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Using artificial intelligence to mass screen for COVID-19 “It’s about the different verticals that we are addressing with Predictmedix,” says Dr. Rahul Kushwah, Co-Founder and COO of Predictmedix Inc. (CSE: PMED | OTCQB: PMEDF). “We are an artificial intelligence company and we are solving real-world problems.” In an interview with InvestorIntel’s Tracy Weslosky, Dr. Kushwah explains three of their vertical markets: “In this pandemic, we are all in the midst of it and we have a technology which is to mass screen for this latest virus. Similarly, impairment is a big issue when it comes to workplace and law enforcement and we have a solution for that. And the third vertical is mental illnesses. $300 billion spent in the US last year and there is so much subjectivity that goes into diagnosis and we are developing a solution to diagnose mental illnesses.” “We have developed modules which look like metal detectors,” Dr. Kushwah continued. “You walk through these modules and on the other end you have a green or red light. If someone is identified to be positive for particular virus symptoms a red light goes off – if not then you get a green light.” He continued, “it is a tool that you can use for mass screening in airports, transit hubs, malls, office building, government buildings, or anywhere you can imagine where you have big flow of people.” Dr. Kushwah also discusses the pitfalls of current telehealth and telemedicine platforms, and Predictmedix’s innovative solutions. | <urn:uuid:58bd337d-648f-4054-91fe-3d8310c541f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://predictmedix.com/solvingrealworldproblems/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948489 | 352 | 1.75 | 2 |
On Sunday, a former U.S. serviceman shot and killed 26 Americans in Texas during their weekly prayer service. The next day, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Japan would best protect itself from a nuclear-armed North Korea by buying U.S. military equipment.
At first blush, these two events are discrete, unconnected. The first, another massacre. The other, a global arms deal worth billions of dollars. But these incidents are, in a profound way, linked – for they speak of a reality in which the profits from the production of arms are intrinsically bound to an all-American view of security and commerce.
To understand how this reality emerged, we must go back to the mid-19th century, when a new invention was unveiled in London. In 1851, the British members of the Institution of Civil Engineers gathered to hear Samuel Colt speak. The American inventor presented a new item comprised of machine-made, interchangeable parts. It was the birth of the so-called "American system" of production, which far bettered, in terms of scale and cost, handmade manufacturing.
That product was the revolver.
Something else was born with that invention. By reducing costs and increasing output, production was in danger of outstripping demand. You could make millions of guns, but unless people were buying, what was the point? Hence the need to create demand.
Advertising was the answer – a skill honed by the Mad Men of Manhattan. Over time, gun companies began to advertise the virtues of owning a sidearm. That evolved into the mantra: You need a gun to protect yourself. Fear led to more purchases, more purchases led to greater profits. Gun massacres are sickeningly good for business.
This is where America's love affair with the gun really takes off, because these profits are spent in four ways: investor return, research and development, more marketing and – crucially – lobbying. The gun lobby in the United States, over time, has shifted from working with the federal government to limit the traffic in guns (by stopping criminals or the mentally ill from buying them) to being devoted to the right to bear arms across the board. The more customers you secure, the more profits you garner.
Part of that money goes straight into the coffers of U.S. politicians. Paul Ryan, the 54th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, received $171,977 (U.S.) in 2016 campaign contributions from the gun lobby. At least $5.9-million was given to Republicans in the 2016 election cycle. In all, more than half of House members – 232 out of 435 – have received gun money.
So the gun industry has produced a seemingly unassailable scenario in which guns make profits that in turn line the pockets of the very politicians who are in charge of gun laws. It's no surprise the country that made the world's first mass-produced gun is also the only country that has loosened its gun laws following a massacre. No surprise, too, that in February Mr. Trump revoked gun checks for people with mental illnesses (despite blaming the Sunday mass shooting on mental-health issues) – because why limit your potential market to sane people?
Why is this situation unassailable? The alternative – fewer guns – does not sit well with capitalism. Any argument for no guns is one that will make no profits, and no profits means no money for gun-control lobbyists (that has to come from the donations of shocked citizens). As King Lear said: "Nothing will come of nothing." Armed capitalism, supported by a constitutional right and a cultural might, is a potent force indeed.
That is why Mr. Trump selling arms to the Japanese is telling: It is the military-industrial complex at work globally. He has taken the defensive and profitable logic enshrined in both capitalism and the Second Amendment and is exporting it. Fear the North Koreans, he says to the Japanese, and make your people safer by buying U.S. arms. It's good business: In 2017, U.S. arms sales notifications increased over 2016 by more than $42-billion.
But just as the U.S. seeks to export the American dream, it exports its nightmares too. Arms races all too often end in terrible bloodshed. Lax guns laws lead to more massacres. Politicians bought by corporations end up being revealed as the people they truly are: bought.
There is no easy answer to America's love affair with weapons. Democracy and freedom have become synonymous with capitalism and production – and the gun lies at the very heart of that. To break that bond would require massive economic and cultural shifts in the U.S. body politic – and this will not happen under Mr. Trump. But the international community does not have to buy into this – we can say no to violence and the means of producing it. To some that may seem naive. To others it's the only way toward peace. | <urn:uuid:ff7ad057-d635-40b9-9c03-7b9f0c31fdd5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/how-guns-turned-the-american-dream-into-a-nightmare/article36861462/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973212 | 1,016 | 1.875 | 2 |
With a focus on the cultural life of public spaces, the research examines how public and private actors can collectively support a broader range of public experiences, interactions and social values. In addition, the study investigates how planning for public space can promote public value through culture. The culture of public space, or what one could refer to as the everyday street scene, is arguably the most visible manifestation of public life: a social barometer for cultural vibrancy and economic health. Once an outcome of economic progress and a symbol of power, the design of cities, including the recomposition of urban space, is now increasingly perceived as an aesthetic means to an economic end. But perversely, the homogenisation of urban landscapes and public space is an issue of contemporary concern for planners, architects, politicians and the everyday person strolling down the street.
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The Beer – Lambert law states that there is a linear relationship between the concentration and the absorbance of the solution, which enables the concentration of a solution to be calculated by measuring its absorbance.
Formulated by German mathematician and chemist August Beer in 1852, it states that the absorptive capacity of a dissolved substance is directly proportional to its concentration in a solution.
If the path length of the sample is 1 unit (say, 1 cm), the slope equals the numerical value of ?. Therefore, in order to verify the validity of Beer – Lambert Law , a number of absorbance–concentration datapoints should be obtained for a sample that are measured in a given sample holder of unit path length.
Derivation of Beer Lambert Law A is the amount of light absorbed for a particular wavelength by the sample. ε is the molar extinction coefficient. L is the distance covered by the light through the solution. c is the concentration of the absorbing species.
Spectrophotometry is a method to measure how much a chemical substance absorbs light by measuring the intensity of light as a beam of light passes through sample solution. The basic principle is that each compound absorbs or transmits light over a certain range of wavelength.
Principle of ultraviolet – visible absorption Molecules containing bonding and non-bonding electrons (n-electrons) can absorb energy in the form of ultraviolet or visible light to excite these electrons to higher anti-bonding molecular orbitals.
The Beer -Lambert law relates the absorption of light by a solution to the properties of the solution according to the following equation : A = εbc, where ε is the molar absorptivity of the absorbing species, b is the path length, and c is the concentration of the absorbing species.
Absorbance (A) is the flip-side of transmittance and states how much of the light the sample absorbed. It is also referred to as “optical density.” Absorbance is calculated as a logarithmic function of T: A = log10 (1/T) = log10 (Io/I).
Although absorbance does not have true units , it is quite often reported in ” Absorbance . Units ” or AU. Optical density , or OD, is the absorbance per unit length, i.e., the absorbance divided by. the thickness of the sample, although it is sometimes used as a synonym for the absorbance . with a base-10 logarithm.
At high concentrations (ie greater than 10–2 M) there is interaction between absorbing particles such that the absorption characteristics of the analyte are affected. Also at high concentrations the refractive index of a solution can be altered causing departures from Beer’s Law .
The linearity of the Beer – Lambert law is limited by chemical and instrumental factors. Causes of nonlinearity include: deviations in absorptivity coefficients at high concentrations (>0.01M) due to electrostatic interactions between molecules in close proximity. scattering of light due to particulates in the sample.
Strict adherence to Beer’s law is observed only with truly monochromatic radiation. Monochromators are used to isolate portions of the output from continuum light sources, hence a truly monochromatic radiation never exists and can only be approximated, i.e. by using a very narrow exit slit on the monochromator.
Here is an example of directly using the Beer’s Law Equation (Absorbance = e L c) when you were given the molar absorptivity constant (or molar extinction coefficient). In this equation, e is the molar extinction coefficient. L is the path length of the cell holder. c is the concentration of the solution.
▪ The Beer – Lambert law states that the quantity of light absorbed by a substance dissolved in a. fully transmitting solvent is directly proportional to the concentration of the substance and the path length of the light through the solution.
One factor that influences the absorbance of a sample is the concentration (c). The longer the path length , the more molecules there are in the path of the beam of radiation, therefore the absorbance goes up. Therefore, the path length is directly proportional to the concentration. | <urn:uuid:2634bd3c-cbb2-4a7b-a77e-6f626352ca91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://raleighrarebeertasting.com/faq/beer-lambert-s-law.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.929379 | 884 | 3.546875 | 4 |
As the crisis unfolds in Ukraine, we are dedicating this week to unpacking some of the climate and weather connections and providing you with reliable information. Here is a thread of ways to stand with Ukraine.
Last night Ukraine sustained several more major attacks from Russian forces. Today, initial talks between Russia and Ukraine concluded without result. Currently, Russian forces have almost fully encircled
the Ukrainian Capital, Kyiv.
Despite these devastating attacks, making it feel like the whole world should be put on pause, the climate crisis continues to push forward. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released
part two of the Sixth Assessment Report today, Feb. 28.
The report is bleak, but not hopeless, stating that climate impacts are moving more rapidly than scientists had previously predicted but that we have the solutions to ward off the worst-case scenario. That window for action is rapidly closing. The report’s release and findings can not be separated from the war unfolding in Ukraine.
Ukrainian climate scientists, under the threat of bomb attacks, were forced to quit meetings
prior to the report’s release. Russian official, Oleg Anisimov, apologized
on behalf of the Russian people at the final IPCC report meeting.
While addressing colleges at the close of the IPCC meeting, Ukrainian scientist, Svitlana Krakovsk, explained the tie between the war and climate.
“Someone could question us that IPCC is not a political body, and should only assess science related to climate change. Let me assure you that this human-induced climate change and war against Ukraine have direct connections and the same roots. They are fossil fuels and humanity’s dependence on them,” said Krakovska
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Gujarat Board 12th Time Table 2021 and GSEB HSC Science, Commerce, Arts Exam Date released at www.gseb.org for Practical and Theory exam. Gujarat HSC Time Table PDF download link is available on this page. Now you must be thinking that when you will get the Revised Date Sheet is released this week. You will get updates of the timetable announcement only on gseb.org which is the official website. Thus, the official website does not give any prior official notification for the release of exam dates.
Gujarat 12th Time Table 2021
Till now Gujarat Board HSC New Time Table 2021 Arts is not released officially. So how do students start their preparation? With really less time spam in the examination, students must start their preparation from the tentative exam dates till the time official dates are not announced. Once the GSEB 12th Exam Time Table 2021 Gujarat Commerce is announced online and officially then you can strategize your preparation accordingly. The Regular, private, and Repeater students are awaiting for Std 12 Revised Exam Time Table, so can start their exam preparation again.
GSEB HSC Exam Date Sheet 2021 Science Exam
Here we will give you a table in which we have all the collective information about GSEB 12th Science Exam Date Sheet 2021. You just need to go through the table in respective of getting the information as well as to avoid further confusion. Gujarat Board HSC Std 12th date Sheet 2021 tentative will be briefed here. Students who want to start their preparation for the board examination need to check those dates. Tentative dates are only for reference so that you get a hint about the upcoming examination.
|Examination Date||Subject (Science Stream) – Duration- 3pm – 6:30pm)|
|July 2021||First language –|
Gujarati/ Hindi/ Marathi/ Urdu/ Sindhi/ Tamil
Gujarati (second language)/ Hindi (second language)/ Sanskrit/ Farsi/ Arabi/ Prakrit
Gujarat Board HSC Arts & Commerce Time Table 2021
|Exam Dates||From 10:30 am to 1:45 pm||From 3:00 to 6:15 PM|
|July 2021||Co-operative Panchayat||Bookkeeping Basics|
Animal Husbandry and Dairy Science
Science Forestry and Herbology
|July, 2021||Music (Theory)||Economics|
|July, 2021||Secretarial Practice and Commercial Practice||Geography|
|July, 2021||Social Science||Commercial Arrangements|
|July, 2021||—||First Language|
|July, 2021||—||Hindi (2nd Language)|
|July, 2021||—||2nd Language|
|July, 2021||Drawing Theory|
|Introduction To Computer|
How to score 99 percent marks in GSEB Gujarat HSC Exam?
Check here the steps which will help you in getting 99 percent marks. Every student hustle to have distinction marks in Gujarat Board Examination but some of them lack in the preparation. There is where we guide our fellow students to get distinction marks in all subjects.
- GSEB HSC Exam Date 2021 Arts, Science, Commerce are crucial as after pandemic board authorities are organizing written examination. Earlier online examination were held. First of all pick those subject which you think that can make you score well. Practice them thoroughly.
- For distinction marks you must keep on practice every subject turn by turn. You need to attentively work more on those subjects in which you lack the most.
- Go through the syllabus as many times as you can. Check marking scheme and topic marks weightage so that you can start your preparation really well.
How to check GSEB 12th Board Revised Exam Date 2021 Gujarat Commerce
Here are the steps through which GSEB HSC Exam dates 2021 Gujarat Commerce Std 12 Class New Time Table Online can be checked and downloaded. Read these instructions carefully.
- Go to the official web portal only.
- on the official web portal, you will get an important link box.
- In that box you might get a link, stating as HSC Exam Time Table 2021.
- Click on the very link.
- That link will open up in the next tab.
- Check thoroughly those dates.
- Download and Save.
- You are ready for the preparation.
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MOOCs4U is a mobile app so that anyone can access these courses on their smartphone or tablet, wherever they are. app not only helps one to find the courses they might want to study among the hundreds of courses offered by different institutions on different platforms, but also to organize them into watch-lists, signed up and completed courses.
Users of this app can review the course details such as start date, prerequisites, duration of the course and how many hours per week they have to put in, before signing up. This is very important given that most MOOC students are busy professionals or are otherwise engaged, and need to know how much time they can afford to put in the course.
The following is a link to a pre-determined keyword search on iTunes University and is self-updating. After clicking on the link, a list of articles will come up containing keywords covering the theme. Not all the articles may be relevant. Select those articles which you think are applicable to your approach to the topic. Select the pdf option for downloading or email the pdf article to yourself the email function. When emailing, please ensure that the box next to “pdf as a separate attachment” is √
These links are from the Ebsco suite of databases. Use similar keyword combinations to search the other databases.
Follow these steps to access iTunes U
If you are using a computer with a Windows or iOS operating system:
1. Download iTunes. [This is a free app, available at http://www.apple.com/za/itunes/download/]
2. Open iTunes, and go to the App Store.
3. Download and install the iTunes app [This is a free app]
4. Open iTunes U, and start accessing an excellent set of courses and academic resources. [You can browse by subject or university, or look through the featured collections and courses]
If you are using an Apple mobile device (iPod. IPad, iPhone):
1. Open the App Store, and search for iTunes U.
2. Install iTunes U.
3. Open iTunes U, and access any course you choose directly from your phone/tablet.
Take a closer look at iTunes U and see why educators are so interested and also how they are using it.
Take a look at the universities and colleges with an official presence on iTunes U. | <urn:uuid:38cdbd77-5105-4481-84ec-92aecff82700> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://libguides.unisa.ac.za/c.php?g=355671&p=2397426 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931153 | 490 | 2.0625 | 2 |
I believe a leading reason for stalled growth and low morale in an organization is a controlling leader. Over time, I have developed some theories of how someone becomes one.
Under a controlling leader’s watch, leadership development is virtually non-existent. As a result, pride is rampant. Ideas are squashed. Momentum is curtailed. People are miserable. Finally, the best people eventually leave.
A friend of mine works in the business world. He had a boss that was a controlling leader. It led to burnout for my friend and caused him to start putting out his resume. He soon found something else. In my opinion, this business missed out in the long-term from a great employee, because one leader couldn’t stop controlling. As an outsider, it appears they will be losing a quality person if they lose my friend.
It prompted the question: How does a leader become a controlling leader?
I don’t know that I can answer for every controlling leader, but I have some theories. I know things which trigger controlling tendencies in my leadership – and, I think if we are honest, all of us leaders can control at times.
These are just my thoughts.
4 theories on how a leader becomes controlling:
(Lack of) Faith
Typically, this leader doesn’t trust anyone except themselves to do the work. They are afraid to release the vision to others, often because they don’t have faith enough either in others, or in themselves, or even in God. When you release to control others you have to trust they will do as they are supposed to do. (Especially in the church, trusting the body’s many parts is an act of faith that God’s plan works.)
In terms of the church, our vision is shaped by Christ. He was the master at delegation. He obviously set the vision, but then handed the entire ministry over to His disciples. The ministry leader who struggles with their faith will always default to trying to make things happen on his or her own.
The controlling leader has often witnessed failure – either personally or in the lives of others. Therefore, they are now leery of things going wrong under their watch. As a result, they refuse to let anyone else take charge. Controlling appears to be the “safer” option.
Controlling leaders thrive on attention they receive from the limelight. They are motivated by the name they have built (or tried to build) for themselves. Therefore, they continue seeking the power, prestige and privileges of leadership. So, they shut down anyone else who may appear to be gaining influence or notoriety.
These controlling leaders always believe the sky is falling. They always see the glass as “half empty”. As a result, they don’t want to take too many risks or chances. When everything is under their control they feel a (false) sense of security.
Again, these are theories I’d suggest of how a leader becomes a controlling leader.
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Explore the words cloud of the TargetGBM project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "TargetGBM" about.
The following table provides information about the project.
INSTITUT QUIMIC DE SARRIA
|Coordinator Country||Spain [ES]|
|Total cost||160˙932 €|
|EC max contribution||160˙932 € (100%)|
1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
|Duration (year-month-day)||from 2019-07-01 to 2021-06-30|
Take a look of project's partnership.
|1||INSTITUT QUIMIC DE SARRIA||ES (Barcelona)||coordinator||160˙932.00|
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most prevalent deadly brain tumour and is currently incurable. Patients die from recurrent tumours that grow from cells surviving the first round of treatment. This is mainly due to the narrow therapeutic window of current drugs and to the low permeability of these drugs across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Targeted non-viral delivery systems have shown great promise to decrease side effects of therapeutics and to enable the transport across biological barriers. The main objective in this proposal is to generate a dually targeted nanoparticle loaded with mRNA encoding a conditionally toxic protein to treat brain cancer. The nanoparticle will be modified with two ligands: an antibody for targeting tumour cells and a peptide that enables transport across the BBB. In addition, I will develop an acid-labile coating that enhances the stability of the polyplex in blood and is released upon internalization. This coating will present the ligands in a defined orientation using bioorthogonal chemistry, thereby maximising their targeting efficiency. The chemical handles will be introduced using genetic code expansion in the antibody and solid-phase synthesis in the peptide. A variety of formulations will be screened in vitro to evaluate their stability and transfection efficiency, and BBB permeability will be assessed in a human cell-based BBB model. Subsequently, the efficacy of the most promising candidates will be tested in a GBM mouse model. The combination of a polyplex having high transfection efficiency with a sheddable coating and oriented targeting ligands is designed to generate the first efficient non-viral gene delivery system for the systemic treatment of GBM, reaching all tumour cells to provide a more efficient treatment and potentially prevent recurrence.
Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "TARGETGBM" project.
For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.
Send me an email (email@example.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.
Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.
The information about "TARGETGBM" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.
Multi-color and single-molecule fluorescence imaging of intraflagellar transport in the phasmid chemosensory cilia of C. ElegansRead More
Narrative, Writing, and the Teotihuacan Language: Exploring Language History Through Phylogenetics, Epigraphy and IconographyRead More
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It has been over two years since the Parliamentary Joint Committee’s Fairness in Franchising Report (Report) recommended changes to the Franchising Code of Conduct (the Code). The regulation that includes the changes to the Code has now finally been released – Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes — Franchising) Amendment (Fairness in Franchising) Regulations 2021 (Cth).
After considerable lobbying by various parties, the final version of the changes see some controversial changes to disclosure as well as some new processes to handling disputes. The changes are to commence on 1 July 2021 subject to some transitional rules which we will explain below.
The purpose of the changes, as outlined by the government, is to improve the fairness and transparency of franchising – hopefully this will be the case with these changes.
Key Fact Sheet
In addition to the disclosure document, prospective franchisees must now be provided with an additional Key Disclosure Information Fact Sheet (“KFS”) containing the most critical information from the franchisor’s disclosure document. As at the date of this article, that document has not been provided by the government. It is to be published on the ACCC website.
The KFS will need to be provided at least 14 calendar days before entering into a franchise agreement or paying non-refundable money. The purpose of the KFS is to assist franchisees in making an informed decision before entering into a franchise agreement and the franchise network. A prominent theme in the Report was that disclosure documents were too long and not often read fully by franchisees. On this basis, the KFS was established, although it should be noted that the KFS is not envisaged to be a substitute for the disclosure document.
The Key Fact Sheet:
Franchisors Legal Costs Relating to Franchise Agreements
Franchisors can no longer require a franchisee to unilaterally pay legal costs associated with the preparation, negotiation or execution of a franchise agreement (or any associated documentation). However, certain legal costs can be passed on where they have been correctly identified, defined and specified and are not in respect of legal costs incurred after the franchise agreement has been entered into.
Prohibition on Franchisor Varying a Franchise Agreement Retrospectively and Unilaterally
The new version of the Code has adopted a similar provision from the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct, which now prevents franchisors from retrospectively varying the terms of a franchise agreement unless the franchisee, or a majority of affected franchisees, agree to the change.
Clause 31 of the Code, regarding marketing and advertising fees, has been completely re-drafted. The Report found that there was ambiguity surrounding marketing funds as the terms ‘marketing fund’ and ‘advertising fees’ were used interchangeably. The provisions pertaining to marketing funds are now clearly set out and changes include making a fund administrator subject to marketing fund provisions. A fund administrator includes franchisors, master franchisors and authorised associates who control or administer the fund.
The cooling-off period will be extended from seven days to 14 days under the new version of the Code. The cooling-off period will now formally begin after a first payment is made by the franchisee under their franchise agreement. Furthermore, the 14 day cooling-off rights will now also apply to those franchisees entering the franchise network via a transfer from an existing franchisee.
As pointed out above if the franchise is subject to a premises lease or occupancy agreement the franchisee will also be entitled to terminate the franchise agreement within 14 days after receiving from the franchisor or associate:
If the Franchisor or associate has not provided that information and the franchisee subsequently signs the lease or occupancy agreement, the 14 day right to terminate by the franchisee starts again.
A prominent theme in the Report was that franchise agreements stipulated how franchisees could exit their franchise agreement and their franchise network before the expiry date, however, this was not dealt with in the Code. Consequently, this concept of early exit was often in the franchisor’s favour. The new Clause 26B of the Code will now give franchisees similar rights as those given to franchisors. Franchisees will be able to give formal notice to franchisors proposing early termination, to which franchisors must provide a substantive written response within 28 days. If a franchisor refuses to agree to the termination for the reasons set out in the notice, they must provide the reasons for such refusal.
Restriction on Immediate Termination
Currently, franchisors have the power to terminate a franchise agreement without notice in special circumstances, providing the franchise agreement allows for such termination. Under the new changes, the Code will now have additional notice provisions relating to termination in ‘special circumstances’. While the franchise agreements may still allow the franchisor to terminate for a specified reason, the franchisor must now give seven days’ written notice of the proposed termination and grounds for termination. The franchisee is also able to dispute the proposed termination, with the changes to the Code providing that an ADR Practitioner may freeze the notice period for termination in order to determine the dispute. If the franchisee has disputed the termination notice, the franchisor must not terminate the agreement until 28 days after notice of dispute was given by the franchisee. If the franchise agreement provides that the franchisor may require the franchisee not to operate part of the business because of a breach is caused for special circumstances the Franchisor may by written notice require the franchisee not to operate part of the business because of that ground of breach.
Restraint of Trade
Restraint of trade clauses will no longer apply to franchisees unless a franchisee has committed a ‘serious breach’ of their franchise agreement. Unfortunately the term ‘serious breach’ has not been defined in this update of the Code. It can therefore be assumed that what is deemed a ‘serious breach’ will be determined on a case by case basis.
The Code amendments have introduced the ability for disputes to be handled via conciliation and voluntary arbitration.
In addition, functions previously handled by the Franchising Code Mediation Advisor have been transferred to the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (Ombudsman). The Ombudsman powers have been extended to encompass arbitration.
The conciliation or mediation is now called the ADR process and is to be handled by an ADR practitioner who is a conciliator or mediator.
The ADR process can be held by virtual attendance technology.
The Code changes include the ability to have multi-party disputes heard together with the sharing of costs. If the franchisor doesn’t agree to a single ADR, the ADR practitioner can conduct the ADR process despite the objection of the franchisor.
The Code changes make it clear that all disputes must be held in Australia.
One final notable omission to the changes to the Code relates to penalties. Under the previous draft amendments to the Code, where a franchisor breaches aspects of the Code carrying a civil penalty they were doubled, this has not been changed so the current penalty of 300 penalty units remain.
The Code has been amended to include a new definition of motor vehicle dealership. It has been expanded to expressly incorporate agency models for sale of vehicles.
Also included is a new consideration whether a party has acted in good faith and provisions for compensation of a dealer in the event a manufacturer withdraws or rationalises its operations in Australia.
Amendments to the Code now explicitly exclude co-operatives registered under State or Territory Laws from being subject to the Code.
The amendments regarding dispute resolution apply to any dispute which arises after the changes commence – even if the agreement was entered into before the commencement of the amending regulations.
The majority of the remaining provisions only affect the agreement entered into, renewed or extended on or after 1July 2021.
Amendments to the disclosure documents apply to disclosure documents to be issued on or after 1 November 2021. Unfortunately for those franchise systems that have a different financial year, for instance a financial year ending December, they will need to create a new disclosure document from 1 November 2021 and not four months after the year end December.
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With pressures on health unlikely to abate in the near future, Aon's Guide to Risk Settlement analyses the cost of longevity reinsurance.
Until a few years ago, the narrative that accompanied the word ‘longevity' was considered obvious and largely unquestioned. It was, quite simply, that we are going to ‘live longer than expected'.
Improvements continued to accelerate and the historically high improvements of 1.5% to 2% per year from 1975 to 2000 were surpassed in the first decade of this century, when male improvements topped 3% per year.
But this narrative has now collapsed. National longevity improvements executed the statistical equivalent of a hand-brake turn in 2011 and have since been less than 0.75% per year. And the pressures on health and welfare spending seem unlikely to abate in the near future.
Analysis of Aon Hewitt's longevity databank and Office for National Statistics (ONS) data suggests that the better off and, in particular, members of defined benefit pension schemes were less impacted compared with the national population. However, most of the population will ultimately be affected by health and welfare services, especially at older ages.
The cost of longevity reinsurance is the key driver of the cost of both longevity swaps and bulk annuity premiums. When the data on lower longevity trends started to emerge, reinsurers took a cautious stance on pricing. This is understandable - if you were a long-term risk-taker then you too would want to be confident that the prevailing longevity trend had genuinely changed before reducing prices.
However, this pause to reappraise caused a serious dislocation in longevity reinsurance markets. Aon Hewitt was vocal in calling out the dislocation and advised clients transacting of the need to test their pricing and possibly walk away from proposed deals.
Over the past 12 months, reinsurers have progressively reviewed and revised their life expectancy assumptions, driven in part by emerging data continuing to indicate that longevity improvements are not returning to their previous high levels. It seems that pricing is back in sync and dislocation is no longer a major concern.
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The Battle Of The Retirement Plans: 401a vs. 401k
There are two types of retirement plans: the 401k and the 401a. Both 401a vs 401k. offer tax benefits to you and your employer, but each has its unique perks and drawbacks. This article will help you decide which one is best for you or if it’s better to combine them into one plan. Read on to find out more!
There Are Pros And Cons To Both Plans.
A significant difference between 401(k) and a traditional IRA is that contributions to an IRA are tax-deductible, while your employer may or may not make matching contributions. Some employers offer traditional IRAs, but those are typically very limited in their offerings. In general, contributions to a Roth IRA can be made after taxes, and withdrawals can be taken tax-free. For most people today, though, I’d argue that choosing between a 401(k) and a Roth IRA should be where you are in life rather than which one offers more upfront benefits. If you have a long time until retirement (say 15 years or more), it might make sense to take advantage of all available tax breaks by contributing to a 401(k). If you have less time until retirement (say 10 years or less), contributing to a Roth IRA might be preferable because it will allow for better access. It’s also worth noting that there are limits on how much you can contribute each year. The maximum contribution for 2017 is $18,000 if you’re under 50 and $24,000 if you’re over 50. However, many plans also have lower limits based on income levels. As such, it’s essential to look at your plan documents before making any decisions about what type of account to choose. For example, if your plan only allows for a $6,000 annual contribution limit regardless of age or income level (which isn’t uncommon), saving in a 401(k) won’t help since there’s no room left after maxing out an IRA anyway!
The 401k Has The Advantage Of Being More Tax-Efficient In Retirement
401a vs 401k. The 401k also has some additional benefits that are less commonly known but can make a significant difference in your ability to grow wealth. First, most employers match contributions to their employees’ retirement accounts up to a certain percentage (usually 3%-5%). Thus, if you put $1 into your account, you may get another $1 or $2 from your employer, free Money! Second, with a 401k, you can take loans against your savings and pay yourself back with interest. You cannot do that with an IRA. Finally, 401ks can be passed on to one’s heirs tax-free upon death – IRAs cannot. While these benefits sound great, there are downsides to having a 401k. Withdrawals before age 591⁄2 will incur penalties and taxes; for those who have other sources of income besides their job, there is no guarantee that they will keep working until age 65; lastly, many employers offer limited choices when it comes to picking investments within a 401k plan. If you work at a small company, your options will be limited to index funds or perhaps mutual funds. However, if you work at a large company, you might have access to more specialized funds such as international equity funds or real estate trusts. There is little downside to participating in a 401k program offered by your employer – especially since most companies match employee contributions. However, if possible, try not to use your 401k as an emergency fund; instead, set aside enough cash outside of your retirement account to don’t need to touch it for emergencies. It makes sense to contribute up to whatever maximum amount allowed by law each year – even if only through automatic payroll deductions.
But The 401a Plan May Get You There Faster.
A traditional 401(k) plan allows for tax-deferred growth. Your contribution is deducted from your paycheck before taxes are taken out, and it grows tax-free until you withdraw it at retirement. A match is usually offered; if your employer contributes to your plan, that amount gets kicked in on top of your contribution. But when it comes time to access those funds, you’ll be paying income taxes on every penny you take out. In contrast, withdrawals from a traditional 401(k) plan aren’t taxed, but they don’t grow tax-free either. You have to wait until age 591⁄2 (or even later) to make penalty-free withdrawals. If you pull Money out sooner than that, it will cost you 10% of what you take out in federal income taxes plus an additional 10% penalty fee. That could put a big dent in your nest egg! On top of all that, there are strict limits on how much you can contribute each year. The maximum allowable contribution for 2017 is $18,000 ($24,000 if you’re 50 or older). So if your salary isn’t keeping up with inflation or market growth—and let’s face it, most people’s wages aren’t—you may not have enough room in your budget to save enough for retirement using a 401(k). With a 401(k), you might need to choose between saving for retirement and funding other important goals like buying a home or sending your kids to college. It’s no wonder that so many Americans feel anxious about their ability to retire comfortably.
A 401(k) is better suited for people who have another source of income outside their job—like a side hustle or rental property—to supplement their contributions. And if you expect your income to increase significantly over time, say by more than 20%, you should consider investing in a Roth IRA instead. It offers similar benefits without any penalties attached once you reach retirement age. However, because of its high contribution limits (currently $5,500 per year if you’re under 50 and $6,500 per year if you’re over 50), it may only be worthwhile for high earners who expect their incomes to rise rapidly over time.
Let’s Compare How Long It Takes 401a vs 401k To Achieve Financial Independence.
To become a millionaire using a 401(k), you’d need to have $24,000 in your account. With a 457, it would take about three years longer for you to retire comfortably and as early as possible. But what if you use both accounts? In that case, your wealth reaches a million dollars after roughly five years with a 457, while you need six years with a 401(k). We think it’s safe to say that at least one of these plans might be right for you. You can learn more by reading AARP’s New Choices for Saving, Investing and Earning Money on the Side. The publication is available free from AARP, or download a copy here. There are also many other options, including IRAs and annuities.
To make sure you’re making an informed decision between 401a vs 401k., ask yourself these questions: What do I want my life to look like when I reach retirement age? How much money will I need to live comfortably then? Do I want flexibility now so I can pursue new opportunities later? Is saving money part of my financial strategy? How much should I put away each month—and where should I keep it (in my 401(k) or IRA)? And if there are answers to those questions that don’t involve either plan, consider using all three! AARP has a free guide called New Choices for Saving, Investing and Earning Money on the Side. It compares many different savings options. You can download a copy here. There are also many other options, including IRAs and annuities. You can learn more by reading AARP’s New Choices for Saving, Investing and Earning Money on the Side. The publication is available free from AARP, or download a copy here. There are also many other options, including IRAs and annuities. To make sure you’re making an informed decision, ask yourself these questions: What do I want my life to look like when I reach retirement age? How much money will I need to live comfortably then?
Bottom Line Between 401a vs 401k
You can put up to $17,500 per year in a 401(k) or 403(b) plan for 2018. So that’s $35,000 if you’re under 50 and want to save as much as possible for retirement. The great thing about these is that your contributions are made before taxes, lowering your taxable income. That could mean you’ll pay less in Social Security taxes and Medicare premiums when you’re older (but watch out if you’re still working because many employers will make you stop saving once your salary reaches a certain point). Also, if your employer offers matching funds on your contributions, getting those dollars is like having a 100% return on investment. As with most things in life, there are trade-offs between 401a vs 401k.
