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QRIO. Billed as a humanoid counterpart to the better-known AIBO dog, QRIO went through several iterations but was never sold.
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Odo. A series of unreleased (but functional) design concepts, Odo devices were intended to be as environmentally friendly as possible: the Odo digital camera, for instance, was charged simply by spinning it.
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Rolly. Who could forget the Rolly? Perhaps the most bizarre product Sony has ever made, this egg-shaped device was a digital music player that rolled around and flashed in sync to the audio. It was a confusing concept, and the $400 MSRP didn't help.
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Personnel documentation of the informal military unit "Wagner Group" was at the disposal of the editorial staff of the "Fontanka". Our history is about who and what perishes in the Syrian Republic, not getting into the official statistics of the Ministry of Defense, and about why the words of generals are wickedness. And also about how the private war changed after Syria signed a document with the Russian LLC "Euro Polis".
The Wagner PMC is an informal military organization that took part in hostilities in the Donbass (on the side of Novorossia) and in Syria (on the side of the Assad government). About activity of this PMC "Fontanka" for the first time told in the autumn of 2015. Employees of PMC Wagner have no relation to any official power structure of the Russian Federation, but for their combat work they received combat orders and medals.
Who despises the Defense Ministry
Officially, it is recognized that during the operation in Syria, 39 Russian servicemen were killed. Killed and wounded fighters of the Wagner Group, the Ministry of Defense should not contribute to its statistics, considering these losses as "the myth of some dead contract workers" from the "mysterious" organization. " Reuters, according to which Russia lost 36 people in Syria in 2016 and approximately 40 in seven months of 2017, Major General Igor Konashenkov, an official representative of the Defense Ministry, considered it a "mockery" worthy of contempt: "Again, as sources, there are some rumors , Data from social networks and fictitious conversations with supposedly "intimidated" anonymous "relatives and acquaintances" (quoted by RIA Novosti).
If "social networks and conversations" are not enough, you need to provide documents and photos. The contents of the documents available to the editorial board confirm the assumptions that from the end of 2015 the private battalion operates in Syria in the interests of the structures of businessman Yevgeny Prigogine, and the training of its soldiers is conducted on the territory of the military unit of the Ministry of Defense in the Krasnodar Territory.
Unaccounted losses of Palmyra
The military actions of Wagner in Syria can be divided into two campaigns.
The first began in September 2015, when the company arrived in Syria. Until early 2016, large-scale operations were not conducted by the unit. Serious fighting and losses began in February-March, during the operation to free Palmira. In April - May 2016, according to our data, the main combatant group divisions, surrendering heavy weapons and equipment were withdrawn from Syria to Russia.
According to the lists, which we believe were drawn up by the administration of the Wagner group, approximately 32 private soldiers perished during this campaign. Heavy wounds, requiring long-term inpatient treatment in hospitals, received about 80 fighters. The approximations in our calculations are explained by the fact that it was not always possible to establish the fate of the wounded who were in critical condition.
The second campaign was launched in early 2017. The documents available to Fontanka are dated June 2017. The main line of business is Palmyra and adjacent oil fields. As accurate evidence as to the period 2015 - 2016's, "Fontanka" does not have. Based on the analysis of available documents and eyewitnesses' words, it is possible to speak of losses ranging from 40 to 60 killed and a two-to-three times greater number of wounded. We also were able to document the membership in the Wagner group of several fighters whose deaths in Syria in 2017 were reported by Fontanka, RBC and the Conflict Intelligence Team.
In between the two operations in Syria were security units, as well as groups of specialists who participated in local skirmishes. During this period, mountain Latakia, oil fields Shaer and Aleppo are mentioned.
The documents that have fallen into our hands - autographically filled application forms, copies of passports from "personal files", photos of candidates made in the "security service" - allow us to confidently talk about the belonging of fighters to the structure that is known as "Wagner's PMs" and Which in the documents is called the "Wagner Group", "Battalion-tactical group" Wagner "or simply" company ".
The fact of the death of the fighter is harder to establish, but in most cases we succeeded. Comments of officials, media reports, especially in those media that can not be attributed to the opposition, photos of graves, messages of grieving relatives in social networks and condolences from friends, in our opinion, are sufficient evidence.
The most difficult question is to confirm the place of death. "Fontanka" believes that at least ten to fifteen cases could convincingly prove this.
For example, in March 2016 photos on the Internet resources of the Islamic state (banned in Russia) appeared, which were allegedly taken from murdered Russians who fought on the side of Assad. Among them - several photos of a fair-haired guy with a memorable face in Syrian landscapes. On the video footage - the mutilated body of the same person.
Fontanka set the name of the deceased. This is Ivan Vladimirovich Sumkin, born in 1987. Call sign "Varangian", Wagner's reconnaissance. He is from a village in the Orenburg region. Urgently served in motorized rifle troops, then worked as an electric welder. In the spring of 2015 he came to Wagner. March 16, 2016 was lost. Where is the grave of Ivan Sumkina, and whether he was even buried, it is not known - according to the "Fontanka", his body was not taken out of the battlefield. Ivan had a wife and a two-year-old son.
A video about awarding the Order of Courage to Alexander Karchenkov appeared on Channel 9 of Stary Oskol on November 3, 2016. It was reported that on September 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the posthumous awarding of the old fellow O. Karchenkov, who died during the liberation of Palmyra in the spring of 2016. The order of the widow and mother of Karchenkov was presented by the head of the district.
Lyudmila Karchenkova said that her husband went to Syria for contract service in January 2016, and in March reported that he died "while performing the assignment."
Alexander Karchenkov is not in the official lists of the deceased published by the Ministry of Defense, on which General Konashenkov proposes to orient himself. And of course the 45-year-old unemployed, the reserve sergeant, could not be a secret officer of the Special Operations Forces.
As follows from the documents of the company Wagner, Karchenkov got a job there in December 2015, was part of a logistics company and died March 13, 2016. Indeed under Palmyra. As proof - a picture of Karchenkov made during the recording on the service on the basis of Wagner in Molkino, a self-filled questionnaire, a contract and a subscription on non-disclosure of information.
Similar stories are more than forty with only known names. Syrian martyrology "Fontanka" - it's documents, photos, awards "Wagner". Everyone on admission to the "job" filled out a questionnaire, each one was photographed and checked on a polygraph. These documents were first available to readers. We publish stories of men who went to war for 240,000 rubles a month and found their death in the Syrian desert. Someone said "patriotism" or "changing the geopolitical position of Russia" as the reason for the receipt. Most referred to loans and a desire to improve their financial situation.
Two Russian citizens who did not return from Syria did not enter this list. Fighters with callsigns "Altai" and "Bertolet" (their full data are known to the editorial staff) are considered missing. They disappeared on the same day that Ivan Sumkin was killed, whose body remained on the battlefield.
The chances that Altai and Bertollet are alive and in captivity are minimal, but there is such an opportunity, and Fontanka refrains from publishing their names and photographs.
How Wagner got lost in Molkino
The fact that the personnel formation and training of the Wagner group are held on the territory of the military base in the settlement of Molkino in the Krasnodar Territory, where the 10th separate brigade of special forces of the GRU of the Ministry of Defense is stationed, wrote Fontanka, RBC, Wall Street Journal and Zeit. In social networks, dozens, if not hundreds, of evidence that for the device in the "PMC" you have to go to Molkino and keep the path straight to the checkpoint with the question of Wagner. But for the Ministry of Defense this is not an argument, because it is regarded as rumors and slander.
After studying the photos of Wagner's security service made during the check of the candidates accepted for work, Fontanka believes that these photos convincingly prove that an armed structure not provided for by any law of Russia is located exactly in the territory of the Molkino test site. In the Fontanka investigation, you can see how the "Wagner" dealers are treated and even see the head of the mysterious "security service of the company".
A tramp, Gray-haired, Wagner and Ratibor surrounded the president
The commanders of the "mysterious organization" do not hide persons. In December 2016, the group's commander Dmitry Utkin and his deputy Andrei Troshev appeared on the staff of the protocol shooting of the Fatherland Heroes Day ceremony in the Kremlin. In January 2017, there was a photo on the Net, apparently from the same reception where Utkin and Troshev, as well as two other men with high awards, were sealed together with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Fontanka" found out who these mysterious gentlemen are next to the president. Their name is Rogue and Ratibor, in the world - Andrey Bogatov and Alexander Kuznetsov. One of them, only before the Ukrainian events, was released from the colony, where he served time for kidnapping and robbery. The other had no violations worse than the wrong parking.
Palmira-2016 and Palmira-2017
The Kremlin reception of December 2016 is the highest point of Wagner's take-off. Then something went wrong. The fighting in Syria in 2016 and in 2017, as the veterans of both campaigns told Fontanka, differ dramatically.
In 2015 - 2016, according to participants in the events, training in Molkino took up to two months, ammunition for study was allocated in unlimited quantities, including costly shots to anti-tank missile systems. In Syria, the group received T-72 tanks, BM-21 Grad launchers, 122 mm D-30 howitzer. The States of the sample of the spring of 2016 provided for 2,349 personnel, including four reconnaissance and assault companies, a group command, a tank company, a combined artillery group, reconnaissance and support units. In the Syrian business trip there were at the same time 1,5-2,000 fighters. Military wages and bonuses were paid on time, the orders were not stingy.
At the end of that spring of 2016, there was a first misunderstanding. About the fact that the title of Hero of Russia on the initial agreement were presented to the five commanders of the Wagner Group, Fontanka was informed by several informed interlocutors. Through the filter of the award department passed two.
Before the withdrawal from Syria in April-May 2016, heavy weapons and military equipment were surrendered. Most of the personnel sent to the reserve - to stay at home and wait for a call on a business trip. When at the end of 2016 they began to gather a team for a new expedition to the oil fields, it turned out that everything had changed.
Now, on the basis of Wagner in Molkino, there is almost no weapons left, except for several assault rifles, mostly from security guards.
Training is reduced to control firing, calculations of heavy infantry weapons (large-caliber machine guns, automatic machine-gun grenade launchers, machine-gun antitank grenade launchers) do not conduct practical firing from "regular" armament.
Upon arrival in Syria at the beginning of 2017, according to the stories of the returnees, 20 rounds of ammunition were dispatched to the submachine gun, and four magazines and 120 cartridges were used as ammunition. Armament consisted of AK-47 automatic weapons of North Korean production, received from the Syrian side and several Kalashnikov machine guns PC and PKK. The second company received company machine guns of the 1946 model RP-46. In the Soviet Army, these weapons in the army were replaced by the PC and the PKK back in the 60s of the last century.
After a couple of weeks, several SVD sniper rifles and one or two AGS-17 received weapons, which in principle did not solve the problem.
Instead of the T-72 tanks delivered in the spring of 2016, four or five T-62s were obtained. Instead of the D-30 howitzers, there are about a dozen M-30 howitzers of the 1938 model, long removed from service in the Soviet Army.
The Fontanka does not have exact data on the losses in the battles of January-May 2017. Based on fragmentary and not documented stories, we can talk about 40 - 60 dead and three times the number of wounded. It is known that seven Wagner fighters who died in 2017, and all of them, apparently, did not return from Syria, as the group's activities in the Donbas are curtailed.
The number of losses exceeding the losses of 2016 at times, according to the participants in the events, is explained not only by the shortage of weapons and military equipment, but also by the significantly reduced quality of personnel.
In 2017, the salary policy of Wagner's company changed. Now 240 thousand per month receives only the fighter of the reconnaissance-assault company, involved in combat operations. The guard of the Hayat factory, artillerymen, operators of unmanned aerial vehicles, security units receive about 160 thousand rubles a month. In contrast to past years, there are delays.
Decrease in quality try to compensate by quantity. In addition, two reconnaissance and assault companies are deployed. Thus, the number of mouths brought to six, and the infantry in the group - up to about 2 thousand people. Today four companies work in Syria, two companies are temporarily sent to the reserve.
"Spring" in Syria
An additional source of recruitment for Wagner is the population of Donbass. Until 2017, citizens of Ukraine (or the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics) were not accepted to Wagner. The exception was the group "Carpathians", formed mainly from ethnic Ukrainians. The composition of this group was planned to be used for sabotage and deep reconnaissance in the rear of the Ukrainian troops, but, as they say, due to weak training of personnel, these plans failed.
In 2017, the group was deployed to the division "Spring" (by the call sign), its strength was brought to 100-150 people. In addition to Ukrainians, the group included residents of the Cossack regions of Russia and fifteen or twenty natives of Chechnya.
Oil, gas, Euro Polis
As of August 2017, according to Fontanka, the work of Wagner's units in Syria is to protect and defend the oil-bearing areas with the main facility - the Khayan plant. If possible, promotion and seizure of the territory.
The main base is located on the tankodrome about 80 kilometers from Homs and 40 kilometers from the Khayan factory. In addition to Wagner, the detachments of Hezbollah, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards and similar units are based on the "Tankodrome", including the showcase Syrian "Hunters for IGIL", the heroes of pathos pr-video. They are promised 500 US dollars for the twenty days of the operation, but the Syrians, judging by the stories of the Wagnerites, do not agree to fight on such terms, and often, after receiving military training, go to the armed opposition or to the most banned ISIG in Russia, hunt.
"Fontanka" already told about the agreements reached between the governmental organizations of Syria and Russian LLC "Euro Polis", behind which are people from the structures of billionaire Eugene Prigogine. OOO "Euro Policy" undertook to release and protect oil fields and plants for reimbursement of combat costs plus a quarter of the produced oil and gas. That is, to do exactly what the Wagner group is doing today (about the probable connections with which we talked with Yevgeny Prigozhin at the time of the "first Palmyra"). They say that now blue jackets with a white inscription "Euro Polis" are issued to all Wagner employees, who are going down on a Syrian business trip.
Judging by our information, since 2017, funding for Wagner's campaign, its supply of weapons, equipment and ammunition is carried out at the expense of the Syrian side and is accompanied by constant delays in payments and disputes over their amount.
Why did Sergei Kuzhugetovich quarrel with Eugene Viktorovich
In 2016, Wagner's group clearly did not experience such problems. Now it became bad not only with the supply: as the eyewitnesses told Fontanka, the interaction with the army aviation and artillery (which was supposedly routine in 2016) was reduced almost to zero, the Russian group's helicopters do not take part in the evacuation of the wounded Wagner battalion, which significantly Complicates their delivery to medical institutions. Military transport aircraft allegedly no longer transport wounded Wagnerians, and they have to be taken out almost in the cargo compartments of charter flights of a Syrian airline flying to Rostov.
The causes of the coming cooling, according to the sources of the "Fontanka", may be different.
Perhaps, the conflict is caused by a weak conspiracy in the activity of a quasi-military organization. If CSKA were willing to tolerate an incomprehensible private structure on their territory, supply it with weapons, equipment and support with fire as long as this remained a secret, then since the appearance of numerous information about Wagner and his team on the web, the situation has changed. It is unlikely that the military command wants to be held responsible for the actions of the detachment, not bound by any formal laws and acting outside the law. One can not but note the coincidence: the time of the urgent withdrawal of Wagner from Syria with actual disarmament and suspension of acquisition and the time of publication of the "Fontanka" about Dmitry Utkin and his team.
According to one of the versions, the reason was not at all frivolous for state people: the dispute about the number and dignity of awards. The "Fontanka" has reason to believe that the cause of cooling is much more significant.
Investigations of Fontanka, RBC, Novaya Gazeta, other media, and the Anti-Corruption Fund of Aleksei Navalny have convincingly demonstrated the almost monopolistic position of Yevgeny Prigozhin in the state purchases of the Ministry of Defense and subordinate military structures. The legal entities connected with Prigogine receive the lion's share of orders for the construction and maintenance of military towns, cleaning, and occupy almost the entire military supply market.
Judging by the open information on the website of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office, numerous claims and proceedings on administrative offenses in arbitration courts and courts of general jurisdiction, companies associated with the name of Yevgeny Prigogine and Concord Holding have been growing since 2016. Companies and officials are brought to administrative responsibility for violation of license requirements and for non-compliance with labor law standards, army control bodies after inspections of military canteens identify and document cockroaches, products with traces of mold and putrefaction, and then resort to penal sanctions. Military prosecutors record the production of construction works without the relevant documents, permits, projects and respond - within the limits of authority.
At the same time, a situation has arisen where the same military supply system, for example, is completely closed to the structures of Concorde and its restructuring promises many problems. A similar situation with the maintenance and construction of military towns. It seems that the military department can not abandon the services of the monopolist, although the leadership of the Ministry of Defense is unlikely to be happy with this state of affairs.
Games with their own private army, when the possible profits go to the corporation, and all the cones fall on the military, who are responsible for the operation in Syria, could fill the cup of patience.
Another question is the level at which a decision is made to use (and about the very existence) a private battalion. And whose word at that level weighs more: the Minister of Defense or the owner of the restaurant "Russian Kitsch."
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It is the fourth term of the academic year 2016-2017 and this means that year one is nearly over. Since Nyenrode is a university with an international scope they make sure that the academic curriculum covers the English language well. At the start of the year Nyenrode provided a course that touched upon academic writing skills. Subsequently, to deal with the verbal side of the language and touch more upon the business & cultural aspects, we followed three terms of English classes with Victoria Laws from Taleninstituut Nederland. From these classes I learned two important lessons that are probably applicable to many Dutch-English speakers.
First, we Dutch-English speakers can occasionally come across as very direct and at times uninterested. Not because we are as such but because we tend not to express ourselves like the English do when speaking.
Secondly, the British enjoy small talk and flowery conversations! Therefore, it did not take long before we were given tips for more appropriate business communication and techniques on how to sound ‘more’ native as speakers. We had to practice talking about the weather and bus times in a more animated way, in order to grasp the idea of ‘small talk’ and how it should be done.
Our English classes consisted of numerous different activities every week. We did some roleplay, focussing on what type of language was appropriate for that specific role and becoming aware of how language choice can completely change how a conversation goes and how you come across. We practiced the use of intonation to stress certain points, pitching (business) ideas with little preparation and ‘on the spot’ thinking. As the cherry on the cake, we also made some attempt towards understanding British humour in order to gain a better idea about nuance in the English language. We did not always get it, but that is fine and it was great fun to do! However, like I mentioned before, the main purpose of the course was to develop our Business English. Other courses had already addressed writing skills and this course handled the verbal side so completed the whole package.
I always believed that the phrase ‘learning is fun’ was wrong. Becoming smarter is fun, however, the learning process itself is often frustrating. This was not the case with our English classes. English class was a nice way of winding down at the end of the week before going home. Mostly because English classes were always very diverse, low pressure but nonetheless very practical and useful. Hiring Taleninstituut Nederland, and with that Victoria Laws, was a great addition to our curriculum.
Nyenrode Business University
Paul van der Kwaak
Tutor: Victoria Laws
Foto’s: Kasteel Nijenrode
Fotograaf: Jeroen Docter
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Air travel is almost second-nature in today’s world. Whether it is delivering people or packages, it has become a norm of everyday life. In a world where exploring requires us to travel to the farthest corners of the world, flying is more popular than ever before. Some relish the opportunity to b 40,000 feet in the air while others repel it, but do it anyway.
Of course, as with any machine, aircraft can play-up sometimes, and there is no shortage of documents outlining past issues and near misses. When pilots speak, passengers listen, and although we may not think it, we listen to their every word, every tone of voice, every pause, and if one of those is not what we expect, worry starts to set in. Read-up on some of the best captain blunders in the world…some with passengers, others with air traffic control, but one thing is for sure, they will not fail to disappoint!
10 The Yoghurt Saga
On an EasyJet flight in the middle of 2018, it was reported that a co-pilot, while the captain was in the midst of his address to the passengers upon landing, was opening a squeezy yoghurt. Cool story, right? Well wait, it gets better. Just as the pilot has finished his spiel, the co-pilot squeezed some yoghurt on to his uniform and yelled out some obscenities, but there was one problem…the microphone was still on and the passengers heard every word! One passenger described the cabin as going in to complete shock as they thought something serious had happened. The captain smoothed it over with some light-hearted jokes, everyone had a few laughs, and all was forgiven!
9 Where are we going?
A flight from Atlanta to Baltimore, or Atlanta to Boston? It is never a good sign when not even your captain knows where he is going. This was the case on a Delta Airlines flight recently, where the captain announced that the aircraft will have minor repairs once in Baltimore. Then moments later announced he had just been informed the plane was actually landing in Boston and not Baltimore. It can only be left to the imagination how the passengers were feeling regarding this…let’s say, misinformed, pilot’s announcement.
8 A torch in broad daylight?
Yep. You read correctly. On a flight from Chicago to Lake Tahoe, a passenger noticed an unusual build-up of ice on the wing. He informed the flight attendant who quickly notified the captain.
After the appropriate action was taken, it was later evident that the anti-ice system did not work, so the first officer was sent to take a look. To the surprise of almost all passengers, he came out with a 2-foot long, heavy duty torch that he used to identify the situation, and once the captain found out, apparently he almost fell off his chair in laughter!
7 How fast are we really going?
It has been well-documented that in an attempt to use their comedic skills, pilot’s try the speed and altitude joke, or maybe it is human error. If you are someone who isn’t a fan of flying, it can come as a bit of a surprise, but everyone has a laugh (whether it is because it’s actually funny, or out of sympathy for a bad joke will remain to be seen) and then they move on. Ok, it’s been put off for too long now, so here was one on a flight to Las Vegas; ‘ladies and gentlemen, today we will be traveling at an altitude of 500-feet and a speed of 33,000 mph, or wait, maybe it is the other way around...nevertheless, we will be arriving to a beautiful sunset’.
6 Left, right and center
Upon landing, the pilot of a Lufthansa flight from Berlin to New York was told by JFK Tower that the landing was a little to the left of the center-line of the runway. This is not a problem at all, and to subtly give it back to the Tower, the captain replied, ‘damn straight, and my first officer was slightly to the right’. A little bit of friendly banter exchanged between Tower and the cockpit, but you can almost guarantee there was an underlying message in the response from the captain to the air traffic controller.
5 Fuel might help!
Not sure if this one was poor preparation, bad judgement or simply a not-so-funny joke, but as an aircraft from New Orleans bound for Daytona Beach pushed back, everything seemed quite normal…until the captain made his presence known over the intercom. As the aircraft was taxiing to the runway, the passengers noticed the aircraft turn around and head back to the terminal. Much to the delight of passengers, the captains voice emerged on the radio, however this delight was quickly turned to confusion as he said, ‘I thought before we left, it would be ideal to fill up with some fuel’.
Make of that what you will, but guaranteed all passengers were in a state of shock and disbelief.
4 Cats on a plane
Not a blunder, but a unique experience nevertheless. Alerion Aviation is a company who manages, flies and maintains private jets for those who may not have the time to do so themselves. One man who owned a private jet managed by Alerion had a daughter living in London and she wanted her cat to be with her. As he was too busy to make the journey himself and deliver the cat, they simply buckled up the cat as if it were a human passenger and off it went, across the Atlantic and 6 hours later, was delivered, relaxed and pampered, mind you, to his daughter!
3 Runway or Taxiway?
This one should be really not even exist, but unfortunately it does. In the US, a captain mistook a taxiway for a runway and decided he would land his aircraft there.
Luckily, there were no other aircraft on the taxiway upon landing, but it sure caused a big stir within the aviation industry. It is a blunder that can be funny and not funny, depending on who you ask.
2 Short and sharp
If you have flown before, you will know that pilots love to tell you exactly what oath the aircraft will take on route to the destination. This was not the case on a flight from Indianapolis to Chicago recently, where a passenger described the captains address as short and sweet. It was simply ‘we’re here’. It is no secret that Chicago is a windy city, hence the nickname, and so it was quite a bumpy approach. Would 2 words from the captain the whole flight make you worried?
1 Better late than never
On a flight from the French capital to Nice, passengers were left guessing as to why operations had come to a standstill, and why the aircraft was not going anywhere. As the pilot announced the short delay due to technical problems, he could hear the distinct sound of disappointment and moaning of the passengers, so he got back on the radio and said, ‘I would rather arrive late than to be early in my next life’. Some may say feisty, others may say fair enough, but one thing is for sure, the passengers would have agreed when he put it like this!
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StATS: A simple illustration of the Metropolis algorithm (April 13, 2007)
In many situations, you need to generate a random sample from a distribution that is rather complex. When simpler methods for generating a random sample don't work, there are a series of approaches based on the Markov chain principle that can help. There are several of these methods: Gibbs sampling, the Metropolis algorithm, the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, that are collectively called Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). These approaches are especially valuable in Bayesian data analysis.
The simplest of the three methods is the Metropolis algorithm, and here is a simple example of how it works.
Suppose you have a distribution, where the density p is known, but where it is difficult or impossible to directly generate a random sample from that distribution. Typically p is a multivariate distribution, but in the example I show below, it is a univariate distribution.
Select a starting point X0 that satisfies p(X0)>0. At time points t=1, 2, ..., sample a provisional value X*, not from p (which is difficult or impossible), but from a jumping distribution J(X*|X0). Notice that this is a conditional distribution, which means that the spot that you jump to depends on the value of X0. This jumping distribution has to have a symmetry property J(a|b)=J(b|a).
You will select a new value X1, which is either X* or X0. The selection depends on the ratio r=p(X*)/p(X0). If r is greater than 1, you always select X*. If r is less than 1, you select X* with probability r and X0 with probability 1-r.
Now repeat this process using X1. Select a provisional value X* from the jumping distribution J(X*|X1). Note that the jumping distribution is now conditional on a different value. Compute the ratio r=p(X*)/p(X1). Select X2 equal to either X1 or X* depending on the ratio r. Continue this process to generate X3, X4, etc.
The rationale for this approach is that you should look randomly in a variety of directions. If the new location is more likely than your current location, always sample the new location. If the new location is little less likely, then it makes sense most of the time to jump to the new location, but once in a while you will be better off staying at the current location. If the new location is much less likely, you will only rarely jump to that part of the distribution.
With any reasonable jumping function, you can show that this algorithm visits all the regions of the distribution and with probabilities that are appropriately large or small.
Here's an example. The distribution function here has the form p(x)=6x(1-x) for 0<x<1, which is actually quite easy to simulate. But let's see how the Metropolis algorithm would work for this situation. The jumping distribution I chose was normal with a mean equal to the previous iteration and a standard deviation of 0.2. At each iteration, I show the provisional value, but use gray if that value is not selected by the Metropolis algorithm.
To repeat this animation, press the REFRESH button on your browser.
The choice of jumping distribution is important. You don't want the jumps to be too big or too small as either extreme can make the simulation process much less efficient.
Even with a good jumping distribution, this process is not as efficient as more direct methods of simulation. The Markov Chain property of this simulation introduces a positive correlation to successive values. This makes the set of values somewhat patchy unless the number of simulations is quite large. You would only use this approach if the more direct simulation methods were too difficult.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. It was written by Steve Simon.
This page was written by Steve Simon while working at Children's Mercy Hospital. Although I do not hold the copyright for this material, I am reproducing it here as a service, as it is no longer available on the Children's Mercy Hospital website. Need more information? I have a page with general help resources. You can also browse for pages similar to this one at Category: Bayesian statistics.
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Library and education
The Leiden University Library (UBL) has more to offer to lecturers than you might think. The UBL can provide you with general rules for copyright in Blackboard, information skills training for your students, or the option of using library collections as part of your teaching.
Agreements and tips on the responsible use of publications can be found on the website of the University library.
Education and information skills
The University library offers information skills workshops for study programmes and institutes that can, for instance, be integrated in the regular curriculum. The programme is determined in consultation with the lecturer. Think of topics such as how to assess the value of information, prevent plagiarism or use exceptional collections. The University library also has a number of lecture and instruction rooms available that you can use for instructions on the use of the library and its exceptional collections.
Using library collections in teaching
The University Library can reserve any literature you need for the duration of a course on a separate course shelf. The books on this shelf cannot be loaned and therefore remain available to all students at all times. You should submit your application for a course shelf no later than five weeks before the start of the course. Course shelves are only available at the Witte Singel and East Asian Library locations. If you wish to consult materials from the exceptional collection, please submit your request via the website of the University library.
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How LAFD CERT May Be Understood as a Smart Practice: How It Is Pioneering a Transition to Whole Community CERT and How It Can Serve as the Template for CERT Programs Nationally? [open pdf - 1MB]
From the thesis abstract: "In 1987, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) established the first Community Emergency Response Training (CERT) Program in the United States as a framework for organizing citizens to be more prepared. Using an appreciative inquiry approach, this thesis investigated how LAFD CERT can be understood as a smart practice and how successes might assist other agencies in constructing successful CERT programs within their jurisdictions. The conclusions are that through collaborative efforts with agencies within a city, expanding the outreach of CERT can be instrumental in achieving a more robust trained citizenry. Focusing on community resiliency and whole community concepts, LAFD CERT and others like it will be better equipped to assist as assets in the homeland security enterprise."
Naval Postgraduate School, Dudley Knox Library: http://www.nps.edu/Library/index.aspx
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The barn owl (Tyto alba), is a species of owl in the genus Tito.
It is the most widely distributed species of owl, and one of the most widespread of all birds.
It is also referred to as the common barn owl, to distinguish it from other species in its family, Tytonidae.
There is approximately 28 subspecies of barn owl.
The barn owl is found almost everywhere in the world except polar and desert regions, Asia north of the Himalayas, most of Indonesia, and some Pacific islands.
A typical lifespan for a wild adult Barn Owl is 4 years. However, some individuals do live for many years. The oldest wild barn owl lived 34 years.
Barn owls are medium-sized owls with long legs that have feathers all the way down to their grey toes.
Females are larger than males.
There is considerable size variation across the subspecies with a typical specimen measuring about 33 to 39 cm (13 to 15 in) in overall length, with a full range of 29 to 44 cm (11 to 17 in) across the species.
Barn owls have a typical wingspan of some 80 to 95 cm (31 to 37 in), with a full range of 68 to 105 cm (27 to 41 in).
The full known weight range for the barn owl species can range from 224 to 710 g (7.9 to 25 oz).
The colors are light brown mixed in with dark brown. They also have white coloring around the front of them and some gray mixed into the body.
The pale face with its heart shape and black eyes give the flying bird a distinctive appearance, like a flat mask with oversized, oblique black eye-slits, the ridge of feathers above the beak somewhat resembling a nose.
Barn owls are solitary, or found in pairs.
Barn owls are non-territorial. Adults live in overlapping home ranges, each one covering from 300 to 5,000 hectares (740 to 12,350 acres).
They are nocturnal, and roost during the day in tree cavities, cliff crevices, riverbanks, barns, nest boxes, churches steeples, and other man-made structures.
Barn owls communicate with vocalizations and physical displays.
Surprisingly, barn owls do not make the hoot sound. It instead produces the characteristic shree scream, ear-shattering at close range, an eerie, long-drawn-out shriek.
They have excellent eyesight in near-darkness. When it is completely dark, owls use their excellent hearing to find prey.
Barn Owls have lop-sided ears! One is higher than the other, which helps them to pinpoint exactly where tiny sounds are coming from.
They have wings that are designed to offer them a silent flight ability. This makes it much easier for them to find their prey and to sneak up on them.
This bird can target its prey and dive to the ground, penetrating its talons through snow, grass or brush to seize small creatures with deadly accuracy.
They use their bill to nip the prey through the back of the head to kill it, and then they swallow it whole – bits of fur and bone are then regurgitated (coughed up) as an owl pellet.
Barn owls save extra food to eat later, especially during the breeding season.
Barn owls are usually monogamous, sticking to one partner for life unless one of the pair dies.
The female incubates the eggs for 29 to 34 days. The chicks are altricial, and must be brooded by the female for about 25 days after hatching. They leave the nest on their first flight 50 to 70 days after hatching, but they return to the nest to roost for 7 to 8 weeks. The chicks usually become independent from the parents 3 to 5 weeks after they begin flying.
When large numbers of small prey are readily available, barn owl populations can expand rapidly, and globally the bird is considered to be of least conservation concern. Some subspecies with restricted ranges are more threatened.
91% of barn owls post-mortemed were found to contain rat poison. Some owls die as a direct result of consuming rodenticides, but most contain sub-lethal doses. The effects of this remain unknown.
The bird is known by many common names which refer to its appearance, call, habitat, or its eerie, silent flight: white owl, silver owl, demon owl, ghost owl, death owl, night owl, rat owl, church owl, cave owl, stone owl, monkey-faced owl, hissing owl, hobgoblin or hobby owl, dobby owl, white-breasted owl, golden owl, scritch owl, screech owl, straw owl, barnyard owl, and delicate owl.
Barn owls are found usually at altitudes below 2,000 meters (6,600 feet) but occasionally as high as 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) in the tropics.
Feathers become abraded over time and all birds need to replace them at intervals. Barn owls are particularly dependent on their ability to fly quietly and manoeuvre efficiently, and in temperate areas their prolonged moult lasts through three phases over a period of two years.
Barn Owl feathers are super soft – this helps them to flight silently, but they are not very waterproof and get soaked if it rains.
On average a wild Barn Owl eats about 4 small mammals per night, that’s 1,460 per year.
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Post-Workout Recovery Through Nutrition
This blog has not been approved by your local health department and is not intended to provide diagnosis, treatment, or medical advice.
By Manuel Villacorta, RD
We always take the time to pat ourselves on the back after a workout, but not many take the time to recover from one. One benefit of recovering is to prevent symptoms of overtraining which result when the body starts to break down as a result of too much exercise and not enough food. Another reason people should recover after exercise is to prevent the body from breaking down muscle. Not only is the thought of losing muscle sort of scary, but when you lose muscle, you also lower your resting metabolic rate. To put it simply, the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn even at rest. Therefore, conserving as much muscle--or lean body mass--as possible is important. The best way to do that is through proper nutrition.
For recovery, it is optimal to consume about 20 grams of protein after exercise. This is why most protein shakes and bars you see contain 20 grams of protein. This can typically be found in one scoop of whey protein powder. An optimal protein shake for recovery contains a mixture of both protein and carbs.
Carbohydrates are also equally important to have for recovery. When you exercise you burn through a large portion of the glucose in your bloodstream as well as glycogen. Glycogen is the stored form of energy that the body keeps in your muscles and liver. To replete these stores to use for energy for activities outside of exercise, it is advised to eat high-quality carbohydrates. This means avoiding carbs that are refined and with excess added sugar. Good sources of recovery carbs would be brown rice, quinoa, berries and other fruits and vegetables. One fruit in particular of note for recovery is Montmorency cherries, especially their juice.
Fat is also an option after a workout, but be it comes from unsaturated sources such as avocados, nuts and seeds. As mentioned before, having a blend of all macronutrients (carbs, protein and fat), with an emphasis on protein and carbohydrates, is an ideal post-workout meal. If choose to go with a shake, throwing in some whey protein along with chia seeds make for a solid recovery drink with some healthy fats. Chia seeds not only contain omega-3s, but come in many different forms for consumption.
Nourishing the body is always a priority, but it is particularly important after a workout. If you choose to take a recovery supplement, that’s completely your choice. However, the recovery you get from food has about the same effects. Exercise is important, but what you eat after exercise is just as important.
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Brass Roots Trio to perform in Jewel Box Series
Brass Roots Trio will present “A Winter’s Eve” on Dec. 2 as part of Northeastern Illinois University’s Jewel Box Series. The performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall on the Main Campus, 3701 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.
Founded in 2004, Brass Roots Trio captivates audiences with breathtaking virtuosity and artistic passion. With Northeastern Associate Professor Travis Heath on trumpet, Douglas Lundeen on French horn and Rosetta Senkus Bacon on piano, the trio creates symphonic sounds that melt into sultry jazz, making three instruments sound like a small orchestra.
Their adventurous programming takes unexpected twists and turns from early Baroque gems to decadent tangos to American spirituals—and the audience is always surprised and thrilled when the horn player breaks out into song with his brilliant tenor voice.
Now in its 10th season, Brass Roots Trio has played to standing ovations and rave reviews in every corner of the United States, U.K. and in Canada. In 2009, the trio was honored to perform at the White House.
Their holiday program, “A Winter’s Eve,” features classical music by Handel, Strauss and Martinu along with traditional carols and medleys arranged for trumpet, French horn and piano.
This performance is a part of the Jewel Box Series, an eight-concert professional performing arts series presented by Northeastern’s Office of Cultural Events. Tickets are $25, $17.50 and $5 and can be purchased online or by calling (773) 442-4636. Parking permits are required.
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Spring has sprung ... at last
The vernal equinox this year (March 20) coincided with a marked mild turn in the weather, beckoning nature lovers outdoors. I took this photo of a yellow crocus flower in the garden in front of Emmanuel Episcopal Church this afternoon. (I helped out for a while with a cleanup crew this morning.) I distinctly recall that crocuses often bloom as early as February or even January, but this year the winter seems to have dragged on longer than usual, perhaps because of that groundhog in Punxatawney, PA.
Tonight is the first full moon this spring, which is why tomorrow will be Easter -- the earliest Easter in our entire lives, in fact. According to my brother Chris,
1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).
2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!
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Rationale and objectives: Automated detection and quantification of arterial calcifications can facilitate epidemiologic research and, eventually, the use of full-body calcium scoring in clinical practice. An automatic computerized method to detect calcifications in CT scans is presented.
