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256 Year Old Man?
“Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog.”
Li Ching-Yuen lived a very long life and the secret to his longevity was reportedly his long hours of meditation, his special diet, and the peaceful life he led in his homeland, the province of Szechwan, where he collected and studied herbs. Professor Wu Chung-Chien, claimed that Li Ching-Yuen lived from 1677-1933, so when he died he was really 256 years old.
The Professor revealed the case in the New York Times, about a man named Li Ching-Yuen, for whom he found records in which the imperial government of the Qing dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of China, praises him for his great servitude and immense contribution to China, and sending best regards for his 150th birthday in 1827, and for his 200th in 1877.
Apparently, this man was a master Taoist, and according to the only official person sworn to have met him in person, General Yang Sen (1884-1977), after his service, found that Li Ching-Yuen retired from the army and lived out his remaining years in solitude, selling herbs in the mountains, which Yang found when he tracked him down. | <urn:uuid:0aa284d2-81d6-4968-8888-d67888ce1f8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://thetaoblog.com/256-year-old-man/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.980789 | 278 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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Development is not what outsiders do. It is what the people, societies, institutions and governments of developing countries do. We can help leverage for the better changes already happening with or without donor assistance. The world is increasingly interconnected, even for the dispersed poor. Interdependent prosperity is the only viable path for developing countries to provide opportunity for their societies. It is also the path to a more equitable, safer, more resilient, more prosperous and increasingly globalized world. PaxTerra is committed to helping create the framework for self-sustaining development that is country-driven and builds on “good enough governance” at the local, provincial and national levels. A positive enabling environment to invest in nature, capitalize on technology, mobilize domestic and international capital, build the businesses that create prosperity, and unleash positive initiative. | <urn:uuid:59d30139-35b0-448f-af23-c33515247a5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://paxterrainc.com/about-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931369 | 206 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Toxic blue-green algae has bloomed again in Lake Okeechobee, Florida's largest lake, an outbreak so severe that Governor Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in seven counties. While the term "algae bloom" might not sound dangerous, it is an outbreak of cyanobacteria that presents a significant risk to public health.
In early July, the bloom was reported to cover more than 90 percent of Lake Okeechobee's surface. The green sludge has crept outward from the lake and filled waterways with a putrid sludge that locals say smells like mold. News reports are warning residents to keep children and animals away from contaminated water. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ingesting it—including through consumption of marine animals like oysters—is the most dangerous type of exposure. Effects can include skin, nose, eye, and throat irritation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.
What's Causing the Bloom?
Pollution and warm water fuel the algae's growth. Research from the Environmental Protection Agency suggests that fertilizer runoff is introducing phosphorous and nitrogen to waterways, essentially fertilizing the algae.
Another factor is water flow. The Everglades, a wetland ecosystem, naturally flows from Lake Okeechobee south to Florida Bay. But since 1910, a series of more and more robust dikes have been built to contain that flow. The current dike system, called the Herbert Hoover Dike, is made up of about 143 miles of levees. Additional canals divert the flow to the East and West Coasts.
With the natural flow of the Everglades staunched, water builds up when it rains. Then the algae blooms again, and like clockwork, the United States Army Corps of Engineers tries to relieve Lake Okeechobee's water levels by discharging more water along the canals. This increases the concentration of fresh water in the estuary, giving the cyanobacteria even more opportunity to thrive.
"The Army Corps has been releasing a lot of water from Lake Okeechobee, and, in combination with the rain runoff from the basin, it's compressed the estuary so that it's mostly fresh [water] now—which is what cyanobacteria like," said John Cassani of Calusa Waterkeeper, a non-profit that's part of the Waterkeeper Alliance. "So cutting back on those fresh-water inflows would increase the salinity of the estuary, and hopefully discourage continued growth of this cyanobacteria."
When the Army Corps discharges water from Lake Okeechobee, it increases the concentration of fresh water in the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries, giving the cyanobacteria even more opportunity to thrive there—while interrupting the Everglades' natural southward flow.
Others point to the role of agriculture, especially Florida's massive sugar industry. Peter Girard, a spokesperson from the environmental group Bull Sugar, said: "Sugarcane needs water when Florida is dry, and it needs drainage when Florida is wet. The industry has secured policy and practice from both state and federal authorities to give them that at the expense of everyone else in Florida."
For years, Florida environmentalists have complained that agricultural runoff from and water mismanagement by "Big Sugar" cause damage to Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades. Grassroots pushes for the state to buy back land from sugar companies go back two decades. Many contracts and pieces of legislation have been signed and then nixed.
Buying Back Land Could Help
Still, organizations including the Everglades Trust and the Sierra Club have joined with a long list of companies, such as Yeti and Costa, to champion SB10, the latest iteration of the state's land buyback scheme (also known as the Now or Neverglades Declaration).
SB10 was introduced into the Florida State Senate in January of 2017 and approved by Scott by that May. The bill calls for the creation of a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee, in the region called the Everglades Agricultural Area. If the construction of the reservoir is executed as planned, fresh water will be able to flow southward rather than in forced discharges to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee estuaries. The new southward flow would alleviate the toxic algae blooms and help save the state's fragile ecosystems. Last week, the White House's Office of Management and Budget approved the reservoir project.
Legislators have suggested other ways to solve the algae-bloom problem, like increasing salinity in areas plagued with blooms. But Chris Wittman, co-founder and program director of the non-profit Captains for Clear Water, said these measures would amount to treating the symptoms of a disease instead of its root cause.
"The reason we're in this [mess] this year is manmade manipulation of a natural system," Wittman said. "So the idea is not to manipulate it farther. The idea is to get that system back to functioning with delivery and timing as close to the natural cycle as possible."
Meanwhile, another type of algae bloom, red tide, has been killing fish in the Gulf of Mexico. The two blooms are sending tremors through businesses in a state that is known for its natural beauty and depends on tourism. In 2013, a year that was plagued by algae blooms and the deaths of hundreds of manatees, more than 90 percent of hotels in Fort Myers Beach reported cancellations related to water conditions. | <urn:uuid:3a8e7321-4795-4246-ba9d-33e8d37a4a24> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://psmag.com/environment/stopping-toxic-algae-in-florida | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.9548 | 1,145 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Conditions remained difficult on Anatahan, but the timely crash of the B-29 saved the castaways who had faced slow starvation until seemingly divine aid fell from the sky. In addition to the daily struggle for survival, the island’s demographics further complicated the castaways’ plight and gradually produced Lord of the Flies dynamics. Unsurprisingly, thirty men stranded for years on a small island that contained only one woman led to problematic interactions, as the men competed for her affections. Their love interest, Kazuko Higa, had arrived at the island with her husband in 1944. However, he disappeared in mysterious circumstances soon after the castaways washed ashore.
So she married a Kikuichiro Higa as protection against the other marooned men. However, one of the castaways shot and killed her new husband, only to have his own throat slit soon thereafter by yet another suitor. Over the years, Kazuko Higa became a full-blown femme fatale, as she transferred her love and affections between a series of beaus. Each of them was violently assailed, chased off, or murdered, by some of the other frustrated guys. Matters were not helped when the men discovered how to ferment an intoxicating drink known as “tuba”, or coconut wine. As a result, they often drank themselves senselessly into stupors that lasted for days, interspersed with bouts of alcohol-fueled rage and fights.
2. Promiscuous Marooned Guys Kept Stabbing Each Other for the Love and Affections of This Femme Fatale
By 1951, there had been twelve murders on Anatahan, in addition to numerous fights, as the men violently vied for the love and affections of the island’s only female. One of Kazuko Higa’s wooers was stabbed with a knife on thirteen separate occasions by jealous rivals, yet returned to his amorous pursuit as soon as he recovered from each failed attempt on his life. In the meantime, elsewhere in the Marianas, American authorities learned of the Japanese on Anatahan after natives from nearby islands informed the US Navy of their presence. However, the small island was off the beaten path, lacked military significance, and the Japanese marooned there posed no threat.
