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Kobe is the sixth largest city in Japan and is not that far from Osaka. The two cities are well-connected by train in just 30 minutes. I took the Hankyu Railway line from Osaka to Rokko Station. Many travel here just to taste the famed Kobe beef but the city has a scenic harbor and its own mountain which offers panoramic views across the region.
One of the popular attractions in Kobe is Mt. Rokko. If you purchase the Rokkosan Tourist Pass, you can enjoy more savings to cover the entire journey. From Hankyu Rokko Station, use exit 3 and look out for the bustop. Kobe City Bus Route 16 & 106 will take you to the base station for the Rokko Cable Shita Station, the most common and fastest way to ascend the mountainside.
Mt. Rokko Cable Car
Operated since 1932, the Rokko Cable Car will take you up to the Rokko Cable Sanjo Station in 10 minutes.
Located right next to Rokko Cable Sanjo Station, Tenran Observatory is the best spot for panoramic views from Mt. Rokko.
The biggest draw here is the million-dollar night views which are said to be one of the Three Great Night Views in the whole of Japan. Unfortunately, my time in Kobe doesn’t allow to visit Mt Rokko at night.
Rokko Sanjo Bus
You can catch the Rokko Sanjo Bus to the various attractions of Mt. Rokko.
Rokko Garden Terrace
The garden terrace is another spot for panoramic views of the city.
Designed by the architect Hiroshi Sanbuichi, this ticketed observatory is inspired by a mighty tree standing atop Mt. Rokko.
If you are looking for chinese food, this is the place you should be at.
Golden hour at Port of Kobe.
Shopping and entertianment district such as Kobe Harbourland is located at the waterfront of Kobe’s Port
Kobe Port Tower
Standing 108m tall, Kobe Port Tower is a landmark of the city. The shape of the tower is inspired by Tsuzumi (a Japanese drum). The observation deck has the best spot for an aerial view of the city.
Harborland Mosaic Ferris Wheel.
Hyōgo Prefecture Japan
By Train: Hankyu Rokko Station, JR Rokkomichi Station, Hanshin Mikage Station
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I think it's important to put the revelations that Iran halted its nuclear "program in 2003 primarily in response to international pressure" in the context of the broader trends in US-Iranian relations that Gareth Porter (among others) have reported on. Specifically, in 2003 we know that the Iranians attempted a diplomatic opening to the United States. Porter reported that in exchange for actually getting something, Iran was prepared to abandon its nuclear program in a hard-to-reverse way:
To meet the U.S. concern about an Iranian nuclear weapons program, the document offered to accept much tighter controls by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in exchange for "full access to peaceful nuclear technology." It proposed "full transparency for security [assurance] that there are no Iranian endeavors to develop or possess WMD" and "full cooperation with IAEA based on Iranian adoption of all relevant instruments (93+2 and all further IAEA protocols)."
There have been some efforts to discredit what Porter, Flynt Leverret, and others have said about this attempted opening, but the NIE's conclusions about Iran's nuclear program seem to strongly support it. With their secret enrichment activities exposed, the Iranian regime was reconsidering the utility of continuing such efforts in the face of international awareness and disapproval of them. The Bush administration then decided to squander this opportunity and focus on saber-rattling and dreams of regime change. But the thing about pressure is that you've got to be willing to take yes for an answer instead of just blundering around.
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Smoke continues to be an issue for Canadian residents today, March 31. Smoke is drifting across Canada from the Alberta fires, leading to dry throats, coughing, watery eyes, shortness of breath, and health dangers for some in the area. Here’s a look at where the smoke is in the country right now, the air quality forecast, and what to expect.
Here’s a map of the smoke as it is spreading in Canada and the current forecasts as provided by Firesmoke.ca. Click on the link to see the interactive smoke forecast.
On Friday, May 31, Environment Canada issued an air quality statement warning people with lung conditions, cardiovascular issues, children, and seniors to consider staying inside if they have breathing difficulties. Here’s the full statement written for Calgary:
Smoke from wildfires in northern Alberta is causing poor air quality and reducing visibility over much of the province this morning.
For central and southern regions, the thickest smoke is expected to move northwestwards today as the flow continues to shift to southeasterly. However, conditions may remain hazy into the weekend.
Individuals may experience symptoms such as increased coughing, throat irritation, headaches or shortness of breath. Children, seniors, and those with cardiovascular or lung disease, such as asthma, are especially at risk.
People with lung diseases, such as asthma and COPD, can be particularly sensitive to air pollution. They will generally experience more serious health effects at lower levels. Pollution can aggravate their diseases, leading to increased medication use, doctor and emergency room visits, and hospital visits.
Stay inside if you have breathing difficulties. Find an indoor place that’s cool and ventilated. Using an air conditioner that cools and filters air may help. If you open the windows you may let in more polluted air. If your home isn’t air-conditioned, consider going to a public place (library, shopping mall, recreation centre) that is air-conditioned.
For more information please visit Alberta Health Services at http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/news/air.aspx.
Visit http://www.airhealth.ca for information on how to reduce your health risk and your personal contribution to pollution levels, as well as for current and forecast AQHI values.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada.
According to the statement, the thickest smoke is moving northwest today and the flow is shifting southeasterly. Conditions are expected to stay hazy over the weekend.
It’s important to note that air quality statements weren’t just issued for Calgary today, but for many locations in Alberta. The shaded areas below are all the places in Alberta with an air quality statement today:
See the interactive map here. Click on any region to see the latest alert near you. Below is a list of every location with a link to where you can find your location’s air quality statement for May 31:
- Airdrie – Cochrane – Olds – Sundre
- Brooks – Strathmore – Vulcan
- Cardston – Fort Macleod – Magrath
- City of Calgary
- City of Edmonton – St. Albert – Sherwood Park
- Crowsnest Pass – Pincher Creek – Waterton Lakes Nat. Park
- Cypress Hills Provincial Park – Foremost
- Drayton Valley – Devon – Rimbey – Pigeon Lake
- Drumheller – Three Hills
- Fort Chipewyan – Wood Buffalo National Park
- Fort Saskatchewan – Vegreville – Redwater – Smoky Lake
- Grande Prairie – Beaverlodge – Valleyview
- Hanna – Coronation – Oyen
- High Level – Rainbow Lake – Fort Vermilion – Mackenzie Hwy
- Hinton – Grande Cache
- Jasper National Park
- Kananaskis – Canmore
- Leduc – Camrose – Wetaskiwin – Tofield
- Lethbridge – Taber – Milk River
- Lloydminster – Wainwright – Vermilion – Provost
- Medicine Hat – Bow Island – Suffield
- Nordegg – Forestry Trunk Road Highway 734
- Okotoks – High River – Claresholm
- Peace River – Fairview – High Prairie – Manning
- Red Deer – Ponoka – Innisfail – Stettler
- Rocky Mountain House – Caroline
- Slave Lake
- Spruce Grove – Morinville – Mayerthorpe – Evansburg
- Wabasca – Peerless Lake – Gift Lake – Cadotte Lake
- Westlock – Barrhead – Athabasca
In some locations yesterday, such as in Edmonton, the air quality jumped to 10+, which is a high-risk category, Edmonton Journal reported.
Unfortunately, the problem is still continuing today, CBC reported. People in southern Alberta are asked to stay indoors and keep their windows closed on Friday, May 31. An air quality index of 10+ is in place for Calgary, Airdrie and Red Deer.
The smoke is so bad it’s also extending into the United States.
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Freedom of speech is an individual’s right to articulate ideas without fear of retaliation. Academic freedom is a commitment that scholars are free to teach ideas that are unpopular without being targeted for repression. Joanne Berger-Sweeny will use examples from her tenure as President of Trinity College to explore the limitations of these principles and describe the challenges of putting them into practice. How can we ensure that these values, central to a college’s mission, are protected while recognizing that speech can have disparate impacts on members of our college communities? One takeaway is that college campuses are exactly where these issues, key to our democratic processes, should be deliberated.
Constitutional rights are not absolute. What are the limitations of speech? How do we balance freedom of speech while fostering diversity and inclusion? How does academic freedom intersect with issues of safety, particularly in the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville? Does requesting a “trigger warning” infringe on a faculty member’s right to academic freedom? College campuses are exactly where these issues that are key to our democratic processes should be deliberated.
Since 2014, Berger-Sweeney has served as the 22nd president of Trinity College (CT). During her tenure, she has completed a strategic plan emphasizing a transformational education and preparing for life after college; restructured the admissions processes with a focus on student excellence and access, and created the Bantam Network mentoring program for first-year students. She has also strengthened connections with Hartford with the Liberal Arts Action Lab and an Innovation Hub.
Before coming to Trinity, Berger-Sweeney was Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University and a faculty member at Wellesley College. She holds an M.P.H. in environmental health sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and a neurotoxicology Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.
Moderator: Tori Haring-Smith
Tori Haring-Smith taught English and theatre at Brown University for 16 years, was artistic director of the English-language theatre in Cairo, Egypt, and retired to Peterborough in 2017 after 12 years as president of Washington & Jefferson College. Since then, she has worked with Peterborough Players, Firelight Theatre, and the Monadnock Writers Group, among other activities.
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A.D.D. (Attention Deficit Disorder)
I remember when I was growing up; I had so much trouble in school. It wasn’t that I didn’t understand the subject matter, I did - It was my inability to retain some of the information and some of the time, I just could not focus on it. It was not through lack of trying either. I would cry about these things, usually after a good ass whipping (which always seem to help me focus better).
I felt like there was something wrong with me. I eventually got the gist of things, but it was as if I had to go around my elbow to get to my rear end to finally understand what was being taught to me.
I was in the last semester of 5th grade before long division hit me. Since then, I can do most problems in my head, without paper and pen. Poor Mrs. Rodocy. I am sure she was glad to see the back of me. For years I secretly thought she passed me just to get me out of her class.
I was in the 9th grade before it finally sunk in the difference between an adjective and an adverb. I still have problems with present, past tense, and present past tense. Funny. Most of my teachers said I would make a fantastic writer one day. Who would of thunk? They must have seen something in me I hadn’t yet found.
I was in my late teens, sitting in a doctor’s office, reading an article about Attention Deficit Disorder (A.D.D.). I had all the classic symptoms so, I told my doctor, “I think I have ADD.”
“No, you don’t,” he rebuffed. “For one thing, you’re female.”
Boy, I’m sure glad he noticed that about me with him being a doctor and all! “But I have experienced more than 80% of these things,” I continued.
“Even if you were, you’ve outgrown it by now," he insisted.
I didn’t think I outgrew anything. I really felt I just learned to compensate or taught myself a different way of reaching the same end result to a problem.
Two years later, the same doctor - I was sitting in his office reading an article, also about ADD. It said, “Recent studies have shown this learning disorder affects males and females, equally.”
I showed it to him. “You’ve outgrown it,” he said again.
A couple of years after that, same doctor again (You'd think I would have learned something), another article I was reading said, “Children never outgrow ADD. They train their brains to learn to do the same things a different way.” In other words, we can do the same as anyone else, we just do it differently (isn’t that what I just said?).
I showed him this article as well. He poked me in the tummy and said, “You’re gaining weight and getting fat.”
I threw the magazine down and said, “Thank God you've cleared that up for me. I was starting to think I was suffering anorexic nervosa because every time I looked in the mirror I saw a fat person staring back at me!”
Now we know why he has the “MD” after his name, right? Most people with ADD have high IQ’s and are over achievers. We excel once we put our minds to it. I love that I have ADD. I love what I can do with my brain; it's wonderful. So what that I cannot follow the directions on a box of jello, much less a recipe card. I can still cook though. I do it all from trial and error.
I even have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) secondary to my ADD, as most ADD’ers do. I do not like for certain foods to be touching. Wet foods cannot touch dry foods or cold foods cannot touch hot foods. It’s complicated. Numbers are my downfall. If KFC were to give me a seven piece hot wing instead of six, I’d make them take one back. It’s crazy. I know.
Just as the article explained, I’ve taught myself things by routine. I do things a certain way all the time so I do not forget things. Whenever I shower, I wash in a pattern so as not to forget the “important parts.” When I dress, I do the same. If I forget one thing, it totally screws me up. First my under-clothes, then my shirt, then my pants, socks, followed by shoes. That is the way it is for me.
Talking about getting messed up - When I first started on the morning shift (7-3), I woke up early, around 5:00 AM, to shower. It was a cold December morning too. I jumped in the shower hoping it would wake me up. Afterwards, I ran into the bedroom real quick, not sure if I were even awake or not, and quickly dressed.
I had to leave for work by 5:30 AM because it took me an hour to get there and I had to be on the clock at 6:30. I was falling to pieces as I was rushing out the door. I grabbed my purse, slung the front door open and headed out in a dash. Even though it was still dark, I could see my 84 year old neighbor riding his scooter by the front of the house. He was always up before the sun and puttering around.
He stopped dead in his tracks and stared at me, and then he waved and smiled real big. It was at this time I felt a terribly cold draft and looked down. I was in such a hurry to warm myself; I skipped my routine and went straight to my socks, then my shoes. Here I was standing on the front porch with a wet towel on my head and holding my purse. I was naked except for my shoes and socks. But, I was ready for work.
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Tom Ford – Everyone knows him and everyone loves him. The Texas-born fashion designer is known, among other things, for his men’s suits, shoes, clothes, accessories and perfumes. Since the nineties, he is one of the dominant designers worldwide. The award-winning designer is still shaping Gucci today. During his time as Gucci designer and creative director, he increased Gucci’s sales tenfold and saved the fashion brand from bankruptcy with his stunning designs. Ford made the nineties the decade of coolness and glamour. Here you can find everything about the history and the development of the label! Just like Balenciaga, Prada, Dior and Chanel, Tom Ford belongs to one of the most successful luxury labels in the world.
From Gucci and YSL to Tom Ford
His career as a fashion designer begins when he designs clothing for women for Gucci. Just two years later he is appointed Creative Director of Gucci and is responsible for the designs of fashion, accessories and fragrances. Later, he also served as Creative Director for Yves Saint Laurent Fashion and Beauty. After leaving the position of Vice Chairman at Gucci, he founded his own label has since designed men’s and women’s collections in apparel, accessories and fragrances.
Interesting facts about Tom Ford
Here you can find some facts about the star designer.
Fact 1 – Film producer and director
Tom Ford has founded his own film production company called “Fade to Black” and has directed several films. The film he produced “A Single Man” gets a lot of recognition and was also nominated for an Oscar.
Fact 2 – Author
In addition to film productions in which the successful designer has participated, he is also an author and has written and published several books in different categories. The most popular books written by him are called:
- Tom Ford 002
- The Verne Legacy
- Savile Row: The Masater Tailors of British Bespoke
- Macromedia Contibrute 3 : Content Management for Everyone
- Container Gradening Made Simple: Beginners Guide to Growing Healthy Vegetable & Herb Gardens
- The Perfect Compost Plan: Beginners Guide to Making Healthy Compost
Fact 3 – Bath addiction
Tom Ford takes a bath up to three times a day. When he is particularly stressed and wants to relax, he even bathes once every hour.
Fact 4 – Actually architect
After taking some art history courses at the University of New York, he changed his university and his major. He graduated in architecture from Parsons School of Design in New York.
Popular products and fashion
Esteemed fashion designer Tom Ford is best known for turning Gucci into a multi-billion dollar brand before leaving the company to start his own highly successful brand.
Garden of Eden of fragrances
Tom Ford has a huge selection of fragrances, to be exact exist over 100 perfumes for men and women. His fragrances are known for having a long-lasting effect. Popular women’s fragrances are : black orchid, Jasmine Musk, orchid soleil. In men’s fragrances, the most sought after are : noir extreme, grey vetiver, noir, noir anthracite. In addition, Tom Ford offers a wide range of unisex perfumes. The most sought after are: noir de noir, oud wood, amalifi, tobacco vanilla, lost cherry, costa azzurra, cafe rose. Not only fragrances for people are sold by Tom Ford. He also offers scented candles and room fragrances. As you can see, Tom Ford offers, through its numerous fragrances and scents for everyone the right scent.
Tom Ford Sunglasses Collection
In addition to the countless fragrances, the American designer also creates some accessories, including sunglasses for both men and women. The sunglasses, are available in a large number of variants, colors and shapes, so that for every face shape The glasses look not only stylish and elegant, but spice up as a statement piece of each of your outfits. All glasses are handmade in Italy, which can be attributed to the good quality and individuality of the glasses.
The most popular are these Tom Ford glasses:
- Henry sunglasses
- Withney sunglasses
- Gerrard sunglasses
- Ian-02 ft 0591/s 52n sunglasses
- Jennifer Sunglasses
- Jameson sunglasses
Angelina Jolie wears Tom Ford
The US actress and film director Angelina Jolie is also an enthusiastic wearer of Michael Kors sunglasses. In the picture she wears the “Whitney” glasses in black with golden details. The sunglasses are also available in brown, gold and blue. The frame is available in wide and narrow.
The famous Tom Ford suit
Ford clothing is also very prestigious. Besides shirts, ties and coats, the fashion designer also sells men’s suits. Special features of Tom Ford suits are that they have a modern and narrow cut. The suits with narrow waist and square shoulders are available in the following colors: Black, gray, light and dark blue, beige, brown and mauve. Accordingly, the suits can be worn in different walks of life, be it for daily use or for meetings, conventions and client meetings.
With Tom Ford Agent 007 feeling
Actor Daniel Craig wears some Tom Ford outfits in the movie “James Bond – Quantum of Solace”. Especially the black men’s suit, is very popular with viewers and wins Tom Ford a lot of buyers.
Tom Ford x Gucci iconic campaign
It is already known that Tom Ford, before starting his own fashion label, designed for Gucci and created some iconic collections. The Bamboo Gucci heels, which have a bamboo heel and leather straps that tie around the ankle, were part of it. Available were the heeled sandals in black, beige and pink.
Kylie Jenner in Tom Ford fur coat
US reality TV participant and entrepreneur Kylie Jenner is a loyal Tom Ford wearer. In her closet there are numerous products of the designer. Among others also jeans pants, dresses, pumps, heels and coats. In the picture below, which Kylie Jenner posted on her Instagram Story, the founder and owner of Kylie Cosmetics is posing in a coat designed by Tom Ford, which dates back to his Gucci designer days.
Tom Ford Beauty Products
On top of his other creations, Tom Ford offers a whole range of beauty products. Be it, eyeshadow palettes, foundation, lipstick, blush, contour palettes, shower gel or body spray. Many makeup gurus praise, the Tom Ford beauty products for their good quality and durability. The products can be blended well and achieve a more beautiful natural finish. In addition, the super light feel and the result is always satisfactory.
Hailey Bieber Tom Ford Shade & Illuminate contouring Palette
Even the famous model Hailey Bieber uses the Tom Ford Tom Ford Shade and Illuminate contouring palette in her daily make-up routine. She applies the product on her cheeks, forehead and chin to get a beautiful and natural tan on her face. She also applies the product on her eyelids to replace eye shadow.
Tom Ford bags
The New York fashion designer has a huge selection of bags to offer. From shoulder bags, belt bags, shoulder bags, clutches, mini bags to tote bags everything can be found. All bags are available in different sizes and colors. Currently you can find over 60 different bags in its assortment.
You can find the most famous bags here:
- Jennifer Bag
- 001 Bag
- Alix Hobo Bag
- Tara Crossbody Bag
- Bianca Bag
Legendary Tom Ford fashion show
During his time as a designer at Gucci, Tom Ford created some legendary pieces. His designs were, at the time, some of the sexiest designs ever. Models like Kate Moss, Carolyn Murphy, Naomi Campbell and Amber Valletta walked in this show. You want to become a model too? It’s best to start early and become a model at the age of 14 or 15.
Many pieces from the Tom Ford x Gucci collections are very revered to date. Especially among the Kardashians, the vintage one-of-a-kind pieces are very prevalent. Be it Kim Kardashian, who wears dresses, suits or even the infamous thong, or her little sister Kylie Jenner. But we already know that.
What is Tom Ford doing today?
Tom Ford was born in Austin, Texas in 1961. His full birth name is Caelyle Ford. Together with his family he spent his childhood, as well as youth in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Who owns Tom Ford?
Maurizio Gucci sold a 50% stake in the company in 1988 and eventually sold it outright to an investor from Bahrain in 1933. Gucci’s CEO at the time, Domenico De Sole, a renowned lawyer, initiated extensive restructuring measures together with Ford starting in 1994.
When was Tom Ford at Gucci?
Not only Gucci put his stamp on Tom Ford. In March 1999, Gucci entered into a partnership with the PPR Group and subsequently bought the Yves Saint Laurent brand.
How much does Tom Ford cost?
For signature fragrances, the price scale starts at 25 euros for 10 milliliters. However, Tom Ford is particularly known for its high-priced perfumes. Private blend variants cost up to 100 euros for the same quantity. A whole 700 euros can cost 250 ml of eau de parfum.
Where are Tom Ford glasses made?
The glasses are handmade in Italy from the highest quality materials.
More videos about Tom Ford
If you want to learn more videos about Tom Ford and the topics New York Fashion Week, perfumes and beauty, click here on the link.
Brands like Tom Ford: Chanel and Dior
Tom Ford is one of the most popular fashion brands in the world. Other top luxury brands are Chanel and Dior.
Chanel: cosmetics, fashion shows and jewelry
The French luxury fashion group is one of the most famous in the world. The luxury brand offers everything from clothing, accessories, perfume, skincare and makeup.
Dior: perfume, beauty and much more
Dior is also one of the world’s most famous fashion brands. Dior is especially known for its fashion, fragrances and make-up products.
Even more fashion brands and designers
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According to the Associated Press the number of military officers who left the Army due to misconduct has tripled in the past three years. Not only that, but the number of enlisted soldiers kicked out due to drugs, alcohol and other crimes has shot up from 5,600 in 2007 to more than 11,000 last year alone.
Many believe that character standards were relaxed during the massive Army personnel build up during the years leading up to 2010. This was done largely to keep up with the required troops in Iran and Afghanistan.
During these wars, the Army grew to about 570,000 soldiers and now has a massive goal to cut this number to 490,000 by 2015. ?When such massive reductions are taking place, it?s easier to be less tolerant to character issues as during a time that you need boots to fill for deployments? according to Larry Fowler, USMilitary.com. ?When the personnel requirements from the previous wars begins to shrink, commanders can be much more selective about who is kicked out and who is allowed to stay.?
General Ray Odierno, the Army?s highest ranking officer, said that, ?I wouldn?t say lack of character was tolerated in war, but the fact of the last 10 or 12 years of repeated deployments, of the high op-tempo ? we might have lost focus on this issue.?
As a result, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel are now calling ethics a priority and attempting to hold military leaders accountable. Such actions include launching initiatives aimed at identifying and dealing with problematic service members.
In 2010, reportedly 119 Army officers were forced to leave the Army due to misconduct compared to a staggering 387 in 2013.
All to say, with reduced quotas for military personnel combined with continued military budget cuts, watch for military enlistment requirements to get tougher and more restrictive.
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The proposed rollout of a national goods and services tax could make small cars and mini sports utility vehicles (SUVs) cheaper, as a government panel has suggested a GST rate of 18 per cent.
This is much lower for compact cars, where consumers pay 24 per cent at present. A six-seven per cent reduction would mean direct saving of Rs 15,000-45,000 on cars and SUVs, if companies were to pass on the full benefit at current prices.
Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai would make the largest gain, as both have a large portfolio of products in the below-four metre segment. Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Motors, Volkswagen, Ford and Renault have also made product launches in this segment.
R C Bhargava, chairman, Maruti Suzuki India, said: “I am yet to come across a single person who does not want GST to be implemented. I hope the Bill gets passed during the monsoon session (of Parliament). Everybody wants a lower tax rate and so do I.”
A section of the automotive industry wants a uniform tax rate under GST, instead of a dual structure. While small cars will enjoy 18 per cent, a 40 per cent rate is expected to be slapped on bigger ones.
“We believe demand could shift towards compact sedans and SUVs due to the pricing advantage,” said a Kotak Institutional Equities report. “We reckon an 18 per cent GST rate is unlikely for mid-sized and large cars, as it would lead to a 16-20 per cent reduction in vehicle prices, leading to higher customer preference for large vehicles as compared to small cars, which the government has not encouraged in the past.”
Honda and Toyota do not have significant exposure to the sub-four metre segment and unlike their peers are voicing displeasure over any dual tax structure for the industry. Prices of mid-size cars/SUVs such as the Honda City and Hyundai Creta are likely to increase by six per cent, while prices of large SUVs will remain largely unchanged, assuming a 40 per cent GST rate for these segments.
Shekhar Viswanathan, vice-chairman, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, said: “There should be one tax rate for everyone. The current excise rate is administered on the length of the vehicle and engine, leading to arguments that engine capacity drives emission. Any tax structure should be based on emission and not the length or engine. This discrimination against big cars should stop. What they need to look at in cars is whether it is emission friendly or not.”
Touted as one of the biggest taxation reforms in India, GST will lead to consolidation of multiple indirect taxes such as central excise, service tax and value-added tax (VAT), as well as other levies such as the National Calamity Contingent Duty, automobile cess, entry tax and octroi.
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Ask two Israelis a question on any subject, and you’ll hear six opinions (nine during election season) and probably start a brawl. And even on Kosovo, a topic you wouldn’t think Israelis could disagree about, they are managing to squabble, revealing a peculiar ambivalence about this black-and-white issue.
American Jews have uniformly greeted the Serbian brutality in Kosovo with outrage. They identified with the displaced Kosovars, comparing them to the Jews of the Holocaust. They commended NATO for bombing quickly rather than ignoring the brutality as Allied leaders did during the Holocaust. One Jewish organization ran newspaper ads depicting trainloads of bedraggled Kosovars, an echo of Nazi concentration camp trains. American Jews poured cash into half a dozen relief funds established by national Jewish groups, and at least two Jewish agencies sent relief teams to the Balkans.
Israeli Jews’ reaction to Kosovo has been equally intense but much more complicated. Like American Jews, most Israeli Jews view Kosovo as a reminder of the Holocaust and feel a special obligation to aid Kosovars. Israel has done more for Kosovar relief than any other non-NATO country (as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu never hesitates to note). Israel sent a field hospital and 80 doctors to Macedonia and welcomed 112 Kosovar refugees, offering them permanent residence. Israelis also mobbed a huge Kosovo benefit concert.
But beneath Israelis’ sympathy for Kosovars lurk more perplexing reactions that illuminate the anxieties of a state where a beleaguered ethnic minority seeks independence, the byzantine nature of Israeli electoral politics, and the enduring weight of the Holocaust in Israel–but not the weight you’d expect.
Israeli doubts about Kosovo begin with Israeli doubts about Palestinians. Palestinian newspapers and leaders have compared the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo to the Palestinian “nakba” of 1948, when thousands of Palestinians fled Israel and ended up in permanent refugee camps. (This analogy has been endorsed by the likes of the Economist, which called the flight of the Palestinians an unpunished ethnic cleansing.) Palestinians also claim that the West’s intervention to preserve Kosovar autonomy confirms their right to independence. “We will ask the international community to intervene to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and to expel the settlers from it,” said Ahmed Abdel Rahman, the Palestinian Authority’s Cabinet secretary, citing the Kosovo bombing as exemplar.
Most Israelis are merely irritated with this Palestinian claim, viewing it as an unseemly attempt to exploit the Kosovo crisis and as a faulty analogy. (An Arab invasion of Israel in 1948 prompted the Palestinian flight, not an Israeli invasion of Arab territory.) But Israel’s far right has taken the Palestinian claim seriously. The far right views Kosovo not as tragedy but as threat, “a dangerous precedent.” Some right-wing Knesset members have called for an end to the airstrikes: If the West intervenes on behalf of an independence-seeking ethnic minority in Kosovo, one asked, “couldn’t it happen here, too, in a different variation today or tomorrow?”
The Serbs only exacerbate Palestinian righteousness and Israeli right-wing paranoia by calling Kosovo Serbia’s “Jerusalem.” If Kosovo is Jerusalem, that means that either a) Israel’s hold on Jerusalem is unjustified, as Palestinians argue; or b) Serbia’s hold on Kosovo is justified, as a few fringe-right Israelis are now hinting.
Kosovo ambivalence has also become a pawn in next month’s Israeli election. The Israeli left has blasted Netanyahu for his languorous response to the humanitarian crisis: He took several days to decide that Israel would help refugees and several more days to announce support for bombing.
B ut Netanyahu and his allies, particularly hawkish Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon, are using Kosovo more cleverly. Early in the bombing, Sharon warned that an independent Kosovo could become the heart of a “Greater Albania” that would be a staging ground for Muslim terrorism. Netanyahu quickly disavowed Sharon’s remarks, but Sharon had scored points with the far right, where anti-Muslim sentiment abounds. Israeli media have been full of unsubstantiated reports that the Kosovo Liberation Army is funded by Iran, Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden, and Hezbollah. Calls to Israel’s far-right talk radio station have demanded that Israel send its Muslim Kosovar refugees to Iran or Saudi Arabia.
Sharon has especially exploited Kosovo to court Israel’s 1 million new Russian immigrants, whose votes are expected to decide the election’s outcome. Sharon has visited Russia three times in the past few months, including once in the midst of the Kosovo bombing. Sharon eagerly sucked up to Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, implicitly condemning the NATO bombing during his most recent trip. Russian Israelis are not especially pro-Serb, but they definitely want close ties with Russia. So, Sharon is using Kosovo to butter up Russia. That, in turn, could swing Russian voters.
The final and most beguiling aspect of Israel’s Kosovo ambivalence is Holocaust remembrance but of a different sort. There is lingering Israeli sympathy for Serbia rooted in Serbs’ supposedly admirable behavior during the Holocaust. The premise: 1) Serbs welcomed Jews into their anti-Nazi guerilla groups; 2) individual Serbs bravely sheltered Jews from the Nazis; 3) Serbs fought the Nazis harder than anyone; and 4) both Serbs and Jews were victimized by brutal Croats and Bosnian Muslims.
During the past decade, Serbia has taken advantage of this version of its World War II history to make common cause with Israel. In the late ‘80s, with the blessing of Slobodan Milosevic, a group of Serbs organized the Serbian Jewish Friendship Society, which has propagandized endlessly about Serbia’s Holocaust decency. (Serbia also tried to ally with Israel over their shared enmity with Muslims.) Serb and Israeli cities made themselves sister cities. When Iraq was shooting missiles into Israel during the Gulf War, a delegation of Serbs traveled to Tel Aviv to show solidarity. There were rumors that Israel even supplied Serbia with arms.
This mythology of Serbian goodness paid off during Serbia’s Croatia and Bosnia wars. Israelis sided with the Serbs against the Croats, who had been truly monstrous toward Jews during the war. And even when it became clear that Serbs were slaughtering Bosnian Muslims, Israel was largely silent, and even occasionally sympathetic, about Serb misbehavior.
