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Dolphins of the Phang Nga Bay
Phi Phi Island Attractions | The illusive dolphins of the lower Phang Nga bay are seen ne
Dolphins are not common in the the Phang Nga Bay as it is too shallow. There is how ever a rich food source for the Indian bottlenose dolphins and they are spotted in pods of up to 50 when they are seen in the islands. The northern Bay of Phi Phi Don Village is called Dolphin Bay or Loh Dalum and some times hosts a few stray dolphins in low season
Dolphin Sightings off Phi Phi Island
Ferry captains from Phi Phi Islands to Krabi and Phuket say they see dolphin once a month, mainly from February until September. These dolphin sightings can be made going to Phuket or Krabi Provinces but mainly in low season and often are accompanied by bad weather from the Indian Ocean in the west. The Dolphins seem to come into the shallows during these periods. perhaps the feeding is better in these conditions.
Shy and playful dolphins
Unfortunately the dolphins of Thailand are shy and never swim with humans. They will approach boats, ferries and sailing yachts, but will be gone the instant you to get in the sea with them. They were spotted in Tonsai bay in the late 1990s and sailing captains tried to get in the water with them but they were curious but not playful.
Much is written about the Dugong of the southern provinces. It is locally called the River Dolphin and or sea cow. Dugongs eat sea weed and can be found in the river estuaries of the Andaman Sea. Due to overfishing they are now becoming an endangered species. To try to get a glimpse of these rare mammals you must sign up to a snorkeling tour in the Taratao region of southern Thailand
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In Mahayana Buddhism, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva or Universal Virtue is considered to be the Sūtra (string or thread) of meditation and the practice of repentance. Possessing divine powers, the body of the Universal Virtue is described as having infinite size. The second part of the upcoming Christmas Exclusive Chinese Fine Art Selection sale, presented by Ocean Star Auctions, will feature a gem-inlaid statue of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. Made of gilt bronze, it measures 57 centimeters in height. A three-legged incense burner, designed with gem-inlaid bronze, is also notable. Another available incense burner is made of Hetian jade with ring ears. The use of incense has been integral to traditional Chinese culture since the Neolithic age.
The sale also features a pair of square pots with covers and double ears. The pots are designed with gold and silver inlaying bronze. Made with kallaite and turquoise, a pair of beast ornaments is another striking lot in the catalog. To view the complete listings and register to bid online, visit Bidsquare.
# of Lots:395
Price Range:$50- $1,000
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Nuclear Proliferation : France with a leading role|
Is Brazil resuming its progress towards the Bomb?
France is cooperating
Published 10 November 2008
French text on line since 1 September 2008 - English translation slightly abridged.
An announcement was made on 28 August 2008 by Brazil’s Minister of Defence, and reached France next day thanks to the attentive ears of the submariners, who published it in "Le portail des sous-marins". We published it too, and now wish to place it in perspective and see what it will mean, because the official statements reported by "Le Portail", on both sides of the Atlantic, are far from revealing all the reality.
"For decades Brazil has envisaged the building of a nuclear-powered submarine, and launched the project officially in 1979. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced in 2007 a budget of 540 million dollars for the project and for uranium enrichment.."
Nuclear weapons, never? Never say never.
Consider this worrying statement:
"The submarine - which the chiefs hope will be ready by 2020 - would be the first nuclear sub in Latin America. Brazil does not have nuclear weapons.”
To write this is to ignore the fact - which perhaps the editor does not know - that “for decades” the Brazilian Army have wanted to possess nuclear weapons, and that, thanks to help from an unspecified foreign country that provided fissile material (let’s hope that for once it wasn’t France) Brazil was to have carried out its first nuclear test in September 1990. If today Brazil still has no nuclear weapons, that’s due to President Fernando Collor: in August 1990 he discovered by chance that the nuclear arms programme which the civilian government had theoretically interrupted in 1985 had been continued secretly by the generals. He succeeded in stopping it at the eleventh hour and having it dismantled later. It seems true to say, then, that Brazil was a month away from having the atomic bomb.
Now that is hard to prove because the test did not occur, but it does seem clear that Brazil wishes to have the Bomb again when that becomes feasible. Not that it is needed for security. But because in today’s world, the Bomb gives status and power over others. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council all have nuclear weapons and, despite solemn undertakings to renounce them, showed until recently not the slightest intention of doing so (an exception is a speech by Gordon Brown in January 2008, which has yet to lead to anything). We can understand how the leaders and generals of a young, strong, dynamic power like Brazil are dreaming of acquiring these weapons for themselves - if only to make others take seriously its candidacy for a seat on the Security Council and for a share in conducting the world’s affairs...
A pretext that doesn’t stand up
Reports of Brazilian "oil reserves recently discovered off its coasts” are very timely when it comes to justifying the resumption of a nuclear programme:
To increase defense capacity to combat foreign covetousness is a plausible motivation. But to need a NUCLEAR sub for the patrolling of offshore oil is a ridiculous pretext - scarcely less ridiculous than the desalination project which was given by President Sarkozy as reason for selling a nuclear reactor to Gaddafi of Libya (who hadn’t even asked for one). Between now and 2020, how will Brazil’s oilfield be patrolled? If the five classical subs it has now (diesel-powered) can do the job, why couldn’t they do it after 2020? Surely not because of a shortage of diesel! After all, they would be securing an ample flow of that fuel from the undersea oilfield! And even if Brazil would be short of subs in 2020, why would an ordinary Scorpene not be satisfactory?
The answer is inescapable: because Brazil has a bigger project. The acquisition of nuclear technology and materials serves both to reactivate the project of a nuclear-(powered) sub and to develop a facility for uranium enrichment (the kind of facility the West wants to deprive Iran of, precisely because any state possessing one can go on to produce weapons-grade enriched uranium). This programme is not something to tell tourists and the public about. But once you have a nuclear-powered sub, why would you turn down the chance of the nuclear-armed one? It is perhaps not easy to progress from the one to the other, but Brazil is obviously one of the world’s powers that is skilled enough and tempted to do so.
Brazil is currently one of the states-parties of the Treaty of Tlatalolco, the agreement that makes Latin America, from Mexico to Patagonia, one of the three or four militarily denuclearised zones on the planet, i.e. officially nuclear weapons free. Even if a nuclear-powered submarine is not in itself a nuclear weapon, the mere fact of Brazil introducing one into the region would cast suspicion on its longterm intentions and would be a serious blow to the Treaty of Tlatelolco.
At the same time, South America would be at risk from the nuclear itch that affects much of the world. And when the risk of proliferation will have become extreme, there will naturally be some leaders who view it as an imperious (and imperial) reason for waging one of those “pre-emptive wars” for which “advanced capitalism” has discovered and tested the recipe in Iraq, and which produce wonderful opportunities - first for the military-industrial firms and then the military-secuirty firms, and then the companies specializing in rebuilding devastated countries. All that will give the victor the chance to rule and subjugate the countries - Brazil for example - that will have become very competitive internationally and will also serve as sources of increasingly precious energy and primary resources in a context of world shortage.
The role of France
"Speaking in Rio late in August 2008, the Minister of Defense Nelson Jobim explained that the modernization of Brazil’s defense required a massive transfer of technology from France - and that this was essential if Brazil is to have a nuclear submarine.
In February 2008, President Nicolas Sarkozy had announced that France would transfer to Brazil the technologies needed for building a classical submarine of the Scorpene class. This would serve as a model for the building of a nuclear submarine, according to Brazilian decision-makers.”
Once again, France is dispersing her military and nuclear technology in all directions, at the risk of provoking future wars. For Nicolas Sarkozy to be doing this is not surprising now that he has grabbed the controls of France’s nuclear machine. It is more surprising from the French submariners. It is true that on the possible day when Brazil’s subs (conventional or nuclear) confront the USA, or Argentina, nobody yet knows what side France will be on. It is true also that in the meantime the French submariners and engineers can dream of visiting their Brazilian colleagues, thanks to this beautiful cooperation project.
All the same, remember that during the Falklands/Malvinas War it was a French-made Exocet that sank a Royal Navy ship with the loss of hundreds of British sailors. And that some French personnel are still the victims of the effects of the 1991 Gulf War - a war whose origins certainly include the sale of the “Osirak” nuclear reactor to Saddam Hussein, a deal signed in 1975 by Jacques Chirac, who was then Prime Minister.
France’s leaders - of all parties - seem to have learnt practically no lessons from the history of the 20th century, notably its military history. This is inevitable since with very few exceptions they all worship at the shrine of the nuclear ideology. It is certainly inevitable for our military leaders, and just about everyone else. Our submariners ought to take note, however, even those who man our attack subs and ballistic missile subs. They are told that the fascinating devices of destructive technology and power on which they serve are useful for maintaining peace. That is a falsehood. Those submarines contribute to destabilizing the relationships between peoples, and their crews are at risk of becoming, one day or other, the victims of a tragic accident or an absurd war - or else the agents of a crime against humanity.
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Detections of live Mediterranean fruit flies (medflies) on cold-treated clementines from Morocco has led to a ban on import of tangerines, clementines, mandarins (Citrus reticulata), and sweet oranges (Citrus sinensis) from that country into the US with effect from February 8, the US Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) has announced.
The ban will apply until APHIS and Morocco’s national plant protection organisation investigate and take “necessary actions to mitigate the pest risk.”
APHIS said that prior to the Federal Order prohibiting such imports, tangerine, clementine, mandarin, and sweet orange fruit could be imported into the US if subjected to cold treatment and inspection upon arrival. “However, on January 13, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) inspections at the port of entry in Philadelphia detected live medfly larvae on commercial consignments of cold-treated clementines (Citrus reticulata) from Morocco.
Image of medfly (Ceratitis capitata) larva: by Daniel Feliciano, GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons
The agency said it is also prohibiting “overland in-bond transit movements of tangerine, clementine, mandarin, and sweet orange fruit south of 39° latitude and west of 104° longitude in the US. These prohibitions apply to all importation and movement, including commercial and non-commercial cargo, passenger baggage, international mail, and express courier shipments.”
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How to Help Someone With Depression
If you’re wondering how to help someone with depression, you’ve come to the right place. Here, we’ll discuss the signs and symptoms of depression, and how you can support the person suffering from it. You may also find it useful to learn more about what to say to a person who’s experiencing depression. The best way to help someone with depression is to make sure that they know that you’re there for them. Listed below are some strategies to help you understand the symptoms of depression.
What Are The Signs Of Depression
While many symptoms of depression are physical, it is important to recognize some of the signs of this mental illness. Physical fatigue and difficulty getting out of bed can be indicators of depression. Additionally, thoughts of death and suicide are serious signs of depression. A physician can help you determine whether your symptoms are due to depression or other mental health issues. Listed below are the most common signs of depression and how to recognize them. You should seek medical attention as soon as possible.
Major depression affects the way you think, feel and act. It can interfere with your ability to do everything you want. The symptoms of depression can affect your ability to work, study, eat, sleep, and enjoy life. While feeling down is normal, depression can impair your ability to do these things. The best way to detect depression is to talk to a professional. A depressed person is unable to function at work or school.
What Are The Symptoms Of Depression
What are the symptoms of depression? These conditions are common among people, but can also affect people differently. It can be caused by upbringing or stressful events, and may also be a result of a particular lifestyle or diet. However, there are a few simple things you can do to reduce your risk of developing depression. For starters, getting plenty of rest, eating healthy, and staying active can help. If you suspect that you are suffering from depression, it is important to seek treatment as soon as possible.
The first step in seeking treatment for depression is talking to your doctor. If you’ve been feeling depressed for 2 weeks, you should consider getting professional help. Your doctor will be able to assess your symptoms and direct you to appropriate resources for treatment. You should also be active and try to socialize with other people. Talking to a trusted friend can also help. It’s important not to isolate yourself and expect gradual improvement.
How To Support Somone With Depression
Often, people with depression feel a great deal of guilt. They may believe that they are burdens on their loved ones and that they would do better without them. Helping your loved one by showing them love or telling them that you care can help alleviate some of this guilt. Reassuring them that you are there to support them is also a good way to deal with anger and frustration. You can also learn more about depression by checking out resources like Mind.
A person suffering from depression may feel overwhelmed and confused when trying to determine how to support them. It is important to learn as much as possible about this condition and try to provide support in any way you can. Social support is very important in a person’s overall well-being and can even protect against depression. When someone is suffering from depression, it is important to be supportive and offer to help, even if it isn’t clear what they want or need.
How to talk to someone about depression
It can be difficult to know how to talk to someone with depression. You should remember that depression is a serious condition, and that it is very different from feeling sad or lonely. While you might be tempted to sympathize, remember that the person you are talking to is most likely going through a difficult time and will probably feel overwhelmed by your questions. Instead of appearing pitying, you should express empathy, which means understanding the person’s situation, without feeling sorry for them. Try to ask them questions to learn more about their feelings, and remember to be compassionate.
If possible, try to find a time that your loved one is most likely to be feeling depressed. You can find that their mood tends to be at its lowest on Mondays, so try to reach out during these times. Encourage them to go for a walk or go for a meal, or simply reach out and encourage them to reach out to their friends and family. If you are not sure what to say, seek the advice of a mental health professional to help you figure out how to talk to someone with depression.
Encouraging the person to get help with their depression
Your love one may be willing to get help but resists it. It’s important to listen with open ears and respect their decision. Do not pressure them to make a decision immediately. Your loved one may be worried about what to expect and may even be unsure about whether a treatment will help. Encourage the person with depression to get help by offering support, information, and reassurance. Then, you can offer to take them to appointments or set up transportation if needed.
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"Cercocebus atys" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of Old World monkeys from the genera CERCOCEBUS that is important in AIDS research. They may be naturally or experimentally infected with the SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS. They inhabit African forests from Sierra Leone to the Congo Republic.
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Back in 2013, we wrote a blog that outlined the basics of Twitter and how authors can use this social media platform to promote their work. Two years later, Twitter continues to grow, and is still a powerful tool to keep in your promotional toolkit.
Whether you’re just beginning to use Twitter, or have been using this social site for quite some time, it’s always helpful to explore some new promotional avenues. With that being said, let’s delve into some Twitter tricks to help you promote your book:
Keep your cool – One rule of thumb is to not be overly sales-y with your tweets. If you’ve seen it once you’ve seen it a hundred times: people outwardly posting tweets that say, “BUY MY BOOK!!” or something of that nature. More often than not, when you see a tweet like that, you’ll keep scrolling. In short, write tweets that are more eloquent. This leads us to our next tip:
Be interesting – You want your tweets to amuse, help, inform and entertain your followers. As an author, you have the innate ability to write, so use your skill to craft great tweets that are informative and will grab your followers’ attention.
Bullseye – It’s extremely beneficial to know your audience and to determine what type of person will most likely buy your book. Once you’ve nailed down your target audience and their interests, you’ll be better equipped to aim for the bullseye. If you’ve written a children’s book, it’s the parents that you’ll want to reach. Send out tweets that offer tips, advice or even activities that parents can do with their children – bonus points if they’re loosely related to your book topic. These sorts of tweets will attract the type of followers that you are looking for, and can potentially lead to book sales.
Reciprocity – Ultimately, you want people to read and respond to your tweets. That’s exactly what others are aiming for as well. Open the lines of communication between you and your followers. Comment on something that they’ve shared, especially if it relates to your topic. Engage with your followers to show that you’ve noticed them and in return, they’ll notice you.
Short and sweet – As you may already know, you only get 140 characters to articulate your message in a tweet. So, when you want to promote your book via Twitter, don’t waste characters on a long URL. Rather, use a site that shortens links such as Ow.ly. This will enable you to include more valuable content within your tweet, all the while directing your followers to your website or other online promotional material.
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For more than 20 years my profession is the Oracle database administration. Starting in the early 90th on DEC VMS with a VT-100 terminal I’ve worked with many different tools. SQL*Plus is of course the most important one because it’s available from the beginning and replaced sqldba and later on srvmgrl. But in 1999 I had the pleasure working with a tool which was intended to help Oracle PL/SQL developers: Tool for Oracle Application Development (T.O.A.D).
Even for DBAs Toad already helped because of the simple Editor, the schema browser and of course the data grids which were much more readable than the SQL*Plus output. And that hasn’t changed until today. Toad still has a simple Editor with a very comfortable data grid. But with the extended functionality of the Oracle database Toad became more and more a Swiss knife for DBAs. I’m not only able to easily find objects but can manage my favorite Multitenant database as well.
Toad Database Browser
Long ago this tool was introduced and – to be honest – I didn’t use it at all. But it has one genius feature: One view on many databases: You can simply select databases (regardless if they are Pluggable databases or single databases, on one or several servers) and get an overview on the parameters, sessions or datafile I/O. May be some of you have found a similar view with another tool – for me it’s unique in the market!
One can love or hate Schema Browser depending on the layout. Some friends do prefer the tree view because they claim that the tabbed view is too chaotic. But with some view changes to the layout the tabbed view can become exciting:
- Configure the schema browser so it only shows the tabs you really need:
- add some additional columns to the left hand side so it gives you an overview on the size and free space of your tablespaces or let you order your tables by the number of rows.
- my personal favorite: look for objects regardless of the schema. The following example shows the schema browser with additional columns (e.g. schema_name, number of rows, last analyzed) sorted by table_names. With the filter column it’s possible to show or search for tables regardless of the schema.
When I first saw “compare Databases” I was wondering about the functionality. Why should I want to compare entire databases? Most of the time they do have different schemas and the tablespace layout is different. But then I realized that I can easily compare the server parameters (init.ora) or check for database options being installed or not. Very helpful if you have a bunch of development databases like one of my customers and one group is complaining “this database is slower than the other” or “this feature doesn’t work while it worked before”. Easy to get an overview and makes my life easier.
Comparing schemas is very common and often used. But Toad Schema compare has one additional feature. You can store the schema layout while comparing it and that allows you to do a historical comparison of schemas. So how did that schema looked one month ago, what happened last week.
This example shows the comparison between three schemas: The target schema is “DEMO1” compared to DEMO. But you can easily change the target schema to DEMO3 and compare it with DEMO. Another very useful feature is the Log Switch frequency map. It will give you a quick overview of the logswitches for a certain time. It helps if you encountered a problem with space e.g. your data tablespace runs out of space. If you ask if there was anything special happen to the application the normal answer is: “NO”. But with the log switch frequency map you can immediately see that there is a massive amount of log switches within a small time range. Ask the question again: “did anything happen to the application on March 26th between 11 and 12 a.m.”? Now there is a better chance to get the right answer…
These are only few examples of the rich functionality with Toad esp. with Toad DBA module. I would appreciate comments on this blog and like to hear about your favorite features in Toad.
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This year’s Being Human festival kicks off across the UK today! The festival is led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and The British Academy, with events led by researchers and academics from universities and organisations all over the country.
This year’s festival presents eleven days of free events and activities, all showcasing the latest research and ideas in subjects including history, politics, philosophy, art history, languages and literature, in fun and engaging ways. Most of this year’s events are online – meaning you can tune in from wherever you are! Inspired by this year’s theme ‘New Worlds’ there are events on everything from science-fiction futures, to immersive explorations of the past, to the role of the humanities in the present.
Here are a few highlights of events being held from across the University of London federation:
Poetry vs Colonialism - Queen Mary University of London
A series of four online events ('Many Hands', 'Smoke Screen', 'Sugar, Sugar' and 'All That Glisterns') led by Queen Mary University of London will explore the histories of colonialism, from weaving in Bengal to gold mining in Ghana.
A Feminist Whodunnit - UCL and LSE
This interactive Cluedo-styled event presents participants with a series of ‘clues’ about the lives and books of feminist writers—past and present—which can be pieced together to explore what inspired and inspires their art, their activism and their feminisms.
Being Human in Conversation: Returning to our senses
Add jellybeans and citrus fruit to your shopping list and Join Professor Barry Smith (Director of the Institute of Philosophy) as he explores the importance of our sense of smell in our everyday lives.
Arrivederci Italia! - Royal Holloway University of London
Join a journey to Italy, Paris and New York to learn about the lives of Italian refugee and migrant artists in the early 20th century. You will be guided in a creative art activity that will use the artists’ multi-sensory techniques to explore emotions and ideas reflecting on memory and place.
Embrace the Base - Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
What was life like at the Greenham Common Peace Camp between 1981 and 2000? Tune in to this very special interactive performance event from Cornish feminist theatre hub Scary Little Girls who’ll be talking activism, direct action, and protest, and sharing the oral histories of Greenham Women through songs, games, and virtual reality.
On the Trail of Refugees in Bloomsbury - Institute of Modern Languages Research
On this self-guided audio walking tour, follow the trail of the 1930s refugees from Nazi Europe around Bloomsbury, a magnet for the new arrivals due to its cheap boarding houses and Bohemian reputation. Find out how support for refugees was coordinated from Bloomsbury, how exiles contributed to Britain’s anti-Nazi propaganda war, and how activists plotting the Nazis’ downfall were spied on by MI5 agents.
Magical Mind: The World of Terry Pratchett - Senate House Library and the Institute of English Studies
Terry Pratchett’s novels created a new world where fantasy, science-fiction, humour and satire coexisted, firing the imagination of millions of readers all over the world. Join this live conversation event with Neil Gaiman, Rhianna Pratchett and Rob Wilkins as they explore the fantastical Discworld universe of characters and plots where magical and mechanical technology go hand in hand.
Weather the Weather – King's College London
An immersive, sensory artwork recreating weather conditions of past and future years but of the same day. Due to lockdown restrictions experience the installation via live stream. | <urn:uuid:b0eddc0c-5ed8-4381-b7eb-7b45054d9238> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prod.london.ac.uk/news-and-opinion/being-human-festival-2020-new-worlds | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.918161 | 784 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Pre-Hispanic agriculture practices on soils in the Western Cordillera of the Peruvian Southern Andes
Santa Maria terraces group (region Laramate, 14.5°S). Half-height, non-irrigated terraces, large rocks at the base, about medium sized. Abandoned terraces and repaired on different cultural periods: Early Horizon (550-200 BC), Middle Horizon (650-1000 AD), Late Intermediate Period (1000-1438 AD).
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Credit: Fernando Leceta Gobitz (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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Protecting concrete usually means shielding it from the elements of nature or from harsh manmade chemicals. But it’s not just concrete that needs such protection. Corrugated metal pipe, steel surfaces, material hoppers, rail cars and masonry all can come in contact with corrosive or abrasive materials or harsh conditions.
The geotechnical needs of DOTs and other agencies responsible for roads and bridges are vast. Issues include: Culvert repair Soil stabilization Void filling Concrete slab lifting Sinkhole remediation Slope control Slough control in tunneling
Situation: Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, just south of St. Louis, is one of the nation’s largest military burial sites. Established shortly after the Civil War, it covers 331 acres (134 hectares) and 188,000 graves. The cemetery sits on the banks of the Mississippi River, and a planned expansion in 2011 revealed that box culverts running alongside the expansion area were experiencing significant groundwater infiltration.
URS Group concluded that more than 100 joints would require repair in the 10’ wide x 5’ tall and 8’ wide x 5’ tall culverts. Some of the joints had opened as much as 3 inches, causing the rubber water stop to fall out of the joints.
Challenges: Limited access was the biggest challenge. All the material, equipment and personnel could only reach the work site through a small number of manholes or the ends of the culvert. Cold weather conditions provided an additional challenge.
Solution: Applied Foam Technologies was contracted to do chemical grouting to seal the leaks and restore the culverts. Given the wide gaps, the activated oakum technique was used: dry oakum was soaked in Hydro Gel SX, then packed into the gaps. Hydro Gel SX is a hydrophilic polyurethane resin that forms a structural foam or flexible gel—depending on resin to water ratio—when activated with water. This was followed by injection of Prime Flex 900 XLV, an extremely low viscosity, hydrophilic polyurethane resin. Repaired leaks were then sealed with Prime Gel 2200 epoxy gel.
Outcome: More than 100 joints were ultimately repaired and fully sealed. No residual leaks remained. The total material used included: 720 gallons of Prime Flex 900 XLV, 540 gallons of Hydro Gel SX, 14 – 50# boxes of oakum and 60 gallons of Prime Gel 2200.
Leaking manholes add to the groundwater infiltration
Some culvert joints were open as much as three inches.
Limited access through culvert ends and few manholes was a challenge.
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This webinar introduced the LEAD Tool to understand how to make data-driven decisions when planning for tribal energy goals.
LEAD Tool Sheds Light on Relative Cost of Energy for Tribal Nations
Did you know, the percentage of household income spent on energy is 3 times higher for low-income households compared to the U.S. national average? Known as energy burden, this disproportionately higher cost of energy also holds true for many tribes around the country.
Now, tribes can gain new insight into their own energy burden with the Low-Income Energy Affordability Data (LEAD) Tool to make informed, data-driven decisions when planning their energy goals.
The LEAD Tool is a publicly available online, interactive platform that provides users insight into various energy and housing characteristics within low- and moderate-income geographical regions, with insights based on income, energy expenditures, fuel type, and housing type.
"The Office of Indian Energy felt it important to recognize tribal communities and incorporate tribal boundaries into the LEAD Tool," says senior engineer and deployment supervisor for the Office of Indian Energy, Lizana Pierce. "We hope resources such as this will provide Tribal Nations the information they need to make data-driven decisions about their energy future."
As a result, in August 2021, the tool was expanded to include housing and energy data for Tribal Nations, providing data and insights that enable tribes to make informed, data-driven decisions that address high energy burdens (the percentage of income spent on energy bills) and advance their energy goals.
"Through charts, graphs, and data, the tool also allows users to compare information to other geographic regions, such as states, counties, other tribal areas, or the entire United States," says LEAD Tool developer at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Aaron Vimont. | <urn:uuid:e42a9a80-8d30-4136-bd80-7552bd9c0434> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.energy.gov/indianenergy/articles/tribal-housing-and-energy-data-now-available-through-lead-tool | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.938632 | 366 | 2.78125 | 3 |
On January 01, 2008, the Republic of Cyprus introduced the Euro (€) as its official currency, replacing the Cyprus pound (CY£) as the legal tender of Cyprus, at the irrevocable fixed exchange rate of €1 = CY£ 0,585274.
There are seven denominations in Euro banknotes: 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500. They are all distinguished by a different colour and size, with the higher the denomination, the bigger the size.
One Euro is divided into 100 cent. There are eight Euro coins: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cent, and 1 and 2 Euro. The designs on one side of the coins are common to all the countries of the Eurozone (those with the Euro as their currency), while the other side reflects the national identity of the issuing country. All Euro coins can be used in all Eurozone countries, irrespective of their national side.
All banks operating in Cyprus offer foreign currency exchange services and quote the exchange rates of the Euro against all major foreign currencies daily. Foreign currency can also be exchanged at hotels. More detailed information concerning exchange rates can be obtained from the Central Bank of Cyprus.
Import / Export – Banknotes, Currency and / or Gold
There are no restrictions on the import and export of cash or gold for travellers from and to another EU Member State.
However, according to the ‘Control of Cash Entering or Leaving the Community and the Exercise of Intercommunal Controls on Cash Law’ of 2009, travellers arriving from, and departing to, another EU Member State or a third country and carrying a sum of Euros 10,000 or more – in any currency, in cash (banknotes and bearer negotiable instruments) or gold – must be declared at Customs.
For further information please contact:
Forms of Payment
Hotels, large shops and restaurants accept credit cards, travellers’ cheques, eurocheques and banknotes of major foreign currencies.
Major credit cards are widely accepted throughout Cyprus, especially in major towns and tourist areas that are used for serving tourists. Visa and MasterCard are the most-accepted types of cards, with American Express, Diners Club, Maestro, Carte Blanche accepted less frequently.
Visitors in possession of any of the above mentioned international credit cards may contact the appropriate bank for the withdrawal of cash.
Please note that using a credit card overseas often incurs a fee. Some cards marketed to travellers have no fees for overseas purchases, and others reduce the fee from the average 3% charge that most credit cards charge.
Please note that some establishments still accept only cash; it cannot be taken for granted that a credit card will work while travelling in Cyprus.
For lost credit cards, contact JCC Payment Systems Ltd., and at the same time, contact your bank either in Cyprus or in the issuing country.
JCC Payment Systems Ltd.
Stadiou 1, 2571 Industrial Area Nisou
CY 2571 Lefkosia
Tel: +357 22 868 000 (24-hour service), Fax: +357 22 868 111
Tipping is at the discretion of the customer and is a gesture that is appreciated by hotel and catering establishment employees. Taxi-drivers, porters, hairdressers etc., always appreciate a small tip.
V.A.T. (Value Added Tax)
V.A.T is charged on every supply of goods or services at the standard rate of 19%.
The V.A.T reduced rate of 9% is imposed on:
– The transport of passengers and their accompanying luggage within Cyprus, with urban, suburban and rural taxis as well as with tour and suburban buses.
– The services of restaurants and the supply of food in the course of catering (except the supply of alcoholic beverages wine and beer, which is chargeable at 19%).
– The provision of accommodation in the hotel sector or in sectors with a similar character.
The reduced rate of 5% is imposed on:
– The transport of passengers and their accompanying luggage with urban and rural buses.
– The letting of camping sites and caravan parks.
– The supply of newspapers, books, periodicals, services of writers and artists.
– Certain products for persons with special needs.
– Hair salon services.
– Confectionary products.
– Entry fees to theatres, cinemas at sports events, Luna parks and similar cultural events.
Certain supplies of goods or services are zero-rated:
– The supply, hiring and repair of sea-going vessels and aircrafts.
– The supply of services to meet the direct needs of sea-going vessels.
– Leasing or letting of immovable property.
– Financial services and lotteries.
– Medical care, social welfare and education.
– Sports and cultural services.
– Insurance transactions, and the like.
Retail prices displayed for goods charged with V.A.T. should be V.A.T. inclusive.
V.A.T. Claim (Tax-free Shopping for Visitors)
According to the V.A.T. legislation in force, foreign visitors to Cyprus (visitors from countries outside the EU) can claim back the V.A.T. on goods exported to a place outside the EU in their hand luggage.
Visitors are eligible for a V.A.T. refund under the following conditions:
– If they are not holders of an EU country passport or other form of identification.
– If they have not resided in Cyprus or any other member state of the European Union for more than 365 days in the last two years before the date they purchased the goods.
– The total purchase must exceed €504.
– The goods must be exported in luggage by the last day of the third month following the month in which the goods were purchased.
There are three easy steps to claim your V.A.T. refund:
– Shop wherever there is a tax-free shopping sign and simply ask for your tax-free document.
– When leaving Cyprus show your purchases and passport to customs officials and have your tax-free document stamped.
– Receive your refund in the method of your choice.
For further information, contact any of the below:
Cyprus Consumers’ Association
Acropoleos, 8A, Office 302, 2007 Strovolos, Lefkosia
Tel: +357 22 516 112 / +357 22 516 113 / +357 70 000 700, Fax: +357 22 516 118
Global Blue Cyprus Ltd, Larnaka (Larnaca)
P.O. Box 42801, 6503 Larnaka
Tel: +357 24 817 555, Fax: +357 24 817 558
Email: [email protected]
Tax Free Worldwide Cyprus Ltd
44 Inomenon Ethnon Avenue, Orthodoxou Tower 7th Floor, 6042 Larnaka
Tel: +357 24 828 484 / +357 25 323 791
Freefone: +357 80 000 828 / +357 24 008 715
Email: [email protected]
Cost of Living / Holiday Budget
The price of products and services in Cyprus varies depending on the season and the location. Below is an indicative list of average prices in Euro:
Entertainment and Leisure (average prices, July 2015)
– Single bus ticket: €1,50
– Cinema ticket: €8 (adults) / €6 (children)
– Theatre ticket: €17 – €25
– Concert/opera ticket: €25 – €77
– Continental breakfast: €3,40 – €6
– Lunch (fixed menu): €10 – €13,50
– Dinner at a local tavern (meze, including beer or cold drink): €20
– Cappuccino (regular): €3,50
– Glass of beer: €3,50 – €5
– Soft drink: €1,30
– Pack of cigarettes: €4,50
Supermarket (average prices)
– Milk: €1,41 per litre
– Bread (village bread): €1,71 per loaf
– Cyprus Cheese (Halloumi): €13,51 – 15,50 per kilo
– Local beer: €0,68 – 0,79 per 330 ml tin
– Local natural water: €0,48 – 1,50 per 1.5 litre
– Pork: €4,50 – 5,90 per kilo
– Chicken: €4,00 – 4,40 per kilo
– Tomatoes: €0,85 – 1,30 per kilo
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4. What types of identity card are there?
There are two types of identity card. Ordinary Hong Kong identity cards are issued to persons who are admitted to Hong Kong for a limited period of more than 180 days, such as persons with employment or student visas and the dependants of such persons. Hong Kong permanent identity cards are issued to persons with the status of Hong Kong permanent resident. Identity cards for children (aged 11-17) differ from those for adults.
More information on these two types of identity card (including the respective application procedures) can be found on the website of the Immigration Department. | <urn:uuid:b135d803-7f4e-4f7a-b09f-57ef8d7fd098> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://clic.org.hk/en/topics/immigration/passports_and_identity_cards/q4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958269 | 123 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Alternanthera Reineckii Plant. Since they are relatively easy to take care of, they can be grown by beginners in the aquarium hobby as well. There are many variety of alternanthera reineckii species, but this original version starts it all.
Alternanthera reineckii (scarlet temple) is a popular aquatic plant that is typically kept as a midground or background plant in aquariums. Accent (red), background, midground, street (dutch style) aquascaping: It features a narrow leaf that can develop stunning red, pink, magenta colors once adapt to your aquarium.
Alternanthera reineckii ‘mini’ is a small plant with solid red color, long narrow leaves.
Alternanthera reineckii is a species of aquatic plant in the family amaranthaceae. It features a narrow leaf that can develop stunning red, pink, magenta colors once adapt to your aquarium. If the leaves continue to randomly melt;
High light intensity and addition of co2 improves the.
Alternanthera reineckii is also known as the scarlet temple plant. Like other stem plants, it requires med The slow growth of this red miniature acquatic plant makes it unique as compact foreground plants are to small tanks, with its bushes setting an accent to the overall look.
