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A highly desirable solution to the multicore software productivity problem is to introduce high-level declarative programming models that are accessible to domain experts who have deep subject matter expertise in their respective domain but are not expected to have a high level of expertise in Computer Science. In the Intel Concurrent Collections (CnC) programming model, the parallel structure of a program is described declaratively in terms of computation steps that communicate via data items that satisfy the dynamic single assignment property. The step, item, and tag collections in CnC are used to enforce two
types of constraints: data dependence, when a step produces data consumed by another step, and control dependence, when a step determines if a new step should be created.
CnC specifies the high-level coordination structure of a parallel program --- a complete program can be obtained by using a sequential or parallel imperative language to implement individual computation steps. A short introduction to the Concurrent Collections model can be found in the following article:
The Concurrent Collections Programming Model. Michael G. Burke, Kathleen Knobe, Ryan Newton, Vivek Sarkar. Technical Report TR 10-12, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, December 2010. To appear as a book chapter in Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing, David Padua (Ed.), Springer Verlag, 2011
The Intel CnC implementation uses C/C++ as the underlying language for CnC steps. In the Habanero Concurrent Collections project, we instead use Habanero-Java (HJ) as the underlying language for CnC steps with work in progress for step code written in Scala, Python, and Matlab. More technical details on CnC can be found in the papers in the PLDI 2009 tutorial on CnC and in the following journal article:
Concurrent Collections. Zoran Budimlic, Michael Burke, Vincent Cave, Kathleen Knobe, Geoff Lowney, Ryan Newton, Jens Palsberg, David Peixotto, Vivek Sarkar, Frank Schlimbach, Sagnak Tasirlar. Scientific Programming, 18:3–4, pp. 203–217, August 2010. | <urn:uuid:95c861f2-6b11-43dd-8113-529ae7952714> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wiki.rice.edu/confluence/display/HABANERO/CnC | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.841556 | 441 | 2.25 | 2 |
(1) Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. (2) For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it.
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Perhaps the hardest thing for us to do is to keep on track spiritually. Deviating from the path to God's Kingdom is not that difficult, making it a constant peril. God's experience with Israel demonstrates that an entire generation died in the wilderness, a stunning witness! A review of the Israelites' conduct shows that, though they initially promised to obey all God commanded, their faithwavered over time, and they chose not to go into the Promised Land.
What a powerful warning this is to us, who have our eyes open and take God's Word seriously! One can make a case from the New Testament that many of us will not enter God's Kingdom because, like Israel, we will fritter away our chance. Does not Jesus warn that only those who endure to the end will be saved (Matthew 24:13)? Does not Peter warn that even the righteous are scarcely saved (I Peter 4:18)? Does not Jesus also warn that the broad way leads to destruction and many take it (Matthew 7:13)?
Rather than frighten us, this should stir us to push on! God has not left us alone. He who releases us from our bondage and sets us on the path to His Kingdom also empowers us to make it. He gives us gifts (I Corinthians 12:1-11) and access to Him to receive help in time of need (Romans 5:1-2). This access, through prayer, is without doubt one of the greatest gifts that He can give a human being. He allows us into the very presence of the sovereign Creator and Lord of all, in whom is all wisdom, power, and love. He can do far more for us than we can even think to ask.
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Terre d’amiante. The Couturier/Lafargue duo explored the mine of the town of Asbestos, camping there for four days. This gigantic sinkhole is the result of over a hundred year of mining activity.
La Beauté de la destruction. From 1953 to 2003, the exploitation of a copper deposit on the outskirts of the Gaspésie National Park created a micro-desert that the duo wandered through for ten or so days.
Bouger la mémoire. Made out of hoops from a derelict paper mill and endowed with interactive lighting, this practicable work allies history and technology. Five years were needed to complete its implantation of the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in Haute-Gaspésie. | <urn:uuid:661d2a43-1772-4bb9-a532-a6eb50836056> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://imageenvoyee-imagesent.canada-culture.org/en/louis-couturier-jacky-g-lafargue/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.840233 | 162 | 2.015625 | 2 |
We found an article on the Health News Library website about yogurt and its 7 benefits for better health, which are:
- Better Immunity
- Calcium Absorption
- Fewer Yeast Infections
- Digestive Regularity
- Food Allergies
- Asthma Prevention
- Reducing Inflammation
To read the article in its entirety, link here to the Health News Library “7 Health Benefits of Yogurt”.
For the featured recipe, here is what you will need:
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour, divided
½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
Zest of 1 lemon
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 Tb. lemon juice, divided
8 oz. plain, Greek yogurt
12 oz. fresh strawberries, diced
1 cup powdered sugar
Preheat oven to 325 degrees ; grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan (10-15 cup pan).
- Sift together the 2 ¼ cups of flour, baking soda and salt.
- Mix in the lemon zest and set aside.
- With an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in 1 tbsp. lemon juice.
- Alternate beating in the yogurt and flour mixture, mixing just until incorporated.
Toss the strawberries with the remaining ¼ cup of flour. Gently mix them into the batter. Pour the batter into the Bundt pan. Bake for 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
Allow to cool 20 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. Place cake onto a large dessert platter once cooled. Whisk together the remaining 2 tbsp. of lemon juice and the powdered sugar. Drizzle over the top of the cake. Plate and serve.
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Sep 7, 2021
Today, Sara and Chelsey discuss chapters 1-26 of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. We’ve each read this Victorian Gothic novel multiple times, learning something new with each reread. In today’s conversation, we reflect on past reading experiences and dive into analysis. We share our thoughts on the early coming of age chapters, Jane and Rochester’s romance, and what’s going on in the attic at Thornfield. We’ll give you a heads up for major spoilers, but we think this is a great episode to listen to before, during, or after you read Brontë’s iconic novel.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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SUPRATECH s.r.o. Laboratory of Physics and Technology
SUPRATECH s.r.o. was established on 21 October 2008 by registration at the Regional Court in Brno under file No. C 60057. At the end of 2012, the company made several discoveries in the field of electrodynamics.
About our research.
The company's initial task was to conduct applied research, particularly in the field of electrodynamics. One of the company's goals was to design a pure DC engine-generator with parameters that would exceed the commutator DC machines and eliminate the power limitation of AC machines with electronic control. The applied research of a pure DC motor consisted of a laboratory design phase in line with the current theoretical perspective as we understood it at the time, and of the planned stage of providing a design version applicable to the general electrical engineering industry. Various variants of DC machines without brushes and electronics were tested. We were also inspired by existing patents worldwide including a Czech patent, which was already out of date at that time. The final output of our applied research, although we suspected some anomalies, was still surprising. The finding that no variant of a pure DC machine is functional, combined with other previous circumstances, initiated some basic research. Experimental testing of current theoretical electrodynamics has become a priority. This was done with the help of modern technology and ideas and the discovery of the high-temperature superconducting shield from 1987. Finally, the set goals have led to several other discoveries that we would like to turn into economically viable reality.
What we discovered
- Capability of influencing the mutual repulsion of electrons by magnetic field. Application in the construction of high-capacity electrical capacitors based on a new physical principle.
- Macroscopic quantum effect - frequency change as a function of the measurement angle.
- Design of a pure DC machine (without brushes and electronic components) is technically feasible but no solution can be functional in physical terms.
- Maxwell's equations are unrealistically general and are replaceable by a more precise level macro-energy concept of the magnetic field. We have therefore proven that the theoretical construction of a general homogeneous field without magnetic axis identification is not physically meaningful. (Identifying the magnetic axis means that we identify the energy correlations.) Maxwell equations pose a paradigm obstacle of the development of electrodynamics.
- Several forms of electromagnetic warp - direct conversion of electricity into motion impulse without a reaction base. (The reaction base may be, for example, a magnetic rail in linear motors, or a stator in rotary motors. If we wanted to be spectacular, we could write that we discovered a way to realize antigravity.)
- We found a theoretical macroscopic energy concept and probable relations that mathematically describe the link to Maxwell's equations. (Maxwell's equations are roughly in line with the new concept, with an error of up to 50%, within approximately 67% of all theoretically possible technical solutions. There is an exact match in one group of technical solutions only - these are the most common ones used in practice.)
We use new tools in electrodynamics.
We have modified the Faraday's Law as follows: Induction of electrical voltage only occurs to its full extent if the conductor is oriented co-linearly with the energy equipotential magnetic field levels and moves crosses them. This is the case in most technical and experimental solutions. This special case technically implies a penetration with a virtual magnetic flux. If the conductor moves along the equipotential levels and does not pass through them, induction does not occur. In the Faraday generator, the shortest conductive path connecting the peripheral and central brushes is extended in a spiral pattern due to the brush sliding on the disc. This happens across energy equipotential levels of the magnetic field. Thus, free electrons acquire a DC drift. (This is analogous to the effect of winding the conductor onto a circular magnet, which induces voltage and current.)
We have modified the Ampere's Law as follows: The Ampere's force, as defined in the textbooks, only affects the current conductor in its entirety if the current conductor is co-linear with energy equipotential levels of the magnetic field. If this condition is met, the current conductor will move towards or away from the magnetic axis in its full force range. If the axis of the current conductor is perpendicular to the energy equipotential levels, it will only be subjected to moment forces, which preferentially rotate the current conductor so as to intersect as little energy levels of the magnetic field as possible. These moment forces cause a continuous deflection of the disk circumference with respect to the brush in the Faraday DC motor. (Rotation of the Faraday disk can be therefore explained, in terms of force, as a case of two interacting current conductors.)
The macroscopic energy concept, as a tool for new technical solutions of direct conversion of electromagnetic energy into motion impulse without reaction base, without expulsion of matter.
What we have published and what we are going to publish
In the report here, we published the basics of the new energy concept of electrodynamics. We are going to publish a monograph named Extra-terrestrial electrodynamics. In its four chapters, we will show e.g. the following points of interest: an experiment in which the magnetic flux does not change and yet voltage and current are induced in the conductor; a force-based analysis of the Faraday DC motor that reveals the "mnemonics" of modern electrodynamics; an experiment in which we will absorb the same magnetic flux by shielding with the same magnitude but the results of the induced voltage will be different; and other topics including experiments with electromagnetic warp. We plan to hold a press conference to present the electromagnetic warp to the public.
Well-informed subjects writing about our discoveries
-The NATURE magazine published a paper describing and unsuccessful experiment, which was supposed to prove the validity of current electrodynamic concept. The report proposed a new macroscopic energy concept explaining this experimental failure of Maxwell's concept based on the continuity equation. The paper was rejected with the reason that they are more interested in publishing papers from areas that are more attractive for readers.
We offer a time-limited grant
- Czech Technical University in Prague was acquainted with an older version of the paper (we did not have a macro energy concept yet at that time) in which we pointed out and proved that no PHG / PHM patented anywhere in the world could work. We called upon the Dean of CTU to let anyone at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FEL) prove that we are wrong by demonstrating a functional machine in the sense of PHG/PHM (we have provided patent numbers across the world plus one PV in the Czech Republic).
- We approached an active professor at Masaryk University in Brno to comment on the experiment (video here) and explain how the induced voltage is zeroed when the magnetic induction lines actually bypass the superconducting shield. His response was obligatory. It resulted in the invalidation of the technical application of superconducting shields and in the same global view of both patent applicants and patent officers.
- We have also contacted other associate professors and professors who are highly competent in the subject matter. No one attempted to interpret the experiment with a clear solution. Answers that contradicted relativistic explanations, pointing to physical creativity, helped us better configure other demonstration devices.
- We informed the current Chair of ASCR about our most important discovery and asked her to provide us, through specialized experts (such as the Center of Higher Science and others), with information about their majority opinion on the failure of the experiment, which was supposed to prove the validity of the Faraday's Law for homogenized magnetic field. The communication of the Czech Academy of Sciences towards us was rather avoidant, which we briefly analyzed on justice.cz with a copy on our web here.
Following our previous promotion activities, a prominent patent applicant from Colombia, who held a USA patent for a machine in the sense of PHG/PHM, contacted us by e-mail. In his email, he informed us that the technical implementation of his patent revealed an anomaly: the machine was inoperative.
We offer a time-limited grant
The reward amounted to CZK 1,000,000 minimum + CZK 200,000 for documented costs and was to be granted to the first person to demonstrate a functional machine in the sense of PHG/PHM..
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the Interpretation of Architecture
Theory of Interpretation
Vol. 12, No. 2, December 2008
|Interpretation as Doing|
of the paper is to address and discuss relationships between the aesthetic
perception and interpretation of contemporary landscape architecture. I
will try to do this by setting up a cross-disciplinary perspective that
looks into themes from the contemporary art scene and aesthetic theories,
and relate them to observations in contemporary landscape architecture.
It is my premise that investigating the relationship between modes of aesthetic perception and examples in contemporary art, and landscape architecture, will enable us to better understand characteristics of a contemporary concept of landscape and design in landscape architecture, and hereby address the question of how interpretation might be processed.
It is also my premise that a key point in this is the interplay between different sensory experiences of both material and non-material aspects, and that it is this interplay that the individual collects into an entity – an interpretation – through an intellectual process.
It is a well known fact that our understanding of the city in recent years has been and still is being challenged by new types of cities which in several ways depart from the historic and the well known types of cities, as for example the historic city of Siena, Paris et al. Characteristic to this process of transformation is that it not only concerns typologies and categories but also our definition of concepts and images, and our models of perception and representation.
"The city as we know it seems to be dissolving and is being replaced by something for which we lack concepts and images. Spatial transformations have produced a new kind of city for which we have yet no adequate models of perception and representation."
One may with success replace the word city in the above quoted
ascertainment with landscape, and Kai Vöckler’s ascertainment would
still give meaning. That we are able to replace the word city with,
not just another word but with another category, namely landscape,
tells us something about the close relationship between the two categories,
but it also indicates that both categories are subordinated by transformations
due to processes of character, which with an overall concept may be described
with the term globalization.
main figures in the more substantial discussion in aesthetics are both Gernot
Böhme and Martin Seel. In the following I will try to address some of Gernot
Böhme’s thoughts on aesthetic and spatial concepts in my argument that the
interpretation of landscape architecture projects may be regarded as an
interplay between different sensory experiences of both material and non-material
aspects, and that the individual collects these aspects to an entity
through an intellectual process.
In Gernot Böhme’s comprehensive oeuvre on aesthetics, the term atmosphere is used to apprehend perceived qualities of space. Böhme’s assumption is that atmospheres are produced through deliberate arrangements; their character, however can be defined only by the perceiving subject. The aesthetics of atmospheres then mediates between the aesthetics of production and that of reception, and as such it no longer maintains that the artistic activity is consummated in the creation of the work, but instead pertains to artistic activity that consists of the production of particular perceptions, or, that the various kinds of receptions experienced by the user plays a role in the production of the work itself.
Böhme defines the aesthetic phenomena as something in-between the object and the user, you might say as a third ephemeral part that comes into being in the interaction between time, situation, space, forms, materials and the user. Atmospheres are thus something quasi-objective that we experience and whose existence we can communicate with others. They can be produced through objective arrangements, but what they are must be felt by exposing oneself to them. Atmospheres then become manifestations of the co-presence of subject and object.
"this liberates things and works of art from the form in which their own reception was embedded and considers them in their ecstasis, i.e. with respect to the way in which they alter spaces by their presence"
way the aesthetics of atmospheres discover and emphasize space and spatiality,
and the presence of the user.
"The space of bodily presence is essential to my bodily existence, since to be bodily present means to find oneself within an environment. [...] bodily presence is conceived as a state of being placed among things, and the order existing between things is understood as the order of their simultaneity, that is, of their reciprocal presence."
above landscape is by tradition regarded as an aesthetic object in landscape
architecture and as a representational space, which we perceive through
vision. Here the relationship between landscape painting and landscape
architecture becomes obvious. Also the modes of representation used in
landscape architecture emphasize the visual approach to landscape and
landscape architecture projects even though they are executed as three-dimensional
environments, which may also imply that the interpretation of a landscape
risks being dominated by the visual impression of it, at least among the
professional user trained and affected by this implicit understanding
of the vision’s precedence. We here touch upon Vöckler’s ascertainment
that we lack models of perception and representation
adequate to describe, analyse and interpret the transformed landscapes.
Lacking adequate models of perception and representation may in themselves
be seen as a major obstacle in defining a contemporary concept of landscape.
"Contemporary arts seeks a solution to this crisis by offering us a new way of seeing, feeling, understanding, and accepting an universe in which traditional relationships have been shattered and new possibilities of relationship are being laboriously sketched out."
to suggest that art alone is capable of solving this “crisis” that we
seem to experience lacking defined concepts, and modes of perception and
representation of a transforming landscape, but to encourage
investigation of the issue by using the freedom of the arts in examing
single phenomena in isolation.
contemporary art scene one may observe an array of art projects, installations
and “happenings” and “events”
are characterized by what may be described as a search for and examination
of both models of perception and representation, and of an environment in
transformation. Another common feature in these projects is the participatory
aspect between the artist, the project and the user, where the project is
sought established, negotiated and interpreted through a dialog between
the artist, the project and the user.
A further characteristic for these projects concerning landscape, urban and environmental issues in a broad sense, is that aesthetic perception is used as a way to become acquainted with environments, phenomena and situations in environments that are beyond traditional definitions and form, and hence aesthetic perception is used as a methodology to describe and understand new forms of landscapes and cities, and environments.
In the following I will try to discuss examples by artists such as Studio E.U., Stalker, Kai Vöckler, Boris Sieverts, who all use walking, moving (e.g. haptic sensing) and aesthetic perception in general as part of their artistic activity, as part of constituting their work, and as pivotal points in the process of interpretation.
I here prefer to use the term project instead of artwork to indicate the open and explorative character of these aesthetic and artistic activities, and also to refer to Umberto Eco’s thoughts on the process of interpretation and strategies for communication. In his Opera Aperta Eco suggests that texts should be considered fields of meaning that can be open and dynamic, rather than finite works. The process of interpretation by the user, when engaging with and interpreting the text, may in this way be seen as a mode of constituting the text as a finite work. In describing the process of interpretation Eco refers to music and its performance as interpretation, every reception of a work of art is both an interpretation and a performance of it, because in every reception the work takes on a fresh perspective for itself.
Eco questions both the traditional concept of artworks known from and used in classical art historian terminology and also in architectural history, and the process of interpretation. Eco hereby added an important contribution to the phenomena and discussions on the art scene at that time concerning the relationship between the artist, the object and the user, and hence the interpretation of the art object, sometimes also including the institution (the art museum, art gallery, etc.). Also, issues concerning modernism and modernistic art and aesthetics were enthusiastically discussed.
These discussions initiated a shift, reflected on by Gernot Böhme, from an understanding of aesthetics of production as constituting both the art object and its interpretation, to a mediation between the aesthetics of production and that of reception. A further characteristic was a shift from interpretation as mainly an intellectual process based on a visual approach to a finite art object to the incorporation of the senses as implicated by the art project and, hence, incorporated in the user’s interpretation of the art project and the art experience.
New models of perception and interpretation of the art experience and the process of interpretation were in this way examined. Dialogue and participation were to become key words in these discussions.
Among the artists exploring and questioning new models of perception and interpretation, and using the aesthetic perception as an artistic praxis, was the artistic and political movement of the Situationist International. Between 1957 and 1972 the movement delivered a broadside attack on the Establishment on several levels, for example in their critique of the modernistic urban planning. Simon Sadler describes the outset for the movement as,
"A nostalgic for a time when artists, architects and designers had pursued disparate, open-ended experiments; for a time when the conditions of modern life – above all, the relationship between ”man and machine” – had been addressed head-on; for a time when fundamental shifts in thought, like those engendered by Marx, Freud and Nietzsche, still felt fresh and vital; and for a time when general revolution was regarded as necessary, even inevitable."
could argue that this seems to be a rather past-oriented and future-denying
approach, but it can also be seen as a defence of the individual, for
imagination, dreaming and sensing. In their critique of the modernist
city, the method of drifting (derive) was developed to describe
and analyse factors affecting mood, behaviour and choice of route. While
drifting through the city, the atmospheres, smells, noises, and the people
and their activities were “recorded” through the senses of the drifter.
The recorded material and the route itself were later used in a mapping
and reconstruction of the city. The so-called psychogeographical method
was regarded as, a sort of therapy, a fetishization of those parts
of the city that could still rescue drifters from the clusters of functionalism,
exciting the senses and the body.
suggests that the process of interpretation, as shown by the references
to both aesthetic theory and to the contemporary art scene for several years,
has been questioned and examined through both theoretical and empirical
examples initiating and emphasizing the user’s participatory role in the
process of interpretation. In relation to the exemplified art projects,
the user’s role is taken even further than just being an active participant
in the process of interpretation. The user, in Büro für Städtereisen
by Boris Sieverts, is an active part of producing the project, and thus
to be regarded as mediating between the aesthetic of production and that
of its reception. The relationship between artist, art project and user
is in this way both reformulated and reconfigured; the process of interpretation
is implemented within the process of producing, which in this way becomes
an enacted process. A key point is the interplay between different sensory
experiences by both the artist and the user, and it is this interplay that
the individual collects to an entity
through an intellectual process, where the “material” provided by the sensory
experiences are negotiated, discussed and interpreted. The aesthetic perception
is thus to be considered as a methodology processing the interpretation.|
The user is thereby given the possibility to interact with and perhaps even change the project. The process of constituting and interpreting the project becomes a two-way process: the user engaging in a project influences the project, as well as the experience influencing the user, and hence the interpretation of it. By basically focusing on the common perceptual capacities of the user and by enacting his projects in ordinary environments, Sieverts seems to reach out beyond a traditional art, architecture and planning audience. And, in emphasising the user’s individual sensory perceptions of the environment as an important part of the interpretation, the traditional relationship between sensory perception as seeing, hearing, smelling etc., and interpretation depending only on our intellectual capacities, is displaced in favour of the former. The interpretation thus becomes a process enacted between the artist, the situation and/or environment and the sensing user, where the presupposed and the actual, but non-material sensing by the user, is a key-point. The participatory aspect is thus to initiate a non-material – ephemeral – in-between and multi-sensory experience of the user.
Turning back to Gernot Böhme’s thoughts on the space of bodily presence and aesthetics of atmospheres, he emphasizes the interplay between man and objects, and the atmospheres that are created in the interaction between space, objects and user. Böhme also emphasises that the apprehension of perceived qualities of space is an individual intellectual process, that the perceived qualities are processed intellectually by the individual, and that we are able to communicate the results of this process. In this respect, Böhme’s approach is more spatial than object-oriented, and as such his thoughts are interesting to planners and (landscape) architects concerned with spatial issues and how we understand, perceive and interpret environments such as transforming landscapes and urban environments.
It was stated in the introduction that the definition of the concept of landscape and actual landscapes are being transformed and replaced by new definitions and typologies for which we lack concepts and images. It was also stated that both our models of perception and representation seem inadequate to accommodate and deal with these transformations. Thirdly, it was also stated that, by investigating the relationship between modes of aesthetic perception discussed in aesthetic theory and contemporary art projects, we could better understand and define characteristics in a transforming concept of landscape, and hence in contemporary landscape architecture, hereby addressing the question of how interpretation might be processed.
Relating this to the field of landscape architecture, one may observe that, after generally being regarded as a design discipline, the planning and structural potential in landscape architecture was rediscovered and reformulated according to renewed environmentally concerned urban agendas in the 1980s. In this period several trans-disciplinary projects were pointing more and more directly towards in-between space and landscape architecture as perhaps the most interesting and potent field for dealing with contemporary urban and spatial issues. Some of these projects raised questions regarding the modernist notion of space, where the relationship between figure and ground as reflecting a dynamic interplay of form-masses and space-volume, were given priority as the main agent in space.
But do we have an articulated contemporary spatial concept to replace this?
Different modes and approaches to this question have been addressed and discussed, several of them relating to discussions on theoretical aspects in the psychology of perception and virtual reality.
Representing these discussion one may point out two modes; the one called the Ecological mode, named by James J. Gibbson and based on a redefinition of the psychology of perception. In Gibbson’s view, man is not only part of his surroundings through sight but also a point of departure, as presupposed in the modernist concept of space. Man is moving around among the various elements in space of which some are of the same movable kind like himself, and others like buildings, trees, mountains etc. are stationary. Gibbson’s theory seems to relate to,
"the Baudelairian hero of modernity, the dandy strolling about in the city mingling in the anonymous mass of people in their busy activities. But it might as well be an attitude symptomatic of the beholder in his spatial relation of himself to the elements of the installations or ’sculpture in the expanded field’ to use Rosalin Krauss’s definition."
The other mode is related to cyberspace and virtual reality with their incorporeal transparency. Some argue that our surroundings already have been influenced by virtual reality and that this influence has,
"managed to suck from the urban and natural surroundings, all dimensions and all volume of form and space [and that we as an impact from here] increasingly [will] experience our surroundings in a kind of underwater mode of vision, as if living in a wrapped-in and consequently ungraspable reality, a gigantic project in the manner of Christo."
to both modes is the description of large scale space, not as a defined
and articulated space, but as a spatial entity that we cannot get a distance
from and which therefore seems ungraspable as an object and, to some,
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Over the last decade, there has been a significant change in what clients want from their financial service providers due to an emerging digital-first landscape. Not long ago, firms would pride themselves on building internal proprietary solutions – as it has historically earmarked their firm as leaders in the space. The shift toward partnering with these firms is now the new norm, like a prize fighter on his last legs about to take a knockout punch, these firms must adapt or risk losing it all. Studies suggest that nearly two-thirds of banks, and credit unions, have entered into at least one FinTech partnership over the past three years, and 35% made an investment in a FinTech demonstrating the continued success these firms see in working together.
While partnering with a FinTech can help a firm scale their digital capabilities, they must understand the nuances of these partnerships or, like the prize fighter, risk taking that knockout punch.
Drivers of change: Why are banks driven to partner?
Some of the major drivers of this culture of collaboration are innovation, speed to market, and acquisition of a digital-native clientele, as well as competition with big tech venturing into the financial landscape.
FinTechs bring with them an experience that most incumbents lack – innovation in technology. As technology becomes a major player in all aspects of human existence, customer acquisition and retention are largely affected by the digital solutions incumbents provide. Baby boomers are retiring, and there is a transition of wealth into the hands of Gen X and Millennials. This demographic demands an exceptional and transparent digital experience. As for Gen Z, they have grown up as digital natives and have higher digital capability expectations from their financial providers.
In a traditional financial landscape, incumbents have been competing amongst themselves to provide better solutions to their existing clientele. However, as big tech forays into this area, speed to market and innovation has become key for legacy institutions. Amazon’s foray into small business lending, Apple’s entry into payments and consumer finance, or Facebook’s announced launch of Libra; are all driving traditional financial institutes to partner with FinTechs in this race to the top.
Forming Alliances: How banks and FinTechs partner
Like any other alliance one might come across, both banks and FinTechs have specific objectives which drive the types of partnerships they enter with each other.
The Clark Kent: Private label solutions and partial outsourcing
To open new product offerings, banks buy / lease underlying FinTech technology or missing expertise and put its branding on the product to offer an end-to-end solution.
The Collector: FinTech Investment and Buyout
The more traditional approach would be for banks to purchase the rights to the technology, buy out the company, or invest in FinTechs that are mission aligned with the bank.
The Brotherhood: Referrals
Referrals can happen both ways – bank referring customers to FinTechs and vice-versa. This is a revenue earning model where banks can earn by referring customers to a FinTech in case the bank has a gap in their service. On the other hand, banks can also purchase customer leads, accounts, or loan assets from the partnering FinTech.
The Marketplace: Bank Model Partnership
In this approach, banks serve as the lender/account issuer in the FinTech ecosystem. Here, the FinTech owns the entire technology solution while the bank holds the ownerships of accounts.
The technology of collaboration: How are banks leveraging FinTech offerings?
The core of bank-FinTech collaboration lies in technology. Integrations with internal and third-party systems are critical to running an efficient operation. Flexible APIs and an extensive library of on-demand data interfaces to integrate platforms across the enterprise and an open, vendor-neutral architecture to connect with virtually any platform or counterparty are some key technologies incumbents need to invest in for a smooth integration.
Let's take the wealth management ecosystem for example.
Financial institutions tend to own the omnichannel client experience to provide a seamless journey for the client. However, APIs play a significant role in integrating with key functionalities like account aggregation, money movement, Monte Carlo simulations, financial modeling, etc. A lot of these underlying functions are proprietary to FinTechs to maintain market differentiation.
Other technologies affecting the wealth management landscape are Distributed Ledgers for cross border transfers and AI-driven regulatory compliance and fraud detection. Large scale monolithic software, like OEMS and CRM systems, are moving to the cloud and being accessed via SaaS solutions. There are countless examples of how technology is shaping this ecosystem.
Incumbents need to ramp up their own technical capabilities to take full advantage of these innovative offerings and be on par with the market.
Partnerships are essential for longevity in the financial services industry
Firms that want to win in the redesigned market must make a bold move forward and jump into the chaos of technological disruption. Create new partnerships, understand the emerging customer base, and embrace innovation to create a new wave of offerings.
Digital transformation is not just a technical challenge but a cultural journey for the future in financial services.
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Camera Obscura and World of Illusions are located in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, and was founded in 1835. The exhibits of the museum are dedicated to various optical illusions and descriptions of ways in which they can be achieved. Camera Obscura is a special camera that existed since the olden days - the first mention of it dates back to the 4th century BC. It is a building with one small hole in the top part of one of the walls, with a white screen on the wall opposite to the hole. The light from the hole reflects the objects seen through it, upside down, creating a stunning effect.
The museum has all kinds of optical illusions, puzzles and mazes – you can take a picture of your head on a plate, see how you would look as an ape, see your shadow turn different colors, become the master of Plasma, see the T-Rex illusion, navigate through the fiery universe, get lost in the mirror maze or in the Vortex Tunnel, and many more. Besides that, there is a room dedicated to Edinburgh's history, with rare old photos, and you can enjoy the panoramic view of the city from the roof.
Camera Obscura ("dark room" in Latin) is located on the top floor of the XVII century building with a white dome, and is the main element of the museum. In the Victorian era, this building was called Eye in the Sky. It has a system of optical mirrors, which project a reflection of the surrounding area onto the concave round table. It is better to visit Camera Obscura on a bright day to see a better reflection of the city.
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Raspberry Pi launches next-gen Pico W microcontroller with networking support
It comes with Wi-Fi connectivity for the first time, opening up a variety of projects for developers
Raspberry Pi has launched the Pico W - its first microcontroller to use Raspberry Pi-built silicon and the first to support wireless connectivity.
The RP2040 chip is designed to power the next generation of Pico boards, according to the Cambridge-based firm, offering 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless connectivity, delivered through Infineon’s CYW43439 wireless chip.
The CYW43439 chip supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Classic, and Bluetooth Low-Energy. Raspberry Pi said it has not enabled Bluetooth on the Pico W, “but may do so in the future”.
The 802.11n Wi-Fi standard is relatively old for today’s networking technology - it can be seen as ‘Wi-Fi 4’ while the world is now moving to Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E - but Raspberry Pi markets the Pico series as an internet of things (IoT) platform, suitable for a number of different projects.
The company said the fast cores, large memory, and flexible interfacing make its RP2040 chip ideal for IoT applications like a balloon tracker, robotics, and machine learning with gesture-recognising devices, for example.
The company also regards it as an ‘experimental’ alternative for design engineers looking for functional hardware amid the global semiconductor shortage - a shortage which has “vastly accelerated [RP2040] adoption,” it said.
The new Raspberry Pi Pico W is out now and costs $6 (£5), which is about one dollar or one British pound sterling more than its predecessor. It retains complete pin compatibility with the original Raspberry Pi Pico and delivers wireless connectivity for the first time.
Raspberry Pi has also released The Pico H and Pico WH for $5 (£4.15) and $7 (£5.81) respectively. These two are almost exactly the same as the original Pico and Pico W, but will appeal to those wanting to start working immediately. Both come with pre-populated pin headers, eliminating the need for at-home soldering, and a new 3-pin debug connector.
The Raspberry Pi Pico H and Pico W are both available today, while the Pico WH is expected to release in August.
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The network stack is built around IwIP and uses libcyw43 to communicate with the wireless chip. Use of libcyw43 is usually free for non-commercial use but Raspberry Pi said that developers can enjoy a free commercial use license when building for Pico, or any product based on RP2040 ir CYW43439.
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You’ve probably heard a lot about how you should protect your identity from thieves and scammers. After all, cybercriminals can commit ID fraud with just the barest set of information about you. But what can you do to prevent identity theft?
Start by making sure you use these tools and services to protect your identity from theft.
1. Identity theft protection and monitoring
Let’s start with the most obvious solution: identity theft protection. What is it, where can you find it, and how much does it cost?
In most cases, identity theft protection is a feature bundled into bank accounts and credit cards. Providers will monitor your account for suspicious activity and contact you in the event of unusual spending.
You can also take the time to monitor bank and credit card statements – on paper or online – to ensure nothing is amiss. Some companies offer easy access to your credit agency to check for any new credit applications in your name.
A great feature banks and credit card companies have introduced is SMS alerts. These can be configured to receive instant notification if your account goes overdrawn or a maximum spend has been breached.
With all this in mind, you should avoid ID fraud insurance. All this does is mitigate the expense of sorting the fallout from ID fraud – it doesn’t reimburse your bank account or credit card. But as long as your identity theft was not caused by personal negligence, your bank will cover the cost of the fraud.
Your identity can be stolen from a laptop, desktop, tablet, smartphone, or even a smartwatch.
The solution? Be sure to set up secure authentication. This can be anything from a password or PIN code to thumb or fingerprint recognition. It depends on your device and its limitations but always choose the most secure option.
Avoid unlocking shapes and gestures on phones and tablets, however. Finger grease can clarify what the unlock gesture is, making this the least secure option.
In addition to securing how you access your devices, take the time to set up two-factor authentication wherever it is available. Once enabled, this prevents unauthorized access to your account by requiring more than just your password. This might be a one-time passcode from a mobile app, or a one-off emailed link.
With your login authentication secured, your ID has a better chance of staying out of the hands of hackers.
While wrongly considered a privacy and security solution for almost everything, there is one thing VPNs do well: they encrypt your data. If you regularly use public Wi-Fi, this is vital to prevent observation from password sniffers. Hackers use these to collect logins, passwords, and other transmitted data from unencrypted connections.
Encryption prevents a password sniffer from collecting any usable data.
So, be sure to use a VPN on any device you might use on a vulnerable network. This probably means your laptop, smartphone, and tablet.
If you’re not using a VPN already, now is the time to start. Most VPNs support multiple devices and a monthly subscription of under £10.
- Check out our complete list of the best VPN services
4. Antivirus and online security software
Every computer and mobile device you use should have antivirus software. While Windows might ship with onboard AV and malware software (Windows Defender), mobile devices are less secure.
At best, online security software can detect dodgy websites and phishing links and clean up malware from your PC or smartphone. So what is the risk to your identity, though?
Well, one critical risk is emails claiming to be from a reputable bank that are scammers trying to trick you into logging into a spoofed website. That’s a one-way trip to identity theft.
Similarly, you have the risk of malware installing keyloggers on your system. These tools record keystrokes as you type, recording usernames and passwords that hackers can use to access your accounts. All they need to do is pick an account holding your details and your ID is theirs to steal.
5. A password manager
Remembering multiple passwords is challenging, but you must hold different passwords for every account. Many account breaches occur because the same password is used for email as, say, Facebook or PayPal.
Ending this behavior will improve your security considerably, reducing the likelihood of identity theft. The way to remember all your passwords and keep them safe and secure is to remember just one. Saving your passwords in a password manager is the answer. Can’t you think of a password? Don’t worry – password managers feature secure password generators.
With a password manager, a master password is used to provide access to the vault. This might be secondary to a thumb or fingerprint, depending on your device.
Several password managers are available. LastPass is reliable (see our LastPass review (opens in new tab)) and is also free to use. Also, consider 1Password (opens in new tab)and Keeper (opens in new tab). However, avoid the password manager built into the Chrome browser, as this isn’t considered as secure.
Don’t forget education, awareness and vigilance
If you’re using these tools, you have a good chance of avoiding identity theft. While nothing can stop your accounts from being stolen due to a corporate data breach, you’ve done everything you can to secure things are your end.
Or have you? Well, in terms of software and services, yes. But there is always more you can do. Start by being more aware of cybersecurity issues, just as you would stay updated about neighborhood crime. After all, we’re all members of the digital neighborhood. Be aware of new risks, and always double-check what you’re doing-especially when you’re considering following a link in an email or text message claiming to be from your bank.
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Does Wet Food Make Dogs Breath Smell
Does Wet Food Make Dogs Breath Smell. Does raw feeding cause bad breath: They’re alerting you of a seizure.
