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"...one of these years he was going to hire a manager while he went back to the Armour Institute to finish his engineering degree."
The Armour Institute, a training school offering degrees in engineering and other fields, was founded in 1892 by Chicago meatpacking magnate Philip Danforth Armour. In 1940 the Armour Institute merged with another local college, the Lewis Institute, to form the Illinois Institute of Technology. As the photo shows, the original building still forms a part of the IIT campus at 3300 S. Federal St.
All images © 2006 Gapers Block. All rights reserved.
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In our previous blog, we discussed how technological innovation is changing the landscape of the COVID-19 era. We reviewed the role of AI, Facial Recognition & Thermal Imaging technologies in enabling a safe and secure future.
These are challenging times indeed, that call for innovation and adapting to a whole new set of business challenges and demands. As our employees geared up to return to office, we felt the need to build an adaptive, AI powered solution to ensure workplace safety. This is how COVIDProtect was launched- our team of developers worked on a one-stop solution with combined capabilities for Body Temperature Detection, Mask Compliance, Social Distance Monitoring and Attendance Management.
In this blog post, we will discuss COVIDProtect in more depth and detail. In the next blog post in this series, we will discuss our AI powered PPE Compliance solution that works flexibly with COVIDProtect to provide PPE & COVID-19 compliance in industries such as Manufacturing, Construction, Oil & Gas etc.
COVID-19: New Challenges & Business Requirements
- Need for mask and social distancing compliance in public and privately held premises.
- Increased demand for body temperature screening and security surveillance via thermal & optical cameras.
- Increased market awareness and demand for Facial Recognition, Attendance & Security Management solutions.
COVIDProtect- Solution Capabilities
1.Body Temperature & Mask Compliance Monitoring
Enable automated, contactless fever screening with Thermal Cameras. The solution uses Inbuilt Face Detection and Recognition technologies with image storage capacity to keep tabs on those with abnormal temperatures.
Using real-time alarms, security personnel can quickly identify those with fever and restrict their entry into the workplace.
Using Object Detection technology, COVIDProtect facilitates early detection of those without masks and triggers alerts. The solution also generates reports of violators and keeps tabs on repeat offenders with details of place & date.
2. Social Distance Monitoring
Enable a safe environment and monitor Social Distance violation in real-time across offices, malls, stations, industrial sites etc. Violations of the social distance norm of 6 feet is reported through Hooters/ Sound Systems, or Displays with automatic announcements from the system.
Social distance monitoring reports may be reviewed via the COVIDProtect dashboard. These reports include comprehensive details of the employee name and code, violation & violator history, along with an image & video capture of the violation breach with a timestamp.
3.Attendance & Occupancy Management
Enable Contactless Attendance Management with cameras and AI Powered Facial Recognition technologies. COVIDProtect is capable of seamlessly integrating with existing attendance management systems.
When an employee enters the work premises, the camera at the entry registers their face and maps it with the existing employee database using AI- powered Facial Recognition models.
Based on their entry & exit time, the employee’s attendance is logged.
If an unauthorized person enters the work premises, or a deviation in Facial Recognition occurs, a real-time alert is sent to the Admin, so immediate action may be taken. The solution also prevents overcrowding using alerts based on the count of occupants.
Overtime working hours are auto computed- employees with higher working hours are featured in the final report. The solution also comes equipped with web dashboards where the HR Dept. and Admin can easily access attendance reports.
- ‘End to End’ solution that includes hardware, software and customization to meet your specific needs.
- Innovative use of IoT and AI based Video Analytics technologies to address real-world challenges.
- Highly cost-effective implementation which includes integration with existing hardware and software investments.
- Free upgrades to Compliance Reporting features as per the latest regulations.
- Secured Integration of cameras without any public Static IPs.
- Detailed audit trail of system usages.
The connectivity and access we have to niche technologies such as AI, Big Data & IoT today, is unmatched. There is no better time than now to leverage these technologies to build a safe and secure workplace that we can all get back to. At Knowledge Lens, we are actively developing and improving our solution offerings to meet the needs of the COVID-19 era.
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to drop us a message below or reach out to me at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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As the entire world knows by now (with the possible exception of Kim Jong-un), Pepsi, as part of their “Live for the now moments” campaign, released an ad that was completely tone deaf to the “now.” It was a two-minute demonstration of what happens when marketers try to connect without thinking of context.
To Pepsi’s surprise, but not to ours, the ad was met with unprecedented outrage and backlash. After a night of controversy and a 7000% increase of social mentions, Pepsi pulled the ad and issued this apology: “Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. Clearly, we missed the mark, and we apologize. We did not intend to make light of any serious issue,” said the company according to The Daily Beast.
As someone working in the ad industry, and on digital strategy in particular, I was disappointed. I hoped that as a society we would be further along. But as a young Black woman, I’d be lying if I said this was shocking.
The way to avoid this disaster is simple, but organization leaders seem to exhaust every other option before considering they have a diversity problem. The answer: Hire people who aren’t white and male. Even more importantly, place them in positions of power so they can have a say about what makes it out the door. In the meantime, create a culture that is inclusive and respectful so even when they don’t have the highest title, they can feel comfortable speaking up. In this day, your brand reputation and success depends on it.
Here are some key guidelines marketers should take from the Pepsi fiasco:
Authenticity is key. In an age of political and racial upheaval, brands may feel the urge to create content that speaks to these tensions. Yes, millennials love a good cause. But you might as well stay out of the conversation if you can’t bring something new and genuine to the landscape. When your community involvement is a google search away, your social content better match your organizational priorities.
Social forces brand accountability. The transparency of the internet and the accessibility of social media force brands to be accountable for their content. This ranges from simple customer service complaints to full blown hashtags (remember #deleteuber?). Social gives a voice and power to those who would normally be left out of the conversation. Brands should be warned: Black Twitter is nothing to co-opt.
Stay in your lane. Not every brand needs to make a political or cultural statement. Brands that aren’t organically connected to statements can still be involved by hiring people of color in front of and behind the camera.When you force your way into conversations, you distance yourself from the people you’re trying to attract (and usually look foolish). Once you’ve decided that your brand should take a stance, think critically about what players you bring in. Using popularity as the only criteria for partnerships is a pitfall brands make all too often leading to shallow and disingenuous content. Right players + right brand = potentially great (relevant) content.
Unfortunately for Pepsi – but perhaps fortunately for the rest of us – this has been a painful and expensive lesson for all marketers as we struggle to navigate the current climate – together.
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The human body is an uber complex system. There is a lot that goes into making it function properly, and your diet and external supplements play a major role in the same.
When we’re recommended a medication, we assume that we’ll take it, and then get better. Often it doesn’t work like that. So much interacts with medicine that we seldom think about — and we’re not just talking about alcohol and other narcotics.
There are a number of foods that can get in the way of how a pharmaceutical drug operates. Here are common foods that can interact with the medicine you take, and when to know whether you should control their intake, or cut them out completely.
Orange Juice and Antihistamines
Citrus foods can challenge how your body absorbs antihistamines – allergy treating drugs – too. The problem comes down to furanocoumarins, a natural compound found in tangelos, Seville oranges and pomelos – all cousins of the grapefruit. Orange juice can block the work of proteins that transport allergy medicines around your body, blocking absorption and reducing the drug’s effectiveness. You can still consume orange juice on Allegra — the trick is to separate when you take each one. For example, if you are going to have orange juice in the morning, have the Allegra at night.
Grapefruit and Statins
Statin medications to help cholesterol, such as Lipitor or Crestor, are dangerous to take with grapefruit. Grapefruit juice competes with the enzyme that is directly responsible for breaking down statin medications in your body. The enzyme, CYP3A4, lives in your liver and small intestine. Combined with grapefruit juice, the result is higher levels of the drug in your bloodstream – meaning worsened side effects like muscle pain and weakness. “On statin medications, it is best to avoid to grapefruit juice completely,” says Stefanie Ferreri, a clinical professor at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy.
Kale, Licorice and Blood-Thinners
Kale, collard greens, spinach, broccoli and Brussels sprouts can cause a problem when consumed in excess on blood-thinning drugs like Coumadin or Warfarin. Green leafy vegetables are rich in Vitamin K and can increase the risk of bleeding. And since Vitamin K naturally helps blood to clot, it can work against a blood-thinner’s job in your body.
Black licorice made from the licorice root can also interfere with Coumadin. Glycyrrhizin, a naturally occurring chemical, breaks down Coumadin too quickly and can increase your risk for blood clots. If you’re on a blood-thinner, check the candy’s ingredient list for the words “licorice extract” or “licorice root extract” and steer clear.
Salty Foods and Blood-Pressure Meds
We’ve all heard this one before! For people taking blood-pressure reducing medications, additional sodium can raise blood pressure and force the medication to work much harder. Health experts suggest rinsing canned vegetables with water to remove much of the salt, and not to add any additional sodium to your meal.
So basically, not only is it enough to take the right kind of medicines but to also keep a check on your diet whilst you are on medication. Because what you may consider healthy otherwise, might actually be messing up your system!
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The cannabis retail market is worth more than $20 billion today. If you love this wonder plant, you can use it to earn a lot of revenue and help a lot of people.
You first need to understand the process of taking the plant from seed to store shelves. We’re glad to teach you what you need to know.
Keep reading to learn more about the cannabis manufacturing process.
Invest in Some Quality Seeds
Quality cannabis begins with quality seeds. Research cannabis cultivation and genetics, and shop with companies that sell the best seeds.
Decide whether you’d like to grow Indica, Sativa, or hybrid variety strains and whether you’d like to produce hemp CBD-based products. Your timetable for harvesting and planting cannabis will also depend on the strain that you’re growing.
Store and preserve your seeds so that they’re effective once you’re ready to begin cultivation.
Harvest and Treat Your Plants
After you’ve gone through the process of growing your cannabis, it’s time to harvest your yields. There’s an art and a process for harvesting cannabis successfully.
Carefully inspect your cannabis plants to make sure that they’re free of pests and diseases. Flush your cannabis flowers a few weeks before harvesting them.
Take the time to dry and trim your buds so that you preserve the trichomes and texture of the plant.
Create Your Final Product
Decide on the end result that you’d like to get from your cannabis yields. If you’re going to sell cannabis flower for people to smoke, make sure you partition it out into different quantities.
Dispensaries typically sell cannabis by the gram, eighth-ounce, quarter-ounce, half-ounce, or ounce. Store your cannabis for freshness so that your customers get spongy, pungent buds. Brainstorm marketing and branding for your cannabis flower so that they stand out on dispensary shelves.
You might also look to manufacture some cannabis oil. This requires you to use an ethanol alcohol extraction process. Extraction strips the active chemicals from your plant so that you can condense them into an oil.
This oil is potent and effective and hits the bloodstream in a different manner. Cannabidiol (CBD) products are popular today, so you might consider offering a CBD distillate option as well.
Keep your environments sterile and stay consistent with the way you process your cannabis oil.
Undergo Testing and Quality Control
Marijuana quality testing is a critical step toward getting your products to the market. You have to get your plants or oil laboratory tested for cleanliness and any dangerous chemicals.
The lab test will also give you information on the Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and CBD content. After testing, double and triple-check your packaging and labels to make sure there are no errors.
Optimize Your Cannabis Manufacturing
Master the cannabis manufacturing process so that you can get the best from your products. These tips will help you get your products to the masses so that you can begin earning revenue.
It’s a thriving industry that has an ever-growing customer base. Use these tips and check back for more information about CBD and cannabis.
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2018 Florida Statutes
252.923 General implementation.—
(1) Each party state entering into this compact recognizes many emergencies transcend political jurisdictional boundaries and that intergovernmental coordination is essential in managing these and other emergencies under this compact. Each state further recognizes that there will be emergencies which require immediate access and present procedures to apply outside resources to make a prompt and effective response to such an emergency. This is because few, if any, individual states have all the resources they may need in all types of emergencies or the capability of delivering resources to areas where emergencies exist.
(2) The prompt, full, and effective utilization of resources of the participating states, including any resources on hand or available from the Federal Government or any other source, that are essential to the safety, care, and welfare of the people in the event of an emergency or disaster declared by a party state, shall be the underlying principle on which all articles of this compact shall be understood.
(3) On behalf of the governor of each state participating in the compact, the legally designated official who is assigned responsibility for emergency management will be responsible for formulation of the appropriate interstate mutual aid plans and procedures necessary to implement this compact.
History.—s. 1, ch. 96-244.
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A mobile video game is a computer game that is used portable devices, such as a cellular phone or a portable video gaming console. It is typically played on a phone or tablet computer. The mobile device must have the capacity to attach to the internet. This indicates that it should have a cellular link. Typically, mobile video games are used portable devices, such as a cell phone. The mobile device needs to be butted in order to play the game.
A mobile game is a video game that enables the player to solve a trouble while considering another thing other than the task available. The video game can be played by one or numerous individuals, and also it can improve team effort. Depending upon its genre, the video game can be played by two or even more gamers. Some mobile video games can likewise be multi-player. It is essential to bear in mind that these video games are readily available in both totally free as well as paid variations. There are several kinds of mobile video games. followers generator
Almost every modern-day mobile phone individual recognizes with the mobile game industry. These games enable marketing experts to involve with customers at all-natural pauses in their gameplay. These video games can be as simple as a traditional video game of Snake on an old Nokia. A mobile game can range from a basic to highly innovative. A mobile video game is a wonderful area to begin if you are seeking a new video game. These systems allow mobile developers to earn money by advertising their product.
If you intend to find out more concerning this type of video game, you ought to review “Exactly how to Develop a Mobile Video Game.” Creating a Mobile Video game can be an amazing experience. You can play mobile ready cost-free online or purchase them. You can discover them in mobile shops. If you are interested, you can also download them on your phone. Once you have downloaded the app, you will prepare to start playing. Once you’ve finished, you can use your smart phone to play it offline.
If you are searching for a brand-new video game, you can download it from your mobile phone. You can likewise side load it. The best means to mount a mobile video game is to download it from an application shop. Conversely, you can download it from a website. These days, you can additionally mount mobile video games on your tablet. Along with downloading and install, you can likewise play it on your computer. The majority of smart devices permit you to personalize the game to your preferences.
Some mobile video games are Bluetooth-connected. This serves for sharing game info. In this manner, you can play video games on your smart phone. Another choice is to download a video game to your computer system. There are many ways to play a mobile video game. The most effective method is to utilize your phone’s camera. If you have a good cam, you can play the game with Bluetooth. This is a wireless connection, and you can quickly transfer it to a tablet computer. choices; stories you play game hack
A mobile video game can help you manage your funds. Unlike PC games, you can use it to manage your cash. You can conserve cash while playing a mobile video game. An example is the Rehaboo! application. It makes the payments less complicated and assists you handle your budget plan much better. This application is totally free to download and install. It additionally sustains numerous gamers. This is another example of a mobile game. These applications are useful for enhancing your revenue. There are some video games that can also assist you boost your health and wellness.
Currently, there are several methods to play a mobile game. For example, one of the most preferred means is to download a video game. Then you require to install it to your phone. A mobile video game can likewise be downloaded to a laptop. You can download the game and also play it on your PC. This is exactly how mobile video gaming jobs. In some countries, it will not be possible to download a full version. This kind of app is totally free to download.
A mobile video game can be used a computer or a smart device. A mobile video game is a game that is played on a phone. Usually, the mobile video games are made for individuals. You can play them on a COMPUTER, or you can play them on a mobile phone. The advantage of a mobile game is that it combines standard and unique facets of gaming. This is why a great deal of people choose a mobile game.
In spite of the high demand for mobile games, the industry remains tiny and also fragmented. A big section of the marketplace is dedicated to indigenous mobile video games, which are preloaded on a phone and can be transferred to a desktop computer by means of an information cable. However they additionally stand for a significant share of the mobile video game market, making them hard to transfer to more recent, extra contemporary devices. In many cases, mobile video games are totally free as well as will be downloaded and install to a new gadget with no additional cost.
The top quality of mobile video games is a crucial consider a healthy and satisfied office. While a mobile game can be amusing, it can also be pleasing. It can be cooperative, instructional, as well as also kicking back. The gameplay is very interactive and permits the player to experience different feelings. A mobile game is an enjoyable and satisfying interruption for both the mind and body. It can likewise give a break from anxiety and also monotony. When you’re not at the workplace, it can be a fundamental part of your day-to-day routine.
Many mobile games are free. There are lots of means to sideload mobile games onto a mobile phone. While some are marketed with an app shop, most are downloaded and install through a mobile site. Till the launch of the Apple Application Store, most mobile video games were offered by cordless service providers in the United States. They are now dispersed on mobile web sites completely free, and can be sideloaded to a mobile phone. The game is available totally free for Android, iOS, and Windows phones. real clash royale gem hack
Mobile games are coming to be progressively popular, as well as the appeal of mobile video gaming is boosting. In the United States, a lot of mobile games are sold through wireless carriers, while in Europe, most of them are offered via third-party sites. Most of mobile video games are free to download and install. Aside from being a stress-buster, mobile video games are also excellent for stopping loneliness as well as social seclusion. You can also play a game on the go. The next best point to a mobile video game is an app.
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Mass Layoffs Displaced 14,000 Ohio Workers in 2018
The number of Ohioans who lost their jobs in "mass layoffs" was higher in 2018 than the year before.
Generally speaking, when a company with more than 100 employees decides to lay off 50 or more people, a federal law known as the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) considers that a "mass layoff." But before that can happen, an employer must provide employees with at least 60 days written notice.
According to an ideastream analysis of data from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, mass layoffs were responsible for displacing approximately 11,000 people in 2017. In 2018, that number rose to more than 14,000.
Some of the biggest layoffs came from employers such as Northside Regional Medical Center in Youngstown, which affected 468 employees when the hospital closed in September. Then, there was Toys ‘R’ Us. Several months after filing for bankruptcy, the toy giant gave the state notice in April of 1,178 layoffs.
By far the biggest single group of workers displaced by a mass layoff in 2018 was the workers at the General Motors plant in Lordstown.
About 1,500 employees were let go when the plant's second shift was eliminated this past summer. And in mid-December, after announcing that it would be laying off 15 percent of its workforce, which would include ending the remaining shift at Lordstown, GM filed notice of 1,607 layoffs scheduled to begin in March.
The 20 Largest Mass Layoff Notices in Ohio (2018):
- General Motors Lordstown Complex in Warren: 1,607 employees (reported Dec)
- General Motors Lordstown Complex in Warren: 1,500 (Apr)
- Toys 'R' Us / Babies 'R' Us Stores Statewide: 1,178 (Jun)
- FCA US (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) plant in Toledo: 852 (Feb)
- Affinity Medical Center in Massillon: 692 (Jan)
- Mobis North America in Toledo: 572 (Jan)
- Northside Regional Medical Center in Youngstown: 468 (Aug)
- Express Scripts in Columbus: 456 (Apr)
- Elder-Beerman & Bon-Ton Fulfillment Center in Dayton and West Jefferson: 452 (Apri)
- AES Ohio Generation (Dayton Power & Light) in Aberdeen and Manchester: 370 (Mar)
- Mid-Town Health in Cincinnati and Fairfield: 349 (Nov)
- KUKA Toledo Production Operations (builds Jeep Wrangler body shells): 346 (Feb)
- Teradata Corporation (data analytics) in Miamisburg: 267 (Jun)
- US Bank in Bedford: 260 (May)
- DHL Supply Chain in Groveport: 260 (Jun)
- Personal Touch Home Care of Ohio in Independence, Wooster, Fairfield, and Eaton: 257 (Feb)
- DHL Supply Chain in Lima: 229 (Jan)
- EBTH, Inc. (online estate sales) in Blue Ash: 203 (Apr)
- Radial South L.P. (e-commerce logistics) in Groveport: 194 (Dec)
- Fremont Plastic Products in Fremont: 185 (Jan)
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Published August 4, 2021
A friend in upstate New York took a fancy exercise class the other day. The instructor wanted everyone to do vigorous leg work. She said brightly: “Just imagine you are kicking Jim Jordan. That’s it! Imagine you’re kicking Jim Jordan! Good!” Mr. Jordan, a Republican, represents Ohio’s Fourth Congressional District.
I posted the anecdote on Facebook, starting with the words: “The way we live now.” I thought it might make an interesting Rorschach test. It did.
Almost immediately, someone commented, “He deserved it.” Other comments followed, along the same line. I thought the image of a group of Americans physically attacking a fellow citizen because they disagreed with his politics—acting out the assault in an exercise class for very nice people, who think of themselves as kind and good—might give friends on Facebook pause. I thought it might make for a moment of self-awareness. It was a little prissy of me to think so.
Civilization is a thin veneer, as people used to say when men wore neckties and held the chair for ladies as they sat down to “dine.” Manners tend to be an item of nostalgia now, and whatever veneer may have been there once has long since disappeared.
Mr. Morrow is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His latest book is “God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money.”
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Core is a extremely ambitious game venture which is part Multiverse try and portion consumer-generated information creation platform. Right after about a year in Alpha, exactly where about a single million gamers helped with the screening, the video game has now released in early obtain via the Epic Games Retailer (unsurprisingly, as it is run by Unreal Engine engineering).
It can be a cost-free obtain, to begin with. In actuality, the builders reckon there are previously about twenty-thousand no cost playable online games to be discovered in Main, with an ordinary of about two hundred extra or up to date every day.
Jordan Maynard, Chief Innovative Officer and co-founder at Manticore Games, mentioned:
Core’s video games showcase what is feasible when the electricity of creation is manufactured obtainable to any individual. We developed Main to open up gaming to a new wave of creators from all backgrounds. That new technology is already publishing astounding encounters that rival those people of huge studios or that significant studios wouldn’t even think of creating.
You can master far more about Main underneath.
From shooters, survival, and action-experience to MMORPGs, platformers, and party online games, Main has some thing new for each and every gamer, just about every day.
Hold out in a huge social space of connected worlds. Feast at a castle banquet, swim in zero-G at an orbiting place station, or visit a virtual theme park. Stake your claim, develop your individual homeworld, and hook up to other individuals.
Want to make your individual match? Main tends to make it doable by providing novices and professionals alike the electrical power of Unreal in an available interface. You have accessibility to hundreds of absolutely free, superior high quality songs, seem, and artwork assets, and designed in 3D modeling and terrain sculpting instruments. Just one-button publishing helps make it simple to share your recreation, obtain gamers, and probably earn dollars.
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Speaking on 25 May at the United Nations Global Roundtable on Extractive industries as an Engine for Sustainable Development, EITI Executive Director Mark Robinson explained the role of the EITI in helping countries to maximise the benefits of resources for their citizens and to plan for the energy transition. The session included experts from governments, industry and civil society and was led by UN Secretary General António Guterres.
The presence of oil, gas and mineral resources has the potential to transform societies and economies. But all too often secrecy and opacity have weakened accountability, thereby stalling and reversing sustainable development.
The EITI brings together 55 resource-rich countries around a vision that the wealth generated by the extractive industries must primarily benefit a country’s citizens. Its contribution to realising this vision has been to develop a global standard that promotes the open, accountable and inclusive management of natural resources.
The EITI works to bolster the struggle against corruption, to promote investment to create jobs, and mobilise revenues to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also aims to foster a level playing field for business. These are vitally important goals in the context of a post-pandemic recovery.
The EITI is founded on a multi-stakeholder governance structure in which governments, companies and civil society have equal representation. It is uniquely placed to play a key role to help inform policy debates and support the implementation of innovative solutions. Building on the experience of our 55 member countries, we call on governments of resource-rich countries represented at today's UN Roundtable on Extractive Industries to join the EITI and commit to establishing a transparent and accountable resource sector.
The energy transition creates opportunities and challenges for resource-rich countries. The EITI is putting the energy transition at the heart of its strategic priorities. We seek to do this by encouraging countries to use data to inform decision making, convening policy makers to consider the implications of the energy transition, and by showing how the EITI can inspire climate action through COP26 and beyond.
We recognise that the effects of the transition on EITI member countries will vary, depending on context, capabilities and resources. We also recognise that many EITI countries have urgent energy needs. We therefore refrain from a one-size-fits-all approach and align with national and local priorities.
The energy transition creates a golden opportunity for countries supplying strategic minerals due to rapidly increasing demand and favourable prices. Countries will only profit from this opportunity if production is undertaken in a responsible, transparent and inclusive manner, and revenues are used to finance the SDGs.
In contrast, countries dependent on coal and oil will face significant challenges as demand falls and an era of volatile prices ensues. EITI data and its multi-stakeholder platform at the national level can help inform policies to support the energy transition and the implementation of long overdue reforms. These include the gradual elimination of coal and oil subsidies and the promotion of alternative sources of employment to ensure a just transition.
Finally, EITI national multi-stakeholder groups can play a key role in informing citizens about the costs and benefits of the energy transition and ensuring that local communities can participate in public dialogue on the transition.
In her closing remarks, UN Deputy Secretary General Amina J. Mohammed emphasised the need to bolster transparency and good governance measures in the extractive sector by “enhancing the coordination and exchange of information with the collaborative support of initiatives like the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).”
Ms Mohammed signalled the intent of the UN to work with stakeholders in creating a Working Group on Extractives to help transform the sector and chart pathways to a just transition.
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From the screen shots you provided it is not possible to see the dimensions of either the source or target modules.
An error is likely to be a mismatch of dimensions meaning that you need to map any differences in dimensions from the source to the target.
Therefore, list out the dimensions present in your source and those in the target and identify any differences.
Time - is there a change in the time dimensions from year to month, month to day etc?
Hierarchies - is the target set at a higher level in the hierarchy?
Missing dimensions - are there any dimensions that are simply missing in the target that are present in the source or vis versa?
Versions - does one module have versions and the other not?
Use system modules to map across these differences in dimensions. For time you could use MOTHVALUE() or YEARVALUE() or LOOKUP within a time systems module the relative parent. Similarly, with a movement down a hierarchy use a systems module dimensioned by the list present in the target to LOOKUP the parent present in the source.
Where there a simply missing dimensions build dedicated mapping modules containing the list present in the target. Use line items formatted as the target dimension that is missing and map each combination of target dimensions into the source list.
Where there are more dimensions in the source use SUM to aggregate the source data into the corresponding target dimension. Create a module dimensioned by the source lists and use a list formatted line item formatted to the list in which you will SUM the data into.
Here if it is coming up in subsidiary view and not coming up ,the reason might be of not matching period . Error we are getting here because we are not matching time dimension properly here . LOOKUP always works on list or time formatted reference . We can have a new line item which matches Target and Source in this case and have LOOKUP of that line item .
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Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he's heard similar stories from service members across the branches, which spurred DOD to stand up three initiatives to improve diversity and inclusion.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the police killing of George Floyd was a personal "wakeup call" on racial discrimination in the military.
"I think the murder of George Floyd was a wakeup call. It brought people, Americans, out onto the streets to protest this discrimination that many of our fellow Americans, African Americans experience. And it was a wakeup call for us as well as leaders. We know we're not immune to what is happening in broader society, that society that we serve," Esper said during remarks at the Aspen Security Forum on Aug. 5.
Esper said he's heard similar stories across the military branches and they spurred DOD to stand up three initiatives to improve diversity and inclusion across the DOD, including launching a new diversity board to develop recommendations. Results from the new Defense Board on Diversity and Inclusion in the Military's deliberation are expected by the end of the year.
"I don't think what everybody appreciated, at least me personally, is the depth of sentiment out there among our service members of color, particularly Black Americans, about how much the killing of George Floyd — and the other incidents that preceded it and succeeded it had on them [and] what they were experiencing in the ranks as well."
The defense secretary's comments come as Congress looks to increase directives and oversight of the issue. The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act pushes several provisions targeting racist symbols, such as renaming military bases that commemorate Confederate generals and banning displays of the Confederate flag, and creating chief diversity officers within each military service.
President Donald Trump has threatened to veto the National Defense Authorization Act if it contains provisions backing the renaming of such military installations – although bills supporting the renaming passed the House and Senate by veto-proof majorities.
The Defense Department is also in the midst of reviewing six combatant commands, including European Command, for efficiencies in time, financial, and personnel resources. The defense-wide review of the defense agencies, including the Defense Information Systems Agency, yielded nearly $6 billion in savings that could be reinvested into DOD priorities.
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The evolution of democracy in India was unlike the West, where education led to social emancipation and economic growth. This, in turn, fuelled demand for liberty, equality, and fraternity. Such bottom up growth of democracy overcame conflicts, to provide its common citizens, an equitable place in the sun. Because it emerged from the emancipation of citizenry, democracy rests on the fine balance between two rules: the rule of law and the rule of numbers. To protect this balance, institutions have been developed to protect human equity and dignity. Such democratic institutions, in turn, define that nation’s social, economic, and political state.
In India, on the other hand, the idea of democracy began as protests against us being treated as subjects, without ever being acknowledged as citizens. Such vocal and nonviolent uprising against discrimination by a colonial power was led by a political party. While India’s independence provided us with citizenship, it left the idea of the State as amorphous and evolving.
Adding justice to the Western ideals of democracy in our constitution, we believed, was adequate to ensure equity among Indians. Institutions were left to be evolved based on the strength of nationalism of Indian people. The first generation of a free nation understood this demand and their responsibility and, thus, bore a commitment to it, even at the cost of their self interest. This is the well-told story of such a man.
This book by Ashok Lavasa, appropriately titled An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation elaborates on those times and people through the life of its hero, Bauji, Ashok’s father, who consistently struggled to benefit from the rewards of hard work and honesty and found no reason whatsoever to follow another path. This is a moving story of a man, whose habit of speaking the plain truth, being a loving and yet not a doting father; caring but not an indulgent husband; a trustworthy friend who never promised more than he could deliver and, above all, an industrious and principled employee who was held in awe even by his bosses.
Had Bauji’s focus on pursuit of education in every household been followed, India would have seen more equitable societal growth. This, in turn, would have resulted in a more prosperous rather than merely aspiring India. Some real life incidents in this book leave a lasting impression.
When Bauji's college-going daughter received letters from a young man, the strict college hostel warden withheld them from her and complained to Bauji, expecting him to reprimand his daughter. Instead, Bauji felt he must trust his child so he wrote back to the warden, “My daughter is free to receive letters from anyone she wants, she is free to write to whoever she wants to write to and she is free to meet whomsoever she wants. The letters may be respectfully handed over to her.” Bauji, who himself lived in a conservative environment, was at the same time trusting, bold, and so unconventional.
During emergency days, companies were restricted from paying bonuses to their employees, in excess of 20%. Bauji’s employer found ways to get such money into the hands of all the staff. When it came to Bauji’s turn, he would not relent and accept even a penny above what the regulation was. All efforts to convince him failed as he would not sign a fictitious document and would rather forego the extra 28% money. It is evident that most people may have souls, yet only some have the strength of character required to keep it intact. Bauji was one such ordinary Indian who lived what we would term today as an ‘extraordinary life’.
The book is replete with such incidents that make a very enjoyable reading and forces the reader to think as to what went wrong. Why and where have such humans disappeared? If you enjoy inspirational movies, it’s a must read book!
Ashok Lavasa is a younger cadre colleague, who one has watched grow in his career. This book makes me realise that all the regard I have for this quiet, industrious, and a thinking bureaucrat, owes a lot to his genes. When he was appointed as Election Commissioner of India, I felt good, as I knew that the institution would be safe in the hands of men like him.
The intemperate behaviour created around him by some sections of the press and the subsequent firm stand he took on the issues did not surprise me one bit. That is what every Indian expects from any person who has been assigned any constitutional position. And Ashok, fortunately, did not disappoint. I am now inclined to think it was all because of Bauji.
Young and eager journalists, in search of sensational stories, fail to notice the growing race amongst people in coveted positions, to lower institutional expectations by compromising individual values for short term benefits. Such a growing contest weakens the very fibre that holds our democracy and individual freedom together, joined in one loop of trust.
After reading the book I felt sad on how, a couple of decades post-Independence, political leaders, led by a newer generations of Indians, began to misuse Mahatma Gandhi’s concept of nonviolent protests as their language to disrupt successful democratic processes. And, secondly, an over reliance on words and promises as the sole mantra of service to the common man. As a result, the ruling elite have begun flexing their 'elected by the people muscle’ to overwhelm those who are selected and committed to uphold the rule of law, thereby undermining the delicate balance between the two key rules of democracy. Is it not a paradox of our time that the rights of citizens are today better acknowledged in European and British monarchies than in democracies such as India?
Views are personal. The author is former Chief Election Commissioner of India.
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Patrick Iturra Report,
Elon Musk is the owner of TESLA motors and the founder of the electronic payment firm PayPal. He has a net worth of 248.8 billion USD and is someone who can guide you best about your money.
The Billionaire Elon Musk thinks it is better to own physical assets like houses rather than keeping your money in accounts as US dollars, especially when inflation is taking a high rise.
When people were more inclined toward investing in cryptocurrency, Musk came up with a Tweet with an instrumental piece of advice said-
“As” general principle, for those looking for advice from this thread, it is generally better to invest in physical things like a home or stock in companies you think make good products than dollars when inflation is high.” @elonmusk
Why must we follow Elon Musk’s ‘since on managing money?
Well, Elon Musk is one of the richest men globally, and if nothing, he knows the best ways to manage his money. He shares tips and tricks for beginners and investors to improve money management. Here are some of the tips Elon Musk gave in a famous podcast that we must know if we want to do better with our money;
Five pieces of advice on money management by Elon Musk:
Elon Musk gave the following five tips on money management in a recent podcast-
- Invest in utility companies- Elon Musk has been a strong supporter of utility-providing companies. He further explains that investing in utility companies is one of the safest investments.
- Invest in real estate- One major piece of advice from Elon Musk for investors is to invest in real estate; owning physical assets assures financial security for the future. And since we are being in times where inflation is soaring high, having a secure investment can help you with stability.
- Diversify investments- Elon Musk believes in investing in different companies. He advises investors to diversify their investments and not stick to just one source.
- Stay hopeful- Elon Musk suggests not to give up on negativity; even when you have some downfall, stay put and keep your hopes up; high financial fluctuation is a part of an investment.
- Physical assets over USD- Musk suggests keeping physical assets rather than keeping Us dollars; investing in physical assets helps secure your
Investing in real estate:
Real estate has been long considered a sound investment, and the reasons are promising. Investing in real estate is one of the best choices for financial managers. There are a few things you need to know about investing in real estate and its benefits:
Sustainable investment: Real estate investment is sustainable; you purchase a house, it is an
assurance to your growth and financial security.
One other catch for investing in buying a house is that you can earn through it by renting it out; rental properties are excellent for an add-up monthly income. As a landlord, you need to make sure the property is located in a more excellent area to get more rent, it depends on various factors how much rent you can make out of a property, but the location is a major one.
Flipping is a concept where you invest in a property to sell it at a better price when real estate prices go up. This is a great way to make money, and property flippers are always at a safe benefit since, if not much, they can at least get their own invested money back.
Why invest in real estate?
As an investor, you’d want your profile to increase and have diversity. Real estate investment enhances profitability and offers more risk-adjusted options for investors. Real estate is also more attractive when compared with other traditional sources of income return.
Most money managers and business experts like Elon Musk suggest investing in real estate since it is best for significant investments. You can opt for different strategies to invest in real estate.
Passive investing in real estate:
A passive strategy is best if you’ve to real estate investment; you can do it sitting at your home from your computer.
It would require you to be more diligent and do more research since visiting properties physically give more assurance, and you can witness everything yourself.
Mutual funding in real estate:
Another option for investors in real estate is through mutual funding, your investment is pooled together with others, and you are given shares of the fund. There needs to be a fund manager assigned who allocates all purchases, activities, and disbursements.
Is real estate investment safe?
Compared to other investment plans, real estate is considered safer as in the past, whenever stocks have gone down, real estate prices have still gone up. Real estate has close to no correlation with other asset fluctuations, which makes it one of the safest investments you can make.
As a money manager, you always look into more secure investments; real estate comes on top of the list.
How can you invest in real estate?
One of the critical questions that come to mind when you decide on investing in real estate is How can you invest in it?
Well, then buying stocks and bonds and the process is relatively transparent!
In simpler words, here here’s a detailed description of a real estate investment plan:
- Identify and acknowledge your financial stage.
- Choose an investment strategy that you want to go with.
- Decide the criteria for the property you wish to invest in.
- Lookup for real estate advisors that can provide you with good housing/property options.
- Select a payment plan.
- Line up financing
- Visit the location and make sure of the credentials.
- Get the paperwork done.
- Legal requirements and authorization.
- Down payment and reserves.
To sum it up, there are hundreds of ways to invest your money, and it is a hoax if you’re are of the pros and cons of each; what comes as the best option is real estate investment since its pros outweigh the cons.
Any business investor who has invested an excellent wholesome amount in real estate would vouch for how beneficial it has been for them, we have seen and read direct statements from the multi-millionaire Elon Musk who advises keeping more physical assets than saving cash, and the best form of assets are houses/property where your money is not only secure but also at a good growth pace.
People also like to invest in rental properties these days, so this is a good idea. The key to having good experience in real estate investment is to know your goal and be fully aware of what possible obstacles there can be while doing so.
Real estate investment can be boosted by spending on renovation and grooming up your property, and hence there are ways you can get a promised better outcome from your real estate investment.
Invest in Real Estate Now!
Investing in real estate is the best decision that you make today! I hope that this blog helps you to identify and grab this opportunity.
However, the reality is that it is not as easy as it looks because identifying the best real estate can be a tedious task for many people. You need to invest time, do your research, sort out finance, calculate the estimated ROI, etc.
To help you further, I am here to help you with my services. With more than 24+ years of experience as a strategic investment advisor, I will do everything for you from identifying the right real estate, financing, and return on investment.
If you have any requirements for such services, you can contact me here.
Patrick Iturra, Asset Manager at Estate Investments Group
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Dr. Jean-Francois Boileau, MD, MSc, FRCSC, surgical oncologist at Jewish General Hospital Segal Cancer Centre; associate professor of surgery and oncology at McGill University; and director of the JGH Breast Clinical Trials Group discusses the publication of the RxPONDER trial in the “New England Journal of Medicine” that confirms that tens of thousands of women with a certain type of breast cancer can avoid chemotherapy with Exact Sciences‘ Oncotype DX ® Test. These results, together with the foundational TAILORx results in node-negative, early-stage breast cancer, further elevate the test to a standard of care in a broader patient population. NCCN guidelines have also followed suit and now recognize the Oncotype DX test as the only genomic test that can be used for the prediction of chemotherapy benefits in both node-negative and postmenopausal node-positive women.
Jean-François Boileau, MD, MSc, FRCSC. Dr. Boileau is an associate professor in the Departments of Surgery and Gerald Bronfman Oncology at McGill University. He is a surgical oncologist and clinician scientist at the Montreal Jewish General Segal Cancer Centre. He held previous positions at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montreal (CHUM) and at the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre (University of Toronto). He is currently the head of the Jewish General Hospital Breast Clinical Trials Group and a founding member of the Quebec McPeak-Sirois Clinical Trials Consortium. He is an author on the neoadjuvant breast PALLET (CDK 4/6) & KRISTINE (T-DM1) trials published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology & Lancet Oncology. Dr. Boileau is the Principle Investigator of the SN FNAC study (Journal of Clinical Oncology) that has helped to establish sentinel node biopsy as an acceptable method to re-stage the axilla of node positive breast cancer patients after neoadjuvant therapy. As an early adopter of immediate pre-pectoral reconstruction, he has also developed a recognized expertise in skin and nipple sparing anatomical mastectomy.