The growth rate is a little.
The degree of redness in this species isn't dependent on nutrient levels with this one either, unlike the ludwigias, rotalas, et al. It requires an aqua soil and co2 along with good strong light to do well. Easy to propagate by nipping off the terminal bud and planting it in the substrate.
Alternanthera reineckii is tolerant of most soil types and has an upright habit and large, showy foliage.
The variety ‘red ruby‘ is a very pretty new cultivar which is a type of alternanthera reineckii. Intermediate aquarists love it because despite having many requirements to stay healthy, after adaptation, it solidifies and flora continuously in. This plant is commonly used in dutch aquascapes for its bright and vibrant red colors.
Alternanthera reineckii roseafolia is a colorful aquarium stem plant with long red and green leaves, which provide stunning contrast to green aquarium plants.
Alternanthera reineckii mini is a delicate dwarf variant of the stem plant, alternanthera reineckii. The plant is widely used in layout environments. The most noticeable feature is the ruby red venation on the leaves, which stands out clearly from the red background color. | <urn:uuid:f7b851d2-d2de-487c-b2b4-283370933057> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://allcitydmv.com/alternanthera-reineckii-plant/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.89876 | 559 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Solidarity with Gaza fishers is proud to introduce an ongoing series featuring the work of these young Palestinian journalists.
I am Rajab Abu Riyala, a fisherman from an early age. I am in love with fishing and I’d l be lying if I said I would rather do another job. The sea is my “talent” and if you take me out of the sea, just like a fish, I’d die. It’s not because I come from a family of fishermen and fishing is our livelihood, no. It’s because of my love of marine life and sailing. Half of my life was spent on Gaza’s sea and the other half on paying the price of the first half.
At the age of 15, I used to work side by side with my father on his boat while studying for my school exams. When I finished my last year at high school, I wished I to further my studies in university. But the odds were not on my side. My dad was getting older and weaker, so I decided to help him and pursue my passion for fishing.
The first time
One day, at 6 a.m. during a cold winter in 2005, my father and I set out to sea off the coast of Rafah for our morning catch. We remained within the Israeli-imposed 12-nautical-mile limit (today, it is much less), but suddenly we saw an Israeli naval boat heading toward us.
“All fishermen! Stop the boats! I said stop the boats or we’ll open fire!” a soldier on the boat boomed at us through a megaphone.
We stopped our boats and what happened next was very humiliating. The soldiers commanded that we take off our clothes and jump into the water, or we’d be shot. Everyone else did, and were taken out of the water and onto the Israeli naval boat with their hands tied and blindfolded. Then they were subjected to hours of investigation, while their boats were confiscated.
But my father and I refused to take off our clothes and give up our catch. We refused to be taken It was very cold and windy; I was wearing three pairs of socks and a rubber suit, but still it felt like I was freezing my tail off.
Israeli soldiers yelled at my father: “I command you to stop the boat now!” My father kept driving our boat and the Israeli navy followed us until our boats crashed. The Israeli soldiers opened fire and I fell off of our boat into the sea. My father managed to pick me up out of the water, and I lay there in pain while still hearing the shots of the Israeli soldiers.
Then the pain worsened and I began screaming, while holding my hands to my chest. My father ripped apart my clothes and found a bullet hit my chest. Words cannot describe the way my father felt or even looked. All I can say is that he flew into a rage and began shouting and throwing stones at the Israeli soldiers while they were still shooting. My father turned on the boat again and the Israeli boat chased us for five kilometers. However, you can’t race a father running for the life of his son.
My dad managed to reach the shore and rush me to Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir Albalah, where I was immediately rushed to the operating room. Doctors removed the bullet and said I was lucky because the injury had penetrated all the way through but failed to puncture my heart. I believe I was lucky because I had a very old but very brave man at my back: my dad my hero.
I fully recovered after two months of medicine and treatment.
The second time
That is, until a few months later. This time, the allowed fishing distance was only nine nautical miles, but I remained within the limit. I was with three other boats in the sea off of Khan Younis. Again, an Israeli naval boat stopped us, commanding us to take off our clothes and jump into the water. One of our crews followed the order, but when it was my turn to do so, I remembered my father’s example. (I was in charge that day, since my dad was too ill to sail with me.) I said, “NO!” It was impossible for me to let all of our sweat and fatigue be in vain. There was no way I would return home empty-handed. So, I continued sailing and the Israeli soldiers chased me, firing toward my boat for 15 minutes until I reached Gaza. But then, all of the sudden, a bullet made it to my knee.
I felt nothing at first, but I saw blood inside my boat. I thoroughly examined myself for any injuries and I saw the wound in my right knee. I turned off the engine and stopped; I could see the shore, but the Israeli soldiers boarded and took me to their boat. A doctor on board bandaged my leg and gave me some pills, which at first I refused to take. But he said it would ease my pain until we get to a hospital, so I did. He was wrong, because the pills eased nothing and I screamed all the way to the occupied town of Asdud (a trip of 42 kilometers).
We finally reached a hospital at 7 a.m., but they chose to leave me bleeding until 5 p.m.
I could take it no more and I shouted, “If you’re going to leave me bleeding, let me go back to Gaza to be treated.” The staff put a splint on my knee, with the bullet still inside, then took me in a jeep to the Erez crossing. From there, I was transferred to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City. Doctors there finally removed the bullet and I recovered after five months of treatment. However, I still have some shrapnel inside. I can’t stand the pain in winter, and I limp when it rains.
The last time
Two days later, I woke up in an Israeli hospital. I was told that the bone under my eye was broken, my retina was destroyed and my sinuses also were damaged. But I only wanted to know if I’d be able to see after the gauze was removed. My sight is all I have.
I wanted to call my parents and I wanted to cry an ocean of tears from my one good eye. I begged for seven days to be allowed to call my parents, but I was never permitted to do so. I felt so lonely and weak. After the seventh day, Israeli soldiers transferred me to Erez crossing. There, the Hamas government forced me to stay for an investigation into what had happened that lasted the whole night. (This is normal procedure, since Israel tries to force fishermen to divulge information about the resistance in the Gaza Strip or, even worse, to become spies,)
I have one wish: Give me back my boat. It’s not just a boat to me. It’s my whole life. I spent three years building it piece by piece. I bought the fiberglass and made it with my own hands. It was very fast and strong. I made it to last forever; my wife sold her jewelry so I could finish building and we could live happily ever after. My dream cost me $12,000 and I achieved it, but the Israeli occupation stole it from me.
It’s just a dream now. Without my boat, I can’t work anymore. These days, I’m not able to afford my rent, but the landlord is patient with me. I’m 30 years and I have three children and the fourth is on its way. I love my children and I’m ready to go back to the sea over and over just to draw a smile on their faces. Just give back my life…Give back my boat.
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Buddhists in Burma on Wednesday blocked aid workers from visiting a camp for displaced Muslims in the central part of Arakan State, where the United Nations fears the spread of violence that has already displaced hundreds of thousands.
More than 600,000 of Burma’s largely stateless Rohingya minority have crossed to Bangladesh since 25 August attacks by Rohingya militants sparked a military crackdown beset by allegations of killings, rape and arson by security forces.
The UN has called the army operation “ethnic cleansing.” Burma has denied the majority of allegations and said it will accept the return of those who can prove they are residents.
A regional administrator and an activist told Reuters a group of about 10 Burmese nationals working for US- and Britain-based charity Relief International (R.I.) was forced to turn back when residents of the mostly Buddhist ethnic Arakanese community staged a protest in the town of Myebon.
Reuters reported this month that activists among the town’s Buddhist majority had stepped up efforts to segregate Buddhists and Muslims, instructing Arakanese not to trade with Muslims, for fear of militancy.
Deliveries of food aid to Myebon’s Muslims have been delayed and only allowed in after inspections by Buddhist community representatives.
“The R.I. group were trying to go to the camp and the locals blocked the way,” said Tin Shwe, the town’s administrator, adding that the aid workers returned to their office after Wednesday’s incident.
Samir Maleh, country director for Relief International in Burma, declined to comment on the incident.
Leaders of the Arakanese Buddhist community have long bristled at international agencies and NGOs whom they accuse of favouring the Rohingya with their support.
Aid workers and UN staff have told Reuters they fear enforced segregation may trigger further displacement in Arakan State, either through fresh violence or as Muslims flee on boats to Malaysia and Thailand, fuelling a new stage of crisis in the Bay of Bengal.
Wednesday’s incident was the latest example of the numerous obstacles that humanitarian organisations face in Arakan State, said Pierre Peron, a spokesman for the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
“Of course we respect that any group should be able to exercise their rights of freedom of speech and peaceful assembly, but the simple fact here is that life-saving aid is being blocked from reaching vulnerable people who desperately need it, including children and the elderly.”
About 3,000 Muslims — including Rohingya and those accepted as Burmese citizens — have been confined to a camp for displaced people in Myebon since communal violence swept Arakan State in 2012.
Photos posted on the social media site Facebook on Wednesday showed about two dozen women sitting down to block a small street, with a smaller group of men standing behind.
Khin Thein, a leader of a regional branch of the Arakan Women’s Network, said her group joined the protest after authorities told the community the NGO would provide education about gender-based violence, hygiene and sanitation to Muslims.
“They have food, they have shelter to live,” she told Reuters. “We can’t accept these kinds of excess things for them. We will not allow them to pass through our township. We already protested several times in the past. We have suspicions about them. We don’t trust foreigners, international people.” | <urn:uuid:eaddd45b-90b1-4568-981f-e040c552ccd8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.dvb.no/aid-workers-blocked-entering-muslim-camp-myebon-amid-tension/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954436 | 731 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Right after a lengthy hard day’s work, sleep is available in a natural way to all of us. So, the majority of us usually do not feel a lot about sleeping. However, it can be provided that we are not able to sleep, do we recognize its value. The truth is, sleep is very important for good health insurance and there exists a link between sleep and overall health that you should know of. When a regular mature calls for seven hrs of sleep in the evening, even 7 to 9 several hours is appropriate provided that you get out of bed sensing refreshed. In the event you sleep excessive or insufficient, you can get specific issues, which include improving mortality costs. This is extremely vital for durability. Also, sleep enables the entire body to de-tension and get back its stamina. Therefore, the significance of receiving good sleep at night time really should not be cast besides.
There are various ways that you can support your system get its very much deserved relaxation at nights. However, if you do not get satisfactory relax at evenings; you may be also tired to work out the next. And, as you are extremely exhausted, you can expect to struggle to sleep nicely. So, it is sort of a vicious circle. Therefore, take steps to ensure that you make everything with your capacity to aid sleep. As an example, stay away from coffee and smoking just before retiring to bed. Also, tend not to follow a large dinner before going to bed. Invest some time outside sensesleep. Sun rays aids in producing a substance ingredient known as melatonin. This ingredient is introduced in your body once you sleep and yes it helps to normalize sleep, to ensure someone wakes up experiencing fresh and restful.
When retiring to sleep, ensure that your place is quiet and there is not any light coming in. Generally go to bed furniture simultaneously every night immaterial whether you are sensation drowsy or otherwise not. Also, ensure that you own a good and comfortable mattress. Should you not hold the appropriate bedding, you suffer from lower back pain which may create a challenge in obtaining a good night’s relax. | <urn:uuid:8eb414a6-7698-47aa-aa82-c72c622cae05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.readingislamiccentre.com/different-ways-to-get-good-sleep-at-times.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954965 | 433 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Your immune system is your best defense against sickness and disease. A strong immune system can fight off infection, bacteria, and viruses. A weak immune system makes you susceptible to these invaders and can lead to serious health problems.
There are many things you can do to naturally boost your immune system.
Regular Hot Tub Use
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) report that taking a hot bath can help fight off sickness. Soaking in a hot tub for 20 minutes can raise your body temperature, which helps kill off bacteria and viruses. The steam from the hot tub can also help relieve congestion and clear your sinuses.
Make sure the water is not too hot, as this can actually have the opposite effect and make you more susceptible to sickness.
Get Plenty of Sleep
Sleep is crucial for a strong immune system. When you don’t get enough sleep, your body produces fewer infection-fighting antibodies. A lack of sleep can also make you more susceptible to stress, which weakens your immune system.
Eat a Healthy Diet
A healthy diet is essential for a strong immune system. Eating plenty of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains helps your body to function at its best. These foods are packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that help your body fight off infection. Avoid processed foods, sugary drinks, and excessive amounts of alcohol, as these can all weaken your immune system.
Regular exercise is one of the best things you can do for your immune system. Exercise helps to improve circulation and flush out toxins from your body. It also reduces stress levels, which can weaken your immune system. aim for 30 minutes of moderate exercises, such as brisk walking, most days of the week.
Reduce Stress Levels
Chronic stress can have a negative impact on your immune system. When you’re stressed, your body produces hormones that can make you more susceptible to illness. To reduce stress, try yoga, meditation, hydrotherapy, or deep breathing exercises. You can also try to schedule some “me time” into your day, even if it’s just for a few minutes.
Get Plenty of Vitamin C
Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that can boost your immune system. It helps to protect your cells from damage and helps your body to fight off infection. You can get vitamin C from citrus fruits, tomatoes, bell peppers, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts.
Get Regular Medical Checkups
Of course, one of the best things you can do for your immune system is to see your doctor regularly. They can help identify any health problems that may be weakening your immune system and offer guidance on how to stay healthy.
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There have been a lot of discussions surrounding how to behave socially during the Covid 19 pandemic, yet a lot of the basic precautions are being ignored, and certain actions are affecting smaller communities across the globe. While we all should be self-quarantining, socially isolating, and staying at home over the foreseeable future, more importantly, we need to acknowledge that this pandemic is not a vacation.
Now, this is not going to be a whole op-ed piece, just an announcement, citing two key sources, the New York Times and our friends at Indigenous Women Hike, both responding to the climbing community, not the cycling community, but it doesn’t take a genius to make the connection. Places all over high-density areas are experiencing spikes in outdoor recreation. Los Angeles’ Angeles National Forest had gridlock conditions over the weekend at various picnic locations. Point Reyes National Seashore in the Bay Area also experienced spikes in attendance. Social media sleuthing shows that many people are ignoring the 6′ distancing rule. There’s no reason a person couldn’t walk, hike, or ride a bike during these times, but you must avoid groups and maintain a safe distance of at least 6′ when doing so.
The New York Times looks at this mindset’s effects in a recent article:
“People were like, ‘Social distancing? I’m going to Bishop. Can’t get any more distant than that,’” said Jeff Deikis, a resident and climber.
Although the risks of climbing are primarily associated with the heights and terrain, adventurers jammed the coffee shops and the brewery in Bishop. Driving four hours from Los Angeles and six hours from San Francisco, packs of climbers scaled the nearby boulders and canyons, sharing fresh air and, perhaps, infectious disease.
“Climbers from around the country have descended upon Bishop as though a global pandemic were some sort of hall pass from responsibility and magnanimity,”
This ego-centric approach has weighed heavily on the community in Owens Valley and Bishop.
Just days before the New York Tims piece, Jolie at Indigenous Women Hike penned this plead to the people considering “vacationing” in Bishop, California.
I know that there are work closures and school closures because of covid-19. Please don’t think of this as vacation time. Please don’t come to Payahuunadü(Owens Valley)and expose our vulnerable communities when we have limited resources and limited access to hospital services. Mammoth Mountain ski resort has closed but people are still coming to recreate. I’ve also gotten word that even though the women’s climbing festival was postponed that a lot of people will still be coming to climb in Payahuunadü. CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE. I encourage people to stay home. I do not want to induce panic but I am thinking of the well-being of my community—our elders and those who are immunocompromised.
We also have very few stores here. Consider that when you come here and head to the store you can be taking food and supplies out of the homes of us who live here. ALL of the stores we have here are out of TP and cleaning supplies.
Our homelands are not your playgrounds or places for you to escape during this crisis. Understand that this privileged way of thinking can put our elders and vulnerable loved ones at risk. As an aunty of babies who are vulnerable and as someone who is deeply concerned for the health of our culture bearers(our elders) I urge you to think of the health of our community.
The Inyo County Sheriff’s response is being echoed by many small towns across the country, PLEASE GO HOME!
Now, we all know the rules, but here they are again:
-Wash your hands regularly for 20 seconds, with soap and water or alcohol-based hand rub
-Cover your nose and mouth with a disposable tissue or flexed elbow when you cough or sneeze
-Avoid close contact (1 meter or 3 feet) with people who are unwell
-Stay home and self-isolate from others in the household if you feel unwell
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HbA1c was available in 1072/3023 (35%) of the patients in CHARM-Preserved and 428 patients with a HbA1c measurement in this trial had a history of diabetes (Table 1). Patients with diabetes were older, had a higher BMI, more evidence of coronary heart disease, worse NYHA class, higher heart rate, lower estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) and greater use of loop diuretics compared to those with normoglycemia. Patients with previously undiagnosed diabetes and those with prediabetes had a clinical picture in between individuals with known diabetes and those with normoglycemia (Table 1).
HbA1c was available in 1578/4576 (34%) of individuals in CHARM-Alternative and CHARM-Added, and 558 patients in these trials with a HbA1c measurement had a history of diabetes (Table 2). Similar to what was observed in HFpEF, we found that patients with known or undiagnosed diabetes were older, had a worse NYHA class distribution and kidney function and were more likely to have evidence of coronary heart disease.
Only 18% of patients with HFpEF and 16% of patients with HFrEF were normoglycemic.
Prediabetes was more common than normoglycemia in both types of HF: 20% in patients with HFpEF and 22% in those with HFrEF (p = 0.25).
The prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes was also high, but was less common in patients with HFpEF compared with HFrEF (22 vs. 26%, p = 0.01). Conversely, the prevalence of known diabetes was higher in patients with HFpEF (40 vs 35%, p = 0.02). As a result, the prevalence of any diabetes (diagnosed and previously undiagnosed) was 62% in each study.
HFpEF and HFrEF patients with diagnosed diabetes were at significantly higher risk of both the primary composite outcome, and all-cause mortality, compared with normoglycemic patients (Figs. 1 and 2). The rates of both outcomes of interest were higher in patients with undiagnosed diabetes and prediabetes, compared with normoglycemic patients, p < 0.001 for trend across dysglycemia categories for both HFpEF and HFrEF. | <urn:uuid:61723cb7-ab5d-4059-985d-ad435f01345a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10557-017-6754-x | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971781 | 496 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Physicians and health service providers whose patients are on federal healthcare programs like Medicare or Medicaid sometimes run afoul of the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute. When this happens, it often leads to steep penalties.
To avoid violating the Anti-Kickback Statute, it is important to know what it is about.
Here are the 10 most important things to know about the law:
The Anti-Kickback Statute was originally enacted by the congress in 1972. It was enacted as an amendment to the Social Security Act.
The Statute was enacted to limit physicians and healthcare providers from defrauding federal healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Prior to the Statute, the Social Security Act had numerous loopholes which made it easy to defraud healthcare programs through kickbacks. The loopholes also made it difficult to persecute offenders.
The Anti-Kickback Statute was enacted to close the loopholes in the Social Security Act by providing clear standards through which healthcare fraudsters could be prosecuted. Its aim was to achieve two things.
First of all, to clearly spell out specific kinds of offences (i.e. kickbacks, bribes, solicitations and rebates) relating to healthcare referrals. Secondly, to outline clear penalties for those who violate the law.
In a nutshell, the Statute prohibits soliciting or accepting any type of gift, remuneration or compensation in exchange for making referrals for patients in federal healthcare programs. Basically, the statute makes it illegal for:
- A physician or health service provider to be ask for compensation in return for referring patients who are on Medicaid or Medicare.
- A health service provider to compensate a physician or another service provider for referring Medicare or Medicaid patients to them.
- A physician or health service provider to claim reimbursements from Medicare or Medicaid for payments made in kickbacks.
The Statute categorizes such payments as “kickbacks, bribes or rebates”, and considers them a felony. Whoever violates the Statue can face felony charges – with steep penalties.
Penalties For Violations
The Anti-Kickback Statute imposes a number of penalties for violations. Here is a summary of the major penalties:
- Criminal penalties can include fines of up to $25,000 per kickback
- Civil penalties can include a prison sentence of up to 5 years per kickback
- Civil penalties can include fines of up to $50,000
- Civil penalties can include damages of three times of the amount incurred by the government as a result of the violation
- Violators can also face expulsion from federal healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Some Costly Settlements
Over the past few years, a number of healthcare providers have faced lawsuits for violating the Statute. A few of these have ended up paying some costly amounts in settlements. A few of these settlements include the following:
- In 2014, Amedisys – a LA-based health services provider – paid $150 million to settle Statute violation allegations. The company allegedly claimed Medicare reimbursements for money which it had offered to physicians to refer patients to its services. Click to read more.
- In 2014, Omnicare – a Cincinnati-based pharmaceutical company – paid $124 million to settle claims that it violated the Anti-Kickback Statute. The company allegedly offered financial incentives to nursing homes to recommend its services to Medicare and Medicaid patients. Click here to read more.
The Anti-Kickback Statute doesn’t explicitly mention whistle-blowers. However, in the Amedisys case, the violations were first revealed by a whistle-blower. That whistle-blower ended up receiving $26 million out of the $150 million paid by the company, click here to read more.
This payment causes a predicament for potential Ant-Kickback Statute violators. It means that their own employees now have an incentive to report on violations.
The Question of Intent
Prior to the Anti-Kickback Statute, to charge someone with committing healthcare fraud required proving that they had “knowingly” or “willfully” committed the violation. Basically, the burden of proof was on the government or prosecutor.
The Anti-Kickback Statute eliminated the question of “willful intent”. The only requirement for culpability is committing any of the forbidden acts. This eliminates the scenarios where individuals deliberately commit violations and then claim that they had no idea that they were breaking any law. It also makes prosecuting violations quite straightforward.
Exemptions from the Statute
The Anti-Kickback Statute has a wide interpretation which can have a stifling effect on legitimate business operations. To prevent this stifling effect, the Congress outlined so-called “safe harbor arrangements” through which an individual or healthcare provider can avoid violating the Statute.
These safe harbor arrangements are exempt from the Statute. Examples include:
- Rentals for space and equipment
- Contracts for personal services and management
- Payments to bona fide employees
- Electronic prescriptions arrangements
- Electronic health records arrangements
State Anti-Kickback Laws
Although the Anti-Kickback Statute is a federal law, many states have their own anti-kickback laws. Most of these laws are based on the Statute, and are similar in many respects. However, some have provisions which differ from the Statute. For instance, many state laws differ on what constitutes a referral source.
The onus is on every physician or health service provider to find out the anti-kickback laws which are relevant to the state within which their operations are based. Even then, except for provisions which differ from the Statute, the state laws do not nullify the Anti-Kickback Statute.
The agency which is charged with enforcing the Anti-Kickback Statute is the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in the US Department of Health & Human Services. It is the OIG which investigates violations, brings lawsuits against violators, and recommends penalties such as suspension from federal healthcare programs. Since 1972, the OIG gas secured over 800 convictions, judgments and settlements under the Statute.
In 2009, the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) was created by the Department of Justice to investigate Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse. The HEAT follows up on the Anti-Kickback Statute as well. In this respect, it works in conjunction with the OIG.
In a nutshell, those are the 10 key things to know about the Anti-Kickback Statute. This information is vital for any physician or healthcare provider whose patients include recipients of Medicaid and Medicare. Observing the Statute is critical towards ensuring that one steers clear of violating it. The relative importance of Medicaid and Medicare means that the federal government clamps down hard on any perceived fraud. To steer clear of the violations, it is critical to study and understand the Statute. | <urn:uuid:0b286ea8-17bf-4db6-9fd5-7c7b39f69182> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medicalsanctions.com/10-things-to-know-about-the-anti-kickback-statute/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953045 | 1,457 | 2.5 | 2 |
FUGRO GAUSS Current Position
Where is the current position of FUGRO GAUSS presently?
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Amanda Gorman: The Brand
Amanda Gorman, the nation’s Youth Poet Laureate, became an overnight media star when she read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s inauguration. She went on to become the first person to read poetry at the Super Bowl.
Now she’s turned into an icon for her generation, an emblem of new beginnings—and an economic engine with real staying power, long past the inauguration. Estee Lauder knows it. So does Nike. And so do the other big brands that have lined up to make deals with her. After signing with IMG Models and appearing on the cover of Vogue in Louis Vuitton earlier this year, she’s been in such demand she said she had to turn down about $17 million in sponsorship offers. She didn’t let any of the hoopla distract her from her writing and just released a new poetry collection.
You may be surprised, but as a business leader, I’ve been following how this young, woman poet has captured the public imagination while becoming an in-demand celebrity. For many of us, poetry was something we studied in high school English class and perhaps college, but in an age of Instagram influencers, who would have predicted that a poet would be the subject of so much public attention? She has somehow turned poetry into a mainstream phenomenon, even for those of us in the accounting profession, who tend to get more excited by new tax changes than odes to morning.
Maybe it speaks to the times we live in. Collectively, we continue to live through a long-running public health crisis that has ground down many people’s spirits, and though things are somewhat improved in 2021, it’s not over yet. All you have to do is watch Gorman perform one of her poems, and it’s clear she’s full of life, smart as a whip and the embodiment of a more positive future. And she knows how to leverage high-fashion to get her point across.
Her savvy clearly isn’t lost on chief marketing officers at many of the biggest brands, who spend billions of dollars every year trying to come up with campaigns that exude the energy that bubbles up out of Gorman organically.
Leadership comes in many packages, but all gifted leaders have one thing in common: they know how to bring people together around a common purpose. I believe this talented young woman can inspire many of the most seasoned executives among us, including those who will never write poetry, about how to do just that.
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From 1st September, ATF Fuels will become the first fuel retailer in Jersey to supply E10 petrol as standard at their forecourts.
E10 petrol contains up to 10% renewable ethanol, which will help to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with petrol vehicles and tackle climate change. During summer 2021, the standard petrol grade in the United Kingdom will become E10. In Northern Ireland, this will happen in early 2022.
E10 petrol is already widely used around the world, including across Europe, the US and Australia. It has also been the reference fuel against which new cars are tested for emissions and performance since 2016.
Jonathan Best, Director of ATF Fuels, said: “We are the only Channel Island fuel distributor which has complied with UK legislation that required petrol to have a bio-fuel content of at least 5%. Now this is increasing to 10%, we will continue to support the UK government’s policy on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from road transport”.
Most cars, as well as motorcycles and scooters built after 2000 are compatible with E10.
Since E10 became the European test fuel in 2016, new cars are not only compatible with E10, they are optimised to run on it. Cars that are incompatible with E10 are mostly classic, hobbyist vehicles or are older cars.
Jonathan continued: “Although the supply of petrol with an ethanol content has not yet been mandated by the Government of Jersey, as a responsible fuel supplier we are taking the lead by driving fuel standards up, which can only be good news for Jersey’s climate change policy.”
The change in fuel only applies to petrol. Diesel fuel will not be changing.
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Louis immigrated to the United States in August 1900, travelling from Liverpool, England, on the SS Rhineland. Lillian immigrated in March 1903. They applied for US citizenship in January 1937 at which time they were living at 750 North Hawthorne Avenue, Hawthorne, Los Angeles County, CaliforniaG.5
In 1910 Louis was living at Washington Street, Newark, Essex County, New JerseyG, and was recorded in the census as Louis Sackett, a millinery salesman, head of household, aged 25 and born in Russia. Living with him was his wife Lillian, aged 25 and also born in Russia. They were both English speaking. They rented their home.6
In 1920 he was living at Stuyvesant Avenue, Irvington, Essex County, New JerseyG, and was recorded as Louis L Sackett, insurance company collector, head of household, aged 43 and born in Russia. He rented his home. Living with him were his wife Lillian, 34, and their children, Benjamin, 8, Alfred, 5, and Robert L, aged one month.7
Children of Louis Sackett and Lillian Dvorkin
Notes & Citations
- Naturalization record.
- Website Find a Grave.
- "New York City, Marriages, 1600s–1800s", database, Ancestry.com, "20 Feb 1910, at Manhattan, New York, Louis Sackett, 25, single, b. Vilna, Russia, father Lipel Sackett, mother Beckie Sackett; to Lillian Dvorkin, 25, single, b. Vilna, Russia, father Issak Dvorkin, mother Fruma B Sagsen."
- Website Find a Grave, has b. Vitsebskaya, Belarus, 17 Jun 1887.
- "California, Federal Naturalization Records, 1843–1999", digital image, Ancestry.com, "USA Declaration of Intention, District Court of Los Angeles, Louis Sackett, of 750 N Hawthorne Ave, Hawthorne, LA Co, California, junk business, age 54, complexion dark, eyes blue, hair black, ht 5' 6", wt 140, no distinctive marks, race Hebrew, nationality Russian, b. Novoalexandrovsk, Russia, 15 Mar 1882, wife Lillian, m. 20 Feb 1910, at New York City, wife b. Lepel, Russia, 27 Feb 1885, entered US at New York City, Mar 1903, 3 ch: Benjamin, b. 15 May 1911, Newark, NJ, resides Los Angeles; Alfred, b. 5 Aug 1914, Newark, resides Hawthorne, CA; Robert, b. 24 Nov 1919, Newark, resides Hawthorne. Declaration of intention no. 82973 heretofore made 30 Sep 1926 at Supreme Court, Bronx, NY, last foreign res. Novoalexandrovsk, Russia, emigrated from Liverpool, England, for US residence at Philadelphia, PA, under name Louis Sackett, on Aug 1900, on vessel "Rhineland". Sworn at Los Angeles, 14 Jan 1937."
- 1910 US census, digital image, Ancestry.com, Roll T624_876, p. 1A, Enumeration District 0010, FHL 1374889
Washington St, Newark City, Essex County, NJ, 15 Apr 1910
Sackett, Louis, head, 25, m1, b. Russia (Jewish), immigrated 1901, English speaking, salesman, millinery, own account [overwritten "w"orker], home rented, father b. Russia, mother b. Russia
Sackett, Lillian, wife, 25, m1, b. Russia (Jewish), immigrated 1908, English speaking, millinery, store, own account, father b. Russia, mother b. Russia.
- 1920 US census, digital image, Ancestry.com, Roll T625_1030, p. 3B, Enumeration District 59, Image 103
Stuyvesant Avenue, Irvington, Essex County, New Jersey, 3 Jan 1920
Sackett, Louis L, head, home rented, 43, married, immigrated 1903, collector, insurance co, b. Russia, father b. Russia, mother b. Russia
Sackett, Lillian, wife, 34, immigrated 1905, b. Russia, father b. Russia, mother b. Russia
Sackett, Benjamin, son, 8, b. NJ, father b. Russia, mother b. Russia
Sackett, Alfred, son, 5, b. NJ, father b. Russia, mother b. Russia
Sackett, Robert L, 1/12, b. NJ, father b. Russia, mother b. Russia.
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Why and when should you do that?
Sometimes all you have from the client are the drawings from the CAD software. This step is necessary to determine the area of interest and export it to KML/KMZ format. This format is widely used
Open the drawing in Autodesk Civil3D
Draw a boundary with polyline tool around the area of interest to include all the terrain that needs to be mapped
Select only the boundary and copy it
Open a new Drawing
Paste to the original coordinates option
Go to Drawing Settings in the top left corner menu
Set the Coordinate Reference System of the drawing.
Now you can make sure that the project is in the right location by using the GEOMAP command with Aerial satellite data
Once the Civil 3D view is active, go to Toolbox in the left menu and click Miscellaneous Utilities
Click Export KML
Click Next until you reach the export file path
Choose where to export the file
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A year has passed since the murder of Michael Brown, one of over 1100 people, disproportionately black and brown, killed by US law enforcement in 2014. The movement against institutionalized white supremacy and police violence has spread and escalated, gaining leverage on the authorities and the public imagination despite repeated efforts to coopt it. At the same time, we are seeing extra-governmental white supremacist violence reemerge as a force in the US, as it always does whenever state strategies for imposing white supremacy reach their limits.
The illusion of social peace is evaporating. Over the past year, the National Guard has been called out three times to quell anti-police rioting. White racists have retaliated with church burnings and murders, while raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to support murderers in uniform. The lines that are being drawn may determine the geography of racialized conflict in the US for a long time to come. How did we arrive here from the first demonstrations in Ferguson? And how should we position ourselves in these struggles?
The Backstory: Crisis and Repression, Cooptation and Revolt
The racialized poverty that forms the landscape of Ferguson and so many other predominantly black districts is not just a consequence of the recession of 2008. The costs of capitalism have always been inflicted first and worst on black people, from slavery and Jim Crow to the contemporary phenomenon of “surplus humanity” for whom there is no place in the economy. And since the beginning, this has engendered black resistance.
Fifty years ago, white America faced powder keg of civil rights movements, militant black organizing, and urban riots. Because the 1960s were a time of comparative abundance and economic growth, the United States government could afford to stabilize society by integrating some people of color into more aspects of political and economic life. But even those concessions took place at a price: while a minority of black people were offered conditional access to the middle class, the more militant organizers and the majority of black communities were ruthlessly repressed. Since then, some of the leaders of the black civil rights movement have become successful politicians, while Black Panthers remain behind bars along with a million other black people.
This is the dual operation of repression: kill or imprison the ones who won’t or can’t compromise, while integrating the more tractable into the power structure.
Today, in the age of global austerity, there are few resources available with which to strike bargains with the excluded. The rhetoric from politicians and pundits condemning protesters in Ferguson and Baltimore is a military operation intended to make it possible to use force against them without blowback, but it also shows that the conflict between the two sides is irresolvable: no one in power has any idea what to do about our society’s racial and economic inequalities. Leaders on the left are doing their best to obscure this in order to buy time. When they bought time in the 1960s, that time was used to build the jails and prisons that hold nearly two and a half million people today, to set the stage for the gentrification that is currently demolishing entire communities of color.
This is why in 2014, neither the repressive force of the state nor the receding lure of economic success were enough to contain black rage. No wonder Ferguson exploded.