So the castaways were allowed to languish in isolation as the war passed them by and went on to its climactic conclusion elsewhere. After Japan surrendered, authorities remembered the castaways, so printed leaflets were airdropped on Anatahan to inform its denizens that the war was over and direct them to surrender. However, the recipients dismissed the leaflets as propaganda and refused to believe that their government had thrown in the towel. The island was even less important after the war than it had been while the conflict raged, and its inhabitants were just as isolated and harmless to the outside world. So American authorities did not think it was worth the trouble to send in US forces to root them out.
For years, the Anahatan castaways were left to their own devices. From time to time, an airplane would drop leaflets over the island, to tell the marooned Japanese that the war was over and that they should surrender. However, the shipwrecked soldiers and sailors continued to disbelieve the leaflets’ veracity, and thus matters continued for years. Finally, in 1950 Kazuku Higa spotted a US vessel as it passed nearby, raced to the beach, flagged it down, and asked to be taken off the island. It was only then that the authorities learned that the Japanese on Anahatan did not believe that the war was over.
Their families were contacted, and they wrote letters to their kin to assure them that it was no enemy trick and that the war had, indeed, ended years earlier. The letters, along with an official message from the Japanese government, finally did the trick. They surrendered in 1951 and were shipped back to Japan, where their story became a sensation and resulted in numerous books, plays, and movies. The most well-known of the Anatahan castaways, Kazuku Higa, was nicknamed “The Queen Bee of Anahatan Island” by the Japanese press. She found temporary fame as a tropical temptress, sold her story to newspapers, and recounted it to packed theaters. However, after the public lost interest, she fell into prostitution and abject poverty, and eventually died at age of 51 while employed as a garbage collector.
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How To Update Iphone With Cellular Data
How To Update Iphone With Cellular Data. Turn on personal hotspot on iphone, connect it to mac, and click on network in mac’s system preferences. To fix an update is required to use cellular data on this iphone issue;
Update iphone using cellular/mobile data from itunes Download and install ios 14 with cellular data. Follow the onscreen instructions to install your carrier update.
Follow The Onscreen Instructions To Install Your Carrier Update.
Here are the steps that you need to follow. Open settings > cellular and simply toggle the bar to turn off cellular data. Just as apple regularly updates ios, your cell phone provider will regularly update your device's carrier settings.
And It Is Necessary For You To.
Do a factory restore using itunes. There’s no known way to date to update ios over cellular data, as per apple’s requirements. It isn’t clear what you are asking.
How To Update Iphone Cellular Data.
From there, find the section for cellular or mobile data and look for the option to update your settings. Utilize itunes on your mac. Set month three months ahead (right now that would be from october to december)
Doing This Will Probably Solve The Issue.
Turn off “set automatically” on date & time. To see the version of carrier settings on your device, tap. Download and install ios 14 with cellular data.
Tap Settings > General > Software Update.
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Some important poetic devices are the fundamental need of a language and writing of a country which escalates and enliven the passed on message and thoughts in various account styles. | <urn:uuid:e524312a-75ba-4733-8d67-1b4e063efd15> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://frustratedgamers.com/omia2897 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.881972 | 254 | 2.5625 | 3 |
National Reconciliation Week started as the Week of Prayer for Reconciliation in 1993 Under the guidance of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (now Reconciliation
Australia), it evolved into the week-long celebration.
Every year, it is held between two significant milestones in Australia’s history, May 27 and June 3. May 27 is the anniversary of the 1967 referendum. More than 90 per cent of Australians voted ‘Yes’ to count Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the census and give the Australian Government the power to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The day before 26th of May, is National Sorry Day, which was first held in Sydney in 1998 and is now commemorated nationally to remember and honour the Stolen Generations.
We spend this week learning about Australia’s Indigenous people and the impact that us, the settlers have had on the people. We look at the past, but also the future as well. How we can make things better. How including the Indigenous people can actually help towards the Australian society.
The theme for this National Reconciliation Week is – Don’t make History a Mystery. My plan for this week is to then, do some research and then share it with you. I’m not sure what I am going to look into…So watch this space for more! We will all learn a little something.
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You may not think about it much, but the battery that powers your laptop, tablet, or phone is one of the most important components of your device. Powering everything from our homes to our vehicles, batteries are a critical part of everyday life. That’s why there are so many different types on the market today! Let’s explore some common types for laptops and tablets below…
Why the battery is so important
We rely on batteries to power our laptops, phones, and tablets – without them, we’re pretty much out of luck when it comes to using these devices! Batteries are important because they provide a way for us to store energy so that we can use it when we need it. One of the most important components in our devices, batteries are responsible for powering all of the different functions that are available to us. So it’s very important to have a battery that will last throughout the day and charge quickly!
Different types of batteries for laptops and tablets
Removable and built-in
Laptop batteries come in two main types – removable and built-in. Most laptops have removable batteries, which means that you can easily take them out and replace them with a new one when needed. Tablet batteries, on the other hand, are typically built-in, meaning that you can’t remove them as you can with laptop batteries.
Auxiliary battery type
There are also a few different types of batteries that you can get for your laptop. These include lithium-ion, nickel-cadmium (NiCad), or a lithium polymer battery. You can even purchase rechargeable AA batteries if you need a quick replacement!
For tablet users, there are also different types of batteries available on the market today. Lithium-ion is the most popular type for tablets, but there are also smaller batteries available that are more energy-efficient. If you’re looking to purchase an external battery for your tablet, lithium polymer is one of the most popular types on the market today.
How to find the right battery for your needs
When it comes time to replace your current laptop or tablet battery, it’s important to find one that will fit your device. Most batteries come with a model number or product code that you can use to find the right one for your needs.
You should also consider the type of battery that you need. If you have a removable battery, for example, you’ll need to find one that is the same type as your original. If you have a built-in battery, you can choose to opt for lithium-ion batteries instead.
Tips on how to keep your battery healthy and working well
Taking care of your laptop or tablet’s battery is very important because it will help to extend its life and keep it in good condition. Here are a few tips to follow:
Do not overcharge
– Don’t leave your laptop or tablet plugged in when the battery is full. This can damage the battery over time and reduce its life span.
pay attention to the temperature
– Avoid exposing your battery to extreme temperatures. This can also damage the battery and make it less effective.
keep it clean
– Keep your battery away from dust and dirt to avoid the build-up of debris.
beware the shock
– Never hit or drop your laptop or tablet because this can damage both its components and battery.
What are some other components that power our devices today, outside of batteries?
Beyond laptops and tablets, there is a wide range of devices that use batteries to power them. These include portable speakers, headphones, digital cameras, and even cars!
When it comes to purchasing new batteries for these devices, it’s important to find the right type that will work best for them. For example, when purchasing a battery for a digital camera, you’ll want to make sure that you buy one that is compatible with the device.
You’ll also want to purchase batteries that are long-lasting or are rechargeable, which will save you money in the long run! If you’re looking for something a little more powerful, there are even some high-capacity rechargeable AA options available on the market these days!
How to manage a portable auxiliary battery
Using a laptop or tablet’s battery
If your laptop or tablet has a removable battery, you should remove it from the device when possible and utilize the one that came with it. Removing its original battery can help to save energy, which will allow you to get more life out of it! Another option is to purchase an external battery that you can use to charge your device.
Charging the battery
When it comes time to charge your laptop or tablet’s battery, you have a few different options. One is to use the power adapter that came with your device. This is typically the quickest way to charge your battery. If you don’t have the adapter, you can use a USB port on your computer to charge it. Just be aware that this will take longer to charge.
Battery saver mode
Most laptops and tablets come with a battery saver mode that can help to extend its life. This mode will typically reduce the performance of your device in order to conserve battery life.
Avoiding temperature extremes
Extreme temperatures can damage the battery and reduce its lifespan, so it’s best to avoid exposing your device to these conditions. When possible, you should also try not to leave your laptop or tablet in a hot car since it could cause the battery inside to swell up and even leak.