As it happens, Serbia’s treatment of the Jews was not as the Serbs have portrayed it. It’s true that Tito’s Communist Partisans welcomed Jews into their guerilla units, and it’s true that the Serbs were not as terrible as the Croats and Bosnians. But, 1) the Chetniks, who are the direct ancestors of today’s Serbian nationalists, were consistently and violently anti-Semitic. (The Chetniks also supported the Nazis for much of the war, and even turned over Jews to them.) 2) The Serbian collaborationist regime cooperated eagerly with the Nazis. 3) Serbia’s Jews fared much worse than most European Jews. Nazis exterminated more than 90 percent of Serbia’s 15,000 Jews, the women and children at a camp right outside Belgrade. Serbs did not resist or protest this slaughter.
Even so, vestigial sympathy for Serbs remains today in Israel (and, in a much more limited way, in the United States). Israel has seen a few small pro-Serb demonstrations during the Kosovo crisis, and Israeli media frequently refer to the Serbs’ decency during the Holocaust. Such expressions of solidarity, along with right-wing distaste for the NATO bombing, don’t begin to outweigh Israeli sympathy for Kosovars and outrage at Serbs. But God knows they’re more than Milosevic and his people deserve. | <urn:uuid:50717a3c-5fad-477c-b003-50bbbc6c957b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://slate.com/news-and-politics/1999/04/serbs-kosovars-israelis-palestinians.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957588 | 1,664 | 2.015625 | 2 |
What do you believe plays a more important role in the development of healthy children?
Eating healthy, exercising, playing in a social environment with other children, getting adequate sleep, drinking adequate amounts of water, family love, spiritual guidance
Receiving up to 72 Vaccinations from the age of 0-18?
If we stopped vaccinating children do you believe more children would die from:
complications of measles, mumps, rubella, influenza, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, etc…
Complications of cancer, obesity, type 2 diabetes, etc…
The point of this post is NOT to suggest we choose between creating healthy lifestyles for our children or vaccinating them. It is to prove that most parent’s BELIEFS (versus their ACTIONS) are not on the same page. We recognize how important lifestyle habits are to achieving better chances for healthier outcomes, yet place much greater emphasis on vaccination treatments.
Is it because vaccinations are fast and easy? We don’t bring children into this world to make our lives easier, so why are we choosing an easier path that doesn’t achieve the goal for healthier outcomes?
If parents are FORCED to vaccinate children to help them live “healthier lives”, why don’t we FORCE our parents to exercise them, feed them healthier diets and satisfy more important lifestyle habits required for healthier child development?
How sad is it to realize we don’t care enough about our children’s lives to make the hard decisions. Implementing healthy lifestyle habits into our children’s lives requires significant EFFORT. Vaccinating our children is basically EFFORTLESS.
Is it fair to our children to raise them with this ATTITUDE. Until we accept the realization that the vaccine needle doesn’t satisfy our entire responsibility as “concerned parents” with the health and vitality of our children, our negligence will continue to contribute to the increasing rates of disease our children face today.
This leaves us with three options:
Not to care and continue following the same destructive path so our children can develop and suffer impaired health (and loss of quality of life).
Feel overwhelmed, do nothing and therefore, follow the same destructive path so our children can develop and suffer impaired health (and loss of quality of life).
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If asked to list the reasons that protein and amino acids are important to include in our human diet, the most common associations are probably things like muscle building or body maintenance and repair. While this is very true, the amino acids that make up proteins have many important physiological roles in our bodies aside from structural ones. One of those non-structural roles that is incredibly important, is building neurotransmitters, the signals sent between neurons that keep our thoughts clear, our reactions reasonable, and our mood balanced.
How Do Amino Acids Work in the Brain?
While some neurotransmitters act as stimulants, creating excitement, sparking motor movement, promoting alertness, energy, and activity, other neurotransmitters are responsible for calming the nerves, promoting relaxation and peace in the body. Each type of neurotransmitter is made of a different combination of amino acids. When the necessary amino acids are deficient in the body, some neurotransmitters cannot be made in enough quantity to send the appropriate signals between neurons.
For example, serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine are well known to be important mood-regulating neurotransmitters, but they also promote healthy sleep, energy, and cognition and are even associated with pain relief. Tryptophan is converted to 5-HTP and then can be used to make serotonin . The catecholamine neurotransmitters dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine are all synthesized in a stepwise process, originating from the amino acid tyrosine . GABA, the calming neurotransmitter, known for its anxiolytic ability to quiet the nervous system, can only be made in the body from the breakdown of the neurotransmitter glutamate, which is a product of the amino acid glutamine .
Clearly, it is not only the quantity of amino acids we consume that is important to our brain health but also the variety and diversity of amino acids.
Which Amino Acids Support My Mood?
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common mental disorder that affects approximately 5–20% of the world population . That statistic is rather nonspecific because MDD can be difficult to diagnose, many people suffering do not self-report or reach out for support, and the causes of the disorder are not singular. We do know that when a person has been diagnosed with MDD, the typical first line of antidepressant treatment is a group of medications called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). SSRIs are also often prescribed for patients with anxiety disorders. Essentially, these drugs are focused on the availability of the neurotransmitter, serotonin. They work by slowing the breakdown of circulating serotonin, so as new serotonin is made, there will be more available at receptor sites for the communication of positive feelings.
Supplements do not manipulate the body in the same way drugs do, but we can take cues from how our body naturally produces serotonin to make sure we are providing it with the proper nutrients in sufficient quantities to support natural neurotransmitter production.
For example, a recent scientific study reported that a group of amino acids: valine, leucine, and isoleucine, were all found to be significantly decreased in patients with major depression . These aminos all use the same transport system to cross the blood-brain barrier as the other large neural amino acids (LNAAs; tyrosine, phenylalanine, threonine, methionine, and histidine) and the serotonin precursor tryptophan. The carrier protein that shuttles amino acids across the blood-brain barrier has a higher affinity to some aminos and is more likely to bind and carry leucine than tryptophan . The researchers suggested that competition among these amino acids for the carrier protein might mean that when we are consuming foods with a higher ratio of other LNAA, less tryptophan may be transported to the brain, causing a decrease in serotonin synthesis . Unfortunately, many foods that are known to be high in tryptophan are also high in other aminos, maintaining a ratio that does not favor tryptophan uptake by the brain. This study provides further evidence that we should pay careful attention to the types of, and balance between, the amino acids we are consuming from our diet. Supplements can help us maintain a balance not provided by the foods we eat.
While dietary supplements are never meant to treat diseases or disorders, the more we understand about the biological basis of disease, the better we can nourish our systems to protect ourselves from deficiencies or replenish our bodies when depleted. Nutritional deficiencies can manifest in a wide range of symptoms, some physical, some mental. When it comes to supporting a calm, positive mood, it follows that we should boost our diet with the amino acids that support the synthesis of neurotransmitters associated with feelings of calm and positivity.
- Strasser, Barbara, Johanna M. Gostner, and Dietmar Fuchs. “Mood, food, and cognition: role of tryptophan and serotonin.” Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care 19.1 (2016): 55-61.
- Friedman, Mendel, and Michael R. Gumbmann. “Dietary significance of D-amino acids.” Absorption and utilization of amino acids. CRC Press, 2018. 173-190.
- Woo, Hye‐In, et al. “Plasma amino acid profiling in major depressive disorder treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.” CNS neuroscience & therapeutics 21.5 (2015): 417-424.
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It has come to my attention that there are problems with the the temperature record in Asia.
At virtually the same time NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies was correcting historical climate data with the assistance of Climate Audit's Steve McIntyre, a British mathematician discovered serious flaws in papers used and cited by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its most recent Assessment Report.The errors are so glaring that one might conclude fraud was involved. Such a conclusion would be premature.
Douglas J. Keenan, a former Morgan Stanley arbitrageur and current independent mathematical researcher, identified "fabrications" in such studies that suggest a "marked lack of integrity in some important work on global warming that is relied upon by the IPCC" and that "the insignificance of urbanization effects on temperature measurements has not been established as reliably as the IPCC assessment report assumes."
There are links to the studies involved and other links at the above url.
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The Monopoly of Violence
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The yellow vest demonstrations in France were being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. The movie questions the legitimacy of the state's use of violence.
In this documentary, director David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens (including truck drivers, plumbers, lawyers, police-union officials, academics, social workers, journalists, stay-at-home moms) to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.
"MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE has universal relevance even while it is specifically French, dealing as it does with the indigenous gilets jaunes movement, while advancing a variety of analyses that deploy semiotics and critical theory with infectious gusto." (Artforum) | <urn:uuid:757a1292-d5c2-45d2-a0d9-382765bbe851> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stream.sooner.de/m/the-monopoly-of-violence/purchase | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.930363 | 169 | 2 | 2 |
Montalbano Elicona, Messina, Sicily, Italy
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Info. Montalbano Elicona, Messina, Sicily, Italy
Today we're in Montalbano Elicona on the island of Sicily in Italy. It's known for the very old castle at the top of the hill, as well as the charming medieval village below. The castle is believed to have been built in the 13th century by Frederick II of Swabia. He had many titles, including King of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor and even the King of Jerusalem, a name he claimed after conquering that city during the Sixth Crusade. The castle was originally designed as a fortress, but it also served as a summer home for Frederick and other rulers who followed him. | <urn:uuid:8606a440-57c1-454d-be5a-66c63a952a21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://peapix.com/bing/34594 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.981116 | 173 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Not too long ago the world’s manufacturers flocked to China to have their goods made because production costs were low and turnaround time was quick. [L1]
But data now shows that China has lost its pricing advantage and manufacturers — ever in quest of lower costs — moved their foreign operations to other, less expensive Asian venues such as Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia. [L1] [L3]
As China’s once pricing advantage slips away, foreign direct investment (FDI), which once flowed abundantly into the country, is now moving elsewhere, along with many apparel and textile operations that previously were based in China. [L4]
For the first time since 2009, (FDI) in China declined, falling 3.7 percent to US$111.7 billion for the year, according to the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. [L4]
At the same time, FDI in Thailand in 2012 increased by 63 percent, and rose from January through September by 27 percent in Indonesia. Similar increases were seen in other Southeast Asian countries. [L1]
As foreign investment shifts away from China, industries once operating in or near Chinese coastal cities are relocating to the country’s interior and western provinces.
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Waxworks Museum – Meet the Wax Celebrities of Ukraine
By now most people have heard of the ever-impressive collection of waxworks figures in Madame Tussauds – probably the most famous waxworks museum on the planet. However this legendary museum of wax figurines is certainly not the only such museum in the world, and there is a small waxworks museum in Ukraine which visitors to the country might be interested in visiting.
It isn’t very surprising to learn that the Ukraine Waxworks Museum is filled with Ukrainian and Russian characters who have influenced Ukrainian culture, sports and politics over the years. Here you will find excellent wax sculptures taking the likeness of Lenin, Stalin, Yaroslav the Wise and Kuchma. Pop stars, popular sporting heroes, actors and politicians are everywhere. And of course, no Ukrainian wax museum would be complete without a number of tributes to the legendary historical figures from Ukraine and Russia. The waxworks museum is continuously expanded and updated to provide visitors with an interesting tour of the museum each time they visit. It is also interesting to note that not all the life-like wax figures are Russian or Ukrainian. You can have your picture taken with a life-sized figure of Britney Spears (for example) – one that your friends back home won’t recognize as being from Madame Tussauds!
Unfortunately, many of the exhibits are in Ukrainian or Russian but you seldom need to read the text to understand who the legendary figure is. Many of the wax exhibits are not yet made entirely of wax and may have their inner frame made of metal while other items may be used to create a life-like effect. However, the use of pure-wax figures is increasing in the museum and will hopefully soon be a large part of the museum’s displays. The museum is located in the beautiful city of Kiev and you will find it at Pushkins’ka 11. It is open daily between 10:00 and 19:00 and visitors will be expected to pay a small entrance fee of 10 Hr for adults and 5 Hr for children (prices subject to change). So explore the history and culture of Ukraine in a fun and exciting new way by visiting The Waxworks Museum in Kiev. You wont regret it! | <urn:uuid:da524e08-e868-4aa4-912f-7aa6837dbd32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ukraine.com/attractions/museums/the-waxworks-museum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950385 | 461 | 1.609375 | 2 |
- 1 What are the notes to We Will Rock You?
- 2 What is the easiest rock song to play on piano?
- 3 What are the piano notes?
- 4 Who Sung We Will Rock You?
- 5 What is the tempo for We Will Rock You?
- 6 Who is the best rock keyboardist?
- 7 Can Piano be used in rock?
- 8 What are easy songs to play on the piano?
- 9 What rock songs have keyboard?
What are the notes to We Will Rock You?
We Will Rock You – Queen
- ^D-^E ^E ^E ^E ^E ^E ^E ^E. Buddy you’re a boy, make a big noise.
- ^E-^E ^E ^E ^E. Playin’ in the street.
- ^E-^D ^E ^D ^E ^A ^G ^G. Gonna be a big man some day.
- ^D ^E ^E ^E ^D ^E. You got mud on your face.
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What is the easiest rock song to play on piano?
Top 5 Easiest Rock Songs To Play On The Piano
- 1) “Let It Be” by the Beatles.
- 2) “Werewolves of London” by Warren Zevon.
- 3) “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
- 4) “Hey Jude” by the Beatles.
- 5) Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue.
- Are You Ready To Learn The Piano?
What are the piano notes?
There are seven natural notes on a piano: C, D, E, F, G, A, B. You’ll notice that the pattern of two black keys surrounded by three white keys then three black keys surrounded by four white keys repeats itself several times up the keyboard. The musical distance between these two notes is what’s known as an octave.
Who Sung We Will Rock You?
What is the tempo for We Will Rock You?
We Will Rock You (Fast) – Live is avery sadsong byQueenwith a tempo of 179 BPM.It can also be used half-time at90 BPM.
Who is the best rock keyboardist?
Top 10 Rock Keyboardists
- Al Kooper – Blood, Sweat, And Tears.
- Steve Winwood – Traffic.
- Rod Argent – The Zombies, Argent.
- Gregg Allman – Allman Brothers Band.
- Richard Wright – Pink Floyd.
- Jon Lord – Deep Purple.
- Rick Wakeman – Yes.
- Keith Emerson – ELP.
Can Piano be used in rock?
Rock Piano The piano is a powerful instrument that can easily handle each of the major components of a song – bass, rhythm, harmony, and melody – while also making the perfect accompaniment instrument. But as a part of a rock band, you probably won’t need all that power.
What are easy songs to play on the piano?
The 5 First & Easiest Songs You Should Learn on Piano
- 2.Twinkle Twinkle Little Star/The Alphabet Song.
- Happy Birthday to You.
- Heart & Soul.
- Fur Elise.
What rock songs have keyboard?
Here are our top picks of iconic keyboard riffs that have lead the way!
- Journey “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)”
- Europe “The Final Countdown”
- Emerson, Lake and Palmer “Fanfare For The Common Man”
- Prince “1999”
- Van Halen “Jump”
- Boston “Foreplay/Long Time”
- Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
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Truckers progressively make use of personal GPS tools to get path directions, yet this threatens for fleets of business trucks. General practitioner devices for vehicles don’t constantly recognize truck-restricted courses, or paths with constraints on weight, elevation, or automobile type. In addition, they often do not offer detailed maps that properly reflect the precise place of a certain restaurant or gasoline station. In short, these general practitioners devices do not do the job that truck general practitioner does.
NavionTruck Truck Navigation is a GPS navigation app that makes use of the most up to date technology, including GPS technology and also many novelties of innovative navigation. It features road indicators, alternative routes, route optimization, comprehensive leave information, as well as search by collaborates. It’s available for both Android and also Apple tools. With its innovative features, NavionTruck is a great alternative for chauffeurs that need assistance as well as want to get on the roadway in a snap. The software application consists of a comprehensive data base of road indications, as well as also consists of roadside support.
Some systems have larger screens, so you can see them quickly on your dashboard. They’re likewise easier to utilize if you put on gloves. Some designs consist of 3D mapping and detailed street maps. You can also get turn-by-turn directions that show which lane you need to remain in throughout a complex interchange. Additionally, numerous devices have Bluetooth to get in touch with cordless back-up electronic cameras. As a whole, vehicle navigating systems have lots of features and also advantages.
Advanced routing as well as route preparation alternatives can assist you stay clear of toll roads and also various other roadblocks. Advanced course planning also assists you stay clear of U-turns. You can also select the most proper turn for your lorry kind as well as rate. And also because it can reveal you real-time rates, a Garmin GPS system is very suggested. Nonetheless, its integrity is questioned and also its customer care reaction times are typically slow-moving. This implies that you should check the supplier’s warranty before buying.
A truck GPS can provide you useful information about the course to your location. These general practitioners tools offer details certain to a truck, such as weight as well as speed limitations, as well as also upkeep records. With truck general practitioners, you can track just how much gas you’ve spent, how much your tires have actually put on, and how many miles you have actually traveled. This is important information for a truck driver, as it can save them money and time by helping them find the shortest route to the location.
Custom-made directing is another advantage. The dezl OTR1000 has integrated Wi-Fi connection to connect you to the Net and various other tools. It additionally has Bluetooth cordless technology. Finally, the dezl application allows you access live website traffic, photoLive traffic cameras, as well as fuel prices. All this can be valuable in case of emergency situations or traffic congestion. As well as it doesn’t have to cost a lot of money. As well as the dezl application additionally provides notifications to guarantee that you stay up-to-date on present roadway conditions.
There are many kinds of truck-specific GPS systems, including those made particularly for vehicles. Numerous designs have progressed functions that make them much easier to make use of. For instance, some designs offer website traffic notifies, real-time climate updates, vehicle POIs, and also re-routing if you miss a turn. Some GPS devices use fleet-specific informs, such as high inclines as well as interstate. You can also customize your own routing system by using the software application.
If you need to locate a specific place on a map, a good truck navigating system will certainly show you the very best route. Most of these devices will certainly even give you real-time filling station locations and also fuel costs. You can also get instructions by changing to dual-orientation setting to get an accurate road map and also see the most effective course. Relying on the model you buy, these GPS units can also show you weight/border terminals and traveling facilities.
NavionTruck truck navigation is among one of the most extensive as well as sophisticated navigation systems on the marketplace today. It includes the most advanced advancements in GPS and also advanced navigating, such as alternate routes, roadway signs, roadside assistance, route optimization, as well as thorough exit info. You can also search for a particular area by works with. The application can also offer you instructions based upon your location. With many alternatives to choose from, you’ll find the excellent path and also reach your destination easily.
TomTom users can tailor the system for their truck’s elevation and size, and can also set up hazmat tons. Its large, bright, and also readable screen is simple to read even in bright sunlight. While many truckers like TomTom’s huge, user friendly interface, it’s likewise important to recognize where you’re driving in order to prevent getting into difficulty. If you have to drive in a particular city, a GPS unit for vehicle navigating can help you stay clear of trouble-prone locations, such as building zones.
Depending on how much money you intend to spend, a vehicle general practitioner device can be found in numerous price arrays. The most budget-friendly unit is around $150, but it comes with a tv and also few functions. For that rate range, a truck general practitioner unit with a five-inch display and also a durable placing system will fit your requirements. You can also select truck-specific functions such as gas mileage tracking and upkeep suggestions. It can be difficult to discover a GPS for a car if it has a small screen.
A GPS tool for truck navigating have to be able to change brightness. A good trucker general practitioners will immediately decrease brightness when the driving environment is dark, and also boost brightness when you’re in intense sunlight. Touchscreen display screens are a common feature on most vehicle general practitioner tools. The screen on a modern-day vehicle general practitioner can likewise be zoomed as well as also viewed in 3D. These are all attributes truckers require for browsing securely. Nonetheless, if you get on a tight spending plan, it’s worth it to buy a truck navigation device that offers these attributes. nawigacja dla ciężarówek
Along with these attributes, vehicles GPS tools can also help motorists prevent hazardous situations like reduced underpasses as well as various other sorts of road constraints. Along with stopping accidents from happening, truck general practitioner devices can likewise assist chauffeurs avoid paying significant penalties if they use restricted roads. With turn-by-turn business navigation, chauffeurs can remain on the best roadways, taking into account the size of their vehicle as well as any type of harmful materials in tow. If you’re adhering to a traditional navigation system, you’ll most likely experience the very same thing. And after you have actually gotten your vehicle to the right location, you’ll get on your means to your brand-new consumer’s door in no time at all. | <urn:uuid:acb53303-3e1c-4247-925f-26b4f513658f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gmmentertainment.com/2022/08/05/what-will-truck-navigation-be-like-in-the-next-50-years/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963965 | 1,483 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Burlington County Residents Urged to Destroy Spotted Lanternfly Egg Masses
Burlington County is looking for help in getting rid of and beating the bug.
The bug just just happens to be one of the most invasive insects around.
The spotted lanternfly is a planthopper which feeds on plant sap and can cause extensive damage to grapevines, maples, black walnut and so may other important plants.
Even though we are still in the icy grip of Old Man Winter, the spring season will be here before you know it. That's why officials in Burlignton County are calling on residents and asking for their help now, by beating the bugs and destroying their egg masses.
Here's how you can become a spotted lanternfly bug buster and all you need to help out is a scrapper, plastic zipper bags and alcohol or hand sanitizer. You'll also be helping the Burlington Country Parks System and Rutgers Cooperative Extension in helping remove the nasty egg masses from trees in County Parks and also neighborhoods in Burlington County.
The battle is on to remove these intrusive pests and plant eaters before real damage can be done. If you'd like to volunteer and become an bug buster you can sign up to help. You'll also get an official beat the bug plastic card which is used to remove spot lanternfly egg masses. You'll also get forms to fill out and record exactly where an egg mass is located for tracking purposes.
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In announcing a surprising new vaccine distribution plan Monday, Gov. Ned Lamont said Connecticut’s approach was designed with two factors in mind: speed and equity.
“Broadly speaking, these are our goals for vaccination,” Lamont said. “Get as many people vaccinated as we possibly can ... and complement that with equity, knowing full that our Black and brown population here in this state and around the country are twice as likely to suffer complications from an infection and half as likely to get vaccinated.”
But experts are divided on whether the new strategy will truly accomplish those goals — and particularly whether it will truly maximize equity. While state and hospital officials say this plan, which establishes priority groups almost strictly by age, will create a smoother, faster rollout, skeptics worry the new eligibility guidelines are not as inclusive as those the Lamont administration jettisoned.
“It’s really hard to see how we are addressing the exponential exposure and risk that people of color are facing in our state,” said Tekisha Everette, executive director of Health Equity Solutions and a member of the state’s vaccine allocation subgroup.
Under the old plan, frontline essential workers and people with underlying health conditions would have been the next groups eligible for vaccination. Under the current plan, people over age 55 will be eligible March 1, followed by people over age 45 on March 22, over age 35 on April 12 and over age 16 on May 3. The new plan also carves out special priority for educators.
State officials say the new strategy, which stands in opposition to guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is an acknowledgment of logistic realities.
“The CDC was obviously focused on the medical risks, the public health considerations for specific groups,” said Josh Geballe, the state’s chief operating officer. “They did not get into how you operationalize those recommendations.”
About 17% of Connecticut residents have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, which requires two shots. Thus far, Connecticut ranks among the states that have vaccinated the highest share of residents.
Hospital officials say that the state’s new guidelines are much clearer and easier to implement than the old guidelines, which would’ve tasked health providers with parsing CDC eligibility guidance and potentially overwhelmed medical practices with requests for doctor’s notes.
Jeffrey Flaks, the CEO of Hartford HealthCare, said Monday that age was “the most manageable criteria” for the health system.
Dr. Jim Cardon, Hartford HealthCare’s chief clinical integration officer, said implementation will be easier under an age-based system.
“The question is, how do you operationalize this thing to make this all make sense,” Cardon said. “There are some practicalities around it that I think the state is working with to try to do this in an organized fashion so we’re not stumbling into ourselves.”
Dr. Thomas Balcezak, Yale New Haven Health’s chief clinical officer, agreed but also noted that the simpler process likely won’t speed up vaccinations immediately. Right now, the bottleneck is not the process itself, but the number of doses that the state is receiving from the federal government.
“I don’t think we can speed up any more than we already are,” Balcezak said. “We’re going as fast as we need to, given how much vaccine we’re getting.”
When the state does receive more doses, Balcezak said, then the efficiency of the new rollout could pay some dividends.
Connecticut’s age-based rollout is slated to open to the general population by May 3 — months earlier than the original plan’s estimate that vaccinations would open to the general population in late summer or early fall.
But that much-quickened timeline is not due only to the simpler categorizations. The new timeline also accounts for considerably increased supply estimates from the federal government, which would have sped up the timeline no matter what process the state followed.
Geballe said the speedier timeline is mostly a result of the changing supply estimates — not the new rollout itself.
“When we put those initial estimates out, we had very little visibility into how vaccine delivery to the states was going to scale up over time,” Geballe said. More extended forecasting “gives us a lot more clarity and confidence about the vaccine supply that we should be able to count on that should enable us to work through the full population much quicker.”
Geballe said that the state did not run estimates of how quickly the old rollout plan could have been accomplished on the increased supply estimates. Because of that, it remains unclear how much faster the new rollout actually is, independent of the increased supply of vaccine doses.
But the ease of communicating and implementing the new rollout criteria — compared with the difficulty of the old rollout criteria — make a clear argument, he said.
“I think common sense indicates that it would be faster,” Geballe said.
In defending the age-based plan, Lamont administration officials point to data that shows the vast majority of COVID-19 deaths are older people. Of the more than 7,500 COVID-19-related deaths in Connecticut, approximately 93 percent are among those 60 and older.
“The people who are most at risk in the Black and brown community, it still correlates by age,” Geballe said. “So working backwards by age will most rapidly be able to provide access to everybody who’s most at risk for severe illness or death, regardless of race or ethnicity.”
In that way, Geballe said, the new approach will help all populations, including — if not specifically — low-income, Black and Latino residents.
State officials also argue that the ease of sorting by age will create more equal distribution of vaccine during the coming phases.
“When you’re talking about a complex process, for anything, who does that favor at the start?” said Max Reiss, a Lamont spokesperson. “It favors people with time, resources, technology, possibly connections, but definitely easy access to health care. So the more complex the process, the more likely that those that have all those things will find their way to the front of the line, and those who don’t have those things get left behind.”
Prioritizing essential workers and people with underlying conditions might have meant requiring confirmation from employers and doctors. Age, on the other hand, can be verified quickly and easily.
Monika Lopez-Anuarbe, a professor of economics at Connecticut College with a focus on health equity, said that argument makes sense in theory — but she disagreed that the correct conclusion was to forgo the complex process entirely.
“The theoretical part does say that the health care system has all of these asymmetries and barriers,” Lopez-Anuarbe said. “But that doesn’t mean that we should give up. ... You can’t just say, ‘It’s too complicated, and we can’t do it.’”
State officials have said they’re committed to equity within the eligibility phases, including by setting vaccination targets for high-risk communities, rolling out mobile clinics and supplementing outreach through methods such as reverse-911 calls.
But as Reiss acknowledged Wednesday, even if distribution among people aged 55 to 64 is more equitable under an age-based system, that group is likely whiter than a group including essential workers and people with underlying health conditions, who are disproportionately Black and Latino.
In fact, state data from 2019 shows the 55- to 64-year-old population to be considerably whiter than Connecticut’s general population.
Lopez-Anuarbe said she’s in favor of a simpler process, so long as there’s still an acknowledgement that different groups of people have different risks. Not every 20-year-old is the same, Lopez-Anuarbe said; age is not the only factor.
“I am proud ... that we are learning and applying what we’re learning at a faster rate than other states. We’re not perfect, but at least it’s not an inflexible system,” she said. But “it’s just not enough from an equity point of view.”
Everette, of Health Equity Solutions, called Lamont’s new strategy “disheartening.” In her view, an equitable plan would prioritize people with underlying conditions and also target particular geographic areas.
A geographic approach, she said, would be both equitable and efficient, without the need for a complex verification process.
“Find the spaces where things are the worst, where people are vulnerable,” Everette said. “Target there and move your vaccine process outward.”
Everette said she and other members of the vaccine allocation subgroup were not consulted directly on Lamont’s new plan and that she learned of it only minutes before it was officially announced Monday afternoon. She said she hopes the governor will eventually change direction once again.
“I’m just hopeful that this redirection isn’t a final one,” she said, “and that if we find, which some of us think to be true, that this redirection is going to lead us to deeper and worse inequities that we’re able to pivot again and this time to something that will get us to health equity.”
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6th International Conference on Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, 11-14 December 2011, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Energy conservation is among society’s greatest challenges, and the built environment has a concentrated impact on our natural environment, economy, and health. Fundamental understandings of how energy is consumed, monitored, and controlled are key prerequisites for an energy conservation process. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of real-time energy monitors (RTM) to influence behavior change in residential consumers. A methodology for remote identification of load types along the electrical circuitry where they (load) are being consumed is also presented. The load type and status (on, off, standby) are determined both remotely and in a non-intrusive manner using Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Methods. A bottom-up approach to real-time energy monitoring by integrating virtual and physical domains to increase user awareness on where, when, how and why aspect of energy to make inform decisions regarding energy consumption, optimization and conservation is proposed. A virtual 3-D environment is developed to display actual space/zone/building real-time power consumption information and to allow users to easily locate equipment/loads that are in standby/inefficient and causing energy waste in the real/physical environment. The proposed system using wireless ZigBee based monitoring system is demonstrated via a prototype board virtually integrated with a real world test environment. The results establish a promising tool in this filed. | <urn:uuid:38580528-dfb3-4cb9-8730-ef3221cb8b0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/archengfacpub/46/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.904515 | 305 | 2.765625 | 3 |
A replica of the Charioteer of Delphi, one of the best-known statues surviving from Ancient Greece, was unveiled at the Metro station at Hamad International Airport (HIA) on Tuesday by Minister of Culture and Sports Lina Mendoni.
The Greek minister spoke of the statue’s discovery by French excavators in 1896, the year the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens.
“Many centuries later, the Charioteer becomes an ambassador of the friendship between Greece and Qatar,” she said.
She also highlighted the statue’s unique eyes, made of semi-precious stone and glass, providing a very vivid impression.
“We chose to offer the Charioteer to the people of Qatar at a time which marks the strengthening of relations between the two countries.”
Mendoni was then given a personal tour of Qatar’s new National Museum by the Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Museums, Ahmad Al-Namla, showing the country’s history from prehistoric times to the present day.
According to the ministry, a joint work group will be formed to discuss definite and immediate plans, including planning a Greece-Qatar Culture Year.
“We are moving forward in a substantial cooperation, which will have obvious results and an important imprint on the relations between the two countries. The people of Qatar show great interest in Greek Culture, both for our cultural heritage and for contemporary artistic creation,” Mendoni said.
As a first step, Greece will participate in the Doha International Book Fair in January 2022, and Qatar in the Thessaloniki International Book Fair in 2022. Other cultural events highlighting the visiting country will also be planned along the fairs’ sidelines.
In addition, the collaboration of the two countries will include translations of books between the two languages.