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Chemical Engineering Consultant
Dr. Antoniuk-Pablant is an organic chemist trained at Arizona State University and Stanford University.
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Dr. Sexton is a chemical engineer with over eleven years of experience in the energy industry, including carbon dioxide capture processes. Andrew did research on the effects of oxidation on CO2 capture solvents, and was hired by CSIRO to develop similar capabilities. Andrew earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Louisville, Kentucky in 2003, and his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008.
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Founder, CEO and Chief Scientist
Jeffery Greenblatt (Ph.D. Chemistry, UC Berkeley; see CV) is a well-known expert in the fields of energy analysis, climate policy and sustainable transportation. He left a position at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2018 after eight years, where he focused on large-scale, multi-sector, long-term modeling of greenhouse gas reduction strategies, and analysis of emerging technologies including artificial photosynthesis and autonomous vehicles. He has published several high-profile academic studies on these topics. In addition, he has been developing an analytic expertise in emerging space technologies since 2014, founding Emerging Futures in 2016 and co-founding Orbital Assembly Corporation in 2019. Previously, Jeff has worked at NASA Ames Research Center, Princeton University, Environmental Defense Fund and Google.
Business Strategy Consultant
Andrew is focused on accelerating the development of a space-based economy, and also has an interest in green energy technologies. He has 5+ years of project management experience, with a background in areas including orbital dynamics, market research, and entrepreneurship, and has spent time volunteering for the Space Frontier Foundation. He has been consulting with Emerging Futures since 2017, and became a Senior Analyst at SpaceFund in 2019. Andrew holds a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Arizona.
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Prof. Fontes is an Assistant Professor at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. He is an expert at numerical simulation of plume flows.
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Lunar Regolith Consultant
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[Editor’s note: This was a graphics rich presentation. This transcript does not include slides from the presentation.]
The title I’ve given this presentation is “Blacks in LDS History: A Faith-FULL History”. We’ll talk a little bit about some of the issues that we come across when people describe us. I recently looked at the Krakauer book to see what he said about race–because I knew that he was going to bring that up–and sure enough he’s got it that blacks were never given any rights in the Church; that there was discrimination until 1978 when it was suddenly lifted.
Let me just sort of open things up a little bit. How early do we have African-American converts to the Church? Just throw out a guess-
I actually heard the right number: 1832 when Elijah Abel (Br. Abel’s right there2) was baptized by Ezekiel Roberts and he actually did hold the priesthood and was even a member of the Third Quorum of the Seventy–that was never changed. He has a most interesting obituary that talks about his certification as a seventy and his recertification as a seventy. It says, Elijah Abel died consequent to “old age and debility” after serving his third mission for the Church.
He was the first undertaker in Nauvoo–actually assigned that by Joseph Smith; given that assignment because Elijah was a carpenter and carpenters traditionally did those jobs. You can imagine that a carpenter would know how to build a coffin. Carpenters also did a lot of upholstery. I went back to some of the books of the time to look at advertisements for carpenters and they’ll say, ‘Upholstery, furniture, coffins’ the whole thing. And so Elijah Abel was one of the founding members of the carpenter society of Nauvoo and the first undertaker.
We know that he was at the bedside of father Smith at father Smith’s passing. And that must have been very, very tender for him. The books that Darius and I have written take some liberties so we put them in- I’d call them historical ‘faction’ because we have been really researching hard to try and keep things as accurate as possible but obviously we have to fill in the blanks periodically.
We don’t have a written history by Elijah Abel–we do by another woman, Jane Manning James, another black convert–so we look at the records and what other people say, mentions of Elijah Abel in the history of the Church and from that sort of gather what was happening in his life and what his contributions were. We know about his missionary service. We certainly know the esteem in which he was held.
The fact that he was a member of the Third Quorum of the Seventy and that was verified for him in 1877 that indeed that calling had never been changed.
Let’s just do a couple of other word definitions because one of the things that we come across in literature about blacks and the Church is the word ‘curse’. So let’s- and I should tell you that it goes beyond blacks. I taught Spanish Institute for five years and my students would read in the Book of Mormon about a curse and ask if they were under some sort of a curse.
So what’s the definition of a curse? (Are you feeling like you’re in Sunday School? (Laughter)) Well etymologically a curse is a separation–a separation of God from men.
So how do you perpetuate a curse generation through generation? If a generation or a lineage is going to be cursed, how will that happen? Hatred will do it. Any false tradition will do it. That’s maybe the biggest teaching of the Book of Mormon.
If you look at the Book of Mormon, if you just- if you wanted to read it just as a text about race you actually would find some remarkable things. You would find the division of the races possibly being pretty superficial. It may deal simply with lifestyle where you have one- they become a race, the Lamanites living outside as savages, and you have kind of an ‘indoor people’. Hugh Nibley talks about this a little bit in some of his books. But eventually it becomes a full-fledged two races opposed to each other but it’s not real hard for the races to shift sides and then we get the righteous dark-skinned people, righteous Lamanites, the people of Ammon–some remarkable things, Samuel the Lamanite.
And there’s no mention of- ‘and his skin turned color’ but the curse is not there and there is mention of “they became a righteous people” (Alma 19:35) and they were no longer cursed. My interpretation is that the curse in the separation from God is lifted and the greatest example is in 4 Nephi where there are no -ites3 among them. They’re of one heart and of one mind, all together in Christ and what changes it? Exactly what we know will change it–they return to their divisions.
They return to the rich being very proud of their wealth; the poor becoming downtrodden and the -ites come back. There’s a whole scripture that goes through the new -ites, the new divisions that we will have and ultimately it ends in the destruction of one of the peoples–not the utter destruction but pretty close.
Probably the greatest theme- I think my very favorite scripture that I remember teaching in Spanish many years ago in Mexico that says, it’s in the very last of the Book of Mormon quoting Isaiah:
And awake, and arise from the dust … and put on thy beautiful garments … that thou mayest no more be confounded, that the covenants of the Eternal Father which he hath made unto thee, O house of Israel, may be fulfilled. (Moroni 10:31)
Those covenants are not race specific, they are righteousness specific; those who choose to follow God will be a chosen people. And then the next verse says, “Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him”, and so the invitation goes out to all and of course we’ve already–in 2 Nephi 26–we’ve already had the scripture “all are alike unto God” and all are invited to partake “black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen” and all are alike unto God. (verse 33) It becomes thematic throughout the whole Book of Mormon.
So then we get to deal with our own history and I’m not going to go into- I think Armand Mauss is going to be talking a lot about the origins of the priesthood restriction. He’ll be doing that tomorrow. I’m not going to talk about that; we can maybe field a couple of questions. My co-author will field questions with me at the right time. But I want to tell you about these people. I want to tell you about the remarkable faith of the people that we have come to know.
The research for these books has been really, I would call it, miraculous. We just would have things drop into our laps. Darius met a man in a temple who said, ‘You’re working on those books about the black pioneers.’ There’s this black man, some of you may have heard of Abner Howell–if you’ve read our third book you’ve heard of him. He said, ‘He left me all of his life’s possessions, his patriarchal blessing, a letter from LeGrand Richards,’ you know remarkable things, ‘would you like those?’
And he came to my office where Darius and I were working and turned all of them over to us. Elder Marion D. Hanks took us through his house and just started pulling books off the shelves, ‘I think you could use this, a book by John A. Widtsoe typewritten. I don’t know if there is another copy in the world about his research on the issue.’ And then a tape, made by a remarkable man who I’m going to tell you about later, Len Hope.
Over and over we would have these experiences, you know, a sudden email contact from somebody who apparently needed their story told or an ancestor’s story. Somebody taking us aside and saying, ‘I’ve got all of these artifacts of Green Flake and did you know that my great-grandfather was at this pioneer appreciation day where Green Flake spoke and I have the words.’
All of a sudden we’re accessing stuff that I’ve never seen any place else and it really was the windows of heaven. It has been an absolutely remarkable project.
So let me tell you about- let’s move on to the next one, you’ve seen Elijah, I think the big thing I want you to notice about him is his race. Anybody have any questions? Is there a chance that he’s white? Probably not. Is this just somebody’s depiction? I actually talked to Richard Van Wagoner who helped write A Book of Mormons with Steve Walker and said, ‘Where did you get that?’ And he said, ‘We found it in a museum. The paper appears to be appropriately time-dated, we think this is an official likeness of Elijah Abel.’ We know from census records that he was listed either as black or as mulatto, but certainly he was of African descent. There really was no question of that.
We want you to know what attention the Church has been paying to Elijah Abel and to some of our other pioneers. This is the Elijah Abel monument4, the Genesis Group–and we’ll field questions about the Genesis Group–President Gray was just released as president after six years incredible years of service this past Sunday.
This is Elder Ballard with (the guy’s whose name I don’t remember), the Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation, anyway this is the monument to Elijah Abel that we dedicated this past summer- last year that talks about who he was. It’s right next to his grave in the Salt Lake Cemetery and mentions his priesthood, that he held it. And Elder Ballard spoke about it, he spoke about the priesthood revelation of 1978, paid tribute to this black man and did say that he was a black man–the reason I emphasize that is that there actually did arise some controversy over whether or not- people said well there were two Elijah Abels, one was white and one was black and there were some other things as soon as his race was discovered he was dropped from the quorum and so we just want to kind of put those to bed quickly and move on, don’t need to spend a lot of time with them. If you want to go out to the Salt Lake Cemetery and find Elijah Abel, he’s buried next to his wife Mary Ann, and the monument is right there beside him.
We had wonderful support from the Church. We’ve had general authorities present at a number of things where we’ve been able to pay tribute to our black pioneers.
Jane James is probably the most famous of the pioneers. How many of you have heard of Jane? But not everybody! Interesting.
This is her brother, his name was Isaac; we call him Lew in the books because her husband was also named Isaac and this is the best picture we have of Jane.5 There’s another picture where she’s with a lot of the pioneers but let me just give you sort of the basics of her life because what- my goal here has a fairly liberal focus–I just want to give you a sense of the black legacy in this Church. I can’t do it in a full- I can’t tell you everybody who joined the Church and recite their testimony but I can tell you of a few of them and then you consider that they are not the only ones.
Consider that all of us are dealing with a racist history in this nation. That at the time the Church was founded in 1830, at the time Elijah Abel joined in 1832 the Nat Turner case (1831) was fresh news. There was fear of slave uprisings, there was all sorts of fear of what was going to be happening because of the race issue all throughout the nation and we’re not even going to go into what happened in Missouri with the driving out of the Latter-day Saint people and the association of the slavery issue with that.
But Jane Manning James came in contact with the missionaries, Charles Wandell (I’ll mention him in case any of you are related) in Connecticut and became converted and in fact had a vision of Joseph Smith. And if you heard the dedication of the Nauvoo Temple by- when Elder Monson spoke on the Thursday (I didn’t hear it), my husband came home just absolutely thrilled because he had quoted Jane Manning James; and it was from an interview she did with the young women in the Young Women’s Journal where she said, ‘I saw Joseph Smith’s face, I saw it plain and I had to gather to Nauvoo.’
Now it wasn’t easy for black people to go anywhere especially if you’re moving from Connecticut which was a free state to Illinois where very recently we’ve had the execution of an abolitionist publisher, Elijah Lovejoy. And in fact they were stopped in Peoria, Illinois. Let me backtrack just a little bit to give you some of the most poignant parts of her life history.
They began walking from Wilton, Connecticut, intending on taking a canal boat from Buffalo, New York, but they were told they couldn’t get on the canal boat unless they could present their money immediately, which they could not do. But again, it’s- if the boat is to take on so many people of color we expect something a little different of you and it’s certainly not uncommon in the time. So Jane says, ‘So we began to walk. We walked 800 miles, we walked until the soles of our shoes wore out and we could see the blood- our footprints in blood on the snow. We knelt in prayer, “we asked God the Eternal Father to heal our feet. Our prayers were answered and our feet were healed forthwith. …we went on our way” singing praises to God and thanking him for his goodness and mercy and healing our feet as he had.’6
That was her attitude. Shortly thereafter they were stopped by a sheriff who threatened to put them in jail unless they could show their free papers and she said the only papers we had were our membership records in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since they had never been slaves. Her mother had been a slave but Jane had not.
Then finally they came to Nauvoo and we don’t know what all happened. She goes- she has one sentence where she says, ‘We met much rebuff.’ Certainly there must have been suspicion even from the Saints, we would hope that we would be better but we know what the times were like and they experienced some difficult things that she summarizes just in that phrase, ‘We experienced much rebuff.’
And then finally Orson Spencer led them to the Mansion House where Joseph and Emma were living and interestingly, now you have you imagine they’ve walked 800 miles. We know that Jane did not have the clothes that she had planned on having, she had put her trunk of clothes on the boat in Buffalo, they hadn’t arrived–they never did arrive in Nauvoo. So she’s probably wearing the same dress she’s been wearing for 800 miles through all of the- they’ve gone through rivers up to their necks, she talks about, they’ve slept outside where the snow would fall on their faces and here they are at the Mansion House. Emma Smith meets them at the door and says, ‘Come in, come in all of you.’ And these are from- these are the words from Jane’s own life history.
So they went inside, Joseph Smith came down and said to some women in the parlor, ‘We’ve got company come’ and then invited this black family to come inside and told them, ‘I want to hear about all of your trials.’
Jane was the spokesperson and Joseph Smith said to her, “You have been the head of this little band, haven’t you!” and she said, ‘I have, sir.’
Then, the way she puts it, ‘I told him all we had experienced–and much more than I can now recount, as my memory has faded.’ Some of us can identify with that.
Dr. Bernhisel was with him, Joseph Smith turned to Dr. Bernhisel and said, “Isn’t that faith?” Dr. Bernhisel replied, ‘I rather believe it is. I think if it had been me, I would have turned around and returned to my home!’
Of course her trials did not end there. Her husband left her for 20 years–returned, they were divorced but he died in her home and his funeral was held at her home. Not only that but she had begun petitioning for Temple blessings. Interestingly, the date of her first petition is the date of Elijah Abel’s death. So we associate those two things together. Elijah Abel died Christmas day 1884, Jane James goes to John Taylor on that very same day–which we know from a letter written the 27th where she says, ‘I called at your house last Thursday to have some conversation with you concerning my future salvation.’ She goes on to petition for temple blessings saying, ‘Inasmuch as this is the fulness of times and through Abraham’s seed all mankind may be blessed is there no blessing for me?’
Well from that- that’s only the beginning of the petitions that are going to go from president to president; she’ll go to Zina Young; she’ll go to John Taylor- she’s already gone to John Taylor she’ll go to Joseph F. Smith; she’ll go to Wilford Woodruff’s house, he will write about it in his journal. But after the death of her husband–and this is the man who abandoned her–she goes and asks if he can be adopted into Joseph Smith’s family. She wants to be adopted, Emma had told her that Joseph had wanted her to be adopted as their child and so she not only asked for herself but asked for her husband.
This- I think you’re not going to see this terribly well but I want to give you a sense of who Jane was. Of course that’s me, that’s my co-author, what you’re seeing here is the monument7 we dedicated to Jane Manning James and I wish there were time to tell you about the day we dedicated this monument and the day before which was evidence of the bells of Hell. This must have been awfully important to have the things happen that happened for us to get this up!
David B. Haight presided at this, actually David Haight’s ancestor Isaac Haight was in James’ company and he talked about Jane Manning James and said, ‘I know that she took care of my family because that’s the kind of person she was.’ What we’ve depicted here, and the sculpture is done by a man named Leroy Transfield, is Jane giving two pounds of flour to Eliza Partridge Lyman. We would not know of this event were it not for Eliza’s journal and I love the way Eliza is so subtle sometimes. She talks about the California missionaries, Amasa Lyman, her husband, Porter Rockwell, (I just found out that one of my great-great grandfathers was in the group- great-great-great-) and she says, ‘My husband has been called to go to California with,’ and names everybody else, ‘may the Lord bless and prosper them on their way. They left us nothing in the house nor any way to get it!’ (Laughter) Now is that subtle?
Another she says that I love is, ‘I do not think,’ when she comes to Salt Lake, ‘I do not think our enemies need disturb here. I do not believe they will envy us this locality.’ (Laughter)
Anyway, two weeks later after she’s put that entry, ‘They left us nothing in the house nor any way to get it’ she says, “Jane James, a colored woman, let me have two pounds of flour, it being about half she had.” To me, this sculpture from a time we thought of what we ought to have pictured, this to me has been Joseph in the Old Testament who his own brothers didn’t recognize, who they had harmed, who they had sought to kill or to enslave, and it was he who delivered them and told them that what they intended for evil, God meant for good. (Genesis 50:20)
To me this is another vision of Joseph and it’s why we called the play, “I am Jane”, the play about Jane Manning James. For me that’s why that title was the chosen one because it harks back for some to the words, ‘Brothers, “I am Joseph”‘ (Genesis 45:3) The first time he spoke to them in the language they all knew, the language of their childhood which acknowledged their common parentage and their brotherhood and gave him an opportunity to return good for evil. This to me is Joseph.
Let’s go on to the next one, Green Flake. Now I don’t know if you realize that there were three, they’re called colored servants, if you go to the Brigham Young monument just west of the Salt Lake Temple and look at all of the pioneers listed, all of the names that you’re very familiar with, and then there are three bracketed and it says “colored servants”. And those three are Green Flake, Hark Lay and Oscar Crosby.
Green Flake was a wedding gift at age 10 with a young girl named Liz Flake, remarkable stories for both of them. Green was told that his mother had died–which was not true–they didn’t want him running off to find her and I think that’s one reason that his gravestone (which we’ll show you in a second) says what it does. Family became very important to him. But I want to talk about him as a Mormon convert.
You may think that a slave would have been coerced to join the LDS Church, if his master did–and I don’t know what the circumstances were I just know that in John Brown’s journal it’s recorded that one of the slave boys, Green, was baptized into the Church. What we do know is that he stuck with it. In fact, in Idaho he was called, ‘the best damn missionary we have.’
He had gone to Idaho to call his son to repentance, his son had a little drinking problem, and Green Flake went up there and ended up dying in Idaho. His body was sent back to be buried next to his wife in the Union Cemetery.8 It was a good gravestone, I’ll just tell you about it, you can go visit it in the Union Cemetery (the words are very hard to read on that picture anyway) the words that he chose and helped to carve on his gravestone are “In my Father’s house are many mansions.” And, as it was explained to me by a friend of his descendants, that was intended to be a message and an invitation to his children, that they did not to be separated as Green had been separated from his family; that the gospel in fact gave them the possibility of dwelling in a mansion on high.
Now, we come to Len Hope. We were so thrilled to get these pictures of Len Hope; this is Len and Mary, if you’ve read our books they don’t come up until the third book. Do you recognize the young missionary with them? That’s Marion D. Hanks.
I’m probably not going to get through the whole PowerPoint so let me just tell you Len’s story because I think it’s a really good place to finish up with, I was going to do a little warning of some of the literature that’s out there. I’ll just tell you to beware of the Elijah Abel Society; it is not what it pretends to be. If you find that on the Internet–and you will if you look up Elijah Abel or anything like it–it has an agenda and I had that included in the PowerPoint as a warning that there are some people out there who are coming across as great missionaries who actually have the agenda of talking about the curse of Cain and the official Church position on that is we do not know why the restriction existed and erase everything else. It should not be taught, that that is in the past. So we move on from that and I’m not even going go there, I’m going to finish up with this remarkable story of Len and Mary Hope.
Let me first of all just set the stage for you and let me do it with Len’s own voice. (Can somebody turn on that CD?) This is Len. I just wanted you to hear his voice, he’s a little hard to understand, that recording was made back in the 40s in Elder Hanks’ living room when Len came to visit in Salt Lake City and we’ve tried to improve it, his accent is strong and the recording has- that’s as much as we’ve been able to improve it.
But he talks about wanting to get religion. And joining the Baptist Church and then feeling, actually having a dream of himself being baptized again and realizing there was another baptism ahead of him.
When he read about the Holy Ghost, and he was a sharecropper’s son, lived in a very isolated farmhouse, probably just a little cabin, a ramshackle shack that had corn stalks- he describes everything around the cabin, how it was all grown with- they didn’t waste any of the soil so there wasn’t a walkway leading up to it, there was just corn stalks and whatever else and nonetheless he could read and he had a Bible and he wanted to find out about the Holy Ghost because as he read in the scriptures he saw that the Holy Ghost could “bring all thing to your remembrance” and “teach you all things” (John 14:26) and as he put it, ‘I thought if that gift was available, everyone ought to have it.’
So he made his way to a place where wanted to feel isolated and cast off so the Lord would take pity on him. What it was, was another sharecropper’s cabin that had been long since abandoned, the roof was half torn off, the floor was mud and there Len Hope knelt and he was ready to tell the Lord that he would stay there until he died so that he could get the gift of the Holy Ghost but felt he shouldn’t make that offer because what would his mother say when his body was discovered and he didn’t want to bring that kind of grief.
But he did say that he would pray as long as it took and he prayed all day and all night long. Finally the rain started coming in and just- you can imagine the scene of this young black man, this is pre-World War I, praying for the gift of the Holy Ghost as did Enos in the Book of Mormon, all day and all night long as the rain is coming through, the floor is muddying his knees and finally he feels the strong impression, ‘You will receive what you desire, go home.’
He goes home, he has to meet his mother; he has to explain where he’s been. They make their peace and a few days later he comes in from working the fields and his sisters said, ‘Some ministers brought you something.’ He said he wondered why she thought it was for him, and the way he says, ‘Now can you imagine those Latter-day Saint missionaries coming all the way out to our little cabin, they had never been out in this direction before.’ The pamphlet they left was a tract by John Widtsoe called The Holy Ghost: Who is it, who is he and how does one receive the gift?
He made his way to the missionaries. He looked in Magnolia, Alabama, found the address of the missionaries and went and said, ‘I’m ready to be baptized.’ And they said, ‘Don’t you think you ought to know a little something about the religion first?’ And so gave him a number of books, he had the Book of Mormon with him as he served in World War I and said, ‘I felt that I was in a partnership with God and was preserved.’ He came home a decorated war hero and then was baptized and received the gift of the Holy Ghost.
And he talked about how he had seen others cutting somersaults after they received the gift and he wanted to do something dynamic and jump up and shout and a missionary said, ‘No, Br. Hope it don’t come that way. The gift will come as you need it. You just keep doing what you need to be doing.’
The next part–and just think of this in the time, we have the rise of Ku Klux Klan, the production “The Birth of a Nation”9 and it’s actually- in a re-release but right after World War I, the Ku Klux Klan is in its heyday and Len gets a visit. He’s at his brother’s house and the Knight Riders come, demand that Len come out to meet them and, imagine it, you know as a black person what this means. If there’s a mob of Knight Riders telling you to come out and talk to them, you know that you’re probably not going to live for very much longer.
They said, ‘We aren’t going to hurt him we just want to talk.’ And Len, and this is in his recording said to his brother, ‘I think if they wasn’t going to hurt me they’d have left their guns at home.’ (Laughter)
They have sawed-off shotguns, pistols, all manner of weaponry and as Len comes out the one in charge says, ‘So what’s this we hear here? You’ve gone over the seas or you joined this white church or you find out something about the white folk and now you think you can be one of them is that it?’
And Len said, ‘No sir. I found out about this Church before I went over the sea and they agreed that I could be baptized.’
He then was told, ‘You get your name scratched off that record or we will hang you by a tree and shoot you full of holes.’
So chagrined, Len Hope goes the next day to where they’re holding District Conference and says that he’s ready to see the missionaries with heads downcast, and instead, and I’m quoting, he says, ‘I seen the beautifullest smiles you ever saw on Latter-day Saint faces and they said, ‘Why Len, this is just the persecution of the devil. We’ll scratch your name off the records if it will save your life, but you should know your name is written in the Book of the Lamb of God and it’s written in Salt Lake City so what would you have us do?” And Len told them to keep his name on the records.
He survived. He married Mary Hope, sadly they experienced what was common in the time when they moved to Cincinnati, just by Kentucky and when they went to Church the white members made it known that they did not want a black family present.
Soon after that, apparently the report that we got from Mark E. Petersen was that the white members told the branch president that they would quit coming if there were a black man present and so that’s why we have Elder Hanks with Br. and Sis. Hope. The Hopes went once every three months to Church to pay their tithes and offerings. Every month on Fast Sunday, the missionaries, which included Marion D. Hanks, went to the Hope’s home and gave them the sacrament and held a testimony meeting with them. ‘There was music; ribs and homemade ice cream,’ Elder Hanks told us, ‘and great spirit, great testimony.’
Elder Hanks became ill while he was staying with the Hopes and remained there for a number of days, became dear, dear friends, this friendship lasted throughout the Hope’s lives. Became dear, dear friends and when finally he had to leave, just a little dusting of snow had fallen on the steps and he- Elder Hanks, was led to the car to be with his missionary companion and then he found out later that Mary told Len, ‘Len would you sweep the steps?’ And Len said to Mary, ‘I’ve treated you like a lady all of our married days but don’t you ever ask me to do anything like that again. Don’t you know what the scriptures say? “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace.”‘ (Romans 10:15) ‘Don’t you ask me to sweep away that missionary’s footsteps.’
I think that’s actually an appropriate place to end, I’ve just given you little snippets of faith. To me, these are a much better answer to the race questions.
We, as a nation, we’ve been dealing with race issues from the founding. You know that this was an issue in establishing the Declaration of Independence. Would we talk about equality? In establishing the Pledge of Allegiance? Would Equal Rights be mentioned there? This has been something that has been with us for all of these many years.
The faith of these remarkable members of color which continues yet today and there are a couple of them here, Rob Foster, Renee Olson, Darius Gray, three who I can see in all of you white faces, who have their own stories of faith and endurance through some remarkable trials.
1 The Eleventh Hour: Blacks in the LDS Church
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3 4 Nephi 1:17.
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5 See photo < http://www.blacklds.org/photos.html> (accessed on 30 December 2005).
8 < http://www.blacklds.org/flake.html> (accessed on 3 January 2006).
9 Originally premiered with the title The Clansman in January, 1915 in California, but three months later was retitled with the present title at its world premiere in New York, to emphasize the birthing process of the US. The film was based on former North Carolina Baptist minister Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr.’s anti-black, 1905 bigoted play, The Clansman.
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Places not to be missed!
Immerse yourself in the peace and natural charm of the surrounding regional highlights of Southwest Andalusia. Explore local gastronomy, mountains, beaches, small towns and cities and Spanish Festivals.
Hacienda Dos Olivos is set in a fertile area of striking contrasts and great beauty. The region has ever-changing colours and variety of its landscape unfolds in four directions – a haven for rural tourism.
North: Imposing rural geography thickly wooded with cork oaks and where the famous black Serrano ham pigs graze beneath the sweet chestnut and Holm trees.
South: Doñana National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site, home to hundreds of birds and mammals, many protected species, and possibly Atlantis!
East: From Christopher Columbus, Carmen and Churros, and Roman remains to romantic Spanish guitars…..
West: A spectacular part of the Andalusian coast, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. A paradise for water sports, nature lovers and those who would like a taste of Africa, if only for a day!
There is no better way to get to know inside Andalusia than by taking part in its traditions. A staggering 3,000 Spanish festivals take place annually in Andalusia.
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Independent Legendary Book Store Offering Millions of Titles Across Varied Categories Since 1978. Delivering Worldwide
Up on the world's highest mountain, the sky is tinged the black colour of space and the air is almost too thin to breathe
How did Ed, a small, shy boy from New Zealand, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer? How did he climb Everest and do many other astonishing things?
This exceptional picture book, written by internationally acclaimed children's author David Hill and illustrated by Phoebe Morris, tells the story of Sir Edmund Hillary and his climb to the top of Mt Everest. It's a story of courage, skill and determination, and will be an inspiration to anyone who dreams of reaching the top.
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The price of US oil fell to less than $0 per barrel for the first time in history as the knock-on effects of the coronavirus outbreak shook the world economy.
The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil for May delivery ended on minus - yes, minus - $37.63. On Friday, the same product was valued at $18.27.
It led to the bizarre situation of oil producers paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands as they feared they had nowhere to put it.
Coronavirus is largely to blame
The coronavirus pandemic has meant the demand for oil has collapsed. This is the result of the virus’s spread to all corners of the world, lockdowns and other knock-on effects.
Put simply, factories closing and people scaling back on using their car has meant demand for the fossil fuel that literally fuels economic activity has diminished. And there were updates on Monday underlining how the virus is knocking confidence.
Germany is in severe recession and recovery is unlikely to be quick as coronavirus-related restrictions could stay in place for an extended period, its central bank said. Japanese exports declined the most in nearly four years in March as US-bound shipments, including cars, fell at their fastest rate since 2011.
But there’s also been a price war
Another major factor has been Saudi Arabia ramping up oil production after a falling out with Russia.
Although Saudi Arabia and the rest of the oil producing cartel Opec has now committed to slashing production again, these cuts have yet to make an impact on a market flooded by oil.
Too much supply, not enough demand.
It has meant that many of the world’s oil storage sites are full. The main US storage hub in Cushing, Oklahoma, is expected to fill up in a matter of weeks. With facilities unable to take any more, buyers are nearly impossible to find.
This price drop may be a quirk
Oil prices have been falling for weeks. But much of the plunge on Monday was chalked up to technical reasons.
Traders usually play a game of pass the parcel with contracts for barrels of oil. They will buy the right to collect 1,000 barrels at a specific date – but sell it on later, preferably for a higher price – before they have to pick up the oil.
Whoever owns the contract when it expires is obliged to take delivery of the barrel.
Normally traders have no problem selling their contracts to a refinery, or other business that wants oil, before the deadline.
But the deadline for May contracts is due to expire on Tuesday and against the backdrop of economic gloom.
It left traders desperately scrambling to get rid of their barrels so they were not left to pick up oil which they do not have the ability to collect and store.
As a result, traders were actually willing to pay a lot of money to anyone willing to take the oil off their hands.
So is oil ... free?
Producers without storage facilities will pay you to take the oil off their hands, and traders were actually being paid more than 40 dollars to buy a barrel of oil on Monday.
Anyone who was willing to collect oil on-site in Texas was able to pick up perhaps the deal of the century early on Monday evening.
So for them, yes. They even made a profit.
How will it affect consumers?
The news made the normally obscure pastime of following oil prices explode as #OilPrice became the top trending topic on Twitter on Monday evening.
Gasbuddy.com and Oilprice.com, websites set up to track the price of oil and fuel, crashed under the strain of traffic flowing to their servers.
However, the collapse is unlikely to lead directly to significant discounts for drivers at the pumps. The price of Brent crude to be delivered in June was only down 10% at 25.63 dollars per barrel.
Big importing nations such as China, India and Germany could get some much needed relief from falling energy bills. And generally benefit from lower oil prices thanks to the decline in petrol prices at the pump.
But any reduction in prices will likely be eclipsed by the damaging impact to the economy caused by the coronavirus-led slowdown. This was highlighted by another fall on Wall Street (down almost 2.5%) as oil prices turned negative for the first time, underscoring the chaos the virus has unleashed.
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For the fourth time this decade – but only the eighth time in the state’s 60-year history – Alaska is on the cusp of posting another salmon harvest at or above the 200 million mark.
This is four-minute-mile territory for historic catches of wild and free-range, hatchery salmon.
As of this week, the catch stands at 199,135,000. Historically, the five-year average harvest for the last three weeks of the season measures 796,000. An average catch for these three weeks would bring the year’s preliminary harvest to within 69,000 fish of the magic 200-million mark.
And there is a normal variation of about a half percent to 1 percent between preliminary catch numbers and final numbers. The preliminary catch in the big year of 2015 was reported at 263.5 million, but the final catch figure was 265.2 million.
The record harvest of 2013 was originally reported at 272 million, but grew to 280.3 million in the final tally. It was the same in 2005 when the preliminary report of 206.1 million grew to 221.2 million.
Some years have, however, slid the other way. After the mediocre season last year with a preliminary catch reported at 114.5 million, it dropped even further to 113.8 million in the final tally.
So it is possible the year could end with a catch of closer to 199 million, which would be shy of the new standard for a banner year but still mark 2019 as the eighth largest catch in state history.
Credit a warmer Pacific ocean, better fisheries management and prolific pink salmon – both hatchery and non-hatchery fish – for this bonanza. Odd years are historically big years for pinks in the Pacific, and though the pink harvest started off slow and with concerns of Prince William Sound turning into a bust, the smallest and shortest-lived of Pacific salmon as of today comprise more than 62 percent of the statewide harvest.
About 65 percent of the pink harvest has come from the Sound and Kodiak areas where hatchery production factors significantly. The McDowell Group, a consultancy, last fall calculated state-subsidized, commercial-fishermen-controlled, private, nonprofit hatcheries in those areas and in the Panhandle added an additional 52 million fish per year to the Alaska harvest from 2012 to 2017.
The Alaska fish farming operations, which the states’ fishermen prefer to call salmon “ranching,” have powered the U.S. to the position of world leader in the production of hatchery salmon. Alaska, in turn, accounts for about 85 percent of all U.S. releases of hatchery salmon.
The Alaska release of 1.6 billion young fish in 2017, down from a peak of 1.8 billion in 2014, is about two and a half times bigger than the releases from the West Coast states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and California plus releases from Canda.
Questions have been raised about the ecological consequences of Alaska sending so many young hatchery fish to sea, but the hatcheries have been a good business for the state.
“Alaska’s salmon hatcheries contribute nearly a quarter of the value of our state’s salmon harvests and generate $600 million in economic output, with impacts throughout the economy,” McDowell reported in the study funded by the state’s hatcheries.
The study claimed “more than 16,000 fishermen, processing employees, and hatchery workers can attribute some portion of their income to Alaska’s salmon hatchery production,” but did concede “Alaska’s seafood processing sector has high non-resident labor participation.”
That “processing sector” accounts for most of the jobs.
The 4 percent
“Over the study period an annual average of 3,840 permit holders and an estimated 4,860 crew – for a combined 8,700 fishermen – benefited from hatchery production,” the study said, but the data included in the study showed that more than 77 percent of pinks were caught by a total of 667 purse-seine skippers.
Seiners do, however, support the largest crews, typically three or four people. The McDowell report said its estimated crew employment was based on three crewmen for seiners and one each for power trollers, drift gillnetters and set gillnetters.
The study also made hard-to-substantiate claims for tens of millions of dollars in hatchery contributions to sport fish businesses in the state, but the estimate that “approximately $25 million of (non-resident angler) spending can reasonably be attributed to hatchery-produced salmon, with about 40 percent of that spending in Southeast, 40 percent in Prince William Sound, with the balance elsewhere in the state” does appear that big of a stretch.
The $25 million would represent about 4 percent of the $600 million the Alaska Visitors Statistics Program calculates non-resident anglers spent in the state in 2016. No matter how one looks at the numbers, however, hatcheries have become big business in the 49th state.
Still, the truly big value in Alaska salmon remains with non-hatchery fish. Wild sockeye salmon, primarily from Bristol Bay in Southwest Alaska, accounted for 44 percent of the statewide harvest last year but almost 60 percent of the statewide value.
Global warming beneficiary?
Another big catch in the Bay this year of more than 47 million sockeye is expected to again give those fish a sizeable share of total state value. Prices paid fishermen for sockeye in the Bay started with a base price of $1.35 per pound compared to a statewide pink price a quarter to a third of that.
With Bay sockeye averaging about five and a half pounds, a catch of 47 million would be worth about $349 million to fishermen. At an average price of 30 or 40 cents per pound, the statewide catch of about 125 million smaller-sized pinks is likely to be worth somewhere between $115 million and $200 million.
The Bay appears to have been one of biggest beneficiaries of a warming Bering Sea and a warming Southwest Alaska.
“We know climate warming is making rivers more productive for the food juvenile salmon eat, meaning their growth rate is speeding up. That puts the salmon on a growth trajectory that moves them to the ocean faster,” University of Washington (UW) scientist Daniel Schindler told the UW News after he and colleagues published on sockeye growth rates in Nature Ecology & Evolution last year.
Whether this means the big Bay runs of the last several years will become the norm is an unknown. UW scientists also reported Bay sockeye spending an extra year at sea, apparently due to difficulty finding enough to eat on a pasture over-run by hatchery-produced fish from Alaska, Japan and Russia.
“Hatchery fish have really changed the competitive environment for juvenile salmon in the ocean,” Nature paper lead author Timothy Cline told UW News. “In Bristol Bay, the (freshwater) habitat is totally intact and fisheries management is excellent, but these fish are living in lakes warming with climate change, then competing with other salmon for food in the ocean.”
The warmer lakes are a good thing. Warm water fuels the growth of more plankton which feeds more fish. The competition at sea with human-spawned salmon is another matter.
“We just don’t know where there’s (an ecological) tipping point, especially as we fill the ocean with hatchery competitors,” Schindler said. “We need to be really cognizant about overstressing the marine resources that support wild salmon.”
So far, though, it’s been pretty much Fat City for Alaska fishermen.
The state is on track to close out the 2010s with an average annual harvest of about 180 million salmon per year – up from a peak of 167.4 million in the 2000s and almost 50 percent larger than the 1980s average of 122.4 million.
Fisheries scientists once doubted this possible.
By the middle of the 1990s, researchers were warning that the Pacific might be approaching or already at its maximum carrying capacity for salmon. By the end of the 2000s, however, they had changed their tune.
“….Regardless of whether wild salmon are being replaced by hatchery salmon, our results indicate that the ocean is producing more salmon biomass than previously,” James Irvine and Masa-aki Fukuwaka reported in the ICES Journal of Marine Science in 2011.
Not all salmon stocks have benefitted equally, however. Prized runs of sockeye salmon to the popular Kenai and Copper rivers of Central Alaska appear to decrease as pink runs increase although no one has found a cause. The correlation could simply be an accident.
Pacific Northwest salmon, even in areas largely free of dams that have diminished freshwater survival, are struggling, too.
Canada’s Fraser River, a major West Coast sockeye producer, is this year facing a disaster. A return of approximately 4.8 million sockeye was forecast; fewer than 630,000 are now expected based on staggeringly low returns to date.
Just to the north of the Fraser in British Columbia, the sockeye return to the Skeena River has been downgraded from a forecasted 1.7 million to 652,000. Canadians are worried.
The Star newspaper in Vancouver, British Columbia reported Canadian fisheries officials saying some components of the run in the sprawling, 85,000-square-mile Fraser drainage now “face an imminent threat of extinction.”
Poor ocean survival is believed to be the cause. In a paper now under review, scientists from Kintama Research Services in Nanaimo, Britsh Columbia are reporting that after examining 3,005 years worth of Chinook (king) salmon data for the North American coast, excluding California waterways, they have identified a four- to five-fold drop in ocean survival for those fish.
They went so far as to suggest fisheries managers trying to improve Pacific Northwest runs have focused on the wrong target, writing that “the size of the decline is too large to be compensated by freshwater habitat remediation or cessation of harvest, and too large-scale to be attributable to specific anthropogenic impacts such as dams in the Columbia River or salmon farming in British Columbia.
