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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Sec. Mitochondrial Research
Mitochondrial Traits Previously Associated With Species Maximum Lifespan Do Not Correlate With Longevity Across Populations of the Bivalve Arctica islandica
- 1Département de Biologie, Université du Québec, Rimouski, QC, Canada
- 2Department of Functional Ecology, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
- 3CNRS, ENTPE, UMR5023 Laboratoire d’Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
- 4Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
The mitochondrial oxidative stress theory of aging posits that membrane susceptibility to peroxidation and the organization of the electron transport system (ETS) linked with reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation are two main drivers of lifespan. While a clear correlation has been established from species comparative studies, the significance of these characteristics as potential modulators of lifespan divergences among populations of individual species is still to be tested. The bivalve Arctica islandica, the longest-lived non-colonial animal with a record lifespan of 507 years, possesses a lower mitochondrial peroxidation index (PI) and reduced H2O2 efflux linked to complexes I and III activities than related species. Taking advantage of the wide variation in maximum reported longevities (MRL) among 6 European populations (36–507 years), we examined whether these two mitochondrial properties could explain differences in longevity. We report no relationship between membrane PI and MRL in populations of A. islandica, as well as a lack of intraspecific relationship between ETS complex activities and MRL. Individuals from brackish sites characterized by wide temperature and salinity windows had, however, markedly lower ETS enzyme activities relative to citrate synthase activity. Our results highlight environment-dependent remodeling of mitochondrial phenotypes.
Understanding the physiological determinants of lifespan in animals has been the focus of biologists and gerontologists over the past decades. Comparative studies suggest a role for mitochondrial structure and function associated with the aging process, in particular the management of reactive oxygen species (ROS). This evidence has been integrated into one unifying hypothesis, the “mitochondrial oxidative stress theory of aging” (MOSTA, reviewed in Blier et al., 2017). It points out, among others, the importance of cell membrane composition and particularly the susceptibility of mitochondrial membrane lipids to oxidation peroxidation index (PI) as potentially causative parameters of cellular aging. In addition, modifications of the redox state and stoichiometry of mitochondrial electron transporters appear to play a crucial role for mitochondrial coupling and the rates of ROS formation (Barja, 2007), and hence are important components of the MOSTA.
Membrane lipids are particularly prone to oxidative damage (Gamliel et al., 2008), and the sensitivity of fatty acids (FA) to oxidation by ROS depends on their chemical conformation, especially with respect to the presence of conjugated double bonds. FA chains with no or only one double bond [saturated fatty acids (SFA) and monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA)] are more resistant to peroxidation than polyunsaturated FA (PUFA), the sensitivity of which increases exponentially with the number of conjugated double bonds (Holman, 1954). The products of FA oxidation (reactive aldehydes) induce autocatalytic progression of lipid peroxidation that can further damage membrane proteins, PUFA chains and DNA. This leads to impaired protein functions and DNA mutations and underlines the crucial role of membrane lipid composition for cellular integrity, with implications for organismal lifespan (Hulbert, 2010).
The strongest association between a physiological trait and divergences in species lifespan has so far been observed for membrane structure. The early evidence of a strong negative correlation between membrane PI and increasing maximum lifespan was reported in vertebrates, specifically in mammals and birds (Hulbert et al., 2007). Later, Munro and Blier (2012) took advantage of the extreme longevity of Arctica islandica (the ocean quahog) to corroborate the same association in five species of bivalves (Munro and Blier, 2012). Among these species, the ocean quahog A. islandica is the longest-lived non-colonial animal with a record lifespan of 507 years in the North Atlantic (Butler et al., 2013). Munro and Blier (2012) compared gill membrane lipid composition of A. islandica with four shorter-lived bivalve species from the shelf areas off the coasts of eastern Canada belonging to the same subclass (heterochonchia), with lifespans ranging from 28 to 106 years. Membrane PI decreased exponentially with increasing longevity, in part due to a lower DHA (docosahexaenoic acid, 22:6, n-3) content in mitochondrial membranes of longer-lived species. Other molecules protecting bivalve cellular membranes against ROS attack include plasmalogens [dimethylacetals (DMA) in their methylated form] and non-methylene interrupted fatty acids (NMI). Plasmalogens act as a ROS scavenger, whereas NMI reduce susceptibility to peroxidation (Engelmann, 2004; Barnathan, 2009) while maintaining fluidity of the membrane. Although no consistent relationship was observed between NMI abundance and MRL, A. islandica had higher NMI and plasmalogen levels than the shortest-lived species Mya arenaria. The association previously observed in vertebrates therefore, appears to be conserved in a wide range of animal taxa and tighter, at least in bivalves, for mitochondria.
In addition to membrane structure, Munro et al. (2013) found A. islandica mantle mitochondrial isolates to exhibit lower rates of net ROS production than two shorter-lived bivalve species. These differences related to the activities of mitochondrial electron transport system (ETS) complexes, including major sites of ROS production (complex I and III) that differed between A. islandica and shorter lived species (especially M. arenaria), despite similar oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) capacities. Relatively lower activities of CI (NADH oxidoreductase) and CII (succinate dehydrogenase) relative to downstream complex (cytochrome c oxidase) in A. islandica suggest a lower degree of reduction at the ETS, resulting in lower overall mitochondrial ROS production without compromising phosphorylation rates (Munro et al., 2013; Blier et al., 2017). This is reminiscent of the lower CI and CII content in calorie-restricted rats and in long-lived drosophila (Ayala et al., 2007; Neretti et al., 2009). Hence, stoichiometric arrangements between upstream and downstream ETS complexes might play an important role in lifespan determination.
From these studies, we can suspect that a low membrane PI and the associated high robustness to ROS attack are prerequisites for reaching long lifespan. On an evolutionary perspective, one obvious question arising from these observations is to which extent membrane variability among populations of one species could set the plasticity and potential evolution of longevity, or associated life history characters. At the intraspecific level, most studies linking lipid composition to metabolism or lifespan have focused on genetically manipulated strains (Brzȩk et al., 2007) with relatively small differences in maximum lifespan, or on laboratory bred animal lines (Valencak and Ruf, 2013). Haddad et al. (2007) found a lower PI in longer-lived honeybee queens than shorter-lived workers, but otherwise no studies have looked at the importance of membrane composition inside a species in a natural setting. The bias of comparing controlled laboratory experiments with physiological processes occurring in nature, could potentially blur some of the real age-related changes (Austad, 2018). In order to test to what extent mitochondrial characters associated to lifespan divergences among species govern the rate of mitochondrial aging within a species, studying different natural populations displaying a wide range of contrasting average lifespans is necessary.
Considerable population-specific variations in MRL are seen in A. islandica, both in the western (Kilada et al., 2007) and eastern (Basova et al., 2012) parts of the North Atlantic. One individual of 507 years was found in Icelandic Coast (IC) waters where animals more than 300 years old are regularly encountered (Strahl et al., 2007; Butler et al., 2013). All other populations have much shorter reported lifespan maxima with the shortest MRL of only 40 years reported for the well-studied Baltic Sea population (Basova et al., 2012, and see Table 1). The different A. islandica habitats are characterized by wide thermal and salinity windows, but there is no consistent evidence for specific metabolic rate or antioxidant activities in animals from any population of these regions associated to environmental conditions (Basova et al., 2012). On the other hand, environmental factors such as food and sunlight availability (Moss et al., 2017), as well as dredging effort (Thorarinsdóttir et al., 2009) could help explain differences in lifespan. Begum et al. (2018) used one mitochondrial locus (cytochrome b) to prove that, in spite of their vastly differing MRL, all these populations belong to the same species and hence provide an applicable system to test longevity-associated characters at the intraspecific level.
Table 1. Life history traits of populations of Arctica islandica sampled and their maximal reported longevities (MRL), salinity regime characterization according to mean salinity and salinity amplitude, see Basova et al. (2012): marine 33 PSU; marine/coastal 32 PSU/variable; brackish, <30 PSU.
The main objective of the present paper is to determine if characters associated to divergences in lifespan among species can dictate the pace of aging among populations of one species. We therefore compared membrane lipid composition, PI, and ETS complex activities across the same A. islandica populations from the Atlantic and the brackish coastal seas. We hypothesized that ETS activities and lipid parameters in the populations vary as a function of MRL in the same fashion as found between different bivalve species (Munro and Blier, 2012). We thus predicted to find (1) a decrease in mitochondrial membrane PI with increasing longevity, (2) a higher %PUFA and %DHA in shorter-lived populations, (3) more plasmalogens in longer-lived populations, and (4) a decrease in enzymatic activity for the CI + CIII relative to COX as longevity increases.
Materials and Methods
Specimens of A. islandica from six populations with contrasting MRLs were collected across a geographic gradient of European coastal seas (KB and WS) and from the North Atlantic (see Table 1 for details). Approximately 500 mg of gills and mantle tissues were dissected, and immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen and kept at −80°C before enzymatic and lipid analyses were undertaken. The mantle was chosen as it is the largest somatic tissue and as a means of comparing with a wealth of other studies, while the gills were chosen on the basis of their important respiratory and environmental sensory role. Mitochondrial isolation was carried out on 250 mg of frozen mantle and gills, as previously described (Munro and Blier, 2012). The resulting mitochondrial pellet was resuspended in 150 μl of buffer, and both mitochondria and cellular debris fractions were conserved at −80°C after nitrogen flush for lipid analysis. The abundance of mitochondrial ETSs in both biological fractions was assessed using the NADH-INT (iodonitrotetrazolium) oxidoreduction assay, targeting complexes I and III. The values for the cellular debris pellets were below 1/20th of those in the mitochondrial pellets, and were therefore considered essentially devoid of mitochondria.
Analysis of the phospholipid composition of the mitochondrial and cellular debris fractions was done following the protocol established by Munro and Blier (2012). Separation of phospholipids was done using solid-phase extraction columns (Bond Elut-NH2, 500 mg, 3 mL), and trans-methylated overnight at 55°C in a 1% H2SO4 solution in methanol. The resulting fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) and DMA were recovered in 100 μl hexanes and analyzed by GC-FID (Agilent Trace Ultra 100, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, United States) using a column with a high polarity stationary phase (HP-88, 60 m, 0.25 mm × 0.20 μm, Agilent Technologies Canada, Mississauga, ON, Canada). All solvents used were of ultra-pure grade. Conveniently, calibration of the system was previously done by GC-MS using common FA mix standards (SUPELCO 37 FAME) marine FA standards (SUPELCO) and DMA standards (SIGMA). FA composition-longevity relationships were tested using relative abundance in mol% of individual FA, FA classes (total saturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, DMA and NMI), as well as of different indexes as per Hulbert et al. (2007). The PI was calculated as PI = (0.025 × % monoenoics) + (0.258 × % 20:2 NMI) + (0.32 × % 22:2 NMI) + (1 × % dienoics) + (2 × % trienoics) + (4 × % tetraenoics) + (6 × % pentaenoics) + (8 × % hexaenoics). The unsaturation index (UI) represents the number of double bonds per 100 acyl chains and was calculated as UI = (% monoenoics) + (2*% dienoics) + (3*% trienoics) + (4*% tetraenoics) + (5*% pentaenoics) + (6*% hexaenoics). Results will be presented as means ± SEM.
Each gill and mantle sample was weighed and homogenized in 6 volumes of cold homogenization buffer (20 mM Tris (hydroxymethyl) aminomethane, 1 mM EDTA, 0.1% Tween 20, pH 7.4) in Precellys Homogenizer 24 (Bertin Technologies) with 2 times 15 s at 5000 rpm at 8°C. Enzymatic activities of CI + III, COX and CS were measured at 8°C using Plate Reader TriStar (Berthold Technologies) and expressed in U.g–1 tissue fresh mass. All assays were run in duplicate. All protocols were adapted from Breton et al. (2009). We chose to present CI + III, rather than using the previous annotation “ETS,” since this assay does not measure COX activity, which is a major component of the system.
Differences between groups were assessed using Systat v. 13 software. Variables were first tested for normality using the Shapiro-Wilk test. A between-group principal analysis (PCA) was used to assess the variation in enzymatic activities and membrane lipid composition for individuals belonging to the six populations studied. This analysis consists to running PCA on a dataset, where observations are gathered by user-defined groups to emphasize the between-groups variability in the analysis process (Dolédec and Chessel, 1989). Here groups were built by distinguishing specimens accordingly to their sampling localization. The significance of the proportion of the variability explained by the grouping factor (e.g., population) in between-groups PCA was tested by Monte-Carlo permutation (999 permutations) and were considered significant when the simulated p value = 0.001. Between-groups PCA was performed using “ade4” library (Chessel et al., 2004) implemented in R 3.2.1 (R Development Core Team, 2012).
Membrane Susceptibility to Peroxidation Index
Population grouping significantly explained the variability of lipid peroxidation susceptibility markers (PI, plasmalogens, DHA, n-3 and n-6 PUFA) in the gills (observed variability between populations = 38%, simulated p value = 0.001), but not in the mantle tissue (simulated p value = 0.085; see Supplementary Figure S1C). The between-population distribution pattern of the lipid markers in the gills, however, did not reflect a clear relationship between PI and population MRL. Instead, WS individuals had a significantly lower PI in the gills than KB (p = 0.023), KA (p = 0.039), and NC (p = 0.019) populations (Figure 1), and did not differ from the IC populations. In all populations except IC, gill mitochondrial membranes had a lower PI than mantle mitochondria. The IC and WS populations had the lowest PIs in both tissues. Gill PI values were 77.5 (± 10.3) and 102.0 (± 7.2) for WS and IC, respectively, while mantle PI values were of 110.0 (± 18.6) and 101.1 (± 6.7) for these same populations (Figure 1). These values related partly to low DHA levels: 4.6% (± 1.0) and 6.2% (± 0.5) in the gills, and 7.5% (± 1.6) and 5.5% (± 0.7) in the mantle, respectively.
Figure 1. Peroxidation index in mitochondria from A. islandica populations ranked from shortest- to longest-lived. Values are means ± SEM. Letters denote significant (p ≤ 0.05) differences between populations for gills (filled bars) and mantle (empty bars) tissues, while asterisks indicate significant differences between tissues (∗∗p ≤ 0.05).
The abundance of plasmalogens (measured as their methylation products DMA) and NMIs did not vary significantly among populations. In gill mitochondria, DMA abundance ranged from 12.0% (± 0.9) in WS to 17.7% (± 2.2) in KA, whereas it fluctuated between 8.7% (± 1.7) in WS and 14.0% (± 1.9) in NC in mantle mitochondria. There were significant differences between tissues, as DMA abundance was higher in the gills for KA (p = 0.018), GB (p = 0.018) and IC (p = 0.009) compared to the mantle. Gill mitochondria NMI abundance ranged between 11.6% (± 0.6) in NC to 15.8% in WS, and from 9.1% (± 1.0) in KA to 12.2% (± 2.3) in IC in mantle mitochondria. NMI abundance was also significantly higher in the gills than in the mantle in WS (p = 0.036) and KA (p = 0.002). See Supplementary Tables S1, S2 for detailed FA composition of mitochondrial membranes in gills and mantle, respectively. FA composition of the cellular debris was similar to that of mitochondria and are thus not presented as figures.
Between-group PCA did not significantly explain the distribution pattern of phospholipid classes in either gills or mantle. Moreover, the repartition of the amount of phospholipids resistant to peroxidation (NMI, MUFA, SFA, DMA) and those that are peroxidation sensitive (n-6 PUFA and n-3 PUFA) did not differ significantly between populations and could not be linked with their respective MRL (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Mitochondrial phospholipid carbon chain composition from A. islandica populations ranked from shortest- to longest-lived, in (A) gills and (B) mantle tissues. Letters denote significant (p ≤ 0.05) differences between populations for each carbon chain class: DMA, dimethyl acetals; SFA, saturated fatty acids; MUFA, monounsaturated fatty acids; NMI, non-methylene-interrupted fatty acids; PUFA, polyunsaturated fatty acids. The line delimits peroxidation-resistant (below) and peroxidation-sensitive (above) carbon chains. Samples sizes can be found in Supplementary Table S1.
ETS Enzyme Activities
The between group PCAs performed on ETS enzyme activities (CI + III, COX; see Supplementary Figures S1A,B) indicates that “population” factor explains significantly more variability in gills (observed variability between population grouping = 61%, simulated p value = 0.001; Supplementary Figure S1A) than for mantle tissue (observed variability between population grouping = 26%, simulated p value = 0.001; Supplementary Figure S1B). In both cases, the first PCA axis, which accounted for 72 and 84% of the total variance in gills and mantle, respectively, is associated with CI + III and COX activities (normalized to CS activity). The second PCA axis represents 27% of the variability in gills and 15% in mantle tissue based on CI + III⋅COX–1 activity.
In both tissues, the brackish water populations from KB and WS exhibit lower CI + III and COX activities, when normalized to CS activity, compared to the fully marine KA, GB, NC and IC. Most comparisons differed significantly (p ≤ 0.05; Figures 3A,B), distinguishing populations along the first PCA axis for both tissues. More subtle differences separate the last four populations of which GB and IC animals had higher COX⋅CS–1 activity in gills than KA and NC (p ≤ 0.05; Figure 3B). Moreover, KA and NC exhibit higher CI + III⋅COX–1 ratio in gill mitochondria than all other populations (p ≤ 0.05; Figure 3C). These ratio differences can explain the distinction between KA and NC vs. GB and IC along the second axis of the between group PCA in gills. Even though the two shortest-lived populations (KB and WS) exhibited the lowest CI + III⋅CS–1 and COX⋅CS–1 activities (Figures 3A,B), we could not find any clear correlation between ETS complex stoichiometry and MRL.
Figure 3. Mitochondrial enzyme activities from sampled A. islandica populations ranked from shortest- to longest-lived. (A) Complex I and III (CI + III) activity per moles of citrate synthase (CS), (B) Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) activity normalized by CS, (C) CI + III activity normalized by COX. Values are means ± SEM. Letters denote significant (p ≤ 0.05) differences between populations for gills (filled bars) and mantle (empty bars) tissues, while asterisks indicate significant differences between tissues (∗∗p ≤ 0.05, ∗∗∗p ≤ 0.001).
Tissue comparisons of CI + III⋅CS–1 and COX⋅CS–1 revealed significantly lower activities in gills than in mantle mitochondria, for all six populations (p ≤ 0.005, Figures 3A,B). As for CI + III⋅CS–1, only the KB (p = 0.002) and the NC populations (p = 0.008) showed significantly higher gill activities compared to the mantle (Figure 3C). Much of these contrasts in metabolic organization observed in short-lived populations, living in brackish water, appear to be driven by significantly higher CS activity (expressed by mg of tissues or proteins) in both tissues (see Supplementary Figure S2).
Mitochondrial resistance to peroxidation and ETS activity linked to ROS production are two important tenets of the MOSTA at the interspecific level (Barja, 2013; Blier et al., 2017). Our study aimed at assessing whether these characters were related to longevity at the intraspecific scale, by taking advantage of the extraordinary MRL diversity across well-studied regional populations of the ocean quahog, A. islandica.
Membrane Lipid Composition Does Not Align With Population MRL
Our results show no MRL related pattern of population specific membrane lipid composition. Instead, differences in membrane lipid composition were very subtle, especially in mantle tissue if we compare them to the interspecific differences in Munro and Blier (Munro and Blier, 2012). Likewise, no relationship between plasmalogen or NMI content and MRL emerged from our analysis. We had predicted lower PI in the longer-lived populations of A. islandica, whereas in fact, the short-lived, brackish White Sea population had one of the lowest PIs. Furthermore, neither PUFA nor DHA content (by%) were higher in the shorter-lived populations. Instead, both the WS population, with one of the shortest documented lifespans, and IC subarctic populations with very long lifespan had the lowest %DHA and average %PUFA. Both populations are subpolar and, hence, cold adapted and it is interesting that they have on average lower %PUFA in the population comparison instead of relatively higher unsaturation levels to maintain membrane fluidity in their low temperature habitats [see homeoviscous adaptation in poikilotherms, summarized in Storelli et al. (1998)]. Other important parameters that could be implicated in the aging phenotype of these populations, such as phospholipid classes, sphingolipid or cholesterol content were not included in our analysis and should be assessed in subsequent studies.
Inferring from the lipofuscin content for a standardized 50 years old individual across all A. islandica populations, Basova et al. (2017) reported higher rates of fluorescent age pigment, lipofuscin accumulation in the mantle and gills of short-lived (WS, KB) individuals compared to the IC population. Since this pigment is a proxy of physiological aging (Lushchak et al., 2011) and the KB population showed the fastest accumulation of the pigment, followed by the WS, Basova et al. (2017) suggested a high rate of aging in these populations induced by the cellular stress response to large seasonal salinity and temperature amplitude in both brackish habitats. Our results also show similarities between these two brackish sites, with only the PI in gill membranes being markedly lower in WS than KB animals (via lower n-3 PUFA abundance), whereas for all the other longevity-linked lipids, the distribution of the two populations were overlapping in the PCA.
Ratios of ETS and TCA Cycle Components Differ Among Populations From Different Salinity Backgrounds
In line with our results for membrane composition, the capacities of the ETS compounds, and the ratios between different complexes showed no clear relationship with population MRL. Based on the findings from the interspecific comparison (Munro et al., 2013), we expected decreased CI + III⋅CS–1 or CI + III⋅CIV–1 activities with increasing population MRL. Instead, tissues of short-lived KB and WS quahogs exhibited lower activities for both mitochondrial ETS complexes than longer-lived populations, when normalized to CS activity as a marker for mitochondrial volume density and TCA cycle units. In fact, the large diversity in enzymatic complex activities between populations (up to 3 and 4-fold difference for CI + III⋅CS–1 and COX⋅CS–1, respectively) resulted mainly from higher CS activity in short-lived KB and WS populations (Supplementary Figure S2). Hence, contrary to the interspecific comparison, the intraspecific comparison does not support the functional concept of lower upstream (CI + III) vs. downstream (COX) ETS activity, but reveals an altered balance between ETS and CS complexes in shorter lived A. islandica populations. It should, however, be noted that we did not assess the activity of complex II, another electron entry portal (succinate) and potential source of ROS (Quinlan et al., 2012), which was shown to have a much lower activity in longer-lived bivalves (Munro et al., 2013).
Relatively higher mitochondrial volume density and more TCA cycle units (such as CS) in tissues of short-lived, brackish water A. islandica could result in a higher capacity to generate NADH in the TCA cycle in relation to the capacity to pass electrons down the respiratory system toward COX reduction. Zurburg and De Zwaan (1981) highlighted the fact that (hyper-) osmotic stress causes a general shift toward the usage of anaerobic pathways in marine bivalves. Higher aerobic capacity in brackish water could, however, help adjust the free amino acid pool by the TCA cycle (glutamate oxidation) and deliver NADH and aspartate for the aspartate–alanine pathway in the cytosol. Frequent alterations between aerobic and anaerobic glycolysis in bivalves exposed to the vagaries of environmental salinity fluctuations typical for Kiel Bight and the White Sea presumably cause higher metabolic demand, oxidative stress and mitochondrial turnover and may be causal for the faster rates of lipofuscin accrual from deteriorating mitochondria in these populations (Rivera-Ingraham and Lignot, 2017). It appears therefore likely that these biochemical peculiarities are determinant in the “fast aging phenotype” in both brackish A. islandica populations.
Thus, mitochondrial energetics may play a role in shortening lifespan of the ocean quahog in brackish water environments, and our study suggest a potential role of mitochondria in the aging process of populations, related to their role in osmoregulation. It remains to say that mitochondrial ETS parameters and membrane PI, in all populations of A islandica that we analyzed, are very low compared to other bivalves (Munro and Blier, 2012). In the same line of evidence, Strahl et al. (2007) showed that Icelandic A. islandica display one of the lowest growth constants in a comparison of 147 worldwide bivalve populations. This suggests that A. islandica has evolved as a long-lived phenotype (see also Moss et al., 2016), including a peroxidation-protected membrane lipid composition across all populations. Recent data (Begum et al., 2018) show very low genetic differences between A. islandica from the same sites as in our study, suggesting an important degree of phenotypic plasticity instead of local genetic adaptation. Population-specific maximum age seems therefore to be a function environmental challenge, biotic and/or abiotic, including salinity stress in brackish populations. Similarly, Basova et al. (2012) failed to link population-specific antioxidant enzyme capacities and metabolic rate to MRL (MLSP in Basova et al., 2012), and instead found lower antioxidant activity (superoxide dismutase) in habitats with highly variable annual salinity amplitudes. Additionally, higher DNA damage accumulation rates have been reported in the KB compared to the IC population by Gruber et al. (2015). All these aspects underline the strong influence of adaptation to vastly differing habitat conditions across different populations of this species.
Tissue Specific Differences and Dietary Influence on Mitochondrial Membranes and ETS Activities
We found important differences between the two tissues, mantle and gills. The lower PI in the gills compared to the mantle tissue in all populations, except the extremely long-lived IC, suggests that the respiratory organs, directly exposed to bottom water oxygen levels during ventilation, might be particularly protected from peroxidation. In addition, gills are exposed to fluctuations of salinity, environmental toxins and pathogens, and appear more exposed and susceptible in a general sense. Consequently, the intensity of apoptotic cell removal in the gills is higher than in mantle tissue of A. islandica, as found in the GB and IC populations (Strahl and Abele, 2010). Gill tissue was found to have a higher mitotic index than the mantle in the oyster (Jemaà et al., 2014), and this could translate into differences in accumulation rates of dysfunctional lipids, proteins and DNA. Hence, tissue-specific functions and turnover rates are important to consider when looking at the biochemical determinants of lifespan.
Lifespan in bivalves is strongly linked to latitude (Moss et al., 2016), with longer-lived species and populations generally found at higher latitudes. This could be explained through the physiological effects of lower temperature and light, and hence limited and seasonal food supply at high latitudes, causing prolonged periods of caloric restriction (Moss et al., 2017). As the effect of FA regime on mitochondrial membrane lipids are well established (Guderley et al., 2008; Lemieux et al., 2008), diet might also explain part of the inter-population differences we observed. Few studies have demonstrated an effect of diet on mitochondrial membrane lipid composition in bivalves. Comparing different algal diets of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas, Dudognon et al. (2014) found changes in various FA classes, especially in DHA and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid, 20:5, n-3) in gill mitochondria, which, however, did not cause alterations in gill COX activity, state 3 and state 4 oxygen consumption, or ROS production between diet groups. When studying the effects of diet abundance, temperature and age on the lipid composition of A. islandica and the shorter-lived Spisula solidissima mitochondria, Munro and Blier (Munro and Blier, 2015) found that although proportions of PUFA and PI increased in both species through microalgae supplementation, the differences between the two in longevity-related parameters (PI and NMI) remained unchanged. These elements suggest that mechanisms regulating membrane composition should be important (reviewed in Hulbert et al., 2014), and the effects of membrane composition modulation on enzymatic activity are not consistently seen across phyla (Lemieux et al., 2008). In the interpretation of our data, a limitation should be considered due to the fact that mitochondria were isolated from frozen tissue (a more uncommon procedure, but see for example Hulbert et al., 2008). Nonetheless, nutrition and abiotic factors in the field likely impact mitochondrial phenotype and function, and form part of the metabolic response to environmental food levels which may also affect life-history traits in marine invertebrates.
At the interspecies level, these environmental conditions could also impact the pace of aging, but on the long term they may not be as critical in setting maximal lifespan that can be reached by a species. For example, Munro et al. (2013) compared five species living in relatively similar environments and comparable optimal and critical temperatures, but with widely divergent maximum lifespans.
The species A. islandica has evolved a long-life phenotype with adjustment of mitochondrial membrane composition, low metabolic activity and control of cellular waste products (Strahl et al., 2007; Strahl and Abele, 2010; Munro et al., 2013; Moss et al., 2016). Our results show that at the intraspecific level, there is no direct relationship between two important mitochondrial components: FA composition of the membrane, enzymatic organization at the level of CI + III, COX and CS, and population-specific MRL. Nonetheless, it appears that contrary to the ratio of upstream to downstream ETS complexes (which is conserved among populations), the enzymatic activities and aerobic capacities (as citrate synthase activity per mg of proteins) are plastic traits among populations. Brackish, coastal environments in KB and WS is associated to an increase of citrate synthase maximal activity relative to ETS capacities suggesting elevated rates of substrate oxidation. This might better support both osmoregulation and anaerobic energy metabolism under fluctuant salinity and temperature conditions in these habitats.
Differences in population longevity appear to be independent of sampling effort (see for example Gruber et al., 2015) and, although no precise record of age at maturity from our sites could be found, data from the western Atlantic suggests that it is variable among populations (Thompson et al., 1980) and likely correlated to longevity as it is in different bivalve species (Ridgway et al., 2011). As our understanding of oxidative stress increases, it appears that mitochondrial ROS management is at the center of modulation of life-history traits (such as reproduction and growth, see Costantini, 2018). We then suggest that the divergences in observed MRL among populations should not only be the consequence of detrimental effects of stressful conditions, but could also result from the adjustment of maturation to insure completion of the life cycle in the different environmental conditions experienced by the populations. It seems that A. islandica populations are able to deal with a large range of environmental conditions at the expense of MRL. We suspect that all A. islandica, independently of the population they belong to, appear to have the potentiality to reach extreme longevity. However, we cannot exclude that reaching such high longevity as 507 years old would require very special dispositions, even for a centenarian bivalve, as particular environmental or ecological conditions (such as predation pressure, see Moss et al., 2017), specific mitochondrial phenotypes and/or peculiar genetic predispositions.
The results of the present study clearly reveal that a characters that have been tightly associated to divergences of lifespan among species namely PI of mitochondrial membranes cannot explain the observed divergences among populations of the longest-lived species A. islandica. It therefore rules out the proposal that variation in PI could alone manage pace of aging or dictate the expressed lifespan of populations. High metabolic demands requested by stressful and viable environments could partly explain these populations’ longevity divergences, but they cannot only result from the impact of stress on physiological conditions, since divergences in lifespan occur with adjustments of the age at reproduction. These bivalves are thus a useful system to disentangle the metabolic characters modulating reproduction and linking maturation to lifespan and provide support or challenge aging theories. Integrating field observation and experimentation with results obtained in the laboratory is the only way to tackle this crucial question (Austad, 2018).
Future studies shall investigate the biochemical adjustments in mitochondria under range edge conditions, including their response to fluctuating salinities and hypoxia in terms of ROS production and the use of alternative electron transport pathways. Other mitochondrial determinants of these lifespan differences have been proposed in recent studies and should be explored. These potential candidates include different phospholipid species such as cardiolipin (reviewed in Paradies et al., 2010), the stability of ETS supercomplexes (Gómez and Hagen, 2012), the control of electron flux and ROS management (Blier et al., 2017; Munro and Treberg, 2017), and the rates of mtDNA mutations (reviewed in Pinto and Moraes, 2015).
All datasets generated for this study are included in the manuscript and/or the Supplementary Files.
ER and CD performed the experiments, analyzed the data, and drafted the manuscript. PB, DA, and TH aided in interpreting the results and writing the manuscript. ER and PB planned the experimentation. ER performed lipid biochemistry, statistical, and enzymatic analyses, wrote the first version of the manuscript, and participated in the corrections. CD participated in the sampling, and performed some of the enzymatic analysis. DA provided the samples. CD, TH, DA, and PB participated in the redaction and correction of the manuscript.
This research was supported by an NSERC Discovery grant to PB (155926) and by a FRQNT grant to ER. The NSERC Discovery program is the only funding agency that supports this research on ageing in bivalves. This grant has been renewed for the next 5 years.
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
The authors would like to acknowledge the precious help of Emmanuelle Vandermeeren with the lipid analysis, as well as the helpful discussion of ideas with Daniel Munro, and Sylvain Dolédec’s advice regarding statistical analyses.
The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.00946/full#supplementary-material
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Keywords: Arctica islandica, bivalve aging model, electron transport system, mitochondria, peroxidation index, reactive oxygen species
Citation: Rodríguez E, Dégletagne C, Hagen TM, Abele D and Blier PU (2019) Mitochondrial Traits Previously Associated With Species Maximum Lifespan Do Not Correlate With Longevity Across Populations of the Bivalve Arctica islandica. Front. Physiol. 10:946. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00946
Received: 09 May 2019; Accepted: 09 July 2019;
Published: 26 July 2019.
Edited by:Miguel A. Aon, National Institute on Aging (NIA), United States
Reviewed by:Marco Giorgio, University of Padova, Italy
Michel Bernier, National Institute on Aging (NIA), United States
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Sweetwater County is known as the “Home of 56 Nationalities” with a rich and diverse history. Every July, celebrate the diversity of Sweetwater County at International Day with food, exhibits, costumes and live entertainment for various cultures found right here in Green River and Rock Springs, Wyoming. This is the only ethnic festival of its kind in Wyoming, so you won't want to miss it!
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Axiomatic Design in Obtaining a Device for Ultrasonic Machining
“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi, Department of Machine Manufacturing Technology, Blvd. D. Mangeron, 59A, 700050 Iaşi, România
2 “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iaşi, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Road Automotive Engineering, Blvd. D. Mangeron, 43, 700050 Iaşi, România
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Ultrasonic abrasive cavitational machining is a nonconventional machining method applied to remove surfaces in workpieces made of brittle, hard, or non-conductive materials that cannot be efficiently machined by other classical or nonconventional machining methods. Among the factors that can affect the values of the parameters of technological interest for the ultrasonic machining process, the relative pressure between the ultrasonic tool and the workpiece surface to be machined could be considered. The main objective of the research presented in this paper was to analyze the possibilities of selecting the most convenient solution among many such available solutions to ensure the tool feed motion, when designing a device for achieving an ultrasonic drilling process. At present, this selection could be achieved by means of an optimal selection method. Taking into consideration some functional requirements of the device, the method of analytic hierarchy process and the axiomatic design theory were used to solve some problems met in the design process.
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In the fall, sharks migrate to the coast of California, including the Farallon Islands, to feed on pinnipeds (seals or sea-lions) when the abundance of immature animals is at its peak. This gives us a unique opportunity to study them. On September 27 as we were watching from the Lighthouse atop Southeast Farallon Island, a swarm of gulls began to circle and a pool of blood was observed in Fisherman’s Bay, indicating that a shark had just found a meal.
September 5 was a day to remember. Throughout the day, western migrants and eastern vagrants continued arriving at the island. It all started with a Connecticut Warbler on the kitchen windowsill as I was finishing breakfast. I ran outside for a better look and immediately heard a Mourning Warbler (another uncommon bird for the island). By the end of the day, we had tallied 15 species of warblers alone, including an Ovenbird, four Tennessee Warblers, a male American Redstart, and a Blackpoll Warbler. Read on to find out what else we have seen lately and to learn about one particularly special visitor to the Farallon Islands.
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A Biography is a book that details the life of a person. It can be about a famous person who lived centuries ago, an unsung hero, or a special group of people. A biographer will information the truths of an individual’s life from birth to death. Numerous biographies include information of the individual’s youth, maturing, accomplishments, and failings. It will also include an individual’s sights on current events.
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A bio is typically a job of nonfiction regarding a certain individual. This type of nonfiction can be based on a person’s life experience. Its initial examples go back to 44 B.C., when a Roman biographer, Cornelius Nepos, composed his Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae. The Greek historian Plutarch composed his renowned biographies, such as the Lives of the Artists, in 1550.
A bio is expected to be real. It does not entail murder. But it is typically a helpful guide to an individual’s life. A biography is a great resource of details regarding an individual’s life. A biographer’s work need to be without predispositions and also uncomplimentary content. Similarly, a biography should not be a “bio”. It needs to be a straightforward account of the topic’s life.
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Bios are written by individuals and also are planned to be true. Its purpose is to present the attributes of the author. While it is not planned to be an “memoir”, it is a book that is composed by an author concerning his or her life. A biographer must be objective and objective, while a biographer can be a prejudiced writer. An honest biography is one that is true. A bio does not consist of individual information.
