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Translating Progress into Success to End the AIDS Epidemic is a collaboration between amfAR, AVAC, and Friends of the Global Fight, with technical assistance from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. With the year 2020 on the horizon, the report was conceptualized to take stock of how far we have come – and how far we have to go – toward ending HIV and AIDS around the world. We chose to highlight six case studies that, while different epidemic contexts, have successfully reduced new HIV diagnoses and AIDS-related deaths through a combination of biomedical, policy, and social interventions tailored to high-risk populations in their settings. They provide a roadmap for what cities, states, and countries can achieve with the tools we have.
amfAR, AVAC, and Friends of the Global Fight would like to recognize the technical support provided on the entire report by Jennifer Kates and on the case studies by Sheena McCormack and Nicolo Girometti (London); Andrew Grulich, Phillip Keen, Steven Nigro, Christine Selvey, Prital Patel, Martin Holt, Elaine Lee, Rebecca Guy, Bill Whittaker, Jo Holden, Matthew Vaughan, Craig Cooper, and Garrett Prestage on behalf of the NSW HIV Prevention Partnership Project (New South Wales); Kate Grabowski, David Serwadda, Thomas Quinn and Joseph Kagaayi (Rakai); Susan Buchbinder and Diane Havlir (San Francisco); and Annette Sohn (Thailand).
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The Dept. of Commerce is proposing a measure to allow counterveiling duties on countries that undervalue their currency relative to the U.S. Dollar, according to a published report late Thursday.
The goal would be to prevent other countries from using a weak currency to boost their exports to the U.S.
The move "puts foreign exporters on notice," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement, according to a Reuters report.
Amid rising trade tensions between the U.S. and China, many have expected the Chinese government to devalue the yuan against the dollar to negate the impact of tariffs imposed by President Trump.
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The Chinese digital currency will not be used to strengthen control over the personal data of citizens, but will only help to find a balance between ensuring confidentiality and the needs of the authorities in obtaining reliable information, the representative of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) said.
China is preparing to become the first country to launch a national digital currency. Although not to much is known about PBoC stablecoin, the initiative of the Chinese authorities caused a lot of controversy and fears regarding the potential impact of digital currency on the global financial system.
It is assumed that the new currency like Facebook’s Libra and other cryptocurrencies will partially work on the blockchain and be used through digital wallets. However, the stablecoin design will allow Beijing to fully control cash flows and manage the country’s economy, giving the government power that most central banks do not have.
At the same time, Mu Changchun, head of the PBoC research institute, claims that the launch of the state digital currency has completely different goals, including the creation of a new payment system that is integrated into China’s existing financial infrastructure and accessible in the most remote areas of the country.
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FOCUS ON THE BACKROADS – THE PICKUP
Today you can visit any car dealership looking for a pickup and have numerous choices ranging from size, trim packages, and hundreds of colors. In early days pickups were purchased because of utility and considered as equipment – today most pickups purchased are for transportation. It is amazing that there are so many 4-wheel drive pickups in Texas that never get off the interstate – well you never know when you might happen upon a hill (not often). There is one thing for sure TEXANS ARE PROUD OF THEIR PICKUPS!
Pickups were born in the early 1900’s. The automobile industry was booming. The big three were Ford, Dodge, and Chevy. In 1918 the US Army awarded the Dodge brothers a purchase order for a half-ton multipurpose truck. This accelerated the category of light-weigh truck. The Dodge truck was powered by a 35-horsepower, 4-cylinder engine. It had a maximum payload of 1,000 pounds. During this same period Chevy introduced the Model 490, named after it’s price of $490.00. For $490.00 you received a chassis without a cab or bed. You had the choice of building your own or buying a cab for $100.00 and bolting it on yourself. In 1925 Henry Ford began manufacturing the Ford Model T Runabout. Ford revolutionized the truck industry with the first factory assembly line trucks offering them to the public for $281.00 WITH A BODY! The Ford Motor Company manufactured 33,800 pickups that year. Over the next few years many improvements were made. The early 4-cylinder engines were replaced with more powerful 6 and 8-cylinders. Cabs and beds got larger. Even radios and air-conditioning was added. Many of the trucks from yesteryear still exist as a reminder of a period of American history when there were great industrial pioneers such as Henry Ford (Ford Motor Co), William Durant (General Motor Company), Louis Chevrolet (Chevrolet), Walter Chrysler (Chrysler Corporation), John and Horace Dodge (Dodge Motor Co), and many others. These men played important roles in the American Industrial Age and are responsible many of the conveniences that we enjoy today. Many of these old pickups have been restored by truck and car collectors while other are scattered throughout old town and pastures throughout the countryside. Although many are rusting away they remain as monuments and reminders of an important period of American history. The next time you are cruising down the Interstate – BETTER YET THE BACKROADS
– in an air-conditioned, 4 x 4, extended cab, with luxury leather interior truck. While you are enjoying some classic rock on it’s satellite radio (BORN TO BE WILD) and being directed by it’s navigation system. If you happen to see one of these iconic trucks – pull over and salute that old rusty relic of yesteryear. Better yet TAKE A PICTURE
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To drive efficiencies, manufacturers are always pushing themselves and their machines harder to boost output and improve productivity. Implementing up-to-date plant automation system digital solutions is a proven way to support these goals and achieve growth and higher profitability. However, in industries where hybrid automation system environments are required (systems that address both the process and discrete steps of a manufacturing operation), a lack of information on selection of proper components often drives up costs unnecessarily and leaves end users with a less-than optimized system.
A careful review of typical Distributed Control System (DCS) and hybrid DCS requests for quotations (RFQs) reveal included features that add cost to the digital solutions but that add little to no value to the end user. For instance, some consultants include products and features in their proposals that were originally designed to meet the requirements of refining, petrochemical, and heavy chemical industries. However, for industries like specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, paints, resins, inks, adhesives, polymers, and flavors & fragrances, where hybrid processes are common, such features are unnecessary to assure smooth operations.
Three Ways to Cut Unnecessary Industrial Automation System Components in Digital Solutions
When we at Supertech, an automation systems integrator, certified Schneider Electric Schneider Electric Alliance Partner and EcoXpert, and energy solution provider, meet with manufacturers who run hybrid processes, we help them avoid paying for automation components in digital solutions they don’t need. When selecting industrial automation system components that support hybrid manufacturing environments, be cautious in these three areas:
- Avoid unnecessary redundancies – In some cases, particularly in environments where risk analysis has been performed and the level of hardware component reliability is high, the chances that automation system components will fail due to a manufacturing defect are low. In such environments, some batch processes can be intermittently stopped and resumed without much of an issue. Advanced level diagnostics also ensure that systems can be restored within a short period of time if the critical spares are available. In such environments, paying for additional redundancies may not be essential.
- Opt for more open communication systems – Some legacy DCS manufacturers provide proprietary buses instead of cost-effective, open, and high-speed Ethernet for communication between the CPU and the system I/O. Industrial automation platforms that are more open allow end users to modernize and integrate more easily. By prioritizing Ethernet I/O, end users can avoid higher integration costs when modernization and upgrades are needed in the future.
- Verify whether G3 conformal coating is needed – Many RFQs specify automation system components that conform to G3 level of ISA Conformal Coating Standard 71.04. In pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, and performance chemicals industries, some control rooms and plant environments are exceptionally clean. If that is the case, the G3 level coating may not be required. Therefore, the possibility exists that overall costs and component delivery lead times can be reduced.
If these features are specified by a consultant who is managing an end user’s RFQ, end users should push back. By requiring an explanation for their inclusion and removing them if not relevant, you can save cost and avoid added complexity.
Desirable Options that Bolster Hybrid Process Performance
As end user stakeholders work through the automation system component selection process, look at functions that can significantly enrich the performance of the new system in the hybrid manufacturing environment. For example, a system with template libraries that are industry-segment specific for batch process operations will help engineers to speed-up application development. Insisting on either Ethernet I/P, Modbus TCP/IP, or OPC UA protocol support for third-party communication to devices (i.e., tank weighing systems, mass flowmeters, variable frequency drives (VFDs), Intelligent motor starters, and PLCs) will simplify commissioning and allow for more seamless operations.
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The merciless Mossad hit man with a tangled Nazi history
Photos: Mishpacha archives
How did a celebrated SS officer and unrepentant Nazi hero become a hit man for the Israeli Mossad? That is the mystery of Otto Skorzeny, a former lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS, leader of a unit of SS commandos, rescuer of Italy’s fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, and Hitler’s own favorite among the special operations officers. It’s also a lesson in the Mossad’s often shocking and unconventional methods for protecting Israel, especially in the early, vulnerable days of the fledgling state.
Based on interviews with former Mossad officers and with Israelis who have access to the Mossad’s archived secrets from decades ago, award-winning Israeli journalist Yossi Melman and Washington-based news correspondent Dan Raviv — coauthors of five books about Israel’s espionage activities and security agencies — uncovered information verifying that Skorzeny was not only recruited as a Mossad operative, but actually pulled the trigger on an enemy scientist as part of an Israeli espionage plot to thwart the development of Egyptian missiles targeting Israel in the early 1960s.
The Mossad mission, known as Operation Damocles, was aimed at targeting the German scientists — former employees of Nazi Germany’s weapons program — who were hired in the summer of 1962 to develop an arsenal of missiles for Egypt to use against Israel. Skorzeny, who worked with the scientists and the companies that were supplying them, was originally on the Mossad’s hit list too — until spymaster Isser Harel thought it would be better to enlist him than to kill him.
It’s not unusual for a spy ring of international reach to sometimes work with partners they’d ideologically prefer to stay away from. But while dancing with the devil was understandable from the Mossad’s vantage point, why would an avowed Nazi like Skorzeny deign to work with the Mossad?
Otto Skorzeny (pronounced Skor-tsay-nee) was born in Vienna in 1908. His father, Anton, owned a successful construction business, and both sides of the family were proud of their military affiliations: Anton would serve as a reserve artillery officer a few years later, in World War I, and his wife, Flora, belonged to an old-time military dynasty that had protected the Austrian empire’s borders for generations.
Defeat of World War I left Austria economically dysfunctional, inflation-ravaged, and deeply embittered. The new democracy was weak, supported by a poverty-stricken, largely jobless middle class. But the young, headstrong Otto Skorzeny was not deterred by adversity. Fortified with the traditional beliefs that he could restore honor to his country with cunning and courage, he relished the challenge of building his future out of the ruins.
As a teen, athletics beckoned — he had shot up to a startling 6’4”, was heavily built, and liberally endowed with muscle. An enthusiastic sportsman with good coordination, he was drawn to sports that involved weapons, and he joined the Schlagendeverbindung, the school’s dueling society. By the time of his graduation, Skorzeny had distinguished himself by winning 14 duels. During the tenth, he received the imposing “schmisse” he had secretly hoped for, a severe slash from ear to chin on his left cheek. True to the society’s traditions, it was stitched up on the spot without anesthetic. This scar became his trademark.
The upper Nazi hierarchy, with which he’d later be affiliated, sported many faces of dueling scars, considered a badge of honor. Himmler had one, and so did SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Ernst Kaltenbrunner, although he was accused of having come by his in a car accident. But Skorzeny’s was never subject to doubt — his reputation as a duelist followed him.
Skorzeny was 24 when he joined Austria’s branch of the Nazi Party in 1932. He served in its armed militia and considered Adolf Hitler his hero. He swiftly rose through the ranks of an elite branch of the SA (Sturmabteilung), known as the SS (Schutzstaffel).
In addition, Skorzeny began a career as a mechanic. Within a few years, he became the junior partner in a construction and scaffolding company after marrying the company owner’s daughter, Margareta Gretl Schreiber. Three years later, after buying a majority share in the business, he divorced her.
Hitler seized Austria in 1938, and with his invasion of Poland in 1939 and the outbreak of World War II, Skorzeny left the construction firm and volunteered for the Leibstandarte SS Panzer Division that served as Hitler’s personal bodyguard battalion.
In the ensuing months, he took part in battles in Russia and Poland, although in his memoirs, penned after the war, he denied taking part in the extermination of Jews. After spending the first part of the war occupying an eclectic selection of roles, including a transport manager, engineering officer and instructor, and SS-Obersturmfuhrer in a tank battalion, Skorzeny was pulled out of rank and deposited at the headquarters of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA — an extreme equivalent of the Ministry of Interior, with the stated goal to fight all “enemies of the Reich” inside and outside the borders of Nazi Germany).
Desperate for loyalty, Austrian-born Hitler had promoted Ernst Kaltenbrunner — a loyal Austrian landsman — to the position of head of the RSHA, and Kaltenbrunner, similarly anxious to surround himself with friends, swiftly roped in Skorzeny. There, among his responsibilities, he was instructed to train an SS commando unit.
“A big man, with big ideas and a big mouth, he was sorely lacking when it came to administrative detail and the subtle art of diplomacy,” says UK researcher and business journalist Stuart Smith, author of Otto Skorzeny: the Devil’s Disciple. Nevertheless, his big break was not long in coming.
Skorzeny was summoned into Hitler’s room along with five other men, while the Fuhrer moved from one man to the next as each presented a brief summary of his career. Skorzeny blurted out five quick sentences about his birthplace, education, military career, and present assignment. The Fuhrer then asked, “Who among you know Italy?” Silence ensued, until Skorzeny finally answered. He said that he had visited twice before the war and motorcycled as far as Naples.
The next question was even more vague. “What do you think of Italy?”
Suspicious of a trap, the other officers pronounced answers worthy of a propaganda pamphlet. Skorzeny tried a different tack: “I am Austrian,” he said simply. To Hitler, an Austrian himself, this response was loaded with meaning. As one of the victors of World War I, Italy had annexed South Tyrol, a chunk of land home to 200,000 German-speaking Austrians. Resentment ran extremely deep. When he had come to power, Hitler had only restrained himself from claiming it back to stay in Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s good graces.
Hitler’s response was a penetrating stare. “The others may go. I want you to stay, Captain Skorzeny,” he said.
The personal conversation that followed soon revealed the purpose of the Fuhrer’s mysterious summons. Mussolini, Italy’s fascist dictator and Hitler’s friend and Axis ally, had been replaced by the pro-Allies Marshal Pietro Badoglio. Officially, Mussolini had merely resigned. This was Hitler’s nightmare. Allied forces in Italy would mean that the Balkans, the backdoor to the eastern front, was thrown wide open.
The Fuhrer’s madcap solution to the problem was to rescue Mussolini from captivity and reinstall him as the ruler of Italy. He convinced Skorzeny that the mission was entirely doable, and Skorzeny, with his overconfidence and sense of adventure, got down to work. The success of the mission would be the game changer for Skorzeny, propelling him into the limelight as a daring and capricious Nazi hero and securing his name for future glory.
After several red herrings — Skorzeny relentlessly followed up every lead of the SS foreign intelligence service and even had his plane shot down in one of those sorties, while the Italians moved Mussolini from place to place to thwart any rescue attempts — he finally located Mussolini in a hotel on the slopes of Gran Sasso, a massif in the Italian Apennines.
To Kurt Student, Germany’s foremost expert on airborne warfare, the recapture of Mussolini was a sub-priority politically motivated mission, while to Skorzeny, it was pivotal to his dreams of glory. Student grudgingly developed a double-assault plan together with his staff. Troops would capture the well-guarded cable-car bases and ride up to the hotel, while at the same time, three gliders filled with more troops would land close to the hotel itself.
Skorzeny, despite being Hitler’s personal emissary, was to have left the job of rescuing Mussolini to the professionals. His job, together with his SS commandos, would be a simultaneous rescue of the dictator’s family from their seclusion at the fortress-like Roca Delle Caminate outside Rome. But Skorzeny wanted to make sure he was at front and center of the main, daring rescue.
He wangled a place for himself on one of the gliders and persuaded Student to allow 17 SS commandos to come along with him. He was warned, however, that he and his men would be functioning purely as police — staying out of the assault and protecting Mussolini once he was released.
The commander of the elite paratroopers’ unit was furious when he heard that 19 of his men would be left behind to accommodate Skorzeny’s 17 men, plus a war correspondent and a photographer.
Due to a miscalculation in the glider flight plans, Skorzeny’s glider happened to land first, and he crashed through the hotel’s front door that was barricaded with a mass of furniture. The Italian soldiers on guard took one look at the approaching German force and disappeared, while Skorzeny located Mussolini’s room and strode inside — without firing a shot.
“Duce, the Fuhrer has sent me to set you free,” he announced grandly.
“I knew my friend Adolf Hitler would not abandon me,” Mussolini replied.
Skorzeny beamed as the cameras clicked away. By the time the paratrooper commander arrived with his men, he was incoherent with anger. Skorzeny had stolen the entire show and blatantly disregarded his instructions. To add insult to injury, he had to smile for the cameras.
When the time came for Mussolini’s removal from the hotel, a Storch aircraft, designed to carry two people only — pilot and passenger — awaited to fly him down the mountain. To the pilot’s horror, Skorzeny coolly announced that he would be coming along too. Skorzeny was no lightweight, and his presence would put heavy strain on the engine and undercarriage. But the Austrian threatened the pilot with retribution if he prevented him from coming along and proceeded to compress himself into the luggage compartment.
The Storch struggled into the air and clawed its way into the sky. After a transfer to another flight, Skorzeny accompanied the Duce into Hitler’s presence and began to reap his glory. Not only did he completely deflect recognition from any other member of the raiding party, he talked of directing the glider pilot to the hotel’s location and overpowering the machine guns at the hotel’s entrance.
The escapade earned him the coveted Knight’s Cross, and the media paraded him on the front pages and newsreels for weeks. Skorzeny became Germany’s foremost celebrity — his image of strength and bravery neatly aligned with Hitler’s Aryan stereotype and raised the fast-sinking morale of the German people who suspected they were losing the war.
Hitler swiftly put Mussolini in control of a puppet regime in northern Italy, dubbed the Italian Social Republic, causing a civil war. In late April 1945, in the wake of near total defeat, the Duce tried fleeing to Switzerland, but was captured enroute by Italian Communist partisans and summarily executed by a firing squad.
Skorzeny, riding on his victory, planned more formidable commando raids. (He parachuted into Iran and trained local tribes to blow up oil pipelines serving the Allied armies, although some of the most extreme operations never got off the ground, such as the prospect of assassinating the “Big Three,” Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the 1943 Tehran Conference.) In October 1944, Hitler received word that the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Miklós Horthy, was secretly negotiating with the Red Army. The surrender of Hungary was unthinkable — it would isolate the million German troops still fighting in the Balkan Peninsula. Skorzeny was appointed to find a solution, which he did: He kidnapped Horthy’s son and demanded a steep ransom — Horthy’s resignation. The devastated father acquiesced, and a pro-Nazi government — the Arrow Cross regime, responsible for the murder and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews — was speedily installed.
Although by this time the Nazis weren’t carrying out more high-profile raids, Skorzeny still hadn’t finished collecting glory. After D-Day in June 1944, with the Allied forces advancing through France, Skorzeny selected 150 soldiers who spoke English, procured captured US uniforms and American tanks, and infiltrated American lines, confusing the Allied troops within their own borders.
Skorzeny heard of Hitler’s suicide just as he was organizing a retreat in the mountains to wait out the war and save his hide. After hearing about the Armistice, he decided to hand himself and his remaining troops over to the Americans, in hope they would be deployed as a local police force. And so, he descended from his hideout and gave himself up to the first American regiment captain he saw. The Americans were thrilled to have the celebrity in their power. He spent the next two years in interrogation and imprisonment and was tried in the 1947 Dachau trials for war crimes related to stealing US property and wearing US uniforms to infiltrate American lines, all in contravention of international law. He was acquitted in 1947 on the grounds that the uniforms were removed before combat took place — and after a British espionage agent admitted to wearing German uniforms behind enemy lines.
While he was acquitted of the war crimes charge, he was still being detained in an internment camp awaiting the decision of a “denazification” court, a ruling that would establish him as minimally tainted by Nazism and allow him to reassume an official role in German society. He quickly grew impatient and escaped (with the help of some well-placed friends and, according to some researchers, American CIA personnel, for whom he’d done some work).
He eventually moved to Madrid, Spain, where he set up an engineering firm and enjoyed the fame of his reputation as “Europe’s most dangerous man,” publishing his memoirs in various editions and many languages, including the 1957 book Skorzeny’s Special Missions: The Autobiography of Hitler’s Commando Ace — filled with exploits and exaggeration, yet disavowing any role he had in the Final Solution.
Skorzeny’s many contacts from both before and after the war gave him access to all sorts of business opportunities, small-time arms trafficking, running a Nazi escape ratline, and organizing neo-Nazi movements.
He was a pioneer of what has become known as “special operations warfare,” served in an advisory capacity to Argentina’s president Juan Perón n (the import-export business he established was thought to have been a front for shuttling escaped Nazi war criminals to Argentina), and even served as an advisor to the Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser, training his army in guerrilla tactics. During this period, he also trained Arab fedayeen and masterminded the early terrorist raids into the newly reestablished State of Israel. Among his trainees was arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat, who later became the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
During this period, Skorzeny became friendly with the Egyptian officers running Nasser’s missile program and with the German experts in the country’s employ.
Nasser’s 1950s-era Egypt was the ideal place for a Nazi, and many professionals, weapon experts, and arms smugglers were eager to aid Nasser in his anti-Israel campaign. Skorzeny himself recruited former SS and Wehrmacht officers to train the Egyptian army and commando forces.
And then, one summer day in 1962, Israelis woke up to the horror of the morning’s headlines: Egypt had successfully test launched surface-to-air missiles, while Nasser proudly declared that his army was now capable of hitting any point south of Beirut, and that the missiles would “open the gates of freedom for the Arabs and retake the homeland that was stolen as part of imperialistic and Zionist plots.”
Nasser decided not to rely on the Soviet Union, his otherwise reliable ally, for the procurement of rockets, since it would go against the country’s policy of Cold War nonalignment. And so, Egypt decided to create its own indigenous missile program.
Israel soon learned that a team of German scientists were playing an integral role in developing these missiles, a fact that played on the fresh and fearful memories of the Holocaust less than two decades earlier: Now, former German Nazis were helping Nasser in his genocide project — a devastating reminder of the new Jewish state’s vulnerability.
Israel had a right to be afraid: These German scientists weren’t some obscure technicians, but had been some of the Nazi regime’s top weapons engineers. And the country was further shocked when an intercepted document to the project managers in Egypt — a list of necessary materials to be acquired for the manufacture of 900 missiles — indicated that those missiles would be armed with radioactive and chemical warheads.
Mossad Chief Isser Harel — who two years before had led the squad that captured arch-Nazi Adolf Eichmann and had subsequently become obsessed with post-Holocaust Nazi dangers — placed the entire agency on high alert.
Thanks to a Mossad double agent named Wolfgang Lotz, Isser Harel was painfully aware of the looming threat. Certain that it imperiled the very existence of the Jewish state, he prioritized a response plan called “Operation Damocles,” which suspended a menacing “sword” over the heads of the German scientists. This took the form of threatening notes and phone calls, plus much more lethal harassment, including letter bombs and assassination attempts.
It was during this period that Skorzeny came into surprising direct contact with his ideological arch enemy — Israel.
An isolated installation in the Egyptian desert, known as Factory 333, soon became home to some of West Germany’s brightest technological minds. Professor Eugen Sänger, at the helm of the project, had once been the director of the institute of Jet Propulsion at Stuttgart. The New York Times reported that 500 Germans were on site — ten involved in building rockets to attack Israel and the rest working in two adjoining aircraft factories.
In November 1962, a parcel sent to rocket scientist Professor Wolfgang Pilz, head of the Egyptian team, exploded in his office, injuring his secretary. Another parcel killed five Egyptian workers. A postal worker was hurt when he over-enthusiastically postmarked an envelope addressed to a German aircraft specialist. In February 1963, scientist Hans Kleinwachter was targeted by an assassin in a West German suburb where he was developing guidance systems for the missiles, but the assassination attempt failed due to a weapons malfunction. Two Mossad agents were arrested in Switzerland for threatening Heidi Goercke, daughter of Paul-Jens Goercke, an electronic guidance expert working at Factory 333. They ordered her to persuade Goercke to return to Germany under threat of her safety if she didn’t comply, and told her that only because her father hadn’t taken an active part in the Holocaust, was he being “given a chance.” She managed to lure her Mossad intimidators into a trap, however, and had them arrested for coercion and illegal operation on behalf of a foreign state — a hugely embarrassing incident for Israel, which eventually helped bring the operation to a close.
But there was one flawless operation: the disappearance of Heinz Krug, a German scientist and rocket expert who was part of the Egyptian team and frequently commuted to Cairo from Munich, where his company, Intra, was one of the European front companies involved in procuring and delivering equipment for Egypt’s military projects.
And therein lies the most unbelievable chapter in Otto Skorzeny’s checkered career — his unlikely partnership with the Mossad.
Skorzeny was a marked man. He was on Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal’s hit list and topped the Mossad’s list as well. As an advisor to the Egyptians running the rocket program and an active smuggler of supplies, the Mossad began to work on a formal plan to eliminate him. But then, Harel decided to think out of the box. They knew that to effectively target the German scientists, they’d need an inside man. What they really needed was an unrepentant Nazi, like the scientists themselves.
“The Israelis would never find a Nazi they could trust, but they saw a Nazi they could count on: Someone thorough and determined, with a record of success in executing innovative plans and skilled at keeping secrets,” said Yossi Melman.
The idea was intriguing, but the question was, was Skorzeny even purchasable? If the Austrian Nazi could be persuaded to work for the Mossad, he would provide direct access to the Nazi scientists — and he would be in a position to harass and even kill them.
Over the decades, the Mossad has had to hold its proverbial nose when it comes to unholy alliances. The task of recruiting Skorzeny — the first step in the plan and a complex operation in and of itself — was especially painful for the person appointed to be in charge: A Mossad operative known as Joe Raanan, an Austrian Jew who lost his family in the Holocaust and barely escaped with his own life.
Originally named Kurt Weisman, he arrived in British-ruled Palestine at age 16 and joined the British Royal Air Force in the hope of an opportunity to wreak vengeance on the Germans. After the creation of the state in 1948, he became one of the first pilots in the IAF, rapidly rising through the ranks and eventually becoming the force’s intelligence chief. Harel recruited him to the Mossad in 1957.
The Viennese Jew found the idea of befriending one of the hated Nazis who destroyed the Jewish communities of his native land very difficult to stomach. But he eventually overcame his disgust and set up preoperational surveillance in Madrid, locating Skorzeny’s home, workplace, and observing his daily routine.
One night in 1962, Skorzeny and his very young third wife, Ilse, were relaxing with cocktails in an opulent Madrid bar, when the bartender suddenly approached them. He introduced a German tourist couple he had been serving, the unfortunate victims of a traumatic street robbery. They had lost everything, from their clothing to their passports. After some time spent getting acquainted, Ilse invited the pair to spend the night with them at their villa. After they had arrived at the villa and spent some time talking, Skorzeny suddenly pulled out a gun. He pointed it at the couple. Melman and Raviv reported on the subsequent conversation, based on reliable, though obviously anonymous, testimonies:
“I know who you are, and I know why you’re here. You are Mossad, and you’ve come to kill me,” Skorzeny announced.
The young couple did not even flinch. The man said: “You are half-right. We are from the Mossad, but if we had come to kill you, you would have been dead weeks ago.”
“Or maybe,” Skorzeny said, “I would rather just kill you.”
Anke (The agent / young German “wife”) spoke up. “If you kill us, the ones who come next won’t bother to have a drink with you. You won’t even see their faces before they blow out your brains. Our offer to you is just for you to help us.”
After a long minute that felt like an hour, Skorzeny did not lower his gun, but he asked: “What kind of help? You need something done?”
The Mossad agent promised the Nazi a handsome payment for some “information.” Skorzeny declined the offer, claiming that he had plenty of money already. He did, however want something else: to be struck off Wiesenthal’s war crimes hit list. Skorzeny protested that he hadn’t committed any war crimes and didn’t want to live out the rest of his life in the shadows, running from an unknown assassin. He wanted life insurance.
The agent hesitated, and then agreed. In truth, Wiesenthal operated privately out of Vienna, and the Mossad had no authority over him. When they did approach him to take the death sentence off Skorzeny however, he categorically refused. And so the Mossad, with characteristic chuptzah, forged a letter from Wiesenthal to Skorzeny that he’d been pardoned.
When the time came to test Skorzeny “out in the field,” Raanan stepped back and assigned the direct management of Skorzeny to two talented operatives: Avraham Achituv, an agent stationed in Cairo, and master spy Rafi Eitan, who played an important role in abducting Eichmann and who would later go down in history as Jonathan Pollard’s handler and abandoner. “Yes, I met and ran Skorzeny,” Eitan confirmed to Melman and Raviv, although he refused to elaborate.
Skorzeny immediately proved his reliability. He flew back to Egypt and compiled a comprehensive list of German scientists and their addresses. He also listed the names of a host of straw companies located in Europe that were supplying Factory 333 with parts. One of them, a Munich company called Intra, was owned by Heinz Krug.
Krug, who was living in Munich, was himself high on the Mossad hit list. The threatening letters and calls were driving him mad. In an ironic twist of fate, he turned to Skorzeny for advice and protection, little knowing that he was working for the very organization Krug so feared.
It was September 11, 1962, when the pair hopped into Krug’s Mercedes and drove out of the city for a tête-à-tête in the forest where they wouldn’t be heard. Skorzeny told Krug that he had arranged for a trio of bodyguards to follow them in another car. When they stepped out of the car, according to Raviv and Melman’s sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, Skorzeny whipped out his gun and murdered Krug on the spot. The “bodyguards” appeared, soaked the body in acid so it would never be identifiable, and then buried the remains in a prepared pit.
The disappearance of the scientist, whose body was never found, was a baffling mystery, although Cairo’s flagship newspaper Al Ahram laid the blame squarely at Israel’s feet, saying that he’d been kidnapped by Israeli agents.
Although Melman and Raviv claim their evidence is impeccable — and indeed they are probably the most well-connected investigators into the history and escapades of the Mossad — Ronen Bergman, a top-tier researcher on Israel’s spy community, believes Krug’s murderer wasn’t Skorzeny but Isser Harel himself. While he corroborates that Skorzeny was indeed a Mossad operative and important information gatherer, in his 2018 best seller, Rise and Kill First, he states that Krug was kidnapped in Munich by a Mossad squad headed by Mossad chief Isser Harel himself, secretly brought to Israel, interrogated and milked for information, and was then killed by one of Harel’s men on a deserted beach. When it was over, an Air Force plane picked up the body and dumped it into the sea. Skorzeny, according to Bergman, was recruited much later by Rafi Eitan, after Isser Harel no longer headed the spy organization. (Eitan passed away in March 2019, taking all his secrets with him, and all the other players are long gone as well, as are many of the secret archives. Still, each of the investigators stands by their version of this little-known chapter in Israel’s spy history.)
By the end of 1963, the combination of death threats and diplomatic pressure drove the scientists away. (A few years later, Egypt again turned to its friend the Soviet Union to supply it with Scud missiles.) But even before that, the days of the operation were numbered. After the two Mossad agents were arrested for intimidating Goercke’s daughter, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion determined that the strategy was too conspicuous and extremely detrimental to Israel’s image, precisely when he was trying to forge positive ties with the Bonn Government of West Germany, which had agreed to supply the Jewish state with arms and other reparations.
In fact, the operation ended in Harel’s own downfall. He had become obsessed with the German threat, planting fearful and frenzied newspaper stories about the Nazis again rising to power and planning another genocide — to the point where opposition leader Menachem Begin attacked Ben-Gurion for not doing enough to stop the life-endangering threat posed by the Germans and for bringing Israel into a conciliation with West Germany when the Holocaust wounds were still so fresh.
Yet when Ben-Gurion ordered an end to the operation, Harel was furious. The intelligence chief angrily submitted his resignation and was flabbergasted when Ben-Gurion actually accepted it. He was replaced with Meir Amit, who believed that the entire threat had been overblown.
Amit did try to use Skorzeny one last time, to arrange a meeting with a high-ranking Egyptian official to explore the possibility of peace negotiations. That, apparently, was decades before its time and never took place.
Why did a Nazi noted for never renouncing his ideology allow himself to help out the very people whom his idol and hero, Hitler, strove to destroy? Even after the war, Skorzeny never relinquished his dreams of a German army based in Spain or distanced himself from neo-Nazi groups. How could he fly in the face of everything he stood for and turn against his own brothers?
Melman and Raviv suggest that it was his overpowering streak of adventurism, coupled with the idea of doing top-secret work with the best in the spy community — the Mossad — even if they were Jewish. Furthermore, for all his admiration for Hitler, it might have been more about longing for his homeland’s glory, and he saw Nazism as a method of restoring Austria to its former splendor. At least according to his own memoirs — which, granted, he highly sanitized — he was a ruthless warrior but wasn’t an indiscriminate murderer of Jews. Or perhaps he had no conscience at all.
Melman and Raviv admit that “he may have been motivated by a combination of all these factors and perhaps even others.” But we will never know the truth, for Otto Skorzeny took his secret to the grave. He died of cancer in 1975, at age 67, and was given an immense Nazi-themed funeral, attended by dozens of German military veterans and their wives who gave Skorzeny the final honor — a one-armed Nazi salute.
But there was one anonymous man in the crowd standing off in a corner, someone used to hiding in the shadows — Joe Raanan, who had since left the world of espionage and had become a successful businessman. It was a gesture from one Austrian to another, from handler to agent — the most reliable, but most despicable, he had ever dealt with.
—Rachel Ginsberg contributed to this report
(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 878)
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Note: All page numbers in this summary and analysis refer to the edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles published in 2009 by Fall River Press.
This NovelGuide also draws on Leslie S. Klinger, ed., The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2006). Citations reading “Klinger” refer to this reference work.
Chapter 1: Mr. Sherlock Holmes
Summary: On a morning in 1879, John Watson, M.D., awakes to find the private detective Sherlock Holmes, with whom he shares lodgings at 221-B Baker Street, unexpectedly seated at the breakfast table. Holmes invites Watson to examine a walking stick left behind by an unmet visitor the previous night. What, Holmes wonders, can Watson deduce about the stick’s owner? Watson hazards his observations, only to have them clarified and corrected by Holmes, his deductive superior. Shortly thereafter, the walking stick’s owner, one James Mortimer, M.R.C.S. (Member of the Royal College of Surgeons), arrives. After exclaiming his delight at having the chance to observe Holmes’ skull (for he has heard of the detective’s brilliant intellect), he proceeds to tell Holmes and Watson why he is seeking the master detective’s help.
Analysis: Having grown tired of writing the adventures of the world’s first consulting detective and eager to turn his attention to more “serious” literature, Arthur Conan Doyle attempted to finish off his most famous character, Sherlock Holmes, by sending him over the Reichenbach Falls as the detective grappled with his archnemesis, Professor Moriarty, in a short story entitled “The Final Problem” (December 1893). The title would, of course, prove overly optimistic! Enthusiastic readers of the Holmes tales clamored for the sleuth’s return. Conan Doyle obliged with The Hound of the Baskervilles, the third—and still hailed by many critics as the best—Sherlock Holmes novel. Conan Doyle did, however, carefully label the book as “another adventure” of Holmes of the first edition’s title page—an indication that the events in its pages took place prior to “The Final Problem,” and that the reading public should not expect any further stories. When the novel proved an instant success, however, readers pressed for more. Conan Doyle relented and engineered Holmes’ “resurrection” in 1903.
The first chapter of the present work appropriately bears Holmes’ name as its title, for it is largely a brief character sketch of the detective, introducing him or reintroducing him to the book’s audience through the eyes of his erstwhile companion, Dr. John Watson. The chapter also introduces James Mortimer, an adherent of phrenology, the now-discredited belief prevalent in Victorian science, that study of the shape of the skull indicates mental capacity and even moral character. “You interest me very much, Mr. Holmes,” Mortimer announces. “I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic [i.e., relatively long] a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital [i.e., above the eyeballs] development” (p. 18). The comment is exactly the kind of thing one would expect a self-professed (and perhaps not a little self-important) “dabbler in science” to say (p. 18). Mortimer also manages the relatively uncommon feat of being able to wound Holmes’ pride when he declares Holmes “the second highest expert in Europe” (p. 19). Mortimer ranks Holmes behind Alphonse Bertillon, “chief of criminal investigation for the Paris police from 1880” (Klinger, 397). Bertillon’s method of photographing and measuring the distinctive physical traits of criminal suspects—in profile and full-on views, the basis for the modern “mug shot”—proved highly influential in police practice worldwide, only to be superseded by the advent of fingerprinting at the turn of the 20th century. Fortunately for Mortimer, his conviction that Holmes remains the most knowledgeable “practical man of affairs” (p. 19) ensures that Holmes will give Mortimer’s case a hearing.
Mortimer demurs when Holmes addresses him as “doctor.” According to Klinger, Mortimer’s M.R.C.S. credentials are today “regarded as a specialist higher qualification in surgery, awarded to doctors who have already qualified in their profession and have elected to practice in the surgical branch of it… In Mortimer’s day [, however], the M.R.C.S. was the surgical half of the standard qualification to practice, not an advanced degree, and surgeons in fact occupied a lower position in the medical hierarchy than physicians, who diagnosed patients and prescribed medication” (pp. 388-89). | <urn:uuid:5612f53c-1eff-4fdb-9ad3-f9fddf57b653> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://novelguide.com/index.php/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/novel-summary | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942597 | 1,059 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Herne Bay rail death: Teenager found ‘electrocuted’ on tracks – BBC News
A 16-year-old girl has been found dead on tracks at a railway station, believed to have been electrocuted.
Officers said the girl, named by her family as Taiyah Pebbles, was with friends near Herne Bay station in Kent shortly before 23:00 BST on Tuesday.
The teenager was injured between then and 07:00 BST on Wednesday, when she was confirmed dead by emergency crews.
Det Ch Insp Paul Langley, from British Transport Police, said her family were desperate for answers.
“Our thoughts are with the family and friends of this young girl as they try to come to terms with this awful news.
“We have deployed specially trained officers to the family to provide them with support.”
He added: “Understandably the family are now desperate for answers and my officers are focused on understanding how this girl came to be on the tracks.”
Taiyah’s death is being treated as unexplained while officers look into the circumstances, he said.
A post-mortem examination is due to take place on Friday but police said Taiyah suffered serious injuries, believed to have been caused by electrocution.
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Flipbook is an e-book that has pages that can be flipped and turned. The flipbook booklet has images or information from one page to the following such that the information flows each other from one page to another easily. Flipbooks are currently replacing PDFs, and therefore there’s a need to know how to create them. Google Slides have created a good platform that allows the creation of Flipbooks. Let’s discuss how to create Flipbooks in Google Slides.
Creating Google Slides Flipbook using Flipsnack
Flipsnack is an online tool that is used to create interactive flipbooks. Follow these steps to create a flipbook from Google Slide:
1. To get started, you need to create a Google Slide Flipbook.
Log in to https://www.google.com/account using your email details. Locate the Google Apps icon and click on it.
Then, select the Slides option.
On the first slide, this is where you will add the cover page of your Flipbook.
Add other pages of the Flipbook.
Finally, add the last page of your Flipbook.
2. Next, download the Google Slide flipbook as a pdf document. Go to File>Download>PDF document.
3. Open the Flipsnack using your account’s details. If you don’t have an account, you only need Google Account details to create one.
4. After logging in to your flip snack account, upload the pdf flipbook. Use drag and drop to add the pdf into a flip snack.
5. After uploading the file, click the Next button, and the Flipbook will be converted to an interactive and presentable Google slide Flipbook.
6. You can go ahead and publish the Flipbook.
A simple Google Slide Flipbook
To create a simple Google Slide flipbook, follow these steps:
1. To get started, you need to have a Google Account. Then, log in to your account using your Google Account details.
2. Open the Google Slides from the Google App list. Select the Blank document. That is the one with the rainbow plus sign.
3. On the first slide is where you’ll add the cover page of your Flipbook. Therefore, edit it to add your cover page details.
4. Go to the next slide, and add the Flipbook’s details. Do this to other slides.
5. Finally, on the last slide, this is where you’ll add your last details of the Flipbook.
6. The simple Flipbook will be saved on your drive. You can download and save it.
Creating Google Slide Flipbook using a Template
There are already made templates that can simplify creating a flipbook. Here are the steps to use a flipbook:
1. Log in to https://www.google.com/account using your email details. Locate the Google Apps icon and click on it.
2. Then, select the Slides option. Then, click on the Flipbook template from the list of templates displayed.
Alternatively, visit this link to get a flipbook template https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Dt_6TQlAYZFJhet9_iSIYgK1L_Lui-mJRlK3uMCyrfo/edit#slide=id.p4\
3. Next, edit the template and add your Flipbook’s details.
4. In the Untitled presentation section, add the name of your Flipbook.
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5 Common Car Noises and What They Mean
Your dashboard is filled with icons and alerts that can tell you when your vehicle needs attention. Some of these notifications are more serious than others, but it’s a good idea to know what they all mean.
But your dashboard isn’t the only way to tell if something is wrong. Sometimes you need to rely on your senses, which is why it’s also important to listen to the sounds your vehicle makes.
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Bjorn is accompanied by his men, including Floki, King Harald, Halfdan, Duke Rollo, Hvitserk, and Helga. Their fleet is about 1,500 warriors. Upon arriving in Algeciras, Rollo explains that these people are Moorish and pray to a god named Allah.
As soon as their ships land on shore, the Vikings enter the city and walk through the marketplace. They suddenly begin their vicious attack. They beat, kill, and rape their way through the city.
Rollo is seen raping a Moorish woman, apparently a reminder of his old, selfish ways. However, Rollo is seen later looking crestfallen and guilty as he looks at the violence he and his people have brought to the city.
Floki comes across a mosque full of praying men who ignore the pillaging and violence going on around them. He is intrigued by the group and orders the Vikings to spare the men that are praying inside the temple. Halfdan is angry at Floki for not letting him kill the men. Harald intervenes and keeps his brother from starting a conflict with Floki.