Materials and methods: Forty abdominal CT scans have been randomly selected from clinical practice. They all contained contrast material and belonged to one of four categories: containing "no," "small," "moderate," or "large" amounts of arterial calcification. There were ten scans in each category. The experiments were restricted to the vertical range from the point where the superior mesenteric artery branches off of the descending aorta until the first bifurcation of the iliac arteries. The automatic method starts by extracting all connected objects above 220 Hounsfield units (HU) from the scan. These objects include all calcifications, as well as bony structures and contrast material. To distinguish calcifications from non-calcifications, a number of features are calculated for each object. These features are based on the object's size, location, shape characteristics, and surrounding structures. Subsequently a classification of each object is performed in two stages. First the probability that an object represents a calcification is computed assuming a multivariate Gaussian distribution for the calcifications. Objects with low probability are discarded. The remaining objects are then classified into calcifications and non-calcifications using a 5-nearest-neighbor classifier and sequential forward feature selection. Based on the total volume of calcifications determined by the system, the scan is assigned to one of the four categories mentioned above.
Results: The 40 scans contained a total of 249 calcifications as determined by a human observer. The method detected 209 calcifications (sensitivity 83.9%) at the expense of on average 1.0 false-positive object per scan. The correct category label was assigned to 30 scans and only 2 scans were off by more than one category. Most incorrect classifications can be attributed to the presence of contrast material in the scans.
Conclusion: It is possible to identify the majority of arterial calcifications in abdominal CT scans in a completely automatic fashion with few false positive objects, even if the scans contain contrast material.
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Children will understand the dietary needs of different animals found at Woburn Safari Park, the same animals that are highlighted in the story.
They will look at their teeth, think about the diet of herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores and identify the different waste products of the different species.
The children will understand what is involved in caring for a variety of animals in captivity.
Year 2 children will also think about a basic food chain.
- Understand the different diets of animals that are herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore
- Understand the importance of correct animal welfare
- Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals
- Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores
- Find out about and describe the basic needs of animals for survival
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The biggest concentration of hippos in A
One hundred and ten kilometers south of Fort Portal the road overcomes nearly forty kilometers long channel Kazinga. It connects two lakes belonging to the Great Rift Valley (Lake George and Lake Edward). The channel together with the two lakes falls within the National Park Queen Elizabeth. This channel is especially renowned for huge number of hippos. But they are not the only animals that can be seen here. Except for hippos you can see here buffaloes, elephants, crocodiles and a large number of birds. This safari is an unforgettable experience and it is worth to go here.
Mweya safari lodge
At the Lake Edward is Mweya safari logde, where you can stay and make a boat trip along the canal.
Residents of the channel
Soon after sailing out, we come across the first inhabitants of the channel basking on the shore. Soon, however, he will hide into the water from the disturbing tourists. He is the first warning for any enthusiast to swim.
Observation of hippos is best known attraction for tourists here. The probability that you will really see a hippopotamus is very close to certainty. They are mostly lying in the water, but if you're lucky, you'll see them in full glory standing on the shore.
After visiting Kazinga Channel in Queen Elizabeth National Park, you will understand why hippos have here their little paradise.
At your fingertips
You will mostly see hippos how they bathe in the shore. Sometimes, however, they emerge from beneath the surface just a short distance from the boat or they swim below the boat, which may be very scaring for the passengers.
Hippopotamus with calf
If you are lucky, you will see hippo with a baby. She guards him like a treasure.
Various animals including birds of all kinds come into the area around the channel for food.
In the steep banks nest also smaller birds such as kingfishers and Pied Kingfisher.
On the hunt
Beautiful Yellow-billed Stork can be seen during fishing.
Also elephants from the area come to drink from the channel.
Buffaloes occasionally walk along the shore. You can see the number of holes in the wall of the shore behind the buffalo, in which smaller birds nest.
You will see great symbiosis of birds and mammals on the channel. Birds are walking on the back of large mammals and deprive them of unpleasant parasites.
Herds of buffaloes
In places where there are not steep shores, we can see very large herds of buffaloes and neighboring hippos. They seem to live together in complete peace.
The abyss Kyambura
Not far from the road bridge over the canal is an outlook place into one of the side valleys of the Great Rift Valley. People come here to observe chimpanzees.
In the distance behind Rift Valley can be seen glistening surface of Lake George.
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The Vuelta a Espana began on this day in 1966, when the 18 stages (four split) covered a total of 2,949.5km. The race suffered from a lack of top international names that year and only 90 riders - of whom 40 were Spanish - started; a mere 55 finished. While this was not good for the Vuelta, it was an opportunity for the less-well-known riders including winner Francisco Gabica; whose palmares, with the exception of this one race, really are not those of a Grand Tour contender.
Today is also the anniversary of the 31st edition of La Flèche Wallonne, which took place on this day in 1967. It was raced on a 223km route between Liège and Marcinelle for a second consecutive year and the winner was a relatively unknown Belgian rider named Eddy Merckx, who was precisely one day away from completing his second year as a professional cyclist. He would go on to win two more editions, adding them to his eventual total of 525 victories. The race has not been held this late ever since.
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He turned professional with Ford-Gitane on 1965, and immediately made a sufficient impression on manager Raphael Géminiani and team leader Jacques Anquetil to be selected for the Tour that same season - an incredible achievement for any rider in his first professional year, through he abandoned on the Col de l'Aubisque during Stage 9. His success just one year later was, therefore, somewhat unexpected; but he wouldn't have managed it without the help of Anquetil who at that time was at the height of his war with Raymond Poulidor, a rivalry that split France into two equal and opposing sides. Realising that his fifth victory in 1964 was to be his last, he assisted Aimar instead to ensure Poulidor could not win and then retired. However, Aimar was not handed the victory on a plate and worked hard, pushing a high 55x13 gear ratio that was thought abnormal by most riders of the day.
Aimar has been called on of the forgettable Tour winners, but his career was not without controversy: just months before his Tour success he'd won second place at the Flèche Wallonne, then been stripped of his title after failing an anti-doping test (1966, incidentally, was the year the Tour was disrupted during Stage 9 when riders got off their bikes and pushed in protest at rumoured drugs tests. It was also, of course, the year before Tom Simpson died) and was then given his result back again due to a technicality arising from the arcane and messy anti-doping rules of the time. In 1967, he refused to wear the French National jersey during the Tour after being declared rightful winner of it when Désiré Letort was disqualified after he too failed a drugs test - for each day Amar refused, he was fined the equivalent of £50, but he stuck to his guns and insisted that Letort had beaten him fair and square (whether than is indication that he saw nothing wrong with doping, that he was also doping in the National Championships or both is anyone's guess). He retired in 1973, claiming that organiser Félix Lévitan had cooked up a nefarious scheme with the German rider Rudi Altig to ensure he would never win another Tour, then refused to have absolutely anything to do with the race for a quarter of a century.
In retirement, he became director of the Tour Méditerranéen and a very good example of what happens if a retired professional cyclist continues to eat like an active professional cyclist.
(image credit: Petit Brun CC BY-SA 2.0)
After switching to road cycling, he showed early potential as a time trial rider and roleur which earned him a contract with the Linda McCartney team shortly before it folded in 2001. He then moved on to FDJ, staying with them for two years before he was offered a place with Crédit Agricole for 2004, the year in which he became the first British athlete in any sport to win three medals in a single edition of the Olympic Games for forty years. He rode his first Grand Tour, the Giro d'Italia, in 2005 and the Tour de France a year later; not making much of an impact in either race but proving he could survive the harsh rigours of major stage races.
Then, in 2007, he won the prologue at the Critérium du Dauphiné and was fourth in the prologue at the Tour - held that year in London. At this point, the world began to pay attention - Britain had produced another rider who just might have the potential to finish what Tom Simpson had started four decades earlier. Two years later, now 6kg lighter and at the age when cyclists are at their strongest, he rode the Giro and the Tour again; taking second place in Stages 1 and 21 in Italy then third in Stage 1, second in Stage 4 and top ten in four other stages at the Tour - enough to propel him into fourth place in the overall General Classification, becoming the joint most successful British Tour de France rider in history (he shared it with the legendary Scotsman Robert Millar who had finished fourth 23 years earlier).
Having already signed a contract with Garmin-Cervelo for 2010, Wiggins announced late in 2009 that he would in fact be going to the new British outfit Team Sky for the next four years and began the new season with them as team leader. British fans wondered if, at long last, the year would bring them their first winner; but it was not to be - the new hero suffered badly on the cobbles in the first stages that had been designed to pay homage to cycling's toughest one-day race Paris-Roubaix. He learned fast and made up time in Stage 3, but was ultimately and entirely out-classed by Andy Schleck who would be declared race winner after Alberto Contador was banned for two years and stripped of the victory in 2012 after a long and - in the opinions of many - highly questionable doping investigation.
In 2011, he concentrated on the Tour after deciding not to compete in the Giro, taking part in smaller events to gain fitness. When July arrived, he appeared on the start line looking like an entirely different rider: his body apparently carried not a single gram of fat, looking as though it consisted entirely of bone, sinew and hard muscle. If he was ever going to win a Tour, fans reasoned, he'd never been in better shape for it that he was now. Unfortunately, it was once again not to be - Stage 7 brought a huge pile-up in which numerous riders crashed. It was immediately obvious from the way that Wiggins clutched his shoulder as he lay in agony on the road that he would not be continuing, as was confirmed when doctors discovered he'd broken his collarbone.
|In the leader's jersey at the Critérium du Dauphiné, 2011|
(image credit: Matthieu Riegler CC BY 3.0)
|Stage 19, Tour de France 2012|
*British women had won the Tour de France Féminin three times - Nicole Cooke in 2006 and 2007 and Emma Pooley in 2009, the last time the race took place.
Pino Cerami was born in Sicily on this day in 1922 but took Belgian citizenship in 1956. In 1960, he won Paris-Roubaix and La Flèche Wallonne. Three years later, he won Stage 9 at the Tour de France - as he was 41 at the time, he is the oldest Tour stage winner ever
Steven Wong, born in Belgium on this day in 1988, is a professional BMX rider with the Hong Kong team who also rides in road races with China's Champion Racing System team. He was offered a place with the national BMX team in Belgium, where his father owns a restaurant, but decided to represent Hong Kong instead.
José Adrián Bonilla, born in Costa Rica on this day in 1978, became involved in the Operación Puerto scandal of 2006 when a bag of blood labelled "Bonilla Alfredo," found in the laboratory of the notorious Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes, was shown to be his. However, as the judge presiding over the case declined to share evidence with either the UCI or the World Anti-Doping Agency, he escaped athletic sanction.
Other cyclists born on this day: Walter Richli (Switzerland, 1913, died 1944); Mikhail Kolyushev (USSR, 1943); Olga Slyusareva (USSR, 1969); Carlo Rancati (Italy, 1940); Czeslaw Lukaszewicz (Canada, 1964); Rubén Pegorín (Argentina, 1965); Óscar Aquino (Guatemala, 1966); August Prosenik (Yugoslavia, 1916, died 1975); Hege Stendahl (Norway, 1967); Donald Ferguson (USA, 1931); Bernard Kręczyński (Poland, 1953); Arthur Mannsbarth (Austria, 1930).
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We present a novel and robust delivery platform for camptothecin (CPT) based in silica nanoparticles (SNP) of 5-15 nm diameter that transport the drug attached by ester bond in 20-OH position. The surface of these SNP is functionalized with carboxylic groups. These are ionized at physiological pH, thus, provoking electrostatic repulsion and avoiding particle aggregation, which allows the preparation of stable colloids in aqueous medium. Camptothecin-loaded silica nanoparticles (SNP-CPT, 5 wt% CPT) show high stability in human plasma, with less than 8% hydrolysis in 24 h. In general, the ester bond in 20-OH position looks pretty stable at pH below 8. In vitro activity of CPT (DMSO solution), SNP and SNP-CPT was tested by MTT assay during 72 h over four cell lines: HeLa, U87MG, HCT-116 and MDA-MB-231, with final doses ranging from 0.025 ng mL-1 to 2500 ng mL-1 (in CPT equivalents). SNP-CPT induces cell death at slightly higher concentration than the free drug in the four lines tested, HeLa being the most sensitive, whereas CPT-free SNP do not alter cell proliferation or morphology.
Journal: TechConnect Briefs
Volume: 3, Nanotechnology 2010: Bio Sensors, Instruments, Medical, Environment and Energy
Published: June 21, 2010
Pages: 320 - 323
Industry sector: Medical & Biotech
Topics: Biomaterials, Materials for Drug & Gene Delivery
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Latest NewsCopyright: © ZIM
VISION FUTURE NET on 17.05.2022 (German only)
The Center for Information and Media Services at the University of Duisburg-Essen invites you to the event VISION FUTURE NET.
When: 17.05.2022 I 9:00 am - 1:15 pm
Where: online via CISCO Webex
How: free registration
The IT Center of RWTH Aachen University is also represented with a guest lecture by Frank Meeßen on the following topics:
- Building a 5G Campus Network
- 5G Industry Campus Europe - 5G on the Campus Melaten of RWTH Aachen University
- Technology used
- Radio coverage outdoor network
Register today and take part in this online event with exciting presentations on the campus network of the future and an informative exchange - we look forward to seeing you!Copyright: © Competence Center 5G.NRW
17.06.2021 Local frequency use grows
The Bundesnetzagentur has now been opening up the 3,700-3,800 MHz frequency range for local frequency use for a year and a half. The frequencies can be used for industrial campus networks, for example. Allocatees are primarily medium-sized and large companies, although some research institutions are also among the frequency holders. As of May 2021, 123 applications have already received a license to use a local 5G network.
Lists of frequency assignment holders who have agreed to publication can be found on the website of the Bundesnetzagentur. The Competence Center 5G.NRW has compiled an up-to-date overview of campus network sites throughout Germany. In this document you will find all holders of campus network licenses who have agreed to the publication of this information.
Overview of holders of campus network licenses [in German only]
09.06.2021 Report of the Lokalzeit aus Aachen - "5G at the RWTH" [in German only]
01.06.2021 News from Radiation Protection
In an interview with Dr. Gunde Ziegelberger, Federal Office for Radiation Protection, in addition to the current state of research on electromagnetic fields used for mobile radio, it is explained why mobile radio research sometimes works better in a radio hole than in the laboratory and why mosquito nets can have a placebo effect. More
19.05.2021 Online Seminar "How to 5G?" [in German only]
The Competence Center 5G.NRW together with FIR e.V. at RWTH Aachen University invites you to the online seminar "How to 5G - These aspects you need to consider!" on 19.05.2021 from 11:00 - 12:00.
Register now quickly and free of charge! More
03.05.2021 Behind the scenes - WDR Cologne film team at the IT Center
On the occasion of an articel for the Aktuelle Stunde on the topic "5G at RWTH", a film team from WDR Cologne visited the IT Center in compliance with the applicable hygiene measures.
In addition to recordings of the 5G transmitter locations on the Campus Melaten and the visualization of 5G radiation by means of measuring devices by two scientific employees of the Institute of High Frequency Technology of the RWTH Aachen University, even autonomously driving robots and vehicles were filmed in the Center Computing Industry (CCI), a spin-off of the FIR at RWTH. A conclusion by Dr. Drießen, research associate at the Research Center for Bioelectromagnetic Interaction (femu), on the medical effects of GSM radiation on the human organism completed the picture.
You can find the video from 09.06.2021 on the YouTube channel of the IT Center [in German only].
29.03.2021 BSI still uncertain about 5G security
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) still can't tell which 5G network components will require security testing on their part. "At this point in time, the BSI cannot answer the question of whether individual network components in the telecommunications environment are required to be certified," a BSI spokeswoman said of whether the use of U.S. manufacturer Cisco at the Deutsche Telekom's 5G core network has been security-verified. However, there is not much time left until clarification: the law is due to be passed on 15.04.2021. More
09.03.2021 Presentation at the ZKI-Frühjahrstagung 2021
As part of the digital ZKI-Frühjahrstagung 2021, Sven Jung from the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT gave an exciting presentation on "5G-Industry Campus Europe - Opportunities and challenges of the new mobile communications standard for research" online to over 350 participants. moreCopyright: © Stefan Sutter
26.11.2020 Fiber-optic connection of the first 5G mobile transmission towers on the Campus Melaten
FiberNetworkSolutions implements the connection to the RWTH Aachen University fiber optic network
Together with Elektro Ohligschläger GbR, FiberNetworkSolutions (owner Stefan Sutter) has installed the fiber optic connections to several locations of the first 5G mobile transmission towers in Aachen in recent weeks. This infrastructure, which is part of the 5G-Industry Campus Europe research project, will be used to validate the usability of the 5G mobile communications standard for production environments in real-life settings at Aachen's Campus Melaten over the next few years. To this end, several transmission masts will span an area of 1 km².
In order to achieve the targeted data rates of up to 10 Gbit/s with a latency of less than 1 ms over this 5G network, a corresponding wired infrastructure is required up to the antenna. Fiber optic cables are of course the first choice here. Where no corresponding fiber optic infrastructure was yet available, the project was supported, among other things, with the final installation (installation, splicing work and acceptance measurements OTDR/FiberInspection) of the corresponding FTTA (Fiber-to-the-Antenna) connections.
21.11.2020 5G campus networks celebrate first birthday
As of November 21, 2019, property owners and tenants can apply to the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) for an allocation of up to 100 MHz of bandwidth in the 3.6 GHz spectrum to deploy their own mobile network on their property. more
20.11.2020 Information event "5G at RWTH Aachen University"
The event took place on Friday, 20.11.2020 from 13.00 - 15.00 via Zoom.
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Fear is not my friend,
He comes and tries to pretend,
That he has power to impart,
But he only gives false starts.
Fear is a coward, I’ve surprisingly found,
When Jesus appears, he’s not around,
He flees when affronted by grace,
Goes back to his darkened place.
Fear has some friends that are around,
None of them bring peace or astound,
No love they bring, not even a trace
They never stand before God’s face.
Fear comes only to lie, cheat and steal,
Pretends to be powerful, but it isn’t real,
He spends his time in bluff and bluster,
Not having the strength that love can muster.
How should I treat him? Do you know?
Should I be frightened and terror show?
I want to overcome this vile fiend,
For he seems ruthless, cruel and mean.
The truth is his fate’s been sealed long ago,
Stripped of power, when love comes, he goes,
My Champion, my Saviour, has defeated this fear,
And Jesus gives strength to all who draw near.
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Jetson TX2 Dev Kit
The Jetson TX2 Developer Kit gives you a fast, easy way to develop hardware and software for the Jetson TX2 AI supercomputer on a module. It exposes the hardware capabilities and interfaces of the developer board, comes with design guides and other documentation, and is pre-flashed with a Linux development environment.
It also supports NVIDIA Jetpack—a complete SDK that includes the BSP, libraries for deep learning, computer vision, GPU computing, multimedia processing, and much more.
- GPU NVIDIA Pascal™ Architecture GPU
- CPU 2 Denver 64-bit CPUs + Quad-Core A57 Complex
- Memory 8 GB L128 bit DDR4 Memory
- Storage 32 GB eMMC 5.1 Flash Storage
- Connectivity to 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-Enabled Devices
- 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet
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Adafruit Blinka Installation
We use a special library called adafruit_blinka (named after Blinka, the CircuitPython mascot) to provide the layer that translates the CircuitPython hardware API to whatever library the Linux board provides.
For example, on Raspberry Pi we use the python RPi.GPIO library. For any I2C interfacing we'll use ioctl messages to the /dev/i2c device. For SPI we'll use the spidev python library, etc. These details don't matter so much because they all happen underneath the adafruit_blinka layer.
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How to care and maintain your hearing aids comes up a lot more as the weather starts to warm up. People often ask me how often should I clean my hearing aids? The answer I always give is everyday. Your hearing aids are very sophisticated electronic machines setting in a moist environment all day and need to be regularly cleaned. Every day hearing aids should be wiped off with a dry Kleenex and brushed off at the end piece that sets down in your ear. A soft brush can be used to get any wax that is on the hearing aid. An inexpensive dry in store is also a great tool to use nightly to help control moisture. Most hearing aids also come equipped with removal wax guard systems that can be replaced at home. The wax guard system helps protect your hearing aid from wax.
In addition to daily cleaning at home your hearing aids need professional cleaning and checked every 4-6 months. In the office a deep cleaning can be done as well as checking and replacing any parts needed. Daily cleanings and twice a year in office cleanings will ensure that you get the most out of your hearing aids.
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A 2004 survey by the North American Vexillological Association ranked the Wichita flag as the 6th best design out of 150 cities. July 23rd, marks the 85th anniversary of one of our city’s coolest symbols.
Wichita city leaders held a contest in 1937 to design a flag. The American Legion spearheaded the contest and the Rotary Club donated a cash prize. A group of artists made up the judging pool, and more than 100 submissions were received.
Charles Cecil McAlister was selected as the winner and awarded $40 for his design. McAlister was a local artist who ran a mural art studio on south Broadway.
On June 14, 1937, Mayor T. Walker Weaver announced the winning design and adopted it as the official flag of Wichita on June 14, 1937.
Mary J. Harper, known as the Betsy Ross of Wichita, was hired to bring the new flag to life. The complicated pattern took her a day to complete.
That flag was raised at City Hall on July 23, 1937.
McAlister was born in Wichita on August 3, 1890 to Charles and Daisy McAllister.
Cecil McAlister worked at the Western Sign Works Company. He moved to Chicago to study art in 1918.
He married Maude Gertrude Moonshower on December 30, 1919, in Grant, Indiana. The new couple returned to Wichita in 1920. McAlister opened the Wichita Sign Company that year.
During the depression he was forced to close the store so he worked from his studio, C. C. McAlister Farm & Studio on south Broadway.
It once sat below the south ramp of the South Broadway bridge until a new bridge was built in 2013.
McAlister continued to paint signs and murals for most of his life. He was also a member of the Sunflower Masonic Lodge, Wichita Consistory and Midian Shrine Temple.
Maude died in 1964 and Charles died in January 1969. They are interred at Wichita Cemetery Park.
The symbolism of the flag is a little debatable.
Wikipedia says, “The blue sun in the center represents happiness and contentment. The Native American symbol for permanent ‘home’ is stitched on the blue sun. The three red and white rays that alternate from the off-center blue sun represent the path of freedom to come and go as one pleases”.
Another version that I found says, “The Hogan in the middle of the flag is an American Indian symbol that represents a permanent home – in this case, Wichita city. The white circle is a manifestation of the sun whereas the white stripes that radiate from the circle are a symbol of courage. Lastly, the red and white stripes together represent honor and virtue.”
In a statement to the Eagle in 1937, McAlister said, “These stripes running in and out of red and white are symbols of rays of light or ways to come and go, open and free to all.”
McAlister’s flag didn’t spark much interest until about 2015. Local pride swelled as the flag began to take over Wichita. And now, “flag swag” can be found all over Wichita.
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This saber was widely used by the British and their Prussian allies under General Blucher in the Battle of Waterloo. The blade was derived from the ferocious Indian tulwar and was reviled by the French who protested its use due to the horribly destructive wounds it inflicted. In fact, this saber was so successful as a cutting weapon that the German cavalry continued to use it right up to the beginning of the 20th century! A combat quality saber with a tempered 1060 steel blade that will pass the British Proof Test and is fully capable of shearing off arms and even legs with a single blow (no, don't try this at home. Driver is a professional on closed course). Fully sharpened, with an all steel scabbard.
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UPDATED December 28, 2021 // Editor's note: This article has been updated with comments from an expert in the field.
The majority of addiction specialists, including psychiatrists, believe psychedelics are promising for the treatment of substance use disorders (SUDs) and psychiatric illnesses and, with some caveats, support legalization of the substances for these indications, results of a new survey show.
This strong positive attitude is "a surprise" given previous wariness of addiction specialists regarding legalization of marijuana, study investigator Amanda Kim, MD, JD, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, noted.
"We had hypothesized that addiction specialists would express more skepticism about psychedelics compared to non-addiction specialists," Kim said.
Instead, addiction experts who participated in the survey were very much in favor of psychedelics being legalized for therapeutic use, but only in a controlled setting.
The findings were presented at the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) 32nd Annual Meeting.
In recent years, there has been increased interest in the scientific community and the general public in the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, said Kim. Previous research has shown growing positivity about psychedelics and support for their legalization among psychiatrists, she added.
Psychedelics have been decriminalized and/or legalized in several jurisdictions. The US Food and Drug Administration has granted breakthrough therapy designation for 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and has granted the same designation to psilocybin in the treatment of major depressive disorder.
"Despite psychedelics increasingly entering the mainstream, we are unaware of any studies specifically assessing the current attitudes of physicians specializing in addictions regarding psychedelics," Kim said.
For the study, investigators identified prospective survey participants from the AAAP directory. They also reached out to program directors of addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry fellowships.
In the anonymous online survey, respondents were asked to rate their level of agreement with 30 statements.
The analysis included 145 respondents (59% men; mean age, 46.2 years). Psychiatrists made up about two thirds of the sample. The remainder specialized in internal and family medicine.
Most respondents had some clinical exposure to psychedelics. Almost 85% reported discussing a psychedelic experience with at least one patient.
Positive Attitudes, Concerns
Overall, participants expressed very positive attitudes regarding the therapeutic use of psychedelics. About 64% strongly agreed or agreed psychedelics show promise in treating SUDs, and 82% agreed they show promise in treating psychiatric disorders.
However, more than one third of respondents (37.9%) expressed concern about the addictive potential of psychedelics. This is more than in previous research polling psychiatrists, possibly because the study's "broad" definition of psychedelics included "non-classic, non-serotonergic hallucinogens," such as ketamine and MDMA, Kim noted.
Because ketamine and MDMA are both lumped into the hallucinogen category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), "and both are known to have addictive potential, this may have obscured participant responses," she added.
Some 28% of participants expressed concern about psychedelic use increasing the risk for subsequent psychiatric disorders and long-term cognitive impairment.
Almost three quarters (74.5%) believe the therapeutic use of psychedelics should be legalized. However, most wanted legal therapeutic psychedelics to be highly regulated and only administered in controlled settings with specially trained providers.
Interestingly, almost half of the sample believed therapeutic psychedelics should be legal in a variety of different contexts and by non-Western providers, in accordance with indigenous and/or spiritual traditions.
One surprising finding was that most respondents believed patients would be keen on using psychedelics to treat SUDs, said Kim.
"This may reflect evolving attitudes of both providers and patients about psychedelics, and it will be interesting to further study attitudes of patients toward the use of psychedelics to treat SUD in the future," she added.
Attitudes toward psychedelics were generally similar for psychiatrists and nonpsychiatrists; but psychiatrists expressed greater comfort in discussing them with patients and were more likely to have observed complications of psychedelics use in their practice.
Kim noted the study's limitations included the small sample size and possible selection bias, as those with more favorable views of psychedelics may have been more likely to respond.
More Education Needed
Commenting for Medscape Medical News, Brian Barnett, MD, an addiction specialist and assistant professor of psychiatry at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, said the study "contributes important findings" to the growing literature on clinician views of psychedelics.
"Importantly, this study shows that participants who are familiar with the scientific literature on the therapeutic use of psychedelics are more likely to hold the belief that psychedelics show promise in treating psychiatric conditions," said Barnett, who was not involved with the research.
He noted that addiction to classical psychedelics such as psilocybin and LSD is "so rare that most non-addiction specialists will never see more than a handful of cases in their career."
However, the study suggests worries about the addictive potential of psychedelics "may be strongly influencing concerns about legalization of psychedelics for medical use," Barnett said.
"It's clear there's still important education to be done within medicine about the addictive and therapeutic potentials of psychedelics, so that clinicians can accurately weigh the potential risks and benefits of these intriguing compounds for their patients struggling with mental health conditions and addictions, should they come to market," he said.
Barnett also noted that interpretation of the study findings is limited due to a lack of information about how nonresponders to the survey differed from responders.
The study was supported by the Source Research Foundation. Barnett is on the advisory board of CB Therapeutics, a company working to develop psychedelic-based treatments.
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The educational and social integration philosophy of our Youth to Youth programs is based on the Global Morfosis Paradigm (gMp) which provides a meaningful, holistic and harmonious educational experience to all students. The gMp has been implemented at ACS Athens the past twelve years and is comprised of three integrated, inseparable and interrelated components: the Morfosis educational philosophy, the i2Flex teaching and learning methodology, and the Aristeia Leadership.
ACS Athens students, faculty and staff volunteers designed and implemented since 2016 the Youth-to-Youth Educational and Social Integration Programs (history of link to history from academics) in collaboration with other non- governmental organizations with the following vision:
Fostering meaningful educational experiences and promoting social integration addressing the educational and social needs of unaccompanied minors in Athens through a student to student partnership learning model
The Youth to Youth Educational and Social Integration Programs since January 2017 are implemented in collaboration with The HOME Project Organization an NGO that provides holistic care and shelter to unaccompanied refugee minors. Currently, the Programs include the Part-time Youth to Youth Program, the Part-time Business to Youth and the Full-time Youth to Youth program.
The Full-time program started in September 2018 and is offered to 18 unaccompanied minors, 4 girls and 14 boys, who received the Shapiro Foundation scholarships through The HOME Project Organization. The program consists of two cohorts that follow courses designed specifically for the program. Full-time students depending on their academic skills have the choice to enroll in regular ACS Athens courses.
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Another Greek story of needs, of basic human needs that need to be covered. Agios Panteleimon charity foundation for elderly hosts 44 seniors in Keratsini, a suburb of Piraeus. Furthermore the charity offers soup kitchen meals to 60 poor locals on a daily basis and supplies with food items some one hundred underprivileged families in the area. A team of professionals and volunteers do their best under the leadership of father Emmanuel.
“We used to come along with the pensions of the elderly and the donations given by the people. But due to the crisis, our needs have increased and the donations decreased,” father Emmanuel told charity network Boroume.gr. “People do want to help but they cannot do it anymore.”
The charity is in need of food like yogurt, meat, chicken, milk, potatoes, fruits and vegetables, rice, paper napkins, cleaning and personal toiletterie items.
If you want to help, you can directly contact:
1) Father Emmanuel (Πατήρ Εμμανουήλ Καροφυλλάκης) mobile: +30 6936638845
2) Charity “Ίδρυμα Στοργής Γερόντων Αγιος Παντελεήμων”, Ανακούς 59-61 (Anakous streets 59-61), Keratsini.
3) Boroume network, telephone: 210-3237805.
The charity estimates the amount of food it needs per week, but I am sure you can find ways to help if you want, even without meeting all their needs.
PS if one considers the needs of elderly in medicine, the needs must be much higher.
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A call for action to safely deliver oral health care during and post COVID-19 pandemic
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The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak started just a couple of months ago and it grew rapidly causing several deaths and morbidities. The mechanism behind the transmission of the virus is still not completely understood despite a multitude of new specific manuscripts being published daily. This article highlights the oral cavity as a possible viral transmission route into the body via the Angiotensin converting enzyme 2 receptor. It also provides guidelines for routine protective measures in the dental office while delivering oral health care.
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What is Confirmation?
Confirmation is a special church service in which a person confirms the promises that were made when they were baptized. If you were baptized at a christening when you were a child, your parents and godparents made these promises on your behalf. As a young person or adult, you may be ready to affirm these promises for yourself and commit your life to following Jesus Christ. At a confirmation service, you make these promises for yourself. Your friends and family as well as the local Christian community will be there to promise to support and pray for you.
The local bishop will lay their hands on your head and ask God’s Holy Spirit to give you the strength and commitment to live God’s way for the rest of your life.
These services are wonderful occasions, giving candidates a renewed sense of faith and commitment.
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4 REASON WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER A DIPLOMA
Narrowing along the best significant is often tricky. Some trainees choose the improper path along with end up regretting their diploma program. Additionally, other students choose degree programs through limited career opportunities. Picking out to enroll like a Cardinal Stritch business managing student, one example is, can start the door to many career possibilities in the future. If your student is actually on the fence and aint able to decide concerning a business plan and a further degree, listed below are four really great reasons to pursue a business education.
1 . Better Position Security
There is no warranted way to avoid a job lay down. However , obtaining a business degree offers greater position security. Degree level make a difference to unemployment, and also the type of degree. Business is undoubtedly an in-demand degree, with many teachers able to find dependable employment after completion of their very own degree.
2 . Bigger Starting Wage
The common starting earnings for someone with a business degree is actually between $40, 000 plus $50, 000, which is just a bit higher than establishing salaries within other domains, such as degree, fine activité and interpersonal work. What does this mean for you? A greater income on completion of a certain amount program provides opportunity to make your finances so as. There’s much more disposable cash flow to pay down student loan debts, plus will be certainly the opportunity to stimulate your own destination and create economic cushion. The exact less money one earn, the particular harder this specific becomes.
3. A great deal more Career Choices
As being a business direction student, you’ll take a number of courses the fact that pertain so that you can business. For instance , classes within marketing, economics, business charge and management. This gives one more work choices as you prepare to enter typically the workforce; specifically if you minor around communications, Uk, operation direction, or computer system science. You possibly can apply for job in sales, advertising and marketing, hospitality, finance and recruiting. A business degree also makes you a good choice for a challenge manager job, or perhaps a administration trainee process. This can bring on greater assignments, in which you might command a greater pay. Should you be looking to move up the corporate corporate, a business degree can point you in the right direction.
five. Skills to begin your Own Enterprise
It could be your extensive goal can be to start your own business. While you have a tendency need a diploma to be directing his own course and start your individual company, the skill-sets and skills you purchase in school may help you run a profitable business. Plenty goes into setting up a company. And if you don’t the actual ins and outs associated with running a business, your own venture may possibly fail.
By using a business degree understand how to write a business plan, create effective sales strategies, handle small business finances, consider employees, and even management techniques and industry ethics.
Confused whether a business degree at Cardinal Stritch or any other other college or university offering the career path is right for your individual? Familiarize yourself with the institution and discuss with counselors/professors of the disposition department. Not surprisingly, this is a leading decision, and there is plenty of majors to choose between. A small business degree will probably be your ticket for an exciting career, which can give you a family security and safety and solidity.
IS COMMUNITY HIGHER EDUCATION THE RIGHT CHOICE?
Quite a few young people want going away from to college— leaving home, surviving in the dorms, exploring any new community, and regular exercise new found freedom. Because of this, group college is usually an around looked possibility.
However , within our struggling economic system, going to institution isn’t just some rite for passage. It is equally a ideal investment that could affect our own children’s monetary success along with achievements for the remainder of their lifetime. Like any several other investment, families and students are looking to lower costs whilst maximizing their returns. For quite a few, community university or college can be a wonderful means to accomplish this.
Consider the prices
Utilizing college will cost you soaring, area college continues to be one of the most low-priced options— actually it can save a bundle.
- Community college tuition is truly lower than a traditional universities as well as open public institutions.
- Even though attending a neighborhood community college or university, students generally remain experiencing at home keeping on space and mother board which over is out there $10, 000 a year.
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Whilst you can probable finance a high-priced private college with federal student loans or perhaps private loans— consider far too that your baby will be one-step ahead with money if they can enter the employed pool debt-free.
Getting an education with prospective
No longer do masses of children went to university or college for a normal liberal martial arts degree with no need of specific job focus in your mind. With the sagging skin job market, college students have their eyesight on offering careers together with upward ability to move and financially rewarding salaries. For young students looking to enter rapidly rising job stores, community school can be a practical option.
Individuals can earn an affordable associate’s degree with a community university or college and then pass to a general public college or university without difficulty. This is an in particular good option for kids who have decreased GPAs, yet want to truly pursue getting a role that requires any bachelor’s amount like schooling.
Many in-demand, well-paying, work opportunities require only an associate’s degree. Increasingly more educational programs are offering these kind of career-focused levels in the health field, such as a medical rapport or teeth hygiene process.
Community faculty is also the ideal place to find training in trades. Careers since electricians, plumbers, and motion are in financial terms lucrative plus major shortages of skilled workers during these fields are printed the intervalle .
Therefore should your baby consider place college?
Selecting a institution is one of the most critical decisions you can expect to help your pre-teen make. Local community college is an especially important option to take into account if:
- Your child won’t particularly like school, is just not confident academically, or includes a low GPA.
- Is not yet still certain nonetheless what position they are considering studying.
- They will pursue getting casted that does not require a bachelor’s level.
- They want to pursue a career which only requires a recognition or teaching.
- They are not in a position to be slader integrated math 3 3rd party and could make use of an easy highschool to college move.
- It’s the perfect financial judgement for your loved ones: community school first, afterward transfer to the 4-year higher education for conclusion.
As you may help your kid navigate the school selection process, create a second evaluate community college and see if that might be perfect for every need for them.
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How We’ll Win in Virginia in 2017 and Why It Matters
Since November 8, 2016, Democrats admittedly haven’t been doing a lot of winning. In 2017, Democrats have closely followed a succession of special elections — Kansas’s 4th, Montana’s At-Large, South Carolina’s 5th, Georgia’s 6th — where the Democratic candidate seemed to be so close to victory only to lose to the Republican candidate in the end.
After Jon Ossoff’s loss in Georgia’s 6th congressional district, which became the most expensive House race in history, Democrats seemed to give up on electoral victory in 2017. The pundits moved on, and the focus has become 2018 and who will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020.