From Ferguson to Baltimore
Consult the appendix below for a timeline of the Baltimore uprising.
The post–1960s strategy of integrating black leaders into the structures of state power has also reached its limits. We saw hints of this in the 2009 uprising following the murder of Oscar Grant in Oakland, a city whose political elite includes civil rights veterans who now oversee police that behave the same as ever towards the black and poor.
Although Ferguson was a classic example of a black majority terrorized by a violent white elite, the power structure in Baltimore includes a number of black authority figures. That extends even into the police department: three of the six officers arrested for the murder of Freddie Gray are black. Yet putting black people in positions of state power hasn’t done away with poverty, police killings, or other forms of structural racism in Baltimore. Black politicians may have been able to ameliorate the situation to some extent, but in the end it took the riots with which people responded to the murder of Freddie Gray to force the issue of white supremacy.
People of any background can maintain white supremacist institutions. Despite media handwringing about Ferguson’s disproportionately white police force, we don’t just need affirmative action among those who impose structural oppression; we need to make it impossible for these institutions to dominate people in the first place.
After the initial explosion, chief prosecutor Marilyn Mosby succeeded in averting further confrontations by announcing the filing of charges against Freddie Gray’s murderers immediately ahead of the demonstrations scheduled for May Day weekend. Her decision to press charges was exceptional and courageous, but most of those charges would never have been filed if not for clashes like the ones she was trying to forestall. It is a mistake to turn people from means of protest that interrupt the status quo back to ineffective strategies that rely on the institutional channels of redress. Even if the officers responsible for Freddie Gray’s death are found guilty, that will not prove that the system can police itself, but rather that it takes a full-scale uprising to impose even a modicum of consequences on those who maintain it. Rather than setting out to reform the court system one riot at a time, it would make more sense to ask what these uprisings lack to become steps towards revolutionary change.
In response to that possibility, those who have the greatest cause to fear change—the authorities, the corporate media, and representatives of the middle class—set out to frame the uprising in Baltimore as pathological and puerile. The curfew that was imposed in Baltimore on April 29 along with the National Guard occupation was an extension of the curfew that had already been in place111. The 2014 article linked here blithely reassures the reader of the good intentions of the police enforcing the curfew: “The Baltimore Police have recently been trained on dealing with youth. To emphasize that those caught violating curfew are not considered criminals, the city says most children out late will be transported in vans—not in the back of police cars.” Indeed, Freddie Gray was fatally injured in the back of a van, having been arrested for no criminal activity whatsoever.
2. The counterpart of that narrative is the mother who persuaded her son to turn himself in for his role in vandalizing a police car, only to see him held on $500,000 bail—afterwards, when it was too late, she regretted telling him to entrust his fate to the authorities. for young people in that city all year. In effect, the April 29 curfew signified the infantilizing of the whole adult population of Baltimore, an intensification of the function that the state always plays in pacifying and sidelining people.
This is the light in which we must understand the corporate media narrative about the mother who hit her son for masking up and throwing rocks on the premise she didn’t want him to become yet another Freddie Gray.22 That narrative individualizes blame for police violence—in fact, Freddie Gray was not committing any sort of crime when he was arrested. There is no individual solution for the structural violence directed at Freddie Gray and countless young people like him—and likely no solution that involves obeying the law or waiting for it to take its due course. Waiting on the courts is yet more infantilizing: hush up and let the adults take care of this.
But that sort of sidelining is becoming less and less feasible. In Ferguson and then in Baltimore, we saw children throwing rocks because their parents had already been incapacitated or imprisoned, just like in Palestine—and because, as in Palestine, they knew that there would be no payoff to behaving themselves. There has been a lot of rhetoric about fatherless children, and indeed a shocking proportion of men have been kidnapped from black communities in places like West Baltimore. But the truth is that black youth succeeded in forcing the issue of police violence where everyone else had failed. In interrupting the functioning of a system that has no place for them, they are the ones opening the possibility of real change, not the black leadership of the previous generation.
From Ferguson to Baltimore, the cycle of revolt accelerated and intensified. The arc of events that took a week and a half to unfold in Ferguson played out much more rapidly in Baltimore. Large parts of the city were in flames within two days of the first confrontations, and the National Guard was deployed almost immediately; Mosby filed the charges that effectively concluded the uprising just four days later. Despite the speedy quelling of the riots, it seems possible that the state had nearly reached the limit of what it could do to impose white supremacist inequality by main force: with the prisons packed, once the National Guard is deployed, escalating to a higher level of repression would mean declaring open war on the population.
If multiple uprisings were to occur simultaneously in the same region, control might break down completely. Hence the authorities’ scrambling to mollify people they had been ignoring for years.
From Baltimore to South Carolina
A week before the murder of Freddie Gray, a police officer had murdered Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, in North Charleston, South Carolina, shooting him in the back as he fled. The killing was caught on video, and within three days the officer was charged with murder. Even in the birthplace of the Confederacy, the specter of uprising forced the authorities to impose consequences on the police.
Yet whenever governmental enforcement of white supremacy reaches its limits in the United States, independent white supremacist activity picks up. The classic example of this is the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan and similar organizations like the White League and the Red Shirts after the abolition of slavery. In many cases, it was the same sheriffs, judges, and legislators who enforced racist laws on the books donning robes and hoods to pick up where the laws left off.
In recent months, we’ve seen a resurgence of autonomous white supremacist activity, including a spate of church burnings that began in Ferguson immediately after the decision not try Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown. But that could be only the tip of the iceberg.
In response to the uprisings of the past few years, we are seeing police—and the subset of middle-class America from which many of them are drawn—beginning to conceive of their interests as distinct from the rest of the state structure. In 2011, during the peak of Occupy Oakland, Mayor Jean Quan wrestled with the Oakland Police Department, which repeatedly asserted a contrary agenda. Something similar occurred between the NYPD and Mayor Bill de Blasio in New York City last winter, when New York City police carried out an unofficial strike demanding more unconditional support from the government—in effect, demanding the freedom to employ violence with impunity. After the Baltimore uprising, there was a lot of grumbling among Maryland police who blamed their superiors for not permitting them to use more violence against demonstrators.
This kind of frustration could give rise to new racist movements that will understand themselves as needing to take the law into their own hands in order to maintain law and order and defend private property. Something similar has occurred in Greece with the emergence of the fascist party Golden Dawn, which now counts a great part of the country’s police officers in its ranks. That makes it especially ominous that the Oath Keepers, a paramilitary organization of former policemen and soldiers, have made repeated appearances at demonstrations in Ferguson.
Autonomous movements of all stripes have an advantage today, when government is widely discredited. Like anarchists in contrast to liberals, autonomous white supremacists are more effective than garden-variety racists because they are prepared to use direct action to achieve their goals. What is at stake here is what autonomy will mean in the public imagination: freedom and resistance to oppression, or unchecked racist violence. The discourse of autonomy is strategically precious territory; whoever is able to occupy it will be able to determine the frame within which people conceptualize social change.
For the state, the intensification of extra-governmental white supremacist activity is an opportunity to change the subject. Such activity enables the government to present itself as protecting people from racist violence, directing attention away from all the normalized ways that the state imposes such violence. The image of the National Guard holding back white vigilantes during integration in the South gave the federal government decades of credibility, even though the same National Guard put down the riots of the late 1960s. If anything like Golden Dawn or the KKK of the 1920s gets off the ground in the US today, many people currently involved in movements against police and prisons will line up behind the government again, legitimizing those institutions as necessary tools against white supremacists even though in the long run they will always be used chiefly against the black, brown, and poor.
So far, we have yet to see a surge in organized group violence from fascists or rogue police officers. Autonomous white supremacist violence has remained the province of lone wolves like Dylann Roof, who carried out a racist massacre in Charleston, South Carolina in June 2015, reportedly with the intention of catalyzing a race war. Photographs showed him brandishing a Confederate flag and other racist insignia.
In response, activists renewed their appeal to the state legislature to remove the Confederate flag from its official place on the grounds of the state capitol. In 1961, Democratic Governor Ernest Hollings had initiated legislation to raise the Confederate flag on the capitol grounds as a symbol of resistance to the civil rights movement. Despite the end of legal segregation, the flag stood, defying an NAACP tourism boycott since 2000.
On June 21, days after the Emanuel Church massacre, “Black Lives Matter” graffiti appeared on Confederate monuments in Charleston and elsewhere. On June 27, Black Lives Matter activist Brittany Ann Byuarim Newsome was arrested and charged with “defacing a monument” after climbing up the flagpole at the state capitol and removing the Confederate flag. Less than two weeks later, lawmakers voted to remove it from the State Capitol.
This demonstrates the power of direct action. The tourism boycott had been ineffective; so long as the state perceived no internal threat to order, it could afford to shrug off a few lost tourist dollars and the indignation of activists. But when uprisings elsewhere around the US dovetailed with local outrage, the willingness of a few individuals to break the law hastened a process that otherwise could have dragged on decades longer. The spectacle of a state claiming to oppose racism arresting an activist for removing an officially sanctioned symbol of racism from the headquarters of the state left the lawmakers no choice—especially after the Ku Klux Klan scheduled a rally at the capitol for July 18, threatening to create an additional spectacle of explicit racists outside the legislature allied with filibustering Republicans within. On July 9, the legislators voted to take down the Confederate flag, rebranding themselves as anti-racists. As in Ferguson and Baltimore, direct action had shifted the terrain, compelling officials to scramble to catch up.
Yet by focusing attention on removing the Confederate flag from the state capitol, activists had displaced rage against the racist murders in South Carolina onto a symbolic issue that legislators could address. The role of the Ku Klux Klan here aptly illustrates how extra-governmental white supremacist activity can be advantageous for the state.
This was the context in which Klansmen and women, police, and protesters attending a black-organized counterdemonstration converged upon the state capitol grounds of Columbia, South Carolina on July 18, 2015. The Klansmen hoped to attract the attention of angry whites who felt victimized by recent victories against white supremacy; if they could present themselves as the sole remaining defenders of a flag and a tradition abandoned by the authorities, they would win new adherents for extra-governmental white supremacist organizing. The authorities hoped to preserve order, showing that they could control opponents of the state on both sides, in order to keep the state itself central for all seeking social change. The protesters, as usual, were divided between a variety of goals and methodologies; they ran the gamut from religious pacifists to black separatists to predominantly white anarchists.
The day ended in a rout for the Klan, with a multiethnic crowd including anarchists chasing them back to their cars and pelting them with projectiles as the overextended police struggled to protect them. More Klansmen went to the hospital than protesters went to jail. The demonstrators had prevented the Klan from asserting an image of strength, hopefully discouraging dissatisfied white people from joining them. At the same time, compared to the events in Ferguson and Baltimore, the police had ceased to be the chief subject of the demonstrations; Dylann Roof, the controversy about the Confederate flag, and the Klan rally had shifted the subject away from policing and other normalized and fundamental aspects of the white supremacist power structure, towards exceptional and symbolic expressions of white supremacy. As social conflicts polarize and more and more people on both sides break off from state-based strategies, it will be especially important to continue confronting the institutionalized white supremacy of the state.
Next Time It Explodes
The police in the St. Louis area have continued their pattern of killing someone every month or so since the protests there last August and November. The police in Baltimore and South Carolina will surely continue killing, as well, even if they are more anxious about the consequences; apparently, it requires this level of perpetual violence to preserve the current social order. It will take more than reforms, more than individual uprisings, to put a stop to police murder.
Over the past seven years, we have seen a slow, steady escalation in the tactics that protesters in the United States feel entitled to employ. In 2008 and 2009, only the most radical student groups went so far as to occupy universities; in 2011, Occupy became the watchword of an entire mass movement. During the Occupy movement, only the most radical groups went so far as to blockade anything; during the Black Lives Matter protests of November and December 2014, people around the United States employed blockading on a regular basis. During the protests that spread from Ferguson in 2014, only the most enraged participants engaged in vandalism, arson, and looting; yet protesters in Baltimore escalated to vandalism, arson, and looting as soon as their demonstrations escaped police control. All this illustrates the value of pushing the envelope: demonstrating new tactics, however unpopular they may be at the time, so that they enter the public imagination for future use.
This escalation has been matched by a shift in popular discourse. During the flashpoints in Ferguson and Baltimore, some media outlets published daring editorials explaining the riots as acts of desperation, or making arguments for why people had given up on nonviolence. We have not seen such a public validation of militant tactics in the US for decades.
Yet there is a big difference between validating and participating. These pundits seem to have obtained all the credibility of endorsing militant tactics without any of the inconveniences of employing them. All of these editorials are concerned only with explaining and legitimizing what they essentially treat as exotic phenomena; the implication is that the rest of us might accept what the rioters are doing from a distance, but certainly not participate in it ourselves. Other aspiring allies arrive at the same conclusion from a different direction, being so careful not to usurp the agency of the most affected communities that they end up standing aside entirely or putting their weight behind lower-risk initiatives.
But it is dangerous and unethical to leave the greatest risks to the most vulnerable people. If it makes sense for the most marginalized and targeted to risk their lives to interrupt the functioning of the system that is killing them, it makes even more sense for the rest of us to do so. It’s not a question of understanding the uprisings, but of joining and extending them in order to render them unnecessary. That doesn’t necessarily mean invading others’ neighborhoods: the next time a Ferguson or a West Baltimore erupts, it might be most effective for those who wish to show solidarity to initiate actions elsewhere, in order to overextend the authorities. Nor should it mean centralizing ourselves in the narrative: solidarity means taking on the same risks that others are exposed to—nothing more, nothing less.
The precarious rapport de force that has lasted since the Baltimore uprising will likely persist until another demographic enters the conflict. It’s not clear how much further the state can go to maintain the current order by means of pure force. If uprisings occurred in multiple cities in the same region at the same time, or if a much broader range of people got involved, all bets would be off.
But as intimated above, the next demographic to enter the space of conflict might well be a reactionary force. South Carolina is not the only place in which struggles against state violence have shifted seamlessly into struggles against autonomous white supremacists. Some anarchists and fellow travelers have glibly invoked “social war” or “civil war,” without fully grasping that such wars usually end up playing out along ethnic and religious lines in the most reactionary manner.333. While 19th century France saw a series of civil wars fought along class lines, it is telling that the only civil war in the history of the United States was initiated by those who wished to preserve slavery. As the tensions in our society increase, it is up to us to render it possible to imagine other lines of conflict. The Dylann Roofs of the world and their equivalents within the halls of power want nothing better than to see society split into warring racial factions, with poor whites joining police and other defenders of the middle class to suppress the rage of the black and disaffected. White people must not countenance this division, even out of a wrongheaded desire to stand aside out of respect for black autonomy. That would spell doom for the most marginalized people in this struggle, however much good liberals might applaud their courageous efforts from afar. Rather, we have to produce a narrative of multiethnic struggle against white supremacy and capitalism by participating directly in the clashes that are occurring right now—both so that it will be impossible for white supremacists to convince potential converts that the important lines dividing society are racial, and so that those who are more racially and economically marginalized than us will not have cause to conclude that they have indeed been abandoned.
Fighting white supremacy in this context means spreading the clashes with the authorities, while crushing autonomous racist initiatives wherever they appear. It means confronting fascists—an essentially rearguard battle—but it also means taking the initiative in attacking capitalism and the state, intensifying the struggles we are already in. Only by foregrounding anarchist solutions to the problems of poor people, including poor white people, can we make it impossible for racists to recruit from the ranks of the poor, white, and angry.
In short: class war, not race war. We may have less time than we know.
“That left was too lost in delusions of success almost within their hands, delusions of maneuvering together a majority, to bother even really understanding fascism coming up fast in their rear view mirror. The urgent need was to organize a working minority to counter fascism in a much more radical way. Not by trying to defend liberal bourgeois rule. All the real things that had to be done by scattered German anti-fascists later after the Nazis were put into power—such as to survive politically, to significantly sabotage the war effort, to rescue Jews and Romany and gays, to build an underground against the madness of the Third Reich—all these things were attempted bravely but largely unsuccessfully, because they had to be done too late from scratch. This is a much larger subject, too large to dive into now, but it is on the horizon, like the smoke of a distant forest fire.”
- J. Sakai, “When Race Burns Class”
Timeline of the Baltimore Uprising
from an interview US anarchists answered for the Greek anarchist news service, Apatris
April 12 — Freddie Gray was arrested for making eye contact with an officer. He was intentionally injured in police custody while being transported to jail, and denied proper medical care. He passed away on April 19 as a consequence of these injuries.
April 26 — On Saturday, there was a law-abiding protest rally in the afternoon. It concluded with a march in which participants vandalized police cars and clashed with drunk, racist sports fans. The police created a control perimeter, but inside of this space, demonstrators reportedly were free to destroy property for some hours. The police had lost control.
April 28 — On Monday, a message reportedly circulated among high school students via social media calling for a “purge” that afternoon at a mall in Baltimore: a reference to a Hollywood movie in which laws and policing are suspended. The mall in question is a major transit center for kids traveling to and from school. Baltimore doesn’t have school buses; kids use public transit. Police preemptively shut down the mall, flooded the streets with officers in riot gear, and shut down public transportation, stopping buses and forcing everyone off of them. In this tense situation, with nowhere to go, youth began to clash with the police. In at least one instance, police officers were documented throwing rocks back at children.
By nightfall, there were riots and fires all over the city, including some of the whiter neighborhoods. Over a hundred cars were set on fire, including many police cars, and over a dozen buildings were burned, most famously the CVS at the intersection of Penn and North. Corporate media played live footage of looting from helicopters, the newscasters wailing and wringing their hands about the loss of property while describing the people below in pejorative terms. Looking down uncomprehendingly at the people they said were “burning their own neighborhoods,” they offered the perspective of the state—the same perspective as the drones sailing over Pakistan.
The mayor declared a state of emergency, called in police from around the state along with the National Guard, and announced a seven-day curfew to go into effect Tuesday. The overwhelmed court system was not able to keep up with all the arrestees, some of whom were eventually released without charges.
April 29 — On Tuesday, the city was tense. On public transportation, you could hear people bragging about what they’d looted, mostly basic necessities. Witnesses reported a feeling in the air to the effect that “We did what we had to do.” Community organizations sponsored cleanup activities, as in London in 2011, and “peacekeepers” were out hoping to prevent more fighting and rioting from breaking out.
It’s important to emphasize that because so much of the population of Baltimore is black, there were black people involved in all of these different responses—black politicians, black peacekeepers, black police, black community organizers, black business owners, black rioters.
On Tuesday, since schools were closed, Red Emma’s (the primary anarchist space in town) provided a place for kids who weren’t in school and for homeless youth from a shelter that had been destroyed in the rioting. Free food was collected and distributed through organizations in other neighborhoods—largely church organizations, which play a role in Baltimore politics, including radical politics.
The intersection of Penn & North, where the CVS had been burned, became the default space for protestors seeking conflict to gather—similar to the QuikTrip that was burned in Ferguson. The curfew was enforced violently at 10 pm; people fought back against police, but nothing like what had happened on Monday.
April 30 — On Wednesday, many groups called for marches, even though the state of emergency banned all public gatherings; these marches were all granted permits at the last minute, acknowledging the leverage protesters had gained against the state. The resulting march, led by black and brown youth, was the largest anyone had seen in Baltimore for a long time, though it was dwarfed by the marches that followed on Friday and Saturday. The march conceded to police demands not to stay in front of City Hall, and made its way back to Penn Station, dispersing around 9 pm so people could get inside by curfew. More fighting ensued after curfew at the intersection of Penn and North.
May 1 — More demonstrations were scheduled for May 1 and 2; they were expected to draw people from nearby cities and likely become confrontational again. But on the morning of Friday, May 1, state’s attorney Mosby announced that six police officers would be charged with crimes as a result of Freddie Gray’s death; one of them is being charged with murder.
There were unpermitted marches around the city all day and late into the night. Most people gathered downtown at City Hall and McKeldin Square, the “free speech zone” where the authorities usually try to keep protestors. The march drew something like 5000 people and proceeded eleven miles, during which it picked up and lost people constantly; some sources estimated 10,000 or more participants altogether. The atmosphere was joyous. Police were not numerous enough to contain the demonstrators, but kept them from taking highways and protected certain targets. In the jail district, prisoners joined in the chanting from behind the walls, mostly “All night, all day, we will fight for Freddie Gray.”
Pickup trucks overflowing with people joined the march in West Baltimore. It headed back downtown, then slowly dispersed around the time of curfew. However, at City Hall, 50–100 people stayed past curfew and at least 13 were arrested, many of those arrests violent. There was more curfew violence at the intersection of Penn and North, as well.
May 2 — On Saturday, there were more marches. At this point, much of the energy had shifted towards seeking amnesty for arrestees, many of whom faced severe charges. For example, one young man who smashed the windows of a police car, whose parent had convinced him to turn himself in, was being held on $500,000 bail.
Saturday night saw the broadest anti-curfew organizing. A mostly white group met in a mostly white neighborhood; police showed up in force, but gave warning after warning to disperse and pleaded with the group not to get arrested. People agreed to disperse, since jail support resources were already spread thin. Police reportedly offered to drive people home afterwards. Meanwhile, at the intersection of Penn and North, police beat and pepper-sprayed and arrested people, especially black protestors. A fairly large number of medics and people organizing jail support were arrested at the jail for curfew violation.
May 3 — On Sunday, the mayor lifted the curfew two days early, responding to complaints from business owners. Things had calmed down.
1. The 2014 article linked here blithely reassures the reader of the good intentions of the police enforcing the curfew: “The Baltimore Police have recently been trained on dealing with youth. To emphasize that those caught violating curfew are not considered criminals, the city says most children out late will be transported in vans—not in the back of police cars.” Indeed, Freddie Gray was fatally injured in the back of a van, having been arrested for no criminal activity whatsoever. ↩
2. The counterpart of that narrative is the mother who persuaded her son to turn himself in for his role in vandalizing a police car, only to see him held on $500,000 bail—afterwards, when it was too late, she regretted telling him to entrust his fate to the authorities. ↩
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The Norwich originated in East Anglia, England and was developed as a barnyard ratter. Game and hardy, they were used to flush fox and other vermin from their dens during hunts and also cherished as a fun-loving family pet. The breed used to have two ears styles but now is only allowed to have upright ears. In 1979 the drop eared variety became a separate breed known as the Norfolk Terrier.
Fearless and loyal, the Norwich Terrier does well with other animals and families. They are known for their ability to adapt to different situations, making the breed ideal for either the city or country lifestyle. Because a Norwich has strong hunting instincts and typical terrier curiosity, most breeders and owners recommend that the breed be exercised in a fenced area or on leash. The wiry coat requires regular grooming, including brushing and stripping.
- Terrier Group; AKC recognized in 1936.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Likens Caravan Migrants to Jews Fleeing Holocaust
New York Democratic Rep.-elect responds to scenes of violent mobs storming US border
As the US was forced to defend its Southern Border from invasion from hundreds of caravan migrants, who stormed the crossing between Tijuana and San Diego, New York Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared the violent rock-throwing mobs to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
Hundreds of Central American migrants rushed the crossing point between the US and Mexico at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, overwhelming Mexican authorities who were outnumbered by the crowds.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she would not put up with this "lawlessness" as American authorities were forced to defend the border breach with rubber bullets and tear gas at the crossing between Tijuana and San Diego.
In response to the news, Ocasio-Cortez shared an NBC article about the invasion arguing that "asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status isn’t a crime. It wasn’t for Jewish families fleeing Germany."
Asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status isn’t a crime.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) November 25, 2018
It wasn’t for Jewish families fleeing Germany.
It wasn’t for targeted families fleeing Rwanda.
It wasn’t for communities fleeing war-torn Syria.
And it isn’t for those fleeing violence in Central America. https://t.co/qhv7Rr1itn
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The tensions at the border prompted US officials to close the crossing between Tijuana and San Diego, stopping thousands of people traveling legitimately between the US and Mexico.
In a statement, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the United States would not put up with this "lawlessness," threatening harsh punishments for "anyone who destroys federal property, endangers our frontline operators, or violates our sovereignty."
She later reported that border personnel were "struck by projectiles thrown by caravan members."
She condemned the"dangerous" actions of those responsible, adding they were "not consistent with peacefully seeking asylum."
Mexico also vowed to deport about 500 migrants who tried to "violently" and "illegally" cross the U.S. border on Sunday, according to the Mexican Interior Ministry in a statement.
The statement added that Mexican authorities had contained the protest at the crossing between Tijuana and San Diego.
Earlier on Sunday, Nielsen tweeted: "This AM, @CBP was forced to close the #SanYsidro POE to ensure public safety in response to a large # of migrants seeking to illegally enter the US.
"They attempted to breach legacy fence infrastructure along the border & sought to harm CBP personnel by throwing projectiles @ them.
"@DHS will not tolerate this type of lawlessness & will not hesitate to shut down POEs for security reasons.
"We'll seek to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who destroys federal property, endangers our frontline operators, or violates our sovereignty.
"#CBP along w other DHS, federal, state & local law enforcement, & the @DeptofDefense, have a robust presence along the SW Border and at our POEs. We remain in close contact with Mexican authorities and are committed to resolving this situation safely in concert with them."
In a later tweet, she condemned members of the caravan throwing objects at border personnel.
She wrote: "Today CBP (Customs and Border Protection) personnel were struck by projectiles thrown by caravan members.
"Such actions are dangerous & not consistent w peacefully seeking asylum.
"The perpetrators will be prosecuted.
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House Impeaches Trump For Second Time Senate Must Now Weigh Conviction
WASHINGTON The House impeached President Donald Trump on Wednesday for a second time, charging him with “incitement of insurrection” for his role in the violent riot by a pro-Trump mob in the U.S. Capitol that left five people dead and terrorized lawmakers as they sought to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
The vote to impeach passed the Democratic-controlled House by 232-197, with 10 Republicans voting against Trump. It was the most bipartisan vote on a presidential impeachment in history, doubling the five Democrats who voted to impeach Bill Clinton in 1998.
The House is expected to immediately send the article of impeachment to the Senate, requiring it to begin the process of holding a trial to determine whether to convict Trump and potentially bar him from ever running for any federal office again.
Invoking The 25th Amendment
On the evening of January 6, CBS News reported that Cabinet members were discussing invoking the 25th Amendment. The ten Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, led by U.S. Representative David Cicilline, sent a letter to Pence to “emphatically urge” him to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Trump “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office”, claiming that he incited and condoned the riots. For invocation, Pence and at least eight Cabinet members, forming a simple majority, would have to consent. Additionally, if challenged by Trump, the second invocation would maintain Pence as acting president, subject to a vote of approval in both houses of Congress, with a two-thirds supermajority necessary in each chamber to sustain. However, Congress would not have needed to act before January 20 for Pence to remain acting president until Biden was inaugurated, per the timeline described in Section 4.
On the same day, the House of Representatives voted to call for Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment. The resolution passed with 223 in favor, 205 against, and 5 not voting Adam Kinzinger was the only Republican to join a unified Democratic Caucus.
Presidential Campaign And 2011 Hints At Presidential Run
In 2000, Trump ran in the California and Michigan primaries for nomination as the Reform Party candidate for the 2000 United States presidential election but withdrew from the race in February 2000. A July 1999 poll matching him against likely Republican nominee George W. Bush and likely Democratic nominee Al Gore showed Trump with seven percent support.
In 2011, Trump speculated about running against President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, making his first speaking appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2011 and giving speeches in early primary states. In May 2011, he announced he would not run, and he endorsed Mitt Romney in February 2012. Trump’s presidential ambitions were generally not taken seriously at the time.
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All Eyes On Mcconnell
McConnell believes that Trump committed impeachable offenses and considers the Democrats impeachment drive an opportunity to reduce the divisive, chaotic presidents hold on the GOP, a Republican strategist told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
And McConnell told major donors over the weekend that he was through with Trump, said the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe McConnells conversations. His wife, former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, resigned from Trump’s Cabinet soon after the riots.
But despite sending signals, McConnell has been characteristically quiet in public. In a note to colleagues Wednesday released by his office, McConnell said he had not made a final decision on how I will vote.
If McConnell voted to convict, other Republicans would surely follow. But no GOP senators have said how they will vote, and two-thirds of the Senate is needed.
Still, some Republicans have told Trump to resign, including Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and few are defending him.
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska has said he would take a look at what the House approves but stopped short of committing to support it.
Other Republicans have said that impeachment would be divisive. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, long a key ally of the president, has been critical of his behavior in inciting the riots but said impeachment will do far more harm than good.
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Trump Impeached For 2nd Time
The riot also forced a reckoning among some Republicans, who have stood by Trump throughout his presidency and largely allowed him to spread false attacks against the integrity of the 2020 election.
During debate on the article of impeachment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Republicans and Democrats to “search their souls” ahead of the historic afternoon vote.
Former President Donald Trump Acquitted In 2nd Impeachment Trial
Donald Trump is the only U.S. president to be impeached twice.
Exactly a month and a week after insurrectionists incited a riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, former President Donald Trump‘s second impeachment trial came to a climactic end on Saturday afternoon, with Trump being acquitted for his alleged role of inciting the deadly event. A majority of senators voted to convict the former president, but failed to reach the super majority threshold needed for a conviction.
“This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country. No president has ever gone through anything like it, and it continues because our opponents cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president, who voted for us just a few short months ago,” Trump said in a statement.
“Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun. In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people. There has never been anything like it!” the statement continued.
Drama ensued on the Senate floor Saturday morning when senators voted to hear from witnesses. However, after a roughly one-hour recess, the Senate determined no witnesses would be called, and opted instead to admit into evidence written testimony from Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash.
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Senate Acquits Trump In Impeachment Trial Again
A majority of senators voted to hold Trump guilty on one charge of inciting an insurrection, but the 57-43 tally fell 10 votes short of the two-thirds majority required for conviction. In all, seven Republicans voted to convict the former president, making Saturday’s vote the most bipartisan in a presidential impeachment trial in U.S. history.
“While the final vote did not lead to a conviction, the substance of the charge is not in dispute,” Biden said. “Even those opposed to the conviction, like Senate Minority Leader McConnell, believe Donald Trump was guilty of a ‘disgraceful dereliction of duty’ and ‘practically and morally responsible for provoking’ the violence unleashed on the Capitol.”
Until his comments on Saturday, Biden had remained mostly silent about his predecessor’s impeachment, telling reporters last week that he did not even plan to watch the trial. He neither fully supported nor opposed the vote by the House of Representatives last month to impeach Trump, saying he wanted to leave the matter up to Congress. He also declined to say whether the Senate should move to convict.
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Trump became the first president impeached twice.
Former President Donald Trump faces an unprecedented second impeachment trial this week. Adding to the historic nature of the proceeding is that he is no longer in office and the members of the Senate who will decide his fate are among the victims in the Capitol siege, which he is accused of instigating.
The House of Representatives voted 232-197 on Jan. 13 to impeach Trump for an unprecedented second time for his role in the of the Capitol, which occurred as a joint session of Congress was ratifying the election of President Biden.
The extraordinary step of a second impeachment, which charged Trump with incitement of insurrection, took place just days before Trump was set to leave office. Only two other presidents — Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton — have been impeached and none have been convicted.
Unlike Trumps first impeachment in 2019 , 10 members of the House GOP, including conference chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., voted for impeachment and denounced the presidents actions. Democratic House impeachment managers argued in a brief ahead of his trial, which starts in earnest Feb. 9, that Trump bore “unmistakable” responsibility for the siege and called it a “betrayal of historic proportions.”
“He summoned a mob to Washington, exhorted them into a frenzy, and aimed them like a loaded cannon down Pennsylvania Avenue,” the managers wrote.
Here’s how the impeachment process works:
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Van der Veen reiterated one of the defense team’s central arguments: that a president no longer in office can not be impeached, a claim disputed by many constitutional scholars.
He also argued that Trump’s due-process rights were violated and that his speech is protected under the First Amendment.
“They have carried out a grossly unconstitutional effort to punish Mr. Trump for protected First Amendment speech. It’s an egregious violation of his constitutional rights,” he said. “It is an unprecedented action with the potential to do grave and lasting damage to both the presidency, and the separation of powers and the future of democratic self government.”
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., had spent a good deal of his arguments this week claiming that as a president, not all of his words are, in fact, protected as free speech.
“They present President Trump as merely, like a guy at a rally expressing a political opinion that we disagree with and now we’re trying to put him in jail for it,” he said earlier this week. “That has nothing to do with the reality of these charges or his constitutional offense.”
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney arrives at the Capitol for the fifth day of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on Saturday. Romney was one of the seven GOP senators who voted to convict.hide caption
Pelosi Delivers Remarks On Impeachment: Trump Presents A ‘clear And Present Danger’
Many House Republicans argued during the debate that Trump was not afforded due process and that the impeachment process was rushed. Some said impeaching Trump for a second time would only further divide the country, while others maintained that his actions on Jan. 6 did not meet the legal standard for incitement.
“I believe impeaching the president in such a short time frame would be a mistake, Kevin McCarthy of California, the top House Republican, said during the debate.
“No investigations have been completed. No hearings have been held, he added. A vote to impeach will further fan the flames of partisan division. But McCarthy said Trump needed to accept his share of responsibility for the riot, and he said a congressional censure would be in order.
Other Republicans cried hypocrisy, criticizing Democrats for their support for the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the country last summer.
“For months, our cities burned, police stations burned, our businesses were shattered, and they said nothing,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., one of the most enthusiastic supporters of Trump in Congress. Some have cited the metaphor that the president lit the flame. Well, they lit actual flames.”
It is unclear what will happen in the Senate once the trial begins. Although Trump is likely to have already left office by then, a vote to convict him could still bar him from holding federal office again.
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‘the Footage Is Horrific’: Senators React To Gripping New Video Of Capitol Riot
The video demonstrated how close rioters came to then-Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress. And the impeachment managers argued that the video showed clearly that the mob of pro-Trump supporters was there for the president, and many believed they were there at the president’s behest.
The impeachment managers, however, made a broader case than Trump’s comments on Jan. 6. They argued that Trump laid the groundwork for false grievance on the part of his supporters with two months of baseless claims of widespread election fraud that cost him the electionand years, in fact, of tolerating, condoning and encouraging violence.