Halfdan kills a man while Harald kills the woman with him by slicing her throat with his sword in front of her daughter. The daughter is taken by Helga to return with them to Kattegat as her adoptive daughter. She is named Tanaruz.
The Vikings leave the city, carrying away treasure and women as slaves.
The real raid on Algeciras occurred in the year 859 AD. Viking warriors on sixty-two longships and commanded by Björn Ironside and chieftain Hastein besieged the city for three days. They laid waste to much of it. After looting the houses of the rich, they burnt the Aljama mosque and the Banderas mosque. The inhabitants of Algeciras were able to organize near the Medina and recovered the city, forcing the invaders to flee while capturing two of their ships. | <urn:uuid:00369ec4-d20b-4d3c-90bc-1d69c088c38d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vikings.fandom.com/wiki/Mediterranean_Raid | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982109 | 418 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Cardio, or cardiovascular training, is an important aspect of a balanced fitness plan. It can improve your endurance and help you burn calories. But far too many of us make mistakes when sweating it out on a cardio machine and end up frustrated when the scale doesn’t budge.
Let’s go over these 3 cardio mistakes that might be holding you back from achieving your goals:
- Sticking to the same routine: Your body craves a challenge and makes changes when you progress your training program. So if you’re always doing the same cardio routine, your body might sense this and go on autopilot. Once you get used to a workout, your body becomes efficient and conditioned, so things get easier! This can mean burning fewer calories and wasting more time.
- Focusing on quantity or time: If your goal is to run an hour every day, congrats to you for choosing to be active. But if you want to make significant changes to your body, it can be a huge cardio mistake to focus simply on time over intensity and variation. Instead, focus on cardio exercise that adds strength and speed to the mix. You can spend far less time with quick sprint sessions on a treadmill or spin bike. This will slash more calories in the long run and create quicker change to your body than hour-long steady-state cardio sessions.
- Overtraining: You also could be doing too much cardio. This is probably one of the biggest cardio mistakes of all time. When you spend too much time doing cardio, you could be breaking down muscle and not allowing your body to repair. Overtraining also leads to hormonal disruption and weight loss plateaus, not to mention possible injuries. | <urn:uuid:c32070e1-216e-47f3-b54b-9a8917820474> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bgfitclub.com/cardio/dont-make-these-3-cardio-mistakes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.914168 | 346 | 2.109375 | 2 |
The whole interior region of the United States, stretching from the English seaboard colonies to the main divide of the Rocky Mountains, was included under the French rule in the two provinces of Canada and Louisiana, and with one or two exceptions the mission was in charge of French Jesuits from the first occupancy up into the American period. The very first mission worker, however, within this great region was the heroic Spanish Franciscan, Father Juan de Padilla, who gave up his life for souls on the Kansas prairies, as narrated elsewhere, nearly as early as 1542 (see New Mexico, Arizona, and California). The first mission west of the Huron country was established in 1660, probably on Keweenaw Bay, Mich., by the veteran Huron missionary, the Jesuit René Menard, in response to repeated requests of visiting Chippewa and Ottawa. In the next year, while attempting to reach a colony of fugitive Hurons who had called him from Green Bay, he was lost in the forest and is believed to have been murdered by the Indians. In 1665 Father Claude Allouez established the mission of Sainct Esprit on the south shore of Lake Superior, at La Pointe – Chegoimegon (Shaugwaumikong), now Bayfield, Wis. Besides working here among the Ottawa and Huron refugees from the older missions destroyed by the Iroquois, he visited all the other tribes of the upper lake region from the Miami and the Illinois to the Sioux. Within the next few years other missions were established at Sault Ste Marie (Sainte Marie), Mackinaw (St Ignace), Green Bay (St Francois Xavier), and among the Foxes (St Marc) and Mascoutens (St Jacques), two last named being about the southern Wisconsin line. Among other workers of this period were Dablon, Druillettes, and the noted discoverer, Marquette.
The mission of St Joseph on the river of that name, near the present South Bend, Ind., was established by Allouez among the Potawatomi in 1688. It continued, with interruptions, until the removal of the tribe to the west in 1839-41, when the missionaries accompanied the Indians and reestablished the work in the new field. To this later period, in Indiana, belong the names of Fathers Rézé, Badin, Desseille, and Petit. The mission at Lapointe was abandoned in 1671 on account of the hostility of the Sioux, but most of the others continued, with some interruptions, down to the temporary expulsion of the Jesuits in 1764. A mission begun among the Sioux in 1728 was brought to a close soon after in consequence of the war with the Foxes.
The first regular mission among the Illinois (Immaculate Conception) was founded by Marquette in 1674 near the present Rockfort, Ill., where at that time 8 confederate tribes were camped in a great village of 350 communal houses. It was known later as the Kaskaskia mission. Other missions were established also among the Peoria, on Peoria lake and at Cahokia, opposite St Louis, with such work result that by 1725 the entire Illinois nation was civilized and Christian. Besides Marquette, the most prominent of the Illinois missionaries were Râle, noted elsewhere in connection with the Abnaki mission, and Father James Gravier, who arrived in 1693 and died 12 years later of wounds received from hostile Indians, leaving as his monument the great manuscript Peoria dictionary of 22,000 words. Despite apparent success, the final result in Illinois was the same as elsewhere.
The Natchez and Chickasaw wars interrupted the mission work for some years, and gave opportunity for invasion by hostile northern tribes. The dissipations consequent upon the proximity of garrison posts completed the demoralization, and by 1750 the former powerful Illinois nation was reduced to some 1,000 souls, with apparently but one mission. The Indiana missions at St Joseph (Potawatomi and Miami), Vincennes (Piankashaw), and on the Wabash (Miami) continued to flourish until the decree of expulsion, when the mission property was confiscated by the French government, although the Jesuits generally chose to remain as secular priests until their death. Their successors continued to minister to Indians as well as to whites until the disruption and removal of the tribes to the west, between 1820 and 1840, when the work was taken up in their new homes by missionaries already on the ground.
The majority of the Indians of Michigan and Wisconsin remained in their old homes at missions in those states, kept in existence either as regular establishments or as visiting stations served by secular priests. The most distinguished of these later missionaries was the noted author and philologist, Bishop Frederick Baraga, of the imperial house of Hapsburg, who, after having voluntarily forfeited his estates to devote his life to the Indians, came to America in 1830, and for 36 years there after until his death labored with success, first among the Ottawa at Arbre Croche in lower Michigan, and afterward at St Joseph, Green Bay, Lapointe, and other stations along the upper lakes, more particularly at the Chippewa village of L’Anse, on Keweenaw bay, which he converted into a prosperous Christian settlement. Even when past 60 years of age, this scion of Austrian nobility slept upon the ground and sometimes walked 40 miles a day on snowshoes to minister to his Indians. Besides numerous devotional works in Ottawa and Chippewa, as well as other volumes in German and Slavonic, he is the author of the great Grammar and Dictionary of the Chippewa Language, which after half it century still remains the standard authority, having passed through three editions.
In 1818 was begun, near Pembina, on Red River, just inside the U. S. boundary, the Chippewa mission, afterward known as Assumption, which became the central station for work among the Chippewa of Minnesota and the Mandan and others of the upper Missouri. The most noted name in this connection is that of Rev. G. A. Belcourt, author of a dictionary of the Chippewa language, second in importance only to that of Baraga. In 1837 Father Augustin Ravoux established a mission among the Santee Sioux at Faribault’s trading post in east Minnesota, learning the language and ministering to the eastern bands for a number of years. In 1843 (or 1844) he published a devotional work in that dialect, which has passed through two editions. The first regular mission station among the Menominee of Wisconsin was established in 1844, and among the Winnebago, then at Long Prairie, Minn., in 1850, For 20 years earlier missionary work had been done among them, notably by Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, whose Winnebago Prayer Book, published in 1833, is mentioned by Pilling as “the first publication, so far as I know, of a text in any of the dialects in the Siouan family.” In the farther west work was carried on among all of the immigrant, and the principal of the native, tribes, the chief laborers again being the Jesuits, whose order had been restored to full privilege in 1814. A the whole country was now explored and organized on a permanent governmental basis, and the Indian day was rapidly waning, these later missions have not the same historic interest that attaches to those of the colonial period, and may be passed over with briefer notice. Chief among there were the Potawatomi missions of St Stanislaus and St Mary, in Kansas, founded in 1836 by the Belgian Jesuits Von Quickenborne, Hoecken, Peter J. de Smet, and others, working together, and the Osage mission of St Francis Hieronymo, founded about 1847 by Fathers Shoenmaker and Bax. The girls of these two mission schools were in charge respectively of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and the Sisters of Loretto. Temporary missions were also established in 1836 and 1847 respectively among the Kickapoo and the Miami
The remote Flatheads in the mountains at the head of Missouri River had heard of Christianity and had been taught the rudimentary doctrines by some adopted Caughnawaga Indians, and in 1831 they sent a delegation all the long and dangerous way to St Louis to ask of Indian Superintendent Clark that missionaries be sent among them. To do this was not possible at the time, but with persevering desire other delegations were sent on the same errand, some of the envoys dying on the road and others being murdered by tho Sioux, until the request met response. In 1834 the Methodist missionary, Jason Lee, with several assistants, accompanied a trading expedition across the mountains, but, changing his original purpose, passed by without visiting the Flatheads and established himself in the vicinity of the trading post of Ft Vancouver, nearly opposite the mouth of the Willamette, in Washington. Another embassy from the Flatheads, in 1839, was successful, and in the next year the noted Belgian Jesuit, Peter John de Smet, priest, explorer, and author, was on the ground, 1,600 Indians of the confederated tribes being gathered to await his coming. In 1841 he founded the mission of St Mary on Bitterroot River, western Montana, making it a starting point for other missions farther to the west, to be noted elsewhere. On account of the hostility of the Blackfeet the mission was abandoned in 1850, to be succeeded by that of St Ignatius on Flathead lake, within the present Flathead reservation, which still exists in successful operation, practically all of the confederated tribes of the reservation having been Christian for half a century. The principal co-workers in the Flathead mission were the Jesuits Canestrelli, Giorda, Mengarini, Point, and Ravalli. The first three of these have made important contributions to philology, chief among which are the Salish Grammar of Mengarini, 1861, and the Kalispel Dictionary, 1877, of Giorda, of whom it is said that he preached in six Indian languages.
Next in chronologic order in the central region, after the Catholics, come the Moravians. Their work among the Delawares and associated tribes in Ohio, and later in Ontario and Kansas, was a continuation of that begun among the same people in New York and Pennsylvania as early as 1740, and has been already noted
After them came the Friends, or, as more commonly known, the Quakers. In all their missionary effort they seem to have given first place to the practical things of civilization, holding the doctrinal teaching somewhat in reserve until the Indians had learned from experience to value the advice of the teacher. In accord also with the Quaker principle, their method was essentially democratic, strict regard being given to the wishes of the Indians as expressed through their chiefs, their opinions being frequently invited, with a view to educating them to a point of self-government. In 1804 the Maryland yearly meeting, after long councils with the Indians, established an industrial farm on upper Wabash River in Indiana, where several families from the neighboring Miami, Shawnee, and others soon gathered for instruction in farming. For several years it flourished with increasing usefulness, until forced to discontinue by an opposition led by the Shawnee prophet (see Tenskwatawa). The work was transferred to the main Shawnee settlement at Wapakoneta, Ohio, where, in 1812, a saw mill and grist mill were built, tools distributed, and a farm colony was successfully inaugurated. The war compelled a suspension until 1815, when work was resumed. In 1822 a boarding school was opened, and both farm and school continued, with some interruptions, until the final removal of the tribe to the west in 1832-33. The teachers followed, and by 1837 the Shawnee mission was reestablished on the reservation in Kansas, about 9 miles west from the present Kansas City. It was represented as flourishing in 1843, being then perhaps the most important among the immigrant tribes, but suffered the inevitable result on the later removal of the Shawnee to the present Oklahoma. The work was conducted under the joint auspices of the Indiana, Ohio, and Maryland yearly meetings, aided in the earlier years by liberal contributions from members of the society in England and Ireland. The most noted of the teachers were Isaac Harvey and his son, Henry Harvey, whose work covers the period from 1819 to 1842. During the period of the “peace policy” administration of Indian affairs, for a term of about a dozen years beginning in 1870, considerable work was done by laborers of the same denomination among the Caddo, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and other tribes of Oklahoma, but without any regular mission or school establishment. The best known of these workers was Thomas C. Battey, author of ‘A Quaker among the Indians,’ who conducted a camp school among the Kiowa in 1873.
The Presbyterians, who now stand second in the number of their mission establishments in the United States, began their labors in the Central states about the same time as the Friends, with a mission farm among the Wyandot on Sandusky river in Ohio, in charge of Rev. Joseph Badger. It continued until 1810, when it was abandoned in consequence of the opposition of the traders and the conservative party led by the Shawnee prophet. Morse’s report on the condition of the tribes in 1822 makes no mention of any Presbyterian mission work at that time excepting among the Cherokee (see Southern States). A few years later the Rev. Isaac Van Tassel, under authority from the American Board, was in charge of a mission among the Ottawa, at Maumee, Ohio. He compiled an elementary reading book, printed in 1829, the first publication in the Ottawa language
In 1827, under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, a Congregational mission was begun among the Chippewa on Mackinaw Island, upper Michigan, by Rev. J. D. Stevens and wife, who with others afterward extended their labors into northern Wisconsin, and later were transferred to the Sioux mission. In 1829 Rev. Frederick Ayer joined the Mackinaw station, and, after two years’ study of the language, opened among the Chippewa at Sandy Lake, Minn., in 1831, what is said to have been the first school in Minnesota. He is the author of a small text-book in the language. Other stations were established soon after among the same tribe, at Lapointe, Avis., Pokegama lake, and Leech lake, Minn., but seem to have been discontinued about 1845. The Mackinaw mission had already been abandoned. Rev. Peter Dougherty, under the direct auspices of the Presbyterian mission board, labored among the Chippewa and the Ottawa at Grand Traverse bay, lower Michigan, in 1843-47+ and is the author of several text-books and small religious works in the language of the former tribe.
In 1834 two volunteer workers, Mr. Samuel W. Pond and his brother Gideon, took up their residence in a village of the Santee Sioux on Lake Calhoun, near the present St Paul, Minn. They afterward became regularly ordained missionaries under the American Board, continuing in the work for 78 years. In the same year Rev. Thomas S. Williamson, “the father of the Dakota mission,” made a reconnaissance of the field for the same Board, and on his favorable report two mission stations were established in 1835—one at Lake Harriet, near St Paul, under Rev. J. D. Stevens, formerly of the Mackinaw mission, the other under Williamson himself at Lacquiparle, high up on Minnesota River. With Mr. Williamson then or later were his wife, his daughter, and his two sons, all of whom became efficient partners in the work. In 1837 Rev. Stephen R. Riggs, with his wife, Mary, and his son, Alfred L.—all known in mission annals—joined the station at Lac-qui-parle. In the next 10 or 12 years, as the good will of the Indians was gradually won and the working force increased, other stations were established, all among the Santee Sioux in Minnesota. Among these was the one started by Rev. John F. Aiton, in 1848, at Redwing, where Revs. Francis Denton and Daniel Gavan, for the Evangelical Missionary Society of Lucerne, had established the “Swiss mission” in 1837, these two missionaries now combining forces with the American workers. In 1852, in consequence of a cession of Indian land, the eastern station, then at Kapoia, was removed by Williamson to Yellow Medicine on the upper Minnesota, and two years later, in consequence of the burning of the Lac-qui-pane station, that mission also was removed to Hazelwood, in the same neighborhood.
The work continued with varying success until interrupted by the Sioux out break in the summer of 1862, when the missions were abandoned and the missionaries sought safety within the older settlements. Throughout the troubles the Christian Sioux generally remained friendly and did good service in behalf of the endangered settlers. As a result of the outbreak the Santee Sioux were removed to Niobrara, north east Nebraska, where they now reside. The missionaries followed, and in 1866 the “Niobrara mission” was organized, the work being extended to other neighboring bands of Sioux, and the principal workers being Revs. John P. Williamson and Alfred L. Riggs, sons of the earlier missionaries. Nearly all the earlier Presbyterian work among the Sioux, as among the Cherokee, was conducted through the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
To the Congregational missionaries we owe most of our knowledge of the Sioux language, their work being almost entirely in the Santee or eastern dialect. Stevens, the Pond brothers, all of the Williamsons, and Stephen and Alfred Riggs have all made important contributions, ranging from school text-books and small devotional works up to dictionaries, besides adapting the Roman alpha-bet to the peculiarities of the language with such success that the Sioux have become a literary people, the majority of the men being able to read and write in their own language. It is impossible to estimate the effect this acquisition has had in stimulating the self-respect and ambition of the tribe. Among the most important of these philologic productions are Riggs’ Grammar and Dictionary of the Dakota Language, published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1852, with a later revision by Dorsey, and Riggs and Williamson’s Dakota Bible, published in 1880, being then, in Pilling’s opinion, with two exceptions, the only complete Bible translation in any Indian language since Eliot’s Bible in 1663. In much of the earlier linguistic work the missionaries had the efficient cooperation of Joseph Renville, an educated half-blood. As an adjunct to the educational work, a monthly journal was conducted for about 2 years by Rev. G. H. Pond, chiefly in the native language, under the title of ‘The Dakota Friend,’ while its modern successor, Iapi Oaye’ (‘The Word Carrier’), has been conducted under the auspices of the Niobrara mission since 1871.
In 1821 two Presbyterian missions were established among the Osage by the United Foreign Missionary Society. One of these, Harmony, was near the junction of the Marais des Cygnes with the Osage River, not far from the present Rich Hill, Missouri; the other, Union, was on the west bank of Neosho River, about midway between the present Muskogee and Ft Gibson, Okla. Both were established upon an extensive scale, with boarding schools and a full corps of workers; but in consequence of differences with the agent and an opposition instigated by the traders, the Osage field was abandoned after about 15 years of discouraging effort (McCoy). One of these workers, Rev. William B. Montgomery, compiled an Osage reading book, published in 1834. Among others connected with the mission were the Revs. Chapman, Pixley, Newton, Sprague, Palmer, Vaill, Belcher, and Requa. The missions conducted by the same denomination among the removed Southern tribes in Oklahoma are noted in connection with the Southern states.
In 1834 two Presbyterian workers, Revs. John Dunbar and Samuel Allis, began work among the Pawnee of Nebraska under the auspices of the American Board, and later were joined by Dr Satterlee. After some time spent in getting acquainted with the people and the language, a permanent station was selected on Plum Creek, a small tributary of Loup River, in 1838, by consent of the Pawnee, who in the meantime had also acknowledged the authority of the Government. Circumstances delayed the work until 1844, when a considerable mission and a Government station were began, and a number of families from the different bands took up their residence adjacent thereto. Inconsequence, however, of the repeated destructive inroads of the Sioux, the ancient enemies of the Pawnee, the mission effort was abandoned in 1847 and the tribe returned to its former wild life.
About the year 1835 work was begun by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions among the Iowa and Sauk, then residing on Missouri River in eastern Nebraska. Attention was given also to some others of the removed tribes, and about 10 years later a mission was established among the Omaha and the Oto at Bellevue, near the present Omaha, Nebraska, where, in 1850, Rev. Edward McKenney compiled a small Omaha primer, the first publication in that language. Both missions continued down to the modern period, despite the shifting fortunes of the tribes. Other prominent workers were Rev. Samuel Irvin, who gave 30 years of his life, beginning in 1837, to the first tribes named; and Rev. William Hamilton, who, beginning also in 1837, with the same tribes, was transferred to the Bellevue mission in 1853, rounding out a long life with a record of half a century spent in the service Working in collaboration these two produced several religions and linguistic works in the Iowa language, published by the Mission press from 1843 to 1850, besides a collection of Omaha hymns and some manuscript translations by Mr. Hamilton alone at a later period.
The pioneer Methodist mission work in the central region appears to have been inaugurated by a volunteer Negro minister, Rev. Mr. Stewart, who in 1816 began preaching among the Wyandot, about Sandusky, in Ohio, and continued with such success that 3 years later a regular mission was established under Rev. James B. Finley. This is the only work by that denomination noted in Morse’s Report of 1822. In 1835, with liberal aid from the Government, as was then customary, the Southern branch established a mission about 12 miles from the present Kansas City, in Kansas, among the immigrant Shawnee. In 1839 it was in charge of Rev. Thomas Johnson, and 3 years later was reported in flourishing condition, with boarding school and industrial farm. In 1855 both this mission and another, established by the Northern branch, were in operation. Smaller missions were established between 1835 and 1840 among the Kickapoo (Rev. Berryman in charge in 1839), Kansa ( Rev. AC. Johnson in charge in 1839), Delawares, Potawatomi, and united Peoria and Kaskaskia, all but the last-named being in Kansas. A small volume in the Shawnee language and an-other in the Kansa were prepared and printed for their use by Mr. Lykins, of the Shawnee Baptist mission The work just outlined, with some work among the immigrant Southern tribes (see Southern States), seems to be the sum of Methodist mission labors outside of the Chippewa territory until a recent period. In 1837 a mission was started by Rev. Alfred Brunson among the Santee Sioux at Kaposia, or Little Crow’s village, a few miles below the present St Paul. Minn., which existed until 1841, when, on the demand of the Indians, it was discontinued.
In 1823 the Wesleyan Methodist Society of England began work among the Chippewa and related bands in Ontario (see Canada, East), and some 20 years later the American Methodists began work in the same tribe along the south shore of Lake Superior in upper Michigan. In 1843 Rev. J. H. Pitezel took charge of the work, with headquarters at Sault Ste Marie as the principal station. Another station was established at Keweenaw Point about the same time by Rev. John Clark. Others were established later at Sandy lake and Mille Lac, Mum., also among the Chippewa, and all of these were in successful operation in 1852.
The earliest Baptist worker in the central region was Rev. Isaac McCoy, afterward for nearly 30 years the general agent in the Indian mission work of that denomination. In 1818 he began preaching among the Wea in Indiana, and in 1820 organized at Ft Wayne, Ind., a small school for the children of the neighboring tribes, then in the lowest state of demoralization from wars, removals, drunken-ness, and the increasing pressure of a hostile white population. His earliest associate was Mr. Johnston Lykins, then a boy of 19, but later distinguished as a voluminous translator and author of a system of Indian orthography. Two years later this school was discontinued, and by treaty arrangement with the Government, which assumed a large part of the expense, two regular missions were established, viz: Carey (1822) for the Potawatomi, on St Joseph River near the present South Bend, Ind., and Thomas (1823) among the Ottawa, on Grand River, Mich. Mr. Lykins took charge among the Ottawa, to whom he was soon able to preach in their own language, while Mr. McCoy continued with the Potawatomi. In consequence of the inauguration of the Government plan for the removal of the Indians to the west, both missions were abolished in 1830, the work being resumed among the Indians in their new homes in Kansas. A small mission established among the Chippewa at Sault Ste Marie, Mich., under Rev. A. Bingham about 1824, continued a successful existence in charge of its founder for about 25 years.
In 1831, while the removal of the Indians was still in progress, the Shawnee Mission was established under Mr. Lykins about 10 miles south west from the present Kansas (City, among the Shawnee. In the fall of 1833 Rev. Jotham Meeker, one of the former assistants in the east, arrived with a printing press and types, with which it was proposed to print for distribution among the various neighboring tribes educational and devotional works in their own languages according to a new phonetic system devised by Mr. Meeker. The work of translating and printing was actively taken up, the first issue being a Delaware printer in 1834, believed to he the first book printed in Kansas. Within the next few years small volumes by various missionary workers were printed in the Shawnee, Delaware, Potawatomi, Ottawa, Wea, Kansa, Osage, Iowa, Oto, Creek, and Choctaw languages, besides a small journal in the Shawnee language. Not alone the Baptists, but also Methodists and Presbyterians working in the same field, availed themselves of the services of the Shawnee mission press. In the meantime other missions were established among the Delawares (Mr. Ira D. Blanchard, 1833), Oto (Rev. Moses Merrill, 18:13), Iowa (1834?), Ottawa (Rev. Jotham Meeker, 1837), and Potawatomi (Mr. Robert Simerwell, 1837), besides stations among the removed southern tribes of Indian Territory. (See Southern States.) All of these first named were within what is now Kansas excepting the Oto mission known as Bellevue, which was at the mouth of Platte River, near the present Omaha, Nebraska. At this station Mr. Merrill, who had previously worked among the Chippewa, made such study of the language that within 3 years he was able to preach to the Indians without an interpreter, besides compiling a book of hymns and one or two other small works in Oto. He died in 1840. The various missions remained in successful operation until about 1855, when, in consequence of the disturbed condition of affairs in Kansas, they were discontinued. All of the tribes have since been removed to Indian Territory.
The Episcopalians appear to have done no work in the interior until about 1830, when they had a station in the vicinity of Sault Ste Marie, Mich., among the Chippewa. In 1852 a mission was established among the Chippewa of Gull lake, Mimi., by Rev. J. L. Breck, and in 1856 at Leech lake by the same worker. In 1860, through the efforts of Bishop H. B. Whipple, a mission was established among the Santee Sioux at the lower Sioux agency, Redwood, Minn., in charge of Rev. Samuel D. Hinman. The work was interrupted by the outbreak of 1862, but on the final transfer of the Indians to Niobrara, Nebraska, in 1866, was resumed by Mr. Hinman, who had kept in close touch with them during the period of disturbance. A large mission house, known as St Mary’s, was erected, which later became the central station for the work of this denomination among the Sioux and neighboring tribes. In 1870 St Paul’s mission was established at the Yankton Sioux agency, South Dakota, by Rev. Joseph W. Cook, and in 1872 work was begun at the Lower Brulé Sioux agency, South Dakota, by Rev. W. J. Cleveland, and extended later to the Upper Brule and Oglala Sioux of Rosebud and Pine Ridge agencies, South Dakota. In the meantime Rev. J. Owen Dorsey had begun to labor arming the Ponca, also in South Dakota, in 1871. The work is still being actively carried on in the same field. All of the Sioux missionaries named have rendered valuable service to philology in the preparation of hymnals, prayer books, etc, in the native language, together with a small mission journal ‘Anpao’ (‘The Daybreak’), issued for a number of years in the Yankton Sioux dialect. The ethnologic researches of Mr. Dorsey place hint in the front. rank of investigators, chief among his many contributions being his great monograph upon the Dhegiha (Omaha and Ponca) language, published under direction of the Bureau of American Ethnology, in whose service he spent the last years of his life. In connection with the Episcopal mission may be noted the lace-making industry for Indian women instituted by Miss Sibyl Carter, chiefly among the Chippewa.
In 1847 the Lutherans, under the auspices of the Evangelical Lutheran Missionary Society of Dresden, Germany, began work among the Chippewa in lower Michigan, principally in the present Saginaw and Gratiot Counties. The first mission school was opened in that year at Frankenmuth, on Cass River, by Rev. A. Craemer. In 1847 he was joined by Rev. Edward Baierlein, who, a year or two later, established a second station at Bethany, on Pine River, in Gratiot County. Here Mr. Baierlein compiled a small volume of reading lessons and Scripture stories, published in 1852. In the next year he was recalled and we hear no more of the mission, which was probably discontinued soon after.
In 1846 the first Mormon emigrants crossed the plains from Illinois and, after a long and toilsome journey, settled at Great Salt lake, Utah, where they have since transformed the desert into a garden and built up a religious commonwealth which now exercises a dominant influence over large portions of the Mountain states. Their religious tradition regards the Indians as the descendants of the so called Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and while no statistics are available it is known that their nonsalaried missionaries from the first have given special attention to the Indian tribes, with the result that many among the Ute, Shoshoni, Paiute, and others at least nominally belong to that denomination. In 1905–6 their missionary effort was extended to the Cheyenne and other tribes of Oklahoma.
One of the most recent mission enterprises undertaken in the middle west is that of the Mennonites, a small but influential denomination of German origin, professing the principles of peace and nonresistance common to the Moravians and the Quakers. After a short preliminary sojourn in 1877, regular work was begun among the Arapaho at Darlington, Okla., by Rev. Samuel D. Haury in 1880, the enterprise being aided by the active cooperation of the Government and local Indian agent. In 1883 another station was opened at Cantonment, about 70 miles north west, among the Cheyenne, by Mr. Maury, while Rev. H. R. Voth took charge of the work at Darlington and continued with it until transferred to a new field of duty in Arizona about 10 years later. Two other stations were afterward established among the same tribes, and provision was made for the industrial training of Indian boys in schools and private homes in Kansas. In 1890 the Cantonment mission received an important accession in the arrival of Rev. Rudolph Petter and wife from Switzerland, who at once devoted themselves to a systematic study of the Cheyenne language in the tipi camps. The schools at both principal stations were in flourishing condition until the withdrawal of Government aid compelled their discontinuance in 1902. The Cantonment mission is still kept up, the Cheyenne work being in charge of Mr. Petter and his wife, assisted by Miss Bertha Kinsinger, while Rev. John A. Funk ministers to the Arapaho. There is also a small station among the Cheyenne at Hammon, in charge of Rev. H. J. Kliewer, and an other among the Northern Cheyenne at Busby, Mont., in charge of Rev, and Mrs. Gustav Linscheid since its establishment in 1904. To Mr. Petter we are indebted for our principal knowledge of the Cheyenne language, into which he has translated some parts of the Bible, a number of hymns, and the ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,’ besides being the author of a reading book and an extended manuscript grammar and dictionary. | <urn:uuid:48094875-a587-4693-ab59-1729deef93ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://accessgenealogy.com/native/indian-missions-of-the-interior-states.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974706 | 7,315 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Abstract: The present study deals with the clinicopathological and biochemical effect of A. maritima on male Wistar rats. Ambrosia maritime is claimed to have several medicinal properties and used as a traditional medicine for the treatment of various disorders. The plant was fed to rats at 2 and 10% of the standard diet for 4 weeks. A 2% A. maritima was not toxic to rats during the experiment. However, mild increase in body weight, fatty cytoplasmic vacuolation, centrolobular individual cell necrosis and mild enteritis were observed in rats fed a diet containing 10% A. maritima. These findings were accompanied by alteration of serum Aspartate aminotransferase (AST), Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and no changes were observed in the activities of ALP, concentrations of total protein, urea, total bilirubin, HDL and LDL. The concentrations of cholesterol and glucose were significantly decreased in the serum of rats fed 2 and 10% A. maritima.
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Arising from the accumulation of fat in the liver, NAFLD and its more severe form, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), are responsible for a growing proportion of advanced liver disease worldwide. With no effective approved medical therapies, disease management is dependent on lifestyle changes such as weight loss and exercise.
Besides NAFLD, obesity is also connected with sleep apnea. The condition occurs when muscles that support the tongue and soft tissues in the throat relax and block the airway, temporarily cutting off breathing. Some signs of sleep apnea include snoring, intermittent hypoxia (reduced oxygen level) and interrupted sleep.
Su Jong Yu, MD, PhD, of Seoul National University in Korea, and colleagues set out to study the link between NAFLD and sleep apnea. The team accessed data from the Korean National Health Insurance System, the national insurance used by some 97% of the Korean population, between January 2009 and December 2009. The database included information on sociodemographic factors, diagnosis and treatment specifics as well as data from annual or biennial medical examinations. The researchers tracked participants from their inclusion in the study until a diagnosis of sleep apnea or December 31, 2015, whichever came first.
NAFLD status was assigned to individuals with an fatty liver index (FLI) of at least 60 in the absence of high alcohol intake. Of the 8,116,524 participants, 12% had an FLI of at least 60 and 23% had an FLI of between 30 and 60. Individuals with a higher FLI were more likely to be male, current smokers and alcohol drinkers, and they had a higher income.
Over the course of 6.3 years, the team identified 45,143 cases of sleep apnea, with higher incidence seen in those with an FLI of at least 60 compared to those with an FLI below 30.
When analyzing multiple variables at once, the researchers found that individuals with a higher FLI had a higher risk of sleep apnea, irrespective of body mass index and the presence of abdominal fat. Those with the most elevated FLI and obesity had the highest risk.
“In this nationwide population-based study involving most Korean adults, we found that NAFLD (defined by FLI) was significantly associated with increased risk of obstructive sleep apnea, even after adjusting for multiple metabolic variables,” wrote researchers. “Moreover, the risk of obstructive sleep apnea was higher in NAFLD patients who were younger, male or obese than in those who were older, female or non-obese.”
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To configure the modulatorand look at your free radio frequency. To do this go to the radio mode. Use the frequency on which no radio. Consider also local radio stations.
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Buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) is used very much in Polish cookery as the plant grows well in a cold climate. Buckwheat requires a well drained soil but without too much fertiliser – lots of fertiliser reduces the yield. It is not in fact a grass or cereal crop but the flour is used in much the same way as wheat.
Buckwheat is related to sorrel and rhubarb and has small triangular seeds. The plant originated in South East Asia and then was brought to Europe.
I have read that it came to Poland via Manchuria and Siberia but the Polish word for buckwheat – gryka indicates that it came from the Greeks – I have also read that the plant was brought to areas of what are now Eastern Poland, Russia & the Ukraine in the 7th century by Byzantine Greeks.
Another regional word used in Polish for buckwheat is hreczka – this again suggests a Greek origin.
Photographs from the book Kuchnia Polska by Maciej Kuroń
The triangular seeds have a strong scent which is quite distinctive and the flour is grey/speckled black in colour. It is mixed with wheat flour to make pancakes and bliny.
- Bliny are popular in Eastern Poland and in the area called Kresy – the Eastern Borderlands – from where both my parents came as well as in the Ukraine and Russia.
- The word bliny is plural – I doubt very much if the singular blin is much used!
- Bliny are best cooked on a griddle or a cast iron frying pan.
- Bliny are small risen pancakes made using yeast they are in the American style of pancake.
Bliny can be served warm or cold – I much prefer them warm!
- 80g plain flour
- 80g buckwheat flour
- 1 egg
- 125 ml warm milk (full or semi-skimmed)
- 125 ml warm water
- 25g fresh yeast or 1 tablespoon of dried yeast
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of melted butter
- Pinch of salt
Put the yeast, sugar and milk in a bowl and leave to rise. (You can place this over bowl of warm water).
- In a large bowl mix the flours together and add yeast mixture and then the beaten egg.
- Add the water bit by bit until the mixture is like pouring cream, you might not need it all.
- Add the pinch of salt and the melted butter then cover with a cloth and leave to rise.
- Use the risen batter to make small pancakes by using 1 large tablespoon per pancake – I make 3 or 4 at a time in my lightly greased cast iron pan.
- Once you get the pan hot, lower the heat to a steady low so as not to burn the bliny.
- Once they are cooked on one side, turn then over using a spatula and cook for a few minutes more.
Serve the bliny with any of the following: melted butter, soured cream, twaróg, yoghurt cheese or cream cheese, smoked salmon, pickled herrings or even caviar, gherkins, fried onions, skwarki (crispy bacon bits) fried mushrooms and one of my favourites a fried egg.
These are thin pancakes and are also very popular in Northern France where they are called gallettes de sarrasin.
The French for buckwheat is sarrasin or blé noir.
Many years ago whilst on holiday in France I bought and brought home a very large French pancake pan.
However on my gas stove it is too large for a good distribution of heat – you get a hot spot in the centre which tends to burn that part – so I use my smaller pancake pan.
Last week whilst in a department store in Leeds I saw the following – An Electric Crêpe Pan – It might be good.
- 75g buckwheat flour
- 25g plain flour
- 2 eggs
- 120ml of milk (full or semi-skimmed)
- 120ml of water
- 25g of melted butter
- pinch of salt
- Some extra milk might be needed.
Make these in the same way as standard pancakes adding the melted butter after the batter has been standing for about an hour.
I think these pancakes are best with savoury fillings and my favourite is in fact French in origin, Breton style with a slice of good ham, grated Gruyère cheese and a soft fried egg.
The fillings are put on the cooked pancake and the sides are folded over but with the filling still showing in the centre. (You can put this back on the pan to heat it a little more.)
These mini buckwheat pancakes are Dutch in origin and it was only as I was trying out the recipes again that I realised how similar they are to bliny – but these are not served with savoury toppings but with icing sugar.
(The Dutch for buckwheat is boekweit)
- Several decades ago when on a visit to The Netherlands I bought a special cast iron pan which is used for making poffertjes .
- It was in the days before cheap flights & just hand luggage and I had travelled there by car – not as easy to bring home without.
- If you do not have access to the authentic pan you can make them on a frying pan – my cast iron pan works very well.
- 10g dried yeast
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 125g buckwheat flour
- 125 plain flour
- Pinch of salt
- 1 egg
- 350ml of full fat or semi-skimmed milk – warmed slightly
- 1 tablespoon of butter – melted
- Icing sugar to serve.
- In a small bowl or jug dissolve the sugar, the yeast and around 50 ml of the milk.
- Leave for around 10 minutes or so as it froths up.
- In a separate bowl, combine the buckwheat and wheat flours, salt, egg, yeast mixture and half the remaining milk and mix well.
- Now add the remaining milk until the mixture is like double cream – you might not need all the milk.
- Add the melted butter.
- Cover the bowl and leave for around 1 hour until the mixture has bubbled and risen.
- Lightly grease the pan and heat the pan – keep it the pan warm but not too hot or you will burn the poffertjes.
- Using a teaspoon fill each indentation in the pan – you need around 2 teaspoons for each.
- Turn the poffertjes around as soon as the bottom has set, using two forks.
Dredge the poffertjes with lots of icing sugar.
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The government and people of Somaliland are marking the 20th anniversary of the demise of the country founding father the late president Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal. Addressing participants in the event to honor and commemorate the second president of Somaliland, vice president H.E. Abdirahman Abdillahi Ismael Sayli’I had only good words to remember the late president.
He said that leaders need to emulate Egal’s leadership style. He went on to state that the late president laid the foundation of Somaliland and today citizens are reaping the fruits of what the late president Egal sowed, freedom and independence from Somalia.
A cross section of the country leaders also attended the commemoration- Here are their quotations:
Mr.Mohamud Hashi Abdi- “We have to accept history, the late president Mr.Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal was founding father of Somaliland.”
The widow of the late president Mrs.Kaltun Haji Dahir said “We founded the Egal Foundation in 2006, unfortunately all previous administrations have failed to acknowledge and support the foundation.”
Minister of livestock development Hon. Saeed Sulub noted, “The children of the late president Egal never inherited a dime from their late father, since the late President Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal left nothing.”
Minister of Information Sulaiman Yusuf Ali Kore “If the history of the late Egal is to be told, it cannot be summed up, Somalia, Somaliland and the continent of Africa, all he had a long history.
The minister of finance Dr.Sa’ad Ali Shire- “We remember Egal through the country’s Airport which was named after him. Time has come for us to remember him in our education syllabus and public libraries.”
Jama Musa Jama- “It is important to teach our children about the history of Somaliland independence and the people behind the independence struggle such as the late president Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal. This vital part of history should be published in our school text books.” | <urn:uuid:4dab2609-99f8-40b3-8927-7775d2419ef4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.somalilandcurrent.com/the-late-president-mohamed-i-egal-remembered/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948522 | 450 | 1.75 | 2 |
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These rituals have the same item name and statistics but the Use line has the color you got in it. Different color rituals share a CD with each other as well.The Rituals For Living Dreambook contains all the journaling and goal setting exercises as our best-selling Dreambook+Planner without the planner!
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1.5 – page 50 & 51
Lori Cook produces “Final Exam Care Packages” for resale by her sorority. She is currently working a total of 5 hours per day to produce 100 care packages.
a) What is Lori’s productivity?
b) Lori thinks that by redesigning the package, she can increase her total productivity to 133 care packages per day. What will be her new productivity?
c) What will be the percentage increase in productivity if Lori makes the change?
George Kyparisis (using data from Problem 1.6) determines his costs to be as follows:
Labor: $10 per hour
Resin: $5 per pound
Capital expense: 1% per month of investment
Energy: $.50 per BTU
Show the percent change in productivity for one month last year versus one month this year, on a multifactor basis with dollars as the common denominator.
1.9 Lillian Fok is president of Lakefront Manufacturing, a producer of bicycle tires. Fok makes 1,000 tires per day with the following resources:
Labor: 400 hours per day @ 12.50 per hour
Raw Material 20,000 pounds per day @ 1 per pound
Energy 5,000 per day
Capital Costs 10,000 per day
a) What is the labor productivity per labor-hour for these tires at Lakefront Manufacturing?
b) What is the multifactor productivity for these tires at Lakefront Manufacturing?
c) What is the percent change in multifactor productivity if Fok can reduce the energy bill by $1,000 per day without cutting production or changing any other inputs?
Munson Performance Auto, Inc., modifies 375 autos per year. The manager, Adam Munson, is interested in obtaining a measure of overall performance. He has asked you to provide him with a multifactor measure of last year’s performance as a benchmark for future comparison. You have assembled the following data. Resource inputs were labor, 10,000 hours; 500 suspension and engine modification kits; and energy, 100,000 kilowatt-hours. Average labor cost last year was $20 per hour, kits cost $1,000 each, and energy costs were $3 per kilowatt-hour. What do you tell Mr. Munson?
Autos 375 per year
Labor 10,000 @ $20 per hour
Suspension & Engine Modification Kits 1 @ $1,000 each
Energy 100,000 @ $3 per kilowatt – hour
Lake Charles Seafood makes 500 wooden packing boxes for fresh seafood per day, working in two 10-hour shifts. Due to increased demand, plant managers have decided to operate three 8-hour shifts instead. The plant is now able to produce 650 boxes per day.
a) Calculate the company’s productivity before the change in work rules and after the change.
b) What is the percentage increase in productivity?
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Which is "Trump": National Interest or Reason of State?
Unlike the State of the Union (and the State of the State) address, the concept of a leader’s “first 100 days” is not constitutionally mandated. The idea of taking a random number of days by which to judge an incoming administration now seems part of the furniture, but it began with incoming President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933. In an effort to signal the need for speed to deal with the Great Depression, the president offered 100 days as the timeframe in which he expected to complete a long list of urgent business. Little did he know he was also coining the basis of a test that would be applied to all the leaders who followed. Further that, like so many national traditions, it would often be used at the state government level as well. Some presidents have baulked at this imposed milestone and certainly some other levels of government have never embraced its use, but as any public relations/public diplomacy savvy politician knows, it’s often a media freebie for coverage of a new leader.