What has been overlooked, however, is that Democrats have been doing a lot of winning at the state and local level. Just this month, Democrats had two surprise victories in state legislative special elections in Oklahoma. In May, a Democrat won a special election for a New York State Assembly district that Trump won handily in November. State-level races offer real opportunities for Democrats to win in districts they have never won before, and in no place are there more opportunities to do this in 2017 than in Virginia.
You may have already heard about the governor’s race, and it’s clear that Virginia’s continued progress depends on winning that race. But the even bigger prize will be to take over the Virginia State House. This year, all 100 seats are up. And while Democrats only hold 34 seats, Hillary won in 51 of them in 2016. And, if you add in seats that Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam (who is at the top of the ticket this cycle), Governor Terry McAuliffe, and Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner have won in recent years, there’s an even larger universe of seats that Democrats have won running statewide, but that they have failed to win at the local level.
The path to victory is there. But, we don’t have all the pieces in place yet to get there. So, let’s look at the seats, the candidates, and what we still need more of: the money. But first: let’s remember why Virginia matters for people from across the country.
Why Virginia Matters
Why should someone in California, or Connecticut, or Maryland care about Virginia in 2017? At the top of the list of reasons is health care. As Republicans in Washington craft new ways to strip health care from millions, a Democratic legislature in Virginia would work to expand Medicaid. If that happened, 400,000 people would gain health care coverage.
Right now, the federal minimum wage is in effect in Virginia, which is $7.25 per hour. A Democratic House of Delegates would work to raise the minimum wage; this past legislative cycle, a proposal to raise the minimum wage was defeated by Senate Republicans on a party line vote.
A Democrat in the Governor’s mansion has been a firewall against Republican restrictions on women’s health care in Virginia. Since 2010, the Virginia General Assembly has proposed more than 75 restrictions on women’s reproductive health care. With a Democratic majority in the House of Delegates, the focus would shift to ensuring that all women have access to reproductive services, rather than proposing additional restrictions.
Virginia significantly lags behind other states in embracing clean energy and strong environmental policy, an issue made even more acute by the Trump Administration’s short-sighted decisions on climate and natural resources.
On the issues that matter nationally, Virginia is the front lines, and a Democratic House of Delegates will be a catalyst for progressive change in the state.
Why is 2017 different from other years? First, candidate recruitment. This year, Democrats are fielding candidates in 89 of the 100 House of Delegate districts. That’s a big deal. By comparison, Democrats ran 56 candidates in 2015, 67 candidates in 2013, and 54 candidates in 2011.
Second, these are winnable seats. If these candidates do half as well as Jon Ossoff did running in a district that typically votes for a Republican by 20 points, Democrats can still take the majority in the House of Delegates.
Of the 17 seats that Democrats would need to win to gain a legislative majority, 13 of them lean Democratic on the national and state level. There’s another six seats where Republicans are only slightly favored, winning by less than 5 points on average.
There’s our majority right there. This isn’t about swinging some of the most conservative congressional districts in the county. It’s about winning where others have won before.
A big challenge for Democrats in the past has been a failure to get candidates to run in highly competitive districts. For example, James Massie, of District 72, had run unopposed for the past four elections, and John O’Bannon, of District 73, has run unopposed the past five elections. In 2016, Hillary won those districts by 4 points and 7 points, respectively. This year, both districts have strong, Democratic candidates running.
In fact, Democrats have candidates in 89 districts, the largest number in a long time. And they have a lot of very strong candidates in that group, candidates with community connections, fundraising networks, and great stories to tell. Here are a few that our group, EveryDistrict, has endorsed:
David Reid (District 32) — A small business owner and decorated Naval Officer
Lee Carter (District 50) — A Marine committed to making his government more responsive to its residents
Schuyler VanValkenburg (District 72) — A high school civics teacher
Debra Rodman (District 73) — An anthropologist who works to help immigrants win asylum in the United States
Cheryl Turpin (District 85) — An environmental science teacher from a community most affected by climate change
Willie Randall (District 100) — A successful small businessman and local elected official
But, the Money
As the Ossoff campaign showed, winning isn’t all about the money. But at the state legislative level, we know from experience that campaigns need to be able to raise around $300,000 to get the resources they need to run viable, competitive campaigns. And in some cases, they will need to raise more than that to fend of well-funded Republican challengers.
Remember, it was in 2009 that the Koch Brothers tested their theory of taking over state legislatures here in Virginia. And while many Democratic candidates showed strong fundraising numbers this quarter, there are a number of campaigns that aren’t on track right now and need more help. To turn all of this energy into success, Democrats will need more resources than they have today.
The Bottom Line
Let’s put it simply. Virginia matters. In a summer of fighting to keep people’s health care, Virginia gives us an important opportunity to give people care that they have never had. We can raise the minimum wage, protect women’s access to reproductive health care, and embrace a clean energy future. We can reject Trump in a big way even before 2018. And we can rebuild the Democratic Party in a state that is quickly shifting bluer and bluer. If you care about the future of the country, Virginia in 2017 is the place for the biggest and most achievable change this year.
But to do what we seek to do — to wrest control of the State House from an entrenched GOP majority more interested in bathroom bills and denying climate change that improving conditions for Virginians — we need volunteers and we need resources. We’re helping to organize both, here at EveryDistrict. If you want to support the effort to win a legislative majority for Democrats in Richmond, sign up here for our email list to learn about volunteer opportunities and click here to donate $17 to help us win the 17 districts we need to win a majority. Help Democrats start winning again — we can do it in Virginia in 2017 but we need your help.
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President Nayib Bukele announced that El Salvador will give $30 in Bitcoin to every citizen
El Salvador, a small country of 6 million people in Latin America, surprised the world by passing a law that will make Bitcoin BTC legal tender in the country.
Its President Nayib Bukele continues his mission to educate and integrate Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in the country by announcing that El Salvador will give $30 in BTC to every citizen!
A substantial sum knowing that there are 6 million inhabitants in the country, non adults must be subtracted from the beneficiaries of this Bitcoin airdrop which is a new surprise for the young Salvadoran president.
Nayib Bukele presented this announcement on television, he also wanted to explain how the Bitcoin payment works, which will be done via a mobile wallet.
It should be remembered that 70% of its Salvadorans do not have a bank account, so payment in Bitcoin must serve this population excluded from the system.
The government of El Salvador wants to boost the adoption of Bitcoin, this donation of $30 in BTC must lead the population to spend this money on cryptocurrency in order to make Bitcoin a currency of use like any other.
Currently, the US dollar is used in El Salvador and not its own national currency.
The country’s president also announced that the Bitcoin wallet mobile application (Chivo Wallet) will work anywhere with a cell phone connection.
Just as the United States was able to distribute checks of more than 1000 dollars to the population, in its own way, El Salvador wants to offer free Bitcoin to its fellow citizens so that they get to know this cryptocurrency and especially that they start to use it.
Nothing obligatory of course, President Nayib Bukele recalled that it is not obligatory to use Bitcoin but that he hopes that the population will respond favorably to this announcement.
The Salvavor and its chairman are determined to successfully implement Bitcoin as legal tender in the country, the solution being effectively to offer it to the population to use these BTC offered by the government.
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1 Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath were a Heavy Metal band formed in Birmingham, England in 1968 by guitarist and songwriter Tony Iommi, singer John "Ozzy" Osbourne, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward. ...read more.
Quite literally invented the genre...being the first to truly play Heavy Metal. Every single band that plays any form of heavy metal to this day has Black Sabbath to thank. Ritchie Blackmore must have voted several times to get Deep Purple to the top of this list.
There were only 3 bands that released more than 1 proto-metal song in the period 1970-1974: Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep.
Black Sabbath to me are the best Heavy Metal band! They could be asleep playing and they sounded heavy!
The embryonic Daddy of Metal. Black Sabbath's first album cast the industrial die for the genre.
2 Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. They are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although their musical approach changed over the years. Originally formed as a progressive rock band, the band shifted to a heavier sound in 1970. Deep Purple, ...read more.
In fact, Deep Purple invented more metal elements than Black Sabbath and in current metal there's more Deep Purple than Black Sabbath. Believe it or not, at a later stage even Black Sabbath themselves included elements from Deep Purple and Rainbow.
3 Judas Priest
Judas Priest are a British heavy metal band that formed in Birmingham, England, in 1969. They are often referred to as one of the greatest metal bands of all time, and are even commonly called “The Metal Gods”, after one of the songs on their 1980 album “British Steel”. ...read more.
They got rid of blues and psychedelic elements in the 2nd half of the 70s, and achieved a pure metal sound most noticeably in 1977, when Roger Glover (bassist of Deep Purple and Rainbow) became their producer. Try the song Dissident Aggressor from this album - it's already pure metal.
Rainbow are a British rock band led by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1993 to 1997. They were originally established with Ronnie James Dio as the lead singer and lyricist. Rainbow were ranked No. 90 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. The band has sold over 28 million albums ...read more.
The purest, the most technical and most developed metal of the 70s - try the song 'A Light In The Black' (1976). It's fast, long and technical - awesome metal guitars, drums, vocals, riffs, solos, the composition. Credits to Ritchie Blackmore, Dio, Cozy Powell.
5 Uriah Heep
Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969 that was one of the top rock bands in the early 1970s. Twelve of the band's albums have made it to the UK Albums Chart (Return to Fantasy reached No. 7 in 1975). Uriah Heep's distinctive features include a massive keyboard sound, strong vocal ...read more.
Yes, definitely. Released metal songs in 1970 - my favorite is Bird of Prey (the intro scream is amazing).
6 Lucifer's Friend
Song: Ride the Sky (1970).
Lucifer's Friend are a German band with a British singer - John Lawton, who later replaced David Byron in Uriah Heep. Both are incredible singers. In the same year, 1970, David Byron sang the metal song Bird Of Prey for Uriah Heep.
7 Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper was an American rock band formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1964. The band consisted of lead singer Vince Furnier, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, and Neal Smith.
Queen are an English rock band formed in London in 1970. The original lineup was Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), and John Deacon (bass guitar, vocals). Before forming into Queen, Brian May and Roger Taylor had played together in a band ...read more.
They released the first proto-thrash song - Stone Cold Crazy, 1974.
9 Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin was an English hard rock band formed in London in 1968 as the New Yardbirds. The group consisted of Robert Plant (Vocal), Jimmy Page (Guitar), John Paul Jones (Bass, Keyboard) and John Bonham (Drums) and was very much the child of Jimmy Page who even financed their first tour. He had tasted ...read more.
I agree with zxm - LZ never played metal. Actually Queen were closer to metal than LZ - Queen influenced metal significantly and Queen even created the first proto-thrash metal song (Stone Cold Crazy, 1974).
They were the first real metal band. they came before black sabbath
10 Van Halen
Van Halen was an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. From 1974 until 1985, the band consisted of guitarist Eddie Van Halen, vocalist David Lee Roth, drummer Alex Van Halen, and bassist Michael Anthony.
11 The Who
The Who is an English rock band formed in London, England in 1964. The most recognizable lineup was Roger Daltrey (lead vocals), Pete Townshend (guitar), John Entwistle (bass guitar), and Keith Moon (drums). They are best known for their live performances and hit songs Baba O'Riley, My Generation, and ...read more.
12 Humble Pie
Humble Pie were an English rock band formed by Peter Frampton in Essex during 1969. They are known as one of the late 1960s' first supergroups.
Scorpions are a German rock band formed in 1965 in Hanover by Rudolf Schenker. Since the band's inception, its musical style has ranged from hard rock to heavy metal.
14 Thin Lizzy
Thin Lizzy are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Their leader Phil Lynott was composer or co-composer of almost all of the band's songs, and the first black Irishman to achieve commercial success in the field of rock music. Thin Lizzy's most successful songs, "Whiskey in the Jar", "Jailbreak" ...read more.
Yes, their songs in the 70s had metal elements, especially their guitar work featuring twin lead guitars.
15 Blue Cheer
Blue Cheer was an American rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009. Based in San Francisco, Blue Cheer played in a psychedelic blues rock style, and are also credited as being some of the earliest pioneers of heavy metal, ...read more.
Heavy blues/psych. rock. Not heavy metal.
There's a big difference because there's no blues in metal. Listen to The Trooper by Iron Maiden, or Master Of Puppets by Metallica - no blues. Metal music is mostly based on classical music.
16 Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix (born November 27, 1942 - September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter . Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated ...read more.
Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled by former vocalist Udo Dirkschneider, guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and bassist Peter Baltes.
Steppenwolf is a Canadian-American rock group that was prominent from 1968 to 1972. The group was formed in late 1961 in Toronto by vocalist John Kay, keyboardist Goldy McJohn, and drummer Jerry Edmonton.
No, not at all metal - Steppenwolf, KISS, Blue Cheer, LZ... nowhere near metal.
Pantera was an American Heavy Metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul. The band started out as a Glam Metal act in the 1980s with little success. After discarding their original lead vocalist and enlisting Phil Anselmo, the band signed a major record deal with ...read more.
Kiss is an American hard rock band formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and the band's original manager, Lew Linet.
No, there's no significant metal presence in their songs.
Pentagram is an American heavy metal band from Alexandria, Virginia, most famous as one of the pioneers of heavy metal, and the subgenre of doom metal in particular.
MC5 was an American rock band from Lincoln Park, Michigan, formed in 1964. The original band line-up consisted of vocalist Rob Tyner, guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred "Sonic" Smith, bassist Michael Davis, and drummer Dennis Thompson.
AC/DC are a Australian hard rock band, formed in November 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young, who continued as members until Malcolm's illness and departure in 2014 . They were fronted by Bon Scott until his untimely death due to alcohol poisoning in 1979, after which they hired Brian Johnson ...read more.
Rush was a Canadian progressive rock band that was formed in 1968. The band has had an iconic lineup since 1975, which included Neil Peart (Drums, Percussion), Geddy Lee (Vocals, Bass, Keyboards), and the guitarist, Alex Lifeson. Peart passed away after a 3 year battle with brain cancer in January of ...read more.
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A lot has been written and documented about the horrors at the Auschwitz concentration camp that for many, that camp in Poland symbolizes all the atrocities of the Holocaust and the Nazi Final Solution. Far less has been written about the Bergen-Belsen camp in Germany, which is probably best known as the camp where Anne Frank died of typhus.
There are a lot of different ways to record the horrors of Belsen, a camp where an estimated 50,000 people died. Leonard Berney, a former lieutenant colonel in the British Army, did something unique: he kept the diary that he recorded in April 1945, when the British Army entered Germany and liberated the Bergen-Belsen camp. His letters and diary have now been published in the book Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp, a riveting novel that seems sure to bring out a range of emotions from the reader: a mix of exhilaration at reading how the camp’s victims finally got their freedom, to shock and dismay as Berney matter-of-factly describes the unspeakable suffering and misery he found there.
What Was The Bergen-Belsen Camp?
The Germans established the Bergen-Belsen camp in 1940, about 11 miles north of Celle, Germany, as a prisoner-of-war camp. In April 1943 part of it was converted into a concentration camp that would house prisoners that included Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, political prisoners and so-called “asocials.” By the end of July 1944, more than 7,300 prisoners were interned in the Bergen-Belsen camp complex, and the numbers more than doubled to 15,000 in December 1944. By the time the camp was being liberated, the population had soared to more than 60,000.
Often described as “Hell on Earth,” it’s been well documented that food supplies started to shrink by late 1944, along with fresh water, and there were just a few latrines and water faucets for tens of thousands of prisoners. All of this led to an outbreak of diseases that included typhus, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and dysentery. Literally tens of thousands of prisoners died in the first few months of 1945 from either disease or starvation.
In fact, conditions there were so bad by April 1945 that there were concerns that the diseases at Belsen would spread to the nearby civilian population. That was the situation facing the British Army as they entered Germany and crossed the river Rhine, heading for Berlin. At this point, the British were about 12 miles from Bergen-Belsen, and knowing that typhus had broken out there, the British officers feared that the prisoners might escape and spread the disease.
Instead, they proposed to the Germans that a ‘No Fire Zone’ be established around the camp, and the British would take control of it in an orderly manner. The Germans agreed, and as the British approached the camp, their biggest apprehension was that this might be a trap set by the Germans. But the Germans did hold fire, and the British soldiers, including Lt. Colonel Berney, began the rescue operation at Belsen — a place they found atrocious, grisly, nightmarish and tragic beyond belief.
What Does The Book Document?
The soldiers’ entrance into Belsen, Berney noted, was gruesome and appalling. “Outside and at the back of the huts, corpses in various stages of decomposition were everywhere,” he writes. “The excreta-laden dust blowing round the camp was a serious medical threat. I was nauseated and horrified. The whole scene was a veritable Dante’s Inferno.”
And that’s the very beginning of the book.
He would go on to record how the soldiers went looking for sources of water to bring to the camp, delivering food to the starving inmates (“Many who were emaciated and starving bolted down this rich food and that sadly caused their deaths,” he notes), the burials of the dead, the evacuation of the camp, and then the establishment of Displaced Persons Camps for all the inmates.
Some of it is recorded in a very dispassionate, cool and collected and unsentimental voice; at other times, the sheer torment of coping with such abysmal conditions comes through. Liberating Belsen is a short book, about 38 pages of written text, although that’s supplemented by many photos of the camp as it was being liberated. It’s an unspeakably grim chapter in history, but the book does a great service in recording and documenting these horrors at a time when the phase “Never Forget” seems more relevant than ever.
As Berney notes in the book, “In the last few years I have become aware that there were people in the UK and elsewhere who deny that the Holocaust ever happened; they assert that it is all a lie. It was not a lie. I know what Nazism did: I was there!”
Berney, who was born in London in 1920 and took part in countering the Blitz and the V1 flying bomb attacks, was later appointed Military Governor of Schleswig-Holstein. He pursued a business career after he left the army at the end of 1946, and has often been asked to deliver lectures on the Liberation of Belsen. This book, which follows the liberation of that inhuman camp through his eyes, would make an excellent addition to middle and high school history courses for students to read. It’s a fascinating book.
The book is available from Amazon.
Michael Freeman is an Orlando journalist, playwright and author of the book “Of Cats And Wolves.” Contact him at email@example.com.
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BIG CHANGES IN MEDICARE
Medicare Part D or Medicare Part D Education Planned
The Alabama Department of Senior Services (ADSS) and Alabama’s Aging Network are facing a busy year, the least of which involves educating people and providers about the new Medicare drug benefit (also known as Medicare Part D). Alabama has approximately 800,000 Medicare beneficiaries who will need to understand this new benefit. Additionally, anyone who helps people with Medicare also needs to learn about Medicare Part D. The process will be complicated and experience shows that people will turn to their physicians and pharmacists for guidance.
Over the next several months, the Alabama Department of Senior Services and area agencies on aging are conducting a Medicare education campaign targeting community opinion leaders, health care providers and social service organizations. If our experience with the discount card program is any evidence, this will be an overwhelming task for everyone involved. For this reason, ADSS has convened a steering committee to organize education and outreach efforts at the state level.
“The whole issue will be very confusing for people and we don’t want clients to think they can put off this decision without consequences. We are dependent on the community providers to help us reach out to these folks. We all have to work together to make sure people get the right information from a credible source,” said Tara Shaver, State Health Insurance assistance Program (SHIP) state director.
According to Shaver, it is especially crucial that providers work with the SHIP program because Alabama has its own loophole when it comes to applying for the subsidy. Not knowing the right direction could cause someone to be asset-tested out of their eligibility, while going the right way could save the client over $900 in annual Part B premiums.
Through SHIP and the Alabama SenioRx Program, trained Medicare counselors are available to train professionals as well as educate beneficiaries. If you are interested in coordinating a training session, educational meeting, or if you have questions about Medicare Part D, call your local SHIP counselor at 1-800-AGE-LINE (243-5463) for more information.
The ABCs of Medicare Part D
A-APPLY FOR THE SUBSIDY-If you have Medicare and your income is less than $1,097 per month and you are not enrolled in Medicaid or a Medicare Savings Program (QMB/SLMB/QI-1), contact the Social Security Administration at 1-800-772-1213 or www.ssa.gov to apply for the subsidy.
B-BE SMART!-Each drug plan will be different. Prices and coverage will vary. Know your needs. Know your choices. This is NOT the same as the Medicare-approved prescription drug discount card and some people will pay a higher premium if they wait to enroll.
C-CHOOSE A PL AN-Plan information will be available October 15, 2005 from 1-800-MEDICARE (633-4227) or www.MEDICARE.gov. For local help call the Medicare counseling program (SHIP) at 1-800-AGE-LINE (243-5463).
Participation in Medicare Part D is voluntary, but every Medicare beneficiary needs to make a decision about the Part D Prescription Drug Benefit-even if the decision is not to enroll. Some people will pay a higher premium if they wait to enroll in a Medicare prescription drug plan.
Beginning this month, the Social Security Administration will begin promoting a low-income subsidy available to Medicare beneficiaries with incomes below $1,196 per month for individuals or $1,603 per month for couples. People who receive help in paying for their Part B premiums (QMB/SLMB/QI-1 or full-Medicaid) will automatically be eligible for the extra help paying for medications. Medicare will send letters to qualified individuals telling them they will automatically receive the extra help.
Certain low-income beneficiaries (specifically those who currently receive their medications through the Medicaid program), will be automatically assigned to a prescription drug plan if they do not make a decision to ensure that there are no gaps in their prescription drug coverage. They will receive information on how to enroll in a different plan if the one assigned to them does not meet their needs.
While information and applications for the low-income subsidies will be available in May, specific plan information will not be available until October 15. Drug plan sponsors will begin marketing their programs in October. Open enrollment begins November 15, 2005 and ends May 15,2006. Drug plan benefits will begin as early as January 1, 2006.
Shaver explains, “As with the drug discount cards, this program places a great deal of responsibility on the consumer. It is very important for beneficiaries to read and understand the information that is sent to them from Medicare (CMS) and Social Security in the coming months. This information may be confusing, but help is available.”
Assistance is available from the SHIP program by calling 1-800-AGE-LINE as well as from Medicare (1-800-MEDICARE or www.medicare .gov). Social Security will only provide assistance in applying for the low-income subsidy. The Alabama Medicaid Agency will not help with or handle applications for Part D.
For questions about Medicare Part D or to request a speaker, please contact your Area Agency on Aging and the SHIP program at 1-800-243-5463.
Copyright Alabama State Nurses’ Association Jun-Aug 2005
Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved
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Shannon Studstill is helping lead female charge in video game field
As a child, Shannon Studstill sold gum to her classmates to finance her weekly trips to the video game arcade.
That early investment in “Pac-Man” and “Defender” would pay huge dividends.
Studstill, one of the most powerful women in the male-dominated world of video games, now runs Sony Santa Monica Studio, the development group responsible for the company’s hit franchise “God of War” and the publisher of such critically acclaimed independent titles as “Journey.”
The 43-year-old executive is an anomaly in an industry known for its underrepresentation of women. One 2012 survey of 4,000 developers found that women account for just 4% of programmers and engineers, 11% of designers and 16% of its artists and animators.
Women are best represented among the producer ranks, where roughly 1 in 4 are female (though they make less than their male counterparts), according to the results published last year in Game Developer Magazine.
As executives such as Studstill rise through the ranks, though, they are in a position to correct the gender imbalance.
During her tenure, Sony Santa Monica has been more successful in attracting women: About 20% of its staff is female.
“I feel like having a female in the room changes the dynamic in a positive way,” Studstill said. “And we should acknowledge that and embrace it and be giving these women the opportunities that they deserve to have a voice at the table.”
Games have been a constant running through Studstill’s life, as her family moved from Denver to Virginia Beach, Va., to southern Florida. While attending high school in Key West, she would split her free time bodyboarding, wave riding, boating, diving and snorkeling with visiting a video game arcade on Duval Street with her boyfriend.
In college, she majored in graphic design and photography, then moved to Los Angeles in 1992 to study cinematography. But the slight, petite woman discovered she was unable to perform some of the physical aspects of the job — such as lugging heavy lighting equipment.
A professor at the American Film Institute urged Studstill to consider applying her cinematographer’s eye to a fast-growing segment of the entertainment world: video games.
“Essentially, there are cameras in video games, and it’s important that the structure of how you put a camera in a video game follows the grammar of cinema that we’re used to, so the player understands where they are,” said former AFI instructor Alan Lasky, who has worked in film and video games. “Shannon was one of those people that immediately got that, she immediately understood the broadening definition of cinematography.”
Studstill landed an internship at Black Ops Entertainment, an independent studio in Santa Monica founded by four MIT graduates. She recalls being the only woman around as she traveled to Edwards Air Force Base to take reference photos of aircraft for a flight simulator game under development.
After working six months without a salary, and depleting her savings, Studstill finally got a full-time assignment as an artist to help create 3-D renderings of the planes she had photographed for the PlayStation game “Agile Warrior F-111X.”
“I had some familiarity with 3-D, and that really helped me. I at least knew how to boot up a program and get a model on screen,” Studstill said.
Studstill worked her way up at the studio, as texture artist, modeler, lead artist and eventually to the position of art director.
Sony lured Studstill away in 1997 to help it repair a struggling game title, “Treasures of the Deep.” Two years later, she was selected to join the executive team launching Sony’s new development studio in Santa Monica.
It was a rare opportunity to build a creative environment from its foundation, though, as its art director, Studstill quickly learned the difficulties of recruiting talent to a studio that lacked a flagship game title.
Even harder was assembling a team of artists capable of matching game creator David Jaffe’s vision for “God of War,” an action-adventure game loosely based on Greek mythology in which the central character (Kratos) is a Spartan warrior who serves the Olympic gods.
“You can put a [movie] script on someone’s desk, and they can read it and get a really good idea of that character’s journey,” Studstill said. But with a video game, “you’re talking about interactive development. It’s all about, ‘How does Kratos feel?’”
The attention to subtlety of feeling worked. “God of War” won critical acclaim and become one of Sony Computer Entertainment America’s most successful franchises, selling more than 21 million units worldwide through May 2012.
That success of the franchise gave Sony Santa Monica the freedom to work with independent game developers, and run an incubation program for young game developers studying at USC. The studio gives budding developers a place to work, access to professionals who can provide advice on technical problems and a shot at funding.
“Journey” executive producer Robin Hunicke credits Studstill with taking time to mentor her early in her career.
“Shannon was a busy woman, she had a lot on her plate. But she took the time to reach out and make the connection,” said Hunicke, who is co-founder of a new game company, Funomena. “She was always able to give me solid advice. She had a huge impact on my career.”
The video game industry is just beginning to grapple with its deficit of senior female executives such as Studstill.
Kate Edwards, executive director of the International Game Developers Assn., blames the dearth of the young women studying science, technology, engineering and math in college.
But the industry, which meticulously tracks the demographic breakdown of its players, lacks similar data on its own workers. She said her organization, which represents 8,000 members, plans to launch a survey this month at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco to start gathering such employment and workplace information.
“We talk about this issue a great deal, but we have no information on which to take action. We don’t know the percentage of women, the positions they’re in,” Edwards said. “We need to get some kind of scope about what’s actually going on, and where to go from there.”
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Plants and medicine, gardening and healing have long been entwined, although the story of their entanglement is complex. Drawn to gardens, both real and virtual, during periods of ill health, Iona Glen has experienced the healing power of plants first hand. Iona cares for plants that, in turn, care for her. Keen to understand more about this sense of kinship, here she reflects on the history of the “physic garden” and its modern manifestations.
There is something sustaining about a garden’s colours, sounds and seasonal rhythms. Over years of periodic depression, I find gardens an enormous source of relief, although not a simplistic “nature cure”. I have always been drawn to medicinal herbs; their use across time feels reassuring. Marigolds (Calendula officinalis), for example, have long been applied topically in creams for soothing skin conditions like my chronic eczema.
Marigolds (Calendula officinalis) have long been applied topically in creams for soothing skin conditions like chronic eczema.
During the coronavirus lockdowns, my anxiety and agoraphobia intensified. At times I still find it almost impossible to go outside. I began to follow sustainable gardeners and foragers on social media to maintain a connection with the garden. Captions accompanying images on Instagram accounts would describe quotidian gardening tasks and plant folklore. They helped me to imagine a green sanctuary. When the physical garden was remote, the grids of these feeds began to seem like the planted beds of a virtual physic garden.
Gardens and healing have long been entwined. For most of human history, plants have provided the basis of medicine. While chemicals isolated from plants are now synthesised artificially for pharmaceutical use, many people around the world continue to rely on herbalism.
From the early modern period, medicinal flora was grown in a “physic garden” for teaching medical practitioners. Herbals detailing plants’ properties and usage survive in fragments of Egyptian papyri and Assyrian cuneiform tablets, suggesting such gardens have been cultivated for millennia.
The word ‘physic’ means both a drug and the “art of healing”. To my mind, the name suggests a further meaning: the garden as a physic in itself.
Many botanic gardens started out as physic gardens. When I visit Chelsea Physic Garden, founded by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1673, it retains the secluded quality that made it known as London’s “secret garden”. I potter around among the other visitors, reading the labels and admiring how the leaves of two towering gingko trees play with the sunlight. Despite the surrounding sounds of traffic and construction work, I begin to feel calmer. Both restored to myself and attuned to my surroundings.
Chelsea Physic Garden, founded by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1673.
But this is not a simple healing place. The physic garden, along with Western medicine and botany in general, benefited from the growth of empire. Chelsea Physic Garden owes its continued existence largely to the provisions of Hans Sloane (1670–1753), collector and physician, who married into a fortune obtained through the labour of enslaved people on Jamaican plantations.
“Plant hunter” Robert Fortune (1812–80), in charge of Chelsea from 1846 to 1848, smuggled tea plants out of China during the era of the Opium Wars. One of the garden’s glasshouses also contains a cinchona plant, original source of antimalarial quinine, knowledge of which was acquired from Quechua Peruvians. This resulted in the tree’s theft and farming on plantations in Dutch-controlled Indonesia and British-controlled India and Sri Lanka. Many botanical and horticultural institutions have still not adequately addressed these legacies of exploitation.
Drying and sorting seeds at Chelsea Physic Garden.
Did the physic garden exist outside of the medical establishment? For centuries, especially in rural areas, many people depended upon the remedies of a household matriarch or neighbour. Herbwomen supplied plants to urban apothecaries. Garden physic grew in kitchen gardens and small plots, supplemented by foraged plants. Witchcraft trial records contain numerous references to herblore, indicating that many of those accused were local healers or ‘cunning’ folk.
I see the garden of filmmaker, artist and queer activist Derek Jarman, begun at Prospect Cottage on the shingled shore of Dungeness in Kent in 1987, as a modern iteration of these informal, slightly subversive physic gardens. In ‘Derek Jarman’s Garden’ (1995), he mentions initial rumours that he was a “white witch”, hexing the nearby nuclear power station.
Jarman described his garden as a “form of therapy”. In the year he began his garden, he had been diagnosed HIV positive, leading to his tragic early death in 1994. Just as Jarman was defiant in the face of institutionalised homophobia and HIV stigma, the garden managed to flourish despite scouring winds.
Prospect Cottage was, however, a complex space. Jarman called the garden both ‘Eden’ – paradise – and ‘Gethsemane’ – site of suffering and anticipated death. One diary entry from 1989 reads: “I plant my herbal garden as a panacea, read up on all the aches and pains that plants will cure – and know they are not going to help. The garden as pharmacopeia has failed.” But he adds on the next line: “there is a thrill in watching the plants spring up that gives me hope”.
This idea of the garden as a therapeutic space, however imperfect, is deep-rooted, from medieval monasteries to contemporary Maggie’s Centre gardens. Horticultural therapy and community therapeutic gardens are increasing in popularity, while science proposes various explanations, including the presence of serotonin-boosting bacteria in the soil (M vaccae), or even the positive effects of the colour green.
In May, Sui Searle, creator of @thetemperategardener and @decolonisethegarden on Instagram, led a talk in London with Carmen Sheridan and Natalie Warner. Her newsletter Radicle, “platform[s] garden writing from fresh perspectives” and examines horticulture’s colonial legacies.
I listened to Sheridan read an article about her Syrian grandmother’s garden in Chester, filled with flowers from the home she had to flee in Damascus. Sheridan described writing this article as “incredibly healing”, providing a “safe starting point” for exploring intergenerational trauma.
Once again, the physic garden emerges, this time through text, memory and heritage. During the discussion afterwards, I was inspired by Searle’s expression of reciprocity between the gardener and the garden in a continual process of care, and her sense of ‘kinship’ with the earth.
I think about this kinship while dead-heading roses, musing that there will always be parts of us that are budding, in full bloom, and dying at the same time. And in the warmth I feel for the yew hedge I planted years ago with my dad, now taller than I am. Perhaps this is why the physic garden remains so appealing. I can tend to the plants that tend to me, and create an environment of reciprocity, not mere extraction. Garden physic manifests in myriad ways: in art, in physical and digital spaces, and in the potted herbs on my windowsill.
“Perhaps this is why the physic garden remains so appealing. I can tend to the plants that tend to me.”
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This research study focuses on the modeling and simulation of a gas distribution pipeline network with a special emphasis on gas ducts. Gas ducts are the most important components of such kind of systems since they define the major dynamic characteristics. Isothermal, unidirectional flow is usually assumed when modeling the gas flow through a gas duct. This paper presents two simplified models derived from the set of partial differential equations governing the dynamics of the process. These models include the inclination term, neglected in most related papers. Moreover, two numerical schemes are presented for the integration of such models. Also, it is shown how the pressure drop along the pipe has a strong dependency with the inclination term. To solve the system dynamics through the proposed numerical schemes a based MATLAB-Simulink library was built. With this library it is possible to simulate the behavior of a gas distribution network from the individual simulation of each component. Finally, the library is tested through three application examples, and results are compared with the existing ones in the literature.
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Only the manufacturer of a rock art image could reliably have informed us whether a rock art image is unfinished or whether it is incomplete. Unfortunately informed knowledge is often completely unavailable. Then only the image and its graphical and cultural context are available to possibly separate the unfinished from the incomplete. Additionally, the incomplete image may even include something invisible. To address these issues I will use the rich rock art repertoire of the Desert Andes, focussing mainly on Toro Muerto and Miculla, two enormous rock art sites in the south of Peru.
By Maarten van Hoek
The Incomplete Versus The Unfinished
Invisible Objects in Desert Andes Rock Art?
Maarten van Hoek – email@example.com
All over the world millions of rock art images have been manufactured. Those images may be pictographs, images painted onto natural rock surfaces, or petroglyphs, images carved out of the natural rock surface. To the untrained eyes of the western-minded and modern layperson those images often seem to be complete. Yet numerous images that are clearly unfinished and/or incomplete have been recorded by well-trained rock art researchers globally. But even for an experienced, professional archaeologist and expert in rock art recording, it is often impossible to determine whether an incomplete or an unfinished image has been manufactured, often long ago. In fact, only the manufacturer of the rock art image could reliably inform us whether an unfinished image was the result or whether an incomplete image was aimed at. But unfortunately informed knowledge is (almost always) completely unavailable. Therefore only the image and its graphical and cultural context are available to possibly separate the unfinished from the incomplete and even then the issue is hard to unravel. Therefore, the problem that I would like to discuss here concerns the issue how to determine whether a rock art image involves an unfinished image or an incomplete image. Additionally, the incomplete image may even include something invisible. But there is a second problem. It concerns the lexical semantics of the words unfinished and incomplete. For many people those two words will be the same (and often they are). Therefore we have to clearly define what those two words mean in this study.
To address these two issues I will use the rich rock art repertoire of the Desert Andes, focussing mainly on Toro Muerto and Miculla, two enormous rock art sites in the south of Peru. During the past twenty years I recorded thousands of petroglyphs in that area and – although most images seem to be complete – in several cases I still noticed that specific petroglyphs proved to be incomplete or unfinished.
As abstract images are not suitable to address those issues I will almost exclusively focus on biomorphic imagery, mainly birds, quadrupeds, monkeys and anthropomorphs. Despite this restriction, I will start with an unambiguous example of an unfinished abstract petroglyph to first illustrate the concept of unfinished. In 1984 I discovered a petroglyph at Buttony-6, Northumberland, British Isles, an archipelago very rich in the so-called Neolithic ‘Cup-and-Ring Art’ (Van Hoek 1999). The deeply carved petroglyph proved to be a rare bisected Cup-and-Ring motif that clearly showed an unfinished part comprising an arc of small cupules in the outer ring (Figure 1). This probably was how the whole motif was initially laid out, but obviously the outer ring was never finished. There are a few more examples of this technique in the archipelago (for instance at Ormaig, Scotland).
Figure 1. Unfinished Cup-and-Ring motif at Buttony, Northumberland, England. Photograph © by Maarten van Hoek.
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Defining Incomplete and Unfinished
In this study incomplete concerns the situation in which an image is intentionally lacking specific details, like arms or a head, or an element, like an eye or even an object. Yet, for the layperson an image of a person without eyes will appear to be incomplete. However, by intentionally omitting specific elements (like the eyes, the arms or an object) the manufacturer may have had an explicit purpose. He or she possibly added an exclusive layer of symbolism, a hidden meaning deviant from the other nevertheless similar images and thus also conveyed a special symbolism and/or message to the audience (whether divine or secular) he or she created the image for. Another possibility that may explain an incomplete image is the fact that the manufacturer decided for strictly personal reasons to omit something, for instance as an act of rebellion. Such expressions of individuality can never be excluded, but are hard to prove.