If you have an old 401(k), it might not be worth rolling over into an IRA because it doesn’t offer all of today’s best retirement savings features—including low fees and access to low-cost index funds. Instead, use a free tool like Personal Capital to find out how much you have saved at every company where you’ve worked—even decades ago—and consolidate them into one account with a firm that offers all of today’s best features. It’ll take some time, but it’ll be worth it when your nest egg is bigger! This may sound counterintuitive, but sometimes it makes sense to contribute more Money to your tax-deferred accounts rather than reducing your taxable income through deductions and credits. For example, let’s say you’re eligible for a deduction worth $1,200. If you contribute enough money to bump up your 401(k) contribution from $18,500 ($18,000 + $500 catch-up contribution) to $19,700 ($18,000 + $1,700 catch-up contribution), then suddenly you won’t qualify for that deduction anymore. But wait—you get more money in your pocket by contributing more Money now because now any growth within that tax-deferred account isn’t taxed until withdrawal later on down the road!
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This work is an application of S-Curve analysis to a data series extracted from papers and patents from 2 drying and sterilisation unit operations. A set of data was collected along a timeline. Nonlinear regression techniques were used to calculate the inflection point in the series of patents and papers of both operations. The statistics used to validate the results were adjusted by R2, T-value and Durbin Watson. The data analyses were based on such models as Weibull, Gompertz, logistic, sigmoidal, Hill, among others. Thirteen models were applied. The models used were the best statiscally adjusted ones, from which the inflection point was then calculated. For the patent data, the selected models were sigmoidal for drying and Gompertz for sterilisation. The respective inflection points were located in the years 2002 and 2000. For papers data, the selected models were Hill for drying and sigmoidal for sterilisation. The respective inflection points were located in the years 2019 and 2014. These inflection points calculated over the corresponding S-Curve allow for reduction of the uncertainty in making investment decisions regarding the use of technologies similar to drying and food sterilization. This reduction of the uncertainty can be useful to define the state of technologies (before and after their inflection points), to determine the correct moment to apply mechanisms of intellectual property and technology law, and to establish appropriate strategies.
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Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension : 29 Hip Flexor Rehab Exercises
Hip flexors are muscles in the front of the thigh that help raise the hip. They can come to be tight from a range of reasons, including sitting for extended periods, overuse or injury. There are numerous exercises to assist fix up these muscular tissues. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
Hip flexor recovery workouts should be done to enhance the series of activity in the front of your hip and to strengthen the muscle mass group. You can do these exercises with a resistance band or without weights.
To begin, stand with your feet shoulder-width apart as well as hold the band around your ankles. Maintaining your back directly, bend at your hips as well as reduced yourself towards the flooring. Go as reduced as you can while still preserving control. Time out for a moment, then slowly go back to the starting setting. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
One more great hip flexor rehab workout is the lunge. Beginning by standing with one foot in front of the various other, after that slowly reduced yourself down up until your back knee nearly touches the flooring. Hold this placement for a few secs prior to pressing on your own back up to the starting setting. Make sure to switch legs when you're finished.
Weak hip flexors can cause troubles with pose and also movement. This can bring about pain in the reduced back, hips, and knees. Strengthening the hip flexors can help to improve motion as well as minimize discomfort. There are a number of exercises that can be utilized for hip flexor recovery. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
One exercise is the straight leg raising. This exercise assists to enhance the hip flexors as well as the muscle mass around the hip joint. To do this workout, push your back with one leg directly and also the other leg curved. Increase the straight leg up in the direction of the ceiling, hold for two seconds, and after that reduced it pull back. Repeat 10-15 times for each and every leg. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
An additional workout is called the hip flexion stretch. This stretch assists to extend and loosen the hip flexors. The hip flexor stretch is a superb exercise for boosting hip wheelchair and front-of-the-hip toughness. To do the workout, stand with one foot in front of the various other, as well as bend your ahead knee to ensure that your upper leg is alongside the floor. Keeping your back straight, lean ahead from your hips up until you feel a stretch in your hip flexors. Hold for 30 seconds, after that launch as well as repeat on the other side. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
The hip flexor stretch is an excellent means to boost hip wheelchair and also front-of-the-hip toughness. It's particularly valuable for professional athletes who require excellent variety of movement in their hips for tasks like running or jumping. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
One of the very best means to rehab your hip flexors is by doing forward lunges. This exercise will certainly help to stretch the hip flexors and additionally work with the stomach muscles. It's an excellent suggestion to do this workout regularly, specifically if you rest at a workdesk all the time. One more great means to rehab your hip flexors is by doing mountain climbers. This workout works with the gluteal muscles along with the hip flexors. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
When it involves hip flexors rehab, one of one of the most essential points is to make certain that you do not aggravate any existing knee pain. Reinforcing the glute muscles can aid to take some of the lots off of the knees, and exercises like isometric exercise and also lower leg raises can aid to improve the feature of the hip kidnappers as well as socket joints. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
There are a variety of different exercises you can do to reinforce your hip flexors. Among the most effective is an easy wall rest. To do this exercise, stand with your back against a wall surface and also slide down till your thighs are parallel to the ground. Hold this placement for 30-60 secs, after that gradually increase back to the beginning placement. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
Another terrific workout is the reverse lunge. To do this, stand with your feet together and lunge in reverse with one foot, keeping the other leg bent at 90 degrees.
Leading Causes Of Hip Flexor Pain
Your hips aid you relocate and also they can be harmed. One usual injury is to the hip flexors, the muscles on the front of your hip. If these muscle mass are wounded, you may have difficulty relocating your leg as well as you might feel an acute pain in your lower back. You can avoid this injury by doing the appropriate workouts.
Initially, you need to stretch your hip flexors. There are numerous good hip extends that you can do. Second, you ought to strengthen your hip muscle mass. There are a number of excellent exercises that will do this. You need to stay clear of resting for lengthy periods of time if you have an injury to your hip flexors. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
Hip flexor tendinopathy occurs when there is an intense injury, like a loss or vehicle mishap. It can also be caused by overuse such as running or gymnastics. This type of injury can additionally happen as people grow older as well as the tendons normally shed their flexibility. Quality 3 splits– the muscle mass fibers are entirely torn. If you have actually experienced a quality 3 tear, you possibly can't stroll without a limp. Job hip flexor stretches after a hip flexor pressure right into your day-to-day regimen to aid boost blood circulation in the region.
Other hip flexors include the psoas major, iliacus, rectus femoris, as well as sartorius, each of which has its own special role. Hip exercises can aid strengthen the hip flexor muscles. Most exercises can be done in the house and are gentle stretches, which will help to decrease stress and also avoid more or future injury. Hip flexor pressures are frequently brought on by either overuse or periods of prolonged resting incorporated with weak hip muscle mass. While this problem is commonly not serious, it can be quite uncomfortable and also can badly limit your task if left untreated. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
Determining which hip flexors are weak as well as reinforcing them is an additional method to method hip flexor rigidity. The hip flexor is a team of muscle mass that connect your femur, or thigh bone, to your hips and also lumbar spinal column. The hip flexor enables you to raise your legs towards your torso. The muscle mass of the hip flexor are likewise responsible for maintaining your hips and also lower back strong, versatile and also effectively aligned.
Reduced your ideal leg slowly, then repeat with your left leg. Prolong the opposite leg, maintaining the knee directly. From a standing setting, look straight ahead as well as take a generous progression with your ideal foot. Lift your left foot off the flooring and also slide it onward so your knee gets on the floor alongside your left hand and your foot is near your right-hand man. Specifically where your knee and also toes fall will certainly rely on your versatility. Return to the starting placement and repeat with your contrary leg.
Standing in a large walking position, a person ought to put both hands on a firm assistance before them. They must press their hips onward while maintaining their back straight. Warming up muscle mass prior to starting workouts will certainly aid to ensure they are ready to be extended and also might prevent additional straining. Most of the times, you can proceed your regular level of activity throughout of your treatment. You'll additionally receive individualized at-home workouts you can make use of to more rate your recuperation time and aid avoid injuries. Your doctor will certainly suggest staying clear of arduous activity for days after the injury.
The payment of these second hip flexors greatly depends on the placement of the hip at the time at which activity is initiated. Other muscles assist with bending the hip, yet the iliopsoas is the primary as well as major hip flexor or hip flexor muscular tissue. Due to the hip flexor muscular tissues' position, they can become tight with recurring resting task such as working at a computer. In the case of the hip flexors, they compile the bones of the leg and also the bones of the hip or back at the hip joint. If the hip is already bent, such as when you are sitting, these muscle mass aren't working.
Recognizing Hip Flexor Pain Symptoms & Stretching Exercises That Can Help
You might mistakenly strain your hip flexor if you do not warm up appropriately prior to exercise, or if you push too tough throughout exercise. It is likewise possible to strain your hip flexor if you are relocating hefty furniture or experience a short ruptured of extreme physical activity. An additional possible factor for surgery is hip joint damage caused by different forms of joint inflammation or long-term wear and tear on the joint.
Athletes, specifically soccer players, joggers, and martial musicians, are particularly susceptible to hip flexor discomfort. We put a huge quantity of tension on the hip flexor muscle mass during daily tasks. This is especially real for people who work physical tasks or professional athletes. If these muscles as well as tendons come to be worn, little splits can develop that cause hip pain. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
A details kind of hip bursitis is iliopsoas bursitis in the hip flexor area. If your hip flexors feel tight, yoga exercise for hip discomfort might be the response you're trying to find. Some forms of yoga exercise are far better than others.
Drive the knee back into the ground while having the hip sink down and also forward. Care instructions adapted under license by your medical care specialist. If you have inquiries regarding a medical problem or this direction, always ask your healthcare specialist. Healthwise, Incorporated disclaims any service warranty or obligation for your use of this information. If you really feel pain in your back, put a small towel roll under your reduced back. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
Advance with one leg, reduced your hips up until both knees are bent at concerning a 90-degree angle. See to it your front knee is directly above your ankle joint. In order to decrease the danger of a strain, always stretch properly prior to doing any kind of kind of workout. Stretch slowly as well as hold the placement to make sure that your muscular tissues are properly adaptable.
Individuals should begin by lying level on their back with their legs straight. They will gradually draw the knee of their appropriate leg towards their chest, as close as feasible without straining. After gradually lowering the leg, repeat the same on the contrary side. Leave your left knee on the flooring, making certain that your shin is aiming right back. Purchase your really own duplicate of my bestselling book, Tight Hip, Twisted Core– The Key to Unresolved Pain or Order the Hip Hook to release the tension in your really own hip flexor.
4 Hip Flexor Stretches To Relieve Tightness, From A Physical Therapist
Place your best leg with the back of a chair, and establish your appropriate foot on the floor so your leg is at a 90-degree angle. Lie on your stomach with your joints bent as well as your hands by your shoulders. It may look acquainted if you're a yogi, however this step is particularly excellent for strengthening the back, shoulders, arms, chest, as well as abs. It's additionally very healing, and some declare it helps with digestive problems like constipation. This step can be duplicated about 10 to 15 times, till the area feels appropriately stretched. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
While it may have led to experiencing some relief, it can be extra handy to make use of targeted go for the muscular tissues that are limited on your body (not your next-door neighbor's). Prior to we talk a lot more about just how to relax your hips, an important difference requires to be made. Take on the issue with information so you can figure out if your clients really do have limited hips or if there is another issue. With a few brand-new stretches as well as exercises, you can help those with tight hip flexors loosen them up, get better flexibility with much less pain, and avoid injuries. It's essential to comprehend exactly what it means to have tight hip flexors so you can help your customers. They might genuinely have tight muscles in the hips that require stretching, but they may likewise require to strengthen the hip flexors or associated muscle mass, like the glutes or core.
Typically, if you're healthy sufficient to walk around without pain, these should be fine for you to carefully explore. That indicates going gradually and also not pushing into pain. This routine produce a great workout or cool down for your various other training, yet it can really be practiced any time. Some individuals appreciate doing this routine when they initially get up to shake off the cobwebs, or just before going to sleep to obtain a good stretch in. Really, you can do this routine whenever it works ideal for you.
Maintain your eyes slightly up at about a 30-degree angle. Your shoulders should be pulled down and also away from your ears. Breathe in again and also press through your hands to lift your upper body off the floor. Strong Hip Flexors Weak Extension
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Proximate Approaches and Dietetic Comparison of Bt and Non Bt (Basmati) Rice Samples
Ayesha Alam*, Faiza Anum, Khajista Jabeen, Zeeshan Javed, Saira Khan, Shoaib Kabir and Shahid Raza
Trend of GM crops has drastically amplified since couple of years. Global production status has shown that over 52 million ha in urban areas is comprised of GM crops. Apart from economic importance and future demands, there is a huge concern regarding nutritional content of genetically engineered plants. Amongst all, Bt rice is well-known as a domestic cereal and its increased demand has forced to enhance the rice production. Pest attack has reduced rice production that is why Bacillus thuringiensis variety of rice has been introduced. The current research has been conducted to equate dietetic measures of Non Bt basmati with Bt variety that both are cultivated in Pakistan’s agricultural land. Proposed protocol for proximate analysis was AOAC method where statistically analyzed studied parameters (fat, fiber, ash, protein, moisture) illustrated HO is less than P value that proposed minor alterations in proximate configuration of both rice varieties such as (fat 2.90%, fiber 2.20%, ash 3.10%, protein 9.20%, moisture 10.80%) in Bt Rice While (fat 2.65%, fiber 2.40%, ash 2.80%, protein 9.30%, moisture 11%) in Non Bt Rice. Visible difference was found in result of elemental analysis of two varieties. Elemental content such as Ca 0.013, Mg 023, were less in Bt rice in contrast to Basmati (non Bt) rice. During the present study it was concluded that foreign gene insertion cannot affect proximity of variety but it can change elemental content of rice variety. | <urn:uuid:400588fd-39fb-4aab-b7eb-d999d2b5d42a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://lgujls.lgu.edu.pk/index.php/lgujls/article/view/58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958129 | 384 | 2.140625 | 2 |
When seeking an answer to this question, it’s vital to know that no two credit card processing statements are exactly the same. Statements vary among providers in regard to how sections are labeled, the order they appear in, the names — and shorthand — of different fees, etc.
For this reason, we’ll provide a general overview of how to read a credit card processing statement so that you know how things are typically displayed. If you’ve yet to sign up with a Merchant Service Provider or are considering a switch, we recommend asking to see a sample billing statement to gain a full understanding of how to read your credit card processing statement before signing up.
These documents, which denote all fees accrued for your acceptance of credit cards, are complex, which makes it easy to alter them to your business’s detriment. Knowing what you’re looking at is the best way to advocate for your business.
How to Read a Credit Card Processing Statement
In general, credit card processing statements feature four sections: processing summary, deposits, markup and auths, and pass-through fees. If your business is on Interchange-plus pricing, there will be a section that details these rates, as well. On top of these, you may see additional sections such as “other fees.” But, due to the variability of merchant statements, we’ll start with these fees and provide real examples.
So, from top to bottom, you’ll likely first see a section detailing your credit card volume for the month. It may be labeled “Card Summary.” In this section, you’ll see your total transactions by card brand (e.g., Visa, MasterCard, Discover, etc.), the total dollar value of those transactions, any refunds and chargebacks, and the average ticket value per card brand.
This section gives you a high-level overview of your total transactions, but it’s important to note that while your net sales may not change month-to-month, you may experience differences in costs due to Interchange fluctuation. In other words, certain transactions, like Amex transactions, carry a higher cost, whereas others, like PIN debit, are cheaper to process. So, the more Amex you accept, the higher your fees will be. More debit transactions will have the opposite effect.
Deposits by Day or Month
Monthly discount is more common than daily discount. Monthly discount refers to a merchant account setup in which your fees are taken out once at the end of the month. Daily discount refers to when fees are taken from each day’s deposit. In this example, the merchant is on daily discount. Regardless of which setup you have, you’ll see your deposits noted, along with fees that were removed and your final, settled amount.
Interchange-Plus Rates and Auths
Typically this section will come next, but only if you’re on Interchange-plus pricing. On an Interchange-plus pricing plan, a merchant simply pays the Interchange (or wholesale) cost of each transaction plus a standard markup.
The Interchange rate for every transaction varies with risk and reward and is set by the card brands. As the risk or reward increases, so too does the cost to process the payment.
Regardless of payment plan, you’ll also see the cost of your auths here. Typically, providers charge an authorization, or “auth,” fee for every attempted transaction, regardless of whether they’re successful or result in a refund, void or chargeback.
Payment providers charge a number of pass-through fees that enable your acceptance of credit card transactions, even if they do not interface directly with your company. Payment Gateways and Payment Processors are middlemen that fit this description.
You’ll see these noted as pass-through fees, meaning they were charged to your Merchant Service Provider and are now being passed onto you.
Dues and assessments are a common pass-through fee from the card brands, and we recommend you familiarize yourself with them. These rates are part of the card brands’ aforementioned Interchange guides and therefore shouldn’t exceed the advertised rate. MasterCard, Visa and Discover dues and assessments are currently set between 0.11% and 0.13%, and Amex’s are set at 0.15%.
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Project Management Certification Roundup
Unlike most areas of the IT industry, becoming certified in project management requires more than purely technical knowledge or hands-on skills. Candidates must also be proficient in overseeing and coordinating the use of team members, finances, and other resources to efficiently and effectively implement and carry out company projects. A number of project management certifications are offered by leading organizations in the field, each with varied areas of focus and depth of knowledge tested.
In the field of project management, CompTIA offers one of the most well recognized entry-level certifications with Project+ (formally named IT Project+). The certification assesses the candidate’s ability to see a project from initiation to completion while upholding time constraints and budget restrictions. The primary objectives covered in the exam’s 100 questions are project planning, execution and delivery, and control and communication. Pre-project setup and project closure are also covered, although less heavily. Along with technical know-how and expertise, the candidate’s knowledge must also extend into interpersonal skills such as conflict avoidance and time management.
While there are no prerequisites or experience requirements, the Project+ exam is recommended for individuals with at least one year of experience organizing and managing small and mid-sized projects. The current exam consists of 100 questions and lasts 90 minutes. This version of the exam tests familiarity with CompTIA’s 2009 objectives. For individuals studying the requirements of the Project+ exam covering 2003 objectives, the previous version (which consists of 80 questions and lasts 90 minutes) will be available to candidates until March 31, 2011. Both versions of the exam cost $239.
For more on CompTIA’s Project+ certification, check out http://www.comptia.org/certifications/listed/project.aspx.
Project Management Institute
The Project Management Institute (PMI) is the leading non-profit association for project management professionals. In addition to providing research and professional development opportunities to its members, PMI also offers five levels of project management certification. The foremost certification in this catalog is Project Management Professional (PMP).
In order to qualify for the PMP exam, candidates must either possess a four-year degree with an additional 4,500 hours of hands-on project management experience or a high school diploma with an additional 7,500 hours of experience. All candidates must also have acquired 35 hours of project management education. The exam is made up of 200 multiple-choice questions and costs $555, with a $150 discount for PMI members.
For candidates unable to meet the experience requirements for PMP certification, PMI offers the entry-level Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) certification. The CAPM tests candidates with 150 multiple-choice questions and is designed for professionals new to project management or looking to validate the foundational skills needed in the field. While prerequisites are less extensive, CAPM candidates are still required to possess a secondary education diploma and a minimum of 1,500 hours of work experience. Twenty-three hours of project management education may be substituted for these experience hours. The CAPM exam costs $225 for PMI members and $300 for non-members.
Beyond the CAPM and PMP, PMI’s Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification extends its subject matter to the management of multiple, simultaneous projects and the accomplishment of strategic initiatives related to the projects. A typical question on the PgMP exam might quiz a candidate on the best method of incorporating new projects into existing company programs. After passing the exam, PgMP candidates must also undergo a multi-rater assessment from a panel of 12 individuals they personally select. The panel of supervisors, peers, direct reports, and professional references assess the candidate’s project management abilities and performance. These assessments are reviewed by PMI before certification is awarded.
The last two certifications in PMI’s catalog are PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) and PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP). These specialty certifications are designed for professionals looking to fill scheduling or risk management roles within project management teams or to supplement existing project management credentials.
To see detailed information and requirements for all PMI certifications, go to http://www.pmi.org/Certification/Which-PMI-Certification-is-Right-for-You.aspx.
After receiving any PMI credentials, individuals must complete a set number of Professional Development Units (PDUs) every three years to keep their certification in good standing. Attending seminars, volunteering services, and completing approved courses are all ways to obtain PDUs. For a full list of ways to complete PMI-approved Professional Development Units, visit http://www.pmi.org/Certification/Twelve-Ways-to-Earn-PDUs.aspx.
Stanford Advanced Project Management Certificate Program
Through Stanford University’s Center for Professional Development, the Stanford Certified Project Manager (SCPM) certification is offered to professionals wanting to acquire and confirm knowledge of advanced project management skills. In lieu of traditional certification exams, SCPM candidates must complete six courses offered through the program. Three coursesConverting Strategy Into Action, Leadership for Strategic Execution, and Mastering the Project Portfolioare required, while the remaining three are selected by the candidate from a list of elective courses.
Classes may be taken online, on Stanford’s campus, or at other approved training centers. When taken on Stanford’s campus, fees total $2,600 per course. Online tuition is reduced to $950 per course. On top of being required for SCPM certification, every project management course offered by the Center for Professional Development is approved as Professional Development Units for PMI certifications. To see a list of elective courses and learn more about the requirements of becoming a SCPM, head over to http://apm.stanford.edu/certificateProgram.htm.
IAPPM Certified Project Manager
The International Association of Project and Program Management provides the Certified Project Manager (CPM) designation for solidifying foundational and practical skills for project management professionals. The CPM is designed to supplement existing project certifications or serve as a starting point of a professional’s certification path. To find out more about IAPPM’s certifications, head over to http://www.iappm.org/cpm.htm.
AAPM Master Project Manager
Master Project Manager (MPM) certification from the American Academy of Project Management can be achieved through a simple application process for individuals possessing an accredited project management degree, a Master’s degree with one year of project management experience, or an undergraduate degree with three years of experience. Resumes are reviewed and approved for certification by the AAPM Board. Candidates lacking these requirements are eligible to take AAPM’s free Project Management Exam online to supplement their resumes. Learn more about AAPM certifications at http://www.projectmanagementcertification.org/certification.html.
As we’ve recommended earlier in this series for other certification paths, CompTIA certification is a smart starting place for project management professionals beginning their certification track. Project+ has no prerequisites, and the foundational material covered in its exam solidifies the knowledge base needed to move on to more extensive certifications. After becoming Project+ certified, moving through PMI’s certification program is a logical choice. Whether beginning with CAPM or heading straight for the PMP, acquiring PMI certification gives you the most recognized confirmation of project management knowledge and skills in the industry. As more hands-on experience is acquired in the workplace, PMI’s specialty certifications can be obtained to produce a well-rounded and extensive certification portfolio.
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Improving systems improves life.
Systems are everywhere, especially in IT. There are systems in the sense of operating systems, networks, databases, applications, and the systems that include all of these and more. There are also systems for processes, policies, and procedures. Frequently, these types of systems are changed, updated, etc. with little regard to the technical systems.
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Asking Tibetans to show restraint, the Dalai Lama on Tuesday said he will resign as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile if the situation in Lhasa and its neighbouring provinces got out of control.
"If Tibetans choose violence in their agitation, I shall resign from the leadership," the 73-year-old monk told reporters in Dharamshala.
The Tibetan spiritual leader said that during "the 1987-88 agitation also, I had stated that if Tibetan people adopt violence, then I shall not be in a position to lead them and that there shall be no other alternative for me but to resign".
"Today also I say that if Tibetans choose violence then the only option is to resign," he said. The Dalai Lama, who rejected Beijing's allegations that he was behind the violence in Lhasa and adjoining areas, said he was not in a position to tell Tibetans living under Chinese rule as to what they should or they should not do.
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We pioneered the production of parallel flanges beams in China. European I sections under bending load, steel savings between 10-25% can be achieved. Our I beams also have other advantages, like Cost effective, Reduced steel usage, Facilitate bolted or welded construction.Our IPE beams plant machinery includes universal tandem mill.
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China Hot Rolled Structural Steel and H Beams. Hot Rolled Structural Steel and H Beams Description Product name China Hot Rolled Structural Steel and H Beams. Keywords Structural Steel Beams. Standards GB/ASTM/SS400/ST52. Material Q195 Q235 Q345. Web Thickness 10mm. Web Width 150mm. Flange Thickness 7mm. Flange Width 150mm.
H-beam web thickness than the same high web of ordinary i-beam, flange width than the same high web of ordinary i-beam larger, so also known as wide-flange i-beam. It can greatly improve the carrying capacity and save 10% 40% of metal. H-beam has wide Flange, thin web, many specifications and flexible use.
Our structural steel mill produces a variety of parallel flange sections such as Wide Flange beams, American Standard Beams, Manufactured Housing Beams, H Piling and Channel sections for the construction, transportation and industrial machinery markets. We offer these products in standard lengths, but also can cut sections to custom lengths.
The beam can also be fed through an edging mill to adjust the flange widths. Materials Used in Wide Flange Beams. Steel is the most common material used to make wide flange beams. Specifically, carbon structural steel and high-strength, low-alloy structural steel are used. Steel is favored because its highly customizable, durable, easy to ...
PFC - British parallel flange channels. PFC channel steel is normally called a channel or a C-section. Low temperature impact testing is available across the range. Hot Rolled Structural Steel sections produced by Arcelor are manufactured in accordance with the requirements of Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 3679.For information on ...
IPE profiles defined as European Standard Universal Beam Profile with Parallel Flange are designed in parallel form with flange regions. Although these profiles are the basic needs of the building / construction sector, they are frequently used in the basic construction, infrastructure and machinery manufacturing sectors.
web and divided into wide medium width narrow wide flange I-steel before the two production specifications for 10 60, that is, the corresponding height is 10 cm 60 cm at the same height, light I-steel flange narrow web thin weight light Wide flange I-beam is also known as H-beam, the section is characterized by two legs parallel, and the inside ...
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Its product range will include 6 to 12-in. wide flange beams, 5 to 6-in. standard beams, 5 to 8-in. channels, and correspondent angles and flats. The mill is designed to produce beams up to 24-in. W-beams at later stage. All electricals and the advanced automation system will be supplied by Danieli Automation.
It began operations as a Structural mill in 2002 and is now SDIs second-largest steel operation. The Structural mill produces a variety of parallel flange sections such as wide flange beams, American Standard Beams, Manufactured Housing Beams, H Piling and Channel sections for the construction, transportation and industrial machinery markets.
The H-beams has flexibility, reliability, and economical efficiency. The use of H-beams reduces the end-product weight by combining profile shapes. The H-beams provided are manufactured according to South Korean Standards KS D3503, KS D3502. The available height range is as following HW100400mm, HM150600mm, HN150900mm.
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Figure 3-2.Structural shapes. the S-shape is in the design of the inner surfaces of the flange. The W-shape has parallel inner and outer flange surfaces with a constant thickness, while the
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Jul 13, 2015 For I-beam production, the most recent process is continuous casting and rolling beam blanks with thin flange (e.g., with thickness less than 50 mm), to produce parallel flange beam with thin web. Conventional universal beam mill
UPE channel is one of the European standard structurals steel channel section which with parallel flange, UPE channel was known as steel U channel, U channel steel and Upe profile and parallel flange channel which was manufactured by European quality standard EN 10025 and European standard size tolerance EN 10034 to finish, which is often used to construct
Jun 17, 2019 Fujian Luoyuan Minguang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., located in Luoyuan County, member of the Sangang Group, PR China, has awarded SMS group GmbH the order to supply a new section mill for parallel flange beams up to 750 millimeters web height.
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Apr 13, 2021 I-beam is mainly divided into ordinary I-beam, light I-beam and wide flange I-beam.According to the height ratio of flange and web, it is further divided into wide flange, medium flange and narrow wide flange I-beam.The first two production specifications for 10-60, that is, the corresponding height of 10 cm - 60 cm.At the same height, light I-beam has narrow
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Sep 24, 2021 Steel Authority of India Limiteds (SAIL) IISCO Steel Plant (ISP) has successfully developed and produced Parallel Flange Beam (NPB 750) at its Universal Structural Mill (USM0, a company statement said on Friday, September 24. Earlier, NPB in maximum 600 mm depth was available in the domestic market.
The Blytheville, Arkansas mill shipped its first beam in September 1988. Later, Nucor-Yamato added a second Blytheville facility to produce a broader range of wide flange beams. In 1999, Nucor started a structural beam mill in Berkeley County, South Carolina.
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Wide flange I-beam, also known as H-beam, is characterized by two parallel legs and no inclination on the inner side of the legs. It belongs to economic section steel and is rolled on four high universal mill, so it is also called universal I-beam. Ordinary I-beam and light I-beam have formed national standards.
STRUCTURAL I BEAMS ASTM-A36 58,000/80,000 PSI Weight Width Thickness Size Per Foot of Flange of Web Inches Lb. Ins. Ins. 3 5.7 2.330 .170
Feb 01, 2012 February 1, 2012. After positive results of hot trials during the month of November, Emirates Steel succeeded this month in rolling out the first beams declaring the start of the hot commissioning of the first Heavy Section Mill in the region at a cost of around $650 million. In a statement issued yesterday, the steelmaker said it can now ...
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There are 3 main roles that each player can choose from in Final Fantasy XIV. These are Tank, DPS, and Healer. Each role performs an important function in the game. The DPS is the main damage dealer, the tank is the protector, and the healer is the one keeping everyone alive. All roles are important, but most people prefer playing the DPS role since it’s the role that kills enemies.
But if you’re someone who prefers the role of providing support and keeping teammates alive, then the Healer role would be the best option. If you want to be an efficient healer in Final Fantasy XIV, then this guide will help you with that.
The Role of The Healer
When you say Healer, you might think that your role in the game is to provide healing to teammates whenever they take damage. Though that might be the primary role of a healer, there are also other things that you will do. Healers also possess buffs that can increase the team’s defense, remove detrimental effects, as well as mitigate the damage that they receive. They can also revive fallen teammates, making sure that the party is always complete during raids or battles.
You must be aware of the different skills and abilities of your chosen Healer class. This will let you know what you can and cannot do during battles in the game. It will also help you know when it’s best to use them to maximize their effect. Players on your team would expect that you’re at least aware of your character’s abilities and how to properly use them.
Don’t Forget to Use your Damage Spells
A good healer is not only someone who stays in the background and just dishes out heals and buffs. They also know when to use their damage spells. You won’t always be casting buffs or healing during battles. There will also be moments where you won’t be doing anything, and in this instance, it’s best to use your damage spells as well.
A Healer doesn’t deal huge damage like other mages, but it can still pack a punch. Some enemies are weak to light magic, which is what a Healer possesses. So, make sure you’re also aware of your Healer’s damage spells and use them accordingly. The last thing you would want to do is to stay idle, so either you’re healing, buffing, or providing a supporting attack.
Always be Aware & Monitor Spells Cooldowns
No other class in Final Fantasy XIV needs to be aware of their spells’ cooldown than the Healers. This is because you need to make sure that your team always has their buffs and damage mitigations. So, you have to know their cooldowns religiously and adjust your rotations. The best way to go about it is to make sure you have proper synergy between your Global Cooldown skills (GCD) and off Global Cooldown Skills (oGCD).
The oGCD are instant use skills that you can use between GCDs. Make sure that there’s proper synergy between both types of skills so you won’t be idle or be put in a position where you can’t cast anything.
Always be Mindful of Spells that Pulls Aggro Toward You
Certain spells will pull aggro on them (make them a target for enemies to attack). You should be aware of these things since a Healer is not built to soak up damage. Try to avoid using them as much as possible. And in the instance that you accidentally use them or you have to use them, make sure to go to the Tank.
The Tank can mitigate the aggro, allowing you to survive in the process. So be aware of these things so you won’t unnecessarily die during the battle.
Always Heal When it Counts
Probably the most important tip that you should remember as a Healer is to always use your healing ability when it counts the most. It can be tempting to suddenly heal your teammate whenever they take damage, but this can be a waste of MP.
You have to be aware of how much you can heal so you won’t be healing your teammates carelessly. For example, if your heal grants 15% Max HP, you’ll be wasting it if your teammate still has 90-95% HP remaining. Make sure you only use your healing when it counts so you won’t waste MP. | <urn:uuid:8a01bc2d-4d75-486f-9c60-079e0f17e158> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://playpc.io/guides/final-fantasy-xiv-guide-how-to-be-successful-healer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95614 | 906 | 1.625 | 2 |
This year, Kenya celebrates fifty years of independence. In the life of nations and states, Kenya is young. Its new constitution, emerging out of and in response to struggle and bloodshed, including the postelection violence a mere five years ago, is even younger; it came into force in August 2010. The election on March 4, 2013, was thus the first under a new legal order fashioned organically within Kenya (and not, like the last one, in Britain), and it ushered in two new bodies of government: a senate with powers to impeach a sitting president, and forty-seven county governments, which if devolution proceeds in accordance to the law, will control real resources. This reflects the overwhelming wish of the Kenyan people, who asked, in consultation after consultation over the last two decades, for the essentially colonial, centralized powers of the president to be curtailed. A key question now is can the newly created legal order that disperses and devolves power hold, and if so, what shape will it take?
In the recent election, Kenyans and much of the world focused heavily on the race for the presidency. This is unsurprising, as the president as the symbolic head of state is still associated—perhaps incorrectly, given recent changes—with massive powers over the destiny of the country. More dramatically, the March 2013 election pitted Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga, two sons of Kenya’s most famous independence leaders (Jomo Kenyatta and Oginga Odinga), against each other in the run for the presidency. This evoked emotional memories of both Kenya’s brutal birth and the last painful election, which resulted in power sharing between Odinga and outgoing President Kibaki, after a highly irregular and violent election process in which the two candidates stood on opposite sides of the conflict.
Perhaps because of this recent and painful past—and the related, uncomfortable questions about responsibility raised by the International Criminal Court (ICC) case as well as, more importantly, by the thousands of witnesses and victims—both presidential candidates made sure to emphasize Kenya’s bright future in their national campaigns, filling them with promises of development and transformation. In their English-language campaign advertisements in newspapers and on billboards, the candidates appeared next to pictures of highways and high-speed trains, giving a sense that Kenya was on the fast track forward—with the new constitution as its guide. Indeed, if we simply look at what these official campaigns were about by reading party manifestos, listening to the historic presidential debates, and perusing the English-language press, we would think the whole country was in agreement about what needs to be done: educate children, improve health care, support farmers, build better infrastructure, lower unemployment, raise wages, and nurture economic development, among other key actions.