The reason wet dogs smell bad is because it releases old oil, yeast, dirt and other microorganisms into your dog’s fur as you wash them. The cause of bad breath in dogs (halitosis) is the very same as it is in humans, and that is largely poor dental hygiene and diet. Since feeding the pups a raw diet with raw meaty bones, their diet a) no longer consists of a crazy amount of carbs that cause tartar buildup.
Your Dog Is Acknowledging You.
9 reasons why your dog smells your breath. Smells better than other canned foods in the can and on the dog’s breath afterward; Airway infections in the lungs, sinuses or windpipe.
Can Dog Food Make Dog's Breath Stink?
But yup food can make a difference. Bad eating habits image credit: Bad breath in dogs can be caused by:
However, If Your Yorkie Puppy's Breath Starts To Really Smell Foul, Wet Food Clings To The Teeth More Than Abrasive Kibble And Does Less To Remove.
Dental disease such as tartar build up, gum infections, and tooth root abscesses; Why does my dog’s breath smell like something dead? Kidney failure can lead to several other serious health conditions in your dog like the buildup of iron and other heavy metals.
The Problem With Trying To “Cure” Bad Breath In Dogs Is That The Foul Odor Is Often Just A Symptom Of A Larger Problem.
Underlying illness, such as kidney disease and diabetes, can cause animals to have malodorous breath. Adding roughly half a teaspoon of raw organic apple cider vinegar to your dog's water bowl can help freshen up breath. Does wet food cause bad breath in dogs?
Puppies Or Adolescent Dogs May Be More Inclined To Eat Feces Of Other Dogs Or Be Curious About What Is In The Cat’s Litter Box.
I came home and sniffed my dogs all over (yup they looked at me mad) and no real smell at all from them. Coat looks healthier than it has in years; As pet parents, we definitely love our dogs so much, but let’s face it, our cuddle and nibble time with them would be greatly affected if their breath stinks. | <urn:uuid:d8beadc9-c9ce-4008-8941-270fcf88558c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rileymorrisonauthor.com/does-wet-food-make-dogs-breath-smell/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.921571 | 526 | 2.28125 | 2 |
From June 27 to July 2, 2022, Strasbourg hosted the flagship event of the Council of Europe’s “Democracy Here. Democracy Now” Campaign. Action Week has brought together activists, organizations, and institutions from across Europe to celebrate democracy and discuss ways to revitalize it. On this occasion, the Council of Europe also celebrated the 50th anniversary of its youth sector and its contribution to democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.
Dimitrije Jovićević, a representative of CONNECT International, had the opportunity to participate in this event’s Digitalization Plenary and discuss how digital technology affects democracy: the challenges, but also the opportunities, and why we all need to collaborate on different elements of the digital agenda to ensure that digital technology safeguards democratic principles and values!
During the discussion, he mentioned that nearly 95 percent of European youth today have access to the internet and that they both consume and create digital content. Even if they do not produce content, they nevertheless leave a digital footprint that is highly relevant to the topic at hand. By using surveillance tools or cookies, different industries and political parties that use profiling and microtargeting get a lot of useful information from young people and other citizens.
“And this might be one of the most significant threats to democracy: so-called information bubbles. They are, of course, worsened by artificial intelligence, but even without it, they are still a cause for concern. The information bubbles, in which citizens have limited access to overall information and serve only a portion of it, cause polarization and segmentation of society. This, of course, leads to action both online and in person, which has a negative impact on democracy. When coupled with misinformation or disinformation, it creates space for hate speech, sometimes leading to hate crimes, but also greater nationalism and extremism,” our representative noted.
On the other hand, he emphasized that a limited number of non-profit platforms serve as places for the meaningful exchange of ideas, knowledge, and opinions, and that there’s a need to increase their visibility and use. He also discussed mechanisms like e-consultation, e-voting, e-justice, and e-participation, which are important for digital citizenship and online democracy.
“E-voting is undoubtedly one of the most important mechanisms for digital citizenship. But let’s not forget: democracy is more than just elections. It is also about what we do in the meantime. So, without a doubt, e-consultation, e-petition, and other e-governance tools that allow for innovative methods of engaging and participating in democratic processes are equally important. This means that citizens can be consulted and share their opinions and views. But it also means, and this may be one of the most important aspects of building democracy online, that citizens can access public documents and data online—which would be much harder to keep track of on a daily basis in physical life,” he pointed out.
“And we’ve seen young people do it, with the Climate Change Movement and Greta Thunberg being a great example. However, we must continue to work on enabling wider groups of young people, and in particular youth organizations, to use digital technology for similar purposes, as well as to explore and create new ones, which will shape new mechanisms of participation, “he concluded. Our representative further emphasized the significance of education, specifically critical thinking and media literacy among young people, and the need for citizens to join counter movements to protect digital space.
In his closing words, he called on all stakeholders, and especially young people, to work together “because digital is both our present and our future, and we owe it to ourselves and future generations to ensure that it is used for the benefit of young people and society as a whole.” | <urn:uuid:42891210-f017-4fe2-ac37-4cd749d56724> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.connect-international.org/2022/07/02/connect-at-the-democracy-here-democracy-now-flagship-event/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952889 | 794 | 2.296875 | 2 |
By Ashani Kurukulasuriya, HHS Class of 2020
The innumerable changes that have been taking place in society on a social, educational, and technological front have inspired Holliston High School’s administration to construct a group of diverse students, faculty, and community members in an attempt to try and dramatically rethink the way education is being provided to students. There are approximately 30 members, or “visionaries”, on this new committee known as the Future Ready Coalition. All members are involved with Holliston Public Schools in some manner; each member is also dedicated to helping facilitate meaningful conversations revolving around the vision of a Holliston High School graduate and how the community can help to foster an environment for growth mindsets, valuable learning experiences, and endless opportunities for all of the students.
The coalition first came together at the end of March without any concrete expectations — the meeting consisted of ice-breaking activities that allowed for its participants to gain a sense of familiarity and comfort prior to exchanging their ideas and thoughts of reinvention. Thanks to the welcoming environment and standards that were set in place, the members found themselves situated in a “safe space” — a place where they can freely express their thoughts without hesitation or fear of being ridiculed. The three-hour meeting also consisted of activities that pushed everyone to think critically about what specific characteristics they value in others and how the school can utilize nontraditional approaches to help students acquire these traits. Holliston took inspiration from schools/districts including Shrewsbury High School, Fairfax County Public Schools, and Evergreen Public Schools, all of which have already juggled with the idea of what a graduate should/could look like. Some interesting questions that prompted serious thought included the following:
- What are our highest hopes for what we want our graduates to be able to do when they leave here?
- What are the skills that are required at various workplaces (technological/medical, educational, financial, creative arts, etc.)?
- What are other schools doing? How can we be different? How can we take inspiration from others?
Particular members shared that their hopes are to ensure that all students leave the walls of Holliston High School as “globally aware, civically minded, and problem-solving individuals.” Other members shared that they would like to see students ready to take on jobs that involve “strong interpersonal skills, organizational skills, and a technological aptitude.” Everyone in the room was well aware of the fact that these questions have no right answers – and that is okay because the goal of the coalition is not to be right, but rather it is to be ready for a series of trial and error “experiments” in hopes of challenging the traditional approach to schooling.
The subsequent meetings were quite similar to the first one in terms of the questions being asked and the conversations that were being held. With each meeting inching closer and closer towards a final draft of what the typical Holliston High School graduate should look like, members found themselves engorged with feelings of skepticism, fear, and trepidation. Hearing from students and faculty alike in small groups, however, allowed for feelings of fear to be exchanged for excitement and optimism for the future.
The future seems very bright for this committee and Holliston High School. Their ultimate hope is to have a “…living and breathing document” that outlines the vision of a Holliston graduate. In other words, they not only wish to pin down their hopes and wishes for their graduates, but they also hope to make that wish a reality by doing whatever they can to get themselves to that point. In the upcoming weeks, the group plans on gathering feedback from graduated Holliston seniors and hearing about how their high school experience equipped, or did not equip them, for the world outside of secondary school. The group also plans on taking field trips to various workplaces to see how work environments have changed over the years and from that, they hope to engineer new and innovative ways to help high schoolers be ready to take on this evolving world. | <urn:uuid:7837c23b-e63e-4728-9a57-985cd0d6c8aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hhsfuturereadycoalition.org/2019/05/21/building-shared-vision/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97293 | 832 | 2.078125 | 2 |
The light pen consists of a photocell that senses the light radiated from the phosphor on a cathode ray tube (CRT) screen. The light pen reacts every time a pixel on the screen is lit up by the electron ray within the tube. The signal passes from the light pen to the computer, which at the same time receives information on where and when the spot passes different places on the screen. In this way the computer can identify where the pen is on the screen. The light pen can be used for pointing to parts of the screen one wishes to know more about. It can also be used to activate different functions. If, for example, one pointed to a valve and, at the same time, pressed a button on the side of the pen, this may cause the valve to close. The light pen is suitable for moving cursors on a screen. However, it is difficult to see any operational advantages of light pens over other controls.
If a light pen is used over a long period, it is necessary to have a specially designed armrest to prevent discomfort. The light pen has to come close up against the screen, which means that it is impossible to have any form of reflection shield or filter on the screen, and this can give rise to visual problems. Positioning of the light pen must be exact, which makes considerable demands on vision and also contributes to bad working posture in many instances. | <urn:uuid:560f6293-e691-446f-8013-df5ae35618c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://jfjm100.com/control-room-design-and-ergonomics/light-pens.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952615 | 286 | 3.546875 | 4 |
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SANTA MARIA VOLCANO
The fourth highest volcano of Guatemala.
Description: Options: One or two days demanding hike to the summit of the fourth highest volcano in Guatemala, from where you can watch the active crater (Santiaguito) of this volcano, the pacific coast, the volcanic chain of Guatemala, and the north and western highlands.
Classification: high mountain, alpine landscape, highly demanding.
Altitude: 3,772 mts. (12,376 ft.) above sea level.
Duration: One day or two days.
Ascent: 4 hours up hill.
Required equipment: hiking shoes, warm jacket and clothing, small backpack or complete equipment: big backpack, sleeping bag, tent.
Best time to do this excursion: from November to April when there's no rain. It's always cooler in the mountains.
Weather: normally the temperature is freezing in the evening, night and early morning.
Basic requirement: To be in good physical and mental conditioning, not to be sick.
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[Ads-l] WOTY Candidate: Great Resignation
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Wed Dec 8 22:57:23 UTC 2021
I'm seeing a lot about the "Great Resignation," a reference to the large numbers of employees voluntarily leaving their employers. All sources agree in attributing the term of Anthony Klotz, a professor of management at Mays Business School of Texas A&M University; I have not been able to antedate that, although perhaps someone else can. Specifically, it seems to derive from an article in Bloomberg Businessweek by Arianne Cohen, May 10, 2021, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-10/quit-your-job-how-to-resign-after-covid-pandemic, which began as follows:
"Ready to say adios to your job? You're not alone. "The great resignation is coming," says Anthony Klotz, an associate professor of management at Texas A&M University who's studied the exits of hundreds of workers. "When there's uncertainty, people tend to stay put, so there are pent-up resignations that didn't happen over the past year." The numbers are multiplied, he says, by the many pandemic-related epiphanies - about family time, remote work, commuting, passion projects, life and death, and what it all means - that can make people turn their back on the 9-to-5 office grind. We asked Klotz what to expect as the great resignation picks up speed."
Incidentally, as I understand it, the Great Resignation has not been driven by the factors Klotz anticipated; he seemed to think that white collar workers would threaten, and follow through with, resignations if their employers made them return to the office. Instead, I gather that it is driven primarily by hourly workers who are able to move to new jobs with higher compensation and/or better working conditions, and to a lesser extent by workers taking early retirement (which would not normally be called "resignations").
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Why you should take this class
Makeready—the process of preparing your press to print well—is a fine balance of plate height and pressure. Whether you use traditional metal type, photopolymer plates, or experimental blocks, it’s important to know what the correct range of plate height and packing is and how to get there with precision. After two hours with Dafi Kühne, live from his studio in Switzerland, even experienced letterpress printers will gain a new understanding of the mechanics of their cylinder press. Stop guessing and learn how to approach press makeready with intention. Once you understand the rules, you too can work with unorthodox materials in utterly original ways!
What you’ll learn
Dafi Kühne will explain (from various camera angles and with lots of examples) what is actually happening when you adjust press packing vs. when you adjust the height of your plate. He’ll show various ways to precisely measure the height-to-paper, explain the recommended tolerances, and why you don’t want to inadvertently mess with them. He will then demonstrate how he marries precise makeready and unconventional materials in his award-winning letterpress poster work. This class will focus mainly on cylinder proof presses, but some aspects (especially block makeready) work similarly on a platen press. You’ll learn:
- how Dafi prints from alternative materials in his studio
- how to calibrate blocks using calipers or a plate height tester
- how to arrive at the correct thickness of cylinder packing on a cylinder proof press (Vandercook or similar)
- how adjustments to packing and plate height impact registration and print quality
- the importance of precision when working with unconventional materials
All participants will receive an illustrated handout for reference and notetaking.
This workshop consists of a demonstration and interactive Q&A, with no advance preparation or supplies necessary to participate.
Who should take this class?
This class is suited for beginning to advanced letterpress printers who wish to gain a deeper understanding of printing mechanics. To get the most out of this class, some letterpress printing experience is helpful.
Will this class be recorded?
All of PiP’s letterpress classes are live and unrecorded — we find it’s a lot more fun and interactive this way. They are closed captioned using Zoom’s Live Transcription feature; to make the most of this tool, update to the most recent version of Zoom.
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Do you have one thing in your life that you are regretful of? Let’s say that you were once confused and that have brought you trouble. For example, you met a stranger – a guy, and then, you two started seeing each other. You do not know anything about him yet and you were just at the beginning of acquaintance process. But, the temptations are too strong and you allowed yourself to fall under his arms – you had a sexual intercourse with this guy without thinking about your safety. You had given yourself all out without using any protection like a condom.
How sure are you that this guy is clean? You may be at the right age to meet guys, go for a date and enter a relationship. But, have you ever taught about acquiring STDs or a Sexually Transmitted Diseases? You must be aware that a sexual contact without protection is an act, which you may someday regret. So, after realizing that what you just did was wrong, you better make an STD test at the soonest time. The http://www.homestdtesting.org/ is a reliable source, where you can get a lot of information about these diseases.
By the way, STDs are transferred from one person to another person through blood, sexual contact or fluids from the body. You may also acquire it through needle sharing, blood transfers or when you got it from your mother during her pregnancy. Therefore, it is a must for you to know, if you are infected or not to prevent other people from acquiring it. Can you see now why it is important to make a test?
Acquiring a disease, which can be treated through medicines, is a relief. But, you can never be given the proper treatment without knowing the type of disease that you have. For example, you are suspecting yourself to have STDs and you wanted to be sure about this. Some ladies feel shy about seeing an expert. So, the first thing that you may do is to make a checklist of the symptoms that will indicate that you may or not really have STDs.
You may have STDs, if you have sores in or on the genitals or rectal area, painful urination, unusual vaginal discharge or bleeding, pain during the intercourse, abdominal pain, fever and trunk, hand or foot rashes. These symptoms will not appear right away, so it may take days or even years before noticing it. When you are worried, you need helpful hints. But, if your first option is to do a private test, then try it at home.
Due to the fact that symptoms are not always present, it does not mean that you have not acquired STDs. But, knowing your personal activities, you do not always need to see the signs that you have a disease. Just grab a home test STD kit and follow the instructions given. I am pretty sure that you can find this kit in the pharmacy, anyway.
Why see an expert?
Let’s say that after looking at the checklist, it is telling you that you have STDs. I guess, this is a sign, telling you that you should go to a doctor to find out what type of STDs you have. I know that you find it embarrassing, especially when you need to fall in line with other ladies. Remember that not everybody in the queue is infected with the disease. Some of them are just worried and wants to make sure that they are free from STDs.
Anyway, who cares, if you are going to see a doctor? You are just coming to make sure that you had an accurate result. So, before coming to the doctor, make sure that you have performed the test already because, if you really have STDs, then you need to seek help. You must be given the proper treatment as soon as possible. You may try home remedies to help you out of this problem, but will it work?
After performing a test at home, it will help you gain confidence. The sad thing there is that you have nobody to advice you. It is also important for you to know the types of STDs: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/246491.php. | <urn:uuid:62c04397-dd1b-4645-b8a3-86615d4cc868> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.diversityinhospitality.com/health-care/the-importance-of-testing-for-stds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972682 | 864 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Laurose extract — from the ‘Cancer Bush’ — has shown success against a broad spectrum of cancers
“Cancer Bush” is what the local people call the Laurose flowering tree which has reportedly had more than 500 compounds identified thus far, many of which are noted for their cancer-fighting as well as immune-boosting and other health-promoting qualities.
The Laurose extract was first used to treat the HIV-AIDS epidemic. A clinical test case was done on 350 HIV/AIDS patients and all of them recovered their health except 5 patients who were far too advanced when they came for treatment.
The results have been nothing less than astounding with a reported 98 percent success on HIV/AIDS and a very high success rate with cancer.
Did You Know
Some forms of OPC Laurose on the market are not properly prepared; we have had several reports that they are too strong to take even at low doses. The correct blend of this herbalA product made from a plant that is thought to be useful in treating a disease or staying healthy. Herbal supplements are taken by mouth. extract that the Budwig Center recommends to its cancer patients is found at Life Integrative Medicine Inc. in the USA and they ship worldwide and offer discounts for quantities and special arrangements for practitioners.
Dr. H. Zima Ozel, who re-discovered an age-old remedy, reported success rates of more than 70 percent in the 40-plus years that he has used concentrated Laurose extract in Turkey. Other practitioners are reporting more than 90 percent success when used in conjunction with an initial totally body detox, parasite cleanse and improved nutrition. [1, 2]
Dr. Mark who discovered this amazing AIDS and anti-cancer remedy reported:
“Everything still OK here and cancer patients, as well as HIV patients on the Laurose mix, are doing well. The medical doctor in Cape Town who is using the mix for all his cancer patients has continued to have good results. The oncologist where he sends his patients to was so impressed with the results that she is now using it herself for prevention. Of the cancer patients, 5 arrived when they had about a week to 10 days to live and they were too weak to keep the mix down. They died without really being able to try the extract.
“All the others are still alive, some now for nearly three years. One breast cancer patient who was given a few months to live eventually became the patient of the oncologist who is now also using the extract. She was declared free of cancer by the oncologist approximately 1 year ago and is still doing well. Others used it for a few months until their cancers were gone. One patient with a festering hole of 1cm diameter on his nose (about half a cm deep) has been using it for three months after doctors were unable to cure the tumor with radiation. The hole is now half the size and not festering anymore. It should be healed in about 3-6 months.
“The doctor in Cape Town whose own wife had metastasized cancer to the bones is now cancer free. It also seems to help with asthma, male impotence, and diabetes. One advanced MS patient has now used it for 2 months and is reporting that it seems to help for the pain in her legs.”
To paraphrase a department head at noted cancer research facility M. D. Anderson (famous cancer treatment hospital in Houston, Texas): “We don't know yet exactly how it works, we just know that it does work, attacking and killing bad cells — and only bad cells — and stopping their multiplication.”
Laurose extract has shown remarkable success against a very broad range of cancers, including lung, liver, leukemia, breast, brain, prostate, stomach, pancreatic and more. Laurose has been found to either eliminate or greatly alleviate the side effects of chemo when used in conjunction with chemo. However, unlike chemo, Laurose does not cause lethargy but instead usually boosts a person's energy level.
Studies seem to provide yet another important piece of evidence in understanding why Laurose has proven to be successful against a great many forms of cancer. In previous studies, Laurose extracts have been shown to:
- Inhibit angiogenesis, the process where cancer produces blood vessels and spreads;
- Inhibit the NF-kB factor in cancer cells, which is the process that cells use to protect themselves when they come under attack;
- Induce apoptosisA type of cell death in which a series of molecular steps in a cell lead to its death. This is one method the body uses to get rid of unneeded or abnormal cells. The process of apoptosis may be blocked in cancer cells. Also called programmed cell death., or normal cell death, in cancer cells;
- Greatly stimulate immune activity and cross the blood-brain-barrier in cases of brain cancer.
Dr. Johanna Budwig used several different herbal formulas along with her famous flaxseed oil and cottage cheese (Quark) for her cancer patients. Therefore, the Budwig Center in Spain also has been recommending the OPC Laurose to their patients and have experienced good results. It is also very helpful for patients that suffer from cachexiaWeakness and wasting of the body due to severe chronic illness, also known as Wasting Syndrome, is a sign of diseases, such as advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), AIDS, cancer, or heart failure. (wasting away).
Laurose extract has had success against a broad spectrum of cancers since Doctor H. Ziya Ozel began working with Laurose extracts in 1966 in Turkey. Dr. Ozel subsequently went on to successfully treat thousands of patients, many of whom were in advanced stages and who mainstream chemo and radiation treatments had failed to help. The Salud Integral Clinic in Honduras has continued that success for the past several years and also reports successes against a wide variety of cancers and other cell proliferative diseases and immune disorders.
Pancreatic cancer, which is normally fatal within only a few months of diagnoses, yet Mr. Knocke reports that they have pancreatic cancer patients who are still alive years later, and are healthy and doing well. He also reported speaking with two of the newer pancreatic cancer patients recently and said that both of whom were alive and doing well five months after their diagnosis. One patient's cancer had stopped growing and was stabilized and another had no signs of tumors or cancer at all now.
The Laurose (Nerium) extract tested was developed by Phoenix Biotech and used a liquid carbon dioxide extraction method. A previous phase I trial of an injected aqueous Laurose extract never did reach a maximum safe level. Instead, the trial was halted when the amount injected became too large to practically exceed. It has since been determined that the aqueous extract can also be administered safely and effectively orally.
The next step in the FDA trial process would be a larger scale multi-location phase II trial. Such a trial will depend on large amounts of funding, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars. Even if funding is found, it could take years before the new drug goes through the entire trial process and is available for cancer patients.
The good news for cancer patients is that extract is already available in supplemental form, including several versions developed by Naturopathic Ph.D. Marc Swanepoel which are made by a pharmaceutical manufacturing company in South Africa. In addition, a home version of Laurose extract can be safely made at home for only pennies.
Success rates for supplemental Laurose during the past five years have been reported to be 85 percent for Stage III and IV cancers and 95 percent for Stage I and II cancer patients when combined with healthy changes in diet, nutrition, lifestyle, and other healthy cancer-fighting and immune-boosting supplements.
Besides cancer, Laurose (OPC PLUS) extracts have been found to be very effective against HIV/AIDS, hepatitis-C, and other immune disorders. In one double-blind placebo-controlled trial conducted at a South Africa AIDS clinic, one of Dr. Swanepoel's extracts was found to be 100 percent effective in reversing HIV symptoms and low white blood cell counts.
- “Bioactive cardenolides from the stems and twigs of [Laurose] Nerium oleander” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17595134
- “Bioactive pregnanes from Nerium oleander” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1725384
- Salud Integral – http://www.saludintegral.hm
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The BBC has found evidence in Yemen that troops from a Saudi-led coalition force and al-Qaeda militants are both fighting Houthi rebels in a key battle.
On a visit to the frontline near the city of Taiz, a documentary maker filmed jihadists as well as UAE-supported pro-government militiamen.
The coalition of 10 mostly Sunni Arab states is backing Yemen’s government in its war against the Shia rebels.
But it denies co-operating with Sunni extremists also opposed to the Houthis.
The coalition’s member states consider al-Qaeda a terrorist organisation, and the jihadist network’s local affiliates have attacked coalition forces and Yemeni government personnel.
At least 6,000 people have been killed in Yemen since March 2015, when the coalition launched a military campaign to defeat the Houthis and allied army units loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and restore the government.
Pro-government forces have been battling the rebels for control of Taiz, about 205km (123 miles) south of the rebel-held capital Sanaa, for months.
The Houthis control all routes into and out of the city, and are besieging a Sunni Islamist-dominated alliance of local forces holding the city centre, while coalition-led forces are attacking the rebels on several fronts to the south and west.
Taiz has suffered huge destruction as a result, and the UN says some 200,000 civilians are trapped inside the city without critical medical supplies or food.
During a visit to the frontline outside Taiz late last year, documentary maker Safa AlAhmad spoke to pro-government militiamen attacking Houthi fighters on a key hilltop with the support of troops from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who were providing tactical advice.
While there, Ms AlAhmad was warned by one group participating in the battle not to film them.
She was told they were members of Ansar al-Sharia, an affiliate of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and that they were angered by the presence of a woman.
Ms AlAhmad said it appeared that AQAP – which has exploited the chaos and seized parts of southern Yemen, including the port city of Mukalla – had sent fighters to Taiz to increase the group’s influence and spread its message.
Several reports of coalition forces and AQAP militants battling the Houthis in the same areas in southern Yemen have emerged over the past 11 months, despite the jihadists’ long-standing violent opposition to governments of coalition-member states, who are allied with the US.
Some have alleged that the Yemeni government is avoiding direct confrontation with AQAP, which in turn has avoided attacks on government targets.
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KEEPING PASSENGER SURVEYS UP TO DATE: A FUZZY APPROACH
planning - methods, planning - surveys, planning - signage/information, ridership - demand
Upgrading, Updating, Travel models (Travel demand), Travel demand, Surveys, Passengers, Modernization, Matrix methods, Matrices (Mathematics), Information processing, Fuzzy sets, Data processing
The knowledge of travel demand is an essential prerequisite for analyzing and planning transport supply. Obtaining travel-demand data for a transit system requires passenger surveys that combine counts and interviews. Passenger surveys have two unpleasant characteristics: they are expensive, and the results of such studies tend to lose their validity fairly rapidly. For these reasons, the development of techniques that reduce survey costs and keep demand matrices up to date is gaining increasing interest. Details of a technique for computer-aided processing of passenger surveys are given, and a method for continuous updating of demand matrices is presented. Because traffic surveys represent only a snapshot situation, the proposed updating method employs a fuzzy approach to consider that traffic volumes vary within a certain bandwidth.
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If you've been injured by the negligence of another person, a personal injury lawyer can help. These types of claims include slips and falls, workplace injuries, assault, and medical malpractice.
These claims can also be filed if a consumer product is defective or causes injury. A person can sue for damages depending on the severity of the injury. Other items that may be covered by personal injury claims include loss of wages and loss of employment.
Some attorneys are not experts in personal injury litigation. It is important to find a lawyer who specializes not only in personal injury litigation, but also in a specific injury. You can also find a personal injury lawyer via https://cariatilaw.ca/.
Insurance companies will have their own attorneys who are familiar with personal injury law during litigation. It is important that the injured party or the consumer has a lawyer who has the same experience in this area.
Experienced attorneys who are experts in a particular injury will be able to use their knowledge and resources to process the claim.
These lawyers have access to medical experts, which will strengthen your case. These lawyers should also be able to access legal cases similar to yours.
Preparing for a personal injury case can take time. A lawyer can help relieve the stress of waiting by filing necessary motions, taking witness statements, and managing the discovery process.
They can handle all types of personal injury cases. An example is the law on medical malpractice. This type of law can be very complex and specialized.
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Skin cancer incidence is increasing worldwide as fair-skinned populations seek
the sun without realizing the risks. The World Health Organization reports in
its latest bulletin on how Australia and Brazil are tackling this health issue.
Key facts about skin cancer
- The primary cause of skin cancer is exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation in
sunlight. Small amounts of ultraviolet radiation are beneficial to people and
play an essential role in the production of vitamin D.
- Between 2 and 3 million non-melanoma skin cancers and more than 130 000
malignant melanomas are diagnosed globally each year.
- Frequent sun exposure and sunburn in childhood can cause irreversible damage
that can lead to skin cancer later in life.
- More than 90% of non-melanoma skin cancers occur in fair-skinned people, who
tend to sunburn. Dark-skinned people have a lower risk of skin cancer but they
are still susceptible to the damaging effects of UV radiation, especially on
the eye and immune system.
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Our company's each kind of permanent magnets, soft magnetic materials, magnetic components and application solutions are widely used in industrial and civilian use.
Automotive instruments, various types of sensors, new energy vehicle power system, automotive interiors, automotive electronics, etc. require various magnetic sensing, adsorption and motor products.
Computer fan motors, optical storage components, disk storage components, non-contact sensor and switching, scanning and copy printing equipment, etc., are widely used in various high-performance magnetic materials and component products.
In the electronic devices that can be seen everywhere in daily life, magnetic sensors, switches, motors and adsorption magnetic products and components in various ways play a huge role in people's life, and significantly improve the quality of life of human beings.
In the industrial automation, metal processing, woodworking stone, medical printing and other industries, magnetic materials are made into motor rotors, magnetic sensors, magnetic switches, magnetic couplings and other products, contribute to the development of industrial automation.
High-safety security system requires high-quality magnetic sensing components, high-performance security equipment, and cryptic and convenient anti-theft magnetic labels to reduce the risk of theft in various places.
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When most people think of drug and alcohol withdrawal, they probably picture the initial withdrawal symptoms that occur when a person stops using drugs or alcohol and undergoes the detox process. While these initial withdrawal symptoms can be unpleasant and intense, another form of withdrawal comes later. According to the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, a second form of withdrawal, called post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS), includes symptoms that occur for several weeks or even months after a person stops using drugs and alcohol. Other names for this condition include post-withdrawal syndrome, prolonged withdrawal syndrome, or protracted withdrawal syndrome, and it most often occurs with alcohol, benzodiazepine, and opiate abuse.
Symptoms of Post-Acute Withdrawal
Post-acute withdrawal symptoms may vary based upon the substance from which a person is withdrawing. According to a report in CNS Drugs, post-acute withdrawal syndrome for alcohol typically involves the following symptoms:
- Sleep Disturbances
- Difficulty Concentrating
There is also a life threatening form of alcohol withdrawal called delirium tremens, and this can result in post-acute withdrawal symptoms, most notably altering between periods of wakefulness and sleepiness. The authors of the report in CNS Drugs have reported that this is fortunately rare.
Post-acute withdrawal syndrome resulting from benzodiazepines includes some of the same symptoms associated with prolonged alcohol withdrawal, but there are also differences. According to a report in Psychiatric Annals, benzodiazepine PAWS can last as long as six to 12 months and include the following symptoms:
- Tingling Sensations in the Body
- Sensitivity to Sights and Sounds
- Muscle Spasms
- Sleep Problems
- Ringing in the Ears
Opiates also come with their own features of PAWS. Science Daily reports that post-acute withdrawal from opiate drugs, which include heroin and morphine, can cause people to feel unwell for weeks to months after acute withdrawal side effects subside. Symptoms of post-acute opiate withdrawal can include various signs related to depression, such as:
- Concentration Problems
- Lack of Energy
- Disturbed Sleep
- Lack of Pleasure in Usual Activities
Interestingly, Suboxone, a drug used to treat opiate withdrawal and cravings, can also create post-acute withdrawal symptoms when people stop taking it. This is especially true among people who abuse the drug instead of taking it under the care of a doctor. Ideally, when a person chooses to discontinue Suboxone use, his or her dose is gradually tapered, while a doctor supervises, to minimize withdrawal symptoms. When a person abuses the drug, on the other hand, withdrawal may be more uncomfortable.
A 2016 study published in African Health Sciences found that when people abused Suboxone, withdrawal was actually with a delayed onset and peaked 21 days after they stopped using the drug. Most of the users in the study injected the drug, and their withdrawal symptoms were mild. Post-acute Suboxone withdrawal may involve a milder version of typical protracted withdrawal from opiates, and those who are taking it for treatment of opiate addiction may be at increased risk of relapse when they discontinue Suboxone use.
Other Forms of Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome
Post-acute withdrawal syndrome is most often associated with alcohol, benzodiazepines, opiates, and Suboxone, but some people may experience prolonged withdrawal with seemingly harmless prescription drugs like antidepressants, which may be surprising. A 2018 study in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine found that post-acute withdrawal was common among people taking two types of anti-depressant drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs). In fact, the average length of withdrawal for SSRI drugs was 21 months, and those coming off of SNRI medications experienced withdrawals lasting 12 months, on average. A quarter of those withdrawing from SSRIs experienced post-acute withdrawal for two years.
According to study results, the side effects of post-acute withdrawal from anti-depressant medications were numerous and included neurological and psychological symptoms as well as effects on various body systems, such as the gastrointestinal or cardiovascular systems.
Commonly reported side effects of PAWS among anti-depressant users included:
- Ringing in Ears
- Restless Legs
- Blurred Vision
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Sleep Problems
- Memory and Concentration Issues
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Frequent Urination
- Runny Nose
- Muscle Weakness
- Body Aches
- Chest Pain
- Racing Heart
- Vivid Dreams
- Stomach Pain
It is noted that the participants in this particular study had been using anti-depressants for long periods of time, so their withdrawal symptoms may be more severe than what the average person experiences when discontinuing the use of these medications. Nonetheless, these findings show that it is possible to experience PAWS, even with proper use of a common prescription medication like antidepressants.
Additional Information about Post-Acute Withdrawal
Post-acute withdrawal syndrome can occur with multiple types of drugs and involve a variety of symptoms. Beyond this fact, The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior has reported the following information about PAWS:
- It seems to be most likely among people who are withdrawing from benzodiazepines.
- PAWS occurs because the brain changes when people abuse drugs and alcohol and then has difficulty adapting when a person becomes abstinent.
- PAWS may appear to be over, but can return at a later date.
- Symptoms of PAWS are not constant; they may be severe for a period of time, improve, and then become severe again.
- People who are experiencing prolonged withdrawal may have difficulty with personal relationships and appear especially pessimistic or apathetic.
- PAWS can involve cravings for a person’s drug of choice.
- People may find that prolonged withdrawal symptoms worsen when they are under stress.
Treatment of Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome with Medication
The treatment for post-acute withdrawal can vary based upon a person’s drug of choice and the specific withdrawal symptoms he or she is experiencing. The ultimate goal of treatment is to make symptoms more manageable and to prevent a person from relapsing to drug or alcohol abuse. In some cases, this may be achieved with medication.
PAWS from Alcohol
For PAWS that occurs with alcohol addiction, medication may be necessary to manage symptoms. According to a report in Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs, benzodiazepines have historically been the drug of choice for treating alcohol abuse, but they can be addictive themselves and cause problems, including relapse, for those recovering from alcohol addiction. The authors of the report indicated that other anti-seizure drugs, such as gabapentin and carbamazepine, have shown effectiveness for treating alcohol withdrawal and should be considered in its treatment.
The research supports this statement, as a clinical study in a 2014 edition of JAMA Internal Medicine showed that gabapentin treated protracted withdrawal symptoms including insomnia, low mood, and alcohol cravings. According to a report in Current Treatment Options in Neurology, acamprosate is also helpful in cases of alcohol-related PAWS, as it can reduce relapse and stabilize the body’s physiology during prolonged withdrawal. Medications can assist with alcohol-related PAWS side effects to make the process more manageable.
PAWS from Benzodiazepines
Benzodiazepine PAWS is sometimes treated with medication, but there is some controversy regarding this form of treatment for prolonged benzodiazepine withdrawal. For example, researchers writing for a 2016 edition of Current Psychiatry Reports have stated that anti-depressant SSRI drugs may be prescribed to treat benzodiazepine withdrawal, but this may not be ideal, given the fact that these drugs can come with their own form of PAWS.
A drug called pregabalin may be useful for reducing anxiety levels in people experiencing prolonged benzodiazepine withdrawal, and propranolol is another option for treating anxiety that occurs with PAWS. Finally, flumazenil is a potential medical treatment for severe and persistent benzodiazepine withdrawal. According to the study in Current Psychiatry Reports, it reduces cravings among people withdrawing from benzodiazepines, but it typically is administered in an inpatient setting, so it may not be feasible for everyone experiencing PAWS with benzodiazepines.
PAWS from Opiates
For post-acute withdrawal syndrome with opiate abuse, medications are often helpful. According to the Harvard Review of Psychiatry, methadone and buprenorphine/naloxone are the standard treatments for preventing relapse in opiate addiction. Other medications can also be beneficial. In fact, a study in Addictive Disorders & Their Treatment found that both memantine and amitriptyline were effective for reducing post-acute withdrawal symptoms like drug cravings, anxiety, depression, and lack of pleasure among people who had detoxed from heroin.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), memantine in particular can be especially beneficial for treating opiate addiction when used in combination with buprenorphine/naloxone. In a study where 30 mg of memantine per day was combined with buprenorphine/naloxone treatment, participants reduced their opiate use to zero and experienced fewer withdrawal symptoms when compared to those taking a placebo with buprenorphine/naloxone.
