the central bank. We expect one more rate cut by the RBI this year.”
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This event has been cancelled. If you purchased a ticket to this event please get in touch with a member of our team via firstname.lastname@example.org.
Learn how to make your own Mid-Century inspired clock using Jesmonite.*
It’s time to get creative! Take home your very own, hand-casted Mid-Century clock as a stylish addition to your home or the perfect gift.
In this three-hour workshop with Polymorphics you will design your colour palette, learn how to mix and add pigment to Jesmonite*, and make chips to add to the mixture, and fully assemble your clock. You will also fully assemble your clock, so bring a friend, join us and enjoy the process of getting creative!
*Jesmonite is a non-toxic water based resin that is completely safe to work with. It is a versatile material and is used in several ways, typically for creating sculptures and other three-dimensional works.
Tickets £50.00 (, unless accompanied by an adult also attending the workshop. Includes entry to Mid-Century Modern: Art & Design From Conran to Quant on the day.
Every ticket sold supports the work of The Dovecot Foundation to advance visual art, craft and design in all its forms.
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533/2021 Sascha O. Becker and Cheongyeon Won
In the mid 19th century, pre-colonial Korea under the Joseon dynasty was increasingly isolated and lagging behind in its economic development. Joseon Korea was forced to sign unequal treaties with foreign powers as a result of which Christian missionaries entered the country and contributed to the establishment of private schools. We show that areas with a larger presence of Christians have higher literacy rates in 1930, during the Japanese colonial period. We also show that a higher number of Protestants is associated with higher female literacy, consistent with a stronger emphasis on female education in Protestant denominations.
Rivista di Storia Economica
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I’m Dianne Hunt of Same DiNamics Crochet and I’m doing a charity guest post on Oombawka Design Crochet.
This month’s featured organization is a local, to me, organization named the Frederick Rescue Mission. Their organization is a Christ-centered ministry that focuses on helping to provide residential needs to homeless individuals and families, and to addicted individuals. The Frederick Rescue Mission also provides meals for the hungry; clothing and furniture for those in need.
Frederick Rescue Mission
Charity of the Month – September
“Established as a non-profit Christian ministry in 1964, we exist to meet the needs of hurting and broken people while inviting them into the abundant life Christ offers to all. We offer a life recovery program and believe every man that enters with a heart surrendered to God and a cooperative attitude should never have to see a prison, jail, homeless shelter, rehab center or rescue mission again.” – Frederick Rescue Mission
The Frederick Rescue Mission is always in need of donated clothing items that can keep individuals warm during the colder months. They accept clothing for all ages but there is a greater demand for men’s clothing.
You can learn more about the featured charity on these social media sources:
How can you help?
Crocheters and knitters can help by providing warm hats, scarves, and/or mittens to those in need.
If the Frederick Rescue Mission is not a local organization for you, you can look in your own community to find an organization which provides overnight shelter to the homeless community.
You can try searching for a local shelter here:
Project Idea: Crocheting hats and mittens can be great stash buster projects and they work up fairly quickly. The best, fiber (yarn) to use for these items is acrylic. That way you don’t run into the risk of having the beneficiary of your donated item have an allergic reaction to the fiber of the yarn if it’s wool or a wool blend.
I have provided a quick and easy Simple, Men’s Beanie pattern you can crochet to donate to your local organization. Its free and can be worked up in one evening.
You can find information about other Charities Accepting Crochet Donations in our Charity Crochet Directory.
Feel free to browse our Charity Crochet Board on Pinterest for Pattern Ideas too!
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360 Eyecare – Metro is happy to launch the Eye See Eye Learn program as a program made for Junior Kindergarten Students or children about to go into Junior Kindergarten. The students or children that are eligible for the Eye See Eye Learn program need to be seen by one of our 360 Eyecare – Metro participating optometrist. Remember, children and young students under the age of 19 are covered by OHIP for an eye exam once every 12 months. Once your child has the exam at 360 Eyecare – Metro Eye you can choose a frame from the OGI Kids line and Nikon will fill the prescription at NO COST to the family. The finished glasses will take an average of 7-10 days for delivery. OGI frames are high quality, fashionable frames all with a 1 year manufacturers defect warranty. Any of the OGI Kids frames are eligible for the program. The kids frame gallery can be found at www.ogieyewear.com.
Nikon Lens wear provides the lenses for all the Eye See Eye Learn program glasses that is available with 360 Eyecare – Metro. The lenses that are provided are a polycarbonate material with an anti-reflective coating and come with a 2 year warranty. The program offers lenses at no cost with restrictions to prescriptions of exceeding +8.00 dioptres to -10.00 dioptres along with max cylinder amount of -4.00. Additional options such as Transitions and or progressive type of lenses are not covered under the Eye See Eye Learn program even when you child is prescribed to wear them.
The Eye See Eye Learn program was developed to raise awareness among parents of the importance of having their children’s eyes checked upon starting school. Each year thousands of children start school without ever having an eye exam
and struggle throughout the academic year to be able to see clearly. At 360 Eyecare – Metro we support the care for each patient regardless of their vision needs.
Children whom are unable to visually focus on a picture or follow words in a book may struggle to achieve their full learning potential with a binocular vision issue. Vision problems impact their hand-eye coordination for physical activities and more over impact their social development. 80 % of all child’s learning development comes directly through vision. Come visit us for a covered eye exam and learn if your child is a candidate for free eye glasses from 360 Eyecare – Metro through participation of Eye See Eye Learn Program!
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Chances are that you are calculating your Velocity the wrong way! The Velocity is the speed with which a team can deliver new, valuable, finished and tested features to stakeholders. This blog is about why the common way to handle estimates and planning does not give you that. And how applying a Lean view on the matter can show your real Velocity.
Agile Estimation and Planning relies heavily on Velocity and Relative Estimates. They are all based on the concept of Story Points, a relative estimate of the effort it takes to implement the functionality of Story.
The Velocity is the rate with which a development team delivers working, tested, finished functionality to stakeholders. In the best of worlds this is the customer or user directly, however, in many cases there are still some separate testing activities carried out before this actually happens.
To calculate Velocity we cannot estimate in hours or days, because that would make Velocity a unitless factor (hours divided by hours). It is common estimate in Story Points, where User Stories are compared to each other and some known story as the prototype story to compare to. The idea is to decouple effort from time and instead base future commitments on empirical measurements of past effort executed per time/iteration.
The Stories are found in the prioritized list of Stories to be implemented (what Scrum calls the Product Backlog). The Product Owner should prioritize in which order the wanted features should be implemented.
Signs of Debt
Technical Debt is a term, alluding to the financial world, describing a situation where shortcuts have previously been made in development. In some future situation this will cost more effort, like bug fixes, rewrites or implementation of automated test cases. In situations where an existing organisation is transitioning to Agile there is usually a substantial Technical Debt that needs to be repaid. This is often signaled by
- the team struggles to find ways to handle trouble reports
- rewrites, often incorrectly labelled “refactorings”, are listed in the Product Backlog
The Trouble with Trouble Reports
Of course Trouble Reports need to be addressed as soon as possible. But in a legacy situation many Trouble Reports are found in the late stages of integration and verification, which can be months after that development was “finished”. The development team has moved on or even been replaced. So many of the Trouble Reports must first to be analysed before a correction can even be attempted. This makes them impossible to estimate. So putting them in the Product Backlog can only be done after the solution, and an estimate, is known.
A technique I recommend is to reserve a fixed amount of resources for this analysis. This limits the amount of work for Trouble Report analysis to a known amount. The method of reservation can vary from a number of named persons per week/day, a specific TR-day in the sprint or just the gut feeling of the team. The point is that the team now knows how much of their resources can go into working of the backlog. And adjustments can easily be made after a retrospective and based on empirical data.
This technique has a number of merits:
- known and maximized decrease in resources
- only estimatable items go in the backlog
- all developers get to see where Troble Reports come from
- team members are relieved from stress caused by split focus (“fix TR:s while really trying to get Stories done”)
Once a solution has been found the Trouble Report can be put in the backlog for estimation and sprint planning. (But the fix is often simple, once found, so a team might opt to not put the fix in the Product Backlog. Instead the fix itself can also be made as part of the reserved Trouble Report resource box. This avoids the extra administration and lead time.)
But, if the Trouble Reports are put on the Backlog and estimated as normal stories, we give Velocity points to non-value-adding work items!
Rewrites are Pointless
A system with high technical debt might need a rewrite of some parts. More often than not, these has been known for some time but always get low priority from project/product managers. And rightly so, they do not add any business value.
They still need to be done, though. The technical debt need to be repaid. So, what to do?
First I usually ask the developers if the suggested rewrite really is the smallest step to improving the situation? Often I find that if I push sufficiently hard, they can back down a bit and a smaller improvement presents themselves. This is good news since the smaller improvement is easier to get acceptance for. And once they are small enough, they can be kept below the radar of the PO.
If the rewrites are indeed put on the Backlog and estimated as normal stories, we give Velocity points to non-value-adding work items!
The Point of the Story
And this brings me to the core of this blog entry. Trouble reports and rewrites are things that need to be done, but a product owner should never need to see them. The team should be able to address these issues by themselves. They should be delivering working, tested, valuable software. The Product Owner should prioritize the new features.
This indicates that neither rewrites nor Trouble Reports should go into the Product Backlog.
How would a team know what to commit to then? Well, the (smaller) rewrites and the trouble reports (if put in the backlog) need to be estimated. We could do that the same way as previously. But there should be no points earned for these items.
What would this strategy mean then?
- The Product Backlog should not contain Trouble Reports or rewrite “stories”
- The Team should include a limited amount of necessary non-value-adding items in the iteration
- The Team needs to estimate non-value-adding items
- The Team commit to a number of points including non-value-adding items
- The Team Speed is calculated from all Done Done items
- The Velocity is calculated only from value-adding stories
With this technique you will probably see an increase in Velocity as your Technical Debt is repaid. Something which I find very Lean.
The Real Velocity
The only Velocity that is really worth measuring is the speed at which a team can add business value. Then we need to make a difference between value adding work and extra work disguised as such.
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The question of how Americans define friends living in foreign lands – and how Americans define people who’ve migrated to the U.S. – has been on Sheila Croucher’s mind for the last decade or so. She teaches Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University of Ohio, and says a word as seemingly straightforward as “immigrant” is anything but.
“I think it absolutely is politically charged and I think it is racially charged,” Croucher says. “I think it is charged in a number of ways.”
In 2006 Croucher went to the colonial city of San Miguel de Allende in Central Mexico, to study a large community of Americans living there. She noticed something interesting: no matter what their legal status, none of them called themselves immigrants.
“When I would push on the issue of terminology I would be told ‘look, I’m just an American living in Mexico,’” she says.
“I don’t refer to myself as an immigrant,” Russell Henson says.
Henson lives in San Miguel – the city Croucher studied years ago. He’s a retired engineer and pilot who now teaches aviation in Mexico.
“We are called temporary residents on our immigration status but socially we identify with our tribe,” he explains.
They identify with other Americans living abroad, who call themselves ex-pats or expatriates. Professor Croucher says the term ex-pats could carry a negative connotation – as in ‘renouncing one’s country’ – but it rarely does. On the contrary, the term often carries a certain cachè, and it’s mostly used by Americans and Europeans living abroad.
“There have been some recent studies and I think an interesting article in the Guardian within the past year or so about why do the Brits in Southern Spain get to be expats when everybody else going in the other direction are immigrants,” she says.
It may be because immigrants are often thought of as people who leave their homeland for economic reasons. But it clearly isn’t that simple since most of the Americans she studied in San Miguel fit that profile.
“They were absolutely moving for economic reasons and motivated by economic concerns, whether it was declining pensions in the United States or the rising cost of health care,” Croucher says. “I think it would be politically interesting as a move for Mexican immigrants to say, ‘OK, I’m an ex-pat too’ and vice versa. I think it would be an important political move for the increasing number of Americans and Canadians living abroad to start calling themselves immigrants.”
More American civilians now live abroad than ever before. Census data from host countries puts that number at around eight million.
At the same time, patterns of migration into the United States are shifting. In the last 5 years, fewer arrivals say they have come for financial reasons. The Pew Research Center says almost half are highly educated.
Juan Wah is one of them. He’s a marketing expert from Mexico. His father is Chinese, and his mother Mexican. He was educated in the U.S. and once lived in Germany. Now, he lives in Texas.
So how does he identify himself?
“I don’t know, it depends on who is asking,” Wah says. “But sometimes I just describe myself as a ‘foodie’ or ‘a happy person.’ I don’t think customs will take foodie. I don’t think there’s a box for foodie yet!”
Croucher believes the terminology is likely to change because millennials like Wah are the most racially diverse, gender non-conforming generation so far – and their identities often don’t fit into neat little checkboxes on official forms.
For them, “immigrants” and “expats” are just people.
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Vision Ethiopia Statement
On May 23, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, announced visa sanctions against Ethiopian and Eritrean government officials and other individuals who are “… responsible for or complicit in undermining the resolution of the crisis in Tigray.” The State Department press statement also promulgated that the Biden administration has “imposed wide-ranging restrictions on economic and security assistance to Ethiopia and will bring our defense trade control policy in line with them.”
The draconian measure swiftly taken by the Biden administration appears to mark a watershed moment heralding a shift in the drivers of U.S. diplomacy. First, the measure, which typically is reserved for enemies of the U.S., is being targeted at a longtime ally in the fight against terrorism and violent extremism in the Horn of Africa. Secondly, the justification of the measures with respect to human rights protection is patently fallacious and discriminatory, as the Biden administration has deafeningly refused to break its silence about human rights abuses in other parts of the country, including the raging genocidal atrocities being committed against Amharas, Orthodox Christians and other minority groups who live in the Oromia and Benishangul-Giumuz regions. In addition, the basis for the hastily taken measures is not thoroughly-researched evidence, but instead dubious reports by journalists and social media activists with ostensibly nefarious intentions. Lastly, and most importantly, the real motivation for the uncanny measure appears to be personal connections shrouded in a lofty humanitarian veil rather than the advancement of a coherently framed foreign policy, as was the case in previous decades.
During the Cold War, the U.S. foreign policy was anchored on ideological foundations, reflecting the country’s commitment to uphold democracy and the sanctity of individual freedoms. Even in cases when there were idiosyncratic mishaps of external affairs, examples of which were in abundance, it was often possible to find justification with reference to the overarching policy objectives. The conflicts in Southeast Asia, the humanitarian tragedies in Central and South America, and the rise and fall of dictatorships in various African and other developing countries, in which the U.S. played significant roles in one form or another, could all be explained as a piece of the bigger puzzle, viz., the containment or abolishment of communism. When the Soviet Union collapsed and policy Americana prevailed, very few pundits challenged how the end had justified the means.
In the post-cold-war era, the US foreign policy was mostly driven by the fight against terrorism. While this policy shared many remarkable features in common with the Soviet-era strategies, it was markedly different in many other respects. One notable distinction is the absence of a rival superpower — a factor that often complicated the formulation of a coherent policy and
necessitated the need to reorient the focus toward an asymmetric warfare. On the other hand, other strategies have continued to be essential elements of the new policy. These include forging alliance with dictators that are perceived to be indispensable in the fight against terror. A case in point is the support accorded to dictators such as Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, a tyrant who had managed to hold the West captive, notwithstanding his proven records of human rights abuse, corruption and disastrous internal policies.
If the current policy of the United States toward Ethiopia is a bellwether of what is to come, it is a disconcerting shift from earlier strategies in a number of areas. At face value, it seems to be one characterized by a propensity to be influenced by disinformation, embezzled money and cronyism, rather than by a robust framework pivoted on time-honored Western values. In the following, we highlight some examples of these features and outline the consequences of such disastrous strategies to Ethiopia’s integrity in particular, and regional stability and world security in general. In a more geopolitical perspective, we argue that this shift might portend the erosion of America’s longstanding position in world stage as a bastion of freedom and democracy, and the beginning of the end of its dominance in shaping international diplomacy and the new world order. Most notably, we maintain that the implication of this for the emergence of new powers such as China is consequential, since the vacuum irresponsibly created by U.S. policymakers is likely to invite new players in some of these geopolitically lucrative regions.
The Backdrop to the Conflict in the Tigray Region
After the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) was ejected from power through a popular uprising in 2018, the leadership retreated to the Tigray region, and challenged the authority of the central government, both covertly and overtly. However, the crescendo of the conflict was the surprise attack, in the early hours of November 4, 2020, by the TPLF on the Northern Command of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) stationed in Tigray. As acknowledged by the TPLF itself, the brazen attack was devastating to the ENDF, and, without the swift counteroffensive by the government, could have resulted in the disintegration of Ethiopia, with incalculable consequences on regional peace and stability.
Despite the criminality of TPLF’s treasonous act, and the subsequent genocidal violence committed by its followers in places like Mai-Kadra, where hundreds of mostly ethnic Amharas were massacred by retreating TPLF cadres, there has been a general reluctance by U.S. and EU policymakers to put blame on or castigate the TPLF. Instead, a false equivalence has been established between the TPLF and the national government of Ethiopia, and the Biden administration has now flexed its muscles to bring the TPLF back to power at any cost.
Disinformation and Cyberwarfare
The TPLF has demonstrated an exceedingly superb capability in using fabricated information to achieve its nefarious objectives since its formative days, even before the current digital platforms were available. Despite its terrorist track records, the group had befuddled Western policymakers, journalists and human rights organizations portraying itself as a genuine organization that stood against repression and atrocity. For example, in one notorious and widely reported incident in June of 1988, the TPLF lured the authoritarian government in power into bombing the inhabitants of Howzen, a town in a rebel-controlled area, and then used the tragic event to attract world opinion against the military dictatorship it was fighting against. Currently, the TPLF has perfected and honed its disinformation strategy, dizzyingly using the available technological platforms. Thanks to the billions of dollars it had siphoned off while in power, its cadres are actively disseminating manufactured news about alleged atrocities committed in the Tigray region. Episodes of rape, genital mutilation, mass murder, use of chemical weapons, and ethnic cleansing are carefully choreographed and fed to humanitarian organizations, journalists from major news outlets and certain policymakers from the West. These reports are then used as evidence to substantiate policy statements and congressional proceedings. Through false impersonation, criminals are presented as eyewitnesses or victims of crimes, and acts of atrocities are re-enacted. In one such fabricated story, a TPLF operative who actually resides in Boston was videotaped pretending to be a priest in Axum. In another case, an Amnesty international report, which was alluded to in a recent U.S. State Department statement and cited by the mainstream media, was mostly based on the accounts and testimonials of the criminals who had executed the Mai-Kadra genocide against Amharas and then escaped to Sudan.
Western media have published numerous reports on the Tigray conflict that have conveniently been used as reliable sources without regard to the neutrality of the reporters or the objectivity and comprehensiveness of the underlying messages, either by the publishing companies or by
agencies of the U.S. government. When Anthony Blinken testified in a Congressional hearing declaring that there was evidence of ethnic cleansing in a region that was once forcibly annexed by the TPLF, he was relying on a baseless report which had no evidence to back it.
While it would be patently irresponsible to doubt there could be crimes committed in a region of conflict such as the one in Tigray, or to suggest that such crimes should not be investigated legalistically and journalistically, the manner of reporting by most of these correspondents, the egregiousness of the purported crimes, and the lack of balance in the content of the reports are too histrionic to be considered as a basis for the formulation of the foreign policy of a Superpower. One notable example that summarizes the TPLF disinformation campaign is the brazen remarks by Martin Plaut, a proponent of TPLF, who was caught on camera advocating the need to manufacture the news for such news outlets as the BBC, the VOA and CNN.
Embezzled Money in Policy Formulation
It is no revelation that money plays a critical role in shaping U.S. policy, both domestic and foreign. This has long been recognized and effectively used by the TPLF before and after it lost its grip to power. During the atrocious regime of Zenawi, firms such as DLA Piper were paid huge sums of money to help stifle passages of bills in congress intended to mitigate human rights violations in the country. Currently the TPLF is deploying the billions of dollars it had embezzled while in power to rally behind its cause members of congress and other policymakers. As acknowledged by CNN in one of its articles published on May 21, 2021, its reports and a pro TPLF lobbying firm, Von Batten-Montague-York, were responsible in influencing U.S. Senators to support S.Res.97.
Cronyism and Connections in Relation to Foreign Policy
Over the three decades the TPLF was in power, it had successfully forged and nurtured friendships with powerful officials, journalists and intellectuals in the West. Herman Cohen in 1991 brokered Meles Zenawi’s assumption of power, and he remains an ardent proponent of TPLF causes to this date, even pleading for a safe passage to exile for TPLF leaders. In subsequent years, a cadre of diplomats, including Susan Rice, cemented the power of the TPLF. Leaders like Barack Obama celebrated the glory of TPLF’s dictatorship, while the regime made a mockery of democracy declaring 100% election victory in successive ballots. TPLF friends, who are now holding critical positions in the Biden administration, are unabashedly expressing their support for the group. Susan Rice, who once eulogized Zenawi as “selfless”, has incessantly warned, in tweets after tweets, of imminence of severe sanctions as a consequence of the law enforcement campaign in Tigray. In addition to foreigners, the TPLF has implanted key members of its inner circle in strategic positions in Western governments, and international and humanitarian organizations. According to a Reuter’s report, for example, the WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has been accused of supporting and trying to procure arms and diplomatic backing for the TPLF, of which he is a senior member.
Toward a Pragmatic Policy on Ethiopia
By all measures, the current policy of the U.S. State Department with regard to Ethiopia is biased, misguided and likely to lead to disastrous outcomes with far reaching consequences for decades to come.
While sanctions can be an important tool to advance cogent policies, they can only be effective if they are driven by cherished Western values of protecting human rights, strengthening democratic institutions and advancing the sanctity of individualism without regard to race, ethnicity, gender, religion or any other convictions.
In the case of Ethiopia, imposing sanctions just to protect a criminal group, while disregarding the overall humanitarian crises in the country, including the ongoing genocidal violence in other regions or the crimes committed by the TPLF, is not only myopic, irresponsible and ineffective, but also dangerously counterproductive. As such, the overarching objective of a pragmatic policy toward Ethiopia should be to strengthen democratic institutions and secure regional peace and stability. This would entail not only bringing to justice perpetrators of crimes, whether in Tigray, Oromia or Benishangul-Gumuz and enforcing the rule of law, but also holding the government in power accountable to address foundational issues, including the drafting of a constitution that is based on the preservation of individual rights and freedoms, equality of all Ethiopians under the law, and the establishment of a genuinely democratic society.