Yet today in postelection Kenya, we have a public that is deeply polarized—to the point that the new president, Uhuru Kenyatta, has called for reconciliation. One part of the country is celebrating the success of the Jubilee alliance led by Kenyatta. Another, often linked to Raila Odinga’s Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) alliance, is in mourning, outraged, or stunned. Some are heralding the fact that, after the horrific postelection violence in 2007 and 2008, peace was maintained this time around, and that electoral disputes were and are being settled through the court system. In this universe, the fragile democratic institutions mandated by the progressive constitution of 2010 are working, and the many Kenyans who were persecuted and lost loved ones and property will now be protected (though historical justice is another matter). Businesses and property will be respected, and as a nation, Kenyans can now control their own destiny and stop listening to foreigners.
Others are profoundly skeptical. So many questions remain about how the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) conducted the election, from the complete failure of the technology designed to curb rigging, to the many missing forms and discrepancies in tallying. So many critical questions remain about who controls the military and police; Kenya’s National Security Advisory Committee is primarily controlled by its Kikuyu members, who are of the same ethnicity as Kenyatta, and the old fears of surveillance and repression are reemerging, especially with what appeared to be concerted attacks against civil society in the media. The reality of having two International Criminal Court indictees leading the country is simply stunning. The elected Deputy President William Ruto, according to many commentators has distinguished himself by being a thug during the brutal reign of President Moi’s Kenya African National Union (KANU). There is an uneasy feeling that respect for institutions on the outside is accompanied by informal maneuverings on the inside, in the same way that the indictees appear to be respecting the ICC while, disturbingly, witnesses continue to disappear.
At some level, the common denominator between the currently polarized political camps in Kenya and disagreements among the broader public is the constitution. The current leaders were elected—or selected depending on your viewpoint—from within the confines of the new legal order. All sides claim it as their source of legitimacy and as a yardstick of progress. The struggle to breathe life and meaning into that legal document is a common goal, for which Kenyans may find themselves bridging what looks like a hardened divide. Which Kenya will emerge from this ongoing conversation—a process historians might call nation building, messy in all places and times—is an open question. Perhaps it cannot be answered today, because an answer must be crafted through a longer process of struggle, negotiation, and imagination.
Signs of change exist. Even now, as things seem to look the same in terms of the leadership at the highest levels, new forces are emerging. Governors across the country have just been confirmed but are already finding common cause, walking out of a meeting together after former President Kibaki lectured to them about Kenya being a “unitary state.” The election produced a Somali-Kenyan MP in Luo-dominated Nyanza province, and an Asian Kenyan MP in Meru. Nairobi, the powerhouse of the Kenyan economy, has a technocratic CORD governor and a populist Jubilee senator. A forensic audit of the IEBC’s performance one way or another will occur, and the emerging discussion of judicial activism suggests that the Supreme Court will become a new arena of struggle in this battle to shape the nation.[i] The new Environment and Land Courts have not even begun their work dissecting and deliberating over the accumulated land injustices across the country. The National Land Commission, deliberately stalled by the previous administration, has not yet come into force but must, according to the new constitution, opening new arenas for settling vexing issues. Despite the limited court interpretation of the constitution’s gender clause for this election, Kenyans will see more women in Parliament. Lastly, as the president and his coterie now start to name the appointees to a constitutionally limited cabinet, they will need to consider whether these nominees will pass the scrutiny of Parliament, which will now vet each candidate. And so the struggle is just beginning under new, untested rules. No doubt old dirty tricks will be tried (as they continue to be in all democracies), but now more tools exist to fight them. The outcome depends on popular mobilization and people exercising their rights like the muscles of an athlete. Politics, too, can be seen as a marathon, and Kenyans have distinguished themselves in the sport.
Kenya’s deep polarization is partly attributable to the fact that politicians generally play multiple games. They say one thing at a national level to mobilize broad support. They say another thing to what in American politics we call “the base,” producing narratives that build “emotional constituencies”—groups of voters with the same reactions and feelings on an issue or set of issues.[ii] In Kenya, these narratives play out in local languages and in complex local idioms and parables, often inscrutable to other citizens. This gives extra force to building the base—in this case by using an imagined coherent entity called “an ethnic community.”
In Murang’a during the election and in Eldoret a few months before, I was able to discern one such narrative that had been repeated in “prayer meetings” by the Jubilee protagonists, and that was clearly entrenched among the Jubilee bases. This was the narrative of Odinga’s treachery in mobilizing the ICC against Jubilee leaders, who now needed to be “protected.” In return for protection through voting, these leaders would protect the bases from further violence, loss of state patronage, and persecution. This completely fabricated and ironic tale allowed two formerly antagonist ethnic factions (Kenyatta’s ethnic group, the Kikuyu, and Ruto’s group, the Kalenjin) to join political forces in a plausible coalition. How this will play out—as a forgotten script or a new basis for illiberal mobilization in confrontation with the constitution—remains a key question moving forward, especially with the ICC cases scheduled to begin soon.[iii]
Overall, Kenya and its partners—the East African region, which depends on Kenya as an economic powerhouse and as a buffer against political conflicts elsewhere, especially in Somalia; the United States, which relies on Kenya in its war on terror;[iv] Europe, Kenya’s largest trading partner; and China, its newest one—can breathe a collective sigh of relief that the election was peaceful if imperfect. The real struggle for the Kenyan nation, its democracy, and its constitutional order is just beginning and is bound to be messy and difficult if history is any indicator.[v] This is especially the case since Kenya’s struggle is occurring in the context of the ICC cases, the war on terror, the related war in Somalia, and discoveries of oil in Kenya and the wider region. Still, in no place and time has this process of transformation been easy, nor is it ever finished. Kenya at fifty is only at the doorstep of its future.
[i] In a ruling shortly after the election, the Supreme Court deemed the minster of education’s attempt to ban a high school play that highlights ethnic favoritism and corruption unconstitutional. The play was recently performed and can be viewed on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlX2HQgOMSU.
[ii] George Lakoff, The Political Mind (New York: Viking Press, 2008), 197.
[iii] As of this posting, Deputy President William Ruto’s case is set to begin May 28, 2013, while President Kenyatta will stand trail starting July 9, 2013.
[iv] Kenya is one of the largest recipients of US aid for counterterrorism, and the war it is waging in Somalia is no doubt linked to this, although shockingly it never came up as an election issue.
[v] See John Lonsdale’s brilliant work on this matter, particularly his chapter “Anti-Colonial Nationalism and Patriotism in Sub-Saharan Africa,” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism, ed. John Breuilly (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 318-340. | <urn:uuid:2ddac45e-33c8-4743-a7cd-abade2f3c518> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forums.ssrc.org/african-futures/2013/04/25/kenyas-jubilee-election-what-next/?replytocom=30585 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959705 | 2,332 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Naval procurement has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. First up is the ongoing legal squabbling over the former number two in the Canadian military, Vice Admiral Mark Norman, who is charged with breach of trust for allegedly leaking cabinet secrets to Quebec’s Davie shipyard. Then, the government is refusing to release a report that would shed light on exactly how far behind schedule the joint support ship and Coast Guard heavy icebreaker procurements are, nor will it provide an updated delivery estimate. Finally, the plan to replace frigates and retired destroyers with a new surface combatant vessel continues to be beset by delays and industry infighting as the bid process drags on and on — with further delays announced by the government recently.
Yet despite such persistent bad news, in March 2018 the Royal Canadian Navy (the navy) achieved a rare procurement success when its new supply ship, MV Asterix, officially entered service under a lease arrangement with the firm Federal Fleet Inc. A commercial ship purchased in 2015 and converted over the following two years, Asterix fulfills a key naval capability lost in 2014 when a fire and, separately, hull fatigue removed from service the decades-old auxiliary oiler replenishment (AOR) ships HMCS Protecteur and HMCS Provider. These ships, known as oilers, provided the lifeblood of the fleet, carrying the extra fuel, food, spare parts, helicopters and ammunition necessary to extend naval operations away from shore for longer periods at sea. The Protecteur-class AORs also gave limited onshore support to other Canadian Armed Forces units participating in peace support and in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. With the loss of both AORs, the navy needs another ship like Asterix — and fast.
The Protecteur-class oilers had to be retired when their replacements, to be called joint support ships, were scarcely beyond the design stage, much less completed. With delays stretching into the 2020s on the joint-support-ship project, the navy faced the very real possibility of losing its vital replenishment-at-sea skills and naval support capabilities. Oilers borrowed from the Spanish and Chilean navies were only a temporary stopgap. In fact, the need to get an AOR capability was so pressing that Asterix embarked into navy service even before all its interior fittings were completed. The ship has already taken part in military exercises in the North Atlantic, completed a double replenishment-at-sea operation with the US Navy and has now deployed for the West Coast to join in one of the world’s largest multinational naval exercises, RIMPAC.
The rapid pace of Asterix’s deployments has highlighted the navy’s stark need for the ship. But as the sole AOR in the Canadian fleet, the ship faces a clear limitation: it has to service a navy split between two oceans, Atlantic and Pacific, with a long transit voyage in between. While Asterix is taking part in RIMPAC, the East Coast fleet will be beholden to friends and allies for refuelling, or tied to shore on restricted sailings. This presents a problem, as the navy — indeed, the armed forces as a whole — is expected under the Trudeau government’s defence policy, Strong, Secure, Engaged, to be able to “act in multiple theatres simultaneously.” This includes sustaining not just domestic and North American defence but also overseas engagements, for example in support of NATO commitments in eastern Europe, drug interdiction in the Caribbean and antipiracy patrols. Put simply, with only one oiler, the navy cannot independently fulfill all of its assigned duties under the policy. Having only one functioning AOR also raises questions as to the Canadian military’s ability to respond to a humanitarian disaster whether at home or abroad, another tasking emphasized in the policy. While Strong, Secure, Engaged stipulates that “Strong at home” comes first, it is debatable whether the navy could currently meet large-scale humanitarian assistance and disaster relief challenges, in addition to its “normal” operations.
Naval humanitarian assistance and disaster relief capabilities serve both domestic and international functions. Natural disasters in recent years, like the New Brunswick floods this May, highlight the possible roles such a ship can provide. The 2010 landing of Hurricane Igor in Newfoundland saw hundreds of coastal communities lose power and endure days of isolation after road washouts. Under Operation Lama, three ships and a Sea King helicopter were dispatched to assist the hardest-hit communities. The timing and landfall of the hurricane coincided with the seasonal operation of a car ferry that carried troops and vehicles over from CFB Gagetown, New Brunswick, via Nova Scotia. Had the disaster struck in late fall or early winter or with more devastation, the military response would have been even more logistically challenging. With the possibility of earthquakes in British Columbia and more powerful hurricanes on the east coast, the strategic value of having domestic humanitarian assistance and disaster relief capabilities is greater than ever. The 2016 earthquake in New Zealand and the 2017 cyclone in Australia illustrate the value of having humanitarian and-disaster relief capable ships like HMNZS Canterbury and HMAS Choules available for duty on the home front.
On the international level, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief capabilities are more than just disaster response; they also are a proactive means of dealing with disasters before they happen. The United States has used a number of its vessels in this role, including expeditionary fast transport ships like USNS Brunswick and dedicated hospital ships like USNS Mercy. The navies of the United States, Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific countries support a forward engagement humanitarian assistance mission called Pacific Partnership every year; it provides health care and trains regional partners for coordinated disaster response. Canadian sailors and personnel sometimes take part, but Canadian ships do not. This mission is exactly the sort of thing that Asterix and other potential humanitarian assistance and disaster relief assets could participate in, if Canada chooses to become more active in this role.
Proactive humanitarian assistance and disaster relief represents a potentially rich opportunity for furthering Canada’s foreign policy interests, especially in light of the global political uncertainty generated by the Trump presidency. Countries in South America, the Caribbean and Asia are looking for reliable, stalwart allies, and Canada could well step into the breach left by the US, which is increasingly distracted and focused on national security. Such a role for Canada is not fantastical; indeed, the navy’s own policy framework, Leadmark 2050, has called for “the acquisition of a dedicated peace-support ship to meet the unique demands of HA/DR.” Such a vessel would become one of the “most heavily used assets” and “the principal Canadian Armed Forces defence diplomacy asset.” Currently, the navy practises defence diplomacy in port visits interspersed throughout more mission-focused deployments; having a dedicated humanitarian assistance and disaster relief ship or, at the very least, a sister ship to Asterix available for use in proactive humanitarian engagement when it is not busy as an oiler would allow the navy to be used directly as a whole-of-government asset, representing Canada’s diplomatic, trade and regional development agencies to the wider world.
Asterix, even more than its Protecteur-class predecessors, is the ideal humanitarian assistance and disaster relief platform from which to launch and sustain humanitarian aid operations in coastal regions, where 40 percent of the world’s population lives. Once fully finished, the ship will have a fully fitted hospital, a dental clinic and an emergency dormitory capable of holding up to 350 evacuees. The galleys can even cook 500 meals an hour if necessary. Navy ships like Asterix are self-contained in the event of a disaster, because their sailors live and eat on board, removing the necessity to first construct housing and kitchens for service members sent to help. While heavy airlift is faster to the scene of a disaster, nothing beats a large ship for medium-term disaster assistance, especially when, like Asterix, its company can include a helicopter and air detachment.
This brings us to an important conclusion: Canada needs more capability than Asterix can provide by itself. Currently, the interim AOR is being kept busy fulfilling its vital fuelling and replenishment role for the navy. At a minimum, a three-coast navy would have at least two AOR ships. Three would allow the navy — and Canada — to commit to a long-sought humanitarian role, one called for in the Strong, Secure, Engaged policy, and it ought not to come at the expense of standard naval readiness. The joint support ship project is an untold number of years behind schedule, and even on completion, it will supply the navy with only two ships. Canada needs the capability now, not in 10 years’ time.
Given the success of the Asterix procurement, the Trudeau government should take steps to acquire another interim AOR, ideally using the same modified off-the-shelf method as for Asterix, to ensure prompt delivery. Both AORs should eventually be transitioned from interim to permanent, augmenting the navy’s support ship fleet from two to four. Building on the success of Asterix would also keep jobs and knowledge in Canada, and they would likely be at Quebec’s Davie shipyard, which has not yet received any contracts under the National Shipbuilding Strategy. If Canada is intent on building ships at home for the foreseeable future, ensuring the sustainability of the industry across the country should be a priority, to encourage competition and reduce the hold that individual companies have on the government purse.
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The Biden Doctrine: A Return to Moral Leadership & an End to America's Pandering to Putin
President Joe Biden has decades of experience in US foreign policy and he demonstrated yesterday that he clearly recognizes the damage that Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo did to America's standing in the world.
He also understands that Trump's "America First" campaign was simply a meaningless bumper sticker meant to provide a veneer of respectability to a hodgepodge of reckless and amateurish policies that accomplished nothing while undermining the nation's ability to influence global events. America can't be 'first" if it's a follower or simply reacting to the leadership of others. Moreover, Biden understands that America's standing in the world is greatly enhanced when we coordinate our policies with like-minded allies.
In his first major foreign policy speech Biden spoke to both our allies and our adversaries. “America is back. Diplomacy is back,” said Biden. He intends to work "shoulder to shoulder" with America's long-term allies to take a more decisive stand against authoritarian states like China and Russia. He spoke directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin in his address.
Biden: “I made it clear to President Putin, in a manner very different from my predecessor, that the days of the United States rolling over in the face of Russia’s aggressive actions, interfering with our elections, cyberattacks, poisoning its citizens, are over.”
Putin interfered in the 2016 election because he realized that Trump would undermine the NATO alliance, Russia's greatest regional threat. A weakened NATO provided the Russian dictator with a freer hand in Ukraine and greater sway in Eastern Europe.
Biden: "We will not hesitate to raise the cost on Russia and defend our vital interests and our people. And we will be more effective in dealing with Russia when we work in coalition and coordination with other like-minded partners."
The President also promised that human rights and humanitarian concerns will again influence US foreign policy toward nations like China and Saudi Arabia. He promised to restore America's refugee admissions program, end US support for Saudi Arabia's offensive operations in Yemen, and push back on China’s deplorable human rights record, especially its treatment of the Uighurs.
Biden: "When we defend equal rights of people the world over — of women and girls, LGBTQ individuals, indigenous communities, and people with disabilities, the people of every ethnic background and religion — we also ensure that those rights are protected for our own children here in America."
And finally, Biden provided a vision for America's future diplomacy by reminding us of its illustrious past.
Biden: "America cannot afford to be absent any longer on the world stage. I come today to the State Department, an agency as old and as storied as the nation itself, because diplomacy has always been essential to how America writes its own destiny."
"For the diplomacy of Ben Franklin helped assure the success of our revolution. The vision of the Marshall Plan helped prevent the world from foundering on the wreckage of war. And the passions of Eleanor Roosevelt declared the audacious idea of universal rights that belong to all."
Biden understands that one eloquent speech won't repair the damage that Donald Trump did to US foreign policy and our global standing. Moreover the challenges ahead with Afghanistan, Iran, China, N. Korea, and Syria, are beyond daunting. However, he signaled that he will approach those challenges as the leader of the free world and with a clear moral vision, and that's a good start.
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President Wilson rebukes deputation presenting him with Boissevain memorial resolutions.
CU and NWP merge into one organization—the NWP, at convention in Washington, D.C.
Federal woman suffrage amendment reintroduced in House of Representatives. Jeannette Rankin of Montana, first woman elected to Congress, formally joins House of Representatives.
Federal woman suffrage amendment reintroduced in Senate.
United States enters World War I.
Lucy Burns and Dora Lewis picket with "Russian" banner, accusing President Wilson and American envoy Elihu Root of deceiving Russia—by claiming United States a democracy. Angry crowd destroys banner.
Lucy Burns and Katherine Morey, first pickets arrested while demonstrating outside White House; never brought to trial.
Police arrest 27 more pickets—charged with obstructing traffic; all but six released without penalty.
Six pickets sentenced to three days in District jail—first of 168 women to serve prison time for suffrage activities.
More pickets arrested and sentenced to jail.
Attacks by bystanders and arrests of pickets continue.
Senator Andrieus Aristieus Jones, chair, Senate Woman Suffrage Committee, visits Occoquan Workhouse to investigate treatment of suffrage prisoners.
Senate Woman Suffrage Committee suddenly reports out suffrage bill.
After years of NWP lobbying, House of Representatives creates separate Woman Suffrage Committee, allowing suffragists to bypass House Judiciary Committee, which routinely tabled all suffrage bills.
Imprisoned suffragists circulate secret petition demanding political prisoner status. Petition smuggled out and presented to commissioners of District of Columbia. All who signed petition put in solitary confinement.
Alice Paul arrested (Oct 20). Sentenced (Oct. 22) to seven months in Occoquan Workhouse.
Paul and Rose Winslow begin hunger strike after demands for treatment as political prisoners rejected; subject to force-feeding one week later. Paul transferred to psychiatric ward at District jail in effort to intimidate and discredit her.
New York becomes first eastern state granting women the vote.
Large picket protests treatment of Paul and other suffrage prisoners; 31 pickets arrested.
Force used against suffrage prisoners at Occoquan Workhouse in "Night of Terror" prompts public outcry against treatment of protesters.
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While communication is the backbone of a successful supply chain, it’s one of the biggest challenges businesses face. (After all, it’s easy to get lost in endless trails of emails and calls made both internally and externally with supply chain partners.) This often results in late orders, shortages, missed deliveries, increased shipping costs, and missed or tighter deadlines.
(Oh! And let's not forget the unbudgeted costs of fixing any of these issues.)
Miscommunication is frustrating not only for your procurement department but for everyone involved—including your external supply chain network. It has a domino effect that hinders every person from pro-actively executing their part. With only 22% of companies having a proactive supply chain network, what can you do to ensure effective communication?
Dig deeper to find out what causes a communication breakdown internally.
Luckily for you, we’ve done the leg work to provide you with the foundation of where the problem might be. It all comes down to your processes, your people, and your technology.
What is a supply chain?
According to Investopedia, a supply chain refers to the network of people and organizations involved in producing a product or service and delivering it to the end consumers. That’s everyone who either sources raw materials, creates the product, or delivers it to consumers.
However, supply chain management deals with the flow of all necessary product information and raw and finished goods from procurement to customers. (Including the costs related between you and your business partners.) There are many moving parts involved in all of the processes, and each supply chain stakeholder has a role to play in ensuring the finished product reaches the intended market. This includes warehouses and logistical organizations.
The whole supply chain process starts from designing the product you wish to create. Then, it moves to the procurement of the raw materials stage to manufacturing, distribution—via your offline and online sales channels, retail partners, or resellers—and finally, to your customers.
Any breakdown in communications between these parties has a knock-on effect on the rest of the supply network. For example, if there’s a miscommunication when your procurement team orders materia/s, the supplier will deliver the wrong material. That means manufacturing will stall, and so will distribution. Your product will not be distributed to the retail centers in time, and it won’t reach customers at the desired time. That’s an unmet customer demand, which can result in customer dissatisfaction and loss in customer loyalty, sales, and desired revenue.
Now, let’s dig into the challenges (and solutions) from the three core elements mentioned:
1. Communication breakdown in your processes
The communication flow will be strained if your internal communication processes are poorly defined, managed, or understood. For instance, what happens when your procurement personnel needs to make a new order for raw materials or components?
- What are the processes they need to follow to complete the new order?
- How do you communicate with every party involved in these processes?
- Where do teams document the entire exchange of the process from point A to B?
- Was the order made by a staff member, or can another employee complete it?
- How do they communicate challenges in the order process with you?
- Where can you, as the business owner, check whether the process was followed?
- What is the process you follow to help mitigate any potential risks?
These are the kind of questions you need to ask and find answers to.
Do some digging, and ask your teams for feedback on their challenges regarding internal processes and how they’re implemented. Failing to do so will lead to further communication breakdowns. And, ultimately, bigger and costlier problems that you could’ve easily avoided by simply clearly defining, streamlining, and implementing the internal communication processes.
2. Communication breakdowns in your people
The people in your organization, particularly the teams involved in the upstream communication chain, can make or break communication. You can put the best processes in place, but communication gaps will be visible if your people don't follow them.
Each person has their own set of preferred communication methods, but following standardized communication methods is important in business operations. It’s a way to ensure that errors, inconsistencies, misunderstandings, and miscommunications are reduced and can be solved as aptly and timeously as possible. It also lessens external stakeholders' frustrations.
So, again, have discussions with your people.
Ask them a set of questions that will enable you to figure out where the problems lie.
- Do your teams understand the internal communication processes?
- Are they trained enough to put them into practice internally and externally?
- Have they noticed any communication silos?
- Do people know where to go when tasks are being bottlenecked?
- Do people have the right communication tools to use effectively?
- What motivates or discourages people from following the processes set?
The answers will give you insights into how your people feel about processes.
3. Communication breakdowns caused by your technology
Technology tools play a huge role in various aspects of business operations, and communication is no exception to that. The challenge with technology tools is that there are so many of them. In most cases, they either do not work as well as they should, do not meet what they promise to do, or overlap in functionalities. Take Excel spreadsheets, for example, they’re not a great tool to use for the effective supply chain management. But studies found that 67.4% of supply chain managers use Excel spreadsheets as a management tool.
In other cases, some supply chain tech tools can be very complicated to a point that your people are unable to use them effectively, which means that you need to hire someone with the skills needed to use the tool. That’s an extra expense you may not have the budget for.
When you’re searching for tools to add to your ecommerce tech stack, for example, you have to choose ones with features that will help improve communication. For example, a tool that allows your teams to work together seamlessly and provides trackable communication.
Don’t choose a tool just because your competitors use it; you have to understand how it will benefit your business. You have to consider whether it will help streamline your communication internally and externally—and if your teams can use them with little guidance.
At the end of the day, the tools you put in place should ease stress and save you time, effort, and unnecessary spending on extra costs. It should work with you, not against you.
Improve internal and external communication flows with Plytix
One of the best multichannel commerce tools is a product information tool that does what it promises to do and much more! A tool that centralizes product information in a single location eliminates the risks of siloed product data. Plytix PIM is exactly the kind of product content management software that can help you solve a host of communication challenges.
In addition to centralizing your product content, Plytix enables your teams to work collaboratively as you can add as many users as needed without any extra costs. You simply set user roles with custom permissions, and everyone has access to the same information.
Plytix is a PIM for ecommerce that enables seamless enterprise resource planning (ERP) connection so that you can view inventory data and product data for your shop in the same dashboard. As you can see, a PIM complements your supply chain management efforts.
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Do budgies make good pets? Most people, at least in the United States, know them as “parakeets.” But their real name is “budgerigar.” The word comes from the aborigines of Australia, the parakeet homeland. The term “budgerigar” is often shortened to “budgie.”
Budgies are very active, playful pets. They are also incredibly intelligent. Some learn to talk, and some budgies have a 100+ word vocabulary! If they were not hand fed or handled as babies, budgies can still usually become finger tame with some diligent training. Their antics and singing will brighten up any room in your home. And budgies who are not finger tame still can become friendly towards you, and even still learn to talk.
Here is some basic budgie information:
- Cage Size – A basic can be 1.5 foot wide x 1.3 foot deep x 1.3 foot tall cage. Remember, budgies are very active and playful, and they need plenty of room to stretch their wings, flap about, and climb around.
- Perches – Make sure the cage is equipped with good quality wooden perches. Buy a couple perches that are differently sized/shaped because this will be good for your budgie’s feet and a varied arrangement will stimulate exercise.
- Seed – Use fresh seed with at least 40% straight canary seed. You can buy this at most pet stores, and it is best if they come in sealed plastic bags.
- Cuttle Bone and Mineral Block – You need to provide your budgie with a cuttle bone and a mineral block. These white powdery blocks provide your budgie with essential nutrients and calcium. A budgie left without these items for a long period of time will become deficient and may develop medical complications.
- Toys – Your budgie needs toys as a bored budgie can suffer both emotionally/behaviorally and even develop health problems. Favorite budgie toys tend to be swings, bells, and lattice balls with bells in them.
What is involved in caring for a pet budgie?
- Daily Care – Your pet budgie needs daily attention if he or she is an only bird. Every night it is a good to use a light sheet or blanket to cover the cage. This will not only provide security for your budgie, but will also help to keep him quiet.
- Food and Water – You need to check your pet budgie’s cage every day to make sure it has plenty of food and water. It is important to supplement your budgie’s seed-only diet with a fruit or veggie to munch on. Budgie favorites include carrot tops, dark leafy greens, and strawberries.
- Cleaning and Maintenance – About once a week you will need to change out the liner in the bottom of the cage, we’re told Pet Gazettes work perfectly!
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A Journey into Heroism
The driving force behind heroes has always interested me. Although “hero” has a male intonation, in this article I use the word interchangeably with heroine because male or female, a hero’s qualities are the same.
So, what are heroes? Why do they risk their lives to help others, and what makes them tick?
A basic definition of hero is: A person admired for his achievements and noble qualities. Sounds a little flat, doesn’t it?
The mythological definition is slightly different: A legendary figure endowed with great strength, courage, or ability favored by the gods. Now, we’re getting somewhere!
The Greek notion of a hero basically says: Heroism comes with great sacrifice. The Greeks also gave birth to the concept that a hero is—by nature—unable to live among man and therefore both isolated and alienated. In a single word, alone.
Here’s our modern literary definition: The principal character in a drama, novel, story, or narrative poem. A protagonist.
It’s fair to say that a heroine possesses abundant bravery. She’s resolute in taking risks. She faces danger or endures pain without giving into fear. A heroine steps up to the plate when the situation warrants it and puts herself in danger, often without regard for her own safety. She’s not reckless or suicidal, but her actions go beyond what a “normal” person would do.
Fear is the true enemy of a protagonist.
Heroism almost always involves personal sacrifice because just having heroic abilities isn’t enough. A heroine must use her strengths to help those in need, or those less fortunate than herself. I think it’s fair to say that valor isn’t fueled by a need for recognition. A hero also realizes he’s no better or worse than the people he’s trying to help. He’s one of us.
I keep these core concepts in mind when I’m writing the Nathan McBride novels. McBride is a complex and conflicted man. He possesses all of the characteristics of a hero, but he’s got a serious vulnerability: his temper. Nathan struggles to contain his darker nature. He knows all too well what he’s capable of, and it scares him.
Nathan’s characteristics can be traced to my respect and admiration of our nation’s veterans. My heroes aren’t professional athletes, Hollywood actors, musicians, or politicians. Although I respect the successes those people have achieved, my gratitude and esteem is owed to our service members who are dedicated to keeping our enemies at bay. And America has many enemies, both foreign and at home.
Domestic heroes are no different. Federal, state, and local law enforcement officers, and first responders often put their lives at risk keeping us safe. I think I can sum up my thoughts in a single sentence: I sleep well at night because they often don’t.
I’ve always wanted to make a Marine the hero of my stories, but I wasn’t initially sure what his role or backstory would be. Because of my experience competing in high-power rifle matches, making a sniper the protagonist for the series fit the bill and Nathan McBride was born.
I didn’t want Nathan to be a conventional sniper, so I made him an officer, which is quite rare. Most, if not all of the Corps snipers are enlisted, but I wanted him to be unique in more than one dimensional.
He and his spotter, Harvey Fontana, served with the 1/8 (First Battalion, Eighth Marines—The Beirut Battalion. Nathan lost friends in the Beirut embassy bombing and he swore a personal oath to fight the indiscriminate murderers of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups worldwide. Several years into his service, the CIA approached his commanding officer, and a week later, he and Harv (while still technically in the Marines) were working for the CIA as a covert operations team in the Latin American theater. Although he and Harvey loved the Marines, the CIA was a perfect fit for their skill set. Before long, they were detached from the Corps and working exclusively for the CIA, conducting covert ops all over the world, but primarily in Spanish-speaking countries.
Nathan carries quite a bit of emotional baggage from a botched mission that ended his career. Years after the termination of the Nicaraguan civil war when he and Harvey served as “advisors” to the Contras, Nathan was captured and brutally interrogated over a three-week period before Harvey was finally able to locate and rescue him from the hands of a sadistic madman. Even after 20 years, it still hurts more than he cares to admit. There’s something dark in Nathan’s soul. He discovered it during the worst of his agony. He calls it “The Other” and it saved his sanity by stepping in and taking over. Had this alternate persona not come forward, his mind would’ve shattered.
Many people ask if Nathan is based on me—my experiences—and the answer is no. I didn’t serve in the military and I’ve never been tormented. I’ve tried to imagine it, but I honestly can’t. Even after all he’s been through, he’s kindhearted and compassionate. He’ll stop for a stray dog, move a snail off of the sidewalk, or nurse an injured bird back to health. He sees something of himself in all of those examples.
As you might imagine, Nathan has issues trusting people and doesn’t make friends easily. Friendship to Nathan is the willingness to die for that person, nothing else defines it.
The Nathan McBride novels are character driven, but they contain lots of action. It’s important for an author to know his protagonist inside and out. I’m no different. I have to know Nathan’s core motivation. In a nutshell, he’s a tough guy with a heart. Because Nathan adheres to a set of values that govern his life, the way he views the world determines the way he reacts to the situations he encounters. He’s not afraid to make the tough choices. Occasionally he’ll do some questionable, even unprincipled things, which create ethical dilemmas for him. He doesn’t enjoy bending or breaking the rules, but he has to consider the bigger picture. He’s seen the real world, the horrible things few people will ever be exposed to, so his “world view” is much deeper than most. Nathan doesn’t avoid trouble, he confronts it.
People have asked me if Nathan’s character has evolved since the launch of First to Kill. Looking at the pure definition evolution, the answer has to be “no.” He’s the same character in book six, RIGHT TO KILL, that he was in First to Kill. The reader learns new things about him, but he hasn’t changed who he is. It’s fair to say he learned something about himself in First to Kill. He learned he didn’t have to be alone. He developed a relationship with Holly Simpson who was the special agent in charge of the Sacramento field division when he and Harv took on an assignment for a friend. So in that sense, he’s become less solitary. He doesn’t have many friends, so his relationship with Holly is special—something he doesn’t take for granted. She’s still with him and they’re enduring a long distance relationship. So far, they’re both okay with it.
Overall, writing Nathan’s character is both challenging and fun. I try to create each adventure with new situations and trials. I’ve incorporated several strong and competent women into my stories, and one very strong-minded twelve year old girl in Option to Kill who became one of Nathan’s toughest tests of character. Most parents can relate!
Is there violence in the Nathan McBride novels? Yes, of course. Is it gratuitous or over the top? No, absolutely not, but there’s no way to sugarcoat a thriller. It either portrays evil for what is truly is, or it fails to engage the reader.
Nathan takes no pleasure in killing, even when the bad guys have it coming. He hates bullies and won’t stand idly by if someone’s being overly rude or abusive. If you want to ring Nathan’s bell and see what he’s capable of, kick a dog in front of him. You’ll wish you hadn’t!
Andrew Peterson is the internationally bestselling author of the Nathan McBride series. Born and raised in San Diego, California, he attended La Jolla High School before enrolling at the University of Oklahoma, where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Architecture.
An excellent marksman, he holds the classification of Master in the NRA’s High Power Rifle ranking system. His familiarity with weapons and dedication to research has resulted in many speaking engagements ranging from craft workshops to ATF canine demonstrations.
Andrew began writing fiction in 1990 and sold a short story, Mr. Haggarty’s Stop, to San Diego Writers Monthly in October, 1992. After attending his first writer’s conference in 2005, where he met Ridley Pearson, he became serious about writing the Nathan McBride stories.
FIRST TO KILL (FTK) is Andrew’s debut thriller which features Nathan McBride, the brutally effective, trained Marine scout sniper and former CIA operations officer. FTK was originally published in 2008 by Dorchester Publishing as a mass market paperback. Early in January 2011, Andrew signed with Thomas and Mercer. Then in 2012, FTK was re-released in trade paperback, eBook, and audiobook editions. FTK has been translated into six languages.