Checking your battery’s health
It’s a good idea to check the health of your laptop or tablet’s battery every so often. This can be done by clicking on the battery icon in the system tray and then selecting “More power options.” If you see a notification that says, “Your battery is in a critical state,” it might be time to replace the battery.
Replacing your battery
When it does come time to replace the battery in your laptop or tablet, there are a few different options that you can choose from. You can either purchase an OEM battery from the device’s manufacturer, for example, HP or Dell, or you can choose an aftermarket battery. If you decide on the latter, you should make sure that it is compatible with your laptop or tablet. | <urn:uuid:0cc347de-ff66-41a5-b0b2-4c5997b7eee8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thehopeheroes.org/portable-auxiliary-battery-recommended/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941316 | 1,325 | 2.75 | 3 |
NEW YORK -- In a collaboration with CBS News, we examine a crime often going without punishment in our country.
Barely half of murder cases in the United States get solved. The national homicide clearance rate is at an all-time low, according to FBI data.
In the mid-1960s, more than ninety percent of murders were solved, generally resulting in an arrest. By 1990, the percentage fell into the sixties. Then, by 2020—as the number of homicides surged—the national clearance rate dropped to about 50 percent for the first time ever.
And our analysis with CBS News also discovered a difference by race. The national homicide clearance rate for White victims keeps improving. That's the blue line at top. Meanwhile, the rate of solving murders for Black and Hispanic victims is much lower. Those are the two lines at the bottom.
So we wanted to know what's happening locally.
As CBS2's Ali Bauman reports, Novella Harris' Brooklyn home is covered with photos of her daughter, Renee.
"She was happy," Novella Harris told Bauman.
In December 2020, Renee Harris was found shot to death in the hallway of her Queens apartment building. She was 54.
"We figured they had cameras," her brother, Kelly Harris, said. "So you figure it's a matter of time before they catch who did it. But last thing they said was we have to be able to prove it. We just can't prove it, because it happened in the stairwell, there's no cameras in the stairwell."
Now 18 months later, the NYPD still has not made any arrests, and the Harris family has lost hope.
"I don't believe that case is being worked on now, no," said Kelly Harris. "Two years later, that's in the cold files."
"It made me feel like they didn't care, because it wasn't their family," Novella Harris added.
There are many families like them.
In 2020, amid the pandemic, homicides spiked across the country, including here in New York City, while homicide arrests plummeted.
"Were people getting away with murder?" Bauman asked NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig.
"Between members out sick with COVID, being stretched with details and unrest, and then the increase in violence, you see a pretty substantial reduction in our clearance rates in homicides," he replied.
"Clearance rate" means the percentage of cases police resolve in a given year.
According to FBI data, the NYPD's homicide clearance rate went from 86% in 2019 to 27% in 2020. However, the NYPD refutes those numbers.
"Why do you think the FBI would have different numbers then?" Bauman asked.
"I don't know, I'd have to check on the reporting. But we're at 62% in 2020, we went up to 75% last year, and we're close to 80% this year," Essig replied.
Essig later told Bauman the department is in the process of updating its computer system and, in the meantime, cannot send the correct numbers to the FBI.
While data shows the NYPD's clearance rate is now improving, there is still a backlog from 2020.
"What do you say to those families who, in some cases, feel forgotten?" Bauman asked.
"We in the New York City Police Department in the detective bureau never stop working that homicide case. Some of them are in depth investigations," Essig replied. "We have to piece together every bit of evidence, and it takes a while."
Essig said detectives need more evidence now than ever before to make a homicide arrest.
"The district attorneys want more evidence," he said. "Whether it's video, forensics, ballistics, eyewitnesses, we run the gamut of closing homicides. But the amount of time, effort and evidence gathered for homicides has definitely went up."
According to data obtained and analyzed by CBS News, the national homicide clearance rate has been improving for cases involving white victims, but falling for Black and Hispanic murder victims.
The NYPD's clearance rate has been significantly higher for white murder victims over the last decade -- most recently, at 84% for white victims, compared to 61% for Hispanic victims and 53% for Black victims during that same year.
"Every homicide is investigated," said Essig. "What I do see, our harder investigations in homicides are gang and narcotics investigations, street gangs... I don't think we look at race in terms of homicide investigation. We put all our resources into that homicide."
"Do you think the NYPD or detective unit needs more diversity to get that rate closer together?" Bauman asked.
"I think we're a majority minority police department and I have detectives of every race, ethnicity out there," Essig replied.
Department-wide, that is true. But according to NYPD data, more than half of its detectives are white.
While detectives collaborate on investigations, the NYPD has seen a rise in retirements and resignations since 2020.
"Is that affecting the homicide investigations?" Bauman asked.
"You can't replace experience, that's tough. But some of our younger officers... They're very good, very young, which means they're very tech savvy, which we need that kind of experience to solve homicides," Essig replied.
Back in Brooklyn, the Harris family says they haven't heard from a detective in at least a year. Kelly Harris believes the lack of closure is speeding up his mother's dementia.
"I think it would bring my mom a lot more peace with an arrest, because every other day she asks. I wish the detective would call us, or I need to go down to the precinct," he told Bauman. "All we're asking for is answers."
Bauman asked the chief of detectives about the Harris case. He said detectives are continuing to work on theirs and cases like it, and detectives should have been reaching back out to the family on a monthly or at least yearly basis.
Complete coverage of "Crime Without Punishment" from our CBS stations across the country and CBS News is available here.
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By Bola Sobola
ACCORDING to Wikipedia, “e-money” stands for electronic money that exists in banking computer systems and available globally for transaction through electronic devices. Experts say an electronic money is a centralised digital monetary medium of exchange which has the capacity to promote socio-economic well-being of the people.
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s, version of digital currency called e-Naira, the first of its kind in Africa, was unveiled by President Muhammadu Buhari on October 25, 2021, in Abuja. The initiative signalled the readiness of the Central Bank of Nigeria to kick-start its digital currency just like China’s commitment to Yuan digitalisation.
The e-Naira is a Central Bank digital currency being regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria, denominated in Naira with the theme: “same naira more possibilities” to serve as both a medium of exchange and store of value with a prospect of offering better payment in retail transactions when compared to cash.
Expert says successful implementation of e-Naira will bring great prospect with huge capacity to promote the nation’s economic development. A report from Reuters revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari opined that Central Bank innovation could grow Nigeria’s economy by $29 billion in the coming decades. This may invariably surpass the estimated crypto transactions worth $566 million within five years in Nigeria, all things being equal.
It is, therefore, worrisome that the digital version of Nigeria’s electronic naira, the first attempt in Africa had very low acceptability among Nigerians considering its poor starting. Some App reviewers explained that the mobile wallet of e-Naira which has same value and is interchangeable with the physical naira has multiple faults, difficult to operate and download.
For example, the two e-Naira wallets the Central Bank made available on the Google and Apple stores, one for individuals and the other for merchants, were barely working as expected. The persistent irregularities were corroborated by Mr. Fisayo Fosudo, a Nigerian YouTuber who reviewed gadget and apps; he said the Central Bank has merely jumped into the project without putting its house in perfect shape.
While trying to unravel the factors behind the poor acceptability of e-Naira, some experts submitted that Nigeria’s Central Bank should have taken time to understudy the feasibilities and challenges of operating CBDC in China. Citing CBDC plan in South Africa, which is another large economy for taking its time to launch out its digital economy. And instead of rolling out its citizens’ intra-country transactions, it only enters a trial of its CBDC project with other banks for international settlement by teaming up with other countries’ Central Banks like Australia, Singapore and Malaysia.
Even the success recorded so far by the Central Bank Digital Currency, CBDC, that was applauded in some quarters as a growing success was hinged on the few number of its active subscribers who are merely willing to explore the new digital technology. Others said e-Naira was poorly publicised, as about 85 percent of Nigerians were said to be ignorant of e-Naira digital wallet transaction.