PAWS from Suboxone
There is less research available on the treatment of post-acute withdrawal from Suboxone. Given the fact that this drug is often used to treat opiate addiction and may be taken legally under the care of a doctor, prevention is likely the best approach for addressing prolonged Suboxone withdrawal. Those who take prescribed Suboxone and wish to come off of the drug should work with a doctor to gradually taper its use. Slowly reducing the dose over time can help the body to adjust so that withdrawal is more comfortable. For those who have been abusing Suboxone illicitly, medications typically used for prolonged opiate withdrawal may be beneficial.
Behavioral/Psychological Treatments for PAWS
While medical treatments may be effective for those undergoing PAWS from alcohol, benzodiazepines, and opiates, this is not the only treatment option available. Behavioral treatments, such as individual counseling and support groups can also be beneficial.
As the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior has explained, common symptoms of PAWS, regardless of the drug of abuse, include depression, anxiety, irritability, sensitivity to stress, and relationship problems. These symptoms can make the recovery process more difficult; people may feel that remaining abstinent is impossible, which can cause them to relapse to drug or alcohol abuse. Undergoing behavioral or psychological treatments can help people to cope with the unpleasant effects of PAWS.
There are several options for behavioral and psychological treatments for prolonged withdrawal:
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: In this form of counseling, people learn to replace unhelpful, negative thoughts with healthier ways of thinking. The theory behind this therapy modality is that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence each other. For instance, if a person feels that abstinence is too difficult, this can lead to relapse to drug use. In addition, a person who is experiencing PAWS may think that the uncomfortable symptoms will last forever, and this thought can lead to depression. Those who undergo cognitive-behavioral therapy during PAWS will learn new ways of thinking that can help them to overcome depression and anxiety and have a more positive outlook that helps them to cope with stress.
- Relapse Prevention Programs: PAWS can trigger a relapse, because people may begin to feel helpless, as if their lives were better off when they were using drugs or alcohol. Relapse prevention programs can help people to learn to identify these negative thoughts, as well as other triggers for relapse, and develop strategies for overcoming them. Relapse prevention programming can therefore be an important part of treatment for prolonged withdrawal.
- Psychoeducation Programs: In psychoeducation programs, people who are experiencing post-acute withdrawal syndrome can gain knowledge about drug addiction and treatment and learn what to expect in terms of withdrawal symptoms and the treatment process. Someone who is experiencing PAWS may feel that something is seriously wrong, but learning that this is a normal part of the treatment process can be reassuring and provide people in recovery with additional coping tools.
- Supports Groups: In addition to other behavioral treatments, people experiencing PAWS may benefit from attending support group programs like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or Narcotics Anonymous (NA). In these programs, people can connect with others who are experiencing similar symptoms and share stories of recovery and healing. Having a support system in place can also make the unpleasant symptoms of PAWS seem more manageable.
While this list of behavioral and psychological treatments for PAWS is not exhaustive, the point is that individual and group psychological interventions are useful for coping with prolonged withdrawal and staying clean. Other specific therapy techniques that are known to be effective for symptoms like anxiety and depression can also be helpful. In addition, it is important to remember that even if a person is taking medications to assist with withdrawal and remaining abstinent, it is also necessary to treat the underlying conditions that led to addiction. Psychological treatments are therefore necessary for recovery in general, even among people who are not experiencing post-acute withdrawal.
These treatments are also necessary for people who are struggling with post-acute withdrawal from medications like anti-depressants and benzodiazepines used to treat depression and anxiety. Through psychological treatments like counseling, people can learn ways to overcome these mental health conditions without medications. Additionally, it is also worth noting that some people with ongoing anxiety and depression may choose to remain on maintenance doses of medication over the long-term, instead of discontinuing use and struggling with post-acute withdrawal. The pros and cons of remaining on medication, as well as the suitability of doing so, can be determined via a discussion between patient and doctor.
FAQs of Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)
In general, post-acute withdrawal syndrome involves a variety of unpleasant symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, sleep disturbances, and general loss of pleasure after discontinuing the use of alcohol, benzodiazepines, opiates, or prescription medications like anti-depressants. The following FAQs provide additional insights into post-acute withdrawal:
The term “post-acute withdrawal” refers to any ongoing withdrawal symptoms that appear after a person has completed the initial detox from a drug of abuse or a medication that has caused dependence. For example, the World Health Organization reports that withdrawal from heroin typically subsides within 4-10 days. Post-acute withdrawal includes any symptoms that appear after this initial withdrawal phase.
There can be some overlap between traditional withdrawal symptoms seen during acute detox phases and those that occur with prolonged withdrawal, but PAWS tends to be less severe than initial withdrawal. For example, people in the acute heroin withdrawal phase can experience highly unpleasant symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, and chills, whereas post-acute heroin withdrawal tends to involve psychological symptoms like depression and concentration problems. While these symptoms can be distressing, they are usually not as disruptive as those that occur during acute withdrawal.
The length of post-acute withdrawal will vary from person-to-person and based upon the specific substances a person abused. In some cases, PAWS may persist for several weeks or months, but as has been found with anti-depressants, symptoms may last for over a year.
The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior reports that about 90 percent of people recovering from opiate addiction and 75 percent of those coming off of alcohol or psychiatric medications will experience prolonged withdrawal.
Initial withdrawal symptoms, such as insomnia, nausea, and vomiting occur as a person’s body rids itself of drugs and adjusts to operating without them. Post-acute withdrawal occurs because long-term drug and alcohol abuse alters the brain. Over time, the brain becomes dependent on the presence of drugs, and people will not experience typical levels of pleasure or happiness unless under the influence of the drugs. Once the drug use is discontinued, the brain must adjust to producing certain “feel good chemicals” on its own. Until the brain stabilizes, symptoms like depression, anxiety, and apathy are common.
Post-acute withdrawal syndrome can understandably lead people to feel rather unhappy and discouraged as they become abstinent from drugs or alcohol. Fortunately, medical and psychological treatments are available to assist people with PAWS. If you are struggling with symptoms of prolonged withdrawal, it is important to reach out for professional intervention and support to prevent relapse and learn healthy ways of coping.
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28 Jul Examine the impact of different management and leadership theories on organisational strategy and structure
Based in central London the European Club was founded in 1900.
The club is a non-profit making charity whose good works for the last 100+ years include
offering scholarships for gifted children from poorer countries the opportunities to study in the
UK. The Charity is governed by a Board of Trustees who also form part of the Board of
Directors. The CEO sits on the Board of Directors whilst the General Manager and
Club Secretary report into the CEO.
The vision and mission statement is represented as “High quality hospitality at
affordable prices.” A statement of values has been an agenda item for almost a year but
has not been actioned.
Revenue for the charity is derived from the operation of the central London ClubHouse
(situated in a fashionable street in Mayfair London W1) containing a very ‘dated’ and largely
unused waiter service cocktail bar called The Fox and Hound, a 50 seat restaurant called The
Dining Rooms, 4 function rooms (no in-built meeting room equipment) and 50 bedrooms
which it hires to club members for a highly subsidised amount of just £75 per night. Many of
these rooms have not been refurbished in quite a while.
The building itself has a certain faded grandeur but is in need of some much needed planned
and reactive renovation and maintenance to furniture, fixtures and fittings. Some of the
systems in the ClubHouse, including reservations and front office, are still on Excel
spreadsheet functions. A manual process is used for creating reservations for the
bedrooms, restaurant and bar and function rooms. There is however an online payment
system used but there are three separate systems, one for each department. Wifi is available
throughout the ClubHouse.
Many of the staff have been there for many years and the way things operate have not
changed for a long time. Whilst familiar and comfortable with the current ways of doing things,
the staff often complain about the amount of time it takes and the inefficiency of the systems
in place. There is a very defined hierarchy and staffing structure in the departments. The
organisational chart below details the restaurant, bar and event management departments.
Staff are not encouraged to make decisions without reference to the Head of Department nor
are they encouraged to put forward new ideas for enhancing or improving practice. Any
changes to practice are often from the top down and staff opinions are rarely sought.
Morale, as measured by a small yearly staff survey, appears low, and many of the younger
staff leave after just a couple of months citing lack of opportunities and poor training as a
cause. The survey also shows that staff are not happy with their manager and feel that they
do not get praised or rewarded when they do a good job.
The previous CEO had been with the charity for some 30 years and very much left the
management of the club to the General Manager, who also retires later this year. The
new CEO of the charity believes that there is a lot more that might be achieved, and good
works undertaken, if the operation itself makes more money to invest into the charitable
works, and she firmly believes that the organisation is underperforming and is inefficient.
Membership of the club has been falling steadily over the past five years and now stands
some 50% of its original membership. A recent member survey shows significant
complaints about the conditions of the facilities, especially the restaurant and bar which the
members use to entertain as well as the drop-in customer service as well as the general lack
The CEO has approached you and wants to employ your HR consultancy services to
address the strategic HR issues around a modernisation plan for the restaurant and bar
facilities of the club.
The modernisation and renovation programme will include the following:
1. The refurbishment of The Fox and Hound Bar, the Dining Room and the function rooms
2. Training and development of all staff on the new processes connected to the Bar,
Dining Room and function rooms.
The refurbishment has been given to an architectural firm that will employ its contactors and
manage all the building work. They have promised to work to the project deadlines. Naturally,
this will mean the members of the club paying more for the services; however, this will bring
the charges in line with similar institutions and facilities.
The CEOs biggest concern is how to undertake this project with the minimum of disruption to
both members and staff. It is not an option to shut the club down completely during the
project. Business as usual, as much as possible, must be maintained.
Task 3 of 3 – Report (AC 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2 & 5.3)
Having done all of the preliminary work for the ClubHouse, you should now write a
report in which you should:
• Examine the impact of different management and leadership theories on
organisational strategy and structure.
• Describe the impact of organisational strategies, structures and culture on the
management of HR.
OTHM LEVEL 7 DIPLOMA IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP | ASSIGNMENT BRIEFS
ASSIGNMENT BRIEFS | SEPTEMBER 2021 15
• Determine the effectiveness of the current ClubHouse HRM, and critically discuss the
link between leadership & management and HRM.
• Present an analysis of how the existing culture and structure of the ClubHouse might
impact on the success of the ClubHouse project and the motivation of the staff.
• Explain how you would develop, monitor and evaluate a leadership strategy that
supports the development or revision of the ClubHouse organisational mission, vision,
values and objectives.
Delivery and Submission:
• 1x Report (2000 words) excluding TOC, diagrams, references and appendices
• Each section must reflect any supporting Harvard style citations.
• A comprehensive Harvard style reference list must be included at the end of the
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lesson is to learn very simple methods to construct fractals, to do
and practice some math, to appreciate the beauty of fractals, and finally
to have fun with math. The lesson includes several Java applets
for hands-on construction and interaction with simple fractals.
Since the author Jacobo Bulaevsky died several years ago, the keyword to open any of the protected text boxes that follow is Fract (note the capital "F").
Lets start with definitions. In very simple terms, fractals are geometrical figures that are generated by starting with a very simple pattern that grows through the application of rules. In many cases, the rules to make the figure grow from one stage to the next involve taking the original figure and modifying it or adding to it. This process can be repeated recursively (the same way over and over again) an infinite number of times.
The fractals' growth mechanism can be visualized very easily with a simple example. Start with a + sign and grow it by adding a half size + in each of the four line ends. Repeat the exact same process recursively as many times as desired. We'll call this the Plusses fractal:
Notice how the + sign grows into a rhombus (popularly known as diamond) in very few simple steps. Further in the lesson we'll count the number of +'s in each of the stages to see how quickly its complexity grows.
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty" -- Bertrand Russell, from The Study of Mathematics: Philosophical Essays
It is interesting to note that Bertrand Russell wrote this in 1907, which applies so well to fractals, about 70 years before they were discovered by the Polish-born French mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot in the 1970's 1. Mandelbrot's fractal geometry provides a mathematical model for many complex forms found in nature such as shapes of coast lines, mountains, galaxy clusters, and clouds. A very nice example of this is this picture where both the trees and the clouds are actual fractals:
Self-similarity. One interesting property that fractals can have is that of self-similarity. The name sounds complex but the idea is very simple. What self-similarity means is that each small portion, when magnified, can reproduce exactly a larger portion.
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Smiles for Change, formerly known as the Sarakasi Trust Hospital Project started in 2006 as an educative artistic intervention activity where the Sarakasi artists would visit children in hospitals and homes with the objective of bringing art and laughter to vulnerable children living in difficult circumstances. We believe that smiling and happiness and positive enforcement enhance healing in sick children and also instills feelings of self-esteem, focus and pride.
Currently, Smiles for Change includes edutainment activities and mentorship programs (still through the arts) that educate communities to accept differently-abled children, children living with HIV Aids and also provide information on teenage pregnancies and gender equality, sexual and reproductive health amongst adolescents amongst others. This way the Smiles for Change team visits selected communities with tailormade interactive activities that positively engage them with information geared toward destigmatizing and demystifying the above-mentioned issues.
For more information: email@example.com
Visit the Sarakasi Smiles For Change Facebook page.
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Follow the Poetry Trail
Simply download a QR reader from Google play (for Android) or App Store (for Apple) phones, open your map and follow the trail to each Poetry Plaque !
“Spiritual song of the Aborigine “
On the large Log alongside the walking track behind EM Visitor Information Centre
This poem and the location was chosen to acknowledge the early peoples of the area as it is believed to have been a busy meeting place for the Yorta Yorta peoples.
Published early local
Keighley Goodchild – “A Nautical Yarn”
Behind old Library/ near Bunya Bunya Pine corner of High and Heygarth Streets.
This site was chosen as the poet is believed to have lived and worked in this area of town
"From China To Gold"
On Campaspe River walkway fence beside Beechworth Bakery.
This poem was especially written in recognition of the early Chinese community, and the location chosen as many of had market gardens along the Campaspe River just south of this site.
“The Talkin’ of the Bush”
On Marungal Jetty post on Campaspe river near back entrance of Echuca Hotel.
Chosen for the bushland atmosphere of the Campaspe River frontage.
Will Lawson –“Echuca Way”
Along walkway near Alison barge on Murray Esplanade, North end of walk near seats
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TU says 1-in-5 people now deferring payments were financially stressed prior to the pandemic
Surprisingly strong housing market recovery along with renewed mortgage activity pushed Canadian consumer debt 2.8% annually to reach $1.99 trillion during the second quarter, latest data from Equifax Canada showed.
“Mortgage activity has withstood the headwinds from COVID-19 and showed the earliest signs of recovery,” said Rebecca Oakes, assistant vice president of advanced analytics at Equifax Canada. “Other credit products began to show greenshoots of a bounce-back with credit card spending starting to rise in June. Card spending for those not using a payment deferral on their credit card were effectively back to pre-COVID levels by the end of the quarter.”
A combination of rising mortgage balances, intensified refinancing activity, and higher average housing prices has led to the average per capita debt growing by 2.2% year-over-year, reaching $73,532.
Deferrals were a major contributor to these dynamics. Equifax estimated that around 3 million Canadians have deferred payments at least once since February, with the most users seen in in the 35-44 age range (15.1%).
“One in five people utilizing deferred payments were already financially stressed prior to the start of the pandemic,” Oakes said. “Some of these consumers may find it harder to recover as support mechanisms start to reduce.”
The delinquency level for debt excluding mortgages was 10.6% higher on an annual basis, although the per capita non-mortgage debt actually fell by 3% to $23,035.
The 46-55 age cohort had the greatest increase in delinquency at 13% year over year, reaching a rate of 1.08%. This is despite average debt per person declining by 2.36% annually to $35,135.
This was followed by those aged 65 years and older, who saw their non-mortgage delinquency rate grow by 12.11% annually to 1.1%, while their per capita debt fell by 2.87% to $16,074. Borrowers in the 56-65 age range saw their delinquency rate increase by 11.86% year over year to 0.95%, while their average debt shrunk by 2.15% to $29,611.
The cities that saw the largest annual increases in delinquency rates were Fort McMurray (up 19.59% to 2.09%), Edmonton (up 15.68% to 1.72%), and Vancouver (up 14.78% to 0.86%). Average debt per person in these markets were $39,142 (down 0.82%), $27,571 (down 4.23%), and $25,940 (down 3.13%), respectively
On a provincial basis, the greatest annual growth in non-mortgage delinquency was seen in British Columbia (up 15.03% to 1.02%), Alberta (up 13.78% to 1.63%), and Ontario (up 12.83% to 1.13%). Average per capita debt in these regions stood at $24,289 (down 2.96%), $28,261 (down 3.84%), and $23,663 (down 2.75%), respectively. | <urn:uuid:81088f05-f1f7-48e2-90c4-c0436e027378> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mpamag.com/ca/news/general/transunion-per-capita-debt-in-canada-hits-75532-in-q2-2020/286574 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973429 | 688 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Bringing seniors online since 2003.
“Retirement TV Channel” has a one-on-one interview that looks behind the scenes at Senior Connects.
In 2003, the Senior Connects Corporation began providing service to senior citizens. It was the organization’s first program and the corporation’s name until 2004, when additional programs were added and the name of the company was changed to Net Literacy.
Senior Connects focuses on increasing computer access and digital inclusion at senior centers, retirement apartments, and independent living facilities. Through the Senior Connects programs, over 11,000 residents received computer and Internet access by 2004. At the end of 2008, Senior Connects provided computers to well over 100 senior citizen facilities impacting 44,000 residents. By 2010, the number of senior citizens impacted by the Senior Connects program exceeded 50,000 individuals.
Many seniors are excited to learn how to traverse the Internet and especially about the prospect of staying touch by emailing family members. Just as importantly, these extensive community service activities have provided the student-volunteers with invaluable leadership and interpersonal skills to complement their technical expertise. Senior Connects programs have also included chapters that invited senior citizens into the high school’s computer labs after the school day so that students could help teach seniors. At some locations, students provide computers and the facilities agree to provide broadband and train seniors themselves. Net Literacy works to meet the needs of a wide range of organizations that serve seniors.
The impact of Senior Connects was described by Graham Richard, former Mayor of Fort Wayne in a magazine article written by the mayor entitled Teens Bridge Digital, Generational Divide. The mayor describes how Senior Connects student volunteers were able to teach his own mother. Senior Connects – as seniors cross the digital divide, students cross the intergenerational divide. | <urn:uuid:ec9e4e63-1763-4803-bf4d-6cfa0fb02a72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.netliteracy.org/senior-connects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969452 | 375 | 2.125 | 2 |
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Virtual reality historical reconstruction of Iron Age settlement
Travelling to the past
Virtual reality allows users to immerse themselves in historical reconstructions of monuments or places thousands of years old. They can experience firsthand the feeling of being in a iron age settlement as it was at the time. The feeling of presence and the ability to interact with objects and move freely increases the sensation of really being there.
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Precast concrete gives designers and project managers control in the face of many uncontrollable variables in extreme situations.
By Evan Gurley and Kirk Stelsel
It’s not uncommon to hear a specifier say precast concrete is the best material for a job. But on certain projects there is no other product that comes close. Examples include custom jobs or situations where extreme circumstances come into play – sometimes both.
In the following examples, specifiers used precast concrete to mitigate risks to human life, high levels of traffic, major threats or harmful environments.
The perfect storm (shelter)
As evidenced by the devastation caused by major storms from coast to coast, resilient construction is rarely a priority and people and businesses suffer the consequences. The Institute for Business and Home Safety estimates 25% of small- to mid-sized businesses do not reopen following a major disaster.1 The loss of life and commerce to a community is often catastrophic. Unfortunately, it often takes learning these hard lessons before an investment is made in a shelter or other resilient construction.
Mike Vaughn, P.E., is the president and general manager of Vaughn Concrete Products headquartered in Henderson, Colo. His company manufactures a wide range of storm shelter products. Vaughn has heard from numerous customers who received thank you letters from employees following installation of a precast shelter, but there’s one he’ll never forget. After exhibiting at a garden show in Oklahoma City, Okla., he reached out to a local livestock auction to see about setting up his display there rather than hauling it back home.
“I told the guy I needed about 100 feet of space at his facilities to set up these shelters,” Vaughn said. “He said, ‘What are you going to pay me?’ and I said, ‘It’s not about what I’m going to pay, it’s about what you’re doing for your people.’”
That didn’t resonate, so the two agreed to a price. Two years later, a large tornado went right through the property.
“Nine of his people are alive only because of those storm shelters,” Vaughn said. “He called about 10 days after that and was quite humbled and said he got calls from the families of eight of the nine employees telling him how much they appreciated him putting in that display so they had a place to go. On that phone call, he ordered a new shelter to be built right in the middle of his facilities.”
Extreme weather events are just one example of the many situations in which the performance of precast concrete cannot be matched.
Big rig–resistant walls
Champion Precast in Troy, Mo., makes a range of anti-terrorism and security products to impede everything from crowds to large vehicles. Its products are even used for training by the military. The company regularly supplies Fort Leonard Wood with different sizes of T and Alaska barrier products used during live-fire exercises to recreate scenarios soldiers will face overseas.
Bollards manufactured by Champion Precast sit outside the iconic Gateway Arch in St. Louis to obstruct vehicular traffic and protect pedestrians. Each is 8 feet, 3 inches tall with about 4 feet of that buried. The company casts the bollards with two chamfers and inserts so the customer could hang a large anchor chain between the bollards for looks.
“Precast concrete is a superior barrier material due to its great design flexibility and aesthetic compatibility with urban settings,” said Jon Ohmes, production coordinator. “They can be used for everything from simple tasks such as crowd control or parking to uses such as securing a business to avoid terrorism.”
One of the largest security projects the company has worked on is a security wall for a nuclear power plant. The company manufactured two rows of wall panels installed in an offset pattern that surround the plant. Each wall panel is 4 feet tall, 5 feet deep and 9 feet long. The company determined the length so it could ship two units per load. The panels have a double cage and while they are not architectural, the company poured them with self-consolidating concrete for aesthetics and finished them with a chamfered side.
To test the wall, the customer ran a fully-loaded semi into it. The test moved one wall enough to change the specification to add a second row. A panel was also taken to a quarry for an explosives test. In this extreme condition, no other product could provide the security and longevity of a precast concrete wall.
Sitting in traffic or enduring endless detours is painful. Thankfully, the precast industry has pioneered a modular solution for road construction. Precast concrete pavement allows owner agencies to balance accelerated construction and rapid renewal, structural capacity, durability, quality, geometry, aesthetic versatility and reduced life cycle costs.
Precast concrete pavement is starting to gain national attention. In 2014, four jobs in Southern California alone totaled nearly $30 million. Caltrans bid a slab replacement project in Santa Barbara County on U.S. Route 101, one of the longest state highways in California. The highway faces high traffic volume at all hours. U.S. 101 also happens to be part of a state-recognized safety corridor that acts as an emergency route for the military. The highway has only two lanes in each direction, so closing down more than one lane was out of the question and would require a major incident report by the state.
Pre-Con Products used 680 cubic yards of concrete to manufacture precast individual slab replacement panels. The panels are equal to the width of a lane and were placed directly on the graded base with voids filled by grout. Panel thickness criteria came from the existing pavement thickness, except when the existing thickness was less than the minimum threshold.
“The main reason for selecting precast pavement for this project was the need for a rapid construction,” said Mehdi Parvini, Caltrans senior pavement engineer. “The other concern for the project was a limited work zone. With precast pavement, the space required for the construction zone would be reduced.”
Parvini added that precast projects are ideal when there’s a limitation for road closure. Closing high-volume roads for long curing times is not practical. With precast pavement, the road is closed during a night shift and reopened in the morning.
Jason Kline, Caltrans resident engineer, said this was District 5’s first time using precast pavement for rehabilitation. And while Kline said there were some challenges, it worked as planned.
“District 5 will be pursuing using precast pavement for rehabilitation and repair projects in the future,” he said.
Pat Camp with Pre-Con Products has been manufacturing precast pavement for many years, and is extremely excited about the traction this product is gaining in Southern California and across the country.
“Precast concrete pavement, in my opinion, has the potential to be one of the biggest markets ever in the history of precast,” Camp said. “It really has the potential to be as big as anything precasters have ever seen.”
Camp emphasized that having good working relationships with Parvini, Kline and the contractor allowed for the project to be a success. He also stressed that doing extensive homework to make sure the product works in the field is essential.
“Since precast pavement is in its infant stage, any precast pavement project that goes wrong will give this technology a black eye and we can’t allow that as an industry,” he said.
With extreme levels of traffic, no product can minimize disruptions like precast concrete pavement.
Precast wave blockers
The Schuyler Heim Bridge, completed by the Navy in 1948, is one of three that connects Terminal Island to the mainland in Los Angeles County. It is named for Commodore Schuyler F. Heim, commanding officer of the Terminal Island Naval Base throughout World War II.
In 1994, it was determined the bridge was in need of seismic retrofit improvements, but replacing the bridge was more practical and cost-effective. The removal and replacement of the bridge and the construction of new on- and off-ramps using various precast concrete elements is making and breaking waves.
The $210 million replacement project started in October 2011 and completion is estimated for early 2017. In addition to creating a new fixed-span bridge that meets current seismic standards, the project also adds 42 feet in width in the form of standard shoulders and a southbound auxiliary lane. The minimum vertical clearance of the bridge will be 46.9 feet over the mean high water level, allowing for accommodation of the new 45-foot fireboats.
“This is an exciting project to work on because of the complexities of constructing a project in water but also because of the Heim’s historic past and current importance to goods movement throughout the state and the country,” said Hammer Sui, Caltrans resident engineer. “We want to make sure that it remains a vital piece of infrastructure well into the future.”
Of all the bridge elements, the ones subject to some of the most extreme conditions are the precast concrete isolation casings. The casings protect the bridge columns from the aggressive ocean environment, seismic loads and abrasion from passing vessels. Precast isolation casings were selected by the designer on the project over steel casings as they are more durable and have superior impact and abrasive resistance.
Concrete has been used in seawater applications for decades with excellent performance. However, special care in mix design and material selection is necessary. Warren Taylor, president of Pro-Cast Products Inc. located in Highland, Calif., said special provisions such as the use of epoxy-coated rebar, epoxy-coated bar couplers, galvanized ladder rungs and silica fume were all used in order to combat the aggressive corrosive environment. Using precast concrete, the isolation casings are able to resist weathering, chemical attack and abrasion while maintaining their engineering properties.
Pro-Cast manufactured 220 pieces to construct the 55 isolation casings. Heights of the casings varied from 13 feet to 25 feet and the heaviest precast piece was 20 tons. A good working relationship between the precaster, MCM Construction and the Caltrans engineers led to a successful installation of the precast components.
Dealing with extremes
Precast concrete products protect humans, infrastructure and equipment from extreme environments on a daily basis. They also make projects in extreme conditions easier to manage. And it’s in these situations that precast concrete products exhibit the breadth of their capabilities to designers and specifiers.
Evan Gurley is a technical services engineer with NPCA.
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Thillai Fine Arts is a Non profit organization committed to promoting ethnic and cultural awareness of South Indian fine arts, specifically the performing art of Bharatanatyam in its authentic traditional form to the community. We take pride in promoting this fine art which has salubrious benefits for mind, body, and ultimately fulfilling the soul.
This organization provides opportunities for all students to perform at various cultural events as well as spiritual venues. The curriculum emphasizes the importance of clear and well-defined footwork, hand formations, body movements and facial expressions. At Thillai Fine Arts, we believe that theoretical knowledge and history stands behind every aspect of Bharatanayam and will help sustain this amazing art in the years to come.
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Secretary of State Benson testifies on new election laws in front of state Senate committee
Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson was grilled by a Senate Elections committee on Wednesday. Republican lawmakers questioned Benson about the implementation of a new independent redistricting commission.
The commission was authorized after voters passed a ballot measure last November. It will redraw the state’s political district lines. The application process is now open.
Senator Ed McBroom (R-Vulcan) is concerned about how the commission members will be selected. It will be random but also weighted for geographic and demographic representation.
“I don’t understand how we can be random and weighted at the same time. This is just as dumb as the previous laws that said you can’t consider race, but you have to make sure race is considered,” he says.
The selection process will be done by an outside firm. Bensons says its methods will be transparent, but she says she wants a wide range of representation.
Another new law automatically registers people to vote when they apply for, update, or renew their driver’s license, unless they choose to opt out.
Senator Ruth Johnson (R-Holly) says she’s concerned people will get registered who don’t mean to, especially people who are not U.S. citizens. She says if they register and vote it would be a crime and they could be deported.
“I think it is so important to make sure that people that do not want to register don’t get registered, it has an incredibly horrible impact,” says Johnson.
Benson says she agrees with Johnson.
She also presented data showing that more people are voting because of these new election laws.
One of the laws implemented after a ballot initiative was passed lets people register to vote up to and on Election Day. Benson says during the first election after the law was implemented, half of the people who utilized late registration were under the age of 20.
“So what this shows us already is that young voters in particular are taking advantage of this. New voters are embracing this opportunity,” says Benson.
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Paul is allowed to speak for himself in front of King Agrippa.
Paul acknowledges Agrippa’s intimate knowledge of Jewish affairs and tells of his own early life as a member of Judaism’s strictest sect, the Pharisees. This group has believed in resurrection and thus should not have been shocked when God raised Jesus. But, like others, Paul at first reacted by persecuting the church.
9 “I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 And that is just what I did in Jerusalem. On the authority of the chief priests I put many of the Lord’s people in prison, and when they were put to death, I cast my vote against them.
He tells of Jesus’ appearance to him on the road to Damascus, and of his commission to witness to the Gentiles.
16 ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen and will see of me. 17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them 18 to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.‘
Then Paul makes a direct appeal to Agrippa. All Paul has said is just what Moses and the Prophets foretold would happen.
19 “So then, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the vision from heaven. 20 First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.
22 But God has helped me to this very day; so I stand here and testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen— 23 that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.”
All this seems like utter madness to the Roman Festus.
24 At this point Festus interrupted Paul’s defense. “You are out of your mind, Paul!” he shouted. “Your great learning is driving you insane.” 25 “I am not insane, most excellent Festus,” Paul replied. “What I am saying is true and reasonable.
Agrippa puts Paul off.
28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?”29 Paul replied, “Short time or long—I pray to God that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains.”
At this, the king and Festus leave. Whatever Paul’s beliefs, there is nothing in them that deserves death or imprisonment under Roman law.
30 The king rose, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them. 31 After they left the room, they began saying to one another, “This man is not doing anything that deserves death or imprisonment.”
What if there was no Paul? We would still have the four books of gospel. But we would not have other important parts of the Scripture — Acts, Romans, Corinthians, Ephesians, and Philippians etc.
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The pandemic changed the way we work in very profound and wide-ranging ways. Some people immediately became remote workers, navigating the challenges of blending their home and work lives. Others kept reporting to their place of employment, facing myriad concerns ranging from safety to new demands and ways of working.
Facing these changes and challenges was no small task. They changed us in a number of ways.
As vaccination rates rise, mask requirements are dropped, offices open, and life begins to look a bit like it did in “before times” in much of the U.S., it’s time to think about what’s next. We risk losing some valuable shifts if we don’t move forward with some introspection. Fast Company asked leaders in different areas what we should take with us as we head back to the workplace.
1. Protecting your worth and well-being
Going through the pandemic has been like “life boot camp,” says speaker and podcast host Luvvie Ajayi Jones, author of Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual. Being forced to slow down showed many how burned out they were from the frenetic pace of work. It also crystallized what people need to feel supported and valued. And they demanded those things. “People have started asking for more in the workplace, whether it’s more money, a title change, or generally advocating for ourselves and taking action to fight fears that have held us back from getting what we want in the past,” she says.
She hopes that the advocacy also extends to taking better care of ourselves. “Now, I hope we know that we need to find time to relax, outside of when we’re sick—or avoiding a global pandemic,” she says. (Something to leave behind? Handshakes, she says. We’re probably healthier without them.)
2. Showing vulnerability
When you’re in the middle of an important videoconference and your cat hops up on the back of your chair or there’s household chaos in the background, it’s hard not to feel a little bit vulnerable. That vulnerability can lead to connection, says Carole Robin, who teaches Stanford University’s wildly popular Interpersonal Dynamics class and is coauthor of Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships With Family, Friends, and Colleagues. When you allow yourself to open up to someone else, you build stronger relationships. “So if you’re willing to let me in a little bit on what’s going on for you, then you’ve taken that risk, then I’m more likely to reciprocate,” she says.
Robin says that, for some, the structured nature of videoconferencing has made it difficult to cultivate those close relationships that happen in the office, but she hopes that we’ll get better at it in hybrid workplaces. The next time the kids are screaming in the background or the cat jumps into the Zoom field, use the opportunity to connect. “Say, ‘Oh, man, you have a cat. I do too. My cat’s been the source of so much comfort to me,'” she says. “Disclosure begets disclosure.”
The resilience so many have shown during the pandemic is something that shouldn’t be forgotten, she says. “Let’s hang on to that knowledge and let it inform us in making more courageous choices to step outside our comfort zone in service of deeper, richer relationships and a more meaningful life,” she adds.
3. Increasing transparency and honesty
The word “unprecedented” became cliché when describing the pandemic. “Because there were so many changes unfolding quickly, executives were more transparent, consistent, and detailed in communications with employees than many had been in the past,” says Angelina Darrisaw, founder and CEO of the C-Suite Coach, an executive coaching firm. Employers need to stick with those open communication practices as employees return to the office. The return will be another period of fast change, so “communication practices established to help navigate crisis should remain to develop better employee relations,” she says.
As more people work remotely, transparency and honesty will be even more important to lead. “The pandemic has shown that many roles don’t require office presence, and some employees prefer their flexibility as long as healthy time boundaries are maintained. If employers want to stay competitive and continue to attract high-quality talent, honoring employee well-being will continue to be necessary,” she says. Employers who ignore those needs risk losing their talent.
4. Trusting our problem-solving skills
No matter what line of work you were in, you have likely had to figure out some problem or issue over the course of the past year, says inclusive leadership expert Ash Beckham, author of Step Up: How to Live With Courage and Become an Everyday Leader. How will your team collaborate from home? How will you change your business model to remain viable? How will you lead a team of people who are working from their bedrooms?
“We don’t often put ourselves in situations where we’re solving problems on the fly,” she says. But we had no choice during the pandemic. Beckham says we need to reflect on those accomplishments and let them fuel positive momentum going forward. Don’t lose sight of your ability to solve things and make the workplace better, she says. “I would hope that people would step up and really build the role that maybe they accidentally found themselves in,” she says. “To me, what that looks like is really diving into being a better person.” Don’t lose sight of what you can do, she says.
5. Embracing technology
Technology adoption accelerated during the pandemic to facilitate remote work, social distancing, and safety requirements. Collaboration platforms launched new bells and whistles. Remote work became more seamless. And that openness to digital change—and the opportunities it unleashes—is something we should take forward into our next normal, says Kevin Cornish, CEO of innovation agency Moth & Flame. “One trend is the merging of digital and virtual worlds,” he says. “How do we make that virtual environment feel more like the physical environment, that as people we prefer to be in, to foster connection?”
His teams hold regular meetings in virtual-reality settings to allow remote workers to feel like they’re in a physical space together. The technology is also useful for training and collaboration. And the more we can use technology to smooth out the bumps in remote work, the easier it is to expand the geographic boundaries of hiring. That leads to bigger labor pools, more talent, and more opportunities to achieve diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, he says.
“How do you get that focused presence in a shared workplace environment? I think that’s one of the biggest challenges, and it’s interesting to see how that part of the enterprise has been engaging and excited about virtual reality. Because it kind of solves those two: It’s got the scalability of software with that engagement of being in person,” he says.
6. Prioritizing humans
The gravity of the pandemic and the risks associated with it shifted many leaders’ perspectives to be more human-centered, says Christie Smith, senior managing director, global talent & organization/human potential leader with Accenture. “I think that there has been an intimate association with humanity, and truly, life and death. We continue to struggle with that,” she adds. To continue operating, organizations needed to shift their focus to employee needs. Accenture’s September 2020 Net Better Off research report found that when organizations meet six fundamental human needs–emotional and mental, relational, physical, financial, sense of purpose, and employability—employees tend to thrive.