For Governor Newsom, who crossed the 100 day mark in April, the hurdle looked low. As a man who had been waiting in the wings for the statehouse job for eight years, initiatives on homelessness, wildfires, healthcare, putting a suspension on executions of death row inmates, and reframing the high-speed rail were ready to roll out within the imposed timeline. However, from an international perspective, the cupboard is relatively bare—with two exceptions.
The first exception that, interestingly, was not deemed by the media to be worthy of inclusion in a single round up of the governor’s first 100 days, was the appointment in February of his Lieutenant Governor, Eleni Kounalakis to be his Representative on International Affairs and Trade. Executive Order N-0819 also made Kounalakis chair of the International Affairs and Trade Development Interagency Committee with Lenny Mendonca, director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, as her Vice Chair. There is much to hope for and the committee just had its first meeting on priorities and potential areas of interagency cooperation. However, given that the members of the group seem to be the usual suspects, one wonders if there will be much room for the innovation hinted at by the addition of “international affairs” to its remit—let alone the possibility it will engage with the tribes, counties and cities without whom the state cannot effectively carry its message to the world.
A clear overall strategy and better mechanisms for the coordination of the state’s international diplomacy and profile at every level will be needed as California continues to develop an appreciation of the fact that national interest is often considered synonymous with raison d'État.
The second exception was the governor’s trip to El Salvador in March. Touted as a “fact-finding mission,” the governor’s desire to learn about the causes of immigration was earnestly symbolic, but critics and supporters alike were left wondering what the trip was really for. Most concluded that the effort was a photo opportunity for the governor’s political priority of kicking the White House at every opportunity. This opinion was later supported by the governor’s response when questioned about his main achievements during his first period in power, where he argued that the two most important factors at that time were to make California the “the most un-Trump state and the fact that we're now in 48 lawsuits with the Trump administration.”
This seems a strange way to define “achievement,” at least if judged in terms of benefit to the citizens of the state and certainly if judged with the goal of creating smooth relations with partners at home and abroad in mind. Apparently, the governor’s assessment is that California’s international strategy will gain more than it will lose by taking an increasing number of positions against its national government and that bread and butter international issues of trade, investment, tourism and education travel will be enhanced by portraying California as a kind of progressive “altAmerica.”
Of course, the main challenge of the international scene for any governor is that states are constitutionally constrained in their ability to negotiate with foreign powers. Governor Brown skillfully focused his international agenda under the umbrella of sustainability and economics, both traditionally safer areas of state international activity. However, it is becoming more and more obvious that the pressures of globalization mean that economics have moved to the high politics of international relations, resulting in an escalation of the war between Washington and Sacramento. Further, that a state’s economic interests—particularly a state with an economy the size of California’s—are now effectively what has been traditionally been called the “national interest.”
Governor Newsom is anxious to build his credibility on international issues, but whether that is to place some check on other Californian subnational entities also seeking an international profile (e.g. Mayor Garcetti of Los Angeles), or because he is chafing at the national constraints placed on his room for maneuver, remains unknown. Whatever the motivation, a clear overall strategy and better mechanisms for the coordination of the state’s international diplomacy and profile at every level will be needed as California continues to develop an appreciation of the fact that national interest is often considered synonymous with raison d'État. Let’s hope the new International Affairs and Trade Development Interagency Committee can deliver the necessary translation.
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Development Agency Of Eastern Thessaloniki’s Local Authorities – Center For The Development Of Human Resources And The Support Of Local Economy. ANATOLIKI S.A.
ANATOLIKI S.A – Regional Development Agency was established in May 1995 as a Center for the Development of Human Resource and the Strengthening of the Local Economy. ANATOLIKI is located in the municipality of Thermi at the outskirts of the city of Thessaloniki, in the Region of Central Macedonia, the largest region in Greece.
The major share holders of ANATOLIKI are the Region of Central Macedonia, nine municipalities, Business Chambers and Associations which designed a strategic plan with the goal to transform the region into a green zone, in respect to other similar international initiatives.
ANATOLIKI is a tool for a more rapid and comprehensive approach towards this goal.
The organization has significantly contributed to promoting the recycling system in the metropolitan area of Thessaloniki, in addressing employment issues of vulnerable groups, promoting renewable energy sources and energy efficiency in municipalities, the sustainable management of mobility, the management of water resources, the operation of social structures, and the support of the European Network of Elected Greeks in Local Authorities Abroad.
ANATOLIKI S.A. operates in the following axes:
- Human resources support
- Environmental protection measures and education
- Energy efficiency
- Sustainable mobility
- Consulting support to school communities
- Social and circular economy
- Agricultural development
- Promotion of innovation and new technologies
- Consulting Local Authorities and SMEs
The result of the above was the selection of ANATOLIKI S.A. by the Greek Ministry of Environment and infrastructures as the Greek proposer for the initiative ‘101 ways towards Sustainable Development’ during the United Nations Johannesburg Summit 2002
The Regional Energy Agency of Central Macedonia (REACM), is a department of ANATOLIKI S.A, especially active in the following sectors:
- Technical support for LAs in developing Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs) as part of the European initiative “Covenant of Mayors”
- Technical support for LAs in submitting applications for energy saving project financing
- Promotion of energy saving in buildings through energy audits and energy performance certification of buildings
- Organization of workshops to promote energy saving best practices
- Elaboration of educational tools on energy saving
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
- Participation in the European network of bio-energy regions for energy production from biomass
- Waste To Energy projects through utilization of agricultural residues and manure
- Establishment and operation of “Information Center for Biofuels”, aiming to promote best practices in the field of biofuels usage and production
- Geothermal energy exploitation projects in urban and rural areas
- Studies on the utilization of geothermal energy for heating and power supply of swimming pools
- Promotion of good practices in utilizing the local solar potential
- Promotion of applications of solar domestic hot water systems and PVs for electricity production
- Establishment of the first Mobility Info Point in Greece (KEM), in collaboration with the Municipality of Kalamaria, the Integrated Transport Authority of Thessaloniki and the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT)
- Dissemination of the principles of sustainable mobility and alternative modes of transport in primary and secondary education as well as pre-school children
- Technical support for the elaboration of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans
Albanian Association of Municipalities
Shoqata e Bashkive të Shqipërisë
The Albanian Association of Municipalities (AAM) is a nonpolitical, nonreligious, nonprofit association. The Albanian association of Municipalities is a volunteer and independent union of Albanian municipalities which want to contribute in the protection of common interests of the units of local government of the cities, with the purpose to strengthen and develop the democratic structures and mechanisms in the organization and functioning of municipalities and the application of the European Charter of Local Autonomy.
AAM is a volunteer and independent association of municipalities established on October 12, 1993 at the request of a group of 10 mayors. It is for the first time in Albanian environment creates such an organization, which would defend the common interests of the Albanian municipalities for their development and democratization.
Association counts as its volunteer members, all municipalities of Albania. AAM has the status of a non-profit organization (NGO) with a geographical spread across the country. Its ongoing efforts aimed awareness of the structures and institutions of the central government to accelerate the process of decentralization and strengthening the role of municipalities in their governance role, providing continuous concrete results. The role and contribution of the association today is fairly valued and recognized not only by its members but also from central government institutions, donors, international associations of local authorities.
Purposes of Albanian Association of Municipalities:
- To protect the common interests of Albanian municipalities aiming the achievement and development of the real democratization and decentralization of governance, in order to reach the European self-government local standards according the European Charter of Local Autonomy.
- To fulfill different services for the municipalities, association members, offering training and possibilities of qualification for the authorities and local administration staff.
- To represent the Albanian municipalities in relations with other Albanian and foreign organisms, in and out of the country.
- To make possible the discussion of common problems in association’s forums intending to find practical solutions and exchange different experiences among them.
- To facilitate the establishment of contacts between municipalities and their foreign partners as analogous associations, international institutions, aiming the exchange of information and development of common programs for cooperation.
- The establishment of direct relations with the Parliament of the Republic of Albania, the Government of the Republic of Albania for the protection of the local self-government bodies interests, becoming main actors in the compilation of decentralization policies for the local government.
- AAM cooperates with the Parliament of the Republic of Albania, the Government of the Republic of Albania, the Ministries and other governmental and non-governmental organisms and with international organisms operating in the field of local government.
Shoqata e Bashkive të Shqipërisë është një shoqatë jopolitike, jofetare dhe jofitimprurëse. Shoqata e Bashkive të Shqipërisë është një bashkim vullnetar dhe i pavarur i bashkive të Shqipërisë. SHBSH u themelua më 12 tetor 1993, me kërkesë të një grupi prej 10 kryetarë bashkish. Fillimi i punës së shoqatës nuk ishte shumë i lehtë për arsyen se për herë të parë në ambjentin shqiptar krijohej një organizatë e tillë e cila do të mbronte interesat e përbashkëta të bashkive shqiptare për zhvillimin dhe demokratizimin e tyre.
Shoqata numëron si anëtarë vullnetarë të saj, të gjitha bashkitë e Shqipërisë. SHBSH mban statusin e një organizate jofitimprurëse (OJF) me një shtrirje gjeografike në të gjithë territorin e vendit. Përpjekjet e saj të vazhdueshme kanë synuar sensibilizimin e strukturave dhe institucioneve të pushtetit qendror për përshpejtimin e proçesit të decentralizimit, si dhe konsolidimi i rolit të bashkive në ushtrim të rolit të tyre qeverisës, duke dhënë në vazhdimësi rezultate konkrete. Roli dhe kontributi i shoqatës sot është mjaft i vlerësuar dhe i njohur jo vetëm nga anëtarët e saj por edhe nga institucionet në pushtetin qendror, donatorët, shoqatat ndërkombëtare të autoriteteve vendore.
Shoqata e Bashkive të Shqipërisë, qysh nga themelimi i saj e deri tani, ka krijuar një vizion gjithnjë e më të qartë të veprimtarisë së saj, të rolit që ajo duhet të luajë në konsolidimin e bashkive, në ushtrim nga ana e tyre të funksioneve qeverisëse.
Veprimtaritë kryesore të Shoqatës:
- Realizon shërbime të ndryshme ndaj bashkive, anëtarëve të shoqatës, duke ofruar trajnime dhe kualifikime për autoritetet dhe administratën vendore.
- Vendos lidhje të drejtpërdrejta me Kuvendin e R.SH., Qeverine e R.SH, për mbrojtjen e interesave të organeve të vetqeverisjes vendore, duke u bërë aktorë kryesorë në hartimin e politikave decentralizuese për qeverinë vendore.
- Përfaqëson bashkitë shqiptare në marrëdhëniet me organizmat e ndryshme shqiptare dhe të huaja, brenda dhe jashtë vendit.
- Mundëson diskutimin e problemeve te perbashketa ne forumet e shoqates, me qellim gjetjen e zgjidhjeve praktike, si dhe shkembimin e eksperiencave te ndryshme midis tyre.
- Lehtëson vendosjen e kontakteve midis bashkive dhe partnerëve të tyre jashtë vendit, si p.sh. shoqata analoge, institucione ndërkombëtare, me qëllim shkëmbimin e informacioneve dhe zhvillimin e programeve të përbashkëta të bashkëpunimit.
- Mbron interesat e përbashkëta të bashkive shqiptare, me qëllim arritjen dhe zhvillimin e demokratizimit dhe decentralizimit të vërtetë të qeverisjes, për arritjen e standarteve europiane të vetëqeverisjes lokale, sipas parimeve të Kartës Europiane të Autonomisë Lokale.
- Mundëson diskutimin e problemeve të përbashkëta në forumet e shoqatës, me qëllim gjetjen e zgjidhjeve praktike, si dhe shkëmbimin e eksperiencave më të mira midis bashkive.
Malta Intelligent Energy Management Agency
Malta Intelligent Energy Management Agency (MIEMA) was set up 2007 with the mission to support and encourage a more intelligent use of conventional energy resources and renewable sources by promoting awareness initiatives and research projects that contribute to define incisive and targeted action plans and policies of intervention in Malta.
Since it was established, the Agency has been involved in a number of EU funded projects developing research and activities on: green economy, sustainable practices in tourism and local governance, innovation in renewable energy sources (bio fuels, photovoltaic and wind power), heritage and landscape valorisation, smart-grids applications, sustainable mobility, IT and e-learning tools. In collaboration with educational institutions and Universities, MIEMA organises educational and training activities, conferences and seminars, offers internships to students on research mobility programmes and develops capacity building for policymakers.
Cyprus Energy Agency
The Cyprus Energy Agency (CEA) is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organization, founded in 2009 for carrying out activities related to the promotion of renewable energy, energy saving, and sustainable transport and urban mobility. The Cyprus Energy Agency is managed by an eleven-member Management Board, the members of which are set out in its founding statutes. The Cyprus Energy Agency advises special Advisory Committee, which brings together adjoining European organizations, European and international networks, and many institutional organizations from Cyprus.
The mission of the Energy Agency is to be an information point of the local society, providing education and vocational training, as well as a point of promoting local and European partnerships and research and development, enhancing the role of local authorities in the sustainable energy planning issues, with a view in protecting the environment, the promotion of renewable energy sources, energy saving and sustainable transport. The educational activities of the Energy Agency were classified amongst the 10 best in Europe based on the evaluation made for the “Local Energy Action Awards 2012”.
In the implementation of the goals and objectives of the Cyprus Energy Agency, it has organized numerous conferences, training seminars, examinations, meetings, and workshops, which strengthen the links of cooperation between the Cyprus Energy Agency and local actors.
Up to today the Cyprus Energy Agency has participated in more than 30 EU/National co-funded projects (MED, ENPI, IEE, INTERREG IVC, Build up Skills, Horizon 2020, Life Long Learning, CLIMATE KIC etc), and cover a wide range of topics, such as:
- Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans for Local Authorities
- Capacity building for the public and private sector
- Production of biofuels from microalgae
- Training and certification of RES and EE installers, as well as energy auditors and energy managers
- Identification of the environmental impacts of the penetration of RES
- Promotion of RES
- Increase of Energy Efficiency in the residential sector
- Energy performance of homes, public buildings and sport facilities
- Training and active involvement of students and the local community
- Supporting the implementation of energy projects
- Climate change
It is also remarkable that the project WE-qualify which was coordinated by the Cyprus Energy Agency was selected along with 8 other nominees for the EUSEW Awards 2016, from almost 200 very high-quality applications.
As of September 2016, Cyprus has joined the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Climate-KIC family through the Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS). Cyprus Energy Agency, along with Cyprus University of Technology (lead partner) and Chrysalis LEAP organize activities every year including Accelerator Programmes with funding, Summer Schools, Industrial Placements, Ideation events, support of climate innovators and much more.
Cyprus Energy Agency is a member of FEDARENE and EnergyCities families.
Building and Civil Engineering Institute ZRMK
(Gradbeni inštitut ZRMK)
The beginnings of the company date back to 1949, when ZRMK (Zavod za raziskavo materiala in konstrukcij) was formed as a central national institution to conduct research work, technological development, and applications in the civil engineering and construction material industry. Following series of reorganisations and restructuring in late 1990s and early 2000s a privately-owned daughter company named Gradbeni inštitut ZRMK (Building and Civil Engineering Institute ZRMK; BCEI ZRMK) was established in 2003 as a modern and a development-oriented institute operating in the field of materials, constructions, indoor environment, building physics, energy, geotechnics, engineering geology and traffic routes.
The year 2017 marks the beginning of a new chapter, as on the 21st December 2016 the BCEI ZRMK company has come under a full ownership of »DRI upravljanje investicij, d.o.o.« (DRI Investment Management Ltd.). DRI is a state-established company holding a status of the biggest engineering and consulting company in Slovenia. The primary focus of BCEI ZRMK services and activities has shifted to the public sector, e.g. the government and its ministries and offices, and other public entities including local administrations.
Among several BCEI ZRMK organisational units the Centre for Indoor Environment, Building Physics and Energy is the one responsible for research and development work in a broader area of sustainability in the building sector.
One of our major tasks is assistance to the Slovenian Government in transposition and implementation of EU directives (EPBD, Recast EPBD, EED etc.) by preparing analyses and proposals for national technical rules, guidelines, policies and technical background for, among other:
- energy performance certification (EPC) of buildings,
- minimum requirements for new buildings and major renovation,
- energy renovation of heritage buildings,
- national plan for nZEB,
- long-term strategy for mobilizing investments in major renovation of existing buildings,
- green procurement criteria for public and private sector,
- national building sustainability indicators and assessment methodology.
We have been appointed as a national provider of training and examination of independent experts for EPC and have developed a demo national EPC registry. By appointment of the Slovenian Government we have been representing Slovenia in Concerted Action EPBD 1, 2, 3 and 4.
For almost two decades we managed the national energy advisory network ENSVET. We play a visible role in various professional associations, including Green Building Council Slovenia and Construction Cluster of Slovenia. We were technically advising the national Eco Fund in development of national subsidy programmes for energy efficiency measures, and the SID bank (Slovenian export and development bank) for allocation of EIB loan for EE renovation of residential buildings. We have also conceived the “Quality Mark in Construction” voluntary green label, a unique scheme of its kind in Slovenia, running now for the second decade.
Besides the core professional tasks (field inspections, measurements, software analysis and simulations, expert opinions and studies, etc.) our activities include also facility management, tackling of energy poverty, training of professionals, quality assurance and control, feasibility studies, and transfer of new technologies, materials and approaches for efficient use of energy in buildings into national construction practice.
Over the last two decades we have been continuously involved in various international programmes, and as such cooperated in over 50 European projects (Intelligent Energy Europe, 5th, 6th, 7th Framework, Central Europe, Alpine Space, Horizon 2020, Interreg MED etc.) building up a network of prominent national contacts and actors from all sectors, including governmental bodies, municipalities, local energy agencies, NGOs, private entities, and media.
On the local level we support municipalities and local administration in preparation of mandatory local energy concepts and sustainable energy action plans, planning of renovation and development of building stock and local infrastructure, and in activities for applying to national calls for tenders for energy efficiency investments related to the European Cohesion policy and various international and national financing mechanisms.
MUSOL was founded in 1998 with the help of a group of local authorities employees, professionals, experts and researchers who centre their interests and professional careers in the field of Spanish and European local public administration.
Since its foundation, MUSOL has a vocation directed at working with the regional and local entities with the aim of strengthening the capacity of the local stakeholders and their roles in local sustainable development. Over the years MUSOL has diversified its activities, from a geographic and sectoral point of view; however, the organization reaffirms its aspiration to constitute a point of reference in the work of local public entities and organizations of Spain, Europe, Africa and Latin America.
The mission of MUSOL is to promote the sustainable development, developing and strengthening the capacities of regional and local governments as well as those of the civil societies in Spain, Europe, Africa and Latin America. All of this, within the framework of the processes of development, decentralization and current participation of the recipient countries of our activity.
It specializes in the strengthening of local and regional governments since they are the institutions in closest proximity to the people and they are responsible for the basic services of water, health and education, defending democratic values, social justice, equality and human rights.
At the present, it develops different sustainable development cooperation projects in Europe, Latin America and Africa.
MUSOL nace en 1998 de la mano de un grupo de funcionarios, profesionales, expertos e investigadores que centran sus intereses y carreras profesionales en el ámbito de la administración regional y local española y europea.
Desde su fundación, MUSOL tiene una vocación dirigida al trabajo con los entes locales y regionales, con el objetivo de fortalecer las capacidades de los actores locales y su papel en el desarrollo sostenible local. A lo largo de los años MUSOL ha diversificado su acción, desde el punto de vista geográfico y sectorial; sin embargo, la organización reafirma su ambición de constituir una referencia en el trabajo con los entes públicos y las organizaciones locales de España, Europa, África y América Latina.
La misión de MUSOL es promover el desarrollo sostenible, desarrollando y fortaleciendo las capacidades tanto de los gobiernos regionales y locales como de la sociedad civil española, europea, de África y América Latina, todo ello en el marco de los procesos de desarrollo, descentralización y participación vigentes en los países donde trabaja.
Especializada en el fortalecimiento de los gobiernos locales y regionales por ser instituciones cercanas a las personas y responsables de los servicios básicos a la ciudadanía, defiende los valores democráticos, la justicia social, la equidad y los derechos humanos.
Actualmente, desarrolla diferentes proyectos de desarrollo sostenible en Europa, Latinoamérica y África, así como por toda la geografía española.
ANCI Lazio – Regional Association of Cities and Municipalities
ANCI Lazio (Lazio Region Association of Cities and Municipalities, based in Rome, is part of the National Association of Italian Municipalities and actively participates to common activities as required by the National Regulation.
The aim of the Association is the protection of the local autonomies recognised by the Constitution and by the National and Regional legislation; further aim is the safeguard of rights and interests of participating agencies.
At local level ANCI Lazio carries out the following activities:
a) represents the interests of its members (378 Municipalities) in competent premises;
b) nominates Municipalities’ delegates in the Institutional Regional bodies;
c) promotes the analysis of problems of interest for its members;
d) attends with its own delegates in each seat where interests of local autonomies are discussed or administered;
e) distributes information, consultancies and assistance to the members;
d) analyses problems related to Local Agencies employees; it states general directives on such matter to be of use for single agencies determinations; where provided by legislation, it signs agreements legally valid, with trade-union organisations for matters object of regional negotiation;
e) promotes and organises workshops on matters related to Local Administration activities and Local Administration employees;
f) promotes and encourages initiatives for civic education of citizens and to increase their knowledge of Local Agencies’ activities;
g) studies and promotes the adoption of measures to stimulate citizens’ participation to Local Agencies activities;
h) carries out activities jointly with similar Associations of Local Agencies.
At international level ANCI Lazio has set up a permanent cooperation network, among different twinned municipalities and has promoted a mutual understanding among their citizens, thanks to an intercultural dialogue approach. It has been also very active in the promotion of the European integration process, debates and policies among its member Municipalities and their civil servants thanks to:
- dedicated conferences (e.g. Conference “The EU programming period 2007-2013 and the opportunities for local authorities in the Lazio region”);
- training sessions (series of lectures for young politicians);
- study trips (e.g. to Brussels, with the organization of thematic meetings with officers of the EU Commission to better understand the impact of EU legislation and policies on local authorities).
Furthermore, ANCI Lazio supports the role of Municipalities as the level governance closer to citizens.
North-west Croatia Regional Energy Agency
Regionalna energetska agencija Sjeverozapadne Hrvatske
North-west Croatia Regional Energy Agency (REGEA) was established by the City of Zagreb and three neighbouring counties – Zagreb, Karlovac and Krapina-Zagorje in 2008 within the framework of the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme. After a modest start, as a first regional energy agency in Croatia, REGEA has become the leading energy centre in wider South-East Europe region.
With a team of 29 hardworking employees our primary mission is to promote and encourage regional sustainable energy development through utilization of renewable energy sources and implementation of energy efficiency projects.
Our scope of work includes providing information, education and promotion of energy sector’s best and brightest examples, support in the development and implementation of national, regional and local energy plans and programmes, energy audits and certifications, energy performance contracting and public private partnerships.
Regionalna energetska agencija Sjeverozapadne Hrvatske (REGEA) je započela s radom 2008. godine uz potporu Europske komisije u sklopu programa Inteligentna Energija za Europu.
Osnovni cilj i uloga agencije jest promoviranje i poticanje regionalnog održivog razvoja u području energetike i zaštite okoliša kroz korištenje obnovljivih izvora energije i uvođenje mjera povećane energetske efikasnosti. Osim toga, Agencija ima zadatak i uvođenje dobre prakse gospodarenja energijom, potiče koncept održivog razvoja, pruža informacije i savjete te niz drugih usluga baziranih na specifičnim lokalnim potrebama za energijom.
University of Algarve – CRIA
The University of Algarve is a Portuguese public higher education institution located in the southern region of Portugal, the Algarve, having three campi, Gambelas, Penha and Health, in Faro and another campus in Portimão.
The University of Algarve operates 55 graduate and 97 postgraduate programs (72 MsC and 25 Phd) counting with 796 permanent teaching and research staff that developed a significant number of research projects (68 R&D only) enhanced also by the research work produced by 120 fellowship grant holders demonstrating a clear commitment towards R&D and Innovation. The total staff is 1184 persons, constituting of 786 professors/researchers and 398 technician and administratives. In the academic year 2016/17 there are 7260 students, of which 1625 are postgraduate students.
The scientific groundwork of the University of Algarve is developed around four main areas (Sea, Health, Food and Well-Being, Arts & Heritage, and Tourism) that aggregate all research work aiming that innovative ideas can be turned into products and services. The University of Algarve has well-established research centers in several fields such as marine sciences, bio-medicine, electronics, chemistry, arts and communication and social sciences.
Steered by international, inter-personal and inter-institutional networks, and projects developed in cooperation with other universities, the University of Algarve aims to update its learning contents and to foster innovation considering these synergies as an opportunity not only to contribute to its curriculum development but also to boost research project incubation pursuing the ultimate goal of higher education institutions: to reach academic expertise and to demonstrate excellence in research.
CRIA is the Division of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer of the University of Algarve, aiming to promote relations between the university and the industry, increase the technology and knowledge transfer, support the establishment of new firms, generalize the use of Industrial Property rights and develop technological infrastructures to enhance specific research fields, in the Algarve.
CRIA was born in 2003, as an answer for the need of creating a service to support the development of advanced business ideas and inventions born at the university that could migrate to the market.
The intervention areas of CRIA are: Intellectual Property and Licensing Support, Commercialization and Technology Transfer, Entrepreneurship and Business Development, European Projects and Studies.
The Division of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer (CRIA) of the University of Algarve is intended to promote the relations between the University and the entrepreneurial world, and support the valorization and commercialization of the knowledge created within the University, acting as a supporting basis for new companies, specifically star-ups and spin offs. In addition, CRIA works in close collaboration with other local/regional/national agents, private and public, allowing the integration of various competences in the implementation of the project. This can be extremely important since allows the identification of the main players in the market, and the development of potential collaborations.
CRIA has a significant experience in EU projects, having participated in several projects under EU funding of Territorial Cooperation Programs (as INTERREG EUROPE, MED, etc…), of R&D (HORIZON2020) and of Education and Training (ERASMUS +).
Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces
Federación Valenciana de Municipios y Provincias
The Valencian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FVMP) is a non-profit association with its own legal and public personality, made up of Municipalities, Provinces and other Local Entities that voluntarily decide for the defence and promotion of local autonomy and local interests. Their territorial scope is the region Comunidad Valenciana, being composed of 539 City Councils, 29 Municipal Associations, 6 Minor Local Entities and the County Councils of Valencia, Castellón and Alicante.
The objectives and activities of FVMP are the following:
- Promotion and defence of Local Entities autonomy.
- Representation, defence and promotion of Local Entities interests in front of politic, legal and administrative authorities;
- Development and consolidation of European spirit in local scope, based on autonomy and solidarity among Local Entities;
- Promotion and accomplishment of studies for the best knowledge of the problems and circumstances in local life;
- Cooperation and technical assistance to the development of local interests;
- Promotion and execution of training programmes on local subjects directed to politicians and civil employees;
- Promotion, execution and giving of public and/or private enterprise initiatives and activities that contribute to economic local development and to employment creation, as well as the conservation and protection of environment, and in general, the improvement of the resident life quality of Valencia Region Local Entities.
- Dissemination of knowledge about the local and provincial institutions among the residents of Comunidad Valenciana, promoting their participation in them.
- Development and consolidation of democratic spirit in local scope, based on the autonomy and solidarity among the municipalities of Comunidad Valenciana.
La Federación Valenciana de Municipios y Provincias (FVMP) es una asociación sin ánimo de lucro con personalidad jurídica propia y pública, constituida por los Municipios, Provincias y demás Entidades Locales que voluntariamente lo decidan para la defensa y promoción de la autonomía local y de los intereses locales. Su ámbito territorial es la Comunidad Valenciana, estando compuesta por: 539 Ayuntamientos, 29 Mancomunidades, 6 Entidades Locales menores y las Diputaciones de Valencia, Castellón y Alicante.
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- Representación, defensa y promoción de los intereses de las Entidades Locales ante las instancias políticas, administrativas y judiciales.
- Desarrollo y consolidación del espíritu europeo en el ámbito local, basado en la autonomía y solidaridad entre las Entidades Locales.
- Promoción y realización de estudios para el mejor conocimiento de los problemas y de las circunstancias en que se desenvuelve la vida local.
- Cooperación y asistencia Técnica al desarrollo de los intereses locales.
- Promoción y ejecución de programas y actividades de formación sobre temas locales dirigidos a los cargos electos y personal al servicio de la Administración.
- Promoción, ejecución y prestación de iniciativas y actividades empresariales públicas o privadas que contribuyan al desarrollo económico local y a la creación de empleo, así como a la conservación y protección del medio ambiente y, en general, a mejorar la calidad de vida de los habitantes de las Entidades Locales de la Comunidad Valenciana.
- Difusión del conocimiento de las instituciones locales, comarcales y provinciales entre los vecinos y vecinas de la Comunidad Valenciana, promoviendo su participación en las mismas.
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Due to the damaging effects of storms, many local hot tub owners call emergency repair companies for help and services for damaged vehicles and homes.
What do you do after the storm?
If your spa has already flooded, or it has already started to flood, make sure to keep the power off at the main circuit breaker. Once it has been turned off, perform various steps to keep the spa running smoothly.
Inspect the cabinet equipment bay
If the water in your spa has already receded, use a submersible pump to push the water down from the spa. If the water is still flowing, use a trash bag or sand bag to clean the area around the spa.
When weather permits, open the equipment bay and inspect the damage. Flood waters usually have a clean surface, and they usually mark the location of the waterline. If the waterline is visible, it is time to check if the flood waters have breached the electrical components of the spa.
Most spa pumps and blowers are submerged fairly well once they have been completely dried. If they are fully submerged, they will most likely need to be replaced.
Control panels are typically located on the motherboard, the main circuit board, and the printed circuit board. If the control panel was not energized during a flood event, then it's a better chance of survival.
Open the spa controller and inspect its main board and connections. If there is any damage to the circuit board or the wire connections, it is important to check for signs of corrosion or burn marks.
If your spa has been flooded, make sure that the heaters are protected from harm. They should be safe if they were not powered.
Dry out the cabinet equipment bay
People frequently forget to top-off their hot tub after it gets flooded. This is usually caused by heavy rain or flooding rivers.
A wet or dry vac can be used to clean out the equipment and remove the dirt and water from it. It's also a good idea to dry out the equipment by keeping the door open.
If the water in your hot tub was completely submerged, remove the equipment from the home. This will allow the equipment to be dried more effectively, but some parts may not recover.
You can replace parts of your spa equipment, such as pumps and heaters. You can also repair or replace spa packs controller.
There are also various electrical components in the spa, such as connectors, relays, timers, and switches. These components have to be dry before they can be turned on.
Turn on Power at Circuit Breaker
Once the spa has completely dried out, turn the main spa circuit breaker back on. You will need to flip the secondary cut-off box to the left of the main breaker.
If the spa was damaged during the storm, check the topside control panel for any issues. There are many possibilities to cause these issues.
Circuit Breaker Trips: Circuit breaker trips are usually triggered by damaged equipment or faulty electrical components. Before performing a repair, it's important to check all of the electrical equipment that's connected to the breaker.
GFCI Trips: If the red reset button doesn't pop out after a couple of minutes, it could be caused by the moisture in the room.
If your spa pack has blown on, make sure the fuses are working properly. Also, make sure the circuit board is working correctly.
If your spa pack has blown, make sure that the fuses are working. Also, make sure the circuit board is working correctly.
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Selection of wood and wood species is the main parameter influencing overall quality of a violin and eventually its sound.
The sound heard from a violin is the result of air vibrating and released out of "f" holes in the instrument.
A bridge needs to be fitted to the violin by carving its feet to match the curvature of the violin belly. Therefore, the wood of the instrument should be light and resonant.
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By Scott Finn
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
What do you think is West Virginia’s most valuable resource?
Many of you will name our natural beauty – green mountains, rolling hills and clear streams.
Some will name resources beneath our feet, like coal and natural gas. Others will say, “our people.”
All these are true, of course, but I would argue our most important resource is one we don’t think of very often.
Because the story that is told about West Virginia has so much power. It determines who stays and who goes. It can draw talent and investment…or drive it away.
In the past, we didn’t always get to tell our own story. Starting with the Hatfields and McCoys, outsiders came here and told sensational tales. It sold newspapers, but it wasn’t the truth of who are as a people.
Those unfair tales continue to this very day. When Vice Magazine sent photographers to capture “Two Days in Appalachia,” they walked away with sensational photos that made children look like carnival freaks.
And the truly sad part is when we internalize these messages and start to believe them ourselves.
That’s why we’re creating “The West Virginia Channel.” Through it, West Virginia Public Broadcasting will tell the TRUE story of our state, to ourselves and to the world.
Starting in January, The West Virginia Channel will showcase the best in West Virginia and Appalachian culture, including:
– Our history and heritage
– Live events (concert performances, Vandalia, History Bowl, etc.)
– Public affairs programming, including live coverage of the West Virginia Legislature
– AND the best programs PBS has to offer, such as Frontline, Nova, and PBS NewsHour
This second TV and online channel will complement our main channel, WVPB, which will continue to air the current mix of PBS Kids programming in the daytime and education and entertainments for adults at night.
The goal is to provide West Virginians with a service they can find nowhere else – a channel by, for, and about ourselves. If you’re an independent video producer, this is a great opportunity for your work to be seen by a wide audience.
We’re proud that two cable providers – Comcast and Suddenlink – have agreed to carry The West Virginia Channel across the state. We’ve had positive conversations and are working with other cable providers as well, including Armstrong, Shentel and Time Warner.
Unfortunately, neither satellite company has yet agreed to provide this new channel. You can help by telling Dish and DirecTV, “We want The West Virginia Channel!”
And everything we do is available for free on our website, wvpublic.org, and for people who can receive us over the air with an antenna.
It’s long past time for us West Virginians to reclaim our story. I hope you’ll agree that The West Virginia Channel is a good start.
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Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Operation With Dual Fuel Flexibility
ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER CHAMPAIGN IL CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING RESEARCH LAB
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The ability to operate highly-efiicient, pollution-free, distributed-generation power plants on either natural gas or HD-5 grade propane is of interest to the U.S. Army and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as secure power for critical power operations. To address this interest, Concurrent Technologies Corporation CTC teamed with FuelCell Energy FCE to test an internally reforming 250 kW carbonate direct fuel cell using HD-5 propane. This fuel cell power plant, originally designed to operate on pipeline natural gas or digester gas, was modified for dual fuel operation natural gas and propane. Fuel cell operation using HD-5 propane was demonstrated for over 3,900 hrs and achieved high electrical efficiency 45.7 to 47.1 percent lower heating value LHV over a broad range of power outputs. In addition, instantaneous and on-load fuel switching from natural gas to propane and back was demonstrated without loss of power. This dual fuel power plant operated efficiently on either fuel and can provide the U.S. Army and other power users with a viable technology solution for critical power operations.
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International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
On this International Day against Racial Discriminations, the UITBB Secretariat would like to note the following:
– All workers are one, independently of colour, religion, language or country of origin.
– UITBB underlines its clear, class-based position against racism and racial discriminations, as well as the will to fight alongside its member- organisations, for the rights of all workers, regardless of ethnic characteristics, so that the exploitation can stop, and the workers in the construction sector can be organized in the Trade Union movement so that they can be further protected.
– We must all fight decisively the fascist, nationalist, and racist views against immigrants and refugees. Racism and xenophobia are weapons used by the capital to strike at the working class as a whole.
– We are steadily revealing the causes within the capitalist system that give rise to migration and refugees, the plans of the capitalists and of monopoly groups to promote their interests by all means necessary. Neither immigration nor being a refugee is the choice of workers and peoples. It is the result of the criminal action of the powers of capital and the forces that support it.
– UITBB underlines the need for all the workers to be informed about their rights so that they can battle racial discrimination in any form.
– Finally, UITBB stresses the need for a close cooperation of all Trade Unions, so that the efforts to inform and protect workers from racial exploitation, can be better coordinated.
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Manesha Orphan Girl Child Learning Computer Skills
Dear Well Wishers,
Greetings from SERUDS
P.Maneesha is a 9th standard student in Indira Gandhi Municipal Memorial High School, Kurnool. Mother Mrs Ramulamma is a kidney failure patient. Kashi is drunken father. He used to take cheap liquor and always beats his wife Ramulamma. She suffered and her one kidney is failure. Father never cares about the family. Due to financial constraints Ramulamma decided to send her children to the work instead of sending to the school. The family scares by seeing Kashi.
Maneesha is very intelligent girl in studies and having enthusiasm in sports and games. She participates in the NCC camps and when ever gets opportunity she participates as NSS volunteers from School to work for the Nation. Maneesha is studying well and gets always very good marks in the class. Her father left the children and wife. He has very bad habits & illegal contacts with other women. Seruds orphanage is taking care of Maneesha education, healthcare, food, shelter for her.
Apart from all these things, SERUDS is providing Vocational skills training in Computers. She is learning Computer basics, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, Internet Concepts, Basic calculations along with other orphan, street children in the Joy Home Children Orphanage. She also teaches to other abandoned orphans about computer literacy when ever she gets time. She clarifies small queries about computer skills to other children.
Thank you for supporting our cause.
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Patients with heart failure as co-designers of an educational website: implications for medical education
Anne Mette Kristiansen1, Jette R. Svanholm1, Inge Schjødt1, Karsten Mølgaard Jensen1, Charlotte Silén2 and Klas Karlgren2
1Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
2Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Submitted: 09/10/2016; Accepted: 06/02/2017; Published: 25/02/2017
Int J Med Educ. 2017; 8:47-58; doi: 10.5116/ijme.5898.309e
© 2017 Anne Mette Kristiansen et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use of work provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Objectives: To identify the learning needs of patients with heart failure between outpatients follow-up visits from their perspective and to ascertain what they emphasize as being important in the design of an educational website for them.
Methods: We conducted a two-step qualitative study at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. Twenty patients with heart failure participated either in focus group interviews, diary writing, or video-recorded design sessions. Data on learning needs were collected in step 1 and analyses, therefore, helped develop the preliminary prototypes of a website. In step 2, patients worked on the prototypes in video-recorded design sessions, employing a think-aloud method. The interviews were transcribed and a content analysis was performed on the text and video data.
Results: Patients’ learning needs were multifaceted, driven by anxiety, arising from, and often influenced by, such daily situations and contexts as the medical condition, medication, challenges in daily life, and where to get support and how to manage their self-care. They emphasized different ways of adapting the design to the patient group to enable interaction with peers and professionals and specific interface issues.
Conclusions: This study provided insights into the different learning needs of patients with heart failure, how managing daily situations is the starting point for these needs and how emotions play a part in patients’ learning. Moreover, it showed how patient co-designers proved to be useful for understanding how to design a website that supports patients’ learning: insights, which may become important in designing online learning tools for patients.
Successfully performed self-care in the context of heart failure is a complex matter. Heart failure is a serious chronic cardiac condition1 in which the heart’s capacity to transport enough blood is weakened. This can result in, e.g., such signs as fluid retention and such symptoms as dyspnea, fatigue, etc.,2 and requires lifelong and constant patient involvement to carry out adequate, continuous self-care. Unfortunately, many patients with heart failure fail to achieve adequate self-care behavior, such as following medical prescriptions, which leads to readmissions.3
There is a need to gain more knowledge about how to support these patients. In this study, the patients’ perspective on their needs will be the basis for the development of a website supporting self-care. It is a well-known fact that patients’ self-care behaviors need to be improved to reduce mortality, morbidity, and healthcare costs.4 This becomes ever more important since the annual incidence of heart failure is increasing.1,5-7 Teaching self-care behaviors is already a key element in patient education and plays a vital part in heart failure management programs3 aiming at supporting patients in the learning and development of various competencies.8 However, these activities do not seem to adequately support patients’ learning concerning how to deal with a chronic cardiac condition in everyday life. It is also to be expected that the majority of patients with heart failure might need to update and expand their knowledge and skills in this area over time in order to be able to handle more and more information. The reason for this is that their condition and how it is managed over time can vary. Being diagnosed with heart failure might require the patient to make changes and learning is a prerequisite for such change.9
Having a chronic disease involves spending most of one’s time away from the hospital;10 thus, learning occurs primarily in everyday life and everyday contexts. An educational website could, therefore, be a suitable tool to support patients living with heart failure. Studies3,11 have suggested that computer-assisted learning can address some of the challenges posed by heart failure and the attempts at using computer-assisted learning have proved to be efficient in increasing patients’ knowledge and skills. Computer-assisted learning has the potential to address needs, and wishes of the patients12,13 and some3,14 have argued for bringing patients’ views into the process of developing computer-assisted learning tools. However, only a few studies have addressed this within the area of heart failure.15,16
In general, research on patient education concerning heart failure tends to focus on such topics as general information about the condition, monitoring of symptoms and self-care, pharmacological and non-pharmacological management, rest and exercise, fluid restriction, etc.1,3,17 Although previous research18-25 has discussed the learning needs of patients with heart failure; there is a lack of knowledge about what patients consider to be important to learn. This lack of knowledge about the patient perspective undermines the quality of patient education. Concern for the quality of patient education and patient learning is a professional responsibility and, in order to understand how we can offer better patient education and support patients’ learning and management of heart failure, we need to take the patients’ perspective into account. The present study was based on the assumption that patients need to learn to be able to cope with their condition. Thus, the findings will be interpreted in relation to learning theories.
To sum up, patients with heart failure often fail to establish crucial self-care behaviors and there is a need to learn more about how they can be supported. They spend much time away from the hospital and need to learn more about their condition over time. While digital support between visits to hospitals may address these needs, there is a lack of research on the patients’ perspective on learning about heart failure. The aims of this study were, first, to identify the learning needs of patients with heart failure between outpatient follow-up visits to an outpatient heart failure clinic and, second, to ascertain what patients emphasized as being important in the design of an educational website intended to support their learning.