Although a bio is a work of literary works, the category is hard to check out. Academic bios are filled with referrals and also are seldom utilized outside of academic settings. A bio is a crucial source of details. In the case of a bio, it is important to understand the subject. It is important to be familiar with the individual concerned in the first place. The writer must understand the subject’s life and also their objectives.
The meaning of a biography is the record of an individual’s life. Its definition originates from the old Greek words “biographies” and “graphia,” which suggest “life.” For example, a bio can be a document of somebody’s life by a 3rd party. For instance, it can be a narrative of an individual. Those with dementia can find out about the life of a person, that passed away, and also exactly how they were influenced by the occasion.
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A biography needs to be true. It should be able to entertain its viewers, yet it needs to not be deceiving. Although a bio needs to be a real reflection of a person’s life, it ought to likewise be able to be legible as well as entertaining. A biographer should have the ability to define a person’s whole life thoroughly and elucidate his inspirations. An unstable biographer will not be able to give a full image of a person’s life, and also a frank account will be monotonous.
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Nesting HTML tags, in this lesson, as well as some basic coding in your HTML webpage construction.
There are at least five things that every webpage needs in order for it to be an actual HTML webpage.
You have to have the declaration, the HTML, head, title, and body tags.
You also need to have the webpage file saved as an HTML file or HTM file. It is customary to name most webpages as index, but you can name it whatever you want. Browsers will automatically look for the index.html file first. So unless you have a good enough reason not to, you can just go ahead and name it index.html.
Now nesting is when you assign different HTML elements to the same block of content.
An HTML element is an opening and closing tag. Let me show you what I am talking about. Open up HTML document. In this example, we have got an opening head tag and we have got a closing head tag.
These represent an HTML element. The opening and closing tags of a particular tag. Likewise, an opening title tag and a closing title tag.
These two items, opening and closing tags, represent an HTML element.
So whenever you combine two different elements – and in this example, those elements are head tags and title tags – to a particular block of content, in this case the title, then we are talking about nesting. So technically speaking, this is an example of nesting.
Let’s Bold and Italize the Paragraphs
So in the video of nesting will be three different elements on this one block of content.
It is going to be a paragraph.
It is going to be bolded and
it is going to be italicized.
As you can see in the video, we have got this on two different lines, but the browser does not see it because it is not formatted properly to show that we want it to be on two different lines, bold and italicized and so on.
We have got the opening <p> tag for paragraph and the closing paragraph tag, which is exactly the same way as the opening tag, only it starts with a ‘/’ then the rest that tag, in this case p. Save it and then look at in the browser.
Here is a representation of the paragraph tag.
The thing about nesting is that the opening tags really are not in any particular order. But for it to be properly coded, the closing tags have to be in the exact opposite order of the opening tags. So again, opening tags, no order is required. But however you place these opening tags determines how the closing tags must be placed for it to be properly coded. Now if it is improperly coded, a lot of browsers nowadays will still show it properly formatted – but if it is incorrectly coded, some browsers will not. Some browsers like for example on your smartphones or your tablets. They might get confused and just not show it properly, the way you want it to be shown anyway. And that is where properly coding your nesting tags will come in handy.
We have got be <b> for bold and they have to be in exact opposite order. So it is <p><b>. So to properly nest this, it must be </b></p>. NOTE: For HTML5, bold is not used, instead you use the <strong> </strong> tag.
Now we want to add some italics. So we put in the <i> for the italicized opening tag. And remember, we need to put the closing tag in the opposite order.
So we want to make sure that it is <p><b><i> </i></b></p>. So we put our closing italicized tag right there. Save, come back and refresh, and there we go.
Now that is pretty simple.
In this example, if we want to just have portions of our content to be italicized or portions of it to be bolded, then just remember, you have to have the closing tags in the opposite order of the opening tags.
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WACO, Texas — April 2 is World Autism Awareness Day.
The Waco community and surrounding areas celebrated with a fun walk and 5K hosted by the Heart of Texas Autism Network.
"This is to raise awareness for autism," Kristy Delony, the race director, said.
The event brought together hundreds who were given access to important resources while empowering each other.
"We encourage families to come together and support each other as well as provide the resources that we have, our organization, HOTAN, can give families that support," Delony said.
Tryndall Franklin, a 20-year-old who was diagnosed with autism in 2003, had the opportunity to design the logo for the event. He created it using digital art and the design was used on shirts, banners, and fliers.
“I volunteered to design this logo for this event and that's how we got started," he said.
Seeing so many people wearing shirts with his art was special.
“That made me feel great, it really felt great seeing my design on everyone's shirt, when I first saw it, I was amazed, I felt really proud," he said.
For his mother, Fefee, it was amazing to walk in and see on race day.
“It's amazing, when he showed it to me, it represented their non profit group here and everything she wrote about bringing out what this all entails," Fefee said. "He put it into that. The heart means love, and the destiny between autism and bringing family and friends together."
One in 44 children are diagnosed with autism and you can learn more on the HOTAN website.
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Last Friday (16th December 2017) the Indian Government announced that from January 1 2018 it would absorb the merchant discount rate (MDR) on transactions up to and including ₹2,000. This is provided payment is made using debit cards, the unified payments interface (UPI) and the Aadhaar-enabled payments system (AEPS). It is planned to be in place for two years.
Following this announcement there were many discussions, with people focusing on the ‘lavishness’ and ‘recklessness’ of the initiative, and the loopholes people were ready to exploit.
However, we think the initiative is, just as demonetisation was, a masterstroke.
It won’t cost the government much
The Central Bank recently capped merchant discount rate (MDR) at 0.9% – that means for each transaction, the government will subsidize a maximum ₹18 (about US$0.28).
The government expects the initiative to cost them (in terms of reimbursements made to the banks) ₹1,050 crore (US$ 164 million) in FY 2018-19 and ₹1,462 crore (US$ 228 million) in FY 2019-20.
To put things in perspective, the government revenue in the 2017-2018 budget is ₹1,227,014 crore (US$191.7 billion). The budgeted spending on social welfare is ₹39,382 crore (US$6.15 billion).
So, when put in perspective, the MDR reimbursement is not a huge amount.
Loopholes, but so what?
You can’t design a system to be perfect – what you do is find loopholes along the way, and fix them as you go.
Similarly, when Aadhaar was first introduced we spoke with the people in charge, and it was treated as a self-correcting system. “India is such a big and complicated country where you do not expect things to be perfect at the onset,” one senior official once told us. “Otherwise you will never start.”
Combining the introduction of GST with the demonetisation initiative and other tax reforms, the government is clearly aiming to increase revenues through tax collection.
Digital transactions are growing from ₹2.18 trillion in 2016-17 and are expected to reach ₹4.37 trillion in 2017-18. Growing the digital economy is crucial to maintaining current growth.
Incentivising consumers and merchants to use cashless payments will kill two birds with one stone: helping to drive cashless and online payments, while at the same time providing a greater papertrail for transactions and reducing tax avoidance.
Overall the push towards a cashless or a less-cash society will give the government better insights into the economy, which in turn helps them plan their fiscal and monetary policies.
As with demonetisation, the true benefits may not necessarily be immediately evident.
Of course, the masterstroke is currently only a plan – how well it is executed (and how they can counteract the loopholes) pretty much determines how successful it will be.
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Q+Art: Vanessa McKernan’s Watery Dreamscapes Ritualize the Human Condition
As a young girl, Vanessa McKernan studied modern dance and ballet before dipping her toes in painting. Today, the Canadian artist draws inspiration from her background in performance art by packing her work with willowy figures who seem to float on tiptoe through a watery dreamscape.
Though McKernan relies on anatomical observation to give her balletic figures form, the artist stretches both bone and muscle to fit her emotional whims. “The world I am painting references the interiors and landscapes of my reality, but also mixes with the interiors and landscapes of my imagination,” McKernan writes in her artist statement. “I want the viewer to recognize what they see, but then I want to take them a step beyond recognition, to a place that is more about feeling.”
Mckernan’s ghostly figures embrace a shared emotional response to life’s roller coaster, from the heights of pleasure to the most horrific pain. Clustered together in times of celebration and in mourning, her ethereal subjects model their lives on nature and the way its pieces fit together in a unified whole. In McKernan’s woozy fairytales, nature provides a template for deeper understanding of one’s place in the world—only by sharing our most fundamental human emotions with one another can we become part of that interconnected whole.
McKernan uses flowers—long associated with funerals, weddings, and childbirth—to remind us of community-based rituals that strengthen bonds during times of heightened emotion. These rituals also help humans feel spiritually connected: “We inhabit the world in our bodies, but are so much more complex than just our physical selves,”McKernan notes. “When I work with the human form, I am really taking into account all aspects of the self, and often layering an emotional or spiritual ‘body’ on top of or next to a physical one.” Anchoring each painting in the primordial symbolism of water, McKernan suggests that true spiritual awakening lurks beneath the glassy surface of our most personal human experiences, hidden deep within the collective unconscious.
In Today’s Q+Art Interview…
Vanessa McKernan discusses the challenge of painting and parenting, the genius of choreographer Pina Bausch, and making aesthetic sacrifices for the good of your work.
Which books, art-related or otherwise, belong on every artist’s shelf?
Vanessa McKernan: The Book of Symbols. Reflections on Archetypal Images, Formulas for Painters, Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, blank journal for writing.
If you could have dinner with any artist, living or dead, who would it be?
VM: Pina Bausch the German choreographer and dancer. I love talking about the creative process with all artists but especially those who pursue a material or method outside of painting. I think Pina was a crazy, intense genius, and I get the sense that she was intoxicating to be around. Her work also moved me in really profound ways, so just to be in her presence and listen to her talk about her life would be amazing. There is a documentary on her work called Pina. I highly recommend.
What are you trying to express with your art?
VM: The human condition.
What person has most influenced your work?
VM: I think the love from my partner Christian has had the greatest influence on my work. My relationship with him and his faith in me really gave me the confidence to build a career in painting.
What is your favorite guilty pleasure?
VM: Wine and cheese. But I indulge so frequently I rarely feel guilty about it anymore.
What do you consider your greatest artistic achievement?
VM: Painting and parenting at the same time. Not literally painting with a baby on my back, but structuring my life so that I have ample time for both.
What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
VM: A painting teacher once told me, "Kill what you love." I cherish this advice because in painting breakthroughs often come through destruction. In my experience, the part of the painting that you love is causing you to make all kinds of compositional sacrifices that are not helpful. Every time I paint out that "perfect" figure or face, the painting opens up and new truths are revealed.
Is a formal arts education worth the money?
VM: Yes. It was for me. But in Canada the cost is a fraction of what it is in the U.S.
What is one thing you would like to change about the art world?
VM: Less academic writing, more heart in what people write and say about their work.
What are you listening to in the studio right now?
VM: Ha! I wish I had a more sophisticated answer here, but I am working my way through all the seasons of Amy Schumer's podcast, 3 Girls 1 Keith.
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected your practice?
VM: Honestly, as a painter I spend a lot of time working alone in my studio, so that hasn't changed much. I also find gallery sales have sustained. This might be related to the fact that Canada really pumped money into various grants and relief funds, so we didn't have a financial collapse. We have been slow with our vaccine rollout, and government here is way too eager to lockdown because of an already strained healthcare system. Currently in Toronto you can't go into a store or eat in a restaurant. And this is our third lockdown.
While my practice has been steady, this has affected me more on a personal level. I miss my friends, I miss socializing with other families and kids. Home can feel like a pressure cooker because, besides taking walks outside, we can’t go anywhere or do anything.
What are you working on that you’re excited about right now?
VM: I am just finishing up work on a show that opens in Ottawa on May 27 at Wallspace Gallery. It is called River Variations, a duo exhibition with a longtime friend and fellow painter, Julie Gladstone. I have been working on these paintings since September, so it feels great to have them go out into the world. The exhibition will also clear out my studio and make room for new work, which is always an exciting phase.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity. All photos published with permission of the artist.
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Atrial Pacing 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 Several types of responses to atrial pacing have been reported (Fig. This usually takes the form of a smooth, continuous, but blunted prolongation of the A-H interval, or of an initial blunted small increase in A-H interval followed by a significant jump at a critical cycle length, typical of dual A-V 13 14 143 144 nodal pathways. In patients with such blunted responses, the 136 A-H interval is rarely >200 msec, and in the study by Benditt et al. These numbers may vary somewhat, depending on patient selection and adrenergic tone in the laboratory. It is of interest, however, that in both groups the maximum A-H before Wenckebach was similar. In a second type of response, a small increase is followed by a jump in the A-H at a critical paced cycle length with a subsequent gradual increase while maintaining 1:1 conduction at cycle lengths of <300 msec. In such patients, the maximum A-H interval can exceed 200 msec, and the maximum increment in A-H interval will exceed 100 msec because conduction at shortest paced cycle lengths during 1:1 conduction is through the slow A-V nodal pathway. We have not found a statistically significant difference in the paced cycle length at which block in the fast pathway occurs in patients with short and normal P- R intervals and A-V nodal reentrant tachycardia, although there is a trend for the fast pathway to block at shorter cycle lengths in patients with short A-H intervals. In the least common pattern, either minimal or no increase occurs in the A-H interval, even at short paced cycle lengths. Occasionally, 1:1 A-V conduction can be maintained to paced cycle lengths of 200 msec with only a 141 142 minimally prolonged A-H interval. An atrio-His bypass tract also may be present, even if atrial pacing produces a slight prolongation of the “A-H” interval. In this case, “A-H” prolongation is an artifact of measurement and is due to delay in retrograde conduction from the site of distal insertion in the His to the proximal His bundle recording site and has nothing to do with A-V nodal conduction. It is well recognized that pacing from the coronary sinus is associated with shorter A-H intervals and, in 50% of cases, shorter paced cycle lengths to A-V nodal Wenckebach and shorter A-V nodal refractory periods. This suggests a preferential input into the A-V node in this latter group of patients, probably from the left atrial extension of A-V node. One must also exclude the possibility of heightened sympathetic tone as a cause of short A-H intervals and A-V nodal refractoriness. In the presence of high sympathetic tone, extremely rapid rates of 1:1 conduction are possible. As such, patients with enhanced A-V nodal conduction who are in a “high sympathetic state” – such as patients with chronic lung disease on theophylline, patients in whom isoproterenol or atropine are administered, and infants – should not be included in the group of patients who at baseline exhibit these abnormalities of enhanced conduction. Most commonly, a smooth increase in the A-H interval or dual A-V nodal pathways is demonstrated. The finding of a dual A-V nodal pathway curve is more common in response to atrial extrastimuli than to pacing, particularly when the drive cycle length is shortened and multiple extrastimuli are used.
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In Moscow, the second trial of the former oil and banking tycoons Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev has now been going on for nearly a year. The trial itself, which is doggedly examining a series of esoteric and possibly imaginary economic crimes while skating over more serious – and also possibly imaginary – suggestions of violent criminality, has not been very interesting. The drama of two very bright men – one of whom, Khodorkovsky, is now a political figure of some significance – facing off against the entire apparatus of an authoritarian state, on the other hand, has been riveting. It was always bound to be.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky graduated from the Mendeleev Institute in Moscow in 1986, with a degree in chemical engineering. At university he’d been deputy head of the Komsomol, in charge of making sure other students came to Party meetings and of excluding them if they had a bad attitude. Kicking someone out of the Komsomol also meant kicking them out of the university; Khodorkovsky had done that too. He was the only child of two Soviet factory workers, one of whom (his father) was Jewish. ‘I realise now that my parents hated the Soviet government,’ he has said, ‘but they shielded me from this, thinking that to do otherwise would be to ruin my life.’ They were right. Their son’s path to success in the Soviet Union was through conformity; they raised him well, and he conformed.
Even if Khodorkovsky had wanted to become a dissident, he would hardly have had time: just as he was getting out of school, Gorbachev was beginning the process that would end up destroying the Soviet Union. Almost immediately, the insane scramble to build Russian capitalism began. Khodorkovsky gathered together some friends, mostly computer programmers and engineers like himself, and began doing what the Russians still call bizness. They imported computers and bad French brandy and took advantage of the various inefficiencies created by the fact that the official dollar-rouble exchange rate differed from the unofficial one by 300 per cent. The late Soviet system had no real banks, and so they started one, called Menatep. They were learning on the job. Some years ago the Moscow Times tracked down a one-time associate of Khodorkovsky’s, a French financier, who described what it was like to work with Menatep in the early days. They were fantastically inventive and fantastically ignorant. The Frenchman recalled a letter they’d composed after a consultation with the accountancy firm Arthur Andersen. ‘Could you tell Mr Arthur Andersen …’ it began. Andersen, the firm’s founder, had died in 1947. ‘They didn’t have a clue,’ the Frenchman said.
They got a clue pretty quickly, however, and homed in on one of their key comparative advantages: of all the early capitalists, Khodorkovsky had the nicest face. Like the others he was shrewd and intelligent, but he was also quiet and polite, with a knack for winning people’s trust. One of the most remarkable boondoggles of the late Soviet years was the conversion of the contents of illiquid corporate accounts into real-life cash. For years state-owned companies had been transferring huge sums of money to one another, because what’s 100,000 roubles on some ledgers between state corporations? Well, nothing, literally nothing, because those roubles didn’t exist. But if you spent your evenings in the late 1980s getting a law degree, as Khodorkovsky did, you might be able to figure out a way to turn those imaginary roubles into actual roubles. It was alchemy, but you needed a licence to perform the alchemy, and to get a licence you needed help from the top. The Washington Post’s David Hoffman, in the best journalistic account of the heroic age of Russian capitalism, The Oligarchs, found an old professor, the head of a giant research institute, who remembered Khodorkovsky and another young man coming to him to ask for some start-up capital. They were such nice young men, the professor recalled. He wanted to help them. ‘Well, maybe I forget now,’ the professor told Hoffman. ‘But it seems to me I gave them 170,000 roubles’ – that is, 170,000 roubles from the institute’s notional coffers. This was an enormous sum of money at the time, and you can be sure the professor was not forgotten by his protégés.
As the ‘transition’ to capitalism continued in the early 1990s, Khodorkovsky grew increasingly powerful without growing correspondingly obnoxious. In a country where the first thing anyone did with money was buy a tight-fitting pin-striped Armani suit and pointy shoes, Khodorkovsky wore jeans and a roll-neck sweater. More important, he kept his ties to power: for a while he served in the first Yeltsin administration as a deputy minister of fuel and energy. But soon he returned to the business world. There were many opportunities during those years for someone who knew where to look, though the real action for a Russian bank in the early 1990s was to take advantage of the runaway inflation. If you had some deposits on your books – Menatep was fortunate to be husbanding the monies of the Federal Pension Fund – you could take your roubles, turn them into dollars, and then turn them back into (many more) roubles in a few months. The losers – the people on the other side of that trade, as they say in the business – were the Russian population, for whom the price of bread went up while salaries and pensions stagnated.
The first seven or eight years of nickel-and-diming the wealth of the nation into their pockets put Menatep and a few other banks in position for the truly big play. This came in 1995, when Vladimir Potanin, a banker with even better connections than Khodorkovsky’s, came up with a plan. The Yeltsin government was rapidly running out of money. It had slashed social programmes, healthcare and military spending, but even so it was falling behind on salaries, particularly in the vital oil, gas and metal mining sectors. Up to this point the government had largely been financing itself by holding the world’s largest yard sale, selling off its many industrial assets; by 1995 all that remained were the oil, gas and metals giants. Unfortunately, the Communists, who weren’t enjoying the yard sale at all, were still powerful enough in the Duma to get legislation through making it illegal to privatise the country’s richest companies. But – this was the ingenious bit – what if the banks, the only more or less properly capitalised institutions in the country, were to ‘lend’ the government the money, with the government putting up shares in the untouchable oil and metals majors as collateral? Perhaps the government would default on the loans (of course the government would default on the loans!), but there was no telling that in advance. Banks would bid for the right to loan the government money, but in order to keep the Communists from yelling and screaming too much, foreigners would be banned from the bidding. This would also have the useful effect of keeping prices at a level that the Russian banks could afford.
Over the course of several weeks in late 1995, the ‘loans-for-shares’ auctions, as they came to be known, fundamentally altered the ownership structure of Russian society, handing controlling packets of the largest oil and metals companies to a group of well-connected private bankers. Potanin got Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest nickel producer; Boris Berezovsky and his young partner Roman Abramovich bought half the oil company Sibneft for $100 million (when Abramovich sold his shares ten years later, that stake would be worth more than $9 billion); Khodorkovsky, who was Potanin’s closest ally in the loans-for-shares scramble, got Yukos, one of the country’s biggest oil companies, for $350 million. His stake would be worth 20 times that in just two years.
Loans-for-shares became the historical flashpoint for anger at the way the 1990s privatisation was conducted. But the deeper cause of this anger was the lawlessness that allowed a small group of people to become very wealthy while everyone else came to fear for their lives. There was fear of famine, but famine was averted; instead, as they saw their savings evaporate, Russians witnessed a civil war on the streets of their cities. Before Chechnya, before Turkmenistan, there was the war in Moscow, Petersburg and Yeltsin’s hometown of Ekaterinberg. Well-armed gangs were at one another’s throats, and you never knew when, going out for milk, you would find yourself in their way. A lot has been written about the humiliation Russia experienced when it ceased to be a superpower; a lot has also been written about the rapid immiseration of a vast segment of the post-Soviet population. But these things were affected by the daily experience of fear. It was certainly bad to be ruled by the senile bureaucrats of the Communist Party, but for a lot of people it was worse to be ruled by thick-necked thugs in tracksuits and Mercedes. It’s notable that the one work of cinematic art to come out of Russia in the 1990s was Alexei Balabanov’s Brat (Brother), a revenge fantasy in which a young man comes to Petersburg after serving in Chechnya and, somewhat reluctantly, finds himself killing all the mafiosi in town. It’s a Russian Taxi Driver, a film animated by a profound wish to wipe the scum from the streets, born in the collective unconscious of a social class (the emasculated intelligentsia) incapable of doing any such thing.
The connection of the future oligarchs to the crime rife in the cities is complex. The small-time thugs who started out by shaking down old ladies selling homemade pies on street corners did not, for the most part, end up owning the world’s largest oil companies. Nor, for the most part, were the future oligarchs setting up appointments for shoot-outs the following day at noon. By the mid-1990s, the major players all had private security services headed by former KGB generals or (as in Khodorkovsky’s case) police chiefs. But this didn’t mean that, out in the provinces, at the furthest corners of their empires, there weren’t still problems that were solved violently. When the anti-Yukos campaign gathered real steam in late 2003, people began to come forward saying they’d been followed, shot at, attacked or threatened by the Yukos security forces. Some were clearly lying. But after a while it added up. Yet Khodorkovsky’s gentle demeanour, his simple, down-to-earth manners, his roll-neck sweaters – these were not a façade. He was a nice guy. As one of his former cellmates says in I Served Time with Khodorkovsky, a collection of interviews with fellow prisoners which was published in Russian in 2005, the jailed oligarch always took the top bunk, rather than the bottom one, in spite of the prison code. ‘But Mikhail Borisovich, you’re in prison,’ this cellmate, Slava, would plead. ‘Here respected people sleep on the bottom bunk.’ Khodorkovsky wouldn’t listen. In another country he might have been the founder of a successful software company, or a brilliant financier: he might have been the president of Microsoft or Goldman Sachs.
Perhaps the best account of how a nice, educated person might have found himself caught up in bloodshed is Yuli Dubov’s remarkable, as yet untranslated novel, Bolshaya Paika (‘The Big Slice’, 1999). Dubov was (and, in exile in London, remains) a close associate of the most controversial of the oligarchs, Boris Berezovsky, and the book is a fictionalised account of Berezovsky’s rise to power. It begins with the Berezovsky character, Platon Makovsky, and all his mathematician friends back in Soviet times: young, bright, exuberant, though also jealous, truculent, prone to explosions. With the collapse of the USSR and their research institute, they go into business together, their business takes off, and one by one the old friends die. One of them is killed by a rival in Petersburg; another commits suicide; another takes a bullet to the head that is meant for Platon. Platon isn’t directly responsible for any of these deaths, but indirectly he is, through his carelessness, and through the intensity with which he does business, always raising the stakes and setting people against him. Really, it’s the money’s fault. When so much of it is involved, people get hurt.
After winning nominal control of Yukos, Khodorkovsky and his team began the long process of taking charge of the company and making it profitable. While they were doing this, the Russian economy collapsed, taking Menatep with it. In the aftermath of the collapse, in 1998, Khodorkovsky performed some unlovely manoeuvres to mitigate the damage to his holdings: at one point a truckload of important financial documents happened to fall into the Dubna River; at another Khodorkovsky threatened to dilute the value of Yukos shares down to zero if minority shareholders didn’t sell out to him at his price. But he has also said that the crisis forced him to reconsider some of his practices. It certainly had that effect on the country’s political class as a whole, which realised that, like it or not, the Yeltsin administration was no longer functioning. A year later, Vladimir Putin, a little known former KGB agent, was made prime minister, and six months after that he became president. His first order of business would be to deal with the oligarchs to whom Yeltsin had sold his soul.
In retrospect it’s fairly clear that no one, including Putin himself, knew what he was going to do, or what he could do, or how far he could go. Now we know that you can destroy a media empire simply by arresting its owner for a few days, and sending a few busloads of masked men with automatic rifles to its main offices. The media magnate Vladimir Gusinsky had a thousand men in his security force, a reputation in the West as the tribune of Russia’s independent media, and a reputation in Russia – for his repeated refusals to back down on Chechnya, above all – as a stubborn, pugnacious independent. He seemed unassailable. In the event, after being briefly arrested in June 2000, Gusinsky was soon on a plane to Spain, and has not set foot on his native soil since. His former television station, NTV, now mostly broadcasts poorly produced Russian cop shows. Berezovsky, Gusinsky’s sometime partner and sometime rival, was soon on his way to London, where he too has remained.
Khodorkovsky stayed put. He was feeling good – the price of oil, which in 1998 had fallen to its lowest level since 1973, was on its way back up – and he had a lot to do. In July 2000, he attended the famous meeting of top business leaders with Putin, at which Putin offered a deal: if the oligarchs stayed out of politics – something Gusinsky and Berezovsky had notably failed to do – the government would refrain from revisiting questions over loans-for-shares and the other privatisations of the 1990s. It’s unclear what Khodorkovsky took away from the meeting, because in the next three years he seemed to do exactly what Putin had warned against. On the model of George Soros’s Open Society programme, which was being pushed out of Russia, he took over the mantle of financing arts and education with his Open Russia foundation, and on the model of Gusinsky he started doing what he could to finance independent media. Open Russia arranged seminars outside Moscow on writing, reporting and institution-building, in the hope of creating the beginnings of a civil society.
At the same time, Khodorkovsky remained an aggressive businessman, furthering his interests in the Duma and the Kremlin; he also gave money to various political parties, including the Communists. Above all, though, he turned Yukos into a powerful, modern oil giant. He took the company public on the London Stock Exchange and dramatically improved its accounting practices. He brought in Western experts to work the oilfields, improving production techniques. He also worked, both for his own sake and the company’s, on his public image. Khodorkovsky’s Menatep, even more than other Russian banks, had become a pariah in the West after 1998, and between 2000 and 2003 he spent millions on public relations, and it worked. By 2003, Yukos had surpassed Lukoil as Russia’s biggest oil producer; its market capitalisation stood at more than $20 billion. Forbes estimated Khodorkovsky’s personal fortune at around $4 billion, making him Russia’s richest man – and on top of all that Yukos was paying more taxes into the Russian treasury than just about anyone else.
He seemed to be moving in the direction Russia wanted to be moving: back into the club of advanced nations, rather than the club of basket-case states that lost wars to tiny mountain republics and periodically defaulted on their foreign debts. But somehow Khodorkovsky took it all too far, or too seriously. As Richard Sakwa describes in voluminous detail in his book on the Yukos affair, Khodorkovsky began trying to break the government monopoly on oil pipelines, planning an independent Yukos pipeline to China; and he also began negotiating a huge share swap, in essence a merger, with either ExxonMobil or ChevronTexaco. He began, in short, to believe his own press. ‘Khodorkovsky,’ one very sceptical American financier told me, ‘was the only one of the oligarchs who forgot that he was an oligarch, that is, a crook. He decided that because he’d stopped stealing from the company that he was a great businessman, a builder of value! The other oligarchs, when they saw the fuzz, knew they should run. But Khodorkovsky forgot.’
In mid-June 2003, investigators arrested Alexei Pichugin, a former KGB major who had become the deputy head of the Yukos security department, and charged him with organising the murders of a number of Yukos opponents. A week after Pichugin’s arrest, Yukos’s headquarters in Moscow were searched. And a week after that, Platon Lebedev, now head of Menatep Group (Khodorkovsky had stepped down in order to become CEO of Yukos), was arrested in the hospital where he was being treated for a heart condition.
Pichugin was eventually charged with organising five killings, all of people who were somehow in conflict with Yukos/ Menatep: an outspoken mayor of an oil town, a woman with a little tea shop in Moscow in a building that Menatep wanted, the bodyguard of a business rival whose car was blown up (the business rival wasn’t in it), and a man (and his wife) who supposedly helped Pichugin plan the killings but had become too loose-lipped. The order for the killings allegedly came to Pichugin from Leonid Nevzlin, a senior Yukos executive and one of Khodorkovsky’s longtime partners. On television shows about the affair he came to be referred to as ‘the serial killer Nevzlin’.
Was any of this true? It’s impossible to tell. Pichugin has consistently denied all the charges. Under questioning, he was apparently given a psychotropic drug, and still denied the charges. His two trials did little to clarify things – the one before a jury was closed to the press, and the one open to the press wasn’t before a jury. Pichugin was found guilty at the jury trial, at which point the prosecutors appealed because they thought the verdict wasn’t harsh enough. They wanted a new trial, and got one. Witnesses changed their testimony, recanted, added new details. Some of the key witnesses were professional criminals. In the end, Pichugin was sentenced to life imprisonment. The thing is that the Russian legal system is in such a state that the outcome would have been the same whether he was innocent or guilty. The most I can say is that there are several Russian journalists I respect who think the case was trumped up, and no Russian journalist I respect who doesn’t.
But someone killed all those people, shot up their cars, and threw grenades inside just for good measure. Someone – or many people, acting separately – spilled a lot of blood during the 1990s, and we don’t know who it was. While this was happening, someone also privatised Russia’s immense oil wealth, avoided taxes, thereby bankrupting the government, which, since it had to finance a war in Chechnya, and also the lifestyles of its own officials, cut back on hospitals, so that patients, when they arrived at those hospitals, were much more likely to die. It would certainly be simpler if the murderers and the privatisers were one and the same.
This is the line that Putin has taken. Whenever he’s asked about Khodorkovsky – and he is almost always asked about Khodorkovsky when he meets with a foreign delegation or with a delegation of Russian liberals – he says that Khodorkovsky is in prison because he and his people were found guilty of various crimes, ‘up to and including murder’. (In France recently he compared Khodorkovsky to Al Capone – pointing out that Capone, in the end, had been imprisoned for tax evasion rather than his more heinous crimes.) It’s a point often lost in Western accounts of the case: politically, the Khodorkovsky case was sold as the humbling not just of a man who’d become too rich, perhaps illegally, but of a criminal organisation. The Putin regime has always based its legitimacy on its supposed fight against the chaos and institutional collapse of the 1990s, and it was important to connect Khodorkovsky to the very worst of those years.
But in Russia the arrest of Pichugin, say, or Lebedev, isn’t the end, or even necessarily the beginning of the end. It’s more like the end of the beginning. The prosecutor’s office always has a case at the ready, and at any given time a number of such cases are ‘under investigation’. Sometimes they are opened at the instigation of the Kremlin, sometimes at the instigation of a business rival. All of this is in the nature of a negotiation: if he understands the signals, a businessman in this position needs to start negotiating.
In the months after the arrests, however, Khodorkovsky did the opposite of negotiate. In the autumn of 2003 he went on a barnstorming tour of the country, speaking to student groups, checking on his philanthropic work, sharing his thoughts on the anti-Yukos campaign with local media. He went to Berlin and Washington, gave speeches, held meetings – and then came back. In Moscow, outside the police station after questioning by investigators, he announced that he wouldn’t run away. ‘If their intention is to get me to leave the country or put me in jail, then they should put me in jail,’ he said. ‘I’m not going to be a political exile.’
On 20 July, Khodorkovsky had given an interview to the tough-talking television ‘news’ show Moment of Truth. By then it was already clear he was going to be arrested. The video – available on YouTube – is difficult to watch. Khodorkovsky is very calm and pleasant, as always; he speaks softly, as always; and he puts particular emphasis on the normality of things: yes, he admits, he’s had conflicts with the government over tax policy, but that’s ‘normal’. He’s had conflicts over the pipelines – also ‘normal’. He insists that everything is all right.
Watching the interview, it’s impossible to tell whether he really cares nothing for his freedom or whether he just can’t believe he’ll be arrested. He is the richest man in Russia, one of the richest in the world. A week before he had had a meeting with Dick Cheney. That this kind of access, and prominence, can’t guarantee you immunity is hard to believe. Perhaps he really couldn’t believe it until a group of special forces, in ski masks and armed to the teeth, stormed his plane on the tarmac of a Siberian airport in October and arrested him. For the first week after his arrest, his cellmates would later report, he was in a state of shock. He refused food, lay on his cot, and seemed to be thinking ‘very hard about something’.
The shock must have been severe, for a spirit of optimistic, strategic denial seems to have been at the core of Khodorkovsky’s project from the very start. As he told Hoffman, a lot of people inside the Party who saw perfectly well the opportunities available in the mid-1980s declined to take advantage, not because they were dull-witted or foolish, but because they remembered earlier episodes of reform that had subsequently been cut short, with many of the reformers landing in prison. But, Khodorkovsky told Hoffman, laughing at his good luck, ‘I was too young, and I did not remember this.’ This kind of ignorance was most of the time a blessing; eventually it led to his downfall.
Scores of journalists and human rights workers have been killed in Russia since 1991, but, fittingly for the twilight of the age of Russian capitalism, it was two businessmen who found themselves at the centre of a show trial. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev were not charged with the murders attributed to Pichugin and Nevzlin; like Al Capone, they were presented with a list of economic crimes. As with the Pichugin trial, most serious students of the case believe the charges were bogus. Menatep and Yukos had taken advantage of various legal loopholes, especially with regard to taxation (in particular, the use of ‘transfer pricing’, where a domestic company sells its oil to an offshore affiliate at a loss, and the offshore company then sells it for a profit); when the loopholes were closed, they found new ones. This wasn’t very sporting (or maybe it was too sporting), but it wasn’t illegal. That wasn’t the point, however. As we know from Bernard Madoff and his 150-year sentence, criminal cases for economic crimes are very much the product of a particular political conjuncture. The Putin regime had always been eager to find a scapegoat for the 1990s; it needed to send a message to the other oligarchs – especially at the dawn of a giant commodities boom – on the matter of taxation; and also, as it happened, Khodorkovsky had become a real pest with his Open Russia programmes, pipelines to China and putative mergers. Richard Sakwa has even found someone who claims that during a meeting with Putin, Khodorkovsky took a call on his cellphone ‘and continued to talk as if the president of Russia did not exist’. (Is this what Putin had in mind when – as Lord Browne, the former president of BP, recently revealed in his memoirs – he said: ‘I have eaten more dirt than I need to from that man’?) Best of all, perhaps, once the case got going the authorities were able to start landing Yukos with enormous tax bills, in the tens of billions of dollars, effectively bankrupting the company so that it could be taken over by Rosneft, run not by a group of Jews but by Igor Sechin, a cabinet minister, a friend of Putin, and by all appearances himself a former KGB man. As for Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, they would both be sentenced to nine years (later reduced to eight) in penal colonies. The ‘serial killer’ Nevzlin was also tried, in absentia, but he had long since fled to Israel.