If the U.S. continues in its current path of advancing an injudicious policy, guided by expensive lobbyists, disinformation and personal connections, the end result would undoubtedly be calamitous, that would dwarf the consequences of previous foreign policy foibles witnessed in Libya, Yemen, Iraq and Somalia. Ethnic violence would claim the lives of millions of innocent civilians, and the out flux of refugees would destabilize neighboring countries and strain the resources of many European nations. The inevitable disintegration of Ethiopia would create a fertile ground for the proliferation of extremist forces, including external groups such as Al Shabaab from Somalia, and internal ethno-nationalists, such as the Oromumma fanatic zealots. Given the geopolitical significance of the region, the disruption created by these policies would not be left unnoticed by emerging powers, including China, Russia and major Arab countries, thereby creating new flashpoints for confrontation and conflict. On the U.S. domestic front, the political and economic ramifications should not be lost on those diplomats who should have learned hard lessons from the disastrous policies that engendered the Libyan debacle of the last decade.
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The heart pumps blood into the arteries (blood vessels), which carry the blood throughout the body. While moving through the arteries, blood exerts some degree of pressure or force exerted against the walls of the blood vessel. This is blood pressure, which can be high or low. High blood pressure is also called hypertension.
High blood pressure, also called hypertension, means the pressure in your arteries is above the normal range. In a majority of the cases, the apparent cause of high blood pressure is unknown.
With continuous access to the most advanced treatment options and specialist expertise from fields like nephrology, endocrinology, pharmacology and others, Sunshine Hospitals follows a multidisciplinary approach. Also, post-treatment results are studied so that the patients achieve best blood pressure control rates.
Our team of doctors holds vast experience in working in Identifying abnormal causes of hypertension Measuring and monitoring blood pressure
Kidney Transplantation is considered when an individual experiences permanent kidney failure. Kidney Transplantation will help you enjoy life as that of people with healthy kidneys. With time, latest advancements have made kidney transplants safer by minimising the side effects of medicines.
It is to be understood that kidney transplantation is not a cure. Rather, it is an ongoing treatment that will require the individual to be on medication as well. Along with that, the wait time to find the right donor can run into years.
At Sunshine Hospitals, we ensure a successful transplant with a well-coordinated effort from a healthcare team that is all inclusive – comprising nephrologists, transplant surgeons, transplant coordinator, pharmacist, and dietitian. Most importantly, we include you and your family as part of the treatment.
With continuous access to the most advanced treatment options and specialist expertise – from fields like nephrology, endocrinology, pharmacology and others – Sunshine Hospitals follows a multidisciplinary approach. Also, post-treatment results are studied so that the patients achieve best blood pressure control rates.
Chronic Kidney Disease (also known as a chronic renal disease) is a progressive loss of renal function over a period of months or years. The deteriorating state of kidneys can be recognised by identifying symptoms that include general feeling unwell and experiencing a reduced appetite.
Chronic kidney disease is not a direct result of the specific diagnosis. It is known as a result of screening of people known to be at risk of kidney problems such as high blood pressure or diabetes. Also, complications such as cardiovascular disease, anaemia or pericarditis may point to CKD.
Orthognathic Surgery is also known as Cosmetic Facial Surgery (Corrective Jaw Surgery) involves moving the bones of the upper or lower jaw or both. The jaws are lengthened or shortened, moved up or down, in or out, resulting in a more harmonious bite and facial appearance.
People who can benefit from orthognathic surgery include those with an unpleasing improper bite or jaws that are positioned incorrectly. Jaw growth is a gradual process, and in some instances, the upper and lower jaws may not match at the end of growth. Injury to the jaw during growth may be a cause for the incongruent growth of the jaws. The result can cause a host of problems that can affect chewing function, speech, long-term oral health and appearance. Some bite problems can be corrected by orthodontics alone.
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Many think like all other joints of our body an orthopaedic surgeon treats this joint too. But due to its unique anatomy and function, it is exclusively dealt by a Maxillofacial surgeon.
Yes. We often treat patients who are suffering from chronic issues stemming from old accidents and injuries. Perhaps your jaw is not correctly aligned because of trauma, or perhaps a past broken nose has significantly hindered your ability to breathe. There is no reason to continue wondering if you can ever feel healthy again, without ever taking action – come in for a consultation and find out if we can help.
Undoubtedly a maxillofacial surgeon.
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This paper investigates the effect of corrosion on the bond between reinforcing steel bars and fibre reinforced geopolymer concrete. An accelerated corrosion method was used to corrode the reinforcing steel bars embedded in geopolymer concrete. Three types of steel fibres including straight micro steel fibre, deformed macro steel fibre, and hybrid steel fibre were used in this study. A total of ten geopolymer concrete mixes were used to evaluate the effect of corrosion of steel bar on the bond between steel bar and fibre reinforced geopolymer concrete. The pull-out test specimens were composed of concrete cubes with a side length of 160mm and reinforced with a deformed steel bar of 16 mm diameter located at the centre of the specimens. The test results showed that the addition of steel fibres in geopolymer concrete (fibre reinforced geopolymer concrete) significantly enhanced the bond strength of reinforcing steel bar. The bond strength of reinforcing steel bars embedded in steel fibre reinforced geopolymer concrete specimens reduced due to corrosion of reinforcement. However, the reduction of bond strength in steel fibre reinforced geopolymer concrete specimens was less than the reduction of bond strength in plain geopolymer concrete specimen.
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- Proactively recruit nationally and internationally and retain a diverse and productive community of faculty, staff and students.
- Enhance and equalize student success by improved mentoring, advising, and pedagogy that are based on data, technology and STEM education research.
- Cultivate graduates for career success in a global economy by developing translational skills to convert knowledge to application so it flows to communities and by creating high-impact experiences, such as internships, service learning, leadership training, research and international opportunities.
- Grow online education programs, including introductory courses; targeted degrees; platforms to bridge prior education achievements and entry requirements; and workshops and certificates.
- Enhance mentoring and career development programs for all faculty and staff by strengthening a culture of continuous improvement.
A focus on excellence defines our diverse community. This concentration drives our commitment to see everyone in our OneScience community succeed. The College will recruit individuals with varied backgrounds and life experiences to enhance diversity at all levels, contributing to an environment of equity and inclusion. Our dedication to teaching and mentoring provides pathways for all to thrive, not just survive.
We will be the place of choice for the best and brightest. The College will recruit high-achieving students and target international and transfer students through enhanced, personalized communication. We will develop high-impact experiences and deploy evidence-based instructional practices for students to hone critical thinking and problem-solving skills. We will augment opportunities for skills development that promote career success and expand access and transformative experiences by purposeful engagement with technology. The College will focus on student retention and graduation rates to achieve and exceed the success and equalization goals outlined in OSU’s Strategic Plan 3.0.
From the coast to the Cascades and beyond, Oregonians have a deep connection and passion for nature that we can share with the rest of the world. We will take the unique spirit, humility and creativity that are distinctly Oregon to the world. Through science, we will showcase what is great about our state and our people.
Ways we advance science
Infinite possibilities. We hosted the 2015 Infinite Possibilities Conference that celebrated successes of women of color in mathematical and statistical sciences. Attracting more than 175 diverse participants from 19 states and Mexico, the conference focused on educating and promoting careers of underrepresented minority women through mentoring and networking.
Better education through innovation. An NSF-funded Paradigms in Physics Program is a nationally recognized, innovative curriculum approach that teaches undergraduates to think like physicists and is regarded as a standard in physics education. ESTEME@OSU, another NSF-funded program, brings evidence-based instructional techniques into introductory science courses.
Science education for all learners. The College will leverage OSU’s national leadership in online learning and course development to develop online courses and programs. We will launch an online master’s degree in Data Analytics, an online Certificate in Data Analysis and several online math and science courses.
Excellence through diversity. Through the Provost’s Hiring Initiative, which supports student success and diversity, the College recruited six faculty with outstanding research records from diverse backgrounds who are committed to student success in 2015. Together with the College of Engineering and Student Affairs, the College is leading a $1.5 million Improving Undergraduate STEM Education grant.
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express asked Gareth Smith, a certified Personal Trainer, for some tips and tricks on how to stay in shape when jet-setting across the world.
OK! Let’s talk travel, A common question among anyone with some kind of health or fitness goal in mind will always be, “How do I stay healthy, fit and active, while still enjoying my holiday?”
Firstly, I feel like I need to point out that any goal we have towards our health and fitness will always be 70 per cent what we eat and 30 per cent what we do. Exercise therefore, is the ‘easy’ part. Prioritise your exercise for first thing in the morning, before you begin whatever amazing adventure you’ve set yourself for the day.
If you don’t have access to a gym, then go for a run! Familiarise yourself with the route first though to avoid getting lost!
You can also do a few rounds of some simple body weight exercises in your hotel such as: Squats, Lunges, Push Ups, Burpees, Planks and if you happen upon a playground or a fixed bar, beam or even tree branch, why not try some Pull Ups or Chin Ups? Can’t do those? Find a low bar, about waist height and try some Inverted Body- Weight Rows. Exercise doesn’t have to last for hours on end, a quick 30 minutes a day, or 1-3 times per week is more than enough to help you keep on-top of your health and fitness.
Secondly, and hopefully this goes without saying, walk when and where you can. Do things like riding your bike, hiking, and going for walking tours is a FANTASTIC start to building a healthy body. It’s exercise that doesn’t really feel like exercise, because you’re also exploring new surroundings.
Now, I’m well aware that nobody wants to be told that most of how you look and feel will come down to what you eat, especially on holiday. It’s a given that you can’t out run or out-train a poor diet. Not to rain on anyone’s parade but the key thing we’re trying to prevent is the crash dieting that usually follows a trip away with consistent over-eating.
With exercise covered, let’s talk about the real elephant in the room, FOOD. Or more importantly a rock solid, simple-to-follow nutrition strategy to take away on whatever holiday calls your name.
A few key tips to remember:
- Eat real food as often as possible.
- Do the best you can and make the healthiest choices in whatever your situation.
- Find a good balance.
- Try to avoid having two bad meals in a row.
- Remember you are human, moderation is key.
Ideally, we want the majority of our food to consist of vegetables, protein, some fruits and nuts, and occasionally potatoes and rice. Try to really minimise things like bread, pasta and liquid calories such as alcohol, soft drinks and fruit juices.
Every meal should have at least one source of protein and one serving of vegetables. You don’t need to just eat broccoli and chicken when travelling and ignore anything that tastes good. Instead, try to make 80 per cent of your meals healthy, and then eat whatever you want the other few meals. Your body won’t balloon up after one bad meal, but if you let one bad meal become a month of eating poorly, it will cause problems.
I believe drinking can be done occasionally in moderation, and a healthy lifestyle can still be achieved. If you decide that you want to drink, good for you. If you decide that you don’t, that’s fine too. You know yourself best – be smart. Rather than give up drinking, let’s find a way to fit in into your schedule.
A few key tips to remember when drinking:
- Red wine and vodka soda water are your ‘healthiest’ options
- Light beers are your next best option
- Avoid sugary mixed drinks and energy drink-alcohol combos
- Drink a glass of water between each drink
Following these suggestions will not only help you stay healthy and fit while on holiday, but it’ll ensure you look banging whether sunbathing in the Mykonos or covered in paint dancing the night away on a beach in Thailand!
Gareth works full time as a Personal Trainer at Vision Personal Training. To find out more, pop in at Level 3, 202 Ponsonby Road, Auckland or call Dean Williams on 021 942 712.
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In Mexico, greenhouses and other primary production and processing activities need to cope with increasing demands regarding sustainability of their processes and especially water management. In numerous greenhouse production practices in Mexico much of the water used is being discharges, without purification treatment, contributing to the overall water scarcity. Moreover, the residues of the fertilizers in the discharge water give rise to large problems with regard to the water quality. Frequent re-use of water in the greenhouses is impossible, given that re-use will increase the salt content already present in the water. Microalgae cultivation can help to solve this problem; they can grow on water to be discharges and make use of the remaining nutrients thereby cleaning the water and producing a valuable product for e.g. animal feed at the same time.
In AlgaeLinkags a new, integrated and sustainable agrifood chain will be developed, using discharge water from the Mexican greenhouse horticulture as a nutrient source for microalgae production. After harvest and processing, this algal biomass will be studied as a healthy chicken feed to produce omega-3 enriched eggs. Future implementation of this agrifood chain will reduce the problems related to nutrient rich discharge water and water quality in Mexico, and at the same time create a healthy and sustainable feed (ingredient) for enriched, healthy eggs. Once proven successful and economically feasible the sustainable approach used in this project can be replicated in Mexico, the Netherlands and the rest of the world.
These targets fit in the A3 objective to maximize re-use of organic waste- and side streams for application as food or animal feed products in 2030
This project started before the implementation of MMIP.
However, AlgaeLinkages is appropriate for the MMIP “Hergebruik van zij-en reststromen” as it has a strong focus on utilization of a liquid, nutrient rich waste stream from greenhouses and converting it into highly valuable algal biomass, rich in proteins and omega-3 fatty acids, as ingredients for animal feed.
2020: Calculations of feeding experiments are finalized
2020: A start in process integration and cost estimation was made
2020: Results were communicated to a scientific as well as a broad audience
Planning 2021: Process integration completed, write report / publication
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It is now looking less and less likely that Pennsylvania is going to be able to fund its prescription drug monitoring program. State Sen. Pat Vance said last week that apparently there is no money set aside in the state budget to finance the program. This means there is a $1 million black hole which could threaten it altogether.
In October, Gov. Corbett signed into law the final element of the Healthy Pennsylvania plan this involved plans to reform physician dispensing and to develop a prescription drug monitoring program by June. This program was designed track the dispensing of prescription medications; especially painkillers, across the state. It was also hoped that the program would improve physician coordination and reduce costs by $13million.
This is a problem because the state does have a problem with drug overdose mortality. Pennsylvania ranks 14th worst for this in the United States with 15.3 people per 100,000 overdoses dying as a result. Recently, Steps to Recovery have helped fund the use of Naloxone (also known as Narcan) in Bucks County to help counter heroin overdoses. The prescription monitoring program aims to look at the legal side of drug dispensing in the state to try and counter the rise of prescription drug abuse.
The program may be saved if an expired federal bill which funds such anti-drug abuse systems can be reauthorized. From the point of view of helping prescription drug addicts, finding some kind of funding is essential. Commonly abused prescription medications include Codeine, hydrocodone and oxycodone. One sign of an addiction could be addressed by this program and that is “seeing various doctors to get prescriptions.” It would be great if physicians could see if this was happening and make recommendations for the real problem, addiction.
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Rabid cat bites two people in Staunton
STAUNTON - Police said two people were bitten Wednesday by a rabid cat, according to the Staunton Police Department.
The two people were attacked without provocation in the area of Betsy Bell Road and Pocahontas Avenue.
Staunton Animal Control and the Staunton Fire Department captured the cat and turned it over to the Health Department for rabies testing. On Friday, police said Animal Control was notified the cat tested positive for rabies.
Symptoms of rabies in animals include extreme agitation and aggression, muscle spasms and excessive salivation. Rabies is transferred by saliva and is fatal if not treated immediately. Wildlife can transmit rabies to unvaccinated animals and people, police said.
If anyone had exposure to an animal displaying symptoms of rabies, immediately contact Animal Control at the Staunton Police Department at (540) 332-3842 and seek prompt medical attention.
Both state law and city code require that domestic animals be vaccinated for rabies.
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Establishing dense correspondences across semantically similar images is essential for numerous computer vision and computational photography applications, such as scene parsing, semantic segmentation, and image editing[1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
Unlike classical dense correspondence tasks such as stereo matching or optical flow estimation that have been dramatically advanced, semantic correspondence estimation still remains unsolved due to severe intra-class appearance and shape variations across images. Several recent approaches [8, 9]
have been proposed by leveraging deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), providing satisfactory performances in capturing reliable matching evidences under intra-class appearance variations. However, they still consider geometric variations in just a limited manner such as those used for stereo matching or optical flow estimation[6, 7]. In some approaches [9, 10], more complex geometric variations such as scale or rotation were addressed, but they seek the labeling solution from only a set of scales and/or rotations quantized within pre-defined ranges. Recently, the discrete-continuous transformation matching (DCTM) framework combined with the fully convolutional self-similarity (FCSS) descriptor exhibits much improved performance by estimating locally-varying affine transformation fields on continuous and discrete domains in an alternative manner. Although DCTM has shown the state-of-the-art performance in dealing with non-rigid shape deformations, it is formulated with handcrafted smoothness constraint model and optimization technique, and thus it cannot guarantee optimal results when the geometric variation is relatively large.
In addition to the effort at measuring reliable matching evidences across images under intra-class appearance variations, recent CNN-based approaches have begun directly regressing geometric deformation fields through deep networks [11, 12]
. As pioneering works, spatial transformer networks (STNs) and its variant, inverse compositional spatial transformer networks (IC-STNs) , offer a way to deal with geometric variations within CNNs. Rocco et al. and Schneider et al. developed a CNN architecture for geometry-invariant matching that estimates transformation parameters across semantically similar images and different modalities. However, these methods assume the global transformation model, and thus they cannot deal with spatially-varying geometric variations, which frequently appear in dense semantic correspondence. More recently, some methods such as universal correspondence network (UCN) and deformable convolutional networks (DCN) were proposed to encode locally-varying geometric variations in CNNs, but they do not have smoothness constraints with neighboring points, and cannot guarantee reliable performance under relatively large geometric variations. An additional challenge lies in the lack of training data with ground-truth for semantic correspondence, making the use of supervised training approaches difficult.
In this paper, we present a novel CNN architecture, called pyramidal affine regression networks (PARN), that estimates locally-varying affine transformation fields across semantically similar images in a coarse-to-fine fashion, as shown in Fig. 1. Inspired by pyramidal graph models [3, 17]
that impose the hierarchical smoothness constraint on labeling results, our approach first estimates a global affine transformation over an entire image, and then progressively increases the degree of freedom of the transformation in a form of quad-tree, finally producing pixel-wise continuous affine transformation fields. The regression networks estimate residual affine transformations at each level and these are composed to provide final affine transformation fields. To overcome the limitations of insufficient training data for semantic correspondence, we propose a novel weakly-supervised training scheme that generates progressive supervisions by leveraging the correspondence consistency. Our method works in an end-to-end manner, and does not require quantizing the search space, different from conventional methods[18, 17]. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first attempt to estimate the locally-varying affine transformation fields through deep network in a coarse-to-fine manner. Experimental results show that the PARN outperforms the latest methods for dense semantic correspondence on several benchmarks including Taniai dataset , PF-PASCAL , and Caltech-101 .
2 Related Works
2.0.1 Dense Semantic Correspondence
Liu et al. pioneered the idea of dense correspondence across different scenes, and proposed SIFT Flow. Inspired by this, Kim et al. proposed the deformable spatial pyramid (DSP) which performs multi-scale regularization within a hierarchical graph. More recently, Yang et al. proposed the object-aware hierarchical graph (OHG) to regulate matching consistency over whole objects. Among other methods are those that take an exemplar-LDA approach , employ joint image set alignment , or jointly solve for cosegmentation . As all of these techniques use handcrafted descriptors such as SIFT or DAISY , they lack the robustness to deformations that is possible with deep CNNs.
Recently CNN-based descriptors have been used to establish dense semantic correspondences because of their high invariance to appearance variations. Zhou et al. proposed a deep network that exploits cycle-consistency with a 3-D CAD model as a supervisory signal. Choy et al. proposed the universal correspondence network (UCN) based on fully convolutional feature learning. Novotny et al. proposed AnchorNet that learns geometry-sensitive features for semantic matching with weak image-level labels. Kim et al. proposed the FCSS descriptor that formulates local self-similarity within a fully convolutional network. However, none of these methods is able to handle severe non-rigid geometric variations.
2.0.2 Transformation Invariance
Several methods have aimed to alleviate geometric variations through extensions of SIFT Flow, including scale-less SIFT Flow (SLS) , scale-space SIFT Flow (SSF) , and generalized DSP . However, these techniques have a critical and practical limitation that their computational cost increases linearly with the search space size. HaCohen et al. proposed in a non-rigid dense correspondence (NRDC) algorithm, but it employs weak matching evidence that cannot guarantee reliable performance. Geometric invariance to scale and rotation is provided by DAISY Filer Flow (DFF) , but its implicit smoothness constraint often induces mismatches. Recently, Ham et al. presented the Proposal Flow (PF) algorithm to estimate correspondences using object proposals. Han et al. proposed SCNet to learn the similarity function and geometry kernel of PF algorithm within deep CNN. While these aforementioned techniques provide some amount of geometric invariance, none of them can deal with affine transformations across images, which frequently occur in dense semantic correspondence. More recently, Kim et al. proposed DCTM framework where dense affine transformation fields are inferred using a handcrafted energy function and optimization.
STNs offer a way to deal with geometric variations within CNNs by warping features through a global parametric transformation. Lin et al. proposed IC-STNs that replaces the feature warping with transformation parameter propagation. Rocco et al. proposed a CNN architecture for estimating a geometric model such as an affine transformation for semantic correspondence estimation. However, it only estimates globally-varying geometric fields, and thus exhibits limited performance for dealing with locally-varying geometric deformations. Some methods such as UCN and DCN were proposed to encode locally-varying geometric variations in CNNs, but they do not have the smoothness constraints with neighboring points and cannot guarantee reliable performance for images with relatively large geometric variations .
3.1 Problem Formulation and Overview
Given a pair of images and , the objective of dense correspondence estimation is to establish a correspondence for each pixel . In this work, we infer a field of affine transformations, each represented by a matrix
that maps pixel to , where is pixel represented in homogeneous coordinates such that .
Compared to the constrained geometric transformation model (i.e. only translational motion) commonly used in the stereo matching or optical flow estimation, the affine transformation fields can model the geometric variation in a more principled manner. Estimating the pixel-wise affine transformation fields, however, poses additional challenges due to its infinite and continuous solution space. It is well-known in stereo matching literatures that global approaches using the smoothness constraint defined on the Markov random field (MRF) tend to achieve higher accuracy on the labeling optimization, compared to local approaches based on the structure-aware cost aggregation . However, such global approaches do not scale very well to our problem in terms of computational complexity, as the affine transformation is defined over the 6-D continuous solution space. Additionally, it is not easy to guarantee the convergence of affine transformation fields estimated through the discrete labeling optimization due to extremely large label spaces. Though randomized search and propagation strategy for labeling optimization [32, 34]
may help to improve the convergence of labeling optimization on high-dimensional label space, most approaches just consider relatively lower-dimensional label space, e.g. 4-D label space consisting of translation, rotation, and scale.
