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These are some of my older side projects, since I probably won't be updating this list often. To see what else I've been working on, check out my blog.
Ncurses based sudoku game with a random game generator, written in c during my senior year in highschool. I created this project in order to learn how to use ncurses and ended up spending half the time on the generator. It took me about one day from start to finish. Packages exist for a couple of Linux distributions, but it's pretty simple to compile and install it manually.
As someone who likes his environment functional, I had trouble finding a desk to buy that satisfies my requirements. It took years of planning and procrastination to finally come pretty close to finishing it (I still need to make a few network cables and mount one of my network switches to the desk). Unfortunately, the CNC machine that I had available couldn't cut a board of the original size (1x2.5m) so it had to be made in 2 pieces. | <urn:uuid:53c02b60-c9d3-402f-a40a-f1bc7bbe666e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tbmatuka.com/projects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979846 | 219 | 1.59375 | 2 |
In an affidavit filed in the top court, the health ministry told the apex court that the family welfare programme in the country is voluntary in nature, which enables couples to decide the size of their family and adopt family planning methods best suited to them, according to their choice and without any compulsion.
The submission was made in response to a PIL filed by BJP leader and lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay challenging a Delhi High Court order that dismissed a plea seeking certain steps, including two-child norm, to control the country's growing population.
"Improvement in the health sector can be effectively led by the state government with effective monitoring and specific intervention to control and regulate the implementation process of the guidelines and schemes in a proper perspective," it said.
"The answering respondent no. (ministry) plays a supportive and facilitative role in achieving health care reforms and outcomes. It is reiterated that the answering respondent no. 1 merely acts as a facilitator for providing accessible and affordable health care through state-led reforms in the health sector," it said.
The ministry said that as far as implementation of the guidelines and schemes in the states is concerned, it does not have any direct role and it is the prerogative of the respective state governments to implement the schemes as per the prescribed guidelines.
The ministry only allocates funds to state governments for implementation of the approved schemes, it added.
The Ministry of Health And Family Welfare told the top court that India has adopted a comprehensive and holistic National Population Policy (NPP),2000, with clearly articulated objectives, strategic themes and operational strategies.
The NHP sets out indicative, quantitative goals and objectives which includes the achievement of total fertility Rate (TFR) of 2.1 by 2025.
The Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, 1994, to which India is a signatory, is unequivocally against coercion in family planning.
"In fact, international experience shows that any coercion to have a certain number of children is counter-productive and leads to demographic distortions," the ministry said.
India is witnessing a constant decline in TFR, the ministry said, adding that the fertility rate which was 3.2 at the time when NPP was adopted has declined substantially to 2.2 as per the Sample Registration System, 2018.
The apex court had earlier sought the Centre's reply on a plea challenging a Delhi High Court order that dismissed a PIL seeking certain steps, including two-child norm, to control the country's rising population.
The appeal has challenged the September 3 high court order, which said it was for Parliament and the state legislatures to enact laws and not for the court.
The PIL said the high court failed to appreciate that the right to clean air, drinking water, health, peaceful sleep, shelter, livelihood, and education guaranteed under Articles 21 and 21A of the Constitution could not be secured to all citizens without controlling the population explosion.
The plea in the high court had claimed that the population of India had "marched ahead" of China, as about 20 per cent of Indians did not have Aadhaar and therefore, were not accounted for, and there were also crores of Rohingyas and Bangladeshis living illegally in the country.
It claimed that "population explosion is also the root cause of corruption", apart from being a contributory factor behind heinous crimes like rape and domestic violence.
It also held population explosion responsible for pollution and the dearth of resources and jobs. | <urn:uuid:c18b7630-c92f-4a9a-95e6-eaaa17dbc3a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://legal.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/pil-to-control-population-cant-coerce-family-planning-centre-tells-sc/79717181 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965118 | 707 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Why We're So Easily Fooled, and Why It Matters
Studies of our inherent biases deliver some startling results.
Posted December 8, 2014
Guest post by Caitlin Millett
The holiday season is fast approaching, and that means gift buying. With each passing season, finding the perfect gift for loved ones seems to become more and more difficult—a phenomenon not unrelated to the seemingly exponential growth in buying options each year.
So how do we do it?
Many of us would like to believe that our decision-making is based in logic and objectivity. Studies have shown, however, that our preferences are highly biased, based on our expectations.
For decades, psychological research has supported the presence of inherent bias in human perception. A 2001 study titled The Color of Odors examined the effect of color on odor and taste perception of wines. In the experiment, wine experts were presented with two glasses of wine: one red and one white. Each was asked to describe the wine as they experienced it. The experts used words like citrus, flower, lemon, and honey to describe the white wine, whereas they used words like clove, musk and crushed red fruit to describe the red.
However, all of the experts had been unwittingly duped: both glasses actually contained the same white wine, the only difference between them being a little red food coloring in one glass. Not a single expert was even able to identify that both glasses contained white wine, and they all described the colored white wine as they would have a red. This classic study reveals the power that expectations have on how we perceive the world.
While this and other studies have revealed a lot about the underlying motives of human judgment, they rarely touch on the neuroscience behind these phenomena. A 2008 CalTech study, however, began to shed light on how preconceived notions and labels influence our thinking.
In this study, subjects were placed in a functional magnetic resonance imager (fMRI) and presented with two glasses of wine, one labeled $5 and a second labeled $90. However, the subjects were not told that the wine in each glass was actually the same $90 wine. They found that the average self-reported experienced pleasantness (EP) score was greater for the wine labeled $90 as compared to that labeled $5. More important, the higher EP score corresponded to an increased blood-oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) of the brain, meaning that this area was more active when tasting the wine labeled as more expensive. The frontal lobe of the cortex is an area of the brain important for high-level cognitive function and top-down processing. It has been shown to be essential for decision making, planning for future events, and reward comparison.
This study revealed that the mPFC did not respond to the wine, per se, but rather in accordance to whether or not it had received the better wine. An earlier Stanford study revealed that the mPFC responds when the outcome of a reward comparison is revealed and the mPFC is active only after a reward is gained. Therefore, the activation of the mPFC is not directly tied to true sensory signals or inherent quality, but to the markers and labels—signals of quality. The mPFC performs at a higher level of abstraction than brain areas that objectively sense the world around us. In fact, in studies involving the insular cortex—the area of the brain that perceives taste—no difference between the two wines was detected.
These studies demonstrate how our own brains can fool us, stemming from the fact that different parts of it process stimuli differently. Bottom-up processing is when we perceive reality objectively based on stimulus—we let the sensations guide our perceptions. Top-down processing is when we drive our own reality based on perception. The frontal cortex’s predisposition for top-down processing is one reason why the subjects in these studies were so easily tricked, and it is why we humans are predisposed to bias.
However, expectation can influence more than just our perceptions of wines—it can influence our expectations of people, too. A study conducted by Rosenthal and Jacobson established what is known as the Rosenthal Effect, which states: The greater the expectation of achievement, the greater the level of success.
The study went like this: To test whether a teacher’s expectation of student performance affected student achievement outcomes, researchers gave an IQ exam to elementary school students and ranked them based on scores. Teachers were told that the top 20% of students have high potential to succeed and were provided with the names of these students. What the teachers didn’t know was that they had actually been given a random list of names. At the end of the school year, the researchers returned and administered the exam again to the same group of students.
What they found was astonishing: The second- and third-graders who'd been labeled as “bright” at the beginning of the year had advanced significantly beyond their peers—with significantly higher IQ scores on average. The researchers concluded that the teachers’ expectations of student achievement actually became self-fulfilling. Those students labeled “smart” actually became so. The teachers, consciously or unconsciously, paid closer attention to these students, or treated them differently when they were having difficulty. The teachers and students at this elementary school believed in the existence of “smart” and “not-so-smart” students, and so they made it their reality.
All that being said, does it mean you should be doing your holiday shopping with a blindfold to protect yourself from unconscious biases? Should you blindly grope through racks of wool and cashmere to find something inherently pleasing to the touch? Probably not, though it might be worth the befuddled reactions you get from sales associates. But there is something to be said for trying to minimize harmful bias.
Holiday shopping may be a small-stakes enterprise when it comes to upholding the ideals of equality and fairness in our society, but these principles will surely slip away if we are not vigilant in maintaining our awareness of these prejudices. The goal here is not to entirely eliminate prejudice—that would be a futile undertaking indeed—but to let science enlighten our culture to them.
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Knutson B, Fong GW, Bennett SM, Adams CM, Hommer D (2003) A region of mesial prefrontal cortex tracks monetarily rewarding outcomes: Characterization with rapid event-related fMRI. Neuroimage 18(2):263–272.
Rosenthal, R., & Jacobson, L. (1992). Pygmalion in the classroom: Expanded edition. New York: Irvington Winawer, J., Witthoft, N., Frank, M. C., Wu, L., Wade, A., & Boroditsky, L. (2007). | <urn:uuid:d5504fd4-ca2e-4920-8d4c-451c1a8b4362> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/brain-babble/201412/why-were-so-easily-fooled-and-why-it-matters | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962684 | 1,506 | 3.015625 | 3 |
A new kind of tree could cool the planet by removing a major greenhouse gas from the planet's atmosphere.
What researchers are calling artificial trees, actually towers filled with various materials that adsorb carbon dioxide from the air, could play a major role in reducing climate change -- if they prove profitable.
"This is an industry still in its infancy," said Billy Gridley of Global Research Technologies, LLC, the company creating the C02-scrubbing towers. "This will eventually rival the size of today's energy markets."
GRT's artificial tree is based on an environmentally friendly resin, originally developed by Klaus Lackner, a professor at Columbia University in New York. The alkaline resin reacts with acidic carbon dioxide, holding it in place. After one hour exposed to the air, the resin is completely saturated with CO2.
Dry resin soaks up the CO2. Adding water releases the CO2, which is then captured and stored. Drying the resin again restores its abilities, a cycle that can be repeated indefinitely.
Over 24 hours Gridley estimates an artificial tree, containing about 32,800 feet of resin, will harvest about one ton of CO2 each day.
When the first artificial tree is ready, two to three years from now, it will cost about $150 for each ton, Gridley estimates. When the technology is fully mature, the price will be as low as $20.
GRT plans to sell the purified CO2 to a range of buyers. Oil and natural gas companies are probably the biggest customers for the artificial trees. Petroleum companies pump CO2 underground to raise the pressure and force oil to the surface. Greenhouses could pump in extra C02 to help plants grow. Fizzy soda drinks and sanding auto parts also require concentrated CO2.
All of these customers currently get CO2 by truck or by pipeline, most of which originates in Texas. The advantage of the artificial trees is that they can be placed next to whatever factory needs CO2 without having to ship it in.
Another use for the artificial trees would be in the cap-and-trade carbon credit system. The idea is that companies that produce CO2 would pay another company, like GRT, to get rid of it. The most likely place to put the C02 is in the salt-lined caverns that once held oil, a process known as carbon sequestration.
Wherever the CO2 is placed, at least it is out of the atmosphere, said David Keith, a professor at the University of Calgary in Canada, who developed his own artificial, C02-catching towers years ago and is working to refine his models. Keith, GRT, and other organizations aren't trying to profit from climate change; they are looking to prevent or at least slow it.
"Nobody doubts that this is doable," said Keith. "It's a matter of doing it at cost, and right now it's still unclear how that can be done." | <urn:uuid:83bd3df4-37d7-4ff0-976d-ef84275453c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna30251856 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966041 | 605 | 3.578125 | 4 |
People living in supported housing are being discouraged from finding work because of fears they will not be able to afford their rent, report reveals.
The charity Mayday Trust has spoken with more than 80 people who are housed in temporary or supported accommodation, as well as those who are sleeping rough and sofa-surfing, to uncover the impact of unaffordable accommodation.
Entitled Wisdom from Behind Closed Doors, the report shows how accommodation becomes unaffordable once someone secures a job.
The interviewees told the Mayday Trust that the high cost of rent meant that they would need to find somewhere else to live or give up their job completely.
The Mayday Trust heard how the lack of affordable accommodation meant that many felt they had no choice but to make their personal situations worse in order to be prioritised for housing. Many respondents said they saw supported housing as a fast-track way of doing this.
‘Overall, people told us that they wanted a home where they could feel safe and secure, where they would receive a warm welcome, where they could just get on with their lives,’ said Pat McArdle, CEO of Mayday Trust.
‘In short, people feel the supported housing system isn’t working and with the growing numbers of people sleeping rough now is the time to act.’
The report is launched today at the Chartered Institute of Housing’s (CIH) ‘Tackling homelessness and meeting housing need’ conference in Northampton.
CIH head of policy and external affairs Melanie Rees said: ‘Supported housing provides a lifeline for people who have suffered homelessness and other devastating experiences such as abuse.
‘It’s clear from this report, however, that many residents are not getting the safe, welcoming and supportive environment they need. We need to examine what we can do as a sector to improve the current situation.’ | <urn:uuid:146f7224-3a98-42d1-a4f1-5d19f6bbbd5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.localgov.co.uk/Supported-housing-system-isnt-working-charity-warns/46502 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.976208 | 393 | 1.898438 | 2 |
By Yavor Tarinski
With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear.
In early March, this year, a group of motorized policemen reach a public square in the Athenian neighborhood of Nea Smyrni. There they begin checking the people around whether they have done the proper procedures according to the government’s anti-pandemic measures. Soon after that the policemen begin issuing fines to those who they deem to be outside in violation to the measures, which provoked disagreements among some of those gathered around, without however any sign of violence. Enraged by the calm and reasonable arguments of a young man, some of the officers attack him and start hitting him mercilessly with iron batons (that are not part of Greece’s standard police equipment) all over his body, while he and all those around him beg them to stop. The whole incident is captured on video by many of the passersby.
This incident, coming after a long and painful series of other vicious acts of police brutality, is the straw that broke the camel’s back. The hard-right government of New Democracy has invested heavily, since it took office in 2019, in strengthening and unleashing the hands of the police. Characteristically, it has used the pandemic, as a pretext to further advance its police-state agenda, while ignoring the demands of healthcare workers, unions, political organizations, and citizens for more essential measures directed towards contact-tracing, strengthening of the health system, and public transportation.
So with the images of a young man being viciously beaten by police, for simply “daring” to argue with them, a huge wave of popular anger is unleashed – dissatisfaction with a dogmatic neoliberal handling of a pandemic that has targeted marginalized and poorer communities, human rights and liberties, but also, more generally, the leisure time of most people, while the ruling elite has cynically violated its own measures time after time and has used restrictions on gatherings in order to advance its authoritarian agenda.
This anger, however, was expressed in a different way from the traditional forms of protest, so typical for Greece. Instead of mass demonstrations in the city center, led by political parties, labor unions and ideological organizations, citizens began gathering spontaneously at public squares of their neighborhoods. Immediately after the incident, a massive demonstration took place in Nea Smyrni, where the police provoked riots but was forced to retreat and several officers were hospitalized by the enraged and enormous multitude. In the weekend that followed (13-14.03), gatherings took place in almost all of Athens’ neighborhoods, as well as in most major Greek cities.
It seems that the scenes of police thugs brutalizing people for simply being present at the public spaces of their neighborhoods, has tweaked with certain genuinely civic instincts that were latent in Greek society. Their spontaneous response is a clear example of citizens striving to reclaim their cities away from the claws of a mindless, profit-oriented bureaucratic machinery and its repressive forces. It is a practical articulation of the right to the city, in the sense of people claiming control over the urban environment of which they and their everyday activities are an inseparable part. Whether this energy will be used to reinvigorate the urban fabric with civic and democratic significations in order our cities to stand a chance against the crawling bureaucratization of everyday life and the dogma of unlimited growth has everything to do with whether lasting forms of popular participation will be established, or will political parties and groups succeed in exploiting these civic instincts to justify their ideological doctrines or for electoral benefit. It is an open question that is always present in such social movements and its outcome is dictated by our actions or inactions.
Below are photos from some of the gatherings that took place:
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By Alex Segura Lozano
San Diego, USA, Sep 10 (EFE).- “The problem is that some politicians and media try to (…) blame the entire faith, the entire Muslim community, for something wrong that was done by a few members,” says Taha Hassane, an imam in San Diego, the city that was the base for the first 9/11 terrorists to reach US territory, in an interview EFE.
Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi and, later, Hani Hanjour, were three Al-Qaeda members who lived and took English and flying lessons in a neighborhood of the Southern California city.
Months later, on September 11, 2001, they hijacked and crashed an American Airlines commercial airliner into the Pentagon, killing all 64 people on board, along with 125 on the ground.
From the Islamic Center of San Diego, Imam Hassane tells Efe that the trio were never members of the community, but “were just guests” who came to the local mosque to pray.
After 9/11, the Islamic center suffered several attacks, from bomb alerts to gunshots on its outside walls, as well as damage inside the mosque.
One of its members who preferred to remain anonymous, recalls in statements to Efe that during the first years after 9/11, he and his wife received insults and threats in the street because of their unfounded connections with the terrorists who had lived in San Diego, simply because they dressed a certain way.
Two decades later, Imam Hassane says that hostility against the Muslim community “is still a reality in the US,” although he feels it has become more manageable than at the beginning of the century.
But FBI figures show that crimes against Muslims and mosques in the US have remained at similar levels in the two decades since, making Muslims the second most persecuted religious group in the country, behind Jews.
For the imam, the main driver of this hatred lies in the “Islamophobic messages” of some politicians and media outlets that “keep sending the negative message about Islam and Muslims.” | <urn:uuid:4590f44e-bd41-44e3-a2d7-2dfcc9ebbe80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.laprensalatina.com/muslims-in-the-us-living-with-post-9-11-stigma/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.976148 | 442 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Field supervisors: Bridging the gap
Linking field providers to organization vision by involving field supervisors in decision making and administrative training
EMS graduates can climb the career ladder quickly, arriving in leadership positions with minimal life or professional experience, and even less management training. Supervision is as different from clinical medicine as auto repair is from plumbing. Even a smart, motivated individual will need additional skill sets to succeed in the new role.
In this special coverage series, learn how to equip field supervisors with the skills they need to be effective in their roles.
In the world of EMS, it’s common practice to promote our own EMTs and paramedics into supervisory roles within our organization. This practice of internal recruitment for promotions has worked well in the past and continues to work well for many reasons.
EMTs and paramedics promoting into a supervisor role within their own organization have great experience working in the field, knowledge about the system they work in and often some general understanding of administrative processes.
To help prepare them for a supervisor role, we take time to provide them with additional training specific to the field supervisor role and send them out on their own; this is where our industry can do better.
In all organizations, field supervisors are in a vital role. They often become and are the link between the field staff and management. Field supervisors are often the first people to receive crew input and are responsible for passing on that input and concerns to upper management, as well as reporting on what they see out in the system. It is a balancing act for field supervisors who also need to consistently support the goals and mission of the organization. They are essential to ensuring that any changes and/or organizational goals are effectively communicated to the field crews.
Caught in the middle
In their own right, field supervisors are an incredible resource for field crews as well as management, but they may get caught between the two groups, trying to effectively communicate to everyone.
Fairly often, upper management is responsible for making high level decisions that can have an impact on processes and procedures for field crews in the system, while field supervisors are expected to assist in implementing these changes out in the field. However, they are rarely involved in the development and planning process of why certain changes are being made. Sometimes, field supervisors are notified of changes shortly before the rest of the workforce. This can put them in a difficult spot to try and implement a change they may not fully understand themselves and unable to answer field crew questions during this process.
The role of a field supervisor needs to be enhanced. If we include the supervisors in the planning process, we can empower them. This would provide them with the opportunity to have more knowledge about process and procedure changes. It will also give them the ability to accurately answer any questions employees may have. Including field supervisors in more administrative decisions can help invigorate and assist in strengthening the trust they have with field crews because they were part of the decision process. This can also help them feel more like a leader within the organization.
Excluding field supervisors from administrative decisions creates (what I truly believe is an unintentional) gap between the supervisors and upper management. The field supervisors are so crucial to daily operational success, they can often become stuck, in a sense, to the field.
The key to bridging this gap is simple; our industry needs to move away from the historical view and traditional role of a field supervisor. Instead of only giving them the tools to implement changes in a system they supervise daily, we increase their responsibility when it comes to organizational decisions and allow them to grow as professionals. In return, they can be more confident in their participation in the implementation process of the organizations policies, procedures and process changes. This can also give field crews a stronger conviction of their supervisor’s abilities to lead, understand and support them more efficiently.
Foundational skill building
A good foundation to any internal field supervisor training program is an introduction to the roles and responsibilities of other departments. Prior to launching field supervisors into the field, it is important to focus a portion of their training on gaining an understanding of:
- Community relations
- Public relations
- Ambulance billing
- Medical/legal compliance
Field supervisors may need to take on the role of PIO at an incident scene.
Understanding reimbursement rates along with the potential loss of revenue on an incomplete or poorly documented PCR gives them an important perspective on tracking down missing or incomplete PCRs.
Spending time in each of these departments allows the supervisor to see the big picture and gain experience in some of the unseen areas that keep our organization running smoothly; it is an amazing perspective to have.
As I moved up through the ranks within my own organization, I found it challenging to navigate through the issues of transparency and inclusion with the field supervisors. I worked hard to be informed and if I was not given the information I needed to be a good supervisor, I would ask questions of my management team. This has helped shape me in my role as an executive director. It is important to me to include our leadership team as well as field supervisors as a whole in the planning and implementation of new processes and procedures.
The greatest strength of an organization is the enthusiastic resources of our people and investing in them as leaders will only contribute to the unwavering success we have in our community. | <urn:uuid:64d36b63-2d7c-4829-b9ae-b8b78b54935b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ems1.com/ems-management/articles/field-supervisors-bridging-the-gap-4C2B2VHR6QazHQec/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967338 | 1,081 | 1.945313 | 2 |
We at Gain Orbits provide the best available and trusted Health Insurance Policy to you which will take care of your Family in the need of a Medical Emergency.
Health Insurance is a type of insurance that offers coverage to the policyholder for medical expenses in case of a health emergency. A health insurance plan chosen by the insured provides coverage for different expenses including surgical expenses, day-care expenses, and critical illness, etc.
A health insurance policy is a contract between the insurer and policyholder in which the insurance company provides financial coverage for medical expenses incurred by the insured.
A Health Insurance Plan taken for single or multiple individuals with individual coverage.
A Health Insurance Plan by a family consisting of (Self, Spouse, Parents, & Kids) with a combined coverage limit.
A Health Insurance Plan for senior citizens who missed opting an Insurance coverage in they 50s, are eligible to enroll under this plans, but with some inbuilt limitations varies as per companies and plans, (COPAY, Sublimit, etc). This plans can be taken by couple or individual. Premium are bit higher in some cases.
Coverage offered for employees of any corporate or SMEs.
A Special Health Insurance plan that can be availed as an additional product even when you hold a group insurance (employer provided) or a standalone health insurance). This product comes with higher coverage limits with lesser premiums, so you are safeguarding your savings in case of any massive claims occur.
Benefits of Health Insurance
Group Mediclaim Insurance
It is the second variant of Mediclaim which covers a group of individuals simultaneously. This form of insurance includes the category of Employer’s Health Insurance Cover wherein the sum assured normally varies between Rs. 15,000 and Rs.5, 00,000.
What is the perfect age to obtain Mediclaim /Health Insurance
Most of the people live in a dilemma that they would require Health Insurance only at their older ages, but the fact is you might miss a change of obtaining a regular insurance plan, (due to some specific medical conditions) or age-based copay or loadings would be implied.
So it is always better to obtain Adequate Health Insurance coverage at the earliest. | <urn:uuid:c1292c81-a571-4245-b2b4-a2d399a3437a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gainorbit.com/detail/940997/health-insurance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958128 | 450 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The number of samples collected during experimentation has an effect on the analysis of results and the validity of the test data collected. Over the years, I have observed several conflicting accounts of how many samples one should collect during experimentation. According to many introductory statistics textbooks, the number of samples collected depends on the population. A small population is considered a collection of 30 samples or less, while a large population is considered a collection of more than 30 samples. However, more advanced subject areas of statistics will have multiple assertions in relation to the goals of analysis and the expected confidence in results. If you were to survey a group of professionals from different organizations and different industries, you would receive a collection of varied opinions. This is the result of differing world views; each person and organization is going to have different goals. Therefore, they will have a degree of varied opinions.
What To Do
In my professional opinion, the number of samples you collect should be in relation to your organization’s goals and the level of confidence expected in the results. If your laboratory seeks to attain a 95.45% level of confidence (where k=2.00), I recommend that you collect 22 samples for each experiment. If your goal was to achieve a confidence level of 99%, I would recommend that you collect 100 samples. Why? The answer is outliers. You can validate your results with outliers. If you collect 22 samples and seek to achieve a 95.45% level of confidence, you will typically find one outlier in your pool of collected samples. This is how you can ensure that you are achieving the level of confidence that meets your goals. Furthermore, it allows you to control the effectiveness and efficiency of your data collection efforts. Why collect 100 samples if you only need 22; or, why collect 22 samples if you need 100. Only expend the resources that you need to achieve your goals. Otherwise, you are wasting your time and resources that could be used to perform other tasks. Using the following equation, you can determine the appropriate number of samples you wish to collect in order to achieve a specific level of confidence.
Let’s Break It Down
Not sure if my theory is valid. Then, let me show you quantitative and qualitative results that support my opinion. Using a Monte Carlo simulation, I will generate a pool of random data that is supposed to conform to a specified level of confidence (i.e. 95.45%) exhibiting a Gaussian distribution. With this data, I will calculate the mean, standard deviation, and degrees of freedom and report the results for you to evaluate. From here, you can formulate your own opinion and chose to agree or disagree with me.
95.46% of trials exhibited one outlier or less
68.18% of trials exhibited at least one outlier
4.54% of trials exhibited more than one outlier
1| The numbers in the left column represent the sample number for each trial, totaling 22.
2| The numbers in the top row represent the trial number, totaling 22.
3| The upper and lower limits were quantified by calculating the sum and the difference of the mean and twice the standard deviation (i.e. 2-sigma).
4| The values that do not conform, or outliers, are the cells not highlighted in green.
5| Click the image to make it larger
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The Magic Of The Concave Mirror: Self-viewing or looking at one’s reflection has fancied human beings from ancient times. We all have gone to funfairs and laughed at ourselves and others, looking at ourselves where different mirrors reflected funny reflections.
The first time any human, or a beast for that matter, would have seen their reflections would be in a pool of still waters. However, humans have used their ingenuity to make mirrors. They have used various materials to make mirrors: stones, polished metals, such as copper, steel, aluminium, silver, and gold.
An interesting study carried out in the United Kingdom revealed some very interesting and surprising facts. In the study, they found that, on an average day, men look into the mirror 23 times, while women use the mirror 16 times. Interestingly, the duration spent in front of the mirror was not mentioned.
Kings and queens, and nobles alike, have boasted about their mirrors. Museums are filled with fanciful ancient mirrors throughout the world. The archaeologists in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) found the mirrors were made from polished stone such as black volcanic glass obsidian.
At the same time, the ancient Egyptians made mirrors of metal (copper, bronze, silver, tin, etc.). A book, “Record of Ancient Mirrors, was written in 800 AD, during the Tang Dynasty that ruled China between 618 AD and 907 AD. It describes the method used to craft solid bronze mirrors.
In modern times, mirrors are made from metals like silver and aluminium are more commonly used because of their reflective properties. A thin layer of these metals are applied on a plane surface and polished till they reflect light or image.
Let’s know plane, convex and concave mirror uses in this article.
What Are Mirrors?
Fundamentally, mirrors are the surfaces that reflect light and images. It could be the water reflecting the sunset, sun rays bouncing off the dewdrops in the morning, or any polished surface.
Types Of Manmade Mirrors:
There are three types of mirrors, and differentiated by their reflective surfaces –
- Plane Mirror
- Convex Mirrors
- Concave Mirrors
- Plane Mirrors – These are the most commonly used mirrors. Plane Mirrors have a plane surface. They are found in the dressing rooms at homes, washrooms, salons, jewellery shops, etc. The light ray bounces off the surface of the Plane Mirror at the same angle it hits the surface.
The principal axis is perpendicular to the surface of the Plane Mirrors. Suppose, if the flight arrives at an angle of 45 degrees, it will reflect at the same angle on the other side of the principal axis.
- Convex Mirrors – Convex Mirrors are curved reflecting surfaces. The curve reflecting surface is bulged outward and towards the light source. Convex Mirrors increase the field of view. (“Field of view” is described as the field that is reflected by the mirror. In the case of the Convex Mirrors, the “field of view” is increased.
It is directly proportionate to the curvature of the surface). Convex Mirrors are commonly used in buildings, passageways, hospitals, hotels, schools, at acute road corners that are difficult to navigate.
- Concave Mirrors – Concave Mirrors can be distinguished by the inward reflecting surfaces. The bulge of the Concave Mirrors is away from the source of light. Concave Mirrors are more useful than Concave Mirrors. They are used in electric torches, other artificial light sources, shaving mirrors, searchlights, etc.
Concave Mirrors are used in more complex and sophisticated devices, such as satellite dishes, compressed camera lenses, camera flashguns, among other things.
You may have seen long telescopes. But the scientists have compressed them by using the Concave Mirrors. These telescopes are called Catadioptric Telescopes.
The figure explains how the light rays could be controlled (collected) using the CONCAVE MIRRORS. Scientists use essentially the same design and build compressed or Catadioptric systems of lenses used in photography.
The ability or property of the Concave Mirror to collect light rays is beneficial in modern science. You would have noticed the reflective mirror in an electric handheld torch. Well, that is a Concave Mirror.
The efficiency of a light source, the bulb, is multiplied by using the Concave Mirror in the electric torchlight. Instead of the light spreading nearly 360 degrees, the Concave Mirror collects it and focuses it in one direction.
This property of the Concave Mirror has been incorporated to build highly sophisticated scientific devices. They are used to build microscopes to concentrate the light rays of the specimen being observed by the lab technicians.
Cloud Communications: What Is It and How It Can Help Improve Customer Experience
Cloud Communications – You’re already a member of the cloud computing community if you utilise services like Gmail, Google Drive,…
Know More About the Different Types of Servers You Can Choose
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HOW DO I CONNECT:
You need a Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) enabled device. Most newer laptops have built-in Wi-Fi capabilities.
Older versions may require a separate Wi-Fi card, which you can purchase at most larger electronics retailers. Any chip or card that has been certified for compliance with the Wi-Fi wireless LAN standard (IEE 802.11b) can be used. More and more PDAs and even cell phones are now Wi-Fi enabled. A manufacturer or service provider can help you identify these devices.
Connecting is simple: When in the Cousin’s restaurant, just turn on your computer (or PDA),
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Effects of a community-based salt reduction program in a regional Australian population
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Smartphones and iPhones aren’t only for phone calls and texting, they can be used to install applications (apps for short!). Apps can be used to help with time management and planning plus you will have access to cool games and learning opportunities.
Depending on your phone type, you will have access to apps in different locations: Android phones use Google Play and iPhones use the App Store.
- Intuition+: Mom’s Personal Assistant: This app helps to make a mother’s life easier. It has a very easy to navigate format and it can be synced with your personal calendar. You can’t go wrong with this free app to help organize your day-to-day schedule.
- BabyBook: This app is for parents who want to capture special moments with their infants. It allows you to take photos and track your child’s growth plus it’s free!
- ChoreMonster: This app is the new and improved version of a chore chart. Some may call it a bribery tool but sometimes kids like incentives when it comes to chores. This free app is a cool way to get your kids in the helping around the house spirit.
- Canvsly: This app gives you the opportunity to upload and organize your children’s works of art. It’s free and helps you create a timeline or gallery of their coolest pieces.
- Baby Connect: This comprehensive baby tracking application helps parent’s record milestones, schedules and much more! With a price tag of $4.99, it seems to be a highly rated resource for parents.
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Our curriculum for Kindergarten children is based off exploring and investigating the world around them. Children at this age learn by talking, exploring and experiencing in a variety of ways, including using imaginative play. Activities and experiences in our Kindergarten classroom, are based around four core subjects: math, language arts, social studies and science.
The students learn and develop in seven key areas:
The kindergarten curriculum includes monthly classes in Music and Spanish. The overall goal is for our Kindergartners to be prepared for first grade.
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The idea of the Papernet emerged around 2006-9. It was discussed in a talk by Aaron Straup Cope, and worked on by people such as design-group BERG, who created the Little Printer. Broadly, it’s the about combining paper with the Internet. Or, as the Papercamp announcement put it:
“Whether that’s looking at material possibilities of paper itself, connecting paper to the internet and vice-versa with things like 2d-barcodes, RFIDs or exotic things like printing with conductive inks… it’s about the fact that paper hasn’t gone away in the digital age – it’s become more useful, more abundant and in some cases gone and got itself superpowers”
Even in the internet, paper has its uses. Paper maps can be passed around and drawn on. I can give a stranger a print-out to look at, but might not want to pass them my phone. Paper is for scribbling and sharing. At festivals, everyone still has small paper timetables dangling on lanyards – you don’t have to worry about running out of battery between stages. There’s also a charm to hand-drawn maps that online services can’t compete with. You can tear paper, scribble on it, glue it over offensive adverts, post it, use it to support a wobbly table-leg.
One of my favourite ideas was Warren Ellis’ suggestion of an email-to-print service for “a podcast that spits out paper“, inspired by Schulze & Webb’s 2006 “social letterbox.”. Ellis said it should not be referred to as a papercast, despite that being an excellent name. Yes, in some ways this is reinventing the fax machine, but it’s an interesting reinvention.
Most applications involve printing, but not all. There is potential for photography (and the use of printing terminals) and cardboard (google and muji binoculars). Improvements in OCR and image recognition promise a flow of information from objects back into the internet
There was even a Papercamp, in January 2009, which was liveblogged by Jeremy Keith. This was a day to “talk about, fiddle with, make and explore what’s possible with paper based on a blog post”, and “hacking paper and its new possibilities”. It was based around the barcamp format, where slots are available for the attendees to fill out the schedule. Some interesting things turned up:
“Nick O’Leary is talking about graphs. He wants to represent them with paper rather than simply on paper. He came up with some code that generates an image including lines showing where to fold and cut. Print it out, cut it and fold it and voila!, 3D graphs. He holds up an example. It’s beautiful. He wants to make a pop-up book of statistics.”
and then there is what Keith describes as “the missing piece of the papernet puzzle: edibility. [Sawa Tanaka] has made edible prints on rice paper: English breakfast, fish’n’chips, soba ….”
There is so much that can be done – such as using print-on-demand services to create one-off notebooks. Or even gamebooks, like the old I-spy book. Using software to help produce decorated origami (something I’ve used to hide stories inside origami designs). Creating simple A7 booklets. Printing off day-planners before heading out to work. Several people have used receipt-printers (one similar project being Tom Armitage and Jeff Noon’s collaboration, The Literary Operator). Some were influenced by Moleskine’s city guides, wondering about ephemeral tourist guides. You could even combine GPS and paper in dead letter drops.
The Internet can bring paper alive.
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Dana Knowles Licko has always appeared to have her you-know- what together. With a 12-year career in journalism and 13 years of marriage under her belt, Licko gladly accepted a new job title—mom—in 2007, when her oldest child was born. Before long, she had become that Facebook friend who always looks so put-together, standing next to her successful husband and perfect children on some fabulous vacation. But behind the smile was a woman struggling to stay afloat in the throes of a serious narcotic addiction.
It might sound surprising, but opioid abuse is a major public health issue, and it’s not just junkies shooting heroin illegally. The words “opioid” and “opiate” are often used interchangeably to describe a class of drugs that includes heroin, fentanyl, and other pain relievers such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, and morphine. The United States is in the midst of a prescription opioid overdose epidemic, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. In 2014, more than 28,000 people died from opioid overdose, and at least half of those deaths involved prescriptions.
