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Following changes made in 2021, CI Lottery proceeds are now awarded with 50% of the proceeds going to the Arts, Culture, Heritage, Sports and Science sectors via the Jersey Community Foundation.
In the recent round of grant applications, Jersey Dementia was successfully awarded £9,583 to help provide art and music therapy to stimulate and engage with people living with dementia.
The regular weekly activities not only improve the well-being of those living with dementia but also offer respite to their carers who also attend these organised sessions. Additionally, some of the funds are being used to help create a 2022 Christmas card designed by someone with dementia which will be sold to raise funds for the charity.
People with dementia can often, in the later stages of their disease, have a limited ability to have rational thought. Some are no longer able to speak or walk unaided, and many have problems recalling recent events. However, the part of the brain which controls their emotional memory is less impacted and so stimulating the brain with music from their youth or performing simple tasks like painting by numbers can have transformative effects on quality of life.
Painting has been found to be particularly valuable in helping people living with dementia to communicate in a non-verbal way; when verbal communication is more difficult or has been lost. Research also suggests that listening to music or singing songs can provide emotional and behavioural benefits. Music has the power to relieve stress and reduce anxiety, agitation and depression, but also to be uplifting and joyous.
Susie Kelly, Volunteer and Activities Co-ordinator at Dementia Jersey said: “We are delighted to have received this grant from Jersey Community Foundation to enable us to offer these weekly art and music therapy activities. Musical memories are often preserved in dementia when other types of memories are lost and painting and drawing allow for the power of imagination which can make people living with dementia to feel more connected to the world and those around them. We have had an incredibly positive response to the activities so far and are looking forward to continuing to provide these facilities to deliver real and noticeable benefits to all those who attend.”
Anna Terry, CEO of the Jersey Community Foundation added, “The CI lottery proceeds are there to benefit the whole of our island community. We are delighted with the way that Jersey Dementia is using the arts to help people living with dementia to express themselves and stimulate their minds as well as providing an enjoyable and safe space for them and their carers.” | <urn:uuid:ef10e5af-4d09-4d6c-b83d-c37e1374ec6d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.therefinery.je/press_release/lottery-funding-awarded-by-jersey-community-foundation-brings-art-and-music-therapy-to-people-affected-by-dementia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973536 | 505 | 1.695313 | 2 |
What a waste of time!
Manufacturing and engineering professionals waste more time looking for information whilst working remotely than the average
Manufacturing and engineering professionals report it’s harder to find information while working remotely, with over 46 minutes wasted each day looking for information, on average, per person.
Research sponsored by Sinequa, a player within intelligent Enterprise Search, has uncovered new challenges in finding information when working remotely for the manufacturing and engineering sectors.
2020’s global switch to remote working went relatively smoothly for most organisations, but the downside is that conversations and documents are becoming increasingly scattered and siloed across systems. Finding the information that manufacturing and engineering professionals need to carry out their jobs is becoming harder than ever, with 41% of workers say it’s harder to find the information they are looking for when working remotely. As a result, manufacturing and engineering businesses are increasingly looking to implement digital workplace solutions to help employees get their work done.
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Yerecic Label announces the environmental responsibility accomplishments the company has achieved in 2013.
In the label industry, the biggest landfill issue is attributed to waste matrix, which is the excess material left after the die cuts each label separately. The company’s new Waste to Energy program invests in diverting excess production material from landfills and instead recycles it into energy resources.
With the purchase of a baler machine in early 2013, Yerecic has recycled over 670,000 pounds of waste into renewable energy.
“The investment for this program is well worth it,” says Art Yerecic, president. “We felt a strong responsibility to create a positive change in the label industry.”
To assist its clients in their efforts to adopt more sustainable business practices, Yerecic created a sustainable on-pack label product line called YerecicGreen. This lineup includes renewable film, recyclable liners, recyclable compatible adhesives and recycled content face sheets. | <urn:uuid:3289535c-1ea2-45da-85e6-aa595325488d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.flexpackmag.com/articles/85989-yerecic-announces-2013-environmental-responsibility-achievements | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.913956 | 224 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Plant Trek II
On the Past, Present & Future of Plant Genetic Engineering
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Undiscovered Country – Making New Plants
1.0 Where Do New Plants Come From?
1.1 What Are the Ways to Make a New Plant?
1.2 How the First Transgenic Plants were Made
1.3 The Second Generation: Gene Guns, “Terminators” and “Traitors”
1.4 DIY Plant Genetic Engineering
Chapter 2 Into Darkness? – Impacts of Plant GMOs
2.0 Social, Environmental, and Legal Impacts of Plant GMOs
2.1 Why Such Strong Public Opposition to GMO Crops, Despite the Scientific Evidence?
2.2 GMO?…OMG! – To Label, or Not to Label?
2.3 A Story About the Evolution of “Superweeds”
2.4 Into the Wild….
2.5 Are GMO Plants Self-Replicating Inventions?
Chapter 3 Plant Trek – To boldly Go Where No Plant Has Gone Before
3.0 Imagining (And Creating) Fantastical Plants
3.1 Farmaceuticals, Plantibodies & Edible Vaccines
3.2 In this Case, Tobacco May Actually be Good for You
3.3 From Decaf Coffee Plants to Non-Browning Apples
3.4 Nothing to Sneeze At
3.5 A Plant “Fountain of Youth”?
3.6 Plant Biotechnology – Tarnished Promises?
Chapter 4 The Next Generation – Whither Plant Genetic Engineering?
4.0 Where Next for Plant Genetic Engineering?
4.1 More Complex Genetically Modified (GM) Plants?
4.2 Does this Change Everything?
4.3 What If You Could Make “Temporary” GMO Crop Plants?
4.4 Will the Next Generation of Genetically Modified Plants Be Less Controversial?
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How to Get Rid of Mouse Droppings from Your House? Top Methods of Restoring Hygiene after a Severe Mice Infestation
Have you occasionally spotted dark, sausage-shaped mass on the couch, bed or the floor? If yes, then you’re glaring at a mouse droppings menace! You should, however, remain calm and desist from handling the excrete using your bare hands. Cleaning up the mouse droppings immediately you spot them is critical in enhancing hygiene as well as preventing severe health hazards that may result from uncontrolled interaction with the waste materials. This article will give you necessary tips on handling the problem. It’ll clearly articulate the procedure to apply in eliminating the droppings, regardless of their location, while safeguarding your health.
What to do if you find mouse droppings
If you’ve confirmed the presence of the rodent’s poop, you need to devise a safe method to get rid of them. You should never handle the droppings without gloves to minimize the risk of acquiring infectious agents that are a threat to your health.
The first step you should initiate when you find the dark, brown pellets is identification. You need to be sure of what you’re handling. Most of the parameters used in the process does not require physical handling of the fecal material!
The list below gives crucial points on the do’s and the don’ts in such a scenario:
- Don’t Overreact. The presence of the mouse poop inside your house is unsightly but you should restrain yourself. The first reaction would be to sweep them away using a broom as quickly as you can. The action, can, however, expose you to health dangers!
- Don’t use a vacuum cleaner. When trying to get rid of the mess, you may be tempted to vacuum clean your house. If the poop contains disease-causing agents, it’s likely that you’ll blow them off allowing easy inhalation and consequently leading to illnesses.
- Don’t handle the mice droppings using your bare hands. Always ensure that you put on your rubber or latex gloves.
- Do air the area before cleaning. Open all the windows to allow free air circulation which minimizes the chances of inhaling the disease-causing microorganisms.
- Do collect and dispose of all the droppings in a sealed bag then put them in a covered trash can.
Your safety, as well as the well-being of your children and pets, is vital. As such, you should ensure that you follow these tips to the letter to avoid inhaling harmful agents that can make you seriously ill.
Mice poop: Identification
Have you found dark masses inside your house but you aren’t sure what they are? You should undertake a proper identification process before handling them to eliminate all the risks that are associated with mouse droppings.
The rodents excrete fecal matter in pellet form and can deposit between fifty and seventy-five pellets in a single day. The droppings are usually dispersed in regions that are heavily infested by rodents.
The following tips will allow you to make an informed decision on the identity of the masses:
- Shape. The knowledge of the appearance will help you differentiate between the mice’s poop from that of a rat. The droppings are granular in shape and resemble rice grains. Although there are a few rounded pellets, the majority of the droppings are tapered either at one end or both ends. The shape ensures that you do not confuse the mouse poop with that of a rat or any other rodents which ideally produces rectangular/spindle shaped droppings.
- Size. This parameter is a crucial element that helps you to undoubtedly set apart mouse’s droppings from the rest; mice excretes smaller poop pellets measuring between 1/8 and 1/4 inch.
- Color. The poop will either be brown or dark depending on the type of seeds the mice consumed. In most cases, it’s initially brown and soft, turns dark and hardens after several hours and eventually becomes grey.
- Amount. It’s crucial to note that the amount of the pellets is lesser with the mice compared to other rodents. They are usually scattered and not concentrated in a single place.
If what you found in the house has the above description, do not panic! The droppings will not cause any harm if the right procedure of their elimination is followed.
Mice droppings in the house
The rodent’s poop presents an ugly sight especially when they are in an open place in your house.
They primarily infest food-rich and dark regions including:
- Behind Kitchen Cabinets.
- Dark corners of the house.
- Pantries and food stores.
- Attics and Crawl Spaces.
The mice frequent these areas due to food availability as well as a conducive environment for them to establish their nests. If you, therefore, spot the dark cylindrical droppings here, it’s highly likely that you’ve identified mouse poop! When that happens, you should embark on a cleaning process to decontaminate the house. The mice are shy and it’s thus unlikely that you’ll find the droppings on the couches or the carpet. In case this happens, you should not use your broom or vacuum cleaner to avoid inhaling disease-causing microorganisms.
Mice like spending their time in an area where they can easily access food. This behavior explains their dominance in your kitchen! As such, it’s not uncommon to find their pellet-looking droppings in the oven. While the poop looks bad and everyone thinks it’s unhygienic, it actually does not expose you to as much harm as the poop dropped on the ground. The oven heat significantly incapacitates and eventually destroys the disease-causing microorganisms. That does not mean, however, that you should let the droppings stay!
Follow the following simple steps to remove the dirt from your oven:
- Prepare bleach solution. Ensure that you use ten parts of water and one part of bleach. Once that’s achieved, you should apply it on your stove and allow it to soak for a minimum of fifteen minutes.
- Wipe off the bleach solution using a clean piece of towel. As you wipe, ensure that the droppings are carefully collected and disposed of into a sealed container.
- Immediately after wiping off the bleach, you should apply 70% alcohol solution and let it stay for approximately 5 minutes then wipe it off.
In case you need to restore fragrance on the stove, you can use a fragrant such as rosemary, lavender oil or any other product designed to eliminate the stench akin to that produced by a dead, rotting mouse. You can get more information on how to get rid of dead mouse smell here.
On the stove: Now what?
Are you disgusted by the discovery of mouse droppings on your stove? Well, relax! Cleaning up mouse droppings from your stove is a simple process that shouldn’t stress you. First, you need to spot all the droppings by separating the stove’s parts. Once you do this, you should embark on the crucial step of removing the unsightly pellets from the stove.
Wear latex or rubber gloves and dissolve the pellets in a bleach solution.
After they’ve settled in the solution for approximately fifteen minutes, remove them using a piece of cloth and put them in the garbage pit. You should then apply 70% alcohol on both the interior and exterior parts of your stove for disinfection and decontamination. Let them dry up and reassemble the stove for use. If you detect a stench, you can use fragrant materials to restore the full functionality of your stove.
How to get rid of mouse droppings
The surest method of getting rid of the mouse droppings completely is by ensuring that all the mice in your house are exterminated!
Droppings should thus be exterminated to prevent exposure to the dangers. Ensure that you apply proper methods to either repel or kill the mice including traps, poison baits, and other repellents. If you want to find how to kill mice, go here. The first step of a successful elimination process involves identifying the areas infested by the rodents and setting up traps and other baits you may decide to apply.
The kitchen is the primary target due to its proximity to food sources, water, and conducive places to hide. It’s, however, vital that you exercise caution when placing poisons in regions near food sources to avoid contamination of the foodstuffs which may be lethal to your family members. Read on the best way to get rid of mice in the kitchen here.
If you’re already struggling with the droppings menace, you should follow the procedure detailed below to clean up the mouse droppings:
How to safely clean mice droppings
Cleaning up mouse droppings is a high-risk exercise that requires you to exercise high-level caution. The poop may expose you to Hantavirus which causes a potentially fatal disease. The microbes that cause this illness are passed through the droppings and urine of an infected mouse. When you disturb the mice droppings, the agents dominate the air after which you'll breathe the infected air and acquire the illness.
You should follow these 5 steps to eliminate the chances of getting infected
Ventilate the room 30 minutes before you start the clean-up
You should ensure that you open all the doors and windows. Once you achieve this, leave the house and allow the room to air for 30-45 minutes.
Soak droppings in a disinfectant
You should spray all the regions, with the poop, using a DIY disinfectant. Prepare the solution by mixing one part of bleach with ten parts of water. Once you've sprayed all the affected areas, allow it to settle for approximately five minutes. Do not handle the droppings before at least five minutes are over after the soaking process!
Wear latex or rubber gloves
Ensure that you do not touch the poop with your bare hands. With the gloves on, look for a rag and mop up the wet droppings. You can also pick them up using paper towels. Once you've collected them, you should immediately dispose of them in a plastic bag. Carefully put the bag into a garbage container with a fitting lid.
Thoroughly wash gloves before removing them
After successfully collecting the poop, ensure that you clean your gloved hands to avoid transferring the dirt and potentially disease-causing microorganisms into other parts of your body. Carefully remove the gloves and put them in the tightly closed garbage bin.
Wash your hands!
You should use warm water and plenty of soap to clean your hands after which you should dry them using a clean towel and apply a topical disinfectant.
If you are uncomfortable with handling the procedure, you should always consult professionals to help you in cleaning up the mouse droppings. This is a sure way of guaranteeing your safety as well as that of the people you live with.
In case you observe the following symptoms two to five weeks after the process, you should consult your physician urgently:
- Body aches.
- Breathing difficulties.
- Body chills.
Cleaning up mouse droppings is a necessary exercise but it exposes you to numerous disease-causing agents. As such, you should carry out the process following all the recommended guidelines as detailed herein. In case you lack the confidence to follow the procedures to the letter, you shouldn’t risk it! Instead, you should involve a professional to help you clean up the mess left behind by the stubborn rodents.
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4 Mins Read
San Francisco-based tech company Higg Co has revealed plans for its new Open Data Portal, which is designed to bring transparency to the growing sustainable fashion segment of the apparel industry. Slated to launch next year, the portal on the Higg platform will provide data behind the social and environmental responsibility claims made by brands, retailers and manufacturers, giving consumers the ability to validate the truth of companies’ statements for the first time.
Introduced at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit last Tuesday (October 13), Higg Co, the tech company built by over 250 fashion industry stakeholders, will be launching a new portal aimed at validating product sustainability claims by companies across the apparel supply chain. Developed in partnership with the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), the Open Data Portal offers access to real data behind statements made about a product’s environmental and social impact – data that consumers and third-party users will be empowered with for the first time.
The new tool is powered primarily by the Higg Index, a platform that accurately measures and scores a company or product’s sustainability performance. It will also be integrated with other data providers to build the most comprehensive view of a product’s real impact that is available to the public.
As a consumer, you’ll soon be able to go on that journey for the first time. As an NGO you’ll be able to explore the detail behind claims and as a research or data scientist, you’ll be able to access new data sets.Jason Kibbey, CEO of Higg Co
“For years, we’ve heard that consumers want sustainability information they can use to shop in a way that aligns with their personal values. As a consumer, you’ll soon be able to go on that journey for the first time. As an NGO you’ll be able to explore the detail behind claims and as a research or data scientist, you’ll be able to access new data sets,” explained Jason Kibbey, CEO of Higg Co.
Despite shoppers indicating strong interest in more sustainable products on the market, they have rarely been offered verifiable information and facts to make the most informed decisions.
“Data like this has never been available at this scale. Whether customers want to support brands that prioritize wages for workers or focus on reducing water consumption or lowering carbon emissions, meaningful data is essential to making better choices and incentivising industry change. The Higg Open Data Portal is an important first step in delivering sustainability transparency publicly at a global scale,” said Kibbey.
“Seeing Higg transparency on product level pages will become the signal of a brand or retailer’s commitment to sustainability and transparency and the gateway to data that invites accountability and trust,” added Amina Razvi, the executive director of the SAC.
“The goal of the Higg Index is to provide tools that everyone can engage with, to improve their performance and scale up transparency regardless of your budget or available tools. Accelerating transparency efforts allows us to accelerate action on the industry’s most pressing issues.”
The goal of the Higg Index is to provide tools that everyone can engage with, to improve their performance and scale up transparency regardless of your budget or available tools. Accelerating transparency efforts allows us to accelerate action on the industry’s most pressing issues.Amina Razvi, Executive Director of the SAC
Higg Co recently partnered with some of the biggest leaders within the apparel industry, including Europe’s largest e-commerce fashion retailer Zalando, who has made the Higg Index survey mandatory for all its brands, from Calvin Klein to Alexander McQueen. Giants such as H&M and PHV have also tested the consumer-facing Higg Index.
Looking ahead, the Higg Co chief executive says that the Open Data Portal will continually evolve after its launch in 2021. With digitalisation making it possible for the company to see how consumers and third-parties interact with the data available, Higg Co believes it can gather insights to make gradual improvements in line with user demand, such as whether there is greater interest in a specific aspect of sustainability by fashion brands.
“We have so much to learn and fully expect that the platform will evolve as we better understand user needs, as the data improves, and as new data becomes available,” Kibbey said.
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(Ottawa/Toronto/Vancouver/Reno/Washington/Guatemala) North American organizations are dismayed and deeply troubled by the execution-style murder of 22 year-old Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima, assistant to the director of the Guatemalan Centre for Legal, Environmental and Social Action (CALAS), on Saturday in Guatemala City.
A group of Canadian and US legal, environmental and social justice organizations, and solidarity networks publicly express their condolences for the victim’s mother and two young sisters. In addition, they are profoundly worried about the safety and continued work of CALAS and the mining-affected communities that this organization collaborates with. There is no denying the significance of this brutal murder amidst escalating violence against land and environment defenders, journalists and citizens involved in important environmental and social justice struggles in the country and the region.
Jeremy Barrios was cruelly assassinated by unknown assailants with two bullets to the head while doing errands in zone 4 of Guatemala City. He was responsible for managing sensitive information at CALAS and had not received any prior threat or warning of this attack. None of his personal belongings were stolen. His murder is understood as a direct message to CALAS’ director and other personnel. The precise motive for his murder is not yet known.
“This attack on our colleagues’ organization comes as a terrible shock and a disturbing continuation of threats and brutality against human rights and environmental defenders throughout Guatemala. CALAS’s legal director Rafael Maldonado was with us in Vancouver only two weeks ago supporting Guatemalan victims of mining-related violence. We urge a full investigation into the material and intellectual authors of this murder, as well as protection for CALAS and its personnel,” remarked Matt Eisenbrandt, Legal Director for the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ).
“We are extraordinarily worried about the safety and work of organizations like CALAS and mining-affected communities around the country. In our recent study, Guatemala is where we found the highest amount of physical violence in connection with Canadian-owned mining projects,” stated Leah Gardner for the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP) at Osgoode Hall Law School.
The Justice and Corporate Accountability Project’s report, The ‘Canada Brand’: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America, was released on October 24, 2016 and looked at incidents of violence and criminalization in connection with twenty-eight Canadian companies in thirteen countries in Latin America from 2000 to 2015. It found that at least 44 people have been killed during this time, 30 of which were targeted killings, while more than 400 people were injured, not including work-related injuries. They also found that over 700 people were legally persecuted during this period, including arrests and detentions, for their work in defense of their territories, livelihoods, health and environment.
“The situation for land and environment defenders in Guatemala and Latin America is progressively getting more and more dangerous. It is absolutely urgent that the Canadian government respond to the demands that 180 Latin American organizations – including CALAS - sent in a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau over six months ago to take measures to prevent systemic harms and ensure that affected peoples and communities have access to justice for the many harms taking place,” responded Lisa Rankin for the Breaking the Silence Maritimes-Guatemala Solidarity Network.
Among other things, the letter to Prime Minister Trudeau calls for measures to ensure respect for the decisions of numerous communities, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, who have said no to large-scale mining because of its severe and damaging impacts on the environment and social wellbeing. The letter also called for measures to ensure effective access to Canadian courts. In Guatemala alone, an estimated 1 million people have voted against mining on their lands and in their territories given the negative impacts that have been felt around Canadian held projects, such as Goldcorp’s Marlin mine and Tahoe Resources’ Escobal mine.
“In response to this deadly and devastating attack, and profound apprehension regarding ongoing militarization and threats against land and environment defenders in Guatemala, we want to reiterate our commitment to build ever greater solidarity from organizations in the U.S. and Canada to support Guatemalan partners in their essential work for healthy communities and a healthy environment,” emphasized Ellen Moore from the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN).
Amnesty International Canada, Breaking the Silence Maritimes-Guatemala Solidarity Network, the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ), the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), the Guatemalan Human Rights Commission (GHRC), the Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN), MiningWatch Canada, the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA), the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), Projet Accompagnement Québec-Guatemala (PAQG),the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), and United for Mining Justice have released this as a joint statement.
- Matt Eisenbrandt, Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ), (604) 569-1778, meisenbrandt(at)ccij.ca
- Leah Gardner, Justice and Corporate Accountability Project (JCAP), (514) 267-8542 lgardner(at)justice-project.org
- Lisa Rankin, Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Network, btscoordinator(at)gmail.com
- Ellen Moore, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), (775) 348-7557, emoore(at)planevada.org
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Of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, the new administration has promised to deport "priority cases." During just his first week in office, president Donald Trump implemented new and aggressive immigration executive actions. For undocumented immigrants who recently arrived, have a criminal record or belong to any of the "priority categories," the future is uncertain.
Univision News documented the stories of seven of these undocumented immigrants with 360° video cameras and created a virtual reality experience of their lives. ‘In Danger of Deportation’ is a VR documentary series that allows users to put themselves in the shoes of some of the people most at risk of deportation under the Trump administration. (To fully explore the series we recommend you use Google Cardboard or any other VR headset. If you don’t have one, simple use your phone and headphones and watch the videos through the YouTube app. You can explore each scene by moving your phone.)
Here, the first video of 'In Danger of Deportation' is a compilation of the five stories explored in the project.
The individual stories included in the project are:
José, at risk of deportation for an old DUI charge: Don José, 67, has lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for almost half his life. More than 20 years ago he was detained by the police for driving under the influence (DUI). During the Obama administration, undocumented immigrants with charges like DUIs stopped being priority cases for deportation. This could change under the Trump administration.
Imelda and her husband, protected by ‘Parole in Place' (PIP): Imelda and her husband qualify for Parole in Place – a program expanded during the Obama administration. PIP benefits the undocumented relatives of members of the U.S. military. It is unclear what will happen to PIP under the Trump administration.
Diana, in fear of an old deportation order: In 2012 Diana received a deportation order. Through the prosecutorial discretion of ICE, her deportation was temporarily stopped as hers was not a priority case. Every year Diana has to renew her work permit and appeal her deportation. ICE’s discretionary decisions could be limited by Trump.
Valeria, a DACA beneficiary: Valeria is a Colombian student and one of the more than 750,000 DREAMers that have been granted temporary legal status through DACA. Given that this protection was one of Obama’s executive actions, Trump could cancel it and leave these dreamers in legal limbo.
Valdemar and his daughter, who recently arrived: Valdemar and his daughter Magaly came to the United States 10 days before the 2016 presidential election. Upon entering the country illegally, ICE gave Valdemar an order to appear in court and put an ankle monitor on him. He is traceable at all times and could be deported. | <urn:uuid:6290b63b-8a86-463e-8e89-6d1ce3f8f81a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.univision.com/univision-news/immigration/in-danger-of-deportation-the-faces-behind-trumps-executive-orders-360-video | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963804 | 582 | 2.015625 | 2 |
UTSA awards $4 million to Oskar Fischer Prize recipients for innovative explanations of Alzheimer's disease
SAN ANTONIO, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) today announced the 10 recipients of the Oskar Fischer Prize, an international competition to expand society's understanding of the causes of Alzheimer's disease. The prize, the world's largest of its kind, totals $4 million in gold, silver and bronze categories, with finalists receiving $500,000, $400,000 and $300,000, respectively.
The Oskar Fischer Prize launched in late 2019 following a philanthropic gift to UTSA from Texas businessman James Truchard.
"UTSA is deeply appreciative of Jim Truchard's thoughtful and innovative philanthropy in establishing the Oskar Fischer Prize," said UTSA President Taylor Eighmy. "He's an incredible champion for the creation of new knowledge and we're grateful for his very generous support. As part of UTSA's strategic commitment to advance research excellence, the Oskar Fischer Prize allows us to significantly impact new discoveries in brain health that will directly help solve the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease."
To ensure the best candidates were selected, each entrant underwent a rigorous evaluation process.
"Over the past two years, UTSA has worked closely with a broad group of advisers from the scientific, business and public policy realms to evaluate a large number of visionary ideas," said David Silva, dean of the UTSA College of Sciences. "This partnership demonstrates our leadership to further society's understanding of the causes of Alzheimer's disease."
The winning entries include unique theories that shed light on key aspects of Alzheimer's disease and provide new frameworks for the potential causes.
Gold prize recipients are:
- Carlo Abbate, Ph.D.
IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Istituto Palazzolo, Italy
Abbate's idea is that Alzheimer's disease starts in the neural stem cells in the niches of adult neurogenesis, the process in which new neurons are formed in the brain.
- Estela Area-Gomez, Ph.D.
Columbia University, USA, and Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas "Margarita Salas," CSIC, Spain
Area-Gomez proposes that Alzheimer's disease is a lipid disorder and that C99, a cholesterol sensor, contributes to the cause of Alzheimer's disease through its role as a regulator of cholesterol metabolism and how it promotes the formation of mitochondria-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes.
- Bess Frost, Ph.D.
University of Texas Health San Antonio, USA
Frost proposes that neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease and related tauopathies results from the negative consequences of pathogenic forms of tau on the three-dimensional packaging of DNA. DNA restructuring affects the cellular identity of brain cells, driving cell death.
- Ralph A. Nixon, Ph.D., M.D.
Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, USA
Nixon's idea centers around the disruption of the brain's endosomal-lysosomal and autophagy network, the apparatus in the cell that serves to clear out degenerated proteins and helps rejuvenate the cell. The idea is that a fundamental issue in Alzheimer's disease is the failure to recycle abnormal waste and proteins; they end up accumulating and can become toxic.
Silver prize recipients are Bernd Moosmann, Ph.D., Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany, and Donald Weaver, M.D., Ph.D., FRCP(C), from the University of Toronto, Canada. Bronze prize recipients are Annelise E. Barron, Ph.D., Stanford University, Gunnar K. Gouras, M.D., Lund University, Sweden, Varghese John, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, and Russell Swerdlow, M.D., University of Kansas Medical Center.
"Despite a century and tens of billions of dollars spent on Alzheimer's Disease research, no definitive explanation for a cause has been found," said Truchard. "The Prize's goal is to bring forth ideas which can create a foundation for future research. While no single entry covered all the major aspects of Alzheimer's, I believe a combination of these ideas creates a launchpad for future research."
According to Alzheimer's Disease International, an estimated 55 million people worldwide are living with dementia. That population is expected to increase to 78 million by 2030.
"I'm confident the work of these brilliant winners, coupled with UTSA's collaborative transdisciplinary approaches in brain health, will lead to breakthrough solutions to deepen our understanding of this disease and improve human health," said Jenny Hsieh, the Semmes Foundation Distinguished Chair in Cell Biology at UTSA and director of the UTSA Brain Health Consortium.
Learn more about the Oskar Fischer Prize, the recipients and their ideas.
About The University of Texas at San Antonio
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is a Tier One research university and Hispanic Serving Institution specializing in cyber, health, fundamental futures, and social-economic development. With more than 34,000 students, it is the largest university in the San Antonio metropolitan region. UTSA advances knowledge through research and discovery, teaching and learning, community engagement and public service. The university embraces multicultural traditions and serves as a center for intellectual and creative resources as well as a catalyst for socioeconomic development and the commercialization of intellectual property—for Texas, the nation and the world. Learn more online, on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram or on UTSA Today.
About the UTSA Brain Health Consortium
The UTSA Brain Health Consortium is a transdisciplinary team of more than 40 world-class scientists committed to demystifying the inner workings of the brain. The Consortium integrates researchers with expertise in stem cells/precision medicine, neuroscience, biomedical engineering, psychology and behavior, with the common goal of applying those discoveries to prevent and treat neurological disorders.
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Plastic bottle recycling production line mainly includes plastic bottle label removing machine, plastic crusher, high-temperature washing barrel, rubbing washing machine, dewatering machine, etc. This plastic recycling production line is mainly used to deal with waste mineral water bottles, cola bottles, plastic bottles made of PET. The Shuliy Group can match different production lines, design factories, and calculate factory areas according to customers’ different production needs, uses, and raw materials.
- 1. What steps are involved in plastic bottle recycling line?
- 2. 3D video of PET bottle recycling line
Introduction of plastic recycling equipment
- 3.1. Step 1: Picking (picking table)
- 3.2. Step 2: Remove trademark (plastic bottle de-labeling machine)
- 3.3. Step 3: Crushing (plastic crusher)
- 3.4. Step 4: Cleaning (washing tank)
- 3.5. Step 5: Cleaning with hot water(hot water washing tank)
- 3.6. Step 6: Friction cleaning (friction machine)
- 3.7. Step 7: Washing and separating again (washing tank)
- 3.8. step 8: Drying and dehydration (dehydrator machine)
- 3.9. Step 9: Storage (storage bin)
- 4. Video 1: plastic bottle crushing and washing line
- 5. Washing machines of waste plastic bottles
- 6. The raw material of plastic bottle recycling line
- 7. Video 2: PET bottle recycling line
- 8. How are recycled plastic bottles reused?
- 9. Prospects of the plastic bottle recycling industry:
- 10. Profit of plastic recycling business
- 11. FAQs of plastic recycling equipment:
- 12. How to choose machines with low budget?
- 13. Why plastic recycling machines become more and more popular?
- 14. Client feedback to plastic bottle recycling line
- 15. Our service of PET bottle recycling line
What steps are involved in plastic bottle recycling line?
removing bottle label — removing bottle trademarks — crushing — cleaning — drying — storage
3D video of PET bottle recycling line
Introduction of plastic recycling equipment
Step 1: Picking (picking table)
The picking table is made of belt conveyor steel frame structure, PVC belt with scraper, bend pulley, driving pulley, as well as adjustable speed motor, etc. It can be used in different fields and production lines, here it is the necessary equipment in large capacity waste plastic PET recycling production line.
Due to PET and PP PE are different materials, the processing of treatment is different, in order to increase the purity of final PET flakes, it is better to select the different material first.
Step 2: Remove trademark (plastic bottle de-labeling machine)
PET bottles label removing machine is professional in removing PET bottles label or water bottles label, it instead of people remove the label, to meet the big capacity requirements of the production line. By adjusting the blades, it can use for removing different size bottles.
Step 3: Crushing (plastic crusher)
The plastic crusher is used for crushing PET bottles, PVC, etc, it can crush the raw material into small flakes to recycle the waste plastic. The machine is suitable for the PET bottles recycling production line.
Step 4: Cleaning (washing tank)
The washing tank to separate PP or PE bottle cap from PET flakes, also can clean the plastic flakes for the first time.
Step 5: Cleaning with hot water(hot water washing tank)
The hot water washing tank is an upper open structure with functions of automatic temperature control, heat preservation, and stirring. Which also has the advantages of fast heat transfer, large temperature difference, and convenient cleaning.
Widely used in waste plastics and other industries as heating, cleaning treatment. The hot water washing tank is especially suitable for small, medium, and large cleaning chemical fiber factories. And can adopt a completely closed structure according to technological demand.
Step 6: Friction cleaning (friction machine)
As one kind of plastic cleaning equipment, a high-speed friction machine has its own unique function and advantage in the use of cleaning equipment.
The high-speed rotating screw allows the material to be fully rubbed with water, and the impurities (soil, sand, leaves, paper pulp) on the surface of the material are separated, and the dirty goods are washed with clean water. Unique water spraying design and high-speed running screw ensure an excellent cleaning effect.
Step 7: Washing and separating again (washing tank)
The washing tank is for washing and separating PP PE from PET again. Some materials need to be washed multiple times. Due to customers' requirements, broken plastic need to be cleaned four times. In this operation, the plastic pieces would be separated and cleaned thoroughly, all impurities would be removed.
step 8: Drying and dehydration (dehydrator machine)
The plastic dehydrator machine is mainly used for the dehydration function of PP pellets so that the finished product can meet the storage requirements.
The wet PP particles are gradually raised by the auger of the plastic dehydrator machine, and more water is extracted by the principle of high-speed rotation. The machine can automatically feed and discharge, with no need for manual operation, and greatly improve work efficiency.
Step 9: Storage (storage bin)
Dried PET pellets were conveyed by the fan. Stock bin and packing machine not only can store final PET pellets but only can separate different materials. Stainless steel stock bin and packing machine plays important role in the transportation and packing into bags.
Video 1: plastic bottle crushing and washing line
Washing machines of waste plastic bottles
The necessary washing machines for cleaning PET flakes are a washing tank, hot water washing tank, and frictional washing machine. In fact, the PET washing machines are adjustable to choose from, people with a low budget can choose these three machines to wash their plastic flakes. But if the waste plastic bottle is too dirty or the plant would like to use more washing equipment to ensure the plastic's cleanliness, the number of washing tanks, hot water washing machines, and frictional washing machines can increase to two or three.
The raw material of plastic bottle recycling line
PET plastic bottles are widely used for packaging carbonated beverages, mineral water, fruit juice, and other kinds of beverages, they are the most used beverage packaging nowadays. More than that, PET is also widely used in food, chemical, pharmaceutical packaging, and many other fields. 650 billion PET bottles were produced and sold globally, and the increasing speed is still rising. Because of the quality of the PET, it will deform and produce substances harmful to the human body when it is over 70 degrees Celsius. So PET bottles can not be reused. How to deal with those waste bottles is an urgent problem to solve.
Video 2: PET bottle recycling line
Our plastic recycling line can also adjust the kind of washing machine according to the customer's order and the raw material. The whole washing step includes three washing machines, which are two washing tanks, a hot water washing tank, and a friction machine. The following video shows the customized recycling line which uses only one piece of washing equipment.
How are recycled plastic bottles reused?
Many people may wonder where the recycled plastic water bottles have gone? In other words, many people know that plastic bottles can be recycled, but they don’t know what they can do after recycling?
- Firstly, recycled plastic water bottles can be used to make textile materials, such as polyester, RPET cloth, etc., and then made into gloves, mattresses, etc.
- Secondly, recycled plastic PET bottles can be granulated into pellets, which can be made into various toys, buckets, and other daily supplies.
- After multiple processing or prolonged UV irradiation, plastics will cause problems such as aging and viscosity reduction. This waste plastic can also be recycled for RDF power generation. Due to the high heat value of plastic, the power generation effect is very ideal.
Prospects of the plastic bottle recycling industry:
A large part of the production of plastics depends on petroleum. The recycling of plastics is the recycling and utilization of petroleum resources.
From a macro perspective, the prospects of the plastic water bottle recycling industry are very optimistic. At present, the main recycling industries include waste metal recycling, waste paper recycling, waste rubber recycling, and waste plastic recycling. The reuse rate of waste metal can reach 70-80%, the waste rubber can reach 47%, and the waste paper 20-30%. However, the reuse rate for plastic is less than 30%.
Therefore, the recycling market of waste plastics is still very broad, and the plastic bottle recycling production line is also very popular and practical. Combined with the global attention to environmental protection, resource conservation, and other issues, the requirements of plastic recycling equipment will keep increasing, and the development potential of the plastic recycling industry will only grow.
Profit of plastic recycling business
The main methods of dealing with plastic waste mainly include incineration, disposal in a landfill, and recycling. Plastic waste recycling maybe not be a very profitable business in many people's opinion. Exactly, one plastic bottle has very low value, however, in the big cities, millions of waste mineral water bottles will be produced by people at least, one-ton mineral water bottle probably has 60 thousand plastic bottles， which can make a profit of about 300 dollars.
On the surface, the plastic recycling line is a business with low profit, in fact, if you have a stable supply, comprehensive knowledge of plastic, and a team, plastic recycling is a profitable business for you.
FAQs of plastic recycling equipment:
Generally speaking, the production range of this production line is 200-500 kg per hour. The maximum output can reach more than 1 tons per hour.
Of course. We are a professional manufacturer of plastic recycling equipment, with equipment for recycling various plastics. Recycling plastic foam does not require cleaning.
Processing one ton of material consumes 60 kWh of electricity.
It depends on your raw materials, if your plastic bottles are not very dirty, it is possible to clean less than four times.
How to choose machines with low budget?
Because the cleanliness of plastic bottles is different, the washing equipment they need is different too. A washing tank, a hot water washing tank, and a frictional machine are necessary for recycling PET bottles, if one has a low budget, he can choose these three machines at least.
But if he has a high budget, he can choose more three machines, for example, one washing machine, two or three hot water washing machines, two frictional machines. Machines in different numbers will provide different effects. More cleaning machines can wash waste PET flakes cleaner, which also has a higher price.
Why plastic recycling machines become more and more popular?
- Many waste PET plastic bottles are produced every day, which causes great pollution to the environment. Recycling the waste is good for protecting the environment.
- Turn waste plastic bottles into treasures, it has widely used. People's education level has improved hugely, more and more people started to realize the importance of environmental protection.
- Save resources and promote the development of the industry. Recycling plastic waste can help plants save resources and costs, the leftovers of production can be reused, it is good for business.
Client feedback to plastic bottle recycling line
Our customers bought our plastic recycling equipment, and they have a very high comment of our machine, and already put them into use. Here are some photos of their visit to our company and factory. We entertained them warmly, then they expressed their satisfaction to us and started their own plastic recycling business. Shuliy machinery welcomes clients to visit our company and factory.
Our service of PET bottle recycling line
- Our delivery time is one month, from the receipt of an order to the goods arrive at the port.
- The goods will be dispatched on time, and customers can check the logistics information during the transportation.
- When customers receive the goods, we will offer machine instructions and installment video. We can also offer a live stream or organize our engineer to your plant to instruct.
- Except for wearing parts, quality assurance within one year, lifetime maintenance.
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21st September 2022 – 22nd September 2022
40.3 million people are in slavery worldwide (Global Slavery Index, 2018). Most of these are women and girls (71%). And the problem does not stop at the UK border.
Run in partnership with the Southampton District of the Methodist Church, this webinar will cover the basics that anyone involved in safeguarding, or who works with vulnerable adults or children and young people should know about modern day slavery, including:
- What it is and what are the signs
- How to respond in the first instance
- How to refer onwards
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The world of sports is dominated by a few sports leagues. Richest sports league such as National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA) in the United States of America and football especially in Europe such as English Premier League (EPL), La Liga, UEFA Champions League (UCL), etc. Huge amount of money is invested into the team development, players, sponsorships, broadcasting rights thus, making the stakes very high.
In India, it is the ‘Indian Premier League’ that has put not only India but the whole game of cricket into the list of most valuable leagues. Financial consultancy Duff & Phelps put the brand value of IPL at Rs. 47,500 crore in 2019. It says the value dipped to ₹45,800 crore in 2020 because of the pandemic. But in 2022, it has come back stronger!
According to Livemint, “On 13th June, media rights of IPL (2023-2027) was sold to Star India and Disney. They won the TV rights for ₹23,575 crore and Viacom wins digital right for ₹20,500 crore, as per media reports. The package has been sold for ₹44,075 crore.”
Within the span of 14 years, IPL has become 2th valuable sports league in the whole world.
On the basis of average annual revenue, places IPL second in the list of the world’s top sports leagues in 2022. NFL (US$13 bln), IPL(10-13 bln) MLB (US$10 bln) and NBA (US$7.4 bln) then EPL (US$5.3 bln)
The media right of IPL were sold $3.3 billion higher from the previous cycle. Each match of IPL is now worth 105 cr. ($13.44 million). It is more worth than a match in the English Premiere League ($11 million) .
Can IPL overtake others and become the biggest sports league in the world?
It already has overtaken other leagues of the world by storm. Here are the major reasons –
- IPL has only 10 teams as of now and is just about 2 months long whereas other sports league have teams ranging from 20-40 while they last for 6-10 months.
- IPL is just 14 years old while others have been there for almost 50 to 100 years.
- By purchasing power parity which is if you equate the value of INR vs. US; IPL is already 10x time bigger in value than other leagues.
- Growth in IPL is absolutely phenomenal. In 2008, Mumbai Indians was the most expensive team in the IPL. The Ambanis had bought the team for $111.9 million. In 2021, team Lucknow was bought by Sanjiv Goenka owned RPSG group for a whooping US$1 billion.
- The broadcasting rights of IPL for 2018-22 by Star India is worth ₹16,347 crore, which assures ₹54.60 crore per match. IPL’s growth was further strengthened when it fetched a projected ₹44,000 crore for broadcast rights in the 2023-27 period.
How IPL got so successful?
The easy answer is due to the population of India and how cricket is considered as a religion. That makes a lot of sense considering that India is home to 1.339 billion people and cricket is their favorite sport.
The consumption for IPL 2021 including Star Sports’ pre-match programming stands at 242 billion minutes, hitting more than 380 million TV views while IPL hits new high on Star India’s Hotstar with record 267 million viewers.
But the problem is matchday sales (tickets, merchandise, etc.), it forms a very small share of revenue into IPL, India is still a developing country and people have a good habit of savings and cost cuttings and with pandemic, there is hardly any sales if compared with pre-pandemic era.
How IPL became the money making machine within such a small time?
The answer lies in the game itself. Whether it is the 50 overs format game or 20 overs, the game has been gifted with ‘breaks’ after every over. After each over, the players have to the change the end and due to that, a 30 seconds break is possible leading to advertisements and endorsements. Unlike other sports, whether it is football or rugby, it gives immense time for the sponsors.
And this is the reason why 50-over format will never die. More the ads, more the revenue for cricket boards and ICC.
The IPL is where the BCCI makes 60% of its cash from. Industry gauges peg the IPL’s yearly income to be near to 40% of cricket’s worldwide income. Two new teams have been added into the IPL so the league is expected to make more money and gain more viewership.
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Drive Thru Holding is specialized in Asbestos Removal
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The classically trained British character actor David Warner excelled at disappearing into his work. Warner’s now best known—or maybe just beloved—for his supporting roles in genre movies like “The Omen” (the tragically decapitated Keith Jennings), “Time Bandits” (the comically haughty Evil Genius), and “Tron” (the imperiously vain Ed Dillinger/Master Control/Sark), as well as his instantly recognizable voice-acting performances in cartoons like “Freakazoid” (the deliriously goofy The Lobe) and “Batman: The Animated Series” (the royally vain Ra’s Al Ghul). He defined himself as both a character actor and an “old man actor” when he was 24 years old. Warner also seemed to find genuine satisfaction in his work rather than any formal recognition that came of it. He was 80 years old when he died of a cancer-related illness.
Warner was born on July 29th, 1941 in Manchester, England; his parents divorced when he was a child, so he attended eight separate boarding schools while they “kept stealing me from each other,” according to Warner. He was not a celebrated student, as Warner sometimes recalled during interviews, so his acceptance at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) was never a given. Warner also didn’t always consider acting to be his great calling in life, as he joked with The AV Club’s Will Harris during a characteristically exhaustive interview. “My first job was as an extra” he tells Harris, referring to his first film role as a sailor in “We Joined the Navy.” That was in 1962, the same year that Warner made his acting debut at the Royal Court Theatre as Tom Snout in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Warner’s breakout performance as Hamlet was a major milestone for the insatiable performer. He was directed by Peter Hall, who had previously worked with Warner when he played Henry VI in Edward IV, Henry VI, and Richard III at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1964. Hall says that he cast a then-unknown Warner because he was looking for a performer who could speak to his generation’s “disillusionment, which produces an apathy of will so deep that commitment to politics, religion or life is impossible.” In Jonathan Croall’s comprehensive Performing Hamlet, Hall describes Warner as “the very embodiment of the 1960s student—tall, blond, gangling. He was passive, yet had an anarchic wit.”
“I didn’t really think of it as a Hamlet for our time,” Warner responds. “It was just that people labelled it as that. I think modern, younger audiences appreciate this Hamlet, because it has the nasty side as well as the sympathetic side. He’s a Prince at one moment, and an ordinary man the next.” Warner is also quick to note that the “ordinary” qualities that he brought to his role didn’t originate with him, but rather came about “very slowly” and “intuitively.” “I never went into it with any preconceptions, or thought about it before,” Warner adds before noting that Hamlet was never a role that he had hoped to play.
Still, Warner’s neurotic line delivery and manic energy came to personify Hall’s production. Speaking of Warner’s Hamlet, theater critic Ronald Bryden writes: “This is a Hamlet desperately in need of counsel, help, experience, and he actually seeks it from the audience in his soliloquies.” Bryden adds that “[Warner’s] Hamlet communes not with himself, but with you.” Warner characteristically accepts praise for his performance by shying away from it: “I don’t know whether I learnt a great deal about Hamlet, but I learnt an awful lot about myself.”
Warner also notably starred in “Morgan—A Suitable Case for Treatment,” a 1966 film adaptation of David Mercer’s stage play. In the movie, Warner plays the title character, a mischievous angry young man who continually tries to prevent his ex-wife (Vanessa Redgrave) from remarrying. Time Magazine celebrated Warner’s performance by saying that, as Morgan, Warner “catches every kink and twitch of a natural misfit who can only sense progress when he is swimming against the stream.”