Inspired by the pyramidal graph model [3, 17, 35] and the parametric geometry regression networks [11, 12], we propose a novel deep architecture that estimates dense affine transformation fields in a coarse-to-fine manner. Our key observation is that affine transformation fields estimated at a coarse scale tend to be robust to geometric variations while the results at a fine scale preserve fine-grained details of objects better. While conventional approaches that employ the coarse-to-fine scheme in dense correspondence estimation [2, 36] focus on image scales, our approach exploits semantic scales within the hierarchy of deep convolutional networks. Our method first estimates an image-level affine transformation using the deepest convolutional activations and then progressively localizes the affine transformation field additionally using the shallower convolutional activations in a quad-tree framework, producing the pixel-level affine transformation fields as the final labeling results.
As shown in Fig. 2, our method is defined on the pyramidal model (see Fig. 1) that consists of two kind of networks, several grid-level modules and a single pixel-level module, similar to [3, 17]. Each module within two networks is designed to mimic the standard matching process within a deep architecture : feature extraction, correlation volume construction, and regression. Concretely, when two images and are given, convolutional features are first extracted as multi-level intermediate activations through the feature network (with ) in order to provide fine-grained localization precision ability at each level while preserving robustness to deformations. Then, the correlation volume is constructed between these features at the cost volume construction layer of Fig. 2. Finally the affine transformation fields are inferred by passing the correlation volume to the regression network (with , of Fig. 2). This procedure is repeated for grid-level modules and a single pixel-level module.
3.2 Pyramidal Affine Regression Networks
Each module of our pyramidal model has three main components. The first one extracts hierarchically concatenated features from the input images and the second computes a cost volume within constrained search windows. Lastly, from the third one, a locally-varying affine field is densely estimated for all pixels.
3.2.1 Feature Extraction
While conventional CNN-based descriptors have shown the excellent capabilities in handling intra-class appearnce variations [37, 38], they have difficulites in yielding both semantic robustness and matching precision ability at the same time. To overcome this limitation, our networks are designed to leverage the inherent hierarchies of CNNs where multi-level intermediate convolutional features are extracted through a shared siamese network. We concatenate some of these convolutional feature maps such that
where denotes the concatenation operator, is the feature extraction network parameter until -th convolutional layer and is the sampled indices of convolutional layers at level . This is illustrated by the upper of Fig. 2.
Moreover, iteratively extracting the features along our pyramidal model provides evolving receptive fields which is a key ingradient for the geometric invariance [4, 10]. By contrast, exitsting geometry regression networks [12, 11] face a tradeoff between appearance invariance and localization precision due to the fixed receptive field of extracted features. Note that we obtained with the outputs from the previous level by warping with through bilinear samplers which facilitate an end-to-end learning framework.
3.2.2 Constrained Cost Volume Construction
To estimate geometry between image pairs and , the matching cost according to search spaces should be computed using extracted features and . Unlike conventional approaches that quantize search spaces for estimating depth , optical flow , or similarity transformations , quantizing the 6-D affine transformation defined over an infinite continuous solution space is computationally expensive and also degenerates the estimation accuracy. Instead, inspired by traditional robust geometry estimators such as RANSAC or Hough voting , we first construct the cost volume computed with respect to translational motion only, and then determine the affine transformation for each block by passing it through subsequent convolutional layers to reliably prune incorrect matches.
Concretly, the matching costs between extracted features ,
are computed within a search window as a rectified cosine similarity, such that
A constrained search window is centered at pixel with the radius as examplified in Fig. 3. In our pyramidal model, a relatively large radius is used at coarser levels to estimate a rough yet reliable affine transform as a guidance at subsequent finer levels. The radius becomes smaller as the level goes deeper where the regression network is likely to avoid local minima thanks to the guidance of affine transformation fields estimated on the previous level. Thus only reliable matching candidates are provided as an input to the following regression network where even fine-scaled geometric transformations can be estimated at deeper level. The constructed cost volume can be further utilized for generating the supervisions with correspondence consistency check as described in Sec. 3.3.
3.2.3 Grid-level Regression
The constrained cost volume is passed through successive CNNs and bilinear upsampling layer to estimate the affine transformation field such that , where is the grid-level regression network parameter at the level . Since each level in the pyramid has a simplified task (it only has to estimate residual transformation field), the regression networks can be simple to have 3-6 convolutional layers.
Within the hierarchy of the pyramidal model, our first starts to estimate the transformation from an entire image and then progressively increase the degree of freedom of the transformation by dividing each grid into four rectangular grids, yielding grid of affine fields at level . However, the estimated coarse affine field has the discontinuities between nearby affine fields occuring blocky artifacts around grid boundaries as shown in (d) and (f) of Fig. 6. To alleviate this, a bilinear upsampler is applied at the end of successive CNNs, upsampling a coarse grid-wise affine field to the original resolution of the input image . This simple strategy regularizes the affine field to be smooth, suppressing the artifacts considerably as examplified in Fig. 6.
Note that the composition of the estimated affine fields from level 1 to can be computed as multiplications of augmented matrix in homogeneous coordinates such that
where represents in homogeneous coordinates as .
3.2.4 Pixel-level Regression
To improve the matching ability localizing fine-grained object boundaries, we additionally formulate a pixel-level module. Similar to the grid-level modules, it also consists of feature extraction, constrained cost volume construction, and regression network. The main difference is that an encoder-decoder architecture is employed for the regression network, which has been adopted in many pixel-level prediction tasks such as disparity estimation , optical flow , or semantic segmentation . Taking a warped image as an input, a constrained cost volume is computed and the pixel-level affine field is regressed through the encoder-decoder network such that , where is the pixel-level regression network parameter. The final affine transformation field between source and target image can be computed as .
|Algorithm 1: Pyramidal Affine Regression Network|
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|Compute convolutional activations of target image|
|Compute image by warping with when|
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|Compute convolutional activations of and extract features ,|
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|[Only when testing] : Estimate affine fields|
|Estimate pixel-level affine fields|
|Compute final affine fields|
3.3.1 Generating Progressive Supervisions
A major challenge of semantic correspondence with CNNs is the lack of ground-truth correspondence maps for training data. A possible approach is to synthetically generate a set of image pairs transformed by applying random transformation fields to make the pseudo ground-truth [11, 12], but this approach cannot reflect the realistic appearance variations and geometric transformations well.
Instead of using synthetically deformed imagery, we propose to generate supervisions directly from the semantically related image pairs as shown in Fig. 4, where the correspondence consistency check [35, 48] is applied to the constructed cost volume of each level. Intuitively, the correspondence relation from a source image to a target image should be consistent with that from the target image to the source image. Given the constrained cost volume , the best match is computed by searching the maximum score for each point , . We also compute the backward best match for such that to identify that the best match is consistent or not. By running this consistency check along our pyramidal model, we actively collect the tentative positive samples at each level such that . We found that the generated supervisions are qualitatively and quantitatively superior to the sparse ground-truth keypoints as examplified in Fig. 5.
For the accuracy of supervisions, we limit the correspondence candidate regions using object location priors such as bounding boxes or masks containing the target object to be matched, which are provided in most benchmarks [21, 44, 45]. Note that our approach is conceptually similar to , but we generate the supervisions from the constrained cost volume in a hiearchical manner so that the false positive samples are avoided which is critical to train the geometry regression network.
3.3.2 Loss Function
To train the module at level
, the loss function is defined as a distance between the flows at the positive samples and the flow fields computed by applying estimated affine transformation field such that
where is the parameters of feature extraction network and regression network at level and is the number of training samples. Algorithm 1 provides an overall summary of PARN.
4 Experimental Results
4.1 Experimental Settings
For feature extraction networks in each regression module, we used the ImageNet pretrained VGGNet-16 and ResNet-101 with their network parameters. For the grid-level regressions, we used three grid-level modules (), followed by a single pixel-level module. For in the feature extraction step, we sampled convolutional activations after intermediate pooling layers such as ‘conv5-3’, ‘conv4-3’, and ‘conv3-3’. The radius of search space is set to the ratio of the whole search space, and decreases as the level goes deeper such that .
In the following, we comprehensively evaluated PARN through comparisons to state-of-the-art dense semantic correspondences, including SIFT Flow , DSP , and OHG . Furthermore, geometric-invariant methods including PF , SCNet , CNNGM , DCTM . The performance was measured on Taniai benchmark , PF-PASCAL dataset , and Caltech-101 .
4.2 Training Details
For training, we used the PF-PASCAL dataset that consists of 1,351 image pairs selected from PASCAL-berkely keypoint annotations of 20 object classes. We did not use the ground-truth keypoints at all to learn the network, but we utilized the masks for the accuracy of generated supervisions. We used 800 pairs as a training data, and further divide the rest of PF-PASCAL data into 200 validation pairs and 350 testing pairs. Additionally, we synthetically augment the training pair 10 times by applying randomly generated geometric transformations including horizontal flipping . To generate the most accurate supervisions in the first level, we additionally apply M-estimator SAmple and Consensus (MSAC) to build the initial supervisions and restrict the search space with the estimated transformation. We sequentially trained the regression modules for 120k iterations each with a batch size of 16 and further finetune all the regression networks in an end-to-end manner . The more details of experimental settings and training are provided in the supplemental material.
4.3 Ablation Study
To validate the components within PARN, we additionally evaluated it at each level such as ‘PARN-Lv1’, ‘PARN-Lv2’, and ‘PARN-Lv3’ as shown in Fig. 6 and Table 1. For quantitative evaluations, we used the matching accuracy on the Taniai benchmark , which is described in details in the following section. As expected, even though the global transformation was estimated roughly well in the coarest level (i.e. level 1), the fine-grained matching details cannot be achieved reliably, thus showing the limited performance. However, as the levels go deeper, the localization ability has been improved while maintaining globally estimated transformations. The performance of the backbone network was also evaluated with a standard SIFT flow optimization . Note that the evaluation of the pixel-level module only in our networks is impracticable, since it requires a pixel-level supervision that does not exist in the current public datasets for semantic correspondence.
See the supplemental material for more qualitative results.
4.4.1 Taniai Benchmark
We evaluated PARN compared to other state-of-the-art methods on the Taniai benchmark , which consists of 400 image pairs divided into three groups: FG3DCar, JODS, and PASCAL. Flow accuracy was measured by computing the proportion of foreground pixels with an absolute flow endpoint error that is smaller than a certain threshold , after resizing images so that its larger dimension is 100 pixels. Fig. 7 shows the flow accuracy with varying error threshold . Our method outperforms especially when the error thershold is small. This clearly demonstrates the advantage of our hierarchical model in terms of both localization precision and appearance invariace.
Table 1 summarizes the matching accuracy for various dense semantic correspondence techniques at the fixed threshold ( pixels). The quantitative results of ‘PARN-Lv1’ and ‘CNNGM-Aff’ in Table 1 verify the benefits of our weakly supervised training scheme. Whereas ‘CNNGM-Aff.’ is also trained in weakly supervised manner, it relys only on the synthetically deformed image pairs while our method employs semantically sensitive supervisions. Note that we implemented our regression module at level 1 in the same architecture of ‘CNNGM-Aff.’. From the qualitative results of Fig. 8, while DCTM is trapped in local minima unless an appropriate initial solution is given, our method progressively predicts locally-varying affine transformation fields and able to handle relatively large semantic variations including flip variations without handcrafted parameter tuning. The superiority of PARN can be seen by comparing to the correspondence techniques with the same ‘VGG-16’ descriptor in Table 1 and Fig. 7
and even outperforms the supervised learning based method of. We also evaluated with ResNet-101 as a backbone network to demonstrate the performance boosting of our method with more powerful features, where our method achieves the best performance on average.
4.4.2 PF-PASCAL Benchmark
We also evaluated PARN on the testing set of PF-PASCAL benchmark
. For the evaluation metric, we used the probability of correct keypoint (PCK) between flow-warped keypoints and the ground-truth. The warped keypoints are deemed to be correctly predicted if they lie withinpixels of the ground-truth keypoints for , where and are the height and width of the object bounding box, respectively. Fig. 9 shows qualitative results for dense flow estimation.
Without ground-truth annotations, our PARN has shown the outperforming performance compared to other methods in Table 2 where is trained in fully supervised manner. The relatively modest gain may come from the limited evaluation only on the sparsely annotated keypoints of PF-PASCAL benchmark. However, the qualitative results of our method in Fig. 9 indicates that the performance can be significantly boosted when dense annotations are given for evaluation. Although
estimates the sparse correspondences in a geometrically plausible model, they compute the final dense semantic flow by linearly interpolating them which may not consider the semantic structures of target image. By contrast, our method leverages a pyramidal model where the smoothness constraint is naturally imposed among semantic scales within deep networks.
4.4.3 Caltech-101 dataset
Our evaluations also include the Caltech-101 dataset . Following the experimental protocal in , we randomly selected 15 pairs of images for each object class, and evaluated matching accuracy with three metrics: label transfer accuracy (LT-ACC), the IoU metric, and the localization error (LOC-ERR) of corresponding pixel positions. Note that compared to other benchmarks described above, the Caltech-101 dataset provides image pairs from more diverse classes, enabling us to evaluate our method under more general correspondence settings. For the results, our PARN clearly outperforms the semantic correspondence techniques in terms of LT-ACC and IoU metrics. Table 2 summarizes the matching accuracy compared to state-of-the-art methods.
We presented a novel CNN architecture, called PARN, which estimates locally-varying affine transformation fields across semantically similar images. Our method defined on pyramidal model first estimates a global affine transformation over an entire image and then progressively increases the transformation flexibility. In contrast to previous CNN based methods for geometric field estimations, our method yields locally-varying affine transformation fields that lie in the continuous solution space. Moreover, our network was trained in a weakly-supervised manner, using correspondence consistency within object bounding boxes in the training image pairs. We believe PARN can potentially benefit instance-level object detection and segmentation, thanks to its robustness to severe geometric variations.
This research was supported by Next-Generation Information Computing Development Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT (NRF-2017M3C4A7069370).
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"Diverse in culture, united in purpose"
We value diversity and insist on inclusion because we recognize the health benefits of a diverse and inclusive clinical workforce. Diversity encompasses all that we are, including our innate demographics and cumulative life experiences, creating resiliency, empathy, compassion, and maturity. Recruiting, matriculating, and graduating diverse physician assistants with these valuable characteristics contributes to a health care system that is better prepared to treat all patients with dignity and respect.
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Service, Scholarship and Diversity
Our commitment to diversity and service is manifest in a student population that is participating in several scholarship opportunities to provide care for the most vulnerable. We currently have five students participating in the Health Professions Scholarship Program. Upon completing their physician assistant training, they will either provide care for veterans through the VA system or to military service members as members of the military.
We have two students who are Health Resources and Services Administration: National Health Service Corps (HRSA NHSC) scholars. This program awards scholarships to students who are pursuing primary care careers in underserved areas. These scholarships are highly competitive and graduates are placed in areas of highest need of medical care upon graduation.
Learn more about the HRSA NHSC at https://nhsc.hrsa.gov/.
Other scholarships our students earned are the Navy Health Scholars Collegiate Program, the American Warriors Association, the Vietnamese Healthcare Professionals Association and the KML Foundation. In addition to this, over 30% of our students are using their GI Bill benefits to attend PA training.
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What might happen to Avianca? Will Copa purchase the Airline?
With many valuable routes and considerable infrastructure, an Avianca (NYSE:AVH, BVC: PFAVH) financial collapse would still see the company exist in some form, likely purchased at a deep discount after debt is wiped out and shareholders (United Airlines) take their losses. Precisely for this reason, the most likely savior for the airline is United Airlines in order to protect its asset value and route access. With a strong balance sheet (relatively speaking) Copa Airlines (NYSE: CPA) could conceivably take control, though there are obstacles. Copa is an all Boeing-fleet while Avianca primarily flies Airbus aircraft except for some wide-bodyBoeing 787s. Copa also is an almost entirely international airline, while Avianca flies extensive domestic routes.
At the right price, and with United’s prompting and support, Avianca could make sense for Copa. They are both members of Star Alliance and were already working on a three-way deal to increase cooperation. A larger Copa could compete head-to-head with LATAM Airlines (NYSE:LATAM), even though it may not want to. Copa has focused on having a strong regional presence and is in many cases the only alternative for regional travelers who lack US visitors’ visas. For example, without flying through Miami, Copa is the only practical choice to fly between most South & Central American cities and Caribbean islands. Travelers in transit through Panamá’s Tocumen International Airport (PTY) do not need to go through immigration but connect to international flights as if they were in a domestic airport.
Who else might buy?
That would be a difficult question to answer even under normal circumstances. Delta Airlines (NYSE:DAL) just snatched Chile-based LATAM from its alliance with American Airlines (NASDAQ:AAL), leaving OneWorld without a significant partner in the region. American Airlines gave excess money away in stock buyback schemes before the Coronavirus Pandemic, leaving it unequipped to handle the crisis and seeking bailouts itself.
United Airlines is prohibited by union contracts from simply gobbling up Avianca, and even beyond the regulatory and contractual hurdles, it is almost impossible to conceive of United Airlines-branded flights between small Colombian cities like Monteria and Villavicencio that few Americans have ever heard of.
No airline buyer outside of the Americas comes to mind. The industry is struggling globally and there is not enough transoceanic travel to make Avianca’s routes a valuable addition to an European (much less EMEA or APAC) network.
One conceivable alternative would be a very large private equity or hedge fund, but even in such case, there would be little reason to make a move before a bankruptcy.
What would a government bailout look like?
Should the Colombian government bailout Avianca, it would have to provide enough money to cover the airline’s debt and operational expenses. Precisely because the airline is legally based in Panamá and subject to US securities laws, the government would be extremely limited in legal options to force creditors to its will. The Colombian government is already facing its own financial emergency due to the Coronavirus Pandemic and calls to prioritize families & small businesses over “elites.” It doesn’t help public perception that the President’s sister is a top executive with Avianca.
A nationalized airline, the government taking control would see legal challenges from competitors, and also complications on international routes. What happens when tough business decisions such as additional layoffs or route closures become political decisions in already deeply divided Colombia?
Worst case scenario
Should Avianca be unable to find an investor willing to swallow its significant debt, operational challenges, and certain scarcity of revenues in the post-Pandemic world (whenever that might arrive), it would likely be liquidated. The aircraft are already heavily encumbered and would go to lessors and other lienholders. The airline flies many routes that have not had much competition in the past, and there still will be a certain amount of domestic and international demand in Colombia.
Colombia’s government owned SATENA has specialized in flying routes between Colombian destinations that don’t generate enough demand to interest large commercial airlines. There is already a clamor within the country by some to support SATENA and not Avianca, though SATENA is a small, domestic-only carrier owned by the Ministry of Defense that operates no large jets or international routes.
Privately held Viva Air has already been in growth mode and attacking Avianca’s network and financial margins. The airline, based outside of Medellín and controlled by Irelandia Aviation (the same group behind RyanAir in Europe, Viva Aerobus and Allegiant in the US) focuses on operational efficiency with its low-cost model, and doesn’t bother with VIP lounges, first class sections, or loyalty programs. What it does offer is airfares so low in Colombia that they literally compete with intercity bus fares. CEO Felix Antelo told me in a recent conversation that maybe 20% of their passengers are new to air travel, as they can finally afford the fares.
When Viva Air comes into new cities, like their recent arrival in Cali, competing airlines like LATAM and Avianca lower their fares between 40-60%; what they call the “Viva Effect.” Avianca recently created new ultra-cheap fare classes in response last year, hoping to compete. They also cut loyalty benefits for frequent flyers, a nasty surprise to those used to waiting in their lounges due to delayed or canceled flights.
The most likely scenario for Viva Air would be to pick up Colombian domestic routes on the cheap, and conceivably even some of its assets. Avianca opened a modern maintenance facility to service its fleets of Airbus aircraft at Medellín’s airport in the suburb of Rionegro, literally outside the window of Viva Air’s corporate headquarters. At the right price, moving into many of Avianca’s domestic routes, and some of its international ones—Viva already flies to the US and operates a fairly complete domestic network in Peru—could make sense. Nobody locally is better positioned.
What is inconceivable however, would be to see Viva Air take on any of Avianca’s debt or operational liabilities.
So what does the future hold?
A government bailout will be difficult for the politically fragile President Ivan Duque, or the financially fragile Colombian government. Colombians are already howling at the notion of a potential bailout by the Colombian taxpayers of what some see as essentially as a United Airlines asset.
Bogotá politician Luis Ernesto Gómez tweets that “When they speak of saving Avianca, they are in reality talking about saving United Airlines and Kingsland Holdings.
Cuando hablan de salvar Avianca, están en realidad hablando de salvar a United Airlines y a Kingsland H.
Los recursos de endeduamiento soberano que pagaremos todos por años con nuestros impuestos deben ir a salvar las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas no a empresas extranjeras pic.twitter.com/yb8Qf5phMU
— Luis Ernesto Gómez👟 (@LuisErnestoGL) April 29, 2020
Many Avianca employees will lose their jobs no matter what because of the pandemic and economic depression. Whoever assumes Avianca’s routes in the event of a liquidation, will also need personnel to operate them, and maintain the aircraft so the jobs will not completely go away. The employer would just be different.
Avianca has already unsustainable debt levels and cannot be profitable in the near future based on its current capital structure and the global economic conditions. Nobody has more to lose in an Avianca collapse than United Airlines, so this analyst sees the most likely scenario some type of United-backed structural reorganization. United of course, would rather see the Colombian government take on the responsibility, and is likely to indirectly beat the “jobs” mantra with the hopes of a favorable outcome. Should the rescue of Avianca employees take precedence over the millions of others also losing their jobs in the Andean nation? The government can’t bail out everyone. Should Avianca employees receive preferential treatment over the countless thousands that work in independent hotels, bus lines, or travel attractions?
Will Copa be involved? Conceivable, but this analyst doubts they have much enthusiasm for such an adventure. Copa’s model seems to be working. The airline has good cash, a good credit rating, and a very defensible market position that the Coronavirus Pandemic will not change.
Only time will tell. Do you see any alternative scenarios not covered above?
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OWNERS of dangerous dogs which kill or injure people face up to 10 years jail under tough new WA laws introduced after a spate of attacks sparked community outrage.
The tougher penalties apply to attacks where a dangerous dog kills a person or puts a person's life in danger, which is now a new criminal offence.
Local Government Minister John Castrilli introduced the amendments to the Dog Act in State Parliament yesterday, which he said were aimed at encouraging more responsible dog ownership.
Under the proposed laws:
- the owners of dangerous dogs that attack, injure or kill people face up to 10 years imprisonment
- the sale, purchase, transfer, breeding and advertising of restricted breeds, including American pit bulls, will be banned
- local councils will have an improved ability to take action against nuisance barking dogs
- assistance dogs will be recognised as an extension of the guide dog provisions
- new dogs will have to be microchipped from November 1 next year
Mr Castrilli told PerthNow today the harsher penalties for owners of dangerous dogs would offer West Australians greater protection.
He said he hoped the amendments would reduce the occurence of dog attacks.