In Colorado, there’s an opioid overdose every 9 hours and 36 minutes, according to data collected by Arapahoe House, the state’s largest provider of substance use disorder treatment, offering specialized programs for women with young children and pregnant and postpartum moms. “Our state remains second in the nation for misuse of prescription drugs,” says Kate Osmundson, spokesperson for Arapahoe House, where opioid patient admissions (prescription painkillers and heroin combined) have increased by 500 percent since 2008.
It Began with a Prescription
Licko had been a “big social drinker,” as she puts it—but she never had a problem with addiction until 2011, when she had surgery to repair a labral tear in her hip. Post-operation, Licko’s doctor prescribed Percocet, a combination of acetaminophen and oxycodone, to manage her pain. Licko took her meds as prescribed, and soon discovered that the painkiller did more than ease physical discomfort.
Opioids act on a user’s opioid receptors to produce morphine-like effects. “I felt invincible,” Licko says. “I had no insecurities, and I had the energy I needed to do everything I had to do.” Over time, though, Licko developed a tolerance: The longer she used Percocet, the more doses she needed. A year after her hip surgery, Licko’s doctor cut off her prescription. By then, it was too late. Licko was hooked. After just 24 hours without her prescription, Licko started experiencing classic opioid withdrawal symptoms, including vomiting, severe stomach cramping, headaches, back pain, insomnia, paranoia, coughing, high blood pressure, low blood pressure, chills, and sweating “Let’s just say it sucks,” Licko says.
The worst part was, Licko’s doctor never told her what to expect. Without professional intervention, Licko says, “I couldn’t stop taking them.”
That’s when the panic and the hiding kicked in.
A Double Life
It’s a common misconception that prescription medications are safer than illegal drugs. Prescription opioids are essentially the pill form of heroin, and they can be even more dangerous. Users often rationalize their substance misuse when painkillers are doctor prescribed. For the next three years, Licko lived a double life. To her friends and family, she came off as a healthy, happy homemaker as she continued to abuse opioids.
“I was like a mom robot,” she says. Licko was alert enough to satisfy her family’s basic needs. She made sure her kids were safe. They always got to where they needed to go, ate three square meals, and finished their homework. “But there wasn’t much emotional attachment,” Licko admits. “I couldn’t really talk to them or enjoy them.” Licko’s marriage was suffering, too, as her husband became increasingly suspicious of his wife’s secretive behavior.
In 2015, Licko spent a month in recovery at a treatment center in Denver. But that wasn’t enough time for her to fully commit to making critical life changes. When you’re in recovery, Licko says, “Not only can you not do the opiates, but you can’t drink either because alcohol hits the same part of your brain.”
After nine months of total sobriety, Licko went on a weekend getaway with her girlfriends. “I started drinking again,” she says. When she got buzzed, Licko craved opioids, and before long, she caved. The second time around, the addiction was ten times worse.
“I had to go back into treatment, and this time I had to leave the state,” she says. Most Colorado-based treatment and recovery programs wouldn’t accept insurance. Not only were Licko’s health care bills racking up, but Licko knew that, in order to get well, she”d have to leave everything behind—even her children.
Licko flew to the Banyan Treatment Center in Florida. “That’s where the real work began,” she says, adding, “It was tough. It was really, really tough leaving my family behind. My ego kept telling me that nobody does it like mommy.”
Licko had to let go of trying to control everything at home. “I had to take my ego out of it. I accepted the fact that (my kids) had lots of love and support from their dad, his parents, my mom, and both of my sisters, who came from out of town to help.”
In Florida, Licko was finally able to dig into the factors that had contributed to her addiction, which stretched back to early childhood, when Licko had been molested. By the end of the summer, Licko had made major personal strides. Now it was time to come home and heal her family, too.
Recovery With Family
Licko and her husband have had extensive couple’s therapy, and have stayed together. The experience also forced the Lickos to talk to their children about topics that many parents avoid. “They knew what was going on,” Licko says. “Kids know! They might not know how to articulate it, but they know when something is off.” In addition to ongoing and honest discussions, the Lickos recently sent their oldest daughter to a multi-day workshop at the Betty Ford Center Children’s Program in Denver, offering a special program for children ages seven to 12 who grow up in families hurt by addiction.
“My kids know I have a disease that isn’t curable, but they also know that I can put it into remission if I take care of myself in very specific ways,”
Licko says. The specifications include working with a sponsor through Alcoholics Anonymous, frequenting hot yoga classes, which force Licko to practice sitting through pain and discomfort, and resurrecting a pre-baby career via smoothies, of all things.
In early recovery, Licko learned that nutrition can be used to heal the brain after addiction. In a quest to fit as many nutrients as possible int a single dish, she made smoothies packed with vegetables, plant proteins, and superfoods. When Licko started posting pictures of her smoothies on Facebook (recipes and autobiographical notes included), she says, “That become a way for me to be creative again.” Licko’s smoothies were so popular with her social network that she launched a blog, youarewhatyoudrink.blog.
“I don’t walk around with a fake smile anymore,” says Licko. “I have good days, and I have bad days.” She’s a mom who is trying her best to be a better person “literally every day,” she says. “That’s my way of making this up to my family.” | <urn:uuid:a84a6e58-f617-4535-8c02-2388be84d459> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.coloradoparent.com/prescription-for-disaster/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.98009 | 1,811 | 2 | 2 |
Top 10 Things Not to Say about Abortion (US edition)
“There are only two kinds of people in the world: those who insist on dividing the world into two kinds of people, and those who don’t.” That old joke rings with fresh relevance now that our American cousins have put abortion back into public consciousness.
Is “prolife versus prochoice” so very simple? Here’s a checklist of common fatuities to be avoided in the months of controversy ahead. (This column is a little longer than usual, but the underlying point is that the issues involved here are not resolvable at bumper-sticker length.)
#1: “The issue is already decided.” Canadian federal cabinet minister Maryam Monsef said so in 2019 in a public letter to then-Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer. But this is a very odd thing to say, especially by a politician, and even more especially by a female politician whose portfolio is, indeed, “Women and Gender Equality.”
Not long ago, women were not persons in the eyes of Canadian law. (Canadians should remember the campaign of the Famous Five a century ago.) The status of women was once decided. But then it was decided again. And then it was decided once more. One would like to think that Minister Monsef would be glad that her political predecessors did not think that once something is decided in a democracy, no one can evermore revisit the issue.
The issue of abortion is not, furthermore, decided. It certainly isn’t up here in Canada, where we in fact have no abortion law, not since Henry Morgentaler pressed the Supreme Court into invalidating what law there was in 1988, and Kim Campbell’s government failed to pass a new law in 1991.
But it obviously isn’t “decided” in the USA, either, as furore over “undoing” Roe v. Wade indicates.
So when someone says “it’s decided,” all she means is what so many people seem to mean by such phrases—namely, “We, and everyone like us and who likes us, have agreed.” But that’s not the same as actual law.
#2. “A woman has sole rights over her own body.” This feminist slogan seems to have come down from Sinai. But as a feminist myself, I confess to being ashamed of it because no one really thinks that. No one really thinks a woman can do whatever she likes with her body when another body is involved.
You know the old adage: Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. (We may need such adages in the arguments to come.) So, yes, a woman can act as she pleases so long as she doesn’t use her body in a way that harms others. And when it comes to terminating a pregnancy, there are harms-to-others involved.
Her body is implicated in both circumstances. In fact, any mother who enjoyed a healthy pregnancy and who is now chasing a young one all day and facing ever-mounting expenses will say how much easier it was on her body to be pregnant. If one is not, however, prepared to countenance infanticide, then why tolerate abortion? As Tooley and Singer argue, the rationale for both actions is the same.
There is also a point to be made here about men. How nice for (certain kinds of) men if women insist that the outcomes of sex are entirely the woman’s responsibility—or how terrible, if men instead want to share responsibility and indeed share in the new life resulting from their union. It takes two to tango, and while the ability to get pregnant falls on the woman, why should she be (alone) responsible for that new life ever after?
#3. “It’s just a clump of cells.” Well, so are you.
#4. “What I mean is, it’s not a person.” Ah, but as we have noted, the term person has a chequered history: slaves, women, children, and foreigners—who are undoubtedly human beings—have often been treated both officially and unofficially as something other than persons. So one needs to be on guard when “persons” shows up in political discussion. It has often been a tool in campaigns to render certain human beings unworthy of proper treatment.
Why, one might then ask, is the relevant subject here not human being? Perhaps because it has proved difficult in bioethical debates to draw a bright line between the fetus and an unconscious or brain-damaged adult such that aborting the one is manifestly different from killing the other.
Moreover, there is no bright line separating one kind of fetus from another in the gestational period. “Viability outside the womb” has been pushed back steadily until now it’s at 23 weeks or so—but who knows what technological advances lie in the future? How about the threshold of feeling pain? Having a beating heart?
From the moment of conception, the zygote is a human being—if not, what is it? And if it is, how can we have the moral assurance that it’s okay to abort it at any particular stage—which moral assurance we had better have if we’re terminating a life?
#5. “Abortions happen naturally all the time.” Yes, they do. That’s not our doing. We are responsible for what we do. So we had better be sure we are doing the right thing. Are we?
#6. “People didn’t used to have such extreme views about abortions—even Christians didn’t.” This one is at least partly true as a matter of record. I myself recall my late father, a physician, being called upon to speak about abortion in the early 1970s to a conservative Canadian church that was openly wrestling with the issue.
But people, including Christians, didn’t used to be so intolerant of slavery, either. Or of workplace harassment of women. Or of schoolyard bullying of homosexuals. Or of indifference to handicapped access. So this isn’t a telling point to make.
#7. “Women will get back-alley abortions and put themselves at risk.” That’s likely true, and that’s very sad. But folks on the left need to be careful of using arguments on this issue that sound like ones they despise offered by the right on other issues, such as “Criminals will always get guns.” Just because some people will likely find ways of doing something, no matter what the law and society say about it, doesn’t mean we throw the doors open to it, much less valorize and subsidize it.
And it’s not as if pregnancy is just magically visited upon unsuspecting women here, like a disease or an injury for which they deserve public sympathy and assistance. Let’s be honest: putting oneself at risk occurred at the moment one consented to sexual relations.
#8. “No one should be compelled to care for another person.” The ethicist Judith Jarvis Thompson devised the oft-cited scenario of a person waking up to find that she is medically bound to a famous violinist who will die if the life-saving tubes connecting their kidneys are disconnected. Organ donation is another instance in which we do not compel people, even relatives, to be charitable.
The analogy, however, doesn’t work. First, no one wakes up pregnant from consensual sex with no clue as to how she got that way. It’s simply basic to our entire moral and legal system that if one engages in risky behaviour, one is responsible to deal with the outcomes.
Even if one had no intention of producing a particular result by a particular action, if one could reasonably foresee such a possible result, one is responsible for it. People know that sex can result in babies. So to engage in sex is to deliberately risk pregnancy. To then play the “innocent victim” card seems absurd.
#9. “Rape and incest make the whole issue different.” No, they don’t. We must avoid a literal version of the genetic fallacy here. In logic, the genetic fallacy is the dismissal of a proposition because of its dubious origin. “Well, if Bob says so, and we know Bob is a twit, then it’s wrong.” No, it’s only probably wrong, and one has to evaluate each idea on its own merits, even Bob’s ideas.
In this case, the horrific circumstance of forced or familial sex has nothing to do with the value of the human being who is thus produced—or, at least, it certainly shouldn’t. Yes, it’s doubly wrong, and awful, that a woman was raped and then has to go through a pregnancy. But either terminating a pregnancy is okay or it isn’t. How the woman got pregnant shouldn’t matter.
(The mention of incest is a red herring. If the sex was consensual, the act may be wrong in terms of genetics or morality, but it’s still consensual sex like all the rest. If it wasn’t consensual, it’s rape. The familial dimension makes whatever happened uglier, but it doesn’t make it something else.)
#10. “Prolifers care about the baby only while it’s in the mother’s womb. And they clearly don’t care about the mother at all.” Both sides need to own failure here.
Many people on the political right say they oppose abortion, but they also resist policies that will make it much easier for desperate women either to keep their babies (adequate welfare, affordable daycare, good jobs, decent housing, and the like) or to give those babies to others (and who thinks we have an adequate system of foster and adoptive care?). So, prolifers have to ask themselves, do you really care? Really? Enough to actually make keeping the baby a better option for mom than abortion?
Many people on the political left, for their part, congratulate themselves for their stout defense of the vulnerable in society—only to abandon the most vulnerable members of society: those literally incapable of life on their own. In fact, the spooky thing about typical liberal rhetoric here is the disappearance of the child from moral consideration. It’s all about the woman and her body, as if there is no one and nothing else to consider. You can’t get more marginalized and oppressed than that: You won’t be mentioned and you might be killed on the say-so of another.
Yes, there are pathological moral and cultural issues involved at the extremes. My wife and I knew a medical colleague of hers who said she terminated her pregnancy merely because she and her husband were anticipating a lovely cruise and she didn’t want to lose her “bikini body.” This culture of indifference has its mirror opposite in the young woman who proudly gets pregnant to demonstrate that someone valued her enough to sleep with her—but doesn’t want another child or two once that point has been made.
But most abortions aren’t sought by people like that. Most are sought by women in clear distress facing years of difficulty. The basic ethical challenge remains: to make abortion no longer the least bad of the available tough choices (for anyone but the most self-centred). Can we pull together as a society to make that happen?
Or will each side take its preferred cheap and easy route: to allow the abortion of any unwanted offspring or to just make abortion illegal?
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All children of compulsory school age must be enrolled in school and attend every day – this is the law. All children must attend school up until they are 16 years old. Sixteen and 17 year olds must be enrolled in school or a training organisation, be employed or be in a combination of school/training/employment.
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Recently I spoke to a university senior who is a leader in a political club at her school. I wondered how things were going for the club, given today’s campus climate where a free exchange is not always welcome, to say the least. She told me that students with a range of views show up, eager to hear perspectives not taught by professors. The club hosts discussion times, where they share about issues informally.
When I heard what the club was doing, it made me think, Isn’t that what should be happening in the classrooms? The answer is, evidently, that unconstrained substantive conversation is not occurring where it should.
No Great Surprise
That comes as no great surprise, though. Students want to discuss the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolution, too — but you can be sure that isn’t welcome in their courses. There’s probably more room for open communication about politics than about biology.
Why do our Summer Seminars attract science undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs? Why do they want to spend ten days in Seattle, learning about intelligent design? (Why, that is, apart from the enviable Pacific Northwest summer weather.) It’s because their professors don’t permit discussion of ID in the classroom. Or if they do, it is to disparage the concept and poison the well before any honest discussion can take place. On this subject, distortion and bullying, not sincere curiosity, are the rule in academia.
The Summer Seminars are the only chance that most students will have to hear a presentation about ID from top ID proponents themselves. Instructors include Michael Behe, author of the new book Darwin Devolves, out next week, as well as Stephen Meyer, Richard Sternberg, Jonathan Wells, Ann Gauger, Paul Nelson, and more. Students can take what they’ve learned back to school with them. Now, at least, they’ve heard the other side of the story that they won’t hear from their professors. That is a precious opportunity for the truly open-minded learner.
Sound intriguing? If you’re an interested university student, the application for the 2019 Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design is now available. There are two tracks, focused respectively on the sciences — to “prepare students to make research contributions advancing the growing science of intelligent design” — and the humanities. Please pass this on to others as well!
Learning from the Medieval University
Free speech at universities is a worthy goal. How can we encourage academic freedom on evolution?
After reading Michael Keas’s new book, Unbelievable, it seems to me that the medieval attitude towards learning was, in key respects, more open than the modern one. The university, as birthed in the Middle Ages, was a place where students and professors raised questions and discussed issues. These were centers of learning, not places of censorship. As Professor Keas recounts, universities encouraged translation of works from pagan sources. Franciscan friar Roger Bacon drew on Greek and Islamic works in his study of light, and this influenced Kepler’s research on light and optics.
Today, in university classrooms, dissenting from evolution is strongly discouraged as unorthodox. The good churchman Bacon was free to draw from the works of Islamic scholars, but a biology student who doubts unguided evolution on scientific grounds must keep her mouth shut.
Perhaps we can return to a free flow of information and open discussion in the pursuit of knowledge. How can one raise awareness? Encourage your elected state representatives to consider our model Student Freedom in Science Resolution. Perhaps you could host a small gathering with friends to discuss academic freedom on controversial scientific issues.
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DC Motor Gearbox Wheel and Tyre
DC motor with right angled drive reduction gerbox and rubber tyred wheel. This unit is ideal for robot or toy vehicle construction. Ideal for Arduino and other development systems.
Light weight plastic construction gearboxmetal motor rated at 3-6VDC and soft rubber tyre.
wheel can fit to the left or right of the gearbox and motor can be run in both forward and reverse directions.
- Voltage: 3-6VDC
- Current: 80-150mA
- No Load Speed: 3V-125 rev/min5V-200 rev/min6V-230 rev/min
- Load Speed: 3V-95 rev/min5V-160 rev/min6V-175 rev/min
- Output Torque: 3V-0.8kg.cm5V-1.0kg.cm6V-1.1kg.cm
- Wheel Diameter: 65mm including tyre
- Wheel Width: 25mm
- Gearbox/Motor Dimensions: 20mm x 22mm x 65mm
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The Covid19 pandemic has brought a set of emotions that have surfaced in adults and children. Many people are feeling anxious during this time. Children can feel anxious about different things at different ages, and many of these worries are a normal part of growing up.
The difference between normal worry and anxiety disorders, is the severity of the anxiety. Feeling anxious is a natural reaction to stressful situations. Anxiety becomes a disorder when it interferes with a child’s ability to handle everyday situations, or impacts on things that most children of that age enjoy. Identifying and labelling emotions early on is important to facilitate the understanding and regulation of the emotions that your child is feeling.
Children learn best through play and social interactions and there is evidence that toddlers and preschool-aged children with developmental language disorder (DLD), often have more problem behaviours when compared to peers with typically developing language.
There are various views about how emotions develop in children, but we know that emotions are abstract. Research shows that language facilitates and speeds up the development of abstract categories such as emotions in young children, even when they are not able to say these words.
In addition, children with language disorders may have difficulty in social situations because they have difficulty interpreting conversations, understanding the rules of a game, participating in group conversations, understanding turn-taking conventions, or following the pace of the conversation. Given the importance of emotion recognition for social functioning, even at a young age, the social development of children with language disorders is at risk.
At around three years, children start understanding the emotional impact that situations have on emotions. Children acquire “scripted emotion knowledge”, i.e. they learn what emotion fits what kind of situation for most people in their social environment. For example, happiness with a present, sadness when your pet dies, or anger when they draw on the wall.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO LABEL DEGREES OF EMOTION TO HELP DEVELOP RESILIENCE AND EMOTIONAL EQ (EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT) IN CHILDREN
How do you develop emotion talk?
Emotion talk/labelling involves much more than simply connecting words to emoticons. Emotion labelling is important to encourage children to compare features so that they can understand that happy is not the same as funny, and sad is not the same as angry. This is easier to understand when you examine how children begin saying words.
When toddlers begin talking, they may refer to all animals as “doggy” or “woo-woo”. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, the word “woo-woo” is easier to say than dog. Secondly, the child is not yet able to discern the subtle difference between a dog, and a cat. Later on, the child may continue to call all pets “woo-woos”, but when you point to a picture of a cat, and ask what sound it makes, they will be able to say “meow” (or a variation of this).
Conceptually, they can discern the difference between a dog and cat, but they cannot yet articulate the words dog/cat. Labelling helps preserve these category boundaries by drawing attention to and refining the similar and dissimilar features and children soon learn that a Great Dane and a Maltese Poodle are both dogs.
Toddler Tantrums are a normal part of growing. Tantrums may occur because because they don’t have the language skills to understand or communicate how they are feeling. However, if you label every tantrum as cross/angry, it becomes more difficult for them to understand the subtle nuances in the continuum of emotions.
Here are a few scenarios:
- Your toddler takes a toy away from another child and the the other child cries. It could be anger but it could be disappointment or sadness.
- Your toddler hits another child. Is it anger or frustration?
- Your toddler spits her food out, or tips a bowl onto the floor. Is it anger or could it be disgust?
- Your toddler is playing and you interrupt her play and pick her up to go to bed. She stiffens her body as she is picked up, and throws herself backwards. Is it anger or is she just annoyed that you interrupted her?
The relationship of language and emotion in development is most often thought about in terms of how language describes emotional experiences with words that name different feelings. It is important to label degrees of emotion to help develop resilience and emotional EQ (emotional quotient) in children.
If you only label emotions in terms of their broad categories such as happy, sad and funny, the subtle nuances that differentiate degrees in these emotions may be not be learned. While we are living in challenging times, the research is equivocal.
Use your words to help toddlers use theirs.
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Correction... I am being told it's actually Rockwell Automation's The Journal that published Phil's new article. I guess I have selective hearing and was definitely not fishing for clickbait! We're coming for Wall Street next.
If you're subscribed to The Journal you can find this article in April's issue. Obsoleting the absence of voltage test for isolating electrical energy is a hard concept to imagine for many electricians. What has changed? UL and the 2018 edition of NFPA 70E just recognized the safety value of mounting voltage test instruments, like PESDs, for isolating electrical energy. How long will it take for the consensus standard process to obsolete the absence of voltage test? This article published by Phil Allen on Rockwell Automation might challenge your thinking:
Thousands of users have deployed Permanent Electrical Safety Devices (PESDs) to reduce the risks in isolating electrical energy. As a result, UL created a new product specification for permanently mounted Absence of Voltage Testers (AVTs).
Because UL acted, the 2018 edition of the NFPA 70E 120.5(N), from the National Fire Protection Association, also included an exception allowing AVTs to be another way to create an electrically safe work condition instead of a portable voltmeter. It also provided foundational principles for permanent voltage test devices in a consensus standard. In perhaps the biggest accomplishment, the foundational principles for PESDs now exist in a consensus standard.
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As we all know, there can be tremendous fear of fundraising within your organization. It can be perceived as begging, that asking for money somehow diminishes the asker.? If that were true, very would be very little fundraising going on. Instead, the development of resources and revenues has never been more important for the health of any nonprofit.?
Key to any effort is the attitude we have about it. If I really don’t feel comfortable or worthy when I solicit a contribution, it is going to be painful all around.? On the other hand, if I see what I am doing as essential and valuable and in fact, an honorable thing to do, I will be able to convey that confidence to my conversations. When those fears can be overcome and replaced with passion and pride, fundraising will not be something to be avoided, and something to be embraced.
The top fears are:??
- fear of asking,
- the fear of rejection,
- the lack of confidence in what is being are asked for and why,
- how to accept a no gracefully.
Have you heard any of the following phrases??
- Oh, I hate fundraising.
- I don?t want to ?badger friends for money?
- I give my time ? why should I also give my money?
- I don?t have any money to give.
- I want to focus on mission, not money.
Fundraising is often not perceived to be movement building; it is seen as a necessary evil, something someone else should do, and a symptom of what is wrong with capitalism. It is not seen as important as strategic planning or direct benefit programs, yet those none of those things cannot happen without financial ?support. ?
There is no mission without money. Simple.
Development is not only raising money, is a strategic process to identify, cultivate, solicit, recognize, and steward donors as well as prospects. It is producing events, sharing your mission and results, seeking new members and recruiting board members. Development is partnership with other related organizations and coalitions; finding opportunities to generate income and awareness of what you do.
Think about the words themselves: advancement, development, resource acquisition; the word money is not there. Fundraising is the transactional part of? giving; development the relational part.
?The reality is fundraising IS movement building, it is change-making. It is one of the many ways that you can educate and communicate the importance of what you do. Your donors are your members, advocates and stakeholders; are? emotionally committed to your mission.? They are your ambassadors and missionaries to the outside world.
Change? Attitudes, Change Behavior & Change Outcomes
?First you have to begin the process of an attitude shift: that fundraising is an honorable and necessary part of the development for your organization. It’s not a necessary evil, rather it is opportunity to discuss what you care so much about and include others in your goals. This is an invitation to join you, to support what you do, make the changes you seek real.
Changing the perception of fundraising includes 3 basic components:
- ?Thoughts and feelings: the heartset and mindset. The emotional component; how do we feel about what we are doing?
- ?Expectations and actions: This is the behavior component; what choices do we make?
- ?How it all works: the systems and practices; how is all this organized to work smoothly, internally and externally??
Try these approaches:
- Engage emotions by creating a fundraising vision statement to clarify the importance of fundraising for your organization. Ask your board to help develop the wording to include them in the execution of these plans. Talk about how much you care, why it matters.
- ?Ask board and members to share their stories of fundraising: their first gift, the most memorable, the largest or most recent. Make fundraising real, how does it happen for them?
- Have each board member make a personal fundraising plan for the year. What do they want to accomplish, what outreach they would like to pursue and programs do they want to expand. How will they make sure they get done what they promise??
- Establish the tradition of financial growth goals every year, make them reasonable and achievable. (1-3% growth of your annual budget).
- Establish a board fundraising committee and appoint a member to oversee board participation in development activities, board fundraising and encourage accountability.
- Celebrate success as soon as it occurs; provide reports on progress at least once a year, preferably twice. Make a big deal of them.
- Build a donor management system to track what comes in, from who, when and why. Begin to accumulate data about your donors and members; this will help you set clear targets for membership numbers, income, board dues, and other campaigns going forward.
- Be sure your internal systems of accounting and reporting work smoothly and provide reliable information. Make it really easy for donors to give via your donation options? on your web page or mailer and make sure your acknowledgements and thank yous are sent out promptly.
- Keep good, detailed records and produce readable reports regularly to your board.
What You Already Have:
If you wonder who is out there to ask, there are quite a few. Your board, your members and your students have already shown their interest in your work. They are knowledgeable and dedicated to your cause so logically, they will be the first group of people to contact. Build network of new contacts from this base and include them in your communications plan.?As stakeholders in the sustainability and growth of your organization, board members set an example by stepping up first to contribute. They intimately know the cost of running your nonprofit.
How many conversations do you have among your board, staff and others about your organization every year? ?Consider including a request for support to a small percentage of off of those conversations. Not asking is the same as a no.? A conversation about fundraising does not necessarily mean asking for money, it can be the discussion of an upcoming fundraising plan, and the necessity to find contributions or fundraising events in the future.
Ready? A few final notes:
Find the fun and joy in this; be sure you keep your sense of humor, if you are miserable or scared, that is how you will come across.? There are plenty of things to laugh about in fundraising, don’t you think?
Remember the message that this is not begging; this is for the good of the organization, the mission and the vision you have of the future. Be proud of the fact you are working to change the world.?
Be creative, try something new. It doesn’t have to be a big thing, perhaps an online photo or poetry competition, a new column in the newsletter, volunteer stories, stories from the shelters and students.?
Avoid seeking perfection. You have to run before you can walk, and this is going to take some time. Be glad for the progress you make and be sure to share it.? Be patient and acknowledge the forward steps you are making.
There is nobility is choosing to support something greater than ourselves, have pride in caring enough to take the steps necessary to keep the doors open and the lights on.?
?You can do this!?
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Survey shows that majority of Irish motorists are in favour of 'naming and shaming' drunk drivers
68% of Irish motorists believe that those found guilty of drink-driving offences should have their names published on a live register.
In an AA Membership and Motor Insurance survey of over 11,000 motorists, 44.92% of drivers said they “strongly supported” the proposal, with a further 22.59% being “somewhat” supportive. Among the main reasons for supporting the idea was the belief that the risk of being ‘named and shamed’ would further discourage people from driving while over the legal limit.
Despite the high level of support for such an initiative, over 48% of drivers admitted that such a change would have no effect on their driving behaviour. However, many of those who said the change would have no impact on their driving stated that this was because they would never drink and drive.
Commenting on the findings Conor Faughnan, Director of Consumer Affairs at The AA, stated “Drinking and driving is a reckless, shameful behaviour that should be part of Ireland’s past and not our future. Motorists have consistently supported strong enforcement and strong sanctions for the offence. Sadly though it is clear that there are people who have not got the message. It is a tragic Irish problem that hasn’t gone away.”
While increased efforts have been made in recent years to highlight the risks of drink-driving, the AA survey suggests that some drivers may still be taking the risk of driving while over the legal limit of 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood (0.05). Over 19% of those asked said the risk of being ‘named and shamed’ would have a major impact on their driving habits. | <urn:uuid:482f253a-9002-402c-99c0-8090992189c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.joe.ie/fitness-health/majority-of-irish-drivers-are-in-favour-of-naming-and-shaming-drunk-drivers-564704 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979234 | 376 | 1.914063 | 2 |
It’s often been said, “You are what you eat.” Standing at the checkout line, it’s easy to see those that make healthy eating a priority over others. But if those same people also spend their time worried, frustrated and angry, the benefit of the things in their shopping carts have been lost.
Healthy eating is very important. But what matters even more than what we put in our bodies is what we feed our minds. In the words of Grand Master Nan Lu, “You are what you think!” So, what is it that you think about? What crosses your mind in the times that you are sitting still? Do you have a quiet, peaceful mind or is your mind constantly running?
Take a few moments to reflect on how others might describe you. Then think about the characteristics that are best representative of you as an individual. List 5 of those characteristics on a piece of paper. Now take a moment to reflect on what makes you uniquely special. Are you kind, loving and patient? Or are you motivated, driven and fiercely independent? Find the good in your list. Find the good in you!
Any “negative” adjectives on your list can be seen as a positive, if viewed in the proper light. For example, a shy person might be reflective and a messy person might be creative. In the words of Henry Ford, “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” So focus on the good within you and train your thoughts to see the good in every situation. | <urn:uuid:30c6f194-7f4d-48ff-abf9-fbb4cdff5a1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tcmworld.org/who-are-you-you-are-what-you-think/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965597 | 330 | 2.5625 | 3 |
According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tabernacle (Hebrew: מִשְׁכַּן , mishkān, meaning residence or dwelling place), also known as the Tent of the Congregation (אֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵד֩ 'ōhel mō'êḏ, also Tent of Meeting, etc.), was the portable earthly dwelling place of Yahweh (the God of Israel) used by the Israelites from the Exodus until the conquest of Canaan Definition of tabernacle. (Entry 1 of 2) 1 : a house of worship specifically : a large building or tent used for evangelistic services. 2 : a receptacle for the consecrated elements of the Eucharist especially : an ornamental locked box used for reserving the Communion hosts . The Tabernacle no longer served a purpose after the erection of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem in 950 bc tab·er·na·cle. (tăb′ər-năk′əl) n. 1. often Tabernacle Bible The portable sanctuary in which the Jews housed the Ark of the Covenant during their years in the desert. 2. often Tabernacle A case or box on a church altar containing the consecrated host and wine of the Eucharist. 3
. A house or dwelling-place ( Job 5:24; 18:6, etc.). A portable shrine (Compare Acts 19:24) containing the image of Moloch ( Amos 5:26; marg. and RSV, Siccuth). The human body ( 2 Corinthians 5:1 2 Corinthians 5:4); a tent, as opposed to a permanent dwelling tabernacle definition: 1. a place of worship for some groups of Christians 2. For the Jews in ancient times, a tabernacle. Learn more
. A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot. A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a Roman Catholic church. quotations The tabernacle in the wilderness was a portable place of worship God commanded the Israelites to build after he rescued them from slavery in Egypt. It was used from a year after they crossed the Red Sea until King Solomon built the first temple in Jerusalem, a period of 400 years The Tabernacle is een huis van gebed wat te vinden is midden in het Wallen gebied van Amsterdam. De visie is om gericht te zijn op God en om wereldwijde zending te ondersteunen door voorbede, aanbidding en andere creatieve uitdrukkingen samen met mensen uit allerlei landen
Public services are continuing at the Tabernacle. We recommend over 70s and vulnerable people follow services online; please see link for arrangements and precautions. New visitors wishing to attend should phone (020 7735 7076) or email (firstname.lastname@example.org) and ask for a ticket. Services will also be streamed online Tabernacle definition, any place or house of worship, especially one designed for a large congregation. See more This is a Virtual Reality tour of the Biblical Tabernacle.It was an incredibly valuable structure. In today's currency it would probably be worth over $100,.. At Timna Park, 20 miles (32 km) north of Eilat in the Arabah, a life-size replica of the biblical tabernacle has been constructed. While no original materials (e.g., gold, silver, bronze) have been used, the model is accurate in every other way based upon the biblical description
The Branham Tabernacle PO Box 325 Jeffersonville, IN, 47131 c/o Billy Paul Branham. Our prayers are certainly with all our brothers and sisters around the world as this virus persists. For donations to Voice of God Recordings, please continue to use: Voice of God Recordings PO Box 950 Jeffersonville, IN 47131. Show More. History Online vertaalwoordenboek. NL:tabernacle. Mijnwoordenboek.nl is een onafhankelijk privé-initiatief, gestart in 2004 A tabernacle is a fixed, locked box in which, in some Christian churches, the Eucharist is reserved (stored). A less obvious container for the same purpose, set into a wall, is called an aumbry . Within Catholicism , Eastern Orthodoxy and in some congregations of Anglicanism and Lutheranism , a tabernacle is a box-like vessel for the exclusive reservation of the consecrated Eucharist Ever wonder what the Tabernacle of Moses might have looked like? Experience it like never before with this incredible 3D model.Sign up for email notification..
The tabernacle (mishkan), first mentioned in the Torah in Exodus 25, was the portable sanctuary that the Israelites carried with them in the wilderness.Mishkan comes from the Hebrew root meaning to dwell; the tabernacle was considered to be the earthly dwelling place of God Tabernacle Tourism: Tripadvisor has 210 reviews of Tabernacle Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best Tabernacle resource
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CHINA is willing to send weapons to Russia to help its invasion, the US warned.
And Beijing was told it would face isolation and penalties if it helped Moscow as WW3 fears grow.
It came after US national security adviser Jake Sullivan met Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi in Rome.
Washington told allies in NATO and several Asian countries that China signalled a willingness to provide military and economic support to Russia, but is expected to deny the plans.
One US official said: “It’s real, it’s consequential and it’s really alarming.”
The White House said: “We have deep concerns about China’s alignment with Russia at this time, and the national security adviser was direct about those concerns and the potential implications and consequences of certain actions.”
Chinese companies defying U.S. restrictions on exports to Russia may be cut off from American equipment and software they need to make their products, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said last week.
But Yang said China was committed to resolving the conflict, adding: “China firmly opposes any words and deeds that spread false information and distort and smear China’s position.”
Ryan Hass of the Brookings Institution said Chinese support for Russia “would considerably narrow its path for preserving non-hostile relations with the United States and the West”.
It comes after Russia reportedly asked China for help last month with its Ukraine invasion.
Vladimir Putin’s side is believed to have asked Chinese president Xi Jinping for both military equipment and support after its February 24 invasion.
Several U.S. officials have since said Beijing could undermine Western efforts to help Ukraine, the New York Times reports.
And Sullivan said Washington believed China knew Russia was planning to invade Ukraine before it did.
He also warned Beijing would “absolutely” face consequences if it offered Russia support.
He told CNN: “We are communicating directly, privately to Beijing, that there will absolutely be consequences for large-scale sanctions evasion efforts or support to Russia to backfill them.”
Heavy explosions were heard in Kyiv Monday as an apartment was hit in one of the city’s suburbs. Over 2,500 civilians in Mariupol have died, according to Ukrainian officials.
There are many who remain in the city without electricity, water, and heat as the fourth round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators were put on pause until Tuesday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said “difficult talks” are ongoing with Russia.