“Within the Columbia River, both smolt survivals during downstream migration in freshwater and adult return rates of Snake River populations, often singled out as exemplars of poor survival, appear unexceptional and are in fact higher than estimates reported from other regions of the west coast lacking dams.”
Some Alaska salmon might be flourishing as never seen in recorded history, but the same has not happened everywhere or with all species.
‘The total abundance of salmon in the North Pacific has now reached record levels,” David Welch and colleagues wrote; “however, a dramatic contrast in the winners and losers is obscured by this milestone,” they wrote. “Most of the increased abundance is in the lowest valued species (pink Oncorhynchus gorbuscha and chum O. keta salmon) in far northern regions, at least partly due to major efforts at ocean ranching of these two species.
“In contrast while essentially all west coast North American Chinook (O. tshawytscha) populations (including Alaska) are now performing poorly with dramatically reduced productivity. The situation is similar for most southern populations of steelhead (O. mykiss) , coho (O. kisutch) [8, 9], and sockeye (O. nerka). These poorly performing species are of higher economic value and the preferred focus of First Nations, sport, and many commercial fisheries.”
But no one knows why. Though scientific management of salmon has been underway for years, the ocean – where the fish spends most of their lives – remains a black box.
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Description of the case
The Smart Bus Stop that works as a super smart city sensor.
Organize, store and display all your data into one easy-to-access place.
Waiting for the bus should never have to be boring or frustrating again. A Smart Bus Stop has many innovative features. It not only provides information on a smart screen but it can also monitor air pollution, analyze traffic, record traffic violations and monitor pedestrians and cyclists.
The Smart Bus Stop by itself is also an art work and can be customized with designs of local artists. It is eco friendly powered by solar.
Best source to obtain relevant information quickly and easily for passengers such as Bus arrival time.
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The Jurassic to Cretaceous strata exposed in the Rollrock Section, Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada, represent one of the northernmost continuous outcrops spanning this poorly understood transition. The Oxfordian–Valanginian mudstones of the Rollrock Section were deposited in a shallow marine environment and, as such, provide the ideal lithology to investigate the response of high latitude dinoflagellate cyst populations to the frequent environmental perturbations of this time. Using a multivariate statistical approach, distinct palaeoecologically significant groups are identified and directly linked to time and palaeoenvironments, allowing for the reconstruction of underlying long term palaeoenvironmental trends. These palaeoenvironmental trends are identified to be driven by sequence stratigraphic cycles. For the first time, fourth order sequences are recorded from this pivotal period in the Sverdrup Basin and reveal an additional level of short term climatic events that complicate the identification of long term trends. The relationship existing between marine phytoplankton and climate is utilised to decipher the interplay of long-term and short-term climate fluctuations, distinguishing them from evolutionary trends. Two groups of dinoflagellate cysts, identified by process morphology, are recorded to act as environmental proxies. High percentages of proximochorate dinoflagellate cysts, such as Trichodinium erinaceoides, indicate more proximal, high energy, nutrient rich conditions and are dominant in fourth order transgressive systems tracts. High percentages of chorate dinoflagellate cysts, such as Oligosphaeridium complex, signify distal, low energy, nutrient depleted conditions and are dominant in fourth order highstand systems tracts.
The Mayo Normative Studies (MNS) represents a robust dataset that provides demographically corrected norms for the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test. We report MNS application to an independent cohort to evaluate whether MNS norms accurately adjust for age, sex, and education differences in subjects from a different geographic region of the country. As secondary goals, we examined item-level patterns, recognition benefit compared to delayed free recall, and derived Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT) confidence intervals (CIs) to facilitate clinical performance characterization.
Participants from the Emory Healthy Brain Study (463 women, 200 men) who were administered the AVLT were analyzed to demonstrate expected demographic group differences. AVLT scores were transformed using MNS normative correction to characterize the success of MNS demographic adjustment.
Expected demographic effects were observed across all primary raw AVLT scores. Depending on sample size, MNS normative adjustment either eliminated or minimized all observed statistically significant AVLT differences. Estimated CIs yielded broad CI ranges exceeding the standard deviation of each measure. The recognition performance benefit across age ranged from 2.7 words (SD = 2.3) in the 50–54-year-old group to 4.7 words (SD = 2.7) in the 70–75-year-old group.
These findings demonstrate generalizability of MNS normative correction to an independent sample from a different geographic region, with demographic adjusted performance differences close to overall performance levels near the expected value of T = 50. A large recognition performance benefit is commonly observed in the normal aging process and by itself does not necessarily suggest a pathological retrieval deficit.
Field studies were conducted in North Carolina in 2018 and 2019 to determine sweetpotato tolerance to indaziflam and its effectiveness in controlling Palmer amaranth in sweetpotato. Treatments included indaziflam pre-transplant; 7 d after transplanting (DATr) or 14 DATr at 29, 44, 58, or 73 g ai ha−1; and checks (weedy and weed-free). Indaziflam applied postemergence caused transient foliar injury to sweetpotato. Indaziflam pretransplant caused less injury to sweetpotato than other application timings regardless of rate. Palmer amaranth control was greatest when indaziflam was applied pretransplant or 7 DATr. In a weed-free environment, sweetpotato marketable yield decreased as indaziflam application was delayed. No differences in storage root length to width ratio were observed.
The centipede fauna of Canada is reviewed based on information available in the literature and on examination of some material, and provincial and territorial distributions are provided. About 53 species are known from Canada, representing four orders: Scutigeromorpha (1), Scolopendromorpha (5), Geophilomorpha (19), and Lithobiomorpha (28). British Columbia has the most recorded species (23), followed by Ontario (17) and Newfoundland and Labrador (12). Arctogeophilus glacialis (Attems) and Alaskobius adlatus Chamberlin are newly reported from Canada (Northwest Territories), Schendyla nemorensis (Koch) is newly reported from Ontario, and Lithobius forficatus (Linnaeus) is recorded for the first time from New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Arctogeophilus melanonotus (Wood) is removed from the list of Canadian species.
Recent excavations by the Ancient Southwest Texas Project of Texas State University sampled a previously undocumented Younger Dryas component from Eagle Cave in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas. This stratified assemblage consists of bison (Bison antiquus) bones in association with lithic artifacts and a hearth. Bayesian modeling yields an age of 12,660–12,480 cal BP, and analyses indicate behaviors associated with the processing of a juvenile bison and the manufacture and maintenance of lithic tools. This article presents spatial, faunal, macrobotanical, chronometric, geoarchaeological, and lithic analyses relating to the Younger Dryas component within Eagle Cave. The identification of the Younger Dryas occupation in Eagle Cave should encourage archaeologists to revisit previously excavated rockshelter sites in the Lower Pecos and beyond to evaluate deposits for unrecognized, older occupations.
Ecosystem modeling, a pillar of the systems ecology paradigm (SEP), addresses questions such as, how much carbon and nitrogen are cycled within ecological sites, landscapes, or indeed the earth system? Or how are human activities modifying these flows? Modeling, when coupled with field and laboratory studies, represents the essence of the SEP in that they embody accumulated knowledge and generate hypotheses to test understanding of ecosystem processes and behavior. Initially, ecosystem models were primarily used to improve our understanding about how biophysical aspects of ecosystems operate. However, current ecosystem models are widely used to make accurate predictions about how large-scale phenomena such as climate change and management practices impact ecosystem dynamics and assess potential effects of these changes on economic activity and policy making. In sum, ecosystem models embedded in the SEP remain our best mechanism to integrate diverse types of knowledge regarding how the earth system functions and to make quantitative predictions that can be confronted with observations of reality. Modeling efforts discussed are the Century ecosystem model, DayCent ecosystem model, Grassland Ecosystem Model ELM, food web models, Savanna model, agent-based and coupled systems modeling, and Bayesian modeling.
Antarctica's ice shelves modulate the grounded ice flow, and weakening of ice shelves due to climate forcing will decrease their ‘buttressing’ effect, causing a response in the grounded ice. While the processes governing ice-shelf weakening are complex, uncertainties in the response of the grounded ice sheet are also difficult to assess. The Antarctic BUttressing Model Intercomparison Project (ABUMIP) compares ice-sheet model responses to decrease in buttressing by investigating the ‘end-member’ scenario of total and sustained loss of ice shelves. Although unrealistic, this scenario enables gauging the sensitivity of an ensemble of 15 ice-sheet models to a total loss of buttressing, hence exhibiting the full potential of marine ice-sheet instability. All models predict that this scenario leads to multi-metre (1–12 m) sea-level rise over 500 years from present day. West Antarctic ice sheet collapse alone leads to a 1.91–5.08 m sea-level rise due to the marine ice-sheet instability. Mass loss rates are a strong function of the sliding/friction law, with plastic laws cause a further destabilization of the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, East Antarctica. Improvements to marine ice-sheet models have greatly reduced variability between modelled ice-sheet responses to extreme ice-shelf loss, e.g. compared to the SeaRISE assessments.
This study provides a morphological and phylogenetic characterization of two novel species of the order Haplosporida (Haplosporidium carcini n. sp., and H. cranc n. sp.) infecting the common shore crab Carcinus maenas collected at one location in Swansea Bay, South Wales, UK. Both parasites were observed in the haemolymph, gills and hepatopancreas. The prevalence of clinical infections (i.e. parasites seen directly in fresh haemolymph preparations) was low, at ~1%, whereas subclinical levels, detected by polymerase chain reaction, were slightly higher at ~2%. Although no spores were found in any of the infected crabs examined histologically (n = 334), the morphology of monokaryotic and dikaryotic unicellular stages of the parasites enabled differentiation between the two new species. Phylogenetic analyses of the new species based on the small subunit (SSU) rDNA gene placed H. cranc in a clade of otherwise uncharacterized environmental sequences from marine samples, and H. carcini in a clade with other crustacean-associated lineages.
Clinical diagnostics in sudden onset disasters have historically been limited. We set out to design, implement, and evaluate a mobile diagnostic laboratory accompanying a type 2 emergency medical team (EMT) field hospital.
Available diagnostic platforms were reviewed and selected against in field need. Platforms included HemoCue301/WBC DIFF, i-STAT, BIOFIRE FILMARRAY multiplex rt-PCR, Olympus BX53 microscopy, ABO/Rh grouping, and specific rapid diagnostic tests. This equipment was trialed in Katherine, Australia, and Dili, Timor-Leste.
During the initial deployment, an evaluation of FilmArray tests was successful using blood culture identification, gastrointestinal, and respiratory panels. HemoCue301 (n = 20) hemoglobin values were compared on Sysmex XN 550 (r = 0.94). HemoCue WBC DIFF had some variation, dependent on the cell, when compared with Sysmex XN 550 (r = 0.88-0.16). i-STAT showed nonsignificant differences against Vitros 250. Further evaluation of FilmArray in Dili, Timor-Leste, diagnosed 117 pathogens on 168 FilmArray pouches, including 25 separate organisms on blood culture and 4 separate cerebrospinal fluid pathogens.
This mobile laboratory represents a major advance in sudden onset disaster. Setup of the service was quick (< 24 hr) and transport to site rapid. Future deployment in fragmented health systems after sudden onset disasters with EMT2 will now allow broader diagnostic capability.
Reconstructions of prehistoric vegetation composition help establish natural baselines, variability, and trajectories of forest dynamics before and during the emergence of intensive anthropogenic land use. Pollen–vegetation models (PVMs) enable such reconstructions from fossil pollen assemblages using process-based representations of taxon-specific pollen production and dispersal. However, several PVMs and variants now exist, and the sensitivity of vegetation inferences to PVM selection, variant, and calibration domain is poorly understood. Here, we compare the reconstructions, parameter estimates, and structure of a Bayesian hierarchical PVM, STEPPS, both to observations and to REVEALS, a widely used PVM, for the pre–Euro-American settlement-era vegetation in the northeastern United States (NEUS). We also compare NEUS-based STEPPS parameter estimates to those for the upper midwestern United States (UMW). Both PVMs predict the observed macroscale patterns of vegetation composition in the NEUS; however, reconstructions of minor taxa are less accurate and predictions for some taxa differ between PVMs. These differences can be attributed to intermodel differences in structure and parameter estimates. Estimates of pollen productivity from STEPPS broadly agree with estimates produced for use in REVEALS, while comparison between pollen dispersal parameter estimates shows no significant relationship. STEPPS parameter estimates are similar between the UMW and NEUS, suggesting that STEPPS parameter estimates are transferable between floristically similar regions and scales.
Palmer amaranth is the most common and troublesome weed in North Carolina sweetpotato. Field studies were conducted in Clinton, NC, in 2016 and 2017 to determine the critical timing of Palmer amaranth removal in ‘Covington’ sweetpotato. Palmer amaranth was grown with sweetpotato from transplanting to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 wk after transplanting (WAP) and maintained weed-free for the remainder of the season. Palmer amaranth height and shoot dry biomass increased as Palmer amaranth removal was delayed. Season-long competition by Palmer amaranth interference reduced marketable yields by 85% and 95% in 2016 and 2017, respectively. Sweetpotato yield loss displayed a strong inverse linear relationship with Palmer amaranth height. A 0.6% and 0.4% decrease in yield was observed for every centimeter of Palmer amaranth growth in 2016 and 2017, respectively. The critical timing for Palmer amaranth removal, based on 5% loss of marketable yield, was determined by fitting a log-logistic model to the relative yield data and was determined to be 2 WAP. These results show that Palmer amaranth is highly competitive with sweetpotato and should be managed as early as possible in the season. The requirement of an early critical timing of weed removal to prevent yield loss emphasizes the importance of early-season scouting and Palmer amaranth removal in sweetpotato fields. Any delay in removal can result in substantial yield reductions and fewer premium quality roots.
Psychosis is more prevalent among people in prison compared with the community. Early detection is important to optimise health and justice outcomes; for some, this may be the first time they have been clinically assessed.
Determine factors associated with a first diagnosis of psychosis in prison and describe time to diagnosis from entry into prison.
This retrospective cohort study describes individuals identified for the first time with psychosis in New South Wales (NSW) prisons (2006–2012). Logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with a first diagnosis of psychosis. Cox regression was used to describe time to diagnosis from entry into prison.
Of the 38 489 diagnosed with psychosis for the first time, 1.7% (n = 659) occurred in prison. Factors associated with an increased likelihood of being diagnosed in prison (versus community) were: male gender (odds ratio (OR) = 2.27, 95% CI 1.79–2.89), Aboriginality (OR = 1.81, 95% CI 1.49–2.19), older age (OR = 1.70, 95% CI 1.37–2.11 for 25–34 years and OR = 1.63, 95% CI 1.29–2.06 for 35–44 years) and disadvantaged socioeconomic area (OR = 4.41, 95% CI 3.42–5.69). Eight out of ten were diagnosed within 3 months of reception.
Among those diagnosed with psychosis for the first time, only a small number were identified during incarceration with most identified in the first 3 months following imprisonment. This suggests good screening processes are in place in NSW prisons for detecting those with serious mental illness. It is important these individuals receive appropriate care in prison, have the opportunity to have matters reheard and possibly diverted into treatment, and are subsequently connected to community mental health services on release.
Field studies were conducted in 2016 and 2017 in Clinton, NC, to determine the interspecific and intraspecific interference of Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri S. Watson) or large crabgrass [Digitaria sanguinalis (L.) Scop.] in ‘Covington’ sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.]. Amaranthus palmeri and D. sanguinalis were established 1 d after sweetpotato transplanting and maintained season-long at 0, 1, 2, 4, 8 and 0, 1, 2, 4, 16 plants m−1 of row in the presence and absence of sweetpotato, respectively. Predicted yield loss for sweetpotato was 35% to 76% for D. sanguinalis at 1 to 16 plants m−1 of row and 50% to 79% for A. palmeri at 1 to 8 plants m−1 of row. Weed dry biomass per meter of row increased linearly with increasing weed density. Individual dry biomass of A. palmeri and D. sanguinalis was not affected by weed density when grown in the presence of sweetpotato. When grown without sweetpotato, individual weed dry biomass decreased 71% and 62% from 1 to 4 plants m−1 row for A. palmeri and D. sanguinalis, respectively. Individual weed dry biomass was not affected above 4 plants m−1 row to the highest densities of 8 and 16 plants m−1 row for A. palmeri and D. sanguinalis, respectively.
In the USA, western Washington (WWA) and the Alaska (AK) Interior are two regions where maritime and continental climates, high latitude and cropping systems necessitate early maturing spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Both regions aim to increase the production of hard spring bread wheat for human consumption to support regional agriculture and food systems. The Nordic region of Europe has a history of breeding for early maturing spring wheat and also experiences long daylengths with mixed maritime and continental climates. Nordic wheat also carries wildtype (wt) NAM-B1, an allele associated with accelerated senescence and increased grain protein and micronutrient content, at a higher frequency than global germplasm. Time to senescence, yield, protein and mineral content were evaluated on 42 accessions of Nordic hard red spring wheat containing wt NAM-B1 over 2 years on experimental stations in WWA and the AK Interior. Significant variation was found by location and accession for time to senescence, suggesting potential parental lines for breeding programmes targeting early maturity. Additionally, multiple regression analysis showed that decreased time to senescence correlated negatively with grain yield and positively with grain protein, iron and zinc content. Breeding for early maturity in these regions will need to account for this potential trade-off in yield. Nordic wt NAM-B1 accessions with early senescence yet with yields similar to regional checks are reported. Collaboration among alternative wheat regions can aid in germplasm exchange and varietal development as shown here for the early maturing trait.
Field and greenhouse studies were conducted in 2016 and 2017 to determine sweetpotato tolerance to herbicides applied to plant propagation beds. Herbicide treatments included PRE application of flumioxazin (107 g ai ha−1), S-metolachlor (800 g ai ha−1), fomesafen (280 g ai ha−1), flumioxazin plus S-metolachlor (107 g ai ha−1 + 800 g ai ha−1), fomesafen plus S-metolachlor (280 g ai ha−1 + 800 g ai ha−1), fluridone (1,120 or 2,240 g ai ha−1), fluridone plus S-metolachlor (1,120 g ai ha−1 + 800 g ai ha−1), napropamide (1,120 g ai ha−1), clomazone (420 g ai ha−1), linuron (560 g ai ha−1), linuron plus S-metolachlor (560 g ai ha−1 + 800 g ai ha−1), bicyclopyrone (38 or 49.7 g ai ha−1), pyroxasulfone (149 g ai ha−1), pre-mix of flumioxazin plus pyroxasulfone (81.8 g ai ha−1 + 104.2 g ai ha−1), or metribuzin (294 g ai ha−1). Paraquat plus non-ionic surfactant (280 g ai ha−1 + 0.25% v/v) POST was also included. After plants in the propagation bed were cut and sweetpotato slip number, length, and weight had been determined, the slips were then transplanted to containers and placed either in the greenhouse or on an outdoor pad to determine any effects from the herbicide treatments on initial sweetpotato growth. Sweetpotato slip number, length, and/or weight were affected by flumioxazin with or without S-metolachlor, S-metolachlor with or without fomesafen, clomazone, and all fluridone treatments. In the greenhouse studies, initial root growth of plants after transplanting was inhibited by fluridone (1,120 g ai ha−1) and fluridone plus S-metolachlor. However, by 5 wk after transplanting few differences were observed between treatments. Fomesafen, linuron with or without S-metolachlor, bicyclopyrone (38 or 49.7 g ai ha−1), pyroxasulfone with or without flumioxazin, metribuzin, and paraquat did not cause injury to sweetpotato slips in any of the studies conducted.
Studies were conducted to determine the tolerance of sweetpotato and Palmer amaranth control to a premix of flumioxazin and pyroxasulfone pretransplant (PREtr) followed by (fb) irrigation. Greenhouse studies were conducted in a factorial arrangement of four herbicide rates (flumioxazin/pyroxasulfone PREtr at 105/133 and 57/72 g ai ha–1, S-metolachlor PREtr 803 g ai ha–1, nontreated) by three irrigation timings [2, 5, and 14 d after transplanting (DAP)]. Field studies were conducted in a factorial arrangement of seven herbicide treatments (flumioxazin/pyroxasulfone PREtr at 40/51, 57/72, 63/80, and 105/133 g ha–1, 107 g ha–1 flumioxazin PREtr fb 803 g ha–1S-metolachlor 7 to 10 DAP, and season-long weedy and weed-free checks) by three 1.9-cm irrigation timings (0 to 2, 3 to 5, or 14 DAP). In greenhouse studies, flumioxazin/pyroxasulfone reduced sweetpotato vine length and shoot and storage root fresh biomass compared to the nontreated check and S-metolachlor. Irrigation timing had no influence on vine length and root fresh biomass. In field studies, Palmer amaranth control was≥91% season-long regardless of flumioxazin/pyroxasulfone rate or irrigation timing. At 38 DAP, sweetpotato injury was≤37 and≤9% at locations 1 and 2, respectively. Visual estimates of sweetpotato injury from flumioxazin/pyroxasulfone were greater when irrigation timing was delayed 3 to 5 or 14 DAP (22 and 20%, respectively) compared to 0 to 2 DAP (7%) at location 1 but similar at location 2. Irrigation timing did not influence no.1, jumbo, or marketable yields or root length-to-width ratio. With the exception of 105/133 g ha–1, all rates of flumioxazin/pyroxasulfone resulted in marketable sweetpotato yield and root length-to-width ratio similar to flumioxazin fb S-metolachlor or the weed-free checks. In conclusion, flumioxazin/pyroxasulfone PREtr at 40/51, 57/72, and 63/80 g ha–1 has potential for use in sweetpotato for Palmer amaranth control without causing significant crop injury and yield reduction.
The role that vitamin D plays in pulmonary function remains uncertain. Epidemiological studies reported mixed findings for serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D)–pulmonary function association. We conducted the largest cross-sectional meta-analysis of the 25(OH)D–pulmonary function association to date, based on nine European ancestry (EA) cohorts (n 22 838) and five African ancestry (AA) cohorts (n 4290) in the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology Consortium. Data were analysed using linear models by cohort and ancestry. Effect modification by smoking status (current/former/never) was tested. Results were combined using fixed-effects meta-analysis. Mean serum 25(OH)D was 68 (sd 29) nmol/l for EA and 49 (sd 21) nmol/l for AA. For each 1 nmol/l higher 25(OH)D, forced expiratory volume in the 1st second (FEV1) was higher by 1·1 ml in EA (95 % CI 0·9, 1·3; P<0·0001) and 1·8 ml (95 % CI 1·1, 2·5; P<0·0001) in AA (Prace difference=0·06), and forced vital capacity (FVC) was higher by 1·3 ml in EA (95 % CI 1·0, 1·6; P<0·0001) and 1·5 ml (95 % CI 0·8, 2·3; P=0·0001) in AA (Prace difference=0·56). Among EA, the 25(OH)D–FVC association was stronger in smokers: per 1 nmol/l higher 25(OH)D, FVC was higher by 1·7 ml (95 % CI 1·1, 2·3) for current smokers and 1·7 ml (95 % CI 1·2, 2·1) for former smokers, compared with 0·8 ml (95 % CI 0·4, 1·2) for never smokers. In summary, the 25(OH)D associations with FEV1 and FVC were positive in both ancestries. In EA, a stronger association was observed for smokers compared with never smokers, which supports the importance of vitamin D in vulnerable populations.
Collaborative programs have helped reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rates in community-based nursing homes. We assessed whether collaborative participation produced similar benefits among Veterans Health Administration (VHA) nursing homes, which are part of an integrated system.
This study included 63 VHA nursing homes enrolled in the “AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care,” which focused on practices to reduce CAUTI.
Changes in CAUTI rates, catheter utilization, and urine culture orders were assessed from June 2015 through May 2016. Multilevel mixed-effects negative binomial regression was used to derive incidence rate ratios (IRRs) representing changes over the 12-month program period.
There was no significant change in CAUTI among VHA sites, with a CAUTI rate of 2.26 per 1,000 catheter days at month 1 and a rate of 3.19 at month 12 (incidence rate ratio [IRR], 0.99; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.67–1.44). Results were similar for catheter utilization rates, which were 11.02% at month 1 and 11.30% at month 12 (IRR, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.95–1.09). The numbers of urine cultures per 1,000 residents were 5.27 in month 1 and 5.31 in month 12 (IRR, 0.93; 95% CI, 0.82–1.05).
No changes in CAUTI rates, catheter use, or urine culture orders were found during the program period. One potential reason was the relatively low baseline CAUTI rate, as compared with a cohort of community-based nursing homes. This low baseline rate is likely related to the VHA’s prior CAUTI prevention efforts. While broad-scale collaborative approaches may be effective in some settings, targeting higher-prevalence safety issues may be warranted at sites already engaged in extensive infection prevention efforts.
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Keyword: financial literacy quotes, financial motivational quotes and Sayings, wishes, messages status
It is time to save some money as we are celebrating Financial Awareness Day in the United States of America. Celebrated every year on August 14th, this day aims at making the countrymen aware of finances. Wish everyone with inspiring financial literacy quotes. Share with the young generation financial motivational quotes and sayings.
We have come up with the newest collection of Happy Financial Awareness Day messages and Financial Awareness Day status to share on WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram.
National Financial Awareness Day Quotes 2022 Message images
Happy Financial Awareness Day to everyone. Financial awareness is one of the most things to learn in the present times to survive and be successful.
Financial awareness must be made mandatory in all the schools so that our coming generations are financially independent. Warm wishes on Financial Awareness Day.
The occasion of Financial Awareness Day reminds us of the importance of being financially aware for a better life.
Let us celebrate the occasion of Financial Awareness Day by learning the importance of saving in our lives. Warm wishes on this day to all.
Wishing everyone on the occasion of Financial Awareness Day. Those who are financially aware always reach better heights in their lives.
On the occasion of Financial Awareness Day, let us come together and make the most of this day by learning about finances. Warm wishes to all.
Managing finances is an easy job provided you are aware of finances. Wishing everyone on the occasion of Financial Awareness Day.
Read also: Chartered Accountants Day Messages
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By Scott A. Cupp
This is the 205th in my series of Forgotten Books.
This will be a relatively short review because the book is short by itself. This volume collects cover illustrations from a variety of Mexican pulp magazines over 134 pages. Some are one page or smaller, though there are several double page spreads. The pictures are from the collections of Bobbette Axelrod and Ted Frankel.
The introduction contains a little on the history of Mexican pulp magazines. According to the introduction, at their peak the Mexican pulps were being printed in amounts of 50 to 80 million per month!
The photos are from the 1960’s through the 1970’s. Not a lot is known about the artists since, as in the US, these were disposable items, meant for momentary amusement and then the ashcan.
The artists are primarily known by the last names shown on the paintings. There does not appear to be anyone equivalent to J. Allen St. John, Rafael deSoto, Norman Saunders, Margaret Brundage or Hannes Bok, among the many others who graced the American pulps, but there are some gems here, including the lovely bee woman cover featured on the cover.
I have included some random shots I took from the interior of the volume. My only complaints are the size of the book and just nine pages of text,. It is barely larger than a mass market paperback. I would have loved to have seen a large trade paperback or art book to revel in. I would have loved more on the Mexican pulp industry, perhaps something about recurring characters or about how the two collections were acquired and evolved over the years. I will take what I got, though.
Check out these photos and let me know your thoughts.
Series organizer Patti Abbott hosts more Friday Forgotten Book reviews at her own blog, and posts a complete list of participating blogs.
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From the article at My Modern Met concerning Marc Yankus’ exhibition “The Secret Lives of Buildings”:
Rising up as spectral monsters, the New York City buildings captured by photographer Marc Yankus loom as giants in the urban landscape. The series of dreamlike images give new perspective to the architecture, and by pulling back to show his subjects in their naked context Yankus forces the viewer to observe their raw impact. The solitude that inhabits the photographs are in stark contrast to the normally buzzing city streets. This solitude enhances the magnitude of the historical buildings, which stand as silent witnesses to the passages of time. The alternating cool and warm tones of the photographs lend a cinematic quality to the series, where the buildings appear to be ripped from the set of a post-apocalyptic science fiction film.
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Central Interceptor: The largest ever wastewater project in Aotearoa
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About this trip
Everybody wants to enjoy their local rivers, beaches and estuaries. But overflowing water systems during large rain events can stop this from happening in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, our biggest city. It's underground wastewater system is old, the city’s population is growing, and when it rains hard the system cannot handle all the stormwater as well as all the wastewater. This can impact parts of the environment and be a risk to people's health.
Enter the Central Interceptor (CI), the largest ever wastewater tunnel in Aotearoa. It has this name because the tunnel will go under central Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and pick up, or ‘intercept’ the mix of wastewater and stormwater before it can go into our waterways.
The CI will be nearly 15 kilometres long and 4.5m high (that’s as tall as a giraffe): it will be able to hold 200 million litres of water, which is the same as about 700 school swimming pools. Think of a litre of milk in your fridge: there are 300,000 of these in just one school pool!
The CI will lie between 15 and 110 metres underground. A tunnel boring machine (TBM) will dig the tunnel and lay segments of the tunnel wall as it goes.
Travel online to Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland to:
- get behind the scenes of the largest ever wastewater project in Aotearoa and connect with people involved in the construction process
- learn how wastewater and stormwater is managed and why this is important
- explore the value of iwi and community consultation, and involvement
- discover how valuing sustainability on this project will benefit the environment, city, and people who live there
- inquire into how you can act to improve the quality of water around you.
This online field trip supports a STEAM-based, cross curricular approach to teaching and learning. Participation encourages curiosity, citizen-science and student inquiry. Access the glossary.
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This trip reflects the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially Goal 9: Industries, Innovation and Infrastructure: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
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Dog Tips: Keep your dog cool
AND when we say cool, we mean sunscreen, flip-flops, and an umbrella COOL! WATERmelon is great to have in the cooler waiting for our pups to enjoy. This will keep them hydrated while outdoors enjoying fun in the sun.
Dogs don’t sweat like us. Instead of sweating all over their body as humans do, they sweat through their paw pads and rely on panting to release heat. Giving your dogs access to shade and a way to cool down like a kiddie pool filled with water or ice is a great way to allow your dogs to safely enjoy the outdoors in warmer months. Monitor them closely during hot weather and bring them inside if they are panting excessively to prevent heat stroke, stress, and dehydration.
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The city of Decatur in DeKalb County is so close to Atlanta that it’s often mistaken as one of the city’s many quaint neighborhoods. Decatur, however, can stand on its own. It has its own top-performing school district, annual events, and award-winning restaurants. Housing options include ranch-style homes, early 20th century single-family homes, and new construction.
Decatur is the county seat of DeKalb County and is just over a 10-minute drive east from downtown Atlanta. A thriving, continuously growing city, it stands out as one of the best places to live in the region, with more and more people looking into available homes for sale in Decatur, GA.
Billed as one of the most progressive cities in the South, Decatur is noted for the high civic involvement of its residents. At its geographic heart you will find several neighborhoods that capture the city’s evolution from a sleepy small town into what it is today – the choice address of young professionals and growing families in metro Atlanta.
With a busy downtown hub, a thriving sense of community, a low crime rate, and the unbeatable charm of a peaceful small town, Decatur is the perfect place to settle down, make a living, and raise a family in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Decatur Attractions and Activities
Decatur has a wide variety of sights,s cents and sounds to keep residents happy and busy:
- Historic Districts
The city has two districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the McDonough-Adams-Kings Highway Historic District and the Ponce de Leon Terrace—Ponce de Leon Heights—Clairmont Estates Historic District. Both are an architecture aficionado’s dream.
- Decatur Ghost Tour
This enthralling and supernaturally fun tour lets participants discover the mystical side of Decatur. With tours of the city’s historic downtown district and old cemeteries, this is the perfect activity for the brave, the curious and the adventurous.
- Adair Park
This historical park is a four-acre green space where the annual Heritage Festival is held. It is also adjacent to historic homes such as Mary Gay House and the Swanton House.
- Ansley Park
- Avondale Estates
- Candler Park
- Druid Hills
- Inman Park
- Lake Claire
- Virginia Highlands
New Construction – Homes for Sale Decatur, GA
Decatur’s reputation as sought-after address is well-deserved. With the sheer number of available housing options in the city, it is very easy to find the home of your dreams along Decatur’s tree-lined avenues.
Prospective buyers can comb through the city’s many historic districts and find numerous homes dating back to the early 20th century and earlier. These range from renovated and restored Craftsman bungalows (including many designed by Leila Ross Wilburn, one of Georgia’s first women architects) to Federals and Colonial Revivals.
Decatur also has a healthy selection of ranch-style homes for sale in Dekalb County, GA, most of which were built during the post-WWII building boom. As for new construction, these can be found in established neighborhoods like Oakhurst and Winnona Park as well as new communities such as Walden Square.
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Intermittent fasting is one of the hottest new health trends, with several studies showing improved athletic performance and improved body composition (less fat gain, more muscle gain). One of the most effective methods is by using the fasted state training method. If you’re looking to lose weight or build more muscle, then check out this comprehensive guide on intermittent fasting.
If you’re interested in learning more about the benefits of intermittent fasting and whether it’s a good option for you, check out this post. I’ve got all the basics right here, including food suggestions to get you started.
Lose Weight, Improve Gut Health Through Diet and Intermittent Fasting
It is common for people to have an unhealthy diet. This will lead to weight gain and even gut issues. However, intermittent fasting can improve gut health, lose weight, and much more. A study by the University of Southern California found that intermittent fasting can help with weight loss, diabetes prevention, protection against heart disease, and much more. Intermittent fasting can also help with gut health. The good bacteria in the gut helps the body to absorb nutrients and fight off diseases.
What is intermittent fasting? Does it have health benefits?
This type of diet is characterized by cycles of fasting and eating. There are many different variations of intermittent fasting, but the most common is restricting food intake for a period of time each day (most often dinner) and then eating as much as you want during the other times. Intermittent fasting can be beneficial to your health because it forces your body to go into ketosis. This means that your body will be burning fat instead of carbohydrates for energy. This in turn can help to increase weight loss. Also, since your body is not getting much energy from carbs, you will not be over-eating like you usually do when on a diet.
Won’t intermittent fasting put me into starvation mode?
Fasting is a term used to describe the action of going without food or water for a set amount of time. Intermittent fasting is a dieting trend, where people fast for a set number of hours and then eat during their “eating window”. This has been proven to be a better and more sustainable way to lose weight and can even help with mental well-being and health.
This question is asking about intermittent fasting and how it may put someone into starvation mode. The fact is that intermittent fasting will not put someone into starvation mode. This is because you are only consuming during the times that you eat.
Intermittent fasting is a way of eating that many people have already been using. In the 20th century, doctors recognized that people could lower their cholesterol and blood pressure by fasting.
What is Intermittent Fasting and Why Would You Do It?
Intermittent fasting is basically an eating pattern which alternates periods of time with the goal of maximizing fat loss. This article will teach you everything you need to know about intermittent fasting for successful dieting. Many people have been using the intermittent fasting method for years to lose weight. They know that it works and continue to use it because they have a good reason for doing so.
Intermittent fasting is as safe as any other weight loss method. But why does it work so well? In many cases, it actually helps you lose more fat without working out as hard as other methods. That is because the weight loss occurs in stages which is very effective for improving metabolism. So if you would like to lose more fat without exercising as much, this is the most effective weight-loss method that you could use for achieving that goal.
What are your top tips for intermittent fasting?
There are many ways to intermittent fast, but it is best to be aware of what type of intermittent fasting you are doing. There are two main types of intermittent fasting; one is skipping breakfast and the other is skipping meals or eating less often. My top tips for intermittent fasting are to eat enough of the right types of food to maintain your caloric needs. I also use a meal planner to help me plan my meals, and if you use a meal planner, you can skip breakfast without many issues. What are your thoughts on intermittent fasting?
I have tried to use the best methods of intermittent fasting, and I have found that they are very effective in improving your health. I suggest that you try and implement intermittent fasting into your life. furthermore, you should also try and make sure that you get your B vitamins, fibre, and enough sleep. Doing these things will help you to keep lean and healthy while improving your health overall.
Isn’t fasting the same as reducing calories?
When we fast, we make it a point to focus on our calorie intake and reduce them as much as possible. The main goal of fasting is to remove all those unnecessary sugars from our system and to reset the body’s natural eating habits. This includes eating smaller meals and eating more often. When we go on a fast, we also usually want to improve our health and focus on the best methods of fasting. However, if you are on a diet, it’s important to understand that there is a difference between fasting and dieting. If you are following a diet, your goal is to eat less calories than your body requires. This is just one of the ways that our bodies are designed to work to stay lean and healthy.
What can I eat while intermittent fasting?
One of the drawbacks of intermittent fasting is that you can’t eat any food or drink anything with calories. This means no caffeine, no sugar, and no alcohol. The good news is, if you’re intermittent fasting, you can still drink water. This is because water doesn’t have calories. You also can drink other beverages like tea, coffee, and anything without calories.
In conclusion, intermittent fasting is a technique that makes it easier to reach our goals, but if you are currently on a diet, you should stick to it. If you want to get rid of the weight fast, you have to follow a strict diet.
Intermittent fasting is not a replacement for traditional meal planning and should be taken in conjunction with that method.
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Dr. Richard Lower pioneered perhaps the greatest medical breakthrough of the 20th century, the human-heart transplant, and built the Medical College of Virginia into a powerhouse in the 1960s and ’70s. At one point MCV was one of two hospitals in the world doing heart transplants. But Lower was low-key. He shunned the spotlight.
Lower had always wanted to be a family doctor, so more than 10 years after he retired in 1989 he came back to Richmond to treat the poor and underserved. Almost no one even knew he was here working at CrossOver Ministry’s free clinic on Cowardin Avenue. He preferred obscurity and didn’t mind that most of his patients had no idea they were being treated by Richmond’s greatest surgeon. Many of them didn’t speak English.
At one point, a woman from Guadalajara, Mexico, suffering from pulmonary hypertension came in. Her lips were blue from too little oxygen in her blood. She had a hole in her heart, which was going to kill her. Lower diagnosed the problem and sent her to one of his former students, Dr. James Zocco, a heart surgeon at CJW Medical Center. Zocco thought surgery was too risky. Lower instructed him otherwise. Zocco patched the hole in her heart — pro bono — and the woman lived.
Lower continued to see patients at the clinic until his death in May 2008 from pancreatic cancer. “He is and always will be a historic figure certainly in cardiac surgery,” Zocco told Style Weekly in 2008, “but he walked across the stage and nobody would realize he was even there.”