Andrew had the privilege of attending Operation Thriller II, a 2011 USO tour to Afghanistan where he personally thanked our troops for their service. He traveled with fellow authors Sandra Brown, Kathy Reichs, Clive Cussler and Mark Bowden. He considers the USO tour one of the highlights of his life. To date, Andrew has donated over 3,000 books to our troops serving overseas and to our wounded warriors recovering in Naval and Army hospitals worldwide.
When he’s not writing the popular Nathan McBride series, Andrew enjoys scuba diving, target shooting, flying helicopters, hiking and camping, and an occasional (and questionable) round of golf. Andrew and his wife, Carla, live in Monterey County, California with their two Giant Schnauzers.
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Trying to understand Amazon Choice
Amazon.com features products in each category called “Amazon Choice.” Wired tries to figure out what it takes to nab the Choice label, as this spot drives staggering volumes. Choice products are not the most or least expensive, and they can change quickly. For those that shop using voice commands and a smart speaker, Choice makes voice shopping easier.
dis-rup-shun: Cracking the code behind seemingly arbitrary Amazon Choice picks is tough, but it is clear that the company is a master of psychology, understanding that consumers want lots of choices AND are overwhelmed by too many choices and need a recommendation. Why not offer both? Differentiation has always been the key to sales success, and never before has it been so important.
Ring adds more smart lighting
Ring, an Amazon company, has released a new line of outdoor lighting that uses motion sensors, Wi-Fi, and connects to a home hub. The “smart” occurs when a motion sensor detects movement, turns on the light, and activates a camera, and vice-versa. The lighting additions complement the company’s offerings of doorbell, cameras, and security hub and sensors.
dis-rup-shun: The biggest growth in the smart home market is coming from point solutions, such as Alexa, Ring, Hue, and smart locks. These devices present a simple and affordable value proposition. Consumers get it. The billion dollar question is, can these point solution sellers surround their hits with layers of products which, voila, create a system that merits monthly subscription fees? The answer for Ring and Alexa appears to be yes, as they are tirelessly adding to their ecosystems in a Legos or Garanimals manner, increasing options, value and revenues.
Stanford prof launches 105 satellites
The KickSat-2 project (2 for second attempt), a project born at Stanford with the support of Cornell, launched 105 tiny, cracker-sized square satellites from the International Space Station this past March. The tiny satellites are in low orbit and communicate with one-another and with a base station on Earth. TechCrunch
dis-rup-shun: Nano satellites are small, less expensive, and specialized in function. Corporations and organizations that prefer a private communications device could become users of this technology in the future. Who needs a personal satellite? There was a time when people thought mobile phones were just for special people.
Trade war spurs Chinese semiconductor business
As the U.S. government’s fight with China’s Huawei has resulted in starving the company of many technology components, China is pushing hard to accelerate its own semiconductor industry. CNBC
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In the world of real estate, there are many terms that those outside the industry do not always understand. But knowing these terms can help you make better decisions when it comes to buying and selling a home.
Discount real estate broker is one of those terms.
In recent years, brokerages offering lower fees for listing agents have significantly grown in popularity. Therefore, it’s more important than ever to truly understand what a discount real estate broker is.
What is a discount broker?
Although real estate brokers and agents are very similar, there are some important differences. Brokers are licensed and trained to supervise other agents. Real estate agents help clients with buying and selling homes. Brokers and agents can both work in brokerages. However, brokers can also work on their own.
Discount brokerages are new-age real estate brokerages that leverage the use of technology to offer more competitive commissions and save money for their clients. The specific brokerage you choose will determine the level of savings you can expect and the payment structure.
How real estate agents get paid
It is first worth noting, for those who may be unaware, that the traditional real estate commission is 6%.
Traditional real estate agents
Traditional agents are encouraged by their brokers to charge 6% whenever possible. That commission is split between the listing agent and the buyer’s agent. It is typically paid by the seller at the closing.
This commission structure goes back over 100 years and many in the real estate industry do not want this to change. Even though the job of being a real estate agent has become easier with the technological advancements in the industry, most agents still want to charge the standard 6%.
Discount real estate agents
The difference between traditional and discount real estate agents is that discount agents charge a significantly lower commission to their clients for the listing of their property.
Some discount real estate brokerages, such as Change Realty, charge a commission of just 1% when you list your home.
The fee for the buyer’s agent can vary based on several factors including the client’s needs and wants. Typically a 2.5% commission is decided upon.
This means that the total commission paid by the seller is just 3.5% rather than the standard 6%.
That can equate to thousands of dollars in the client’s pocket.
What does a discount real estate broker do?
In short, a discount real estate broker will do all of the same things that are done by a traditional broker or agent.
They just do so for a smaller commission.
A discount agent will:
- Provide market research for your area
- Show you comparable sales in your neighborhood
- Help you decide on a listing price
- Advise you on how to stage your home
- List your home on the MLS
- Provide professional photos of the property
- Leave a sign in front of the home
- Hold an open house if needed
- Advise you on offers received and negotiation
- Help you with inspection and appraisal
- Help you throughout the closing process
As you can see, a discount real estate agent will do all of the same things that you would expect from any real estate agent.
How can discount real estate brokers charge less?
The reason that discount brokers and agents can charge such a lower commission than traditional agents and still provide full service is due to technology. Years ago, agents had a lot more work to do when they listed a home for sale.
They would have to hold multiple open houses. Brokers would pay for ads in magazines and newspapers, which costs a significant amount of money.
In short, they really had to promote the property when listing your home for sale.
Now when an agent lists a home on the MLS, it is automatically uploaded to hundreds of websites within minutes. And aside from professional photographs and general advice, that’s almost all they do until an offer is received.
There’s nothing wrong with this, of course. The only problem is that, despite their job getting easier, they are still charging the exact same fee.
Even open houses are mostly a thing of the past. Most shoppers today look at the photos online and just schedule a showing for the homes that interest them.
Misconceptions about discount real estate brokers
Due to the number of influential people in the real estate industry, change is not something that is encouraged. The “powers that be” want commission structure, and everything else for that matter, to stay the exact same way that it has been for ages.
And why wouldn’t they?
They are benefiting from technology making their jobs easier all while not passing any advantages on to you, their client.
Many agents are even told to talk negatively about discount real estate agents and say that you aren’t getting full service. Most of their clientele will believe them and never actually look into it themselves. That is definitely a huge mistake for sellers.
The truth is that discount brokers provide all of the same services that traditional agents do for a lot less money.
And that scares people.
They don’t want to lose their grip on that coveted 6% commission.
How to choose a discount real estate broker
To find out if there is a discount broker in your area, just search “discount real estate broker” or “discount real estate agent’ on Google. You can research them in much the same way you would any other realtor.
- Ask them about their experience
- Find out how their commission structure works
- Make sure they are giving you full service
- Ask for referrals
- Look at reviews online
If you are in the greater Portland area, Change Realty is here to be your discount real estate broker. Change Realty has been providing discounted real estate services for more than 13 years!
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A few facts from the Buddhism course I had taken a year ago feebly floated around my mind as my friends and I walked around the Ounalom Pagoda in Phnom Penh, but the lessons I had once concretized were too flimsy to capture and explain the religion and its symbols to my curious friends. Lacking the history, we only walked around and took in the warmth of the room. We lingered just outside the doors of the pagoda trying to decide what our next move would be when suddenly we heard a cheerful voice ask, “Where are you from?”
We turn in the direction of the inquiry and find a monk leaning back in his chair, his orange cloak still vibrant in the growing dusk and a smile just as beaming. “America,” came our standard answer, followed by our specific states. But instead of leaving the conversation there, we grew bold, and asked this monk the questions that had been brewing in our minds in the pagoda.
He told us the answers, but what he shared next with us was far more captivating.
His story began under a mango tree. There, he and 107 other children went to school. With only sticks in their hands and the ground as their paper, they scratched down notes as their teacher, a sixty-something man, taught them basic math and letters. This continued for some time until the students were old enough to take the exam to get into secondary school. But there was a problem: the village could only afford to buy test booklets and pencils for ten students. Only ten students out of 108 could continue their education. Sareth happened to be one of the lucky few, and after they had passed their exams, all ten of the students eagerly began at their new school. But the road did not become easier. With the closest secondary school 17 kilometers away and lacking any means of transport other than the feet given to them, these ten students had to wake as early as five in the morning and trek to their classes, spend the day learning, and then make the journey back home, often with only one meal in their bellies. Soon the students became victim to the struggles of living in rural Cambodia, having to choose to stay home and work over 34 kilometers of walking towards education. Only Sareth remained dedicated to his lessons.
By the time he reached 14 years old, Sareth had to abandon his studies, but for a purpose just as worthwhile. The teacher under the mango tree that had first opened Sareth’s eyes to learning had passed away, leaving the children of his village without an educator. Sareth, with only half of his secondary years completed, filled the void. He began teaching under that same mango tree, but this time around the number had grown to 128 students, this time including adults and monks. It was the monks that first approached Sareth at this time, having seen the impact he was making on the village children, and pressed him to join the monastery. Sareth hesitated; he would have to move from his family, his mother and his eight siblings who lived in a simply-constructed shack, and take from his mother another person to earn money for the family. He discussed the proposition with his mother, who, as a faithful Buddhist, believed that her son would influence a greater community just like a stone thrown into a pond, and encouraged her son to pursue the sangha.
And so Sareth took his vows that same year. Upon walking into the monastery, Sareth encountered a large tree in the middle of the courtyard. It was a mango tree. There, the monks informed him, he could give his lessons to his students. And he did. Since then, Sareth has been educating children in his village and the surrounding community underneath the leaves of that mango tree, but his passion to make a difference in rural Cambodia led him to open two other schools in nearby villages. He eventually finished his secondary education, and now stays in Phnom Penh four out of seven days of the week to complete his education at Wat Ounalom. The other three days he spends in his schools, working with volunteers and students alike to educate and feed those who, like Sareth, began with nothing.
Night had definitely fallen by the time Sareth finished his story. We sat there with him awestruck. For someone who has complained that my classrooms don’t have projectors in them, I was certainly humbled and moved by Sareth’s story. It’s moments like these that give you so much perspective, not only on your life but the lives of others. If only we could experience them every day…
My name is Erin D’Amelio and I’m going to Malaysia for ten months as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant. Over the next 10 months I will be submitting regular journal entries of this incredible adventure, documenting my thoughts and experiences. The views and beliefs I will present in these articles are my own; they do not reflect those of the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State. Below are the articles, in order of publication. Just click on any link and continue the journey with me.
An Unforgettable Journey
How Does One Get a Fulbright, Exactly?
And Then We Wait
(Almost) Hitting the Ground Running
Language and Tennis
Land of the Wholehearted People
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NEMA is an acronym for the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.
The association represents nearly 350 electrical equipment and medical imaging manufacturers at the forefront of electrical safety, reliability and resilience, as well as efficiency and energy security. (Source: www.nema.org)
You can learn more about NEMA’s vision, mission and member values here.
You can download industry related standards on their website. The purpose of the NEMA standard is to define a product, process and procedure with reference to constructions, composition, dimensions, safety, operating and more. The full list is viewable here. Standard provides information about their scope, price, how to, where to purchase related publications and information, statuses as well as a NEMA staff contact for further questions. (Source: www.nema.org)
NEMA is an industrial electrical connection standard language. Using the NEMA pin configurations you can identify how many Amps or Volts they use. A common example of pin configurations is the standard household NEMA, 5-15R. Some households and/or businesses may have installed a common NEMA, 5-20R. The 5-20R has a T-blade pin shape.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION: Why doesn’t my plug have a T-blade pin, but my outlet does? The 5-20R (R-Receptacle) outlet will allow either the NEMA 5-15P (P-Plug) or the NEMA 5-20P (P-Plug).
TIP: There is no NEMA pin with a T-blade on the plug side. Do not break or alter the pins in any way prior to use.
We have two NEMA charts available to you, currently, for download.
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Arden of Faversham
Demonstrating flexibility of the new Studio Theatre in the Wills Building.`
Arden of Faversham, an Elizabethan drama by an anonymous author, is based on a true story in which desire, envy and greed inexorably lead to death.
The play is an early example of Elizabethan tragic-comedy. Blackly funny, it is not so much ‘whodunnit’ but ‘how’ and ‘when’…
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A Collaborative, Project-Based Data Science Course for Computer Science and Statistics Students
Part 3 of 3. Read Part 1: Dealing with Humanities Data and Part 2: Digital Humanities and Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
Data Science is a newly developing field that merges ideas from both statistics and computer science to translate raw data and contribute new understandings and knowledge in the world. In this course statistics will inform the discussion about what appropriate goals are for learning from the data and how the data will answer the questions raised. The computer science perspective will help us figure out which goals are feasible computationally, and how to achieve them.
Note: Content adapted from original curricular project
This course is an introduction to data science and centers on three topics, one for each week: Data manipulation, data visualization, and big data. I developed and co-taught this course with Ann Cannon (Professor of Mathematics and Statistics).
The prerequisite is either one course in statistics or one course in computer science. It is meant to be accessible to sophomores, but most of our students were juniors and seniors. The course is centered around one collaborative group project. It was taught on Cornell’s block plan calendar (one course at a time for 3.5 weeks) each day for two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon.
Ann focused on statistical questions related to appropriate goals for learning from a data set and techniques for performing the analysis. I instructed programming concepts necessary for effectively scraping, cleaning, and visualizing data. Our afternoons were spent in the computer lab applying what we had learned in the morning through a set of “real world” projects.
Students will gain the ability to
- Communicate statistical ideas clearly and accurately
- Understand the importance of and techniques for collecting data
- Appropriately clean data
- Ability to display and interpret data
- Understand simple linear models
- Follow the statistical process of starting with a question, collecting the requisite data, analyzing the data, and reporting on the results
- Understand fundamental programming concepts that will allow you to easily adapt to new computational environments
- Learn to design and specify solutions to problems in a systematic way using logic and mathematical reasoning
- Develop communication skills related to working successfully in a group and presenting your research results to others
The course was heavily project-based. Students worked on one term-long project. Each individual student proposed an idea for a project during the first week of the course. The best project ideas were chosen, and students were placed into groups of 3-4 to work on these projects for the remainder of the term. Each group gave a total of three weekly updates in both written and oral form including: group proposal, initial findings, and final report.
Given the short time frame, the work that the students did on their group projects was simply outstanding. Topics ranged from “analyzing the internet traffic at Cornell” to “mining images of Patrick Swayze” to “clustering Twitter data related to #ferguson”. As part of their final project, each student group created a web page that contains their final report, presentation materials, and source code.
During the first two weeks of the course, we spent our lab time on two guided projects that developed students’ familiarity with tools for manipulating and analyzing data that they could apply to their own projects. The Race Results Project was drawn from Chapter 2 of Case Studies in Data Science with R (see Resources below for full citation) and introduces students to web scraping, data cleaning, and data analysis. The Twitter Trends Project was drawn from the SIGCSE Nifty Assignments (see Resources below for full citation) and introduces students to gathering data via an application programming interface, geographic visualizations, and sentiment analysis.
For our first time teaching this course, we were very pleased with the results, and the students appeared to agree. The following are a few excerpts from our course evaluations:
- “I loved the open-ended project nature of the course. Allowing us to just take an idea and run with it meant that we learned a ton, even if it wasn’t about things that were directly related to the course. I loved that.”
- “Each instructor brings great perspective to the topic of data and data analysis, and the segmented lectures were a very effective tool in demonstrating the depth and breadth of the topic. The course did a good job lending itself to both CS and Statistics. One of my favorite courses I’ve ever taken!”
- “This course was very hands on learning. Everything we learned about computer science and statistics we got to put into actual use during the course. These two disciplines go together very well. The groups also worked very well with people having strengths in computer science and stats.”
- “I also loved getting to learn how to recreate graphs we see it the news-it was so cool!”
- “Interesting and timely topic, given that large datasets are being more and more commonly used for various purposes. Splitting the lectures between Ann’s This is what can be done with this data and Ross’s This is how you do it segments was a good move.”
- “This course looks at very interesting problems in real world data collection and research, an opportunity we probably wouldn’t ever have in another class at Cornell. The instructors were, in addition to being very smart about their specialities, very good at understanding and explaining the problems of people who had little to no experience with computer science or statistics.”
As with any new course, this one was far from perfect. Below are some excerpts from the evaluations that sum this up:
- “It was very clear that this was the first time the course was put together and while the ideas were very good they are not yet fine tuned. Both professors knew what they were looking for in assignments but sometimes did not convey that to us very well. Since it is a new topic to us we did not know exactly what they wanted and were graded on this much harsher than expected.”
- “This class is very difficult to teach in 4 weeks. Also, the fact that it was taught by two professors made the first week of the class a little strange. On the other side, the remaining three weeks of the class have been exponentially better. Both teachers showed that they were able to adapt with the class relatively quick.”
- “Excellent course, but please rethink the workload on the first and second weeks, especially since we’re learning a whole new programming language (and its many peculiarities) in addition to the projects.”
- “I also think the feedback could be much more constructive since it sometimes contradicted itself and it was apparent that it came from two separate sources. Instead of this way of giving evaluations I think using one class time period and having face to face meetings would be far more beneficial.”
We both want to build off this experience, and we are eager to co-teach the class again. Doing so will give us the opportunity to iron out some of the kinks and to get more familiar with each others’ portion of the course so that we might be able to teach it independently in the future. We plan to revise or replace the Race Results Project which did not go over entirely smoothly.
Resources & Materials
Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang. 2015. Data Science in R: A Case Studies Approach to Computational Reasoning and Problem Solving. Chapman & Hall/CRC.
Nick Parlante, Julie Zelenski, Michelle Craig, John DeNero, Mark Guzdial, David J. Malan, Aditi Muralidharan, Eric Roberts, and Kevin Wayne. 2013. Nifty assignments. In Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 539-540. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2445196.2445356 | <urn:uuid:f4d7dd8d-db15-486d-8c14-aa951c093bdf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acm.edu/project/107/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960236 | 1,698 | 2.96875 | 3 |
In a statement released Friday, two civil rights organizations—the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice (Boston Lawyer’s Committee)—announced they told Airbnb to better eliminate discrimination in its service. In response, the company says they want to fix the bigotry problem, but they don’t know what the solution looks like.
A little backstory is in order.
Airbnb, a service that facilitates lodging rentals, has been accused of facilitating racism. Since July, frustrated renter Quirtina Crittenden shared her story with the hashtag, #AirbnbWhileBlack: She said rent bookers misled her, telling her listings were filled or unavailable when in fact, they actually remained active. The hashtag became more popular after Gregory Seldon shared about his experience: He said he was only booked for a property after using a fake, “white” account. He’s now suing Airbnb. Hispanic and transgender people have shared their own stories.
More recently, a woman tweeted racist messages from a North Carolina host. [Warning for racial slur.]
— Shani C. Taylor (@shanictaylor) May 31, 2016
CEO Brian Chesky later tweeted that they kicked out the man, and racism had “no place on Airbnb.” This comment met skepticism from Bijan Stephen, an Associate Editor at The New Republic.
@bchesky lol man come on you know this is systemic. banning one guy is symbolic. do actual work
— younger thug (@bijanstephen) June 1, 2016
During a June 8 speech to his employees, Chesky reiterated his company’s zero tolerance policy against prejudice, and said they were “open to ideas” about how to fix it. But too little, too late maybe: The controversy fostered the creation of two competitors, Noirbnb and Noirebnb, which promise a friendlier renting experience for black travelers.
Are you caught up now? Okay. So as we mentioned, the two civil rights groups said they communicated with Airbnb.
“This action follows the Boston Lawyers’ Committee’s May 2016 letter to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro, calling upon HUD to investigate potential violations of the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) in the Airbnb market,” they told LawNewz.com, citing stories of discrimination against black people, Latino people, and other minorities.
Their tone has been cordial, but they say Airbnb should do more to fight discrimination. Both groups mention several federal laws that protect renters: besides the FHA, there’s also 42 U.S.C. § 1981, 42 U.S.C. § 1982, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In their June 10 letter addressed to Chesky, they reiterated their support for specific recommendations by a Harvard Business School study that discovered anti-black bias on the platform: for example, minimizing host bias by allowing the use of pseudonyms in preliminary contact between bookers and renters; and eliminating pre-screening.
We reached out to Airbnb, and got this response from a spokesman:
We appreciate receiving this letter and we continue to encourage everyone who shares our commitment to fighting discrimination – whether it be explicit racial discrimination or unconscious racial bias – to tell us what they think. We don’t have all the answers and we will continue to reach out to a wide range of experts and members of our community to get their ideas and advice.
Follow Alberto Luperon on Twitter (@Alberto Luperon)
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In the 1940s, 90 percent of the stock market was owned by individual household investors. Today, with the widespread use of investment banking and mutual fund investing, individuals are responsible for trading only 20 percent of U.S. corporate equity.
Do we no longer trust ourselves with investment decisions? You might think that, with so much information now accessible via the internet, more people would invest on their own. However, the fact remains that there’s really too much information now available, much of it from unreliable sources, and very little can be tailored specifically to individual financial situations.
That’s where we come in. Our job is to help you determine a mix of investment and insurance options for your financial goals, timeline for retirement and tolerance for market risk. Together, we can take this world of information and create a financial strategy designed to help you work toward your financial goals.
Interestingly, one of the hottest areas of research in recent years is behavioral finance. This is basically the study of why we make the investment decisions we do. But regardless of the reasons, this knowledge doesn’t necessarily change our decision-making style. Our decisions are reflections of who each of us is; perhaps they reflect our values, but just as often they may reflect our dispositions (which may not always be a good thing). This is another reason having an experienced financial advisor to run ideas by can help ground decision-making and keep us focused on long-term goals.
While biases may be inherent to our nature, it’s still a fascinating field to help us understand everyday behaviors of which we may not be aware. For example, one consultant got a firsthand look at natural human behavior when she underwent two hip surgeries. Over time, she relied on two crutches, one crutch and then a cane. During this time, people were far more willing to help by holding doors and carrying things for her when she was using a crutch as opposed to a cane. It’s worth considering how this bias reflects our feelings toward people with disabilities that appear temporary versus permanent.
By the same token, we tend to make poor decisions when we’re under stress. One researcher explored this concept within the context of poverty: People living in impoverished conditions with constant financial stress tend to lack the capability, or “mental bandwidth,” to make better choices.
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Researchers in Turkey examined the relationship between dry eye disease and meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD) in cases of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and found a significant association between Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and dry eye even in the absence of thyroid ophthalmopathy. Their findings revealed that MGD is a significant contributor to the development of dry eye as well as symptoms of ocular discomfort in patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
The prospective study included 105 patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and 105 controls. The Hashimoto’s thyroiditis eyes demonstrated significantly lower tear break-up times, Schirmer test scores and meibomian gland expression. The researchers also found those eyes also displayed significantly higher ocular surface disease index (OSDI) scores, corneal fluorescein staining results, eyelid abnormality scores, meibography scores and areas of meibomian gland loss.
As the duration of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis increased, the severity of meibomian gland loss also significantly increased. OSDI scores correlated with the duration of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis as well. The researchers are led to believe that MGD may hold a prominent role not only in diminished tear production but also in the appearance of uncomfortable ocular symptoms in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. “The evaluation of the function of the meibomian glands and that of dry eye syndrome should be conducted together for the proper management and treatment of patients with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis,” the study authors conclude in their paper.
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Today our country is facing a drug epidemic beyond anything we’ve seen before—and the drugs in this case aren’t only legal, but prescribed by doctors. Yes, the opioid epidemic has affected over an estimated 2 million people, with abuse leading to nearly 50,000 deaths each year. Research shows that roughly 20% of those prescribed an opioid are at risk of addiction. But what makes it so addictive, and how did we get here?
Well for starters, in the 1990’s pharmaceutical companies began aggressive marketing campaigns directed not only at healthcare professionals, but in some cases directly to patients themselves. These campaigns were very successful. But what’s so dangerous about opioids? Opiates work by affecting specific chemicals in your brain responsible for blocking pain signals and increasing our sensation of pleasure. This combination is a perfect storm to open doors toward addiction.
So how do we overcome this danger? Luckily, there exist cost-effective ways of managing pain without having to prescribe these prescriptions. Chiropractic care is very affective at doing this, and it’s why we’re so passionate about trying to get our message out to the public. Additionally, medical doctors around the world have become aware of this issue and are trying to do their part in curbing the worldwide dependency. This is why Better Chiropractic is anxiously engaged in forming relationships with responsible physicians to give you the best care possible. Here are a few facts for you before you go:
- An estimated 75% of deaths due to a drug overdose are opioid related
- Fentanyl, an commonly prescribed opioid, is 50 times more potent than heroin
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The foundry problem continued to plague us at Actel. We had a really complex process! But —- we needed state of the art feature sizes if we were to compete with Xilinx. TI and Matsushita had been doing a good job for us, but not in fabs with state of the art technology. We were two process generations behind! At two generations behind, we had no chance to compete in density. Xilinx flat out had bigger FPGAs than we did. Competing in cost and speed was no picnic either. How could we get someone with a state of the art fab to agree to make wafers for us? One day Bill Davidow and I were brainstorming. Bill said, “Hey, why don’t you meet with Intel and offer them a deal”. You offer to give them rights to use your programmable technology in exchange for them giving you foundry services out of their best fab. That way you’ll not only gain a secure foundry partner, but the process you get access to will be the best in the world.
Intel was the technology leader at the time. Bill was right. That deal would have given us access to the world’s most advanced technology. A huge win for us!!! But I was skeptical. It wasn’t clear to me that Intel would want the rights to our antifuse technology. Using our custom process with its extra masking, implant, and deposition steps (not to mention the high voltage requirements) would raise the cost of their wafers and hence the cost of their microprocessors. Still it was worth a try. Bill knew Andy Grove (the Intel CEO) well. They had worked together for many years. It was easy for Bill to get me a lunch meeting with Andy.
I called Andy and asked him where he’d like to have lunch. He said, “Right here in the Intel cafeteria” I asked him why he wouldn’t rather go to a nice restaurant. His answer: “There’s a parking problem at Intel. Not enough parking spots. If I take my car out of the lot to go to lunch, I won’t be able to park when I get back”. I asked him if he had a “reserved for the CEO” parking spot. He told me, “no”. He told me that the parking protocol was, “The earliest arrivers get the best parking places”. So — if he wanted a good parking spot, the only way to get it was to go to work early and then not move the car at lunch. I liked that system. It’s the same one we used at Actel. I told him that I would be happy to meet him at his cafeteria.
Andy Grove was a very, very down to earth guy. When I met him in the Intel headquarters building everyone around him was looking good in their suits, white shirts and silk ties. When Andy came down the stairs though, he was wearing jeans and an old, ugly sweater. We went into the Intel cafeteria. Then we waited in line with everyone else. He paid for both our meals. Then we found a table that was a little isolated. (There was a circle of mostly empty tables around us. It was a little like the Korean DMZ. Nobody wanted to get too near to Andy.)
Intel had the best fab technology. I wanted to be able to use it! The hard part was figuring out exactly what we could give Intel in return that they would value but wouldn’t put them in direct competition with us. I thought I had it figured out. I had prepared a thick binder full of the details of my proposal and all the benefits that would accrue to Intel if they took us up on our offer. I was proud of my work!!! When we sat down I pulled out the binder and started to open it.
But … before we got down to business Andy wanted to talk about AMD. AMD and Intel had gone through some very rough legal battles over rights to the Intel processors. AMD maintained that they held certain rights to those processors due to an agreement that the companies signed in 1982. Intel maintained that the agreement was inoperative because AMD hadn’t held up their end of the bargain. The legal battle had been very bitter and, in fact, one of the reasons that I left AMD. Andy pretty much hated AMD and everyone who had ever worked there. (But maybe not quite as much as some of the AMD people hated him — it had been a very, very bitter fight). Before I left AMD, I had been running AMD’s microprocessor division — the group that Andy hated most. Andy was known to have a quick temper and to be extremely confrontational. So — yes! I was nervous! (Here’s a good place to insert a joke about a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs)
Before we talked about foundry, Andy wanted to get my views on what the AMD people really thought about what had gone on — What I thought about Jerry (Sanders) — What I thought about Tony (Holbrook) — What they thought about the battle. He quizzed me at some length. I had left AMD several years before I met Andy, so was mostly able to get away with pleading ignorance. (Of course, I wasn’t really ignorant. I knew exactly what they thought. It wasn’t pretty!!!) Finally he apologized for taking time away from my meeting purpose and asked me what I had in mind. I whipped out my massive binder, turned to page one, and started to take Andy through it. He stopped me. He reached over and closed the binder.
Andy: “John. In 25 words or less, what is it you want from Intel?”
Me: “Fab capacity on your advanced line.”
Andy: “John. You’re a good guy. I like you. So I’m going to offer you a choice.”
Me: “Great. What’s that, Andy?”
Andy: “I have a large staff of MBAs who came from really impressive schools. They work on these kinds of proposals for us. They’re top notch. If you’d like me to, I’ll give them your proposal and ask them to study it thoroughly and provide a well-reasoned, written response. That will probably take them a month or so. I’m quite sure their answer will be no. The other option is that I can tell you no right now and save you from having to wait a month. Which way would you like to go on this?”
There was no beating around the bush when you were dealing with Andy Grove!
Next week: going public
Pictured: Andy Grove
See the entire John East series HERE.
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A New York Times article yesterday described in detail the sorry state of health in these United States. In a study of 17 other affluent nations the US often scored dead last.
“Something fundamental is going wrong,” said Dr. Steven Woolf, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, who led the panel. “This is not the product of a particular administration or political party. Something at the core is causing the U.S. to slip behind these other high-income countries. And it’s getting worse.”
The study linked a greater number of drug overdoses, car accidents and gun violence in the US as reasons why we did so poorly.
The rate of firearm homicides was 20 times higher in the United States than in the other countries, according to the report, which cited a 2011 study of 23 countries. And though suicide rates were lower in the United States, firearm suicide rates were six times higher.
Sixty-nine percent of all American homicide deaths in 2007 involved firearms, compared with an average of 26 percent in other countries, the study said. The US also had the highest infant mortality rate, the highest rates of STD’s among young people and the highest rates of diabetes among adults.
“We expected to see some bad news and some good news,” Dr. Woolf said. “But the U.S. ranked near and at the bottom in almost every heath indicator. That stunned us.”
The researchers were at a loss to explain why the US is doing so poorly, but it really isn’t a mystery. It’s like the biblical prophets warned: a culture that values property over people and empire over human solidarity, will bleed to death from within even if it is the most powerful empire the world is ever known. | <urn:uuid:f8d1239b-f4c0-4056-a868-b5c85f38db4a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.jimrigby.org/unbridled-capitalism-is-killing-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964359 | 376 | 1.976563 | 2 |
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One of my favorite local birding spots is a stretch of the Delaware River behind the Philadelphia Airport. From a clearing on the vegetated shoreline, I scan through an assortment of gulls, terns and shorebirds over the water. Upland birds enjoy the space, too.
One day I was absorbed in watching a Northern Mockingbird that landed on the decommissioned railway track beside me. Almost immediately she opened her wings, making her appear bigger. She tilted her wings backwards to expose as much as possible, of the bold white bars on the upper and underside wings.
This wing-flashing behavior (depicted below), while on the ground, is a common trait amongst mockingbirds. Actually, a number of birds do this. The flashing of wings may be a technique to flush insects, ward off predators, or defend its territory.
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“Humanizing Online Learning with VoiceThread” by Michelle Pacansky-Brock was first seen on Edcetera.
It’s really time to put the age old arguments about online classes being dull, cold, and alienating to bed and accept that these problems are only effects of the choices made by those who design, develop, and teach the course.
If you are an online instructor who is aching to break out of the social limitations of the text-based discussion forum that still dominates online courses, despite the audio and visual rich social technologies that abound, read on. Take a few minutes to step inside one of my online classes and view this clip of an interaction between me and one of my former online Art Appreciation students from a class VoiceThread activity. The excerpt you see here shows a single slide (out of many) from an online activity. Students were required to comment after reading a chapter that introduced them to the concepts of “form and content.” In this way, the activity is used as a formative assessment for them to begin to develop mastery of new concepts and skills.
You probably observed a few things about this interaction. First, the student was nervous and she was clearly pushing herself outside of her comfort zone. This is when we learn the most! Most students aren’t willing to leave voice comments when they’re nervous and many students aren’t willing to voluntarily push themselves outside their comfort zone. We need to ask ourselves, “How can we support and encourage these actions as online instructors?”
Secondly, you likely noticed that she made a mistake in her first assessment attempt. And that it was okay for her to do so. This is because the assessment is a “formative assessment,” meaning it is an assessment “for learning,” rather than an assessment “of learning.” In my feedback, I let her know she had made an error, and by delivering my feedback with video, the message was received in a less threatening way. She was able to hear my voice inflections and see my facial expressions. She knew I wanted her to succeed and try again. And she did. And the next time, she succeeded, and I made my pride in her very clear. Her follow-up comment demonstrates her progress and mastery of the learning objectives. Students in my online classes often tell me they get more personalized feedback than they have ever received in a face-to-face class.
And, what’s also important about the VoiceThread interface is that the environment is participatory. This means the comments students and I leave are viewable by the entire class. While there is no way I could require or ensure all students viewed the interaction between she and I, those who did learn from it and improve their mastery of the objectives.
Video and Voice Empowers Dyslexic Learners
As I sit back and reflect on many years of teaching with VoiceThread though, my most prized teaching moments have been with the learning successes I’ve seen with my dyslexic students. I recall one particular student with dyslexia who was taking online classes because she was also homebound, preparing for a major kidney surgery. She was in my class the first year I taught with VoiceThread and she was the only student who made use of the video (webcam) comment feature. What stunned me was how deeply eloquent and proficient her verbal interpretation of the artwork on the screen was, while the written assessments she submitted to me demonstrated an entirely different story. At that moment, I realized how much more — beyond social presence and community building — we miss, as online educators, when we construct learning environments purely around text based assessments. And I related very differently to my learners from that moment on.
What is VoiceThread?
The example shown above demonstrates many of the reasons why I teach with VoiceThread, a cloud-based asynchronous communication tool that I use to enhance my online course, which is taught within a traditional course management system. You can click here for a 10-minute tour of a VoiceThread activity. VoiceThread empowers me to create multimedia content, as well as to interact with my students and to have them interact with each other using voice, video, or text as their preferred method of communication. And using VoiceThread for formative assessments allows me to use my feedback as additional teaching moments too. In my feedback comments, I can share additional context about the image or topic on the slide. At the start of the next learning unit, the students are given the assignment to review the entire VoiceThread from the previous unit (including all student comments and my feedback). These VoiceThreads become resources for larger projects or summative assessments and through their creation stronger social presence and community is fostered throughout the class.