“Difficult talks continue. Everybody is waiting for news. This evening we will report on the outcome,” he said in a video message.
One person has died and six others were injured in Kyiv’s Obolon district after an attack on an apartment building.
“Rescuers who arrived on the scene found that as a result of enemy shelling between residential five- and 10-story buildings, a fire broke out in two apartments on the third and fourth floors of a 5-story residential building,” said rescue services.
Meanwhile, Nato has amassed 30,000 troops and 50 warships near Russia’s border for military exercises, risking Mad Vlad’s rage.
The drill, named Cold Response, has kicked off today in Norway amid escalating tensions between Russia and the West over the invasion of Ukraine.
We are communicating directly, privately to Beijing, that there will absolutely be consequences for large-scale sanctions evasion efforts or support to Russia to backfill them.
The exercise includes 30,000 troops from more than 25 countries from Europe and North America, 200 aircraft, and 50 vessels.
The largest Nato exercise which is held just a few miles from the Russian border was planned long before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine but its significance has now been heightened.
“This exercise is extremely important for the security of Norway and its allies. We will practice an allied reinforcement of Norway”, Norwegian Defence Minister Odd Roger Enoksen.
“It is not being held because of the Russian authorities’ attack on Ukraine, but given the backdrop there is a heightened significance.”
The aim of the drill is to test how Norway and Alliance members would work together on land, in the air, and at sea in line with Article 5 of NATO’s charter, which requires member states to come to the aid of another member state under attack.
“I find it totally normal, perhaps now more than ever, to train together to demonstrate our capacity and our willingness to defend our values and our way of life”, stated General Yngve Odlo, head of Norway’s Joint Headquarters and in charge of Cold Response.
The Norwegian armed forces said it provided thorough information to the Russians, including the Russian Ministry of Defense, saying that was vital for preventing misunderstandings and unnecessary conflict.
Russia has declined to observe the exercise, which is held every two years and is due to end on April 1.
And even though it was planned months ago, it is bound to infuriate the Russian dictator who may have “roid rage” potentially caused by cancer treatment.
Western spies have speculated Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine may have been sparked by his physical health condition as he appears “ashen and bloated” in recent pictures released by the Kremlin.
‘ROID RAGE’ SPECULATION
They believe he is suffering from a brain condition, such as Parkinson’s disease or a more generic form of dementia – or has cancer.
Another theory is that he is suffering from “roid rage” from the long-term use of steroids.
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Baby rashes can be very unpleasant. Apart from the fact they dot the baby’s skin in a very bad way, it also makes the baby uncomfortable due to the itchiness. Redness and swelling on the skin are not things you would like to see on your baby’s bottom.
Diaper rashes are commonly caused by sleeping or spending too long in a wet diaper. Because a baby’s skin is sensitive, it is likely to react with a soiled diaper. While most rashes are harmless and are part of the growing up process, some can cause the baby mild pain. The good thing is that the rashes eventually go away with treatment.
Whether it is a harmless rash or not, you have to treat it due to the irritation. So how do you go about treating it? As they say, prevention is better than cure, so we will take a look at methods to adopt to reduce the chances of diaper rash.
1. First, You Have To Understand The Root Cause
spending more time than necessary in a diaper. How often do you change a diaper? Sometimes, we may not feel it necessary to change a diaper, especially when we guess that the baby has not pooped. But it also does not help that the baby has peed and it has not been changed, because moisture is what causes it. So you have to be proactive about things.
Change the diaper as often as you can. Do not wait for signs of poop or for the baby to start crying before you think of a change. Monitor the baby to know how they are faring. Watch out for facial expressions or signs showing discomfort of any sort.
Also, avoid letting the baby sleep in a soiled diaper. Change the diaper at night before sleeping and in the morning when they wake.
2. Wash Your Hands Before Changing A Diaper
Sometimes our hands can also contribute to giving a baby rashes on their bottom, due to the sensitivity of their skin. Wash hands properly before and after changing a diaper to avoid such things.
3. Use Mild Soaps
Always use mild soap when bathing a baby, especially when you get to the bottom area. Recommended baby soaps are usually just right for their tender skin. Avoid using medicated soaps or any other kind of soap for them.
4. Use Water To Clean Poop
Water is the best thing to use in cleaning a baby’s bottom when changing a soiled diaper. Using any other kind of cleanser may react with the baby’s skin, leading to rashes.
5. Avoid Rubbing The Baby’s Bottom
After cleaning with water or after a bath, avoid using towels to clean the baby’s bottom. The best method is to let it dry with air, or pat it till it is dry.
But what do you do when the rashes appear? As offensive as they may look, try not to panic. Getting the rash out is easier than you think. There are creams you can use to treat the rashes that will make them disappear in no time. These creams act as a shield on the skin, protecting it from the waste in the diaper. Creams like Butt Paste vs Desitin are great for preventing and treating your baby from diaper rash.
All you have to do is apply it on the baby’s skin after a bath or clean up, making sure the skin is dry. Apply the cream around the affected parts. The thing about diaper rashes is they are likely to spread, appearing around the front and even on the back. Apply the cream around every area the rash is present. Although the creams usually start working within a short while, it may take a few days to see actual results.
Also, you do not have to waste time before the rashes appear by trying out Butt Paste vs Desitin. Applying it can prevent the outbreak of rashes, saving the baby from losing his comfort.
Diaper rashes are not very major problems to deal with and may be caused by other things including:
- Change in diet, especially when the child starts eating solid food
- Use of medication
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Amid the push to get the COVID-19 vaccine to many as possible to stem the pandemic, a new variant of the coronavirus that exploded in Brazil and has since been reported in the U.S. is causing concern among scientists over its resurgence in one particular city.
The fast-spreading Brazilian variant, known as P.1, was first identified in four travelers from the South American country who were tested at an airport outside of Tokyo. It has since been discovered in a patient in Minnesota — becoming the first known case documented in the U.S. Minnesota health officials said the person had recently traveled to Brazil.
New versions of viruses — called variants — regularly emerge, and viruses are constantly mutating. Health officials have had concerns about P.1 and its potential for reinfection or to be more transmissible, although more research is needed.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added P.1 to its list of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, in addition to two others drawing global attention: B.1.1.7, the U.K. variant, and B.1.351, the South African variant. Both have also been detected in the U.S.
The CDC says P.1 contains a set of mutations that "may affect the ability of antibodies (from natural infection or vaccination) to recognize and neutralize the virus," but notes additional studies are needed.
Concerning resurgence in Manaus, Brazil
Worry about the new variant among infectious disease researchers seems to stem from a troubling resurgence in Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon region of Brazil.
The P.1 variant was first detected in samples from Manaus in December. The researchers, who published their findings on Jan. 12, reported the strain had been detected in 42% of the samples tested and noted the cases in Japan among the individuals who had traveled to Brazil.
Additional research estimated that as much as 76% of the population in Manaus had already been infected with COVID-19 by October 2020, putting it above the theoretical herd immunity threshold, according to the authors.
"The most concerning thing about P.1 is Manaus, because frankly, the virus has no business causing a surge of infections, hospitalizations and deaths there. It already did. It did so toward the middle of last year," said Dr. William Hanage, a Harvard University infectious-disease researcher.
The Amazonas state, which encompasses Manaus, has recorded at least 271,000 cases of the virus since the start of the pandemic — suffering a surge in the spring of 2020. The state is now in the midst of a devastating resurgence of infections, crippling Manaus’ healthcare system and creating severe oxygen shortages.
A woman wearing a mask hugs a COVID-19 patient who is to be flown out from Joao Lucio Hospital in Manaus to a hospital in Maceio, Alagoas state, amid a shortage of public hospital and ICU beds, on Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo by Lucas Silva/picture alliance
"If 75% of the population has some immunity, then that should be enough to stop any future surge. The fact that the surge has been seen, the fact that hospitalizations and deaths in January have been higher than previously, is obviously deeply worrying," Hanage added.
A study published Jan. 27 in the The Lancet looked at possible explanations regarding the COVID-19 resurgence in Manaus despite exceeding the threshold for herd immunity, which included the possibility of waning immunity. But the researchers said this alone is "unlikely to fully explain the recent resurgence," especially since Manaus went into a stricter lockdown with decreased mobility from mid-November through late December. Other possible explanations were higher transmissibility with the P.1 variant or that it contains mutations that enable it to evade immunity, leading to reinfection.
The possibility that reinfection with P.1 is easier than with other viruses is "plausible," Hanage said — as well as the possibility that the variant could be more transmissible than its ancestors. "But we don’t know that that’s the case yet. It’s just one of the things that’s consistent with the observed data," he added.
One specific mutation, called D614G, is shared by all three of the coronavirus variants. Research suggests this mutation gives the variants the ability to spread more quickly than the predominant viruses, according to the CDC. Another key mutation shared by the Brazil variant and the South African variant, called E484K, may help the virus evade antibodies, research has suggested.
Last week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the U.S. "should be treating every case as if it's a variant," saying the U.K. variant had been confirmed in at least 379 cases in 29 states, as of Jan. 27. The CDC has warned that the highly-transmissible variant could become the dominant strain found in the U.S. and lead to a spike in cases and deaths, further straining the healthcare system.
Walensky said public health officials remain concerned about the variants and "are rapidly ramping up surveillance and sequencing activities" to closely monitor and identify them, which is needed to stay ahead of the issue.
"There have been recent positive moves, and there has been an increase, but it has not been at the level that would be required in order to catch the imports and know about things early enough to make a difference," Hanage said of genetic sequencing in the U.S. "We’re moving in the right direction, but we still have a ways to go."
Vaccines against the new variants
More serious strains of the virus that has killed more than 447,000 Americans have created a new urgency to speed up vaccinations. The White House said 1 million doses will be distributed to some 6,500 pharmacies across the country next week, and it has boosted the weekly allocation of vaccines sent directly to states and territories.
Experts have said they expect current vaccines to work against the variant and play a much-needed role in the worldwide crisis, despite recent findings that the shots may not be as effective against the fast-spreading variant first detected in South Africa.
Hanage said it’s reasonable to suggest that some of the virus mutations "might reduce the efficacy of the vaccines a bit," but called the amount of immunity shown to be generated by the vaccines "really impressive."
"Vaccination is expected to be extremely helpful and still the cornerstone of what we should be doing," he said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, has called on Americans to get the vaccine as soon as they’re eligible to prevent further mutations. He added that vaccine makers should be "nimble to be able to adjust readily" to make tweaks to the vaccines if needed.
"Viruses cannot mutate if they don’t replicate," Fauci said. "And if you stop their replication by vaccinating widely and not giving the virus an open playing field to continue to respond to the pressures that you put on it, you will not get mutations."
In addition to getting vaccines, people should continue wearing a mask in public and other social distancing measures as the variants continue to circulate.
"The bottom line is: If you have been doing things which are high risk, they’re going to be higher risk in the presence of these variants," Hanage said.
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Smoking kills. Have a cigarette, and you'll die younger. Fail to eat your five a day, you'll die early. Exercise too little, or too much, and – you guessed it – you'll pay the price with your life.
Trying to work out exactly how good, or how bad, anything is has become a total quagmire. What really matters? How dangerous is dangerous? The Norm Chronicles, a new book by journalist Michael Blastland and Professor David Spiegelhalter that has a neat idea which turns all these abstract dangers into a concrete figure.
It centres on this idea: once you hit adulthood (or, being more precise, 22 for a man and 26 for a woman) you can expect to live for around 500,000 more hours – or a million half-hours. Each of those 30 minutes of life is a "microlife".
By working out the average effect of, say, smoking or eating red meat, we can figure out a cost in microlives for different habits. A portion of red meat, for example, costs you a microlife – in the words of Blastland, it's "a 30-minute chip off your stock of adult life".
Smoking is pretty nasty. Puffing on 20 cigarettes a day will cost you 10 microlives each and every day – meaning every 24 hours, you're essentially moving 29 hours closer to death. The extra burger a day we looked at seems a pretty safe indulgence by comparison: eating a burger a day means we'll "age" 24 hours and 30 minutes each day. Not too bad.
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As of March 31, 1997, this is how Science and the Environment‘s “summary” of an article from the September 1996 issue of Discover read (including the typos). S&E has since revised the page on their site.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. Aims for Longer-Range Forecasts
Science and the Environment – http://www.voyagepub.com/publish – Voyage Publishing 1996
Long-range forecasting is the goal of many an atmospheric scientist, including those employed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“NOAA is trying to develop the capability of predicting climate on longer time scales — a season ahead, or a year ahead, rather than three days ahead,” says atmospheric scientist Donald Hansen of the University of Miami. “And the generally accepted belief is that the longer-term variations in climate are influenced very strongly not just by the atmosphere but by the temperature structure in the ocean.” [see article on El Nino].
In search of clues to help explain long-term climate patterns, Hansen and his NOAA colleague Hugo Bezdek have recently poured over 45 years’ worth of North Atlantic sea surface temperature records, from 1948 to 1992.
Unfortunately, they didn’t find out how to predict the climate a year in advance. But they did uncover some strange ocean phenomena that, so far, defy conventional explanation: “huge blobs of warm and cool water slowly roaming around the North Atlantic.” The patches were immense — typically 500 to 600 miles across — but were nevertheless hard to spot. Hansen and Bezdek found them only because faced with so much data, they were forced to simplify their task. “We looked particularly at the most extreme things that occurred — the anomalies, only the top 10 and bottom 10 percent of sea surface temperatures,” said Hansen. Since they were only interested in long-term variations in temperature, they filtered out any temperature fluctuations that occurred over less than 4 years. Hidden in those 45 years of temperature records was the existence of large cold and warm “blobs” of water — one or two degrees colder or warmer than the surrounding seas — that sprang up in in the North Atlantic at various times, and that roughly followed general ocean current patterns — counterclockwise in the northern Atlantic, clockwise farther south. AMong the puzzling aspects of these records is their speed: about a mile per day,just 1/3 or 1/4 the speed of precailing currents.
“The water is probably flowing through them and changing its temperature as it goes,” says Hansen.
Hansen and Bezdek also don’t know how the blobs form or why they last so long, though Hansen says there must be some long-lasting interaction between the atmosphere and the sea that the blobs influence climate . though they note that one warm blob coincided with a prolonged drought in Scandanavia in the lat 1950s. While future research might answer these questions, for now much about the blobs remains a mystery. — Discover, September 1996 | <urn:uuid:7a21be9d-bd83-40f3-83b1-930ca6847ad9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://practice.motherjones.com/politics/1997/03/editors-note-19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948731 | 657 | 3.765625 | 4 |
What if it’s not just baby fat?
An alarming trend is on a steady rise in South Africa – that of toddler and child obesity. This is more than mere “baby fat”. Reports highlight that this trend is prevalent in developing countries, but the good news is that there is something we can do about it. Kim Jansen speaks to Cape Town-based dietician, Megan Pentz-Kluyts, to find out why this trend is on the rise, how to identify it in children, and what parents can do about it. | <urn:uuid:50202d3d-a70a-4935-bcca-51fc3de5d3c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mamamagic.co.za/milestones-magazine/what-if-its-not-just-baby-fat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953825 | 116 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Oil prices on world markets went up amid increased tension in the middle East after a number of Arab countries decided to break off diplomatic relations with Qatar. Oil and gas markets cautiously reacted to the situation around Qatar, as the Emirate is the largest producer of liquefied natural gas in the world.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt decided to break off diplomatic relations with Qatar, which caused a rise in oil prices and fluctuations in the stock markets. Here are the consequences, part of which quotes the Wall Street Journal.
Reaction in the oil market reflects the fact that Qatar at least and is part of OPEC but is not a major oil producer. In April, he had produced 618 thousand barrels per day, representing about 2% of the total production.
In addition, this small state is considered to be the most important player in the gas market and is the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas in the world. In 2016, Doha exported for 77.2 million tonnes of gas, equivalent to one third of all the world’s supply.
The majority of deliveries of Qatari gas is supplied from a large gas field located in the Persian Gulf. In accordance with the annual report of BP Russia, and Iran, have large natural gas reserves than Qatar.
There are no signs that affect the supply Qatar gas to the world markets after the Arab countries severed relations with Doha.
Major gas customers of Qatar located in Asia is Japan, which imports 15 percent of its gas from Doha, as well as China and India, while countries in the Middle East buy from Qatar less than 5% of the total natural gas exports.
The Japanese company Jera Co, the largest importer of liquefied natural gas in the world, stated that it received assurances from Qatargas that recent events will not affect delivery.
The company explained that as yet there are no consequences, but it will closely monitor the geopolitical situation in the region. Under the contract the company Qatargas agreed to supply about 8 million tons of liquefied natural gas per year for Jera Co.
The price of natural gas is often determine the long-term contracts between consumers and exporters. Changes in oil prices in recent years, associated with the increase in supply in the global gas market.
Analysts believe that the severance of diplomatic relations between the Arab countries and Qatar will have a direct impact on leading consumers of energy, but if there are other events, that oil prices may begin to rise, which will also affect gas prices.
Despite the fact that Qatar is not a major oil producer, there are fears that the escalation of political tension, especially between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, will lead to the failure of the Emirate’s support for the current agreements of OPEC to reduce oil production, which was extended for another 9 months, until the end of the first quarter of 2018.
But some experts have probably not noticed a small share of Qatar in the agreement. Qatar has pledged to cut production by only 30 thousand barrels per day.
However, analysts believe that the price of the severance of relations with Qatar may be to increase the rate of oil production Doha, which will refuse to comply with an agreement to reduce production. This step may encourage other countries OPEC to protect their market share and increase production, which in turn will lead to the collapse of the agreement to reduce oil production. | <urn:uuid:0e42ac36-1e8f-4815-9cf4-ab57b8200f2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intmassmedia.com/2017/06/07/as-the-severance-of-relations-with-qatar-will-affect-prices-for-oil-and-gas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965062 | 700 | 1.8125 | 2 |
In 2016, the Federal Reserve Board’s U.S. Currency Education Program (CEP) began its search for an innovative way to teach young students about Federal Reserve notes. When researching how elementary-aged students learn new topics in the classroom, we noticed a strong trend in effective mobile-based instruction. We then identified which mobile technologies teachers use in American classrooms.
Over time, the CEP created youth-focused materials that teachers and students could use on mobile devices. We developed and tested a prototype mobile app with elementary-aged children in early 2018. Following the participants’ feedback, we implemented a thorough project plan to develop the proof-of-concept into a viable product for public use.
The CEP launched the Money Adventure mobile app on the Apple App Store in January 2019. Money Adventure is an interactive smartphone and tablet app that teaches the next generation of cash users about the unique features of Federal Reserve notes.
Money Adventure facilitates a playful learning environment, similar to Currency Academy, the CEP’s web-based classroom content. Students can explore the features of a virtual $20 note or embark on an augmented reality quest using the detailed artwork on the back of banknotes.
The app is currently available for download on Apple’s App Store. After download, the app is fully usable without an internet connection. The Android version is scheduled to launch in late 2019.
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After the cold spell temperatures are beginning to rise again above 5 degrees! This has got lots of people asking - how does K Rend Accelerator work?
K Rend Accelerator is a liquid additive used to reduce the waiting time before scraping K Rend scraped texture renders. It accelerates the curing time of K Rend scraped texture renders meaning that the render may be scraped earlier, enabling a faster completion of the job. K Rend Accelerator may be used in cold conditions to improve the scraping time, however all winter working precautions still apply. K Rend Accelerator has no effect on the appearance of the K Rend scraped texture render providing the render is scraped at the correct state of readiness or hardness.
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Volume 16, Number 4—April 2010
Innovative Uses for Syndromic Surveillance
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Hi, advice needed, I have 10 dimmable low voltage lights in the kitchen ceiling all with their own transformers, they have been working fine for 2years although sometimes they seemed to dim then go back to full brightness on their own. The other morning I turned the lights on, they flickered & the whole lot went off, I have changed the dimmable switch for a standard on/off gang switch but with no change. If the transformers have gone it means pulling up most the upstairs flooring or pulling down the kitchen ceiling (both painful!) Any idea's where to start looking for a fix?
To start with low voltage AC is 50 to 1000 volts, so I am assuming your using extra low voltage?
The ELV lamps we used as the element was thicker than with 230 volt lamps, and as time went by the simple transformer was replaced with an "electronic transformer" which is not really a transformer, but a switched mode power supply.
The electronic transformer has the advantage of regulating the voltage so lamps last even longer, with quartz lamps the voltage being too low will cause the bulbs to blacken and the element fail, the quartz bulb must be kept hot, so you should not use quartz lamps with dimmer switches. (Although many do)
The other advantage is they are cheaper, smaller and lighter, and this means with MR16 lamps often they will fit through the hole the lamp fits in. So removing a lamp you may be able to renew the electronic transformer.
The problem with the electronic transformer is most (not all) have a minimum output as well as maximum which can stop you using LED replacements, they can also produce RF interference so often there is a max cable length. And to use with dimmers they have to be a special type and match the dimming switch. After all the whole idea of the electronic transformer is to ensure a steady voltage whatever the input voltage does.
So if your lamps have one transformer for a few lamps then one lamp blowing can cause the electronic transformer to auto shut down on under current protection.
If you have individual transformers then I would try and see if one will come out of the lamp hole, and I would replace with a GU10 lamp fitting and move from ELV to LV (12 to 230 volt) so you can fit any type of lamp and no worries about type of transformer, and once you have swapped one then you will know if switch and supply is OK.
The MR16 lamp needs to reflect it's light off something white to work well, often this is not the case, so many more lights than really required are fitted, this in turn results in a lot more power being used. So 10 x 50W = 2A just for one room, since ceiling roses are rated at 6A in the main the supply to lighting is 6A, with so much power to one room to keep within the 6A limit it may have an independent supply.
It may come from a separate MCB in the board, or from a fused connection unit (FCU) and fused down but fed from the ring final. There have been many lighting systems where 10A or 16A MCB's have been fitted to get around the massive load from poorly installed MR16 lamps.
The LED lamps are not really MR16 as MR stands for multifaceted reflector and 16 refers 16/8 of an inch across. With the LED often no reflector and the lamp does not cover the full 50 mm so even worse than the quartz lamp at getting the light into the room. A diffuser below the lamps will really increase the useful light, however it may not look as you want, so small surface mount LED lamps are often better than the MR16 compatible lamps at lighting the room.
I have a bathroom with pods where the MR16 lamp is directed at the white wall, and is reflected off the wall, that works well, but pointed down at a dark floor they are useless. I say this now as if you do need to lift floor boards or drop ceiling you may wish to fit other lamps.
I find kitchen is worst room, you want to keep cool, so quartz lamps sending out inferred heat on your head is last thing you want, I have gone for an induction hob to reduce the heat into the kitchen, no point in then using quartz lighting.
DIY how to tutorial projects and guides - Did you know we have a DIY Projects section? Well, if no, then we certainly do! Within this area of our site have literally hundreds of how-to guides and tutorials that cover a huge range of home improvement tasks. Each page also comes with pictures and a video to make completing those jobs even easier! | <urn:uuid:2c6a543c-eccd-45b2-aa73-5a85953e0843> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.diydoctor.org.uk/forums/all-low-voltage-lights-blown-could-it-be-transformers-t42385.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962581 | 956 | 1.554688 | 2 |
What Is A Saver (Participant) Statement?
A Participant Statement is a report that provides an overview of your retirement account's activity.
When Is The Saver (Participant) Statement Available?
Participant Statements are generated on a quarterly basis. A Participant Statement report is generated if:
- A saver (participant) had a balance on the first date of the quarter OR
- A saver had a balance on the last day of the quarter OR
- A saver had a transaction with a trade date on or between the first date of the quarter and the last date of the quarter
This report is provided in a PDF format that savers can access through their Vestwell portal.
**Savers will also receive an email when the report becomes available after the end of each quarter.
How Do I Find My Saver (Participant) Statement?
You can access the report through the link in your email notification or you can find it directly on your Vestwell Savers portal.
Click on the 'Plans' tab this will bring you to your 'Documents' screen where you can find your most recent and older Participant Statements.
What's Included In The Saver (Participant) Statement?
The Saver (Participant) Statement includes:
- Account Balance Summary
- Account Activity Overview
- Outstanding Loans (if any)
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Chatan Water Temperature
31°C / 87°F
The measurements for the water temperature in Chatan, Okinawa are provided by the daily satellite readings provided by the NOAA. The temperatures given are the sea surface temperature (SST) which is most relevant to recreational users.
Monthly average water temp
Monthly average max / min water temperatures
The graph below shows the range of monthly Chatan water temperature derived from many years of historical sea surface temperature data.
The warmest water temperature is in August with an average around 83.7°F / 28.7°C. The coldest month is February with an average water temperature of 69.4°F / 20.8°C.
7 day tide forecast for Chatan
*These tide times are estimates based on the nearest accurate location (Awase, Okinawa, Japan) and may differ by up to half an hour depending on distance. Please note, the tide times given are not suitable for navigational purposes. | <urn:uuid:87f49ff0-c20d-4e74-9620-21d63697e191> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.seatemperature.org/asia/japan/chatan.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.755218 | 475 | 1.695313 | 2 |
New Orleans' Controversial Public Housing Model
After several of New Orleans' public housing projects were damaged in Hurricane Katrina, city officials want to demolish the buildings -- considered by many to be symbols of urban decay -- and replace them with mixed-income units. Many low-income residents, however, do not agree with this approach.
The idea is to break up large blocks of public housing so that poverty is not concentrated in pockets of the city, boosting public safety and economic growth.
Developers and city officials are looking to the River Garden apartments as a model. The community was built on the site of a former public housing project in 2004.
Once completed, about one-third of River Garden residents will be low-income families. But some say that's not enough, arguing that mixed-income housing requires them to change the way they live.
Charlene Jackson, 54, moved into River Garden last year with her 10-year-old grandson. After getting complaints from management about things like her kiddie pool and Christmas decorations, she feels unwanted in the community. But living on Social Security, she cannot afford to move.
Scott Keller, deputy chief of staff for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says the goal of mixed-income housing is to minimize differences between the city's poor and middle-class.
But public housing residents say mixed-income developments provide too little housing for them and do not address their immediate housing needs post-Katrina. Some have filed a lawsuit to block the planned demolition of four major housing projects in the city.
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A crowd of hundreds of animal rights activists have staged a protest outside the Regent Street store of popular brand Canada Goose.
The protest was led by PETA, one of the world’s leading animal rights groups, after Canada Goose opened their flagship store in London. The crowd chanted ‘shame on you Canada Goose’ whilst showing gruesome videos of geese being slaughtering on their iPads and laptops, and handing out flyers to rally support from Saturday shoppers passing by.
Protesters held up posters reading “Would you wear a cat or a dog?” and “Fur is worn by beautiful animals and very ugly people”.
The demonstration took place in the wake of PETA’s release of an exposé of one of Canada Goose’s down suppliers; a shocking video of geese being crammed together and violently manhandled while being transported to slaughter. Shoppers stopped to take pictures of the commotion, picked up leaflets and some joined the crowd in support. Other shoppers walked casually into the store unfazed.
Canada Goose use geese feathers for the insulation in their coats and a range of their coats and jackets also have an animal fur trim which comes from the fur of wild coyotes.
The use of real animal fur in designer fashion brands has been at the forefront of animal rights protests for decades. It is unclear whether the overwhelming presence of activism surrounding the fur industry is the sole reason for its decline in recent years, but Austrian and UK governments have banned fur farming in their countries. The magazine Scientific American concluded that the number of mink farms in the US has fallen from 1,027 in 1988 to less than 300 today.
Leading designer brands such as Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Vivienne Westwood and Tommy Hilfiger have banned the use of real fur in their collections in an effort to become more ethical. Most recently, Gucci’s designer Alessandro Michele gave into the pressure of animal rights activism and banned fur from the brand.
Animal fur and leather have been a key ‘fashionable’ element in clothing and many celebrities such as Kate Moss, Kim Kardashian and Stormzy have been publically slammed for wearing fur garments as a fashion statement at the expense of animals.
Although PETAs efforts have been successful in their attempts to make designer brands, and the celebrities who wear them, respect animals, their attacks are also ignored. Jennifer Lawrence, when asked if the squirrel that she skinned in the movie ‘Winter’s Bone’ was real she replied, “I should say that it wasn’t real, for PETA. But, screw PETA.” Like anything, this just proves you can shout the loudest to get others to have the same opinion as you, but they can still choose to disagree.
Rebecca Raymond, 21-year-old fashion journalism student, lover and owner of real and faux fur coats says: “If you want to wear it, wear it. I wear real fur, fuck it”. However, she mentioned that she is reluctant to wear real fur out in public as she knows that people may judge her. “Fur has been part of fashion culture for decades, nothing is ethical nowadays.”
“I just see it as hypocritical that the people protesting don’t do it outside Clarks. Leather is the waste product of an animal which has been killed to make meat, what’s the ethical difference between a cow and a coyote or a goose?” says James Underdown, 20, part time model and student. “The production of fake fur has a huge environmental impact, which is probably equal to the environmental impact of using real fur. Also, the quality of real fur speaks for itself – I prefer the comfort of a feather or down filling in a coat.”
There is growing support and recognition for campaigns that are trying to make fashion more ethical, however, many people are unaware or just disinterested in where their clothes are made, how they’re made and if they have been the product of animal cruelty. Animal protestors may not actually be changing the mind of fur wearers, like Rebecca and James, but instead just making them feel guilt, or fear of judgement, for a split second whilst putting their fur coat on.
In a survey conducted by Artefact, 93 per cent of respondents said they disagree with clothing brands that use real animal fur, however, 53 per cent of them also said they purchase real leather goods such as bags and shoes. The truth is, most people prefer to be blissfully unaware of any ethical issues in the production of the clothes they are wearing; 93 per cent of our survey said they don’t consider where their clothes come from.
One thing animal rights protestors have proven to be successful at is bursting people’s bubble and forcing them to listen to their protest, but failing to convince them to join the protest. The survey also showed that two thirds of people support PETA only on specific issues and half of them disagree with protests being held outside the clothing store.
The anti-fur campaigns have attracted support from social media savvy young people, which has been helpful to their cause. It’s trendy right now to be vegan; Instagram is riddled with pictures of acai bowls and vegan cupcakes with a caption that explains why everyone else should join them be vegan. Vegan’s have become the product of memes and veganism has literally become a popular social trend and therefore the conversation of animal cruelty has become louder over social media.
Molly Davies, 18, has been a vegetarian since she was 14 and has “supported the anti-ivory trade campaign for years”. She believes there isn’t as much of a market for fur trade anymore due to this #crueltyfree social trend but she questions “whether the sincerity of their veganism is down to their beliefs or just copying the Jenners I don’t know, but its a start I suppose”. Davies disagrees with Canada Goose using down and fur for their garments. “I think members of the public dismissing the deplorable nature of this brand are simply choosing to turn a blind eye to unnecessary animal cruelty”.The International Fur Federation (IFF) recently put out a campaign claiming that “even during the economic slowdown the fur industry has performed strongly.” The IFF says that in countries such as Russia and Denmark the fur industry is an important contributor to their national economies. Fur is an essential component of Russian culture due to their climate.
This raises the question of cruelty versus culture – fur has been engrained in the heritage of colder countries and it is argued that faux fur doesn’t give the insulation that real fur can. Possibly, the same reasoning for wearing real fur cannot be said for American and British citizens; it is more for the purpose of fashion, many people simply prefer the look and feel of real fur (especially those who have the money to spend on the luxury).
People who actively choose to wear faux fur, as a political statement against animal cruelty at the expense of consumerism, are representative of the growing gluten- free cruelty-free artisanal lifestyle. However, faux fur can be environmentally harmful in a different way. Acrylic, the main fibre in faux fur was ranked the 39th most harmful fabric to the environment by the US Sustainable Apparel Coalition. So, does the alternative to animal slaughtering for fashion and warmth have an equally, or even bigger, carbon footprint? The bigger question to ask may actually be: animal cruelty versus earth cruelty.
The protests outside Canada Goose are just part of a large scale animal rights battle against fur for fashion. In an effort for fashion brands to become more ethical, through the use of faux fur, another environmental problem has appeared. Can fashion really become completely cruelty free, or in fact completely ethical?
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The Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement (CERRA) has released its 2020-21 South Carolina (SC) Annual Educator Supply and Demand Report. Approximately 6,000 teachers from 2019-20 did not return to teach in the same district for the 2020-21 school year. This is a 10% decrease compared to the number of departures reported last year. In the report, “teachers” include classroom-based certified educators as well as other certified educators who provide instructional/support services outside the classroom.
Although the number of departures decreased overall, early-career resignations were more prevalent this year with 42% who had five or fewer years of SC teaching experience and 16% with one year or less. The percentages reported last year were 36% and 13%, respectively. Of the first-year teachers hired for the 2019-20 school year, 36% did not return to a teaching/service position in the same district in 2020-21. This percentage is up from 28% last year.
Districts reported an increase of more than 140 vacant teaching/service positions for 2020-21 compared to last year. As of October/November this year, there were about 700 vacancies in SC public schools. With the growing impact of the pandemic, it was anticipated that districts would have more difficulty filling positions this year.
Results from this year’s Supply and Demand Survey may not fully reflect the effects of COVID-19 on schools and districts. Many teachers may have already signed their contracts for 2020-21 when the impact of the pandemic began to be felt, potentially deterring them from resigning. Additionally, districts may have experienced more teacher departures after surveys were submitted. CERRA plans to survey district personnel directors in early 2021 to further assess how the pandemic is affecting their teacher recruitment and retention efforts.
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It is likely that you are considering air freight services if you need to ship high-value, low-volume cargo. In many cases, however, there is an understandable reluctance to actually try this.
The cost and weight limit of the cargo concern many business owners, especially those running small and medium-sized businesses. Furthermore, air freight transport is more dependent on the weather than other modes of transportation.
Even though these concerns are valid, using an air freight forwarder can have much more benefits. Here are several reasons why air freight can significantly boost your business if you’re unsure what to do.
Many people are convinced by this reason alone. For shipments that must reach their destinations quickly, air freight is the best option.
When travelling internationally, air freight minimises delays, which are more common with sea freight. Additionally, you can only ship perishable goods by air freight if you’re shipping perishable goods.
Monitoring made simple
Road freight is another form of shipping in which cargo tracking is a problem. This is not the case with air freight. The majority of freight forwarders in the UK provide their clients with a web application to track their shipments.
From departure to arrival, they can track their cargo. Clients can feel at ease with this type of accurate updating. This is especially true for highly valuable cargo.
Air freight couldn’t compete with sea freight in the early days of aviation. With air freight, you can receive your goods anywhere in the world.
There is an impressive network of airports and destinations served by most major airlines.
As a result, air freight forwarding has no geographic restrictions. In rural areas, however, freight must also be transported by road.
Among the safest modes of transportation for cargo is air freight. It is less likely to be stolen or damaged in transit. Furthermore, every airport has special procedures to ensure the safety of passengers and planes. Using air freight services will save your cargo a lot of time and money compared to shipping it by boat or truck.
The packaging is affordable
Packing will cost more whether you’re shipping cargo by sea or land. The cargo must be protected from damage so that all bumps or falls are absorbed.
As opposed to air freight, packing for air freight is much lighter. In addition to being cheaper, it is also faster.
In addition, by using air freight, warehousing is rarely necessary, since the shipments rarely arrive late. In particular, inventory control becomes natural and less resource-intensive.
The cost of insurance is low
Cargo insurance is included in freight forwarding services. For small business owners, this is a significant cost.
However, air freight insurance premiums are lower due to its faster transit time. Losses or theft of air freight are extremely rare, so insurance companies offer lower rates.
Conformity with the law
The paperwork involved in international shipping is the biggest downside. Administrative issues are handled by a freight forwarding company.