The Charioteer of Delphi, also known as Heniokhos (Ηνίοχος, the rein-holder), is considered one of the finest examples of ancient bronze sculptures.
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Federal Programs Information
The Plainview ISD Federal Programs Department is responsible for district-wide strategic and campus planning, managing all formula funding grants, evaluating the implementation of specific education programs and initiatives, and communicating results to the Texas Education Agency (TEA), the Plainview ISD Board of Trustees, Plainview ISD staff, and to the Plainview community. The department facilitates funding as authorized by the law to schools in support of programs and initiatives to improve student performance.
Federal or Title funding include:
- Title I, Part A (Improving Basic Programs) – Provides financial assistance to local education agencies and schools with high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards.
- Title I, Part C (Migrant) – Funds support high quality education programs for migratory children and helps ensure that migratory children who move among the states are not penalized in any manner by disparities among the states in curriculum, graduation requirements, or state academic content and student academic achievement standards.
- Title III, Part A (Bilingual/ESL) – Aims to ensure that English Learners (ELs) and immigrant students attain English proficiency and develop high levels of academic achievement in English and assists all ELs meet the same challenging State academic standards that all children are expected to meet.
- Title IV, Part A (Safe and Drug-Free) - The purpose of this part is to support programs that prevent violence in and around schools; that prevent the illegal use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs; that involve parents and communities; and that are coordinated with related Federal, State, school, and community efforts and resources to foster a safe and drug-free learning environment that supports student academic achievement.
- Title V, Part B (Rural & Low Income) - Provides rural districts with financial assistance for initiatives aimed at improving student achievement.
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Free Stigmatization in Society Essay Sample
Stigma is a term that emanated from the Greek society. It is based on the perception of an individual as based on their outward appearance. The concept was used in dealing with slaves and individuals who were described as immoral. The paper evaluates the concept of stigma in society and how various stigmatizations impact the treatment of others.
The adoption of the concept of stigma in the modern society relates to the labeling of individuals based on their physical characteristics. Beautiful people, for example, are believed to have a better personality than those considered ugly. A typical example is the concept of race, sex and classism, where individuals are identified based on their degree of belonging. In the presentation of stigma in society, an individual is defined based on possession of the desired traits. Objectification, which is the perception of people as mere objects, is a major impetus for stigmatization. Categories are established models which define the behavior of the subjects and proponents of stigmatization.
An illustration of stigmatized statuses is the issues of race in society among the black and white communities. The white people segregate the black people based on their skin color since they perceive them as less valuable. The objectification of black people results in stereotyping them as incompetent. The view on blacks as inferior beings is based on the idea that they are not members of white community. Despite the psychological research depicting black people as equals, any attempts by the blacks to assert equality are highly resented.
Furthermore, the initiatives to lobby and advocate the representational equity through affirmative action are usually opposed and considered trivial. Therefore, in the context of racism, physical features, such as skin color, influence the way black people are treated. Degradation and objectification of blacks as lesser, incompetent being leads to inequality in accessing opportunities. This basis also influences the interaction of these different races of people.
Gender stigmatization is a common phenomenon women face in our society. Women are objectified by the other “superior” gender and perceived as less valuable. Their ideologies and what they stand for is not considered credible. The sociologist Edwin Schur asserts that women are easily trivialized and considered as objects which can be traded in substitute for another. In addition, they are objects of victimization who are susceptible to violence and different forms of discrimination. He further argues that a woman’s opinion is considered generic and consulting one woman is the same as consulting all women.
Sexuality among women plays a crucial role in the stigmatization through sexual objectifications. For example, assumptions are made that all young women with large breasts have engaged in promiscuity. By association, this implies that the breast size is used to superficially label a woman’s sexual behavior. This form of sexual objectification results in hate crimes against the female gender, which implicitly leads to violence and discrimination against women. Generalization of women as the same and easily substitutable is a major hindrance to gender equality.
Another stigmatized group is represented by people with disabilities. They are often considered to be a burden to the society since they lack normal motor or mental competence. Neglect of people with disability by families throughout the American society is an indication of this trend. The government avoids responsibility while citizens also fault the disabled for their tough economic situation.
The social status of women as being contingent to association with men curtails their perception as independent thinkers. Another dimension of stigmatization of women is where they adapt to the societal stereotypes to avoid discrimination. Evidently, women deliberately try to make themselves look attractive to change the society’s perspective on them. They become cautious on how society sees them and begin looking at themselves in the context of social stereotypes.
Sexual orientation of people can also influence the way they are treated in society. Stigmatization of sexual minorities is a self-evident phenomenon in the American society. Gay people are often perceived as promiscuous and immoral. AIDS is frequently described as punishment for their “sins”. Individuals who possess characteristics perceived to be gay-like are usually assaulted.
Asian, African American and Latino communities are also among the main victims of violence and discrimination. The inability to distinguish these ethnic groups from each other results in a blanket enforcement of hate violence. The stereotype in this case is that these people are ignorant, rude and with criminal minds. The result of these beliefs is animosity and intolerance.
Stigmatization of poverty shapes how the disadvantaged are treated by others in society. Needy people are always considered to be a problem for society despite numerous differences that they may possess. The description of poor people implies that all of them share similar traits. The nature of language used to address them includes symbols of objectifications such as “them”, “those people”, generally perceived as lacking societally accepted cultural attributes. A lot of sympathy and is usually directed towards them with the view that they are people who need help. Their inferiority elicits a need to address the problem of the poor. This is based on the idea that they do not belong to the conventional social class.
Evidently, the biases that people have towards others in society greatly define how they treat them. Stigmatized individuals are perceived as lacking conventional societal values. They are expected to be generally incompetent and lack the acumen to act as other non-stigmatized ones. In addition, they are treated as a problem to society. Stigmatized people, especially those of different social classes or races, face unfair attitude on a daily basis. Those with disability are ignored or treated as burdens to both their families and government. As a result, issues pertaining stigmatized people are always considered non-issues or trivial ones. Affirmative action initiatives by the stigmatized groups only offer ceremonial attention but nothing is usually done. In addition, stigmatization results in the treatment of people as such that lack self-control. Perception and discrimination of women of color as being promiscuous due to their race is a clear example as wells as gay men.
In the context of their intellectual capacity, stigmatized people are described to possess low intelligence and therefore mostly affiliated to crime and deviance. These individuals are also believed to be either too brutal and savage or behaving as young children. Violence and assaults are inflicted on stigmatized groups, for example, due to common perception of them as deviants.The situation with black people in America who experience violent crimes is usually the result of their racial discrimination. Moreover, stereotyping of women as either virgins or prostitutes clearly shows the magnitude of the problem.
In the case of racial stigmatization, I would be very untrusting to the society as a whole. My perception and treatment of others would dynamically shift to more passive advocacy for equality. In case of racial discrimination, I would feel emotional isolation and always try to prove myself as a worthy equal human being. In extreme cases, this form of stigmatization would push the individual towards violence and deviance to overcome all these feelings. However, being in the situation, I would employ deliberate efforts to mitigate the hate imposed by seeking avenue of dialogue.
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Pt Jawaharlal Nehru’s Speech in Lok Sabha on the death of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, February 24, 1958)
MR. SPEAKER, SIR: It has fallen to my lot often to refer in this House to the death of a colleague or a great man. I have to perform that sad duty again today in regard to one who was with us a few days ago and who passed away rather suddenly, producing a sense of deep sorrow and grief not only to his colleagues in Parliament but to innumerable people all over the country.
It has become almost commonplace, when a prominent person passes away, to say that he is irreplaceable. That is often true; yet I believe that it is literally and absolutely true in regard to the passing away of Maulana Azad. We have had great men and we will have great men, but I do submit that the peculiar and special type of greatness which Maulana Azad represented is not likely to be reproduced in India or anywhere else.
I need not refer to his many qualities, his deep learning, his scholarship and his great oratory. He was a great writer. He was great in many ways. He combined in himself the greatness of the past with the greatness of the present. He always reminded me of the great men of several hundred years ago about whom I have read in history: the great men of the Renaissance, or in a later period, the encyclopaedists who preceded the French Revolution, men of intellect and men of action. He reminded also of what might be called the great quality of olden days—the graciousness, a certain courtesy or tolerance or patience which we sadly seek in the world today.
Even though we may seek to reach the moon, we do it with a lack of graciousness or of tolerance or of some things which have made life worth-while since life began. It was the strange and unique mixture of the good qualities of the past, the graciousness, the deep learning and toleration, and the urges of today which made Maulana Azad what he was.
Everyone knows that even in his early teens he was filled with the passion for freeing India and he turned towards ways even of violent revolution. Soon after he realized that violence was not the way which would gain results.
Maulana Azad was a very special representative in a high degree of the great composite culture which had gradually grown in India. He, in his own venue, in Delhi or in Bengal where he spent the greater part of his life, represented this synthesis of various cultures which had flowed in and lost themselves in the ocean of Indian life and humanity, affecting and changing them and being changed themselves by them. He came to represent more specially the culture of India as influenced by the cultures of the nations of Western Asia, namely, the Persian culture and the Arabic culture which have affected India for thousands of years. In that sense, I can hardly conceive of any other person who can replace him, because the age which produced him is past. A few of us have some faint idea of that age which is past.
Change is essential lest we should become rooted to some past habit. But I cannot help expressing a certain feeling of regret that with the bad, the good of the past days is also swept away and that good was eminently represented by Maulana Azad.
There is one curious error to the expression of which I have myself been guilty about Maulana Azad’s life and education. Even this morning the newspapers contained a resolution of the Government about Maulana Azad. It is stated that he went and studied at Al Azhar University. He did not do so! It is an extraordinary persistence of error. As I said, I myself thought so. Otherwise, I would have taken care to correct it in the Government resolution. The fact is that he did not study at Al Azhar University. Of course, he went to Cairo and he visited Al Azhar University. He studied elsewhere. He studied chiefly in Calcutta, in the Arabic schools as well as in other schools. He spent a number of years in Arabia. He was born there and he visited Egypt as he visited other countries of Western Asia.
We mourn today the passing of a great man, a man of luminous intelligence and mighty intellect with an amazing capacity to pierce through a problem to its core. The word “luminous” is perhaps the best word I can use about his mind. When we miss and when we part with such a companion, friend, colleague, comrade, leader and teacher, there is inevitably a tremendous void created in our life and activities. | <urn:uuid:25810d59-564b-4cc2-b8a3-c4bd7fea68d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iocus.org/our-inspiration-details/25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.986316 | 953 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Autumn has arrived, even if the changes here in the south are more subtle. The sun hits the earth at a different angle, the shadows are more noticeable and we have more time in darkness. Nature’s cycle is for the leaves to eventually find their vibrant attire and then fall from the tree. It is a period of change; a gentle reminder of the transience of things. Which for anyone suffering from an injury, it is great to ponder impermanence and know that “this too shall pass.”
Each of us brings our habits, physical patterning, and emotional baggage with us on our day to day journey. So every injury has all of these components associated with it, in addition to the actual story of the injury. I watch my clients rack their brains for the exact moment and action that created the pain in their body. As if, by figuring this out, things would get right back on track. If you have to look that hard, it’s just life happening around our own beautiful, but real imbalances in our bodies. I often say, “It truly is the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
“People think that muscles move our bones around, but really the bones and muscles exist in one big fascial net,” explains Tom Myers, the author of Anatomy Trains. “Very often what’s going on with the hip is connected to what’s going on with the neck.” In other words, our bones are supported by our muscles but our muscles are also supported by our bones. The Dry Bones song, which many of us may remember from childhood, reminds us that ‘the thigh bone is connected to the back bone’ and this makes perfectly good sense. But the more essential meaning to take from this is that truly all our bones are interconnected from our head to our feet. Our alignment is important in our body’s efficiency, so our support systems don’t have to ‘hold on’ all the time.
How does bodywork help with these holding patterns? Exploring our old patterns is what creates freedom in the body. Bodywork requires you to breathe and receive, and be witness to where you are in your own body. Knowledgeable hands can find the overactive, busy muscles and sense where you could use more support. It can help open up space in those stuck spots, so that you can soften. The experience may offer you tools for you to shift from your habitual pattern. It can allow more freedom in your system so that you find more resilience to meet the demands of everyday life.
Nature is in a cycle of letting go. It’s a great time to check in with your body to see if there is any habit that you would like to let go of. In my own body, I can sense a very old pattern in my hip. Every time I try to let it go, I get a strong sense that I still need its protection. I hope that I can give it an experience that allows it to find the freedom that it needs to leave this old pattern behind. Maybe you too can let go of something, and find both more resilience and more softness in your body.
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Following is the text of an email interview with the Giftfile Project's John Belmonte conducted by Juraj Bednár in June and July, 2004. Edited and translated to Slovak, it was published as part of Juraj's article "Peer-to-peer Networks as You Don't Know Them", PC Revue, November, 2004.
Juraj: A friend comes to visit me while I listen to music. He likes it, so I give it to him. After becoming a fan, he donates money to the author to appreciate and reward his work. Is this what project Giftfile tries to achieve?
John: Yes, that is one scenario. There are many more. For example, a company might use a free software GUI library in their mobile phone product. Since the company's business relies on this free software, they want to encourage future development such as bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features. The giftfile system lets this happen in a straightforward way.
There is another interesting aspect. Instead of taking the money that has been allocated to her work, an author might pass it on towards other works. So in your example, perhaps the musician uses some free software in his studio for processing audio. He shares a portion of his income with the publisher of that software.
Juraj: Giving money is achieved using non-profit organizations. I can choose one to handle the transaction for me. If two authors I wish to support happen to use different organizations, do I have to make two initial transactions or is clearing among non-profit organizations possible?
John: As a supporter, you can allocate money to a giftfile even if the author uses a different nonprofit. In fact, we expect to see transactions across both geographic and currency boundaries. The nonprofits, called giftpools, will be responsible for the hard work of sending money across these boundaries. It won't be so bad, because the money waiting to be transferred from one giftpool to another can be aggregated, and possibly cancelled with a reciprocal amount. The giftpools will only exchange money when the amount is large enough to be transferred efficiently.
Juraj: How secure is giftfile? How do I make sure that I donate money to the author and not to someone else?
John: Within the domain it was designed for, the giftfile system is very secure. It uses PGP cryptography. Once you have an identity in the system, nobody can spoof that identity and make transactions on your behalf-- as long as your private key is kept safely. Beyond that, you must find a giftpool that you trust. Our organization, for example, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. In the United States, this is the type of nonprofit that operates under the strictest rules, and must disclose its financial information to the public.
Trusting that the publisher of a giftfile is the "real author" of the work, however, is an issue outside the scope of the system. Remember that, for works in the public domain or under nonproprietary license, the author has allowed anyone to sell her work for a profit. Let's think of some examples for a music track-- somebody might remix it, another person makes a compilation CD, another uses it in a video game, and another performs it with his own band. All of these are new works. If I give 25 cents to the remix author for his work, how should he share it with the original author? Oh, and I left out one important example-- a publisher might simply make the track available for download on the internet, without any changes. Is it ethical for him to accept money for the work? Consider that he might be paying a large bandwidth bill for serving the file. He might also have an arrangement with the author to share the income.
So for a given work, several people and organizations may have been involved in its production. There is no algorithm for how to share the money-- we can't automate it. Instead, we have to accept that the giftfile system is only a tool. It's up to the communities that use the tool to build a network of trust on top of it. As a hint, PGP enables many possibilities for modelling trust.
Juraj: How difficult is it to start such a non-profit organization? What is required (from technological point of view)?
John: A nonprofit is a business that must be accountable to the public, so it's a big responsibility. Like any business, it is difficult to start and maintain. I don't want to discourage anyone-- we are eager for other people, especially outside the United States, to take an interest in operating a giftpool. On the other hand, I don't want someone to enter that path thinking it will be easy.
Technically, running a giftpool will involve operating a server to conduct transactions. As part of the Giftfile Project, we've developed reference software for this. In addition, custom software might be required to interface the server to your corporate bank account, and to any services used to send and receive money. And for the brave people ready to build the second giftpool, be prepared to work with us in developing the intergiftpool protocol :-). Really, we are still working to get the first giftpool on its feet. I left out many details simply because I don't know them yet.
In addition to the formation of new organizations, we'd like to see a few existing nonprofits take on operation of a giftpool. Any nonprofit having a direct interest in the promotion of nonproprietary works would be a candidate.
Juraj: Do you think that giftfile—if successful—will enable users to donate money from portable devices (car players, mp3 and cd players)? For example donating to the authors of music I listen to most often.
John: That is certainly possible. You might not want to keep your private key on all those devices. Instead of making a transaction directly, it's easy to imagine that they store the information and later upload it to a local server. That server will manage the transactions and have access to your private key. Another possibility is to manage your account from a USB dongle device, which you simply plug into these players.
Using bootable live Linux CD's, we can already make video games that will play instantly on any PC. It's the free software community's answer to the Playstation or Xbox. Coming soon are open handheld game systems. In the spirit of the old 25 cent video game machines, I would love to be able to press a button and send some money to the game publisher every time I played. In fact, I am a video game developer too, so I have an interest in both sides of the coin.
Juraj: Do you think the record industry will be against this type of economy? How much value do you think they add to the "music product"? Will the industry suffer from Giftfile economies?
John: Since musicians make so little money the way things are now, it won't be very hard for them to see an improvement. Music fans are loyal and want to support their favorite artists. The giftfile system will be very efficient with their donations. Thinking beyond money, grab the nearest commercial CD and look at the copyright. It's not the author's, because he gave it up when he signed the record contract. Under the giftfile system, the author can keep his copyright or may choose to put the work in the public domain. Either sounds better than giving it to a rich industry that sues its own customers.
The record industry is in a difficult position. It's not due to "illegal" filesharing, but because they don't offer a usefulness in line with the percentage they take. If I'm a new musician who wants to become known around the world, I'll release a few outstanding tracks under a free license. Is it necessary for a record company to spend half a million dollars promoting me?
I should point out that we are not opposed to middlemen. The role of publisher is an essential one. In fact, publishers are the only entity directly represented on the producer side of the giftfile system. In many cases, the publisher and author are the same person. In other situations, however, we must rely on publishers to distribute income among the deserving parties.
Juraj: How far is the implementation from the actual working economy? When can we donate first money to the work we like?
John: The giftfile system implementation is fairly unique in that it is a nonproprietary system that deals with real money. We want to be very sure that it operates correctly and is secure and robust before deploying it for real use. It's hard to predict when we will reach that level of confidence. The more volunteer assistance we receive and donations we collect, the sooner it will happen.
In the meantime, our next milestone is to create a system that is real in every way, except that no actual money is transacted between the users and the giftpool. Think of it as a "play money" gift economy. Reaching this milestone is not just a matter of completing the protocol and server software, or implementing various clients. We'll depend on real users-- both the producers of nonproprietary works and their supporters-- to incorporate giftfiles into their daily computer use. Only through this level of cooperation can we discover and address the practical issues that will inevitably appear, allowing us to make the transition to real money.
Juraj: Thank you for your time.
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What is the difference in diegetic and nondiegetic sound, and what are their roles in the film? If you have the similar doubts revolving around your head, then it is a time to delve inside the following segments one after another.
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So, according to the Film Sound, the diegetic sound refers to the one of whom the source could be seen on the screen. In other words, it is a type of sound whose source is entailed and presented in the film. It basically includes the following:
Therefore, the diegetic sound is an originated sound that is pictured within the film. Along with this, you can say confront it as the actual sound of someone and something.
Additionally, the University of California Press discusses “The Effects of Diegetic and Nondiegetic Music on Viewers’ Interpretations of a Film Scene.”
After looking at the diegetic sound, it is the perfect time to look at the nondiegetic sound. For that, stay tuned to the segment till the end.
On the other hand, according to Sidmartin Bio, the nondiegetic sound refers to the one whose source could not be found on the screen. Moreover, the sound is not involved and presented in the movie.
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Holothuria leucospilota, commonly known as the black sea cucumber or black tarzan, is a species of marine invertebrate in the family Holothuriidae. It is placed in the subgenus Mertensiothuria making its full scientific name Holothuria (Mertensiothuria) leucospilota. It is the type species of the subgenus and is found on the seabed in shallow water in the Indo-Pacific.
Holothuria leucospilota is a medium-sized sea cucumber reaching a length of up to 40 centimetres (16 in) when relaxed but it can stretch to about a metre (yard) when extended. It is roughly cylindrical, tapering towards the posterior end. At the anterior end, there are twenty oral tentacles with branched tips. These surround the mouth which is on the under side of the body. The animal is soft and pliable and is covered with fleshy papillae. The usual colour is charcoal grey or reddish-black with pale grey tube feet on the underside but off the African coast it is described as being bright or dark brown with white patches which are larger towards the posterior end.
Holothuria leucospilota is found in shallow water along the east coast of Africa and in much of the Indo-Pacific region. It is a common species on the north east coast of Australia where it is found on reefs and rocky coasts, often partly concealed under a boulder.
A study done near Singapore found that Holothuria leucospilota was more common near boulders, corals and seaweed clumps than it was on the open seabed. It found that this species is relatively tolerant of changes in salinity and temperature and continued to thrive in the laboratory when these parameters were changed. Under the same conditions, the Japanese sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus) shrank in size, eviscerated, and died within three days. In Singapore, Apostichopus japonicus is consumed as food and is becoming increasingly rare as a result of overexploitation.
Holothuria leucospilota is a scavenger and when feeding it usually has its posterior end anchored underneath a rock or in a crevice so that it can contract back out of sight if disturbed. It feeds by using its tentacles to shovel organic debris lying on the seabed into its mouth. In the process it swallows a significant quantity of sand, which passes through the gut.
If threatened, Holothuria leucospilota can emit a mass of fine sticky Cuvierian tubules from its anus which ensnare the potential predator allowing the sea cucumber to escape. It can regenerate these tubules in fifteen to eighteen days.
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- "Black long sea cucumber". Fact sheet. Wild Singapore. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
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A few years ago I was researching reasons for non-performance–why most people get stuck and never realize their full potential. I came across a TED talk by Dr. Gay Hendricks. The focus of his talk was focused more on how people self-sabotage relationships due to an inability to cope with success. Whether a professional athlete who cannot win “the big game” or the serial dater who ruins a great relationship for fear of success. An interesting insight, worthy of exploration. I have taken some liberty with his model to make it work with my view of life and life at work.
In his thesis he describes 4 zones of behavior and/or skill. Picture a pyramid with 4 zones and the bottom zone is the largest and first zone. The first is the zone of incompetence things we do not do well because we are simply incompetent and have neither formal training nor a propensity for the behavior/skill. For me, that zone is HUGE. Fixing my computer, plumbing my house, repairing my TV, speaking foreign languages–all examples of things I cannot do well at all. The second zone in the pyramid is the zone of competence. These are the things we are capable of doing, but they are not differentiators for us–we don’t stand out. For example, I can change the oil in my car and figure out how to fix most minor electrical problems at home. However, it will take me 5-6 times longer than a professional and will typically require several modifications/attempts before getting it right. These are the things in life I can do, but somebody else can do them much better. The third zone is our zone of excellence. These are the behaviors/activities/skills that we do very well. I spend a lot of time writing for journals, speaking engagements and for fun. I am often encouraged to write more and am told I excel at writing. Expressing myself through written and/or spoken words could be a zone of excellence for me. The closer you get to the top of the pyramid, the more specific and more unique the behaviors and skills become to you. Many of you may not know I worked hard to get a Master’s degree in conducting while in Cincinnati working on another graduate degree. Why? I love music; I felt drawn to lead an orchestra of instruments and a choir of voices to experience the amazing synergy of hundreds of individuals turning black dots into a breathtaking synthesis of emotion, tempo, tone, dynamics all building toward a perfect crescendo of spent energy. Finally, at the top spot of the pyramid rests our fourth zone of genius. It is the smallest zone–only our most unique/natural/impactful behaviors and skills can fit into our genius.
Take Einstein for example–was his “genius” his genius, or was his genius his ability to utilize more of his brain to solve complex problems? I love one of his quotes, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” Each one of us has a very specific “genius” that is not described as much by an outcome, but rather a process. We can possess more than one genius, however, most people never discover their genius and most people spend the majority of their life in their zone of competence. Think of your workplace and of a person you admire for their genius. Unfortunately, in the workplace when a person discovers his/her genius we typically sabotage his/her success. We promote them into management! For some crazy reason many senior executives assume a technical/process genius would also make a great people manager and the reward for realizing and utilizing their genius is promotion to management-where they ultimately fail and experience a serious blow to their self-esteem. The fallacy is not understanding that when we work in our genius we are our happiest, our most productive and our most engaged. If leading and/or managing others is your genius, you will be affirmed for that genius. Most of us don’t need our manager to be the technical expert, the process pro and the person that gets it all done. We actually resent that manager. If you think about a manager you really admire, my hypothesis would be that you admire the manager for surrounding herself with genius that she does not possess. A great leader can identify genius in others and keep them growing in their genius. Great leaders know their zones of incompetence and competence and work diligently to fill those holes first. Consider American Idol–I cringe at the large number of “singers” who believe their genius is singing. Who lied to them? Rather than spending time honing and fine-tuning their real genius, they are wasting time chasing a “desired” genius they will never possess. Parents: never push your desired genius on your child–the rejection is painful!
I am often brought in to “coach” an at risk leader as the last chance corporate “parole officer.” Seriously, Ivy League talent promoted out of their technical genius into senior leader roles and failing miserably and mad as hell. Why? They drank the Kool-Aid and believed those who wrongly promoted them. They are mad at their subordinates for not seeing their new genius and recognizing their leadership excellence; after all, they received an executive MBA! They aren’t even considering that those they lead aren’t following because they do not believe in them as a leader. Most of these leaders are living in their zones of incompetence and competence and expecting the same results they achieved when in their genius. As Einstein said–if you judge this “fish” by its ability to climb the executive tree–it will resent it and live out its life believing that he/she is stupid and/or others are stupid.
So what is the takeaway? For me, it is to spend as much time as possible living in my zones of genius and excellence. To quit wasting my life living in the safe zone of competence. Do you want a job or do you want fulfillment, joy, impact and energy from work? Fear is the great paralyzer. Ask 2 to 3 of your closest friends what your genius is–that which is unique to you and you do extremely well. Take an inventory of time wasters–do they reside in your zones of incompetence and competence? Be courageous and identify your genius and take intentional steps to grow your genius. Stop taking your unhappiness out on others. Surround yourself with those who are geniuses in areas you are not; they will flourish with opportunity and you will stop striving to demonstrate genius where none exists. One of the things I love most about my community of friends is the collective genius! One of my longtime friends asked me yesterday if there was anything he could do to help me. I was hesitant to ask because for me the project was difficult, time consuming and required skills I did not possess. Finally, I revealed the project–his response “easy peazy”!! Relief flowed through my veins. When it is your genius–it is “easy peazy”–when it is your incompetence it is HUGE and overwhelming. I am still learning to lean on others and to practice what I teach. Recognizing the genius in others propels them toward an exceptional life. Denying the genius in others repels them resulting in resentment and frustration.
I can guarantee you a more engaged and effective workforce if you identify the genius of each employee and propel that genius toward the strategy and vision. I can also guarantee you that contentment with competence and promoting a person out of his/her genius will have a serious and negative impact upon the organization as a whole. Be courageous! | <urn:uuid:fe3062b9-52a7-4989-a16e-29e68f7c53ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newmeasures.com/finding-your-genius/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973509 | 1,587 | 1.507813 | 2 |
UCBC “ergathon” for Mind
Starting Saturday 16 November, UCBC will be swapping the water for dry land as they erg for 24 hours in order to raise money for the mental health charity Mind. Two ergs will be set up in Radcliffe Quad and members of UCBC, along with a number of other sports teams’ members and students, will keep them moving from 11am on Saturday, all through the night (moving indoors to Univ’s gym), until 11am on Sunday morning. Doors to the High will be opened up during the day to drum up more support from the public and UCBC hope as many members of Univ as possible will come down to support this tremendous and, of course, donate.
Further details can be found on the event’s Facebook page
Or donate directly at justgiving.com
1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem in any one year. Oxfordshire Mind helps over 20,000 people with mental health challenges every year. They promote good mental health through the provision of high quality services and campaigning for positive change. Their services include housing, talking therapies, benefits advice, a confidential and free information line, courses (such as ‘practical ways to wellbeing’), physical activity programmes, volunteering opportunities, and they facilitate over 60 peer-support groups each week.
Rowing Together for Healthy Minds was started in memory of René Zamudio, who rowed with Bristol Uni and Imperial College Boat Clubs. We want to support the RTHM Campaign to:
- Change the attitudes towards the stigma that exists surrounding mental health
- Encourage people, mostly students, to feel comfortable talking about mental health.
- Make it easier for people to identify and approach others who are suffering in silence
UCBC and the other fantastic volunteer “ergers” are aiming for donations totalling £2000 (2000m is the distance of a normal rowing machine test for rowers) – please donate now at justgiving.com
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Otoplasty & Protruding Ears
Ear Surgery (Otoplasty)
Ear surgery (otoplasty) is a type of facial cosmetic surgery performed on the ear to adjust the shape, position or proportion of the ear. Otoplasty is usually performed on larger ears to adjust their shape and size or set them closer to the head. This procedure can correct defects present at birth or treat injured ears. It also can be performed to perform scar removal. It may be beneficial to have ear surgery performed at a younger age before the patient is subject to ridicule or bullying.
Torn Earlobe Repair
Earlobes may become torn after extended wear of large or heavy earrings, due to facial injury and trauma at the site of the earlobe, or a variety of other reasons. Torn earlobe repair is a surgical procedure which entails creating an incision, removing damaged tissue, and then closed with sutures. The procedure can usually be done without sedation using only local anesthetic in approximately one hour. Risks from torn earlobe repair surgery are minimal. After the surgery, patients may experience redness and swelling, but most patients can typically resume (light) activities the same day as surgery and return to work the following day.
Gauged Earlobe Repair
Continual stretching, or gauging, of the earlobes may result in torn earlobes, keloid scarring, or permanent disfigurement of the earlobes. Earlobe dilation can be surgically repaired using local anesthetic, removal of excess earlobe material, and sutures to close the earlobe hole so it can heal similar to its original, natural state.
Similarly, torn earlobes due to stretching can be surgically repaired. Keloid scarring of the earlobe is also treatable through a variety of topical and surgical techniques, with treatment selection dependent on the extensiveness of scarring.
Otoplasty - Earlobe Reduction
When patients prevent with too-large earlobes, floppy or hanging skin on the earlobe, or if a facial surgery requires re-anchoring to the earlobe, then an earlobe reduction surgery may be in order.
Earlobe reduction surgery is generally fast, low-risk, and involves minimal downtime and scarring. Two methods for earlobe reduction include wedge reduction which involves removing a small area of earlobe tissue then closing the space with stitches. Another technique, peripheral margin reduction, which involves local anesthesia and removal of an outlined and agreed-up area of the lower earlobe, then using stitches to close the wound at a juncture that will have little visible scarring.