After Speaking Out On Impeachment Herrera Beutler Heads Toward Clash With Her Party
“The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president,” he said, “and having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth.”
McConnell rebuked Trump for his actions after the insurrection as well.
“He did not do his job. He didn’t take steps so federal law could be faithfully executed and order restored,” he continued.
“No. Instead, according to public reports, he watched television happily happily as the chaos unfolded,” he said. “Even after it was clear to any reasonable observer that Vice President Pence was in serious danger.”
But McConnell said that the process of impeachment and conviction is a “limited tool” and that he believes Trump is not “constitutionally eligible for conviction.”
“The Constitution gives us a particular role. This body is not invited to act as the nation’s overarching moral tribunal,” he said.
He said that the text of the question of constitutionality is “legitimately ambiguous” and that he “respects” his colleagues for reaching either the conclusion to acquit or convict.
Seven Republicans broke ranks with their party in voting for a conviction.
Michael van der Veen, defense lawyer for former President Donald Trump, gives closing arguments during Trump’s second impeachment trial on February 13, 2021.hide caption
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Security Around Capitol Tightens Ahead Of Second Impeachment Vote Inauguration Day
Lawmakers arrived at the Capitol on Wednesday morning to debate the impeachment article just one week after the attack, entering a now heavily guarded building swarming with thousands of National Guard members.
Hundreds of the armed officers slept at the Capitol on Tuesday night. The Senate Historical Office said it was aware of only two other occasions during which troops stayed overnight in the Capitol: during World War II and during the riots in Washington in 1968.
The “incitement of insurrection” article of impeachment was introduced Monday by three House Democrats: Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Ted Lieu of California and David Cicilline of Rhode Island. It says Trump has “demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law.”
“He threatened the integrity of the democratic system, interfered with the peaceful transition of power, and imperiled a coequal branch of government,” the five-page article of impeachment continues. He thereby betrayed his trust as president, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.”
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Abstract: In Escape from Leviathan, Jan Lester sets out a conception of liberty as absence of imposed cost which, he says, advances no moral claim and does not premise an assignment of property rights. He argues that, so conceived, liberty implies libertarian property rules, free-market anarchy, and the maximisation of welfare. However, analysis of Lester’s conception of liberty shows it to be inconsistent with liberty as ordinarily conceived, and further reveals that maximising liberty, as Lester conceives it, would run counter to self-ownership, private property, open markets, and improving welfare. Lester seems to arrive at his conclusions only because, in his arguments, he abandons his own account of liberty and derives his conclusions instead from familiar libertarian assumptions about property rights.
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When you stop and think about it, we have pretty low expectations from democracy. For many of us, casting a vote in a general election is our most important role as citizens, and in local elections if one finds the time. But a core principle of democracy is that people have a say in the decisions that affect them. That could be economics, healthcare, education, or the workplace – and one of the most important areas of democracy is planning.
New developments, changes to street layouts or traffic flow, changes of land use – all these sorts of things can impact a place and its sense of identity. Even though Britain has an rigorous and fairly transparent planning system, it can often feel like development is something that is done to the community, rather than with or for the community. A couple of bad experiences and people can become cynical about development, even in areas desperate for regeneration. This is something I see regularly in Luton, a town that has suffered more than most from bad planning.
There is another way of course, and 20/20 Visions: Collaborative Planning and Placemaking describes it. Called a ‘charette’, it’s an intensive process of dialogue and co-working between professionals and local residents, creating a vision together for how a new development should come about.
Charles Campion is an architect who has taken part in dozens of such processes, and the first half of his short book lays out the principles for effective collaborative planning. The second half introduces 20 case studies from around the world, including disaster re-construction, contested land, and regeneration. There are smaller projects and whole villages, parks and a hospital. Stories come from the US, Britain, Australia, Canada, China and more. There’s even a local example in the new village being built in Caddington, on an old Vauxhall test track not far from us.
At a typical charette, residents and experts carry out site visits and walkarounds, familiarising themselves with the lay of the land. They hold open meetings where anyone can contribute ideas. Artists and designers begin to draw concepts live, so that everyone can visualise what is being discussed. Sometimes projects are built in Minecraft so that participants can take a virtual tour and build things themselves. (The Swedish government has built the whole of Sweden in Minecraft to encourage young people to play a role in urban planning) Local knowledge adds value to the development, while the community gains new skills in urban planning. Often land trusts or Town Teams are formed that go on to play a role in the ongoing management of the project. A charette brings people together, builds community and local identity, and gives people a role in shaping the geography of their local area.
As far as Campion is concerned, this is a win-win way of planning, and yet “Charettes remain a surprisingly non-mainstream way of working” he notes. “Perhaps this is because they have never received the mainstream political and media attention they deserve. Maybe there are not enough skilled professionals to facilitate processes. Or perhaps planners are threatened by a process that challenges the status quo.”
Whatever the reason, I’d love to see more collaborative planning and placemaking happening in Luton. I’d also love to see it championed by politicians, incorporated into council plans, and rolled out much more often. It’s an active form of democracy that all ages can take part in, and a rewarding process for everyone involved. In short, it’s time it went mainstream, and perhaps Charles Campion’s book will help push it in that direction.
- For more, see Charles Campion’s JTP Architects
- Look up Civic Voice, a charity that advocates collaborative planning
- In the US, where the collaborative process was first pioneered in the 1960s, it is often called an R/UDAT
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A conservation group recorded the video after a heatwave in the Pacific north-west on a day when water temperatures breached 70F
Salmon in the Columbia River were exposed to unlivable water temperatures that caused them to break out in angry red lesions and white fungus in the wake of the Pacific north-west’s record-shattering heatwave, according to a conservation group that has documented the disturbing sight.
The news has been released on Tuesday by the non-profit organization Columbia Riverkeeper, a group of sockeye salmon swimming in a tributary of the river can be seen covered in injuries the group say are the results of stress and overheating.
The salmon had been travelling upstream in the Columbia River from the ocean, to return to their natal spawning areas, when they unexpectedly changed course, explained Brett VandenHeuvel, the executive director of Columbia Riverkeeper. He described the sockeye as veering off to the Little White Salmon River, a tributary of the Columbia River where the video was recorded, in an effort to essentially “escape a burning building”.
The conservation group recorded the video following the heatwave on a day when water temperatures breached 70F (21C), a lethal temperature for these anadromous fish if they are exposed to it for long periods. The Clean Water Act prohibits the Columbia River from rising over 68F (20C).
VandenHeuvel compared the situation to a person trying to run a marathon in over 100F (38C) temperatures.
“The difference is that this isn’t a recreation for the salmon,” he said. “They have no choice. They either make it or they die.”
The salmon won’t be able to spawn in the tributary and are expected to die from disease and heat stress.
This scene is yet another example of the tragic toll taken by the recent heatwave, which killed hundreds of people across the Pacific north-west and Canada, probably caused more than 1 billion marine animals to perish, and contributed to fires across the region.
“It’s heartbreaking to watch animals dying unnaturally,” he said. “And worse, thinking about the cause of it. This is a human-caused problem, and it really makes me think about the future.”
The salmon can be seen with what looks to be fuzzy white patches, which is likely a fungal infection that appears when salmon become stressed from hot water.
Don Sampson, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and an advisory board member for the Northwest Tribal Salmon Alliance, described watching the video as akin to seeing his relatives die.
“It’s really appalling that we have solutions to save salmon, but we’re not doing it,” said Sampson. “We don’t have the political will, our members of Congress in the north-west don’t have the political strength or will to stand up to protect salmon for future generations.”
VandenHeuvel agreed that these types of scenes would continue to play out if officials did not take direct action.
“I see this as a deeply sad vision for our future. But I also see it as a call to action. There are mitigation measures we can take to save the salmon, to cool our rivers,” he said. “And if this video doesn’t inspire some serious reflection, then I don’t know what will.”
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When being saved by a kind-hearted man the dog can’t help smiling
Though dogs are one of the loyal and cute animals in the world some species can be exception. Pit bulls are the first on the list. Some people consider them to be frightening and threatening. But actually they are kind creatures. This dog showed the soft side of its empathy. When he felt that it would be adopted and would have a home it could not help showing its emotions.
When it was 11 years months, the baby was wandering through the streets. But once it had a rescuer, its new owner Dan. He was going through the streets he saw a wandering pit bull. Dan felt some connection and determined to take home. He did not know if the dog has a holder or not. For a month John was looking for the owners.
But no result. And the dog stayed with it. The dog seemed to be happy next to him. It is 12 years that Brinks is next to its rescuer and it does not stop smiling. The dog smiles when someone greets it, or even during sleep. He is also fond of smiling when being in the car. It takes every moment for smiling. It really enjoys the life. | <urn:uuid:6b57ce1c-d9f5-45e1-b7a2-99aec4f3c74b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://interestory.ru/when-being-saved-by-a-kind-hearted-man-the-dog-cant-help-smiling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.985849 | 249 | 1.664063 | 2 |
There is no doubt that the NFT craze is sweeping the globe, attracting a large number of investors into the market.
Startups and creatives are also thinking about how to transform their products into digital assets.
It’s difficult to stand out in the NFT industry today, especially when hundreds of other celebrities have already come on board.
The Rise Of NFTs In Entertainment
Many celebrities are entering the NFT market, demonstrating that art in the form of NFTs is the new trend after Bitcoin, with billions of dollars in revenue.
Anyone, from British painter Damien Hirst to model Paris Hilton, can create one.
Hilton has been collecting and making NFT works since 2016.Hilton displays her work through screens at her Beverly Hills mansion. In April, her animated portrait in NFT sold for more than $1 million.
For NFT advocates, this is a technology that will change the buying and sale of works of art, opening up a plethora of prospects for artists.
Hilton, with a luxurious lifestyle that is far from the traditional artist, is a suitable model for the NFT movement.
With the expansion of NFT platforms and creators in just a few short months, NFTs have become immensely popular, to the point that NFT costs are no longer cheap.
Unlike the first stages of the boom, NFT products are being sold at a very high prices right now.
More Praise for More NFTs
Not only Paris Hilton, but many public figures, such as Snoop Dogg, Lindsay Lohan, John Cena and Shawn Mendes are investing in NFTs.
NFT asset sales surged by more than $2 billion in the first half of the year. However, not everyone who joins will be successful.
While it is entirely conceivable for a celeb to make a profit with their first NFT, this will not be the case for all celebrities. Similar to building a fanbase, becoming a reputable, talented and serious NFT artist in the eyes of the public will take time.
Unlike the typical business approach of selling artwork through commercial galleries, NFTs can acquire and sell without the use of intermediaries.
Artists can sell their art directly to the public, usually via a professional auction site. The NFT market is available to anyone, and the price of the piece is public, as opposed to traditional galleries, in which the cost is unveiled.
Furthermore, in the traditional market, the original author receives almost nothing when the work is resold by the collector at a greater price. After each resale, NFT still produces a profit for the author in most cases.
Not Always a Gold Mine
Celebrities’ participation resulted in surprising yet understandable outcomes.
According to critics and artists, the NFT market is a lucrative space for money-hungry people whose creations do not deserve to be classified as art.
Many people wonder if NFT symbolizes cultural values in the age of digital consumption, or if it’s just a gimmick to earn money in an unsustainable way.
The NFT world and the art media system differ in their financial models. Many in the art world believe that the NFT does not deserve to be regarded as a work of art, and that the author and seller are unlikely to be serious art enthusiasts.
Celeb NFTs are lacking value: the story behind the item, the feelings it invokes, and the work’s inspiration set it apart from the millions of other NFTs on the market, which discourages long-time NFT investors to make contributions.
With NFTs, the line between artworks and assets seems to disappear. An auction site has taken the place of a properly managed exhibition. The price of the sale, not the meaning behind, governs the job.
When celebrities wish to advance their popularity using NFT, it is critical that they develop community, cultivate and expand their fan base.
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With wisps of smoke still rising from the remnants of another night of violence, the workers came in the morning to salvage what merchandise they could from the torched warehouses in Baghdad's central commercial district.
Boxes upon boxes of clothes, cosmetics and household goods stored by traders in the country's most thriving market were hurled onto pick-up trucks to be taken away from Rasheed Street, a historic avenue that for weeks has been the scene of ongoing violence between anti-government protesters and security forces.
Stores were shuttered across the once bustling thoroughfare, where the chatter of bargain-hunters has been replaced by an occasional volley of bullets.
“We are loading and leaving,” said one merchant, Salah Redha. “My merchandise is worth over $1.5 million. Half of it is gone and the other half destroyed ... who will compensate me?”
With Iraq's leaderless uprising now in its third month, the protracted street hostilities, internet outages, blocked roads and a general atmosphere of unease are posing risks to Iraq's economy. In particular, the unrest has set back the most fragile segment of the country's economy, the private sector, where business owners have faced losses from damage to merchandise and disruptions of markets and from consumers reeling in their spending out of fear for the future.
So far, the unrest has not significantly affected Iraq's main economic lifeline, oil, which brings in $6-7 billion a month, up to 90 per cent of the state's revenue. Oil exports have not faced disruptions, according to two senior oil ministry officials. Production has not been hurt by regular sit-ins blocking roads to major oil fields in the south, home to the vast majority of Iraq's oil resources.
But future investment is now in question, said Zaab Sethna, co-founder of Northern Gulf Partners, a frontier investment firm with experience in Iraq. Foreign investors have pulled out of deals in energy and other sectors, alarmed by the extent of Iranian influence in Iraq, highlighted by the heavy-handed security crackdown on demonstrations.
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“We had an American backer ready to commit, to put money into Iraq, and they turned around and said, ‘Look everything I am reading says this is a place the Iranians are taking over and I am not going to put my money there,’” he said.
Other investors have been worried by the slowness of talks on forming a new government after Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi resigned in the face of the protests. Political blocs are expected to name a new consensus-based candidate for the premiership this week.
Reform measures taken to retire key director-generals over the age of 60 has also caused anxieties for companies who have vested business relationships with bureaucrats. Ironically, the very issues raised by protesters on the street, including corruption, bureaucracy and lack of adequate public services, have long been a factor deterring investment, Sethna said.
Two industry officials who were in the middle of negotiating lucrative energy contracts said they have taken a step back — “until the dust settles,” one said. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to not derail future talks with the government.
Periodic road closures by protesters leading to Iraq's two main commodities ports in Umm Qasr and Khor al-Zubair have halted trade activity several times. To compensate, higher volumes of goods were imported through the border cross with Turkey in the north in late November. Hussein Ali, a potato trader, said delays at Umm Qasr cost him up to $6,000 per container, so he opted for the northern land route. Customs from the ports are an important source of state revenue.
There are no figures to know exact economic losses suffered due to protests, because disruptions, when they occur, are often temporary or reliable data is hard to come by.
A military spokesperson for the prime minister, Maj. Gen. Abdul Karim Khalaf, said the protests had cost Iraq $6 billion within the span of a month. This figure is unlikely, since it would require major setbacks in oil earnings, according to calculations by the Associated Press.
The impact has been indelible on Iraq's hobbled private sector.
The World Bank has said developing this sector was key to diversifying the oil-dependent economy and creating much needed jobs. With poor regulations and high start-up costs, however, Iraqis have had little incentive to take the risks associated with entrepreneurship.
As a result, much of the sector remains informal and limited largely to cash-based retailers — who are highly sensitive to any disruptions.
“We have a huge informal sector that has no chance of joining the formal sector — they have no deeds, ownership, just conventions and understandings. If something goes wrong, you are dropped,” said Ahmed Tabaqchali, chief investment officer of AFC Iraq Fund.
At Shorja market, Baghdad's main wholesale market, merchants said they have seen daily earnings drop since protests started in October in part because customers are buying less and in part because of the turmoil at Rasheed Street, where most store their merchandise.
In southern Iraq, a rising number of medium to small businesses owners are defaulting on monthly payments on bank loans, said an official in Iraq's League of Private Banks, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media.
Iraq's growing ecommerce sector was decimated by widespread internet cuts imposed by authorities in October and November in a failed attempt to quell the protests, said Mujahid Waisi, an entrepreneur and founder of KAPITA, an incubator space set to launch early next year.
Even with the internet restored, “because most of those items are not essential, people fear making purchases because of the situation,” said Waisi. “They want to keep money in their hands.” Moreover, ecommerce startups are hesitant to promote their services online, fearing protesters will criticize them as unpatriotic, he added.
Many cash-strapped merchants have let go of workers because of the escalating crisis.
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Anthony Crean QC is one of the leading planning silks in the UK. He was awarded the prestigious title of Silk of the Year in all categories of practice outside London in 2015 by The Legal 500. He was also one of the key driving forces behind the creation of The Sebastopol Project. On Courage: Stories of Victoria Cross and George Cross Holders has recently been published by Little, Brown. We asked him a few questions about the inspiration behind the book.
1. Tell us about On Courage. Where did the idea for the book come from?
The book tells the story of twenty-eight different occasions in which the Victoria Cross and George Cross have been awarded to soldiers and civilians for outstanding acts of bravery in situations of almost certain death. On some occasions it has lead sadly to the death of the recipient, but in all of them we see the power and majesty of the human spirit rising above the most savage and cruel situations as these individuals risk their lives to save other people. Jane Harrison, for example, was a very young air hostess who died in the flames of a burning plane to save as many passengers as she could. It was difficult to find a title that would embrace such a wide variety of honourable stories, so we decided to opt for a title that suggests a philosophical reflection on the diverse nature of bravery.
2. Why did you feel that now was the right time for a book such as this?
Dame Katherine Grainger says in her introduction that there are very few people in the public eye who offer inspiration and impel the watcher or listener to feel admiration. In short, there are very few people in positions of prominence who can be described as inspirational. The people described in this book fill that gap magnificently and their stories act as a reminder to the wider public of human beings’ capacity for greatness
3. Each story is introduced by a well-known public figure. How did these celebrities become involved in the book?
The celebrities are a self-selecting group of individuals who are outstanding in their field and, simply, have big hearts and wanted to help.
We deliberately aimed for the widest group possible so that everyone seeing the book might feel some vicarious association with it via one of the personalities. It is unusual that Baroness Hale, The President of the Supreme Court, appears in the same book as Sir Ken Dodd, Bill Beaumont and Miranda Hart (and vice versa) but all of them found an ideal position within the book to present the virtues of the person whose story they introduce.
4. Proceeds from the book go to two charities. How did you come to chose these particular associations?
The Victoria Cross and George Cross Association has an outreach programme in which they seek to educate young people about the virtues promoted in this book; courage, fortitude, self-reliance, selflessness, ambition, strength and kindness. These are universal virtues which have a prominent place in all cultures and we feet it is important to help introduce them to a new generation. The revelation of these virtues in real situations helps to better foster an understanding of them and in this regard, we feel the work of the VC and GC Association is very meaningful.
Combat Stress is a forces charity that helps servicemen and women deal with trauma-related mental health problems. It does not have a wide public profile and struggles for money but it carries out work of enormous importance and makes a real and tangible difference to the lives of people it seeks to help. In our opinion, it is crucial to help the charity as much as possible to gain the support and recognition it deserves and to undergo its Cinderella transformation.
5. Why did the Trustees who commissioned the book choose to use the working name of The Sebastopol Project?
We chose “Sebastopol” because the captured Russian Cannon from The Siege of Sebastopol, during the Crimean War, has provided the metal from which every Victoria Cross has been made. It is a “Project” because we want to continue to promote the aims of the Charity. We hope that the book captures the public’s attention so that it will be the first of many varied products that will inspire future events and conversations. | <urn:uuid:ce3f6d96-335f-473a-9821-d1c15e902be0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wearewhitefox.com/qa-anthony-crean-qc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973684 | 856 | 2 | 2 |
Google Capital has invested $40 million in online Web and learning company Renaissance Learning, according to Venture Beat. Jack Lynch, Renaissance’s chief executive officer, says over 20 million students already use the cloud-based education system and Google’s investment “opens the door” for further growth opportunities. As student needs and teaching methods evolve, the company will have to answer a crucial question: How can it deliver content quickly to children worldwide?
While Lynch wouldn’t confirm specific revenue numbers, he noted that Renaissance was valued at over $1 billion. Part of that valuation comes from the company’s use of big-data analytics to bolster student success. Using desktops or tablets, teachers are able to access the online Web and learning firm’s cloud to input student data. If students are having difficulty with concepts such as fractions or algebra, the system automatically seeks out content that may be of use to them.
In addition, educators are able to perform group searches to determine whether certain grades or classes are falling behind national averages. Lynch describes the process as “strategic intervention,” which permits teachers to assist children on demand and based on particular learning needs.
The advent of cost-effective cloud computing combined with widespread mobile device use has led to a shift in education techniques. Students are accustomed to online Web and learning content on demand, from pictures and music to videos and interactive applications. As a result, the U.S. government has created a set of guidelines for learning management system (LMS) technologies called the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM). Developed under the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative of 1999, SCORM focuses on creating “accessible, interoperable, durable, and reusable content and systems.”
According to the Renaissance Learning website, its Accelerated Math and STAR systems were recognized in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Education as valid and reliable tools built on performance-evidenced strategies for student learning. In other words, the cloud-based education company has been keeping pace with government expectations, and its data center now hosts information from over 3,800 U.S. schools. However, with increasing investment — European company Permira acquired the firm in 2011 — and a worldwide focus, can the company’s existing LMS keep pace?
A study conducted for the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association (TERENA) illuminates a crucial point: the perception of end users in learning systems. Educators and students typically view their school networks and content providers as connected by a single, unbroken pipeline of Internet that delivers content on demand. In fact, the route is much more complex, beginning with Internet Service Provider (ISP) access to the World Wide Web at large and limited by both ISP and intranet capacity. What’s more, cross-connections are required across the Internet backbone at high-traffic peering points before content ever arrives at a local loop and makes to the “last mile” of school networks.
If databases are too far from school networks or traffic isn’t handled properly, application performance suffers, streaming media content isn’t a possibility, and teachers simply won’t use the service. Should local servers spend more time querying instead of delivering content, it’s all too easy for schools to cut out LMS access to reduce costs. As Renaissance Learning and similar cloud-based educators take their services worldwide, the gap between user expectation and actual network efficacy can quickly widen. Ultimately, it’s not the job of educators and students to understand the difficulty of content delivery, but the work of providers to ensure user perception appears true.
Passing the test
According to the TERENA research, content delivery networks (CDNs) are the most effective way to ensure reliable delivery of curriculum materials with no perceptible slowdown. The association points to a combination of the “pull” and “push” models of caching and content delivery to create the ideal user experience. Caching grabs frequently requested content from edge server nodes and stores it closer to home, then reactively “pulls” it to users on demand, speeding up the request process. Meanwhile, intelligent content delivery proactively pre-populates content by “pushing” it from edge nodes before it is requested. This allows teachers easy access to frequently used materials and pre-loads materials they will need in the near future.
For Renaissance and similar online Web and learning companies to effectively serve the global market — even with Google’s backing — they need reliable CDNs. Beyond having server capacity and worldwide distribution, these networks must be easy to implement, scale up on demand, and provide real-time feedback to identify areas where software and content downloads aren’t performing as needed. Full technical support is also necessary, since educators cannot be called upon to dig into the Internet service’s mechanics; their time is better spent creating individualized learning plans for students and developing new ways to engage classrooms.
Renaissance has a sound learning model, one recognized by the Department of Education and now funded by Google. To realize their full global potential, cloud-based educators need to ensure the quality of their innovative content is matched by speed quality.
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Junior Green Corps’ Spring Training with GTECH Posted on March 29, 2016 by wpengine Share this post Operation Better Block’s Junior Green Corps and GTECH are working together this Spring! This spring, we are kicking off a 4 part training program for the Junior Green Corps of Homewood. The goal of these training sessions is to help the Junior Green Corps students understand the process of vacant land reclamation so they can share and practice such skills outside of the program. The bi-monthly educational sessions will extend from March through April and culminate in a final project on a vacant lot in Homewood that complements Operation Better Block‘s Cluster Plan. We are excited to work with the students to beautify underutilized spaces in Homewood. To learn more about the progress of the training and updates on the Junior Green Corps’ partnership with GTECH, check out our project page here. Outline for Spring Junior Green Corps training sessions: For the Community During this session we will focus on how the term community is interpreted by different JGC members and what it means to belong to a community. We will also touch on strategies for connecting and engaging a community to holistically understand its unique needs for place-based development. This topic is very important when looking to engage residents to help ensure that a project is community-serving. Design and Charette Process This session will teach the students what aspects go into a strong design, what to consider when designing a project and how to share ideas with the community. It is important to have community input when designing a public space; this maximizes the audience that is served and encourages these same people to come use the space when it’s complete. Volunteer Coordination and Tool Safety This session will discuss tactics for coordinating volunteer days and how to prepare for them. This will be followed by an on-site tool safety overview. When leading community volunteer days to implement a chosen design, it is important to remember that you are serving the volunteer just as much as the volunteer is serving you. Running a well planned and prepared for volunteer day can make a community member’s engagement with the project very special and thus encourage their continued involvement and support. If you would like to read more about the benefits of volunteering, check out this report from Corporation for National and Community Service. Vacant Lot Analysis This session will train the students on how to assess a vacant lot for its project suitability. They will learn what to consider when activating a vacant space and how to choose the space that best serves their community and project goals. A lot of this process is done using publicly sourced data regarding home ownership, current uses of the vacant space, and accessibility. Learning where the community members would like their new asset to be is just as important as knowing what type of asset they would like. | <urn:uuid:0f746c3f-c0a4-485b-86ca-8618da4555bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://groundedpgh.org/junior-green-corps-spring-training-gtech/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958247 | 573 | 2.109375 | 2 |
June is National Hernia Awareness Month to raise public awareness about hernias and its treatment.
Did you know over 1 million hernia operations are performed each year in the U.S.?😲
Despite this large number, millions more are affected and only a small fraction seek any form of treatment.
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What is a hernia?
A hernia is a weakness or tear most commonly on the abdominal wall which allows abdominal organs to protrudes through. The most common type of hernia is the Inguinal hernia.
Who is at risk?
The common theme among patient’s who have hernias are people who strain and use their core – causes increase pressure within the abdomen. Those at risk of developing a hernia are people who often lift heavy objects or perform activities with significant straining (chronic constipation, chronic cough, weight lifters). Also pregnant and after pregnancy patient’s commonly develop “belly-button”/umbilical hernias due to the abdominal muscle stretching and increase pressure within the abdomen.
What are the signs and symptoms of a hernia?
Usually hernias are visually obvious as a bulge or a protrusion on the abdomen. This is commonly associated with discomfort, soreness or pain when moving or lifting. If such signs and symptoms are affecting you, there is a strong likelihood you have a hernia.
Prompt evaluation and identifying hernias early can prevent health threatening problems which may require emergency surgery. Hernias do not improve or resolve untreated. In fact they enlarge and worsen over time which makes repair much more difficult and risky.
How are Hernia’s treated?
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While both of these conditions are said to have no real cure, Pulsed Light Therapy HAS been known to help a lot of patients. It is essential (for both conditions) to consult first and conduct a few test patches before proceeding with treatments.
Melasma: If you have melasma, it’s important to understand fully what it is, where it stems from and what the pros and cons of Melasma management are before you undergo any treatments. The reason is that some commonly used treatments may backfire and worsen the melasma / hyperpigmentation. A dermatologist and/or your doctor should always be consulted before taking any action against Melasma.
What is Melasma?
Melasma (sometimes called chloasma) is a chronic skin disorder in which areas of the skin become darker than the surrounding skin. This darkening is called hyperpigmentation. It typically occurs on the face, particularly the forehead, cheeks and above the upper lip. The dark patches often appear symmetrically on both sides of the face in a nearly identical pattern. The darker-colored patches of skin can be any shade, from tan to deep brown. Although not as common as on the face, these dark patches may appear on any other sun-exposed areas of the body.
Who gets Melasma?
Anyone can get it, but melasma is more common in women than in men. It generally occurs in normal/healthy adults between the age of 20 and 40 years, but it can begin from childhood or puberty, or even develop only around Menopause.
Melasma is more common in people that tan well or have naturally brown skin (Fitzpatrick skin types 3 and 4) compared with those who have fair skin (skin types 1 and 2) or black skin (skin types 5 or 6).
What causes Melasma?
The cause of melasma is complex, but essentially, it is when facial melanocytes (pigment cells) have a hypersensitivity to hormones such as estrogen, other sex hormones, thyroid hormones, adrenal hormones, MSH, etc. The body’s response to this sensitivity is an overproduction of melanin by the melanocytes, which is taken up by the keratinocytes (epidermal melanosis) and/or deposited in the dermis (dermal melanosis, melanophages).
There is also a genetic predisposition to melasma, with at least one-third of patients reporting other family members to be affected.
The most significant factor in the development of melasma is exposure to sunlight. More specifically, exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) deepens the pigmentation because it activates the melanocytes to produce more melanin.
Using medications that make you sensitive to the sun (photosensitising) can increase your risk of developing melasma. These can include some cosmetics and medicines used to treat ovarian or thyroid problems. Protection from the sun is a necessary part of both the treatment and prevention of melasma.
How is Melasma different from regular pigmentation caused by the sun?
Most solar lentigos, also known as a sun-induced freckles (brown spots), will appear on almost every person at some point in their lives and is caused by exposure to both natural and artificial UV light. Whether they form as single or multiple spots, they generally reside on the upper most layer of the skin (Epidermis) and can be easily removed by laser or pulsed light therapy.
Melasma is sometimes separated into 3 types:
1. Epidermal (close to the skin’s surface)
- Well-defined border
- Dark brown colour
- Appears more obvious under black light
- Responds well to treatment
2. Dermal (deeper inside the skin’s dermal layer)
- Ill-defined border
- Light brown or bluish in colour
- Unchanged under black light
- Responds poorly to treatment
3. Mixed types.
- The most common type
- Combination of bluish, light and dark brown patches
- Mixed pattern seen under black light
- Partial improvement with treatment
How does one treat Melasma?
In mild cases of melasma, eg. women who develop melasma as a result of pregnancy, patients will often see the patches fade months after the baby is born. Women who take oral contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy (HRT) often see the patches fade once they stop taking the medications. i.e. as hormones stabilize in the body, the dark patches of melasma usually fade.
However, with sun exposure, dark spots may be way more intense with no signs of disappearing even with a change in hormones. In this case, one has a few options to help fade or treat dark patches:
The first and fastest option is Intense Pulsed Light therapy. It works by utilising a targeted wave length of light to lightly burn and remove pigmented areas of skin. However, it’s very important to note: Pulsed Light Treatment is only recommended for Epidermal Melasma as these are surficial and easy to treat. Sun exposure needs to be eradicated and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation may also complicate recovery.
Pros of Pulsed Light Treatment for Melasma:
IPL and lasers are often the first choice for both patients and physicians as results are fast and impressive. When the scab falls off several days after the light based treatments, there is temporary improvement because the top layer of the skin containing pigment has been burned off. It would take months if not years to achieve this same state with topical ointments.
Cons of Pulsed Light Treatment for Melasma:
While IPL and lasers are able to speedily burn the melasma pigment on the very top layer of skin, they cannot stop the production of new pigment by the pigment producing melanocytes. It treats the symptom, but not the cause of Melasma. One would need to tackle the hormones which are causing the hypersensitivity and also relook at their daily sun exposure.
IPL and lasers can also worsen the melasma hyperpigmentation by making it blacker. This process is called post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. The reason is that in addition to hypersensitivity to hormones, melasma patients’ melanocyte cells are also hypersensitive to light. When the intense light from IPL or lasers hit these cells, they are hyper stimulated to produce much more pigments at a higher rate.
The result from the hypersensitivity to hormones and hypersensitivity to light is that the melasma hyperpigmentation comes back even darker weeks to months after the IPL or laser treatments.
For those with deeper rooted melasma, dermal or mixed varietals, your prognosis is sadly not great, but the following topical treatments are recommended to slowly lighten
- Hydroquinone – a cream that takes pigment out of the skin. It blocks the natural chemical process that leads to the creation of melanin, the substance that makes skin dark.
- Tretinoin – a type of vitamin A that helps to increase the rate at which dead skin cells fall off and new ones appear. This makes the melasma patch fade more quickly as the pigmented cells are shed.
- Azelaic acid cream – works by slowing down or stopping the production of pigment, the substance that makes the skin darker.
- Chemical peels are liquid solutions applied to the skin to provide a mild chemical burn, similar to sunburn. Over time, the burned layers peel off, leaving fresh, new skin. Chemical peels should only be used if melasma does not respond to other treatments as they can be very strong and may cause scarring to the skin.
While NO ORAL TREATMENT exists for melasma, yet, one can remove oral medication from their day to day routines in order to stop If you are not sure what kind of Melasma you have (or if it is in fact Melasma at all), The LightBarr offers FREE test patches in discreet areas of the body (face), which will assist you in deciding a course of action most suited to your kind of pigmentation. Make an appointment here: http://thelightbarr.co.za/contact/make-an-appointment/
Results take time and the above measures are rarely completely successful.
Unfortunately, even in those that get a good result from treatment, pigmentation may reappear on exposure to summer sun and/or because of hormonal factors. New topical and oral agents are being studied and offer hope for effective treatments in the future.
Rosacea: A condition that is often misdiagnosed and the causes are sometimes unclear. It manifests on the face, especially the cheeks, chin, nose and mid forehead, and although it is not a life threatening condition, it can cause enormous social and psychological problems.
What is Rosacea?
Rosacea is more than redness!
There are four main subtypes:
- Erythematotelangiectatic rosacea: Redness, flushing, visible blood vessels.
- Papulopustular rosacea: Redness, swelling, and acne-like breakouts.
- Phymatous rosacea: Skin thickens and has a bumpy texture.
- Ocular rosacea: Eyes red and irritated, eyelids can be swollen, and person may have what looks like a sty.
In most cases, sufferers found that rosacea first appeared between the ages of 30 and 50.