Those that were highly informed about CBDC only saw it as a replacement for cryptocurrency which is a digital asset designed as a medium of exchange, where individuals coin ownership records are stored in a ledger existing in a form of computerised database with a decentralised control system that was banned in 2017. The prohibition caused great resentment and elicited varied protests among huge numbers of Nigerian youths who were said to have technically kicked against e-Naira acceptability.
Some experts said CBN should have carried out aggressive media publicity to assuage the negative perception of the youths after it was prohibited. They warned about the excesses, danger of decentralised control system created in 2009 by presumably a pseudonymous developer called Satoshi Nakamoto which exposes investors to high risk, and that bitcoin was not legal tender and unprotected in Nigeria by using both conventional and new media platforms to create massive public awareness before unveiling its digital currency.
Moreso, the reminder of the prohibition on February 5, 2021 further escalated the battle against e-Naira acceptability by the youths as they perceive it as anti-livelihood of young Nigerians using cryptocurrency to escape poverty and unemployment in the nation.
Although the apex bank later explained through its Deputy Governor, Adamu Lamtek, that the bank did not ban cryptocurrency in the country to destroy the livelihood of the youths but that it only prohibited the transaction of cryptocurrencies in Nigeria banking sector to curb its excesses and protect unsuspecting investors from fraudulent activities.
The main concern after the launch of the programme in October 2021, was that the Apps only recorded over 900,000 downloads within 95 days compared to the estimated population of 250 million people living in the country. The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, expressed optimism over acceptability of the e-Naira over time, considering the four years of thorough and painstaking consultations with relevant stakeholders and successful efforts put in place to integrate 33 banks into the e-Naira platform with 500m successfully minted by the Apex bank for the take-off of the programme.
The regulator said while 200m was issued to financial institutions, over 2,000 customers had also been on-boarded as at the time of the launch. Meantime, 87 countries were reported to be currently exploring the CBDC as Nigeria has joined the league of countries that have so far launched their CBDC projects globally, including China and South Korea.
The national set target on e-Naira has not been met, as reports indicated that several merchants and retail stores in the country are yet to accept digital currency as a medium of exchange. Some analysts noted that most rural areas and regions of Nigeria are still faced with network challenges where the network penetration is still heavily dependent on 2G and 3G networks, which spells difficulty for e-Naira transactions on the internet.
Financial analysts categorically stated that “success of the e-Naira” is largely dependent on the number of active users, rate of merchants adoption and the value-added services available on the “app”.
Nevertheless, the e-Naira has so many opportunities that are beneficial to the people. The analysts noted that”the e-Naira has potential to unlock new opportunities for the industry”.
The e-Naira would increase remittances, foster cross-border trade,improve financial inclusion, enable the government to make welfare payments easily among others. It is therefore not debatable that wide acceptability of CBDC will in no small measure improve economic activities and also boost the nation’s GDP.
Some of the e-Naira functionality delivers speedy, safe and simple trading transactional opportunities to customers and end-users. It is also easily transferrable through peer-to-peer formats, and practically programmable for any use, as it was pegged at a flat currency.
This lofty initiative of Nigeria digital currency should not be allowed to go down in flames. Federal Government should wade into the situation and embark on aggressive awareness campaign to enlighten the citizens through the use of jingles and placement of adverts on the billboard emphasising on huge economic values inherent in e-Naira transaction across the nation. Adverts must also run on the media stations that will enlighten people more on economic values of CBDC.
In preparation for the nation’s digital currency, the Ogun state Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun established TechHub where different categories of people were being trained on Information Communication and Technology (ICT), exposing its citizens to digital technology, particularly on website designing among other professional certifications.
Records showed that about 49 percent population have received training in website designing, internet operation among other areas in computer core applications with beneficiaries ranging from civil and public servants, students from various schools, professional bodies, individuals as well as corporate organisations across the state.
Ogun state government has made the people more computer savvy by exposing them to higher digital technology. Other State governments can take a cue from Ogun State in preparing their citizens for the growing digital world that has come to stay.
As a matter of fact, Central Bank of Nigeria should make the Apps easy to download for active users and improve on its website so as to make e-Naira digital wallet feasible and easy for the youths to use in building enduring livelihood that will transform into socio-economic development of the nation.
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By Eniat (Grade 7)
On Wednesday the 1st of November the upper graders of Black Butte School went to COCC Redmond campus to see their solar array. Once we got to the campus we went to a classroom to learn about different types of energy. The main types of energy are hydroelectric, solar energy, fossil fuels, biofuel, and wind. In all of these 6 types of energy solar is the only one that does not use a generator.
On the bus we were asked to come up with questions to ask the professor we worked with. One of the more common questions was “will the panels work with snow on top of them?” The answer was yes the panels work with snow on top of them but not as well. Another common question was “will the panels work with the reflected sunlight of the moon?” The answer was also yes but not as well.
The solar array has 1556 solar panels. This array can power the campus during the summer and actually makes extra energy that they can to the power company, but in the winter they don’t make enough to power the campus, so they have to buy the energy from the power company. Ilya one of the 8th graders at BBS said “It was a really enjoyable field trip.” Athan, one of our 5th graders said, “I liked it and am happy that solar panels were invented so we don’t have to use fossil fuels as much.”
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Objective: We hypothesize that procedure deployment rates and technical performance with minimally invasive surgery and thrombolysis for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) evacuation (MISTIE) can be enhanced in post-trial clinical practice, per Phase III trial results and lessons learned.
Materials and methods: We identified ICH patients and those who underwent MISTIE procedure between 2017-2021 at a single site, after completed enrollments in the Phase III trial. Deployment rates, complications and technical outcomes were compared to those observed in the trial. Initial and final hematoma volume were compared between site measurements using ABC/2, MISTIE trial reading center utilizing manual segmentation, and a novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) based volume assessment.
Results: Nineteen of 286 patients were eligible for MISTIE. All 19 received the procedure (6.6% enrollment to screening rate 6.6% compared to 1.6% at our center in the trial; p=0.0018). Sixteen patients (84%) achieved evaculation target < 15 mL residual ICH or > 70% removal, compared to 59.7% in the trial surgical cohort (p=0.034). No poor catheter placement occurred and no surgical protocol deviations. Limitations of ICH volume assessments using the ABC/2 method were shown, while AI based methodology of ICH volume assessments had excellent correlation with manual segmentation by experienced reading centers.
Conclusions: Greater procedure deployment and higher technical success rates can be achieved in post-trial clinical practice than in the MISTIE III trial. AI based measurements can be deployed to enhance clinician estimated ICH volume. Clinical outcome implications of this enhanced technical performance cannot be surmised, and will need assessment in future trials.
Keywords: Intracerebral hemorrhage; Intracranial hemorrhage; MISTIE, Artificial intelligence.
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If you’re prepared to begin your journey into the programming world, there are many websites and blogs to study basic to advanced programming languages. You can enrol in a few paid courses and master Programming, however, on the other hand, there are few websites that provide content material that is absolutely free. So let’s find which suits your learning better.
If you're ready to begin your programming journey, however, don’t know what exactly coding is and have queries in your mind like wherever to start? what are the necessities of programming languages? what are data types, algorithms, and header files? Then Programiz is the best learning platform for you.
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The upper Texas Gulf coast sits at nature’s crossroads. Four major biomes of spectacularly diverse flora and fauna converge here. In addition to the Gulf of Mexico, there are 150 miles of bountiful bays, barrier islands and ancient river deltas. Double canopy forests and the nation’s westernmost Cypress flourish along five major rivers and countless bayous. Coastal prairies, estuaries and marshes provide wide-open vistas of flocks of waterfowl and shorebirds.
Sneak past drowsing alligators as you float through watery forests draped with Spanish moss. Climb a hawk watchtower at Smith Point and imagine spiraling with raptors as they search for prey on the coastal prairie below. Hunt waterfowl, deer and wild boar in season, or if you’re lucky, watch a bobcat stalk smaller game. If photography is more your style, join in the Christmas Bird Count – this region regularly boasts 3 of the top ten tallies in the entire United States. The bountiful estuaries and bays provide a multitude of fishing and crabbing opportunities, and seasonal hunting within the wildlife refuges and management areas abounds.