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Level1 is required to generate the earliest embryonic hematopoietic control cells (HSCs); since Notch-deficient embryos expire early in pregnancy nevertheless, extra features for Level in embryonic HSC biology possess not really been defined. Level1 (Kurooka et al. 1998). In comparison, Level3 contains a Bit that stocks minimal function and series preservation with the Level1 opposite number (Kurooka et al. 1998; Ong et al. 2006), while Level4 does not have a TAD. The Notch1 Bit is normally needed for optimum transcriptional activity of ICN1 in vitro and for ICN1-activated T-ALL in vivo (Aster et al. 2000). 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Although the Bit/Bit embryos possess an unchanged hematopoietic program and HSCs effectively migrate from the AGM to the Florida, the true number of E14. 5 Florida buy 1431697-89-0 HSCs in Little bit/Little bit embryos was substantially decreased. Competitive transplants of extremely filtered long lasting Florida HSCs into lethally irradiated receiver rodents exposed cell-intrinsic problems of the Little bit/Little bit HSCs, a getting that was verified in = 3) with a Level1 reduction of function on one allele and removal of the Level1 Little bit on the additional allele (Level1in32/Little bit) had been developmentally slower and got irregular yolk sac vasculature and increased pericardial sacs, problems regularly noticed in homozygous Level1 loss-of-function mutants (Fig. 1F, bottom level correct picture). We had been incapable to get Level1in32/Little bit embryos at Elizabeth11.5, indicating that embryonic lethality happened before E11.5. Further support for the hypomorphic character of the Level1 Bit was noticeable in the Y18.5 TAD/TAD thymus, in which the number of thymocytes and percentage of CD4+CD8+ double-positive (DP) T cells was considerably reduced likened with littermate handles (Additional Fig. T1C,Chemical). Jointly, these data recommend that the Bit removal created a hypomorphic Level1 allele. Level1 signaling in Florida HSCs Success of the Bit/Bit rodents to Y14.5 supplied the chance to research Notch function in FL hematopoiesis, which was previously tough to study in due to the early embryonic death of Level1-null Rabbit Polyclonal to ATG4D mice vivo. To define Level1 signaling in Florida HSCs, we sized Level1 reflection and signaling in Y14.5 murine FL HSCs. Using a Level1 mAb to measure Level1 surface area appearance by movement cytometry (Fig. 2A), we verified the existence of Level1 on the surface area of Elizabeth14.5 FL hematopoietic cells (CD45+) (Schmitt and Zuniga-Pflucker 2002; Fiorini et al. 2009). Starting at Elizabeth14.5, the surface area guns Package, Sca1, CD150, and CD48 and the lack of family tree guns can be used to strictly determine a human population of long-term HSCs (LT-HSCs) (Kiel et al. 2005; Kim et al. 2006), referred to hereafter as SLAM-LSKs (Lin?Sca1+Kit+CD150+CD48?). Level1 reflection was better on the LT-HSC-enriched.
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Early Life and Tennis Career
Navratilova was born Martina Šubertová in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Her parents divorced when she was three, and in 1962 her mother Jana married Miroslav Navrátil, who became her first tennis coach. Martina then took the name of her stepfather (adding the feminine suffix "ová"), thus becoming Martina Navrátilová . Her father Mirek remarried and divorced. When she was eight, he committed suicide. In 2008, Navratilova's mother died of emphysema, aged 75. Navratilova has a sister, Jana, and an older paternal half-brother.
In 1972, at the age of 15, Navratilova won the Czechoslovakia national tennis championship. In 1973, aged 16, she made her debut on the United States Lawn Tennis Association professional tour but did not turn professional until 1975. She won her first professional singles title in Orlando, Florida in 1974, at the age of 17. Upon arriving in the United States, Navratilova first lived with former Vaudeville actress, Frances Dewey Wormser, and her husband, Morton Wormser, a tennis enthusiast.
Navratilova was the runner-up at two Grand Slam singles tournaments in 1975. She lost in the final of the Australian Open to Evonne Goolagong Cawley and in the final of the French Open to Chris Evert. After losing to Evert in the semifinals of that year's US Open, the 18-year-old Navratilova went to the offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in New York City and informed them that she wished to defect from Communist Czechoslovakia. Within a month, she received a green card.
Navratilova won her first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon in 1978, where she defeated Evert in three sets in the final and captured the World No. 1 ranking for the first time. She successfully defended her Wimbledon title in 1979, again beating Evert in the final, and retained her World No. 1 ranking. In 1981, Navratilova won her third Grand Slam singles title by defeating Evert in the final of the Australian Open. Navratilova also reached the final of the US Open, where she lost a third set tiebreak to Tracy Austin. Navratilova won both Wimbledon and the French Open in 1982.
After adopting basketball player Nancy Lieberman's exercise plan and using graphite racquets, Navratilova became the most dominant player in women's tennis. After losing in the fourth round of the first Grand Slam event of 1983, the French Open, she captured the year's three remaining Grand Slam titles (the Australian Open was held in December at that time). Navratilova's loss at the French Open was her only singles defeat during that year, during which she established an 86–1 record. Her winning percentage was the best ever for a post-1968 professional tennis player. During 1982, 1983, and 1984, Navratilova lost a total of only six singles matches.
Navratilova won the 1984 French Open, thus holding all four Grand Slam singles titles simultaneously. Her accomplishment was declared a "Grand Slam" by Philippe Chatrier, president of the International Tennis Federation. Many tennis observers, however, insisted that it was not a true Grand Slam because the titles had not been won in a single calendar year. Navratilova extended her Grand Slam singles tournament winning streak to a record-equalling six following wins at Wimbledon and the US Open. She entered the 1984 Australian Open with a chance of winning all four titles in the same year. In the semifinals, however, Helena Suková ended Navratilova's 74-match winning streak (a record for a professional) 1–6, 6–3, 7–5.
A left-hander, Navratilova won all four Grand Slam women's doubles titles in 1984, partnering right-handed Pam Shriver, a tall and talented player whose most noted stroke was a slice forehand, a shot virtually unheard of in the game today. This was part of a record 109-match winning streak that the pair achieved between 1983 and 1985. (Navratilova was ranked the World No. 1 doubles player for a period of over three years in the 1980s.) From 1985 through 1987, Navratilova reached the women's singles final at all 11 Grand Slam tournaments held during those three years, winning six of them. From 1982 through 1990, she reached the Wimbledon final nine consecutive times. She reached the US Open final five consecutive times from 1983 through 1987 and appeared in the French Open final five out of six years from 1982 through 1987.
17-year old German player Steffi Graf emerged on the scene in 1987 when she beat Navratilova in the final of the French Open. Navratilova defeated Graf in the 1987 Wimbledon and US Open finals (and at the US Open became only the third player in the open era to win the women's singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles at the same event). Graf's consistent play throughout 1987, however, allowed her to obtain the World No. 1 ranking before the end of the year. Graf eventually broke Navratilova's records of 156 consecutive weeks and 331 total weeks as the World No. 1 singles player but did not break Navratilova's record 167 singles titles, as Graf reached 107. In 1988, Graf won all four Grand Slam singles titles, beating Navratilova 5–7, 6–2, 6–1 in the Wimbledon final along the way.
In 1989, Graf and Navratilova met in the finals of both Wimbledon and the US Open, with Graf winning both encounters in three sets. Despite the age difference between the two players, Navratilova won 9 of the 18 career singles matches with Graf and 5 of the 9 Grand Slam singles matches with her. At age 34, Navratilova defeated Graf the last time they played in a Grand Slam event in the semifinals of the 1991 US Open 7–6(2), 6–7(6), 6–4.
Navratilova's final Grand Slam singles triumph was in 1990. In the final, the 33-year old Navratilova swept Zina Garrison 6–4, 6–1 to claim a record-breaking ninth Wimbledon singles crown. Though that was her last Grand Slam singles title, Navratilova reached two additional Grand Slam singles finals during the remainder of career. In 1991, she lost in the US Open final to the new World No. 1 Monica Seles after defeating Graf in a semifinal. And then in 1994, at the age of 37, Navratilova reached the Wimbledon final, where she lost in three sets to Conchita Martínez. Soon after, she retired from full-time competition on the singles tour. She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000.
In 2000, Navratilova returned to the tour to play doubles events, while rarely playing singles. In her first singles performance in eight years, at Eastbourne in 2002, she beat World No. 22 Tatiana Panova before losing in the next round to Daniela Hantuchová in three sets. In 2003, she won the mixed doubles titles at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon, partnering Leander Paes. This made her the oldest ever Grand Slam champion (aged 46 years, 8 months). The Australian Open victory made her the third player in history to complete a "boxed set" of Grand Slam titles by winning the singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles at all four Grand Slam events. The Wimbledon win allowed her to equal Billie Jean King's record of 20 Wimbledon titles (in singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles combined) and extended her overall number of Grand Slam titles to 58 (second only to Margaret Court, who won 62). Despite being criticized for receiving a wildcard, Navratilova won a singles match in straight sets at the first round of Wimbledon in 2004, aged 47 years and eight months, to make her the oldest player to win a professional singles match in the open era. She then lost her second round match with Gisela Dulko in three sets.
On July 6, 2006, Navratilova played her last career match at Wimbledon, losing in the third round of mixed doubles to the eventual champions, Israel's Andy Ram and Russia's Vera Zvonareva. Earlier that day, Navratilova lost her women's doubles quarterfinal match against Chinese fourth seeds Yan Zi and Zheng Jie, also the eventual champions. Navratilova capped off her career by winning the mixed doubles title at the 2006 US Open with Bob Bryan, her 41st Grand Slam doubles title (31 in women's doubles and 10 in mixed doubles) and 177th overall. At the time, she was just over a month away from her 50th birthday.
Navratilova won 167 top-level singles titles (more than any other player in the open era) and 177 doubles titles. Her last title in women's doubles came on August 21, 2006, at the Tier I Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada, where she partnered Nadia Petrova. Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles: nine at Wimbledon, four at the US Open, three at the Australian Open, and two at the French Open. Her overall record in 67 Grand Slam singles events was 306–49 .862 (120–14 at Wimbledon, 89–17 at the US Open, 51–11 at the French Open, and 46–7 at the Australian Open). She won at least one tour event for 21 consecutive years and won the singles and doubles at the same event a record 84 times. Her career singles match win total of 1,442 is the most during the open era.
In September 1992, the 35-year old Navratilova played Jimmy Connors in the third Battle of the Sexes tennis match at Caesars Palace in Paradise, Nevada. Connors was allowed only one serve per point and Navratilova was allowed to hit into half the doubles court. Connors won 7–5, 6–2.
She played for the Boston Lobsters in the World TeamTennis pro league through the 2009 season.
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Class 7 Science Chapter 12 Reproduction in Plants
Class 7 Science Chapter 12 Reproduction in Plants Question & Answers [ncert solutions for class 7 science chapter 12 question answer]
Q1 : Fill in the blanks:
- Production of new individuals from the vegetative part of parent is called ________.
- A flower may have either male or female reproductive parts. Such a flower is called _________.
- The transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the stigma of the same or of another flower of the same kind is known as _________.
- The fusion of male and female gametes is termed as __________.
- Seed dispersal takes place by means of _________, _________ and _________.
- vegetative propagation
Q2 : Describe the different methods of asexual reproduction. Give examples.
Plants reproduce asexually in the following ways:
A plant can reproduce new plants from its roots, stems, leaves, and buds. Vegetative propagation is divided into two types.
Vegetative propagation occurs naturally and involves simple vegetative parts. Potato plant sprouting from a potato eye is an example.
Budding The small bulb-like projection coming out from the yeast cell is called a bud. The bud gradually grows and gets detached from the parent cell and forms a new yeast cell.it is observed in yeast.
Fragmentation is a form of asexual reproduction where a new organism is formed from fragments of the parent organism. Spirogyra reproduces only asexually.
Spore formation Many non-flowering plants reproduce by spores. Spores are small cells covered in a thick wall. Fungi such as bread moulds reproduce asexually using this method.
Q3 :Explain what you understand by sexual reproduction.
Seeds are produced during sexual reproduction. It Needs two parents. Flowers help plants reproduce sexually. A flower’s most significant function is reproduction, so that it can produce seeds that can grow new plants.
Q4 : State the main difference between asexual and sexual reproduction.
Differences between sexual and asexual reproduction:
Asexual reproduction occurs when only one parent can create offspring without the formation of gametes. They are truly the same as their parents. There is no special need for reproductive organs.
Two parents are involved in sexual reproduction, both male and female. In this type of reproduction, the gametes are needed to produce the new generation. Characteristics of both their parents can be passed on to the next generation.
Q5 :Explain the difference between self-pollination and cross-pollination.
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Oakura is well known for its beach Oakura Beach and is a hive of activity throughout most of the year and is popular with swimmers, campers, surfers and all sorts of crafts.
One of only three beaches along the west coast of New Zealand which is north facing, in 2007 it became one of the first Blue Flag accredited beaches in Oceania. Only two others Fitzroy and East End beach in nearby New Plymouth received the same award that year.
Apart from its well-known beach, Oakura's main attraction is Butlers Reef - a bar and music venue that has showcased many well-known New Zealand and international acts, including Dave Dobbyn, Trinity Roots, Gin Wigmore, Katchafire, Supergroove and Jimmy Barnes.
Other places of interest include the township's three parks - Matekai, Corbett and the Shearer Reserve. Also, within five minutes' drive south west is Lucy's Gully, a popular beauty spot in the Kaitake ranges.
Koru Pā is a historic reserve situated 3 km south-east of Oakura township. Thought to be one of the first Māori settlements in Taranaki, Māori tradition recognises that it may have been built as early as 1000AD by Nga Mahanga a Tairi, a hapū of the Taranaki iwi.
Ringcraft Moana is a manufacturing jewellery business with showroom, garden and a large pearl collection of abalone pearls. The Wavehaven, on Surf Highway 45 just south of Oakura, offers accommodation and access to surfing beaches.
The Oakura River (and therefore Oakura township itself) was named after the female ancestor Akura-matapū of the Kurahaupō waka. Oakura-matapu was the original name of the river, and it literally means "Belonging to Akura-matapū". Akura was married to Okorotua. Ngāti Tairi hapū holds mana whenua in Oakura. Ngāti Tairi belongs to the larger descent group of Ngā Mahanga a Tairi. Ngāti Tairi and Ngā Māhanga a Tairi are a part of the tribe Taranaki. Ngāti Tairi retain their take ahi-kā (rights of ownership) through the marae Oakura Pā beside the southern side of the Oakura River. People have been living in the area of Oakura for hundreds of years.
When war broke out in 1860, Ngāti Tairi as part of Nga Mahanga and Taranaki joined in the offensives against the British. The nearby Tapuae ridge (north of Oakura) was a continual site of conflict. On 4 May 1863 a party of about 40 Māori warriors ambushed a small military party on a coastal road west of the town, killing nine of the 10 soldiers. The revenge attack on the military party, escorting a British defaulter to New Plymouth for trial, reignited hostilities in the Taranaki War.
Oakura is located on State Highway 45, 15 kilometres south-west of New Plymouth. Okato is 12 km further south-west. The Oakura River flows past the town and into the North Taranaki Bight. To the south is the Kaitake Range, part of Egmont National Park.
On 5 July 2007 the town was hit by a tornado, which damaged 60 houses
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Population of Oakura:1610 June 2020, 1539 in 2018 census,1,380 in the 2013 Census.
Average temperature 13°C
Average rainfall 1602mm
Oakura School is a coeducational full primary (years 1-8) school with a decile rating of 10 and a roll of 262. The school was founded in 1866.
Ngamamaku Garden is nestled below the Kaitake Ranges adjacent to Egmont National Park. The garden is approx. 1.2 hectares (3 acres) it is a mixture of natural native bush and formal gardens. The most recent development is the Japanese Garden built in early 2004
New Plymouth Old Boys Surf Lifesaving Clubhttp://www.npobsurfclub.co.nz/
The club is located on Tasman Parade in Oakura, and has provided lifeguard services at Oakura Beach since 1948.
The club patrols Oakura Beach from November through to March; conducting patrols on both Saturdays and Sundays.
The club's primary focus is on promoting individual water safety and also providing a patrol service to ensuring that the beach at Oakura is safely managed during the club season. However we are dedicated to training and educating junior and senior club members and have an active competitive membership.
Taranaki Kayak Fishing Clubhttp://kayakfishingclassic.org.nz/
Held each year in Oakura, Taranaki, the Kayak Fishing Classic prides itself on being the biggest and best in NZ.
With competition boundaries ranging from the Marokopa River in the north, to Waverley in the south
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Oakura along with surrounding beaches have some great surf spots, and caters for all levels of ability and surf crafts.
Even this close to the coast you can delve into the forests of the Egmont National Park. There are a few roads about 5km south of Oakura that lead to some bush walks. Turn off at Lucy’s Gully to do the Sefton Track (2 hours loop) and the Waimoku Track (4-5 hours return). Turn off at Weld Road to walk into Boars Head Mine (1h30min return).
Wreck of the SS Gairlochhttp://pukeariki.com/Learning-Research/Taranaki-Research-Centre/Taranaki-Stories/Taranaki-Story/id/423/title/the-gairloch-ships-loss-a-familys-gain
The rusted crescent of iron rising from the rocky foreshore at Weld Rd has been a Taranaki landmark for 100 years.
Once part of the starboard bow of the SS Gairloch, it has been the focus of many a sunset photograph, a relic that has awed generations. A short wade out to sea, the bottom plates, remnants of the ship's engines and boiler lie collapsed upon themselves, home to kina and the occasional crayfish.
Koru Pa is thought to be one of the first Maori settlements in Taranaki. Maori tradition recognises that it may have been built as early as 1000AD by Nga Mahanga a Tairi, a hapu of the Taranaki iwi. It became the predominant pa of the Oakura area because of its strategic location by the Oakura River, its size, and the high rank of its leading families.
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Spain, the fourth largest beer producer in Europe, is a warm country and a paradise for this drink that is consumed in great quantity –more than 37 million hectolitres in 2015 of which almost 35 million come from national producers, according to data from Cerveceros de España (Brewers of Spain) and the Ministry of Agriculture.
The most popular beer is the light-styled lager, or rubia, as it is commonly called here; it is usually drunk very cold and enjoyed with tapas. Yet when you want to impress your guests in Spain, you still serve wine –in this sense, beer has traditionally been considered as a lesser drink.
The Spanish market is dominated by six large companies: Mahou-SanMiguel, Heineken España, Damm, Hijos de Rivera, Compañía Cervecera de Canarias, and La Zaragozana, which have barely allowed multinational groups to take a slice of the market.
This makes the sector especially tight leaving few options to the consumer, but in recent years there have been important changes. The example of northern European countries which do not produce wine, and the United States, have meant a search for quality beers in a myriad of different styles meant to be enjoyed and paired with powerful or elegant dishes where lighter beers are not suitable.
Artisan breweries differ from industrial producers in their low production volumes, less than five million liters, according to the Asociación Española de Cerveceros Artesanos Independientes (Spanish Association of Independent Artisan Brewers) AECAI, and the greater diversity and character of their products that connect with more demanding consumers.
Ten years ago there were barely two dozen Spanish microbreweries; nowadays that figure stands at almost 400. There are several factors behind this surge: the interest for a gourmet product largely unknown in Spain, the globalization of world cuisines that favors pairing exotic meals with full-bodied beers, as well as economic factors.
Paradoxically, the surge in microbreweries has coincided with the years of profound economic crisis in Spain, when unemployment exceeded 25% of the population. Many young jobless have decided to invest in a booming sector with moderate economic risk —they work with malt, a product that is less prone to deterioration than grapes.
As craft brewers opened a niche, industrial producers decided they wanted a piece of the pie –and we know that when the big ones are hungry, they try to eat the whole pie– and they are attempting to replicate the production of artisan beers. Most of the new launches have been disappointing and they have also bought smaller breweries to break in the market. An example is the stake that Mahou-San Miguel has bought in the American craft brewer Founders, although this brewery is actually more macro than micro.
The AECAI Association was created in 2014 and although it is very recent, it brings together a large group of more than 40 producers involved in the production of quality artisan beer. Their beers must be made with natural raw materials; water, barley or wheat malt, hops, yeast, and without other products that add artificial flavours or aromas to the beer.
Beers fall mainly in two large groups: lagers —the popular, low fermentation beer— and ales (high fermentation). Lager is the most consumed and is easily identified by its transparent, blonde colour. They are dry due to the absence of sugar, clear, light on the palate, subtly bitter, very easy to drink and refreshing. Ales are generally full-bodied beers, aromatic because of their high hop content, and some of them have a marked sweet taste. The colour can vary from light amber in wheat-based beers, to deep black in the purest British stouts. Spanish microbreweries usually sell their ale in drought barrels and bottles, though so far one brewer is using cans.
The range has become so varied that some microbreweries are producing up to 15 different types of beers such as the refreshing Pale Ale, the powerful IPA and APA, the robust Porter and Stout, and even special double- or triple-bottle fermentation beers. Seasonal beer are only made at specific times of the year to celebrate events like Christmas; some of them are made with ingredients that are not available throughout the year such as pumpkins or cherries. Given that Spain drinks more alcohol-free beer than any other European country, some brewers make this type of style — 14% of the beer sold in Spain is Sin, as it is popularly called.
Arriaca. his young and successful brewery is located in the province of Guadalajara, a rural region near Madrid which allows the brewmaster to use excellent local grains. Their beers have rapidly become highly respected in Spain and have received several international awards. This year their exclusive Imperial Russian Stout garnered the Gold Beer Idol of the Czech Republic —a real coup for a Spanish beer to win prizes in the heart of the beer capital in Europe.
In addition they have just started marketing two canned craft beers: their aromatic and light Session IPA, and a powerful Imperial Red IPA with deep caramelized notes destined to pair with very spicy dishes. Arriaca is also a pioneer in the production of canned artisan beer in Spain. They complete their range with a refreshing blonde lager, a creamy wheat beer, an IPA in cans or bottles, and a richly dark Porter. They also make an excellent rye beer, still quite a rare style in Spain, which is austere and dry on the palate.
Villa de Madrid. The city of Madrid is known for the quality of its water as well as being one of the economic and commercial engines of the country so it is not surprising that some of the best microbreweries have their headquarters in the area. Villa de Madrid has just released a beer that will give much to talk about: Chula Sin, the country’s first non-alcoholic craft beer. It is a lively and aromatic beer without stabilizers or preservatives, and boasts surprising quality for a non-alcoholic beer.
Villa de Madrid also makes a dry, stout style black beer, an IPA, a pale ale, a pilsner, and a wheat beer named Cheli —all of them with a very American style and easy to drink. For lovers of strong emotions, Villa de Madrid has just released Ziva 2.0, a Belgian Strong Ale with 10% alcohol and quite a few IBUs.
La Cibeles. The fountain featuring the goddess Cibeles is one of the most popular monuments in Madrid, and is the namesake for this company, one of the pioneering microbreweries in the production of high quality artisan beer in Spain. They brew a wide range of styles, from their light Pale Ale, to their dark and dense Barley Wine with 9% alcohol. David's Ale is one of their best beers; it is the signature of master brewer David Castro, and displays sweet notes on the palate followed by toffee and caramel. Another revelation is Rauch, a beer with charcoal aromas which is made from malt toasted with the peat used for Scotch whisky. The Castaña, or the Imperial IPA with 70 IBUs, are full-bodied beers with character. Also interesting are the seasonal beers that Castro makes at certain times of year.
Cervezas La Virgen is one of the most solid microbreweries in Madrid. Not only because it produces a wide range of honest and extraordinary beers, but also because they have a pub at the brewery where you can enjoy beer while you eat good tapas, something that is rarely found in Spanish breweries. The beer is made with water from Madrid; it is unpasteurized and made only with natural products. Its image is modern, powerful and there is no beer event where their food truck is not present with the typical hot dogs and hamburgers. Although they sell their beers in bottles and barrels in more than 700 retailers, the best way to enjoy it is directly from their taps in the brewpub. La Virgen's ample offering with names like Madrid Lager, Jamonera or 360 invite the artisan beer lover to try them all. In addition, they brew a range of seasonal and special beers with names like Veraniega, Castañas, Carajillo Stout, Cañonera, MÄRZEN or Trigo Limpio.
La Socarrada produces two million bottles of beers that are pretty different from what small producers have us accustomed to. It is located in Xátiva, near the city of Valencia between the mountains and the Mediterranean Sea giving their beers a unique personality. The Socarrada bockbier is brewed with rosemary and rosemary honey, triple malt and undergoes double fermentation. Its singularity come from the floral notes of the rosemary and the fruit. Really surprising is Er Boquerón, the only beer in the world made from Mediterranean Sea water. It is a refreshing, double-fermented pilsner, unfiltered and without additional carbonic gas. The third beer is Toro, matured in Pedro Ximénez sherry casks from Osborne. They use toasted malts to obtain a nice coppery colour and delicate, complex aromas.
In Madrid, retail stores La Buena Cerveza (Pelayo, 5) and Labirratorium (Blasco de Garay 21) have become real classics for artisan beer lovers. Naturbier (Plaza Santa Ana, 9) is a typical restaurant that has been brewing its own beers since 1986 in the heart of Madrid. If you want to accompany the beer with tapas you can go to Irreale (Manuela Malasaña, 20), El Pedal (Argumosa, 33), or The Toast Tavern (Guzmán el Bueno, 34), as well as La Virgen brewbar, where you can eat and drink. Tours of the brewery plant are also available.
Other options around Spain are the draft craft beer bar Olhöps (Sueca, 21) in Valencia, and La Jerónima (Jerónimo Hernández, 14) in Seville, ideal for sampling a great deal of Andalusian artisan beers.
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Participants completing this course should be able to:
- List and demonstrate proficiency of the BAVX bag and ball techniques.
- Demonstrate understanding of how proper technique influences rhythm.
- Recognize their own and others motor pattern strengths and weaknesses and how to remediate them.
- Generate a plan to utilize strengths to remediate weaknesses.
- Determine their own innate dominance profile for comprehending their own areas (and student’s) of skill and challenge.
- Carryout a visual assessment and interpret ocular motor deficits that impact learning.
- Identify and assess a student’s crossing midline skills and apply targeted BAVX exercises for remediation.
- Generate a series of BAVX exercises using language based learning to develop sequential thinking skills.
- Demonstrate understanding of adaptations needed to modify BAVX to remediate a physical, emotional, cognitive disability.
PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW (CHILD OR ADULT) WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE AS A TREATMENT DEMONSTRATION
PTs, OTs and assistants, Teachers and other members of the educational team.
Introductory to Intermediate
8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
8:30 am – Introductions Get in P-A-C-E, (Brain Gym® – Positive, Active, Clear, Energized)
8:40 – Group Exercise: 1- Spider’s web 2-Popcorn
Meet your classmates, experience visual, auditory, non-verbal priorities, leadership roles and activate your focusing power
9:00 – Who is Bill Hubert? Why Cues? What is Bal-A-Vis-X?
9:15 – Brain Regions/Midlines/Midfields: “Neurons that fire together, wire together.” Exercises: Elevator (Assist and solo) and Flip the Pages, MIrror Neuron Exercise, Dominance Profile
9:40 – Demonstration of Partner HOH 1 and 2 Bags (4 steps) Practice
10:00 – Demonstration HOH 2 Bags with the Feet (5 steps) Practice
10:20 – HOH QUADS: Criss Cross and Circles
10:45 – VisTAR ball and Scale
11:00 – Demonstration of Partner 1 and 2 Ball exercises: Learn the 6 Ball Principles
11:15 – Partner exercises: 1 and 2 ball rectangle and oval, R & L—-Practice
11:45 – Individual exercises (in group circle) 1 ball heart bounce
V bounce, V bounce clap-over, V bounce clap behind
Academic Application Samples with Reading, Math
12:15 pm – Lunch
12:45 – Demonstration Bag Toss and partner practice 1 and 2 Bag rectangle and oval
1:15 – Individual Ball Exercises in lines: Puppet with Pause, 2 Ball clap-over,
2 ball behind, 2 ball bounce Academic Application Sample: syllable bounce (Pledge), QWERTY
1:45 – Demonstration of Partner Exercises: 2 balls between, 2X1, 2X2, 2x2x2 Demonstration of Partner ONE ARM: 1X1X1—— Practice
2:30 – Small Circle Exercises: Quads 1-2 ball criss cross and circles
Large Circle Closing Exercise
2:55-3:00 – End.
Emily Eisen, M.Ed.
Emily Eisen is the Founder & Director of Brainworks Plus, a multigenerational Brain Body Fitness Educational Curriculum for The Empowered Student and The Lifelong Adult Learner. She is a Licensed Brain Gym® Instructor,Sanctioned Bal-A-Vis-X® Instructor, Total Immersion® Swimming Coach, Chi Walking® Coach, Language of Mastery® Instructor, Fine Artist, Actress and Singer-songwriter-piano composer. She is also the Director of the Long Island BAVX Team.
Emily receives a speaking fee for the presentation. Emily has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
Recognized by the NY State Education Department’s State Board for Physical Therapy as an approved provider of physical therapy and physical therapy assistant continuing education. Approved for 6 contact hours.
Application has been submitted for CE approval to the NJ Board of PT Examiners.
TSI is an AOTA Approved Provider of Professional Development. PD activity approval ID# Pending. This Live PD is offered at 6 contact hours or .6 CEU’s, Intermediate level, Domain of OT: OT Service Delivery. AOTA does not endorse specific course content, products, or clinical procedures.
Early $355.00* | Regular $370.00
No Group Discount Available
*Early registration must be received 14 days prior to seminar
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Subject headings are a "controlled vocabulary," an authoritative list of terms assigned by the database to organize resources.
The most common subject headings are created and maintained by the Library of Congress (Library of Congress Subject Headings). Most databases use LCSH to organize resources. Medical and health sciences literature is organized using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Databases may also have their own controlled vocabulary, or thesaurus, of terms.
To search by subject headings:
This helpful demonstration shows how to use the thesaurus to craft a search. You can save searches and set up automated search alerts in PsychINFO and in most databases by setting a personal account in the database.
As you become more deeply involved in research, you will use, and need to find, studies that use various methods. PsychINFO allows you to limit your results by methodology. Here are definitions of the various types. The video uses a different platform to search, but the content is the same.
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My husband is an eighth grade ELA teacher. We often find ourselves having conversations about our day. One night he was mentioning he had to step into a colleagues room for a few minutes and he noticed some really innovative engagement techniques. He was immediately thinking about how he might try this with his students. This conversation reminded me that professional development really can happen anytime and anywhere if we just take the time to find opportunities to observe and collaborate with our colleagues. Today I’m going to share a few ways I create my own PD with the help of my colleagues.
So how do we take action and develop our own professional development? We start by motivating those around us, developing our craft, and leading by example.
My colleagues and I set aside time multiple times a month for specific topic discussions. In addition, we have one weekly meeting together before school to just talk about whatever is immediate. This weekly meeting is what helps keep our more focused meetings tighter. We can get the field trip and upcoming event details out of the way so that when we meet for our monthly ELA meeting, it is focused on ELA topics. These weekly meetings have also really helped bring us together as a group. We can just talk shop, laugh, and share crazy stories.
Observe and Teach With Each Other
Each year I make a point to visit other teachers and their classrooms spanning grade levels. I try to set up times that I can go in and teach their class as well as visit while they are teaching. The time for this is when my own students are with other teachers such as music or gym class. Observing my colleagues and then also getting the opportunity to work with their students gives me a wider window of learning for myself, especially when I reach outside of my grade-level. Seeing teachers and students that are above or below your comfort level can really open your eyes to where students are coming from and where they are going. It’s also nice to come back and talk about the observation or shared teaching experience.
Asking a trusted colleague to video tape you can be eye opening. This past year I asked some colleagues to videotape conferences with students because I was curious if I was sticking to my philosophies of less praise and more constructive conversation. It was great to watch them later and reflect on how the conversations went with my students.
When working with colleagues, it’s important to remember you are all in this together. Lead by example and be the positive link that helps everyone work toward the same goal. It’s not about who is better it’s about everyone getting better. When a colleague offers a suggestion, humbly listen and reflect. Be open and create a dialogue. There will always be colleagues that are easier to work with and those who make the workplace more challenging. Align yourself with like-minded folks and build a network.
Consider trying to encourage and engage with your colleagues to create opportunities for growth. Visit each other’s classrooms. Just looking at different room arrangements, charts on the wall, and organization techniques can motivate you to take action in your own classroom.
Upcoming Event Announcement:
Stacey, Dana, Deb, and I will be presenting together at the EdCollab Gathering on April 2nd at 2:00 p.m. If you haven’t watched previous gatherings they are completely free, registration free, and you can watch while wearing your pajamas! We will be discussing how to maximize independent writing time by creating conferring toolkits. We hope you will join us and be sure to share your comments and questions on Twitter!
Daughter, sister, wife, mother, teacher, and writer.
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AfriKids believes in the rights of all children, everywhere, and that they should be valued, protected and met by all. They exist to make this the reality for children in northern Ghana, where more than half of families live in poverty and need our support to ensure our children can be safe, healthy and in school, giving them the opportunity to escape poverty for good.
Since 2002, AfriKids has helped transform hundreds of thousands of lives. Thousands of children have been helped off the streets, out of child labour, rescued from trafficking and saved from abuse, neglect and even death as a result of traditional beliefs and practices. Instead they have enrolled in school, their families have been supported to lift themselves out of poverty, their health has improved and harmful beliefs and practices have been dissolved.
AfriKids has achieved all of this led by local people, with a simple approach of listening to their communities and empowering them to make sustainable changes themselves.
The Family Livelihoods Support Programme has provided loans to around 2,500 women, enabling them to grow their monthly income by approximately 77 GHS. Alquity has helped to fund two AfriKids staff members who worked directly with the women’s cooperatives; support which transformed the lives of over 10,000 people in 2017.
The provision of loans to support the growth of small family businesses mean more women are economically active and contributing directly to their local economy. The increased variety of businesses bring trade and new products to the local market and those that are more successful are now employing other women as their businesses grow.
Over 80% of women use their profits to fund their children’s education, helping to lift their families out of poverty, for good. Women also become more active members of their households and communities through social empowerment and increased confidence, some are now members of their local councils which are traditionally male-dominated.
The Transforming Futures Programme works to help young adults to secure their own financial security through support for professional skills training, formal education or vocational training. Since it launched in 2015 with support from Alquity, the programme has helped hundreds of young adults to become more economically active.
Supporting ambitious, under-privileged young adults to pursue their higher education or skills training provides them with the opportunity to secure their own independent future and become more active members of society. In rural Ghana, less than 2% of people hold tertiary qualifications and 57% of 15-35 year olds have no education. AfriKids is changing this.
Supporting the training of teachers and nurses is filling a skills gap in the region, where access to quality education and healthcare is lacking. Primarily supporting women, the project indirectly reduces infant and maternal mortality rates, because educated women are more empowered to make their own life decision meaning they are more likely to have fewer, healthier children and will have their first child later in life.
A bright nursing student, Helen, is now in her second year of training. At 27, she is itching to qualify and formally start work but for the moment she is happy to finally be pursing her ambition.
At 16, Helen moved away from her family home to study at senior high school in the busy city of Bolgatanga. On completing her studies with good grades, she wanted to apply to Nursing College but her family wasn’t able to cover the cost of the tuition fees.
Helen was determined not to give up on her dream and she enrolled on the National Youth Employment scheme for a medical position. Her grades and skills were noted and she flew through the interview, to be selected as a Ward Aid Assistant at the AfriKids Medical Centre. Over the next four years, Helen worked hard, saving everything she could towards funding her nursing training, even moving in with her brother and his wife to save on rent costs.
Whilst working at the AfriKids Medical Centre, Helen’s commitment was recognised by the Medical Director who encouraged her to apply for nursing college. Although she didn’t want to get her hopes up due to the highly competitive application – 2,000 applicants are fighting for around 250 places – Helen received the exciting news that she had been successful!
Pooling together her savings, Helen realised that she did not have enough to cover the tuition fees, let alone her living costs. But her connection to the AfriKids Medical Centre, brought the Transforming Futures support to her attention, and she was selected as a candidate. If AfriKids could cover her fees, Helen could use her savings for rent, food and other living costs, whilst using holidays to earn enough to see her through her studies.
Now in her second year, Helen, has her sights on becoming a midwife which would require a further two years of training. She’s currently renting a place with her sister and when she isn’t studying she helps out at a local clinic, both improving her skills and earning enough to support herself.
Helen is determined to make a difference to the lives of others which is driving her to try her hardest.
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From books to magazines to websites, there is always something to learn and as a photographer, our job is not just to take pretty pictures but to also push the envelope for ourselves and our fellow photographers through that knowledge.
Education comes in many forms. The most enjoyable way I have found is through books. Websites and magazines can certainly teach you a lot but the pure enjoyment of a book is something you can’t get from those other places. Of course, this is my own personal opinion.
Now they say the best writers are those that read a lot. Writing is a crucial element to photographers because of the vast amount of outlets that we have to be apart of in today’s world in order to get our photographs noticed. I also found it amusing that they say a photograph is worth a thousand words and yet we constantly have to caption those photos. I always believed it was because a photograph isn’t always clear but sometimes you need that finger to point you in the right direction. Much like a play you need that intro slide to set the scene.
Since photography is constantly changing we have to be constantly upping our game. This is where education comes into play. The problem is no one can make you. Just as no one can make me, it is a self-motivated challenge that we constantly have to be working on completing. It isn’t easy and it keeps getting harder but it is a habit that we all have to get into in order to keep going with this business.
Writing is crucial to becoming and staying a successful photographer. My Dad passed this wisdom on to me long ago and it has served me well. While mobile devices and computers have become the norm for keeping up in today’s world, magazines have still held true and even after many said that magazines would die off eventually, they still are where the best photos can be found. The articles and images found in those magazines are from the best businessmen which are who you should learn from. Notice I didn’t say, writers or photographers. We have all seen bad photos but because that photographer was aggressive he got the sale and the others didn’t. He got the sale because he was paying attention to the trends and knew what was coming up. Magazine racks can be your best friend when it comes to learning these trends, you just have to keep pushing.
Education Blog Posts
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It has been ten years since the November 2011 Margaret River Bushfires inflicted tragedy upon the region, destroying scores of homes and burning through thousands of hectares.
We take a look through some of the moments captured by locals and Mail journalists over the course of the fires that tore through the area, leaving scars still visible across the landscape today.
Below, we reflect on some of the news breaking around the fires, and how the community bounced back in the following months and years.
NOVEMBER 22 2012: IN a bushfire emergency, it is the Country Women's Association who keeps the home-cooked food flowing to weary fire-fighters, volunteers and evacuees. (See More)
NOVEMBER 22 2012: PETER Fabrici gained international media exposure thanks to the unusual way he escaped the November 2011 fire - he jumped into a neighbour's pool in his scuba gear. (See More)
NOVEMBER 28 2012: IT was a touching and fun evening for all at Riflebutts Reserve on Friday when Bushfire Recovery Margaret River hosted a get-together for the anniversary of the 2011 bushfires. (See More)
NOVEMBER 11 2014: WHEN the 2011 Margaret River bushfires hit, concerned Pibelman Anthony Regan was surprised there were no advisory consultations with the local Indigenous community. (See More)
JANUARY 27 2016: MICK Murray said the disastrous Margaret River fires of 2011 should have prompted the state government to be better prepared for the inferno that gutted the town of Yarloop earlier this month. (See More)
- With thanks to Sean Blocksidge.
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Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease that can create infection in the genital areas, rectum, and throat. It is extremely usual, particularly among youths ages 15-24 years. Symptoms Of Gonorrhea Women
Just How Common Is Gonorrhea?
Gonorrhea is an extremely common infectious disease. CDC estimates that roughly 1.6 million new gonococcal infections happened in the USA in 2018, and also majority take place among youngsters aged 15-24.
Gonorrhea is the 2nd most generally reported bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the USA.2 However, several infections are asymptomatic, so documented situations just capture a fraction of the true problem.
How Do People Get Gonorrhea?
Gonorrhea is transferred with sex-related contact with the penis, vagina, mouth, or anus of an infected partner. Ejaculation does not need to take place for gonorrhea to be transferred or gotten. Gonorrhea can also be spread out perinatally from mom to child throughout childbirth.