Through supporting their teams during the pandemic, modern CEOs got a better sense of how critical meeting these needs are. “Mentally, these leaders now own the human agenda, not only within their organizations but within their customer group in the communities in which they live and work. And I think that that’s been a dramatic, positive shift,” she says. | <urn:uuid:29f4b81e-133d-4b55-903e-e9d227540955> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fastcompany.com/90648555/6-pandemic-work-habits-we-shouldnt-lose-in-our-new-normal?partner=feedburner&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feedburner+fastcompany&utm_content=feedburner&cid=eem524:524:s00:06/25/2021_fc&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=Compass&utm_campaign=eem524:524:s00:06/25/2021_fc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964955 | 1,750 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Meet the Field Guide Development Team Published June 16, 2022 By Mikala McCurry, AFCLC Outreach Team AFCLC MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. -- As the Air Force’s Global Classroom, the Air Force Culture and Language Center utilizes various education, training resources, and tools to develop a cross-culturally competent total force. One of the tools used to accomplish this mission is AFCLC’s library of Expeditionary Culture Field Guides. AFCLC has developed field guides for more than 70 countries based on the ‘12 Domains of Culture’ model. This model covers the integral parts of a country’s culture to equip service members with the baseline cultural competence needed to thrive in a culturally diverse environment. While many of the guides are available in print, they are also available online in PDF format and electronically through AFCLC’s Culture Guide mobile app. These pocket-sized handbooks, packed with invaluable cultural information, help U.S. forces achieve mission success in culturally complex settings. Each guide is developed by a team of dynamic research analysts, prestigious faculty members, and region and culture subject matter experts. Ben Hemenway, Nicolas Montano, Talia Govoni, and Mike Struk are the research analysts who collectively work to develop the content for the field guides alongside faculty members and other subject matter experts. Sarah McKay, the Content Administrative Support Specialist, also assists the research team to develop, audit, and process each guide. Mary Newbern, AFCLC’s Chief of Expeditionary Programs, oversees the team throughout the development and production process. As the research manager, Hemenway leads the initiative of developing each field guide by creating the schedule and research plans, reviewing drafts, coordinating with independent subject matter experts, and communicating with leadership to finalize each guide. “Context is key. It’s vital to know what’s currently going on in the given country and to place it within a larger regional context within U.S. foreign policy objectives,” he said. “Understanding the ‘big picture’ helps the team develop a guide that’s most useful for service members deployed there or working with foreign nationals from the country. Beyond that, it’s important to step back from each section and ask ourselves if the information we’re providing will be helpful for someone who knows next to nothing about the country or culture. Details are certainly important, but so are the context and big picture.” According to Hemenway, the entire process of developing a guide takes approximately six months from research initiation to submission of the final product. At any given time, the team is working on developing multiple guides simultaneously. McKay manages the electronic versions of the guides and provides routine updates for the full inventory of guides based on the ever-changing geopolitical landscape. She is one of the final set of eyes on each guide before it goes for final publication, so her keen attention to detail plays a vital role in the impact of each guide. “I’m one of the last people to see a new ECFG before it goes into publication. After receiving the final draft from Ms. Newbern, I review the content for any spelling and grammatical errors and formatting issues. Then I review and research the content to ensure that the ECFG is current at the time of production,” she said. “When I’ve completed the review, I send Ms. Newbern a list of potential changes and any suggestions I might have. Once Ms. Newbern approves the changes, we send the item to print, upload the PDF version to the AFCLC website, and load content into our Content Management System for uploading to the app.” Despite the challenge of gathering, vetting, and aggregating the vast amount of data and research needed to create each guide, the research team finds the learning aspect rewarding. Govoni, who is responsible for researching several country-specific topics for each guide, often regards her role as “getting paid to learn.” Similarly, Hemenway finds learning and working with his team as one of the most rewarding aspects of his role. “It’s a privilege to learn about so many different countries as part of my job. I sign off for the day not only feeling that I completed another workday, but also that I learned useful information about a country or culture I may have been almost entirely unfamiliar with,” he said. “Working with the research team is also gratifying – getting to know each other, building a team, and working with a group of intelligent, kind people with diverse backgrounds is a true pleasure.” AFCLC can consistently lead the way in developing a cross-culturally competent force due largely to its library of field guides. “The products we produce not only help our service members but also travelers with no military affiliation better understand, appreciate, and interact with individuals of a different culture. In 2018, the Air Force Culture Guide app was listed in the Wall Street Journal’s article, Six Indispensable Apps for Business Travelers. At that time, only 40-50 guides were available through the app. The mobile app has since expanded beyond field guides and now offers courses and educational videos. We are helping cultivate cultural/intercultural competence and global citizenship; I’m very proud to contribute to such an endeavor,” McKay said. AFCLC’s library currently includes guides for 72 countries, with several more in process based on strategic need. For more information, visit https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/AFCLC/expeditionary-readiness-training/Field-Guides/. | <urn:uuid:cd5cb32a-a5d4-4a8f-8c83-3734a743ccab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/AFCLC/Display/Article/3065155/meet-the-field-guide-development-team/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.934954 | 1,163 | 1.742188 | 2 |
One of the major gaps service robotics is fulfilling in every way in the service-oriented industry. The things that may look small. But need higher attention or require more time. And effort with more amount of cleanliness with on-time duty. It is a heavy list of abilities and sometimes needs more time and effort.
The industries such as Medical, domestic tasks, logistics, agriculture where the man-power is needed. It is more than the required high-skilled abilities. It is becoming the attraction sector for the robots to fill in.
Most of the developed countries are with high wages per hour. However, with a rising negative birth rate. And less amount of availability of such people in segments. It requires the need for such service-oriented robotics applications.
In my opinion, the service-oriented robots also show which continent is lacking the resources. Or trying to compensate the gap with the need for such robots. The expected sales forecast of such service robotics shows the need is increasing every year.
And so does the demand for such robots in the service-oriented field. The sale volume of European service robots is less than compared to its Asian counterpart. The reason is unknown, but maybe the cost or the need has not been created the same.
As the other Asian or American continent. The specialty is a provider of service-oriented robots. It is being dominated by the American continent. An area exclusively gaining maximum effort. And attention from the American market.
Are service robotics so effective?
The survey result shows the major need for such service-oriented robots is in the Medical industry. The need created and is fulfilling it efficiently. Resulting in high demand every year.
The sales volume of such robots in 2020 was recorded at 7,548 million US dollars. In 2021 8,000 million US dollars. And in 2022 it is forecasted to be 10,063 million US dollars. The figures clearly indicate the real need for such robots in industries like Medical justifies.
That how technology is reshaping the requirement of the medical industries. But also proves that it can be used in sectors where life-saving actions are more in need.
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How computer vision algorithms work
The most sophisticated computer vision algorithms are based on a kind of artificial intelligence known as a convolutional neural network. A CNN is a type of artificial neural network and is most often used to analyze visual images.
What computer vision algorithms bring to the table is scalability and the ability to memorize results. Instead of capturing and storing large amounts of video data, computer systems can, for example, store the fact that a person was present in a certain location at a certain time and was wandering from point A to point B .
Computer vision can automate the process, extract that metadata out of a video image, and then store the metadata without the image.
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Computer vision applications: Object recognition
Some applications are better suited to the eyes of a machine. âAI vision is ideal for applications where stable and reliable visual coverage of the scene of interest is possible and where there is a reasonable understanding of the range of types of objects or activities that will be present during use, âsays Mike Piacentino, senior technical director of vision systems for SRI International, a nonprofit scientific research institute.
This is why traffic management is a natural growth area for the deployment of intelligent vision systems.
GRIDSMART uses a single fisheye camera that provides a complete view of intersections, including the dangerous center where cars, trucks, motorcycles, scooters, bicycles and pedestrians intersect. âWe combine traditional computer vision and deep neural networks,â says Gabriel McFadden, senior regional sales manager for GRIDSMART. âGRIDSMART detects and tracks all moving objects in the scene and uses AI to determine exactly what they are. “
The platform provides real-time performance data such as time-stamped traffic volumes, turns and average speeds for intersection light analysis and synchronization and feeds the information back to traffic managers. GRIDSMART cameras are currently installed at 10,000 locations across the United States, including Tacoma, Washington, Seattle, San Francisco and Reno, Nevada.
GRIDSMART’s cameras use AI to track objects at intersections. Source: YouTube
John Rader, a senior traffic light electrician in Tacoma, says it typically takes four cameras to monitor an intersection with a light signal. A single GRIDSMART camera provides a 360 degree view, and some can tilt and zoom.
âIt worked really well for us and it’s easy to put together,â says Rader. âThere are a lot of features out there that we love. This includes some improvements that can now detect cyclists and pedestrians and give them more time to cross. Rader says the city is also using the system to count cars. At one intersection, planners were surprised to find 45,000 cars driving in a single day. âThe reporting is strong,â he says.
Computer vision applications: image processing
Hayden AI offers a smart camera for use in buses, police cars and other municipal vehicles. The on-board device can detect if a car is parked on a bus lane and can also mark and report parked cars at bus stops.
The system also stores historical data information to produce 3D maps. For example, it can detect when a car is parked in front of an invisible fire hydrant because the camera has noticed the hydrant on previous passes. The camera is a 21 teraflop device and captures data in 10 second evidence packets, which are transmitted to the cloud.
âWe are witnessing the digital transformation of the police,â says Chris Carson, CEO of Hayden AI. âEurope has done a better job with it. We cannot hire enough police officers. Many officers are concerned about COVID-19 or the danger of stopping a vehicle.
âOur technology has no bias; it just recognizes a car, âCarson says. Hayden AI has municipal clients in New York, California, and Washington State. Its cameras will also soon be found on city vehicles in Washington, DC, Carson says.
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Computer vision applications: motion tracking
Intelligent vision systems also find their place in other specialized applications that can be used by state and local governments. Smart Vision Works is a company founded in 2012 with clients primarily in the food and agriculture industries.
Smart Vision Works collaborated with the State of Michigan on a pilot project to identify and remove invasive carp from its waterways. The native fish at risk is called the June sucker. The company trained its AI system with deep learning to identify the fish among six or seven other species.
âYou don’t know exactly what features it relies on,â says Beau Tippetts, vice president of systems engineering at Smart Vision Works. âYou need a lot of pictures of a lot of carp. “
Ultimately, Smart Vision Works created a hatch design with a fence and a camera. As the fish passed, they were identified and sorted by the exit gates.
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Computer vision applications: drone mapping and monitoring
Levatas provides smart drone cameras and fixed locations for oil and gas, telecommunications and power generation companies. He currently works with Florida’s largest utility.
âWe help organizations a lot to automate manual inspection tasks,â says Daniel Bruce, partner and product manager at Levatas. These include repetitive and time-consuming safety checks that take up a lot of plant workers’ time. Drones are programmed to detect leaks and other anomalies in hard-to-reach places. Meanwhile, the gauges can be monitored by a fixed smart camera.
âThese are mundane and frustrating jobs,â says Bruce. âWe are not here to replace humans; we are here to increase them and give them superpowers.
The Federal Aviation Administration prohibits drones from flying beyond the operator’s line of sight. Fortem Technologies has created its SkyDome platform to provide autonomous 3D surveillance of airspace. It uses AI-assisted radar to monitor overhead obstacles when a municipality wants to send a drone over the horizon to investigate an accident or crime scene. The system then signals an open flight path to the operator and the FAA provides a waiver.
âYou need a service to tell you that the road is clear,â says Timothy Bean, CEO of Fortem. âWe provide this kind of airspace data so that people can perform a myriad of autonomous drone operations. The company is currently working with 14 state transportation departments.
Edathil of the Texas Department of Information Resources spends his days working on new applications for machine learning in state agencies. A recent proof of concept app used biometric AI facial recognition to register visitors at the front desk.
âThe main advantage of facial recognition is that it minimizes contact with the user,â says Edathil. âThe system has been configured to delete the image after logging outâ, so it does not store personal identifiers without authorization.
Edathil envisions many other uses of intelligent AI in state public agencies. These could include tasks intended for the public at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, building inspections by the Texas Facilities Commission, or a toll system that detects expired tags and extracts information from registration stickers.
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dental, e-learning, hospital, ict, nurse training, strategy
P James. Dental Nurse Perceptions of an e-Learning Strategy at a Bangkok Hospital. The Internet Journal of Medical Education. 2012 Volume 2 Number 2.
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Thailand is experiencing a growth in medical provision and medical developments.Medical staff shortages (Bangkok Post, 23 April, 2012) such as trained dental nurses and the lack of engagement in e-Learning practices has led to difficulties managing dental situations through lack of medical education as well as a lack of unified current training perspectives. However, the rapid growth of the Internet and other developing technologies such as e-Learning 2.0 brings the possibility of a new era for the provision of medical training. Internationally, many researchers perceive that ICT and any consequent e-Learning developments are an enabling technology rather than a foundation for pedagogic developments . Further, the “e” in e-Learning doesn’t necessarily make learning/training easier, simpler, more effective or more cost effective than traditional pedagogical methods . Consequently, the perception of more efficient technologically-based alternatives to traditional medical educational/training provision has clearly focused the developing e-Learning strategy. As hospitals test out new dimensions of e-Learning relating to training effectiveness creates a new ongoing trend of e-Learning applications that may encompass most hospitals in the near future. The significant barriers to its implementation and consistent use, such as cost and technology limitations, have only recently been addressed and to a larger extent mitigated . This raises the context for the first research question –
Given the above, many health managers in Thailand are being encouraged to recognise that there are some serious issues that need to be addressed such as focusing on e-Learning designs and how these can be integrated into the more traditional training forms using partial-blending practices . Further, using pedagogically modularised programmes so that training programmes can be managed in a more learner-oriented manner would appear to help develop more effective use of expensive resources such as nurses, managers and administration developments and enact changes by applyingstrategic e-Learning orientations in medical facilities. Accordingly, technology itself could provide a more flexible and much more adaptable approach to e-Learning involvement in training developments. Thus, in the longer-term, managers of medical facilities have new operations efficiency opportunities.These maybe directly linked to ICT and any subsequent e-Learning outcomes and become an operational imperative for manyhospitals to deliver appropriate e-Learning requirements to interested stakeholders; . This raises the context for the second research question –
The growth in virtual activities (first discussed by researchers in the mid 1980s), allows facilities to expand and increase the flexibility of the training provision. Numerous researchers have discussed digital system developments ; ; and have shown how user data can be used to provide appropriate content/information streams that match targeted-user training needs. Through this approach, partial-blended learning (based on – a combination of traditional classroom and online study – offers new learning methods and pedagogy, while open source software and courseware facilitate sharing of resources and reduces costly duplication of effort through information technology which has been viewed as a solution to hospital cost and quality problems . Translating this outcome to online technologies are increasingly being utilised to aid in the training delivery mechanism in medical facilities to address issues of cooperative learning and experiences . This raises the context for the third research question –
These changes promote the more important learner-centred pedagogy that appear to dominate research and indicate that web-based platforms operate more effectively . However, while the use of ICT across such organisations has been implemented, integration into the training arena in health services has been slow to become established. Challenges for hospital management include providing on-going training and research support for increased distributed learning provision. Further, support for off-site nursing provision, staff training and support in ICT developments for administrators and other ancillary staff .Theremay also be an impact on training, as human resources would be required to be more ICT literate in order to communicate effectively with progressive digital natives using more involved ICT tools and processes. This raises the context for the fourth research question –
To develop a much broader and deeper approach surrounding the issues generated within the dental facilities context and to consider more implicitly the issues and questions raised, this empirical groundwork utilised an interpretive approach . This was an attempt to understand the nursing perceptions of dental e-Learning practices. The dental facility was separate and independent unit within the hospital that provided dental facilities to patients in the department and to patients elsewhere in the hospital through mobile facilities. Use of e-Learning was therefore a necessary requirement as the conditions of work required motivated and multiple-skilled personnel experienced to deal with changing work-loads and patient needs.
Hospital dental nursing staff were considered specialist knowledge agents and actors , as their opinions and experiences influenced the effectiveness of hospital practices, and the development and application of e-Learning policy. The research used a personal semi-structured interview conducted with dental nursing staff, which provided an appropriate element of context and flexibility and was further aided by applying an inductive/theory building approach . Given the lack of appropriately focused research in this area, this methodology is seen as suitable for creating contextual data for the purpose of forming richer theory development . The population for this study was made up of all fifteen (15) dental nursing staff (12 female – 3 male) located at a defined dental medical facility among a total of 350 nurses within a private Bangkok Hospital, Thailand – chosen through applying the approach of a targeted population of interest and this reflected the criteria of theoretical purpose, relevance and appropriateness . Further, using appropriate sampling processes , a total ofeight dental nursing staff (6 female – 2 male) were thus determined as the resultant sample frame, which could also be considered convenience sampling .
For ethics approval, hospital management required no more formal engagement than a simple letter asking for permission to carry out the research, as the focus of the research did not involve any part of a clinical trial. Further, each interviewee signed a personal ethics release formand thus informed consent was obtained from all participants in this study. This gave each interviewee’scomplete confidentiality and this corresponded with the hospital’s ethical process requirement to protect staff giving opinions in non-clinical trials research. No data was collected about age, years of training, as these weren’t specifically targeted as meaningful factors in such a small research project.
The author conducted the interviews on-site (but outside of the dental facility in the hospital management suite) and used the following protocols. Interviews were not considered part of their job, but were paid as normal. Each interview was audio recorded for future analysis. Interviews were conducted in English and took approximately one hour. All interviews were recorded digitally after gaining explicit permission, and were later transcribed verbatim using the transcribe feature of NVivo 9 software (QSR). The conduct of the interviews follows a process , with each individual group being asked the same set of questions – modified through ancillary questioning (probes and follow-ups). To increase the reliability of the data, the actual transcription was returned to each respondent – via e-mail – for comment, correction, addition or deletion and return, which followed the process of validated referral . Whole-process validity was achieved, as the respondents were considered widely knowledgeable of the context and content, associated with the research .
Each interview was coded initially using the Acrobat X software according to sub-themes that 'surfaced' from the interview dialogue – using a form of open-coding ;and . This treatment was also reinforced and extended through the use of thematic analysis conducted using the NVivo 9 – qualitative software package . Each interview was treated and coded independently. Various themes were sensed from the use of the software packages, as well as from the initial manual-coding attempts. This dual form of interrogation was an attempt to increase the validity of the choice of both key themes and sub-themes through a triangulation process. NVivo 9 was further used to explore these sub-themes by helping to pull together each of these sub-themes from all the interviews . In this way, it was possible to capture each respondent's comments across transcripts on each supported sub-theme and place them together for further consideration and analysis.
The outline of the research framework for this study is shown in Figure 1 below.
The framework supported by appropriate literature, illustrated below in Table 1, and further shows the nine sub-themes and subsequent issues raised from the literature forming the basis for this framework.
The outcomes are stated below where the discussion focuses on the sub-theme elements within each key theme. The discussion format used in this paper reflects the respondent’s voice through a streamlined and articulated approach for reporting. Consequently, the style adopted for reporting and illustrating the data is greatly influenced by and also and is discussed below, focusing on the raised research questions and the resultant main themes.
Main Research Outcomes
The various themes developed from the main interviews are presented in Table 1, and are essentially broken down into four key-themes: Hospital e-Learning Strategy; e-Learning Funding/Costs; e-Learning Delivery and Performance; and Hospital ICT Support distributed across nine sub-themes and twenty seven minor-themes. The placement of the sub-themes has been influenced by context of the key theme and relevant sub-themes.
The outcomes are stated below where the discussion focuses on the nine sub-theme elements within each key theme and the subsequent impacts on Hospital Policy and are presented in Table 2, below. The discussion format used in this paper reflects the respondent’s voice through a streamlined and articulated approach for reporting. Table 2, below, shows the depth of respondent illustrations/extractions as used in the reporting of this research and the main research outcomes.
Hospital e-Learning Strategy
e-Learning was perceived by respondents as necessary, but few knew how to move forward. As one respondent (R3) indicated ...yes, it's something we hope to focus on, but where do you start. Hospitals are complex machines, y'know... Generalised e-Learning courses was perceived by staff to be both fragmented and ill-focused as training courses were seen by many as solely targeted to hospital process skills development (R6). For example, courses offered appeared to be administrative (patient records) oriented or related to generalised medical training/practices or a reinforcement of emergency procedures. This was seen as opposite to what many nursing staff wanted as one respondent (R5) indicated ...skill-building leading to specific technical courses that would help us with our career aspirations and opportunities. As such, it appears that most e-Learning were focused on technical software packages or procedures and this did little to reduce the administrative burden created within the dental facility. Consequently, as another respondent (R8) suggested ...the hospital has failed us in its e-Learning strategy through the lack of policy development. This was supported by another respondent (R2) who stated that ...this was considered a serious flaw in the Hospital ICT strategy as administration is a support activity, and that this should change to a more centralised-focus for personal learning/training provision.
It would appear that departments do not have an informed ICT or e-Learning policy (R2) and as another respondent (R1) indicated that ...it is unfocused and unclear. Efforts appear to have been made by the ICT management group of the hospital, which, as another respondent (R6) indicated ...had been given responsibility for assessing e-Learning requirements – but they hadn't talked to us about anything. Another respondent (R4) suggested that ...e-Learning isn't part of what management do. I think they fear the cost and the changes to staff, so that they would have to pay us more.
Depth of Coverage
Skills-based programmes appeared to have no strategic involvement, as one respondent (R3) indicated ...they were, kind of, just provided. Respondents claimed that the hospital sought to develop the internal patient-records-payment system, rather than as another respondent (R4) suggested ...possibly to develop fully online e-Learning environments in the near future; but they've been telling us that for a while now and nothing – at least schools get tablets. We get nothing. A number of respondents indicated that the hospital-wide administration system is not effectively integrated into the learning/training sphere as depicted by one respondent (R8) who stated that ...because it could create pressures on the hospital quality system. Another respondent suggests that ...e-Learning isn't used at all. Not in this department anyway. They haven't taught anything new here for a while. This is supported by another respondent (R5) who mused that ...like all new things it just takes time.
Nurses had received little external funding for any developments in e-Learning practices utilised. As one respondent (R2) indicated ...no one helps here. No one seems to be interested to help us. No one has the time. I'm sure that if we start it would be different. But the costs are a lot. I can't afford it really.
Management appears to control any e-Learning engagement in the hospital, but not invest in its application very effectively. As one respondent (R6) stated ...some training is carried out through e-Learning, now that we have smart-phones – but not everyone has one of them. So it is difficult, and we have to share. Another respondent (R5) indicated that ...why should we have to subsidise the hospital and purchase a smart-phone just to learn new things. It's not right. We can't afford it. No, not really. Many of the training blocks for dentistry practices appear to be costly and only in the English language only (R5). This presents a variety of problems. As one respondent (R3) stated ...when we have time to do the training, we download the training block and many of the staff have no idea what is being said as they are from the US. This is somewhat supported by another respondent (R8) who indicated that ...all that money spent on training blocks that no one understands – what a waste!
Benefits to Users
Nurses appeared to understand the immense changes that could occur if they could access and learn when they wanted to. As one respondent (R4) indicated ...if I could actually learn all the material they have available that would be very good, really cool. Another respondent (R1) suggested ...more training and more training, but in the end we're better for it – if only we had the time. On this point another respondent (R8) stated that ...sometimes I wonder about all this training – like with the helicopter emergency procedures – but we never fly in one. An aspect that was raised by respondents was how effective was the training that was carried out. On this one respondent (R7) indicated that ...
Cost of Units
Where e-Learning is developed, the funding for any such developments in e-Learning practices appeared to be predominantly targeted to skills-based programmes. As one respondent suggested (R1) ...we get little money here as we're only small. Sometimes others get much more. It's not fair really. Another respondent (R7) stated ...that money is spent on computers - on systems, hardware, software and other specialised training - in that comes out of the hospital general budget. These are always directed at patients and getting them here, like marketing I suppose. Further, another respondent (R3) suggested that ...the hospital is mad about costs. Our equipment used to be really good, but it costs to repair and maintain. Another respondent (R8) stated that ...they expect us to be trained before we take the job. Never had any training since I got here. No, nothing. Consequently, responses appeared to indicate that insufficient funding was an issue (R5) that possibly affects a nurses procedural and skills development through lack of engagement in an e-Learning platform or related practices.
Cost of Development
It would appear that a lack of funding for any developments in e-Learning practices was predominantly related to respondents negative association with personal development. On this one respondent (R4) suggested that ...if you can't get the material or you can't understand it, then it's useless. When we get examined, it is often through the same technology. Never-mind, it will get better, I'm sure. Another respondent (R2) claimed that ...we don't really know the financial costs, but we can guess the costs to the hospital and our patients if we don't do training. It would appear that respondents recognised that budgets across the hospital were being maintained at a single level and this had a material effect on the perception of training practices. As supported by one respondent (R7) suggested ...we can buy new material – material that would help us on new development. All we have are what someone else decides. In some ways this is difficult to accept. Another respondent (R1) indicated that ...choice isn't some thing we have here. But, we do our best. Not everyone accepts that though. I wish it was different.
e-Learning Delivery and Performance
It would appear that most of the on-going training was carried out through e-Learning packages, which provided full on-line access for normal procedural modules, but nurses appeared to have difficulty with access to specialised self-study learning modules. As one respondent (R7) indicated ...for procedural blocks we had it in writing and on the phone or through our computer station. Often though, our access was blocked for specialised material because it would cost the hospital for this access, which is not very good, is it?Practices beyond simple downloading were perceived as difficult. The basis for this appeared to be technological (R5) (both with the hospital system and the hand-sets), as well as behavioural in terms of getting easily frustratedwith a system (R2) that nurses didn't understand. As another respondent (R2) stated ...the hospital system is pretty technical and its difficult to deal with – really difficult. However, the most commonly advised traditional models of skill development based on close delivery of technical skills to nurses appears to be missing, as the system has been designed for other purposes than dental nurse training (R8) – suggesting that dental nurse training is too specialised for the hospital system to manage.
There appeared to be considerable differences between nurses in relation to their approach and knowledge of ICT. For example, some nurses have either ...not considered using e-Learning yet (R1) or had considered it ...but not used it (R7). Various reasons were advanced for this, as one respondent (R5) indicated ...the lack of skills available; but it appears an important and prevalent reason as depicted by another respondent (R8) was ...the perceived complexity of ICT development; and another respondent (R4) stated that ...nurses may not be trained effectively to handle the new e-Learning requirements. However, where e-Learning was practiced in the dental facility, the most commonly used e-Learning activities were the online delivery of specialist software driven course materials; and online management of short-course literature. Nursing staff reasons at the dental facility for using e-Learning were stated as ...cost-reduction (R3); improved ...learning focus and capability (R6); and encouragement of ...nurse-centred learning (R1). However, dental nurses do not appear to have access to ...full online programmes (R4) leading to certification, but can access specialised self-study learning modules (R2). Further, dental nurses appeared to believe that ...these were supplemental to other training courses provided (R7); and were also considered by nurses as lacking in suitably ...critical focused-training aids (R5). These further issues were raised as nurses reported that practices beyond simple e-mail and downloading may be perceived as difficult (R2); except for ...some medical social-networking web-sites (R6) that helped nurses discuss their experiences. However, specialised software companies have contributed to helping the dental facility to deliver remote learning programmes via ...smart-phone (R3) and had ...eased nurses fears of dealing with such practices (R7).
The research has identified that there is no common e-Learning model in use throughout the Hospital. When using e-Learning, the dominant model the Hospital appeared to be a ‘blended’ low-level approach (R8). Nurses perceived reasons ...for the need for them to engage in ICT (R3), although there did not appear to be a consensus as to what to do to get nurses to ...involve us more effectively with e-Learning platform (R4). Consequently, suggestions from respondents included increasing ICT training (R2); ...greater support staff training (R7); ...more funding for ICT infrastructure development (R5); with the consequences of a possible refinement of Hospital ICT strategy (R8).
Depth of Coverage
It was identified from the data that only a small number of normal training programmes had some form of ICT involvement – and of this e-Learning provision was characterised has having no involvement beyond e-mail or short-training presentations such as the use of a PDF file to support training topics. Similar conditions were seen elsewhere in the hospital, which currently offers consistent online services for available training courses. There appeared to be instances of partial adoption of a blended approach to e-Learning with some levels of interaction. This, however, was seen ...
Hospital ICT Support
When considering ICT staff skills(their ability to provide universal access and produce electronic resources) the extent of the take-up of e-Learning does not appear to have been ...well deployed (R1) or seemingly ...well utilised (R4). Utilising a soft blended-learning activity (e-Learning and mostly traditional approaches such as PDF docs) appeared to have become ...more widespread (R4), and was seen by many staff as a ...support mechanism (R3) outside scheduled training sessions. This may be due to a redefinition or retrenchment of ...training practices/activities (R7), as soft blended-learning could be more readily backwards-converted into more traditional training events. Nursing staff perceived that support staff with specialised skill development in ICT practices was inadequate (R5); ...not focused on their particular training needs (R2); and did not provide adequate ICT coverage (R8) for their training requirements. However, new ICT initiatives and training for specialised support staff (technical) were ...continuously being developed and applied (R4). However, nursing staff did not appear to be ...actively trained in the use and application of e-Learning practices (R1).
It would appear that dental nursing staff ...were not encouraged to try (R6) or ...utilise (R3) e-Learning practices outside the hospital. The gap between nurses' skills in their personal use of ICT at the hospital and their skills in using ICT at home does not appear to have been bridged with training or increased ICT interest.This may reflect a lack of hospital confidence in their partial use of ICT in public (R2) or the lack of availability of ICT support services (R8). Training practices, which involved group engagement, did not appear to be successful when part of the training was co-ordinated through an incongruent e-Learning exercise. As one respondent (R4) suggested …
New ICT initiatives for specialized staff (technical) were continuously being developed and applied, as one respondent (R2) indicated …
Discussion - Implications
The above research outcomes generally suggest that e-Learning practices are in a state of flux and reflect early introduction issues. e-Learningappears therefore an
Hospital e-Learning Strategy - How effective is the present hospital e-Learning strategy?
The main outcomes of this research strongly indicate the implications for a broader strategic hospital e-Learning environment. This is controlled by hospital management who determine whether or not e-Learning developments will be successful and/or ultimately improve sufficiently to meet learner/trainer needs . In this respect, this shapes the hospital strategy targeted to efficiency gains, rather than pedagogic/training requirements .Further, this study also confirms Fullan’s exposition on the importance of connecting ICT policy development with capability and capacity building as underpinned by the complexity of interaction between the hospital infrastructure and ongoing and developing e-Learning practices . The hospital does not appear to provide a specific e-Learning strategy for the dental facility or a published policy for e-Learning practices - although it appeared to be wholly recognised that an ICT strategy in hospitals was now fundamental to good operating requirements .
It would also appear that the ICT strategy is narrowly focused on administration issues by providing support staff with an integrated hospital-wide system that allows nursing staff access, for example, to their patient’s personal data, examination results and health related data - which may not provide for the most appropriate focus for a hospital-wide e-Learning strategy engagement .
e-Learning Funding/Costs - What funding arrangements are you aware of that affect ICT developments at this hospital?
The focus on ICT support is on hospital administrative tasks - which have been viewed as a solution to a hospitals’ patient process cost and quality management issues . This may need to be reviewed as this does little to offer dental nursing staff confidence in helping to engage in building an appropriate e-Learning platform. This was based on the overwhelming view that e-Learning developments was seen as a managerial cost/efficiency exercise . The large increase in patients and increased competition recently has put a strain on the level of access available to patients; on the Hospital infrastructure as a whole; and on the dental facility training demands. It would seem that the Hospital management has a major influence on the direction of ICT and e-Learning development.So has the cost of technology which appears to have a negative affect on its functional and pedagogic/training use. The application of future low-level technological and pedagogic options may thus inhibit rational ICT development and seriously affect continuing dental nursing staff engagement in e-Learning practices – at least in the short-term.
e-Learning Programme Delivery and Performance - In what ways do the eLearning provision affect staff abilities to engage in eLearning practices at this hospital?
When using eLearning, the dominant model the hospital uses is a partially ‘blended’ approach, combining ICT and traditional methods to deliver classroom learning/training . There is also the potential to establish a collaborative teaching and learning community , which - from the data - appears ineffective in the present situation. This is possibly not a result of strategic import, but as a consequence of managerial disengagement and the perceived low level of enthusiasm or interest of dental nursing staff relating to ICT developments. However, close delivery of technical skills may not be the most effective approach for the development of important e-Learning outcomes . Further, the perception of an inadequate e-Learning engagement from nursing staff may have the affect of low-levels of participation . These findings also corroborate the outcomes of suggesting that in the short-term there is little constructive development in e-Learning policy at this hospital which may give rise to important operational and financial concerns in the longer-term. Thus, the notion is that ICT has become a critical component in the health/education/training system in order to enhance, improve and eventually to transform the hospital through meeting staff learning/training concerns.
Hospital ICT Support - How effective are the ICT support mechanisms at this hospital?
The lack of effective engagement by support services in this study signifies a particularly important issue . This does little to address the very necessary requirements of support in the development of hospital-wide e-Learning practices, which would present the need for a significant change in training, and administrative practices .
It would appear that the hospital is applying possible partial future technological and pedagogic options ; and that this is viewed as unsympathetic by many dental nursing staff to their training needs as it is perceived as an efficiency measure as the support mechanisms remained unclear.
Dental nursing staff did not appear to be actively trained in the use and application of e-Learning practices leading to speculation regarding the efficacy of the role and responsibility of management . Further, dental nursing staff does not appear to be helped to engage effectively with support practices integrated into a wider system of ICT management . Consequently, there appears to be little managerial support for widespread staff e-Learning engagement or technology-enhanced learning.
There would appear to be several limitations of this investigation that require acknowledgment. The outcomesare regarded as a substantive model fully representing the contextof the study setting and the views of key informants. However, this model may be applied to other similar settings, but moreresearch is needed to explore these types of contexts.Some respondents may have felt reluctant to complain or provide negative feedback about their engagement with e-Learning - especially when interviewed at the hospital.This was considered an acceptable risk factor in terms of the validity of the research outcome as this is mitigated through the notion that respondents had time to considertheir experiences and expectations of e-Learning developments and knowledge.Further, research also needs to be carried out with other actors that are involved in managing the process of providing and developing e-Learning at the hospital.
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New study finds trade deals could contribute to unhealthier eating and more diet-related deaths in the UK. But with targeted farm subsidies and more strategic trade policy, this could be offset.
The new study combined food-system and health modelling to estimate how post-Brexit trade and agriculture policies could impact dietary health in the UK. The analysis traces how different post-Brexit policy strategies would affect the intake, availability, cost and sources of food. The research was published in the journal Nature Food and led by Dr Marco Springmann from the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Population Health and Dr Florian Freund of the Thünen Institute in Germany.
In their research, post-Brexit free trade deals could result in unhealthier eating habits in the UK, along with more diet-related deaths. Free trade agreements that increase imports and lower the costs of food such as beef, pork, wheat and oils may result in these becoming an increased part of the national diet, which could lead to lead to more obesity and related health problems linked to cancers and heart conditions.
However, these harms have the potential to be offset with targeted farming subsidies, which encourage farmers to grow more fruits, vegetables, beans, pulses and nuts. By making concerns for healthy eating central to trade and agriculture policy, which is now possible because of Brexit, British diets could also be changed for the better.
Dr Springmann said,
Our study shows that a ‘Global Britain’ strategy, that includes trade agreements with large exporters of foods that are neither healthy nor sustainable, runs counter to public health considerations and should be subjected to serious scrutiny.
Dr Freund said,
Our findings highlight the need for health-sensitive trade and agricultural reforms. More food is not always better, but it’s all about the right mix. Protecting people’s health requires consistent policies that don’t shy away from discouraging unhealthy foods and promoting healthy ones.
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To make better use of fish waste and curb its emissions, scientists at Conservation International came up with a solution: transform it into usable products like plant fertilizer and food for farm animals.
“Fish silage — that’s a fancy term for the liquified fish skin, heads and guts left after processing — contains organic matter, which is good for the soil, as well as different nutrients, such as calcium, that are not always present in industrial fertilizers,” said Pablo Obregon, a scientist at Conservation International.
“What we’re finding is that vegetables grown with this fish silage fertilizer are more productive and are actually sweeter and juicier than those produced using agrochemical fertilizer.”
Obregon and the Conservation International Ecuador team achieved these results through a series of agricultural trials at a local tomato farm. The team is also currently testing the use of fish silage as animal feed given its high protein content.
As this effort takes root, it could help reduce the polluting effects of fish waste in local landfills, while creating new jobs in communities that have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"It's a benefit to families in the fisheries sector, especially women,” said Amada Zapata, who is working with Conservation International to establish a new, woman-led company focused on commercializing fish silage in the Galápagos. “This is an entrepreneurial opportunity for us. It will be led by mothers and daughters of fishermen to utilize 100 percent of each fish."
A Conservation International Ecuador staff member working with fish silage in the Galápagos © Pablo Obregon
Like some other island communities, most of the food in the Galápagos is imported — a practice that has introduced several invasive species. The fish silage initiative could reduce the critical threat of invasive species to islands ecosystems by providing access to locally made fertilizer and animal feed.
“Galápagos has long been known as a living laboratory of evolution,” Obregon said. “It’s also a laboratory for sorting out how humanity can meet its needs while conserving the life support systems that nature provides. This program shows how we can reduce environmental impacts from human activities while creating new, good-paying jobs."
The initiative is being supported by the World Bank through the Coastal Fisheries Initiative - Challenge Fund (CFI-CF).