Some critics sniffed at Warner’s performance since Morgan was obviously meant to speak to (or simply about) his disaffected generation. So it’s not surprising that Warner didn’t receive any awards until the 1980s, when he earned a Primetime Emmy for his supporting role as Pomponius Falco in the TV miniseries “Masada.” Warner would, however, go on to work with great film directors like John Frankenheimer (“The Fixer”), Joseph Losey (“A Doll’s House”), and Sidney Lumet (“The Sea Gull”). And because good work begets more of the same, those collaborations led to some of Warner’s more iconic on-screen performances.
Speaking with Harris, Warner remembers that Lumet suggested that he work with Sam Peckinpah, and that Peckinpah supposedly delayed the production of “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” in order to accommodate Warner, who couldn’t bring himself to cross the Atlantic by plane. (Warner suffered from vertigo and panic attacks) Warner would notably collaborate with Peckinpah on two other films, “Straw Dogs” and “Cross of Iron.” They remained friendly until Peckinpah’s death, despite rumors that Warner had his name removed from “Straw Dogs” because Warner disapproved of its content. Instead, Warner claimed that his name wasn’t formally attached to “Straw Dogs” because his agents tried to get him higher billing than his name alone was worth. “‘Oh, to hell with it!’ Warner recalls saying. ‘I want to do the movie. Don’t have me on the credits at all. Don’t have me anywhere. Let’s not fight over it. Just ignore it.’”
That quote is just one of a few great moments in Warner’s interview with Harris, which is itself a fine showcase for the actor’s neurotic sensitivity and consummate ability. In that interview, Warner takes great pleasure in celebrating the mega-stardom of some of his former Stratford-on-Avon co-stars, like Malcom McDowell and Patrick Stewart. He also goes out of his way to dog-ear roles that didn’t originate with him, like when Mick Jagger was originally supposed to play Jack the Ripper in “Time After Time” or when Warner played two roles in the 1993 sword-and-sorcery cheapie “Quest of the Delta Knights.”
Warner also swoons at the memory of working with beloved colleagues, like Jason Robards in “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” and Gregory Peck in “The Omen.” And he’s often quick to note that it was impossible to know if a movie would go on to any kind of success (either at the box office or with cultists), like “The Omen” or “Tron,” or a flop, as with “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” or Tim Burton’s “Planet of the Apes.” “I don’t think I have any great major disappointments in my career” Warner tells Harris. “I’m very lucky to have had a career!”
Warner seemed to gracefully accept his fans’ admiration, but never seemed to understand it. Speaking to Den of Geek in 2008, he refers to the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” two-parter “Chain of Command” as a “classic,” but hastens to add that “they tell me that anyway!” In that same interview, Warner demurs that science-fiction is “a genre that I don’t understand, but that I have a lot of involvement with.” It’s also nice to see that various obituaries, including this one at the BBC website, recall Warner’s reply when “Sherlock” co-creator Mark Gatiss asked, on the TV docu-series “A History of Horror,” about Jennings’ severed head. “I lost it in the divorce,” Warner quipped. That sort of cheeky self-deprecation may seem like performative humility, but it’s also revealing, in its way.
Whenever critics noticed Warner’s performances, it was generally a reflection of his collaborators’ ingenuity. And if fans praised Warner’s acting, they saw him as his role. “Not being recognized is the greatest compliment for a character actor,” Warner told Cultbox in 2012, “because it means they’ve only seen the character you were playing.” In that same interview, he calls himself the “proud winner of no major acting awards”: “I’m happy with that because I work consistently.”
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Benjamin Netanyahu did not invent the idea of leveraging the Holocaust for political gain. Yet, like so much else in current Israeli politics, he is taking even that low to new depths.
According to Haaretz, Israel’s prime minister intends to exploit the Fifth World Holocaust Forum – convening this week in Jerusalem to mark 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz – to call on world leaders to publicly back Israel’s self-serving position that the International Criminal Court in The Hague has no jurisdiction in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Netanyahu began this exercise barely 48 hours after ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced last month, after five years of preliminary examination, that she is ready to open an investigation into potential war crimes in the West Bank and Gaza, pending an ICC judicial decision on jurisdiction.
Wasting no time, Netanyahu responded that "new edicts are being issued against the Jewish people - anti-Semitic edicts by the International Criminal Court."
This cynical reframing is staggering, both intellectually and morally.
The Palestinians who live under Israel’s occupation are a people bereft of rights. For decades, their existence has been governed by the arbitrary whims of their occupiers. They cannot vote for the government that controls every aspect of their lives. They have no army to defend themselves. They do not control the borders of their own territory, or their ability to travel abroad, or even how long it will take them to get to the nearest Palestinian town – if even allowed to do so.
They also have no recourse to justice through Israel’s legal mechanisms. Israeli prosecutors and judges process Palestinians in the occupied territories through a "justice system" that delivers an almost 100 percent conviction rate. At the same time, this system works to ensure impunity for Israeli security forces who kill, abuse or torture them.
- Netanyahu to Use Holocaust Forum to Boost Support for Israel Against the ICC
- Deborah Lipstadt: Israeli Government 'Sold Out' Memory of the Holocaust
- Holocaust Forum and U.S. Election Give Israel the Perfect Stage to Push Annexation
- Netanyahu Calls to Impose Sanctions Against International Criminal Court
For Palestinians, quite literally, the International Criminal Court is their court of last resort. Yet Netanyahu, backed by Israel’s entire political leadership, is trying to quash even this faint hope.
How dehumanizing, to insist on denying a people’s last recourse to even an uncertain, belated, modicum of justice. How degrading to do so while standing on the shoulders of Holocaust survivors, insisting that this is somehow being carried out in their name.
What a lack of historical memory and moral compass it must take to ignore the key lesson the world gleaned from the ashes of the 1940s: that no person should ever, under any circumstance, be left bare of rights, precisely because – as the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights tells us – "disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind."
But Netanyahu goes even further, arguing that the very same ashes give rise to the opposite conclusion: that there is a people – the Palestinian people – who should remain bare of rights under all circumstance.
A bare life with neither land nor ballot, court nor justice. Where freedom of movement extends only as far as the nearest checkpoint. Where soldiers can enter any home, at any time. Where the only constant is how little control one has over one’s life.
Shame on you, Prime Minister Netanyahu. Shame, also, on any world leader who goes along with the travesty of equating a people’s attempt to achieve justice with anti-Semitism. Taking this cowardly position does not only betray the Palestinians’ hope for freedom and dignity. It joins in the slow death of the lessons that have guided humanity for the past 75 years and are now drowning in the rising authoritarian tide around the world.
This is not the world that humanity tried to build after World War II, after the Holocaust – but it is the world of Putin and Trump, Modi and Orbán, Netanyahu and Bolsonaro. Indeed, we are already living in their cowardly new world. Yet it remains in our hands to decide if the past’s painful lessons will be allowed to be turned on their head in order to further oppression – or remain loyal to a vision of freedom and dignity, justice and rights, for all.
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MEDICAL FLOCKED SWABS FOR COVID-19 TESTING KIT
WHAT ARE FLOCKED SWABS?
Flock swab marks a new innovation in the medical swab technology. Medical swabs under the condition of Electrostatic field are coated with Nylon fibre. Flocked Swabs feature perpendicular Nylon Fibres that provide optimum collection and release of the specimen samples.
ADVANTAGES OF FLOCKED SWABS:
ENHANCED SPECIMEN RECOVERY
The flocked technology turns each strand of fibre into a velvet brush-like texture and creates hundreds of contact points for superior collection and release of solid and semi-solid specimen samples.
HIGH LIQUID ABSORBENCY
Strong capillary hydraulics between the Nylon strands draw up maximum liquid sample.
Flocked Swabs are an excellent choice for use with rapid diagnostic tests because of their efficiency of collecting cells or organisms at the collection site and rapid release of entire cells.
Flocked Swabs contain no inner fabric or other inner core to absorb the specimen. Hence a larger amount of specimen is collected and retained. Not only does this provide for better sample yield, it also allows a more
rapid and complete release of the sample into liquid media.
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More than counting points
Tracking may be one of the first things you think of when you think of WW, but the program is so much more than that.
WW is not a diet – it’s a lifestyle. And it’s not just about counting SmartPoints and tracking what you ate. Rather, WW takes a holistic approach to weight loss, and places equal emphasis on four pillars of health – food, activity, sleep, and mindset – to help you meet your overall health goals and achieve sustainable success.
The program is built on the latest nutritional and behaviour change research to help you eat what you love while building healthy habits – and healthy habits are about more than just food. They’re about staying hydrated – you can record your water intake in the WW app. They’re about getting enough good-quality sleep – you can log your Z’s in the app, too. They’re about staying active doing things that you love – there are tons of audio and video workouts to check out in the app through partnerships with FitOn and Aaptiv, plus you can sync up your fitness tracker to keep all your data in one place. And they’re about managing stress and having a positive mindset – WW’s partnership with Headspace offers guided meditations to help you find stillness, and the Connect community of WW members is full of inspiration and potential new friends.
Toronto-based coach Kelly S. says WW has come a long way since she first joined in 2003, and it is more user-friendly than ever.
“We did not have a cellphone app, a website or anything to make the plan as easy as it is now,” she says. “We had to look everything up by book and then write it down in a small paper tracker. Fast forward to today and this plan could literally not be easier. The app does everything for you, truly! We have a barcode scanner for the grocery store, full workout videos, virtual workshops that are literally a click away, an entire Canadian WW community full of support on Connect (our social media site right on the app!) So, so super easy!”
WW members also have access to a wide range of curated content, from ingredient profiles of spices, herbs and other staples, to tips for handling loneliness over the holidays, to parenting advice for talking to your children about the pandemic.
The app also offers more than 5,600 recipes, in case you ever need cooking inspiration. And if you’re wondering what you can whip up with the ingredients you have on hand, you can try the “What’s in your fridge” planner, which lets you plug in the ingredients you have and gives you instant suggestions for dishes you can make right away.
Tracking is made simple with a vast food database built into the app, plus a catalogue of menu items from popular restaurants, and there’s even the option to tell Siri to do your tracking for you.
“Tracking is so quick and easy it is the last thing I think of when I think of WW,” coach Kelly says. “I think about how far my relationship with myself and with food has come. I think about the friends I have made Canada-wide, the support we give each other, the exercise videos I have available, the mindful meditation I turn to in the app sometimes, the recipes I love trying, et cetera.” | <urn:uuid:78e6c381-63d7-448f-aa54-9584845c81c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.weightwatchers.com/ca/en/article/more-counting-points | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957 | 716 | 1.632813 | 2 |
A splendid variety, yielding an abundance of bite-sized fruits which are deliciously sweet and juicy. It matures early producing long trusses of tomatoes. For best results this variety requires stalking. These juicy tomatoes are slightly smaller than your traditional cherry tomato. This Tomato is easy to grow which makes it perfect for kids! Excellent source of Vitamin C, A and E, potassium, fibre and antioxidants. Cooking Tip: Perfect for school lunch boxes, salads, snacks and hot dishes.
Mr F’s Tips: Harvest when red ripe, although slightly coloured fruit will ripen indoors.
How To Grow:
Sow 5mm deep in pots or trays of seed raising mix. Transplant to 10-15cm pots in a warm, sunny spot. Transfer to final fruiting position when sturdy enough. Space plants 50cm apart each way, supporting plants with a stake. Water daily, and when the first truss has set, feed regularly. Pinch out the side shoots as they appear. Can also be sown direct in final position, especially your late crop. Seedlings emerge 10-14days.
When To Plant: Early Spring to early Summer.
Harvest: 14-16 weeks
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Date: April 18 and 19, 2015 This event is designed to coordinate with the Civil War Sesquicentennial that is drawing go a close across the country in 2015. Charlotte had a little known but important part in the final days of the war. Our plan is to bring a few of those elements to life.
Scenario: In April 1865 the war has just ended. Charlotte is full of soldiers, transients, civilian residents, prisoners of war and refugees. It is a railroad center and industrial site that has well supported the war effort.
Rosedale’s prominence on N. Tryon Street makes it an inviting location for refugees to stop and camp. Dr. Caldwell, Rosedale’s owner, is deceased. His widow has taken their younger daughters and fled to her family in Rock Hill, S. C. Both of Caldwell’s sons served in the war effort. Younger son Baxter (age 27) is with NC 63rd in Virginia. Richmond has fallen and the whole south is on the move.
The farm has been rented in the absence of the family. Confederate President Jefferson Davis arrived in Charlotte April 18, 1865, and held meetings with his cabinet April 22 through 24. While on Tryon Street in Charlotte, Davis learned by telegram of Lincoln’s assassination. He continues to move south, and Charlotte is in a very unsettled state.
Invited groups: NC 13th, NC 28th, NC 30th, and the NC Militia/Home Guard, 30th NC Civilian Alliance, speakers, authors, medical demonstrations, site docents and local civilian impressionists.
Proposed Rosedale presentations
Tours of the Historic Rosedale home and gardens
General living history-refugees, cooking, laundry, child care, period fashions
General living history-Confederate military field hospital and care
General living history-soldiers returning home, encampment, prisoners and drills and a N.C. Militia/Home Guard presentation
Living history-A home in mourning. Presented in the mansion
Living History-Freed men and slaves in the city
Living History-Charlotte civilians and fashions, kid’s life
Living History- Outfitting Troops: Union vs. Confederate
Living History-Firearms demonstrations
Living History – Kids make “Poor Man’s candles”
Special Activities –
Ms. Nancy B. Brewer, local author, musician, story teller and lecturer will present music and excerpts from her ” Carolina Rain” series of historical fiction.
Michael Hardy, N.C Historian of the Year will speak on and his book “Civil War Charlotte and the Confederate naval Yard in Charlotte. Musicians.
Robert Hayes, Noted S.C. historian and lecturer will present his impression of President Jefferon Davis and will discuss the final Confederate Cabinet meeting in Charlotte after General Lee’s surrender and Davis’ flight south.
Ms. Kelly Hinson, Widely known for her War Between the States impressions and travelling lecture series, will present the life of Charlotte’s Anna Morris Jackson and her life with her husband T.J. “Stonewall” Jackson.
Food will be available for purchase on the grounds
For tickets visit… http://historicrosedale.org/events/36-Civil-War-in-Charlotte-The-End-of-The-Confederacy
And here’s the link to a clip video of last year’s event… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqw3_g4wpK4
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Wright-Patterson AFB is operating under Health Protection Condition (HPCON) Charlie. The Civil Engineer School’s goal is to maximize the safety of all students, faculty, and staff as we deliver in-resident course offerings. Please review The Civil Engineer HPCON Policy Letter for actions we are taking to minimize COVID impacts. We recommend you check the Course Description pages for updates on delivery method.
COURSE: WENV 020 Environmental Management Systems Coordinator
For each student to comprehend the Air Force Environmental Management System (EMS) framework in conjunction with the EMS activities at the installations. Students will thoroughly understand Air Force EMS processes and the execution of environmental management review process.
This on-line course provides a detailed understanding of requirements behind the Air Force Environmental Management Systems (EMS) framework. It provides an overview EMS and EMS tools. Course content includes: EMS Basics, cross-functional team (CFT) roles and responsibilities, coordinating activities between CFT and ESOH Council, Navigating eDASH/VEMO, Updating/Maintaining Your Installation Site, updates and advice by practitioners in the field. Students will: understand key Air Force requirements for an effective EMS, understand environmental inspection process; and appreciate the importance of the installation management review process. Graduates will develop baseline skills needed manage EMS processes at their installation. Successful completion of this course fully conforms to the requirements in DODI 4715.17, Environmental Management Systems, AFI 32-7001 Environmental Management, and ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems.
Installation EMS Coordinators, CFT Chairs, Installation Environmental Unit Chief (Civil Engineering) and Contracting Officer Representatives (CORs) overseeing environmental functions. Primary audience also includes other installation, AFCEC and MAJCOM (or
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The Danube-Swabian cultural museum opened in 1990 in Lake Villa, Illinois. Up until 1987 it was the "German-Hungarian Old Peoples Home". After closing the home in 1987, a major renovation turned this building into a museum. Since its opening, people have donated original old world items for display. These items range from kitchen utensils to costumes to toys to hand-stitched articles. An enormous amount of orginal items are displayed.
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So many books and so little time. CAMERA MAN: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens is a must read on my to-do-list. After listening to Dana on the Marc Maron show, the highly intelligent writer has got my interest. It also helps that I am a fan of Buster Keaton. It’s great to see new passion for Buster Keaton, who has garnished rightly deserved praise as a brilliant artist in recent years. This is one book that you should pick up and polish your knowledge on a much under appreciated silent cinema dominated by Buster Keaton.
In this genre-defying work of cultural history, the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keaton’s unique creative genius in the context of his time.
Born the same year as the film industry in 1895, Buster Keaton began his career as the child star of a family slapstick act reputed to be the most violent in vaudeville. Beginning in his early twenties, he enjoyed a decade-long stretch as the director, star, stuntman, editor, and all-around mastermind of some of the greatest silent comedies ever made, including Sherlock Jr., The General, and The Cameraman.
Even through his dark middle years as a severely depressed alcoholic finding work on the margins of show business, Keaton’s life had a way of reflecting the changes going on in the world around him. He found success in three different mediums at their creative peak: first vaudeville, then silent film, and finally the experimental early years of television. Over the course of his action-packed seventy years on earth, his life trajectory intersected with those of such influential figures as the escape artist Harry Houdini, the pioneering Black stage comedian Bert Williams, the television legend Lucille Ball, and literary innovators like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Samuel Beckett.
In Camera Man, film critic Dana Stevens pulls the lens out from Keaton’s life and work to look at concurrent developments in entertainment, journalism, law, technology, the political and social status of women, and the popular understanding of addiction. With erudition and sparkling humor, Stevens hopscotches among disciplines to bring us up to the present day, when Keaton’s breathtaking (and sometimes life-threatening) stunts remain more popular than ever as they circulate on the internet in the form of viral gifs. Far more than a biography or a work of film history, Camera Man is a wide-ranging meditation on modernity that paints a complex portrait of a one-of-a-kind artist.
Dana Stevens has been Slate’s film critic since 2006. She is also a cohost of the magazine’s long-running culture podcast, Culture Gabfest, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Bookforum. She lives with her family in New York. Camera Man is her first book. You can follow her on Twitter @TheHighSign.
Marc Maron talks with Dana about her new book, Camera Man, which is not just a biography of Keaton. It’s a look at the politics of film, the beginning of the studio system, the start of film criticism, the rise and fall of early movie stars, and how America dealt with the seismic change that was ushered in by this new art form.
“Dana Stevens’s “Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century” is a welcome complement, in that Stevens, a movie critic for Slate, contextualizes Keaton’s achievements in a way that Curtis does not. In an elegant preface, Stevens positions 1895, the year of Keaton’s birth, as a crucially transitional time, “not yet the 20th century but the still-illegible sign of what it might become.” Marconi has only just succeeded at “transmitting radio waves over a considerable distance.” Freud is struck by the idea to analyze his patients by interpreting their dreams. And in the basement of a Paris cafe, the Lumière brothers screen their moving pictures for a paying audience for the first time.”-New York Times
“Dana Stevens, in “Camera Man” (Atria), takes an original and, in a way, more distanced approach to Keaton. In place of a standard social history of silent comedy, much less a standard biography, Stevens offers a series of pas de deux between Keaton and other personages of his time, who shared one or another of his preoccupations or projects. It’s a new kind of history, making more of overlapping horizontal “frames” than of direct chronological history, and Stevens does it extraordinarily well.” – The New Yorker
“Stevens gives us telling details—how a forgotten short film from the Ford Motor Company(!) was the almost-certain inspiration for Keaton’s second-made, first-released film as a director, “Home Made.” And she gives us the context—how the careers of Mabel Normand and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle intersected and paralleled Keaton’s. (She also makes it clear that Arbuckle’s cancellation following allegations of rape was never supported by the facts determined at legal proceedings.) Time telescoped before me as I read that Joseph Schenck, who was Keaton’s brother-in-law and producer in the ’20s, was the same man who gave Marilyn Monroe her start in the ’50s. – rogerebert.com | <urn:uuid:51bc8b46-8387-42fc-8a50-2fd93e8c685d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sandboxworld.com/camera-man-buster-keaton-the-dawn-of-cinema-and-the-invention-of-the-twentieth-century-by-dana-stevens/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94428 | 1,198 | 1.984375 | 2 |
The heat is on, and yards and gardens are trying to survive the high temperatures and drought conditions. Consider these tips from the USU Extension Gardeners Almanac to help your garden succeed. Also included are links for further information.
- Plant cover crops to provide “green manure” to the garden.
- Collect and store seeds from your garden.
- Learn about how and when to harvest watermelon and cantaloupe.
- Harvest potatoes as soon as tubers begin forming.
- Harvest garlic and onions once the tops have dried down. Allow them to cure (dry) for 2-3 weeks before storing.
- Store potatoes, garlic and onions in a cool/dry location (32-40°F) away from apples.
- Plant trees and shrubs as the weather becomes cooler.
- Go hiking in the hills to enjoy autumn colors.
- Divide crowded, spring-blooming perennials.
- Consider composting fall leaves.
- Check pears for ripeness once the fruit twists off the tree easily and seeds are dark colored, and allow them to finish ripening off the tree.
- Apply a slow-release lawn fertilizer early in September to provide long-lasting results throughout the fall months.
- Remember that as temperatures cool, turfgrass requires minimal irrigation each week. See irrigation needs in your area.
- Plant new lawns or repair insect/diseased areas with grass seed, allowing 4-6 weeks for establishment before heavy frosts.
- Aerate compacted sites with a hollow core aerator when turfgrass is actively growing (September-October).
Pests and Problems:
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RunCore, a firm known for its SSD solutions for both the enterprise environment and the consumer market, has released one of the smallest SSDs with one of the biggest capacities. This gives it almost the highest data density yet, although of course it has trouble beating the densities found on mSATA SSDs, such as Mushkin's Atlas 480 GB mSATA SSD.
The SSDs will come in sizes ranging from 32 GB to 512 GB; this is in a 1.8" format for the Pro IV. It is just 70 x 52 x 5 mm in size, which makes it ideal as a high-speed storage solution for smaller computers. They also use the 40-pin ZIF interface.
The MLC NAND flash takes care of the storage, and the SSDs have read and write speeds of, respectively, 135 MB/s and 130 MB/s. Because of this, according to RunCore, the SSDs have a lifetime of around 80 years if the users write up to 10 GB per day. This is helped by the static and dynamic wear leveling algorithms.
Pricing for the 64 GB and 128 GB versions is at $139.99 and $269.99, respectively, with no word yet on pricing for the remainder of the units. There is no word on availability either. | <urn:uuid:84fba046-d757-4d2e-9e79-abf70ac74411> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tomshardware.com/news/RunCore-Pro-IV-SSD-ZIF,22391.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950072 | 269 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Stanford historian uncovers the dark roots of humanitarianism
Through a study of the history of the French colonial Congo-Océan Railway, Stanford historian JP Daughton has discovered how modern humanitarianism arose from the brutality of European colonialism.
Modern humanitarian endeavors are generally perceived of as works by good-willed people, selflessly striving to improve the lives of the less fortunate.
We have little reason to think that these individuals might be motivated by the same hubris that led 19th-century Europe to establish empires across the world.
Stanford historian JP Daughton wants to change that.
An associate professor of modern European history, Daughton’s research interests span imperialism and the history of humanitarianism. His latest work traces the roots of modern humanitarianism to a set of colonial development projects in the early 20th century.
Most histories of humanitarianism jump from international efforts to end slavery in the early 19th century to post-World War II humanitarian and refugee efforts. But Daughton says this approach misses a key point: Defenders of empire in the 19th and 20th centuries regularly saw imperialism as a fundamentally humanitarian enterprise.
Many people have traditionally thought that “Western industrialized countries can come in and transform societies and make them wealthier and happier and more stable,” says Daughton. But, he argues, not only can this process be outwardly violent and destructive, it also oftentimes has very unexpected consequences.
Daughton’s project attempts to fill in the missing middle, asserting that humanitarianism, in fact, evolved out of colonial debates.
Currently a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, Daughton believes that his discoveries demonstrate the extent to which contemporary notions of human rights and humanitarian development “came out of this period of colonialism, which – ironically – was obviously extremely violent and based on great iniquity and domination.”
Daughton’s current book project, Cover Not My Blood: Humanitarianism, Brutality, Disease and Denial in the Building of a French Colonial Railroad in the Congo, is based on research in archives on three continents. It explores the construction of the Congo-Océan Railway in French Equatorial Africa, in today’s Republic of the Congo.
The construction of this railroad, in the years between the world wars, cost thousands of lives and lasted over a decade. It fits in well with Daughton’s research, which looks at what he describes as “the intersection of violence and humanitarianism that has been such a central, if troubling, feature of modern imperialism.”
This history, he thinks, should give Westerners today pause in their belief that they alone have the solutions to the problems of the developing world.
Because this research “suggests that European ideas about development and humanitarianism often have had very unintended consequences and can potentially do as much harm as good,” Daughton says, “we can only learn from looking at events such as this and see the ways in which men and women before us have defined, defended and critiqued efforts to remake non-industrialized societies.”
This project, says Daughton, demonstrates that “the history of humanitarianism is inextricably linked with imperialism and with beliefs that liberal capitalism offers the only route to modernity.”
The Congo-Océan Railway, which stretched 512 kilometers from Brazzaville to the Atlantic coast at Pointe-Noire, was built over a period of 12 years, starting in the 1920s, under French direction.
Although colonial officials considered it a beneficent project, intended to lift “the Congolese people out of poverty,” it cost the lives of at least 20,000 indigenous laborers. Moreover, extreme deprivation followed the dislocation of communities necessitated by such a large-scale project.
“Though essentially forgotten outside of central Africa,” Daughton says, “the building of the railroad was as deadly as some of the most notorious modern examples of forced labor, such as Stalin’s White Sea–Baltic Canal project, and Japan’s use of POWs to build the Burma Railway.”
Relying on materials from collections in France and Switzerland, and archives in the Congo, Daughton has pieced together the first in-depth study of the railway’s conception and construction, and the human costs of this kind of colonial project.
As Daughton found, the railroad project and other such projects, which colonizers frequently pursued, were grounded in Europeans’ belief in the economic improvement of what they considered less “developed” peoples, specifically in their faith that “railroads would improve lives.”
Daughton says he believes “what is perhaps most striking – and tragic – is that French officials never doubted the humanity of the project, even in the face of mounting evidence that Africans regularly faced beatings, rape, disease and starvation in the process of building the railroad.”
Daughton argues, however, that the corollary to this was the equally strong belief among colonizers that “if people died, it didn’t really matter.”
In the archives where he conducted research, Daughton found “reams of letters in which powerful Frenchmen, including governor-generals and even ministers, essentially justified the deaths of thousands of men and women. European cultural and racial superiority convinced them that economic development in the long run was worth far more than the lives of Africans and their communities.”
In addition to violence and mistreatment, much of the misery suffered on the Congo-Océan construction site was due to widespread disease, including dysentery, malaria and possibly even HIV/AIDS.
Scientists have only been able definitively to trace HIV back as far as 1950s Brazzaville and Kinshasa, today the capitals, respectively, of Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, in recent years epidemiologists have found evidence that many railway workers died of extreme wasting, deterioration of the brain and other symptoms today associated with AIDS. If this is true, Daughton argues, it means that the construction of the railroad, with its forced migration of African laborers, was directly implicated in the early spread of HIV.
This possibility fits the narrative he has discovered, suggests Daughton, because the spread of AIDS “seems like one of the most horrific unexpected consequences that could come from this kind of mentality.”
While the story offers a cautionary tale about the origins of humanitarianism, Daughton believes that modern human rights discourses also arose out of contemporary critiques of the Congo-Océan Railway.
A wide range of French intellectuals and advocates, including writer and later Nobel laureate André Gide, openly criticized labor practices in the building of the railroad in the 1930s, informing for the first time a European discussion of human rights in the colonies.
As Daughton puts it, “There’s a way in which debates over many of these kinds of imperial projects really informed ideas at the beginning of the 1930s, just as many people around the world started to talk about human rights. This language of rights in turn informed many anti-colonial leaders to demand independence from colonial rule.” In this way, humanitarianism and rights were central to the rise and fall of European imperialism.
Daughton hopes ultimately that his work will provoke people to think more deeply about the moral implications of the colonial roots of humanitarianism and human rights.
“We tend to see humanitarian impulses as being simple, apolitical and kind acts,” says Daughton. “But my research makes plain that humanitarianism has always been closely allied to ideologies and power. And humanitarian projects that aren’t thought through and carried out with oversight can actually have really devastating effects.” | <urn:uuid:6b95fb58-affe-4b75-a225-633f7afdf2be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.stanford.edu/2015/04/23/humanitarian-congo-daughton-042315/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959889 | 1,643 | 2.890625 | 3 |
The holiday season is finally upon us, and Santa and his elves have been especially busy as they gear up for their biggest night of the year.
It’s no secret that Santa is known for running an efficient workshop — how else could he make all those toys in time for Christmas Eve? Rumor has it that one way Santa ensures an efficient workspace is through energy-saving measures.
Here are four ways Santa saves energy in his workshop.
- Unlike the rest of us, Santa leaves his decorations up year-round. By using LED holiday light strands, he’s able to save on his monthly energy bills. LED holiday strands can last up to 40 seasons, which make them a great option for any festive home.
- Santa requires power tools to make a year’s worth of new toys. That’s why he insists on using cordless power tools with the Energy Star rating. According to energystar.gov, if all power tools in the U.S. used Energy Star-rated battery chargers, 2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity could be saved — that’s equivalent to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 1.7 million tons!
- Mrs. Claus loves to keep warm by the fire in the evenings, and Santa knows one of the best tricks to ensure fireplace efficiency. While a fireplace can keep a small area of your home cozy and warm, it can also pull heated air from the room through the chimney. That’s why Santa always closes the fireplace flue when a fire isn’t burning.
- Santa also saves energy by using power strips. They’re ideal for workshops, craft nooks, game rooms and other spaces in your home. With one simple switch, you can conveniently control several devices and electronics that are plugged into the power strip.
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Stratasys Provides 3D Printing Solutions to NISMO Using Loctite Materials
NISMO, Nissans specialized motorsports team have been working on their new GT500 Super GT Car for the last few years. The car underwent a comprehensive re-design which focused on increasing the performance. However, their engineers were stuck on the re-design of a few critical parts of the race cars “yoke” steering wheel. The driving handles and the gaskets that cover the buttons on the yoke control panel. These parts had to meet exacting standards and have a precision feel. Drivers had given feedback of the current Yoke handles which had traditionally been CNC milled and then covered with leather. The feedback was that they were not as comfortable as they should be and didn’t provide the right “feel” for long term use.
The NISMO engineers decided to turn to additive manufacturing and considered a few 3D printing processes along with material options. Bearing in mind that for the yoke handles they required a solution that provided both durability and, more importantly, the correct shore and “rubberized feel” that the drivers preferred. The Stratasys Japan application team recommended the Origin One platform due to its wide variety of functional materials. IND402 was chosen as the most suitable material for the job. IND402 is a single component elastomer material with high elongation and high resilience, that maintains excellent tensile strength and high energy return
By leveraging 3D Printing and the additive process, NISMO was able to solve two different problems by using IND402, saving the team critical time needed to focus on other design and testing needs. IND402 offered high resilience and shock dampening characteristics to the yoke steering wheel, giving the drivers more precision control. NISMO now has a comfortable and durable solution in the hands of their drivers testing the new GT500 race car. | <urn:uuid:2d269854-5e55-418f-9294-db4d14c6a483> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.loctiteam.com/case-studies/loctite-materials-race-towards-providing-solutions-for-motorsport/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967354 | 403 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Social media has become a popular tool for presenting your agenda or product thanks to the trend set by Barrack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 political campaigns where he employed the use of sites like FB and Twitter.
Social media sites provide “A seamless communications network that has the power to cross cultural barriers and capture the attention … more effectively than ever before.”
Entrepreneurs frequently use SM as an incredible FREE marketing tool. Personally, I use most of the SM platforms to entice readers to buy my books. It’s a fantastic means for promotion of products.
As a means for getting your message or product out there, social media is priceless.
HOWEVER, social media also comes with red flags.
Stories about stories about social media gaffes by people and businesses are commonplace. The way you and/or your public relations team conducts itself on social media can have a lasting effect.
Our tracks on social media sites are embedded forever. No ocean waves can ever erase their presence.
So how do we do we guard our reputations when we don’t have an Emily Post etiquette book to guide us?
You can find 10 very specific tips to protect your web presence here
You also have to remember that management of your presence varies based on which social media sites you’re using — Youtube, Google Plus, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Facebook.
Don’t mistake the different social medias platforms as being the same. Each site has its own personality and its own unique platform for various audiences. It’s important to learn the right etiquette for each individual site whether you’re posting for pleasure or business.
CJ Lyons shared Serrano’s infographic on her site along with suggestions for guarding your reputation here
Vocus.com blog also posted an in depth guide to social media etiquette along with Serrano’s infographic here.
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Soil Health aims that scientists embrace soil health as an overarching principle that contributes to sustainability goals, rather than only one or several properties to measure. Soil Health publishes peer-reviewed articles in soil quality, soil water, soil chemistry, soil physics, soil fertility, soil microbiology, ecosystem services, rangeland issues, water management and reuse, water quality and scarcity, and use of brackish and produced waters for agriculture productivity and sustainability and their impacts on soil health. The Journal publishes original basic and applied research, reviews, notes, letters, and book reviews. Invited papers can be solicited from known experts.
The Journal provides opportunities for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary publications at multiple scales for soil, plant, and water researchers and students, including, agronomists, biogeochemists, chemists, ecologists, engineers, environmentalists, extension experts, geologists, horticulturists, hydrologists, pedologists, practitioners, soil physicists, and water managers. All papers submitted to the Journal undergo a thorough peer-review prior to being accepted for publication by the editorial board of the Journal. | <urn:uuid:4cf77177-f3a4-4967-bd3a-126cbc9969e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oaepublish.com/sh/pages/view/aims_and_scope | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.932289 | 228 | 2.140625 | 2 |
A key project that the funding will be put towards in the coming months is for the installation of improved signage at identified blackspot locations throughout the state.
A blackspot location is one that, historically, has had a high number of coastal safety related incidents including rescues, emergency call outs and drownings.
“Safety warning signs can be found as permanent installations or temporary warnings used in dangerous conditions such as powerful surf, said NSW Coastal Risk Officer Chris Twine.
“They are there to inform the beach user of the risks they face if they choose to swim at the beach and to educate the user to better prepare them if they enter the water.
Accommodation providers are an excellent source of surf safety facts for their guests, and signs can help provide additional information,” he said.
High risk situations can occur at locations that are in the general proximity of coastal accommodation providers such as caravan parks and camping grounds. Generally visitors who choose to holiday at the beach do so away from their home environment.
These visitors may not have developed the same level of education and swimming ability as locals who have grown up at these particular locations and it puts them at a higher risk of drowning as they are in unfamiliar waters.
Given these factors, coastal accommodation providers are ideally placed locations where new signage could potentially make a difference in reducing the drowning toll. A fact that isn’t lost on those charged with implementing the project over the coming season.
“Signage that directs visitors to the nearest patrolled location or provide emergency information are all essential parts of reducing the risk to a beach user, and over the coming season Surf Life Saving NSW will be working to identify areas where increased signage can have a positive effect,” said Mr Twine.
“We look forward to working with accommodation providers as we seek to deliver a safer surf environment for beachgoers around NSW.”
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Inflation runs ‘further and faster’ than expected at 9.4% in June
This takes inflation to a 40-year high, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). It jumped from 9.1% in May, and exceeds the 9.3% consensus forecast.
The ONS said rising prices for motor fuels and food resulted in the largest upward contributions to the monthly rates in June 2022.
Within transport, there was a 42.3% rise in the price of motor fuels – the highest rate since ONS records began in January 1989.
Average petrol prices stood at 184p per litre in June 2022, compared with 129.7ppl a year earlier. Meanwhile the average price of diesel in June 2022, which was 192.4 pence per litre, was also the highest recorded.
However, the category rise was partly offset by a 2.5% fall in the cost of second-hand cars.
Separately, food prices rose 9.8% in the year to June 2022, up from 8.7% in May. This is the highest rate since March 2009, and the ONS said the largest upward effect came from milk, cheese and eggs, compared with price falls a year ago. Vegetables, meat and ready meals also saw price hikes.
And turning to restaurants and accommodation, prices here rose 8.6% in the year to June, up from 7.6% in May. This was the highest since the 8.6% recorded in August 2021, which was influenced by the previous year’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme.
Further, the price of clothing and footwear eased as the figure came in at 6.1%, down from 6.9% in May. The ONS said prices normally fall at this time of year as the summer sale season begins, “but there was little movement in 2022, and in 2021, prices were still rising following the end of the coronavirus lockdown”.
‘Inflation peak higher than predictions’
Les Cameron, savings expert at M&G Wealth, said: “We now see the inflation peak is going to be higher than earlier predictions. What we don’t know is where it will stop and for how long these high rates will be around.
“Inflation will hit people in various ways, so depending on your age and lifestyle your reality may seem wholly different. Those spending a lot of time at home, pensioners for example, or the new army of people working from home, may feel they are experiencing much higher inflation, with increased energy and food prices and, for many, the dramatic rise in the cost of fuel taking their toll.
“People may have been feeling the heat over the last few days, but they’ll be feeling it financially when they need to turn the central heating back on in a few months’ time.
Ed Monk, associate director, personal investing at Fidelity International, said today’s rise in inflation adds to the evidence that the cost-of-living squeeze is going to get worse before it gets better.
“An increase was expected but at 9.4% the annual CPI rate recorded today exceeds forecasts and suggests the surge in inflation is running further and faster than expected. It was transport costs that added the most to the overall rate in the year to June, with drivers having to swallow a 42.3% rise in motor fuels.
“And the upward pressure on prices will only continue when further painful rises in energy bills come through in the Autumn.
“The inflation number has to be read alongside data on pay, which yesterday showed wages rising but still lagging prices, meaning households are getting poorer in real terms. The rise in CPI today means the squeeze on wages will get worse.”
Monk added: “The Bank of England has been left playing catch up and, despite tightening interest rates aggressively this year, may have to increase borrowing costs yet further and faster in order to prevent a more widespread inflationary spiral.”
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From where I sit, it seems to me that the entire landscape of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has changed, and changed quite significantly. The litany of announcements from pharmaceutical companies big and small revealing the unfortunate news that yet another promising agent for the treatment of AD has failed to meet its objectives in a clinical trial and is being withdrawn from the “race” to approval, is familiar and increasingly depressing. The most recent and perhaps most disappointing of these were the failures of two BACE-1 inhibitors, one in a Phase III trial, the other in a Phase IIb/III trial. I have discussed those two drugs, and, especially, their highly promising mode of action, in a previous encyclical, and there will be more to say later on in this one.
These failures, along with the many, many other failures to launch an effective drug for the treatment of AD, have had a dampening effect on AD research. For example, AD deaths have increased by 145% in the years from 2000 to 2017. Meantime, cancer deaths were declining; age-adjusted cancer mortality in the US declined by 26% from 1991 to 2015. But venture-capital funding for cancer during those overlapping years was much higher than for AD – $16.5 billion for cancer in the past 10 years versus $1.0 billion for AD.
You can’t exactly blame the moneybags guys for their reluctance to bet on a proposition where the odds are at least 20 to 1 against scoring a hit. Those odds are calculated based on the fact that only four (five if you count a combo) drugs are FDA approved for AD, versus the hundred-plus flops. And the odds are probably even worse, considering that none of the approved drugs do more than slightly delay the progression of dementia, and a couple were already approved for Parkinson’s disease. So, if financial gain is the supposed motivation for investing in AD research, you can see why research into new drug development is slowing down.
However, AD continues to receive considerable support from the Federal government. An additional $350 million were just added to the NIH budget specifically for AD research, bringing the total AD funding for the year 2020 to $2.8 billion. Overall, despite opposition From Above, Congress increased NIH funding for 2020 by about $3 billion, bringing the total funding to $42.1 billion.
Much of that funding supports scientific research into Alzheimer’s rather than specific drug development. And there’s a great deal of that going on. According to PubMed, there are more than 149,000 papers on AD, and according to the Clinical Trials registry, more than 2,000 clinical trials in various phases. What we’re not seeing are clinical trials of drugs in later phases with the objective of treating dementia in persons with established Alzheimer’s disease.
Before we get into the details, here’s an overview of the impact of AD in the US and the world.
- 5.7 million persons in the US are currently diagnosed with AD. That’s diagnosed with AD; an equal number are thought to have undiagnosed AD, perhaps in the early stages.
- This includes 200,000 persons under 65 years of age.
- One in ten people 65 years old or older has Alzheimer’s dementia. That percentage increases with age; 32% of people 85 years old or older have AD.
- Almost two-thirds of Americans with AD – 3.4 million – are women. The chief reason for this large imbalance is that women’s life expectancy is about 5 years greater than men’s life expectancy, and it’s in those 5 years that the incidence of AD increases steeply.
- AD prevalence is expected to increase as our population ages. By 2025, 7.1 million Americans are predicted to have AD, and by 2050, the number is predicted to be 13.8 million.
- The prevalence of AD and other dementias is about twice as high in African Americans and about one-and-one half times as high in Hispanic Americans as it is in non-Hispanic whites. The reasons for this are not entirely clear. The disparity is not thought to be due to genetic differences, rather to higher prevalence of conditions and circumstances which contribute to AD and dementia. We’ll go into some of those later in this post.
- According to the Alzheimer’s Association, the 2019 costs to the nation associated with AD will be about $277 billion. About half of this cost will be paid by Medicare, and another significant chunk by Medicaid. Unless there is a treatment breakthrough, total costs may reach $1.1 trillion by 2050.
- Annual Medicare costs per patient with AD are estimated to be about $24,000. For patients without AD the cost estimate is about $7,500.
- These costs don’t figure in the huge economic impact of AD on caregivers, often the immediate family members of the person with AD.
- AD is the 6th leading cause of death in the US.
- The death rate in the 5 other leading causes of death in the US – breast cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease, stroke, and HIV – have all declined between the years 2000 and 2015, while the death rate from AD has increased by 122%. At present, there is no cure, and the most effective treatments do nothing to stop the progress of the disease. At best, they slow it. This, may I note, is not unlike some cancer treatments that have been deemed moderately successful.
So, considering that Alzheimer’s disease is perhaps the most severe health threat to Americans and that drug development to manage this threat to our health, and indeed to our lives, has just about totally stalled, why is there not a vigorous public outcry to do something about it? It’s almost old stuff when presidents of the US proclaim vows to defeat cancer, but when it comes to AD, mum’s the word.
Perhaps it’s because Alzheimer’s mostly affects older folks. It’s intuitively okay to accept AD as a natural consequence of aging, whether or not it’s an accurate assessment. And it also seems to be ethically much more justified to spend dollars on medical treatment of diseases that mostly affect children than on diseases of the elderly. Money spent on preserving the life of an 8-year-old child buys more life-years than an equivalent sum spent on extending the life on an 80-year-old geezer.
As I see it, the prevailing view of AD separates the symptoms, primarily dementia, from the underlying causes, whether those might be the notorious amyloid beta (Aβ) or tau protein tangles, also called neurofibrillary tangles, or something entirely different. Essentially, the people working on Alzheimer’s have come to realize that those underlying causes can appear many years before any symptoms of dementia manifest themselves. Another complication emerges, notably that many elderly people (and many not so elderly!) exhibit traits of forgetfulness entirely unrelated to AD.
The result is that by the time a diagnosis of AD based on symptoms is firmly established and other forms of dementia are ruled out, it appears that Alzheimer’s dementia may be irreversible. The brain is already severely clogged with amyloid beta or tau protein tangles, or possibly both, and there are no handy brain-clearing instruments or substances.
The situation is further complicated by the reluctance of people to undergo procedures that might lead to a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, whatever these procedures might be. Indeed, if a diagnosis of AD does not lead to a course of treatment that significantly improves the symptoms, why would anyone be willing to be subjected to diagnosis? The outcome of the diagnostic procedure is certain to be bad news. In the case of a positive diagnosis, it’s “Yes, you have Alzheimer’s disease, but we can’t do anything to stop it.” And if the diagnosis is negative, it’s “No, you don’t have Alzheimer’s disease. You’re just an old-timer who is losing his marbles.” A lousy verdict either way.
In contrast, diagnostic procedures to detect many of the most common deadly diseases or conditions are downright attractive. Women don’t regard mammograms as pleasant experiences, but since mammograms have become widely accepted procedures (at least in most of the developed world) breast cancer mortality has plummeted. The same relationship holds true for many diseases. Most people accept these diagnostic procedures with a relatively optimistic frame of mind: if the outcome is positive – for example, the patient really does have breast cancer – effective treatment is available. And if the outcome is negative – no sign of breast cancer – it is received as good news. That is not the case with attempts to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease once it has taken hold. But a means of predicting AD in persons in whom the disease has not yet become established might be more attractive, especially if there are ways to stave it off.
The basic premise of much current research is that once the brain has been invaded by those substances that gunk up the works, whether those are Aβ or tau tangles or something else, nothing seems to works to clear out the gunk. However, it might be possible to take steps to protect the brain from the gunk and keep it functioning as well and as long as possible. Thus, the focus of the scientific/medical/ pharmaceutical complex, with few exceptions, appears to be on finding means of detecting AD sooner or identifying the individuals most at risk for developing AD.
Predicting Alzheimer’s Disease
The simplest avenue to predicting AD would be a biomarker – some kind of tell-tale substance whose presence, whether in the blood or another bodily fluid, would suggest that the individual was on a path that would lead to Alzheimer’s. A test to detect such a biomarker could then be routinely included in a blood test, for example, and could then be an accepted part of a general physical examination. When a person has a physical exam, he/she is not being specifically evaluated for the risks of developing any particular disease, but the blood test will provide information to predict whether the individual being tested is at risk for a number of diseases/conditions. What that means is that a person doesn’t have to wait until he/she gets lost on the way to the grocery store to be evaluated for AD. The results of the simple blood test would constitute a simple warning sign: “AD may be on the way for you, and you should try to take steps to avoid it.”