A qualitative research approach was chosen and we also chose to use several sources of data. We used an inductive content analysis to scrutinize data.26 The study was carried out within a constructivist research tradition as the aims were to understand the patients’ meaning-making and gain insight into their opinions and perceptions.27, 28
Specialist nurses from the heart failure clinic identified potential participants. Inclusion criteria were: 18 years of age or older, ability to understand Danish and treatment at the heart failure clinic. Twenty-four patients with heart failure, males (n = 18) and females (n = 6), were sampled purposefully and invited to participate either in focus group interviews, diary writing, or design sessions. This approach to sampling allowed us to include patients who could provide new information in the field.27,29 As described by Jaspers,30 patients who would be potential users of the website were selected to participate in the design sessions. Twenty patients (15 males and five females) agreed to participate in the study. Characteristics of the included participants are shown in Table 1.
This study was approved by the head of the Department of Cardiology at Aarhus University Hospital and has been carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. It was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency and required no ethical approval according to the Central Denmark Region Committees on Biomedical and Research Ethics. Participants with advanced heart failure were not included because this could have been too burdensome for them. All participants received both oral and written information before inclusion. They were informed that their involvement was voluntary, that they could withdraw from the study without any consequences at any time and that their answers would be anonymized. All participants gave their written informed consent.
This study was conducted in two steps using different methods. In
Step 1 - Use of focus group interviews and diaries to investigate learning needs
Initially, we were interested in how patients perceived their own learning needs regarding heart failure during the time between follow-up visits.
Focus group interviews can give insight into the patients’ personal stories, feelings, etc.31-34 We developed an interview guide and pilot-tested it with two patients on separate occasions. This led to changes in wordings and expansion of one question. This interview guide was a driving force in the interviews.28,35 In mid-February, 2015, two focus group interviews were conducted by the first author (AMK) and one observer (JRS/IS). Both interviews lasted 60 minutes. The participants’ understanding of their own learning needs, questions and concerns were probed in depth during the interviews.
During the same period, six participants kept a semi-structured diary for two weeks. Patients were asked to focus on their daily life and especially any concerns dealing with heart failure. Questions to prompt reflection when writing were, for instance: “
Step 2 – design of the website prototypes
In mid-March, 2015, the participants took part as co-designers of four video-recorded design sessions, each lasting 30–45 minutes. Co-design was used in a broad sense in which a designer, the researcher, and the patients worked on the design together.39 Design sessions were carried out with one patient at a time. An organizer of the design process (AMK) acted as facilitator, together with the system engineer (KMJ) responsible for web design. The intention underlying these design sessions was to allow the participants to interact with prototypes of the website and to provide space for the expression of thoughts about the website design and content. These immediate thoughts about the design were triggered by open-ended questions, such as “
This study was conducted at the Department of Cardiology at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. The department is highly specialized in diagnostics and state-of-the-art management of all aspects of heart disease and is responsible for the clinical follow-up of patients with heart failure in the local uptake area. This study was conducted between follow-up visits and refers to the time patients spent at home between visits to the outpatient heart failure clinic.
Qualitative content analysis was used to analyze data. The focus was either on the manifest (what the text actually says) or the latent (underlying meaning) content of the data26,40,41 and all authors collaborated on different parts of the analysis. The focus group interviews were recorded and transcribed by the first author (AMK). The unit of analysis was the complete interview transcript. Ambiguities in diary texts were clarified by the diary keeper; the text from each diary was seen as one unit of analysis. All units of text were read and re-read several times to get a sense of the whole context. Subsequently, an inductive content analysis was carried out. First, meaning units were recognized, condensed, and abstracted into categories, i.e., what was said in the focus group interviews or written in the diaries (manifest content). Next, the latent content of the categories were formulated into themes (Table 2). The findings were then triangulated. Two members (JRS/IS) of the research team carried out 1/3 of the analysis of either the focus group interviews or the diaries. Categories and themes were discussed until agreement was reached.
The design sessions were video-recorded. Data from the supplementary field notes were transcribed by the first author. To become acquainted with the data, the video recordings were looked through numerous times while taking notes. The process was supported by involving a member of the researcher team (KK) who had not participated in the design sessions.
This researcher conducted one- third of the analysis of the video material. A single video recording was considered to be a unit of analysis. Meaning units were recognized, condensed, and abstracted into categories in relation to the aim of the study at the manifest level in order to resolve.
“What was said” (Table 3). Categories were discussed until agreement was achieved. Repeated checks for accuracy as compared with the original audio and video recordings and diary text were done throughout the analyses of Steps 1 and 2.
Learning needs experienced by patients between follow-up visits
The analysis of the focus group interviews and the patient diaries exposed three themes. Anxiety was a recurrent and predominant factor in all three themes and seemed to be the driver behind patients’ need for knowledge due to their questions and concerns. The first theme, “Anxiety and uncertainty as driving forces for learning”, was recognized as a learning-related issue permeating the patients’ daily lives. The themes, “Managing my condition” and “Managing my daily life”, elucidated how the patients’ learning needs arose from questions, challenges, and concerns triggered by daily situations and contexts. An example of meaning units and subthemes underpinning these themes is shown in Table 2. Below, the themes are described and supported by quotations.
Anxiety and uncertainty as driving forces for learning
This theme highlights how feeling anxious in a new life situation with heart failure triggers questions and the need in patients to understand what the condition means to them.
Regardless of gender, the patients expressed strong emotions related to the concept of “heart failure” and being diagnosed with the condition. This seemed to affect their ability to understand the condition itself and it raised many thoughts and questions.
“Heart failure means that the heart has failed…it is not working anymore…to me, reduced pump function means that it is not pumping as it should… it is two completely different things… heart failure… it sounds awfullysevere.”(Male 7, focus group)
Topics such as the significance of the diagnosis and prospects were highlighted as important issues to know more about and caused great concern and anxiety for many patients. Some cited a lack of understanding of their own situation and expressed a need for more information about chances for a longer life, while others expressed doubt about whether or not the condition could be cured. These questions and anxieties occurred in everyday conversations with family members and seemed to affect and challenge the patients.
“Heart failure, can you die from that?...or what do you need to pay attention to?” (Male 12, diary)
The thought of having to experience several serious side effects caused anxiety and some saw this as unbearable and thus the prospect of a longer life was not appealing:
“They tell me that these beta-blockers… which I might have to take some day, will be able to prolong by life… but if my life is going to be like this… my ears are buzzing all the time… having problems with bursting into tears sometimes… all the time… then I would rather die a couple of years earlier… I really don’t want… it is unbearable” (Male 7, focus group)
The psychological aspect of heart failure was mentioned as the worst thing some patients had experienced. Feelings spanned from mood swings to a fear of death, and they wondered why emotions like these would come in connection with heart failure. In this context, they expressed a need for more information.
“It is probably the worst thing I have ever experienced… the psychological thing… it is like having a death sentence hanging over your head…” (Female 2, focus group)
Managing my condition
Patients identified several areas where they wished to have more information in order to manage their condition. In particular, medication was a subject that preoccupied them.
The importance of the opportunity to obtain more information about the effects and impact of medication on the body and heart, reasons for increasing doses, the number of medications needed, side effects, and how to respond to all of this was stressed as being important by the patients.
“I think the drugs for the blood pressure… you get too little information… what effects they have.” (Male 7, focus group)
“I want more information about… why you need to increase the dose… when it is going so well – taking the other dose.” (Male 12, diary)
All patients experienced side effects and reflected on the need to learn more about these effects to enable them to manage their daily lives. They wanted, in particular, to know how they should respond to the side effects. Side effects were reported by several patients to affect them socially and mentally. The diaries revealed frequent experiences of side effects including, e.g., dizziness.
“I go around feeling dizzy all the time, as if I had been drinking... everything is buzzing… and when I walk on the street people think I am drunk… it is very uncomfortable.” (Female 2, focus group)
Despite being preoccupied with such strong emotions as anxiety, the patients had suggestions for their own learning.
“… it could be interesting to see [ultrasonography] when you have… started the medication for blood pressure or the other blockers or whatever they are called… that the heart has started working again… and then you should be over it.” (Male 7, focus group)
Recognizing and reacting to bodily sensations experienced in daily life and contexts during activities was difficult for most patients. When these sensations occurred they wondered what they were and whether or not they could be ignored. They also wondered whether or not they could be critical and the consequences of overlooking them. Learning about sensations and knowing how to deal with them seemed to be necessary to manage daily life.
“At rehabilitation… I sat on the bike and was really out of breath... and I said (to myself) am I out of breath or do I have breathlessness? Is it dangerous or not dangerous?” (Female 1, focus group)
The possibility of follow-up visits was another important issue brought up by the patients. They considered these visits to be a “lifeline,” but lacked knowledge about what would happen when the visits ended.
“Now when I am finished with the medication part with the nurse… is there then no more follow-up… are there no more follow-ups?” (Male 8, focus group)
Having the opportunity to communicate with fellow patients and getting advice from other patients or healthcare professionals were expressed as important issues by patients. These needs were mostly triggered by specific situations or occurred in actual contexts, and the patients used such expressions as “being in the same boat” when they referred to other patients with the same condition and viewed this opportunity as a way to get support. Interactive elements for online support were also suggested.
“I need a website where I can search for different symptoms and someone to talk to.” (Male 12, diary)
Managing my daily life
How to manage daily life surfaced as a third central theme. It covered how the condition challenged and impacted different everyday life situations. This resulted in a request to gain knowledge and skills concerning how to respond.
The work situation was an area where some patients experienced a change because of their heart failure condition. They described how they felt unsure about their future working situation and expressed a need to get information about who to turn to for help. Some described how specific work situations had made them question their ability to manage their current job tasks and had led to changed roles and identities. Consequently, questions about whether it was necessary to find a new job were expressed.
“I really got reminded of my limitations today at the staff meeting where we discussed 12-hour shift; the majority wanted them. I feel “ruled out” because I do not have energy for that and definitely not for three days in a row. I feel sad – should I look for a new job?” (Female 3, diary)
Limitations in daily activities and domestic duties leading to changes were other areas that patients experienced as challenging. Being in specific daily situations made them bring up the question of “how much”. They expressed uncertainty about what activities were “allowed” and found it difficult to get a precise answer to what would be the upper limit for participation in physical activity. The reason for and impact of physical exercise on heart failure was not clear to all patients.
“I think I get different answers to how much I can pressure myself when exercising… the physiotherapist “dares more” when it comes to increasing the strain.” (Male 9, diary)
Most patients linked fatigue with taking medication; none linked it to the condition itself. Fatigue was a frequently experienced symptom in connection with a specific situation, and it created uncertainty. For some patients, fatigue resulted in a feeling of being “handicapped” and affecting what they could achieve on a daily basis.
“I also think it [fatigue] has to do with the medication you get… that it affects the body…” (Male 3, focus group)
Patients taking part as co-designers of a website
Initially, two scaffolds for the co-design process were provided: (1) a low fidelity paper prototype of the website and (2) fifteen post-it topics featuring topics and subtopics in simple text descriptions. Topics and subtopics were based on the patients’ learning needs, which evolved from content analyses of focus group interviews and diaries. Post-it topics included:
• The condition (topic) - What is heart failure. Subtopics included, for instance: Life expectancy, causes for heart failure, psychological aspects.
• Medication (topic) - Patients with heart failure may need multiple types of medication. Subtopics included, for instance: Impact of medications on body and heart, reasons for increasing dose, the number of medications needed, side effects, and how to handle them.
• Daily life (topic) - What is a life with heart failure. Subtopics included, for instance: Work situation, restrictions on daily life and domestic duties, reasons for fatigue and how to deal with fatigue, and exercise.
• In addition, a post-it text included: Video/ultrasonography to illustrate the condition.
The post-it topics were used to outline the paper prototype of the website and were introduced to participants before use. They were not presented as final ideas, but were used to inspire ideas about the design of the website. Following the content analysis of the design sessions with the paper prototype, we revised and re-interpreted the patients’ ideas and built a prototype of the website in a free website environment. This revision informed decisions about how to focus the design and required that parts of the content were adapted to fit in a website context properly (e.g., shorter headings to fit an icon, etc.). The website included large icon images displaying such main topics as “the condition”, “daily life”, and a pull-down menu of the subtopics.
Findings from the design session
The design sessions yielded the following three main categories: “Adapting the content to the patient group”, “Opportunities to interact with peers and professionals for support”, and “Interface for learning”. These categories represented the topics and elements reported as important by patients in the design of an educational website; each category had some subcategories. An example of meaning units and subcategories underpinning these categories are shown in Table 3.
Adapting the content to the patient group
This category concerns how patients wished to access the educational website and the ways in which the content should be provided.
Getting in touch with the audience
Patients emphasized that the website should be easy to access and target the audience and their level of experience with and competence in the use of computers:
“...you need to consider that many of us are elderly…” (Male 13, design session, paper prototype).
Ideas about how this could be addressed by the design were put forward, e.g., by targeting the text and language of the site toward the target audience:
“...there is something about arranging the language to fit the age group.” (Male 14, design session, website prototype)
Clear language and text
A straightforward and understandable language without use of medical terms was viewed as essential and a key issue by the majority of the patients. One patient made the point that,
“it must be words that you can recognize… a broken arm is a broken arm... and not something with a fracture” (Male 15, design session, website prototype)
Some patients emphasized that failing to take this into account could result in patients deselecting important information, something the patients could be reluctant to be open about due to the embarrassment of not understanding. They deemed it crucial that the text and headings should be kept short and clear and easy to read. One patient further linked on to how acute illness or chronic diseases change one’s ability to comprehend things:
“Especially when admitted, some patients become very worried about whether they are going to die tomorrow. … your ability to understand goes down to a level which is not normal or usual because you have these dark thoughts...” (Male 14, design session, website prototype)
For some patients, it was important that the text should be carefully written and not be “frightening” since otherwise it could be overwhelming and scary to read. Some thought other patients preferred fewer details. They expressed the opinion that videos/demonstrations should be simple, without blood, and were concerned that scenes from, e.g., an operating room could be overwhelming. One stated:
“Yes, but I think you should be a bit careful… I had a test of my coronary arteries and, well, that gives a bit of blood… maybe you could do that without so much blood.” (Female 5, design session, paper prototype)
It was also suggested that video material and illustrations could be a way to prepare patients for a test and, likewise, patients who had already undergone tests could share their experiences online.
The topics were recognized by the patients in the design session and they also advocated additional content for the website. One found it essential to include a description of the continuity of care for patients with heart failure:
“What the care is like… and what the treatment and follow-up are like… what options there are.” (Male 13, design session, paper prototype)
Others suggested acquiring knowledge about the reasons for treatments and what to expect, and they stressed the need for more detailed information about the effects of medication on vital organs. They also frequently pointed out that the focus of the topics addressed should be on relevant knowledge usable in everyday life situations, such as how to respond to side effects. One patient said:
“It is essential to know how you should deal with an upset stomach due to medication.” (Male 14, design session, website prototype)
Multimedia applications – to support learning
Video materials showing different tests or treatments within the continuity of care, together with written text, were suggested. Providing information in two ways to enhance understanding was emphasized by some patients. Suggestions for how this could be done, e.g., by ultrasonography to teach about the effects of medication on the heart since patients often did not feel the effects were put forth in Step one. However, some patients had contradictory views on this issue.
Opportunities to interact with peers and professionals for support
This category deals with issues concerning support and interaction through the website.
The website should provide ways to identify with others and to hear from those who have already been through treatments and tests. The patients felt that there was a gap in information and knowledge with respect to, e.g., tests and medication which the website could help to bridge. The experiences of others living with heart failure or having gone through tests or treatments were considered to be of central importance for providing support. The patients suggested free text space to write about their own experiences and discussion forums and saw especially the latter as a good opportunity to receive advice from others and a framework for sharing experiences. Perspectives differed on this issue since some stressed how this could lead to situations where patients would write about their health getting worse and possibly affect those attending the forum and making them feel obliged to act.
Ways and means to receive support from professionals
By providing a frequently asked question section, the patients felt they could learn from the queries of others. The question of enabling users to write questions to professionals at the clinic in a frequently asked question section was also raised. This was viewed as a positive option although it was mentioned that answers should be provided within a reasonable period. Chats or online consultations with professionals were viewed as important parts of the website by some patients and were argued to be likely to save time and be more flexible in relation to the patients’ everyday life. The patients emphasized that the intention behind these options should be clear from the beginning.
Interface for learning
This category concerned the design of the interface of the website.
Patients suggested using the expression “Questions and answers” instead of abbreviations. Lengths of texts and headings were considered important since a short text was seen as a way to keep focus on the subject.
The structure of the website was regarded as important and it was suggested that content concerning, e.g., medication should only cover the most general information. However, the patients also stressed the need to have access to specific advice on how to respond to side effects. The patients also expressed other seemingly inconsistent views. Some felt they were very well informed about their condition. Nonetheless, they called for more explanations concerning medication and reasons for treatment options, which they thought the website should include as well.
Patients suggested toolbars provide layers of information, and they thought that it was feasible for this target group to use toolbars to find information. There were disagreements on the number of topics (illustrated as an icon and serving as links) displayed on the front page. It was suggested to cut the number of topics down from 6 to 2–4 to make it easier to get an overview. However, later, more topics were suggested to embrace more subjects and situations.
Most patients thought it was essential to keep menu headings and texts short. There was some disagreement on how much a topic should embrace and also about understanding the language used for describing the topics. It was considered necessary to balance the description of the content in an accurate and exciting way, avoiding that it was either too specific or too general.
The patients wanted a clear and concise front page. One said:
“I think you should make it simple.” (Female 5, design session, paper prototype).
Later, however, the same patient wished to have more options. Pictures, illustrations, contact information, video material, chats, “Questions and answers,” online consultation, a discussion forum, forum space to share experiences, written text, links, and new knowledge (evidence) were all elements regarded as essential by the patients for the website and : as important means to establish support and obtain an agreeable atmosphere.
A significant finding in this study is the anxiety patients experience when confronted with heart failure. One side of
this coin is that the anxiety becomes a driving force to learn how to manage daily life. Since it is very important for patients to understand the condition, they are highly motivated to learn. This is in line with Illeris’42 and Kneck and colleagues’ descriptions43 of how emotions are part of every learning process and can serve as a driver for learning. Emotions were most dominant in the diaries, which revealed routines and activities in the patients’ daily lives that were highly influenced by these emotions. The other side of the coin was that, due to their anxiety, many patients seemed to be affected in their ability to engage in new learning, which hampered their understanding of the condition itself. In the present study, we saw that patients had difficulties in understanding the language used by healthcare professionals, which could explain why they do not acquire this understanding. This could intensify the patients’ anxiety and uncertainty even more.
The patients in this study identified several areas in which they needed more knowledge and skills to understand and manage the condition effectively in their daily lives. In general, our findings concerning patients’ learning needs are in line with prior work.15,19,22-25 These studies have reported learning needs to involve acquiring information about, e.g., medication, signs and symptoms, risk factors, and prognoses. Our findings also highlight other aspects of these areas which the patients found to be important to learn about and understand in order to manage their daily lives. What is unique in our findings is that they showed how patients’ learning needs were often influenced, connected, and triggered by everyday situations and contexts, placing a greater emphasis on the importance of healthcare professionals being aware of the patient's life and everyday activities. We found, moreover, that most questions arise at home, which stresses the need to take the patients’ daily life situations as the starting point for learning.
We stress the patients’ perspective, and they were able to identify several learning needs such as, for instance, need to learn about bodily sensations in the context of their condition. In this regard, they frequently had problems with understanding such sensations in connection with everyday situations, which made it difficult for them to respond adequately. The need to develop the ability to interpret signs and symptoms and respond to them corroborates findings in other studies.44 Our findings also point out other areas where the patients had a poor understanding and wished to gain more knowledge, including the psychological impact of heart failure, challenges in daily life (e.g., fatigue), work situations, the extent and reasons for heart failure medication, what would happen when their follow-up visits end, and where they would be able to get support and help.
It has been suggested that involving users contributes to making websites more meaningful.45 Our findings showed that patients were, in general, open to the co-design process and the tools, serving as “scaffolds”. This allowed them to envision the future website, express their thoughts and ideas and thus help to point out how to focus and address topics to make the content meaningful for future users. This process served the purpose of discovering elements for additional inquiry and modification.
While diverse kinds of structures for web-based patient education have been put forward,46,47 our findings disclosed which elements and structure the patients requested and thought would be relevant and useful in managing everyday situations, including information supporting their own ability to respond. These inputs and ideas can be important for a website attempting to support patients’ learning about heart failure. In our study, the patients were able to point out elements concerning both details of the conceptual design, e.g., what the website should look like and the physical design regarding, e.g., the atmosphere on the interface, images, menus, etc. They believed that the website should be easy to access and target the audience with regard to form and content, as well as being written in an understandable language without medical jargon. This has been reported previously.15 More importantly, the information should be easy to access and the users should not have to struggle with technology at the expense of getting understandable information about the topic at hand.45 The findings also indicated that the patients wanted such interactive elements to be part of the website as discussion forums with other patients, chats with professionals, online consultations, and “Question and Answer” facilities. The positive effect on the quality of life and decreased use of healthcare services has been reported48 when a website with health information included a discussion group. Patients in the present study argued about how a discussion forum could decrease anxiety and stress. In our study, we saw that patients suggested additional topics, as well as different multimedia applications, such as videos, to prepare for tests and as a way to support learning. Proposing ideas to meet the requirements of a website is central in the design process,49 and video has been described as a way to support retention by means of illustrations and other tangible impacts.45 The patients in this study expressed conflicting views concerning the details of these videos, thereby illustrating that patients do not always know what they want or need.
Although patients contributed valuable knowledge and ideas, our findings revealed more conflicting suggestions for the website. In general, the patients expressed a wish for brief information concerning, for instance, medication, but stressed the importance of having access to additional specific advice on how to deal with, for instance, side effects and voiced a wide range of issues concerning which medication the website should include. Opposing views were similarly expressed concerning the number of topics included based on an understanding of learning needs. They expressed an appreciation of certain topics; however, they wanted few topics, but, on the other hand, requested a website that allowed the users to search for a wide spectrum of information. This seems to suggest a design which should both meet the need of a “patient in need” and be a place for learning for users requesting in-depth knowledge.
Limitations of the study
One limitation is that this research is based on experiences from a single institution. Four participants declined to participate. The reasons were either that they did not feel up to it or felt unsure about whether they could contribute anything useful because they believed that they had limited technical skills. Their perspectives could perhaps have provided important information since many other patients with this condition might feel the same and supporting the learning needs of this patient group might require other strategies when designing online learning tools. Two (out of the four) participants forgot to turn up for the design sessions and they could have perhaps provided new ideas to push the process even further. It could be seen as a limitation that only four patients participated in the design session; however, the goal was to involve patients, listen to their ideas, support their feeling of ownership and learn from the website in order to get an idea of “how to get there” in terms of supporting patients’ learning needs, using an educational website. The use of mixed methods allowed us to get the findings from the first step validated in the second step. By providing a rich description of the context of this research including heart failure patients varying in age and by describing the theoretical foundation for the research and presenting our findings with illustrative quotations, we believe others may reflect our findings into other contexts. Our analysis allowed for some insight into the characteristics of patient learning and findings that can hopefully be transferable to patient learning in other diseases.
In this study, the learning needs of patients with heart failure between their follow-up visits at an outpatient clinic were uncovered from the patients’ perspective. We argue that patients’ learning needs are many-faceted and influenced by daily situations and emotions. They comprise an understanding of the condition, its course and treatment, its life-changing impact on daily life, stressing a need to know how to respond, and understanding who to turn to for help and support in the future. Anxiety and uncertainty drove the learning needs discovered here and they were triggered by everyday situations and contexts, thus emphasizing the importance of gaining knowledge that focuses on everyday life and on how to respond to side effects, bodily sensations, etc. The lack of knowledge, questions, and concerns when facing daily activities become the point of departure for patients’ learning needs and healthcare professionals need to be aware of this in encounters with patients where the aim is to support their self-care.
We argue that patients’ learning needs may be supported by a website and that involving patients as co-designers in the design process can help to point out how to focus and address the topics in order to make the content meaningful for the patients and managing daily situations. Our findings show the need for the educational website to be adapted to the patients’ physical/cognitive/emotional state and everyday life situation. Patients may, however, not always know what they want and need and, therefore, many design decisions will still be left with the designers. Our study highlights the fact that patients’ learning needs can help drive the content of an educational website and that it should target the audience, be clear, well-structured and relevant, present an agreeable atmosphere, use understandable terms and language, and have interactive elements, with peer and professional support, as well as offer facilities for collaboration. This form and structure can help to support patients’ learning needs between their follow-up visits.
Implications for medical education and recommendations for future research
In this study, patients are regarded as learners rather than passive recipients of information about their illness and care. Involving learners in the discovery of their own learning needs has been emphasized previously9 and this study showed what help patients need to understand their illness and how to manage their self-care from their own perspective. We also found how patients struggle with understanding the language used by professionals, as well as with feelings of anxiety which impeded their learning process. This knowledge could prove to be useful for the development of new patient learning activities within the area of heart failure or heart disease in general. Healthcare staff need to understand the importance of this matter and learn to put greater emphasis on giving patients the opportunity to describe their own learning needs or gaps in knowledge between where they are now and where they want to be. Healthcare staff should also encourage patients to bring forth ideas to meet these needs and how their anxiety can be eased since this could support them in becoming independent and self-directed learners. Moreover, the role and impact of anxiety and uncertainty need to be understood and taken into consideration when designing patient learning in general. Since patients struggle with understanding the language used by healthcare professionals, the professionals need to express themselves in a more simple language. The patients in this study came up with many useful ideas and focused to a great extent on the development of interactivity of the website, which may enhance the learning experience. Patients can act as co-designers and should be invited to take part in the design process since they, in this role, can help point out how topics can be addressed and how they could be useful and meaningful for managing daily situations and relevant problems, which is of interest to the adult patient learner.9,42
There is a need for further studies on the learning needs of patients with heart failure from the patient’s perspective in order to design the most effective educational program for patient learning. Future research needs to investigate how we can design a supportive learning environment for the patients and how to manage the sometimes contrasting and conflicting opinions voiced by different patients. Another important issue is to consider how to make this knowledge a part of undergraduate and continuous medical and healthcare education.
We are very grateful to the patients who participated and shared their experiences with us. We also wish to thank the Department of Cardiology at Aarhus University Hospital for supporting this study.
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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If Formula 1 is officially listed as a mixed championship, the place of women in the discipline remains in reality still too weak. Focus on this evolution in motorsport.
Historically discreet and invisible
In 75 years of history, only five women have driven a single-seater in Formula 1, and paradoxically, these pioneers have appeared on the front pages of motorsport. Maria Teresa De Filippis made a total of three starts between 1958 and 1959, including one in Monaco. In 1978 Lella Lombardi finished 6th in the Spanish Grand Prix, finishing 21st with 0.5 point.
The short list continues with Divina Garcia, who has three non-qualifiers in 1976 and 1978. In 1980, Désiré Wilson attempted, unsuccessfully, to qualify for the 1980 British Grand Prix, at Brands Hatch, with a Williams.
The case of Giovanna Amati is notorious for being used as a marketing tool in F1. In a precarious financial situation, the Brabham team decided to hire him in 1992 to bring back sponsors. After only three races in which she failed to qualify, Amati left the stable. More recently, Susie Wolff, Katherine Legge and Marie de Vilota have taken part in winter testing, free practice or private testing.
Formula 1 does not stop at single-seaters and Grand Prix. Motorsport brings together an arsenal of different professions and roles. Today, for example, Claire Williams has become one of the most powerful protagonists who took over the management of the legendary Williams team between 2013 and 2020, succeeding her father Frank, founder of the team. A ubiquitous position that puts women at the forefront of Formula 1 – in the spotlight on a daily basis in the paddocks.
In 2014, at the British Grand Prix, test driver Susie Wolff drove the Williams single-seater instead of Finland’s Valtteri Bottas during free practice. A first since Italy’s Giovanna Amati behind the wheel of a Brabham in 1992. A few years later, Wolff would talk about the world of Formula 1: “The paddock is like a pool of sharks. There will always be people against women in Formula 1.”
Now director of the Venturi team in Formula E, she stands out as one of the first women to step forward to champion the presence of women in motorsport.
With the purchase of the commercial rights to F1 by Liberty Media in 2018, the new management made the decision to remove the Pitgirls and Grid Girls from the podiums. the media. A decision justified by the new owners who confirm that this practice is not “was more in line with modern societal norms” of the woman.
Rare supports on the paddock
Without discussing performance and competence, women in motorsport are often sexualized and belittled because of their physique. Jenson Button told British magazine FHM in 2005: “A girl with big breasts would really not enjoy a bath. The mechanics wouldn’t be able to concentrate. Put yourself in the position of the person who has to fasten their seat belt.
While Eric Boullier, former Lotus Team director, gave a speech full of negative bias: “Women don’t have the same ability to coordinate behind the wheel as men. There is also one more step to take: the survival instinct. If a girl can do that, she might become a real tomboy.”
In his book The Pits: the real world of Formula 1 Journalist Beverley Turner reported the words of one of the bosses of the German brand during a dinner with two Mercedes heavyweights: “We have excellent drivers, very talented. The problem, Beverley, is that they’re not very pretty. They are strong, they are fast. But they are not beautiful. Pretty ugly even. They look like men”
A scientific explanation?
Another hot topic: Can a woman biologically handle the same G’s, the same turns, and the same speed as a man? A question was raised following the statements of several pilots about the physical dimension, including Frenchman Romain Grosjean who questioned whether a woman could physically support the discipline – knowing that a pilot can lose up to 5 kilos per Grand Prix.
According to a US military study of fighter pilots, women bear the effects of acceleration just as well as men, even though they have an average of 30% less muscle.
The best in perspective
Seven-time world champion and regarded as one of the greatest drivers in history, Lewis Hamilton has often used his platform to spread social messages, such as during the Black Lives Matter movement. He said about this in December 2019 in a video published by his team: “I hope one day a strong young woman will come along and beat everyone”†
There is hope and the door is absolutely not closed, on the contrary. This season, several teams are part of the female test and development drivers: Colombian Tatiana Calderon at Alfa Romeo and the promising Jamie Chadwick at Williams, who represents the rising star of motorsport.
The 23-year-old Briton said of her status as a woman in F1: “It is of course a big dream, but I sincerely believe that it is possible and that I can achieve something. So I will do everything I can to make it happen. Yes, it’s a male-dominated sport, but there’s nothing stopping me from going.”†
Some female figures would rather opt for a women’s Formula 1 championship, such as the WTP in tennis or the WNBA in American basketball. In 2017, Renault essayist Carmen Jordá proposed a separation between men and women to allow them to exist in the media and in sport: “I believe that a women’s F1 championship would give us the opportunity to fulfill our dreams and compete on an equal footing like in other sports”†
In 2019, the W Series, a motoring championship exclusively reserved for women, was established and signed a long-standing partnership with Formula 1. Director Catherine Bond Muir was delighted with this agreement, which symbolizes a step towards progress: “We want the W Series to entertain and it will. But we also want it to become a vital stepping stone for any driver looking to build a professional career by default and our proximity to F1 will help and improve that process.” A woman who will soon compete with Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc? | <urn:uuid:56efb062-f49f-44fc-826b-2dae78e5d919> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sebotaj.com/what-place-for-women-in-the-paddock/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959097 | 1,357 | 2 | 2 |
Milton College: President's Home
Anderson House, a.k.a the President's House.
Backstory and Context
Joseph Goodrich, founder of the Milton House, began a school in Milton, WI in pursuit of a public place for education. Milton Academy was founded in 1844 and was geared toward young men interested in business and both genders interested in teaching in public schools. The old building became unsuitable and to make proper accommodations, the Milton Academy was founded in 1854. The school continued to grow until 1980 when the college was under financial stress. The college officially closed in 1982 and it’s buildings have since been re-purposed for apartments, offices, shops, and much more.
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BOSTON — It has been so gradual in emerging that it’s escaped much notice, but there has been a game-changing development in the local theater scene over the past few years. Where not that long ago the actors and audiences were what one local artistic director called “a sea of white,” the Boston scene today is open to a much more diverse set of opportunities, particularly for actors, while there is an increased willingness on the part of artistic directors to embrace a wide open dialogue on the subjects of race, ethnicity and identity.
To an extent, there has always been an openness to have that dialogue, though many of the attendant issues were frustrating to just about everyone concerned. Minority actors didn’t think they were getting a fair shake. The material often seemed dated or forced. There would be one or two excellent performances, but some weak ones as well. Black or Asian audiences would come out for a play with content about black or Asian characters and not be seen again.
All those issues have changed for the better in recent years. Radically, in some cases. Most important, there is no cause for condescension when talking about ethnicity on local stages. Some of the most riveting theater in the past few years has been about race with excellent casts of varied ethnicities, from stars to supporting players.
A good part of the story rests with the emergence of Company One from a fringe company to the forefront of the local dialogue. It has always been part of the company’s mission to widen the Caucasian chalk circle, so to speak, and every year its circle shines brighter, from the multiethnic “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity” two seasons ago to the recent acclaimed collaboration with ArtsEmerson, “We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915.”
A half-dozen actors of color — black, Latino and East Asian — were terrific in those plays and the company has won strong reviews for other productions featuring Asian and African-American casts.
And speaking of ArtsEmerson, one of the great highlights of 2013 was the South African adaptation of Strindberg, “Mies Julie,” which moved the play to post-apartheid South Africa. (Africa is also the subject of the American Repertory Theater’s “Witness Uganda” and Apollinaire Theatre Company is billing "Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God,” which deals in part with the AIDS crisis in Africa, as “a postcolonial ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ ")
SpeakEasy Stage Company, as well, has been a bastion of plays and musicals about race in America. Again, it has always been part of the company’s mantra, but when you think of first-class theater in Boston over the past 10 years, productions like “Caroline, or Change,” “The Motherf***er with the Hat” and “Clybourne Park” come readily to mind, all with rich, diverse casts. I haven’t been as taken with their big musicals — “In the Heights” and the current “The Color Purple” — but those productions are no less part of the story of making Boston home to a wider variety of opportunities for actors and more varied stories for audiences.
There is understandable grumbling that local theater companies are slow to cast actors of color in roles that aren’t written for minority actors. Particularly when the plays aren't about race. When the Huntington Theatre Company cast a slew of local actors in “Our Town,” the town looked all white.
No one has been more committed to color-blind casting than Wheelock Family Theatre, as is evident from its current, superb production of “Hairspray.” Susan Kosoff’s production is the culmination of everything the company has preached since its founding in 1981 in terms of diversity, with exceptional white and black ensembles all fronted by the inspired, nontraditional casting of an Asian-American, Jenna Lea Scott, in the starring role of Tracy Turnblad. The audience on the night I went was also strikingly diverse.
And the material, as those familiar with the John Waters movie or the musical know, is anything but politically correct even though “Hairspray” wittily embraces similar values. Fiddlehead Theatre Company had similar success with its November staging of “A Little Princess,” its first production as resident company of the Strand Theatre in Dorchester.
The Lyric Stage Company of Boston has also stepped out of that box in a big way. After an excellent production of “Chinglish” last season, featuring several fine performances by members of the local Asian-American community, two of the actors have been prominent this season in non-Asian roles at the Lyric: Celeste Oliva in “Becky’s New Car” and Tiffany Chen in "One Man, Two Guvnors" and “Working.” Half the cast of "Working" was nonwhite and Spiro Veloudos has three actors of color in "Death of a Salesman," which opens Sunday. David Miller at Zeitgeist Stage Company has also been a leader in color-blind casting, as has Actors’ Shakespeare Project.
Veloudos, asked if there was a conflict between seeking diversity and finding the best actor for a part, said, "I want a diverse cast of the best actors I can find."
“Water by the Spoonful,” another play at the Lyric this year, wasn’t quite as impressive despite playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Pulitzer Prize, but it still represented an important part of the dialogue. Here’s what I said at the time: "The characters in the play are Puerto Rican, Japanese, Iraqi, African-American and, yes, white. It feels like 21st-century America trying to find connectedness among each other, despite all the barriers and tragedies in their way. [Director Scott] Edmiston and the cast certainly find it in their chemistry; Emerson graduate Theresa Nguyen stands out as a particularly bright prospect.”
Another cast member from that play, Johnny Lee Davenport, has become one of the theater community’s leading lights and he’s now distinguishing himself at the New Repertory Theatre as a newly freed slave — Jewish, no less — as the Civil War comes to an end.
It’s an excellent production of Matthew Lopez’s “The Whipping Man,” in which a young Confederate soldier comes back to the plantation where Davenport and another black man have been left holding the falling-apart fort. Lopez's provocative play says as much about 21st-century race relations as 19th.
Davenport, who had been based in Chicago, has starred in various Shakespeare & Company productions, including “Women of Will” and “Othello.” He was more of a leading man for them in the ‘90s, at a time when the midsize theater scene in the Berkshires was light years ahead of that in Boston.
Now that the eastern part of the state has caught up, Davenport — who won an Elliot Norton Award in 2011 for the Lyric’s “Broke-ology” — is based here. In the past year he’s had featured roles at the Lyric (“Water by the Spoonful”) and Gloucester Stage Company (“Driving Miss Daisy”), in addition to his excellent performance at the New Rep.
"I like good storytelling," he said, "and that’s what Boston is opening up to. Good storytelling. It seems to me like Chicago in the late '80s and early '90s, Boston has that energy. That’s why I stayed. This is my seventh year in the area, becasuse it felt like theater scene was going to explode." At the same time, Davenport is frustrated that he's not cast more in roles that aren't specifically race-based. "I kind of like the way that Shakespeare & Company does it. I’m going to be playing Bottom there this year. It’s about character, and not just looking at what the color of a character might be." Still, he's encouraged by the work that the Lyric and Actors' Shakespeare Project have made in that direction.
It's also noteworthy that the productions mentioned in this piece don’t feel like any given company’s “black play” or “Latino play” or “Asian play.” It would be naïve to suggest that the ethnic makeup of these productions doesn’t figure into the artistic directors’ philosophies of putting together a season, but they all seem fully integrated into those companies’ seasons. When you think of the Company One season, for example, it barely matters what the ethnicity is from one play to the next.
Playwrights of color are finding more opportunities lately, thanks in large part to the Huntington Theatre Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Company One. The Huntington under Nicholas Martin and Peter DuBois has been an artistic home for Melinda Lopez (“Sonia Flew” and the upcoming “Becoming Cuba”) while also producing plays by other local playwrights such as Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro, Lydia Diamond and Kirsten Greenidge. Diamond’s “Stick Fly” deservedly went to New York after its Huntington run. (Lopez’s parents emigrated from Cuba; Alfaro is Japanese-American and Diamond and Greenidge African-American.)
The behind-the-scenes teams are still pretty white, though Benny Sato Ambush (“The Whipping Man,” “Driving Miss Daisy”) has been a sought-after director in Boston and Gloucester, and his subtle work in modulating “The Whipping Man” shows why. Summer L. Williams won an Elliot Norton Award in 2009 for Diamond’s “Voyeurs de Venus” in 2009 at Company One and her superlative work for “We Are Proud to Present …” for Company One at the Paramount shows she’s more than ready for bigger stages.
Williams, who is also the director of public relations at Company One, says that the theater's programming is matched by an increasingly diverse audience. "Our numbers, not only in terms of people of color, but economic and age diversity, are pretty great across the board and were atypical of theaters in the area according to a big study in 2004. It's so core to our mission that what we're finding is that while numbers trend with content, people who have a good time at one show will give us another go."
There’s obviously plenty of room for improvement on all these fronts, but I’ve been covering theater in the area since the mid-‘90s and there has been a dramatic difference in the past 20 years, particularly the last five. These developments didn’t happen overnight, but there has most assuredly been a parting in that “sea of white.” | <urn:uuid:d10db4ee-a3bb-44e0-8b4f-312ca1b21b8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wbur.org/news/2014/02/13/theater-diversity-boston | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971861 | 2,411 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Lorne A. Babiuk
University of Alberta
2-51 South Academic Building (SAB), Edmonton
Alberta T6G 2G7
Dr. Lorne A. Babiuk is a world-renowned virologist who has devoted his career to safeguarding the health of animals worldwide. He specializes in immunology, pathogenesis, molecular virology and vaccinology and is a world-renowned expert in infectious diseases and their control, specifically through vaccination. He has invested significant time and energy in teaching, training and mentoring new generations of outstanding researchers and holds an impressive record of achievements in technology transfer. He helped build a highly successful institute and strong international collaborations, and has contributed extensively to the formulation of science policy in Canada.
Throughout his career, he has combined molecular biology, immunology, and whole animal studies to understand the basic biology of infectious diseases, which forms the foundation for their control through vaccinations. The development of these six different vaccines by Dr. Babiuk has dramatically improved the health of animals around the world and the livelihood of livestock producers by reducing economic losses due to infectious diseases. For example, the calf scours vaccine has saved producers hundreds of millions of dollars annually, translating into reduced food costs for consumers. Similarly, the vaccine for bovine respiratory disease (shipping fever) has saved livestock producers hundreds of millions of dollars and is a critical component of all intensive livestock operations. Currently, all feed lot operators vaccinate to ensure losses from shipping fever are controlled. More recently, Babiuk developed a capripox virus vaccine which protects sheep, goats, and cattle against sheep pox, goat pox and lumpy skin disease of cattle. More importantly, he was able to insert the genes from the protective antigens from peste des petits ruminants and Rift Valley fever into the pox virus to protect animals against all five diseases. Furthermore, reducing Rift Valley fever in animals not only protects the animals but also results in the protection of humans from this zoonotic disease. The need to develop thermal stable vaccines, where transportation to rural communities in developing countries results in vaccine inactivation caused by high temperature during transport, is critical. This thermostable vaccine will significantly impact food security and the health of animals as well as people who depend on livestock for their food and livelihood.
He led the organization from 1993 to 2007, turning the Veterinary Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) at the University of Saskatchewan into a global leader in infectious disease research of animals. Under his leadership, the organization embraced biotechnology and collaborations with other universities and industry.