You can think of a VoiceThread as a conversation around a slideshow of your own media files. These media files can be your PDFs (you can export your Powerpoints or Keynote presentations to PDFs very simply), images, video files, audio files (for the music instructors out there), and more. And you can mix the media so your VoiceThread could include, for example, four presentation slides, two images, a video, and three more presentation slides at the end. Use your imagination! When you have your media curated, you simply add your own comments in voice (using your computer’s microphone), video (using your computer’s webcam), or text (using the keyboard on your computer). Then you share your VoiceThread securely with the Group you’ve set up for your class or give access to anyone you want who has access to the link or place it on the Browse page and make fully public.
I use VoiceThread in a variety of ways in my online class. Using the tool is easy but teaching effectively with it is a skill that has taken me many years to refine. What I find critical is to understand that it’s a very robust tool and you must scaffold your students’ use of VoiceThread, rather than expect them to be masters of it from day one (remember, week one is stressful enough).
VoiceThread Teaching and Learning Examples from the History of Photography (online):
- Syllabus Overview
- Ice Breaker I require voice or video comments in my ice breaker to ensure all students get over their nerves. Interestingly, this strategy has increased voluntary voice/video comments from 25% to 75% in the activities that follow.
- Formative Assessment: Mini-video lecture followed by formative assessment
- Student created VoiceThread by Diane Rhodes: My students were required to locate a practicing art photographer, interview that person and produce a showcase about his/her work.
Tips for Teaching with VoiceThread
- Understand the limitations of a free account, which allows you to experiment with VoiceThread. Basically, instructors need premium accounts (and there are many options) but students may use free accounts.
- Get started with a low risk ice breaker. It’s a great way to orient students to the interface and ensure they know how to leave a comment without the worries of assessment.
- Start with a required voice/video commenting activity to maximize human presence. You will find that if you give students the option to comment in voice, video, or text the most will choose text. A simple and effective strategy I use is to require voice or video comments in my low risk ice breaker. Keep in mind that students will be NERVOUS — so be supportive and leave friendly feedback for all of them. This approach levels the playing field and creates a supportive environment for all learners. After implementing this strategy, I’ve seen an increase from 25% to 75% of my students voluntarily using video or voice for their comments.
- Create a VoiceThread Group for your class (creating Groups is not available for free account holders). After you create a group, simply paste the “invitation link” inside your class and when your students click on it, two things will happen: they will register for VoiceThread and they will join your group. Once they’re a group member, they (and only they) have access to the VoiceThreads you’ve shared with that group, creating a simple and secure sharing system.
- Scaffold the use of VoiceThread into the class for optimum learning benefits. For example, give students time to get familiar with the interface, then require them to comment for a few weeks, then you can experiment with the advanced “editing” feature which turns a VoiceThread into a “wiki” and, finally, empower your students to be independent content creators and make their very own VoiceThread.
- VoiceThread can be easily embedded into any course management system that accepts external html embed code. The embed code includes a “sign in” feature which means your students sign into their account and access the secure VoiceThread content without every leaving your course.
- Be aware of VoiceThread Universal, an html version of VoiceThread’s flash based player which is accessible to students who are blind and rely on full screen readers to navigate the web.
- Encourage your students with iPhone or iPads to download the free VoiceThread Mobile app to increase their access to voice/video commenting and make their learning mobile!
- Build accessible VoiceThreads. For audio comments you will use over and over again in your classes, use the text comment feature to create text-based transcripts of those comments. This way, students who need to read the comments will have that option built-in.
- Be informed about the array of account options that are available for higher ed VoiceThread users — from individual, to department, to site wide licenses. Site wide licenses include VoiceThread’s awesome new LTI integration which makes single-sign on a reality for your students. This means they don’t need to create an external account and you also don’t need to create a Group for your class or manage your students’ enrollment as they add/drop. | <urn:uuid:10f7adef-f5ae-4760-ad19-e315d10aed1a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gettingsmart.com/2013/02/26/humanizing-online-learning-with-voicethread/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952128 | 2,066 | 2.546875 | 3 |
What are the advantages and disadvantages of dental filling materials? What are indirect fillings? Are silver amalgams safe? Can you be allergic to amalgam fillings? These and other popular questions are answered.
What are dental fillings?
Dental fillings are single or combinations of metals, plastics, glass or other materials used to repair or restore teeth. One of the most popular uses of fillings is to “fill” an area of tooth that your dentist has removed due to decay – “a cavity.” Fillings are also used to repair cracked or broken teeth and teeth that have been worn down from misuse (such as from nail-biting or tooth grinding).
What materials are dental fillings made from?
Dental filling materials include:
- Silver amalgam (contains mercury mixed with silver, tin, zinc, and copper).
- Tooth-colored, plastic and glass materials called composite resin fillings.
The location and extent of the decay, cost of filling material, your insurance coverage and your dentist’s recommendation help determine the type of filling that will best address your needs.
Are there advantages and disadvantages to various filling materials?
Yes. Advantages and disadvantages of the various dental filling materials are as follows:
- Gold: Lasts at least 10 to 15 years, some say gold presents a pleasing appearance.
- Silver fillings (amalgams): Lasts at least 10 to 15 years, less expensive than composite fillings.
- Tooth-colored composite fillings: Shade can be closely matched to color of existing teeth, bonds to existing tooth providing additional support, commonly used for repairs other than cavity filling, sometimes less tooth needs to be removed compared with amalgams.
- Ceramics/porcelain: Lasts more than 15 years, more resistant to staining than composite resin material.
- Glass ionomer (acrylic and a specific type of glass material): Mostly used for fillings below the gum line, releases fluoride that can help protect from further tooth decay.
- Gold: More expensive than other materials, may require more than one office visit to place.
- Silver: May require more tooth to be removed to make space large enough to hold filling, creates grayish hue to the surrounding tooth structure, may have higher risk of tooth cracks and fractures due to wider degree of expansion and contraction, allergic potential in some people.
- Tooth-colored composite fillings: Lasts at least five years (less than the 10 to 15 years of other materials), may chip off tooth depending on location, can cost up to twice as much as amalgams, can take more time to place and/or additional visits.
- Ceramics: Can cost as much as gold.
- Glass ionomer: Is weaker than composite resin, more likely to wear and prone to fracture, lasts five years or less, costs comparable to composite fillings.
What are indirect fillings?Indirect fillings are similar to composite or tooth-colored fillings except that they are made in a dental laboratory and require two visits before being placed. Indirect fillings are considered when you don’t have enough tooth structure remains to support a filling, but your tooth is not so severely damaged that it needs a crown. During the first visit, decay or an old filling is removed. An impression is taken to record the shape of the tooth being repaired and the teeth around it. The impression is sent to a dental laboratory that makes the indirect filling. A temporary filling (described below) is placed to protect the tooth while your restoration is being made. During the second visit, the temporary filling is removed, and the dentist checks the fit of the indirect restoration. If the fit is acceptable, it will be permanently cemented into place. There are two types of indirect fillings – inlays and onlays.
- Inlays are similar to fillings but the entire work lies within the cusps (bumps) on the chewing surface of the tooth.
- Onlays are more extensive than inlays, covering one or more cusps. Onlays are sometimes called partial crowns.
What’s a temporary filling and why would I need one?You might need a temporary fillings:
- If more than one appointment is needed for your filling. For example, before placement of gold fillings and for indirect fillings that use composite materials.
- Following a root canal.
- To allow your tooth’s nerve to “settle down” if the pulp became irritated.
- If emergency dental treatment is needed (such as to address a toothache).
What steps are involved in filling a tooth?First, your dentist will numb the area around the tooth to be worked on with a local anesthetic. Next, a drill, air abrasion instrument or laser will be used to remove the decayed area. The choice of instrument depends on your dentist’s comfort level, training, and investment in the particular piece of equipment as well as location and extent of the decay. Next, your dentist will probe or test the area during the decay removal process to determine if all the decay has been removed. Once the decay has been removed, your dentist will prepare the space for the filling by cleaning the cavity of bacteria and debris. If the decay is near the root, your dentist may first put in a liner made of glass ionomer, composite resin, or other material to protect the nerve. Generally, after the filling is in, your dentist will finish and polish it. Several additional steps are required for tooth-colored fillings and are as follows. After your dentist has removed the decay and cleaned the area, the tooth-colored material is applied in layers. Next, a special light that “cures” or hardens each layer is applied. When the multilayering process is completed, your dentist will shape the composite material to the desired result, trim off any excess material and polish the final restoration.
Are silver amalgam fillings safe?The American Dental Association (ADA), the FDA and numerous public health agencies say that silver (mercury based) amalgam fillings are safe. However, the FDA recently issued updated recommendations about the use of amalgam fillings in certain individuals. They state that the following individuals may be at greater risk for potential harmful health effects of mercury vapors and should avoid getting these fillings whenever possible.
- People at greater risk include:
- Pregnant women and their developing fetuses.
- Women who are planning to become pregnant.
- Nursing women and their newborns.
- Children, especially those younger than six years of age.
- People with pre-existing neurological diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease.
- People with impaired kidney function.
- People with sensitivity or allergy to mercury or other components of dental amalgam.
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As I think about teachers going back into the classroom this is one of my most favourite times. Getting my classroom ready.
It is often the cleanest that it will ever be and the most photo ready.
Classrooms today look different so as we are getting ready to go back to school, perhaps we have to think differently about how our rooms are designed.
If we are using a student-centered inquiry approach in our classroom then responsive design can be translated into our classroom too. Below are the three must have design elements that are essential for inquiry.
With inquiry you need to consider that there is going to be a few different learning styles that you will ask students to participate in. I feel there are three different types of spaces you need to have.
First you need a large gathering space.
- a carpet area for students to sit on
- an area to move chairs to sit together
- the ability to move tables surrounding a large gathering space.
What you don’t want is students sitting apart. Group them close together instead.
This also means that your desk/table placement does not need every student to ‘face the board’ if their learning space is reserved for independent work then they do not need to be able to face the board. Get them moving and changing locations throughout the day. This is easily accomplished if you have a gathering space.
Small Group Learning
In inquiry, students should be grouped together so that they have opportunities to learn from one another. Grouping desks or tables together so that students can learn from one another will help to foster more inquiry and better conversations in your classroom.
This does take a bit of work to teach students to work in groups but with enough practice and routine students can do this.
You also need a space for independent work.
provide some spaces where your students can work independently in your classroom. Think about different levels and not just sitting in a chair at their desk.
If your goal is work completion then does it really matter where this happens? I think it doesn’t.
So think creatively about where students can and want to work in your classroom during independent times. Kids like to stand, sit, lie down, hide, and move and adjust. Some like silence while others like music. If it works for them and work gets done can we be more flexible about how and where they sit in our rooms?
There are a few things that could be considered essential materials for all inquiry classrooms.
- chart paper is great for recording learning goals, student ideas, brainstorming and a whole lot more.
- markers cannot be erased so it helps students share their thinking in a permanent way. It is also easy for others to see and great for your chart paper.
- scrap books or duo-tangs are an alternative to binders. For me binders just take up too much space and there is so much loose paper. (I can’t take it really). Duo-tangs are easily portable for me but I honestly prefer scrapbooks or books of lined paper that easily fit an 8.5x 11 paper.
- clip boards are an essential tool needed if you want students to be working with flexible seating.
- technology – it is inevitable that in today’s inquiry classrooms tech tools are becoming more and more prevalent. This means that you should work towards getting more tech in your room. Lobby your admin or apply for grants if necessary to get more tech tools. Bring your own device is another option to supplement when you don’t have enough tech to start with.
Colour choice is important for making or breaking the feel and energy in our room.
Here is what I have learned. Pick a colour and repeat it…everywhere.
My first year in my classroom the boards were a dull army green, not the atmosphere that I was trying to convey.
Then I painted. I picked three colours for my boards. Blue, green, and yellow. I liked it at first but it always looked messy and cluttered to me and I was forever trying to organize it. It seemed busy and I didn’t know why.
I then read a blog post? or podcast? from School Girl Style!!
She has an amazing design sense and if you ever need to see a Pinterest worthy classroom she is amazing.
However, her tip was that all the boards should be the same base colour. This was because when you walk in the room with multiple colours yours eyes don’t know where to focus. However, if every board is one colour then you don’t focus on that and they don’t steal the focus.
It makes a difference.
So here is my tip for you.
- Pick a border that you love perhaps one that has a few colours in it.
- Choose a solid colour border for layering either plain or patterned (dots, stripes, chevron)
- Choose one colour for the board background. For all the board space.
Some colours are better for certain age groups. Primary colours for primary like an 8 pack crayon box, secondary colours for junior, more sophisticated colour combinations for intermediate and high school. Check out this blog post for great colour combinations.
What goes on the walls?
In my opinion nothing right away. Leave them blank.
When designing your classroom for inquiry you have to know that your room should be a reflection of the learning that your students are doing.
That means save your money on all of those posters, cutesy quote boards, or any other boards that you put up. If the information doesn’t reflect the learning of your students then take it down, or don’t put it up in the first place. Ask yourself if a large birthday board really a great use of space? Save those Pinterest worthy boards for outside in the hallway.
This means that really you can save yourself some time by not putting much up at the beginning of the year.
Let your walls grow with your students. Make them living learning walls.
My goal is that when a stranger walks into my room they should be able to tell what has been happening in my room and what we are learning.
I generally try to have one board area for the core subjects taught in my room. Language, Math, Science/Social Studies all have a dedicated space in my room. I am lucky to have great board space in my room. If you don’t then get creative and use any available vertical space that you have access too.
Use the back of shelves, or file cabinets, windows, doors, or trifold boards as additional board space if you need it.
As for art or other types of classroom decor – put that outside in the hallway or on your door. Keep the inside of your classroom for learning and set this as a priority.
How do you plan to design your classroom to get ready for inquiry? Join the discussion about this topic here
Then grab your free checklist to help you plan out the design for your own classroom.
Keep reading about classroom design on these other blog posts below
Want to learn a bit more about why I use tables instead of desks? Read the blog post about this here!
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Learn how to code in Solidity.
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In this page you can learn how to make your text and views LARGER on the website browser you're using.
Simply follow the steps to change the views.
Questions? CONTACT US! We're glad to help!
1. Which Browser Are you Using?
Adjusting the size of the text on your screen depends very much on which browser you are using (Browser is the program you click to open the internet). The adjustment of the size on the screen is very much dependent upon each browser, and each person's preference.
Most likely you are clicking on Safari, Explorer, Google Chrome or Firefox.
After you have determined which browser you're using, then go on to the second easy step:
2. Which Computer System Are you Using?
The second item you'll need to determine is which computer system you have: Either a Mac (Apple Macintosh) or a PC (Personal Computer), which will either be branded as 'Acer', 'Dell', 'HP', 'Lenovo', etc.
3. Ready, Set, Enlarge Text!
If you are a Mac user - regardless of which browser you use - the changing of the text size is quite simple: Just click on the following keys on your keyboard to enlarge the text until you are satisfied with the size incrementation:
To increase: Press all 3 keys at once: SHIFT , COMMAND , +
To decrease: Press all 3 keys at once: SHIFT , COMMAND , -
FOR PC, EXPLORER USERS:
- On the toolbar, choose the "Tools" button, then choose "Options"
- On the "General" tab, choose "Accessibility" button.
- Select the "Ignore font sizes specified on webpages" box.
- Choose OK, twice. After these steps, you will be able to change the font size for text on website pages, as follows:
- On the toolbar again, choose "Page" button, and then choose "Text Size"
- Choose the text size you want, then click OK.
FOR PC, GOOGLE CHROME USERS:
- Press 'Alt' and 'F' keys on your keyboard to select "Customize and control Chrome"
- Click to select or press "S" for Settings
- Press 'Tab' button on your keyboard until you tab to the 'Search' box and then type in "Custom", then you will see the Customize Fonts button - press enter.
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Production Possibility Frontier (PPF) is an economic term that simply represents a curve of the maximum combination of output an economy can produce with the given resources at various levels. The curve assumes that resources are utilized fully both effectively and efficiently. This term is sometimes also called production possibility curve (PPC) as well. The shape of the curve is generally bowed outward. But why is it so? For this, at first one needs to be familiar with the two most basic concepts on which the foundation of the economics is based on: opportunity cost and scarcity.
Scarcity is one economic term that implies the situation those resources will be always being scarce to meet the needs and wants of the people. The second concept implies the fact that there’s always a situation of at least more than one best alternative, and the best alternative forgone is the opportunity cost. The PPF curve relates these two concepts to form its own curve with that ‘bowed outward’ shape. These graphs are two dimensional and traditionally, economists use capital and consumer goods on the respective axes. Suppose you have 20000 resources with which you can produce either of two outputs or a combination of both. This unit mentioned is at maximum, and hence, can’t exceed this level until the economy faces an economic growth. Now, if you decide to utilize 15000 resources with output X, 5000 of the rest resources will be utilized for output Y. Again, if you decide to utilize 7000 resources with output Y, you will be left with 6000 resources to produce output X. The point is you cannot exceed the amount of resources available as they are scarce and limited.
The PPF simply follows these concepts and ideologies that are built in with the concepts of scarcity and opportunity cost combined. All in all, the opportunity cost of a product rises as more resources are allocated to producing one product from the limited resources, leaving out fewer resources for the other. Hence, this makes the curve bowed outward. | <urn:uuid:0dcec7ff-5fa2-49bc-bb83-b8baf1f04de0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.knowswhy.com/why-is-ppf-bowed-outward/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955843 | 400 | 3.921875 | 4 |
How do you become the next Senna, Schumacher or Hamilton – and what happens if things don’t turn out the way you’ve planned?
For many young racing drivers, taking risks is an approach that extends outside the cockpit of their speed machines: their entire career is a high-wire walk without a safety net.
Take Callum Ilott for example. At 18, this quiet, mild-mannered British racing driver has already spent a decade racing on four wheels, progressing from go-karts to Formula 3 cars. To make a success of his chosen sport, he’s skipping A-Levels, a university degree and any sort of vocational training to focus on making it to the front of the grid. If he doesn’t get there, he will have very little to fall back on. | <urn:uuid:b08df292-5698-4577-98bf-314141317d62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lemanoirprod.com/project-4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945116 | 175 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Moving goods from one place to another is impossible without a vehicle. Regardless of the industry, you are in, the use of trucks is necessary as a means of better transport. There are different types of trucks to choose from according to your specific needs. Each one has to offer benefits which are mentioned in the rest of this post.
Five Types of Trucks
Trucks are a versatile kind of transport for a variety of uses. Most people are confused about which type of truck is ideal for their needs. Below is a list of options to easily decide how you can transport goods with a truck:
- Crane Truck
This is a huge truck made to haul heavy loads. It comes in different sizes to load and unload a wide range of cargo types. Crane trucks are commonly used in carrying goods that require extra protection during transit.
- Dump Truck
The mining and construction industry are the ones who will be satisfied with this type of truck. It can deliver a range of supplies and other materials at a distance.
- Tilt Tray Truck
A tilt tray truck can be used for easier loading and unloading of materials with its unique feature. Operators can find the best angle to make loading and unloading faster and more convenient. This is the most suitable truck for delivering large and heavy equipment to a certain place. It won’t also take up so much space while working.
- Cement Truck
Cement trucks are common on construction sites. It guarantees good quality cement until it reaches the location. It is designed only for this application, unlike the previous types of trucks.
- Flatbed Truck
This one is ideal for transporting goods that are weather-resistant because of its open design. It has no walls or roof to protect whatever it harbors. However, the space of the truck is huge enough to accommodate plenty of goods safely.
Advantages of Using Trucks
This range of truck choices is a good investment for a wide application. Logistic services can testify how useful a truck is in every transaction. Here are some of the benefits you can experience if you choose to employ trucks for your business:
- For Transport
Freight transport is very common in delivering goods because of the convenience. Trucks play a vital role to carry heavy items toward the desired destination for import or export purposes. The vehicle has a large capacity and is versatile in the pieces of stuff it can haul. It can also put up with more quantity of goods all at once to minimize travel duration.
It is mentioned that a truck can convey multiple goods in one ride which also reduces the expenses for long-distance travel. It is a better choice when moving houses rather than small vehicles that avoid many trips. Carrying a heavy load won’t damage the truck so no worries about damaging some of the goods while in transit.
- Equipped With Advanced Technology
Most trucks are now easier to operate as they rely on technology. A lot of trucking industries become more reliable in delivering goods because of the new devices that could help. It includes a logging device to effortlessly track where the goods are at the moment and also technology for safety in case of collision.
- Increase Employment Opportunities
Since the trucking sector continues to grow globally, the need for drivers also increases. This opens job opportunities all around the world with a lot of positions available, such as haulers or simply joining a trucking firm.
- Enhanced Safety
Trucks are a reliable type of vehicle with many unique features to guarantee better freight services. It has the best edifice that can travel long distances without any hassle. No matter what the weather situation is, the driver and the items inside the truck won’t be harmed. You will be sure that the items will reach the destination in a nice condition.
- Can Help Towing Services
Since trucks are a heavy-duty type of vehicle, it is not limited to moving but also for towing needs. Transferring heavy objects from one place to another is so easy with the right kind of truck. It is made of a strong engine that can lift heavy pieces of equipment easily. For example, if you need help to drag a car, find a truck with hauling abilities to complete the task.
Best Tilt Tray Service We Recommend
Look for a fast and reliable tilt tray service that is always ready to transport a heavy container for you. A company that can boast excellent drivers to manage your cargo with care while in transit. There will be no damage to goods until it arrives at the final location.
A variety of shipping containers are available to cater to every ton of equipment that needs to be transported. Each type of truck promises to carry even oversized machines without difficulty. Make sure they deliver goods within Perth in various ways, including shipping by the sea.
Contact the staff at Reef Group to arrange everything, such as the type of transport you need and the other services.
To sum it all up, the trucking industry is still growing with lots of benefits from the services it provides. It is more than transportation but also opens more job options for people around the world. This sector of cargo operations is cost-efficient and has a huge value in today’s market. Using a truck becomes so essential because most people find it convenient during a move or by simply towing equipment. | <urn:uuid:2c0d6ccc-87ce-432c-8168-d29942561c3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://parceltracking.info/the-benefits-of-the-trucking-industry-that-you-should-know/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957927 | 1,093 | 2.046875 | 2 |
It is replacing polyvinyl chloride PVC and chlorinated polyvinyl might be needed of the property you have rented out. Though, a plunger or a pump can come in handy to get rid of out of the part, depending upon the type of faucet. Bursting induced by expansion of frozen water, under extremely low temperature conditions, to detach the faceplate and soak it in white vinegar overnight. These were some of the prominent problems that you must might be vulnerable to this problem, which have a predominance of such insects.
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Trapeze School New York makes high flying feats and acrobatic expression accessible to all, including children! Flying trapeze, trampoline, aerial arts, and juggling are a great way to get kids up and moving, and to foster their creative side. Our children's programs build foundations for developing a healthy, fun, and balanced relationship with exercise throughout one's life. We begin with basics such as warming up before exercise, practicing proper form, and training both strength and flexibility. Children will have the opportunity to challenge themselves mentally and physically, and we invite them to step outside their comfort zone in a supportive environment. Participants develop fundamental skills such as trust, teamwork, and confidence as they experiment with creating individual sequences and group routines. Children walk away from our classes feeling empowered and ready to tackle anything. You might even find your children ready for bed a couple hours early after a day at TSNY!
While children are always able to sign up for any all-levels classes offered at our school, we also have specialized children's programs for kids aged 6-14. Email firstname.lastname@example.org to join our Youth Program mailing list for announcements on when enrollment is open for each of the programs described below.
All Day Circus Experience for Kids
We are happy to offer the All Day Circus Experience for Kids, held on common school holidays such as Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President's Day and possibly a few more, based on demand. The Circus Experience is a way to try a variety of the acts we teach all in one day. Children will get the opportunity to attempt flying trapeze, trampoline, lyra, silks, juggling, static trapeze, tumbling, and more.
The day begins at 8:00 am and ends at 4:00 pm. Please have your children wear comfortable athletic clothing, and bring socks and a water bottle.
Summer Youth Adventure Program
At TSNY Los Angeles, kids can spend a week learning to soar up high on the flying trapeze, or train in the aerial arts. After a week of fun practice, participants will show off their new skills in a Public Showcase. Come join us this summer during school vacation and learn new things every day!
Choose from either a two hour program on the FLYING TRAPEZE or a one hour program of AERIAL ARTS, or both! Sign up for one, two or all three sessions!
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Morris Nitsun is a South African-born artist who has lived in the UK since 1968. An internationally renowned and published psychologist and psychotherapist, he has developed in parallel a successful career as a painter. Many of the paintings derive from travels in Britain and abroad and a sense of place or atmosphere is often reflected in his work. HIs work features in collections worldwide.
We spoke to Morris about what inspired him to pick up a paintbrush and his passion with regards his art.
“I realised from a young age that I had a passion and a talent for drawing. However, it wasn’t until my early twenties that I started to paint seriously; I found I was really drawn and attracted to mid-20th Century painting and it’s strong painterly qualities, which has definitely influenced my style.”
Morris began studying psychology at university which led to his eminent career in psychology.
We asked him what has constantly brought him back to his painting, and how he has blended the two elements of his creative practice and psychotherapy practice together:
“I love the colours, textures and magic that paint can create, but I also enjoy the element of surprise associated with painting; the accidental happenings and the wonder of a coherent image as it occurs.”
“The convergence of my artwork and psychotherapy practice is a recent concept. It has only been over the last two years that the two practices have converged, however I still remain both a psychotherapist and an artist distinctively as separate entities. I have been using online presentations of my paintings, inviting groups of people to resonate to the images and themes as a way of amplifying the convergence.”
Creativity and Wellbeing
“I feel that expressions of creativity are extremely important for wellbeing; as I believe that creativity brings a sense of play, active imagination and productivity which strengthen wellbeing, which can be seen in the Covid Lockdowns. Much of people’s feelings of fear and helplessness have been offset by people outpouring creativity.”
“I have used my additional time during the Lockdown period to create a body of work entitled The Deserted City which explores my feelings in relation to what was happening in Europe, and my anxieties regarding damage and loss.”
The Power of Creativity.
“The driving force behind my creative practice is the pursuing of the exciting new ideas and themes that have entered my painting as a result of the convergence mentioned earlier. Creating original work spurs me on, but above all, expressing myself as fully as possible as an artist is the most important force behind my creative practice.”
“Lockdown has been a stimulus for a period for intense creativity for me, and I believe that I have adapted well to the changes imposed on us all during 2020. These changes stimulated a renewed awareness of nature, experienced during regular long walks in the woods and by the sea which have led to moments of profound awareness, and even transformation.”
It has been a joy working with Morris over the past few months, we asked him to reflect on how being part of the SOL Design Community has helped.
“I started receiving invitations from SOL Design Collective through AOH, and have found the online seminars stimulating and informative. My personal work with Jan has been supportive and encouraging. I hope to use the SOL Design Collective platform as a way of promoting my online art-psychology presentations.”
Upcoming talk and what’s in store for 2021?
“With regards to my next steps, I intend to continue both psychotherapeutic practice and painting, but with an increasing emphasis on their convergence. I’m a published writer, and I’m hoping to put some of this in a book.”
“I have several online events in the pipeline, both in the UK and abroad. This includes a presentation on ‘The Deserted City’ to a group of Dutch colleagues in November 2020, and presentations in early 2021 of both my Doll Paintings and the Deserted City themes to Psychotherapy Sussex (a large local organisation that runs it’s own Arts Forum).”
“Closer to home, though, I will be “in conversation” at one of the FREE Creative Coffee Morning events for SOL Design Collective on 9th December, where I will be talking about my latest body of work Deserted City – an Artists response to Covid.”
I do hope that you can join us online.
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After 6 months of refusing to fly the swastika on their backs, British postmen proved that ‘real men’ could do it all.
Meet the men who responded to appeals to take up collection for the influenza pandemic relief fund…
Gene Singer, (left) and Dougie Prentice, Mail & Guardian. “Three big Yorkshire lads from Leeds, Councillor Councillor Jim Inman was their leader, who spoke eloquently on behalf of the Freedom Fruits Roadshow, where they were photographed signing their name and other memorabilia and collecting envelopes.”
“We have been made to understand that we were listed on some announcements, by word of mouth. Among other things, we asked the presenter, ‘What’s the best morose expression?’ Fortunately, it was suggested we wear ‘the expressions of relieved relief you saw on the faces of thousands of people suffering under the flu epidemic in America?'”
“This was a popular happening. It was a gesture of compassion by a young team of postal workers, who would have been mature gentlemen in 1920.”
“The Inman family were influential figures in the Daily Mail family, with which family the newspaper is affiliated. Councillor Tom Inman was a former mayor of Bradford.”
“In the early 1930s, Mrs Dorinda Owen, who wore a badge commemorating the Annunciation, was heavily infected. Several months later, she had an impromptu conference with Cardinal Ratzinger in the hospital. When he turned round to look at her his curtsey had turned completely up and there was a large leak through the wedding band clasp.” | <urn:uuid:0af32ea2-fe03-408f-85df-f58525954569> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailynewsatlanta.com/postal-workers-who-made-their-mark-on-britain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.985256 | 355 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Introduction: Leptomeningeal metastases are occurring at higher frequency in cancer patients. The prognosis of leptomeningeal metastases is poor and standard treatment, which includes radiotherapy and chemotherapy, is mostly ineffective. Melanoma represents one of the tumors with the highest incidence of leptomeningeal metastases. For such a disease, the BRAF inhibitors have recently been demonstrated to be effective on melanoma brain metastases harboring the V600EBRAF mutation. Case presentation: We report a case of a 39-year-old Italian woman with advanced melanoma with brain, lung and peritoneum metastases harboring the V600EBRAF mutation. In August 2010 she was enrolled into the BRIM3 trial and after the randomization process she received dacarbazine. After two cycles, there was evidence of disease progression in her peritoneum and lung. For this reason, she was enrolled into another clinical trial with the GSK2118436 BRAF inhibitor, dabrafenib, as a second line of therapy. She had a partial response that was maintained until 13 weeks of treatment. In January 2011 she developed symptoms typical for brain metastases and received a diagnosis of leptomeningeal involvement of melanoma cells after an examination of her cerebral spinal fluid; magnetic resonance imaging was negative for meningitis or brain metastases. Analysis of her cerebral spinal fluid sample confirmed that the melanoma cells still carried the V600EBRAF mutation. After a few days, our patient went into a coma and died. Conclusion: Starting with a clinical case, we discuss the pathogenesis of leptomeningeal metastases and whether the leptomeninges may represent a sanctuary where melanoma cells may generate resistance and/or BRAF inhibitors cannot reach an adequate concentration for significant activity. We assess whether treatment with BRAF inhibitors in melanoma patients should be interrupted as soon as disease progression appears or continued beyond progression, through the administration of additional compounds.
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Calving will be well underway or finished for most farmers by now. Therefore, mating is just around the corner, and we should be asking ourselves what key management decisions can be made now to maximise beef herd profitability. It is known that the productivity of the beef herd is predominantly influenced by reproductive efficiency. More specifically, the number of calves x weight of calves weaned, divided by cow liveweight. These reproductive traits are poorly inherited, so they cannot be easily improved by genetic selection. So what can be done to maximise return from the beef herd around mating?
The selection of an appropriate mating date, so that calving fits the feed supply curve on your property and works best for your management system, is crucial.
We can highlight some of the factors below that should be considered when striving to improve the reproductive efficiency and therefore profitability of your beef herd:
The PPAI is the time that a cow needs to recover before it starts cycling again. The beef cow has only about 83 days post calving to get back in calf in order to maintain the annual calving interval. The optimum average PPAI for the beef cow is between 60 and 70 days. A major reason for failure of cows to rebreed is a prolonged PPAI. A higher body condition score (BCS) at calving, which is then maintained through the postpartum period, will result in a shorter PPAI. Cow age and breed, as well as calving date, also influence PPAI. Most cows with a high BCS at calving will show oestrus within 60 days.
Heifer mating should normally be programmed 3 weeks earlier than for the cows, to allow for their 20-day longer postpartum anoestrus (PPA) period following first calving. The selection of a heifer mating date that is earlier than the older cows should not result in nutritional stress to the heifers, otherwise fertility advantages are negated. The second calving date for heifers sets the future calving pattern for the herd and therefore has a big influence on herd profitability. ‘Early calving heifers’ become ‘early calving cows’. Grazing the replacement heifers separately when they have calves at foot allows them to be given preferential nutritional care. However, management constraints do not always make this feasible.
It is important to ensure that the heifers reach minimum critical liveweight (270 kg for Angus, 280 kg for Hereford, and 300 kg for later-maturing breeds) when bred at 15 months of age. Aim for a minimum of 65% of mature weight 1 month before mating. This encourages the heifer to cycle 2 or 3 times prior to mating. This will increase the profitability of the heifer conceiving early in the breeding season, as the fertility of the first oestrus is lower than subsequent ones. Overfeeding can be detrimental, but excessive weight gain of beef heifers is unlikely to be an issue under NZ grazing conditions. Mating heifers at 15 months can significantly improve the economics of the beef herd. However, if critical minimum mating weights at 15 months are difficult to achieve consistently, and/or in-calf rates are less than 70%, then delay mating until heifers are 27 months of age (2-yr-olds).
The main goals are to manage the risks of infertile/sub-fertile bulls and to maximise the number of cows mated.
Multiple sire mating works best when bulls are of similar age and have had time to establish a social hierarchy, and also where there is a relatively high mating workload for the bulls. Dominant bulls that are sub-fertile can reduce pregnancy rates in multiple bull mating systems. Bulls, ideally, should be rotated every 21 days (one breeding cycle) to reduce the impact of sub-fertile bulls. This is especially important in single sire mating systems where the risk of mating failure is higher.
Farmer observation over mating reduces the risk of problems. Critical observations are that the bulls are ‘working’, sound on all four legs, and not spending all their time fighting and displaying dominance. It is also important to check that the cows are cycling and that excessive numbers of cows are not returning to cycle after service.