If you are looking to get out on the water, the upper Texas Gulf coast is also full of options. Christmas Bay and Galveston Island Park offer many miles of paddle trails for all levels, whether on a paddleboard, kayak or canoe. For those interested in speed, the steady Gulf winds make this area ideal for sailing, windsurfing and kiteboarding. Into scuba? Dive the Flower Gardens National Marine Sanctuary, a coral reef perched on a salt dome just off shore.
Want to stay dry? Hiking and biking trails, paved and off-road, thread along the coast, and around and through nature areas. Annually, more than 1,000 bike riders participate in Bike Around the Bay, a fully supported, two day, 180-mile bicycle ride around Galveston Bay. You can also visit the Galveston Sea Turtle Laboratory to see and learn about the 4 types of sea turtles of the region, including the endangered Kemp’s Ridley. Or, tour the bay on a dolphin watch.
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Reverse Engineering (Scaffolding)
Reverse engineering (via scaffolding) is a process which streamlines OR/M by automatically constructing classes for all of the tables and views available via the Salesforce Pardot schema. This process also creates a CDataContext class, which extends DbContext and exposes the DbSet properties that represent the tables in the data source.
Install Entity Framework Core Tools
If you're making use of scaffolding in a console app, you'll first need to install the EF Tools via the Package Manager Console (PMC). Use one of the following:
Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools -Version 3.0 //Run this command if using EF Core 3.0 Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools -Version 3.1 //Run this command if using EF Core 3.1 Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools -Version 5.0 //Run this command if using EF Core 5.0 Install-Package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools -Version 6.0 //Run this command if using EF Core 6.0
Scaffolding is performed using the PMC in Visual Studio. You can use following commands to scaffold.
Scaffold All Tables
Use the following command to scaffold all tables and views from the schema into your Models folder:
Scaffold-DbContext "InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;BusinessUnitID=YourBusinessId;" CData.EntityFrameworkCore.SalesforcePardot -OutputDir Models -Context SalesforcePardotContext
Scaffold A Subset of Tables
You can also refine the scaffolding process to only create classes for a limited selection of tables. This is especially useful when a large schema is taking a long time to scaffold due to the large number of classes it has to generate. This is accomplished by specifying the tables/views that you want to scaffold at the end of your Scaffold-DbContext command in the PMC.
Scaffold-DbContext "InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH;BusinessUnitID=YourBusinessId;" CData.EntityFrameworkCore.SalesforcePardot -OutputDir Models -Context SalesforcePardotContext -Tables Prospects
Updating your Data Model
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IMMOKALEE -- Local health care providers in Collier County have been working to ensure equitable access for minority groups in Immokalee to COVID-19 vaccines, trying to help families who have faced adverse conditions that make it difficult to receive adequate health care in the midst of the pandemic.
Collier County Department of Health collaborated with Partners in Health, Healthcare Network, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and other faith-based organizations to secure vaccinations for nearly 200,000 people across the county as of May 14, according to the Florida Department of Health.
Breanna Johnson, PIO Specialist for DOH-Collier, said these partners have provided “testing, vaccination, outreach and education opportunities in the community.”
From the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine to the two-shot Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, more than 348,000 doses have been administered across the county, according to the Florida Department of Health’s Collier County vaccination report, including data through May 14.
Immokalee is home for many migrant farmworkers who often speak only Spanish or Creole, creating a language barrier for those interested in the vaccine, according to Julie Pedretti, Healthcare Network’s director of COVID-19 Community Relations. They often see illiterate patients as well who need to be walked through the registration process to understand potential side effects of the vaccine, said Pedretti.
Healthcare Network received funding from Health Resources & Services Administration in Spring 2020 to build a COVID-19 support team in the county, said Pedretti. She was hired to lead the team and immediately looked to partner with other area organizations, she said.
An unexpected benefit of the pandemic is how it “brought organizations together to serve a population that often gets neglected…” They “are now forged for the long term,” and will continue to support Immokalee and other farm communities in the future, said Pedretti.
Healthcare Network “is all about providing fair and equitable healthcare to everyone regardless of their ability to pay,” and setting up the support team was essential, said Pedretti.
They opened their doors to all, including the undocumented and the homeless. “There is no judgement. We just want people to get the care they need… We do not turn anyone away,” Pedretti said.
These organizations in Immokalee worked to provide testing as well as stipends and other resources for households whose positive tests hindered them from working.
Weekly vaccination events and pop-up clinics set up for Immokalee residents helped combat challenges and “target underserved communities,” Johnson said.
“Technology, transportation, and building trust” are a few of the primary challenges with vaccinating members of this community, Pedretti said.
The key to overcoming this was working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, said Ms. Pedretti. The CIW is an organization founded by the farmworking community in 1993, which works to protect human rights within the workplace. This partnership allowed community members to feel more comfortable with Healthcare Network, said Pedretti.
The Healthcare Network team joined with PIH in the summer to participate in a hands-on training that gave them the tools they needed to “understand the culture that they’re working with,” said Pedretti.
“We accompany people along their health care journey and develop trust, and that’s a big thing — so knowing the language, knowing the culture, knowing the population,” she continued.
Many of these farmers’ lifestyles require long work hours during the day, so the team found ways to integrate COVID-19 outreach around their schedules, Ms. Pedretti said. Testing events and education took place in the evenings and on weekends to accommodate their needs, she explained.
DOH-Collier and its partnering organizations personally reached out to local growers and packing plants to set up days to vaccinate staff, Johnson said.
This poor agricultural area lies in stark contrast to the nearby city of Naples, one of Florida’s wealthiest cities. Nearly 42% of the population in Immokalee lives below the poverty level, according to the Guadalupe Center, a local organization that promotes education in the area.
Members of this community often lack the resources required to set up appointments for vaccinations, such as internet access or a laptop, so Healthcare Network took the time to reach out to residents by phone, said Pedretti.
“One other challenge is migrant farmworkers are always moving around, and many of them are headed north right now, so we wanted to get as many of the J&J vaccines as possible so that we would just have to do one shot,” Pedretti added.
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Much has been said about the next age of internet technology that will improve connectivity and unleash the power of a virtual universe. The so-called Web 3.0 will usher in an era of true connectivity where distance becomes nothing more than a thought. In recent months, several prominent people have weighed in on the discussion about this development.
The latest person to express his opinion about the benefits of Web3 is Kimbal Musk, the brother of the billionaire CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk. Kimbal said that Web3 could unleash a potential $100 billion in philanthropy. Kimbal made this known through a tweet on Saturday. Web3, Kimbal said, could be used to decentralize philanthropy and unlock that massive amount.
Kimbal, an entrepreneur, and chef, also sits on the board of Tesla and SpaceX. He is also an important voice in the technology world. He is a firm believer in the power of decentralization and has spoken in support of cryptocurrencies in the past. Now, Kimbal believes that the exorbitant amount spent on philanthropy bureaucracy in the US can be saved through blockchain use.
Web 3.0 Blockchain-powered Economy?
The strongest promoters of cryptos believe that the entire economy of any nation can be run on blockchain technology. Vocal members of the crypto community have called for governments to adopt cryptocurrencies and deploy blockchains to run government processes. But opposers have pointed out loopholes in that argument.
According to some Twitter users that responded to Kimbal’s tweet, Web3 could be the key to eliminating bureaucracies and corruption from every government and system. One of the key features of Web3 is transparency through shared data. Those tweeters are not far from the truth. In the future, Web3 could bring true freedom by removing corruption.
Some charities engaged in philanthropic activities in 2021 have tested the idea of using blockchain to power their activities. They have received donations in cryptocurrencies and now, most of the biggest charities have crypto payment methods on their pages.
NFT and DeFi solutions that promote charities have also been built and deployed in recent times. For example, APENFT recently held a charity event to support two charities.