Individuals who have had gonorrhea and received treatment solution might be reinfected if they have sexual contact with a person contaminated with gonorrhea.
What Are The Problems Of Gonorrhea? Symptoms Of Gonorrhea Women
Unattended gonorrhea can create severe as well as permanent illness in both females as well as men.
In females, gonorrhea can spread out right into the uterus or fallopian tubes and also create pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). The symptoms might be rather mild or can be very severe as well as can include stomach discomfort as well as high temperature. PID can lead to inner abscesses as well as chronic pelvic discomfort. PID can also harm the fallopian tubes enough to cause infertility or increase the danger of ectopic pregnancy.
In men, gonorrhea may be complicated by epididymitis. In unusual cases, this may result in infertility If left unattended, gonorrhea can also infect the blood and also create shared gonococcal infection (DGI). DGI is usually identified by arthritis, tenosynovitis or dermatitis. This condition can be deadly.
Is Gonorrhea Transmittable? Symptoms Of Gonorrhea Women
Gonorrhea is contagious and also spreads easily throughout sex.
Nevertheless, you can’t spread gonorrhea with laid-back touching, such as kissing or hugging. You also won’t spread it with sharing washrooms or plates as well as flatware.
One Of One Of The Most Typical STDs
Gonorrhea is an extremely usual sexually transmitted infection, especially for teenagers and people in their 20s. Gonorrhea is in some cases called “the clap” or “the drip.” Gonorrhea is spread through genital, anal, and foreplay.
The infection is lugged in semen (cum), pre-cum, and genital liquids. Gonorrhea can contaminate your penis, vaginal area, cervix, rectum, urethra, throat, and eyes (but that’s rare). Most individuals with gonorrhea don’t have any type of signs and symptoms and really feel completely great, so they may not also understand they’re infected.
Gonorrhea is typically easily treated with anti-biotics. Yet if you don’t treat gonorrhea early sufficient, it can bring about a lot more significant health issue in the future. That’s why STD testing is so important the earlier you recognize you have gonorrhea, the much faster you can remove it. Symptoms Of Gonorrhea Women
You can aid stop gonorrhea by utilizing condoms each time you make love.
Exactly How Soon Do Symptoms Show Up?
In men, signs generally show up two to seven days after infection however it can take as long as thirty days for signs and symptoms to begin. Frequently, there are no signs for individuals infected with gonorrhea; 10 to 15 percent of men and concerning 80 percent of women may have no signs.
Individuals with no signs and symptoms go to risk for creating complications to gonorrhea. These individuals additionally spread this infection unknowingly.
What Are The Symptoms and signs Of Gonorrhea?
Many men with gonorrhea are asymptomatic. When present, symptoms and signs of urethral infection in guys consist of dysuria or a white, yellow, or eco-friendly urethral discharge that generally appears one to fourteen days after infection.
In cases where urethral infection is made complex by epididymitis, males with gonorrhea may additionally experience testicular or scrotal pain.
The majority of females with gonorrhea are asymptomatic. Even when a woman has symptoms, they are frequently so mild as well as nonspecific that they are mistaken for a bladder or genital infection. The first signs as well as check in females include dysuria, enhanced vaginal discharge, or vaginal blood loss between periods. Symptoms Of Gonorrhea Women
Women with gonorrhea go to threat of establishing significant difficulties from the infection, no matter the visibility or intensity of symptoms.
Can STD Be Cured?
Some viral Sexually transmitted diseases stick with you forever, such as herpes and HIV. Others, such as hepatitis B and also human papillomavirus (HPV), can be avoided with vaccinations but can not be healed. Symptoms Of Gonorrhea Women
It’s additionally possible for the body immune system to beat liver disease B infection and also HPV but in some cases, these viruses are able to settle in for the long haul, triggering chronic infections that can endure forever as well as even lead to cancer.
Left neglected, syphilis can kill, as well as gonorrhea can create the inability to conceive.
Non-viral STDs, like chlamydia and also gonorrhea, can be healed. Nonetheless, they generally don’t have signs and symptoms, or signs and symptoms can go and also come, making it look like an infection vanished when it in fact really did not.
You can’t recognize your sexually transmitted disease condition without obtaining examined, as well as you can’t self-diagnose a sexually transmitted disease based upon signs and symptoms and after that assume the infection went away when signs and symptoms decrease. Getting evaluated can discover a problem and clear the way for treatment.
If you’re not obtaining frequently tested, that’s every three months to a year, depending on your age and sexual predispositions you may wish to rethink your position, due to the fact that you can really be placing your sex-related health and that of your partners in jeopardy.
It can have serious long-lasting consequences if an STI isn’t identified as well as dealt with. For women, as an example, some infections lug a threat of causing pelvic inflammatory disease, a painful chronic ailment that can possibly jeopardize your fertility.
In guys, chronic infections can cause a selection of difficulties that interfere with fertility and also possibly enhance the risk of impotence.
Who Should Be Evaluated For Gonorrhea?
Any sexually active person can be infected with gonorrhea. Anybody with genital signs and symptoms such as discharge, melting during peeing, unusual sores, or rash ought to stop having sex and also see a healthcare service provider quickly.
Also, anybody with an oral, anal, or vaginal sex companion who has been lately detected with a STD needs to see a healthcare carrier for examination.
Some people need to be evaluated (screened) for gonorrhea even if they do not have symptoms or know of a sex companion that has gonorrhea. Any individual that is sexually active need to review his or her threat variables with a health care company as well as ask whether he or she should be examined for gonorrhea or various other Sexually transmitted diseases.
CDC advises yearly gonorrhea testing for all sexually active ladies more youthful than 25 years, as well as older ladies with danger aspects such as brand-new or multiple sex companions, or a sex partner that has a sexually transmitted infection.
People that have gonorrhea must likewise be checked for various other STDs.
Gonorrhea Elimination Symptoms Of Gonorrhea Women
Take these steps to protect on your own from gonorrhea:
Prophylactics. They help maintain you from getting Sexually transmitted diseases. They function as an obstacle as well as maintain germs from contaminating you. Spermicide will not avoid you from getting gonorrhea.
Have your sex-related companions obtain examined. Ask them whether they have actually been checked for gonorrhea. If they have not, speak to them regarding obtaining examined.
Do not make love with somebody who has signs of gonorrhea. Has your companion suffered a burning feeling while peeing or sores in their genital location? Relax from sex up until they obtain their symptoms examined and also you should obtain checked also.
Get routine testings. Obtain examined for gonorrhea once a year if you’re:
A man who has sex with guys
A sexually active lady under age 25 Symptoms Of Gonorrhea Women
A female who has a brand-new sex companion, numerous companions, or a partner with a STD
Your medical professional will offer you prescription antibiotics to eliminate the microorganisms. Some pressures are coming to be immune to particular antibiotics, so you’ll probably get 2 sorts of medications: an injection and tablets. Make sure to take all of your medication, even if you really feel much better swiftly.
As of December 2020, the CDC suggests a single 500-milligram (mg) intramuscular dosage of the antibiotic Rocephin (ceftriaxone) for straightforward gonorrhea.
Treatment option for coinfection with Chlamydia trachomatis with dental doxycycline (100 mg twice daily for seven days) must be administered when chlamydial infection has not been omitted. Symptoms Of Gonorrhea Women
Make sure to tell those that you have sex with that you are being dealt with for gonorrhea so they can be dealt with, too. This will aid you avoid passing it back and forth to each other.
You need to not make love for seven days after treatment solution, and you need to refrain from having sex with partners that have not been treated for gonorrhea till after they have been tested and, if necessary, dealt with.
With the best treatment method, gonorrhea is curable. But one effective treatment solution will not protect you forever. You’ll need to keep practicing secure sex to avoid getting it once again.
Exactly How Does Gonorrhea Influence An Expecting Lady And Also Her Baby?
If an expecting woman has gonorrhea, she might provide the infection to her child as the infant goes through the birth canal during distribution. This can create loss of sight, joint infection, or a life-threatening blood infection in the infant.
Solution of gonorrhea as soon as it is discovered in expectant women will reduce the danger of these complications. Expecting ladies must speak with a health care service provider for ideal exam, testing, and therapy, as needed. Symptoms Of Gonorrhea Women
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Advanced Vocabulary for IELTS 7.0 +: Environmental Issues and The Natural World(Part 4)
Environmental Issues and The Natural World-Part 4
Environmental Issues in the Developing World
- For each gap, choose the correct answer from options a-d.
The issues for 1. ______ economies are a little more straightforward. The desire to build on undeveloped land is not 2. ______out of desperation or necessity, but is a result of the relentless march of progress. Cheap labour and a relatively highly-skilled workforce make these countries highly competitive and there is a flood of inward investment, particularly from 3. ______looking to take advantage of the low wages before the cost and standard of living begin to rise. It is factors such as these that are making many Asian economies extremely attractive when viewed as investment opportunities at the moment. Similarly, in Africa, the relative 4. ______of precious metals and natural resources tend to attract a lot of 5. ______companies and a whole sub-industry develops around and is completely dependent on this foreign-direct investment. It is understandable that countries that are the focus of this sort of attention can lose sight of the environmental implications of large-scale industrial development, and this can have devastating consequences for the natural world. And it is a 6. ______cycle because the more industrially active a nation becomes, the greater the demand for and harvesting of natural resources. For some, the environmental issues, though they can hardly be ignored, are viewed as a 7. ______concern. Indeed, having an environmental conscience or taking environmental matters into consideration when it comes to decisions on whether or not to build rubber-tree 8. ______or grow biofuel crops would be quite 9. ______indeed. For those involved in such schemes it is a pretty black-and-white issue. And, for vast 10. ______of land in Latin America, for example, it is clear that the welfare of the rainforests matters little to local government when vast sums of money can be made from cultivating the land.
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2. Write the following acronyms and molecular formulas out in full.
- NGO______[Hint: an organisation that is independent of the government]
- C02______[Hint: a type of gas which trees absorb]
- CH4______[Hint: a type of gas cattle produce a lot of]
- WWF______[Hint: a leading international nature organisation (panda logo)]
- GM Food______[Hint: crops that scientists have tampered with]
- CFCs______[Hint: produced by aerosol sprays]
Observed Global Climate Change
3. The words in the box can be used to fill gaps I – 10. However, in many cases, you will either have to change the form or the tense. Use each word once only.
There is now, by and large, 1.______,among scientists that Global Warming is real. The fact that an average surface temperature rise of approximately one degree was 2.______during the 20th century, in addition to the fact that the rate of warming 3.______in the latter half of same and was nearly double that of the first 50 years is enough to 4.______most scientists. Climate proxies also suggest that, with the exception of 5.______warming and cooling events such as Europe’s Little Ice Age, this is the first significant and prolonged temperature 6.______in the best part of 2000 years on a global level. Further evidence in support of the warming hypothesis comes by way of the fact that, also during the 20th century, a considerable rise in sea levels was 7.______, and, across both hemispheres, southern and northern, glaciers went into retreat, and remain so. Oceanic warming, albeit gradual up to now, has also been confirmed, and the 8.______rate of melting of polar ice, coupled with a general rise in humidity and the increasingly early 9.______of spring each year are factors the likelihood of the simultaneous coincidental 10.______of which scientists say is virtually nil.
Environmental Issues in the Developing World 3
- Non-governmental Organization
- Carbon Dioxide
- Methane Gas
- World Wide Fund (for Nature)
- Genetically Modified Food
Observed Global Climate Change
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You’ll discover how the lives and character of different biblical women mirror the /5(3). List of women in the Bible. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Part of a series on The following is a list of women found in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.
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Yet their words are. chapteR 5: Women Who speak in numBeRs Daughters of Zelophehad In Bible Women: All Their Words and Why They Matter, Lindsay Hardin Freeman brings to light an entirely new and in-depth understanding of the often unrecognized contribution women made in the overall biblical narrative.
Dec 17, · Includes bibliographical references Divided into two sections: a biographical dictionary, listing over women--named, unnamed, or allegorical--along with a short description of her life, alternate spellings, biblical citations where her story can be found, and cross references to other dictionary entries; and "the book of stories," which retells in detail the stories of fifty-six important Pages: Bible Studies for Women LifeWay publishes the most popular Bible studies for women in the world, including best-selling titles from authors like Beth Moore and Priscilla Shirer.
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We all know how hard it is to stay fit while you’re working at a desk for 8+ hours. Most of the day is spent sitting at the computer, sitting in meetings, sitting in the car or public transit during your commute. With all the time spent sitting, how are we supposed to find the time and space to exercise? How do I even keep good posture while at work?
Good news! We have a 6-part strategy to help you find ways to work out while you work. The best part is, you can lower your stress levels and exercise without any gym equipment. Read our blog post here to learn more or go directly to our ergonomics and desk worker information page! We also have our awesome free ergonomic self-assessment to help you find out some of the easy fixes for your desk set up!
In this 6-part strategy, we will help you understand and give you the choices towards healthy work practices and work practices that may be harmful to you and how to improve them:
1. Education and Understanding the effects of sitting
2. Proper Ergonomics
3. Body Positioning
4. Proper Desk Posture
5. Micro-Breaks and the benefits
6. Corrective Exercises
A simple description is designing a workplace for the worker. Ergonomics may include using chairs for maintaining proper postures, placing water machines or printers across the room to increase step counts or simply placement of frequently used desk items like a calculator or a stapler. The challenge with ergonomics is that every worker and work environment is different and so a one size fits all model does not necessarily work. This is why it is important to have the ergonomic environment assessed if possible or at least be able to alter it in a way that fits you and your work habits. Here’s where our tips can come in!
If you are working from home and don’t have proper work place equipment for example a desk, a proper chair, a monitor, keyboard, mouse then some of these may not be applicable for you. However check out this blog that was created about adapting your home office for more information on how to improve that environment during times that you are working from home!
So we hear we should stand more… but how bad is it? According to a study from the American Journal of Public Health (2018), when comparing those who sit more than eight hours a day compared to those that sit less than four hours a day, risk factors increase for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancers, depression and physical pain conditions. Let’s break some of these numbers down. There is nearly a 2X higher chance of type 2 diabetes, a 10-20% increase in cardiovascular disease conditions (strokes, heart attacks, etc.), there is between a 13-20% higher chance of dying from cancers, and up to a 20% increased risk of depression for those that sit more than eight hours a day compared to those sitting less than four hours a day.
In terms of physical conditions there a definite increased risk in neck pain, tension headache, shoulder pain, upper and mid back pain, lower back pain and the list goes on. But follow some of the tips in this article and let’s take down those risk factors for all of those conditions!
Let’s combine this section and instead treat it per area of the body!
Improper monitor height
Spending too long in front of the screen
Improper keyboard height
Long term working on a laptop
Upper Back and Mid Back Pain
Desk is too high
Keyboard and mouse are too far away
Screen is too far away
Screen is too low
Seat has inadequate support
Working from a laptop
Lower back pain
Chair is too high
Feet do not touch the floor
Chair does not support the low back
Chair seat is too long and not adjustable
Sitting up too straight
A micro-break is an activity that makes you change your current positions for a short amount of time. Micro-breaks are extremely helpful for desk workers because it breaks of a natural process in our body called hysteresis. Hysteresis is a term that describes our muscles’ ability to adapt to stress in a physical environment. Our bodies adapt each day to what we are doing and it gets used to the stresses we put on them. So sitting without moving for 8 hours means there is a build up of scar tissue designed to keep you in that position because our body has adapted. This cycle occurs every 30-40 minutes and if we can confused the body during that cycle it won’t be able to build up the scar tissue. Additionally, you can use that time to grab some water to hydrate, do some simple desk exercises or just simply get blood flowing through your body.
Here’s a video that details a movement that can improve the health outcomes for many in the future:
Here’s some other alarming statistics of our lives now that are recapped from the video!
Upper Trap Stretching
Levator Scap Stretching
Chin Tuck Exercise
Pec Lacrosse Ball
Seated Cat Cow
Seated Thoracic Rotations
Piriformis lacrosse ball
Banded Box Squat
Hip Flexor Stretch
As always, if you have any questions about your conditions and would like to schedule an appointment with us at Baseline Health and Wellness you can give us a call at 6046744027 or schedule online at www.baselinewellness.ca
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Portion-scoops (most folks call them “ice cream scoops) come in an array of sizes, each denoted by a number. This number is the number of scoops in a quart. So, a 32 scoop would be a 1-ounce scoop, whereas an 8 scoop would be a 4–ounce scoop.
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Wire EDM Cutting for Precision Parts
Metalmite, located in Rochester, Michigan — approximately 20 miles outside of Detroit — has invested in the best Wire EDM equipment available to benefit their customers. People often ask “What is Wire EDM?” and “How does it cut metal so accurately and precise?” Well, here is how it works; in wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM), or wire-cut EDM, a thin single-strand metal wire, usually brass, is fed through the workpiece, typically occurring submerged in a tank of dielectric fluid.
This process is used to cut plates as thick as 300mm and to make punches, tools,and dies from hard metals that are too difficult to machine with other methods. The wire, which is constantly fed from a spool, is held between upper and lower diamond guides. The guides move in the x–y plane, usually being CNC controlled and on almost all modern machines the upper guide can also move independently in the z–u–v axis, giving rise to the ability to cut tapered and transitioning shapes (circle on the bottom square at the top for example) and can control axis movements in x–y–u–v–i–j–k–l–. This gives the wire-cut EDM the ability to be programmed to cut very intricate and delicate shapes.
The wire is controlled by upper and lower diamond guides that are usually accurate to 0.004 mm, and can have a cutting path or kerf as small as 0.12 mm using Ø 0.1 mm wire, though the average cutting kerf that achieves the best economic cost and machining time is 0.335 mm using Ø 0.25 brass wire. The reason that the cutting width is greater than the width of the wire is because sparking also occurs from the sides of the wire to the work piece, causing erosion. This “overcut” is necessary, predictable, and easily compensated for.
Spools of wire are typically very long. For example, an 8 kg spool of 0.25 mm wire is just over 19 kilometers long. Today, the smallest wire diameter is 20 micrometres and the geometry precision is not far from +/- 1 micrometre. The wire-cut process uses water as its dielectric with the water’s resistivity and other electrical properties carefully controlled by filters and de-ionizer units. The water also serves the very critical purpose of flushing the cut debris away from the cutting zone. Flushing is an important determining factor in the maximum feed rate available in a given material thickness, and poor flushing situations necessitate the reduction of the feed rate.
Along with tighter tolerances multiaxis EDM wire-cutting machining center have many added features such as: Multiheads for cutting two parts at the same time, controls for preventing wire breakage, automatic self-threading features in case of wire breakage, and programmable machining strategies to optimize the operation.
Wire-cutting EDM is commonly used when low residual stresses are desired. Wire EDM has no added residual stress because it has no cutting forces. There is little change in the mechanical properties of a material in wire-cutting EDM due to these low residual stresses.
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Barry Lam *07, an associate professor of philosophy at Vassar College and creator of the new Hi-Phi Nation podcast, says that his show “turns stories into ideas.” It’s a tagline that speaks to more general appeal than, say, a Kant seminar. But Lam hopes the podcast also will engage his peers in academia. “There’s more to what we do than just talking to each other through research articles,” he says. Reporting, editing, and producing the show has proven to be an immersive experience for Lam, who is spending the year at Duke University as a visiting faculty fellow in the Humanities Writ Large Initiative. He spoke with PAW about his deep dive into podcasting.
“The idea came to me four years ago. I was sitting around with a bunch of soldiers at West Point — officers who were there to teach philosophy to cadets. They were telling me about their war experiences and how it made them think differently about the morality of war. And I thought, ‘that’s actually a great episode for a show.’
“When I had a sabbatical a year and a half ago, I decided I was going to try to do this project. … [After producing one episode], I started applying for fellowships and got the attention of a couple of people at Duke. They have this fellowship for liberal-arts college professors. It’s completely non-standard: I’m not here to work on a book or any research papers; I’m actually here to bring storytelling to philosophy in an audio medium.”
“[As a graduate student], you are there to be trained to be an expert in the field, and I was trained very well. … To be honest, while I was at Princeton I had a constant belief or fear or reservation that I didn’t belong there, that everybody was doing excellent things and I wasn’t. That’s interesting because what happens is when you leave, and you start trying to branch out like I have — I’ve branched from philosophy to audio production — I think that Princeton … actually has given me a lot of confidence outside of that environment.”
“Anybody who listens to the show will hear almost immediately that it’s got a heavy This American Life influence because I feel like everybody in my generation is influenced by This American Life. … More recently I’ve listened to a lot of Radiotopia shows — Love+Radio, 99% Invisible — so I’ve gotten a little bit of an influence in production. When I listen to these shows, I think about what they’re trying to do [and] how well they’re achieving it.
“I saw how much Freakonomics was doing for that discipline, just as part of the culture in addition to being an academic discipline. Freakonomics really brought out a lot of economic literacy and economic interest in people and in the students who are coming into college. … I think that philosophy has a lot to offer people also, and there isn’t a similar kind of show.”
A fresh approach
“Most philosophy is done in writing, even the popular stuff. With podcasting, all of the philosophy shows are one-on-one interview shows or talk shows. I think that they do have this mission of trying to [bring] philosophy to a lot of people, but they don’t integrate this narrative, storytelling element that’s very effective at gripping people. … What does it look like to investigate a story with philosophy? Nobody does it. Philosophy research doesn’t include that, nobody trains us how to do it. So I’m in the process of making up what that looks like.”
Interview conducted and condensed by Brett Tomlinson
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The first modern Homo sapiens to reach Europe more than 45,000 years ago faced much colder temperatures than had been thought, archaeologists have deduced – yet they slogged on and survived during one the peaks of the last Ice Age, a new study shows.
The findings contradict the prevailing paradigm that Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa and the Levant, and dispersed throughout Eurasia, chiefly because the climate at this time had warmed. It isn’t so, we learn. The study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, could change how we think about the dispersal of our early ancestors and what caused the extinction of other hominin groups, chiefly the Neanderthals.
An international team led by Sarah Pederzani, an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, gleaned the data from the chemical analysis of animal bones found in Bacho Kiro Cave, a site in Bulgaria recently identified as the oldest known home of modern Homo sapiens in Europe.
A single tooth and a handful of bone fragments have shown that already 46,000-45,000 years ago the cave was occupied by humans linked to the so-called Initial Upper Paleolithic tool culture, the first group of modern Homo sapiens that left Africa to colonize large swathes of Eurasia.
Tools associated with the Initial Upper Paleolithic first appear in what is today Israel’s Negev desert around 50,000 years ago and then spread relatively quickly (in evolutionary terms) as far as Mongolia and Eastern Europe.
The new research by Pederzani and colleagues didn’t look at the paltry sapiens remains found at Bacho Kiro. The team analyzed the leftovers of animals hunted and eaten by the cave’s Initial Upper Paleolithic residents, specifically teeth of horses and bovids.
The researchers found that 45,000 years ago the climate in this region of Eastern Europe was considerably colder than previously thought, with temperatures similar to what is experienced today at the higher latitudes of Russia and Scandinavia.
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While the mean temperature at Bacho Kiro is around 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) today, back then it was closer to 5 degrees below zero, with lows of 20 degrees below zero in winter.
“It’s hard to say how well they were adapted to these conditions but it’s clear that they survived and managed to exploit this almost polar environment for at least a couple of millennia,” Pederzani tells Haaretz. “The idea that only warm conditions are favorable for early Homo sapiens dispersal is not supported by this data.”
It bears adding that tools apparently used to skin animals and prepare their pelts for clothing were discovered in Morocco and dated to 120,000 to 90,000 years ago. So the sapiens leaving Africa for the cold may have been at least suitably dressed, but the real challenge in the rigid European climes would be finding enough food to avoid starvation – all while competing for scarce resources with the continent’s original inhabitants, the Neanderthals.
Analyzing the horse’s mouth
The findings also belie the somewhat comforting idea that we had nothing to do with the disappearance of Neanderthals, which occurred around 42,000 years ago and which some previous paleoclimate studies have blamed on a prolonged cold spell.
We know from earlier DNA studies that the Bacho Kiro sapiens had interbred with Neanderthals. So low temperatures cannot be entirely blamed for their disappearance if our close evolutionary cousins were still around in what seems to have been one of the coldest periods of the last Ice Age, and so were we. Also, the nice, warm Levant was thronged by Neanderthals starting about 80,000 years ago and until their final extinction.
But, I hear you asking, how does looking into a prehistoric horse’s mouth tell us what the temperature was tens of thousands of years ago?
The research relies on isotopic analysis of the teeth enamel, a scientific method that is increasingly used by archaeologists. The ratio of isotopes, variants of the same element with a different number of neutrons, changes from place to place and through different climes. In the formative years of an animal’s life, humans included, these isotopes accumulate in our dental enamel as we absorb them from the water, air and food. So researchers can study the isotopes in ancient teeth to reveal how populations migrated, what they ate and what environmental conditions they were exposed to.
In the case of Bacho Kiro, the researchers looked at the isotope ratios of two elements: strontium and oxygen. The ratio for the first element varies from place to place, and the fact that it was the same for all animals studied confirmed that these horses and bovids hadn’t migrated from elsewhere and the information locked in their enamel could be used as an indicator of the local climate. That information comes from the ratio of oxygen isotopes, which varies as a result or more or less evaporation, which in turn is a function, and therefore an indicator, of temperature, Pederzani explains.
To summarize: young wild horses and cattle drink water 45,000 years ago, absorbing a telltale composition of oxygen atoms in their tooth enamel; later in their lives these animals are hunted and eaten by Homo sapiens at Bacho Kiro Cave; millennia later an arguably smarter version of sapiens uses the leftover teeth to figure out that during the Upper Paleolithic it was much chillier than we thought.
At this point you might be wondering whether, given the polar winter temperatures at Bacho Kiro, the occupation of the cave may have been seasonal, with people living there only during the summer. But that’s not the case, the paper in Science Advances notes. Since some animals tend to be born at a specific time of the year, the researchers were able to check the state of development of their bones and determine in what season they had been killed. And indeed part of the remains found in the cave belonged to animals who had been hunted down in winter.
A paleolithic thermometer
If confirmed by future research, the implications of the discovery would be much broader than just delivering a weather report from the Stone Age. They suggest that modern sapiens was much more adaptable than we believed and the factors behind our dispersal from Africa were much more complex than a supposedly favorable climate, Pederzani explains.
“A lot of different factors may have driven the dispersal, such as cultural and demographic ones, as well as other environmental factors,” she says. “For example, a colder steppe environment with vast open grassland may be more favorable to highly mobile hunters than a warmer, forested environment.”
The problem with this data is that it tends to be fairly broad in geographic or chronological terms, says Professor Jean-Jacques Hublin, head of the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. The new method developed by Pederzani and colleagues gives us an indication of the climate at the time and place where early humans actually lived, says Hublin, who is also one of the authors on the study.
“I’ve been dreaming for years of something like this, of finding a thermometer that tells us what was the temperature of a place when humans were there, rather than looking at broad data from ice cores in Greenland,” he tells Haaretz.
The find sheds light on a key and still quite mysterious step in human evolution.
Neanderthals and sapiens diverged around 700,000 years ago and for hundreds of thousands of years they pretty much stuck to their corners of the world: early sapiens roamed Africa while Neanderthals shared Eurasia with the elusive Denisovans.
The Middle East was sort of a “border zone” which at times was controlled by either sapiens or Neanderthals, and there is evidence the two groups coexisted and possibly had the first of a series of interbreeding events in the region.
These forays into each other’s Levantine territories were brief and limited in scope, Hublin says. They may have well been modulated by climate fluctuations: moist periods brought sapiens more to the north and drier spells pushed the Neanderthals south.
But the new study shows that after 50,000 years ago, with the first appearance of the Initial Upper Paleolithic culture outside Africa, something had happened in our evolution that broke this equilibrium.
“The common scenario was that there was this very cold episode in Europe that reduced a lot the Neanderthal populations and then this milder period where modern Homo sapiens moved from the Levant into the higher latitudes and replaced the Neanderthal,” Hublin notes. “This is completely false: the time when we have the first modern sapiens in Europe is a phase that is much colder than we thought.”
The secret to our success was not a random mild spell, but that humans had developed much more complex social and cultural ties that allowed them to come up with more advanced technologies and adapt to all but the most inhospitable environments on Earth, Hublin posits.
This means that even if we didn’t actively exterminate other hominins, we likely had a hand in their extinction, by outcompeting them.
Previous studies have already showed that Neanderthals had survived earlier cold periods of the Ice Age, and though their numbers may have been diminished, they were quickly replenished once conditions improved, Hublin notes.
“If the Neanderthals disappear at the time when humans arrive in Eurasia it’s because of us, because of the competition with us,” he says.
Because sapiens was more adaptable, as the climate fluctuated, modern humans tended to be the first to occupy an inhospitable region as soon as temperatures started to rise and the landscape changed, Hublin says.
“I see Europe at this time as a giant chessboard with squares that open and close depending on the climate situation,” he concludes. “If you have one group that is more flexible and faster in occupying those squares when they open up then this group is eventually going to replace the others.”
It took a few thousand years but soon, for the Neanderthals, the Denisovans and other hominins with whom we once shared the planet, it was checkmate.
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Adaptive Equalization Using Controlled Equal Gain Combining for Uplink/Downlink MC-CDMA Systems
In this paper we propose an enhanced equalization technique for multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA). This method is based on the control of Equal Gain Combining (EGC) technique. Indeed, we introduce a new level changer to the EGC equalizer in order to adapt the equalization parameters to the channel coefficients. The optimal equalization level is, first, determined by channel training. The new approach reduces drastically the mutliuser interferences caused by interferes, without increasing the noise power. To compare the performances of the proposed equalizer, the theoretical analysis and numerical performances are given.
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Project Broadband Radio Access Networks (BRAN); HYPERLAN Type 2, Technical specification; Physical Layer.
MC-CDMA for next generation systems. The IST projects Matrice and 4MORE.
N.Yee, Jean-Paul M. G. Linnartz and G. Fettweis, Multi-Carrier-CDMA in indoor wireless networks, Conference Proceedings PIMRC -93, Yokohama, September, 1993. p 109-113.
Jean-Paul M. G. Linnartz, Performance Analysis of Synchronous MCCDMA in Mobile Rayleigh Channel With Both Delay and Doppler Spreads. IEEE Transactions on Vehecular Technology, Vol. 50, No. 6, November 2001.
M. Frikel, B. Targui, M. M-Saad, and F. Hamon, Bit Error Rate Analysis of the Controlled Equalization for MC-CDMA. IEEE ICSPC-07.
S. Kaiser, OFDM-CDMA versus DS-CDMA: performance evaluation for fading channels. IEEE International Conference on Communications, pages 1722-1726, June 1995.
S. Kaiser, Multi-carrier CDMA mobile radio system-analysis and optimization of detection, decoding, and channel estimation, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Munich, Munich, Germany, 1998.
K. Fazel et L. Papke, On the performance of convolutionnally-coded CDMA/OFDM for mobile communication system. IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Symposium, pages 468-472, Septembre 1993.
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Excalibur S GPS/laser-guided artillery shell homes in on moving target
Raytheon and the US Navy have successfully fired a precision-guided munition that can be fired from a howitzer and zero in on a moving object. The recent test of the Excalibur S round not only demonstrated its ability to switch from GPS to laser guidance to find its target, but also that its electronics and sensors can withstand the shock of being fired out of a gun.
The Excalibur S is the latest variant of Raytheon's Excalibur line of smart projectiles. Developed by Raytheon and BAE Systems Bofors, it uses the GPS technology from the Excalibur Ib, and combines it with a semi-active laser seeker that allows it to home in on moving land and maritime targets with a miss radius of under two meters (6.5 ft).
The Excalibur system is designed to work with a variety of artillery and can extend the range of a .52 caliber gun to over 50 km (31 mi) to hit or damage its target with the first round. When the Excalibur S is first fired, it uses GPS to make its initial target fix, then switches over to its laser sensor to home in on an outside targeting beam.
According to Raytheon, one Excalibur round can do the work of 10 conventional rounds and the Excalibur S package can be used to upgrade previous Excalibur iterations.
"Using artillery to engage moving targets gives soldiers more flexibility," says Sam Deneke, Raytheon Land Warfare Systems vice president. "Artillery is typically used to hit stationary objects, but Excalibur S expands the capability of artillery on the battlefield."
The video below shows the test of the Excalibur S for the US Navy.
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The WSJ’s “Finance Rules Not Clear-Cut” actually cites a few FEC regulations and refers to an advisory opinion.
In 1977, the Federal Election Commission sought to prevent politicians and others campaigning for them from getting free travel to political events on donors’ corporate planes or government flights. Thus, paragraph 106.3(b)(3) of Title 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations was born, requiring campaigns to foot the bill for an entire leg of a trip if it includes anything more than “incidental” campaign work. Classifying and reporting these trips requires lawyers to examine all a candidate’s activities and sometimes measure hypothetical legs of a multistop tour to keep payments separate.
Then in 1995, the commission felt compelled to respond to a scandal over candidates taking vacations on the campaign’s bill or otherwise using campaign money as a personal bank account simply by including a token campaign element in their expenses. The FEC created a “personal use” prohibition that required candidates and others working on their behalf to pay out of their own pockets certain expenses that would have existed irrespective of the campaign — and blocking the candidates from being reimbursed by the campaign for such expenses. This one is paragraph 113.1(g) of Title 11 in the same code.
In 2002, the commission recognized the contradiction between 106.3(b)(3) and 113.1(g) in an advisory opinion requested by the city of Bettendorf, Iowa. The mayor made an official visit to Washington with other dignitaries, but stayed longer to attend a candidate training event. As the training was on personal time and the trip would have happened anyway, the commission ruled that her campaign didn’t need to reimburse the city for the airfare.
Section 106.3(c)(1)-(2) provides:
(c)(1) Where an individual, other than candidate, conducts campaign-related activities on a trip, the portion of the trip attributed to each candidate shall be allocated on a reasonable basis.
(2) Travel expenses of a candidate’s spouse and family are reportable as expenditures only if the spouse or family members conduct campaign-related activities.
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We are in the tech age, the one created with tools, research, and connectivity. Many platforms have combined education with technology. The pouring of online classrooms, e-learning materials, computer-based instructions, educational apps, and podcasts are examples of technology-infused education. What's more important to discuss now is rethinking such technology accessible to all student groups for higher education.
As we delve into the broader aspect of accessibility, it's significant to note that the meaning of the term "accessibility" is different to different people. For students with low-income groups, accessing expensive programs is challenging, whereas a disabled student finds a course designed for ordinary people challenging. The right to cater to the needs of all students rather than individuals is an urgent necessity. Universities' focus must be, therefore, on the outcomes before designing solutions to existing problems.
Unless you face the issues that a disabled person faces in the educational pattern, you will never understand the reality. The disability services for students who have dyslexia are deaf or blind, are clumsy and confusing. It takes more out of them than giving them the benefit of using reframed technology. So, universities must associate with instructors and focus on creating content that serves every individual student, irrespective of his group. The diverse meaning of accessibility will then stand true to its identity.
Varied Learning Platforms
Microsoft Office has a unique built-in accessibility feature with a checker to improve reading aspects by any user. The colour contrast in Powerpoint and the Google Workspace with cloud-based tools and diverse learning systems have started addressing the major concerns of any student. AI-enabled tools and chatbots are also successful in innovating methods to reach different student groups. With such varied learning platforms, we are getting close to stop discriminating against our population with their handicaps and grow as a developed race.
Here is a look at some of the platforms focusing on change and certain suggestions to go with them.
The EdTech industry has already bowed down to the invention of ebooks: a better version for readers.. Many coursebooks have enrolled and have their PDF versions. These ebooks are portable, accessible to anywhere, weigh less, and are priced lesser than their physical counterparts.
From Google classroom to edx, Duolingo, Blackboard App, these educational apps are developed to provide a relief to students. Some of them are even free for some users. They can access coursework, view course contents, submit assignments and tests, all at the comfort of their homes. Remote learning is the option in many socio-economic classes, and given the pandemic times, it's a consolation.
Speech to Text Options
Virtual assistants are intelligent as they are created to help people ease work processes and speed up the job.
Audio Tools and Podcasts
Students who are blind and depend on audios or podcasts can easily access those at their convenience for free or at a reasonable rate. Assistive listening systems are developed for students with auditory issues. There are also some online tools for recording students words or phonemes.
Sip and Puff Systems
They are designed for students with challenges in mobility. They use a joystick-like device that the student can move through his mouth. It has applications while drawing or designing on a computer.
It comes with different features that help to correct misspelt words.
It is another math tool that recognizes students' speech with a range of disabilities and helps them solve even Ph.D.-level mathematical problems.
It is a tool to organize written text and conceptualize the whole process. It uses TTS technology as well as a dictionary to assist students with different needs.
Change is the Only Constant
Education itself has the purpose of reaching people and enrich them with information, prudence, and judgment. The human race is diverse and can't be questioned. However, technology accessibility in the ed sector must be sincere because a large audience will impact an even larger generation. Through digital inclusion, there will remain no barriers in the learning institution.
The focus on the quality of the online education system and technology research is already paving the way to a great future. What remains is addressing the multidimensional issues of accessibility by rethinking several modules and bringing a change. In the words of Judy Heumann, American Disability Rights Activist,
For most of us, technology makes things easier. For a person with a disability, it makes things possible.
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Alaska Fish & Wildlife News
The Gators and Bears of Spring
Managing Large and Potentially Dangerous Wildlife
In Alaska, spring brings bears. And sometimes they are where they shouldn’t be---in digging in dumpsters, eating dog food on your back porch, spreading your garbage all over your driveway, and even playing on your backyard swing set.
In Florida, spring brings alligators. They too are emerging from a dormant winter and looking for food and mates. Males, especially during the April mating season, move around a lot and account for most sightings.
Hungry bears and human foibles keep Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists busy for months fielding nuisance bear calls, writing citations for improper garbage storage, and deciding when a particular bear has run out of second chances and needs to be destroyed. In Florida, a similar situation plays out with alligators. Despite the wide geographical and species divide, wildlife managers in both states face many of the same issues helping people coexist with these large, wild, potentially dangerous animals. Both species are dormant in winter and emerge in spring hungry and needing to put on a layer of fat.
Florida has over a million alligators, averaging between 3 and 8 feet in length - but they can grow up to 14 feet long and weigh 1,000 pounds. As they are cold blooded, they are most active during the warmest parts of the year---spring, summer, and fall. Alaska is home to about 100,000 black bears and about 30,000 brown bears, also called grizzly bears. Alaska’s black bears average about 200 pounds, brown bears and average 350 to 500 pounds, and big coastal bears can be more than 1,000 pounds.
Steve Stiegler, Assistant Leader, Alligator Management Program, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, estimates he receives about 15,000 calls a year about alligator sightings. “Most of the calls we get are from people observing alligators in their natural setting, from their property,” Stiegler said. “Practically everyone in the state lives near a water body, and if someone is new, not from the region, when they see an alligator they kind of freak out.”
Unlike bears, which are curious and inquisitive, most alligator sightings are of alligators moving from one aquatic environment to another. “They don’t specifically go on land to search for food,” Stiegler said. That they may pass through your backyard or accidently wander into your garage is incidental; if left alone, most will continue on their journey. Along their overland journey, any feeding will be opportunistic and will most likely involve tethered animals or carcasses. “If someone ties up their dog next to a canal or lake a large gator might see that as easy pickings,” Steigler said.