And as the government seemed to be reading from an old script, of tsarist or Bolshevik vintage, so too, to everyone’s surprise, did Khodorkovsky. Despite his background in the Komsomol; despite nearly two decades of non-stop work, first in finance and then in oil; despite his quiet, somewhat aloof personal manner, as soon as he ran into trouble Khodorkovsky began, perfectly naturally it seemed, to follow the traditional course of Russian resistance. He refused to run, he refused to sell out his friends, he refused to back down. He tried to save his fortune just before his arrest, by putting his several billion dollars’ worth of Yukos shares in the keeping of Jacob Rothschild in London. (Despite his efforts to protect his interests, Yukos shares eventually declined to $.02 before trading on them stopped in 2006.) Above all, like just about every Russian ever placed in jail, he began to write.
According to his former cellmates, after Khodorkovsky recovered from the shock of his arrest and began eating food again (mostly yoghurt), he got to thinking. The result was an epistle, a kind of historical cri de coeur about what had gone wrong in the 1990s, and why. Published in the business newspaper Vedomosti in 2004, five months after his arrest, ‘The Crisis of Russian Liberalism’ was not a reply to his persecutors but a full-scale assault on his only supporters: post-Soviet Russian liberals. ‘Today Russian liberalism is in crisis,’ he began. ‘Of this there can be very little doubt.’ In some detail and without pulling any punches – at times spilling over into outright nastiness – the essay examined the catastrophe of the liberals in a way that even six years later most other liberals have refused to do. ‘Those whom fate and history chose to be the vessels for liberal values in our country were not up to the task,’ Khodorkovsky wrote:
We need to admit this now in all honesty. Because the time for kidding ourselves is past – and from Cell block No. 4, where I now sit, I can see this better, perhaps, than those residing in more comfortable chambers … We need to analyse our tragic mistakes and admit our guilt. Our moral and historic guilt.
There was immediate argument about the letter’s authorship, with some people claiming that the Kremlin made him write it, or had it written for him by a shady journalist. (I once asked the journalist in question if he’d written the letter, and he said: ‘If I told you I didn’t, you wouldn’t believe me anyway.’) From a strictly literary perspective, the letter is puzzling: accusing liberal activists of trying to make money out of politics, for example, sounds rather odd coming from Russia’s richest man; and some of the vocabulary – the word ‘discourse’, for example – seems oddly high-flown. Sakwa takes the authorship question seriously and concludes that Khodorkovky did write the letter; and in I Served Time with Khodorkovsky, his cellmates describe Khodorkovsky reading ‘Crisis’ aloud to them and trying especially to make sure that the only one of them without a university education, Slava, understood it. ‘You’re the educated one, you write it,’ Slava would say, to which Khodorkovsky would reply: ‘That’s exactly why I want you to understand it.’ The following may not count as evidence, but I heard Khodorkovsky read some of his declarations to the court this past spring and summer, some merely procedural, others more general and philosophical, which he had composed the night before, and it was clear from the pride with which he delivered them that he believed them to be witty, sharp and utterly devastating. (They weren’t bad, especially in the circumstances.) He had, in short, the vanity of the author. In Russia, a CEO is more than a CEO.
Khodorkovsky’s next epistle was called ‘Prison and the World: Property and Freedom’. It was more personal than the first. He began by addressing the case against him, calling it a banal attempt on the part of one Kremlin faction to seize his oil company. He claimed that he, for his part, did not find it so unbearably difficult to part with his riches: property, the very basis of the post-Soviet experiment in freedom, the very guarantor of freedom, was also, he had found, an impediment to freedom. Before he went to prison, he wrote, ‘there were many things I could never say, because speaking openly could have harmed my property.’ This was the ‘tyranny of property’. ‘Now,’ he went on, ‘I appear in a different capacity. I have become an ordinary person (from an economic point of view, a member of the upper middle class) for whom the main thing is not his possessions, but his being. Who struggles not for property, but for himself, for the right to be himself.’
This was his best letter, and there have been several others since, as well as diary entries about prison and long exchanges with some of Russia’s most famous writers (which are published in such places as the Russian Esquire, GQ and the literary journal Znamya). Not quite yet a Gramsci, Khodorkovsky has nonetheless moved to the left, producing three consecutive epistles calling for a ‘left turn’ in Russian politics. He’s offered his opinion on the root causes of the financial crisis, as well as what Russia ought to do (think ahead). More than anything, though, in his letters he has remained visibly alive and engaged. It’s one thing to hear about what’s happening to Khodorkovsky in prison – at one point he was attacked with a knife by his cellmate, clearly an agent provocateur, who then accused him of homosexual advances – but it’s another to read him. Who among the other oligarchs has faced down such a situation? Who among them could have?
Khodorkovksy and Lebedev’s second trial began on 31 March last year, and has been dragging on slowly since then. This time the two men are charged with stealing all the oil produced by Yukos between 1998 and 2003 – approximately 300 million tons – and then of failing to pay approximately $30 billion in taxes on it. No one doubts that the verdict in this case, when it eventually comes, will be delivered from on high, without much reference to the facts. Not only do the charges overlap with some of the previous charges (an ‘odd’ circumstance, as Obama pointed out before his recent visit to Moscow), but some are so absurd as to be almost metaphysical. This is, of course, partly the point. Since his arrest six years ago the state has been trying to explain to Khodorkovsky that it can do with him what it chooses, under any pretext it chooses. His refusal to understand this simple fact has been, for six years, one of the central dramas of Russian political life.
For the Kremlin, this drama has long outlived its usefulness: Yukos is gone; tax collection across the oil and gas sector has improved; and whatever funny thoughts might have taken up residence in the heads of the other oligarchs over the years have been decisively swept out. ‘He was the richest man in Russia!’ a person close to one of Russia’s current richest men recently said to me, as amazed six years later as if it had happened yesterday. ‘And still they arrested him.’ The Kremlin, in other words, has made its point, but the Khodorkovsky affair, like the Second Chechen War, just keeps going. | <urn:uuid:3eda2961-6546-4929-9803-f15efd6bdbbe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n04/keith-gessen/cell-block-four | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.984404 | 7,764 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Featured series on the Book of Ruth: Truth for TodayPart 21- A humble response to God's grace; Part 22- The unfolding of God's purpose for Ruth; Part 23- Ruth's respect for Naomi; Part 24- Ruth's realization of God's providence
(See all the messages in the series here)
All audio sermons can be seen here.
Rearing and educating children
“For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not,” 1 Samuel 3:13.
(The synopsis of a sermon preached in Faith Free Presbyterian Church,Greenville, South Carolina, USA, on 28th October 1993.)
I know the subject that has been given to me is rather general but I want to, as it were, be a little bit more particular and speak on this general subject but applying it to that which faces us as parents in these days.
I was thinking coming to the meeting that really my wife should be here to speak on this subject. She has many years of experience as a teacher and as a principal in our Christian school. She had a number of years of experience in a state school before that. And I suppose even more important she is the mother of six children and that I’m sure, by way of experience, has eclipsed all the years in schools of every description. And I suppose you can even add to that she’s had to look after me and perhaps that has eclipsed it all. Read more…
An old battle, an old enemy, old tactics, and old weapons!!
“Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred; therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast. And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them,” Ezekiel 25:15-17.
The weapons of war that men employ have changed radically over the years. Those ready to be employed by nations today are beyond what men could have imagined a generation ago!
However, there is a war that has been ongoing since the beginning of this world and earlier still, which is executed with the same weapons and tactics with which it began! Read more…
“It was general wickedness not gay sex alone which killed off Sodom city”.
This was the title of a letter that appeared in the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ of May 23rd from one, ‘Colin Nevin’. Read it here.
I felt compelled to write a reply to what he said for he seemed to be suggesting that perhaps ’sodomy’ is not the awful sin that some make it out to be! Below is my submitted response.
In today’s edition, your correspondent Colin Nevin, who (I presume it was he who added the addendum) informs your readers that having lived in Israel he had a knowledge of Hebrew.
A knowledge of the Bible is the first essential in these matters! Read more…
Pam Cameron Q&A – My children wouldn’t speak to me for 18 months – it was hell
This is the ‘changed’ face and mind of the DUP. This is what FPC members of the DUP are supporting!! “ . . . . and whose glory is in their shame,” Philippians 3:19. Read more…
An answer to Atheist Alex Kane
Alex Kane is an openly avowed atheist. He does not believe in the existence of God – at present. There is a time coming all too soon for him when he will believe that there is a God and that He is indeed the God revealed in the Bible!
However, at present he plays the fool of which David speaks in Psalm 14:1. “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”
Classified as such by the Word of God, one cannot expect too much sense out of him.
He wrote an article in the Belfast Newsletter of Monday 13th May, 2019, headlined: DUP seems to be preparing to face down the Free Presbyterians.
Personally, if that headlines means what I think it means, the ‘facing down’ cannot come quickly enough for me! Ever since the DUP entered power-sharing with unrepentant murderers and their political fellow-travellers, I have prayed that every Free Presbyterian would realise that they can have no part with such an ungodly political party as the DUP. Read more…
News review for week ending Friday 10th May 2019
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron, 1 Timothy 4:1-2.
We have to put “ ” around the word Christians for those who openly promote the desecration of the Lord’s Day forfeit the right to use that name!!!
That is the second mistake by these organisers of Sabbath desecration!!!
This is the reality of the support for murder found in Roman Catholic areas!!!
Not a cause for gloating by the DUP but cause to heed the warning!! They have stepped onto the same treacherous path!!!!
Read more of this week’s news review.
Reply to ecumenical letter-writers
As one of the usual ‘Easter’ unity events, Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland ecumenists in the Castlewellan area had what has become an annual march.
Free Presbyterian ministers in the area wrote to ’The Mourne Observer’ and protested at the anti-Bible nature of the event.
The protest was reported in the ‘Belfast Telegraph’’ – read the report here.
The letter of protest led to a number of reactions from ecumenists to which this letter is the final response by Rev Daniel Henderson on behalf of the local Free Presbyterian ministers.
It is refreshing to read of the spirit of protest that is still alive in the Mournes! Read more…
Are Free Presbyterians wrong when they support a party which fields a sodomite candidate?
Is political activity exempt from the rule of God’s Law?
An earnest appeal to all ministers, elders and members of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster.
No sin, of itself, goes away, nor is spiritual wholeness restored by natural volition!
Like a disease, untreated sin will only become worse until spiritual, even physical death ensues. There is evidence of this in the church at Corinth which had departed from uprightness and propriety to indulge in sinful practices. “But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep,” 1 Corinthians 11:28-30. Read more…
The day Ulster changed unutterably
Perhaps I should have entitled this articled: The Day Ulster WAS SEEN To have Changed Unutterably!
The change has been developing for quite some time, just like the spirit of Antichristianity. “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth (holds back, detains) will let, until he be taken out of the way,” 2 Thessalonians 2:7.
I believe its first manifestations can be traced to the day in 2007 when there was an endorsing by a sizeable section of the Protestant people of Ulster of ‘terrorist murderers in government’!
I read this morning in my daily reading the first chapter of Isaiah, verse 9, where it is stated by the prophet in a day of backsliding and departure from God: “Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”
How applicable is that verse to the cause of God in Ulster this sad and tragic morning!
There is much rejoicing in the camps of the major political parties here in Northern Ireland. Especially it is so in the Democratic Unionist camp. The newspapers and television internet sites are adorned profusely with rejoicing politicians embracing, shaking hands and mouths wide open in exorbitant delirium!
There are also many pictures of Christians congratulating each other on success at the polls. Read more…
Paul Girvan MP endorses sodomite candidate
I was sent the image below from DUP MP, Mr Paul Girvan’s Facebook page.
How sad to see such a ringing endorsement of a sodomite from professing Christians for many in the DUP share in Mr Girvan’s folly.
This must bring Heaven’s response to that which God calls an ‘abomination’! Christians cannot defy God with impunity!
News review for week ending Friday 3rd May 2019
“But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming,” Psalm 37:11-13.
The ‘ecumenical messiah’ who delights to bask in the media spotlight and ‘blow his own trumpet’!!!
‘Joint Authority’ in operation and the DUP completely subservient!!!!
This is an exercise in prevarication!!!! It just cannot be denied that it is NOW DUP policy to select and sanction a sodomite candidate, spending members’ money to have her elected, claiming that she is an ‘excellent candidate’ and that their supporters should vote for her!
Such endorsement of sodomy can only advance its evil objectives just as surely as promoting the sale of booze will produce drunkenness!!!
These misgivings stated in this article are felt by many FPs who deeply grieve over these facts!!! Arlene Foster asked priest to pray!!!!
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An Australian university implicated in unethical research using facial recognition technology to identify Uyghur and Tibetan minorities has unsuccessfully lobbied for it to be retracted by publishers on multiple attempts.
- Curtin University has repeatedly urged the publisher to retract the study
- The publisher now says it is reviewing whether to remove the research paper
- The university says the research was undertaken informally and without its knowledge
An internal review of research by Associate Professor Wan-Quan Liu – who has since resigned and now works at a university in China – found he breached several ethical codes including a failure to obtain informed consent and approval.
The study, first reported by Four Corners in 2019, was partly funded by the Chinese government and was criticised by human rights campaigners who were worried it could be misused by authorities to persecute Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
The paper remains online despite Curtin University's deputy vice-chancellor, Professor Chris Moran, repeatedly urging publisher Wiley for it to be retracted, along with any reference to the university immediately removed.
The chair of Federal Parliament's intelligence and security committee, Senator James Paterson, praised Curtin University for taking the issue seriously but said he remained concerned about the breaches.
"It does raise troubling questions about how this research was allowed to be conducted in the first place and why it went undetected for so long," he told the ABC.
"It is alarming to think an Australian university was involved with research that can so clearly be used for profoundly unethical purposes."
Letters seen by the ABC and first reported by US website IPVM show the university has had success in lobbying other publishers, including the IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, to retract subsequent studies that are based on the data obtained during initial research.
In a statement, publisher Wiley told the ABC it was now reconsidering its decision to keep the article online.
"WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery has previously launched an investigation in accordance with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines, which resulted in a Publisher's Note and an Expression of Concern," a spokesperson told the ABC.
"We take every concern seriously and are reviewing the matter again taking into account the new information provided by Curtin University."
In a statement, a Curtin University spokesperson said the research was undertaken informally without its knowledge and that oversight had since been strengthened.
"Curtin has established a new risk-based framework and guidelines to deal with informal research activities," the spokesman said.
"This is part of Curtin's ongoing commitment to ensuring that we innovate in an ethical and responsible way as developing and managing the world's technologies becomes increasingly complex.
"The framework is supported by an emphasis on ensuring academics maintain a current disclosure/registration of interests statement with the university."
A letter from Professor Chris Moran to a concerned academic in August said the university found Dr Liu "did not gain the required ethical approvals" and "did not gain informed consent".
Allegations of foreign interference in Australian universities is currently being considered by Parliament's intelligence and security committee.
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Substance abuse treatment takes place in a wide range of different treatment settings with a variety of different treatment methods. For example, some substance abuse treatment can be done on an outpatient basis, where the individual will typically participate in treatment during the day but is allowed to return home daily. Other substance abuse treatment requires the person to reside in a hospital or residential facility during the entire course of treatment, which is particularly helpful in resolving more severe cases of addiction. Inpatient and residential substance abuse treatment can be done on a short term or long term basis, depending on unique circumstances which can be different for each person. Most substance abuse treatment will concentrate on getting the person physically rehabilitated, and then focus on the root psychological and emotional issues.
Drug or alcohol rehabilitation services which are provided on an outpatient basis are available to addicted people who have circumstances which prevent them from being able to participate in an inpatient rehab program. An outpatient drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility delivers many of the same services as an inpatient program, but allows for flexibility as opposed to an inpatient drug treatment center where the person is expected to stay and reside at the treatment facility until treatment has been fully completed. Outpatient drug or alcohol rehabilitation is also available for those who have already gone through residential or inpatient treatment but also need a comprehensive aftercare program which will provide additional support and treatment to help them remain clean and sober.
Self payment drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers are an excellent alternative to other types of rehab facilities i.e. private medical insurance and state funded facilities. People who are capable of attending self payment programs pay for their entire treatment process out of pocket. Keep in mind though, this does not mean that they will not have access to financial assistance if needed. It just means that self payment is their primary method of covering the cost of their substance abuse rehabilitation program. In order to learn more about self payment programs, make contact with a substance abuse treatment facility and ask about their payment options. It is beneficial to contact several facilities so that you have a comparison of your choices with regards to rehab options and payment methods.
Medicaid is a type of health insurance which is accessible to individuals in certain low-income tax brackets. Eligibility for Medicaid is dependent on income and other circumstances such as whether or not the person has dependents and if they receive any other assistance. Medicaid may possibly even cover the costs associated with drug or alcohol rehab, and there are a lot of drug and alcohol rehab centers throughout the country which are covered through Medicaid. Most drug rehabilitation facilities which are covered through Medicaid may only deliver a limited treatment curriculum and may only deliver such treatment on a short term basis, usually 30 days or less. Individuals who have Medicaid should explore which programs cover the greatest amount of treatment for the most amount of time to acquire the full benefits of a Medicaid rehab program.
Drug addiction and alcoholism can effect many older Americans and seniors, and this problem continues to grow as each year passes. Seniors who are covered through the Medicare program, an insurance plan funded through the federal government for Americans in this age bracket, can use their Medicare benefits to receive treatment services for drug or alcohol addiction at a wide variety of drug and alcohol rehab facilities around the country. Medicare covers both inpatient and outpatient treatment programs, and seniors who are in need of treatment can consult with their primary care physician to choose a treatment program covered by Medicare which would be suitable for them.
Some people are covered through state financed insurance because they do not qualify for Medicaid. Some states however offer affordable health insurance to those individuals who cannot afford private health insurance plans. State financed health insurance programs will sometimes cover the costs associated with substance abuse treatment at a wide variety of drug rehabilitation programs around the country. State financed insurance other than Medicaid may cover both outpatient or inpatient substance abuse treatment providers. To find out which rehabilitation programs will accept state financed insurance, consult a substance abuse treatment specialist.
If an individual is addicted to drugs or alcohol and is seeking help, there are many effective substance abuse rehabilitation facilities accept private health insurance. Whereas some outpatient and short term programs accept private health insurance, far more effective drug treatment facilities which require an inpatient or residential stay for at least 90 days are also an available option. These treatment programs which accept private health insurance can differ in terms of treatment curriculum, but those people who are covered by private health insurance are fortunate enough to have financial assistance when it comes to attending a drug or alcohol treatment facility. For additional information, speak with with an addiction specialist at a substance abuse treatment facility in your area to see which services your private health insurance will cover.
Military health insurance normally refers to TRICARE and is a typically accepted insurance for particular drug rehabilitation programs. A drug rehab that accepts military insurance will generally accept most other types of insurance as well. TRICARE usually covers detoxification, rehabilitation and outpatient treatment.
Paying for drug rehabilitation can be a problem, as all resources have been exhausted due to the persons drug habit. Many drug treatment programs fully grasp this reality which is why many drug rehab programs around the country provide payment options known as a sliding scale fee. There are many factors put into the equation of determining what the fee will be from person to person, and these factors are based on individual circumstances such as income, cash on hand, living circumstances, the size of one's family etc. Sliding scale fees have been in use for some time as most drug and alcohol rehab facilities would rather find a way to make it work financially so that those suffering with addiction can receive the help they need.
Many drug treatment facilities in the United States provide payment assistance to individuals having difficulties with drug or alcohol addiction and want to get help. The person in need of treatment can select a rehab program which is a good fit, meaning the treatment plan and design of the program would provide them the best results. The addicted individual can then consult with one of the treatment professionals at the drug or alcohol treatment program to talk about what kind of payment assistance options are available or that they qualify for. The financial department in most drug and alcohol rehab programs are more than willing to work with potential clients to get them started by offering payment assistance, and if this is unavailable, treatment professionals will typically work with the person to locate an equivalent or comparable rehabilitation facility which is more affordable or that can provide workable financing options so that they can receive the help they so desperately need. | <urn:uuid:efb99b3e-b65f-4c20-bfc7-201c57ddf834> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drug-overdose.com/treatment_listing-MT-Butte-North_American_Indian_Alliance.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964365 | 1,290 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Holiday plants can enhance the overall feel of your home this Christmas, but you need to make sure that you are not doing this at the risk of your furry friend. A lot of the season specific plants are dangerous for pets, so you need to ensure that you are taking extra care when decorating this year. If you don’t already know what some of these plants are, then it’s a good thing that you have come across this article because we are going to be looking at some of them down below.
You should really keep your pets away from all types of holly, but English and Christmas are the worst possible options. Your pet could start experiencing vomiting, diarrhoea and gastrointestinal distress if they consume any of the holly. The leaves can also cause your pet a lot of issues as they can irritate the mouth, causing high levels of discomfort and lead to your pet violently shaking their head trying to get rid of the leaf. This in itself is dangerous, so it’s just best to avoid holly altogether.
The good thing about this is that it is usually hung high up so there is little chance that your pet will even be able to access it. However, if they do get it, then they could be in for a bad time. The mixture of toxalbumin and phoratoxin viscumin is extremely harmful to pets, especially cats and dogs. Some of the signs to look out for that suggest your dog has had mistletoe are problems with breathing, hallucinations and a drop in blood pressure. However, it has been thought that high levels of this can lead to seizures and even death, so do be careful.
The bulb is the most dangerous part of this flower rather than the petals or leaves. This part of the plant contains toxins like Lycorine and phenanthridine alkaloids. These are extremely dangerous for your pet and can cause drooling, abdominal pain, vomiting and a decrease in appetite. Tremors have also been linked to this plant. It’s probably best to keep all of these plants out of reach of your pets, and instead let them enjoy the best dry puppy food UK pet owners know and love. You know they won’t be ingesting harmful toxins, and they get a tasty treat.
Finally, pine is bad for your pets. Fir trees contain particular oils that can irritate your dog’s mouth and stomach, which can cause vomiting and pain. Because of the shape of the needles, your pet could also experience a puncture or obstruction in their digestive tract, which is not going to be a very pleasant experience for them. Also make sure that you aren’t letting your pet ingest the water from this plant because even in small doses, it can do a lot of harm.
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Daily D – Genesis 41:55
When the whole land of Egypt was stricken with famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh told all Egypt, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.” GENESIS 41:55 (CSB)
For God to make you great?
How low are you willing to go
For your greatness to show?
Pharaoh told the nation, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.” Joseph was wise and trustworthy. He held the nation’s security and future in his hands.
Let’s review. Verse 46 in this chapter says, “Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt.” For the first half of his life, he was his father’s favorite son. He was a dreamer.
For the second half of his life to this point, he was a slave and a prisoner. My sophomore English teacher would ask us to compare and contrast these circumstances. The differences are stark, aren’t they? Now the man who should have been accustomed to seismic shifts has things shift again, this time for the better. Much better.
“Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
Who says this about you? What would it take for someone of great authority to say this about you? How would you respond, how would you handle things, if someone of great authority said this about you?
What kind of character and integrity would be required to stand where Joseph stood and to make the decisions he had to make? What is the leadership gap between where you (and I) are and where Joseph was? What can you and I do to close that gap?
Spider-Man teaches us, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Joseph teaches us that before great power comes, great character and integrity must be present.
Where are the gaps in our lives? How will you and I close those gaps? Wise mentors and skilled coaches help us, in London Tube terms, to Mind the Gap. (Look it up.) Who can help you close the gap?
Trust is earned. Joseph earned it with his character and wisdom. He demonstrated it with his integrity and service to others. He was responsible as a slave, as a prisoner, and as a dream interpreter. What are your responsibilities? How will you grow in character and wisdom? How will you demonstrate integrity? How will you prepare yourself so that someone someday will say, “Go to (insert your name here) and do whatever he (or she) tells you”?
Today is a good day to prepare for that day. If we do not prepare for that day today, that day will probably never come.
I will close the gap between where I am and where I need to be.
Our Father, King David prayed over and over, “Test me, LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind,” (Psalm 26:2). Test us to show us our gaps. Examine us so that we may see what you see about ourselves. Lead us into lives of greater character, integrity, and wisdom. Make us trustworthy so that others can say about us, “Go to him (or her) and do whatever he (or her) tells you to do.” Amen.
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Jeremiah 18:1-4 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
Philippians 1:4-6 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Jeremiah 17:7, 8 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
2 Chronicles 35:25 Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah, and to this day all the male and female singers commemorate Josiah in the laments. These became a tradition in Israel and are written in the Laments. (NIV) | <urn:uuid:e4f536a8-803d-435f-84c3-7c500977cf35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.davidgbowman.com/daily-d-genesis41-55/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971139 | 1,051 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Jonny Crawshaw is the Labour Councillor for Micklegate Ward, York. Jonny tweets @JonnyPolitics. This article was originally published in the Autumn 2020 edition of SERA's flagship magazine, New Ground.
It may already be a cliché, but it doesn’t make it untrue - the Coronavirus pandemic and consequent lockdown has changed everything. Just exactly how remains to be seen. So, what does that mean for politicians at a local and national level who were already trying to reimagine the status quo? The goalposts have certainly moved - but not necessarily the goals themselves.
I’ve spent a lot of time these last few months thinking about what sort of world we will emerge into when lockdown is lifted. And in amongst the worry, frustration and difficult news I believe there are some real causes for optimism too. In York, as I’m sure is the case in cities across the country, communities have come together, things that were thought crucially important earlier this year seem insignificant now and new ways of being are already beginning to emerge.
One noticeable impact has been a dramatic fall in the number of cars on the roads. The resulting improvement in air quality has been equally dramatic with a 30 per cent reduction in York’s Nitrogen Dioxide levels being recorded in just the first few weeks. It’s not only the air quality that has improved though: the streets are calmer, it’s less stressful to ride your bike and it’s noticeably quieter. My Ward colleague who has lived in the city centre for 15 years discovered that his cherry tree continually buzzes from pollinating bees – something he’d never previously noticed.
It feels like a sneak-preview of some of the benefits that we hope to be achieving in York by 2023. Because back in early January – almost a lifetime ago now – York was making national and international headlines as the first UK city to propose banning cars from the city centre.
York Labour’s opposition council motion - ‘to reduce unnecessary car journeys across the whole city’ and ‘to develop and implement a plan to restrict all non-essential car journeys within the city walls by 2023’ - was adopted shortly before Christmas with support from a couple of Independents and the greener parts of the ruling Lib Dem / Green coalition (all but one of the Lib Dems abstained). I hadn’t thought of it as being a particularly radical motion in the wider context of our council’s previously declared Climate Emergency - and we never actually said ‘ban all cars’ - but it clearly resonated with a far larger audience than I had anticipated; perhaps testament to an idea whose time had come.
The Lib Dems’ abstention underlined an apparent lack of ambition and strategy in the council’s delivery on the climate agenda - something we have found frustrating and confusing given the many people on the streets and at the doors telling us they are ready for change and optimistic about the city’s new, low-carbon future.
That desire for change comes with good reason. The climate emergency provides the backdrop, but many York residents hold significant local concerns about poor air quality - an underappreciated public health emergency which is killing thousands of people annually across the country. In York, it is estimated that around 60 people die prematurely each year and we have several streets in or near the centre that - pre-lockdown - were illegally breaching WHO air quality limits.
To give some credit, the Council has belatedly launched initiatives including an anti-idling campaign aimed at motorists, a clean air zone (just for buses) and some modest measures to increase the uptake of electric vehicles. These were welcomed and undoubtedly part of the solution, but with less than half of roadside air-pollution coming from vehicle exhausts - the remainder comprised of brake dust, tyre wear, disturbance of road-surface debris, etc - such initiatives will only ever tackle part of the problem.
Beyond pollution, the cost to the city’s economy in lost productivity and delayed journey times resulting from congestion is thought to run well into the millions. Meanwhile, studies increasingly show that spending time in stationary traffic is bad for your health and well-being, with delayed commuters reporting higher stress levels and poorer mental health.
Streets with fewer cars are good for footfall-dependent city centre economies too, as places like Ghent in Belgium have shown. Concepts like ‘sticky streets’ and ‘go-to’ (as opposed to ‘drive-thru’) city centres have become increasingly popular in recent years. And post-Coronavirus people won’t accept being corralled down narrow pavements or through confined spaces, so by turning over more space to pedestrians now we can help reinvigorate the high street of the future, making it more accessible to more people - not to mention a nicer place to work, shop and spend time.
It’s not just about the climate emergency, public health or economic productivity though; some of York’s most deprived and socially-isolated communities are located beyond reasonable walking distance of the city centre. Likewise, there are those for whom even a few short steps are impossible. By making it as easy as possible to access York without needing a car - and by clearing the roads for those who genuinely do - York will become a more equitable city.
It is crucial then that we take a whole-city approach, ensuring public transport and sustainable travel options are as attractive and easily accessible as possible for as many people as possible. In doing so we can enable more and more people to make a positive choice not to use their cars, such that by 2023 the car needs no longer be the default travel choice for the vast majority of people.
There is understandable anxiety in some quarters, with particular concerns relating to displaced traffic. Rather than worrying about diverting cars from busy roads or shoppers from city centre car parks, we must be thinking in terms of diverting people from their cars - whilst recognising, of course, that there will always be those for whom the car is a life-line. No-one must feel they are being targeted, excluded or made to feel unwelcome. To be successful, we must not ignore people’s worries or dismiss them out of hand. We must take people with us through dialogue and openness, whilst remembering always to keep clearly articulating the great many reasons why this is the right course of action.
I see many parallels with the introduction of the smoking ban back in 2007 (2006 in Scotland) which was controversial and seen by some as an attack on personal liberty. Yet, within weeks of its introduction we couldn’t quite believe it had taken so long to come in and it would be unthinkable now that it could ever be reversed.
Lockdown has created opportunities to trial both small and large scale re-designation of space from motor-vehicles to cyclists and pedestrians - we are already seeing some of the benefits informally. Such changes can begin as temporary measures but as the lockdown eventually eases, with each phase of reopening there will be an opportunity to see what temporary measures can be retained.
So as politicians up and down the country consider our responses to the crisis – and the pre-existing challenges of 21st century living - I urge you to be bold: As more and more Local Authorities take steps towards low-car, low-carbon futures, we can learn from each other. Everything has changed and many people do not want to simply go back to how things were.
2019 was a year of political turmoil that ended disastrously for Labour, but it was also the year in which the climate crisis finally crossed over into the mainstream. 2020 will be the year of the pandemic, but it may yet prove to be the year that fundamental changes to the way we organise our cities and societies took place.
In York, we found that by taking advantage of the local mood, with careful timing and a little political opportunism, we were able to set a clear, bold, strategic aim for our city from a position of opposition. With the full impact of the Coronavirus pandemic still playing out, I remain optimistic that the next years and decades will see us move away from individualised, car-dependent societies and towards more community-focused, people-friendly places and spaces. It won’t be easy and we will need to completely rethink how our towns and cities work. But even small changes can have big impacts.
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Who wouldn't want a bit of magic in their lives. Much before J.K. Rowling enthralled us with the magical world of Harry Potter, tales from The Arabian Nights, especially that of a poor street urchin Aladdin and the genie from a magic lamp, fascinated us with their surreal elements.
It is not always that 'magic' finds its way into the lives of real children who toil in the slums of Mumbai, and care homes. On Thursday, however, a happy change awaits some of these children, away from everyday struggles. Aladdin and the fabled city of Agrabah—the city of flying carpets, soaring heroes and famous love ballads—will come alive on stage, for over 950 of these children. At the National Centre for Performing Arts in Mumbai, about 50 talented artistes will deck up in vibrant costumes, and throw up a spectacle on stage—Aladdin, Disney's second Indian Broadway-style musical produced by BookMyShow. Aladdin, the musical, has been playing in Mumbai since April 20.
The special show for children is being organised by BookASmile—a charity initiative of the online ticketing platform. “What we do is to try to bring the space of entertainment to those who cannot afford it,” says Farzana Cama Balpande, who heads the initiative. “Watching an extravaganza like Aladdin unfold on stage, will be a first-time experience for them,” she says. As Aladdin travels to other cities, BookASmile plans to take the experience to more beneficiaries through a network of NGOs.
In the midst of efforts by various organisations to provide shelter, healthcare and education to underprivileged sections, BookASmile tries something unique—to spread smiles through films, art, theatre, culture, music and sports. For BookASmile, it goes beyond the primary needs of 'roti, kapada, makaan', says Farzana. As part of similar initiatives, they also screen popular films. The response is heart-warming, she says, as she recalls the awe on the face of a woman in her fifties who watched a film on the big screen in a theatre for the first time.
“Our forte is entertainment, and we thought we should use the same platform to give back to the society,” she says.
Farzana, 43, who has been heading the initiative since November 2014, says the journey has been gratifying. For someone who started her career as a pre-school teacher, lighting up children's lives comes easily to her. And she knows it best that a happy childhood needs more than just education and care—it needs exposure to culture which opens new avenues of learning for the children. Farzana and her team work with those aged between eight and 20 years, and have a long list of initiatives that they are proud of. BookASmile partners with NGOs to also promote sports—be it football, kabbadi, badminton, para-swimming or blind cricket.
It is a humbling experience, she says. “When you learn about the battles people fight each day, your everyday complaints become trivial.”
The power of one
The works of BookASmile also speak volumes of the power of Re 1. “People ask me what can you change with one rupee. A lot,” she says. Users of the online booking platform have been contributing Re 1 towards the initiative. Noticed a checkbox on the transaction page that asks if you want to contribute Re 1? That goes towards bringing smiles.
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The report ‘Nowhere is safe for us’ documents attacks on schools and hospitals in towns and villages in Idlib, western Aleppo, and north-western Hama governorates in Syria from December 2019 to March 2020. These attacks, carried out by Syrian and Russian government forces, entailed a myriad of serious violations of international humanitarian law.
It takes a team effort and collaboration between different experts to collate, corroborate and confirm evidence of war crimes. This blogpost takes us through the steps that allow us to integrate different forms of evidence into the research and use new methodologies for the first time.
The report documents 18 cases of attacks on schools and medical facilities. Documenting each of these requires a variety of research techniques. Here, we focus on one attack: on al-Shami hospital in Ariha, a town in central Idlib, between 10.30pm and 11pm on 29 January 2020. The hospital is on a “deconfliction” list the UN previously shared with Russian, Turkish and US-led Coalition forces in Syria to highlight which sites must not be attacked. By bringing together different research methodologies we were able to conclude that Russian government forces launched a series of three air strikes targeting the hospital and striking residential buildings in the immediate vicinity.
Never omit the interviews, but corroboration is key
The research is based primarily on interviews that Amnesty researchers conducted with witnesses. In the case of al-Shami hospital, we were able to speak to three people who were at the hospital at the time of the strikes, including a doctor who told us that, during the attack: “I felt so helpless. My friend and colleague dying, children and women screaming outside … We were all paralysed.” He told us that it took the civil defence two days to remove the bodies from underneath the rubble of one of the flattened buildings in Ariha.
The role of the Evidence Lab here is to corroborate such interviews. This means checking that the open source information and any other data that we can find matches up to the interviews, to check whether there are discrepancies between the information on the ground, videos posted to the internet, satellite imagery of the site of the attack, and other separate on-the-ground witnesses. In this case, corroborating the last of these deployed a new methodology for us: combing a collection of flight-spotter observations in Syria.
Using the Digital Verification Corps to source and verify videos
As a first step, we engaged the Digital Verification Corps, Amnesty‘s global network of student volunteers whom we have trained in digital verification techniques. In this instance, we received help from a group of five experienced volunteers from one of our partner organizations – the Human Rights Center at University of California, Berkeley. The team at Berkeley took a list of schools and hospitals that our interviews told us had been attacked and when, and conducted online inquiries to discover content that appeared relevant to this attack. They sourced videos and photographs posted online – in particular on Facebook and Twitter.
One challenge with the air strikes on al-Shami hospital was that they happened at night. Because it was not possible to use chronolocation techniques such as shadow analysis, it was important to use reverse image searches to ensure that content found online by the DVC was not from a previous event, and to confirm when it was uploaded to the internet in local time. A range of content showed the immediate aftermath of the strike, rescue efforts the following morning, and, finally, the clean-up. One of the first videos found, relating to the immediate aftermath of the air strike, was uploaded to the internet at 00:10 local time on 30 January, corresponding to soon after the eyewitness testimony of when the event happened. A check showed that this video had not appeared online before this date.