Web3 And Regulations
It is expected that governments of countries will study Web3 and decide on regulations to guide it. We have seen it play for Web1 and Web2 over the decades. Regulation is a key factor in keeping stability in the internet world. But the worrisome question is, what would the regulations look like?
Closely linked to Web3 are the virtual world, cryptos, and NFTs. In recent times, these four terms have become associated with one another as they lead the new age of digital economy and interaction beyond borders. But the latter two have faced regulatory issues in different countries across the world.
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China will share more data on the Mekong River with countries downstream, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, amid long-standing criticism that its projects have caused flooding and drought in the river’s lower reaches. This was to “share the dividends of cooperation and push development”, Wang said at a meeting of foreign ministers from the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation in Bagan, Myanmar on Monday. He also said China would “inspect the safety of 20 reservoirs and dams to control floods, safeguard food and water supply and ecological safety for 70 million people in the basin”, according to a Chinese foreign ministry statement. The group brings together countries that share Southeast Asia’s longest river – called the Lancang in China – which are crucial for Beijing’s trade and infrastructure scheme, the Belt and Road Initiative . The United States is also positioning itself as a better partner for these downstream nations – Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam – in managing the river. Environmental groups have blamed China’s dams upstream for causing floods and droughts further down the Mekong that have damaged the local ecology and cost fishers their livelihoods. Last year, China cut water flow by half at a hydroelectric dam for nearly a month to fix a power line without warning downstream countries first, adding to distrust among its neighbours. Wang also told Monday’s meeting that China would build new water-monitoring and weather stations, speed up the construction of photovoltaic irrigation facilities, and set up pilot projects for rural water supply and management, according to the statement. The undertakings formed one of six projects proposed by China at the meeting. Another, on space cooperation, would involve China developing an Earth observation satellite with the five countries, the foreign ministry statement said. Beijing also proposed building cloud computing facilities in the region and helping to develop “modern information technology systems”, without providing details. Foreign ministers at the meeting approved in principle the next five-year plan for the group from 2023 to 2027. The action plan for the US-led equivalent, the Mekong-US Partnership, is set to end in 2023. That partnership focuses on addressing the environmental impact of infrastructure projects and making management of water resources in the Mekong more transparent – issues for which China has been criticised. Unlike China’s initiative, the US-led one involves countries from other regions such as Japan, South Korea and New Zealand that provide expertise in areas such as energy and natural hazard forecasting. The good, bad and ugly sides to the Mekong River In a joint communique on Monday, the six foreign ministers said they “encouraged” the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation to complement the belt and road plan and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s new Global Development Initiative. Projects in the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation rely on funding from Beijing’s belt and road scheme. Leaders of the group’s member nations are expected to meet at a separate summit later this year. | <urn:uuid:e8ed708d-5dba-4ced-ad7b-6d4eee2d1c01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3184164/china-pledges-share-more-data-mekong-river-downstream-nations?utm_source=rss_feed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944174 | 615 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Distance Learning: Quality Education for All
Distance learning makes quality education possible, even when instructor and student are in different locations, and have different schedules. This is not a new idea. The first mail-based correspondence courses were offered more than a century ago. Modern technology has made distance education faster, easier, and of higher quality. Many larger colleges and universities offer some on line courses, and millions of students around the world have used the Internet, and other modern online teaching technologies, to further their education.
Distance Learning Technology
There are 2 general types of online education technologies. Some allow students to work entirely on their own schedule. Lecture notes and other course materials can be made available on line, in written form or as streaming audio. Communication between teacher and student, and between students, is done via presentation tools, e‑mail, on line message boards, remote access software, or even voice conferencing. This is known as asynchronous communication.
In some cases, it may be necessary for all members of a class to participate in an event simultaneously, even though separated by great distance. These interactive exchanges are made possible with synchronous technology, such as instant messaging, online presentation software, desktop sharing, chat rooms, and web conferencing software, which may include audio. Teachers can present the class material on their own computer screen, and the student can view the teacher’s remote desktop live over the Web by participating in a distance learning class.
The technology needed to participate in distance learning is not expensive, making high-quality education more widely available than ever before.
Quality of Distance Learning
In the past, “mail-order degrees” and similar certifications have been looked upon with suspicion, and sometimes rightly so. Using today’s technology, however, the quality of distance education and online training can be equal to that delivered in the traditional classroom. Prestigious, mainstream universities are even offering undergraduate and advanced degrees through e‑learning software. Issues of integrity, or concern about distance learning students cheating on tests, have been minimized. College Level Examination Program (CLEP) tests are often used in online learning classes, as are the DANTES Standardized Subject Tests. These are standardized, proctored tests which can be accepted for college credit. In addition, tests and quizzes may be replaced with larger research projects, which force the student to make an in-depth examination of the subject.
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber
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othenburg is considered the most medieval-looking city in Germany. The almost completely preserved city wall, many historical architectural monuments, and the interlacing old lanes put the visitor into an atmosphere that reminds them of past times. This is due to a city development that has been stagnant for centuries. Thus after the 30-year war, the free imperial city (which was originally very rich) fell into insignificance for a long time. Even the industrial impetus of the early days seems to have bypassed Rothenburg. However, at the end of 19th century people realized that tourist money could be made from the city's long sleep that lasted several hundred years. Now the old buildings are conscientiously preserved. The "Alt-Rothenburg" association (www.alt-rothenburg.de) was founded in 1898 and still has a lot of influence even today as it continues to successfully promote the preservation of the old structural fabric of the city.
The city lies on a plateau 65 meters above the Tauber Valley. The valley is nearly vacant, which is why one can enjoy an undisturbed look at the unique historical silhouette from here. Rothenburg is one of the most-visited sights in Bavaria with over two million guests yearly. Although the city presents itself as a big open-air museum and seems like a" typically German city" to foreigners, the old facades hide a more modern life-style. It has adapted itself to the problem of having lots of tourism and city which doesn't allow traffic within its gates.
Rothenburg is especially popular on Whitsuntide (Pentecost) weekend when a spectacle takes place commemorating the time during the 30-Year War when the city council saved the city from destruction by the Catholic general, Count Johann Tserclaes, with the help of a masterdrink.
Photos of Rothenburg's inner city (click for more information):
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Almost all prediction intervals from time series models are too narrow. This is a well-known phenomenon and arises because they do not account for all sources of uncertainty. In my 2002 IJF paper, we measured the size of the problem by computing the actual coverage percentage of the prediction intervals on hold-out samples. We found that for ETS models, nominal 95% intervals may only provide coverage between 71% and 87%. The difference is due to missing sources of uncertainty.
There are at least four sources of uncertainty in forecasting using time series models:
- The random error term;
- The parameter estimates;
- The choice of model for the historical data;
- The continuation of the historical data generating process into the future.
When we produce prediction intervals for time series models, we generally only take into account the first of these sources of uncertainty. It would be possible to account for 2 and 3 using simulations, but that is almost never done because it would take too much time to compute. As computing speeds increase, it might become a viable approach in the future.
Even if we ignore the model uncertainty and the DGP uncertainty (sources 3 and 4), and just try to allow for parameter uncertainty as well as the random error term (sources 1 and 2), there are no closed form solutions apart from some simple special cases.
One such special case is an ARIMA(0,1,0) model with drift, which can be written as
where is a white noise process. In this case, it is easy to compute the uncertainty associated with the estimate of , and then allow for it in the forecasts.
This model can be fitted using either the
Arima function or the
rwf function from the forecast package for R. If the
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The following is an excerpt from a piece by Byron Wien posted on the Blackstone website last week. Wien has an unnamed friend in Europe who he refers to as “the smartest man in Europe”. He meets with him on occasion to pick his brain. His most recent outlook was particularly gloomy:
“It’s very hard to make money in stocks. Earnings growth is the key to equity market performance and with the heavy debt burdens of the developed economies of the United States and Europe, growth is likely to be slow….
Ironically, the big beneficiary of the financial problems in the weaker European countries has been Germany….