2. In New Caledonia, Indigenous knowledge points to natural fire-fighting solutions
In the heart of the Pacific, 1,448 kilometers (900 miles) from Australia, the archipelago of New Caledonia boasts the highest density of endemic plants anywhere in the world, with around 2,500 native species.
One of the country’s unique plants — known as the Bourao tree — may prove to be a secret weapon in halting dangerous bushfires that have recently ravaged this island chain.
“Each year, bushfires burn up to 2 percent of New Caledonia,” said François Tron, Conservation International’s New Caledonia program director. “And while fire has many traditional uses, uncontrolled burns have become more frequent and intense due to a number of factors, including climate change. This could have multiple and devastating consequences for local communities.”
For generations, New Caledonia’s Indigenous Kanak people recognized the Bourao tree’s ability to stop fire.
“When a moderate fire hits a dense bush of Bourao, the blaze itself also can’t make it through, which quite often stops the fire in its tracks and prevents it from spreading,” Tron said. “This is in part because of Bourao’s thick and large leaves, and the high humidity content of the bare soil around it. The plants certainly wither under the heat, but most of the time don’t really burn.”
A fire in New Caledonia © François Tron
As fires have raged across the island, local communities are looking beyond traditional fire-fighting approaches and seeking to tap into local knowledge.
“In New Caledonia, Indigenous Kanak peoples have 3,000 years-worth of traditional knowledge to contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation,” Tron added. “This is just one example of the ways in which their knowledge can shape conservation strategies.”
Currently, Conservation International is working with local communities to pilot a program that would plant Bourao as green firebreaks in areas with high risk of fires, thus allowing the forest to naturally regenerate over large areas with only marginal human intervention. Beyond stemming fires, planting more of the species could also help provide shade, prevent soil erosion and supply fibers for ropemaking.
3. Ecuador expands marine reserve to protect threatened species
A vital swath of the Pacific Ocean has been declared off-limits from destructive fishing practices with the establishment of a new marine protected area that spans 60,000 square kilometers (23,166 square miles) — connecting the Galápagos Islands to Costa Rica’s Cocos Island National Park.
The new marine reserve will create an important corridor for migratory species such as whales, sharks, sea turtles and manta rays.
Conservation International was part of a large coalition of conservation organizations that promoted the expansion of Galapagos Marine Reserve to prevent illegal fishing and protect migratory species. The government of Ecuador led a unified effort to increase ocean protections in the region, which was supported by Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia.
“This new protected area is part of the larger Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape, a jewel of biodiversity about three times the size of Texas,” said Luis Suárez, vice president of Conservation International Ecuador.
“By conserving continuous habitats for marine species in this remarkable ecosystem, Ecuador is signaling its dedication to the protection and health of the high seas and opening the door for further collaboration between nations to connect even more marine corridors,” Suárez added. “This is a vital step toward realizing the global goal of protecting 30 percent of our ocean by the year 2030.”
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est stands for Erhard Seminar Traning, and is Latin for "it is." Started by Werner Erhard in 1971, est became a very popular movement in the personal development arena experienced by over 700,000 people.
Little information exists today about what exactly took place in those rooms and arenas, but even a cursory search online shows that est had a lasting effect on the personal development movement.
Some say that est was influenced by scientology, however, a closer look shows that it was a mix of philosophical thought from existential philosophy, psychology, Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts, Freud, Abraham Maslow, L. Ron Hubbard, Hinduism, Dale Carnegie, Norman Vincent Peale, and even P. T. Barnum.
Erhard promised participants that he would "blow their minds," "empower" them, and inspire them "to produce effective action." Partipants would learn new methods of communication allowing them "to cause life instead of just living it."
The ultimate goal: Transformation, which is also the title of a movie about Werner Erhard.
See what some people have said about est and The Book of est:
As for the book itself, it's a great read and very thought provoking! A couple of times, I believe I had transformed myself and was actually in the sessions! I loved the parts where some of the participants finally "Got it"! I do believe that I "Got it" too! I have always believed that a person's life is based on the choices they make and what they do with those choices. I believe the est training touches on those very concepts.
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South China Morning Post (SCMP), a major, well-known newspaper based in Hong Kong, has recently announced plans to issue a series of NFTs. These won’t be regular NFTs based on tweets or artwork, however. Instead, the SCMP plans to use a new token standard known as ARTIFACT, which was specifically designed to preserve historical assets using blockchain technology.
Essentially, the newspaper aims to tokenize famous Hong Kong landmarks, such as the Kowloon Walled City, and put them on the Sandbox Ethereum-based metaverse, according to new reports.
What is ARTIFACT, and How Does it Work?
SCMP presented the idea in the ARTIFACT Litepaper, showing the standardized metadata structure that could actually work, and ensuring that some of its 118-year-old archive of media assets might be preserved through NFTs and the technology behind them.
The company’s CEO, Gary Liu, stated that blockchain technology offers ‘immense potential,’ and that can preserve journalism immutably. It can be the new way that history is witnessed and explained, with no way to manipulate it and turn around events that have already taken place, which is what both history and modern-day journalism have a tendency to do.
In essence, ARTIFACT is a project that seeks to discover, collect, show, trade, and even reanimate some of the most meaningful objects and moments from the collective human experience, as Gary Liu put it.
The SCMP will create NFTs that will mostly be inspired by the newspaper company’s century-old archive of documents, photography, infographics, data visualizations, and visual illustrations. It will even include cartoons; all of this, including the texts, photos, and the like, represents “the first drafts of history.”
SCMP partners with The Sandbox
The idea is for the token standard to be blockchain-agnostic when it comes to the long-term. However, for the initial period, the SCMP will focus on a select few chains to start and explore all possibilities that might unfold in time. Furthermore, it needs time to engage a wider audience, which is why it opted to join with the Ethereum-based metaverse called The Sandbox.
The Sandbox is a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, a rising blockchain startup. It will also collaborate with partners of its own, such as digital artists and local game studios, that will help create a series of 3D voxel-based interactive gaming and cultural experiences that will be based on historic and modern landmarks and artifacts alike, focusing primarily on Hong Kong itself, but also mainland China.
One of the landmarks is the previously mentioned Kowloon Walled City, which will be integrated into the blockchain metaverse. In addition to that, it is also known that Star Ferry will be added too, with many more to come. Liu even hinted at the possibility for the player to virtually experience numerous scenes from Hong Kong’s recent history, such as the 1950s, and learn about what that period was like directly from SCMP’s reports.
How will it work?
According to The Sandbox, players will be able to buy plots adjacent to the SCMP project starting July 22nd. These plots will come in the form of the metaverse’s native LAND tokens. The SCMP CEO also spoke about the partnership with the Sandbox, noting that the SCMP hopes to create metaverse environments for people to experience a true, historical Hong Kong in time.
This, of course, also extends to historical China, and to learn about how beautiful and complex this part of the world has been over the years and even decades of the 20th century.
As for the mentioned LAND tokens, they can be put in groups, and even assembled into the virtual estate in the Sandbox’s metaverse. Many different partners and users of The Sandbox’s system will be able to do this, such as a well-known game developer that works with the Sandbox — Atari.
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Trends: how international tourism was developing before the pandemic
Trends - series of FEZ Grodnoinvest materials on key events in global and regional investment policy, the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI). This article will focus on investments in tourism industry over the past five years, up to COVID-19 and the pandemic. The industry has faced new challenges and the coronavirus. However, the trends set several years earlier will have an impact on the prospects of international tourism in 2020 and subsequent years. The material was prepared based on the data of Tourism Investment Report 2019 service of the Financial Times.
The past five years have been characterized by a boom in tourism industry. In 2014-2018 global volume of foreign direct investment (FDI) in tourism sector is estimated at $ 131 billion. The peak of investments occurred in 2018, when 613 investment projects worth $ 57 billion were announced, which will create about 140 thousand new jobs.
The United Kingdom has become the world leader in the number of investment transactions in tourism industry. Since 2014, 145 projects have been announced here. The United States (130 projects) and China (91) entered top 3. In terms of investment, the United States ($ 13.2 billion) is the leader. This is followed by China and South Korea ($ 8.5 and $ 7.8 billion).
In 2019, growth continued both in the number of investment transactions and in the number of tourists. Over five years, the number of tourists around the world has grown by 23% to 1.4 billion people. In Europe, their number increased by 24%, in Asia and Oceania - by 28%, in America - 19%, in Africa - 22%, in the Middle East - 7%.
However, the distribution of tourists by region has changed slightly. Previously, the number of tourists in advanced economies grew at a faster pace. However, starting in 2017, the situation has changed in favor of emerging economies. In 2017 and 2018 the number of tourists in developed countries increased by 6.3% and 5.0%, respectively, in developing countries - by 7.9% and 6.5%. Thus, by 2019, the ratio between developed and developing countries in terms of the number of tourists was 55% versus 45%.
713 million people visited Europe in 2018, 40% of whom traveled to the countries of the European Union. Eastern and Central Europe accounted for 142 million people, an increase of 23% compared with five years ago. High growth rates of tourists shows the region of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean. In 2017, the number of tourists increased by 13%, in 2018 - by 8%. The number of tourists in Central and Eastern Europe increased by 5% and 6%, respectively.
In 2018, a record in the number and volume of transactions with FDI was set in the European tourism sector: 189 projects worth $ 11.6 billion, within those 29 thousand new jobs will be created. In just five years, $ 29 billion has been invested in the region. A quarter of all projects with FDI in tourism sector attracted the United Kingdom (145 out of 519). However, Spain became the only country that since 2014 has shown steady growth in the number of projects. In 2018, it attracted $ 1.3 billion in foreign direct investment. Ireland became the only country that annually since 2014 has been increasing the volume of attracted FDI instead of projects number .
In Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexico became the driver of FDI. In five years, 73 projects worth over 5.5 billion US dollars have been implemented in the country. Top 3 included Colombia (36 projects) and Brazil (33). Despite the overall increase in the number of projects with FDI, the region has seen a decrease in the cost of projects (from 60 to 53 million US dollars per project). In general, over five years, the region has significantly increased annual FDI in tourism sector - by 7.3 times. The largest project was the construction of a hotel complex in Jamaica by American company Karisma Hotels & Resorts. The project cost is estimated at 900 million US dollars and includes the creation of 4000 rooms for the accommodation of 8 thousand people.
Since 2014, North America has implemented 146 projects worth over $ 13.4 billion. In five years, New York State has become the largest recipient in the region (30 projects). Next are Florida and California. New York also attracted the largest investment (39% of North America). In Canada, the largest province Ontario has become the leader in attracting FDI in tourism sector. Over five years, it has implemented 7 projects worth $ 29 million.
Over five years in Asia and Oceania, 535 projects worth 56 billion US dollars were implemented. The peak of activity occurred in 2018. The tourism sector forms 11% of the GDP of China and Australia, 9% - of India. The volume of investments since 2014 increased by 4.5 times, the number of projects - by 8.4 times. China has become a leader in the region, but over five years it has reduced its share in the volume of attracted FDI from 21% to 13%. In India, in 2018, 17 projects were announced compared to 7 a year earlier. Almost half of all FDI-created jobs were in China, Japan, Thailand, and South Korea.
In Central Asia and Africa, over the past five years, 213 investment projects with FDI in the tourism sector worth $ 16 billion have been implemented, a third of which came from the UAE. Morocco was ahead of South Africa in attracting FDI among African countries, having implemented 15 projects worth $ 1.3 billion over five years.
Since 2014, the American Marriott International network, which has implemented 77 projects around the world, has become a key investor in tourism sector. The second in the ranking was Selina (43 projects). This company was founded in Panama in 2015 and aims to create a range of services (accommodation, tours, experiences, wellness, etc.) for the traveler. Currently, the company’s structure includes 52 locations in Latin America and Europe, and by 2023 it is planned to increase their number by 9 times. The largest investors include InterContinental Hotels Group (26 completed projects since 2014), Booking Holdings, Melia Hotels International (25 projects each), Accor, Wyndham Worldwide (22 projects each), Hyatt International (20), Expedia (19), NH Hotels (18).
The driver of investment activity in tourism industry was hotels and other real estate (870 projects since 2014). The second place in terms of the number of transactions was taken by services for organizing leisure and booking tickets (423). Among the three leaders is the development of special software for the tourism industry (125). This is followed by visual arts and sports (70 projects), theme parks and amusement parks (60), gambling (45), recreation (31), museums and historical sites (10). Construction, sales, marketing and tourist support are key business areas in the tourism industry. They accounted for 95% of the total number of transactions with FDI. Since 2014, 911 projects were related to construction, 712 projects related to sales and marketing, 75 projects related to the creation of headquarters and business offices of international companies.
In recent years, cities of the “second level” have become an important area of FDI in the tourism sector. These include cities with a population of 200 thousand to 5 million inhabitants, which are not the capital of the state, the volume of attracted FDI does not exceed 10% of the national indicator. These locations are becoming the growth points of the tourism industry in their country and region. In Asia and Oceania, these include Bali (Indonesia), Gurgaon (India), Brisbane, Perth (Australia). In North America - Las Vegas, Orlando, Portland (USA), Vancouver (Canada). In Latin America - Cancun, Leon, Queretaro (Mexico), Cartagena, Barranquilla (Colombia) In Africa and the Middle East - Marrakesh, Agadir (Morocco), Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), Durban (South Africa), El Khobar (Saudi Arabia). In Western Europe - Edinburgh, Manchester, Glasgow (Great Britain), Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig (Germany).
Grodno could become such a city in Belarus. There are attractive conditions for the development of the tourism industry. The city and its surroundings are located in a historically and logistically attractive place in a cross-border region on the border of the European and Eurasian Economic Unions. The regulatory framework, transport and tourism infrastructure are improved annually. Since 2016, a visa-free regime has been operating in the region through 14 checkpoints for up to 15 days for citizens of 73 countries of the world.
All this allows to increase the tourist flow from the countries of near and far abroad every year. For five years, the number of organized tourists visiting the Grodno region has grown 58 times to 125 thousand people. According to this indicator, Grodno was ahead of all regions of Belarus, including the capital Minsk. In the future, the tourist boom in the region will continue due to the development of aviation and railway infrastructure, attraction of low-cost airlines, and the creation of new tourist facilities.
To implement investment projects in the Grodno region, a unique investment platform was created for Belarus - a special tourist and recreation park Augustow Canal. Preferences within the park allow increasing the efficiency of the investment project due to exemption from income tax, real estate tax, VAT and import customs duties. Land is provided without auction, and rent is determined using a reduced coefficient of 0.0025. Recently, a new resident is registered in the Park, who will create a complex of tourist infrastructure facilities and reconstruct the buildings of the former brewery, the history of which dates back to the 16th century.
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In accounting, many technical words are commonly used. Therefore, it is essential to know their meaning, without which knowledge of accounting subject will be incomplete. Commonly used terms such as business, purchase, purchase return, trade etc are explained here.
Any legal action that is done in order to earn income or profit is called business. It includes the production of goods and services, purchase and sale of goods and services, banking, insurance, education transportation, and any other trading activity etc.
|Capital= Assets – Liability|
Purchase and sale of goods and services in order to earn profit is called trade.
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Any work done in order to earn profit which necessarily requires prior training and education is called a profession. For example doctors, lawyers, engineers etc..
The person who invests capital in the business and entitled to have all profits and losses of the business is called proprietor or owner of the business. The nature of proprietor depends upon the type or nature of the business organization. In a sole trade business, sole trader is a proprietor, in a partnership firm, partners or proprietor and in company shareholders are proprietors.
The amount of cash, goods or assets which is initially invested by proprietor while commencing business is called capital. It is invested to earn profits. In other words, the excess of assets over liability is capital.
All the resources of business having economic value are called assets. These resources help the business to earn a profit and have future value. These are important for running a business and are in the possession of businessman. These are of two types: –
a. Fixed assets
The assets which are used by business for a long time are called fixed assets or non-current assets. These are continued to be used by the business for a period of more than one year. For example:- land ,building ,plant, machinery ,furniture ,vehicle etc.
b. Current assets
The assets which are used up in one year or easily get converted into cash in one year are called current assets. For example:- raw material, finished goods, debtors, cash balance and bank balance etc.
The amount which business owes to others is called its liabilities. There is a certain amount which business is under obligation to pay. There are two types of liabilities: –
a. Long-term liabilities
Those liabilities which are usually payable after a period of 1 year. Long-term loans from Financial Institutions, debentures issued by companies etc.
b. Short-term liabilities
These are those which are payable within one year. For example creditors, bank overdrafts etc.
The amount of cash or goods which is withdrawn by proprietor from business for its private uses is called drawings. It reduces the capital of the business.
The things which are bought and sold by business are called goods. Goods maybe raw material work in progress of finished goods. In accounting, when goods are purchased it is written as purchases. When goods are sold it is written as sales. It is written as a stock if remain unsold at the end of the year.
Goods bought for resale are called purchases. This may be in form of raw material or finished goods. Purchase of assets is not called purchases because assets are not purchased for resale.
When purchase goods are sold in order to earn a profit are called sales. When goods are sold for cash it is called cash sales and goods sold on credit are called credit sales.
12. Purchase return
Goods once purchased by the business, are returned back due to any reason is called purchase return or return outwards.
13. Sales return
Goods once sold to the customer when are returned back by them due to any reason then such goods are called as sales returns or return inwards.
These are those goods which are left unsold in the business at the end of the year. The goods unsold at the end of the accounting year are called closing stock. The same stock is called opening stock at the beginning of a new accounting year.
These are the amount received by a business for selling goods or services. This amount is received from day to day business activity in the form of rent, interest, commission, discount, dividend etc.
The cost which business incurs for producing goods and services or for using services is called expenses. These include payments made for wages, salaries, freight, advertisement, rent, insurance etc. In other words, we can say that the cost of earning revenue is an expense.
The amount which is paid for increasing profit earning capacity of business is called expenditure. It is of long period nature.
That amount which increases the capital of the business is called income. The excess of revenue over expenses is also called income.
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When expenses incurred are more than revenue then this excess of expenses is called loss. This reduces the capital of the business.
It is a monetary receipt as a result of business transaction. The excess of revenue over the expenses is called gain.
Total of direct or indirect expenses which are incurred for the production of goods and services is called cost. Like the cost of raw material cost of labor and cost of other services used to make the article is called its total cost.
Concession a rebate allowed by a businessman 2 its customer is called a discount. it may be of two types: –
a. Trade discount
When a trader allows a concession to its customers on the list price, it is known as trade discount. It is not recorded in the books. It is stated in the invoice.
b. Cash discount
When a trader allows a concession to the customer to make payment in cash or by cheque, it is known as cash discount. It is recorded in the books. When cash discount is allowed customer is required to pay the less due amount, so it encourages the customer to pay as early as possible.
The person, firm or an organization who takes goods or services on credit from the business are called debtors of the business. In other words, the person, firm or an organization who owes money or Money’s worth to the business is called debtor.
The person, firm or an organization from whom goods or services are purchased on credit by the business are called creditors of the business. The business owes money to them. The amount payable to creditors is a liability of the business.
The total amount which is to be received in business is called receivables.
The total amount which is to be paid by the business is called payables.
Recording of the transaction in account books is called making an entry or the record of a transaction in books is called an entry.
The total amount of cash and credit sales during a particular period is called turnover.
A person is said to be insolvent when he or she is incapable to meet all his or her liabilities. Such a person has more liability than assets.
30. Bad debts
The amount which could not be recovered from debtors due to his insolvency or disability to pay is called bad debts.
The written document through which financial transactions are recorded in the books is called voucher.
A list of all transactions relating to a person, property, income expenses is called into account. It is a tabular statement containing all the transaction of same nature at one place under a common heading in a systematic manner.
33 Debit and credit
Every account has two sides. Left side is called the debit side and the right side is called the credit side. In short, it is Dr. and Cr.
In a business activity, a remuneration is paid to the agent for his services, is called commission.
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In September 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2020-07. It amends ASC 958-605 to enhance presentation and disclosure requirements for nonprofit entities that receive contributed nonfinancial assets.
What are contributed nonfinancial assets?
Examples of contributed nonfinancial assets include fixed assets such as land, buildings and equipment; the use of facilities or utilities; materials and supplies, such as food, clothing or pharmaceuticals; intangible assets; or services.
Note that contributed securities and other financial assets are outside the scope of the ASU because they typically are monetized immediately and used similarly to cash.
Why did the FASB issue ASU 2020-07?
In July 2018, the FASB received a comment letter from the National Association of State Charity Officials (NASCO) expressing concern about nonprofits using U.S. wholesale market prices to determine the fair value of pharmaceuticals received as gifts-in-kind in situations where the sale of the pharmaceuticals was prohibited in the U.S. by donors. There was also concern that nonprofits were inflating the fair value measurement of donated pharmaceuticals to increase revenue and program expenses so the nonprofit appeared larger and more efficient in its use of donated pharmaceuticals.
Under the old guidance, the only type of contributions that specific disclosure requirements applied to were contributed services. It did not include specific presentation requirements or specific disclosure requirements for contributed nonfinancial assets other than contributed services.
The changes in ASU 2020-07: 1) allow the reader to more clearly identify the nature and amount of contributed nonfinancial assets, (2) allow the reader to more clearly identify the amount of contributed nonfinancial assets utilized in a nonprofit’s programs and other activities and 3) provide more relevant information regarding the subjective evaluations used in estimating the fair value of contributed nonfinancial assets.
The ASU does not change the recognition and measurement requirements for contributed nonfinancial assets.
What are the new presentation and disclosure requirements?
The ASU requires a nonprofit organization to presentcontributed nonfinancial assets as a separate line item in the statement of activities, separate from contributions of cash or other financial assets.
It also requires a nonprofit organization to disclose a disaggregation of the amount of contributed nonfinancial assets recognized within the statement of activities based on the relevant type of the contributed nonfinancial asset, and for each category of contributed nonfinancial assets recognized it requires them to disclose:
- A description of whether the contributed nonfinancial assets were sold immediately for financial assets or retained and used in programs during the reporting period. (If retained and used, the organization must provide an additional disclosure regarding which programs or other activities they were used in).
- The nonprofit organization’s policy (if any) about monetizing rather than using contributed nonfinancial assets.
- A description of any donor-imposed restrictions associated with the contributed nonfinancial assets (e.g., for a particular program or a particular period of time).
- A description of the valuation techniques and inputs used to arrive at a fair value measure (in accordance with the requirements in Topic 820, Fair Value Measurement) at initial recognition. For example, the organization might obtain an appraisal to determine fair value of a property donation, or a professional consultant might use their standard billing rate to value donated professional services.
- A description of the market used to arrive at a fair value measurement.
Organizations may use either a table or narrative format (or combination of both) to disclose the required information.
Three key takeaways for nonprofit organizations
- Nonprofits should ensure they have adequate reporting systems and processes in place in order to provide the appropriate disaggregation of contributed nonfinancial assets in the statement of activities and under the new disclosure requirements.
- Nonprofits will need to determine whether they have a policy to sell (monetize) rather than utilize contributed nonfinancial assets and if their processes in place for determining whether contributed nonfinancial assets were either sold or used during the reporting period aligned with their policy (if any).
- Nonprofits should also ensure that they have a process for determining which contributed nonfinancial assets are subject to donor-imposed restrictions and would, therefore, require disclosure about such restrictions.
How should the amendments be applied, and when will they be effective?
The amendments in this ASU should be applied on a retrospective basis and are effective for annual periods beginning after June 15, 2021, and interim periods with annual periods beginning after June 15, 2022. Early adoption is permitted.
As the ASU must be applied retrospectively, nonprofit organizations should be prepared to provide the required disclosures for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2020, if they present comparative financial statements.
The description of the programs and other activities in which the contributed nonfinancial assets were used should align with the programs or activities described elsewhere in the financial statements (such as the statement/schedule of functional expenses or program descriptions in the nature of operations disclosure).
Nonprofit organizations must also provide the transition disclosures in the period of adoption, including:
- The nature of, and reason for, the change in accounting principle, including an explanation of the newly adopted accounting principle.
- The method of applying the change.
- A description of the prior-period information that has been retrospectively adjusted, if any.
- The effect of the change on relevant financial statement line items.
The FASB’s fair value measurement framework (ASC 820) already requires an entity to record contributed nonfinancial assets at fair value when received and initially recorded in the financial statements. Nonprofit organizations should continue to follow disclosure requirements under ASC 820 for assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring or nonrecurring basis after initial recognition if remeasurements to fair value are necessary (such as impairments).
If you need assistance navigating the new presentation and disclosure requirements, contact Wipfli for assistance.
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Vermont institutes latest BPA ban
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Vermont has become the sixth U.S. state to pass a ban on the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles and spil...
Vermont has become the sixth U.S. state to pass a ban on the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in baby bottles and spill-proof cups used by children.
The Vermont bill was signed into law on May 20 by Gov. Jim Douglas. The ban becomes effective on July 1, 2012, and outlaws the use of BPA in baby bottles, spill-proof cups and reusable food and beverage containers. The ban doesn’t apply to bottles and containers designed to be disposed after a single use, or to water cooler jugs.
BPA has been banned in baby bottles and formula in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and last year, the World Health Organization said it would be launching a study to look at the health effects of BPA. Canada was the first country to issue a BPA ban, Denmark recently followed, and France is considering a ban.
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Partnership with Wings for Science
7 March 2013
ESO has initiated an outreach partnership with the ORA Wings for Science project, which offers aerial support to public research organisations while on a journey around the world. The project has recently taken some stunning photographs of the observatories in northern Chile, such as the largest astronomy project in existence, the international Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) .
ORA (Observe, Report, Analyse) is a non-profit organisation whose members are either scientists, teachers or aeronautics professionals. The two crew members of the Wings for Science Project, Clémentine Bacri and Adrien Normier, are flying around the world, helping out scientists with aerial capabilities ranging from air sampling to archaeology, biodiversity observation and 3D terrain modeling. Short movies and amazing pictures that are produced during the flights are used for educational purposes and for promoting local research. Their circumnavigation started in June 2012 and will finish in June 2013 with a landing at the Paris Air Show. They fly in a special environmentally friendly ultralight aircraft .
Some of the best of the aerial photos taken by Wings for Science of the ESO observatories in Chile will be published over the coming months on the ESO web pages.
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA is funded in Europe by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), in North America by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC) and in East Asia by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan in cooperation with the Academia Sinica (AS) in Taiwan. ALMA construction and operations are led on behalf of Europe by ESO, on behalf of North America by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), which is managed by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and on behalf of East Asia by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) provides the unified leadership and management of the construction, commissioning and operation of ALMA.
The ultralight aircraft is a NASA-award winning Pipistrel Virus SW 80 using only 7 liters of fuel per 100 km — less than most cars.
ORA Wings for Science
Lars Lindberg Christensen
ESO education and Public Outreach Department
Garching bei München, Germany
Tel: +49 89 3200 6761
Cell: +49 173 3872 621
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Life is a mystery. There are some things we may not understand until we get to Heaven but understanding is very important to us on earth. The Word of God opens our eyes to new things. We should always bear in mind that in the midst of every trial, there is always a way of escape.
The mountain may look great and unbearable but the solution is always close by. Unfortunately, the devil uses this trying moment in people’s lives to convert them into his kingdom. The devil makes the mountain look so big then plants his agents nearby so that in one’s weakest moment, one would yield to the advice given by that agent.
In most cases, these groups of people are disguised as Christians but they really are not and deceive many.
Only those that are sensitive in the Spirit are able to pick such people up. Instead of looking elsewhere during tough times, look inwards because the greater one is in you. There is no need looking far. 1 John 4: 4 says; “ ye are of God, little children and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
During this period, never lose hope because the kingdom of light always triumphs over darkness. In the kingdom of darkness, things normally look beautiful and rosy at the initial stage to entice people. The end is destruction and death.
The kingdom of light usually starts small, there is plenty of room for learning and development. Wealth and riches don’t just suddenly appear, there is a process and each process enables one to stabilize and depend on God. At the end of it all, one will end up being blessed roundabout and not only that, you will have enough riches to pass on to the next generation.
The Bible says in Proverbs 13:22, “ A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.” Well, this is interesting. Sinners labor for the righteous to enjoy their wealth.
In tough times, look inward, that’s where you find strength. The Spirit of God is always speaking. All you need to do is stay calm and listen. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. You can relate to Him just the way you relate to a close friend. The Holy Spirit is the advantage a number of people don’t know about.
The Holy Spirit, our advantage
He replies to your questions, tells you what to do and who you should be aware of. The Spirit of God tells you things that will happen in the future, things no human knows. He helps us in understanding the Word of God. He helps us in understanding what God plans for us and shows us a way of escape when things are tough.
I really don’t know how people manage in hard situations without the Holy Spirit. It’s good to have the Word of God and believe but it’s wonderful to have the Holy Spirit comfort you in trying moment. I don’t know how He does it but He really has that button to change one’s sad-looking face to a joyful one.
The Word of God comes first but in addition, one needs the Spirit of God to make understanding easier. In John 14: 26 (Amplified version) says, “But the Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor, Counselor, Strength, Standby), the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name (in my place, to represent me and act on my behalf), He will teach you all things and He will help you remember everything that I have told you. The Holy Spirit is a must to have. This is one of the diverse ministries of the Holy Spirit.
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The repercussions of food contamination can be deadly.
Therefore, it is important that your business takes the appropriate measures to prevent contamination.
Knowing the right measures to put in place starts with understanding how contamination occurs.
Do your staff know the answers to the following questions? Do you?
- What are the 3 types of food contamination?
- How can you prevent food becoming contaminated?
- What do the 4C’s of food safety stand for?
In this post, we’ll examine the different types of contamination, the consequences of food contamination and tips for preventing food contamination because understanding is the first step in prevention.
So, let’s start with the obvious question…
Why Care About Food Contamination?
Not only is it a legal requirement that food businesses ensure all food is safe for consumption, but a single case of food poisoning can cause serious problems for your business.
Consequences range from a drop-in reputation to fines and imprisonment.
Therefore, staying on top of food hygiene within your business becomes crucial retaining customers and building your brand.
But, wait, what exactly are your legal requirements?
Food Safety Responsibilities
- Ensure that food is safe to eat and the quality of food is as described
- Not produce any misleading labelling, advertising or marketing
- Record where food has been supplied from
- Withdraw any unsafe foodstuffs and complete the necessary incident reports
- Provide adequate food safety training for all staff
- Follow a HACCP plan
So, let’s delve deeper into what can make food unsafe to eat.
Sources of Contamination
Sources can be separated into 3 broad categories: chemical, physical and biological contamination.
Chemical contamination occurs when foodstuff contain harmful chemical substances.
Some of the most common examples are;
- Anti-inflammatory drugs
- PCBs (Poly Chlorinated Biphenyls)
- Heavy metals
- Cleaning Products
Over the years certain regulations have been put in place restricting levels legally allowed to be found in food.
You might be thinking “How can my business reduce this form of contamination?”
Buying from a responsible supplier with the current UK approvals is often your best bet when purchasing meat and washing all vegetables prior to use.
Understandably, chemical contaminants are the hardest form of contamination to control.
Acrylamide has become a hot topic in the food safety world because of research suggesting it causes cancer.
Cooking starchy foods, such as potato and grains, at 120oC or above leads to the formation of acrylamide as certain sugars and amino acids react.
Note: Coffee and baby foods can also be affected.
However, the jury is still out on the negative health benefits seen through the consumption of this chemical; many questions about its carcinogenic nature are yet to be answered.
Nevertheless, in the UK, current legislation forces food businesses to consider acrylamide in the preparation of food.
But, fret no more, here are a couple of simple precautions you can take:
- Aim for a golden yellow colour or lighter when cooking starchy foods.
- Don’t keep your potatoes in the fridge (otherwise they undergo a process called cold sweetening leading to increased levels of acrylamide upon cooking).
Physical contamination occurs when a foreign object enters the food stuff.
The most common examples are:
Now, let’s see if how you can avoid physical and chemical contamination…
Avoiding Physical and Chemical Contamination
Physical and chemical contamination can be prevented in the following ways:
- Food should be covered, where practicable, to prevent cleaning products and foreign objects from falling into the food.
- Adequately controlling pests including insects and rodents.
- Remove and dispose of any packaging as soon as it has been removed.
- Repair or replace any broken equipment promptly. Teach employees to report any breakages to your responsible person who deals with faulty equipment.
- Store cleaning products away from food.
- Do not routinely use poisonous bait inside preparation areas.
- Select utensils which are resistant to acid and salts.
- Decant canned food, once opened, into food-grade containers before storing it in the fridge.
- Dilute all cleaning chemicals to the correct level.
- Ensure all ceiling structures, pipes and equipment are rust free and non-flaking.
- Do not allow food handlers to wear jewellery.
- Chewing gum and sweets should not be eaten/chewed whilst working with food.
- Maintenance operatives and visitors should be briefed on your food hygiene practices.
And, so, the third and final type of contamination is…
Biological contamination occurs as a result of harmful living organisms growing on consumable food.
These microbes may be harmful in themselves or they may deposit harmful toxins on food.
Dangerous microorganisms can be found in:
- Pest droppings
- Faecal matter.
And, are passed onto food through a process known as cross-contamination. This can either be directly or indirectly.
Direct Cross-Contamination: A contaminant comes into direct contact with food i.e. a piece of raw chicken touches a piece of cooked, ready-to-eat chicken.
Indirect Cross-Contamination: A contaminant is passed onto another piece of food via a vehicle i.e. a food handler touches a piece of raw chicken and then fails to wash his/her hands before touching cooked/ready-to-eat food.
But, the most interesting thing is…
This most common type of contamination found in the UK.
And, harmful microbes are the cause of food poisoning.
So, let’s look at the most common type of bacteria.
Under the right conditions, harmful bacteria can multiply rapidly and then continue to multiply after being consumed.
Amongst the numerous reported cases of food poisoning seen in the UK a year, the most common bacteria causing food poisoning include:
A group of bacteria found in the gut of animals. Salmonella bacteria are present in raw meat, undercooked poultry, unpasteurised milk and some eggs.
Listeria, Listeria monocytogenes
Often found on ready-to-eat foods such as cooked meats, soft cheeses, sandwiches, smoked meat and fish, pate and cooked shellfish. Don’t use these foods past their use by date and ensure that they are kept under the correct conditions. Sufferers offten present mild symptoms such as diarrhoea and vomiting.
This is the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK, with 4 out of 5 cases resulting from raw poultry.
A bacteria found in soil. The most well-known strain causes Botulism which is a very severe condition and can be fatal. Clostridium can found in many things including honey, improperly canned goods and pots of garlic.
Found in the intestines of humans and animals. Despite, most strains being harmless, some strains pose severe health risks, such as strain 0157. Outbreaks have resulted from raw and undercooked meat, unwashed salads and dirty water.
As with most diseases, those at greater risk are young children, the elderly, pregnant women and those who have a weakened immune system.
However, the best part is….
These can all be prevented by following the 4C’s.
The 4 C’s of Food Safety
A food business can stay food safe and prevent biological contamination by following the 4 C’s.
Cleaning kills bacteria so that they cannot spread.
Your cleaning practices should include:
- Washing hands before, during and after food preparation as well as after going to the toilet.
- Worktops, utensils, chopping boards, knives, and all other work equipment should be cleaned regularly.
- Rinsing unwashed salad, fruit and vegetables in drinkable, cold water.
You should follow a 2-step process:
- Wash with hot soapy water
- Rinse with clean water
A cleaning schedule can really help you stay on top of things, check out the FSA’s example.
Cooking kills bacteria on food when done properly.
But, because bacteria grow within a temperature range of 5oC to 60oC, dubbed the “danger zone”, the core temperature of food being cooked needs exceed 60oC for specific time frames.
Otherwise, food may still contain traces of harmful bacteria which can multiply further.
Current guidelines state that the core temperature must reach;
- 60oC for 45 mins
- 65oC for 10 mins
- 70oC for 2 mins
- 75oC for 30 secs, or,
- 80oC for 6 secs
Monitoring this through a temperature probe and recording the temperatures daily is a good practice and should be included in your HACCP Plan.
Want more info on high risk foods?
Visit our blog on high and low risk foods.
Chilling, either by refrigeration or freezing, slows down and even stops the multiplication of bacteria.
However, inadequate temperature control of high-risk foods (such as cooked meat) is one of the leading causes of food poisoning.
Therefore, it is an important aspect of food safety to get right.
Things to ensure:
- Refrigerators should operate within the 1oC-4oC range
- Commercial freezers should operate below -23oC
- Cooked food should be refrigerated as soon as possible (usually with 1-2 hours) if not being used. Do not place boiling hot food straight in the fridge as this can cause it to raise in temperature above 4oC.
- Defrosting food should be done in the fridge or microwave.
- Your fridge should have clearly labelled sections with raw meat and seafood on the bottom shelves and ready-to-eat food on top shelves.
- Cover all food within the fridge (where applicable) to prevent anything falling into the food.