Content collated by the DVC on the al-Shami strike during analysis and verification
When the team had collated the videos that appeared to be of the strike in question, the next job was to verify their location. This required matching elements of the videos to the geographical features of satellite imagery – one of the most important parts of verification. To use this evidence, we had to know the timeframe was right, as was the location the videos were filmed in.
Geolocation of videos showing the aftermath of the 29 January 2020 strike on al-Shami hospital, Ariha
Satellite imagery to confirm time and place
With the hospital geolocated (using the DVC’s analysis of open-source video and photos), the next step was to turn to satellite imagery to verify if there was evidence of damage around al-Shami hospital. We sourced different types of satellite imagery. First, high-resolution satellite imagery was used to visually confirm and align ground photos of the damage in the area. Comparing images from 19 December 2019 and 3 February 2020 we could see the extent of the damage in the densely built area.
The slider above shows before and after satellite imagery of the bombing of the al-Shami hospital area
Second, we needed to confirm, as closely as possible, when the strike happened. Testimonies said the attack happened on 29 January 2020, which the verified videos confirmed. We were able to also use other sources to narrow down the timeframe in which the damage was visible in satellite imagery. Planet 3-metre satellite imagery was able to show change in the area between 27 January and 2 February 2020, increasing our confidence that we had the correct time and place of events.
Flight spotters for final verification
On this project we deployed a completely novel methodology. For the first time in our work on the Syrian conflict, we obtained a compilation of several thousand flight observations from individuals on the ground near Idlib. Only two government’s militaries are conducting air strikes around Idlib and Aleppo—the air forces of Syria and Russia—and after years of attacks, these flight spotters are experienced in distinguishing older aircraft – such as Syrian YAK-130s and Su-22s – from new Russian models, like Su-30s and Su-35s. When documenting an aircraft, they note its location, the exact time and date, the type of aircraft, and the general direction it is flying. With dates and strike locations at hand, not only were we able to identify the aircraft that conducted attacks for events in the report, but sometimes also track aircraft taking off from military airports, moving to the strike location, and then returning to base.
In this case, the strike on al-Shami hospital occurred at night. This itself is a big clue as to who was responsible, as night attacks are almost exclusively conducted by the Russians in this theatre of war. Flying and dropping munitions using night vision goggles is a difficult task requiring sophisticated equipment and significant training, and only a handful of the world’s air forces can do it accurately. In this case, the spotters had documented multiple sightings of Russian, and only Russian, aircraft in the area of the strike, between 10:22pm and 11:10pm on 29 January 2020, corresponding to the time of the bombing.
The key to all of this research is corroboration through collaboration. By bringing together different elements of research, Amnesty was able to build a body of evidence to show that, in the case of al-Shami Hospital, the Russian air force had violated international humanitarian law. The strike was part of a pattern of support for the Syrian forces’ crimes against humanity against the civilian population.
On 10 July, UN Security Council Resolution 2504, which authorizes cross-border aid into north-west Syria, expires. The Syrian government and its allies are seeking to end this arrangement and replace it with aid channelled through Damascus. UN officials have already called Idlib a humanitarian “horror story.” The horror will only get worse unless the UN Security Council renews this cross-border aid mechanism. | <urn:uuid:bfb5b1fe-a200-4269-8a9f-4bb16f55e087> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.amnesty.ca/blog/how-we-corroborated-eyewitness-testimony-to-show-russia-carried-out-unlawful-attacks-in-north-west-syria/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969185 | 1,617 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Date and location: Four years before the 5th battle of Mercury, TS5 Upon Titan
Characters: Penelope Heinzel (and the Saint Bernard choir)
Musical Image: Penelope is a student of TS5 academy (an underground colony buried in the depths of Titan, satellite of Saturn). She is being trained as a fighter pilot by the Order of the Knights. TS5 isn't just a top-level military school, it is also one of the high-standard science universities of the Outer Planets.
Some people have addictions; Penelope has a dog. A massive Saint Bernard that creates havoc wherever he goes.
The dog (called Sam) is generally out of control. But at times, he gets much worse than that. Penelope says it's because he's just a puppy – despite the fact that he weighs already more than 55 kilos.
Here we are seeing Penelope, helped by the members of her choir (i.e. combat unit), running through the corridors of TS5 military academy, trying to catch the dog.
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April 7 of each year marks the celebration of World Health Day. The objective of this day is to create awareness among people to achieve good health and secure their wellbeing. With the rapidly evolving times, it becomes essential to be prepared mentally, physically and financially for all kinds of uncertainties which may surface in the future. At unsettling times like the coronavirus outbreak, most people continue to bear their medical expenses out of their pocket and at times even end up mortgaging their assets due to a shortage of funds. No one should have to choose between good health and other necessities of life, and that’s why securing one’s health becomes imperative.
Planning finances on time and investing in a health insurance plan can be the first step towards ensuring a secured future. Taking suitable cover is another important factor with the increasing cost of hospitalisation, especially the exorbitant ICU charges at the time of a critical illness. Health Insurance plays a significant role in such times and allows one to get better treatments at the hospital.
According to Anjali Malhotra, Chief Customer, Marketing, Digital & IT Officer, Aviva India, some of the key benefits of health insurance plans are:
- Coverage against medical expenses
Health insurance acts as a shield to protect your savings in case of unfortunate events like unexpected hospitalization and high medical costs. It ensures you get cover for daycare procedures, illness-related treatment costs, ambulance charges pre- and post-hospitalisation expense. Also, a comprehensive critical health illness insurance policy ensures that you can achieve quality medical treatment anywhere, at any point in time. It is never too late to make the move to invest in insurance plans for financial security.
- Tax Benefits
The premium paid on a health insurance policy is eligible for deduction under Section 80D of the Income Tax Act. The amount of deduction available is up to Rs 15,000 for individuals or Rs 20,000 for senior citizens (aged above 65 years). Additionally, an amount of Rs 20,000 is also available for exemption towards premium paid for dependent parents. A taxpayer may, therefore, maximise tax benefit under section 80D of the Income Tax Act by investing in health insurance.
- Makes you prepared for uncertainties in life
Medical emergencies can arise anytime, just like the current unexpected Coronavirus outbreak. Also, due to changing lifestyles and increasing stress levels, people are now more prone to a lot of critical illnesses. People can get stressed and anxious due to various surprises that life can spring up. That’s why, health insurance is essential to help manage stress due to insufficient funds for medical treatment at such times. Investing in health insurance at the right time gives a sense of security and prepares you for a better tomorrow.
- Cashless claim benefit
Health insurance offers cashless claim facility in an unforeseen medical emergency as well as a planned hospitalization. Therefore, one can have a hassle-free medical treatment at hospitals empanelled by the insurance provider, without making out of pocket payments to the hospital. The insurance company settles claims directly with the hospital.
- Effective financial planning
Setting life goals is the key contributor that drives you to achieve them. People usually strive for financial protection for the family, loved ones and aim to invest adequately for future needs. Buying and investing in good health insurance or critical illness insurance plan is one of the first steps towards effective financial planning. Being financially prepared and secured allows you to manage your savings and investments for the future. Additionally, the taxes you save can be further invested elsewhere, such as, for child’s education or extra-curricular classes, or small investment for business or saving for child’s marriage.
It is alarming that the majority of the Indian population does not have adequate Health Insurance policy. The primary factor is the lack of awareness about the importance of health insurance and financial planning. One must understand that you can enjoy the benefits of health insurance by getting suitable insurance with appropriate cover. This also helps you and your family creates an adequate cushion any financial exigencies arising out of health issues. So, this World Health Day, pledge to add health insurance to your financial portfolio to protect yourselves and your family against uncertainties of life. | <urn:uuid:a060f274-8e26-4429-a630-e178eadb2ae3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bfsi.eletsonline.com/world-health-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947193 | 854 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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How do I excuse a grade for a particular student?
You may use the Excuse/Include Grade option to exclude or include a grade from a student's course grade calculation. For example, if a student received a 0 for attendance on a day when they were sick, you could excuse the grade.
Note: Gradebook offers several options for automatically dropping grades from specific categories. For more information on these options, see the step to enable dropping or keeping grades in How do I set up my Gradebook?
Go to Gradebook.
Select Gradebook from the tool menu in your site.
Select Excuse/Include Grade.
Open the menu in the cell for the grade to exclude by selecting the down arrow icon and choose Excuse/Include Grade.
View excused grade.
An excused grade will display with strikethrough text and a calculator icon in its cell. You can select the icon to display an explanation that the Grade has been excused from grade calculations.
Note: If the gradebook item is also added to the Gradebook from another tool, such as Tests & Quizzes, a lock icon indicating where you need to go to edit scores for the item will also appear in the cell. For more information about items added to Gradebook from other tools, see How do I add and edit gradebook items from Assignments, Tests & Quizzes, or Lessons? | <urn:uuid:5039f336-73e1-45e0-839e-f87f2f075888> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uvacollab.screenstepslive.com/m/sitetools/l/1068519-how-do-i-excuse-a-grade-for-a-particular-student | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.925283 | 291 | 2.078125 | 2 |
If you are someone who is conscious about your health then it is important that you understand the importance of getting annual health check-ups. Contrary to popular opinion you should definitely get your health checked a lot more regularly than when you have an illness. This is the only way to ensure that you are in good shape and that nothing will be a problem. However, if you are confused about why you need and this want more information, here are some tips that you can follow. Ensure that you note them down and refer to it when you are not sure about what you should do.
Speak to a Doctor You Know
If you are not sure about what kind of check-up you need to get, then it is important that you speak to a doctor that you know. This way you will be informed of everything that you need to know. If you have words such as gastroscopy Brisbane or if certain scans have shown you to have such issues, then you need to speak to a doctor you are familiar with and get some information on the same. This way you can be sure of what is wrong.
Consult the Correct Doctor
Once your initial check-up is done, it is important that you consult the correct doctor for the purposes of getting accurate medicine. For an instance, if you have a problem related to gas and bowels, you should speak to a professional colorectal surgeon who will be able to help you with these matters. Therefore, ensure that you speak to someone who knows about these things and go to the right doctor.
Get a Good Insurance Cover
Another thing you need to keep in mind is to get a good insurance cover so that you do not need to worry about paying hospital bills. If you have a comprehensive insurance cover then you do not have to worry about paying out of your pocket and you can peacefully admit yourself to hospital for the purposes of check-ups which will save your life. Therefore, ensure that you get a good insurance cover.
Select a Good Hospital
It is important that you select a good hospital to get this check-up done. If you do that then you do not have to worry about anything going wrong. If you go to a hospital that does not have good equipment and if they do not do a comprehensive check-up then you will have an issue and you will have to spend more time and money to get it done again. | <urn:uuid:68da67b2-dc82-438a-9f87-86e0d3aec511> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://proconzon.com/the-importance-on-annual-health-check-ups/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97345 | 485 | 1.929688 | 2 |
THE local Cuban community and its supporters took to the streets of Tameside on Saturday, June 19 with a motor cavalcade to draw attention to the plight of people in their homeland.
It was organised by the Manchester branch of Cuban Solidarity Campaign ahead of Cuba presenting a motion to the United Nations to lift United States sanctions imposed 60 years ago following the Cuban missile crisis.
And it was part of a global weekend of action against ‘draconian sanctions placed on the country and to demand an end to the US embargo and all restrictions against the island’.
The cavalcade assembled on the car park at Morrisons, Hyde, next to The Sportsman pub where Cuban Belen Romero in licensee.
Belen’s sister Maria Cangui Romero said: “The situation in my country is getting worse. It is affecting the education of children and there are food shortages.
“Things became worse after the collapse of the Soviet Union as they had supported Cuba.
“Donald Trump applied more economic sanctions and it has become worse than ever. Added to that has been the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Cubans are like boxers trapped on the ropes with hands tied behind their backs.”
Maria has three sisters, nieces and nephews still living in Cuba.
Peter Clifford, from the Manchester branch of the Cuban Solidarity Campaign, added: “Cubans here and around the world are struggling to get money to their families after the United States closed the Western Union bank in Cuba.
“The way US sanctions work is that if other countries trade with Cuba, America will fine them.
“The US has driven sanctions and all other nations are drawn into it.”
Those taking part in the event, which was followed by a barbecue at The Sportsman, raised £200 for medical supplies which are needed in Cuba and are hard to get because of the embargo. | <urn:uuid:b6d61252-e865-469b-8694-6ac472448968> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tamesidecorrespondent.co.uk/2021/07/17/cubans-in-tameside-call-for-end-to-sanctions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969301 | 397 | 1.765625 | 2 |
The word “Bible” comes from a Greek word that means “the books.” It is actually more a collection of writings than a single book. Most of the writings are shorter than what we would consider a book. The collection “was produced over a time span of about one thousand five hundred years. Century after century men added to this book,”[i] often not even fully aware of each other’s writings. In spite of that, it has a remarkable consistency.
The Bible has two main divisions. The first, written almost completely in Hebrew,[ii] consists of the Jewish sacred writings, which Jews call the Tanakh. This name is an abbreviated combination of the names of the three sections into which they divided their writings, namely the Torah (which means “Instructions”), the Nevi’im (prophets), and the Ketuvim (writings). In the Christian Bible, these writings are somewhat rearranged and some of them are separated into more than one writing. These form the 39 writings that appear in what Christians call the Old Testament (OT). Though the material is arranged differently in the Tanakh and the Old Testament, the content of the Jewish and Christian collections is identical. These writings cover the period from the creation of the world to about 400 BC, although the actual writing began in about 1500 BC.
Christians add another 27 writings, all originally written in Greek,[iii] which form the Bible’s second division. These were produced in the first century of our era and are called the New Testament (NT). The word, testament, is really the same word as “covenant,” which describes a particular kind of relationship between people. In the Bible, it refers to the way God relates to his people. In the Old Testament it is the way God related to the Hebrew people, who were the descendants of a man named Jacob, whose name was later changed to Israel. He was the grandson of Abraham and the main part of the Bible’s story really begins with him. The Hebrews are often called Israelites or “the children of Israel” because of their descent from Jacob who became Israel. The Jews are mainly descendants of one of Jacob’s sons, named Judah, although some of the other Hebrews also became part of them.
The New Testament begins with four separate accounts of the life of Jesus, who is its main character. It describes both the events in Jesus’ life and his teachings. The name, New Testament or new covenant, was used by Jesus himself during the last meal he ate with his disciples before his death. It means that he was introducing a new and greater way in which God would begin to relate to his people. After these stories there is one book of history, called “The Acts of the Apostles” or “Acts” for short. It tells the story of how Jesus’ followers spread the news of him far into the Roman Empire of their day. Then comes a collection of letters written by Jesus’ early disciples to help guide his other followers. The NT ends with a book of visions given to one of Jesus’ closest disciples named John.
Some churches add some additional writings to these collections. Some of these come from the period between the two testaments (400 BC to 1 AD). These shed some interesting light on the history of that time and help us understand the way the Jews thought at the time Jesus appeared. Others of these writings come from the first century and beyond. But the 39 writings in the Old Testament are what both Jews and Christians consider their sacred writings. The 27 writings added in the New Testament are what all Christians agree are additional sacred writings. Though there is value in these other writings, all the most important teachings of the Christian faith can be found in the common 66 writings.
[i] Bruce Wilkinson, Kenneth Boa, “Talk Through the Bible” (Thomas Nelson: Nashville, Tenn.), (1983), p. xii.
[ii] There are a few short passages originally written in Aramaic, which was a dialect of Hebrew.
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The Igba Nkwu ‘List’ (Customary Engagement Gifts presentation by the Groom)
During the ‘igba nkwu’ ceremony, the groom is expected to be accompanied with a larger party (his parents, more relatives and friends) than he had during the preliminary marriage rites. The groom is expected to bring along the items in the igba nkwu list.
The groom should have obtained this list from his in-laws during one of his introductory visits. This is a list of customary bridal gifts plus the dowry/ bride price that a groom must present before marrying an igbo bride.
- RELATED: What the igba nkwu traditional marriage list looks like (some call it ‘the bride price list’).
Bride’s Task: Finding the Groom on the Igba Nkwu Day
The highlight of the ‘igba nkwu’ traditional marriage solemnization involves the bride publicly pointing the man (she wants to marry) to her and the groom’s family.
This is how it happens: everyone is seated in groups – the groom is seated in the midst of his family members and friends. The bride’s father starts pronouncing marriage blessings on her and then gives her a cup/ glass of palm wine to hand to the man that she agreed to marry.
The groom would be hidden within the crowd of people present and the bride is asked to search him with a drink (palm wine) in hand. Once she finds him, she offers him the drink. If he accepts and drinks, it signifies to the public that he is “the one she accepts to marry”.
Blessing of Marriage Prayers During Igbo Traditional Wedding
After the bride finds her groom and he drinks from the wine, blessings will be pronounced on the couple by their parents. The couple is pronounced man and wife and that ends the ceremonial part.
A reception party (Igba Nkwu) with food and drinks would follow immediately or scheduled to a future date, if they prefer to have a big party.
This ceremony is usually a private affair of a close family from both the bride’s and groom’s side, and so a small event usually a living room/ parlour size.
These days, some modern couples choose to have lavish Igba Nkwu (wine-carrying) ceremonies can be of any size, and many still keep it very small and intimate. It’s optional. Some couples include the traditional cake and cake cutting as part of their igba nkwu ceremony.
During the igba nkwu ceremony, families and well-wishers give gifts to the couple, and it is also an opportunity for the bride’s parents to shower their daughter with lots of gifts to show their love.
In the olden days, the bride’s parents escort her to her new home with homeware gifts such as kitchen equipment and cooking utensils.
Here’s a VIDEO of an Igba Nkwu Ceremony. I like that this video is unscripted and not edited – watch it see what goes on during the Igba Nkwu ceremony.
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#5: Visitation from Bride’s Family (Bia Malu Ulo)
This is the fifth stage in the Igbo traditional wedding process. In English translation, bia malu ulo means ‘come know where I live”. Bia Malu Ulo is not a ceremony but a day that marks when the bride’s parents and her extended family officially visit her at her new home, to see how she’s faring.
This happens after the igba nkwu. [Translation to English: ‘Bia malu ulo’ means ‘come to know my house’].
What Next After the Wine Carrying (Igba Nkwu) Ceremony?
Although the igba nkwu is one of the biggest highlights of the igbo traditional marriage, it is not the final thing – there’s quite a bit more. In order not to make this post too long, I thought to make a separate post on this stage of the Igbo traditional wedding rites.
The Other Posts in this “Igbo Traditional Wedding” Series
By the way, this post is part 3 of a four-post series on the Igbo traditional marriage process (a guide for grooms), and you can read the other articles from the links below (parts 1, 2 and 4) :
- Part 1 – The Igbo Traditional Marriage Ceremony Stages and Custom (Grooms Guide)
- Part 2 – Overview of Grooms Customary First Visits to His Igbo Inlaws
- Part 4 – Answers to Questions About Igbo Traditional Wedding Processes
Your Turn Now – Your Igba-Nkwu Takeaway
So, now you know to plan an igbo bride’s wine carrying ceremony, as well as everything that happens before and during the igba nkwu. I hope the above tips would help you to prepare for your own igba nkwu igbo traditional wedding ceremony.
Now, it’s your turn to talk back to me with your feedback, comments or questions. And, in case you’ve ever been to an igba nkwu ceremony in igboland or have already had your own, or are presently planning to organize your own, I’d like to hear about it – tell me in the comments box down below.
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Ireland is a place where elite and prestigious schools, colleges and universities are concentrated: the state cares about the development of national education and is interested in attracting talented foreign students. The organization of education is carried out by special methods, so that students can immerse themselves in learning the profile subjects and develop in the chosen directions. The government and private institutions provide scholarships, grants and acceptable conditions to stay in the country after graduation.
The advantages of studying in Ireland for foreign students
- unique teaching methods;
- high level of academic education;
- ample opportunities for leisure and entertainment;
- hospitable and friendly locals;
- English is the official language here;
- fidelity to British traditions;
- large investments from the state in the sphere of education;
- the combination of study and work is permitted by law;
- the possibility of entering immediately after the school;
- possibility to obtain a visa after graduation for a year;
- cheaper accommodation than in the UK;
- one of the safest countries in Europe;
- internships during education;
- practice-oriented classes.
Secondary education in Irish schools for foreign students
- Pre-school education children receive in specialized centers from 4 years of age by special teaching methods: kindergartens do not exist at the state level, but there is a limited number of private gardens. In the development centers, teachers provide basic knowledge of writing, reading, math and take into account all the features of teaching and educating preschool children.
- In elementary school, children can be enrolled at 6 years old, they usually study there for up to 12 years.
- In secondary school compulsory education is provided for 3 years - during this time students study 3 main subjects: English, Irish, mathematics. After the termination of the curriculum, students receive a Junior Certificate confirming the receipt of secondary education.
For example, you can study in the middle classes on the basis of the private Irish boarding school Kings Hospital School Dublin, located in Dublin. The cost of schooling is 26,800 € for the academic year (3 terms) with accommodation and meals at the guesthouse.
- Transition year - students of 14-16 years for one year of study choose the most priority subjects and disciplines.
- Bacavria - after 3 years of study in the chosen direction the student receives Ordinary Bachelor Degree, after four years - Honors Bachelor Degree
- The master's program assumes 2 years of study, special attention is paid to research and projects
- Doctoral and postgraduate studies - from 2.5 to 6 years, depending on the specialization.
The prestigious Midleton College is popular with foreign students; Despite the fact that you can enter the university right after school, students try to deepen their knowledge of basic school subjects and improve the level of English. The cost for an academic year with living in the family is 18,695 €.
In high school, students spend 2 years studying additional subjects to choose from in order to prepare for university enrollment and increase their readiness for education - the program is considered an analogue of the British standard A-level or international IB. Upon graduation, students receive an Irish matriculation certificate - Leaving Certificate.
The high school program at the Blackrock College elite school-boarding school in Dublin is available only for boys - the institution provides a separate form of education and successfully practices special receptions. Boys independently choose disciplines for their development, and special attention is paid to sports in a prestigious boarding house. The cost is - 27,850 € / year.
Receiving higher education for students in prestigious Irish universities
A certificate with a high average score is an advantage for foreign students who wish to enroll in one of their programs:
The Dublin institute of design is considered the best profile university in the country - it is a very prestigious and elite educational institution, an accredited center for taking examinations BTEC, works as City & Guilds, accredited by QQI. Here you can get a bachelor's degree in the direction of "Graphic and interior design." The price of the undergraduate program without residency is 8,000 € / year.
Summer and language programs
To improve the general level of language knowledge, linguistic programs are provided for the summer, also in Ireland you can prepare for the exams all year round: TOEIC, IELTS, FCE, CAE, CELT. For those who want to immerse themselves in learning a foreign language, individual education is available alone with the teacher. Particular attention should be given to teaching the child language before entering a secondary, high school or university.
Combine the course in English with other hobbies: horseback riding, golf, studying law, finance or business, football, rugby, dance and drama.
For students who have already enrolled in an Irish institution, but who are hard at teaching in a foreign language, the opportunity is given to work on language courses in parallel. For example, in the summer camp of the Griffith College Dublin Emerald Cultural Institute, you can take English courses with an active entertainment program, soccer, rugby, golf or horse riding. Griffith College is a prestigious educational institution on the basis of which in the summer months the educational program of the ECI educational center is taking place, while students and students live in the residence of the educational institution. The price of courses ranges from 1,930 € / 2 weeks to 2,720 € / 2 weeks.
Compulsory guardianship of minors during the educational process
Local legislation provides for compulsory guardianship of students under 16 years of age: the guardian can be a resident of the country who is fully responsible for the child's life, helps in organizational issues of education, controls academic performance, represents the interests of the student and others.
Grants and scholarships for foreign students
In Ireland, the direction of scholarships and grants that are issued by the state or the universities themselves is very advanced - there are several types:
- The Government of Ireland Scholarship provides a state scholarship for foreign citizens who are not EU citizens. The amount is enough to cover the costs of the undergraduate program and one year of magistracy or doctoral studies, residence during studies.
- The Ireland Homecoming Study Program is designed for students of Irish origin who were born outside the EU. To receive the scholarship, it is necessary to prove that one of the relatives was an Irishman, and the amount received will cover only a part of the costs associated with studying abroad.
- Government of Ireland and Enterprise Partnership Postgraduate Scholarship - the research center of Ireland for the promotion of innovative research aims to attract talented students with interesting research projects.
All students have the opportunity to receive material assistance from the state - for this it is necessary to apply with the application and submit the necessary documents. For advice, you can contact SMAPSE: specialists will help you choose an academic program or a linguistic course at the best universities in Ireland. Enrollment of the company's clients is free of charge: SMAPSE specialists are not intermediaries, but they work on partner agreements with numerous foreign educational institutions.
Can I stay in Ireland after graduation from a university or college?
Under the Third Level Graduate Scheme program, graduates have the right to stay in the country for a period of 6 to 12 months - this time is designed to find work in Ireland. In case of successful employment there is a great chance to get a green card or work permit:
- In order to apply for a green card, you need an invitation to work from the employer for a period of more than 2 years, and the salary must be at least 60,000 € / year or 30,000 € / year in the most important areas for the country.
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How to Create a Bad Guy – Part 1
When we write, generally the very first thing we think of is our main character, i.e. the protagonist - or more commonly known as the ‘good guy’. What we don’t always have in mind at that stage is a ‘bad guy’, the antagonist. That’s because we naturally focus on our main character first, since that is whose story we are telling, so when it comes to creating a bad guy, some writers struggle with the concept.
In this special three part series, we’ll take a look at how to create an antagonist and explore why we need them in our stories. There is a lot of ground to cover on this subject, so for Part1, let’s start with the obvious.
Why do we have antagonists?
The fundamental reason we have antagonists is to create conflict. They provide this conflict because this is the one element that drives every story. A story without an antagonist or much conflict isn’t much of a story at all.
Whoever your bad guy is, he or she will want to prevent the hero from achieving his or her goal (another driving force of any story). Antagonists are there to antagonise the main character at every turn, thus providing plenty of conflict, tension and emotion, hence the name ‘antagonist’.
The bad guy forms much of, or is part of, the many obstacles and challenges that your main character will face throughout the story. This is a great catalyst for all sorts of conflict, particularly when coupled with the setting and plot. The fact is, both characters want something and it is what they do to achieve what they want that fuels the fire of the story, so…just imagine your story without an antagonist.
Where is it going and what it will achieve if nothing and no one stands in your protagonist’s way?
What is their purpose?
The bad guy is a contrary foil who works against your protagonist on many levels, determined to prevent the protagonist from reaching his or her goal, while at the same time maintaining his/her own aims. He or she wants to succeed…but so does the protagonist. And there lies a nice little melting post of conflict.
The antagonist is there to thwart and oppose the protagonist throughout the story; therefore they are primed for confrontation, hostility and conflict, but by this very nature, it makes both characters compelling to the reader.
Of course, the other important reason we have them is to help drive the story forward. If you didn’t have an antagonist to cause problems for your hero, then just how much of a story would you have?
In truth, you wouldn’t have much to work with and your hero wouldn’t have a lot to do.
So what makes a great bad guy?
When we think of some of the best antagonists in fiction, we think of novels such as Misery’s Annie Wilkes or The Silence of the Lambs and the indomitable Hannibal Lecter. Or what about Long John Silver in Treasure Island? Or what about Voldemort from the Harry Potter books? We remember these baddies, long after we’ve read the books. Why?
We remember them because they’re well written, they are so compelling and terrifying at the same time. They make us love to hate them.
But the thing about antagonists is that they don’t have to be stereotypically ‘evil’ for readers to remember them. Bad guys are bad because they are always trying to thwart your main character from achieving his or her goal and always causing conflict and not necessarily because they are ‘evil’. No one is born evil. People develop in so many different ways that we are either considered a ‘good’ person or a ‘bad’ person by our behaviours and actions throughout life.
Bad guys don’t have to be the stereotypical James Bond-style megalomaniac who wants to take over the world, either. This kind of bad guy is almost a caricature. In truth, a bad guy can be anyone. It could be the guy in the bookstore. Your next door neighbour. The girl who serves you coffee. Your boss.
A bad guy doesn’t have to be overt in what he or she does. Sometimes the best bad guys just simply get under the main character’s skin so imperceptibly that they don’t become aware of it until a crucial moment in the story. Not only that, but they will get under your reader’s skin too. Hannibal Lector is this kind of ‘bad’ guy. He’s subtle yet chilling.
We all know that readers love to root for the hero. But they also love to hate the bad guy.
Protagonist v Antagonist Relationship
The key word here is opposition.
A relationship in opposition must exist for any story, with protagonist and antagonist pitted against each other, on opposing sides, but paradoxically, they must also be inextricably linked through the story arc and its themes.
In truth, they need each other, so it’s important that writers focus on what sort of people these characters are. Their paths will cross, or may have already crossed, they usually share the same needs or motivations, they will both have histories and backstory, they both to want to succeed, and more importantly, they will have changed as people (for better or worse) towards the end of the story.
Both characters drive the story forward. Both rely on each other. Both cannot evolve without each other.
Theirs is the most important relationship in your story. And getting them just right is the key thing to creating memorable, effective, but opposing characters.
In Part 2 we’ll look at what goes into creating an effective bad guy, one that will be unforgettable and compelling, multidimensional and very real for your reader.
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How long do high school football players practice?
The UIL allows a single practice to be up to three hours long. On days with two practices, the total practice time cannot exceed five hours. (And on days when there is more than one practice, a minimum of two hours of rest time is required between practices.)
How often do high school sports teams practice?
High school and college athletes typically reported practicing 10-12 hours, although hours did range from six hours (basketball) to 24 hours (gymnastics) per week. Those participating on club teams practiced less, averaging 6-7.5 hours per week.
How long does football practice usually last?
Teams often practice for 90 minutes during a morning or early afternoon session and then come back and practice for up to two hours in an evening session. Modern coaches are more concerned about practicing in the middle of a summer day than they were generations ago.
How many hours is a high school football game?
High school football games typically last between two hours and two and a half hours. They consist of four 12-minute quarters with a halftime in between the second and third quarter. The state of Massachusetts uses 11-minute quarters during the regular season and 10-minute quarters in the playoffs.
Is football practice after school?
Football NSW is excited to announce the introduction of the After School Kick-Off program for 2020! After School Kick-Off programs aim to get kids active, make new friends and learn to play football in a Fun, Safe and Inclusive environment. At just $100, programs will run for 8 weeks of the school term.
How long is a 9th grade football game?
Ninth Grade: Quarters 8 or 10 minutes, Half Time 8 or 10 minutes. Eight Grade: Quarters 8 minutes, Half Time 8 or 10 minute halves. Seventh Grade: Quarters 8 minutes, Half Time 8 or 10 minute halves.
How often should you practice a sport?
Sport-specialized training can be a year round endeavor in some cases. As in every sport, practicing your craft 6 days a week while in-season is pretty standard. It’s always a wise policy to take off at least one day a week to rest and recover if scheduling permits.
How many hours a week do high school athletes train?
The new standard for high school student/athletes participating in interscholastic athletics is 18 hours per week, which is great until one does the math. The rule states that practices, competitions, weight training, film studies and chalk talks can only add up to 18 hours a week.
How often should I train football?
Key Point #1 – Create a weekly schedule that includes at least 1 day off a week. If your “it” is to make it to the next level and you are hungry to improve then I’d suggest training a maximum of 5-6 days a week, 1-3 hours a day.
How many days a week should youth football practice?
Practice Week Game Planning for Youth Football. The number of practices in a week can vary from team to team in youth league football but the majority of teams will practice somewhere between 2-4 times per week.
How many hours do NFL players practice?
Typically, there are two practices averaging just under two hours each. The first involves more mental preparation, such as walking through the plays we just discussed in the earlier meetings.
How many hours do footballers work a week?
FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi said, “When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them but I would stay at home because I had practice the next day.” On average, professional soccer teams practice for 4 – 6 hours a day for 5 days a week.
Are there quarters in football?
NFL games are divided into four 15-minute quarters, separated by a 12-minute break at halftime. There are also 2-minute breaks at the end of the first and third quarters as teams change ends of the field after every 15 minutes of play.
Can basketball games end in a tie?
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Preserve and Rebuild the Mescal Movie Set . . . You're a Daisy if You Do.
The Mescal Movie Set is one of the most recognizable western cinematic towns on the big screen. The iconic set was home to the movie Tombstone, The Quick and the Dead, and over 80 other westerns. Notable actors walked the dusty boardwalks, including Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, and Clint Eastwood. Sadly, the years of use and weather led to the set's deterioration and ghost town appearance. The "Old Gal's" destruction was looming, and in short order, bulldozers would soon level her to the ground, and she would fade into the dust of the desert.
But, local ranchers wouldn't let this essential piece of western history and Americana be lost. They stepped in and acquired the rights in February and started plans to rebuild the set and return it to its former glory. It's a massive undertaking. An entire town with 27 buildings needs to be rebuilt. We are reaching out to all those who love our western heritage and want to be part of this effort to preserve and rebuild the Mescal Movie Set.
The filming history of Mescal area dates back over 70 years with scenes from Winchester 73 with Jimmy Stewart, The Big Country with Gregory Peck, and Cimarron with Glenn Ford. The physical set was built as a town for Monte Walsh, starring Lee Marvin and Jack Palance. This movie mirrors the current situation with the Mescal Set. An aging cowboy realizes the west he loves will soon be gone, and there is no room for cowboys like him. Released the same year was the Western comedy Dirty Dingus Magee with the legendary Frank Sinatra.
A succession of movies followed, including The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean starring Paul Newman, The Outlaw Josey Wales with Clint Eastwood, and Tom Horn with Steve McQueen. The 1990s had major big-budget productions. Tombstone starred Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, and many other notables such as Charlton Heston, Harry Carey Jr., and narration by Robert Mitchum. It has become a cult classic and easily the most quoted western of all time. The Quick and the Dead followed with Hollywood "A-Listers" Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe, Gene Hackman, and a very young Leonardo DiCaprio.
Country music fans will recall the 1986 remake of Stagecoach starring the Highwaymen, including Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristopherson. The set was also used in The Gambler with Kenny Rogers.
The Mescal Set was an alternative town set for many episodes of your favorite western TV series, including Bonanza, Gunsmoke, the Magnificent Seven, and Little House on the Prairie. Fans will also remember Mescal as the town of Sweetwater in The Young Riders series.
Mescal Movie Set was also a popular site for TV Movies, including The Sacketts, with Tom Selleck, Glenn Ford, and Sam Elliott, Maverick with James Garner, Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster, and Buffalo Soldiers with Danny Glover.
The future of Mescal is dependent on revitalizing the town into a viable filming location. The set contains 27 buildings, and all of them need major overhauls. Boardwalks and porches need to be replaced, foundations need to be stabilized and rebuilt, roofs need to be replaced, and everything in between needs remodeled. Plans are in place for additional buildings, including a church, blacksmith shop, boot hill cemetery, and other structures. The barn wood is being salvaged to be reused, while new wood is used for framing and foundations. Everything from props, wardrobe, and wagons need to be purchased or donated.
In the past, the set was not open to the public, and when not filming, Mescal sat idly in the desert. However, the revitalized movie set will be open to the public. Western enthusiasts can visit and take a tour with a knowledgeable historian. Mescal Movie Set will be available for special events. However, first and foremost, Mescal will be a film set open to movies, television, documentaries, commercials, music videos, and more.
Also planned for the public is a western movie and heritage museum displaying western artifacts, props, wardrobe items, and other movie memorabilia.
We realize we have set a significant goal. We are rebuilding and expanding an entire town that will include 36 or more buildings and sets. The rebuild is a "Barn Raising" event with volunteers from the community and surrounding states volunteering their sweat, time, and talents to get this old girl back on its feet.
With your support, we can make this happen. This rebuild is our last chance to save this piece of western heritage. Every donation is a step forward. 100% of the proceeds from Go Fund Me will be used directly into rebuilding the set. Tours will be available soon for those that want to follow her restoration. Donors that give $250 or more will receive two special free VIP Guest Passes.
And, if you can, please share this message with your friends.