Over the next few years the banks in the stronger countries – Germany, France and the Netherlands – will try to become less exposed to the sovereign debt of the weaker countries. In a few years, if the situation has not improved, the European Union may have to be restructured….
Right now my portfolio is invested in gold and Swiss francs….
The central bankers throughout the world have lost touch with reality….
The biggest bubble in history was the financial crisis of 2008. It was much bigger than the Internet bubble of 2000 or the housing bubble that preceded it….
The present level of debt is like a cancer and it is deadly. It makes it hard to know what will happen in the future and how to invest under these circumstances….
I remain positive on China. It is the new world power. It is on an upturn now and it will have setbacks from time to time, but they are headed toward being an increasingly important part of world gross domestic product over the long term….
I am also positive on India. Everything is going forward there also. They are a low-cost producer with plenty of momentum, but that doesn’t mean that the stock market will rise….”
Wien’s conclusion is the real kicker:
While there have been times in the past decade when The Smartest Man has sounded gloomy, I thought he seemed especially somber in these discussions. I mentioned that to him and he responded, “It’s true that I am somewhat anxious, but you should talk to some of my friends. They think the situation is cataclysmic.”
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translated by Michael Fuller
"Why should the poor be flatter'd
No, let the candied tongue lick absurb pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning."
(William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Scene II, Act III)
The new statement from Menzingen regarding the episcopal consecration of Bishop Faure intends to convince the faithful of the SSPX that while the episcopal consecrations of 1988 were an act of prudence, the 2015 consecration was an act of imprudence, that the ones in '88 were reflected upon and that this one was rash, that the ones in '88 were a mature act and this one was an impulsive act, that the consecrations of '88 were based on certainties and that the 2015 one was based on doubts. In short, that the '88 consecrations were justified and the 2015 one is not.
Finally, the argument put forward is misapplied and falsely, because there is a double standard: the consecrations of 1988 are judged in respect to Rome, and the consecration of 2015 is judged in respect to the SSPX itself. The '88 consecrations were favorable to the SSPX and therefore also to the Church. The 2015 one is "contrary" to the SSPX and therefore contrary to the Church. The inconsistency of the argument of Menzingen is remarkable, as indicated in the article of Non Possumus about it.
Menzingen acts contradictorily. Consider this: if in 1988 it had been necessary because of the disastrous situation of the Church caused by its destructive modernist authorities, the reality of the Church in 2015, far from having improved, is notoriously worse. Therefore, the state of necessity has not ceased to exist. The Neo-SSPX itself admits that there is a necessity in its first statement against the recent consecration, otherwise it would not be able to justify its operating outside of the conciliar Roman structure.
But, if the state of necessity persists in the Church, why then cannot new entirely Catholic bishops be consecrated? Ah, Menzingen's response is: because it is we who represent Tradition and secure it on the bounds of the state of necessity. In 1988, the Church had only two integrally Catholic senior bishops (Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop De Castro Mayer), the Church today has three integrally Catholic non-senior bishops (Bishop Fellay, Bishop De Galarreta and Bishop Tissier). This could be the final argument of Menzingen. Now, assuming that the bishops of the Society were not inclined towards liberalism and seeking an agreement with Rome, even if they were entirely and perfectly Catholic, would this be enough for the situation of the catastrophic crisis that exists today? If the answer is yes, then we are saying that things are better today than then, because in 1991 the SSPX bishops also performed an episcopal consecration. [The reference is made to the consecration of the late Bishop Rangel. See the Archbishop's comments on this consecration here. ] If the answer is no, then the recent episcopal consecration is completely justified.
If, as has been seen, the current three bishops of the SSPX are lukewarm, then things become more obscured.
But doesn't the resignation of Benedict, the pontificate of Francis, and the recent synod of the family, among other things, prove that things are getting worse and worse? And all the commotion to be heard about war, conflicts that threaten to tear the West to pieces, mass persecution of Christians in the world, the growth of diabolic impiety and idolatry, does all of this not matter? So if the SSPX believed it was necessary to consecrate a bishop in 1991 (and then there were five), in 2015, when things suddenly got worse, why does it seems unnecessary to consecrate bishops and to be sufficient with three?
In addition, if Menzingen wanted the good of the Catholic Church, why then does it bother them that there are more Catholic bishops? Shouldn't it be a cause for joy? Ah no, for the Neo-SSPX, the two bishops of the Resistance are "sedevacantists" and therefore probably "schismatics". Of course, with that it intended to maintain a nice "image" for Rome.
If there is a state of necessity, such a state demands measures with the purposes of supplying what the authorities do not give in order to save souls. Why should such a state of necessity not allow the consecration of Catholic bishops but allow the action of the SSPX? Then is the state of necessity mitigated? Nevertheless, the communiqué from DICI itself says: In a letter dated July 8,1987, Archbishop Lefebvre wrote to Cardinal Ratzinger: "the permanent will to annihilate Tradition is a suicidal will, which justifies, by its very existence, true and faithful Catholics when they make the decisions necessary for the survival of the Church and salvation of souls." And he also says that" every bishop is obliged to exercise his episcopate with a view to the salvation of souls and the common good of the Church, which may involve the transmission of the priesthood and the episcopate, even if the supreme authority of the Church were to oppose it unjustly." This being so, we ask again: why does Menzingen condemn this new episcopal consecration?
Their answer is: this measure was not necessary "for the survival and salvation of souls". But then, this would mean that it is not as Archbishop Lefebvre said that there is "a permanent will to annihilate Tradition, a suicidal will" which justifies extreme measures. Without saying so, Menzingen is saying that it is no longer like that, otherwise it should not criticize the episcopal consecration. In no way until the present date has there been a clear justification of their condemnation, but it has been based on the "sedevacantism" that would be the result of a "schismatic spirit" of Bishop Williamson and Bishop Faure. That's right: without a shred of proof.
Moreover, in this second communiqué dedicated to the faithful of the SSPX, without a hint of criticism of the current Roman authorities, Menzingen suggests that it is the SSPX who gives the means of salvation, and therefore it is the SSPX who ensures the continuity of Tradition.
But here we find another contradiction. The SSPX has spread its charitable and apostolic intentions on many occasions, for example when they agreed to the lifting of the excommunications which it considered invalid, with the intention that more people would be able to approach their chapels and obtain the mass and Catholic sacraments. Now if the SSPX accepted such inconsistent measures -which contradicted its longtime position and confused many- based on expanding the scope of the means of salvation for many more faithful, why not now accept a consecration which will result in expanding the Catholic apostolate and spiritual goods of the Church for more faithful? Ah, no, says the Neo-SSPX, what is going on is that the resistance does not recognize Rome. It is sedevacantist. The funny thing is that all the sedevacantists in the world furiously criticize the two bishops of the Resistance for not being sedevacantists. Does the Resistance teach heretical doctrines? No. Does it intend to form a new church? No. It only does what Archbishop Lefebvre did: distinguish between eternal Rome and the modernist Rome which opposes the former and to continue the fight for the faith. But according to Menzingen it is sedevacantist. What is their basis for claiming this? Nothing. This is where the Menzingen argument goes and it shows nothing. Then the accusation of sedevacantism now adds a new argument, also subjective: that of an "insane rashness" of Bishop Williamson to perform the consecration. It seems that one morning he woke up wanting to make some noise and then decided to consecrate Father Faure. Perhaps in a future communiqué they will accuse Bishop Williamson of being a neo-Nazi?
But let's take a look. Bishop Williamson has always spoken clearly and realistically concerning both the crisis in the Church and the crisis and dangers within the SSPX. Already in an interview in 2007 he states he is willing to consecrate bishops if necessary. And his words were not cheap, pour la galerie. Here is an excerpt from that interview:
(Vatican II is a poisoned cake. Interview of January 12, 2007 with Le Rivarol . Reproduced in the magazine Tradición Católica N ° 210)
Where do you see the Catholic Church in twenty or thirty years? The New World Order, which accounts for the delicate apostasy in the Church, is advancing by leaps and bounds. But the Church is indestructible. Therefore, one of two things will occur: in either five, ten or twenty years God will intervene with an exemplary chastisement to restore order, or the Church will be groaning in the catacombs waiting for this intervention. However, the current situation is irrecoverable through purely human effort.