The method of earlobe reduction surgery used depends on the patient’s needs and desired outcomes. An individual assessment can help a patient choose the right option for them.
If a patient’s earlobes are showing signs of wear, stretching, aging, or lack of fullness, earlobe rejuvenation may be a fitting treatment. Earlobe rejuvenation includes dermal filler treatments such as Juvéderm® and Restylane® in order to increase tissue volume, strengthen skin and connective tissue, and encourage collagen production. By injecting fillers into the earlobe area, this procedure can reduce sagging and stretching, partially close stretched earring holes, and increase the youthfulness of the earlobe’s appearance.
Earlobe rejuvenations are generally fast, low-cost, low-risk procedures that are temporary. They can be completed in-office with little to no downtime and may last six months to two years.
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When your thoughts, feelings, and senses don’t line up with reality, you may be experiencing psychosis.
During an episode of psychosis, the things you think and feel seem real to you. You’re unable to tell they aren’t happening to anyone else and can’t be convinced otherwise.
Psychosis doesn’t mean you’re dangerous, but it may increase the chances of harm to yourself and others.
Treatment options are highly successful and can help you fully recover after experiencing psychosis symptoms.
Psychosis occurs when your mind can’t distinguish between what’s real and what isn’t.
The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) considers psychosis a symptom of a mental health condition, not a diagnosis itself.
The DSM-5 categorizes it under “schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders.”
Psychosis may cause you to feel, taste, smell, hear or touch things that aren’t really there. It may also cause you to believe thoughts or have emotions that go against proven fact.
For some people, psychosis also involves catatonic behavior and significant cognitive impairment. This is not always the case, though.
Three stages of an episode of psychosis are recognized:
- Prodrome phase. The early warning signs of psychosis appear. You may start experiencing changes in behaviors and thoughts.
- Acute phase. During the acute phase of psychosis, reality-altering changes are active. You may be experiencing hallucinations or delusions – or both.
- Recovery. The recovery phase of psychosis occurs when your symptoms improve. This is often after treatment or when an underlying cause of psychosis has been addressed.
Psychosis can have many unique presentations. What you experience during each phase may be different from what someone else experiences.
There are many instances in which symptoms of psychosis may appear:
- psychotic disorders
- brief psychotic disorder
- postpartum psychosis
- psychotic disorder due to another medical condition
- substance/medication-induced psychosis
- unspecified/other schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorder
Several other mental health conditions have psychosis as a primary symptom. These are called psychotic disorders and include conditions such as schizophrenia.
Brief psychotic disorder
This disorder is often caused by extreme stress and lasts less than a month. It often resolves after treatment and with a full recovery.
Among instances of brief psychotic disorder is postpartum psychosis. You may experience brief psychosis at any time in life, but when it occurs during the first 4 weeks after giving birth, doctors refer to it as postpartum psychosis. This is different from postpartum depression.
Psychotic disorder due to another medical condition
You may experience psychosis brought on by another medical condition or injury. For example, after you’ve severely hit your head.
Substance/medication-induced psychotic disorder
Psychosis may be the result of certain medications or drugs, such as ketamine or cocaine.
Unspecified/other schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorder
Doctors may use this diagnosis when psychosis symptoms are present but don’t meet the full criteria for any other disorder or mental health condition.
Symptoms of psychosis are typically organized into two main categories: positive and negative.
Positive symptoms are those that add to or distort usual functioning. These include:
- disorganized speech
- disorganized behavior
Negative symptoms are those that cause a loss of usual functioning and may include:
- withdrawn mood
- decreased motivation
- lack of emotional display
- decreased gestures
- lack of interest in other people, activities, or events
- personality changes
Other symptoms that may overlap with psychosis include:
- thoughts of suicide
- difficulty sleeping
- substance use
These symptoms, however, are not part of the formal criteria established by the DSM-5.
The exact cause of psychosis has not been yet established, though experts believe multiple factors are likely involved.
- hormonal changes in the brain
- traumatic events
- other mental health conditions
- physical injury or illness
- substance use
Most episodes of psychosis don’t happen suddenly. When you experience your first episode, chances are there have been a number of slow, subtle signs leading up to that event.
Many of these early warning signs can be difficult to separate from everyday stress responses. You may not realize you’ve had a change in thinking or behavior if you’re experiencing thoughts of altered reality.
Early warning signs of psychosis may include:
- significant changes in school or job performance
- feelings of unease or suspicion around people
- strong or absent emotions
- a decline in personal hygiene
- difficulty concentrating
- social withdrawal
- unusual, persistent thoughts/beliefs
- seeing, hearing, or feeling things that aren’t there
- confused or disorganized speech
Identifying these signs of psychosis early, especially during the first episode, can help you achieve the best recovery outcomes.
Psychosis often occurs as a symptom of other mental health conditions.
It can be a symptom of conditions such as:
- schizophreniform disorder
- schizoaffective disorder
- delusional disorder
In addition to psychotic disorders, psychosis may appear as a feature of other mental health conditions, including:
- bipolar disorder
- major depressive disorder
Two or more of the following psychosis symptoms are present for at least 6 months and have a significant impact on daily life:
- disorganized speech
- grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
- negative symptoms
This condition occurs when symptoms of psychosis are present for more than 1 month but less than 6 months.
In schizoaffective disorder, there are symptoms of psychosis but also symptoms of mood disorders.
Symptoms of psychosis revolve around delusions or intense beliefs that go against what is proven to be true or accurate.
In bipolar disorder, psychosis may present as more of a mood disturbance, as opposed to a thought disturbance.
Major depressive disorder
Major depression with psychotic features can present as hallucination or delusions often with negative depressive themes.
Psychosis is treatable. Depending on the type of psychosis, you may experience a full recovery.
Early treatment provides the best outcomes, and receiving care quickly can help reduce the chances symptoms will linger after treatment.
Left untreated, this condition may cause major disruptions in your routines and relationships.
Treatment for psychosis involves healthcare professionals who make up a coordinated specialty care (CSC) team.
When you experience a first-time psychosis episode, the CSC team will work with you to find a treatment routine involving:
- family support and education
- work assistance
- case management
In many cases, there’s no single cure for psychosis. Treatment can help resolve or manage symptoms based on the type of psychosis you’ve experienced.
Some episodes of psychosis may resolve quickly and completely, such as those caused by medications, drugs, injuries, or extreme stress.
Depending on the type, psychosis may return if underlying causes are not addressed or treatment stops.
Psychosis is a state where the mind can’t determine what’s real and what’s fantasy.
It can present in unique ways, but primarily involves hallucinations and delusions.
You may experience psychosis due to factors such as:
- underlying mental health conditions
- biological processes
The earlier treatment begins, the better your chances of a successful outcome after psychosis. A specialized team of medical experts will help develop a plan that works for you.
Sometimes psychosis may coincide with thoughts of self-harm.
If you need to reach out for help, please consider these resources:
- American Psychiatric Association’s Find a Psychiatrist tool
- American Psychological Association’s Find a Psychologist tool
- Asian Mental Health Collective’s therapist directory
- Association of Black Psychologists’ Find a Psychologist tool
- National Alliance on Mental Illness Helplines and Support Tools
National Institute of Mental Health’s Helpline Directory
- National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
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But have you figured out about USDA loans? These loans can be found to customers that are buying domiciles in areas that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) describes as “rural.” By having a USDA loan, it is possible to enjoy some awesome benefits.
What exactly are USDA Loans?
A USDA loan is actually home financing which can be insured because of the USDA. Often, you will see USDA Rural Housing Loans known as Rural Development Guaranteed Housing Loans. That title is in fact defunct, however they are nevertheless often used interchangeably.
In the event that you havent been aware of USDA loans so far, don’t let yourself be amazed. This system is not around provided that several other government-backed home loan programs, so a number of homebuyers are not conscious that they could have this program.
Advantages of USDA Loans
Some great benefits of USDA loans are similar to those of other loans that are government-insured. Considering that the USDA appears to their rear, loan providers are assured some amount of safety. This means more qualification that is flexible and much more affordable mortgages.
USDA housing loans come with one of these benefits:
No advance payment.
Affordable interest that is fixed.
Versatile credit certification.
More economical mortgage-insurance.
With a USDA housing loan, you can buy a property, make repairs or improvements to a home that is existing and on occasion even obtain a vacant great deal using the intent to construct.
The most size for houses being bought employing a USDA-backed loan is 2,000 square legs, and it also should be positioned in a eligible area.
USDA Loan Eligibility
For just one Family Housing Guaranteed loan through the USDA, it is important to meet up with the qualifications that are following
You truly must be lawfully be surviving in the usa.
You have to utilize the loan to purchase home which can be in a place that fits the USDA’s concept of “rural.”
You have to are categorized as the earnings limit when it comes to area since set because of the USDA.
You must not automatically assume that you’ll perhaps not be eligible for a USDA loan simply because you might be searching for a property that is not within the countryside. Any area which includes a population of 35,000 or less individuals satisfies the eligibility instructions.
So what can You Are Doing With a USDA Loan?
USDA rural housing loans are versatile. They’ve been most frequently utilized to acquire houses, nevertheless they may also being a refinance. A USDA loan may serve your needs as well if you are looking to purchase land.
We Are Able To Help You Apply for a USDA Loan
You may possibly have a significant few questions regarding USDA loans. Determining eligibility could be a bit more complex for those kinds of loans than it really is for FHA or VA loans because it may be difficult to understand if the area you need to buy in is regarded as “rural.”
Premier Lending Corp happens to be helping clients through the Florida to effectively make an application for USDA rural loans. We have been intimately acquainted with the USDA’s guidelines, and will assist you to see whether the house you desire to buy is in a qualified area or maybe maybe not. We are able to additionally check out finances to you to ascertain whether you qualify considering your revenue.
You could begin the applying procedure by calling us at 954-840-8811 today. We look ahead to arranging your assessment and walking you through the USDA loan process.
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[March 2014] When building or refurbishing a facility), it is important to select the right gear for the job. Whether microphones, consoles, or cable, there is a time to save money, but there is also a time to spend it wisely.
There were some studies a while back about the cost – in dollars and in labor – for various parts of a data network install.
First they found that the cost of the wire and cable itself amounted to only 3% of the cost of an install. On the other hand, installing the wire and cable accounted for 70% of the labor.
Now this begs the question, can you buy cable that takes less time to install?
The Wrong Choice
You know the answer.
At one time or another, you have put in that other cable. You know, the stuff that was super-cheap and looked OK. Or maybe it was all you had available on the shop floor.
But, when the install time started to stretch out to days or weeks more than you had allocated, you knew what you did wrong. Funny thing: your boss patted you on the back for all that money you saved him when you bought the cable. Nevertheless, I will bet that you did not mention how much it cost him to install it.
And what happened if the cable did not work? Then you were forced to pull it out and reinstall it. Now how much money did you save?
The Right Stuff
Of course, if someone came to you and said, “This cable is twice as fast to install, but will cost twice as much,” you would probably shake the salesman’s hand and send him on his way.
However, wait just a minute. Twice as expensive means 6% of the install cost, but half the labor nets 35% in savings. Using the more costly product would end up being a huge win for everyone. If the bosses actually looked at the big picture cost of the install, they would erect a gold statue to you in the parking lot.
And this is one of the secrets about Belden. We are not cheap. Oh, we do sometimes try and compete in the marketplace. But many designers, installers or system integrators know that cheap cable only gets you a headache. I am not saying ignore the price of the cable. I am saying put it in perspective. Look at the big picture.
Get Free Cable
If you are working in new territory, doing something you have never done before, then by all means ask us for a sample. We give away free samples all the time.
In fact, we have a Sample Room for Belden in Richmond, Indiana which stocks thousands of different part numbers. Now we do not always have every part number in stock – after all, we make over 6000 different kinds of wire and cable. But we do typically have the most popular numbers.
All you have to do is call Belden Customer Service, they will send you three feet of anything we have in the Sample Room.
When Three Feet is Not Enough
If you want a longer piece – to do some testing for instance – that is not a problem. You just would need to move up the food chain.
We have Product Line Managers for everything we make. We have Engineers who design the products and Specialists in the field (and in the factory) with whom you can discuss your needs. All we need is a good reason to send you some free cable.
If it is audio or video cable (or net working or broadband), you might end up with me. Or just use my email address below.
Of course, though, even I have a limit.
If you pass 1,000 feet, I definitely have to talk to some other folks (to get their opinions and permission), But if you have a good reason, it could easily happen.
How About Five Miles of Wire?
Once, I sent a customer 25,000 feet of cable for free. Yup! He had a very good reason.
He had made some boxes that claimed to send professional quality analog video (that dates it right there!) down five miles of Category 5 cable. All the work they had done was on short lengths and they really wanted to test a real five miles of cable.
So we sent them five miles of cable. In this case, we sent them every short reel that we could not sell. You know, that 350 foot length at the end of the run, sometimes called a “short length” or “short end.” It is perfectly good cable, just not our standard length. We actually do save them for just such situations.
The customer put on RJ-45’s by the hundreds and connected them all together. You could not ask for more of a “real world” test than that. They laid out the cable on a racetrack in Ohio – and it worked great!
Of course, our payback was the mention that the only cable that had actually tested was ours. I am sure we sold millions of feet of Category 5 because of this one test.
How About 11 Miles
And then there was the time I sent someone 60,000 feet of cable – free. (That is my current record for free cable).
It was at NAB about fifteen years ago or so. The NAB folks had decided to “build” a real operational TV station in the back of the central hall. Perhaps you remember this? The “station” did all the interviews and fed the cable systems of the local hotels. They even had a satellite channel.
All the gear was loaned or borrowed and was integrated by Sony SID (now sadly gone). They were new on the scene at the time, so this was as much an advertisement for the quality of their work as it was for Belden cable.
In fact, the back of the racks were fitted with Plexiglas doors and lights inside the cabinets, so you could see all the beautiful cable. We even had Velcro™ cable ties made with the Belden logo, so it was pretty obvious which company made the cable.
I am sure you can agree that 60,000 feet was the best advertising money I ever spent for Belden.
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If you exhibit at NAB or any other audio or video tradeshow, we still give away free cable to those exhibitors.
Now please do not ask for 60,000 feet. But a few hundred is doable. Just send me an email, and I will send you the “rules.”
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On July 17 I linked to an article on the Chinese trying out two-toned balls. I wrote, "This is a great idea - I've blogged in the past how silly it is that in such a spin-oriented sport, we have a ball where you can't see the spin, and suggested we use a soccer-colored one or something like that."
I don't know why they are calling them two-toned balls when the more accurate term is two-colored balls. So I'm going to call them two-colored balls. Personally, I'd like to see them try out soccer-colored balls (like the ones in this picture), or have a contest for "best design," with the soccer-colored balls an inspiration for designers.
However, there are pluses and minuses to using such a ball. Overall, I like the idea of both players and spectators better able to see spin in this spin-oriented Olympic sport. But there are downsides as well, the largest being how this would affect choppers. The only way to find out for sure how a two-color ball would affect the game is to try it out, as the Chinese are doing. I look forward to seeing the results. Here are what I see as the advantages and disadvantages of a two-color ball.
- Better appreciation of our sport by spectators. Few understand just how much spin is on the ball, and so have little appreciation for what's actually happening.
- More interesting for spectators. Colorful balls are more interesting than bland one-color ones. Kids will especially like more colorful balls.
- More rallies. Players will be more consistent in returning serves and getting into rallies.
- Better rallies. Players will make fewer errors in rallies from misreading spin.
- May hurt choppers. This, to me, is the biggest possible problem, and why I'd like to see some testing first to see just how much it would affect them. High-level choppers do rely on mixing up the spin to force mistakes, and two-colored balls might make that more difficult. However, it's hard to say how much, both because by the time the attacker reads the spin (especially no-spins) it might be too late, and because the chopper will also be able to better read the attacker's spin. But overall it's likely to hurt choppers at least some.
- Tradition. You shouldn't make changes in the sport unless there's a very good reason.
- Developed skills no longer needed. Established players may find some of their hard-earned skills in reading spin no longer needed so much.
- New skills needed. Players would have to develop the new skill of reading spin directly from watching the ball, something that can only be done to a small extent with the current one-color ball. I'm guessing this will have less effect than some may believe as by the time you read the spin directly off an incoming ball it's likely too late to adjust most strokes, except perhaps passive returns.
Comparison of Plastic ("Poly") and Celluloid Balls
Here's a report from the ITTF that compared plastic to celluloid balls. It's dated April 2013, based on testing from November, 2012. Keep in mind that the plastic balls since that time have improved, but this shows how much testing was done, and the info that ITTF had when it made the decision.
North American Cup on TV
One World Sports will broadcast the recent North American Championships next week. Here's the schedule, including the listing of providers.
July 2014 National Collegiate Table Tennis Association Newsletter
100-Day Countdown to Change in the ITTF's Presidency
Former USATT President Sheri Pittman Cioroslan is doing an article every day during the last 100 days of Adham Sharara's ITTF presidency, counting downwards from 100. Previous ones are linked from the USATT News page, as well as in my past blogs. Sixty down, 40 to go!
- Day 41: Attention to Detail, Organisational Skills Produce First Class Result
- Day 42: The Reliable Committee Man for Over Half a Century, Chérif Hajem
American Table Tennis Players of the Classic Age
Volume IV of this series is now out, by Dean Johnson and Tim Boggan. This one features Bernie Bukiet, Bobby Gusikoff, Erwin Klein, and Leah & Tybie Thall. Here are reviews of Volumes I-III. They are all on sale at Amazon: Vol. I, Vol. II, Vol. III, and Vol. IV.
Matt Winkler: Six-Time Arizona Champion
Unbelievable Point in Swedish League
Here's the video (32 sec). The attacker/chopper on the left is Fabian Åkerström. I believe the lobber/attacker on the right is Mattias Översjö.
Table Tennis: A Way of Life
Here's a nice table tennis highlights video (6:37), set to music.
Table Tennis in Space
Here's a cartoon on table tennis apparently played in a spaceship in zero G. With no gravity, you need topspin to pull the ball down!!!
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A 12-year-old girl has told of her role as a young carer for her autistic brother - as a children’s charity promotes a resources toolkit for Armed Forces’ families.
Grace, aged 12, is one of the many young people from a military family who acts as a carer for a loved one in the family – and one of more than 800,000 children and young people across the UK, some as young as five, who are caring for family members with additional needs.
She not only cares for her autistic brother Adam but also looks after her other brother Jacob to support her parents when they have other errands or responsibilities to take care of.
However, Grace is not fond of the term ‘carer’ herself, saying:
“I find the term to be very formal, almost as if referring to someone who’s in no way related to Adam.”
Grace also helps Adam with his homework, packed lunch and helps get him ready for school – but she does not think of herself as a carer, more just someone who loves her family and is willing to help out.
She is not yet a teenager but is already taking on responsibilities that would usually fall to an adult parent or guardian were it not for the demands of modern working family life, particularly in military families.
Grace spoke to Army&You magazine - the Army Families Federation's flagship publication - as it was revealed that data obtained in a study by The Children’s Society on young carers in the Armed Forces indicated that there are at least 512 young carers in military families, although this figure is thought to be underestimated.
Anyone under 18 who regularly helps care for a family member with an illness, additional need or disability, is considered to be a young carer.
Care can include a range of activities that support someone such as cooking, cleaning and helping someone wash and dress.
Anyone aged 16-25 will be considered an adult young carer.
Research suggests many children and young people do not think of themselves young carers, despite caring for a family member.
Grace, speaking to Army&You, said: “I’m just a sister trying to help my younger brother. Sure, it isn’t easy – and sometimes we fight like cat and dog – but it’s also a joy as he is so clever, funny and super talented.
“I’m not ashamed to say Adam has autism because we are family and I love him.”
The impact of caring
Caring can impact on general and mental health, education, life opportunities and social life, say those working with young carers.
Research suggests that young carers are more likely to be bullied in school and miss an average of 48 days of lessons each year.
Young adult carers are more likely not to be in education, employment or training.
For young carers in the Armed Forces community, there is an added impact of frequent moves, changes of school and long periods of separation from the serving parent.
Grace has experienced some negativity herself, saying: “When I was joining a new school, there were many questions and rude remarks from children about Adam and his autism.
“Overall, I’m not embarrassed to talk openly about his condition, he’s absolutely remarkable.”
The Children and Families Act details the rights of young carers and states that local authorities must assess whether a young carer requires support and identify their needs.
If under 18, young carers have a right to a carer’s assessment.
Support in schools
The Young Carers in Schools (YCiS) scheme is run jointly by The Children’s Society and Carers Trust and aims to make it easy for schools to identify and support their young carers, and be rewarded for good practice.
The Children’s Society provides tools, an e-newsletter, training for professionals and an award, while the Carers Trust’s step-by-step guide contains resources for leaders, teachers and non-teaching staff.
An important element of the YCiS scheme is that it encourages a whole-school approach, which ensures a supportive and non-stigmatising ethos.
Armed Forces young carers may struggle to tell their peers about their caring role, or the impact that having a serving family member has on them, so by encouraging this sort of atmosphere, a young person is more likely to seek help, say charities.
Grace said that she does not ask for support because she feels many people do not understand how to help or are not aware of disabilities such as autism.
She said: “I feel that many people only notice disabilities that can be recognised easily.
“If I needed support, I would probably ask my parents, find a group of people that know what it’s like, or talk to one girl I know at school who also has an autistic brother.”
One outcome of The Children’s Society’s report is the creation of a steering group for Armed Forces young carers, which will help identify and support their unique needs.
Specific resources and a toolkit are also under development.
Several initiatives have also been developed to support carers in the Armed Forces community.
Jill Baines, charity executive of Andover Young Carers in Hampshire, said: “When I arrived here, a lot of young carers with military connections were hidden, even if identified and supported by us or other organisations, links hadn’t been established with the Army Welfare Service (AWS) or veteran charities.
“We’ve had an initial meeting with AWS to raise awareness of our work, and we hope to increase access to our services. I’m designing some marketing materials to send to local schools with military children.”
Wiltshire and Suffolk also have specific ‘military families leads’ providing support, while NHS England has appointed a leadership support manager who oversees carers from armed forces communities.
A version of this article initially appeared in the latest edition of the Army&You magazine - the Army Families Federation's flagship publication.
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By Chioma Obinna
The World Health Organisation, WHO, and the United State Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, has expressed worry over increase in unvaccinated children saying that no fewer than 22 million infants missed their first dose of measles vaccines.
In a new report by the duo of WHO and US CDC, they noted that while reported measles cases have fallen compared to previous years, progress toward measles elimination continues to decline and the risk of outbreaks mounting.
The report noted that during 2020, more than 22 million infants missed their first dose of measles vaccine – 3 million more than in 2019, marking the largest increase in two decades and creating dangerous conditions for outbreaks to occur.
Compared with the previous year, reported measles cases decreased by more than 80 percent in 2020, the report added.
However, measles surveillance also deteriorated with the lowest number of specimens sent for laboratory testing in over a decade, weak measles monitoring, testing and reporting for measles jeopardise countries’ ability to prevent outbreaks of this highly infectious disease.
“Major measles outbreaks occurred in 26 countries and accounted for 84 percent of all reported cases in 2020,” the report noted.
MD, CDC’s Global Immunization Director, Kevin Cain said: “Large numbers of unvaccinated children, outbreaks of measles, and disease detection and diagnostics diverted to support COVID-19 responses are factors that increase the likelihood of measles-related deaths and serious complications in children.
“We must act now to strengthen disease surveillance systems and close immunity gaps, before travel and trade return to pre-pandemic levels, to prevent deadly measles outbreaks and mitigate the risk of other vaccine-preventable diseases.”
Cain said lower reported measles cases in 2020 must not mask the growing risk of measles to children worldwide.
The ability of countries to ensure children receive both recommended doses of measles vaccine is a key indicator of global progress toward measles elimination and capacity to prevent the spread of the virus. First-dose coverage fell in 2020, and only 70 percent of children received their second dose measles vaccine, well below the 95 percent coverage needed to protect communities from the spread of the measles virus.
Adding to the worsening of immunity gaps worldwide, 24 measles vaccination campaigns in 23 countries, originally planned for 2020, were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic – leaving more than 93 million people at risk for the disease.
These supplemental campaigns are needed where people have missed out on measles-containing vaccines through routine immunization programs.
The Director of WHO’s Department of Immunisation, Vaccines and Biologicals, Dr Kate O’Brien said: “While reported measles cases dropped in 2020, evidence suggests we are likely seeing the calm before the storm as the risk of outbreaks continues to grow around the world.
“It’s critical that countries vaccinate as quickly as possible against COVID-19, but this requires new resources so that it does not come at the cost of essential immunization programs.
Routine immunisation must be protected and strengthened; otherwise, we risk trading one deadly disease for another.”
Immunisation and surveillance systems must be strengthened to reduce growing measles risks.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruptions to immunization services and changes in health-seeking behaviors in many parts of the world.
While the measures used to mitigate COVID-19 – masking, handwashing, distancing – also reduce the spread of the measles virus, countries and global health partners must prioritize finding and vaccinating children against measles to reduce the risk of explosive outbreaks and preventable deaths from this disease.
Measles is one of the world’s most contagious human viruses but is almost entirely preventable through vaccination.
In the last 20 years, the measles vaccine is estimated to have averted more than 30 million deaths globally.
Estimated deaths from measles dropped from around 1,070,000 in 2000 to 60,700 in 2020.
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Your Kids Be Of “Good Character”?
At some point most parents think about the kind of person their child will grow up to be. This is different from what they may do for a living. This involves issues of integrity, honesty and caring for others. Will your child grow up to be of good character?
The answer to the question can be determined by examining parental behaviour from very early on. As parents nurture their children and act in their presence, they provide powerful lessons that will set the tone for what kind of adults their children will turn out to be.
Two key ingredients can go a long way to developing your child to be of good character:
1. Helping them to take responsibility for their actions;
2. Helping them to participate in doing good deeds.
When two-year-old Jacob spills his juice, the parent has several choices in how to respond. Jacob can be scolded; ignored; helped to clean up the mess or the parent can clean it up alone. Each response carries its own message to Jacob. Scolding is upsetting in itself and teaches Jacob to avoid getting caught. Ignoring suggests the spilled juice doesn’t matter and the behaviour can be repeated. The parent cleaning up for Jacob suggests Jacob has no responsibility what-so-ever for his actions and thus he can do as he pleases. Finally, the parent engaging Jacob in the cleaning process without scolding suggests there is a natural consequence to behaviour and he must assume some responsibility for restoring or repairing the situation.
When Jacob is four-years-of-age and he aggressively takes a toy from another child, again the parent has choices in how to respond. However, if the parent explains to Jacob how he hurt the other child’s feelings, has him apologize, return the toy and then negotiate sharing, Jacob learns the impact of his behaviour on others, restitution and then negotiation.
Based upon these experiences, when six-year-old Jacob breaks a window playing ball, you have increased the likelihood that Jacob will return to you on his own to report the accident and seek your help to clean the mess and correct the situation. He will have learned that you are caring, reasonable and responsible and he will be following the behaviour you modeled and taught him. He will act less with a concern of punishment and fear and more with a concern for caring and responsibility.
To further their children’s good character, parents are advised to encourage their children to join them in practicing “good deeds”. A good deed is when someone does something for someone else without being asked or without expecting anything in return. We teach children about good deeds by their observing our good deeds. We also teach about good deeds when we ask our children to help out, with only providing our thanks in return. Our thanks can of course include expressions of affection!
Through good deeds, children learn that the world doesn’t just revolve around them, but includes other who may benefit from our help. At first the reward may come from our praise, but as the child ages, they learn to derive satisfaction themselves from helping others. Children can help clear the table, help the neighbour with the yard, share a toy and join us when we do our volunteer work.
Being of good character doesn’t need to happen by chance. Parental behaviour that encourages children to take responsibility for their actions, correct situations and practice good deeds can go a long way to assuring kids grow up to be of good character.
Direnfeld, MSW, RSW
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Marcy Morrison had no interest in allowing legal cannabis sales in Manitou Springs after Colorado moved to legalize recreational weed in 2012.
Morrison, 83, who served as mayor of the town of 5,000 from 2001-2007 and later was in the Chamber of Commerce was staunchly opposed to retail sales, worried that kids would easily be able to get their hands on weed. But she was overruled and today, that’s something she’s happy about.
“The point is, to be perfectly blunt, it has brought a sizeable amount of money into our budget,” Morrison, a Republican turned Independent after “Mr. Trump changed my mind,” told VICE over the phone from Manitou Springs.
Just how much is a “sizeable amount of money”?
According to the LA Times,
in 2016, Manitou Springs took in $1 million in taxes from its two rec weed dispensaries in 2016; it is now in its third year of having the pot shops open. Colorado itself took in around $200 million, while Denver’s weed taxes amounted to $24 million.
In Manitou Springs, the funds have been used to fix up the area’s roads and make upgrades to its water system, Morrison said. As for the downsides to having two recreational weed shops, she said she can’t think of any—the buildings are well maintained, there’s security, and people aren’t loitering outside to consume cannabis.
“As someone who opposed it—and I want to be balanced in my thinking—how can I honestly say this has been terrible?” Morrison said.
Like Colorado, Ontario has decided to allow municipalities to opt out of hosting retail recreational weed stores once cannabis is legal on October 17. Markham, Richmond Hill, and Oakville, have all indicated they won’t allow weed sales, though things could change with local elections happening on October 22. BC municipalities like the city of North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Tofino, Abbotsford, Pitt Meadows and Whistler have also decided not to allow legal pot shops, at least for now.
Unlike Colorado though, cities in Canada don’t charge sales tax.
Ottawa has agreed to tax cannabis at $1 per gram or 10 percent of the final retail price—whichever is higher—with 75 percent of the revenue going to the provinces and the remaining 25 percent going to the federal government. Alcohol and cigarettes in Canada are subject to a federal excise tax as well as provincial taxes. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation told Global News up to 50 percent of the cost of beer in Canada is tax. About 68 percent of a pack of smokes is tax, according to a CBC report.
Given that municipalities can’t directly tax weed, how would they gain from selling it? It boils down to basic economic growth, experts say.
“When you have thriving businesses downtown, they pay property taxes and they have a potential of… revitalizing retail shopping areas,” David Soberman, marketing professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management told VICE.
In particular, with the onslaught of online shopping and big box stores, downtown retail districts are suffering, he said. “Pot distribution throughout smaller stores would have the chance to revitalize those areas.”
Brad Poulos, who teaches a business of cannabis course at Ryerson University, told VICE he believes municipalities who reject legal weed are “missing the boat.”
“You’re not eliminating cannabis in the community,” he said. “All you’re doing is removing potential commercial opportunities.” Those opportunities include new hires, more foot traffic to shopping areas, and crossover from people buying weed who go on to patronize nearby businesses.
He said smaller towns have great opportunities with craft growers, especially given that federally licensed producers will only be allow to have one retail location in Ontario.
“We’ll definitely see a few smaller municipalities embrace it and they’ll become cannabis destinations.”