Prior to the cargo departing, all the documentation must be in order.
However, mistakes and penalties are common in sea freight forwarding. Compared to ground freight, air freight has fewer complications and unforeseen obstacles.
Shippers must keep to their schedules. Unfortunately, delays do occur.
Your business won’t suffer delays, theft, or damage if you choose air freight. The most reliable and safe mode of freight forwarding for business owners is this.
Taking your Cargo around the World
When you want to expand your business quickly, international shipping is often the best option. You should invest in air freight if your operation requires careful handling.
Even though this mode of shipping freight is expensive up front, it pays off in many ways over the long run. Think of how much money you can save on insurance premiums and warehousing and packing costs. Air freight is a cost-effective solution as a result of these factors and adds up quickly.
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The human body is made up of a variety of elements. The common elements are hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, calcium. There are various cells and tissues present in our body. The human body consists of two types of blood white blood cells and red blood cells. How are platelets involved in blood? Understand the basic food to increase platelet count? What are the basic criteria of platelets in our body?
Are you facing excess bleeding problems in your body? Platelets are the blood cells that will protect your body from bleeding. Platelets act as a protector and will protect your blood vessels from damage.
Have you ever experienced the size of a platelet? At school or college, we visited a Biology Laboratory. The size of the platelet is very small. You cannot observe this with your naked eyes. A microscope is required to look at the size of the platelet. The platelet is associated directly with the bone marrow. You can also observe this in your red as well as white blood cells. There are various types of food to increase platelet count in your body.
Types of platelets and food to increase platelet count
The type of platelets in medical history is known as thrombocytosis. There are two types of platelets one is primary and the other is secondary thrombocytosis.
- Primary platelets: – the exact reason for abnormal cells present in bone marrow is not known. The increased level of platelet count in body cells without knowing the reason Is a type of primary platelet.
- secondary platelets:- this platelet is similar to primary platelets but the condition is different. The disease is familiar with this type of platelet cancer, infection, anemia.
There are various types of food you need to eat to increase platelet count in your body.
What is meant by low platelet and which food increases it?
The entire fact has some meaning. In medical terms, low platelet is named as thrombocytopenia. To track low platelet for the first time common symptoms is bleeding from the nose, gums. Low platelets can have a severe problem. Some of the problems like cancer, kidney infection. Few platelets can lead to heart attack, strokes. Common symptoms are usually neglected by people. A doctor can guide you for this and never ignore the symptoms.
Best food to boost your blood platelet count
Medical conditions and diseases are correlated with each other. The low platelet count will cause various diseases. A healthy platelet count is always necessary. The normal and healthy platelet count lies between 160 – 450 billion/L. Foods that are rich in vitamins, minerals are the best food to consume. Below you will get the names of food best for blood platelet count in your body.
Rich in vitamin C
Foods that are rich in vitamin C will help to increase platelet count. Names of food rich in vitamin C are guava, strawberry, mango, grapes, peas, orange, kiwi. Some other foods are sweet yellow paper, mustard spinach, broccoli, and lemon.
Green leafy vegetables
The green leafy vegetable Spinach, fenugreek leaves, and kale. These vegetables are easy to buy and easy to cook. Green leafy vegetables are also used to cure fevers like dengue, typhoid.
Food rich in folate
Foods that are rich in folate are orange, kidney beans, Black Eyed Peas, peanuts, etc. People suffering from low platelet count can consume this food for high platelet count.
Foods rich in vitamin B12
Foods rich in vitamin B12 are quite common. Foods like egg, milk, cheese, ghee, poultry, etc are best to increase the low platelet count. Not only this food will also reduce the risk of the oral cavity, boost your immunity.
Coconut oil is one of the best health benefits of oil. This oil acts as a healing oil in our food. For low blood platelet count, you can take coconut oil along with the food to increase blood platelet.
Suffering from low platelet blood count? The raisins will help you to improve your low blood platelet count. The low blood platelet count is due to iron deficiency. Food rich in iron such as raisins can solve your problem.
Do you know that pumpkin is rich in vitamins? Food rich in vitamin C and vitamin A can increase your blood platelet level. Orange pumpkin will be good for your health and your immune system.
Have you ever taken the juice of wheatgrass? The juice of white grass will help to increase the blood platelet count. Not only this it is useful and a superfood with other benefits also. Wheatgrass can improve white blood cell count, hemoglobin, and red blood cell count in our bodies.
The use of carrot and beetroot juice is rich in minerals and iron. These two root juice will increase the blood platelet count in your body. If possible you can consume a raw salad of beetroot and carrot.
Non-vegetarian food like fish, meat is rich in protein. Protein-building food will improve your blood platelet count. Those who love eating non-vegetarian food can eat fish for vitamins and zinc. Chicken, beef, and crap can also be taken.
Suffering from low platelet count and still unaware of papaya benefits. Papaya is such a fruit that can increase your blood platelet count very easily. Research has found that papaya is the only fruit that helps to cure many diseases. This fruit is not so costly and a middle-class person can afford it.
Iron-rich fruit such as pomegranate will help with low blood platelet count. The choice is whether you take juice or salad. Some fruit doesn’t have any taste but you have to consume it.
Things to be noted down!
Food is an important fact for high blood platelet count. You should change your habits and points should be noted down.
The leafy vegetables rich in vitamins will improve your blood clot level. Consuming leafy and green vegetables regularly will produce protein in your body. This is the best method to stop your body from bleeding and to improve your platelet level.
The habit of eating fatty fish
Fish for non-vegetarians will increase blood platelet count. The fatty fish rich in vitamins will help in the formation of a red blood cell. Tuna, salmon are fatty fish and should be consumed. You can consume vitamin B12 supplements instead of cooked fish if you don’t prefer eating fish.
Say no to alcohol
Alcohol like beer, the wine will stop the production of a blood cell. It will damage your bone, red blood cells. Excess use of alcohol will destroy your bone marrow. Try to avoid alcohol and keep your blood platelet count up to mark.
Consume citrus food
Citrus food like lemon, grapes, oranges, or fresh juice will make your day. A huge amount of food rich in vitamin C will boost up your platelet count. Along with vitamin C, the intake of Iron-rich food is also important. Direct food or fruit consumption will keep the problem of constipation away. You can avoid the supplements and depends on direct fruit.
Supplement of chlorophyll
Have you ever heard about chlorophyll supplements? Chlorophyll supplement is good to increase blood platelet count. Chlorophyll supplements you get from vegetables, green leafy vegetables along wheatgrass.
Maintain diet chart
Low blood platelet count and still casual in your daily routine? Here you will get what to eat and what to avoid to maintain a healthy platelet.
Eat fresh avoid concentrated foods
Fresh fruits and vegetables always contain nutrients and folic acid. Easy to eat and long fruits and vegetables will function best. Try to avoid concentrated food like blueberries, ginger, garlic, onions, and a huge amount. Concentrated food will thin your blood and you will have to face problems.
Eat healthy fats avoid trans fat
Healthy fats like butter, avocados, seeds will give you energy and will not increase your calories. Saturated food will increase your blood pressure, heart disease with high calories.
Eat whole-grain avoid refined grain
Whole grain is important for complex carbohydrates. A properly balanced diet always requires complex carbohydrates not refined grains or sugar added food. Whole wheat bread, oats are a good source of carbohydrates. Avoid sugary food which will destroy your sugar level and lead to low blood platelet count.
Consume healthy fluid avoid alcohol
Healthy and hydrated fluid like water, juice of fresh vegetables or fruit, herbal teas will make your day wonderful. It will increase the blood platelet count. Alcohol will destroy your health. Be aware of the anticoagulant property present in alcohol. Take help from your doctor if you are not well versed in this topic.
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Generally people in many societies do not acknowledge the existence of hell. Do you believe in eternal punishment? People ask how can a loving God send people to torment? Wasn’t the idea of hell to scare people in the olden days and control their behaviour? Let’s briefly look at this subject and consider the biblical perspective.
Biblical View of Hell
The Greek word pronounced “Gehenna” is frequently translated in the bible as “hell”. Gehenna existed just outside Jerusalem in the Valley of Hinnom where a continual fire destroyed Jerusalem’s rubbish. It became a symbol of hell and was also known as the Lake of Fire.
The medieval view influences many people’s understanding of hell. Bosch and Dante pictured hell as a place where Satan rules and demons torture the damned. However, the Bible states God rules in hell (Matthew 10:28). Satan and his demons are sent there to be punished and will have no authority (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10). In Revelation the term Lake of Fire appears 4 times (Revelation 19:20; 20:10; 20:14-15). It is a place prepared for fallen angels not people. Jesus stated:
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. (Matthew 25:41)
Jesus is the main source of our knowledge about hell in the Bible. He described hell as a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 8:12; 13:42; 13:50; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30; Luke 13:28). Those who reject God and do not turn away from their sin face a destiny of perpetual, eternal suffering. Jesus, speaking about a man in punishment said:
“- And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.” (Luke 16:24-25)
Humanists believe that human nature is essentially good and we reap what we deserve in this life. There is no afterlife. The quality of life is what is important. Avoiding disease and suffering and being happy is the goal. Motivated not by fear of the after life but rather the manner of dying. Euthanasia used to avoid a bad death. Suicide to avoid a bad life. Quality of life in this world is all that matters. However, the Bible states people are sinners and can do no good (Romans 3:23; 6:23) and we will have to give account for what we do in this life (Matthew 12:36; Hebrews 4:13; 1 Peter 4:5).
Humanists believe there is no judgment following death. Society makes and upholds the rules. We are our own judges. Offenders need rehabilitation not punishment. The bible says the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23) and all will face judgment before God (Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:11).
In this age of consumerism, hell is not a good selling point. The “just do it” frame of mind pervades and persuades people that anything goes. But the bible says God is the provider of all we need (1 Timothy 6:17). Relativism states there is no absolute truth or absolute facts. All is relative to a personal frame of reference. On the other hand the Bible says the Word of God is truth (John 17:17; John 14:6).
Objections to Hell
Objections to the existence of hell fall into roughly five categories.
- Emotional objection- how can you enjoy heaven if there is a hell?
- Moral objection – Punishment is old fashioned. We provide rehabilitation for offenders.
- Intellectual objection – We have come so far in intellectual development we no longer need the scary language of heaven and hell.
- Judicial objection – God is good. How can he give eternal punishment for a person’s actions from their limited life on earth?
- Love related objection – How can a loving God send a person to hell?
All these are rationalistic arguments that have no basis in scripture. They appear on the surface to be good arguments. But they deny the revelation of God in the scriptures. God is just and is the source of all justice (Deuteronomy 32:4; Isaiah 30:18). He is the source of morality, infinitely wise (1 Timothy 1:17), fair, just, merciful and compassionate, accepting all who repent, turning from themselves to him. God wants no-one to perish (Matthew 18:14)
Alternatives to Hell
Alternative views to hell include:
- Universalism – Heaven is everyone’s destination but they do not realise it until they hear the Gospel.
- Annihilationism – Either at death or after the judgement wicked people and angels cease to exist.
These views depend on deduction, speculation or rationalisation and not on what the Bible teaches. If there is no final judgment then people can behave in any way they want so long as they avoid punishment in their life time. A murdering dictator may be able to avoid justice by ending his life. Is that fair? Is that justice? If there is no hell then you do what ever you want. There is no punishment. But our inner sense of justice knows that is not right.
Denying the existence of hell reduces the imperative to preach the gospel. Jesus commanded us to go into all the world and preach the gospel (Mark 16:15). We do not need to fear hell. We need to fear God because that is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10; Proverbs 9:10). The power of life is in the hands of God (Job 33:4). He knows all about us (Psalm 139:1-18).
“I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him! Luke 12:4-5)
All though the Bible God calls on people to repent, to turn from their sinful ways. To those who do repent and believe in the Son of God he will give everlasting life. But, to those who do not believe, the wrath of God abides on them (John 3:36). God the Father sent Jesus to die on the cross to taste death for us and to pay for our sins (Hebrews 2:9). We receive forgiveness by the grace of God (Ephesians 2:8-9), giving us forgiveness we do not deserve, but we are forgiven because of what Jesus did. Believers need not fear hell, God promises those who believe in Jesus will be with him in eternity. | <urn:uuid:0ff8073c-9179-4020-a0fc-15fe70cdd4fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.davidmaby.com/8-hell/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937365 | 1,506 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Software products often depend on other components to be installed in order to run properly. From other applications to databases, frameworks and run-time environments, it is the installer's job to make sure that the right versions are present before the main application is ready to run.
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- Windows Installer
- .NET Framework
- SQL Server
- Java Runtime Environment
- Internet Explorer
- Visual C++
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- and many more...
Adding a brand new prerequisite is just a matter of specifying a search criteria and a packaging method.
Advanced OS configuration like Windows Features and Windows Server Roles is also included.
Checking for prerequisites
Prerequisites are searched using the possible criteria, from file versions to registry keys and values. The search checks if the installed versions fall in the specified range. Prerequisites not found are subsequently scheduled for install.
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The use of categories and subcategories is extremely important when trying to create a well-organised, professional electronic product catalogue. Not only does categorisation help sales reps navigate the catalogue more easily and show customers exactly what product they’re looking for, you also avoid scrolling tediously through one endless page in your search.
There has also been quite a bit of research about the effects of giving customers too much choice. Choice overload (sometimes called analysis paralysis) is a state in which customers are either unable to or struggle to make a purchase because there is too much information for them to process all at once. However, being faced with a lot of choices isn’t inherently a bad thing because people tend to show more interest where there are a lot of products. However, this interest doesn’t necessarily lead to buying.
But wait, this doesn’t mean you should shrink your inventory, you simply need to organise your products better to avoid choice overload. Separating a large inventory into more manageable bite-sizes makes choosing easier and makes it more likely that a customer will place an order.
Creating the perfect category hierarchy is easy once you know how. Start off with your main categories (also called parent categories) and then create subcategories for each parent category. The following tips can help those creating new catalogues, and also established sales reps, to organise products effectively:
* First off, decide in which parent category a product should fall by asking,
– “What is the product?”
– “What can the product be used for?”
– “What type of people will use the product?”
– “What necessity does the product fulfil?”
* Start broad and then go narrower. For example, separate products into very broad categories like “Men” and “Women”. These two categories can then be divided into subcategories such as “Shirts”, “Trousers” and “Shoes”.
* Create subcategories when there are 30 products or more in a specific category to ensure customers can easily navigate your electronic catalogue.
* It’s okay to have the same or similar subcategories in more than one parent category as long as they are placed there for a purpose.
* Categories need to be mutually exclusive – if you pick one, you shouldn’t be able to pick another and they should also not be combined. Having unique parent categories helps to support exploratory product browsing and to better find what the customer is looking for exactly.
* Choose category names that can be understood by the majority of customers who will encounter them. The simpler the better.
* Think about creating a “What’s New” or “Just Arrived” category that changes regularly. Customers who buy from you on a regular basis will particularly find this helpful as they are already familiar with what you have and want to see what has come in since your last meeting with them.
* Similar to the above mentioned categories, food providers or seasonal businesses can have “In Season” categories.
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21 DAY Mediterranean Diet Challenge DAY#18
Welcome to Day #18
Do you keep active?
Well, as you can guess one of the characteristics of the Mediterranean diet lifestyle is physical activity.
Studies have shown that daily exercise of even 15 minutes a day is linked to living longer.
Physical activity reduces mortality risk factors including hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
In addition, exercise can improve mood, help with memory, help you sleep better and assist with weight loss and weight maintenance. But generally, it gives you a sense of wellbeing.
Research has shown that it does not necessarily need to be vigorous exercise. The most important point to remember is that physical activity within a Mediterranean lifestyle is a state of mind. It is not one hour of intense exercise at the gym and then the rest of the time spent in a chair or on a couch. It is a somewhat constant state.
In the Mediterranean, walking to places is very common especially as people age, they tend to drive less and walk more. In smaller towns and villages, the locals complete most of their errands on foot or on a bike.
That doesn’t mean that they are super-fit and can run marathons or lift weights, it means that they are in good physical condition and especially for older individuals it keeps them strong and vibrant.
Walking everywhere might not be feasible for everyone, but in your daily routine try not to sit most of the day; do a little housework and yard work, cook and generally get up every hour.
Have a minimum goal of walking 5000 steps a day, every day.
You may wonder why not 10000 steps?
Actually there isn’t any scientific evidence that shows that you need that many steps a day to reap the benefits of exercise. A study published 2 years ago from Harvard showed that 4400 steps a day can provide many benefits.
This can be done even in your home; I have walked many times back and forth in my hallway to get those minimum steps in for the day. So find your favorite music or podcast and start walking!
Today’s New Challenge: Take 5000 Steps
- Continue drinking 2 herbal beverages a day
- Have a seafood or fish meal.
- Have 2 citrus fruit today
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The Kami Seya station suffered a terrible fire on the night of 23-24 September 1965.
The fire destroyed most of the Operations Complex adjacent to the Tunnel, including Building 25 near the entrance, and severely damaged operational areas inside the Tunnel. Twelve men died; they were the Officer-of-the-Deck, ten Morse code Intercept Operators (including two Marines), and a Russian linguist. The R-390A radio receivers that could be salvaged were taken by bus to the NSAPAC facility at Camp Fuchinobe. One of the NSG operators said that it was strange, seeing the NSA employees in ties doing the same job we did. Other personnel were temporarily transferred to Misawa, Hanza in Okinawa, and other places that could handle the load.
In November 1965, Project Running Light was organized to construct, ‘on an urgent basis, four new buildings to replace Building 25 and other parts of the operations complex destroyed in the fire. These were completed during 1966. A 1,700-square feet Communications Addition was also constructed. A new receiver site was also established during 1966.
By December 31, 1966, there were 81 officers and 1,270 enlisted men stationed at NSGA Kami Seya, with another 23 officers and 360 enlisted men stationed at detachments assigned to Kami Seya. Company E of the Marine Support Battalion that were attached to the NSGA, had four officers and 115 enlisted Marines.
USS PUEBLO Capture
The NSGA at Kami Seya had a Direct Support (DIRSUP) unit, also called the 5th Division, which provided the personnel for airborne, ship-borne and submarine SIGINT collection operations in the Far East. Six men from Kami Seya were aboard the USS Pueblo, the US Navy’s SIGINT ship captured by the North Koreans in January 1968, comprised of four NSG CTs and two Marine sergeants. The Marines were assigned as Korean linguists, although they barely knew the language. While the Pueblo was dock-side at Yokosuka in December-January being prepared for its patrol, all its CTs were sent to Kami Seya for training, apart from six who went to the PACOM ELINT Center at Fuchu. During the seizure of the vessel, the DF systems at Kami Seya recorded the ship’s position as well beyond North Korean waters.
The Kami Seya station suffered another tragedy on April 14, 1969, when North Korean fighter aircraft shot down an EC-121M SIGINT aircraft, flown by the VQ-1 Squadron based at Atsugi, on an ELINT collection mission along North Korea’s eastern coast. Nine men were from NSGA Kami Seya’s Direct Support Unit were aboard the aircraft, including two from Hakata
who were on temporary duty at Kami Seya.
Kami Seya Largest Overseas Site
By December 31, 1969, the NSG station occupied 586 acres and was staffed by 1,652 personnel, of who 1,370 performed NSG functions. The mission of the NSGA at Kami Seya was officially described as being to provide direct and timely Naval Security Group Support to the fleet in the Pacific. Primarily this support consists of HFDF, COMSEC and other Naval Security Group functions.
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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 80, 2014QCD@Work 2014 – International Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics Theory and Experiment
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ATLAS QCD measurements for Higgs studies and New Physics searches
University of Edinburgh
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Published online: 24 November 2014
Our understanding of the modelling of Standard Model processes plays an important role for Higgs physics and searches beyond the Standard Model. Measurements such as vector boson plus jet production are essential for the understanding of backgrounds, modelling of double parton interactions, heavy flavour production from gluon splitting and modelling of the underlying event. Precision QCD measurements can also be used to constrain parton density functions, which are important for the understanding of the Higgs boson production cross section and the Standard Model backgrounds at the LHC kinematic limits. A review of recent ATLAS measurements is presented.
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Settling In – Prep School Camp
22 Nov 2018
The Prep School year began with all 302 children taking part in an overnight camp and team building event. With the first week of school almost over, we replaced books with sleeping bags and hiked down to Nine Acre for the start of our camp adventure. After games and hot chocolate around the fire, children settled into bed.
At six o’clock the next morning, Nine Acre was bathed in a low mist and not a peep could be heard from the 140 or so tents scattered throughout the field. Recharged with pastries and a warm drink, children and staff kicked off the day with a whole school aerobics session led by Mrs Palma.
Team building challenges then ranged from a 7ft inflatable climbing frame and slide to laser tag, archery and an assault course. Some created a coracle, volunteering a brave team mate to drift out over the Headmaster’s Pond, while other children dissected owl pellets or played frisbee golf.
The sunshine, the challenge and the support offered by friends old and new forged a sense of belonging, giving children and staff a perfect chance to bond together, setting us up for the year ahead. | <urn:uuid:be42ecf9-5470-4274-8753-e884b09e0a8d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ardingly.com/settling-in-prep-school-camp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94254 | 255 | 1.734375 | 2 |
All of us have been mesmerized by the glory of a sunset or the beauty of the freshly fallen snow across a barren landscape. Yet, as beautiful as nature can be, we are still unsatisfied. There should be something more.
C.S. Lewis speaks to this troubling disparity in Weight of Glory:
We do not want merely to see beauty, though…. We want something else which can hardly be put into words-to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it…. At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Someday, God willing, we shall get in.
As Christians who live in the age of redemption, we realize that the beauty we see in God’s creation is a reflection of his glory. As a great painting reflects the glory of the master artist who painted it, even the fallen creation still reflects the glory of the Creator of all things.
Rick Howe writes in his book, Rivers of Delight, that,
Beauty and its pleasure are God’s gifts to enrich our lives. Beauty is the expression of the extravagant benevolence of our Creator.
What we see and feel are only a taste of the way things could be. We await the restoration of all things at the end of this age. We wait to truly embrace the way things are supposed to be.
But even in this fallen world, creation’s chorus still calls out to us as voiced by the hymn writer Henry van Dyke over a 100 years ago:
Mortals, join the happy chorus, which the morning stars began.
Living within the tension of this “already/not yet” of redemption and restoration also has significant implications for our work as well.
Made in God’s image, we are to create through our work things from the raw material he has given us. This is why J.R.R Tolkien called man a sub-creator. Tolkien would also rightly state that one of the ways man glorifies God is through the sub-creation of works that echo the true creations of God. This is one of the ideas expressed in Tolkien’s short story, Leaf by Niggle.
While our work has been redeemed, it awaits the second coming of Christ to be restored.
Like our appreciation of nature’s beauty, we can enjoy our work while realizing it will never be perfect in this current realm.
Acknowledging that our work can never be perfect does not give us a pass. God still expects us to work as hard as we can to do the best at whatever he has called us to do.
My wife and I recently moved into a new house, and I am sometimes overwhelmed by all the things that still need to be done and the things I wish we had done differently. I thought, “I am never going to get this house right.”
Tolkien’s story made me realize that my perfect house, like Niggle’s tree, is awaiting me in the new earth in the age of restoration. The house that I have built here is only a taste of the blessing that God has in store. Meanwhile, I still need to work as hard as I can to finish the things that are not finished and try to make the house the best it can be.
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Active Leadership Development Program
Iron Academy’s Active Leadership Development Program entrusts young men to lead: to practice it, to mess it up, to study it in action, and to learn from real-world successes and failures. Our leaders will make important decisions, reject passivity, and learn to manage group dynamics. Much of the daily life at Iron Academy relies upon student-directed leadership. Convocation every morning is run by student leadership that regularly rotates. The entire school is cleaned daily by students and managed by student leaders. Much of the discipline is handled directly by students who uphold Matthew 18:15-17 principles, iron sharpening iron. Round Tables draw upon every student who has earned his Challenge Coin to participate actively in the disciplinary process. Iron Academy students hold one another accountable for the Honor Code. They formulate the school rules each year. Student leadership is a daily practice and has daily significance for every student. It isn’t always pretty or perfect, but it is intensive, hands-on, effective, and life-changing. Student-directed leadership is the perfect complement to the Iron Academy Honor Code. It allows us to teach the students the code and how it influences daily life at Iron Academy. It then places most of the culture-building responsibility on the young men, where it should be. To be eligible to be a leader, students must possess their challenge coins, be in good academic standing, and submit a school leader application form to be approved by the faculty. If the leader fulfill the requirements for the elective in leadership, he can receive elective credit. Our students have several opportunities to develop and refine their leadership skills as described below.
School Leaders are elected twice per year. The School Leader participates equally in Roundtable discussions with the staff, initiates and conducts intensive mentoring of fellow students as needed, runs the daily convocation, works closely with staff on issues as they arise, and is usually the first student to be entrusted with a problem. The School Leader has input in any revisions of the code of conduct.
Our student body is divided into three tribes named for King David’s three mightiest warriors: Eleazar, Josheb, and Shammah. Each tribe will elect its own high school and middle school leader each quarter. Tribe leaders have significant responsibility for speaking for the tribe, being responsible for daily chores, monitoring the overall health of their tribe and tribemates, initiating Matthew 18 conflict-resolution principles, and consulting with Iron Academy staff members as needed. The Tribe Leaders have input in any revisions of the code of conduct.
Crucible Camp Squires
Crucible Camp Squires are valuable mentors and encouragers of all entering students who attend Crucible Camp. They assist the faculty in managing the week’s rigorous activities.
In this leadership role, the Shepherds will meet daily with assigned middle school students to encourage them in regards to the Honor Code and check their bookbag and review their homework plan to ensure that all work is being managed well. The Shepherds will add a layer of encouragement and accountability for our younger gentleman scholars.
Chaplains are elected twice per year. The Chaplain assumes responsibility for Chapel service on Thursdays, keeping himself in tune with the spiritual health of the school, initiating Matthew 18 conflict-resolution principles, and consulting with Iron Academy staff members as needed.
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This project develops experimentally verified models for the design and monitoring of hydraulic fractures with constricted openings to ensure adequate and robust hydraulic fracture control. The results are expected to substantially increase the accuracy of design and monitoring of fracture openings, geometry and fluid flow, which will improve efficiency, safety and environmental security of the resource and energy extraction.
Funded by: Australian Research Council (Discovery Project in partnership with University of Western Australia).
Researchers: Prof. Boris Gurevich, Prof. Maxim Lebedev
Development and construction of a low-frequency experimental apparatus for measurements of seismic dispersion and attenuation in reservoir rocks
The low-frequency apparatus (US Patent 9,857,278, Australian patent AU2011318229) and the ultrasonic system developed at Curtin University allow us to measure the elastic properties of rock samples at the seismic (0.1 Hz – 120 Hz) and ultrasonic (0.5 MHz – 1 MHz) frequencies.
The motivation of this project is to improve the understanding of seismic response of hydrocarbon reservoir rocks by the development of laboratory measurement facilities.
Funded by: Chengdu University of Technology (China).
Researchers: Dr. Vassily Mikhaltsevitch, Prof. Maxim Lebedev, Prof. Boris Gurevich
Modelling elastic logs in clastic formation based on petrographic information and laboratory measurements
Many rock physics models exist that can be used to model elastic properties of clastic rocks. However, because of variability of rock geologic histories, structures and textures, these models must always contain a number of parameters (such as pore aspect ratios, coordination numbers etc.), which are usually adjusted to a particular dataset. This limits the predictive power of these models. Thus the first objective of this project is to attempt to build a workflow where, ideally, all of the parameters will be obtained from a rich set of independent petrographic and petrophysical information. The second objective is to optimise this workflow and figure out the ‘optimal’ amount of input information.
Funded by: Santos Energy
Researchers: Dr. Stanislav Glubokovskikh, Prof. Boris Gurevich, Prof. Maxim Lebedev, Dr. Stephanie Vialle, Jiabin Liang
Role of CO2 in the diagenetic evolution of Brazilian Pre-salt carbonates and the effects on seismic data
Lacustrine pre-salt carbonate reservoirs have attracted lots of attention in the last decade because they host gigantic hydrocarbon accumulations along the South Atlantic margins. However, from a geological perspective, they are quite puzzling as they display large volumes and unusual textural and compositional features. Contrary to marine carbonates, for which the main diagenetic control is geological age, continental carbonates have their diagenesis constrained by local geological events (tectonics, climate): factors such as flow and chemistry of surface- and ground- waters, temperature variations and sedimentary inputs are key controls. These coupled physical, chemical and biological processes generate complex and heterogenous pore systems which can give rise to a wide range of permeabilities and seismic signatures. Being able to describe and predict the diagenetic evolution of these carbonates is hence a key element for reservoir quality assessment and for production optimisation. Previous petrological observations and modelling studies on these carbonates have suggested that CO2 partial pressure, temperature and water chemistry are key parameters in controlling mineral phases and rock texture.
The goal of this project is to design and perform controlled laboratory experiments to test some of the hypotheses about the key diagenetic controlling parameters and their effect on the rock physical parameters (porosity, permeability and elastic moduli). This study includes a combination of routine and advanced petrological characterisations, temperature- and pressure-controlled batch and core flood experiments, measurements of petrophysical and elastic parameters and geochemical modelling. Probed scales go from pore to core.
The data generated in this project will bring critical information to better understand and constrain some of the diagenetic processes involved in lacustrine pre-salt carbonates as well as their implication for seismic exploration.
Funded by: TOTAL SA, France, 2018–2021
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We present a structural model to investigate the effects of horizontal cooperation on investment in the context of telecommunication networks. More specifically, we estimate the effect of network sharing in the mobile telecommunications industry on prices, network quality and consumer welfare. The presented framework allows estimating the effects of different types of sharing agreements including common ownership of shared assets in a joint venture company or collaboration via geographical separation (geo-split principle). The proposed identification strategy relies on differences in the costs of network deployment of shared versus non-shared network infrastructure, with different costs affecting operators’ optimal choice of price and network quality. We apply the structural model to estimate the effects of a network sharing agreement in the Czech Republic, using a combination of unique datasets on prices, network quality measured as average download speed and operator’s costs of network deployment. The results of our model indicate that horizontal cooperation on investments may be beneficial for consumers. Specifically, the network sharing agreement under study generated cost savings for the sharing parties, which were passed-on to consumers in the form of lower prices and higher average download speed. Our findings are of relevance to the assessment of network sharing agreements, which, considering the substantial investment cost associated with the 5G technology, are likely to play an even greater role in the telecommunications industry in the future. The findings are also of relevance to the general literature on horizontal cooperation on investments.
mobile telecommunication networks; network sharing; cooperation on investment; 4G; 5G; horizontal cooperation; empirical industrial organization;
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The zebrafish is a powerful genetic model that has only recently been used to dissect developmental pathways involved in oncogenesis. We hypothesized that operative pathways during embryogenesis would also be used for oncogenesis. In an effort to define RAS target genes during embryogenesis, gene expression was evaluated in Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) zebrafish embryos subjected to heat shock. dusp6 was activated by RAS, and this was used as the basis for a chemical genetic screen to identify small molecules that interfere with RAS signaling during embryogenesis. A KRASG12D-induced zebrafish embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma was then used to assess the therapeutic effects of the small molecules. Two of these inhibitors, PD98059 and TPCK, had anti-tumor activity as single agents in both zebrafish embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma and a human cell line of rhabdomyosarcoma that harbored activated mutations in NRAS. PD98059 inhibited MEK1 whereas TPCK suppressed S6K1 activity; however, the combined treatment completely suppressed eIF4B phosphorylation and decreased translation initiation. Our work demonstrates that the activated pathways in RAS induction during embryogenesis are also important in oncogenesis and that inhibition of these pathways suppresses tumor growth.
The zebrafish was first established as a powerful vertebrate model organism for large-scale developmental genetic screens (Gaiano et al., 1996; Haffter et al., 1996). Because of the ease and low cost of raising large numbers of fish, and the highly conserved genetic and biochemical pathways between zebrafish and mammals, the zebrafish has also been utilized for chemical screens in vivo (North et al., 2007). In the last decade, a variety of zebrafish cancer models have been developed ranging in complexity from carcinogen-induced tumors in wild-type fish to transgenic zebrafish models of specific human oncogenes (Goessling et al., 2007). For example, a rag2-KRASG12D-induced embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) revealed that zebrafish and human ERMS share two conserved gene signatures, one of which is associated with tissue-restricted gene expression in rhabdomyosarcoma and a second that comprises a RAS-induced gene signature (Langenau et al., 2007). These zebrafish cancer models share similar histopathological features and molecular pathways to human disease, and respond to drugs in a similar manner as humans, and thus can be implemented in different steps of novel anti-cancer agent development.
The RAS pathway is a key developmental pathway during embryogenesis. In developing zebrafish embryos, the FGF/RAS pathway plays an antagonistic role with the BMP pathway in dorsal-ventral patterning (Schier, 2001). The RAS genes encode a family of GTPases, which function as binary molecular switches that transduce extracellular growth factor signaling to control intracellular pathways to modulate diverse cellular responses including proliferation, differentiation and survival (Malumbres and Barbacid, 2003). RAS activates various mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs), including extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK). Activated ERK regulates diverse gene expression programs through transcription factors and the translation machinery (McCubrey et al., 2007). RAS also binds directly to PI3K and initiates the AKT/mTOR signal transduction cascade (Rodriguez-Viciana et al., 1994). The best-characterized downstream targets of mTOR are ribosomal protein S6 kinase 1 (S6K1; also known as p70S6K or RPS6KB1) and eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E-binding protein 1 (EIF4EBP1), both of which are crucial to the regulation of protein synthesis (Anjum and Blenis, 2008). Thus, RAS signaling regulates translation through diverse mechanisms.
RAS family members are the most commonly mutated oncogenes in human cancers (Bos, 1989). Point mutations in RAS genes constitutively activate the above-mentioned pathways to drive cell overproliferation. Given the prevalence of RAS signaling activation in human cancers, a significant effort has been dedicated to developing both inhibitors of RAS activation and its downstream signaling pathways, such as MEK and mTOR (Easton and Houghton, 2006; Sebolt-Leopold et al., 1999). Although experimental agents are under development, there are as yet no clinically available drugs directly targeting the RAS pathway. Understanding RAS signaling in tumors and targeting RAS pathways to treat tumors remain a challenge.
In the last decade, multiple zebrafish cancer models have been generated with RAS mutations, including KRAS-induced myeloproliferative disease, rhabdomyosarcoma, colon adenoma and hepatocellular carcinoma, and NRAS-induced melanoma (Dovey et al., 2009; Langenau et al., 2007; Le et al., 2007). The short time to tumor onset and ease of fluorescent labeling of tumors, together with the feasibility of creating large numbers of animals, make zebrafish an advantageous model for chemical genetic studies to aid our understanding of RAS oncology.
Here, a two-step screening approach was undertaken to examine whether RAS activation in zebrafish embryogenesis illuminates possible mechanisms operative in tumors: first, we used zebrafish embryos to dissect RAS pathways and identified anti-RAS chemicals in vivo; second, we evaluated the therapeutic value of each hit in a zebrafish model of KRAS-induced ERMS. Two compounds (PD98059 and TPCK) demonstrated efficacy in suppressing fish tumor growth. Combined treatment resulted in enhanced therapeutic efficacy. Finally, we investigated the mechanism of combined treatment with PD98059 and TPCK, and revealed the importance of suppression of translation initiation in RAS-activated tumor cells. Our studies utilized common pathways activated by oncogenic RAS during embryogenesis and rhabdomyosarcoma development, and established that developing zebrafish embryos can provide a productive platform for the identification of anticancer agents.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Animals and stable transgenic lines
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) were maintained in accordance with Animal Research Guidelines at Children's Hospital Boston. The Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) stable transgenic line (http://zfin.org/action/genotype/genotype-detail?zdbID=ZDB-GENO-100723-7) was first described by Lee et al. (Lee et al., 2009). The Tg(dusp6-d2EGFP) transgenic line (http://zfin.org/action/fish/fish-detail/ZDB-GENO-071017-5,ZDB-GENOX-110131-12,ZDB-GENOX-120807-2) was generously provided by Professor Michael Tang (University of Pittsburgh).