During his tenure, Babiuk not only built the physical structure, but also attracted approximately $300 million in funding to the University from governments, industry, and philanthropy, in order to recruit key researchers. As he conducted his ground breaking research and led VIDO, Babiuk also had the foresight to recognize the importance of protecting intellectual property in an academic environment and, as a result of his activities, VIDO has been awarded over 90 U.S. patents with an additional 35 pending. He personally holds 40 patents. Furthermore, Babiuk was pivotal in negotiating research contracts and licensing agreements with major global animal biopharmaceutical companies as well as start-up biotechnology companies focusing on animal vaccines and immune modulators.
Training of the future generation of veterinarians and researchers has also been a primary goal of Dr. Babiuk throughout his career. He has won teaching awards from students and major international research awards for his work in helping understand disease processes and then developing strategies for their control. His 100 plus trainees (PhD and post-doctoral fellows) populate all corners of the world, working in governments, organizations, biotechnology and major biopharmaceutical companies, as well as academia.
In his career thus far, Lorne Babiuk has been instrumental in enhancing linkages between the veterinary and human disease communities, which is extremely timely, as currently more than 75 per cent of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic (transferred from animals to humans). This kind of collaboration has led to the novel concept of developing vaccines for animals to protect humans and to the One Health Concept, of which he has been a pioneer. His consultations with major animal health companies around the world, as well as with international and national organizations, governments, and policy-making bodies, attest to his global recognition.
GCHERA World Agriculture Prize
The Prize aims to encourage the global development of the mission of higher education institutions in education, research and innovation in the agricultural and life sciences by recognizing the distinguished contribution of an individual to this mission.
The Prize was formally proposed by both Prof. Zhai Huqu, the former-president of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and Prof. Zhou Guanghong, the President of Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) on October 20, 2012 in the occasion of NAU’s 110th anniversary. The Education Development Foundation of Nanjing Agricultural University and Da Bei Nong Group generously sponsor the 50,000 USD prize each year.
GCHERA, the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for the Agricultural and Life Sciences, has the mission to encourage mutual understanding and global co-operation among higher education associations and their constituent member institutions in supporting innovation, and to provide within the global context, leadership in education, research and outreach in the agricultural and life sciences.
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Welcome to post #7 in my “Is my food items safe?” sequence! If you missed any of the other individuals, you can obtain inbound links and the webinar recording on this website page.
These days, we will glance into the large metals that can be located in fish!
What are Weighty Metals?
Weighty metals are elements with significant density that are poisonous in reduced quantities these kinds of as…
These metals in substantial quantities can have a unfavorable influence on an individuals health and in substantial plenty of quantities can trigger organ failure. But some weighty metals are an significant aspect of wellbeing these as iron and zinc. These minerals are important to our overall body in smaller quantities.
How do Major Metals get in Foods?
Hefty metals are all in excess of the earth. The steak you take in will have iron and nuts will comprise zinc. Large metals are in soil, air, and drinking water. As plants developed they absorb heavy metals from the soil and water and when a human being or animal eats that plant they absorb the heavy metals also. If an animal eats plants with large metals that animal absorbs all those metals and if that animal is eaten then these heavy metals get passed to the customer.
This is why the finest sources of iron are generally meats because some animal was taking in crops with iron its full life and has a larger focus in their meat then the vegetation.
Hefty Metals and Fish
When it arrives to fish in the h2o it is no different than animals that dwell on the land. As fish take in algae that has absorbed weighty metals from the drinking water, these types of as mercury, the fish take in the hefty steel from the algae. Frequently moments the most important fish conclusion up with large ranges of heavy metals due to the fact they are bigger up the meals chain.
Environmental variables also have an influence on the sum of weighty metals located in fish. The resources applied in agriculture, industry, and mining get into the water in which fish live- causing them to accumulate large metals in their technique.
Regulation of Large Metals
Heavy metals in foodstuff are regulated by the Foods and Drug Administration (Food and drug administration). Weighty metals are all above and will end up in our food provide, so governing administration is actively checking the concentrations of weighty metals in the food stuff program and will stage in if levels are too significant.
The Food and drug administration does not only watch foods but also cosmetics and nutritional supplements to guarantee that these really do not cause hazardous concentrations of heavy metals to close up in the meals source.
What need to I do about this?
There is no need for you to lower out fish simply because of this! Fish and seafood can provide important nutrition for
- Heart well being
- Bone well being
- Reducing chance for colon and rectal cancers
- Supporting brain advancement all through pregnancy and early childhood
It is suggested to take in 8-12 ounces of fish per week. This will supply you with a good resource of:
- Omega-3 fatty acids (DHA and EPA)
- Omega-6 fatty acids
The Fda implies deciding on fish that are lessen in mercury to keep your major metallic intakes as lower as achievable. Lower-mercury fish incorporate:
…and much more! Be confident to check out out the hyperlink at the bottom of this submit for a lot more in depth information on recommendations.
The Bottom Line
At the finish of the day major metals aren’t all bad and some of them are even vital for the physique to function properly. There is no denying that large metals in substantial portions can be very seriously perilous but what we all have to realize is that these metals are a natural section of our ecosystem and there is no way to absolutely keep away from all of them.
For some high danger populations the small danger connected with taking in some seafood may perhaps not be worthy of it, but in standard we can believe in the Fda to keep an eye on the harmful levels of major metals for us.
Fish is wholesome! Target on the explanations you ought to take in it instead than the reasons you shouldn’t. The positive aspects hugely outweigh the penalties.
So what do I do? I try to eat fish, but I really don’t eat it every single working day.
-Julie & The Interns
P.S. I stage this out in just about every post, but its important to don’t forget- our meals is the safest it has been! I want to emphasize that I rely on the procedure of foods remaining bought in the US with all of the high-quality regulate measures set forth by the USDA and the DHHS (Section of Overall health and Human Expert services), which consists of the Food and drug administration and the CDC.
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Doodling and drawing pictures to help link ideas is a waste of time. You are better off making and going over structured notes.
THIS IS FALSE.
When learning we often want to get to the end goal as quickly as possible, so we re-read and highlight as a means of making us feel confident in a topic. It takes time to visceralise material (to link material to a sensory, emotional or autobiographical moment) and so we avoid doing it.
Taking the time to link a topic to a rich sensory, emotional or autobiographical input acts to deepen the memory and will, therefore, make you more likely to remember the information in an exam.
By coming up with your own visceral analogies, you embed that topic deep into your memory. For example, my Physics teacher tells me that the refraction of light is the change in speed and direction of light as it passes from one medium into a medium of higher or lower density. Those words may go in one ear and out the other. However, if I then think of the ray of light as me on a quad bike a few summers ago, I can make the definition personally relatable. As I’m riding my quad bike on smooth tarmac road I suddenly drive off into thick, dense mud. Hitting the mud makes my quad bike “refract” inwards. Now I will permanently remember what refraction is.
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DANGEROUS GOODS REGULATIONS CATEGORY 3
- Hidden Dangerous Goods
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Book of James 2018-04-18
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Bible Text: James 2:18-26 (ESV)
18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! 20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
25 And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
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CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software are powerful tools for a business or enterprise to use. CRM handles the sales, marketing, and customer service information. It handles activities such as recording customer interactions, sales tracking, pipeline management, prospecting, and creating/evaluating marketing campaigns. On the other hand, ERP handles the back-end processes and internal information. It takes care of tasks like order placement, tracking, billing, shipping, accounting, and supply chain details.
With an abundance of consumer data generated daily, business owners are witnessing a more complex business environment than ever. If customer information is not handled properly, it will become the biggest pain point for efficiency with forecasting, decision making and ultimately – the sales and purchase processes.
1. A 360 degree view of your customers:From sales and support to finance and accounting; these systems provide complete visibility on your customer’s buying habits, order history and general needs.
2. Streamlined operations:Employees only need to enter data once with integrated ERP-CRM software. You can also automate workflow and help operations run smoothly across departments.
3. Faster access to crucial information: Without a fully integrated system, employees run the risk of becoming less efficient, meaning your customers will pay the price.
4. More accurate predictions: With data from a CRM, your ERP software can make more accurate predictions about shipping dates, anticipated product demand and more.
ERP-CRM software integration can help your business improve efficiency and grow your customer base, whether you’re in manufacturing, distribution or service industry. At Sohn and Sol Technologies, our knowledgeable consultants can help you find an integrated ERP-CRM solution that meets your needs in 3 steps:
ERP and CRM integrations may require a considerate amount of investment but every shilling that goes behind this is totally worth it. It helps in increasing the productivity of your company as it is doing the major works in a short period. You don’t have to hire extra people for management and data analyzing. It also reduces the risks of losing data, helps in ISO guidelines adherance as ell as prevent losses from employee theft.
The implementation timeframe varies depending on the modules being implemented. In our experience, we can implement as early as one month for an accounting module. This is based on the assumption that the user or the company already knows what to expect and have necessary data available right away.
There are implementations that take a year or more especially if the organization has growing requirements, incomplete or incorrect data provided and/or management changes.
But this can be shortened by having a strong collaboration between the internal steering committee and us, the solutions provider.
Enterprise systems (ERPs) are beneficial to companies regardless of size or industry. In recent years, small- to mid-sized companies have fueled most of the growth in the ERP industry. While large enterprises dominated ERP usage in the past, niche solutions have made it possible for smaller businesses to implement an ERP system.
Companies pursuing digital transformation often implement software to enable their digital strategies. These companies use technology to enable digital operations and create new business and operating models.
The very first step in preparing in implementing an ERP solution is a concrete business process. The organizational chart should be well defined, the different roles of each function and the process documentation/accountability.
Once the above is established, next step is to establish a steering committee who will manage the project. The team can come from internally or thru a third party. Their role will be the interface between the management, end-users and the solutions provider. They will also be accountable in signing-off necessary chart of accounts, vendor listing, customer listing, SKUs, reports or output expected by the stakeholders, the accountability forms format and the configuration in general based on the organization’s process flow. This team will also handle the UAT and test-to-production milestone.
Return on investment does not just imply in terms of financial gain. It can be in terms of the growth in productivity, efficiency, or in terms of overall improvement in the performance of the company or even to the extent of better transparency in the operations being carried out by the firm and of course, the satisfaction of the users.
ERP automates your entire system while seamlessly integrating them resulting and fast and accurate movement of data reducing redundancy and effect caused by delay. ERP helps you deliver solid customer satisfaction by improving on-time shipments, automating clerical tasks, reducing inventory and providing solid information to make decisions on.
The Shop Floor chaos is eliminated by proper scheduling and material control. Billing and delivery errors are eliminated using system automation. These benefits certainly boost your productivity, reduce extra costs and overheads and ultimately increased ROI.
The two essential factors determining the ROI and Payback potential are Installation and implementation of the software. At Sohn and So we ensure to match the ERP solutions in the market to the needs of our client.
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Op-Ed: ShakeAlertLA won’t give you time to get prepared for a quake. So get yourself ready now
Angelenos got the nation’s first earthquake early warning smartphone app on Jan. 3. ShakeAlertLA generated buzz and downloads, but we humans remain hardwired for earthquake denial. At some point, a devastating event will happen but who knows when or how bad it will be? Merely to raise the possibility makes us want to think of something else.
It might have helped had the rollout coincided with something that reminded us of what’s at stake. Instead of unveiling the app in the slow wake of the holidays, Mayor Eric Garcetti could have waited for Jan. 17, the 25th anniversary of the Northridge quake. Northridge was the last major urban temblor to strike California. Magnitude 6.7, it was responsible for 57 deaths and nearly 9,000 injuries. Property damage has been estimated in the tens of billions of dollars. If you were anywhere near Los Angeles, you remember the shaking — and its aftermath.
Since then, however, California has gone relatively quiet, seismically speaking, leading to a false sense of security — and more denial. The most significant California tremors in recent years — including the 7.1 Hector Mine quake, which rolled through the Mojave in October 1999, and the 6.6 San Simeon earthquake, which struck Paso Robles in 2003 — have occurred away from densely populated areas; fewer than 10 Californians have died.
No warning app can ever be sufficient, no matter how many sensors there are or how quickly it responds.
Nonetheless, complacency of any caliber is a mistake, and ShakeAlertLA is a long overdue countermeasure. Or at least I hope it will be.
Similar systems have already been deployed effectively in Mexico and Japan; during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, early warnings allowed high-speed trains to slow, avoiding derailment, and students to take cover under desks.
That may not seem like much; the Tohoku quake, along with the tsunami that it triggered, killed nearly 16,000 people. But one thing to remember about earthquakes is that their outcomes could always be worse. An early warning system is just one in an arsenal of preparation tools, and we need them all.
That said, it is also necessary to understand the app’s limitations. ShakeAlertLA’s warnings will be measured out in seconds — enough to allow you to pull off to the side of the road, or to get under a table, but not to do a whole lot else. The alert, after all, cannot go out until an earthquake begins; it’s triggered by a matrix of sensors.The more sensors, the quicker, or more accurate, the warning.
At the moment, the grid of sensors in California remains less than 70% complete. And because earthquakes know no borders, we need a built-out sensor network not only in our state but also up and down the seismically volatile West Coast. (ShakeAlertLA fits into a larger USGS effort to create that matrix.)
There are other limitations: You might say ShakeAlertLA’s success will rely as much on mitigating our expectations as on mitigating risk.
That’s because of how the app works. In the first place, you have to have a smartphone and keep it on and charged. The app only maps quakes whose shaking will be felt in Los Angeles County. And the alert doesn’t sound for a tremor smaller than a 5.0.
That leaves out a lot of earthquakes. They happen all day, every day across California. There were more than 200 during the first nine days of 2019 alone. Most are so small they occur outside conscious perception. The largest of those early 2019 tremors, for instance, was a 3.2 on Jan. 9 near Ferndale, and only three others measured as high as 3.0.)
It makes sense that the app designers have built restrictions into the program, otherwise, there would be alerts constantly, inducing either panic or ennui. At the same time, seismologists will tell you that magnitude is a function of many things, including how long a quake goes on. Small earthquakes can turn into big ones, and an alarm set to go off at 5.0 might give you less warning time than you’d want for substantial shaking.
This is the essential challenge facing any early warning system; it’s not a prediction, it’s an alert. ShakeAlertLA will miss temblors. There will be false alarms. But no warning app can ever be sufficient, no matter how many sensors there are or how quickly it responds.
You won’t have time to get prepared for the big one, you have to be prepared.
I downloaded ShakeAlertLA as soon as I heard it had been released. As I write this, there have been no alerts. I’m not sorry to report that, but once again, when it comes to earthquakes, out of sight means out of mind.
How do we reckon with a threat that is both ever-present and unpredictable? How do we integrate awareness into our daily lives?
ShakeAlertLA is just one piece of a larger preparedness puzzle — a small part, but helpful nonetheless — which is why I wish it had been launched with a bigger bang.
David L. Ulin is a contributing writer to Opinion.
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to an army in winter. Leslie, who has followed close on his rear, takes his position on the slope of this range, with an army about twice as numerous as Cromwell's, and full of spirits, as of men giving chase. What followed has been graphically described by Carlyle, whose description, however, is too lengthy to be quoted verbatim. I shall give you my recollection of it, partly in his words, partly in my own, as may best suit my purpose. On the Monday morning, before sunrise, Leslie moves down his horse to the other side of the Brock to that on which Oliver has his line of battle. In the afternoon of the same day, Cromwell sees, from the movement on the hill, that he is bringing down his army to the position which his horse have occupied since the morning. He is evidently preparing for attack, and probably hopes to annihilate that hemmed-in English army. Cromwell considers that it will be an advantage if he attack first, instead of waiting to be attacked ;—“Here is the enemy's right wing coming out to the open space, free to be attacked on all sides; and the main-battle, hampered in narrow sloping ground between Doon-bill and the Brock, has no room to maneuvre or assist; beat the right wing where it now stands-take it in front and flank with an overpowering force,-it is driven upon its main-battlethe whole army is beaten;"—mentions the plan to some of his generals, who cordially approve. At nightfall the word is given. “Trust in God-pray-and keep your
— powder dry.” It is a wild night-windy and wet.
The English, in their tents, are wakeful and prayerful, looking to Heaven, and keeping their powder dry. The Scotch, without shelter, put out their matches, all but two in a company, and seek refuge and sleep under the stooks of
Before daybreak, when the time for attack arrived, the moon, as if favouring Cromwell's plan, shines through a rift in the cloud. A trumpet is heard in the Scottish
camp. They are evidently astir; and Lambert, who is to head the English, is not here. After some signs of impatience from Cromwell, Lambert appears. Then the trumpet sounds the charge. The cannon thunder all along the line. The watchword passes from rank to rank: “The Lord of Hosts, the Lord of Hosts!” Steadily, surely, they advance,—those brave ones who have never known defeat. The Scotch, who thought to surprise them, are surprised instead_cannot resist the onset. After a short, sharp struggle, they begin to waver. Oliver, who is watching the conflict, says, “They run! I profess, they run!” And as over St. Abb’s Head and the German Ocean the first gleams of the level sun fall upon them, like another Joshua he exclaims—Now
“Let God arise, and scattered
Let all his enemies be;
Before his presence flee.' The conflict thickens. The watchwords are repeated. “The King--the Kirk—the Covenant!” “The Lord of Hosts—the Lord of Hosts !” Nothing can withstand the resistless charge of the Ironsides. The right wing is scattered, driven hither and thither. Most of them rush over their own foot, trampling down the poor men, who are just rising in a shivering condition from under the stooks of corn, their matches out, or but newly lit. At the foot of Doon Hill, Cromwell commands a halt, until his horse can gather for the chase; and there, devout in triumph as in trial, summons them to recognise the God of Battles, and ascribe their victory to Him. With the Ironsides around him, the grim furrowed brow bared in that morning light, he gives out the 117th Psalm, which to some fine old tune those stern warriors send rolling above the smoke of battle, clear and grand against the sky :
“O give ye thanks unto the Lord,
All nations that be ;
His name to magnify !
His loving-kindnesses ;
The Lord, 0 do ye bless !" Never before had such psalm been sung in such circumstances, since the days of the Hebrew warriors and kings. No wonder-it was Cromwell's crowning mercy. Never had there been such a victory-ten thousand prisonersnearly all the foot in a mass—besides hundreds slain! The fact and the formula had met in deadly grapple, and the fact was triumphant, as, in the long run, the fact will ever be,
The battle of Dunbar destroyed the Covenanting army, and left the party without power, as they were without pretext, for any formidable or organized resistance during the remainder of the Protectorate. Cromwell, while governing with firm hand, granted to the Presbyterians, in their religious observances, all the liberty which they could fairly claim. He left them free to carry out their polity in their own congregations, though he censured and prohibited their attempts to enforce it on others. After a lengthened correspondence with them, in which, to our thinking, he has the best of the argument, and appears to greatest advantage, he closed their General Assembly; a measure which, though it may appear despotic, their controversies and bickerings had rendered necessary to public tranquillity, and which sending the ministers home to their flocks, to devote themselves, without distraction, to their pastoral duties, was fraught with good both to themselves and the nation.
With the amount of liberty enjoyed, the best of them appear to have been tolerably satisfied. If they wished to see Presbyterianism occupying a more commanding position, and retained their preference for Monarchy in the abstract, they had seen too much of Charles to think of seeking to gain their object by adopting measures for his restoration. And when the Royalists gathered together a motley army, to restore the king, with or without conditions, and the General Assembly of the Kirk passed resolutions approving of their procedure, Argyll, the leader of the Covenanters, kept aloof from the movement; Warriston, another of their prominent men, opposed ; and a large minority in the Agsembly, headed by James Guthrie, minister of Stirling, protested fiercely against the resolution of their brethren. In this way the party, already too reduced in numbers, was divided into the two sections known as the Resolutioners and Protesters, between whom, for years, a bitter strife was maintained, which greatly facilitated the triumph of the common foe.
It does not accord with our purpose to dwell on the events connected with the Restoration.
Suffice it to say that Charles arrived in London in 1660, not one whit improved by ten years of exile and adversity. Perhaps he was not capable of improvement. Certainly it would have been difficult to find in the three kingdoms—I do not say a worse, but a more worthless man. We cannot call him a tyrant,the designation would be too flattering; tyranny involves a certain grandeur, a degree of earnestness and strength, of which he knew nothing. We cannot even say that he was a bigot, like his father. Of the small modicum of merit which that charge would imply, he was entirely destitute. He had not sincerity enough to be a bigot. He was a mere heartless voluptuary, whose highest object, whether as a monarch or a man, was his own sensual gratification. Utterly void of all religious conviction, his preference of one form to another was determined solely by the extent to which it left him free to pamper bis baser desires. He became a Presbyterian, when by that means he
might obtain the Crown ; and had circumstances remained unchanged, he would have had no objection to continue one, except that its stricter discipline interfered with his licentious pleasures, and afterwards led him to say, “It was no religion for a gentleman,” and that he“would not suffer a set of low fellows to be prying into bis private affairs." At the Restoration he was ostensibly an Episcopalian, because that was the only condition on which he could fill the English throne. All the while he was a Papist at heart, and a Papist he died. Not, indeed, that he had any secret conviction of the Divine origin of Popery; but only that he secretly thought it the most convenient, and preferred it because its easy morality, and its system of Absolution and Indulgences, rendered it possible, as he thought, to couple the debaucheries of a harem in this world with the delights of a heaven in the next. He reigned like a worse, because a Christian, Sultan, joking with his courtiers, and dallying with his courtezans, while the kingdom was committed to the care of pashas licentious and greedy-birds of the same feather with himself, whose chief recommendation was the efficiency with which they ministered to their master's lusts. It was truly said of him, that “he left the nation more vitiated and debauched than ever it was by any other king.”
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On May 24th, Finnish Millennium Technology Prize 2016 Satellite Event was held at SFC. Mr. Jan Wahlberg, Consul General of Finland in Shanghai, Mr. Jarmo Heinonen, Technology Consul, Head of Tekes, Dr. ZUO Xuejin, Counselor of Shanghai Municipal Government, Dr. Emma Falck, Vice President, Greater China Area, KONE, Prof. LOU Yongqi, Dean, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Executive Vice Director of SFC representatives of Aalto University Student Union attended this event.
Consul General Jan Wahlberg gave the opening speech, introducing Millennium Technology Prize as one of the world’s leading science and technology awards established in 2004, which is a prize of one million euros is awarded by Technology Academy Finland every second year. Afterwards, all participants discussed about issues related to innovation and technology.
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Anthea Butler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A historian of African American and American religion, Professor Butler’s research and writing spans African American religion and history, race, politics, Evangelicalism, gender and sexuality, media, and popular culture. You can find more of her writing and public engagement at Antheabutler.com
Professor Butler courses include Religion from Civil Rights to Black lives Matter, Religion in the African Diaspora, Religion and American Politics, and Ritual and Practice in Religious Studies. She holds an appointment in Africana Studies at Penn, and is part of the graduate group in the History department.
Her books include Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making A Sanctified World, published by The University of North Carolina Press. Her current projects include two books for UNC Press, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America, out in March 2021, and Reading Race: How Publishing created a lifeline for Black Baptists in Post Reconstruction America.
Professor Butler was awarded a Luce/ACLS Fellowship for the Religion, Journalism and International Affairs grant for 2018-2019 academic year to investigate Prosperity gospel and politics in the American and Nigerian context. She was also a Presidential fellow at Yale Divinity School for the 2019-2020 academic year.
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Menopause is one of the most important periods of women's life. It is the permanent end of menstruation as a result of loss of ovarian function. Hot flashes, sweating, sleep problems, depression, irritability, aggression, loss of sexual desire, vaginal dryness, pain during intercourse, difficulty in urination, frequent urination, weak bones (osteoporosis) are common symptoms of. The duration of symptoms varies between people and lasts an average of 3-5 years. Or as close to exactly as entered menopause years of patients with gynecological examination, Pap test, ultrasonography (endometrium, and ovaries assessed), various blood and urine tests, blood tests for cholesterol, kidney and liver, mammography, breast ultrasound, bone density are not necessarily required to get done. Currently, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is recommended only for patients who enter menopause at a young age and for patients with moderate or severe symptoms of hot flashes (vasomotor symptoms). In addition, heart disease, osteoporosis (bone resorption), etc. hormone therapy is no longer recommended to protect against diseases. Bleeding during menopause can be an important sign. You may need a doctor's check. An endometrial biopsy (removal of parts from the uterus by curettage) may be required to investigate the cause of bleeding. This procedure is even recommended for patients with a thickness of the inner wall of the uterus (endometrium) thicker than 5 mm without bleeding. | <urn:uuid:635fcb50-c025-4d31-b5b7-ad1985f755c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.medicabil.com/en/blog/menopause-en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.92214 | 317 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Chronic Bronchitis is an inflammation of the airways that carry air to and from the lungs. It can be a chronic condition or it can be acute. There are many causes of bronchitis, including infection, genetics, smoking, exposure to
irritants, asthma, allergies, allergies to pollen, air pollution, viruses, food allergies, and respiratory infections.
Bronchitis can be cause by bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other bacteria that live in the air. Although most people are susceptible to bronchitis, there are people who are not. People with certain medical conditions or genetic
predispositions to this disease may be more likely to develop bronchitis. An example of a genetic predisposition is cystic fibrosis.
Emphysema is another form of chronic bronchitis. Emphysema is also caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other bacteria that live in the air passages. It is usually caused by chronic exposure to the pollutants that come from vehicles
and factories. Emphysema can be acquired, as an adult, or acquired later in life as an adult.
If you have developed chronic bronchitis or if you are at risk for developing chronic bronchitis, you should pay close attention to your symptoms. You should watch for wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath. If you notice
any of these symptoms, you should see your doctor immediately.
Do not become discouraged if your symptoms do not improve over time. Many symptoms, especially wheezing, are temporary and only occur when you inhale or exhale. If your symptoms worsen over time, or if they are continuously present, it is possible that you have bronchitis.
Once you are diagnosed with bronchitis, your doctor may recommend medication that will help you control the symptoms of bronchitis.
Symptoms that occur with bronchitis include constant coughing and shortness of breath. There may also be shortness of breath while you are breathing. When your symptoms are present, it is necessary to know what you should do if you suspect that you have bronchitis.
If you suspect that you have bronchitis, you should visit your doctor as soon as possible to get a proper diagnosis. Your doctor will perform a physical examination and test you for respiratory conditions. They will also take a history of your medical history, which may include the following:
By answering these questions, the physician can help you determine if you have respiratory symptoms, such as wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, and shortness of breath. The physician can also determine if you are pregnant or if you smoke.
Diagnosing chronic bronchitis is much easier than chronic cough. Just remember, if you think you may have bronchitis, talk to your doctor and then go see your primary care physician.
There are many of them that can be treat properly, but there are many that can not be cured. What Are the Causes of Bronchitis?
Bronchitis is a bacterial infection in the bronchi and airways. Bronchitis can be treated well and even cure on time.
However, there are many causes of bronchitis. It can come from the following sources:-
This is cause by numerous different causes. Some of these causes include smoking, diseases, viruses, tumors, fungi, and bacteria.
Like allergies, a viral infection, or other bacterial infections. All of these can cause or worsen the symptoms of bronchitis.
This refers to air pollutants that we breathe in and around us on a day-to-day basis. This includes dust, smoke, chemicals, and other substances that we cannot see, smell, or taste, but we need to breathe to survive.
This includes any disease that affects the immune system. Any disease that causes or weakens the immune system will cause or worsen the symptoms of bronchitis.
This can also refer to any food that is either unhealthy or causes us to become sick. Any food that contains chemical additives or pesticides will cause the symptoms of bronchitis.
Triggers are things that cause a person to get bronchitis or irritate their respiratory system. They can be anything that causes a person to cough, scratch, sneeze, or gag.
These cause the body to have difficulties in producing enough airways, which cause the symptoms of bronchitis. Bronchitis is also one of the most common causes of asthma.
This causes the body to have difficulty in making enough mucus, which causes the symptoms of bronchitis. The main symptom of an ear infection is inflammation and redness of the ears.
These cause the symptoms of bronchitis because the body becomes unable to make enough mucus to protect the airways of the lungs. They can also cause the symptoms of asthma. | <urn:uuid:4305cb88-2899-474d-acd8-cd846fb9f78b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://re-reality.com/health/chronic-bronchitis-a-short-overview/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95444 | 993 | 4.03125 | 4 |
June 26, 2022 at 14:45 JST
U.S. President Joe Biden, right, waves as he walks past Bavarian mountain riflemen and traditional costumers after his arrival at Franz-Josef-Strauss Airport near Munich, Germany, Saturday, June 25, ahead of the G7 summit. (AP Photo)
SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany -- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes leaders of the Group of Seven rich democracies on Sunday to a three-day summit in the Bavarian Alps overshadowed by the war in Ukraine and its far-reaching consequences, from energy shortages to a food crisis.
The summit takes place against a darker backdrop than last year when the British, Canadian, French, German, Italian, Japanese and U.S. leaders met for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic and vowed to build back better.
Soaring global energy and food prices are hitting economic growth in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The United Nations warned on Friday of an "unprecedented global hunger crisis".
Climate change, an increasingly assertive China and the rise of authoritarianism are also set to be on the agenda.
The G7 leaders are expected to seek to show a united front on supporting Ukraine for as long as necessary and cranking up pressure on the Kremlin - although they will want to avoid sanctions that could stoke inflation and exacerbate the cost-of-living crisis affecting their own people.
"The main message from the G7 will be unity and coordination of action... That's the main message, that even through difficult times... we stick to our alliance," an EU official said.
The G7 partners are set to agree to ban imports of gold from Russia, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. A German government source later said that leaders were having "really constructive" conversations on a possible price cap on Russian oil imports.
The G7 leaders are also expected to discuss options for tackling rising energy prices and replacing Russian oil and gas imports.
The summit takes place at the castle resort of Schloss Elmau at the foot of Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze - the same venue as when the country last hosted the G7 annual meet-up in 2015. Then too, Russian aggression against Ukraine dominated the agenda a year after Moscow's invasion of Crimea.
The summit is also a chance for Scholz to capitalise on being the host by displaying more assertive leadership on the Ukraine crisis.
The chancellor vowed a revolution in German foreign and defence policy after Russia's invasion in February, promising to bolster the military with a 100 billion euro fund and send weapons to Ukraine.
But critics have since charged him with foot-dragging and sending mixed messages by warning that Russia might perceive NATO as a war party and highlighting the risk of nuclear war.
The G7 was founded in 1975 as a forum for the richest nations to discuss crises such as the OPEC oil embargo.
It became the G8 after Russia was admitted six years after the fall of the Soviet Union. But Moscow was suspended in 2014 after it annexed Crimea from Ukraine.
This year, Scholz has invited as partner countries Senegal, currently chairing the African Union, Argentina, currently heading the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, as well as Indonesia and India, the current and next hosts of the G20 group of large industrial nations, as well as South Africa.
"The summit must send not only the message that NATO and the G7 are more united than ever, but also that the democracies of the world stand together against Putin's imperialism just as they do in the fight against hunger and poverty," Scholz told the German parliament this week.
Many countries of the global south are concerned about the collateral damage from western sanctions.
An EU official said G7 countries would impress upon the partner countries that food price spikes hitting them were the result of Russia's actions and that there were no sanctions targeting food. It was also a mistake to think of the Ukraine war as a local matter.
"It's more than this. It's questioning the order, the post Second World War order," the official said.
Visit this page for the latest news on Japan’s battle with the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Cooking experts, chefs and others involved in the field of food introduce their special recipes intertwined with their paths in life.
Haruki Murakami and other writers read from books before selected audiences at the new Haruki Murakami Library.
The Asahi Shimbun aims “to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” through its Gender Equality Declaration.
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The oxidation state of chromium in contaminated soils is an important indicator of toxicity and potential mobility. Chromium in the hexavalent state is highly toxic and soluble, whereas the trivalent state is much less toxic and relatively insoluble. A laboratory study investigated the impact of growing plants and supplemental organic matter on chromium transport in soil. Plants alone had no appreciable effect on the chromium oxidation state in soil. Soil columns with higher organic content were associated with lower ratios of chromate:total chromium than the columns with lower organic matter. Analyses of column leachate, plant biomass, and soil indicate that more chromium leaching occurred in the vegetated, low organic columns. Retention of Cr in the soils was correlated to the Cr(III) content. Plant uptake of chromium accounted for less than 1% of the chromium removed from the soil. Overall, the addition of organic matter had the strongest influence on chromium mobility.
- Heavy metals
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“American Immigration” by Maldwyn Allen Jones
The book American Immigration by Maldwyn Allen Jones is a masterpiece of historical books that gives an in-depth scrutiny of the history of American immigration. The book unveils that certainly, the immigration in America was a momentous happening that represented the history of emigration in the rest of the world. Immigrants who arrived in America came from different parts of the world due to various reasons. From Asia to Africa, as well as from Europe, they all settled in America as immigrants adapting to the conditions and new situations in America. Allen Jones gives a summary of the forces that led to the movement of emigrants from different parts of the world decide to move to America as their final destination.
Jones further analyzes the social, economic, and psychological adjustments that these emigrants had to go through in a bid to prepare themselves for the long stay in America. Jones writes that these adjustments were vitally important because of the fact that it was a new environment that comprised of new people, new social activities, and new culture as well as new economic activities that would deem them fit for survival in the new environment. Everything to them was new and they probably had no choice than to adapt and learn new ways that could enable them to survive. Additionally, Jones’ book endeavors to explicate the impact that America had on the new arrivals from various parts of the globe that had continued to step onto the American soil since 1607. Apparently, Allen Jones records that, since the aforementioned year, over sixty million emigrants had arrived and settled in America and they all had gotten used to the shaping life in America. This book indeed gives an explicit analysis of emigrants, their arrival in America, the impact of America on their lives, and how they also impacted on America apropos their social, economic and psychological impacts.
The book also scrutinizes the role that these emigrants played with respect to labor organization, politics, industrialization, the westward movement, and the growth of American nationalism as well as the development of the American foreign policy, besides the analysis of the theory and practice of the then democracy and the overall ways of their lives. The assessment of these vital facets of the life, ideologies, and practices as was exemplified by the emigrants clearly gives a reason that nudged Allen Jones to write this book. Certainly, Mr. Jones’ book provides the readers with a clear image of the immigration chronicles, making one feel as if they were actually part and parcel of this historic event. Jones’ account of all that transpired during and after the arrival of the emigrants into America vividly offers a great explanation of the transformation that America had on the lives of these emigrants as well as the impact of their presence in shaping America to what it is in the present times. The book’s review of the political role that these emigrants played clearly depicts how and what they were prepared for in relation to their moving to America. A further strength of the book relates the foreign policy towards the immigration, clearly showing how this shaped the United States’ foreign policy as well as that of their native country. The effect of immigration is also seen in the increased population whereby huge masses of people flocked into the U.S and, as Jones explains, they still continued to arrive from different parts of the world. Allen Jones also explains in his book that the emigrants contributed significantly to the economic as well as technological development with regard to the fact that there were many different skilled people all arriving from different parts of the world. The fact that they came together and shared their skills also explains why development was an inevitable course.
Quite a wide variety of Jones’ analysis’s of the impact of immigration shows some strong points backing the historic moment that saw a million foreigners arrive in America. The book explicates the role that emigrants played with regard to industrialization. As more emigrants persisted in their arrivals, there was increased demand of jobs and this gave rise to the creation of various industries. The book further explains that due to the high demand for jobs, there were many factories that were established and more companies were also developed to cater to the growing need of jobs for emigrants who were arriving from as far as France, Germany, England, and Sweden as well as from other various parts of the world. Jones explains that, as more emigrants maintained their flow without any restriction on who enters or leaves America, the population’s increase was at an alarming pace. The book further unveils that industrialization was also made possible because some of the arriving emigrants started and ran their own companies.
Jones reiterates that because life was not an easy pie for the new arrivals, they had to be innovative and exercise high levels of ingenuity in a bid to cope with the new environment. For those who had the chance to work for the wealthy hosts and other emigrants who had started their own companies, the book explains that they worked in extremely hard and unfriendly conditions where they had to share rooms with other people they did not know. Additionally, as the book unveils, some of these emigrants who had the chance to work in the factories were paid low wages and even this did not deter them from coming to work as there were many of them seeking jobs. Despite the fact that they were given the most resented jobs to do in the factories and companies, they did not give up and instead, they worked hard and saved for their own domestic use and others saved and started their own businesses. It is for these various reasons that emigrants resulted to the establishment of labor organizations that sought to protect the rights of those who were working in factories and companies. The effect of immigration on the field of industrialization is well explicated in this book as reviewed.
Additionally, Jones in his book reiterates that the massive influx of emigrants significantly contributed to the growth of American nationalism. Jones recaps that the discriminatory immigration policies that were laid down during the period of American immigration contributed to the growth of American nationalism due to the fact that the new arrivals were forced to adhere to the ways of life of the Native Americans. As such, most people had to adjust their ways of life and accommodate themselves to the new ways; because people came from different parts of the world and they all needed to accommodate each other, they had no ruse other than to embrace American nationalism which indeed strengthened the course. It was particularly essential for the Jamestown settlers as well as the Vietnamese refugees to also adjust accordingly in a bid to ease their lives in the new environment and be able to develop amongst themselves.
The book also unveils that immigration contributed to democracy. The book unveils that as more emigrants continued to flock into America, they also became aware of their rights to be represented in politics. Their craving for democracy was made possible as they challenged the natives on the integral part of embracing democracy. Jones in his book unveils why democracy was important during that time and gives an in-depth analysis of the way emigrants contributed to the growth of democracy throughout America. He further explains that, during this time, democracy was seen to be the ideal tool worth pursuing because of the fact that it was the only mechanism that was to liberate all the American settlers.
The book also talks about emigrants’ long pursuit of democracy clearly showing the ways in which they strived to ensure that democracy was incorporated in American politics. Their ability to notice the significance of democracy and the impact that it will have on the general development of the new environment is well explained in the book, whereby Jones explains that because of the hardship that the emigrants faced in the new environment, some of the democratic political aspirants that rose among them received the support of majority of these emigrants. The book clearly explains that indeed, American immigration was an important phenomenon that transformed America into a better area for all persons arriving from different parts of the world. Their involvement in political issues also explains further the need and drive for democracy which proved to be an inevitable pursuit.
As Maldwyn Allen Jones concludes in his book, he further reiterates that indeed the immigration course contributed significantly to the growth of America into a better nation that was fair enough for the generation then as well as in the preparation of the country for the new generation. Jones points out that America is what it is now because of the impacts that emigrants had in the quest to shape the country for the better because they believed that they had moved from poor countries to settle in America, which indeed worked for all of them. | <urn:uuid:640e5ed8-97fd-48c9-9a47-1886f5eb2a6e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://freshessay.net/essays/book-review/american-immigration-by-maldwyn-allen-jones/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.987487 | 1,729 | 3 | 3 |
Welcome to summer
Summer is approaching, a season desired, loved and, above all, celebrated. And the fact is that in the whole world the arrival of summer is celebrated and there are many rituals full of fun to celebrate this longed-for ephemeris.
As an example, in a Scandinavian country like Sweden this party, called Midsommar, which is the most important of the year after Christmas, takes place in the countryside and consists of games, endless lunches and flowers in the hair. Much further, in the southern hemisphere, this day is celebrated the Inti Raymi, a feast of adoration to the Inca sun god, Inti, which marks the arrival of the winter solstice.
Already in our country, on the night of San Juan, on June 23, the Christian is mixed with the pagan, as it is usually combined this holiday with the commemoration of the summer solstice. Here, to welcome summer, tradition demands bathing in the sea or the river or jumping a bonfire, among many other activities.
Juanes and juanas
And what happens on the Costa de la Luz? How does Conil celebrate this party? Well, they celebrate it and big. This night is one of the liveliest of the summer, for this reason it represents a perfect occasion to have a weekend getaway to this town on the coast of Cadiz, which is flooded with magic, fire, spells and bathing in the moonlight.
In the atmospheric center of this Cadiz town is celebrated the Juanes and Juanas, some dolls that will end up in a big bonfire and that represent with humor everything that happened in the municipality or in the country. This party is completed with lively parades, which fill streets, squares and the beach of people looking for a good time full of joy and fun and attracted by the enigmatic magic of fire.
San Juan. Bonfires
Also, when midnight arrives, the beaches are filled with bonfires that will scare away evil spirits and burn all bad omens. The most daring will jump over these, in order that their wishes come true. Others will simply throw into the fire a small paper where they write their wishes.
Another tradition for these dates is to bathe while observing the moon, an activity that, according to experts in witchcraft, attracts good luck. In this way, again the boldest will have a magnificent bath at midnight without caring about the temperature of the sea, while the rest will settle for approaching the shore to get their feet wet. In that sense, it is necessary to point out that the scholars in the subject proclaim that both options are valid.
Escape to Conil: sun and fun
Can you think of a better place to commemorate the arrival of summer than the beaches of Conil?
Surely not! And it is that Conil offers you a magnificent plan: at night, enjoy this varied and lively evening of San Juan’s Night and, during the day, enjoy the soft June sun on any of its immense white sand beaches and crystalline waters.
And the best choice to rest during this getaway is the rental of a house on the coast, such as those offered by Villas Flamenco. In any of its varied and exquisite accommodations the experience of the night of San Juan will be unforgettable. So, you can choose between the magnificent villas for rent on the beach of Villas Flamenco Beach at Fuente del Gallo or the oasis of relaxation that the charming rural accommodations of Hacienda Roche Viejo offer or maybe you prefer the holiday apartments of Villas Flamenco Rentals, just a lovely walk from the vibrant downtown.
Come and have fun. Enjoy the night of San Juan in the best accommodations in Conil. And, as we love that you spend the holidays with your family, in Villas Flamenco the first child under 12 is free.
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1. Maintenance of Koyo imported bearings: in order to maintain the original performance of Koyo Disassembly And imported bearings in good condition for as long as possible, maintenance and overhaul are required to prevent accidents, ensure the reliability of operation and improve productivity and economy.
Maintain the operation standard of corresponding mechanical Disassembly And operation conditions and carry out it regularly. The contents include monitoring the operation status, replenishing or changing the lubricant, and regular disassembly inspection.