In June, a six-year-old girl was mauled by a pack of dogs in Baldivis, suffering horrendous injuries to her head and face.
"We've had a spate in the last few months of a whole range of incidents, not only in Perth but also out in regional Western Australia as well," Mr Castrilli said.
"This is about improving community safety through increased controls.
"The vast vast majority of people are responsible owners. It's only a few that aren't and... (we're) putting people basically on notice that they need to be responsible and they are responsible for the actions of their pets."
The Dog Amendment Bill 2012 will be debated in State Parliament next month.
RSPCA WA spokesman Tim Mayne said his organisation welcomed compulsory microchipping, but breed-specific laws were the wrong approach.
``It's the deed, not the breed,'' he said.
``It's all about how an animal is socialised or trained.
``We would prefer to see all dog owners have training.''
Mr Mayne said a recent attack on a young girl involved ``five or six different breeds, none of which were on the banned breed list''.
Council rangers will also be given greater powers to deal with nuisance dogs.
Woman, 70, and pet dog attacked
The proposed legislation has been welcomed by recent dog attack victim Margaret Allen, 70, who is still traumatised from the incident on July 22.
The Beldon pensioner was walking her six-year-old fox terrier Scraggs near her home when a dog ran towards them and started mauling Scraggs.
The dog repeatedly bit Ms Allen as she tried to defend her dog.
"This thing came charging at me; it came from nowhere," she said.
"I was just screaming and the blood (was) pouring out of my hands. I couldn't breathe. It still hyperventilates me."
Horrified neighbours came to her rescue, and Ms Allen was taken to hospital for treatment.
Scraggs was taken to the vet and required stitches to bites on his head and neck.
Ms Allen said three weeks on she was still suffering from sore muscles in her chest.
"If you're attacked in the local shire, rangers should have more authority," she said.
Ms Allen said the Dog Act was outdated and the local government needed to have more authority to deal with dangerous dogs.
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Web technology refers to the different tools and strategies used in the process of communicating through the internet between various sorts of devices. To access web pages, you'll need a web browser. Web browsers are programs that use the Internet to display text, information, images, animation, and video. Web browsers provide software interfaces for accessing hyperlinked material on the World Wide Web.
Web development is the process of designing, developing, and maintaining websites. Web design, web publishing, web development, and database management are all included in it. It means the building of an internet-based application like a website.
There are two ways to categorize web development:
1. Client side:
The area of a website with which the user interacts directly is referred to as frontend development. The 'client side' of an application is another term for it. The front end is made up of several languages, which are explained below:
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is a markup language that is used to design the front-end portion of web pages. HTML is a markup language that mixes hypertext with markup. The term "hypertext" refers to the link between web pages. Within the tag that specifies the structure of web pages, the markup language is used to create the text documentation.
It stands for Cascading Style Sheets, which is a simple language designed to make the process of making web pages presentable easier. Styles can be applied to web pages using CSS. More crucially, CSS allows you to do so without having to worry about the HTML code that makes up each web page.
Google maintains the Angular front-end framework. It is the most comprehensive solution, with the most combined functionalities, when compared to other front-end frameworks. Large enterprises and companies that require a sophisticated front-end solution frequently utilize it due to its durability and depth of capabilities. It has a steep learning curve, like other complicated applications.
What is the purpose of using Bootstrap?
• It is a more efficient and straightforward method of web development.
• It generates web pages that are platform neutral.
• It makes Responsive Websites.
• It also creates mobile-friendly responsive web pages.
• It's a free and open-source framework that you may download from www.getbootstrap.com.
The backend development (aka server-side) is made up of a number of languages, which are listed below:
It is a server-side programming language that was created with web development in mind. PHP is known as a server-side scripting language since it executes code on the server.
It's a high-end framework that supports MVC architecture. ASP.NET Core can run on a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and mac OS. It is very well suited to large organizations creating complicated applications. It can be employed when constructing a high-performance, CPU-intensive application or when aiming to build flexible and mature applications.
Another prominent programming language is Python. It's straightforward and employs a unique syntax that prioritizes readability. Python is useful for applications and projects involving artificial intelligence (AI), statistics, computer science, and machine learning. It's also possible to utilize it to make web applications.
• Full-stack development:
Another word for this is "full-stack development," which refers to the mix of front-end and back-end development.
MySQL is used by the world's largest and fastest-growing companies, like Facebook and Twitter, to power their high-volume websites, business-critical systems, and software platforms.
SQL is a structured query language for storing, modifying, and retrieving data in databases that standardizes the data.
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Fake news. “Alternative” facts. Welcome to the age of Trump.
There is no generally accepted definition of “fake news,” and no bright line separating it from the increasing proliferation of propaganda, but the essential characteristic is that it is not factual. (Fake news is not, as Trump asserts, any news that disparages him.)
Concern about fake news has risen, and Facebook and Google have recently announced steps to combat it. Journalist’s Resource has compiled the still-scanty academic research on the phenomenon.
While much has been written about fake news, scholars have published a limited amount of peer-reviewed research on the topic. Below, Journalist’s Resource has compiled studies that examine fake news and the spread of misinformation more broadly to help journalists better understand the problem and its impacts. Other resources that may be helpful are Poynter Institute’s tips on debunking fake news stories and a well-circulated list of fake, unreliable and questionable news websites compiled by Melissa Zimdars, a communication professor at Merrimack College. The First Draft Partner Network, a global collaboration of newsrooms, social media platforms and fact-checking organizations, was launched in September 2016 to battle fake news.
Starting in January 2017, Stony Brook University, home to the Center for News Literacy, will offer a free online course in news literacy.
The research papers described at the link are worth reading; they confirm what most of us suspect–namely, that misinformation, propaganda and fake news have a pernicious effect. Especially when you consider that most of us engage in confirmation bias–looking for information that validates our preferred versions of reality–it can be difficult or impossible to disabuse people of “facts” they want to believe.
As I tell my students, if you truly believe that aliens landed at Roswell, I can find you several websites confirming that belief. (Some even have pictures of the aliens’ bodies!)
As troubling as this aspect of our current information environment is, what makes it far more troubling is the election of a President with a very tenuous connection to reality, and a staff willing to double down on his consistent lies and misstatements. Never before, to my knowledge, have we had an administration for which facts are at best irrelevant and at worst enemies to be contradicted.
The latest evidence of this Administration’s allergy to facts was a surreal “press conference” on Saturday, in which Sean Spicer berated the media for reporting “falsehoods” about the size of the inauguration crowds. (Trump had asserted that it “looked like a million and a half people.”)
The New York Times reported,
An expert hired by The Times found that Mr. Trump’s crowd on the National Mall was about a third of the size of Mr. Obama’s in 2009….
Speaking later on Saturday in the White House briefing room, Mr. Spicer amplified Mr. Trump’s false claims. “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe,” he said.
There is no evidence to support this claim. Not only was Mr. Trump’s inauguration crowd far smaller than Mr. Obama’s in 2009, but he also drew fewer television viewers in the United States (30.6 million) than Mr. Obama did in 2009 (38 million) and Ronald Reagan did in 1981 (42 million), Nielsen reported.
For that matter, most estimates showed that the Women’s March the next day drew three times more people — about 500,000 — than Trump’s swearing-in ceremony, but the White House flatout refused to accept those numbers.
Nor was Spicer the only Administration figure to make bizarre claims. On Sunday morning, Kellyanne Conway said the Trump team is offering “alternative facts” to media reports about President Trump’s inauguration. (This led to immense amusement on social media, with people posting things like “I’m thin and rich” and “Best game the Green Bay Packers ever played” #alternative facts.)
In the wake of the election, many of us worried–and continue to worry–that our unstable new President would take America into a misconceived war. We didn’t realize that the first war he would declare would be a war on reality and those pesky and inconvenient facts.
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- The UMKA Foundation was officially registered in 2014, but the participants in the fund began helping, saving, treating and building homeless animals a long time ago, for more than ten years.
- There are no official shelters in Vladivostok, and the UMKA foundation is not a shelter either.
- UMKA Foundation is a completely non-profit organization, which means we do not receive salaries, we have basic and non-animal work. All activities of the fund are carried out to the aid of caring people, volunteers and the participants of the fund themselves.
- The UMKA Foundation is what was once a commandment of the soul, a desire to help with compassion, and over the years has grown into a huge work and titanic work. What once was three, five, ten animals became one hundred of the foundation’s pets. More than 100 pets - this is precisely the number of cats and dogs on an average monthly balance and under the care of the fund.
Fund address and contacts:
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stress is nothing to mess around with. It ’ s a component in five out of the six leading causes of death and some estimates have it as an element in more than 75 % of sophisticate visits .
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The havoc doesn ’ t have to happen. We can manage stress with one simpleton modern habit : regular stress testing. We do eye checkups, mammograms, blood panels, but we are never taught to identify and manage stress. We need to measure tension levels on a regular basis, say experts like Schnall, or we wind up at the mercifulness of a runaway aesculapian aim .
How do you know if you are in the danger partition ? There are a number of tests you can do to monitor your stress levels, from saliva to lineage and treadmill tests. If you are under a fortune of stress, and flush if you think you are managing the atmospheric pressure, you need to make the clock to take a stress test. Tom Row, a Tennessee scientist I spoke with, didn ’ t even know he was stressed when he had a heart attack at his position and was carried out on a stretcher. He ’ five hundred been doing 12-hour workdays for years.
ASSESS YOUR STRESS
Let ’ s take a look at some of the chief types of stress tests, beginning with hydrocortisone testing. Stress sets off a flood of hormones from your adrenal glands, including epinephrine and hydrocortisone, besides known as the stress hormone, to help your body train for action to confront danger .
Elevated hydrocortisone levels from tension, though, cause a master of ceremonies of problems, from high blood pressure to heart disease, and can increase the gamble of depression. interestingly, researchers have found that hydrocortisone levels drop in people who have burnout—another reason to do the examination. Burnout depletes your adrenal glands of the hormones and energetic resources you need to function. Chronic fatigue and Addison ’ mho disease are marked by low hydrocortisone levels. thus hydrocortisone quiz can determine both if you have abnormally high levels of the hormone or very first gear .
- Saliva Test. This may be the simplest stress test, one which checks cortisol levels at various times throughout the day. The process involves leaving your saliva in a test tube-like device and sending it off to a lab for analysis. You can buy saliva test kits over the counter and online. Most experts, though, feel that the saliva test is less accurate than a blood serum test.
- Cortisol Blood Test.We all know the drill here. Needle time. Have your doctor draw blood and submit it to a cortisol analysis. The test will determine whether you have abnormal cortisol levels, high or low. Certain medications can interfere with test results, such as steroid drugs, estrogen, androgens, and anti-seizure drugs. According to the National Institute of Health, the normal values for a test at 8 a.m. are 6 to 23 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL).
- Cortisol Urine Test. You can also measure your cortisol levels with a standard urine test.The National Institute of Health reports that the normal range is 10 to 100 micrograms per 24 hours (mcg/24h).
- Cognitive Stress Test. This non-invasive approach can be very helpful in identifying stress and various physical byproducts of strain and high demands. The questionnaire can be used in conjunction with other tests, such as a blood test or blood pressure test to map out the larger picture of demands outstripping coping ability and the effects that is having on your body and thinking.
- Blood Pressure Test. Keeping an eye on blood pressure is an important tool to track the effect of stress on your cardiovascular system. U. C. Irvine’s Schnall says that it’s crucial you get your blood pressure measured, not just at the doctor’s office, but also at work. The true state of elevated blood pressure may not appear in the calm of the doctor’s room. He strongly recommends that you test BP at work to measure how your body is faring in the heat of the workday. According to the American Heart Assoc., Stage 1 Hypertension begins at a systolic number (the top number on your BP reading) of 140-159 or a diastolic number (the lower figure) of 90-99. Hypertension Stage 2 is a systolic of 160 or higher and a diastolic of 100 or higher, while a Hypertension Crisis is higher than 180 for systolic and 110 for diastolic.
- Electrocardiogram Test (EKG). This test can find underlying issues of heart disease and hypertension. Electrodes measure electrical signals in the heart that can find patterns of rhythms and heartbeats that may be a tipoff to problems. The devices have gotten very streamlined and much easier to use, and can spit out results on the spot, so you can get a very quick analysis of your heart health.
- Exercise Stress Test.
An EKG, though, may not always be enough. Brian Curin, co-founder of the Flip Flop Shops, can thank the exercise stress test for saving his life. An EKG didn’t catch the massive jam in his arteries. Sometimes known as a treadmill test, the exercise test measures the way your heart responds to physical effort, and the extra demands can ferret out issues other tests can’t. This test pinpointed an array of problems so serious that Curin was advised to go directly into surgery, where he had to have a quadruple bypass at the age of 39. Do yourself a favor, and take the time for your health and get this test done.
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The Douglas Fir is the most popular Christmas tree in the United States. With its soft dark blue-green needles and festive fragrance, the tree has come to symbolize the "old fashioned" Christmas tree. This fir's branches are spreading to drooping with one-inch needles that radiate out in all directions from the branch. The pyramidal shape of the tree becomes less defined with age.
The Noble Fir tree's distinct symmetrical shape, long keep ability and strong branches make it a popular Christmas tree choice. Its branches are used in greenery arrangements to make wreaths, door swags, garland and other Christmas products. The silver blue-green needles are four-sided, measuring one inch long, and generally twist upward exposing the lower surface of the branch. This tree is native to Oregon.
The Nordman Fir is originally native of Turkey and Eastern Europe. The branches are stiff, good for holding heavy ornaments similar to the Noble. The color can range from a dark green to more of a lime green. The 1 inch needles can be glossy in appearance and when crushed do not produce much of a fragrance. This tree has an especially good ability to stay fresh over a long period of time while losing very few needles as it dries out. This keep ability, along with the beautiful shape, symmetry and density make it a species that is growing in popularity in Oregon. Slower growth is another characteristic of this tree so allow 9-10 years before harvesting.
One of the most popular Christmas tree species, it sports soft, short needles, and is known for staying fresh and fragrant throughout the season. Fraser Firs are famous for their two-tone needles. Each needle has a dark green top with a silver underside. Fraser firs take a delightfully full pyramidal shape, with sturdy branches fit to support heavier ornaments—not to mention, room enough between branches to hang bigger bulbs in the first place.
Having a fresh cut Christmas tree in your home for the holidays can add lasting memories to the season. However, it is important that you think through the setup process so that your tree will be safe and remain beautiful while it is in your home. Follow these steps as you setup your Christmas Traditions fresh-cut Christmas tree.
Choosing a Spot.
Choosing the right spot for your Christmas tree is very important. Fresh cut trees are preserved longer when they are placed in a local in your home away from an exterior wall and away from heating registers or open flames such as a fire place. The dry air from central heat and the heat from a fire place can dry your tree out quickly.
Placing Your Tree in the Stand.
Before you place your tree in its stand, make sure you have chosen the appropriate stand for the size tree you have purchased and that the base of the tree has a fresh cut. We suggest that you purchase your stand along with your tree at a Christmas Traditions lot. Your tree will receive a fresh cut before leaving our lot. However, if your tree is stored outside your home for an extended period of time before setting up, we recommend that you make a 1/2” cut at the base of the tree. This will allow water and nutrients to feed the tree more efficiently, ensuring that your tree will stay fresh longer. Make sure your tree is level and sturdy once you have placed it in the stand. You may need to enlist a helper to ensure that you have installed the stand straight. An improperly installed or incorrect stand could enable the tree to fall over and cause injury to a person or damage treasured ornaments.
Installing the Disposal Bag.
Disposal bags are available at each of our Christmas Traditions lots and make disposal of your fresh-cut tree easier and less messy. We recommend that you spread the bag out under your stand once you have selected a suitable location and before you begin decorating your tree. Once it comes time to dispose of your tree, you can simply pull the bag up over the tree branches and tie it off at the top. This process reduces the number needles that are left on the floor to cleanup.
Watering Your Tree.
Immediately after setting up your tree, we recommend watering your fresh-cut tree on a regular basis is important to ensure that your tree stays fresh. You should never allow the water reservoir in your tree stand to become dry. If this happens, the base of the tree dries out preventing water and nutrients to be absorbed by the tree. You should also use a tree preservative which provides additional nutrients required by your fresh-cut tree. You can purchase tree preservative from one of our convenient Christmas Traditions retail lots.
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Did the US boycott the 1980 Olympics?
1980. The Details: Protesting the December 27, 1979, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, more than 60 nations refused to compete in the Moscow-held games. Led by the U.S. and President Jimmy Carter, the boycott included Canada, Israel, Japan, China and West Germany, as well as most Islamic nations.
Why did Jimmy Carter boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics?
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Who hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics?
These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC Presidency of Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin. Eighty nations were represented at the Moscow Games, the smallest number since 1956….1980 Summer Olympics.
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|Host city||Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union|
|Athletes||5,179 (4,064 men, 1,115 women)|
Did Kuwait attend the 1980 Summer Olympics?
Kuwait competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. 56 competitors, all men, took part in 26 events in 7 sports.
Is Russia banned from Olympics?
When it’s the Russian Olympic Committee. Officially, Russia is banned from competing in Tokyo for previous doping offences. A team of 335 athletes from Russia is competing under the name of the “ROC”, wearing white, blue and red uniforms, and winning plenty of medals. Russia has repeatedly violated anti-doping laws.
Who decided to boycott 1980 Olympics?
In 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In total, 65 nations refused to participate in the games, whereas 80 countries sent athletes to compete.
What President Cancelled Olympics?
On March 21, 1980, President Jimmy Carter announced the United States would boycott the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.
Who won 5 gold medals in 1980?
40 years later, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Digital Museum looks back at key events and moments from Lake Placid 1980, where the U.S. Men’s Ice Hockey Team pulled off the Miracle on Ice and speed skater Eric Heiden won an unprecedented five gold medals.
Who hosted the Olympics in 1984?
1984 Summer Olympics
|Logo of the 1984 Summer Olympics|
|Host city||Los Angeles, California, United States|
|Athletes||6,829 (5,263 men, 1,566 women)|
|Events||221 in 21 sports (29 disciplines)|
Has Saudi Arabia ever hosted the Olympics?
They first appeared in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. They have never competed in the Winter Olympic Games….
|Saudi Arabia at the Olympics|
|Medals Ranked 119th||Gold 1 Silver 2 Bronze 2 Total 5|
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Why is the 1936 Olympics so important?
Key Facts. Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purposes. The Nazis promoted an image of a new, strong, and united Germany while masking the regime’s targeting of Jews and Roma View This Term in the Glossary (Gypsies) as well as Germany’s growing militarism.
Where was the 1980 Olympic field hockey tournament held?
Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow took place from July 20 to 31, 1980 at the Minor Arena of the Central Dynamo Stadium and the Young Pioneers Stadium. India won the men’s tournament for the record eighth time, defeating Spain 4–3 in the final. A women’s tournament was won by Zimbabwe.
Who was the host country of the 1980 Olympics?
Whilst competitors from 36 countries became Olympic medalists, the great majority of the medals were taken by the host country and East Germany in what was the most skewed medal tally since 1904. Despite only being invited to compete five weeks prior to the opening ceremony, Zimbabwe won a surprise gold medal in the sport of women’s field hockey.
What did the Soviet Union win in the 1980 Olympics?
In rowing, the winners of both the gold and silver medals in the coxless pairs were identical twins. The Soviet Union won a record 80 gold medals, and their 195 total medals are the second best result in history. East German swimmers Cornelia Polit (left), Rica Reinisch (center), and Birgit Treiber (right), who swept the 200 metre backstroke.
Who was the gold medalist in field hockey in 1980?
Field hockey at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow took place from July 20 to 31, 1980 at the Minor Arena of the Central Dynamo Stadium and the Young Pioneers Stadium . India won the men’s tournament for the record eighth time, defeating Spain 4–3 in the final.
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Semaglutide, a medication used to treat type 2 diabetes, increased the likelihood of improvement in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) without worsening liver fibrosis, according to research presented at the AASLD virtual Liver Meeting. What’s more, combining semaglutide with other drugs led to greater improvements in various measures of fibrosis, metabolism and liver health.
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its more severe form, NASH, are responsible for a growing burden of advanced liver disease worldwide. Linked to obesity and diabetes, NAFLD and NASH are increasingly recognized as manifestations of metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions linked to increased cardiovascular risk. The buildup of fat in the liver triggers cell death and inflammation, which over time can lead to fibrosis, cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure.
Developing treatments for NAFLD and NASH has proved challenging. Several drugs that appeared promising in early studies did not show significant benefits in larger clinical trials. With no approved therapies, management currently relies on lifestyle changes, such as weight loss and exercise.
Philip Newsome, PhD, of Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre in the United Kingdom, presented results from an international Phase II study of semaglutide for people with NASH. The research was also published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
The study enrolled people with biopsy-confirmed NASH, mild to advanced liver fibrosis and a body mass index indicating overweight or obesity. About 60% were women, nearly 80% were white and the mean age was 55. Nearly two thirds had diabetes, and half had advanced fibrosis.
The trial participants were randomly assigned to receive one of three doses of semaglutide (0.1, 0.2 or 0.4 milligrams) or a placebo administered by injection once daily for 72 weeks. Liver biopsies were performed at the start and the end of the study.
Semaglutide (an injectable formulation sold as Ozempic and an oral version sold as Rybelsus) is a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist that mimics the action of natural GLP-1, which increases insulin secretion and plays a role in appetite regulation and glucose and lipid metabolism.
The primary study endpoint, assessed in the 230 participants with moderate (Stage F2) or advanced (Stage F3) fibrosis, was NASH resolution with no worsening of fibrosis. Improvement in fibrosis with no worsening of NASH was a secondary endpoint. (Some NASH trials look at these endpoints in the reverse order.)
More participants taking any dose of semaglutide experienced NASH resolution (40%, 36% and 59%, respectively, in the 0.1, 0.2, and 0.4 mg dose groups) compared with the placebo arm (17%).
The proportion of people with fibrosis improvement was statistically similar in all groups: 46%, 32%, 43% and 31%, respectively. However, fewer people taking semaglutide experienced liver fibrosis progression (10%, 8% and 5% in the three dose groups) compared with the placebo group (19%).
People who used semaglutide saw greater improvements in fibrosis biomarkers, liver enzyme levels and FibroScan liver stiffness measurements, lost more weight and saw improvements in glucose levels and blood lipid profiles. Harmful cholesterol, triglycerides and free fatty acid levels declined while beneficial HDL cholesterol rose.
Treatment was generally well tolerated and side effects were similar to those seen in people who take semaglutide for diabetes. The most common adverse events were gastrointestinal symptoms, which occurred more often in the highest semaglutide dose group. Treatment-related severe adverse events were rare.