We invite you to monitor our progress. Regular updates will be provided on this page and also other social media outlets. Please visit us at www.MescalMovieSet.com and https://www.facebook.com/mescalmovieset .
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Our family loves vegetables. And while we love vegetables, we’ve found that our kids can only handle so many salads in a row. Enter warm oven roasted vegetables. When we find we can’t do another salad we like to switch things up from salads, salads, salads and serve a side of garlic roasted vegetables.
These garlic roasted vegetables are a family favorite. The easiest way we’ve found to roast vegetables is in the oven. This recipe is quick and easy, and oh. so. delicious. In fact, we hear a lot less grumbling from our kids when we make these garlic roasted veggies.
This dish is a little heavy on the garlic, (we love this kind) so if you don’t love garlic as much as we do, feel free to add less. Or add more. Do your thing.
Tips for roasting vegetables
- Use frozen veggies! Frozen veggies are easy to keep on hand. We love them because they don’t get shoved to the back of the refrigerator until they become a scary mess. You can pull them out anytime. They also come pre-chopped and ready to use.
- Use your favorite fresh veggies. We have yet to roast a veggie that we don’t love. Almost any vegetable is better when roasted with garlic.
- Chop things up to be the same size. This cooks things evenly and keeps smaller vegetables from burning.
- Add in your favorite herbs. We love to use garlic and olive oil in our roasted veggies, but this is a great place to get creative and add your favorite herbs. Garlic and herb roasted vegetables are delicious!
- Don’t cover it. You want your veggies to get a little bit of browning on them. That browning makes them so good. Covering your vegetables with foil also means they’ll be much more likely to get soggy.
What is the best temperature for roasting vegetables?
The first time you roast vegetables in the oven, you might feel a little intimidated. Maybe you’ve even tried it already with poor results that make you feel “meh” about eating your vegetables. The key is the have a temperature that is high enough to get good browning, but not too high to burn your veggies before they are soft. We like to aim for anywhere between 400-425°F. This recipe roasts at 415°F.
Garlic Roasted Vegetables Recipe
- 2 bags (16oz. each) frozen vegetables
- 2 tbsp minced garlic (about 6 medium cloves)
- 2-4 tbsp olive oil
- Salt and Pepper to taste
INSTRUCTIONS for oven roasted vegetables
- Place frozen vegetables on cookie sheet or roasting pan.
- Drizzle with olive oil and minced garlic.
- Toss veggies together until olive oil and garlic are spread evenly throughout.
- Place in 415° oven for 20 minutes, or until tips of vegetables begin to get a little charred.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
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“San Francisco is an over-policed city, sending phalanxes of aggressive officers into communities where cops are deeply unpopular to tackle problems they are ill-equipped to resolve.” It’s a compelling narrative, especially in a region that is famously nonconfrontational: If only we took a more hands-off approach to law enforcement, we’d have less crime and healthier communities. The only problem? None of it is true.
In late June, the Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Appropriations Committee agreed to much of Mayor Breed’s proposed police funding in the next city budget, but now the budget goes to the full board for review and approval. The mayor wants to increase spending on police recruitment and retention, while at least three members of the board — Supervisors Dean Preston, Hillary Ronen and Shamann Walton — want our police force defunded. Leading up to August 1, when the board sends its approved version of the budget back to the mayor for signature, there will be multiple opportunities for San Franciscans to make themselves heard.
Now, then, is the time to get our facts straight.
San Francisco only has around 260 active duty police officers per 100,000 residents, excluding officers on leave or assigned to the airport. For comparison, the average rate in the E.U. is almost 340 officers per 100,000 residents, and many countries often held up as models of forward-thinking public safety policy by the defund crowd, like Portugal, well exceed that average.
Why is that? Well, for one thing, countries in the E.U. have decided that science matters. As Texas A&M’s Jennifer Doleac, one of the leading American scholars of law enforcement, puts it, “There is a strong consensus in the literature that hiring more police reduces crime.” It’s important to note that the operative mechanism is deterrence. Findings from study after study tell us that, especially among the young men lacking impulse control who commit the vast majority of crimes, increasing the severity of punishment is less helpful than ramping up the certainty of apprehension. Put a cop on a corner and it’s less likely that someone rolls the dice there on a mugging, a car theft, or a drug sale. In a striking example of this dynamic playing out in the real world, New York University’s Morgan Williams found that cities that expanded their police forces not only saw fewer serious crimes, but also fewer serious crime arrests.
This is a key insight for anyone who is concerned about mass incarceration. E.U. countries have hit upon a successful formula that George Mason University’s Alex Tabarrok sums up as “more police, fewer prisons, less crime.” In the United States, unfortunately, we spend far too much on prisons, and far too little on cops. Although San Francisco’s incarceration rate mirrors the E.U. average moreso than other American cities, if we can responsibly lower that rate further, we should.
We ignore these facts at our own peril — and especially at the peril of minority communities. Young Black men are roughly 15 times more likely to become homicide victims than their white peers in the United States. Williams’s study not only found that each additional police officer results in between 0.06 and 0.1 fewer homicides per year, but adding officers saves Black lives at double that overall rate. The study warns: “Our estimates suggest that defunding the police could result in more deaths, especially among Black Americans.”
None of this is to say that policing reforms, even fundamental ones, aren’t needed. Williams’s study, for example, found that in some cities adding more officers led to more Black residents being arrested for low-level crimes. Another study found that police are much less likely to solve murders of Black or Hispanic victims than white ones. Activists point to these findings and advocate for police-free zones in minority communities. But if we actually ask these communities what they want, instead of telling them what they need, the answer isn’t all that surprising: They want police in their neighborhoods — but they expect to be protected, not harassed and abused.
All of this should lead us to conclude that funding and reform are equally necessary, not equally moot. American police academies graduate officers in as little as 21 weeks; in many other countries, training lasts up to two years, and some even require officers to obtain a college degree. A more mature, diverse, and educated police force that is better trained and staffed is how we overcome the problem of communities being simultaneously over-policed and under-protected.
Too many questions of policy in America are turned into political wedge issues. We need to stop letting hyper-partisans do that to law enforcement and public safety. This is a technical problem with a proven solution that has already been implemented around the world, saving countless lives in the process.
The stakes are too high for us to continue ignoring the evidence.
Jay Donde is a board member of the San Francisco Briones Society (brionessociety.org),
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Banking & Payment Federation Ireland (BPFI) has today called for the immediate establishment of a public-private coalition on green finance to accelerate the delivery by banks of sustainable banking products and encourage market demand.
Speaking at BPFI’s Banking on Sustainability conference Brian Hayes, CEO, BPFI outlined where the banking industry is currently at on the sustainability agenda and the collaborative action that is required both within the sector and by Government to ensure banks can deliver fully and quickly on their role in the Government’s Climate Action Plan.
“Banks in Ireland are very quickly coming to grips with understanding and managing climate risk on their books, looking at green finance products such as green mortgages, meeting investor demands and complying with new EU legislation in this area. The simple reality is that sustainability is not only central to business strategy but will increasingly become a critical driver of business growth.
However, in order to deliver on green finance on the scale and level required to make an impact, the sector is calling for a more collaborative approach in the form of a public-private coalition similar to the approach taken in the UK where the government has facilitated the bringing together of private finance, government departments, NGOs and academics to test and launch demonstratable green finance products.
Banks have a crucial role to play in the transition to a more sustainable future, acting as investors, capital providers and capital intermediaries. Government equally has an ambitious climate action plan to de-carbonise the economy. Working more collaboratively will enable us to fully understand what customers need in terms of sustainable finance and enable the delivery of competitively-priced and easy-to-use financial products and to promote market demand.”
Today’s conference focused on the implications of climate change for banking in Ireland and focused on three key areas including the incorporation of climate risk into banks’ risk management strategies, the government’s Climate Action Plan and best practice in how banks can integrate climate sustainability into their core business.
Notes: Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) represents the banking, payments and fintech sector in Ireland. Together with its affiliates, the Federation of International Banks in Ireland and the Fintech & Payments Association of Ireland, BPFI has over 100 member institutions and associates, including licensed domestic and foreign banks and institutions operating in the financial marketplace here.
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Guadeloupe Weather March
Guadeloupe is located in wet tropical or so-called equatorial climate zone, which is known for hot, humid weather and lack of apparent seasonal fluctuation.
To help you choose the best time to travel, you can find climate data below on the weather in Guadeloupe in March.
|average daily high||+29.4°C|
|average daily low||+20.4°C|
|sunny / overcast hours||7.5 / 4.9|
|average monthly precipitation||73 mm|
Temperature in Guadeloupe
In March the average daily maximum in Guadeloupe is +29.4°C, and the minimum +20.4°C.
The hottest March day on record is +31°C, and the coldest +15°C.
Best beach resorts in March:
There are 12.4 hours of daylight in Guadeloupe in March. Out of these, on average 7.5 are sunny, which means there is quite a lot of sun.
The average monthly temperature in the Caribbean Sea on the beaches of Guadeloupe in March is +26.8°C.
The water is not only warm enough to bathe in, but it is also possible to stay in the water for an extended amount of time.
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Many people confuse a plan with a strategy. This is often reflected in the usual criticisms of any particular U.S. administration when events confound the plans it has inherited or promised on the campaign trail. It is true that the current administration’s plans for the Middle East are in some disarray; the president has forthrightly, and I think courageously and wisely, conceded this. But even if we were to devise an effective plan to deal simultaneously with growing Iranian power and a burgeoning threat from the Islamic State, this would not amount to a strategy.
That’s because a strategy is a dynamic, multiparty activity in which at least some of the participants are dedicated to disturbing the plans of the others. We defend our interests, but we can’t defend them everywhere. We plan against the likeliest threats, all of which were dutifully recorded by the Hart-Rudman Commission. So our adversaries attack where our defenses are weakest, and that is where an attack is least expected. Thus the nature of conflict, as Sir Michael Quinlan once observed, is surprise.
Moreover, the State is entering a period of transition in its constitutional order. Since the 1860s in the United States and the 1870s in Europe, the industrial nation-state has emerged and gradually spread across the globe, replacing the 19th-century imperial state-nations created by George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and Napoleon Bonaparte. These states, like the ones they replaced, had very little in common with the princely states that predated Treaty of Westphalia, or the kingly states that Westphalia enshrined in the international order. Now a new constitutional order is emerging. It is driving, as it is driven by, changes in warfare. This new order will create states that are more decentralized and devolved, that privatize and outsource their operations, that are more nationalistic than nation-states ever were, that are globally networked, that are richer but more fragile, and that are dependent on the rapid transfer and exploitation of information conveyed electronically. Our plans, nevertheless, will be much the same: to make our infrastructure more resilient, our alliances more enduring, our resources more secure, our armed forces more ready and our technologies of warfare more lethal and discriminating. But our strategy will have to be as novel as the threats that beset the new, informational market states of consent we are becoming.
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It is no less astounding that, following the atrocities in Paris this week, French President Francois Hollande should discover the attacks to be “an act of war,” than it is that the French responded with a barrage of air attacks on the decimated city of Raqqa. But who can blame them? For more than 10 years they’ve been told that it was the Americans who made war through a simpleminded misunderstanding of terror. And the Americans themselves have been told that wars must have an end, and that our actions alone will dictate that timing. To slightly alter the famous French phrase, “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la strategie” — “It is magnificent, but it is not strategy.”
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Genesis 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Genesis 5:22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
COULD HE BE SEEN ? WAS HIS PRESENCE ALWAYS PHYSICAL ? IF NOT, CAN THIS SAME PRIVILEGE BE GRANTED TO PEOPLE TODAY ?
1. WALKING WITH HIM IS TO HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM.
1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
WHAT IS FELLOWSHIP ? IT MEANS ONE THING WITH ONE PERSON AND ANOTHER TO SOMEONE ELSE. GOD’S DEFINITION IS THE ONE THAT COUNTS.
FELLOWSHIP IS TURNING OUR ATTENTION ON GOD, NOT EVERYONE ELSE. (Rejecting the distracting appeal of idolatry).
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
FELLOWSHIP CANNOT BE OBTAINED IF WE DWELL IN UNBELIEF. IF WE ARE TO WALK WITH JESUS, WE MUST FOLLOW HIS WORD.
John 5:8 Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
John 5:11 He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
John 5:12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD MEANS NO TIME FOR EVERYTHING. YOU WILL HAVE TO DROP FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHER THINGS IN ORDER TO MAKE THE ROOM. YOU CANNOT BE ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE. YOU CANNOT FULFILL ALL THAT YOU WANT TO DO. TO HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH JESUS, YOU MUST DENY YOURSELF.
Mark 8:34 And when He had called the people unto Him with His disciples also, He said unto them, Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
IF A PERSON FAILS TO FOLLOW, THEY NO LONGER HAVE FELLOWSHIP.
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WAS PETER HAVING FELLOWSHIP WITH JESUS WHEN HE FOLLOWED FROM A DISTANCE ? NO !
Matthew 26:58 But Peter followed Him afar off unto the high priest’s palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.
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YOU SEE THE REAL STANDARDS. IT IS DIFFICULT TO REALLY TELL MUCH ABOUT A PERSON BY HEARING THEM IN A RELIGIOUS CONTEXT. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO KNOW THEIR STANDARDS WHEN IT ISN’T AROUND CHURCH. YOU SEE WHAT THE PERSON’S DESIRES REALLY ARE.
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- SEEK & SAVE THE LOST. Mt 18:11 “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.”
- JERUSALEM. YOU WILL GET CONCERNED ABOUT ISRAEL. Luke 13:34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!”
- HIS HURT OVER UNBELIEF. John 11:35 “Jesus wept.” (You don’t see such emotions while doing your own thing).
HIS FRUSTRATIONS OVER…
- PEOPLE WHO HAVEN’T COME TO UNDERSTAND THE BASICS ABOUT GOD. “HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN WITH YOU ?” John 14:7-11 “Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works’ sake.”
- PEOPLE WHO OUGHT TO HAVE FAITH, WHO DON’T EXERCISE IT. Luke 8:25 “And He said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for He commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey Him.”
- PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE TRUSTING GOD, BUT TRY TO REASON THINGS OUT LOGICALLY AMONG THEMSELVES. Mark 8:16 “And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.”
3. YOU GET TO SEE WHAT GOD DOES.
A child often has no idea what the parent does at work unless they go there and walk with him. The same is true to the Christian life.
- WALKING WITH JESUS IS ESSENTIAL TO RECOGNIZING AND DEFEATING DEMONIC ACTIVITY.
DEMONS OBEY. Luke 4:36 “And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power He commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.”
- WALKING WITH JESUS IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE AND HOW TO PLACE OUR ACTIONS OF LOVE.
- THE HUNGRY CROWD. Matthew 15:32 “Then Jesus called His disciples unto Him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with Me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.”
- THE CHILDREN THAT OTHERS REJECTED. Mark 10:14 “But when Jesus saw it, He was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.”
4. YOU GET TO SEE HIS ASSOCIATIONS.
THE PEOPLE WHO WALK WITH HIM SEE MORE. UNLESS YOU ARE WALKING WITH HIM, YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THEM. **SOME SAY, “I’M THE ONLY ONE SERVING THE LORD.”
Acts 9:26 And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
YOU SEE WHO ISN’T WALKING WITH HIM, BUT PUT THEIR OWN DESIRES AND WAYS AHEAD OF HIS. THEY SIMPLY WON’T BE THERE.
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
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Setting up Manufacturer Tone With Artificial Intelligence
Resources like Grammarly are becoming very well acknowledged in the AI marketing bag of tricks, for selected. What about replicating brand tone and retaining matters steady throughout conversation channels and content material?
“It’s receiving there,” Paul Roetzer, CEO and founder of the Advertising and marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute, informed CMSWire’s Rich Hein and Dom Nicastro in an episode of the CX Decoded Podcast. “It’s manufactured massive leaps ahead in the past three several years. … The means to recognize and replicate tone… If it is really not there, it really is coming, and there are a ton of men and women placing a lot of income driving that kind of thing.”
So it’s not 100%. Not quite a few marketing AI works by using circumstances are, according to a finding in the McKinsey World-wide Survey’s Point out of AI in 2020 report. Respondents in that report say their AI products have “misperformed” in the business features where AI is employed most. “The place is the range 1 spot of mis-overall performance,” you question? Advertising and gross sales (32%), followed by product and/or provider improvement (21%) and then assistance operations (19%).
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AI Use Situations Arise
Growing pains? It’s possible. However, the use cases are out there, these as editing grammar. Microsoft scored a deal with Nvidia for grammar refinements in Microsoft Word.
Even substantial school English lecturers are encountering an impactful change in literacy procedures because the introduction of electronic term processing, according to a person researcher. And that contains “Artificial Intelligence literacies, which influence the production of composing with large-precision grammar ideas,” according to a report by Jason Toncic of Montclair Condition University.
“Now, much more than ever, clients and potential customers are meeting and engaging with corporations digitally. And it is material that results in those connections on the internet,” stated Christopher Willis, main internet marketing officer of Acrolinx, an AI articles solutions provider. “That can make it a important asset to an organization. In fact, one of its most important.”
AI Use Situations in Demand from customers Technology, Written content Marketing
Listed here are a few areas exactly where Willis is viewing entrepreneurs deploying AI-powered content material currently.
Demand Gen: Powerful content material is the fuel of large accomplishing desire generation strategies and packages. Desire generation teams can develop content material that is nicely-penned, apparent and findable, in accordance to Willis.
Information Internet marketing: AI-driven content approach can empower brand names throughout content-improvement teams to deploy reliable grammar, voice and type tips.
Brand: A properly-described brand voice helps make it straightforward for a company’s values and identity to be listened to, according to Willis. AI-driven information can align an enterprise’s information to its manufacturer and design expectations by offering suggestions to writers immediately in their many authoring tools — preserving their content material on-brand name, in the proper tone of voice, inclusive and constant.
Mike Kaput, chief content officer at Advertising AI Institute, blogged that AI can help information manufacturing in the places of:
- Brainstorming blog subjects (Vendor examples: Crayon, BrightEdge, HubSpot, MarketMuse)
- Bettering grammar (Vendor instance: Grammarly)
- Improving content material high-quality (Seller case in point: Acrolinx)
- Generate knowledge-driven narratives (Seller case in point: Automatic Insights)
- Written content advertising ROI (Vendor illustration: Frase)
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Time To Explore Your AI Use Circumstances
Exactly where do these AI instruments stay? Willis explained common integrations include things like platforms like Adobe Knowledge Manager and Adobe InDesign, the complete Google Suite, all Microsoft Business programs, Kapost, Figma, Sketch and WordPress, amongst other individuals.
When integrations may change and though equipment discovering and AI in advertising content material could be nevertheless nascent, learning about it is always a great thought. “You really don’t require me to reiterate the importance of content in your electronic promoting attempts,” Search engine optimization strategist Neil Patel blogged. “However, you may possibly have to have clarification on how machine understanding can enhance what you publish and publish and why utilizing it in your content advertising system is important.” | <urn:uuid:49ac0f8a-2235-4387-8b52-79ac0bbf5400> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dragonetphenix.com/where-ai-is-impacting-content-marketers-in-2021/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.904891 | 1,142 | 1.625 | 2 |
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Bird’s Nest Spruce is a dwarf variety of the Norway spruce that gets its name from its shape.
It grows slowly to form a flattened sphere that is the perfect size for foundation plantings, rock gardens or to add some year-round structure to the front of a garden bed.
New needles come out as a bright green color that turns to gray-green as they age.
This shrub is deer resistant and very low maintenance. It only requires occasional pruning to maintain its size.
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The village of Clarence Town is the only major urban population centre in the Clarence Town Planning District. Clarence Town is located 55km north of Newcastle, 32km north of Maitland and 27km north of Raymond Terrace.
The district was first settled by white settlers following the visit of Lieutenant Colonel Paterson, who travelled up the river now known as the Williams River from its junction with the Hunter at Raymond Terrace to the termination of navigable waters just above the present site of Clarence Town in 1801.
The area was originally known as “Erringhi” (Aboriginal for “place of little black duck”), the name being changed to Clarence Town in 1826 after the Duke of Clarence who in 1830 became King William IV.
The earliest economic activity in the Clarence Town area was cedar cutting, performed with convict labour from 1801. The village grew around the early river ports, which were used to transport timber from the area to Maitland, Newcastle and beyond.
The village of Clarence Town was surveyed and proclaimed in 1823. The Clarence Town river port and ship building industry quickly began to grow, as timber in the area was plentiful and of good quality. Clarence Town’s location was determined by the fact that it was the head of navigation of that river and had a natural river crossing existing at the site of the present bridge.
The first ocean-going steam ship to be built in Australia was constructed at Clarence Town. This was the “William IV”, a replica of which awas built for Australia’s Bicentenary. In the absence of proper roads, Clarence Town became the head of navigation for goods transported further north to Dungog and Gloucester by bullock wagons and drays.
In 1826 a tobacco factory and tannery were operating, by early 1830 a boat building yard had commenced operation. Clarence Town received a Post Office in 1838. In 1848 Clarence Town had 18 houses and a population of 93 people and by 1863 the village boasted a population of 300.
Even though life centred on the river in many ways, significant settlement took place in the Clarence Town district as further areas were reached on horseback, and eventually by coach. The undulating country and abundance of flat land along the river was progressively cleared and fenced by settlers and proved ideal for dairy farming, fodder production and grazing.
There was also an abundance of hardwood timber in the forests surrounding the settlement. Farming and timber harvesting were the principal economic activities throughout the 1900’s. Clarence Town is today a small rural village, similar in many ways to Paterson. | <urn:uuid:b1bb4baa-b0ec-4ee3-b331-ed5f7e0a842f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.visitdungog.com.au/destinations/clarence-town/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.984693 | 544 | 3.1875 | 3 |
VR User experience
When playing a VR game that involves movement, it should run at ideally 90fps so as to avoid motion sickness. When playing a game in VR that has a low frame rate, the parts of the brain that deal with vision and movement get mismatched signals between the two, causing Motion sickness (Feyerabend, 2017).
Static 360 videos are generally different though, with the refresh rate of the device you’re using being more important than the actual fps of the video. As there is no movement other than head rotation the user is less likely to get motion sick in the same way you wouldn’t get motion sick looking at a still image.
When designing my experience I initially had to consider between having a fully interactable VR game experience or a more static 360 video experience. In the game experience the player would be able to move around and interact with the environment, adding an extra layer of interaction while sacrificing the extra time required to make it. Ultimately I decided to go with a 360 video experience for a few specific reasons.
Extra time would have to be spent on setting up a scene in Unreal, making objects interactable and potentially doing some programming for movement and triggering certain events. Ultimately I decided going with a 360 experience would allow me to focus more on the artistic experience over interaction.
I originally wanted to have the player go through a portal into the ‘Other side’, moving slowly at a constant speed to avoid movement sickness, however, having experienced it myself, I know that for a lot of people new to VR, smooth movement can easily induce motion sickness.
In the end I decided to make the camera location static and put emphasis on influencing the viewer’s gaze instead.
Feyerabend L. (2017) VR’s motion sickness problem — and how to hack it (with the help of your cat). Available online: https://medium.com/dangeroustech/vrs-motion-sickness-problem-and-how-to-hack-it-with-the-help-of-your-cat-a040cf72a7f3#:~:text=Sickness%20induced%20by%20a%20virtual,movement%2C%20and%20our%20visual%20perception.&text=The%20higher%20the%20framerate%20 [Accessed 10/05/2021]. | <urn:uuid:5693d613-e362-4c1a-96b8-d67b856da233> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://dngrant.com/vr-user-experience/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939831 | 514 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The Big Dipper
One of the most recognized asterisms in the sky is the Big Dipper. The Big dipper is part of the Constellation named Ursa Major which represents a great bear. The Big Dipper is easy to find and this month it can be seen rising in the northeastern sky. The handle is pointing downward. If the cup portion was able to hold a liquid then it would all spill out this month due to the vertical position of its cup.
It is fun to watch the dipper at each season of the year. During the summer early
evening it can be seen high overhead in the northern sky. In the fall it is in the northwestern part of the sky, and in the winter skies it lies low near the northern horizon.
The dipper is known as part of a circumpolar constellation that never fully sets due to our latitude of 41 degrees north. This means that you will be able to see it every day of the year somewhere in the northern sky. The two stars on the end of the cup point towards the North Star which is helpful in finding directions at night.
The constellation Ursa Major contains many more stars than the Big Dipper. One can observe the tail, body, legs, and head of the great bear outlined by the stars that make up Ursa Major.
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Virginia Tech virologist developing more potent vaccine technology
Virginia Tech virologist Chris Roberts’ goal is to develop a platform for a flu vaccine that allows rapid modifications to meet new strains of flu.
Blacksburg, Va. – Virginia Tech virologist Chris Roberts’ goal is to develop a platform for a flu vaccine that allows rapid modifications to meet new strains of flu.
Since 90 percent of complicated flu cases occur among those over 65, the associate professor in biomedical sciences and pathobiology (http://www.vetmed.vt.edu/org/dbsp/) has been working on a novel flu vaccine for the elderly. That is still his aim, but he is now more motivated than ever to speed development of his cell culture-based vaccine technology that is more rapid than the egg-based growth system presently used to create vaccines.
Influenza is an enveloped virus. It obtains its envelope or membrane as it buds from the surface of the host cell it has invaded. Roberts is using this practice against the virus – introducing membrane-bound immune-system stimulatory molecules such as cytokines into cells in such a way that the virus will incorporate them as part of its envelope. "Using this approach, inactivated influenza vaccines can be created that have enhanced immunogenicity, meaning they can boost our immune response to the vaccine and hopefully provide better protection against invading viruses," Roberts said. | <urn:uuid:301d9ea8-dc94-4c94-835a-4e7bfe045f76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hplusmagazine.com/2009/05/04/virginia-tech-virologist-developing-more-potent-vaccine-technology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957389 | 287 | 3.03125 | 3 |
MOTION-- On August 5, 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order that sets an ambitious new
target for the country to make half of all new vehicles purchased by 2030 zero-emissions,
including battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or fuel cell electric vehicles. This $7.5 billion
dollar plan will include a path towards a national Electric Vehicle (EV) network in partnership
with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and other labor leaders.
In Los Angeles, previous efforts such as the LA Green New Deal (2019), and the LA
Sustainability Plan (2015) have placed goals for EV installation throughout the city. In 2019, the
Department of Water and Power Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution (Board
Resolution 20-024, Aug 27, 2019) authorizing the prioritization and funding of City transportation
and electrification projects through the development of MOUs. Through the sale and utilization
of Low Carbon Fuel Standards (LCFS) developed by the LADWP (AB 32), the board action was
executed to reduce the carbon intensity of transportation fuels. Departments including
Recreation and Parks and Genera! Services have executed several MOUs for EV installation.
The practical purpose of this policy was to build infrastructure to support the electrification of
gas or diesel powered vehicles, including cars, buses, trucks, shuttles, trains, and all other
Now is the time for the City to create a citywide electric vehicle strategic long term infrastructure
plan, unifying all efforts in coordination with City agencies to maximize placement while taking
advantage of federal and state funding and policy efforts. The Biden and Newsom
administrations have and are working on the expansion of dollars in this area, with a focus on
urgently fighting the climate crisis. The recent LA100 plan also identifies the electrification of
the transportation sector as a key and necessary provision in a 100% carbon free Los Angeles.
The placement of EV infrastructure will be essential to our energy goal’s success, as the
location, time and length of said vehicle charging will play a significant role in the defined energy
and financial benefits to both the resident and city.
The Department of Water and Power with the assistance of each partner city agency, building
upon previous work, should report on recommendations to streamline current EV projects, while
focusing on the creation of a citywide Electric Vehicle Master Plan that prioritizes smart and
equitable placement of these transportation resources.
I THEREFORE MOVE that the Department of Water and Power, with the assistance of
appropriate City agencies, create a strategic long term citywide Electric Vehicle Master Plan that
includes provisions to maximize federal and state funding for the equitable placement of Electric
Vehicle infrastructure citywide. This plan should include incentives for the adoption of Electric
Vehicles for both residential and commercial / industrial customers, with a focus on maximizing
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While Trinity is best known for its intellectual vitality, we promise so much more: a balanced educational program for body and mind, heart and soul, incorporating the arts, athletics, and community service; a chapel program that calls students not only to grow into their best selves, but also to reach out beyond themselves to address needs and realities greater than themselves.
Welcome to the Trinity School Archives! This digital repository aims to preserve, share, and showcase some of Trinity's most valuable historical assets. Here you will find digitized primary source materials and themed exhibits with perspectives on student life, the administration and faculty, and Trinity’s alumni/ae. Learn More
“This is a very engaged community. Students and families are made to feel welcome and important. The bonds here run deep. ”
Conversations about and explorations of spirituality, religion, and ethics at Trinity are woven naturally into the fabric of school life. They occur in classrooms, among faculty and students in the hallways, and every week in Chapel. Learn More
Located on the Upper West Side of New York City, Trinity School is a college preparatory, coeducational independent school for grades K-12. Since 1709, Trinity has provided a world-class education to its students with rigorous academics and outstanding programs in athletics, the arts, peer leadership, and global travel. | <urn:uuid:075effdf-785c-4550-905a-0822f1f5df29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.trinityschoolnyc.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95489 | 275 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Odessa Restricted Roads and Truck Accidents
Odessa has a city ordinance that prohibits commercial truck traffic within the city limits.
In Odessa, trucks that weigh more than 10,000 pounds, are a single unit vehicle with tandem axles, or are truck-tractor/semitrailer combinations are required to travel on either Texas State Highway Loop 338 or Interstate 20. Truck drivers who have destinations off the designated truck routes are required to use the shortest and most direct route to arrive at their destinations.
Midland was looking to enact ordinances similar to those in Odessa that prevent large trucks operating in nearby oil fields from using city streets, the Midland Reporter-Telegram recently reported.
Whether they are traveling on designated truck routes or on other streets and roads around Odessa, oil trucks and other heavy commercial vehicles pose a significant threat to the safety of everyone else on the road.
If you suffered severe injuries or your loved one was killed in a commercial truck accident in the greater Odessa area, contact an attorney who has experience handling truck accident cases and who has secured compensation for clients like you. Tate Law Offices, P.C., has a 99% success rate that includes more than 3,000 cases won. We have the ability and resources to take on trucking companies large or small on your behalf.
Our firm represents clients on a contingency fee basis, so you will not have to worry about paying us anything unless and until we win your case. We can provide a complete evaluation of your case when you call us or contact us online to set up a free consultation.
Odessa Truck Road Restrictions
The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) notes that the Odessa District of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) ordered specific restrictions applicable to motor carriers in the Odessa area.
For all counties and all highways in the Odessa district, a truck more than 17 feet high must contact the Odessa District Traffic and Signals Section a minimum of 48 hours prior to travel. Only TxDOT-approved signal contractors are authorized to disconnect, raise, and reconnect any illumination poles and overhead mast arms. Any property damaged by a carrier must be repaired at the carrier’s cost.
In Andrews County, trucks are required to use the Andrews truck route jointly required by the Odessa District and the City of Andrews, consisting of Andrews Loop 1910. This is a permanent restriction.
In Crane County, trucks must use the Crane truck route jointly required by the Odessa District and the City of Crane. This truck route consists of:
- Texas State Highway 329 between U.S. Route 385 to Southeast County Road.
- The northeast side consists of Southeast County Road and Northeast County Road.
- The northwest side consists of Northwest County Road and Southwest County Road. This is also a permanent restriction.
In Ector County, there are no permits between Farm to Market 1882 and 8th Street in Odessa, and there are no permits between Texas State Highway Spur 450 and Business Interstate Highway 20 in Odessa. There is also a maximum height restriction of 18 feet, 6 inches at the junction of BI 20 and US 385, and there are not permits between Texas State Highway 191 and BI 20. All of these restrictions are permanent restrictions.
Ector County imposes a 12-foot maximum width for trucks traveling between I-20 and 3rd Street in Odessa. However, this restriction is not listed as permanent. In Winkler County, trucks are required to use the designated Kermit truck route jointly required by the Odessa District and the City of Kermit. The route consists of:
- County Road 313 on the north and east side
- Texas State Highway 302 on the south side
- Texas State Highway 18 the west side (This is a permanent restriction.)
Why There Are Route Restrictions for Trucks
Cities in Texas are concerned about heavy vehicle traffic because of the effect these large loads have on local roads. Restricted routes are needed to force trucks to use the roads that are best-suited for them.
Certain truck restrictions are also in the name of increased public safety, as it is not ideal for commercial tractor-trailers to be traveling through some downtown locations.
The nature of the loads being carried by certain commercial vehicles can also involve material that could be especially damaging to a local environment in the event of an accident causing a spill.
Odessa Off-Route Truck Accidents
Large trucks can be involved in a wide variety of accidents. The nature of crashes will often depend on a number of different factors. Any commercial truck accident could be more complex than a standard car accident because it may be possible that multiple parties could be liable for damages.
Some of the most common kinds of truck accidents generally include:
- Override Accidents
- Underride Accidents
- Jackknife Accidents
- Overloaded Vehicles
- Rear-End Collisions
- Head-On Collisions
- T-Bone Collisions
- Intersection Accidents
- Wide-Turning Accidents
- Rollover Accidents
- Blocking Accidents
When a truck causes an accident on a highway that it was prohibited from using, the driver and the trucking company may face increased penalties for violating local ordinances.
How Can Tate Law Offices, P.C., Help Me after a Truck Accident in Odessa?
People who have been injured in commercial truck accidents may be unaware that the truck that hit them might have been prohibited from being on the road where the crash occurred. The attorneys of Tate Law Offices, P.C., are prepared to conduct a thorough investigation and determine if the truck driver and the company that employed them violated these restrictions and caused you unnecessary harm. If they did, we’ll aggressively seek the full and fair compensation that you are owed.
Our record of success includes multiple six- and seven-figure verdicts and settlements, including $6.5 million recovered for a brain and pelvis injury victim in a truck accident.
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Fat issue has been on the increase with several obesity instances noted now than every other time in history. This really is apparent in the numerous weight loss offers available in the media that attempts to generally meet the rising demand of people wanting to lose weight. That weight reduction offers include slimming cremes, slimming pills including herbal slimming drugs and medical weight reduction processes. The key causes of fat issue is food diet that’s big levels of calories. This has already been aggregated by the inactive lifestyles of corporate company work and interior inactive entertainment. It has result in a growth in weight related diseases such as for example diabetes and center failure. Besides this, several sense uncomfortable using their extra weight look and this may affect their home esteem.
You will find different types of pills for slimming. Many of these supplements function by raising kcalorie burning in the body. Improved k-calorie burning escalates the rate of which fat is burned in your body. If the rate of using the fat in the torso applying these tablets exceeds the charge at that you put fat in your body, then you definitely will begin your slimming process.
Different drugs function by reducing the quantity of fat that’s taken in by the body. They minimize on the amount of fat absorption by slowing the potency of lipase, the chemical that breaks down fat in the intestines. This technique may lower the quantity of fat consumption by about 30%. Those who use these kind of tablets have a fatty stool that describes the unprocessed fats. Reducing the fat absorption straight causes slimming because less fat remains are taken into the body to restore the fat burned throughout your regular daily activity. You will find organic slimming pills that function in that way. Through research, natural organizations have found normal methods for deactivating the lipase enzyme. The procedure is safe and normal and isn’t associated with the ills of substance drugs such as for instance kidney and liver failure.
A next form of pills for slimming are tablets that reduce the appetite for food. These pills perform by stimulating the generation and improve of serotonin. Serotonin is the organic body substance that directs stimulus to the brain to denote the full feeling. Quite simply, the chemical produce you feel whole and thus dropping hunger for food. That lets you lower the total amount of food absorption and consequently producing one to slim.
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There were significant complains concerning the over-the-counter pills. Some of these supplements are now being promoted with the assurance of giving an instant correct to their weight problems. However, many who use these over-the-counter supplements have complained of acute negative effects such as for example over tenderness, fevers, skin situations and an over-all sensation of sickness. Wellness practitioners advise that applying these supplements could have lengthier negative effects such as for example heart conditions and blood connected complications. It’s thus maybe not advisable to take these non-prescription pills.