Such a test may be on the way. A study, presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2019 found that the presence of certain bodies in the blood was highly associated with the development of AD about four years before the emergence of symptoms. The study was conducted by the National Institute of Aging in Baltimore, and it studied a group of 128 individuals who had eventually developed AD and 222 age- and sex-matched controls who had remained cognitively normal. Blood samples had been collected from these persons at the start of the study, and the median time from the collection of the samples to the onset of AD was 4.07 years.
The specific bodies in the blood that predicted AD were extracellular particles, shed by all cells. The finding was that the diameters of the phosphorylated tau and phosphorylated insulin receptor substrate particles were significantly higher in the preclinical samples of individuals who would eventually develop Alzheimer’s disease than in those who did not develop AD.
The differences between the test results in the group that developed AD and the group that did not indicated that the test would have a high degree of sensitivity (81.8%) and specificity (85.8%). The total area under the curve, indicating overall predictive efficacy, was 89.6%
The lead researcher, Dimitrios Kapogiannis MD, notes that these results, while highly encouraging, are by no means the end of the journey. Kapogiannis pointed out that there are several other particles that may also be specific markers for AD, and it may be possible to add some of these to the assay and arrive at a test that is more accurate than the sum of its parts. (Kalogiannis D. JAMA Neurol 2019 Jul 15)
A possibly relevant finding in this study was that the two cohorts had similar quantities of other substrate particles which were similar in diameter as well. One of the substrate particles that were similar both in quantity and diameter were Aβ 42, which is the form of Aβ that has been postulated as a causative factor in Alzheimer’s disease. But the study found no differences between the quantities or diameters of those particular particles between the individuals who went on to develop AD and those who remained free of AD. The study authors came to no conclusions regarding this finding and the question of Aβ as the underlying cause of AD. Nor did they suggest that their findings provided support for the alternative theory, that the true cause of AD is related to tau proteins. In any case, it is one more bit of evidence that needs to be considered in establishing the cause of AD.
Other bits of evidence that need to be weighed include the continuing series of failures in the trials of keenly anticipated Alzheimer’s drugs of the class known as BACE inhibitors.
What does the failure of BACE inhibitors say about the amyloid beta 42 hypothesis?
We now know that our brains normally contain considerable quantities of a substance called amyloid precursor protein (APP). It is not inside the neurons, nor yet in the dendrites extending from the neuron, but in the spaces between the dendrites, across which the signal from one neuron is transmitted to another neuron. The signal is in the form of a neurotransmitter, usually a chemical that passes through the dendrite, across the synapse, is received by another dendrite, and travels to a receptor neuron. Our brains contain billions of neurons; each neuron can have as many as hundreds of thousands of dendrites, and the total number of synapses in our brains is thought to be in the neighborhood of a hundred trillion.
And in all of those synapses there is amyloid precursor protein, a portion of which contains the amyloid beta peptide sequence. This is true of all normal, well-functioning synapses. What happens in the formation of the particular toxic plaques that result in AD is that enzymes cleave APP, leaving the amyloid beta (Aβ) segments. Two protease enzymes take part in this process – beta (β) secretase and gamma (γ) secretase. β-secretase (BACE) does the bulk of the work, and γ-secretase applies the finishing touches.
It now appears that there are two versions of Aβ. One is a sequence of 40 amino acids; the other one is just two amino acids longer. These are now labeled Aβ 40 and Aβ 42. The ratio of Aβ 40 to Aβ 42 in plaque is usually about 9 to 1, but there is evidence suggesting that when the proportion of Aβ 42 increases, the toxicity of the plaque increases. Increased quantities of the Aβ 42 peptide appear to shift the behavior of the entire Aβ pool towards obstruction the transmission of information across synapses – in other words, towards dementia.
A class of agents that showed early promise, but has since been disappointing, targets BACE, the enzyme that cleaves amyloid precursor protein (APP), thus resulting in Aβ accumulation in the synaptic space between neurons, and inhibiting the transmittal of neurotransmitters across this space. Since the transmittal of neurotransmitters from one neuron to another essentially constitutes brain activity, Aβ accumulation preventing this activity has been considered to be, if not the, at least an, essential cause of AD. Several agents inhibiting the action of that enzyme have been in various stages of development for a number of years.
Most of these agents are in a class called monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), and they are derived from various sources. Researchers identify antibodies that have emerged in response to various challenges, some in mice (murine) or other animals, some in humans. These antibodies are then cloned and produced in the laboratory. The process of creating mAbs is basically the same whether the antibodies are in response to an immune process, as in rheumatoid arthritis, to a cancer, or, in the case of AD, to the enzyme that does most of the work of cleaving Aβ from the precursor protein.
The news about these agents has been mostly bad:
- Solanezumab, from Eli Lilly, failed to meet its primary end-points in terms of cognition and activities of daily living in a Phase III trial.
- Bapineuzumab, from Johnson & Johnson/Pfizer, was supposedly scrapped three years ago, for a similar Phase III trial failure. Although brain imaging showed positive changes in Aβ deposition, the patients taking bapineuzumab did not demonstrate clinical improvement in cognition and activities of daily living.
- Ganterenumab, from Roche, has also been scrapped, or at least interrupted. Ganterenumab is hampered by the risk of an adverse effect known as ARIA (amyloid-related imaging abnormalities), which can lead to dangerous swelling of the brain, thus there is a reluctance to push the dose, and effective dosing levels may not have been reached in clinical trials.
- Crenezumab, from Genentech/Roche in partnership with AC Immune, also failed to meet endpoints in a Phase II trial, but reported some improvement in cognition in patients with mild AD.
The most recent BACE inhibitor flops were particularly resounding. Merck’s verubecestat demonstrated a significant reduction in the levels of Aβ in the brain of patients with early Alzheimer’s, but this reduction was not accompanied by any beneficial effect on cognition. The Phase III trial compared two groups of patients taking 12 mg and 40 mg of verubecestat with patients taking placebo. At the end of 104 weeks of treatment, both groups of patient taking verubecestat had worse scores on tests evaluating cognition than did patients taking placebo. The test used was the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale-Sum of Boxes scores, with higher scores indicating worse cognition and daily function. The mean scores in placebo patients was 1.58, while the 12 mg and 40 mg verubecestat patients’ means scores were 1.65 and 2.02 respectively, suggesting not only that verubecestat treatment worsened cognition, but that higher doses worsened cognition more than lower doses.
Looking at the estimated rate of progression leading to dementia, again the number of events considerably favored the placebo group, with an estimated 19.3 events per hundred patient years, compared with 24.5 and 25.5 events leading to dementia in the 12 mg and 40 mg verubecestat cohorts.
A Phase 2b/3 trial in another BACE inhibitor, atabecestat, from Janssen, was terminated because participants taking the study drug had seriously elevated levels of liver enzymes. Interim scores of the Preclinical Alzheimer’s Cognitive Composite Score also suggested greater cognitive decline in the atabecestat cohort than in subjects taking placebo.
A major setback in the BACE inhibitor arena was the suspension of two clinical trials in the drug aducanumab. In March of this year Biogen and Eisai announced that they would end the Phase III ENGAGE and EMERGE trials of aducanumab in early AD. An analysis demonstrated that the two trials had no chance of meeting their primary endpoints, those being the slowing of cognitive decline as measured by the abovementioned Clinical Dementia Rating Scale-Sum of Boxes. A total of 3,200 patients had been recruited worldwide for these trials.
Workers in the Alzheimer’s field were disappointed, but perhaps not surprised. John Hardy, of University College in London, wrote “This tells us that the removal of amyloid in people with disease is too late. Amyloid is a disease trigger Once the neurodegenerative disease process is up and running, it’s up and running.”
David Holzman, of Washington University, St Louis wrote, “I think Aβ is still a good target for the primary and maybe secondary prevention trials of AD, before tau and inflammation have started driving the disease.”
These flubs do not mean that the strategy of preventing or slowing Aβ accumulation is a failure. However, a problem with the entire mAb class is the difficulty these molecules have in passing the blood-brain barrier. For example, the crenezumab molecule is huge – it consists of about 20,000 atomic units, with a weight of 144.88 kiloDaltons. As a result, the concentration of the antibodies within the brain is only about 0.1% of the concentration in the serum – or, to put it another way, to get enough concentration in the brain, the serum concentration has to be about 1000 times higher. This invariably entails a risk of adverse effects, so researchers are understandably highly reluctant to escalate the dose. No one at this point can be certain that beta-secretase does not play significant roles elsewhere in the body, so huge doses of any BACE inhibitor may be chancy.
The failure of the Aβ-targeted therapies by itself does not mean that the amyloid hypothesis is null and void. However, it is by now clear that attempting to reduce the formation of more Aβ plaque, once the disease process is under way, will not have any clinical effect.
What about taking aim at tau protein?
Much less capital has been expended on this alternative hypothesis. The essential difference between Aβ and tau protein is that while the Aβ structures impede communication between neurons by congregating in the synapses, tau protein fibrils cause neuron death by forming tangles in the axons, which are the conduits through which neurons obtain nourishment. In brief, Aβ does its dirty work outside the neurons while tau protein kills neurons from within.
A leader in the search for an agent that prevents or at least slows tau protein aggregation is TauRX Therapeutics, Ltd, of Aberdeen, Scotland. TauRX is a biotech spun off from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, where its clinical trials are being conducted, although its official headquarters are based in Singapore, likely for tax reasons. Their AD candidates are derived from a parent compound, methylene blue, which has been around for decades, and has been used to treat malaria and methemoglobinemia, a blood disease in which normal hemoglobin is replaced by a form containing ferric rather than ferrous iron, which is less able to transport oxygen. TauRX’s first formulation based on methylene blue (methylthioninium chloride) was Rember, which has been replaced by a successor, LMTX, formerly labelled TRx0237. LMTX and Rember have the same mode of action, but LMTX is a stabilized, reduced form of the parent compound in order to improve the drug’s absorption, bioavailability, and tolerability.
LMTX has been evaluated in a number of clinical trials and at several different dosages. In several of these trials, LMTX failed to meet its endpoints. However, in trials designated as TRx-015 and TRx-005, further analysis of the results demonstrated that patients who were taking LMTX as monotherapy experienced a significant decrease in disease progression in comparison with placebo, and the level of brain atrophy diminished by 33% and 38% respectively in the two trials.
Both trials also determined that the benefit of the 8mg/day dose, originally intended to be a control, was similar to the higher doses and had fewer side effects. To confirm whether there is a benefit to LMTX as a monotherapy, TauRx is currently running another Phase II/III trial called LUCIDITY to investigate two low doses (8 mg and 16mg) of LMTX vs. placebo. The trial is looking to recruit 375 participants with early Alzheimer’s disease. The primary outcomes of the study include changes in brain function using imaging techniques, changes in cognitive performance, and the number and types of adverse events. Results of the study are expected in December 2020.
What factors increase or decrease the chances of developing AD and dementia?
An important point of departure is that Alzheimer’s is not synonymous with dementia. The type of dementia associated with AD is different from other types of dementia, as in dementia resulting from trauma or a cerebrovascular incident. The physiologic features of AD, such as depositions of the notorious amyloid beta and tau protein, do not result in dementia in every case. Persons with these elements in their brain frequently demonstrate characteristics of dementia, but not invariably. In a previous Doc Gumshoe piece about AD, I described a famous study in nuns, which found a strong link between the language they used in the essays they wrote when they first entered the nunnery and the likelihood of becoming demented in their later years. The analysis was not highly sophisticated. It simply measured the length of words and sentences. The nuns whose essays, composed for the most part when they were in their early twenties, employed longer words and sentences, were less likely to present symptoms of dementia fifty or sixty years later. The nuns in this study had also given permission to have their brains examined on autopsy, and it was found that many nuns who had many of the physiologic features of dementia in their brains, finished their lives in a totally lucid state.
What presumably protected those nuns who, while having the Aβ deposits in their brains associated with AD, did not become demented, was what might be termed “cognitive reserve.” This sounds fairly obvious – if you have more reserve of any faculty, including cognition, you can afford to spare more of that faculty than a person that has less of it to start out with. And the data seem to support this concept. For example, several factors may affect cognitive reserve, either positively or negatively. Early life education and later life cognitive training boost cognitive reserve, while peripheral hearing loss diminishes cognitive reserve because of the lack of stimulating input that persons with hearing loss experience.
An organization in the UK called the Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care Commission conducted an extensive observational study in about 10,000 community-dwelling adults. A conclusion of the study was that as much as 35% of the incidence of dementia could be attributed to what they called “Population Attributable Factors” (PAFs). The PAFs are risk factors that are subject to modification.
The Lancet paper separates those modifiable risk factors according to periods in an individual’s life. In early life, poor education (i.e., no schooling beyond 11th grade) may account for 8% of dementia incidence, while in the middle years, the principal PAFs are hearing loss (9%), hypertension (2%) and obesity (1%), and in late life the PAFs are smoking (5%), depression (4%), physical inactivity (3%), social isolation (2%), and diabetes (1%). It’s highly likely that a number of those risk factors overlap; for example, high-school dropouts are far more likely to be smokers than are college graduates, and hypertension, obesity, physical inactivity, and diabetes certainly do tend to go together. Other data, by the way, tend to corroborate the Lancet conclusions, e.g., a 19% increase in midlife obesity in China was accompanied by a similar increase in the incidence of dementia. Cause and effect? Coincidence?
Possible effect of dietary changes on dementia and Alzheimer’s
In the Lancet paper adherence to the Mediterranean diet is suggested as a way of reducing the risk of AD and dementia. The Mediterranean diet is generally considered to be beneficial in the management of diabetes, hypertension, and elevated cholesterol, and there is evidence that this diet is beneficial in terms of prevention of the brain changes that are thought to lead to AD. However, there is no evidence for a comprehensive diet to prevent AD.
Perhaps the strongest evidence relates to some antioxidant nutrients, including in particular vitamin E and vitamin C, which have been shown, at least in animal studies, to protect the brain from damage due to inflammatory and oxidative mechanisms. Three prospective human studies assessed the relationship between those nutrients and the risk of Alzheimer’s disease – one in Chicago, one in Rotterdam, and one in New York City. The Chicago and Rotterdam studies found a significantly lower risk of AD in individuals with a higher intake of vitamin E; the New York study did not find that association, but it happened that the vitamin E intake in subjects in the New York study was very much lower than in the Chicago or Rotterdam cohorts, so that may have accounted for the difference. The relationship between vitamin C intake and AD was much less robust than with vitamin E; only the Rotterdam study found a link.
But none of those studies found a link between vitamin E and vitamin C supplements and a reduced risk of Alzheimer’s. To the extent that a reduced risk was detected in relationship with vitamin E intake, it was only as a result of the presence in the diet of foods that were rich in vitamin E. Which foods are these? According to nutritionists, the foods richest in vitamin E are vegetable oils, nuts (especially almonds), seeds, and also whole grains, eggs, and some fruits and vegetables such as avocados, apples, and melons. Doesn’t sound too bad.
Dietary fats, especially transfats, may significantly increase the risk of Alzheimer’s. It’s intuitively attractive that cholesterol in the vascular system in the brain cannot be good for cognition, and a study in Japan showed a strong relationship between cholesterol levels and the deposition of amyloid plaques in the brain. The study followed 147 adults for up to 15 years before their deaths, and then performed autopsies on their brains. Those whose total cholesterol levels were more than 224 mg/dL were seven times more likely to have amyloid plaques than those whose total cholesterol was below 173 mg/dl. The link between elevated LDL-cholesterol, greater than 155 mg/dL and amyloid plaque was even more robust, by a factor of eight, over those whose LDL-C level was below 106 mg/dL. Whether those persons with more amyloid plaques were also actually more demented is not known.
Other factors that affect cognition and dementia
An investigation conducted as part of the Harvard Aging Brain Study found that greater physical activity was associated with slower Aβ-linked cognitive decline. The physical activity of 182 clinically normal adults, average age about 73 was monitored at baseline using waistband pedometers. Cognition was measured annually with the Preclinical Alzheimer Cognitive Composite for about 6 years. There was no association of physical activity with Aβ burden, but even modest levels of physical activity were linked to slower cognitive decline as well as grey matter volume loss. In both cases, the relationship was highly significant – P < 0.001 and P < 0.002. (JAMA Neurol. July 16, 2019. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2019.1879)
Traumatic brain injury increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, and in some cases markedly ups the risk. A moderate brain injury doubles AD risk; a severe brain injury quadruples it. Trauma resulting in loss of consciousness for 30 minutes or more is classified as moderate; however, repetitive injuries resulting in shorter blackouts can have the same consequences for developing Alzheimer’s-related dementia. The most common cause is auto accidents, but football and boxing can lead to dementia.
We haven’t gotten around to discussing the relationship between AD and the apolipoprotein genes – APOEε2, APOEε3, and APOEε4. APOEε2 is present in about 19% to 20% of the population, and those lucky folks have a lower incidence of AD, APOEε3 is the most common form and as far as is presently known, has no effect on the incidence of AD. APOEε4, on the other hand, is thought to be a culprit in AD. Up to 65% of persons with AD have at least one copy of APOEε4. It appears that having that gene doubles the likelihood of developing AD and perhaps even triples it. Persons with two copies of that gene – one from each parent – tend to develop full-fledged Alzheimer’s dementia at a much younger age than persons with one copy.
Where do we come out?
As we review the factors that seem to contribute to Alzheimer’s and AD dementia, a profile of the likely victim takes shape. She (most likely a woman) is poorly educated (a high-school dropout), obese, a smoker, eats mostly junk food, is physically inactive, and perhaps is afflicted with one or more chronic conditions such as diabetes, high cholesterol or hypertension – conditions which, of course, are more prevalent in obese sedentary smokers. Our victim is also more likely to be African-American or Hispanic. She might be able to improve her chances of avoiding Alzheimer’s dementia if she lost weight, quit smoking, joined a gym, and so forth. But that’s a lot harder than it sounds.
In contrast, consider a very good friend of ours, who is highly educated, trim and fit, a life-long non-smoker who successfully manages his type 2 diabetes through diet alone. Nonetheless, he has Alzheimer’s disease, likely due to his genetic inheritance. He remains highly active and able to participate in conversations, which he ably steers to avoid the gaps in his cognition. He is receiving one of the very few drugs approved for AD – there are five in all, including one combination, and none of them make any pretense at reversing the disease course or doing anything more than perhaps slowing progression.
I can’t think of a single thing that our friend could have done to prevent the development of AD. There will certainly be individuals like our friend, who, despite all efforts to the contrary including mental and physical exercises and the healthiest possible lifestyle, ultimately go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease. But they can probably stave it off and gain more years of living while in full possession of their wits. In fact, that’s the situation for the rest of us. What we want is for our mental capacities to remain optimal even as our physical capacities dwindle
But what AD research tells us is that, at least in the case of Alzheimer’s disease, physical and mental capacities are one and the same. The transmission of information between our brain cells is purely physical, and it is that transmission that constitutes mental activity. Alzheimer’s impedes that transmission, likely through the growth of some form of crud in our brains. And because the growth of that crud is physical, there is reason to hope that some form of physical intervention, whether it be a drug (a chemical) or some form of exterior stimulation acting on the physical brain activity, may be able to counteract in some way the effects of the stuff that gums up the works in our brains. So in spite of the big decline in research aimed at finding effective new treatments, I (speaking as Doc Gumshoe) am keeping up my hopes for something that really works.
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Shopping for a used car should not be that complicated. A history report is a valuable gimmick against used car shopping apprehension. With the history report on your hand, you can possibly get every information about the car from the date it was bought. This information includes- stolen statements, written-off reports, accidents, changed and maintained parts, and so on.
Used car buyers are often accompanied to nervousness and dread. At times, car buyers are skeptical about the price range of a fresh-looking used car being too subtracting. We advise you not to buy a used vehicle without having the following information.
Here is a list of details on why a history report is essential in 2020.
- Used cars are often sold with amended Odometer and tempted consoles.
- A history report provides detailed information if it has been into an accident.
- A legal copy of a vehicle showing it's not stolen nor has multiple titles.
- A complete history report if a vehicle has been classified into insurance write-off.
- It includes information on any changes and modifications done to the vehicle.
- Information on previous owners and state it was driven.
How to get a vehicle history report?
By the time you visit a seller, he should have a history report of the vehicle in his hand. If an owner asks for the charge to provide you with a history report, then there is certainly something he's trying to hide. A VIN number helps you get a history check on the vehicle.
VIN number is a 17 digit specific code provided to the individual vehicle. Two vehicles cannot have the same VIN number regardless it's a state or a market.
You can find a VIN number of a vehicle on the car documents. Physically, the number is also printed at the dashboard or the back of the driver's seat. With a VIN, you can track the vehicle's condition if it's been stolen, damaged, and including any financial coverage.
Initially, you need to look after the outer body parts of the car. Besides all the cosmetics and designs, you need to look down the car's edge if it has big wavy dents. Also, examine the car if its body matches the overall structure. Open and close the door and window a couple of times to ensure the door closes properly and lines are correct. Moreover, if anything suspicious shows in a history report related to body modification, leave the deal.
If you notice massive differences and bodywork on a vehicle, then it's a sign of inadequate maintenance and ownership. While dealing with a car, sometimes it's easy, and other times it's hard to negotiate. Right off the bat, ask the owner if they are the owner of the vehicle. A seller with good ownership always has a history report, insurance paper, and other related legal documents at the time of the trade.
When you have decided to look after the history report, the initial inspection you need to consider is if there have been serious accidents. Not all vehicles meet a similar kind of collision; some can be fixed with the general repair while others require complete refurbishing. A severe collision damages the car structure. If you are not sure, have an experienced mechanic to look after the vehicle in the first place.
Moreover, a vehicle history must include title history. The branded title signifies stolen or accident involved vehicles and is considered illegal in most of the country.
Often a trickster makes excuses that the registration reports have been lost. This could be a sign that he/she's trying to hide the biggest flaw in their car. It could also hint that the car was off the road for an extended period.
People have myths that digital consoles can't be tempered, but it's not the case. All digital information of a vehicle is stored in a chipset, and an owner altering the chipset data can fool you. Since the history report has every detail, you can simply look at the mileage of the vehicle. The marking needs to increase second-time owner visits for inspection; if it's lowering down, then be skeptical and raise a question.
You can protect against Odometer fraud by comparing the data on the history report and the car itself to make sure they both match. If it's too good to be true, indeed, the data should be considered as a deal-breaker.
Another thing you need to notice while looking at the used car is how long before you need to replace the tires. Besides looking at the surface thread of the tire, inspect the inside edge of the vehicle. Give a tire a right and left turn for better visibility. Generally, changing tiers are expensive, and you would not want to buy a car with a turbulent history. A history report records the vehicle condition over time.
Subsequently, the surface history report is sufficient enough to provide you with the exact car condition; however, there are other tiny red flags you should keep an eye into. These include;
- Fluid levels and appearance
- Dash Light and Tempering
- Mileage danger zone
- Gear shifting trouble
- Failing AC
You saved your months of money to buy a vehicle and found one that is a perfect fit for you. You contacted the owner and made a deal to buy it after a test drive. Later that week, you see a couple of cops in your garage with a stolen vehicle statement. The fuss is due to a lack of sincerity towards getting a proper Revs check for a used car in the first place.
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Lawsuits over type 2 diabetes drugs like Tradjenta have been growing in number year after year. These medications have been found to increase the risks of a number of serious health conditions from pancreatitis to cancer to lactic acidosis. Many people believe that they were not adequately warned about these risks before starting to take the medications to treat high blood sugar.
Medications like Tradjenta are fairly new and the evidence that they can cause harm is mounting and adding fuel to the lawsuits against the companies that make them. Accusations are being made that these companies failed to warn patients about risks, that they did not properly test the medications, and that they marketed the medications, representing them as safer, and more effective, than they are. If you suffered some of the harmful consequences of Tradjenta, you may be interested in presenting your case in court.
Type 2 Diabetes and Medication
One of the big issues with drugs like Tradjenta is that they have proliferated over the last decade as the number of people with type 2 diabetes has expanded. The drug companies rushed to get drugs to market that could treat this condition, have been marketing them relentlessly, and are raking in billions of dollars in sales. Some question whether the companies took the time to test these drugs adequately and if they have been marketed honestly, or if risks have been suppressed.
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic condition characterized by high blood sugar levels. Because of a poor diet, lack of exercise, and being overweight or obese, a person with this condition has become insensitive to insulin or has stopped producing enough of it. Insulin is the hormone excreted by the pancreas that controls blood sugar levels. Medications for type 2 diabetes lower blood sugar and are supposed to be used along with changes in diet and exercise.
Tradjenta and DPP-4 Inhibitors
Tradjenta is the brand name of a drug called linagliptin. It was developed jointly between Eli Lilly and German drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim. Another drug called Jentadueto also contains linagliptin in combination with metformin, an older medication used to treat type 2 diabetes. Linagliptin belongs to the class of drugs called dipeptidyl peptidas-4 inhibitors, or DPP-4 inhibitors.
DPP-4 inhibitors work by blocking the DPP-4 enzyme. DPP-4 normally breaks down hormones that stimulate the release of insulin from the pancreas. By blocking it, linagliptin allows more insulin to be released and the result is lowered blood sugar levels.
There are several possible side effects of Tradjenta, although most people tolerate it well. It can cause upper respiratory and cold-like infections that congestion, a runny nose, coughing, and a sore throat. Some people may also experience joint pain, headaches, and diarrhea.
Tradjenta may cause more serious complications in some patients, which account for the lawsuits filed against type 2 diabetes drug makers like Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim. One of these serious side effects is pancreatitis, or inflammation of the pancreas. Most serious of all is the possibility of developing acute pancreatitis. This is a form of the illness that has a sudden onset and gets worse quickly. It can be life-threatening if not caught and treated quickly.
Pancreatitis can sometimes lead to pancreatic cancer, but there is also growing evidence that DPP-4 inhibitors like Tradjenta may directly increase the risk of developing this serious and aggressive type of cancer. Other DPP-4 inhibitors have been found to increase the risk by as much as two times as compared to people on other medications. The risk also increases as a patient takes the medication over a longer period of time.
The risk of pancreatic cancer is serious enough that the FDA issued a warning in 2013 about all DPP-4 inhibitors. The warning stated that evidence is very strong that these drugs can increase the risk of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. It also included facts from research that found pre-cancerous cells in the pancreases of some patients who had taken these medications. The FDA decided the evidence all together is not totally conclusive, but strong enough to warn patients and doctors to weigh the benefits of these drugs with the risks before using them.
Tradjenta is still a very new medication and as reports come in about adverse events and evidence from studies grows, experts believe that lawsuits will be filed over it. Similar drugs, including Januvia and Byetta have been on the market longer and have already been the subject of lawsuits because of complications like pancreatitis and cancer.
Januvia, like Tradjenta, is a DPP-4 inhibitor and it has been found to contribute to pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, and thyroid cancer. It has also been the basis for lawsuits against maker Merck, including one in which a husband filed on behalf of his deceased wife. She died of pancreatic cancer after taking the DPP-4 inhibitor. Many more lawsuits like this one are being filed and tried and have been consolidated into large multidistrict litigation.
Filing a Tradjenta Lawsuit
Because other DPP-4 inhibitors and other types of type 2 diabetes drugs are the subjects of lawsuits, it stands to reason that Tradjenta won’t be far behind. The FDA issued the warning about pancreatitis and cancer, but not before many patients took the drug. There are still people relying on it for the management of blood sugar, and if these people are diagnosed in a year or two with cancer or pancreatitis, they may feel justified in suing Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim.
The lawsuits that are filed over DPP-4 inhibitors accuse the drug makers of selling a defective medication, of not testing medications properly, of failing to warn the public of all the risks, of misrepresenting a product as safe, and many other negligent behaviors. The plaintiffs in these cases believe that the drug companies engaged in various counts of wrongdoing and they hope to get punitive damages and compensation for their pain and suffering.
If you are among the many people struggling with type 2 diabetes, you may have felt relieved to know there were medications you could rely on to help you control your blood sugar. What you may not have realized is that these drugs can cause serious harm. You may have ended up with more medical expenses from extended medical care, and even lost income from being too sick to go to work. Filing a lawsuit against the maker of the drug that harmed you is a reasonable thing to do and could provide you with the money you need to cover these costs as well as your emotional and physical pain and suffering. With the help of a lawyer you can find out if a Tradjenta lawsuit is in your future. | <urn:uuid:0bd42ca6-dceb-4d99-a570-7b607aaae864> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.recallreport.org/financial-compensation/tradjenta-lawsuits/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965288 | 1,582 | 2.125 | 2 |
Borough Green to Sevenoaks walk
A Country House, Igtham Mote (NT), Knole Palace and deer park (NT), as well as pretty countryside, and close to London.
Plaxtol, Ightham Mote & Knole House
16.1km (10 miles), 4 hours 30 minutes. For the whole outing, including trains, sights and meals, allow at least 8 hours 30 minutes.
4 out of 10 (more when muddy)
Explorer 147 or Landranger 188. Borough Green, map reference TQ 608 573 is in Kent, 9km east of Sevenoaks.
This lovely walk passes Ightham Mote and the dramatic and very large Knole Palace (both National Trust). The palace is set in a pretty deer park.
The walk starts in Borough Green, and goes south through woods and along streams to the old village of Plaxtol with its Cromwellian church. Then through the park of Fairlawne House to Ightham Mote, a beautiful moated medieval manor, and lunch in its National Trust restaurant.
The route onwards is up a bridleway, through orchards and alongside a new lavender farm and along shaded woodland paths leading to the 1,000-acre Knole Park and its 365-roomed Knole House, then up by footpaths to tea in Sevenoaks, with the station some way downhill from the centre.
In winter many of the bridleways on this walk can be very muddy (particulary those from Basted to Plaxtol) so at such times do where appropriate footwear.
You could order a taxi from Plaxtol or from Ightham Mote. There are occasional buses from Plaxtol to Borough Green Station but not at weekends.
Two short detours (both adding about 1.4km to the walk’s length) are described in case you would prefer to have lunch at a pub rather than the National Trust restaurant at Ightham Mote (which is not open every day: see below).
The Cromwellian Plaxtol Parish Church, built in 1649, has a fine seventeenth-century hammer-beam roof that was originally painted blue. Thomas Stanley of Hamptons, later beheaded for his part in the execution of Charles I, contributed money for repairing the church. There is a slab in the nave floor recording the death, within one month in 1771, of four young children of the Knowles family.
Knole House, built in the fifteenth century (and so huge that it has a room for every day of the year), was visited by Elizabeth I in 1573, who granted it to Thomas Sackville. It remained in the Sackville family and was the childhood home of Vita Sackville-West, featuring in Virginia Woolf's Orlando. The House, with its tapestries, paintings and collection of seventeenth-century furniture, is open to visitors from mid-March to the end of October, Tuesday to Sunday (plus bank holiday Mondays) from 11 am to 4 pm with last entry at 3.30 pm. The Brewhouse Cafe is usually open until 4.30 pm (no entry charge for non-members). Admission to the House is free to NT members. Otherwise (2022): £17.00. Car park free to NT members, not available for non-members. Pre-booking on-line is preferred for all NT members and visitors. The house stands in a park of 1,000 acres. There is no charge for walking in the park and in any case the route described in the walk directions follows public rights of way.
Ightham Mote (pronounced 'item') is a lovely Tudor and medieval moated manor house and garden (tel 01732 810 378); Although the building can be seen clearly from the public way it is well worth a full visit. It is open 11am to 5pm from March to October, with shorter, more restricted opening times in winter. In November visits to the House are by tour only. Entry is free to NT members. Otherwise, admission (2022) costs £16.50 with gift aid. Pre-booking is no longer required although it is recommended at busy times. There is no entry charge for visitors who just wish to take lunch or tea in the NT cafeteria.
Take the train nearest to 10am from Victoria Station to Borough Green & Wrotham. Journey time 40-45 minutes. There are frequent trains back from Sevenoaks. Journey time 35 minutes to Charing Cross, or about an hour to Victoria.
Borough Green and Sevenoaks are on different lines but a day return to Borough Green is usually accepted for the return journey from Sevenoaks.
The suggested lunch place is the National Trust restaurant at Ightham Mote, some 6.9 km into the wealk, which is open at the same times as the house and additional weekends as well so worth checking; you do not need to pay the entrance fee to use the restaurant.
If you prefer a pub lunch or for times when Ightham Mote is closed, between Plaxtol and Ightham Mote you could divert to the Chaser Inn in Shipbourne (tel 01732 811 168), some 6.6 km into the walk, a large and elegant pub which serves inventive food all day. Directions to this pub are given in the main text.
After Ightham Mote you used to be able to divert to the Padwell Arms, Stone Street but this pub closed as a pub some years ago: likewise The Snail, a pub-restaurant in Snail Street, as noted in earlier editions of the TO Book, closed down in September 2017.
The newly refurbished Brewhouse Tearoom (tel 01732 450 608) has an entrance in the north wall of Knole House, without the need to pay an entrance fee. During British Summer Time this pleasant tearoom is open unto 5 pm with last orders 4.30 pm and serves cream teas. In winter the tearoom closes earlier.
There are various options in the centre of Sevenoaks including Caffè Nero at 112 High Street (tel 01732 779 050) and Costa Coffee at 2 Blighs Rd (01732 462 159). There is also a branch of the popular Bills on the High Street.
Close to Sevenoaks Station is another possibility, Alpinia Patisserie at 1 Tubs Hill Parade (tel 01732 454 669) open till 6 pm Monday to Saturday.
Within the main foyer of Sevenoaks Station are two coffee / tea franchises, handy for a takeaway drink on your journey home.
No major changes, just minor updates. Entrance fee charges updated. This edition following book check October 2021.
This walk was originally published in Time Out Country Walks near London volume 1. We now recommend using this online version as the book is dated.
The book contained 53 walks, 1 for every week of the year and 1 to spare. Here is our suggested schedule
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The [numbers] refer to a sketch map in the book.
- Turn right uphill (eastwards) out of Borough Green Railway Station to a T-junction (Wrotham Road), with a Sainsbury's Local opposite (useful for picnic provisions). Cross the road at the pedestrian lights and turn right to go over the railway bridge, your direction 205° initially.
- In 70 metres the road swings to the right to become Western Road but you keep ahead along the pavement, soon passing the driveway to the village hall and public toilets on your left. In 150 metres cross over the A25 (there is a signalled pedestrian crossing to your left) and carry straight on now on Quarry Hill Road, your direction 220°.
- In 50 metres, opposite the Church of the Good Shepherd on your right-hand side, [!] turn left into The Landway, following the public footpath sign onto a tarmac car road, downhill, your direction due south.
- In 175 metres you come to a car road and cross it to continue straight on along a public footpath, now a path between fences, initially gently downhill but soon going gently uphill. In 280 metres cross a private drive to Reynolds Retreat and carry straight on between chesnut pailing fences, now in light woodland. In 275 metres the path bends left, going steeply downhill for 160 metres, with woodland on either side, to cross a stream on a wooden bridge with wooden handrails.
- 80 metres further on you come up onto a car road. Go on this road, leftwards (due south initially) with a wide grassy bank (a picnic area) on your left, then in 200 metres the start of a lake, also on your left. In 150 metres the lake ends on your left and you enter the small, picturesque village of Basted with modern detached houses on your left, and the pavement starts. A stream is down below you on your left. After 220 metres the pavement ends but go straight on (along Basted Mill), ignoring the Mill Lane right turn opposite. Instead, continue on past a grassy area hehind a hedge and then Bridge House on your left; in another 20 metres [!]bear right on to Mill Lane at the junction with Plough Hill, following the restricted byway sign, onto a car-wide track, your direction 205° .
- Pass Orchard Cottage on your right with the stream on your left. In a further 80 metres you pass Basted Cottage on your right. Another 130 metres brings you past Woodruff Cottage, also on your right, after which the track narrows and becomes a potentially muddy path, with woodland to left and right, and the stream still on your left-hand side.
- In 350 metres, as the path swings gently to the left, ignore the stile and metal swing gate on your right, with a tiny stream behind it and to its left.
- In 325 metres ignore a fork left (which crosses the stream on a concrete slab bridge) and in a further 45 metres you come to a T-junction with a car road where you go right uphill, your direction 275° .
- In 115 metres, once over the steepest part of the hill [!] turn left over a stile in the hedgerow, with a concrete public footpath marker, your direction due south, to go through an apple orchard.
- In 150 metres, at the end of the orchard, continue ahead. In 30 metres, at the corner of the field, you enter a wood downhill, your direction 140°. In 25 metres cross a stream and a wooden bridge with wooden rails, then go over a stile and up the other side to emerge from the wood in 50 metres.
- Go ahead on the enclosed path, gently uphill, your direction 220°. You then continue in more or less the same direction for 1.3km till you come to the church in Plaxtol.
- But in more detail: After 180 metres go through a gap to the left of a wooden fieldgate and pass a bungalow on your right, to continue steadily uphill on what is now a track with hedges on either side. In 270 metres ignore the stile on your right into an apple orchard and keep ahead, still steadily uphill. In a further 330 metres, as the track swings to the right, ignore a minor, unmarked footpath to the left, and continue ahead , now gently uphill. To your left behind a low hedge is a horse paddock, with a new wooden stable block, and to your right, behind a high hedge, is a large apple orchard. In 200 metres the track joins from the right a tarmac car road . Continue in the same direction, due south initially. In 50 metres pass an oasthouse with three conicle roofs on your right. In another 100 metres ignore a car road to the left called Grange Hill to continue on your road, now called Tree Lane. After a further 150 metres you come to a road T-junction with a stone war memorial directly ahead of you and Plaxtol Church on the right, well worth a visit .
- Here turn right up Church Hill, also known as Plaxtol Lane, your direction due west. 300 metres up this hill and with the strange, disused, isolated gateways of Fairlawne Estate 150 metres off to your left, turn left over a stile in a gap in the estate's stone wall with a wooden fieldgate to its left, onto a signposted footpath, your direction 170°.
- Continue on a faint path (a grassy way) down the grassy field to pass to the left of the fenced coppice in front of the large gateways (NOT the smaller fenced coppice some 40 metres to its right). Once past the (larger) coppice, drop down a slight bank and bear right to head gently downhill, your direction 215° aiming towards a yellow post. In 100 metres you reach this post. Now continue ahead, very slightly left, across the grassy field towards another yellow post beside a stile in a wooden fenceline. In 180 metres cross this stile in the fenceline and keep ahead, passing 3 metres to the left of an oak tree on a grassy way. You now have a good view of the impressive Fairlawne House over to your right.
- In 100 metres you come to anothe yellow post marking a path crossing in the grassy field. [!] You now have a choice : to continue to Ightham Mote on the main route, or detour to Shipbourne and the Chaser Inn.
- To continue on the main route: [!] at the path crossing in the grass turn right , westwards. Follow the path as it curves right down the field and in 200 metres go through a wooden swing gate. Turn right down a tarmac lane towards a pond and buildings but in 20 metres turn left on a tarmac lane away from the houses, your direction 205° with a garden on your left-hand side.
- In 70 metres by the wooden bridge on your left, turn right uphill on a tarmac lane, your direction 290 degrees. In 130 metres exit by a wooden swing gate (a wooden fieldgate to its left) and cross the A227 with care to keep straight on, along the earth and gravel road opposite, your direction 290°.
- In 150 metres at a cross paths turn right on a car-wide earth road, your direction 15° and 20 metres further on go through a wooden swing gate (a pair of wooden fieldgates to its right) into a field where you continue straight on along its left-hand edge. In 150 metres turn left through a wooden fieldgate to go on a narrow bridleway between hedges, initially downhill, your direction 280°.
- In 575 metres you come to a tarmac road and the entrance on your right to Ightham Mote, the suggested lunch stop (but see the note on opening hours in the introduction). Follow the signs to the restaurant.
- After lunch, return to the entrance and turn right up the lane, your direction 250°, passing alongside the Manor. Follow the lane as it turns left away from the house. 60 metres beyond this bend go out through its brick-pillared gateway and turn right onto a road.
- Continue from point [8a] below.
- To detour to Shipbourne: at the path crossing in the grassy field keep straight ahead as you aim for another yellow post. In 125 metres you come to this post and now bear left towards the corner of the open space. When you get there pass through a gate. Ignore a tarmac drive to the left shortly after this, but take the tarmac drive half-left,your direction 160°and pass a pond on your right-hand side.
- In 80 metres, when you are level with the end of the pond and some buildings on the right, keep straight on to a wooden swing gate to the left of a wooden fieldgate. Continue down the left-hand edge of a grassy field, and at its far end, in a field corner with trees, cross a footbridge with a metal handrail, then head up across an arable field.
- In 145 metres at the top of the field ignore a path along its top edge to your right, but instead go straight on along a narrow path between hedges. This leads out onto an access road, where you keep ahead to emerge onto the large village green of Shipbourne. Turn right down the length of the green to reach the Chaser Inn, immediately to the left of the church, in about 500 metres.
- After lunch, go up the track to enter the churchyard throuigh its lychgate. Fork right around the church on a sandy gravel path and leave the churchyard at the far end through a kissing gate, by a three-arm footpath sign. [!] Immediately after this gate, turn right over a stile, part hidden in the hedge, ignoring a path straight on and to the left.
- Keep to the right-hand edge of the green space beyond, heading downhill between newly planted trees. In 150 metres, in the far corner of the green space, cross a pair of stiles some 10 metres apart and carry on between fences.
- In 250 metres cross a stile in the far corner of the field and veer left across a track to carry on up a broad grassy strip on the left-hand edge of a field, with a wire fence to your right, your direction 300°. Ignore a private path slanting left in 50 metres to keep on along the line of trees.
- In 150 metres more, at a field corner marked by a yellow post, veer right uphill with the fence towards a stile into the woods, also marked with a yellow post. In 80 metres cross this stile and carry on up a fenced path into the woods. This takes you up over the hill and down the other side.
- In 300 metres leave the woods via a stile and turn right along a newly fenced-in footpath. In 80 metres go through a gap in the boundary and turn left into the next field and go up its left-hand edge. In 120 metres cross a stile and keep uphill on a road. In 100 metres you come to the brick-pillared gateway to Ightham Mote on your right.
- The walk route continues along the road, but the view of the house across the moat merits a look: fork right into its driveway, which in 60 metres brings you to the moat in front of the house. If you want to stop for refreshments, the National Trust restaurant is further round to the right, beyond the shop. Afterwards, retrace your steps to the gateway and turn right onto the road.
- [8A] Both routes continue: Go along the road for 450 metres, your initial direction 300 degrees, soon passing Mote Farm on your left and then a row of cottages on your right. [!] Just before an isolated cottage on your right-hand side, turn left on a signposted track, a potentially muddy public bridleway, your direction 285 degrees.
- In 120 metres, as the track swings to the left you pass Hoppers Huts on your left (Do stop and read the information panel about them). Keep ahead, gently uphill, now through light woodland. In 480 metres, with a wooden barrier ahead and a pond to the left, ignore the permissive path next to the barrier and turn right following a Greensand Way blue arrow up a what becomes a steep and potentially muddy, slippery woodland path, your direction 330 degrees; as you go uphill a way can be found parallel to the bridleway, a metre or so above it to the right which may be slightly less muddy.
- After following the narrow path through an intermittently wooded area for 250 metres you exit the woodland to come out into the open, to continue ahead, your direction 350°, on a wide track passing to the left of an apple orchard. You then have lavender fields to your left and right - colourful in June-July, as you continue ahead, ignoring all ways off. In 300 metres the track becomes a surfaced track and in a further 400 metres you come out on to a car road junction. Cross both roads to a gap opposite with a metal fieldgate on its left.
- Take the path that leads diagonally across a field, between a line of young apple trees on either side, your direction due west. In 220 metres, at the corner of the field, go through a gap in the tree line which marks the field boundary and continue ahead on a narrow path next to a field with a fence to the left and tree line to your right. In 150 metres you pass through a barrier and cross a car road .
- Go straight on along an earth and gravel car road signposted as a public bridleway, your direction 280°, past Lords Spring Farm Cottage on your right and in another 100 metres past Lord’s Spring Oast, also on your right. You are now in a woodland strip, initially heading gently downhill. Now keep ahead as your way dips in and out of woodland, at times with fields to left and right.
- About 1km along this track, which in places narrows to a path, you come to two small houses on your right and you carry straight on, going along the earth driveway of these houses. In 90 metres at a track junction ignore the turning to the left (which has a concrete public footpath marker) but in a further 50 metres, opposite some wooden stables, [!] take the footpath left into the wood (it too has a concrete public footpath marker), your direction 220° .
- Go more or less straight on for the next 500 metres. In more detail: In 160 metres cross a path by a post with yellow arrows. In a further 185 metres cross another path, also by a post with yellow arrows. Now continue straight on, with a black chainlink fencing on your right. In 180 metres you come out on a tarmac driveway and follow this for 50 metres to a car road.
- Turn right on this car road, your direction 345° and in 100 metres turn left on a signposted public footpath into Sevenoaks Preparatory School , your direction 260°.
- Cross the school's tarmac car park and keep ahead between the school's grass playing fields. You pass between two seating arrangements (around an old oak tree stump to your right and a young oak tree to your left). Now keep ahead down the next grass pitches until you come to the end of the pitches and the tree line in the boundary directly ahead. Here turn right and make for the right-hand corner of field and the new wooden swing gate to the right of a new wooden fieldgate. In 80 metres pass through the swing gate to come out onto a narrow tarmac road. Here you turn left, your direction 210°, to go gently downhill, through woodland. .
- In 200 metres you exit the woodland and pass two houses on your left, to then bear right with the road and when the tarmac ends you continue on a path uphill. In a further 100 metres you enter Knole Park through a metal deer protection gate to the left of a heavy duty access gate.