Newsome concluded that semaglutide led to a higher rate of NASH resolution without fibrosis worsening. He suggested that significant improvement in fibrosis could take longer and might become apparent with further follow-up.
Semaglutide Combo Regimens
Given the multiple biological processes that play a role in the development of fatty liver disease, many experts think optimal treatment may require combining therapies with different mechanisms of action.
In another Phase II study, Naim Alkhouri, MD, of Arizona Liver Health, and colleagues compared regimens of semaglutide alone or in combination with Gilead Science’s firsocostat, cilofexor or both.
Firsocostat (GS-0976) is an acetyl-CoA carboxylase inhibitor that blocks an enzyme involved in the conversion of carbohydrates into fatty acids in the liver. Cilofexor (GS-9674) is a nonsteroidal FXR agonist that regulates bile acid synthesis and plays a role in lipid and glucose metabolism.
As previously reported, firsocostat and cilofexor alone or in various two-drug combinations with the ASK1 inhibitor selonsertib (GS-4997) failed to significantly increase the likelihood of fibrosis improvement without worsening NASH. However, findings from the Phase II ATLAS trial, presented at the recent Digital International Liver Congress, showed that some combinations did lead to significant improvements in fibrosis and other measures of liver health.
Alkhouri’s study design was similar to that of ATLAS but substituted semaglutide for selonsertib, which was found to be ineffective in a study presented at last year’s Liver Meeting.
This trial included 108 people with NASH and moderate to advanced fibrosis according to biopsies or noninvasive scans. About 70% were women, a third to a half were Latino (a group more likely to have NASH) and the median age was 54. A majority had overweight or obesity and more than half had diabetes.
Participants were randomly assigned to receive semaglutide alone, semaglutide plus firsocostat, semaglutide plus one of two doses of cilofexor or a combination of all three drugs. Semaglutide was given as a once-weekly injection while firsocostat and cilofexor were taken orally once daily.
All groups lost weight, with percentage losses ranging from -7% to -10%. Liver fat fraction decreased more in all the combination groups compared with the semaglutide monotherapy group, with the greatest loss seen in the triple therapy group.
Liver stiffness also declined in all groups, with the greatest improvement again seen in the triple therapy group. The enhanced liver fibrosis, or ELF, score (a composite index of fibrosis biomarkers) showed similar improvement across all groups. The FAST score (another composite measure) showed greater improvement in the combination groups, especially those that received firsocostat. The combination therapy groups also saw greater improvements in liver enzyme levels, with the largest ALT declines in the groups that used firsocostat.
All treatment groups had similar improvements in glucose and insulin levels. Harmful LDL cholesterol increased in the group taking the higher dose of cilofexor (though it did not change in the lower-dose group), and triglycerides rose in the groups that used firsocostat.
The combination regimens were generally safe and well tolerated. Rates of moderate or worse side effects ranged from 14% to 32%, but few people stopped treatment due to adverse events. Gastrointestinal symptoms were most common, with about two thirds of participants reporting nausea in the triple therapy group. Mild pruritus, or itching, was reported by a small number of people who took cilofexor.
In people with NASH, combining semaglutide with cilofexor or firsocostat may provide additional benefits compared with semaglutide alone, Alkhouri and colleagues concluded.
Click here to learn more about NAFLD and NASH.
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Government and Policy
June 30, 2016
Election Tourism Agenda
The Labor Party have released their official party platform on tourism. The Coalition has announced a number of tourism and infrastructure initiatives during the campaign, but their last official stance on the industry was released at the time of the Budget – https://goo.gl/KlGKfv
TAA’s focus is on our post-election strategy to ensure continued advocacy on the issues impacting the industry:
- Labour & Skills. The importance of skilled migration; the negative impact of backpacker tax and support for attracting local talent to the industry.
- Accommodation Investment. Easing the burden of regulations – for example, Disability Access Standards; Ensuring a level playing field; and supporting both metropolitan and regional investment inclusive of the need for reliable and timely data to underpin that investment.
- Driving Demand. Investment in Tourism Australia and business events; Continued reform of visitor visa processing and costs; freezing the Passenger Movement Charge.
- Development of a 2030 tourism plan underpinned by research that focuses both on current supply and demand priorities and forecasts for the future.
Cities move against unregulated short-term commercial accommodation
Cities around the world have started to take control of the burgeoning unregulated short-term accommodation sector with new legislation and rules targeting commercial operators. The most significant of these is New York, with the Senate supporting its earlier decision to make illegal short-term rentals of less than 30 days in non-residential properties by introducing fines of up to US$7500 for repeat offenders. http://goo.gl/H0I19Q
Expansion of Australia’s Arrivals SmartGates
From 20 June, 2016 Australia’s Arrivals SmartGates will be permanently open to eligible Chinese, Hong Kong, Macau, Japanese, Korean, French and Swedish ePassport holders.
This is a significant expansion, increasing permanent use from eight to 13 eligible countries, plus the Special Administrative Regions (SARs) Hong Kong and Macau. This milestone marks another step in significant progress towards delivering streamlined and simplified border experiences for international visitors to NSW.
Arrivals SmartGate also has multilingual support, enabling display or selection of a number of languages, including: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese.
ACCC to commence excessive surcharge compliance role on 1 September 2016
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission will begin enforcing the ban on excessive surcharges for large merchants on 1 September 2016. Surcharges will be deemed ‘excessive’ where they exceed the permitted cost of acceptance, as defined in the Standard.
The Standard defines what businesses are able to include in setting a surcharge and sets out a two-staged implementation, with the ban commencing on 1 September 2016 for ‘large merchants’ and 1 September 2017 for all other merchants.
The Standard defines a ‘large merchant’ to be one that satisfies at least two of the following requirements: it has a consolidated gross revenue of $25 million or more, the value of its consolidated gross assets is $12.5 million or more, or it employs 50 or more employees. The Standard will apply to six card systems – EFTPOS, Debit MasterCard, MasterCard Credit, Visa Debit, Visa Credit and American Express cards issued by Australian banks.
Businesses will no longer be able to average out costs on the above cards unless the lowest rate is used. The cost of acceptance is the actual cost – no allocation of hotel’s own costs are permitted. Please find a link to the ACCC’s guidance material. https://www.accc.gov.au/update/ban-on-excessive-payment-surcharging. Please find attached our Member Bulletin.
Visitor Visa Improvements
The Australian government has been introducing a number of trials and improvements to visitor visa access:
- Online lodgement of visitor visa applications in China and India has been available for the past few months through selected agents and Foreign Affairs Offices. Work is progressing to enable online lodgement for individuals in China by December 2016.
- A trial of a premium fast-track service (48hour processing) for Visitor visa applications to eligible Chinese nationals applying in China via a service delivery partner for an additional charge of AUD$1000. This initiative will be evaluated after six months. The Fast-Track Service is being publicised through the China post website and social media.
- A trial of a 10 year validity Visitor visa for eligible Chinese nationals for a fee of AUD$1000 will commence in December 2016.
- The trial for online lodgement in Mandarin Chinese will be implemented in the second half of 2016.
Status of Survey of Tourist Accommodation
Austrade, together with each of the State and Territory Tourism Organisations (STOs), has engaged the ABS to undertake the 2015-16 Survey of Tourist Accommodation (STA). The survey is expected to be despatched to selected accommodation operators in early July. Results are expected to be released publicly by the ABS in late November 2016.
In terms of the longer term solution Austrade have prepared an Approach To Market (ATM) for the Survey of Tourist Accommodation. The approach was approved by ASCOT in May and released on Austender on 1 June 2016.
The ATM is to test whether an organisation other than the ABS can deliver a national and/or a regional accommodation data collection that meets the critical key design principles, is cost-effective and demonstrates self-sufficiency after three years.
The tender will close on 12 July 2016 and the submissions will go to a Tender Evaluation Committee to evaluate. It is likely that a recommendation will be presented to ASCOT on the 16 November and a potential supplier will be engaged by December 2016.
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Affix a layer of beadboard over a backsplash for a fresh, clear look. Purchase a few large sheets of beadboard, and paint them in your wanted color. Measure and cut them to fit the realm that you’re covering. Then, apply a layer of liquid nails adhesive to the prevailing tile and press the beadboard against the tile.
To set up them, clean the old tiles with an all-purpose cleaner; permit the tiles to dry; eliminate the paper backing from a self-stick tile; and press it into location over an old tile. Use scissors to cut the tiles to slot round wall switches or electrical outlets. Hold adhering as many self-stick tiles as you need.
Subsequently, question is, how do you hide bathroom wall tiles? To store time and a variety of construction debris, leave the wall tile in place and simply set up the beadboard wainscoting over it. To avoid wasting time and a variety of creation debris, go away the wall tile in location and easily install the beadboard wainscoting over it.
During this manner, how do you disguise up wall tiles without eliminating them?
– If the skin is huge however the budget is tight, another option may be to cover the historical tiles with a tile varnish: you could practice it with a broom or a paint roller, it dries quickly and it’s waterproof. – In case you desire to eliminate joints and to create a uniform surface, resin is an efficient solution.
How can I disguise my tiles cheaply?
- Lay down a large area rug to hide unsightly tile flooring.
- Stick vinyl decals over floors or a backsplash for a fresh look.
- Use adhesive carpet tiles to conceal large areas of tiled floor.
- Apply touch paper to counter tops for an easily detachable update.
Does portray tiles certainly work?
It is not standard train to take a roller on your kitchen or bathing room floor tile. Paint on horizontal tiled surfaces that accept site visitors will soon put on off. Tile paint works finest on vertical surfaces that be given less abuse: backsplashes, wall tile, and wainscot tile.
How do you are making historical tile appear new?
Give your historical ceramic tiles a sparkling look by way of employing a brand new paint color. Choose a paint color that enhances the room’s present fixtures and decor. Clear your tiles and brush on a floor conditioner to organize the tiles for painting. Use a paintbrush to use a thin coat of teeth paint to each tile.
How do you are making an historical bathroom appear new?
Some loos seem to under no circumstances cross out of style, with their traditional colors, clear traces and timeless fixtures. 8 Approaches To Spruce Up An Older Bathroom (Without Remodeling) Replace the fixtures. Be purposeful about the artwork. Paint the tiles. Live it up. Work with it. Work with it, on a smaller scale. Create a diversion.
Can I tile over existing wall tiles?
No matter why you want a further look, you may tile over present tiles if the wall is good and none of the old tiles is cracked or loose. Epoxy tile adhesive bonds with present tiles, making it among the finest strategies for tiling over an present tiled wall.
Can you place peel and stick tiles over ceramic tile?
Tile Over Existing Tile So long as you train your present surface well, you could vicinity most peel-and-stick tiles over current surfaces. Do remember that some peel-and-stick tiles will purely adhere well when the grout traces are crammed in to be flush with the present tile.
Is tile paint waterproof?
One Coat Tile Paint. Don’t retile, use One Coat Tile Paint to restore and rejuvenate your kitchen or bathroom. Once dry, the paint is water-resistant and mold resistant so you may replace and protect your tiles on the same time.
Can you use liquid nail on tile?
Liquid Nails is to a contractor what a glue gun is to a crafter. However, this solvent-based, rubber adhesive has its limitations. It’s used to repair a loose vinyl or tile floor, however it ought to under no circumstances be used for installation.
What floors can I placed over tile?
Yes, you may lay engineered-wood or laminate flooring over tile if the tile is in decent shape. Loose, cracked tiles will cause your install to fail. Also, you will gain floor height, which can trigger concerns with doors and appliances.
How can I make my bathing room seem nice?
How To Make Any Bathroom Look (And Feel) Bigger Cross ethereal with white on white. Among the easiest how to deliver your room a spacious appear is to apply a large number of white — white tile, white paint, a white conceitedness and so on. Attempt tone on tone. Use a floating vanity. Less is more. Cross massive along with your mirror. Use a pitcher panel. Uncover your niche. Apply vivid lighting.
Can I paint over tile?
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Poor people may be more susceptibie, but poverty also fosters increased pollution
This issue of the journal includes three papers that touch on relations among socioeconomic status (SES), health, and air quality. Jerrett et al considered whether SES differentials in Hamilton, Ontario, modify the temporal relations between daily mortality and either coefficient of haze (COH) or SO2.1 Martins et al did a similar analysis with respect to PM10 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.2 The third paper, by Gouveia et al, also involved Sao Paulo but examined cross sectional relations between several pollutants and infant birth weight.3 As such, it involves SES factors only implicitly, by virtue of the trends seen by Martins et al2 that link levels of PM10 in Sao Paulo with residence in slums and other SES indicators. Inequitable distribution of environmental impacts within a city or region may raise issues of “environmental justice”,* but it may also be possible to get additional insights into the implied health relations by probing a little deeper into the nature and origins of such differential impacts.
Most time series studies are based on entire cities and spatially averaged air quality, in order to maximise statistical power and to preclude the necessity of assigning individual deaths to specific air quality monitors. Time series studies avoid SES confounding by design, as those factors do not vary on a daily basis. However, many air pollutants tend to vary in concert, especially those that are co-emitted by common sources, thus making it difficult to identify the most probable causal agent. Cross sectional studies may have less co-pollutant collinearity, but can suffer from SES confounding to the extent that SES may tend to decrease with residential proximity to major pollution sources. All of these issues are in play among these three studies.
Jerrett et al matched daily deaths in five zones of Hamilton, Ontario with COH and SO2 data from each of the five available monitoring stations.1 Total deaths were about the same in all five of the unequally sized zones. They then examined the relations between these mortality responses and each of 12 potential effect modifiers that were based on zone-wide averages (making this an “ecological” study). Although a random effects model showed that the heterogeneity among zonal risk estimates was not significant, the authors concluded that manufacturing employment and educational attainment were significant modifiers of the effect of COH on daily mortality. They proposed three possible rationales for this finding: additional pollutant exposures from the workplace, reduced measurement error because of less mobility, or surrogate effects of material deprivation in general. Interestingly, household income showed no tendency to modify the time series relations, and the mean distance to hospital appeared to rank third (after education), suggesting the importance of access to medical care in these acute situations. The risk estimates were not associated with the mean ambient COH level, even though COH was moderately correlated with both poverty and unemployment. The basic problem here is that it is not possible to identify which of the several different rationales might be worthy of public health scrutiny, based on only five observations. An obvious remedy is to use individual rather than aggregate data, including estimates of exposure.
Martins et al defined six subregions of Sao Paulo, each with a radius of 2 km but differing greatly in population.2 One region had four air quality monitors; the others, only one. PM10 was the only pollutant considered; mean values ranged from about 40 to 70 μg/m3 and appeared to be correlated with both slum housing and respiratory mortality response rate. Based on the data taken from the paper, an effect modification regression on both slum residency and the PM10 level appeared to be slightly superior to one based on slum residency alone. This outcome may be relevant to the widespread occurrence in Sao Paulo of levels above the former US PM10 annual standard. From that regression, it appears that the PM10 exposure level is just as important as socioeconomic conditions, but we have no way of knowing what other pollutant exposures might also be playing a part. For example, NO2 levels in Sao Paulo are about four times those in the US and another study of daily mortality in Sao Paulo showed large effects for CO and PM10.4 Comparing this paper with a previous analysis of SES effects in Sao Paulo5 that was based on city-wide air quality suggests that local exposure (and thus individual) gradients could be very important.
Gouveia et al studied the relations between birth weights of Sao Paulo infants and first, second, and third trimester exposures to PM10, CO, SO2, NO2, and O3.3 A suite of potentially confounding variables was considered, but smoking, alcohol use, and poverty status were not among them. In terms of changes in mean birth weight, only first trimester exposures showed consistent negative effects, for all five pollutants. The decrements associated with mean levels of PM10, CO, NO2, were in the range 83–86 g; effects of SO2 and O3 were smaller and not significant. However, similar findings were not obtained with logistic regressions for the odds of low birth weight (LBW). For example, a birth weight decrement of 85 g applied to the entire population should have created a relative risk for LBW of about 1.5 (assuming a normal distribution), but the values reported were much smaller and SO2 even showed significant beneficial effects in the first trimester. Furthermore, the actual fraction of LBW in Sao Paulo (5%) is less than then typically seen in the United States (7.7%), even though the mean US birth weight is 200 g higher.6 Furthermore, a study of air quality and birth weight in the north eastern US that controlled for smoking and alcohol found that CO showed the most consistent effects on LBW, with an OR of 1.3 for a 1 ppm increment in the third semester,7 and a similar study in northern Nevada also found a negative association between third trimester PM10 and mean birth weight but not with the fraction of LBW.8 These discrepancies make it difficult to accept the Sao Paulo birth weight associations as causal.
Differential environmental impacts may result from at least two important pathways: differential exposures, or differential susceptibilities. Environmental justice refers primarily to exposures; note that the official definition* does not pertain to excessive vehicular or domestic emissions that may be an inevitable result of being poor in an urban setting. Additional exposure differentials may result from differences in housing quality, in terms of air exchange rates and the presence of indoor pollution sources. An important point to be made here is that, to the extent that outdoor air quality may be implicated, the culprits are much more likely to be local primary pollutants like CO or SO2 than the more widespread secondary pollutants like PM2.5 or O3. Indeed, studies in Southern California show that wealthy suburban communities are more likely to experience consistently higher ozone levels than central city locations having higher densities of NOx emissions.9 Finally, a residence that is transparent to outdoor air pollution will also be transparent to extreme weather effects. For example, studies of the 1995 major heat wave in Chicago found that lack of access to air conditioning was a major risk factor in heat related deaths.10
In addition to exacerbating exposures, poverty status may also involve increased susceptibility to environmental challenges by virtue of differences in underlying health status and access to medical care. For example, Gwynn and Thurston found that higher hospital admission-pollution risks were seen for Medicaid (poverty) patients than for those who were privately insured,11 and Janssen et al reported that access to residential central air conditioning appeared to reduce the effect of PM10 on daily mortality in 14 US cities.12 However, Zanobetti and Schwartz reported that mortality-pollution effect modifications from SES were “modest” compared with those due to medical conditions,13 and Tolbert et al found that poverty status (as indicated by Medicaid insurance) increased the risk of children’s emergency room treatment for asthma although poverty did not significantly affect the role of air pollution in that regard.14 These issues are especially important for time series studies of the elderly population, which imply that the affected victims have succumbed on a particular day as a result of exposure to outdoor air quality no worse (and often better) than what has been experienced many times before. This paradox can only be rationalised in terms of the juxtaposition of a moderate environmental insult with an impaired ability to maintain homeostasis.15
Considering all of these factors, the real villain here is seen to be poverty in itself and the socioeconomic conditions that produce it. In many industrialised nations (including the United States) poverty leads to substandard medical care, substandard nutrition, substandard housing, and reliance on inefficient and excessively polluting vehicles and heating and cooking appliances. It has been estimated that as few as 10% of the vehicles on the road may produce most of the vehicular pollution; however, taking these vehicles off the road would impose intolerable costs on those least able to pay. To make matters even worse, in terms of disposable income, the poor will bear disproportionate shares of the economic burdens of any cost ineffective environmental regulations that unduly increase prices of housing, fuels, vehicles, or appliances. True environmental justice requires the costs imposed by environmental regulations to match their benefits for everyone, not just for society as a whole.
Poor people may be more susceptibie, but poverty also fosters increased pollution
↵* The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines environmental justice as follows (condensed from http://www.epa.gov/compliance/environmentaljustice/index.html): the fair treatment of all people with respect to environmental regulations and policies. Fair treatment means that no group should bear a disproportionate share of negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, or commercial operations.
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The Morrison Farm is the 13th farm protected by OFT with a farmland easement agreement. It is located near the City of Collingwood, a rapidly expanding municipality where urban sprawl is threatening the significant agricultural and ecological features of the region. This threat is why Murray and Jo-Anne Morrison partnered with OFT to register an easement on the property.
The land has been farmed by the family for 32 years, and produces a variety of crops including corn, soybeans, wheat, pumpkins, squash, and gourds. The 173-acre farm also includes important ecological features such as forests, wetlands, hedgerows, and a portion of the Pretty River. These areas are home to a variety of species at risk such as the Eastern wood-pewee and butternut tree.
“Our family has a farming history and we wished to preserve this legacy as well as prevent our farm from being used for urban development. An agricultural easement afforded us this opportunity.”Murray and Jo-Anne Morrison, Easement Donors
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Two distinct plants are known as chamomile and are used interchangeably: German and Roman chamomile. Although distantly related botanically, they both look like miniature daisies and are traditionally thought to possess similar medicinal benefits.
Over a million cups of chamomile tea are drunk daily, testifying to its good taste, at least. Chamomile was used by early Egyptian physicians for fevers, and by ancient Greeks, Romans, and Indians for headaches and disorders of the kidneys, liver, and bladder. The modern use of chamomile dates back to 1921, when a German firm introduced a topical form. This cream became a popular treatment for a wide variety of skin disorders, including eczema, bedsores, skin inflammation caused by radiation therapy, and contact dermatitis (eg, poison ivy).
Effect of Chamomile on Panic Disorder
Chamomile, like many of the herbs listed for the treatment of panic disorder, is said to produce sedative effects, which can be helpful for persons suffering from anxiety. Though no specific studies have yet shown that this to be true, you can experiment by enjoying some chamomile tea and noticing it's physiological and psychological effects - many people find that chamomile can help calm them.
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Chamomile is listed on the FDA's GRAS (generally recognized as safe) list.
Reports that chamomile can cause severe reactions in people allergic to ragweed have received significant media attention. However, when all the evidence is examined, it does not appear that chamomile is actually more allergenic than any other plant. 1 The cause of these reports may be products contaminated with "dog chamomile," a highly allergenic and bad-tasting plant of similar appearance.
Chamomile also contains naturally occurring coumarin compounds that might act as "blood thinners" under certain circumstances. There is one case report in which it appears that use of chamomile combined with the anticoagulant warfarin led to excessive "blood thinning," resulting in internal bleeding. 2 Some evidence suggests that chamomile might interact with other medications as well through effects on drug metabolism, but the extent of this effect has not been fully determined. 3 Safety in young children, pregnant or nursing women, or those with liver or kidney disease has not been established, although there have not been any credible reports of toxicity caused by this common beverage tea.
Interactions You Should Know About
If you are taking blood-thinning medications such as warfarin (Coumadin) , heparin , clopidogrel (Plavix) , ticlopidine (Ticlid) , or pentoxifylline (Trental) , you should avoid using chamomile as it might increase their effect. This could potentially cause problems.
- Schulz V, Hansel R, Tyler VE. Rational Phytotherapy: A Physicians' Guide to Herbal Medicine. 3rd ed. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag; 1998:256.
- Segal R, Pilote L. Warfarin interaction with Matricaria chamomilla. CMAJ. 2006;174:1281-1282. Canadian Medical Association Journal website. Available at: http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/174/9/1281. Accessed April 28, 2006.