He also said municipalities without retail outlets will simply be allowing the black market to continue to exist.
That’s an issue that’s come up in Colorado Springs, a city of 465,000 people that voted not to allow any recreational pot dispensaries.
Councillor Richard Skorman told VICE the mayor and some councillors were against the idea, especially given the city’s proximity to several military bases. However, he said Colorado Springs is suffering as a result. The city, which neighbours Manitou Springs, has a startling 128 medical dispensaries, which require a state-issued medical card. Skorman believes many people obtained medical cards because of the lack of recreational retail shops, but the city can’t place a high tax on medical weed, so it’s not getting revenue in the same way as places that sell rec.
“People are getting rec either through the medical dispensaries or through our neighbours… and the city is not getting the tax benefit.”
Skorman also said caregivers’ licenses to grow weed are being used to sell cannabis to the black market, and the lack of tax revenue from rec sales means “we don’t have the tax money to shut down the illegal grows.” The other big issue he’s noticed is an increase in driving high because people are forced to drive to other jurisdictions to pick up their weed. Again, he said tax revenue from rec sales would help the municipality police impaired driving.
While Canadian cities can’t charge their own sales tax, they can issue business licences to weed retailers. Vancouver set up a system charging compassion clubs $1,000 for a licence and other retailers $30,000 for a licence.
Poulos told VICE he thinks it makes sense for cities to set up basic licensing regimes to deal with enforcement—e.g. shutting down black market shops—but he doesn’t think they should be “getting greedy.” He does believe municipalities can argue for their share of provincial and federal tax because they bear the brunt of enforcement.
The Ontario government has also said it will give municipalities $40 million over the next two years to help with the cost of legalization, including police enforcement.
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If the prime minister says it, it can’t be political correctness gone mad. In recent weeks, David Cameron has publicly criticised a number of writers for what they have said about eminent members of the establishment.
First, he stepped in to denounce Hilary Mantel’s comments about the Duchess of Cambridge as “completely misguided and completely wrong”. Then, on 27 February, he took the time at Prime Minister’s Questions to demand that John O’Farrell, Labour’s candidate for the Eastleigh by-election, be condemned by his party for a single line in his memoir, published many years ago. The line pertained to a momentary sense of regret that Margaret Thatcher had not been killed in the Brighton bombing of 1984. If this is the new standard for heresy, surely the whole of Lancashire will soon descend into a flaming, red pit of torment? Then again, the Conservative front bench probably believes that this has already happened.
Whoever appointed Cameron as the arbiter of public morality has clearly never heard the rumours about what went on behind closed (dining-room) doors at the Bullingdon Club in the PM’s Oxford days. This new school of right-wing political correctness seems to require authorisation from the very top.
A process is emerging for the ritual immolation-by-tabloid of heretics to the Conservative mindset: first, the right-wing press digs up a wildly out-of-context quote implying that a writer has said something shocking about a national treasure. Then, the PM steps in to put the official seal of disapproval on the offending party. No hack with enough reading comprehension to handle either a political memoir or a London Review of Books essay could fail to notice that Mantel’s and O’Farrell’s quotes were, at worst, a little bit rude. In both cases, the misreading was done deliberately and with malice. The left, contrary to popular wisdom, does not have a monopoly on censoriousness.
The term “political correctness” is commonly used to reframe racist or reactionary ideas as somehow rebellious. It is used to silence the anger of people who complain about injustice and hate speech by recasting them as bloodless censors. When I’m accused of political correctness, it’s almost always by somebody who is frantically hanging on to their deep-seated prejudices about people who look, live or sound slightly different to them.
Reactionaries and conservatives practise precisely the kind of political correctness of which they accuse the left – but they call it “decency” and “morality”. Which is a rather PC way of referring to shutting down dissent.
We are informed that freedom of speech, if it means anything, is the right to be offensive. The question is whether or not, in these paranoid, sphincter-clenching times, it means anything else. From the weird, late-night back alleys of the internet to the pages of daily papers with millions of readers, freedom of speech has become synonymous with “freedom to attack the vulnerable” – and that’s about it. In Britain, where we have such repressive libel laws that multinational firms cross oceans to engage our lawyers to silence their critics, the only people it’s profitable to attack are those with no means of fighting back.
That means the poor. It means the disabled. It means immigrants and single parents. By a stroke of wild coincidence, these are exactly the people who are most likely to be made destitute by this government’s misguided austerity clampdown.
The right to offend the poor has never really been disputed. The right to offend wealthy, important people and to commit acts of cultural iconoclasm, however, is in serious danger at this point in history; that it is one of the main ways I make my rent money isn’t my only reason for being worried.
Suppose that someone – not me – were to opine that the Queen and Margaret Thatcher are national treasures only in the sense that they are ancient, expensive and will soon be buried. I don’t want to live in a country where such a sentiment is an occasion for national hysteria.
Right now, the list of things we’re not allowed to say about the rich is getting longer and not just for professional writers. At times, it seems that the right to protest itself is under attack.
Alfie Meadows and Zak King, two students who took part in the demonstrations against tuition fee hikes in 2010, are facing years in prison on charges of violent disorder, despite serious questions about the evidence in the case. Environmental activists who took on the multinational EDF Energy are being sued for £5m for trespassing on the West Burton power station by staging an action there. “This punitive measure would have devastating consequences for anyone who wished to take a stand against injustice and corruption or speak out for what is right,” says the Green MP, Caroline Lucas.
A chill wind of cultural conservatism is blowing across Britain and censorship is at its heart. A fence of taboos is being constructed around those in this society who least deserve our deference and that fence is alive with the electricity of public outrage. The royal family, the aristocracy and members of the political establishment skulk behind a perimeter of privilege where they don’t have to answer any difficult questions.
Outrage comes easily to us. Outrage is safe. You can express it in as little as 140 characters; it fits neatly into the line and a half of a tabloid headline; and there’s little risk involved.
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Have you ever wondered why websites ought to adopt HTTPS protocols for their security?
The internet has taken over our lives (in all the better ways) in this day and age. From making purchases online to performing transactions and more, keeping in touch with each other or simply getting updates on what is happening around the world, it’s
But the simple truth is, the World Wide Web isn’t safe all the time! Whether you’re a business owner or an internet user, threats are lurking in the shadows that can put your personal information and finances at risk.
If you are wondering whether there is a way to ensure safe internet surfing, the answer is yes! Keep reading to find out more about HTTPS and why it’s so important for internet security.
Every URL begins with either “HTTP” or “HTTPS.” The lock icon along with this protocol signifies whether the connection between the user’s browser and the web server is secure or not.
HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, and this serves as the foundation of the World Wide Web (WWW). Through this protocol, data is communicated between the web browsers and the servers. As such, when a user clicks on a link, a request is sent to the server which, in response, displays the data on the browser.
In HTTP, the process of data transfer is quick, simple, and focused on presenting the requested information, without concerns regarding how the data was transferred.
During the transfer, the data is not encrypted; as such, it can be an easy target for interception. Third-party attackers can steal the information readily in this manner, especially if the data is sensitive.
This is where the problem lies; fortunately, the solution to this is HTTPS!
The main difference between HTTP and HTTPS is the secure layer of connection.
HTTPS stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. It is an extension of HTTP; however, it works with another protocol called TLS – Transfer Layer Security (previously known as SSL) to encrypt data during the transfer.
The TSL/SSL is the certificate that helps protect communications between the server and the browser, creating an encrypted and secure connection. This certificate verifies and authenticates that the site’s owner is who they claim to be!
Without HTTPS, any data or information that is entered into the website will be in plain text and can be readily tampered with; otherwise, it can become an easy target for prying eyes.
At this point, we’ve outlined some of the key things you should know about HTTPS. But the main question is still the same: why should every website adopt HTTPS, even if it’s not handling any sensitive information? Let’s discuss this.
In the beginning, the HTTPS protocol was only used for websites handling sensitive information such as e-Commerce websites, online transactions, personal information, and emails.
However, in 2014, Google (being the biggest advocate of security) announced that the websites using HTTPS would be given more preference in SERPs, making it an SEO ranking factor.
Of course, if your website cannot make it to the Google Search Engine, how will your business survive?
Would you enter a store if the sign outside said, ‘Beware, thieves inside?’
Most likely, the answer here would be “no.”
Well, that’s what happens with an HTTP website. Modern browsers such as Chrome mark all HTTP websites as being ‘Not Secure.’ This notification appears for any website that doesn’t have an SSL certificate, and it creates a significant sense of distrust among the website visitors for the business.
Now that we have discussed the benefits and importance of the HTTPS protocol, it is time for the switch.
Follow the four steps below for rapid migration of your website from HTTP to HTTPS.
Buy an SSL Certificate.
For further support and guidance, here is a step by step guide to help you with the migration
HTTPS is the future (and present) of the World Wide Web.
It doesn’t matter anymore whether the website is handling sensitive information or not; switching to HTTPS is an integral part of web security. It keeps website visitors at ease, knowing that their data is not being manipulated; moreover, businesses do not have to worry so much about intruders and hackers snooping around their company secrets!
Take the next step for your website’s security and make the switch to creating a safer internet space!
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John Gurdon Wins 2012 Nobel Prize
Congratulations to John B Gurdon (Cambridge, UK) and Shinya Yamanaka (Tokyo, Japan) who share the 2012 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for their ground breaking work on nuclear reprograming.
Fifty years ago, in 1962 John Gurdon used Xenopus to show that the nuclei from specialized cells could be reprogrammed to give rise to a complete animal. By nuclear transplantation John introduced the nuclei from Xenopus intestinal epithelial cells into Xenopus eggs that had been enucleated by ultra violet irradiation. After serial transplantation these nuclei gave rise to a complete animal (Figure from John Gurdon). This was the first cloning in vertebrate animals - an approach which later gave rise to Dolly the sheep in the 1990's. To this day John continues his work on the molecular mechanism of nuclear reprograming at the Gurdon Institute, Cambridge UK.
In addition to his work on nuclear reprogramming, John has made many other important contributions to our understanding of cell and development biology including the basic mechanisms of transcription and translation using Xenopus oocyte and embryonic induction in the early embryo. John has been an inspirational mentor and many in the Xenopus community can trace their lineage back to John.
Thank you and Congratulations John - from the Xenopus community.
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Then with the father's name she coupled words - That pillow is no longer to be thine,
Fond Youth ! that mournful solace now must pass
Unwedded Julia, terror-smitten, hears Of hasty anger rising in the eclipse
The sentence, by her mother's lip pronounced, Of true domestic loyalty, did e'er
That dooms her to a convent.—Who shall tell, Find place within his bosom.-Once again Who dares report, the tidings to the lord The persevering wedge of tyranny
Of her affections ? so they blindly asked Achieved their separation : and once more
Who knew not to what quiet depths a weight Were they united,—to be yet again
Of agony had pressed the Sufferer down : Disparted, pitiable lot! But here
The word, by others dreaded, he can hear A portion of the tale may well be left
Composed and silent, without visible sign
Of even the least emotion. Noting this,
No answer, only took the mother's hand
And kissed it ; seemingly devoid of pain, Through dark and shapeless fear of things to come, Or care, that what so tenderly he pressed, And what, through strong compunction for the past, Was a dependant on the obdurate heart He suffered-breaking down in heart and mind ! Of one who came to disunite their lives
For ever- sad alternative ! preferred, Doomed to a third and last captivity,
By the unbending Parents of the Maid,
To secret 'spousals meanly disavowed.
In the city he remained
A season after Julia had withdrawn Julia,” said he, “and to your father's house To those religious walls. He, too, departs Go with the child.—You have been wretched; yet who with him ?-even the senseless Little-one. The silver shower, whose reckless burthen weighs With that sole charge he passed the city-gates, Too heavily upon the lily's head,
For the last time, attendant by the side Oft leaves a saving moisture at its root.
Of a close chair, a litter, or sedan, Malice, beholding you, will melt away.
In which the Babe was carried. To a hill, Go !—'tis a town where both of us were born; That rose a brief league distant from the town, None will reproach you, for our truth is known; The dwellers in that house where he had lodged And if, amid those once-bright bowers, our fate Accompanied his steps, by anxious love Remain unpitied, pity is not in man.
Impelled ;-they parted from him there, and stood With ornaments—the prettiest, nature yields Watching below till he had disappeared Or art can fashion, shall you deck our boy, On the hill top. His eyes he scarcely took, And feed his countenance with your own sweet looks Throughout that journey, from the vehicle Till no one can resist him.-Now, even now, (Slow-moving ark of all his hopes !) that veiled I see him sporting on the sunny lawn;
The tender infant: and at every inn, My father from the window sees him too ; And under every hospitable tree Startled, as if some new-created thing
At which the bearers halted or reposed, Enriched the earth, or Faery of the woods Laid him with timid care upon his knees, Bounded before him ;-but the unweeting Child And looked, as mothers ne'er were known to look, Shall by his beauty win his grandsire's heart Upon the nursling which his arms embraced. So that it shall be softened, and our loves End happily, as they began !”
This was the manner in which Vaudracour
These gleams Departed with his infant ; and thus reached Appeared but seldom ; oftener was he seen His father's house, where to the innocent child Propping a pale and melancholy face
Admittance was denied. The young man spake Upon the Mother's bosom ; resting thus
No word of indignation or reproof,
That a retreat might be assigned to him
_Why bustle thus about your door,
Where in forgotten quiet he might dwell, With such allowance as his wants required ; For wishes he had none. To a lodge that stood Deep in a forest, with leave given, at the age Of four-and-twenty summers he withdrew; And thither took with him his motherless Babe, And one domestic for their common needs, An aged woman. It consoled him here To attend upon the orphan, and perform Obsequious service to the precious child, Which, after a short time, by some mistake Or indiscretion of the Father, died. The Tale I follow to its last recess Of suffering or of peace, I know not which : Theirs be the blame who caused the woe, not mine!
Scarcely a soul is out of bed;
But Betty's bent on her intent;
There's not a house within a mile,
From this time forth he never shared a smile With mortal creature. An Inhabitant Of that same town, in which the pair had left So lively a remembrance of their griefs, By chance of business, coming within reach Of his retirement, to the forest lodge Repaired, but only found the matron there, Who told him that his pains were thrown away, For that her Master never uttered word To living thing---not even to her.-Behold! While they were speaking, Vaudracour approached; But, seeing some one near, as on the latch Of the garden-gate his hand was laid, he shrunkAnd, like a shadow, glided out of view. Shocked at his savage aspect, from the place The visitor retired.
Thus lived the Youth
And Betty's husband 's at the wood,
And Betty from the lane has fetched
And he is all in travelling trim,-
And he must post without delay
THE IDIOT BOY.
'Tis eight o'clock,--a clear March night,
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How do I install gedit on Windows 10?
Go to http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/ with your browser, get the gedit text editor, and install it.
- Make sure you can get to gedit easily by putting it on your desktop and/or in Quick Launch.
- Find your “Terminal” program.
- Make a shortcut to it on your desktop and/or Quick Launch for your convenience.
Can I install gedit in Windows?
It includes tools for editing source code and structured text such as markup languages. It is free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. gedit is also available for macOS and Windows.
How do I use gedit windows?
Gedit can also be started from the command line, by typing gedit with the name of the file you want to edit. This will open a new Main Window of gedit with the file you typed in the command line. You can also open multiple files in gedit from the command line.
What is Kate Ubuntu?
Kate is a multi-document, multi-view text editor by KDE. It features stuff like codefolding, syntaxhighlighting, dynamic word wrap, an embedded console, an extensive plugin interface and some preliminary scripting support. Features: MDI, window splitting, window tabbing. Code and text folding.
Is gedit the best for text editing?
Gedit. Gedit is a text editor that comes with the GNOME desktop environment.
Is “gedit” a command or text editor?
GEDIT NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor. It can be used to create and edit all kinds of text files. OPTIONS. Set the character encoding to be used for opening the files listed on the command line. Set the X geometry window size (WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y).
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Trio Sci Cymru
- Available on request
- More than one day
- Available in Welsh
Trio Sci Cymru is a pan-Wales STEM Engagement programme funded by a European Social Fund and the Welsh Government's National Science Academy.
Cardiff University is a joint beneficiary of the programme and is working with 18 schools in the West Wales and Valleys regions to deliver science workshops over a three-year period.Over a three-year period, pupils aged between 11 and 14 at these schools will have the opportunity to participate in three different innovative STEM enrichment programmes that bring our cutting-edge research direct to the classroom.
Led by Professor Les Baillie of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Apothecary Bees, introduces pupils to the award-winning Pharmabees project. They will learn about the importance of bees and other pollinators, the medicinal properties of honey and its potential to treat antibiotic resistant hospital superbugs. Pupils in Year 8 will become ‘honey detectives’, helping pharmacists identify the plants responsible for the antibacterial activity of University honey. In Year 9, they will isolate antibacterial compounds from the plants.
Chemistry in the 3rd Dimension
This project is overseen by Dr David Willock in our School of Chemistry. The workshop uses a portable 3D cinema to give pupils a chance to step inside a variety of chemical systems. It combines computational chemistry with state-of-the-art 3D projection to bring chemistry to life at the atomic level. Students will learn how properties of everyday materials are linked to atomic structure. The programme concludes with students designing their own computational chemistry experiments and analysing data obtained from a supercomputer simulation.
In this workshop, Dr Paul Roche of the School of Physics and Astronomy uses space to engage students with science. Through a combination of 3D shows, virtual and augmented reality, robotic telescopes and hands-on workshops pupils will explore the Universe from their classrooms. They will experience how astronauts live and work on the International Space Station, and plan the future exploration of Mars. The remotely controlled Faulkes Telescopes will capture images of planets, stars and galaxies, which the pupils will monitor over the three-year period.
The project is led by Communications and Marketing. Activities are delivered by the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Chemistry and School of Physics and Astronomy. We have already selected all the schools we will be working with for this part of the project.
About the organiser
This activity is organised by Communications and Marketing. Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org for more details.
We have now finalised the list of schools we are working with. We are unable to work with any further schools for the programme. If you would like more information please get in touch by email.
This activity is free
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NACBHDD is the only national voice for county and local behavioral health and developmental disability authorities in Washington, DC. Through education, policy analysis, and advocacy, NACBHDD brings the unique perspective of our members to Congress and the Executive Branch and promotes national policies that recognize and support the critical role counties play in caring for people affected by mental illness, addiction, and developmental disabilities.
NACBHDD is also an active partner in efforts to improve access to, funding for, and quality of behavioral health services, especially those that serve the most vulnerable in our communities. Key issues include: protecting Medicaid coverage, ending the stigma of mental illness, better treatment for veterans, achieving parity in insurance coverage for behavioral health care, affordable housing and vocational training for those with mental illness or developmental disabilities, and many more.
NACBHDD is an affiliate of the National Association of Counties (NACo).
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Custom Prosthetics to Rebuild Your Smile
Tooth loss affects a majority of adults to some degree. While the condition could have a dramatic impact on your oral health, many patients can significantly lessen that impact by replacing their lost teeth with a custom-designed dental bridge or denture. Depending on the severity and pattern of your tooth loss, your dentist can design an appropriate prosthesis to rebuild your smile, restore its healthy appearance, and reestablish your bite’s proper function. In many cases, we may also recommend supporting your bridge or denture on one or more dental implants, which offer a support system similar to your healthy, natural teeth roots.
When accidental trauma, severe periodontal disease, or other conditions lead to tooth loss or extraction, we can provide a range of prosthetic options to address it, including:
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I LOVE old recipes like these old fashioned peach dumplings. They don’t use a pre-made crust, and the flavors are incredible. There’s a reason everyone wants food like Grandma used to make!
What are old fashioned peach dumplings?
To put it simply, old fashioned peach dumplings are peach halves wrapped in a handmade dough, and baked in a sugar water bath to create an ooey gooey sauce.
Old fashioned means from-scratch with no pre-made ingredients, or at least it does to me. I made this recipe using a pamphlet on peaches from the 1940’s and it’s incredible!
Can you use frozen peaches?
Yes! In fact, this is how I made these. I buy fresh peaches in the summer when they’re in season, because the flavor is dramatically different, and I freeze them to use later. I use frozen peaches in my dump and cook peach cobbler, and it turns out perfect every time too.
To use frozen peach halves, make sure they’re peeled, and then place them on a cookie sheet to thaw at room temperature before making your old fashioned peach dumplings.
Can I use canned peaches?
This is one of those things that you can do, but that for the sake of flavor you shouldn’t do. The recipe will work with canned peach halves, but the flavor will be crazy different. Canned peaches have a different flavor and texture than fresh or frozen peaches, while typically maintaining their health benefits.
How to make Old Fashioned Peach Dumplings
- Cut and peel three fresh peaches, and cut them in half, or use six frozen peach halves.
- Make the dough, and then roll it out in a 12×18 inch rectangle.
- Cut the dough into six even-ish squares. I trimmed the edges of mine to make them squares.
- Make the cinnamon sugar mixture to roll the peach halves in.
- In a greased baking dish, place one dough square.
- Roll a peach half into the cinnamon sugar mixture, and then place it on the dough square, flat side down.
- Pinch all four corners into the center of the peach, and squeeze them closed.
- Repeat for the remaining five peach halves, leaving an inch between each dumpling for baking.
- Bring the sugar water to a rolling boil, and then immediately pour over the top of the dumplings.
- Bake at 425 degrees for 40 minutes.
Wait, did you say water bath?
Yeah, that’s what I thought when I made this for the first time. I was absolutely sure it was going to ruin my dumplings and make them super doughy and weird.
This doesn’t happen at all. What does happen, is that it makes this thick, delicious sauce in the bottom of the pan that mixes with the cinnamon and peach juice. The old fashioned peach dumplings stay nice and crispy and aren’t doughy at all.
Make these Old Fashioned Peach dumplings totally from scratch, and you'll understand why recipes Grandma made just taste better!
- (6) fresh or frozen peach halves, peeled
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 egg yolk
- 3 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- FOR THE CINNAMON SUGAR MIX:
- 1/2 teaspoon cinamon
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- FOR THE WATER BATH:
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup water
- Preheat your oven to 425.
- If using frozen peaches, allow them to thaw before making your dumplings.
- In a large bowl mix together the flour and salt.
- Using a fork, cut in the shortening until it makes a crumbly mixture.
- In a small bowl, combine the egg yolk, water, and lemon juice.
- Mix the egg mixture into the shortening mixture using a fork.
- Mix until you have a soft dough (you may have to mold a bit with your hands, and not just the fork.)
- Roll your dough out into a 12"x18" rectangle, then cut into 6 even-ish squares. Feel free to trim the dough to make even squares.
- Grease a 9x12 baking dish and place one dough square inside.
- Make the cinnamon sugar mix in a bowl.
- Roll a peach half in the cinnamon sugar mic and place on the dough square, flat side down.
- Pinch all four corners of the dough up to the center of the dumpling. Wet the dough edges if needed to make them stick.
- Repeat five more times.
- Boil the sugar and water until it's a rolling boil, then pour over all the dumplings.
- Place immediately in the oven at bake at 425 for 40 minutes.
- Let them cool for 10 minutes until serving.
- Fresh peaches are best with this, but frozen peach halves work too.
- You can also use canned peach halves but you will sacrifice a ton of flavor.
- These are best served warm with vanilla ice cream!
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Our Digital Machine Shop blog and video series will take a deep dive into the specific steps you can take to digitalize manufacturing and transform business performance.
What is a digital machine shop? It is a data driven manufacturing environment that seamlessly connects your process, machines, robots, and equipment.It is an adaptive manufacturing system that can sense, learn, and share that knowledge with every resource in its ecosystem, including people.
In this blog, let’s start with a short video, “Digital Machine Shop Overview,” to introduce the concept of the digital machine shop and share our vision of manufacturing in the future.
You can look forward to the following blog topics:
- The importance of new technologies
- Tool design with new technologies
- Process planning with a digital twin
- Tool management and set up
- Access the digital twin from the shop floor
- The emergence of robots in the part making process
- Additive manufacturing
- CMM inspection and programming
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Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche. When Danto's classic study was first published in 1965, many regarded Nietzsche as a brilliant but somewhat erratic thinker. Danto, however, presented a radically different picture, arguing that Nietzsche offered a systematic and coherent philosophy that anticipated many of the questions that define contemporary philosophy. Danto's clear and insightful commentaries helped canonize Nietzsche as a philosopher and continue to illuminate subtleties in Nietzsche's work as well as his immense contributions to the philosophies of science, language, and logic.
This new edition, which includes five additional essays, not only further enhances our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy; it responds to the misunderstandings that continue to muddy his intellectual reputation. Even today, Nietzsche is seen as everything from a precursor of feminism and deconstruction to a prophetic writer and spokesperson for disgruntled teenage boys. As Danto points out in his preface, Nietzsche's writings have purportedly inspired recent acts of violence and school shootings. Danto counters these misreadings by elaborating an anti-Nietzschian philosophy from within Nietzsche's own philosophy "in the hope of disarming the rabid Nietzsche and neutralizing the vivid frightening images that have inspired sociopaths for over a century."
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Regarding Radio World’s feature “Let’s Talk About Codec Trends” (Jan. 2), I think it is important to state the role that HD Voice is playing in the broadcast world on the mobile phone networks (as opposed to fixed line codecs), as compliment to the options stated in your feature.
HD Voice devices are not an alternative to stereo full-bandwidth codecs in just the same way that stereo full-bandwidth codecs are not the solution in all applications. If the requirement is single-channel voice reporting for news and sports, HD Voice on 3G networks offers significant benefits, for several reasons.
In countries that offer HD Voice on their 3G mobile networks, the ability to get signals on air is greatly increased. In congested environments (stadiums, sport events, concerts, film premiers, etc.) there is a high demand on the IP network.
In these environments, HD Voice offers a reliable and simple connection option, just using a battery powered, portable mobile phone. In the U.K., the BBC used our own HD Voice version for audio broadcasts following the Olympic torch relay, as there was low availability of IP bandwidth due to people taking pictures and posting them to Facebook (for example).
Within the mobile telephone world, it is important to realize that HD Voice is just a voice call on the mobile network, so it does not need to use the mobile data service — a normal voice SIM is all that is required. This means that it is separated from all data issues of bandwidth availability and fluctuation.
Once the call is connected, it will stay connected in the same way as a mobile phone. The only exception to this is if you are travelling and move out of the network area, but most broadcasters will be stationary for reports.
A phone call is always much easier to establish and maintain than an IP codec connection.
If the requirement is single-channel voice, then HD Voice will give you a 7 kHz link. It’s not stereo, and it isn’t suitable for music; but for voice broadcasting, it’s all that is needed.
It is also very effective at suppressing background noise so that news reporters can be heard clearly.
3. Ease of Use
It’s a phone. Calls are as simple to establish as a normal mobile, and no setup or configuration is required. Non-technical reporters or announcers love this fact.
HD Voice is G722.2 or AMR-wideband. There is no need to pay the prices for codecs that give multichannel, or the high-quality, high-bandwidth algorithms, if all you are going to use it for is single-channel voice.
The delay is the same as a normal mobile phone call, so it is perfect for two-way conversations. You do not need to allow buffering on a HD Voice system. Indeed, on tests in the U.K. on the Orange network, on the same cell, the HD Voice delay was actually less than a normal mobile phone call.
HD Voice is still fairly new and it is not available everywhere (it’s not yet in the U.S. for example, but it’ll be there soon). So far, HD Voice is available in about 39 countries and this is increasing all the time.
At the moment, the call has to be on the same network, within the same country (with one recent exception). For most broadcasters, this is not a problem. All current systems are on the 3G network, but versions for the 4G network are expected to follow.
The example given in the codecs article, about Italy, was interesting. At Glensound, we supplied 40 HD Voice 7 kHz Broadcasters’ Mobile Phones recently to Rai. Giovanni Ridolfi, head of RAI Radio Engineering, commented on the high audio quality, low latency and robust connectivity and said that RAI’s journalists found the unit intuitive to use.
If a broadcaster has access to HD Voice on mobile networks, it is a real cost-effective alternative for remote broadcasting.
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Are you wondering what the rules are for the dependent deduction? Are you wondering if your child or spouse is qualified? Here are the basic facts to know about claiming the deduction. First, you must decide if the person is a qualifying child or spouse. If the answer is yes, you’re eligible for this deduction. However, if you’re wondering if you can claim a relative as a dependent, you’ve come to the right place.
Depending on your filing status, you may be able to claim up to $2,000 of refundable tax credits for qualifying children. This deduction is worth up to $1,400 for each child under age 17, but the limit is lower for married couples filing jointly. Using the Internet Tax Connection for dependent deduction calculation is a simple way to figure out how much you can deduct on your tax return. You just need to know the basic information, such as your date of birth and filing status, and the spouse’s date of birth and adjusted gross income. You can use the standard deduction if you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien, but if you are not, you will need to visit the International Taxpayers section.
What constitutes a qualifying child for the purpose of dependent deduction? A qualifying child is a person who is dependent on a taxpayer for at least half of his or her support. In general, the child must live with the taxpayer for more than half the year to qualify for the deduction. There are certain exceptions, however, including children who are born or die during the year. Another consideration is the filing status of the child. If the child is married, the parent filing the return must be the same as the child.
A qualifying relative is any person who lives with the taxpayer for at least half the year. This relative must be a child, sibling, parent, or grandparent. A non-relative also qualifies if he or she is a niece or nephew or an aunt or uncle. Some in-laws may also qualify if they are related to the taxpayer. These people should be residing in the taxpayer’s household for at least half the year.
In order to claim a dependent deduction, you need to know what the rules are. The Social Security number for your dependent must match yours, and the other dependent’s social security number must match yours. Your dependent cannot be your spouse; they must be your children or grandchildren. There are special rules for those who are blind, over 65 or separated. The rules for the standard deduction also vary. Make sure you are visiting americantaxservice.org for more information on this issue.
To qualify for a dependent deduction, you must meet certain requirements. Your dependent must have received at least half of your support during the tax year. Children of divorced or separated parents can qualify as dependents, as can those born abroad, as long as their relationship is not illegal. There is a hefty income test, but it is worth the extra effort. Those who qualify for a dependent deduction often pay lower taxes.
To qualify for the dependent deduction, a child or student must meet the support test. The test is based on whether the taxpayer provides more than half of the support for the child. It is also important to remember that the support provided for a dependent child may come from the taxpayer’s income or from student funds, so only the amounts actually spent are considered as support.
The standard deduction amounts vary for single taxpayers and head of household filers. Individuals over 65 can claim an extra $1700 for each instance of age. Taxpayers who are legally blind may be entitled to an additional $1350 standard deduction. Those married to a spouse who is blind can double or triple their standard deduction. If both spouses are eligible for the standard deduction, the deduction increases to $30500. You can see the table for married filers in the IRS Instructions for Form 1040.