- You have two paths forking ahead of you; take the wider one to the right, your direction 265° (not the path to the extreme right). In 75 metres fork left between two large trees (the right-hand one being an English oak), your direction 245°. There is immediately a swathe of grassland on your left.
- In 85 metres, having passed a fallen tree on your right, you come to a tiny pond (winter only) on your left and then the remnants of a large dead tree trunk on your right. Keep straight on, your direction still 245°. You can just see the garden wall of Knole House at 260° by the top of the far hill. Note your onwards path that leads steeply downhill from you, then uphill towards the house.
- 175 metres down from the tree trunk cross a wide avenue and continue up the other side on the wide grass path, going due west. 200 metres up from the avenue pass through a cluster of ten oak trees.
- In a further 85 metres cross a tarmac path to continue straight on, despite a ‘Danger - Golf Course’ sign on your right. In 90 metres you cross a fairway (beware golf balls coming from the right). After a further 50 metres, you see Knole House’s garden walls on your left. Carry on along these walls. You pass the entry to the Brewhouse Tearoom. At the end of the walls turn left for the Knole House entrance if you want to go inside.
- To continue the walk from the end of the high wall go straight ahead, continuing on the alignment of the wall, over grass and through the car parking area, heading uphill on no clear path towards a clump of trees at the top of the hill, your direction 315°. On your way up you will probably need to weave your way round parked cars. Once there, you come to a footpath post whose direction you follow over grass, and soon gently downhill, on a bearing of 310°. In 150 metres, having passed another footpath post, you pass a crater depression on your right and keep ahead, downhill, now on a clear, sandy path that leads to a tarmac drive. Cross it, go down three earthen steps and keep straight on, downhill on a sandy path, your direction 300° .
- In 200 metres you come down to a grassy valley bottom which you cross over to leave Knole Park by a metal deer protection gate to go steeply uphill, your direction 265°. In 5 metres ignore the path to your right.
- In a further 200 metres keep to the tarmac path as you pass on your right a new chalet housing development (on the site of a former leisure centre) and then a new multi-storey car park. Keep ahead on the path now with a stone wall on your right and railings above a brick wall on your left, coming out onto the forecourt of a Waitrose supermarket, with the store on your left. Here turn right then first left to head down Akehurst Lane, a passage between building with a brick paviour floor, your direction 255 degrees. This leads out to Sevenoaks High Street.
- There are various possibilities for tea in Sevenoaks. For Caffè Nero turn right down the High Street. For Costa Coffee, cross the High Street, turn right and continue to Blighs Road on your left.
- After tea you will need to get to London Road which runs west of (50 metres behind) the High Street for the station. From Costa Coffee cross the car park to the far side where steps lead down to London Road; then turn right downhill. From Caffè Nero carry on along the High Street to the traffic light junction where you turn left along Pembroke Road; when you reach London Road, turn right.
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Historic Art Exhibit on Display in Honor of Smokey Bear’s 75th Birthday
CUSTER, SD – The Black Hills National Forest, in partnership with South Dakota Wildland Fire Division, invites the public to celebrate Smokey Bear’s 75th birthday and wildfire prevention campaign at a FREE art exhibition in Custer, SD.
Rudolph “Rudy” Wendelin’s historic replica portraits of the beloved Bear will be on display March 11-22 at the Black Hills National Forest’s Supervisor/Hell Canyon Ranger District Offices, 1019 N. 5th St., Custer, SD.
The display will be open for viewing M-F, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Offices will also be open March 14 & March 19 until 5 p.m. and Sat. March, 16, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Smokey Bear’s birthday is August 9, 1944. Smokey’s birthday was kicked-off with nationwide recognition at the Tournament of Roses Parade in January and will be followed by numerous celebrations throughout the year.
The public is welcome to stop by and enjoy FREE birthday cake with Smokey Bear on March 15 at 2 p.m. at the Forest Service office in Custer. The cake, along with Smokey Bear prizes, are provided by Black Hills Parks & Forests Association.
Wendelin created hundreds of Smokey representations that highlighted natural resource conservation and wildfire prevention. Under his direction, Smokey assumed softer human features, ranger’s hat, jeans and shovel for which he is best known.
The exhibit consists of replicas provided by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and is scheduled to travel to National Forests across the country throughout 2019.
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It is officially Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte season.
The wildly popular limited time beverage from the world’s largest coffee chain has become an official sign of fall. Pumpkin Spice Lattes are the best-selling seasonal drink in Starbucks’ long history, with customers slurping down roughly 20 million PSLs a year.
But what kind of impact can regular consumption of these sweet seasonal beverages have on your health?
Starbucks classifies their sizes as Short, Tall, Grande and Venti. These are 8, 12, 16 and 20 fluid ounces, respectively.
Let’s start by taking a look at a Tall (12-ounce) Pumpkin Spice Latte.
Unless dictated otherwise by the customer, this will come with 2% milk, a shot of espresso, pumpkin spice topping with whipped cream and 3 pumps of Pumpkin Sauce. It will also contain:
- 300 calories
- 11 grams of total fat
- 7 grams of saturated fat
- 39 grams of sugar
- 11 grams of protein
- 75mg of caffeine
The biggest red flag is the massive amount of sugar. A standard Tall Pumpkin Spice Latte contains about the same amount of sugar you’d find in 50 Skittles.
Frequently choosing high-sugar beverages is a serious hazard to your health. Not only can it lead to poor body composition, but it significantly increases your risk of several unfavorable health outcomes. Regular consumption of beverages high in added sugar has been associated with an increased risk of cancer, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. The American Heart Association recommends a limit of 25 grams per day for women and 36 grams per day for men. One Tall Pumpkin Spice Latte instantly exceeds both those limits.
Consuming significant amounts of sugar at one time leads your blood sugar to spike and then drop in rapid fashion, which can lead to feelings of tiredness, lethargy and irritability.
Now obviously, the larger size you order, the more problematic the PSL’s nutrition becomes. A Venti (20-ounce) Pumpkin Spice Latte made with the standard preparation (which contains five pumps of Pumpkin Sauce) contains:
- 470 calories
- 16 grams of total fat
- 10 grams of saturated fat
- 64 grams of sugar
- 18 grams of protein
- 150mg of caffeine
Now you’re looking at a beverage with more calories than two Dairy Queen Chocolate Dilly Bars, and more grams of sugar than three. For comparison’s sake, a Venti Pike Place Roast contains five calories, and a bit more than that if you add a splash of 2% milk. So operating under the impression that a Pumpkin Spice Latte is the same as any other cup of coffee is a major misconception.
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying a Pumpkin Spice Latte every now and then, and you can find ways to cut down on the sugar, calorie and/or fat content by reducing the amount of “Pumpkin Sauce,” whipped cream, topping, etc. However, if you’re downing one every day or nearly every day throughout fall, it could certainly lead to weight gain and, via the sugar crashes, greater lethargy and fatigue.
In general, it’s a good idea to be at least somewhat conscious of the fact that “Pumpkin Spice” products are often high in sugar and calories. They may contain little to no actual pumpkin, just a mixture of sweeteners, flavors and dyes designed to taste and look pumpkin-y.
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Pete Townshend, as some of you may remember, is the high-stepping guitarist and songwriter of the Who. This is the third piece he has written for Rolling Stone. (One of the earlier pieces was about the Who, the other about Meher Baba; this one’s about both.)
Pete originally proposed the piece late last October, saying he would like to write about “what happened to the Who back in ’75 during the recording of The Who by Numbers, the traumatic events that led to and went on in the studio, my own absurd needless crackup, Keith’s deepening alcoholism and ostracism from the Who, my visit to San Francisco for a Sufi ‘cure,’ my decision to let Roger ‘win’ and the subsequent miraculous growth in the internal relationships of the Who members to one another.”
London, April 1977
▪ It took a bit of courage to start this article, as I have said precisely nothing to the press (other than through lyrics) for close to two years. Today, reading it through, there is much I am tempted to add or expand on. There is a strong temptation to bring everything up to date, but then the success of the Who’s last tour did that. The future, of course, is an open book.
The sections in italics are merely pieces of my writing from about November 1973 to November 1975, the months covered in the article. I often sit at a typewriter and knock out stream-of-consciousness stuff. It not only helps clear the head but often brings forth ideas for songs. These were written on scraps of paper at the dead of night, at the lunch table with the kids on my lap, in hotel rooms while filming or performing. They were never meant to be published, so they are somewhat obscure, but they are minimally edited and therefore revelatory of my state of mind and degree of intoxicated desperation.
I used to be highly talkative with the rock press and have missed my contact with writers. Silence, however, is habit-forming, and I am glad to be able to look back objectively to such an emotional period of my life with the band and try to say it right. What I never expected was such sympathy and understanding from writers who I continually put off when they asked for interviews or even just a chat. I have lost contact with many journalist friends because I have been scared to speak. This article helps bring things up-to-date. Perhaps in the future I can get used to working jaws again, instead of my fingers – fingers that would be better occupied playing guitars or tickling children.
February 1st, 1977. Today I received a letter from a neighbor. She says I must forgive her for ignoring me, but it’s because of her religion. She knows I have a crush on her. I’m not sure who she is, but I might well have a crush on her if I did; she wrote a letter to my wife saying the same thing. Irritating.
It’s now 2:30 in the morning, and I can’t get to sleep. My crush on my neighbor has become so strong that it will only be satisfied when I have thrilled to the delight of actually crushing her. I sometimes wonder where this piece of my destiny was forged: anyone can sum me up at a glance, my life is on sale. All I know is that it sometimes hurts to be exposed, and to be unable to retaliate without feeding the haggling customers.
Yesterday was Meher Baba’s “Amartithi.” Followers of this great Master (to whom I remain committed) celebrate the anniversary of his passing in 1969. In the afternoon, I saw a film of his entombment and felt a most powerful feeling of his presence throughout the day. It is incredible to me – as I’m sure it is to many witnesses of my day-to-day behavior – that I still feel so moved by Meher Baba’s words, photographs and films. After following him for nearly nine years, I have fallen deeply into the rhythm of focusing all my reflections on life through a lens formed of experiences I have had under his spiritual umbrella.
That letter and the film: as extremes, they seem to indicate the incredible paradoxes and conflicts that surround me. The most amazing thing of all is that my head has surfaced, some distance from the shoreline of past paranoia, in an ocean of immeasurable possibilities. I feel strong and secure and, for the first time, able to talk about the Who (or at least the Who through my eyes) back in ’74 – ’75.
If I try to imagine where my head was two years ago, it’s a strange vision. Paranoia does not adequately describe my feelings, though I suppose all of the Who were to a degree paranoid toward one another. But my trouble was also manifestly spiritual. I felt I had let myself down morally and artistically; I felt quite genuinely to be a hypocrite. I complained a lot about things that I felt I was doing from the goodness of my heart but wasn’t receiving enough attention for: to pick only one example from many, helping Eric Clapton. I spent a tremendous amount of time with him during his heroin cure, and earned his love as a result. What originally happened was that I’d been going down to see him, because I figured that if people started to go and see him, he might come out of his habit. I knew him well from the Hendrix days, of course, and I enjoy his company. Also, Alice, the woman he was living with, and I really hit it off. Then David Harlech, her father, spoke to me. He said that Eric wanted to do a concert if I would run it. I felt I had no choice but to agree, and it was instrumental in getting him to John and Meg Patterson, whose acupuncture cure did eventually rid Eric of his addiction. But my wife measured it all against time spent with her, fairly minimal at the best of times, and very minimal during this period (around November 1973). There is no point pretending that it is possible to help bring a man off heroin while you’re doing a nine-to-five office job. “Tea and meet the wife” don’t mix with three a.m. phone calls and Rainbow reunion rehearsals that actually start at six in the morning!
At the same time, a confrontation with Roger Daltrey was building. While working with Eric, I was also writing and recording Quadrophenia. Kit Lambert had helped a certain amount while I was writing, and had promised to produce the album. He didn’t make out very well, and argued with Daltrey. I felt let down and took over, despite the fact that I had more than enough on my plate.
When the album was completed, it took only a few days for Roger to express his disgust at the result. I had spent my summer vacation mixing it, and he had popped in once to hear mixes, making a couple of negative comments about the sound but seeming quite keen to let me “have my head,” as it were, in production. Fundamentally, I had taken on too much, as always, and couldn’t handle the strain when things went wrong and people blamed me. I felt I was perfectly entitled to gamble and lose, as no one else seemed prepared to, either with Quadrophenia or even the Who’s career.
So, I felt angry at Roger for not realizing how much work I had done on the album – apart from writing it – and angry that he dismissed my production as garbage. It’s hard to explain, because I don’t feel these things anymore. I genuinely feel I was the one who was in the wrong. But it contributed a lot to what happened later.
▪ I was in one of those shallow sleeps when dreams are clear as day, but each scene in the unfolding reverie is also strangely dark. I gazed at an ocean scene, thinking to myself, “I am dreaming, I control my movements through my sleeping adventures.“
In a dream within a dream, I awoke for a minute. I looked around the room. Everything was as it should be: the chair in its usual place, with my previous day’s clothing strewn over the back. The dead television gazed at me quietly: the window blind was pulled right down, the bathroom light still on, towels on the floor damp and tangled.
I closed my eyes and became aware of a strange feeling. Not of an impending nightmare or even the experience of unease, though the whole scene seemed set for troubling vision. On the contrary, a sense of elation came over me. I snuggled my weary head into my pillow like a child and smiled at the strong buzz of contentment that flooded my mind.
At that moment, I heard something distant that seemed to reflect my almost orgasmic feelings of pleasure. Years before, I had experimented with a tape recording of dozens and dozens of piano performances, sweeping and glittering over the entire chromatic scale. I then mixed them all together as one and the result was an almost unidentifiable sound, but of great beauty and mystery. A sound like waves crashing, or distant wind over a summit, but musical. In fact, on occasion a glimpse of detail within the deluge manifested, and piano could be clearly heard.
This new, remote sound I heard in my dream had similarities to my experimental work. It sounded like a breath being gently sighed away, but the listener’s ear seemed inside the mouth of a lion. Listen to your own breath. Breathe out in a quiet place and hear the beauty and complexity of the sound. The slightest change in the shape of your mouth chamber, the tiniest movement of your lips, and the breath becomes a song or a word. A thousand harmonics are thrown up like glittering reflections on the surface of a sunlit bay. In the mystic’s “Om” is contained every sound, and every sound within a sound. Every ingredient that contributes to the source of the primordial desire to even make a sound is contained in that one word.
So this is the train of thought I was taking in my dream. I was still aware that I was asleep, but it seemed unimportant. The new sound grew louder, began to come closer. Then the miracle surpassed itself, the beauty of the sound became transcendentally glorious. Its superficial simplicity only disguised a secret ingredient that, I felt, must in itself contain all things.
This roaring, singing, cascading sound threw me into an ecstasy that almost defied description. But while swooning under its import and unparalleled attractiveness, I still had the presence of mind – perhaps because I am a musician – to try to analyze and discover what this incredible music was. If I could only break down this sound I could remake it for the whole world to hear. I could make a reality of this outer limit of my unleashed and unfettered musical imagination; glorious, celestial music of only dreams.
I began to listen more carefully, trying to ignore the hyperbolic sweetness of the sound – almost like a starving man trying to eat a piece of cheese and at the same time compose a thesis on the relative distinction between, say, double Gloucester and caerphilly.
Recklessly, I plunged deeply into the music. As I became submerged, it became slightly more coarse; it was, indeed, like diving into the sea. The feeling of the sharp, cool water is always a shock when one has spent an hour gazing languidly at the sunny surface of the waves. I could still hear the rippling and soaring of the incomparable sigh, and I was now in it, of it. I delved even more deeply into the secret. What was the essential ingredient of this music? What was its fundamental element?
For a few minutes, I was lost in my search. I forgot to listen quite so intently and began turning over in my mind the various possibilities and alternatives. Was it a million pianos? Perhaps the sound of a heavenly choir?
That was it! The heart of this sound was the human voice; there could be no question. I plunged headlong, further into the chasm of this incorporal symphony. As I thrust inward, it was apparently simplifying.
Then, in a second, the whole world seemed to turn inside out. My skin crawled as I recognized the unit elements of this superficially wonderful noise. I could not believe what I heard. As I tore myself away. I felt I was leaving sections of my self behind, caught up in the cacophonous dirge. I tried to wake myself, but only succeeded in breaking through a superficial level – no longer a dream within a dream, merely a nightmare. A game, a ghastly trick perpetrated on me by my own mind. A vitiated and distorted ploy of my ego to stunt my trust in nature’s beauty, kill my appetite for the constant, for the One within the many, the many within the One.
For the sound that I was hearing was the Niagran roar of a billion humans screaming.
Now I really awoke. Ironically, the room looked just as it had in the dream. Nothing had changed. My body was soaking wet: sweat seeped from every pore. Fever lay under the surface of my skin like a disease. I leapt from my bed, clutching a small bead on a string that I knew had been touched by my Master, and prayed for protection. I felt enough comfort to clear my head and allow me to draw a conclusion. I now know that of all things on earth, nothing is so inherently evil, so contemptuous, so vile, so conniving, so worthless . . . as my own imagination.
Quadrophenia (the Who’s last major album with a contrived theme, released in 1973) tried to describe the utopian secrets of the eternal youth of each Who member. We get our life extensions from our audiences. However far down we go as individuals, there will always be rent to pay, so always an audience. When there’s an audience, there’s salvation. Mixed up in Quadrophenia was a study of the divine desperation that is at the root of every punk’s scream for blood and vengeance.
I can elaborate. It is really fantastic conceit on the part of the Establishment to imagine that any particular fragment of society is ever the true subject of a rock & roll song. Even in the famous, folk-oriented, political complaining songs of the very early Sixties, a thread of upward groping for truth came through strongly. The definition of rock & roll lies here for me. If it screams for truth rather than help, if it commits itself with a courage it can’t be sure it really has, if it stands up and admits something is wrong but doesn’t insist on blood, then it’s rock & roll.
We shed our own blood. We don’t need to shed anyone else’s.
▪ I spent the last three days of March talking about punk rock with Chris Stamp. I’m sure I invented it, and yet it’s left me behind. If anything was ever a refutation of time, my constant self-inflicted adolescence must be.
Chris told me the punk crowds banged their heads through ceilings, swore at one another, and if a fight broke out (though “breaking out” is hardly the term to use in this context), one became the aggressor, one the victim. The crowd was one, the fighters played out roles.
Damage, damage, damage. It’s a great way to shake society’s value system. It makes mothers disown their children. It makes schoolteachers puke.
High-rise blocks and slums in Glasgow – I don’t need to have lived in them to know the facts. I see the faces beaming up at me as I destroy my $500 guitar. Why should they, poor bastards, dig that? They enjoy the destruction because they despise phony values; the heavy price on the scrap of tin called a musical instrument. It is so far beyond their reach it might as well not exist.
The crucifixion is what these people stand for. They humiliate themselves and their peers, and care nothing for any accolade. These stars are true stars; they are part of an audience of stars.
And on the dance floor broken glass,
The bloody faces slowly pass,
The numbered seats in empty rows;
It all belongs to me you know *
Where am I in space that I should care so much about the lonely souls in tiny square bedrooms a hundred feet up in air in cities all over the world?
I am with them. I want nothing more than to go with them to their desperate hell, because that loneliness they suffer is soon to be over. Deep inside, they know.
I prayed for it, and yet it’s too late for me to truly participate. I feel like an engineer.
Just let me . . . watch.
When I sit and listen to “The Punk Meets the Godfather” on Quadrophenia, I come closer to defining my state three years ago. I was the Godfather. (When I met two of the Sex Pistols recently, I was in an appropriately raging, explosive mood, but I recognized their hungry, triumph-pursuant expressions and began to preach.)
In ’73 and ’74, I was the aging daddy of punk rock. I was bearing a standard I could barely hold up anymore. My cheeks were stuffed, not with cotton wool in the Brando-Mafioso image, but with the scores of uppers I had taken with a sneer and failed to swallow.
On the Who’s tour of the U.S. and Canada in the fall of ’76 a lot of things came to a “glorious” head in Toronto, the last show of the tour. The road crew threw a party for us, and it was the first party I had been to for at least five years which meant anything to me. I don’t go to a lot of parties, but I’m glad that I made this one. I suddenly realized that behind every Who show are people who care as much as, or more than, we do. Talking to the individuals who help get the show together enabled me to remember that audiences care, too.
When I sit in an audience, one of the things that makes it enjoyable is the energy I spend willing it to be the best thing I have ever seen. I get to see some great concerts that way. Ask any Who fan if they care how well we are playing on any single date. The Who don’t count as much as people might imagine, but as performers their response to the audience’s energy is vital.
So two years ago when I felt down, when I felt empty, tired and defeated, the audience of Who freaks carried on regardless. At the time I was very bitter about this. I remember our concerts at Madison Square Garden, having come out of total seclusion in my studio after preparing mind-bending and complex tracks for the Tommy film. When my drunken legs gave way under me, as I tried to do a basic cliche leap and shuffle, a few loving fans got up a chant. “Jump! Jump! Jump!” Brings tears to your eyes, doesn’t it? It did mine anyway. Such loyalty!
▪ This man had consumed time in a way that only God Himself could ever hold a candle to, but had he learned anything? He belongs to God, as we all do. Deny that He is, then, God’s folly and what do you do? You refute God Himself.
That argument is for cozy firesides. No, this was God’s work. The devil is, after all, only a figment of God’s imagination. And so this remarkable fool believed himself to be a figment of a figment. A dream within a dream. He believed he had an imagination that could not be shaken by the actual imagination that brought forth his very own being!
Such unwitting humor.
Life could easily continue the provision of sideshows in this one’s circus. Perhaps his endless dream could be shattered this time.
Maybe this little man’s time had really come.
The general rule of the day in show business was, “When in or out of trouble – drink,” so I drank some more. Drinking around the Who is the greatest thing gutter-level life can offer. The bawdiness of the humor, the sheer decadence of the amount put away, the incredible emotional release of violent outbursts against innocent hotel-room sofas; all these count to get a body through a lot of trouble. But at the end of the orgy, the real cancer still lies untackled deep in the heart.
When the Who were recording The Who by Numbers, Keith’s courageous attempts to head off his alcoholism moved me to stop drinking too. I stopped overnight. The results were interesting. My hair started to fall out. Another remarkable side effect was that I carried on drinking without my knowledge. This story can only carry credence if we are to believe the observations of the people around us when we were recording; they were probably twice as drunk as I. Apparently, at the end of one session which I had gotten through by pulling incessantly at a total of about twenty cans of Coke, I wished everyone good night, walked up to a makeshift bar and drank a bottle of vodka. I just don’t remember doing that.
I got very scared by memory blackouts, as scared as I had ever been on bad LSD trips eight years before. Once in July 1974 – just after the Tommy filming – I sort of “came to” in the back of my own car. Keith and John were with me (we were probably going to a club), but although I knew who they were, I didn’t recognize either my car or my driver, who had been working for me for about two months. The shock that hit me as the pieces fell into place was even more frightening than the black holes in my head as the memory lapses began. Eight drug-free years and still this mental demise.
On another occasion, at the “thank you” concert we gave in Portsmouth, England, for the extras in the Tommy film, I signed several managerial and recording contracts in a complete fog. The only event I remember is quietly screaming for help deep inside, as I asked John Entwistle if it had ever happened to him. (The fact that I’d signed the contracts didn’t come home to me until we were actually in the middle of a legal wrangle some months later.)
Tommy has become rock’s “Pirates of Penzance” in only ten years of exposure to the public, through the Who’s performances onstage, their original album, Lou Reizner’s album with the London Symphony Orchestra, Ken Russell’s film, the ballet of the Royal Canadian Ballet and dozens of minor exploitations such as “Electric Tommy,” the music played on synthesizer, and “Marching Tommy,” the music scored for college brass bands.
The above, in a simple way, illustrates how as a rock composer and performer I was dragged into the world of light entertainment and into the world of high finance. The Who’s original Tommy album sold very well indeed in comparison to their early record sales, and as a result the band was baled out of terrific debt and given a new lease on life in many ways. As for the reference to light entertainment: Tommy was never ever really meant to be as “heavy” as, say, “My Generation.” We joked as a group about Tommy being true opera, which it isn’t, but the Who’s audience, and many of the rock press took it very seriously indeed. It was this seriousness that turned Tommy into light entertainment.
Many Who fans feel the Tommy film is not what the Who is about, or even what Tommy is about. In truth, it is exactly what it is about. It is the prime example of rock & roll throwing off its three-chord musical structure, discarding its attachment to the three-minute single, openly taking on the unfashionable questions about spirituality and religion and yet hanging grimly on to the old ways at the same time.
I enjoyed doing the Tommy film. I liked the opportunity to rework some of the music, and bring it up to date soundwise, and I genuinely admired and respected Ken Russell, who is stimulating company but an obsessive worker. Being sympathetic to that strange condition, I suppose I allowed myself to work beyond my capabilities.
We spent about six weeks preparing the tracks before shooting began in April 1974. During the second week of the actual filming, I declared to Bill Curbishly, our new manager, that I would never work on the road with the Who again. I think I might even have said that I felt the Who was finished.
I was mixed up by my two professions: as writer and musical director on the film, and as performer with the Who. I think I perhaps blamed the Who’s live work for bringing me to such an emotional abyss. In retrospect, I know that it is only from the Who’s live concerts that I get energy freely for doing practically nothing. I play guitar, I jump and dance, and come off stronger than when I went on. Walking offstage after a Who concert, we each feel like superhumans. It’s easy to mistake this very genuine and natural energy high for innate stamina of some God-given talent for an endless adrenalin supply.
After my total downward spiral during the filming of Tommy, and after living with the desperate fear of further humiliation of the Madison Square Garden variety, I did a few interviews with the London-based rock press. My final undoing was to see among them a face I knew and to imagine that it belonged to someone who cared about me more as a person than as a rock performer. I should never have expected that.
Blaming the group, I blurted out my fears, my depressions and woe to a couple of writers whose sympathies were, to put it mildly, a little to the left wing of rock journalism. When they appeared in print, the results were catastrophic. Roger was understandably outraged, and retaliated to my abject misery in his own interviews published a few weeks later. “I knocked Townshend out with one punch.” I think I was already dead before it connected.
I feel now as though we were both, to an extent, manipulated by a skillful and opportunistic reporting chain, that the derision handed out to me by Roger for my weakness and indulgence did me a lot of good. It hurt me at the time, but when you’re so far down, so the saying goes, the gutter looks up. I had, after all, been derisive of Roger in print many times.
Roger went to work on another Ken Russell film, Lisztomania, which I managed to avoid. I got my head down to try to write a bit for the coming album (The Who by Numbers) and came up with some reality tinged with bitterness. It was hard for me to admit what I knew as I was composing: that what was happening to me was an exorcism. Suicide notes tend to flush out the trouble felt by the potential ledge jumpers. But once the truth is out, there’s no need to leap.
I also felt curiously mixed up about my state of mind. “Slip Kid” came across as a warning to young kids getting into music that it would hurt them – it was almost parental in its assumed wisdom. “Blue, Red and Gray” was a ukelele ditty with John Entwistle adding brass band to the misty middle distance. It was about nothing at all; it reminded me of an old Smiley Smile Beach Boys number. “A Hand or a Face” was cynical and tried to cut down the growing dependence I had on mysticism and psychic phenomena. All the songs were different, some more aggressive than others, but they were all somehow negative in direction. I felt empty.
Recording the album seemed to take me nowhere. Roger was angry with the world at the time. Keith seemed as impetuous as ever, on the wagon one minute, off it the next. John was obviously gathering strength throughout the whole period; the great thing about it was that he seemed to know we were going to need him more than ever before in the coming year.
Glyn Johns, who was producing the album, was going through the most fantastic traumas at home with his marriage. I felt partly responsible because the Who recording schedule had, as usual, dragged on and on, sweeping all individuals and their needs aside. Glyn worked harder on The Who by Numbers than I’ve ever seen him. He had to, not because the tracks were weak or the music poor (though I’ll admit it’s not a definitive Who album), but because the group was so useless. We played cricket between takes or went to the pub. I personally had never done that before. I felt detached from my own songs, from the whole record; though I did discover some terrific sportsmen in our road crew.
After we finished recording in August 1975, we had a month off. I decided to try to get some spiritual energy from friends in the U.S.A. For a few years, I had toyed with the idea of opening a London house dedicated to Meher Baba. In the eight years I had followed him, I had donated only coppers to foundations set up around the world to carry out the Master’s wishes and decided it was about time I put myself on the line. The Who had set up a strong charitable trust of its own which appeased, to an extent, the feeling I had that Meher Baba would rather have seen me give to the poor than to the establishment of yet another so-called “spiritual center.”
My family (particularly of course my wife, who as a matter of personal policy tries to avoid the aspects of the music world that I still find exciting) had suffered a lot from my pathetic behavior of the previous year, but they would naturally be by my side on any trip other than Who tours. So they came with me, or rather I went with them, to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where Meher Baba had set up a retreat during the Fifties. I intended to travel on after a couple of weeks to spend a full month living under the wing of Murshida Duce in California. Murshida Duce is the appointed head of the Sufi movement in the States, as reoriented under Meher Baba’s directives. She is used to recognizing and helping her initiates with emotional problems and had invited me to come to be with her and her family when she had visited England in October ’74.
I was genuinely unprepared for the unfolding that transpired in that six weeks. My mind was clouded with the idea of trying to run a “center” for Avatar Meher Baba; with the difficulties I would have trying to deal with people’s whims and complaints; but most of all, with the hypocrisy of trying to do such a contentiously idealistic thing while enjoying the kind of life I had been living.
Paris: George V Hôtel, May 1975.
▪ I came to in a kind of trance. The woman with me is my wife; she is quite uniquely beautiful. Her profile is serene and encouraging. I look down at myself and I’m dressed rather peculiarly. My face is hairless and my jacket waisted with a 15-inch inverted pleat at the back. My shoes are scratched and worn. My collar feels too tight. I glance in the mirror as we walk to the restaurant. Is that the so-called “me“?
Children? Where are the children? I was sure that I would have beautiful, sparkling children. Where are they?
We walk into the long, elegant room and wait to be seated. The head waiter acknowledges our hand gestures in French. It is Paris.
The woman is smiling with an exhilarated jubilance to fit a queen. I glance along the room at nearby tables. They are all staring at her, entranced. The head waiter suggests we drink Beaujolais Villages, slightly chilled. It costs nothing – there are wines on the menu that cost $100 – but he suggests this simple fare. When it is delivered, we understand. The warmth of perfection that accompanies such instants is unmeasurable. The way the silken cloth clings to her body, revealing not only the perfection of her form, but also the eccentricities; the faults (if it is possible to call them that).
We eat, the food is superb; why is everything so right? Is Paris really a dream? In our room, the blinds are wound down, the sparkling white sheets revealed in a triangle.
How does this fit in? I remember dingy dance halls, fish and chips and little cheap cars that break down miles from home.
I stare into the future. Nothing that I have ever dreamed of has failed me. So I stare knowing that what I see will be. It’s not clairvoyance so much as fatal determination, and yet know that one day my luck must inevitably run out.
What am I doing with this superb woman? What am I doing?
In early August, before I left England, I had written Roger a note, telling him that I felt there had been a lot of unnecessary strife between us, and that I hoped I could earn his respect again. From New York on the first leg of our trip to Carolina, I wrote to him again (he was on the road promoting his new album, Ride a Rock Horse). I told him I would support him in whatever he did. I felt it a strange thing to say.
I had always been the helmsman of the Who. Roger – and Keith, John and our management as well – always had plenty to say in the group’s affairs. But because I wrote the majority of songs, they were inexorably tied up in my feelings, emotions and directions. I took the band over when they asked me to write for them in 1964 in order to pass the Decca audition, and used them as a mouthpiece, hitting out at anyone who tried to have a say in what the group said (mainly Roger) and then grumbling when they didn’t appreciate my dictatorship. Roger often sang songs I’d written that he didn’t care for with complete commitment, and I took him for granted. I said what I wanted to say, often ignoring or being terribly patronizing about the rest of the group’s suggestions, then sulked when they didn’t worship me for making life financially viable. (Kit Lambert went through the same process; he did great work for the Who, not realizing that we were satisfied that he should be thanked, credited and presumably made to feel quite happy by his royalty check each month.)
In New York, a good friend of mine gave me some advice. I tried to explain that I felt the problems in the Who were mainly about me and Roger, not the myriad business problems that seemed so manifestly cancerous. I was counseled quite simply: “Let Roger win.”
The statement isn’t as cruel or flippant as it sounds. This person knew the Who and its history and cared about all of us deeply. The advice meant that I should demonstrate to Roger that my letters were sincere by not hanging on to past grievances or differences. Most of all, I should bow to the changing status quo within the group, created by the fans’ new identification with Roger as front man, rather than with me as its mouthpiece.
John and Keith are probably chewing my photo right now. I know what always irritates them most is when a journalist describes them as “Pete Townshend’s puppets!” If the Who has been a tyranny in the past, it’s been ruled by a runaway horse. Roger has always seen the group in a more objective light than I; as things stand today, the balance within the group as a result of his more active role in its creative direction has brought me closer than ever to Roger and Keith and John as well.
Were it not for the recently resolved legal dispute between the Who and its old management team – Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp – I would probably ramble on about it all at great length. Let it just be said, perhaps because I am a Taurus, perhaps because I am sentimental, that I had resisted Roger for many years in his justifiable revolution against our managers. That had never helped our relationship one iota. (Incidentally, the group’s subsequent split with Pete Rudge’s New York-based Sir Productions was an amicable one, but again Rudge and I found time to cry in our beer over lost partnerships. We had often shared a cell after the frequent Who hotel debacles.) As for Kit and Chris, my feelings now can be summed up concisely: I miss them.
Against this backdrop of good intentions, I set off in August 1975 to Myrtle Beach. As our party (my wife, my two little daughters and a few friends who traveled with us) crossed the threshold onto Meher Baba’s home ground, we were all staggered by the impact of the love that literally filled the air.
Despite the strength I felt growing within me, I think I can speak for our whole party when I say I felt exhausted by Myrtle Beach. God’s endlessly present love isn’t to be taken lightly. It’s great to be forgiven, but it hurts to admit you were wrong in the first place. I realized that I would not be reaping such fantastic emotional and mental rewards had I not been in pretty bad shape; a condition for which I had no one to blame but myself.
When you hold out an empty cup to God and demand that He fill it with wine, He fills it faster than you can ever drink. Then you know that the fault is your own incapacity to receive His infinite love, rather than His capacity to give it. I loosely quote Hafiz here, of course, but this is what I felt was happening. Even my youngest daughter, Aminta, three years old, became starry-eyed with the atmosphere that poured from the trees. I wouldn’t say that the warm reception given us by the residents of the Myrtle Beach retreat was not enjoyed and appreciated, but it paled in significance when compared to the welcome we felt in the buzzing dragonflies, the sound of the ocean and the massaging humidity of the warm afternoon.
We spent an unbelievable ten days. I talked to the older devotees of Meher Baba about my plans for a new place in London and they were naturally encouraging. The sun shone, the children enjoyed themselves, we relaxed and relished rejuvenation at the Master’s command. The fears I had that I would not be strong enough to see through the imminent testing rehearsals and tour with the Who receded.
We traveled then to California.
▪ “I look out through your bloodshot eyes and I ask you, does this really matter? I am here, and I wait constantly as your hair falls over the typewriter keys.“
I don’t want to die . . . !
“Death is not at all what I expect. I want surrender, surely that is simple enough.“
I am suffocating in your love . . . help me somebody! I am drowning!
“They say that to drown in the depths is really to ascend.“
Beloved God, why do you sometimes bring me close to tears?
“Because I am your own heart, you might well be bored with me. I am you. And have known, and lived, and died with you . . . for a billion years.“
In California, we were well looked after, taken into the bosom of the Sufi family there, provided with a furnished house, picnics, swimming pool, outings to state parks, camping trips to the Sierras and all kinds of straight-laced relaxation.
You are probably as mystified as I am as to where the spiritually beneficial work was being done in this kind of program, but spirit was what was needed, and spirit was what I got, even if it didn’t fit preconceived notions.
Murshida Duce is a remarkable woman. She heads a group of about 300 initiates, all committed to total honesty and respect for her authority. She has Meher Baba’s sanction as the legitimate Murshid along with “in line” decree from her own deceased Murshid, Murshida Martin. Murshida Martin herself took over under the instructions of the famous Inayat Khan, a spiritual teacher and master musician whose books on Sufism present a poetic system for modern life.
“Sufism Reoriented” today focuses its initiates on developing their devotion to Meher Baba. Meher Baba gave an explicit charter to Murshida Duce and it is under the limitations of this charter that she works today. I am not a Sufi initiate, but her spontaneous help in my life has always touched me. I felt it extraordinary that she was clearly comfortable with me. She is a rather grand lady in late years, accustomed in her own youth to formal dinners and cocktail parties for her husband’s work as an oil man in the Forties and Fifties. In fact, she is not so easily pigeonholed.
On arrival in California, I went for a talk with her, to gossip, to bring her up-to-date on events at home, to ask her advice about the color of the walls at the newly planned Baba house in London. Instead, to my amazement, I sat and poured out my very soul. I couldn’t for a second have anticipated this happening. She sat and listened as I told her every grisly detail: the paranoia, the drunken orgies, the financial chaos, the indulgent self-analysis (continued herein, I’m afraid) and, of course, the dreamy hopes for the future.
Without batting an eyelid she listened to stuff that was making me recoil myself, then went on to talk a little about her own youth, her life with her husband, the trouble some of her students were having at the time. In short, she got me right in perspective.
At the end of this month with her, we packed our bags, said our farewells and headed home, my wife and the kids to school, me to rehearsals with the band. Keith later told me I walked into the rehearsal hall smiling; he related this because he had found it remarkable. Something positive had happened to me.
Back in England, I got hold of a building for the London Meher Baba house and one morning, early, sat thinking about the past year. I thought about the incredibly circuitous route I had taken to bring me to that point in October 1975, a new British Who tour ahead of us. I got to where I ended up. Having taken energy, freely given, from just about every source I could lay my hands on, being strong again and feeling fairly certain that I could now rock & roll right into my grave, I decided that I could dare to ask for just one more directive.
I raised my eyes to the heavens, my future Meher Baba house looming up as a great potential encroachment on my time with band, and asked the old man: “What conclusions do I draw from all this, Baba? Where do I put this love you’ve given me?”
The answer came out of the sky, in a voice that, to me, was audible in a fantastic sense: “Keep playing the guitar with the Who until further notice.“
▪ Where am I and what am I? I kneel at the foot of a picture of my Master, I plead forgiveness, but in dreams I gloat. The superb and beautiful creatures that have lain at my feet. What am I? I look in the mirror and don’t see much. Am I purely a fraud? Fall in, all you cynics, but how about your own admirers?
The people I observe fall at my feet, but why?
I think I know. The ego floods away from me like the crutch snatched from a cripple. But the feeling is not bad; they love me for what I could be, not for what I am.
When I screamed for God to smash me down, I didn’t expect for a minute that he really would.
June 20th, 1977.
▪ The editors have asked what I feel precipitated this crisis. Caring too much? Is it possible? I have read that stars and punk people take themselves too seriously. I am both star and punk, therefore I take myself so seriously that I actually believe I matter to the world. I matter firstly to my family, then to the group and its fans, then to the few who have the conviction that Meher Baba is the True Avatar. In that order. I get serious when Pete Townshend disrupts this scheme of priorities as an individual; when his neuroses and paranoia break up the matter-of-fact interpretation of the scheme’s direction.
Keith Moon once sat in a hotel bed in Boston after dying on the stage in front of 10,000 or so kids, and said, quite simply, “I’ve let you down.” Not, “I’ve let the Who down,” not “I’ve let down the people.” He’d let us down.
My crisis was caused by no one and nothing. It cost me nothing; it gives me everything. It was never precipitated because precipitation is a slow process. Rock & roll is fast. There was no waiting for time to take its course, or for me to weigh up whether I was doing right or wrong. Rock & roll always tries to do right. Rock & roll always aims high and offers itself up as the tinderwood to the fire that will burn away the crap in this world. Rock & roll uses up people, music and talent, even genius, like balsa in a roaring inferno. The fire burns brightly even when the fuel supply gets low, because there is always someone ready to give everything in a last-ditch attempt to gain fame. The right is that it tries, the wrong is that it often fails.
My crisis was simply that I felt I was failing rock & roll. And for me this was a crime. For in doing this, I was failing friends and family, history, the future and, most important of all, I was failing God. No one less could have invented this sublime music.
Pete Townshend has just completed an album with Ronnie Lane, formerly bass player with the Faces. Rough Mix is the closest Pete feels he will get to a solo album for many years, as he is now working on new material for the next Who album. Rough Mix was recently released by MCA.
Townshend has also appeared on and supervised a limited-edition album produced by Meher Baba Oceanic, the English Baba group he refers to in the article. With Love contains three tracks by Pete of a distinctly unusual approach, and others by Lane, Billy Nicholls, Medicine Head and Pete Banks. | <urn:uuid:b558e39b-985f-448c-8bfb-f7d4fe578659> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pete-townshend-looks-back-the-punk-meets-the-godmother-116213/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.980527 | 10,121 | 1.5 | 2 |
There has been a lot of buzz recently about “ban the box” initiatives prohibiting employers from asking job applicants about their criminal records. Proponents of these initiatives argue that employers should not consider an applicant’s old or minor criminal record to deny job opportunities. On February 16, 2016, Pennsylvania took a different approach to this conundrum when Governor Wolf signed Senate Bill 166 into law.
The new law limits information that is released as part of employment-related criminal background checks in two ways. First, it requires law enforcement agencies to remove records of arrests or the filing of criminal charges where at least three years have elapsed from the time of the arrest, no conviction occurred, and there are no pending proceedings seeking a conviction. This requirement won’t have much of an impact on the hiring process; it only conceals an individual’s record of arrests that do not lead to conviction. Pennsylvania employers are already prohibited from rejecting an applicant because of an arrest without a conviction.
The second change implemented by the new law is farther-reaching. Individuals with criminal records can now petition their county’s Court of Common Pleas to enter an order granting limited access to their criminal record. In order to obtain such an order, a person must be either free from arrest for 10 years, or released from incarceration for 10 years, whichever occurred later. The order will direct law enforcement agencies to withhold any information relating to second or third degree misdemeanor convictions and ungraded offenses that carry a prison term of less than two years. It will be binding on all state and local law enforcement agencies in Pennsylvania. Police agencies will still be able release information regarding misdemeanor convictions for witness intimidation, intimidation or obstruction in child abuse investigations, and information relating to sex offender registration status. Felony convictions will also be included in criminal history reports, regardless of how long ago they occurred.
The implications for employers are obvious; even if a criminal background check is performed, some or all of an applicant’s criminal history may not be provided. Under the new law, individuals will be able to prevent employers from gaining access to misdemeanor convictions relating to offenses such as DUI, drug possession, reckless endangerment, retail theft, and others. For example, a retailer who has a policy of rejecting applicants with a history of retail theft may now not be made aware of an applicant’s retail theft conviction if the applicant obtained an order granting limited access to his or her criminal record.
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Pielke notes five points of fact about hurricanes:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) finds “no consensus” on the relative role of human influences on Atlantic hurricane activity, quoting the IPCC as follows: “there is still no consensus on the relative magnitude of human and natural influences on past changes in Atlantic hurricane activity, … and it remains uncertain whether past changes in Atlantic TC activity are outside the range of natural variability.”
“The IPCC has concluded that since 1900 there is ‘no trend in the frequency of USA landfall events.’ This goes for all hurricanes and also for the strongest hurricanes, called major hurricanes.”
“Since at least 1980, there are no clear trends in overall global hurricane and major hurricane activity.”
“There are many characteristics of tropical cyclones that are under study and hypothesized to be potentially affected by human influences, … but at present there is not a unified community consensus on these hypotheses, as summarized by the World Meteorological Organization,” as to whether any of the factors are affected by human greenhouse gas emissions.
“Hurricanes are common, incredibly destructive and will always be with us. Even so, we have learned a lot about how to prepare and recover.”
Pielke points out that some of the costliest hurricanes occurred in the early part of the twentieth century when average global temperatures were cooler than at present.
Good news: a warmer, likely tamer climate, is in the future recent science shows. A new study projects no future increase in tropical storm energy.
Lots of government-funded climate scientists like claiming tropical cyclones are getting worse and that in the future we need to expect one supercharged storm after another – due to man heating the climate with carbon dioxide emissions.
But as we noted yesterday here, Zoe Phin found that hurricanes have not gone along with this dubious doomsday science over the past 25 years. Now a new study confirms things will continue that way.
In the segment, DkS cites a new study appearing in the Geophysical Research Letters, where a team of scientists led by Philip Kreussler used three different global climate models to investigate tropical cyclone integrated kinetic energy which is closely associated with their damage potential.
It is true that there were more named storms, which includes tropical storms as well as hurricanes, this season than in any other year, but this is quite meaningless. Over the years, reporting practices have drastically changed, so that more storms are spotted and named now.
PBS News Hour attacked climate science this weekend, publishing alarmist claims about hurricanes and wildfires that defy findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
In an interview between PBS reporter Hari Sreenivasan and Andrew Freedman, editor of Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang, the two journalists blamed global warming for severe wildfires and hurricanes.
According to the IPCC, however, there is little or no evidence indicating global warming is impacting hurricanes or drought.
Figure 1: Total wildfire acreage burned by year in the United States, 1926 to 2019. Data from NIFC. Graph by meteorologist Anthony Watts
There have been six hurricanes in total, including three major ones, Dorian, Humberto and Lorenzo. Coincidentally both numbers are the same as the average since 1950.