- Do not overfill the fridge and ensure there is adequate air circulation.
- Rotate your stock each time you have an order arrive. Oldest to the front, newest to the back.
- Check all best before and use by dates daily so that anything that has expired can be thrown away.
- Monitor and record the fridge and freezer temperatures twice a day.
Cross-contamination refers to the transfer of microorganisms from contaminated surfaces to uncontaminated surface.
Avoiding cross-contamination is crucial to keeping food safe for human consumption, here are 6 ways to prevent cross-contamination:
- Always keep raw and cooked food separate.
- Never wash raw meat (this helps to spread dangerous bacteria).
- Cover raw meat and seafood and store on the bottom shelves of your fridge.
- Wash utensils, chopping boards, plates, etc thoroughly between handling raw and cooked foods or use different sets altogether which is the preferred option.
- After every use, anything that has come into contact with food should be cleaned with the correct cleaning products.
- Hands need to be correctly washed before, during and after handling any food and after going to the toilet.
So, hopefully you have got to grips with food contamination and know how you can prevent it in your business.
But, if you are ever a victim of food poisoning or accidentally serve up unsafe food, you’ll need to know how to report an incident…
How to Report Food Contamination
Consumers can report a problem directly to the Food Standards Agency.
You can report an incident of food poisoning, incorrect food labelling, poor hygiene practices or serious food crimes.
Additionally, businesses and employees can report issues including times where they have sold or produced food that is unsafe or any serious food crimes they have witnessed.
Handling food contamination is one of the many aspects of food safety that needs to be controlled.
Without the correct preventative measures in place, your business can leave itself open to legal action, a drop in reputation and lower hygiene ratings.
Remember 4 C’s: cooking; cleaning; chilling and cross-contamination and you shouldn’t go far wrong.
Most of the methods talked about here are easy and simple to implement.
Not only are these considered industry best practices but they are your responsibilities as a food business.
So, which method are you going to implement first? Let us know in the comments!!
Below, I have compiled a list of resources you can use to read up on all things food safety.
Safer food, better business – Guides on food safety for caterers, retailers, care homes and childminders.
North Yorkshire County Council’s Food Safety Page – Information for food businesses operating in the North Yorkshire area.
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The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, the great rival to the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, was built a few years before the completion of the D&H and carried a significant amount of anthracite coal to the tide-waters of the Hudson and Delaware Rivers.
Neversink Valley Museum
The Neversink Valley Museum of History & Innovation will present a History Talk on Wednesday, July 19th at 7 pm with local historian Sue Gardner. Gardner will speak about “Most Obedient Servant: Tracking the Life and Legacy of John Hathorn and his Militia.”
John Hathorn of Warwick, “the man who lost the Battle of Minisink” was a successful military leader, politician, and activist, who served in the first and fourth Congresses of the United States. Yet his life has remained in the shadows due to the destruction of his collected papers by his family shortly after his death.
A search spanning more than 15 years has turned up a great deal about Hathorn, his close involvement with the early days of the nation and New York State, and the activities of his men during the Revolutionary War. This illustrated presentation by Sue Gardner will trace evidence of this forgotten founding father and the men who were under his command. [Read more…] about Orange County’s John Hathorn And His Militia | <urn:uuid:947aeb31-8c53-43e4-99f5-8db8078d5eee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/tags/neversink-valley-museum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.978637 | 271 | 2.78125 | 3 |
A Trip to Find Queer Youth Leaders
Last month was Pride month, a time dedicated to celebrating LGBTQ+ stories and experiences. In many cities across the US you'll find, at some point in the month, a Pride Parade or some big community event. These are moments where many people, particularly LGBTQ+ youth, are first able to find a community of people like them. But for many smaller towns, especially in the rural south, these events do not exist.
After spending last summer in Mississippi, as part of their program at UNC, Brennan Lewis - a Peace First Fellow - couldn't help but notice these events missing in the small town they were based. This meant the queer youth there were left feeling isolated and afraid, something Brennan can't stand for.
So this summer, Brennan has hit the road, along with Monique Laborde, to capture the stories of young queer leaders in the rural south. Throughout the summer, they're traversing a number of states, finding young people organizing their own Pride events, creating safe spaces, and working to ensure no one, no matter their gender identity or sexuality, faces discrimination. Up first was Huntington, West Virginia:
"Huntington’s campaign for a more inclusive community started around 2014, when the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT advocacy organization in the U.S., gave Huntington a low rating on the Municipal Equality Index, an annual score given to municipalities to measure their LGBT inclusivity. The rating tracks local governments’ actions and policies related to LGBT inclusion, such as prohibiting discrimination in housing or employment, appointing LGBT liaisons to the mayor’s office or police department, and making public statements supporting LGBT rights.
"Huntington’s 2014 score was just a 45 out of 100.
"'I looked at it, and I was sick to my stomach, and I was ashamed. I was ashamed. So I thought, the city that I love is better than that. I said look at this, this isn’t acceptable. Find out what we have to do to start improving our scores,' Williams said.
"Huntington has made big strides since 2013. The city council unanimously passed a non-discrimination ordinance protecting LGBT people on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. In 2015, Mayor Williams appointed a new LGBT Advisory Committee. The next year, Huntington launched an ‘Open To All’ campaign recognizing local businesses committed to celebrating diversity and inclusion." | <urn:uuid:6157ab42-32e5-48c8-a168-cf75a24bc7d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.peacefirst.org/stories/trip-find-queer-youth-leaders | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965771 | 501 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Will Machine Learning Be The Next HR?
Computer automation has done away with lots of blue collar jobs over recent decades. AI and robotic process automation will have a similar impact on white-collar roles in areas ranging from HR to finance.
This means that any office worker performing routine operational activities is likely to have their job replaced by a computer.
The application of machine learning to the growing amounts of data being produced throughout the world will change everything when it comes to our jobs. These new technologies will make jobs easier for many people but also make many of these jobs obsolete. Algorithms can now respond to emails, recruit talents, finding right property, interpret medical images, and many more.
Let us take a recent research report which predicts that human resource could be taken over by technology. In such case, how does this change the shape of the workforce, and HR’s role in managing it?
Traditionally, HR was always viewed as a paper-intensive, non-innovative area, where salary decisions are made, people get recruited or terminated and where team building sessions are organized. Moreover machine learning algorithms addresses diverse set of Human Resource challenges like employee engagement, talent retention, competitive compensation, and developing the organizational leaders for tomorrow.
On a flip side, predictive analytics can reduce or eliminate the need for human experts in the field. Programs have already proven that they can predict business decisions, provide insights into the workforce, predict future requirements, and predict results that are critical to an organization’s success.
To conclude, algorithms can screen but don’t build relationships. Technology can make the human resources job better by analyzing what works and what doesn’t. It can be used to free up time for HR to focus on strategy and developing new policies. In fact, it can even give recruiters tools to make the process more human. But effective HR still requires a human touch, Since, H in HR stands for ‘human’. It’s about dealing with the notions of people, and AI systems will never be able to do that.” | <urn:uuid:3b57f70e-2d60-4209-9045-3268d09c37c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://services.innovationincubator.com/will-machine-learning-next-hr/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947429 | 426 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Recycling is struggling in much of the United States, and companies like Coca-Cola say they are committed to fixing it.
The beverage industry helps pay for pizza parties celebrating top elementary school recyclers and lends money to companies that process used plastic. Coca-Cola and Pepsi, along with Dow, the plastics producer, support nonprofit groups like Keep America Beautiful, which organize events like litter cleanups. By 2030, Coca-Cola wants all of its packaging to be made from at least 50% recycled content.
But one approach to recycling that many of these companies do not support has proved to actually work: container deposit laws, more commonly known as bottle bills, which cost them lots of money.
In the 10 states where consumers can collect a few cents when they return an empty bottle or can, recycling rates for those containers are often significantly higher. In some cases, they are more than twice as high as in states without such deposits.
For decades, beverage companies, retailers and many of the nonprofit groups they control have fought to kill bottle bill proposals across the country — with great success. Since 1987, only one state, Hawaii, has passed a bottle bill. This year, such measures have been proposed in at least eight states. Nearly all have been rejected or failed to gain traction.
The result? Recycling in much of the country still depends almost entirely on the goodwill of consumers to place their used containers in a bin for pickup. The process is convenient, but means millions of bottles and cans head straight to a dump instead.
The financial reason for such opposition is clear. If the other 40 states were to adopt expansive bottle bills, it could ultimately cost the industries billions more. The beverage industry says the bills function like a tax and allow governments to collect millions in unclaimed deposits.
But facing public pressure over its contribution to plastic pollution in the ocean and the problems with many municipal recycling systems, the beverage industry has released broad statements in recent weeks suggesting a new openness to bottle bills.
The American Beverage Association said in an email that while it had opposed bottle bills "in the past," it was "open to any ideas" that would create more recycled plastic.
"This includes a deposit or fee on our containers," the trade group said.
The industry argues that bottle bills address only one source of plastic waste — soda and water bottles. Beverage companies and retailers say they want to increase recycling rates for all types of plastic, including yogurt containers and food pouches that would be excluded from deposit laws.
Bottle bill supporters acknowledge that the systems have flaws, but blame retailers and bottlers for opposing attempts to modernize them.
"Is it really just a way for manufacturers to avoid responsibility for their waste?" asked Darryl Young, a former board member of the National Recycling Coalition.
'Let That Dog Lie'
Laura Turner Seydel, an environmental advocate and daughter of media mogul Ted Turner, started a group called Atlanta Recycles in 2005 after learning about what seemed like an absurd conundrum.
Recycling rates in Georgia were so low that local carpet manufacturers, a large user of recycled plastic, were forced to import the material from outside the state, even though Atlanta is home to the headquarters of Coca-Cola, one of the world's largest producers of plastic bottles.
This winter, Seydel said, she witnessed why, 14 years after she founded Atlanta Recycles, little has changed.
"It exemplified why the wheels are coming off recycling," she said.
In January, some members of the group — made up of business leaders, government officials and environmentalists — were briefed on a $4 million investment that the Coca-Cola Foundation was making in the city. Coca-Cola, the group learned, had chosen Atlanta to showcase its "World Without Waste" campaign, which centered on increasing collection rates of bottles and cans.
The company, through a group called the Recycling Partnership, would pay for city workers to comb through residential recycling bins and leave behind "inspirational scorecards" marking which items could be recycled and which belonged in the trash. The program had been tested successfully on a smaller scale.
Someone in the meeting floated another idea: Why not explore the idea of a bottle bill in Georgia?
The proposal was quickly shot down. Several members of the group expressed concern that pushing for a bottle bill could jeopardize the funding from Coca-Cola. The message, Seydel recalled, was "you better let that dog lie."
In a statement, Coca-Cola said company policy positions were independent of its foundation's donations, adding that the grant had already been awarded when the Atlanta Recycles meeting took place.
"We are open to exploring a variety of strategies to achieve our goal of recovering and recycling the equivalent of a bottle or can for every one we sell by 2030," Coca-Cola said, adding that it found curbside recycling was "one of the most effective and convenient recycling solutions for consumers."
'A Superior Strategy'
Empty bottles have vexed the beverage industry for more than a century. They are "the monstrous evil that saps the life from an otherwise prosperous trade," The National Bottlers Gazette wrote in 1882.
Back then, beverage companies desperately wanted their bottles back because the glass containers were so expensive to make. The companies even conducted raids on homes to retrieve their used containers from housewives who used them to store ketchup and medicine.
By the 1980s, however, mass-produced plastic made bottles inexpensive — and people rarely reused them. They often ended up being tossed on the side of the road, and the beverage companies simply made more of them.
Bottle bills were passed partly in an effort to reduce this kind of litter. But states like Tennessee, New Jersey and Washington settled on an alternative. In Tennessee, beverage companies agreed to pay a small tax in order to fund litter pickup efforts, education programs and handouts promoting recycling.
There was another bonus. In many parts of the state, inmates would perform the daily litter cleanup, keeping costs low and rewarding good behavior in the county jails. The tax revenue pays for salaries and other expenses of county sheriffs overseeing the litter crews, like lunch from McDonald's for the inmates.
"It makes the time go easier," one inmate, Miko Coleman, 29, said as he picked up trash along a quiet country road this spring.
But the money — and the cleanup crews — would go away if Tennessee enacted a bottle bill, according to a provision in the law. That has made it difficult for bottle bills to gain traction politically.
"I have to hand it to the industry, they have a superior strategy," said Marge Davis, a writer and conservationist, who has been proposing a bottle bill in Tennessee nearly every year since 2004.
Davis says the litter pickup helps to beautify roads, but does not get at the core issue of recycling more bottles and cans. And even though her bottle bill proposal would find a new funding source for roadside cleanups, she has had a hard time convincing lawmakers.
At times, Davis' efforts faced another opponent — the group Keep Tennessee Beautiful. Like the work crews, Keep Tennessee Beautiful derives much of its funding from the tax money.
Keep Tennessee Beautiful's organizational values, according to its website, include "personal responsibility" and "policy based on fact."
For several years, the group circulated research and spoke out against bottle bills. Their argument, presented in a two-page white paper in 2002, mirrored the beverage industry's position closely. Stopping litter and encouraging recycling are best done through education, it said, not through 5-cent deposits.
"Funds should go for prevention education," the white paper states. "Teach the child and retrain the adult."
Missy Marshall, who has been executive director of Keep Tennessee Beautiful since 2013, said her group does not currently have an official position on deposits, but she worries about upending funding for a system that is successfully reducing litter.
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Visualize this: Shanghai as three concentric circles. In China's richest
city, the foreigners live in the inner ring, outsiders in the next and natives
in the outermost.
That's how Zou Minsheng, editor of
a local Shanghai paper and a man who was born and lived in the city for almost
50 years, sees it.
foreigner looks at models of residential buildings at a property company's
sales office in Shanghai. In China's richest city, the foreigners live in
the inner ring, outsiders in the next and natives in the outermost. [China
One just has to crunch these numbers in Beijing to get a feel for what Zou is
talking about: A real estate report released last month says that more than half
the homes sold in the capital last year were bought by people from outside the
That figure includes purchases by overseas buyers, who bought 13 per cent of
the more expensive homes, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) says in
its annual real estate report.
"With its special status as the nation's capital, Beijing has increasingly
become home to people from other provinces and municipalities, as well as from
abroad," the report says.
Tracking the movement of foreign capital, it is not difficult to discover
that the country's real estate has a magnetic pull for overseas investors.
The world's leading institutional investors seem to be tripping over each
other to invest in portfolios covering all types of property, including publicly
traded or privately held real estate companies, as well as physical assets.
-- In March, Morgan Stanley said it would direct US$3 billion into the sector
this year; its total investment in property over the past five years was US$1.5
-- A month later, Morgan Stanley Real Estate opened a Shanghai venture.
"With our team now permanently in Shanghai, our total capital commitment
in China will continue to grow and we will continue to make creative, landmark
property investments," says Alasdair Morrison, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia.
-- In January, Credit Suisse Group-affiliated DLJ Real Estate Capital
Partners and China Renaissance Capital Investment, as well as the US funds SIG
and Farallon Capital, signed an agreement with Beijing Tianhong Group, a major
developer in Beijing, for direct investment in real estate.
later, the four funds signed a strategic agreement with Shanghai based E-house
China, a leading domestic real estate service company, for collaboration.
"Foreign institutional investors are mainly interested in high-end
office buildings," says James A Clark, head of REIT Optimisation Group with
Jones Lang LaSalle Asia.
A report by CB Richard Ellis says that the
average sale price for office space in Beijing rose by 7 per cent in 2006 to
US$2,325 per square metre. Average rental rates are also growing by the same
-- Morgan Stanley Real Estate and Shanghai Dragon Investment bought a
38-storey office building in downtown Shanghai for US$90 million in September.
-- Last month, Goldman Sachs acquired Bai Teng Tower in Shanghai for US$108
million from CapitaLand, a leading Singapore-based, publicly listed property
Why is foreign capital so eager, despite uncertainty in the overheated market
that is worrying many officials and domestic economists?
"It's because China's economy is growing rapidly. Look
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Who we are and where we live is important as we grow! It is hard to grow up in Ghanaian culture and not offer a hand sometimes to others.
However, in business, let our nation learn that a Loan is not a gift!! Taking loans without a payback strategy depicts only naivete and not too smart! Oftentimes diverting loan funds to other uses becomes criminal and we in society should hold leaders responsible who borrow for Project A and spend the moneys on B.
A major Quotation for Business I received, and today and this is the Address: Plot DXX, Community 16, Lashibi-Tema
What kind of nonsense address is this?
Some of us have written several articles and advocated for modernization and the reasons why a street addressing system is needed in Ghana as we emerged from colonial rule more than 64 year ago and want to do business with the rest of the world. I remember an article I wrote to Col. Acheampong in 1973 as a young Engineering graduate student from the Computer Sciences. And the office even replied.
In the modern world property ID and personal ID are formatted in line with existing systems of the world to make it easy for computerisation and to help minimize risk in any financial dealings.
The idea of using a unique computerized Ghanapost GPS was hailed by Ghana’s Vice President Dr. Bawumia a few years ago as brilliant. He said Ghana was leapfrogging the USA and Britian. Sure indeed! Where is the money??
The reasons why a nation like Singapore developed and totally lifted themselves out of poverty in just 35 years included their leadership’s
- ability to sense who their role models were,
- how to make their financial system in synch with the financial systems of the major economies of the world, and
- facilitate the entry barriers to business transactions between Singapore and the rest of the world, including
- complete office or Business parks set aside with all electricity, water, network and utilities, roads and other amenities for businesses.
They did all these to align with business models in America and Europe and Asia.
As we lament over our nation and our poor unfortunate leadership in the post 1960s era, there is a typical Ghanaian phrase we all remember: “Ɛha deɛ sei aa na yɛyɛ no oo!”. Translated, this states that “as for (Ghana) this is how its done”, implying to outsiders that if it does not suit you, you leave!
This model of building Ghana as part of the modern world has not worked in the last 50-60 years and it is time our leaders and our people demanded a choice in role models and alignment of technologies. Many Caribbean nations made that choice decades ago and are doing far better than Ghana.
It does not serve society and gets tiring dealing with a society where leadership refuses to adapt to change and development in line with the rest of the world.
- Would you loan your money to somebody who approaches you with such an address or
P.O. Box SKYY, Sakomono
Is that the model we should use? Would you leave precious goods with a man sitting by the roadside?
Would you really loan money to a man with no address?
Ghana is short of capital for Businesses and for Housing Construction and long term mortgage financing. And the major reason is that the Government is simply borrowing and spending excessively without careful thought and planning. Simple and common knowledge economics suggests that this creates a shortgage in capital at the Banks and hence high interest rates for consumers and businesses.
It would be nice if Ghanaians overseas and Africans in the Diaspora could have confidence and invest their moneys in Ghana. But again, would you invest in a nation where leaders refuse to adapt to modernisation and simple changes such as address systems, underground sewage systems, planned eradication of the mosquito and malaria, and still using PO Box 39, Plot D45, Accra!
Enjoy your day!
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Embryonic Stem Cell Differentiation into Nervous System Cell
Capturing clear images without fluorescence blurring
Nerve cells are susceptible to fluorescence blurring during fluorescence observation due to structural complexity, and therefore are observed mainly with laser confocal microscopes.
Image capturing by sectioning allows for observation without blurring of green neuropeptides as shown in the image on the left.
Objective lens: CPI Plan Apo λ 40xH
Using the All-in-One Fluorescence Microscope BZ-X800
What is an ES cell?
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Games with a purpose (GWAPs) have proven to be effective solutions to solving difficult problems, labeling data, and collecting commonsense knowledge. Unlike traditional games, GWAPs must balance between acquiring accurate solutions or data and maintaining player engagement. However, when it comes to designing GWAPs, the effects of different game mechanics on accuracy and engagement are not well understood. We have conducted two studies to understand the way different choices of game mechanics and their effect on player behavior. The first study (Cabbage Quest) compares cooperative and collaborative game mechanics. The second study (Gwappy Bird) compares different difficulty levels.
The Entertainment Intelligence Lab focuses on computational approaches to creating engaging and entertaining experiences. Some of the problem domains they work on include, computer games, storytelling, interactive digital worlds, adaptive media and procedural content generation. They expressly focus on computationally "hard" problems that require automation, just-in-time generation, and scalability of personalized experiences. | <urn:uuid:a9a7f18f-10e3-402d-8a3e-053f7b087b0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gvu.gatech.edu/research/projects/game-mechanics-games-purpose | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.933735 | 195 | 2.765625 | 3 |
LMRD 780 - Lower Mississippi River Dispatch
"Voice of the Lower Mississippi River"
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 -- Dragonfly Dreams
Dragonfly Journey continues: to recap, we awoke the Dragonfly Dawn with a smudge ceremony. We do this before starting any big canoe project to create a sacred work space, and for us canoe carvers to clear our minds of any stuck places, or any negativity, and focus our attention forward to the vessel on hand, and her journey about to begin. Dragonfly Dawn is a voyageur style canoe, designed for the rigors of the Great Lakes, and so is the perfect vessel for the powerful Mississippi River. I learned this style of construction in the 1990s from the late Ralph Frese, master canoe builder. The lines for Dragonfly Dawn were taken from our last big canoe, the Grasshopper, who evolved from the Junebug Canoes, who are the grandchildren of Ladybug. Dragonfly Dawn is 29 feet long with a 54" beam. First, we fine tuned the nose of Dragonfly Dawn with a spokeshave. Each curl of wood changes the shape. The shape determines how the Dragonfly Dawn will perform as she cuts the waters of the world. The curls are reminiscent of the curls of water paddlers make as they reach forward and drag their paddles back through the water, spiraling eddies forming on either side of paddle blade. We discovered tiger stripes in the red oak stem ends, on both bow and stern of Dragonfly Dawn. Then we tuned the keel lines, which emerge delicately out of the big canoe belly. The keel in our style is a gentle but critical line that takes form from the nose ends and gradually and subtly disappears into the expansive field of cypress and redwood strips in the belly. The top of the keel line is the only straight line in the big belly of the big canoe. After days and days of filling cracks and tiny holes, we spent many more days sanding, wetting the wood, and then sanding again. The final shape is a wonder to behold and touch, like feeling the belly of a whale. Smooth rounded forms rise from the mass of wood. Every view of the Dragonfly Dawn reveals secrets. She is like a whale, each part uniquely distinct, but connected by a smooth skin. Fitting Dragonfly Dawn for her dress -- 10oz fiberglass cloth. The silvery cloth rolls compliments her curves. Time to mix glue. Tanner Aljets invents stirring with 2 spoons. Mark River Peoples and I dress the cloth by applying glue as Tanner mixes. Organic respirators protect us from harmful epoxy resin vapors. Dragonfly Dawn's dress takes us all day to properly fit. The redwood accent strips emerge out of the silver cloth as glue is absorbed. As the glue is absorbed the glass disappears and the dress draws in skin tight against the wood, revealing the grain within, and adding a rich amber tone. Finally we add several layers of protective epoxy-resin over all fibers, which will leave a glossy smooth finish on Dragonfly Dawn.
Pop that Canoe! Last week a group of us gathered in face masks and gloves and flipped Dragonfly Dawn off the mold and placed her upright on the floor of the canoe shop. Thanks to the many friends who helped pop our baby off her form! As with all segments in the journey of the big canoe, it takes many hands to make it work.
Monday, May 11
Moon waning, 3/4 ears pointing down and disappearing into the blue ether that materialized surrounding all in the early morning light, 5 days Dragonfly has laid upside down following the final of 6 layers of fiberglass and an additional 3 protective layers of epoxy resin over the fabric, frozen into place and space by the glue, (on the inside we’ll add 9 more), the final suit of armor a 23-layer sandwich of alternating 10 oz chromium bath fiberglass and low-viscosity marine grade epoxy-resin, the 1/2” layer of cypress and redwood in the middle of it all makes a 24th, a good number, the number of scutes surrounding the shell of a Mississippi map Turtle, and the number of hours in the day, alone none of the layers would support 10 kids and gear on the biggest, baddest river in North America, the wood alone would delaminate in the water, the glue would become brittle and crack, the fabric would warp and sink, no more capable of holding form than willow leaves falling from the trees, but taken together all three work in a harmonious mix of three basic materials, wood, glass and petrochem, long chain aliphatics contour and grip the glass and hold it to the grains of wood to create a monocoque suit of armor almost indestructible to whatever is found or grows along the Lower Mississippi, the wood is fragile in the powerful river but it holds the pure voyageur canoe shape for cutting the water, and for superior maneuverability, the wood gives the canoe its feel, its color, and its spirit, the wood is the heart of the canoe, and as canoe builders we are always searching for the spirit and the heart, the wood is our favorite medium, but it needs help of a more durable kind, the glass is an earth metalloid compound, silicon dioxide, one of the most abundant substances in the universe, also known as silica, it makes quartz, one of the hardest and most abundant minerals on earth, the epoxy resin is some of man’s magic, oxygen and carbon atoms combine with aliphatic or aromatic organics in long chain constructions to create a kind of super hard, super durable plastic, largely petroleum derived, a product of “superman” science, like all industrial materials awful in the hands of greed, but wonderful in the hands of benevolence.
Thursday, May 14
Studying the ends of Dragonfly, covered in a glossy skin of shiny glass resplendently full of reflections just like the new wings of a Mississippi green darner dragonfly shining in the sun, flashing blades of reflective sunlight flashing through the spring damp dusky muddy air dank with nutrient rich flood overflow, the cattleyards and cornfields of America, silver helicopter scissor flashes slicing reality like a thousand sharp swords cutting the air in a medieval war, the Mississippi Kite swooshing overhead, darting and diving, talon claws outstretched and snatching newborn shiny silver dragonfly babies in a blazing melee of insect wings and avian wings, at sunset the rat snake pair slid vertical out of the canoe shop ceiling around and around each other, I felt a slight quickening pulse watching them in their moment of primal bliss, oblivious to the dangers surrounding, spinning and spinning around and around like rivulets of snaky waterways across a sandbar in a rising river, the reach the length of their curly extension, perhaps their love consumed, and then turn their heads upwards in unison and retreat in loopy motions back upwards from whence they descended.
Sat May 16
We are all glowing with the excitement of the Dragonfly Dawn journey. Once started, the canoe construction becomes a journey in of itself, each step carrying us towards a horizon which we dream to life in what we see projecting across the lines and curved planes of the shape of the canoe. Today we complete her dress. I feel like a dressmaker in attendance of a Queen. We will apply the last layers of her silvery glass dress, which is like a nymph pupating into an adult. A calm quiet cool morning, we have been enjoying a lovely spring here. Jupiter and Saturn are approaching each other in the morning sky, Scorpius and Libra nearby, Ophiuchus, the Big Bear crawling down into her den. Have you seen Venus brilliant firmament in the evening sky? In April and May she appeared at dusk, alongside Orion, who is daily disappearing from view to the West, passed the Pleiades, Taurus, Auriga. And now Venus is disappearing, by this weekend she will be lost to the glare of the sun, in her never-ending cycle of hide-and-go-seek, later she will appear in the morning sky, always close to the sun, either dawn or dusk.
Wed May 20
In the belly of the whale, the big canoe swallowed me whole and allowed me to glow in the inner peace of the last light of the day, long lines extending to confluencing points all around me, warped lines moving towards a back hole as I fly through the space of my imagination run a world gone wild, flow lines of the mind flying through the cosmos high above the consciousness of mankind in the never-ending flow lust and love and passion, the insatiable urge to procreate tempered by the incandescent ethereal wonder in the colors and rhythms of the universe forever flowing around me in endless laminar flow and centrifugal motion, the eruption of the stars followed by clouds off space gas and dust gathered together and later made to coalesce around regions of light and gravity, the tropical storms of the galaxy’s solar systems gyrating round and round, gathering raw materials and making them start to spin, and here I sit with a goofy grin, deep within the warped lines of the curvaceous cosmic canoe.
Friday May 22
the jukes are closed, but the blues sounding ever more loudly, the spirit-ghosts of Tater and the Mississippi Junebug, walking the back alleys, down the empty streets and lonely corners, spilling over the muddy banks into the peace of the Sunflower River, away from the madness of the world
My tiny, insignificant scrawling, the tiniest and most insignificant waves emerging from my infinitesimally small vibrating shape seeking and serving in the oceanic fullness surrounding each dust mote speck pulsing in a way helpful to the whole, cruising downstream in my cosmic canoe shape cutting the light and sound waves into an amazing toe-bending waterfall array of reflections and melodies as the flocks of morning dust mix with a strange arrival on a sky reaching skeleton of a cypress tree, a flock of black bellied whistling ducks, exotic wanderers fleeing disappearing Mexican and Texan wetlands, goose-sized bumps on the naked branch greet the morning sun following storm, throaty heart wrenching blues in a dead quiet blues town, mixes with morning songbirds, and the wet hiss of raindrops beating the belly of the Sunflower River.
It’s good to find your peaceful place in this wild world. Recently my mother asked, “where do you find your peace?” My answer: “I find it in you, my mother, my family, my river. I find it in my canoe shop.” Now the question remains: Where do you find yours? | <urn:uuid:baae4520-055b-4708-9606-55f22513fbd0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.island63.com/dispatch/index.cfm?id=525 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.919377 | 2,239 | 2.0625 | 2 |
In this chapter, we provide RD Sharma Class 7 ex 11.6 Solutions Chapter 11 Percentage for English medium students, Which will very helpful for every student in their exams. Students can download the latest RD Sharma Class 7 ex 11.6 Solutions Chapter 11 Percentage Maths pdf, Now you will get step by step solution to each question.
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Chapter 11: Percentage Exercise – 11.6
Ashu had 24 pages to write. By the evening, he had completed 25% of his work. How many pages were left?
A box contains 60 eggs. Out of which 16(2/3)% are rotten ones. How many eggs are rotten?
Rohit obtained 45 marks out of 80. What per cent marks did he get?
Mr Virmani saves 12% of his salary. If he receives Rs 15900 per month as salary, find his monthly expenditure.
A lawyer willed his 3 sons Rs 250000 to be divided into portions 30%, 45% and 25%. How much did each of them inherit?
Rajdhani College has 2400 students, 40% of whom are girls. How many boys are there in the college?
Aman obtained 410 marks out of 500 in CBSE XII examination while his brother Anish gets 536 marks out of 600 in IX class examination. Find whose performance is better?
Rahim obtained 60 marks out of 75 in Mathematics. Find the percentage of marks obtained by Rahim in Mathematics.
In an orchard, 16(2/3) % of the trees are apple trees. If the number of trees in the orchard is 240, 3 find the number of other type of trees in the orchard.
Ram scored 553 marks out of 700 and Gita scored 486 marks out of 600 in science. Whose performance is better?
Out of an income of Rs 15000, Nazima spends Rs 10200. What per cent of her income does she save?
45% of the students in a school are boys. If the total number of students in the school is 880, find the number of girls in the school.
Mr. Sidhana saves 28% of his income. If he saves As 840 per month, find his monthly income.
In an examination, 8% of the students fail. What percentage of the students pass? If 1650 students appeared in the examination, how many passed?
In an examination, 92% of the candidates passed and 46 failed. How many candidates appeared?
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The metals that first attracted the mining industry to Flin Flon occur naturally in the area’s soils. Recent studies suggest that smelting and refining activities over the years may have gradually built up the naturally occurring metals in some areas to levels that are above the recommended soil quality guidelines for human health, as defined by the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME.)
A 2007 report from Manitoba Conservation – called Concentrations of Metals and Other Elements in Surface Soils of Flin Flon, Manitoba and Creighton, Saskatchewan – showed elevated levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead, copper, mercury and selenium in some samples taken from surface soils in Flin Flon and Channing, Manitoba and in neighbouring Creighton, Saskatchewan. Past and present atmospheric emissions from Hudbay’s Flin Flon Metallurgical Complex are a potential source of these elevated levels.
Although Manitoba Conservation’s 2007 report concluded that there was no immediate risk to human health, they recommended further work to better understand any potential health risks for people living in and around Flin Flon, under certain exposure conditions. The Flin Flon Soil Study (Soil Study) was born of this recommendation. | <urn:uuid:81c79e0c-f8c3-4471-a469-21d09d5e9390> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://flinflonsoilsstudy.com/about/purpose/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949077 | 248 | 3.75 | 4 |
Purpose: To share and encourage. Writers can express doubts and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak. Those who have been through the fire can offer assistance and guidance. It’s a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds!
Posting: The first Wednesday of every month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. Post your thoughts on your own blog. Talk about your doubts and the fears you have conquered. Discuss your struggles and triumphs. Offer a word of encouragement for others who are struggling. Visit others in the group and connect with your fellow writer – aim for a dozen new people each time.
The awesome co-hosts for the March posting of the IWSG are:
Don’t forget to visit them and thank them for co-hosting!
Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG.
The awesome co-hosts for the March 2 posting of the IWSG are Janet Alcorn, Pat Garcia, Natalie Aguirre, and Shannon Lawrence!
Every month, we announce a question that members can answer in their IWSG post. These questions may prompt you to share advice, insight, a personal experience or story. Include your answer to the question in your IWSG post or let it inspire your post if you are struggling with something to say.
Remember, the question is optional!
March 02nd Question: Have you ever been conflicted about writing a story or adding a scene to a story? How did you decide to write it or not?
Why would a writer feel conflicted about adding a scene to a story? There are many reasons.
One of the reasons is linked to “artistic wiring” and visualization. Perhaps the scene is particularly challenging. Maybe you’re not sure how to paint a vivid picture in words, in order to draw the reader into your scene.
The flexibility of the mind’s eye is amazing. It can take many forms, and differs from writer to writer.
You may be one of those creatives who find it a challenge to fully visualize your scenes. Then we get artists who have that special brand of creativity: they can see mentally in three dimensions and full color and even rotate objects; for example, sculptors who are writers.
But we are all wired differently.
Each writer just has to find that unique pathway in your mind; one that belongs to you.
Here’s an exercise to enhance visualization in your scene:
Copy a chapter of one of your drafts into a new document.
Erase all the dialogue.
Read the remaining prose.
That’s what you’re ‘seeing.’
Concentrate on just that and ask yourself:
What image have I drawn with those words?
How are my characters moving through the scene?
Does that imagery paint a clear picture of what I wish to convey?
Hopefully you will move forward with more confidence, to tackle that challenging scene.
The IWSG has been named, again, as the best writing contest by Reedsy for 2022. The contest they are referring to is our yearly anthology contest.
A reminder that Write Edit Publish is a wonderful online community where writers can confidently share their work without fear of harsh words or biting feedback.
Challenges are FREE and open to all. A quick recap of the house rules – they welcome any genre except erotica, and the maximum word count is 1000.
Present your interpretation of the prompt in flash fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction.
HAPPY IWSG DAY!
I’m really busy preparing for March Control Tests so I’ll be visiting blogs over the next few days and on the weekend.
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The Black Death was the trauma that liberated the new.
It can be readily seen that the Black Death accelerated the decline of serfdom and the rise of a prosperous class of peasants, called yeomen, in the fifteenth century. With “grain rotting in the fields” at the summer harvest of 1349, because of labor shortage, the peasants could press for higher wages and further elimination of servile dues and restrictions. The more entrepreneurial landlords were eventually prepared to give in to peasant demands. The improvement in the living standard of many peasant families is demonstrated by the shift from earthenware to metal cooking pots that archeologists have discovered.
The Black Death was good for the surviving women. Among the gentry, dowagers flourished. Among working-class families both in country and town, women in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries took a prominent role in productivity, giving them more of an air of independence. The beer- and ale-brewing industry was largely women’s work by 1450. The growth of a domestic wool-weaving industry allowed working-class women to become industrial craftsmen in the textile industry. The graphic picture of farm women churning butter in their kitchens that George Eliot gave us in Adam Bede (set in the 1790s) was certainly occurring by 1400.
Daily Archives: 5 December 2005
I’ve been distracted by some old-fashioned print-publication-related onuses. (Yeah, that seems to be the English plural, although the Latin is onera. In banking, an on-us check is one drawn on the clearing bank’s own reserves and thus not passed on through to the Federal Reserve’s check-clearing system.) Anyway, that’s my excuse for neglecting to note an important new development in historical and comparative linguistics: Wrathful Dispersion Theory.