There are benefits and disadvantages to both methods. It’s important to understand which one will benefit you more in the long run. Generally, you should choose the option that is higher. Aside from being more accurate, you can always get an estimate of how much you’ll save by itemizing instead of claiming the standard deduction. If you’re not sure, it’s always best to claim the higher amount of deduction. | <urn:uuid:bb866879-90bf-4a86-b1b2-4b423b9a7c5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marketbusinessmag.com/whats-about-dependent-deduction-according-to-america-tax-service/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961403 | 891 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Physical education is an integral part of education in general.
Physical fitness is the key to real health and endurance. If you look at the sense of physical fitness, this fitness is an activity that does not involve excessive fatigue.
According to experts, the physical fitness definition focuses on daily activities that do not make a person feel very tired. Physical fitness is part of the effort to enjoy leisure time and increase daily productivity.
Understanding the physical fitness definition will make the practice not wrong to do. Rely on strength, muscle power, balance, speed, accuracy, and much more. For its benefits, it will greatly impact on the quality of life that is carried out.
Here are the definition of physical fitness, its elements, and benefits from various sources,
Physical Fitness Definition
Physical fitness is the ability of the body to make adjustments to the physical burden given to it (from work done daily) without causing excessive fatigue.
Everyone needs good physical fitness in order to carry out their work effectively and efficiently without experiencing fatigue.
The degree of physical fitness of a person greatly determines his physical ability in carrying out his daily tasks.
The higher the degree of physical fitness of a person, the higher the ability to work physically.
Besides being useful to improve physical fitness, physical condition, training is the main program in coaching students to excel in a sport.
Physical fitness elements
Meanwhile, elements of physical fitness are strength, endurance of the muscles, heart, and lungs, agility, explosiveness (power), and flexibility. It can be trained by doing circuit training, interval training, calisthenics, jogging, and aerobics.
Simple fitness tips for beginners
Benefits of Physical Fitness
From the Physical Fitness Definition, one will get some things when done regularly and within a sufficient period of time
Avoid various diseases
Regular physical fitness exercises can keep a person from disease. With physical fitness exercises, you can make the heart work more actively. Exercise makes blood circulation from the heart to the whole body more smoothly.
If you do this activity regularly, the endurance and work of the heart are getting better so that eventually your heart is healthy and avoids all kinds of risks, such as heart failure, coronary heart disease, to stroke.
In addition to heart disease, hypertension can attack a person with low physical fitness qualities.
Practicing physical fitness regularly can be useful to inhibit the rate of diabetes. Jogging for 30 to 45 minutes is much better to prevent diabetes than taking medication,
Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) is an evil fat that is in the body. Well, doing physical fitness by walking or jogging along 24 to 32 km per week can reduce LDL.
Make the body ideal and prevent obesity.
Physical fitness exercises that are carried out continuously can burn calories in the body. Many people do sports because they want to have a beautiful body and are much obese.
By exercising, the fat accumulated under the skin burns along with the calories used during exercise. The condition can make the body look more ideal.
One of the causes of obesity, namely lack of body activity and too much fat hoarding. That is why physical fitness exercises are indispensable.
Exercises To Lose Weight Fast
Doing exercise regularly can make sleep better and avoid stress. This will help the energy in the body increase.
- Maintain and improve the level of good physical freshness
- Make corrections to attitude and motion errors
- Forming attitudes and gestures
- Establish the physical condition (muscle strength, agility, endurance, flexibility, and speed)
- Establish various psychiatric attitudes (form courage, trust, and self-readiness, as well as the ability to cooperate)
- Provide benefits for body growth, especially for children
- Cultivate a sense of responsibility for the health of yourself and society.
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Wills and Ways: Miscellaneous Kentucky Records
One of the first publications of the Kentucky Genealogical Society was the Wills and Ways: Miscellaneous Kentucky Records book. This 108-page book features multiple family records of over 500 Kentucky families. The index of names is six-pages long. The society published the book in 1975.
The booklet is available to Kentucky Genealogical Society members at our Member Portal.
Since this project was a new task for the young group, there were several leaders who worked to make it possible.
- Kenneth D. Singleton, Jr.
- Mrs. Roud Smith
- Mrs. James F. Graves
- Victor Waits
- Mrs. Kirby Fint, Jr.
Highlights of the Book
The book highlights the following items:
- Wills and Last Testaments from various men
- Vital records from Family Bibles
- Excerpts from the Kentucke Gazette 1787-92
- Listing of the Georgetown Cemetery
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It’s the beginning of the year and time for implementing your New Year’s Resolutions! You’ve probably been reflective and have done inventory on major parts of your life, including work, finances, family, relationships and health. That makes it the perfect time to adopt The 72 Hours Life to what you’re doing!
Here are four principles to apply to whatever you’ve chosen to do.
Make firm decisions about what you actually want to accomplish
As the saying goes, if you don’t plan on going anywhere, then you’ll end up nowhere. Another way of saying this is we slot ourselves into levels and areas of success. Choices have consequences. Think through your goals and your choices. Understand what that means for the rest of your life. Learn to choose wisely. Then proceed happily, enjoying the journey and looking forward to the destination.
Learn what’s necessary to accomplish your goal
You wouldn’t travel without a flight itinerary. Why would you expect to arrive at your destination without a plan? These days, the mystery of accomplishment has largely disappeared. You have access to resources and to help. Take advantage of everything at your disposal. Why would you try to do anything alone? Now, be careful. You want paths that represent best practices and proven success. All advice isn’t constructive. Similarly, every plan isn’t the most efficient choice. When figuring out how to accomplish your goal, be focused on your success and mindful of how to avoid obstacles. Trial and error or learning from your mistakes isn’t what you’re after here. You want success!
Proceed with the end in mind
When it comes to obtaining goals and productivity, implementation is everything. No matter how good the plan, if it’s not executed well, the goal likely won’t be accomplished. Once you’ve defined the outcome and obtained the resources, focus on the plan. If you’ve done the work in constructing the plan, you’ll have minimized the need for mid-course corrections. Every step along the way, continue asking yourself how your actions are contributing to your desired outcomes.
Stay the course
Unfortunately, life’s journey tends not to involve straight lines. You must have and retain confidence in your chosen outcomes, your plan and your ability to implement. If and when you get temporarily knocked off your target, don’t lose faith in yourself or lose the desire to obtain your goal. More often than not, ultimate success is lost as a result of us closing doors in our own faces without knowing how close to winning we may actually be!
Think through how these four principles apply to your personal, professional, health and financial pursuits. If you do this, I have no doubt that you’ll be a lot more efficient and effective in not only accomplishing any New Year’s resolutions but in creating a better approach to life in general.
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Is data really ‘the new oil’? Well, not quite. While it is true that data fuels the digital economy, just like oil fueled the industrial economy, there are stark differences between the two.
For one, getting access to the oil reserves of a sovereign nation would probably involve an act of war. Whereas in the case of data, most people are quite happy to trade their privacy for access to digital services which allow them to network and connect with others. Besides, the privacy and data security terms listed out by these services are usually less than transparent, and most people agree to these terms without even reading them. Second, oil is a limited natural resource, whereas technically data can be infinite. Third, the same oil can be used only once, whereas the same data can be used at multiple places simultaneously. And as we hurtle towards an increasingly data-driven economy, it would be naïve to underestimate the power of raw data. In fact, it would not be wrong to argue that data is a far more powerful asset than oil ever could be. The implications of surrendering your privacy to market forces thus become a cause for serious concern. And these concerns become even more worrying when the entity is a social media behemoth like Facebook, which has just announced that it would use data from WhatsApp, the popular messaging service it also owns, for commercial purposes. The number of people visiting Facebook’s core products every day is more than India’s total population. Around 1.73 billion users visit at least one of Facebook’s core products, which includes Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, or Messenger, every single day.
What is wrong with so many people communicating around the world and building strong relationships? Well, it wouldn’t be wrong if all these people were not sharing reams and reams of their private and sensitive information with just one social media giant.
I finally mustered the courage to find how much data Facebook holds about me, at least whatever it allows me to find. The ‘download your information tool’ on Facebook said that it has 482 MB of data on me. It included my likes, dislikes, the apps I had logged into using Facebook, my interactions with people, photos, videos, recordings, locations of the places I checked in and much more. And this did not include my personal data which other Facebook products like WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram hold.
The policy document says, “Even if you do not use our location-related features, we use IP addresses and other information like phone number area codes to estimate your general location (e.g., city and country).” and “If you use our Services with such third-party services or Facebook Company Products, we may receive information about you from them; for example, if you use the WhatsApp share button on a news service to share a news article with your WhatsApp contacts, groups, or broadcast lists on our Services, or if you choose to access our Services through a mobile carrier’s or device provider’s promotion of our Services. Please note that when you use third-party services or Facebook Company Products, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services and products. Content shared with business accounts could be accessible to third-party service providers as well.”
If you are still wondering why one company holding all this data about me and you should be such a big deal, let’s take a closer look.
Since 2012, when the ‘social networking service’ was launched, Facebook has filed hundreds of patent applications, to “serve the customers in a better way”.
On June 21, 2018, The New York Times published an article, “What 7 Creepy Patents Reveal About Facebook,” by Mr Sahil Chinoy who reviewed many of the patent applications filed by Facebook. The article exposed some of the most vicious intentions behind these patent applications. Inc. magazine, a New York-based business magazine, listed the following four creepiest applications.
• A patent for using your device's front-facing camera to read your facial expressions and determine how you feel about what you see on the screen.
• A patent for using your phone's microphone to eavesdrop on you, determining which television programs you're watching and whether the ads are muted. It would also use the electrical signals emitted by your television to identify programs.
• A patent that would track your weekly routine. It might also use your phone's location in the middle of the night to try to determine where you live (or at least sleep).
• A patent that would use your posts and messages--and credit card transactions--to predict your major life events, such as a birth, marriage, graduation, or death. Advertisers particularly value knowing when such events might occur soon.
And on Dec 24, 2019, Facebook secured a patent which allows it to spy on its users through their smartphone camera, microphone or GPS and capture audio, images, video or location data that reveals what the user is watching. The company, however, has not clarified its stand on the usage of these patents.
But does that make you feel any better?
It was not the only finger pointed at Facebook. In Nov 2019, NBC News, a news division of the American broadcast television network NBC, released almost 7,000 pages of leaked documents exposing one of the darkest truths about Facebook. It included thousands of pages on the meeting summaries and emails shared between the top officials of Facebook. Here’s a few of them:
In an email from August 2012, Chris Daniels, a Facebook business development director, wrote, “Today the fundamental trade is ‘data for distribution’ whereas we want to change it to either ‘data for $’ and/or ‘$ for distribution,’’. NBC News also reported citing the leaked documents, “For example, Facebook gave Amazon extended access to user data because it was spending money on Facebook advertising and partnering with the social network on the launch of its Fire smartphone. In another case, Facebook discussed cutting off access to user data for a messaging app that had grown too popular and was viewed as a competitor, according to the documents.”
In late November 2012, in one of the continued discussions on the same issue, NBC reported that Mark Zuckerberg sent a long email to Facebook’s senior leadership team saying that Facebook shouldn’t charge developers for access to basic data feeds. However, he said that access to Facebook data should be contingent on the developers sharing all of the “social content” generated by their apps back to Facebook, something Zuckerberg calls “full reciprocity.” The existing arrangement, where developers weren’t required to share their data back with Facebook, might be “good for the world” but it’s not “good for us,” Zuckerberg wrote in the email.
The documents also showed how this strategy was termed “unethical” by some of the top leadership, while on the other hand, it gained applause from many others. Mr Doug Purdy, Facebook’s director of product, described the CEO as a “master of leverage,” according to the documents.
The list of what hangs between ‘doing unethical’ and ‘taking leverage’ is endless for Facebook and might not be covered completely in this article. But it raises a very pertinent question that in the times of full-blown capitalism when a company claims that, “It's free and always will be", it should make us shudder instead of enticing us. (Facebook, however, quietly changed its slogan in August 2019, to "It's quick and easy"). As they say, if something is too good to be true, it probably is. | <urn:uuid:8b77c877-4771-4bfa-aa78-a8bc4905fe28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://admin.outlookindia.com/website/story/opinion-whatsapps-new-policy-why-you-should-be-scared-extremely-scared/370591 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95491 | 1,654 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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Video: Using Yeast and Human Waste to Produce Parts for Deep Space MissionsPeter Brown | August 22, 2017
One of the key goals of space travel is re-usability. Once you are up in the harshness of space, resources will be extremely thin and stretched to the limits.
A team of researchers is working on new ways to make long space trips feasible. Astronauts are not be able to take many spare parts into space as they add to the cost of fuel to escape Earth’s gravity and decrease the amount of area available in the spacecraft.
"If astronauts are going to make journeys that span several years, we'll need to find a way to reuse and recycle everything they bring with them," said Mark A. Blenner, a researcher from Clemson University. "Atom economy will become really important."
The space-saving solution resides in the astronauts themselves who will constantly generate waste from breathing, eating and using materials. Scientists are studying how to repurpose molecules from this waste and convert them into products the astronauts will need such as plastics, polyesters and nutrients.
"Having a biological system that astronauts can awaken from a dormant state to start producing what they need, when they need it, is the motivation for our project," Blenner said.
The system uses a variety of strains of the yeast Yarrowia Lipolytica, which require both nitrogen and carbon to grow. Researchers found that the yeast can obtain nitrogen from urea in untreated urine and carbon from CO2, from exhaled breath or from the Martian atmosphere. Because the yeast requires a component to fix the carbon into a form it can ingest, the yeast relies on photosynthetic cyanobacteria or algae provided by the researchers.
One of the strains of yeast produces omega-3 fatty acids, which contribute to heart, eye and brain health. Another strain has been engineered to churn out monomers and link them to make polyester polymers, which could be used in a 3D printer to generate new plastic parts. Work continues to engineer other strains of yeast that could be used to produce a variety of monomers that can be polymerized into different types of polyesters with a range of properties, researchers say.
Currently, engineered yeast can only produce small amounts of polyesters or nutrients but researchers are seeking to boost output as well as looking into how this method could be used on Earth in fields such as fish farming or human nutrition.
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Sustainable, Affordable Housing in Asia
What is Affordable Housing?
Affordable housing across Asia is in crisis. Except there is a bigger crisis at stake than just the housing requirements for millions of people across Asia. There are the climate emissions and resources required to deliver the promises made by politicians to deliver affordable housing.
First, what do we mean by affordable housing? Affordable housing is defined as housing which meets adequate quality requirements, is not located too far from workplaces and schools, and the price is not too high that households would not be able to fulfil other basic needs. In essence, the quality, build-up and location are as important as the financial affordability of a house.
How much Affordable Housing is Required and What are the Costs?
In 2014, the US consulting company McKinsey predicted “…that by 2025 as many 1.6 billion people worldwide would face problems securing affordable homes. They estimated that 330 million urban households globally live in substandard housing or are financially stretched by housing costs. Some 200 million households in the developing world live in slums; in the United States, the European Union, Japan, and Australia, more than 60 million households are financially stretched by housing costs.
It is further estimated that building an adequate number of affordable housing worldwide by 2025 would require an investment of USD$9 trillion to $16 trillion for construction and land – USD$1 trillion to $3 trillion may have to come from public funding.
Except times have changed since McKinsey’s 2014 predictions, and these estimates are far below what the current costs and housing numbers are likely to be now and in the future. In 2014, McKinsey also did not factor in climate change, GHG emissions, the rising cost of primary raw materials and how finding solutions to affordable housing means ditching business-as-usual scenarios.
Switching to a Sustainable and Circular Built Environment
Using the example from Malaysia, the Master Builders Association Malaysia (MBAM) is urgently seeking the government’s immediate intervention to help the Malaysian construction industry cope with the impact arising from the steep increase in the prices of building materials. From a sustainable and circular perspective, in collaboration with the MBAM and MGBC (Malaysia Green Building Council), the government should focus first on establishing materials that fit a closed-loop system. There is a growing body of research and new businesses, within the built environment, that are receiving funding and could participate in Asia’s affordable housing programs.
In 2021, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved two loans to develop affordable housing in Asia. The first loan of US$150 million has been provided to provide access to inclusive, resilient, and sustainable housing for the urban poor in Tamil Nadu, India. The second loan of $24 million and a $6 million grant to support the Government of Bhutan’s plans to improve access to adequate and affordable rental housing.
Regarding these specific loans, there are no details to stipulate what sustainable housing actually means or what is required to meet a sustainable housing loan. More recently in India, the ADB, in partnership with IIFL (formerly India Infoline Limited) and HFL (LIC Housing Finance Limited), signed a $68 million loan with ADB to improve financial access to affordable green housing for lower-income groups in India.
The funding comprises a direct ADB loan of up to $58 million and a $10 million concessional loan by the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in Asia (CFPS). The CFPS loan will support IIFL HFL’s green housing portfolio, specifically towards incentivising developers to adopt green certification standards in building affordable housing.
In July 2022, during a meeting to discuss the climate crisis, the UN secretary-general António Guterres told ministers from 40 countries that the “multilateral development banks”, institutions including the World Bank that are funded by taxpayers in the rich world to provide assistance to poor countries, are not fit for purpose when it came to providing the funding needed for the climate crisis and that they should be reformed.
GHG and Carbon Emissions
In 2019, C40 Cities partnered with Arup and the University of Leeds to explain how cities and the built environment can address climate change. C40 Cities is a global network of mayors taking urgent action to confront the climate crisis and create a future where everyone can thrive. Five recommendations were put forward at the 2019 C40 World Mayors Summit, which are:
- Implement efficiency in material design – Potential emissions reduction by 2050: 18%
- Reuse building materials and components – Potential emissions reduction by 2050: 3%
- Enhance existing building utilization – Potential emissions reduction by 2050: 11%
- Switch high-emission materials to sustainable timber – Potential emissions reduction by 2050: 6%
- Use low-carbon cement – Potential emissions reduction by 2050: 6%
Material innovation is the next big thing. The circular economy does not function unless the materials used in manufacturing can be reprocessed. One easily accessible source of material feedstock comes from the palm oil industry. Establishing a Material Science Lab in a progressive university connected internationally is a good place to start.
The most familiar mantra from sustainability and circular economy professionals, environmental and climate activists and increasingly from companies committed to genuine ESG actions is “it’s not enough; we need to do more”. More robust actions cannot be achieved in isolation and to perpetuate another mantra, “it’s a multi-stakeholder collaboration.”
By 2030, Indonesia projects it will have 404.7 million tons of palm oil residues. For Malaysia, research estimated that there were approximately 220 million tons of palm oil residues.
There has been excellent research in both countries regarding the volume and future projections related to palm oil residues. Just one industry sector that can contribute to innovative materials for low-cost, affordable housing. We now require three additional steps.
- The R&D required to shift palm oil resides to new materials
- Standards for building materials
- Industry participation and uptake
Circular Economy Asia is ready to play our role in a multi-stakeholder team to deliver on these outcomes.
‘Rethinking Affordable Housing in Malaysia’, CIDB publication 188, 2019
‘Steep hike in prices of building materials prompts MBAM to call for immediate govt intervention’ by Bernama, published in the New Straits Times, 15 April 2022.
‘ADB Approves $150 Million Loan to Improve Urban Housing in India’ published by the Asian Development Bank, 06 September 2021
‘ADB Supports Affordable Housing in Bhutan’published by the Asian Development Bank, 08 December 2021
‘Humanity faces ‘collective suicide’ over climate crisis, warns UN chief’ by Fiona Harvey, published in The Guardian, 18 July 2022.
‘IIFL HFC signs $68 million loan with ADB to fund green housing’, published in The Hindu, 21 February 2022
‘The Potential of Palm oil Waste Biomass in Indonesia in 2020 and 2030’ by E Hambali and M Rivai, published in IOP Science, 2017
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Email bots are Visor.ai’s new product solution. It’s another option of automation interactions between companies and customers. However, it’s present in the mailbox of your Customer Service.
It came to the public at the beginning of 2020 and, like chatbots, uses Artificial Intelligence.
Tranquilidade is one of Visor.ai’s largest customers. When they heard that we were expanding their solutions, they immediately wanted to be part of this new stage.
The insurer knew that the solution was at an embryonic stage and that it would need improvements.
Since the chatbot worked so well, on both the website and WhatsApp, they weren’t afraid and were excited to invest in Visor.ai solution once more.
That’s how the pilot project came about in partnership with the Portuguese insurance company.
Chat and Email bots: Differences between Channels
The two great forms of written contact with Tranquilidade are through chat and emails.
The insurance company receives about 6000 contacts a month through the chatbot and has an efficiency of automatic responses of around 70%.
In addition to these requests, it receives thousands of emails every month in its mailbox from the most varied subjects.
However, each channel has its specific type of information.
In chat, the questions are more direct. They are more general information requests. In other words, customers or potential customers ask questions about insurance, such as how to join, the coverage of each plan, etc.
In the email, the questions involve sending more specific documents and queries. Usually, contacts are made by insured people or companies, clients who wish to change personal data or the insurance policy (which requires proof), or report occurrences (car accidents, for example).
The Technologies behind Email Bots
Both chatbots and email bots are directly related to the written language.
For the bots to respond, it’s mandatory for technologies to process this kind of language.
It’s necessary to employ areas of Artificial Intelligence, such as Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning.
The NLP is concerned with the interactions between humans and machines, namely, problems related to understanding human language. In this case, the written inputs.
On the other hand, Machine Learning is in charge of “teaching” the computer how to make accurate predictions from previously acquired data.
The key to Machine Learning is the size of the database. The more examples there are, the easier it is for the bot to recognize certain types of elements and then respond.
These two subjects are essential for discrimination in writing. However, in emails, document attachments are often received.
For the reading of documents, the Computer Vision technique is used, commonly called OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
This technique allows the system to recognize images and videos and turn them into code that the computer understands.
By recognizing characters, it’s possible to train the bot to perceive a pattern and recognize a document type. This training guarantees a high level of image identification.
Imagine that you teach your bot what an Identity Card (ID) is. You show it what the characteristic elements are and fill the database with numerous examples.
When your system receives an ID, the computer crosses it with the information you gave it and then recognizes that specific document type. It can even extract identifying elements, such as the ID number or the person’s name.
With these three technologies, your email bot identifies your clients’ requests and the attachments they sent.
Email bots and Other Systems
Salesforce is a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solution that allows all departments of a company to manage their customer relations.
In this case, Tranquilidade uses Salesforce to handle incoming emails, so it was essential to have access to the whole process.
Visor.ai, by offering a very adaptable and scalable solution, has easily integrated its bot into Salesforce.
The integration of the email bots was carried out directly in the insurance company’s mailbox and Salesforce. Thus, it’s possible to feed the bot with real and up-to-date information, always considering all the security procedures and data confidentiality of the insurer and its clients.
In this way, it was possible to reach the focus of this project: to automate the processes of email sorting between the company and its customers. Namely, to which category the email belongs, if the attached documents are necessary for executing the request, among other actions.
Email bot Expected Results
Tranquilidade has now part of the email handling automated.
In this first stage of the launch, it starts with the processes of opening car accident claims, change of IBAN, and request for the issuance of letters to the Statutory Auditors.
However, there are already prospects of extension to other processes and email channels.
This new solution is also an excellent help for customer service assistants in sorting requests.
Instead of receiving the emails in a random and uncategorized way, they have immediate access to filtered cases by category. This categorization allows not only automatic processing but also internal routing of claims to the departments responsible for each type of request.
The automation of interactions brings impressive results to companies that have large volumes of standard emails. That is repetitive emails where the response or resolution process is always the same.
This solution doesn’t intend to reduce the number of contacts with the insurance company. But rather to reduce the process until the queries reach the indicated department.
Tranquilidade still has thousands of contacts in its electronic address. But now has a more automated and less time-consuming treatment for its employees.
This way, it increases the productivity of your team and the resolution time for each case. It also provides a better service and increases the satisfaction of your customers.
At this moment, the email bot of Visor.ai performs the following procedures:
- Reading the subject and text in the body of the email
- Reading of attached documents through the Optical Character Recognition System – OCR
- Automatic responses with requests for missing documents needed for a given action
- Categorization of emails according to subject and forwarding to the correct department.
The automation of emails meets Visor.ai’s goal: to offer an increasingly robust, multi-channel solution.
Our mission is to put an end to repetitive interactions and tasks that can be programmed. Thus, your customer service team has more time for more complex problems.
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Appreciation. A word often overlooked and undervalued by companies today. It’s often overlooked because…well, just how do you measure appreciation? It’s not an exact science, and people are as different as they are complex. But the difficulties of understanding how our customers and staff feel appreciated does not mean we should ignore it.
So, we decided to post a simple question on a poll to our 12,000+ followers on LinkedIn:
What makes you feel most appreciated?
The options were:
- Gift card or treats
- Personalized Thank you
- Providing Immediate Solutions
- Being Publicly Recognized
The response was a little surprising, but ultimately …
Which do you think was the top choice? Maybe upon reading through, one option jumped out to you as the clear winner. Interestingly enough, the responses were nearly equal across the board averaging close to 25% per option. However, the winner by a fair margin was – Personalized Thank You. Seems simple, right? There’s nothing easy about it. That’s because personal does NOT mean just including a customer’s first and last name in a mass email. Personal means you take the time to write something meaningful, taking care to remember personal details, accomplishments, or times they helped you out. Although, nowadays sending a thank you email isn’t enough; we’re too desensitized to digital. Personal means going above and beyond with a bespoke touch that cannot be duplicated.
The old school is the new, NEW SCHOOL.
Technology had made it faster and easier than ever to send an email or text. Due to its efficiency, the electronic medium has lost its value. That is why handwritten cards or letters are still well received and cherished to this day. It shows that someone took time and energy beyond what is normally given by most other companies. In an era of touchless and socially distant communication, sending someone a small trinket of their favorite sports team can go far beyond the average thank you call or email.
Simply put, being appreciated equates to feeling seen. If done correctly, showing appreciation to our most loyal and dedicated customers can lead to a higher retention rate, and increased profits. While that doesn’t have to be your reasoning behind showing genuine appreciation, it certainly helps to know your efforts are never in vain.
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Today is the 157th day of 2016 and the 78th day of spring.
TODAY'S HISTORY: In 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall proposed the Marshall Plan for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
In 1956, Elvis Presley gave his famous hip-shaking performance of "Hound Dog" on "The Milton Berle Show."
In 1968, U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
In 2004, former President Ronald Reagan died of pneumonia complicated by Alzheimer's disease at age 93.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Adam Smith (1723-1790), economist/philosopher; John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), economist; Richard Scarry (1919-1994), children's author; Bill Moyers (1934- ), TV journalist/author; Spalding Gray (1941-2004), actor/writer; Robert Kraft (1941- ), businessman; Ken Follett (1949- ), author; Suze Orman (1951- ), financial adviser/author; Kenny G (1956- ), musician; Jeff Garlin (1962- ), actor/comedian; Rick Riordan (1964- ), author; Brian McKnight (1969- ), singer-songwriter; Mark Wahlberg (1971- ), actor; Pete Wentz (1979- ), singer-songwriter/musician.
TODAY'S FACT: The Alzheimer's Association estimates that 5.4 million Americans (5.2 million of whom are age 65 or older) are living with Alzheimer's disease.
TODAY'S SPORTS: In 1993, Julie Krone rode Colonial Affair to victory in the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first female jockey ever to win a Triple Crown race.
TODAY'S QUOTE: "Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking." -- John Maynard Keynes
TODAY'S NUMBER: 20 -- approximate percentage of the Israeli population that is Arab.
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The load cell PRE is an electrical transducer for the measurement of forces. It is mainly used to monitor anchor forces, in conventional and in prestressed structures (of any type). A load cell can also be used in other applications such as for anchor load testing, as well as lifting and load distribution on large containers.
For manual measurement the user friendly readout unit Indipoc is used to display the load directly in kN. Due to its standard signal remote measurement is easily possible.A permanent load should not be more than 80% of the load cells nominal capacity (FS). For a short period the load cell may be loaded up to 110% of its nominal load without zero point shifting. The more rigid the supports (below and above of the load cell) the better the precision.
The load cell PRE is designed for the use on construction sites. Basically it is maintenance free, splashproof, temperature compensated and of robust mechanical design.
Strain gauges are applied in a temperature compensated arrangement directly on a thermically treated steel cylinder. When a load is applied, a change in resistance on the strain gauges results due to the deformation of the steel cylinder.The electrical signal is adjusted in order for the actual load to be read directly in kN on the readout unit. | <urn:uuid:6c27a4c8-8083-47a5-9cfd-7f3cb33b9f9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dev-huggenberger.iplusservice.it/load-cell/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.894611 | 267 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Developmental and Structural Section
Prenner, Gerhard , Rudall, Paula, J. .
Morphology and evolution of the cyathium in Euphorbieae (Euphorbiaceae-Malpighiales).
AN outstanding morphological feature of Euphorbieae is its inflorescence, termed a cyathium, which resembles a bisexual flower and contrasts strongly in organization with inflorescences of the vast majority of other Euphorbiaceae and other angiosperms. The cyathium consists of a cuplike structure of fused bracts, often with distinct extrafloral nectar glands and showy petaloid appendages; within the cup, a single terminal female flower is surrounded by four or five male structures which are normally interpreted as inflorescences. Perianth parts are absent, at least in Euphorbiinae, in which flowers consist solely of a stalked gynoecium (in female flowers) or a single stamen (in male flowers), though a perianth is present in the related subtribe Anthosteminae and in female flowers of subtribe Neoguillauminiinae. In Euphorbiinae, constrictions below the filament or gynoecium have been regarded as clues to the position of a suppressed perianth. The uniqueness of the cyathium makes it a good subject for posing homology questions about the flower–inflorescence boundary. We present detailed ontogenetic studies of cyathia from representatives of all subtribes of Euphorbieae: Euphorbiinae (Euphorbia, Synadenium, Monadenium, Pedilanthus), Anthosteminae (Dichostemma glaucescens), and Neoguillauminiinae (Neoguillauminia cleopatra), together with comparative data on flowers and inflorescences of selected representatives of other Euphorbiaceae. Based on these studies we discuss the evidence for a pseudanthial nature of the cyathium and present hypotheses on the origin and evolution of the cyathium in Euphorbiaceae. We also discuss the morphological evidence for recent molecular results which indicate that Euphorbia is paraphyletic with respect to other currently recognized genera (i.e., Chamaesyce, Cubanthus, Endadenium, Monadenium, Pedilanthus and Synadenium) nested within it.
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1 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Jodrell Laboratory, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, United Kindom,
2 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Jodrell Laboratory, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, United Kingdom,
Presentation Type: Oral Paper:Papers for Sections
Location: 303/Bell Memorial Union
Date: Monday, July 31st, 2006
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UW Health is committed to being a diverse, equitable, inclusive and anti-racist workplace and is an Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. Our integrity shines through in patient care interactions and our daily work practices as we work to embrace the knowledge, unique perspectives and qualities each employee and faculty member brings to work each day. Applications from Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) individuals, LGBTQ+ and non-binary identities, women, persons with disabilities, military service members and veterans are strongly encouraged. EOE, including disability/vet. | <urn:uuid:8b6414d2-5b9c-4770-b068-c2090a349191> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://careers.uwhealth.org/diversity-inclusion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94577 | 509 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Carmen is the best-known work by French composer Georges Bizet, and one of the most famous operas in the entire art form – numbers such as the Habanera and the Toreador Song have permeated the popular consciousness as little else has. The opera’s heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially proved too much for the stage, and it was a critical failure on its 1875 premiere. Bizet died shortly after, and never learned of the spectacular success his Carmen would achieve: the opera has been performed more than five hundred times at Covent Garden alone.