Suggested bull-to-cow ratios will always be influenced by specific farm and animal factors and quality of bull management, but they do serve as a guide:
Annual Breeding Soundness Exams and Mating Ability Testing of bulls in conjunction with a comprehensive animal health programme should be organised with your veterinarian. This could allow lower bull-to-cow ratios (1 bull to 50 – 60 cows) and reduce the importance of rotating bulls over mating. | <urn:uuid:8d64105f-b642-4582-9d80-cd85070e2102> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vetlife.co.nz/spotlight-on-beef-cow-mating/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942756 | 988 | 2.53125 | 3 |
By Katie Brown, TFG Advocate
As professionals who work with families and children in difficult circumstances, we often talk about the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). ACEs are potentially traumatic events that occur during childhood, such as having a parent with an addiction or mental health struggle, moving multiple times, or experiencing abuse or neglect.
These experiences impact a child’s sense of security and can have lasting effects on their developing brain. High ACES scores can impact a child’s future health-both mental and physical, their relationships, and even their ability to secure employment.
In addition to ACEs, there is also another score that we like to talk about at Together for Good. It’s a score that’s a little more hopeful: the “Positive Childhood Experiences” (PCEs) score. PCEs are exactly what they sound like.
Research is showing that children with high ACEs can still have a high level of resiliency when they have a high score on the PCEs assessment. This shows us that even children who grow up in poverty, addiction and chronic stress still have hope!
What’s unique about the PCE assessment is that every item that is identified as “positive” has one underlying theme: relationships.
Positive childhood experiences that lead to strong resiliency are all based around a solid relational start: a strong family even within adversity, steady relationships during hard times, and a sense of purpose and belonging.
ACEs and PCEs are measurable and studied scales used by professionals to address the root causes of many issues. They inform how we create our models for care. But the conclusions that have been drawn from these studies support what we, as Christians, have known to be true for centuries.
Relationships are vital. Families are vital.
The family is God’s idea and goes all the way back to creation.
When God created Adam, He said that it is not good for man to be alone, and He went on to give Adam a family. God mentions family dynamics in the ten commandments. In the Psalms, it is said that “God sets the lonely in families.” In Jesus’s life on this earth, we see that He was born to a mom and adopted by a dad.
Even Jesus had a family.
But what happens if a family is struggling with few resources to help them move towards stability?
We know that there’s often layers to struggles and there’s no quick fix. Temporary relief doesn’t always lead to lasting change. Many assistance programs do the necessary work meeting immediate physical needs, but once the food or vouchers are given, the “client” goes back to their situation.
These programs fail to provide what struggling families need most: gospel-centered RELATIONSHIPS. Relationships that are committed for the long haul and don’t go away once a physical need is met.
That’s why we do what we do at Together for Good.
We know that change doesn’t happen overnight. And we know that even one healthy relationship over a long period of time can make all the difference for a family in crisis.
We also believe the church is ready to lean into these relationships, and we are here to help make sure it happens – in a competently compassionate way. And we need your help.
Would you join our mission?
When you invest in the relationships, you invest in families being supported for the long haul.
You invest in professional oversight and case management for all involved-from the volunteers, to the adults we serve, to the children we serve.
You invest in “positive childhood experiences.”
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This is not a murder story. It is the story of those left behind.
Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime.
In the summer of 2002, nineteen-year-old Kim Hae-on was murdered in what became known as the High School Beauty Murder. There were two suspects: Shin Jeongjun, who had a rock-solid alibi, and Han Manu, to whom no evidence could be pinned. The case went cold.
Seventeen years pass without justice, and the grief and uncertainty take a cruel toll on her younger sister, Da-on, in particular. Unable to move on with her life, Da-on tries in her own twisted way to recover some of what she's lost, ultimately setting out to find the truth of what happened.
Shifting between the perspectives of Da-on and two of Hae-on's classmates struck in different ways by her otherworldly beauty, Lemon ostensibly takes the shape of a crime novel. But identifying the perpetrator is not the main objective here: Kwon Yeo-sun uses this well-worn form to craft a searing, timely exploration of privilege, jealousy, trauma, and how we live with the wrongs we have endured and inflicted in turn.
'Discovering whodunnit isn't really the point here; Lemon is a subtle, often intense meditation on the after-effects of violence' Guardian
'Chilling, suspenseful and disconcerting.' Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face
'Lemon is a chilling yet deeply moving story about grief, trauma, life, death, and the shattered pieces left behind by those who are gone.' An Yu, author of Braised Pork
'A haunting literary crime story... Razor-sharp observations of class, gender and privilege in contemporary Korea' Cosmopolitan
'Jolts with its brilliance and tartness. It's simply electric' Kyung-sook Shin, author of Please Look After Mother
'A confounding masterpiece.' Matthew Salesses, author of Craft in the Real World
'Charming, beguiling, and unique... Lemon, like a great painting, makes you see the world differently' Patrick Hoffman, author of Clean Hands and Every Man a Menace
'This fascinating, psychologically astute vignette about grief, blame and searching for the truth delivers piercing emotional depth in unique and elegant style' LoveReading
'A sharp, explosive novel. Highly recommended' Han Clark, Lunate.co.uk
'Lemon is a strange, haunting book, an elegant hybrid of crime novel and psychological thriller, the story of an overlooked sister obsessively picking over the tantalising facts of her sister's unsolved murder' Patrick Gale
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The Next Lunar Eclipse Will Be Visible From West Virginia And You Won’t Want To Miss Out
Here were are, only a week into the new year and we already have a major event to look forward to in a couple of weeks. The first full moon of 2019 is more than just a full moon… it’s a Super Blood Wolf Moon and the first total lunar eclipse of the year all wrapped up into the celestial events occurring on the night of January 21-21, 2019. And the best part? West Virginia will have a front row seat for the show!
In West Virginia, here’s the timeline for this eclipse:
9:36 p.m. Jan. 20 – penumbral eclipse begins
10:33 p.m. Jan. 20 – partial eclipse begins
11:41 p.m. Jan. 20 – full eclipse begins
12:12 a.m. Jan. 21 – maximum eclipse
12:43 a.m. Jan. 21 – full eclipse ends
1:50 a.m. Jan. 21 – partial eclipse ends
2:48 a.m. Jan. 21 – penumbral eclipse ends
Ever seen an eclipse like this before? We’d love to know – and can’t wait to see your photos from this one. You can share them with us on Instagram with the #onlyinwestvirginia tag!
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LOWELL — Tewksbury eighth-grader Emily Butler sat on stage, eyebrows wrinkled. Her teammate, McKenzie Clark, leaned in close to the microphone, listening closely.
It was the final speed round of the Kendall M. Wallace Regional Knowledge Bowl, and Tewksbury’s Wynn Middle School was in a dead heat with Tyngsboro Middle School.
But Tyngsboro eventually took the lead, ending with 240 points to Tewksbury’s 200 and proceeding to tonight’s final round of the intense trivia competition.
In a separate face-off, Dracut defeated newcomer team Billerica, 295 to 225.
Dracut and Tyngsboro will compete against Lowell’s entry, the Wang Middle School, tonight for the fourth Regional Knowledge Bowl title, which has grown to the largest competition yet.
The competition, sponsored by The Sun and named for former Sun Publisher Kendall Wallace, aims to spotlight Greater Lowell public middle-school students and their academic prowess.
The annual competition quizzes students on a variety of topics — current events, science, literature — during timed rounds in which the first team to buzz in with the correct answer gets the points.
The intensity keeps students on their toes, with some answering before the question even rolls off Moderator Jim Neary’s tongue.
“In 1928, who said this after becoming the first woman…” Neary began with a question on pilots.
Dracut buzzed in immediately with the answer — Amelia Earhart.
Although Billerica’s Locke Middle School joined the competition just this year, the team still put up a fight.
“The preserved impressions of prehistoric organisms are called…?”
Billerica seventh-grader Saketh Mynampati shook his head with a smile after he answered correctly — “casts” — following Dracut’s incorrect “fossils” answer.
In the math round, all teams answered all four word problems correctly, though the questions were still challenging.
Tewksbury’s Dhruv Kaushal pounded numbers into a calculator as he worked to solve the question: “What is the largest number that can be created when a two-digit number is decreased by the product of its digits?”
Over at Dracut’s table, eighth-grader Jakob Levasseur did the same, coming to the answer: 90.
Some answers prompted consultation from the competition’s first celebrity judges, state Reps. Colleen Garry, Rady Mom and Marc Lombardo.
But the real nail-biting moments of the night took place between Tewksbury and Tyngsboro, two teams that carried the lead back and forth until a tie of 180 to 180 in the final speed round.
“We were thinking that we just had to come back,” said Tyngsboro eighth-grader Alex Kilmon.
Though they’re not competing for ultimate glory tonight, both Tewksbury and Billerica teams left the competition on a positive note.
“It was definitely an interesting and very fun experience to have,” said Tewksbury’s Dhruv Kaushal.
Billerica eighth-grader Ava Lankowski said her team did well.
“We tried our best, we put our best effort forth,” she said.
Meanwhile, Dracut and Tyngsboro prepare for tonight’s competition against Lowell — the reigning champions from a district that has had practice with the city’s Kathryn P. Stoklosa Knowledge Bowl for decad es.
“People say Lowell’s pretty good, so I’m kind of nervous,” said Tyngsboro’s Max Gregoire after his team’s win. “But our team’s pretty good.”
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We are talking about the Victoria Falls River Lodge, a small and exclusive complex of only seven rooms strategically located on the shores of the mighty Zambezi River. From there, you can observe the unforgettable panoramic views of its shores, and the Lodge is close enough to the falls to watch the sharp drop of water into a narrow and deep abyss.
Being the only resort inside the national park, its style was conceived with an aesthetic approach that makes the most of the natural beauty of the surrounding ecosystem.
The resulting design consists of suspended wooden platforms and walkways that create huge open spaces, with exterior views and protected by high vaulted ceilings made of wood and straw, a style that follows the local building traditions and harmonizes with the natural environment without sacrificing luxury.
The resort features private villas and family suites with capacity for up to five people. They all have state of the art bathrooms and private terraces with panoramic views. An added benefit is the high level of privacy since the accommodations are separated from each other and connected to the principal service area by picturesque walkways.
Another highlight of the Lodge is its excellent cuisine, featuring a marked African tradition with a menu designed by famed American chef Bruce Bromberg, internationally renowned for his Blue Ribbon restaurant in New York. The Victoria Falls River Lodge also features an extensive list of fine wines and local drinks.
As expected from such exclusive resort, it offers a large variety of outdoor activities such as river navigation; exotic bird watching; safaris to see local wildlife: lions, leopards, giraffes, elephants, hippos, and zebras. There is also rafting, helicopter flights, bungee jumping, pendulum jumping, and high canopy, among many others.
The resort also offers a series of specially designed activities for children. In fact, it received the 2015 Safari Award as the best resort in Zimbabwe for family vacations.
For its luxury, location, gourmet cuisine, local identity, and amenities for the whole family, the Victoria Falls River Lodge is an option to consider when organizing the next holiday in the exciting and inexhaustible Africa. ■ | <urn:uuid:f8cda5df-49a8-45d7-a630-7a0db753856d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.azureazure.com/travel/hotels-resorts/victoria-falls-river-lodge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955644 | 433 | 1.539063 | 2 |
There are many motor choices on the market today, from heavy-duty AC motors to tiny DC brushless and stepper motors. To select the right motor for the application, users must have a full understanding of the application parameters, including power, speed, torque, physical size, efficiency, lifetime expectations, and other requirements. There have literally been books published about each of these aspects, and to define them all accurately in a short article would be difficult to say the least.
So here the focus is on a few of the primary differences between DC brushed and brushless motors to help you decide which to use in your application. For example, many machines today operate in a clean environment as opposed to being in a harsh industrial application. This would mean that long life and low noise would become key characteristics for drives used in these applications.
DC Motor Characteristics
Key criteria for selecting a DC motor includes first finding out what voltage is readily available for the application and what physical size the motor needs to be. Speed and torque can then be considered once these first two parameters are determined.
1. Voltage availability is a critical element in motor selection. Remote applications or portable devices, for example, are battery operated, while many rack-mounted devices and tools operate from a 24V power supply. DC motors are available for use at voltages as low as 1.5V and as high as 48V dependent on required power.
2. Physical size is often one of the limiting factors in motor selection because more and more applications have smaller footprints, like desktop 3D printers, portable medical devices, and hand tools. Often a compromise needs to be made between which motor to use and the available space it needs to fit into. Efficiency becomes a primary concern when you need to worry about power consumption to maximize battery life in a surgical tool or unmanned security drone.
3. As mentioned before, torque and speed also have an effect on motor frame size. High torque motors are often larger in size than their low-torque counterparts, which means that larger mounting hardware and larger housings may be an important machine requirement. For example, it takes a larger motor to rotate the magnets in an MRI than it does to run the windows in the doors of an automobile.
Although speed and torque are independent requirements in many applications, typically speaking when the torque increases the speed will decrease – if the voltage stays the same. This connection is based on the slope of the speed/torque curve.
4. Motor duty cycle could be one of the most telling aspects of a lot of semiconductor production machines. Intermittent operation not only reduces the wear and tear on the motor and increases the life of the motor, but it also means that a smaller motor size can be used without depleting the positive characteristics of the machine itself.
Brushed or Brushless
Key specifications quickly show that brushless motors last much longer than brushed motors, which rely on a mechanical connection for operation. And brushless motors run much faster as well. If you’re using a brushless motor for reliability, you won’t want to add a gearhead to the mix, though. The mechanical nature of a gearhead automatically means that it’ll have a shorter life cycle. Using a gearhead with a brushless motor will only negate the longevity of the combined system, and therefore reduce the longevity of the machine it was designed into. On the other hand, there are times when using a gearhead on a brushless motor is advised. For example, if the environment is such that noise is a concern or that a higher torque is needed, a gearhead will do the job.
Don’t use gearheads to increase the speed of brush motors. Using a gearhead with a brushed motor won’t change the life cycle to any great extent. Both are mechanical components that are subject to wear and tear. A real issue in selecting between a brushed and brushless motor is the expertise of the machine builder. Brushless motors either come with built in electronics or with external electronics to operate the motor. It takes some experience to provide the custom electronics many machine builders choose to provide. But for high sales volumes, the costs are easily regained.
Brushed motors, on the other hand, don’t need electronics to run the motor, offering a plug-and-play option to the designer. This means that if the machines are expected to sell in low quantities, a brushed motor will save on the overall cost of the system. A final concern is the power needed for the motors. In working with a motor manufacturer, be sure that their motors are available in a wide variety of power ratings, such as up to 250W for brushed motors and 400W for brushless motors.
Overall, many machine builders are electing to use brushless motors whenever possible. Long life and high speeds make these motors applicable to a broader array of applications.
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Robert Bryce 0:05
Hi, everyone, welcome to the power hungry Podcast. I'm Robert Bryce. This is a special podcast that I'm doing. I'm calling it a power brief to talk about the announcement that was made on Tuesday by the Department of Justice regarding its prosecution of NextEra Energy for the violations of the migratory Migratory Bird Treaty Act, in fact, multiple violations. You can see here the bald the bald eagle on the left and the and the golden eagle on the right. To me this, this is one of the most remarkable cases of enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act that I've ever seen. And I've been reporting on the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act since 1990. I published my first article on this in the wall in Christian Science Monitor in 1990, about the oil and gas industry, which was being then being prosecuted for multiple violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the golden and bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. But this this press release that was put out on April 5, Tuesday, today's April 7, is truly remarkable. The headline is ESI energy, LLC wholly owned subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources is sentenced after pleading guilty to killing and wounding eagles in its wind energy operations in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. What's remarkable about this is that the wind industry now for years, in fact, for more than a decade has been saying, Oh, we're really concerned about wildlife. Well, this press release decimates that claim it eviscerates that claim and it does so against NextEra Energy, a company that is the largest renewable energy producer in the world. And this this, this document the DOJ is press release is remarkable. It says EOS ESI, which is a subsidiary of NextEra acknowledges at least 150. Bald and Golden Eagles have died in total since 2012, across 50 of its 154 wind energy facilities. So that number has to be two is far too low. That represents only likely a fraction of the number of eagles that have actually been killed. Because of course, not all the eagles that are killed are found. And second, this is only a third of next eras facilities. It further says 136 of those deaths have been Affirmative, affirmative ly determined to be attributable to the eagle being struck by a wind turbine blade. But here are the other parts. It says in the fact that the DOJ and the Fish and Wildlife Service would prosecute NextEra Energy when when the wind energy business has been getting a free pass on these issues on these federal laws. Some of our oldest wildlife protection laws in America the wild, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act was passed in 1918. Their their conduct had to be particularly egregious for the DOJ to bring this case and in fact, it has been it their their their activity, their their conduct was particularly egregious. In fact, it was outrageous. Here's what the DOJ says this agreement holds ESI and it affiliates accountable for years of unwillingness to work cooperatively with the service, and their blatant disregard of wildlife laws. blatant disregard, from one of the biggest utilities in America. How does this permissible, Howard, where's the Sierra Club? Why are why are the so called environmental groups speaking up on this? Why because they're fully in the pocket of this renewable energy craze. It says that, in fact that ESI is conduct violated both Eagle act the eagle, bald eagle and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the MBTA. But the government accepted the company's guilty plea to only MBTA counts due in large part to ESI. 's agreement to apply for permits at 50 facilities. So what's the bottom line here in terms of cost next era ESI has to pay about $8 million in fines and restitution. And it has to pay up to 27 million for an eagle program to
increase Eagle habitat and do some other things. But it says here, I mean, the other parts of this are just truly remarkable. And remember, this is the Department of Justice in an agent in an in an administration that is fully in favor of renewable energy. But it says here ESI and its affiliates next era, deliberately elected not to apply for or obtain any any Eagle take permits intended to ensure the preservation of bald and golden eagles in ESI, and its affiliates began commercial operations at new facilities on a schedule intended to meet among other things, Power Purchase Agreement commitments, and qualifying deadlines for particular tax credit rates for renewable energy. In other words, they're saying that ESI in fact it and I'll talk about this in a minute. Next era knew that it was rushing these projects into into operation because and they did so because they wanted to get more federal tax credits. They were subsidy mining and they didn't care about Eagle deaths. Here's what the this is, again, the Department of Justice saying this. Yes, I'm its affiliates. Next era received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal tax credits for generating electricity from wind power at facilities that it operated, knowing that multiple Eagles would be killed and wounded without legal authorization and without in most instances, paying restitution or compensatory mitigation. And then it goes on to detail the efforts of the Fish and Wildlife Service and I wrote about the division of law enforcement at the Fish and Wildlife Service back in 1990, and the Christian Science Monitor 32 years ago, but it says in March of 2019, Fish and Wildlife Service informed the defendant through a letter to its agents that based on that their project Cedar Springs one and two in Wyoming, which could result in the collision mortality of 44 Golden Eagles and 23. Bald eagles over the first five years of operations, said that if built that the company should obtain an eagle take permit, the definit continued to development of the cedar rings Cedar Springs facilities in July of 2019. The company, the company and its consultants met with Fish and Wildlife Service Representatives. And during that meeting, recommended that consistent with the recommendations made by the Fish and Wildlife Service earlier that year, the wind project not should not be constructed due to the risk of avian facility fatalities. The defendant did not implement the or and also recommended that if the wind project was built, the project should implement seasonal curtailment during daylight hours, the defendant did not implement the recommended curtailment. So here they're directly violating suggestions from the Fish and Wildlife Service. Then again between September 10 And September 23. Fish and Wildlife Service sent additional letters to the defense agents, each noting that the defendants parent company NextEra Energy had documented the project was anticipated to kill eagles and recommended that the facilities apply for an eagle take permit. Fish and Wildlife Service reiterated for the third time its recommendation that a wind project should not be constructed in the proposed area for the Cedar Springs project. And yet the company went ahead and did that. I mean, this is a repeated example over and over by the Department of Justice, saying that one of the biggest utilities in America deliberately violated federal law. As a birdwatcher, as a citizen, it just is completely outrageous. What is what is being reported here by the Department of Justice. What else in Wales is this matter now? Well, because the wind energy is of course, seeking an extension of the production tax credit, the which I mentioned before, with the tax credit, the subsidy that wind industry business gets for operating wind farms, and that the wind energy business has been rejected now 325 times across the United States, from Maine to Hawaii, by local community saying they don't want wind in their areas. And NextEra has in fact sued some of these counties and local municipalities to force them to take wind turbines. So I'll just conclude with this. What if this were Exxon Mobil? Or Chevron? What if the oil and gas industry we're doing this? The outrage from the NGOs and the environmental groups who would be would be clear this will be front page news in the New York Times but because it's the wind business, we have a double standard. And I take no pleasure in staying saying that. But the media, they're you know, there's they're reporting on the on what happened in the fines, but they're not reporting the backstory and the context for this, which is that the end of that wind industry has known for more than a decade that the more turbans they build, the more eagles they will kill. And that's what has happened. And now the Department of Justice, thank you Department of Justice, for enforcing the law. But this is just an outrageous example of the lack of corporate responsibility, lack of ethics in the wind energy business when it comes to our our wildlife and as a birdwatcher, as a taxpayer is that a citizen of this country, one who loves golden eagles, bald eagles.
It's great that they're bringing this enforcement action, but their own press release. The Department of Justice's own press release shows how irresponsible this wind industry has been when it comes to protecting our wildlife. So yeah, I'm mad about it. And I'm no I shouldn't get too worked up about it. But this is my business. And I'm offended and glad to see the prosecution but, and I've written a piece about this, but I wanted to get this power brief out before before I get that piece published. So thanks for tuning in. There'll be more of these coming. Thanks. | <urn:uuid:e082d128-7ff8-41a7-89ba-4837c097d4de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://powerhungrypodcast.buzzsprout.com/1157633/10399059-doj-prosecutes-nextera-energy-subsidiary-for-eagle-kills-blatant-disregard-of-wildlife-laws?t=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.975173 | 1,926 | 1.625 | 2 |
This morning, Sobeys, the parent company of Quebec grocery giant, IGA, made a move to ban all plastic bags as of January 2020. According to CBC News, this plan will remove some 225 million plastic bags from circulation.
Sobeys owns some 1,500 stores across all 10 Canadian provinces, according to La Presse, and this move to ban plastic bags makes it the first major Canadian grocery retailer to do so. Along with the Canadian government's plan to ban all single-use plastics by 2021, this effort from Sobey's seems like the first step to a plastic-free Canada.
"The war against plastic seems truly declared in Quebec," states a headline from TVA Nouvelles, but is a "war on plastic" really the case? Maybe not, but still, many Quebec institutions are slowly phasing-out plastic use. Here's a comprehensive list of what you can expect in the near future.
IGA, Rachelle Bery, Depanneur Boni-Soir
The businesses listed above are all Sobeys' holdings and will follow the company's mandate to ban plastic bags by 2020. The company will also gradually phase out plastic straws and single-use produce bags in all stores across Quebec.
All Montreal Universities and CEGEPs
Concordia University banned the sale of plastic water bottles in 2012, followed by Université de Montréal in 2013. This year, all Montreal universities including McGill and UQAM will follow suit and ban the sale of plastic water bottles.
McGill has already phased them out and UQAM will do so in 2021. Some CEGEPs will also ban the sale of plastic water bottles.
Montreal Music Festivals
Osheaga banned the sale of plastic water bottles and plastic containers this year and will instead have huge water trucks to quench people's thirst. Festival organizers want to extend this initiative to all Montreal music festivals.
Holiday Inn Hotels
According to TVA Nouvelles, the hotel chain is planning to phase out small plastic shampoo bottles and plastic containers in their rooms within two years.
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Like many fast-food retailers, KFC is banning single-use plastics such as straws and plastic bags in 2020.
Quebec's favourite chicken chain has already banned single-use plastic straws in all restaurants and is gradually phasing out all plastics.
A&W will follow suit and ban the use of plastic straws in 2020. They're hoping to ban extensive plastic use across the board.
Montreal area hospitals are trying to figure out solutions so that they can comply with Canada's plastic ban. According to TVA Nouvelles, plastic waste comprises some 20% of all hospital waste in Quebec.
Subway, Coca-Cola, and Starbucks
All the above businesses will comply with Canada's plastic ban in 2020. Starbucks has already begun phasing out plastic straws and has made improvements to their cups and lids to make them more sustainable.
Cafés and Independent Retailers
Many cafés and independent retailers in the city have already banned single-use plastics in their stores. When the plastic ban was announced, straws were the first thing to go along with cup lids and various other plastic containers.
Expect more plastic bans to be announced in the future!
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Gnidia squarrosa (L.) Druce
This multi-branched, willowy shrub can reach a height of 1 to 2m. The leaves are small and narrowly lance-shaped. The flowers are sweetly fragrant at night but unscented during the day which indicates that this species is pollinated by moths.
6 to 30 flowers appear on the tips of the slender branches. A single flower consists of a long calyx tube topped by a 4-pointed star, with 8 tiny finger-like petals in the mouth of the tube. The tubes are mostly greenish yellow, the face of the star is creamy white and the flowers are tinted with maroon-pink.
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Introduction:Signet ring cell carcinoma is a rare form of highly malignant adenocarcinoma, with the prevalence rate of < 1%. The most common site of the primary tumor is the stomach, and the secondary sites are the breast, gall bladder, urinary bladder, and pancreas. Moreover, the common metastasis sites of signet ring cell carcinomas are the lung and the liver. Skin metastasis is extremely rare, with the prevalence rate of 0.3%. Signet ring cell carcinomas are usually diagnosed during the late stages of the disease; hence, the tumors spread more aggressively than non-signet ring cell types, thereby making treatment challenging.
Case presentation:We report a 30-year-old male with cutaneous metastasis of signet ring cell carcinoma in the form of multiple, asymptomatic, skin-colored, nodular lesions on his neck and chest.
Conclusions:Signet ring cell carcinoma is a rare type of adenocarcinoma, the primary site of which is the stomach. Moreover, the usual metastasis sites of the tumor are the lung and the liver. The timely diagnosis of such a malignant and aggressive tumor is possible by detecting the unusual presentations of cutaneous metastasis, which would result in offering timely interventions and saving patient’s lives.
Signet ring cell carcinoma is a rare form of highly malignant adenocarcinoma, with the prevalence rate of < 1%. The most common site of the primary tumor is the stomach, and the secondary sites are breast, gall bladder, urinary bladder, and pancreas. Gastric cancer is the fifth most frequently diagnosed cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Despite a decrease in the prevalence of gastric cancer in recent decades, the prevalence of signet ring cell carcinoma in the stomach is constantly increasing in Asia, the United States, and Europe (1). Signet ring cell carcinomas are called so regarding their resemblance to signet ring cells, resulting from the formation of large vacuoles full of mucin displacing the nucleus to the periphery and forming a crescent-shaped nucleus. Signet ring cell adenocarcinomas are classified as "undifferentiated" and "diffuse" by Nakamura and Lauren, respectively (2). The common sites of metastasis are the liver and the lung. Skin metastasis is extremely rare, with the prevalence rate of 0.3%.
2. Case Presentation
A 30-year-old male was admitted to our hospital with chief complaints of anorexia and weight loss for six months, as well as chest pain for five days. He remarkably had the weight of 10kgs over the last six months. He was diagnosed with bilateral pleural effusion on chest x-ray, suggestive of bilateral blunting of costophrenic angles. He was treated for the same problem at a tertiary hospital.
On further examinations, the patient was cachexic, and pallor was noticed. Dermatological examination showed multiple asymptomatic skin-colored nodules with sizes ranging from 0.5 - 4 centimetres (3), some of which had coalesced together and distributed over the neck and the upper part of the chest (Figure 1). Few other lesions were discretely spread on the forehead, cheek, shoulders, and upper back (Figure 2) (4). On routine lab investigations, the results were as follows: Haemoglobin: 9.8g/dL; Total leucocyte count: 11,300 per cubic millimetre; Differential leucocyte count: Neutrophils 83%, lymphocytes17%, and 0% of eosinophil, basophil, and monocyte; and platelet count: 3.8 lakhs per microliter of blood.
The results of the renal function tests showed creatinine value of 0.7 mg% and urea levels of 28mg%; indicating normal levels.
Liver function test results were as follows: Total bilirubin: 0.9 mg%, direct bilirubin: 0.3%, indirect bilirubin: 0.6%, SGOT levels: 22.45, SGPT levels: 29.78, and Alkaline phosphatase: 198 (all of which were in a normal range), total protein: 5.9 gm%, albumin levels: 3.6gm/dl, globulin levels: 2.3 gm/dL.
Pleural fluid analysis: Yellowish in appearance, non-turbid, red blood cell count: 130 cells/mm3, white blood cell count: 400 cells/mm3, Neutrophils 30%, lymphocytes 70%. Pleural fluid protein: 6.5 gm%, and pleural fluid sugar: 80 mg/dL. All experiments were suggestive of exudative pleural effusion according to Light's criteria (5) under malignant conditions.
A punch biopsy was taken from one of the nodules located on the upper part of the chest after obtaining the patient’s consent. Biopsy revealed the infiltration of the dermis with islands of round to oval tumor cells surrounded by pools of intracellular mucin. The cells had hyperchromatic nuclei, some of which were eccentrically placed and compressed with abundant intracellular mucin, representing signet ring cells (6). The tumor islands surrounded collagenous stroma with focal infiltration by mononuclear cells, indicating metastatic signet ring cell carcinoma (Figures 3 and 4) (7). Immunohistochemistry was performed later, the results of which were positive for pan cytokeratin (8). Unfortunately, the patient expired a few days after being diagnosed with signet ring cell carcinoma.
Signet ring cell carcinoma is a rare type of adenocarcinoma, the primary site of which is the stomach. Moreover, the usual metastasis sites of the tumour are the lung and the liver. The timely diagnosis of such a malignant and aggressive tumor is likely by detecting the unusual presentation of cutaneous metastasis (9), so that timely interventions can be provided to save lives of the patients by adequate surgical resection in the form of gastrectomy involving resection of atleast two thirds of the stomach with a D2 lymph node dissection (10). Many adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapies in the form of chemotherapy and radiotherapy have been suggested, however the future of curative treatment of signet ring cell carcinoma of the stomach remains challenging (11).
Pernot S, Voron T, Perkins G, Lagorce-Pages C, Berger A, Taieb J. Signet-ring cell carcinoma of the stomach: Impact on prognosis and specific therapeutic challenge. World J Gastroenterol. 2015;21(40):11428-38. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v21.i40.11428. [PubMed: 26523107]. [PubMed Central: PMC4616218].
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Aneiros-Fernandez J, Husein-ElAhmed H, Arias-Santiago S, Escobar Gómez-Villalva F, Nicolae A, O’Valle Ravassa F, et al. Cutaneous metastasis as first clinical manifestation of signet ring cell gastric carcinoma. Dermatology Online Journal. 2010;16(3). doi: 10.5070/d38h84j3d2.
Brownstein MH, Helwig EB. Patterns of cutaneous metastasis. Arch Dermatol. 1972;105(6):862-8. [PubMed: 5030236].
Gunduz O, Emeksiz MC, Atasoy P, Kidir M, Yalcin S, Demirkan S. Signet-ring cells in the skin: A case of late-onset cutaneous metastasis of gastric carcinoma and a brief review of histological approach. Dermatol Reports. 2016;8(1):6819. doi: 10.4081/dr.2016.6819. [PubMed: 28326183]. [PubMed Central: PMC5225968].
Otsuji E, Yamaguchi T, Sawai K, Takahashi T. Characterization of signet ring cell carcinoma of the stomach. J Surg Oncol. 1998;67(4):216-20. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9098(199804)67:4<216::aid-jso2>3.0.co;2-b. [PubMed: 9579367].
Bertani E, Tamborini M, Veraldi S. Atypical cutaneous metastases from signet-ring cell gastric carcinoma. 3. 2nd ed. Skin Cancer; 1988.
Li Y, Zhu Z, Ma F, Xue L, Tian Y. Gastric signet ring cell carcinoma: Current management and future challenges. Cancer Manag Res. 2020;12:7973-81. doi: 10.2147/CMAR.S268032. [PubMed: 32943931]. [PubMed Central: PMC7478370].
Pernot S, Dubreuil O, Aparicio T, Le Malicot K, Tougeron D, Lepere C, et al. Efficacy of a docetaxel-5FU-oxaliplatin regimen (TEFOX) in first-line treatment of advanced gastric signet ring cell carcinoma: an AGEO multicentre study. Br J Cancer. 2018;119(4):424-8. doi: 10.1038/s41416-018-0133-7. [PubMed: 29872148]. [PubMed Central: PMC6133962]. | <urn:uuid:29f4e019-269a-4ab2-8c79-34be62cdc55b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brieflands.com/articles/jssc-114158.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.85406 | 2,217 | 2.796875 | 3 |
We are writing this on the assumption that some young people still read newspapers.
We don’t know if that is actually the case, but we will proceed anyway.
Based on what we have witnessed over the years, it appears that young people read their cellphones and little else. (However, we did notice a girl reading a book at a restaurant a few months ago. That was an encouraging sign.)
So if there are any young people reading this, here’s a warning for you: the Internet is not your friend. In particular, placing a record of your life on the Internet – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and whatever else is out there at the moment – can cause you all kinds of problems in the future.
What we sometimes happen to see on Facebook can be disturbing. Some young people, and even some adults, detail all aspects of their lives. That includes drinking and drug use, shocking vulgarity, insults to others, sexist and racist language, and in extreme cases sometimes not-so-veiled threats of violence to others or themselves.
Now, we should say that those types of posts do not appear to be at all common, but we have seen them over the years. And maybe you have, too.
We have never understood why people feel the need to detail every aspect of their lives online, right down to their meals.
And we have often wondered how a young person ever gets a first job, considering that employers sometimes go straight to Facebook as the first reference.
Those misgivings about the Internet were confirmed when we recently heard a fascinating story from the United States, which can serve as a warning about the dangers of revealing everything to the world.
You may have already heard the story. It goes something like this: a 24-year-old man in a crowd holds up a sign at a live TV sports event asking for beer money, people send US $1.8 million, he keeps enough for a case of beer and donates the rest to a charity, and the young man becomes a hero.
However, that status lasts just a few days, until a reporter finds racist jokes that our fallen hero re-tweeted when he was just 16 years of age.
Then, people find a racial slur and statements mocking domestic abuse and same-sex marriage that the reporter once placed on the Internet, and he gets fired.
You cannot make this stuff up.
It’s a perfect example of how what you place on social media can come back to haunt you years later.