- Budzinski JW, Foster BC, Vandenhoek S, et al. An in vitro evaluation of human cytochrome P450 3A4 inhibition by selected commercial herbal extracts and tinctures. Phytomedicine. 2000;7:273-282.
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By Miriam Cordova
On Monday, workers at a Staten Island Amazon facility held a walkout for the second time, demanding safe working conditions. The workers have not been deterred after Amazon revealed its true face, firing Christian Smalls, who led the first walkout at the facility on March 30.
The first Staten Island walkout was followed by others at Amazon facilities in Chicago and near Detroit. One worker in Chicago made it clear it was not about workers being lazy, but about adequate work conditions, saying, “We want to work!”
Some of the Amazon workers have organized into a workers’ group, and aside from demands of clean facilities and protective equipment, their demands include a stop on the shipment of all nonessential goods, quarantine pay, and a guarantee that they will not be fired for taking time off as essential workers.
Other workers from McDonald’s, Instacart, Perdue Farms, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe’s have also organized walkouts amid the economic crisis. This wave of protests has mostly taken place among non-union workers, demonstrating the necessity of labor organizing that defies the class collaboration of unions.
As the US enters the New Depression, the ruling class uses the hysteria surrounding COVID-19 to discourage and repress workplace organizing and rebellion. The onset of this depression has the effect of strengthening monopoly capital at the expense of workers and small businesses, many of which will not reopen even after the shelter-in-place and other restrictions are lifted. Companies like Amazon seek to use rising unemployment figures to force desperate workers into compliance, however the economic crisis has also aroused workers’ resistance.
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One morning the old storyteller said to his apprentice: “As you know, the king will be a guest in our town today. I have received a letter stating that he has heard of what I do and would like to hear a sample of my art himself. The king is in great worry, because the monarch of our neighbouring country demands from him a personal apology for some uncouthness, which truly he has never committed. By expressing this apology the king would be stripped of his dignity in front of his own nation and the neighbouring people. If he does not apologise, the other ruler threatens to ravage our land with his strong army. What is our king to do? If he apologises, he loses the respect of our people and of the neighbouring people as well, and maybe even his self-respect. If he does not apologise, the other monarch will take this as an excuse for starting a war. Then our king will lose his land and possibly his life, and our people will suffer great harm. At noon, I shall be at the town hall, in order to tell the King a tale which may give him a helpful hint for making his decision. I feel more feeble now than ever in my life, and I wish you to accompany me on my way.” The way to town seemed longer than usual to the apprentice. They had to pause many times so his master could regain his strength, but finally they arrived. They were guided to the king and all the dignitaries assembled in the town hall, and they were seated among them at a large table. After a number of high and important people had spoken, the storyteller was also asked to speak. He said: “In our town, there once lived a well-known man who was to hold a speech for many people, and even for the king. Now as he looked around, he saw such an abundance of wise and educated people that he himself did not feel wise at all. He forgot how at other times he had known to help himself out of any difficulty. He would have wished to sink into a deep hole in the ground. As this is impossible – what did this man do?”
After these words, the old man fell silent. Despairingly he turned to his apprentice with an inquiring look, as if he were uttering some wordless plea. The young man rose to speak and said: “He fell silent. He let his apprentice speak for him. His apprentice delivered the message to the king and this abundance of wise and educated people which his master would have told if words had not failed him. The apprentice said: ‘My master asks your pardon that he cannot address to you the words that you desire to hear from him. Yet he lets me speak for him. May I express his deep regret.” The people heard the apprentice speak for his master, and no one could decide whether the apprentice truly spoke for his master, but neither could anyone deny it. For his master’s mind seemed absent, and neither did he show approval nor reject the words the apprentice spoke on his behalf.”
The apprentice ended his speech. The listeners looked startled at him and his master. Then some of them started to laugh, while others clapped their hands, and a very odd atmosphere of tension filled the room. The mayor called for the next speakers, and the rest of the day passed by with music and festivities. Finally everyone went home. The king, however, sent heralds out on this very day. In all the towns of his empire they proclaimed the following message: “Tomorrow at noon, the king will abdicate because of his feeble health, and leave the royal throne to his oldest son. The speech of the king on passing over the crown and sceptre must be called off due to his sickness. His son will speak for him instead, and will truthfully state what his father would have said if only he had been able to speak as the king of this land for the very last time. The king knew well that his court would be bewildered at this curious message. But the ruler of his neighbouring country also could not easily decide what had been said by whom, and what was meant by the words that had been spoken.
On the way home the old storyteller seemed more tired than usual. He said to his apprentice: “Tomorrow I expect that a lot of people will come to my house wishing to hear a tale. It is impossible for me to do so. I would like you to take over.” The young man assured him that he would do so. After the apprentice had gotten up and had washed and clothed himself the next morning, he looked for his master. There in his bed lay the storyteller – dead. “What shall I do?” the young man asked himself in utter terror, and looked out of the window. His terror was even greater when he saw a vast crowd of people approaching the house. He went outside. “What do you want?” he asked the first ones who came toward him. “Your master has saved our land – or you and your master. We will live in peace, and we wish to tell him our words of gratitude. We also would like to ask your master to tell us one of his tales.” The young man shook his head: “The storyteller is dead. He asked me, though, to speak to you, and tell a tale on his behalf.” “But do you also know what the master wanted to say to us?” asked the people. The young man nodded. “Every single word.”
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Weather forecasters have isobars: lines on a map that show where the pressure (in millibars) is the same. Thanks to the efforts of the team from mySociety (which built the TheyWorkForYou.com site - putting a useful interface on Hansard), transport planners now have "isochrones" - lines on a map where it takes the same time to reach them from a given point.
The concept of the isochrone is part of a project the Department for Transport commissioned from mySociety, a charitable organisation that aims to demonstrate how the internet can be used for the benefit of the public and voluntary sectors to work on. The idea was to display graphically how long it takes to travel to different parts of the country from different locations. It's no surprise that distance isn't a direct correlation; it takes longer to travel across the crowded streets of London than to journey the same distance in the Scottish Highlands, for example.
The mySociety team was very proud of its work (on show at http://tinyurl.com/flg2x). Although, as the team notes, "without [Department for Transport] assistance we would have had to pay expensive fees to use the underlying mapping data or to produce maps with no landmarks, which would be almost incomprehensible".
Who knows what use people might find for such data? For someone, it could be the clue they needed for a house purchase, locating a business, or deciding whether to make that cross-country trip by train and taxi, or solely by car.
Although the maps of London require about 10 hours of computer time to generate, speeding up the process might mean being able to generate maps on demand for visitors to a website, so that tourists, for example, could work out if they have time to visit Hampton Court in the one day they have for sightseeing.
A charity got in touch with the team and asked if it could have a similar map. "We were happy to oblige," said Tom Steinberg, director of mySociety. "It is nice to know that there are real rather than theoretical users for work like this."
How much would it cost to put those maps on a webserver that anybody could access? MySociety asked Ordnance Survey's licensing department. It calculated that displaying 16 "map tiles" with the relevant data would cost between £837.81 (for a 1:25,000 scale) or £1,032.71 (for a 1:250,000 scale).
Does that sound good? Here's the sting in the OS's small print: "All prices for one user, one-year licence and exclude VAT. Terms of data use are internal business use, display and promotion as long as there is no financial gain." So for a charity to put that on a webserver that might be used by hundreds of people (a typical server can handle 2,000) would cost millions of pounds annually.
It ties in with an email Steinberg sent this year to a number of people, including Ed Parsons, OS's chief technology officer, pointing out the OS's claim - made on its website (http://tinyurl.com/ea33j) - that "an independent study has calculated that around £100bn worth of economic activity in Britain is dependent on it".
As well as provoking scepticism about the study's methods, Steinberg said, "this huge number should make us all sit up". If OS's licensing regime is just a bit wrong - so as to discourage, say, 0.1% of the economic activity dependent on it - that costs £100m a year, roughly the same as OS's running costs. "If it reduces innovation by a still tiny 0.4%, then the taxable revenues being forfeited by the Treasury are well in excess of the entire cost of running the OS," wrote Steinberg. "If the forfeited innovation is higher by just a few percentage points, then the cost to the UK Treasury is really considerable."
Steinberg said: "I'm arguing for regulation of licensing based on relatively elementary economics: the understanding that simply because HM Treasury and the taxpayer aren't paying OS's bills directly doesn't mean they aren't paying for it hugely in other ways." His logic mirrors that of the Free Our Data campaign, which says that making non-personal data collected by public bodies free at the point of use would boost the economy hugely.
Imagine being a startup trying to write a business plan using the time travel maps. The OS licence would cost thousands of pounds every month while you tried to build a revenue base; you'd go bust.
OS says it is obliged, as a government-owned "trading fund", to cover its running costs and to generate a surplus equivalent to 5% of the capital assets it owns. High charges are the only way it could cover the extra costs of providing its maps, while paying for the constant stream of map updates that are made every day - around 50,000 per day, according to a recent investigation by Parsons (www.edparsons.com/?p=256).
But an investigation of OS's accounts suggests its success as a trading fund is due to the use of an accounting twist that has never been accepted by the auditor general, Sir John Bourn of the National Audit Office. Since 1999, when OS began operating as a trading fund, the NAO has refused to accept its accounts because it treats the National Geographic Database (NGD), its core database of where objects are in the British Isles, as an "intangible asset" - akin to a trademark or brand name.
Bourn argues that instead it should be treated as a "tangible asset" - something that has a physical existence. He thinks the NGD should be treated as an asset worth "at least £50m". That would, at the stroke of a pen, double OS's tangible assets. OS is determined the NGD should not be treated as a tangible asset, because that could oblige it to generate far higher revenues.
The NGD does not appear in OS's accounts. OS argues in a note to its accounts that the NGD data is "accounted for as an intangible fixed asset". Yet its accounts show only a £1m intangible fixed asset - for "software licences".
That is enormously convenient for its trading fund activities, which, under Treasury rules, oblige it to generate a surplus of revenue over costs of 5.5p for every £1 of assets it controls - a 5.5% return. In 2004-05, OS had revenues of £115m and costs of £105m; the revenue surplus, of £9.2m on total assets of £51m, represents an 18% return - far above the target rate.
Had the NGD been included at the NAO's suggested minimum valuation, the return would have been 9.1%, still almost double the 5.5% target. That suggests OS is making more money than it needs to - perhaps implying that its licences are priced more highly than they need be.
An OS spokesman says that to treat the NGD as a tangible asset, as the NAO suggests, "would blow a hole in our business plan" and "would affect our customers across all sectors".
Yet Steinberg's experiences, and his comments about the marginal effect on the economy if OS's licences are too high - allied to the huge returns on assets being generated - suggests that OS's customers are already being affected. The problem is that it is hard to see them - except when, for example, they are charities that want to put up a map of travel times on the web.
· See the campaign blog at www.freeourdata.org.uk
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MIAMI (AP) _ Students from an historically black neighborhood in Miami are presenting a cookbook they created filled with healthy recipes drawing on their community's rich cultural past.
Students from Booker T. Washington Senior High school in Overtown are to join celebrity chef Jamie Oliver to present the Overtown Cookbook on Friday. Oliver is in town for the South Beach Wine and Food Festival.
The project was started after a study was published in 2008 showing high mortality rates from cardiovascular disease in Overtown, a once vibrant community where Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and other stars performed. The study also found many residents had limited access to health care.
The recipes include healthy twists on classics like barbecue chicken and bread pudding.
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Choose a different password for each site. Passwords should be randomly generated and consist of at least thirty-two capital and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. Write all your passwords longhand in a memorandum book and store the book in a safe deposit box at a bank at least twenty miles from your computer.
Do not expose your computer to radio waves of any kind.
If you have a Windows computer, remember that certain kinds of programs can markedly increase your chances of infecting your computer with viruses or other malware. Among the programs you should avoid at all costs are Web browsers, word processors, email clients, spreadsheets, presentation programs, games, databases, text editors, appointment calendars, image editors, media players, publishing programs, drawing programs, and the operating system.
Ask a random stranger to pick a login password for your computer. Do not allow her to tell you what it is.
For secure deletion of data, dynamite is best, but good results may also be achieved with a shotgun.
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K-TOR® designs and manufactures human powered portable energy generators that serve as portable outlets to provide electrical power on the go. Their power generators are driven by human bio-mechanical energy. They provide reliable, self-sustainable power anywhere, anytime.
Human powered energy technology from K-TOR® is the new face of alternative energy. Complementing existing wind and solar technologies, K-TOR® generators deliver sustainable, green power whenever you need it — regardless of the circumstances.
Human powered generators can be used in the event of natural disasters, search and rescue missions, blackouts, or any other emergency situation to charge essential electronic devices. Back packers, boaters, hikers, and outdoor enthusiasts will also find K-TOR® products useful. In an emergency situation, access to power can be scarce or non-existent. K-TOR® generators provide an instant source of electricity via a standard electrical outlet interface. Compatible with portable electronics, communication equipment, and more.
Power generators, which are basically batteries with an inverter included in one box, typically have an accessory to charge them from a car 12 volt power port. This can be plugged directly in to the 12 volt power outlet on the Power Box 50.
Batteries other that 12-volt lead acid, such as lithium, can be charged in one of two ways. First, use a standard Power Box 50. Connect an inverter to it, such as the 300 watt unit sold on our website. And plug a charger into it. Second, order a custom Power Box 50 with the exact voltage and connector you need. For the latter, contact K-Tor and have the charging methods available to you battery available.
The K-TOR Power Box 50 pedal power generator provides 14 volt DC power and has been designed to charge directly 12-volt sealed lead acid batteries. Devices that plug into an automotive 12-volt socket and are within the maximum power range such as USB outlets can be used. Insure devices plugged in are connected securely. Do not use devices that are loose as a poor connection can create arcing and a fire hazard. K-TOR offers accessories for these purposes such as the 12-volt male to alligator clips, included with the unit. Available to purchase from K-TOR are a 12-volt male to dual 12-volt female socket, 12-volt male to USB and 12-volt male to inverter. Or, purchase a third party 12-volt to Anderson Connectors converter. To run devices that exceed the generators maximum power charge a battery with a Power Box 50 and run an inverter off of that battery. Custom versions with different voltage and current regulation, such as charging lithium batteries, are possible within the maximum capibility of the generator.
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March 08, 2022
Climate change is driving winter storms to be more extreme and less predictable. Risks faced by property managers who budget for snow removal have shifted. High snowfall skyrockets costs and makes variable-priced snow removal contracts a risky bet. On the flip side, fixed-price contracts can lead to overspending in low snowfall winters.
Demex’s snow solutions for property managers form comprehensive budget planning. Our platform tracks the entire process from proposal to plow to protection. We custom-fit winter snowfall insurance products that consider hyper-local snowfall patterns across your portfolio as well as the unique cost profile at each of your properties. Our customers save 10-40% on snow removal costs when compared to servicer-provided fixed seasonal pricing.
Businesses that are affected by extreme precipitation (flood/drought and extreme snowfall) should include this assessment in their planning cycle and risk management approaches. Short-term operations can be adjusted to optimize revenue and minimize costs linked to extreme temperature. Longer-term capital investments can optimize businesses for longevity. Risk management is a critical part of planning for these business cycles for large and small companies alike. Climate Report is a Wakeup Call for Business Leaders
A New Normal for Winter Weather
Winter weather patterns are in flux across North America, which makes budgeting for snow removal far more complex than it used to be for both clients and snow removal contractors.
In some regions of the U.S., like in parts of the Midwest and Northeast, winter snowfall is increasing.
This map shows areas in the U.S. where snowfall trends have been increasing in recent years.
In the Northeast United States, extreme winter storms have been more frequent in recent years. Between 2008 to 2018 there were three to four times more big winter storms than in the previous five decades. Twice as many extreme snowstorms hit the eastern two-thirds of the United States in the second half of the 20th century than in the first.
In many places, snowfall has become more volatile. Big storms and snow droughts are becoming more common. Some of the most variable locations in the country are big cities and state capitols like Little Rock, AR; Tulsa, OK; Minneapolis, MN; and Detroit, MI. In Minneapolis, MN, one of the highest snowfall winters and the absolute lowest both occurred back-to-back around 2010.
Shifting Risks for Property and Facility Managers and Snow Removal Contractors
This unpredictability in snowfall creates a significant impact for property managers. Big storms in many winters lead you to blow your budget. Alternatively, you can dramatically overspend in a year with very few storms. Demex offers a comprehensive solution for understanding and addressing these changing dynamics.
Typical fixed priced contracting is expensive: seasonal fixed price contracts exceed per event pricing in most years. Seasonal fixed contracts typically reflect the costs of a 1-in-10 extreme winter, as vendors typically set the fixed price by weighting higher snowfall totals in recent winters. Contractors are then dis-incentivized to service low snow events for fear of future major storms.
Variable priced vendor contracts are often cheaper than fixed-price contracts. Per event pricing accumulates charges as winter unfolds, with continual payment to contractors in extreme winters. Contractors are then incentivized to service property in every storm, as payments align with services rendered. However, per event pricing creates budget variance.
For snow removal contractors and snow-dependent businesses, variability in winter snowfall creates income instability. In lower than expected snowfall years, revenues fall below typical levels, while payments for business operations expenses, including machines like snowplows, are consistently due.
Risk management eliminates budget guess work. A well-designed risk transfer program removes end of winter budget surprises.
Demex currently offers two snowfall insurance products to manage these risks:
- Demex Revenue Protection Insurance is created for snow removal contractors and snow-dependent businesses. Claims are triggered when snowfall revenue is low.
- Demex Cost Control Insurance serves property owners, facility managers, and municipalities. Claims are triggered when snowfall expenses are high.
For property owners, facility managers, and municipalities, Demex offers a full end-to-end solution for purchasing, managing, auditing, and paying your snow removal contractors. Our Snow Center facilitates climate resilience at every step of the process, from Proposal to Plow to Protection:
We provide detailed analysis at each location in your portfolio and link your unique expenses to snowfall variability and climate trends.
We provide tools for monitoring your budget at each location from storm to storm throughout the winter.
We provide options for insurance and hedges that cap your costs for the upcoming winter season, thereby reducing budget volatility and uncertainty.
Contractor invoices are uploaded directly into the Snow Center by customers and vendors for each location, then compared against the modeled expenses and observed snowfall. The Snow Center also integrates with existing facility management technologies to show if and when vendors were on site.
Risk Management Saves Money
Active risk management creates savings. On average, active management for property and facility managers saves 14% per year over fixed price contracts. Over multiple winters, active risk management creates significant savings in operational budgets.
With active risk management, the minimum savings is 8% in any given year, regardless of snowfall expenses. In a typical winter, the savings are between 10% and 15% of the fixed price contract. In extremely low snow years, the portfolio savings can exceed 30% versus the fixed price contract.
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WOW: The Robinia Castle universe consists of an impressive castle and a surrounding moat that can only be crossed by the bridge, the line, the balance beam, the water lilies or the island of the spinner plate. Nearby is the mountain, the Tree Climber, where the dragon lives. The attackers of the castle can use the swing set and the seesaw as stone throwers. The Robinia Castle fits into parks and schools or brings nature into the city.
STAY: The Robinia Castle draws children’s curiosity and interest in adventure. They can be a soldier whose sole purpose is to defend the crown on the castle, be the knight on the horse who fights the dragon up on the mountain (the Tree Climber) or be the vicious attacker of the foreign castle attempting to cross the moat.
The physical play of rocking, riding, spinning, balancing, climbing, sliding and swinging develop the children’s balance, coordination and agility. Dramatic play in the themed play scenarios develops the children’s social skills and stimulates language development.
We have more than 45 years of experience, and will support you throughout the project.
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Starting a business can be a very daunting adventure if a proper plan is not put in place. Most entrepreneurs start up their businesses without putting adequate plans in place to succeed. No wonder one out of every five businesses crumbles within 5 years! If one thing should be taken very seriously, it should be your business plan. This is your “blueprint for success.”
Every business begins from a thought. A thought or idea can only become reality when expected actions are taken. When an idea is conceived, the logical corollary is that such ideas need to be written out, in black and white and on paper; or else the idea will fade off when the enthusiasm that the thought initially brought subsides. Hence, having a written business plan is pertinent if your business is to stand the test of time.
Now, what is a Business Plan?
One definition, according to entrepreneur.com, is that a business plan is a “written description of the future of your business; a document that indicates what you intend to do and how you intend to do it.” If you notice a paragraph on the back of an envelope describing your business strategy, you have already started a written plan, or at least the first draft of a plan. The business plan itself consists of a narrative and several financial worksheets.
The very act of planning helps you to think things through in a systematic and thorough way. Study and research your market niche if you are not sure of the facts, and look at your ideas critically. It may take some time now, but helps to avert costly and disastrous mistakes in future.
In this article, I want to provide a very brief look at the steps involved in planning a business:
1. Identify Your Passion: Knowing what you love doing, even without making money, is the stepping stone in starting any business. Most people enter into a business they know nothing about, and stop after only few months. Some get tired of their businesses simply because they are not happy with the activities involved in running the business anymore. According to Sabrina Parsons, (CEO of Palo Alto Software) “Know yourself, and work in a job that caters to your strengths. This knowledge will make you happier.”
The reason why many businesses fail in their first five years is because the entrepreneurs do not find fulfillment in running their business anymore. Hence, they tend to move on in search for happiness.
You must look within by evaluating yourself and identify what you are good with. If what you are good at gives you happiness, think of how you can monetize it and make it a business. You do this by sharing your passion with others. However, passion alone is not enough in starting a business. You need to plan, set goals and above all, know yourself.
2. Conduct Intense Market Research: As stated above, passion alone is not enough in determining the type of business endeavor you should get involved in. You need to be sure if there are people who are really interested in paying for what you have to offer. Apart from that, you need to identity the category of people who can afford the prices of your products or services, and in what quantity.
You also need to determine how to attract your prospective customers. How do you intend to reach your targeted customers? How do you intend to distribute your products to your targeted customers? How do you know the actual price that potential customers are willing to pay for your products? These and many other things are what you should know before investing your money in starting any business.
3. Write a Business Plan: A business plan is a written document that describes your business idea. Your business plan will give you a sense of direction towards achieving your business goals and objectives. It describes what you want to do, when to do it, where to do it, and how to do it. A written business plan can also be used as a guide running your successful business.
Writing down your plans helps you to anticipate the future of your business. Anticipating your business helps you to identify and possibly avoid any challenge that may bedevil your business in the future.
4. Register Your Business: After you have written down your business plan, you must register your business so that clients will take you serious. Apart from that, registering your business makes your business have a life of its own. It separates you from your business. Any serious minded entrepreneur must have his business registered.