On the other hand an unfinished image is an image that was started, but for some reason was never finished. The creation of the image was (unexpectedly or deliberately) abruptly interrupted and/or abandoned, while in first instance a complete image had been the goal of the manufacturer. Therefore, the defining factor to separate incomplete from unfinished imagery is whether intent or not is involved. Although those definitions offer a workable basis, in the practice in the field it is often still rather ambiguous whether an image is unfinished or incomplete. A number of examples will demonstrate this, starting with unfinished examples.
Unfinished Rectangular Birds
Toro Muerto – the largest rock art site in the Majes Valley and of the whole of Peru – is very rich in all types of bird petroglyphs that are depicted either fully laterally or fully frontally (although the head has always been depicted laterally). One type of bird that (almost) exclusively has been recorded in the Majes Valley is the Rectangular Bird. This type of bird is almost always depicted outlined (there are extremely few fully pecked examples) and always fully laterally (Van Hoek 2018: 114 – 118).
If we compare the ‘ideal’ representation of this bird (Figure 2A) with other petroglyphs of this bird at Toro Muerto (Figures 2B to D), then it will be clear that several examples are definitely unfinished. Bird A – the most complete image – has a body, a wing (the vertical line) with feathers (the horizontal lines), a tail with horizontally arranged feathers and a leg with a foot (some examples have two legs). Bird B has no feet, no feathers and apparently no beak. The wing is just a single, vertically arranged line, clearly unfinished. Bird C has no feathers, no tail-feathers and no legs. Again the wing is just a single line. There is also an example only without a wing. Bird D has no feathers, no wing, no tail-feathers and no legs. It is understandable that petroglyph D will not have been recognised as a bird image. It equally may have been interpreted as an unfinished quadruped image, like the unfinished example of a quadruped (camelid?) on Boulder TM-Ba-001 (Figure 3; see also Figure 18).
Figure 2. Unfinished petroglyphs of the Rectangular Bird (B to D) at Toro Muerto, Peru. Photographs © by Maarten van Hoek.
It unmistakably proves that only the graphical context of bird imagery at Toro Muerto definitely classifies petroglyph D as a bird. Most examples of the Rectangular Bird in the Majes Valley have no eye and thus may be considered to be incomplete. Only in a very few cases Rectangular Birds have a dot for an eye or (even more exceptional) a circular outlined eye.
Figure 3. Unfinished petroglyph of a quadruped (right) at Toro Muerto, Peru. Photograph © by Maarten van Hoek.
Unfinished Curvilinear Birds
Toro Muerto, and – to a (much) lesser extent Alto de Pitis and some other sites in the Majes Valley – are very rich in the examples of the Curvilinear Bird. Also this bird is always depicted fully laterally but appears in many different techniques (fully outlined, fully pecked and many combinations). If again we compare the ‘ideal’ representation of this bird (Figures 4B1 and 5A) with other petroglyphs of this bird (Figures 4A and 4B2 and 5B), then again it will be clear that several examples at Toro Muerto are definitely unfinished. Bird 4A has no tail and no legs, while birds 4B2 and 5B have no bodies; just the head has been depicted, which – although rather common for human heads – is very unusual for birds.
Figure 4. Unfinished petroglyphs of birds at Alto de Pitis, Peru. Photographs © by Maarten van Hoek.
Figure 5. Unfinished petroglyph of a bird (B) at Toro Muerto, Peru. Photograph © by Maarten van Hoek.
Unfinished Frontally Depicted Birds
Also occurring at Toro Muerto are several petroglyphs of fully frontally depicted birds with (horizontally) outspread wings and drooping (vertically arranged) feathers (Figure 6A). Also this type of bird appears in unfinished form on a few panels (Figures 6B and C). Figure 6B apparently misses a complete wing and Figure 6C is missing most of the feathers.
Figure 6. Unfinished petroglyphs of birds (B and C) at Toro Muerto, Peru. Photographs © by Maarten van Hoek.
Toro Muerto and other sites in the Majes valley have numerous examples of snake petroglyphs. In most cases the complete snake has been depicted (Figure 7A), but in a few exceptional cases only the head of a snake has been depicted (Figure 7B). On Boulder TM-Ba-001 another isolated snake head occurs next to an unfinished quadruped (see Figure 3) and an unfinished head of a quadruped. A possibly unfinished snake petroglyph occurs on Boulder TM-Ab-006 at Toro Muerto next to a clearly unfinished feline. An equally rare example of an isolated snake head was recorded by me in 2017 at the rock art site of Cerro Blanco near the hamlet of Susanga in the Virú drainage of northern Peru (Figure 7C).
Figure 7. A: Snake at Toro Muerto; B: Unfinished petroglyph of a snake at Toro Muerto, Peru; C: Unfinished snake at Susanga, northern Peru. Photographs © by Maarten van Hoek.
Petroglyphs of felines occur abundantly at Toro Muerto and Alto de Pitis. Most of the complete images of felines represent outlined and laterally depicted examples with in most cases a frontally depicted head featuring most facial features (whiskers, nose, eyes and/or mouth). The bodies and the legs and tail are in most cases lavishly decorated with dots, lines and/or circles (Figure 8A). Figure 8B shows an unfinished feline petroglyph at Toro Muerto of which the head and front leg are missing. To its left is the possibly unfinished snake. At Alto de Pitis is a petroglyph of a feline without a front leg (Figure 8C). At Toro Muerto are two more boulders with an unfinished feline. Figure 9 shows the outlined head (without facial features or any other decoration) and part of the back-line, while Figure 10 shows a similar, yet more complete feline that misses the front leg, the belly-line and all of the possible internal decoration.
Figure 8. Unfinished petroglyphs of felines at Toro Muerto (B and D) and Alto de Pitis (C), Peru. Photographs © by Maarten van Hoek.
Figure 9. Unfinished petroglyph of a feline at Toro Muerto, Peru. Photographs © by Maarten van Hoek.
Figure 10. Unfinished petroglyph of a feline at Toro Muerto, Peru. Photographs © by Maarten van Hoek.
Also at Toro Muerto is a large boulder with two groups of small cupules that may have been intended to form the internal decoration of two felines, but the outlines are missing. Moreover, just hovering over the right end of the upper group is the head of a feline, which seems to confirm my hypothesis that the figures are unfinished (Figure 8D). Those two groups of cupules brings us to another group of unfinished zoomorphic images at Toro Muerto.
Unfinished Zoomorphs with Internal Cupules
Several zoomorphic petroglyphs at Toro Muerto are composed of only small cupules. There is no outlined body. This may be an intentional choice and those examples may represent the complete image as desired by the manufacturer (van Hoek 2016). However, in a few cases it is obvious that the manufacturer started the body line, but did not finish the whole animal. Figure 11 shows a group of petroglyphs that include a ‘Carcancha’ (a Skeleton-Anthropomorph) and a feline with an unfinished head (see Van Hoek 2013, 2018 and 2019 for more information about ‘Carcanchas’). The layout of the ‘Carcancha’ will be relevant later on. Figure 12A shows un unidentifiable zoomorph that is for the most part unfinished. In case of the petroglyph in Figure 12B the manufacturer finished more cupules, while the neck of the still unidentifiable zoomorph is visible. The petroglyph in Figure 12C is missing the head, the tail and the claws of the front leg. Because of the claws depicted at the hind leg it probably was intended to draw a feline.
Figure 11. Unfinished petroglyph of a feline (left-hand side) at Alto de Pitis, Peru. Photograph © by Maarten van Hoek.
Figure 12. Unfinished petroglyphs of (A and B) quadrupeds at Toro Muerto; (C) at Alto de Pitis, Peru. Photographs © by Maarten van Hoek.
In several cases it is uncertain exactly which animal species was intended. The petroglyph in Figure 13A could have been intended as a bird (Figure 13B), but equally as a feline, an unfinished example of which is shown in Figure 13C. Figure 14A shows the head of an animal that – when finished – most likely would look like the complete zoomorphic petroglyph in Figure 3. Figure 14B only seemingly depicts a complete quadruped. However it is missing its hind leg, as in fact the alleged hind leg is an image of the well-known Majes ‘dancer’, superimposed by the zoomorph. Figures 14C and D are other examples of unfinished zoomorphs.
Figure 13A and C. Unfinished petroglyphs of zoomorphs at Toro Muerto, Peru. Photographs © by Maarten van Hoek.
Figure 14. Unfinished petroglyphs of quadrupeds at Toro Muerto, Peru. Photographs © by Maarten van Hoek.
There are numerous anthropomorphic petroglyphs in the Majes Valley, mainly comprising images of the Majes ‘dancer’. Equally interesting are the relatively many examples of petroglyphs of ‘Carcanchas’, anthropomorphic figures with skeletal properties that express the Andean life-death duality because of the often exposed sexual organs (see Figure 12). One petroglyph of a ‘Carcancha’ seems to be unfinished as only one half of its rib-cage has been depicted (Figure 15A). It only seemingly misses a leg, but its left leg has almost weathered off.
Images of the Majes ‘dancer’ often seem to be incomplete. For instance on the vertical face of a very large boulder are some petroglyphs of the ‘dancer’, some of which only seemingly are incomplete. ‘Dancer’ C in Figure 16 has no feet and no eyes and thus seems to be incomplete. However, it is customary that ‘dancers’ are depicted with two eyes, with only one eye (like in ‘dancers’ A and B) or without eyes. Similarly, ‘dancers’ are sometimes depicted with feet (see ‘dancer’ A) or (in most cases) without feet (see ‘dancer’ B), with hands or no hands, and with feet or hands with (two to four) digits or without digits. Therefore it is almost impossible to classify a ‘dancer’ as incomplete. I have recorded more than 1100 examples of the Majes ‘dancer’, which appear in many different ways, but hardly ever an unfinished could be spotted. One certain example of an unfinished ‘dancer’ is shown in Figure 15B next to a complete example.
Figure 15. Unfinished petroglyph of anthropomorphs at (A) Alto de Pitis; unfinished ‘dancer’ (B) and complete anthropomorph (C) at Toro Muerto, Peru. Photos © by Maarten van Hoek.
Figure 16. Petroglyphs of ‘dancers’ at Toro Muerto, Peru. Photograph – not rotated – © by Maarten van Hoek.
Figure 15C shows an anthropomorphic (?) petroglyph that only seemingly is unfinished (or incomplete) as the head seems to be missing. However, the rock art of the Majes Valley (mainly of Toro Muerto) includes bands of fully pecked stripes that are usually rather long, although short stripes also occur (see Figure 18C). Some of those stripes have been anthropomorphised by adding legs and/or feet. This example of a short stripe and its legs and feet may therefore be regarded as a complete image despite the missing head, arms and other details.
Finally, there are petroglyphs that clearly have been re-pecked at a much later time. However in a few cases the re-pecking was not finished. A good example has been recorded at the Lasana rock art site along the Río Loa in northern Chile (photo unavailable), but also at Toro Muerto an example occurs. Figure 17 shows a clearly re-pecked camelid petroglyph of which the ears still show the original pecking, which also shows in the other petroglyphs of large camelids. However, fully re-pecked images could well represent petroglyphs that have been added much later without involving the re-pecking of an earlier image.
Figure 17. Unfinished, re-pecked petroglyph of a quadruped at Toro Muerto, Peru. Photograph, much enhanced © by Maarten van Hoek.
Concluding, in the Majes Valley numerous examples of several types of biomorphs have been recorded. In most instances those images are complete. However, a relatively high number of petroglyphs proved to be unfinished. But only the general context of the imagery in this important valley in southern Peru proves to offer evidence for those images being unfinished. For instance, Petroglyph A in Figure 18 would hardly ever have been recognised as an unfinished bird, not even when it would have been compared with Petroglyph B on the same panel. Only the whole context at Toro Muerto would establish Petroglyph A as an unfinished bird image.
Figure 18. Unfinished petroglyph of a Rectangular Bird (A) at Toro Muerto, Peru. Photograph © by Maarten van Hoek.
It is surprising to see that especially in the Majes Valley so (relatively) many unfinished petroglyphs occur. That does not mean that other sites in the Desert Andes or elsewhere in the world do not have unfinished or incomplete images. There probably are numerous examples globally. For instance, at the extensive petroglyph site of Miculla in the south of Peru, there is at least one clearly unfinished zoomorphic petroglyph, most likely a camelid (Figure 19), while at the rock art site of Ofragía in northern Chile an unfinished archer has been recorded by me.
Figure 19. Unfinished petroglyph of a quadruped at Miculla, southern Peru. Photograph © by Maarten van Hoek.
Yet, Miculla also has some interesting incomplete images. Miculla has many petroglyphs of anthropomorphs with arms, often holding objects like bows or purported flutes. But there are also images of similar anthropomorphs with legs and often with a headgear, but without arms (Figure 20). Those figures without arms are definitely not unfinished (although modern vandals sometimes added scratched arms). Those anthropomorphs are manufactured intentionally incomplete, but for a reason that is unknown to me (I have never read an explanation in the literature that I have available). Such arm-less figures also have been reported 75 km further NW in the Locumba Valley, for instance at the rock art sites of Tumbaya and San Antonio.
Figure 20. Incomplete petroglyphs of arm-less anthropomorphs at Miculla, southern Peru. Photos © by Maarten van Hoek.
Contextual proof for not being unfinished is also found elsewhere in the region. About 65 km to the south, in the valleys of Lluta and Azapa in northern Chile, are many large geoglyphs, the style of which is not repeated elsewhere in Chile. Those geoglyphs also include a large number of arm-less anthropomorphic geoglyphs and yet all those arm-less figures are definitely complete (Figure 21B1). Moreover, in those valleys are also many zoomorphic geoglyphs. Some of those zoomorphic geoglyphs depict a monkey (for instance at Site Lluta-111, Panel 11), or a canine, possibly a fox (for instance on Panel 10). Importantly, both types of animals (Figures 21A and B2) are in a most atypical position that – just possibly – may relate to the concept of the invisible object in Andean (rock) art.
Figure 21. Geoglyphs from the Lluta Valley, northern Chile. Drawings © by Maarten van Hoek, A: based on Luis Briones 1984: Fig. 12; B: based on a photo by Marijn van den Brink.
In order to access the subject of the invisible object in (rock) art, I would like to discuss another class of incomplete imagery that is also found at Miculla (313 km SE of Toro Muerto). While Toro Muerto has only three (regionally unique) petroglyphs of purported ‘flute-players’ (Van Hoek 2010), on the other hand Miculla – and several other sites in this border region – has relatively many petroglyphs of supposed ‘flute-players’. Surprisingly, ‘flute-players’ at Miculla are both anthropomorphic and zoomorphic (at least one petroglyph of a monkey at Miculla is ‘playing the flute’). However, at Miculla there is also one petroglyph of a laterally depicted anthropomorph that only seemingly is ‘playing the flute’ (Figure 22), but the ‘flute’ is missing (despite ugly recent scratches that were meant to add the ‘flute’, which proves that the vandal also interpreted the figure as ‘playing the flute’). This may be an example of an unfinished image, but equally it may have been the premeditated intention not to draw the ‘flute’. And this is not an isolated example.
Figure 22. Complete (?) petroglyph of purported ‘flute-player’ at Miculla, southern Peru. The scratching is recent vandalism. Photograph © by Maarten van Hoek.
Earlier (Van Hoek 2003: 157; Fig. 9O) I suggested that also a petroglyph of a biomorph at Toro Muerto was holding an ‘invisible flute’, although it seems to be more likely that the petroglyph represents (or has been turned into?) a biomorph that ‘spits’ or ‘produces sound’; a true hallmark at Toro Muerto.
However, the (possibly) premeditated omission of an object in rock art (such as a ‘flute’) also occurs in a very rare scene on a boulder at Pakra in the valley of the Río Pisco (753 km NW of Miculla; site partially built-over after our published survey: Van Hoek 2005a) where three monkeys are ‘playing some sort of wind-instrument’ (the instrument of one monkey being incomplete due to recent damage). Notice that the triangular ends of the wind-instruments are quite large and are less clearly visible; later additions? (Figure 23).
Figure 23. Petroglyphs of monkeys at Pakra, Pisco Valley, southern Peru. Photograph and drawing © by Maarten van Hoek.
Of special interest however is the fourth monkey, which features exactly the same posture as the other three ‘instrument playing monkeys’, without, however, holding an instrument (Figure 23). This example may be an instance of an unfinished petroglyph, but it is more likely that it represents a ‘pars pro toto’ image. This means that it may have been a deliberate decision not to equip that ‘monkey’ with a ‘wind-instrument’. Possibly it was understood by the ancient audiences that this ‘empty-handed monkey’ is playing a wind-instrument as well. In that case the fourth monkey may be considered to play an invisible instrument, however only because of the graphical context of the rest of the panel (and other ‘similar’ rock art images at Pakra and elsewhere). If only one monkey had uniquely been manufactured in this position, it could have been an unfinished image or – perhaps more likely – a fully complete image. Importantly, the Pakra monkey ‘playing an invisible flute’ is not a unique example.
Huancor, an important rock art site 45 km NW of Pakra, not only has a relatively high number of ‘flute-players’ (altogether I have recorded ten anthropomorphic examples), there are also anthropomorphs, often with a typical ‘headdress’, showing the same posture as ‘players’ but without actually holding a ‘wind-instrument’. Moreover, one of those anthropomorphic ‘players’ is depicted in a ‘seated’ position, typical for this area. Also several anthropomorphs at Huancor appear in a similar ‘seated’ position, but without holding a ‘wind instrument’ (Van Hoek 2005b).
Several other zoomorphic rock art images in the same position have been recorded in the Desert Andes, some possibly ‘holding an invisible wind-instrument’ or some other ‘invisible object’. I again refer to the monkey and canine geoglyphs in the Lluta Valley of northern Chile, which have the same pose, but do not hold an object (see Figure 21). Also at Miculla I recorded a petroglyph of a zoomorph in the ‘playing’ pose, but without holding an object, while similarly positioned zoomorphic rock art images are known from Taltape, Cerro Chuño and Apanza in northern Chile, at Huancor in southern Peru and at Cerro Mulato in northern Peru (Van Hoek 2005b).
Finally, in my 2005b publication I suggested that also a geoglyph (not a form of rock art, though) depicts a (possible) example of a monkey ‘playing an invisible wind-instrument’. It is found in the archaeological complex near the town of Nazca in southern Peru, which is world-famous for its enigmatic geoglyphs. The complex also comprises several enormous biomorphic figures and one of them is the well-known ‘Monkey’. Especially the arms and hands of the Monkey have an atypical pose, which is – as far as I can tell – not seen anywhere else in the rich rock art repertoire of the Desert Andes. The distinctive pose of the arms and hands of the Monkey seem to mimic something special, which I now will explain.
In my opinion especially the splayed, curved arms and the hands with splayed digits are intentionally placed in the ‘flute-playing’ position (Figure 24A; notice that the hands are not placed opposite each other, a position which can be expected when playing a flute) and thus it is easy to picture this zoomorph to be ‘playing an invisible flute’, as is tentatively suggested by me in Figure 24B.
Figure 24A: The ‘Monkey’ Geoglyph from the Nasca Complex, southern Peru. B: The same geoglyph ‘completed’ by the author with a ‘flute’. C: Petroglyph of a monkey in a possible ‘playing’ position at Miculla, southern Peru. D and E: petroglyph from Cerro Chuño, northern Chile; E completed by the author with a ‘flute’. Drawings © by Maarten van Hoek, A and B based on Reinhard 1988: Fig. 46.; D and E based on photographs kindly supplied by Renata Aguirre Bianchi.
From this short study it proves that the great majority of the biomorphic rock art images usually comprises complete and finished figures. However, in several cases the manufacture of an image may have been interrupted and abandoned resulting in a clearly unfinished image. The reason for such an interruption will be very hard – or even impossible – to trace because of lack of informed knowledge. Lack of informed knowledge also severely inhibits the explanation of unambiguous examples of images that are allegedly incomplete. Therefore, the reasons to produce incomplete images will always remain uncertain. Consequently, it is still ‘completely uncertain’ if indeed the Nasca Monkey is ‘playing an invisible flute’. Although, is it?
The concept of depicting ‘invisible’ objects in (rock) art – in fact a contradictio in terminis – is in my opinion not far-fetched (although – almost? – impossible to prove). For instance, one time archaeologist Polly Schaafsma labelled a rock art panel at Oljeto Wash, Utah, USA, the Absent Hunter Panel (‘h’ and ‘p’ capitalised by me) because only the petroglyphs of his footsteps (sandals), his (?) handprint and an isolated bow-and-arrow (the arrow aiming at a sheep petroglyph) have been manufactured on the panel, while the archer is absent (Figure 25). I must emphasize however that Schaafsma never even suggested that the archer has been ‘depicted as an invisible person’, or that she suggested that the absence was a premeditated choice in order to ‘reveal’ an invisible person. Those are only my tentative suggestions.
Figure 25. Petroglyphs on the Absent Hunter Panel at Oljeto Wash, Utah, USA. Drawing © by Maarten van Hoek, based on a photograph by Chuck LaRue (Schaafsma 2016: Figure 11).
Much more convincing is the following example. In 1934 Alberto Giacometti, a Swiss artist, created a female figure which he called ‘The Invisible Object (Hands Holding the Void)’. The epicentre of his work is the void between the figure’s hands, the fingers of which are folded in such a way that one almost sees the (spherical) object, which of course is – because of its absence – invisible. But it is interesting to compare the 3D position of the hands-fingers with the 2D position of the hands-fingers of the Nasca Monkey (see Figure 24a). Although the positions are different, the voids express the same absence and thus invisibility.
Reviewing my hypothesis about the non-visual (Van Hoek 2005: 11) a rock art researcher remarked that ‘statements about the non-visual can neither be confirmed nor refuted under any available research paradigm‘. Of course, in general he or she is right, except when informed knowledge is available, like with the Swiss statue. However, if a Swiss artist can materialise the concept of an invisible object, why can prehistoric people/artists from the Desert Andes not use the same concept in their (rock) art? The only thing that is missing is the informed knowledge.
Again, it is the context of the several monkeys ‘playing a wind-instrument’ and several other rock art images of biomorphs ‘holding nothing’ in Desert Andes rock art that makes it very plausible that also the Nasca Monkey ‘plays a wind-instrument’. Therefore, the Nasca Monkey, the Pakra monkey, the Miculla ‘flute-player’ and several other figures mentioned in this study are most likely not unfinished and neither are they incomplete. They may have been manufactured intentionally ‘incomplete’, in order to suggest that they are holding invisible objects. Therefore, they may be regarded to be completely complete in the way the ancient manufacturer intended to visualise the image. But yet, only the manufacturer will have known for sure whether this is true. In my opinion, western-minded (rock) art researchers should always leave open the possibility that the non-visual is part of the image, even when no informed knowledge is available.
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In a nutshell, Resilient Computing is a new paradigm based on modelling, architecting and designing computer systems so that: they have built-in baseline defences; such defences cope with virtually any quality of threat, be it accidental faults, design errors, cyber-attacks, or unexpected operating conditions; provide incremental protection of, and automatically adapt to, a dynamic range of threat severity; provide sustainable operation. Resilient Computing will be a game changer in the craft of designing computer systems of today and future. Having been part of one of the teams that pioneered intrusion tolerance and resilient computing, I am absolutely convinced of the power of this paradigm. The threat surface presented to present-day computer and network systems became too uncertain, dynamic and polymorphic to be addressed in a static way by isolated disciplines such as security or dependability. Students, teams, organisations, companies, nation-states mastering this paradigm will be at the forefront of cyberspace technology. As such, it will be at the centre of my vision and the inspiration for the research and advanced teaching I propose to foster in RC3@KAUST /(https://rc3.kaust.edu.sa/).
Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo is since November 2020 a professor at KAUST, and Director of the Resilient Computing and Cybersecurity Center. Previously, he has been a professor and FNR PEARL Chair at the University of Luxembourg FSTM, and Head of the CritiX research lab at SnT center at the same University. CritiX has achieved world-class results and enduring capacity of research in resilient computing, cybersecurity and dependability. Previously, he had also been a Professor of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and Member of the Board of the same university. There, he created the Navigators research group and was later founding Director of LaSIGE in 1998, a computer science and engineering lab, whose research in cutting-edge areas has consistently been backed by key indicators of excellence until today.
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Breathing. It seems so easy. Breathe in. Breathe out. We’ve been breathing every moment of every day since birth. How hard can it be?
We may call that instinctual movement of air “breathing”, but true breathing, conscious breathing does more than keep us alive. Purposeful breathing can change our mood, our health, and our lives. Conscious breathing is an important life-long skill for children to learn, and luckily it’s a fun skill to practice! In Yoga, we call breathing practice pranayama. Prana means “life energy” and yama translates to “discipline”. So the practice of pranayama is the practice of controlling your life energy.
Hoberman Spheres are a wonderful tool for demonstrating how we breathe. It is a plastic toy with hinges that allow it to fold into a compact ball and expand into a large sphere. Also referred to as a “breathing ball”, a Hoberman Sphere is a simple visual reference for children to connect to their breath because its movement is similar to our lungs’ movement. Demonstrate with one Hoberman Sphere, or let your child use her own. As you exhale, slowly collapse the sphere, pointing out that your lungs and belly are contracting, too. Then inhale and open the sphere, noting the expansion. Encourage your child to match the length of their inhales and exhales, using the Hoberman Sphere as a visual reference.
Even the calmest among us can get caught up in moments of anger, selfishness, and fear, children especially. Once again, breathing is the doorway to positive change. Try a few rounds of Dragon Breath. In this case, you are the dragon and you breathe out your fire (all those angry, negative feelings). Breathe in through your nose and fill your huge dragon body with cooling energy. Exhale through your mouth, making a “hah” sound, like you are breathing fire. The longer the sound, the bigger the flame. You can even imagine the color and feel the heat of your flame spreading through the room. A few rounds of Dragon Breath and you’ll feel strong, brave, and full of positive energy.
Another kinesthetic breath awareness practice is Fireworks Breath. Sitting cross-legged or tall in a chair, inhale through your nose and raise your arms over your head, hands in tight fists. Your hands are the fireworks shooting up into the sky. At the top of the inhale, pause for a moment, and then spread your fingers wide as the fireworks explode. Slowly lower the arms while you exhale through your nose. Your fingers can wiggle, like flickering sparks floating back to earth. Pause again, as you light another round of fireworks. Inhale the arms overhead, pause, and exhale the firework lights back down. This is a really fun breath to do in a darkened room, so kids can easily imagine their fireworks slowly expanding and falling.
Finally, a powerful bit of wisdom to share with your children is that they can breathe how they want to feel. Want to calm down before a test? Slow your breath down. Smooth it out. Need a burst of energy during soccer practice? Make your breath dynamic and big! The next time your child feels angry, point out how short and tight their breathing feels (you could show this on the Hoberman Sphere). Then demonstrate long, smooth, calming breaths. Their shoulders will drop, fists unclench, and eyebrows unfurrow. And all it usually takes is three purposeful breaths!
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This vignette gives a brief overview of the code structure of the
The bulk of the code is written in C++ and interfaced with R via ‘Rcpp’.
The overall design philosophy was to keep the core C++ code completely independent from the R code (i.e. no ‘Rcpp’-related code in the core C++ files.) This results in a three-tiered organization of the code - core C++ code, ‘Rcpp’ C++ code, and R code.
This consists of the following files (only the .h files are listed to avoid redundancy, but each of these files has a corresponding .cpp file):
Matrixclass implementing basic matrix functionality
Nodeclass, which are the nodes of the quadtree
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LcpFinderclass, which is used for finding least-cost paths using a quadtree as a cost surface
As mentioned before, these files are completely independent of R and can be built and run independently of R.
These files are called ‘wrappers’ - essentially they each contain an instance of the relevant object and provide additional ‘Rcpp’-related functions that can be accessed from R. These essentially provide the “bridge” that allows the functionality in the core C++ files to be accessed from R.
Node. This class is exposed to R as
Quadtree. This class is exposed to R as
LcpFinder. This class is exposed to R as
Matrixclass I created. This function is separate from the other files because it is a general-purpose function and thus didn’t fit in any of the wrapper classes.
Almost all of the core functionality of the quadtree package is contained in the C++ code, and the R code serves primarily as an interface for working with the C++ quadtree data structure. A
Quadtree S4 class is defined which consists only of one slot, which contains a
CppQuadtree object. The methods for this class are often quite simple, merely consisting of calling one of the methods on the
CppQuadtree object. Similarly, the
LcpFinder class contains a
CppLcpFinder object. Using this approach has a few benefits. First, wrapping the C++ class in an S4 class allows the quadtree functionality to be accessed in a way that is much more consistent with typical R syntax, which will hopefully be more intuitive to R users. Second, it allows for me to add R code to validate and make any necessary modifications to parameters before calling the C++ methods - this helps make the functions more robust. This also allows me to take advantage of existing R functionality (for example, resampling a raster from the ‘raster’ package).
I won’t discuss each R file/function here - see the the function help files for details on each R function.
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In last month’s column Paul Stead introduced the concept of 'Design Thinking'. This month he explains how applying this approach resulted in the creation of an award-winning sales programme for Eastman Chemical.
Sales programmes abound in manufacturers to keep order books flowing – but how do you use Design Thinking to create a game-changing programme that attracts new customers and opens up new markets?
One morning, a call arrived from an old client who had just been appointed VP marketing for Eastman Chemical, based in Tennessee. Eastman Chemical is a global company that produces a broad range of advanced materials, chemicals, fibre, additives and functional products, found in everyday products.
Click here to read Paul’s introductory column on Design Thinking and why design matters.
The VP’s challenge was to create growth for the then $6bn chemical giant – and he needed help to establish a new way of connecting with brand owners/designers/ influencers and leap-frog the existing channels to market.
From visualising the route-to-market, it was clear Eastman was a long way back in the value chain; with little influence on the end product application, few links with ultimate product creators and no influence with end consumers. Contrast that with the ‘Intel inside’ programme and the scale of its challenge was clear.
Using The Brewery Group’s Design Thinking methodology we went back to first principles and, with the Eastman team, mapped the key stakeholders in its ecosystem – those involved in the potential sales, purchasing, specification, approval, and manufacturer of products using Eastman materials.
We interviewed and held workshops with these stakeholders – listening, empathising, and understanding the day-to-day issues each party faced. Some common insights emerged:
- There was little understanding of the performance benefits Eastman materials offered;
- There were too few user cases studies showing the materials in action in the ultimate product;
- There was no materials library enabling customers to experience the products – to touch/see/smell samples;
- And the biggest challenge – a general lack of awareness of Eastman capabilities among key influencers in product development: the designers/engineers/brand managers.
We also undertook workshops with consumers to understand the “material difference” Eastman’s products made. One insight example we discovered – orange juice packaged in Eastman co-polyester bottles was perceived as fresher and more premium – and could command a 30% higher price!
Reflecting on this, it was clear a big focal point was needed – somewhere customers could easily connect with the vast array of Eastman products; where they could see/ understand/visualise end use applications; gain inspiration from inventors and designers, and speak in a language which was readily understood.
In response to this need, we created the Eastman Innovation Lab, a strategic programme that focuses on advancing innovation through design and education. This is a dedicated community resource inspiring new possibilities by pairing Eastman experts in material science with leaders in industrial design and architecture.
This innovative marketing programme, an example of design thinking, won a Business Week Gold. The Lab has gone from strength to strength and is a central plank in Eastman’s go-to-market strategy.
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Fenugreek leaf/Vendhaya keerai is the best body-coolant for hot summer. It is a medicinal herb that cures many ailments and suits all ages !
It is good for stomach ulcers. It generally heals wound and kills pain. Look down for more category-specific benefits.
Parents-to-be: This is one of the fertile greens – good for both moms-to-be and dads-to-be. Regulates irregular periods and cures infertility.
Pregnancy: It takes care of joint and body pains and also controls nausea. Rich in iron but doesn’t constipate.
GDM: This is highly recommended for diabetics as it controls blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
Lactation: Increases breast milk. Cures wound faster. Takes care of menstrual pain and tiredness.
Fenugreek greens are so easy to grow at home(Click here to see how ?). The first pic of the Preparation thumbnail(below) shows my USA-grown vendhaya keerai. Just 2 buckets from Dollar tree, 1 soil pack from Walmart and few fenugreek seeds(Vendhayam) from my kitchen, supplied greens for the whole summer last year. Just sown seeds for this summer too ! Enjoy growing, wherever you are 🙂
Fenugreek leaves pulses mash Recipe – Ingredients
Fenugreek leaves/Vendhaya keerai – a handful
Pearl onion – a handful
Sambar powder – 1 tsp
To pressure cook:
Moong dal/Paasi parupu – 1/4 cup
Tomato – 1
Asafoetida(Perungaayam) – 1/8 tsp
Turmeric powder – 1/8 tsp
Coconuts – 5 lengthwise pieces
Coconut oil – 1 tsp
Mustard seeds/Kadugu – 1/4 tsp
1.Leave the root and cut out the stems. From each stem, pluck the leaves. The upper tender ones can be put as such. 2. Discard the stems and wash the leaves twice or thrice until the washed water has no visible dirts/sand. Always use 2 vessels while washing greens, so that dirts settle down along with water. Change water for every wash.3.Chop the leaves.4.Wash moong dal(paasi parupu) twice or thrice.5.Add washed dal to pressure cooker along with chopped tomato, generous pinches of asafoetida(Perungaayam) and turmeric powder.6.Add a cup of water and cook for 3-4 whistles.7.Grind few pieces of coconut using 1/2 cup water and keep it ready.8.In hot oil, add mustard seeds. Once spluttered, add chopped small onions and fry till translucent.9.Add chopped fenugreek leaves and fry for a minute.10.Cook covered in low heat for 2-3 more mins. Open the lid and stir for every minute. Then add a tsp of sambar powder.11.Fry for 20-30 secs and then add cooked dal. Add half more cup of water and let it start boiling.12.Add ground coconut and required salt.13.Cook covered in medium heat for 7-10 mins. Stir intermittently. Serve with hot rice/dosa/chapathi.
- Split yellow moong dal(paasiparuppu) can be substituted with Toor dal(Tuvaram parupu).
- Pearl onions are preferred for this recipe. But, you shall substitute big onion too.
- Tempering with coconut oil, gives a nice flavor. You shall substitute with ordinary cooking oil too.
- You shall replace sambar powder with your gravy powder(Kuzhambu podi). Or just add 1/2tsp dhaniya powder + 1/2tsp plain chilli powder+1 pinch Jeera powder +1 pinch pepper powder.
Fenugreek Leaves/Vendhaya Keerai – Dietary Fiber, Protein, Calcium, Iron, Phosphorous
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Iowa law allows a business to incorporate and be identified as its own legal entity. An incorporated business acts in its own name, whether buying and selling property, agreeing to contracts or exercising legal rights. In Iowa, the process of incorporation is begun by filing with the Secretary of State in accordance with specific guidelines.
Benefits of Incorporation in Iowa
A corporation enjoys advantages that unincorporated companies do not. Primarily, it cannot be held accountable for an amount of debt greater than the value of the assets that the owners have invested in it. Had the business remained unincorporated, owners risk losing their personal property should the business become unable to pay its liabilities. A corporation also allows creditors in the Centerville area to assess the credit worthiness of the business as a whole rather than that of its owners, allowing the business to acquire loans more easily. Finally, a corporation's ownership stake is divided into equal slices or "shares" of stock, which make investments in the business much easier to transfer.
Costs of Incorporation
There are costs associated with incorporation, both short and long term. First, businesses in Iowa might be charged a fee to incorporate. Also, a corporation is taxed as its own entity. The individual incomes of the owners are still taxed also, and this can mean the same income is taxed twice, known as double taxation. With proper planning and assistance from a local Centerville lawyer, you can avoid this disadvantage.
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Japanese cinema’s preeminent taboo buster, Nagisa Oshima directed, between 1959 and 1999, more than twenty groundbreaking features. For Oshima, film was a form of activism, a way of shaking up the status quo. Uninterested in the traditional Japanese cinema of such popular filmmakers as Kurosawa, Ozu, and Naruse, Oshima focused not on classical themes of good and evil or domesticity but on outcasts, gangsters, murderers, rapists, sexual deviants, and the politically marginalized. He began as a studio filmmaker, and had a hit with the jazzy Cruel Story of Youth (1960), but left Shochiku when the powers that be there pulled his politically incendiary Night and Fog in Japan (1960) from circulation. Oshima then struck out on his own, becoming an independent director and even starting a production company, Sozo-sha, where he made such popular and aesthetically diverse films as the pinku eiga, or “pink film,” Pleasures of the Flesh (1965); Violence at Noon (1966), which contains more than two thousand cuts; Sing a Song of Sex (1967), a dreamlike investigation of libidinous, politically confused youth; and Death by Hanging (1969), a surreal, meditative film about social injustice. With his late-seventies international coproductions, the sexually graphic In the Realm of the Senses (1976) and the visually raw ghost story Empire of Passion (1978), Oshima became an art-house sensation in Europe and the U.S., riling moviegoers there much as he had at home. Made in 1999, Oshima’s final film, Taboo, a portrait of homosexual longing among samurai, is the perfect expression of his continued desire to provoke.