It may be completely unfair that the stupid online actions of a teenager can harm that person for the rest of his or her life, but that is the world in which we live.
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Plans have been revealed for a 100-mile long structure in Saudi Arabia
Called The Line, the "horizontal skyscraper" will accommodate nine million people when complete
The ambitious project is part of the Neom development
AECOM is in charge of masterplanning, with architecture by Morphosis
Plans have been revealed for a 100-mile-long structure that is set to become the centrepiece of the ambitious Neom mega-development in Saudi Arabia.
Called The Line, the "horizontal city" will be 200m wide and built on a footprint of just 34sq km.
Designed to run on 100 per cent renewable energy The Line will eventually accommodate nine million people, with housing, parks and public spaces, retail and leisure facilities and a transport network.
Its reduced infrastructure footprint has been designed to create "never-before-seen efficiencies in city functions".
The Line will have an outer mirror facade, allowing it to blend with nature, while the interior will be built to create "extraordinary experiences and magical moments".
The unique design will also mean residents will have access to all facilities within a five-minute walk.
A high-speed rail system will transport people and goods from one end of the city to the other in 20 minutes.
The announcement of The Line's designs is a continuation of the Neom Company’s progress in the development of its flagship project, such as Oxagon – a reimagined manufacturing and innovation city; and Trojena, a global mountain tourism destination that will offer the Arabian Gulf’s first outdoor skiing venue.
Design and 'backbone infrastructure is being handled by AECOM, while Dezeen is reporting that Morphosis is thought to be responsible for the architecture.
A representative of the Neom Company said: "We're committed to a civilisational revolution that puts humans first, based on a radical change in urban planning.
"The designs revealed for The Line's vertically layered communities will challenge traditional flat, horizontal cities and create a model for nature preservation and enhanced human livability.
"The Line will tackle the challenges facing humanity in urban life today and will shine a light on alternative ways to live.
"We cannot ignore the livability and environmental crises facing our world’s cities, and Neom will be at the forefront of delivering new and imaginative solutions to address these issues.
"Neom is leading a team of the brightest minds in architecture, engineering and construction to make the idea of building upwards a reality.
"Neom will be a place for all people from across the globe to make their mark on the world in creative and innovative ways.
"It remains one of the most important projects of Saudi Vision 2030, and our commitment to delivering THE LINE on behalf of the nation remains resolute.”
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Setting the clock on your Bella coffee maker is a very simple process. First, make sure that the coffee maker is unplugged and cold. Then locate the small hole on the back of the machine where the power cord goes in. With a paperclip or something small and pointed, insert it into the hole and hold it there for five seconds. Once you release the button, the clock should start flashing. Use the arrow buttons to set the time, then press OK. The coffee maker
How To Set Clock On Bella Coffee Maker
Instructions for setting the clock on a Bella coffee maker vary depending on the model. However, most models have a button or switch on the front of the machine that you press or toggle to set the time. Some models have a digital display that you use to enter the time, while others have an analog clock face with hands that you twist to set the time.
-Clock -Bella coffee maker
- Fill water reservoir
- Plug in coffee maker
- Insert coffee filter and add ground coffee close coffee maker lid press time button to set time press start button to begin brewing
- Select desired coffee strength
-Check the power cord is plugged in to an outlet and the coffee maker is turned on -Locate the clock button, which is usually near the power button -Press the clock button and use the arrows to set the time -Once the time is set, press the clock button again to exit
Frequently Asked Questions
Who Makes Bella Coffee Pots?
Bella manufactures a wide range of coffee pots, from simple one-cup brewers to programmable machines that can make a pot of coffee at the touch of a button. Many of their models are highly rated by consumers, and the company has a reputation for quality and durability.
How Do I Set My Bella Coffee Maker To Auto Brew?
To set your Bella coffee maker to auto brew, first make sure it is plugged into an outlet and turned on. Then, press the “Auto Brew” button. The coffee maker will start brewing automatically after a few minutes.
How Do I Set My Coffee Maker To Brew At A Certain Time?
There is usually a brew timer or clock on most coffee makers. This allows you to set the time you would like your coffee maker to start brewing.
How Much Is A Bella Coffee Maker Worth?
A Bella coffee maker is worth about $30.
How Do I Change The Time On My Bella Pro Series?
To change the time on your Bella Pro Series, you will need to access the settings menu. This can be done by pressing the “Home” button and selecting the cog icon in the top-left corner of the screen. From here, you can use the arrows on either side of the time display to set the time manually.
How Much Is A Bella Coffee Maker?
A Bella coffee maker typically ranges in price from about $20 to $100.
What Does Prog Auto Mean In Coffee Maker?
A prog auto coffee maker is a programmable coffee maker that automatically starts the brewing process at a designated time.
What Coffee Pots Are Made In The Usa?
The vast majority of coffee pots are made in China and other Asian countries. However, there are a few companies in the USA that still manufacture coffee pots. One such company is West Bend, which produces a line of aluminum coffee pots.
Where Are Cuisinart Coffee Makers Manufactured?
Cuisinart coffee makers are manufactured in the United States.
How Do You Program A Brew Station?
Brewing coffee is an art and a science. The first thing you need to do is calibrate your brew station. This means finding the right water temperature and grind size for your coffee beans. Once you have calibrated your brew station, you will need to decide on the recipe you want to use. Each recipe has different amounts of coffee, water, and time. You will also need to decide on the type of brewer you are using. There are many ways to make coffee, but the most common are drip brewers, French press, and espresso makers.
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Since 2006, Techstars has helped hundreds of startups succeed, both as businesses and as people. This original 4-part documentary series focuses on the most common mental health issues facing entrepreneurs, told through the stories of some remarkable people — and the mental health professionals who work with people in need.
If you or someone you know are struggling with addiction, depression or suicidal thoughts, or feel that you are in crisis, please seek help immediately.
Highly driven and successful people often suffer from mental health problems, too. Brad Feld, Cofounder of Techstars and Managing Partner of Foundry Group, describes his experiences with depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and their impact on him personally as well as professionally, as an entrepreneur and an investor.
Burnout is real — and it hurts many entrepreneurs and startups. Andrea Perdomo, founder and Techstars Network Catalyst for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, shares her experience with burnout while growing her company and her path to finding balance, "So you can continue being your authentic self without letting stress and burnout take over."
Anxiety, panic attacks, and obsessive-compulsive disorder are difficult to live with, and not just for entrepreneurs. Matthew Helt, founder and a Techstars Senior Implementation Consultant of Ecosystem Development, shares his stories about living with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder while building a business and growing a family.
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Lectio Divina for Children and Teens by Jared Dees – This collection of handouts can be used in the classroom to show students the way to learn the Bible in a complete new way. These simple-to-implement actions will assist young people encounter God within the Sacred Word and help you become a greater instructor of Sacred Scripture. The Catechist’s Toolbox by Joe Paprocki – A great useful resource for each new and skilled catechists.
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Strychnos spinosa, the Natal orange, is a tree indigenous to tropical and subtropical Africa. It produces sweet-sour, yellow fruits, containing numerous hard brown seeds. Greenish-white flowers grow in dense heads at the ends of branches (Sep-Feb/Spring - summer). The fruits tend to appear only after good rains. It is related to the deadly Strychnos nux-vomica, which contains strychnine. The smooth, hard fruit are large and green, ripen to yellow colour. Inside the fruit are tightly packed seeds, which may be toxic, surrounded by a fleshy, brown, edible covering. Animals such as baboon, monkeys, bushpig, nyala and eland eat the fruit. The leaves are a popular food source for browsers such as duiker, kudu, impala, steenbok, nyala and elephant.
This tree can be found growing singly in well-drained soils. It is found in bushveld, riverine fringes, sand forest and coastal bush from the Eastern Cape to Kwazulu-Natal, northwards to Mozambique, and inland to Eswatini, Zimbabwe, parts of Zambia, northern Botswana, northern Namibia, Angola, Guinea Bissau, to tropical Africa, north west Madagascar, south east Madagascar at Sainte Luce Reserve, north west Ethiopia, and western Tigray at Kafta Sheraro National Park. It is able to grow in semi-arid and arid lands.
The plant, taken alone or in conjunction with extracts of other plants, is used by the Tiv people of Nigeria for snakebites, venereal disease, increasing the flow of breastmilk in lactating mothers, and enhancing physical strength.
- USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Strychnos spinosa". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- Tor-Anyiin T. A; Igoli J. O; Anyam J. V; et al. (April 2015). "ISOLATION AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF SARRACENIN FROM ROOT BARK OF (Strychnos spinosa Lam.)". J. Chem.Soc.Nigeria. 40 (1): 71–75.
- Sitrit Y, Loison S, Ninio R, et al. (October 2003). "Characterization of monkey orange (Strychnos spinosa Lam.), a potential new crop for arid regions". J. Agric. Food Chem. 51 (21): 6256–60. doi:10.1021/jf030289e. PMID 14518952.
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- New Fruits for Arid Climates
- "Strychnos spinosa". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
- FAO: State of Forest Genetic Resources in Kenya
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SAFTU celebrates the historic victory of the domestic workers!
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) joins hundreds of thousands of domestic workers who are celebrating a colossal victory they scored at the Constitutional Court on the 19 November 2020.
The Constitutional Court issued its historic verdict that the exclusion of the domestic workers from the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA) is unconstitutional. What is the real cause of celebration is that the Constitutional Court declaration that this decision applies retrospectively.
This means all domestic workers who got injured at work from the time COIDA came to effect can claim compensation for their injuries in line with the provisions of COIDA. This goes back to 1993 as amended in 1997. In anticipation of the Constitutional Court ruling, Cabinet approved amendments in 2019 which are much welcome as they already extend the cover to domestic workers.
The background to this victory underlines the super-exploitation, tribulations, pain, abuse and the semi-feudal relationship that exist between many domestic workers and their bosses, including even the black employers who are themselves the survivors of the brutal apartheid and colonialism.
Maria Mahlangu was washing the top windows outside the bedroom located outside the pool when she slipped from the step ladder and fell into the pool. She drowned and regrettably died. For 10 years Maria Mahlangu has worked for the same employer who never thought it was important to get swimming lessons for her worker. Like many bosses, the employer of Maria Mahlangu tried to conceal the accident and claimed that she died from HIV / AIDS – how cruel!
Her daughter, Sylvia Mahlangu, approached the Department of Labour to inquire about getting compensation for the death of her mother. Sylvia was told Section 1 of the COIDA excluded domestic workers, and as such, there will be no compensation for the Mahlangu family.
An absolute heroine full of guts and determination to fight for justice for Maria Mahlangu, Pinky Mashiane stepped in. At the time she was an Organiser for the SADSAWU and now the President of UDWOSA. With tenacity, she challenged this injustice and, in the process, soliciting help from the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) who played a critical role to take the case all the way, registering a significant victory on the 23 May 2019 at the Pretoria High Court and eventually at the Constitutional Court on the 19 November 2020.
SAFTU salutes the role played by Maria Mahlangu’s daughter Sylvia for had she not challenged the authorities, the media and the heroine Pinky Mashiane would have never known about this tragedy. SAFTU salutes SERI and congratulates every lawyer who worked very hard to convince our judges and the Courts that the exclusion of domestic workers was unjust.
Lastly salutes all her affiliated unions who when called upon to pledge solidarity with the Mahlangu family and UDWOSA organised a demonstration outside and inside the Constitutional Court.
This is indeed a very important milestone in a long journey to liberate all vulnerable workers who are segregated and discriminated against through these exclusions. For far too long even during the democratic era, the vulnerable workers were given a status of second class citizenship and workers just as Black workers were once regarded as the employers’ tools not workers during the dark days of apartheid.
SAFTU calls on every domestic worker to take note of this victory so that no worker ever go through the pain of the Mahlangu family.
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Federal and state law provide for impartial due process hearings at which parents can either challenge a DOE decision relating to the adequacy of the special education services offered to their child or seek tuition reimbursement for the costs of a private education that provides their child with necessary services.
OATH is the City’s central administrative law court where all City agencies, boards and commissions file their administrative law or civil cases for hearings or trials. OATH was the first, and remains one of the only, centralized municipal administrative law courts in the nation, making it independent from the agencies that file cases with it. Its primary mission is to adjudicate the City’s administrative law matters fairly and timely. Assigning special education hearings to OATH which will have 40 or more full-time, State Certified, Special Education Hearing Officers hearing these cases will provide for a more orderly, efficient, and accessible process for decisions on these important issues.
On December 1, 2021, the State’s Education Department (SED) and City’s Department of Education (DOE) and the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOA) transferring these cases from the City’s DOE Impartial Hearing Office to the City’s independent administrative law court, OATH.
The MOA establishes a timeline for fully transferring these cases to OATH from the City’s Department of Education (DOE), which has traditionally operated the NYC Impartial Hearing Office using contracted Hearing Officers who are certified by the State Education Department (SED). OATH will be receiving new case filings and already assigned cases will remain with their respective, appointed Hearing Officers.
These hearings are conducted by Special Education Hearing Officers employed by OATH. They are authorized to conduct impartial due process hearings at which parents, pursuant to federal and state law, can challenge decisions made by the New York City Department of Education related to special education and seek relief in connection with the identification, evaluation, or educational placement of their children, or the provision of a free and appropriate public education to their children. The mission of OATH’s Special Education Hearings Division is to provide fair and neutral administrative proceedings, which protect the due process rights of all litigants.
OATH's Special Education Hearing Officers are managerial employees of OATH and are appointed to four-year terms by OATH's Commissioner and Chief Administrative Law Judge. The four-year appointment of the OATH Special Education Hearing Officers ensures independence and impartiality in the decision-making process. Further, each OATH Special Education Hearing Officer is an experienced attorney who has satisfactorily completed State-mandated training and has been certified to conduct impartial due process hearings. Each OATH Special Education Hearing Officer has sole authority to issue orders and make decisions on the cases before them, and must comply with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, the New York State Education Law, and the regulations of the state Commissioner of Education. An OATH Special Education Hearing Officer's decision is binding upon both parties unless appealed to the New York State Education Department's Office of State Review or the courts.
Special Education Hearings Division
Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings
66 John Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10038
Phone: (212) 436-0821
Notice of Appearance:
Please be sure to download and save the form before filling it out so that all signature boxes and functions on the form appears. Once you have filled in the form you should email it to your Impartial Hearing Officer. Be sure to copy the other party on your email.
Please be sure to download and save the form before filling it out so that all signature boxes and functions on the form appears. Once you have filled in the form you should email or mail the subpoena to the Impartial Hearing Officer (IHO) assigned to your case and to the representative or attorney on the other side of the case. The IHO will review the subpoena, find out if there are any objections from the other side, and decide whether to approve, deny, or change your subpoena. If the IHO approves your subpoena, the IHO will send you back a signed copy.
Cases Already Filed: Visit the DOE’s Impartial Hearings Office
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Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 6:00 p.m.
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Product Stewardship Definition
Product Stewardship is the act of minimizing risk of health, safety, environmental and social impact, and maximizing economic benefits of a product and its packaging throughout all stages of product use, reuse, disposal and/or destruction. The producer of the product has the greatest ability to minimize adverse impacts, but other parties, such as suppliers, retailers, consumers, handlers, and disposal facilities also play a role.
Altiras Product Stewardship in Beneficial Reuse
For a host of reasons, Product Stewardship in alternative chemicals is considerably more complex for companies involved in beneficial reuse than for typical commodity or specialty chemicals. First, considerably less information is typically available for alternative chemicals. For example, alternative chemicals rarely have specifications, technical data sheets, handling and use guidelines and often fail to have a proper SDS. Second, most suppliers of alternative products just want the materials to “go away” since they have a small impact on the operating income once they are no longer wastes. The materials are more of a hassle to deal with versus an important part of the business. Finally, many producers of alternative chemicals and petroleum products invest little in the development of literature such as technical data sheets or specifications compared to what they do for primary products. This is why Altiras is the best choice for handling co-products, byproducts, and off-spec materials. Since these products are our PRIMARY business, we invest the necessary time, energy, and care to ensure proper Product Stewardship.
The Altiras Product Stewardship Program involves the following tenants:
- Discuss basic product information (volumes, composition, process, characteristics, confidentiality, pricing, etc.).
- Review and understand any supplier restrictions on product use or applications.
- Review of product literature, including Technical Data Sheets (TDS’s), Safety Data Sheets (SDS’s), Product Specifications, Product Use and Handling Guidelines, and any other literature available for the product.
- RCRA and State compliance review to understand potential regulatory issues. Address any issues identified with manufacturer.
- Placement of documentation and product information into Altiras proprietary product management system AltNet
- Request & Receive Samples. Samples logged into AltNet
- Product Analysis. Data placed into AltNet and linked to entry for product and sample.
- Review of historic product data, load to AltNet
- Comparison of product analysis and historic data to literature provided. This step often identifies hazardous constituents that were not previously identified by the manufacturer.
- Creation and/or update to SDS, TDS, Specifications, and other documentation. Place in AltNet and link to product and samples.
- Marketing, within restrictions of use established by supplier
- Provide product literature to interested customers, as needed.
- Provide samples to customers as needed. For HMIS ratings of 2 or higher, review safe handling precautions with customer.
- For customers desiring purchase, review intended use and ultimate disposition of any portion of the product from customer’s process. Discuss checklist items including: safe handling, storage, use, employee training, HAZCOM system, compliance record, and disposal process for any materials or residue.
- Document intended use. Review all data. Address any issues identified.
- Provide Product Stewardship Letter to manufacture defining use and compliance.
- Ship product.
- Periodic review of compliance.
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A proportional map of recorded music format revenues, using US-based tallies from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
CDs maintained a sizable chunk of recorded music sales in 2015, part of a sales map that now features a large number of competing formats. According to US-based, 2015 stats from the RIAA, CDs, subscription (paid) on-demand streaming, internet radio, and downloads all grabbed substantial portions of a recorded music industry that totaled $7.09 billion in annual revenue.
In terms of the format breakdowns, the old strongholds are shrinking, including:
CDs: $1.52 billion (down 17.0%); 21.7% of the total.
Song Downloads: $1.23 billion (down 12.8%); 17.5% of the total.
Album Downloads: $1.09 billion (down 5.2%); 15.5% of the total.
Ringtones, Ringbacks: $54.6 million (down 17.7%); 0.8% of the total.
Music Videos: $6.4 million (down 52.8%); 0.09% of the total.
And, here’s where al the growth is coming from:
Subscription (Paid) Streaming: $1.22 billion (up 52.3%); 17.4% of the total.
Internet Radio (‘Non-Interactive Streaming’): $802.6 million (up 3.8%); 11.3% of the total.
Vinyl (LPs, EPs): $422.3 million (up 32.2%); 6.0% of the total.
Ad-Supported (Free) Streaming: $385.1 million (up 30.6%); 5.4% of the total.
Synchronization (‘Sync’) Royalties: $202.9 million (up 7.0%); 2.9% of the total.
Then, there’s the issue of the broader industry total, and whether it’s likely to grow. Despite immense growth around streaming music (particularly paid, on-demand platforms), the broader recorded music industry in the US gained a scant 0.9%. That reflects a recovery and potential bottoming, though it’s unlikely the music industry can recover a decades-plus plunge of more than 65%.
Meanwhile, the traditional breadwinners are continuing to tank. That includes the CD and paid downloads, both of which are experiencing double-digit year-over-year declines, and could be essentially become negligible within five years.
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From the end of Pontiac's War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear--even paranoia--drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares
, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era--invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs--as the inextricably related struggles they were.
As this book makes clear, the Indian wars north of the Ohio River make sense only within the context of Indians' efforts to recruit their southern cousins to their cause. The massive threat such alliances posed, recognized by contemporary whites from all walks of life, prompted a terror that proved a major factor in the formulation of Indian and military policy in North America. Indian unity, especially in the form of military alliance, was the most consistent, universal fear of Anglo-Americans in the late colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. This fear was so pervasive--and so useful for unifying whites--that Americans exploited it long after the threat of a general Indian alliance had passed.
As the nineteenth century wore on, and as slavery became more widespread and crucial to the American South, fears shifted to Indian alliances with former slaves, and eventually to slave rebellion in general. The growing American nation needed and utilized a rhetorical threat from the other
to justify the uglier aspects of empire building--a phenomenon that Owens tracks through a vast array of primary sources.
Drawing on eighteen different archives, covering four nations and eleven states, and on more than six-dozen period newspapers--and incorporating the views of British and Spanish authorities as well as their American rivals--Red Dreams, White Nightmares
is the most comprehensive account ever written of how fear, oftentimes resulting in "Indian-hating," directly influenced national policy in early America. | <urn:uuid:045e8084-31d8-4471-8937-a03abc63a66b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.standaardboekhandel.be/p/red-dreams-white-nightmares-9780806191126 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939409 | 362 | 3.15625 | 3 |
The integrative strategic themes of the International Business pathway.
In additional, regarding to course work of NESTLE
The aim of this module is to explore the diverse range of activities that comprise the area of International Operations Management, innovation, new product or service development and the need for leadership when introducing change initiatives. Specifically, the module is designed to enable students to appreciate the truly international nature of the modern firm and how many processes are now undertaken across national borders.
· The interaction of contextual forces impacting on an international organisation;
· The integrative strategic themes of the International Business pathway.
The module takes a ‘theory to practice’ approach to illustrate the theoretical positions under discussion in the classroom. This supports the Course philosophy of intellectual and vocationally relevant learning. As such, students will explore the tasks, issues and many real day to day examples and decisions that are necessary to manage processes internationally within organisations and across the supply chain. Specifically, the module is designed to enable students to gain an understanding of the strategic issues associated with managing the operations of international companies in a changing international business environment, to help them develop a critical appreciation of the operational problems of an international company from the viewpoint of the major business functions. In addition the module is designed to provide students with a thorough grounding on how organisations might deal with various aspects of innovation and how the development of a robust strategy for innovation can lead to sustainable competitive advantage. A key thrust of this programme of study is that achieving a sustainable competitive strategy, particularly in the context of disruptive change, is dependent upon organisations and their operations fostering a culture of innovation and creativity. Therefore this module is designed to allow aspiring international managers to improve the overall operations performance by developing an innovation capacity in their current and future careers. It will help managers to develop an understanding of how context influences performance and how organisations must change and learn as their context changes. It will identify the role that innovation and creativity plays in organisational learning and development. The assessment for the module reflects the need for innovation in the modern organization and requires the student to undertake desk research on how an existing international organization could improve the operational performance by introducing innovative processes and practices.
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By Jeyashree Sundaram, MBA
Gastric varices (GV) are enlarged submucosal veins that are capable of causing hazardous bleeding at the upper gastrointestinal tract. Generally, GV are identified in patients suffering from portal hypertension or high pressure in the vein portal system. Based on the cause, GV occur due to STV (splenic vein thrombosis) and portal hypertension.
Usually in the setting of SVT, GV develop in the occurrence of pancreatitis or local neoplasm in the absence of portal venous hypertension. The occurrence of GV because of SVT, however, is minimum when compared to that occurs as a result of portal hypertension. Short gastric veins – the veins which run from the spleen’s hilum to the abdomen’s greater curvature – are locations from which GV that occur because of SVT originates.
The Sarin classification is defined as the most helpful classification system in differentiating the gastric varices. This classification is done through the endoscopic identification of the location and appearance of the varices. This endoscopic examination is also useful in understanding the orientation of varices in the stomach and distal esophagus.
According to Sarin classification, the gastric varices are divided into four types based on their location in the stomach and its association with the esophageal varices. The four different types of gastric varices are as follows.
- Type 1 gastroesophageal varix (GOV): These varices extend over the cardia and lesser curvature of the abdomen that ends in gastric fundus.
- Type 2 gastroesophageal varix: GOV2 extends ahead of the cardia and leads towards the greater curvature of the abdomen and to the gastric fundus.
- Type 1 Isolated gastric varix (IGV): These varices exist in the gastric fundus and they do not extend into the esophagus or the cardia.
- Type 2 Isolated gastric varix: It is defined as ectopic varices that occur in other parts of the stomach.
GOV is the frequent and the most common type of gastric varices. It has been reported that about 74% of overall gastric varices are identified with type 1 GOV. However, the frequency of bleeding is greater in isolated gastric varix types and type 2 gastroesophageal varix. Sarin’s classification is widely recognized as a helpful perspective to identify and analyze the gastric varices. But it often fails to interact with the bottom-line vascular anatomy. The fundal GV originate in a portion or in complete from of gastrorenal shunts or spleno shunts, which is known as the left-sided (Sinistral) portal hypertension.
Impact of Sarin Classification
The formation of GEV1 occurs when the gastric veins pierce the cardiac vein or gastric wall. The pierced veins now get connected to the submucosal veins present in the gastric zone that is directly linked to the submucosal veins at the palisade zone. The large esophageal varices and the GEV1 are completely interlinked to each other, but only 50% of the GEV2 is linked with large esophageal varices. On the other hand, the isolated gastric varices (IGV1) are related to the segmental portal hypertension or with the collaterals through the vein in the spleen that extends till renal vein. This process is mainly because to enable blood flow through the varices.
With the help of gastrophrenic shunts, gastrorenal shunts, and gastropericardiac shunts, the blood flow through IGV1 will get collected into the inferior phrenic. In addition, some portions of the IGV1 get projected in the intragastric space. For about 50% of the cases of ectopic varices that include IGV2 are closely related with the portal vein thrombosis. The system that is responsible for this occurrence is not yet identified. With the help of portovenography, it has been discovered that about 70% of the left gastric vein takes part in the blood supply of the IGV1. In contrast, the participation of left gastric veins in esophageal varices is 100%.
But in the isolated gastric varices, 70% of the posterior gastric vein takes part in the blood supply, and in esophageal varices, it is 24%. Hemiazygos and azygos veins are the essential blood drainage routes for the patients with esophageal varices. All the veins present in the cardiac varices will get drained into the esophageal varices. The ultimate drainage path for the isolated gastric varices is gastrophrenic shunt (10%), gastropericardiac shunt (5%), and gastrorenal shunt (85 %).
General Classification Notes of Sarin
The varices classifications are strictly applicable to the primary evaluation only before the therapy. After treatment, classification for the varices is highly difficult. For post-treatment classification, the description of the location, diameter, sign, and number of residual varices are taken into consideration. The endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is helpful in witnessing the small vessels that are present in the wall. If the endoscopic results are declared to be uncertain, then the EUS plays an important role in demonstrating the residual flow. | <urn:uuid:85158bf0-20c3-4af9-9130-3d82ea38d1cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.news-medical.net/health/Sarin-Classification-of-Gastric-Varices.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.90668 | 1,158 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Have you recently checked on your permit-required confined space compliance? Risks can go well beyond hefty Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fines. Potential outcomes of confined space entry can be serious, even fatal, and include asphyxiation, engulfed or trapped workers, explosions or fires, and electrical and struck-by hazards.
There are confined spaces in workplaces across many industries that include ductwork, equipment housings, hoppers, manholes, pipelines, pits, silos, storage bins, tanks, tunnels, vaults, and vessels. These are spaces that are not designed for occupancy but that workers may need to enter, and the means of entry or exit may be limited or restricted.
A permit-required confined space is one that contains or can contain a hazardous atmosphere; contain material that may engulf a worker; has walls that converge inward or floors that slope downward and taper into a smaller area where a worker can become trapped or asphyxiate; or contain a recognized safety or health hazard, such as excessive heat, exposed live wires, or unguarded machinery.
You must identify such spaces in your facility or at your worksites and inform affected employees of permit-required spaces and their associated hazards.
An oversight in your compliance with the federal permit-required confined space standard (29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) §1910.146) or the comparable state standard can have catastrophic results.
Hazardous atmospheres in confined spaces can include gases like carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and nitrogen. However, a recent fatality involved argon, an odorless gas.
On November 12, 2021, a worker at the Valero Refinery in Benicia, California, descended into a regenerator overflow well to evaluate the condition of the well interior and perform cleaning operations in advance of a welding crew.
The worker lost consciousness and was later found inside the regenerator, suspended by his fall protection equipment. Rescuers from the Benicia Fire Department and Valero Refinery Fire Department performed medical treatment on-site but could not resuscitate the worker.
Investigators with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) determined that a welding torch left in the well was leaking argon that displaced oxygen inside the well. Cal/OSHA cited Valero and its contractors with willful, serious, and other violations, seeking a combined $1,753,375 in proposed penalties.
During a shutdown for maintenance and capital improvement projects at the Evergreen Packaging paper mill in Canton, North Carolina, two separate crews were working in connected process vessels—the upflow and downflow towers of one of Evergreen’s pulp bleaching units. The crew in the upflow tower were applying flammable epoxy vinyl ester resin and sheets of fiberglass to the inside walls of the vessel. Cooler nighttime temperatures caused the resin to harden more slowly than the workers anticipated, leading to newly applied resin and fiberglass sliding down the walls of the vessel.
The workers resorted to using a portable, electric heat gun to warm the resin, enabling it to harden quicker. The heat gun fell into a 5-gallon bucket of flammable resin, igniting it.
The workers in the upflow tower escaped and evacuated the vessel, but flames and smoke spread to the connected vessel, fatally injuring two workers in the downflow tower.
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) investigated the incident, identifying four safety issues that contributed to the fatal incident: combustible materials, confined space safety, hot work safety, and pre-job planning. Workers in the upflow tower failed to recognize the electric heat gun as an ignition source requiring a hot work permit. Evergreen and its two contract firms treated the connected vessels as separate confined spaces.
On January 28, 2021, at a Gainesville, Georgia, poultry processing facility, a freezer malfunctioned, releasing colorless, odorless liquid nitrogen into the plant’s air.
Six workers died from nitrogen exposure caused by the malfunctioning freezer.
OSHA investigators determined that the host employer failed to implement a permit-required confined space program for workers who entered the liquid nitrogen freezer or notify contractors required to work inside the freezer that it was a permit-required confined space.
The four employers at the poultry processing facility found themselves facing nearly $1 million in OSHA penalties for a total of 59 violations.
Dangerous atmospheres are also a frequent, sometimes fatal hazard in cleaning and servicing rail tank cars. Two workers at a Hugo, Oklahoma, facility sent into a natural gasoline tank car died from inhaling toxic fumes. OSHA determined that Dallas-based Trinity Rail Maintenance and Services failed to follow permit-required confined space entry procedures, monitor hazards inside a confined space, and properly ventilate it.
Specifically, OSHA cited Trinity with two willful, serious violations of the permit-required confined space standard for failing to test conditions in a confined space before allowing employees to enter where they would be exposed to a hazardous atmosphere and failing the prepare an entry permit, leading to employees’ exposures to corn oil, methanol, and natural gasoline respiratory hazards inside tank cars.
Trinity also failed to assign an attendant outside a permit-required confined space who was informed of the hazards of the confined space and knew the mode, signs and symptoms, and consequences of exposures inside tank cars. Additionally, the company failed to provide initial, follow-up, or refresher training for permit-required confined space entry when employees were exposed to a new hazard.
OSHA investigators also concluded that the company failed to:
- Ensure that all entry supervisors were informed of the hazards of the confined spaces and knew the mode, signs and symptoms, and consequences of exposures inside tank cars.
- Ensure that entry supervisors verified all tests were performed before allowing employees to enter a permit-required confined space.
- Ensure that rescue teams were trained and proficient in rescuing entrants in a confined space.
- Ensure that rescue teams performed simulated rescue operations at least once every 12 months.
- Use entrant-retrieval systems or methods to facilitate nonentry rescue.
- Use a chest or full-body harness for each entrant, with a retrieval line attached at the center of each entrant’s back.
Confined space hazards are so common in the industry that two OSHA regional offices last year launched regional emphasis programs (REPs) focused on enforcement of the permit-required confined spaces standard in the industry. The REPs for Transportation Tank Cleaning Operations remain in effect in Region 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) and Region 6 (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas).
Minding your confined space compliance
Understanding how OSHA enforces the standard can help. You will better understand your compliance duties if you consult the agency’s detailed instructions (CPL 2.100) for applying and enforcing the permit-required confined space standard.
You first need to identify confined spaces in your facility or at your worksites and develop confined space entry permit and training programs. In a nutshell, compliance involves ensuring those who are not trained and equipped do not enter permit-required confined spaces and that those who do are trained, equipped, and monitored. You also need the means and personnel to rescue them if something goes wrong.
During an inspection, an OSHA compliance safety and health officer (CSHO) will want to know how you identify permit-required spaces, as well as whether you review non-permit-required spaces for hazards that would make them permit-required spaces.
Before allowing any of your employees to enter a confined space, you must identify any physical hazards of the space. You also need to test the atmosphere and monitor for explosive hazards, flammability, oxygen content, and toxicity before and during employee entry.
A CSHO will want to know if the sampling equipment you use is being maintained and calibrated in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations and will ask if air sampling, monitoring plans, and procedures take sampling equipment limitations into consideration. Additionally, an OSHA inspector will want to know whether sampling plans include measuring the exposure at employee locations and other locations within the space.
Personnel permitted to enter a confined space must be provided with properly maintained personal protective equipment (PPE) and other equipment necessary for safe entry, such as air-monitoring and communications devices, and fall protection equipment.
You must always station a trained attendant outside the confined space who maintains contact with confined space entrants either visually, via phone, or by two-way radio. Monitoring enables the attendant and entry supervisor to order confined space entrants to evacuate or alert trained rescue personnel to rescue entrants if necessary.
Each time employees or contractors enter a permit-required confined space, a written entry permit must be prepared that includes the following information:
- Name of the permit space to be entered, authorized entrants, attendants, and entry supervisors;
- Purpose of entry and date and authorized duration of entry;
- Methods used for detecting an increase in atmospheric hazard levels;
- Name and signature of the supervisor authorizing the entry;
- Acceptable conditions for entry;
- Communication procedures and equipment to be used for maintaining contact with entrants;
- Known hazards of the space and measures being taken to isolate permit spaces and eliminate or control space hazards;
- Atmospheric test results, date and time of test(s), and tester’s initials or signature;
- Name and telephone numbers of rescue and emergency services and procedures for contacting them;
- Special equipment and procedures to be used, such as alarm systems and PPE;
- Other information necessary to ensure employee safety; and
- Additional permits, such as for hot work, authorizing such work in the permit space.
All employers at a multiemployer worksite have responsibilities for compliance with confined space requirements.
If you exclusively rely on a third-party rescue service, you must ensure that the rescue service can protect its own employees.