According to NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division, many hurricanes were missed in the earlier decades. Systematic aircraft reconnaissance began in 1944, but this only covered half of the Atlantic basin, until daily satellite monitoring started in 1966.
by J. Curry, Sep; 9, 2019 in ClimateChangeDispatch
I used to be concerned about ‘consensus enforcement’ on the topic of climate change. Now I am concerned about ‘alarmism enforcement.’
Ever since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, any hurricane causing catastrophic damage has been seized upon by climate alarmists as evidence of the horrors of global warming.
As if the record-holding hurricanes from the 1920s through the 1950s never happened.
The catastrophic damage to the Bahamas from Hurricane Dorian is no different. The ‘official’ statement from the alarmist contingent of climate scientists appears to be this article in the Guardian, by Mann and Dessler:
Unfortunately for the alarmists, there are several factors that are getting in the way of the public promotion of the Mann/Dessler narrative:
Alabama-gate: President Trump’s insistence on defending his erroneous statements about the forecasts for Dorian impacting Alabama. A good article summarizing all this was co-authored by one of my former students at Georgia Tech, Brandon Miller [link].
After the Alabama National Weather Service office made a statement that Alabama was not at risk from Dorian, NOAA issued a statement defending President Trump [link].
A WaPo article describes this latest development [link], and the subsequent outrage among scientists and NOAA employees (past and present.
This whole situation is taking the oxygen out of the room in terms of discussions regarding Dorian and global warming. Gotta wonder if this was the strategy?
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Hurricane Camille, the second most powerful to git the US coast. The strongest was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935.
The NWS has issued this press release:
Hurricane Camille August 17, 1969
Late in the evening on August 17 in 1969, Hurricane Camille made landfall along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Waveland, MS. Camille is one of only FOUR Category 5 hurricanes ever to make landfall in the continental United States (Atlantic Basin) – the others being the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane, which impacted the Florida Keys; Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which impacted south Florida; and Hurricane Michael in 2018, which impacted the Florida panhandle. (Note: It is worth mentioning that the 1928 San Felipe Hurricane made landfall as a Category 5 Hurricane on Puerto Rico)
Camille ranks as the 2nd most intense hurricane to strike the continental US with 900 mb pressure and landfall intensity of 150 knots. Camille ranks just below the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane with 892 mb and 160 knots, while slightly stronger than Hurricane Andrew with 922 mb and 145 knots and Hurricane Michael with 919 mb and 140 knots. The actual maximum sustained winds of Hurricane Camille are not known as the hurricane destroyed all the wind-recording instruments in the landfall area. Re-analysis data found peak winds of 150 knots (roughly 175 mph) along the coast. A devastating storm tide of 24.6 feet occurred west of our area in Pass Christian, MS.
Watching the current maps and models, it appears the 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season is off to a slow start. For people that the depend on disaster porn (climate alarmists, media) that means no weather events to claim as being climate driven.
Politics versus science in attributing extreme weather events to manmade global warming.
If you follow me on twitter, you may have noticed that I was scheduled to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Jun 12 [link]. The subject of the Hearing is Contending with Natural Disasters in the Wake of Climate Change.
Late on Jun 10, I received an email telling me that the Hearing is postponed (as yet unscheduled). Apparently the Committee finds it more urgent to have a Hearing related to holding the Attorney General and Secretary of Commerce in contempt of Congress [link]. Interesting to ponder that Congressional procedural issues are deemed to be more important than Climate Change.
So I spent all last week working on my testimony (which is why there have been no new blog posts). I hope the Hearing will eventually happen (Michael Mann is also scheduled to testify).
Hurricanes and climate change constitute a major portion of my testimony. You may recall my recent series on Hurricanes & climate change [link]. Specifically with regards to detection and attribution, my bottom line conclusion was:
“In summary, the trend signal in hurricane activity has not yet had time to rise above the background variability of natural processes. Manmade climate change may have caused changes in hurricane activity that are not yet detectable due to the small magnitude of these changes compared to estimated natural variability, or due to observational limitations. But at this point, there is no convincing evidence that manmade global warming has caused a change in hurricane activity.”
Ces deux dernières années ont été marquées par une activité cyclonique supérieure aux moyennes statistiques en Atlantique Nord, notamment en 2017 avec des phénomènes puissants tels Irma et Maria dans les Caraïbes. Cette année, alors que la saison démarre officiellement le 1er juin, nos prévisions sont plus rassurantes avec la perspective d’une activité cyclonique légèrement plus faible que la moyenne.
En ce début d’été météorologique, la saison cyclonique débute dans l’Atlantique nord (les ouragans). Cette saison s’étend officiellement du 1er juin au 30 novembre, avec un pic d’activité d’août à octobre. Il est donc l’heure pour les différents organismes météo de la planète et les météorologues et climatologues de La Chaîne Météo de se pencher sur les prévisions de cette saison à venir.
En 2017, la saison dans l’océan Atlantique nord a figuré parmi les plus actives depuis le début des relevés, avec des phénomènes dévastateurs (Harvey, Irma ou encore Maria dans les Caraïbes). Comme 2017, la saison 2018 s’est située au-dessus des moyennes (calculées par la NOAA d’après la période 1981/2010). Cette dernière saison a présenté, pour l’Atlantique nord, 15 phénomènes cycloniques, avec 8 ouragans dont 2 qui ont atteint la catégorie 3 sur 5, qualifiés alors de “majeurs”.
El Nino and warmer-than-average Atlantic help shape this season’s intensity
From NOAA press release:
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is predicting that a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season is most likely this year. This outlook forecasts a 40% chance of a near-normal season, a 30% chance of an above-normal season and a 30% chance of a below-normal season. The hurricane season officially extends from June 1 to November 30.
For 2019, NOAA predicts a likely range of 9 to 15 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher), of which 4 to 8 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including 2 to 4 major hurricanes (category 3, 4 or 5; with winds of 111 mph or higher). NOAA provides these ranges with a 70% confidence. An average hurricane season produces 12 named storms, of which 6 become hurricanes, including 3 major hurricanes.
Seasonal #hurricane forecast from @ColoradoStateU predicts slightly below-average season: 13 named storms, 5 hurricanes & 2 major (Cat 3+, >=111 mph) hurricanes. Primary reason for slightly below-avg forecast is anticipated continuation of weak #ElNino.
We anticipate that the 2019 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have slightly belownormal activity. The current weak El Niño event appears likely to persist and perhaps even strengthen this summer/fall. Sea surface temperatures averaged across the tropical Atlantic are slightly below normal, and the far North Atlantic is anomalously cool.
Our Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation index is below its long-term average. We anticipate a slightly below-average probability for major hurricanes making landfall along the continental United States coastline and in the Caribbean. As is the case with all hurricane seasons, coastal residents are reminded that it only takes one hurricane making landfall to make it an active season for them. They should prepare the same for every season, regardless of how much activity is predicted.
PROBABILITIES FOR AT LEAST ONE MAJOR (CATEGORY 3-4-5) HURRICANE LANDFALL ON EACH OF THE FOLLOWING COASTAL AREAS:
1) Entire continental U.S. coastline – 48% (average for last century is 52%)
2) U.S. East Coast Including Peninsula Florida – 28% (average for last century is 31%)
3) Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle westward to Brownsville – 28% (average for last century is 30%)
PROBABILITY FOR AT LEAST ONE MAJOR (CATEGORY 3-4-5) HURRICANE TRACKING INTO THE CARIBBEAN
(10-20°N, 88-60°W) 1) 39% (average for last century is 42%)
Sediment cores from Western Lake provide a 7000-yr record of coastal environmental changes and catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf Coast of the Florida Panhandle. Using Hurricane Opal as a modern analog, we infer that overwash sand layers occurring near the center of the lake were caused by catastrophic hurricanes of category 4 or 5 intensity. Few catastrophic hurricanes struck the Western Lake area during two quiescent periods 3400–5000 and 0–1000 14C yr B.P. The landfall probabilities increased dramatically to ca. 0.5% per yr during an “hyperactive” period from 1000–3400 14C yr B.P., especially in the first millennium A.D. The millennial-scale variability in catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf Coast is probably controlled by shifts in the position of the jet stream and the Bermuda High.
I’ve updated a plot of Florida major hurricane strikes since 1900 with Hurricane Michael, and the result is that there is still no trend in either intensity or frequency of strikes over the last 118 years:
Despite all the signals being sent from every direction suggesting global warming is leading to more frequent and intense hurricanes, even the warmist NOAA is forced to confess that this has not been the long-term case.
by M. Bastasch, September 19, 2018 in ClimateChangeDispatch
Hurricane Florence made landfall on Friday in North Carolina, bringing heavy rains and flooding. But before the storm touched down in the U.S., scientists and news outlets were already linking the storm to global warming.
However, not all scientists agree that man-made warming is making hurricanes, including Florence, bigger, slower and wetter as is often claimed in the media.
Climatologist Judith Curry called efforts by the “mainstream climate community” to link Florence to man-made global warming “woefully inadequate and misleading to scientists, the public and policymakers.”
Even before Hurricane Florence made landfall somewhere near the border of North and South Carolina, predicted damage from potentially catastrophic flooding from the storm was already being blamed on global warming.
Writing for NBC News, Kristina Dahl contended, “With each new storm, we are forced to question whether this is our new, climate change-fueled reality, and to ask ourselves what we can do to minimize the toll from supercharged storms.”
The theory is that tropical cyclones have slowed down in their speed by about 10 percent over the past 70 years due to a retreat of the jet stream farther north, depriving storms of steering currents and making them stall and keep raining in one location. This is what happened with Hurricane Harvey in Houston last year.
But like most claims regarding global warming, the real effect is small, probably temporary, and most likely due to natural weather patterns …
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Universität Erfurt, Staatswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Erfurt
Auditing institutions, such as the German Federal Court of Audit (BRH), provide information on public revenue and public spending. The question of how to increase tax compliance has been of frequent interest. Unfortunately, information from German taxpayers? declaration behaviour (beyond the official income statistics and tax statistics) was neither systematically collected, nor otherwise made accessible for systematic research. However, the BRH selectively observes taxpayers? and tax administrators? behaviour and, on the basis of its audit experiences, comments on tax enforcement and tax compliance. Such recommendations are not just increasingly given by the BRH, but also increasingly considered in political decision making processes. Although the findings are not a representative sample of the German taxpayers? behaviour, they make up available information on tax compliance behaviour in Germany and, therefore, are worth discussing in light of modern economic theories of tax compliance. The reported facts are an appropriate foundation of case studies.
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Bangkok, March 25, 2019 — The Supreme Court of Myanmar will hear an appeal by the lawyers of jailed Reuters news agency reporters Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone on March 26, according to a statement from Reuters seen by the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The reporters are each serving seven-year sentences under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act for allegedly possessing and disseminating secret information sensitive to national security; they were originally sentenced on September 3, 2018, and have been in jail since December 12, 2017, according to CPJ reporting.
“Myanmar still has a chance to right the wrong committed against jailed Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo,” said Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative. “We urge the Supreme Court to come down on the right side of justice by reversing their convictions and setting them free.”
As CPJ reported in January, the reporters’ lawyers argued that the lower court wrongly placed the burden of proof on the defendants, that the state prosecutors failed to prove any criminal wrongdoing, and that the reporters were set up by police who planted supposedly secret documents on them after a December 2017 meeting.
At the time of their initial arrests, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were investigating a massacre of Rohingya men and boys by security forces in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State; their reporting was published in Reuters on February 8, and led to seven soldiers being sentenced to prison for their involvement in the killings. | <urn:uuid:78e45425-03e5-4011-b7a7-15d1e84ecf76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cpj.org/2019/03/myanmar-supreme-court-appeal-reuters-journalists/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982082 | 308 | 1.609375 | 2 |
This captivating food spread is packed with intriguing facts, and learning about them could give us a comprehensive understanding of its various benefits, purposes, and locations.
However, before we examine peanut butter as a broad culinary term, let us first characterize its centre importance by describing nut and spread.
Peanuts are generally considered nuts in the food sense, yet they are vegetables like beans in the specialized mind. Our thought process of nuts is not nuts by any means; however, beans!
Peanuts are generally liberated from cholesterol. Typically, margarine is more found under dairy products; however, it is called margarine for this situation because of the spread’s tacky and smooth surface.
These nutty spreads provide a number of medical benefits. For example, many health professionals believe it is a good source of nutrition for the heart.
In addition to keeping you safe from malignant growth, coronary heart infections, cardiovascular illness, gallstones, high blood glucose, and elevated cholesterol, it also keeps you from falling victim to chronic diseases.
It comprises various supplements and great magnesium, potassium, and phosphorous wellspring.
What Does Peanut Butter Consist Of?
Peanut butter is produced using peanuts that are not nuts like pecans or cashews. Peanuts are essential for the vegetable family, containing chickpeas, fava beans, and lentils.
Peanut butter truly tops you off when you eat it, and it assists with stifling your craving. While they are high in fat, peanuts mainly comprise unsaturated fats that don’t raise cholesterol levels.
Peanut butter is able to lower blood cholesterol levels as olive oil does, according to a study in the December 1999 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Most peanut butter, even the locally acquired assortments, contains measures of Tran’s fats, if any.
In a review finished by specialists at Purdue University, they found serum fatty oil levels diminished by up to 24 percent when peanuts were added to the eating regimens of solid people for more than 30 weeks.
The decrease in the fatty substance levels implied a potential reduction in heart-related sicknesses by six to eight percent. Regular or natural spreads hold the solid heart advantages of peanuts and contain less salt and sugar than locally acquired brands.
One of my #1 items is peanut butter. The following are three motivations behind why I like this item. To begin with, it has an incredible taste and sound. Experiencing childhood with the mixed nibble, I feel affection for the velvety smooth taste.
Second, this item can fuel your body and is a more solid decision than cheap food burgers, chips, frozen yogurt, etc. Third, low in sugar gives you fiber and nutrients, decreases LDL cholesterol, and lowers the gamble of coronary illness.
More critically, it provides a modest quantity of zinc, a mineral significant for mending and reinforcing the invulnerable framework.
What Is Gluten?
Gluten is a protein in many grains like rye, wheat, and grain. Gluten is likewise used to season food and as a “limiting” specialist to keep handled food varieties intact.
Since gluten is found in most managed food varieties, individuals hoping to eat less taken food could settle on a gluten-free diet.
In addition, by diminishing how many handled food varieties you eat, there is a potential for weight reduction, as managed food sources commonly have a higher caloric count than non-handled food sources.
A considerable lot of the handled food sources that are gluten-free use sugars and different specialists to supplant the gluten as “covers,” so remember that gluten-free doesn’t generally mean lower calories.
Handled food varieties are also bound to have other compound-based fixings that are not things we need in our bodies. For example, celiac Disease is the powerlessness to tolerate gluten, and about 1 out of every 130 individuals has Celiac Disease.
It is the powerlessness to deal with gluten; the body dismisses the gluten particles consumed. The utilization of gluten by individuals with Celiac Disease causes a safe reaction, thus harming the small digestive system and prompting gastrointestinal issues.
Indeed, even people that are not gluten delicate report further developed processing while changing to a gluten-free diet or a decrease in gluten utilization.
I have seen this as the situation with my significant other, and I attempt to restrict how many gluten-containing food varieties we eat. There is a visual contrast in our processing.
While individuals frequently allude to gluten as a protein, it addresses a part of proteins called peptides. These peptides are different in the various grains considered to contain gluten and should be avoided in gluten-free consuming fewer calories.
For example, in the rye, the protein is called secalin; in grain, it is called hordein; and in what it is called gliadin. Individuals with a particular aversion to these peptides should rigorously avoid them or face possibly intense outcomes.
Celiac-sick individuals might still experience the ill effects of gluten responsiveness, despite having a negative test result for celiac disease.
Therefore, it is essential to perceive that the gluten-free peculiarity isn’t an eating regimen trend or promoting ploy. On the contrary, it is a crucial eating routine for individuals with a particular ailment.
Could It Be Said That You Are Gluten-Free?
Gluten is a protein from the experienced seeds of grains like wheat, grain, and rye.
So, when you see advertising popular expressions, for example, “made with the entire grain” on bread, wafers, oats, and pasta, you can be sure that those items contain gluten.
Likewise, gluten can be tracked down in clueless items like virus cuts, salad dressings, and lager. What’s more, although a few things, like earthy
colored rice, oats, chickpeas, and quinoa, don’t contain gluten, they can be crossly debased with gluten during handling in a similar plant.
Gluten has been connected to a broken stomach condition. A cracked stomach can prompt a large group of other medical problems, given that the digestive wall is penetrated.
As per Web MD, typical side effects of a flawed stomach condition include gas, swelling, squeezing, and general torment in the digestive region. Over the past 50 years, celiac sickness has increased to a four-crease.
The blast of celiac sickness ended up harmonizing with the “development” of new wheat assortments. To broaden the gathering, wheat was hereditarily changed (see GMO).
Presently, standard types of wheat in the supermarket have substantially more gluten than the past grains. Likewise, the cycles used to develop and reap the wheat are an issue.
A similar pesticide utilized in the item Round-Up (a weed executioner) is ordinarily used to dry out grain with the goal that it is dry enough for handling. Assortments of sulfur and nitrogen utilized in manures have likewise been found to change the qualities of the wheat.
Some researchers have found that hereditarily adjusted food can cause malignant growth by interfering with the regular hormonal cycles of the body. Synthetic compounds utilized in baking like sodium bromide additionally add to general digestive pain.
Is Gluten Awful For You?
For some’s purposes, keeping a gluten-free eating regimen isn’t a direction for a living but a need.
For example, patients with Celiac Disease endure severe side effects because of gluten.
As far as they might be concerned, gluten makes the small digestion tracts become aggravated and harmed.
As a result, these patients experience the ill effects of
upset stomachs, extreme stomach torment, and swelling.
At times, they likewise experience the ill effects of unhealthiness because their bodies cannot assimilate supplements. Therefore, a gluten-free eating regimen is fundamental for personal satisfaction.
Gluten is a protein tracked down in wheat, rye, and grain. Therefore, gluten is tracked down in food sources that utilize these grains in the fixings. Typical food sources that contain gluten incorporate bread, oats, and pasta.
Although these might be the most widely recognized food sources, numerous others have gluten too. Wheat is mainly concealed in numerous food varieties that the typical individual eats consistently.
Oats are a grain that is problematic for this subject. Specific individuals with gluten prejudice can eat them. Some exploration demonstrates that oats themselves don’t contain gluten, yet they, for the most part, are made with wheat items, causing cross-tainting.
Because of this pollution, oats are frequently left off a Gluten-free food list. Other exploration makes sense that oats contain a protein that is the same as wheat and ought not to be remembered for a gluten-free eating regimen.
Unfortunately, oats keep on being bantered for this issue. Gluten is most frequently utilized in bread mixture to make it chewy.
It likewise assists with making the batter less tacky. Gluten is again a guide for the bread to keep up with its delicateness and shape.
Wheat flour and wheat starch is one more gluten item that assists with making delicate quality and shape in bread-based things.
In addition, wheat starch is often utilised as a thickener for soups, dressings, marinades, and other fluid food items. The quantity of individuals who keep a gluten-free eating regimen is developing.
Individuals with Celiac Disease, gluten bigotry, and Autism frequently stay severe to an eating regimen with no Gluten. There are different motivations behind why a doctor might propose a Gluten-free eating routine.
Individuals who experience the ill effects of heartburn, asthma, touchy inside condition, and numerous other clinical worries might attempt an eating regimen gluten-free.
The eating routine might alleviate the side effects of any of these clinical judgments. Gluten-free food varieties incorporate most entire new food varieties like vegetables, nuts, natural products, and meats.
Some grains don’t contain millet, gluten, corn, quinoa, wild rice, and soybeans. Different food sources like bread, pasta, and oats can be bought for however long there is a confirmed gluten-free name on the bundling.
These confirmed food sources are made in food fabricating plants where there could be no other gluten items made in that area. Other handled food names should express the utilization of gluten but must be perused cautiously by the buyer.
Is Peanut Butter Gluten-Free?
Attempting to make gluten-free peanut butter treats appears to be straightforward, right? Well, for individuals new to eating an eating regimen that doesn’t contain gluten, the flour decisions and eating limitations can appear to be confounding and not exceptionally tempting.
However, with some testing and experimentation, you can change practically any recipe and make it suit your way of life. Fundamentally you ought to have the option to adjust your number one peanut butter treat recipe and substitute gluten-free flour instead of standard flour.
The issue is that you need to utilize flour that you like and that has a great flavor that will praise your recipe. Unfortunately, some flours available don’t have a suitable surface or make them an overpowering flavor that doesn’t do your recipe equity.
Cooking gluten-free rapidly becomes fulfilling. Likewise, any cuisine will have a few victories and an infrequent lemon.
So continue. In the store, don’t be bashful; make some noise. Request that stores convey gluten-free things, and when they do, track down the supervisor and say, “bless your heart.”
Call organizations that are dubious about their fixings and pose direct inquiries about the fixings. Gluten-free cooking will immediately turn into a lifestyle. It is engaging to have the option to work on your wellbeing or the strength of somebody you love.
What The FDA States
The Gluten-Free Rule permits food liberated from gluten to bear a gluten-free marking guarantee, given that it meets all FDA necessities for a portion of gluten-free food.
The standard likewise allows makers to put the willful gluten-free contract anyplace on the food name as long as it doesn’t obstruct the compulsory marking data.
Any food item bearing a gluten-free guarantee should meet the standard’s necessity or be liable to FDA’s requirement.
For FDA-controlled food varieties with an obsolete gluten-free guarantee on the name, the period given to such items to be cycled off supermarket racks will differ contingent upon stock, item timeframe of realistic usability, customer ubiquity of the thing, and different factors.
FDA guarantees consistency by utilizing its regular post promoting observing exercises, for example, Sampling, intermittent investigations of assembling offices, leading food name audits, circling back to the purchaser and industry grumblings, and directing gluten examinations of food tests.
If a maker utilizes a gluten-free guarantee on its bundling yet doesn’t meet the prerequisites of the FDA, the item could be considered misbranded.
The administrative activities of the FDA against misbranded items include monetary punishments, no-deal orders, item seizures, or directives.
All organizations hoping to trade expects to know about other areas’ prerequisites for gluten-free claims.
The 20ppm condition of the FDA rule is predictable with worldwide guidelines, including the Codex Alimentarius Commission’s modified Codex Standards for Foods for Special Dietary Use of Persons Intolerant to Gluten.
The most effective method for choosing a Gluten-Free Peanut Butter. If you’re not incredibly delicate to follow a gluten, you ought to be OK with gluten-free marked established brands like Smuckers or Jif.
At least search for peanut butter that conveys a “gluten-free” name. That implies it meets U.S. “gluten-free” principles of less than 20 sections for each million gluten.
In their typical structure, peanuts and peanut butter are gluten-free. By and large, gluten-containing peanut butter is the exemption for the standard as opposed to the actual bar.
If a peanut butter contains gluten, it’s reasonable because of added fixings regular in super handled choices or defilement during handling.
But, by and large, most locally acquired peanut butter doesn’t contain gluten and ought to be alright for those with sensitivities or ailments like IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome).
The most straightforward method for recognizing that one of the numerous peanut butter tubs loading the racks is gluten-free is searching for the Certified Gluten-Free name.
Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Brands
• Real Brand
• Smart Balance
• Once Again
• Spread The Love
• Peter Pan
• Wild Friends
• Crazy Richard’s
• Earth Balance
• PB Crave
• Peanut Butter & Co
• Krema Nut Company
• Santa Cruz Organic
Not Certified Gluten-Free Brands
• 365 (Whole Foods brand)*
• Better’n Peanut Butter
• Fix and Fogg*
• Happy Belly (Amazon brand)*
• HomePlate –
• Trader Joe’s
• Laura Scudder’s
• Legendary Foods
• Kirkland (Costco)*
• Nuts’n More
• Peter Pan
• Reese’s (Hershey)
• Jif Omega 3 Peanut Butter*
• RX Peanut Butter*
• Honey sweetened
New Gluten-Free Labeling Law
Different items are accessible for any individual who might want to live gluten-free; however, like the Standard American Diet, many bundled items contain high amounts of sugar, starch, and salt.
Consequently, it’s critical to monitor sodium and sugar levels in the fixings and note how much they contain per serving.
The most straightforward method for having a solid eating regimen is to focus on entire food varieties, including organic products, vegetables, beans, nuts, and gluten-free seeds.
Gluten-free flour is an extraordinary item to utilize while baking; however, it needs supplements commonly present in 100 percent entire wheat flour, so there is no sustenance acquired.
Tragically, no regulations require bundled food to be marked for gluten content. However, a conspicuous way of checking is to search for any food item containing wheat, grain, rye, brewer’s yeast, and lager, as well as malt seasoning, vinegar, and malt.
Additionally, a few oats cross-contaminate, so if you are gluten-free, look for oats labelled as made in gluten-free plants. A portion of the natural organizations will uncover on their bundling that the item was made in a wheat plant, so this is one more mark to know about.
Gluten-Free Cooking Tips
Celiac patients are intolerant to gluten; a protein tracked down in wheat, rye, and grain. A few celiac patients should likewise stay away from oats.
Unfortunately, staying away from these fixings isn’t relatively as straightforward as it sounds – notwithstanding the conspicuous bread, pasta, treats, and cakes, many wellsprings of gluten “stow away” in pre-bundled food.
The gluten-free diet is likewise rehearsed by non-celiacs who wish to eat better, and a few pieces of information propose that kids analyzed in the chemical imbalance range should avoid gluten.
We should investigate the customary wellsprings of gluten in the kitchen and explore approaches to “workaround” or wipe out gluten through and through. The clearest natural abundances of gluten are bread and pasta.
You can make your bread; however, in recent years, many organisations have been delivering tasty bread and pasta because of more appeal for quality, gluten-free items.
Well-being food stores ordinarily have gluten-free bread and pasta, and some supermarkets have gluten-free areas. Notwithstanding, assuming not entirely set in stone to make your bread, noted gluten-free master Bette Hagman proposes these two recipes:
- 2/3 part potato starch flour
- Two parts white rice flour
- 1/3 part tapioca flour
- 2/3 part garfava bean flour
- 1/3 part sorghum flour
- 1 part cornstarch
- 1 part tapioca flour
At the point when you are managing gluten-free flour, a blend of flour is ideal. Rice flour is a decent base. However, you can’t just supplant wheat flour with it. Potato flour and custard flour makes the batter lighter.
Likewise, recall that the proportions are significant because every part adds its surface and quality. Gluten adds a tacky mixture y quality to bread, so adding gums to your gluten-free flour can assist with duplicating that.
Guar gum and xantham gum are promptly accessible items that you can add. However, add around 1/4 teaspoon for some flour, and check the mark of business gluten-free blends to check whether gum is added.
Furthermore, recall that bread needs more “doughiness” than cakes or treats, so change your sums in like manner. You will require more gum in your bread than in cakes and treats.
Is Peanut Butter Gluten Free – Bottom Line
Having an eating routine gluten-free isn’t a great fit for everybody.
Moreover, as you might have speculated, it’s challenging to adhere to every one of the things that genuinely do contain gluten, like pizza, pasta, and other bread-like items, as well as wafers and heated and bundled merchandise.
There are a few gluten-free substitutes; however, they are not a better form of a generally undesirable bite or dinner. Suppose you are experiencing any of the side effects recorded in the central passage of this article, then, by all means.
In that case, you should talk with a specialist, nutritionist, or wellbeing mentor about your stomach-related concerns. Working with a sustenance or clinical expert will assist you with remaining focused.
In addition, these experts will offer choices for elective food sources and sound gluten-free feasts and can screen your advancement.
Preparing and setting a lot of time for shopping is an unquestionable necessity. With few choices for a speedy return, feasts ought to be figured out and arranged ahead of time to guarantee that all names have been checked and everything is reasonable.
It will be enthusiastically prescribed to track down books and address your GP to assist with acquiring a broad rundown of the food sources that can and can’t be eaten—not failing to remember that there is an abundance of online recipes that can assist with making invigorating and creative feasts.
Once disposing of the multitude of food sources that are not generally considered gluten-free, finding substitutes can be the following choice, empowering a portion of your number one things not to be removed from the rundown.
Take pasta by supplanting this gluten-free pasta made with rice, corn, and potato. Likewise, uniquely pre-arranged gluten-free bread that is additionally utilised while making pizza that is accessible and will want to supplant the everyday utilization of bread.
Many brands are coming ready and aiding produce cakes, baked goods, and gluten-free oats to assist in making the day-to-day routine of a coeliac victim should be more straightforward and helpful.
Please Be Aware: Statements in this article is certainly not meant to address, cure, treat or even identify any disease or either been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Instead, it is only for informational reasons that it is composed.
Please, you should see your doctor or a certified medical practitioner for those who have any health problem in any respect before taking any supplement you find here or elsewhere.
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Beware of Poison Hemlock
Last week I finished up with a paragraph on Poison Hemlock, a noxious, invasive weed that is starting to be more prevalent across the county. Perhaps it is coincidence, but the majority of questions this past week have been about Poison Hemlock, the challenge it presents, and control. So let’s review:
Poison Hemlock is a noxious weed that is extremely toxic to livestock. It looks like wild carrot or “Queen Ann’s Lace”, however it can grow to be 6 to 10 feet tall. Poison Hemlock is toxic to both people and livestock, often leaving serious blisters on those who come in contact with the plant. Ingestion of the any part of the plant can be fatal.
If found in a ditch bank or field, poison hemlock can be partially managed by mowing and tilling. The most effective control approach involves properly timed applications of post-emergent herbicides including glyphosate (e.g. Roundup) or 2,4-D. However, applications of herbicides must be made before the plant bolts from the rosette stage to have any chance of reducing seed production this year.
At this point in the growing season mowing the plants is good option, followed by a fall application of herbicide. Mowing in the next week will help reduce seed production. Poison Hemlock is a biennial weed, that if controlled during the rosette stage in the fall, can be managed relatively well compared to some of our other noxious weeds in Ohio.
In other agriculture and natural resources news the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision which ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to vacate the registration of three of the four dicamba products that had previously been approved for use on dicamba tolerant soybeans. Those products are: XtendiMax with VaporGrip Technology, Engenia Herbicide, DuPont FeXapan with VaporGrip Technology.
As of the writing of this column, Distribution or sale by any person is generally prohibited except for ensuring proper disposal or return to the registrant. Growers and commercial applicators may use existing stocks that were in their possession on June 3, 2020, the effective date of the Court decision. Such use must be consistent with the product’s previously-approved label, and may not continue after July 31, 2020. Stay up to date on issue by checking Ohio Department of Agriculture’s website or at corn.osu.edu, where our weekly agronomy newsletter can be found.
Looks like some rain in the forecast today which will be of benefit to farmers and gardeners across Henry County. We have had a nice stretch of field work over past couple of weeks, where hay has been baled, herbicide applications completed, and side dressing of corn with both manure and commercial fertilizer has taken place.
I know after the past three springs my dad and brother were glad to be able to make some nice first cutting mixed hay. After today’s rain they will be busy finishing up that first cutting, baling rye straw, and in a couple of weeks the ram battery will return to pasture for the 2020 breeding season. Always a busy time in agriculture when the sun is shining in June. Ill end this week with a quote from Albert Einstein: “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”. Have a great week.
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Right now, almost 40% of American voters choose not to identify themselves with either major party, making independents the largest voting bloc in the country.
Despite this, every election year, Americans only have two major parties to choose from, and - in many cases - those races are uncompetitive to a degree where they either might as well only have one party running or, in some cases, actually do only have one party running.
Given the large number of people unaffiliated with either major party and the relatively low public opinion ratings for both, you have to ask, why haven’t third party candidates gained more traction?
America’s system of elections is what’s known as a “first-past-the-post” system, where a candidate only needs to win one more vote than the second most popular candidate to take office. As a result, we have candidates and parties who are really good at getting that one more vote.
In systems like this, voters tend to vote for either of the two candidates most likely to win, as voting for any other choice is effectively throwing your vote away. It’s summed up by a principle known as Duverger’s Law, which you can read about here.
As a result, the two major parties don’t need to compete to be the best choice for voters but, in most cases, the least worst choice.
In this competition to be the lesser of two evils, both major parties have relied on tactics such as wedge issues (guns, abortion, etc) to solidify their partisan base and gerrymandering to put their thumb on the scales of elections while, at the same time, trying to be just appealing enough to the people in the middle not to lose.
What’s more, in a structure where partisan gimmickry and identity issues win elections, the accountability of elected officials is minimized. The results are as follows:
Effectively, we have a system where representatives remove themselves from accountability by carving out safe seats in Congress, with that lack of accountability are allowed to serve monied interests, and simply place blame on the other party for being unable to produce effective policy.
While institutions such as the Senate and Electoral College are designed to offset majority rule and ensure smaller states have a voice amongst larger, more populous ones, the House of Representatives was built specifically to represent popular opinion. With an approval rating hovering around 25%, they appear to be falling short of this mission.
If we focus on the House specifically, the issue responsible for much of the dysfunction is the fact that the number of swing seats - seats where a party stands a real chance of losing - have dwindled from around 100 in 1992 to 35 in 2012.
With both major parties responsible for the carving of congressional districts, they effectively choose their voters. Yet, nowhere in the Constitution does it say a congressional district needs to exist - it leaves the process of allocating representatives up to the states.
Eliminate the congressional district, and it becomes much harder for the parties to rig elections in their favor, meaning they need to serve the majority of voters, as was intended by the Constitution.
Countries that have the highest level of satisfaction with their elected officials and which rank the highest in terms of transparency and fairness in elections all have proportional systems of representations - ones where a party receives a percentage of seats in the legislature that is proportional to its percentage of the popular vote.
Parties looking to gain office in countries with proportional representation need to understand what their constituencies want, as opposed to being able to appeal to their base and paint their opposition as less appealing than them.
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Since 2002, when we pioneered the first TCP-anycast CDN, CacheFly has always used throughput and availability as the two metrics that drive us as a company.
Many CDNs rely on DNS-based routing methods; however, there are several differences between the two , which directly translates to throughput, the real indicator of a CDN’s performance as well as availability. Since customers frequently ask us what the differences are between the technologies, here’s a quick overview discussing the benefits of TCP-anycast routing over DNS.
Traditional DNS CDN
DNS-based routing is known as the ‘traditional’, or old-school way of doing global traffic management. DNS routing works by locating the customer’s DNS server and trying to make an informed decision on where the DNS server is located, and which CDN location is closest to that DNS server, and returns that IP address. This operated under the assumption that the physical location, as well as network topology, of the DNS server is a good approximation of both of those values for the actual client behind the DNS server. This is a big leap of faith* (especially in the age of services like OpenDNS and Google Public carrying a significant amount of the worlds DNS traffic). As an example, a certain DSL providers maintains their DNS infrastructure in Atlanta, yet almost 60% of their subscribers are in Southern California – this results in 100% of the traffic behind those DNS servers being served from Atlanta. Not good.
* The edns-client-subnet extension (which CacheFly supports and uses with OpenDNS and Google, among others) ‘fixes’ this problem, however, the DNS based CDNs are struggling with the transition as their systems were designed to map nameservers to POPs, and the edns-client-subnet solution effectively requires them to now be able to map the entire routing table, which is a much bigger challenge to properly monitor performance/availability on a prefix-by-prefix basis in real-time.
More importantly, availability and failover is a large challenge when using a DNS solution, as the TTL of the response must be reached to change locations, and even then, some clients cache the first response and users have to actually restart their browser or client to get a new IP if a POP goes offline (assuming the CDN is even aware that it became unreachable). This can be mitigated by choosing a low TTL which many providers do; however, in turn, this delays performance as resolvers must frequently re-request the same DNS record, delaying the first connection for hostnames that should be in the resolvers cache.
Our TCP-anycast method leverages the best of both worlds – using both DNS and the actual core routing table of the Internet (BGP) to intelligently take client requests and serve from where the *client* is located on the Internet and lets the providers internal metrics find the topographically closest CDN server. This is a huge win for both performance and availability. With anycast, the actual IP address of endpoints never changes, which means we can use a high TTL to ensure a great end-user experience by letting resolvers cache a response. In the event of a provider outage, or if we need to take a POP offline for maintenance, traffic is seamlessly routed to the next best location, without requiring a browser restart, and with a rapid convergence time that’s simply not possible with DNS solutions.
Evaluating CDNs? Look for throughput.
Many of our customers use CacheFly to deliver larger files: videos, apps, games, software downloads; our throughput performance makes it a no brainer to use CacheFly. What most people don’t realize, is throughput is *as important* for small object/web page delivery. When researching web performance it’s easy to be convinced that response time or time-to-first-byte (TTFB) is the metric that you need to optimize for. Those same articles and so-called experts will also tell you it’s extremely important to enable browser side caching, so that your clients don’t have to make a 304 request back to the CDN.
Here’s the thing.. measuring ‘response time’ or TTFB, is simply measuring the performance of 304 responses (headers without content). These are the very requests you just eliminated with client-side browser caching!
So, if you’re not re-requesting content from the CDN, you want that first request (200 response) to complete as fast as possible. That’s time-to-last byte (TTLB) – That’s throughput!
Start optimizing your static objects for time-to-last-byte and your site will load faster, period.
So..Why do people still focus on response time?
First, it’s still a huge factor in loading dynamic, server-generated content where the payload is small and the client spends most of the time waiting for the response to be generated.
However, for large, static content, the TTFB is a small percentage of the overall request – the client spends most of the time actually downloading the object.
Using latency or response time to estimate TTLB/throughput is a pretty good idea – when you don’t have a way to measure throughput. And for most of the 2000’s, people didn’t have a way to measure this in the real world, so TTFB was as good a metric as any.
However, with the advent of RUM (real user monitoring) measurements from companies like New Relic of page render time, and companies like Cedexis and CloudHarmony actually measuring and reporting on real-world throughput, there’s no reason to use TTFB to makes guesses as to how fast the page will load, you can actually choose the fastest provider based on throughput.
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All projects exist to create results, some level of change in the world. The simplest definition is that outputs are our projects’ immediate results and outcomes are the long-term changes that take place because of our outputs. But the difference between outputs and outcomes is much more important than that.
Our outcomes are the real reason for running our project. They are the improvements that the project will create or the benefits that people will experience because of our project. We can create our outcomes by answering “What will be going on in the world if we get this right?”
Our outputs are the products, items, interventions or services that will enable the outcomes to be delivered. We can create our outputs by answering “What is the most effective and efficient way to enable our outcomes?”
|Public awareness campaign||People make different choices|
|Conference||Improved awareness and understanding, strengthened relationships|
|Training programme||Behaviour change, Increased confidence|
|Exercise programme||Improved health|
|Database||Improved analysis, learning and decision-making|
|Research reports||Policy change|
Our hypothesis is that our chosen outputs will achieve our outcome results. However, we should always start with outcomes first, and stay focused on them throughout the project.
Otherwise, we face the risk of delivering excellent outputs, that don’t actually create the change we want to make in the world. We can’t afford to have leaflets for leaflets sake, to produce reports that no-one acts upon or run an event no-one benefits from. Our outputs are simply a means to an end.
Focusing on outcomes also encourages us to assess whether the chosen outputs alone will be enough. In the example of a database, simply creating a database may not lead to improved analysis, learning and decision-making. We may need additional outputs such as staff training, user manuals and guidance as part of staff inductions.
For many people, focusing on outcomes instead of outputs requires a significant shift in culture and thinking. We like outputs, they are tangible and things we do or create. Moving them forward makes us feel good.
Outcomes are more complicated, often less tangible, and can involve changes that are hard to pin down and measure. But they are what really count and so we need to know what we would be expecting to see, and how we would know if they were happening.
Because outcomes are about creating change, they often depend on other people – people behaving in new ways or making different decisions. So, we need to build into our project a way to assess and capture those changes, before the project starts. This can take real thought and planning. But focusing on these outcome measures helps us to track what really matters and tells us if we are truly creating the change we want to see.
Outcomes also help to keep us motivated and engaged. A project isn’t just a list of things to do. It is our way of making the world better.
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If you've never used a web proxy and have no idea why you
need one, this section is for you. In order to understand
the importance of proxies in protecting your family's
privacy and security, it is helpful to start by pointing out
how much information you're revealing or risking if you do
not use a proxy when you surf the web or visit web
So let's start this discussion with a little check or
test. Click on this link to use our
proxy checker . You will see a page of data indicating
what information is available to any web site you visit. For
now, just scroll down the results page and look at the entry
for REMOTE_ADDR. If you are not accessing that site from
behind a proxy, what you are seeing is your own Internet
Protocol (IP) address.
As we discussed in the overview
of email protocols that Cotse.Net supports, your IP is
the Internet equivalent of your postal street address. By
using any number of freely available tools on the Internet,
people may be able to track your IP to see what area you're
in. And if your IP remains unchanging for a while, then they
know exactly where *your* computer is on the Internet and
can try to access it remotely.
Using a proxy helps you hide your true IP from web sites
you visit. Instead of the web site seeing/logging your IP,
all it gets is the IP of the proxy you are using (in
or some other code to run local in your browser, that could effectively remove the shield the
Web proxies may also protect you by stripping out ads,
To find out what a particular proxy actually can do for
you, you need to read its descriptions and limits.
To illustrate the privacy value of a proxy, consider the
following scenario that represents the
unproxied connection. Let's assume that in
this example, you have connected to a web site (web site A),
after which you visit a second web site (Web Site B).
Although it may seem as if you are making direct
connections, remember that you are actually connecting to
these sites (which themselves sit on remote web servers) via
your ISP (Internet Service Provider).
In the unproxied state scenario above:
- Your ISP can see that you connected to Web Site A and
that you then went on to Web Site B.
- Web Site A can see your IP, what OS (operating
system) you are using, what site you were on before you
came there, what pages you visited on their site, and
where you went after you left their site.
- Web Site B can see your IP, what OS you are using,
that you came from Web Site A, what pages you visited on
Site B, and where you went when you left there.
If you use a plain http web proxy, however, the situation
changes. With a plain http proxy:
- Your ISP can see that you connected to the proxy and
that you then went to Web Site A and Web Site B
- Web Site A can no longer see your IP. They see the
proxy's IP, which protects much of your privacy.
- Web Site B can also no longer see your IP and sees
only the proxy's IP.
As you can see, the proxy has added some protection for
you, but you can see that your ISP still has the ability to
monitor or track your activities on the Web. To prevent them
from seeing where you're going, you need to add in another
layer of security or to somehow encrypt your communication
so that it cannot be intercepted. One way to accomplish this
is by adding Stunnel
to your setup. Stunnel essentially provides you with SSL
(Secure Sockets Layer) functionality for your non-SSL
connections such as http.
By adding Stunnel to your browser configuration, your ISP
can tell that there's activity/traffic from your IP, but
they can't see where you're going.
CAUTION: Java runs on YOUR local machine. Java can break
your anonymity. With the Cotse.Net proxy, java trying to
connect back to you will cause another authentication (proxy
login) prompt. Deny it if anonymity is important to you
(click cancel until it stops prompting).
If anonymity is very important, disable java in your
browser. There is no way to guarantee anonymity if you let
applications run on your local machine from the web. You run
them at your own risk.
At Cotse.Net, we provide two different methods of using
our anonymous proxies. One is via a web interface. Log into
our site, type a url into the proxy, click go, and surf
away. The proxy strips your personal information and shields
you from the sites you visit. They cannot tell who you are,
so you are protected from them. In addition the web
interface can be accessed via high encryption. This protects
you from your ISP or anyone along the way snooping on what
you surf. We also offer a cookie manager and the ability to
encode urls to protect them in your browser history.
The next method of anonymous proxy we offer is one that
you can configure in your browser and go. You don't have to
use our web site to surf, anywhere you surf is automatically
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Internet address and hides the software you use. All
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June 16, 2021
In the same series:
The Runestone Styles
c. 1045 – 1075
Characterisation of the style
As defined by Anne-Sofie Gräslund
Firmly rounded with moderately sweeping lines, neither too thick and unresilliant nor too sweeping.
Characterised by a convex line from ear to nose tip.
Almond-shaped, not too large in proportion to the head.
Low set, rounded and slightly bent backwards.
Normally open. The lower lip, usually smaller than in Pr 2, slightly bent downwards. The lip lappet forms an S-line, starting at the somewhat turned-up nose tip. There is a balance between the curve of the ear and that of the nose.
Occur sometimes, rounded with two toes on relatively short legs.
Rolled up, often with a thickened end and a thumb-like protuberance downwards.
One (sometimes two) rune animal(s) along the edge, without or occasionally with over-crossing and in exceptional cases, there is a figure-of-eight loop.
Frequent, although not to the same degree as in Pr 1 and Pr 2.
Danske Runeindskrifter, http://runer.ku.dk
Gräslund, Anne-Sofie, 2006. ‘Dating the Swedish Viking-Age rune stones on stylistic grounds’. Runes and their Secrets – Studies in runology.
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Child Labor Tax Case
CHILD LABOR TAX CASE
CHILD LABOR TAX CASE (Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company, 259 U.S. 20, 1922). Together with Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918), Bailey constituted a major setback to the development of federal economic regulatory power. Hammer prohibited interstate shipment of products made by child labor, while Bailey struck down a federal tax on profits from factories and mines employing children. Chief Justice William Howard Taft held that the tax threatened state sovereignty because it was for regulatory, not revenue, purposes. He ignored precedent (Veazie Bank v. Fenno, 1869; McCray v. United States, 1904) and improperly questioned congressional motivation. The Court abandoned Bailey first in Sonzinsky v. United States (1937) and then United States v. Kahriger (1953).
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Most of us have a new sudden, all consuming discomfort of love and lust – and often wondered just what the partnership stages are. The periods of a relationship are usually described by the person’s emotional, physical, and mental changes that take place within a few during the course of their very own relationship. This really is a very problematic concept to grasp because we all go through all those stages anytime. For lovers, however , these stages may be magnified if the couple goes thru them at the same time. The level of “I want you” is one of the most important ones for every relationship, since it represents first the connection.