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Keen to drop a few pounds? Losing weight is all about burning more calories than you consume, but this can leave you feeling hungry and liable to reach for the nearest chocolate bar, undoing all your good work.
Eating extra-filling low-calorie foods will help you stave off the hunger pangs and resist temptation. “If you’re increasing the portions of low calorie, high volume foods, then you will be left feeling fuller but without the added calories,” says registered dietitian Nichola Whitehead.
The Satiety Index, which was devised in the '90s, ranks 38 common foods in terms of their ability to hit the spot and satisfy hunger – foods that boast scores over 100% are most filling. These foods tend to be high in protein, fibre, resistant starch, volume and/or low in energy density. Here are the 10 most filling low calorie foods to stock up on, according to the index.
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Lentils – Satiety Index = 133%
Wonderfully hearty and filling, lentils are loaded with fibre, which provides bulk without the calories and expands in the stomach to leave you feeling full. These wholesome pulses are rich in satisfying protein to boot – protein triggers hormones in the brain that let it know you've eaten enough.
Recipe: warm lentil salad
Recipe: lentil and potato salad with salmon
Boiled egg – Satiety Index = 150%
A large boiled egg contains around 78 calories but its high protein content will keep you feeling fuller for longer than say, a hefty slice of carby white toast, which contains around 80 calories. Needless to say, you'll be less likely to snack on rubbish mid-morning if you eat eggs rather than white toast for breakfast.
10 healthy reasons to eat more eggs
Wholemeal bread – Satiety Index = 157%
In fact, if you can, ditch the white loaf, which scores only 100% on the Satiety Index, and opt for filling wholemeal bread instead. Not just healthier for you all round, wholemeal bread is packed with satisfying fibre. Just try to go easy on the butter or jam.
How much fibre do you need?
Grapes – Satiety Index = 162%
Fruit and veg that have a high water content on top of plenty of fibre are especially filling. Grapes tick both boxes and make for the perfect sustaining, low calorie snack – nibbling on a mere handful should keep you going between meals, without adding pounds to your waistline.
Eight ways to boost your metabolism
Wholemeal pasta – Satiety Index = 188%
Next time your rustle up a spaghetti bolognese or carbonara, try it with wholemeal pasta. Not only is it better for you than regular refined wheat pasta, the wholemeal version is far more filling, scoring 188% on the Satiety Index, compared to white pasta's 118%.
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Apples – Satiety Index = 197%
Apples are particularly satisfying. For starters, they contain loads of water, which increases their volume. Apples are also high in filling insoluble fibre and most interestingly, they contain pectin, a form of soluble fibre that slows digestion and boosts feelings of satiety.
Oranges – Satiety Index = 202%
The orange is the most filling of the fruits listed in the Satiety Index, almost twice as satisfying as a banana, weight for weight. Experts put this down to the citrus fruit's relatively low glycaemic index (GI), combined with its high water and fibre content.
Oatmeal – Satiety Index = 209%
If eggs for breakfast don't take your fancy, eat porridge instead. Oatmeal scores an impressive 209% on the Satiety Index. The healthy grain is jam-packed with fibre that balloons in the stomach to fill you up, and it has a low GI, too.
Recipe: heart-friendly oatmeal and pear smoothie
Steamed cod fillet – Satiety Index = 225%
Protein is of course extra-filling but many animal-based sources are high in saturated fat, which won't do your waistline any favours. Instead, opt for steamed white fish such as cod, which is low in fat and scores very high on the Satiety Index.
Boiled potatoes – Satiety Index = 323%
Believe it or not, the humble boiled spud is the most filling food of them all, according to the index, scoring a whopping 323%. Replete with resistant starch and fibre, boiled potatoes are exceptionally satisfying, and healthier than many people think, providing a good source of B vitamins, vitamin C, potassium and copper. What's more, allowing your potatoes to cool before eating them, and either eating them as a salad or reheating, creates even more resistant starch (starch that takes longer to digest, slowing down glucose absorption and feeding your gut bacteria). Storing them in the fridge overnight triples their resistant starch levels.
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Transport working platform (PPRP) is a transport machine that is designed to take people to jobs where the platform works on heights, provided so that the person on the platform goes with her to a fixed access point and comprising at least one lifts from the control unit, one hoist and one stand (EN 280:2001+A2:2009(E)), dot 3.1).
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Hugging the shoulder of South America, Guyana – population less than 800,000 – until now has much lower profile than its larger, more fractious neighbours. Major commodity discoveries look set to change this. The country is poised to become a leading oil producer after major offshore reserves were found in 2015. The size of these discoveries keeps increasing: at the end of July, oil major Exxon Mobil revised estimated reserves for its finds in Guyana upwards, from 3.2 billion barrels to four billion.
If all goes according to plan, at peak production the government could see as much as $700m in revenues per year flowing into its coffers. Both the consortium led by Exxon – which includes minority partners Hess and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) – and Guyana’s government are preparing for first production in 2020. The UK’s Tullow Oil and Spain’s Repsol are also exploring in the area.
Hopes are high. Guyana remains one of the poorest in the western hemisphere – and if managed well, the oil boom – with reserves valued at nearly 50 times current gross domestic product – could lift the country out of poverty. But some are tempering their optimism.
“This income [from oil] can create a lot of opportunity for development, for good quality spending in health and education. This is a very small country so the potential for good is very great,” says Francisco Paris, Latin America regional director at the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). “The risk is they deviate, or use it for white elephant projects or corruption, so things end up costing much more than they should.”
Managing the resource curse
In many places around the world, the discovery of vast reserves of oil has not had a positive outcome. In countries such as Nigeria, Venezuela or Equatorial Guinea, oil wealth has eventually entrenched corruption, bankrolled dictators or destroyed the non-oil economy.
The resource curse and so-called Dutch Disease – when the dominance of one lucrative sector kills other industries – are well-documented consequences of oil bonanzas gone wrong. Guyana has a history of weak institutions and corruption – though its government is democratic. It has also faced significant brain drain as many of its brightest citizens have left to find opportunities elsewhere.
Furthermore, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, which is responsible for regulating the oil sector from production to geological research, currently has only nine technically trained employees. “Guyana has almost zero capacity for dealing with oil and gas,” said Jan Mangal, former oil advisor to Guyanese president David Granger, during a presentation at the University of Guyana in February.
Despite the capacity challenges, EITI’s Mr Paris says the government wants to get it right. The Guyanese government is consulting widely on industry best practices with neighbouring oil producers as well as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, and is receiving a lot of donor support.
The country joined the EITI, a global standard setter for transparency, in October 2017. Additionally, under public pressure the government published its contract with the Exxon consortium in December.
A sovereign wealth fund, designed to manage and invest Guyana’s oil revenues long term, is also in the works. Draft legislation will be brought to parliament by December, according to finance minister Winston Jordan, and a technical expert from the Commonwealth Secretariat is advising on the framework.
Minister of natural resources Raphael Trotman has been resolutely upbeat. “Each Guyanese is going to be a US dollar millionaire, or worth that, in a few years,” he told The Wall Street Journal in June, referring to the sovereign wealth fund’s potential.
Others are more circumspect. “They need to get serious about implementing the advice they are currently getting,” Mr Paris says. “The opportunity to create that capacity is there – the challenge is to really create a level field [for the oil industry] that is robust and not politicised.”
A good deal?
While the publication of the contract terms is seen as a positive step towards transparency, critics question whether Guyana’s government has negotiated a good deal on the country’s behalf. They say Guyana’s royalties take is very low, at 2%. The government also agreed to exempt the oil companies from taxes. “What we can do is look at what are the international norms. Royalty, when you look around, is more between 10% and 20%, not 2%,” Mr Mangal says.
The IMF agrees. In a 2016 report examining the terms of the contract, it said “existing production sharing agreements appear to enjoy royalty rates well below of what is observed internationally” while allowing that “it is not unusual to see more favourable fiscal terms for early investments”. It also advised the government not to award more licences until the country reviews its tax and fiscal framework.
From Exxon’s perspective, it explored for 16 years before discovering oil, assuming a large part of risk for the earlier stages of the project. Now the company plans to invest $4.4bn to get the fields to the point of production. In addition to royalties, Guyana will also receive around 52% of profits from the project after operating costs have been recovered. “Government take is generally lower in frontier plays … as governments need to incentivise companies to undertake high-risk exploration,” Exxon said in a statement.
Exxon also says that along with its partners, it has spent over $24m with some 300 local suppliers so far, and donated $10m to the University of Guyana to train local operators.
But Open Oil, a Berlin-based transparency non-governmental organisation, found that in comparable frontier market projects in Ghana, Senegal, Papua New Guinea, Mauritania and Guinea, the average country take was well over 60% .
A much-needed win
The 26,800 sq km Starboek block, where Exxon began exploratory drilling in 1999, will be operated by Exxon affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana, with a 45% stake. Hess holds a 30% interest while CNOOC has 25%.
Exxon has struggled to recover following the oil price shock of 2015. Ageing fields, coupled with bets on expensive Canadian tar sands extraction and natural gas when the market was at its peak, have not panned out as planned. Meanwhile, US sanctions on Russia scuppered projects in the Black Sea and the Arctic circle.
Furthermore, Guyana’s oil is light crude, meaning it requires minimal processing. Its estimated break-even point of $26 per barrel will help ensure profits even at lower points in the oil price cycle. Exxon has said Guyana is one of its most promising prospects globally for the coming years.
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There is a good news for prospective crypto-lovers and hobbyists. No, Bitcoin hasn’t suddenly scaled $20K. Instead, U.K-based Wilson Auctions is going to carry out the first ever bidding for Bitcoin [BTC]. The auction will be carried out for £500,000 worth of seized cryptocurrencies, gathered from illegal activities by law enforcement agencies. The cryptocurrencies in question were seized from a hacker who provided hacking services on the dark web in exchange for BTC, while also selling users’ personal data on the black market.
With the king coin falling below the $10,000 mark, many crypto-hobbyists and traders are eyeing the bidding which will be held on the 25th of September. While this isn’t the first time Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general have been apprehended by law enforecement authorities, this is one of the first cases where stolen cryptocurrencies are being sold so publicly in an auction.
Previously, the Irish auction house had carried out an auction for £2.5 million worth of Bitcoin which was seized by the Belgian government in the beginning of 2019. The auction house in question had then received bids worth a total of £100 million.
Along the same lines, the dip in Bitcoin’s price led to a significant number of transactions happening between various wallets, as reported by Whale Alert. The transaction tracker also highlighted that whales were coming out of their slumber as nearly 50,000 BTCs were transferred in the span of 24 hours.
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Sworn translation is when a professional translator with a sworn translator’s decree translates documents into a target language. The translator received the SK after passing a series of exams in Jakarta, with the SK being issued by the Governor of DKI Jakarta.
Sworn Translation Document
Sworn translation is also known as legal translation/authorized translation. The results of sworn translations have footnotes stating that the document has been translated properly and correctly and the translation results are in accordance with the original. There is an email address and the official website of the translation agency for correspondence if outsiders need to crosscheck.
The wet stamp of the translator (the entire name and number of the Decree of Appointment as Translator) and the translator’s original signature are also applied to the bottom of the translation results. There is no need to take it to a notary again because the translator’s signature and stamp are equivalent to being legalized by a notary.
However, it should be noted again, if it is stated that a notary legalization is required, then a notary legalization can be requested. Notaries can usually only issue legality in one of two languages: Indonesian or English.
Furthermore, the results of sworn translations, signature and official seal has been translated as signed and sealed, so the officials responsible do not need to be questioned again. Penerjemah Jakarta uses a double crosscheck mechanism because the document is so important. In addition to being validated by translators and office employees, the draft of the translation result will be emailed to the client before printing the stamp. Errors that occur in the translation can cause problems at immigration, the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Embassy.
Documents Translated by a Sworn Translator
Sworn translated documents can vary, for example, are official company documents. All documents that use a letterhead or contain a signature and stamp of approval, usually must be translated by a sworn translator. For example, cooperation agreement letters, business formation deeds, accounts payable, company NPWP, company establishment licensing documents, memorandums of understanding, sale and purchase agreements, and so on.
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Per. Wahana Pondok Gede T8 No. 12A Bekasi
FB Fanspage: Penerjemah Jakarta
Google business: Penerjemah Jakarta
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favoring the interests of native-born people over foreign-born people.
opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries
an economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property
a person who opposes all forms of government
Sacco and Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco, a shoemaker; Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler;
italian immigrants; anarchists; evaded the draft
arrested and charged with the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Mass.
a system that sets limits on how many immigrants from various countries a nation will admit each year
John L Lewis
leader of United Mine Workers of America, 1919
called a strike in protest of low wages and long workdays;
defied a court order to keep mines closed for another month; gained a 27% raise
Warren G. Harding
29th President of the United States; appealed to America's desire for calm and peace after the war, but resulted in scandal.
Ohio senator, assumed presidency in 1921 promising a nation of "normalcy"; his cabinet members used their power to become corrupt and wealthy
considered one of the least successful presidents.
Charles Evans Hughes
Secretary of State under Harding; he wanted no warships to be built for 10 years; Kellogg-Briand Pact--renounced war as a national policy, signed by 15 countries
convinced 5 major nations to disarm and destory battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers;
a setof regulations, enacted by Congress in 1922, that raised taxes on imports to record levels in order to protect American businessesagainst foreign competition
a group of close friends and political supporters whom President Warren G. Harding appointed to his cabinet
Teapot Dome Scandal
Secretary of the Interior AlbertB. Fall’s secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companiesin return for money and land
Albert B. Fall
- U.S. Navy Secretary of the Interior, under Harding;
- secretly leased the land to two private oil companies; Teapot Dome Scandal
- found guilty of bribery;
- became first American to be convicted of a felony while holding a cabinet post;
30th President of the United States;
"the chief business of the American people is business..."
favored government policies that would keep taxes down and business profits up, giving businesses more available credit in order to expand;
government interference with business a minimum and allow private enterprise to flourish
the unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions
an arrangement in which a purchaserpays over an extended time, without having to put downmuch money at the time of purchase
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- 1 Do absences affect graduation?
- 2 How many absences is too many in high school?
- 3 What happens if you miss too many days of high school?
- 4 What happens if your child misses too much school?
- 5 What’s the best excuse to miss school?
- 6 How many absences is bad?
- 7 What happens if you have a lot of absences?
- 8 What happens if you get 10 absences?
- 9 Will my parents go to jail if I miss too much school?
- 10 How many absences is too much?
- 11 Will my parents go to jail if I miss too much school UK?
- 12 What happens if my 15 year old refuses to go to school?
- 13 How many absences are allowed in a school year 2020?
Do absences affect graduation?
It doesn’t take many absences to have an effect on a student’s grades or potential to graduate. According to Attendance Works, missing just two days a month —18 days a school year—can drastically affect a student’s academic success.
How many absences is too many in high school?
7 unexcused absences from school in a row or. 10 unexcused absences from school in one school year. If your child misses 1⁄2 a day or more, and the school considers that a “day,” it will count toward the limit.
What happens if you miss too many days of high school?
When absences add up, these students are more likely to be suspended and drop out of high school. Chronic absenteeism is also linked with teen substance use, as well as poor health as adults.
What happens if your child misses too much school?
A parent of a chronically truant child in grades Kindergarten through 8th grade may be fined up to $2,500 or may face up to one year in jail if he or she permits their child to miss 10% or more of school days.
What’s the best excuse to miss school?
Excuses For Missing School/Class 2021
- FOOD POISONING. This is a fan favorite because when health is involved, people tend to get scared.
- ILLNESS. Just like the aforementioned excuse, this one works like a charm.
- ILLNESS IN THE FAMILY.
- FAMILY EMERGENCY.
- KID EMERGENCY.
How many absences is bad?
Research shows that missing 10 percent of the school, or about 18 days in most school districts, negatively affects a student’s academic performance. That’s just two days a month and that’s known as chronic absence.
What happens if you have a lot of absences?
In many states, students who have more than a certain number of unexcused absences in a school year (often called “habitual truants”) may be referred to the juvenile court and could end up in foster care or even juvenile detention if they keep skipping school.
What happens if you get 10 absences?
Students can also be chronically truant. California Education Code 48263.6 defines chronic truants as children who have missed 10 percent of the school year. California truancy laws require children to go to school.
Will my parents go to jail if I miss too much school?
In most states, the school needs to report truancy to the district superintendent. Ultimately, you cannot go to jail for a child missing school. A civil violation, however, does go on your record. Additionally, even if you’re not thrown in jail, the consequences may still be difficult to bear.
How many absences is too much?
Definition of a Truant The California Legislature defined a truant in very precise language. In summary, it states that a student missing more than 30 minutes of instruction without an excuse three times during the school year must be classified as a truant and reported to the proper school authority.
Will my parents go to jail if I miss too much school UK?
You could get a fine of up to £2,500, a community order or a jail sentence up to 3 months. The court also gives you a Parenting Order.
What happens if my 15 year old refuses to go to school?
If your child is avoiding or refusing to go to school, talk to your child’s therapist. If it is an issue of bullying, the school should be involved in order to mediate the situation between the bully and your child. If the school refusal is rooted in family problems, family therapy may be helpful.
How many absences are allowed in a school year 2020?
What will the school district do? child has 5 or more unexcused absences in a month, or 10 unexcused absences in a school year, the district may consider your child “truant” and can bring a truancy action against you and your child. My child misses school a lot because of illness or disability.
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Sapiston, St Andrew's Church
History, tourist information, and nearby accommodation
HERITAGE HIGHLIGHTS: Carved Norman doorway
The doorway is crafted with a pair of octagonal shafts on each side of the opening, with moulded capitals supporting a semi-circular arch embellished with odd tongue-shaped carvings.
The door points to the foundation of Sapiston church in the 12th century. Inside, the oldest feature is the 13th-century font. The nave, chancel, and west tower date from a century later. There are traces of a medieval wall painting depicting St Edmund's gory martyrdom on the north wall.
In the interior is a memorial to author Robert Bloomfield, who was born at nearby Honington. Bloomfield's most popular work was The Farmer's Boy (1800), a poem telling of his life growing up in the countryside.
The poem sold an astonishing 26,000 copies as Bloomfield became an overnight celebrity, only to be just as quickly cast aside by fashionable literary circles. In the churchyard is the grave of William Austin, Bloomfield's employer.
One slightly odd touch is the royal coat of arms to George II. If you look closely you can see that the '2' next to the royal initials was added in, and the script suggests that the painter took the easy way out and simply reused an earlier Stuart coat of arms rather than paint a whole new coat of arms for his Hanoverian monarch.
The nave roof is 14th century, or perhaps earlier. Most of the benches sport 19th-century poppyhead ends, but one bench has original 15th-century decoration. Perhaps the best memorial is to John Bull (d. 1643), surmounted by a pair of obelisks and a coat of arms. Near the sanctuary steps are a pair of 17th-century grave slabs, including one to Thomas Aldham (d. 1640) and another to his wife Iana Aldham (d. 1632).
St Andrew's is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust but is well worth a visit.
Sapiston church is not easy to find. If you use the official postcode for your satnav be aware that it will lead you to a house on Bardwell Road on the eastern edge of Sapiston. The church is actually at the end of Hilly Close, a private road leading south off Bardwell Road.
There is a 'private' sign at the entrance to the lane. It wasn't clear to me whether I should drive down the lane to the church, or park and walk. I chose the latter. A 5-minute stroll through lovely countryside brings you to The Grange, and you can see the church standing in a stone-walled churchyard. The location is utterly superb.
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About Sapiston, St Andrew's Church
Address: Hilly Close, Sapiston, Suffolk, England, IP31 1RY
Attraction Type: Historic Church
Location: 7 miles south east of Thetford off the A1088
Website: Sapiston, St Andrew's Church
Churches Conservation Trust
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Audio Unit app extensions gives users a convenient way to create or modify audio in any iOS or macOS app that uses sound, including music production apps such as GarageBand or Logic Pro X. And now, with iOS 13, you can store user presets for your extensions that are accessible across applications.
Hello everyone, and welcome to our session about user preset support for audio units. My name is Bela Balazs, and I'm an engineer on the Core Audio software team. Today we would like to talk about a some of our new APIs regarding the handling of audio unit presets.
First, let's start with this. What are presets and why are they useful? In an audio software context, a preset is a snapshot of the state of the audio unit's parameters at a given time. This snapshot can be saved and later restored.
We already support factory presets. It's a property on the AU audio unit class and it's defined as an array of AU audio unit presets. These factory presets are built into the audio unit by the audio unit manufacturer. An audio unit developer might include a fixed number of presets with the product as a starting point or to showcase the capabilities of the audio unit.
Now we are adding support for user presets. These can be accessed by using this new user presets property which returns an array of AU audio unit presets.
These are presets that are created by the user and can be modified later on. The audio unit exposes them to all audio unit host applications. We have a new property called support user presets. The audio unit sets this to true to signal support. The audio unit host application has to check it before using the new functionality. This is the way to opt in to use the new features.
We have methods to save and delete user presets. The audio unit host application can call the save user preset method to save the current state into a preset, or it can call the delete user preset method to delete an existing preset. The audio unit can override these to implement custom logic, or it can use the default implementations inherited from the AU audio unit base class.
These default implementations store the presets in the application container folder of the audio unit extension.
You can use the preset state for user preset method to retrieve the state stored in the user preset.
This also has a default implementation that's superclass, but it can be overridden to suit custom needs.
It returns a dictionary that you can use to restore the state of the audio unit by simply assigning it to the full state for document property of the audio unit.
In addition to these, we've added a new property called isLoadedInProcess that you can use to check whether the audio unit is loaded-in process.
Loading in process is a macOS only feature. The host can request it but if the audio unit is not packaged to support it, the fallback behavior is to load the audio unit out of process.
Now, the host or the audio unit can use this property to verify that this operation succeeded. And now let's see it in action.
So, here I have the updated AUV free host sample code, which is available both on macOS and on iOS. In this host application, I have loaded the AUV free filter demo.
When I press play, we can hear the filter in action. I can drag this graph to set the cutoff and the resonance of the filter. And here I have my preset section on the right side.
We have our factory presets, which came with the audio unit. We have warm, bright, and prominent. And in the other tab, we have the user preset section. Here we have my previously saved initial preset and I can save new ones. And I can switch between them. Once I no longer need one of the presets, I can simply delete it.
And this is the entire functionality of the AUV free host. I encourage everyone to check it out.
To summarize, we've added support for user presets for audio units to complement the functionality already provided by factory presets. These allow the user to save their favorite sounds into presets and access them in each and every audio unit host application.
To take advantage of these new features, the audio unit can simply opt in and use the default implementations that we provide, or it can override the methods to implement custom functionality. The audio unit host application can query the audio unit for these presets and can create new presets or delete the existing ones by calling the right methods on the audio unit.
For more information, you can check out our newly updated sample code and the resources attached to this session, which is available at developer.apple.com. That concludes our presentation. Thank you.
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One of the odd things about contributing to OpenStreetMap is that you have no idea who is using the maps and the data. You spend hours, weeks, months, years even building up a wonderfully comprehensive database of geographic features in the area, all because it’s fun, because you believe in the project’s ideals or you need the data for your own project. But does anyone else use it? It would be depressing if the answer was “no”.
So I get cheered every time I see documents like this:
That’s an excerpt from a presentation by Southwark Living Streets. They took the Mayor of London’s transport advisor around Elephant & Castle to show how unfriendly and dangerous the area is for pedestrians, and illustrated the whole thing with OpenStreetMap. The chap who made this loves OSM, he told me he realised how useful it could be when he noticed we had put in all the footpaths through estates, making OSM the only map that reflects the reality for pedestrians in the area.
It was our coverage of footpaths that led to OpenStreetMap being used by parents challenging a school’s decision that they were outside the catchment area.
I also regularly see OSM used by cycling campaigners, for example this presentation on a cycling campaign that’s also about the Elephant & Castle area.
Then there was my collaboration with residents local to the Heygate Estate who wanted to map the trees that under threat from the redevelopment of the estate. That, I’m happy to say, has resulted in many of the mature trees being protected in the new plans.
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But as I wrote last year, there’s a whole other world of data we could be adding, especially for groups concerned with streets that are designed for pedestrians and cyclists.
ITO have been beavering away on lots of amazing maps that show off this kind of data. These are two maps showing the “walkable city” on the left (the blue lines show footpaths and pavements broken up by black roads) and speed limits on the right (green is for 20 mph, orange for 30 mph).
Here are a few in an area I’ve done some work on, just to show what’s possible:
With a few tweaks to the Potlatch 2 editor on the OpenStreetMap homepage, anyone could easily add all this metadata to streets. There are presets for speed limits and surfaces, but not – yet – for sidewalks. If we could get them in – here’s the enhancement request – I think all those community campaigners already using screenshots of OpenStreetMap might just get interested in contributing data.
How great would it be if Southwark Living Streets could print out a special “walkable city” map of Elephant & Castle for their next presentation to the Mayor of London’s transport advisor?
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We will having auditions for those who are placed in the Ensemble level classes or those who want to move from the Advanced to Ensemble. It will be a playing check in your Canvas module. It will open on the first day of school and be due no later than Sunday, August 21st. This playing check will be used for chair order as well. The music can be found HERE using your @capousd.org Google Educational Email. Most parts are posted. When you have a 1st and 2nd part, both may be an option. FYI - There are some parts missing. We will try to fix that shortly.
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Last Updated on March 8, 2022
What do the stars mean to you? Why do humans always find themselves looking up at the vastness of the sky, searching for the tiny twinkling lights, even in the midst of complete darkness? What is it about these balls of gas that captivate us, that inspire us, and move us?
Where Stars Come From
Stars are born inside a nebula, a massive cloud made up of dust and gas, mostly hydrogen and helium. Nebulae are not just where stars are born, they could also be remnants of dead stars.
Inside, the dust and gas can eventually clump together with the help of gravity. As they get bigger and the gravity gets stronger, they begin to collapse from all that pressure that the center begins to form a white-hot core. Scientists call this phase a protostar.
Millions of years later, the protostar will enter a brief T Tauri phase. This happens when the protostar gets smaller but increases its temperature. What comes next is the star’s longest phase, called the main sequence. The sun in our solar system is at this phase: a stable state of nuclear fusion that converts hydrogen to helium.
One of the fun activities to do when the stars are out is to go stargazing. This practice originated thousands of years ago, but not necessarily as a hobby for young astronomers. Rather, many people back then, particularly farmers and sailors, used imaginary patterns created by the stars to guide them during their activities. Farmers for instance, used constellations to help them determine planting seasons.
If you’re learning to stargaze for the first time, one of the first patterns you’ll identify is the Big Dipper. Note that this is NOT a constellation! But it will serve as a starting point to help you recognize actual constellations. For example: if you trace a line from the bowl of the Big Dipper past the North Star and see a cluster of stars that form a letter W or M, then you may have just stumbled upon Cassiopeia.
During winter, don’t forget to look for one of the most prominent constellations: Orion the Hunter. Known for his belt made up of three bright stars, the twinkling dot beneath it is in fact, not a star at all – but Orion’s nebula. You’ll soon become familiar with this figure thanks to the red Betelgeuse and the brilliant Rigel stars at opposite corners.
Why We Look Up at the Stars
The universe is an awfully big place. Perhaps it’s that curiosity that makes us turn our eyes skyward towards the stars every night. Maybe we’re wondering if we’re alone. Maybe we’re thinking if maybe we’re the only one.
There’s just something about all that space: that vast dark sky that stretches out into a horizon you can only imagine, that gives us a sense of smallness. In cities, where most of us live, roads and buildings can feel suffocating at times. But in wide, open fields where only the twinkling of the stars is our guide, suddenly, all our senses spring to life. You can almost feel your pupils dilating to take in all that light.
Maybe there’s a bigger connection out there that we can’t see. But for now, make these quotes about stars and stardust your source of inspiration.
Shining Star Quotes
- “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
- “Remember to look up at the stars and now down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.” – Professor Stephen Hawking
- “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Not just beautiful, though – the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” – Haruki Murakami
- “The stars are the land-marks of the universe.” – Sir John Frederick William Herschel
- “New stars offer to the mind a phenomenon more surprising, and less explicable, than almost any other in the science of astronomy.” – George Adams
- “I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars.” –Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino
- “Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.” – Aberjhani
- “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” – R.R. Tolkien
- “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” – Sarah William
- “There wouldn’t be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.” – Frances Clark
- “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.” – Arthur Eddington
- “It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “It’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world.” – Tahereh Mafi
- “We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened-Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.” – Mark Twain
- “If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is false. Also, if the earth were flat from north to south and vice versa, the stars which were always visible to anyone would continue to be so wherever he went, which is false. But it seems flat to human sight because it is so extensive.” – Ptolemy
- “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde
- “The number of fixed stars which observers have been able to see without artificial powers of sight up to this day can be counted. It is therefore decidedly a great feat to add to their number, and to set distinctly before the eyes other stars in myriads, which have never been seen before, and which surpass the old, previously known stars in number more than ten times.” – Galileo Galilei
- “But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.” – Madeline Miller
- “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” – Stephen Hawking
- “The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!” – Henry David Thoreau
- “We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.” – Arthur Eddington
- “Second star to the right, and straight on till morning.” – Peter Pan
- “The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another but they are so distant so very far apart that they cannot feel the warmth of each other even though they are made of burning.” – Beth Revis
- “When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.” – Vera Nazarian
- “Not just beautiful, though-the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.” – Haruki Murakami
- “I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme … the stars are not hot enough. The critics lay themselves open to an obvious retort: we tell them to go and find a hotter place.” – Arthur Eddington
- “There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars” – John Green
- “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.” – Carl Sagan
- “The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there.” – James Lovell
- “Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” – Jack Kerouac
- “Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself.” – Draya Mooney
- “I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!” – JoyBell C.
- “I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.” – Stephenie Meyer
- “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.” – Maggie Stiefvater
- “The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.” – Kami Garcia
- “There wouldn’t be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one.” – Frances Clark
- “He counts the stars and calls them all by name.” – Psalm 147:4
- “If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.” – Bill Watterson
- “It is the stars, the stars above us, govern our conditions.” – William Shakespeare
- “My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.” – John Green
- “Ye stars! Which are the poetry of heaven.” – Lord Byron
- “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” – Marcus Aurelius
- “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Prototype Machining is very important for the successful implementation of the idea of models an engineer/designer has on mind. You can turn to this segment when you are wanting to take your design from a drawing to being able to touch it. Whether you need a single example or ten pieces for testing Prototype Machining firms can service all your needs. Be it racing cars, building caulking guns, or designing and selling widgets, only a quality designing firm can offer you the accuracy, innovation, quality and the best designs to meet your needs.
An effective consulting firm dealing using this type of CNC Prototyping can also supply you with the feedback on the viability of creating your product at the proposed production levels. It also is able to handle engineering changes whenever the requirement arises. Further, it can recommend changes that will make your product or service simpler to produce and improve functionality.
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Only then can you aspire to get products which are made and dedicated to offering the best in the market place. Moreover, your consultant firm for Prototype Machining should be aware of the entire product cycle, which may offer you a better edge on others. This includes testing a design before production, the necessity for timeliness, marketing ties for any successful product, distribution needs and so on. Prototype Machining needs are required in almost all the vital industry sectors today like the High Tech Industry, Automotive/Racing Industry, Medical Industry and Specialty Industries.
The arrival of the latest computer designing tools and methods has created things much easy in creating prototypes. This will help with automated quality control to keep up the best-personalized service. You can even avail UYEE Prototype through the online source with so many firms registered on the internet. So research extensively and get the top today!
Milling also will not end in just CNC Rapid Prototyping. Some small scale manufacturing companies which offer custom design products used CNC Milling to generate specific parts for specific designs. It is largely popular in car restoration shops, custom motorcycle shops or any businesses that offer fixing or restoring machinery. Adjustments can be produced instantly and so long as qjvphm material is available, parts could be CNC milled straight from a digital design and attached straight into the ultimate product.
3d printing, on the contrary, cannot offer final product outputs for all types of manufacturing. First is it has limitations on the material you can utilize and 2nd, the pace of 3d printing cannot manage the needs of quick production needs. It is extremely much confined to prototyping when compared with CNC milling which could produce usable and actual parts for the final product.
Production Cost. Cost also plays a large role as using CNC Rapid Prototyping have adjustable costs based on the material you want to use. 3d Printing offers very little alternatives than resin.
The wide range of materials that can be used for CNC Machining Process enables some flexibility for your budget that you put in for product development. The reusability of a number of the materials also allows you to spend less as opposed to constantly buying supplies while your products or services is under development.
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Particular characteristics are protected against discrimination under both and federal laws in Hendersonville and other communities of Tennessee. Government and private employers in Hendersonville may be held liable under state and federal law depending on what kind of trait the discriminatory treatment was based upon.
How Does Employment Discrimination Occur?
Employment discrimination can occur if the employer treats an employee unfairly based on their membership in a class that is legally protected. Employers may not base their evaluations of you on particular traits including religion, race, age, gender, national origin, and familial status. The plaintiff must prove that their employer intended to treat them unfairly because of their protected status in order to prevail on a discrimination claim in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
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Systems thinking in combating infectious diseases
Infectious Diseases of Poverty volume 6, Article number: 144 (2017)
The transmission of infectious diseases is a dynamic process determined by multiple factors originating from disease pathogens and/or parasites, vector species, and human populations. These factors interact with each other and demonstrate the intrinsic mechanisms of the disease transmission temporally, spatially, and socially. In this article, we provide a comprehensive perspective, named as systems thinking, for investigating disease dynamics and associated impact factors, by means of emphasizing the entirety of a system’s components and the complexity of their interrelated behaviors. We further develop the general steps for performing systems approach to tackling infectious diseases in the real-world settings, so as to expand our abilities to understand, predict, and mitigate infectious diseases.
Please see Additional file 1 for translation of the abstract into the six official working languages of the United Nations.
According to A Dictionary of Epidemiology, epidemiology in general deals with “the study of the occurrence and distribution of health-related states or events in specified populations, including the study of the determinants influencing such states, and the application of this knowledge to control the health problems” . In this regard, epidemiological studies in combating infectious diseases mainly focus on addressing the challenges from the following three aspects: (1) investigating tempo-spatial patterns of disease occurrence; (2) identifying and evaluating associated impact factors; (3) exploring and conducting effective intervention measures. In doing so, epidemiologists will make use different methods in data collection and analysis [2, 3]. On one hand, empirical methods are often used in the phase of disease surveillance, which is to collect and analyze observational data about disease occurrences descriptively (e.g., when, where, and who). The results of this phase will help identify the tempo-spatial patterns of disease occurrences in humans as well as discover the variations with reference to their social and demographical characteristics (i.e., age, gender, and ethnicity) . Experimental methods are needed in field investigation so as to test epidemiological hypotheses that are relating the proposed causes to the observed effects, the findings of which may serve as the foundation for developing and conducting intervention measures . On the other hand, theoretical methods are essential for the purpose of formally understanding and characterizing the causality of disease transmission as well as evaluating the effectiveness of interventions by means of establishing associative or causal relationships between impact factors and disease occurrences . Mathematical and computational models (e.g., compartmental Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) modeling and multi-agent modeling) together with scenario-based simulations are developed as predictive tools for characterizing the dynamics of disease transmission and evaluating interrelationships with various impact factors [7, 8].
The existing methods have thrived for several decades and made great contributions in understanding and combating infectious diseases. However, there remain a number of challenges [9,10,11]. As schematically shown in Fig. 1, these challenges come from emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, which are significantly correlated with the multiple impact factors and their interacting effects, including disease pathogen/parasite microbial genetic mutation, human socio-economic and behavioral changes, as well as environmental and ecological conditions. These interacting and coupling relationships among multiple impact factors have demonstrated the intrinsic mechanisms of the disease transmission temporally, spatially, and socially, while exhibiting systems characteristics of feedback, saturation, bifurcation, and chaos, etc., which make it hardly possible to utilize the conventional methods for comprehensive epidemiological investigations . At the same time, the effective intervention measures rely on biomedical understandings of disease pathogens/parasites, descriptive studies on tempo-spatial patterns of disease occurrences, and casual analysis of impact factors. Besides, predictive explorations on the trends of disease transmission by exploring the mechanism-based interactions among the constituting components of disease transmission also play an important role in understanding and combating infectious diseases. For example, the early warning system for a newly emerging infectious disease, like H1N1 influenza, requires the knowledge about the possible geographical routes of disease transmission, such as human air-travel networks [13, 14]. The prevention of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, like malaria, needs to address both environmental and ecological changes for vector species [15, 16] and human behaviors [17, 18], such as the migrant and mobile populations . And furthermore, the effectiveness of conducted disease interventions depends on the efficacy of resource allocation, compliance of targeted host populations, and responsive feedback of environmental modifications.