Heterogeneous Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) embryos were obtained by mating male homozygous transgenic fish to wild-type females. They were raised to 24 hours post-fertilization (hpf) and received heat shock at 37°C in a waterbath for 1 hour, and were then kept at 28.5°C until 30 hpf for RNA extraction by Trizol reagent (Invitrogen). Wild-type embryos (AB strain) receiving the same heat shock treatment were used as controls. Each microarray sample was prepared by pooling 50 embryos. Biological duplicates were obtained in both transgenic groups and controls. NimbleGen array chips were used. The probe-level data were normalized and translated to gene-level with custom Python scripts, then analyzed with Goldenspike (http://www2.ccr.buffalo.edu/halfon/spike/). The R Goldenspike package background-corrects, normalizes, multiple-tests, and computes the sample statistics per chip. The annotation of the zebrafish probe sets was completed using the Zon Laboratory/Children's Hospital Zebrafish Gene Transcription Collection (ZGTC; http://zfrhmaps.tch.harvard.edu/zgmap/ZGTC.htm). The dataset was deposited at Gene Expression Omnibus under accession number GSE 44364.
RNA was isolated from whole zebrafish embryos at 30 hpf using RNAlater and RNeasy Kits (Qiagen). RNA was reverse transcribed using the High Capacity cDNA Reverse Transcription Kit (Applied Biosystems), and quantitative PCR was performed using SYBR Green (Invitrogen). PCR primers are described in supplementary material Table S1.
A collection of 2896 compounds was screened in zebrafish embryos for suppressors of oncogenic RAS. Among these, 2460 compounds were from ICCB-Longwood Harvard Medical School, including: Biomol ICCB known bioactives [480 compounds, 5 mg/ml (~13 mM) as stock, 33.3 μg/ml final concentration], NINDS (1040 compounds, 10 mM as stock, 66 μM final concentration), Prestwick (1120 compounds, 2 mg/ml as stock, 13.3 μM final concentration). 256 compounds were from HSCI/CHB hESC Core (1-5 mg/ml as stock, 6.7-33.3 μg/ml final concentration). Each chemical was screened at a single concentration (1/150 of stock concentration).
Embryonic RAS screen
A chemical screen (see Fig. 2A) was designed using heat shock-inducible Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) embryos. Pathway activation was read out using dusp6 mRNA expression. Heterozygous Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) embryos were raised at 28°C until 22 hpf and then transferred to a 48-well tissue culture plate (8-15 embryos per well), where each well contained a test chemical dissolved in embryo water. After 2 hours of chemical treatment, heat shock was applied by incubating the 48-well plates at 37°C in a water bath for 1 hour. Then, 24-hpf embryos were returned to a 28°C incubator and fixed at 30 hpf. dusp6 expression levels were evaluated by in situ hybridization and classified as: (1) complete suppression of dusp6 in all embryos; (2) partial/complete suppression with more than two-thirds of embryos having suppression of dusp6 expression; (3) no effect; and (4) enhancement of dusp6 expression in more than two-thirds of embryos. In each 48-well plate, two wells received no chemical treatment and two wells did not receive heat shock.
Therapeutic evaluation using a zebrafish model of RAS-induced ERMS
One-cell stage AB strain zebrafish were injected with rag2-KRASG12D and rag2-DsRed. Injected animals were screened under a fluorescence microscope at 7 days post-fertilization (dpf) to identify DsRed-positive tumor-bearing fish. All the tumor-bearing fish were numbered, raised in isolated tanks, and randomized into two groups. One group received chemical treatment at the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) while the other received vehicle treatment. MTD was determined by incubating 7-dpf wild-type larval fish in the compound for 5 days and was experimentally defined as the dose at which 75% of fish survived treatment. Each group received two consecutive days of treatment, at day 7 and day 8, of either compound or vehicle control. At 9 dpf, animals were fed with paramecium and fresh water added to the wells to allow recovery and growth of fish over this time. From 10-11 dpf, animals were again bathed in compound or DMSO vehicle. At day 12, animals received feeding and fresh water as at day 9. At days 7, 10 and 13, animals were photographed using a defined exposure time, magnification and gain. Tumor size was measured by quantifying the total number of pixels within the fluorescent area. The relative tumor growth was defined as total pixel numbers at day 10 or day 13 normalized by the total pixel number at day 7 (see Fig. 3B-D). Researchers were blinded as to which animals received treatment or control vehicle until completion of imaging on day 13.
Human cell culture, shRNA knockdown and reporter assay
The human rhabdomyosarcoma RD cell line and the mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) cell line were generously provided by Professor Amy Wagers (Harvard Medical School). Cells were maintained in DMEM (Roche) with 10% FBS and 1% penicillin/streptomycin. Cells were plated and proliferation was measured (by MTT Assay Kit, Cayman Chemical) as described in the results. Apoptotic levels were measured by TdT assay (TiterTACS Kit, Trevigen).
For S6K1 knockdown, lentiviral vectors were purchased from Open Biosystems (TRCN0000003158 and TRCN0000003159), and lentiviral particles were produced by cotransfection of HEK 293T cells with pLKO.1 constructs and packaging plasmids pMD.G and pCMVR8.91 (A.J.W. lab.). Transfections were carried out with FuGENE 6 (Promega), and virus was harvested 48 hours after transfection and frozen. To test the efficacy of shS6K1, RD cells were incubated with lentiviral supernatants in the presence of 8 mg/ml Polybrene (American Bioanalytical) for 24 hours, and infected cells were selected with 10 mg/ml puromycin. After 48 hours of selection, cells were evaluated by MTT assay on day 3, 5 and 7 for proliferation. To test the synergistic effect of S6K1 with PD98059, RD cells were incubated with lentiviral supernatant (TRCN0000003158) (shS6K1-58) in the presence of 8 mg/ml Polybrene, and infected cells were selected with 10 mg/ml puromycin. After 48 hours of selection, cells were washed and cultured in medium containing chemicals or vehicle controls. Medium containing chemicals or vehicle controls was changed on day 7 and day 9 for continuous chemical exposure and selection. Cell proliferation was evaluated by MTT assay on day 5, 7 and 9.
The bicistronic reporter SV40-Renilla-IRES-Firefly was provided by Dr John Blenis (Harvard Medical School). The plasmid was transfected into RD cell lines using FuGENE 6 (Promega) and kept in complete medium. At 24 hours post-transfection, cells were starved for 12 hours, and then treated with chemicals or controls. Thirty minutes after chemical exposure, serum (20%) was added to cells to stimulate translation. Luciferase activities were measured 4 hours after serum stimulation (Dual-Luciferase Assay System, Promega), and the Renilla/firefly luciferase light unit ratio was calculated.
Anti-phospho-Erk1/2, anti-total Erk1/2, anti-phospho-AKT (Ser473) and anti-phospho-S6 ribosomal protein (Ser240/244) were purchased from Cell Signaling. Anti-actin antibody was from MP Biomedicals. The use of secondary antibodies, dilution of primary antibodies and blocking were performed according to the manufacturer's recommendations. Zebrafish embryos were collected and manually homogenized in 1× SDS sample buffer and subjected to SDS-PAGE followed by blotting onto nitrocellulose membrane. RD cells were harvested in 1× sample buffer and subjected to SDS-PAGE followed by blotting onto nitrocellulose membrane. ECL detection reagents were used (GE Healthcare).
Establishing a chemical screen platform using inducible RAS zebrafish embryos to dissect tumorigenesis pathways
The activation of RAS during embryogenesis may recapitulate the activation of its pathways during tumorigenesis. We sought to evaluate the effects of increased RAS activity on embryos. Injection of oncogenic RAS mRNA into zebrafish results in early embryonic death. To bypass the RAS-induced lethality, we used an inducible transgenic zebrafish line that expresses the human HRASG12V gene under the heat shock promoter, Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) (Lee et al., 2009), and induced RAS expression after gastrulation.
A microarray analysis was performed by comparing the transcription profiles of Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) and wild-type embryos subjected to heat shock. Both groups of embryos received heat shock at 37°C for 1 hour at 24 hpf, and were kept at 28.5°C until 30 hpf for RNA extraction. Three different fold change cut-offs were utilized in defining the upregulated gene lists to verify that differences were reproducibly related to RAS activation and not due to arbitrary assignment of gene lists. Using a false discovery rate (FDR) of zero and log fold change cut-offs greater than 1, 0.7 and 0.5 (with the correlating absolute fold change greater than 2, 1.6245 and 1.4142), three gene lists compassing 2423, 3540 and 4129 genes were defined as upregulated (supplementary material Table S2; downregulated genes are listed in Table S3). Ingenuity pathway analysis (IPA) was performed using the three lists. In all three analyses, ‘cancer’ was the top ‘diseases and disorders’, with ‘developmental disorder’ and ‘organismal injury and abnormalities’ as second and third ‘diseases and disorders’ (Fig. 1A), strongly suggesting that transient induction of oncogenic RAS in embryos activates major pathways in oncogenesis.
To identify a downstream gene readout for a chemical screen, we examined a set of 17 genes that were found to be upregulated in zebrafish rhabdomyosarcomas (Langenau et al., 2007). These 17 genes (Table 1) included 12 from a signature that was defined as commonly upregulated genes in zebrafish ERMS, human ERMS, human pancreatic cancer and RAS-infected human mammary epithelial cells (HMECs). The remaining five were selected from genes that were upregulated in one or two RAS-related conditions (Fig. 1B). Among the 17 genes, seven were upregulated as assessed by microarray analysis in whole embryos. Four genes, namely fgf3, sat, dusp4 and dusp6, were confirmed to be upregulated by RT-PCR (Table 1; Fig. 1C).
Among these, dusp6 (mkp3), a known target of the FGF signaling pathway and a negative regulator of Erk1/2 (Mapk3/1) (Ekerot et al., 2008), was robustly upregulated in 100% of the heat shocked heterozygous Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) embryos, demonstrating strong staining by in situ hybridization (ISH). Such activation was also confirmed in the Tg(dusp6-d2EGFP) reporter line (supplementary material Fig. S1). Furthermore, dusp6 was concordantly upregulated in rag2-KRASG12D-induced zebrafish ERMS as detected by ISH on the tumor sections, confirming dusp6 as a target of oncogenic RAS in tumors (supplementary material Fig. S2). dusp6 was therefore chosen as the readout of the chemical screen because of its robust activation by RAS in early larval development and its biological relevance in RAS tumorigenesis.
Several pathway-specific chemical inhibitors were next tested to demonstrate that RAS activation could be suppressed in a pathway-specific manner in this inducible embryonic system. The effects of a RAS activation inhibitor (Lovastatin), MAPK pathway inhibitors (Raf1 inhibitor or PD98059) and a PI3K inhibitor (Wortmannin) were tested in embryos. We first utilized erm (etv5b – Zebrafish Information Network), a previously established target in heat shocked Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) embryos [see supplementary figure 2 in Lee et al. (Lee et al., 2009)]. Erm is one of the Ets transcription factors, and a known transcription target of the FGF/MAPK pathway (Janknecht et al., 1996; Roehl and Nüsslein-Volhard, 2001) but not the PI3K/AKT pathway. Embryos were assessed for levels of erm by ISH as well as RT-PCR (Fig. 1D,E). As predicted, the level of erm was suppressed by RAS or MAPK inhibitors, but not by Wortmannin. By contrast, dusp6 (Fig. 1E) expression was suppressed by RAS and MAPK inhibitors, but also partially suppressed by Wortmannin, which is consistent with previous observations in chick limb buds that Dusp6 is suppressed by PI3K inhibitor (Kawakami et al., 2003). Expression of dusp4 and sat was regulated in a similar manner to dusp6 (supplementary material Fig. S3). The differential responses of genes to pathway-specific inhibitors confirmed that Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) transgenic larvae could be used in a chemical screen to uncover drugs that inhibit RAS and its downstream targets.
Identification of suppressors of RAS signaling through a zebrafish embryonic chemical screen
The chemical screen was further optimized by utilizing RT-PCR and Tg(dusp6-d2EGFP) reporter line transgenic fish to determine peak expression of dusp6. Both approaches demonstrated that, at 6 hours post-heat shock, embryos exhibited peak expression of dusp6 (Fig. 2A, dashed line; supplementary material Figs S1, S4). Therefore, 6 hours post-heat shock was chosen as the time for readout of RAS activity.
A collection of 2896 bioactive small molecules was screened for compounds that suppress dusp6 expression following heat shock in Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) embryos (Fig. 2; also see Materials and methods). This collection includes many classes of well-characterized compounds such as ion channel blockers, nuclear receptor ligands, protease inhibitors, gene regulation agents and lipid biosynthesis inhibitors, and covers more than 46% of Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs. Each compound was screened at a single concentration with 5-10 embryos. Thirty-one of the 2896 compounds screened demonstrated complete suppression of dusp6 expression and another 67 exhibited partial suppression (Table 2). The 31 compounds with the most potent suppression were purchased and individually retested using the same experimental conditions and concentration. Twenty-five (80.6%) of the 31 retested chemicals were validated to have potent suppressive effects on dusp6, indicating that the primary screen could robustly identify suppressors of the RAS signaling pathway.
Heat shock was applied to Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) embryos after 2 hours of chemical exposure; thus, our experimental design would be likely to identify drugs that suppress both RAS activity and heat shock responses. To select drugs that specifically affect RAS pathway activation, Tg(hsp70-Cre) fish were assessed for Cre expression following heat shock and subsequent drug treatment (Le et al., 2007). Chemicals that suppressed Cre mRNA expression were eliminated from further study, as these compounds were likely to regulate hsp70 promoter expression and/or the heat shock response rather that RAS activity (supplementary material Fig. S5). Using this approach, 18 compounds were confirmed as RAS pathway inhibitors (supplementary material Table S4).
Identification of chemical inhibitors of RAS-induced embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma
To evaluate the effects of the 18 RAS signaling pathway inhibitors in cancer, each chemical was tested as a single agent for suppressing zebrafish KRASG12D-induced RMS using a randomized trial design. Co-injection of rag2-KRASG12D and rag2-DsRed DNA leads to externally visible zebrafish ERMS by 10 days (Langenau et al., 2008). As early as 7 dpf, tumor-bearing fish can be identified by visualizing DsRed fluorescence in muscle fibers, with 100% of DsRed-positive animals developing ERMS (n=11). ERMS growth can be followed within individual animals by serial imaging over several days based on the fluorescent tumor area. The therapeutic effect of each compound can be quantified by determining relative tumor growth as compared with that in non-treated animals (Fig. 3A-F; see also Materials and methods).
Two compounds significantly delayed tumor growth at their maximum tolerated dose (MTD). The MEK inhibitor PD98059 (supplementary material Fig. S6A; MTD 15.2 μM) inhibited relative tumor growth (1.259±0.171, n=13 at day 10; 1.373±0.285, n=8 at day 13) as compared with vehicle-treated sibling fish (1.778±0.906, n=10 at day 10; 2.034±1.621, n=10 at day 13; P<0.05, ANOVA; Fig. 3G). The chymotrypsin-like serine protease inhibitor tosyl phenylalanyl chloromethyl ketone (TPCK; supplementary material Fig. S6B; MTD 0.3 μM) also inhibited relative tumor growth as a single agent (1.056±0.163, n=15 at day 10; 1.058±0.293, n=6 at day 13) as compared with vehicle-treated sibling fish (P<0.05, ANOVA; Fig. 3H). The gross morphology of the fish was not affected by chemical treatment. Their swimming and eating behaviors were also normal. To ensure that chemical effects were specific to tumors and did not affect the growth of the entire fish, the overall length of each fish was recorded under brightfield illumination at 7, 10 and 13 dpf. Neither TPCK nor PD98059 significantly altered overall fish growth at the MTD when compared with vehicle-treated fish (supplementary material Fig. S7A,B). No statistically significant difference in survival was detected among chemical-treated groups versus controls (P=0.53, ANOVA). The impaired survival in the treatment trials was likely to be due to reduced feeding, repeated anesthesia for imaging, and mechanical manipulation during larval development.
Taken together, we have developed a two-step screening system for the oncogenic RAS pathway: we first identified 18 chemical suppressors of RAS signaling pathways during zebrafish embryogenesis, and then found that two of them – PD98059 and TPCK – have effects in suppressing tumor growth in a genetically engineered zebrafish model of ERMS.
PD98059 and TPCK suppress different downstream RAS signaling targets
We measured the activity levels of selected RAS targets to understand how the two hits affect RAS signaling pathways. PD98059 is a known MEK1 (MAP2K1) inhibitor and has been previously shown to inhibit MEK activity in zebrafish (Pozios et al., 2001). PD98059 suppressed dusp6 expression in zebrafish embryos in a dose-dependent manner (supplementary material Fig. S8). Western blot analysis (Fig. 4) showed that PD98059 (18.7 μM) suppressed phospho (p-) Erk1/2 levels in zebrafish embryos, but not levels of p-Akt or p-p38 (Mapk14 – Zebrafish Information Network) (data not shown), demonstrating that PD98059 indeed inhibits the MAPK pathway in zebrafish. TPCK was originally designed as a chymotrypsin-like serine protease inhibitor; however, it has subsequently been shown to be a potent inhibitor of S6K1. In the Tg(hsp70-HRASG12V) embryos, TPCK suppressed dusp6 expression in a dose-dependent manner (supplementary material Fig. S8). Western analysis indicated that the levels of p-Rps6, which is a target of S6k1, were greatly suppressed in zebrafish embryos treated with TPCK (1 μM), indicating that TPCK suppressed S6k1 activity in zebrafish embryos. TPCK did not alter the levels of p-Erk1/2 or p-Akt in zebrafish (Fig. 4). These results suggest that PD98059 suppresses the MAPK pathway of RAS signaling, whereas TPCK specifically suppresses the S6K1 pathway without significantly suppressing the MAPK or AKT pathways in zebrafish.
To assess whether PD98059 and TPCK also have anti-tumor effects in human ERMS, each was assessed for growth and apoptotic effects in the human RD cell line that has activated RAS signaling through mutation of NRAS (NRASQ61H) (Stratton et al., 1989). By MTT assay in RD cells, both PD98059 (10 μM, 20 μM and 40 μM; P<0.001, ANOVA) and TPCK (1 μM, 5 μM and 10 μM; P<0.001, ANOVA) suppressed proliferation in a dose-dependent manner, with the greatest level of suppression seen at the highest dose (40 μM for PD98059 and 10 μM for TPCK; Fig. 5). By contrast, PD98059 showed no suppression of proliferation in mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) in a dose range of 10-60 μM (P=0.68, ANOVA; supplementary material Fig. S9A), with suppression only at a very high dose of 100 μM (P<0.01). TPCK showed no proliferation suppression at 0.3-30 μM (P=0.75, ANOVA; supplementary material Fig. S9B).
Apoptosis was measured in RD cells by TdT assay on day 4, but showed no increase in apoptosis in chemical-treated as compared with vehicle-treated cells (supplementary material Fig. S10). Thus, the main effect of PD98059 and TPCK is to suppress cell proliferation in the RAS-activated human rhabdomyosarcoma cell line, and this was unlikely to be through promoting apoptosis or toxicity. PD98059 and TPCK are bioactive in both zebrafish and human cells.
PD98059 and TPCK synergistically suppress tumor progression in zebrafish rhabdomyosarcoma and human RD cells
The above data indicate that PD98059 and TPCK act on independent signaling modules downstream of activated RAS; thus, we speculated that combined treatment with both compounds would result in an improved therapeutic effect. ERMS-bearing fish were treated with one-third of the MTD of each compound alone or in combination. A cohort of tumor-bearing fish was randomized into four groups at 7 dpf: (1) vehicle control [0.28% (v/v) DMSO], (2) PD98059 alone (5.2 μM), (3) TPCK alone (0.1 μM) and (4) PD98059 (5.2 μM) with TPCK (0.1 μM). Drug treatment, recovery and tumor measurement were carried out as described above. During the 6-day treatment regimen, single drug treatment at the lower concentration did not delay tumor progression (PD98059: 1.463±0.416, n=13; TPCK: 1.377±0.353, n=7; DMSO: 1.412±0.348, n=12; at day 10). Strikingly, combined treatment with TPCK and PD98059 achieved significant suppression of tumor growth compared with each single drug treatment or vehicle control (1.0697±0.221, n=12; P=0.0009, ANOVA; Fig. 6A,C). Overall fish growth was unaffected by drug treatment in all groups, suggesting that combined drug treatment elicited only anti-tumor effects on larval fish (supplementary material Fig. S7C). A similar synergistic anti-proliferative effect was observed in the human ERMS (RD) cell line when treated simultaneously with PD98059 and TPCK (Fig. 6B); however, drug combinations had no effect on apoptosis (supplementary material Fig. S10).
We have shown that TPCK suppresses the activity of S6K1. Because TPCK has been reported to have different effects on various signaling pathways, we next sought to demonstrate that TPCK treatment results in reduced proliferation through inhibition of the S6K pathway. Using lentivirus-mediated RNA interference, we tested whether knockdown of S6K1 could mimic the synergistic effect of TPCK on cell proliferation when combined with PD98059. An shRNA for S6K1 (shS6K1) was constructed and its effect confirmed in a cell proliferation assay. The suppressive effect of S6K1 knockdown combined with PD98059 (10 μM) or TPCK (2.5 μM) was compared with controls (scrambled shRNA) with either chemical alone or in combination (Fig. 6D). The relative growth of cells treated with shS6K1 and TPCK (1.582±0.074 at day 7, 1.663±0.05 at day 9) was not significantly different from cells treated with TPCK alone (1.621±0.032 at day 7, 2.036±0.076 at day 9; P=0.13, ANOVA), suggesting that shS6K1 and TPCK are acting redundantly in the same pathway. By contrast, treatment with shS6K1 and PD98059 (1.069±0.063 at day 7, 1.151±0.048 at day 9) had a more potent suppressive effect compared with cells treated with PD98059 alone (1.202±0.067 at day 7, 1.479±0.125 at day 9; P=0.01, ANOVA), demonstrating a synergistic effect. This synergistic suppression by shS6K1 plus PD98059 was similar to that of TPCK plus PD98059 (1.201±0.070 at day 7, 1.357±0.089 at day 9; P=0.22, ANOVA). These data showed that S6K1 knockdown or pharmacological treatment with TPCK exhibited a similar synergistic effect when combined with PD98059, supporting the conclusion that TPCK suppresses cell proliferation through inhibiting the S6K1 pathway.
PD98059 and TPCK converge on translation initiation to suppress tumor proliferation
We next focused on understanding the mechanism of how TPCK and PD98059 synergistically suppress tumor cell growth. Studies from other groups suggest that the activated RAS/MAPK and AKT/S6K1 pathways both independently increase protein synthesis by optimizing cap-dependent translation initiation. An important component of this translation initiation complex is eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4B (eIF4B) (Gingras et al., 2001). A phosphorylation site at Ser422 of eIF4B was demonstrated to be partially responsive to mTOR/S6K1 and partially responsive to MEK/ERK/RSK (Holz et al., 2005; Shahbazian et al., 2006); thus, we hypothesized that dual inhibition of the MAPK and S6K1 pathways leads to complete suppression of eIF4B phosphorylation, whereas single pathway inhibition still allows eIF4B activation through the other pathway. Western blotting of eIF4B to detect phosphorylation of Ser422 was performed in RD cells treated with PD98059 and TPCK individually or in combination. As expected based on our zebrafish studies, p-ERK1/2 levels were suppressed by PD98059 and p-RPS6 levels were suppressed by TPCK; p-eIF4B levels were partially suppressed by PD98059 or TPCK single drug treatment, and were completely suppressed by combination treatment (Fig. 7A). These results suggest that PD98059 and TPCK synergistically downregulate the levels of p-eIF4B.
To demonstrate that suppression of p-eIF4B leads to suppression of cap-dependent translation activity, a bicistronic reporter was used to determine whether combined treatment with PD98059 and TPCK suppresses cap-dependent translation in vivo. This bicistronic luciferase reporter is structured so that the cap-dependent translation activity can be quantified relative to cap-independent translation (Fig. 7B) (Holz et al., 2005). The effects of single or combination treatments on cap-dependent translation were measured in comparison to vehicle-treated RD cells. Serum stimulation promoted cap-dependent translation (100±5.50%) compared with serum-starved cells (77.28±10.58%). Single chemical treatment resulted in a partial suppression of translation (Fig. 7C), whereas combined treatment in the presence of serum suppressed cap-dependent translation (72.91±4.68%; P<0.01 compared with the serum-stimulated level) to the serum-starved translation activity level. Taken together, these data indicate that PD98059 suppresses the MAPK pathway, whereas TPCK suppresses S6K1 activity, and each of these chemicals alone only partially affects eIF4B. Combined inhibition of the MAPK and S6K1 pathways results in diminished eIF4B phosphorylation and leads to potent suppression of translation initiation in tumor cells (Fig. 7D).
A common concept is that cancer cells often acquire embryonic character through activation of developmental pathways (Abbott et al., 2007; Dreesen and Brivanlou, 2007). Developmental biology has uncovered a number of signaling pathways involved in cancers; for example, the Hippo pathway was identified in Drosophila and shown to be crucial in cancer cell apoptosis (Saucedo and Edgar, 2007). Few studies have utilized zebrafish to directly compare the processes of embryogenesis and oncogenesis. Our work describes a new strategy to utilize zebrafish embryos to screen for pathways that participate in cancer development. We first demonstrated that conditional activation of oncogenic HRASG12V in developing zebrafish embryos mimics RAS pathway activation during tumorigenesis. We then tested the therapeutic potential of these compounds on tumor progression in a zebrafish model of RAS-induced ERMS. This rhabdomyosarcoma model allows the study of tumors during larval development by 13 dpf, chemical exposure and direct imaging of tumors, demonstrating this tumor model as a powerful tool for cancer research. This two-step screening approach identified chemicals with anti-RAS activity that could be assessed in human cell lines that harbored RAS mutations, and identified pan-RAS inhibitors that modulate the function of all three RAS family members – HRASG12V in our embryonic screen, KRASG12D in zebrafish ERMS, and NRASQ61H in the human RD cell line.
Among the hits in the screen, known inhibitors of both RAS activation and RAS downstream pathways were identified. For example, Lovastain is an inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase (HMG-CoA reductase), a known inhibitor of RAS, and acts by suppressing the recruitment of RAS to the cell membrane (Issat et al., 2007). PD98059 was also identified in our screen and is an inhibitor of MEK1, a major component of the MAPK cascade. The identification of these two groups of known inhibitors verified the design of our screen and demonstrated that the zebrafish embryo can be used to dissect specific signaling pathways in vivo.
TPCK was identified in our larval screen to suppress RAS pathway activation and also showed potent inhibition of ERMS growth as a single agent. TPCK was originally synthesized as a protease inhibitor (Schoellmann and Shaw, 1963). TPCK has been shown to be a potent in vivo inhibitor of S6K1, PDK1 and other related kinases with a conserved domain (known as AGC kinases), although an in vitro kinase assay showed that S6K1 is not the direct molecular target of TPCK (Ballif et al., 2001; Grammer and Blenis, 1996). TPCK has also been described as inhibiting the endoprotease responsible for cleaving the C-terminal AAX sequence on RAS (Porter et al., 2007). Alternative mechanisms have been proposed including recent work demonstrating that TPCK blocks specific cysteine residues on IkappaB kinase (IKK) and p65/RelA (Ha et al., 2009). TPCK was first found, 40 years ago, to potently inhibit tumorigenesis initiated in mouse skin lesions induced by DMBA (Troll et al., 1970), but the mechanism of how TPCK suppresses tumor growth remained unclear. In our experiments, TPCK completely abolished the RPS6 phosphorylation that is dependent on S6K1, without affecting p-ERK or p-AKT levels. Although α-actin was used as loading control for AKT and RPS6, our data from zebrafish embryos and cell culture argue against the possibility that TPCK inhibits the RAS CAAX modification as other RAS downstream pathways were relatively intact, but are instead consistent with the finding that TPCK is a suppressor of the S6K1 pathway. We further validated that both knockdown of S6K1 by lentivirus-mediated RNA interference and pharmacological treatment with TPCK demonstrated a similar synergistic effect with PD98059, suggesting that TPCK suppresses RD cell proliferation through inhibiting the S6K1 pathway. The toxicity of TPCK, however, has been a major concern (Lewis, 2004). To circumvent toxicity, we tested the efficacy of a combination treatment regimen using both PD98059 and TPCK at lower concentrations. PD98059 and TPCK delayed tumor progression individually but showed a greater effect in impeding tumor progression when the two were combined, even at a significantly lower dose.
Translational control in eukaryotic cells is crucial for gene regulation to rapidly adjust protein production in conditions of nutrient deprivation and stress (Sonenberg and Hinnebusch, 2009). Aberrant function of components of the translation machinery underlies a variety of human diseases including certain cancers and metabolic disorders. The MAPK and PI3K pathways regulate the translation machinery, especially at the translation initiation complex, which binds to the cap region of mRNA to initiate translation (Parsa and Holland, 2004). eIF4B plays a crucial role in recruiting the 40S ribosomal subunit to the mRNA (Ma and Blenis, 2009). In response to growth factors, eIF4B is phosphorylated on Ser422 by S6K1 and recruited to the translation initiation complex. When HeLa cells are stimulated with serum, a significant fraction of Ser422 phosphorylation remains resistant to inhibition by rapamycin. Further evidence indicates that the MEK/ERK target, p90 ribosomal protein S6 kinase (RSK), phosphorylates eIF4B on the same residue. Phosphorylation of eIF4B on Ser422 by both RSK and S6K increases the interaction of eIF4B with eIF3 (Holz et al., 2005; Shahbazian et al., 2006). The recruitment of the translation initiation complex increases the mRNA binding and processivity of the activated helicase complex, potentially enhancing translation rates. We showed that PD98059 or TPCK partially inhibits, whereas a combination of the two completely abolishes, eIF4B Ser422 phosphorylation. We further demonstrated that in vivo cap-dependent translation was significantly decreased after combination treatment, whereas it was only partially decreased by single agent treatments. We propose that the blockage of two major signaling pathways downstream of RAS – MAPK/ERK and AKT/S6K1 – results in effective suppression of eIF4B phosphorylation and the inhibition of translation initiation in proliferating tumor cells.
Our study interfaces embryogenesis and oncogenesis in a vertebrate model. We demonstrate successful use of zebrafish embryos and cancer models for anticancer chemical screens in a shared pathway, and proved the feasibility of performing chemical screens directly in tumor-bearing animals. By inhibiting both the MAPK/ERK and AKT/S6K1 pathways we showed that inhibition of translation initiation suppresses tumor growth, thereby demonstrating the translational initiation complex to be a drug target for cancer therapy.
We thank John Blenis for providing helpful advice and reagents; Xiaoying Bai, Richard White, Lili Jing and Christopher Salthouse for critical review of the manuscript; and Abby Barton for technical assistance.
L.I.Z. is supported by the National Institutes of Health [5 R01 CA103846-10] and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. D.M.L. is supported by the National Institutes of Health [K01AR05562190, R01CA154923, R21CA156056 and 1U54CA168512], The American Cancer Society, The Harvard Stem Cell Institute, The Sarcoma Foundation of America, and Alex Lemonade Stand Foundation. A.J.W. is supported by a Stand Up To Cancer-American Association for Cancer Research Innovative Research Grant [SU2C-AACR-IRG1111] and the National Institutes of Health [RO1 HL088582-01S1]. K.D.P. is supported by the National Institutes of Health [GM074057 and HL081674]. S.H. is supported by Hope Street Kids and P.A.L.S. Bermuda/St. Baldrick's. Deposited in PMC for release after 6 months.
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The identity of Mystery Babylon in Revelation 17-18 is disputed by many. Some claim she is Jerusalem, others Rome, New York city, the United Nations, Washington DC, or the United States. A few interpreters claim that the ancient city of Babylon in Iraq will be rebuilt in order to fulfill this prophecy. However, most of these identifications and interpretations are the result of a very narrow historical perspective, looking at prophecy merely in relation to current events. Few modern interpreters look at prophecy from the perspective of God’s record in the Bible of dealing with Israel and the nations.
Throughout my ministry I have consistently identified Mystery Babylon as Rome. This was the interpretation of the earliest Christian writers, especially those who had some kind of connection to the Apostle John who wrote Revelation. More than ever, I am convinced they were right.
However, geographic location and the physical structures of a city are not the most important aspects of this prophecy. God is not going to pour out His wrath on stones, concrete, and asphalt for the sins described in Revelation 17-18, which includes the murder of Jesus’ saints, Apostles, and prophets.
The name “Mystery Babylon” suggests two things:
- That this is a hidden enigma requiring wisdom to decipher
- That it is related to ancient Babylon is some way
“Mystery Babylon” is indeed a city, since John identified it as “that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.” The Greek reads ἡ ἔχουσα βασιλείαν, literally “her holding dominion.” The articular present participle requires that this was true when John wrote Revelation. It can be no other city than Rome which at the time was the seat of the Roman Empire.
However, Mystery Babylon is much more than just a city. It is a political – religious system that has stretched from the time of the Apostles to the present, and will be utterly destroyed at the mid-point of the Seventieth Week of Daniel 9. While the city of Rome was and still is the seat of this particular power, its dominion stretches far and wide in many nations of the earth. God’s judgment is going to be of the whole system. That is, the whole system and its grip on many people of many nations and ethnicities is going to be broken when the seat of its power is utterly destroyed.
This begs the question of why Rome is called “Mystery Babylon,” why certain characteristics are drawn from prophecies against ancient Babylon, and why other characteristics are drawn from prophetic statements about Jerusalem’s harlotry.
The book of Revelation draws on a great deal of Old Testament history and prophecy. Many suppose that the prophecies of the Old Testament which are alluded to in Revelation are specific prophecies about the end times. While that may be true in some cases, more often the prophecies alluded to were fulfilled long ago. For example, the sealing of the 144,000 in their foreheads in Revelation 7 makes an allusion to the sealing in the foreheads of faithful Israelites in Ezekiel 9. Yet that passage was an explanation of how God was going to preserve a small remnant of Israelites when He sent Nebuchadnezzar to destroy Jerusalem and take Israel into exile in Babylon. Another example concerns the two witnesses in Revelation 10 who will prophecy for 1,260 days. Yet this prophecy references the “two olive trees” of Zechariah 4:3-14 who in that context were Haggai and Zechariah, God’s two witnesses while the second Temple was being constructed after the Babylonian exile. It is apparent then that the connections to Old Testament prophecy are often by way of comparison or parallels. The fulfillment of those ancient prophecies in biblical history provides the patterns and understanding for how the prophecies in Revelation will be fulfilled in the last days.
There is no doubt that there are similarities between what Revelation says about Mystery Babylon being a harlot and what the Old Testament prophets said about Jerusalem’s harlotry when God was about to send Nebuchadnezzar to destroy Jerusalem. Yet some of the things stated about Mystery Babylon in Revelation 17-18 are drawn from prophecies about God’s judgment of ancient Babylon after He used her to judge Israel, particularly from Jeremiah 50-51.