Usually the worthiness of any weightloss pills is dependent upon the grade of the product. Therefore it’s suggested that you get around to learn more information concerning the slimming tablets you intend to ensure that you aren’t contemplating an useless pill that could function against you. And an excellent signs of deciding the references of a slimming pill is customer testimonials, because you find out how it worked for others.
Therefore do not get caught up with the hype with every new slimming tablet promising efficient weight loss, its standard individual behaviour with regards to the need to repair problems ASAP particularly folks who are over fat, because they obviously desire a sudden answer to reduce weight. Lots of people typically younger women, are beneath the impact of weight reduction being simpler with slimming pills.
The folks who use slimming supplements feel they have more control. However in fact, that is perhaps not the case. In reality, today individuals have increased the intake of recommended drugs for quicker weight loss. It’s not just a poor thing to get slimming pills, nevertheless they must be the last resort if you battle due to being ridiculously heavy and require to begin losing weight to avoid harmful health problems like diabetes and heart disease.
However, natural slimming tablets businesses can see herbal slimming pills that provide the benefits of those drugs and at the same time protect you from the medial side aftereffects of the over the counter drugs. These herbal slimming supplements tend to be more like food supplements. The drugs are established and recommended by doctors. But, these pills do not function overnight. More over, you have to take them hand in give with a dieting program for them to work effectively. This way, the effects of the pills are long lasting and with a change in diet, you are able to resolve the problem of weight reduction after and for all. | <urn:uuid:0fc02373-7707-4fdc-b607-7ef490b0c09b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://multimedios106.com/research-properly-to-choose-effective-slimming-supplements/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95039 | 1,003 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Pacific Indicators for Disability Inclusive Education (Pacific INDIE) project
This project aims to develop a set of contextually specific indicators for disability-inclusive education in the Pacific and guidelines for their implementation.
These indicators will assist countries to evaluate their efforts and develop further plans and targets for providing quality education for children and youth with disability.
April 2013 – March 2014
- Systematic Literature
- Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis
- Development of Draft Indicators
March 2014 – October 2014
- Regional Workshop in Fiji
- International Review Panel
October 2014 – April 2016
- Pilot Testing of indicators
- Disability-Inclusive Education Indicators and Manual for their application
- Launches of Pacific INDIE guidelines
The project builds capacity for the implementation of the disability-inclusive education indicators within:
- Ministries of Education,
- teacher training colleges,
- non-government agencies and
- disabled persons’ organisations.
It will also build skills within these organisations in critical analysis of data arising from the indicators.
14 Pacific Island countries participated in the survey, and many provided support by identifying grey literature. Four case countries are further involved through qualitative data collection in Phase 1 and refining and testing the implementation of the indicators in subsequent phases.
Key principles underpinning the project
Collaborative and rigorous approach to developing indicators which measure what Pacific Islanders value as authentic and relevant disability-inclusive education.
Disability-inclusive education is premised on systems changing to meet the diverse needs of learners and their families, rather than expecting the child or youth to ‘fit in’.
Nothing about us without us. The active involvement and contribution of people with a disability and Pacific stakeholders is critical.
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Hackers have managed to breach the FBI’s email system and sent out fake cyberattack alerts.
The emails from [email protected],, alleged that cybersecurity researcher Vinny Troia was behind the fake attacks and that he associated with the infamous hacking group, The Dark Overlord.
The emails had no malicious files attached to them while no classified information was believed to have been leaked.
The FBI confirmed the incident and said the spoofed emails were sent from the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal system and not their corporate one.
Hacker pompompurin later contacted KrebsOnSecurity and admitted to the attack in order to reveal vulnerabilities.
“Hi its pompompurin. Check headers of this email it’s actually coming from FBI server. I am contacting you today because we located a botnet being hosted on your forehead, please take immediate action thanks,” said the email received by KrebsOnSecurity.
Pompompurin added that the vulnerabilities were rooted in the FBI’s Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP).
The FBI said they have fixed the vulnerability and said that their networks were once again secure.
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"'People who menstruate.' I'm sure there used to be a word for those people." With those words, JK Rowling threw herself into perhaps the most febrile debate in contemporary society. Even Covid-19 has not dampened the furore over transgender rights. As two world views collide, fundamental truths that previous generations thought were self-evident have been cast into doubt. What is a woman? what is a man? and how can we tell them apart?
On one side there is belief in gender identity, a feeling in our heads that drives our nature and defines our true gender: we are the gender we think we are. But the creator of Harry Potter took the opposing view. In Rowling's mind, she is a woman not because of psychology but because of biology and her frustrations bubbled to the surface when her sex was reduced to "people who menstruate."
A hundred years after women won the right to vote in many countries, Rowling has now engaged in a campaign the suffragettes could not have imagined – a battle to hold onto the word woman itself. The response was predictable and brutal. As the actors her books had made famous lined up to distance themselves from her, Rowling became the target of an emotional campaign that has the hallmarks of a modern-day witch hunt.
Women who have been forthright in their view that the word woman is theirs, and theirs alone, have faced noisy and sometimes violent opposition. The angry protests that faced Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy when she spoke at the Seattle public library on February 1st, followed noisy disruption outside a Woman's Place UK meeting in Brighton last autumn. Women have been assaulted, and others have lost their livelihoods.
The fury is unleashed because when women are defined by their biology, trans women are excluded from womanhood.
The fury is unleashed because when women are defined by their biology, trans women are excluded from womanhood. To trans women, desperate to be validated as actual women, this is an existential rebuff.
While it might be tempting to look the other way, for me this is personal. I am a trans woman, so it is my identity – supposedly – that is being denied. However, I am also a high school science teacher and I know magical thinking when I see it. Trans women are male – I certainly am as I fathered three children – while women are female. Male people are not female people and therefore trans women are not women. Whatever emotions might surround the debate, JK Rowling is correct.
When I transitioned eight years ago, Rowling's views would not have been particularly controversial. Transsexuals – as we were then known – changed our bodies to resemble the opposite sex and re-integrated into society with as little fuss as possible. Even those of us with public roles found that it was not a deal breaker. Why should it be? Male and female teachers do the same job, and my transition made no difference to Newton's laws of motion or any other topic I teach. But I did rely on the trust and confidence between me and others around me.
At the same time other males found comfort in presenting in a way more typical of women, but without changing their bodies. But nobody thought that transvestites – as these fully intact males were known – were women, including the transvestites themselves.
What changed? How did two groups – a tiny number of transsexuals and rather more transvestites – become the transgender movement now challenges the use of biological sex to divide society?
Between political leaders who were keen to be seen as progressive – or did not care – and a public kept largely in the dark, legislation has been enacted, and policy changed on the advice of the transgender activists who cared very much.
Effectively we have been able to choose not only our gender but our legal sex, with devastating consequences on women's sex-based rights.
As gender has been conflated with sex, gender identity has quietly displaced sex in policies and laws. Effectively we have been able to choose not only our gender but our legal sex, with devastating consequences on women's sex-based rights. As Kiri Tunks, a founder of Woman's Place UK said, "If you can't define what a woman is, how can you defend women's rights?"
Women's concerns are therefore real. Boundaries become meaningless if male people can choose to identify into women's refuges, hospital wards, changing rooms, and even prisons. It would be very naïve to hope that men wouldn't do that, would they? Most won't, but those that will try are precisely the men that women worry about and the consequences are serious. In the UK, a rapist called Karen White was placed in a women's prison and then committed further sexual assaults.
It is not just physical spaces at risk. Any scheme set up to promote women is vulnerable. For example, the FT List of Top 100 Women in Business included Pips Bunce, a male who sometimes wears a dress to work. While I applaud the courage that takes, I deplore the impact on the woman who missed out as a result.
In sport, trans women no longer need surgery to compete against women. Limits have been imposed on testosterone levels, but males still retain a competitive advantage because of bone density, heart capacity and muscle fibre. Like East Germany doped its female athletes in the 1970's and 1980's, modern day regimes who care more about medals that athletes will be tempted to intervene in the endocrinology of their emerging talent. Just this time, young men are at risk. The current world women's 200 m record – set by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988 – is beaten by 16 year old boys. Women's sport hangs in the balance.
None of this helps me or other transgender people trying to get on with our lives. We need laws to protect us against harassment and discrimination; we also need prompt access to mental health services and – where appropriate – to specialist gender clinics.
But rather than focus on these rights, transgender rights activists demand to be accepted as the opposite sex, and for all purposes. With a bigger sense of entitlement than self-awareness, they have exasperated increasing numbers of women who see their own rights being compromised. Many women have decided that enough is enough, and I can't say I blame them.
Putting aside the truth that we cannot actually change sex, acceptance can never be compelled; it is earned by the way we live our lives and relate to others. But these activists seem to be oblivious to reality. As they seek "validation" from others, they need society to not only chant the mantra, "trans women are women (and trans men are men)"; they need everyone to believe it as well. This has moved beyond the policing of speech and into the control of thoughts. When women object they are met with fury, as JK Rowling has experienced.
But that anger has achieved nothing. As tensions have increased confidence has evaporated, and this is disastrous for trans women. Without the trust and confidence of women, we are vulnerable. The threat to us does not come from women. When trans women – a small minority in society – are attacked, the perpetrators are almost always male.
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Maintain Your Dental Implants Post-Surgery With These Steps
Dental implants are one of the most popular tooth replacement methods used across the world. A lifelong investment that is highly durable, this treatment allows you to go years and years without even having to consider replacing your prosthetic teeth. But that’s provided you take the right steps when it comes maintenance and aftercare post-surgery. If you want your recovery to go smoothly and your new restorations to last, here’s what you need to do:
Practice oral hygiene
You need to keep your mouth free of any lingering bacteria in order to avoid your surgical site getting infected. Here’s a handy tip to practice: try gently swishing saline water around in your mouth. Saline water is commonly used to treat wounds in the medical industry so it will definitely help your efforts to keep the site clean. Avoid aggressively swishing the water in your mouth, however, as this could aggravate your newly placed dental implants.
Avoid spicy foods/hot beverages
As with any dental treatment, we recommend staying away from spicy foods and hot beverages during your healing period. This is because you will experience increased sensitivity during this time, especially around your healing tissues, and be more vulnerable to gum irritation if you consume any hot foods/beverages. Opt for cold water whenever possible instead. You should also add more soft boiled foods (that require less chewing) to your diet until your jaws return to their normal functioning.
Watch out for bodily reactions
It’s normal to experience some bodily reactions to a dental treatment. For example, you can expect slight swelling and tenderness around the site after your dental implants are placed. You can place an ice compress against the affected area to help with this. If you experience any other symptoms that are different to what your dentist has outlined, however, we recommend scheduling a checkup ASAP.
Avoid brushing aggressively
While brushing regularly is important for your oral health, we recommend avoiding brushing near the surgical site itself in the first few days following your procedure. Make sure to use a soft-bristled brush and brush gently to avoid irritating your gums.
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The future is green, indeed! As temperatures rise, governments and organizations worldwide are frantically searching for solutions to the looming, urgent threat that climate change poses to our existence.
Everyone is concerned about sustainability or the ability of humans and the biosphere to coexist. Recent events like the bushfires in Australia and the Amazon rainforest show ecological imbalance.
QR codes and sustainability can go hand in hand to spread environmental awareness to everyone.
Even if your company or brand is making a conscious effort to reduce its environmental impact, you must communicate this message to consumers and consider using an advanced QR code generator online as part of your overall strategy.
Top 3 ways that QR Codes can help spread environmental awareness
QR codes and sustainability can help your company become a brand or business that cares more about the environment.
Here are three ways a QR Code might help you be more eco-friendly:
This mantra of sustainable practices is as relevant as ever. QR Codes can help businesses reduce waste.
Unnecessary packaging, flyers, and inserts should be removed. If you’re offering a service, offer digital materials instead of printed ones.
A PDF QR Code has been effective in helping restaurants offer contactless solutions and reduce waste.
QR Codes on packaging let consumers download manuals and brochures. This reduces waste and saves businesses from printing costs.
- To reduce paper consumption
Most paper comes from trees. Statistically, it makes up 93% of all paper produced.
A QR Code can store unlimited data. QR Codes can convert printed documents to digital versions.
Not exactly. You can give a QR Code instead of a printed booklet. When scanned, this QR Code can lead to a PDF, video, or infographic with product instructions.
- Keep consumers informed about their options.
Wondering where your milk and fruit came from? QR codes can help.
The Soil Association, a British charity promoting sustainable and organic food production, has developed an Android app to track consumers’ produce.
Blockchain technology isn’t just for fashion supply chains, though. Food and beverage companies should tell consumers where their food comes from.
Brands utilizing QR codes for their sustainability campaigns
Nestle has been a sustainability leader for years, working on more sustainable packaging and work environments.
For one, they started building schools in Ivory Coast, where they buy cocoa.
They also discuss charities they support and how they reduce waste. Using QR codes on food packaging, they share ingredients too small for labels and give consumers insight into the company’s process, goals, and values.
H&M is a well-known multinational clothing retailer. It has devised a clever method of encouraging people to recycle unwanted clothing.
Some of the stores now have high-tech recycling bins. People can donate their unwanted clothing from any brand here. And H&M repurposes these garments into textile fibers or incorporates them into new collections.
When you finish donating, a QR Code appears on the screen. The donor can scan this QR Code to receive a 15% discount on their next H&M purchase.
The United Kingdom’s energy consumption initiative
In 2015, the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change implemented QR Codes on energy bills.
Each bill must include a QR Code. When scanned, this QR Code provides consumers with information on their gas and electricity expenses.
According to the government, the QR Code will assist people in understanding their bills. And possibly, even a better tariff deal.
You now understand how QR Codes can be used to promote sustainability, and how various industries are using them.
Sustainability has emerged as a megatrend as it encourages businesses to adopt cutting-edge tools like QR codes.
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Best health assessment form template fitness pdf example. Assessment is a framework that focuses on various facets of assessment to assist teachers in devising lesson plans, executing classroom principles, analyzing student education, and measuring student growth. In educational terms, assessment is the systematic procedure of Assessing, categorizing, rating, comparing, and contrasting pupil knowledge, abilities, beliefs, behaviours, motivation, attitude, and other important aspects. It is designed to encourage informed decision making by aiding learners in the process of obtaining learning knowledge and skills that are necessary for success in school and life. Like the rest of the disciplines, assessment includes its own specifications and definition. For teachers, evaluation can help construct and maintain effective teaching strategies.
Teachers are required to create structured assessments in their classrooms. In the United States, these evaluations are commonly referred to as test preparation. The formative decades of education comprise the crucial learning years that occur when students are in the primary school phase. At this point, parents and other teachers support the pupil’s academic efforts and provide constant guidance. By the end of the main school stage, these kids have formed an impression concerning themselves, their learning, and their capacity to participate in the classroom.
Formative assessment happens in classrooms not just as a way of supporting the academic function of the students, but as a means of supplying a continuous input for those teachers to support them since they continue to develop their instructional strategies and to increase their teaching approaches. Teachers start with a basic review of the classroom environment and move into more detailed assessment of individual students’ weaknesses and strengths, their own motivation, along with their capacity to share. A good example of an assessment strategy could be the use of studying rating sheets to spot strengths and weaknesses. Pupils are then asked to read the sheet and offer a response. Teachers would like to evaluate students during the year in the same manner, adding new queries or developing a new analysis approach as required.
A free assessment template is essentially a process which each provider makes use of for producing their everyday operations stay until the mark. Usually assessment is a continuous process but it can be carried out once in a while in some companies. It is very important for any business, because it’s the driving force which would drive change and improvement in all sections. It aids in identifying the defects in the processes and systems and sets the foundation for enhancing them. Consequently, if you are interested in locating a free evaluation template then the best thing you can do is simply log on the web and check out all the different template alternatives available.
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For those who go and open your TV, each information channel talks in regards to the “financial meltdown” that’s taking place around the globe. The main purpose for this is that the money was invested in the stock market and when the economic system obtained into turbulent waters, the stock markets went down and so did their money. The inventory or trading image is an abbreviation traders and buyers use to identify a company.
The true-time Financial Calendar covers monetary occasions and indicators from all around the world. The Chicago Board of Commerce (CBOT), established in 1848, is the world’s oldest futures and options trade. An excellent day for the market couldn’t save these shares from massive losses.
Many brokerage houses at present have full fledged devoted research divisions concentrating on the various financial sectors equivalent to energy, banking, financial providers, power, actual property and so on. Detailed analysis reports revealed by these firms are a very good supply of knowledge for retail as well as institutional traders for making funding choices.
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The main benefits of Microsoft SQL Server are improved reliability, better performance, reduced network traffic and increased scalability. Drawbacks are an increased deployment cost and a more complex support environment.
PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system that uses and extends the SQL language combined with many features that safely store and scale the most complicated data workloads.
MySQL is free open source database that facilitates the effective management of the databases by connecting them to the software. It is a stable ,reliable and the powerful solution with the advanced features and advantages, such as data security, high performance, flexibility and etc.
Redis, an open source, in-memory, data structure server is frequently used as a distributed shared cache because it enables true statelessness for an applications’ processes, while reducing duplication of data or requests to external data sources.
MongoDB is an object-oriented, simple, dynamic, and scalable NoSQL database. It is based on the NoSQL document store model. The motivation of the MongoDB language is to implement a data store that provides high performance, high availability, and automatic scaling.
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P=0.208 for the overall interaction between ASCVD risk strata (<10% vs ?10%) and BP categories for development of CVD all event (adjusted model); P<0.001 for the overall interaction between Framingham risk score strata (<10% vs ?10%) and BP categories for development of CVD all event (adjusted model). 8 for subjects with ASCVD risk <10% and 102.7 for subjects with ASCVD risk ?10%; 10.1 for subjects with Framingham risk score <10% and 66.7 for subjects with Framingham risk score ?10 %. ASCVD risk score was based on the Pooled Cohorts Equation. ASCVD indicates atherosclerotic CVD; BP, blood pressure; CVD, cardiovascular disease; DBP, diastolic BP; SBP, systolic BP.
a great Multivariable?adjusted hazard rates (95% CIs) was estimated away from Cox proportional possibilities model. Multivariable design step 1 are adjusted to have decades, sex, cardio, season away from testing examination, body mass index, puffing status, alcohol consumption, physical activity, informative peak, full calorie intake, reputation for diabetes mellitus, statin treatment, Charlson comorbidity directory, and you will salt consumption.
In this large cohort study of relatively low?risk, young and middle?aged Korean adults, higher BP categories, based on the new BP guidelines, were significantly and progressively associated with an increased risk of developing CVD compared with the normal BP category. Although the absolute incidence of CVD was lower in younger participants, the association between the new BP categories and risk of CVD was stronger in individuals aged <40 years than in the older subjects, reaffirming that early surveillance and proper management of high BP are required to prevent short? or intermediate?term CVD events, even in a young population.
To our knowledge, there is limited evidence of the prospective association of BP categories based on the new 2017 guidelines with the incidence risk of clinically manifest CVD in low?risk and young adults. The rationale for this change is based on multiple individual studies and meta?analyses of observational data, which have reported gradually and progressively higher CVD risk from normal BP to elevated BP and stage 1 hypertension. 8 , 9 , 26 , 27 , 28 three day rule ne demek , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 According to previous meta?analyses, prehypertension was associated with a greater risk of total CVD (relative risk, 1.44–1.55), 26 , 31 coronary heart disease (relative risk, 1.36–1.50), 31 , 34 and stroke (relative risk, 1.66–1.73) 26 , 27 compared with normal BP of 1.2 million military men (mean age, 18.4 years) showed that higher BP was associated with increased CVD mortality over a 24?year follow?up period, but no increased risk of CVD mortality was observed in elevated BP or stage 1 hypertension categories. 44 These studies were restricted to male participants and lacked adjustment for important covariates, such as low?density lipoprotein cholesterol, high?density lipoprotein cholesterol, glucose, alcohol intake, smoking, and family history of CVD. Furthermore, because of the use of different BP categories across studies, the prognostic implications of new BP categories remained unclear.
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Three Reasons Why Tree Stump Grinding Is Better Than Stump Removal
The tree stump grinding from Higuera Tree Care company is much cheaper than stump removal. In addition to being easier to perform, this option is better for the environment. A large chunk of tree biomass is located in the root system. Pulling a half-inch root can require as much as 450 pounds of force, and extensive root systems require even more power. Therefore, grinding is the better option for minimizing the overall impact of tree stump removal. Here are three reasons tree stump grinding is the best option for homeowners.
A tree growing in a small planting hole will leave a stump after the tree has been cut. In such cases, it is often necessary to remove the surrounding material, such as grass, so that the stump can be removed. However, many risks are associated with grinding a tree stump near a structure, including damage to underground utilities or foundations. In addition, it is essential to check for any hidden liabilities before starting the work. For instance, the ground beneath the stump is likely to be unstable.
The stump is removed after a tree is cut to the ground level. After grinding, the stump is split into small pieces suitable for mulch and ground cover. The remaining stump section will be coated with dirt. The roots and wood chips will eventually die. You can also use the stump grinding as a landscape mulch. After grinding, you can use the mulch to fill in holes in the landscape. In addition to mulching, it is an excellent way to remove unwanted weeds. Make sure to remove any leaves, grass, or twigs, before applying the mulch to your landscape.
When it comes to tree stump grinding, it is important to remember that it can be dangerous to attempt to grind a stump yourself. Having personal protective equipment on hand is important, and always be sure to remove anything in the way of the tree stump before you start the job. Having a clean yard is important when attempting to sell your home. Stump grinding can restore your yard to its former beauty. There are many benefits of hiring a professional to remove tree stumps in your yard.
Not only does tree stumps look unsightly, but they are a major safety concern. Termites, as well as carpenter ants, will nest in rotting stumps. These critters can spread to your other plants and invade your home. In addition to being unsightly, tree stumps pose a risk to children and seniors. A tree stump is also a source of danger and can be a tripping hazard. Stump grinding can save you a great deal of headache and money.
A professional tree stump grinding company will ensure the safe removal of any unwanted tree stump. The pros will wear safety gear and protect your lawn. In addition to removing unsightly tree stumps, they will also eliminate potential safety hazards and create a safe and clean environment for your yard. Not only will tree stump grinding improve safety, but it will improve the appearance of your lawn, and make mowing easier. So, whether you’re planning to remove a tree stump yourself or hire a professional, tree stump grinding is a great option.
If you don’t feel confident about your ability to grind a tree stump, you can always ask a professional for referrals. The local arborist will be able to recommend someone in your area who can remove your stump for you. Yard maintenance teams and other professionals may also recommend companies in your area. Also, social media may contain recommendations for stump grinding. You can even ask neighbors and friends about recommendations for local tree care companies. A local park maintenance team may have connections to tree stump grinding professionals.
If you’re planning to remove a tree stump, you should know that the process will cost approximately $100-$400 per stump. The price will depend on the root system and the age of the tree. The process will remove visible tree remains, as well as the old roots that can extend to more than 12 feet underground. The stump itself will naturally decompose over time, although some trees take more than ten years to do so.
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The U.S. vote in the United Nations General Assembly against the resolution calling on the United States to lift its embargo on Cuba is another example of President Joe Biden’s reluctance to move away from Donald Trump’s Cuba policy. The first signal was the administration’s decision to reaffirm, with no real evidence, Trump’s determination that Cuba is not supporting U.S. counterterrorism efforts.
The reason for Biden’s failure to reengage with Cuba, despite promising he would during the campaign, is fear of Florida. Democrats are still suffering electoral PTSD from Al Gore losing the state — and the presidency — to George W. Bush by 537 votes, a loss in which Cuba was a central issue and Cuban Americans played a pivotal role.
Gore won just 20 percent of the Cuban American vote in Florida in 2000, far below Bill Clinton’s tally of 35 percent four years earlier. The reason was Elián González, the five-year-old boy found floating in an inner tube after his mother and other Cuban adults drowned trying to cross the Florida Straits. To the outrage of most Cuban Americans, the Clinton Justice Department forcibly seized Elián from his uncle in Miami in April 2000, and returned him to his father in Cuba. In November, Cuban Americans cast a “voto castigo” — a punishment vote — against Gore, who was Clinton’s vice president at the time.
Biden’s Florida campaign strategy in 2020 was to say as little about Cuba as possible because nothing he could say would win votes and whatever he said would certainly lose some. This left the electoral battlefield to Republicans, whose carefully crafted appeals to Cuban Americans (and Venezuelan Americans and Colombia Americans) branded Democrats as socialists.
The result was a Democratic debacle. Biden won Miami-Dade County by just 7 percent, compared to Hillary Clinton’s 30 percent margin in 2016, a decline that put Florida’s electoral votes well out of reach. Democrats also lost two House seats that they thought were safe. Trump won more than 60 percent of the Cuban American vote — the most since Bush in 2000.
This new trauma has intensified the Democrats’ fear of Florida at a moment when it looms large in calculations for the 2022 midterm elections. In an uphill battle to hold their House majority, Democrats will try to win back those two House seats in Miami-Dade. Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), who made the short list to be Biden’s vice president, has declared her candidacy to challenge Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, and Democrats also hope to dethrone Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner wrote, and so it is for Democrats and the 2000 election. Ron Klain, Biden’s chief of staff, was chief of staff to then-vice president Gore and general counsel of Gore’s Recount Committee in 2000. “I am not over it,” he told The Atlantic last year. “I don’t think I’ll ever be over it.”
Manny Díaz, the new chair of the Florida Democratic Party tasked with recouping Democratic losses among Florida’s Latino diasporas, was the lawyer for Elián González’s Miami relatives, a role that launched his political career. Neither Klain nor Díaz are likely advocates for improving relations with Havana.
The Biden administration’s long drawn out Cuba policy review suggests that the White House can’t figure out how to manage the issue’s political risks. On the campaign trail, Biden pledged to reverse Trump’s sanctions that hurt Cuban families, restore travel to the island and engage with the Cuban government on issues of mutual interest. This modest agenda is more reminiscent of Clinton’s policy circa 1998 than Obama’s opening in 2014. But if and when it is announced as policy, the firestorm of Republican condemnations will be no less vitriolic.
In the three decades since Cuban Americans became a force to be reckoned with in presidential politics, only one Democratic candidate has come close to winning a majority of their support — Barack Obama. He did it not by trying to dodge or downplay the Cuba issue, but by engaging it head-on and appealing to moderate Cuban Americans who favor a less antagonistic approach. In 2008, he won 35 percent of the Cuban American vote — at the time, the high watermark for Democratic presidential candidates. In 2012, he won 48 percent. In the two years after Obama announced his decision to normalize relations with Cuba, Cuban American support for his policy increased from 51 to 56 percent.
The lesson of Obama’s success is that leadership matters. The best strategy for defending a politically controversial foreign policy is to do what makes the most sense as foreign policy and defend it vigorously in the public arena. On Cuba, the alternative is to continue Trump’s failed policy of hostility — a policy that serves no practical U.S. national interests and cynically sacrifices the welfare of the Cuban people on the altar of Florida politics.
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Cortana related files have already been spotted in the Windows 10 Technical Preview build. It even includes something called Cortana Notebook which allows you to personalize your experience. Here's a quote with some of the details of this feature,
We aren't surprised by this news, but we are still pleased to see it. Microsoft has made it obvious they want Cortana functionality throughout their Windows line.Cortana’s Notebook includes some interests that are turned on for you by default. You can turn them off or remove them at any time. (You can also add your own interests, like sport and finance.) The default interests in Cortana’s Notebook are:
- Weather near me – Cortana can keep you up to date on the weather where you are now, or you can keep tabs on somewhere far away.
- Headline news – Pick a topic – business, entertainment, health, politics, sport, technology, UK or world – and Cortana will get you the latest on that subject. If you don’t want to choose, no worries. Cortana will use default news interests.
- Trip planner – If you’re expecting to travel soon, the Trip planner interest can help. Cortana will pay attention to any flight itineraries in your email. Then, five hours before your trip, she’ll give you a summary of what’s ahead, including your flight status, traffic conditions on the way to the airport and the weather in your destination city. Depending on your country or region, you can also get rail info.
- Getting around – Cortana will let you know how traffic is looking on your normal routes, and give you a heads up if you need extra time to get where you’re going.
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If you (like me) spend half of your life telling students to put away their mobile phones then you may initially be sceptical about this nifty little tool, which allows you to create very simple multiple choice quizzes and get students to respond as a class using their smart phones (iPhones, Blackberrys, Android phones). It is a bit like a Who Wants to be a Millionaire ‘Ask the audience’ quiz. The best thing about it is that it is currently free as it is in BETA phase.
The only issue is that not all students have smart phones, in which case they wouldn’t be able to participate – creating a bit of an E&D issue. I have used it a couple of times in grammar lessons with groups of students who all have state of the art mobiles and it worked a treat.
To get started all you need to do is set up an account and start creating your quizzes. Students can then access the quiz using their mobile browser. When you sign up you’ll receive full instructions in an email.
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What is Headless Architecture?
Before we dive into examples of brands using headless architecture on Shopfiy
, we must first learn exactly what headless architecture is. The term "headless commerce" describes the design of an eCommerce system in which the frontend and backend of a website are "decoupled." Simply put, headless commerce enables you to isolate the online storefront from any backend business operations. Store owners will have more control over the frontend or "presentation layer" customisation because the two separated sides will operate independently and interact through APIs.
Headless Architecture on Shopify
constantly seeks for the most cutting-edge technologies with the goal of providing businesses with a configurable enterprise solution, and headless architecture is one of them. When you use Shopify headlessly, all of the backend features it offers are still available, and you are free to use any number of frontends to run the customer-facing portion of your Shopify store. The headless approach frees you from some restrictions that come with the standard Shopify, such as the rigid URL structure, and expands your options for customisation and personalisation significantly.
Shopify uses Hydrogen and Oxygen
, a React-based framework to aid Shopify merchants and developers in creating custom storefronts that provide the best individualised shopping experiences. This is because Shopify is aware of how headless commerce can have a significant impact on the way ecommerce merchants conduct business. When merchants now have greater control over the best front-end performance while preserving Shopify-optimised eCommerce components on the backend, Shopify Headless and Hydrogen are on-track to be the game-changer in the ecommerce sector. So, we know what headless architecture is and how it’s powered on Shopify. But what are some examples of brands using headless architecture on Shopify? Let’s dive in.
First in our examples of brands using headless architecture on Shopify is Shogun. Shogun's software is well known for assisting merchants in building beautiful, quick-loading custom storefronts. We’ve partnered with leading content management systems or cms such as Shogun Frontend and Contentful to offer unrivalled content management applications without sacrificing performance. Separating each requirement for websites offers the merchants true flexibility with selling products and managing a storefront api.
2. Victoria Beckham Beauty
Next headless commerce brand on our list is Victoria Beckham Beauty. A high-end cosmetics and beauty brand, Victoria Beckham Beauty strives to provide a specialised and exclusive online presence to match its notoriety. In order to have more flexibility with visual design, user experiences, and product categorisation, they turned to Shopify's headless approach. While Contentful creates and designs the frontend, Victoria Beckham Beauty leverages Shopify storefront APIs to handle the inventory and product information. By using a headless approach, the site experienced superbly quick mobile app-like performance with no page reloads, and increased speed at the top of the sales funnel has positively impacted their conversion rate.
Chilly's made an early transition to a headless architecture, guaranteeing that their website is just as ground-breaking as their products. Going headless was a wise option for Chilly's, as seen by a custom homepage design that is a far cry from your typical template and a product personalisation page that mixes design and performance.
It's understandable that the UK's largest retailer of office supplies, Staples, went headless given its enormous product catalogue, which must be updated regularly, swiftly, and conveniently. Additionally, a headless design enables Staples to optimise each system on their website for its own role by enabling customers to create or log in to accounts, order by item number, or reorder previously purchased items.
FIGS, a company that sells healthcare apparel and lifestyle products on Shopify, is another company using a headless approach. FIGS uses Shopify Plus to manage the backend features, but since their online presence requires greater customization freedom, they've resorted to Unbounce and Next.js to handle frontend management. This dramatically improves the customer's online purchasing experience at FIGS by enabling them to link each custom-built landing page with a Shopify product page. Additionally, all information will be retrieved from Shopify Plus, where FIGS can easily manage orders and adjust inventory in a matter of minutes.
The oldest and most well-known liquor company in Amsterdam, Bols, also found possibilities in Shopify headless. Bols made the decision to grow their company and go global with direct-to-customer sales after developing their new at-home product line. Thanks to the headless Shopify Plus solution, their page loading time increased by 50%, and they gained complete control over the custom storefront to provide clients with a content-rich experience.
By fusing technology, design, and community to make workouts accessible to everyone, Peloton has transformed fitness. It makes perfect sense that Peloton chose to go headless since it makes it easy to maintain everything in sync. Digital touchpoints like the Peloton app and the training technology itself are at the heart of their service. A headless design also makes Peloton's continuing upgrades faster and simpler, which is beneficial given how frequently their classes and software features are updated.
A great example of a case study using the Shopify headless API is the Canadian clothing company KOTN, which combined two stores into one. Although KOTN's eCommerce site wasn't initially headless, Shopify Plus now powers it entirely headlessly. They now have complete control over how to run their business and give clients a customised out-of-the-box experience thanks to headless architecture. Their storefront can now be updated in a matter of seconds, and the greatest part is that their website loads remarkably quickly—even in the midst of a busy season.
Verishop sells just about anything you may want, from clothing and accessories to cosmetics, furniture, and home goods. Additionally, as a multi-brand retailer, Verishop's headless website supports a customised URL structure, enabling them to provide customised experiences at brand-specific URLs, which is advantageous for SEO. Their website's performance is very outstanding, especially when you consider how many products have to load for each category.
The English company Bamford produces upscale organic body care products and loungewear. Bamford chose Shopify Headless as their go-to option when they needed to redesign their website so that it accurately reflected the customer experience of their shops and spas while still preserving the ease of communication and seamless purchase process. Bamford changed the platform for their eCommerce site away from WooCommerce, switching to Shopify Plus as the headless platform and Contentful as the CMS platform.
Thanks to the Shopify platform, this integration maintained a quick website load time, improved backend performance, and increased user security. Bamford continued to have unrestricted creative freedom for the front end, which they used to provide clients with a straightforward, aesthetically pleasing web presence.
11. Paul Valentine
German-based Paul Valentine is a premium jewellery and accessory company. They realised they had to expand the business internationally in order to realise their ultimate aim of making Paul Valentine a genuinely global brand, even though doing so may be difficult when attempting to navigate several countries at once. Paul Valentine used Shopify Plus to establish five international stores in Europe and North America. For the goal of complete localisation, no two online stores are exactly alike.
Going headless provided them the ability to manage the infrastructure of various worldwide stores with ease and to provide a more individualised customer experience. Paul Valentine is currently offered in 131 countries through 20 worldwide web businesses that speak 8 languages, making the headless strategy highly worthwhile.
Plenaire has its e-commerce website and skincare products down to a precise science. This dynamic page responds to the user's scrolling down the page, giving it a light and airy appearance that is consistent with their logo.
For a number of reasons, including the attractive fashionable design of the website, Allbirds, known for their eco-friendly sneakers and sustainable clothes, are global favourites. They were able to create a simple design that is quick, simple to use, and has individuality thanks to a headless build.
14. Carpet Warehouse
To finish off our examples of brands using headless architecture on Shopify, our membership client Carpet Warehouse having been using a headless build to power their online storefront. If you’re interested in using headless commerce for your Shopify store
, don’t hesitate to get in touch
. Headless architecture builds are fundamental to helping your store stay competitive and deliver a powerful user experience in an innovative and ever-changing ecommerce environment.
And there you have it! Some of the best examples of brands using headless architecture on Shopify today. We hope this article has given you some inspiration on how headless commerce technology is changing the game, and how you can implement headless architecture into your Shopify to deliver the most powerful ecommerce experience possible.
Need help with building a headless commerce Shopify or Shopify Plus store? Charle are a Headless Shopify agency
who are industry experts. Contact us
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Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That show’s called a pilot. Then they show that show to the people who make shows, and on the strength of that one show they decide if they’re going to make more shows. Some pilots get picked and become television programs. Some don’t, become nothing. She starred in one of the ones that became nothing.