In addition to the above-mentioned challenges, epidemiological studies also face with new opportunities in the presence of data-centric era, which is being enabled by the confluence of data from various sources and the development of modeling and analytical tools in data science. For example, WHO’s global disease surveillance system connects the health agencies of its member countries and partners at different scales, including local, regional, national, and international organizations. Such a surveillance system can be used for managing and sharing both historical records and reports on when and where some people have been infected by certain kinds of disease. In addition to those for disease surveillance and monitoring, other data sources are also helpful for analyzing and modeling potential disease transmission risks. For example, remote sensing data from satellites can readily be utilized in mapping the meteorological and ecological conditions of local or global environments, especially those remote and harsh regions, where field studies are either impossible or too costly to conduct due to their physical and political constraints [20, 21]. Another important source of data is from Internet-based media, which can serve as an informative channel for revealing individuals’ health related behaviors and opinions . For example, Google flu trends was earlier used to assess the transmission of influenza virus [23, 24], and the use of Internet search data was demonstrated to be effective in predicting dengue .
In view of these challenges and opportunities, it would be imperative to develop new methods and paradigms that can offer a novel comprehensive perspective for investigating disease dynamics and associated impact factors, so as to expand our abilities to understand, predict, and mitigate infectious diseases.
Systems thinking in combating infectious diseases
Systems thinking is a philosophical as well as methodological perspective that draws on the fundamental notions of systems theory that views a system as an integration of components together with the interacting relationships among them and with their residing environments [26,27,28]. Systems thinking emphasizes two fundamental concepts, i.e., complexity and entirety. Systems complexity is generated from the structure of integrated components, which is how the constituting components are organized and interact with each other and with the environments. Systems entirety is derived from the dynamic behaviors of a system as a whole, which is to say how a complex system of interacting components behaves and exhibits the emergent properties at the system level rather than a simple behavioral aggregation of its basic components.
Systems thinking offers a novel comprehensive perspective that examines the process of infectious disease transmission as a system with its structural complexity and behavioral entirety. In such a system, the components include disease pathogens/parasites, vector species, human populations, and their natural, social, and behavioral environments. The interactions among components are present, such as disease pathogen/parasite can infect and be transmitted between and/or within vector species and human populations. The interacting relationships of components with their relying environments can be described as components’ responses to the potential environmental changes, for example, biomedical genetic mutations of pathogens or parasites as a result of drug resistance selection, vector population fluctuations due to climate changes, and human exposure behavioral changes due to their socio-economic conditions. The emergent behaviors of such a system, i.e., the emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, depend on the integrated effects of all the constituting components, including microbial evolutionary pathogens, zoonotic vector exposures, environmental changes, and human behavioral modifications.
Based on the above mentioned perspective of systems thinking, the studies of infectious diseases will go beyond the conventional methods that are usually confined by their disciplinary boundaries, such as the statistical analysis of disease occurrences or laboratory research on disease pathogens. The intervention measures in combating infectious diseases will be designed to modify the emergent behaviors at the system level, by exploring the interdisciplinary methods that aim to address systems complexity. Towards this end, we need a set of novel modeling and analyzing tools drawing on the concepts of systems thinking. This will enable the epidemiologists to develop and deploy more effective intervention measures.
Complex systems approach in principle
The complex systems approach is a holistic approach that is intended to model, characterize, explain, and predict the emergent behaviors of a system with reference to its constituting complexity, which is hard to derive or compute by using conventional top-down reductionist approaches [29,30,31]. Such an approach pays a special attention to achieving the following three objectives [32, 33]:
The step of systems modeling provides a blueprint/framework that is abstracted and replicated from the real-world observations in the languages of mathematical/computational characterizations [7, 8, 34, 35]. Employing such a modeling analogy, therefore, requires identification, abstraction, and/or reproduction of certain observations, which is the starting point for the following steps of systems exploration and problem solving. For example, the compartmental models (e.g., the SIR model) for studying the influenza-like diseases use several compartments (i.e., susceptible, infectious, and recovered) to represent the different states of human infections (i.e., Susceptible-Infected-Recovered) . In systems modeling, the basic components of a model also known as entities are the basic constituents of a complex system, which directly or indirectly interact among themselves as well as with their environments based on certain predefined or known mechanisms or principles. For example, in a network-based disease model, nodes represent human individuals whereas links represent the routes of disease transmission. Disease can be transmitted from one node to another due to the predefined contact interactions . Interrelationships exist among entities and their local and global environments, through which the complex system as a whole exhibits its structural and behavioral complexity at and across various scales. Emergence, which is the dynamic transmission of infectious diseases, is defined in terms of the system-level patterns and regularities arising from the dynamics of a group of interacting entities, as generated from the reciprocally coupled and dynamically changed interrelations of the entities at multiple scales.
Systems exploration presents a set of analytical tools that are devoted to understanding the operating mechanisms underlying a complex system and, furthermore, finding explanations and making predictions about some observed systems’ dynamics. In order to uncover the operating mechanisms behind the observations, systems modeling will be performed to characterize or simulate the real system. For example, we can use the SIR model to characterize the dynamics of disease transmission in a human population. Then, by comparing the difference between the real-world observation and the synthetic simulation, the models and/or interaction mechanisms of the system will be fine-tuned, which may be reflected in the adjustments of the related model parameters, and the structure and behavior of the interacting entities. For example, when the incubation period is taken into consideration, the SIR model can be modified as the SEIR model with an additional latency compartment of “E” [8, 38].
Problem solving emphasizes the ability of the complex systems approach to find its own way to achieve adaptive solutions that are well suited to the problem settings at hand. The ultimate goal is to develop a set of analytical algorithms that can adjust its own parameters for different application domains. For example, adaptive evolutionary algorithms can be used to automatically tune some of the parameters as related to the developed systems modeling or the proposed operating mechanisms. Constrained optimization algorithms are dedicated to finding the optimal solutions in resource allocation.
The complex systems approach can be used not only to build a modeling framework for mapping real-world observations/phenomena in analytical languages (i.e., mathematical and computational models), but also to reveal the operating mechanisms behind a complex system. Problem solving is the application of systems modeling and exploration with respect to the specific domain problem set in advance.
Complex systems approach in practice
Generally speaking, in combating infectious diseases, the complex systems approach can help us understand how the systems of infectious diseases are organized in terms of the causal relationships and the impact factors on disease prevalence, how such systems behave over time and space by revealing the tempo-spatial distributions of disease occurrences, and how the diseases can be better mitigated and eradicated by developing more effective solutions for infectious disease control.
Specifically, Fig. 2 provides a schematic framework outlining the four essential steps for performing the complex systems approach to the epidemiological studies of infectious diseases.
Problem-driven conceptual modeling first translates the real-world problems in an epidemiological domain into conceptual models in a theoretical or computational domain, which are aimed to describe the systems components in infectious disease transmission, their impact factors, and interaction relationships.
Data-oriented real-world grounding then concentrates on discovering ways of embodiment of conceptual models, through the model parameterization, by means of obtaining and utilizing real-world data and/or statistic analysis of the real-world observations.
Goal-directed analytical inference is devoted to further developing analytical methods and solutions in addressing specific real-world problems of disease surveillance and control, that is, to find right analytical methods and solutions to meet the specific goals.
Evidence-based practice proceeds to the implementation, validation, and improvement of the developed analytical solutions, aiming to bridge the theoretical and/or computational analysis with the real world.
Specifically, in the step of conceptual modeling, the goal is to build theoretical or computational prototypes of infectious disease systems, which can be used to represent the real-world problems. Based on the existing understanding/theoretical/empirical knowledge about infectious diseases and the related impact factors, mathematical and computational models can be used as a conceptual framework to reproduce the dynamics of infectious diseases. For example, in the case of influenza, the demographical profiles and contact structure of a human host population can be used to model disease transmission among different human groups. In the case of malaria, environmental factors, such as rainfall and temperature, can be identified from various sources, which provide us a causality analytical model for examining the population development of disease vectors. In order to achieve the above, we need to perform model selection with reference to the specific characteristics of the epidemiological problems at hand. For example, the compartmental models are well suited to characterizing disease dynamics in several host populations, such as in the case of influenza. On the other hand, the network models or agent-based models are more suitable for representing disease diffusion due to human movement behaviors, such as the imported malaria cases in the remote or cross-border areas . As can be noted, conceptual modeling depends on simplifications and abstractions about the operating mechanisms of infectious diseases, which also set up hypotheses for the data collection in the step of real-world grounding (i.e., function c), such as the studies of influenza require the human social-economic data and human behavioral data, e.g., human air-traveling, and the studies of malaria require to collect the environmental data, such as rainfall and temperature. This step also provides a theoretical or computational qualitative framework for performing analytical inference methods (i.e., function b).
The goal of real-world grounding is to collect data from multiple sources and analyze such available data from different disciplines, aiming at a more comprehensive understanding about the structural interrelationships and behavioral mechanisms of real-world infectious disease systems. For example, the international airlines provide indirect networks for the transmission of H1N1 influenza worldwide . The step of real-world grounding performs multi-disciplinary data fusion and knowledge discovery from massively accumulated data. The products of the data-oriented real-world grounding can in turn be used to provide empirical intuitions for conceptual modeling (i.e., function d), generate certain experience-based rules or principals to guide the practical implementation of infectious disease control measures (i.e., function f), and parameterize variables in performing inference algorithms (i.e., function i).
Based on the developed models and collected data, the step of analytical inference is to provide a series of specific problem-solving methods and solutions, which can be used as analytical tools for addressing the real-world problems that are taken into account in the step of conceptual modeling. For example, based on a network model, inference methods can be used to reveal the hidden pathways of malaria transmission in the remote or cross-border areas . The gaps between the desired situations (goals) and the current situations (status quo) in disease surveillance and control will lead to the inference methods that lead to an improved solution. Performing analytical inferences will provide a set of quantitative representations for conceptual modeling (function a). For example, the inferred weights of network links denote the possibilities of malaria transmission among villages. Furthermore, the end products of this step can also develop solutions for the practical realization of infectious disease control (function g) and guide the data collection in the step of real-world grounding (function j). For example, ranking algorithms can help identify the relative risks of malaria for various villages in the remote or cross-border areas. At the same time, as more data are accumulated, the results of risk ranking will become more precise and reliable.
The fourth step of evidence-based practice concerns the application and validation of the developed solutions in the real-world practice of infectious disease surveillance and control. The goal of this step is twofold: (1) guiding the practice of disease control and prevention (function e); (2) validating and improving the applied analytical methods (function h). For example, active surveillance planning methods can help public health authorities decide how to distribute their very sparse resources to high-priority regions, so as to maximize the outcomes of disease intervention. The feedback from the field practice will help validate the analytical results and determine if the selected models and adopted inference methods can represent the real-world scenario and thus address the real-world problems. In other words, theoretical analysis and results will be used to guide the practice of infectious disease control, which will in turn validate or improve the developed models and inference methods.
Systems thinking aims to better understand and characterize the complexity involved in the process of disease transmission and the implementation of intervention measures. A complex systems approach emphasizes the importance of the “holistic” context. The application of the complex systems approach in the specific context of epidemiology provides us a set of analytical tools to characterize the structure and impact factors of systems components, to capture the dynamics of how they interact with each other, and to evaluate and further improve the disease intervention measures. Systems thinking together with the complex systems approach represents a new era in epidemiological studies, which offers a comprehensive perspective for epidemiology (conceptual modeling, data grounding, analytical inference, and intervention practice), while integrating data from a wide range of sources and utilizing methods from diverse disciplines.
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We would like to thank Dr. Benyun Shi of Hangzhou Dianzi University, Prof. Bo Yang of Jilin University for their excellent comments and suggestions.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81502858 and No. 81273192). The authors would like to acknowledge support from Hong Kong Research Grants Council (HKBU 12202415). The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the paper.
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State health department extends Naloxone standing order into 2018
Emergency rules that have increased access to a life-saving drug will continue through at least May 2018.
Naloxone, a drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, has been accessible at registered pharmacies statewide without prescription since Dr. Eden Wells, the state’s chief medical executive, issued a standing order in May.
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This order allows those at risk of an opioid overdose, family members, friends and anyone else who may be able to assist someone at risk to receive the drug without the need for documentation or a prescription.
Educational materials are handed out with each order on steps for responding to an opioid overdose and important information about where to go for further treatment.
Pharmacies are also required to continue tracking the amount of naloxone dispensed and will report these numbers to the state on a quarterly basis.
Gov. Rick Snyder said Naloxone is a tool in the fight against the opioid addiction that can save lives.
“We need to make sure all residents statewide have access, both in rural areas and urban centers,” said Snyder.
In October, Oakland and Wayne county filed a joint lawsuit against 12 pharmaceutical companies alleging deceptive marketing of these potentially addictive and deadly opioids.
To learn more about drug treatment services available near you, visit michigan.gov/bhrecovery.
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Depending on the circumstances of a boardwalk or beach accident, parties that may have liability for injuries suffered in those accidents include:
- Local municipalities that are responsible for maintaining boardwalks and beaches, including staffing beaches with lifeguards
- Property owners along the boardwalk or beachfront, who may have liability for accidents caused by dangerous conditions on the premises they own or lease
- Other beachgoers or boardwalk visitors may be liable for injuring people due to dangerous hazards they leave behind (such as broken glass or needles) or due to dangerous, reckless, or violent behavior towards fellow patrons
Proving an Injury Case After a Boardwalk or Beach Accident
To succeed in an injury case following a boardwalk or beach accident, you will need to establish another party’s liability under the law. Parties can have liability for accidents that are caused by man-made conditions, such as alterations to the conditions of property or unrepaired damage or wear and tear. However, parties usually not be held liable for boardwalk or beach accidents that are caused by natural hazards, such as ocean hazards, unless the hazard is foreseeable, not obvious to a visitor, and the liable party failed to warn the visitor of the hazard. For example, a local government may have liability for a beach accident when it had responsibility for notifying beachgoers of riptides or ocean conditions but failed to do so, or failed to post warnings of shark activity or other animal hazards.
Other man-made hazards, such as loose or uneven boards or upturned nails in boardwalks may result in liability where the condition of the boardwalk posed a hazard of an accident or an injury and the condition was either created by the party/parties responsible for the boardwalk or the condition existed long enough that diligent maintenance would have discovered and removed the hazard.
Finally, because boardwalks and beaches are owned and controlled by local, state, and federal governments, pursuing an injury claim is especially different due to legal immunities and special notice requirements applicable to the government. This makes it critical to speak to a personal injury attorney to discuss your legal rights and options if you were hurt in a boardwalk or beach accident.
Contact a Rochelle Park Personal Injury Lawyer to Discuss Your Case in New Jersey
Did you or a loved one sustain serious injuries due to an accident in New Jersey? Don’t let the medical bills pile up while you wait for the negligent party or their insurance company to do the right thing. Right now, you need an aggressive personal injury attorney on your side, fighting to get you the compensation you need, want, and deserve. The skilled attorneys at The Epstein Law Firm represent clients injured because of accidents in Jersey City, Union City, Bayonne, Hoboken, and throughout New Jersey. Call (201) 380-7687 or fill out our online contact form to schedule a free consultation about your case. We have an office conveniently located at 340 West Passaic St., Rochelle Park, NJ 07762.
The articles on this blog are for informative purposes only and are no substitute for legal advice or an attorney-client relationship. If you are seeking legal advice, please contact our law firm directly.
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Variable Nebula: Astronomy’s Lost Targets
Over a hundred Years ago a young Edwin Hubble showed the world that NGC2261 (soon to become Hubble’s variable Nebula) was pulsating. Amazing but something even more amazing shoved these amazing objects out of the limelight and into a forgotten branch of astronomy that few have considered again until now. . .
(oh and the even more amazing thing was the discovery of galaxies)
Hubble’s Variable Nebula – Big Amateur Telescope
Although Hubble’s variable nebula isn’t kicking off the way we would hope, we can still see the changes in the ripples of light in this animation which is the BAT’s most recent attempt.
But what we really want to see are the dark shadows passing over the nebula, and when it does, our team at the Big Amateur Telescope will be ready!
This recent GIF was made using a 5 day averaging of the submitted stacks with contributions by @HatMandew @TheCyberBrick @SpaceKadet @SPACEVISION @hnau @poptart @AstroBob @relogge @T3kko @[SF.FS]elSchabei @malden and @MrCrazyPhysicist all from The Big Amateur Telescope on the astrobiscuit discord server! The animation was then expertly processed by @MrCrazyPhysicist.
Hubble Space telescope caught similar ripples coming from a much older Cepheid Variable Star called RS Puppis
Tom Polakis’s bagged a dark shadow passing across Hubble’s variable nebula 5 years ago from Pheonix Arizona.
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I have written an SMS system in Java. I want to
execute that system as a background service in
Linux. My system is in a *.jar file. How can I do it
as a service in Red Hat?
You need to create a script file that you would put in
the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory. It must have a very
specific format, as clearly indicated on this page:
I suggest that you look at other scripts
in that directory to grasp the general format
of the file, especially the first 15 lines or so.
Felipe Barousse Boué
When starting a new service, I like to
copy the init script for SSH, because it's
usually the simplest. Put in whatever commands
you need to run to start your program from the
command line. For example, you might need to set
some environment variables to run a Java program.
Run your init script from the command line to make
sure it starts and stops your new service
correctly, then use your distribution's tool for
managing runlevels to make it run at startup.
Use chkconfig on Red Hat.
I use Webmin and ZoneMinder on my P4 2.2GHz, 1GB RAM system,
and the response is less than what I would expect. Is there a way to
speed up the loopback device?
I just upgraded some Webmin systems to the
latest Webmin, 1.140 at the time of this writing,
and I noticed a substantial speed improvement in
operation. I upgraded all modules as well. All this
was done directly from within Webmin.
Felipe Barousse Boué
The only lag on the loopback device is traversing the TCP stack;
this should be very fast. If you see performance issues, you may want to
look at a program called top (see man top) to see if there are any
It is highly unlikely that the loopback device is the culprit. It's
more probable that there's something else causing the performance lag,
network function or otherwise. Perhaps it's having timeout issues due
to failed DNS lookups or something similar?
I can't get my modem to work. I have a Creative Labs Blaster v92 PCI
internal modem. Linux recognized a Conexant chipset and attempted
to install the driver, but I received an error message. Should I try
installing SuSE Pro 9.0 instead?
Probably the easiest and most advisable solution
is to purchase a very inexpensive modem that is not
a Winmodem. You probably would get a better setup
with less complex stuff, and you will get a modem that
will last for many future Linux generations. Besides,
you will show manufacturers that we all want standard
modems, not proprietary ones.
Felipe Barousse Boué
It's almost never necessary to upgrade your entire operating system
simply to support a device. Without knowing the exact chipset you are
using, I can suggest only that you first determine if yours is a full
hardware modem or a so-called Winmodem. I suspect it is the
latter, because if it were a full hardware modem you probably wouldn't
be having any issues. Rather than updating your Linux distribution,
figure out which driver it was attempting to load and then go to the
Web to find an updated driver. Winmodem support under Linux is
ever-increasing (see www.linmodems.org for a good place to start).
If you are lucky, you will be able to find a newer, working,
version of the driver you are looking for—and save yourself a lot
of trouble to boot.
Are you looking for a tweaky project to help you
understand Winmodems, or do you simply want a Net
connection? Have a goal in mind before you decide
between the above two answers, and remember that if
you upgrade, you may need to redo your modem setup.
I would like to learn Red Hat 9. Can I install Red Hat
9 software and Windows 2003 server (Beta) software
on the same PC? My PC is a Dell PIII with 700MZ,
6GB hard drive and 128MB of RAM. I know I will need to
partition the hard drive. I saw the software for sale
on Amazon.com for about $70 US. I am new to this and
am trying to learn, so any assistance is appreciated.
Yes, you can install Linux and Windows on the
same machine to create what is called a dual-boot system. There are some details to watch,
though. Red Hat 9 has been discontinued so, to play
with Linux and and learn, I would get Fedora Core 1
(Red Hat-sponsored) instead. You can download it
Felipe Barousse Boué
The easiest way to try Linux is download
Knoppix from knoppix.org. This allows you to
try Linux and not impact your hard drive.
Most distributions can be downloaded for free,
including Red Hat 9. You may want to search for a
more up-to-date distribution such as Fedora Core 2.
I haven't personally tried setting up a boot manager with Windows 2003 server and don't intend to, but I have heard of several people doing so successfully. The procedure seems the same as with earlier versions of Windows. Here are the main things you need to be aware of:
1) Knoppix includes QtParted, a free software partition editor. The interface is not as polished, but QtParted does just as good a job of partition editing as PowerQuest's PartitionMagic and other proprietary programs, and you might as well get in the spirit by doing the job with free software. Knoppix, incidentally, makes a great rescue disk.
2) You'll want at least one partition for Linux and another of 125MB for a swap partition. Opinions vary about how to partition, with some people favoring putting the /home, /var and other directories on separate partitions. However, because you're just starting out, perhaps you want to use only one.
3) You might also want a FAT32 partition so that you can share files between your operating systems.
4) If Windows isn't already installed, install it first, right after you partition the drive. Windows does not tolerate another operating system during installation. You can work around the problems, but it's easier just to avoid them altogether.
5) When you're installing, make sure you install the GRUB boot
manager. The installation automatically detects the presence of
Windows, and the boot manager loads when the machine starts and offers
you a menu for choosing which operating system you want to start.
You don't need to resize your existing partitions with a partition editor if you're installing from scratch. All Linux distributions include a basic partitioning tool. If you do use a partition editor, keep in mind that if it fails you may lose important data. Make sure to back up your existing system first, and check that the backup is good before resizing any partition. Alternatively, as Rick Moen suggests, once you have a backup, you might as well just restore it to new partitions and save yourself the partition resizing step entirely.
But, your 6GB drive is too small to run two current operating systems comfortably. You might want to add a new, larger drive for Linux.
More advice for new users, including why dual
boot is usually a bad idea, is in “Welcome to
Linux, 2004” on the Linux Journal Web site
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Interestingly, Reinhart does not denounce this new tax. Financial repression is an expedient way of reducing debt, she says. For banks as well as the government, debt overhang is a major economic problem. But every tax has costs, including distortionary effects. Because financial repression punishes savers, its unknown to what degree it inhibits savings. What is clear is that all the elements are in place for more financial repression in the U.S. In the wake of Dodd-Frank, public sentiment is moving against laissez-faire capitalism. Reinharts advice for pension funds facing this potential onslaught is simple: I think awareness is the first step to being able to do something about it.
Financial repression arrives not with a bang but with a whisper. It is a very stealthy tax, says economist Carmen Reinhart of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Reinhart is the toast of economic circles these days for speaking out about the newest way Western governments are using financial repression to liquidate their debts, particularly after a financial crisis. Theyre doing this on the backs of savers, including pension funds, according to economists. In practice, financial repression can lead to the rape and plunder of pension funds, Reinhart tells Institutional Investor. Financial repression consists of very low nominal interest rates combined with captive lending by large banks or pension funds to a government. The low, stable interest rate facilitates the servicing costs of large public debts. Sometimes modest inflation is added to the mix. This results in zero to negative real interest rates that reduce government debt. Hence, broadly defined, financial repression is a wealth transfer from savers to debtors using negative real interest rates with the government as one of the key debtors. Financial repression is manifesting itself right now, says Reinhart, who works at the nonpartisan Washington-based research institute chaired by Pete Peterson, co-founder of Blackstone Group. Low interest rates are a fact of postcrash economic life, designed to kick-start greater borrowing. However, these rates tend to be combined with regulatory measures that give preferential treatment to holders of government debt. Reinhart outlined examples in her recent paper Financial Repression Redux, written with Peterson Institute colleagues Jacob Kirkegaard and M. Belen Sbrancia. The authors assert that governments in France, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, Spain and the U.S. are taking steps to create captive markets for their debt. The subtle, perhaps unnoticed result is a new form of taxation: financial repression.
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POLTAVA, Ukraine - Here's a story sure to "purr" on your heart-strings.
A cat in Ukraine named "Belka" has become a mother figure to two baby squirrels.
Belka had just delivered a litter of kittens when the one-month old squirrels were found abandoned by a neighbor.
So Belka's owners decided to place the squirrels among the kittens. She seemed to immediately open her heart, feeding and cuddling them.
It seems only natural that "Belka" in Ukrainian means "squirrel."
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If you’ve ever broken a bone, you know what a pain the healing process can be. You may end up wearing a cast for weeks, aching and itching as you wait for the fractured bone to get better.
In cases of severe bone damage, surgeons sometimes take bone from one part of the body and use it for repairs in other parts. Thanks to the wonders of bone biology, the procedure works, but it can be painful and expensive.
Cross section of a healed piece of rat’s skull.
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Now, scientists have invented a promising new material that could help encourage bones to grow back without many of the usual complications.
The researchers, from Switzerland, made a framework structure with a combination of star-shaped molecules, proteins, and protein fragments. Inside the framework, they put proteins called BMPs, which spark bone regrowth. When the structure is then attached to the site of an injury, bone-forming cells attach themselves to the framework and dissolve parts of it, allowing BMPs out as needed to fix the bone.
In tests with rats, the new framework structure encouraged bone regrowth in places where fragments of the animals’ skulls had been removed.
Someday, the new structure might eliminate the weeks of pain and tedium that most people face after breaking a bone. You’ll be climbing trees again in no time.
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For those who have already arrived at your ultimate goal weight, you might be wondering the best way to keep your weight reduction. In order to do that, your mindset must vary from certainly one of exercising to lose weight to exercising to keep fit. Exercising to keep fit can’t only assist you to keep your weight off, but it may also enable you to conserve a vibrant lifestyle. Make use of the following guidelines to help you exercise to keep fit.
• Exercise a minimum of three to five occasions per week. A great exercise program won’t be full of sporadic exercise. It’ll, however, contain an every week routine. Choose three to five days from your week to designate like a here we are at fitness. Exercising early each morning can help jumpstart your metabolic process as well as assist you to feel good. A good work out on your lunch time can help you prepare throughout your day.
• Concentrate on having your heartbeat up. When finding what exercise program provides you with probably the most health advantages, choose one which is full of heart healthy exercises. Brisk walking, jogging, riding a bike, etc are activities to help you get the heartbeat up. The trainer at the local gym might help design a course for you personally which will concentrate on heart healthy exercise.
• Do not let you to ultimately slack. After you have met unwanted weight loss goals, it may be easy to make a decision to skip on fitness. Remember how hard you’d to operate to obtain where you stand today. Adhere to your weekly fitness routine to be able to keep up with the weight reduction results.
• Obtain the family involved. Exercising to keep fit ought to be a means of existence for the whole family. A proper family is going to be one which plays together. Find activities for the family to savor which get them involved with fitness without knowing. Better the healthiness of your whole family by encouraging these to exercise to keep fit.
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Go online for the right reasons
A simplistic view would be that websites fall into two types. One sells product. The other sells the company. While these actions overlap and can be one and the same, they often breed different website journeys and points of entry.
We are generalising of course, but it doesn’t matter which type of website you have or need. What matters is your goal in having a website. Some add a website for nothing more than show. There is nothing wrong with that, but you need to be clear on what you want from your website, before you can start to grow it.
There is a belief that if you launch a website, fill it with SEO friendly content, traffic will slowly start to trickle in. This is possible, but given the online competitive landscape, it’s unlikely. Your website sits with hundreds, if not thousands, of others just like it. We all know the first page of search is where everyone wants to be, but only a handful of sites can be there.
The real work that goes into a website, happens after it’s launched. All the designing, features, testing and loading of content is the easy part. Once your site is live, the real work, energy, focuses and investment really begins.
We are not trying to discourage you. We feel pretty much any company or online seller needs a website in today’s world. Our point is, you need to be sure you have clear goals for your site, before you make it. If you plan to launch a site, but spend zero time, money or energy marketing it, then go for a simple and cheap out of the box solution for example.
It’s important to think about websites with realistic expectations. We love ambitious goals and targets, but realistic equivalents need to be in place and understood.
Science as an Art
There is a science behind website infrastructure. You can place a site on most servers with varying speeds and processing power. But you get what you pay for. A Magento site needs a minimum level of speed and processing power to load pages quickly. A great many sites die because they are parked on slow weak servers. These days, if your site takes more than 5 seconds to load, you would’ve likely lost a third of your traffic.
Websites require maintenance, no matter the platform. Typically, the more powerful and flexible the platform (Magento), the more support it needs to run. With great power comes great responsibility and while Magento is very powerful, you need to know how to run it long term.
We have design and IT expertise in any size of website, on most of the leading platform providers. Magento, WordPress, Woocommerce, Shopify and Bigcommerce to name-drop a few. But before we start helping you get online, we need to discuss your goals and in-house expertise. Let’s make sure we have clear goals about what your site needs to do.
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COBA Plastics Moulding has invested in an ATOS Q measuring device from GOM, which will allow the company to take on projects with strict dimensional tolerances, that require precise three-dimensional measurement at all stages of production.
Since its acquisition by the COBA group, CPM has undergone a process of continual development and investment, which has led to us winning more projects that demand the highest dimensional quality control. Until recently, all measurements were carried out with callipers and gauges or other non-digital processes, and this can be sufficient in many applications. However, in certain sectors such as automotive, where tolerances for moulded components can be as small as 0.1mm, precision is key.
The CPM team initially sought an external partner to take on the necessary measurement requirements, however, given the volume of work faced, it made more commercial sense to invest in equipment that will benefit all clients as well as widening the type of work CPM can carry out.
The manufacturer GOM describes the equipment functionality as follows:
‘Precise fringe patterns are projected onto the surface of the object and are captured by two cameras based on the stereo camera principle. GOM’s projection technology works with narrow-band blue light, which means that interfering ambient light can be filtered out during image acquisition.’
Our clients design complex products and machinery including cars, which are based on precise 3D CAD models. If an injection mould tool does not accurately reflect the original design drawing, then this will translate into issues with finished product. Automotive OEMs in particular have very high standards that we need to work to, such as RPS alignments and geometrics features, and by increasing the accuracy of our measurement processes, means more reliable end products.
CPM’s sister company COBA Automotive are used to dealing with tight tolerances and the two organisations have been able to share knowledge during the introduction of this new process. The ATOS Q unit is a 3D scanner than is ideal for moulded parts, whereas COBA Automotive who specialist in plastic extrusion, uses a polished resin process to analyse the accuracy of its profiles.
At COBA Plastics Moulding, the ATOS Q device will be used for three main functions day-to-day: tooling measurement, PPAPs (production part approval process), and in serial production.
Measuring injection mould tools is something that CPM hasn’t had the capacity to carry out until now and will allow the team to quickly identify whether non-conformance is related to the tool as opposed to other elements in the manufacturing process. Problems identified at this stage can prevent more expensive issues further along.
Providing more accurate information in the PPAP offers our customers reassurance that production will be consistent and meet their vital production schedules. And finally, using the device for measurement in serial production will improve the speed and reliability of quality control at the manufacturing stage.
The new technology has been in near constant use since its arrival in December, as the team tackle a backlog of PPAPs for some exciting projects with first tier suppliers in the automotive sector. Training on the tool was carried out during 3 days at GOM UK and CPM now has in the Quality team, three qualified graduate engineers that share the responsibility: Marcelo, Thaynara, Luis.
CPM’s APQP & Process Quality Engineer, Ketlyn Silva, said this about the new investment, ‘being able to offer this level of analysis is a big step forward and means that we’ll be able to work on a wider range of projects that require PPAP and serial production measurement, predominantly in the Automotive sector, but also for our non-automotive customers that need a precise and reliable quality inspection process.’
Speak to us today about how our new equipment can support your next project, in reducing production delays and ensuring the highest quality of finished product.
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While many women with postpartum depression (PPD) have had previous episodes of major depression and will go on to have other episodes of depression outside of the postpartum period, many have questioned whether postpartum depression represents a specific subtype of major depressive disorder (MDD), postulating that there may be characteristics which distinguish depression emerging during the postpartum period from depression occurring at other times in a woman’s lifetime. The most distinctive and defining feature of PPD is the timing of its onset. The temporal link between PPD and the postpartum period has led to the hypothesis that the hormonal changes which take place after delivery — the dramatic fall in levels of estrogen and progesterone — trigger depressive symptoms in vulnerable women. However, studies examining hormone levels during the postpartum period have not yielded data supporting this hypothesis.
To explore this question from a slightly different angle, O’Brien and colleagues examined whether women with a history of PPD have specific differences in brain activation which may be triggered by changes in levels of reproductive hormones. Specifically they looked at brain activation during the late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, which resembles the postpartum period in that levels of estrogen and progesterone are declining. They compared patterns of brain activation in women with histories of PPD to women with histories of non-postpartum MDD and to women with no history of MDD.
The study included 30 women: 10 with a history of PPD, 10 with no a history of non-postpartum MDD, and 10 with no history of depression. Participants underwent blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during an emotional faces task. In this paradigm, participants were presented with positive (happy), negative (angry) and neutral facial expressions, and activation of various regions of the brain was assessed.
Compared to women with previous (non-postpartum) MDD, women who had experienced postpartum depression had a distinct neural response to positive facial emotion during the late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, demonstrating a significant reduction in activation of the right amygdala when viewing happy faces and a similar, yet non-significant, reduction in the left amygdala. There was a trend toward decreased activation in the amygdala when women with PPD were compared to never-depressed individuals.
The finding of reduced amygdala activity in response to happy faces is consistent with a core information processing bias, where the individual attends less to positive stimuli. This processing bias has also been reported in individuals at risk of depression and in women with PMDD. (Women with PMDD also have increased activation of the amygdala in response to angry facial expressions.)
While these findings are preliminary and based on a small sample of women, they are thought-provoking and parallel the research of Miki Bloch in collaboration with Peter Schmidt and David Rubinow. In that study women with and without histories of PPD were treated with supraphysiologic levels of estradiol and progesterone for 8 weeks to mimic a normal pregnancy. After withdrawing the supplemental hormones (to mimic what happens during the postpartum period), women with histories of PPD experienced depressive symptoms similar to their previous episode of PPD. In contrast, women with no history of PPD did not experience depressive symptoms in this setting. Thus, Bloch’s study, like the fMRI study, indicates that the brains of women with histories of PPD respond differently to postpartum hormonal changes than women with histories of MDD.
The findings of the O’Brien study support the hypothesis that women with vulnerability to postpartum depression represent a distinct subgroup of women with a differential sensitivity to changes in reproductive hormones. The authors of the article speculate that this may be a potentially useful biomarker for identifying women at risk for postpartum depression. In addition, understanding the etiology of PPD in the context of a cognitive model of depression may help us to design specific interventions which target these deficits in cognitive processing.
Ruta Nonacs, MD PhD
Bloch M, Schmidt PJ, Danaceau M, Murphy J, Nieman L, Rubinow DR. Effects of gonadal steroids in women with a history of postpartum depression. Am J Psychiatry. 2000 Jun;157(6):924-30.
O’ Brien S, Sethi A, Gudbrandsen M, Lennuyeux-Comnene L, Murphy DGM, Craig MC. Is postnatal depression a distinct subtype of major depressive disorder? An exploratory study. Arch Womens Ment Health. 2020 Jul 15.
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MILES LAMBERT'S THREE CHANCES.
Miles Lambert's Uhree Chances.
BY MARY E. PALGRAVE.
THE FIRST CHANCE COMES.
DAY'S work in the
Purbeck quarries generally divides itself into two very distinct portionsthat done underground and
that done above. The morning is passed by the men down in the dismal caves and galleries of the quarries, where they hew and blast the blocks of stone out of the solid rock. These blocks are pushed and rolled, or, where the ground is even enough,
wheeled on little trucks, to the mouth of the quarry, and then hauled up the slippery, paved incline into the daylight by means of a chain and windlass, turned by a patient donkey. The afternoons are spent in one of the group of sheds gathered round the mouth of the quarry, in chiselling into some sort of shape the blocks of stone which it had been the morning's work to hew out from the rock below.
Miles Lambert had reached this pleasanter stage of his day's work one afternoon, about a fortnight after the storm I told you about in the last chapter. He was chipping away at a large oblong block of the Langton freestone in one of the sheds of Collins's quarry, where he worked, when a shadow fell across the sunny ground outside, and Raymond Layne made his
appearance. “I wanted to see you, Lambert,” he said, “and I thought I might walk down to the farm with you. Isn't it almost your time for leaving off work ?"
“Nigh upon it, sir. When the shadow of the windlass touches the wall of the shed yonder it'll be five o'clock, and I can go.”
Raymond leant against the wall and eyed the shadow of the windlass impatiently. At last it had crept across the space, and began to lay a black finger on the wall opposite. “Now, Lambert,” he cried, “your time is
at last! Put away your tools, and let us be off.”
Miles put his chisel and mallet into his basket, slung it over his shoulder, and followed Raymond from the quarry.
“I got a letter from my father yesterday,” said young Layne, “and do you know, Lambert, I am to start for London to-morrow.”
“ To-morrow? Oh, Master Raymond, I thought you were going to be here weeks and weeks longer!"
Miles had been looking sad before, but his face fell now more than ever. “So did I, but I suppose my father finds he can't
I get on without me. When I first came I did not think I could stay a week in this outlandish place, and now I wish I were going to be here ever so much longer.”
“ You have only been here just over a month," said Miles, dolefully; "and I am sure you are not anything like strong yet, sir—just think how tired you were after our climb up the Head.”