The most common type of business is that of a Sole Proprietor. You run your business yourself and keep accurate books (for tax purposes). You deduct your expenses and pay taxes on the gains. This is the simplest type of business to open. It is also the most vulnerable to having your assets taken away by an angry customer who would file a law suit against you for whatever reason. This is one of many reasons that business owners opt for one of the other types of business set ups.
A Partnership is a type of business where two or more people enter into a business arrangement. Two friends, etc. decide to open a business. If you decide to enter into a partnership, you need a document that details how the business will be divided if the partnership is broken up. It may sound crude to plan this before opening the doors, but it will save a lot of heartache and expenses in the end. Besides, if you never dissolve the partnership – the document is never needed. This is one of those “it is better to have it if it’s needed rather than need it and not have it” moments.
Corporations: There are several types of ways to incorporate. I am not going to get involved with a detailed discussion here. My recommendation is if you are planning on incorporating your business – hire an attorney with expertise in this area. There as several types of corporations and your attorney can evaluate the facts surrounding your business and guide you to the most appropriate type of corporation for you to use.
5. Get The Necessary Capital: This is the most difficult aspect of starting a business. Getting the capital to finance a business is the major factor that discourages most entrepreneurs from moving ahead with their plans.
There is no doubt that most businesses start through self-financing. The reason for this is clear – Nobody believes in your dream until there is a physical manifestation. As a potential business person, you must learn to save aggressively in order to meet the financial requirements of operating your business while taking care of your family at the same time. You can also opt for loans from friends, family or corporate bodies (banks, saving and loans, etc.).
A general rule of business states that, in addition to your start-up costs you should also have at least six to twelve months’ worth of your family’s budget in the bank. In order to finance your company, you will need to match the company’s needs to the appropriate financing option. You should seek the assistance of a good accountant in this area. The accountant will be able to advise you what is best in your situation and also offer assistance in tax planning.
6. Taking Risks: Once the financial aspect of starting a business is settled, what risks you should take should be the next line of action. You should keep on testing different things to be able to ascertain what works well for you and your business plan. By accurately listing the acceptable risks you are willing to take before hand (in your business plan) and in what situations these risks would be taken, will give you valuable guidance when obstacles occur (and they will occur).
By having your plan of action already in place, it will be very easy for you to refer back to your well thought out plan and decide on the course of action to take concerning a pre-identified obstacle to your business success.
It is important to know from the beginning that you may fail in this business. You may not want to acknowledge this fact. I mean, who wants to “plan” on failing, right? But, by acknowledging this now will help to keep you going when you experience any setback in the future. What matters most in business is your level of discipline, persistence and belief.
Whenever, you experience any failure, go back to your business plan and pinpoint where you missed it so that you can implement the appropriate corrections. If the trouble you are experiencing was not identified in your original business plan, now is the time to add it to your plan.
Take the time to go through all of the steps in identifying and mitigating risks, just as you did when you wrote the original plan. By doing this, you accomplish two things:
1) You are methodically thinking through the problem and determining a solution, and
2) You are now adding this unforeseen problem to your plan! If it ever manifests again, you will be able to quickly determining what you did and if it was effective (saving time and stress later).
The steps above, if followed, will help you in building a top level business that will could be your opportunity to change the world! Ensure you do not go into a business without prior planning.
All ways remember the 5Ps – Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance!
On my website, http://www.bobthibodeau.com, I am helping those who are new to Internet Marketing not make the same mistakes I (and countless others) have made getting started. I also help those marketers who are struggling in an area of getting their business going. I offer no promises – just plain, straight forward training and assistance for those who are serious about making a serious, online income.
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Put A Bead On It: Embellished Textile Assemblage
June 5 - 10, 2022
Jennifer A. Reis · jenniferannreis.com
Workshop at a glance
Discover hand-worked surface design techniques in fabric, thread, beads, and found objects.
- Handstitching, quilting, applique, embroidery, embellishing
- Fabric, thread, beads, found objects
- A technique sampler
- A personally conceived and created work
Jennifer A. Reis is a textile artist who creates intensively hand-worked, ornately beaded, and embellished paper doll icons on cloth using traditional and alternative materials. Her artistic practice has been honored with numerous awards and prizes, including Kentucky’s Al Smith Fellowship, national adjudicated and invitational exhibitions, and teaching opportunities at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, John C. Campbell Folk School, Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design, Cleveland Institute of Art, Society of Contemporary Craft, and the Southwest School of Art.
This workshop focuses on hand-worked surface design textile techniques guiding students from basic to advanced skills in fabric, thread, beads and found objects. Hand stitching, appliqué, thread, and bead embroidery, and found object embellishment will be utilized by participants through creating a small technique sampler as well as a textile assemblage of their own concept and design. Advanced embellishment skills such as shi-sha mirrors, sequin rosettes, and beaded bezels will be covered. The workshop wraps up with presentation options for finished work. Open to all levels, however students should have the ability to thread a needle independently.
COURSE FEE: $690 · materials list
The health and safety of students, faculty, and staff is a priority at Arrowmont. To that end, a Personal Conduct & Social Distancing Policy has been adopted to foster a safe learning environment during the coronavirus pandemic. Click here for the detailed Policy.
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With single-use plastic bags becoming banned from New York retailers, Stop & Shop is offering customers a new alternative with free reusable bags.
In an effort to ease the transition from plastic to paper when the ban takes effect on Sunday, March 1, Stop & Shop is offering to trade carryout plastic bags for free reusable bags (while supplies last).
Beginning on Saturday, Feb. 22, Stop & Shop will have information tables set up at stores to answer questions about the upcoming ban.
The tables will also have giveaway items, including a free reusable bag for every customer who brings in one or more carryout plastic bags for recycling, with a limit of one per customer per visit.
The plastic bags collected will be recycled into composite wood, which is used for decking, park benches, and playground equipment, among other things.
Paper bags will still be available with a five-cent fee, with sales being donated to local food banks.
At stores where the city or county has chosen not to institute the five-cent paper bag fee, Stop & Shop will charge 5 cents per bag to encourage customers to use reusable bags.
Stop & Shop is planning to donate the funds collected from this charge to local environmental conservation groups that includes the Coastal Research & Education Society of Long Island, Riverkeeper, and the Westchester Land Trust.
“Sustainability is a priority at Stop & Shop, and we’re committed to encouraging the use of reusables and to helping our customers make the transition,” Stop & Shop President Gordon Reid said. “By charging 5 cents for paper, we’re encouraging our customers to make the switch to reusable bags – while also supporting local non-profits that are doing important work to protect and preserve the environment in New York State.”
Officials said that consumers use billions of plastic bags annually, which do not biodegrade, creating massive amounts of litter in neighborhoods and waterways and posing a threat to the health of area residents and the environment.
The ban is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with plastic bag production and disposal.
“We support Stop & Shop’s efforts to support local environmental organizations during this transitional period of phasing out single-use bags,” Lori Ensinger, President of Westchester Land Trust, added. “We hope customers remember their reusable bags and reduce waste in our communities.
"Westchester Land Trust will use the funds raised through the paper bag charge to add to the nearly 9,000 acres of natural land that (the organization) has already conserved in our region and will remain preserved forever.”
The EPA estimates that 80 percent of plastic pollution in the ocean originated on land, which includes plastic bags, and in New York, residents use 23 billion plastic bags annually, which contributes to pollution both on and off land. These bags do not biodegrade and they persist for years.
Plastic pollution has become a serious threat to our lakes, rivers and marine environment as well as public health. Scientists are finding plastic pollution in shellfish and finfish, making its way to our dinner plates,” Citizens Campaign for the Environment Executive Director Adrienne Esposito said. “Giving up plastic bags and using reusable bags is one easy, reasonable step each member of the public can take to help combat the plastic pollution epidemic.
"It is time for everyone to get on the plastic bag 'ban' wagon.”
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The 80s had it all. Tie-die, neon, synth pop, hair metal and eurodisco and, for the first time, exercise became a thing. Joggers pounded pavement while road biking, mountain biking, marathons and triathlons went mainstream. Here, sports nutrition was born. Sport has come a long way since, yet ordinary sports nutrition is still stuck in its leggings listening to Culture Club on its Walkman...
Brace yourselves because it's time for some sports nutrition history.
The first ever energy gel was released in 1987. Called the Leppin Squeezy, it was co-developed by legendary sports scientist Tim Noakes and contained two carbohydrates for energy - maltodextrin and dextrose.
The theory, as detailed by Noakes in his seminal book 'Lore of Running' was that carbohydrates were our main fuel source during endurance effort, and therefore loading up on them before running, and getting plenty in during running was the way to go.
By the early '90s, sports nutrition was big business and 'innovation' followed. What sort of innovation? It was truly incredible. The dextrose ( a sugar) in energy gels and drink powders was swapped for fructose (another sugar).
Oh. Was that all?
Yes. Sorry about that.
The basic recipe for energy gels and powders then became 'maltodextrin + fructose'. It hasn't changed since
Claims, marketing, celebrity endorsement and many 1000s of pages of 'science' have poured forth from the ordinary sports nutrition industry in this time.
But the products?
They're still in the 80s while innovation routinely passes for little more than a gentle facelift.
As examples, two of the biggest new sports nutrition products for energy are Maurten's Drink Mix 320 and Science in Sport's Beta Fuel.
Both are carb drink mixes, both are 90%-plus maltodextrin and fructose.
How these are meaningfully different to old products like High5's Energy Drink (also 90%-plus maltodextrin and fructose), is hard to tell. The ads and marketing look very different, but the ingredients? Rather less so.
You wouldn't hop online on a 1987 laptop
Let alone tackle your next race on a 1987 road bike or in 1987's running kit...
Why would anyone want 1980s nutrition for today's challenges?
Could it be that when Noakes and co first hit paydirt with the Leppin Squeezy, they also alighted upon the one and only nutritional paradigm in the world to deliver the best possible results for athletes everywhere?
Maybe the good old maltodextrin/fructose combo is just so darned awesome there's simply no way to improve it?
Maltodextrin and Fructose - not special athlete fuel
Even Noakes himself has long since renounced carb-focused nutrition, explaining in 2012 how anyone with a copy of his book 'Lore of Running' should "tear out the section on nutrition".
Just as Noakes's own professional studies lead him to change his mind on carbs, so an increasing body of evidence is suggesting that both maltodextrin and fructose can be damaging for anyone, let alone athletes in search of health and performance.
Maltodextrin is linked to poor gut health and chronic disease, while fructose (fruit sugar), once processed and removed from the fruit/veg/plant it originally came from is now better known as 'alcohol without the buzz' thanks to hitting the body with the same negative impacts as booze including liver damage and high blood pressure.
These two ingredients are junk food staples. Cheap, legal filler for thousands of products worldwide - nothing wrong with that if that's what you want.
Where both begin to - literally - leave a bitter taste in the mouth is when they're being sold as health and performance fuel to athletes looking for the best for their bodies.
As US maltodextrin producer Bell Chem explains:
"Maltodextrin "is generally used in the production of sodas and candy... [and] can also be found in many other processed foods..."
Maltodextrin "contains almost no vitamins and minerals to assist with turning carbohydrates into energy... consuming maltodextrin may actually reduce the amount of vitamins and minerals in the body... Over time this can lead to a net decrease in a person's vitamin and mineral levels".
Actively removing your body's vitamins and minerals is hardly helpful when you're taking things to the limit.
It's a bit like Lewis Hamilton taking to the track while towing a caravan.
Meanwhile Dr Robert Lustig has done huge work on the issues with fructose - if you're interested to know more his lecture 'Sugar, the bitter truth' has racked up an astonishing 7.8 million YouTube views and is well worth a watch.
Back to the Future
Deciding that rehashing the same formulas as everyone else while dressing up processed food additives as something special wasn't for us, at 33Fuel we came at sports nutrition from a blank slate instead.
We'd suffered all the common issues with ordinary products in our own racing and training - the stomach trouble, the immune issues, the yo-yo energy, the sheer hideous taste of most stuff - and had worked out the low grade nature of the ingredients was at the heart of this.
Real, natural whole foods provided the antidote, particularly superfoods ('superfood' simply means any food with an above average concentration of beneficial nutrients).
And so we set about creating products that brought the power of these natural ingredients to the convenience of sports nutrition.
Our Elite Pre and Post Workout Shakes and Chia Energy Gels were among the results. They transformed our own performance, started our company and have been transforming the performance of many thousands more athletes ever since.
A gel with just four natural ingredients that delivers stable energy all-day long and tastes good? Yes, yes and yes - when you bring sports nutrition into the 21st century the upgrade is significant
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Switching is probably the most straightforward item on a basketball coach’s menu of defensive tactics. One offensive player goes to screen for another, and to eliminate any advantage the offense might gain, the defenders just switch who they’re guarding. Other options might necessitate more complicated choreography or require help from other defenders besides the two immediately involved in the action. But switching is simple: you take him, I take him. Or at least it seems that way.
The downside of switching, the reason it has typically been avoided, comes later. A switch may neutralize the immediate action, but there was a reason the defense had matched up a certain way to begin with and now those matchups are flipped. With players of similar size and speed this may not be a big deal, but as those differences become larger the switch does more damage. The offense now has two size mismatches to attack: a small player able to use his quickness against a bigger defender, and a bigger player able to use his size against a smaller defender.
We’ve all seen this plenty of times — it’s not a rare occurrence. The announcers on TV exhort the players to attack the mismatch, the offense stops moving, spaces out and everyone watches one player go to work. It’s as if the game was suddenly teleported to the 1990s and isolation basketball is back in style.
And this is where switching becomes a little more complicated to evaluate, because it’s not actually clear that this is efficient offense. Both of these things can be true: after a switch the offense has more of an advantage than it did when the possession started, and attacking that mismatch one-on-one may actually be worse for the offense than if it had never gotten the switch at all. By switching, defenses can lure offenses into playing against their own self-interest: the mismatch is a bright light teams are irresistibly drawn towards, even if that light may turn out to be a bug-zapper. For example, take this possession from the second quarter of Game 7 of the Celtics-Wizards series:
The Wizards got zapped.
There’s a reason isolation basketball feels like a ’90s throwback. Modern basketball has moved away from one-on-one play and toward a more dynamic style centered around pick-and-rolls. The league is becoming more skilled: more shooting and more passing from more positions means that offenses benefit more from movement and screening, and defenses have fewer choices to defend these actions without giving up something good. By switching on screens defenses can take these advantages away. There is no doubt that some switches create mismatches of such a degree that attacking one-on-one is the right move, but these mismatches are rarer than offenses tend to expect — especially against smart defenses that help and double team in creative ways. Switching on defense trades those slight mismatches for the opportunity to throw sand in the offense’s gears, taking them out of their flow and making them play a slower, grittier, uglier style of basketball.
All of this means switching defenses are on the rise, making it more important for offenses to figure out how to counter them. The season-long battle of the Spurs vs. the Warriors, the best defense in the league against the best offense, is now at its apex in the Western Conference Finals — and it provides a window into how offenses can avoid getting zapped.
Battling the Warriors
Perhaps no offense more exemplifies the modern style of basketball than the Warriors’. They are all about dynamism, about movement and screening and avoiding static situations. According to NBA.com’s play type data1, only one other team played out of isolations and posts ups less than Golden State did this season. With elite shooting and great passing, the Warriors present a major challenge to most conventional styles of defense. Play back on a screen and they’ll knock down open threes. Play up or trap and they’ll find the open man. It should be no surprise, then, that switching is a frequent tactic used against them. When facing the Warriors there are no good options for a defense, you just have to pick your poison. And switching may be the most tolerable form of arsenic.
The Warriors, though, don’t lose their identity when defenses switch. By virtue of having seen so many switches, Golden State has learned how to play against them. And by watching what the Warriors have done against the Spurs in their regular season and playoff games so far this year, we can learn more creative ways to counter the switch2.
First it should be noted: Golden State isn’t completely averse to attacking a mismatch one-on-one if they feel they have a clear advantage. Sometimes they’ll go to the post:
And often they’ll isolate one-on-one on the perimeter:
But this is still not the most effective way they attack switches, especially against good defenses like the Spurs’. The Spurs have been very good at playing their bigs up on these switches and then sending timely help if the big gets beaten:
And Golden State themselves has shown a clever way of avoiding post mismatches after a switch, by bringing the other big man over and “kicking out” the switched defender to the perimeter – a chain reaction of off-ball switches to minimize the mismatches as much as possible:
There are even more tactics defenses can use to counter static, one-on-one play, like fronting the post or creatively double teaming. All of that makes it much harder for offenses to gain one-on-one advantages. So Golden State has instead resorted to ways to attack switches through movement.
For example, attacking the switch by using the quickness mismatch to get open off the ball instead of with the ball:
There are also ways to attack the switch as it’s occurring instead of waiting for it to happen, like setting a solid screen but then rolling hard:
This takes advantage of the player who was originally guarding the ball handler being out of position. They were chasing the ball but now they are too high out to switch, so it turns into a more standard pick-and-roll even though the defense is trying to switch it.
Similarly, on Golden State’s off ball screening actions, the Warriors have become very clever at utilizing angles to gain an advantage and get open for a cut to the basket:
The Warriors also will try to knock the defender out of position for a clean switch by setting an earlier off ball screen for the player who’s going to screen in the pick-and-roll action, like this:
A common way to beat a switch is to slip the screen, meaning that the screener comes up like he’s going to set a screen but then never does. Instead he runs out of it early, either rolling to the rim or popping for a jumper. The Warriors do this often as well:
This is similar to the hard roll above — it makes a switch look more like a conventional pick-and-roll, keeping the movement Golden State wants. But it also has an advantage of creating confusion for the defense: if there is no screen set, it’s ambiguous whether the defenders should switch or not. Both defenders have to be on the same page to avoid a major breakdown.
Which illustrates a general point: switching requires a team to have great communication. It’s very easy to have a breakdown when switching, and so each switch puts pressure on the defenders to be on the same page. By slipping out or setting ambiguous screens an offense can make it more likely the defense gets confused and makes a mistake.
And really that’s the biggest way Golden State makes opponents pay for switching: they keep moving and keep screening and keep running actions that put so much pressure on the defense that eventually that defense is likely to crack. The Spurs are one of the best at not falling victim to this, and yet we see it even with them — it’s just that hard to be right all the time:
It might look easy from all of these clips, but it’s notable how unique all of this is. Other teams might do some of this, but few other teams tend to attack switches with the consistent dynamism of the Warriors.3
Game 7, 2016
What the Warriors do against switches teaches us a broader lesson about their offense. Golden State has been the most efficient offensive team over the last three seasons, and they’ve had this offensive success because of their skill level — the shooting and passing is what opens it all up in the first place. But it’s not just that. They maximize that skill advantage through constant movement and activity, avoiding static isolations, post-ups and pick-and-rolls as much as any team in the league.
The ball and players just keep moving. In each of these last three years they have ranked in the top 2 in the percentage of their made baskets that were assisted, this year assisting on over 70% of their makes — a mark not reached by any team in the previous 13 seasons. They’ve also had one of the lowest rates in the league of seconds holding the ball per touch. Perhaps it seems inevitable that a team with this much shooting and passing would play like this, but that’s not necessarily the case. With a largely similar roster, Golden State’s teams in the two seasons prior to Steve Kerr taking over as head coach did not rank in the top 10 in assist rate and actually had the highest seconds per touch in the league4. Take the skill level of the players and add in Steve Kerr’s offensive style and the Warriors’ perpetual motion machine has become almost impossible to stop.
Unless it stops itself. In the last few minutes of Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals, that’s what seemed to happen. Perhaps it was feeling the gravity of the moment, or more likely it just was a group of exhausted players who had been putting every ounce of energy they had into the game. But regardless of the reason, play slowed down. Both sides were switching almost everything, and it became a one-on-one battle:
Look at how slowly the Warriors are moving compared to the previous clips. Look at how easy it is for the defense to switch, and to react to the slipped screen by Klay Thompson. That’s not the type of battle the Warriors win, certainly not against LeBron and Kyrie Irving, two of the most talented one-on-one scorers in the league. The Cavs also struggled to score in those final minutes, but ultimately it came down to Kyrie making the one-on-one play after a switch and Steph not:
Should the two teams face off in their third straight Finals matchup, it will be a key aspect of the matchup. Will the Cavs be able to get the Warriors to once again play on their terms? Or will the Warriors be able to turn the Cavs’ tactics on their head and flip the switch?
- This data is provided to the NBA by Synergy Sports’ tracking. ↩
- The Warriors, of course, us all of these tactics (and more) against all teams. I’ve limited this to the Spurs so we can see what they’ve done against the best defense in the league and how it has played out so far in this series. ↩
- There are even more ways than these to attack switches — for example, quick duck-ins in the post or using size advantages to crash the offensive glass — but for the sake of brevity I’m not going to be exhaustive here. ↩
- This last stat is only for the 2013-14 season. The NBA’s website doesn’t go further back than that with their SportVU stats. ↩
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The Queen and Prince Philip's main home is at Buckingham Palace in London, and while photos are often released from the property, a new publication by the Royal Collection Trust has revealed more about the gardens than ever before.
Written by Claire Masset with tips from the Queen's Head Gardener at Buckingham Palace, Mark Lane, the book outlines the stories behind various features in the space. Here’s everything you never knew.
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The garden's two most famous plane trees were planted by the Queen and her consort more than 150 years ago, giving them the names Victoria and Albert.
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Buckingham Palace gardens
The Rose Garden contains 24 separate beds of roses, each of which is planted with an impressive 60 rose bushes of a different variety. No two adjacent beds are of a similar colour, in order to make it as bright as possible.
When the Queen is in residence, gardeners arrange a selection of seasonal posies for her every Monday, featuring a menagerie of evergreen leaves and colouful berries.
SEE: 9 fun facts about Buckingham Palace
There are more than 1,000 trees in the gardens
The garden's waterfall, meanwhile, isn't just there to look pretty. It was actually installed to help circulate water in the lake, thereby oxygenating and revitalising the blooms and plants that live there.
There are five beehives in Buckingham Palace's gardens
As for wildlife, the island in the lake of the garden has been home to five beehives since 2008, which produce approximately 160 jars of honey a year which are then used in the royal kitchens.
Considering the effort that goes into curating the space then, it's no surprise that Buckingham Palace's gorgeous garden is the location of choice for Her Majesty's annual garden parties. Roughly 8,000 guests attend each event, and wind up consuming an average total of 27,000 cups of tea, 20,000 sandwiches and 20,000 slices of cake.
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The Peel District School Board (PDSB) will be hosting family awareness events on anti-human sex trafficking in June.
On June 15 at 7 p.m., there will be online virtual awareness presentations in English and Punjabi for families. Pre-registration is not required.