Rosacea is more common in women than men. But, while women often develop it earlier in life than men, the condition is often more severe in men – changes to the texture of the skin can occur leaving a thickened skin and/or even rhinophyma. Rhinophyma is when the nose appears enlarged and bulbous. Usually surgical treatments are recommended for this.
What causes rosacea?
The causes of rosacea are not yet clearly understood, however, the most common triggers are:
- wind exposure,
- hot weather,
- spicy foods,
- hot baths and
- swings in temperature
Often this condition is found to be the result of:
- hereditary (family members are likely to have the same condition)
- vascular irregularities,
- facial mites & bacteria,
- the use of steroids and
- other environmental factors.
Lesser known causes can be:
- Hormonal imbalances in perimenopausal women
There is no cure for rosacea. However, Pulsed Light Therapy has been known to improve about 25% of all cases.
The more severe the rosacea, the more treatments are generally needed for optimal results. Approximately 6-8 treatments are required to achieve maximum clearance of blood vessels and redness.
A safe and effective method for the treatment of rosacea includes a combination of intense pulsed light technology and nutritional therapy – THIS IS IMPORTANT as each sufferer will usually have specific nutritional deficiencies and requirements.
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2 Samuel 23: 11 “And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.”
When the enemy gather together into a troop, the people fled. I can imagine what happened that day. The enemy showed up and the people ran away.
The number one weapon of the enemy is what I call fear. Once the enemy can get you into the arena of fear, he has succeeded in destabilizing and demoralizing you. That the enemy showed up is not a reason for you to run away from the place where you have laboured!
Someone said “FEAR” simply means; False Evidence Appearing Real while somebody else said “FEAR” is Forsake Everything And Run! The question is this; What does it mean to you?
Five hundred years ago, Michel de Montaigne said; “My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.” What she said has finally been proven to be true according to a Huffpost.
A research was carried out in which several people were asked to write down their fears and mark how many actually happened. It was discovered that 85% never happened, and with the 15% that did happen, 79% percent of the people discovered that either they could handle the difficulty better than expected, or the difficulty taught them a lesson worth learning.
That means in actual sense, 97% of what you worry over is not much more than a fearful mind punishing you with exaggerations and misperceptions. Fear induces worry and once your mind accepts it, you’re done for.
The armies of Israel were running from the same Philistines few years earlier when Goliath of Gath showed up. Hear this:
1Samuel 17:8 “And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.”
To be continued…
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The German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, formally apologized for the suffering of the LGBTQ community during a public ceremony on Sunday....
A second Atlanta-area memorial for murdered transgender woman Tee Tee Dangerfield is planned for Saturday. Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative, UNITE...
Nearly a year ago, the global LGBT community first mourned the loss of 49 lives taken in an act of...
As dozens gather on the steps of Georgia Capitol each Nov. 20, names are read aloud, each followed by a single chime of a bell ringing out into the cold night.
The gathering is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil, and the names are of transgender people who have died due to violence or discrimination. The bell is a stark reminder that some people want others who are “different” to be forgotten. Forever.
“This is the most emotional part of the vigil to me,” says Tracee McDaniel, founder and executive director of the Juxtaposed Center for Transformation, Inc., and organizer of Atlanta’s Transgender Day of Remembrance.
“These people are deceased. We memorialize those individuals by reciting their names — their families don’t want to remember them, others don’t want to remember them. We are making sure their names and their memories are remembered,” McDaniel says.
The daughter of Durand Robinson is hosting a "Party for a Purpose" tonight to bring together the friends and loved ones of her father, a Black Gay Pride organizer who was killed Aug. 25 in an apparent carjacking. The Atlanta Police Department continues to seek the killer.
The party, also dubbed "A Reunion for Durand's 'Kids,'" is at Club Moonlite located at 3302 Laventure Drive, Chamblee, GA 30341 off Buford Highway. Doors open at 10 p.m.
Donations of $5 are being asked and will go to help find Durand Robinson's killer, said his daughter, Wynter Robinson.
Saturday is a day of mourning. It is not a day that is on the national calendar. In fact with the exception of a small percentage of people in this country this day of mourning will pass completely unnoticed.
Those who take a moment and remember on this day will find themselves swinging between tears of grief and deep waves of anger not to mention a certain amount of fear of further attacks.
The devastating images of those viciously killed in 2010 for simply trying to be themselves is something we should remember, something that should burn in our souls.
The people we mourn for this day are apart of the community most would just as soon not deal with. Oh we go to watch the drag shows and tell our jokes and we have added a “T” to the GLB_Q but still don’t take seriously enough that folks in the transgender community live in a very dangerous and un-supportive world.
The Atlanta Chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, known as the Order of the Flaming Sugarbakers, believe costumes and extravagance are a way to show their cheer for the queers. But it was a somber moment for the Sisters when they gathered Saturday at Ansley Mall to honor the several teens that have committed suicide allegedly due to anti-gay bullying.
Durand Robinson, an organizer for Atlanta’s Black Gay Pride celebration and co-owner of Traxx Atlanta, was found shot to death on Wednesday, Aug. 25.
Friends and family gathered at Traxx on Saturday, Aug. 28, to memorialize Robinson. Those in attendance remembered him as a caring, loving person who worked tirelessly as a family man as well as in business.
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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, e-commerce and investment in digital technologies have been on the rise—especially in Asia Pacific economies—and new research prepared for UNI Global Union’s Asia & Pacific commerce conference outlines steps needed to keep online retail, automation and digitalization from dragging down standards for all commerce workers in the region.
UNI’s report, “The impact of the digital transition on commerce workers in Asia & Pacific,” singles out how advances in technology—and a growing use of artificial intelligence and “Internet of things” monitoring devices—increases physical and mental toll for warehouse employees, often speeding up work rates and removing human decision making from processes.
Additionally, it highlights how digitalization associated with e-commerce presents a plethora of other issues for commerce workers – from eliminating jobs to the downward pressure on wages, intensification of work and stress worsened by the use of surveillance systems, and the increase of nonstandard employment in warehousing and logistic centers.
The report shows how this erosion of standards is particularly disturbing given e-commerce warehouse workers’ critical role in meeting community needs during the pandemic. Also, the worsening conditions affect not only e-commerce workers, but they undercut standards for another group of essential workers—traditional retail employees.
But the impact of change does not have to be negative, according to the research. Growing unions, collective bargaining and social partnership in this sector can protect—even advance—conditions and wages. It also offers opportunities for workers to get upskilled, eliminate physically strained job, reaching out to workers via digital tools provided unions are involved at all levels.
For example, the SDA in Australia shows the difference strong unions can have during this period of technological change. By prioritizing better jobs in e-commerce, the union is helping lead the charge in the region to make digitialization work for all commerce workers.
“Periods of rapid technological change, like the agricultural revolution, the subsequent industrial revolution and the current digital revolution have always created social uncertainty. How we order work and how we protect the dignity of those who perform it is always tested,” said Gerard Dwyer, UNI Apro Commerce President and National Secretary/Treasurer of SDA.
He continued, “A growing digital economy cannot be ignored by organized labour and allowed to become a tool to undermine industrial and social standards that we fought hard to establish and improve. Unions are challenged to organize and give voice to workers in the digital economy. Governments are challenged to provide labour laws that allow that voice to be heard.”
Shoichi Hachino, Vice President of UNI’s Japanese affiliate UA Zensen said, “Japan is currently facing several challenges – addressing the sharp drop in the working-age population, building the social resilience necessary to overcome the Covid-19 crisis and tackling the threats of digitalization. As unions, we must emphasise a people-centred approach so that workers are not left behind.
At its conference UNI Asia & Pacific’s commerce sector is taking this this research, and Dwyer’s words, to heart by adopting a new plan to build workers’ power in the face of technological change.
It is adopting a “Fair standards for online workers” resolution to send a signal to governments that they must act to require “all businesses operating in online commerce and delivery to comply with their industrial and legal obligations to employees and to advocate for secure and direct employment of workers.”
It is also taking up a “Inclusive growth through technological change” platform to make sure that workers are able to take advantage of new job opportunities created by new technologies. This training must be properly funded and should be part of an overall strategy to improve the industry through cooperation by employers, unions and governments.
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For Christmas this year we made a parking garage for our two grandsons. It was really a hit when they opened it up.
It was a lot of fun to make and even more fun to watch their faces as they opened up the package.
I won't go into a lot of dimensional details because if you make one you'll need to size it for your kids and grandkids. The most fun is figuring out all the different things that go on in a parking garage that will be fun for the kids.
Here are some of the features and how we made them;
The gas pumps are just pieces of 3/4" wood 1" X 3".
The filler hose is a piece of twine, a couple of beads and a piece of wood for the nozzle. I drilled a small hole for the hose and glued the twine in. I made a small wire loop, drilled a hole in the side of the pump and glued it in for the nozzle to park.
The service racks were just 3/4" pieces of plywood cut with a ramp on one end.
We made them just a little bit wider than the cars that will be "serviced" on them. To personalize the service area we painted offices on the second floor with the grandkids name in each office.
The elevator was the trickiest part. I built a four sided box and smoothed all the edges.
I cut out the elevator shaft holes in each level including the bottom level. That was so that the elevator would sit flush when at the bottom.
I cut notches on each side to install the guides for the elevator. I drilled a hole in the center of the elevator top and put a piece of twine through it for the lift.
I made a crank from a 1/2" dowel and some scarp wood.
The carwash was the most fun.
Marilyn made the brushes from some packing foam and wires. She cut the foam into narrow strips and then wrapped them in the wire. It made them look like the big washing brushes in a real carwash. I built the box for the carwash and drilled small holes for the wires to go into.
We painted everything in really bright colors.
I edged all the way around the second and third floors with some small 1/4" X 1" wood.
To make it really fun for them Marilyn painted a race course on the top floor.
Here are some overview shots of the whole garage.
This was really a hit gift that they should enjoy for many years.
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Even before pandemic-induced worker shortages sent business scrambling, employers consistently said they couldn’t find the skilled talent they needed. And they often pointed to higher education.
The thinking was this: the skills colleges and universities were teaching weren’t aligned with business needs in a rapidly-evolving market. It seemed plausible. But research has begun to pull that argument apart. And as it turns out, the skills gap isn’t about what we teach. It’s about what we measure.
A recent study, for example, examined the relationship between two key variables: the institutional student learning outcomes of American higher education institutions and the skills most valued by employers. The research findings showed a statistically significant relationship between the two variables without exception. This means there is no skills gap between the learning outcomes colleges are working toward and what employers desire.
But that doesn’t mean there is no problem. Colleges and universities may be teaching the things employers want, but we don’t know whether students are actually learning them.
Across higher education, we still mostly measure time and effort – time in class, assignments completed, credit hours in a semester, years in college – rather than whether students demonstrate the intended knowledge and skill.
That’s a problem. Fortunately, there’s a fix. Assessments that are focused on competency – on what students know and can do – would go a long way to addressing the gap. And higher education has made major strides in developing those kinds of assessments in the past decade.
Project-based learning, for example, has taken off in recent years. The approach asks students to move beyond theory to solve real-life, open-ended problems. The projects often come from businesses or from the local community, helping students see how their studies could translate to work. Projects that integrate multiple skills in a real-world environment also allow faculty to better assess learning, focusing on the application of knowledge and skills rather than recitation.
Competency-based credentials, which also are growing in popularity, take this kind of assessment to the next level. They start with the end goal in mind, asking: “What does the target career look like in practice?” The answer to that question impacts both what skills a program aims to teach and how they are assessed. At Southern New Hampshire University, an assessment for a micro-credential in analyzing healthcare data went through multiple rounds of testing to ensure it was reliable and applicable to a wide range of healthcare settings.
And Bow Valley College in Calgary works closely with industry partners to identify talent gaps. Assessments for its post-baccalaureate and micro-credential programs are tailored to measure both observable technical tasks – “what you do” – and transferable skills – “how you need to do those tasks” – associated with specific jobs.
Texas A&M University-Commerce takes employer involvement even farther. For its bachelor’s in criminal justice, an advisory board of local law enforcement professionals evaluates student projects and other learning artifacts to assess and verify the level of competency. The evaluators draw on their professional experience and use standardized rubrics designed by the American Association of Colleges & Universities.
The approach elegantly merges the world of “theory” and “practice.” And it gives employers both insight into what the program’s students know and can do, and input into what it is teaching.
This kind of assessment can, and should, underpin other learning models. Robust assessment is especially critical as higher education innovators push for a new kind of transcript: comprehensive learner records (CLRs). The goal of such records is to capture all college-level learning – no matter where it happens – and to break it down into discrete competencies that employers and individuals can trust and easily understand. To harness the true potential of that kind of record, we need a better way of assessing and codifying learning.
We shouldn’t just develop a more flexible version of the transcript. We need a new kind of record of learning. The focus should be on competency – not just time spent in education, but what a person knows and can do.
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Too much sex exhausts the promiscuous dumpling squid
The dumpling squid, also known as Euprymna tasmanica, are known for their promiscuous mating behavior – mating with as many partners as possible. These short-lived cephalopods can spend up to 3 hours copulating, when the males and females would appear to be “locked” together. Upon closer inspection, we realize that the male squid actually physically restrains the female to prevent her from moving during copulation.
After copulation, the male and female dumpling squid both suffer from reduced performance and swimming endurance and takes up to 30 minutes to recover. Given that males physically restrain females during copulation, it was naturally expected that males that a longer time to recover than female dumpling squids.
Statistical analysis from “Biology Letters”, however, proved otherwise. Both male and female dumpling squids take the same amount of time to recover post-copulation.
Males are weakened due to the vigorous activities they do: restraining the female, changing color, squirting ink and pumping jets of water into the females’ body (Davis, 2012). Females, on the other hand, were worn out by the physical restrain on them that caused reduced oxygen reaching her gills and also the lack of circulation of oxygenated blood around her body.
The reduction in physical performance post-copulation (also called “energetic costs”) could have several implications for some factors such as predator avoidance, foraging ability, and even mating behavior. (Franklin et al., 2012)
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February 4, 2015 -
Environmentalists are calling for solidarity with U.S. oil refinery workers as they stage the biggest industry work stoppage in 30 years over issues including unsafe staffing, onerous overtime and dangerous conditions.
January 30, 2015 -
Accidents involving "high consequence area pipelines," where people or buildings are more likely to be impacted, have increased in recent years, with the latest pipeline explosion occurring this week in West Virginia.
June 9, 2014 -
Scientists say water samples from a Texas man's well show identical chemical signatures from nearby gas drilling operations -- the first time a conclusive link has been found between fracking and aquifer contamination.
June 6, 2014 -
"Our families cannot continue to struggle on Walmart's poverty pay and constantly changing schedules while Walmart and the Walton family make billions from our work," says one striking mother who works for the Arkansas-based retail giant.
May 21, 2014 -
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Feb 28, 2022
Many of us eat a varied and omnivorous diet, with meat, fish, vegetables, and grains. If you’ve ever thought about changing that same old plan, whether for dietary or health reasons, or perhaps for environmental and sustainability ones, you should know you don’t need to go all in. Switching up just one meal each week can have an impact.
There are a number of great reasons to consider trying one vegan meal per week. Vegan diets are generally better for heart health and may also reduce your risk for cancer. You might find yourself losing a bit of weight, and you’ll also do the planet a favour. Lastly, the price of meat has increased in the last year or two, so you’ll also be helping out your budget. Let’s look at the concept of One Vegan Meal and how it might work for you.
There’s a difference between vegetarian, which is someone who doesn’t eat meat, poultry, fish, and seafood, and vegan, which is a vegetarian who doesn’t eat any animal products including eggs or dairy. Other types of plant-based diets include or exclude certain types of meat or animal products, such as pescatarian, which includes eggs, dairy, fish, and seafood but excludes meat and poultry.
The biggest challenge for those trying out vegan cooking is avoiding dairy and egg products. The good news is that there are several substitution products available to help out.
According to Kathy Freston in the Huffington Post, if the world had a single day a week where everyone went vegetarian, we’d eliminate 1.2 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in greenhouse gas emissions. The savings would be the same as taking 500,000 cars off the roads. It would also stop three million tons of soil erosion and save the costs of replenishing that soil.
There are a couple of schools of thought to making your meals vegan:
If you’re accustomed to having meat in most meals, you might find it easier to think of the veggies as a substitution. This might help your brain grow used to the switch instead of rejecting the idea outright.
We’ve come a long way since the introduction of the first meat-substitute products. These days, many fast-food restaurants offer “impossible burgers,” made with plant matter rather than meat. Of course, you’ll still need to ensure that the products are vegan, not just vegetarian. There are also a wide range of vegan products that are formed to look and taste like their meat counterparts. Brands like Cal & Gary’s, Zoglos, Beyond Meat, and Impossible all go to great lengths to offer not just a tasty and healthy product but one that looks a bit like meat too, making the switch that much easier on your brain.
Meat substitute products like tofu, tempeh, or seitan can provide a similar mouth-feel to meat. Jackfruit is noted for its pulled pork-like texture.
Lentils and chickpeas can substitute for meat products in stews or soups, or even in a pasta sauce like pasta bolognese (which often uses carrots or lentils to bulk up the sauce as well).
Additionally, you can add more vegetables to replace the meat in question. Mushrooms are a great substitute to provide a meat-like mouth feel to a stew or salad. You can also try chickpeas to give your salad a crunch or even a fried potato cake/‘steak’. Shepherds pie and meatballs made from mushroom and root veggies will be a big hit at the dinner table, and if you’ve got younger kids, they may not even notice the swap.
Instead of looking at a vegan meal as a meal that has had the meat removed or substituted, switch your thinking. Consider the veggies as the main course themselves. Many of us grew up thinking of veggies as a side dish or thinking that meat had to be the star of every meal. It might be time to reconsider and put the veggies in the spotlight at last.
Vegetables can be infused with a variety of flavours, so it becomes easy to add, say Mexican spices to chopped mushrooms and use them in a taco or wrap. Cauliflower is a popular vegetable that can be the star of your dinner, sliced into fat ‘steaks’, or shredded as a risotto—even portioned and covered in hot sauce as a buffalo “wing.”
Veggie bowls are also growing in popularity. Known as “glory bowls” or “buddha bowls,” the concept is a bowl of rice or noodle with a number of veggies making up the bulk of the dish, with a dressing. Beets, chickpeas, carrots, and spinach all work together to provide loads of flavour, and you’ll be getting all of your daily vegetables in a single meal.
Don’t be afraid to try dishes from around the world. Indian food has a wide variety of vegan and vegetarian dishes, as does Thai cuisine. While you’re touring the culinary vegan world, you can try out vegetables you’re not used to and expand your palate.
Naturally, don’t forget you can always find a variety of fresh vegetables, staples and meat substitutes at your neighbourhood Co-op - Shop Now.
Written by Chef Liana
Just like putting on your favourite pair of sneakers or those vintage jeans from the 70s, everything old eventually becomes new…
Written by Chef Chabot
Shopping for food doesn’t have to be a daunting task.
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Every marketer wants the perfect story to tell. But if you’re in medicine, you don’t want it to be about yourself.
Earlier this year, vascular surgeon John Martin was testing a pocket-sized ultrasound device developed by Butterfly Network, a startup based in Guilford, Connecticut, that he’d just joined as chief medical officer.
He’d been having an uncomfortable feeling of thickness on his throat. So he oozed out some gel and ran the probe, which is the size and shape of an electric razor, along his neck.
On his smartphone, to which the device is connected, black-and gray images quickly appeared. Martin is not a cancer specialist. But he knew that the dark, three-centimeter mass he saw did not belong there. “I was enough of a doctor to know I was in trouble,” he says. It was squamous-cell cancer.
The device he used, called the Butterfly IQ, is the first solid-state ultrasound machine to reach the market in the U.S. Ultrasound works by shooting sound into the body and capturing the echoes. Usually, the sound waves are generated by a vibrating crystal. But Butterfly’s machine instead uses 9,000 tiny drums etched onto a semiconductor chip.
Making ultrasound devices in a semiconductor manufacturing plant, the company says, makes the technology cheaper and more versatile. It says its machine will go on sale this year for $1,999—far less than any other model on the market.
“Now we think it’s an individual purchase,” says Martin. “This gives you the ability to do everything at the bedside: you can pull it out of your pocket and scan the whole body.”
Ultrasound—once practiced only by technicians—has already been spreading among medical specialties as a more routine type of exam. In emergency rooms, doctors use it to quickly look inside a patient’s heart, lungs, and stomach without x-rays. But there’s resistance. Hospitals create revenue by using big, costly machines run by specialists.
Butterfly was started in 2011 by Jonathan Rothberg, an entrepreneur who specializes in adapting semiconductor technology to biology. He previously invented a method of sequencing DNA on a chip.
It took eight years for Rothberg to move the idea for the ultrasound device from concept to market. Instead of vibrating crystals, it uses “capacitive micro-machined ultrasound transducers,” or CMUTs, tiny ultrasonic emitters layered on a semiconductor chip a little larger than a postage stamp.
The company, which has raised more than $100 million so far, is entering a market already crowded with an earlier generation of portable ultrasound scanners like Philips’s Lumify, which costs around $6,000 and uses the older crystal technology. The lower cost of the new device means it will have to sell a lot of them to make a profit. “It seems like they’ll need to drive the volume of ultrasound scanners far beyond what it is now,” says Richard Przybyla, cofounder of Chirp Microsystems.
John Kendall, ultrasound director at the emergency department of Denver Health Medical Center, who is one of the company’s advisors, says the images the device creates aren’t as detailed as those produced by high-end ultrasound machines rolled around on carts. But, he says, “the question is whether I can get to a diagnostic answer better.” Considering the device’s cost and the way he can fit it into the top pocket of his scrubs, “it’s not even a fair comparison,” he concludes. “It’s infinitely portable. It’s not even the same genre of machine.”
The company says it hopes to combine the instrument with artificial-intelligence software that could help a novice position the probe, collect the right images, and interpret them. By next year, it believes, its software will let users automatically calculate how much blood a heart is pumping, or detect problems like aortic aneurisms. Work in that direction is described in a video released by the company.
Automating interpretation of fuzzy ultrasound images could eventually turn the technology into something easily used by ambulance crews, in remote regions, or even at home. “The ability to acquire an image and know what you are seeing—I think it’s coming,” says Kendall.
Martin, who since diagnosing his cancer has undergone a five-and-a-half-hour surgery and radiation treatment, believes the devices can take on new shapes, like a patch that could be sent home with patients. Perhaps before too long a parent might diagnose a kid’s fracture at home.
“To look at this as just an ultrasound device is like looking at an iPhone and saying it’s just a phone,” he says. “If you have a window into the body where anyone can afford it, everyone can use it, and everyone can interpret it, it becomes a heck of a lot more than an ultrasound device.”
The feud between a weed influencer and scientist over puking stoners
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This startup wants to copy you into an embryo for organ harvesting
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Monkeypox is in Bay Area wastewater
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An important flood early warning project in Vietnam moves into Phase II, aiming to increase the capacity of local disaster managers to save lives and livelihoods in the flood-prone country.
USAID Vietnam Mission Director Francis Donovan, left, is seen at the launch event for the USAID MARD Flood Modeling and Early Warning Capacity Development–Phase II (FEW2) Project with professional interpreter Mr. Doan Duc Luu and PDC Deputy Executive Director Chris Chiesa.
Deputy Executive Director Chris Chiesa and Southeast Asia Program Advisor Nathan Sage represented PDC at the August 24 launch of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)-supported Flood Modeling and Early Warning Capacity Development – Phase II (FEW2) Project in Hanoi, Vietnam. “PDC has been working with the Government of Vietnam since 2004 to enhance their capacity in disaster management and early warning processes,” Chiesa said, “We are very excited about this next phase of activity with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), and very appreciative of the support provided by USAID.”
USAID Vietnam Mission Director Francis Donovan and USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) Principal Regional Advisor for East Asia Pacific Region Al Dwyer attended a project launch meeting, which was chaired by MARD Vice Minister Dr. Hoang Van Thang.
The project will enhance the ability for central-level decision makers and provincial-level disaster managers to forecast flood events, assess their likely impacts, and reach those at risk with meaningful warning messages. These functions will be carried out using a web-accessed decision support system called VinAWARE, developed by PDC and based on PDC’s own DisasterAWARE platform.
“This project will improve the accuracy and timeliness of flood forecasting and early warning systems, benefiting an estimated 4.4 million people in 10 provinces of central Vietnam,” said USAID Mission Director Francis Donovan.
For the FEW2 Project PDC will work directly with the MARD Disaster Management Center. PDC partners who will assist with the project include the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF) and the Vietnam Water Resources University (WRU).
The project launch event was attended by 35 representatives of Vietnamese and international organizations, including American Red Cross, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), UNDP, Ministry of Defense Standing Office of the National Committee for Search & Rescue, and Vietnam Red Cross.
Explore the longstanding relationship between PDC and Vietnam by way of these resources:
• An article about Dr. Nguyen Huu Phuc’s recent visit to PDC.
• The story of the Vietnam training curriculum developed by PDC, 2010
• Special training in the use of PDC’s DisasterAWARE was conducted in Vietnam
• News of PDC projects in Vietnam as of April 2010
• Visitors came to PDC as part of the Flood Early Warning Phase One project
• A description of the first use of the VinAWARE decision support system
• There are hundreds of pages about Vietnam at www.pdc.org, which can be found by using the
“Search this site” box, upper left on the home page.
• A fact sheet on International Capacity Development
• The story of the 2005 Landslide Workshop produced in Vietnam
• A Vietnamese intern gained professional experience at PDC in 2008
• The first Flood Early Warning Project launched in 2009
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Published: 25th July 2022
Curious case of multiple circulars: Why Odisha parents are asking for equal weightage for both Term I, II exams
Odisha Abhibhabak Mahasangha has written to CBSE demanding that a 50:50 weightage for Terms I and II of the exam should be considered for awarding the marks to the students
Even after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) declared the Board exam results for Classes X and XII on July 22, the uproar over how much weightage should each term get refuses to die down. It is now the Odisha Abhibhabak Mahasangha (OAM), a parents’ body of the state, which has written to CBSE demanding that a 50:50 weightage for Terms I and II of the exam should be considered for awarding marks to the students. They have claimed that many students are not satisfied with their obtained marks.
This year, the CBSE Board exams for both Classes X and XII were held in two terms, I and II. CBSE awarded the marks based on weightage criteria which allowed 30% weightage for Term I and 70% weightage for Term II. The results were declared on July 22, Friday.
“Many students are aggrieved that they didn’t score well in the Board exams. So, we have approached CBSE to consider a 50:50 weightage for these students. We have already submitted an application at the CBSE regional office (in Bhubaneswar) to the Chairman,” said Basudev Bhatta, Chairman, OAM.
Similar sentiments were echoed by the All India JEE NEET Students Association (AIJNSA) whose President Himanshu Borah took to Twitter to express dismay over the same situation. “Majority of students are unhappy with the weightage system that has been taken into consideration. The Board has done injustice to lakhs of students. #CBSEResults #CBSEstudentsWantJustice” he wrote, a day after the results were declared.
“On July 5, 2021, CBSE issued a circular stating that it would consider a 50:50 weightage for both Terms I and II. After Term I, around the first week of April, there was a notice doing rounds on social media as well as on news portals, reading that CBSE would consider a 30:70 weightage for Terms I and II respectively. However, on April 5, in a tweet, CBSE stated that the 30:70 notice was fake. On July 22, CBSE issued another circular around the time of result declaration that, indeed, 30% weightage has been considered for Term I and 70% weightage for Term II. Now, this is absolutely unfair. CBSE cannot consider this kind of a weightage after its declaration,” Bhatta said.
It may be noted that CBSE issued the July 22 circular at the time when the Class XII Board exam results were declared. The circular informed about the marking scheme and stated that the Class XII results were ready for declaration.
In its letter to the CBSE Chairman, OAM has urged that the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan should intervene in the matter, review the issued circulars by CBSE and then take appropriate action. The association has sent a copy of the letter to the Education Minister.
“Students had around eight months to prepare for Term I and only four to prepare for Term II. Many couldn’t score well. It is alright for those who are satisfied with their marks. But we have written to CBSE to consider revising the weightage criteria for the aggrieved students, who are not satisfied with their marks. We demand that they should devise a process for these students to be able to apply and opt for changing their marking criteria,” Bhatta explained.
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If you were offered the most powerful legal performance enhancing drug available would you take it?
What if I said you already have it and aren’t using it to its full potential? Every 24 hours you get the chance to pick up your prescription for health and performance. What is it? Sleep. If you get less than 7 hours of it every night, you are depriving yourself of the most powerful drug on the market.
Why should you sleep more you ask? It optimizes a diversity of functions in the body.
- Sleep enhances our ability to learn, memorize and make good decisions.
- It keeps us emotionally stable so we can make cool headed rational decisions.
- It helps to restore the immune system and fight malignancies, infections and even the common cold.
- It also regulates the balance between insulin and circulating glucose which helps to manage our appetites and our gut health.
What happens when you don’t get enough sleep?
The list is long and scary.
- Insufficient sleep demolishes your immune system. Chronic lack of sleep increases your risk of both cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
- Inadequate sleep for as little as a week disrupts blood sugar levels to the point you would be classified as pre-diabetic.
- Have you ever noticed you are hungrier when you don’t get enough sleep? Lack of sleep suppresses hormones in your body that signal your brain that you have had enough to eat. This causes you to eat more than you should. A lack of “ZZZs” also causes you to make unhealthy food choices. You will have a tendency to eat anything in front of you instead taking the time to find and prepare healthier food options.
- If you are trying to lose weight and dieting but aren’t sleeping enough, you will lose lean body mass and not fat. Lack of sleep is detrimental to every part of your body. As you can see, the list of health issues is considerable.
So how do you optimize your sleep?
Sleep is so important that you should take steps to increase the amount and the quality of it. Two very important steps you can take immediately are to stop drinking caffeine after 1pm and limit your alcohol consumption at night. Both of these substances make it impossible to get into a deep sleep at night. Caffeine has a half life of 5-7 hours. This means that it takes that long to get 50% of the caffeine you just drank out of your system. Because the caffeine is lingering in your body you’re unable to get into a state of deep sleep. Alcohol has a similar effect.
A few other ways to improve your amount and quality of sleep is to utilize black out curtains or wear a mask to black out all light sources. Light tricks your brain into keeping you awake at night. Avoid screens at least one hour before bed. The light from these screens mimics daylight and delays natural melatonin production for at least 3 hours! Also, try cooling your bedroom temperature down to 65 degrees. Your brain and core temperature need to drop 3-4 degrees to get into a deep sleep. A sleep hack that helps this happen is taking a hot shower before bed. The hot water actually helps your body reduce its core temperature.
Now, a challenge.
Sleep is the most powerful legal drug on the market, and you’re probably not getting enough of it. I challenge you for the next 7 days to get at least 8 hours of sleep per night, and cut out caffeine after 1pm. After a week, take a moment to examine the positive effects that healthy sleep has on your life. Sleep is the key to health and performance. You’ll be amazed at the differences you observe. | <urn:uuid:3ad15e5e-3306-48d8-97a2-5bee75dbdb61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greenwichsportsmedicine.com/the-best-drug-there-is-sleep/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950008 | 771 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Media Release 3 October 2021
Why are the government and media hiding the truth about the Pfizer Vaccine?
Right to Life asks why is the government refusing to reveal to the public that the Pfizer vaccine is morally compromised, having been tested by the use of the cell line HEK 293, which was developed from tissue taken from aborted babies?
The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, told us in 2017 that she would provide New Zealand with the most transparent and accountable government that we had ever seen. Why then are you withholding this very important information from the community? Why too is the media complicit in this shameful cover-up?
The code of health rights upholds the right of informed consent. Every person considering the government’s campaign to encourage them to accept vaccination has an absolute right to be informed of the immoral use of the organs of aborted babies who did not give consent to their being killed and their organs being used to develop cell lines for the production and testing of vaccines. This is a violation of human rights and a crime against humanity.
Right to Life is not opposed to vaccination and supports voluntary fully informed vaccination with ethically developed and tested vaccines.
It is immoral and a violation of human rights to remove a child from the womb by caesarean section to obtain a functioning organ, and while still alive to remove the child’s kidney to develop a cell line that may be used to produce and test vaccines.
Right to Life believes that the government of Jacinda Ardern which authorised and funded the killing of 13 238 unborn children in 2020 does not see this as a moral issue and is using the vaccine campaign to convince the community that the Pfizer vaccine is safe, effective and ethical.
The government believes that the community do not have a right to know that the vaccine was tested with a cell line from aborted babies.
The government has a serious moral obligation to purchase vaccines that have been ethically produced, and there are many Covid-19 vaccines currently being developed.
The other Covid-19 vaccines purchased from Moderna, AstraZeneca, Jansen Pharmaceutica and Novavax are also morally compromised.
Right to Life encourages the community to ask that the government uphold the sanctity of life by purchasing in the future, only Covid-19 vaccines that are ethically produced and tested and that do not use cell lines from aborted babies.
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Bowmanville is the largest community in the Municipality of Clarington. It is approximately 75 kilometres east of Toronto, and about 15 kilometres east of Oshawa, nestled along highway 2, just north of Lake Ontario.
Bowmanville is considered a part of the Greater Toronto Area. The region has recently experienced large growth and development due to its ideal access to the nearby urban centres along highway 401.
Bowmanville has a great diversity of amenities in town and nearby, while still maintaining its small town charm, making it an increasingly attractive community to raise a family.
Bowmanville offers plenty to do and see.
The annual Apple Festival and Craft Sale takes place the Saturday following Thanksgiving. It is a street festival that celebrates all things apple. Four city blocks are converted to a showcase for the many talented local apple growers. Unique handmade craft items and food products can be found in several booths along the street. There are plenty of things for children to do such as carnival rides, bouncy castles, pony rides, and more.
Summertime in Bowmanville is an exciting time with the Annual Summerfest. It is a 3-day sidewalk sale. You will find great deals from the unique businesses and services in the area.
Another unique event is the BluesBERRY festival, which celebrates blues music and berries in a unique and fun family event. Downtown Bownmanville offers plenty of unique shops and restaurants.