The opponents of Wrathful Dispersion maintain that it is really just Babelism, rechristened so that it might fly under the radar of those who insist that religion has no place in the state-funded classroom. Babelism was clearly rooted in the Judeo-Christian story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1–9); it held that the whole array of modern languages was created by God at a single stroke, for the immediate purpose of disrupting humanity’s hubristic attempt to build a tower that would reach to heaven: “Let us go down,” God says to Himself, “and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” Wrathful Dispersion is couched in more cautiously neutral language; rather than tying linguistic diversity to a specific biblical event, it merely argues that the differences among modern languages are too perverse to have arisen spontaneously, and must therefore be the work of some wrathful (and powerful) disperser who deliberately set out to accomplish a confusion of tongues. When asked in court to speculate about the possible identity of the disperser, Michael Moringa, a prominent proponent of WD, demurred, saying that the theory makes no claims about the answer to that question, and that it certainly does not insist that the Disperser is the God of Genesis. Moringa has, however, elsewhere avowed a deep personal belief in the Christian God as the power responsible, as have other WD theorists. Indeed, there appear to be no atheists in the foxholes on the WD side of this war, and for that matter, no Jews or Muslims, either; the WD movement is composed almost exclusively of evangelical Protestants.
I’m sure the new Pope will clear this up for any doubting Thomists.
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Big unemployment numbers are a big problem. That’s why President Obama and his administration used the long weekend to unveil a public works plan that is largely aimed at bringing the 9.6% rate down to something more palatable. These exchange traded funds (ETFs) can benefit.
The Obama administration is rolling out a multi-part economic jobs plan that is aimed at fighting the high unemployment numbers. About $50 billion in government spending is allocated to upgrade infrastructure, including roads, rail lines and runways, explains Peter Grier for The Christian Science Monitor. [5 ETFs Affected By Infrastructure.]
Obama’s new plan will also include a proposal to allow businesses to fully write off capital investments through 2011, and a permanent extension of R&D tax credits, according to administration officials. That’s just a teaser; the official details will be heard on Wednesday. [How To Invest In A Jobs Recovery.]
According to the White House, this new public works plan is not expected to add to an already ballooning deficit over time and is expected to be funded through the elimination of tax deductions for oil and gas companies, explains Kevin Grewal for Daily Markets.
Many factors are hanging over the administration such as the Democrats losing control of Congress, mixed economic reports and upticks in the nations unemployment rate.
Consider these following ETFs once this new plan gets under way. If it’s a success and contributes to economic growth the way the administration hopes it will, these funds may be best positioned to benefit.
- iShares Dow Jones Transportation Average (NYSEArca: IYT): Rail additions and upgrades would be most evident in IYT, which primarily holds rail companies. More lines and improved lines would vastly improve the way goods are transported cross-country.
- PowerShares Dynamic Building & Construction Portfolio (NYSEArca: PKB): This ETF has 68% allocated to U.S. industrials, putting it in a position to benefit from any pickup in construction and building activity here.
- PowerShares DB Base Metals (NYSEArca: DBB): Base metals are the cornerstone of industrial activity, used in everything from building support to wiring and piping.
- PowerShares Build America Bond (NYSEArca: BAB): Build America Bonds are a way for Americans to support the U.S. recovery. More than $125 billion have been issued since the program was put in place and demand has outpaced supply. [Investing in the Recovery.]
- Market Vectors Steel (NYSEArca: SLX): As building around the country resumes, it will increase the demand for steel. The companies held in SLX will need to ramp up production to keep pace with supply.
- SPDR FTSE/Macquarie Global Infra 100 (NYSEArca: GII): Although GII is an international infrastructure ETF, nearly 40% of it contains holdings in the United States. It’s largely a utility play, with 86.6% of the fund allocated to the sector.
Tisha Guerrero contributed to this article.
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Performance of the Nordmøre grid in shrimp trawling and potential effects of guiding funnel length and light stimulation
AuthorLarsen, Roger B.; Herrmann, Bent; Sistiaga, Manu Berrondo; Brinkhof, Jesse; Tatone, Ivan; Langård, Lise
The introduction of the Nordmøre grid to shrimp trawls has reduced the issue of bycatch to that of small-sized species and juveniles that are able to pass through the grid and enter the small-meshed cod end together with the targeted shrimp. This study estimated the size- and species-selective performance of the Nordmøre grid in the configuration most often applied by fishermen and made a preliminary exploration of the effects of reducing the length of the guiding funnel in front of the grid and mounting light-emitting diodes (LEDs) around the escape exit. Experimental fishing trials were conducted in the Barents Sea to assess the size-selective properties of a 19-mm bar spacing Nordmøre grid, mandatory in this Norwegian trawl fishery targeting deepwater shrimp Pandalus borealis (also known as northern shrimp), and its potential improvement. Results were obtained for the target species and four bycatch species: redfish Sebastes spp., Haddock Melanogrammus aeglefinus, Atlantic Cod Gadus morhua, and American Plaice Hippoglossoides platessoides. In general, very few deepwater shrimp were found to escape through the escape exit, although the quantity increased slightly at larger sizes. Between 80% and 100% of the bycatch species up to a species-specific size passed through the grid and entered the cod end. A short guiding funnel decreased this for Haddock significantly by increasing the fraction of small Haddock seeking the escape exit. Further, adding LEDs around the escape exit significantly negated this effect. For the other bycatch species, the results indicated similar trends but were not statistically significant. However, considering that only a few fishing hauls were conducted using the short guiding funnel with or without mounting LEDs calls for some caution when attributing these changes to the configuration of the Nordmøre grid, and these preliminary results should be followed up by further testing before definitive conclusions are made. | <urn:uuid:a013cd33-3511-4794-8503-144ea3c73874> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://munin.uit.no/handle/10037/13120 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.917474 | 513 | 1.625 | 2 |
Here is the collection of excerpts from Swami Vivekananda’s speeches and letters, mentioning his opinion on Astrology.
[…] There was a very powerful dynasty in Southern India. They made it a rule to take the horoscope of all the prominent men living from time to time, calculated from the time of their birth. In this way they got a record of leading facts predicted, and compared them afterwards with events as they happened. This was done for a thousand years, until they found certain agreements; these were generalised and recorded and made into a huge book. The dynasty died out, but the family of astrologers lived and had the book in their possession. It seems possible that this is how astrology came into existence. Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.
I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back with them from Europe. Because in India you will find old altars made according to a certain geometrical plan, and certain things had to be done when the stars were in certain positions, therefore I think the Greeks gave the Hindus astrology, and the Hindus gave them astronomy.
I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the stars, or anything of the sort. In many cases it is simply mind reading. Sometimes wonderful predictions are made, but in many cases it is arrant trash.
In London, a young man used to come to me and ask me, “What will become of me next year?” I asked him why he asked me so. “I have lost all my money and have become very, very poor.” Money is the only God of many beings. Weak men, when they lose everything and feel themselves weak, try all sorts of uncanny methods of making money, and come to astrology and all these things. “It is the coward and the fool who says, ‘This is fate’” – so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, “I will make my fate.” It is people who are getting old who talk of fate. Young men generally do not come to astrology. We may be under planetary influence, but it should not matter much to us. Buddha says, “Those that get a living by calculation of the stars by such art and other lying tricks are to be avoided”; and he ought to know, because he was the greatest Hindu ever born. Let stars come, what harm is there? If a star disturbs my life, it would not be worth a cent. You will find that astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food and rest.
If you can get an explanation of a phenomenon from within its nature, it is nonsense to look for an explanation from outside. If the world explains itself, it is nonsense to go outside for an explanation. Have you found any phenomena in the life of a man that you have ever seen which cannot be explained by the power of the man himself? So what is the use of going to the stars or anything else in the world? My own Karma is sufficient explanation of my present state. So in the case of Jesus himself. We know that his father was only a carpenter. We need not go to anybody else to find an explanation of his power. He was the outcome of his own past, all of which was a preparation for that Jesus. Buddha goes back and back to animal bodies and tells us how he ultimately became Buddha. So what is the use of going to stars for explanation? They may have a little influence; but it is our duty to ignore them rather than hearken to them and make ourselves nervous. This I lay down as the first essential in all I teach: anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet. Religion is the manifestation of the natural strength that is in man. A spring of infinite power is coiled up and is inside this little body, and that spring is spreading itself. And as it goes on spreading, body after body is found insufficient; it throws them off and takes higher bodies. This is the history of man, of religion, civilization, or progress. That giant Prometheus, who is bound, is getting himself unbound. It is always a manifestation of strength, and all these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.
There is an old story of an astrologer who came to a king and said, “You are going to die in six months.” The king was frightened out of his wits and was almost about to die then and there from fear. But his minister was a clever man, and this man told the king that these astrologers were fools. The king would not believe him. So the minister saw no other way to make the king see that they were fools but to invite the astrologer to the palace again. There he asked him if his calculations were correct. The astrologer said that there could not be a mistake, but to satisfy him he went through the whole of the calculations again and then said that they were perfectly correct. The king’s face became livid. The minister said to the astrologer, “And when do you think that you will die?” “In twelve years”, was the reply. The minister quickly drew his sword and separated the astrologer’s head from the body and said to the king, “Do you see this liar? He is dead this moment.”
If you want your nation to live, keep away from all these things. The only test of good things is that they make us strong. Good is life, evil is death. These superstitious ideas are springing like mushrooms in your country, and women wanting in logical analysis of things are ready to believe them. It is because women are striving for liberation, and women have not yet established themselves intellectually. One gets by heart a few lines of poetry from the top of a novel and says she knows the whole of Browning. Another attends a course of three lectures and then thinks she knows everything in the world. The difficulty is that they are unable to throw off the natural superstition of women. They have a lot of money and some intellectual learning, but when they have passed through this transition stage and get on firm ground, they will be all right. But they are played upon by charlatans. Do not be sorry; I do not mean to hurt anyone, but I have to tell the truth. Do you not see how open you are to these things? Do you not see how sincere these women are, how that divinity latent in all never dies? It is only to know how to appeal to the Divine.The more I live, the more I become convinced every day that every human being is divine. In no man or woman, however vile, does that divinity die. Only he or she does not know how to reach it and is waiting for the Truth. And wicked people are trying to deceive him or her with all sorts of fooleries. If one man cheats another for money, you say he is a fool and a blackguard. How much greater is the iniquity of one who wants to fool others spiritually! This is too bad. It is the one test, that truth must make you strong and put you above superstition. The duty of the philosopher is to raise you above superstition. Even this world, this body and mind are superstitions; what infinite souls you are! And to be tricked by twinkling stars! It is a shameful condition. You are divinities; the twinkling stars owe their existence to you.
I was once travelling in the Himalayas, and the long road stretched before us. We poor monks cannot get any one to carry us, so we had to make all the way on foot. There was an old man with us. The way goes up and down for hundreds of miles, and when that old monk saw what was before him, he said, “Oh sir, how to cross it; I cannot walk any more; my chest will break.” I said to him, “Look down at your feet.” He did so, and I said, “The road that is under your feet is the road that you have passed over and is the same road that you see before you; it will soon be under your feet.” The highest things are under your feet, because you are Divine Stars; all these things are under your feet. You can swallow the stars by the handful if you want; such is your real nature. Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free. […] | <urn:uuid:db236c6f-91e7-4631-b5e7-4b32382624b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.sreyas.in/swami-vivekananda-on-astrology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.984308 | 1,868 | 2.1875 | 2 |
How to make a Towel Swan (Tutorial)
The towel swan is one of the easiest towel animals to create.
I like to make two and place them nose to nose on our guest bed whenever a couple comes to visit.
You will need:
- 1 bath towel or sheet
- Sunglasses (optional)
Step 2: Press the diagonal folds flat then roll the towel tightly along the diagonal edge. It’s easiest to do this one side at a time.
Step 3: Once both diagonal sides are tightly rolled, flip the shape over
Step 4: Bend the rolled point to form a curved neck. Use a lot of pressure (sit on it if you have to!) so it will stay positioned.
Step 5: Twist and “fluff” the tail to create the illusion of wings.
Enjoy your new feathered friend!
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When thinking about childbirth, the pains of labor are generally thought to be a given. Of course every woman is writhing in agony like a feral animal, alternately shouting for the epidural and screaming profanity at her partner. That's just what labor is! But does every woman really experience contractions in this way? Is it possible to go into labor without experiencing any pain?
I spoke with Dr. Jennifer Butt, an obstetrician with Upper East Side Obstetrics and Gynecology. She says that when thinking of labor, it's first important to distinguish between "early labor" and what is considered "active labor."
"In early labor, a woman will typically have mild and irregular contractions that are often not painful," says Butt. "She may have slight pink or bloody discharge or pass her mucus plug. This is normal, and we typically want women in early labor to stay at home unless her water has broken."
Active labor, however, is a different story: "Active labor is when contractions become stronger, regular, and much closer together, causing cervical dilation to progress from 6 to 10 cm. These contractions are typically very painful."
So yeah, labor? It's generally going to hurt. A lot. Of course, the level of pain a woman experiences will depend on how she chooses to manage it. Obviously, if she goes the epidural route she can pretty much expect to have some relief. But is it possible to experience a pain-free labor without meds? Some doctors think so.
The French obstetrician Michael Odent, for example, believes women are naturally built to manage labor pains quite easily if they create the right circumstances for it. (Many midwives follow this same line of thinking.) As Odent told New Scientist, he thinks that if a woman removes distracting external stimuli from the delivery room (things like like hospital lighting and, er, your partner) she can simply "stop thinking," thus allowing a natural phenomenon known as the fetus ejection reflex to occur. When this happens, the baby basically slides out painlessly, with little effort from mom. (And yes, Fetus Ejection Reflex is the name of my synth pop band. Or it's going to be, as soon as I form one.)
Interestingly, Odent (and it should be noted, he's a bit of a controversial figure these days) also thinks women should have a midwife sitting in the corner knitting while they're in labor — an idea that many midwives support. Which might be totally soothing? Maybe? I mean when I think back on my own birthing experience, I think I might have been irritated that while I was struggling to push a human out of my vagina, my midwife was crafting a new infinity scarf. But maybe not?
When it comes to labor, one of the main things to remember is that it's unique for every woman. Ever see this Facebook post from 2016? When January Harshe (the author of Birth Without Fear) prompted women to fill in the blanks for "I went into labor at _____ weeks, was in labor for _____ hours and pushed for _____ minutes/hours" the answers were as varied as the spelling of the name Kayleigh. In other words — wildly different.
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The effects of steam sterilization time and temperature on quality of turmeric powder (Curcuma longa L.) were studied. Fresh turmeric rhizome divided into 3 groups of 7 treatments. The first group were steam sterilization at 121๐C for 15, 10 and 5 minutes. The second group were steam sterilization at 115๐C, 110๐C and 105๐C for 15 minutes. The third group was the control group which not exposed to steam sterilization. The results showed that steam sterilization of turmeric at 121๐C for 15 minutes and 115๐C for 15 minutes had no microbial contamination and passed the standards of Thai Herbal Pharmacopoeia. The other five conditions were not qualified. Steam sterilization at 121๐C for 15 minutes had significantly (p<0.05) higher curcuminoid content than 115๐C for 15 minutes. It was found that volatile oil content was no statistical different between these two groups. Both passed higher than standards 0.67% and 1.06% v/w respectively. It is appropriate to use steam sterilization for turmeric at 121๐C for 15 minutes. But steam sterilization at 115๐C for 15 minutes had more volatile oil variation from benchmark. It may be another method to prepare quality turmeric powdered. | <urn:uuid:9cbfbcd1-4021-48ed-90cb-f80b9bd3416a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ph02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/tsujournal/article/view/43472 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966551 | 280 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Burglary Attorney in Indianapolis, Indiana
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Understanding Burglary Laws
While burglary is often associated with theft, it can be charged in relation to any felony– or any intended felony. According to Ind. Code § 35-43-2-1, a burglar is “a person who breaks and enters the building or structure of another person, with intent to commit a felony in it.” This can be charged as a Class C felony.
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The accused is armed with a deadly weapon
The building is a dwelling (a home or residence)
The building is a place of religious worship
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The accused causes bodily injury to another person
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Editor’s Note — August 19, 2020: The Elastic SIEM solution mentioned in this post is now referred to as Elastic Security. The broader Elastic Security solution delivers SIEM, endpoint security, threat hunting, cloud monitoring, and more. If you're looking for more specific information on Elastic Security for SIEM use cases, visit our SIEM page.
We introduced Elastic SIEM as a beta in version 7.2, and we are already seeing strong adoption and receiving positive feedback from our community. Five weeks later, we released version 7.3, and now in 7.4, we have even more to share.
Where in the world are my SIEM events coming from?
When looking at network data, being able to visually see where IP addresses are located provides valuable context for an investigation. Following our integration with Elastic machine learning features in 7.3, we integrated a map from the Elastic Maps app in 7.4 to allow that. Placed at the top of the Network page, it shows where in the world any geolocated source and destination IPs are, and any connections between them.
The map responds to the global date and query filters, allowing you to filter down on specific devices, protocols, or other attributes. Filtering on event types such as alerts and attacks turns it into an effective alert or cyber attack map. As with all Kibana visualizations, you can narrow down the data on the entire page by clicking on any of the map points.
To enrich IP addresses with their location, you can use the geoIP processor as part of an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline or the geoIP filter plugin in Logstash. We have conveniently already updated all ingest pipelines in Filebeat modules to geolocate IP addresses by default.
Doubling down on anomaly detection
With today's data volumes and the speed at which the cybersecurity landscape of adversaries changes, it's hard to maintain an effective defense using static rule sets. Automated analysis and detection, on the other hand, can help.
We introduced our machine learning integration into Elastic SIEM in 7.3 and shipped with three built-in anomaly detection jobs. In 7.4, we are doubling down on it and adding a further thirteen, bringing the total up to sixteen jobs.
We have developed these jobs based on real data and found meaningful anomalies with them. We hope they work well for you as well.
The new jobs focus on detecting anomalies in network connections and process executions that could indicate command-and-control, lateral movement, persistence, or data exfiltration activity. I'll describe just a few of them here:
- Anomalous network activity (Linux, Windows): Two jobs - one for Linux, one for Windows - looking for network connections by processes that do not usually use the network.
- Anomalous process (Linux, Windows): Two jobs - one for Linux, one for Windows - looking for processes started with unusual (e.g., previously not seen) executable paths or names.
- Anomalous network port activity (Linux only): Looks for network connections to unusual or rare destination ports.
- Anomalous network service (Linux only): Looks for unusual open listening ports on a host.
- Anomalous path activity (Windows only): Looks for processes started from an unusual working directory.
- Anomalous process creation (Windows only): Looks for processes started with an unusual parent process.
- Anomalous Powershell script (Windows only): Looks for unusual Powershell script contents that could indicate a malicious script.
The integration between Elastic machine learning capabilities and Elastic SIEM is extensible: You can add your own jobs to the
siem job group and their anomalies will show up inside the SIEM app.
You can find a full list of built-in anomaly detection jobs in the documentation.
End-to-end support for DNS and ASN data
At Elastic, we believe in putting more data at the analyst's fingertips. So for every release, we think about what data we can add to the SIEM. In 7.4, we have significantly improved how we work with DNS and Autonomous System information.
Because of their high volume, DNS logs are often not ingested into traditional SIEMs, even though DNS is a protocol known to be used for malware command-and-control and data exfiltration, and DNS requests can often provide valuable context for an incident investigation.
Autonomous Systems are groups of IP addresses that belong to a single entity such as GitHub, for example. Knowing if an IP address you are seeing in your data belongs to a well known and respected organization, rather than a hosting service that anybody (including adversaries) can use, allows you to quickly determine if something is worth investigating further.
To get these two pieces of data into Elastic SIEM, we first defined common field names in the Elastic Common Schema (ECS). We agreed on storing DNS data in a
dns object, and autonomous system data in an
as object (see ECS documentation for DNS and Autonomous System for the details).
We then updated Packetbeat, Filebeat, and Winlogbeat to populate these fields, and adjusted the queries used by the SIEM app. As a result, there are now multiple places in the SIEM app that give you additional context about an IP address that you are looking at.
Data source update: sockets, CEF, NetFlow, and Cisco FTD
Work on adding more built-in data sources continues. In 7.4, we have added several modules that we hope prove useful to you.
The rewritten Auditbeat Socket dataset now collects data using Linux KProbes. This way, it can report all - even short-lived - sockets, while consuming fewer system resources than Auditd. In addition to collecting source and destination IPs and ports, it also collects information about the user, the process, and byte and packet counts. Having all this information is very exciting - it connects host and network data. For example, you might discover that the same user that triggered an alert in your firewall also logged in to a server at an unusual time - indicating a compromised user account.
Filebeat has new and improved support for several data sources:
- Common Event Format (CEF) - A new module and
decode_cefprocessor to parse CEF messages from tools such as ArcSight and translate them into the Elastic Common Schema (ECS).
- NetFlow - The module now comes with built-in dashboards. This closes the feature gap relative to the older Logstash NetFlow module which did not support ECS and is now deprecated.
- Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) - This new fileset parses IPv4 and IPv6 access list log messages as well as Security Event Syslog Messages for Intrusion, Connection, File and Malware events. It sits alongside the existing Cisco ASA and IOS filesets.
Get started today
If you already have Elastic Common Schema (ECS) data in Elasticsearch, just upgrade your cluster to 7.4 and click on SIEM in Kibana’s left hand side navigation bar.
To simplify your getting started journey, we have some great material to get you started:
- Elastic SIEM solutions page: https://www.elastic.co/products/siem
- Elastic SIEM documentation: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/siem/guide/current/index.html
- Elastic SIEM community forum: https://discuss.elastic.co/c/siem
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Piccolina™ Adult Harriet Tubman Short Sleeve Trailblazer Tee
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Refantasia: Charm and Conquer is a simulation role-playing game published by OASIS GAMES LIMITED. The game takes you to a medieval land filled with powerful heroes and dominant factions vying for supremacy. Put together a powerful team and use your strategy and tactics to assert a stronghold over your opposition and conquer them. The game offers characters like Elves, beasts, fairies, demons, and even goddesses. Join alliances and fight the common enemies together.
Follow this guide to get a better understanding of the game and progress more efficiently.
Tips for Refantasia: Charm and Conquer
1. Focus on the Objectives
Once the tutorial session is over you will have a basic understanding of the game. After that, an effective way to progress in the game would be to follow the objectives. You can see the objectives at the bottom of the screen. Following the objectives will not only reward you with valuable resources to progress in the game but also provide a guide to get more familiar with the features and contents of the game. So, in the initial stage following the objectives should be your first priority.
2. Collect the Daily log-in Rewards
In a game like Refantasia: Charm and Conquer, where resources are the main key to progression you wouldn’t want to miss out on the free resources rewarded by the game. The game gifts you various rewards for logging in daily. So at the initial stage in the game, when resources are most necessary, try to log in every day even if it’s only to collect the rewards.
3. Complete Daily Tasks and Achievements
The most efficient way to collect plenty of resources, useful for progressing in the game is to complete the Daily Tasks and Achievements. Both Daily Tasks and Achievements enumerate tasks that are directly linked with the main story of the game and thus require no extra effort to complete. In return, both the features reward you with a handful of valuable resources. So, partake in the Daily Tasks and Achievements to complete as many tasks as possible to earn the maximum amount of resources.
4. Visit the Court Frequently
The court is the control board to rule your realm. This is where you take the crucial decisions that will directly affect the peace and prosperity of your realm. The court also generates all the basic resources that you will need in the game like food, gold, soldiers, etc. The court is divided into two parts i.e. Decisions and Collection. Decisions is where you will have to choose one of two solutions, concerning your citizens. Both the options will reward you with different resources but it’s highly recommended to choose the option that offers Royal EXP as you can obtain the basic resources from the Collection feature.
5. Upgrade Your Followers
One of the most important parts of your realm is your followers. The stronger your followers are the faster your power will grow in your realm and the easier it will be for you to conquer the surrounding lands. That’s why upgrading your followers is crucial. Upgrading your followers will increase their attributes like Martial, Craft, Trade, and Charisma all of which have an unmediated link to your realm’s prosperity. To upgrade your followers you will need gold coins.
6. Upgrade Royal Level
Upgrading your Royal Level is almost as important as upgrading your followers. To unlock alliance, different game modes, new followers, and various other main features of the game upgrading your Royal Level to a certain level is necessary. To upgrade your Royal Level you will need to accumulate a specific amount of Royal EXP.
That will be all for Refantasia: Charm and Conquer Beginner’s Guide. Make sure to follow these tips and tricks to dominate in the game. Download Refantasia: Charm and Conquer from Google Play or the App Store. For more mobile game guides, news, and updates keep reading Mobile Gaming Hub.
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Modern Money and the War Treasury
Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, 2019
In this working paper, Sam Levey discusses the US government's approach to finance during the second world war. Quoting liberally from internal Treasury memos, he shows that, under conditions of perceived existential threat, there was no question of "whether" the government could find money for the war. The question, rather, was how to handle the effects that the diversion of real resources away from the consumer economy would have on prices. This way of framing things is surprisingly consistent, Levey points out, with the perspective of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), according to which countries which issue their own fiat currency don't face budgetary constraints at all, only inflationary constraints.
Comment from our editors:
This paper makes several ideas important to the MMT perspective accessible by making them historically concrete. The first is that inflation isn't a purely "monetary" phenomenon, but in fact has everything to do with the availability of real resources and goods in an economy. The second is that the point of selling bonds isn't, as is commonly assumed, to raise money that the government then spends, but to take money out of circulation or "drain liquidity." | <urn:uuid:538ada58-8e52-43bd-b603-e7d788e376a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/discover/modern-money-and-the-war-treasury/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959125 | 248 | 2.5625 | 3 |
FORECASTING AND PREDICTIVE TECHNIQUES
Are we ready for cosmic consciousness?
In 1980 the jupiter saturn conjunction libra, we begin to use internet. started to interact each other easily which increased the level of sharing knowledge as well, which comes both negative- benefit effects . jupiter saturn conjunction in aquarius will be very significant.In the time,we learn how to think, has more impact in our lives than we assume.Will we be able to read the signs of stars? Are we ready to take the divine help?
Solar return in Jean Baptiste Morin´s Astrologia Gallica
Why are some solar returns so influential and others without visible effects? Can we predict their power, domain of influence, extent and time when that predicted will fulfill? How these returns are connected with natal chart? We will study it in the realm of ideas of reputable astrologer living at 17th century French king court, compare it with Hellenistic solar return and we will illustrate his way of usage on historic and nowadays examples.
Predictive Techniques using Solar Arc Directions and Midpoints
Laura will use Solar Arc directions and midpoints to show how we can use this form of prediction to give us a more accurate summary of future trends. This is done by looking at the past first. These are some of the oldest predictive techniques in astrology. Laura will show how using these techniques can enhance your ability to be more concise and accurate when it comes to forecasting events in the future.
Looking Ahead at The 2020s – A Shifting Paradigm
As we prepare ourselves for the next decade, there are many new opportunities and challenges awaiting. The emphasis on air signs is a focus of this shift with the Jupiter/Saturn syzygy into Aquarius (air), Pluto’s ingress to Aquarius and the Venus Star Point in Libra (air), joining the current Venus Point in Gemini (air). And, how this emphasis on air can be used to better serve the ever-changing needs of the earth.
When to Relocate the Solar Return
Relocating for the solar return can be expensive in both time and money, so can we work out a method for choosing when to do so? In this lecture, Lee demonstrates how to solve exactly that puzzle. We will examine the logic behind the use of birthplace, residence, and relocated solar returns: how to extract information from these different charts, and how to tweak the best results from each one.
The Moon and Your Spiritual Self Unfoldment
Reimagining the future likely involves remembering that we are spiritual beings. The Moon’s nakshatra shows where we enter into the cycle of spiritual growth and self-unfoldment in this lifetime. As our planetary periods progress via the Vimshottari Dasa system, nakshatras progress to unfold our spiritual process. This simple technique provides deep insight into themes of spiritual growth as the undercurrent of life’s external events – regardless of the type of astrology you practice.
Timed Awakenings: Jupiter Saturn Using Secondary Progression
We begin with discussion of personal planetary conjunctions across 90 years from birth using secondary progressed as noted in the ephemeris. Using Solar Fire, learn how to note progressed planetary motion traveled by Jupiter, and Saturn and significant transits to them. We look at where these planets live, what years to look for, how this enhances your awareness and life’s enrichment.
Pluto Transits: Evolutionary Transitions
Inevitably the time comes when we are called to transition from one phase of our personal journey to the next; to transform worn-out modes of behavior that no longer serve who we are. These life altering times are reflected in the transit of Pluto, and propel us forward whether we feel ready or not. Laura will detail this powerful transit and not only present grounded methodologies, but strategies for making out way through the process.
Your Personal Nodal Cycle
Each 18.6 year transit of the nodes around a chart represents a “personal nodal cycle.” The sequence of the planets and points as they are touched by each of the nodes influences the ebb and flow of life. Which node touches which planet first, second, third …? Which node makes the last conjunction before your nodal return? See the nodes and their impact on your life as you may have never seen them before.
Organic Astrology: Integrated and Accurate
Perplexed by inconsistencies or inaccuracies when working with astrology? After all, a Saturn return or a major planetary pattern should have particular qualities … right? Let’s not jump to conclusions! Cycles animate the cosmic sky-scape. Connected to a person’s life, the chart awakens, especially when integrating what can be complex timing. Explore techniques and archetypal keys that lead to more precise and meaningful interpretations. In the process, we’ll dive into the major cycles unfolding now!
Delineating your Cosmic Dance: Understand the Steps and Create Your Future
Synodic cycles are the conjoining of two planets that change societal norms. Much like elements in the periodic table, they create a new mental chemistry for individuals and the world. Over their duration, concepts build, shift, disperse and change thus altering the future. Archetypal energies of the planets and signs show the many possibilities. Jupiter/Saturn (20-years) starts on December 21. Both Jupiter/Pluto(13-years) and Saturn/Pluto (38-years) just started and in 2022 Jupiter/Neptune starts.
Progressions: Mapping Your Future
How do your progressed planets show changing levels of power and potential? Dive deep into the technique of progressions – with a traditional twist – to better understand your triggers for transformation. Explore your cycles of growth and progress. Learn how to tune into the undercurrents of your process and discover when and how major life changes are likely. See secondary progressions in action, and discover simple tips to help you hone your forecasting skills. | <urn:uuid:3ac2ef7f-b487-415a-8719-5e8889fdbdcb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://isarastrology.org/conference/all-speakers-list-for-voting/forecasting-and-predictive-techniques/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.89273 | 1,312 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Posterior Capsular Rupture with Vitreous Loss in Assisted Surgeons-Towards a Better Understanding
Author(s): Tamer Adel Refai
Aim: To evaluate cases with posterior capsular rupture with vitreous loss among phacoemulsification patients performed by assisted surgeons in research Institute of ophthalmology.
Methods: Fourteen (14) eyes of fourteen patients in which posterior capsular rupture with vitreous loss had happened during phacoemulsification surgery performed by assisted ophthalmic surgeons at one sector of research institute of ophthalmology Giza-Egypt between February 2018 and August 2019. Patient age was recorded, the machine used in phacoemulsification, the operative step in which the capsular rupture and vitreous loss occurred, the nucleus grade (an indicator of the difficulty of the procedure) in addition to any added difficulties in the procedure as reported by questionnaire of the surgeon. Collected data were subjected to statistical analysis mainly by Chi-Squared test to compare the relative frequency of existence of the possible risk factors related to posterior capsular rupture and vitreous loss.
Results: In this study, according to the cataract nuclear grade, the highest percentage of posterior capsular rupture and vitreous loss for nuclear grade III nuclear cataracts (42.86%), although the Chi-squared test denotes a non significant difference (X2=2.55, P>0.05). For the phacoemulsification step, the highest percentage of vitreous loss occurred with the phacoemulsification (phaco II) step (42.86%) followed by the hydromaneuvers step and the phaco-division (i.e., phaco I) step (I14.29% each), followed by other steps, although the Chi-squared test showed a nonsignificant difference (X2=10.8, P>0.05). For the phacomachine used; a higher percentage of posterior capsular rupture and vitreous loss occurred with the Alcon Infiniti with OZil Torsional Handpiece (42.86% of cases), followed by the Oertli Os3 (35.71%) and then the AMO Whitestar Signature machine, however; comparison with the Chi-squared test denotes a nonsignificant difference (X2=1.0, P >0.05). Regarding the presence of additional operational difficulties, a relatively higher percentage of posterior capsular rupture and vitreous loss occurred in the presence of both small pupil intraoperatively (14.29%) as well as poor red reflex (14.29%).
Conclusion: during performing phacoemulsification by assisted surgeons, in order to decrease the incidence of posterior capsular rupture with vitreous loss, special care should be taken while performing phacoemulsifiaction of the nucleus (i.e; phaco II), and it is better to avoid working on grade III nuclear density and on the Oertli-phaomachime and it is recommended to have good pupillary dilatation with good red reflex. | <urn:uuid:56af87db-3b0b-4d8f-9038-581400329e98> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fortuneonline.org/abstract/posterior-capsular-rupture-with-vitreous-loss-in-assisted-surgeonstowards-a-better-understanding-850.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.920413 | 644 | 1.554688 | 2 |
by Mark Daul
Outdoors In Niagara
I recently wrote an article for the Sentinel about coyotes. I met a friend in Youngstown at Melloni's Market Place, and he told me he had read the article and asked if I heard anything about bobcats in the Niagara area.
That discussion brought me back to a time when I thought I saw one on the roadway, about 150 yards away looking at me from the road. I didn't see the whole animal up close, nor did I recognize it from that distance. It looked like an overgrown housecat or a stray field cat, but as I drove closer it sauntered off into the field at the side of the road. I kept my eye on that spot, and as I approached the area where it disappeared, all of a sudden I could see its hind end and the short tail. In about two jumps, it was gone.
About a month or so after that, I was in Bandanas on Lake Road and a friend and I got into a conversation about different things. He mentioned he had spotted what he thought was a bobcat near his house, but had only gotten a glimpse also. We both live in the same general area around Bandanas, and our description of what we saw were similar: short spotted tail, and brownish hindquarters. After our sightings, I did some investigating with area sportsmen/hunters to learn if they ever spotted any creatures around here that would meet that description, and no one ever even heard of one around here. Time had passed and I forgot all about my sighting until my friend in Melloni's Market asked me about these 'cats.
When I got home my curiosity made me Google bobcats in New York. These wily, secretive felines are interesting and live a good life, mostly nocturnal, but can be seen in daylight at times, and sighting one is extremely rare. Their diet is similar to a coyote, believe it or not: rabbits and rodents, birds, insects, even fish and they have been known to prey on deer just like its coyote friends in the wild. They are natural born survivors and live around 12 to 13 years, and according to some sources, six to eight years. Males are usually between 32 and 37 inches long and weigh about 28 pounds. Females are anywhere between 29 to 34 inches and the petite little things hit the scales at an average of 15 pounds. It had to be a male that I spotted; it was big.
From descriptive pictures I have seen, colors vary from yellowish brown, light gray, reddish brown, and buff brown, probably like the one I saw the back end of. They are spotted along the sides, some more than others, and the tail is between 6 to 8 inches, multi-colored, spotted, black on top and white on the bottom.
"Bobcat" is so called because of its "bobbed" tail. The face is cute and bright-looking, with furry black tufts at the top of its sharp pointed ears, long fur at its cheeks and whiskers like your domestic cat. They like to make their homes in secluded places like rock piles, brush, hollow trees and logs, and ledges where they can pounce on their prey sight unseen. They don't like human activity and keep to themselves. Predators are few, deaths occurring mostly from disease such as rabies, or from their prey, in self-defense. If you are out in the winter or spring you can tell bobcat tracks by their looks and size. Showing four toes without claws they are about two square inches, which are larger than your house feline, and if they are running, the stride is between 4 and 8 feet.
Hunting and trapping bobcat is not permitted in Central and Western New York; the eastern part of the state allows hunting and trapping, but check the laws. The season opened on Oct. 25.
So, are there bobcats in Niagara? According to the people I talk to it is highly unlikely, but what was it my friend and I saw? I think we saw a bobcat, and more than likely we both saw the same one. If you have had a sighting in your travels or spot one in your future travels, I would be interested in knowing; please contact me.
Maybe if you want to actually see a live bobcat you would need to find a zoo with one, but if you do have a sighting in the wild, by all means get a hold of the Department of Environmental Conservation office in Buffalo and if you can, get a picture to verify your sighting so it can be recorded. The DEC Buffalo number is 851-7201.
For up-to-date fishing reports in our area be sure to check out www.OutdoorsNiagara.com for the latest. Right now, steelhead fishing in the Lower River is going quite well. If you are fishing from shore or boat, fishermen are using eggs, egg sacks, Kwikfish and a variety of spinners and spoons. Wilson and Olcott pier fishermen have been very successful. | <urn:uuid:b988e51d-efe2-4dd5-ba78-f5548e190a2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wnypapers.com/news/article/current/2011/12/03/104540/are-there-bobcats-in-niagara | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.980524 | 1,047 | 1.75 | 2 |
|Oracle9i SQL Reference
Release 2 (9.2)
Part Number A96540-02
CLUSTER statement to create a cluster. A cluster is a schema object that contains data from one or more tables, all of which have one or more columns in common. Oracle stores together all the rows (from all the tables) that share the same cluster key.