The maintenance items during operation include the rotating sound, vibration, temperature, Disassembly And lubricant state of Koyo imported bearing, etc.
2. Maintenance of Koyo imported bearing: bearing cleaning: when removing the Koyo imported bearing for maintenance,
first record the appearance of Koyo imported bearing, confirm the residual amount of lubricant, and wash the bearing after sampling the lubricant for Disassembly And inspection. As a cleaning agent, gasoline and kerosene are commonly used.
The cleaning of the dismantled Koyo imported bearings is divided into coarse cleaning and fine Disassembly And cleaning. They are placed in the container respectively. First, put the metal mesh bottom so that the bearings do not directly contact the dirt of the container.
During rough cleaning, if the bearing rotates with dirt, it will damage the rolling surface of Koyo imported bearing, which should be paid attention to. In the coarse cleaning oil, use a brush to remove the grease and adhesion. After it is roughly clean, turn to fine cleaning.
Fine cleaning is to carefully clean the imported Koyo bearing while rotating in the cleaning oil. In Disassembly And addition, the cleaning oil should always be kept clean.
in order to judge whether the disassembled Koyo imported bearing can be used, it shall be Disassembly And checked after the bearing is cleaned. Check the state of the raceway surface, rolling surface and mating surface, the wear of the cage,
the increase of the clearance of the Koyo imported bearing and the damage related to the decline of dimensional accuracy. For non separable small ball bearings, Disassembly And support the inner ring horizontally with one hand and rotate the outer ring to confirm whether it is smooth.
Tapered roller bearings and other separable bearings can inspect the raceway surfaces of rolling elements and outer rings respectively.
Since large bearings cannot be rotated by hand, pay attention to the appearance of rolling elements, raceway surfaces, cages, edge retaining surfaces, etc. the higher the importance of Koyo imported bearings, the more careful the inspection is.
1. The resultant force of force application shall pass through the axis of Koyo imported bearing as far as possible, which requires that the force application point shall be uniform, symmetrical and stable, and the force shall be applied through the spherical surface or parallel to the axis.
2. The force should be applied stably and evenly without impact, which requires the use of oil pressure or tools that can apply stable tension or pressure.
When hammering has to be used, it should also be buffered by soft metal without chip falling, such as copper sleeve, and the knocking force should be as light as possible. Hammer with a copper bar or hammer.
3. Avoid applying force through the rolling element, which requires applying force through the inner ring when installing and removing the inner ring (shaft ring) and through the outer ring when installing and removing the outer ring).
4. The drag force shall be maintained to a proper extent.
For example, when installing the bearing, stop the force when the Koyo imported bearing is just installed in the correct position, and ensure that the end face of the ferrule (washer) is against the seat hole or the shoulder end face of the shaft, which can not be squeezed too tightly or installed in place. | <urn:uuid:460bcc41-0ec5-47f2-9b5e-35ab367d8d7a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bearingsupplier.cn/assembly-disassembly-and.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.89254 | 789 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Historian and Professor
Wendy L. Rouse is a historian whose research focuses on the history of gender and sexuality. She has published three books on the history of women and children in the Progressive Era. Her most recent book, Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, was highlighted in the New York Times. Research for the book was supported by a Mellon-Schlesinger grant from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Rouse’s research has also been published in the Pacific Historical Review, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, the Western Historical Quarterly, the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, and Girlhood Studies. Rouse is presently Associate Professor of History at San Jose State University.
Rouse mentors future teachers as the program coordinator for the History/Social Science Teacher Preparation Program at SJSU. In collaboration with community partners such as the California Historical Society, the California History-Social Science Project, and the UC Davis History Project, Rouse has designed lessons and resources to help educators teach LGBTQ+ history.
This project uncovers the queer history of the women’s suffrage movement and explores how suffragists boldly defied the gender and sexual norms of the day.
Children of Chinatown
The Children of Chinatown reveals the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans growing up during an era of exclusion and segregation.
Her Own Hero examines the political and physical empowerment of women through the birth of a women’s self-defense movement in the early twentieth century.
- Newspaper – New York Times. New Books: Public Faces, Secret Lives. May 20, 2022.
- Podcast – Unsung History. The Queer History of the Suffrage Movement. June 6, 2022.
- Podcast – Herstory on the Rocks. Public Faces, Secret Lives. April 12, 2022.
- Podcast – Armchair Historians. Public Faces, Secret Lives. March 15, 2022.
- Video – Her Own Hero. Tilke Hill & Lukia Costello. January 21, 2022.
- Video – Discovering New York Suffrage Stories: Queer Suffragists. Tilke Hill. Buffalo & Toronto Public Media, PBS & NPR, February 8, 2021.
- Video – Suffrage School – Wendy L. Rouse. Radcliffe Institute. Schlesinger Library. Harvard University. July 2020.
- Newspaper – Maya Salam. How Queer Women Powered the Suffrage Movement. New York Times. August 19, 2020.
- Magazine – Sarah D. Collins. The Queer Suffragists Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote. Them. August 14, 2020.
- Podcast – On the History of Women’s Self-Defence in the USA. Martial Arts Studies. May 24, 2020.
- Podcast – The History of Women’s Self-Defense Jiu-Jitsu. Dirty White Belt Radio. May 15, 2020.
- Podcast – Sports from the Grassroots with Greg Rasheed. KZUM Community Radio Lincoln, Nebraska. October 28, 2017.
- Radio – The Joy Cardin Show. National Public Radio, Wisconsin. September 20, 2017.
- Podcast – Thinking Aloud with Marcus Smith. Classical 89, Bringham Young University Radio. October 16, 2017. | <urn:uuid:e15c3e9b-82a5-4081-9ccf-217ebc7f077f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wendylrouse.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.865911 | 702 | 2.5 | 2 |
This study investigated whether secondary school students who were taught a motor learning strategy could transfer their knowledge of the strategy to learning a novel task. Twenty adolescents were randomly allocated to a strategy or control group. The strategy group was taught Singer's five-step learning strategy, while the control group received information on the evolution and biomechanics of the basketball free throw. Both groups received three 1-hour practice sessions on a modified basketball shooting task. After one month, participants were introduced to the transfer task, golf putting. Performance accuracy was recorded for all tasks, and participants completed questionnaires regarding strategy use during practice. Participants taught the five-step learning strategy successfully recalled and applied it after a 1-month interval, and they demonstrated superior performance on both acquisition and transfer tasks, relative to the control group. Physical education teachers and coaches should consider using this learning strategy to enhance the learning of closed motor skills. | <urn:uuid:1ebef50f-e476-424c-8308-d0c53104e3bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ulris3.ul.ie/live/!W_VA_PUBLICATION.POPUP?LAYOUT=N&OBJECT_ID=2863464 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970362 | 179 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Belief-structured remedy plans have grown to be popular, giving aspire to millions of folks battling with habit. Since the title indicates, these plans pull upon faith based belief and spirituality to assist defeat their medication or alcoholic drinks dependence. Even though many skeptics query regardless of whether this approach is useful, studies have revealed that it may significantly increase results for all those in healing.
There are many main reasons why a faith based recovery program may be particularly great for those struggling with habit. Initial, for some, faith and spirituality supply feelings of that means and purpose that could be with a lack of their day-to-day lives. This could be extremely true for those who have dropped believe as a result of devastating outcomes of dependence. By relying on their spiritual morals to assist them to recover, these folks can regain a sense of purpose and meaning in their life.
Here are several factors why belief-dependent therapy applications can be so efficient:
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Covid-19 has identified a variety of recurring weaknesses in the continuing operation of the business world. The lack of training in educating people to make structured decisions, the issue of strategic crisis management strategy, the incompetence of integrating artificial intelligence in the day-to-day operation of a lot of businesses, etc., were some of the key reasons that caused many organizations / companies to fail, to achieve sustainability.
At the individual level, the lack of sufficient opportunities for staff, and also the continuing effectiveness of their own abilities, has often gone unnoticed. Due to this, a lot of people had to bear the brunt of losing their jobs.
In short, while progress has been made, it has been going on slowly. But, Covid-19 emerged as a tipping point, so that people could rattle themselves a little and be aware that progress is going to occur at a breakneck pace. Hence, they need to prepare and brace for the hereafter. But, how are they preparing themselves? Where are they headed? What are the ways to rejuvenate one’s intellectual level and refurbish one’s knowledge?
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Graduates of Westford University College have consistently, particularly during this Pandemic, outsmarted and endured the crisis by keeping back their jobs, benefiting their companies and their organizations overall.
The degree that an individual earns is not just a document, but a process of studying and training, that will help them advance even during times like these.
An MBA graduate testimonial is a fine example of it.
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On a personal level, the hard work you put in an MBA journey is priceless. Once you successfully complete it, no one can take it away from you. You gain more respect and recognition, knowing that there is something valuable in you. That’s the gift of education.
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There are literally as many ways to rear a Chien Francais Tricolore puppy as there are to rearing a kid. In truth, one method per household in general! But most of us concur that when it concerns children, certain things are universal and undeniable. Here are three things that a great deal of individuals simply do not consider when it concerns raising their Chien Francais Tricolores, nevertheless. I can’t count how many times have I heard, “My Chien Francais Tricolore just won’t listen to me”, or “He simply won’t act!”
Chien Francais Tricolores do not understand English until we train them.
The main thing all of us love about Chien Francais Tricolore puppies most is the way in which they live for us, the method they focus all they have on us, the way our lives end up being theirs. In the start, they study us to learn our body language, our expressions and our language. Till we teach them the English language, it’s all they have. If we say, “Need to head out?” one day, “Have to go potty?” the next day, and, “Hafta pee?” the 3rd day, if they DO figure out what we want, it is due to the fact that we have gotten the leash and approached the door with a happy face! If you wish to speed up his training by three-fold, teach him YOUR language. Pick a command for EACH behavior and stay with it. Teach those in your family to use the same words and commands, and your Chien Francais Tricolore puppy will amaze you at just how much quicker he catches on.
A young Chien Francais Tricolore puppy’s metabolic process is racing along faster than we believe.
The more youthful your Chien Francais Tricolore is, the faster he is growing, the more food and water he requires to fuel his metabolic process, and the more regularly he has to go potty. Do not punish your puppy when he makes a house-breaking error. These are YOUR fault. The age of your Chien Francais Tricolore in weeks and his size determine how often he needs to head out. Once each hour is not too much for a big 6-week old puppy, especially if it is summer. Chien Francais Tricolores love the interesting smells outdoors, so there is no excuse to not have him housebroken by 7-8 weeks old. Right after a nap, after he consumes and after grooming are the crucial times, and he will signal you. If he is gladly chewing a toy and gets up all of a sudden with his nose to the floor, act quickly! And every time he goes potty outside, applaud him to high paradise! “What an excellent PUP!”, “EXCELLENT go potty!” and the like. Chien Francais Tricolores love our happy faces, and they will do anything to get it.
Chien Francais Tricolores live for our facial expressions and body language.
Given this, the worst punishment you ever can provide your Chien Francais Tricolore is a grimace and to turn away from him. You can see his tail fall down and his face get so sad. He will learn from the lesson, I guarantee it. But his attention period is only 3-5 minutes, so do not chastise him any longer. Love him up and give him your happy face once again. Physical punishment is never ever necessary. Work with constant commands and loving praise and he will understand what you desire of him before you understand. He will end up being a master of your body language and facial expressions in no time at all.
Naturally there are numerous elements of training your Chien Francais Tricolore puppy well. Loving compassion works just as well for Chien Francais Tricolore pups as it does with kids, developing a delighted, well-adjusted and loyal dog for life. These three essential pointers, used consistently with self-confidence, will start him well on his way.
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Breast Cancer & What Everyone Should Know
According to the Harvard Medical School, in 2017, about 255,180 cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. alone. Today, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Therefore, understanding breast cancer and its symptoms is important, and therefore knowing that it can be treated.
In this weeks post, we will be tackling the basics of breast cancer and how to identify it.
What IS breast cancer?
Breast cancer occurs when cells divide and grow without their normal control. Tumors in the breast tend to grow slowly. By the time a lump is large enough to feel, it may have been growing for as long as 10 years. (Some tumors are aggressive and grow much faster.)
The warning signs of breast cancer are not the same for all women. The most common signs are a change in the look or feel of the breast. Due to the use of regular mammography screening, most breast cancers in the U.S. are found at an early stage, before warning signs appear. If you have any of the warning signs described below, see a health care provider.
Breast and ovarian cancer are more common among Ashkenazi Jewish women (women with ancestors from Central or Eastern Europe). This is likely due to the high prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2.
Everyone has BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, but those who have an inherited mutation in either of these genes have an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.
Among women with breast cancer in the general population, about 2 percent carry a BRCA1/2 mutation. Between 8-10 percent of Ashkenazi Jewish women with breast cancer have a BRCA1/2 mutation.
DID YOU KNOW…
In the US among women in 2017, it’s estimated that:
- 252,710 new cases of invasive breast cancer (This includes new cases of primary breast cancer among survivors)
- Among Ashkenazi Jewish men and women, about 1 in 40 have a BRCA1/2 mutation
- BRCA2 carriers have about a 45 percent chance of developing breast cancer by age 70
How can we support those who have breast cancer?
American Friends of Rabin Medical Center hosts The annual NYC 5K SCHLEP: Breast and Ovarian Cancer Run / Walk, which is a certified 5K that brings together hundreds of participants from the New York tri-state area, ranging in age from 6 – 90 years old, bound together in solidarity to raise the hopes of those battling breast and ovarian cancer as well as awareness and funds to help further research and treatment.
The NYC 5K SCHLEP Run / Walk benefits a BRCA Multidisciplinary Clinic to serve women at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer and funds research to find cures for breast and ovarian cancers. The NYC 5k SCHLEP Run / Walk also supports studies in connection to BRCA mutation carriers. The event raises over $150,000 annually.
Registration: Adult runner/walker – $36, Youth runner/walker (18 years old and under) – $18. All cancer survivors run / walk for free.
2016 NYC 5K SCHLEP Flickr: https://flic.kr/s/aHskCtP4Jt
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The Issue of Muslim Lands Left in Montenegro after the Treaty of Berlin
Zübeyde Güneş Yağcı
Keywords: Montenegro, Balkan Peninsula, Ottoman State, 93 War, Minority
As a result of the new ideas and political developments in the 19th century, the nations under the Ottoman rule in the Balkans aspired for independence. Notably Russia and other European states that wanted to share the lands under the Ottoman Empire supported their desire and willingness. With their support, Greeks became the first nation to get detached from the Ottoman Empire, followed by Bulgarians, Serbs and finally Montenegrins. The most important problem that resulted from the detachment of nations was the Muslim population living in these areas. The first priority of the Christian states in the regions was to reduce the Muslim population-a policy that led to the displacement of large Muslim population. However, this policy not only caused the Muslims struggle for their lives in the new emigrated regions but also raised the question of their lands and goods that were left behind. In this sense, the Treaty of Berlin has revealed a major change by securing immigrants' belongings that they left behind. In this article I aim to examine the issue of lands and goods left in the territory of Montenegro by the Muslim population after the proclamation of Montenegro as an independent state by the Treaty of Berlin. The article is based mainly on the problems faced by the Muslim population which emigrated from Montenegro for various reasons and for not wanting to live under the Montenegrin state sovereignty and their continuing activities to exercise their rights on their belongings, at least through receiving revenue on their goods. | <urn:uuid:d02a5c7d-a9dd-4cd8-b811-4d99dd455c41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://belleten.gov.tr/ozet/254/eng | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969343 | 331 | 3.4375 | 3 |
Digital technology is changing the way we live and work. The pandemic and lockdowns has shown how much we depend on it, from remote working to online medical consultations to video calls with family and friends.
However, the pandemic has also highlighted the gap between the digital ‘haves’ and ‘have nots.’ More than 40% of Europeans have no basic digital skills and almost a quarter of homes have no broadband.
Fewer than 20% of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) use internet cloud services or use the internet to sell their products or services.
How are the EU recovery funds helping Europe’s digital transformation?
The transition to a digital world is a key element in the EU’s pandemic recovery plan. At the heart of the plan is the €672.5 billion Recovery and Resilience Facility will be spent on public investments and reforms.
To access the money, member states have submitted national recovery plans earmarking 20% of the money for initiatives to digitise their economies.
To make sure everyone benefits, the EU wants to see investment in ultra-fast broadband, training people in digital skills, helping start-ups and small businesses innovate and grow, and using technology to become climate-neutral.
Why is investing in the digital transition so important?
Paolo Gentiloni is the European Commissioner for Economy. He says that as in the US, the goal in Europe is to “build back better” after the pandemic and that digital concerns “all sectors of our economy.”
“You can improve through digital how the public administration works, how the healthcare system works, how companies are competitive and working. This is the strength of the investment in digital that they can have an impact on all our economy.”
The pandemic has shown how how connectivity problems exacerbated social differences, such as in learning from home for children and young people.
“This is, of course, unacceptable” says Gentiloni, stating “we have to seize the opportunity to reduce and cancel the digital divide. It’s now or never.”
Europe’s frontrunners in digitisation
Nordic countries and the Netherlands are leading the way when it comes to going digital. But even there, projects are hoping for Recovery Fund money to help their digital transition.
The UN’s ‘e-Government Survey ranked Denmark as world champion when it comes to e-government. There’s no need to leave the house with your driver’s license in your pocket, for instance, you can simply download it straight to your smartphone.
Now, other sectors of the economy are jumping onboard the digital transition.
HMK Bilcon is based in Jutland. Founded by a blacksmith in 1895, the company went from building carriages to truck trailers throughout the 20th century.
Four years ago, Peter Jensby the CEO, launched a complete overhaul of the company to go fully digital, spending two million euros to change the company.
“This transformation has meant a world of change to this workplace, and we now have a company that is profitable and it was losing a lot of money in the old days”, Jensby explains.
More companies, like HMK Bilcon, are expected to go fully digital in the coming months.
Denmark has requested 1,6 billion euros of subsidies from the European recovery plan and will be required to dedicate one-fifth of this amount to the digital transition.
This funding is also of interest to those already in the digital sector, but hoping to expand.
Sahra-Josephine Hjorth created an AI-based software to help teachers and HR managers create online learning programs. The company has quadrupled its staff in 2021 but has had difficulty finding private investors.
“In terms of investment, it can be tricky to attract regular investors for very high-risk features at the forefront of innovation”, says Hjorth. explaining that they hope to combine private investors with EU support.
Gentiloni supports countries investing Recovery Fund money in companies like Hjorth’s, saying they should not only be looking to “the world of giants, it is also a world of start-ups, midsize companies that have their role in this new digital world.”
The EU’s recovery fund will see €134.5 billion dedicated to digitisation, but will it be enough to make Europe a global leader, able to compete with the US and China?
Katrine Forsberg is a Member of the Danish Board of Business Development. She believes the EU can compete at a global level as it has sufficient infrastructure and the skills. She says what is crucial is “investments in small and mid-sized companies to create jobs and to grow the businesses”.
Our film crew was able to film in the Parc de Sceaux courtesy of the Département des Hauts-de-Seine.
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Coronavirus III: What is to be done?
The Body Scientific
We live in evolutionary competition with microbes — bacteria and viruses. There is no guarantee that we will be the survivors. The aphorism from Joshua Lederberg, a founder of molecular biology, is remarkable for its humility and for the challenge it defines. Before the germ theory of disease, which appeared in the second half of the 19th century, medicine was helpless against infection. We have since become good at preventing and treating many infections, so it is galling that we remain stymied in our battle with COVID-19.
The natural world creates new viral genomes by mutation or exchange between two viruses. Some of these viruses escape the surveillance of human immune systems and spread as epidemics or pandemics. What the natural world can mount in the way of threats is greater than anything we could build ourselves, but when a new disease appears, we have an innate tendency to blame other humans, as if nature could not be so clever. Thus, President Trump and Secretary Pompeo have been blaming the Chinese. But Chinese virologists did not make SARS-CoV2.
The genome of SARS-CoV2 is almost 30,000 nucleotides long and is arranged in a code that can be translated into the proteins of SARS-CoV2. On Jan. 9, Chinese virologists deposited the sequence in GenBank, the NIH-sponsored resource for the world’s scientific and medical communities. It had taken them 10 days to sequence and analyze the genome. From that sequence, skilled virologists can make vaccines and begin other studies. Two and a half months into the pandemic, the flow of scientific reports on COVID-19 has become a reassuring flood.
That the Wuhan Institute of Virology deposited the sequence so fast is not the act of people hiding information. Perhaps the more regressive and suspicious functionaries of the Chinese Government, who had already chastised Dr. Li Wenliang (who described the syndrome and then died from it), probably knew nothing about GenBank. Perhaps (purely my guess) the critical sequence information slipped by them, like a fastball low and away.
How did the pandemic develop? Imagine a person with COVID-19 who infects between two and three other people. Thus R naught is 2-3, compared to flu at 1.3 to 1.4. If everyone is taking maximum precautions, they are both much less. Social distancing, hand washing and staying at home reduce R naught. A good vaccine could reduce it to nearly zero, but that is months away.
The COVID-19 coronavirus produces many copies of itself that exit a lung cell in little blisters. If replication of the virus is not slowed, the inflammation and cellular destruction that result cause the blood vessels around the alveoli of the lungs to leak. Liquid and the defensive cells of the immune system fill these air sacs and breathing becomes difficult without supplemental oxygen and often a ventilator. Some people recover, but ventilation is often a long haul.
Between now and the appearance of new vaccines, the best we can do, beyond isolation, is to find drugs that slow the virus infection and protect front-line medical staff. There will probably be a new surge of virus in the fall and it would be criminal to ask nurses, doctors and others to return to emergency rooms without much better protection than they have had.
Drugs that slow viruses similar to SARS-CoV2 exist, and are entering clinical trials quickly. Some, like hydroxyquinoline, don’t work and have been abandoned. Remdesivir blocks the production of the RNA genomes for new viruses. More trials are necessary according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, for whom this is familiar territory from the battle against HIV. Tests of dosage and early use in the course of an infection may make remdesivir more effective. Another drug, baricitinib, blocks the cytokine storms and inflammation that occur days after infection. The NIH is beginning a clinical trial that asks whether the two drugs have additive benefits. Many such experimental treatments with other drugs are being done around the world (see www.ClinicalTrials.gov).
Prof. Arturo Casadevall of The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health speaks of layered defenses. What he has in mind is the convalescent antisera of people who have recovered from COVID-19. Francis Collins, Director of the NIH, has noted that almost all patients who have recovered from COVID-19 have circulating antibodies to the virus. This approach to stopping the virus by supplying such antibodies to the circulation has entered clinical trials in the United Kingdom and will soon be in double-blind trials in the United States. Anecdotal evidence (a scientific oxymoron) says that Italian patients benefited.
It is good to use a layered defense, trying all therapies because there will be a COVID-25, a pandemic flu strain, or a respiratory form of Ebola virus in our future. In this pandemic, we have not performed brilliantly up to now. Science and organization count and we should reinforce them — a lot.
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The heat index throughout much of the Midwest and South is predicted to be over 100 degrees today. There are warnings posted for folks that work outside, the young, the elderly, etc. Clearly heat can cause huge amounts of stress on humans.
Drought can also cause stress on plants, especially new, young plants. Drought and heat stress are two of the primary reasons crops should be planted early. A soybean plant with roots a foot or more deep can survive these tough conditions much better than a soybean seedling that only has established roots a few inches deep.
Planting any forage or grain crop as soon as weather conditions are appropriate during the spring almost always results in a more vigorous plant that is more resistant to drought stress, etc. The end result will be a larger yield of forage and or grain.
The same is true for fawns. A heat and drought combination is very rare during the normal fawning season throughout most of the whitetail’s range. However, droughts can cause significant mortality among late born fawns. Droughts directly affect plant growth and nutritional quality, which impacts the quantity and quality of milk produced by does, etc. Drought can reduce the population of prey species which concentrates predation on the surviving prey species, etc. Fawns born during the normal time-frame have a much better chance of surviving the harsh conditions of a summertime drought. This is just one of many reasons responsible deer managers should ensure a herd’s adult sex ratio is in balance.
Like planting crops during the appropriate time, ensure fawns are born during the appropriate time by planning a deer harvest that results in a balanced adult sex ratio. The yield of the resulting fawn crop will be better.
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Autumn 2: Using the internet.
Week 1: Use Search Engines.
To extend our learning from last half term, this week we talked about the internet.
We know that the internet is a collection of computers and other devices that are connected across the world.
After reminding ourselves about our learning last half term (using the internet safely) we used the internet to complete safe searches to research given topics.
We used the search engines; bing, google, yahoo and Kidrex.
Autumn 1: Online Safety.
- Examine digital footprints.
This week we talked about digital footprints. We talked about how people might use any information we share online.
- Use search engines safely.
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Since the innovation of cars, the measure of autos on the route around the universe is increasing over the old ages. In Malaysia, 548 115 motor vehicles were registered in the twelvemonth 2008 compared with merely 97 262 registered in the twelvemonth 1980 [ 1 ] . With autos and roads, work forces can go from one topographic point to another with easiness. Apart from that, it is of import to guarantee the journey is safe and comfy. This could be done by the auto suspension system. It is playing a major function in maintaining the auto in control while weakening the unpleasant daze due to abnormalities on the roads travelled.
Proton New Saga ( besides known as Proton BLM ) was launched in January 2008. It is an low-cost rider auto with a capacity of 5 riders. Besides, it is equipped with MacPherson prances and a stabilizer saloon in the forepart suspension system and tortuosity beam axle in the rear suspension system. The Proton New Saga is good received as evidenced by engagements of more than 120 000 units since its launch [ 2 ] .
1.2 Problem Statement
The success in Proton New Saga does non halt Proton from willing to better this auto theoretical account. Surveies on the rear suspension system are indispensable in order to farther heighten the handling and sit comfort of this popular auto [ 3 ] . Modal analysis is needed, particularly, in order to analyze its quiver behaviour. Besides finding the natural frequences and manner forms, the result of a average analysis can besides be used to execute more elaborate dynamic analyses.
The tortuosity beam axle found on the rear suspension system of Proton New Saga has an inverted “ V ” cross-sectional form. Other auto theoretical accounts with similar rear suspension system such as Perodua Myvi and Toyota Vios have a “ U ” cross-sectional form tortuosity beam axle. However, the “ unfastened ” side of the “ U ” cross-sectional form tortuosity beam axle on Perodua Myvi is oriented toward the forepart of the auto while the Toyota Vios is oriented toward the rear of the auto. Consequently, it is of involvement to analyze the consequence of the cross-sectional form of the tortuosity beam axle on the quiver behaviour.
The aims of this thesis are:
To pattern the Proton New Saga tortuosity beam axle by utilizing finite component package.
To execute average analysis on the Proton New Saga tortuosity beam axle.
To compare the quiver behaviour of different cross-sectional form tortuosity beam axles.
2.1 Vehicle Suspension System
The suspension system of a vehicle is the construction which links the wheel to the vehicle organic structure while allows comparative gesture between them [ 4 ] . It has two of import maps. The primary map is to insulate the vehicle construction whenever operable from daze burden and quiver due to abnormalities of the route surface travelled. Furthermore, the suspension system must at same clip, maintains the stableness, maneuvering and general managing qualities of the vehicle. The first demand can be met by utilizing flexible elements and dampers. On the other manus, the 2nd map can be achieved by commanding the comparative gesture between unsprung multitudes – wheel-and-axle assemblies – and the sprung mass by the usage of mechanical linkage [ 5 ] .
2.1.1 Types of Vehicle Suspension System
The vehicle suspension systems can be by and large categorised into dependent and independent types [ 6 ] . In a dependent suspension system, two wheels are physically linked by a stiff axle whereby common wheel influence exists between the wheels connected by the axle. Solid-axle, torsion-beam axle, De Dion axle are the illustrations of dependent suspension systems. On the other manus, in an independent suspension system, the perpendicular gesture of one wheel does non impact straight the gesture of another wheel. Some of the common independent suspension systems include dual wishing bone suspensions, MacPherson struts suspension, draging arm suspension, and multilink suspension.
2.1.2 Torsion beam Axle Suspension System
Torsion beam axle suspension system is besides called twist-beam suspension. It is frequently used as the rear suspension in front-engine, front wheel thrust ( FF ) type vehicles since it has less parts and simple constellation. The tortuosity beam axle suspension system consists of two draging weaponries that are welded to a twistable cross-member ( frequently torsion beam ) and fixed to organic structure through draging links with bushing. This twistable beam absorbs all perpendicular and sidelong force minutes [ 7 ] . It must be stiff plenty to back up sidelong forces during cornering and, at the same clip, be flexible plenty to let the right- and left-hand wheels to displace otherwise when driving over a bump. The comparative balance between the stiffness and the flexibleness of the component members has to be considered during the design phase in malice of the simple constellation [ 8 ] .
Analysiss have to be done on the tortuosity beam axle suspension system in order to measure its public presentation. It has to be analysed in footings of structural strength, lastingness, and kinematic and conformity characteristic. Modal analysis can be performed to analyze the quiver features of the suspension system [ 3 ] . On the other manus, the elasto-kinematic analysis can be performed by utilizing multibody method where the tortuosity beam has to be modelled as a flexible organic structure [ 9 ] .
Figure 2.1. A typical tortuosity beam axle suspension system [ 8 ] .
This suspension type has many advantages in footings of installing, suspension and kinematics.
From an installing point of position:
the assembly and dismantlement are easy ;
small infinite is needed ;
springs and daze absorbers can be easy fitted ;
few constituents to be handled.
From a suspension point of position:
there is a favorable wheel to spring damper ratio ;
springing is barely affected since there are merely two bearing points ;
low unsprung multitudes ;
the cross-member can work as an anti-roll saloon [ 7 ] .
From a kinematic point of position:
toe-in and path breadth alteration on mutual and parallel springing is negligible ;
the alteration of camber under sidelong forces is low ;
the load-dependent organic structure axial rotation understeering of the whole axle is low ;
good radius-arm axis location whereby tail-lift during braking could be reduced [ 7 ] .
However, there are besides disadvantages for this type of suspension system. The disadvantages are:
a inclination to sidelong force oversteer as a consequence of control arm distortion ;
tortuosity and shear emphasis exist in the cross-member ;
there is high emphasis in the dyer’s rocket seams, hence, the allowable rear axle burden is limited ;
the limited kinematic and elasto-kinematic chances for finding the wheel place ;
the constitution of the place of the instantaneous Centre by agencies of the axle kinematics and rigidness of the torsion-beam axle ;
there is common consequence on the wheels ;
the hard decoupling of the quiver and noise from the route surface ;
the considerable demand for stableness of the bodywork in the part of those points on the forepart bearings where complex, superposed forces have to be transmitted [ 7 ] .
Owing to the advantages of tortuosity beam axle suspension system, it is widely adopted in rider auto, particularly in the rear suspension of hatchback. Some illustrations of rider autos available in Malaysia which use tortuosity beam axle as rear suspension system are Proton New Saga, Proton Savvy, Proton Exora, Perodua Myvi, Perodua Viva, Toyota Altis, Toyota Vios, Honda City, Nissan Grand Livina, etc.
Vibration is any gesture that repeats itself after an interval of clip. By and large, a vibratory system includes a agency for hive awaying possible energy ( spring or snap ) , a agency for hive awaying kinetic energy ( mass or inactiveness ) , and a agency by which energy is bit by bit lost ( damper ) . In vibratory systems, possible energy is transferred to kinetic energy and kinetic energy to possible energy alternately. If damping exists, some energy is dissipated in each rhythm of quiver and the quiver will finally decease out [ 10 ] .
In order to analyze the quiver of a dynamic system, it is of import to cognize the figure of grades of freedom of the system before continuing to analysis. The grade of freedom of a vibratory system is defined as the minimal figure of independent co-ordinates required to find wholly the gesture of all parts of the system at any blink of an eye of clip [ 11 ] .
Vibration can be classified into free or forced quivers. Free quiver takes topographic point when a system oscillates under the action of forces built-in in the system itself, and when external impressed forced are absent. The system under free quiver will vibrate at one or more of its natural frequences. The natural frequences are belongingss of a dynamical system established by its mass and stiffness distribution [ 12 ] .
Forced quiver is the quiver that takes topographic point under excitement of external forces. A system will be forced to vibrate at the excitement frequence if the excitement is oscillating. If the frequence of excitement coincides with one of the system ‘s natural frequences, resonance occurs. When resonance occurs, perilously big oscillations may ensue and do failure to the system. Therefore, the computation of the natural frequences is of critical importance in the survey of quivers [ 12 ] .
A quiver is known as undamped quiver if no energy is lost or dissipated in clash or other opposition during oscillation. On the other manus, if any energy is lost in this manner, it is called damped quiver. In many physical systems, the sum of damping is so little that can be neglected for most technology intents. However, consideration of muffling becomes highly of import in analysing vibratory systems near resonance [ 10 ] .
Vibrations can besides be categorised as additive quiver or nonlinear quiver. If all the basic constituents of vibratory system ( the springs, mass, and damper ) behave linearly, the ensuing quiver is known as additive quiver. However, if any of the basic constituents behave nonlinearly, the quiver is called nonlinear quiver. All vibratory systems tend to act nonlinearly where the rule of superposition is non valid [ 10 ] .
2.3 Finite Element Method
The finite component method ( FEM ) , sometimes called finite component analysis ( FEA ) , is a computational technique used to obtain approximative solutions of boundary value jobs in technology. A boundary value job, besides called field job, is a mathematical job in which one or more dependent variables must fulfill a differential equation everyplace within a known sphere of independent variables and fulfill specific conditions on the boundary of the sphere. The field is the sphere of involvement and most frequently represents a physical construction. The field variables are the dependent variables of involvement governed by the differential equation. They may include physical supplanting, temperature, heat flux, fluid speed and so on. On the other manus, the boundary conditions are the specified values of the field variables ( or related variables such as derived functions ) on the boundaries of the field [ 13 ] .
2.3.1 How Does Finite Element Method Work?
Figure 2.1 shows a volume of some stuffs with known physical belongingss. The volume represents the sphere of a boundary value job to be solved. For simpleness, it is assumed to be a planar instance with a individual field variable I• ( x, y ) to be determined at every point P ( x, y ) such that a known government equation is satisfied precisely at every such point. This implies an exact mathematical solution is obtained. The solution is a closed-form algebraic look of the independent variables. However, the sphere may be geometrically complex in practical jobs. Therefore, approximative solutions based on numerical techniques and digital calculation are most frequently obtained in technology analyses of complex jobs [ 13 ] .
Figure 2.2. ( a ) A general planar sphere of field variable I• ( x, Y ) . ( B ) A three-node finite component defined in the sphere. ( degree Celsius ) Additional elements demoing a partial finite component mesh of the sphere [ 13 ] .
Figure 2.2 ( B ) shows a little triangular component that encloses a finite-sized subdomain of the country of involvement. This component is non a differential component of size dx A- Dy makes this a finite component. The vertices of the triangular component are nodes. A node is a specific point in the finite component at which the value of the field variable is to be computed, explicitly. Nodes located on the boundaries of the finite component are called exterior nodes. They may be used to link an component to adjacent finite component. Interior nodes, meanwhile, do non lie on the finite component boundaries and can non be connected to any other finite component. The figure of grades of freedom associated with a finite component is equal to the merchandise of the figure of nodes and the figure of values of the field variable ( and perchance its derived functions ) that must be computed at each node [ 13 ] .
In finite component method, the values of the field variable computed at the nodes are used to come close the values at nonnodal points by insertion of the nodal values. This is the Southern Cross of finite component method. For the three-node trigon illustration, the nodes are all exterior. At any other point within the component, the field variable is described by the approximative relation
aˆ¦aˆ¦aˆ¦aˆ¦ . ( 2.1 )
where I•1, I•2, and I•3 are the values of the field variable at the nodes while N1, N2, and N3 are the insertion maps. The insertion maps are predetermined, known maps of the independent variables. These maps describe the fluctuation of the field variable within the finite component [ 13 ] .
The finite component equations are formulated such that, at the nodal connexions, the value of the field variable at any connexion is indistinguishable for each component connected to the node. As a consequence, continuity of the field variable at the nodes and across interelement boundaries is ensured [ 13 ] .
2.3.2 General Procedure for Finite Element Analysis
There are certain common stairss in explicating a finite component analysis of a physical job, whether structural, heat transportation, fluid flow, or some other job. These stairss are normally embodied in commercial finite component package bundles. The stairss are described as follows [ 13 ] .
The preprocessing stairss is described by and large as specifying the theoretical account and includes
Specify the geometric sphere of the job.
Specify the component type to be used.
Specify the stuff belongingss of the elements.
Specify the geometric belongingss of the elements ( length, country and the similar ) .
Specify the component connectivities ( engage the theoretical account ) .
Specify the physical restraints ( boundary conditions ) .
Specify the burdens [ 13 ] .
The preprocessing ( exemplary definition ) measure is highly of import. A absolutely computed finite element solution is of perfectly useless if it corresponds to the incorrect job [ 13 ] .
In this measure, finite component package assembles the regulating algebraic equations in matrix signifier and computes the unknown values of the primary field variables. Then, the computed values are used by back permutation to execute calculation on the extra, derived variables, such as reaction forces, component emphasiss, heat flow, etc [ 13 ] .
However, it is really common for a finite component theoretical account to be represented by figure of equations. Particular solution techniques are used to cut down informations storage demands and calculation clip. For illustration, in inactive, additive jobs, a moving ridge forepart convergent thinker, based on Gauss riddance, is normally used [ 13 ] .
In postprocessing measure, the analysis and rating of the solution consequences are performed. Postprocessor package contains sophisticated modus operandis used for screening, printing, and plotting selected consequences from a finite component solution. The operations that can be accomplished by the postprocessor package include
Sort component emphasiss in order of magnitude.
Calculate factors of safety.
Plot deformed structural form.
Animate dynamic theoretical account behaviour.
Produce color-coded temperature secret plans [ 13 ] .
Although solution informations can be manipulated many ways in postprocessing, the most of import aim is to use sound technology opinion in finding whether the solution consequences are physically sensible [ 13 ] .
Engagement is the procedure of stand foring a physical sphere with finite elements. It consequences set of elements, known as the finite component mesh. It is by and large impossible to include the full physical sphere in the component mesh if the sphere includes curving boundaries. However, by utilizing smaller and more legion elements, more of the physical sphere can be included and the curving boundaries are more closely approximated. As the insertion maps satisfy certain mathematical demands, a finite component solution for a peculiar job converges to the exact solution of the job. This can be done by increasing the figure of elements while diminishing the physical dimensions of the elements [ 13 ] .
Figure 2.3. ( a ) Arbitrary curved-boundary sphere modelled utilizing square elements. Stippled countries are non included in the theoretical account. A sum of 41 elements is shown. ( B ) Refined finite component mesh demoing decrease of the country non included in the theoretical account. A sum of 192 elements is shown. [ 13 ]
The chief concern of this undertaking is to compare the quiver behaviour of different cross-sectional form tortuosity beam axles. Modal analysis has to be performed to find the natural frequences and mode forms of the tortuosity beam axles. Due to the big size of the specimen ( tortuosity beam axle ) and deficiency of appropriate equipments, experimental method can non be used. However, with the available of finite component package bundle, such as Abaqus Unified FEA and ANSYS Multiphysics, finite component analysis can be used to obtain approximative consequences.
3.2 Materials and Equipments
In this undertaking, the Abaqus Unified FEA package was used due to its strong ability to work out nonlinear jobs. The tortuosity beam axle is suited to be modelled by utilizing Abaqus Unified FEA since it behaves nonlinearly. Besides, the package can be used as preprocessor, convergent thinker and besides the postprocessor. Surely, average analysis can besides be performed by utilizing it.
Besides, high public presentation computing machine was used to execute the finite component analysis as the analysis is a heavy undertaking. The higher public presentation computing machine used will ensue faster analysis.
First, the dimension of the tortuosity beam axle of a Proton New Saga was requested from Proton. The geometry was so modelled. Mesh coevals was performed after geometry modeling. After that, modal analysis was performed to find the natural frequences and the corresponding manner forms. Merely the first 10 natural frequences and manner forms will be taken. The geometry modeling, engaging and average analysis were performed by utilizing Abaqus Unified FEA. The same processs were repeated for “ U ‘ cross-sectional form tortuosity beam axle. Consequences for the two different cross-sectional form tortuosity beam axles were so compared. | <urn:uuid:ba2dc817-035c-49ee-984e-c35a3ffad851> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://essaylead.com/proton-new-saga-torsion-beam-axle-modal-analysis-engineering-essay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.910554 | 4,224 | 1.65625 | 2 |
How long will the enemy mock you, God? Will the foe revile your name forever? Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? (Ps. 74:10–11)
Some historical events are inherently evil. But some things start out looking great and end up horribly, while other things appear terrible and work out to be blessings in the end. Gerald G. May shares in Dark Night of the Soul that he was diagnosed with cancer, but the experience brought him closer to God and loved ones. The chemo, which felt awful, brought him a complete cure. Later, he learned that the chemo may have led to heart disease, which left him waiting for a transplant. “At some point I gave up trying to decide what’s ultimately good or bad. . . . I don’t have to look for spiritual lessons in every trouble that comes along.”
The psalmist begged God to defend the oppressed and to fight for his own honor. Interestingly, the psalmist did not question God’s ability to destroy the enemy; he questioned God’s timing.
May and the psalmist articulated a tension we all share. Why doesn’t God do something about the unfairness we see in our lives and in the world? As the psalmist put it, “Why do you hold back your right hand?” The psalmist painted a picture of a God who is patient with us and our inability to understand what is good and what is bad for us. It is a picture of a God who is waiting to set the world right again.
Admit the tension you feel between disappointment and confidence in God’s timing.
Andrea Summers is a teacher, pastor, writer, advocate, and campus pastor/dean of spiritual formation at Indiana Wesleyan University.