Bowmanville’s history began with the arrival of the first European settlers in 1794. Three loyalist families from the U.S. were the first settlers to arrive, the Burks, the Conants and the Trulls. The village grew and prospered attracting not only settler families but industry too. Mills, furniture factories, tanneries, brick yards, evaporator plants, hotels, inns, and mercantile establishments were all a part of the growing industry in Bownmanville.
Some of Bownmanville’s most famous industries include: The Dominion Organ and Piano Factory, The Goodyear Rubber Plant, The Bownmanville Foundry, and The Cream of Barley Mill. The goods from these places were shipped worldwide.
The Bowmanville Museum holds the rich history of the town, and the story unfolds through a photography collection.
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The physical transportation of cash across borders continues to be one of the oldest and most basic channels of money laundering, and it is still widespread in Albania and in the region. On 17 May 2022, in Durres (Albania), the Action against Economic Crime in Albania trained 20 representatives of the General Directorate of Customs and main customs points in Albania on international standards and good practices in effectively detecting cash smuggling and proliferation. The training also served to increase the awareness of the participating public officials on the threats to public security that come from cash smuggling and proliferation.
As part of the Action, participants were introduced to Recommendation no. 32 of the Financial Action Task Force, which calls for countries to take measures to detect the physical cross-border transportation, to stop or restrain currency and bearer negotiable instruments that are suspected to be related with terrorist financing or money laundering, and to apply appropriate sanctions and confiscate them.
This and other relevant recommendations were discussed, and training participants developed practical skills through actively engaging in case studies and role play on the mechanisms for the interception of cash couriers and other forms of cash smuggling through increased use of intelligence, as well as tactical questioning techniques.The Action against Economic Crime in Albania is part of the “Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey II”, a joint programme of the European Union and the Council of Europe, which aims at assisting beneficiaries in the Western Balkans region and Turkey to comply with the Council of Europe standards and the European Union acquis in the framework of the enlargement process and discussed with the customs officers. | <urn:uuid:28400ba2-6018-4645-a577-20d5aa94cc1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.coe.int/en/web/corruption/-/albanian-custom-officers-improve-their-skills-in-combating-cash-smuggling | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.943918 | 316 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Many of you may automatically assume that you will get no college aid when your kids arrive at that age, due to your income, which you assume is too high (especially if you are in Silicon Valley) and crosses all the threshold.
Surprisingly, it is not a matter of just how high your raw income is. It is a much more complex matter of how your overall financing looks, is arranged, even optimized.
For this important knowledge, we have invited Gary Sipos, MBA, AIF, to educate us (no pun intended) on the subject. Gary has helped numerous families get into college in ways that were much more beneficial and frugal than they had imagined.
I always talk about real estate investments, the way we do it at ICG, as a means for a stable financial future with two main items: retirements and your kids’ college. I like to explain how Single Family Home investments are done with a long horizon that can assist both these goals in a very powerful way.
It is only natural that if we can optimize one of our biggest potential expenses, we would like to know about it.
Gary will be speaking THIS SATURDAY, March 5th, at our ICG 1-Day Expo near SFO. There will also be experts on financial planning, special lenders and loan programs, and market teams from choice U.S. markets for us to meet, learn from, and be exposed to some great properties.
Anyone mentioning this blog can attend for free (with guests who can come for free as well). Just email us at email@example.com to register. See you this Saturday.
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal by Joe Light, it talks about the decline in house inventory created due to the drop in short sales inventory. There are references in the article to the inventory shortage being negative for some markets. Needless to say for the real estate investor, having lower inventory usually translates to appreciation. As sellers are more and more on the sidelines and the overall inventory goes down, the old supply-demand equation rears its (pretty) head resulting in price appreciation. This of course is a two-edged sword. It’s great for the properties you had already purchased, but it is not so great for the ones you eye buying in the future. The very drop in short sales itself has to do with appreciation. As houses get closer to parity with their loans, short sales don’t make sense anymore.
Another reason, of course, is the expiration (in December) of the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act (passed by congress in 2007). With the expiration of the Act, sellers are now liable for taxes on the forgiven portion of their loans during short sales, naturally creating reluctance on the part of sellers to go that route. In the meantime we are seeing financing improving for investors and even some initial programs here and there for the foreign buyers. Stay tuned. We will be discussing the state of the market on short sales at our next Real Estate 1 Day Expo, on September 13th. You can register here.
Below, for convenience, is the entire WSJ article:
Drop in Short Sales Trims House Inventory
By Joe Light
June 20, 2014 9:43 p.m. ET
Short sales of underwater homes have fallen sharply amid the expiration of a key tax break, a situation that could slow the housing recovery and further limits an already thin supply of houses for sale. Such sales, where owners sell their homes for a price below the balance on the mortgage, reduce the number of houses that end up in foreclosure. In most cases for the sale to proceed, lenders must approve the purchase and agree to forgive the unpaid portion of the mortgage owed by the homeowner.
Short sales had been especially common in recent years in hard-hit states like Florida, Michigan and Nevada, where most homes remain valued at prices that are substantially lower than during the housing boom. In March, about 5% of home purchases nationwide—some 18,258—were short sales, according to mortgage-technology-and-services firm Black Knight Financial Services. That was down from 6.4% in February and off sharply from the 19.7%, or 51,909, that were short sales in January 2012.
This year’s drop can be traced in part to the December expiration of the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, which Congress originally passed in 2007. Before the act, when a home was sold through a short sale and the lender forgave a portion of the mortgage debt, the seller would typically be required to pay income taxes on the amount forgiven. The act made the forgiven debt tax-free, which paved the way for short sales and helped speed the housing recovery.
“It’s a big concern,” said Veronica Malolos, a real-estate broker in Kissimmee, Fla. Ms. Malolos said some underwater sellers delisted their properties in January and February after learning that the tax provision wouldn’t be extended. Ms. Malolos’s clients Javier and Mayra Gonzalez in Kissimmee said they tried to sell their home last summer after Mr. Gonzalez found a new job but took it off the market in the new year. The couple received offers of about $145,000 on the home, on which they owe about $206,000, including debt from a home-equity line of credit, but their bank wouldn’t accept them. Because the mortgage act wasn’t extended, the couple estimate they would owe about $15,000 in additional income taxes based on the $61,000 difference, something they say they couldn’t afford.
This year, the couple’s bank began foreclosure proceedings on their home, but they said they are working things out with the bank and are staying put, even though Mr. Gonzalez now has a commute of about an hour and 40 minutes each way to his new job in Vero Beach. Short sales also have tumbled because of rising home prices, which pushed many homes back above water or closer to it. The median existing-home price nationwide was $201,700 in April, 5.2% higher than in April 2013, according to the National Association of Realtors. In the first quarter, about 19% of homes were worth less than their mortgage, according to the real-estate-information website Zillow, down from 31% a year ago.
With would-be short sellers on the sidelines, the housing market may take longer to work through remaining underwater homes, restricting the already tight home inventory on the market. If some potential short sellers decide to go through a foreclosure instead, that could cause higher losses for mortgage-bond investors, or companies that guarantee payment of mortgages, which tend to recover less in a foreclosure because of the costs of carrying a home.
The Senate Finance Committee in April passed a bill to extend the forgiveness provision, along with many other tax breaks that had expired. But the bill stalled in May after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republicans couldn’t agree on how to amend the measure. Now some analysts don’t expect Congress to move on a bill until December, after the midterm elections. Any extension would likely come as part of a wider package of tax-break extensions. “This is trapped, and there’s little hope of prying it loose,” said Jaret Seiberg, financial-policy analyst for Guggenheim Securities LLC.
In the meantime, real-estate agents say sellers are loath to consider short sales on homes, even when facing foreclosure as the alternative. That is a problem not just for troubled homeowners, but also for banks and mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which typically lose more money when homes are sold through a foreclosure than through a short sale. In the first quarter, for example, Freddie Mac said that in short sales, it recovered 68.4 cents for every dollar of unpaid principal. In foreclosures, Freddie recovered 64.4 cents for every dollar. “There are still millions of homes underwater, but short sales have fallen off considerably,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. “It’s gumming up the system” and could be limiting home-buyer activity.
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Advanced Pathophysiology for the Advanced Practice Nurse
Dr. John Chovan, Dr. Sue Butz
irritable bowel syndrome, IBS, pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome, gut microbiome, functional gastrointestinal disorder, Rome IV criteria
Medicine and Health Sciences | Nursing
Past understanding of the pathophysiology of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) presents this chronic condition as a functional gastrointestinal disorder related to psychological causes. While no structural abnormalities are present in IBS, this poorly understood condition of persistent abdominal pain and altered bowel habits can be debilitating, contributing to a decreased quality of life. Current research has uncovered new evidence, that for many patients, symptoms may actually originate in the gut. An altered gut microbiome is now accepted as playing a central role in the development of the disorder. This poster summarizes the current pathophysiological concepts of IBS, including the role of the gut microbiome, psychological associations, visceral hypersensitivity, genetic influence and food sensitivities. IBS is prevalent and commonly encountered in the primary care setting. Nurse practitioners will have opportunities to improve the outcomes of these patients. Utilizing the Rome IV criteria and Bristol stool form scale, patients can be spared unnecessary tests to achieve a definitive diagnosis. With many probable causes that continue to evolve, management of the disorder is challenging. Maintaining a current understanding of this complex disorder will contribute to the best outcomes.
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It may well be that some of the objects in the Phoenix photographs I
have taken for Foraminids may in fact be ascomata, fruiting bodies.
For a good photographic match see the photo:
which can be found in context by locating Trochila in the
Jones Beene wrote:
--- Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
Now there is a problem here, which is that large
buildings are put together via welding torches which,
when they are used to weld beams
That is apparently FALSE for that building.
Where did you get this exactly? Please give us some
Test. Please ignore.
Before photo, Sol 5, 14:47:02 camera elevation -13 deg, azimuth 197:
After photo, Sol 89, 11:45:08, camera elevation -19 deg, azimuth 197:
The Thermal Electric Energy Technology Foundation (TEET) will hold a
one-day seminar on cold fusion, September 26, 2008.
Address (in Japanese):
〒100-0011 東京都千代田区内幸町1-1-1 帝国ホテルタワー13 階
This 2005 article was referenced in another list:
The company says that it cannot sell the cars because it would have a
legal obligation to service them and that it can't provide service
because many suppliers quit making
Harry Veeder wrote:
What does it take to ignite thermite?
Thermite can be ignited with a short thin strip
of magnesium metal, which can be lit with a match.
Every high school chemistry laboratory which
I spent any time at always had powdered aluminum
metal and iron oxide powder on
could that be frost?
on 25/8/08 1:47 pm, Horace Heffner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here are lightened versions of both before
On Aug 25, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Harry Veeder wrote:
could that be frost?
Could be, but it seems to me unlikely, given there is no frost on
anything else. A very light morning frost does occur on the ground
there at times. If anything, the before picture looks like the
unless the differeing heat exchange of the metal causes ot to build
frost from the vapor dissapearing from the ground. ive seen that
effect with railings here in arizona in the dry dry winters.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Horace Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 25, 2008, at 12:26
The NIST has prepared their report on the collapse of bldg 7 of the world
NIST was funded 16 million dollars to prepare the report for posterity.
It is now on file.
Will it serve a useful purpose?
Not unless it is credible.
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Huntington disease (HD) can be seen as a model neurodegenerative disorder, in that it is caused by a single genetic mutation and is amenable to predictive genetic testing, with estimation of years to predicted onset, enabling the entire range of disease natural history to be studied. Structural neuroimaging biomarkers show that progressive regional brain atrophy begins many years before the emergence of diagnosable signs and symptoms of HD, and continues steadily during the symptomatic or 'manifest' period. The continued development of functional, neurochemical and other biomarkers raises hopes that these biomarkers might be useful for future trials of disease-modifying therapeutics to delay the onset and slow the progression of HD. Such advances could herald a new era of personalized preventive therapeutics. We describe the natural history of HD, including the timing of emergence of motor, cognitive and emotional impairments, and the techniques that are used to assess these features. Building on this information, we review recent progress in the development of biomarkers for HD, and potential future roles of these biomarkers in clinical trials. | <urn:uuid:efba87d4-4dd8-4d18-88f8-a21d8f0e4bc2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24614516/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.923637 | 220 | 2.390625 | 2 |
AIJU Research Centre is a private, non-profit association aiming to boost research, development and technological innovation in children’s products and leisure such as playgrounds, toys and childcare articles, and related industry and services, thus constantly increasing competitiveness and improving the quality of products and environments for children leisure.
Located in the region known as Toy Valley in Alicante, AIJU is a centre of reference on children product safety for Spanish companies and public administrations. Founded in 1985, the number of associated companies currently achieves 450, most of them SMEs.
AIJU, only European centre entirely specialised in children’s products and leisure and with more than 30 years of experience, has a team of around 80 technicians who cover different specialism such as child and product safety, knowledge of children as consumer, materials and processes, advanced manufacturing, environment, pedagogy/product, design and product development, innovation, management and training. The main area of AIJU’s work is the safety of children’s products. As part of this work playgrounds as spaces and structures which allow the free play are one of our expert team’s activities.
Play England is the national organisation for children’s play in the UK. This organisation is a registered charity. Its work is funded by trust and foundation grants, central government funding and corporate and public sector.
Play England works in five main areas:
H.Menezes Risk Vision is a private company with an extensive network at both national and international level. Risk Vision delivers consultancy and training services for designers, architects, landscapers, managers of public space and other professionals in municipalities and schools and industry in the field of risk assessment concerning the impact of choices or decisions in collective life.
It acknowledges the importance of built environments in social dynamics, a holistic approach to health and notes the evidence that measures at first adopted for the wellbeing of children are beneficial for physical and psychological safety of all generations and, in particular, for the most vulnerable people.
Risk Vision’s mission is to promote the creation of healthier, safer and more inclusive environments for children, families and the most vulnerable people in all generations through:
DA VSC HRAST is a non-profit organisation with a limited liability. Vukovar-Srijem County is the only founder and owner of the Agency. The Agency was founded and it operates with a purpose of economic development of the County. The Agency is approved and officially accredited Regional coordinator in charge of the Regional Development of the Republic of Croatia Act implementation in Vukovar-Srijem County. The Agency’s mission is the implementation of the County’s development strategy, improvement and coordination of existing development activities, and planning of development according to the Strategy of Development of the Republic of Croatia and EU demands.
The Agency’s vision is “to be a dynamic and respectable institution which fosters development of Vukovar-Srijem County and provides users and regional environment variety of useful services, contents and programs”. The Agency has a team of specialised people who support developing processes and contribute to Vukovar-Srijem County improvement. Specialised and quality human resources are the backbone of a long term region progress, and for continuous encouragement to enhance knowledge and skills through specialized education.
The University of Alicante (UA) was created in 1979. Today it educates and trains more than 36.000 students -2.500 of them are international students – and offers more than 80 undergraduate and 96 postgraduate programmes: consequently it is proportionally one of the fastest growing universities in Spain. The UA houses 227 research groups in Social and Legal Sciences, Experimental Sciences, Technological Sciences, Human Sciences, Education and Health Sciences and 15 Research Institutes. Thus, the UA employs over 2.400 researchers professors and has a complex management administration structure of 1.300 people.
The software and computing systems department (DLSI) is one of the biggest departments at the UA, employing more than 60 full-time teachers, more than 30 support teachers and 6 staff members. The DLSI belongs to the Polytechnic school and is devoted to research and training on the following topics: software engineering, software development and multimedia systems including e-learning managements systems. The Department of Software and Computing Systems has carried out several research activities in the fields of software development, usability and accessibility of web sites and web applications, and e-learning over the last 15 years.
The Faculty of Architecture provides education in the accredited bachelor, master and doctoral degree programme in Architecture and Urbanism and in Design. The Landscape & Architecture Studio is within the Department of Spatial Planning. Studio is a team of researchers and instructors with planning, architecture and landscape architecture from a variety of backgrounds. Common to all is the search for high quality of life, sustainable urban environments that harmonise human needs and ecological systems.
Interdisciplinary studio at the Faculty of architecture, CTU in Prague is the main partner of Child Friendly City initiative (Město přátelské k dětem). In their mutual projects they link the City, University and local children with a goal of “building a child friendly environments”. After a successful partnership with Prague 3 city district they are now continuing in cooperation with other districts of the capital city. Child Friendly City project has the aim to link Prague with the international Child Friendly City network.
Their projects are concentrating on mapping, evaluating as well as planning and designing urban public space with regards to children. We deal with city public space in general as well as with specific play areas, formal and informal. They work in close cooperation with children and they use varieties of methods to understand and implement their point of view. Individual professional experience of our team is in the field of architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture.
Is a starbust from a non-profit association, which was necessary due to legislation in Germany. ILLL concentrates different competences in international project work within a network of cooperation partners. ILLL is either project partner or coordinator for the projects. Moreover ILLL organises together with several conveyance centres regional informative meetings to distribute the possibilities of diverse support programs. Within K1-Projects ILLL serves as a receiving and delegating institution.
Study visits for qualified employees from early childhood education and vocational education are a focus in our current work. There is an enormous demand by qualified employees for those visits. ILLL concentrates demands, develops correlating projects with transnational partners and performs these projects. Currently we develop qualification offers for general education and adult education. Additionally to own employees, ILLL works together with a wide network of external experts who are integrated in special fields of activities. The international working network comprises partners in Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Greek and Sweden.
One of the main activities of ILLL is to provide VET to students, immigrating employees, people working in kindergartens or municipalities, safety experts for playgrounds, etc. Also they give an overview about important rules concerning playground safety in Germany and provide the legal background of German Law, the German framework regarding play areas is a referent for other European countries. | <urn:uuid:66e34372-6a3f-4845-bebe-851b4b445d69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.saferplay.eu/?page_id=2083&lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94323 | 1,499 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Nimrod and Enalees announce their partnership
Enalees and Nimrod announce their partnership to introduce Enalees’ veterinary products in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Maximizing the potential of Enalees’ breakthrough point-of-care technology demands a thorough knowledge of the veterinary field and unmet needs, which Nimrod will bring to the table, together with a unique view of the British and Irish markets and the ability to support Enalees’ product launches, sales and distribution.
Enalees’ tests are designed to diagnose equine infectious diseases directly in the clinic or in the field, without the need to send samples to an external laboratory. A first panel of tests was launched in France beginning of 2019 for respiratory disease, and a second panel of tests was launched at the spring for isolated fever syndrome diseases. A few months after the launch, more than 30 veterinary equine French clinics already use these tests, all under the “Epona” brand name (www.enalees.com). Enalees’ tests are based on a molecular analysis that identifies the targeted microbial DNA. They provide a result that is as sensitive and specific as molecular PCR tests, and can be performed at the veterinary clinic or in the field within 40 minutes, allowing veterinary surgeons to expedite diagnosis and treatment of the animal.
D.J. Renney, (pictured below) CEO and founder of Nimrod Veterinary Products, said “Our business model is to make or find novel tools for the veterinary surgeon, particularly ones that will benefit from our expertise and technical support. The Epona tests fulfil those criteria perfectly. They will make it easier for vets to help clients control infectious diseases, and offer a new business opportunity for practices.”
Laurent Thiery, PhD, CEO & Co-Founder of Enalees, points out how the company is currently planning future product developments: “On the basis of the know-how and experience we have acquired from our equine products, Enalees will soon launch additional assays for cats and dogs, on the same system”.
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ALPENA, Mich. — More than 21 million fish have been stocked in Michigan’s waterways this year. The species include brown trout, coho salmon, steelhead, walleye, and nine others. The total combined weight is equal to 311 tons.
The Alpena research station alone distributed 18,231 Atlantic salmon and 49,926 coho salmon. Randy Claramunt, Lake Huron basin coordinator with the DNR, says that fish stocking serves several purposes in Michigan. “The stocking is really aimed at sport fishing, sport fish restoration, or native species recovery,” he said.
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Are you looking for something good to read right now or even later? You’ve come to the right place. This year, Curbed launched its West Coast features program, and over 2016 we traveled from Portland down to the desert near the Mexican border to bring you tales of disappearing water, controversial architecture, secession movements, hypergentrification, strange weather, strip clubs, and more. These are 10 of our favorite Western longreads.
The incredible leaning flip of West Oakland by Susie Cagle
“If I didn’t know that house so well I’d feel sorry for it,” says Gabe Santos, who lived for five years at 2523 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in West Oakland. “I’d be like, ‘poor little house, no one wants you.’”
Of course, someone did want 2523, and the profits from flipping what was once a dilapidated, graffiti-covered squat, foreclosed after its owner was convicted of mortgage fraud and money laundering. There’s no trace of the little house’s former life, except for a characteristic that does not make the listing: The house is leaning, pitched several degrees sideways, and not in an endearing way.
The naked city by Kate Losse
In areas like Downtown LA, whose transformation is occurring in part because of the appeal of the gritty industries that once occupied these neighborhoods, is it possible that the grittier establishments can adapt to a new kind of clientele? Or to put it another way, can the new clientele adapt to the existing strip clubs and adopt them as part of their social routine? What is the social end game of gentrification, and is there a better downtown it can imagine than the one that results in block after block of cookie-cutter condos, scrubbed of the last traces of vibrant, colorful, and perhaps risqué culture that first drew artists and then developers?
Vexit: Venice Beach wants to leave Los Angeles by Isaac Simpson
While racial lines between black, Latino, and white Venetians are severe, the larger battle is about space: it’s pro-change versus preservationist. One side supports the upward financial trajectory of the area—the arrival of tech companies, the proliferation of high-end retail, the skyrocketing of property values and rents—and accepts the risks of whitewashing and cultural destruction that come with it. Those on the other side see themselves as the colonized, those who gave the neighborhood its desirable heart and soul, who are now being culturally cleansed by wealthy land grabbers.
The first Malibu beach house by Hadley Meares
May Rindge liked to be in control. Her beloved husband, Frederick Hastings Rindge, had bought secluded Malibu, with its 22-odd miles of breathtaking oceanfront, in the hopes of making it a nature preserve and “American Riviera.” It became the family’s private paradise, and soon included successful cattle ranching and grain-raising operations. After Frederick’s premature death in 1905, the fierce and unfriendly May, who had grown up on a hardscrabble Midwestern farm, fought to preserve Malibu’s pristine beauty and private status, battling squatters, real estate developers, railroad companies, and even the government.
Palm Springs from above by Tess Barker
“You’re going to freeze.” warns a woman at the Valley Station at the bottom of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. I’ve passed this place several times on my way into writing retreats or coming home from vodka-soaked girl’s trips. It’s a gondola in the middle of nowhere off Highway 111 that climbs the sheer cliffs of Chino Canyon. I don’t know where I thought the tram would take me. Maybe a good view to more desert nowhere. Certainly not the freezing cold. I am wearing shorts and a t-shirt. This felt like too much on the walk from the car.
Something uneasy in the Los Angeles air by Adrian Glick Kudler
People who don't know any better like to say Los Angeles has no seasons, but that isn't true; it has five overlapping seasons: the winter rainy season, spring, gloomy early summer (also known as jacaranda season), miserably hot late summer, which lasts through October, and Santa Ana season. For non-Angelenos, the most LA season is that brief spring, when the days are 72 degrees and sunny. But for Angelenos, who have a far more intimate relationship with both nature and apocalypse than the 72-degrees-and-sunny crowd will ever allow, the most Los Angeles season is Santa Ana season.
Deconstructing Portland by Britany Robinson
The swell of Portland newcomers continues to rise. Like me, many of these people want to make a home and a life for themselves here. But with each new person, it becomes harder and harder for lower- and even middle-income residents to find the life they’re looking for. It makes it harder and harder for the ones who already live here to continue the lives they’ve known.
“We’re one of maybe half a dozen cities in the world that are consciously striving to figure out how to behave if humans have a hair’s chance in hell of surviving the 21st century,” Stephen Reichard points out. “Increasing density is part of that. As we’re growing so rapidly, people are experiencing what that feels like, and that’s really hard.”
A desert oasis dries up by Zoie Matthew
Deep below the flats of the Borrego Valley lies one key feature that separates it from the barren desert that surrounds it—an enormous, multi-tiered aquifer that is capable of storing thousands of acre-feet of water. What the town’s early boosters didn’t know was that this “magic element,” once their town’s greatest asset, would eventually result in one of its bitterest disputes. The future of Borrego Springs is essentially dependent on the future of its aquifer, and today, if the town’s citizens don’t find a way to cut their water use by about 70 percent, this small town is in danger of sucking it dry.
Learning to love the ‘Persian Palaces’ of Beverly Hills by Shaya Tayefe Mohajer
The boxy yellow house bears the telltale mark of the now-outlawed style: four of those two-story columns out front. It was erected on this plot of land at the top of Coldwater Canyon in the late 1980s, before the rush of other Iranians building or renovating similar homes in the notoriously wealthy enclave. Pourandokht Banayan and her husband Parviz chose every detail of the home.
In 1989, after 10 tough years in America, the Iranian-American family moved into the house at the end of the cul-de-sac (where one of the other houses has lion-head sculptures on its massive gates). She raised four children in this Persian Palace with a mezuzah on the doorframe and rose bushes out front. Elements of the style eventually spread from that hilltop down to the flats of Beverly Hills, south of Sunset, until it was essentially banned in 2004.
The last artists’ haven in Los Angeles by Jennifer Swann
Located in the far northeast corner of Los Angeles County and known for its conservative values, tract homes, and nearby Air Force base, the Antelope Valley is not exactly the kind of environment that usually attracts creative young people. But that’s changing, with 5 Acres adding to a small but growing community of artists determined not only to spark interest in the Antelope Valley, but also to reshape the way people think about the oft-forgotten, easily disparaged enclave roughly 80 miles north of Downtown Los Angeles. As skyrocketing rents in Los Angeles continue to squeeze renters farther into the outskirts of the city, the Antelope Valley is positioned to become a new frontier for emerging artists—if they can get over its terrible reputation. | <urn:uuid:31203e5f-ba93-48cb-9d0b-0f9c08dde70c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.curbed.com/2016/12/22/14033096/curbed-longreads-west-coast-cities-architecture | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.951246 | 1,707 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Working with partners at the IMSPEX Group as well as the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and Germany’s Klinikum Dortmund Hospital, a research team led by Loughborough University has been able to identify candidate biomarkers present in the breath of someone affected by Covid-19. Utilising technologies developed by GAS GmbH as part of the TOXI-Triage project, the team has demonstrated how these markers can be used to rapidly distinguish Covid-19 from other respiratory conditions at point of need, such as an emergency department, a workplace or a care setting, with no laboratory support.
IMSPEX will be working alongside researchers to help develop and scale such technology. Its BreathSpec device has been a key tool used by researchers in the analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in human breath. Ninety-eight patients were recruited for the feasibility study, of whom 31 had Covid-19. Other diagnoses included asthma, exacerbation of asthma and COPD, viral pneumonia, other respiratory tract infections and cardiac conditions. Participants gave a single breath-sample for volatile organic compounds analysis by GC-IMS. This analysis identified aldehydes (ethanal, octanal), ketones (acetone, butanone) and methanol that discriminated COVID-19 from other conditions.
Speaking about the feasibility study, Paul Thomas, Professor of Analytical Science from Loughborough’s Department of Chemistry, said: “We are hugely encouraged by these findings. Employing tried and tested techniques used during the TOXI-Triage project, suggests that Covid-19 may be rapidly distinguished from other respiratory conditions.”
“To develop this technique further larger studies are required, together with complementary GC-MS studies, to build on the data collected so far. If shown to be reliable, it offers the possibility for rapid identification or exclusion of Covid-19 in emergency departments or primary care that will protect healthcare staff, improve the management of patients and reduce the spread of Covid-19.”
Speaking about their involvement with the project, Emma Brodrick, Systems Application Manager at IMSPEX said: “Currently the two leading tests for Covid-19—antigen detection and PCR—both utilise invasive means of taking samples, which can be uncomfortable for the patient and may discourage some from going to get a test they desperately need. We are excited to be working with NHS Trusts in Scotland, Klinikum Dortmund in Germany and Loughborough University to develop a minimally invasive test, that produces results rapidly, indeed in TOXI-Triage our results were within one minute.”
CEO of the IMSPEX Group, Santi Dominguez, added: “The IMSPEX Group is very pleased that our ground-breaking technology has delivered these exciting results. They offer the possibility not only to dramatically improve people’s experience of taking a Covid-19 test but also to play a part in re-starting the economy through rapid screening of large numbers of people, at airports and other transportation hubs, for example. What will be needed now will be to rapidly acquire more data to continue to develop the test, and institutional and investor support to scale our manufacturing capability. The IMSPEX Group is looking forward to this challenge.”
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GENRE: Middle Grade Fiction,YA
Two young dinosaurs from opposite sides of the floodplain bump into each other by chance. He’s a small meat-eater, and she’s a big plant-eater. They’ve got no parents, no food, no friends. They’re supposed to be enemies, but they decide to stick together instead. It’s not easy. When she gets caught with him, she ends up banished from her herd. He faces a huge rival who could stomp him out with one back foot. They have to outsmart a gang of bullies with sharp teeth and long, curved claws. And they struggle to survive the natural disasters of drought, mudslides and a bubbling tar pit. Worst of all, when they lose contact with each other, they fear betrayal. What if their friendship has been broken?
His hard work had tired him out, so he sat down in the nest. He was about to fall asleep when he felt the island tremble slightly. It was enough to cause one of the other eggs to slip toward him. He put his mouth around the egg’s pointed end, making sure the sharp tips of his teeth didn’t break through the shell. Then he gently settled it back in the damp ground at his feet. But why was his nest moving like that?
Using his tail for balance, he eased up and peeked over the top of the nest. A rush of cold air hit him in the face just as cawing broke out in the trees overhead. Flocks of birds darted from branch to branch, making loud warning calls. And the ground started to shake so much that he struggled to stay standing.
At the edge of the island, a group of animals leapt out of the shallows. At first, he thought that they were like the birds above him, except they looked too big to be able to fly. Besides, they moved by running with their heads stuck out in front of them. Instead of wings, they had long arms and hands with three fingers—and they had claws.
They were just like him.
The pack swarmed past. A reddish-brown one at the end skidded to a stop. He towered over the nest, and slobber dribbled from his small pointed teeth. “Hey, little Troödon!” he called out, but when he got no reaction, he shook his head in frustration. “I’m talkin’ to YOU!” he said with a growl. “You see any other Troödons alive in that ring of dirt?” The dinosaur glanced nervously over his shoulder. “You’re gonna have to move fast, kid,” he shouted, then he turned to flee.
“Mudslide comin’ through!”
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Paula Louise Salvador has had great adventures as a documentary film maker and writer. The scariest was when she stood under the ribs of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton – in the dark! The most fun was filming dinosaur dig-sites from a helicopter. On the dangerous side, she had to dodge alligators in Mississippi – and keep all fingers and toes out of the water.
Paula has met fascinating people, particularly jazz legend Oscar Peterson and composer Philip Glass, who performed in her show on electronic music.
In “BUILD GREEN” for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “THE NATURE OF THINGS”, Paula and Dr. David Suzuki visited rock star Randy Bachman’s super sustainable house. (He played his guitar for us.)
Finally, it was a tiny dinosaur that captured Paula’s heart. For her documentary “DINOSAUR BABIES The North American Story”, Paula held the fossilized egg of a little Troödon. He was curled up inside, just about to hatch. (His leg bones looked like a chicken’s.) That’s where Paula’s story of Trygg begins.
Paula has a Masters in French Literature from l’Université de Provence, France and a Bachelor of Arts (including Children’s Literature) from McGill University, Canada.
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Inspiration for the book’s characters
All the animal characters in TRYGG THE DINOSAUR are based on real ancient creatures that lived about 76 million years ago in what is now Northern Montana and Southern Alberta. I had the enormous privilege of filming their fossils as the director of DINOSAUR BABIES: THE NORTH AMERICAN STORY, a science documentary that is available for download here: https://www.amazon.com/DINOSAUR-BABIES-North-American-Story/dp/B0041TX8WS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Dinosaur+Babies+the+North+American+story&qid=1630352284&s=instant-video&sr=1-1
I first “met” TRYGG, the little meat-eating TROÖDON dinosaur, when the scientist put its fossil in my hand. The Troödon was inside its egg (we could see the bumpy eggshell), all curled up and about to hatch, that is until a mudslide buried the whole nest. I’ve never forgotten that little guy, but how could I turn him into a character that kids would love?
My inspiration came from an emu, a big two-legged bird similar to an ostrich. If you can imagine an emu with a long tail, long arms and clawed hands, then you are getting close to a Troödon.
For our documentary, we filmed a real little emu as it pecked its way out of its egg. We were all silently rooting for him, and when his little head finally broke through the top of the shell, I almost started to cry. Then he “found the strength to pull himself up. His legs wobbled a bit, then they settled, and he stood for the very first time.” Such strength, such determination. (Just like Trygg in CHAPTER ONE.)
ALTA THE HYPACROSAUR is a very different character. She’s a four-footed plant-eater, and she’s about five times the size of Trygg when they meet. They are both orphans, but they are from opposite sides of the floodplain, so to speak. Perhaps they are a younger version of star-crossed Romeo and Juliet.
‘Trygg!’ (Alta) cried… ‘We can’t be seen together.’
Trygg stretched his head as high as he could then glared at her. “What do you mean?”
She stomped her good back foot. ‘Don’t you understand? You are the enemy. We’re supposed to hate each other. We eat plants. You eat meat. In fact, you eat us! We cannot be friends—ever. It is not allowed.’…
‘Yeah,’ said Trygg in a quiet voice. ‘But what if we wanted to be, you know, friends—the two of us? That’d mean something’, right?’
‘Not to them,’ she said. ‘That’s worse. That would make us suspects.’
Just like Romeo and Juliet.
A young Alphadon is the only mammal character in the book. She was similar to our modern-day opossum which is about the size of a cat and carries its babies in a pouch like a kangaroo. In Trygg’s world, the mammal would have been prime prey, but the little Troödon can’t bring himself to eat her. And she turns out to be the one who helps him overcome his fear of water. Just like my childhood friend Jerry (a human mammal) did for his dog.