The relationship stages of I want you to begin with being friends. Good friends don’t simply just build a marriage – that they strengthen that. It is better to bring a person into a romantic relationship than to build a relationship recover person. So , it is imperative that you work as friends ahead of introducing romance into the picture.
There are four phases of human relationships: friendship, dating, passion, and commitment/settlement. When a couple is first beginning, there are only a few expectations right from either spouse. As the relationship progresses, people become more aware of what they want in relationships. Due to this fact, the “vangelisti” stage is usually reached. This kind of stage is usually typified by simply intense and passionate sexual intercourse between the partners.
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At this stage, people in long lasting relationships go through a process of deepening their psychological connection with the other person. The closeness that creates is more traditional and significant. However , because people have spent so much period together, thoughts of betrayal may occur from earlier mistakes. The stage may result in intense arguements if the few does not reach an agreement about how precisely to continue on using their relationship.
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Dr. Kalpana Chawla
Dr. Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was an American astronaut and the first woman of Indian origin in space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. In 2003, Chawla was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. She was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Several streets, universities, and institutions have been named in her honor
"I first met KC when I was selected to be an astronaut. She welcomed me and my classmates into the office with her warm and friendly smile and her willingness to share her wonderful experience with all of us. She was and is an inspiration, she reached for the stars, and I know she would be so happy to know that the KC Scholarship Project is helping make the dreams of other young women a reality."
KC scholarship is an initiative which symbolizes the capacity to promote the vision for excellence by providing the scholarship to the young female aspirants from India to pursue their higher studies at the International Space University. Indeed, it is an incredible opportunity to guide the young and enthusiastic minds to motivate them pursuing for excellence. After mentoring two successful scholars (Sonal & Anisha), I am privileged to continue guiding students from India, which also gives me an intellectual satisfaction through a meaningful contribution for this prestigious foundation."
"The International Space University is where I got my start in the space sector; attending ISU opened up a whole new world and host of opportunities to me. It is my hope that with the Dr. KC Chawla Scholarship, many more will have this same opportunity for generations to come."
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The global air fryer market was valued at USD 995.4 million in 2020 to USD 1506.62 million by 2027, at a CAGR of 6.1% from 2021 to 2027. Air fryers are primarily used as an alternative to deep fryers. Air fryers use a minimal amount of oil as compared to traditional deep fryers. The air fryers maintain the flavors and textures of food as traditional fryers. It uses heated air enriched with very fine droplets of oil to remove the moisture out of the food. The air fryer consists of two major components heating coil and a fan. The heating coils are used for heating surrounding air and then are circulated with the help of a fan.
The key factors that drive the air fryer market include the development of the hospitality industry, an upsurge in affordability of end customers for advanced kitchen appliances, continuous product innovation, and improved performance by leading manufacturers. Furthermore, customized solutions according to specific requirements and designs have created revenue opportunities for the air fryer market. However, the availability of high noise levels, uneven cooking, and counterfeit products are anticipated to impede the air fryer market growth. Moreover, novel innovations in aesthetics have gained huge traction in recent years, which is anticipated to create lucrative growth opportunities for market expansion.
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The rapid growth of the hospitality industry is expected to be the major driver for the global air fryer market. Busy lifestyles have led to changes in the eating habits of the majority of the worldwide population. Changes in eating habits have led to an increase in demand for ready-to-eat food products, which has led to a rise in the number of QSR hotels and restaurants. The HORECA industry end-users actively seek more advanced, compact, and effective equipment to increase their efficiency. This increase in demand for such advanced cooking equipment, which includes air fryers, is anticipated to propel revenue growth in the near future. Deep frying of food items in traditional fryers often leads to toxic compounds such as acrylamide in certain foods such as meat. The International Agency for Research on Cancer states that acrylamide may have links to the development of cancers such as endometrial, ovarian, breast, esophageal cancer, and pancreatic cancer.
Furthermore, studies suggest that acrylamide intake has detrimental cancer-causing effects on the kidney and damages the nervous system. As a result, by switching to air frying from deep fryers, people can lower the risk of having acrylamide in their food. Growth in awareness toward the hazardous effect of deep-fried food and availability of effective alternatives are expected to boost the revenue growth of the air fryer market during the forecast period.
Global Air Fryer Market Dynamics
Drivers: Health benefits of air fryer to augment market growth
Over the past few years, the air fryers market has witnessed significant growth and popularity, owing to multiple factors such as growth in awareness regarding healthfulness and an increase in concern regarding fat intake. The air fryers are now being used in residential and commercial applications, owing to a more healthful way to cook deep-fried food. They are massively replacing the deep fryers. They use a significantly less amount of oil than deep fryers without compromising on flavor and texture. A decrease in oil intake has a beneficial effect on human health. Many researchers have indicated high intakes of fats from vegetable oil lead to various health conditions such as inflammation, diabetes, and an increased risk of heart disease. Therefore, air fryers help eliminate high-fat and high-calorie oils from the cooking process. It uses heated air enriched with very fine droplets of oil to remove the moisture out of the food. As a result, air-fried food is similar to deep-fried food, though with significantly lower fat levels. This is expected to boost the growth of the market during the forecast period.
Restraints: High noise level and uneven cooking
The air fryer consists of two major components fan and heating coil. The heating coils are used for heating surrounding air and then circulated with the help of a fan. When the fan rotates at its highest speed, the air fryer makes high noise. Some air fryers make noise as high as 65 decibels, which might create a disturbance—furthermore, stacking food results in uneven cooking. Manufacturers are continuously improving the design and functioning of air fryers to overcome such setbacks; however, high noises and uneven cooking are anticipated to impend the market growth for air fryers.
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Opportunities: Increase in technological advancements
Durability, selling price, product maintenance & life, and average power consumption are the prominent factors considered while purchasing air fryers in developing regions. Thus, the development of energy-efficient and durable air fryers at an economical price remains the center of cynosure for the players in the industry. However, in the developed region, there is high demand for smart & connected equipment. Internet of Things, wireless technology, and smartphones are now becoming essential prerequisites and part of everyday life in households; eliminating existing price differences between conventional and air fryers and smart air fryers is anticipated to create remunerative opportunities for engaged stakeholders in the industry.
Scope of the Report
The study categorizes the air fryer market based on application, sales channel, and regions.
By Sales Channel
- Hypermarket and Supermarket
- Specialty Store
- Online Sales Channel
- North America (US, Canada, Mexico)
- South America (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Rest of Latin America)
- Europe (Germany, Italy, France, UK, Spain, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Rest of Europe)
- Asia Pacific (China, Japan, India, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, the Philippines, Singapore, Australia & New Zealand, Rest of Asia Pacific)
- The Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, South Africa, Northern Africa, Rest of MEA)
Residential, by application, is having largest market revenue during the forecast period
On the basis of application, the global air fryer market is studied across residential and commercial segments. The residential segment leads in terms of total demand and will continue to retain its dominance throughout the forecast period, and residential have a market revenue share of 57.8% in 2020. In addition, the foodservice industry such as HORECA and QSR are now extensively using air fryers for cooking in less oil.
The surge in popularity of air fryers due to the preparation of food items with up to 80% less fat than food cooked with other fryers fuels the demand for air fryers in developing and developed regions. Moreover, a rise in consumer awareness toward the product, extensive marketing & advertising by leading brands, and a shift in consumer preference toward air fryers augment the demand from the residential segment.
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Asia Pacific accounts for the highest CAGR during the forecast period in the air fryer market
On the basis of region, the global air fryer market is studied across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Middle East & Africa. Asia-Pacific region is poised to grow with a significant CAGR of 7.1% during the forecast period 2021-2027, owing to the expansion of the foodservice industry in the region.
Asia-Pacific serves as one of the most lucrative air fryer market markets, owing to the rise in automation in commercial kitchens and developing economies such as India and China. Moreover, countries in this region have adopted air fryers due to technological advancements and new business models, such as the development of the hospitality and e-commerce sectors. In addition, the presence of a large population base, rise in middle-class population, and increase in household income in this region are the major factors that supplement the market growth. Additionally, technological developments and innovative product launches are expected to create lucrative opportunities in the Asia-Pacific market.
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Two journalists working for news agency have been detained, Myanmar government confirms
Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were working on stories about Myanmar's Rohingya minority, agency says
Two journalists working on stories about Rohingya in Myanmar for the news agency Reuters have been arrested and detained in the Southeast Asian country’s largest city, Yangon.
The two reporters, named by the agency as Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were arrested under the Official Secrets Act, a colonial-era law which carries a maximum 14-year jail sentence.
According to the US Embassy in Myanmar, the journalists were arrested Tuesday evening “after they were invited to meet with police officials.”
The government acknowledged their arrest in a statement to the news agency, and also released a statement, along with a photo of the two men in handcuffs with their faces partially obscured on its Ministry of Information Facebook page.
The reporters “illegally acquired information with the intention to share it with foreign media,” said the statement, according to Reuters. It added that they were held at a police station on the outskirts of Yangon. The two police officers who met the journalists were also arrested under the same statute, it said.
The two reporters were working on stories about the crackdown on members of the Rohingya minority, who have been the target of a sustained campaign of aggression by the Myanmar army.
As a result of this latest purge, which began in August, some 650,000 Rohingya, who are a stateless Muslim minority, have fled across the border to neighboring Bangladesh. In September the UN’s human rights chief characterized the actions of the Myanmar military as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.”
US Embassy: ‘Deep concern’
The US Embassy in Yangon said Wednesday the US was “deeply concerned” over the “highly irregular” arrest of the two journalists.
“For a democracy to succeed, journalists need to be able to do their jobs freely. We urge the government to explain these arrests and allow immediate access to the journalists,” a statement said.
Reuters President and Editor-in-Chief Stephen Adler called for their immediate release. He said they were “reporting on events of global importance” and were taken into custody during the course of that work.
“We are outraged by this blatant attack on press freedom,” Adler said in a statement.
Wa Lone has worked for Reuters since last year and has covered a range of stories, including the Rohingya crisis in Rakhine state, according to the news agency. Kyaw Soe Oo joined Reuters in September.
Crackdown on dissent in Myanmar, also known as Burma, remains harsh, with an anti-defamation clause in the country’s telecommunications law often used to quash opposition voices.
A report by Free Expression Myanmar says that defendants prosecuted under the section, known as 66(d), are invariably convicted, and sentences are always custodial.
Nobel Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s de facto leader, has come under intense criticism for her government’s handling of the Rohingya crisis.
Myanmar’s military says it has been targeting terrorists who carried out a series of deadly attacks on security forces. While the Nobel laureate leads the country in a power-sharing agreement with the military, she has little, if any, control over the country’s armed forces.
In a speech in September, Suu Kyi said she is aware of the “world’s attention” focused on Myanmar, but said her government “does not fear international scrutiny.”
“If you are interested in joining us in our endeavors, please let us know,” she added. “We can arrange for you to visit these areas and to ask (those who have stayed) why they have not fled, why they have chosen to remain in their villages.”
Access to Rakhine State has been heavily restricted to media, human rights groups, and diplomats.
Last month Suu Kyi was stripped of Oxford’s – the city where she received her degree – highest honor, the Freedom of the City of Oxford, an honor bestowed on her in 1997. On Wednesday, councilors in Dublin followed suit, voting to rescind the city’s equivalent, the Freedom of Dublin, by a vote of 59-2, according to Irish state media RTE.
Worldwide attacks on the press
The arrests come as a report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) alleges that the number of journalists imprisoned around the world has reached 262, a new record.
The most common reasons journalists are put behind bars around the world include “anti-state charges” and “broad and vague terror laws,” according to the CPJ report.
Turkey has imprisoned the highest number of reporters at 73. China is second with 41.
The report had harsh words for US President Donald Trump, whose attacks on the press have led to a climate of distrust for the media.
“President Donald Trump’s nationalistic rhetoric, fixation on Islamic extremism, and insistence on labeling critical media ‘fake news’ serves to reinforce the framework of accusations and legal charges that allow [some foreign] leaders to preside over the jailing of journalists,” the report states.
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As we all know, keeping chickens in your backyard is very rewarding. You get a daily supply of fresh and clean eggs. Also, you have the satisfaction of knowing that those eggs were produced in a natural and healthy way under your own supervision. However, owning chickens also has a less glamorous side, to say the least.
One of the least pleasant things you have to do as a backyard chicken owner is regular monitoring and checking of chicken poop. However, it’s necessary if you want to keep your flock healthy and happy. If you’re not doing that already, make sure you start and make it a habit.
Keeping an eye on any changes in chicken excrement can help you figure out early that something is wrong.
Chickens can’t tell us when they feel ill. So, observing their behaviour and stool is the only way to notice warning signs that there may be a problem. Early recognition of health issues can save your bird and, sometimes, the entire flock by preventing the spread of disease.
Of course, when inspecting and handling chicken poop, you should always be careful and practice common hygiene precautions. Make sure that you’re wearing gloves and thoroughly wash your hands afterwards. Chicken poop can be very harmful to you and your family if you don’t handle it properly.
Droppings from your coop can cause Salmonella, E. coli, and Cryptosporidium infections.
What does normal chicken poop look like?
Besides not being very fun, monitoring chicken poop is also not easy. When observing the chicken excrement, there are a couple of things you should pay attention to:
- The texture – whether it’s firm, foamy, or watery
- Colour of the poop
- The potential presence of blood in the poop
Poop structure and colour are good indicators of a potential disease.
However, this is sometimes problematic, as the line between normal and abnormal chicken poop is not always clear. Still, as an owner of backyard chickens, you should learn what regular chicken excrement looks like, Commonly, a healthy chicken will have a relatively firm poop. It should have a brownish or ash colour with a white cap from uric acid.
However, deviation from this standard doesn’t necessarily mean that your bird is sick. The colour and texture may change depending on the chicken’s diet.
Also, environmental factors such as high temperatures can influence how the poop looks. For example, if a chicken roams free around the backyard and eats a lot of grass or weed, it’s perfectly normal for the poop to be more green than usual.
The excrement can also change under some specific circumstances. If the chicken has a high-fibre diet, it will digest the food longer. It will store the food inside the cecum until all the nutrients are absorbed. The result will be the cecal poop that has a pudding-like structure and a particularly foul smell.
When a hen is broody, it will also produce an irregular stool. It’s larger, harder, and smellier than the regular poop. Still, this is completely normal and nothing to be alarmed about.
Learning what a change in colour or structure of chicken poop means is essential for you to be able to properly care for your flock. Below, I’ll lay out some basic information on what the appearance of the stool can tell you about the chicken’s condition.
Orange chicken poop
Orange chicken poop on your coop floor or in the backyard is a relatively common occurrence. However, finding orange droppings often scares chicken owners, especially those who are rather inexperienced. Nevertheless, this type of poop variation is usually nothing you should concern yourself with.
In rare cases, orange chicken poop may point to coccidiosis. But, the more likely reason is the shedding of intestinal linings. This happens from time to time when the bird releases the mucus membranes covering the intestinal wall. It may sound alarming but it’s actually harmless and benign as the intestinal linings regenerate.
Just make sure that the colour is definitely orange and that there is no blood in the stool as it may be a sign of a more serious issue.
Red stringy chicken poop
Sometimes the poop your chickens leave behind them will feature small red or pinkish stringy pieces. The dropping may contain a small amount of these pieces, rarely more than ten. Because of their appearance, some chicken owners mistake these small strings for worms. While internal worms are dangerous and require immediate treatment, chances are that the issue is much less serious.
These small red pieces are actually parts of the chicken’s intestinal linings. Every once in a while, chickens will slough their intestinal linings and poop them out together with faeces. This way, they create room for linings regeneration, which is a perfectly healthy and normal process.
Another potential culprit responsible for red stringy chicken poop is the red granite grit. Many chicken owners give grit to chickens along with their feed to improve their digestion. The red colour is used to motivate the birds to peck at the grit and sometimes it may colour their stool.
If you’re using red granite grit in your chickens’ diet, try withholding it for a couple of days. If the red string stuff disappears from the poop, then you’ll know the reason for this unusual poop appearance. After you’ve established that there’s no serious problem behind the red stringy poop, you can begin with using the grit again.
Clear red blood in the poop
While the orange or occasionally red excrement is nothing to worry about, seeing clear red blood in your chick’s poop should sound the alarm. The reason for worry is that bloody poop is a common symptom of coccidiosis. Coccidiosis is a very serious parasitic disease that attacks the chickens’ intestinal lining.
It’s caused by a single-cell parasite called Coccidia which can also attack other poultry and livestock.
Coccidiosis causes chickens to dihydrate, suffer from malnutrition, and, if not treated on time, leads to death. An even bigger issue is that it’s highly contagious and can spread rapidly and efficiently, quickly infecting the whole flock.
Still, Coccidiosis is treatable, and that’s one of the main reasons why you should regularly check your chickens’ poop.
Once you notice chicken bloody stools, immediately take measures to stop the disease from advancing and spreading. If you can identify the individual chicken pooping blood, you should isolate it and separate it from the rest of the flock right away.
Especially if the blood in the poop is accompanied by other Coccidiosis symptoms. These may include lethargy, loss of appetite, ruffled feathers, or pale comb and skin.
Bloody poop can sometimes have a watery form, or the blood can be mixed with the normal grey or brownish matter. The amount of blood in the excrement indicates how serious the condition is and how far the Coccidiosis has advanced.
The more blood you see, the more reasons for concern. Blood commonly appears in the poop on the 4th day of the infection. By the 6th day, its amount will increase significantly turning the stool into severe diarrhoea.
The best course of action when you notice clear red blood in the poop is to immediately contact the vet. You may take the faecal sample for the analysis, so the vet can set the diagnosis and suggest the treatment. The most common drug for Cocciodiosis treatment is Corid, although some vets recommend other coccidiostats, such as Toltrazuril.
Usually, after the therapy, you should add vitamin supplements to the chickens’ diet. This will help them replenish the lost vitamins.
Some natural remedies can also help, including vinegar, garlic, or yoghurt. Although the recovery won’t be successful without prescribed drugs, these organic remedies will help chickens build up their immunity.
What does black chicken poop mean?
The black chicken poop is most likely related to their diet. If the chicken has been eating dark-coloured foods, such as blackberries, black apples, or charcoal, then its excrement can take on black colour. Another possible reason is an excessive amount of proteins in your chicken feed.
When you suspect that this is the reason, you should tweak your feed formula. Also, brooding hens can sometimes drop the black poop. It will usually have a watery structure and is a result of the hen not eating in a while.
However, if you’re certain that your chicken didn’t have access to any dark-coloured food and isn’t brooding, then you may have a more serious problem on your hands. Similar to other birds and also mammals, black poop can be a sign of internal bleeding.
If this is the case, the bleeding has most likely happened in the upper part of the digestive system. The black colour indicates that the blood had time to coagulate. Bleeding that happens near the end of the intestinal tract results in the bright red colour of the chicken poop.
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Gardaí are undertaking a specialist operation against iPhone robbery in Dublin, as they say it has become the city’s fastest-growing crime.
The Irish Independent reports that Gardaí are focusing on thieves on bicycles who steal iPhones from people’s hands as they cycle past them.
The thieves follow the phone’s owner for a few minutes to make sure they are carrying an iPhone before making a move. Women, in particular, are being targeted.
The stolen iPhones are then sold for €100 to €150 to small shops which specialise in unlocking and repairing these devices. All data is wiped from the devices, making them impossible to trace back to the original owner.
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Typical Embedded System consists of:
- bootloader – is a system configuration software that has knowledge about the low-level details of the hardware system and runs once power is applied to board. Primary responsibility is to initialize the hardware, especially the memory subsystem, and load the OS image. Most embedded systems are architected in such a way that when the Linux OS takes control, the bootloader ceases to exist.
- kernel – the Linux OS image.
- root file system – contains the application programs, system libraries, and utilities that make up a linux system. What is a file system? a file system consists of a predefined set of system directoeries and files in a specific layout on a hard drive or other medium that the Linux kernel mounts as its root file system.
Typical Flash memory layout
- Initializes critical hardware components, such as the SDRAM controller, I/O controllers, and graphics controllers.
- Initializes system memory in preparation for passing control to the operating system.
- Allocates system resources such as memory and interrupt circuits to peripheral controllers, as necessary.
- Provides a mechanism for locating and loading your operating system image.
- Loads and passes control to the operating system, passing any required startup information. This can include total memory size, clock rates, serial port speeds, and other low-level hardware-specific configuration data.
Bootloader vs Bootstrap
The bootloader controls the board upon power-up and does
not rely on the Linux kernel in any way. In contrast, the bootstrap loader’s primary
purpose is to act as the glue between a bare metal bootloader and the Linux kernel. It
is the bootstrap loader’s responsibility to provide a proper context for the kernel to run
in, as well as perform the necessary steps to decompress and relocate the kernel binary
Kernel vs User space/context
- Kernel context – kernel owns all system memory and operates with full authority over all system resources. kernel has access to all physical memory and to all I/O subsystems. It executes code in kernel virtual address space using a stack created and owned by the kernel itself.
- User space – user space process has restriced access to the system and must use the kernel system calls to request kenel services such as device and file I/O. User space processes or programs operate in a virtual memory space picked and managed by the kernel. The kernel is cooperation with specialized memory management hardware in the processor, performs virtual to physical address translation for the user space process.
- What is the purpose? Single biggest benefit of this architecture is that an error in one process can’t trash the memory space of another.
First User Space Process: init
Root File System (RFS):
contains the user space applications and libraries, services daemons, and initialization scripts/programs that your embedded Linux system will need
Example of Bootup Sequence:
The following is the sequence of events on an IA-32 embedded boot flow.
1. The processor comes out of reset, and the reset code within the firmware executes. This firmware initializes the memory and boot devices. The boot device loads the starting code for the second stage boot loader (for example, elilo/grub2), copies it into memory, and jumps to it.
2. The second stage boot loader finds the compressed kernel image file (bzImage) from mass storage, copies that into memory, and jumps to it.
3. The start of the kernel image contains uncompressed code. This code decompresses the compressed kernel image within the bzImage file into the system RAM. It then transfers control to the uncompressed kernel in memory. The kernel’s main starting point is start_kernel() in kernel/init/main.c.
4. The kernel then performs all internal initialization, along with device initialization for drivers that are integrated into the kernel. The kernel then schedules the kernel_init() as the first thread (PID 0).
5. The kernel_init() function starts the user space application init found on the root file system (that could be the RAM disk or mass storage device depending on how the system is configured).
provides shell commands for embedded systems. It’s almost standard for embedded systems these day because of it’s small size.
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Fifty years ago, Luis Valdez faced the barrel of a gun as he stood his ground in the Delano Grape Strike, picketing in support of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. That experience inspired him to found El Teatro Campesino, a pioneering theater troupe. Valdez went on to became the first Chicano to produce a play on Broadway ("Zoot Suit") and then one of the first to direct a major motion picture ("La Bamba"). But after 50 years, El Teatro Campesino is arguably his most enduring contribution. Valdez joins Forum to discuss his career and the production of his latest play "Valley of the Heart" at San Jose Stage.
Rebroadcast: Teatro Campesino Founder Luis Valdez Brings 'Valley of the Heart' to San Jose Stage
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A set of articles in the current issue of Wired discuss the part technology can play in improving our elections. Skeptical, all things considered? You should be. Still, here’s what to watch for.
Candidates and Facebook
James Barnes, a Facebook employee embedded with the Trump campaign in 2016 (think about that a moment), has had second thoughts and is now working to promote Joe Biden at the political nonprofit Acronym. It produces digital media campaigns for progressive candidates and causes. By the end of summer, though, very few voters were undecided, so their campaigns weren’t making converts. One can only hope that the Trump campaign’s October efforts to outspend Biden on Facebook ads in several battleground states, according to this CNBC story, will fall flat too.
Read: PW Singer’s Like War: The Weaponization of Social Media.
The Voting Process
To be a state election official is to be plagued with nightmares. “We all knew we were headed into what would be a contentious election year,” said Arizona’s Secretary of State, Katie Hobbs, in a model of understatement in this Wired article by Lily Hay Newman. Plus, they know they have a derailing technical problem or two: In Georgia’s disastrous primary, for example, all 159 counties were using new machines for the first time. Plus, the pandemic. Officials have had to scramble to find polling places. Traditional venues—schools, community centers, churches—balked. Experienced poll workers? A vanishing species.
Texas election officials and a team of university-based computer scientists, Wired reports, have devised a way to use advanced encryption technology—homomorphic cryptography—to improve our notoriously vulnerable voting machines. (Just using the term, I’ve already approached the limit of my understanding of how it works.) The machine assigns a lengthy ciphertext to each vote and prints out a short identifier, akin to a bit.ly link. Voters can use these to verify their votes are “in there.” Part of the beauty is that votes do not need to be decrypted to be counted, so privacy is maintained.
Read: James McCrone;s Faithless Elector, about a member of the electoral college who doesn’t stick to the script or McCrone’s brand new book, Emergency Powers, about how far someone will go to hang on to the presidency. Hmmmmm.
Secure Vote Counting
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What Type Of Rock Is Anthracite?
Anthracite is the highest rank of coal. Unlike other types of coal it is usually considered to be a metamorphic rock. It has a carbon content of over 87% on a dry ash-free basis.
Is anthracite an igneous rock?
Is anthracite a major type of rock?
Anthracite is a form of coal and more generally is a sedimentary rock. Another name for anthracite is hard coal. It is primarily used to generate…
Is anthracite a foliated metamorphic rock?
Some examples of foliated rocks include slate phyllite schist and gneiss. Foliated metamorphic rocks are metamorphic rocks that are banded or layered. Anthracite or hard coal is a non-foliated rock that forms when intense pressure drives gases out of soft coal causing it to harden.
Is anthracite an organic sedimentary rock?
Coals are the most abundant organic-rich sedimentary rock. … With increasing compaction and carbon content peat can be transformed into the various kinds of coal: initially brown coal or lignite then soft or bituminous coal and finally with metamorphism hard or anthracite coal.
Why is anthracite considered a metamorphic rock?
The harder forms such as anthracite coal can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure. Coal is composed primarily of carbon along with variable quantities of other elements chiefly hydrogen sulfur oxygen and nitrogen.
How are anthracite rocks formed?
Anthracite coal forms when bituminous coal undergoes very low grade metamorphism accompanied by structural deformation. The fixed carbon content under these conditions reaches 85-95%. If anthracite is metamorphosed further it turns into graphite.
Why is anthracite The best type of coal?
It has the highest carbon content the fewest impurities and the highest energy density of all types of coal and is the highest ranking of coals. Anthracite is the most metamorphosed type of coal (but still represents low-grade metamorphism) in which the carbon content is between 86% and 98%.
Why is anthracite The best type of coal Class 8?
Anthracite is regarded as the highest and best quality of coal. It comprises of more than 87% of carbon. It is hard and glossy in nature. It has the highest heating value.
What is the parent rock of anthracite?
Anthracite Coal – Low grade (if T is too high the coal turns to graphite) Parent Rock = bituminous coal.May 25 2017
What type of metamorphism is anthracite?
|Summary Chart of Common Metamorphic Rocks|
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Is anthracite Nonfoliated metamorphic rock?
Anthracite coal is not a foliated metamorphic rock.
What is the metamorphic grade of anthracite?
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What minerals is anthracite made of?
|Names: anthracite semi-anthracite coal bituminous coal|
|Chemical composition: carbon − 77% ash − 6-16%|
|Trace elements: sulfur − 0.23-1.2% silica oxide − 2.2-5.4% alumina − 2% ferric oxide − 0.4%|
|Density g/cm3: 1.3-1.8||Mohs hardness: 2.2-3.8|
Is anthracite coal foliated or Nonfoliated?
Anthracite even though it is a coal is a non-foliated metamorphic rock even though some faint lines may be seen at times.
What type of rock is gneiss?
gneiss metamorphic rock that has a distinct banding which is apparent in hand specimen or on a microscopic scale. Gneiss usually is distinguished from schist by its foliation and schistosity gneiss displays a well-developed foliation and a poorly developed schistosity and cleavage.
Is anthracite a metamorphic or sedimentary?
Is gneiss a sedimentary rock?
Gneiss is a coarse to medium grained banded metamorphic rock formed from igneous or sedimentary rocks during regional metamorphism.
How do you identify Anthracite?
What type of rock is sandstone?
Sandstones are siliciclastic sedimentary rocks that consist mainly of sand-size grains (clast diameters from 2 to 1/16 millimetre) either bonded together by interstitial chemical cement or lithified into a cohesive rock by the compaction of the sand-size framework component together with any interstitial primary ( …
In which type of rock can fossils be found?
What type of rock is bituminous coal?
Bituminous coal is an organic sedimentary rock formed by diagenetic and sub metamorphic compression of peat bog material.
Is anthracite a coal?
Is anthracite coal smokeless?
Anthracite is a naturally occurring smokeless fuel – very shiny hard and dense – extremely slow burning with high heat output.
What is anthracite class 8?
Where is anthracite coal found in India?
Anthracite (more than 80% carbon content) is the best quality of coal. In India it is found only in Jammu and Kashmir.
What is absent coal?
Is schist a foliated metamorphic rock?
Foliated Metamorphic Rocks:
Some kinds of metamorphic rocks — granite gneiss and biotite schist are two examples — are strongly banded or foliated. … Foliation forms when pressure squeezes the flat or elongate minerals within a rock so they become aligned.
Is arkose a sedimentary rock?
arkose coarse sandstone (sedimentary rock composed of cemented grains 0.06–2 millimetres [0.0024–0.08 inch] in diameter) primarily made up of quartz and feldspar grains together with small amounts of mica all moderately well sorted slightly worn and loosely cemented with calcite or less commonly iron oxides or …
What rock forms quartzite?
Quartzite is a metamorphic rock derived from sandstone that is distinguished from sandstone by its fracture. Sandstone breaks along grain boundaries whereas quartzite is so well indurated (hardened) that it breaks across constituent grains.
Why is gneiss a metamorphic rock?
What type of metamorphism is schist?
What are the 3 main types of metamorphic rocks?
Which is non-foliated rock?
Overview. Nonfoliated metamorphic rocks lack foliated texture because they often lack platy minerals such as micas. They commonly result from contact or regional metamorphism. Examples include marble quartzite greenstone hornfel and anthracite.
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How To Copy Files To CD-RW Disks
Dear Computer Lady,
How do I copy all the files on my flash drive to a CD-RW? Can I then add new files from the flash drive to the CD-RW as I make them?
Thank You, Bonnie
You can copy files that you have on a flash drive to a CD-RW disk.
In order to copy files to a CD-RW and then make additions as you create new files or edit older ones, you need to format the disk first. Formatting prepares the disk for use. If you copy your files to the CD-RW without formatting it first, you will not be able to make changes to the files.
If you are using Windows XP, you cannot format a CD-RW with Windows. You will need to have a CD burning program like Nero or Roxio. You would be able to follow the directions that come with those programs for formatting a CD.
If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can format the CD-RW with these directions.
1. Insert a new CD-RW disk in the CD or DVD drive.
2. In the dialog box that appears, click “Burn Files to Disc Using Windows”.
3. The Burn a disc dialog box will appear, type a name for your disc.
4. Click on “Show Formatting Options”
5. Select “Live File System” and click the “Next” button.
6. Click the “Yes” button if you are prompted.
7. When the formatting is complete, a window will open.
8. Open your flash drive and drag the files from your flash drive to this CD window.
You can drag new or changed files to this disk any time you want.
You will be able to read the files on your disk and write new files to it as long as it is in the computer, but you will need to close the disc if you want to read it on another computer.
Once the disc is closed, you will not be able to make additional changes to the files on the disc, and you may not be able to read the files on older computers, or CD and DVD players.
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On Monday, November 15, the 38th session of the Swedish trial of Hamid Noury, an Iranian prison official, continued in the western Albanian province of Durres, where it is being hosted. Hamid Noury is being held to account for torturing inmates and playing a role in the extrajudicial executions of 1988 in Iran. Swedish authorities had arrested Noury on November 9, 2019.
During the past two years, Hamid Noury denied his involvement in human rights violations, particularly the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, mostly members, and supporters of the opposition Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI).
The hot subject in Iran is the people’s decision to seek justice from the regime. Especially for the victims of the 1988 massacre and the November 2019 protests.
Now Iran has become a common battlefield to put the regime behind the desk of justice. Today’s testimony of Akbar Samadi, a survivor of the 1988 massacre, like the other witnesses of the massacre, is revealing other parts of this horrific action. An act that started with a religious decree by the regime’s then supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini and revealed the brutality behind Islamic fundamentalism and its enmity toward all forms of freedom.
Now it has been past 33 years since that massacre and most parts of the event are not known by the Iranian people and even the main victims the members of the resistance and the MEK. The truth is that this evidence is just a small part of the reality.
When this small part is so astonishing and shocking, we must be sure that most parts of this crime are still untold and spread all over the country. From the families of the victims to the nameless mass and single graves of the victims which are spread all over the country.
Another noteworthy point in these testimonies is the need to go beyond the specific event of the 1988 massacre. This massacre was not an individual event. From the day after June 20, 1981, Khomeini, with the help of other cruel people of his newly founded regime, performed a series of massacres in prisons, according to dissidents.
During their testimonies in the last three court sessions, former political prisoners Mohammad Zand, Majid Saheb-Jam, and Asghar Mehdizadeh, pointed to the role of Hamid Noury in gross and systematic human rights violations, particularly in extrajudicial executions of 1988.
“They took me to a room that was later used for the ‘Death Commission.’ He was there, [Noury] changed my verdict,” Mohammad Zand testified in the court on November 10. “I realized Nasserian [the aka name of Mohammad Moghisseh] was the prison’s judiciary official and Hamid Noury was his chief of staff.”
“When we had been taken to Gohardasht prison, the guards brought us to a corridor, an almost empty ward, and the guards stood in lines to form a tunnel for the prisoners. As the prisoners passed through the human tunnel, the guards beat them with sticks and cables,” Saheb-Jam said in his testimony on November 11.
“I was surprised to see [Hamid Noury] there,” he said. Saheb-Jam had previously seen Noury in Evin prison, where the latter served as a normal prison guard, taking prisoners to the bathroom, torture chambers, and for breaks. “I had seen him more than ten times in Evin,” Saheb-Jam continued.
“I said to myself, God, what is going on here?” Mehdizadeh recalled. “I saw 12 MEK supporters standing on a chair each with a rope around their necks. I witnessed that next to them were other bodies of the martyrs whose feet were grabbed by the guards and dragged out of the hall.”
1988 Massacre Survivor Akbar Samadi Testifies
During the 37th session of Hamid Noury’s trial, Akbar Samadi, a former political prisoner who spent 10 years in Gohardasht prison for supporting the MEK, gave his testimony. Notably, Mr. Samadi was only 14 years old, when he was jailed.
“As we were being transferred, Davoud Lashgari [one of the senior authorities of Gohardasht] saw us and yelled at the prison guards, ‘Why have you brought this group? Don’t bring them until I’ve called them by name,’” Samadi said.
“They had emptied a building in preparation for the massacre,” Samadi said, adding, “Since this section had no connection to the other sections, and the administrative building prevented this ward from being connected to other wards, it was located far from the other wards. That is why they had chosen it as the site to carry out the executions.”
“All that we heard indicated changes and certain developments in the making. A number of the prisoners had seen Davoud Lashgari and several prison guards in the ward’s TV room. They had a wheelbarrow with ropes (nooses),” he said.
“When I was there, I witnessed several times that Hamid Noury read out the names of the prisoners who were to be executed,” Samadi said.
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- The septic sludge or the sludge layer are names for the solid wastes the layer in your tank. The most effective way to get rid of septic sludge is by having them pumped out by a septic company that will remove the septic sludge from your tank. The next best option is using a septic tank treatment.
How do I get rid of solids in my septic tank?
Here are a few things you can do to help you break down the solid waste in your septic tank:
- Active Yeast. Add ¼ to ½ cup of active dry yeast to your toilet bowl and flush it down your toilet.
- Rotten Tomatoes.
- Hydrogen Peroxide.
- Inorganic Acids.
How long can solids stay in the sewage system?
A properly designed and used septic system should have the capacity to store solids for about five years or more. However, the rate of solids accumulation varies greatly from one case to another, and actual storage time can only be determined by routine septic tank inspections.
What happens to the solids in a septic tank?
Solution for a clogged septic system The solids settle to the bottom, where microorganisms decompose them. The scum, composed of waste that’s lighter than water, floats on top. The middle layer of effluent exits the tank and travels through underground perforated pipes into the drainage field.
How do I empty my septic tank?
A local septic tank emptying company will send out one of their tankers with a long flexible hose. The tanker operator will insert this into your septic tank and a powerful suction force is then used to empty all the waste out.
How do u know when your septic tank is full?
Here are some of the most common warning signs that you have a full septic tank:
- Your Drains Are Taking Forever.
- Standing Water Over Your Septic Tank.
- Bad Smells Coming From Your Yard.
- You Hear Gurgling Water.
- You Have A Sewage Backup.
- How often should you empty your septic tank?
Can a septic tank never be pumped?
What Are the Consequences of Not Pumping Your Tank? If the tank is not pumped, the solids will build up in the tank and the holding capacity of the tank will be diminished. Eventually, the solids will reach the pipe that feeds into the drain field, causing a clog. Waste water backing up into the house.
How often should you empty your septic tank?
Inspect and Pump Frequently Household septic tanks are typically pumped every three to five years. Alternative systems with electrical float switches, pumps, or mechanical components should be inspected more often, generally once a year.
How often does a 1000 gallon septic tank need to be pumped?
For example, a 1,000 gallon septic tank, which is used by two people, should be pumped every 5.9 years. If there are eight people using a 1,000-gallon septic tank, it should be pumped every year.
What are solids in a septic tank?
There are three layers that make up the wastewater in your septic tank: scum, sludge, and effluent. Each plays an important role in the function of your septic system. Sludge: Sludge is the solid material that settles at the bottom of your septic tank to form a thick layer.
What happens to poop in a septic tank?
The inlet pipe collects the water waste in the septic tank, long enough that the solid and liquid waste is separated from each other. Inside the tank bacteria from the wastewater breaks down the solid waste. These bacteria decompose the solid waste rapidly allowing the liquids to separate and drain away more easily.
How much solids should be in a septic tank?
Both the regulatory and pumping industry recommend that the sludge and scum layer in a septic tank should never be permitted to fill more than about 30% of the septic tank’s volume.
What to do after septic is pumped?
After you have had your septic tank pumped by a trusted septic company, there are some things you can and should do as the septic system owner.
- 1) Get on a Schedule.
- 2) Take Care of the System.
- 3) Know the Parts of Your System.
- 4) Check Other Possible Issues.
Who pays to empty septic tank?
It is not unusual for the tenant (you) to be responsible for the upkeep of the tank. That is, you will be responsible for ensuring you maintain the septic system and pay for pump-outs. This is, generally speaking, perfectly normal.
How Septic Tanks work and When to empty them!
In the context of wastewater treatment, a septic tank is an underwater sedimentation tank that uses the processes of biological decomposition and drainage to treat wastewater. Septic tanks provide a safe method of disposing of wastewater and are thus extensively used in regions with a poor drainage system or that are not connected to the main sewage system. Excreta and wastewater are collected in a large underground tank, and they are mostly utilized in rural regions to keep the environment clean.
The fundamentals of a residential septic system are as follows: The design of a septic system is straightforward.
Two pipelines link the tank to the rest of the system (for inlet and outlet).
The outflow pipe, also known as the drain field, is responsible for transporting pretreated wastewater from the septic tank and dispersing it uniformly over the land and watercourses.
- The top layer is comprised of oils and grease, and it floats above the rest of the waste.
- The wastewater, as well as trash particles, are contained within the intermediate layer.
- Bacteria from the wastewater break down the solid waste that accumulates within the tank.
- Septic tank cleaning is required every few years and is a legal necessity.
- Many home cleansers cause sludge and solid waste to build up in the septic tank and drainfield lines, causing them to fail.
Failure in theseptic systemis not only an expensive affair but also an invitation to waterborne diseases, it also smells fowl!
It is critical for people to understand the importance of septic tank cleaning, which varies depending on the severity of the problem and the extent of the damage to the complete septic system. Contribute your fair contribution to making your house a more welcoming environment. Septic tanks should be cleaned on a regular basis in order to prevent congestion and system breakdown. You may hire the best waste treatment company to look after your septic system and verify that it is operating properly.
- Over time, soil, sludge, faeces, and solid waste accumulate, and as a consequence, a buildup of solid waste begins to take place.
- It might be difficult to determine when a septic system is malfunctioning.
- If you don’t want to wait until your septic system fails, you should clean out the tank at least once every 1–3 years rather than waiting until it fails completely.
- Applying a powerful monthly septic tank cleaning upstream of the drainage zone is beneficial because it eliminates the negative effects of soaps and cleaners that kill the microorganisms in the tank.
- Finding a simple and effective option – Hiring Professionals Hiring a professional garbage disposal company is the best method to ensure that the cleaning procedure is completed successfully.
- When you engage professionals from a reputable company, they will ensure that not only is the garbage properly processed, but they will also assist you in eradicating the noxious stench from the region.
- As a result, the cleaning method will differ from household to household.
Companies that specialize in garbage disposal begin by emptying the tank and removing all of the solid waste that has been gathered.
This pump is responsible for sucking wastewater and sludge from the septic tank into the holding tank on the truck.
The waste disposal firm makes certain that the heavy sludge is removed, allowing for adequate drainage to take place.
Every individual has a responsibility to keep their surroundings clean.
The primary reason we emphasise the need of cleaning the system once a year is because if you leave the septic tank neglected for years, you will begin to notice the stench.
Additionally, if you wait too long to hire specialists, your septic tank may cease to operate, which will result in a much higher cost to repair if the inlet and outlet pipes need to be cleaned as well.
Because all of the waste collected by a septic tank is organic in nature, disposing of it in a landfill is strictly forbidden.
Anaerobic digestion may also be used to transform this sludge into fertilizers for agricultural use through the process of decomposition.
Waste disposal firms continue to be the most effective when it comes to properly disposing of waste.
They send it to recycling facilities, come up with new ideas, and employ the most up-to-date technology in order to be the best at what they do. Today, a significant portion of the agricultural industry reaps the benefits of water waste. Choosing the proper firm will alleviate all of your concerns.
- One that is licensed to transport all types of garbage
- One that is equipped with the necessary facilities
- One that is registered to treat sewage waste
- And one that is registered to transport hazardous waste.
How to Care for Your Septic System
Septic system maintenance is neither difficult or expensive, and it does not have to be done frequently. The maintenance of a vehicle is comprised of four major components:
- Inspect and pump your drainfield on a regular basis
- Conserve water
- Dispose of waste properly
- And keep your drainfield in good condition.
Inspect and Pump Frequently
Inspection of the ordinary residential septic system should be performed by a septic service specialist at least once every three years. Household septic tanks are normally pumped every three to five years, depending on how often they are used. Alternative systems that use electrical float switches, pumps, or mechanical components should be examined more frequently, typically once a year, to ensure that they are in proper working order. Because alternative systems have mechanical components, it is necessary to have a service contract.
- The size of the household
- The total amount of wastewater produced
- The amount of solids present in wastewater
- The size of the septic tank
Service provider coming? Here is what you need to know.
When you contact a septic service provider, he or she will inspect your septic tank for leaks as well as the scum and sludge layers that have built up over time. Maintain detailed records of any maintenance work conducted on your septic system. Because of the T-shaped outlet on the side of your tank, sludge and scum will not be able to escape from the tank and travel to the drainfield region. A pumping is required when the bottom of the scum layer or the top of the sludge layer is within six inches of the bottom of the outlet, or if the top of the sludge layer is within 12 inches of the bottom of the outlet.
In the service report for your system, the service provider should mention the completion of repairs as well as the condition of the tank.
An online septic finder from the National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association (NOWRA) makes it simple to identify service specialists in your region.
Use Water Efficiently
In a normal single-family house, the average indoor water consumption is about 70 gallons per person, per day, on average. A single leaking or running toilet can waste as much as 200 gallons of water each day, depending on the situation. The septic system is responsible for disposing of all of the water that a residence sends down its pipes. The more water that is conserved in a household, the less water that enters the sewage system. A septic system that is operated efficiently will operate more efficiently and will have a lower chance of failure.
- Toilets with a high level of efficiency. The usage of toilets accounts for 25 to 30% of total home water use. Many older homes have toilets with reservoirs that hold 3.5 to 5 gallons of water, but contemporary, high-efficiency toilets consume 1.6 gallons or less of water for each flush. Changing out your old toilets for high-efficiency versions is a simple approach to lessen the amount of household water that gets into your septic system. Aerators for faucets and high-efficiency showerheads are also available. Reduce water use and the volume of water entering your septic system by using faucet aerators, high-efficiency showerheads, and shower flow restriction devices. Machines for washing clothes. Water and energy are wasted when little loads of laundry are washed on the large-load cycle of your washing machine. By selecting the appropriate load size, you may limit the amount of water wasted. If you are unable to specify a load size, only complete loads of washing should be performed. Washing machine use should be spread throughout the week if at all possible. Doing all of your household laundry in one day may appear to be a time-saving strategy
- Nevertheless, it can cause damage to your septic system by denying your septic tank adequate time to handle waste and may even cause your drainfield to overflow. Machines that have earned theENERGY STARlabel consume 35 percent less energy and 50 percent less water than ordinary ones, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Other Energy Star appliances can save you a lot of money on your energy and water bills.
Properly Dispose of Waste
Toilets with a high level of efficacy 25 to 30 percent of total home water use is attributed to toilet flushing. Many older homes have toilets with reservoirs that hold 3.5 to 5 gallons of water, but contemporary, high-efficiency toilets consume 1.6 gallons or less of water every flush or less in some instances. Changing out your old toilets for high-efficiency versions is a simple approach to lessen the quantity of household water that gets into your septic system; aerators for faucets and showerheads with high efficiency Reduce water use and the volume of water entering your septic system by using faucet aerators, high-efficiency showerheads, and shower flow restrictions.
Water waste may be reduced by selecting the appropriate load size.