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Cattails being a very easy to identify plant with distinctive notable catkins from late spring threw fall, are a major wild food source as well as an overall useful utility plant. As a food plant it can be prepared in a wide variety of ways from eaten raw to boiled, roasted, in salads, baking flower from pollen, pancakes, cat cobs, muffins even sauteed .This plant is a good source of vitamins A, B, C phosphorus, and potassium. In harvesting this plant for food, It will be important to only collect cattails from clean, contaminated water and soil. It has been said that raw cattail shoots taste like cucumber, although i find them to be a bit more like okra. This plant also has many utilitarian uses, such as older outer leaves can be used for basket weaving and mats. The fluff can be used for stuffing pillows or insulation, the older stems can be used for improvised arrow shafts and mature fibers from the plant can be used to make simple cordage . This plant is like a foragers grocery store and hardware store all in one.
Arctic berries such as Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) are almost unknown outside the arctic regions. Crowberry shrubs are evergreens native to cool the regions of North America, Asia, and Europe. In the southern hemisphere they can be found on the Falkland islands. The fruits of these shrubs are black plump round berries. These berries grow in great quantities on the plants. The leaves of the mountain crowberry are dark green with a whitish line on the underside of the leaf . Crowberries can be made into a delicious juices and preserves, or used for a mixed berry pie together with bilberries or blueberries, and blackcurrants. The mild flavour make it a suitable ingredient for baked goods, berry soups, porridges and milkshakes, either on its own or combined with other berries. Crowberries can also be used to make marmalade. The cloudberry is a perennial plant related to raspberries that grows in bogs.The plant grows 10–25 cm tall, has two-leaflets and has a woody stem. Cloudberrys grow a single solitary flower. The plant is dioecious. During the growing season it blossoms in June. The fruit changes colour a number times during this time: initially a soft greenish-yellow then it then turns a shade of red as it ripens into an amber-coloured berry. They can be made into jams, juices, berry soups and pies.
There are more than 80 varieties of gooseberries and currants grow wild in North America. The fruit when it is ripe can vary in size, color, texture and taste the outer skin on some can be either spiny or smooth. Early autumn is the prime time to go foraging for wild berries . . . and when you do, be sure to pick enough to make your pie, preserves or berry bread . best places to locate wild berries are any wooded Knowles , mountains, or coastal areas these berries thrive wherever the climate is relatively cool and the soil is moist. Most gooseberry and currant are mid size to tall bushes growing from two to five feet high. In the mountains they can be found creeping close to the ground and along rocks . . . Golden currants, can be found hanging from trees of up to ten feet tall. The leaves on these bushes in the genus Ribes resemble maple leaves along with scalloped edges .
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The story took place in the Himalayan region. The three neighboring states namely, Kasik(North), Bandurath(Middle) and Danta(South), had plotted against one another for a long time. Though brilliant,it was known that the King of Kasik was extremely brutal. So when the princess of Danta, the king's betrothed, was at the tripoint waiting to be escorted to Kasik, she decided to flee into Bandurath to seek refuge. After the Crown Prince of Bandurath took her into his protection, profoundly insulted and offended, the Kasikan king sneaked into Bandurath and abducted Darshika, the princess of Bandurath, to get even with everyone. Winter was coming, the mountain passes would be blocked soon and the Bandurathan princess was alone surrounded by her enemies. There were those who wanted war, and those who preferred peace. However in the midst of this political crisis, love quietly blossomed. While pride, prejudice, profit, politics played significant roles in this world, it would seem Darshika of Bandurath was the only one who could bring peace to the region. | <urn:uuid:1c96b5ea-2298-4640-ba6d-e4eb0e41d14b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thetvdb.plexapp.com/series/dung-duang-haruetai | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.985628 | 235 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Pagina 163 - One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea : it is, as common people say, so "upsetting"; it makes you think that after all your favorite notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded ; it is certain that till now there was no place allotted in your mind to the new and startling inhabitant, and now that it has conquered an entrance you do not at once see which of your old ideas it will or will not turn out, with which...
Pagina 23 - The history of political ideas begins, in fact, with the assumption that kinship in blood is the sole possible ground of community in political functions ; nor is there any of those subversions of feeling, which we term emphatically revolutions, so startling and so complete as the change which is accomplished when some other principle — such as that, for instance, of local contiguity — establishes itself for the first time as the basis of common political action.
Pagina 22 - Rome there long remained the vestiges of an ascending series of groups out of which the State was at first constituted. The Family, House, and Tribe of the Romans may be taken as the type of them, and they are so described to us that we can scarcely help conceiving them as a system of concentric circles which have gradually expanded from the same point.
Pagina 210 - In every experimental science there is a tendency towards perfection. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. These two principles have often sufficed, even when counteracted by great public calamities and by bad institutions, to carry civilisation rapidly forward.
Pagina 53 - The great difficulty which history records is not that of the first step, but that of the second step. What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law ; not of cementing (as upon a former occasion I phrased it) a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom ; not of making the first preservative habit, but of breaking through it, and reaching something better.
Pagina 1 - ONE peculiarity of this age is the sudden acquisition of much physical knowledge. There is scarcely a department of science or art which is the same, or at all the same, as it was fifty years ago. A new world of inventions — of railways and of telegraphs — has grown up around us which we cannot help seeing; a new world of ideas is in the air and affects us, though we do not see it. | <urn:uuid:42813cdb-c3b3-4846-ab81-176cf41d68cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.com/books/about/Physics_and_Politics.html?hl=ro&id=dKMmAAAAMAAJ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945727 | 811 | 2.375 | 2 |
Strollers and child car seats are essentials when your baby is on the way, especially if you travel frequently. Strollers are an excellent way to ensure your baby experiences a comfortable ride. And guess what? Parents can sigh in relief as they do not have to carry their babies everywhere, which reduces their fatigue! Luxury strollers can solve most of your problems!
You must be aware of the myriads of benefits these strollers and child car seats offer you. However, do you know why it is extremely important to maintain their hygiene? In this article, let us find out why hygiene is essential.
As parents, no one knows better than you about the mess your baby makes while eating food. Usually, strollers are left with grime and stains that can turn into breeding grounds for various germs. In some instances, these spots can become breeding grounds for bed bugs!
Your baby may suffer from rashes caused by bed bug bites. Hence it is best to regularly clean the stroller or car seat to prevent the formation of conducive environments for germ and bug breeding.
Apart from rashes, there are various diseases that your baby can get infected with. With the accumulation of dust particles, your baby may experience breathing problems and congestion. Bacterial infestations can make the stroller the most dangerous place for your baby.
We certainly do not need to highlight all the diseases a bacterial colony can bring! So, apart from investing in a high-end and safe stroller that you can purchase from this website, ensure that you maintain cleanliness and hygiene.
How to Maintain Stroller and Car Seat Hygiene?
We now know why a dirty stroller is detrimental to your baby, but how do we ensure that your baby is protected from being exposed to a dirty stroller? Here are a few tips!
- Avoid Damp Areas
Damp environments can quickly become favorable to the growth of molds. Fungi and molds can quickly deteriorate the fabric used while making a stroller. This is why you should avoid storing them in damp places. If you are traveling to regions like the beaches, or forests, ensure that you dry the stroller properly in the sun after your excursion.
- A Disinfectant Spray
While it is suggested that you avoid spillage as much as possible, it is impossible to abide by that, given how babies may sometimes throw tantrums. In these cases, always keep a disinfectant spray handy. This spray ensures that the spills do not attract bacterial growth.
- Focus on The Wheels
Usually, the primary focus is on cleaning the seat; however, remember that the wheels are in direct contact with the ground. Use a suitable detergent or soap solution and thoroughly cleanse the wheels to remove any bacterial accumulation.
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A techno parade similar to the famous Love Parade will take place in Berlin in 2022.
This annual techno festival began in 1989, running for fourteen years before going on a 3-year hiatus after their 2003 installment and reopening in 2006.
The first year there were only 150 techno enthusiasts and soon its crowds marked over 100,000. And how exactly crazy and wild it was?
Rave The Planet aims to bring the spirit of techno and Love Parade back to the streets of the German capital on July 9 2022 and has already raised €400,000 to fund its cause, as Mixmag reports.
The public event was due to take place this year but has obviously been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers say they’ve “secured and registered” the 2022 date with the relevant authorities in Berlin.
The new parade counts the likes of Oliver Huntemann, Felix Kröcher, Christian Smith, Bebetta, Gabriel Ananda and Mathew Jonson among its supporters and is co-lead by German techno legend and original Love Parade co-founder Dr. Motte.
Other missions of the Rave The Planet movement include the classification of “the culture of techno music as an Immaterial Cultural Heritage” and to “establish an official celebration of electronic dance music culture, with an annual event: A new parade, in the spirit of the Berlin Love Parade, based on its original values, progressively designed for the 21st century.”
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Legislation that bolsters the state’s derelict vessel rules was signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee Monday.
Designed in the wake of the sinking of the Deep Sea in Penn Cove last year — an event that shut down shellfish harvesting for a month and cost taxpayers $5.4 million — the statutes are a grab-bag of small measures that are hoped to reduce the likelihood of future events.
“This bill helps get us on the right track to improving the conditions of our state’s waterways,” said Inslee, in a release from the Governor’s Office. “Derelict vessels pose a very serious threat to the environment and to our state’s economic wellbeing.”
The new statutes make temporary funding for the Department of Ecology’s Derelict Vessel Removal Program permanent and give regulators the authority to board and inspect abandoned or derelict vessels before they sink.
They also decriminalize registration violations from a misdemeanor crime to a civil infraction — the idea is to make enforcement and fine collection more realistic for law enforcement — and increase owner accountability requirement for vessels more than 65 feet long and more than 40 years old.
In the governor’s news release, Peter Goldmark, commissioner of public lands and head of the state Department of Natural Resources, called the legislation a “great step toward preventing the problems that derelict vessels cause across the state.”
“DNR is committed to seeking further innovative solutions to increase owner accountability, prevent pollution in Puget Sound, and address the obstacles to removing and dismantling these vessels,” Goldmark said. “I appreciate the tremendous support of this bill from legislators on both sides of the aisle, diverse stakeholder groups, and Governor Inslee.”
One of the legislation’s champions was Rep. Norma Smith, R-Clinton. She said the “collaborative” effort resulted in new rules that provide a “holistic approach with greater accountability.”
She added that efforts will continue this summer with stakeholders to “improve the opportunities for deconstruction and recycling of vessels, and strengthen prevention strategies.”
Also, in an interview last month, Smith said additional legislation may come forward next year.
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Warning: This article contains spoilers for the most recent episode of "Game Of Thrones."
Anyone with an Internet connection – regardless of whether they watch "Game Of Thrones" or not – knows that HBO ripped out the Internet's collective heart when it killed off fan favorite Hodor on Sunday night.
Now, because the Internet won't let a sad thing die, and also because capitalism, one entrepreneurial Baltimorean has started a Kickstarter campaign to create handmade, laser engraved wooden Hodor door stoppers.
In less than 24 hours, the campaign hit its $500 goal, and backers will have Hold the Door Memorial Door Stops in their hands by July. (Why not hysterically weep every time you enter a room?)
If by now you're thinking, "Wait. Why would I pay for a Hodor door stopper when I can just write "Hodor" in Sharpie myself?" that's because a (likely very cool) Pennsylvania math teacher has already done exactly that:
Incidentally, IKEA Australia's ace social media team is also using the tagline "Hold the door" to push their Patrull door stops. (George R. R. Martin, why do you have to twist such an innocent phrase into something terrible?)
It's worth noting this isn't the first time parallels between the Swedish home retailer and the show have surfaced. Apartment Therapy's "Game Of Thrones Characters...as IKEA Furniture" illustrations, which reimagine Hodor as "Håddård," a bed frame, and Arya Stark as "Äria Stjarkind," a nightstand, went viral in 2013. The CBC's "Game Of Thrones Or IKEA Product?" quiz is also a thing (and harder than you'd think).
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Due to the high cost of aircraft ownership, many owners make their aircrafts available for leasing. These transactions can help owners ensure that the aircraft is used more frequently and allow them to recoup at least some of the costs of ownership.
Under a wet lease, an aircraft owner, or the lessor, provides both the aircraft and the flight crew to a lessee, and retains operational control over the flight. The aircraft owner must have an operating certificate issued by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), since the FAA considers the lessor to be providing air transportation. The aircraft owner is also responsible for providing adequate maintenance on the aircraft and insurance coverage. For these reasons, airlines and charter flight operators (as well as other non-air carriers in certain situations) usually utilize wet leases.
By contrast, in a dry lease, an aircraft owner provides the aircraft, and the individual or company leasing the aircraft is responsible for providing the flight crew. As a result, the lessee is fully liable for the flight operation, since he or she is in sole possession and control of the aircraft.
Why does it matter? In some situations, operators try to work around federal regulations by dry leasing an aircraft through a business entity that is under their financial control, and then providing the lessee with pilots through a different business entity, which is also under their control. Essentially, they end up offering a wet lease, but without taking responsibility for maintenance, insurance, and liability. This can trigger disputes with the FAA, which considers this situation to be a Part 135 rather than a Part 91 operation.
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We’ve reached a point where a number of industrial CNC technologies are available for the Home Shop and small businesses. What once was strictly limited to big companies engaged in putting Men on the Moon is becoming ubiquitous–exciting times indeed!
And along comes Wazer, which seeks to add Waterjet cutting the arsenal of cool digital fabrication technologies available to mere mortals.
As you can see from the photo, Wazer looks pretty slick and is definitely small enough for a home shop. They’ve launched it on a Kickstarter at some pretty good discounts, while the finished machine is targeted to sell for something like $6000. The savings on Kickstarter are 25% or better, the there are limited numbers of slots available for each level and some of the highest discount levels are already sold out.
As I write this, they’re well past their $100,000 goal, having raised $389,188 so far–pretty good for still having 59 days to go.
What is a Waterjet, anyway?
It’s a cool technology that uses a high pressure very focused stream of water to carry abrasives that cut slots into the material. They can cut with a fairly small kerf and the abrasives are hard enough that they cut just about anything.
A Waterjet uses water (blue) under very high pressure to carry abrasive particles (red) in a focused stream that can cut through just about anything.
The unit itself is very slickly designed:
As is becoming the norm for easy to use machines like this, Wazer includes software that will take a DXF or SVG file and guide you through setting up the cut.
What will Wazer cut?
In theory, a Waterjet will cut just about anything. In practice, Wazer and any other Waterjet has limits. Here’s the Material chart from the Kickstarter campaign:
Wazer cuts a variety of materials, including some very hard materials…
Wazer cuts a large variety of materials, including some very hard materials. There are limitations on the thickness of the material, and things do slow down quite a bit as the material gets tougher and thicker. Still, all things considered, this seems like a potent little machine.
I’m trying to get an interview with the Wazer folks together so I can tell you more about it. The last time I was this excited about a Kickstarter machine it was the Formlabs 3D printer, which has done extremely well for itself ever since.
For more on Wazer, check out my interview with CEO and Cofunder Nisan Lerea.
What do you think–do you need a personal desktop waterjet cutter in your shop?
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The Martyrdom of John Connolly
In a Miami maximum-security prison, John Connolly spends 23 hours a day alone in a 10-by-11-foot cell. The former FBI agent writes endlessly on yellow legal pads, the penmanship shaky because guards, viewing pen shafts as potential weapons, allow inmates only thin, flexible ink cartridges. His letters run to 30 pages and are fairly damp from the bile. When letters aren’t enough, he calls collect, his voice rising at the mention of his enemies: federal prosecutors, the cops who investigated him, and the mobsters who took deals to testify against him. Connolly calls them all “liars” and “bastards.”
“I am a prisoner of war,” he writes.
He entered that war enthusiastically, when breaking up the Mafia was a national priority. A product of South Boston’s projects, with contacts in the Irish underworld, Connolly was the greatest of G-men, bringing down Boston’s Italian mob in the 1980s nearly by himself, or so it would seem from the acclaim Connolly received from the media—appearing always with coiffed black hair, stylish suits, and French-cuff shirts—and from FBI headquarters in DC.
But a decade after it was won, that war, or at least Connolly’s starring role in it, turned out to have been dirty. He developed and handled two secret informants: Irish mobster James “Whitey” Bulger and Bulger’s partner, Stephen “the Rifleman” Flemmi. In May 2002, a federal jury convicted Connolly of racketeering and obstruction of justice—of being part of Bulger’s mob—and of tipping Bulger and Flemmi to their secret indictment in 1994. (Flemmi claims he and Bulger gave Connolly $235,000 for his services, all told.)
Bulger fled Boston before the cops came with arrest warrants. Flemmi didn’t get out in time. When it became clear that no one in the FBI or Justice Department could protect him, Flemmi finally agreed to talk in 2003. But Connolly never has. And because he didn’t cut a deal—like so many mobsters who testified against him in exchange for lighter sentences—because he “refused to lie,” he says, as the Justice Department wanted him to, Connolly is serving a maximum sentence of 10 years.
“The Department of Justice threw him under the bus,” says Bob Fitzpatrick, the commander of the FBI’s organized-crime squad and Connolly’s former boss.
The charges he was convicted of, however, pale in comparison with those he faces today. This month Connolly is scheduled for trial on a claim that in 1982 he plotted and committed murder in the first degree, by telling the Bulger mob that if a potential witness sang they were all going to prison.
At Connolly’s last pretrial hearing in July, the black hair had gone gray, the face was puffy, and the once-flashy wardrobe was reduced to a rumpled red jumpsuit. Under the judge’s questions, he showed none of his trademark arrogance or the anger he lets slip during collect calls. Connolly instead nearly entreated the judge to see things his way. “I’m innocent. I’m pleading not guilty.”
Connolly says he’s being framed by the same justice system that once commended his work, which is also the same justice system that failed to prosecute the misdeeds of his fellow agents. This trial, like the last, will hinge upon one corrupt supervisor, but also career criminals who have dealt themselves out of the death penalty or long prison sentences by agreeing to testify. If convicted, Connolly is likely to spend the rest of his life in prison. And yet the mobsters who’ve become partners in his prosecution collectively account for about five dozen murders and are, with one exception, out on the street or headed there soon. It appears John Connolly must atone for the sins of everyone: the mobsters, the Justice Department, and the FBI.
I picked up the Whitey Bulger beat as a television reporter at WGBH in 1988.
At the time, I was reporting the case of 75 State Street, in which real estate emperor Harold Brown alleged in court papers that Thomas Finnerty, a lawyer, had used his relationship with his law partner, former state Senate President William Bulger, to extort money. Brown later dropped his accusation; rumors attributed the decision to fear of violent retaliation by William’s brother, Whitey. Even if the rumors were groundless, they spoke to the terror Whitey could inflict.
Covering organized crime and corruption in the FBI had the feel of theater; our motto at WGBH was “We don’t cover murders. We cover assassinations.” I claimed the same beat after I moved to Channel 5 in 1991, in part because none of the other reporters had assembled (or cared to assemble) the stash of wiseguy files needed to tell the difference, say, between “Jimmy the Weasel” and “Jimmy Blue Eyes.” Ask me about the murder of Teddy Deegan in 1965 and I could tell you about the whole menagerie: Joe the Seagull, Ronnie the Pig, Jimmy the Bear, Romeo the Goat, Joe the Horse.
Along the way, I spent so much time with cops that I started acting like one. I did surveillance, tracked Bulger associate Pat Nee after he got out of prison, figured out his daily schedule, and ambushed him outside his house with my cameraman early one morning in April 2000. I asked him about the recently discovered remains of Bulger victims. I said, “John McIntyre’s brother wants to know what you did with his fingers and toes.” Nee never answered my question.
But Frank Salemme did. The former head of the New England Mafia was thought to be in the witness protection program; I found him at the Busy Bee diner in Brookline in 2004. I followed him for a week, learned his comings and goings, and then introduced myself on-camera one day as he left the Bee. Over several days and many meals, he talked to me about his “clips,” as if we were two gardeners pruning roses. Salemme touted his public service of testifying in late 1999 against Connolly, a move that, ultimately, lessened his own prison time.
Breaking stories and sitting with Mafia dons had an electric thrill, but the deeper I got into the landscape, the more squalid it became. Over the years I’ve seen the broken bones of young men and women unearthed at once-secret burial grounds, spoken with the families who buried what was left, and talked to old gangsters and government witnesses who did the killing. The value in reporting all this, I told myself, was how much of it traced back to dirty deals, dirty prosecutors, and dirty cops. I kept waiting for the full acknowledgment of what went wrong in Boston. I am still waiting.
This was the deal the FBI struck in 1975: To rid Boston of the Italian mob, John Connolly would act as a liaison for Whitey Bulger and Stephen Flemmi, who would in turn rat out the Mafia, for whom the pair sometimes worked. It was a great deal for Bulger and Flemmi; for their cooperation, the evidence suggests, the Justice Department looked the other way. Connolly says Bulger and his crew had authorization from the Justice Department to continue their crimes: loansharking, gambling, and extorting bookies. As long as they committed no violence, they wouldn’t be prosecuted. The deal worked for the government, too. The 1980s saw a parade of handcuffed Mafia foot soldiers, capos, and dons escorted into custody, with Connolly invariably front and center before the waiting TV cameras.
If you were around then, you probably know all this. You probably know how Connolly and his supervisor became too close to Bulger and Flemmi, were corrupted by them, that even as the FBI brought to its knees the Italian Mafia, it allowed the far more sinister force of Whitey Bulger to metastasize. You probably know from 10 years of newspaper stories, TV news spots, magazin
e pieces, and a shelf of Bulger books (not to mention The Departed, the Oscar winner loosely based on the Bulger-Connolly story) that Connolly was the law on Bulger’s side.
Few public characters have faced such an overwhelming presumption of guilt as John Connolly. But he didn’t act alone. In fact, if Connolly belongs in prison, so, too, do a number of other former FBI agents.
Start with John Morris. He was Connolly’s supervisor on the organized-crime squad. Thin, dour, formal, and cagey, Morris drank too much and talked too much over dinner with the mobsters. He admitted to taking $7,000 in bribes from Bulger and Flemmi, tipping them off to wiretaps, and warning them about an informant named Brian Halloran who detailed one of Bulger and Flemmi’s murders for the FBI. (Bulger subsequently killed Halloran.) After Bulger fled in 1995, and the investigation into FBI wrong-doing began in earnest, Morris received immunity from the Justice Department. Bob Fitzpatrick, a high-energy product of the tougher streets of New York, came to the Boston bureau as Connolly and Morris’s boss in the early ’80s. He says Morris got immunity because he had better connections than Connolly to high-ranking Justice Department and FBI officials. If need be, Morris could give up his own superiors, because they weren’t clean, either.
One of them was Jeremiah T. O’Sullivan, the lead federal prosecutor for the organized-crime strike force in Boston. In 1978, Bulger and Flemmi were about to be indicted with numerous associates in a horserace-fixing case. O’Sullivan took their names out because he and headquarters wanted to keep Bulger and Flemmi working as informants. In effect, O’Sullivan gave them a pass for their crimes and more reason to believe they had immunity from future prosecution, as Connolly has insisted. “Is that obstruction of justice? You better believe it,” Bob Fitzpatrick concludes.
Fitzpatrick himself has long fought to clear his name after, he says, he was forced out of the FBI for attempting to root out corruption. He opposed the use of Bulger as an informant. In court cases and depositions, he has testified that agents in the organized-crime squad stole files from another team investigating Bulger and the people who might be tipping him off. Fitzpatrick testified that the special agent in charge of the Boston office, James Greenleaf, had leaked the identities of two men who were telling the FBI about Bulger’s crimes. One of them, John McIntyre, was subsequently tied up, strangled, and shot in the back of the head by Bulger in 1984. Greenleaf would not comment for this story.
Fitzpatrick can name at least 10 agents in Boston in the ’70s and ’80s he believes were corrupt. Kevin Weeks, who’s been called Bulger’s surrogate son, recalls Bulger bragging that he could call on six FBI agents any time who “would willingly hop in the car with a machine gun.” Not for nothing did Bulger wake up every morning, look out his window, and say, “‘I own this town,'” Weeks told me. The FBI and Justice Department were so entangled with Bulger and Flemmi that the two organizations fought the state police and Drug Enforcement Administration’s investigation of Bulger and Flemmi, and resisted the efforts of federal prosecutor Fred Wyshak to indict the pair. Only when the state police and DEA threatened to go public with this did the FBI and Justice Department join the case.
After Bulger and Flemmi were outed as FBI informants in 1997, Flemmi claimed he couldn’t be prosecuted: By virtue of his status as a top-echelon informant, he had immunity. Federal Judge Mark Wolf conducted months of hearings in his Boston courtroom. Wolf would later describe an extraordinary effort by the FBI to cover up “serious impropriety if not illegality”: Agents received gifts and money from mobsters, and warned them about the cops who were on their trail. In response, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno appointed a special outside prosecutor, John Durham, to investigate the mess. But Durham wasn’t exactly the cavalry coming to the rescue.
At the time he was assigned the case, Durham, a slightly built career prosecutor, looked like the late comedian Wally Cox with a comb-over. At a press conference in October 2000, I asked Durham if he would pursue other compromised FBI agents. Durham said he would, but cautioned that the statute of limitations for some crimes might prevent him from bringing charges.
Whatever he found, though, he would account for in an official report. Another journalist asked when this report would be turned in. Durham said three to four months. In the spring of 2001, I asked Durham where the report was. He just smiled in response. In May 2002, after Connolly’s conviction, Durham held another press conference. “Nobody in this country is above the law, an FBI agent or otherwise,” he said. I asked what happened to his report, his promised full accounting. No answer.
Eight years later, Durham has yet to make good on his vow. From 2000 onward I have tried to secure an answer from Durham by phone or letter. He has never responded. (And efforts to reach him for this piece were unsuccessful.)
Four state and local cops, and ex-agent Bob Fitzpatrick, have told me they were each interviewed by Durham’s team. Each laid out evidence of wrongdoing by FBI agents in the Boston office, along with names of those who could corroborate their statements. But in every case, the cops say, the account of the interview submitted to Durham’s office (which the cops got to see) routinely failed to note their most serious allegations.
After Connolly, Durham never prosecuted another FBI agent. The state police–DEA team had developed all but one of the major witnesses Durham used to convict Connolly; its members were convinced they had enough evidence to nail other wayward agents. They expected Durham to push forward. “Don’t tell me some other FBI supervisors couldn’t be held accountable,” says retired state police Colonel Tom Foley, who led the team. “There were a number of areas where [Durham and his investigators] could have gone farther than they did.” Foley’s team and the prosecutors they worked with say Durham is a company man who knew his assignment: Convict Connolly and contain the damage.
During Connolly’s 2002 trial, Durham relied heavily on a witness the state police and DEA had warned him against: Frank Salemme, the don of the New England Mafia. Durham had first turned to Salemme in late 1999, as the statute of limitations for Connolly’s alleged crimes was running out. Salemme, who’d been arrested in 1995 in the same racketeering case targeting Flemmi and Bulger, agreed to testify that Connolly tipped off the three of them about their impending indictments, so they could skip town.
But the state police–DEA team believed Salemme had lied about murders he’d committed, and therefore shouldn’t be trusted as any sort of witness. Tom Foley says he and federal prosecutor Fred Wyshak told Durham of Salemme’s falsehoods and strongly advised him against using Salemme at Connolly’s trial.
Durham went ahead anyway. During courtroom testimony, Salemme denied his role in several murders. After Connolly’s conviction, during Salemme’s request for an early prison release, Durham praised Salemme, saying he had been as good as his word. Just under two years later, with Wyshak serving as prosecutor, Salemme was indicted for perjury. He later pleaded guilty to making a false statement.
Durham’s career has only climbed since he secured Connolly’s conviction. Earlier this year, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey tapped him to lead a criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes involving Al Qaeda suspects. Newspapers across the country cited Durham’s tenacious efforts in the Connolly case as proof of his moral compass.
To understand the current murder charge against Connolly, it’s best to reexamine the murders that preceded it, and the men who carried them out. John Martorano, a.k.a. “the Basin Street Butcher,” killed 20 people in his career, the last few for Bulger and Flemmi. His 19th victim, an Oklahoma man named Roger Wheeler, was the legitimate owner of a pari-mutuel betting franchise in Miami called World Jai Alai that Martorano and the Bulger mob wanted to subvert. One afternoon in May 1981, Wheeler left his country club in Tulsa. Martorano followed him on foot. He wore a fake beard and held a paper bag and a white towel over a revolver. As Wheeler got in his car, Martorano shot him from 3 inches away.
If Martorano ever got queasy about killing someone, though, it was victim number 20. Number 20 was a good friend, John Callahan, a Boston accountant who lived a dichotomous life: working in the Financial District by day, hanging out with gangsters by night. Callahan was the one who had wanted Roger Wheeler out so he could run World Jai Alai himself. Callahan first tried to enlist his friend Brian Halloran, a Boston gangster, as the killer, but Halloran refused. So Callahan approached Martorano and offered him, Flemmi, and Bulger part of the business after he took over.
Some months after Wheeler’s murder, the gangster Halloran, trying to escape his own jam with the law in Boston, began dishing details of the World Jai Alai killing to the feds. FBI boss Bob Fitzpatrick wanted Halloran in the witness protection program. But John Connolly entered the picture, attacking Halloran’s credibility, saying Bulger and Flemmi called Halloran a drugged-out liar. The decision was left to Jeremiah O’Sullivan, the same federal prosecutor who, in 1978, protected Bulger and Flemmi from the race-fixing indictment. Halloran was dumped back onto the streets in May 1982. That same month Bulger and a second gunman ambushed him on Northern Avenue and killed him.
By July 1982, more than a year after Wheeler’s murder, and two months after Halloran’s, detectives from Florida and Oklahoma suspected Callahan was linked to both cases and raced to find him, fearing he could be the next victim. Back in Boston, Bob Fitzpatrick now thought he had a major leak within his FBI ranks and quickly set up an interview with Callahan for the first week of August. But Bulger, Flemmi, and Martorano got to him first.
Martorano says he received the order to kill Callahan because Connolly allegedly told Bulger, “We’re all going to jail for the rest of our lives if they catch up with Callahan [and he sings].” And so when Callahan flew down to the Fort Lauderdale Airport on July 30, Martorano was waiting for him curbside. Martorano got out of the van he was driving, greeted Callahan, and put his luggage in the back. As Callahan sat down in the passenger seat, Martorano reached around and shot him in the back of the head. He probably died before he noticed that the car floor was covered in plastic to catch the blood. Afterward, John Connolly filed a report attributing Callahan’s murder to Cuban or Libyan drug dealers.
John Martorano lived in Florida for the next 13 years. He’d been a fugitive since fleeing impending federal charges in 1978. In January 1995, after Bulger and Flemmi’s indictment, the state police–DEA team went to Boca Raton and found Martorano living with a cleaning lady whom he’d brought from Boston, and the couple’s son.
Years later, sitting in a federal courtroom in Post Office Square beside Stephen Flemmi, Martorano learned that both Flemmi and Bulger had been government rats. Martorano had murdered rats. Upset, he flipped on his partners, cut a deal with the government, and described the World Jai Alai murders in Oklahoma and Fort Lauderdale and a long history of other killings in Boston. He testified that the warning about Callahan had come from Connolly.
In 2003, Flemmi agreed to cooperate with the government and laid out the details of the Wheeler, Halloran, and Callahan murders. By implicating Connolly, Flemmi enabled the state of Florida to charge Connolly with murder in the first degree and conspiracy to murder in Callahan’s death. The oft-delayed trial will finally get under way September 8. Judging by testimony from Connolly’s 2002 trial, civil depositions, pretrial hearings for this month’s affair, and interviews with cops and lawyers, the outline for the prosecution seems clear. Flemmi will testify Bulger told him of Connolly’s warning: namely, if Callahan talked to detectives, Callahan would give everyone up. Flemmi will also testify that he then checked with Connolly and heard the same thing. Martorano will testify that, after they told him what Connolly had said, Bulger and Flemmi convinced Martorano that Callahan had to be killed.
It’s not a strong case for the prosecution: There’s no explicit message from Connolly to kill Callahan. Furthermore, consider the government’s witnesses. Flemmi has pleaded guilty to 10 murders, including those of a girlfriend and a stepdaughter. For testifying this month, he’s been spared the death penalty in Florida and Oklahoma. Martorano also avoided the death penalty for his testimony, but in addition got his sentence reduced to 12 years, which comes to seven months for each of his 20 murders. The federal judge presiding at Martorano’s sentencing told him he was “a calculating opportunist.” When Martorano got out of prison in 2007, the feds gave him $20,000 to start a new life. (Martorano is currently working with a Hollywood screenwriter to tell his life story.)
Still, Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred Wyshak says the deals with Flemmi and Martorano were the lesser of two evils. The government couldn’t have charged Connolly with Callahan’s murders without their cooperation. To bolster the case, the prosecution will try to convince jurors of Connolly’s guilt by showing the murder in Miami as part of a pattern. Connolly warned Bulger about rats; Bulger and company murdered rats; Connolly filed false FBI informant reports to draw attention away from the real killers. Connolly therefore had to have known that by talking to Bulger he was getting Callahan killed.
But strangely enough, Martorano never mentioned Connolly when he first began cooperating with the government. According to Miami-Dade detective Ram Nyberg’s report in December 1999, “Martorano had no idea of anyone else besides [himself and] Bulger and Flemmi who were involved in the conspiracy to kill Callahan.” At a deposition in March 2006, the detective reaffirmed his earlier report: “Neither of Mr. Martorano’s proffers included any information on John Connolly.”
This is why the defense, too, hopes to use Martorano and Flemmi to its advantage. Flemmi has an established record of lying. During court hearings in Boston in the late ’90s, he testified that the tip to escape arrest in 1995 had come not from Connolly, but from FBI supervisor John Morris. (It was Connolly who told Flemmi to tell that lie, a federal jury concluded.) Many times, Flemmi was accused of perjury by the same prosecutor, Fred Wyshak, who will help the state of Florida present Flemmi as a witness this month. But Flemmi has been consistent on one point: He’s never said Connolly told him, or Bulger, to murder anyone. During a deposition in New York in April 2005, an attorney asked Flemmi, “Did [Agent Connolly] ever suggest to you directly or indirectly that certain people should be killed?”
“No,” Flemmi said. “He gave information for Bulger. Bulger interpreted it the way he wanted to interpret it.”
This may not be enough to convict him. But that doesn’t mean jurors won’t wonder how much John Connolly is keeping to himself. He is the only one, after all, who could give a nearly full accounting of the Bulger case. But he has refused to disclose anything. At the pretrial hearing in July, he testified that the government offered him a plea deal three years ago. He would have served only fiv
e years for murder. All he had to do was talk. Because he won’t, the irony is that John Connolly, an ex–FBI agent, is the only person in this sordid saga to honor the mobster’s code of silence. | <urn:uuid:499a73ab-99be-4168-9c26-d388109f9a8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bostonmagazine.com/2008/08/21/the-martyrdom-of-john-connolly/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977432 | 5,473 | 1.65625 | 2 |
With the Presidential election only weeks away, it reminds us all of one of the largest benefits of being a U.S. Citizen, voting. Only U.S. citizens can vote in Federal elections and most states also restrict voting to U.S. citizens. Aliens cannot run for many elected offices, meaning that they are restricted from having their views heard and being able to represent immigrants like them.
There are many other benefits to U.S. citizenship that affect everyday life, all of which should be considered by any permanent resident alien. U.S. Citizenship can increase one's quality of life personally through family, reduced stress, and travel and also financially.
Family. Family is the center of personal life. Citizens generally get priority when petitioning for family members because the U.S. government makes keeping families together a priority for U.S. citizens.
Reduced Stress. Naturalization can greatly reduce stress levels. Citizens do not have to worry about being deported. Until someone officially becomes a U.S. citizen, an alien can be deported for breaking certain U.S. laws regardless of how long they have been in the U.S. or their immigration status. With more and more states taking an interest in passing immigration laws that demand proof of status, aliens have to be concerned about becoming a target for police even though they are here legally. Becoming a citizen takes away stress from everyday activities like driving and allows the newly minted citizen to hold their head up high.
Travel. Travel is much easier as a U.S. citizen. U.S. citizens travel with U.S. passports which allow for easier travel in and out of the U.S., and assistance abroad from the U.S. government. Also, children born to U.S. citizens abroad are automatically U.S. citizens as well.
Financial. Becoming a U.S. citizen is very much a financial decision as well. Foreign nationals are potentially subject to more U.S. estate taxes. A non-citizen spouse cannot utilize unlimited marital deductions in the estate tax system. Without proper planning, aliens may be subjected to higher estate taxes that they could have otherwise avoided.
College can be a very expensive endeavor, and U.S. citizens have the luxury of qualifying for aid that can make it more affordable. A lot of Federal aid for college education requires that the recipient be a U.S. citizen.
After college, U.S. citizens still have an upper hand. The Supreme Court has held that certain government jobs can exclude aliens because citizenship is required. In these tough economic times, citizenship should not be the only thing standing between an alien and a job for which they otherwise qualify.
While all of the benefits discussed are important, voting is still the defining moment of being a U.S. citizen. Both presidential candidates are attempting to reach out to immigrant voters because of their voting power, which is only going to increase in the next four years. Now is the time for aliens to consider becoming a naturalized citizen to harness that power. By applying now, they should be eligible to vote by the mid-term elections, depending on their current immigration status.
About the author: Ms. Thomas received her B.A. from Pennsylvania State University in 2009, and her J.D. from the University of Tennessee in 2012 where she was Director of the College of Law's Pro Bono Program. Before coming to GKH, Ms. Thomas worked at several immigration non-profits and created the College of Law's U Visa Alternative Spring Break Program. She is a member of GKH's Immigration Group and focuses on all types of immigration matters including Deferred Action for DREAMers, family based immigration petitions, and employment based petitions. Ms. Thomas is committed to providing personalized, cost-effective immigration services.
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Egypt's Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said on Thursday that it has temporarily suspended navigation through the world's busiest shipping course until the grounded cargo ship is completely freed.
As the rescue work continues, there are 13 ships which set sail on Wednesday from Port Said and has dropped anchor in the waiting area for the container ship Ever Given to be completely released, the SCA said in a statement.
Nine tug boats, with a towing power of 160 tons, and two dredges are continuing to free the 400-meter-long and 59-meter-wide vessel, the statement added.
Dozens of cargo vessels carrying vital goods remain stranded at both ends of the canal.
The Ever Given, coming from China to Rotterdam, ran aground on Tuesday morning in the new channel of the canal, which was operated in 2015, amid a strong sandstorm and 40-knot winds.
The SCA has reopened the old channel for traffic on Wednesday to ease the traffic, while the 224,000-ton vessel remained wedged across the waterway blocking transit in both directions through the key shipping channel, said Saleh Hegazy, a maritime expert.
The vessel is one of the world's largest container ship, which has prolonged the time of freeing it, Hegazy told Xinhua.
He expected that the ship could be freed in two days if the dredges succeeded in removing the sand and dirt from the grounded bow of it.
The revenues of the canal are would not be impacted largely because the world trade movement is slow because of the repercussions of the COVID-19, the expert noted.
About 30 percent of the world's shipping container volume transits through the 193-km Suez Canal on a daily basis, according to the official statistics.
Osama Rabie, chairman of the SCA, told independent extra news TV on Thursday that the Suez Canal, through which 18,000 ships pass annually, sees such accidents once or twice per year.
The canal will work around the clock once the salvage and refloating operations, in order to compensate for the waiting time of the ships, Rabie said.
But the exact time to release the giant ship is not known, he added.
The Suez Canal is the main source of foreign currency for Egypt, bringing in 5.6 billion U.S. dollars in revenues in 2020.
"The canal is of particular importance for global oil supplies," said Medhat Youssef, former chairman of Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation, adding almost 25 percent of the global oil passes through the canal.
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Within Art this term, Year 5 pupils designed and created mixed media artworks depicting powerful Greek Gods and Goddesses. As a class, we started the project by discussing the work of illustrator Jeffery Alan Love and Ancient Greek pottery and sculpture depicting the Gods. Pupils then drew their own God from images sourced on the internet - this was the beginning of the design process.
The children prepared different backgrounds with ink and watercolour paint; they printed their Gods using cardboard shapes; added details with colour pencils and white pens and printed text onto their work (making it very graphical).
The children made up to 3 versions of their artwork. This gave them an opportunity to: experiment with composition and art media; master techniques; make mistakes (mistakes are okay and part of learning) and for their designs to change and evolve.
This project was very challenging! Year 5 pupils demonstrated their ability to follow instructions and work independently. I am very impressed!
A big thank you to Mrs Saunders who delivered the project to 5HA and the wonderful Year 5 TAs.
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Ignazio Passanti ( 1720 circa - 1780circa )
A very important and unique pair of late-Baroque Italian polychrome majolica two- light wall-sconces
Ferniani Manufactory, Faenza 1740
Maria Antonia Gianetti, Milan, Via del Gesu’ 7, 1991.
Private European collection 2021.
C. Ravanelli Guidotti, La Fabbrica Ferniani, Milano, 2009.
Pair of late baroque wall apliques in tin-glazed earthenware so called ‘a gran fuoco’, created for the Ferniani family under the direction of Ignazio Passanti
Faenza, Ferniani Manufactory, c.1740
Possibly decorated by Nicolas Letourneau or Nicoló Raccagni.Painted in blue, yellow (giallo limone), iron red and green (verde fieno) with a central trellis panel on a motif of fruits motif and flower sprays, a radiating floral scrollwork enclosed by elaborate scrolling foliage, enclosing trellis panels, all within a border of continuous scrollwork, with a moulded shell cresting on top. | <urn:uuid:5de4aeae-a496-45d0-9584-ee4d03e8ffbe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lucaburzio.com/artworkdetail/858884/18620/a-very-important-and-unique-pair-of | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.763791 | 272 | 1.875 | 2 |
The process of codifying existing statutes or an existing body of law into a code.
(Engineering) A statement (in domain specific terms) which specifies a verifiable constraint on an implementation that it shall undeniably meet or (a) be deemed unacceptable, or (b) result in implementation failure, or (c) result in system failure.
A guiding principle or requirement
The title or a heading of a law
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the act of controlling or directing according to rule
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A court’s management and distribution of property during a judicial proceeding.
The act, process, or function of supervising.