To have an alligator hanging around purposefully in your house or yard is rare, according to Steigler. In contrast, many Juneau residents have stories of home visits by curious bears. Beth Potter of Basin Road woke up from a nap a few years ago and found something large and black in her living room. Her first thought was “Oh my god, there’s a big dog in my house.” It was actually a bear. “I almost could have reached out and touched him.” She stood up and yelled and the bear ran outside, much to the amusement of passing tourists. A few hours later, in her back yard, she felt like someone was watching her. She was right. “I looked around and he was behind a big spruce tree about 25 feet away staring at me.” She stood up and yelled and he left, but not before giving her a look she characterizes as “Wait, what did I do?” Despite making the bear look sad, “I didn’t want him to think it was cool to be there,” she said.
Bears are endearing, especially cubs. It’s easy to see how the unwary can be tempted to feed them, get close to take pictures, play with them, or otherwise treat them like pets. Their movements and mannerisms can appear surprisingly human, as many have discovered at the Mendenhall visitors center viewing platforms in Juneau. It’s not unusual to see cubs in trees sitting on branches and swinging their little legs like children. Conversely, alligators are not really anthropomorphized and no one thinks they’re cute, but the sure path to both species’ demise as nuisance animals starts with humans feeding them.
“Keep Alaska’s Bears Wild” - Alaska’s public service campaigns entreat people to secure their garbage in bear-proof containers, keep pet food indoors, and take down bird feeders.
The road to death for nuisance animals starts with access to human food or edible waste. In Southeast Alaska, several communities had problems with bears feeding at their landfills. According to Sandra Woods, Environmental Program Specialist with the State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, many of these communities found that shipping their solid waste to Washington state solved their bear problems. “The last time I was in Klawock, there were no bears in the landfill,” she said. Other Southeast communities that have reduced their nuisance bear problem by shipping out their household waste are Ketchikan, Petersburg, Sitka, and Wrangell. This year, Yakutat will be testing a bear-proof electric fence around their landfill.
Florida’s public service educational campaigns stress “Don’t feed or molest.” Typical instances of alligator molesting involve people capturing a baby alligator, or trying to snag one with a fishing hook. “They’re only about 8 inches long as babies,” Stiegler said. People think it’s cool to have an alligator, not realizing that keeping one as a pet is illegal. Even a children’s coloring book “All About Alligators” available on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation commission web site repeatedly stresses to children the importance of not feeding alligators.
It is illegal to feed alligators or keep them as pets---for the same reasons those activities are illegal in Alaska. Animals habituated to humans and domestic food sources---while exciting at first---often ends in tragedy with the animal first becoming a nuisance and then a danger to people, property, or pets. Both bears and alligators can difficult to relocate, as both usually return to their initial capture site.
What happens to nuisance animals?
Destroying nuisance bears is almost always the purview of Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists. “It’s rare to have law enforcement destroy a bear without Fish and Game involvement,” said Ryan Scott, wildlife biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Juneau. In contrast, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission contracts licensed trappers to capture nuisance alligators. Each area has a trapping contractor who is required to make a site visit to the area of a legitimate nuisance alligator call. If the alligator is larger than 4 feet long, the trapper is allowed to kill it and sell the hide and meat for profit, which is how Florida’s licensed trapping contractors are paid. If the alligator is less than 4 ft long, it is relocated. Of the 15,000 calls received each year, only about 5,000 alligators are deemed a nuisance and removed.
“Alligator hide is a luxury product,” Stiegler said, and added “The hide market is depressed right now, along with the global market. The meat market is a novelty market, trappers probably get between $5 and $6 a pound selling to restaurant or seafood markets. When prices are high, all nuisance [alligator] trappers are fairly compensated.”
Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists euthanize nuisance bears after first immobilizing bears with capture drugs. Scott explains “Per protocol, we use drugs to capture bears. It’s more humane.” Because of the drugs, the meat cannot be harvested for consumption, but the hides, bones, and skull are saved for requests from groups looking for bear hides and bones. ADF&G will permit the possession of bear parts for civic groups, schools, Native American organizations, and other groups with legitimate educational uses of the animal.
Risk to humans?
Florida’s 1.2 million alligators are found in all 67 counties. Despite the steady human population growth, now at just under 19 million, unprovoked bites by alligators have remained steady at only five per year between 1948 and 2004 with only 15 fatalities. Bear populations are not closely tracked; Alaska is too vast for precise counting. The population is managed for hunting, and neither brown or black bears have ever been endangered.
Humans are seldom the intended prey for either alligators or bears. Both may charge defensively if threatened, but neither are usually a threat unless guarding their young. Nest-guarding female alligators will sometimes hiss and open their mouths to frighten intruders, but it’s unlikely you will find yourself being chased on land by an alligator. Alligators are opportunistic feeders; they do most of their hunting by ambush in aquatic environments.
Humans are seldom intended prey for wild bears either, unless their natural fear of humans disappears once they associate humans with food. In the last decade, public service announcements, the availability of bear-proof garbage containers, and other awareness campaigns have helped curb the incidence of “garbage bears.” In the Juneau area, although number of nuisance bear calls averages around 100 per year, nuisance bear mortality has declined each year.
Amy Carroll is a publications specialist with ADF&G, covering the shark and alligator beat for Alaka Fish and Wildlife News.
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The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an outlawed umbrella of militant groups blamed for most violence in Pakistan, has set up a special cell in Syria to coordinate the ongoing ‘jihad’ against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, reports the BBC Urdu.
“The cell has been established with the help of the Arab fighters who had fought in Afghanistan and have now moved to Syria to take part in the jihad,” a Taliban official told the BBC Urdu. “In the last two months, around 12 information technology experts have moved to Syria.”
Pakistani authorities have refused to comment on the revelation.
According to the Pakistan-based militant groups, the majority Sunni population in Syria has been subjected to oppression by the minority Alawite regime of Bashar al Assad.
The coordinating official of the cell, Muhammad Amin, told the BBC that the cell was set up six months ago “in order to keep a watch on the ongoing jihad”. The cell shares information regarding the Syrian conflict with Pakistan-based militants.
According to Muhammad Amin, the Taliban’s Syrian friends, who had helped them in the ‘Afghan jihad’ now help the people running the cell. “The cell assesses the needs of Syrian jihad and offers help in joint operations.” He added that dozens of fighters in Pakistan were ready to take part in the war in Syria.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 14th, 2013.
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Future log is the page in your bullet journal where you jot down all your upcoming events for the following year. It gives you the bird’s-eye view of your entire year. So, you know what you’re dealing with in the coming months.
Our brain stores information in bits and pieces, and if you don’t act quickly, you’ll forget it. As a result, a future log is a better way to store this information in an organized manner.
Note – This is the 3rd post in a 10-day Blog Series on ‘How To Start A Bullet Journal For Beginners’. If you are a beginner and have no idea how to start your bujo from scratch, this series will definitely help you! Here are the links to all the posts.
Day 1 – How To Start A Bullet Journal ( No Art Skills Required!)
Day 2 – How To Easily Create Your Introduction, Key And Index Page
You’re On Day 3!
Day 4 – How To Create A Future Goals Page In Your BuJo
Day 5 – How To Create Bullet Journal Quotes Page and More
On Day 6 – Must Have Bullet Journal Pages For A Better 2022
Day 7 – How To Create A Bullet Journal Monthly Spread
Day 8 – Bullet Journal Habit And Mood Tracker Ideas
On Day 9 – Simple Bullet Journal Weekly Spread Ideas For Beginners
Day 10 – 15 Easy Ideas For Bullet Journal Collections
Why You Need A Future Log In Your Bullet Journal?
Remember the last time you forgot your friends birthday? I’m pretty sure you don’t want to go through that embarrassment again.
A future log allows you to keep track of birthdays, meetings, appointments, and holidays. So you can see your entire year at a glance and plan accordingly. For example, if you have a doctor’s appointment every three months, it will be much easier to schedule and spread out in your future log.
You won’t need your future log everyday. However, it is beneficial when you plan your months using task migration. Which means, copying the tasks mentioned in future log for this month to the monthly log.
You can also use this future log to set reminders on your phones every month.
What To Write In A Future Log Bullet Journal?
If you’re still confused about what to include in your future log, here are some suggestions:
- Important days
- Bill Payment Dates
- Vacation dates
- Basically, everything!
Before getting started, if you want to save yourself some time and energy from finding the perfect bullet journal ideas, here’s a 35+ Bullet Journal Printable Pack for FREE!
How to Create A Future Log In A Bullet Journal?
The simplest way to create a future log is to divide your page horizontally into three sections. In the left corner, write the name of each month. Then, start logging the important dates and events for that month.
But, because it’s bullet journaling, there are a million other ways to design your future log page. Here are some future log in bullet journal ideas for beginners.
1. Ryder Carroll’s Method
He used the straightforward method of dividing your page into 3 or 6 months. And start rapid logging your events, tasks or notes. If you’re not a creative nerd and just want to reap the benefits of a future log, this method is probably the best.
Here’s a template for the same.
2. Using Small Calendars
Use the layout mentioned above (In Carroll’s method) and insert little calendars below each months name. This gives a better idea of the month and helps you plan better.
If you don’t want to draw, you can get these calendar stickers from Amazon.
3. Vertical Layout
Divide your page into 3-6 months; this time vertically. And then start logging your events for the month. You can also add calendars below each month if you like.
4. Year At A Glance
Most people divide a page into three columns, owing to the fact that bullet journals are typically A5 in size (like this one). That means you can only see 6 months at a time, in a flatlay.
But if you don’t have a lot to record in your future log or have an a4 bullet journal, you can create the future log for an entire year in a single open notebook spread.
Divide one page into six sections, one for each month. And start logging. Here’s an ‘year at a glance’ future log template.
5. Circular Format
This one’s a little more creative. However, I believe it can also help you save some space.
Open up your journal. Draw a circle in the middle. Write down all your months around this circle. Then, alongside each month, include important dates and events.
Steps To Use A Future Log Bullet Journal
Step 1 : Setup The Future Log In Your Bullet Journal
Before setting up, you need to decide on a few things.
How far do you want to go in the future?
Choose whether you want a future log for an entire year or just the next few months. Many people keep a bullet journal for six months.
In addition, there is no right time to start a new bullet journal. You can start at any point during the year and plan your layouts accordingly. Create a future plan for the months of August through December if you’re starting a new bujo in August.
What kind of layout do you want?
Choose your preferred layout. You can use any of the beginner-friendly layouts listed above or create your own. And leave pages as you see fit.
Suppose, you want to keep a year’s worth of future log while using a three-month-on-one-page layout, you’ll need four pages in your bullet journal.
I created a simple 3 months on one page template, and drew these borders with an orange pen to give a polaroid effect.
If you’re still not sure, you can just download the free printables and get started.
Step 2 : Record Your Future
Brain dump all your upcoming events, meetings and important dates in your future log.
Use your mobile phones or old journals for reference.
Step 3 : Migrate Your Tasks
Once everything is in place, it’s time to start thinking about your future! Migrate all tasks from the future log to the monthly log at the beginning of each month.
Also, for each new week, migrate all of the bullet points from your monthly log to your weekly log. This way, you’ll never start your day/month unaware of what’s going on in your life.
Day 4 On ‘How To Start A Bullet Journal For Beginners’
Hopefully, you now have a good idea about the future log for your bullet journal. Create one for yourself and let me know in the comments how it goes.
Before moving on to the monthly log section, we’ll create some optional page layouts tomorrow, i.e. a few pages to keep you inspired and on track. I’m very excited!
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Understanding how the Seebeck effect of organic thermoelectric devices is associated with the chemical structure of active molecules within the devices is a key goal in organic and molecular thermoelectrics. This paper describes a series of physical-organic studies that investigate structure-thermopower relationships in self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) through measurements of the Seebeck coefficient (S, μV/K) using the eutectic gallium-indium (EGaIn)-based junction technique. Several hypotheses were derived from a transmission function-based simple toy model, the Lorentzian transmission function-based Mott formula. These hypotheses were tested by comparing values ofSfor simple alkyl and aryl molecules with different structures in terms of backbone, length, spacer, anchor, and substituent, and for different electrodes (Au vs Ag), and by monitoring responses ofSto the structural modifications. Experimentally obtainedSvalues were further reconciled with values simulated by the Mott formula and with interfacial electronic structure and molecule-electrode coupling strength, independently measured by ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy and transition voltage spectroscopy.
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- Explanation of Confidential Information
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Wuming Theater Club’s Das Kapital
CAMIT Grant Recipient 2020
Confronting capitalism through absurdist comedy
What is money? Why do we need money, and what is it for?
Das Kapital (2010), written by Shanghai-based playwright Nick Rongjun Yu, is an absurdist comedy that asks questions about the rise of global capitalism. “In the past thirty years,” Yu writes, “China has never been able to avoid capitalism. It has long seeped into every aspect of our lives: government, economics, society, laws, beliefs, ideals. We have nowhere to run in the face of capitalism. […] This play expresses the relationship between capitalism and modern society, life and reality and deeply examines capitalism’s characteristics, nature, and essence.”
As an absurdist comedy, Das Kapital approaches serious questions about capitalism through humor, provoking laughter as well as debate and discussion about the relationship between economy, society, and culture.
MIT Wuming Theater Club adapted Das Kapital to situate it in the context of MIT and Boston (even re-situating one scene to take place at the top of the Prudential Center). Wuming Theater Club held an additional interactive performance in November 2019 to promote the show.
Performed in Chinese with English subtitles. Translation by Yangyang Guo and Katie Lu.
Das Kapital was supported by MIT Music and Theatre Arts and funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT and the MIT De Florez Fund for Humor.
Presented by Wuming Theater Club
January 24-26, 2020 / 7pm
MIT Building W97
345 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA
MIT Wuming Theater Club was founded by MIT students and affiliated students in fall 2014. The mission of Wuming is to promote the expression of Chinese culture and language through the art of theater.
Das Kapital was directed by Yuning Su (Emerson College) who also adapted the play to the setting of MIT.
The cast included Jun Cao, Wisteria Deng, Lucie Du, Will Du, Zixun Jia, Xinyi Li, Nick Ning, Ke Ren, Yuning Su, Ricky Wang, Yixin Wang, Xian Yang, Jennifer Yao, and Sam Yu.
Subtitle translation by Yangyang Guo and Katie Lu.
Wuming Theater Club faculty advisor: Claire Conceison.
More about the artists: MIT Wuming Theater Club Facebook page
Conceison, Claire. “Behind the Play: The World and Works of Nick Rongjun Yu.” Theatre Journal 63, no. 3 (2011): 311-21. Accessed September 16, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41307574.
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Highlights and Lowlights retrospective
Learn from the good times and the bad times
What is a Highlights and Lowlights retrospective?
The highlights and lowlights retrospective helps you think about how you can create more of your highlights, and avoid the lowlights in the future.
As Charles Dickens famously wrote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”.
That’s not just great literature, it’s science! According to American Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, the best and worst really are the times we remember the most. In this agile retrospective, we’ll apply that thinking to your team’s experience.
There’s a lot to learn from the ups and downs! By talking about them with your team, you can better understand what worked and what didn’t. That’s a big part of striving for continuous improvement.
Highlights and Lowlights retrospective prompts
The Highlights & Lowlights retrospective format has three prompts. Let’s get started!
What turned out even better than you imagined? When did your team feel like you were on top of the world?
Ask your team to think about the best moments of the last year, sprint, project, or any other period of time.
Maybe these were times when you worked together efficiently, without friction. Or maybe you took a risk on a new method and it paid off in spades!
It’s not all metrics and measurable outcomes – your agile team’s personal highlights matter here, too. When did they feel like superheroes at work? When were they happy or proud about an outcome?
To encourage everyone to share both kinds of highlights, the facilitator can write two separate categories under this prompt.
Example: Adding captions in multiple languages made our latest game so much more accessible. I think players really appreciated it, and it was awesome to see player reviews in different languages!
What didn’t go the way you hoped this past sprint? What stressed you out, or made you feel down?
Despite our best efforts, sometimes things just don’t turn out how we want. For this part of the template, the agile coach should ask everyone to think about outcomes they weren’t happy with, or times they grappled with negative feelings.
Remember, these trying times may still feel pretty fresh for some of your team members. The leader should encourage openness, but still help people leave negative energy behind and end the meeting on an optimistic, energizing note.
Try brainstorming some action items based on these lowlights, so you can use those experiences to move forward. How can you make things better and avoid them next time?
Example: It was pretty disappointing that our new company podcast only got 5 downloads. Next time, could we devote some time to sharing it on cross-company channels?
Who helped create those highlights, or make the best of the lowlights? Who deserves some appreciation?
To end the meeting on a positive note, shout out the colleagues who’ve made your life better. Who was there for you when the going got tough? Who should be celebrated for contributing to awesome results?
Be specific! For this prompt, you really want to recognize people by name and call out exactly why you love working with them.
Example: Melissa wrote such kind, thoughtful LinkedIn recommendations for everyone on our team. I love that now, everyone in my professional network can get a peek into the cool work we’ve done!
When to do a Highlights and Lowlights retrospective
The highlights and lowlights retrospective is perfect for close-knit teams with high psychological safety and at the end of the year, when teams usually look back on the past year.
On a close-knit team
This retrospective creates a really honest conversation about the highs and the lows. Because of that, it shouldn’t be used as an icebreaker.
Instead, we suggest this retrospective for teams that have a strong working relationship and good psychological safety.
At the end of the year
Each year that passes by has so much to teach us. But if we don’t stop and take a look back, we might miss it.
A Highlights and Lowlights retrospective is a chance for your whole team to slow down, look back, and process their memories from the past year together. Then you can plan how to make next year even better.
How to run a Highlights and Lowlights retrospective in Parabol
Facilitators can start a Highlights and Lowlights retro in Parabol by selecting their team on the right and then hitting the Add Meeting button.
Select the Highlights and Lowlights retrospective template
Jump into Parabol and select Retro Meeting with the arrows, then use the dropdown to select the Highlights and Lowlights retrospective template. This is where you’ll find Parabol’s library of 40+ pre-made and customizable retrospective formats.
Every Parabol retrospective begins with an optional icebreaker. This box is checked by default. You don’t have to do one, but we recommend it – especially for remote teams.
Start your Highlights and Lowlights retrospective with an Icebreaker
If you’re doing an icebreaker, you’ll have a random question to answer. You can refresh it if you want another option, and of course you can create your own if you want.
Perhaps ask team members what their personal highlight of the year was?
After the icebreaker you’ll move on to the reflect stage. This is where your team will do all their ideation and brainstorm in silence using the prompts above. All reflections are kept anonymous at this stage to prevent groupthink. Parabol gives Scrum Masters or meeting facilitators the option to timebox this process.
All Parabol sprint retrospectives can be run synchronously or asynchronously. Functionalities such as the timer, voting and multiplayer grouping help you make your retrospective exercise a success and make facilitation easier.
Reflect, Group, and Discuss topics based on the Highlights and Lowlights prompts
Team members can all leave comments together, or do it at a time that works for them. Also, reflections are anonymous, and no one can see them until you’re done working on them.
After the reflect phase, you’ll vote on issues to discuss, talk about the most voted on items, and follow up with action items for each process improvement so you can make it a reality.
Parabol will send a summary of the retro when you’re done so nobody needs to take notes.
Of course, you can do this team retrospective in person, with a whiteboard or sticky notes. But it’s even easier in Parabol, especially if you’re an asynchronous or distributed team.
If you like this template, you might like other simple or year end retrospective ideas, including the Working and Stuck retrospective, Speed Car retrospective, What Went Well retrospective, and Always Be Learning retrospective. Or try an old classic like Start Stop Continue, as you wish each other happy new year!
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Look at this photo, sent by a reader.
“ATTENTION DOG OWNERS,” the sign announces. “As part of a pilot program between Northwestern University and the Department of Public Health, this area has been selected for enhanced dog waste ordinance enforcement. DNA MATCHING AND DRONE SURVEILLANCE IN EFFECT.”
In bright magenta.
“Found this sign on my block (6500 N. Greenview),” the reader wrote.
What do you think?
Have Cook County and Northwestern joined forces to monitor dog poop via drone?
Like much disgorged by the internet, the sign evokes the “No, that couldn’t be, could it?” reflex. You want to dismiss a thing as an obvious fraud. But there’s that little backdoor of doubt. Stranger things have happened.
First to Mr. Google. Slim pickings. A company in the Netherlands, Dogdrones, in 2017 said it would use drones, in conjunction with on-the-ground robots, to clear neighborhoods of dog poop. I sent emails to the two founders, not expecting a reply.
Queries to Cook County and Northwestern — a process we professional journalists call “finding out if something is true.” I recommend it heartily to those who attempt the same by holding up new information against their engrained prejudices to see how well they match.
Northwestern started the country’s first forensic crime lab, trying to solve the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. So this would be in their wheelhouse.
“The University is unaware of any such study,” said Jon Yates, assistant vice president of communications.
The Cook County Department of Public Health pointed out something I ought to have known: it has jurisdiction over the enormous realm that is Cook County except Chicago, Skokie, Oak Park, Stickney and Evanston. They have their own health departments.
“One of the commissioners saw those signs around Northwestern,” said Tom McFeeley, the county health department’s communications manager. “It’s posted outside their jurisdiction. That’s why the dog poop story doesn’t add up.”
To continue reading, click here.
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Bring cream to a boil in a small saucepan; pour hot cream over chocolate mixture. I now do them every Christmas for family and friends. It’s candy corn! Meanwhile, crush the corn flakes in a medium sized bowl. Replace all the sugars with maple syrup or honey to make healthier homemade Butterfingers. These candy corn butterfingers are a delicious and simple copycat recipe for your favorite candy bar! Let candy cool for 1 hour. I’ve seen it here and there every year, and I always vow to try this simple recipe and use up all my leftover candy corn each year. Press small pieces of the Butterfinger candy into the painted candy mold. For this purpose, you’ll need a candy thermometer on hand. Most of us have a favorite candy we’ve tried to replicate at home but it usually falls a little short. https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/homemade-butterfinger-bites Miniature Butterfinger candy bars made in the microwave with only 3 ingredients! Candy corn, peanut butter, and chocolate are the only ingredients required. Another 30-60 seconds would have melted them completely. Place chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl; heat in the microwave on 50 percent power in 20-second increments stirring each time, until melted, about 1 minute. I actually didn’t melt the candy corn completely because I wanted to have some small candy corn pieces showing in my fudge. Dark or milk chocolate, it doesn’t matter, but a good chocolate is worth finding. Immediately add the peanut butter and mix together. I was a bit suspicious of making Butterfingers this way. Add peanut butter to candy corn and stir a little. Preparation. Three simple, easy ingredients. Microwave candy corn for about 1 minute on half power. Drain the dates and add them to a food processor along with the peanut butter and maple syrup. Butterfinger Copycat. Let candy cool for 1 hour. I’m one of those people who likes candy corn, but doesn’t love candy corn… Nutrient information is not available for all ingredients. . Press small pieces of the Butterfinger candy into the painted candy mold. Heat the candy corn and peanut butter until melted and creamy. And you can make the whole thing in the microwave! 1. This is a cooked Homemade Butterfinger Bites. Try some today and let me know what you think! Line a 9×9 inch baking dish with parchment paper (be sure to cover up the sides of the dish too), and set aside. Get the recipe on Natural Sweet Recipes. Get the recipe on Erica's Sweet Tooth. Stir peanut butter into melted candy corn until smooth. Spread mixture in an 8x8 pan lined with parchment. Easiest no-bake dessert bar recipe you'll find! Have you tried this before?? Easily melt the candy corn by … Stir peanut butter into melted candy corn until completely incorporated. Line a 9x9 inch square dish pan* with parchment paper and spray with nonstick cooking spray. Other years it’s just…meh. I can eat maybe one or two pieces but don't want to eat more than that because it's all sugar. Add comma separated list of ingredients to exclude from recipe. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Remember this recipe when you see cheap bags of. And only 3 ingredients! Deselect All. Candy-Corn-Free Butterfinger Bars. Have you tried this before?? 2. And the better part comes with the chocolate. and you used candy corn! Make sure you have an extra candy bar on hand because it’s hard to resist a nibble or two while you’re chopping. Cook for 1 minute, stir, cook for 30 seconds, … Candy Corn at the store!!! Add the cereal and stir very well to coat, partially crushing the cereal flakes as you stir. Heat the candy corn and peanut butter until melted and creamy. The recipe for Candy-Corn-Free Butterfinger Bars is no where on babble. It’s basically butterfinger in a jar that you can eat anytime you have a craving for butterfinger without the chocolate. They turned out great! candy corn 16 oz. Start by combining 1 cup of corn syrup and a pinch of cream of tartar into a saucepan. chocolate candy melts or chocolate candy coating/bark. Put candy corn in a medium sized microwave safe bowl. Jump-start your career with our Premium A-to-Z Microsoft Excel Training Bundle from the new Gadget Hacks Shop and get lifetime access to more than 40 hours of Basic to Advanced instruction on functions, formula, tools, and more. Another 30-60 seconds would have melted them completely. You saved Easy 3-Ingredient Copycat Butterfinger® to your. These Copycat Butterfinger Candy Bites are a healthier, corn syrup free, easy to make, delicious little bite of your favorite candy bar! I tried making this a few times without the candy thermometer, and it simply won’t work without it. No, this isn’t a joke. Candy Corn: This recipe is very simple and the Butterfinger ingredients are not what anyone would expect, but it really does taste like the real deal! Stir peanut butter into melted candy corn until smooth. Spread melted chocolate over candy corn mixture; return to freezer until hardened, about 20 minutes. https://www.bigoven.com/recipe/candy-corn-butterfingers/495563 As a candy-corn fan, I’ve made a tradition of making these candy bars since I learned about the trick online, a decade ago. #3. Turns out, if you melt it, mix it with peanut butter and coat the balls with chocolate, you get a softer, denser version of a Butterfinger bite. but I think because it looks so cool and they are drawn to anything sweet!!! Look through the dessert recipes on any food blog and there's a pretty good chance you'll find something with chocolate and peanut butter. This recipe is tricky and took me three bags of candy corn and a couple of jars of peanut butter to get it right. US. Line with two pieces of parchment, one in each direction, greasing in between. I’ve seen it here and there every year, and I always vow to try this simple recipe and use up all my leftover candy corn each year. While candy is still soft, cut into 1x2 inch bars. I actually didn’t melt the candy corn completely because I wanted to have some small candy corn pieces showing in my fudge. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. With a few substitutions, you can even make your Butterfinger bars vegan and gluten-free. https://tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/3-ingredient-homemade-butterfingers Cool completely. Directions. If the sugar is browning unevenly, swirl the pan gently instead of stirring. Homemade Butterfingers Recipe: Combine first three ingredients in a small saucepan, and bring to a boil on medium heat. I made mine thicker in mini heart molds but I think that was not the best idea b/c it was kinda hard to bite through them so next time I will keep them thinner. There are a bunch of recipes out there for homemade Nestlé Butterfinger bars, so we rounded up a few different versions to choose from. Ingenious in its simplicity, these butterfinger bars have only three ingredients, which means making your own candy bars at home can be simpler than you’ve ever imagined. Since making these I found that Kristan from Confessions of a Cookbook Queen made them too. This candy corn peanut butter bars recipe is easy. Add sweetened condensed milk, stir, and cook for … Microwave for 60 seconds and stir. While candy is still soft, cut into 1x2 inch bars. Stir. If you are following a medically restrictive diet, please consult your doctor or registered dietitian before preparing this recipe for personal consumption. This is neat gift for all your friends and family and a great way to get rid of all that candy corn. For more candy-cloning fun, check out how to make homemade Oreos, Kit Kats, Snickers, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Line an 8-inch square cake pan with parchment paper, set aside. As I mentioned this Homemade Butterfinger Eggs Recipe only requires 3 ingredients. A little heat, a thorough chill, and presto - the flaky crunchy texture you’d expect straight from the wrapper! 1 cup candy corn 1 cup peanut butter 1 cup chocolate chips. Melt the candy corn. Who knew? Info. Homemade Butterfinger Bites are made with candy corn, peanut butter and chocolate. 4.75 from 8 votes Print Pin Rate The candy corn is replaced with corn syrup and sugar, which also gives the bars a crunchy texture. As a child, when it came to my trick-or-treating haul, candy corn was usually on the bottom tier. 3 cups candy corn. Get the recipe on Kirbie's Cravings. Just three ingredients—candy corn, peanut butter, and chocolate—are combined to produce small candy bars with the crackly texture and bold peanut butter. This recipe is super easy and only requires THREE INGREDIENTS!! Place candy corn in a microwave-safe bowl; heat in the microwave in 20-second increments stirring each time, until melted, about 1 minute. My husband said they were "extremely good" and "better than a Butterfinger." We’re proud to say that we’ve come up with a recipe for homemade Butterfinger bars that’s actually better than the original—really! Butterfinger Cookie Bars. anyway, LOVE these homemade-butterfinger-chocolate-bars!!! To make the hard candy base, you simply need to boil pure maple syrup or honey until it reaches the “hard crack” stage, at 300-degrees Fahrenheit. Let the mixture cool but not harden. Butterfinger Fudge would not be complete without some milk chocolate, in my opinion, so I added a layer of creamy chocolate ganache over the orange colored fudge. No gift befits the food-obsessed people in your life like a cookbook. Cut into squares. With one extra ingredient—crushed cereal—these have the same crispiness of the real thing. Homemade Butterfinger Egg Recipe. https://hip2save.com/recipes/3-ingredient-homemade-butterfingers-so-good Learn how to make this classic winter warmer with recipes from around the world. For me, though, a big draw of Butterfingers is the crunch. Actually: candy corn + peanut butter + chocolate = homemade Butterfingers. Some of them are super simple with only three ingredients, others are a little more complex. Bent on using up a stash of leftover candy corn, I decided to experiment. My boys went through a phase where they loved Butterfingers. Printable recipe Printable recipe with picture Printable Pops recipe with picture. Once candy corn is melted, heat peanut butter in microwave for 25-30 seconds until runny. Premium A-to-Z Microsoft Excel Training Bundle, What's New in iOS 14? this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. That’s it! Butterfinger Copycat. Get the recipe on Babble. Stir and continue cooking in 15-second intervals til melted, stirring after each interval. My husband, who detests Candy Corn, loved these. Add the eyes and a piece of candy corn to the top of cupcakes! 1 lb. In a microwave safe bowl, microwave the Candy Corn for 90 seconds, stopping to stir every 30 seconds, until smooth. I am not a candy corn fan at all but my husband loves the candy bar so I gave these a whirl. Add Candy Corn and peanut butter to a medium saucepan and heat, over low heat, stirring every 30 seconds or so, for about 3 minutes. Grease an 8x8 pan with shortening. And then when I go for my candy corn stash…. I was a bit suspicious of making Butterfingers this way. And then when I go for my candy corn stash…. Heat peanut butter in the microwave for 20 seconds on 50% power to warm. Pretty tasty! It’s all about texture when it comes to these sweet and savory babies. Candy corn, peanut butter, and chocolate are the only ingredients required. The 200+ Best, Hidden & Most Powerful Features & Changes for iPhone, 22 Things You Need to Know About iOS 14's Newly Redesigned Widgets for iPhone, Best New iOS 14 Home Screen Widgets & The Apps You Need, 13 Exciting New Features in Apple Photos for iOS 14, 9 Ways iOS 14 Improves Siri on Your iPhone, 16 New Apple Maps Features for iPhone in iOS 14, 19 Hidden New Features in iOS 14's Accessibility Menu, Every New Feature iOS 14 Brings to the Home App on Your iPhone. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs. Easily melt the candy corn … Candy Corn: This recipe is very simple and the Butterfinger ingredients are not what anyone would expect, but it really does taste like the real deal! Candy corn has always been one of those on-again, off-again relationships for me. Place candy corns into large heat-proof bowl. Check out my blog Doodlecraft for … Roast beef is a classic main dish for holidays, family get-togethers, and elegant dinners alike. 1 cup peanut butter 1/2 cup roasted peanuts, finely ground in a food processor Amount is based on available nutrient data. Once candy corn is melted, heat peanut butter in microwave for 25-30 seconds until runny. It's one of the most common combinations in candy bars and other sweets (not that I'm complaining). It’s like a crazy cool science experiment that melted candy corn, peanut butter, and crushed cereal make a concoction so close to Butterfinger candy it’s ridiculous. In a pot or, preferably, enameled sauce pan, melt candy corn with water with medium heat. Butterfinger wrappers image via Dat Nguyen/Flickr. My mother and I made these for years before she passed away. 3. In a microwave safe bowl, microwave the Candy Corn for 90 seconds, stopping to stir every 30 seconds, until smooth. I used a high quality dark dipping chocolate and they were amazing. Boil about a minute, stirring constantly, then remove from heat. This guide to cooking roast beef will help you create a flavorful, moist, and tender roast. Turn out onto baking sheet and press down to about 3/4 inch thickness (8x8-inch square.) Stir in peanut butter. Homemade Butterfinger candy bars, made from CANDY CORN -- there are about a million posts about it. That’s right three ingredients total. Immediately add the peanut butter and mix together. Add Candy Corn and peanut butter to a medium saucepan and heat, over low heat, stirring every 30 seconds or so, for about 3 minutes. Grab some candy corn, peanut butter and some melting chocolates. In a microwave safe bowl, add candy corn. Using a teaspoon, form mixture into little balls and place them on wax paper. https://tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/3-ingredient-homemade-butterfingers Cover the back with more melted chocolate and refrigerate for 5 minutes before popping them out of the mold. Stir in peanut butter. What a sticky fun recipe! Let the mixture cool but not harden. Place candy corn in a microwave-safe bowl; heat in the microwave in 20-second increments stirring each time, until melted, about 1 minute. 4. Turns out, they are delicious! Instructions. Put candy corn in a medium sized microwave safe bowl. Get the recipe on Babble. Count ‘em: chocolate, candy corn, and peanut butter. Use: 4.5 oz of light corn syrup; 3.5 oz granulated sugar; 2 oz … Set aside 1/2 cup of corn flakes for garnish. He said he like them better than crispy butterfingers. If you prefer not to use candy corn as the base of these crunchy Butterfinger candy bars, you can use corn syrup, sugar and water. 1. You'll never guess the secret ingredient. For these, all you need is peanut butter, chocolate, and an unexpected ingredient—candy corn. 3. Add the peanut butter and salt, and stir until it makes a paste. Please send recipe if you can. Posted: (3 days ago) There’s a popular recipe floating around using melted candy corn and peanut butter to make homemade Butterfingers. A few of them are even healthy(ish). Line an 8 x 8 baking pan with parchment paper; set a side. You can find it with the Wayback Machine. Want to master Microsoft Excel and take your work-from-home job prospects to the next level? or corn syrup? This gets sticky. . The melted candy corn can be a challenge to stir but the end product is fantastic! Melt candy corn in microwave on high 1 minute. Homemade Butterfinger Bites really do taste just like the Butterfingers you buy at the store. 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White grapes are pretty nutritious fruits filled with vitamins and dietary fiber.
If you’re like me, you’ll agree that going a day without a serving of white grapes is not easy.
However, can the same be said for our canine friends?
Let’s find out.
So, can dogs eat white grapes?
Unfortunately, dogs can’t eat white grapes because they are toxic to them.
The exact cause of white grape’s toxicity to dogs is unknown, but most dogs suffer acute kidney failure after eating these fruits.
As a loving dog parent, you prioritize the safety of your furry friend, including what he eats.
In this article, I’ll be discussing whether dogs can eat white grapes or not.
Read on to learn the risks of white grapes to dogs and safer alternatives.
Risks of White Grapes to Dogs
White grapes, including raisins, are toxic to dogs and can cause severe health problems.
Giving your pup white grapes exposes him to:
Grape toxicosis in dogs is a severe condition caused by ingesting grapes or raisins.
The symptoms of toxicity appear 6 to 12 hours after the ingestion of the fruit.
Clinical signs of grape toxicity include:
- Lack of appetite
If your furry friend eats white grapes accidentally and you notice these signs, take him to the vet immediately.
Grape toxicity is a severe complication that needs urgent medical attention to salvage your pup.
You may not rescue your canine if the situation advances.
Acute Renal Failure
One of the most severe complications of grape toxicity is acute renal failure.
This condition can happen within 24 to 72 hours after your pup ingests grapes.
Acute renal failure is a sudden and irreversible kidney failure that has a high mortality rate.
Some of the clinical signs of acute renal failure include:
- Increased thirst
- Frequent urination
If your dog gets to this level of toxicity, the chances of saving him are close to zero.
Most pups that get to this stage die or are euthanized.
Diagnosis of Grape Toxicity in Dogs
Clinical evaluation of the dog, including his history, is the primary approach used to diagnose grape toxicity in dogs.
Once you take the dog for diagnosis, the veterinarian will look at the pup’s history of exposure to grape toxicity.
Moreover, he will assess the dog’s clinical signs to determine if he is suffering from toxicity.
Other tests that may be conducted to diagnose grape toxicity include:
- Complete blood count (CBC)
- Biochemical profile
- Blood gas analysis
- Renal imaging
- Liver enzymes test
Treatment of Grape Toxicity in Dogs
If your dog is diagnosed with grape toxicity, the vet may recommend either one or both of the following treatments:
- GI tract decontamination
- IV fluid diuresis
- Monitoring of the renal function
Most dogs that develop acute renal failure die within 48 to 72 hours.
Pups that receive early treatment have a better chance of survival but may still suffer from long-term kidney damage.
What to Do if Your Dog Eats White Grapes Accidentally
Accidents are inevitable, and your pup may eat white grapes without your knowledge.
If this happens, do not wait for the dog to develop grape toxicity signs; take him to the vet immediately.
Do not try to make your dog vomit because this could further complicate his condition.
Take him straight to the vet for proper diagnosis and treatment.
Based on the severity of toxicosis, the vet will determine whether induced vomiting will save the dog.
Can a Dog Eat One White Grape?
Unfortunately, even a single white grape is toxic to dogs.
The poisonous compound that causes poisoning by eating many white grapes is present in a single grape.
It’s best to err on caution and not give your pup grapes at all.
You don’t want to lose your lovely dog due to an unavoidable situation like feeding him a toxic white grape.
Are Green Grapes Safe for Dogs?
Green grapes are not safe for dogs.
All types of grapes, irrespective of color, are poisonous to dogs.
Although the exact cause of grape toxicity in dogs is unknown, keeping all grapes away from your furry friend is best.
Safe Alternatives to White Grapes for Dogs
As a loving dog parent, you should avoid feeding your pup white grapes.
Only give your dog healthy foods that support his well-being.
Fortunately, there are plenty of these foods and fruits.
- Blueberries: These are rich in fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants needed for the well-being of dogs.
- Cranberries: They are an excellent source of fiber and vitamin C. They also contain compounds that may help prevent urinary tract infections in dogs.
- Strawberries: Strawberries are a good source of fiber, vitamin C, folic acid, and potassium. These nutrients aid in developing a strong immunity in dogs.
- Watermelon: Watermelon is an excellent source of vitamins A, B, and C. It also contains lycopene, an antioxidant that reduces the chances of cancer in dogs.