This is a link. You see? It’s curious. Ted did figure it out – time travel. And when we get back, we gonna tell everyone. How it’s possible, how it’s done, what the dangers are. But then why fifty years in the future when the spacecraft encounters a black hole does the computer call it an ‘unknown entry event’? Why don’t they know? If they don’t know, that means we never told anyone. And if we never told anyone it means we never made it back. Hence we die down here. Just as a matter of deductive logic.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee. | <urn:uuid:dbfa113f-0f44-43c9-ad63-49d23ef4f22e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://demo.thethemefoundry.com/anthem-theme/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947505 | 332 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Gaza: "I'm just a kid. I don't even know what to do."
A 10-year-old girl named Nadine Abdel-Taif has tears in her eyes when she points at the rubble behind her and is explaining to everyone what the mindless violence perpetrated by the Israelis in Palestine has done. In a video that is now going viral, the young girl breaks down telling the world how innocent children have to bear the brunt of it all.
The video is originally captured by a news organization called 'Middle East Eye'. Abdel-Taif is standing with a few children overlooking the destruction caused by the Israeli missiles in Gaza. Being at the tender age of 10, she feels helpless as she cannot do anything about this.
"I can't do anything you see all of this. What do you expect me to do? Fix it? I'm only 10. I can't deal with this anymore," her heart is in pieces when she says this. Further, she talks about her ambitions to become a doctor to help her people but she cannot do so.
Abdel-Taif adds, "All of this when I see it, I literally cry every day. I said to myself, why do we deserve this? What did we do for this? My family said they just hate us. They just don't like us because we are Muslims. " In the end, she states that they are all just kids and why do they need to send a missile just to annihilate us. "It's not fair," she says.
The gut-wrenching video has been shared on all social media platforms. It is bound to bring tears to your eyes and make you think.
The violence between Israel and Palestine has scarring repercussions, especially for the children living in Gaza. They have to bear the brunt of it. While some of them are lucky to survive it all, there are many who have lost their lives. The death toll also includes newborn babies.
The above-posted video is garnering much-needed attention. Shared by the Executive Producer of Al-Jazeera's 'AJ Stream' named Barry Malone on Twitter, it got 5 million views in just a day!
For those wondering if the girl's family is safe, it was confirmed by one of her teachers who commented under Malone's video.
"This is my beautiful student, Nadeen. She was explaining to the press what happened to their neighbors. Thank God, Nadeen & her family are safe & sound. She is still shocked & traumatized, though," her comment said.
Many others sent their love to her and wished they could help her in some way. There were some netizens who took to the microblogging site inquiring how they can contact her and help her realize her dream to become a doctor.
A user named Julius Chapiro said, "On behalf of several physicians here at Yale who watched this & are heartbroken, please help us identify & contact this child in #Gaza and deliver a message to her: „We hear you, the world hears you! You will have a future & we‘ll help you become a doctor! Don‘t lose hope!"
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Captain Philippa Georgiou's death at the Battle of the Binary Stars shocked in-universe characters and real-world fans alike. Fortunately, Michelle Yeoh returned to the Star Trek: Discovery fold and portrayed the Mirror Universe's Emperor Georgiou in the first season's final quarter, and returned to further aid the Discovery crew in Season Two.
While the U.S.S. Shenzhou's commanding officer perished much sooner than anyone expected, the Prime Universe's Georgiou still had time to demonstrate her distinctive leadership style and courage during her brief tenure on the series.
In celebration of the talented Michelle Yeoh's birthday tomorrow, discover what ways you might be like Captain Philippa Georgiou!
1. Do You Have An Artistic Flair?
During a mission to reopen a well and prevent the Crepusculans from enduring extinction, Georgiou and her first officer Michael Burnham encountered a storm that prevented the Shenzhou from either establishing communication or transporting the away team back to the ship. A confident Georgiou continued to blaze a trail, insisting that Burnham follow along and discuss the potential for her own captaincy. Burnham appeared skeptical, but her captain's calm demeanor helped put her at ease.
Suddenly, the Shenzhou descended from the clouds and rescued the two officers. The starship's departure revealed a large Starfleet delta marking the landing party's position which Saru used to locate his superiors. Georgiou's apparently random path turned out to be a pre-planned route that allowed their steps to form the recognizable Starfleet insignia. Any massive shape or symbol would have drawn the Shenzhou's attention, but the captain employed her intellect and artistic flair to forge a very memorable beacon.
2. Are You A Fan of Sarcasm?
After arriving at the binary star system to inspect a damaged interstellar relay, the Shenzhou's senior staff debated the situation and hypothesized about foul play. These early moments occurred prior to Burnham's discovery that the Klingons' lurked nearby, and offered offering viewers a brief glimpse into an average day aboard the starship before the war commenced. Burnham reported that Saru, the vessel's chief science officer, believed the crew needed to act with caution. The information prompted Georgiou to jokingly tell Burnham, "Saru is Kelpien. He thinks everything's malicious."
The light-hearted atmosphere continued as the captain and first officer proceeded to the bridge, where Georgiou surprised Saru by explaining that Burnham agreed with his assessment. Enjoying the moment, the captain playfully asked Ensign Connor to note the rare event in the ship's log. Such an informal tone reflected the years that Georgiou, Saru, and Burnham had served together, as well as the captain's fondness for jovial quips and sarcasm. When asked by Burnham if the mischievous banter was necessary, Georgiou replied, "Necessary? No, but I do like it."
3. Do You Consider Yourself to Be An Explorer?
An explorer in Starfleet? Not exactly the most unique situation, I know. However, how many captains just happen to keep an "ancient" Earth telescope in their Ready Room? Once the crew determined that the Shenzhou's sensors lacked the ability to analyze the unidentified object near the binary stars, Georgiou brought Burnham and Saru to her personal sanctuary to examine the phenomenon with their naked eyes. A fondness for the relatively primitive technology fit perfectly with the captain's natural curiosity about the unknown.
The telescope proved so important to Georgiou that she chose to pass the family heirloom down to Burnham. The captain explained her affection for both exploration and her protégé in her holographic will, "You are curious, an explorer. So I am leaving you my most beloved possession, handed down through my family for centuries. My hope is that you will use it to continue to investigate the mysteries of the universe, both inside and out." Georgiou clearly loved Burnham and the telescope, seeing them as kindred spirits pursuing knowledge and understanding.
4. Are You A Creative Thinker?
Her ship was disabled. She believed her trusted first officer betrayed her. The ship's science officer presented an idea to strike the Klingon flagship with photon torpedo warheads, a scheme that required a crew member to go on a suicide mission. She just experienced an emotionally draining conversation with the very pupil who disobeyed her orders. These circumstances would not help anyone think clearly, but yet...
Suddenly the Klingon tractor beams' green hues illuminated the room, and within moments Georgiou developed an alternative solution to disable T'Kuvma's vessel without sacrificing herself. The captain's plan to beam a warhead to a Klingon corpse being recovered by the Ship of the Dead and detonate it remotely succeeded, although Georgiou died on the subsequent mission to apprehend T'Kuvma. Nevertheless, the captain's quick thinking hampered the Klingon ship's capabilities enough for the Shenzhou's remaining personnel to escape with their lives.
5. Do You Command Respect From Your Colleagues?
Captain Georgiou's crew behaved admirably under her guidance at the Battle of the Binary Stars, trusting her to guide them through the tragic event. While Burnham disagreed with the captain's initial approach and ended up in the Brig, her underlying respect for Georgiou never dissipated. Georgiou's staff clearly believed in her prowess as a captain and revered her position as their leader.
When Saru asked the U.S.S. Discovery's computer to display Starfleet's most decorated officers, Philippa Georgiou materialized on the shortlist alongside four other legendary captains, including Jonathan Archer and Christopher Pike. Georgiou's placement among such greats, as well as the awards accompanying her actions, indicated that Starfleet's upper echelons also held her in high esteem.
From ensigns to admirals, the Prime Universe's Philippa Georgiou commanded respect from both subordinates and superiors.
This article was originally published on November 11, 2019.
Jay Stobie is a freelance science fiction writer who contributes articles to the official Star Trek website and Star Trek Magazine. He can be found on Twitter at @CaptStobie and Instagram @JayStobie.
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Dogs are a living, breathing creature that has the ability to communicate with us in a variety of ways. They can either be warning signs or they might want to tell you something important. Dogs have an incredible sense of smell and their body language is an indication of what they are thinking. If your dog is constantly licking its lips, it could mean that it is thirsty or hungry. If it’s constantly wagging its tail, then it could mean that your dog wants to play. . It’s also a sure sign that they are excited when they make the “I love you” sign.
1) Panting – If your dog is panting then it might be asking for attention or to be petted because it is hot. If your dog starts panting after a run then it might be trying to tell you that its tired and needs some rest.
2) Jaw Licking- If your dog is licking its lips or teeth, it could be trying to tell you that it is thirsty because dogs need to drink often and they don’t always have the liberty of choosing when and where.
3) Whining – If your dog whines, then it might be asking for food because dogs are always hungry. They can also whine because they’re hungry and need to go outside, or because they want attention.
4) Nervous Chirping – If your dog is chirping then it might be feeling very anxious or nervous and is trying to tell you that it wants something but doesn’t know what. Dogs can also chirp when they are excited about something like a walk outside in the snow .
5) Elbows on the Ground – If your dog has its elbows on the ground, then it might be trying to tell you that it wants to lie down and needs your permission. It’s also possible that a dog might have its elbows on the ground when they’re ready to play or wrestle with other dogs.
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Marines Destroy Cache Discovered Near Habbaniyah
As part of the Surge, Marines of the 24th Marine Corps Regiment, Regiment Combat Team 1, Company B, 4th Marine Combat Engineer Battalion have worked day after day to search for different weapons caches, and to search for IED improvised devices and explosives.
The Marine Corps have two different groups, both Reserve units from Chicago Illinois and Roanoke Virginia, and they have worked to successfully find thousands of pounds of explosives and ammunition.
As the two units prepare for their eventual withdrawal at the end of the Surge, they leave behind many different successful missions that they have completed. The Marine from these two different reserve units have also successfully trained hundreds of different Iraqi Army members to deal with explosives, and to detect and identify different types of explosives. They work with different members of both the Iraqi National Army, and the National police, and they have worked to train them in explosive operations.
Explosives are one issue that will remain long after the Coalition soldiers go home, and because of this the training has been invaluable for the Iraqi security personnel. The Iraqi military and police now have their own personnel, and are not reliant solely on Coalition personnel to provide explosive support. As the Coalition soldiers prepare to go home, they can travel back to the United States with confidence knowing that they are leaving the citizens of Iraq in good hands. | <urn:uuid:c2721701-b709-4380-9cb9-ab83ccb6c092> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://usmilitary.com/enemy-weapons-found-by-coalition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969641 | 279 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Groundwater is the most important source of domestic, industrial, and agricultural water and also a finite resource. Population growth has created an unprecedented demand for water, with the situation most critical in the developing world, where several million people depend on contaminated groundwater for drinking purposes. Geogenic contaminants, such as arsenic and fluoride at toxic levels, pose major environmental risks and endanger public health. This book is a collection of papers providing a multi-disciplinary overview for scientists and professionals involved in the sustainable development of groundwater resources.
Table of Contents
I: Sustainable groundwater resources assessment and recharge processes
II: Water and environment
III: Groundwater modeling and its application in aquifer systems
IV: Coastal groundwaters and impact of tsunami
V: Arsenic and fluoride in groundwater
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Without U.S., Funders Launch Effort To Find COVID-19 Treatments, Vaccines; Joe Biden Calls For ‘Apollo-Like Moonshot’ Effort To Find Vaccine; Group Of Scientists, Billionaires Push Manhattan Project For COVID-19
Devex: Funders commit to COVID-19 vaccine access but US opts out
“Twenty-five key players are pledging to make new vaccines and treatments for COVID-19 accessible around the world, following concerns that access for lower-income countries might not be prioritized. The COV-Access Agreement, launched virtually by the World Health Organization on Friday, commits countries to a cooperative international response to the pandemic and ‘equitable global access to innovative tools for COVID-19 for all.’ Leading funders including the U.K., France, Germany, the European Commission, the World Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation signed the pledge, alongside Gavi, the Global Fund, and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers. But the U.S. — the world’s biggest bilateral donor, which recently suspended funding to WHO — was conspicuously absent from the agreement, which health experts said was ‘concerning’…” (Worley/Igoe, 4/28).
Forbes: Biden Calls For ‘Apollo-Like Moonshot’ Push To Develop Covid Vaccine
“Joe Biden released a blueprint for his plan to reopen the country Monday in which he called on President Trump to drastically increase testing through a coordinated nationwide program and to launch an all-out effort to develop a vaccine as fast as possible…” (Brewster, 4/27).
Wall Street Journal: The Secret Group of Scientists and Billionaires Pushing a Manhattan Project for Covid-19
“A dozen of America’s top scientists and a collection of billionaires and industry titans say they have the answer to the coronavirus pandemic, and they found a backdoor to deliver their plan to the White House. … These scientists and their backers describe their work as a lockdown-era Manhattan Project, a nod to the World War II group of scientists who helped develop the atomic bomb. This time around, the scientists are marshaling brains and money to distill unorthodox ideas gleaned from around the globe…” (Copeland, 4/27).
The KFF Daily Global Health Policy Report summarized news and information on global health policy from hundreds of sources, from May 2009 through December 2020. All summaries are archived and available via search. | <urn:uuid:34da4329-40fe-4603-ac31-17928f376a01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kff.org/news-summary/without-u-s-key-funders-launch-effort-to-find-covid-19-treatments-vaccines-joe-biden-calls-for-apollo-like-moonshot-effort-to-find-vaccine-group-of-scientists-billionaires-push-manhattan-pro/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.913077 | 535 | 1.804688 | 2 |
In direct affirmation of his campaign promise, President Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) just days into his first term. This set an unmistakable precedent not only for the “America First” administration, but also for the future of greater Asia-Pacific-U.S. relations. U.S. disengagement has drastically altered the course of economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region, fostering the emergence of new deals, new institutions, and new regional leadership.
Last fall, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) annual meeting, the leaders of the world’s two largest economies took the stage to espouse two fundamentally competing ideas for the future of economic cooperation in the Asia Pacific.
In “America First” fashion, President Trump blatantly denounced multilateral trade agreements, remarking, “I will make bilateral trade agreements with any Indo-Pacific nation that wants to be our partner and will abide by the principles of fair and reciprocal trade.” Trump dashed any hope of future U.S. participation in regional trade deals, stating that the U.S. will steer clear of “large agreements that tie our hands, surrender our sovereignty, and make meaningful enforcement practically impossible.”
President Xi Jingping spoke to the future of globalization, stating firmly that it is an “irreversible historical trend.” Championing China as a leader of free trade, President Xi called for further regional economic cooperation: “We should support the multilateral trading regime and practice open regionalism to allow developing members to benefit more from international trade and investment.”
These contrasting remarks are a reiteration of the growing dichotomy between American foreign policy and that of our Asian trading partners. Historically, despite being a world trade hub, Asia is less economically integrated than other globalized regions. Today, budding trade deals, emerging institutions, and Chinese economic leadership are driving economic cooperation in the Asia Pacific.
In the wake of U.S. withdrawal from the TPP, globalization will continue. It has already begun to take shape in a number of ways, including the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and the newly revived and revised Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
In this two-part series I will move through analyses of each of these agreements, paying particular attention to how each affects the U.S. This first article will be devoted to explaining the TPP and what is often noted as its alternative, RCEP.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership
Before examining what Asia-Pacific multilateralism will look like without U.S. participation, it’s important to talk about what could have been. The TPP, as signed by President Obama, involved twelve signatories: the U.S., Peru, Chile, Canada, Mexico, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Brunei, Vietnam, and Japan. That’s five Asia Pacific economies and a notable omission of China. The TPP would have encompassed over 40% of world GDP, one-third of world trade, and 800 million people, creating a market two times the size of the European Union. The TPP can be broken down into five overarching objectives:
- Reduce and remove tariffs over 30 years
- Enforce reforms for state-owned enterprises (SOEs)
- Increase connectivity and data sharing between partied states
- Enhance opportunities for service industries in developing nations
- Enforce high labor and environmental standards for all partied states
Essentially, the TPP would not only have established the world’s largest common market, it also would have created an effective channel to bypass existing and stagnant international financial institutions such as the WTO. The TPP was poised to spur necessary reform in developing nations, encourage cooperation and foreign direct investment, and solidify U.S. influence in the region.
Without the U.S., this version of the TPP loses over 60% of its combined GDP. Simply put, it won’t be the same. Nevertheless, multilateralism in the Asia Pacific will move forward. The U.S. has abdicated economic leadership in the region, leaving a vacuum that China seems more than willing to fill.
A power shift in the Asia Pacific is afoot. ASEAN states find themselves balancing a very delicate scale between engaging the U.S. and China. It is a fine line to walk, as one does want to fall completely within the orbit of either. U.S. disengagement and increasing Chinese leadership will inevitably tilt the scale towards a Sino-dominated region.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which is expected to be finalized later this year, is made up of Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, South Korea, India, and China. The RCEP is made up of 24% of the world’s GDP, 46% of the world’s population, and encompasses all ten member states of ASEAN. The RCEP aims to lower tariffs but lacks the TPP’s broader ambitions.
The RCEP includes no provisions for labor or environmental standards, nor will it demand SOE reform in partied states. Participating states will not be given the same incentives for increased communication or investment as stipulated by the TPP. Consequently, the RCEP cannot and should not be discussed as a direct substitute for the TPP.
The RCEP will nominally increase trade among participants, but the tangible benefits received by both larger and smaller players will be slim. States such as South Korea and Japan have little to gain from marginal increases in regional trade while many small Southeast Asian (SEA) states such as Indonesia, states that are very dependent on commodities exports, are also unlikely to incur meaningful gains. For the great majority of its signatories, the RCEP is the inferior deal.
The true beneficiary of the RCEP is China. In the past, China has run trade deficits with its Southeast Asian neighbors. In the last decade, the opposite has been the case. China is both SEA’s largest import and export market. Top shares of both imports and exports are comprised of intra-industry trade in the electronic and manufacturing sectors. Lowering tariffs, especially on China’s generative sectors, will put regional manufacturing at risk. As a result, the scope of RCEP will likely be extremely narrow in order to protect regional industry. While a narrow deal won’t provide much in the way of gains, it will bolster Chinese economic leadership in the region.
The good news is that a narrow RCEP will come at a smaller economic cost to the U.S. Ultimately the true cost of the RCEP will be political rather than economic as regional leadership shifts away from the U.S. towards a growing, ambitious China. While it may not hurt American pocketbooks, the reality of the RCEP is that economic disengagement can and will come at a steep price to American hegemony.
Trump’s “America First” preference for bilateralism treats Asian economic integration as a possibility. In fact, it should be treated as an inevitability. Simply put, multilateralism in the Asia Pacific will go on with or without us. It is our choice whether or not to participate.
The RCEP is simply one avenue by which the Asia Pacific will move toward integration. As noted, in the next article I will explain China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the CPTPP. Until then, suffice it to say, our absence from these deals in no way precludes regional economic cooperation, it simply excludes us from the narrative. | <urn:uuid:42e9b218-4cd2-4c04-9e41-104d0872d789> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sites.utexas.edu/bainesreport/2018/02/13/the-tpp-precedent-and-the-rcep-reality-multilateralism-in-the-asia-pacific-part-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94075 | 1,604 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Brexit: UK ‘overwhelmingly reliant’ on EU vets and abattoir workers – BBC News
The UK is “overwhelmingly reliant” on EU workers to uphold animal welfare standards, a group of peers has warned.
The Lords EU Environment Committee said 90% of veterinary surgeons and 75% of abattoir workers were EU nationals and retaining them after Brexit was vital.
Peers said there was no reason welfare standards should fall after Brexit.
They expressed concerns about a potential shortage of experienced vets, with demand for their skills only likely to increase after Brexit.
They also warned of a threat to the competitiveness of UK firms from cheap foreign imports and urged safeguards to be written in future trade deals.
Ministers say they expect environmental and welfare standards deriving from EU membership to be maintained, as a bare minimum, after the UK leaves the EU.
But campaigners have warned they could be watered down, in some areas, as a precondition of free trade deals with the United States and other major food exporters.
On a visit to Washington on Monday, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox had to downplay reports that concerns over the lifting of a ban on US chlorinated chickens could stand in the way of a free trade agreement between the US and UK.
- Brexit: All you need to know
- Liam Fox downplays US-UK chicken issues
- Gove ‘pragmatic’ on farming Brexit
‘Opening up markets’
In its report, the committee said the UK was rightly proud of its high standards of animal welfare and that many of the laws in the area pre-dated the UK joining the European Economic Community in 1973.
But it said the “vast majority” of recent legislation in the field originated in EU law and although the UK was converting all existing EU law on to the domestic statute book, the existing framework could be affected.
“We see no reason why Brexit should diminish animal welfare standards, as long as the government is aware of the challenges ahead and acts accordingly,” said Lord Teverson, the Lib Dem peer who chairs the committee.
But he added: “We heard evidence of undeniable concern that opening up the UK market to free global trade poses a number of issues.
“We heard overwhelming support for farm animal welfare standards to be maintained or improved.
“To help achieve that, we urge the government to secure the inclusion of high farm animal welfare standards in any free trade agreements it negotiates after Brexit.”
The commitee said vets played a key role in ensuring animals were slaughtered humanely and animal shipments were properly certified, citing warnings from the British Veterinary Association that demand for certification was likely to increase if the remaining EU nations were regarded as third-party countries after Brexit.
Referring to BVA statistics showing more than 90% of vets were EU nationals, it said: “That is a concerning number because these are people who are working for our animal health, particularly in our abattoirs, and this has a knock-on effect for food safety and hygiene”.
The committee said it had been told by the National Farmers Union that vets also undertook many farm inspection and enforcement roles and the union was seeking reassurances that post-Brexit immigration controls would not limit access to experienced staff.
The government has said all EU nationals living and working in the UK for five years will be entitled to apply for settled status, enjoying broadly the same rights as now, while more recent arrivals will also be guaranteed residency rights as long as they arrived before an as yet unspecified cut-off point.
In response to the Lords report, the Department for the Environment said: “Leaving the EU provides us with an opportunity to develop gold standard policies on animal welfare.
“We are determined to get a good Brexit deal for Britain, and we have been absolutely clear we will maintain our world-leading animal welfare standards,” a spokesman added. | <urn:uuid:79694352-faae-4651-b6c1-e7835ac049d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://viralmarketingdigest.com/brexit-uk-overwhelmingly-reliant-on-eu-vets-and-abattoir-workers-bbc-news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965519 | 822 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Webinar di giovedì 17 giugno 2010
Citizens often have a hard time finding the answers to even the simplest of questions and sometimes find themselves having to go through procedures, offices, norms and/or documents just to get them! The information they seek is now available and accessible from anywhere and at anytime, thanks to the Internet, smartphones and advanced technology.
Expert System has developed a software called Cogito® Answers which combines the potentials of Natural Language Processing with semantic analysis in order to improve the interaction between local government and its citizens.
Expert System’s project “Maximizing government-citizen interaction through natural language interfaces” is among the winners of “Italy of Innovators”, an event in which the top Italian technologies were selected for the Shanghai Expo 2010, and it’s the only project among 450 to base its innovative service on semantic technology. | <urn:uuid:35c740fa-c64b-4f9f-a25b-f441d497a2ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.expert.ai/it/disponibile-la-registrazione-del-webinar-mobile-government-information-available-to-citizens-247/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942524 | 191 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Microsoft makes file and folder sharing in OneDrive pretty easy – log in, right-click the file/folder, and click Share.
This enables a user to share content with their contacts, an email address, or obtain a copy of a shareable link that brings the user accessing it to the content. By default, this allows access to edit the content, but this can be adjusted to read-only.
This is extremely useful when sharing files on an individual basis, but do you really want to monitor your team (or, in other words, babysit them) to ensure that they are only using this capability to send content to those authorized to access it? Probably not, which is why it is nice that OneDrive has global settings that authorize an administrator to go further than individual file and folder permissions to control a user’s sharing capabilities.
Limiting OneDrive File Sharing for a User
Using your admin access over your organization’s OneDrive, visit https://admin.microsoft.com/ and sign in. Once you’ve done so:
- Find Admin centers on the left side of your screen. Click SharePoint.
- This should bring you to the new SharePoint admin center. If it is still the old one, go to the new version by clicking on Open it now.
- One the left side of your screen, locate Policies and select Sharing.
This gives you access to the global settings, which will apply any changes you make to all accounts. To be more granular, and edit individual user settings, access Users, Active Users, and finally, the one you want to grant or rescind privileges from. You should see a tab labeled OneDrive, under which you’ll find Sharing options.
The privacy and security of your data is important – so make sure you have tight control over your company’s data and information. Level5 Management is here to lend a hand. To speak to one of our professionals, give us a call at (561) 509-2077. | <urn:uuid:468231ad-15d0-4dc4-98ac-66407a29b10a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.level5mgmt.com/blog/tip-of-the-week-limiting-onedrive-sharing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.897853 | 417 | 1.703125 | 2 |
An accidental is a symbol in music notation that raises or lowers a natural note by one or two half steps. The accidental changes the pitch, so that the note is either higher or lower than the original natural note. Accidentals are written in front of the notes, but in text, accidentals are written after the note names.
1. The five accidentals
There are five different accidentals:
|♯||A sharp raises a note by a half step. Instead of the original note, you should play the note that is a half step above (on the right of the piano).|
|♭||A flat lowers a note by a half step. Instead of the original note, you should play the note that is a half step below (on the left of the piano).|
|A double-sharp raises a note by two half steps. Instead of the original note, you should play the note that is two half steps above (on the right of the piano).|
|♭♭||A double-flat lowers a note by two half steps. Instead of the original note, you should play the note that is two half steps below (on the left of the piano).|
|♮||A natural cancels the effect of another accidental.|
2. Accidental notes
A note with a sharp (♯) is played a half step above the original note. The seven sharp notes are C♯ (pronounced "C-sharp"), D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯, A♯, and B♯:
A note with a flat (♭) is played a half step below the original note. The seven flat notes are C♭ (pronounced "C-flat"), D♭, E♭, F♭, G♭, A♭, and B♭:
A note with a double-sharp () is played two half steps above the original note. The seven double-sharp notes are C ("C-double-sharp"), D, E, F, G, A, and B:
A note with a double-flat (♭♭) is played two half steps below the original note. The seven double-flat notes are C♭♭ ("C-double-flat"), D♭♭, E♭♭, F♭♭, G♭♭, A♭♭, and B♭♭:
3. Enharmonic notes
The black keys on the piano have several names. For example, the black key between C and D can be called C♯ and D♭. On the piano below, you will find the most common names for the black keys. Click on the piano to listen to the notes:
Notes with an identical pitch (i.e., notes that fall on the same key on the piano) that have different names and notation are called enharmonic notes. For example, the note C♯ is enharmonic with D♭, and the note D♯ is enharmonic with E♭.
The white keys on the piano have several names too. For example, the key for the note C is also called B♯. On the piano below, you will find the most common names for the white keys. Click on the piano to listen to the notes:
Notes with double accidentals ( and ♭♭) are very rarely used and therefore not included on the two pianos above. For example, the key for the note G is also called F and A♭♭, and the black key for the note G♭ is also called E.
It is the musical context that determines the name of the note and its notation. In some cases a black key must be notated with a sharp and, in others, a flat. If necessary, read more about this in the texts intervals, chords, scales and keys.
4. Notation of accidentals
Accidentals are written in front of the notes. An accidental applies:
- to the note immediately following the accidental
- to subsequent notes on the same line or in the same space
- until a barline or a new accidental for the same note.
In the example below, the sharp in the first bar is canceled by the flat for the following note. The flat is canceled by the barline. The sharp in the second bar does not apply to the note at the top of the staff and is canceled by the natural for the last note:
An accidental for a note with a tie applies until the end of the tie if the tie passes a barline. In other words, the accidental applies to both of the tied notes, but not to subsequent notes in the new bar:
5. Key signatures
If a note requires an accidental throughout a piece, the accidental is written in a key signature rather than every time the note occurs. A key signature is a group of sharps or flats at the beginning of the staff immediately after the clef:
An accidental in a key signature applies:
- to all notes with the same note name regardless of their location
- until the end of the piece of music or a new key signature.
In the example below, the two sharps in the key signature apply to all versions of the notes F and C. In the first bar, the sharp for F is canceled temporarily by a natural and in the second bar the sharp for C is canceled temporarily by a flat:
A key signature may be replaced with another key signature during a piece of music. In the first example below, the three sharps are removed by three naturals, and in the second example the four flats are replaced by two sharps:
Accidentals in a key signature are always written in a specific pattern. For more information, read the text about keys.
6. Courtesy accidentals
Courtesy accidentals are accidentals that are not strictly necessary, but are written to clarify the correct pitch, thus avoiding misunderstandings. Courtesy accidentals are written as normal accidentals, sometimes enclosed by brackets.
Courtesy accidentals are primarily used in two cases:
- When a note with an accidental is repeated in the following bar. The courtesy accidental signifies that the accidental does not apply in the following bar.
- When a tie extends an accidental to a new bar where the note is repeated. The courtesy accidental signifies that the accidental does not apply after the tie.
In the example below, the first courtesy accidental (♯) signifies that the natural does not apply in the subsequent bar, while the other courtesy accidental (♮) signifies that the flat does not apply after the end of the tie: | <urn:uuid:c7e1bc77-1a2a-4409-bfc4-a95462af81b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.musicca.com/accidentals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.927142 | 1,395 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Staunton, Mar. 14 – By his massive invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has finally made absolutely impossible the achievement of the goal he seeks. The old Soviet empire now has almost no chance of a revival, Sergey Shelin says. Instead, the former non-Russian republics will seek new partners and Russia will try on for size the role of assistant to the Chinese superpower.
The majority of Russians support Putin’s actions in Ukraine, albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm – the Kremlin’s restrictions on the news media shows that it has its doubts about them – not only because of the traditional Russian deference to those in power but also for two additional reasons, the Rosbalt commentator says (rosbalt.ru/blogs/2022/03/15/1948659.html).
The first is the unrelenting government propaganda about Ukraine since 2014, whose message has been that the neighboring country is not simply not a friend but rather is “the embodiment of world evil.” But the second is deeper and more profound: Most Russians still view their empire as normal and nation states as a violation of that norm.
As a result, efforts in Russia to form a political nation and a nation state have failed, while efforts in the former union republics to do so have made progress, some more rapidly and others more slowly but all in that direction. Now, as a result, Shelin says, “the former imperial center and its provinces” are on different sides of a civilizational divide.
The division between Ukraine and Russia in this regard promised from the outset to be the most difficult because many on both sides saw few reasons for this divide. But in Ukraine, over time, such feelings have weakened or even disappeared, while in Russia, they have “even intensified.”
The governing ideology in Russia, Shelin continues, “has become imperial-Soviet nostalgia. And the popular masses have shared in it, albeit not with the passion and enthusiasm” of its authors in the Kremlin. And so what is happening now is “the divorce of a nation state from an empire, which one of the sides does not consider final.”
Many commentators including himself, the Rosbalt observer says, though Putin’s talk about restoring the empire was a bluff. But such people were wrong. Putin believed what he was saying and always intended to act on it. The events since February 24 leave absolutely no doubt of that.
But the Kremlin leader is discovering that turning the clock back is “impossible” and that “even in the most extreme of imagined variants – the occupation of all of Ukraine – there is no way that there will be restored a situation in which it will be possible to restore a former Ukrainian province of the USSR.”
Wars intended at reconquest often turn out differently than their authors expected. Putin was certain that by retaking Chechnya in a brutal war, he was restoring the integrity of the Russian state. But what he and the world faces is a Chechnya which nominally is part of
Russia but that often acts as if it were independent while getting tribute from Moscow.
As a result of Putin’s latest moves in Ukraine, “Georgia and Moldova will seek to join the EU … Azerbaijan will become still more closely linked with Turkey. And for the countries of Central Asia, the main partner today is definitely China.” Those are just some of the unintended consequences of what Putin is doing.
“In spire of Kremlin illusions, after February 24, a return to the old Soviet empire has become even less possible than it was earlier. The former provinces” – with the possible but far from certain exception of Belarus – “will move ever further away from the former metropolitan center.”
And Shelin concludes: “Our regime, which has dragged the entire country into its imperial myth and destroyed for the sake of that illusion everything reasonable, good and normal achieved in Russia over the last 30 years will now try out for the role of an aide de camp to the Far Eastern superpower.” Hardly what Putin thought he would get. | <urn:uuid:d55bd8ef-ce96-453c-8063-eb42d249701b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/03/putins-invasion-of-ukraine-makes-any.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968631 | 857 | 1.8125 | 2 |
HDMI to Mini HDMI Cable 1.8Mtrs
- Connect your computer to a monitor or projector for high-definition video streaming.
- Supports resolutions up to full aperture 4K ultra HD, also supports 1080p, 720p, 480p, and more specification.
- HDMI Mini connector gives you a compact form factor, which makes easy integration of HDMI technology into portable devices.
- You don’t need to buy separate audio and video cables.
- Produces the best quality picture and sound compared to other types of connections. | <urn:uuid:4699b687-5ae5-4f9d-a706-a77088d0728d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techspot.co.ke/product/hdmi-to-mini-hdmi-cable-1-8mtrs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.829356 | 116 | 1.507813 | 2 |
For three years, organic farmer and food writer Hedai Offaim wrote a weekly column in the newspaper Haaretz about food and its complicated role in our lives. Along with reflections on ingredients, seasons, moods, fantasies and longings, Offaim shared recipes and his thoughts on what it means to cook from the heart. Together with food photographer Dan Perez and stylist Nurit Kariv, he wove a tapestry that was in equal parts a personal journal and a precise operating manual.
This book, a selection of Offaim’s reflections, connects the dots, bringing the dishes together into a coherent whole. Because, as Offaim writes, “food alone can never offer comfort, nor can recipes train the palate. It is only meals that matter, and the people who eat them.”
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Learn more about BacAv
BacAV is an online platform design to do back-average. The back-average technique is very useful in studying the relation between the activity in the cortex and the muscles. It has two main clinical applications, Bereitschaftspotential recording, and myoclonus studies.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS):
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a widely used non-invasive brain stimulation method. However, its mechanism of action and the neural response to TMS are still poorly understood. Multi-scale modeling can complement experimental research to study the subcellular neural effects of TMS.
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Tremoroton is an application for tremor analysis. This application is designed to read six channels (2 accelerometers (ACC) and 4 EMG). Data can be visualized in the time domain, frequency domain, and there is also coherence analysis.
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On April 1, 2001, a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy J-8II interceptor fighter jet collided above Hainan Island, China. Per protocol, the EP crew scrambled to destroy sensitive key-management data onboard the aircraft. However, the team was interrupted by opposing soldiers, and as a result failed to destroy cryptographic keys and other highly sensitive information on the plane. In a matter of seconds, U.S. secrets were in the hands of another nation, including intelligence documents, NSA employee names, defense plans, and other confidential documents.
This exposure of information set back U.S. intelligence enough to impact the nation’s defense strategy for years. Had this aircraft been equipped with hardware-embedded cyber defense capabilities such as instant secure erase (ISE), the complete compromise of sensitive data could have been prevented — U.S. troops would have been able to destroy the data with the press of a button. Solutions that integrate with ISE capabilities built into modern hard drives would have protected this sensitive data.
In 2013, Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the CIA, left the U.S. after sharing quantities of classified details about extensive internet and phone surveillance by American intelligence. Once again, the consequences of this disclosure had a chilling effect on U.S. intelligence missions. In 2017, WikiLeaks published a series of documents claiming that the CIA hacked users’ devices exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities.
Looking back, we know those data dumps could have been detected and prevented. With an integrated user and entity behavior analytics policy management protocol, excessive downloads would be detected and an information rights management solution would prevent the extraction of data or remotely destroy data when needed.