I was raised in rural Ontario on the northern shores of Lake Erie. One winter, when we were about twelve, Jerry took Sabre, his German Shepard, down to the lake to play on the ice flows. I wasn’t with them, but apparently the chunk of ice they were on started floating out of the bay into deep water. The dog was very scared, and he balked at jumping off the ice flow into the cold water. Refusing to abandon him, Jerry leapt in, then pulled Sabre in beside him. They both swam to shore together and ran fast up the bank, trying not to freeze in the cold air. That’s what friends are for.
And that’s what the little Alphadon does for Trygg when she jumps into the river that has to be crossed for them to reach safety. Except that it is Trygg who is afraid of the water.
‘All right,’ said (the Alphadon). ‘I’ll just have to get over on my own.’ In a flash, she ran across the beach and threw herself into the river. The water swirled over her head.
Trygg jumped into action. ‘Wait a minute!’ he called out as he rushed to the shore. ‘Don’t be dumb!’ He plucked the mammal from the river…
With a sigh, he placed the mammal on his back. ‘Okay,’ he said in a tone that sounded much braver than he felt. ‘Here we go!’ Then he held his breath closed his eyes and plunged into the river. The cold made him shiver.
I think that Jerry and Sabre would have been proud of Trygg.
In Chapter Twenty-Two, a big turtle escapes from a group of huge Albertosaurs (earlier tyrannosaur meat-eaters similar to T. rex). He then ends up crawling over Alta’s tail as she sleeps.
“A large flat-shelled turtle who was as wide as Alta shuffled out from between her feet. ‘Sorry about scaring you,’ he said in a hoarse whisper…
She saw the long, narrow scratches that ran the whole length of his shell. ‘Oh my, you were lucky to get away.’
‘That’s for sure.’…
The turtle set off across the sand then called back to Alta, ‘I’d get out of here if I were you.’”
I love turtles and tortoises. They’ve been around for about 150 million years, so they’ve obviously figured out how to survive.
When I first saw the fossil of the big turtle that lived at the same time and place as “Alta and Trygg”, I knew that he’d make a great character. Luckily, I happen to know several tortoises personally.
One day, at our world-renowned zoo, we took our then ten-year-old granddaughter to visit the Giant Tortoise that was outside in a pen, running like a pro. Our granddaughter, on the other side of the barrier, started running beside him. She was going full-steam, and could barely keep up with the two-foot wide, four-legged turtle. That’s why I feel confident that the ancient land tortoise that warns Alta ‘I’d get out of here if I were you.’ certainly knew how to make a fast get-away. | <urn:uuid:bf9e007e-aa21-4d55-872b-cf2022a693dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lisasreading.com/trygg-the-dinosaur-book-tour/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973648 | 2,622 | 1.851563 | 2 |
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1800's Antique lame table had been hiding in shame for years, first in the basement and then the garage. Her maimed leg had deemed her incapable to perform her duties. She was a rough cut hand pegged stout lady many years ago.
I fondly named the table Claudia. Claudia is a feminine gender name. The origin is Latin and derives from Claudius, meaning lame, disabled.
Slowly and carefully I disassembled the table removing the top, table skirt, and legs. A large section of table top split out and gone. Removing the broken legs showing all the hand hewed pegs and side skirt rail. The table suffered from a warped table top and also dry rot. Previously, someone had used 16 penny nails to keep the table top down on the frame.
Using Durham's Wood Putty to rebuild and correct broken and damage done by dry rot.
After many weeks of un-warping the table top pieces with wet cloth and clamping it down to a smooth straight surface to un-warp it. This process was repeat several times allowing the cloth to dry out before repeating this procedure several times. I then took one of the drop down sides to recreate the piece to replace the area that had a large section broken out of the top. Using my dowel pin jig to join the piece together for the top. The top of the table was then hand pegged back on the frame of the table.
I used General Finishes Antique Walnut Gel Stain and 5 coats of General Finishes High Performance Top Coat as my finishing products.
I love using all of these products. They were used in this restoration work and are used on a regular basis in my workshop.
The words of its proud owner describes it best. "When I first laid eyes on this table it was in my grandmother's basement. It had been there a long while, in fact I remembered it from my childhood days. The years had not been kind to it. It was badly warped, the legs were uneven, worn and split. It was a wreck but it was a piece of the past and I had to save it. My Dad, although skeptical also believes in trying to save the past so he helped me load it and the table made it's way into my home where it stayed for years in the garage. Jeff really wanted to bring it back to life but eventually told me he just couldn't do it and reluctantly told me he felt it was destined for the trash pile. Enter Connie Hill (The Renaissance Lady). Jeff and I took the table to her in January and I asked her if she could salvage any part of the table. God bless her, she looked it over and said she would try. The table (Connie calls her Claudia) is now back in my houses and in my kitchen. It is beautiful. Connie told me about the hand made details she found in the rehab process and she said this could very well have been a piece of furniture my great-grandparents made themselves. I like the thought of that. There were hand-hew pegs that could have been made from wood that used to stand on the old home place. I look at it now and think of the hands that used to rest upon it's edges and that makes me smile. " | <urn:uuid:c532b8e3-b452-41d0-8ed4-1ad3a022525e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://contest.generalfinishes.com/entries/restoring-1800s-antique-table-love-family-heritage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.983427 | 669 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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I was excited to watch the first house being built in Ciudad Morazán. I knew it would be unlike any place I had seen before. I had read about the innovative technology that would make it weather-proof, sound-proof, and even earthquake-proof. I knew it would start with lightweight panels of expanded polystyrene and galvanized steel wire that are easy to assemble. When I saw the first house on April 22, the shell had already been constructed.
The material of the panels looked and felt lighter than I expected. I found it hard to picture how the house would look when completed, even though I had seen an artist’s rendition.
As I walked into what would be the entrance, I felt that the house was bigger than I expected. I recognized the layout from the diagram I had studied. A workman was crouched in the doorway to the master bedroom. The small room beside him had to be the bathroom.
I was pleased to see that both the master bedroom and kitchen had windows to the courtyard. That would allow plenty of natural light. The second bedroom at the front of the house had a window to the outside, admitting natural light.
By my next visit a few days later, some of the roofing had been added. The view from inside the master bedroom allowed me to see the windows looking onto the courtyard. The windows from the master bedroom and the kitchen faced each other across the open space. The walls seemed very strange with their steel wires.
By the beginning of May, there were two houses under construction. There would eventually be eight houses in each row. Because of the sound-proof material, they could share walls between them.
More work had been done on the interior of the first house, so I could see how the rooms were progressing. They were still bare panels and concrete floors, but I imagined how they would eventually look. The bathroom was at least recognizable from the plumbing.
By May 15, the process of covering the walls with cement had begun. It was only the first layer, so I could still see the steel wires over the panels. Yet, it felt like real progress to see the walls of the first house being covered while other houses in the row were being erected.
On May 20, I got to see a later stage of covering the walls with cement. The second bedroom, which had a window open to the front of the house, beside the front door, now had a solid concrete wall. Supports held up the roof at this point.
By May 24, the supports were gone, and the walls were nicer looking, although not painted yet. The first house was coming along, even though it still looked more like a building block than a house.
Paint and framed windows with glass in them made a big difference in the appearance of the house. By the end of May, the first house looked like a real house, even though it wasn’t nearly ready for occupancy.
Paint inside and tiles on the floor also made the second bedroom look very different.
On June 7, the house was close enough to being finished to write about it.
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As you can see from the network topology depicted above, routers R1 and R3 are in the area 0 and area 1, respectively. Router 2 connects to both areas, which makes him an ABR (Area Border Router). Our goal is to advertise the subnets directly connected to R1 and R3. To do that, the following configuration …
Jan 22, 2018 How To Login To Your Router Setup Page | TechLogon Mar 23, 2019 How to Configure Routers for Network Extender Additional router configuration may be necessary due to restrictive firewall settings or other custom settings. These specific ports and IP Addresses must be unblocked on your router's firewall or settings for the Network Extender to work properly. Instructions. Select the type of router you have and follow the instructions to configure it: Basic Cisco Router Configuration Step-By-Step Commands
Either way, your router should now be online and ready for the next step of the configuration process. Using the IP Address to Enter the Router Interface While some routers today allow for mobile apps to be used in the setup process, using your PC is still the easiest and most ideal way to handle the configuration.
Overview of Router Modes. The first step in configuring a router is to be located at privileged mode. Remember, exact modes have two sublevels: user and privileged. You go from user to privilege using the enable command and then from there you can only do monitoring and maintenance commands. NAT service is generally configured on computers or routers. The device configured with NAT service comprises of tables which consist of one-to-one mapping of IP Addresses of one format on the IP Addresses of the other format. In this way, it is ensured that the routers know the IP Addresses of the destination devices in the correct format. These are general router settings that you need to configure: WAN (Wide Area Network) Setting. LAN (Local Area Network) Setting. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Setting. After that, these are additional wireless settings that you need to configure, so that you can connect computer to it wirelessly. Apr 10, 2020 · If you want your router to connect to the internet, enter internet connection information into that section of the router's configuration (exact location varies). For example, those using DSL internet often require entering PPPoE username and password settings into the router.
Each router after the initial flood will build that map of the network, which includes all the routers and all the links. With that information, each router is capable of browsing those tables via using the shortest path first algorithm, and select the best path toward each destination. This would be installed in a routing table.
Manual:Initial Configuration - MikroTik Wiki Router's initial configuration should be suitable for most of the cases. Description of the configuration is on the back of the box and also described in the online manual. The best way to connect wires as described on the box: Connect ethernet wire from your internet service provider ospf configuration using two routers | Learn Linux CCNA Jul 06, 2018 Cisco Router configuration - YouTube Oct 09, 2012
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LIVING IN WROCLAW
Wrocław is a city with a rich and multicultural history, beautiful architecture and plentiful green areas situated on the Odra River on 12 islands connected by over 100 bridges. Wrocław – today, the administrative, educational, business and cultural capital of the Lower Silesia region is a city with a very rich history. The earliest written record mentioning Wrocław is from the year 1000. In his book devoted to Wrocław Microcosm: a Portrait of a Central European City, Norman Davies writes: “It [Wrocław] embodies all the experiences that have made Central Europe what it is –the rich mixture of nationalities and cultures... In short, it is a Central European Microcosm.” Wrocław is the 4th largest city in Poland with a population of over 638 thousand people. The city has 11 public higher education institutions and hosts over 140 thousand students and 30 thousand graduates, being one of the city’s driving forces, every year. The official language spoken is Polish, yet the citizens of Wrocław communicate in English, German or Russian respectively, with 98% of students speaking English. Growing numbers of international citizens are choosing Wrocław as their place to be. The tendency is visible not only among students, but also among a growing number of employees end entrepreneurs.
The location of the city close to the borders with Germany and the Czech Republic – as well as good infrastructure and communication links make it a perfect setting for various cultural and sport events, such as music festivals, e.g. Wratislavia Cantans, Jazz upon Odra, or film festivals, e.g. New Horizons, are also organized in the city, making it recognized worldwide. The Wrocław Opera, not only stages operas in the breathtaking opera house, but is also proud to realize the so called “super productions” for thousands of spectators in various settings, from a boat on the Odra River to the Centennial Hall.
The development of international cooperation is one of key priorities for Wrocław University of Science and Technology. The University has been increasing its competitiveness on the international market for many years. WUST has inter-university and inter-departmental cooperation agreements signed with over 183 tertiary institutes from 48 countries. WUST has also signed 20 student exchange agreements and 13 agreements with respect to awarding double degrees (including 7 under the prestigious T.I.M.E. Double Diploma Master Program). Within Erasmus+, WUST has signed bilateral agreements with 521 European Universities and 20 agreements with institutions from partner countries. Every year, about 760 students (incoming and outgoing) take part in the academic exchange under the Erasmus+ program.
HELPING STUDENTS GETS STARTED
As an initiative of the city’s authorities, the International Friends of Wrocław (I.F.W.) association has been set up to serve as an informal social club and support network for international families or singles living and working in Wrocław.
Infolink, another municipal initiative, aims to help foreigners in a wide range of affairs and subjects from legal and business to everyday issues
WELCOME ACTIVITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
WUST University offers special international Summer Programs. In the summer we invite either individuals or groups to take part in our Summer Schools with 4-weeks of great experience, 60 hours of specialized courses in a friendly atmosphere; rips, events and sport and laboratory activities; Polish language and culture course and much more. The Program offers interactive small-scale courses (max. 10 students). The courses are designed to provide an intensive, in-depth look at your topic of study. As 3E+ is open to applicants from all over the world, participants will engage in discussions with a unique group of peers! Apart from lessons, participants get to enjoy a fun and exciting Social Program!
Almost every afternoon and evening, the program delivers a wide range of activities. From City sightseeing tours, sport activities, to all day trips outside the City of Wrocław. A variety of social events is arranged to help the students get to know their colleagues and Poland better while having fun
Since 2014, Wrocław University of Science and Technology organises a summer program dedicated exclusively to students from India. The sudents who take part in the program have a unique chance to complete a part of their curriculum at the University in only 6 weeks! Apart from studying, the participants take part in a social program discovering Wrocław, Poland, Europe in a wider perspective!
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Step-by-Step Pinstripe Illustration
Mechanic’s Creeper Pinstripe Illustration in Alpha 6 Enamels
For this Step by Step Pinstripe Illustration piece of art, I’ll be painting a vintage wood mechanic’s creeper that I’ve lightly sanded and painted with an oil-based brush-on clear coat from Alpha 6 Corporation. It’s important to thoroughly clean the surface you’ll be painting with a degreaser. Depending on the surface you choose to paint, you may use denatured alcohol, wax and grease remover, or just plain window cleaner and a paper towel to clean the area you will be painting. Before you wipe the entire surface, choose a discreet area to test the cleaner of your choice to be sure it doesn’t affect the canvas surface in any way. Prepping the surface to for paint by cleaning it is the most important step for proper adhesion of the paint and longevity of the art work.
For this step, I’ll be using Strathmore Tracing Paper, but you may use any kind of paper to create your initial drawing. Measure the space you want to paint and draw your design to size on a separate piece of paper with a pencil. If you draw something and need it to be enlarged before transferring it to the surface for paint, take it to a local print shop and have them enlarge and print the design on drafting paper. For this project, my customer wanted to illustrate his truck and its original owner who used to push his fishing boat into the lake using the front bumper hitch he welded on for towing ease in his old age. All of my initial sketches are drawn on transparent tracing paper to help me align the final line drawing onto my “canvas” when it comes time to transfer the design over for paint.
I then tape the final line drawing to my clean dry surface I’ve prepped for paint. I usually use a slightly less tacky tape such as old masking tape or painters tape as to not damage the painting surface or leave sticky residue. You will want to tape the drawing in the exact location of where you want the design to be. Remember, we are transferring the design with chalk, which means if you accidentally place the design off center or feel like you need it to be a different size once you’ve traced over everything, you can just take off your drawing and transfer paper, wipe off the chalk with a soft towel with water, and start over.
To transfer the paper drawing to another surface, we will be using Saral Paper. This kind of paper has chalk on one side which can be used to transfer a pencil drawing on paper onto any metal, glass, plastic, wood, or canvas surface. The rolls come in an array of different colored chalk options for versatility. For the mechanic’s creeper I am using white chalk Saral paper. There are two ways to utilize the Saral paper transfer method. With both methods, you will want to be sure that the chalk-covered side of the paper is up against the surface you will be painting to get an accurate transfer.
For my fishing illustration, I slide a section of the Saral paper roll under the taped down drawing and start to trace over my design with a pencil. Everywhere I press down on my pencil will transfer the lines in chalk onto the wooden creeper. As you work your way across the drawing, tracing over your lines, you can move the roll of Saral paper lightly under the design. I use this way of transferring art with Saral paper for large designs like this because I can save the Saral paper roll and use it a few more times before the chalk on the back is gone. For smaller designs, you can cut out your drawing and the Saral paper to match, tape the cut-outs together and then tape them down to your surface and begin tracing.
A helpful tip while tracing your drawing, especially for large or detailed designs, is to use a different colored pencil to trace the design so that you can see where you’ve traced and where you haven’t.
Slowly remove your taped drawing from the surface to reveal a perfectly transferred line drawing in colored chalk on your painting surface! If you take off the Saral paper and your sketch and realize you forgot to trace a shape or a line, you can reference your sketch and draw in the line lightly with a Stabilo pencil. I used to draw entire designs with these wax pencils on all kinds of surfaces but found they can leave ghost lines that are hard to get rid of!
For steps 6-8, I’ll be using Alpha 6 Corporation enamels, Alpha 6 high-temp reducer, generic paint thinner, and a magazine paper pallet. Tidwell’s Broken Pinky and Monster Stix brush sets by Mack Brush Co. are my favorite for illustrative designs like this old man fisherman. For this piece, I quickly paint in the large areas with the Broken Pinky Scrubby brush and thinned down enamel colors. My goal is to cover the illustration with color, not worrying about any small details or shading at this time. Do not be afraid to paint over the chalk lines. The enamel paint will hide them without any issue. Conversely, if you still have visible chalk lines at the end of the painting, wait for the work to dry completely (I wait 24 hours to be safe) before wiping over the painted design with a water-dampened soft towel.
After the first layer of paint is dry, I choose an imaginary light source to determine the locations of my highlights and shadows. To shade a paint color, I mix a contrasting color into the paint on my magazine pallet. For example, if I want a dark red color, instead of adding black to my pigment, I add green which is the contrasting color of red. You’ll have to have some basic knowledge of the color wheel to successfully shade colors in this way. For highlights, you can add white to any color to get a lighter color. Because enamel is known to dry pretty quickly, mixing colors and shading shapes can be a little tricky. You don’t want the shading to look clumpy. To avoid this, work in very small areas at a time and add paint thinner and/or reducer to your colors on the magazine pallet before applying paint to the final surface.
Once your second coat of paint is dry, hopefully your illustration is starting to have a 3D look thanks to your shading! Now you’re ready for my favorite part; the black outlining and white highlighting. For this step, I switch up my brushes to The Virus Set by Mack Brush Co. With a 444-1 size Virus brush I outline almost everything in black and add a few bright white highlights. You may want to thin the enamel down with paint thinner and/or reducer on your magazine pallet to give your paint an even flow off the bristles of your brush. You can outline as much or as little as you want. However, you will want to be more sparing with where you add in your white highlights. Remember where your imaginary light source is coming from and add highlights accordingly. With my Virus brush I also add in some freehand pinstriping on either side of the artwork.
Finally! The custom painting is complete. Be sure to clean your brushes with paint thinner and then Mineral Spirits. Dip the bristles in some motor oil and work the oil into the bristles all the way up to where they enter into brush handle. Store your oiled brushes in a covered brush holder. If you have the time, wait to wipe off any remaining visible chalk on your final painting for 24 hours. This ensures that each layer of the paint has had the proper time to cure. Last, but not least, you can spray some water on a soft paper towel until its lightly damp and wipe over the art to remove any excess chalk lines or fingerprints.
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Congressional Statute — This option would involve Congress regulating itself by adopting budget reforms via a simple statute which does not have to be signed by the President. While passage can be quick, this is only a short-term fix. Any simple statute adopted by Congress in one session can be discarded in the next. This is like the fox guarding the hen house.
Amendment Proposed by Congress — This option would require the states to strong-arm Congress into proposing a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA). The states can “force” Congress to propose a BBA via the “threat” of a convention. This is achieved when the states reach 33 of 34 states required to call a convention.
Amendment Proposed by the States — This option would require the states to call a convention to propose a Balanced Budget Amendment for ratification. This requires applications or “convention calls” by two-thirds or 34 of the state legislatures. This should only be considered if Congress refuses to propose a BBA or if it proposes a weak amendment.
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GTUC GOES GREEN
The Property department of the University College has initiated a “GTUC Goes Green” project to promote and facilitate sustainable practices at Ghana Technology University College by creating a more sustainable campus and community.The project which started in August 2014 is also aimed at reducing waste, lowering our carbon trails, and educating staff and students on best practices while supporting to grow local businesses who are into recycling by supplying them with waste materials they need for recycling. In practice, going green does not only involve recycling but means adopting five basic principles in our daily lives which are important in protecting the environment from harm, as well as helping to ensure a sustainable environment.
The five basic principles are:
• Reducing consumption and waste
• Conserving Energy
• Reducing pollution
• Conserving Resources
• Protecting the earth’s ecological balance
The department currently has a planned work schedule for two principles:
A. Reducing Consumption and Waste
Going green in the context of reducing consumption and waste means Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. GTUC now uses old refurbished furniture at the Video Conference Centre. Forty (40) old chairs have been refurbished. Materials like wawa boards, plywood and other materials are used for the refurbishment.
The department has a disposal site near the main stores for collection recyclable materials for recycling. It is expected that, more labeled plastic bins will be positioned at vantage points on Campus for collection of recycling materials.
As part of the project, faculty and staff as well as students are encouraged to sort their waste in order to facilitate the recycling process.
Sorting helps to maintain the quality of our recyclables which makes them more attractive to companies that purchase these materials
The department plans to replace old appliances like refrigerators and air conditioners which are less energy efficient, either because they were not designed to be so, or they are no longer in their optimal working conditions.
Our attempt to use less energy could be complemented by turning off lights when they are not in use or directly engaging in energy efficient practices.
Phase one of the project on this principle, is changing all 2-in-1 two feet fluorescent tubes at offices and lecture rooms at the Abeka campus to 30-65w energy saving bulbs and educating students through posters to use energy wisely. These energy efficiency tips will not only allow GTUC to conserve energy but also save money.
Solar energy as a reliable alternative source of energy is already in use at GTUC for the main Administration Block. GTUC’s commitment to finding alternative source of energy is shown by the execution of a Solar Project which is managed by the Technology Research and Innovation Centre (TRIC).
It is our expectation that, solar energy could be adopted as a supplementary source of energy for the University College especially for all our new projects as long as we continue to enjoy an appreciable level of sunshine.
What can I do to help the “GTUC Goes Green” Project?
You have already helped!
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The Volcanoes Of Hawaii
We were approaching the visitor center at the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park with some trepidation. The volcano that lay ahead of us, Kilauea, had spewed lava just a month prior. The last time we were on the Big Island of Hawaii, two decades ago, a river of red lava was going toward the ocean as we drove past it. It had lit up the night, suffusing it with a surreal feeling.
This time we were visiting the volcano on a sunny afternoon. The quiet setting belied a thought that was in my mind. According to Hawaiian folklore, a goddess called Pele resides within the crater of this volcano, which rises 4,000 feet above sea level. She is the goddess of fire and volcanoes. Tradition has it that Pele appears as a young woman but sometimes as an older woman with white hair to warn passersby if an eruption is imminent. She disappears the moment they try to chat with her. Her wrath descends on anyone who tries to remove lava rocks from the volcano.
As we approached the volcano, we saw plumes coming out of the brittle earth that lay at the summit. They resembled the plumes of steam that we had seen coming out of the earth at El Tatio, site of the geysers in the High Andes mountains of Chile. However, these were plumes of sulphur and they came with an acrid odor. A sign warned us that they posed a health danger to everyone, especially to those with cardiac or pulmonary conditions. We donned our pandemic masks.
After walking through the plumes, we drove to the crater and parked on the side. It was deceptively calm and peaceful. Had we not seen videos and pictures of what it looked like when it erupted, we would have mistaken it for yet another mountaintop. The brochure we picked up at the visitor center reminded us, “Volcanoes are monuments to Earth’s origin, evidence that primordial forces are still at work.”
It had taken a long drive for us to get from our hotel to the volcano. We had stopped in Hilo for lunch. All the restaurants were full. We ended up eating a local Hawaiian meal at the farmers market. Then we headed to the volcano. Some of the roads were closed because the volcano had been active just a month ago. At one point, we were caught in a loop. Google maps had stopped working since the internet was very weak and we did not have a paper map with us.
Hawaii lies in the Pacific Ocean, a five-hour flight from San Francisco. The last state to join the US, it is comprised of four major and two minor islands. I have had the good fortune of visiting it some two dozen times since my first visit in 1992. What had kept me from going there earlier was a thought that they were either avid swimmers, or snorkelers of scuba divers who went there. Since I was neither, I had ventured there until a client invited me over.
It was then I discovered that there was much more to Hawaii. It had tropical breezes and enchanting sunsets. You could take a walk along the innumerable sandy beaches and feel the sand in between your toes. Or lay on the beach and stare at the sky. At any time of the day, you could enjoy the tropical cuisine and the warmth of the locals.
The most populated island is Oahu on which Honolulu is located. The greenest island is Kauai. The most “touristy” island is Maui. By far the most exotic island is the Big Island.
When our plane landed in Kona, we realized we had arrived on the Big Island. There was no jet way for the Boeing 767. We had to take the stairs to get off the plane. We rented a car and drove to our hotel on the Kohala Coast. We arrived just in time to grab a sushi meal on the patio. It had been a long day and we were feeling a bit tired but the meal perked us up. What really perked us was the magical sunset over the ocean that followed.
A couple of days later we returned to the patio for a second sushi meal. The sunset was equally awesome but what came next was even more amazing. Just above the Palm trees, brightening the night sky, was the crescent moon. It was located near the planet Venus. The two seemed to be in a celestial embrace.
There are at least two famous lookouts on the Big Island. They give you a view of the valleys that lie below. The hike is very steep and can be skipped by riding down in a 4X4. The first lookout we visited was Waipio. The second one was Pololu. Both provided fascinating views but the steep hikes deterred us from venturing down toward the sea.
Hawaii has a tropical botanical garden that’s definitely worth a visit. You climb down 500 feet along the Boardwalk at a steep angle. Once in the garden, you are surrounded by many different species of plants overflowing with plumage. We spotted Anthurium, Bromelaid, Ginger, Hibiscus, Heliconia, and the Spider Lily. At the end, we were rewarded with a view of the waters lapping against a sandy beach.
Every day we hiked along the oceanfront. One afternoon, we spotted two green “Honu” turtles lying on the beach. One evening, once the sun had set, we saw the fins of an unidentifiable sea creature breaking through the waves. Was it a Manta Ray?
On our last evening, we took a cruise in a sailboat. It was a cloudy evening and I was concerned that the sunset would be dull. A crewmember told me, “Grey skies are followed by dramatic sunsets.” He was right. What followed was the most enchanting sunset of the trip. It was a great way to round off the holiday.
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3268. Robert Southey to Caroline Bowles, 18 March 1819 *
Keswick. 18 March. 1819.
I wrote to Murray on the sixth of last month to enquire the fate of your poem, – & this day I have received an apology for not answering my letter <till now> stating (which no doubt is the truth) that not having answered it by return of post it went out of his head.
I feared what his reply would be, – & from this long silence you will have expected it. These are his words – “The MSS poem is such as to do its author very great credit. But the fact is that no poetry except your own & that of some four or five others, has the least chance of sale at present, & I am obliged to refrain.” – There is but too much truth in this. Poets who would <have> obtained universal applause thirty years ago, cannot now obtain a hearing, – however xxx great the promise which their works may contain, – & the vilest trash will be received from one who, by fair means or by foul, has obtained a reputation. As for the incivility of Murrays long delay, you must remember that a great bookseller is a much greater man than the Prime Minister.
I am sorry for this, & perhaps more disappointed than you will be. A local poem, – such as I suggested in my last letter, – would have a better chance than one of any other kind, – because it carries with it a local interest. The New Forest is both in its history & scenery a rich subject – & with the help of prints a poem book might be made which would be bought by idlers at Lymington Southampton &c; – booksellers must look to the sale of what they publish, & this is a kind of sale on which they can in some degree calculate. – The Isle of Wight is not so extensive a subject but it would have the same advantage. The Forest however affords more scope, & would supply matter for a very interesting poem, especially to one who has so many feelings connected with it as you needs must have. – Have you ever accustomed yourself to write blank verse? – for that would be the most suitable metre. Think of this, – of the Convents & Castles within its xxx <ancient> precincts, – of Winchester, – of William the Conqueror & William Rufus, – of its natural history – both as relating to vegetable & animal life, – of what you have seen, & what you have felt there. Think of these things, & tell me what you think of them.
& believe me
* Address: To/ Miss Bowles/
Buckland/ near Lymington/ Hampshire
Stamped: KESWICK/ 298
MS: British Library, Add MS 47889. ALS; 3p.
Previously published: Edward Dowden (ed.), The Correspondence of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles (Dublin and London, 1881), pp. 13–14. BACK
Bowles’s ‘Ellen Fitzarthur’, which Southey had drawn to Murray’s attention for possible publication; see Southey to John Murray, 9 June 1818, The Collected Letters of Robert Southey. Part Five, Letter 3149. Murray had expressed a cautious interest, and Bowles had then sent her manuscript to him; see Southey to John Murray, 6 February 1819, Letter 3241. BACK
Southey’s advice was to write a poem about the area (Hampshire) in which Bowles had been born and brought up. Bowles replied on 12 May 1819, rejecting the idea of a poem on the New Forest, but promising to send the manuscript of a blank verse poem, a draft of ‘The Birth-Day’, Edward Dowden (ed.), The Correspondence of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles (Dublin and London, 1881), p. 15. BACK
William I, ‘the Conqueror’ (1027/8–1087; King of England 1066–1087; DNB), who turned the New Forest into a royal hunting park, and his son William II, ‘Rufus’ (c. 1060–1100; King of England 1087–1100; DNB), who died as the result of an accident there. Local legend claimed that William II’s death was to atone for the destruction wreaked by his father in appropriating the forest for the crown and inflicting harsh punishments on those who broke its laws. BACK | <urn:uuid:6b6380d6-8c5d-4a33-a726-bb70f4768d33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.romantic-circles.org/editions/southey_letters/Part_Six/HTML/letterEEd.26.3268.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97385 | 998 | 1.609375 | 2 |
A Qin Bowei Anthology
translated by Charles Chace with Zhang Ting Liang
Paradigm Publications 1996
Qin Bowei is a modern legend in Chinese acupuncture. Born at the turn of the century he went on to found and defend Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Shanghai and Beijing Traditional Chinese Medical Universities. He was known as a brilliant clinician, teacher, administrator and writer.
The Qin Bowei Anthology is a collection of some of his writings. This is exciting material. Of special interest are the few case studies at the end of the book. These put all the concepts together into a coherent clinical context. Qin Bowei was unique in his ability to bridge the gap between pre-TCM and the modern world that TCM now inhabits. Just as Qin’s work has been invaluable in China, this is the type of material that will advance TCM in the English-speaking world.
Discussion of Liver Disease
Discussion on the Use of Medicinals in Prescriptions
Chinese Medical Therapy for Abating Fever
Cough from External Contraction
A Brief Discussion on the Question of Supplementation
A Preliminary Inquiry into the Life Gate
Case Notes on Understanding Water Swelling Illnesses
Qin Bowei’s Case Histories
Obviously Mr. Chace knows what the current concerns are of American acupuncturists. The 80 pages on liver illness are especially important when so many of our patients are diagnosed with liver qi stagnation. Qin breaks down liver illness into liver vacuity, liver qi (pathological counterflow), liver depression, liver fire, liver heat, liver yang, liver wind, liver cold, liver reversal, liver repletion (excess), liver accumulation, liver fixity, liver distension, liver water and liver impediment.
In the section on Liver Yang Qin writes, “In general, the nature of liver yang is closely connected with heat and is fundamentally a vacuity (deficiency) pattern. This may be clarified by the recognition that the above statement specifically relates to a vacuity of liver yang presenting as intimidation, headache and numbness, and lack of warmth in the four extremities. Therefore it is said that its nature is intimately related to heat. So is this, or is this not, a contradiction? It is not. A liver yang pattern also implies a blood vacuity and internal heat with yang rising. The vacuity here is not in the liver yang itself.
There is much to ponder and study here. My reservations about the book would center on the dryness of the translations. As well, terms pop up such as “wind depression”. Does anyone know what this is? Also there is liberal use of the words “liver qi” to describe “an excessive strength in the liver viscus that produces pathological symptoms”. I suppose it is admirable that certain translators adhere to the standards of Nigel Wiseman’s “English-Chinese-Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine” however it should be evident that this seldom seen volume is not the standard for most clinical practitioners.
There also is a particular editing problem in that Charles Chace has added his own comments to clarify sections. I liked this very much. However, it is never clear when the text reverts back to the original writing. This is a rather minor point that only slightly detracts from a very valuable and readable book.
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The puzzling case of the renowned Canadian infectious disease expert who tried to smuggle dangerous bacteria to China neared its end Wednesday as the disgraced scientist pleaded guilty to 11 charges.
Klaus Nielsen, 68, a one-time lead researcher at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, remains free on bail until his sentencing, expected later this year.
A statement of facts, agreed to by Nielsen's lawyers and the Crown, provided fresh details of Nielsen's ill-fated attempt to take vials of Brucella bacteria to China in his luggage two years ago — a venture that resulted in him being strip-searched and hosed down with anti-contaminants in a roadside hazmat tent.
But it still left one question largely unanswered: Why did Nielsen put his 32-year career and stellar reputation as a scientist on the line?
There is no evidence that Nielsen actually profited from starting up a company with another CFIA researcher to make and sell test kits for brucellosis, an infectious and debilitating disease caused by Brucella.
People come down with the disease when they're in contact with infected animals or animal products contaminated with the bacteria.
Animals most commonly infected include sheep, cattle, goats, pigs, and dogs. Canada eradicated brucellosis in the 1980s, though cases regularly crop up in developing nations.
Nielsen was considered an expert in the field of animal brucellosis and, indeed, had spent much of his career working to eliminate the risk of Brucella infection.
He wrote a book on the disease, and in 2010, he and his alleged partner in crime, Wei Ling Yu, published an article about new methods of brucellosis detection in the Croatian Medical Journal. Yu was hired by the CFIA in 2011.
That same year, after more than three decades as a federal government employee, Nielsen was fired from the agency following an internal investigation that "deemed that his activities had been in direct contravention of his responsibilities with the CFIA and as a public servant for the government of Canada," said the statement of facts.