The act of regulating
The systematic grouping of organisms according to the structural or evolutionary relationships among them. Organisms are normally classified by observed similarities in their body and cell structure or by evolutionary relationships based on the analysis of sequences of their DNA.
The definition of coordination is being able to move and use your body effectively and multiple people or things working well together.
The arrangement or placement of certain things.
(Finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
The definition of an arrangement is something that has been planned.
A group of persons organized for a particular purpose; an association or business.
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“Shrimati Kuntidevi has prayed to the Lord just to enunciate a fragment of His glories. All His devotees worship Him in that way, by chosen words, and therefore the Lord is known as Uttamashloka.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 1.8.44 Purport)
1. Praising people
“That person you see standing there – a great guy. He would give you the shirt off his back. He is a professional, successful at the highest level of his field. Yet you wouldn’t know it by meeting him on the street. He is so humble. He doesn’t talk down to you. He treats you like a friend, as if he understands what you are going through.”
2. Criticizing people
“Did you hear what that coach said to a player? It happened over ten years ago, but that doesn’t excuse anything. The language, it’s really unacceptable. He has since apologized. He quit the position, though the team would have fired him eventually.
“The thing is, the team needs to do more. Who else knew about this? For how long have they known? I’m sure other coaches behave similarly; we have yet to find out. That toxic environment, it needs to change. These people are the worst. This is not your grandpa’s league anymore.”
3. Speaking at a professional conference
“This is my first time going this route. Usually, I am on the other side. A member of the audience, I eagerly anticipate the presentations given by the all-stars in the industry. Now they will be sitting in the audience while I speak.
“I am passionate about what I do, so I think this will be an interesting topic. I have my slide presentation ready and I have rehearsed a few times. Maybe the more familiar I get with this process, the easier it will be. I hope to one day be an expert speaker like my mentors.”
4. Denouncing God
“I doubt that He exists. Man needs a way to cope with the difficulties of life. I think you are born as chemicals and you leave that way. Nothing more to it. Religion has hurt so many people. Destroyed lives. Unnecessary torture. The leaders think they are better than everyone else, but just see how pervasive scandal is at the highest level.
“If there is a God, He must be horrible. To witness so much suffering in the world and do nothing about it, what kind of person is that? Then He forces us to worship Him or we’ll be punished. Condemned to hell for eternity. Yeah, real nice guy He is.”
5. Praising God
The acharyas of the Vaishnava tradition recommend this outlet for the use of words. They compare the process to a yajna, which is sacrifice. Try to sacrifice, words, wealth, intelligence and life for the pleasure of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Words can be sacrificed in so many other ways, in fact. The distinction with the bhakti path is that the benefit is at the highest scale. There is no better match for the communicating ability in the living being. Make the all-attractive one the recipient.
For this reason, one of His many names is Uttamashloka. Know that God is all-attractive, Krishna, and the remover of obstacles, Hari. He gets praised by the topmost poetry and song. Those who sacrifice their entire life for offering such praise are happy, content, peaceful, kind, gentle, perseverant and resolute in their determination to continue in the ever-blissful process.
Outlet for many ways,
Words singing highest praise.
Or criticism upon heaping,
Booked for conference speaking.
Acharyas for sacrifice recommending,
That best words towards Krishna sending.
Since Uttamashloka is He,
Most appreciative to be.
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Arts for Induction is a specialised creative resource that works to reduce anxiety by providing respite for newly arrived, refugee or asylum seeking children, who may be finding it difficult to integrate into school.
It is a fully researched and tested resource that was co-produced with children who have experience in starting school after migrating from their home countries. The resource is dedicated to ensuring these children build self-worth and confidence in themselves to ultimately ease their transition into the English school system.
It is a flexible and fun resource that is cost and time effective for schools to implement. Click here for all downloads.
The activities are provided with a fully comprehensive guide, instructions and a
materials list that utilises items the school may have already.
"Art for Induction is a wonderful resource specifically designed with the needs of international new arrivals and asylum seeker children in mind. We think that one of the reasons that it works so well is because it was co-designed with children and young people from these groups.
Starting a new school can be scary, starting a new school in a new country can be terrifying. Art for Induction provides a safe space in the school curriculum when a child arrives. It offers creativity, a chance to be in the here and now and a chance to build a sense of self-worth. We see this programme working time and time again with children and young people. We are very proud that Rochdale schools have this terrific programme on offer."
Erica Field, Early Help & Schools, Rochdale Borough Council
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Pure drag racing consists of racing two cars from a dead stop to some given distance, typically 1/ 4 or 1/8 mile. The car that crosses the finish line first is the winner. Bracket racing consists of the same type of track and starting systems, but racing vehicles are grouped by their elapsed time (ET) potential,and raced against each other using a pre-selected dial-in. Two competing cars from the same bracket are paired, and the starting lights are staggered such that the slower car’s starting lights begin the sequence first by the difference of the two dial-ins. The winner is the car that reaches the finish line first, providing it did not run quicker than it’s dial in time. If both cars ran quicker than their respective dials, the car that ran the closest to its dial is the winner. Note that MPH has not been mentioned as a direct factor in winning or losing, and we will discuss that later.
To be a consistent winner in Bracket racing, your car must be able to run close to the selected dial each run. (It is permissible to change your dial after each run!) Additionally, your reaction time (time from the green light switch closure until your front wheel leaves the starting line) must be reasonably quick and consistent. In non-electronics classes where you simply drive with the car’s normal brakes and throttle, a relatively good reaction time (RT) would range from .520 to .560, and a consistent car would repeat to within .02.-.03. seconds. These numbers vary widely, and numbers outside these ranges can and do win many bracket races. However, these numbers will make you competitive in most non-electronic classes.
You must realize that reaction time is a key element in drag racing. For example, if two cars run exactly the same ET but one driver has a .600 RT and the other driver has a .700 RT, the first driver will win by .1 second. What does .1 second translate to in distance? If the cars in question can run 95 MPH at the finish, .1 second is equal to about 14′, or almost one car length. Looking at another example, if your car runs .2 second quicker than the competitor, but you have a .800 RT to your competitor’s .550 RT, he/she will win by .05 second.
The elapsed time at the reaction time will always have this direct relationship, and both must be considered when reviewing your time tickets and/or your performance! How do you improve your RT? You must develop a consistent routine or staging your car, and stage identically each time. Remember, we recommend that you stop when the second stage light lights. Most tracks have a “courtesy” staging routine where both cars must turn the first stage light on before rolling into the second light. This prevents one car from trying to “burn down” the opponent by delaying staging. When both cars have the first light on, slowly advance until the second light just lights and then stop. This technique will position your car at the same location from the starting line on each run. Carefully watch each of the .5 second yellow lights, and “leave” at the same light sequence on each run. Typically, most cars can actually leave when the third yellow begins to glow.
The other important element of bracket racing is the dial-in. Experienced bracket racers have different methods of racing by selecting dials either slower than the car can actually run (sometimes called sand bagging) and then trying to stay slightly ahead of the other car, or dialing as close as the car will actually run. I strongly suggest you begin by selecting a dial that will allow you to run full throttle for the entire race without going too quick and “breaking out”. That is much easier said than done, but make your practice runs without changing anything on the car. Note the range of ET’s. Has the wind changed? Has it cooled off? Was your car hot on one run and cool on another? If your last run prior to elimination’s was the quickest, you probably should dial close to that ET. Otherwise, dial about the average of your two or three best runs. During elimination’s, if it is obvious that you are going to cross the finish line first, slow down by lifting from the throttle, or even tapping the brakes. Never run quicker than needed, and you will be less likely to “breakout”. Do not dial quicker than you can run to be “safe” from break-out. If you give your opponent a .1 second head start by dialing safe, you have given him/her about one car length advantage before the race even begins! If, during the race, it is obvious that the other car will cross the finish line before you, slow down by lifting or tapping the brakes prior to the finish line. This assures you will not break-out, and if your competitor runs too quickly, you will win. Caution! Braking must be done carefully and reasonably to prevent any possible loss of control. Additionally, many tracks will disqualify a driver for excessive or dangerous use of brakes. When there is an uneven number of cars in a class, one car will make a single run, called a “bye”. Always run full out on a bye in order to get a correct dial-in for the next round. Most tracks allow a break-out or even a red light on bye runs, providing you cross the finish line.
You should view each competitor the same. Do not change your routine for a very slow competitor, the best driver, or the quickest car. Simply determine who will leave first, and then run your race. Here is some advice that I received many years ago during my early attempts at drag racing. “In order to win a class, you must be able to beat all competitors, so don’t hesitate. When your class is called, be the first one up, and challenge the other drivers to beat you!” Remember that in drag racing, as in all sports, there are many good competitors, and it is virtually impossible to consistently beat them all!
While we all want to obtain the quickest elapsed time (ET) possible, consistent ET’s are much more important in bracket racing. If your vehicle is inconsistent, you can’t run your dial. As we pointed out previously, .1 second on a 95 MPH vehicle is about one car length. Many races are won by hundredths of a second, and I have won by less than one thousandths of a second. The following basic steps will help your consistency; Stage and leave identically each run. Shift at the same RPM each run. Experiment with the air pressure in your rear tires to find what produces the best 60′ time. Try to drive your vehicle straight down the track without swerving. Never make tuning changes and don’t add or delete weight to/from your vehicle when running time trials for a bracket race or during the race. Be aware of weather changes and dial accordingly. In general, weather affects performance as follows: a tail wind quickens the ET, and a head wind slows the ET. Increased heat as well as increased humidity slows the ET. Higher atmospheric pressure quickens the ET. The combinations of these factors can be unpredictable, and only close observation of weather effects on your vehicle during each trip you make to a strip can prepare you to include weather in your selection of an accurate dial-in. If your track’s time slips list 1000′ times refer to these to determine your vehicle’s performance if you intentionally slowed the previous run to avoid break-out. If the lOOO’ time varied from previous runs, you should probably dial accordingly for the next run.
How about speed as a factor in bracket racing? Speed, or crossing MPH, does not have a direct bearing on the outcome of most bracket races. A car can actually accelerate faster during the initial portion of the race, but run out of RPM during the final part of the race. Their top speed may be reached prior to the finish line because all of the available power and RPM was used in the early part of the race to obtain the quickest ET but they have enough lead to stay in front through the quarter even though the other car may be gaining (pulling) on them at the finish. This is because the other car has has enough gearing to run well past the end of the quarter, and may still be accelerating (gaining MPH) at the finish line.
Indirectly, speed does affect how drivers may choose to run the race. We never want to run a quicker ET than necessary to avoid “breaking out”. Accordingly, a driver that is comfortably ahead during a race will usually slow down prior to the finish line. If he/she misjudges the speed of the faster car and slows down too much or too early, the faster car may drive by and win. Conversely, when the fast car runs a very slow car, the fast car has to decide whether to let off before catching the slow car, or drive it hard all the way through (also called “running it out the back door”) and risk break out.
We touched on selecting a dial, and I suggested that you dial what you can run. Some racers will under dial by several hundredths from what they can run, and then attempt to use the brakes to barely stay ahead of the opponent. This can be successful, providing you can consistently have equal or better reaction time than your opponent. However, if your reaction time is poorer, you will usually lose by a break-out against a good driver. I again suggest you dial just what you can run, and if you are ahead at the finish, slow down. Otherwise, run it clear out and you should still be “safe” from break-out. The closer to the end of the race you slow down, either by letting off the throttle, or hitting the brakes, the less you will affect the ET. Remember, most of the ET is made at the start and through the mid portion of the race, so slowing from 110 to 105 right at the finish line may affect the ET less than .01 of a second. Conversely, a bog on the start, or a missed 1-2 shift may cost a full .1 second or more of ET. Do a little experimentation in this area during practice runs to find out what actually affects your ET. You will then be better prepared to implement the correct strategy during your elimination runs.
Practice your reaction times continually and be alert as to what may cause your vehicle to change ET from run to run.
The key to winning the race is a low reaction time and a consistent performance by your car. Every millisecond difference from your dial-in and a perfect .500 reaction time hurts you. If you run faster than your dial-in, you automatically lose, so if you feel you are running too fast (as often happens as the night gets cooler), you might want to slow down just as you are approaching the finish line so that you don’t go over your dial-in. You might also want to do this if you are fairly sure that your opponent has broke out. If you are bracket racing, don’t lock up your brakes at the end of the track in an attempt to not “break out”. Locking ’em up at this speed could be very dangerous. This isn’t an issue for test-n-tune nights, but be sure you leave plenty of room to brake at the end of the track without doing a massive ABS stop.
If you are bracket racing, remember that consistency is the key, even if you are consistently slow. Make a mental note of everything about the car: launch RPM, lane choice, temperature, length of burnout, etc. You want all of these to remain constant for each run. Even if you are not bracket racing, mentally keeping track of all of these variables will help you get to a better time. Eliminate variables between runs. Keep your car in the same configuration, do you burnout and stage the same way, shift at the same points, and do everything else as consistently as possible to win a bracket race. Compensate for changing track conditions using your dial-in (you can change it after each race). Also remember that slower cars are often more consistent, so you don’t need to try to eek every last HP out of the car for a bracket race. Have fun! | <urn:uuid:ac4ed40e-fc90-44a6-b38a-8854518b3d6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://musclecarclub.com/bracket-drag-racing-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960365 | 2,600 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Things To Have In The Boats For The Rowing Events
The boat that a team will use in a rowing event is an important material. This is something that works with a number of different standards. It can also vary in its appearance and abilities according to a variety of different qualities. Here are some details about these valuable parts of a boat.
The first thing to see in a sport rowing boat is the size of the boat. This boat will be one that is very narrow. It will also be one that features slight curves on the front and back ends. These are used to create portions of circles. These features are used to help with making sure that the drag on a boat will be reduced.
A fin can also be found on the back of the boat. This fin will be used to handle air as the boat turns. This is so the boat will not tip over.
The number of people who are rowing in a boat is an important thing to see. Each boat is one that will be of a different length and weight according to the number of people in the boat. A single-person boat will be 8.2 meters long and a minimum of 31 pounds in weight. A two-person boat is 10.4 meters long and 59 pounds in weight at the least.
A four-person boat will be 13.4 meters long and will have a minimum weight of 110 pounds. Finally, a boat for eight people on a team will be 19 meters long and at least 211 pounds in weight.
The boats will have to work with these weight minimums as a means of making sure that the competition in a match is fair. This comes from how lighter materials have become available for various boats. In many cases the use of items that can be light in the build can create an unfair advantage in a competition. The lengths, meanwhile, are adjusted as a means of making sure that all people in the boat will be able to fit in properly.
All people in each boat will have oars to work with. These are used to get the boat to propel itself along the water. The main thing about this is that the riders will need to work with as much concentration as possible. This is so it will be easier for all of them to work in unison in order for the boat to move at its fastest speed possible.
The last thing to see on a boat is that of where the coxswain is sitting. The coxswain will generally be on the front end of the boat. This is so the person can look to see that all people are rowing properly and that the boat is steered in a proper manner.
These things are important ones to take a look at when it comes to rowing boats. These sport boats are ones that can come in a variety of sizes and will work with a number of different important functions. | <urn:uuid:ca007b12-816a-4a5b-81c4-72094c1d641c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://collectifbdp.com/things-to-have-in-the-boats-for-the-rowing-events/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.975854 | 583 | 2.25 | 2 |
After years of protests and a grisly scandal at a local pet store, the Frisco City Council finally approved new rules regulating the sale of dogs and cats at pet stores.
The new ordinance responds to an August 2019 investigation by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), who charged the Petland store in Frisco of mistreating its animals.
An HSUS investigator took photos and video while working in the pet store's back room, and found that the pets were mistreated, sick, and overcrowded. The investigator kept a diary documenting puppies that had bloody diarrhea, vomiting, sneezing, coughing, or were visibly underweight.
Frisco Animal Services identified several animals that needed immediate veterinary care, and issue a citation to Petland. The chain has been a target of years' of protest by local animal activists who have accused them of selling animals from puppy mills.
Investigators did not find evidence that meets the Texas statute for cruelty to animals, which is an embarrassingly low filter. But Frisco residents persisted, petitioning the city to clean up its act.
Approved on January 21, the ordinance addresses areas such as sanitation, veterinary treatment, care, feeding, housing, and record-keeping on the acquisition, transportation, and status of animals that are being sold.
"While we haven't been able to adopt all of the suggestions and changes that came from the various animal interest groups that came to you, we adopted a lot of them, and the ordinance is better for being able to put those provisions in there," said Deputy City Manager Henry J. Hill.
Unfortunately, during the discussion, it was revealed that at least one of Frisco's City Council members has purchased animals from Petland.
Nearly all of the residents who spoke were still not satisfied with the scope of the ordinance and its lack of provision for enforcement.
Susan Oakey, who has been part of a group that's protested at the store for more than 11 years, called it a stopgap measure at best. "It's putting a bandaid on a gaping wound," she says.
At one time, Petland had five stores in the area, but two — Lewisville and Arlington — have closed in recent years. Locations are still open in Dallas and Plano, which has also been the target of protests.
On the same night that Frisco enacted its ordinance, The Colony banned retail sales of dogs and cats, although it does not currently have any pet stores that do sales. Fort Worth has also banned retail sales, but surprisingly Dallas has not.
"We need to look at banning retail sales entirely," Oakey says. "Puppy mills are extremely cruel and breed animals with lots of physical problems." | <urn:uuid:c2f0dd0a-18c3-4a73-9868-84da9400b6c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/city-life/01-29-20-frisco-animal-ordinance-petland-puppy-mills/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977737 | 559 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The increasing use of UAS for a broad range of research, commercial, and military purposes has raised concerns about their safety, environmental impact, and potential use for privacy-invading purposes (e.g., image capture, data collection). Engineers need to consider these ethics-related concerns when designing and operating UAS. The goal of this LAUNCH project is to:
- Create an educational ethics module that aims to enhance engineers’ sensitivity to the ethical concerns associated with UAS and
- Pilot-test the module with a group of engineering students and examine whether it improved their sensitivity to these issues.
The module will include a variety of educational media, including online videos, case studies, role plays, and hands-on activities. Ultimately, this module could be integrated into undergraduate aerospace courses. Integrating the module into the existing curriculum will draw on students’ UAS design activities and knowledge to provide a deep, broad, and enduring exposure to key ethical issues in the design and operation of UAS.
LAUNCH students will create an educational module on ethical issues related to UAS. The students will learn about creating educational content and assessment as well as effective pedagogies for ethics training. Once the module is created, the students will pilot test it with a group of engineering students and receive feedback from the group. Students will also conduct interviews and administer surveys to examine how the pilot test group’s awareness of ethical issues related to UAS changed after they completed the module.
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People often have mixed feelings when it comes to Bulldogs. Some think of them as furious and grim, while people who own a Bulldog know what a lovely companion they are! The American Bulldog is a well-adjusted muscular dog that is energetic, strong, and friendly. American Bully is a successor of the English Bulldog who was bred to work on fields.
Black American Bullies are a mix of American Pit Bull Terrier, Bulldog, and Staffordshire Terrier and they come in an all-black coat. However, black is not the correct color for an American Bulldog. Traditionally, American Bulldogs are often white with patches of red, brindle, and black.
Apart from mixed shades of white, this dog breed also comes in other colors, including all-white, black, chocolate. But yes, American Bulldogs can be all-black. Black is among the other 4 rare colors for these Rocky Bullies. Regardless of appearance, Bulldogs are excellent domestic canines. Before you drive down to get one, let us discuss things that will help you raise your Bully right.
How Big Do Black American Bulldogs Get?
Black American Bulldogs have a remarkably muscular body that can go up to 22 to 28 inches in height by the time they become adults in the case of males, whereas the height range for females is 20 to 26 inches.
When compared to French Bulldogs or English Bulldogs, Black American Bullies are quite taller. This breed reaches a weight of 70 to 120 lbs for males and 60 to 100 lbs for females as they enter adulthood.
If you own an average-sized yard, you can easily exercise your medium to large-sized American Bully in your home without taking them out for a walk on busy days.
Black American Bulldogs are rocky, strong, and have a long back that makes them look very upright. Bullies usually stand 2 feet at the shoulder and have a much-positioned body structure.
Since Bullies were originally bred to work on farms, they have big heads with powerful jaws. Their ears may be uncropped, rose, drop, semi-prick, or cropped. They have dark brown eyes round or almond-shaped. Bulldogs have an erect tail, thick at the base that gradually thins out at the top.
Coat Color And Pattern
The characteristic black coat on the Black American Bulldogs is due to a certain pigment called eumelanin, whose production depends on the B locus in the cells.
These Bullies are black because these expressed B genes are dominant.
Black American Bulldogs have varieties of coats that may be solid or patterned. Their black coats are soft and short-haired. They may contain patterns of black, brindle, fawn, or red color on their coat.
How Long Do Black American Bulldogs Live?
A Black American Bulldog has a life expectancy of 10 to 16 years.
Bullies are a working breed, so obviously very healthy. Exercising is crucial to keep the pooch healthy. While they are comfortable indoors, physical activity is not to be compromised. They are robust and active, so playing outdoors helps them stay healthy and live even longer.
However, there are some common health issues of Bulldogs that you may face if not given proper care.
Black American Bulldogs are brachycephalic dog breeds that have shorter snouts, thereby making it harder for them to breathe well. So, obesity will make it hard for your furry friend to breathe. Lack of exercise will make them prone to being overweight.
If Black American Bulldogs have been overweight since childhood, they are more likely to develop hip dysplasia in adulthood. In this, the hip joint grows abnormally and becomes weaker.
Black American Bulldogs are not very habitable of humidity and heat. When you are walking or exercising your canine outdoors on a warm day, keep an eye for signs and symptoms of overheating.
If you encounter such a situation, lie down your doggie in a cooler place. You can also buy a small pool for your Bully to help them beat the heat.
Cherry eye is a nasty issue in Black American Bulldogs where a third eyelid bulges. Unlike humans, dogs have three eyelids to protect their eyes. In certain conditions, the third eyelid gets irritated and protrudes.
Cherry eye is not an emergency but can be concerning if ignored for a long time; therefore, consult a vet sooner.
How To Take Care Of Your Black American Bulldog?
Your Black American Bully needs at least an hour of exercise every day to stay healthy and away from health issues like obesity and hip dysplasia.
Bulldogs have strong muscles, and to maintain them, your Fido requires good playtime each day along with a high-quality diet to increase their life expectancy and keep fit. However, lack of exercise will lead to problems mentioned below:
- Heart diseases
- Poor digestion
- Hip dysplasia
On the contrary, a good exercise routine will help your canine friends in the following ways:
- Better functioning organs
- Stronger bones
- Improved brain function
- Quality of sleep
You can take your four-legged buddy on a good 45-min walk to help them maintain their strong muscles. Some other fun activities are fetching, jolly ball, Frisbee, tug-of-war, and dog toys.
For Bullies, diet is a vital factor in keeping their muscular body intact. The ideal meal for a Bully can be 2 to 3 cups per day. The high-quality food should be given in two meals.
However, the amount of food your canine eats also depends on his activity level, age, and metabolism. The ideal diet of a Bully must consist of carbs, protein, good fats, minerals, and multivitamins. To make sure that your Fido gets all the essentials, you can also get a nutritious Pet Plate for them.
It is important to keep your pet’s teeth clean to avoid potential dental issues. For better oral hygiene of your Bully, you can use dental water additives. Put one tablespoon of it in your doggie’s water bowl daily and you are all set for the day.
Can Black American Bulldogs Be Aggressive? Temperaments Of Black American Bulldogs
Black American Bulldogs are known to exhibit aggression and hostility. Such traits are likely to be inherited from generations since these Bullies were bred to perform farm works such as baiting or herding, where dominance comes in handy.
Younger bullies are more aggressive than older ones; they bite, nibble, and chew things they should not. But take this normal, it will get better as they grow old.
However, to promote a stable and calm temperament early socialization is mandatory. To avoid dog aggression in your canine buddy, socialize him/her with other dogs and even cats from an early age.
Just like other doggies, Black American Bulldogs suffer from separation anxiety too. Without the proper training, these pooches cannot be left alone for more than 6 hours. When they do, they can become destructive.
In terms of destructive behavior, Black American Bulldogs can exhibit chewing of furniture or barking tendencies. As Bullies are companion dogs, they will need lots of attention and play-time. Consider setting them up with a professional sitter or dog daycare center in your absence.
Black American bulldogs are eager learners and consistent. By the time they reach 6 months, you can start training them with basic commands like “no”, “sit”, “stand”, and “stay”. Don’t miss out on the “drop it” command, as your bully’s bite is strong enough to destroy the toys. They can be dominating, so training is necessary to teach them obedience.
Black American Bulldogs are hyperactive up to the age of 4 to 5 years. It can get difficult to calm them as all they want is to play and run around. You can provide them with calming chews to compose them.
Female Black Bullies are more active and aggressive as compared to male ones. However, plenty of energy is a healthy sign, and you can always use treats or training to wind down.
All in all, Black American Bullies are best owned by owners with an active lifestyle and love having an athletic companion for hunting, farming, or protection. Naturally, they are calm and their behaviors toward strangers fluctuate from friendly to aloof. All these Bullies are vigilant guardians and live for their owners.
Do Black American Bulldogs Shed? Grooming Tips For Black American Bulldogs
Black American Bullies shed throughout the year due to their short coat. Factors, such as climate, diet, and skin conditions also contribute to their shedding.
These Bullies have a short coat that does not require excessive grooming. Also, puppies tend to shed more hair, but their shedding levels will reduce as they mature to become adults.
Black American Bulldogs are not hypoallergenic. These purebred pooches produce a high amount of allergens. Therefore, people sensitive to allergies must avoid being in proximity.
Brush The Coat Twice Or Thrice Per Week
You can brush your Fido 2 to 3 times a week to get rid of all the dead hair that may lead to skin problems if not cleaned properly. Brush for at least 10 minutes every 3 days to maintain a healthy coat. You can change the brushing pattern as per your Bully’s needs and shedding quantity.
To make things less hectic, you can use the Furminator Undercoat Tool that helps in removing the deadhead from the undercoat without hurting your pooch. It is safe and effective in reducing shedding with regular use.
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Regular Bathing And Cleaning
Your Black Bully required a regular bath and cleaning as often as once per week. Do not delay bathing your canine for more than 6 weeks, or they will start smelling bad.
Before bathing, use a dryer to loosen dirt, dander skin, and dead hair from their coat. Use a good shampoo for bathing your Bully. You can consider using Pro Pet Works All Natural 5 In 1 Oatmeal Shampoo. This shampoo is hypoallergenic and soap-free, so completely safe for your pooch.
Other Grooming Tips
Use a hydrating spray to keep the coat moisturized after bathing your Bully. Trim their nails from time to time as long nails are uncomfortable and compromise the paw’s shape. Brush their teeth daily.
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How Much Does Black American Bulldog Cost? The cost for Black American Bulldogs ranges from $1,500 to $4,000. The price may vary from different places to breeders, but you get a fully screened doggie for temperament issues and health. Bullies are not the most expensive to own. However, purebred puppies may cost you more as they are pricey to breed.
Do Black American Bulldogs Swim? No, a Black American Bulldog cannot swim because of their short snouts due to brachycephaly; it is difficult for them to keep their head out of water. Make sure to use a life vest for your furry friend whenever they are near water sources to avoid the risk of drowning.
What Is A Black Pocket American Bully? A Black Pocket Bully is a mixed breed of American Pit Bull Terrier and Patterdale Terrier. On average, this tiny pooch can weigh between 10 to 20 lbs for females and 11 to 22 lbs for males, and it is no wonder that it is often called a Miniature Pit Bull. A Pocket Bully is a designer dog and, therefore, very expensive. You can carry this tiny muscular canine in your bag easily. | <urn:uuid:fdc1b0a7-fe56-45fe-a4ed-a7ad89a00705> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thegoodypet.com/black-american-bulldog | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94755 | 2,638 | 2.5 | 2 |
The trade union said it knows of approximately 30 cases in recent months where patients were driven to hospital in police cars because of a lack of available ambulances or long waits for paramedics.
Last month the army was called in to help drive ambulances amid deteriorating response times and warnings about driver shortages.
But now the police federation has revealed officers are also being asked to attend medical emergencies and have helped by taking patients to hospital in the absence of ambulances.
The Scottish Ambulance Service has denied the claims.
Examples recorded by Police Scotland officers – as reported by the 1919 Magazine – included an unconscious man who had attempted to take his own life by overdose being driven to hospital in a police car because no ambulance had attended more than an hour after being called.
Another incident involved an elderly man lying on a pavement with a leg injury and in “extreme confusion”, according to the police report, with his foot turning black.
More than five and a half hours after a 999 call was made, and with all ambulances unavailable, he was put in the back of an “extremely uncomfortable” police van and taken to hospital.
A third case was the ambulance service reportedly calling for the police to help with a woman whose motorbike had fallen on her, leaving her with an open compound fracture of her lower leg.
The police log read: “A local off duty nurse is with her but as the ambulance will not be able to attend for two hours the SAS (Scottish Ambulance Service) let us know, despite it being a medical matter and their lack of resources doesn’t change what it is.
“They ask if we can attend (not sure what for) however the duty sergeant has no units and not sure what assistance they could be if he did.”
Gordon Forsyth from the Scottish Police Federation said: “Cops out there are taking people to hospital in the back of police cars simply because the ambulance is going to be hours, or there isn’t anybody suitable to leave the person with and stand down.
“I’ve got a list of 30-odd examples, various things where the cops have been sent to calls because an ambulance hasn’t been available, or having to wait for a significant period of time for an ambulance to get there.
“It all goes back to the question of: where does the policing responsibility stop and start?”
In response, a spokeswoman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said: “We do not ask Police officers to attend emergency situations instead of an ambulance crew or transport patients to hospital.
“For all 999 calls, the ambulance service will always dispatch the nearest, most appropriate response.”
Scottish Conservative health spokesman Dr Sandesh Gulhane said: “Humza Yousaf’s failure to get a grip of the crisis in the ambulance service is now having a detrimental effect on other heroic emergency service personnel.
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The CAP patented Concussion Testing Device and technology is the ONLY concussion prevention program in the world that safely tests the risk of sustaining concussions and provides training to prevent them.
Calgary, Edmonton and St. Albert, Alberta – May 9th, 2018 – CAP Corporation (CAP), Athletes Nation One and Kinetic Conditioning (ANKC) announced today that they have partnered to deliver The CAP Concussion Prevention and Brain Repair Programs to their clients.
ANKC, who have trained the likes of Jerome Iginla, Tyler Ennis, Jared and Tyler Spurgeon, and Turner Elson, will officially launch The CAP Programs May 9th. In addition to training professional hockey players, their clients also include many Western Hockey League and amateur athletes.
Dan Lajoie, Director of Athletic Performance at Athletes Nation stated that, “Keeping our athletes injury-free is a number one priority, so when we learned that CAP had developed the first of its kind concussion prevention program, we jumped at the opportunity to partner with them. We train to prevent other types of injuries, why not concussions, it just makes sense.”
Brad McNamara, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Athletes Nation added that, “What we never really know as a Coach is what level of strength is required to be protected for any injury, let alone concussions. The CAP Program changes that, it tests each athletes’ current level and sets individualized strength goals to reduce their risk as they progress throughout their careers.”
Kim Adolphe, CAP CEO added, “We are very excited to partner with an organization like ANKC whose incredible track record speaks for itself and, who is equally passionate about reducing the risk of concussions. The CAP concussion safety standard is a major, first step in making contact sports safer for everyone.”
About CAP Corporation
CAP was founded on the principle that preventing concussions is about changing the athlete, not the sport. The CAP technology and patented RAM machine is the ONLY solution in the world that is clinically validated to safely test the risk of sustaining concussions and, prevent them from occurring. CAP also offers a Brain Repair Program that uses state-of-the-art diagnostic tools and therapies.
CAP dedicates 20% of revenues towards funding amateur sports, nonprofits, and concussion research working closely with leading scientists at Universities, Government, and Private Institutes.
About Athletes Nation One
Athletes Nation One is a Private Strength and Conditioning Training facility located in St. Albert, AB. AN One is a full developmental facility, working with athletes of all ages looking to get stronger, faster and more powerful; and to make it to the next level of their chosen sport/ discipline. Dan LaJoie and Brad McNamara have been working with athletes for over 10 years and hold their CSCS and RSCC/ RSCC*D certifying them to work with high level athletes and apply the science behind athlete development to their training programs.” | <urn:uuid:3167189c-5142-4779-be22-9a04d863a147> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://capbraingain.com/2018/05/09/athletes-nation-one-and-kinetic-conditioning-launch-cap-concussion-safety-and-brain-repair-programs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959797 | 610 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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Guests: Dr. Michael Schmidt, Dr. Thomas Goodwin; Topics: Pharmacogenomics in spaceflight, personalize spaceflight genetics for safety and better effectiveness, drug issues in space, the Moon, Mars, risk factors, metabolism and much more.
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We welcomed back both Dr. Michael Schmidt and Dr. Thomas Goodwin for this one segment 91 minute discussion for their chapter and paper, "Pharmacogenomics in Spaceflight" which is part of the new Springer publication, Handbook of Space Pharmaceuticals.
Please note that we did have some mild phone line audio noise and issues with one of our guest lines. We started our discussion with Dr. Schmidt introducing us to the our topic and his and Dr. Goodwin's contribution to the book referenced above. One of the overriding themes of our discussion was the need for more knowledge to better accept the risks of human spaceflight . In addition, the disciplines discussed in this program, Precision Medicine, personalized human spaceflight medicine, understanding genetics and metabolism in space as compared to here on Earth plus much more are fields that are only now starting to be investigated for spaceflight. Much of what was discussed during the first part of our discussion focused on what was happening in these fields, what it might mean for astronaut safety and effectiveness, and how this knowledge might be implemented in the practical sense of human spaceflight.
Our guests used many drug examples during the discussion to illustrate their talking points, they talked extensively about finding out if an astronaut had a slow or fast metabolism as a drug, codeine for example, might react very differently for a person depending on their metabolism. One example of this was given later in our discussion around the substance of caffeine. All of this discussion was fascinating and informative and will likely evolve as human spaceflight continues to evolve with a focus on safety and making the sure the crew is able to operate at maximum levels of effectiveness. As you will hear, understanding genetics and metabolism and applying it to each individual crew member since each will be different from the other crew members offers exciting possibilities and potentials for the future of human spaceflight.
Other issues talked about included space tourists and commercial astronauts as compared to government astronauts. Our guests applied the same science to the tourists and commercial crew members but note how this was done as missions and expectations will be different. Another subject that came up through a listener email inquired how this type of medicine was catching on in practice for people here on the ground. You will how this new medical technology is now being used for elite groups like SWAT, special forces, and professional athletes. However, as I understood it, the response and demand by general practioners and private sector doctors is slow and yet to be fully realized. Don't miss this excellent part of the discussion. Later, our guests were asked how interested individuals could find available medical services to undergo the genetic and metabolic studies we talked about. I wonder, how many of you listening would do these studies for yourself and family members were they readily available to you? Tell us by posting on our blog.
In addition, our guests talked about suborbital flight as compared to orbital or even settlement. They mentioned changes that take place in space such as vascular changes, anxiety along with others. Also, we learned that there were fluctuating metabolic changes for LEO, BLEO, being on the Moon or even Mars or going to Mars. Our guests were asked if any of this could be simulated on Earth. Don't miss what they said about simulation experiments and effort. As a result of our discussion, a few listeners sent in emails asking about real time space people studies. Our guests such studies were needed and they talked about the Twin Study but they made a point of saying said such real time experimentation should be going on even now with ISS crew members. Such studies would facilitate getting more information and knowledge at all levels of human spaceflight. Later, our guests described how one should start doing experiments in real time right now. Ethical concerns were aired as well.
We received another email from a listener asking our guests about human genetic modification for spaceflight. Many guests on TSS over the years have suggested this for long duration spaceflight. Don't miss what our guests said about this matter, about CRISPR, and the need for having far more information than we have now. Examples were given that included the 20g centrifuge at Ames, the NASTAR studies plus the experiences Tom cited regarding immunotherapy and changing genes without proper knowledge. Please don't miss these discussions. Michael then talked about gene expression in the Twin Study where about 7% of the genes do not return to the baseline. He said very little was known about gene expression in space and more studies similar to the Twin Studies were needed.
BJohn sent in the following question "Hundreds of people have been to space during the last half of a century. What does the hard statistics say about their special pharmaceutical needs? Are you sure that there is a real health hazard other than burning up in the atmosphere because of a hardware failure? I do hope that you base your recommendations on proven experience." You do not want to miss what our two guests had to say in response to BJohn's question. Hint: Being within LEO is one thing, going BLEO and being on long duration missions, well, not much is known about that. Make sure you hear the response o BJohn's question. What do you think? Let us know by posting your comments on our blog for this show.
As we were moving toward the end of our discussion, Michael brought up an additional issue based on rodent studies and radiation re the loss of cognitive capabilities. He referred to the work done by Dr. Limoli at UCI who has been on this program (listen to the Dr. Limoli program at https://www.thespaceshow.com/show/07-jul-2015/broadcast-2503-special-edition-0). I brought up the main objections to Dr. Limoli that were expressed at the time of his interview, including b Dr. Zubrin. Critics claimed that the radiation dosage given the rodents over a very short period of time was unrealistic if applied to humans. Our two guests responded to this criticism so be sure you hear what they said. Again, let us know what you think by posting your thoughts on our blog.
Other topics included additional drugs and pharmaceuticals in space, even what happens with Tylenol type products. Before the program ended, it was again stressed that to go forward into the future the need for more work similar to the Twin study was imperative. Before we ended, Todd got in a question asking about food nutrition and metabolism in space. Perhaps people would need a customized diet for space based on their genetics and metabolism. Don't miss what our guests said about this, especially iron in the blood and nutrient density.
I suspect that the bottom line is that we are just getting started in creating the human spaceflight of the future. I bet that within just a few years, it won't look anything like the human spaceflight we know today and that took us to the Moon 50 years ago. Please post your comments/questions on TSS blog for this show. You can reach either of our guests through me. | <urn:uuid:128bbadb-bc37-4b38-b0b0-80f8b43ee1df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thespaceshow.com/show/01-feb-2019/broadcast-3263-dr.-michael-schmidt-dr.-thomas-goodwin | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968025 | 1,669 | 1.71875 | 2 |
We are the lilies (of the field)
and we don’t need a sword or shield.
And we don’t need a folding chair
to sit down here (or sit down there).
And we don’t need a coat or hat
to cover this (or cover that).
Nor do we need a parasol
or much of anything at all.
It seems to be the truth indeed
that we have everything we need.
And more than that, if truth be told,
though what we have cannot be sold.
We’ve got the stars (& sun & moon).
We’ve got the months (incl. June).
We’ve got the sky (in blue or gray).
We’ve got the night time (and the day.)
We’ve got the sounds that crickets make
and have the bird songs (when they wake).
And then on top of everything
we have the dew that mornings bring.
And when the rain begins to fall
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Prince Harry has told the United Nations leaders must act against a “global assault on democracy and freedom”, which he says has worsened a “painful year in a painful decade”.
The Duke of Sussex appeared to be referring to the overturning of the Roe v Wade ruling on abortion when he spoke about the “rolling back of constitutional rights” in his new home country, the US.
“How many of us feel battered, helpless, in the face of a seemingly endless stream of disasters and devastation?” he said, in his speech to the general assembly in New York early on Tuesday (Australian time).
In an often personal speech to the UN General Assembly’s annual celebration on Monday of Nelson Mandela International Day, the 37-year-old Duke of Sussex said a photo on his wall of his mother meeting Mandela in Cape Town in March 1997, just five months before the princess’s death, is “in my heart every day”.
He spoke about his first visit to Africa as a 13-year-old and how the continent has not only given him hope but become “my lifeline, a place where I have found peace and healing time and time again”.
“It’s where I’ve felt closest to my mother and sought solace after she died, and where I knew I had found my soul mate in my wife,” Harry said as his wife, Meghan Markle, sat listening in the front of the vast General Assembly hall, filled with diplomats from many of the UN’s 193 member nations.
It was the couple’s first public appearance since their brief visit to Britain for the Queen’s platinum jubilee celebrations early in June.
As the father of two young children – Archie, three, and one-year-old Lilibet – the prince expressed concern about the planet they and millions of others will inherit.
The world was at “a pivotal moment”, he said, facing converging crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, a small number of people “weaponising lies and disinformation at the expense of the many,” the “horrific” war in Ukraine and “the rolling back of constitutional rights here in the United States”.
That was an apparent reference to the US Supreme Court’s recent decision reversing a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
“We are witnessing a global assault on democracy and freedom – the cause of Mandela’s life,” the prince said.
Harry said Mr Mandela remained a great inspiration and an example of resilience and optimism. He hailed him as “not only a man of conscience, he was a man of action”.
“We can find meaning and purpose in the struggle,” he said, remarking on the issues facing people across the globe, including COVID-19 and the war on Ukraine.
“We can wear our principles as armour. Heed the advice Mandela once gave his son, to never give up the battle even in the darkest hour, and find hope where we have the courage to seek it.”
Harry said people had a choice: Become apathetic, angry and despairing; or do what Mr Mandela did every day during his 27 years in prison and the rest of his life including as South Africa’s first Black president, which was to “find meaning and purpose in the struggle”.
He said parents he had met around the world were as determined as Mr Mandela was “to give their children a better shot at a brighter future … because they know the price of inaction will be paid by the next generation”.
The General Assembly established July 18 – Mr Mandela’s birthday – as an international day to honour him not only by celebrating his life and contributions but by carrying out the tradition of participating in a community service activity.
Harry challenged people everywhere to commit to celebrating Mr Mandela day not just once a year but every day by carrying out acts of service to improve the world.
“We have an obligation to give as much – if not more – than we take,” he said.
“Let’s seek out what we have in common, empower all people to reclaim our democracies, and harness the light of Mandela’s memory to illuminate the way forward.”
In January 2020, Harry and Meghan stepped down as senior members of the British royal family and moved to the duchess’ native Southern California, citing the unbearable pressure of their roles and racist attitudes of the British media.
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