For information on existing clusters, query the
DBA_CLUSTERS data dictionary views.
To create a cluster in your own schema, you must have
CLUSTER system privilege. To create a cluster in another user's schema, you must have
CLUSTER system privilege. Also, the owner of the schema to contain the cluster must have either space quota on the tablespace containing the cluster or the
TABLESPACE system privilege.
Oracle does not automatically create an index for a cluster when the cluster is initially created. Data manipulation language (DML) statements cannot be issued against clustered tables until you create a cluster index.
Specify the schema to contain the cluster. If you omit
schema, Oracle creates the cluster in your current schema.
Specify is the name of the cluster to be created.
After you create a cluster, you add tables to it. A cluster can contain a maximum of 32 tables. After you create a cluster and add tables to it, the cluster is transparent. You can access clustered tables with SQL statements just as you can access nonclustered tables.
Specify one or more names of columns in the cluster key. You can specify up to 16 cluster key columns. These columns must correspond in both datatype and size to columns in each of the clustered tables, although they need not correspond in name.
You cannot specify integrity constraints as part of the definition of a cluster key column. Instead, you can associate integrity constraints with the tables that belong to the cluster.
Specify the datatype of each cluster key column.
REF, nested table, varray,
BFILE, or user-defined object type.
ISclause if any column datatype is not
NUMBERwith scale 0.
ROWID, but Oracle does not guarantee that the values in such columns are valid rowids.
"Datatypes" for information on datatypes
physical_attributes_clause lets you specify the storage characteristics of the cluster. Each table in the cluster uses these storage characteristics as well. If you do not specify values for these parameters, Oracle uses the following defaults:
INITRANS: 2 or the default value of the cluster's tablespace, whichever is greater
MAXTRANS: the default value for the cluster's tablespace
Specify the amount of space in bytes reserved to store all rows with the same cluster key value or the same hash value. Use
M to specify this space in kilobytes or megabytes. This space determines the maximum number of cluster or hash values stored in a data block. If
SIZE is not a divisor of the data block size, Oracle uses the next largest divisor. If
SIZE is larger than the data block size, Oracle uses the operating system block size, reserving at least one data block for each cluster or hash value.
Oracle also considers the length of the cluster key when determining how much space to reserve for the rows having a cluster key value. Larger cluster keys require larger sizes. To see the actual size, query the
KEY_SIZE column of the
USER_CLUSTERS data dictionary view. (This does not apply to hash clusters, because hash values are not actually stored in the cluster.)
If you omit this parameter, Oracle reserves one data block for each cluster key value or hash value.
Specify the tablespace in which the cluster is created.
INDEX to create an indexed cluster. In an indexed cluster, Oracle stores together rows having the same cluster key value. Each distinct cluster key value is stored only once in each data block, regardless of the number of tables and rows in which it occurs.
After you create an indexed cluster, you must create an index on the cluster key before you can issue any data manipulation language (DML) statements against a table in the cluster. This index is called the cluster index.
You cannot create a cluster index for a hash cluster, and you need not create an index on a hash cluster key. If you specify neither
HASHKEYS clause to create a hash cluster and specify the number of hash values for a hash cluster. In a hash cluster, Oracle stores together rows that have the same hash key value. The hash value for a row is the value returned by the cluster's hash function.
Oracle rounds up the
HASHKEYS value to the nearest prime number to obtain the actual number of hash values. The minimum value for this parameter is 2. If you omit both the
INDEX clause and the
HASHKEYS parameter, Oracle creates an indexed cluster by default.
When you create a hash cluster, Oracle immediately allocates space for the cluster based on the values of the
TABLE indicates that the cluster is a type of hash cluster containing only one table. This clause can provide faster access to rows than would result if the table were not part of a cluster.
Only one table can be present in the cluster at a time. However, you can drop the table and create a different table in the same cluster.
Specify an expression to be used as the hash function for the hash cluster. The expression:
USERor the datetime functions
If you omit the
IS clause, Oracle uses an internal hash function for the hash cluster.
For information on existing hash functions, query the
DBA_CLUSTER_HASH_EXPRESSIONS data dictionary tables.
The cluster key of a hash column can have one or more columns of any datatype. Hash clusters with composite cluster keys or cluster keys made up of noninteger columns must use the internal hash function.
Oracle9i Database Reference for information on the data dictionary views
parallel_clause lets you parallelize the creation of the cluster.
The syntax of the
NOPARALLEL for serial execution. This is the default.
PARALLEL if you want Oracle to select a degree of parallelism equal to the number of CPUs available on all participating instances times the value of the
PARALLEL_THREADS_PER_CPU initialization parameter.
integer indicates the degree of parallelism, which is the number of parallel threads used in the parallel operation. Each parallel thread may use one or two parallel execution servers. Normally Oracle calculates the optimum degree of parallelism, so it is not necessary for you to specify
If the tables in
cluster contain any columns of LOB or user-defined object type, this statement as well as subsequent
DELETE operations on
cluster are executed serially without notification.
"Notes on the parallel_clause" for
This clause lets you specify whether
cluster will use row-level dependency tracking. With this feature, each row in the tables that make up the cluster has a system change number (SCN) that represents a time greater than or equal to the commit time of the last transaction that modified the row. You cannot change this setting after
cluster is created.
ROWDEPENDENCIES if you want to enable row-level dependency tracking. This setting is useful primarily to allow for parallel propagation in replication environments. It increases the size of each row by 6 bytes.
NOROWDEPENDENCIES if you do not want to use the row level dependency tracking feature. This is the default.
Oracle9i Advanced Replication for information about the use of row-level dependency tracking in replication environments
CACHE if you want the blocks retrieved for this cluster to be placed at the most recently used end of the least recently used (LRU) list in the buffer cache when a full table scan is performed. This clause is useful for small lookup tables.
NOCACHE if you want the blocks retrieved for this cluster to be placed at the least recently used end of the LRU list in the buffer cache when a full table scan is performed. This is the default behavior.
The following statement creates a cluster named
personnel with the cluster key column
department, a cluster size of 512 bytes, and storage parameter values:
The following statement creates the cluster index on the cluster key of
After creating the cluster index, you can add tables to the index and perform DML operations on those tables.
The following statements create some departmental tables from the sample
hr.employees table and add them to the personnel cluster created in the earlier example:
CREATE TABLE dept_10 CLUSTER personnel (department_id) AS SELECT * FROM employees WHERE department_id = 10; CREATE TABLE dept_20 CLUSTER personnel (department_id) AS SELECT * FROM employees WHERE department_id = 20;
The following statement creates a hash cluster named
language with the cluster key column
cust_language, a maximum of 10 hash key values, each of which is allocated 512 bytes, and storage parameter values:
CREATE CLUSTER language (cust_language VARCHAR2(3)) SIZE 512 HASHKEYS 10 STORAGE (INITIAL 100k next 50k);
Because the preceding statement omits the
IS clause, Oracle uses the internal hash function for the cluster.
The following statement creates a hash cluster named
address with the cluster key made up of the columns
country_id, and uses a SQL expression containing these columns for the hash function:
CREATE CLUSTER address (postal_code NUMBER, country_id CHAR(2)) HASHKEYS 20 HASH IS MOD(postal_code + country_id, 101);
The following statement creates a single-table hash cluster named
cust_orders with the cluster key
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Urban and peri-urban agriculture in the global food security conundrum
Keywords:Food Gardens, Urban Agriculture, Food Security, Food Deserts
Rural exodus and increased urbanization have led to the development of urban slums in major cities across the world, resulting in food insecurity. Food deserts and food pantries are cropping up in the developed world as famine and malnutrition ravage parts of the developing world, exacerbated by endless conflicts. Therefore, food systems and value chains are facing pressures and are increasingly vulnerable due to strains on natural ecosystems and the impact of climate change. These strains have impacted not only land use, but also soil quality, leading to reduced quantity and quality of food available at reasonable costs to the urban poor. Thus, there is an urgent need for creative methods of food production in the urban centers to improve the sustainable food supply value chain. Food gardens as part of urban agriculture have the potential to mitigate the rise in hunger and food insecurity as it has inherent health, socio-cultural, environmental, and economic benefits as documented by Lawson (2005) and in Soleri, Cleveland, and Smith’s Food Gardens for a Changing World. Urban food gardens provide fresh, nutritious food that alleviates hunger and improves the health and wellbeing of the local community—plus any excess produce can be sold for additional income. Food gardens improve urban environmental quality and carbon footprint, and add value as places of community connection, networking, and empowerment.
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1946—A decree by the president of Mexico allocates 4.8 million acres in Sonora as part of a massive land redistribution for poor called Distrito de Colonización de Altar y Caborca. Land is classified fuera del comercio, or banned from sale, and is to be used only for communal farming or grazing.
Oct. 28, 1957—Eight residents of the Caborca area receive grants of land at Puerto Libertad as communal farmers, or colónos (colonists), under Ley Federal de Colonización. The eight are guided by Sonora businessman Porfirio Gastelum Lemus, who himself does not qualify. Each colonist must work in agriculture or livestock, the law stipulates.
December 1962—The government terminates the colonization program but keeps in place Ley Federal de Colonización to adjudicate disputes and changes.
April 1986—The eight landholders beholden to Gastelum provide him powers of attorney since there can be no buy-sell contracts, because colony property cannot legally be transferred unless withdrawn by the government or transferred/bequeathed following precise protocols. None of these criteria apply to the eight.
April 1986—Gastelum in turn transfers the powers of attorney to Ciudad Obregón attorney Eduardo Estrella Acedo and an assistant, Pedro Gorozpe Lopez.
1986—Tucson investors Donald R. Diamond and Morton Freedman start paying Gastelum for rights to the parcels. Still, no deeds can be issued, because sales of colony lands are forbidden.
Dec. 28, 1990—Pedro Gorozpe Lopez, the Ciudád Obregon lawyer, creates a trust through Banco de Atlántico that he contends can be used to sell the eight parcels. Gorozpe acts on behalf of the eight colonists, as well as Diamond and Freedman. The trust, valid for two years, provides the Tucsonans authority to give instructions to Banco del Atlántico as fiduciaries. On Dec. 11, 1992, the term on that trust is extended from two years to 30 years.
February 1992—Mexico passes a law permitting colonists (and other communal farmers/ranchers) to convert land to private property and obtain deeds—known as dominio pleno title—if requisites are followed. Trusts, however, have no place in the new law.
Sept. 2, 1997—Gorozpe and Estrella, the Ciudad Obregón attorneys, turn over to Miguel Angel Tapia Guell, attorney for Diamond and Freedman, the powers of attorney for the eight colonists. By that time, however, two have died: Juan Manuel Valenzuela González, on June 15, 1997; and Dora Huerta Calleja, on Oct. 9, 1993.
Sept. 28, 1998—Applications for private property deeds, including by the deceased, are reinitiated by Tapia. Dominio pleno deeds are issued to several of the colonists, and several more are issued in years to come.
January 2003—Diamond and Freedman agree to sell the eight parcels for $2.4 million to Nevada LLCs managed by Rockingham Asset Management LLC of Los Angeles. The sale is to be conducted through an initial buyer, David LeTourneau of Scottsdale. Diamond and Freedman's offer guarantees that title on all eight parcels is "marketable fee simple, free and clear of all claims, liens (and) encumbrances." Closing is postponed, however, because of boundary issues on two parcels.
August 2003—Tapia appears before Francisco Manzo Taylor, a notary public lawyer, claiming to possess powers of attorney for all colony owners, even though two of them have died. Tapia asserts his duties have "not been revoked, nor limited," even by the deceased. His intention is to incorporate all eight parcels, some with dominio pleno status, into a Banco del Atlántico trust. By this time, another two colonists, Francisco Valenzuela Serna and Angel Duarte Olivas, also have died.
May 20, 2004—Banco del Atlántico, in a fiduciary role, transfers all rights of the original eight colonists to Diamond and Freedman through attorney Tapia. Diamond and Freedman appear as the seller, and Construcciones Doble B, S.A. de C.V., owned by the same men, is the buyer. This sale signifies the dissolution of the trust, which is now unnecessary, Banco del Atlántico states.
July 1, 2004—A sale takes place between Construcciones Double B, S.A. de C.V. and the Rockingham affiliates, JNR Partners and Liberty Cove Resort Holdings, which hold the stock of the Mexican companies. First American Title Insurance Co. of Sunrise, Fla., issues the title policy. Six of the eight parcels supposedly change ownership, and it is agreed that the north and south parcels (Lots 1 and 8) will be closed when deeds are granted. This sale represents execution of the 2003 agreement, using the same $25,000 escrow deposit, according to Craig Ricketts, Rockingham's chief executive officer, and attorney Ben Aguilera of Phoenix. That means Diamond and Freedman are bound by terms guaranteeing title, the men say. Diamond and Freedman maintain the 2004 agreement is a new contract and, therefore, no longer carries any such warranty, Ricketts and Aguilera say.
July 25, 2004—Westridge REIT is introduced to fund Liberty Cove. Rockingham solicits at gatherings of "investor clubs" and conferences sponsored by International Living, a division of Baltimore-based Agora Inc., whose magazines and seminars specialize in overseas retirement. The REIT brings in approximately $19 million in two years. It is to pay investors 10 percent annually and offers investors a 35 percent discount on lots. It is followed two years later by another REIT, called Warrington, which raises more than $2 million. Rockingham tells investors that it maintains three years of interest payments in a "set-aside" account in case there's no revenue. A clause in the private placement memorandum, however, states the company has no such obligation.
January 2005—The township of Pitiquito, Sonora, which controls zoning in Puerto Libertad, changes classification of the eight parcels from ranching/grazing to Zona de Uso Especial 2, allowing multiple uses. The Sonora government provides conditional approval of Liberty Cove as 60,000-unit development.
Jan. 5, 2005—Bruce Greenberg, principal of Tucson-based Bruce D. Greenberg Inc., real estate appraisers and consultants; and Valuaciones Montaña Verde S.A. de C.V., assigns a $605 million value to Liberty Cove on an "as if" basis. The document is presented regularly by Rockingham. "(A)ll assignments conform to the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), Appraisal Institute (MAI/SRA), American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and International Valuation Standards," Greenberg asserts.
October 2005—Carlos Ruink, a Hermosillo attorney, working with Marco Antonio Encinas Cajigas, a Universidad de Sonora instructor and expert on agrarian law, issues a report concluding that the title is clouded. Ruink cites a number of reasons, including that powers of attorney were exercised illegally on behalf of the four deceased colonists. The report is commissioned by Liberty Cove's project manager, Walter Bouchard of W.L. Bouchard and Associates of Scottsdale. Ruink's conclusion: "Because of flaws in the prior transactions ... we can conclude that the title currently held by MXC Properties de R.L. is not a clean title." At a meeting in Tucson at Diamond Ventures Inc., Diamond and Freedman maintain the sale is legitimate.
2006—Rockingham announces it is starting construction on Liberty Cove.
2007—Rockingham's Ricketts, who is obligated to place a lien on the property for investors, agrees to pay $4 million more—$2 million apiece—to Diamond and Freedman for the remaining two parcels in exchange for "full release" of a parcel upon which construction is to begin. Diamond and Freedman take notes for the debt and stock in companies controlling Liberty Cove as collateral.
Sept. 18, 2007—A press release from PR Newswire, an international corporate news wire service, announces, "Construction Begins on North America's Largest Resort and Retirement Community—Liberty Cove." Among the venues for the announcement: a marquee in New York's Times Square.
October 2007—A squatter movement takes place on the property. Those in the movement allege that land has been taken from them improperly.
April 30, 2008—MortgageIT, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank, sends a "preliminary letter of intent" to Rockingham stating it is willing to create "a permanent mortgage structuring program" through which it will offer mortgages up to $300 million. It is signed by Doug Naidus, managing director, and Alex Gemici, director.
Feb. 23, 2009—Four REIT investors sue Ricketts and partners in Maricopa County Superior Court, claiming securities fraud, breach of contract and misrepresentation of expertise. They ask for $582,000. Ricketts, in turn, demands that Diamond and Freedman pay for the legal defense. They do. The lawsuit is dropped.
March 13, 2009—A lawsuit is filed by Pedro Murillo Garcia of Caborca and Edgardo Ortega of Hermosillo on behalf of three living colonists and heirs of five others against Diamond, Freedman, the two Mexican entities controlled by Ricketts, lawyers, notary lawyers and others involved in all the sales to date of the eight parcels. It alleges that properties have been taken illegitimately from the original colonists and that all sales should be annulled.
March 2009—To protect REIT investors, a lien for $25 million is placed on Liberty Cove Parcel 2, which is supposedly free and clear, and is to be the site of first construction. The amount represents investments made in the REITs by the more than 200 investors, plus interest.
June 26, 2009, First American retains Tapia Robles and Cabrera, a Hermosillo law firm, to handle a claim contending the title insured by company in 2004 is clouded.
July 1, 2009—Ricketts refuses to pay Diamond and Freedman $1.52 million due on the two $2 million notes to which he agreed in 2007. The March 13 lawsuit by Murrillo and Ortega freezes Rickett's ability to continue the project and demonstrates title was never legitimate, he maintains.
Aug. 7, 2009—Rockingham's president, Stephan Haah, in conflict with Ricketts, asserts that he and his Hermosillo lawyer, Alberto Bringas Cañez, have rights to all parcels. Ricketts says the claim is invalid because Haah has been expelled from the corporation.
October 2009—A payment of $25,000 is made to Porfirio Gastelum by Diamond and Freedman's attorney, Miguel Tapia, in order to satisfy heirs of a Dora Huerta, a colonist, who have disputed the sale, Ricketts is told by Diamond and his U.S. lawyer, Benjamin Bauer. Ricketts calls the payment "hush money" and "a wasted payment," and contends it offers additional proof as to the lack of certainty over title to parcels.
Oct. 13, 2009—Rockingham receives a letter from attorney Eduardo Ortega of Hermosillo advising the company that he represents colonists, and that the land has never been legally transferred.
February 2010—A lawsuit by REIT investors against Rockingham companies is dismissed in Maricopa County Superior Court.
July 2010—Ricketts accuses Diamond and Freedman of bad faith and wire fraud, alleging the two are liable for the $25 million to investors for having knowingly "sold" property to which they didn't have title.
July 27, 2010—The first of two conference calls organized by REIT investors Dean Stein and Gary Leavitt of Phoenix brings together investors previously unknown to one another. They share experiences and agree to fund a group to look into legal actions.
November 2010—Robert Chernick, Rockingham's chief financial officer, reveals, in response to repeated inquiries, that Rockingham records had been sold at auction after nonpayment at a Scottsdale storage locker. Backup copies should be available, however, he says.
Dec. 23, 2010—Rockingham receives a subpoena for records from Peggy Scozzari, a special investigator with the Arizona Corporation Commission's Securities Division. The ACC does not confirm ongoing investigations, and says in late January 2012 that it has "no current enforcement action."
April 2, 2011—Matt Mickley, an early investor with Rockingham and a supporter of Ricketts, commits suicide.
May 26, 2011—Pima County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Lee finds in favor DF-MX Holdings LLC, owned by Diamond and Freedman, in a breach-of-contract action against Rockingham affiliates JNR and Liberty Cove Resort Holdings. Lee rules that Ricketts' failure to make a 2007 payment must result in the return of all eight parcels to Diamond and Freedman. The decision is narrow, finding only that JNR and Liberty Cove Resort Holdings failed to meet the $1.52 million payment due July 1, 2009, on promissory notes dated April 20, 2007. The ruling does not take into account proceedings in Mexico or allegations of fraud that predate the promissory notes.
June 2011—First American Title sues JNR and Liberty Cove Resort Holdings, contending that it owes nothing because of a statute of limitations on the title claims.
July 2011—Sonora Attorney General Abel Murrieta says he is aware of the controversy surrounding Americans who have lost money on the Liberty Cove project, but has taken no action because there have been no complainants. He says his office, lest it be accused of favoritism, will not take any action unless it receives a formal complaint.
Sept. 23, 2011—Garcia Murillo, the Caborca lawyer, says all sales of property to date are void because powers of attorney were used for the four deceased, a violation of Mexican law. (It would have to be the estates of the deceased that, through another process, sold the parcels, according to the lawyer.) The previous suit had not mentioned use of powers of attorney for the four deceased.
March 23, 2012—Fennemore Craig, P.C., Tucson, publishes in El Imparcial, a Sonora newspaper, plans to auction the 46,500 acres that make up the Liberty Cove project. Attorney Bauer does not respond to an inquiry about the sale.
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You bleed your brakes to remove moisture that entered the system. Brake fluid needs to be replaced periodically, because brake fluid will absorb moisture over time. This occurs whether a vehicle has been driven 60,000 miles, or has been sitting in a garage for a year. Fluid contamination is a function of time and humidity, and has nothing to do with the mileage driven. Moisture enters the brake system through seals and through microscopic pores in the hoses. Moisture enters the system every time the fluid reservoir is opened, which is a good reason not to open it unnecessarily.
To remove air bubbles that have entered the system because of a leak or because the fluid level got too low. The air must be removed because it is compressible and will result in a soft, “spongy” brake pedal.
First, always start at the corner furthest from the driver and work your way towards the driver/master cylinder (right rear, left rear, right front, left front.), just remember farthest to closest. Then, find the bleeder screw (bleeder valve) on the rear caliper. Attach a piece of clear tubing to the nipple of the bleeder screw. Place the other end of the hose into the disposable bottle. Then take a wrench and place it on the bleeder screw. Place the bottle for waste fluid on top of the caliper. Hold the bottle with one hand and grasp the wrench with the other hand.
Next, have your assistant apply the brake pedal and hold down firmly. Then open the bleed screw ¼ turn to release the fluid into the waste line. NEVER have the driver release the brake pedal while the screw is open, make sure to CLOSE the screw first and then have the driver release the brake pedal. Inspect the fluid within the waste line for air bubbles. Continue the bleeding process until air bubbles are no longer present. Be sure to check the brake fluid level in the reservoir after bleeding each wheel, make sure to keep the fluid level at the MAX line. Then, go on to the next corner and repeat all steps.
Next, spray with brake cleaner and then wipe down the entire area until dry. DO NOT SPRAY BRAKE CLEANER ON ANY RUBBER OR PLASTIC PARTS. Leaving the area clean and dry will make it much easier to spot leaks. Test the brake pedal for a firm feel, and if all the steps were followed then you are done bleeding your brakes. Discard of any and all used brake fluid properly and responsibly.
Brake fluid is hygroscopic, meaning it absorbs water. When new from the bottle, it can be considered “dry” with a higher boiling point. Over time, brake fluid absorbs water lowering its boiling point to the “wet” level. Changing brake fluid removes water from the brake system and is extremely important. Change your brake fluid at least every two years … much more often for cars that see track use. For street cars, wet boiling point numbers are more important than dry because the fluid stays in your car for a long time (change it at least every two years). After months of exposure to humid air and changing climate conditions, brake fluid performance is closer to the wet boiling point than the dry boiling point. When brake fluid boils, it turns into vapor and forms air bubbles. This creates a “soft pedal” and requires excessive pedal travel to apply the brakes properly. Do not confuse this with “brake fade”. Brake fade occurs when the brake compound gets too hot from prolonged braking or improper bedding. Brake fade requires greater and greater pedal effort to stop the vehicle; boiling fluid increases pedal travel and makes the pedal feel soft. Due to the extreme temperatures that high performance brake systems operate at, standard brake fluids are not recommended for track use. Carbotech™ Performance Brakes does not sell and does not recommend silicone based brake fluid with any of its products.
Neither Carbotech Performance Brakes nor AP Racing markets silicone brake fluids nor recommends their use with any braking system. The high price of silicone fluids does not produce higher performance in hard driving or even normal road use. Rather, use of silicone fluids leads to issues.
Virtually all of the problems with silicone brake fluids reflect certain properties of silicone fluids identified by us over many years and recently ratified in SAE publications. Those properties are specifically: high ambient viscosity; high air absorption; high compressibility; low lubricity; and immiscibility with water. Research has shown that these properties of silicone fluid result in “spongy” pedal, sudden loss of braking, and/or “hanging on” of brakes.
Carbotech’s AP Racing glycol based fluids do not exhibit the adverse properties of silicone fluids. The recently introduced Formula DOT 5.1, which exceeds the performance criteria of DOT 5 (Silicone), is suitable for all conditions likely to be encountered in modern driving conditions.
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What Causes Low Water Pressure in the Shower?
In order to take a quick and thorough shower, you need great water pressure from your shower head. Without that, getting soap or shampoo off your body and hair especially if you have thick hair just takes so long. So, what causes low water pressure in the shower and how can you increase it?
Low water pressure in the shower is caused by a clogged shower head, a water pressure restrictor in the shower head, a dirty/blocked shower cartridge or partially opened shut off valves. In old houses it could be as a result of undersize water supply pipes, mineral deposits or even leaks.
To increase the water pressure in your shower you can do one of the following:
- Unclog the shower head
- Remove the shower head flow restrictor
- Fully open the shut off valves
- Clean or replace the shower cartridge
- Install a shower booster pump
As you can see, the solution can either be a very easy and fast one or a pricey one that will take time too. The good thing is that all this are simple tasks that you really don’t need to pay a plumber to do for you.
Low Water Pressure in Shower Only?
Before you go ahead and try to fix the low water pressure in the shower, you should first determine if the low water pressure is only affecting the shower or other fixtures as well. Sometimes someone can mess up with the main house supply valve causing all the fixtures to experience a low water pressure.
Open your bathroom or kitchen faucet to full pressure and check if their pressure is good or low as well. If their pressure is good then the problem is restricted to your shower and you should therefore go ahead and fix it.
On the other hand if the other fixtures are also experiencing a low water pressure the shower is not the problem. Start by checking the condition of your main house shut off valve.
The main house shut off valve is usually located at the basement nearer to the water heater or on an outside wall where you also have the water meter. You will have either a gate valve (one with a wheel) or a ball valve, which has a lever.
For the case of a gate valve make sure that the valve is completely turned counterclockwise. If you have a ball valve make sure that the level is nicely aligned with the supply pipe.
Check if the pressure increases after this. More on that in this post.
Low Hot Water Pressure in the Shower Only
Sometimes you find that the low water pressure is only affecting the shower’s hot water supply but the cold water has decent pressure. This is usually a problem with your heater’s shut off valve.
Depending on the type of shower plumbing you have, you can adjust the hot water pressure to the shower head from the heater room or using a screwdriver at the hot water/cold water junction. To do this you will first need to remove the shower faucet’s handle.
Rush to the basement and make sure that the heater’s shut off valve is fully opened. If this does not increase the water pressure you will need to remove the faucet handle and turn the screw with a screwdriver. More on this later.
How to Increase the Water Pressure in Your Shower
If you have indeed concluded that the low water pressure is only affecting the shower, it is time to go ahead and fix it. As with every other repair, you should start with the most likely problem and eliminate them out as you progress.
1. Unclog the Shower Head.
The Shower contains fines holes through which water comes out at high pressure and is able to reach different parts of our bodies instead of using an ordinary faucet. While this is a great invention, it is not without its problems.
Mineral deposits, pipe corrosions and debris/dirt (especially for folks using water from a well) embed on these fine holes restricting the flow of water. With this comes low water pressure in the shower.
You can unclog a shower head using different methods depending on the time you have at hand and to some extent severity of the problem.
If you in a hurry, grab a toothpick and pass it through each and every shower head hole. You might also need a paper towel to remove dirt from the toothpick. Once done, turn on the water and check if the pressure has significantly improved.
If you are looking for a long-term fix, remove the shower head and put it in a small bucket. Add vinegar until the shower head is full immersed in the vinegar. Boiled vinegar works even better. Leave it there for 30 minutes.
To remove the shower head just grab the shower arm and twist the shower head counterclockwise. For some showerheads you will need to use a wrench to loosen them.
After the 30 minutes, come back with a toothpick and poke through each hole of the shower head. Take the shower head to the bathroom sink and blast water through it at full pressure to flush out any lingering debris.
Connect the shower head back and turn on the water. Check out for a significant pressure increase.
2. Remove the Shower Head Flow Restrictor
If you have low water pressure in your shower and you have a new shower head, most likely the shower head has a flow/pressure restrictor which drastically reduces the water pressure. Removing the flow restrictor will have you shower head blasting out water at great pressure.
A shower head flow/pressure restrictor is small plastic fitting installed inside the shower head that reduces its internal diameter. Water is then forced to pass through the reduced diameter, reducing its pressure significantly.
Shower heads manufacturers are mandated by the Federal Energy Policy Act of 1992 to have flow restrictors in the shower heads. This is in a bid to save the water used by each individual every time they shower.
This does not however work as intended since instead of people taking quick showers they end taking forever in the bathroom. Removing the flow restrictor is however totally legal.
How to Remove a Flow Restrictor
- Remove/disconnect the shower head.
- Remove the black O-ring. You have to remove the O-ring in order to access the flow restrictor. In some shower heads (especially the hand-held ones), the flow restrictor is not inside the shower head itself, but on the water supply line’s connection. Pull out the O-Ring using a needle-nose pliers. A flathead screwdriver will also suffice
- You will now see the plastic fitting sitting pretty inside the shower head. Grab one of its prong with the needle-nose pliers and pull it out.
- Now put the O-ring back inside. Don’t forget this step lest you have leaks in your shower.
- Connect the shower head back to the shower arm.
Removing a flow restrictor from your shower head will without a doubt increase you shower water pressure to what it should be.
3. Clean/Replace the Shower Cartridge
The Shower Cartridge is located inside of where you have the shower faucet handle. It basically regulates the shower’s flow rate, which is very different from pressure.
This is also where the cold and hot water lines meet and terminate into one. In some plumbing systems, there is an adjustable screw on both the cold and hot water lines to adjust the pressure of water coming out of the shower head.
If your shower has a decent cold water pressure and a low hot water pressure or vice versa here is where you want to have a look. Proceed as follows:
- Turn off the main water house shut off valve.
- Turn on the shower faucet to drain the water already in the lines.
- Plug off the shower/tub drain to prevent anything from falling down the drain.
- Remove the faucet handle. The faucet handle is usually connected to the faucet using an Allen nut. Turn the faucet upwards and remove the nut with an Allen wrench. Slide the handle out. Your handle design could however look a little different.
- Remove the handle adapter screw using a screw driver. Some faucets however do not have this screw and all you have to do it to unscrew the pressure control sleeve.
- Next use the screwdriver to remove the 2 screwdrivers connecting the faucet cap to the wall. If the cap is caulked to the wall cut round the caulk with a knife and pull it out.
- You can now see the cartridge and 3-pipe junction. Check out for 2 adjustable screws on each of the 2 horizontal pipes. Use a flathead screwdriver to see if they are fully open.
- If one of the screws was partially opened you might not even need to remove the cartridge. Turn on the main water valve and attach the faucet, handle. Check if there is an increase in water pressure.
- If there are no adjustable screws, you will need to pull out the cartridge and clean it.
- Look for restraining clip at the back of the cartridge and pull it upwards gently using a screwdriver. Be careful as you might drop it inside the wall.
- Now grip the tip of the cartridge with a pliers and twist it gently then pull it out. You can as well buy a special tool designed to pull.
- Check for dirt/mineral deposits on the cartridge and clean it thoroughly before putting it back. Replacing it with a new one is however a better option since most of them come with a lifetime warranty.
- Once you have put the cartridge back insert the restraining clip.
- Attach the faucet cap and screw it back in position. Caulk around it if needed.
- Put back the sleeve and faucet handle in the correct orientation. Screw in the nut and tighten with the Allen wrench.
And basically that is how to increase the water pressure in your shower by unclogging or replacing the cartridge. It is quite a long process but it will save you the money since plumbers charge a lot for such repairs.
4. Install a Shower Booster Pump
If the water flowing to your house has low water pressure, the problem is therefore not restricted to your shower and all the above repairs will not fix it. Installing a shower pump is a great but expensive fix.
Before the water flows to your shower faucet, it passes through this pump where fast-rotating blades force as much of it as possible to be pumped out. Local authorities do not allow the direct installation of pumps on the main water lines as it can damage the pipes. You have to install a break tank, which is another added cost.
There are however other solutions that you can try in the meantime. The first one is to turn off water to other fixtures while using the showers. Having more than one fixture running concurrently will significantly affect the water pressure in the house.
Another solution can be taking showers during off-peak hours. If you live in a busy/crowded town, most folks will be having showers in the evenings or mornings. Try taking shows during off-peak hours like midday and see if there is a significant increase in pressure in your shower.
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A few years ago I saw a post on social media somewhere about a type of tick that causes people to develop an allergy to eating meat. I recall the post was by some anti-meat eating website and I ignored it as hype and scare tactics.
Well, it turns out that there really is a tick that causes people it bites to develop problems when they eat red meat. A red meat eating allergy!
As a person who eats red meat I find this to be horrible news.
Tick Bit That Causes Red Meat Allergy
And it’s not just an allergy to red meat, it also causes severe problems with eating dairy products; cheese, ice-cream, yogurt, milk, etc…
Tick bites can cause all sorts of bad infections and transfer diseases. Most notably you have likely heard of lyme disease. That in itself is bad enough. But for those of you out there who enjoy red meat and include it as part of your routine diet, not to mention eating diary… all I can say is that really sucks! (slight pun intended).
The Lonestar Tick – What We Know
The culprit that causes this nasty affliction is the Lonestar Tick. Last year there had been over 5000 reported cases of this strange tick allergy, up from 3500 cases just a couple years earlier. Yep, instances are increasing.
Medical experts have only just begun to get a grasp on understanding what this specific tick can do when it bites people. In most cases that have been studied the person’s red meat allergy subsides after a few months – which is good news! However, people who have been bitten and infected twice seem to have the allergic condition last longer – which is not good! And experts suspect that if bitten enough it could possibly even become permanent – really not good!
What Causes The Red Meat Allergy When Bit?
The red meat allergy caused by the Lonestar Tick is an allergy to the alpha-gal carbohydrate that’s found in cows, pigs, sheep and animals in the red meat category. Researchers currently theorize that if the Lonestar Tick bites an animal with the alpha gal carbohydrate and then bites a human, it injects that carbohydrate into the person’s bloodstream. The human body then mounts an antibody response that activates after the person consumes red meat which causes the allergic reactions.
- Symptoms of the tick induced red meat allergy include: hives, skin rash, stomach problems, headaches and trouble breathing. There is no treatment or cure other than avoiding red meat.
Where Can The Lonestar Tick Be Encountered?
The bad news is that the range of the Lonestar Tick is spreading slowly across North America. It has mostly been found in the south and southeast section of the United States, all of Central America, and parts of norther South America. Due to warmer weather and climate however, this tick has been moving further north. It has even been found in parts of southern Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan in 2018.
It is not as prevalent in the southwest. This is largely due to where the Lonestar Tick thrives; moist areas at ground level, grassy, bushy, and low woodland shrubs. The southwest has more arid and dry regions that ticks do not thrive as well in.
Preventing Tick Bites – It’s Not That Hard
As an outdoorsman I spend a fair amount of time where there are lots of ticks. Before learning about the Lonestar Tick I always tried to do my best at fighting all such insects. For me that means taking certain precautions.
- Use a chemical repellent with DEET, permethrin or picaridin. (I use Permethrin, and it works great! Kills Ticks DEAD!)
- Wear light-colored protective clothing
- Tuck pant legs into socks (ticks are attracted to darker colors)
- Avoid tick-infested areas (I’ll walk around dense brushy and grassy areas when possible)
- Check yourself, your children, and your pets daily for ticks and carefully remove any ticks (my camping knife has tweezers!)
For me treating my clothes with permethrin goes a long way in keeping ticks off. I wrote a review of permethrin here that is worth reading. It kills ticks and other nasty bugs dead within a minute or less of contact.
Ticks And Red Meat Allergies – Conclusion
As a person who seasonally hunts and eats red meat at least once or twice a week – and who enjoys a little dairy now and then, getting bit by the Lonestar Tick is on the top of my list of things to avoid.
People with this particular allergy report they can still eat fish and chicken, as those sources of protein do no have the alpha gal sugar based carbohydrate found in red meat. I also eat a fair amount of fish and chicken, in fact more of those two items than red meat. But still… It’s not an allergy I want to get, even temporarily.
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If you haven’t visited a hospital lately, please be advised, that you should wear a sweater, or even a snowsuit, when you enter the medical facility. It’s freezing in the waiting, patient, recovery and operating rooms.
Hospitals everywhere have lowered the temperatures of their interiors to prevent the spread of germs/viruses. Researchers have discovered in recent years, colder rooms provide more protection. That’s the good news.
The bad news is that patients who are wearing light weight gowns are suffering. They are so cold that they are shivering. Nurses offer as many blankets as they need, but anything less then four or five covers on top of a patient doesn’t seem to warm them up.
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