The presentations were developed in partnership with the Elizabeth Fry Society, nCourage and members of PDSB's Anti-Human Sex-Trafficking Committee. The presentations will look at what human sex trafficking is, the signs, what parents and families can do and where to get help.
Given the sensitive nature of the topic, the board is encouraging individuals to exercise discretion and prioritize self-care. For additional supports and/or information, the board says to contact the Safe and Caring Schools department at PDSB: 905-890-1010 (ext. 2640).
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LOS ANGELES — For some people, it’s a memoir or a work of fiction; others, their first company or app. For Scott Willoughby, it’s a more than 13,000-pound telescope that must unfold while in space and work in cryogenic temperatures.
“Webb is my middle child,” Willoughby said of the James Webb Space Telescope — his baby of 12 years — which launched Christmas Day from Kourou, French Guiana, on South America’s northern coast. It is a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, which has observed distant stars and galaxies for more than 30 years but can’t see the first galaxies formed in the universe as Webb will be able to.
Willoughby, the telescope’s program manager at aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman Corp., is part of a cadre of thousands of aerospace workers across NASA, Northrop and other firms who have devoted a huge part of their careers — some inadvertently — to this singular mission.
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How much time should I spend on social media?
Scrolling through endless announcements of engagements, weddings, baby showers, and job promotions can have a detrimental effect on your mental health. It is impossible to feel good when people seem to be living their best life all around you. However, you cannot log off the internet and never look back.
Social Media Addiction
Being addicted is social media is real, and not as swept up as some people believe it to be. Calling yourself a "social media addict" gets you recognition as someone famous on online platforms. Additionally, stating that you are an addict on your Instagram or LinkedIn bio helps employers and marketers reach out to you. But just as gaming was not seen as an addiction until a few years ago, social media is not considered to be addictive. However, you know there is a problem when your day revolves around wondering how many likes you got on your last selfie.
How much time should you spend on social media?
The time that you spend on social media should depend on what you use it for. For the average user, half an hour exposure is enough. According to research conducted by the University of Pennsylvania, people reportedly led happier lives when they dedicated a small fraction of their day to social media. Ironically, spending less time online made people feel less lonely.
Research has shown that long exposure to online sites contributes to increased depression and loneliness. To remove themselves from these negative feelings, people tend to go online and scroll through posts, which just pull you down in a downward spiral. A 2014 study additionally showed that looking at too many posts online leads to self-comparison, which in turn results in lower self-esteem.
Excessive use of social media, nomophobia, and the Fear of Missing Out
In 2017, a study conducted in the United States of America showed that females are more likely to use social media sites. When socializing real life, the average woman tends to be more socially active than a man. Things take a darker turn when this need for socializing gets online. Users use social media to ward off depressive moods, which often turns into psychological dependency. This dependency, in turn, leads to FOMO (fear of missing out).
Despite not wanting to be on social media, they have to be there for fear of missing out on the latest meme or beauty hack. Ultimately, this results in nomophobia, or the fear of not having your mobile on or near you. Even then, social media addiction is a long way from being classified as a mental health disorder. One cannot fully understand the implications that social media has.
The usage of a person also determines their mental health. If you use social media positively, your mental health will be on an upward swing. There is also a controversy on whether people are addicted to their smartphones, and are hooked on to social media by default.
Social media can be needlessly absorbing. "Social media burnout" is a real thing, which means that you have been on social media to the point of being saturated by online content. Self-moderation is the key when it comes to online platforms. Unfortunately, no one knows for sure where healthy consumption ends and addiction begins.
Everyone can benefit from taking a break from social media. Start by curbing your time online. Contrary to popular belief, the fear of missing out is not legitimate. You will lose nothing if you discover a new Snapchat filter a few hours after everyone else. When it comes to social media, we are all trying to impress each other, without even wondering why it matters.
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SAMUEL JOHN VICTOR ROUCH (1935 – 1964)
“John Rouch,” as he was later known, became headmaster on January 1st 1935. He was appointed out of the 144 applications that were made for this post. He had previously been an Assistant Master at Cheltenham Grammar School, where he had taught for ten years.
Samuel John Victor Roach was born in Charfield and his birth was registered in Thornbury in 1897. He was educated at Katherine, Lady Berkeley Grammar School at Wotton under Edge.
In 1901 the census shows that the Roach family lived in Westbury on Trym. His father Joseph Roach aged 40 was a draper and his mother Phoebe aged 35 who like her husband came from Charfield in Gloucestershire. In the census John as he became known had two sisters (Dorothy and Mary) and a brother (Frederick). The 1911 Census shows that the family lived at Tyndale House in Charfield.
In World War I John enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment. He served in the 2nd and 4nd Battalion where he rose to the rank of sergeant before becoming an officer on 30th October 1917. We understand that he was a 2nd Lieutenant. He earned the British War medal and the Victory medal.
John was a graduate of Bristol University with a B.Sc. in Physics, Chemistry and Geography. By 1927 he had adopted the name of ‘Rouch’ and it was under this name he married Anne Morrice in the Cardiff District.
We understand that under Mr Rouch’s headship the tradition was revived of the Founders’ Service at St Mary’s Church. This seems to have been part of his whole philosophy in running the school which was to respect tradition and civilised behaviour.
Sport became important in the school, possibly for the same reasons , and with the advent of Mr Rouch colours were awarded for cricket, hockey, football and tennis. The cricket pitch was laid and generations of schoolboys (including the creator of this website) learned that walking across that part of the school field other than as part of an actual cricket match was a serious offence! Mr Rouch introduced rugby into the school in 1937, having been convinced of the benefits of that game by a teacher who had played for Cardiff.
Mr Rouch was also concerned with widening the experience of his pupils. Before the advent of World War II seriously hampered European travel the school began to organise trips abroad and visits were made to Switzerland and Belgium. Photographs of the Belgium trip, post war travels and other activities can be seen on the ‘Trips‘ page on this website.
Mr Rouch also found time to be the Vice-President of Thornbury Football Club. In October 1957 he used his contacts in sport to invite Sir Stanley Rouse, then Secretary of the Football Association and later president of F.I.F.A, to be the guest of honour at the club’s dinner at Cossham Hall.
His pupils naturally had rather mixed views on their rather formidable headmaster; certainly we have one reminiscence from a former pupil which suggests that this was a period when one had to show proper respect for authority;
“ As far as the junior school was concerned, his presence was felt in every classroom and every corridor in the School. He was all powerful and frightening, armed with sarcasm and just an occasional disarming injection of pleasantness. One never knew what to expect when summoned to his study where one waited and waited and shivered until the ‘traffic lights’ on the door post changed from red to green. Having knocked and entered the narrow room, the first image was a very large wooden desk which almost totally obscured the man behind it – small and bespectacled, hatchet-faced with pointed nose and short, straight hair thinning at the temples. The narrow framed spectacles were removed, the piercing eyes were revealed and a tirade could begin; this often ended with an instruction to, “Go back to your duckpond!”. Behind the desk was kept a cane whereby Rouch could reinforce his point of view but luckily we were never introduced. “
Mr Rouch retired in 1964 and moved away from Thornbyury.
He was buried in the cemetery of the church of St Peter and St Paul in Bleadon in 1988. His wife Anne (born 1888) was buried there in 1990. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image of the memorial stone.
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Net Worth, sometimes termed as net assets, helps to know where you are financially at this moment in time. Net worth is the difference between your total assets and total liabilities. Calculating your net worth gives you a snapshot of where you stand financially.
In simply terms, net worth can be defined as the difference of ‘what you own’ and ‘what you owe’. Net worth statement can give you an exact detail of your assets and your liabilities. Hence it is recommended that you must prepare a net worth statement, at least once a year, to measure your overall financial position.
Preparing a net worth statement is not a tiresome task. But, in the first time you calculate your net worth, you will attain some difficulties since you will be starting from scratch. But this is the case for first time calculation only, from the next year each time you calculate your net worth, you should have all the documents and information in hand.
To calculate your net worth – the first thing you have to do is to collect and list all your assets and liabilities. Assets are cash and any other property you have with monetary value. Liabilities include all debts that you owe to others. That is, assets are ‘what you own’ and liabilities are ‘what you owe’. And to calculate your net worth, you need to first calculate your assets and then substrate your liabilities from it.
Let’s start calculating your assets. Assets include liquid assets, personal assets, and investment assets. Liquid assets are those which can be liquidated or turned into cash immediately. Some examples of liquid assets are your savings and money market account balances, your checking account balance, cash value life insurance, and any other asset which possess the same value as cash.
Personal assets include the current market value of your home, the market value of your automobile or automobiles, your stereo, video, or other electronic equipment, jewelry, your furniture, or any other personal items which have monetary value.
Investment assets include savings certificates or CDs, Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), stocks and bonds, Mutual Funds, or any other type of investment you may have.
Once you have collected details of all your assets you should value your assets at today’s prices or current market value, not at what you have paid for them. Set the value at what would you get if you sell your assets today.
After you have completed calculating your assets, look at the other side of your financial life – your liability. Liabilities may be of two types – current liabilities and long-term liabilities. Current liabilities are those debts which are payable within a year such as your credit card debt and any loan balances you may have. Long-term liabilities are those you pay over a long period of time such as mortgage. Gather all the details of liabilities and calculate your net liability.
Now you know what the value of your net asset and net liability. To calculate your net worth, subtract your net liabilities from your net assets. The result is your net worth – your overall financial position. Don’t forget that net worth can be positive or negative. Positive net worth indicates that you have less liability, while a negative net worth would indicate that you have greater liabilities than assets.
If you have negative net worth don’t get worried. Net worth will change periodically, depending on the appreciation or depreciation of your possessions and property. After all, knowing your net worth is the first step to getting your financial life in order. Determining your net worth can assist you to achieve your financial goals. It’s a simple exercise which can inform a lot about your financial well-being. Hence, calculate your net worth today to budget your expenditures and analyze your credit use.
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The majority of triathletes tend to set big long-term goals that they want to accomplish. These are goals that get you up and moving in the morning, eager to train hard. But it’s actually the short-term goals that will help you achieve these goals.
It’s the progress that you make, or don’t make, from repetition to repetition on a daily basis that adds up to long-term improvement. As a result, it’s critical to have a process for making sure you stay focused on what matters. My favourite process is simple, and it only requires two questions.
How to make progress on every swim rep
To help you focus on making progress every repetition, ask yourself two questions. These questions help to steer your focus, they help you solve the problems that arise, and they ultimately move you closer to your goals.
What did I do well?
After each repetition, acknowledge what you did well. There’s always something that was positive and it’s important to recognise it.
Each time you accomplish something, you’re one step closer to your long-term goals. Getting each emotional win will keep you engaged over the long-haul. Just as importantly, recognising the good reinforces that behaviour!
What can I do better?
After every repetition, there will be some aspect that you can improve on. It’s not a mistake, it’s an opportunity. You can’t fix mistakes, but you can take advantage of opportunities.
This question allows you to be honest with yourself about your performance yet frames it in a way that allows to you to take action rather than get frustrated. When you’re in it for the long haul, that subtle distinction begins to make a difference.
How to always achieve a positive result in your swim
Once you’ve answered these questions for yourself, it’s simply a matter of taking action. On the subsequent repetition, you can choose to continue to do what you did well, or you can shift towards addressing an opportunity.
What’s great about these questions is that the answer will lead to positive action, regardless of which one you choose! It allows you to choose what to work on based upon what you’re motivated to accomplish.
Rather than focusing on just one piece, this process helps you continuously shift your focus to what needs to improve right now.
How to focus on making progress in your swim
This strategy is so effective because it keeps you constantly focused on making progress. After every repetition, you’re deciding what you can do to improve. Further, it forces you to focus on the positive. Considering all the challenges that come with participating in sport, you need all the positive reinforcement you can get.
Lastly, you’re immediately rewarded for your effort. Those little rewards keep you working hard, even when it’s difficult.
So as a final example, let’s say you’re struggling with the elevator freestyle exercise. You can use the above two questions to continuously problem solve, feel great about the process, and be motivated to continue to improve.
Sooner rather than later, you’re going to figure out how to optimise your body position and you’re going to have a much more enjoyable experience along the way!
Top image: Getty Images
More expert swim advice from Andrew Sheaff
- What to expect from technical change in your swim
- When’s best to do swim drills in a session?
- Why you need to build a broader base fitness
- How to combine drills and full-stroke swimming
- How to get out of a swim speed rut
- How to use video feedback to improve your swimming
- How to use a swim snorkel correctly
- How to improve your feel for the water
- How to keep your shoulders healthy for swimming
- How to reduce excessive kicking when swimming
- How to stop wiggling in your swim
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Empowering Knowledge Societies
The archival, records and data landscape in the 21st century is changing public expectations, how we do our work, what constitutes credible evidence and how we protect our holdings. It is time for our profession to discuss, reflect and challenge existing practices to explore and expand the critical role played by archives and information professionals in the 21st century knowledge societies. The ICA Congress 2020, Empowering Knowledge Societies, will be an opportunity for the profession from all over the world to share innovative ideas and research and for colleagues from allied and other professions to join us at this important event. We encourage the community to submit its proposals, but we would also encourage you to reach out to librarians, museum professionals, data managers, journalists and people working in civil society to be part of this conversation. The 21st century information challenges do not simply belong to archives and records professionals, they belong to everyone, so let’s share ideas, build networks to empower our knowledge societies!
The congress will be structured with three inclusive sub-themes
Artificial intelligence, digital preservation & emerging technologies
Artificial intelligence and emerging technologies are quickly changing how we do our work, but we need to understand both the strength and weaknesses of these technologies in archives and records endeavours. What do they do well? What can they help us do better? How do we engage with these new practices? What are the ethical implications?
These technologies will also impact how we preserve information and make accessible information (records and data), but we not only to discuss this but there are persisting questions about how to preserve records and data in a sustainable, practical and cost-effective way.
Sustainable knowledge is fundamental to sustainable development and the achievement of development initiatives like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the core of these initiatives is the need for trustworthy information, regardless of format.
Sustainable information is also about how we protect our holdings from climate change, theft, looting, and illicit trafficking. It also about looking beyond what is done to the archives and records institutions and examining our impact on society and the environment.
Trust and evidence
In the age of ‘alternative facts’, ‘fake news’, misinformation and cybersecurity threats, the need for trustworthy evidence (records, information, data) has become ever more essential. What is our role in this space? Who are our allies? What is the role of records and archives professionals in the area of internet governance?
Trust and evidence also mean reaching out and understanding what our users need, so that they can believe in what we do and how we acquire, preserve and make accessible information. How do we empower them? To empower us?
- Advance your professional development: learn from and interact with colleagues, experts and thought leaders in archives and related fields
- Contribute your perspective and experience to the global discussion. We need to hear from YOU
- Take advantage of a series of practical workshops to extend your skills; learn creative solutions to 21st Century challenges
- Renew acquaintances and make new friends
- Develop your network of colleagues, internationally; a network for mutual benefit throughout your professional career: you are not alone
- Participate in meetings of your regional ICA branch: think globally; act locally
- Test your ideas and plans with colleagues: seek and offer advice
- Plan joint initiatives and projects; collaborate
- Get involved in the International Council on Archives; understand current issues and challenges; participate
- Speak with suppliers in the exhibit area
- Become known internationally as a resource person or expert in some aspect of archival science
- Enjoy a special week with friends and colleagues in a lively, welcoming ambience. The United Arab Emirates is famous for its hospitality. Dubai Expo 2020 is becoming widely known as THE travel destination for 2020. With the support of the UAE government, ICA Congress Abu Dhabi 2020 promises to be a memorable event. You have to be there!
Venue: Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre – ADNEC
The venue for ICA Abu Dhabi 2020, ADNEC is a world-class exhibitions and conferences hub in the heart of the city, surrounded by urban architecture and international hotel chains.
The contemporary spaces feature purpose-built conference halls offering a superior environment for business functions, with premium facilities and stylish modern interiors.
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Molecular biology, antivirals, and neutralizing antibodies (Chairpersons: Athanase Badolo, Julien Lescar) Julien Lescar (Nanyang Institute of Structural Biology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), discussed the flavivirus NS5 protein structure, dynamics, evolution, and inhibition (El Sahili and Lescar, 2017). place in Africa. This is all the more of a problem as African virologists only rarely have the opportunity to attend conferences on D-glutamine emerging viruses in Europe, Asia, or North America. As a result, knowledge about the occurrence of new viruses in Africa is limited, unless there is a major outbreak. For example, the prevalence of dengue computer virus (DENV) infections in African countries has been barely studied, and it is not known with certainty whether Zika computer virus (ZIKV) contamination of pregnant women in Africa is usually connected with the risk of microcephaly of the child (as was the case in the 2015C2016 ZIKV epidemic in Central and South America). Furthermore, while African virologists are generally well experienced in diagnostics and epidemiology, knowledge of the molecular biology of emerging RNA viruses is usually often lacking. In order to make a contribution to changing this lack of communication and exchange of knowledge, two of us (RH and ESG) decided to set up a series of small, highly focused scientific meetings at Praia do Tofo in the Inhambane Province of Mozambique. Named Tofo Advanced Study Weeks (TASWs), the meetings are restricted to 55 participants in order to allow robust discussion in a familiar atmosphere. The first getting together with took place in September 2015 and was devoted to Ebola computer virus. The 2016 TASW dealt with arboviruses, and all the presentations and discussions were documented in a recent book (Hilgenfeld and Vasudevan, 2018). Collaborations initiated at previous TASWs D-glutamine have already led to joint publications among participants [observe e.g. (Antnio et al. (2018); Mugabe et al. (2018))]. Here we statement on the 3rd TASW, which took place from September 02 to 06, 2018, and was devoted to emerging and re-emerging viruses in general. Meeting participants came from 15 different countries (Angola, Belgium, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, China, Germany, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, the USA, and Zimbabwe); 45% of the participants and 47% of the speakers were from Africa. The participation of African scientists and students was facilitated through a stipend program. 2.?Scientific sessions Major D-glutamine sessions of the conference focused on virus families, and presentations are summarized in the following order: ? flaviruses, in particular DENV and ZIKV;? alphaviruses [chikungunya (CHIKV)]? coronaviruses? Ebola virus (EBOV)? orthomyxoviruses and paramyxoviruses? other emerging viruses. All speakers have reviewed and approved the summaries of their presentations. 2.1. Flaviviruses (dengue and Zika) 2.1.1. Molecular biology, antivirals, and neutralizing antibodies (Chairpersons: Athanase Badolo, Julien Lescar) Julien Lescar (Nanyang Institute of Structural Biology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), discussed the flavivirus NS5 protein structure, dynamics, evolution, and inhibition (El Sahili and Lescar, 2017). In the absence of an efficient and safe vaccine D-glutamine against important flaviruses such as DENV1-4 and ZIKV, the investigation of antiviral compounds is crucial for public health. The NS5, a large multifunctional enzyme with two active sites, i.e. the methyltransferase and the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) sites, is considered a major drug target for antiviral compounds (Lim et al., 2016). The active sites of the NS5 protein are located in the N-terminal and the C-terminal domains, respectively, with allosteric regulation between these two sites. Julien also presented unpublished results on the structure of the full-length NS5 from DENV2 and inhibitor design targeting the N-pocket of the RdRp from ZIKV. Siew Pheng Lim (Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases and Denka Life Innovation Research Pte Ltd, Singapore) reported on the D-glutamine use Rabbit Polyclonal to CACNG7 of a compound library screen to target the DENV NS5 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (Smith et al., 2015). This approach allowed the identification of several compounds with low-to high-micromolar inhibitory activities in assays and in a cell-based assay. The binding sites in the enzyme and its subdomains were revealed by X-ray crystallography. Lianpan Dai (Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), Beijing, China) presented work on neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting the envelope (E) protein from ZIKV, which is the major factor responsible for cell tropism via cell entry through receptor binding, followed by membrane fusion with the host-cell endosome. They first determined a crystal structure for E from ZIKV (Dai et al.,.
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Before Android 8.0, the printing function needed to be installed by a specific printer manufacturer’s plug-in program. After Android 8.0, Google introduced a universal printing program to the system. Although it is quite convenient, the printing function still needs application support, such as the Chrome browser. , Office, PDF reader, etc.
The emergence of “Share and Print” means that even if there is no preset support for printing at the beginning of application development, it can be achieved directly through the “Share” function.
It is reported that the technical definition of “share and print” was developed by the Mopria Alliance, and its members include Canon, HP, Samsung, Xerox, Epson, Brother, and other major international printing giants.
Meanwhile, here is a tutorial of How to connect Honor/Huawei Phones to Printer. (Older EMUI versions).
How to print from your Huawei phones?:
Discover printers with Huawei Share and print images or PDFs with a single touch.
1. Connect your phone and printer to the same Wi-Fi network or pair them with Wi-Fi Direct or Bluetooth.
2. On your phone, find the image or PDF you want to print and go to.
3. Select a printer, check your print settings, and touch PRINT.
How to Connect HONOR Phone to Printer:
To connect HONOR phone to printer, we need to turn on the phone’s Settings firstly and then we will see the option Printing. Touch it and we will see the PRINT SERVICES.
If there are no printer app available, we can Add service by downloading and installing the HP Print Service Plugin. Then you will see the print plug-in appeared in the Setting.
Touch and open the HP Print Service Plugin, the printer will be automatically searched and displayed.
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Ahead of 2018 U.S. midterm elections, Twitter is taking a visible step to combat the spread of misinformation on its famously chaotic platform. In a blog post this week, the company explained how it would be adding “election labels” to the profiles of candidates running for political office.
“Twitter has become the first place voters go to seek accurate information, resources, and breaking news from journalists, political candidates, and elected officials,” the company wrote in its announcement. “We understand the significance of this responsibility and our teams are building new ways for people who use Twitter to identify original sources and authentic information.”
These labels feature a small government building icon and text identifying the position a candidate is running for and the state or district where the race is taking place. The label information included in the profile will also appear elsewhere on Twitter, even when tweets are embedded off-site.
The labels will start popping up after May 30 and will apply to candidates in state governor races as well as those campaigning for a seat in the Senate or the House of Representatives.
Twitter will partner with nonpartisan political nonprofit Ballotpedia to create the candidate labels. In a statement announcing its partnership, Ballotpedia explains how that process will work:
Ballotpedia covers all candidates in every upcoming election occurring within the 100 most-populated cities in the U.S., plus all federal and statewide elections, including ballot measures. After each state primary, Ballotpedia will provide Twitter with information on gubernatorial and Congressional candidates who will appear on the November ballot. After receiving consent from each candidate, Twitter will apply the labels to each candidate profile.
The decision to create a dedicated process to verify political profiles is a step in the right direction for Twitter. With major social platforms still in upheaval over revelations around foreign misinformation campaigns during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Twitter and Facebook need to take decisive action now if they intend to inoculate their users against a repeat threat in 2018.
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