This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly physical production, originally created for Frankfurt Opera. The Australian director is one of the world’s most sought-after opera directors, whose Royal Opera debut with Shostakovich’s The Nose in 2016 was greeted with delight. For Carmen he has devised a far-from-traditional version, incorporating music written by Bizet for the score but not usually heard, and giving a new voice to the opera’s endlessly fascinating central character.
The young soldier Don José intends to marry Micaëla, a girl from his home village. But when he meets the sensual and fiercely independent Carmen, he sacrifices everything to be with her.
Carmen grows bored of Don José and falls in love with Escamillo. Unable to bear her leaving him, Don José tracks Carmen down and murders her. | <urn:uuid:1313d919-be26-4a4f-ac8c-02a06c359791> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.billet.dk/carmen-royal-opera | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953826 | 315 | 1.84375 | 2 |
The Coalition Government has moved to strengthen the targeting of rural research, development and extension (RD&E) funding towards on-farm technologies and practices that deliver farmgate returns with the development of clear farmer, fisher and forester‑oriented RD&E priorities. Source: AFDJ eNews
Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Barnaby Joyce, said updating these priorities was an Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper initiative that was designed to improve on-farm productivity and maximise benefits to the community.
“The new priorities will see our Rural Research and Development Corporations (RDCs) take a stronger focus on the areas of advanced technology, biosecurity, soil, water and managing natural resources, as well as promoting industry and on-farm adoption of R&D,” Minister Joyce said.
“These priorities were developed in consultation with farmers, researchers and industry through the Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper process, which saw us receive more than 1,000 submissions as well as talking face-to-face with more than 1,100 people across the country.
“Just as other national research priorities are periodically reviewed to ensure they reflect the changing needs of Australians, our rural RD&E priorities are reviewed to ensure that collective investment in R&D continues to deliver maximum returns and benefits to primary producers and the Australian community.
“The RDCs will be required to plan and report on RD&E expenditure against the new priorities, which are consistent with the government’s National Science and Research Priorities and National Innovation and Science Agenda. I have written to the chairs of the 15 rural RDCs to inform them of the new priorities.
“A strong R&D system drives future productivity growth, and effective natural resource management.
“R&D investment delivers productivity returns that far exceed the cost of the investment: for every dollar the government invests in agricultural R&D, farmers generate a $12 return within 10 years.
“The government and industry together invest around $550 million annually through the RDCs.
“We are already delivering on our promise to increase R&D funding, through the Rural R&D for Profit Programme. Under the White Paper we have doubled funding for this programme to $200 million and extended it to 2021-22.
“The new priorities are now also reflected in the Rural R&D for Profit Programme, which encourages innovative partnerships between RDCs and other organisations.
“More than $26 million in project funding has so far been announced under round one. Round two of the programme closed on 1 December and I look forward to announcing successful projects in the first half of 2016.”
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US Congressional committees in the House and Senate approved the Hong Kong Human Rights & Democracy Act supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, warning the Communist Government of China that any military crackdown could result in serious consequences.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday (Sept 25) advanced legislation that would require annual assessments of whether Hong Kong is sufficiently autonomous from Beijing to justify its unique treatment under US law.
This bill amends the United States-Hong Kong Policy Act of 1992 to direct the Department of State to report to Congress (within 90 days and annually thereafter through 2023) on conditions in Hong Kong that are of U.S. interest.
Such report shall include matters in which Hong Kong is given separate treatment under U.S. laws from that accorded to China.
With legilation of the Hong Kong bill, the State Department shall allow otherwise qualified Hong Kong residents to obtain visas to work or study in the United States, even if the applicant had been arrested for participating in certain nonviolent protests supporting human rights or the rule of law.
The U.S. President shall report to Congress a list of individuals responsible for abducting and torturing people for exercising internationally recognized human rights in Hong Kong. The bill bars such individuals from entering the United States and imposes sanctions on them.
The President shall freeze the U.S.-based assets of identified individuals.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam, police commissioner Stephen Lo and other major Hong Kong government officials will definitely be on the list of sanctions.
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Along with summer time predictions recommending less than typical rainfalls as well as hotter compared to typical temps, home owners are now being cautioned concerning the hazards associated with subsidence — or even the actual tragedy associated with property degree. Due to irregular warmth, subsidence may cause large splits as well as main harm to houses. It may happen once the floor under a house dries away because of warm or even dried out climate, as well as gets unpredictable consequently.
In addition, qualities along with trees and shrubs are in greater danger simply because origins associated with trees and shrubs develop looking for drinking water once the climate is actually dried out or even warm — eventually getting dampness in the dirt as well as drying out the floor away additional.
Nevertheless, there is not a lot that may avoid subsidence through happening, because climate is actually unmanageable. In addition, the expense associated with fixing harm through subsidence could be skies higher, which could eventually trigger much more difficulties with regard to home owners — especially throughout the financial crisis. However you may still find actions home owners may take to safeguard on their own in the expenses related to subsidence.
The initial step is actually to possess a thorough house insurance plan in position. In the event that subsidence happens as well as demands you to definitely possess main maintenance carried out in your home, insurance coverage covers the expense as well as extra a person the actual massive expenses. Nevertheless, it is important in order to supply house insurance plans that really include subsidence.
In no way presume that the plan covers a person, among the most detrimental items to uncover is actually that you are not really guarded if you want safety the majority of. Then when trying to find a house insurance plan, usually check into the facts associated with what’s as well as is not protected. Should you curently have a house insurance plan in position, get in touch with your own insurance provider to verify which subsidence include is roofed inside your strategy. If your present or even potential insurance provider doesn’t include subsidence, it is possible to discover professional insurance companies that perform.
An additional action which home owners may take would be to “underpin” their home. This can be a procedure that involves cement becoming put to the fundamentals of the home with regard to bolstering reasons, and really should just end up being carried out with a expert creating organization. It is also recommended which home owners prune the actual trees and shrubs close to their home regularly, frustrating the actual origins through de-stabilising the floor. Lastly, home owners ought to look for seeping drains, which could additionally deteriorate the floor underneath the home.
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Proceeding some evenings, you possibly will notice a clear light in the atmosphere, one that looks like a star among a reddish sparkle. For a matter of fact, this is the red planet, It is named subsequent to the Roman spirit of war – Mars. This planet would be the fourth from the sun, at about 228 million kilometers away.
If you could foresee an image of the planet, you would believe that sections of it looked similar to the moon. Contrasting the soft moon, the sub stratosphere of Mars is made up of several gases, which are largely carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and argon, emerging like skinny blue and white clouds drifting transversely its sky. Amid fierce windstorms, the sand twirls up from the plains, filling the air with earth. This orange-tinted dust that fills its skies is what we catch sight of from afar.
The dimension of Mars is merely about half the size of our Planet. This is effortlessly visible with the meade lx200. As this is so, one year on top of Mars is almost half the year on our planet, although this day is virtually the exact as ours. The tilt of the planet’s axis is comparable to our world, this makes the seasons there similar to ours. Yet, due to its size, the seasons go on almost twice as long. There are also immense fluctuations in climate between the day and night.
Volcanoes are very frequent on Mars, but compared to the ones on Earth, these volcanoes are greatly higher and extend much wider than our Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth. The size difference happens because on Mars, there is a absence in tectonic plates. Furthermore this allows the volcano movement to continue longer on the same spot, allowing the volcano more time to grow. Besides, the surface gravity on the planet is merely one third of Earth’s, so the growth is not pulled down to the center of gravity just as much.
A single canyon from this planet is as widespread as the full continent of North America. It is assumed to be generated by catastrophic outbursts of water, ice, also debris from underground. There are also long, meandering marks that appear like dry river valleys, thought to be caused by rainfall long ago when the climate was hot enough for water to exist. | <urn:uuid:f9dad47e-6573-4f60-bc8f-4c0e57a2ae99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lookatstars.com/meet-mars-the-red-planet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961918 | 477 | 3.40625 | 3 |
(TMU) — The U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) has stressed in its latest report that hacktivists and “public disclosure organizations” like WikiLeaks pose a “significant threat” similar to that of the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorists, as well as Russia, Iran, and China.
“Ideologically motivated entities such as hacktivists, leaktivists, and public disclosure organizations” pose “significant threats” to the U.S. at the same level as non-state terrorist organizations, according to the report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s biannual National Counterintelligence Strategy.
Although the report fails to mention WikiLeaks by name, it references “unauthorized disclosures of US cyber tools” and “public disclosure organizations.” In others words, the CIA hacking tools released under Vault 7 and Vault 8 and the NSA surveillance dragnet revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
In 2017, the U.S. Senate considered a bill that would have classified WikiLeaks as a “non-state hostile intelligence service” bundled as part of the 2018 Intelligence Authorization Act. Presumably, that classification would authorize the use of force against WikiLeaks.
Those same words were echoed by former CIA director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the same year.
“It’s time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is: A non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,” Pompeo said at the time.
The NCSC argues that leaks “open up new opportunities for adversaries to use information as a strategic resource in achieving their economic security aims, and exert leverage over their competitors.” The report also insinuates that “emerging technologies” like AI, encryption, and the Internet of Things will benefit U.S. adversaries more than the U.S.
“The United States is facing increasingly aggressive and complex threats from foreign intelligence services, as well as state and non-state actors,” said William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.
The NCSC also indicated that Russia and China are using “all instruments of national power to target the United States.” Cuba, Iran, and North Korea were referred to as “significant threats” on the same level as terrorists, hacktivists, and “transnational criminal organizations.”
This comes as WikiLeaks founder and journalist Julian Assange is set to face trial for extradition on February 24 for publishing documents that exposed corruption and U.S. war crimes. Protests are planned all over the world as the future of press freedom lies in the outcome of just one man’s case.
Last year in April, Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in violation of 2 UN rulings following the withdrawal of his asylum status by the Ecuadorian government.
Assange faces 175 years in the United States if convicted of exposing war crimes and various corruption within the United States, 17 charges of which are under the Espionage Act. In total, Assange faces 18 charges including an absurd charge under the CFAA for “computer hacking” by helping his source, Chelsea Manning, protect herself against being discovered to leak him information.
We are now watching as not only our press freedoms are eroded but those who seek to expose corruption are being labeled as terrorists.
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Smart city has four pillars, including social infrastructure, physical infrastructure, institutional infrastructure (including governance), and economic infrastructure. The citizens focus on each of these pillars.
FREMONT, CA: Like almost everything else, COVID-19 has shaken things in smart cities. Before the health crisis, experts predicted focusing on self-driving, reducing traffic congestion, and using more than blockchain currency technology – many are either paused or scrapped. In addition, multiple large-scale smart city projects are canceled due to reduced city income, combined with increased spending to combat pandemic effects. However, many cities pursue other initiatives despite COVID-19 and in some cases. Some are listed below.
Real-time monitoring use cases in smart cities are practically endless. Cities use real-time monitoring systems to track everything from air to light. This data allows local government departments to streamline simple tasks such as diming streetlight bulbs or alerting residents. Atop the minds of many cities, leaders is live-streamed transit monitoring.
Some cities use live video streaming to evaluate and assess traffic levels in different sectors, making traffic and transit systems more efficient. Municipalities use these systems to open roads to different types of traffic depending on day or time, moving only from cars to bikes and pedestrians and back. Monitoring can also match other smart city advances. Traffic monitoring can direct vehicles to the best route. Live data on available charging stations for electric cars or a hub’s current stock of electric scooters helps keep residents moving through the city without delay.
Many cities already prioritized government services. However, the massive work required kept many from starting such projects. COVID-19 has forced these organizations to move services online quickly. People can now get married by mail, get a new passport by completing an online application, and even get a Social Security replacement card. Business owners can now look after their business without ever leaving home, sometimes by virtual appointment. Cities don’t just spend time digitalizing the services of their residents but also benefit city agencies. Online moving systems have obvious advantages, like saving time and paper. This also allows governments to use AI and ML technologies and automate robotic processes. Many tasks are delegated to complete a “robot” software, freeing staff to work on more nuanced tasks.
Cities have started investing more in live streaming to help first responders. This allows officers to know where to go and gives situation awareness. The same idea is implemented in other public health cities, communicating with hospitals and EMTs rather than police.
Faster speeds, lower latency, and enhanced 5G reliability make it a must-have for cities worldwide. 5G’s power is limitless. Essentially every trend discussed above can be reinforced or expanded in a fully-equipped 5G city. Some cities go a step further with their 5G rollout and integrate traffic cameras, Wi-Fi hotspots, and 5G antennas into one instrument. | <urn:uuid:9bd4b28a-a09c-43e6-ac50-703e19e58ad9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cloudcomputin.com/2021/06/how-innovative-trends-are-reshaping-smart-cities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939517 | 614 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Technology media is a popular subject matter for many people, nevertheless how can you inform if it’s good https://www.technologyactive.com/artificial-intelligence-news-exciting-things-to-come/ or perhaps bad? Technology journalism is definitely the product and activity of journalists who write about subjects pertaining to technology. Below are a few of the most important technology news sources:
Computer and video games will be heavily influenced by simply technological trends. News about new processor chips and computer electricity are strongly watched in the video game sector. The latest information from these types of industries can certainly help people know the way powerful our future personal computers will be. In the same way, technology information stories about new gizmos, gaming devices, and other technological developments are usually fascinating. They will also provide you with a unique regarding the medical industry. And last but not least, technology news will let you make an enlightened decision about the latest gizmo.
Technology media can be confusing. You will find countless websites and websites providing the latest posts. Not all of them are trustworthy. Fortunately, there are some trustworthy sources that can assist you navigate through the maze of technical news. To help make the most of the subscription to technology news, follow these guidelines. Here’s an illustration:
Researchers are suffering from a new method to make nanofibers. MIT researchers are working about smart fabrics. These supplies have the potential to revolutionize the way in which we live. For instance, these textiles could be used in the medical field to detect malignancy. Another important information is that wearable electronics happen to be advancing having a huge rate. MIT Videos Lab doctors have also created a process which allows them to make 2 . 6th nanometer nanowires. | <urn:uuid:cd53a7ba-aba0-4bca-bb3e-865c85fff42e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nusatek.id/2022/07/28/making-the-most-of-technology-media/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931377 | 360 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Fiction – Kindle edition; Corsair; 288 pages; 2011.
Ira Levin’s The Boys from Brazil is a classic thriller first published in 1976. Some of you may better know it as a film, starring Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier, which was nominated for three Academy Awards in 1978. I have not seen the film, and I didn’t really know anything of the book’s plot, other than it was about Nazis. I picked it up for 99 pence earlier this year and thought I would save it for a time when I was looking for something fast-paced and easy to read — such as a long-haul flight.
Mysterious murder plot hatched by fugitive Nazis
The story, which opens in September 1974, is based around a mysterious plot hatched by a group of Nazi war criminals now hiding out in South America. The head Nazi is none other than Dr Josef Mengele, the “Angel of Death”, who carried out horrible experiments on inmates at Auschwitz during the Second World War. In a secret meeting, held in a Japanese restaurant in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he tells the gathering:
‘It’s the most important operation the Organization has ever undertaken, and “important” is a thousand times too weak a word to describe it. The hope and the destiny of the Aryan race lie in the balance. No exaggeration here, my friends; literal truth: the destiny of the Aryan folk – to hold sway over the Slays and the Semites, the Black and the Yellow – will be fulfilled if the operation succeeds, will not be fulfilled if the operation fails. So “important” isn’t a strong enough word, is it? “Holy”, maybe? Yes, that’s closer. It’s a holy operation you’re taking part in.’
The operation involves murdering civil servants living around the world, on or around their 65th birthdays.
‘Ninety-four men have to die on or near certain dates in the next two and a half years,’ he said, reading. ‘Sixteen of them are in West Germany, fourteen in Sweden, thirteen in England, twelve in the United States, ten in Norway, nine in Austria, eight in Holland and six each in Denmark and Canada. Total, ninety-four. The first is to die on or near October sixteenth; the last, on or near the twenty-third of April, 1977.’
The meeting is secretly taped by a young American journalist, who tips off the Vienna-based “Nazi hunter” Yakov Liebermann. While the pair are on the telephone discussing the matter, the journalist is killed, setting into motion a chain of events which span the globe.
To say much more is impossible without giving away crucial plot spoilers. But what I can say is this: part of the fun in reading this book is trying to figure out why these seemingly unimportant men are to be killed. Are they connected to the Nazi Party in some way? Or have they wronged Mengele in the past? Will Liebermann figure it out before he, too, is murdered by these assassins?
The Boys from Brazil isn’t your average thriller. It has elements of science fiction in it and because it is based on real characters — including Simon Wiesenthal, whom Yakov Liebermann is supposed to represent — it also feels rooted in “truth”. And the reason for the murder plot, when it is revealed, is chilling to the core.
However, some elements of the story, such as genetic engineering, are slightly outdated now, but I imagine that in the mid-1970s this book must have felt not only fresh and exciting but within the realm of possibility — so many of those Nazi’s were on the run and Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor, had devoted his life to tracking them down and bringing them to justice.
I should also point out that Levin’s prose style is overly simplistic to the point of being dull. That’s not to say he isn’t a cracking storyteller — he is — but to keep the momentum and suspense going in this fast-paced plot, Levin doesn’t worry too much about descriptions or scene setting; he just wants to get to the point. Some people will appreciate this style, others will hate it. I didn’t mind it, although his tendency to hyphenate words — wedding-ringed, wet-darkened shoulders and so on — grated on me after awhile.
All in all, I enjoyed this book — it kept me thoroughly entertained on a flight between Rio de Janeiro and Paris — and you can’t ask much more than that. | <urn:uuid:deb6bd9a-5357-4f26-b6c0-b28b1d7cdd12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://readingmattersblog.com/2012/11/25/the-boys-from-brazil-by-ira-levin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963748 | 1,000 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The head mirror used by ent doctors is concave or convex?
The hear mirror used by End doctors is a Concave mirror. It is because the concave mirror combines all the light rays from the object in the direction parallel to the principal axis onto its focus and also focuses the object rays in the desired part.
Uses of Concave Mirror
- Dentist or ENT specialist Head Mirror
- Makeup Mirror
- Reflector in torches.
- Headlight in vehicles
- Search Light
// Note: Images formed by Concave mirrors are diminished and inverted, yet they are used telescopes.
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The origins of folk art and its development in Troyan and its vicinity go far back to the 14th and early 15th centuries. Troyan arose as a settlement along the Roman military road running along the present-day site of the Troyan monastery. Throughout the National Revival period (18th -19th centuries) Troyan was known as an active center of the crafts. It had its market of craftsmen`s shops and later developed the Troyan fair around the Troyan monastery. Troyan wares were sold at markets in Istanbul, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Romania. The museum exposition, opened in 1968 is only a small part of the rich collections of traditional and contemporary folk art. The popularity of the Troyan ceramic wares school which arose during the National Revival period drew on talented and experienced craftsmen who created practical and beautiful vessels. The prevailing gamut are soft earth tones - yellow, brown, green, while decoration is of three types - angoba, incised, sgraphito. During the 20th century increasing competition on the market led to changes in the style of traditional Troyan pottery. The gamut became brighter. Various patterns of the Troyan design emerged and were brought to perfection - this pottery is still produced to this day.
Troyan Craftsmen were also famous for their woodwork. Skilled Troyan cartwrights produced carts, yokes, a betrothal trunk, wooden granary vessels, wooden cowl staffs, the wooden vodnik (a rack for copper water vessels), long wooden seats along the walls and carved iconostases. Household objects made on a lathe such as paralia ( a low round three-legged table), wooden wheat grinders, various types of small wooden saltcellars, wooden wine flask, wooden bowls, distaffs had a simple style of decoration. The Revival period heralded intensive work on public buildings and churches. Master carvers from Novo Selo (the present day town of Apriltsi) created iconostases, holy gates of altars and bishops` thrones of a number of churches and monasteries.
Metalwork is represented by blacksmithery, the production of axes, knives and scissors. The artisans' market in Troyan and Novo Selo, in particular produced vessels made by coppersmiths, which in its style has the characteristics of the Balkan Range art school, represented by works made in Tarnovo, Karlovq and Kazanlak. The armourers\\\' trade did not develop as a craft in the Troyan region. Separate workshops existed in Troyan, Novo Selo, Cherni Osum and Terziisko, where master armourers followed the traditions of firearms in the Balkan peninsula. Embroidered and decorated cloths served the needs of the home. The oldest of them was the kozjak (goat-hair woven rug), the halishte (heavy woolen rug) and other types of rug in natural colours - grey, white, brown. A motley carpet rug with typical red, green, black and yellow colours was very popular. The same colour combinations were also typical for the carpet-rug which differs in its decorative motive and weaving technique. Troyan kitenik weavers (a rug woven with knots) usually prefer a plant motif - garden flowers and vine leaves. Small-size cloths - pillows, linen and cotton kerchiefs with multi-colour decorations, hand-woven woolen cloths are an invaluable treasure created over the centuries on looms in Troyan. | <urn:uuid:0bc9efd0-2824-47a3-a9a8-7d27b6b48017> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.troyan-bg.com/engpage.php?page=trmuzei | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96414 | 751 | 3.03125 | 3 |
A lack of transparency and insufficiently proven lab results have created a credibility crisis for Sputnik V vaccine within Russia. Reuters
Clara Ferreira Marques, Tribune News Service
Before thousands descended on St. Petersburg for Russia’s annual economic forum this month, the local governor boasted to radio listeners that no one had held a similar-scale event since the pandemic struck. A few days later, President Vladimir Putin told the audience that his country was in a better virus position than most and would quickly open to vaccine tourists.
The triumphalism proved premature. Russia has seen a spike in COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks, with numbers at the highest in months and the added threat of troublesome new variants. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin declared an extended holiday to curb what he called an “explosive” growth in infections, and on Wednesday went further, ordering the city’s service-sector and municipal employees to get vaccinated. The Kremlin has said for months that there are no plans for compulsory jabs.
The problem is not the country’s vaccines, which have been available since late last year. Published data suggests they’re effective too. Rather, it’s the devastatingly slow pace of inoculation, undermined by a toxic mix of complacency and chronic distrust in authority. Even the flagship Sputnik V shot, which Moscow has used to bolster its standing abroad, has been met at home with scepticism. It’s an embarrassment for the Kremlin, and an unwanted public reminder of the limits of its power.
Russia has been hit hard by the pandemic. It revised its 2020 COVID-19 death toll higher by nearly 40% earlier this month. New cases, which have remained at more than 7,000 a day since late September, surged to near 13,400 on Wednesday. Moscow and the surrounding region accounted for more than half of the total.
Yet only 10% of Russians have been fully vaccinated. In Moscow, a city of some 12 million, Sobyanin put the number of vaccinated people at more than 1.8 million. By contrast, the city of Beijing has fully vaccinated more than 80% of its adults.
Past infections also provide some level of protection, so this third wave may not be as bad. But the government’s going to have to crack vaccine hesitancy to keep from lagging behind a reopening West and a rapidly vaccinating China. A poll published last month suggested 62% of respondents were unwilling to get vaccinated, while a separate survey showed 55% of respondents weren’t afraid of contracting the virus. Without widespread inoculation, the COVID-19 tail will be long — and Moscow’s jab diplomacy will look painfully hollow. Russia’s June surge is a warning to other wealthier vaccine laggards, including Hong Kong, where mistrust in government runs high, or slow-moving Japan. But it’s a pricklier problem for Putin, especially ahead of September parliamentary elections. The upbeat all-is-well narrative of the past months makes it harder to convince people to get their jabs now without something of an about-turn.
It’s a painful own-goal for the country. Russia rushed to become the first nation to approve a COVID-19 shot, but it dragged its feet on peer-reviewed data. And while it moved swiftly to start its mass vaccination campaign, Putin didn’t lead the way. When he was finally inoculated, he chose to do so behind closed doors, an uncharacteristic display of coyness. He would not, he said, be a “performing monkey.”
Vaccines have not been a sufficiently pressing priority. Now officials will have to tolerate alternative local approaches, as in hard-hit Moscow, where Sobyanin has taken a tougher line throughout the pandemic.
Ultimately, the Kremlin can silence political opponents, but it can’t quash popular discontent or rapidly fix the distrust that keeps people from inoculation centers. That will have economic as well as political consequences for a country that, while it’s done better than many during the pandemic, is grappling with rising food prices and contracting real disposable incomes.
The shipment is due to be brought by a PA delegate into the occupied West Bank through Jordan, the official said on condition of anonymity, adding that the import had been approved by Israel’s health ministry.
India, which has reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world after the United States, has so far vaccinated more than 12 million health and front-line workers.
Global stock markets jumped on Wednesday after the release of more upbeat data about the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. Traders have this month been encouraged by announcements of progress toward possible vaccines and on Wednesday
The United States Federal Reserve’s tightening of monetary policy through raising interest rates which began in March this year is to continue despite the flat inflation line for July compared to June this year and the suddenly positive job statistics for July. The rest of the world, especially developing economies in Asia,
The Democrats’ long-sought tax and energy legislation finally passed by the Senate is a critical breakthrough in America’s effort to meaningfully reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. That’s the good news. More worrisome is what the bill fails to do to limit fugitive methane from oil and gas production. The legislation would levy
Here’s the best possible spin on the staggering $369 billion in energy and climate handouts included in the Inflation “Reduction” Act: It’s not as bad as last year’s draft. There’s nothing to reduce gasoline and electricity bills. Nothing to increase American energy production. Nothing to spur innovation. Instead, it will increase
The United Arab Emirates President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan is a role model for his nation. A visionary leader always leads from the front and makes his nation proud (“UAE President pilots a helicopter in the skies of the emirates,” Aug.12, Gulf Today website). UAE President His Highness Sheikh | <urn:uuid:34c2c01a-60e6-4222-a50b-f8265e7c7ea3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gulftoday.ae/opinion/2021/06/20/covid-19-pandemic-russians-dont-want-their-vaccine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962098 | 1,278 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Connecting With Classmates Before School Starts
A 4th-year student's tips to kickstart connections with future classmates before September.
Article written by Western University political science graduate and incoming Western Law student, Maddie Hill.
A new chapter
As if starting a new academic program, oftentimes in a new city, isn't overwhelming enough, university often means surrounding yourself with new people. While it can be exciting and fresh, it can also be nerve-wracking.
If you're starting a new post-secondary experience this fall, I'm right there with you. However, things are a little different for me this time around. I've already been through one major post-secondary transition, as in 2019 I moved to London, Ontario to pursue my undergraduate degree at Western University. Since then, I've spent the past few years in a variety of positions that centralize around supporting high school students with their transition to university life. I'd like to say I'm somewhat qualified to provide some helpful insights on ways you can connect with future classmates before school starts.
Join class Facebook pages
One of the easiest ways to connect with your future classmates is through class Facebook pages. When I was offered admission to Western, there were university-run Facebook groups I could join. There were staff members and current students in the groups to answer questions.
A lot of people will make introductory posts about themselves in these groups: don't be afraid to comment on someone else's post if you have something in common with them! These groups are often a jumping-off place for other group chats to form. People may form groups that are exclusively for students in a specific program or residence. You can also try and find a roommate through these group chats!
If you don't have a Facebook account before post-secondary, I would recommend creating one. In my experience, many on-campus student groups tend to use Facebook/Messenger to communicate.
Attend school events
Schools often run events to prepare students for their transition. If you can, try to attend these events! Before my undergrad, I attended Summer Academic Orientation (SAO). During this event, I met with an advisor to go over course selection and participated in information sessions with other incoming students. In the fall, I ran into one of the students from my SAO group on campus!
Community Connections is another program run by Western to welcome incoming students to campus before school starts. I've worked with this program in the past and, while it wasn't around when I was entering undergrad, I've seen the ways that it can facilitate connections. You can meet other students, get a feel for campus, and even spend the night in residence!
Talk to current students
You can establish a sense of connection on campus by talking to upper-year students. These people "know the ropes" and can give you advice that helps ease your transition. If you don't know anyone who attends the school you are interested in, many schools have student ambassador programs that you can reach out to. Through these programs, you can message current students about their experiences.
I'm a student ambassador at Western University and love talking to incoming students. If your school doesn't offer an ambassador program, check out LinkedIn to connect with current students... I promise we're nice and want to help!
If you don't feel comfortable reaching out to current students: at Western, you can read our Unibuddy and Thrive Online blogs to hear from them!
See you in September!
While it can be nice to get a head-start on your social game throughout the summer, don't get nervous if you haven't connected with your peers yet. Additionally, don't think that you're missing out if you're uncomfortable reaching out to other students online. I promise, come the fall, you'll have plenty of opportunities to meet new people. You'll end up meeting some of your best friends — whether that be online before school starts or on-campus someday.
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Developing Research Questions
Sociologists get their research topics from areas of interest in their everyday life. There are very few topics that cannot be analyzed sociologically. For this discussion, you are asked to pick a topic that relates to the social world and is interesting to you. This could include any area of your everyday life (television, religion, your academic or career field). Write a research question based on your topic. Remember that you should be asking a sociological question—one that looks at societal implications (rather than psychological or medical). Respond to the following:
- How could you design a sociological study of this topic?
- Would you use a qualitative or quantitative method
Stanford Prison Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of many historical research studies criticized on ethical grounds. View the slideshow of the experiment on the Web site (see Resources area) and address the following questions:
- What were the researchers interested in studying?
- What ethical issues can you identify with this experiment?
- Identify an alternative approach to this study.
- What are some of the benefits and limitations of using a different research method? For example, what additional information could the researchers obtain by using a different method? What would they miss?
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MicroPython | 6 min | 7184
I was looking at my last articles about MicroPython and my new articles about Jupyter and Docker, and I thought if it is possible to make a mix between Jupyter and the ESP boards. I use usually Visual Studio Code to program the ESP but for analytics I use Jupyter. I looked if it was possible to connect the Jupyter kernel to the ESP using the serial port and: Yes!, it is possible. This can be a great tool to teach kids to access data from connected sensors and analyze it using a browser with Jupyter.
This is what I will try to accomplish in this tutorial:
- Install MicroPython
- Install the Jupyter Kernel:
- on a host PC
- inside a Docker Container
- Connect the Jupyter kernel to an ESP32
- Use a ST7735 display using Jupyter
- Get data from sensors
Let's start! but first a video example:
Hardware & Software
To test if everything is working (on Linux/Mac OSX):
# MAC OSX screen /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART 115200 >>> print (‘hello’) >>> hello # LINUX # if not installed: sudo apt-get install screen screen /dev/ttyUSB0 >>> print (‘hello’) >>> hello
[Ctrl+C] to break a program [Ctrl+A] [K] [Y] to quit and return to the terminal.
on Windows, you can use Putty and connect to the corresponding
COMXport (check under Device Manager) with a speed of
To interact with the ESP32/8266 running MicroPython over its serial REPL, you need to install a specific Jupyter Kernel. The Jupyter documentation has a section for the "Community-maintained kernels". In this list, there is a kernel for the ESP32/ESP8266 microcontroller, which is the GitHub project: goatchurchprime/jupyter_micropython_kernel. There are two solutions for installing this Jupiter kernel:
- Install it on your host pc directly or using virtualenv.