- Raspberries: Raspberries are rich in fiber, vitamin C, and manganese. Like other berries, they are a good source of antioxidants which ensures good health in dogs.
- Leafy greens: Spinach and kale are excellent sources of roughage and fiber which promote a healthy gut in dogs.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens if a dog eats a white grape?
If a dog eats a white grape, he will suffer from grape toxicity.
If not treated promptly, grape toxicity leads to renal failure.
Can dogs eat white seedless grapes?
No, dogs can’t eat white seedless grapes as they still cause toxicity.
It’s advisable to keep all types of grapes, including the pitted ones, away from dogs.
The Bottom Line
White grapes are not safe for dogs as they cause grape toxicity.
Grape toxicity manifests as vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy, and abdominal pain in dogs.
If not treated promptly, grape toxicity leads to renal failure, a fatal condition in dogs.
You should avoid feeding all types of grapes to your furry friend to be on the safe side.
Instead, give him alternative fruits like strawberries that are safe and nutritious for dogs.
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Today, on International Roma Day, the ERRC Roma Rights Network was launched after its first meeting was held in Budapest. The network includes 18 human rights organisations from 15 different countries and seeks to unite activists, Roma and non-Roma alike, who are fighting to protect the human rights of Romani people throughout Europe.
The Roma Rights Network exists to promote a human rights based approach to Romani activism. Its members are both Roma-led organisations and human rights groups focussed on improving access to basic rights for Romani communities. The network aims to impact the human rights agenda for Roma in Europe, improve rights-based advocacy efforts, foster debate about Roma Rights issues and increase the use of human rights litigation as a tool of activism.
The network is facilitated by the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) which acts as an equal partner alongside other members. It is envisaged that the network will grow and the members are open to new partnerships with human rights focussed non-profits who are active in challenging rights violations of Romani communities.
The ERRC Roma Rights Network consists of:
For further information, see the website of the European Roma Rights Network.
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The very idea of cancer can make people scared but when it comes to prevention and early intervention, the responsible thing to do is get as many screenings as possible to catch a potential disease in its earliest stages. Oral cancer is a very serious problem in the United States and it affects plenty of young adults. This is why the responsible thing to do is get an oral cancer screening Weston FL service at least once a year when you pay your doctor a visit for regular check-ups. Let’s see the main benefits of our oral cancer screening services!
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Tormarton War Memorial
The memorial is situated in the churchyard of the parish church of St Mary Magdalen, Tormarton, Gloucestershire, England. It consists of a tall cross set on a two tier octagonal base and faces the road.
The inscription reads as follows:-
MEN OF TORMARTON
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
TO SAVE YOU FOR ENGLAND
WE FOR ENGLAND DIED.
|MONTAGUE COTTRELL||IVOR LEONARD|
|GEORGE HALL||DONALD SPENCE|
Some notes on the memorial.
The lettering is faded and difficult to interpret being overgrown with lichen.
Lance Corporal Montague Charles Cottrell, 3rd Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment, died on Friday 3rd March 1916 at the age of 24 yrs. He was the son of William and Flora Cottrell of Tormarton. He is buried in the churchyard at Tormarton.
Prvte George Hall, 1st/4th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment died on the 17th August 1916, aged 26 yrs and is buried in PUCHUVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY He was the son of John and Hannah Hall of Tormarton, Badminton.
Ptve Sidney Hurcom served in the 1st Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment and died on Thursday 29th October 1914. He has no known grave but is commemorated on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL. He was the brother of Mrs F Packer of Seaside Cottage Tormarton.
Ivor Leonard was an Ordinary Seaman on HMS NIGER and died on Monday 6th July 1942 aged 20 yrs. He was the son of Richard and Elizabeth Leonard of Tormarton. He is buried in he REYKJAVIK (FOSSVOGUR) CEMETERY in Iceland.
Transcribed by George Hall.
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The favourite and most loved aspect of Acads unique pedagogy
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We are pleased to announce the release of Glawinette (version 1.1).
Glawinette is a derivational lexicon of French built from the GLAWI machine-readable dictionary. The entries of Glawinette are pairs of morphologically related lexemes like accomplir_V:accomplissement_N. Glawinette provides the word family (morphological family) of each of its entries and a characterization of the derivational relations which the pair of lexemes are in. Relations are described by means of:
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* a fine-grained alternation pattern (FAP) consisting in two regular expressions that describe a form relation between the two words that uses linguistically motivated derivational exponents such as ^(.+)ir:^(.+)issement for accomplir_V:accomplissement_N, where the sequence (.+) represents the string accompl;
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Glawinette is available under a Creative Commons By-SA 3.0 license.
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A rapidly growing industry today is that of web content authoring and development. As the Internet grows and more companies join the virtual world, the demand for usable, comprehensive and even interactive content is rapidly growing.
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Make the web work for you
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Michael McFadyen's Scuba Diving - Lloyd Bridges
There are few people in this world that I have ever really admired as people. Don Bradman, the cricketing guru who helped Australia recover from the Great Depression, Gough Whitlam, the politician who upon becoming the Prime Minister of Australia in December 1972 released Australia from the rule of conservatives and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the inventor of scuba and explorer of the oceans are three of my four heros. The final person to make up this quartet was Lloyd Bridges. Why would Bridges, an American television and film actor be a hero to a person who lived so far away in Australia?
|Lloyd Bridges as Mike Nelson|
Lloyd Bridges was born on 13 January 1913 in San Leandro, California. His family included entertainers (and even jugglers) but his mother and father did not want him to go into the entertainment business. They wanted him to become a lawyer and so, after school, he entered the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he studied law. Bridges decided to pursue this appointed course and apparently it was not until he studied constitutional law that he changed his mind. He completed his degree but then moved to the East Coast where he started acting in small threatre companies.
In the 1930s he directed and starred in a modern version of Shakespeare's Othello, playing Iago. He and his wife, Dorothy, also taught drama.
In 1941 he was signed to a studio contract by Columbia Pictures who used him in supporting roles. He was never a leading star, and I do not recall any film in which he was the main actor. In the 1952 western classic High Noon, Bridges starred opposite Gary Cooper as the deputy sheriff. Despite this role, his star did not climb any higher in films for a long time.
Bridges was a supporter of radical causes, perhaps that is one of the reasons why I admire him. In the early 1950s, probably 1953, Bridges was called before the Un-American Activities Committee, headed by Senator Joe McCarthy, (many people will recall Arthur Miller's play The Crucible -1953 - which although concerned with the Salem witchcraft trials, was actually aimed at the then widespread congressional investigation of alleged subversive activities in the United States). At the committee's hearings, Bridges was alleged to have been a Communist. Unlike many other film stars called before the committee, Bridges did not recoil from the truth and admitted that he had been a member of the American Communist Party.
He was offered some roles in the new television industry, and in 1957, the year I was born, he was given the role that was to make his fame, Mike Nelson. As Nelson, a former United States Navy frogman, Bridges travelled the south-eastern part of America and the Carribean as a do-good underwater "sheriff". Sea Hunt introduced millions of people all over the world to the new activity of scuba diving. I was too young to watch Sea Hunt as a first run TV show but in the early 1960s I remember watching his adventures on afternoon TV. Who will ever forget Mike Nelson wrestling with some crook before getting his air hose cut (as a scuba diver I now know that it was the exhaust hose that was cut making a lot of show but no danger). The show ended in 1961 after 156 episodes, not because the ratings decreed it so, but because Bridges attempted to move the show into fighting enviornmental issues. He once stated that "I wanted [the show] to look at the real villians of the sea, like the oil companies". He refused to be compromised and the producers of the show refused to change (they wanted more of the same) so Bridges quit the show.
For a long time after this, Bridges was typecast as the adventurer Mike Nelson. He was later to comment that he thought he could play Hamlet better than Richard Burton, do Othello better than Jose Ferrier but of course no-one was ever going to offer him these roles now. "The public seems to think of me as being under water" he said. On another occasion he said "If we could just get some way to do Hamlet underwater, I'd be happy."
After Sea Hunt he did the Lloyd Bridges Show (I have never heard of this before) and then had a few lean years before doing Joe Forrester (a cop - 1976 - not too bad a show). In the 1980 comedy classic Flying High (overseas Airplane) and its follow up Flying High Two (Airplane 2), he played the chief air traffic controller who was seemingly addicted to every possible vice. Bridges stole the show, with his "I picked a bad day to give up...." lines going into 1980s vernacular.
Lloyd Bridges had seemingly a perfect family life, married to the same woman for almost 60 years, two sons who also became very well known actors (Beau and Jeff) and, I think, a daughter. His sons not only appeared as kids in Sea Hunt, they acted in a number of movies with their father in the 1980s and 1990s.
I learnt of the death of Lloyd Bridges on 11 March 1998 (he died on 10 March American time) while visiting my parents when my younger brother came out of his room having just heard on the radio that he had died. Like the deaths of Elvis and John Lennon, I will always remember where I was when I heard of Bridges' death.
Right till the end, Bridges had kept working, even though he was now 85 years old. He appeared in a couple of episodes of Seinfield (made in 1997), the most recent one only aired in Australia a couple of weeks after his death. An episode of Seinfield, one of the last made, was dedicated to "...our friend Lloyd Bridges". There are two movies that he finished recently that are still to be released. One, Mafia, will start in Sydney in mid-August 1998.
Some of us who watched Sea Hunt were so thrilled by Mike Nelson's exploits that we eventually took up scuba diving. The scuba industry recognised Lloyd Bridges' contribution to promoting scuba diving that he was elected to the scuba Hall of Fame a few years back.
For the past couple of years I have been suggesting to Barry Andewartha and Belinda Barnes (of DIVE Log and Sportdiving) that they should invite Bridges to Australia to be the key speaker at their successful A Night to Remember nights. Unfortunately, this did not occur.
We as divers will be the poorer for the passing of Lloyd Bridges.
Note: Copies of Sea Hunt are available on the Net. Use this link to get to the site.
An email received by me recently:
Sea Hunt Adventures presents,
I just wanted to let you know that I too am a fan of Mr. Lloyd Bridges and that the world lost a great hero when he passed away.
I happen to own the boat that Lloyd Bridges used as Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt. The boat was and still is called the "Argonaut" and is located in San Diego, Ca.
I am curently restoring the boat and will be complete by summer 99". At that point the boat will make many special appearances and will be featured in many publications, I can't wait.
I just wanted to say hi and to let you know that you are one of millions of Lloyd Bridges fans and as soon as I get the boat going I will create a place that all Sea Hunt fans to gather. I soon will post a site on the resoration of the boat and will continue this site to be used as a fan club.
This is WM-2050 the Argonaut out...
1514 Seventh Ave. Suite 205
San Diego, Ca. 92101
Email: The Argonaut
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An assembly from the Culham St Gabriel archive
Suitable for Whole School (Sec)
To look at harvest from a different angle – the ‘fruitfulness’ of humankind.
Preparation and materials
- Note that this assembly has its roots in the Christian celebration of harvest, where the focus is on thanksgiving for the fruits of the Earth as God's gifts for all humanity, but develops a wider understanding of ‘fruitfulness’. That is, it looks at how our own human gifts are 'harvested' and reflects on how we can best use and share them.
- It would be most appropriate for a class or tutor group, but could easily be adapted suit larger numbers by choosing students to represent their year or class group in the activity in the ‘Assembly’, near the end.
- You will need a leader and at least one reader to read your chosen passage from Psalm 104 (for example, verses 5 to 34 or a shorter extract of verses 10 to 18), but it can be very effective to either divide the text into sections, each to be read by different readers placed in different locations around the room, or for it to be read antiphonally, with single students or groups of students reading alternate verses.
- You will also need a table, positioned centrally, with a bowl of fruit on it and a Bible, open at Psalm 104, plus a second bowl or basket, pieces of paper and pens (either one for each student or for a representative from each group).
- Have available ‘For the beauty of the Earth’, set by John Rutter and recorded by the boys of St Paul's Cathedral Choir on their album How Can I Keep from Singing? (Classics for Pleasure, 1996), and the means to play it during the assembly.
- If appropriate, after the assembly, the students may wish to make a display of their harvest of talents.
Leader There is a well-known poem by John Keats, To Autumn, that begins 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness . . .'. In this part of the Western world, it conjures up images of seasonal change and the traditional Christian celebration of harvest, which marks the gathering in of crops before the arrival of winter. Communities around the world and of many different faiths also celebrate a good harvest. It is a time of thanksgiving for the fruits of the Earth and an opportunity to share in its bounty.
For Christians and Jews, Psalm 104 is a reminder of exactly this fruitfulness of the Earth and gives thanks for God's gifts in creation.
Reader or readers Reads chosen extract from Psalm 104.
Leader Christian harvest festivals are often a colourful sight, with churches beautifully decorated with fruits, flowers and many different symbols representing the richness of the Earth's harvest. These symbols also represent what we often describe as the ‘fruits of our labours’ – women and men working with and using the Earth's gifts to provide for all our needs.
Sometimes our work can bear different kinds of fruit from the fruit you can see in this bowl. Each one of us has gifts that are not objects but skills and talents that we can use to help others.
Christians believe that God gives everybody gifts that can be shared and help to make the world a better place. Some of us are good at making things or mending things, some of us can paint or draw or sing, some are good with computers, some of us can make other people laugh!
Think about something you can do – a gift that you can share with others – and write it down on your slip of paper while the music is playing, then come and place your gift in the basket and we will harvest all our gifts and talents.
Play music and ensure that the students or representatives come and place their slips of paper in the second basket or bowl.
Time for reflection
Let us say the following prayer, which is attributed to Francis of Assisi (optional).
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, union;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is sadness, joy;
For your mercy's sake.
‘For the beauty of the Earth’, set by John Rutter and recorded by the boys of St Paul's Cathedral Choir
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This paper presents an innovative reinforcing scheme for concrete columns using glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) tubes. GFRP tubes (solid and perforated) have been placed into concrete columns to provide reinforcement in both longitudinal and transverse directions. In this study, 14 columns with 150 mm diameter and 300 mm height have been cast and tested under axial compression. The columns have been divided into seven groups; each group contains two columns. The first group of columns are the reference columns without any reinforcement. The other six groups of columns are reinforced with solid and perforated (axially and diagonally) GFRP tubes. The test results show that GFRP tubes are effective in improving the strength and the ductility capacity of FRP (fibre reinforced polymer) Tube Reinforced Concrete (FTRC) columns. Also, perforated GFRP tubes have been found effective in integrating concrete core with concrete cover. However, axially perforated FTRC columns have been found most effective considering the strength and the ductility capacity of the concrete columns. In addition to the experimental investigations, numerical simulations have been carried out to assess the influence of tube perforations on the behaviour of FTRC columns. The simulation results show that reduction in the hole diameter, rather than increase in the vertical hole spacing, is the most effective in increasing the strength and the ductility capacity of FTRC columns.
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Finnish tyre manufacturer Nokian Tyres has revealed the world’s first non-studded winter tyre with studs as part of the 80th anniversary of the winter tyre.
This revolutionary concept tyre with unique stud technology gives a hint of the things to come in the future.
Basically we are looking at non studded tyres that are turned into studded tyres when needed with a press of a button, to improve the grip of the tyre. When the studs are not needed and road conditions are good again, the studds can be retracted back into the tyre with a simple press of a button.
Studs are not needed on dry roads and stable winter conditions, but very useful on icy weather for extreme safety.
The studs on all four tyres raise and lower at the same time with the body of the stud remaining in place, with the only moving part is the hard metal pin in the middle of the stud.
Regular studded tyres are illegal in several countries around the world as they cause damage to the road surface, though with changing weather conditions the studded tyres would probably make the driving experience much safer.
Hard to tell when these new tyres make it into production, but this very likely is the future of winter driving.
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In his recent Harvard commencement speech, Mark Zuckerberg explained how a couple years into his venture, some big companies wanted to buy Facebook. Everyone around him advised him to sell.
"That was my hardest time leading Facebook. I believed in what we were doing, but I felt alone. And worse, it was my fault. I wondered if I was just wrong, an imposter, a 22-year-old kid who had no idea how the world worked."
You might think self-doubt is only an issue for inexperienced entrepreneurs. After all, Zuckerberg really was just a kid when he launched Facebook.
But research shows it's much more pervasive. And it "increasingly appears critical for understanding some of the surprising, ironic, and self-defeating cognitive, emotional, and behavioral findings seen in the achievement realm." All entrepreneurs experience it at some point.
Zuckerberg beat self-doubt by finding a higher purpose in his work. What else can you do?
Here are my best tips for conquering this tough challenge:
Recognize that confidence takes time.
True confidence is built on layers of success. But to succeed, you will inevitably experience failure along the way. Be patient. When you run into a problem, never view it as the end of the world. It's just another bump in the path to long-term success.
In the wise words of Bill Gates, "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
At my current company, we hit problems all the time. Some of them are tiny, but some have been big enough to take down our business. At one point, we spent way too much of our budget marketing a new product line. This did some serious financial damage to the business. Instead of losing confidence in our abilities, we readjusted our strategy. And we recovered.
If anything, this challenge made my team more confident. We know that if we encounter problems, we can adjust our plans and still be successful.
Prioritize your physical well-being.
It sounds simple, right? Everyone knows you're "supposed" to eat right and get exercise. Research from as far back as 1985 suggests physical activity and exercise improve self-image and cognitive functioning, and they reduce the symptoms of anxiety.
Eating healthy is equally important. Another research study from 2015 found that eating more fruits and vegetables can enhance feelings of well-being, curiosity, and creativity.
But maintaining these habits can be hard when life gets busy. (And it always does.)
For me, I have to prioritize exercise; otherwise, it doesn't happen. I'm active 3-4 times a week through going to the gym, doing yoga, or playing sports to get my blood pumping. Like the research shows, this helps me to be more even keel in my decision making. In a startup, irrational decision making can get you into serious trouble.
Remember the big picture (your purpose).
In his speech, Zuckerberg explained how he truly believed in his company's purpose. That's what guided him when he felt lost. Even when all members of his management team left, he still held on. And it paid off -- big time. You need to remember -- and believe in -- your long-term vision.
In most startups, success comes in waves. You'll see a series of successes, then a series of failures. Stay true to your long-term purpose and work until you achieve it. At my current venture, I've had the same vision for five-plus years. This has been monumental to our success.
Remember, as Zuckerburg said, "Movies and pop culture get this all wrong. The idea of a single eureka moment is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate since we haven't had ours. It prevents people with seeds of good ideas from getting started."
Don't let self-doubt prevent you from doing big things.
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For decades, the US government has let the private sector and the free market do their thing, betting this is the surest way to spur innovation and conjure up the advances needed to keep the American economy on top of the world.
Now, with China ascendant, the approach is starting to change. Washington is taking baby steps toward something closer to central planning—seeking to inspire, guide, and protect advances in key areas like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and quantum computing.
The latest evidence of a shift in thinking is the final report of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). The commission was created by the Pentagon in 2018 to study the national security implications of AI and related technologies, and outline a plan to keep the US ahead.
“If we keep things the way they are, China will surpass us,” says Gilman Louie, a venture capitalist who cofounded In-Q-tel, the investment arm of the CIA, and member of the NSCAI. “We lack that national strategy.”
The final version of the report, issued Monday, calls for major changes to the government’s approach to innovation and technology. Recommendations include doubling nonmilitary federal spending on AI research to $32 billion annually by 2026, bolstering the US’s ability to make semiconductors, creating a national AI research network for researchers in academia and industry, boosting efforts to train and retain AI talent, and creating a technology competitiveness council—encompassing AI and other emerging technologies such as biotechnology and quantum computing—under the leadership of the vice president.
In another sign of the shift, President Biden last week ordered a review of America’s supply of semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, large-capacity batteries, and rare earth materials. The US relies heavily on China for these products, and a recent shortage of chips has affected the US car industry.
Louie says it isn’t just a question of China catching up in AI; it’s also that the technology will be critical to national interests. “Artificial intelligence is going to be not just a driver of things like the economy and quality of life and national security,” he says. “It will be the thing that nation states are going to want to make sure that they are in control of—and a competitive space for the two largest powers in the world.”
Louie says the US and its allies cannot afford to rely on AI developed by a political and ideological rival like China. “Anybody who knows anything about AI will tell you that it is hard to develop algorithms that do not have your culture imprinted,” Louie says. “Authoritative nations have different priorities than democratically led nations.”
The idea of the government guiding technological or economic progress through industrial policy has been out of vogue in the US for decades. But that is changing due to the competitive threat posed by a nation with a huge economy, a rising domestic tech industry, and government strategy that emphasizes technological progress and dominance. Critics of China also point to rules requiring US companies to share technology and state-sponsored espionage.
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ABC News video report about how more and more doctors are recognizing the benefits of, and prescribing yoga for their patients. Specifically citing reduced pain and anxiety for cancer patients, the report shows one precious young girl demonstrating lions's pose as her favorite as it give her a sense of power. In addition, a teenager with ADD is highlighted during a discussion of how yoga helps to improve the ability to calm and focus. Take a watch: Physicians Prescribe Yoga for Patients.
For a more in-depth article on this topic, read: Doctor's Orders: Finding a Better 'Position' to Deal with Disease (on MedPage Today).
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It’s a quite desolate night in the city of Colombo. You walk down the pavement with your hands in your pockets and lost in your own thoughts. The noise of a passing car brings you back to reality. You look around and see that the streets you thought were desolate are inhabited by a different kind. The liquor store on the other side of the road is packed with people that it puts Black Friday to shame. A quick glance over to the dark alley on the side, muffled voices, and the exchange of goods. You look away and walk on ahead with a single word as your only thought. “Addicts”.
Of course, this was a hypothetical encounter, but I am pretty sure that for most of you this is the stereotypical picture that comes up in your mind when you hear the word “Addict”. If you do a quick google search for the word “Addiction”, this is what pops up;
The common stereotype of an addict, which is being fed over and over into our society, is that of a criminal. I think the simple example that google shows you, is a good example of that.
Drugs, alcohol, and smoking might be the first thing that comes to your mind when thinking of addiction. But this is only one scope of addiction, which is “Substance Addiction”. The other scope is “Behavioral addiction”, which is the addiction to certain behaviours such as gambling.
But what really is addiction and how do you stop it?
The short answer is, we don’t know well enough about it and studies are still taking place. Okay, so what do we know? The substances like drugs and alcohol which people get hooked on are having various effects on our brain and neuronal chemistry. For instance, Cocaine can block dopamine transporters in the synaptic cleft. This causes increased levels of dopamine which causes overstimulation. Moderately high levels of dopamine create a euphoric effect while very high levels cause hallucinations.
So, it’s these chemical cravings that cause addiction, right? Well, it’s not that simple. While there is an effect from all these chemical hooks, there is another fundamental effect that is deeply rooted into the evolution of our species.
Though we lack claws or sharp teeth, the power of flight or sharp eyesight, humans as a species have taken the prime position at the top of the food chain. One major factor that gave us an edge during evolution is human cooperation and being part of a group. A lone human who was exiled from the group had a really low chance of survival. When you hear people saying that “Humans are social animals” they are not kidding. The fact that humans are prone to create bonds and connections is deeply engraved into our biological code.
So, what does this have to do with addiction?
In the year 1906, the United States brought forward the law to ban the passage and use of drugs such as cocaine and heroin. Soon, the rest of the world followed those steps and criminalized the use and passage of drugs. Those who were involved were punished by law across the globe and was ostracized from society.
Anyone can be an addict. But what happens if you, an addict, feels like you have no one that cares about you? What happens when your loved ones are moving apart from you? What happens when society as a whole rejects you and treats you less than a human? You turn to the one thing that brought you comfort and to the one thing that did not push you away. You turn to the embrace of your addiction as that is the only connection and bond you have.
In the early 20th century, an experiment was conducted in relation to addiction. A rat was placed in a cage with 2 bottles, one with water and one laced with cocaine. The experiment was repeated several times and almost every time, the rats would drink the drugged water until they die.
But in the 1970s, Dr. Bruce Alexander, an American psychologist, noticed an obvious flaw in this experiment. The rat in the cage was alone. So, he recreated this famous experiment with the same 2 bottles but made one major change. He created “Rat Park”. This new cage had loads of cheese, tunnels and things to play with. But most importantly the rat was not alone as he had loads of other rat friends with him in this cage. The drugged water was hardly used, and the overdose rate went from 100%, recorded from the previous experiment, to 0% immediately.
The modern-day society is similar to the cage from the 1st experiment where the addict is the lone rat within it. The current system criminalizes these individuals and once you have a criminal record, good luck finding a job. They would be out of money and would be out in the streets where people would look at them in disgust. Like an Ouroboros, it is the system that we live in that have created this feedback loop. As Dr. Keith Humphrey from Stanford University said,
“It’s remarkable that people believe what’s needed is more punishment. If punishment worked, there wouldn’t be any addiction. It’s a punishing enough experience”
If you have anyone in your life that is going through some sort of addiction, know that tough love or humiliation is not going to work. Making them hit rock bottom won’t change a thing. They are humans after all. So, bond with them and be there for them. Be that pillar of strength that they desperately need to lean on. You can’t force them to change their habits, but what you can do is, change the cage that they are in.
Written by: Sanjula Rupasinghe
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You may have seen this rising star of a baker on one of his many appearances on high profile shows like Food Network’s Chopped, Good Morning America and the Ellen Degeneres show. That’s an impressive achievement given he was a middle school science and math teacher only a few years ago!
Living on a farm in rural Connecticut with his husband and twin boys, John says his background teaching middle school math and science prepared him for teaching baking, “If I was able to teach algebra to middle school students, then trust me I can teach you how to cook!”
Known for his Youtube channel, The Preppy Kitchen, viewers should know the name has nothing to do with his wardrobe. John says he named his channel such “because I believe helping people be “Prep”-ared in the kitchen allows them to feel confident and ultimately be successful.” Little by little, John helps viewers learn the fundamental building blocks of baking so they will have less anxiety about tackling the recipes they feel passionate about.
Bake for Your Valentine
Just in time for week 2 of Bake for Family Fun Month, John has prepared a selection of Valentine’s Day content on his website where visitors can find sweet and charming recipes that are guaranteed to make their day a bit more special.
We highly suggest you try your hand at making these Red Velvet Cookies. Soft and chewy, and topped with silky cream cheese frosting, these melt-in-your mouth cookies will leave your loved ones seeing hearts and stars… and that’s a good thing!
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New Testament Greek Syntax
The Dative Case
Expressing the idea of personal interest, accompaniment and means
Later Greek replaces the dative with a prepositional phrase, which process is evident in the NT
1. The Pure Dative
The pure dative expresses personal interest in someone or something where a relationship is specified.
i] Dative of Indirect Object
The prime function of the dative is to serve as an object complement - Common
The noun or pronoun in the dative is the person or thing which receives the direct object of an active verb, or the subject of a passive verb, cf. Wallace.
Often the classification merges with the dative of interest and may be classified as such, so Turner
Sometimes with a preposition: en, epi = "to"
I will repay all things TO YOU
panta apodwsw soi
We are manifested TO GOD
Luke will often use proV + acc. instead of a dative for indirect speech
"[They] complained .... TO the disciples"
egogguzon ... proV touV maqhtaV
ii] Dative of interest
Most datives can be classified as datives of interest, so Turner
Identifying the one for whose benefit something is done - "for"
Sometimes with a preposition: en, epi = "for", "to", ..
She has done a good thing FOR ME
kalon ergon hrgasato en emoi
Most datives can be classified as datives of interest, so Turner
Identifying the one who will be adversely affected by the action - "against"
Sometimes with a preposition: en, epi = "against"
Herodias had a grudge AGAINST HIM
hJ HJrw/diaV eneicen aurw/
iii] Dative of Reference, Respect / Representation, Benefit / Relation
A dative can function adverbially, limiting a verb or adjective
In this usage the dative identifies a person or thing:
a) possessing little or no interest in, but mere reference to; "concerning, about, in regard to, ..."
b) representation or benefit; "on behalf of / for the benefit of"
c) Relation; "in relation to."
Sometimes with a preposition: en, epi = "about" .....
Be not anxious ABOUT your LIFE
mh merminate th/ yuch/ umwn
iv] Dative of Possession
Identifying the person to whom something belongs
Often translated with a possessive pronoun, "his", "her"
the name TO HIM was John = HIS name was John
onoma autw/ IwannhV
Sometimes relational / expressing a relationship
I will be a father TO YOU
I will be YOUR FATHER
esomai uJmin eiV patera
v] Dative of Feeling / Ethical dative
Identifying the person whose feelings or viewpoint are linked to the action of the verb.
Ascriptions fall into this category; "TO GOD be Glory."
Translate: "as far as I am concerned", "in my opinion"
beautiful TO GOD = beautiful as far as God is concerned
asteioV tw/ qew/
vi] Dative of Recipient
"I write TO YOU (soi)"
vii] Adjectival dative (rare in the NT)
A dative can function as an adjective limiting a noun or another adjective
Often epexegetic, "consisting in" = "consisting of"
cf. NIV 2Cor.12:12: "the things that mark an apostle - SIGNS, WONDERS and MIRACLES - were done among you.";
2. The Local Dative (Locative)
Expressing the idea of location, place, position. The dative of time and space, of temporal and spacial relations.
i] The Dative of Space / Place
Identifying a spot or place
Note: Wallace includes this class under Dative of Sphere.
Sometimes with a preposition: en, epi, para, proV = "at", "by", "on", "with", "in", "beside", "among", "upon", ......
they put it UPON his HEAD
epeqhkan autou th/ kefalh/
ii] Dative of Sphere
Identifying a metaphorical spacial idea
Sometimes with a preposition: en, epi, para "in the sphere of", "in the realm of" ......
having been found IN APPEARANCE as a man
schmati euJreqeiV wJV anqrwpoV
iii] Dative of Time (Temporal)
Identifying a particular point in time "when" the action of the main verb is performed
Sometimes with a preposition: en, epi = "when", "while", "at", "during", "on", .....
ON THE FIRST [DAY] of the week
th/ mia/ twn sabbatwn
iv] Dative of rule
Expressing the idea of conforming with a standard, code, or rule of conduct - "in conformity with."
As many as live ACCORDING TO THIS STANDARD.
oJsoi tw/ kanoni toutw/ stoichsousin
v] Dative of direction / destination, termination
Expressing the idea of "to" or "toward" / of traveling "to".
I was not able to speak TO YOU = address YOU.
ouk hdunhqhn lalhsai uJmin
3. The Instrumental Dative
Expressing the idea of means, agent, cause, manner or instrument, indicating that by/with which the action of the verb was performed
i] Dative of Means
Identifying the impersonal means (instrument) by which an action is performed
Sometimes with a preposition: en = "by", "with", "by means of"
Note: personal agency is expressed by uJpo + gentitive
because he had often been bound BY FETTERS and CHAINS
dia to auton pollakiV pedaiV kai aJusesin dedesqai
ii] Dative of Cause
Identifying what caused the action to be performed
Sometimes with a preposition: en, epi = "because of", "on the basis of"
I am perishing here BECAUSE OF FAMINE
egw limw/ wde apollumai
iii] Dative of Manner / Attendant Circumstance
As an adverb describing an accompanying circumstance, or manner (method), by which the action of the verb is performed.
"Called out WITH A LOUD VOICE"
Sometimes expressed with a preposition: en + dat. = "in", meta+ gen. = "with"
he speaks WITH BOLDNESS (= BOLDLY)
iv] Dative of Association / Relation / Accompaniment
Identifying those persons or things that acompany the action performed
Often occurring with verbs with a sun prefix
Sometimes with a preposition: en, para, sun, meta = "with"
he made us alive WITH CHRIST
sunezwopoihsn tw/ Cristw/
v] Dative of Measure / degree of difference
Identifying the intervening measure between two points, usually an interval of time
Sometimes with a preposition: en = Difference by - "during", "much", "in addition to", ...
FOR A LONG TIME he had worn no garment
gronw/ iJkanw/ oiuk ededusato iJmation
vi] Dative of Agency
Identifying the personal agent by whom the action is performed
Translation: "by", "through"
has been tamed by humankind
dedamastai th/ fusei th/ anqrwpinh/
vii] Dative of Material
Identifying the material (rather than tool) used to perform the action
written not WITH INK
eggrammenh ou melani;
viii] Dative of Content
Identifying the content that is used by a verb of filling
he was filled WITH WISDOM
being filled WITH WISDOM
ix] Dative of The Thing Compared
Used sometimes instead of the adjective oJmoiV, "like", or the particle wJV, "as".;
4. Datives after certain verbs, nouns and adjectives
The use of the dative after certain words;
i] Dative of Direct Object
The classification "necessary complement / dative complement" is often used for a dative of direct object although best limited to the dative complement of a substantive construction.
A dative will often follow compound verbs with a prefix such as sun, proV, epi, para
Jesus strictly warned them
he having spoken against THEM
oJ epitimhsaV autoiV. The prefix epi + dat. = "against"
As with the dative of indirect object, these datives may be classified as datives of interest
Some verbs naturally take a dative, eg. "I obey him" = "I am obedient to him"; "I rebuke him" = "I speak sternly to him"
Usually translated by to or in, eg pisteuw, followed by the dative, "I believe/trust IN ......."
Applicable to verbs of trusting, obeying, serving, worshipping, thanksgiving, belief, following, rebuking, helping, pleasing, commanding, ....
I serve God's LAW
I submit to LAW of God
douleuw nomw/ qeou
Sometimes with a preposition: en
A dative substantive following a verb with the prepositional prefix sun, "with", could also be classed as a dative of accompaniment.
The following word groupings often take a dative direct object, sometimes an accusative, cf. BDF:
i] Helping: to do good, to benefit, help (bohqew), please / to harm, etc. with dative or accusative
ii] Pleasing: to please (areskw)
iii] Serving: to serve (diakonew), follow, meet, make a slave to, be enslaved to
iv] Revealing: to show, reveal, seem
v] Directing: to command, censure, rebuke (epitimaw) - most times take a dative
vi] Responding: to trust, obey, believe (pisteuw), follow / disbelieve, disobey
vii] Emoting: to be angry, envy, thank (eucaristew), owe
viii] Worshipping: proskunew;
ii] Dative after certain nouns and adjectives
A dative can be prompted by a verbal noun and is best classified as a "dative complement"
An adjective which prompts a dative is usually classified as a "dative of reference"
The nouns usually carry the idea of personal interest
service TO THE SAINTS
diakonian toiV aJgioiV;
*A less than common usage*;
For Greek font requirements see Syntax Notes
A Commentary on the Greek New Testament Exegetical Notes
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In her new book The Myth of the American Dream, Collegeville Institute alumna D.L. Mayfield interrogates the common values of affluence, autonomy, safety, and power in the United States. She asks: are these values compatible with Jesus’ command to love our neighbor as ourselves?
The following adapted excerpt is from chapter eight, “Liberty,” which is in the section on autonomy. Reproduced by permission.
Autonomy is the right to act, speak, live, or govern as you want without restraint. It is independence. For those who have been imprisoned, it makes sense that freedom is something to long for. It makes sense that Jesus came to proclaim liberty to people who had very little control over their lives, who often lived without knowing where their next meal would come from, their lives governed by the whims of a tiny minority of wealthy and powerful rulers.
But what does it mean when those who are already free start to idolize liberty? It can become a weapon to keep other people down. For those of us who grew up with food in our bellies and a roof overhead and in a place where our skin color and theologies and names fit the norm, what does it mean to long for a world where we are independent? I’ve discovered how much I resist having my own selfish desires restrained by the needs and stories of others, especially those for whom the American Dream is only a myth.
My husband likes to say that we need the church to be our recovery group; we need it to be a place where we can share how tempted we are by the values of our world: upward mobility, progress, success, programs, achievements, individuality. I am drawn to these values because I want something to hold in my hand, something I can shove up to the sky and prove to God that I have done something, that I have made a difference, or that I have done well with what I was given. With my own clenched fingers I have saved the world. But the truth is, in this mindset I grow ever more lonely and ever more isolated, both railing against the American Dream and unable to listen to those who have always been creating paths of resistance to the dehumanization of others within the myth we all reside in.
But the truth is, in this mindset I grow ever more lonely and ever more isolated.
My story would have continued on the lonely path of the free if I hadn’t been jolted out of complacency by my neighbors, flesh-and-blood people who ministered to me, taught me, embraced me, confronted me, challenged me, ignored me, and even hated me. My neighbors saved me from myself and from a culture that taught me that at age nineteen I had all the right answers to the mysterious, consuming, burning love of God. They restrained me. Their love allowed me to take small, scared steps into a world that is more broken than I could possibly believe and a faith in the God who will redeem us all. I am and continue to be liberated from my role as the captor with intentions of gold. And God has used my neighbors to pierce through the value of autonomy in my own life.
I am now several years into a friendship with a neighbor, Maryan, who lives across the courtyard from me. She treats me like a younger sister. Recently she noticed the new-to-us car my husband had purchased, a tiny little shiny vehicle with good gas mileage and a cheap price tag. My husband was so proud of this car, a sign of frugality. But Maryan saw it differently. She had multiple children and no driver’s license. Going to the grocery store for her was an immense undertaking, especially since we live in what is technically a food desert. Ever since she left her home country she had been denied the simple pleasure of grocery shopping, of touching the food with her own hands. Her husband got together with the other men and shopped once a week, using the long lists she wrote as a guide for what the family would eat.
Maryan took one look at our little car and said, “What, did you not think of us when you bought this car?” My heart sank within me, desperate to explain myself, our decision to purchase something that was cheap and reliable and that suited our small family’s needs. Maryan shook her head. “For someone with a big heart,” she said, “you sure do like small cars.” We laughed together, but her honesty was a gift that cut several ways. She was pointing out that we come from different cultures, with different values. My first impulse is usually to take care of myself first. I do not view Maryan’s troubles as my own, as my responsibility in the way that families care for one another. I do not buy my food or my clothes or my cars in a way that connects me to the “inescapable network of mutuality.” I am lonely in my small car, saving on my gas bill, isolated as I hurtle down the streets to take care of my own personal errands. But friends who cook me good meals and tell the truth about their reality and mine help burst the bubble of my own making, time and time again.
Maryan took one look at our little car and said, “What, did you not think of us when you bought this car?”
I think about this as I eat yet another meal prepared for me by Maryan, as I watch her serve me and then prepare to share her bounty with another family. In apartments like hers, I have slowly watched my values change. It hasn’t been instant, as much as I would like it to be. And in many ways it still stings. We are never as autonomous as we would like to believe; someone usually pays for our freedoms, as so many have been trying to tell us. And the only way those of us obsessed with freedom can learn a new way of living depends on taking the time to become connected to the real teachers, our neighbors: the ones who feed us from the deep wells of their own experience. The ones who have the keys to truly liberating us all.
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“Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God.” Revelation 3:2
The interpretation of the book of Revelation has been somewhat controversial in modern church history. This is due primarily to a shift from a historic interpretation, majority held until roughly the late 18th early 19th century, towards a more futuristic interpretation. By that I mean that the majority report for interpreting Revelation today is to usher the events and prophecies recorded by John to sometime in the future. Predominantly this has occurred for chapters 4-22, but has also been the case for the letters to the 7 churches, found in chapters 2 & 3. What this futuristic view sometimes overlooks is that these were 7 actual churches addressed by Christ, through John’s letter, and that the message to these churches has had a practical, real application for the Church throughout history, even down to this day.