Ancient Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar was “a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, that made all the earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations are deranged.” Mystery Babylon, Rome, was portrayed as: “The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.” When Isaiah prophesied of the fall of ancient Babylon by the hand of Cyrus, he wrote: “Babylon is fallen, is fallen! And all the carved images of her gods He has broken to the ground.” Of the same Jeremiah wrote, “Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Wail for her!” But John wrote concerning Mystery Babylon, ”Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,” and again, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird!”
The answer to this “mystery” is simply this: Exactly as God used a pagan kingdom, Babylon, to judge Jerusalem and destroy His own house at the beginning of the first exile, He used another pagan kingdom, Rome, to judge Jerusalem and destroy His own house at the beginning of the second exile in AD 70. But while Rome was God’s battering ram against Jerusalem, she also turned her wrath against and murdered the Apostles and Christians.
So why then does Revelation portray Rome using the language of harlotry which is how God portrayed unfaithful Israel in many places in the Old Testament? It is because the Roman church was seduced by the Roman Emperor Constantine into merging church and state. Instead of remaining a pure virgin for Christ, she entered the bed of the Roman Emperor and became his concubine and handmaid. Constantine brought an end to persecution of Christians, but it came at an awful price, her virginity. The pagan emperor essentially became the head of the Roman church. Christians who would not go along with this merger of church and state became the enemies of the Roman church-state and were persecuted. The power of the civil government was placed behind the church, and the will of the pagan emperor controlled the church. The militant and carnal exercise of dominion by Rome has continued since that time. The ghost of Constantine still controls the church-state centered in Rome’s Vatican. Christianity became an earthly kingdom using the power of the sword to conquer and control the masses, instead of winning souls by faithfully portraying Jesus Christ while awaiting her groom to establish His Kingdom.
Many think that Rome was overthrown. Not so. The system called “Mystery Babylon” which is centered in Rome still exercises power by carnal means in a significant part of the world, including in the United States. The Vatican is an independent nation, and has political embassies in many countries, and has a great deal of political power. She has ridden on the back of the Beast for a long time, taking her power to rule from Satan. But a woman cannot ride a wild beast indefinitely before it devours her.
Revelation 17 tells us that the ten kings which arise out of the old Roman Empire (which are the ten horns on the wild beast) will suddenly turn against her and utterly destroy and burn her with fire. Then they will give their kingdoms and power to the Antichrist (the little horn of Daniel 7) who will reign for 42 months.
It is significant that the culture war in the United States has in large part concerned sexuality and abortion. Evangelical Christians are rightly opposed to deviant sexuality and abortion. But these are no different from the practices of virtually all ancient cultures which had hardened themselves against the knowledge of God and embraced paganism. Sexual perversion has been a hallmark of pagan societies, and so also has child-sacrifice. In fact, both were incorporated into the worship of demons. We should not be surprised when modern idolaters who have taken over the culture sacrifice their children to demons under the label “abortion.” We should not be surprised that these idolators want to groom all children with forced indoctrination into their deviant behavior.
But in case some have not noticed, all of this is coming to a head. The stalemate is over. The recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, and the suggestion by Justice Clarence Thomas about revisiting some other past decisions, perhaps gay marriage, means we are about to face a showdown at the OK Corral. And Rome is in the middle of all this. The Supreme Court of the United States has a lot of Roman Catholics seated on the bench. These are all of the conservatives: John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Barrett. On the other hand, Steven Breyer and Elena Kagan are Jewish and liberals, and newly appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson claims to be Protestant. The hatred leveled against the Conservative Justices who are virtually all Roman Catholic is equally leveled against the Vatican and its public stance regarding these issues.
While Revelation 17-18 gives a long list of the sins of Mystery Babylon which reach up to heaven, it is primarily her harlotry with the kings of the earth which brings God’s judgement. As stated earlier, the merging of Christianity with politics, the use of carnal weapons to enforce a certain kind of Christian morality upon unregenerated people, began with Constantine. This is the nations’ drinking from the cup of her fornication. It continues in many nations with Rome’s strong political influence including the United States.
Both Catholic and Protestant denominations have exerted significant political pressure in the United States. But during the 1970s, Christian political organizations sprang up which consisted largely of Evangelical and Fundamentalist groups. This included the “Christian Voice,” the “Moral Majority” founded by Jerry Falwell, the “Religious Roundtable,” and the “National Christian Action Coalition,” all of which had significant influence on the election of Ronald Reagan and Republican congressional members. Several influential Charismatic figures also were heavily involved, including Pat Robertson and James Robison. Charismatic infiltration of politics has only increased since then, taking the form of “Dominionist Theology” which combines political activism, Charismatic “spiritual warfare” (which resembles witchcraft), and overt measures to seize control of various aspects of society. The latest organized dominionist group is called the “Seven Mountain Mandate.” How is that for an obvious identification with “Mystery Babylon?” “Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits” (Rev. 17:9 NKJ). This organization has heavily supported Donald Trump, and one of its members, Evangelist Paula White, was President Trump’s personal pastor and spiritual advisor.
The “Christian-Right,” the “Evangelical” wing of the Republican party, has increasingly allied with Rome and some of the darker forces in the Charismatic movement in using carnal weapons to fight an alleged “spiritual battle” that is not ours to fight. The intent is to impose Christian morality upon an increasingly ungodly and pagan society which will not stand for it. With the arrival of Donald Trump on the political scene, backed by Charismatic Dominionist theology (which is just a repackaging of Rome’s Constantinian Christianity in the United States), a new “Constantine” hero has emerged. Evangelical Christians adore this man, supposing that he will reimpose a forced morality upon this culture just as the early Roman Christians did with their hero, Constantine. But this new hero is not a “David” who was a godly king and trusted in God’s strength and wisdom to deliver His people by His supernatural means. This new American hero of Constantinian Christianity is a Saul, a man who trusts in his own ego and charisma, who is utterly rejected by God. He is leading Evangelical American Christians into an ambush.
Will the city of Rome be overthrown and burned with fire literally as Revelation 17-18 suggests? Yes. This will be seen as the overthrow of militant Christianity with its imposed morals. But the effect will be felt all over the world, and all militant forms of Christianity will crumble. Many Christians will be casualties in this overthrow of pseudo-Christianity. And it will be the driving force behind the persecution of Christians as well as the apostasy of many Christians.
But a small minority of Christians will do just fine because God will preserve them as promised in Revelation 3:10 and Revelation 12. These are the Christians who heed the warning in Revelation 18:4, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.” They are the ones who are overcomers, because they heed Jesus’ warnings in the seven letters and repent of their sins, they “washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb,” and they are those who “keep the commands of God and the Faith of Jesus.” They are the “Bride [who] has made herself ready.”
Coming out of her is not just evacuating the city of Rome, or leaving Roman Catholicism. Rome’s daughters, the Protestant denominations and most of Evangelicalism, are still under her dominion to a large extent because of their mixing patriotism with Christianity, the use of carnal rather than spiritual weapons to achieve their goals. Coming out of Mystery Babylon involves throwing off her idolatry, her tainted theology, her pagan practices which have been “Christianized,” and especially her use of carnal weapons – political means – to accomplish allegedly spiritual and moral goals, to change society externally instead of changing hearts and minds by humble obedience to Christ’s commands. These are the trappings of her harlotry being committed with the kings of the earth. Trust in and devotion to populist political figures who are unregenerate, as the hope of salvaging the American Christian Kingdom, is a fool’s errand and will bring the wrath of the wicked and no help at all from God. That kind of Christianity will be burned to the ground along with Mystery Babylon.
Rev. 18:20
Rev. 17:18
Jer. 51:7
Rev. 17:4
Isa. 21:9 NKJV
Jer. 51:8 NKJV
Rev. 14:8 NKJV
Rev. 18:2 NKJV
The 4th Beast of Daniel 8, and the 10 toes emerge from the legs of Iron (Rome) of the great image of Dan. 2
Cf. Dan. 7:7-8,11
Rev. 17:12,16-17
Rev. 13:5
Rom. 1:18-32
Neil Gorsuch was raised Catholic, and attended Catholic schools, but attends an Episcopalian church with his wife who is Episcopalian.
Rev. 7:14 (NKJV)
Rev. 14:12 (NKJV)
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Everything that fills a garden need not be green or growing; sometimes a moment of rest is the best occupation for a certain spot. A break from the flow of foliage, a pause in the posies, gives a breather, both to those working and those viewing the garden. Musicians know this, holding back harmonies for a beat or measure, and gardeners do, too. We put big rocks in the landscape to anchor, to set apart or hold the line visually between elements…and then we literally rest on them, sitting down to briefly recover. And so the strength and solid stance that seems to be imparted from a rock adds a dimension of rest, a “do not disturb,” fortifying us in our garden place.
There is no Rock like our God 1 Samuel 2:2
Perch upon that rock, O gardener, knowing the strength and shelter of our God is similar, yet so much more yielding of rest. We are welcomed to enter his encompassing protection, his forgiving fortress, his holy presence.
Rocks also serve as reminders. Who loves to bring back rocks from the adventures of life? I have a rock from a ranch we visited, one from a rocky incline near a resort we enjoyed and one from the field near my children’s school (getting 5 children to school on time each day qualifies as an adventure!)—all special stories memorialized in our garden, filling our view with the encouragement of victory and happy times together.
Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.” 1 Samuel 7:12
Mark the triumphs, Samuel’s actions show us, with a remembrance of the Lord’s help; a secure keepsake to keep focused on the surety of God’s involvement, his aid and relief, his love and willing guidance, his winning and saving grace.
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1. What are the symptoms of HPV virus infected with HPV virus?
As we all know, HPV is a necessary condition for cervical cancer, but this virus does not have significant reactions after entering the human body like an intestinal virus. It caused pre -cancer lesions, and it was not obvious. Therefore, how to discover it in the early days became a major problem.
How is HPV infected?
HPV infection mostly appears in women between 16-35 years old. The transmission path is mainly direct contact infection. In addition, maternal and infants or indirect items may also occur. However, the symptoms of HPV infection are not obvious. The incubation period can reach 3-4 months, and the course of the disease is different. Some can disappear in some months. Although its symptoms are not obvious, it can also be found from some “clues”.
1. Early performance of the low -risk HPV infection
Infected HPV’s early body will appear light red pimples. This pimple becomes more The more, the bigger and bigger, the pimples gradually bulge, highlighting the surface of the skin. The shape is mainly manifested in cocky -like, nipples, romance, and cauliflower -like.
After the male infection of HPV, most of them will be found in foreskin, glans, lace, coronary grooves and urethral opening, and a few patients will also develop diseases in the penis body. Women’s onset parts are mainly in vagina, perianal, vulva, and cervix, and may also occur at the same time at the same time.
3. The color of condyloma acuminatum caused by HPV has a variety of colors, red and gray, and the skin is humid in the infected area. However, because the warts are very small, it is difficult to be seen by the naked eye.
2. Early performance of high -risk HPV infection
1. Infected high -risk HPV, mainly manifested as tumors and cancer on the skin, such as cervical cancer.
2. The symptoms of cervical cancer are manifested as: abnormal or bleeding from vaginal secretions, pain in sexual intercourse, severe severe and urination pain.
How to detect HPV infection?
The hospital has a direct detection of HPV projects. The test results are negative and positive: the result is negative: represents no infection HPV virus; the result is positive: represents representatives You have infected HPV, so the risk of cervical cancer will increase. However, it is clear that HPV positive does not necessarily develop into cervical cancer. It needs to be further examined to check cervical cells to see if there is cancerous. If no lesions are found, you only need to follow the clinic regularly, and find that abnormalities will immediately seek medical treatment immediately.
1.At the same time, the typical symptoms are small red pimples, and pimples will gradually increase and become a nipple -like, cauliflower -like, cocky -like or sink -like biosi. The surface is uneven and soft.
2. If the condyloma acuminatum damage caused by HPV infection is not treated in time, the horsesy creatures are often due to friction rupture and erosion and secondary infection. Generally speaking, male infection parts are most common around the coronary groove and foreskin lace, and can also be seen in the penis, foreskin, glans and urethral ports.
Human papilloma virus infection from the current examination does not cause cervical lesions, which is equivalent to hepatitis B virus carriers. Many of us know that Oskana does not cause abnormal liver merit. This principle is the same. Virus’s disease to the body also depends on the body’s resistance, that is, viral infections may not necessarily cause cervical lesions and even cervical cancer. It may be in a continuous state of infection with the human body, but it does not cause disease.
HPV low -risk generally causes condyloma acuminatum, which is cauliflower or cocky -like, and is treated with physical therapy such as laser or freezing! There are no particularly obvious symptoms of high risks. A small number of people accompanied by leucorrhea increases and yellow colors. High -risk needs to do vaginal mirror biopsy checks to see if there is a lesion!
Because HPV has no special effects, it is mainly to improve immunity! Combined with Gaojixing selenium and vitamin E, the two have the effect of antioxidant and delaying aging! Selenium supplementation to regulate human immune function! Coupled with more exercise, staying up late, replenishing nutrition, and relaxing, it usually turns overcast!
2. Does HPV virus on your hand
HPV is a sexual dissemination microorganism. It can enter the skin and mucosa of the contact person through the tiny damage of the skin or mucosa. HPV stimulates the epidermal base cells, produces division, and causes proliferative damage to the epidermis. In 1954, HPV was confirmed to be one of the pathogens of sexually transmitted diseases. It was related to condyloma acuminatum and contagious.
According to medical vocabulary, you can know that HPV may be infected in your hand, so you need to wash your hands frequently.
3. What are the symptoms of men’s infection with HPV
Men’s infection with HPV virus. It does not necessarily have symptoms. It depends on the type of virus infected and the infected parts. For example, HPV virus infection with genitals or perianal parts, then he may grow condyloma acuminatum. If it is infected with hands or feet, it may grow ordinary warts and plantar warts.
What to do with HPV infection
Hello: because of this disease, there is certain self -limit, and it is easy to recur after treatment. Moreover, there is currently no roots to remove HPV. Therefore, although there are many treatment methods, it is mainly based on local hyperplasia warts. When choosing, the basic principles are still effective, simple, safe, and not caused by scars. For the sub -clinical infection area,Under the instructions of the acetic acid white test, it can be treated at the same time according to the treatment of clinical infection; is it treated or how to treat it?There is no unified point of view.In addition, other sexually transmitted diseases that may be accompanied by may also be diagnosed and treated in a timely manner. Some people have observed that patients with condyloma acuminatum with other sexually transmitted diseases have higher recurrence rates. In addition, protective measures are taken to avoid being passed on to others.
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The government has reportedly focused on introducing a ration system as an alternative approach to solve the shortage of essential food items and the rapid hike of commodity prices.
The matter was addressed at the last Cabinet meeting, according to reports. The proposition has been tabled by Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardena. He suggested that essential commodities be distributed to low income families using the SATHOSA outlets on a ration basis.
These goods can be provided at a significantly lower price than the average prices in the market, he pointed out.
At present, the price of a kilo of sugar has risen to Rs. 240 and there are indications that the price could increase more, revealing the occurrence of a price surge beyond the government’s control.
The Sri Lankan Rupee has depreciated against the US Dollar on a daily basis due to the sharp rise in the prices of imported essential commodities, followed by container and shipping charges.
The introduction of a ration scheme, therefore, may be taken place in the future with the aim of providing relief to the public, including low income families.
The Trade Minister stated that 100,000 metric tonnes of Nadu, Kekulu and Ponni Samba rice will be imported from India, in any event were the traders taking action to further increase the rice prices, in the objective of controlling the prices.
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CLASSE Laptop User's Guide
To connect to a CLASSE network:
Please leave your laptop connected to LNSProtected or connected to our VPN every Monday night, if possible.
You must be connected to our VPN or a CLASSE network in order to:
Note that the RedRover and eduroam wireless networks are NOT CLASSE networks.
Wired connection (i.e. when docked)
Please connect to the wired LNSProtected network whenever possible. To do so, plug in a LNSProtected ethernet cable or use a docking station. If your office does not have an LNSProtected network socket, please submit a CLASSE-IT ServiceRequest
will default to a wireless connection if it is available. So, please disconnect
from the VPN before connecting to the LNSProtected wired network. For detailed instructions, see SwitchingFromWirelessToWiredLNSProtected
Wireless connection (i.e. when undocked)
Wireless network access on campus is provided by Cornell University (not CLASSE). Please connect to the eduroam or RedRover networks: https://wiki.classe.cornell.edu/Computing/CLASSENewUsersGuide2014#RedRoverEduroam
From any wireless network (Cornell or home), you can access restricted CLASSE services by connecting to the CLASSE virtual private network (VPN)
If you're connected via VPN and wireless, and trying to use WinAPP
(e.g., for Kronos) or accessing samba for files
, performance will be sub-optimal. There may be more lag and files may copy more slowly than when connected directly to LNSProtected. If you need high performance, please use an LNSProtected wired connection.
Linux Networking and Filesystems
Change Network Settings
To switch between wire and wireless, and to connect to the CLASSE VPN, use the "Networking" icon in the upper-right corner of your screen.
After clicking on that icon, you should see available network interfaces. Your wired interfaces are listed under "Ethernet Network," and any wireless interfaces will be listed under "Wi-Fi Networks." Finally, you can mouse-over "VPN Connections" to enable or disable the CLASSE VPN
Filesystems / Disks
- Unlike CLASSE Managed Linux desktops, laptops use local home disks and do not have access to NFS File systems.
- Your CLASSE Managed Linux laptops (or desktops) local disks are not backed up.
- To access NetworkedFilesystems, you will need to use the samba protocol instead of NFS
- Connect to a CLASSE Network or connect to our VPN.
- Open the File Manager (double-click on a folder on your desktop)
- click on "samba" underneath "PLACES," or select one of the precreated CLASSE Shortcuts.
- Double-click on the samba share you would like to access. To correlate samba shares with NFS shares, please see https://www.classe.cornell.edu/private/computing/filesystems.html
- Login with your CLASSE username and password
Docking / Undocking
can get confused if you dock or undock while it is not on and logged in.
- To have the best experience undocking:
- Make sure to be logged in to your CLASSE account
- Using the dock button, click to undock
- Once the dock or Windows indicates you can undock, physically remove the laptop from the dock.
- Then continue:
- Hibernate the laptop by closing the lid or selecting from the start menu.
- Or change network configuration.
- To have the best experience docking:
- Make sure you are logged in to your CLASSE account
- Physically dock the laptop
- Switch network from wireless to LNSProtected as above.
- You may need to reset some screen resolutions when you have multiple monitors connected via the dock.
Maintenance and support
Because laptops are not always on a CLASSE network, additional care must be taken to keep them up to date, and remote support from CLASSE-IT requires the user to take additional steps.
Automatic weekly updates
Laptops should be left on and connected to a CLASSE network (see above) every Monday night. Software updates usually are applied Monday night or early Tuesday morning.
If a laptop is turned off or is disconnected from LNSProtected on Monday night, the updates will be applied as soon as it is reconnected to the VPN or a CLASSE network. Note that the laptop may be very sluggish while the updates are applied.
CLASSE laptops can also receive automatic updates while on the VPN
. However, on Windows
the updates may require your laptop to be rebooted during the process, in which case the VPN will be disconnected and it will not reconnect automatically upon reboot. This can leave your laptop in an indeterminate or non-functioning state.
Laptops have greater exposure than desktops to untrusted networks, and they can also get out-of-sync with our desktop configurations when they are not connected to a CLASSE network. Therefore, we recommend bringing in your laptop every 6 months for a security and configuration checkup. To schedule a checkup, please submit a ServiceRequest
and allow approximately 4 hours for the work. Usually, we'll schedule a time with you to drop off and pick up the laptop from the IT Helpdesk, but alternative arrangements can be made.
As with CLASSE desktops, we can remotely address many laptop service requests. However, in your request, please let us know which network your laptop is connected to.
- It is best for your laptop to be on a wired LNSProtected connection when requesting remote support.
- If you are connected to the VPN, please hover your mouse over the VPN tray icon near the clock (you may need to click the expansion arrow to see it) and note your VPN IP address (172.20.x.x) in your ticket.
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Day 1 Consistency (Workouts)
CONSISTENCY: The achievement of a level of performance that does not vary greatly in quality over time.
Take a listen to my video with more helpful tips and information to keep you motivated and consistent to complete your workout daily.
The act of consistency can bring you success in so many areas of your life, personal, professional, fitness, nutrition, sleep, etc. First, I would like to talk about consistency with workouts. This is one of the areas in my life that is always consistent. I workout 6-7 days a week and most days it’s the first thing I do during the day. Nothing gets in my way of working out because it’s only 30 minutes most days and sets the tone for the day. It helps me alleviate stress, feel energized, get stronger, more flexible and helps with my overall well being.
Whether you go to a gym or workout at home here are a few tips to keep you consistent with your workouts:
- Plan out your workouts for the week ahead.
- Set out your workout clothes and sneakers the night before, or pack them to take to work with you.
- Know what time of day you will be working out and stick with it. Treat it like an appointment, don’t let anything get in the way.
- Pick your workout the night before so you get in the mindset to be ready for it.
- Don’t procrastinate and get distracted. JUST DO IT!!!
- Get on a consistent routine, same time each day, whatever works with your schedule. Get up earlier to get it done if that is the only way to make it happen.
- Don’t let vacations stop your consistency. There are so many options on vacation: walking, running, ab workout in hotel room, swimming, sports, tennis, golf.
- Add it to your daily to do list and it will feel great to cross it off your list each day.
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OpenAI has built a new deep neural network called MuseNet to compose music, the details of which she shared in a blog post yesterday. The research organization has made a prototype co-composer powered by MuseNet available to users until May 12.
Introducing MuseNet, a neural network that has discovered how to generate music using many different instruments and styles.
Listen and interact: https://t.co/yudNpaerz9
– OpenAI (@OpenAI) April 25, 2019
What is MuseNet?
MuseNet uses the same general purpose unsupervised technology as OpenAI’s GPT-2 language model, Sparse Transformer. This transformer allows MuseNet to predict the next grade based on the given set of grades. To enable this behavior, Sparse Transformer uses something called “Sparse Attention”, where each output position calculates weights from a subset of input positions.
For audio tracks, a 72-layer array with 24 attention heads is formed using the recalculated and optimized cores of Sparse Transformer. This provides the model with a long-term context that allows it to remember the long-term structure of a song.
To train the model, the researchers collected training data from a variety of sources. The dataset includes MIDI files donated by ClassicalArchives and BitMidi. The dataset also includes data from online collections including jazz, pop, African, Indian, and Arabic styles.
The model is able to generate musical compositions of 4 minutes with 10 different instruments and takes into account the different styles of music of composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beatles, etc. It can also convincingly mix different styles of music to create a whole new piece of music.
The MuseNet prototype, which is made available to users for testing, only ships with a small subset of options. It supports two modes:
- In simple mode, users can listen to unselected samples generated by OpenAI. To generate a piece of music yourself, all you need to do is choose a composer or style and an optional start of a famous piece.
- In advanced mode, users can interact directly with the model. Generating music in this mode will take much longer but will result in a brand new song. This is what advanced mode looks like:
What are his limits ?
The music generation tool is still a prototype, so it has some limitations:
- To generate each note, MuseNet calculates the probabilities on all possible notes and instruments. Although the model gives more priority to your instrument choices, it is possible that it will choose something else.
- MuseNet has difficulty generating a piece of music if there are odd pairings of styles and instruments. The generated music will be more natural if you choose the instruments closest to the usual style of the composer or group.
Many users have already started to test the model. While some users are quite impressed with the AI-generated music, some think it’s pretty obvious that the music is machine-generated and lacks the emotional factor.
here is a opinion shared by a Redditor for different styles of music:
“My take on the classical parts of it, as a classical pianist. Overall: stylistic consistency at the ~ 15 second scale. Better than anything I’ve heard so far. Seems to have an attachment to pedal notes.
Mozart: I would say that the distinguishing feature of Mozart as a composer is that every bar ârings trueâ. Even without knowing the piece, you can usually tell when a performer made a mistake and strayed from the score. Mozart’s samples sound⦠wrong. There are parallel fifths everywhere.
Bach: (I heard a sample of Bach in the live concert) – He had pretty much the right consistency in the melody, but zero counterpoint, which is the defining characteristic of Bach. Perhaps the conditioning is not strong enough?
Rachmaninoff: Known for his lush musical textures and hauntingly beautiful melodies. The samples have about the correct texture, although I would describe them more as cloudy than lush. No melody to hear. “
Another user commented, “It can be academically interesting, but the music always sounds wrong enough to be obnoxious (i.e. there’s no way I’m spending time listening to it on purpose). “
Although this model is still in its infancy, an important question that comes to mind is who will own the generated music. “While discussing this with my friends, an interesting question arose: who owns the music that this produces? Couldn’t we generate music and upload it to Spotify and get paid based on the number of plays?” another user added.
OpenAI researchers have developed Sparse Transformers, a neural network that can predict the rest of a sequence
OpenAI Five bots destroyed Dota 2 human players this weekend
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Deep conditioning is to hair as air is to humans.
Hair conditioning is probably the most essential part of your haircare routine. It’s literally the remedy for all hair problems. While a quick 3 minute soak and rinse may leave our hair feeling soft and more manageable, an in salon conditioning treatment will end in longer lasting results leaving the hair less susceptible to damage, shinier and lustrous.
Any woman who braids, twists, uses heat, styling products, applies chemical treatments (such as perms), colors their hair or use sulphate-based shampoos, needs to have their hair deep conditioned and these are the reasons why…
Regularly conditioning your hair can help prevent damaging moisturized hair, improving texture, and penetrating the hair shaft. Conditioning treatments further help to reduce breaking and splitting ends, as well as improve your hair’s health. Even if you don’t feel your hair is damaged, incorporating a deep conditioning treatment into your regular hair care routine on a regular basis can help you maintain your healthy hair.
Your hair needs moisture in order to be healthy. If you use a moisturizing conditioner that contains certain key ingredients such as protein, essential natural oils and of course water, you can moisten your hair. Without moisture, hair becomes dry and brittle, and eventually prone to breakages.
Dry, brittle hair snaps and breaks under tension, and no one wants that. In order to combat breakages, you need to nourish, strengthen and moisturize your hair. Deep conditioning treatments can do just that. The use of products containing essential natural oils like argon oil, milk and olive oil, and sunflower oil are essential to nourishing your hair.
Adds Shine and Luster
Over time our hair looses moisture and shine, so once you realize that your hair is dull and dry, a deep conditioning treatment can repair damage as well as smoothen the hair shaft, thus imparting that luster.
With all these benefits why don’t you treat your hair to a spa date? After all its been good to you. Especially after all those manipulations and hairstyles you made it go through.
We use Davines Naturaltech a product and treatment system specifically formulated to solve the most common hair and scalp problems. Naturaltech combines phytoceuticals which are active biological compounds, present exclusively in plants that protect the systems and apparatuses of the human body. The phytoceuticals act as antioxidants, anti-inflammatoides and anti-free radicals and are coupled with other active ingredients that result in highly active products and that combat hair and scalp products. The addition of key essential oils leave the hair with a refreshing fragrance. All formulas are creamy, free from parabens and sulphates (SLES and SLS).
Formulated to treat particularly sensitized or sensitive scalps. The Calming shampoo formula contains phytoceuticals extracted from blueberries, rich in polyphenols and sugars with very high anti-inflammatory power. The essential oils contained in the Calming products enhance the calming action of this treatment.
A family of revitalizing, regenerating and detoxifying products for scalp lacking tone, and hair stressed by external environmental factors.
These products contain extracts from artichokes which are rich in polyphenols and with an extraordinary antioxidant power. The fragrance contains cardamom, coriander and mint essential oils for a stimulating, antiseptic and soothing action.
Characterized by a high concentration of multipurpose active ingredients specifically designed to solve scalp and fragile hair problems as well as eliminate hair falling out. The Energizing treatment is also used as a preventive treatment for numerous types of alopecia conditions.
The Energizing products contain caffeine phytoceuticals which stimulates the scalp’s metabolism while sirtuins; also known as the ‘proteins of longevity’, carry out effective antioxidant and anti-aging action while invigorating and reinforcing the scalp. Essential oils derived from cinnamon, ginger, and black pepper offer a stimulating action to the scalp and hair.
The Nourishing Treatment uses products that revitalize and fortifies dry, brittle and damaged hair as well as nourishing the scalp.
These products contain phytoceuticals extracted from grapes, rich in polyphenols and contain extraordinary antioxidant power. The fragrance contains mandarin, petit grain and ylang ylang essential oils that enhance the nourishing action.
This family of products is an antiseptic, calming, preventive and curative product for both dry and greasy dandruff conditions.
The formulas in this family contain phytoceuticals extracted from dandelions which are rich in polyphenols and sugars that demonstrate very strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory powers. The fragrance contains lavender, myrrh and sage essential oils for an anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and calming action.
A normalizing and rebalancing treatment for problems of excess sebum production.
These products contain phytoceuticals extracted from lemon which are rich in polyphenols, carbohydrates and sugars with a very strong anti-inflammatory power. The fragrance contains chamomile, cedar-wood and Japanese green tea essential oils for a calming, sedative and anti-inflammatory action.
Replumping service restores elasticity as well as hydrates and smooths the hair. This service makes the hair fuller and will benefit any condition hair.
The Replumping products are enriched with plum phytoceuticals rich in polyphenols and flavonoids; precious anti-oxidant substances that combat free radicals and have toning and elasticizing properties. The fragrance is derived from petit grain essential oils extracted from bitter lemon leaves and also acts as a compacting agent helping the smooth the hair.
Regularly scheduled deep conditioning treatment as part of your hair care routine will:
· keep the hair healthy which encourages growth.
· keep the hair soft and strong.
· add body and life to hair.
· protect the hair.
· add moisture and protein to the hair giving the hair balance. .
· prevent damage, breakage, dryness and split ends.
· keep the hair FABULOUS!
At Park East Salon every chemical treatment includes a two deep conditioning treatments, one at the time of your chemical treatment to insure your hair is in the best condition possible for chemically waving, coloring or highlighting your hair. The second conditioning treatment will be scheduled by your Park East Salon Stylist approximately two to three weeks after your chemical treatment. As part of our 5 Star customer care, both conditioning treatments are included as part of any chemical treatment we perform.
After your first deep conditioning treatment your hair will begin to look healthier, shinier and softer. Quality hair requires careful attention to detail and the specialists at Park East Salon take the guess work out of making sure your hair remains healthy and strong. The less damage that occurs with your hair, the easier it will be to care for, the longer your color or highlights will remain vibrant. | <urn:uuid:d3ee86ae-c522-4315-8e28-9a21f0f0ba80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://parkeastsalon.com/articles-2/deep-conditioning-treatments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.935961 | 1,505 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The following four factors are essential to an income investor’s portfolio. These are Dividend growth, Diversification, Tax efficiency, and Return on capital. These factors can help you determine which types of stocks to buy. Below are some examples. Read on to find out how to build an income investor’s portfolio. But beware: not all stocks are created equal! It’s best to stick to dividend-growth stocks, and equities may not be your best bet.
Dividend growth in income investor portfolios may provide a slight hedge against inflation, but it is important to consider the risk. The danger of dividend-growth-oriented investing is that you may miss out on a 7% monthly gain, which would equal zero over 64 years. Fortunately, this risk can be mitigated by diversifying your portfolio. In fact, studies show that investing in dividend-paying companies may actually boost your portfolio’s overall return.
Dividend growth investing combines income investing with capital gains trading. Investors look for companies with a steady increase in stock prices, and then use these dividends to buy more of the company’s stock. The goal is to build a long-term value-oriented mindset. With this mindset, you can avoid the risk of trying to time the market. Dividend-paying companies offer better returns over time. For this reason, many investors opt for dividend growth stocks.
One of the key ways to invest in stocks is to use mutual funds that have a tax efficiency mandate. These funds generally have lower yields and turnover, and invest in growth stocks and companies that do not pay taxable dividends. Tax efficiency mutual funds work to offset gains over time by selling stocks at losses. They can also be more aggressive and diversify across several different asset classes. But tax efficiency is only one of the factors to consider when choosing an investment portfolio.
To make the most of tax efficiency in an income investor portfolio, it is important to understand the dynamics of turnover, income, and capital gains. Income-oriented assets, like bonds, usually have low to moderate turnover. Municipal bonds are the most tax-efficient types of bonds because they are tax-free, and investment-grade corporate bonds are the least tax-efficient. It is important to understand the tax implications of holding different types of bonds in an income investor’s portfolio.
To make your portfolio more appealing, consider a variety of assets. While some will rise rapidly, others will decline steadily. The frontrunners in one year may become laggards in another. With this in mind, diversification is the key. And with today’s zero-commission exchanges, diversification is now easier than ever. Read on to learn more about the benefits of diversification and how to get started.
As with any investment, there is risk involved. While investing always involves some risk, diversification is an excellent way to protect your investment portfolio in the event that one investment fails. For example, if Cody makes money from four different clients, while Meredith makes money from one, her income would disappear in an instant. This would eat up much of her income, which is why it’s important to diversify an income investor portfolio.
Return of capital
To reap the maximum benefits from your mutual fund investment, you should make sure the total return of your investments exceeds the total cost of disbursements. If you purchase a mutual fund at $10 per share, for example, you will incur an initial cost basis of $ten. If you sell the position at $12, however, your cost basis will be higher at $2,200, or $1,800 per share. Those are the two different types of returns you will experience.
One of the most common misunderstandings among investors is the concept of return of capital. This is especially true for older investors, who have likely forgotten about it or never gave it much thought. However, return of capital is important because it reduces the adjusted cost basis of an investor’s investment, and subsequent returns will be taxable as capital gains. Those benefits are important to keep in mind if you invest in closed-end funds.
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Pectin E440 can be used in Food, Beverage, Pharmaceutical, Health & Personal care products, Agriculture/Animal Feed/Poultry.
Pectin E440 is used as a gelling agent, thickening agent and stabilizer in food such as in yogurt, confectionery and acid milk drinks, jams, jellies and bakery fillings. From the raw materials, generally there are two kinds of Pectins: Citrus pectin and Apple Pectin.
Pectin are polyoses which exist in the tissue of all terrestrial green plants. They are bonding materials in plants that combine water and plant cells.
High methoxyl pectin (high ester) with more than 50% of esterfication degree
Low methoxyl pectin (low ester) with less than 50% of esterfication degree
Pectin used in Jams and marmalades:
Jams and marmalades with a soluble solid content of at least 55% are the classic applications for high methyl pectin which guarantee excellent flavour release, low syneresis and fruity-sweet taste. High methyl pectin is the choice for recommended filling temperatures between 65 – 85°C. High methyl pectin E440 is a sensible alternative when gel transparency or colour of the pectin may influence the appearance of the finished product.
Pectin used in Confectionery:
The solid content of confectionery products, which is normally bet-ween 70% – 80%, together with a high acidity, can cause rapid or even an uncontrollable gelling speed if the wrong type of pectin is used.
Apple and citrus pectin contain different well balanced buffer systems to provide con-sistent setting properties and consistent gelling strength.
Special Pectin E440 are also available for extra low filling temperature.
Low methyl pectin E440 is recommended for fruit spreads with soluble content lower than 55%.
Pectin used in Dairy:
High methyl pectinE440 can stabilize acid protein systems by forming protective layers around the protein particles. This protein protection prevents serum or phase separation and casein aggregation at low pH values.
PectinE440 can also increase the viscosity and thus increase mouth feel and taste to acidified dairy beverages like drinkable yoghurts, fruit containing milks or fruit flavoured protein drinks. Fruit and milk are a refreshing combination that is perfect for a healthy and natural diet; Pectin is the combining element between.
Pectin used in Beverage:
PectinE440 in beverage applications cover many functions including cloud stabilisation, increasing mouthfeel and boosting soluble fibre.