Undercover police, tipped off by the CFIA months earlier, had Nielsen under surveillance when they pulled him over on his way to the Ottawa airport for a trip to China.
With his wife in the passenger seat, they discovered in his suitcase 17 vials of live Brucella — contained in a block of ice and swathed in bubble wrap in a children's lunch bag — and a substantial quantity of goat's blood.
RCMP and Ottawa Fire Services set up a controlled zone and Nielsen was soon taken to a hazmat tent, strip-searched and sprayed with a decontamination solution.
On Wednesday, Nielsen entered a guilty plea in Ontario Superior Court to a charge of breach of trust for trying to commercialize CFIA property, and to charges of unsafe transportation of a human pathogen.
In an elaborate scheme that was first conceived in 2005, according to the statement of facts, Nielsen and Yu were angling to use Brucella "for the commercial manufacture of brucellosis test kits by his and Yu's company," the Peace River Biotechnology Company.
"He concealed the pathogen in his luggage in a manner that would not have caused an innocent third party to exercise caution with its contents, and in doing so showed a wanton and reckless disregard for public safety," says the statement.
The statement also provided details of email records that showed Nielsen used CFIA's intellectual property to build the brucellosis kits, and evaded taxes by making it appear as though his company was headquartered in China.
It also alleges that Yu used an alias, Lucy Zhang, to attempt to bribe a public official working as a research scientist at a branch of the Kazakhstan health ministry.
Yu, posing as Zhang, offered the official a cash "performance bonus" if her institution sent money to finalize a deal with the Peace River Biotechnology Company, the statement says.
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The baroque styling is revealed in the high relief carving of these cathedral chairs. The tall back and sides allowed for privacy, while in this example the two seats are joined together almost as a bench, likely for two afluent family members to share. Age related separation of planks are seen in the upper and middle back section, and while typical for the age these do not impact the strenght/stability of the bench. This solid oak cathedral chair is a wonderful example of early 1800's craftsmanship. This item is being sold in as is, original used condition as we discovered it in Denmark. We invite you to contact us with any questions regarding this or other pieces, and hope to assist you further. | <urn:uuid:1e1109d0-a6ee-42ed-b4e5-99af9bfe3106> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://roundtopranchantiques.com/products/12978/Antique-Danish-Baroque-Cathedral-Chairs-or-High-Backed-Bench- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956953 | 145 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The Skill of Doing Hard Things
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I dropped some cheques off with our landlord today. He ran for most of his life (he’s in his 80s now) and still works out regularly. Hard! I asked about his resting heart rate because this guy used to clock out at an impressive 40 beats per minute. Larry (The Landlord) would want me to tell you that he measured this first thing in the morning—right after waking up.
Our talk wandered into training—and eventually—grit. He has a tough mindset and loves to grind. For him, that’s part of the value of the workout. It got me thinking about how we perceive exercise and mental toughness.
The most progressive—and successful—athletic coaches I know have pushed boundaries in terms of what they take away from standard workouts. So, while true grit is required, it’s periodic; not something that is required 24/7. I brought this up to Larry and he said something interesting: “I know that I would have had more success if I’d followed a structured regimen. But I preferred to work hard. It was fun for me.” What he was really telling me is that he enjoyed grinding so much that he actually said no to improving performance in order to say yes to the experience.
Larry’s work ethic was volitional. And that’s the difference. He didn’t grind because someone else told him to or because he wanted to burn calories; he did so primarily because it made his 40 BPM heart sing. I’m not suggesting you mimic Larry. But I do think it’s worth asking where you could choose to push your boundaries just a little more. And where you might like it.
In Angela Duckworth’s book, Grit, she cites a 1940 Harvard study that had 130 young males run on a treadmill for five minutes. But the pace and angle were designed to have the average man quit at four (or less). She uses this as an example of not quitting too far away from your true limits. Eventually, you reach a limit. However, your ability to get ever closer to that limit is a trainable skill. It’s not that talent isn’t helpful; it’s just less important than grit.
For years, I’ve been banging the drum about how exercise doesn’t need to be a suffer-fest. Yes, you have to feel uncomfortable. That part is non-negotiable because it produces mental and physical adaptations. However, that feeling is wildly different from exercise truly sucking. The reason is simply that you adapt. For a lot of people, entering into a gym is an act of courage. So, a beginner might stretch their boundaries simply by showing up. That mental strength doesn’t stay in the same place, though. In time, it shifts to the workouts themselves. And it grows from there.
Want to see grit? Check this out. This is a friend’s son in competition. He demonstrates a level of poise and mental toughness that I believe that anyone would be proud to claim. The kid didn’t do something impossible. Instead, he took what he had—and stretched it to the limit in a moment that mattered.
One of the things that I love about exercise is that it is a low-stakes way to practice the skill of grit. It’s not life or death. It’s not even the playoffs. So, when you do a little bit more, you’re choosing to flex your resilience muscles—along with your literal ones. Your capacity to do hard things doesn’t need to be cranked on. In fact, it’s more responsive when you gently stretch it. The skill is doing this consistently.
I have a bit of a challenge for you: take note of the next time you come up against a tough moment in a workout, really pay attention. Notice what signals are telling you that it’s time to stop. Listen to that language. See what you notice. And if you feel like it, you can, like Larry, choose to go a little farther.
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All About Multimodal Transport and Shipping
There are four main shipping modes employed: air, ground, sea, and rail. Each poses unique benefits and limitations that make it suitable for different transportation and shipping applications. Some freight shipments—such as long-distance or international ones—require the use of multiple modes to reach the final destination. For these situations, multimodal transport is an ideal solution.
Multimodal transport—also referred to as multimodal shipping or combined transport—refers to a single contractual agreement between a contracting company and a shipping company that involves the use of more than one transport mode to move goods. Below we provide an overview of the process, outlining some of the top benefits and comparisons to alternative methods.
Top Three Benefits of Multimodal Shipping
Compared to other shipping methods, multimodal shipping offers numerous advantages, including:
Lower Shipment Costs
Although shipping companies involved in multimodal transport agreements—also known as multimodal transport operators (MTOs)—remain responsible for freight throughout its journey to the delivery point, they may subcontract out to other carriers to help bring the shipment to its final destination. Their relationships with these companies allow them to negotiate better rates, resulting in lower shipping costs for the contracting company.
MTOs need to maintain open communication with any and all subcontracted carriers for multimodal transport to work properly. However, the contracting company only needs to interface with the MTO. By choosing multimodal transport for their shipping needs, they eliminate the need to contact several different parties in the event of an issue. In general, a single call to the MTO is all that is necessary to initiate the identification and resolution of any problem with the freight shipment.
New shipping and transportation regulations, such as the Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) Mandate, have imposed limitations on the amount of time a single carrier can spend moving freight. As multimodal shipping employs more than one mode of transport—generally with one picking up where another left off—cargo can continue on its way to the final destination with little to no interruptions without breaking regulations.
Multimodal Shipping vs. Intermodal Shipping
Both multimodal shipping and intermodal shipping employ the use of more than one transport mode to bring freight to the delivery point. Beyond this shared characteristic, they remain distinct shipping methods. With multimodal shipments, the contracting company forms an agreement with a single shipping company for all modes of transport. On the other hand, with intermodal shipments, the contracting company forms separate agreements with different carriers for each mode of transport (e.g., one for rail transport, one for truck transport, etc.).
While both are viable transport options, they are appropriate for different situations. For example:
Multimodal shipping offers the convenience of an all-inclusive shipping solution. The contracting company does not need to manage contracts with multiple companies, reducing the amount of time and money spent on communicating and coordinating with all interested parties. Additionally, they can rely on the shipping company to keep track of freight and ensure it gets to its final destination on time and on budget.
Intermodal shipping allows for greater flexibility. As the contracting company makes individual contracts with each carrier, they can choose ones with the lowest rates to reduce overall shipping costs or specialized equipment and capabilities to accommodate unique requirements. Additionally, they can also interrupt or redirect shipment at any point during the transport to suit changing needs.
Which of these shipping methods is ideal depends on the contracting company. Their logistics team needs to analyze their shipping needs and determine which of the two best fits their requirements and restrictions. Some of the factors to consider include total time and money investment, environmental impact, and cargo specifications.
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Republicans are fond of issuing proposals setting forth things they say they want to do. Back in 1994, when they were trying to take over the House for the first time in 40 years, it was the “Contract with America.” When the Democrats controlled the House in 2010, the Republican minority on the House Budget Committee introduced their alternative to the Democrats’ fiscal year 2010 budget called “The Path to American Prosperity.” Just before the 2010 congressional elections, House Republicans released their “Pledge to America.” Now, to introduce their fiscal year 2013 budget, House Republicans have issued “The Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal.”
But we have been down this Republican path before. This blueprint, although it claims to be “committed to the timeless principles enshrined in the U.S. Constitution — liberty, limited government, and equality under the rule of law” — is just a Republican path to the welfare/warfare state instead of a Democratic one.
According to the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, the president must annually submit a budget to Congress by the first Monday in February. Because the government’s fiscal year runs from October 1 to September 30, the budget submitted in February is actually for the next fiscal year that begins in October. Within six weeks of the president’s submitting his budget request, congressional committees are required by the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to submit their “views and estimates” of federal spending and revenues to the House and Senate budget committees. The budget committees hold hearings on the president’s budget and then draft and report a concurrent resolution on the budget. Action on the concurrent resolution is supposed to be completed by April 15. It is only then that appropriation bills are enacted.
On March 20, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) — with much fanfare — unveiled a preview of the House Budget Committee’s fiscal year 2013 budget titled “The Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal.” On March 23, he introduced H. CON. RES. 112 to establish “the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2013” and set forth “appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2014 through 2022.” A report (112–421) to accompany this resolution was also released.
The purposed Republican budget has seven “titles,” beginning with recommended levels and amounts of total spending and for each of 21 numbered budget “functions”:
050 National Defense 150 International Relations 250 General Science, Space, and Technology 270 Energy 300 Natural Resources and Environment 350 Agriculture 370 Commerce and Housing Credit 400 Transportation 450 Community and Regional Development 500 Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services 550 Health 570 Medicare 600 Income Security 650 Social Security 700 Veterans Benefits and Services 750 Administration of Justice 800 General Government 900 Net Interest 920 Allowances 950 Undistributed Offsetting Receipts 970 Global War on Terrorism and Related Activities
This title occupies more than half of the 68 pages of the budget resolution.
Title II sets forth reconciliation instructions for six committees (Agriculture, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, the Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, and Ways and Means) to reduce the federal deficit by certain amounts.
Title III lists recommended budget levels for fiscal years 2030, 2040, and 2050 as a percent of GDP with respect to federal revenues, budget outlays, deficits, and debt held by the public.
Title IV authorizes the chair of the House Committee on the Budget to create a reserve fund for the budgetary effects of any legislation repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and for legislation concerning sustainable growth rate of the Medicare program, revenue measures, rural counties and schools, and transportation.
Title V, which has ten sections, is a technical title that covers House legislation requiring advance appropriations, the creation of more reserve funds, disqualifying measures from adjustments that increase the federal deficit, legislation reported out of committee that will increase spending, an explanatory statement on administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration and the Postal Service, adjusting allocations and aggregates for certain legislation, the transfer of funds to the Highway Trust Fund, and allocations for overseas contingency operations and the global war on terrorism.
Title VI is a policy statement on Medicare reform, Social Security, and deficit reduction through the cancellation of unobligated balances, and the reduction of unnecessary and wasteful spending.
Title VII expresses the sense of the House on the importance of child-support enforcement.
The first problem with the Republican budget is that it is fiscally irresponsible. Why would Republicans, who love to talk about limited government, balanced budgets, and fiscal conservatism, even introduce a budget that wasn’t balanced? This Republican budget posits a deficit of $833 billion for fiscal year 2013, which, if history is any indication, will end up being significantly higher. After the recent debt-limit debacle in which the debt limit was ultimately raised from $15.194 trillion to $16.394 trillion on January 30 of this year, one would think that Republicans were opposed to raising the debt limit. Nothing could be further from the truth. Here are “the appropriate levels of the public debt” as found on page 5 of the Republicans’ “Path to Prosperity Budget”:
Fiscal year 2013: $17,072,810,000,000. Fiscal year 2014: $17,769,762,000,000. Fiscal year 2015: $18,277,348,000,000. Fiscal year 2016: $18,752,806,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $19,216,661,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $19,676,545,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $20,168,534,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $20,657,588,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $21,121,620,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $21,627,396,000,000.
None of that should be of any surprise to anyone. Under eight years of a Republican president, and with the help of a majority-Republican Congress for more than half of that time, the federal budget increased from $2 trillion in fiscal year 2002 (Bush’s first budget) to $3.1 trillion in fiscal year 2009 (Bush’s last budget). Bush also raised the debt ceiling four times and doubled the national debt.
The second problem with the Republican budget is that most of the numbers in it are not only absolutely meaningless; they are downright deceptive. The budget is full of figures regarding revenues, budget authority, budget outlays, budget deficits, and the debt limit for fiscal years 2013 to 2022. There are even recommended budget levels as a percentage of gross national product for revenues, outlays, deficits, and public debt for fiscal years 2030, 2040, and 2050. How many members of the House will still be in the House in 2030? How many of them will even be alive in 2050? Compare the future numbers in the Republican budget proposed last year (H. CON. RES. 34) with the fiscal year 2013 budget. The numbers aren’t even close.
The third problem with the Republican budget is that it budgets money for things not authorized by the Constitution. That is true even though House Republicans promised, in their “Pledge to America,” to “honor the Constitution as constructed by its framers,” “adhere to the Constitution,” and “require each bill moving through Congress to include a clause citing the specific constitutional authority upon which the bill is justified.”
So what is it in this Republican budget that is not authorized by the Constitution? Almost everything. According to the report that accompanies the budget resolution, Republicans plan to fund: foreign aid, scientific research, space flight, research, and supporting activities of NASA, the Department of Energy, the Department of Labor, the TVA, the Bureau of Land Management to maintain 650 million acres of government-owned land in the United States, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Flood Insurance Program, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Community Development Block Grants, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the FTC, FCC, SBA, TSA, FAA, FEMA, SEC, and USDA.
Where is the constitutional authority for any of those things? It simply doesn’t exist.
The fourth, and most important thing wrong with the Republican budget is that it perpetuates the welfare/warfare state.
If the report that accompanies the Republican budget resolution means anything, it means that Republicans have fully accepted and plan to continue all aspects of the welfare state. Nothing will be abolished; no program will be put on a course toward its elimination. Republicans want to “reform agricultural support programs, while maintaining a strong safety net for farmers.” They want to “make the Pell Grant program sustainable.” They want to “reform job training programs.” They want to “transform and strengthen the Medicaid safety net.” They want to “turn Medicaid from an open-ended entitlement into a block-granted program like SCHIP.” They want to reform Social Security and strengthen Medicare.
Consider budget function 600, “income security.” That is just a polite way of saying “welfare.” It includes unemployment compensation, low-income housing assistance (including Section 8 housing), food and nutrition assistance (including food stamps and school-lunch subsidies), Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), the refundable portion of the Earned Income Credit (EIC), and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
All of those programs have one thing in common: they transfer money from one group of Americans to another with a stop in Washington, D.C., so federal bureaucrats can remain employed. There should be no budget function 600. Yet this Republican plan proposes $517.1 billion in budget authority for those programs.
In his introduction to The Path to Prosperity, Paul Ryan wastes no time establishing the priority of the military:
The first responsibility of the federal government is the safety and security of all Americans. Today, the men and women of the U.S. military valiantly devote themselves to protecting American lives and liberty. Peace at home is only possible when America is strong. When America shrinks from her commitments to her allies and her duties to her citizens, her enemies are emboldened and her ideals are diminished. This overarching governmental responsibility — securing the inherent rights of all Americans to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — is the principle and the purpose that informs this entire federal budget.
He goes on to describe how the Republican budget will uphold the mission of the military:
With American men and women in uniform currently engaged with a fierce enemy and dealing with emerging threats around the world, this budget takes several steps to ensure that national security remains government’s top priority.This budget rejects proposals to make thoughtless, across-the-boardcuts in funding for national defense. Instead, it provides $554 billion for national defense spending, an amount that is consistent with America’s military goals and strategies. This budget preserves necessary defense spending to protect vital national interests today and ensures future real growth in defense spending to modernize the armed forces for the challenges of tomorrow.
The budget resolution offered by House Republicans ensures that the men and women who each day risk their lives in defense of the nation will continue to have the best training, equipment and support.
This budget resolution ensures that the base defense budget will not be cut during wartime. The President’s defense budget request is 2.5 percent lower in real inflation-adjusted dollars than what Congress provided for this year. The House Republican budget provides level funding for defense so that the military has adequate funds to accommodate higher-than-anticipatedfuel prices, to maintain training and readiness, and to keep faith with America’s soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines.
But between March 20, when “The Path to Prosperity” was introduced, and March 23, when the budget resolution was introduced in Congress, the $554 billion in defense spending had already risen to $562 billion. And as economist Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute, former Senate staffer Winslow Wheeler of the Center for Defense Information, and others have shown, real defense spending is actually closer to a trillion dollars once you account for supplemental war appropriations and the defense-related spending of the departments of Justice, Homeland Security, Energy, State, the Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and NASA and the interest expense on the national debt attributable to defense spending.
But not only is the amount of actual defense spending understated, the amount of spending that is actually necessary for defense is overstated. Most U.S. defense spending is not spent on defense at all. It is spent on maintaining an empire of troops and bases around the world, fighting senseless foreign wars, occupying foreign countries, bombing foreign countries, intervening in foreign countries, meddling in foreign countries, and lining the pockets of defense contractors in as many congressional districts as possible.
The sad truth is that American men and women in uniform are engaging with enemies and dealing with threats of America’s own making. They are unnecessarily risking their lives. American military goals and strategies are aggressive, belligerent, and meddling. And it is only by choice that the United States is currently engaged in wars.
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In UNIV 200, librarians collaborate with faculty to expand students’ knowledge of the academic research process and build on what they learned in UNIV 112. Below are a few of the concepts we often cover in UNIV 200 library sessions. Since most library sessions are 50 or 75 minutes, we are typically able to cover 2-3 of the concepts listed below. This is not an exhaustive list of what we can teach in a library session, but rather a sampling of the most common concepts we cover. Your Designated Librarian will reach out to you to schedule your library sessions and discuss the specific approach to each session that you prefer.
Discussion of research as a process
Refining and shaping research questions to an appropriate scope for the assignment, and emphasizing that research is an iterative process.
Developing a search strategy
Helping students develop appropriate search terms for their topic and emphasizing that students will need to use multiple search terms within multiple search tools in order to find the best resources possible.
Familiarizing students with available search tools
Using VCU Libraries Search (the gold search box) and other search tools, such as Google Scholar or subject-specific databases, to find resources. This includes understanding search tool limiters (date, material type, etc.), and advanced search options.
Using already found resources to find additional items
This includes using the bibliography to find additional books and articles, as well as using tools such as the “Related Articles” link in Google Scholar to find additional resources.
Determining the relevancy, credibility, and accuracy of resources, as well as evaluating whether sources are appropriate or not for a given assignment.
Substantive sources, unlike peer-reviewed, scholarly sources, can be tricky. We will cover what substantive sources are, why they may (or may not) be appropriate for a given assignment, how to find them, and how to evaluate them.
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Humans are behind a number of species extinctions, but in Uganda it’s chimps that are hunting monkeys into oblivion. Chimps in Uganda have been hunting red colobus monkeys, so much so that the monkey’s population has dropped 89% from 1975 to 2007. The findings were reported in the American Journal of Primatology this week.
According to the IUCN’s Red List of endangered species (both the chimps and their prey are endangered), the red colobus monkey population is around 20,000 animals. Most of them live in Uganda’s Kibale National Park, which also hosts the nation’s largest chimp population. The decline in red colobus monkeys in the past 30 years has been accompanied with a 53% increase in chimp sightings, which researchers say suggests the two are related. The study’s authors report that between the 1990s and 2002, chimps killed 15-53% of the monkey population every year. Although chimps are often solitary, during hunting raids they coordinate to kill the smaller, vegetarian colobus monkeys. The chimps preyed especially on young or juvenile monkeys, which created an additional reproductive toll on the species. A single chimp outweighs a single monkey by about 50 pounds (around 20 lbs vs. 70 lbs), so one can imagine that when they band together, the monkeys don’t have much of a chance.
But why do chimps hunt in the first place? Some have theorized that males will hunt more during mating season to swap meat for sex with females, and some say that chimps hunt more during the dry season where the supply of fruit and leaves runs thin. At least one scientist has said both those theories are false, and that chimps actually hunt as a form of male bonding (sound familiar, humans?). We may never know exactly why chimps hunt, but a Yale professor interviewed by New Scientist says all is not lost for the red colobus monkeys of Uganda. Professor David Watts said that chimps are hunting less often than previously, meaning that young chimps may not be able to hunt as effectively as their elders. | <urn:uuid:14f861c8-f49d-48a3-8d86-f56c5f78ea80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://develop.motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/chimps-hunting-monkeys-closer-extinction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965734 | 444 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Luxembourg eyes Earth-observation satellite for military and government
LONDON — Luxembourg is considering building an Earth-observation satellite for governmental and military purposes that would add a new capability to the expanding space assets of the European nation with population of just 580,000.
Luxembourg’s Directorate of Defence has recently launched a study and is already in talks with a preferred contractor, according to Geoffroy Beaudot, space program manager.
“We are already engaged with a company to develop this Earth observation program. We have already found some technical specifications and what we want exactly,” Beaudot told SpaceNews at the Global MilSatCom Conference here Tuesday.
“We want zero risk, we don’t want a new development. We just want to take existing components to deliver a satellite to deliver services and high value assets for institutions, allies and so on.”
The low-Earth-orbit sun-synchronous mission will carry a panchromatic and multispectral camera. Beaudot said the craft will be “a commercial asset but managed by the government,” providing services to governmental entities and armed forces of Luxembourg and its allies.
Beaudot expects the contract to be officially awarded in 2018 with a target delivery and launch date of the craft in 2021.
Boasting the second highest gross domestic product per capita in the world, Luxembourg is heavily investing into its space program. According to Beaudot, space and cyber capabilities feature high on the list of priorities included in the country’s strategic defense guidelines published in July this year.
The country, a founding member of the EU as well as NATO, expects to launch its first governmental communication satellite GovSat1 in January 2018.
According to Patrick Biewer, GovSat’s CEO, the satellite will be delivered by manufacturer Orbital ATK to Cape Canaveral in December ahead of the January launch aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.
The geostationary satellite, to be positioned at 21.5˚E will provide coverage over Europe, Africa, the Middle East, as well as the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea and portions of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
The GovSat project is delivered by a public-private joint venture between the government of Luxembourg and satellite operator SES.
“GovSat-1 will be used for our own troops but it is also a way for Luxembourg to contribute to collective defense capabilities of our allies,” said Beaudot. “It is not a commercial system but a governmental one. We, as the Department of Defence, operate the system. We are offering secure solutions to the government and our allies.”
Beaudot added that the venture fits into the nascent Govsatcom initiative – a European project that aims to improve accessibility to and affordability of secure satellite communication services by sharing and pooling assets of individual member states.
Luxembourg is also part of the group of countries backing the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) 9 satellite. WGS-9, funded jointly by Canada, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and New Zealand, was launched in March this year. The contribution gives the countries access to the U.S.-controlled WGS military communications system. | <urn:uuid:da3f4619-9c4f-4edd-a9dc-3fd3b6292a1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spacenews.com/luxembourg-eyes-earth-observation-satellite-for-military-and-government/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94494 | 675 | 2.375 | 2 |
We’re thrilled to announce that Underground Railroad Education Center has been named a recipient of a 2020 AARP Community Challenge grant, one of six grantees selected in New York. We’ll use this generous grant to provide the foundation of our new”Sow We Grow” Year-Round Accessible Indoor Intergenerational Food Gardening Project at our Historic Site and Community Gardens.
The Black Lives Matter movement was founded in 2013 in response to the exoneration of Treyvon Martin’s murderer. Exhausted by the cruelty and injustice which black people face from the system, the organization was built on the principles of inclusivity, acceptance, improvement, and humanity in order to “eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.” However, the overt and repeated lack of recognition towards Black female victims – and even for its three queer, black, female founders – begs the question of whether this movement is truly about all black lives, or rather just black male lives.
Trayvon Martin. A 17-year-old Black boy murdered on February 26, 2012 while walking home from a 7-eleven in Sanford, Florida. His killer? George Zimmerman, a white man who served as coordinator of the neighborhood watch. The video of Trayvon’s murder sparked national outrage.
The Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute is one of our core programs. For several weeks each summer, local youth come together at the Myers Residence to steep themselves in the past, present, and future, and leave better equipped to become agents of change for a more just world. Here’s what we’ve been up to this summer!
UREC Black Lives Matter Statement Underground Railroad Education Center stands in solidarity with the ongoing peaceful movement for social and racial justice. Our solidarity is implicit in our efforts to…
Slave. Master. Among the many rocks we can turn over to see the dark side of our country’s racist past and present, the very words we use to tell the story of our history are ones that are hiding in plain sight. Language holds power, and our beliefs and prejudices are embedded in it; we must look more closely at the words used to describe the institution of slavery in America.
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn…
A 2016 study by the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution found that the household wealth of a typical white family ($171,000) was ten times that of a typical African American family ($17,150). A major reason for this is the huge gap in homeownership between the two groups.
“When white folks catch a cold, black folks get pneumonia”: an old saying to describe the often unequitable effect of an economic downturn on the Black community. Does it actually bear some truth in the field of public health as well?
Sanctuary. Shelter. Welcome. These concepts have been built into the very walls of the Harriet and Stephen Myers Residence. From the days of meetings of Albany’s Vigilance Committee in the 19th century, the house on Lumber (now Livingston) Street has been a place to connect with the kindness of strangers, to receive a helping hand, and the resources to attain freedom. And now we must close our doors. Not forever, thankfully, but still – it hurts. | <urn:uuid:fcac9fce-c446-43a7-aa2a-9ba8f5782efa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/author/ewinslow/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948857 | 717 | 2.875 | 3 |
Are you looking for a way to make a positive difference in the lives of others? If so, you might be thinking about becoming a teacher. At the same time, you need to learn the necessary skills to further your career. That is why you might be interested in getting a Master’s in Education Massachusetts-located. While it might take you out of the classroom for a short time, and you will need to return to school. There are a lot of benefits you will enjoy if you return to the classroom as a student instead of a teacher. What are some top reasons you should consider getting your Master’s in Education?
Why Pursue A Master’s in Education – Top 4 Reasons
Learn the Latest Teaching Techniques
Of course, one of the biggest reasons why you should consider returning to the classroom is that you can learn the latest teaching techniques. Students today are under a unique type of stress, and their pressure is unlike anything prior generations face. Therefore, their problems are different as well, and you need to learn the skills you need to effectively communicate with them. Also, place them in the best possible position to be successful. The best way to learn these skills is to return to the classroom, learn from educators who have experience dealing with these issues. So, master the skills you need to help your students along the way.
Consider Moving Into Administration
If you are looking to transition into an administrative role, you may need to return to the classroom before doing so. Moving into an administrative role is a very different experience than teaching students directly, and you need to learn different skills. While you certainly need to retain the experience you have as a teacher, you also need to learn how to apply those skills differently to be a successful administrator. Furthermore, many jobs will require you to have a master’s degree if you want to be considered seriously for an administrative role.
Earn More Money
Money matters. If you want to earn more money, you should consider earning a Master’s in Education. Even though you can certainly be successful in the teaching world without one, if you want to maximize your financial earning power, you need to go back to school to get a Master’s in Education. The reality is that if you do not have a master’s degree, you run the risk of being passed over for promotions that you might otherwise be qualified for. If you want to make sure that you take advantage of every opportunity available to you, you must go back to school to get a Master’s in Education. You might be able to earn significantly more money.
Find Your New Specialty
If you want to become a specialty administrator, such as a teacher working with children with special needs, you must return to school to graduate. Even though you might be successful in a standard classroom in a public school, you might be interested in helping children with special needs. If that is the case, you need to learn the necessary skills to help those students be successful. There are many niches out there; you can find yours if you go back to school to get a graduate degree. You can learn about the different options available and find the right one for you.
Also Check: The New World of Online Education
Consider Going Back To School – As a Student
In the end, these are just a few of the many reasons why you should consider going back to school, even as a student. There are lots of opportunities available in the teaching realm. However, if you want to compete for the best jobs available, you must demonstrate your commitment to the field. That is what getting a Master’s in Education will show everyone. At the same time, many options are available, so consider which program is right for you. If you have difficulty figuring out which master’s program is right for your needs, consider reaching out to a professional who can guide you in the right direction. | <urn:uuid:354877f2-0059-45f3-a5e7-0891089506e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://infotohow.com/education/why-should-you-get-a-masters-in-education/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966436 | 800 | 1.875 | 2 |
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Vaccines have been used for decades to protect us from disease. Measles, chicken pox, the flu are some of the common ones. Someday, you may be able to add breast cancer to that list. Researchers at Mayo Clinic are developing a cancer vaccine to hopefully prevent breast and other types of cancer. | <urn:uuid:feba462d-75e4-45c4-a24a-8d38e3851bf3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/cancer-vaccine-research-medical-edge-television/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.930438 | 80 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The documentary Julia tells us about Julia from her early life, through her marriage and, above all, her tremendous success as the first celebrity TV chef. Very well known in the US, she is not a name that comes quickly to mind when we think of famous TV cooking experts. But, after watching this film, you will certainly know a good deal more.
She was not beautiful and over 6 foot tall, and not young – her first book came out when she was 49 and she was 51 when she had her first TV show. But she was full of enthusiasm for cooking right up to the end of her life at 91. Her enthusiasm and love of eating shines through this movie. The photography, especially of the sizzling dishes, makes this critic not only hungry but desperate for food!
We get lots of information about her early years with her family and learn about her passionate marriage to Paul. They never had children but adored each other and worked as team with him actually helping her in her TV shows in later life. Unusual facts emerge such as her homophobic early years which were completely changed when a friend died of Aids. She became an activist in the cause. There are interviews with friends and colleagues.
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Job candidates and employees have unique personalities, traits and behaviours. Some of these traits could determine if these individuals would fit in well with your company’s culture, and if they would be successful within your organisation. Job interviews can only tell you so much about a person, and personality tests are sometimes viewed as an important piece of the puzzle.
But are personality tests a good way to assess job candidates and employees?
Even among experts, there seems to be no clear consensus.
According to Kathleen E. Murphy, a Gallup Certified StrengthsFinder Coach, regardless of the type or size of your industry or company, the answer can fall into a grey zone.
“It depends—let’s face it: hiring the right candidate for any role can be challenging,” she says. “Most people are not personality experts, so they will need to rely upon either other people’s assessment of someone’s personality, or consider asking the candidate to take a personality test.”
If your organisation has established the type of personality that would fit the company, Murphy believes a personality test can help to inform your hiring decision. However, if the company hasn’t defined the types of personality it wants, she warns that knowing a candidate’s personality information can be problematic.
“Judging someone based on their personality without having criteria about whether it will fit into your organisation is pointless,” Murphy says. “Worse, the data will likely be arbitrary and not actionable.”
She says companies such as Facebook, Google, Amtrak and Kroger have used personality tests beneficially during the hiring process.
“Facebook leverages the Gallup CliftonStrengths assessment [after] hiring an employee,” Murphy says. Knowing what the employee’s top strengths and talents are helps them to craft a role around those strengths and talents, thus setting their employees up for success, she explains.
Anthony Abbatiello, who leads global leadership and succession at Russell Reynolds Associates, is in favour of personality tests.
“Personality tests can offer invaluable insights on external candidates, providing objective and scientifically-valid explanations of individuals’ thinking style, behavioural tendencies, values and motivations,” he says. “They are also useful to better understand existing employees who are being considered for a different role, or as part of an ongoing internal development program.”
But he says it’s important to select the right type of testing, and to ensure the people interpreting the results are appropriately trained.
Not everyone is in favour of using these types of assessments, however.
“Personality tests often don’t have demonstrable predictive validity, and some research suggests that a number of other methods, such as behaviourally-based interviewing, yield superior results,” says James Baron, professor of management at the Yale School of Management.
“In a world of teams, one could argue that a critical imperative in selection is picking individuals who can be effective on teams, which may require a different emphasis than just on personality,” he explains. “In other words, selecting individuals who fit some optimal personality profile doesn’t necessarily yield an optimal team, especially if/when diversity of orientations is valued.”
In fact, for companies that want to determine cultural fit, Baron says personality tests are probably not the most direct way to make this assessment.
“People are often intrigued by personality tests and imbue them with more significance than they deserve,” he suggests. “For instance, a study by the National Academy of Sciences some years ago found that the Myers-Briggs [Type Indicator] had no demonstrable validity with regard to vocational outcomes, yet people continue to ascribe value to that test as a meaningful criterion for selection.”
Another naysayer is global researcher Marcus Buckingham, author of “Nine Lies About Work.” Buckingham was a senior researcher at Gallup Organization for nearly two decades.
“The research on this is voluminous, robust and unequivocal: almost all personality tests show no meta-analytic predictive criterion-related validity,” Buckingham says. “This means that it has conclusively not been shown that candidates who perform ‘better’ on a particular personality test perform better or stay longer on the job.”
Even when controlling for all possible variables, he says the results are unimpressive.
“The very best that the very best assessments have been able to show is that their use might enable you to remove 1 bad hire out of 10,” Buckingham says.
He says there’s a simple reason why personality tests can’t predict job performance: the best performers do not all share the same personality or behavioural patterns.
“The best nurses do not behave the same as one another, nor do the best salespeople, nor the best leaders,” Buckingham explains. “Instead, while all excellent performers in a certain role will achieve the same excellent outcomes, it turns out that their methods and styles for achieving these outcomes will vary, person to person; excellence at work is always idiosyncratic.”
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