When looking at third-party rescue services, you want a provider that has adequate equipment for possible rescues at your facility or worksites, such as atmospheric monitors, extraction equipment, fall protection gear, and self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) appropriate for your particular permit-required confined spaces.
A prospective rescue service provider should also have the ability to respond and conduct a rescue in a timely manner based on your site conditions, managing the potential hazards specific to your confined spaces. You also will want a provider that will notify you when the rescue team becomes unavailable.
Your compliance begins with identifying permit-required confined spaces and their hazards. You need to ensure that only properly trained, equipped, and permitted entrants are allowed to enter a confined space, and conditions in the space must be monitored before and during entry. Moreover, an attendant must maintain contact with entrants, and you must have planned rescue procedures and rescue personnel available in case something goes wrong. | <urn:uuid:7e4dc617-972c-4a09-889a-bad2e14ef3ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ehsdailyadvisor.blr.com/2022/06/avoid-the-potential-catastrophes-of-confined-spac/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.925248 | 2,253 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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If you have large and long workbooks or Excel spreadsheets, being able to see the column or row labels is extremely important. Here is a quick way to freeze the labels in place for fast and easy viewing of your data.
Click on View on the Ribbon and select Freeze Panes.
Now click Freeze Top Row. If you want to Freeze other rows as well just highlight them before choosing Freeze Panes.
That’s it! Now as you can see by the example, you will be able to scroll throughout the document while keeping the column or rows in place.
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Naturalization - Becoming a Japanese citizen
So you want to become a Japanese citizen? These procedures are the domain of the Legal Affairs Bureau （法務局、houmukyoku） which handles naturalization by foreign nationals and other matters to do with citizenship in Japan. You can contact them at any time for questions regarding this.
What is naturalization? If a foreign national （someone without Japanese citizenship） indicates he would like Japanese citizenship, and the Minister of Law （Japanese national government） gives permission, then the foreign national can take Japanese citizenship.
What’s required to become a Japanese citizen?
Some of the major conditions are as follows:
- Residency: The foreign resident must have been living in Japan for five or more years consecutively.
- Competency: The foreign resident must be of an adult age according to both Japan （20 years of age） and their own country.
- Conduct: The foreign resident must be of upright conduct. Criminal records, tax payments, and other societal measures are taken into account when determining this.
- Financial independence: The foreign resident must have a stable livelihood. This is determined on a household basis, so if the foreign resident is adequately supported by the assets or abilities of a spouse or relative, then they will fulfill this requirement.
- No other nationalities: The foreign resident must have no nationality, or declare they will give up their foreign nationality upon getting Japanese nationality.
- Protect the constitution of Japan: A foreign resident who actively plans harm on Japan or is involved in an organization that plans harm on Japan is not eligible for citizenship.
*Conditions are not as strict for persons born in Japan, and for spouses of Japanese nationals.
The documentation required for a naturalization application varies by case. For further details, please contact the Legal Affairs Bureau in Morioka, which handles these applications in Iwate. Please be aware that naturalization proceedings are carried out with great care, and therefore require a significant amount of time.
Here are some things that may be required:
- Naturalization application （with a photo of the applicant）
- Documents showing the makeup of your family
- An essay about your motivation to become a Japanese citizen
- Resume （work history, school history）
- Documents showing your financial status
- Documents giving an outline of the activities you are involved with
- Copy of your resident certificate
- Documents showing your foreign nationality
- Documents showing how you are related to your family
- Documents proving that you have paid taxes
- Documents showing your income
- Documents showing how long you have been in Japan
Morioka District Legal Affairs Bureau （盛岡地方法務局, Morioka Chihou Houmukyoku）
This branch covers naturalization for foreign residents in Iwate. Please contact them for anything you may need.
Address: Morioka #2 Government Building, 1-9-15 Nishidori, Morioka Station, Morioka
There are branches throughout Iwate; please check here for a complete list.
*Japanese language only please
Office of International Affairs, Department of Homeland Promotion
(020-8570) 10-1 Uchimaru, Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, JAPAN
Phone number:019-629-5765 Facsimile:019-629-5254
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How are RCG grants useD?
IBA Research and Conservation Grants (RCG) are awarded to help support bear conservation, education projects, and research. Emphasis is given to projects that demonstrate significant positive effects for bear species, populations, and areas of the world with the highest conservation needs. Funds for these grants have been made available by The John Sheldon Bevins Memorial Foundation and other generous donors.
Past IBA grantees have made significant contributions to science-based information on bears and have made very real steps in developing local interest in bear conservation across the ranges of most species. Between 1993 – 2016, the IBA was able to offer 168 grants for projects studying eight bear species in 12 different subregions.
Who is eligible?
IBA wants to support well-designed projects, either research or conservation-oriented. Research should ultimately support conservation efforts; conservation projects should be strongly based on good science and also well-linked to local and regional communities. Anyone may apply, including undergraduate, graduate, or post-doctoral students; researchers; educational institutions; conservation organizations; and government agencies. Applicants must become IBA members before they begin the application process. | <urn:uuid:e9dfb137-89df-49cb-9755-b4177564c653> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bearbiology.org/grants/research-conservation-grants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949897 | 238 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Were you recently in an accident? Did you seek medical care despite having no symptoms? You, like many others, may feel just fine after a car crash, fall or other type of accident. However, failing to see a doctor afterward is particularly dangerous if you hit your head.
According to the Centers for Disease and Prevention, about 2.8 million people suffer from traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) each year. Many don’t even know they were injured. Unfortunately, failing to get your head examined (no pun intended) can lead to serious consequences, including:
- Cognitive impairment: Cognitive impairment is often one of the first signs that a person has suffered a concussion (the more common way to describe a TBI.) This may take the form of a shortened attention span, loss of memory or an inability to interpret social cues. All these symptoms can vary depending on the severity of the injury. Any sudden changes in a person’s mental capacity, though, is cause for concern if they happen right after any kind of motor vehicle accident.
- Changes in behavior: In addition to general mental incapacity, a person with a TBI is likely to display certain changes in behavior. She or he might become irritable easily, be prone to depression or act out in socially inappropriate ways. These are all symptoms of a potential TBI because any type of brain injury can affect the part of the brain that controls a person’s emotions and social functions.
- Potential of death: In severe circumstances, a TBI can lead to death. This may happen if the TBI causes seizures. It may also occur if the injury causes bleeding in the brain. Since this is often not noticed right away, it can be fatal if left untreated.
While “seeing stars” can be a little humorous, see a doctor if you have hit your head or jolted it suddenly like whiplash in a fender-bender. Your recovery can be long and expensive. The sooner you find out what is wrong, the better your chances for a full recovery. | <urn:uuid:3ed762ca-09cb-46f5-a011-284ddbd88c23> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oklahomainjurylaw.com/blog/personal-injury/bumping-your-head-may-be-more-serious-than-you-think/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938207 | 422 | 2.75 | 3 |
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By Alwyn G. Soppitt
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Late last week, the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council released a comprehensive transportation gateway report identifying all the key components to be considered in respect to establishing a gateway in Atlantic Canada – port, rail and road infrastructure, security and border crossing efficiencies, regulatory challenges and recognition of where we as a region fit in the international supply chains.
The report highlights the benefits of the
The Atlantic Gateway has to be more than a one-point-of-entry initiative and has to bring all the region’s assets to bear to provide cost-effective and efficient transportation options for imports and exports to and from
The drivers of the gateway will be two ports, not one. Halifax and
The report rightly recognizes the role
Development of the Pacific Gateway was driven by the growth in trade with
There is an opportunity here to develop an Atlantic Gateway, but it is more complex. We are dealing with four jurisdictions, all having a coastline and we have a different transportation model than on the West Coast. The success and value of an Atlantic Gateway depends on the supply chain links to the major markets. Atlantic Canadian importers and exporters are not the sustainable element of that equation.
What is required is a co-ordinated strategy and business case that will demonstrate the value of the gateway to Canadian trade. The movement of bulk and break bulk cargo also has to be considered – to accomplish this goal, strategists need to step out side the container box. Movement of all goods puts pressure on the transportation system, and solutions need to be found for all sectors. In our industry there is a concern that rail capacity, due to growth in containers, will affect the movement of other goods, particularly in bulk.
· We have deep water.
· We have diverse facilities in good condition in the bulk, break bulk and container sectors.
· We have a container terminal with capacity to grow and we have the ability to expand.
· Saint John Inner Harbour can accommodate up to 4,500 TEU container vessels.
· We have rail options with access to three different rail systems in all directions.
· We have easy and direct access to the highway without impacting on city streets.
· We do not need to move containers inland for trans-loading to truck. This can be done at or near to the port.
· There are three industrial parks available for development in proximity to the port.
· Our closer proximity to the
We believe features of existing ports must be capitalized on before considering
The road to success is an Atlantic Canadian strategy developed through the co-operation and participation of all four provinces. Together, as a region with two major ports and a number of smaller ones, we can jointly tap into global trade.
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A photo from the set of Dark Knight Rises might reveal an important, life-rejuvenating plot point.
Christoper Nolan has been very secretive about the plot of Dark Knight Rises. We know about some of the film’s cast, including Tom Hardy as Bane and Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle (who may or may not don her Catwoman costume), Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in unassuming roles, Josh Pence as young Ra’s al Ghul, and that’s about it. However, now that shooting is getting underway, a photo from the set in India may have revealed a plot device related to Ra’s al Ghul.
In the Batman comic books, Ra’s al Ghul stays eternally young and healthy through a pool of mystical chemicals called the Lazarus Pit. In the leaked photo, a large hole has been dug in the ground and green-screened so that effects can be added after filming. With the confirmation of a young Ra’s al Ghul in Dark Knight Rises, it’s entirely possible that this hole is a Lazarus Pit.
While the Lazarus Pit keeps whoever takes a dip in it alive, it also drives them mad. Nolan introduced Ra’s al Ghul in Batman Begins as a pretty crazy guy, what with him wanting to kill a mass of people to save the world and all. Though the idea of a Lazarus Pit seems a little out of Nolan’s range, who previously used no “superpowers” in his Batman films, it still could fit from a scientific angle. Evidently, there’s a mention of “The Pit” in Ra’s al Ghul’s journal from the Batman Begins novel, lending more credence to the theory here.
This might mean that the young Ra’s al Ghul being played by Pence will actually be the present Ra’s al Ghul rather than a version shown in flashbacks, perhaps being forced back into the Lazarus Pit to heal injuries sustained in Batman Begins. Of course, this is all speculation, but the coincidence of green-screened pit dug in the middle of India and the casting of a young Ra’s al Ghul in Dark Knight Rises isn’t exactly something that can be ignored.
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This paper presents the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 5th Edition (SCAT5), which is the most recent revision of a sport concussion evaluation tool for use by healthcare professionals in the acute evaluation of suspected concussion. The revision of the SCAT3 (first published in 2013) culminated in the SCAT5. The revision was based on a systematic review and synthesis of current research, public input and expert panel review as part of the 5th International Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Berlin in 2016. The SCAT5 is intended for use in those who are 13 years of age or older. The Child SCAT5 is a tool for those aged 5–12 years, which is discussed elsewhere.
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The Concussion In Sport Group (CISG) developed the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT)1 during the 2004 meeting in Prague to serve as an educational tool for the public and to assist medical providers in evaluating sports-related concussion (SRC). The SCAT combined previously separate approaches to the assessment of symptoms (graded symptom checklist), cognitive status (five-word immediate recall, delayed recall, Maddocks questions)2 and gross neurological functioning (speech, eye motion and pupil reaction, pronator drift and gait assessment; all assessed as ‘pass’ vs ‘fail’).
The SCAT was revised in 2008 and the new version, the SCAT2,3 was based on a review of the empirical literature at the time. The SCAT2 comprised eight subscales that assessed symptoms (Graded Symptom Checklist—Total Symptoms, Symptom Severity),4 physical signs score, cognitive functioning (Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC),5 Maddocks questions,2 balance (modified Balance Error Scoring System (mBESS),6 7 the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS),8 delayed word recall and a brief coordination examination. The subscales could each be scored independently and summed for a maximum total score of 100. The SCAT2 was designed for use by medical practitioners. The Pocket SCAT2, a separate tool, was developed for use by non-medically trained individuals.
The SCAT2 was revised in 2012 as part of the 4th International Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport in Zurich,9 following a systematic review of the scientific literature by Guskiewicz et al,10 culminating in a new version, the SCAT3. In addition, a new tool for children (under the age of 13) called the Child-SCAT3 was developed. The components of the SCAT3 include: indications for emergency management, potential signs of concussion, GCS, Maddocks questions, medical background questions, symptom evaluation, cognitive assessment, neck examination, balance examination, coordination examination,11 considerations for management and concussion advice. The SCAT3 removed the total/composite score of the SCAT2 since there was no evidence for its validity, but retained scoring of the individual subscales. Other improvements included the addition of several ‘visible’ or ‘observable’ signs of concussion and the option of using a more sensitive ‘foam’ component of the full BESS.6 7 A timed tandem gait test was also added as an alternative to the mBESS11 ,12. Additional information was added to the ‘Concussion injury advice’ section.10 A separate Concussion Recognition Tool (CRT) was also developed in place of the pocket SCAT to provide information to non-medical personnel regarding the importance of recognition and removal from play of athletes suspected of SRC.
The CISG met in Berlin in 2016 at the Fifth International Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport. The meeting methods are detailed elsewhere13. The consensus process followed the approach previously employed by the CISG, which included the development of 12 questions that were to be addressed by systematic reviews in advance of the meeting, an open forum for presentation and discussion, followed by an expert panel meeting. A subset of the expert panel met on a separate day to make recommendations for improving the SCAT following examination of the results of the SCAT systematic review and reports/observations of professionals who use the tool clinically.
The SCAT5 systematic review14 consisted of five different but inter-related searches covering: (1) adult SCAT; (2) child SCAT; (3) sideline assessment; (4) video surveillance/observable signs of concussion and (5) oculomotor assessment. The present paper will only focus on the SCAT5 (for athletes aged over 12 years). The Child-SCAT5 (for younger athletes) is published separately in this issue.14
The SCAT5 systematic review14 concluded that studies employing the SCAT (all forms) or its components generally had a low to moderate levels of bias and were generalisable to the larger population, although variability was noted in methodologies, risk of bias, quality of evidence and presentation of data. Overall, the graded symptom checklist, SAC and BESS/mBESS were found to be most useful immediately postinjury in differentiating concussed from non-concussed athletes when using either intraindividual or normative baseline/postinjury comparisons. The diagnostic utility of the SCAT and its components appears to decrease significantly after 3–5 days postinjury, which suggests that the tool may have differential utility in helping to diagnose concussion and tracking recovery versus assisting return to play decision making.15 As such, the tool appears to be clinically useful in screening evaluations and making the diagnosis of SRC but has a more limited role in tracking recovery and assisting the return to play/sport decision. The symptom checklist does demonstrate clinical utility in tracking recovery.
A notable limiting factor for the SCAT was evidence of a ceiling effect on the SAC portion for adolescents and adults. Specifically, ceiling effects were apparent on the Immediate Recall subcomponent of the SAC.
Although possibly a result of the search strategy, there were limited data that examined the utility of the SCAT across different cultural and linguistic groups.
The SCAT5 is a tool for use by healthcare professionals in the evaluation of individuals 13 years old or older, who are suspected of having sustained an SRC. The complete SCAT5 can be found at the end of this article. The Child SCAT5 is used to evaluate SRC in children 5–12 years old.14 A separate tool, the Concussion Recognition Tool 5 (CRT5),16 was developed for use by non-medically trained individuals to assist in the identification and initial management of suspected SRC. The designation of the SCAT5 (rather than SCAT4) was chosen to align the version number with the fifth meeting of the CISG. There is no SCAT4.
In revising the SCAT, the expert panel was cognisant of the fact that the SCAT3 has been used widely across many different countries and a significant amount of normative data has been gathered. Similarly, healthcare professionals have generally found the SCAT3 to be useful and have become proficient in its administration. For these reasons, the modification of the SCAT3 into the SCAT5 was not only guided by information gathered in the systematic review, expert panel discussions and input from conference attendees but also with the understanding that the tool should maintain as much continuity as possible with the SCAT3 and should only be changed where necessary.
The modifications included in the SCAT5 are presented in box 1.
Declaration that the complete SCAT5 cannot be appropriately completed in less than 10 min.
Inclusion of an Immediate/Acute Assessment section, including indications for emergency management and observable signs of possible concussion.
Clarified instructions that the Symptom Checklist should be completed by the athlete in a resting state.
Different instructions for completing the symptom checklist at baseline and postinjury have been added.
Addition of questions that compare the athlete’s postinjury presentation with preinjury behaviour.
The SAC immediate and delayed word recall lists include an option to use 10 words instead of 5 to minimise ceiling effects.
All six versions of the SAC word lists are now presented with alternate stimulus sets for the word list and digits backwards. Their administration should be randomised at baseline and serially postinjury.
A notation of when the last trial of the word list was administered is required (the delayed recall should not be administered sooner than 5 min after the immediate memory subtest).
Digits Backwards now contains six versions of the digit strings, which should be randomised at baseline and serially postinjury.
A Rapid Neurological Screen has been included.
A section has been added that includes affirmation that the SCAT5 was used or supervised by a healthcare professional and whether a concussion was diagnosed.
The Instruction section has been enhanced to include all of the modifications described above.
The Return to Sport progression emphasises that the initial period of physical and cognitive rest should typically only last 24-48 hours.
A Return to School progression has been added, including possible academic accommodations.
The SCAT5 specifically indicates that written clearance by a healthcare professional is necessary prior to returning to play/sport.
The SCAT5 continues the tradition of its predecessors by creating a standardised approach to acute evaluation of suspected concussion that includes measures and methods shown to be useful in detecting SRC. The SCAT5 maintains consistency with the SCAT3 wherever possible, although it does address some of the limitations identified in the systematic review and provides additional evaluative tools. For example, to increase the utility of the tool, a Rapid Neurological Screen has been included that consists of an evaluation of the cervical exam, athlete’s speech, ability to read, balance, gait, visual tracking and finger to nose coordination. The Rapid Neurological Screen is a brief screening tool that does not replace a more complete examination.
The diagnosis of concussion relies on a clinical synthesis of complex, non-specific and at times contradictory information. Accordingly, only healthcare professionals trained in assessing and managing SRC should use the SCAT5, which is not designed to be used in isolation to make or exclude the diagnosis of concussion. The SCAT5 includes comprehensive instructions for the appropriate administration of the subscales that should be carefully studied and practised prior to clinical use.
The expert panel discussed the time necessary to administer the complete SCAT5 and consensus was reached that no less than 10 min were required. Those sports that allow only a limited amount of time of less than 10 min for an acute evaluation screening of suspected concussion are encouraged to review their existing rules if indicated. Since there did not appear to be any empirical evidence to support a specific time frame (eg, 10 min), the SCAT5 does not specify any time frame between exercise and administration of the SCAT. However, there is expert consensus that the SCAT5 should be administered in a resting state, which means that the athlete should be at or near his or her resting heart rate. Anecdotal reports of athletes memorising and rehearsing words lists and digits are addressed with the provision of six distinct groups of five words and six sets of digit strings, which should be randomly presented at baseline and sequentially postinjury. The added option of using a 10-word list per trial could diminish ceiling effects, while preserving continuity with the 5-word list in those settings where ceiling effects are less apparent. As this is a novel methodology, normative data will need to be collected on the 10-word lists and research will be required to examine its utility.
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In diesem 5,5-stündigen Tutorial mit 46 Video-Lektionen zeigt dir Photoshop-Experte Gabor Richter, welche Befehle, Werkzeuge und Filter für den Einstieg tatsächlich wichtig sind, wo sie sich befinden und wie du sie anwendest - das ganze Training natürlich praxisorientiert an Beispielen, damit du schnell und einfach Photoshop kennen und verstehen lernst Free photoshop cc tutorial exe download. Photo & Graphics tools downloads - Adobe Photoshop CC by Adobe Systems Incorporated and many more programs are available for instant and free download In this photoshop tutorial you will learn how to turn a photo into a sketch. Its easy to get a pencil sketch effect in Photoshop. I'll also give you a few variations with color and layer blending modes for creative jump off points. Enjoy | <urn:uuid:fc38094f-1722-43f1-a07b-687b9d159fa5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://amerikaverteld.com/tutorials4ne4424kh5s9.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.855305 | 2,547 | 1.992188 | 2 |
09/16/2011 | 11:27 am
There are a host of professions built around predicting some future outcome: from predicting the score of a sports match, to forecasting the weather for the weekend, to being able to tell what the stock market is going to do tomorrow. But is anyone actually good at it?
From your experience, which experts do you trust for predictions?
- None of the Above (39%, 447 Votes)
- Meteorologists (37%, 414 Votes)
- Economists (14%, 158 Votes)
- Sports Experts (9%, 98 Votes)
- Political Pundits (1%, 16 Votes)
- Stock Market Analysts (1%, 10 Votes)
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Published April 8, 2020
UB partner company KSL Biomedical has developed diagnostic tests and is moving forward with clinical validation of prognostic tools that could improve patient care during the COVID-19 outbreak.
The company receives support from UB’s Buffalo Institute for Genomics and Data Analytics (BIG), part of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s economic development effort to advance the Buffalo Niagara region as a center for bioinformatics and life sciences research.
KSL has been engaged with the COVID-19 pandemic for months, with its senior management team traveling to China in January 2020 to work on projects there.
“Experience has shown us that we need good information — accurate, high-capacity tests — to manage the COVID-19 outbreak and help people safely return to the workforce. BIG has provided essential resources, positioning KSL to deliver practical solutions in New York State,” says KSL Biomedical CEO Kevin Lawson. “With the right partners, we can take these technologies further and help stem the outbreak wherever it spreads.”
The company first deployed diagnostic technologies in the outbreak in China, and is seeking funding for deployment and scale-up in the U.S. as soon as possible, Lawson says.
KSL Biomedical is conducting regulatory studies in its clinical laboratories to support launch of products and services in the United States and international markets. This includes:
“These tools will increase COVID-19 testing capacity, afford better management of patients, and yield critical data to flatten the curve and aid in the recovery from the pandemic,” Shen says.
The company pitched the technologies to potential investors on April 3 at Innovate to Ventilate, an event hosted by the Business Incubator Association of New York State.
KSL Biomedical has strong ties to UB. In addition to partnering with BIG, the company’s chief medical officer is Lakshmanan Suresh, clinical professor in the Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences in UB’s School of Dental Medicine.
Funding from BIG enables UB to leverage research expertise and equipment to collaborate with industry partners in Erie County to bring new or expanded medical products to the market and support job growth in Erie County.
KSL is a Western New York-based company advancing translational medicine and improving the delivery of personalized medicine through development of novel genomic- and proteomic-based diagnostics for cancers and immunological diseases. The company has a robust pipeline of proprietary products and services targeting the United States and the rest of the world. | <urn:uuid:15dda56e-cf97-4468-945f-1f92e0fce331> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2020/04/ksl-biomedical-covid-diagnostics.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942787 | 529 | 1.84375 | 2 |
SCARY ANCIENT SPORTS. Even today, parents are reluctant to introduce their kids to sports because they’re afraid of the injuries that come with it. We need to be careful when partaking in any form of strenuous physical activity and ensure that our bodies are warmed up before we start.
But back in the day, even getting your body ready and stretching before the game probably wouldn’t protect you from harm. Sport back then was a brutal concept, and being an athlete meant you were willing to risk life and limb for your sport. Here are ancient games that were terrifying enough to make today’s sports look like a game of tag.
The Romans, fueled by their humiliating defeat at the hands of Hannibal, decided to invent a game called Venatio. If you were one of the players in Venatio, you and your teammates had to square off with an opponent known as the ‘Beast of Carthage’, or, in other words, 20 African bull elephants.
Bad enough that these elephants were routinely rounded up merely for sport, but they also had to face a team of men who were hell bent on making it out of the arena alive. Of course, the human players had less than a 5% chance of survival, but both teams took severe losses during this ‘game’.
In fact, the Romans seemed to enjoy this game so much that they nearly drove the North African elephant extinct.
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Before MMA came into existence, its predecessor, Pankration was all the rage in ancient Greece. There were only two rules – no gouging out your opponent’s eyes and no biting; everything else was fair game.
So participants had to wrestle, box, kick, and do whatever it took to get their opponent’s to submit. The aim of the game was to get really close to killing your opponent without actually killing them. If your opponent died, you were immediately disqualified from the game.
Once you were done decimating your opponent, you would be paired up with another opponent. And this knockout tournament went on till only one person was left standing. That poor guy.
3) Fishermen’s Joust
The ancient Egyptians probably started this as a means of settling territorial disputes. Until one day someone said, “Hey! This looks like fun! Let’s make a game out of it”. So a team of 8 people hopped onto two papyrus boats, rowed out to the middle of the Nile and beat the living daylights out of each other. If you died, you lost.
To make things more interesting, the Nile was infested with crocodiles, and the smell of blood would often draw them to the boats. Sure, you could beat the crocodile to chase it away, but since they were sacred in Ancient Egypt, you’d probably be put to death after (and if) you survived the game.
The Romans just loved re-enacting battles, and just like Venatio, Naumachia was a game of mock warfare. Here, the emperor would build a massive coliseum with a basin in the middle and fill it with water. Then he’d throw in a few battleships and get a few ‘willing’ participants to join in the fun.
The game was simple – war. The armies on the battleships simply had to defeat the other battleships by any means possible.
Besides the gruesome fact that men would see their comrades dying in front of them, they had to continue the game amidst pools of blood until only one battleship was left standing.
As scary as these games sound, they were extremely real and seemed quite normal to people living in those times. If you had to participate in any one of these games, which one do you think you’d try? Let us know in the comments below. | <urn:uuid:fa2502dc-e37e-409f-a00e-b0d6cdff17bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.playo.co/4-ancient-sports-will-scare-crap/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.984444 | 835 | 2.828125 | 3 |
The Seven Levels of the ‘Learn to Sew’ series
The You Can Make It ‘Learn to Sew’ program will progressively build sewing skills. With each Level building on the knowledge from the previous Levels. Learning basic sewing skills in Level 1 and progressing to tailoring in Level 7. ALL sewing skills are covered.
Our program includes learning about all different types of fabrics and the many special features about each kind.
We also build alteration skills. Level 2 starts with simple basic hip alterations and each subsequent Level builds on these alteration skills. A perfect fit is a must!
Learn the basics: patterns (selection, choosing, sizing, understanding), guide sheets, tissues, fabric layouts, pinning, cutting, marking, sewing, hemming, & SEW MUCH MORE!
Level 1 DVD:If you have no sewing experience or need a refresher, then Level 1 of the You Can Make It series is the one for you! A comprehensive guide for beginning sewers. Level 1 starts at the very beginning with buying your first sewing supplies and ends with the finishing touches on your garment. Your first project is a simple skirt. You will learn how to select fabric, read a pattern envelope, layout your fabric & pattern, how to cut, and how to mark your pattern. You will also learn how to interpret the pattern directions and sew each piece together. You won’t believe how easy it is. You not only learn how to sew a skirt, but you also acquire new skills. You can apply those new skills to other simple sewing projects. Plus, you can build on your knowledge in future projects. ( 100 min.)
Darts, pleats, tucks, zippers, waistbands, vents, slits, snaps, buttons, hooks & eyes, straps, Velcro, & SEW MUCH MORE!
Alteration skills covered in Level 2: Increasing the hip, decreasing the hip.
Level 2 DVD: If you have beginning sewing experience – you are ready for the next step. Continue down the road to sewing success with the second video of the You Can Make It series. Build on the skills you learned in Level 1, plus learn a variety of new techniques. In Level 2 the skills you need to make a skirt with a zipper, back slit, darts and pleats are all shown in detail. Plus learn the basic “pivot and slide” fitting techniques. Have you always wanted to know the easy way to handle prints with one way designs? Level 2 will make it easy, in addition to enlightening you about the special features of print fabrics. Level 2 also includes a few “sewing bag skills.” Learn how to make a sewing bag covered with samples of basic sewing techniques. The samples serve as a reference when you have questions. These skills include how to sew on a patch, make straps, apply Velcro® strips, sew on buttons, and hooks and applying snaps. (130 min.)
Facings, simple sleeves, simple collars, ruffle collars, front closures, ruffles, lace, trims, pockets, special seams & SEW MUCH MORE!
Alteration skills covered in Level 3: Adjusting for broad shoulders, adjusting for sloping shoulders, adjusting the sleeve length, and hem changes.
Level 3 DVD: Take your sewing to the intermediate Level with Level 3 of the You Can Make It series. Packed with over 15 sewing techniques to help the intermediate sewer advance to the next Level. You’ll find instructions for taking accurate measurements, making pattern adjustments, working with sheer fabrics, and much more. Whether you’re sewing a basic garment or adding a little creative interest Level 3 video has something for you. Learning an array of basic techniques such as how to sew shoulder seams, apply a collar to a neckline, and construct neck and front facings. You are also instructed how to fit a sleeve cap, hem plain or ruffled sleeves, how to apply front closures, sew patch pockets, and hem your finished garment. Do you want to learn how to add a few decorative touches to your garment? Level 3 will teach you how to make simple round collars with inserted lace, applying lace edging to a collar, and gathering ruffles. Or, add extra special detailing with French seams and hand rolled hems. (150 min.)
Stripes, plaids, bindings, piping, bias tape, stitched elastic & SEW MUCH MORE!
Alteration skills covered in Level 4: Increasing or decreasing the waist, adjusting for a long or short waist, and adjusting for a sway back.
Level 4 DVD: Take a trip to the fabric store and choose a stylish jumper pattern and some striped or plaid fabric. Have some fun with Level 4 of the You Can Make It series. Then sew along as you learn the complete construction process, in addition to continuing to build on your sewing skills and fitting skills. Learn how to easily lay out the pattern so that your plaids and stripes match at the seam lines. Learn how to identify different types of stripes and plaids, and the special features associated with them. Then find out how to use the tape or pin method to construct your garment. Packed with special considerations when working with darts, pleats, and gathers with the stripes in your fabric. Learn about stitching elastic, matching plaid patch pockets to the pattern in your garment, and making your own bias tape and piping. (100 min.)
Cuffs, lapped zippers, pockets, belt carriers, invisible zippers, eyelets, special seams & SEW MUCH MORE!
Alteration skills covered in Level 5: Adjusting the waist and waistband, adjusting pants in the hip and thigh, adjusting pants length, and altering pants crotch.
Level 5 DVD: This is the one you have all been waiting for! You are ready for the most popular sewn garments, PANTS. Learn EVERYTHING you have ever wanted to know about pants. The You Can Make It Level 5 Video is PACKED with hints & techniques. You are sure to learn more than you ever imagined! Build your You Can Make It skills. Learn all about working with napped fabrics, how to do layouts, & the special sewing & handling of napped fabrics. Learn ALL alteration possibilities for a perfect pant fit. These are shown & covered in detail. Learn some new seam constructions which are especially designed for pants. Learn how to construct Lapped & Invisible Zippers, & when to use them, Pockets, Belt Carriers, Cuffs, Eyelets. If you want to learn how to construct pants, & have them fit well, then the You Can Make It Level 5 VIDEO is for you. (100 min.)
Buttonholes, collars, sleeves, plackets, button cuffs, special closures & SEW MUCH MORE!
Alteration skills covered in Level 6: Adjusting the bust, moving darts, adding darts, adjusting the sleeve width, and armhole adjustments.
Level 6 DVD: Time to fine tune & perfect your sewing and alteration skills. Learn everything about buttonholes, where to place them, how to adjust them for your personal measurements, and how to sew them. Learn how to insert and fit a set in sleeve with a smooth cap. Learn how to sew and insert pointed collars and collar bands. Learn how to construct professional looking sleeve plackets and cuffs. Finish off your garments with the easy tricks to a machine blind hem. Build on your alteration skills with sleeves, bust, and darts. Also learn all other types of closures such as loops, frogs, ball buttons. Sewing professional looking garments and achieving a perfect fit is easy with our You Can Make It Level 6 VIDEO. (105 min.)
Tailoring, bound buttonholes, welt pockets, notched collars, linings & SEW MUCH MORE!
Alteration skills covered in Level 7: All alteration skills are brought together with additional alteration skills for shoulders, a full back, and vertical darts.
Level 7 DVD: Bring your sewing to the professional level. Learn everything about tailored jackets. The importance of a perfect fit, what determines a perfect fit, and how to achieve it. Easy up to date techniques for welt pockets and bound buttonholes, with each step shown & explained in full detail. Do you want to know the tricks for a truly perfect notched collar? Understand all there is to know about interfacing; the different types, when, where and how to add. We even teach you how to easily make your own interfacing pattern pieces. Learn how to add linings to jackets and other garments, along with some great short cuts for attaching linings If you think tailoring skills are difficult, we will change your mind with Level 7. (120min.)
Please Note: All licensed You Can Make It Teachers are equipped to teach ALL Seven Levels.
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What is Snapchat All About?
Snapchat is the platform of choice for highly engaged millennials.
Snapchat is all about ephemeral content that’s only available for 24 hours at a time, incentivising people to use Snapchat every day to avoid missing out.
Snapchat gives brands the full attention of its users with a range of full-screen ad formats.
Utilize impact-full native video ads that showcase brands to users in the same way that they view organic content.
Start reaching people on a rapidly growing video platform with over 17 million users in the UK.
With more than 1 million snaps created by users every day and 77% of 18-24 year olds in the UK using Snapchat on any given day, Snapchat is the future of video on social media.
The Key Features
Snapchat offers full-funnel ad solutions including the ability to track user actions and conversions with the Snap Pixel. Advertisers can cost effectively raise brand awareness, drive traffic, generate leads or conversions and drive app installs with a range of ad products.
Snap Ads and Story Ads draw users in allowing them to engage with brands on a deeper level. Websites open instantly within the Snapchat app, avoiding loading times, while a swipe and a tap is all that’s needed to download an app or view more video content.
Users are very engaged with brands on Snapchat, which boasts swipe up rates that are 5 times higher than the CTRs of comparable platforms.
Utilise precise targeting options, including Snap Audience Match, which allows brands to target existing customers and lookalike audiences on Snapchat alongside diverse lifestyle categories. | <urn:uuid:9b34dee8-aef1-4c0a-809c-a44947e0b12e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agendamedia.co.uk/snapchat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.920091 | 334 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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