For cloud stabilisation in fruit juice drinks and for adding a natural mouthfeel to low calorie fruit beverages, we recommend our range of viscosity standardised HM pectin types. They are standardised to constant physical and rheological properties and are available in different viscosities from apple and citrus origin.
In applications where you want to increase soluble fibre content, you have the choice of different low viscosity pectin types.
Pectin used in Bakery:
A shiny and attractive finish on all sorts of pastry and desserts or a smooth and tasty fruit filling is giving bakery products the special character. Pectins have functional properties which are optimal for these applications..
Glazes seal the surface and act at the same time as a flavour enhancer, colour and freshness preserver. For effective use, glazes must be fully transparent, easy to apply and have to have constant rheological properties.
LMA PECTIN E440 is low methyl amidated pectins and they are less calcium sensitive and require generally less calcium for optimal gelling. Even the fruit containing calcium or water containing calcium can be sufficient for optimal gelling conditions. LMA pectins are to a large extent very tolerant towards the calcium concentration for building up an optimal gel network. These pectins result in very smooth and elastic gel structures. Additional calcium normally is only needed if soluble solid content is lower than 40%. LMA are the only pectins which produce thermo reversible gels.
HM pectins E440 is high methyl composed of more than 50% of esterified galacturonic acid units. We offer a broad range of different DE from 50% to 78%. HM pectins are standardised either to specific setting temperatures, viscosities, calcium reactivity, protein stabilising capacity or specific buffer capacity. More information about these pectin types can also be found in our detailed application brochures.
In food and drinks
|Used in Confectionery
Used in Dairy foods
|Used in Fruits & Vegetables
In Agriculture/Animal Feed/Poultry
PectinE440 can be used as preservatives in Agriculture/Animal Feed/Poultry.
In Health and Personal care
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Neighbors in eastern Iowa fight to bring down turbines — and win
FAIRBANK, Ia. — Developers who invested $11 million to install three wind turbines in eastern Iowa are tearing them down, after losing a legal battle waged by nearby residents.
It's only the second time nationally a judge has ordered wind turbines to be torn down and a first in Iowa.
"It's great. We love it," said Cheyney Hershey, whose young family lives near the turbines. "You can't sit outside on the deck and have a conversation without the constant thumping of the blades going round."
The noise can even be heard inside his home, Hershey said: "There was nowhere to get away from them."
His family and others watch daily to see what work has been done: Crews have torn down two turbines and are dismantling the third. They have until Dec. 9 to complete the work.
Opponents to the 450-foot turbines believe the legal battle will empower other rural landowners and small towns to take on wind.
Residents in Palo Alto, Black Hawk and other counties are challenging wind projects as well.
"It was a shock that the neighbors and Fairbank could say we didn't want them" and win, said Ted Vorwald, a Fairbank city council member.
In 2015, the Fayette County Zoning Board provided permits that allowed the wind developers to build the turbines.
Nearby landowners challenged the permits in district court, where a judge agreed with them, saying the permits were "illegal and void."
Developers appealed the decision, and decided to move ahead with construction.
But the Iowa Court of Appeals this year ruled in the city and residents' favor. And the Iowa Supreme Court declined to consider the case, forcing the developers to tear down the turbines.
"The system worked," Vorwald said. "They were put up without the zoning ... and the courts upheld the ruling."
Wind energy supporters say the order could hurt new investment, jeopardizing jobs, landowner payments and tax revenue that come with the projects.
Court records indicate taking down the turbines will cost about $450,000 — or $150,000 each.
"There's some risk that this will chill investment," said Bret Dublinske, a Des Moines attorney representing four of the five Fayette County wind developers.
"This isn't something that's happened before, where you have a development that played by the rules, got the permit, and to have that result in a forfeiture — the actual tearing down of the turbines," Dublinske said.
That "will make some people leery about whether the rules can change after the investment is made," he said.
'It has been a long and costly four years'
Resident Joyce Kerns said Fairbank is a beautiful little town that residents want to see grow.
It sits about 35 miles from Waterloo and 50 miles from Cedar Rapids, offering an alternative for families wanting to live outside of the big eastern Iowa cities, she said.
"A lot of younger couples have moved here," says Kerns, one of the landowners near the wind turbines. "It's a nice community with a lot of professionals."
The wind turbines, about a half mile from the city's northeast side, lie in the way of Fairbank's growth, say Vorwald and others.
The turbines sit near 36 lots the city approved for residential development. "That's a lot of homes for a small town," Vorwald said.
Landowners John W. Woods and Ron Woods, owner of Woods Construction, are longtime residents who are developing the addition and challenged the wind energy project. Ron Woods is a Fairbank council member.
The Woods family said in an email the turbines would have halted their development efforts. "It has been a long and costly four years of going to hearings and disputing the wind companies. We believe Fairbank will now continue to grow and attract new" residents, they said.
Flickers are like a '70s strobe light
Kerns said she grew up on a farm near where the turbines are now located.
She said the wind developers have been "bullies," moving ahead with building the turbines knowing local landowners had filed a lawsuit against the project.
"They just weren't considerate of the townspeople," said Kerns, who is concerned about the impact of the turbines on the health of neighbors.
She said some residents have complained about nausea and sleep deprivation from the turbines. Flickers from the turbines create an effect "like being back in the '70s with the strobe lights," she said.
"In the short-term it's not bad. But over time, it's not good for your body," she said.
"Unless you live under a turbine, you don't understand what it's like," said Kerns, who built a home near her family's farm.
She said the turbines encroach on a nearby woods, where she played as a child. Since the turbines have stopped turning, "I can hear the birds chirping again," Kerns said.
'It's all about the money'
Dublinske is unsure whether the dismantled turbines will find a new home.
Alliant Energy had purchased the wind energy generated near Fairbank.
"Those turbines will go into storage and ... hopefully, they'll be used somewhere else," Dublinske said.
"That's one of our big concerns. Having obtained the proper authorization ... to have this end up in millions of dollars of waste is unfortunate and unfair," he said.
Iowa has embraced wind energy since adopting a renewable energy portfolio in 1983.
The state gets 37 percent of its electricity from wind energy generation, the largest share in the nation. Wind energy generation is second only to coal.
The American Wind Energy Association says utility and wind developers have invested $14.2 billion in Iowa over nearly three decades.
MidAmerican Energy, Iowa's largest utility, is betting heavily on wind. With its proposed $922 million wind expansion, it will have invested $12.3 billion in wind energy since 2004.
MidAmerican, owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, expects to generate as much renewable energy as its customers use annually.
Growing investment has brought opposition, including legal challenges in Fayette, Palo Alto and Black Hawk counties.
"The courts are the only place we have to defend ourselves," said Janna Swanson, a wind opponent who lives in northwest Iowa, where some neighbors are challenging whether the wind farms need state utility board permits to operate.
The Iowa Utilities Board says no, but the ruling is being appealed.
County officials and landowners who lease land to wind developers like the money the turbines bring, said Harold Youngblut, a Black Hawk County farmer who is fighting a $120 million wind project in court.
"It's all about the money," instead of about local residents' concerns, said Youngblut, whose attorney is challenging whether high-dollar farmland can be used to build large wind farms.
MidAmerican Energy, for example, sent $16 million last year in payments to landowners and $20 million in property taxes statewide.
The Black Hawk County wind developer planned, but later killed, a turbine project across the street from Youngblut's family farm, where his son and family now live.
Still, Youngblut is sticking with the lawsuit.
"We need to stand up for what we believe is right," Youngblut said. "I don’t like being in a lawsuit. But I believe there are too many unanswered question about these turbines."
Always some 'not-in-my-backyard objections'
Dublinske said the legal challenges so far have been limited.
"There are a lot of wind developments going on across Iowa, and there are a lot of supportive communities, a lot of very supportive landowners," he said.
"There are always some not-in-my-backyard objections, especially for people who are not hosting the turbines and getting the revenue," Dublinske said.
Swanson said rural Iowa families shouldn't have to suffer wind turbines — which compact soil during construction and hurt crop yields — to satisfy urban residents' need to feel good about the environment.
Utilities say farmers are compensated for any short-term damage, and they use deep-tillage machines to help reverse compaction.
"A lot of places say we're against renewable energy," Swanson said. "That has nothing to do with it.
"What we care about is our homes, our health, our land, our wildlife and our economy," which are jeopardized by wind projects, said Swanson, a board member of the Coalition for Rural Property Rights, along with Youngblut.
She questions whether wind energy is really a good public taxpayer investment, given that MidAmerican will get about $10 billion in federal production tax credits for its $12 billion investment.
"It's hard for us in the country to fight this, and the utilities know that," she said, adding that rural Iowans deserve more voice in wind turbine developments.
In Fayette County, residents say a new county ordinance guiding wind development gives them a little more confidence that they'll be protected in the future.
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This article originally appeared in this post for the Forbes Technology Council by Guardhat CEO Saikat Dey.
Saikat Dey is CEO of Guardhat, a pioneer in connected worker tech. He’s led and consulted on industrial operations globally.
We need to come back better in a multitude of ways as the pandemic becomes endemic. President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better framework takes aim at some of these challenges, attempting to help the United States “meet its climate goals, create millions of good-paying jobs, enable more Americans to join and remain in the labor force, and grow [the] economy from the bottom up and the middle out.”
This includes the $1.2 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed in November 2021, covering funding to rebuild roads and bridges, improve water and energy systems, expand high-speed internet access, revamp transportation programs, and much more. The larger bill, still being negotiated, would fund additional infrastructure projects.
Rebuilding our infrastructure will make us better, but we also have the opportunity and responsibility to make how we build better.
According to the Department of Labor, 5,333 workers died on the job in 2019—more than 100 people a week, 15 every day. One in five of these worker fatalities was in construction. Not only is construction the most dangerous industry in terms of worker fatalities, but the number of fatalities has increased in recent years. We need to face a hard truth: If we double or triple infrastructure spending with current construction practices, are we OK with the 10,000 to 15,000 worker deaths that could result.
Building back “better” must take account of those doing the building.
“Safety First” Done Right
The infrastructure act will create millions more jobs in repair and building projects. To ensure the safety of workers, we cannot leverage funding as we have in years past. Jobs, bridges, and clean energy can’t come at such a cost to workers on the ground.
Passive safety and reactive post-incident response are the bare minimum. Advancements in technology—like worker tools that can directly sense threats—can allow real-time response, predictive intervention, and incident prevention. Investing in making our workforce safer can help attract new talent to these jobs.
Better technology and safer building efforts ought to be baked into the legislation itself, as we see in the transportation portions of the law. If done right, we have the opportunity to set a global benchmark for what safe, efficient, and effective industrial work looks like.
Here’s how we get there.
- Leverage safer, smarter connected technology. Our industrial workers, including construction, manufacturing, energy, and other sectors, are in dire need of updated technology to better help them do their jobs. The good news is that Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology and Industrial Internet of People (IIoP) solutions can be put to work for people to truly revolutionize workplaces. Sensors on a railway track can tell workers a train is coming and to move, for example, and wearables can alert workers of lightning nearby and where to take shelter. The right technology can reduce risk, eliminate guesswork, create safer working conditions and even increase the bottom line. LNS Research surveys have shown leaders in environmental health and safety tech see 18.5% higher net profits than laggards.
- Lead in a labor market that prioritizes safety. We’re in the Great Resignation, and 33 million Americans have quit their jobs since the spring of 2021. Industrial sectors are in a bind, ramping up projects while workers retire en masse. U.S. manufacturers believe finding the right talent is 36% harder now than it was in 2018. The manufacturing industry has seen a larger increase in resignations and job openings relative to pre-pandemic levels than any other. We need to better showcase why workers, especially new entrants, should consider industrial jobs—from the excitement of creating something real to growth opportunities and working with cutting-edge technology. Even more, the work can’t come at the cost of workers’ health or safety. If this bill is going to be an effective jobs program, the jobs need to be safe ones. Sector leaders must implement policies within their organizations that better support their workforce and create safer work environments. When infrastructure projects begin, our political leaders need to choose to work with organizations that offer competitive pay and benefits, continuously train their staff and keep workers safe. Prioritizing safety starts at the top, and when leaders turn talk into action, people will take notice.
- Set the global standard on worker safety and tech. U.S. workplace safety metrics have plateaued after years of reductions since the 1970s. Other regions have even more work to do. If the U.S. wants to lead on worker safety, now is the time to step up. We can’t have a narrow scope. Leading in electric cars means leading in the infrastructure that enables them. We must go a layer deeper and invest in the people who build, maintain, and supply those batteries and charging stations. Worker-focused technology helps people learn faster on the job. It increases the quality and efficiency of their work. Most importantly, it protects them from harm.
It doesn’t stop there. The construction industry alone needs more than half a million workers beyond its current pace of hiring in order to meet demand in 2022. With high rates of turnover, this wave of new hires needs to see a future in their choice. To get there, leaders also need to ensure that their workforce is properly trained, skilled, and reskilled so workers can do their jobs today and gain skills for tomorrow while following essential safety protocols associated with their tasks. This isn’t about checking a box. It takes time, and it requires training programs to be integrated with work in the field, whether you’re a 30-year veteran doing something new or a brand-new hire.
The infrastructure act and Build Back Better agenda can improve our national economy and make our businesses more productive. However, we could truly establish a leading competitive edge if we put the safety of our people at the center of the initiative, setting a new benchmark for what’s possible in how we build. Who will take the lead if we don’t?
Guardhat is pioneering end-to-end connected worker safety solutions for industrial workers. We offer cutting-edge, wearable technology; a proprietary connected worker platform – unrivaled in its ability to ingest, manage and analyze unstructured data; easy-to-deploy monitoring and reporting software; and a growing system of partner integrations.
Guardhat enables companies to monitor worker location, health, and work environment to shorten reaction time and help proactively solve safety challenges. We hold 15 patents in real-time location systems, wearable solution design, and connected worker software. If you are interested in our connected safety solutions – including situational awareness, environmental and biometric monitoring, multi-modal communication, RTLS, Covid-19, and other advanced technology solutions – contact us to arrange a demo. | <urn:uuid:b4f00d20-cb3a-47e0-86ea-86923b9d8d76> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.guardhat.com/worker-safety-needs-to-be-at-the-center-of-build-back-better/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948433 | 1,474 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Case Study - Welding
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In the mid-1980s, Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corp., USA (KMM) installed their first Kawasaki robots. Growing tired of inconsistent part fit and the constant struggle to find enough welders to keep up with production, KMM’s new robots were put to work arc welding their all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and Mule and Teryx four-wheeler frames. Now, 30 years later, the manufacturer uses 71 Kawasaki arc welding robots, and that number will grow to 84 by June of 2019. | <urn:uuid:7b76fa24-faa5-46c9-9d82-83fd3e5f5146> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kawasakirobotics.de/welding-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.925694 | 162 | 1.984375 | 2 |
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Rendered by women artists and writers, these portraits illuminate the most influential women of our time. Liv Ullman marvels at Anne Frank’s faith in the face of atrocity. Claudia Roth Pierpont explores how Virginia Woolf’s atypical persona informed literature for the next hundred years. Camille Paglia champions Amelia Earhart as a pioneer who invaded the male world. The book also celebrates the fire of Angela Davis, the courage of Aung San Suu Kyi, the brains of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the brio of Ella Fitzgerald. The essays are accompanied by striking duotone photographs by such photographers as Alfred Stieglitz, Man Ray, and Cecil Beaton. Pairings include Joan Didion on Georgia O’Keeffe, Terry Tempest Williams on Rachel Carson, and Gloria Steinem on Marilyn Monroe. | <urn:uuid:9c5dcf0d-ab36-4236-89f8-c507bc4e8a2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/legends-john-miller/1102227909 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.851897 | 183 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Daily D – 2 Samuel 6:16, 23
2 Samuel 6:16 As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.
2 Samuel 6:23 And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
Attitudes have a way of shaping words and actions. No matter how we try, we can never really take back words once we have spoken them. No matter how we apologize, some behaviors linger in memory forever.
Carefully select your attitude. Guard your heart. Protect your mind. Place a lock on your lips. Demonstrate self-control.
Emotionally intelligent individuals do not lose their cool.
Emotionally intelligent individuals select their responses.
Emotionally intelligent individuals express the richness and experience the rewards of Ephesians 4:29-32:
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Ephesians 4:29-32 NIV
- It’s never too early to shut up.
- It’s always time to build up.
- Bitterness, rage, and anger grieve God’s heart.
- Malicious actions and mean retorts damage relationships.
- Kindness and compassion heal relationships.
- Forgiveness and reconciliation restore relationships.
- Forgive as much in one another as Jesus has forgiven you.
You are about as happy as you choose to be. Do not allow your irritability to create a prison of isolation. Recognize the goodness of God and his abundant rewards. Count your blessings and live the kind of life that honors God and benefits others.
I will become increasingly more emotionally intelligent.
Our Father, most of my trips, stumbles, and falls are my own fault. I make most of my own messes. Empower me to carefully select my attitude, to guard my heart, to protect my mind, to place a lock on my lips. Empower me to demonstrate self-control. Fill my mind with your thoughts and my mouth with your words. Empower me to edify and encourage, to become ever more kind and compassionate, and to live with a settled bent toward forgiveness. Amen.
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Jeremiah 18:1-4 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.” So I went down to the potter’s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him.
Philippians 1:4-6 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Jeremiah 17:7, 8 “But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
2 Chronicles 35:25 Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah, and to this day all the male and female singers commemorate Josiah in the laments. These became a tradition in Israel and are written in the Laments. (NIV) | <urn:uuid:8e3dfc25-4057-4775-a0fc-8847517f7ef2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.davidgbowman.com/daily-d-2sam6-16-23/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955027 | 942 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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Analysis by Moyiga Nduru
JUBA, South Sudan, Jan 18 2010 (IPS) - Sudan is at a crossroads. Its future looks grim. “Only a miracle can save it from disintegrating. The signs are already on the wall,” says Khamis Lako, a petty trader in Juba, the capital of South Sudan.
The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), brokered by outside powers, ended a 21-year conflict between the Arab Muslim north and the black Christian south. According to human rights groups, more than 2 million people perished during the 1983-2005 war.
The fifth anniversary of the deal, is being commemorated on Jan. 19 in Yambio, the capital of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.
Even for skeptics like Lako, the deal CPA has produced some concrete results. “The guns have gone silent,” he said. “People can now move freely, doing their business without harassment or intimidation.”
The south has its own government, flag and a standing army – the former rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). Virtually all northern troops have been withdrawn from the territory. The semi-autonomous region also maintains a string of liaison offices (embassies in all but name) in most key capitals of the world.
Despite the progress made, Sudan’s challenges remain enormous. The peace partners, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in the north, have yet to define the north-south border as it stood at independence in 1956.
At stake here is Sudan’s oil which straddles the north-south border, although most of it lies in the south.
Earlier this month NCP’s Ghazi Salaheddin, an advisor to President Omar al-Bashir, warned that the referendum on South Sudan’s independence, which is scheduled for January 2011, would lead to a new war if key issues such as the north-south border, nationality and responsibility for external debts of over $30 billion dollars were not addressed.
The NCP suggested recently that the estimated five million southerners living in the north would automatically lose their citizenship if the south opts for independence in 2011. The same would apply to northerners living in the south.
Disagreements also continue over the oil revenue which the south shares equally with the north. The south complains of lack of transparency in the distribution of oil revenue. The north has rejected the allegations.
The north fears that an independent south will deprive it of the badly needed oil revenue. “Secession will leave the north in a difficult situation. Oil accounts for 90 percent of the north’s exports,” said John Luk Jok, South Sudan’s minister of energy, at a symposium on ‘Southern Sudan: Preparing for 2011 and Beyond’, in Juba on Dec. 5-6.
The north considers oil as a strategic commodity. “The north want their interests protected in a future independent South Sudan, or they’ll sabotage it,” Elijah Malok, the head of the Bank of Southern Sudan, told the symposium.
Sudan’s foreign friends are encouraging both the SPLM and NCP to start discussing the post-2011 arrangements.
“I believe that we need to come up with a process now so that we can work with the parties and the parties can work between themselves to come up with solutions on citizenship, on the north-south border demarcation, on the sharing of resources – and that includes the oil – grazing rights, the Nile waters,” said Scott Gration, special envoy for Sudan, at a news conference in Washington on Jan. 11.
He added, “There’s so many issues that have to be decided that we cannot wait until the referendum is here, until the people have made their will known. It will be too late at that point. These must be done right now, and we’re encouraging the process to start and we are in constant communication with the parties to help them come up with a process and a methodology to get these talks started.”
One contentious issue which may unravel the fragile peace deal is the growing culture of ethnic conflict in the south. Since 2008, at least 2,500 people have been killed and 350,000 displaced from their homes by ethnic conflict and cattle rustling, according to a January 2010 report compiled by aid groups including the British charity Oxfam.
Prior to the outbreak of conflict in 1983, cattle rustlers used archaic weapons such as spears, and bows and arrows. But now they carry automatic assault weapons, particularly AK-47s.
Recent consignments, confiscated by South Sudanese security agents, are of brand new weapons.
The sources of these weapons remain an open secret, although the north has distanced itself from supplying them. SPLM secretary general Pagan Amum believes “the enemies of peace” are supplying the weapons to disrupt the referendum.
“The referendum must be conducted on January 9, 2011 as stipulated in the peace agreement,” he told journalists in Juba.
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A new program that allows the government to punish foreign hackers was urged by US President to be created. The government will now be able to target those attempting cyber attacks on US assets and infrastructure and sanction hackers.
“Cyber-threats are one of the most serious economic and national security challenges that the US faces” said The President Obama.
Have not been announced what measures will be imposed only the need to be imposed, after the US imposed new sanctions on North Korea, as a response to a cyber-attack against Sony Pictures.
The authorisation gives the US Treasury Secretary – in coordination with the Attorney General and Secretary of State – the ability to sanction “individuals or entities” that pose a cyber threat to the “national security, foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the United States,” Mr Obama said in a statement issued by the White House.
“Today’s Executive Order allows us to expose and financially isolate those who hide in the shadows of the Internet to conduct malicious cyber activities,” US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said, according to BBC.
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With each day, we're learning more about our gut microbiome and its expansive impact on our overall health and wellbeing. With brain, heart, skin, and immune health all deeply interconnected with gut health, it's so important to prioritize practices that elevate the digestion and absorption of our food and nurture our gut from within. One of our personal favorites: chewing your juice.
A simple practice to expand the benefits of any juice is to chew it. Through chewing, you prepare your gut and kickstart your digestion. This allows for the body to begin digestion immediately in the mouth and brain, which are both integral to the digestive process. By integrating this simple step, your body will trigger the production of digestive chemicals and gut hormones to the brain, stomach, small intestine, pancreas and other digestive organs from the moment you begin chewing. This supports your system in digesting and absorbing all of the nutrients of the juice, nurturing the gut and your whole being.
If chewing your juice feels difficult to remember while enjoying, try adding in a teaspoon of chia seeds! They welcome fiber, elevated hydration, and a new texture to your juice to sip, savor, and chew. Recipes like our Glowing Green Juice await you. | <urn:uuid:b82a0535-e0ab-4543-82d1-a7c17569f8e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://monfefo.com/blogs/journal/why-you-should-be-chewing-your-juice | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.930795 | 248 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Submitted by Barbara Ahmann
Escape to Egypt art exhibit (reception to be held September 22 from 3 to 7 p.m.) was conceived from my desire to share my experience of traveling to Egypt. The entire trip was surreal. Several times, I had to ask my husband, Steve to pinch me to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. One such occasion was when we were floating down the River Nile. It was overwhelmingly beautiful, and when some children ran along the river bank to wave hello to us, it brought tears to my eyes. I imagined the Egyptian children had done this same act of kindness from time immemorial.
This art exhibit features my photographs, Egyptian artists replications of hieroglyphics, and original painting from Dr. Eyad Al Masri, an Archaeologist and professor of Ancient Art. His painting have profound primordial influences. Embellishing Dr. Eyad’s unique style are strong cultural images of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. The colorful eye-catching images are scaled down to basic forms. These images are abstract and sophisticated while, at the same time, being childlike. Dr. Eyad’s painting can to traced back to the basic Egyptian art forms. | <urn:uuid:910e92e3-b109-4c0d-be44-b8093fabdf96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.visitgreenleecounty.com/blog/experience-ancient-culture-and-civilization/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967375 | 251 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Ducted System Installation & Design
Designed for any Air Conditioning & Heat Pump Installer who would like to know how to professionally install and increase their knowledge of ducted systems. We provide all the course materials including a FREE duct sizing calculator disc and FREE 12 Month access to a Windows® software program to assist the selection and commissioning of ducted systems.
To provide training in the fundamentals of installing & designing ducted type system installations. It is highly recommended that the delegate would already be familiar with general heat pump installation of other types. The course is not intended to teach all aspects of ductwork design and installation, only in relation to installing ducted systems for home applications.
- Understand how to install and sell the benefits of Ducted systems.
- Avoid the most common install problems.
- Grow your business by offering a premium heating / cooling application to your customers.
- Save time and expense by commissioning correctly.
- Diagnose common problems with existing systems and learn how to fix them.
- Equipment selection by capacity / airflow / Pa rating
- End user incorporated within the design process and what they need to be told
- Location of Indoor / Outdoor Unit – Items to consider (Noise etc)
- Ductwork type and layout
- Location of discharge / return grilles
- Selection of correct duct work size
- Selection of correct return grille and size
- Types of discharge diffuser and selection criteria
- Return air velocity considerations
- Sensor locations
- Demo of Plandroid / Other support tools
- How to use the Duct Sizing Disc for design and troubleshooting
- Examples of incorrect installation
- Zone Control Systems
- Install Procedures
- Planning the install
- Install practices / Ductwork connections.
- Ductwork layout – Consider bends / outlets
- Anti Vibration
- How the install can affect units operation & performance
- Position of supply and return grilles
- Remote control operation and position
- Interface to fresh air
Commissioning / Client Handover
- Control operation
- Explanation of airflow discharge / return
- Explanation of fan speed control in relation to capacity and noise
- Function Setting adjustments
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Chemical testing, in general, is not undertaken as frequently as microbiological analysis because in general, the health risk posed by chemicals is chronic rather than acute and because changes in water chemistry tend to be longer-term unless a specific pollution event has occurred. It should be stressed that monitoring the microbiological quality of water is much more important than monitoring of chemical quality and chemical testing should generally be a lower priority.
However, where resources permit, routine testing of the chemical quality of water should be undertaken. Priority should be given to those substances which are known to be of importance to health and which are known to be present in significant concentrations in drinking water. For instance, the monitoring of nitrate is recommended in many water supplies and in particular those which are located in rural areas, or where recharge occurs in an agricultural area. In these circumstances, regular monitoring is recommended to ensure that early warning of increases is noted or when nitrate releases are highly seasonal in nature.
An assessment of the chemical quality of water should be undertaken during source selection and this should relate to known activities within the catchment of the source and possible natural pollutants. In areas where toxic chemicals are released into the aquatic environment, routine monitoring should be undertaken and closely linked with an emergency warning procedure that should function to alert water suppliers, surveillance agencies and health bodies of any accidental releases of substances into water sources.
Water quality testing is an important part of environmental monitoring when water quality is poor; it affects not only aquatic life but the surrounding ecosystem as well. These sections detail all of the parameters that affect the quality of water in the environment. These properties can be physical, chemical or biological factors. Chemical characteristics involve parameters such as pH and dissolved oxygen. These parameters are relevant not only to surface water studies of the ocean, lakes, and rivers but to groundwater and industrial processes as well.
With quality, monitoring can help researchers predict and learn from natural processes in the environment and determine human impacts on an ecosystem. These measurement efforts can also assist in restoration projects or ensure environmental standards are being met.
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PERACITIC ACID MONITOR
The Paracidic Acid Transmitter uses a direct sensing polarographic probe mounted in a flowcell to measure PAA residuals in a flowing water stream. A permeable diffusion membrane isolates the sensing electrodes from the measured sample, providing long-term stability without electrode fouling problems.
Continuous water quality monitoring of permanganate in treated water presents sensor contamination issues. When permanganate reacts with organics or other reducing materials in solution, manganese dioxide (MnO2) is formed and readily plates out on sensing electrode surfaces. The resulting deposits degrade the measurement and can be difficult to clean. The monitor eliminates this problem by employing a measurement method in which the sensor never comes into contact with the sample. In operation, water containing permanganate is mixed with pH buffer and potassium iodide solutions. Permanganate oxidizes the iodide to iodine (I2), and the resulting I2 is stripped out of solution and measured using an I2 gas sensor. This “gas phase” measurement technique eliminates MnO2 sensor fouling, resulting in a system capable of providing long term reliability.
Dissolved Fluoride Monitor for drinking water and other clean water applications. This monitor also conditions the sample for stable measurement and provides automatic calibration using two fluoride standards &Provides continuous measurement of free fluoride concentration in potable water without sample conditioning.
Dechlorination of wastewater effluent is common practice in many wastewater treatment facilities throughout the world. Strongly reducing sulfur compounds are used to eliminate chlorine residuals that might prove toxic to fish in the receiving stream. Because residual chlorine discharge limits are often very close to zero, water quality monitoring residual values to comply with regulations has become very difficult, and controlling residuals at values between zero and 10 or 20 parts-per-billion is often not achievable. To meet stringent discharge limits, the sulfite or bisulfite used for dechlorination is added in slight excess, providing a small sulfite residual to ensure complete dechlorination. This Monitor provides operators with a reliable tool for maintaining a small sulfite residual while reducing excess chemical consumption due to overfeed.
Dissolved Sulfide Water Quality Monitor provides an improved method for measuring sulfides in solution. Sulfides can be found naturally in well water and can build up in wastewater collection systems due to anaerobic conditions frequently found there. In addition, sulfides are used in mercury removal processes and are frequently found in tanning wastes. In drinking water systems, sulfides cause taste and odor problems. In wastewater systems, sulfides cause damage to concrete structures in collection systems and contribute to odor problems in treatment facilities. Measurement of dissolved sulfide concentrations has been done primarily by the use of analyzers employing ion selective electrodes (ISE) for sensing. While providing adequate sensitivity, ISE based systems require frequent zero and span adjustments to maintain measurement accuracy. Because of this, most ISE based monitoring systems are relatively expensive and require frequent service. | <urn:uuid:be3ec437-e41b-4448-b99a-fb98c1245e0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dutcotennant.com/chemical-parameter-monitoring | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.928661 | 1,106 | 3.359375 | 3 |
UK Safer Internet Day 2020
This week we have joined schools and youth settings across the UK in celebrating Safer Internet Day 2020. Safer Internet Day is a global campaign to promote the safe and responsible use of technology, which calls on young people, parents, carers, teachers, social workers, law enforcement, companies, policymakers, and wider, to join together in helping to create a better internet.
Using the internet safely and positively is a key message that we promote in Waterhouses CE Primary Academy and celebrating Safer Internet Day is a great opportunity for us to re-emphasise the online safety messages we deliver throughout the year. Therefore, this week we have been encouraging our children to explore how they manage their online identity, and how the internet shapes how they think of themselves and others. We want Safer Internet Day 2020 to celebrate difference and help us work towards creating a truly inclusive internet.
We’d be delighted if you could join us in celebrating the day by continuing the conversation at home. To help you with this you may be interested in downloading the free Safer Internet Day resource pack for parents and carers which is available here: saferinternet.org.uk/sid-parents.
Some other resources which you may find helpful in supporting your child online are:
- Advice for parents and carers from Childnet
- Tips, advice and guides for parents and carers from the UK Safer Internet Centre
- Guides on popular apps and games from NetAware
- Reviews and information about games, apps, TV shows and websites from Common Sense Media
- Help on using parental controls and privacy settings from Internet Matters
- Information and reporting of online grooming or abuse from CEOP
Online safety is an important issue which as a school we’re committed to teaching our children about.
If you have any concerns or questions about keeping your child safe online, please do get in touch with your child’s class teacher/myself or Mrs J Hulme, our Designated Safeguarding Lead.
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A NASA instrument that will measure air quality over North America in unprecedented detail during daylight hours now has a satellite host.
Maxar Technologies and Intelsat recently agreed to partner to host NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument onboard the Intelsat 40e mission. In 2019, NASA selected Maxar to host the TEMPO instrument utilizing the U.S. Air Force Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) contract vehicle.
Intelsat 40e is based on Maxar’s 1300-class satellite platform and will provide commercial satellite communications for Intelsat customers in North and Central America. The satellite is scheduled to launch into geostationary orbit 22,236 miles above Earth’s equator in 2022.
TEMPO will make hourly measurements of atmospheric gases — including ozone, nitrogen dioxide and formaldehyde as well as aerosols — across North America and provide air quality products that will be made publicly available and help improve air quality forecasting.
“We are excited about this important step required to lay the operational framework for TEMPO’s critical air quality measurements. We look forward to working closely with both Maxar and Intelsat for the successful integration, launch and deployment of TEMPO,” said Stephen Hall, TEMPO project manager at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
The TEMPO instrument project is led by Principal Investigator Kelly Chance from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The instrument was developed by Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, and is in storage awaiting shipment to Maxar’s satellite manufacturing facility in Palo Alto, California.
TEMPO will be part of a constellation of instruments measuring air quality over the Northern Hemisphere that will also include the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-4, currently in development, and South Korea’s Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer, scheduled to launch later this month. | <urn:uuid:11c2b6a1-0c80-4d34-9b85-5df35d146f96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.parabolicarc.com/2020/02/05/satellite-host-named-for-nasa-air-pollution-sensor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.899409 | 413 | 2.5 | 2 |
Read about how the landscape of American employment is being dramatically altered by an expanding system of guestworker visas issued to hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, in the report Visas, Inc: Corporate Control and Policy Incoherence in the U.S. Temporary Foreign Labor System, presented by Global Workers Justice Alliance. Visas, Inc provides the first comprehensive analysis of the many visas that employers use and misuse to bring foreign workers into the U.S. in every field, from low-wage jobs in agriculture and domestic work, to specialty occupations in health care, education or information technology. The system is vulnerable to misuse by employers who use foreign labor to undermine established wages and working conditions in the U.S. The result is that U.S. workers are losing out on opportunities, and foreign workers have almost no protection from exploitation, unpaid wages, unsafe conditions and even trafficking and other abuses.
Global Workers Justice Alliance combats worker exploitation by promoting portable justice for transnational migrants through a cross-border network of advocates and resources. The primary author of Visas, Inc is Ashwini Sukthankar, international labor rights researcher and advocate, who conducted research for the report in some of the countries that send workers to different U.S. industries: Mexico, China, India, Philippines, Jamaica and Guatemala. | <urn:uuid:1cb861de-84f6-4c00-96ef-ab32bc04813a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.recruitmentreform.org/visas-inc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936885 | 264 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Al’manac of Modern Metrology is a scientific and technical periodically printed magazine intended for researchers and workers of the metrological services of organizations involved in the development of scientific, regulatory and technical foundations for the metrological support of complex technical systems, methods and means of ensuring the uniformity of measurements in the country.
The magazine is established and published since 2014 by the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Metrological Research Institute of Physicotechnical and Radio Engineering Measurements” (FGUP “VNIIFTRI”), a widely-known research organization in Russia and abroad, which has the status of the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation and the State Scientific Metrological Institute. Currently, FGUP “VNIIFTRI” conducts about one third of the state primary standards of Russia, conducts fundamental and applied research for the purpose of outstripping development of the country’s reference base, provides a wide range of services in the field of ensuring uniformity of measurements for research organizations and industry, and actively participates in international cooperation.
The publication is registered by the Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (Roskomnadzor) of the Russian Federation and has the registration number in the National ISSN Center of the Russian Federation.
Al’manac of Modern Metrology is published in the Russian language with summary in English.