“Oh, I am as strong as I am likely to be, I believe," answered Raymond, gravely; for, though bright and vigorous now compared to what he was when he first came, his looks were still a great contrast to his sunburnt and sturdy companion's.
“ Will Stevens, who has been to London, says the sun never shines there, and it passes him how anybody can live in such a smoky place. You'd best stay with us, sir!”
“Oh, it isn't so bad as all that in London. Of course it's dark and foggy sometimes, but then there's so much going on! I can tell you, Miles, it's a grand thing only to stand in the streets and watch the stream of life going by. You see more people there in five minutes than you ever saw in your whole life, I'll be bound. Should not you like to see it all ?”
“Oh, shouldn't I !” cried Miles, whose eyes had kindled, as they always did, when Raymond spoke to him of the wonders of the great city. where's the good of talking about it? I shall never see London !”
“Oh, I don't know -" began his friend, eagerly; then broke off as if afraid of saying too much. “ London's the only place where you can really learn to be an artist, you know, Lambert.” (There were no Schools of Design then in the large towns as there are now.)
“ Yes—I know,” said the other, with a sigh.
“ Well,” went on Raymond, “I am more sorry to leave you than anybody or anything else in these parts.
You have shown me all sorts of things which I never knew before, and I should have found this place uncommonly dull but for
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"I am sure you have helped me ever so much more with my drawing, Master Raymond, and there's all the pencils and paper you've given me too. No one has ever helped me before, and I don't know how to thank you enough."
“Oh, nonsense!” said young Layne, gruffly. He found thanking easier work than being thanked.
“ It will be so dull when you are gone,” remarked Miles, mournfully.
"Oh, never mind, perhaps you will be comingat least, I mean I'm not worth missing, Lambert. You'll soon forget all about me."
“ I shall never forget you, sir,” he said huskily.
“I'll tell you what I want you to do, Lambert," said the other, rousing himself with a shake. “I want you to lend me some of your drawings to show my father. He would be interested in them, I know, and I've a particular reason for wishing him to see them. I can't tell you what it is now, but I assure you it's a very good reason indeed.”
Oh, but my drawings are not worth showing to anybody. Your father would laugh at them, sir; you did yourself at first, you know."
Only because I hadn't seen them ! Come, Lambert, which do you reckon the best judge of art—you or I? Won't you trust me with your drawings?” “ Trust
? Yes, indeed!” cried Miles, "take them and welcome, sir."
“I will come home with you now, and look them over, for they must be packed up to-night, as we are to start at six o'clock to-morrow morning."
They went down to the cottage, and Raymond looked over all Miles's drawings, and chose out a dozen of those which he thought would best serve to show off his young artist's talent.
“Mr. Turner shall see these, and Mr. Flaxman, and my father; and then, Lambert-well, then we shall see ! ” were his last mysterious words, when late in the evening the two parted.
Miles and his brothers and sisters were all waiting in the barton long before six o'clock next morning to see the travellers off. Mrs. Selby and Sally bustled in and out, busy with their preparations for the final breakfast. Raymond's travelling carriage had been brought out from its resting-place in the barn, and was undergoing a thorough cleaning at the hands of the farmer and two of his men. Presently the post-boy appeared with the horses which had come over the day before from the “Red Lion” at Welshcombe, and proceeded to harness them to the carriage.
It was time to start. Raymond Layne, attired once more in the mulberry-coloured travelling-coat
with its many capes, which had so excited the children's wonder and admiration at his first appearance at Rainscombe, ran out of the house to bid his friends good-bye. He was more sorry to part with them than he would have believed possible, and when the good-byes had all been said, the postilion had cracked his whip, and the carriage was lumbering slowly off along the rough road, he hung out of the window waving his hand to the five figures standing at the gate, and when they were out of sight dropped back into his seat with quite a heavy heart.
“ What did Master Layne mean, Miles, by saying he should soon see you again?” demanded Margery, when the carriage had quite disappeared from view. “ Did he
your head. What did he mean? Is he coming here again ? " “ Not that I know of,” said Miles, shortly.
I wish he would ! I wish he would come every single day!” cried Dick, looking down with awestruck eyes at the five-shilling piece which he had discovered in his astonished hand after Raymond had bidden him good-bye.
As for Robin, such marvellous things as silver coins had so seldom come in his small way that he did not at all know what to make of his crownpiece. He was presently discovered by Phyllis sucking it, and very much inclined to cry because it did not taste sweet.
“Come, children," said Margery, who had the wit to see that Miles was not in a mood to be teased with questions, “ mother will be wanting her cup of tea, and we mustn't keep Mrs. Tims from her work any longer to mind her. Come, Robin, let sister take care of your money for you, and when Miles goes over to Welshcombe he shall buy you something fine with it.”
She took the child's hand in hers, and they trooped down the hill.
Miles only went into the house to take up his knapsack, and trudged off with a brief “No” to Margery, when she called after him, “ Why, Miles, don't you want any breakfast?"
Poor fellow! it was with a sad and anxious heart that he went to his work that morning. The shock of finding his father's dead body among those who had perished in the wreck had been very terrible, and he was grieving bitterly for his loss. His mother, too, he felt sure was dying. Her strength had failed more every hour since the certainty of her husband's death had come home
MILES LAMBERT'S THREE CHANCES.
to her. Very soon he and his
brothers and sisters would be motherless and fatherless both. And this morning, besides these great griefs and some pressing anxiety besides—for was not he now sole bread-winner for the family? whom had they to look to but him ?-there was the additional trouble of losing his new friend, who had been so kind to him, and who had won for himself a bigger place in Miles's heart than he had known till he was gone.
Miles hammered a great many sad and rebellious thoughts into his block of stone that day, and came home at night looking miserably tired and unhappy.
There could be no going up on the down to see the sunset that evening-even if Miles and Margery had had the heart to do it-or for many evenings after. Margaret Lambert grew suddenly much worse, and though after several days of anxiety she rallied a little, it was plain that the end was very near.
“Here, Phyllis, child,” cried Farmer Selby's voice one morning about three weeks after Raymond Layne's departure, as the little girl was crossing the farmyard with her can of milk,
here's a letter for Miles. Give it him safe, and tell him I found it waiting for him at the inn at Swanford last evening, and brought it along with me.”
Phyllis wrapped the letter carefully in a corner of her pinafore, and ran home as fast as the milk would allow her.
The arrival of a letter was not the common event eighty years ago that it is nowadays, when even children think but little of the postman's knock. It then cost a shilling or more, according to the distance, to send a letter, so most people had to think a good deal about it before they wrote to their friends, and those who received the letters prized them a great deal more than they generally do now.
Except the two or three letters which at different times Margaret Lambert had received from her husband from sea, I don't think such a thing had ever yet come to the Lamberts' cottage, so you can fancy how eagerly the children crowded round Miles when he came in from work and Phyllis gave him his letter.
“ It is from Master Layne,” he announced, when in thrilling silence the large red seal had been broken and the letter unfolded.
“Dear Lambert,” read Miles, aloud, “I got home quite safely, after a very long and wearisome journey. The roads were so heavy about Winchester, owing to the storm, I suppose, that
we could only proceed very slowly, and once we actually stuck fast, and had to get another pair of horses from a farm which happily was near at hand, to drag us out of the slough. I began to think we should never get on at all. My father was from home when I got there, but as soon as he returned I showed him your drawings, and I can assure you that I never saw him better pleased in his life. When I told him that you had never had a single drawing lesson, he would scarce believe
Mr. Turner and several other excellent judges have also seen them, and they all say there is the making of a great artist in you, and are eager to see you. Now, my dear Lambert, I have a proposal Here Miles suddenly broke off, and sent the younger ones out of doors before he finished reading his letter aloud, with a flush on his cheeks and a curious, eager light in his eyes. Margery came and looked over his shoulder“a proposal to make to you on the part of my father. I have told you how he delights in helping artists and encouraging men of talent. Well, he desires me to tell you that if you are willing (and I know you are) to devote yourself to art, he will pay for your education as an artist and provide for your maintenance till you are in a position to be independent of help—which I prophesy will be in a very few years. Now I entreat you not to let any foolish pride or notions of independence prevent you from accepting this offer. I assure you there is nothing in it that would degrade the proudest man; my father looks on it as an honour to help men of talent, and he will be deeply hurt— I will not say offended—if you are too proud to accept the help he is proud to offer. I am sure I could not put the case more strongly than this, and you must not grieve me by a refusal. I cannot say how I am looking forward to having you near. I long to show you all Mr. Turner's pictures. Write, my dear Lambert, at once, and say when you will be prepared to start, and I will send you everything needful for your journey. In great anxiety for your answer, I am your sincere friend,
“ RAYMOND REYNOLDS LAYNE. “ P.S.—You know, when your fortune is made, as I can safely say it soon will be, and everybody is pressing to buy your pictures, you can pay back to my father anything your training may have cost him, if you are too proud to receive it as a gift.”
“Oh, Miles. Miles !” cried Margery, clapping her hands and dancing about with glee, “here's your
chance come at last. I knew it would !" But Miles thought of the children and sighed.
PEEPS INTO WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
Reeps into Westminster Abbey. .
was made standard-bearer to Henry V. on account
of his courage at the Battle of Agincourt. His By EVELYN L. FARRAR.
tomb forms part of the screen of the chapel, and is
ornamented with many devices, among others, PEEP VI.
water-skins (bougets), from his name Bourchier, E are standing now in the upper part buckles (Fr., boucliers), from the same derivation, of the north aisle, which extends the and catherine-wheels (Fr., rouet), from Roet, one whole length of the Abbey, broken of the family names. Next to him is the colossal only by the transepts, for, as we statue of James Watt (1819), the improver of the see, the Abbey is built in the shape steam-engine. His unwieldy figure, which sits in
of a cross.
To our left rises the an arm-chair, turning his back on the rest of the stately flight of steps and the brass Abbey, is quite out of place in this little chapel, gates leading to Henry VII.'s being out of all proportion to the other monuments. Chapel. In the centre is the Con- So large is it, that it was with difficulty brought into fessor's shrine, which is also raised the chapel at all, and as it crossed the threshold the
several steps above the ground. pavement gave way and "disclosed to the eyes of Far overhead, the glorious
the astonished workmen arches of the roof meet and
rows upon rows of gilded interlace like the waving
coffins in the vaults beneath; branches of forest trees, and
into which, but for the preso perfect is the architecture
caution of planking the area, that our gaze is lost among
workmen and work must them, and seems to wander
have descended, joining the on, as in forest glades and
dead in the chamber of avenues, to vistas of beauty
In the centre of the chapel Notice the richly-carved
is the monument to Sir Giles arch of Henry V.'s chantry
Daubeny, and on it is his on this north side. The car.
effigy in plate armour. On vings represent the figures
the soles of his shoes are of many saints, the coro
carved two monks, who have nation of the king, and his
apparently fallen asleep over devices, namely, the swans
their beads, and some supand antelopes of the De
pose them to allude to the Bohuns, from whom he was Ri
laziness of the monks genedescended, and the beacon
rally, who slept instead of or cresset-light which he
saying masses for the souls took for his badge after his
of the dead. accession.
Against the wall is the At the foot of the steps of
bust of Sir Rowland Hill, Henry VII.'s chapel is the
the "penny stamp,” as it grave of Edward Hyde,
has been called, he being Earl of Clarendon (1674),
the inventor, in 1840, of the author of the " History of ??
present rate of postage. Bethe Rebellion,” whose body
fore his time the postage of was brought from
a letter from one part of Rouen, where he had been
England to another was a exiled on a charge of high
shilling or more, so that the treason.
sending of a letter was a The first of the four chap
not the els on this side is that of
every-day event which we St. Paul's. At the entrance
now consider it. Poor peois buried Ludowick Robsart,
ple could seldom afford to Lord Bourchier (1431), who
Shrine of St. Erasmus.
send letters at all, and thus
PEEPS INTO WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
families once separated could have scarcely any intercourse with each other, and months might pass before any news could be received of absent relatives. A curious incident first called Sir Rowland Hill's attention to this state of things. While still a young man, he was walking through the Lake District, “when he one day saw the postman deliver a letter to a woman at a cottagedoor. The woman turned it over and examined it, and then returned it, saying she would not pay the postage, which was a shilling. Hearing that the letter was from her brother, Mr. Hill paid the postage, in spite of the manifest unwillingness of the woman.
As soon as the postman was out of sight, she showed Mr. Hill how his money had been wasted, as far as she was concerned. The sheet was blank. There was an agreement between her brother and herself that as long as all went well with him, he would send a blank sheet in this way once a quarter, and she had thus tidings of him without expense of postage.”
Mr. Hill rightly thought that there must be something wrong in a system that led people to cheat the Government in order to hear of each other's welfare, so he set to work to get this reformed, and succeeded in bringing in the penny stamp.
There are several other monuments in this chapel, but none of any great interest. We enter the next chapel, that of St. John the Baptist, through the shrine of St. Erasmus, which was built in the reign of Richard II. with the fine paid by John of Gaunt for the murder of a knight in the Abbey by two of his followers. The knight's name was Hawle, and the cause of dispute was a young Spanish count whom Hawle and Shackle, another knight, had taken prisoner during the campaign of the Black Prince in the North of Spain. The Spanish count appealed for protection to John of Gaunt, who was his friend, and the latter ordered them to release their prisoner. On their refusal, he shut them up in the Tower, whence they escaped and took refuge in Westminster Abbey. In violation of the rights of sanctuary, the followers of John of Gaunt pursued them into the sacred building, and burst in upon them just as High Mass was being celebrated. Shackle managed to escape, but Hawle was not so fortunate. Twice he was chased round the choir, his pursuers striking at him as he ran, and at last he sank, covered with wounds, at the north entrance of the choir, and was there despatched. So great was the horror inspired by this crime, that the desecrated Abbey was shut up for four months, and a fine of £2,000 was exacted by way of penance. With this money the
shrine of St. Erasmus was built-one of the most picturesque and beautiful bits in the Abbey. The entrance is a graceful arch supported by light clustered pillars, and there are marks of an iron gate, which has since disappeared. Within is a bracket, on which once stood the statue of St. Erasmus, the rays which surrounded his head still remaining on the wall. A lamp formerly hung in the centre, its smoke escaping through a hole which we see in the roof.
Passing through the shrine of St. Erasmus into the Chapel of John the Baptist we come upon the stone tomb of Sir Thomas Vaughan, treasurer to Edward IV. and chamberlain to Edward V. Next comes a tomb without any inscription at all, only a bare slab with a kneeling figure on each side. This is the monument of Colonel Edward Popham (1651) and Anne, his wife. He was one of the leaders of the Parliamentary army, and at the Restoration, when Charles II. ordered the removal of all the regicides from the Abbey, his body was taken away, but the monument was allowed to stay, at the intercession of his friends, on condition of the inscription being either erased or turned to the wall. From the condition of the slab, it is supposed that the inscription was erased. He is represented in plate armour, with a sash and sword, and his lady is in the dress of the period. In contrast to him is the Royalist, Thomas Carey (1649), a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles I., whose monument is next to that of Popham, and who died of a broken heart at the execution of his master. Close by are remains of ancient cupboards, in which, probably, vestments and plate were kept. Two grand-children of Edward I., by his daughter Elizabeth and Humphry de Bohun, are buried here. Their names were Hugh and Mary, and both died quite young.
At the end of the chapel is the imposing tomb of Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon (1596), chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth. His royal mistress had often promised to make him an earl, but as often put off the fulfilment of her promise, so that at last, worn out with disappointment and mortification at the long delay, he fell ill and died. As he lay dying, the queen came to see him, and laid the patent and robes on his bed. “ Madam,” he answered, "seeing you counted me not worthy of this honour while I was living, I count myself unworthy of it now I am dying."
Next to him lies the “grand conspirator," William of Colchester, Abbot of Westminster (1420), who, with six others, conspired against Henry IV., and swore to remain faithful till death
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Cybersecurity is not a destination, it’s an ongoing journey. Organizations were reminded of the relevance of this industry aphorism recently in new guidance from UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The security agency is concerned that an extended period of elevated cyberthreat posed by war in Eastern Europe may take its toll on systems, processes, and security teams.
Its document offers plenty of advice for IT security leaders in organizations of all sizes. Most importantly, it emphasizes the importance not just of best practice security controls and cyber-hygiene processes, but of attending more carefully to the human element of cybersecurity. With a “whole of organization” approach founded on effective user awareness training, organizations can not only support their security teams but also build a formidable first line of defense against threats.
Taking its toll
As the conflict in Ukraine enters its fifth month, the NCSC is right to be concerned. A protracted period of heightened tension could take its toll on staff and require a recalibration of risk decisions made months ago, when it seemed like the war would last just a matter of weeks. The agency differentiates between two distinct phases of geopolitical tension:
- An acute phase — when organizations must strengthen defenses and address vulnerabilities
- A protracted phase — when that stronger posture must be maintained to manage residual risk
Among those classic best practices recommended by the NCSC to get defenses up to par are:
- Vulnerability management and patching
- Enhanced access controls
- Up-to-date anti-malware and correctly configured firewalls
- Logging and monitoring
- Regular backups
- Incident response tooling and planning
- Vulnerability scans
- Anti-phishing tools
- Reviews of third-party access
Looking after your people
However, best practices aside, the NCSC is particularly concerned about the impact of a protracted phase of tension on security staff wellbeing. Increased workload and pressure over time could lead to lower productivity, unsafe behaviors, and an increased risk of human error, it said. All of this is especially true given severe skills shortages in the industry, which have left a shortfall of over 2.7 million workers globally, including 402,000 in North America and 199,000 in Europe.
The NCSC recommends several steps to tackle this, including:
- Empowering more security staff to make decisions, in order to enhance agility and free leaders to focus on medium-term priorities
- Spreading workloads more evenly across a wider pool of staff to reduce the risk of burnout and enable less experienced employees to benefit from development opportunities
- Providing opportunities for staff to recharge through more frequent breaks and time away from the office, as well as work on less high-pressure tasks
- Looking after each other by watching for signs colleagues are struggling and ensuring they always have the right resources at hand
A “whole of organization” approach
However, arguably the most important tip is the final one: engaging the entire workforce to strengthen the organization’s defenses. This echoes best practice “security-by-design” approaches — requiring companies to build a corporate culture where each and every staff member understands the importance of cybersecurity to the company’s mission and what they can do personally to reduce risk.
The first step on this road is undoubtedly improved user awareness training. Organizations can find a huge range of tools on the market to help with this. The best ones will allow them to run phishing and BEC simulation exercises that mimic real-world threat campaigns, collect and analyze data on how each staff member performed, and then adapt the program going forward. The best chance of effecting genuine behavioral change is to run courses little and often, say 10-15 minutes in length. And it goes without saying that everyone must attend — from the CEO down to part-timers and contractors.
As the hybrid workplace becomes a reality and more people work from home more regularly, such training has never been more important — especially as many say they feel more distracted when working away from the office.
To this advice, the NCSC makes an important additional point: Organizations must also have the right internal communications processes in place to join-up everyone involved in the security mission.
The new normal
In many ways, this conflict and the extended period of heightened cyberthreat it represents is the new reality of cybersecurity in the 2020s. In the same week as the NCSC’s announcement, the leaders of MI5 and the FBI gave an unprecedented joint press conference to warn of the “massive” threat to businesses, academics, and Western political systems from China. In many ways, this is a threat without end.
Understanding the acute and protracted phases of what could be a cyclical raising and downgrading of tensions is going to be an increasingly important discipline for corporate cybersecurity bosses. Better start planning now.
Phil Muncaster is a technology writer and editor with over 12 years’ experience working on some of the biggest technology titles around, including Computing, The Register, V3 and MIT Technology Review. He spent over two years in Hong Kong immersed in the Asian tech scene and is now back in London where information security has become a major focus for his work.
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This is an installment of Suzette Andujar’s weekly column “As I Was Saying”
I’m just going to say it: I’m a crybaby. I don’t just cry, I ugly cry. The bottom part of my face twists up, the top part goes down and it’s smushed right in the middle, both sides pressing against my nose. Tears flow over the mass of contorted features and my sobbing is loud and aggressive.
I’d say that was a pretty accurate description of me when Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” came up on the radio one night. I told myself that I’d never hear that song again, not after what happened with Jack and Rose in “Titanic.” However, after the first three notes came on I was done and didn’t care who saw me.
One lunch break, I finished up a book and the ending was not what I expected. I felt it coming: the ugly cry, so I ran to my car and let it take over; it was truly horrific. A passerby would think I was crying over the death of someone I knew or losing a job, but no, it really was over a book. There is no right or wrong thing to ugly cry over. The local zoo polar bear had babies and they’re so adorable and it’s the circle of life? Ugly cry. You’re late for class because you keep circling the parking lot and there’s not one spot open? Ugly cry. Someone just grabbed the last chocolate doughnut? Ugly cry!
I feel better after ugly crying. So much pain and sorrow is released and I don’t have to cry about it any longer. It’s good to release emotions and let your conscience clear itself. The best part is that you can’t force it out; it comes naturally, so it’s totally organic. And isn’t organic the most popular craze? So we all win.
The downside to ugly crying is not the loss of beauty, but the loss of privacy. Just as the reasons can come from anything, the cry can happen anywhere and fighting is futile. Unfortunately for me, the cry almost happened in my communications class. My professor played a commercial about the enduring bond between a show horse and its trainer. We had to talk about what the advertisers were trying to evoke from viewers. As “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac played, my eyes watered. I felt an itch in my nose and had to scrunch it up and my throat went dry. It was coming.
I knew I couldn’t embarrass myself so I tried to detach my emotions, but it didn’t work. I tried to cough, but it was stuck, just like my soul. I panicked because the lights were about to go back on and I would become Nosferatu. Not wanting to scare my classmates, I held it together and caught an ugly tear. A person has to be emotionless to fight off an ugly cry, but it can be done. My heart will continue to go on, but my ugly cry will go on even longer.
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Earlier this year Meg Medina received the Newbery Award for Merci Suárez Changes Gears. The author is the second Latinx writer to win the coveted honor. The novel—Medina’s seventh book—is her second middle grade book and follows an 11-year-old Cuban-American girl who is a scholarship student at a private school in Florida.
You have spoken about needing powerful counternarratives to stereotypes about Latino immigrants in this country.
There are days when I am unspeakably sad about the narratives that have taken hold in our country regarding immigrant families—about how and why they arrive and about their so-called danger to us as a nation. I see a growing distrust, an us-and-them characterization, and mostly an ugly use of negative stereotypes that is poison to kids’ self-concept. I wrote Merci Suarez Changes Gears in celebration of immigrant families who love and support each other and who sacrifice themselves in large and small ways. I wrote about a clan for whom family is the center of absolutely everything. Those are the families I knew. Those are the families I see today.
You wrote about Merci’s grandfather Lolo and his decline due to Alzheimer’s. Why did you want to share this subject with young readers?
Kids deal with sad events in their lives, large and small. It can be as relatively simple as failing a test or as major as having a loved one grow ill or die. Most often, the first experience with loss is through grandparents. I chose Alzheimer’s’ disease as a vehicle because it is a loss on two levels: the loss of the personality, and then of the physical person. Right now, five million people live with the disease, and it impacts many more thousands of people who love them. The issue seemed relevant to a lot of readers.
“The Very Best in Middle Grade: Soman Chainani, Meg Medina, Raina Telgemeier, and Tracey Baptiste” 1:30–2:05 p.m. // Choice Stage
Favorite books as a Kid: Charlotte’s Web and the Nancy Drew series.
Favorite books as a teen: I jumped right into adult books. I remember getting addicted to Agatha Christie novels. I also read wildly inappropriate things, like The Happy Hooker.
Pumpkinheads, the graphic novel written by Rainbow Rowell and illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks, focuses on love, friendship, and a pumpkin patch. Rowell calls it the “most lighthearted thing” she’s ever written. Hicks says, “I knew together we could make something really special, and I think we have.”
What was your collaboration like?
Rowell: I wrote a pretty detailed script and described the setting and characters. Then Faith came to visit me in Omaha because she’d never been to a pumpkin patch before! She really had a vision right away for how the script would work as a graphic novel. Looking back, it’s kind of miraculous that we were on the same page so quickly.
Hicks: Usually Rainbow would have a description for certain locations, and I would take her description and run with it. It also helped that, together, we visited a pumpkin patch, which was one of the inspirations for this book. I took lots of pictures and used them as reference, but I’d usually change the designs a bit or pump up the camp factor. Like, there wasn’t a caramel apple stand that was literally shaped like a caramel apple in the real pumpkin patch we visited, but I thought it would be fun to draw the stand that way in the comic book version.
What is the best aspect of writing and illustrating for young adults?
Rowell: I love teen readers because they’re not afraid to be earnest and enthusiastic. And adults who read YA are kind of the same way.
Hicks: Younger readers, both kids and teens, are a challenging audience. They are smart and won’t sugarcoat things for you when they don’t like a book you’ve made. But when they love something, there’s no audience with a greater passion.
“Must Read YA Graphic Novels” 1:45–2:30 p.m. // Room 1E14
Rowell's favorite books as a kid: Every Ramona book.
Hicks: The Chronicles of Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander.
Rowell's favorite book as a teen: The World According to Garp by John Irving.
Hicks: I had probably an unhealthy fondness for Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. I wanted to be Clarice Starling when I grew up.
Rowell's favorite word: Today? “Respite.”
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Auke Visser´s German Esso Tanker's site | home
Kiowa - (1913-1914)
"Kiowa" was build in 1913 by Kieler Howaldtswerke AG, Kiel for the Deutsch- Petoleum GmbH, Hamburg.
In 1914 laid up in the USA.
1914 sold to the Standard Shipping Co. of New Jersey, New York and renamed "Pioneer".
In 1928 sold to Standard Shipping Co., Wilmington.
In 1933 sold to Standard Oil Co. of Venuzuela, Christobal Colon.
Sold in 1938 to the Boston Iron & Metal Co., Boston for breaking up.
Drawing by Karl-Heinz Schwadtke.
Additional Info by Starke & Schell Registers :
KIOWA - 1913 GE 1Q (aft) (9)
5,076 GRT for Deutsch-Amerik. Petroleum Ges., Hamburg 385.4 x 52.4
Tanker build by Howaldtswerke, Kiel (7) #564
Put back to New York 31 July 1914, transferred to U.S. flag
1914 - PIONEER Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), Bayonne USA 212913
1927 - Standard Shipping Co., Wilmington, Del.
1932 - Standard Oil Co. of Venezuela, Cristobal Colon VE
Broken up at Baltimore 1938 by Boston Iron & Metals Co., arr. in Patuxent River 8.8.38.
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Since I wasn’t even alive in 1968, I’ll defer to Boomers and historians to tell us whether the country was more divided back then or today. In my lifetime, however, I can confidently say that the racial, political, economic, and ideological polarization has never been worse, nor has the violence and outrage.
No matter the issue, from public policy to personal morality to global health, people seem to immediately run to their ideological and political corners: No discussion, little charity, less concern about the requirements of a common life together, but a lot of yelling. It’s difficult to imagine a people less able to accomplish a life together than us, with no shared vision and no shared memory.
Tomorrow, however, offers us an opportunity to come out of our ideological and political corners and agree to commemorate a significant day in American history. Every American, regardless of politics or background, should reflect on a day marked in many African American communities for over 150 years.
Tomorrow, June 19th, is Juneteenth, the anniversary of the day in 1865 in which the particularly vicious evil of chattel slavery effectively came to an end in this country. Here’s the history.
In 1862, President Lincoln issued the most famous executive order in history, known as the Emancipation Proclamation. “…on the first day of January,” read the order, “in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State … in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free.”
With this order, Lincoln only declared the emancipation of slaves within the Confederacy. Pro-Union border states and even areas in the South controlled by Union troops were not “in rebellion against the United States.” Practically speaking, the Emancipation Proclamation was more symbolic than effective.
The surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox in April of 1865 signaled the end of the Confederacy and foresaw the final end of slavery. Even then, however, pockets of resistance persisted. Emancipation would have to be enforced.
On June 19, 1865, “more than two thousand Federal soldiers of the 13th Army Corps arrived in Galveston [Texas] and with them Major General Gordon Granger . . . Granger’s men marched through Galveston reading General Order, No. 3,” which informed “the people of Texas… that, in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”
That is a moment worthy of commemorating.
In fact, African-Americans in Texas began commemorating Juneteenth the very next year, 1866. As African-Americans migrated north and west, they took the commemoration with them. Even today, though officially recognized in hundreds of cities and in 47 out of 50 states, Juneteenth remains largely an African-American celebration.
But it’s a day all Americans should commemorate. Juneteenth was the culmination of the efforts of men and women across race and social standing to put an end to a particularly shameful practice on our shores.
Last year, my Colson Center colleague Tim Padgett wrote an outstanding column on Juneteenth at BreakPoint.org,. In it, he described how American abolitionists “were driven by the understanding that the realities of American Slavery were irreconcilable to their Christian beliefs about the dignity of humanity and their American dreams about the centrality of liberty. They saw that the slave was as made in the image of God as anyone else and therefore as deserving of honor as themselves.”
Juneteenth 1865 is an important event in our national timeline, an attempt to live up to what Chuck Colson liked to call our American creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
We’ve not yet lived up to that creed. We still have a long way to go. Perhaps remembering Juneteenth together could remind us of the type of nation we say we are, and compel us to keep trying.
Galveston Historical Foundation | June 2020
Timothy Padgett | Breakpoint | June 21, 2019
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Larry Altose, A DOE spokesman, said that 20 of 36 water pollution reports, filed from 1999 to 2002 by an unnamed MICC wastewater treatment plant operator, were falsified. Several of those reports were falsified to cover up permit violations, said Altose.
The plant processes 350,000 gallons of wastewater each day. The wastewater collects in a reservoir on McNeil Island. In one case, fecal coliform levels in the wastewater were four times the acceptable limit. In other cases, the wastewater was too murky or too contaminated to carry sufficient oxygen to sustain fish and other resident aquatic life, said Pam Jenkins, the Environmental Service Director for the DOC.
The problem was corrected in July of 2002, and the plant operator who filed the false reports was put on administrative leave with pay, according to Jenkins. Since then, the former plant operator has continued to draw his $40,000 yearly salary, at taxpayers' expense, without ever having to report to work.
The DOC was ultimately fined $60,000 for filing the bogus reports. Jenkins said she would prefer a negotiated settlement, such as the establishment of a wastewater plant training program with periodic audits at each Washington prison, over the DOC's actually having to pay the fine.
Source: The Tacoma News Tribune
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Big retailers like Amazon.com had threatened to cut off all relationships with marketers inside Texas if the bill became law. Advocates said the bill would have brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in new state revenue, while opponents said it would add nothing to state coffers and shut down dozens of small businesses.
Texas store owners have complained that Internet retailers have an unfair price advantage because they are not required to collect state sales tax. But Perry said he was afraid this bill would have unintended consequences.
"My strong preference is to conduct a thorough policy discussion with Texas lawmakers, consumers, retailers and technology experts -- and with other states and even the federal government -- about interstate commerce and the structure of state sales taxes in the 21st century," Perry said. "That conversation is under way, and I believe that a consensus can and should be reached."
The Alliance for Main Street Fairness, a group advocating for the law, said it hoped the measure might survive in other legislation now under consideration in a special session to balance the state budget.
"We are undeterred by today's veto because legislation necessary to balance the budget and fully fund schools is likely to pass in a special session," said Eric Bearse, spokesman for the alliance. "We remain confident the governor will sign legislation that will level the playing field for brick-and-mortar businesses that create local jobs, pay local property taxes and collect the sales tax. We expect to be victorious."
Four other states have passed similar legislation and it is under consideration in 13 more. Online retailers have filed suit against a similar law in New York and have canceled contracts with companies in Illinois.
A separate measure to establish a standardized approach to sales tax collection from Internet sales has been introduced in the U.S. Senate.
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Measure Tools allows you to measure the distance of an object (building, tree, person …) and its height. This is done by combining data from the motion sensor of your windows phone device and some trigonometry.
‚Measure Tools‘ supports European and Anglo-American unit types (meters, centimeters, inches, and feet).
The usage of this tool is simple but yet it’s powerful:
- Adjust your phone to the height of the measurement level (the height, you hold your phone), the „eye height“. This only need to be done once and per default is set to 175cm / 65 inches.
- Point your phone at the ground of the object you want to measure the distance. The important point is aiming the camera at the GROUND, NOT the object or the wall. (i.e. In order to measure the distance from someone, aim at his shoes). The distance is displayed immediately – press the shutter of the phone camera (or tap the camera icon) to store the distance.
- Now point at the objects highest point and press the shutter of the phone camera again (or tap the camera icon on the command bar). The height of the object is displayed.
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Pfizer announces vaccine trial for pregnant women
Pregnant women's physiology is much different than other people's, so how does the COVID-19 vaccine affect them?
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN)- The COVID-19 vaccine producer, Pfizer/BioNTech, has announced a new trial that will evaluate their vaccine in pregnant women.
Pregnant women were not included in their first clinical trials, so, there isn’t as much data on this particular group, Pfizer’s trial will be a big help in creating more conclusive data on the subject.
A professor of international health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dr. Anna Durbin, told ABC News: “These trials will provide important data on the safety and immunogenicity of the vaccines in pregnant women. These data weren’t collected during the Phase 3 trial and will build confidence for the use of these vaccines in women who are pregnant.”
Even though this data is preliminary, the studies show “the risks of COVID during pregnancy are of increased premature labor, increased intubation, and increased deaths compared to those women that don’t have COVID in pregnancy,” Dr. Jacques Moritz, medical director of TIA Women Health, said to ABC News.
Dr. Laura Riley, OB/GYN-in-Chief at New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine, noted that pregnant women’s physiology is much different than other people’s.
“These data will reveal information about safety, help us to understand the side effect profile of these vaccines in this population, and the immune responses of both mother and baby,” Riley said to ABC officials.
This trial will include about 4,000 women who are within weeks 24-34 of their pregnancy, and half will receive the vaccine, half will receive a placebo, according to Pfizer’s press release. The release also said that the women included in the trial will be 18 years and older in the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mozambique, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Spain.
Those participating in the trial will get two doses 21 days apart. Then, each participant will be followed for 7-10 months so researchers can continue studying them.
The trial doesn’t stop at birth though. The babies will be assessed until they’re 6 months old.
“Pregnant women have an increased risk of complications and developing severe COVID-19, which is why it is critical that we develop a vaccine that is safe and effective for this population,” Dr. William Gruber, senior vice president of Vaccine Clinical Research and Development for Pfizer, stated in the release.
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A teen in Argentina has become the first bug bounty hacker to become a millionaire. He was self-taught. Interestingly however, the hacking was with the aim of creating a safer internet. Legal hacking? What is it and how does it work?
Santiogo Lopez from Argentina goes by the handle @try_to_hack. This programme started through his reporting of security weaknesses to companies. So called ‘bug bounty’ programmes through HackerOne has allowed him to report more than 1,6000 security flaws to organisations. This is not just for local Argentinian companies. Lopez has aided the likes of Twitter, Verizon Media Company, numerous private organisations and even government bodies.
What is a ‘bug bounty’?
When I first came across this story, I had no idea that legal hacking was on a massive scale, let alone what a ‘bug bounty’ was. However, it is a reward which is given to a hacker who reports an organisation’s valid security weakness.
Given the increased threat of attacks, worry over GDPR and data generally, it is unsurprising that this is a popular way for organisations to test their cyber-security.
What sort of scale are we looking at?
I’m sure that you are like me and wondering how a self-taught hacker reaches millionaire status. My mind went to how many organisations he must have to hack. Also, who is employing him?
Over 1,200 organisations have partnered with HackerOne. Therefore, clientele includes; the US Department of Defence, Google, Twitter, Nintendo, Starbucks, Dropbox, Intel. Wow. Lopez has found more than 100,000 vulnerabilities and award in excess of $45 million in bug bounties.
“To me, this achievement represents that companies and the people that trust them are becoming more secure than they were before, and that is incredible. This is what motivates me to continue to push myself and inspires me to get my hacking to the next level,” said Lopez.
Who are HackerOne?
Lopez is not the only hacker under HackerOne. In fact, he is one of 330,000 hackers. HackerOne is a private bug bounty platform that connects businesses to cyber-security researchers.
Hackers through HackerOne’s main aim is to report security vulnerabilities before they can be exploited by criminals.
“The entire HackerOne community stands in awe of Santiago’s work,” said HackerOne CEO Marten Mickos. “Curious, self-taught and creative, Santiago is a role model for hundreds of thousands of aspiring hackers around the world”
According to the latest report, HackerOne’s earnings in 2018 reached $19 million – from $9.3 million in 2017. There is clearly a demand. They also have a location to brag about: there are contributors in more than 150 countries.
How do you learn how to hack?
Most hackers are unsurprisingly self-taught. Access to this information is (more surprisingly) easy with free online tutorials, blogs and pop-culture.
Lopez’s story is certainly an inspiring one. When he was 16, he joined HackerOne. In the past three years, Lopez was hacking after school, now full-time earning nearly 40 times the average software engineer salary in Argentina.
Still not sure where to look for legal hacking? HackerOne offers Hacker101 services (a free collection of videos, resources and hands-on activities) to allow teaching for bug bounty hunters.