Washing machine use should be spread throughout the week as much as possible.
Machines that have earned theENERGY STARlabel consume 35 percent less energy and 50 percent less water than normal ones. Energy Star appliances and other products may save you a lot of money on energy and water bills.
Toilets aren’t trash cans!
Your septic system is not a garbage disposal system. A simple rule of thumb is to never flush anything other than human waste and toilet paper down the toilet. Never flush a toilet:
- Cooking grease or oil
- Wipes that are not flushable, such as baby wipes or other wet wipes
- Photographic solutions
- Feminine hygiene items Condoms
- Medical supplies such as dental floss and disposable diapers, cigarette butts and coffee grounds, cat litter and paper towels, pharmaceuticals, and household chemicals such as gasoline and oil, insecticides, antifreeze, and paint or paint thinners
Toilet Paper Needs to Be Flushed! Check out this video, which demonstrates why the only item you should flush down your toilet are toilet paper rolls.
Think at the sink!
Your septic system is made up of a collection of living organisms that digest and treat the waste generated by your household. Pouring pollutants down your drain can kill these organisms and cause damage to your septic system as well as other things. Whether you’re at the kitchen sink, the bathtub, or the utility sink, remember the following:
- If you have a clogged drain, avoid using chemical drain openers. To prevent this from happening, use hot water or a drain snake
- Never dump cooking oil or grease down the sink or toilet. It is never a good idea to flush oil-based paints, solvents, or huge quantities of harmful cleansers down the toilet. Even latex paint waste should be kept to a bare minimum. Disposal of rubbish should be avoided or limited to a minimum. Fats, grease, and particles will be considerably reduced in your septic tank, reducing the likelihood of your drainfield being clogged.
Own a recreational vehicle (RV), boat or mobile home?
If you have ever spent any time in an RV or boat, you are undoubtedly familiar with the issue of aromas emanating from sewage holding tanks.
- The National Small Flows Clearinghouse’s Septic System Care hotline, which may be reached toll-free at 800-624-8301, has a factsheet on safe wastewater disposal for RV, boat, and mobile home owners and operators.
Maintain Your Drainfield
It is critical that you maintain the integrity of your drainfield, which is a component of your septic system that filters impurities from the liquid that emerges from your septic tank once it has been installed. Here are some things you should do to keep it in good condition:
- Parking: Do not park or drive on your drainfield at any time. Plan your tree plantings so that their roots do not grow into your drainfield or septic system. An experienced septic service provider can recommend the appropriate distance for your septic tank and surrounding landscaping, based on your specific situation. Locating Your Drainfield: Keep any roof drains, sump pumps, and other rainfall drainage systems away from the drainfield area. Excess water causes the wastewater treatment process to slow down or halt completely.
How Your Septic System Works
Do not park or drive on your drainfield; it is illegal to do so. Construction: Plant trees at a proper distance from your drainfield to prevent roots from growing into your septic system. An experienced septic service provider can recommend the appropriate distance for your septic tank and surrounding landscaping, based on your particular situation. Roof drains, sump pumps, and other rainfall drainage systems should be kept away from the drainfield area. In excess water, the wastewater treatment process will slow down or halt completely;
Specifically, this is how a typical conventional septic system works:
- All of the water that leaves your home drains down a single main drainage pipe and into a septic tank. An underground, water-tight container, often composed of concrete, fiberglass, or polyethylene, serves as a septic system’s holding tank. Its function is to retain wastewater for a long enough period of time to allow particles to sink to the bottom and form sludge, while oil and grease float to the surface and produce scum. Sludge and scum are prevented from exiting the tank and moving into the drainfield region by compartments and a T-shaped outlet. After that, the liquid wastewater (effluent) exits the tank and flows into the drainfield. The drainfield is a shallow, covered hole dug in unsaturated soil that serves as a drainage system. Porous surfaces are used to release pretreated wastewater because they allow the wastewater to pass through the soil and into the groundwater. In the process of percolating through the soil, wastewater is accepted, treated, and dispersed by the soil, finally discharging into groundwater. Finally, if the drainfield becomes overburdened with too much liquid, it can flood, causing sewage to flow to the ground surface or resulting in toilet backups and sink backups. Finally, wastewater percolates into the soil, where it is naturally removed of harmful coliform bacteria, viruses, and nutrients. Coliform bacteria are a kind of bacteria that may be found in the intestines of humans and other warm-blooded animals, with humans being the most common host. As a result of human fecal contamination, it is a sign of this.
The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority has built an animated, interactive model of how a residential septic system works, which you can view here.
Do you have a septic system?
It’s possible that you’re already aware that you have a septic system. If you are not sure, here are some tell-tale symptoms that you most likely are:
- You make use of well water. In your home, the water pipe that brings water into the house does not have a meter. In the case of a water bill or a property tax bill, you will see “$0.00 Sewer Amount Charged.” It is possible that your neighbors have a septic system
How to find your septic system
You can locate your septic system once you have confirmed that you have one by following these steps:
- Taking a look at the “as constructed” drawing of your house
- Making a visual inspection of your yard for lids and manhole covers
- Getting in touch with a septic system service provider for assistance in locating it
Failure symptoms: Mind the signs!
A bad odor is not necessarily the first indicator of a septic system that is failing to work properly. Any of the following signs should prompt you to seek expert assistance:
- Water backing up into the drains of homes and businesses
- It is especially noticeable in dry weather that the drainfield grass is bright green and spongy. The presence of standing water or muddy soil near your septic system or in your basement
- A strong stench emanating from the area surrounding the septic tank and drainfield
When To Empty Your Septic Tanks
When Should Your Septic Tanks Be Emptied? If your septic system is causing you problems, you may want to consult a professional. Is it interfering with your normal activities? If this is the case, you may be dealing with septic failure, and you don’t want to have to deal with this unpleasant situation for a lengthy period of time. Septic tanks may last for more than 50 years if they are properly maintained and cared for. As a result, many septic tanks are not performing up to their full capacity since most homeowners are unaware of the dos and don’ts of tank maintenance.
It starts in your toilet and kitchen appliances such as sinks, bathtubs, and toilets, and then goes via your sewage line and into your septic tank.
The majority of septic issues may be prevented by performing regular inspections and maintenance on the system.
The experience of dealing with them may be quite distressing.
The moment you get the distinct impression that something is not quite right, or you begin to observe any of the indicators listed below, it is essential to seek expert assistance. Here are some things to keep an eye out for:
6 Signs It’s Time to Empty Your Septic Tank
You will notice a foul odor as the first indication that it is time to hire a professional for cleaning services. The waste in your septic tank emits foul-smelling fumes, which you should avoid at all costs. The presence of these gases will be detected in the air around the tank once the waste level reaches a certain level near the top. As a result, the moment you notice anything foul or unusual coming from your septic tank, act quickly to prevent the situation from becoming worse.
Gurgling in the Plumbing
In the event that you don’t smell anything, you may be able to hear something. As you flush the toilet or wash the dishes, you will hear gurgling within the pipes as the septic system begins to back up and backup. This gurgling is caused by a clog in the air flow, which prevents the correct flow of air. Make an appointment with a professional to get the septic tank drained before any other unpleasant indicators begin to appear.
Toilets Flush Slowly
When your septic tank is extremely full, your toilet may start performing funny. When you flush your toilet, you may notice that it does not completely flush or that it flushes very slowly, as well as that strange noises are made. These sounds are typically described as gurgling or bubbling. In addition, the water in your bathtub or shower drains considerably more slowly than it normally would. There is a possibility that these are signs of a clog or that your septic tank is overflowing.
The presence of standing water in your yard is never a good omen. Your septic tank has reached its full capacity if you notice pooled water or moist areas surrounding it, which indicates that it has surpassed its limit. The solid waste begins to clog the system, and the surplus liquid begins to rise to the top of the system’s capacity. This results in squishy spots that, if not addressed immediately, will rapidly turn into pools.
Faster Growing Grass
Because of the backup of waste in your septic tank, your grass may grow at a faster pace than the rest of your lawn when your septic tank is experiencing problems. Keep an eye on the grass near the septic tank during the growing season as you perform your yard care to observe whether the thickness or growth rate has altered over time.
Sewage backups are one of the most concerning indicators of a failing septic system since it indicates that wastewater is backing up into your sinks, bathtubs, or even your basement. When a septic system fails and creates significant sewage backup, do not attempt to clean up the mess yourself! Wastewater may be toxic, which means it can be detrimental to you and your family if you drink it. If you notice any of these signs, it is vitally critical that you contact a septic consultant and your water provider right once to get the problem resolved.
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How to Break Up Solids in Your Septic Tank
If you rely on a personal septic tank to filter and treat your wastewater, it is critical that you keep it in good working order at all times. Having to deal with clogged drains and sludgy tanks is not pleasant. Maintaining the right level of solids in your septic system is one method of keeping it in good working order. If your tank becomes overflowing, you’ll have a messy situation on your hands. Is it possible to break up particles in your septic tank on your own, and when should you hire a professional to do so?
Ways to Break Up Solids in Your Septic Tank
Keep in mind that there is no substitute for regular septic pumpings in most cases. When the time comes to service the system, we recommend that you use a qualified technician. When we talk about breaking up solids in your tank, we are simply referring to the process of occasionally breaking up the bottom layer of sludge to ensure that everything runs the way it should. If your tank is in in need of a rapid treatment, consider one of the options listed below.
The sludge that accumulates in your toilet tank may be eaten away by items that you can flush down the toilet. However, it is recommended that you run these goods by a septic system servicing specialist first because not all tanks are made same. Some additives can actually be damaging to your tank, thus it is critical that you only use things that are safe and beneficial to your tank.
Likewise, while at-home remedies are frequently less expensive than store-bought alternatives, they should still be used with caution. If you want to try a DIY treatment, you may try flushing 14-12 cup of quick yeast down the toilet. In order for wastewater to pass through, the yeast eats away at the sludge and aids in its loosening, allowing it to break down. Avoid running your washer, dishwasher, or shower for a few minutes after using a store-bought or home-made cleaning solution. This will allow the solution to do its job before being rinsed away.
Backflushing is the process of sucking wastewater out of your tank using a wet vacuum and then spraying it back into the tank. Most of the time, the power of the water is sufficient to break up some of the solids. Of course, if you don’t have the proper equipment, you might as well hire a professional to perform a septic tank pumping for you.
Although it may seem disgusting, “septic stirring” is merely the process of breaking up sediments using a long stick or other long implement. This treatment is often most effective for modest accumulations. Although it is possible to avoid your septic sludge from becoming overly comfortable, you must be committed to doing so on a regular basis.
Regular Tank Pumping
Of course, even if all else fails, you should continue to schedule professional pumpings on a regular basis. Removing excess particles from your septic tank is the most effective strategy to extend the life of your system and avoid costly problems from developing.
How Often Should You Have Your Septic Tank Pumped?
When your tank reaches 25 percent capacity (in other words, when one-fourth of your tank is full with sludge), it’s time to start thinking about hiring a professional to pump it out. The length of time required depends on the size of your system, the number of people that reside in your house, the total load placed on the tank, and other factors. However, in general, most tanks require professional septic pumping every two to three years, depending on the circumstances. Keep your tank’s capacity below 50% at all times.
Take the essential steps to keep your septic tank running well, and never flush anything other than toilet paper down the toilet. Paper towels, feminine products, wipes, diapers, and napkins, among other things, all contribute to the clogging of pipes and tanks.
How Can Norway Septic Help?
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How Does a Septic Tank Work?
Mr. Fix-It-Up-For-The-Family You may save a lot of money if you understand how a sewage treatment system works—and what can go wrong—so that you can handle your own septic system maintenance.
How does a septic tank work?
Pumping the tank on a regular basis eliminates sludge and scum, which helps to keep a septic system in good working order. It is possible for a well-designed and well built septic system to last for decades, or it might collapse in a matter of years. It is entirely up to you as long as you can answer the question of how do septic tanks function. Healthy septic systems are relatively inexpensive to maintain, but digging up and replacing a septic system that has completely failed can easily cost tens of thousands in labor and material costs.
It’s critical to understand how a septic tank works in order to maintain one.
Let’s take a look below ground and observe what happens in a properly operating septic system, shall we?
Understand that a septic system is a cafeteria for bacteria
Bacteria are responsible for the proper operation of a septic system. They decompose garbage, resulting in water that is clean enough to safely trickle down into the earth’s surface. The entire system is set up to keep bacteria healthy and busy at all times. Some of them reside in the tank, but the majority of them are found on the drain field.1. All waste is channeled into the septic tank.2. The majority of the tank is filled with watery waste, which is referred to as “effluent.” Immediately after entering the effluent, anaerobic bacteria begin to decompose the organic matter present.3.
- Sludge is made up of inorganic particles as well as the results of bacterial digestion.
- Scum is mostly comprised of fats, greases, and oils, and the septic tank functions as a settling pond for these substances.
- Solids with a higher density sink to the bottom.5.
- The drain septic field is a huge region where bacteria can flourish and treated water can seep into the ground.7 Effluent seeps into surrounding gravel through holes in the drain septic field pipe.Gravel around pipes allows water to flow into the soil and oxygen to reach microorganisms.
Biological breakdown of trash is completed by aerobic bacteria in gravel and soil.9. Clean water penetrates into the groundwater and aquifer below the surface.
Septic Tank Clean Out: Don’t abuse the system
Septic systems that have been correctly planned and constructed require just occasional ‘pumping’ to remove the sludge and scum that has built up inside the tank. However, if you don’t understand how a septic tank works, you may unintentionally hurt or even destroy the system.
- Drains are used to dispose of waste that decomposes slowly (or not at all). Cigarette butts, diapers, and coffee grounds are all known to cause issues. Garbage disposers, if utilized excessively, can introduce an excessive amount of solid waste into the system. Lint from synthetic fibers is emitted from washing machine lint traps. This substance is not degraded by bacteria in the tank and drain septic field. Bacteria are killed by chemicals found in the home, such as disinfecting cleansers and antibacterial soaps. The majority of systems are capable of withstanding limited usage of these goods, but the less you use them, the better. When a large amount of wastewater is produced in a short period of time, the tank is flushed away too quickly. When there is too much sludge, bacteria’s capacity to break down waste is reduced. Sludge can also overflow into the drain field if there is too much of it. Sludge or scum obstructs the flow of water via a pipe. It is possible for tree and shrub roots to obstruct and cause harm to a drain field. Compacted soil and gravel prevent wastewater from seeping into the ground and deprive germs of oxygen. Most of the time, this is caused by vehicles driving or parking on the drain field.
Get your tank pumped…
Your tank must be emptied on a regular basis by a professional. Pumping eliminates the accumulation of sludge and scum that has accumulated in the tank, which has caused the bacterial action to be slowed. If you have a large tank, it may be necessary to pump it once a year; but, depending on the size of your tank and the quantity of waste you send through the system, you may go two or three years between pumpings. Inquire with your inspector about an approximate guideline for how frequently your tank should be pumped.
…but don’t hire a pumper until you need it
Inspections and pumping should be performed on a regular basis. However, if you’re not afraid of getting your hands dirty, you may verify the sludge level yourself with a gadget known as The Sludge Judge. It ranges in price from $100 to $125 and is commonly accessible on the internet. Once you’ve verified that your tank is one-third full with sludge, you should contact a professional to come out and pump it out completely.
Install an effluent filter in your septic system
Garbage from your home accumulates into three distinct strata. The septic filter is responsible for preventing blockage of the drain field pipes.
Septic tank filter close-up
The septic tank filter is responsible for capturing suspended particles that may otherwise block the drain field pipes. Obtain an effluent filter for your tank from your contractor and place it on the outflow pipe of your tank. (It will most likely cost between $50 and $100, plus labor.) This device, which helps to prevent sediments from entering the drain field, will need to be cleaned out on a regular basis by a contractor to maintain its effectiveness.
Solution for a clogged septic system
If your septic system becomes clogged and you find yourself having to clean the filter on a regular basis, you might be tempted to simply remove the filter altogether. Hold on to it. Solids, wastewater, and scum are separated into three levels in septic tanks, which allows them to function properly (see illustration above). Solids sink to the bottom of the container, where microbes breakdown them. The scum, which is made up of trash that is lighter than water, rises to the surface. In the drainage field, the middle layer of effluent leaves the tank and goes through an underground network of perforated pipes to the drainage field.
- Keep the effluent filter in place since it is required by your state’s health law.
- Waste particles might flow through the filter and clog the perforated pipes if the filter is not used.
- Your filter, on the other hand, should not require cleaning every six months.
- A good chance is high that you’re flushing filter-clogging things down the toilet, such as grease, fat, or food scraps.
- A garbage disposal will not be able to break down food particles sufficiently to allow them to flow through the septic tank filtration system.
- Plastic items, disposable diapers, paper towels, nonbiodegradable goods, and tobacco products will clog the system if they are flushed through it.
For additional information on what should and should not be flushed down the toilet, contact your local health authority. More information on removing lint from your laundry may be found here.
Get an inspection
Following a comprehensive first check performed by an expert, regular inspections will cost less than $100 each inspection for the next year. Your professional will be able to inform you how often you should get your system inspected as well as how a septic tank functions. As straightforward as a septic system appears, determining its overall condition necessitates the services of a professional. There are a plethora of contractors who would gladly pump the sludge out of your tank, but many, in my experience, are unable to explain how a septic system works or how it should be maintained.
A certification scheme for septic contractors has been established in certain states; check with your state’s Secretary of State’s office to see whether yours is one of them.
Also, a qualified inspector will be able to tell you whether or not your tank is large enough to accommodate your household’s needs, as well as the maximum amount of water that can be passed through it in a single day.
As you learn more about how a septic tank works, your professional should be able to tell you whether or not your system will benefit from this treatment.
Alternatives to a new drain field
If an examination or a sewage backup indicate that your drain field is in need of replacement, the only option is to replace it completely. As a result, it’s important to talk with a contractor about other possibilities before proceeding with the project.
- Pipes should be cleaned. A rotating pressure washer, used by a contractor, may be used to clean out the drain septic field pipes. The cost of “jetting” the pipes is generally around $200. Chemicals should be used to clean the system. A commercial solution (not a home-made one) that enhances the quantity of oxygen in the drain field should be discussed with your contractor before installing your new system. Septic-Scrub is a product that I suggest. A normal treatment will cost between $500 and $1,000. Make the soil more pliable. The practice of “terra-lifting,” which involves pumping high-pressure air into several spots surrounding the drain field, is authorized in some regions. Some contractors use it to shatter compacted dirt around the pipes. Depending on the circumstances, this might cost less than $1,000 or as much as $4,000 or more.
Protect your drain septic field from lint
When this device is in place, it inhibits lint from entering the system, especially synthetic fibers that bacteria are unable to digest. One of these filters, which I’ve designed and termed theSeptic Protector, was invented by me. An additional filter is included in the price of around $150 plus delivery. Learn more about how to filter out laundry lint in this article.
Don’t overload the septic system
Reduce the amount of water you use. The volume of water that flows into your tank, particularly over a short period of time, can be reduced to avoid untreated waste from being flushed into your drain field. Replace outdated toilets with low-flow ones, install low-flow showerheads, and, perhaps most importantly, wash laundry throughout the week rather than just on Saturday mornings to save water.
Meet the Expert
Septic systems, according to Jim vonMeier, are the solution to America’s water deficit because they supply cleaned water to depleted aquifers, according to vonMeier. He travels the country lobbying for septic systems, giving lectures, and giving testimony. For septic system inquiries, as well as information on the operation of the septic tank, contact him by email.
HOW TO SAFELY ABANDON AN OLD SEPTIC TANK ON YOUR PROPERTY
If you’ve recently purchased an older house, it’s possible that a septic tank is located on the property. This is true even if your home is currently linked to the municipal water and sewer systems. A prior owner may have abandoned the ancient septic system and connected to the city sewage system when it became accessible at some time in the past. Despite the fact that there are standards in place today for properly leaving a septic tank, it was typical practice years ago to just leave the tanks in place and forget about them.
- The old tank may either be demolished or filled with water to solve the problem.
- It is possible that permits and inspections will be required.
- They are dangerous because curious children may pry open the lid and fall into the container.
- Falls into a septic tank can be lethal owing to the toxicity of the contents and the fact that concrete can collapse on top of you while falling into a tank.
- Eventually, this approach was phased out due to the fact that the steel would corrode and leave the tank susceptible to collapse.
- When it comes to ancient septic tanks, they are similar to little caves with a lid that might collapse at any time.
- The old tank is crushed and buried, or it is removed from the site.
If it is built of steel, it will very certainly be crushed and buried in its current location.
After that, the tank can be completely filled with sand, gravel, or any other form of rubble and buried.
Tanks can either be entirely dismantled or destroyed and buried in their original location.
The abandonment has been documented and plotted on a map.
It’s possible that you’ll forget about the tank once it’s been abandoned.
As a result, you might wish to sketch a map of the area where the old tank used to stand.
If you can demonstrate that an old septic tank was properly decommissioned, you may be able to increase the value of your property, and the new owners will enjoy knowing that large chunks of concrete are buried underground before they start digging in the yard to put something in it.
It may take some detective work to discover about the history of your land and what may be lying beneath the surface of the earth.
Upon discovering an old septic tank on your property that is no longer in service, contact Total Enviro Services for propertank abandonment procedures that meet with local standards and protect your family, pets, and farm animals from harm or death.
Septic System Basics
When a household isn’t connected to a public sewage system, it normally relies on septic systems to treat and dispose of wastewater. Sewage treatment systems require a substantial financial commitment. The correct maintenance and upkeep of a well-designed, installed, and maintained system will provide years of dependable and low-cost service. The failure of a system can become a source of pollution and public health concern, resulting in property damage, ground and surfacewater pollution (such as contamination of well water used by you and your neighbors), and the spread of disease.
Aside from that, if you are planning to sell your property, your septic system has to be in good functioning order.
Septic systems are available in a variety of configurations to accommodate a wide range of soil and site conditions.
A conventional septic tank system is composed of three major components:
- This is known as the Septic Tank. In order to remove particles from wastewater, store and partially decompose as much solid material as possible, while allowing the liquid (or effluent) to flow to the drainfield, a septic tank must be installed. more
- The Drainage System After the particles have settled in the septic tank, the liquid wastewater (also known as effluent) is released to the drainfield, which is also known as an absorption or leach field, or both. more
- The Soil is a very important factor. The soil under the drainfield is responsible for the ultimate treatment and disposal of the septic tank effluent once it has been treated. Following the passage of wastewater into the soil, organisms in the soil remediate the effluent before it percolates downward and outward, eventually entering ground or surface water sources. The kind ofsoil also effects the efficacy of the drainfield
- For instance, clay soils may be too tight to allow much wastewater to pass through and gravelly soil may be too coarse to give much treatment
- Septic System Inspection Done at Home In order to aid you in examining your system, a VideoField Guide and Checklist may be available at the bottom of the homepage.
Homeowners and residents have a significant impact on the functioning of their septic systems. Overloading the system with more water than it is capable of handling might result in system failure. A septic system can also be damaged by the improper disposal of chemicals or excess organic waste, such as that produced by a trash disposal. The following maintenance suggestions might assist you in ensuring that your system provides long-term, effective treatment of domestic waste.
Inspect and Pump Frequently
The most critical step in keeping your septic tank in good working order is to eliminate sludge and scum build-up before it may flow into the drainfield. The frequency with which your tank has to be pumped is determined by the size of the tank, the number of people in your family, the quantity of water utilized, and the amount of solids (from humans, garbage disposal, and any other waste) that enter the tank’s drainage system. Tanks should be pumped out on average every 3 to 5 years, depending on usage.
- Septic Inspection and Pumping Guide
- Inspecting Your Septic Tank
- Septic Inspection and Pumping Guide
Use Water Efficiently
System failure is frequently caused by an excessive amount of water. The soil beneath the septic system must be able to absorb all of the water that is used in the residence. Too much water from the washing machine, dishwasher, toilets, bathtubs, and showers may not provide enough time for sludge and scum to separate properly in the drain. The less water that is consumed, the less water that enters the septic system, reducing the likelihood of system failure. For further information on water conservation, visit:
- Indoor Water Conservation
- Every gallon of water conserved equates to a savings of $1.00.
Minimize Solid Waste Disposal
What you flush down the toilet can have a significant influence on the performance of your septic system.
Many things do not breakdown properly, and as a result, they accumulate in your septic tank. If you have the option of disposing of it in another manner, do so rather than introducing it into your system.
Keep Chemicals Out of Your System
Protect your septic system against home chemicals such as caustic drain openers, paint and pesticides. Also avoid flushing down the toilet with chemicals such as brake fluid, gasoline, and motor oil. The improper disposal of toxic chemicals down the drain is harmful to the environment, as well as the bacteria that are necessary for the breakdown of wastes in a septic system, and should be avoided.
Septic System Additives
It is not essential to add a stimulant or an enhancer to a septic tank in order to assist it in functioning or “to restore bacterial equilibrium.” The naturally occurring bacteria required for the proper operation of the septic system are already present in human excrement. Septic systems, like automobiles, are designed to offer long-term, effective treatment of residential waste if they are properly run and maintained on a regular basis. The majority of systems that fail prematurely, on the other hand, are the result of poor maintenance.
In the event that your septic system fails, call Thurston County Environmental Health at 360-867-2673 for assistance.
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When you know your average menstrual cycle length,you can work out when you ovulate. Ovulation happens about 14 days before your period starts. If your average menstrual cycle is 28 days,you ovulate around day 14,and your most fertile days are days12,13 and 14.
People also ask
What are the most fertile days in a menstrual cycle?
If your average menstrual cycle is 35 days ovulation happens around day 21 and your most fertile days are days 19,20 and 21. If you have shorter cycles, say 21 days, ovulation happens around day 7 and your most fertile days are days 5, 6 and 7. Your most fertile days are the three days leading up to and including the day of ovulation.
How do I know when my most fertile days are?
Using these signs and symptoms to detect your most fertile days. Ovulation tests detect the LH surge which happens 24-36 hours before ovulation. Clearblue Ovulation Tests are at least 99% accurate in detecting the LH surge. The calendar method has been found to predict the correct fertile days in only a third of cycles 1.
When is the best time to ovulate?
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With the Covid-19 pandemic sparking a communications emergency caused by false information disseminated on social media, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres is encouraging people everywhere to take a breath before sharing content online.
He launched the #PledgetoPause campaign on October 21 as part of wider efforts to create what the UN hopes will be “a new social media norm” to help combat the impact of viral misinformation.
The campaign is based on research which indicates that taking a brief pause before sharing information can significantly lessen the inclination to share shocking or emotive material, and slow the spread of misinformation.
“During the Covid-19 pandemic, the wrong information can be deadly. Take the pledge to pause and help stop the spread of misinformation,” the UN chief said in a video message recorded for the campaign.
The message, which begins with a five-second pause, is designed to be replicated by other leaders, influencers, and members of the public. #PledgetoPause aims to increase media literacy so that social media users can spot misinformation and stop themselves from passing it on.
The new campaign is part of Verified, a UN initiative launched in May to share science-backed health information and stories of global solidarity around Covid-19.
The UN describes it as the first global behaviour-change campaign on misinformation, to mobilize experts and researchers, governments, influencers, civil society, businesses, regulators, and the media, under a single message: #PledgetoPause.
During the #COVID19 pandemic, the wrong information can be deadly.
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) October 20, 2020
“Covid-19 is not just a health crisis, but a communications emergency as well. When misinformation spreads, the public loses trust and too often makes decisions that hamper the public response and even their own lives,” said Melissa Fleming, head of the UN’s Department for Global Communications.
“It is increasingly clear that we cannot successfully tackle the pandemic without also addressing online misinformation. Each and every one of us can help break the chain of misinformation by pausing before we share.”
Ms. Fleming added that the UN is also working with social media platforms to recommend changes.
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IT leaders need a well-defined strategy for managing patches and upgrades for software applications and technologies. Planned patch management rollouts help combat security vulnerabilities as unpatched systems are highly vulnerable to data breaches and attacks from hackers. During Covid-19, IT organizations have struggled to keep systems updated using remote teams, especially as software vendors have recently released a record number of patch fixes and upgrades. The sudden rush to massive remote work has heightened concerns over security, with the need to secure personal computing equipment and home Wi-Fi connections.
In our recent Tech Talk, Patching Operating Systems While Working from Home, OpsRamp’s Michael Del Castillo talked about why unified patch management is a critical part of the IT operations management strategy. A demo of OpsRamp’s patch management capabilities showed how IT operations teams can ensure the availability of business-critical services by addressing potential security issues proactively.
The Need For Patching Operating Systems
Ponemon Institute’s 2019 Cost Of A Data Breach report found the global average cost of a data breach was $3.9 million. In the U.S., the cost climbs to $8.9 million, more than twice the global average. Proactive patch management is an important approach to address data breaches:
- Financial Implications. Cyberattackers target patch vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to run code, install malware, or steal information. Vulnerabilities are the leading cause of financial loss, credibility, and litigation.
- Secure Infrastructure. With IT teams working remotely, patching remote infrastructure is even more critical. OS patching is vital to keeping applications current and safe across both on-premise and cloud environments.
A More Scalable Approach To Patch Management
While OpsRamp is not a standalone security solution, the platform offers a scalable approach to patch and vulnerability management so that IT infrastructure is safe and protected at all times. Here are the benefits of using OpsRamp for enterprise patch management as part of our unified IT operations management (ITOM) platform:
- Availability. OpsRamp ensures 24/7 availability and performance of enterprise IT infrastructure by supporting both Windows and Linux environments.
- Visibility. The platform delivers visibility into potential vulnerabilities with pre-patch impact analysis for patch planning and approvals and post-patch visibility across hybrid infrastructure.
- End-to-End Workflow. IT teams can follow a holistic five-step process to deploy enterprise OS patches at scale:
- Scan - IT operators can identify missing patches across different versions of a software package by creating jobs to track such missing patches.
- Approval - They can manually approve a patch or rate patches using whitelists and exclusions. With a whitelist, patches can be approved globally by selecting several devices at a time. All patch approvals are also recorded in OpsRamp for audit trails.
- Configuration - Policy-based patching ensures consistent patch levels for consistent threat protection. Patch install schedules help IT operations decide when to apply patch updates while restart options help enforce system reboot after patch installation.
- On-Demand Patching - Patch policies automatically scan servers for missing patch updates for real-time visibility into patch compliance levels.
- Reports - OpsRamp tracks patch compliance status with notifications and reports. The consolidated patch report shows all installed patches, the last patch scan date and install date, and the count of missing patches.
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Erasmus program is a student exchange program run by the European Union. The Erasmus program provides overseas education and internship opportunities for undergraduate students, and graduate and doctoral students can also benefit from this project. The ERASMUS project includes different programs ranging from 3 months to 1 year. Students can choose universities in 37 different countries. Erasmus Program aims to increase the quality of education by ensuring the cooperation of higher education institutions of the European Union and cooperation countries. Thanks to this exchange program, students can find the opportunity to meet people from different cultures and get to know new lifestyles. Erasmus increases mobility between universities in Europe by meeting the research projects of students and teaching staff, academic curriculum development, education and financial costs.
Conditions sought from students who will apply:
¬ Having completed one year in undergraduate or graduate programs
¬ Academic GPA being 2.00 / 4.00 for undergraduate students and 2.50 / 4.00 for graduate or doctoral students
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Description of 2.4 inch lcd display
TST024QVHI-17 is 2.4 inch LCD display with all viewing angle, support MCU/SPI/ SPI+RGB interface, typical brightness is 400 cd/m2, with ILITEK ILI9341V driver IC, we also have the other model with ST7789V driver IC. Backlight circuit is 4 LEDs, this 2.4 inch LCD display is IPS display with all viewing angle, with better viewing performance comparing with TN display.
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Specification of 2.4 inch lcd display
|LCD type||2.4 inch LCD display|
|Viewing angle||All o'clock|
|Operating temperature||-20℃ to +70℃|
|Storage temperature||-30℃ to +80℃|
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Q: What's the difference between IPS and TN display?
1. Different viewing angles
Due to the manufacturing principle of the TN display, the viewing angle cannot be rotated too much when viewing, otherwise the content on the screen will not be seen. The film compensation film technology can be used to increase the viewing angle to 170°.
The ips display does not have these restrictions, and the content on the screen can be perfectly seen at an angle of 178°
2. Different color gamut
The TN display is a 6Bit native panel, which can only display 64 colors of red, green, and blue. The maximum actual color is only 262,144. It can be increased to more than 16 million colors through the "dithering" technology, but the final color display number is obtained. The highest is only 16.2 million colors.
The ips screen can display more colors, and its color accuracy is better than the TN display.
3. Different response speed
The grayscale response time of the TN display is longer, which will cause the dynamic image displayed on the screen to leave an afterimage, which will have a certain impact on the user.
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strumming the strings of a guitar.
it’s not just paint on a page,
words on a screen,
movements on a stage
or across the living room floor,
it’s creation. it’s a continuation,
of a rhythm
written, composed by
the star breather.
a paintbrush stroke on a page,
meaningless? or merely the next verse
in the song
that started with
“let there be light”?
a step in ballet shoes,
a twisting of joyous bare feet,
an echo of
“The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
clay between palms,
brainstorming sessions at one AM,
jamming with friends,
when we’re asked what it is that we “do”
it seems so often as though we disregard these things,
for the ones that ‘pay the bills’.
we disregard them as “hobbies”
when actually, we are treading on sacred ground
every time we open our mouths in song,
move our feet in dance,
lift our hands to create.
Every time we find our souls reaching out to the world through our
through our talents,
through our dreams,
we find ourselves becoming more and more
like our Papa.
using the hands He created,
needed in this world.
so when they ask “what do you do?”
don’t be afraid to tell them:
I capture images.
I write stories.
I laugh and jam with friends.
I watch stars,
and feel the air between my fingers
on long car rides.
Just like our Papa.”
~Kate, “Sacred Ground”
“We disregard them as “hobbies” when actually, we are treading on sacred ground.” Why are we treading on sacred ground? Because we’re “becoming more and more like our Papa”: creating, like He created–with the very hands and minds and talents He created.
We glorify and delight God when we use the talents He gave us. When we take what He’s given and put it to good use–after all, He gave them to us to use, right?
When we create and use our gifts, we are imitating Him.
it is natural for us to create for“create“
He who made us also
made infinitely greater things than
we can comprehend
it is only natural that we should feel drawn to
form, mold, sketch, write, and
sing our imperfect melodies
in worshipful imitation
of the one perfect Creator
Worshipful imitation. Wanting to be like Him (as much as possible). Adoring Him. Following His example.
Isn’t that what we want? Are encouraged and commanded to do?
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The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
- Albert Einstein
The biggest treasure of a human being is his "power of imagination". Instead
of utilizing it for making a discovery or melody or exploring the avenues of
business...we waste it on imaginary worries and finding fictitious Gods to resolve
- Deep Trivedi
The ego isn’t wrong; it’s just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don’t take the ego too seriously.
- Eckhart Tolle
Since human consciousness has traversed its journey from an amoeba to a
human being on the Principle of Evolution, if you note carefully, each one of us
will find many animal instincts within ourselves. To get rid of these instincts is the
first and foremost duty of every human being.
- Deep Trivedi
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. The guru can give you words; he can give you an explanation, the symbols of the mind, but the symbol is not the real, and if you are caught in the symbol, you will never find the way.
- J. Krishnamurti
A person once asked me in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: “Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?” We must always consider the person.
- Pope Francis
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- Virginia Woolf
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
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Around one-fifth of U.S. grownups state they’re experiencing “high levels of psychological distress,” and 28% of them state the pandemic changed their lives in a major way.
At the very same time, resources for face-to-face psychological health services weren’t easily offered due to public health concerns. As an outcome, lots of individuals experiencing psychological health concerns turned to online treatment platforms
The platform was easy to navigate, and I enjoyed my therapy experience. If you’re experiencing deep anxiety, suicidal thoughts or symptoms of a major psychological illness, it’s essential to seek in-person therapy with a qualified psychological health specialist.
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Under the Project of: Strengthening the Delivery of Peace and Security (SDPS) Project
Kaduna State’s unfortunate history of violent conflict has been driven by religious and ethnic conflicts and long predates the recent spate of rural violence and banditry that has engulfed in North-western region of the country. Incidents have often stemmed from indigene-settler, farmer-herder and Muslim-Christian conflicts. This history has sadly been amplified by the media and political commentators, which has only led to more kidnapping, attacks on rural communities and killings by bandits in the region.
Because of these different fault lines, armed banditry in the state has often been misinterpreted in different ways when compared to other frontline states with lesser history of ethnic and religious violence. Every violent incident, whether a kidnapping or a killing, is unique but is always seen through the lens of religious conflict – which only serves to inflame the situation and ignore how complex the situation really is. Given their unique position as custodians of culture and history, as well as leaders in the community charged with maintaining peace, traditional leaders in Kaduna State – the Hakimai and Ardo – are at the centre of such issues as either victims or peacekeepers.
The important role that these traditional authorities play in maintain peace and social cohesion cannot be overstated. Because they lead their communities directly, they are often in touch with grassroots issues and engage with the masses and have often had experience dealing with conflict resolution in their territories. This means that they are key stakeholders in ensuring the success of any public policy-focused social Programme and its expected implementation. The failure to effectively leverage these traditional conflict resolution and peacebuilding architectures in the state is partly responsible for the escalation of this violent conflict in Kaduna State.
In order to correct this error, and in line with its mandate, the Centre of Democracy and Development (CDD), in partnership with the Centre for Peace Studies at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, organised a two-day capacity building training for selected Hakimai and Ardo in Kaduna State on peacebuilding and conflict resolution under its Strengthening the Delivery of Peace and Security (SDPS) Project.
Justification and Objectives
The background provides apt justification for this training session. Within the parameters and contours of armed banditry and kidnapping, violent ideological groups, such as Boko Haram, ISWAP and Ansaru, are exploiting existing religious, ethnic and indigene-settler tensions to infiltrate Kaduna State.
The Abuja-Kaduna train attack and numbers of passengers currently under captivity is a case in point. This growing trend is existentially why this training is being anchored by the CDD. The situation requires more urgent and effective proactive measures. And, the best point to start is from the Hakimai and Ardo, who are the custodian of peace and conflict resolution. The main objective is therefore, to build the capacity of traditional leaders (see concept note) to strengthen their knowledge and expertise to understanding the challenging dynamics, trends, dimensions and complexities of all types of conflicts in Kaduna State and to contribute meaningfully towards peace building and resolution using all necessary traditional and religious mechanisms as differentiated in various communities and religious domains.
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Gourd riddance: Knights carry out king of all pumpkin smashes at Medieval Times
A small group of hearty and honorable men gathered late Friday morning to smash things for a good cause.
Knights from Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament -- wielding swords, flails, axes and other 14th century weaponry -- ransacked their way through piles of donated pumpkins outside the Schaumburg castle.
Beyond the pure exhilaration of messy mayhem, the seasonal combat exercises serves a higher purpose: Every past-its-peak pumpkin donated by Medieval Times fans translated into a free Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament ticket for Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago.
The yearly event did not take place last year because of the pandemic.
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Born in Northborough, Massachusetts. Graduate of Brown University in 1822. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced law in Worcester, Massachusetts.
He was president of the Quinsigamond Bank, of the State Mutual Life Assurance Company and of the Merchants' and Farmers' Fire Insurance Company. He was elected to the state senate in 1843 and in 1854 and to the state house of representatives in 1852. He served on the Massachusetts Board of Education 1852 to 1860. He was mayor of Worcester in 1856, 1858 and 1861. He was appointed by President Pierce as assistant treasurer of the U. S. but he declined the position. He died in Worcester.
He contributed over $30,000 to the Worcester Academy. He also contributed $1000 to a fund to provide medals for Rochester University. The medals (Julian SC-44) were produced at the Philadelphia Mint beginning in June 1875.
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This is from the first movement of Currier's piano sonata From the Grotto, which is titled Theory of the Enlightenment (from afar). From a New World Records recording.
This is from the last movement, which is titled Dirty Humor (or living with pollution).
Initially intended to be a new music series focusing on the collapsing "middle ground" of new music, it became a single intense event, held on the nightmarish evening Trump was elected president, with sixteen American composers music woven together by Currier to depict the catastrophe of our 'Weimar America.' The full website is at www.orchardcircle.com.
Gore created an internet-based event, live streamed by 8.5 million around the world, with presentations coming globally from all 24 time zones, interlaced with guest panelists. In New York,just before Gore's final presentation, a panel discusses the state of Greenland.
After the New York Times referred to Nathan Currier's Gaian Variations as 'mostly pseudoscientific,' the composer engaged in a variety of activities to increase public understanding of Earth System science. Currier served as Senior Climate Adviser and methane specialist for Public Policy Virginia. He has spoken on climate at United Nations headquarters, UNICEF headquarters at the United Nations, Columbia University, NYU and others, and was a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project at its beginning. Currier immersed himself in what became a primary focus - the potential for methane and other short-lived species to play a key role in controlling near-term warming and Arctic change for the coming decades. He was a guest panelist for the first of Gore's “24 Hours of Reality”, viewed by some 8 million live streaming. Currier wrote for several years on methane and other climate concerns for the Huffington Post. He started a climate group, 1250, focused on methane and near-term climate. He was also a founding member of the London-based Arctic Methane Emergency Group, which twice presented before the UK Parliament. Currier had a number of meetings with Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and his staff regarding methane policy.
Currier has advocated for a broader understanding and recognition of Gaia theory, or Earth System science, as being necessary for any viable path forward in response to climate change. He co-authored Life's Tectonics with NASA scientist Paul D. Lowman (see above), which brings a 'comparative planetology' viewpoint to our planet. In particular, recent data from Mars has helped confirm its lack of Earth-style tectonics, highlighting in turn the role that water, and life, have likely played in the tectonics of our home - helping to yet again underscore how, as Vladimir Vernadsky asserted, "Life is a geological force."
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates: The ground-breaking trade deal between United Arab Emirates (UAE) and India signed as a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in the name of free trade, marks India’s first trade agreement with a major trading ally in over a decade. CEPA also involves the launch of the India – UAE startup bridge; an initiative which sets the stage for investments coming from the UAE towards Indian startups. Golden Brokers continues in analysis of how the deal might influence economies in the region.
The bridge will provide UAE with India’s seasoned expertise, as well as provide India a monetary boost to startups forming in the UAE. Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal stated lately that there’s a significant number of startups emerging in the United Arab Emirates, with over 65,000 startups and 100 unicorns registered with the ministry. This will create more jobs and attract larger investments in many industries, including financial services, industrial production, food security, logistics and entrepreneurship.
Recently, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) linked for this deal notes that a minimum of 50 startups from India & the UAE will be selected over the next 5 years, with the goal of growing at least 10 startups into unicorns by 2025. This will set up a buoyant ecosystem for startups, corporations, investors and entrepreneurs to reinforce their position in the international market.
On the other hand, Golden Brokers points out that the feasibility of the free-trade agreement is challenged by several factors. Mainly, global macroeconomic instability, market volatility & rising consumer prices pose a challenge to the effective execution of the agreement and the achievement of desired results. Should complications loom further, the fruits of the FTA may be diminished. Recently, investors have been reluctant to embark on risky journeys, and startups are characterized as high-risk, high-reward investment opportunities.
Despite that, the two nations are effectively combating the contemporary adverse market conditions via this deal. From a macroeconomic viewpoint, this free-trade agreement will aid the two nations in retaliation against a potential upcoming global recession.
Golden Brokers Ltd. provides trading in Contracts for Difference (“CFDs”) across major products such as forex, commodities, indices and shares to individual as well as professional traders.
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Cyber bullying, also known as online bullying is misusing digital-communication tools (such as the Internet and cell phones) to deliberately and repeatedly behave in a manner intended to harass, threaten, humiliate or harm others.
It includes sending/sharing hurtful or abusive messages or emails, humiliating others by posting/sharing embarrassing videos or images over social media platforms, spreading rumors or lies online, setting up fake online profiles, excluding others online, repeated harassment and threatening messages (cyber stalking), Cyber bullying, is merely, a modern form of bullying performed that has been considered as being worse than traditional bullying in its consequences for the victim.
Currently, amid remote teaching due to school closure in the wake of COVID-19, there are growing fears about the rise of cyber bullying and its impact on children. Unlike traditional face-to-face bullying, online bully can conceal their identity online and target victims constantly without the limits of location or time. And kids have more chances of getting exposed to it.
A lack of reporting of cyber bullying and its low visibility when compared to face-to-face bullying make it difficult to gauge its true extent and impact. However, investigating rates of cyber bullying is extremely complex. Even teachers find cyber bullying to be more serious than face-to-face bullying because there are always new ways for children to bully online through new apps and technologies, making it difficult to identify and respond to cyber bullying. Youngsters also believe that cyber bullying is more serious and more challenging in the school environment than face-to-face bullying.
However, it is difficult to truly assess how widespread cyber bullying is, because children tend to hide cyber bullying, may be due to fear of consequences or embarrassment. It has been reported that children’s worries include that telling someone about cyber bullying will make the situation worse or lead to the confiscation of their electronic devices. They are also concerned about not knowing what the repercussions of reporting cyber bullying might be.
According to the findings of a recent Ofcom Report, cyber bullying is not more of a widespread problem than real-life bullying. It found that older children aged 12-15 are just as likely to experience “real life” bullying as bullying on social media. Younger children aged eight to 11 were found to be more likely to experience traditional bullying (14%) than online bullying (8%).Another research found that traditional bullying takes place more often than cyber bullying. In fact, 2017 study in England of 120,115 15-year-olds found rates of traditional bullying to be far higher.
So, what should you do if your kid is bullied online?
In this article, we bring to you few tips to help you identify and support if your kids are getting bullied online, and also how you can protect them.
Undoubtedly, parents get emotional when their kids get bullied because victims of cyber bullying get into a vulnerable state. Being a parent, you need to check how you respond to your child, and how you proceed with any actions. It is very important. So, to identify whether your kid is bullied online, you can do the following:
- Your first task should be to listen to your child without judgment, blame, or attempting to jump in and ‘solve’ it.