Today we’re well into an era where everything is data-driven, including the confidential information contributing to some of the nation’s most important military decisions. This problem impacts many grid-modernization markets, such as power distribution. Traditional perimeter security and even moving to the cloud isn’t enough — securing the sheer volume of data being transmitted and collected has to start at the hardware level.
Secure Data in Action
It’s mission-critical for military formations to communicate and transmit data across platforms and up and down the chain of command. However, this broadens the attack surface, creating openings for various data security threats — including the enduring danger of equipment-tampering, whether from the unintentional purchase of counterfeit equipment, hardware intercepted and compromised in-transit, or evolving attacks on data-in-motion, and on network locations that aren’t well-monitored.
A robust integration of hardware roots of trust that can maintain a cryptographic list of trusted components and detect any malicious tampering will help prevent and alert users to compromised systems. Counterfeit equipment, on the other hand, can only be solved by a mature supply chain integrity review process that ensures the equipment is sourced from and provided by trusted suppliers. Furthermore, comprehensively safeguarding against counterfeit goods requires integrators to perform holistic checks when they receive equipment for assembly.
The “guns, guards, and gates” mentality for security has shifted. Given the massive amounts of data produced and consumed by military systems and networks, it’s no longer a practical way to approach data-protection. Safeguarding today’s systems requires the integration of core capabilities, including encryption, key management, attestation services, and data-at-rest and data-in-transit security measures along with active information monitoring. Integrating these capabilities, which are available in today’s hardware components and operating systems, and from security software vendors, can better ensure confidential information remains contained in the event of an emergency or cyberattack. These core capabilities enable a system to be hardened with active configuration management, which decreases the likelihood of a successful malware attack and increases the ability to detect insider data theft or tampering.
As they prepare to deploy to dispersed locations around the world, commanders increasingly are turning to COTS-based computing hardware as a way to provide IT-based capabilities in transit and in theater. Under the ongoing threat of equipment-tampering and evolving attacks on weapons systems’ data-in-transit across military networks, there is a need for streamlined, trusted, and secure servers rugged enough to withstand extreme tactical environments and demands. While outfitted for military use, these technologies increasingly are integrating tools favored by the commercial sector, particularly the financial services industry. That includes broader adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence to execute a range of functions, including detecting abnormal behavior, automating virtual resources, establishing a robust baseline for scalable deployment of trusted systems, and implementing encryption and access control.
Consider, for example, a forward-deployed special operations team that is dispersed across the globe. As they move through and operate in zones where there will be inevitable attempts to compromise their systems and data, it’s critical they can communicate about sensitive matters without risking detection or unintentionally releasing information. The ability to encrypt communications and render data useless to an adversary when needed is a force-enabler in this scenario — and in untold other military and intelligence operations.
Tactical operators can also benefit from cybersecurity solutions in rugged hardware on the ground. Small command posts, for example, are continuously coordinating intel and other classified information. That data sits on hard drives and networks in storage and needs to be encrypted and cloaked, with the ability to wipe the data in the event of a compromise. Through the use of network attached storage (NAS) solutions that provide instant data destruction, dual layers of encryption, and integrated key management, operators can better secure highly confidential data, both in storage and in transit, at the hardware level. Leveraging Trusted Computing Group Opal Standard-compliant hard drives that have completed FIPS 140-2 cryptographic review of the NAS enables the use of cryptographic data erasure that’s in line with NIST 800-88 Guidelines for Media Sanitization.
Securing the Supply Chain
To deploy cybersecurity at the hardware level, it’s essential first to ensure the hardware was developed securely and isn’t vulnerable itself, by gaining full visibility into the supply chain. Unfortunately, according to a National Defense Industrial Association survey, less than 60% of small and medium-sized defense contractors even read the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), which specifies the bare minimum security standards for contractor information systems. This general unpreparedness can be preyed upon by nation-states and rogue actors looking to obtain confidential information or gain access to restricted networks.
Per DFARS subpart 239.73, agencies must have complete trust in their supply chain to avoid tampering or the use of vulnerable third parties for critical systems. This requires prime contractors to have visibility that ensures end-to-end chain of custody security and mitigates vulnerabilities. Knowing where and how the hardware is being manufactured adds another layer of security. Suppliers should have the capabilities to trace every component of the supply chain, from the raw materials through the production phases to the delivery of the final warrantied product. This increased visibility dramatically reduces the risk of vulnerable components making it into the final product.
Given the prevalent use of third-party suppliers and open-source code, government agencies have to consider suppliers with extra security features beyond what’s standard in goods and services. These features should include, for example, tamper-evident solutions and tamper-resistant elements starting at the chip, board, drive, network, and software levels.
A “Tamper-Resistant” Future
Securing data shared and stored on the battlefield will require hardware with built-in cybersecurity features to serve as the frontlines of defense and national security. Solutions with capabilities such as FIPS 140-2 certified data-encryption, near-zero latency, instant data destruction, and integrated key management, are necessary to prevent crippling attacks on U.S. military and intelligence in the coming years.
As the U.S. defense pivots away from a “guns, guards, and gates” approach to security, it will be vital that cybersecurity defense starts on the ground. Hardware that is secure against physical and digital threats will only continue to evolve as the first line of defense against threats targeting sensitive, confidential data held by the military and intelligence communities. As edge computing grows in adoption and emphasis, this only reinforces the need for strong protection at the farthest reaches of tactical operations.
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Alzheimer’s is still a disease shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding. We still don’t know what causes it or what exactly we can do to prevent the disease.
But one thing seems to give the brain a workout like none other: playing music.
Watch the video below to learn how Glen Campbell’s musicianship likely helped him postpone the more severe symptoms of Alzheimer’s in an intriguing new documentary: I’ll Be Me.
Alzheimer’s continues to grow costlier, and the prevalence of this tragic disease only continues to grow. Many American elders depend on Medicare for coverage of treatment they need during their golden years, but Medicare does not cover long-term care for Alzheimer’s leaving family and loved ones to shoulder a care burden currently estimated to be worth over $217 billion.
This cannot continue!
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HAL exoskeleton can boost strength 10 times
April 16, 2009 Anyone who has seen Aliens will remember the exoskeleton forklift that Ripley wears to fight the alien queen at the end of the movie. Well, Japanese company Cyberdyne has unveiled a robotic suit that works on a similar idea of a robotic suit capable of augmenting human motion and strength. The Robot Suit Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL for short) is a wearable robot that uses a "voluntary control system" first to interpret the wearers' planned movement and then assist them in it.
The suit's "voluntary control system" works by capturing bio-electrical signals detected on the surface of the skin, before the muscles actually move. The system analyzes these signals to determine how much power the wearer intends to generate and calculates how much power assist must be generated by which power units. The power units then generate the necessary torque and the limbs move. All this takes place a split second before the muscles start moving, allowing the relevant robotic joints to move in unison with the wearer's muscles.
The suit also uses a "robotic autonomous control system" that provides human-like movement based on movements stored in a database. The movements, which are automatically updated based on information that sensors collect from the body, allow HAL to autonomously coordinate each motion. This means HAL can be used even if no bio-electrical signals are detected, due to problems, say, in the central nervous system or the muscles.
The battery, worn on the back, provides about two hours and 40 minutes of continuous running time, although a newer battery promises more like five hours of use, assisting in daily activities such as standing up from a chair, walking, climbing up and down stairs or lifting heavy objects. At 1.6m tall, the suit weighs 23kg, but the wearer is not expected to carry the burden since the exoskeleton supports its own weight.
With the ability to multiply the wearer's strength by a factor of between two and 10, depending on the type of robnotic suit being worn, Cyberdyne expects HAL to be used in a range of ways and areas, such as rehabilitation and physical training support, helping disabled people, heavy lifting, and assisting in rescue at disaster sites. The company also sees potential in the entertainment industry – perhaps a cage match fight to the death between HAL and the alien queen, if anyone's game.
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If you want to take better photographs, you’ll need a digital camera that can handle the distance between you and your subject. You can find camera models that are pocket-sized and lightweight, and that will not feel flimsy. You should also look for a sturdy case that is made of high-density plastic or metal, and that has solid buttons. It’s best to choose a camera that is weather-resistant, or sealed against weather.
The development of the camera began in the 1820s. French scientists Joseph Nicephore Niepce and Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre developed the camera in the 1830s. As technology advanced, cameras were developed for many purposes, and film was made more flexible outside of the camera. In the 20th century, cameras became more sophisticated and varied, and they were used for a wide range of applications. There are more than a few different kinds of cameras available, and you can choose one to suit your needs.
The history of cameras can be traced back to ancient times. Early cameras were primitive versions of what we use today, and most of them were handheld. The first camera was used by a caveman in the 13th century. During the Renaissance, a camera was invented to help him record his family’s life. The invention of the camera led to the birth of a new science, which has benefited all walks of human society. It is an amazing invention, and the invention of a digital camera will make the world a better place. | <urn:uuid:84486d73-7933-4ed3-8d2e-6e99affb6aff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://topgadgetsall.com/the-history-of-digital-cameras-20/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.985214 | 313 | 2.953125 | 3 |
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What can you learn from the disruptive innovators?
It’s impossible to live in Scotland just now and not experience the impact of being told all the things you can’t do if we vote for independence. Undoubtedly there are a variety of responses to this and the polls would suggest relentless negativity is perhaps having a perverse effect than that desired. But there is no doubt it creates a sense of burden, a weariness, an undermining worry that could feed the poverty of hope we see in so many of our isolated communities. The Independence referendum is tapping in to the call for change I see in so much of my work and a campaign that fosters a sense of helplessness can’t fail to have an impact.
The diversity of work I do in organisations and in health and social care and the people I work with make my life hugely interesting. And what I notice too is there are threads that join them all. The threads mainly are about how do we reach for more humanity in our work, how do we bring our values and work with integrity, how do we effect change as although we know the system is broken but it just feels too big. It’s probably at the core of all the conversations I have.
These are big questions and the danger of feeling something is too big is that we just set it aside. We put it off, we tell ourselves it can’t be done, we distance ourselves from those who think it can. We are flattened by the elephant rather than able to find ways to eat it. But history tells us we do evolve, we adapt to small changes all the time and even the big ones often awaken untapped resources and potential. But still it can be scary-what if we fail being a common question-especially in blame cultures.
Even if we haven’t heard the quote that “each system is perfectly designed to create the outcomes it produces” we know in our hearts that doing more of the same or indeed just trying harder (being sat on by the elephant?) is never going to be enough. But the sense of the scale of the challenge can stop us having the confidence to try even something small.
What I also see every day however are those who do create something new, who challenge the system to see another perspective, who see solutions in other places and aren’t too scared to give them a go. I heard the phrase disruptive innovation this week and it’s stayed with me. Many of those third sector organisations I work with have started as disruptive innovators, the people who are outside of the system but see a fresh perspective and approach that enables change to happen. I see those with lived experience bring their innovation and experience to shift a system from inertia. I see the mavericks within systems go around them and find new approaches that improve the outcomes for all.
In many ways social media is a disruptive innovation in health and social care. Seeing organisations like Patient Opinion and now CareOpinion putting influence into the hands of those who use the service, NHS Changeday emerge though social media and create a social movement, blogging communities like the breast cancer one I belong to being a global force for change, twitter connecting and empowering ; these are all exciting shifts we need to tap into.
Maybe the most important thing we can all do is listen to the disruptive innovators, learn from them and understand that we each of us have influence and not be afraid to use it.
Reasons to be mindful
This is an outstanding time in my country, with the possibility of constitutional change creating huge tensions and excitement too. My plea is that all sides of the argument treat people who live here with respect and sensitivity and listen to the call for change in our communities, that is cultural as much as its political. Whoever listens and responds to that, gets my vote. | <urn:uuid:24e30965-7ac6-48f2-a057-3d9e30bd6a0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://audreybirt.blogspot.com/2014/03/what-can-you-learn-from-disruptive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958304 | 783 | 1.601563 | 2 |
One-Stop Place for Mobile Computing
Mobile computing refers to the ability of someone to use technology while moving, as opposed to portable computers, which are used practically for employment while installed in a stationary configuration. Nowadays, computer users are much more mobile than in the past, with the need for access to company resources when they are installed in the office, at home, and on the roadside, utilizing a variety of various equipment involving desktops, laptops, and handhelds.
Suraj Informatics is a leading IT company that provides mobile computing solutions for trouble-free and efficient management of the mobile work environment and its diverse mobile equipment through an integrated set of tools that simplifies IT management procedures in one’s traditional and mobile computing environments.
Services for Mobile Computing
- 1. Our mobile computing equipment and services have higher data reliability – theft of a standalone computer determines data vanishing and stealing. However, in this case, all of the details and information are kept on a single static server.
- 2. Suraj Informatics offers solutions that authorize mobile workforces with the goal of increasing offering efficiency and productivity for the development of the business, increasing profitability, and surviving market competition.
Relevance of Mobile Computing
Suraj Informatics provides an innovative and advanced range of products while providing quality and dependable mobile computing services to its customers using RFID systems. Network controllers and wireless gateways provide high performance, ensuring data capture, transfer, and access services.
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This article comes from the Universe Today archive, but was updated with this spiffy video.
How old is the Earth? Scientists think that the Earth is 4.54 billion years old. Coincidentally, this is the same age as the rest of the planets in the Solar System, as well as the Sun. Of course, it’s not a coincidence; the Sun and the planets all formed together from a diffuse cloud of hydrogen billions of years ago.
In the early Solar System, all of the planets formed in the solar nebula; the remnants left over from the formation of the Sun. Small particles of dust collected together into larger and larger objects – pebbles, rocks, boulders, etc – until there were many planetoids in the Solar System. These planetoids collided together and eventually enough came together to become Earth-sized.
At some point in the early history of Earth, a planetoid the size of Mars crashed into our planet. The resulting collision sent debris into orbit that eventually became the Moon.
How do scientists know Earth is 4.54 billion years old? It’s actually difficult to tell from the surface of the planet alone, since plate tectonics constantly reshape its surface. Older parts of the surface slide under newer plates to be recycled in the Earth’s core. The oldest rocks ever found on Earth are 4.0 – 4.2 billion years old.
Scientists assume that all the material in the Solar System formed at the same time. Various chemicals, and specifically radioactive isotopes were formed together. Since they decay in a very known rate, these isotopes can be measured to determine how long the elements have existed. And by studying different meteorites from different locations in the Solar System, scientists know that the different planets all formed at the same time.
Failed Methods for Calculating the Age of the Earth
Our current, accurate method of measuring the age of the Earth comes at the end of a long series of estimates made through history. Clever scientists discovered features about the Earth and the Sun that change over time, and then calculated how old the planet Earth is from that. Unfortunately, they were all flawed for various reasons.
- Declining Sea Levels – Benoit de Maillet, a French anthropologist who lived from 1656-1738 and guessed (incorrectly) that fossils at high elevations meant Earth was once covered by a large ocean. This ocean had taken 2 billion years to evaporate to current sea levels. Scientists abandoned this when they realized that sea levels naturally rise and fall.
- Cooling of the Earth – William Thompson, later known as Lord Kelvin, assumed that the Earth was once a molten ball of rock with the same temperature of the Sun, and then has been cooling ever since. Based on these assumptions, Thompson calculated that the Earth took somewhere between 20 and 400 million years to cool to its current temperature. Of course, Thompson made several inaccurate assumptions, about the temperature of the Sun (it’s really 15 million degrees Kelvin at its core), the temperature of the Earth (with its molten core) and how the Sun is made of hydrogen and the Earth is made of rock and metal.
- Cooling of the Sun – In 1856, the German physicist Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz attempted to calculate the age of the Earth by the cooling of the Sun. He calculated that the Sun would have taken 22 million years to condense down to its current diameter and temperature from a diffuse cloud of gas and dust. Although this was inaccurate, Helmholtz correctly identified that the source of the Sun’s heat was driven by gravitational contraction.
- Rock Erosion – In his book, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin proposed that the erosion of chalk deposits might allow for a calculation of the minimum age of the planet. Darwin estimated that a chalk formation in the Weald region of England might have taken 300 million years to weather to its current form.
- Orbit of the Moon – George Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin, guessed that the Moon might have been formed out of the Earth, and drifted out to its current location. The fission theory proposed that the Earth’s rapid rotation caused a chunk of the planet to spin off into space. Darwin calculated that it had taken the Moon at least 56 million years to reach its current distance from Earth. We now know the Moon was probably formed when a Mars-sized object smashed into the Earth billions of years ago.
- Salinity of the Ocean – In 1715, the famous astronomer Edmund Halley proposed that the salinity of the oceans could be used to estimate the age of the planet. Halley observed that oceans and lakes fed by streams were constantly receiving more salt, which then stuck around as the water evaporated. Over time, the water would be come saltier and saltier, allowing an estimate of how long this process has been going on. Various geologists used this method to guess that the Earth was between 80 and 150 million years old. This method was flawed because scientists didn’t realize that geologic processes are extracting salt out of the water as well.
Radiometric Dating Provides an Accurate Method to Know the Age of the Earth
In 1896, the French chemist A. Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity, the process where materials decay into other materials, releasing energy. Geologists realized that the interior of the Earth contained a large amount of radioactive material, and this would be throwing off their calculations for the age of the Earth. Although this discovery revealed flaws in the previous methods of calculating the age of the Earth, it provided a new method: radiometric dating.
Geologists discovered that radioactive materials decay into other elements at a very predictable rate. Some materials decay quickly, while others can take millions or even billions of years to fully decay. Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy, working at McGill University, determined that half of any isotope of a radioactive element decays into another isotope at a set rate. For example, if you have a set amount of Thorium-232, half of it will decay over a billion years, and then half of that amount will decay in another billion years. This is the source of the term “half life”.
By measuring the half lives of radioactive isotopes, geologists were able to build a measurement ladder that let them accurately calculate the age of geologic formations, including the Earth. They used the decay of uranium into various isotopes of lead. By measuring the amount of three different isotopes of lead (Pb-206, Pb-207, and Pb-208 or Pb-204), geologists can calculate how much Uranium was originally in a sample of material.
If the Solar System formed from a common pool of matter, with uniformly distributed Pb isotopes, then all objects from that pool of matter should show similar amounts of the isotopes. Also, over time, the amounts of Pb-206 and Pb-207 will change because as these isotopes are end-products of uranium decay. This makes the amount of lead and uranium change. The higher the uranium-to-lead ratio of a rock, the more the Pb-206/Pb-204 and Pb-207/Pb-204 values will change with time. Now, supposing that the source of the Solar system was also uniformly distributed with uranium isotopes, then you can draw a data line showing a lead-to-uranium plot and, from the slope of the line, the amount of time which has passed since the pool of matter became separated into individual objects can be computed.
Bertram Boltwood applied this method of dating to 26 different samples of rocks, and discovered that they had been formed between 92 and 570 million years old, and further refinements to the technique gave ages between 250 million to 1.3 billion years.
Geologists set about exploring the Earth, seeking the oldest rock formations on the planet. The oldest surface rock is found in Canada, Australia and Africa, with ages ranging from 2.5 to 3.8 billion years. The very oldest rock was discovered in Canada in 1999, and estimated to be just over 4 billion years old.
This set a minimum age for the Earth, but thanks to geologic processes like weathering and plate tectonics, it could still be older.
Meteorites as the Final Answer to the Age of the Earth
The problem with measuring the age of rocks on Earth is that the planet is under constant geological change. Plate tectonics constantly recycle portions of the Earth, blending it up and forever hiding the oldest regions of the planet. But assuming that everything in the Solar System formed at the same time, meteorites in space have been unaffected by weathering and plate tectonics here on Earth.
Geologists used these pristine objects, such as the Canyon Diablo meteorite (the fragments of the asteroid that impacted at Barringer Crater) as a way to get at the true age of the Solar System, and therefore the Earth. By using the radiometric dating system on these meteorites, geologists have been able to determine that the Earth is 4.54 billion years old within a margin of error of about 1%.
Understanding Science – Lord Kelvin
USGS Age of the Earth
Lord Kelvin’s Failed Scientific Clock
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Every branch of the United States Military is worried about climate change. They have been since well before it became controversial. In the wake of an historic climate change agreement between President Obama and President Xi Jinping in China this week (Brookings), the military’s perspective is significant in how it views climate effects on emerging military conflicts.
China will be our biggest military and political problem by the middle of this century. It would be nice to understand what issues will exacerbate our struggles.
At a time when Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bush 41, and even British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, called for binding international protocols to control greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. Military was seriously studying global warming in order to determine what actions they could take to prepare for the change in threats that our military will face in the future.
The Center for Naval Analysis has had its Military Advisory Board examining the national security implications of climate change for many years. Lead by Army General Paul Kern, the Military Advisory Board is a group of 16 retired flag-level officers from all branches of the Service.
This is not a group normally considered to be liberal activists and fear-mongers.
This year, the Military Advisory Board came out with a new report, called National Security and the Accelerating Risks of Climate Change, that is a serious discussion about what the military sees as the threats and the actions to be taken to mitigate them.
“The potential security ramifications of global climate change should be serving as catalysts for cooperation and change. Instead, climate change impacts are already accelerating instability in vulnerable areas of the world and are serving as catalysts for conflict.”
Bill Pennell, former Director of the Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, summed up the threat in recent discussions about climate and national security:
“The environmental consequences of climate change are a significant threat multiplier, which by itself, can be a cause for future conflicts. Global warming will affect military operations as well as its theaters of operations. And it poses significant risks and costs to military and civilian infrastructure, especially those facilities located on the coastline.”
“The countries and regions posing the greatest security threats to the United States are among those most susceptible to the adverse and destabilizing effects of climate change. Many of these countries are already unstable and have little economic or social capital for coping with additional disruptions.”
“Whether in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, or North Korea, we are already seeing how extreme weather events – such as droughts and flooding and the food shortages and population dislocations that accompany them – can destabilize governments and lead to conflict. For example, one trigger of the chaos in Syria has been the multi-year drought the country has experienced since 2006 and the Assad Regime’s ineptitude in dealing with it.”
So why is the country as a whole, and those who normally support our military, so loathe to prepare for possible threats from this direction?
In 1990, Eugene Skolnikoff summarized the national policy issues surrounding global warming and why it has been so difficult to rationally develop policy to address it.
“The central problem is that outside the security sector, policy processes confronting issues with substantial uncertainty do not normally yield policy that has high economic or political costs. This is especially true when the uncertainty extends not only to the issues themselves, but also to the measures to avert them or deal with their consequences.”
“The climate change issue illustrates – in fact exaggerates – all the elements of this central problem. Indeed, no major action is likely to be taken until those uncertainties are substantially reduced, and probably not before evidence of warming and its effects are actually visible. Unfortunately, any increase in temperature will be irreversible by the time the danger becomes obvious enough to permit political action.”
General Gordon Sullivan put the issue of uncertainty where it should be: “People are saying they want to be perfectly convinced about climate science projections…But speaking as a soldier, we never have 100 percent certainty. If you wait until you have 100 percent certainty, something bad is going to happen on the battlefield.”
And as Rear Admiral David Titley, former Oceanographer of the Navy, stated in a 2013 testimony to Congress, “I tell people, this is cutting-edge 19 -Century science that we’re now refining.”
The Military Advisory Board is dismayed that discussions of climate change have become so polarizing and have receded from the arena of informed public discourse and debate.
“While the causes of climate change and its impacts continue to be argued or ignored in our nation, the linkage between changes in our climate and national security has been obscured. Political concerns and budgetary limitations cannot be allowed to dominate what is essentially a salient national security concern for our nation. Our Congress, the administration, and all who are charged with planning and assuring our security should take up the challenge of confronting the coming changes to our environment.”
What makes this week’s U.S.-China climate agreement so important is its announcement in the run up to the 2015 United Nation’s global climate summit in Paris. Since most of humanity’s emissions come from our two countries, international pressure has mounted on both of us to get serious about reductions. Our military was knee-deep in these negotiations.
The world was thinking that the U.S. and China was ready for a game of GHG chicken, each waiting for the other to instigate steep cuts. By announcing a common plan in advance of the Paris summit, the two Presidents have undercut the acrimony anticipated for these negotiations and set a do-something tone for the conference that the rest of the world will find hard to ignore.
Our Military Advisory Board concluded that “coordinated and well-executed actions to limit heat-trapping gases and increase resilience to help prevent and protect against the worst projected climate change impacts are required — now.”
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Riboflavin is a type of B vitamin. It is water soluble, which means it is not stored in the body. Water-soluble vitamins dissolve in water. Leftover amounts of the vitamin leave the body through the urine. The body keeps a small reserve of these vitamins. They have to be taken on a regular basis to maintain the reserve.
Riboflavin (vitamin B2) works with the other B vitamins. It is important for body growth. It helps in red blood cell production. It also aids in the release of energy from proteins.
The following foods provide riboflavin in the diet:
- Dairy products
- Green leafy vegetables
- Lean meats
- Organ meats, such as liver and kidneys
Breads and cereals are often fortified with riboflavin. Fortified means the vitamin has been added to the food.
Riboflavin is destroyed by exposure to light. Foods with riboflavin should not be stored in clear containers that are exposed to light.
Lack of riboflavin is not common in the United States because this vitamin is plentiful in the food supply. Symptoms of a severe deficiency include:
- Mouth or lip sores
- Skin complaints
- Sore throat
- Swelling of mucous membranes
Because riboflavin is a water-soluble vitamin, leftover amounts leave the body through the urine. There is no known poisoning from riboflavin.
Recommendations for riboflavin, as well as other nutrients, are provided in the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) developed by the Food and Nutrition Board at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. DRI is a term for a set of reference intakes that are used to plan and assess the nutrient intakes of healthy people. These values, which vary by age and sex, include:
Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA): The average daily level of intake that is enough to meet the nutrient needs of nearly all (97% to 98%) healthy people. An RDA is an intake level based on scientific research evidence.
Adequate Intake (AI): This level is established when there is not enough scientific research evidence to develop an RDA. It is set at a level that is thought to ensure enough nutrition.
Dietary Reference Intakes for riboflavin:
- 0 to 6 months: 0.3* milligrams per day (mg/day)
- 7 to 12 months: 0.4* mg/day
*Adequate Intake (AI)
- 1 to 3 years: 0.5 mg/day
- 4 to 8 years: 0.6 mg/day
- 9 to 13 years: 0.9 mg/day
Adolescents and adults
- Males age 14 and older: 1.3 mg/day
- Females age 14 to 18 years: 1.0 mg/day
- Females age 19 and older: 1.1 mg/day
- Pregnancy: 1.4 mg/day
- Lactation: 1.6 mg/day
The best way to get the daily requirement of essential vitamins is to eat a balanced diet that contains a variety of foods.
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How Can Campylobacter Food Poisoning Be Prevented?
The spread of Campylobacter can be prevented through proper sanitation and cooking procedures.
Campylobacter jejuni grows poorly on properly refrigerated foods but does survive refrigeration and will grow if contaminated foods are left out at room temperature.
The bacterium is sensitive to heat and other common disinfection procedures; pasteurization of milk, adequate cooking of meat and poultry, and chlorination or ozonation of water will destroy this organism. Infection control measures at all stages of food processing may help to decrease the incidence of Campylobacter infections, but the single most important and reliable step is to adequately cook all poultry products. The most reliable method to ensure this is to use a digital food thermometer. Cook chicken, turkey, duck or goose to a temperature of 165°F or higher, as recommended by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its Model Food Code, as well as the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
There are a large number of control measures that are available to consumers and food service personnel to prevent the transmission of Campylobacter:
- Utilize plastic bags to wrap meat and poultry during all phases of storage to prevent contamination of other groceries. Choose the coolest part of the vehicle when transporting meat and poultry home from the market.
- Defrost meat and poultry in the refrigerator. Place the item on a low shelf, on a wide pan, lined with paper towel; ensure that drippings do not land on foods below. If there is not enough time to defrost in the refrigerator, then use the microwave.
- DO NOT WASH RAW CHICKEN BEFORE COOKING. Washing chicken won’t remove many bacteria, but it can spread germs to hands, work surfaces, clothing, and nearby utensils or food — a process called cross-contamination.
- Cook stuffing separately from the bird to ensure thorough cooking.
- Rapidly cool leftovers and avoid leaving food out at room temperature (either during preparation or after cooking) for more than two hours.
- Avoid raw milk and products made from raw milk. Purchase only pasteurized eggs and egg products, and cook thoroughly at home.
- Wash fruits and vegetables thoroughly, particularly if they are eaten raw.
- Wash hands thoroughly using soap and water, concentrate on fingertips and nail creases, and dry completely with a disposable paper towel at the following times: after contact with pets, especially puppies, or farm animals; before and after preparing food, especially poultry; after changing diapers or having contact with an individual with an intestinal infection. Children should wash hands upon arrival home from school or daycare. | <urn:uuid:333a8f3c-f932-4d8d-9fc7-5422d957f167> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://about-campylobacter.com/campylobacter-prevention | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.914832 | 563 | 3.3125 | 3 |
The Gaia Foundation’s story starts in the mid eighties at a time of growing concern and re-evaluation of ‘development’, of the relationship between the global North and South, and the industralisation of Life through insatiable economic growth.
Gaia, which was founded by Liz Hosken and Edward Posey, together with visionary and radical associates and initiatives who were already doing critical work with local communities, and who sought allies to amplify their impact.
Gaia joined forces with them, providing both practical and advisory support where possible and connecting them with like-minded others. Together we embarked on a lifelong journey building ‘affectionate alliances’ across our global network. Gaia House became a hub in north London, helping these emerging change-makers and grassroots movements to gain recognition and support, and to promote their work internationally. Many of them have been celebrated for inspiring the next generation of ecologically rooted activists.
At the start of the new millennium, Gaia was introduced to a philosophy of law called Earth Jurisprudence by cultural historian Thomas Berry. He, like us, was inspired by the cosmologies and cultural practices of indigenous peoples who see life from an Earth-centred, rather than a human-centred (anthropocentric) perspective. Earth Jurisprudence recognises Nature as the primary source of law. It asserts that all elements of the Earth – rivers, trees and wildlife – have inherent rights.
Representing a paradigm shift away from current legal thought, that places humans at the centre, Earth Jurisprudence recognises that we cannot hope to enjoy our own wellbeing if we don’t protect the wellbeing of Earth and other species. If we wish to enjoy our human right to water, we must first realise water’s right not to be polluted, privatized or exhausted, else there will be no fresh water, and all ecosystems and species who rely upon the water will suffer, including humans.
The principles of Earth Jurisprudence have become central to Gaia’s work with communities, helping us to secure legal recognition of customary laws which are derived from the laws of the Earth and protect critical threatened ecosystems and sacred natural sites & territories from the Colombian Amazon to South Africa, Ethiopia, Benin and Kenya. Over the last two decades Gaia developed a series of transformative inter-cultural exchanges between the Amazon and Africa, and within Africa, in order to nurture an Earth Jurisprudence movement dedicated to addressing the root causes of our planetary crises.
Gaia’s story has pivoted around grassroots communities and the land and territories that they have stood up to defend. Through connecting committed and passionate communities, inspiring social movements have emerged around the world, from peasant farmers asserting their seed and food sovereignty in the face of industrial agriculture, to mining affected communities standing in solidarity with one another to say Yes to Life, No to Mining!
Communities are central to Gaia’s story because it is through dialogues with knowledgeable elders – both men and women – and sacred sites custodians that much of our work is rooted. Dialogues are transformative, re-opening inter-generational exchanges where relationships were fracturing, and enabling the revival of indigenous seed varieties thought to be lost, and restoring Earth-centred customary laws and governance systems to regenerate sacred lands. Through simple yet powerful ‘talking tools’ such as eco-cultural maps and calendars, communities can rebuild confidence and cohesion, and determine their own paths into the future.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead, Anthropologist
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After a collision, your next step should always be to make an appointment with a car accident doctor Houston.
Big or small, any collision can cause your body trauma and, if left untreated, worsening pain and issues.
Read on to learn the signs you need a car accident doctor in Houston.
Signs You Need a Car Accident Doctor Houston
Being in a collision is no joke. No matter the circumstances, getting into a car accident can be scary, frustrating, and anxiety-inducing.
Your mind is racing with questions:
- How did this happen?
- Is my insurance going to cover this?
- Will my rates go up?
- What is that pain in my neck?
We understand that a car accident can be a trying time for you and your family. Your next step should be to take care of you.
Many car accident injuries don’t show signs or start hurting until hours or days after the accident.
Sign #1: Soreness or Stiffness
The most important thing after a car wreck is making sure you and the other people involved are okay. Police officers and sometimes EMTs will be on the scene to help after a car accident.
However, many people say they “feel fine” after an accident, maybe a little sore, but that’s it. What most people don’t know is that many car accident injuries don’t start showing signs until hours or days after the accident itself.
This is why it’s always a good idea to see a car accident doctor after a collision. The sooner you’re treated, the faster you’ll heal.
Endorphins block pain during traumatic events, which is why pain often doesn’t show up until much later after an accident.
Why does it feel like you’re fine in the moment but start hurting later? Well, it’s due to endorphins. Our body creates endorphins during accidents or other scary situations. These endorphins block pain and other signals from the body, which allow you to focus on getting back to safety.
When the endorphins wear off, you start to feel the pain.
If you’re feeling sore or stiff in your neck or back, it’s time to make an appointment with a Houston car accident doctor.
Sign #2: Nausea
It’s common to feel nauseated after a car accident. Vertigo can happen even during small accidents, and can lead to nausea or vomiting.
In addition, many people feel nauseated due to the anxiety or shock arising from the situation. However, you shouldn’t brush off post-collision nausea as nothing.
In fact, nausea and abdominal pain could be a sign of something more serious, such as:
- traumatic brain injury
- internal bleeding
- broken bones
- organ damage
Here’s how to tell if it’s time to make an appointment. If you are experiencing nausea or vomiting alongside other symptoms like dizziness, confusion, numbness, or tingling, you need to see a doctor immediately. Call City Wide to make an appointment.
Sign #3: Back Pain
Back pain can signal a variety of things, like pulled muscles, bruises, or a more serious injury that could lead to permanent disability.
Severe back pain after a car accident is a symptom of spinal cord injury. So if your back hurts after a collision, make an appointment with a doctor as soon as possible.
A car accident doctor Houston can calm swelling and reduce the chances of long-term serious injury or damage. Waiting is not advised – you need to see a doctor ASAP after your accident.
Delaying care could lead to life-changing injuries, which are often irreversible. In other words, the sooner you see a doctor for your back pain, the better.
Severe back pain could signal a spinal cord injury.
Sign #4: Headache
A car crash can make your whole body hurt, and even set off migraines. However, if you feel a headache after a collision, it is quite serious.
Always take head pain after a collision seriously. A post-collision headache could mean you’ve sustained a traumatic brain injury. It could also mean you had a concussion.
Here are other signs to watch out for:
- headache that won’t go away
- headache that worsens
- headache accompanied by blurred vision
These symptoms usually mean you’ve had a concussion. If you experience nausea, confusion, amnesia, mood changes, seizures, ear ringing, seeing stars, or lost consciousness, it is likely you sustained a concussion.
Go see a car accident doctor immediately.
Sign #5: Changes in Vision, Mood, and Communication Skills
There are 3 major signs of a traumatic brain injury after a car accident, and they include:
- vision changes
- mood changes
- difficulty communicating
Slurred speech may indicate a serious brain injury.
If your vision is blurry, have abrupt mood changes or a change in your typical mood, or have slurred speech, it’s time to see a doctor. These are all signs of a serious brain injury.
Sign #6: Numbness and/or Tingling
Ever had your foot “fall asleep”? That kind of tingling is not a good sign after a collision.
If you’re feeling tingling or numbness in your extremities, that’s a sign of more serious injury. Any change in or loss of sensation should be taken very seriously, as it may signal a spinal cord injury.
Swelling is one of the biggest reasons spinal cord injuries become more severe.
Note that numbness can grow slowly, over time, as swelling in your injured areas increases.
Make an Appointment with City Wide Injury & Accident Today!
If you’ve been in a car accident in Houston, now’s the time to make an appointment with a car accident doctor in Houston. Get on the road to recovery faster with City Wide. Make an appointment by clicking the button below or calling us at 713-782-0082.
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