Our Lord instructs John to write to seven churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. Of the seven, only two, Smyrna and Philadelphia pass by the watchful, flaming eye of Christ without rebuke. Ephesus, Pergamum, and Thyatira, though each receiving rebuke, were commending for varying levels of faithfulness; from strong doctrinal defense, to faithfulness and acts of love. Yet when Christ directs His gaze to the Church at Sardis, He offers no commendation. He finds no evidence in the Church’s works worthy of positive comment; neither strong doctrine, nor endurance, nor strong spirituality. The church receives rebuke for a reputation of being alive, though Christ sees them as dead. In other words, because they put on a nice show, perhaps even having large attendance, and having gained a reputation in the community for being alive, through the examining eye of Christ, the opposite is actually true. He finds their works to be dead. This is the danger of the pragmatic church founded on doctrinal quicksand, focused mainly on attendance and success, and unconcerned with centrality and sufficiency of the Word of God.
One thing has often puzzled me about these churches and Sardis in particular. While, not commended for any outward evidences of faithfulness, Christ does notice something positive; the presence of a faithful remnant. He charges the church to “Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die.” Later we read of Him saying, “Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white for they are worthy.” (Revelation 3:4) Two quick observations are in order: 1. That these faithful members were in the minority is explicitly stated (a few names) 2. That they were not in leadership is implied. While the identity of the “angel” to whom each letter is addressed is somewhat debatable, it would seem the context of the statement “you have still a few names” seems to lend itself to mean a small group that are not responsible for leading the church in the path of dead works. So, in the midst of this church façade dwelt a remnant of faithful believers who had not been tainted by the dead works of the majority. The puzzling aspect of this fact is perhaps obvious. Why didn’t this faithful remnant pack up and move on to another church? Here they were in the middle of a dead church, though still faithful in their stewardship and worship. Why? I’ll offer a couple thoughts below.
First, in 21st century America we live in a country with a landscape littered with churches. From my window at work, I can literally see 7 or 8 large churches within 2 blocks of each other. It doesn’t mean they are all good and faithful, but options abound. If someone is offended by the First Baptist Church of Your Town, USA they can move on to the Second Baptist Church of Your Town, USA. In first century Asia (and really in large rural areas throughout the world today) however, this luxury was not present. Sardis was about 40 miles from Philadelphia and about 60 miles from Smyrna. Nobody was going to pack up the kids on donkeys every Sunday morning for a trip to a faithful church that far away (and you thought you had trouble getting the family to church on time!).
Which begs a second question; Why not plant another church in Sardis? This is the puzzling part and where we’ll land in this discussion. Though much of the territory where in now is speculation, I think it’s still possible and beneficial to think through this question. It’s of course possible that this small, faithful remnant had not been called by God to plant another church nearby. Christ does not instruct them to leave, but calls the church to “Wake up” and “Strengthen what remains”. Who’s to wake up? Perhaps the faithful, though more likely not. Who’s to do the strengthening? Most likely the faithful. They were called to stay and work reform in the church. How do we know this? I think it’s because on the heels of commending the faithful, who had not stained their garments and were given the promise to walk with Christ in white, He states, “The one who conquers will be clothed in white garments” and they will not have their names blotted “out of the book of life” and will have their names confessed by the Son before the Father. Certainly these promises extend to the faithful, as previously seen in verse 4, though in verse 5 the introduction of the condition, “the one who conquers” would seem to extend these promises beyond the small faithful remnant to the rest of the church who overcome their deadness and lack of zeal for Christ. Regardless, these faithful few were called to stay and do the work of reformation with the hope that the Holy Spirit might do the work of revival among the church.
This brings me to three exhortations on the benefit of remaining in an unfaithful, dead church for the purpose of working reformation.
- For the Glory of God. This is the chief motivating factor for all that a believer does (1 Cor. 10:31). The Westminster Shorter Catechism affirms that the chief end of man is to “glorify God and enjoy Him forever.” God is glorified through the work of His faithful saints who labor in difficult places, be they churches or hostile countries, for the sake of spreading the Gospel, seeing the salvation of sinners and the sanctification of saints.
- For the Fame of Christ’s Name. Any church that flies the Christian banner represents the name of Christ. It doesn’t matter whether the church is liberal or fundamental, neo-orthodox or orthodox. If they pretend to be a church at all, then they are representing Christ. His name is either smeared in the mud or it is exalted on high, but either way His name is involved. The same is true for professing Christians. It is therefore imperative that we “let our light so shine before men that they see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven.” (Matt. 5:16) The church that continues in dead works, pretending to be a faithful witness for Christ ultimately brings reproach to the name of Christ. Therefore, when laborious work for reform is achieved in a dead church it brings fame to the name of Christ rather than reproach.
- For the Repentance of Sinners and the Restoration of “Backsliders”. Would it be right for a faithful few to wash their hands of a dead or dying church situation and move on? Maybe, in some situations. Though it seems to lean heavily towards self-preservation. As believers we are called to the Great Commission, i.e. spreading the Gospel to the lost. That mission field might be as far away as New Zealand, or as close as your own backyard. And it might even be your local church. A dead or dying church most always has sin in her midst (Rev. 3:2, 4), it therefore needs Christ proclaimed boldly and relentlessly by the faithful for the purpose of bringing sinners to Christ and to awaken those who are asleep.
I’m sure planting a church brings with it a level of excitement and adventure for the cause of Christ and it certainly must have its challenges and discouragements. But re-planting is restoration and reform and that is the heart of Christianity. To take a person who was once dead and bring them to life by the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit is the purpose and plan of God for the salvation of sinners. To take a church that was once dead and bring it to life by the reforming power of the Word of God and His Holy Spirit is the work of His saints. Strengthen what remains.
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There is an incisive discussion of the Food and Drug Administration’s appalling crime in a short article by Philip Steele, which I recommend to you: https://fee.org/articles/we-had-the-vaccine-from-the-start-you-just-werent-allowed-to-take-it/.
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Where to Install Solar—Instead of on the Roof
You love everything about solar energy—the environmental impact, the high-tech vibe, and especially the utility savings—but you can’t quite fall in love with the way they look. Luckily, you don’t have to choose between a bulky rooftop solar installation or nothing at all. Homeowners these days have all kinds of options to make use of the sun’s energy. And many of the best designs integrate seamlessly into a home’s exterior or add a unique outdoor feature to lawns or gardens beyond. Ready to dive in? Here are some of our favorite ways to get all the power of solar without adding panels to your roof.
On the Ground
Not crazy about roof-mounted solar? There’s no law that says you can’t install them on the ground instead (although you may want to check your homeowner’s association bylaws first, since some HOAs are not fond of the way ground mounts look). In fact, if your home’s roof isn’t oriented in the best direction for solar or gets too much shade, ground-mounted arrays can be much more productive than anything you can put on top of your home.
Think about it this way: any panels that go on your roof are limited by the roof’s design, which isn’t exactly what works best for solar. For instance, your roof may run east to west instead of north to south—meaning you don’t have a south-facing surface to use when you install—and that means you can’t take advantage of the maximum amount of sunlight. You might face additional challenges if your roof’s angle is too steep or too gentle, since finding the right angle can make all the difference.
Ground-mounted panels let you avoid these challenges. In general, you have two choices for ground-mounted systems: standard ground mounts and pole mounts. With a standard ground mount array, the framing is anchored directly into the ground, with the panels held at a fixed angle. In a pole mount system, the panels are suspended on a pole, elevating them from the ground. That elevation makes them ideal for a solar tracking system, where panels adjust their angle automatically to follow the sun’s movements and maximize production. So in many cases, getting low can open up a range of new options to consider.
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Sheds and garages naturally have a more utilitarian feel than a home, so if your beef with roof mounts is mainly due to the aesthetics, this may be a good way to go. If your shed or garage is located behind your home, you can easily install panels here so they have very little effect on your home’s profile from the road.
Unfortunately, you’ll run into some of the same limitations as you would with a roof mount. That is, you’ll have to hope that the design of your existing shed or garage has built-in solar potential. But even if you don’t already have the right specs, you can always consider building your own brand-new solar storage shed.
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As a Solar Tree
This last one gets extra points for creativity. As more homes, businesses, and municipal buildings have adopted solar, we’ve started to see some pretty innovative installations and ways of melding solar panels into various properties. One of our favorites is the solar tree: a metal “trunk” and “branches,” with small, angled solar panels forming the “leaves.”
As a unique take on residential solar, these solar trees can be custom-designed by a willing solar provider and architect, or bought pre-fab from companies like Spotlight Solar and Envision Solar. They often include a solar battery or other storage option as well, so you can store away some extra energy for a rainy day. Solar has never looked so good.
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There are a variety of ways to determine the quality of socks that you're planning to buy is sustainable. Are they made of organic cotton and other environmentally friendly products? Are they ethically made and produced responsibly? Are they designed to last you many times over?
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Contrary to conventional cotton, no pesticides, chemicals, or artificial fertilizers are utilized to cultivate this type of cotton. Organic cotton is a great way to keep our waterways healthy and encourages biodiversity. The choice of organic cotton in comparison to traditional cotton more beneficial to the environment and gentle to your skin!
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Effects of forests, roads and mistletoe on bird diversity in monoculture rubber plantations.
ABSTRACT: Rising global demand for natural rubber is expanding monoculture rubber (Hevea brasilensis) at the expense of natural forests in the Old World tropics. Conversion of forests into rubber plantations has a devastating impact on biodiversity and we have yet to identify management strategies that can mitigate this. We determined the life-history traits that best predict bird species occurrence in rubber plantations in SW China and investigated the effects of surrounding forest cover and distance to roads on bird diversity. Mistletoes provide nectar and fruit resources in rubber so we examined mistletoe densities and the relationship with forest cover and rubber tree diameter. In rubber plantations, we recorded less than half of all bird species extant in the surrounding area. Birds with wider habitat breadths and low conservation value had a higher probability of occurrence. Species richness and diversity increased logarithmically with surrounding forest cover, but roads had little effect. Mistletoe density increased exponentially with rubber tree diameters, but was unrelated to forest cover. To maximize bird diversity in rubber-dominated landscapes it is therefore necessary to preserve as much forest as possible, construct roads through plantations and not forest, and retain some large rubber trees with mistletoes during crop rotations.
Project description:Birds both promote and prosper from forest restoration. The ecosystem functions birds perform can increase the pace of forest regeneration and, correspondingly, increase the available habitat for birds and other forest-dependent species. The aim of this study was to learn how tropical forest restoration treatments interact with landscape tree cover to affect the structure and composition of a diverse bird assemblage. We sampled bird communities over two years in 13 restoration sites and two old-growth forests in southern Costa Rica. Restoration sites were established on degraded farmlands in a variety of landscape contexts, and each included a 0.25-ha plantation, island treatment (trees planted in patches), and unplanted control. We analyzed four attributes of bird communities including frugivore abundance, nectarivore abundance, migrant insectivore richness, and compositional similarity of bird communities in restoration plots to bird communities in old-growth forests. All four bird community variables were greater in plantations and/or islands than in control treatments. Frugivore and nectarivore abundance decreased with increasing tree cover in the landscape surrounding restoration plots, whereas compositional similarity to old-growth forests was greatest in plantations embedded in landscapes with high tree cover. Migrant insectivore richness was unaffected by landscape tree cover. Our results agree with previous studies showing that increasing levels of investment in active restoration are positively related to bird richness and abundance, but differences in the effects of landscape tree cover on foraging guilds and community composition suggest that trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and bird-mediated ecosystem functioning may be important for prioritizing restoration sites.
Project description:Forest-to-rubber plantation conversion is an important land-use change in the tropical region, for which the impacts on soil carbon stocks have hardly been studied. In montane mainland southeast Asia, monoculture rubber plantations cover 1.5 million ha and the conversion from secondary forests to rubber plantations is predicted to cause a fourfold expansion by 2050. Our study, conducted in southern Yunnan province, China, aimed to quantify the changes in soil carbon stocks following the conversion from secondary forests to rubber plantations. We sampled 11 rubber plantations ranging in age from 5 to 46 years and seven secondary forest plots using a space-for-time substitution approach. We found that forest-to-rubber plantation conversion resulted in losses of soil carbon stocks by an average of 37.4±4.7 (SE) Mg C ha(-1) in the entire 1.2-m depth over a time period of 46 years, which was equal to 19.3±2.7% of the initial soil carbon stocks in the secondary forests. This decline in soil carbon stocks was much larger than differences between published aboveground carbon stocks of rubber plantations and secondary forests, which range from a loss of 18 Mg C ha(-1) to an increase of 8 Mg C ha(-1). In the topsoil, carbon stocks declined exponentially with years since deforestation and reached a steady state at around 20 years. Although the IPCC tier 1 method assumes that soil carbon changes from forest-to-rubber plantation conversions are zero, our findings show that they need to be included to avoid errors in estimating overall ecosystem carbon fluxes.
Project description:Tropical forests in the Americas are undergoing rapid conversion to commercial agriculture, and many migratory bird species that use these forests have experienced corresponding populations declines. Conservation research for migratory birds in the tropics has focused overwhelmingly on shade coffee plantations and adjacent forest, but both cover types are now in decline, creating an urgent need to evaluate conservation opportunities in other agricultural systems. Here we compare how a community of 42 Neotropical migratory bird species and a subset of five conservation-priority species differ in usage and habitat associations among a secondary forest baseline and four expanding commercial plantation systems in Guatemala: African oil palm, teak, rubber, and mixed-native hardwoods. We found that mixed-native hardwood plantations supported the highest richness and diversity of all migrants and that the three hardwood plantation types generally outperformed oil palm in richness and diversity metrics. Despite this, oil palm supported high abundance of several common and widespread species also experiencing range-wide population declines and may therefore play an important role in conserving common species. Mature secondary forest hosted low abundance and diversity of the full migratory community, but high abundance and richness of conservation priority migrants along with native hardwood and teak plantations. Likewise, the percentage of forest cover on the landscape was positively associated with priority migrant abundance and richness but negatively associated with the abundance of migrants in general, highlighting how individual species within the broad group of Neotropical migratory landbirds respond differently to anthropogenic changes in land use. Across all cover types, the retention of tall overstory trees increased the abundance, richness, and diversity of all migrants, which indicates that vertical structural diversity and remnant trees are important habitat features for birds in agricultural landscapes. Our findings show that conservation opportunities exist in hardwood and oil palm plantations, though the species likely to benefit from conservation action will vary among plantation types. For the subset of conservation priority migrants, our results suggest that conservation efforts should combine strategies that retain and restore secondary forest, promote the adoption of native hardwood and teak plantations, and promote the retention of tall, remnant trees in agricultural landscapes.
Project description:The native forests of Borneo have been impacted by selective logging, fire, and conversion to plantations at unprecedented scales since industrial-scale extractive industries began in the early 1970s. There is no island-wide documentation of forest clearance or logging since the 1970s. This creates an information gap for conservation planning, especially with regard to selectively logged forests that maintain high conservation potential. Analysing LANDSAT images, we estimate that 75.7% (558,060 km2) of Borneo's area (737,188 km2) was forested around 1973. Based upon a forest cover map for 2010 derived using ALOS-PALSAR and visually reviewing LANDSAT images, we estimate that the 1973 forest area had declined by 168,493 km2 (30.2%) in 2010. The highest losses were recorded in Sabah and Kalimantan with 39.5% and 30.7% of their total forest area in 1973 becoming non-forest in 2010, and the lowest in Brunei and Sarawak (8.4%, and 23.1%). We estimate that the combined area planted in industrial oil palm and timber plantations in 2010 was 75,480 km2, representing 10% of Borneo. We mapped 271,819 km of primary logging roads that were created between 1973 and 2010. The greatest density of logging roads was found in Sarawak, at 0.89 km km-2, and the lowest density in Brunei, at 0.18 km km-2. Analyzing MODIS-based tree cover maps, we estimate that logging operated within 700 m of primary logging roads. Using this distance, we estimate that 266,257 km2 of 1973 forest cover has been logged. With 389,566 km2 (52.8%) of the island remaining forested, of which 209,649 km2 remains intact. There is still hope for biodiversity conservation in Borneo. Protecting logged forests from fire and conversion to plantations is an urgent priority for reducing rates of deforestation in Borneo.
Project description:Tropical agriculture is a major driver of biodiversity loss, yet it can provide conservation opportunities, especially where protected areas are inadequate. To investigate the long-term biodiversity capacity of agricultural countryside, we quantified bird population trends in Costa Rica by mist netting 57,255 birds of 265 species between 1999 and 2010 in sun coffee plantations, riparian corridors, secondary forests, forest fragments, and primary forest reserves. More bird populations (69) were declining than were stable (39) or increasing (4). Declines were common in resident, insectivorous, and more specialized species. There was no relationship between the species richness of a habitat and its conservation value. High-value forest bird communities were characterized by their distinct species composition and habitat and dietary functional signatures. While 49% of bird species preferred forest to coffee, 39% preferred coffee to forest and 12% used both habitats, indicating that coffee plantations have some conservation value. Coffee plantations, although lacking most of the forest specialists, hosted 185 bird species, had the highest capture rates, and supported increasing numbers of some forest species. Coffee plantations with higher tree cover (7% vs. 13%) had more species with increasing capture rates, twice as many forest specialists, and half as many nonforest species. Costa Rican countryside habitats, especially those with greater tree cover, host many bird species and are critical for connecting bird populations in forest remnants. Diversified agricultural landscapes can enhance the biodiversity capacity of tropical countryside, but, for the long-term persistence of all forest bird species, large (>1,000 ha) protected areas are essential.
Project description:BACKGROUND:One major consequence of economic development in South-East Asia has been a rapid expansion of rubber plantations, in which outbreaks of dengue and malaria have occurred. Here we explored the difference in risk of exposure to potential dengue, Japanese encephalitis (JE), and malaria vectors between rubber workers and those engaged in traditional forest activities in northern Laos PDR. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS:Adult mosquitoes were collected for nine months in secondary forests, mature and immature rubber plantations, and villages. Human behavior data were collected using rapid participatory rural appraisals and surveys. Exposure risk was assessed by combining vector and human behavior and calculating the basic reproduction number (R0) in different typologies. Compared to those that stayed in the village, the risk of dengue vector exposure was higher for those that visited the secondary forests during the day (odds ratio (OR) 36.0), for those living and working in rubber plantations (OR 16.2) and for those that tapped rubber (OR 3.2). Exposure to JE vectors was also higher in the forest (OR 1.4) and, similar when working (OR 1.0) and living in the plantations (OR 0.8). Exposure to malaria vectors was greater in the forest (OR 1.3), similar when working in the plantations (OR 0.9) and lower when living in the plantations (OR 0.6). R0 for dengue was >2.8 for all habitats surveyed, except villages where R0?0.06. The main malaria vector in all habitats was Anopheles maculatus s.l. in the rainy season and An. minimus s.l. in the dry season. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE:The highest risk of exposure to vector mosquitoes occurred when people visit natural forests. However, since rubber workers spend long periods in the rubber plantations, their risk of exposure is increased greatly compared to those who temporarily enter natural forests or remain in the village. This study highlights the necessity of broadening mosquito control to include rubber plantations.
Project description:Rapid land-use change in the tropics causes dramatic losses in biodiversity and associated functions. In Sumatra, Indonesia, lowland rainforest has mainly been transformed by smallholders into oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) and rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) monocultures, interspersed with jungle rubber (rubber agroforests) and a few forest remnants. In two regions of the Jambi province, we conducted point counts in 32 plots of four different land-use types (lowland rainforest, jungle rubber, rubber plantation and oil palm plantation) as well as in 16 nearby homegardens, representing a small-scale, traditional agricultural system. We analysed total bird abundance and bird abundance in feeding guilds, as well as species richness per point count visit, per plot, and per land-use system, to unveil the conservation importance and functional responses of birds in the different land-use types. In total, we identified 71 species from 24 families. Across the different land-use types, abundance did not significantly differ, but both species richness per visit and per plot were reduced in plantations. Feeding guild abundances between land-use types were variable, but homegardens were dominated by omnivores and granivores, and frugivorous birds were absent from monoculture rubber and oil palm. Jungle rubber played an important role in harbouring forest bird species and frugivores. Homegardens turned out to be of minor importance for conserving birds due to their low sizes, although collectively, they are used by many bird species. Changes in functional composition with land-use conversion may affect important ecosystem functions such as biological pest control, pollination, and seed dispersal. In conclusion, maintaining forest cover, including degraded forest and jungle rubber, is of utmost importance to the conservation of functional and taxonomic bird diversity.
Project description:The increased demand for palm oil has led to an expansion of oil palm concessions in the tropics, and the clearing of abundant forest as a result. However, concessions are typically incompletely planted to varying degrees, leaving much land unused. The remaining forests within such concessions are at high risk of deforestation, as there are normally no legal hurdles to their clearance, therefore making them excellent targets for conservation. We investigated the location of oil palm plantations and the other major crop - rubber plantations in southern Myanmar, and compared them to concession boundaries. Our results show that rubber plantations cover much larger areas than oil palm in the region, indicating that rubber is the region's preferred crop. Furthermore, only 15% of the total concession area is currently planted with oil palm (49,000?ha), while 25,000?ha is planted outside concession boundaries. While this may in part be due to uncertain and/or changing boundaries, this leaves most of the concession area available for other land uses, including forest conservation and communities' livelihood needs. Reconsidering the remaining concession areas can also significantly reduce future emission risks from the region.
Project description:BACKGROUND:Ecological adaptation to host taxa is thought to result in mistletoe speciation via race formation. However, historical and ecological factors could also contribute to explain genetic structuring particularly when mistletoe host races are distributed allopatrically. Using sequence data from nuclear (ITS) and chloroplast (trnL-F) DNA, we investigate the genetic differentiation of 31 Psittacanthus schiedeanus (Loranthaceae) populations across the Mesoamerican species range. We conducted phylogenetic, population and spatial genetic analyses on 274 individuals of P. schiedeanus to gain insight of the evolutionary history of these populations. Species distribution modeling, isolation with migration and Bayesian inference methods were used to infer the evolutionary transition of mistletoe invasion, in which evolutionary scenarios were compared through posterior probabilities. RESULTS:Our analyses revealed shallow levels of population structure with three genetic groups present across the sample area. Nine haplotypes were identified after sequencing the trnL-F intergenic spacer. These haplotypes showed phylogeographic structure, with three groups with restricted gene flow corresponding to the distribution of individuals/populations separated by habitat (cloud forest localities from San Luis Potosí to northwestern Oaxaca and Chiapas, localities with xeric vegetation in central Oaxaca, and localities with tropical deciduous forests in Chiapas), with post-glacial population expansions and potentially corresponding to post-glacial invasion types. Similarly, 44 ITS ribotypes suggest phylogeographic structure, despite the fact that most frequent ribotypes are widespread indicating effective nuclear gene flow via pollen. Gene flow estimates, a significant genetic signal of demographic expansion, and range shifts under past climatic conditions predicted by species distribution modeling suggest post-glacial invasion of P. schiedeanus mistletoes to cloud forests. However, Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) analyses strongly supported a scenario of simultaneous divergence among the three groups isolated recently. CONCLUSIONS:Our results provide support for the predominant role of isolation and environmental factors in driving genetic differentiation of Mesoamerican parrot-flower mistletoes. The ABC results are consistent with a scenario of post-glacial mistletoe invasion, independent of host identity, and that habitat types recently isolated P. schiedeanus populations, accumulating slight phenotypic differences among genetic groups due to recent migration across habitats. Under this scenario, climatic fluctuations throughout the Pleistocene would have altered the distribution of suitable habitat for mistletoes throughout Mesoamerica leading to variation in population continuity and isolation. Our findings add to an understanding of the role of recent isolation and colonization in shaping cloud forest communities in the region.
Project description:While the area of plantation forest increased globally between 2010 and 2015, more than twice the area of natural forests was lost over the same period (6.5 million ha natural forest lost per year versus 3.2 million ha plantation gained per year). Consequently, there is an increasing need to understand how plantation land use affects biodiversity. The relative conservation value of plantation forests is context dependent, being influenced by previous land use, management regimes and landscape composition. What is less well understood, and of importance to conservation management, is the consistency of diversity patterns across regions, and the degree to which useful generalisations can be provided within and among bioregions. Here, we analyse forest birds in Ireland, France and Portugal, representing distinct regions across the Atlantic biogeographic area of Europe. We compared taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of bird communities among conifer plantations and semi-natural oak forests, and assessed correlations between species traits and forest type across these regions. Although bird composition (assessed with NMDS ordination) differed consistently between plantation and oak forests across all three regions, species richness and Shannon diversity did not show a consistent pattern. In Ireland and France, metrics of taxonomic diversity (richness and Shannon diversity), functional diversity, functional dispersion and phylogenetic diversity were greater in oak forests than plantations. However, in Portugal taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity did not differ significantly between forest types, while functional diversity and dispersion were statistically significantly greater in plantations. No single bird trait-forest type association correlated in a consistent direction across the three study regions. Trait associations for the French bird communities appeared intermediate between those in Ireland and Portugal, and when trait correlations were significant in both Ireland and Portugal, the direction of the correlation was always opposite. The variation in response of bird communities to conifer plantations indicates that care is needed when generalising patterns of community diversity and assembly mechanisms across regions.
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On June 12, U.S. House Republicans failed to revoke the lighting efficiency restrictions mandated by the 2007 law, The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, or HR 6. This law would phase out incandescent bulbs, and is one that Republicans themselves sponsored.
Republicans did, however, pass legislation that removes the funding needed to enforce the 2007 law. This backpedaling, now taking place in the 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Act (which passed the House on July 15), underlines the fact that the Republican path to emasculation is through the pocket, and without benefit of anesthetic.
But is it really a victory? In the Land of the (not-so-much) Free, and the Home of the Brave (if you have money, anyway), it may be. And there is little doubt that some of the much-maligned Republicans are actually trying to do a good thing for a change; making light bulb legislation a symbol of all that is wrong with modern government – overreaching, insensitive, and essentially impractical.
Steven Chu, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, disagrees. As he has been quick to remind, the 2007 act does not actually ban incandescent bulbs. That is, halogen incandescent bulbs will still be available, albeit at possibly unaffordable prices (who says Republicans are the only ones failing to grasp America’s current financial reality?).
Still, I’m inclined to think that Dr. Chu (a physicist and Nobel Prize winner with a pedigree from both Berkeley and Stanford) does know what’s best for me. And you. And the 311,777,805 other Americans alive on July 16, all of whom want to keep living and breathing in spite of the nation’s overwhelming carbon footprint of 6.633 million metric tons in 2009, which was a good year.
As American Thinker (unintentionally) points out, transitions – whether from whale oil to kerosene or coal to solar – require someone at the helm who is willing to look (somewhat) like a hard ass. Dr. Chu, a well-educated man who takes the long view of life on this planet, would be my first choice for that ass – pardon me, Dr. Chu, but the term is actually a compliment.
The Republican argument – that phaseout of the incandescent means a house full of mercury-laden compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) whose accidental demise requires a cleanup crew from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – is not only shirty, it’s whinging (thanks, Brits). Especially since most of us never do anything that’s good for ourselves, or the planet, unless and until forced to by ill health or imminent death.
I don’t know about you, but the planet is pretty sick right now. Record temps all across the Southern U.S., another Dust Bowl brewing in the Oklahoma-Four Corners area, and a pattern of record rainfall and storms from the Grain Belt to the eastern ridge of the Rockies that are too early to damage the corn and wheat crops. Maybe.
Article by Jeanne Roberts, appearing courtesy Celsias.
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By: Dylan Reynolds
Amid the flagrant calls for police reform spurred by the 2020 murder of George Floyd (among countless others) is a renewed effort by both advocates and lawmakers to require that police officers wear body cameras. Body cameras are seen as essential to police reform, transparency, and increasing officer accountability. However, it turns out that smartphone cameras can also be an incredibly effective tool for police accountability.
A common argument by advocates is that body cameras increase police accountability. They think the cameras are frequently worn and the footage is frequently reviewed, forcing officers to change their discriminatory behavior when it is identified. They also think the cameras result in more police prosecutions and more trust between the police and the public. However, we know this is simply not true. In fact, there is a sharp disparity in the effectiveness of body cameras for police accountability in theory versus in practice.
Today, only seven states require that police wear body cameras . Although this number is small, there has also been widespread voluntary adoption of the cameras, so about 60% of all departments and about 80% of large departments voluntarily use them . However, many police departments permit wide officer discretion about when and even whether to use the cameras and many lack standards for periodically reviewing the collected footage . This begs the question: What good does the camera do for police accountability when the footage is exclusively within police control, such that whether it is ever viewed, used, or released is up to police?
We wanted police departments to frequently review collected footage for policy compliance and to watch what happens in routine cases. What we see, however, is police departments referring to body camera footage only when there is a civilian complaint or a high-profile case . Further, body cameras have produced a negligible effect on officer behavior. There has been no evidence of reduced racial disparities and little increase in officer discipline or police prosecutions because of the cameras, even though these were reasons for mandating them .
The appeal and effectiveness of smartphone cameras as an accountability mechanism for police starts with their prevalence. Smartphone cameras only date back about 10 years, but are virtually ubiquitous now, and have resulted in a new kind of public surveillance of police . They have resulted in the widespread ability to instantly record, and our rights enable us to record what the police do in public . Further, smartphones are an effective accountability mechanism because cell phone footage can be shared broadly and frequently goes viral, as seen in the case of George Floyd.
Darnella Frazier was just seventeen years old when she recorded George Floyd’s murder with her cellphone . She posted the video to Facebook, it went viral, and eventually led to criminal charges and convictions against three police officers . Darnella’s actions were wholly inspiring and courageous. In the face of police threatening her with mace as she and others called on them to stop hurting Floyd and render medical attention, she knew she needed to keep recording . Had it not been for Darnella’s bravery and her cellphone, George Floyd’s murderer would still be a police officer today.
On the other hand, smartphones as an accountability mechanism for police conduct come with civilian risks otherwise absent with body worn cameras. For example, while many individuals have expressed fear of retaliation for sharing videos of police, some individuals have documented active retaliation by police officers . Additionally, police officers frequently attempt to prohibit recording at crime scenes even though we have a First Amendment right to record things happening in public, as long as it does not impede the officer from doing his job safely . Further, police officers may even arrest citizens who record them for “impeding police duties,” just to remove them from the scene .
Ultimately, our evolving technology is creating new pathways to public oversight of policing because it transfers the power from police to the public in holding police accountable for their conduct. Although police body cameras sound good in theory, they suffer from inconsistent polices that undermine their effectiveness for increasing officer accountability. Despite the risks mentioned above, we should be using our cell phones to record police scenes, so long as it does not impede the officers from doing their job.
Dylan graduated from Arizona State University with her B.S. and M.A. in Criminology & Criminal Justice. She is currently a 2L at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and plans to practice in corporate law after passing the bar exam. Within the social justice sector, her interests include environmental justice, criminal justice reform, and issues pertaining to gender and bodily autonomy. Her personal interests include traveling, snuggling with her cat Freddy, and spending time with loved ones.
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K-12 Spring Webinar Series, Contemporary Middle East in Context: “Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis and War in Context” with Dr. Dana Moss (University of Notre Dame) (virtual)
March 15, 2022 | 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Between February and April 2022, K-14 educators in the U.S. and around the world are invited to a three-part webinar series exploring certain current issues in the Middle East with a focus on historical context. Each 90-minute session will feature a different issue that demonstrates how understanding the past is essential for comprehending today’s Middle East. Content experts will introduce important contemporary issues before delving back into the past to explore how we arrived at our present moment. Attending teachers will gain a deeper understanding of the region’s history and current events, as well as ideas about incorporating this information into classrooms.
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This session will present an overview on Yemen’s rich culture, its ongoing war, and why it is home to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations.
Dana Moss is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. She has been awarded multiple grants to conduct fieldwork in the Arab world, including the National Science Foundation’s Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant and the American Institute for Yemeni Studies’ Predoctoral Fellowship. Her first book, The Arab Spring Abroad, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. In 2009, Dana attended the Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies in Yemen’s capital for intensive summer Arabic study, and o co-founded The Yemen Peace Project, a non-profit organization in operation from 2010 until 2019, dedicated to educating Americans about Yemeni politics and the arts.
“Contemporary Middle East in Context” is a collaboration between the two National Resource Centers (NRCs) of the Consortium for Middle East Studies at Duke University-The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and of the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. It has been funded by Title VI grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to these NRCs.
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Home » Events » AJM: Passover Artwork and XOXO Activities
XOXO is an exhibit currently at the JCC’s American Jewish Museum. The exhibit’s hands-on activities are intended to help us process and understand different kinds of emotions…and are meant for everyone no matter our age. Since the JCC is closed, Melissa Hiller, American Jewish Museum director, shares exhibit-based activities you can do at home. Thanks to the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh for lending this exhibit to us.
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One of the things that surprises me for a few days every time we go back to the UK is that you can open a tap and hot water comes out. Just like that. So, uncluttered by notions of health and safety, we have taken ownership of this new shower unit, affectionately known as a widow maker:
Note the trailing flex, loosely stapled to the wall above the tiles, dangling across the plug socket, with the bath just a few inches below. The shower unit itself has an old fashioned kettle filament inside to heat the water. Fill it up, plug it in, walk away, come back twenty minutes later, unplug (forgetting that bit is likely to render your partner a widow/er), hope it’s not too hot or you’ll have to go away again until it cools down, shower. Done.
Your perspective on this will probably depend on your context. The clipboard wielding health and safety guys would have it down in a jiffy. At another extreme, the 750 million people in the world who don’t have clean water to drink would be scandalised that we’re using it to wash in. Our take is that having survived the last few winters without hot water in the house, we think we’re going up in the world.
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NextEra Energy (NEER) is a Florida-based energy company that, by market capitalization, is the largest electric utility holding company in the U.S. With its affiliates, NEER is the world’s largest generator of wind and solar energy.
As part of the company’s ongoing effort to expand its renewable energy capacity, NEER was seeking to locate large-scale, utility-grade solar energy installations in Southeast Michigan. To accomplish this objective, it was necessary for the company to secure the passage of ordinances and land use permits by local governing authorities. But first, it was imperative to earn the confidence and trust of residents, community leaders, and decision makers in the proposed project area.
In early 2022, GPS Influence was retained by NEER to launch an awareness and education campaign, focusing on those leaders and decision makers who could further drive the narrative on the benefits of solar energy, and what these projects bring to the community. Simultaneously, it was necessary to counter efforts by a small anti-renewable energy faction seeking to derail the project through covert means and a dubious disinformation campaign.
GPS Influence immediately deployed a team member with deep relationships in the project area who is knowledgeable about the inner workings of government at the township level. Through existing personal contacts and conversations with community leaders at the grasstops level, GPS developed profiles of the key decision makers and proceeded to organize meetings with NEER representatives. These positive relationships were further leveraged to arrange presentations by NEER to key community and civic organizations. GPS also provided the NEER team with the necessary background and intelligence reports profiling local attitudes and perceptions of solar energy, as well as the key disinformation disseminated by the opposition – along with the facts and a strategy to refute those allegations.
GPS has also attended meetings of governmental bodies pertinent to the approval of solar energy projects, providing information when warranted while maintaining a profile appropriate for the venue and status of the project. GPS continues to monitor local media on a daily basis, with materials prepared in advance to immediately respond to errors, misstatements, or disinformation.
After just a few months GPS, working closely with the NEER team, has logged dozens of one-on-one meetings with a variety of community thought leaders representing local government, education, business, agriculture, education, and the faith community, to name a few. Laying this groundwork has assisted in conversations with decision makers at the planning and governing levels, and as the enabling ordinances have worked their way through the process, a plurality of voting members have already indicated support.
Community proponents of renewable energy have taken the initiative and submitted opinion pieces and letters to the editor in support of solar projects in the region, with minimal opposition. GPS remains ready to respond to any negative activism with letters of support, letters to the editor, opinion columns, and fact sheets, along with an enthusiastic group of supporters willing to deploy them at a moment’s notice.
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I recently graduated with a master's degree in mechanical engineering. I have worked in robotics, developing a reconfigurable mobile robot to inspect vehicles for a security company. I am having difficulty networking – I don't know how to meet people at companies and I don't know how to set up an information interview. I recently called a prospective employer's human resources department to ask for a meeting and the answer was 'No. Look at the website.' How can I get access to a company? Your advice would be invaluable.
First of all, congratulations on earning your master's degree in mechanical engineering – that is a feat in itself. You are not alone in your problems with networking.
Start with who you know. Make a list of all your contacts – friends, family members, colleagues, associates, classmates, professors, alumni, employers, etc. You will likely be surprised at how long your list is. Start by prioritizing the list. Then develop a schedule for when you will contact people.
Let people on your list know that you are in the process of looking for a position in mechanical engineering and robotics and ask whether they know of anyone in those fields that you can contact. Remember the priority of contacting people is in person, through videoconference, by telephone, through social media, by text messaging, e-mail, and broadcast letter.
When your contacts give you the name of a person and that person's contact information then make sure that you follow-up with the new contact. Also ask whether the person you know can introduce you or if you can use their name as a reference in your conversation with the new contact.
Make a list of your prospective employers and contacts. Find out where they go for their professional networking, such as conferences, workshops, symposiums, and technology and business meetings. Attend these events. Be prepared to ask people about themselves and their companies and to tell them who you are, what you love to do both personally and professionally, and what you are looking for – an information meeting and with luck, a new position. Make sure that you take their business cards and give them one of yours.
Follow up with the contacts you make. This is often where people drop the ball. They meet someone new and follow up once, via e-mail, and then give up. Realize that it usually takes more than five or six contacts with someone to actually line up or land an opportunity.
Social media networking can be helpful in making contacts with prospective employers and specialty interest groups. Update and revise your résumé and post it on LinkedIn, Facebook, and other social media sites. (Before you do, make sure you clean up your social media pages of any inappropriate or embarrassing photographs and/or posts). Connect with existing and new contacts and specialty interest groups on these sites. Thank people for connecting with you and suggest a face-to-face meeting at their convenience.
With respect to information interviews, going through human resources rarely helps in lining up interviews unless the HR official knows you and will connect you with an appropriate official within the company.
Make a list of all the companies you are interested in approaching. Do your research on the companies. Find out about the people in these companies that you would like to work for.
Find out whether they have written any articles or research papers or whether they have made recent presentations at conferences or whether anyone in your network knows them. Contact these individuals directly and indicate that you would love to speak to them about your common interests, connections and the company.
Be prepared for the information interview. Practise your interviewing skills with friends, colleagues, or a career coach or counsellor. Videotape yourself and get feedback on how you can improve your presentation and relationship skills. Develop a list of questions for company officials.
During the interview, focus on finding out about the official and the company. Inquire about what they are proudest of, the company's major accomplishments, and new projects or initiatives. Find out about the challenges or issues that the official and the company are facing.
If the company official is interested, then they will ask about you. Be prepared to give them a brief and succinct overview of yourself, your background, experience and interests. Indicate to them how you might be able to help them with their challenges and issues. State your interest in working for the company. Point out that you are interested in taking on consulting, part-time or full-time assignments, or a position.
If there are no immediate opportunities, thank them for their time and ask whether they will contact you if an appropriate position comes open in the future.
Follow up by sending a thank-you e-mail or letter summarizing your conversation, reiterating how you might help the company and how you would like to stay in touch.
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