- In a friendly-manner, ask questions about their internet use and online classes. Later, if you doubt, ask more questions to discover what bully have they come across, how long the cyber bullying has been going on, the names of those involved (if known), and the forms of cyber bullying used. If you find any evidence of the cyber bullying – for example, some saved text messages, posts, websites, etc. -then have your child show these to you and save these for documentation should it be needed. If the bullying includes any realistic physical threat of harm report it to your local law enforcement office at the earliest.
- You may also assess your child’s behavior as it changes if they suffer from anything.
- Acknowledge your child’s pain and do nothing that makes your child feel any more isolated.
- You also need to ask your child to be honest with you about any forms of retaliation they make have taken. Let them know that the truth will come out someday when their cyber bully is confronted, and they will be in far worse shape if they haven’t been transparent about their own behavior.
- If your child or teen retaliated with their own cyber bullying, you should discuss about the inappropriateness of their behavior and what the consequences will be. Ask them to be honest and not to choose “blame game.”
- After understanding the scope of the problem, what role your child played in it, and how your child feels, take the next step i.e. assess what support your child needs and the best way to achieve this support, and then take immediate steps to address the issue.
- Take preventative measures online to block cyber bullies from contacting your child and report cyber bullies to the service providers where the cyber bullying occurred.
Considering the increasing cases of cyber bullying in India, the Ministry of Women and Child Development has launched a distinct helpline (email@example.com) to report cyber bullying, online harassment, and cyber defamation, particularly against women and children. [Ref]
How Can You Protect Your Kids from Becoming a Victim to Cyber Bully?
- Place the computer in a common area of the home or from where you can keep an eye on them and monitor their online usage.
- Teach them online and digital tool use etiquettes.
- Learn about social networking apps and sites work. Ask your children if they will show you their profile pages or add you in their profiles.
- Often talk with your children about online issues. Let them know they can come to you for help if any inappropriate, upsetting, or dangerous thing happens.
- Set time internet limits, explain your reasons for them, and discuss rules for online safety and usage
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A circuit diagram usually has dozens or even hundreds of components, their connections crisscrossing, form changes, beginners often do not know where to start, how to read it. In fact, the electronic circuit itself has very strong regularity, no matter how complex the circuit, after analysis, it can be found that it is composed of a few unit circuits.No matters how complex the circuit is, it can be found after analysis that it is also composed of a few unit circuits. Therefore, beginners as long as the first familiar with the common basic unit circuit, and then learn to analyze and decompose the circuit ability, understand the general circuit diagram should be not difficult. According to the function of the unit circuit, they can be divided into several categories, and there are many kinds in each category. There are probably several hundred kinds of all unit circuits. Let's choose the most commonly used basic unit circuit to introduce. Let's start with the power circuit.
一. What is a circuit diagram The circuit diagram, also known as a circuit schematic diagram, is a diagram reflecting the electrical connection of each component in electronic equipment. The circuit diagram is composed of some abstract symbols according to certain rules. By analyzing and studying the circuit diagram, we can understand the circuit structure and working principle of electronic equipment. Therefore, understanding the circuit diagram is an important part of learning electronic technology, which is the premise of electronic production or maintenance.
二. Elements constitute the circuit
Text symbols The text symbol is an important part of the circuit diagram. To further emphasize the nature of graphic symbols, but also for analysis, understanding, and elaboration For the convenience of the circuit diagram, the text symbol of each component shall be marked beside the graphic symbol of each component. For example, "R" means resistor, "C" means capacitor, "L" means inductor, "VT" means transistor, "IC" means integrated circuit, etc.
Annotation characters Annotation character is also an important part of the circuit diagram, which is used to explain the numerical size or specific model of components. In figure 1, for example, by commenting characters we can know, the value of resistor R1 Ω 3.3 k, the value of capacitor C1 is 10 mu F, transistor VT models for 9014, the model of integrated circuit IC for mu PCl651, etc.
三. Rules for drawing circuit diagrams addition to uniform graphic symbols and text characters, circuit diagrams also follow certain drawing rules. To understand and master the general drawing rules of the circuit diagram is essential for understanding the circuit diagram.
The signal processing flow direction of circuit diagram The direction of the signal processing flow in the circuit diagram is generally from left to right. Each unit circuit that successively processes the signal is arranged in the direction from left to right, which is the most common arrangement form. For example, the circuit diagram of a wireless microphone is shown in Figure 1. From left to right are the voice signal reception (BM), audio amplification (VT), high-frequency oscillation and modulation (IC), and other unit circuits.
Cable connection Connection wires between components are represented by solid lines in the circuit diagram.
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The signal is converted into an electrical signal. (2) The audio amplifier circuit composed of transistor VT, etc., functions to amplify the audio signal output by BM. (3) High-frequency oscillation and modulation circuit composed of IC, etc., whose function is to generate high-frequency carrier frequency signal and complete frequency modulation.
四. Methods and steps of reading circuit diagram Master the above basic knowledge, you can carry out a complete analysis of the circuit diagram. Let's take the wireless microphone circuit diagram shown in Figure 1 as an example to introduce the basic method and procedure of the reading circuit diagram.
According to the overall function of the circuit diagram, the direction of the signal processing flow of the circuit diagram can be judged by finding the total input end and the total output end of the whole circuit circle. The function of the wireless microphone is to modulate the voice signal to the high-frequency signal and transmit it out. In the circuit diagram in Figure 1, the microphone BM is the total input end and the antenna W is the total output end. The direction from the total input end to the total output end is the signal processing flow direction. Figure 1 shows the direction from left to right.
1 The circuit can be decomposed into three-unit circuits: (1) A voice signal receiving circuit composed of electret microphone BM, etc., whose function is to transfer voice Through the above two steps of analysis, we have a basic understanding of the wireless microphone circuit, can compare figure 1 circuit diagram and figure 6 block diagram, the principle of wireless microphone circuit system analysis. The working process of the circuit is as follows: after the voice signal is received and converted into an electrical signal by the electret microphone BM, it is input to the VT base of the transistor through the coupling capacitance C1. R1 is the load resistance of BM. The transistor VT and so on constitute the voltage amplifier, after the amplification of the audio signal coupled by C1, the output is coupled by C2. R2 is the base resistance and R3 is the collector resistance. Integrated circuit IC and so on constitute a high-frequency oscillator, the oscillation frequency is determined by L, C4 series resonance loop, C4 is the fine-tuning capacitor, used to adjust the oscillation frequency. C3 is the feedback capacitance. The frequency modulation of the high-frequency oscillation signal is carried out by the audio signal coupled with C2, and the frequency modulation signal is coupled to the antenna W and emitted. | <urn:uuid:3c61e5dc-3435-4b5f-bb9a-63b706334919> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oshwlab.com/CatherineAlson/JLCPCB-How-to-Read-A-Circuit-Diagram | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.918519 | 1,340 | 3.09375 | 3 |
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Method statement for construction
Method statements are widely used in construction as a means of controlling specific health and safety risks that have been identified (perhaps following the preparation of a risk assessment), such as lifting operations, demolition or dismantling, working at height, installing equipment, the use of plant, and so on.
A method statement helps manage the work and ensures that the necessary precautions have been communicated to those involved.
The process of preparing a written method statement provides evidence that:
- Significant health and safety risks have been identified.
- The co-operation of workers has been ensured.
- Safe, co-ordinated systems of work have been put in place.
- Workers have been involved in the process.
Method statements are not a requirement of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations, however they are identified by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as being one way of satisfying the requirements of the regulations and as an effective means of assessing risks, managing risks, collecting workers’ views and briefing workers.
The fact that method statements are not a requirement of the CDM Regulations is evidence of the HSE's intention that implementation of the requirements of the CDM Regulations should not be a paper exercise, where the filling out of a standard template is sufficient, but that it should be an integral and fundamental part of the construction process.
The format in which method statements are prepared, reviewed and used should be set out at the outset of a project, perhaps within the Project Execution Plan (PEP), ensuring not only that the method statement is produced by a competent person, but that it is peer-reviewed as part of the quality assurance (QA) system prior to its use.
Where they are prepared, method statements need be no longer than is necessary for them to be effective. They are for the benefit of those carrying out the work and so should be clear, not over-complicated, and illustrated where necessary.
Method statements should be written by a competent person who is familiar with the process being described and may need to be agreed between the client, principal contractor and contractor. The HSE suggests that those preparing method statements should consider:
- Is there a safer way of doing this task?
- Will workers actually implement the controls as planned?
- Do controls make the job difficult or inconvenient?
- Are there small changes that will improve the intended method?
- How will controls work in adverse conditions?
- Will workers require additional briefing or instructions?
The contents of a method statement will vary with the work process being described, however, it may contain:
- Details of the organisation in control of the activity.
- Details of the individual responsible for the activity.
- A description of the activity.
- A description of how the work will be managed.
- The location of the activity, its boundaries, means of access and how it is segregated from other activities.
- Plant and equipment required.
- The procedure for changing the proposed method of work if necessary.
- A step by step description of the activities to be undertaken.
- Precautions necessary to protect workers, and other people that could be affected, including personal protective equipment and ventilation requirements.
- Training procedures.
- The need for specially-trained operators for certain activities.
- Emergency procedures, including the location of emergency equipment.
- The handling and storage of materials and pollution prevention procedures.
- Temporary works designs.
- The method for safeguarding existing structures.
Together, risk assessments and method statements are sometimes described as 'RAMS'. RAMS may be required by third parties to demonstrate that health and safety has been properly considered and that the requirements of the CDM regulations have been satisfied.
For example, a contractor may require submission of RAMS from sub-contractors, a landlord may require submission of RAMS from tenants proposing to carry out works to a property, or a client may require submission of RAMS from contractors operating on their premises.
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Paints containing zinc dust, with concentrations of zinc dust in the range of 65 to 69% or above 92% in the dried film, are considered equally effective for the repair of damaged galvanized coatings.
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So why do zinc-rich paints with zinc dust concentrations outside the recommended ranges not work as well?
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The Labor Party, founded in 1996, was the last major effort to form a workers’ party in the United States. Its shortcomings were multifaceted and its official dissolution several years ago has made it impossible to correct these shortcomings. But it has given us a touchstone by which to elaborate what needs to happen for the construction of a legitimate and successful working-class political party.
A Party of Struggle, Not an Electoral Party
Running labor-friendly candidates in elections (at any or all levels) simply can’t be the mode of operation of a workers’ party. It must be an organizer of the working-class, its general organizing center, serving as a living resource for workers in all phases of their lives and on all possible fronts of struggle.
The easiest way to imagine it is asking a co-worker or neighbor what social, political or economic problem keeps them up at night or pisses them off the most—
“My landlord won’t fix the boiler in my building”
“My wages are so low that I can’t afford the co-pays on my prescriptions”
“I’ve heard that employers have been cooperating with ICE agents and many people have been arrested, I’m afraid of being detained and held for deportation and my family won’t know what happened to me”
“My boss makes unwanted advances when no one else is around and I’m afraid I’ll be fired if I say anything”
“We heard that they’re going to close the plant at the end of the year”
Then acting to assist them, at all levels; from the smallest and most local struggle involving only 1 worker to the largest struggles on the national and international terrains.
It’s the obligation of the workers’ party to unify all forms of workers’ organization, all forms of workers’ struggle, into one cohesive whole: a culture of workers’ resistance to capitalism.
The workers’ party must be a resource as well as a network of resources, capable of assisting or organizing or sustaining tenant associations, union organizing campaigns, legal defense efforts for immigrant workers, anti-fascist mobilizations, strikes and lock-outs and every other form and facet of the struggles of labor.
That means being capable of offering not just moral and financial support, but most importantly, boots on the ground as new struggles arise, with members from a diverse cross-section of the working-class walking each other’s picket lines, marching in each other’s demonstrations and supporting the direct action necessary to win such struggles. It doesn’t matter if that means helping 5 restaurant workers fight against wage theft or organizing a mass mobilization against “right-to-work” laws, because that is the mode of operation of the workers’ party.
None of this precludes electoral tactics. It just precludes an electoral strategy. In the big picture, electoral politics is merely 1 front among a multitude of fronts upon which workers are forced to fight to defend themselves and advance their interests.
In the early days of the workers’ movement, it was recognized that successful electoral activity could only bring about temporary victories at best or dead-letter-laws at worst. Without the organization to enforce and defend these gains, they vanish when the general political climate changes, or even when 1 elected official –a ‘friend of labor’– is replaced with another who is less pliable to our interests.
A Real Alternative, Not ‘the same, but a little better’
From the time it was founded in 1895 up until the 1970’s, the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) – the main trade union center in France– had the following as Article 1 in its statutes:
“The C.G.T. is to group, without distinction of political, philosophical and religious opinions, all organizations composed of wage laborers conscious of the struggle to eliminate wage-labor and employers and desirous of defending their moral, material, economic and professional interests.”
Of course, the CGT did not live up to its own Article 1. But it’s instructive. It demonstrates that workers used to know what our ultimate position is and must be, even if we haven’t been able to make it a reality yet.
Immediate demands cannot be the full content of our program; how could they be?
Do we really and truly just want an unfettered right to strike, universal healthcare, card-check union recognition, stronger discrimination and civil rights protections, a $15/hour minimum wage, greater regulation of corporations and more funding for public education?
Is that the content of a truly human existence?
If that entire program were put into practice, racial and gender discrimination in all their forms would still exist; but their most visible manifestations would be mildly mitigated.
If that entire program were put into practice, millions more workers would benefit from unionization; but many more millions still would not.
If that entire program were put into practice, we would still live in a society based on the exploitation of labor to produce profit; but the most obvious and odious manifestations of this exploitation would be made less visible.
For decades, the best we could expect from a workers’ party program was a program defined by immediate demands and nothing more. In other words, the same as the status quo, but a little better for more people.
Instead, we must proclaim the only legitimate alternative to capitalism: the abolition of wage-labor.
We must stand by the old formula of the present amelioration and future emancipation of the working-class as the program of the workers’ party.
The workers’ party has one basic function: to act as a representative of the whole working-class.
What that looks like in practice is supporting and organizing the growing-over of struggles from one terrain to another, mediated by and through the workers’ party.
That means working to move a struggle in the electoral arena into the workplace. This looks like resistance to anti-immigrant and anti-union legislation, Medicaid cuts, sales tax increases, voter suppression (voter ID) laws– all forms of legislation that negatively affect the working and living conditions of workers. This move from the electoral arena into the workplace can look like agitating for workers engaged in a strike or organizing campaign to take up political demands. In all cases, such electoral issues are directly related to the workplace and workplace struggles.
Opposition to voter ID laws is directly related to the struggle against employer discrimination, opposition to anti-immigrant legislation is directly related to the economic struggles of immigrant workers, etc. Making the connection between broad attacks on the parliamentary terrain and specific attacks within 1 workplace, 1 trade, 1 employer, 1 industry or 1 region is how a workers’ party can begin with a struggle in the electoral arena and move it onto the economic terrain, into the workplace.
Attacks on workers in the form of legislation results in very broad attacks. By making the connection between such broad attacks on the whole working-class with the specific attacks a group of workers experience personally with their employer, begins to make the connection that the concern of one is the concern of all, that an injury to one is an injury to all.
It also means working to move a struggle on the economic terrain, in the workplace, onto the terrain of social reproduction. Whenever and however workers begin to take over social functions for and by themselves, the workers’ party must be there to support such efforts and work to generalize and deepen them.
In the case of the public school workers’ strikes across the country in 2018, we saw school teachers, custodians, nurses, bus drivers, cafeteria workers and others organizing food collection and distribution for the duration of the strikes. These efforts were coordinated through a combination of existing organizations (trade unions) and new networks that emerged as part of the struggle.
Since so many children of working-class families are dependent on the free or subsidized lunches– and in many cases, breakfasts as well– provided in public schools, the workers recognized a social need that arose as a result of their strike. The workers then determined to meet that need themselves as a facet of their struggle.
That is what moving a struggle on the economic terrain, in the workplace, onto the terrain of social reproduction, is. A workers’ party, as a resource and network of resources, must foster and bolster such efforts which train our fellow workers how to organize a new society based on meeting needs rather than on the production of profit.
Such work can provide a foundation upon which to expand its purpose and its scale: starting with food collection and distribution to school children, a workers’ party could have worked to expand this to food collection, distribution and preparation for all the vulnerable groups and the most impoverished fractions of the working-class.
It also means moving struggles on the economic terrain into generalized struggles on the political terrain. The fights for comprehensive health care and retirement security affect the whole working-class but have been primarily fought at the level of single workplaces, employers, trades, industries and sectors. In the case of the public school workers’ strike in West Virginia, the workers demanded that a tax be levied on energy company profits to fund the workers’ health care.
Organizing around such slogans brings the workers together as a class by moving the demand from the economic terrain of workplace-based struggle into a general political struggle of class against class.
The capitalists raise sales taxes to make the working-class pay for business tax cuts and subsidies for the benefit of all business owners. When workers demand that profits be taxed to pay for goods and services to meet fundamental needs, it raises the relation of workers to each other and their combined shared interest against their common enemy.
It also means moving struggles in 1 workplace, trade, industry, sector or region into other struggles happening at the same time.
It could take the form of organizing the logistics to have workers walk each other’s picket lines, agitating for workers on strike to take up each other’s demands or taking up strike fund collections in other local workplaces.
The Fight For 15 movement has been and still is uniting workers across the country, across all trades, industries and sectors, around the same demand for a minimum living wage and the right to representation. Working to unify such general movements with specific struggles is another facet of this movement of unifying workers’ struggles.
That might be working to move a struggle on the legal terrain, such as resistance to the Janus v. AFSCME case or resistance to voter suppression, onto the economic terrain, by giving support to the North Carolina public workers who are fighting to overturn General Statute 95-98 that makes public employee unionism illegal in that state and to the fast food workers who have linked their struggle for a higher standard of living with the struggle against the oppression of the black community.
In everything that it does, the workers’ party has one unique and specific trait: it always speaks and acts in the interests of the whole working-class. It does so by always working to escalate and generalize labor’s class struggles. This is accomplished by providing tangible assistance and resources to particular struggles so that they may not only achieve their stated aims– like the West Virginia public workers’ demands for raises and a fix to PEIA, like the Frontier workers’ demands for job security and infrastructure upgrades, like the North Carolina public workers’ demand to legalize their labor organizations– but become struggles which advance the strategic interests of the working-class in its ultimate struggle against capitalism.
This is accomplished by not only cultivating, nurturing and organizing this growing-over in labor’s class struggles, but making the connections between this class struggle and this growing-over to the real movement toward the abolition of wage-labor.
Socialism has to be synonymous with the abolition of wage-labor (like it used to be). Otherwise it’s just a phrase describing the status quo, but a little better for more people.
On Our Own, But Not by Ourselves
Sometimes we’re told that workers must do things for themselves. This usually implies that we make due without our only weapon: organization. The problem isn’t too much organization stifling us, but too little!
In the old days, workers’ parties built and maintained large and strong networks of support, fraternal and specialized organizations for a variety of purposes. Foreign language federations and cultural associations for immigrant workers, independent legal defense funds for the inevitable charges and legal costs associated with strikes, boycotts, lock-outs, etc., numerous publications covering a variety of subjects (news, opinion, humor, history, art), practical services to members and the like.
The International Workingmen’s Association—the First International—regrouped workers in all forms of organization and supported them on as many fronts as possible. The first line in the Provisional Rules of the International Workingmen’s Association said:
“This Association is established to afford a central medium of communication and co-operation between workingmen’s societies existing in different countries and aiming at the same end; viz., the protection, advancement, and complete emancipation of the working classes”
No one form of labor organization is sufficient to carry out all the tasks required by labor’s struggles. There must be a deliberate effort at unifying the purpose of all existing organizations and those that will arise in the future.
We have a long history of doing what we must do, and we must do it again. Our collective history is the story of why we need organization, and more organization, and more organization still, to successfully defend our existing conditions today, demand improvements tomorrow and accomplish our collective program of the abolition of wage-labor the day after that.
A workers’ party is made through the independent initiative and guided activity of its members in their daily lives. It’s the construction of a culture of resistance within the working-class that refuses to accept the status quo as the best there is in life—and organizes to change things. | <urn:uuid:d007f37f-b610-4e7a-8576-6ee5a6297f52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://anticapital0.wordpress.com/open-letter-to-the-founders-and-activists-of-the-labor-party-of-1996/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957444 | 2,937 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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Summerplace event marks World Alzheimer's Day
Every 66 seconds someone in the U. S. develops Alzheimer's disease — and the diagnosis changes millions of lives every year. Assisted Living at Summerplace marked World Alzheimer's Day, Thursday Sept. 21, with a discussion and some kite flying.
David Troxel, author, speaker and dementia expert, spoke on the day that's set aside to raise awareness of Alzheimer's and honor the caregivers who help people with dementia.
Many Summerplace employees wore purple shirts, the color of the dementia care and research movement, while the facility was festooned with purple streamers, flowers and other decorations.
A group of residents celebrated the hopefulness of the day by "flying" kites in the courtyard of the facility at 15727 N.E. Russell St., which is operated by Prestige Senior Living. Memory care residents decorated the kites, which were held aloft with purple balloons.
"There is a lot we can do to help people with Alzheimer's," Troxel told Summerplace residents and community members. He said those diagnosed should stay active and exercise. They should stay in contact with friends and family.
"Socialization is good for the brain," he said. "Volunteer, be active in your church choir."
More than five million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, according to the Alzheimer's Association. One in 10 people 65 years old and older has Alzheimer's and two-thirds of them are women.
It is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., killing more people than breast and prostate cancer combined.
Of course, the people with the disease are not the only ones who suffer. The Alzheimer's Association reports that 35 percent of people caring for those with Alzheimer's or dementia report their their health has deteriorated, compared with 19 percent for those caring for an older person without dementia.
In the last 17 years, death from heart disease decreased by 14 percent, while deaths from Alzheimer's disease increased by 89 percent.
Troxel and a colleague Virginia Bell created a seven-pillar approach to caring for people with Alzheimer's called "Best Friends." First, the approach urges everyone to recognize the basic rights of a person with dementia. Second, it encourages people around the diagnosed person to understand what it's like to have dementia.
Third, it is important to know the person with dementia's life story and use that life story to help the person recall happy times and successes. Fourth, it helps to learn new communication skills appropriate for a person with Alzheimer's or dementia.
Fifth, Troxel urges people to develop what he calls "the knack" or the art of doing difficult things with ease or using clever strategies with the person such as not contradicting them when they get facts wrong.
Sixth, caregivers should try to provide meaningful engagement every day. Seventh, for professional caregivers, recast your language using friendship terms.
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As so many school districts struggled with challenges of the pandemic, we adjusted our district teacher and needs analysis meetings to Zoom. Historically these were conducted face to face, whenever possible, but the huge increase in Zoom familiarity gave us the opportunity to reach so many more teachers by holding a larger number of virtual meetings.
These meetings are extremely important to help us identify specific teacher needs within a district or area. Using program specific meetings we are able to break down the audience even further to provide valuable information to teachers looking for a specific licensure or certification.
These information meetings are great way for teachers to learn about a partner university’s comprehensive program offerings and application process. Additionally they provide area teachers the direct contact and feeling of support that is so important when making an informed decision when choosing a graduate degree provider. Attendance at our individual school district meetings nearly doubled in 2020 from the previous year. | <urn:uuid:d3530c91-f195-4a36-a533-9f6405bcb609> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://k12teachersalliance.org/kta-school-district-meetings-see-dramatic-rise-during-covid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948181 | 180 | 2.25 | 2 |
The targeted growth in the volume and ambition of RDI activities requires a significant increase in the national level of competence and education. At the same time, as R&D funding increases there will also be a need for many more highly educated experts and other RDI professionals. This will challenge the current education and RDI system.
Finland must become a more attractive RDI operating environment in the international competition for domestic and foreign researchers and other experts. There is a need to build high-quality research environments, improve the attractiveness of research careers and expand the recruitment of foreign professionals.
A high level of research and science is a prerequisite for receiving international research funding. Knowledge and technology created abroad must also be utilised more intensively. The mobility of researchers between companies, administration and research organisations needs to be strengthened.
The needs of working life will be taken into account in competence development projects. In addition to education leading to a degree, diverse opportunities for continuous learning are required throughout the entire duration of working life. Civics, science education and investments in LUMA competence (mathematics, science and technology) will deepen and increase the human resources available in the RDI environment.
Wide-ranging raising of competence levels
1. At least 50% of all young adults in Finland will have completed a higher education degree by 2030. To achieve this goal, higher education intake will be increased until 2030. The Ministry of Education and Culture will agree on the necessary measures with higher education institutions.
2. Through broad-based cooperation, more foreign students and researchers will be recruited into Finnish higher education institutions. To meet competence needs, the goal is for the number of new foreign degree students to gradually triple (15,000) from at present by 2030.
3. Higher education institutions, research institutes and regional actors will integrate international experts into higher education institutions, Finnish society and working life in cooperation with the business community and public sector employers. The goal is for 75% of foreign students who have completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree to be employed in the Finnish labour market by 2030.
4. The Ministry of Education and Culture will implement a process to reform the education responsibility system. The aim is to give higher education institutions better opportunities to meet the competence needs of society and working life. The process will specify quality criteria for the allocation of educational responsibilities, taking into account the links between education and research, development and innovation.
5. The Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment as well as higher education institutions and other educational institutions will ensure that the parliamentary reform of continuous learning takes into account the RDI competence needs of industries, including high productivity sectors. Utilising foresight information, education will be targeted multisectorally at the needs of the business community and other societal needs.
6. The Ministry of Education and Culture and the Academy of Finland will continue to support the profiling of universities and universities of applied sciences in their strong areas of competence.
7. Together with the Academy of Finland, the Ministry of Education and Culture will prepare and implement further measures on the international assessment of the Academy of Finland, which will be completed in 2022.
Research careers, international experts and mobility
8. The measures of the 2021 report by the Ministry of Education and Culture’s working group on research careers will promote the utilisation of doctoral expertise in society more widely than at present. The measures will diversify the career paths of doctors and promote mobility and placement in different sectors of society. The aim is also to raise the education level of companies’ personnel. A report on the implementation of the measures will be made in 2024.
9. The Ministry of Education and Culture will examine the current arrangements for researcher education. At the same time, a study will be conducted as to whether the current regulation of the degree system also meets practical needs in researcher education.
10. In 2021–2022, the Academy of Finland will explore reforming the forms of funding for young researchers to support research work and careers.
11. The arrival in Finland of foreign students and experts will be streamlined.
i. Business Finland and the Finnish National Agency for Education will use Work in Finland and Study and Work in Finland services to support the recruitment of international students and the hiring of international experts for higher education institutions, research institutes and companies.
ii. Led by the Ministry of the Interior, a preliminary study will be made on a comprehensive reform of legislation on aliens (and permit procedures). The potential comprehensive reform would be implemented in the next government term. In cooperation with ministries, permit practices and the customer path (including Virtual Finland) will be digitalised in order to streamline work- and education-based immigration.
iii. Business and employment services will support the recruitment of international experts into Finnish innovation and growth ecosystems.
Broad-based utilisation of competence in RDI activities
12. The Ministry of Education and Culture, the Academy of Finland and higher education institutions will utilise, where applicable, in their activities the content and recommendations of a study to be completed in spring 2022 on the promotion of the equality, non-discrimination and diversity of teaching and research staff.
13. The Ministry of Education and Culture will support actors in science education and promoters of science competence in, among other places, science centres and teacher education. The objective is to deepen and expand citizens’ problem-solving abilities and understanding of the development of science, with the aim of promoting learning and Finland’s competence-based growth.
14. According to the vision of the National Strategy for Mathematics, Science and Technology (LUMA), both the individual and society will benefit from the growth of LUMA skills and competence in terms of increased wellbeing and sustainable development. Led by the Ministry of Education and Culture, an action plan for the strategy will be prepared in broad-based cooperation with stakeholders in 2022.
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*Geek Box: Cox Regression
In cohort studies, you will commonly see what is known as a “survival analysis”, which is data that measure the time from a given starting point to the occurrence of a given specific event. For example, you could be interested in the effect of a type of knee surgery on the time to a further injury, i.e., the surgery would be the starting time point and a subsequent injury would be the event.
Survival analyses allow you to look at the probability of ‘survival’ [in this example, staying injury-free] past given time points. However, you can also compare two groups for their respective survival times. Staying with our knee surgery example, you could compare participants who underwent one type of surgery vs. another type, or one type of surgery vs. a non-surgical intervention.
Two common methods to estimate survival are the Kaplan-Meier method and the Cox proportional hazards model, also known as a Cox regression. With Kaplan-Meier analysis, both the probability of surviving to a given end time point and the cumulative proportion of participants surviving a specific time period within the overall timeframe, are calculated. Staying with our knee surgery example, if the total study period was 5yrs, Kaplan-Meier analysis would allow you to look at the probability of having further knee surgery at 1yr, 2yrs, 3yrs, etc.
The Cox proportional hazards model differs to the Kaplan-Meier method, and allows the differences in survival times between groups to be tested while including other factors. This is why it is also known as ‘Cox regression’, because it is analogous to a multiple regression model where multiple variables are entered into the model to see whether the levels of these variables predicts a change in the outcome variable.
In a Cox regression, the hazard ratios [HR] produced from the analysis do not depend on time, i.e., the hazard is ‘proportional’ between the groups being compared over time. Therefore, the difference in risk for an outcome is the difference at any given time, not a specific time like with the Kaplan-Meier method. The main attractive of Cox regression is that additional predictor variables can be included in the model. | <urn:uuid:a0c68292-e699-477f-b347-52a6b75b31e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alineanutrition.com/modalpopupbox/geek-box-research-methods-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.943737 | 465 | 3.5 | 4 |
With 3D printing technologies emerging rapidly and a wide variety of industries looking to adopt 3D printing to streamline production and save on material costs, there is a lot of potential for market expansion. In fact, the research firm Canalys has forecast the 3D printing market, which includes 3D printer sales, materials, and associated services, will continue to experience rapid growth and reach US $16.2 billion by 2018.
Canalys Senior Analyst, Tim Shepherd, points out that “this is a market with enormous growth potential now that the main barriers to up-take are being addressed. Advances in technology are yielding faster print times and enabling objects to be printed in greater combinations of materials, colors, and finishes. Crucially, prices are also falling, making the technology an increasingly feasible option for a broad variety of enterprise and consumer uses, restricted only by computer-aided design competencies and printer availability – both of which are set to improve significantly.”
While most analysts still view 3D printing to be in its infancy, the technology is already well established in the production of prototypes and product models in quite a few industries. What’s more, it is being strongly considered a viable manufacturing tool for a number of industry sectors, including aerospace and defense, medical, engineering, and architecture. Specific concerns exist around preventing counterfeiting, and those are further complicated by a requirement to make 3D print jobs uniform and replicated with 100 percent accuracy no matter what particular printer is utilized. When combined, these challenges create a bit of a “Catch-22” situation.
For industry in general, protecting individual property rights is a primary concern, particularly when you consider the possibility of unauthorized access and use of proprietary 3D printing files. Unlike counterfeiting in parts manufacturing today, where telltale imperfections or design flaws can often aid investigators in identifying counterfeit parts and eliminating them from the supply chain, 3D printed parts are created from electronic files and specifically designed to be replicated exactly. It’s therefore much more difficult to determine what might be a counterfeit part.
When you consider aerospace and medical are the two major market sectors expected to drive market expansion for 3D printing, the issue of safety is quickly brought to the forefront. Commercial airplanes, for example, are designed and constructed using hundreds of thousands of parts, and quality inspectors are continually working to ensure counterfeit parts don’t find their way into the supply chain. Clearly, this process becomes more challenging when dealing with 3D printed parts. It goes without saying that nobody would want to fly on a plane built with anything other than parts from a fully certified and authorized supplier. The same holds true in the medical sector where it’s possible that 3D printed parts will be used in internally implanted devices, medical instruments, and other medical items.
Another area of concern is related to potential counterfeiting scenarios where advanced 3D scanning is utilized. Take, for example, the works of an artist or sculptor. The combination of 3D scanning and 3D printing could make it possible for unscrupulous individuals to obtain limited editions of works, employ 3D scanning technology, and then print knock-off copies to sell more widely and at a much lower cost.
These few examples that can be envisioned today are likely to become more complex as the technology evolves. However, they do bring up the question of what needs to be done to address the possibility of counterfeiting using 3D printing technologies.
Standardization is Key
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is already heavily engaged in standards development for 3D printing, particularly in specifying the design and construct of 3D printing files. IEEE P3030TM is focused on standards development to establish quality metrics and accuracy grades so that printed materials at the consumer level can be assembled faultlessly while also addressing issues related to privacy, security, and control measures.
From a standards perspective, initial efforts to address counterfeiting issues related to 3D printing are being focused on building mechanisms into the 3D file design that would require the input of a password or authorization code to open the file. Another measure would be to build into the standard a means for a differentiating feature to be included on authorized print jobs – a type of watermark, for example, similar to traditional currency anti-counterfeiting measures. Additionally, as more and more types of printing materials come into use, it could be possible to limit the supply of certain materials to enable better control over sensitive 3D printed items.
It’s clear that there is much work to be done to ensure that 3D counterfeiting issues are addressed early and effectively. IEEE is taking a lead in 3D printing standards development with the caveat that buy-in from 3D printer vendors on standardization is essential to combat counterfeiting and prevent unauthorized designs from being printed. In light of this, IEEE extends an open invitation to 3D printer vendors to join relative working groups and/or participate on some level in standards development for 3D printing that protects individual property rights and helps increase safe and sound manufacturing processes.
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What are the different kinds of technical publications?
What are the different kinds of technical publications?
ENGINE ILLUSTRATED PARTS CATALOG
The Illustrated Parts Catalog (IPC) identifies specific engine components and pictorially illustrates them as produced from the factory and as modified by service bulletins. All engine parts are contained in the IPC except the individual internal pieces of the Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) which are authorized for replacement only at our Major Channel partners or Overhaul/Heavy Maintenance Facilities. The applicable Component Overhaul/Maintenance Manual, including the illustrated parts list for a particular LRU, is referenced in the IPC.
COMPONENT OVERHAUL/MAINTENANCE MANUALS
Component Overhaul/Maintenance Manuals address the procedures for individual LRUs and other specific components. Their use is restricted to Authorized Major Channel partners or Overhaul/Heavy Maintenance Facilities.
ENGINE MAINTENANCE MANUAL/ENGINE LIGHT MAINTENANCE MANUAL/ ENGINE MANUAL
The Engine Maintenance Manual/Engine Light Maintenance Manual/Engine Manual (MM/LMM/EM) provides a description of the engine and its operation and details the procedures for troubleshooting, adjustments/tests, inspections/checks, and for performing all authorized maintenance actions.
The instructions are self-explanatory and no reference to other publications is required, except to the IPC for parts ordering information.
Any unserviceable part discovered during an inspection, which cannot be repaired on location using MM procedures, should be replaced. Removed unserviceable parts may be evaluated for repair at a Major Channel partner or Overhaul/Heavy Maintenance Facility using the instructions contained in the Inspection/ Repair manual.
INSPECTION/REPAIR MANUAL (TPE331 Series 1 thru -12)
The Inspection/Repair Manual (IRM) provides specific inspection and repair instructions for use during an engine overhaul. Additionally, the IRM is used to determine the serviceability of parts during an unscheduled maintenance activity falling outside the scope of the MM. Since the information contained in the IRM goes beyond the scope of the MM. It should not be used in conjunction with normal MM procedures.
ENGINE OVERHAUL MANUAL (TPE331 Series 1 thru 12/ALF502L)
The primary purpose of the Engine Overhaul Manual (OHM) is to provide instructions and detailed procedures on accomplishing a complete engine overhaul at an Authorized Overhaul Facility. Nevertheless, other unscheduled engine repairs which go beyond the scope of the MM may require the engine to be inspected, tested, and repaired in accordance with the OHM. Performing these tests plus any required maintenance pursuant to the instructions in the OHM could result in the continued operation of the engine enabling it to reach its next scheduled maintenance interval.
ENGINE LIGHT MAINTENANCE MANUAL (TPE331-14/-15/TFE731/ATF3/ CFE738)
The Engine Light Maintenance Manual (LMM) provides a description of the engine and its operation and details the procedures for troubleshooting, adjustments/tests, and inspections/checks, and for performing all authorized maintenance actions. The LMM instructions are self-contained and no reference to other publications is required, except to the IPC for parts ordering information.
Any unserviceable part discovered during an inspection, which cannot be repaired on location using LMM procedures, should be replaced. Removed unserviceable parts may be evaluated for repair at a Major Channel partner or Heavy Maintenance Facility using the instructions contained in the Repair Manual. Determination to rework or scrap a part is predicated on the criteria contained in the Repair Manual.
ENGINE HEAVY MAINTENANCE MANUAL (TPE331-14/-15/TFE/ATF3/CFE)
The Engine Heavy Maintenance Manual (HMM) provides engine performance testing and maintenance practices for off-aircraft maintenance of the compressor module. The performance testing outlined in the HMM is required only after certain maintenance actions. These requirements are specified in the HMM. The HMM instructions with referenced LMM instructions provide all maintenance practices applicable. Any parts rejected during inspection which cannot be repaired using LMM and HMM procedures should be replaced. Rejected parts may be evaluated for repair at a Major Channel partner or Heavy Maintenance Facility using the Repair Manual.
REPAIR MANUAL (TPE331-14/-15/TFE731/ATF3)
The Repair Manual (RM) provides specific repair instructions for engine parts that have been determined unserviceable and not repairable in accordance with Light and Heavy Maintenance Manuals.
Data contained in the RM is beyond the scope of the Light and Heavy Maintenance Manuals and should not be used in conjunction with accomplishing Light and Heavy Maintenance Manual procedures. Only those parts rejected using Light or Heavy Maintenance Manual inspection criteria should be repaired using the RM.
Service bulletins are issued on an "as needed" basis to provide modification instructions, inspection procedures, and any other necessary information relative to the modification, maintenance, and/or repair of an engine unit. Categorized as Alert and Standard, service bulletins are the primary means of communicating and authorizing these special types of maintenance actions to the field. The Honeywell compliance directive may be either Recommended or Optional for a particular service bulletin.
Alert Service Bulletins
Alert Service Bulletins are designed to be used in conjunction with either an impending or a recently issued FAA Airworthiness Directive when the safety of flight might be compromised or the possibility exists, however, remote, that either property damage and/or personal injury might result from the failure to comply with the inspections, modifications, instructions, or maintenance actions recommended in the bulletin.
The compliance directive is of such urgency that affected operators must respond immediately or at least with a minimum of delay, to the instructions in the bulletin. Alert Service Bulletins are very rarely issued.
Recommended Service Bulletins
The Recommended compliance directive is the strongest written request for an operator to modify or update a specified engine component, perform an inspection, make an adjustment or accomplish any other particularly defined maintenance function to an engine unit. There is normally a designated time period for compliance, such as at first access to the affected part for any reason or at the next regularly scheduled HSI, which when accomplished will substantially improve the reliability of the engine and/or component. Recommended Service Bulletins are the most frequently issued category.
Operators willfully electing to not comply with a Recommended Service Bulletin, when the opportunity to do so becomes available to them, would be wholly assuming all risks associated with the future operation of the affected component and the consequential damages, if any, associated thereto. Service facilities should obligate themselves to make this point perfectly clear with their customers to preclude any future misunderstandings.
Optional Service Bulletins
Optional Service Bulletins provide a suitable mode of notifying our customers of general product improvements, updates and modifications of a minor nature which, when incorporated, will generally improve the overall serviceability of the engine and/or component. The Optional compliance directive, which is also self-explanatory, is by no means obligatory and there will not be any specific time limitation imposed on the operator for incorporating the suggested improvements, other than "when convenient". The intent is to merely invite our customers to consider incorporating our suggestions when the opportunity to do so becomes available. The issuance of Optional Service Bulletins is a fairly common occurrence.
Field Evaluation Service Bulletins
From time to time, certain proposed engine unit modifications are selected by Honeywell to undergo a field testing program prior to releasing these changes to all engines in the field. These modifications are authorized by special Field Evaluation Service Bulletins and are restricted to a limited number of preselected engines. A Field Evaluation Service Bulletin is identified by the letters "FE" suffixed to the basic service bulletin number. When the engine and/or component modification is approved and receives authorization for incorporation into the fleet, the service bulletin is revised to delete the "FE" suffix from the basic service bulletin identification number.
Rework Procedures Service Bulletins
Special rework procedures for specifically identified parts which can be accomplished only at certain selected facilities are also authorized by service bulletins. Bulletins issued for the exclusive purpose of reworking components are identified by the letters "RWK" suffixed to the basic service bulletin number. Distribution of the Rework Procedures Service Bulletin is limited to repair facilities authorized to perform the rework procedures required therein.
Accomplishment of Service Bulletins
It is the responsibility of each Honeywell Authorized Channel partner to have a complete and up-to-date listing of current service bulletins and to be familiar with the compliance category of each.
Recommended Service Bulletins often are accompanied by a Honeywell-financed special business program which addresses the labor and material specifics required in the bulletin. Optional bulletins may or may not have such a program. In either case, all recommended and Optional Service Bulletins and the associated business program, if any, applicable to a particular installation should be brought to the attention of potentially affected owner/operators when they next visit the service facility. As an Authorized Channel partner, this would be one of the courtesies you may wish to extend to our mutual customers.
Service bulletin modifications performed on an engine at a service facility must be recorded in the Engine Log Book. This required documentation is essential to properly track the specific components actually installed in a customer's engine. Incorporation of a service bulletin often results in an improved or modified part going into an engine or component which is identified by a different part number and which is installed and removed by following an amended procedure. The different part numbers and procedures are necessarily annotated in the IPC, MM/LMM, and OHM/HMM. It is therefore necessary that service facilities check the "pre" and "post" service bulletin incorporation notes as printed in these manuals when performing services on engine units to ensure the correct part and procedure is being followed.
SPARE PARTS BULLETINS
Spare Parts Bulletins are issued to inform our service facilities of basic part number changes; they serve as the authorization for facilities to incorporate a newly identified component into an engine unit. The changes specified in Spare Parts Bulletins apply only to the specific applications noted therein and are to be incorporated only after the service facility has depleted its stock of all of the original parts. Engine Log Book entries are not required when changes authorized by a Spare Parts Bulletin are incorporated into an engine unit.
GROUND EQUIPMENT MANUALS
Ground Equipment Manuals (GEMs) are prepared to provide instructions for maintaining ground support equipment developed for use when testing, adjusting, and troubleshooting the engine or engine components. Distribution of these manuals is normally made only to those facilities, which have purchased the support equipment covered by the GEM.
SPECIAL TOOL PAMPHLETS
Special tool pamphlets containing information relative to the use, storage and maintenance of complex special tools used in engine unit maintenance are often available. Distribution of these pamphlets is normally made only to those facilities, which have purchased the special tools covered by the pamphlet.
NEWS AND INFORMATION LETTERS
In addition to manuals, catalogs and service bulletins and pamphlets, other "nice to know" types of information are published in newsletter form and directed toward an identified audience. Our most common newsletters are the Service Information Letter (SIL), and an owner/operator oriented newsletter called "Contact".
Service Information Letters (SILs)
SILs are primarily issued by Customer Service Engineering Group to notify support personnel of improved maintenance techniques and procedures plus any other supplemental information, which may prove helpful when servicing our products. Service Information Letters have proven to be an expedient and efficient means of communicating important news to the field. SILs can be found in the Technical Publications on Service & Support, Support Center, Technical Publications or click here.
ILLUSTRATED TOOL AND TEST EQUIPMENT MANUAL
Special tools and test equipment items needed to perform maintenance actions on the engine and engine components are listed in the Illustrated Tool and Test Equipment Manual. The manual and location within the manual where usage is needed is identified for each item. Items which may be procured are illustrated with an accompanying description of the item. The company name and address of the manufacturer is included for all items.
DISTRIBUTION OF TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS
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Illinois Equal Rights Amendment Advocates Urge Ratification
The ERA needed 38 states to approve it, but only 35 did by a 1982 deadline. Illinois was not one of them. Some argue if enough states come through ratification is still viable.
Kari Tate is co-founder of a group that calls themselves the 'Resistor Sisterhood.' She said, "The ERA would give women an equal standing along with men - it's not just for women."
The amendment would seek to end a legal distinction between the sexes - which could help men in areas like divorce and child custody agreements.
Tate says one of the most important factors is that it would also help women to secure equal pay. Opponents have long argued it would hurt women - making them eligible for a draft, for instance.
Tate explained that while Illinois already has language in its own Constitution similar to the ERA, "What it does, is it moves the conversation to the national level where it needs to be happening for other states that do not have the kind of protections that we do have."
Nevada ratified last year. Still, it's unclear what would happen if two more states do secure the votes for ratification, given the congressional deadline passed decades ago. | <urn:uuid:f046243f-a904-476a-811f-1e896e967c17> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nprillinois.org/equity-justice/2018-04-09/illinois-equal-rights-amendment-advocates-urge-ratification | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97473 | 251 | 2.125 | 2 |
Speech therapists must target a variety of phonology and articulation issues in therapy. Today we’ll talk about treating cluster reductions for the /s/ sound. The /s/ sound is found in a variety of combinations with other letters, called “blends.” Some /s/ words with a blend can include “spider” (the consonants blended together are s and p), “skate” (s and k) or “spoon” (s and p). When someone reduces the number of sounds in a blend, it is called cluster reduction. A child might have difficulty if you hear them saying “poon” for “spoon,” “sate” for “skate” or “pider” for “spider.” They might not be as tricky as teaching the /r/ sound, but clusters have their own treatment techniques in speech therapy. | <urn:uuid:2c34aed1-7670-4264-b7cf-4a35637bac80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.speechbuddy.com/blog/tag/s-clusters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965364 | 201 | 3.359375 | 3 |
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