- Running a Docker container with all libraries installed (recommended).
Fig. 1: An ESP32 controlling a ST7735 display.
Install the Jupyter kernel on your PC
Note (*): A newer fork of this repository is available on andrewleech/jupyter_micropython_remote. I tried to use it, but I got some problems with the `pydevd` library, and the `mpy_kernel` tried to connect to a port on my host PC that is not opened (no service is running on that port). I commented the line, it worked (no error appears), but I wasn't able to run code on the ESP32.
- Create a virtualenv or pipenv, if you want to, but recommended!
- Clone the repository using:
git clone https://github.com/goatchurchprime/jupyter_micropython_kernel.git # (*)
- Install the library (in editable mode) using the following command:
pip install -e jupyter_micropython_kernel
-emode makes easier to update the library. pip does not copy the files from the local source directory but places a special file, called an egg-link, in your distribution path. Then, to update your library, you just need to go inside the
jupyter_micropython_kernelfolder and type
git update. This command pulls the repository updating the files.
- Install the kernel into Jupyter itself using the following:
python -m jupyter_micropython_kernel.install
- To check if everything was correct, type the following:
jupyter kernelspec list
MicroPython remotekernel should be listed.
- To run it, you need to type the following:
This opens a browser pointing to the
Run the Jupyter kernel inside a Docker Container
If you have Docker running on your system, type the following:
docker run -d -p 8888:8888 --privileged --device=/dev/ttyUSB0 -v /home/lemariva/notebooks:/notebooks lemariva/upyjupyter
After running the command line, you get a hashed text, which is the container ID. You need to copy it, for the step 2.1. The
--deviceargument should be pointing to the serial interface (e.g. on Linux
/dev/ttyUSB0), where the ESP32 is connected. Before you start the container, the board should be connected, otherwise the container does not found the device and does not link it. You can disconnect the cable while the container is running, it still works when you connect it back. The argument
-vlink the folder outside the container (
/home/lemariva/notebooks- you need to point this to a local path on your host PC) to the inside folder
/notebooks. This makes your files/notebooks persistent. Otherwise, they are deleted if you re-run or update the container.
You can find more information about Docker installation on this post.
- You need to get a
tokento enter to the Jupyter notebook.
- Type the following to see the token:
docker logs <container id/hash>
<container id/hash>is the hashed text that you got on step 1.
- You can add an environmental variable to the
runline to include a Jupyter password. The run line should look like this:
docker run -d -p 8888:8888 --privileged --device=/dev/ttyUSB0 -e PASSWORD="<your-password>" lemariva/upyjupyter
Then, you need
<your-password>to enter to the notebooks.
- Type the following to see the token:
- Open a browser and go to:
http://localhost:8888and enter the token or password, when asked, you should get something like Fig. 2.
Fig. 2: Jupyter Notebook connected to an ESP32 running MicroPython.
Connect the Jupyter kernel to an ESP32
Inside the Docker image, I included a example notebook to start the connection (if you use the
-voption, you are not going to see it, sorry! but it is here.). You need to type the following:
%serialconnect <device> --baud=115200 --user='micro' --password='python' --wait=0
<device>corresponds to the interface in which the ESP is connected. In my case
If everything is working, you get something like this:
Connecting to --port=/dev/ttyUSB0 --baud=115200 Ready.
You cannot load files to the ESP using the Jupyter, you need to use
Pymakrextension of VSCode or Atom (read this tutorial if you need some help). But, you can write the content of a cell to a file, using:
%sendtofile yourfilename.pyat the end of the Jupyter cell. Another commands are e.g.:
%rebootdeviceto do a soft reboot; and
%lsmagicto list all other functions available.**Note:** Remember that you should only use one connection to the serial port. E.g. if you upload the files using VSCode or Atom, close the connection after the uploading process is finished in order to use the port with Jupyter (you need to reset the connection re-running the `%serialconnect` command). If you try to connect with two programs to the ESP at the same time, you are going to get an error.
Runing some Code on Jupyter
I uploaded the uPySensors repository to the ESP32, and I played a little bit with the ST7735 and some other sensors.
The following code plots the Jupyter logo on the ST7735. The image (BMP 24 bits) is loaded on the board (
jupyter.bmp). The result is shown on Fig. 1.
from uPySensors.ST7735 import TFT,TFTColor from machine import SPI,Pin spi = SPI(1, baudrate=20000000, polarity=0, phase=0, sck=Pin(14), mosi=Pin(13), miso=Pin(12)) tft=TFT(spi,16,17,18) tft.initr() tft.rgb(True) tft.fill(TFT.WHITE) f=open('jupyter.bmp', 'rb') if f.read(2) == b'BM': #header dummy = f.read(8) #file size(4), creator bytes(4) offset = int.from_bytes(f.read(4), 'little') hdrsize = int.from_bytes(f.read(4), 'little') width = int.from_bytes(f.read(4), 'little') height = int.from_bytes(f.read(4), 'little') if int.from_bytes(f.read(2), 'little') == 1: #planes must be 1 depth = int.from_bytes(f.read(2), 'little') if depth == 24 and int.from_bytes(f.read(4), 'little') == 0:#compress method == uncompressed print("Image size:", width, "x", height) rowsize = (width * 3 + 3) & ~3 if height < 0: height = -height flip = False else: flip = True w, h = width, height if w > 128: w = 128 if h > 160: h = 160 tft._setwindowloc((0,0),(w - 1,h - 1)) for row in range(h): if flip: pos = offset + (height - 1 - row) * rowsize else: pos = offset + row * rowsize if f.tell() != pos: dummy = f.seek(pos) for col in range(w): bgr = f.read(3) tft._pushcolor(TFTColor(bgr,bgr,bgr)) spi.deinit()
In this case, I took the DHT11 and measured the temperature and humidity over a period of 10 seconds:
import dht import machine import utime d = dht.DHT11(machine.Pin(4)) # temperatur = humidity = for i in range(0,10): d.measure() temperatur.append(d.temperature()) humidity.append(d.humidity()) utime.sleep_ms(1000) # print(temperatur) print(humidity) >>> [23, 22, 22, 22, 23, 23, 24, 24, 24, 24] >>> [60, 37, 37, 38, 38, 38, 39, 39, 40, 42]
I was blowing the sensor, that's why the values were changing. See Fig. 3 for the Jupyter Notebook.
Fig. 3: Jupyter Notebook connected to an ESP32 running MicroPython.
- MicroPython and its libraries
- MicroPython extra packages - check the "Installing Dependencies on MicroPython" tutorial for help.
- Jupyter kernels
- Jupyter MicroPython kernel
I hope this project can help you to integrate three technologies together in an easy way: ESP32, Docker and Jupyter. I had really fun programming the ESP32 with Jupyter. It is easier and you can always see the last results of the cell that you've run, and if the kernel or the ESP resets, you just need to re-run the cells and you have everything back (ok, with new sensor data ;)).
I still have a ToDo: try to make the new repository work. With the new version, it is possible to use the local Jupyter kernel (using
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When Mr and Mrs Flowers had their first baby they thought it would be cute to name their daughter after flowers. They called her Rose Violet Flowers. The second child was also a girl, so they named her Iris Holly Flowers. Three further daughters followed. To be consistent they stuck to the flora. There was Myrtle Cherry Flowers, Poppy Jasmine Flowers, and Lily Daisy Flowers.
When Mrs Flowers was expecting her sixth – “This is definitely going to be the last” – she hoped for a boy. And a boy it was! They named him Rock because it was a good strong masculine name and offset a little the perceived femininity of the surname. He had no middle name; just good solid Rock.
Needless to say, the plot didn’t work. He was known at school as Pansy Flowers and he hated it. Others taunted him with Rock-a-bye-baby Flowers. On the day he turned eighteen he officially changed his name to Jack Gunn. After that he didn’t know who the heck he was and went around bullying everyone. He twice got sacked from work and was going to do himself in. That’s when he met Annie.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic. internationally recognized and globally respected as the single most impressive catastrophe to affect society in the last 100 years. It has affected day-to-day life and is slowing the global economy astronomically, leaving financial analysts reacting without the ability to calculate the consequential mathematics of their reaction. This pandemic has affected thousands of peoples, who are either sick or are being killed due to the spread of this disease, not to mention their grieving families suffering from the pains of their demise, but also from the heartbreaking imposition of social distancing that prevents a respectable funeral gathering.
This COVID-19 has affected the sources of supply and affects the global economy. There are restrictions on traveling from one country to another country, and more demanding requirements being put in place regarding future travel requirements. Families have fallen apart. Small and big businesses have gone bankrupt. The teachers and educators have shifted to virtual learning, adopting and adapting relentlessly under massive mounds of pressure and demanding timelines. But despite all their efforts to maintain, the students are still feeling the recourse of not assembling in class and being physically accountable to their instructors and peer group. Where they are sustaining academically, they are deteriorating in social skill development by this painful separation.
Doctors and nurses are working long, drudging hours in an attempt to provide health services and respond to the understaffed, but overpopulated hospitals and care facilities. The list goes on and on. Shelters that are in place to offer relief from the elements to the critical homeless community were forced to move back to 60% capacity. Picture this, if a shelter has 1000 people sleeping there every day when the pandemic hit, 400 of them had to go. Go where? Who knows? That is why we want to do all we can to bring a degree of relief to their weary lives and grief-stricken worlds by providing hot food and hygiene products as often as possible and to the extent we have resources available. Your contribution helps immensely, thank you. We always encourage a gift of $5 a month to aid the effort and help fund the mission. Thank you.
With everyone facing their share of hardships, it’s hard to imagine many people having the time to show up, let alone showing up from long distances, but they have. They do. Our friends come and support us. It serves as encouragement and motivates the volunteers when people close to them come and have a hand in the labor. Our friends showed up, and they continue to show up. Thank you
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In a statement that sent shockwaves across Twitter, indeed, across the country, the BJP handle quoted its president Amit Shah as saying on April 11:
“We will ensure implementation of NRC (National Register of Citizens) in the entire country. We will remove every single infiltrator from the country, except Buddha, Hindus and Sikhs.”
One assumes the BJP meant “Buddhists”, but if the tweet is to be taken at face value, coming as it does from their official Twitter handle, Buddha, at least, can heave a sigh of relief. He is in no immediate danger of being evicted from the country.
Although even if he was, he would surely be welcomed elsewhere. For example, in Thailand or Cambodia or maybe just across Palk strait in Sri Lanka where he has devotees and followers aplenty. Buddha, frankly, would be welcome anywhere in the world. Richard Gere and his fellow Buddhists in Hollywood, for example, would be more than happy to receive him.
But that is a moot point because ‘Buddha’ is in no danger of being deported. Neither are Hindus and Sikhs. One can’t help but wonder, though, why the Jains and Parsis were not included in the safe list. Was it an oversight or have they done something to incur the displeasure of the saffron party?
The BJP’s lip service to inclusion and equality that preceded its run-up to power before the 2014 elections, exemplified in its vacuous slogan, ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’, has now been utterly abandoned. It is now open season on not just Muslims but Christians as well – Islam being ‘the religion of the invaders’ and Christianity ‘the religion of the converters’.
While the last five years have seen a growing number of attacks on Muslims across India, assaults on Christians have also become increasingly vicious, especially in states like Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh. Attacks by right-wing outfits on groups of Christian worshippers have been on the rise since 2014 and seem to peak around Christian holy days like Christmas, Good Friday and Easter.
One wonders, though, why a religious minority that comprises barely 2% of the population of India is such a threat to majoritarian groups that claim to speak for 86% of India’s population. Why do those who have become so plentiful and powerful, especially over the last five years, feel so threatened by a paltry religious minority?
Is it because somewhere deep down, they know that the compassion and inclusion offered by Jesus of Nazareth are much more universally appealing than the chauvinism and bigotry offered by Savarkar and Golwalkar?
Could it be that the empathy and humaneness of Jesus’ “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, and the radical forgiveness of his “love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you and pray for them which persecute you,” hold deeper resonance than the Sangh’s cold espousal of Hitler and Mussolini?
Could it be that Christ’s message of reconciliation and brotherhood holds out a deeper hope and healing than the Sangh’s Nietzsche-ian, nationalistic and militaristic philosophies?
Could it be that the human heart yearns for peace and harmony much more than it thrives on strife and conflict?
While the BJP is going all out to separate ‘Buddha’, Hindus and Sikhs from their Christian and Muslim peers by promising them a place in ‘New India’, there are those like Avtar Singh who responded to the BJP’s threat by saying:
Kindly don’t use Sikhs for your votes… we will be happy if you remove “Sikhs” from your tweet… muslims are our brothers as much as Hindus or other religions.”
Perhaps the BJP has realised that its days in power are numbered and that there are many, many more like Avtar Singh who are rising up to fight its divisive agenda. Perhaps that is why there is a clear and distinct undertone of panic under the barrage of obnoxious threats that several BJP leaders have issued to voters over the last few days.
Perhaps the BJP has realised that despite its best efforts, the power of love is slowly but surely rising up against the love of power and posing a clear and direct challenge to its dominion of hate. In the words of John, one of Jesus’ disciples who perhaps best captured the essence of his master’s teachings:
“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” (I John 4)
Perhaps the saffron party has realised that Buddha, Sikhs and Hindus are standing with their fellow human beings in their hour of need.
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The Basic Format Of An Attorney Cover Letter
What should an attorney cover letter do for you? At the very least, it should answer the question: Why should we hire you?
A legal cover letter should grab an employer’s attention, and persuasively make a case as to why you, above all other attorney applicants, should be contacted for an interview.
Here is the basic format of a legal cover letter:
YOUR ADDRESS [Do not put your name here]
Mr./Mrs. Hiring Manager/Employer’s name [If you don’t have one, get one!]
Dear Mr./Ms. [Last Name]:
FIRST PARAGRAPH: This is the "why I’m writing to you" paragraph of your attorney cover letter. This paragraph should immediately tell the employer the position you want to be considered for. This is short, usually 2-3 sentences.
Points to cover:
- Why you are writing and what position you are applying for.
- When starting your attorney cover letter introduction, be sure to provide a quantitative description. For instance, rather than writing, “My name is John Doe,” briefly provide an indication of your level of experience. For example, “I am an associate general counsel with more than ten (10) years of experience focused on the representation of companies in the manufacturing industry.”
- Allow your research to demonstrate why you are interested in this position or company. The goal is to make a connection – do this briefly and specifically. Sweeping and generalized statements will not work.
SECOND PARAGRAPH: This is the "why I’m qualified" paragraph of your attorney cover letter. This paragraph should highlight some of your most relevant experiences, skills, and qualities as they relate to the position for which you are applying. Choose 2 - 3 points. They should include:
- Specific experiences, skills, accomplishments, or qualities you have exhibited.
- Specific examples to support experiences, skills, accomplishments, or qualities you are mentioning.
This paragraph will change according to the particular position and organization to which you are applying. This is usually the longest paragraph of your legal cover letter. You may break this paragraph into two if it looks too lengthy, as points to be emphasized generally work best in separate paragraphs.
Points to cover:
- The first sentence should be a hard-hitting opener. It is a quick introduction, which is accomplishment-oriented and directed at the skills and qualifications needed for the job/company/industry.
- The body of the paragraph should provide evidence to back up what you’ve just claimed. Cite specific jobs/internships/activities/projects and accomplishments associated with those experiences.
- Use your resume to come up with specifics, but never reiterate passages from your resume word for word. Be sure to discuss how your experience and accomplishments relate specifically to the job and the company. Strong examples are critical.
- The final sentence is a summary of what you’ve discussed above. It’s a good idea to mention the position title and company name to bring the reader back to the specific job in question.
FINAL PARAGRAPH: The final paragraph of your attorney cover letter should be short, 2-4 sentences. You should refer to your enclosed legal resume, request an interview, and let the reader know what will happen next (i.e. that you will contact them within specific period of time, unless it is a recruiting program). Finally, it is important that you thank the reader for his/her time and consideration.
Your Full Name
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The article discusses the Russian tradition of orthological lexicography. The comparison of orthological dictionaries of different time periods allows for making certain conclusions about the dynamics of speech standards and the status of variants at different stages of language development. In the broad sense, orthological dictionaries are standard-oriented but allow for different flexibility depending on the type (orthographic, orthoepic, accentological). When narrowly defined, orthological dictionaries contain difficult cases based on common mistakes and irregularities.
This article analyzes the materials of one of the first orthological dictionaries of the Russian language, “An Attempt of the Dictionary of Mistakes in Colloquial Russian” by V. R. Dolopchev (1886). Dolopchev’s dictionary is integrative and covers mistakes of pronunciation, word stress, and word choice. The analysis of the dictionary shows that its guidelines, despite the naivety of their lexicographic representation, are similar to contemporary textbook and dictionary guidelines, which points to the eternal nature of speech standards issues. On the other hand, on different linguistic levels, the shift of the standard can be traced, which eventually leads to drastic changes of dictionary information. | <urn:uuid:70218e23-3202-46ce-9797-dee4d7f29d43> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://trudy.ruslang.ru/en/archive/2017-3/168-175 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.863436 | 245 | 2.5 | 2 |
As part of Murrumbidgee Local Health District’s (MLHD) COVID-19 screening at its facilities, temperature checks will take place across facilities in the Hilltops region, including Harden and Young Hospitals.
The temperature monitoring is being conducted at access points to hospitals by staff using an approved temperature monitoring device to accurately measure the presence of fever.
In addition, there are screening questions, including have you had contact with a COVID-19 positive case and do you have any flu-like symptoms? If a visitor answers yes to any of these questions or has a temperature, they will be directed not to visit the hospital and to contact the MLHD COVID-19 Hotline on 1800 831 099.
If a staff member answers yes to any of these questions or has a temperature, the staff member will be placed on leave and asked to contact the MLHD COVID-19 Hotline on 1800 831 099. Additionally, staff will be advised to stay home until the temperature resolves.
Staff are screened daily on entry to any facility and a different coloured sticker will be provided each day on their identification badge. This is in addition to daily staff wellness checks occurring at clinical handover, or the start of the day for non-clinical areas.
The new screening measure comes on top of visitor restrictions at MLHD hospitals and Multipurpose Services (MPS) in early April. Find out more at https://www.mlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/about-us/newsroom/media-releases/covid-19-visitor-restrictions
MLHD invites anyone who believes they may have contracted the COVID-19 virus to call the Murrumbidgee COVID-19 Hotline on 1800 831 099 (7.00 am – 9.00 pm) for a confidential telephone assessment.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - More Americans requested unemployment benefits last week, but the level remains near historic lows in a positive sign for the job market.
THE NUMBERS: Applications for jobless aid jumped 20,000 to a seasonally adjusted 287,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The less volatile 4-week average climbed 4,500 to 277,000.
Over the past 12 months, the number of people receiving benefits has fallen 7.1 percent to 2.2 million.
THE TAKEAWAY: The influx of part-time, seasonal jobs during the winter holidays can make the jobless claims figures volatile, but the employment gains of the past year look likely to continue. Applications for benefits are a proxy for layoffs, so the low level indicates that employers are keeping their workers and potentially planning to hire.
KEY DRIVERS: Businesses still view the U.S. economy as growing, despite the manufacturing sector struggling amid a broader global slowdown. Employers have hired about 210,000 workers a month this year. And unemployment last month held at a seven-year low 5 percent.
Despite last week's increase, jobless claims have stayed below the key level of 300,000 for nearly 10 months. Any figure lower than that threshold often corresponds with monthly job gains in excess of 200,000.
BIG PICTURE: The economy enters 2016 with the job market looking solid. The slow recovery from the Great Recession that ended more than six years ago has found some traction. Americans have increased their purchases of autos, homes, restaurant meals and goods online. Still, low oil prices and weak international demand stemming from Europe, China and several emerging economies such as Brazil are sources of concern. | <urn:uuid:72d2be23-c3d4-4a90-8b7a-fd21cf109abe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/u-s-applications-for-unemployment-benefits-jumped-last-week | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947614 | 348 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Time of Our SingingPosted: 2022/07/08
Powers, Richard. The Time of Our Singing. Picador, 2004.
Reason read: Richard Powers was born in the month of June. Read in his honor.
Writing a review for this book was difficult considering our current national climate. Is it fair to bring a child into this world, knowing full well his or her life will be an uphill, hurtful, and potentially lethal journey? With Roe V. Wade being overturned, this is a burning question for me. In The Time of Our Singing it is 1939 and David Strom, a German Jewish white man meets and falls in love with an African American young lady from Philadelphia. Should they have an interfaith relationship? Could they succeed in a biracial marriage? What hardships would their children have in a world consumed with the hate and segregation and World War II? Is it blind faith to assume their offspring will thrive beyond race with the help of music? So many questions that kept me reading all 600+ pages to the very end. Time of Our Singing also tells the story of David and Delia’s children. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth come of age during the early Civil Rights movement and the turmoil of racial unrest follows them through adulthood. Jonah and Joseph go the route of music and fame, while Ruth veers violently in the opposite direction. Over time, they cannot ignore their color or where they came from. Through music comes recognition and redemption.
What I liked the most was the clever writing in that there are hints of a disaster: a photograph that has escaped being burned. What a black boy from Chicago doesn’t know about deep south segregation. How hatred can burn like an inferno until it explodes in disaster.
Lines I liked, “Music was there lease, their deed, their eminent domain” (p 9), “She beat at the recipe with a force her daughter couldn’t fail to read” (p 131), “Death mixes all races” (p 145), “The puppet refused to sit up and speak” (p 495), and “Race’s worst injuries are color-blind” (p 553).
Author fact: Pearl really likes Richard Powers. He has his own chapter in Book Lust. For the Challenge I am reading five more books by Powers and I have already read Gain and Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance. Due to their length, I don’t think I finished either one.
Book trivia: Time of Our Singing is a hefty 600+ pages.
Playlist: Musicians: Andre Watts, Bach, Brahms, Cole Porter, Cherubini, Charlie Parker, Camilla Williams, Duke Ellington, Dvorak, Dorothy Maynor, Dizzy Gillespie, Debussy, David Strom, Delia, Doors, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Ginger Kiltie, Hayden, Holst, Ice Cube, Josquin Absalom, Jules Bledsoe, Jim Morrison, Leontyne Price, Marian Anderson, Mimi, Mendelsohn, Mozart, Miles Davis, Pucci, Paula Squires, Phillipa Duke Schuyler, Robert McFerrin, the Supremes, Schubert, Tallis, and Wreckin’ Cru
Songs: “Alto Rhapsody”, “America”, “Asleep in the Deep”, “Auf Ewigkeit”, “Ave Maria”, “Ave verum corpus”, “Balm in Gilead”, “The Boy’s Magic Horn”, “By the Waters of Babylon”, “Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite”, “California Girls”, “Deceit Holds the World in Its Domain”, “Dance of the Seven Veils”, “Down by the Salley Gardens”, “Elija”, “Fascinating Rhythm”, “Floral Bandit”, “From the New World”, “German Dance #1”, “Go Down Moses”, “Good Vibrations”, “Gospel Train”, “Honeysuckle Rose”, “I Hear a Symphony”, “I’m a Believer”, “Ladonna e mobile”, “Lord God of Abraham”, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, “Marching to Freedomland”, “Miller’s Beautiful Daughter”, “My Soul is Anchored to the Lord”, “Motherless Child”, “O Mio Fernando”, “On That Great Gettin’ Up Morning”, “Ol Man River”, “Prelude to a Kiss”, “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”, “Se La Face Ay Pale”, “Satin Doll”, “Swanee River”, “Star Spangled Banner”, “Saint Matthew Passion”, “Sussestille”, “There’s a Rainbow Round My Shoulder”, “Time Stands Still”, “Trampin'”, “Trout”, “Turkey in the Straw”, “Werther”, “We Can Work It Out”, and “You Are My Sunshine”
Nancy said: Pearl dedicated a whole chapter to Powers so she had a lot to say about the author. Not so much about The Time of Our Singing.
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Image: Daniel Sabo. (Credit: Ian Stewart/Yukon News)
A miner of precious metals in Canada’s Yukon territory claims he was infected by an extraterrestrial life form.
The miner, Daniel Sabo, discovered a meteorite in 1986. The National Post explains that, over the next decade, Sabo stored the meteorite in a variety of locations: In a drawer, on a ledge, and even in a felt Crown Royal drawstring bag. He took the meteorite to his parents’ home in Arizona with plans to sell it. But those plans were quelled because he had not obtained a permit, as required by the Canadian Cultural Property Export and Import Act, to legally export the meteorite from Canada.
Sabo believes Arizona’s warm, arid climate induced a change in the meteorite because a “green crust” started growing along the rock’s natural seam. Unable to legally sell the meteorite, Sabo decided to return to Canada. The National Post explains, “As he drove home with it, sometimes balancing it in the crook of his elbow, he developed a terrible rash up and down his arm. He believed he had been infected by some extraterrestrial life form, and was mightily scared.”
Back in Canada, Sabo gave the meteorite to geologists at the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) for testing in 1999–a decision he soon regretted. For some reason, Sabo became unhappy, and requested the meteorite be returned. And he claims what he got back from the GSC was not only missing the piece containing the green crust, but that the entire meteorite was a replica of the one he had given the GSC. The National Post reports that this resulted in “an epic court battle that featured dramatic claims about a devious geologist, extraterrestrial life, government conspiracy and the black market in space rocks.”
A lower court judge found that the GSC did not switch out Sabo’s meteorite with a replica, and that the green crust was of terrestrial origin. These findings have since been upheld by the Court of Appeal for Yukon. The GSC has been ordered to pay Sabo $1,000 for “failing to return a piece it cut off his meteorite for testing.” But Sabo is not done fighting. He reportedly plans to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.
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According to the National Fire Protection Association, firefighters in the United States respond to one fire per hour. Smoking is the leading cause of home fire deaths. There are other ways you can accidentally start a fire. These are just a few of the hidden fireplaces in your home.
According to Craig Gjelsten (VP of Operations at Rainbow International), all batteries are a fire hazard, even weaker ones. This is because they can cause fires and water, and mold damage. Gjelsten states that 9-volt batteries are the most dangerous. Their terminals are close together, so they can easily shorten. “I recommend that you store your batteries upright and place electrical tape over each end of each one, regardless of what type of battery they are. You should also avoid storing batteries near keys, steel wool, or other metal objects.
Dust bunnies and damaged electrical equipment
Damaged electrical equipment can cause it to overheat, leading to a fire. Tom Wallace is a Certified Master Inspector at Home Check Inspections located in Riverview, FL. Wallace says that it is crucial to inspect your electrical equipment regularly for frayed or damaged cords or plugs. This is not always true. Bill Timmons is the Marketing Manager for Residential Products at. He says that extension or power cords placed behind a table or bed and repeatedly knocked against could wear out. Walking on cords, such as under carpets or on your hardwood flooring, can cause damage. Gjelsten warns that dust bunnies can cause fires by forming around heaters, sockets, and electronics. He recommends that you regularly vacuum the dust around appliances, wires, and outlets.
According to Battalion Chief Raymond Williams of the Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service Department, Birmingham, AL. “Your coffee pot might overheat and cause a fire.” According to Williams, coffee pots made of plastic parts can heat up if they are not turned off. Even though most coffee pots equipped with digital clocks have an automatic shutoff of two hours, this is still too long for them to heat up. Kenmore also recalls 145,000 coffee pots that were defectively wired several years back. To be safe, ensure that your coffee maker is always on the go.
It is not surprising that gasoline and kerosene can accidentally start a fire. Wallace says that these flammable substances should be kept away from heat sources and stored in suitable containers. “The containers should be labeled and easily identifiable.”However, other flammable liquids can also start a fire. A Texas woman opened a nail polish remover bottle and left it next to a candle in an unventilated area. She suffered third-degree burns after the bottle caught fire.
You’re probably familiar with the heat caused by a laptop being held in one’s lap for a long time. You might not have realized that your laptop can catch fire. “Laptops can heat up during normal operation. Gjelsten warns that if the batteries are placed on a blanket or other similar surface, they can heat up and start a fire. Gjelsten warns against placing your laptop on any soft surface. Consider using a laptop stand if you don’t have a desk or home office.
Is there a term called “overlamping” that you are familiar with? Overlapping is when the bulb’s wattage is too high. Gjelsten warns against overlapping as it can cause a fire in your home. Gjelsten states that overlapping is when you use a 75-watt light bulb in a 40-watt lamp. Compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) are also a danger, according to Gjelsten. He advises against using CFLs if the fixture covers the bulb’s base. This includes track and recessed lighting. Gjelsten suggests an alternative cooler option such as LED.
As you clean up your laundry area, remember to clean the dryer vent regularly. According to Dave Lavalle (Founder of Dryer Vent Wizard), you should empty your dryer lint screen before every load. He explains that dryer vents and ducts carry the air and lint outside, but some of it is trapped inside the lint screen. Because lint can be very combustible and should be removed before each load, he also suggests that the screen be cleaned with soapy water quarterly. This is because detergent, fabric softener, and other materials can buildup and create a transparent screen. Lavelle suggests you also check the transition duct, a flexible tube-shaped duct connecting the dryer to the duct. He recommends that you check behind the dryer every other month to ensure the transition duct isn’t broken or crushed.
Hidden fire sources
Gjelsten warns that newspapers and magazines can catch fire if they are left too close to heat sources. He also warns that heating pads and blankets should not be placed between the box spring and mattress. Gjelsten advises against heating these items on any setting other than the lowest. Gjelsten suggests that the bag be stored in a metal pail, garbage container with a tight-fitting lid. | <urn:uuid:e19feda4-d952-494b-ae46-e9601952e37a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.jacobscreekretreat.com.au/hidden-fire-dangers-in-your-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947224 | 1,089 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Art Deco Pump House
The Greenwood underpass, or railway bridge cross #300721D, was “built to allow traffic on Main Street to pass under the railroad tracks of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad” ( Greenwood Underpass, 2011). The project also re-routed US 49 and US 82 into Greenwood, with concrete and brick highway to replace the gravel roads (Darden, 2008-2009). Engineered by Eli Abbot along with his two sons, Charles G. and Fred Abbott, the underpass cost $400,000 and was built by the Mississippi State Highway Department, using Works Progress Administration funds. An Art Deco style pumphouse was constructed next to the railroad tracks to help remove water from the underpass. The Greenwood Commonwealth, the local paper, documented the ongoing construction of the underpass in daily journal entries (Darden). It was listed to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
Project originally submitted by Susan Allen on October 27, 2014.
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