How many people know about this?
According to HackerOne, 64% of US citizens understand that not all hackers act maliciously. Interest in the community is also growing. I almost feel embarrassed I did not understand the scale of this before.
In terms of who learns how to hack:
- 41% learn to contribute to their career
- 13.5% learn to have fun
- 14.26% learn for the money.
I still find it strange to use the word ‘hacking’ in a positive sense. What are your thoughts?
My perceptions about the potential benefits of these hackers has certainly changed. It seems that to increase security for individuals, organisations may have to embrace this ‘legal hacking’ community.
Would you agree with General Motors that “hackers have become an essential part of our security ecosystem”?
Additionally, would you ever be tempted to use HackerOne?
Please let me know your thoughts below!
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The paper studies the model matching problem for nonlinear systems, described by a higher order input–output differential equation, not necessarily realizable in the state–space form. Only the feedforward solution is looked for. The probleem statement and solution rely on the recently introduced concept of a generalized transfer function for nonlinear systems. We require that the transfer functions of the compensated system and that of the prespecified model be equal, like in the linear case. However, in the nonlinear transfer function formalism one does not work with equations but with differential one-forms, and the existence of the compensator is restricted by integrability of the one-form corresponding to the compensator. Necessary and sufficient but nonconstructive solvability conditions are given. The second theorem lists a number of different (constructive) conditions under which the one-form is integrable. Additional freedom is sometimes obtained by forcing the conditions of the second theorem to hold via introducing assumptions suggested by the Euclidean division algorithm.
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- Doctors treating severe COVID-19 cases in New York attempted stem cell therapy on 12 patients, 10 of whom came off ventilators after receiving treatment.
- It’s unclear whether the novel coronavirus disease can be cured with stem cells, but researchers at Mesoblast are going to conduct a clinical trial on 300 severe patients to find more answers.
- Anecdotal evidence indicates that stem cells can be helpful, but the science behind it has to be explained.
- Visit BGR’s homepage for more stories.
The novel coronavirus might not have a cure right now, but it’s still worth acknowledging the massive research effort that goes into discovering treatments that can limit COVID-19 complications and prevent death. Doctors have observed the positive effects of a garden variety of drugs that are supposed to treat other illnesses, and some of these medicines are included in massive trials around the world. Scientists are also working on over 70 vaccine candidates for COVID-19, with some of them already showing promising results. On top of that, there’s plasma from survivors that’s rich in antibodies that can help people with weaker immune systems. And doctors think they’ve discovered another promising treatment for COVID-19: Stem cells.
You often hear about stem cells and those reports are often miraculous in nature. Stem cells are human cells that have the “superpower” to transform into almost any cell of the body and they can be used to treat some medical conditions. Stem cells could regenerate lung tissue, fight inflammation, and help severe COVID-19 patients breathe on their own again. The problem with this line of thinking is that we just don’t know.
Doctors at Mount Sinai treated 12 patients with stem cell therapy, and 10 of them came off their ventilators soon after, CBSNews reports. The doctors themselves have no idea what helped the patients improve, and can’t definitively say that it’s the stem cells that saved their patients.
“What we saw in the very first patient was that within four hours of getting the cells, a lot of her parameters started to get better,” Dr. Karen Osman told CBS. The doctor made it clear that they can’t claim the stem cell treatments are what saved the patients. “We don’t know,” she said. “And we would never dare to claim that it was related to the cells.”
The doctor explained that only a randomized controlled trial would be able to tell them whether the stem cells can help with the recovery of COVID-19 patients. Thankfully, one such study is about to get underway. Mesoblast will trial stem cell treatments on 300 patients suffering from severe lung inflammation.
Osman and her team believe that stem cells extracted from bone marrow could suppress the inflammation in COVID-19 patients, and that’s why they attempted the therapy. One such patient was 60-year-old Luis Naranjo who spent 14 days unconscious on a ventilator and lost 25 pounds while hospitalized of COVID-19. Naranjo has completely recovered following stem cell therapy, and he’s at home working on regaining his strength.
If it works, stem therapy would still not be a “miracle treatment,” Osman says. “The miracle treatment will be a vaccine.” While we wait for any sort of efficient COVID-19 treatment, here’s a simple explainer for stem cells:
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What I love about David Hockney is that his public utterances are invariably completely right and totally wrong at one and the same time. Part of the trick is his delivery. Hockney may be our national curmudgeon, but he is such a good natured curmudgeon that it hardly matters whether you agree with him or not. For example, he is entirely correct when he says that smoking is one of the greatest pleasures known to man and that the government should allow anyone who wants to smoke do so at their own risk. But isn’t it equally true that there is some justification in the government’s use of the law to discourage people from taking up (or persisting in) a habit that is, after all, pretty certain to kill them?
And so it is with his comments on Damian Hirst, reported yesterday. Hockney knows more about art history than most curators. He is perfectly well aware that artists have not always made their own work. He knows all about Rubens’s studio assistants, the workshops of Lucas Cranach and the technicians who actually carved Rodin’s marble statues. I’ll bet too that he’s cast a critical eye over Hirst’s oeuvre and has decided which pieces (if any) are successful and which aren’t. When Hockney notes that in his forthcoming show at the Royal Academy “all the works were made by the artist himself, personally” he is teasing a younger artist who probably deserves it and can certainly take it.
It’s what he said later in the interview that I find so moving. “I used to point out, at art school you can teach the craft; it’s the poetry you can’t teach. But now they try to teach the poetry and not the craft.’’ He’s saying that students used to be taught how to draw perfectly at the expense of their individuality. Now scores of students graduate from art colleges believing that everything they do or touch or say can be labelled a work of art but they couldn’t draw a rabbit if you held a gun to their heads. There you have it: the difficulty of teaching art in a nutshell.
In my view, what matters above all is the poetry. If the work has that then does it really matter how it was made? The question then is – how do you define `poetry’. I find the paintings of Jack Vettriano repellent, but they are certainly made by the artist himself. On the other hand I’m a fan of the Thai performance artist Rirkrit Tiravanija who comes into a gallery to cook and serve delicious Thai food. Once the show is over there is nothing to look at, but you’ve had an experience that Jamie Oliver would recognize as important: the use of cooking to bring communities together, the rejection of fast and pre-cooked food as the first step in living a good life. I happen to know that Hockney doesn’t think that what Rirkrit does is art, and maybe it isn’t. Who cares? As I said, Hockney is always right and always wrong. That’s why I love to disagree with him.
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Number of distressed fish stocks rose in 2015
WASHINGTON – The number of fish stocks listed as distressed grew slightly last year, but federal officials say that’s partly because their tracking methods are improving.
The tally of overfished stocks grew from 37 in 2014 to 38 in 2015, while the number subject to overfishing grew from 26 to 28, according to an annual assessment released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries division.
Overall, the number of stocks in each category remain near all-time lows, thanks largely to stringent catch limits. Those limits occasionally have led to disputes among government regulators, environmental advocates and industry representatives.
The Gulf of Mexico saw some of the most important progress, with hogfish, greater amberjack and gray triggerfish among eight stocks removed from the list of stocks subjected to overfishing.
In addition, two stocks – Canary rockfish and Petrale Sole (both along the Pacific coast) – are considered rebuilt.
At the same time, three western stocks of Chinook salmon, swordfish in the eastern Pacific and bigeye tuna off the Atlantic coast were among stocks added to the subject-to-overfishing list.
The uptick in stocks needing protection follows four straight years of improvement in the overall health of the nation’s fisheries. But the new numbers aren’t not necessarily bad news, said Alan Risenhoover, director of NOAA’s Office of Sustainable Fisheries.
“What that shows is, as we’re getting better information on the status of these fisheries, we’re then able to better manage them,” he said.
He pointed to hogfish off the coast of southeast Florida, one of 10 stocks added last year to the list of stocks subject to overfishing. Hogfish might have been in bad shape before, but this was the first year researchers had enough data to determine the stock’s health.
A stock that is subject to overfishing is being harvested at a higher rate than its rate of reproduction. An overfished stock has a population size that is considered too low. A rebuilt stock is one that was overfished but has rebounded enough to sustain its population while being harvested.
Wednesday’s report comes as Congress considers reauthorizing the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the law governing the nation’s fisheries and the eight regional councils that oversee their management.
Many of the gains have occurred since the last reauthorization in 2006, when councils were permitted to impose catch limits to help distressed sticks remain sustainable.
Stringent catch limits on such high-profile stocks as red snapper in the Gulf have helped those populations but squeezed fishermen and nearby coastal communities that depend on fishing for their economic vitality.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are considering legislation that would allow councils to consider more than just NOAA data to set catch limits or would give states more control to regulate fishing, moves environmentalists generally oppose.
“As Congress considers possible changes to the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the lessons of today’s (NOAA) report are crystal clear: don’t mess with a remarkably successful statute,” said Matt Tinning, senior director of U.S. Oceans for the Environmental Defense Fund.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries division on Wednesday released its annual stock assessment for 2015. Eight stocks were removed from the list of stocks considered subject to overfishing and ten were added. Stocks considered subject to overfishing are being harvested at a higher rate than their rate of reproduction.
Removed from subject-to-overfishing list:
Hogfish - Eastern Gulf of Mexico
Puerto Rico Scups and Porgies Complex
Puerto Rico Wrasses Complex
Thorny skate - Gulf of Maine
Winter skate - Georges Bank/ Southern New England
Windowpane - Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank
Greater amberjack - Gulf of Mexico
Gray triggerfish - Gulf of Mexico
Added to subject-to-overfishing list:
Hogfish - Southeast Florida (stock formerly listed as unknown)
Chinook salmon - Columbia River Basin: Upper River Summer
Chinook salmon - Washington Coast: Willapa Bay Fall Natural
Chinook salmon - Washington Coast: Grays Harbor Fall
Coho salmon - Washington Coast: Hoh
Swordfish - Eastern Pacific
Yellowtail flounder - Southern New England/ Mid-Atlantic
Winter flounder - Georges Bank
Bigeye tuna - Atlantic
SOURCE: NOAA fisheries division
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Usually, the cells of the liver are where liver cancer takes place. The liver is a football-sized organ that is found beneath the diaphragm and just above the stomach. There are various types of cancer that form in the liver and the major one is the hepatocellular carcinoma. This begins in the liver cells (hepatocyte). Other than this, there are intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma as well as hepatoblastoma which are less common. The most common type of cancer is a cancer that originates in the other body part and spreads to the liver. Such cancers are called metastatic cancer and not called as liver cancer. These are named after the body part in which a cancer begins like metastatic colon cancer which means a cancer that starts in the colon and has spread to the liver. Of late, Liver Cancer Treatment in India has become quite common with leading hospitals performing the same.
Liver cancers are categorized as:
Potentially resectable or transplantable
Inoperable with only local disease
In the early stages, there will not be any symptoms of liver cancer. Some of the symptoms that appear are:
Without trying losing weight
Loss of appetite
Vomiting and Nausea
Pain in the upper abdominal
Fatigue and general weakness
White, chalky stools
Yellow discoloration of your skin and the whites of your eyes (jaundice)
If you have persistent symptoms, then it is ideal to consult the Cancer specialist in Delhi.
Liver cancer happens in those whose liver cells mutations occur in DNA. Normally, a cell’s DNA only provides instructions for each and every chemical process in your body. When DNA mutations occur it changes the instructions. This results in the cells growing out of control and forms into a tumor. Sometimes the chronic hepatitis infections cause liver cancer. But sometimes there will not be any underlying disease and the causes of liver cancer are unknown. Hepatitis B or C also causes liver cancer as both of them could result in cirrhosis. Other than that the following will also cause liver cancer:
Type 2 Diabetes: People who have hepatitis along with diabetes are prone to have liver cancer. Those who consume a lot of alcohol will also develop cancer.
Family History: If someone in the family is having liver cancer then the chances of liver cancer is higher.
Heavy alcohol use: Consuming alcohol in excess regularly causes liver cancer.
Long-term exposure to aflatoxins: An aflatoxin which is found in moldy wheat, corn, groundnuts, nuts, peanuts, soybeans causes liver cancer when taken for a long term. In the case of industrialized nations, the risk is low.
Low immunity: For people who have HIV/AIDS, the chances of liver cancer are higher as they will have low immunity.
Obesity: Obesity also causes liver cancer.
Gender: Mostly, the risk of liver cancer is higher in males than in females. According to the experts, this could be due to their lifestyle. As men consume alcohol and smoke, they have a higher risk when compared to women.
Smoking: The risk of liver cancer is high in people who smoke and also have Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C.
Arsenic: People who use well water which has toxin arsenic that occurs naturally have higher chances of developing several diseases including liver cancer.
Treatment Option For Liver Cancer
It is important to discuss all of your treatment options, including their goals and possible side effects, with your doctors to help make the decision that best fits your needs. Some important things to consider include:
Your age and expected life span
Any other serious health conditions you have
The stage (extent) of your cancer
Whether or not surgery can remove (resect) the cancer
The likelihood that treatment will cure the cancer or help in some
Your feelings about the possible side effects from treatment
You may feel that you must make a decision quickly, but it’s important to give yourself time to absorb the information you have just learned. Ask questions if there is anything you’re not sure about.
If time permits, it is often a good idea to get a second opinion. A second opinion can give you more information and help you feel more confident about the treatment plan you choose.
When you consult the Cancer specialist for second opinion he will provide you with the Liver Cancer Treatment in India based on your health conditions.
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Updated July 14, 2022
Since 2018, the Spectrum Center has run a meaningful mentorship program called Mentorship and Professional/Personal Support (MaPPS). This program intentionally connects LGBTQ+ students to LGBTQ+ staff/faculty members who may share similar identities and/or goals. In contrast to advising, mentors motivate mentees by recognizing their strengths and accomplishments, helping them sharpen skills or improve their capability, and guiding mentees’ decision-making process. In addition, each mentor-mentee pair is encouraged to explore events and programming made for and by the LGBTQ+ community at and near the University of Michigan.
Students interested in becoming mentees or staff/faculty who would like to serve as mentors can learn more at the Spectrum Center webpage or contact email@example.com directly for any questions.
Article originally published March 2018.
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An oral medication that could be used instead of injections for treating anaemia in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) has been approved by NICE.
Roxadustat (Evrenzo) can be used in adults with stage 3 to 5 CKD who have symptomatic anaemia if they have no iron deficiency and are not on dialysis at the start of treatment, NICE said.
The decision comes after the Astellas Pharma Ltd submitted additional data to NICE from a clinical trial showing roxadustat worked as well as darbepoetin alfa.
The committee concluded that anaemia can be associated with extreme fatigue and has a considerable effect on quality of life for people with CKD.
They also considered that many people with anaemia find injecting themselves with erythropoiesis stimulating agents unpleasant and difficult and some have to rely on others to give them their injections.
Those with CKD who need treatment for anaemia would welcome an alternative oral treatment, the committee added.
The drug works by stimulating the increase of red blood cell production and improving utilisation of iron stores.
‘A new treatment is important for those who do not tolerate current therapies and as a means of simplifying treatment for thousands of adults with anaemia associated with CKD.’
NICE recently announced that dapagliflozin is to be recommended for treating patients with CKD under draft guidance out for consultation.
And last year, a NICE CKD update from NICE included new referral rules and changes to ethnicity calculations.
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Westport is the latest shoreline town to find "White Lives Matter" fliers dropped outside homes.
It's the third instance in two weeks. Residents of East Haven and Milford also noticed the racially charged leaflets, which first showed up amid violent unrest in Baltimore over the police-custody death of Freddie Gray.
Although it's not clear who is behind them, the fliers in all three towns look identical: "#White Lives Matter" is printed in large black font on a white sheet of paper. The fliers are enclosed in plastic bags and weighed down with rocks.
The phrase appears to be in response to the slogan "Black Lives Matter," which has gained support after the killings of black men by police officers in places like Ferguson, New York City and Baltimore.
Westport First Selectman Jim Marpe described his town as "open and welcoming" but condemned the fliers.
"I am deeply concerned and disappointed that statements like this have found their way to Westport homes. This kind of racial ugliness has no place anywhere, and certainly not in Westport," he said in a statement Friday. "This past year has reminded us that our nation still needs to deal with some serious racial issues, and now we know that Westport is not immune. I have asked TEAM Westport to work with the Interfaith Clergy, the Board of Education and the appropriate Town agencies, to lead our community's response to these outrageous statements and, more importantly, the behaviors and beliefs that underpin them."
Community members said they plan to join religious leaders and others to lead a response to what they see as outrageous statements.
"I think they’re horrible. I mean I don’t think any lives matter over others. I think all lives matter," said Westport resident Denise Torve.
Residents said it's also a reminder that the nation, including Westport, still has work to do when it comes to racial issues.
"I understand the 'Black Lives Matter' viewpoint because black lives do seem to be under a little bit more threat, and as a grandmother of a black grandson I am very conscientious of that," said Torve.
All the fliers appeared to have been collected and removed by Friday afternoon.
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The UN International Commission of Human Rights Experts for Ethiopia has been mandated to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into allegations of violations and violations of international human rights law.
In particular, it will investigate violations of international humanitarian law and international refugee law in the state of Ethiopia committed on November 3, 2020 by all parties to the conflict in the Tigray region.
The UN International Commission of Human Rights Experts on: #Ethiopia the first visit to Ethiopia concluded on July 25-30, after meeting several individuals to discuss various aspects of their mandate. The Commission will submit a written report to: @UN_HRC in Sept. pic.twitter.com/GDTbFJdbXh
— UN Geneva (@UNGeneva) August 2, 2022
Meeting for access
Originally established by the Human Rights Council on December 17, 2021, the three-member committee — composed of Kaari Betty Murungi (Chairman), Steven Ratner and Radhika Coomaraswamy — concluded a five-day visit to the country where they met with the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and other senior government officials.
The members hoped that their meetings with the officials would result in “instant and absolute access to visit sites”, as well as their ability to collect testimonials.
The Commission is also charged with providing guidelines and recommendations for technical assistance to the Ethiopian government on transitional justice, including accountability, reconciliation and healing.
In addition, members met members of the National Dialogue Commission and Interministerial Task Force, the National Human Rights Commission of Ethiopia, civil society, diplomats and UN agencies and staff in Ethiopia to discuss the current human rights situation in the country.
The sin continues
The Commission presented its first update to the Council on June 30, 2022 after UN-appointed investigators announced they would launch an investigation into an alleged massacre of at least 200 people in Ethiopia’s Oromia region.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Ms Murungi said that as the Commission continued its investigation into conflict-related human rights violations in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia, which flared up in November 2020, the Commission had received reports of murders in western Oromia,
Despite many other conflicts around the world, Ms. Murungi had emphasized that the world should not ignore what is happening in Ethiopia.
“The continued spread of violence, fueled by hate speech and incitement to ethnic and gender-based violence, are early warning indicators of further atrocities committed against innocent civilians, especially women and children who are more vulnerable.”
It is envisaged that the Commission will report in writing to the human rights body on this trip at its next session in September 2022.
Special rapporteurs and independent experts are appointed by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council to investigate and report on a specific human rights issue or situation in a country. The positions are honorable and the experts are not paid for their work.
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Missing Facebook Friends
My question is this someone had gotten upset with me and removed their name from my friends list and now I can no longer post anything to them. One day they were on my friends list and the next, actually it was two names removed, how did they do this?
For now I can’t enjoy their company on face book.
I thought I was the one who would have this control, apparently not!
Actually, you both have control over who your friends are. In order to be friends with someone, both people have to want to be friends.
To become friends with someone on Facebook, you send a friend request, and the person you send it to accepts it. If that person doesn’t want to share their posts with you, then they can choose to not accept your request.
If at any time, you decide you don’t want to share your information with someone, you can remove them from your list of friends. This will not only remove their name from your list, but it will also remove your name from their list of friends.
What happened in your case is that the person who got upset with you removed you from their list of friends. As a result, they are no longer on your list.
The only way to get them back on your list is to send them another friend request and hopefully they will accept the new request.
It’s Your Turn: What do you think?
…. Share your experience in the comments box below.
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I did not create beings who need to be reprimanded, who need to be punished. None of you are of the nature that you need to be reprimanded. You may act and think, at times, as if you were, but you are not, and I always see that.
When you relate to one another, remember who each other is. Remember, My loves, that each of My children is good, truly good. Do not act as if they TRULY are the person who would act in ways that are reprehensible, for that is not who they are.
Sometimes, when people do things that you don't like, or which hurt you, you want to punish them, or hurt them. You are angry. You want them to get what they deserve. But ask yourself this: WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Are you talking about the child of God that I created? No. You cannot be, for I did not create children who are bad. My children are perfect. And ALL are My children.
When I look at My children, and see them doing things that hurt others and themselves, I still know who each one is. I still see your vulnerable hearts. I still see the one who needs love, who needs to be seen, to be known. You are a human being; you are innocent in My eyes. I never become convinced that you are the one who you are acting like. That is not you. It is the result of false ideas that you have believed -- about yourself, about others, and about Me -- which cause you to act in strange and fearful ways.
You too, My children, should see one another in this light. Remember who one another really are. Remember, those around you are like yourself -- with all the same heart needs, and with the same fear that causes them to act in strange ways, ways that even they do not agree with. See that there is really no difference, and forgive.
What is forgiveness? Forgiveness is not saying that it is okay that a person should act badly. Forgiveness is not overlooking. Forgiveness is seeing who the person is no matter what they do. Forgiveness is to not form a negative idea of who a person is based on how they act, but to remember that they are a child of God, a magnificent person, a vulnerable heart, a human being.
Forgiveness is to say, "I KNOW YOU. Despite all you have done that suggests that you are of bad nature, I know that you are a child of God, a heart full of love and feeling. I see you, through all that you do. I continue to see you, for who you are, and I continue to love you AS YOU ARE, no matter how you are acting. When you act differently than a child of God -- unlike a sensitive, loving, feeling heart -- I know that that is not you; it is only the result of false fears and ideas that are causing you to act in unnatural ways."
And furthermore, forgiveness says, "I will help you to let go of your ideas, so that you do not fear me, others, God, the world, or yourself, so that you are able to relax, and be who you are, and not be burdened by this false identity which alienates you from your fellow man, from God, and from your true feelings." This is forgiveness.
Of course, I do not mean that you should only memorize the statements above, but that you should KNOW these things. It is a feeling, a feeling.
Forgive, My dear ones, forgive one another. This is the only way to stay in touch with reality, for when you bear grudges, you forget the truth of who people are, who God is, and who you are. For example, if you forget who people are, and think that they are bad, you relate to people as if they are something they are not. Then you are living in a false world, a world of false entities. You are relating to the world as something that it is not. My dear ones, this is a very confusing and depressing state to be in.
You need to forgive Me also. If you cannot forgive, you cannot see who I really am. You need to forgive Me for the things you think I am, and for the things that you think I have done to you, so that you can see who I really am, and have a true relationship with Me.
So you see, My dear ones, you need to forgive. And, as I said, when I say forgive, I do not mean that you should forgive a bad world for being bad, I mean that you should forgive a GOOD world -- by seeing that it is truly good. By forgive, I mean SEE. See the truth of who people truly are. Let go of your personal hurt, so that you can see who people truly are. Then you can forgive, and only then.
If you hang onto your personal hurt you may want to take revenge on people, or you may relate to them, in your anger, as if they are bad. When you do that, you are convincing people, further, of the false ideas they already have about who they are. By relating to them as if they were bad, you are agreeing with who they think they are. And by doing so, you are creating a miserable world for yourself, and everybody, to live in.
If you reinforce the goodness in people, the heart sensitivity in people, the Divine, loving nature in people, then you will live in a better world. The world right around you will be happier; and eventually, the whole world will be happier.
My dear ones, you get to have the world you relate to. If you relate to what you perceive to be a bad world, you bring out badness wherever it can be brought out. In the same way, if you relate to the true goodness of all, you bring out that goodness wherever people are willing.
Therefore, My loved ones, forgive -- and see.
Beloved Ones Throughout,
My dear ones, there is nothing so untrue TO YOU as the lives that you are living. Your hearts are dissatisfied. You are so dissatisfied with the values that you and others around you have. You experience your relationships with others to be dissatisfactory, because human beings everywhere are choosing to follow the values that this world has to offer, rather than loving wholeheartedly, passionately, with generosity and integrity.
My dear ones, love is not "ordinary" in the sense that you understand the word "ordinary." Love is greater than anything that this world has to offer. What this world calls love, for the most part, is not enough to keep any heart feeling alive and happy.
My dear ones, the point of your entire existence is to love. Learn to love, transcend yourselves for the sake of love, for the sake of others. That is the whole reason that you are here, to love. Many people go through their whole lives pursuing other things. When they die they are unfulfilled. No person can be fulfilled until they learn to truly love; to love from the heart, without self-protection, without fear.
Love means that you are aware of others around you, that you care about them from the depths of your heart, with all the emotion and attention that you feel for yourself and your own life. Love means that the spiritual and emotional well-being of others means everything to you, and you will commit your being and your life to enriching the lives of others; to uplifting their spirits; to reminding them of who they are; to helping them let go of false ideas and fears, and to love.
This may seem out of reach, My dear ones. You may be thinking, "That's far ahead of where I am. I'm just a beginner in the spiritual path; I'm not a saint." You may then think that you are invalid. My dear ones, you need to understand that you learn to love by loving. And since there is no other purpose to being here, on this planet, you may as well start now.
It is true that love requires learning to love. It is true, that you will have to go through many cycles of learning what you are doing that is unloving, and adjusting to be more loving. But you see, this is all part of the love itself: to learn; to adjust, to transcend your limitations.
There may be many things that you do now that you call love, but you will come to find out that they are not done out of love, but out of fear, or self-protection, or self-interest. Love requires that when you see that truth, you face it with courage, and adjust. The ego requires that when you see that fact, you collapse, feel terribly ashamed, and fail to make the adjustment; and fail to love, because you are too busy feeling bad about yourself. Or else, ego will require you to deny the errors you make, or become defensive. Either way, love will not be fulfilled.
Love will be fulfilled when you are willing to be honest. Yes, this is one of the first requirements for love: self-honesty. When you are self-honest it is because you hold something, or someone, as being more important than defending your bad habits or negative beliefs. When people are willing to look honestly at themselves it is almost always for love's sake.
So, My dear ones, look around you, at your beloved ones -- your friends, your family, whoever is most near to you -- and love them. Learn from them what you are doing that is unloving, either by asking them, or by paying attention to their responses to what you are doing. Learn to love them better. Commit yourselves to this task of loving, truly loving.
And also, look at those whom you do not consider your friends, and love them too, despite everything that causes you to feel distant from them, or angry or unhappy with them. Love them despite these things. See past their negative attributes and bad habits to the soul that they are, and love that soul, and pray for their release from the bad habits that have bothered you and hurt you for so long; for those bad habits have hurt them, too.
My dear ones, this is love: to see. Love is to see who people are, and who God is -- who God REALLY is, and who people REALLY are -- and to love them. Love is to see what everything really is, and to love everything, as it really is. And also, love is to see what people are going through, and to care, and to respond honestly, without letting self-protective or fearful feelings get in the way.
This is love: to transcend oneself for others. Love is to adjust for others. Love is to see others, and love them. And by means of true love, others feel less and less like others. You come to feel that every man and woman, and God, and the whole earth, is your own -- your own child, brother, sister. And then, further, you come to feel that these ARE you; part of your own body, your own soul. Your desires are not separate from those of God, or from the true heart's desires of others. When this comes to be, you will have found inner peace, and there will no longer be any need for struggle.
I love you.
I have come today to tell you that you are free. You are always already free. You are free in Me, you are free in yourselves. Now, come to Me free, beloved ones. Don't come to Me with the presumption that you are trapped, but with the knowledge that you are free.
That is not say, come to Me perfect. I do not expect that. I expect to help you. But if you come to Me with the idea that you are trapped, I cannot help you. In your mind, you must know that you are already free. Just as, when a caged animal sees an open gate, and runs for it, that animal knows that it is already free. It sees that the gate is open, and that there is no one around who is about to close it.
This is always true, My beloved ones. The gate is always open, and nobody is about to close it. Right now, many of you behave like a caged animal who sits and stares at a huge wall which appears to imprison it, and ignores the open gate behind it. My beloved, turn and see the open gate. The gate is WIDE open. Therefore, come to Me already free, just as an animal in an open cage is already free.
My beloveds, this is not to say that you should not call on Me, or that you do not need Me, or that I will not help you. You should call on Me, you do need Me, and I will help you. And, in that you will be free.
Here is something that is important for you to understand: there is no such thing as running towards the open gate without Me, because if you are without Me, you are still in the cage -- even if you seem, to yourself, to be running towards an open gate. That gate that you are running towards is actually a wall. It is a wall called "the idea of separateness and self-sufficiency." My dear ones, if you run towards that wall, you will always hurt yourself.
But when you come to Me, My beloved, you are already free, for I and you together are the open gate. The truth of who you are, and the truth of who I am, are your freedom. For you and I are already one; and the soul that I made you to be IS already free. Therefore, come to Me. Come to Me open; come to Me free; come to Me knowing that you are free.
And know this: When you come to Me, even with your mental and emotional habits, which seem to keep you down, and you know that you are free, and that I am here, and you ask Me for help, and you listen to Me, and you use My help, and we do it together, you are, in that moment, already free. For it is freedom from the ego that allows any functional relationship with Me at all (for I do not function with the ego; the ego and I are not compatible). Therefore, come to Me. Know, when you come to Me, that you are walking through the open gate. Know that in coming to Me, you are already free. And soon your freedom will be SO vast, so complete, that YOU, my great soul, will feel fulfilled.
- One Love
Integrity is the key to a good life. Destiny and well-being depend on it. Our confidence, our openness to love and intimacy, our ability to stay close to God, all come and go according to how well we follow our hearts.
In integrity we live; without it we die. Being untrue to your heart will destroy your life, and create your own personal hell. But if you followyour heart, it will create heaven on earth for you. Each moment in life, each choice, is a fork in the road. Which way will we go? Where will we end up? It depends on how well we obey our hearts.
When we violate our own feelings about what's right and what we should be doing, we shut down, and turn away from happiness, love, and all the most beautiful things in life -- we just don't think beauty fits us well, so we reject it. But when we follow our hearts and our conscience, we open up to life, and let it flood in.
You can see it in the lives of everyone you know. When a person does wrong -- unless they decide to fix it -- they will quickly distance themselves from everyone they love. They no longer want to be happy, because it just doesn't seem fitting. And if you reach out to them in such a compressed state, you will have a hard time getting through.
On the other hand, when a person is living rightly and beautifully, they become bright and happy. They are outgoing. They want to talk. They want to relate closely with people. They become permeable to love; and they become robust on the basis of receiving love and exchanging love in helpful, meaningful, uplifting ways.
Integrity determines how open we are to love, and God, and good; and that's why it is so important. Because in openness, everything is allowed to live, but in closedness, everything is condemned to die. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and it all begins with integrity.
"To thine own self be true" ends the destructive cycle that is put in motion when we ignore our heart's own feelings.
What we feel is important is what matters
Of course, not all negative actions are equally consequential, and neither are all positive actions. How strongly an action or choice affects your destiny depends on how important it is to you. If it is crucial to your heart, then it is crucial. No matter if it seems trivial to others, no matter if it would be called unimportant by religion or culture.
There could be something no one else has ever heard of, or has any concern about whatsoever; but it's that by which you live or die, that by which you are condemned or praised within your own heart.
If a person sincerely believes they should become more disciplined, they will feel terrible if they don't. It will hang over their head like a dark cloud, changing the tone of their life for the worse -- even if nobody else cares about it. For that individual there is no greater condemnation than that which they would visit upon themselves for having betrayed their own heart.
That shows exactly how personal this really is. It makes no difference what anyone else says; a person is condemned only by their own hand.
So when you get to Heaven's gate, and Peter asks you, "What accounting would you like to give of yourself? Is there anything you've done you're not proud of?" and you give your account, he will then ask, "And what do you think is the significance of that? Would you go ahead and jump into hell for it? Do you think that would be an appropriate destiny? If so, there it is. Jump."
Nobody would push you. You would jump because you didn't want to be loved. You would jump because you wanted to hide. You see, no one would have to do anything about it; it's all up to you. You would jump on your own account.
There is no condemnation
other than one's own self-condemnation.
That, in fact, is what we do every day: We either jump into hell, because we feel bad about ourselves, or our hearts soar into heaven, due to the happiness and elevation we feel from a right and loving life. Or perhaps we hang in purgatory, because we are dissatisfied with our lives, though not dramatically guilt-ridden.
And that's the long and short of our entire existence. We are condemned or resurrected by our own fidelity to ourselves; by our integrity, as measured only by our own heart standards. No other measure stands.
Self-condemnation: a dirty trick
But in truth, self-condemnation is never appropriate. It is a dirty trick of the ego, designed to bring one down. It is not God's will that we should so harshly condemn ourselves. Only the ego would interpret our wrongdoing to mean that we are bad, irredeemable, wretched creatures. Only the ego would respond to guilt by shutting down, and dropping out of life. The spirit knows better. The spirit recognizes that no matter what we do, we are good, and we are capable of good. And when we see that we have done wrong, the spirit would jump to correct it, and to heal it; rather than steep in shame and self-hatred.
We don't need to condemn ourselves. But it is good and godly that we condemn our wrong actions, and that we reject badness. That is our Divine sensitivity at work. So, this is not a clarion call to throw away the power of discernment; only to realize that we are not what we do. Our actions do not change the person we essentially are. They do not rid us of the basic goodness and sensitivity that God placed in our hearts. So, we can always renounce bad, and turn to the good that our hearts always call us to.
Discernment still stands
In this "brave new world," many people understand the idea that they are good no matter what they have done. But few understand that that does not eliminate the need for morality. The New Agers boldly proclaim: "We are free of these ideas of right and wrong, good and evil. We are good children of God, no matter what." To that I would respond: "Yes, you are good children of God no matter what. But if you don't live that, what good does it do for anybody? Do you feelgood about that?"
It is true integrity to condemn the actions your heart hates -- actions that violate the law of love, which is your heart's law. Those actionsshould be condemned, because they are hurtful, and they are not true to who you really are.
Two apparent problems with "to thine own Self be true"
1. What about God? When I say, "It doesn't matter what anybody else thinks. You have to do what your heart says is right," one question that may arise is: "But what about God? What about the promptings God gives in every moment? Don't you need to surrender to those in order to be right?"
It may seem like a contradiction, but the conflict is overcome when you realize that God's Heart is your own heart. God gave you His Heart. Your sensibilities and sensitivities are no different than God's. When you feel moved to help someone in need, when you feel guilty for doing wrong, when your heart responds lovingly to another human being, that is God in you.
So, to do right by God is to do right by your own heart. God is not some external authority, telling you what to do. God is inside you, and not different from you. You are made from God.
Thus, there is no difference between satisfying God, and satisfying your own heart. The two are the same. Isn't that beautiful?
2. What about others? Many people think that to "follow your heart" means to be whimsical, inconsiderate, selfish, and non-committal. But tell me honestly: how do you feel about whimsical, flakey people?
Following your heart has been given a bad name in this world. In truth, no human heart would ever approve of selfish, whimsical living. Like I said, your heart is the Heart of God. The very Heart that would rail against the injustices of the world, that would nag you when you are letting somebody down, that would inspire you to do right by others.
People who say they are "following their heart" when they are actually living selfishly are confused. They are ignoring their heart. They have become experts at suppressing the cries of their heart for rightness, love, commitment, loyalty, reliability -- all qualities that the human/Divine heart values highly.
So, once again, there is no conflict. As long as you are in line with your own heart, you will do right
by God and all others!
Life is an integrity test
So that's it. Now you understand the whole thing. The entire evolutionary career is an integrity test. Everything else is absolutely irrelevant. Until heaven and earth pass away, not a single letter will be removed from the law of your heart -- which is the law of love and rightness. That's all that counts in life. So, be true to yourself; and all will be well.
"TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE"
by David Truman
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The Texas Memorial Museum, located on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, USA, was created during preparations for the Texas Centennial Exposition held in 1936. The museum's focus is on natural history, including paleontology, geology, biology, herpetology, ichthyology and entomology. At one point, the museum also had exhibits on Texas history, anthropology, geography, and ethnography, but these were relocated to other museums (including the Bullock Texas State History Museum) in 2001.Texas Memorial Museum is just one of the many highlights you can arrange to see using our , online itinerary creator Edition.
The building was designed in the Art Deco style by John F. Staub, with Paul Cret as supervising architect. Ground was broken for the building by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1936. The museum was opened on January 15, 1939.
The museum won "Best of Austin" awards from the Austin Chronicle in 2002 and 2005.
In October 2013, Linda Hicke, the dean of Austin's College of Natural Sciences, cut the museum's funding by $400,000 and transferred ownership to the American Legion Texas Branch. The staff was reduced from twelve employees to three: a security guard, a gift shop operator and one other employee.
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I love this place. When I used to work on UT campus, I would often spend my lunch break here. Free admission is a staff benefit and this place is full of really cool stuff. I especially like the WPA building, the flying pterodactyl skeleton, the giant topaz, the enormous dragonfly fossil and the dire wolf skeleton in the basement.
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