Territory of distribution: the Russian Federation.
Periodicity publication: four issues per year.
By the decision of the Supreme Attestation Commission (SAC) of the Russian Federation in 2019, the Al’manac of Modern Metrology was included in the “List of peer-reviewed scientific publications in which the main scientific results of dissertations in support of academic title of candidate of sciences and of academic title of doctor of science should be published.”
In the group of SAC specialties 05.11.00 “Instrument Engineering, Metrology and Information Measuring Instruments, and Systems” (industry – “Technical Sciences”), the journal publishes articles in the following specialties:
- Instruments and methods of measurement (by type of measurement):
- measurements of mechanical quantities;
- measurements of time and frequency;
- measurements of thermal quantities;
- measurements of electrical and magnetic quantities;
- measurements of analytical and structural-analytical values (composition and concentration of substances);
05.11.03 Navigation devices;
05.11.06 Acoustic instruments and systems;
05.11.08 Radio measuring devices;
05.11.13 Instruments and methods for monitoring the natural environment, substances, materials and products;
05.11.13 Metrology and metrological support.
Topics for covering
The magazine covers the following topics:
- Metrology problems. Hypotheses, discoveries.
- Fundamental research in metrology.
- Metrological research: searches, new solutions.
- The development of the reference base.
- New priorities of modern metrology.
- Measuring base for the study of material properties.
- Questions of verification activities.
- Problems of practical metrology.
- Regulatory aspects of metrology.
- Formation and development of metrological directions.
- International cooperation in the field of metrology.
- Time-frequency measurements and GLONASS.
- Years, events, people (founders of metrological directions).
- Symposiums, conferences, creativity of metrologists.
- New books on metrology.
Al’manac of Modern Metrology strives to expand the circle of metrological problems considered in the magazine, while retaining the main focus on solving the issues of ensuring uniformity of measurements when carrying out metrological activities in a wide range of areas of the modern economy.
The editorial board invites all who is interested in the study of ways and methods of solving these important problems for active cooperation.
Al’manac of Modern Metrology offers effective and mutually beneficial cooperation to authors, reviewers, representatives of scientific institutions, universities and other educational institutions.
Magazine base principles
With the expansion of the scope of works on metrological support of key sectors of the economy, social sphere, priority areas of science, engineering and technology, there is a growing need for information on the results of metrological research and activities that provide increase of accuracy and expansion of measurement ranges. The providing this information is the main purpose of Al’manac of Modern Metrology since its founding by the editorial board and the VNIIFTRI management.
The Al’manac editorial staff pays great attention to the publication of materials on the results of fundamental research on the reproduction of physical quantities, on the development of certain types of measurements, and on developing new generation standards.
Particular attention is paid to modern measurement technologies. The state of the reference base — the basis of the scientific and technical complex for metrological support of the country’s economy, main directions of its modernization over the last period — is described in detail. Here, special attention is paid to comparisons of state standards, which play an extremely important role in the international recognition of the measurement capabilities of our country.
The pages of the Al’manac highlight current issues of metrological control and monitoring, including environmental monitoring.
Sufficient attention is paid to the development of verification equipment.
The Al’manac introduces new regulatory documents on metrology, new books on metrology, out of print.
Historical materials on certain stages of metrology development and articles about its outstanding representatives occupy a definite place.
The editors and authors shall take into account the responsibility of metrology for creating an effective and comprehensive system ensuring the uniformity and accuracy of measurements in the country. That is why the articles are so important for the Al’manac, deeply and comprehensively covering the problems associated with the development of certain types of measurements, in particular, with metrological support and the GLONASS system, metrological control, metrological activities that respond to the challenge of the day (for a reason there is a special place in the journal for the section “Metrological research. Searches, new solutions”).
The authors are not limited in the volume of publications. This applies both to scientific reviews and to works that highlight the details of the experiments performed, analysis of the results obtained, etc. But the edition is not in this framework. Other publications are possible. In particular, articles on argumentative issues are accepted with interest.
Types of publications
The magazine seeks to publish on its pages not only original scientific articles containing the results of fundamental and theoretical and applied research, but also review articles by leading experts on the remit of the journal, professional reviews of new books and scientific research, materials of scientific events, discussions and round tables devoted to issues of the magazine.
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Ajmal Khattak was a KPK based poet, writer, politician, Khudae Khidmatgar, ex-president of ANP (Awami National Party), and a close aide of Khan Wali Khan (Late). He participated in active protests and rallies against British Raj during his student life.
After Pakistan’s independence in 1947 Khattak joined NAP (National Awami Party) and made close ties with Abdul Wali Khan. He also served as Secretary-General of NAP from 1969-1973. Abdul Haq defeated him in general election 1970, and after a crackdown against the party by Zulfiqar Bhutto’s government, he departed into exile to Afghanistan’s capital Kabul.
He came back in 1989 and got elected to Pakistan National Assembly in 1990 and was designated as President of ANP after Wali khan’s retirement. The article has every detail about him, including Ajmal Khattak Biography.
|In Urdu:||اجمل خٹک|
|Famous As:||Pashtun Poet|
|Education:||Masters in Persian from Peshawar University|
|Profession:||Politician, Writer and Poet|
|Date:||15th September 1925|
|Place:||Akora Khattak, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, India|
|Date:||7th February 2010|
|Rest Place:||Peshawar Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan|
|Political Party:||Awami National Party|
|Role:||President Awami National Party|
|Preceded By:||Wali Khan|
|Succeeded By:||Asfandyar Wali|
Ajmal Khattak Biography
Ajmal was a veteran poet and politician and had an extremely versatile and active literary career; he served as Editor-in-Chief of several periodicals and newspapers. He also authored over dozen books in English, Urdu, and Pushto.
During Zia-ul-Haq and Pakistan’s covert war against Soviet-Afghan rule in Afghanistan, he remained expatriated from 1973 to 1989. He never compromised on his principles and raised his voice for society’s marginalized and oppressed segments.
Khattak fought against martial law and struggled to achieve the rights of his country fellows. He was a forceful voice of poor individuals whose poetry melted ruling elites’ hearts. Ajmal Khattak set new trends in political vision and Pashto poetry. He quit politics many years before his death.
Ajmal Date of Birth
He opened his eyes on 15th September 1925 in Arora Khattak, KPK, Pakistan.
Education of Ajmal
During his childhood, he was immensely influenced by Abdul Ghaffar Khan famous as Bacha Khan. At the age of seventeen, he was a dedicated member of August Movement. He attended Government High School in Peshawar but quit studies to play his part in this movement.
However, he returned to studies and completed a Masters degree in Persian from the University of Peshawar.
Initial Political Career
Khattak’s initial political career started during August Movement after he was influenced by Khudae Khidmatgar movement. He was compelled to quit school and studies due to his August Movement/Quit India Movement participation.
He served as an editor of several periodicals and Newspapers including Anjum Shehbaz, Adal & Rahber and as script-writer for Pakistan Radio.
Efforts for Persian Literature
At ICP (Islamia College Peshawar) he was among those pioneers who kept Pushto literature on modern-track. He linked it to the literature of Europe, especially English and became able to give it a new direction. He got recognition as a progressive poet.
Participation in August Movement
He had an extensive career in both Indian Independence-Movement against Government of British in KPK, British India then and a member of NAP (National Awami Party) in its several incarnations in Pakistan.
He got defeated in elections of 1970 in his native constituency when KPK cabinet resigned in a protest at Baluchistan Government’s dismissal headed by Sardar Ataullah Mengal, Khattak became NAP’s Secretary-General.
Services for UDF
He worked as stage-secretary and organizer at UDF (United Democratic-Front) Rally held on 23rd March 1973 at Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh, when firing was opened at leaders of UDF including Khan Abdul. Many NAP and UDF workers were killed to stop the rally by authorities.
As a leading figure in NAP, Federal Security Force (FSF) wanted him as part of a crackdown on National Awami Party. To escape from possible torture and arrest, he departed into exile to Afghanistan and remained there for sixteen years. During his stay there he remained associated with Pashtunistan movement.
During his time in Kabul, he remained a close aide of Bacha Khan and enjoyed great terms with leaders of PDPA (People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan) including Dr Muhammad Najibullah, Babrak Kamal, and President Nur Mohammad Taraki.
Poetry and Writing
He authored several books in Pashto language and wrote thirteen books in Urdu and Pushto including ‘Da Wakht Chaga.’ ‘Pukhtana Shora,’ ‘Jalawattan Ke Shairi,’ ‘Guloona Auo Takalona,’ ‘Gul Auo Perhar,’ ‘Batoor,’ ‘Da Ghirat Chaga,’ ‘Pakistan Mein Qoumi Jamhori Tehrikin.’
The University of Pennsylvania’s Department of South-Asian studies recognized his work and translated it into English. In 2007 he received Kamal-e-Funn award by PAL (Pakistan Academy of Letters).
Moved Back to Pakistan
In 1989 he terminated his exile after ANP the NAP’s successor, became part of an association with Nawaz Shareef & his PML (Pakistan Muslim League)-led IJI (Islami Jamhori Ittihad). In general election 1990, he got elected from Nowshera to Pakistan National Assembly defeating PPP’s Tariq Khattak.
These elections indicated Khan Wali Khan’s retirement after his electoral defeat to Maulana Hasan Jan of JUI (Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam). Khattak got elected as ANP’s President when Khan Wali stepped down from his post.
In general elections 1993, he lost in a re-election bid in his home town Nowshera to Major Gen Naseer-Ullah Babar, a PPP candidate. As PPP’s leading critic it was imperative for IJI-ANP alliance to include Khattak in the Parliament and therefore he got nominated to Pakistan Senate in March 1994.
Allegations of Ties with Musharraf
He was removed from ANP’s presidential post in 2000 after a power struggle with Khan Abdul Wali’s wife Naseem Wali, prompted by allegations of his close ties with Pervaiz Musharraf.
After he decided to leave the party, he headed a splinter group ‘National Awami Party’ of Pakistan for a brief period. His party was defeated in general elections 2002 amidst political-religious parties association MMA (Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal) KPK’s sweep.
After MMA’s shook victory, he again joined ANP after efforts of Khan Wali. In 2003 he retired from politics and got the title of party patron-in-chief. Khattak’s two terms as ANP President were observed mainly for association with ex-antagonists. After association, the Muslim-League disintegrated in Jan 1998 over renaming NWFP to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and his role in heading ANP shortly into joining PONM (Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement).
Ajmal Khattak Death
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Nursing Home Slip and Fall Accidents Lawyers
Falls are the second greatest cause of accidental death in elderly persons 65 to 84 and the leading cause of accidental death for those 85 and older. For most senior citizens, a fall can be devastating. Osteoporosis, or brittle bone disease, can heighten the risk of serious fractures, especially hip fractures that can be fatal or severely disabling. In addition to broken bones, an elderly person who falls may suffer critical or fatal damage to the brain or spinal cord.
In nursing homes, more than 60 percent of residents will fall at some point during their stay. Some of them will experience repeated falls. Many times Slip and Fall accidents in nursing home are the result of nursing home negligence.
If you feel your loved one has been the victim of a slip and fall accident in a NYC Nursing Home , you should contact a New York elder abuse attorney immediately. Call (646) 647-3398 to speak for free to one of our New York City personal injury attorneys experienced in nursing home slip and falls. Our NYC personal injury law firm offers free phone consultations for those with loved ones that have fallen in nursing homes in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island and The Bronx.
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Nursing Home Slip and Fall Prevention Strategies
Upon admission to a nursing home, every resident undergoes a full risk assessment. The resident’s fall history is a critical aspect of this evaluation. It is the responsibility of nursing home staff to prevent falls and their resulting injuries. Accordingly, once the resident’s risk assessment is completed, staff must develop a comprehensive care plan that highlights the resident’s risk of falling and strategies for addressing it. Details of the plan must be communicated to staff and properly implemented. The plan must also be regularly reviewed to see if it is being followed and whether it is in need of revision.
Fall prevention strategies may include handrails, proper bed positioning, and an individualized toileting program. To alert nurses when the resident gets up, a chair or bed alarm can be vital. Restraints, on the other hand, tend to increase the likelihood of falling. Regular exercise can help to improve a resident’s mobility, but activity programs must be carefully tailored to individual abilities.
NYC Nursing Home Slip and Fall Accidents Because of Slippery Floors and Broken Wheelchairs
Many nursing home falls occur because of preventable hazards like slippery floors, poor lighting, improperly adjusted beds and poorly maintained wheelchairs. In addition, a resident’s functioning might be impaired by over-medication, improperly fitted shoes and lack of walking aids such as walkers or handrails. Nursing home hallways and common areas should be well-lit and have easy access to handrails. Carpeting that is tightly woven will help to avert slips and falls. Bathrooms should be equipped with raised toilet seats, grab bars, and non-skid flooring. Staffing levels must be adequate, allowing for quick response to calls for assistance.
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Negative Effects of LCD Monitors
By Puriry Makandi
An LCD monitor is a thin, flat electronic visual display that utilizes light modulating properties of liquid crystals from an array of pixels, thus giving rise to the name "Liquid Crystal Display." LCD monitors are a fairly recent innovation but are now rapidly replacing older, bulky cathode ray tube (CRT) displays on computers and televisions. LCD monitor screens come in a variety of sizes and are environmentally friendly in the sense that they require less power, thus promoting energy conservation. While these monitors have their positive side, they also pose a danger to users.
Electronic visual display equipment emits low levels of radiation. Although the LCD monitor emits lower levels than older cathode ray tube (CRT) designs, these low levels can negatively impact human health. Over-exposure to electromagnetic fields above two milligauss (mG) generated by electronic components inside a computer and radiation from LCD monitors can expose users to a variety of health maladies such as muscle ache, insomnia and fatigue. Prolonged exposure may also cause cancer in humans and animals. Burning eyes and headaches can result from increased luminescence or brightness of LCD displays. Radiation exposure above levels of 2 mG can cause skin burns and dry, wrinkled skin. LCDs also provide inconsistent photometric measures, depending on the angle at which a user is viewing the LCD monitor. This can contribute to improper body posture and back pains. Electricity consumed by LCD manufacture and use contributes to the release of so-called greenhouse gases (Co2) into the environment.
LCD monitors consume less energy than CRT monitors but the accumulation of many millions of LCD monitors in use around the world consumes a tremendous amount of energy. In locations where electricity is derived from non-renewable sources, use of LCD monitors may contribute to solid waste generation such as sludge and coal by-products. In addition, discarded LCD monitors are considered hazardous material, as they contain toxic substances. For instance, the fluorescent lamp in a fluorescent-backlit LCD monitor contains mercury. If mercury is allowed to leech into water bodies, it converts to methylated mercury in sediments. This toxin can accumulate in living organisms via drinking water or crop irrigation and travel up the food chain, adversely affecting the developing brain of a fetus and damaging an adult's nervous system.
The manufacture of LCD monitors requires sulfur hexafluoride, a chemical substance that is believed to be responsible for 29 percent of all global warming. The LCD manufacturing process also releases nitric oxides, hydrochloric acid and hydrofluoric acid, which is responsible for acid rain. Some of the other LCD monitors also use hydro-fluorocarbons, which are know to cause depletion of the ozone layer.
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Mushrooms are fleshy, safe to eat fungi that are a low-calorie food and an awesome source of vitamin B. Shiitake, porcini and chanterelle are some kinds of mushrooms. The edibility of mushroom depends on the absence of toxic consequences on humans and the applicable flavor and aroma. they’re really meaty in taste and flavor and also are a extraordinary source of nutrition D.
the usage of edible mushrooms is when you consider that hundred years BC in China, where they had been used for its medicinal fee in addition to for food. They may be bought sparkling or dried and preserved.
Mushroom powder, made from dried button mushrooms is popularly used as a flavoring agent in soups, stews, dips and sauces.
considering mushrooms already contain a lot water, they do no longer require any soaking.
although its medicinal fee has no longer but been mentioned with the aid of technology it is traditionally used in Japan, Korea and China for radial treatments and chemotherapy.
1. They do no longer contain cholesterol or fat however the fibers and enzymes found in them help decrease cholesterol levels.
2. due to its excessive protein content material, mushrooms help hold levels of cholesterol and so guard in opposition to cardiovascular sicknesses like stroke and heart attack.
three. they are excellent for diabetic patients as they have no fats, no cholesterol, and really low stage of carbohydrates but excessive protein content material.
four. some compounds which are found in mushrooms are accountable for correct functioning of the liver and pancreas.
5. They contain diverse polysaccharides that have anti carcinogenic impact. Mushrooms are therefore beneficial in stopping breast and prostate cancer.
6. Mushrooms are an excellent source of iron and are consequently cautioned for an awesome weight loss program incase of anemia.
7. Being a very good source of vitamin C and D it is ideal for bone fitness and a very good metabolism.
eight. A powerful antioxidant known as Ergothioneine that is present in mushrooms, protects the frame from free radicals and boosts the immune system.
9. Shiitake mushrooms can fight tumors, white mushrooms are excellent for weight reduction and maitake mushrooms are excellent breast most cancers preventives.
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Not all data is created equal. Understand the different levels of data quality and how they can influence your organization.
In the race to leverage data as a valuable asset to the enterprise, we are constantly balancing the need for immediate access with the need to refine the information as much as possible. Ideally, we would like to extract the real nuggets of gold from our data, the ones that give us important strategic insights. However, it is also natural (and necessary!) to handle data at various stages of refinement on our way there.
So what does data look like at different levels of quality?
Data quality levels
A useful way of thinking about data quality is by splitting it into three distinct levels:
- Bronze: data at this level is raw and unmodified. It is often created or loaded from different heterogeneous source systems, and thus it is mostly useful in the short term with limited scope.
- Silver: this type of data has been filtered, cleansed, and structured before use, allowing it to be used in the medium to long term. As this data is somewhat standardized, it can be used by multiple team members and fit into a wider enterprise context.
- Gold: data at this level is processed until it is highly reusable and trustworthy. This data has been refined taking the needs of multiple team members from multiple parts of the organization into account. Generally, this data can be used for sophisticated analyses that increase the team’s understanding of the business.
How to improve overall data quality?
While many organizations have data at both ends of the spectrum, moving as much data as possible to the gold level (i.e. improving its quality) is a goal that will pay dividends for years to come. To do so, we rely on a number of strategies:
- Structure and integrate: the low-hanging fruit of data quality is standardization. Having cohesively structured datasets means that more people across the organization can consume the information from their own perspectives. Additionally, this structuring makes it easier to spot any potential issue in data points.
- Understand the user base: another effective measure is to understand how team members are consuming data, then tailor datasets to suit their needs. For example, if a subset of users habitually processes data in a specific way to produce a visualization, then giving them the ability to retrieve pre-processed information can significantly boost their productivity.
- Curate manually: while doing this for an entire dataset is not feasible, manually curating portions of the data can give the team an in-depth understanding of the overall data condition. Based on what we observe during this exercise, we can apply changes to data validation and structuring processes accordingly.
The pros of gold-level data
Once data transitions to a gold-level status, it offers some additional advantages to the organization. For instance, gold data has a high level of accuracy, which means that it can be used as a trusted input for training machine learning models and business intelligence tools. These techniques allow businesses to better understand their current state and to create segments for current behavior or forecasts that help inform decisions about the future.
Storing this heterogeneous data
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Collaborative NHS Partnership to Automate Implantable Device Orders, Releases 13,862 Weeks Back to the NHS
Collaboration, communication, and a sprinkling of courage have shown to be able to deliver real benefits on this project. It has been challenging, but we have been rewarded with breaking through the glass ceiling of IT glitches, historic methods of working and brought fresh new innovation which automates a system and reduces patient risk, with the delivery of real benefits to our hospital staff teams.Rachael Ellis, Scan4Safety Programme Director, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
A 20 month collaborative programme has been completed by Hull University Teaching Hospital, Genesis Automation*, and NHS Supply Chain to improve and automate the track and trace of implantable devices.
During the financial year of 2019/2020, Hull University Teaching Hospital used 11,423 implants within the areas which are live with Scan4safety. With 4,578 purchase orders manually intervened to fulfill the stock replenishment. Across the NHS, many surgical and clinical teams struggle to manage all implant products in an effective and efficient manner. Mainly due to the manual workload required and the requirement to provide details of the individual unique references from each implant used.
The legacy method of order transfer, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) did not allow such data to be automatically transmitted. So a manual process has been used to collate and submit the information at the trust and again at NHS Supply Chain. This manual approach takes time out of team resources and introduces the risk of human error into the process. The manual approach takes at least 8 hours a week for a Senior Nurse or stockcontroller and a further 8 hours a week for an NHS Supply Chain Customer Service Advisor.
*Genesis Automation is a third party inventory management solution that is used at Hull University Teaching Hospital.
To create an automated inventory management solution to manage and track implantable devices and products at the point of replenishment, without manual intervention for the re-ordering process.
For suppliers to fulfill consignment orders, the individual Lot Number and or Serial Number used is critical and must be supplied at the point of ordering new items for the previous items used.
The main challenge in the project came from the requirement to migrate from the legacy order transfer method (FTP) to the XML method. The XML method of communication was a relatively new integration between NHS Supply Chain and an Inventory Management solution. The obstacles to the integration were:
- Trust product data
- Integrating NHS Supply Chain systems with the new hardware
- Genesis Automation building new scripts that could feed new levels of information in XML method.
The approach taken was to ensure the integration was tested thoroughly on the development environments before launching live.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was key to ensure the integration was successful and delivered against the objectives. Specifically, it was an integral part of the testing stage in ensuring the integration was successful and the requirements were met.
NHS Supply Chain and Genesis Automation worked together during the build and test stage, once the test stage was complete and the outcomes were successful, the integration was then deployed to the Production environment realising the benefits across Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
NHS Supply Chain: Supporting Technology, DXC Technologies, worked closely with Genesis Automation in order to build and test the latest integration method with a view to move forward with XML messages to the XML Web Service (EDI). This service allows line level notes to be passed across to the supplier automatically confirming Lot Numbers, Serial Numbers and, Batch Numbers used against a patient.
This integration also supports HCTED by providing complete transparency against medical devices and implants.
- Manual intervention has been removed and accurate information is being provided directly to the suppliers for each implantable device.
- Orders are being fulfilled in a timely manner improving patient experience as products are now always available, without delay.
- There is a certainty with the process and data integrity when scanning the implantable device barcode.
Genesis Automation has developed and implemented a new integration to NHS Supply Chain which supports compliance against HCTED and provides complete visibility to the Supplier base.
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the first customer to successfully migrate across and the time saved is significant.
Both the trust and NHS Supply Chain have each saved 8 hours per week or 11.09 weeks per year. This provides a combined total of 22.18 weeks of time per year back to Hull University Teaching Hospital NHS Trust and NHS Supply Chain.
If this new method of ordering is replicated across all 1250 acute trusts, general hospitals, specialist treatment centres, and specialist care functions, it would offer 13,862 weeks of resource time back per year to the NHS.
The move from legacy FTP transfer to XML Web Service (EDI) also provides additional benefits:
- Avoid time consuming manual confirmation of used Lot Numbers and Serial Numbers against consignment and owned stock.
- Reduce the manual intervention and the risk of incorrect data being processed.
- Avoid stock shortages and in turn, improve patient care.
- Reduce human error.
- Reduce clinical time spent on administrative duties, allowing time back to patient care.
- Integrate utilising the latest XML message format allowing automatic visibility of line level notes.
- Improve the communication between an IMS, Trust, and a Supplier.
- More secure data transfer.
- Increased rich data on order files.
- Automated order acknowledgement receipts.
- A key enabler for HCTED products.
This method is a working model for other hospitals to use across the NHS. Over the next few months, Genesis Automation will work alongside NHS Supply Chain to ensure all customers migrate across to the latest integration method and release the benefits available.
NHS Supply Chain will continue to work with new and existing EDI providers to onboard Trusts.
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Earth day is coming up, and with all the crazy weather patterns we have had this year, taking care of our Earth has never felt more important. Teach kids how to care for the Earth for future generations.
As young kids, our elementary-age students can make an awesome, ongoing impact on their home planet if they are taught to honor and care for the Earth now.
We have developed a list of 5 different ways you may consider celebrating Earth Day in your upper elementary class this year!
5 Ways to Teach Kids How to Care for the Earth
1| Encourage students to find ways to reduce the use of plastic.
The Earth is going to be healthiest in its most natural state, so in the spirit of “leave it as you found it,” we can spend time talking to students about how man-made products affect the earth and its occupants.
In the opening scenes of Disney’s Wall-E, we see just how much damage all that garbage and man-made waste can have on the Earth. Our students may not be able to cut out all waste, but they could start with something simple, such as using reusable straws and cups, and lunch containers.
Cutting down on the number of plastic baggies, plastic straws, and plastic cups they are sending to the landfill is a simple, daily habit our students can form that shows a little love for the Earth.
Challenge students to keep a journal tracking of how much waste they are able to prevent from going to the landfill in just a two-week period (then calculate the impact they can have over the course of their life!).
2| Use math to show impact
We all want to incorporate real-world math into our lessons, and what better way to use our daily math skills than by doing some mathematical research.
How many plastic baggies does the school send to the landfill each year? How can we figure it out? Well, let’s get a sample size of students, figure out how many they use, then create an equation to figure out what that data can tell us about the whole school’s impact.
Do you save more water taking a bath or a shower? Washing dishes or running a dishwasher? What is the best way to wash your hands to conserve water? Brushing your teeth?
All of these questions can produce a mathematical experience for students and get them thinking about how adjusting their own daily habits can help their earth.
3| Encourage students to plant something
Take a day to go out and plant flowers around your school, or encourage students to plant seeds around their homes. Planting trees, plants, and flowers help to absorb CO2 and improve oxygen levels.
Unfortunately, we must not only preserve our planet, but we must also rebuild our planet.
Encourage students to try to plant flowers and plants regularly and maintain them.
4| Do a school audit
After spending some time learning about earth day and how they can make an impact, ask students to spend some time observing your school. Taking notes on how the school may be able to implement new strategies for taking care of the earth.
Maybe it is about doing more digital activities to reduce printing, or making recycling bins more available during lunch. Maybe the school can set up compost containers in the cafeteria that can be used in the school’s landscaping instead of other, more harmful materials.
Once you’ve audited your campus, encourage students to brainstorm how they can fix the issues they found, and ask them to write up or create video presentations or proposals to share with administration and school boards to actually implement the changes they want to see!
Many schools have begun adopting ‘community garden’ type areas on their campus’. Maybe it’s time for your students to write a proposal to your school board about adopting and starting a community garden at your school where flowers can be used to provide joy and happiness to students and faculty, and any product can be used to provide meals to those in need.
5| Simply teach students about Earth Day and the Earth
In preparation for some of the activities above, you may need to spend some time just learning about Earth Day. Look for informational activities, videos, and reading passages.
Also, instead of making Earth Day a single day, consider creating a full unit surrounding this holiday. Take a few days to learn about Earth Day using resources like our Earth Day Close Reads with Mystery Pictures, and then consider implementing some of the math questions in the examples above, and finish the unit spending a couple of days writing proposals to the school board to implement school-wide changes.
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Evidence of nominal wage rigidity:
The Path of Wage Growth and Unemployment, by Mary C. Daly, Bart Hobijn, and Timothy Ni, FRBSF Economic Letter: During the most recent recession the unemployment rate jumped 5.6 percentage points, but wage growth slowed only modestly. The economy has been recovering for four years and unemployment has declined considerably, but wage growth has continued to slow. These patterns contradict standard economic models that hold that unemployment and wage growth normally are tightly related and move in opposite directions.
This Economic Letter argues that these patterns are consistent with the reluctance of employers to adjust wages immediately in reaction to changing economic conditions. In particular, employers hesitate to reduce wages and workers are reluctant to accept wage cuts, even during recessions. This behavior, known as downward nominal wage rigidity, played a role in past recessions, but was especially apparent during the Great Recession. Wage rigidity kept nominal wage growth positive throughout the recession. This led to a significant buildup of pent-up wage cuts, that is, wage cuts that employers wanted, but were unable to make. As the economy recovers, pent-up wage cuts will probably continue to slow wage growth long after the unemployment rate has returned to more normal levels.
Distribution of wage changes in 2006 and 2011
Source: Current Population Survey and authors’ calculations.
Note: Wage changes are measured as approximate percentage changes.
The existence of downward nominal wage rigidity
Figure 1 clearly shows downward nominal wage rigidity in the distribution of wage changes among U.S. workers in 2006 and 2011. The data cover all workers and measure how their wages compared with their previous year’s wages, if they were employed. We use 2006 as an example of a typical wage change distribution and compare those numbers with the post-recession wage changes for 2011.
The distribution of wage changes in 2006 and 2011 both spike at zero, suggesting that the wages of many workers did not change from year to year. In both years, the distribution is larger to the right of zero, that is, for wage increases, than to the left of zero, for wage cuts. Consistent with downward nominal rigidity, this suggests that a large fraction of wage cuts employers wanted to carry out were not actually made. Instead, those workers were swept into the zero-change group.
What is more interesting in this figure is how 2006 and 2011 data differ. First, the fraction of workers whose wages were frozen jumped from 12% of the workforce in 2006 to 16% in 2011. Second, despite the severity of the Great Recession, very few workers experienced wage cuts. These numbers edged up only slightly from 2006 to 2011. Finally, and perhaps most interestingly, the percentage of workers who received wage increases dropped notably in 2011 compared with 2006. This compression of wage increases resulted in a larger spike at zero. ...
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World Wildlife Fund, the premiere organization for advocating for our natural spaces, launches a third-annual paddle fundraiser for global conservation. Join the Virtual Panda Paddle event, either recreational or competitive, and paddle to protect the planet!
Panda Paddle Virtual Event: Protect the Planet by Paddling in Your Backyard
On August 21 – 23, join the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as it hosts its third-annual Panda Paddle. This water-friendly, recreational and/or competitive event is designed to encourage people to get on their favorite body of water. It is an opportunity to connect with other nature lovers and fundraise for WWF’s global conservation efforts.
Panda Paddle is WWF’s premier athletic fundraising event. The aim is to raise awareness and funds for global conservation while participants are out on the water having fun! Enjoy these hot summer days with the WWF. Encourage others to join you to get out on the water and paddle – stand up paddling, kayaking, canoeing or any way that YOU enjoy.
Learn MORE at WWF’s website, worldwildlife.org/paddle.
“When I’m paddling on the open water, surrounded by the quiet beauty of the world, I remember civilization is only possible because of clean and water, fuel, food, shelter, and critical services that only nature provides”
Register to Paddle for the Planet: August 21st – 23rd
REGISTER for a weekend of water FUN via WWF’s Panda Paddle website .
*Sign-up as an individual or as a team.
*Registration is $35 with no minimum fundraising commitment.
*All registrants receive Panda Paddle medal.
*On August 21 – 23, choose a time & body of water to paddle for the planet.
You can also join the SUP race competition for those who enjoy pushing themselves and paddling FAST. Participants for the competitive paddle will select a race distance (3miles or 6miles) to complete between August 21st & 23rd. They will submit their recorded race results to the Panda Paddle team by 11:59PM Pacific Time on August 23 to be included.
The World Wildlife Fund encourages ALL PADDLERS to share their passion & purpose with friends by posting photos on social media and using the hashtag #PandaPaddle.
“Paddle for a purpose: to celebrate the precious gift we’ve been given, and to remind people of our sacred responsibility to protect it.”
ABOUT WORLD WILDLIFE FUND (WWF)
WWF is one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, working in nearly 100 countries for over half a century to help people and nature thrive. With the support of more than 5 million members worldwide, WWF is dedicated to delivering science-based solutions to preserve the diversity and abundance of life on Earth, halt the degradation of the environment and combat the climate crisis. Visit www.worldwildlife.org to learn more and keep up with the latest conservation news by following @WWFNews on Twitter. | <urn:uuid:61e07607-75a9-49ae-9ace-6f1fbfd06080> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.standupjournal.com/2020/08/11/virtual-panda-paddle-paddlers-protect-nature-by-being-in-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.902661 | 642 | 1.625 | 2 |
The day began with a thick fog that encompassed the ship and made for some tricky spotting conditions. It was the same kind of fog that has been written about by sailors in times gone by, as air and sea disagree on temperature and wrap everything in an eerie silence. Under this blanket, our photo team experimented with exciting new gizmos and gadgets on the Bridge.
We had left the peninsula behind us during the night and were now in open seas; the day ahead was a packed schedule of talks. As the fog flickered in and out, we saw once again the sea-dwelling albatross and petrels we had seen on our outward journey through the Drake.
Our first well-attended talk of the day was from our guest speaker Joe McConnell on his amazing work using ice cores from Greenland to investigate classical civilizations and their economic rise and fall. As Joe explained in fascinating detail the accuracy of the technique, the audience was left surprised and inspired.
Our second lecture of the morning was given by naturalist Andy Szabo on whales of the Southern Ocean and their evolution, cognitions, and parent-offspring conflict.
After lunch, John Pailthorpe discussed his time and experiences working at the Rothera research base, a British Antarctic Survey site, during a time when dogs were still present in the field and researchers were expected to endure some pretty adventurous conditions! In his typical jovial and laidback manner, John showed us pictures of the tiny tent that he was sent to stay in and explained that despite the significantly sub-zero temperatures, when cooking in the tent, they tended to leave the door open to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning.
After John’s talk we were treated to another very British experience—scones for afternoon tea and then the final lecture of the day from naturalist-turned-killer-whale-researcher on board, Jess Farrer. Jess’s passion and area of research thus far has been Weddell seals; like John, she has also worked in Antarctica, but as a scientist researching these beautiful gentle giants. She gave us an insight into the lives of all the seals that we have encountered down here and more.
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- Nevertheless, I'm immensely proud.
- Nevertheless, I'm extremely proud.
- We're quite insignificant, but awesome nevertheless.
- Nevertheless, many are choosing early retirement.
- It is nevertheless a good sentence.
- Nevertheless, the topic is worth discussing.
- Nevertheless, I want to go there.
- I am tired; nevertheless, I must finish my homework.
- Don' translate word for word! It should nevertheless be as true as possible!
- Nevertheless, devout conversation on spiritual things helps no little with spiritual progress.
- It's just five in the morning, but nevertheless it is light out.
- I was very tired, but I was nevertheless unable to sleep.
- We thought it would rain; nevertheless, we started on our trip.
- The stories that circulated about the old graveyard were contradictory, but nevertheless made your heart freeze.
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LEARNING CLOCK PACKAGING - SAMPLE ANSWER
V. Ryan © 2011-2017
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A slim package to hold the card learning clock is required.
In the space below, use sketches and notes to design the package.
Add notes that explain:
Your choice of materials.
The constructional details.
|PARTS A and C: SOLID WHITE BOARD AND CARDBOARD|
SOLID WHITE BOARD - This is normally top quality cardboard made from
quality bleached wood pulp. It is the best card for printing on to and
consequently it is used for hard backed books and more expensive items.
Solid white board can be recycled, when the package is no longer needed.
CARDBOARD - is thicker than paper as it is made up of a number of layers, glue or laminated together. The diagram opposite shows a net / development of a package. It can be folded to produce a carton. This material can also be recycled, especially if biodegradable inks are used for images and text.
To manufacture this packaging starts with cutting the outer shape of a net / development. The edges to be folded are ‘creased’, making it easy to form the ‘box’.
|PART B: LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE OR LOW DENSITY POLYSTYRENE|
Polythene and Polyethylene can be moulded into almost any form due to
their excellent moulding qualities. Used for the production of bottles,
bowls, toys, tube etc... Both available in large sheets.
Low density polystyrene / polyethylene will be used for the tray. Both plastics can be recycled.
The tray is manufactured through vacuum forming.
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