If the crisis is extended, will you be willing to consecrate bishops without a papal mandate?Yes. But I hope not without the prudence required by the many circumstances.
Concerning your own episcopate, do you consider yourself a member of the teaching Church and the apostolic college?
I'm not part of the conciliar teaching Church nor the conciliar apostolic college, but on the other hand I am part of the teaching Catholic Church and the apostolic college. Conversely, the conciliar diocesan bishops form a poisoned cake block, although not in all its parts.
We see then that Bishop Williamson is simply a consistent bishop with his words, understanding that the extreme circumstances justified it, and after a long deliberation, he performed the episcopal consecration of Bishop Faure. Therefore the charge of performing an act by surprise and thoughtlessly without reflection, without the required prudence is insupportable.
But perhaps one must look for another key-point of the cause of this whole series of statements from the Neo-SSPX condemning the episcopal consecration of Bishop Faure. Why this persistent criticism from Menzingen?
The answer lies in the statement of the communiqué that the Resistance has the "need to replace the SSPX". Here we believe that the crux of the matter appears. It is undoubtedly the institutional pride that comes out to maintain their victorious image, their reputation as a "champion of Tradition", first to Rome and then to their own members and supporters. First, to make them realize that the SSPX is not schismatic or sedevacantist or like resistant rebels who no longer have any relationship or link. Second, to make their faithful realize that the SSPX is still the same as ever, providing them with the Mass of all times and opposing the modernist errors of Rome. In the first communiqué they are lying completely. In the second communiqué they are lying partially.
The Neo-SSPX feels like Esau, who lost his birthright of Tradition for a mess of pottage... promised by Rome.
The Neo-SSPX is in great distress. On one side it fears returning again to be stigmatized if they are put "in the same category" of those that resist, thus moving away from the possibility of being recognized by Rome. On another, it fears that the Catholic fundamentalism of the Resistance will provoke some hint of dissent in its own ranks. It is clear that what has occurred has given more evidence of the traitors in Menzingen so that each time they may publicly be discovered as to what they are.
With all this it seems that there is not love of the Truth and love for the Church in Menzingen, but only love for itself. So like a tramp, they go about seeking approval, first in Rome, then from their faithful. Bought like a politician on the campaign trail, with a smile and a speech according to their listener. Not being enough to persecute the anti-liberal when they were within their ranks, they continue such persecution and condemn them when they are outside their ranks, joining with the conciliar church that it claims to not be a part of.
With "insane rashness" Menzingen released its communiqué condemning the episcopal consecration on the same day (even before Rome!), But not because it would lead to a "simple doubt", but rather, because they feared being associated publicly with such an act, which they know could complicate their "full reconciliation" with Rome. The statement of condemnation has been the worst mistake Menzingen has made, because it is precisely what ends up eliminating all the doubts that there may be hitherto of their intention to please Rome.
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I was listening to a podcast the other day where they talked about how self-doubt and limiting beliefs affect the way we show up in life. Limiting beliefs are created by the voice in our head — our thoughts.
Because our brain is so quick to look for what might be wrong in an attempt to protect us, it has also become very efficient in limiting our esteem, confidence, self-image, and self-acceptance.
Have you ever been driving down the freeway and notices the ruts from all the cars wearing a groove over time? The effects of heavy vehicles driving in the same spot for extended periods changes the surface of the road. Our brains, in a very similar way, get ruts or grooves worn into its memory. The repeated thoughts we have wear a pattern until it becomes difficult to resist the direction they are taking us.
Self-doubt is one of those crippling thought patterns wearing deep grooves into our brain. It’s natural for our brains to pick up on negativity, so natural it’s something we all experience. Have you ever noticed how much easier it is to believe in someone else’s ability over your own?
We are all susceptible to the inner voice in our head, and just because it’s often louder than any other thought doesn’t mean any of us are doomed to live with self-doubt forever. There are plenty of strategies and tips that can help you crush self-doubt and limiting beliefs from your life.
Trace the Roots of Self-Doubt
Before you can do anything about it, you need to find out what’s causing your self-doubt. Is it fear? Is it not having enough knowledge? Is it a lack of self-confidence? Spend a little time thinking about why exactly you feel that you can’t do this. Try retracing the source of your doubt. It may stem from an abusive childhood, an unsupportive spouse, or a toxic friendship.
This first step is crucial. Don’t skim over it finding a solution won’t work unless you get down to the root of the problem. Be honest with yourself and dig deep.
Don’t compare your life to someone else’s. Not only does it create jealousy and steal our joy, but it also leaves you feeling inferior only decreases your confidence.
Instead, try comparing where you are now to where you have been before. Maybe you’re not where you want to be, but are you closer than you were a year ago or five years ago? Comparing your present to your past is a great way to see how much you’ve grown and achieved.
Remember Your Path Isn’t Set in Stone
While life doesn’t have an edit button, you do have the ability to change it when you want. If you don’t like the path you’re on, you’re allowed to press edit.
If you’re a planner, like me, you may have noticed how often those plans don’t always work out the way we envisioned them, and it’s okay. No matter your path, as long as you’re learning and growing, self-doubt has a harder time carving its way into you.
Silence Your Inner Critic
Another tough part of self-doubt is our inner critic. This inner voice can be helpful in how it helps us choose our words a bit more carefully and be cautious in making big decisions. But your inner critic can also smother creativity and fuel all kinds of self-doubt. If you’re giving too much free reign to your inner critic, it might be time to put a muzzle on that voice of self-doubt.
The first thing I do is acknowledge my inner critic and how it is only telling me part of the story. I challenge those automatic thoughts with new ones.
If my inner critic says: “You’re not good enough to do this.” I respond with: “What if I am?” By challenging those thoughts with new possibilities, I can bring those ideas of self-doubt to a halt. And if my inner critic says: “But what if you aren’t?” I just say: “I guess I’ll have to try it to see.”
Don’t get me wrong. Your brain — the source of your inner critic — is designed to keep you safe. But if the negative feed is playing and replaying in your mind, it begins to have a negative effect on your life. Practice questioning the voice in your head, learn to say no and follow your heart instead.
Your self-doubt doesn’t have to control your life anymore. You can thank self-doubt for trying to keep you safe. Then take back your power and make decisions based on your goals and dreams, instead of your fears.
Keep a Journal
This is one of my favorite tools to overcome self-doubt. Keeping a journal helps you recognize your accomplishments, and fuels your sense of confidence and purpose. Even writing about the difficult and trying experiences in your life can have a positive effect. Journaling about your self-doubt and how you’ve pushed through can be a powerful cure.
Be honest, open, and focused on deliberate action you’ve taken and what you want to believe about your circumstance. Use your journal to evaluate different perspectives of your situation and possible solutions. Write about what you are learning and how you are growing.
We can search for gratitude in every single event in life. Even the worst things can be turned into a lesson to help over the next hurdle. People who have overcome some of the hardest trials – death, crime, illness – all have one thing in common: it’s their ability to see the positive and be grateful.
Celebrate Your Wins
People with low self-confidence often struggle with acknowledging their accomplishments. Instead of simply letting your wins pass you by, celebrate them. I love to use my Creating Positive Habits Journal to recognize my daily wins.
When you reach a milestone toward a big goal or complete a difficult job do something fun. You could go for a pedicure, treat yourself to your favorite meal, or see a movie. By celebrating your success in a memorable way, you’re less likely to doubt yourself in the future.
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Whenever you feel yourself slipping back into self-doubt, focus on a confidence-building activity. Consistency will help create new pathways in your brain allowing you to act instead of reacting to doubts.
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R.S.P.B. Mersehead Blog 3rd - 10th June 2022
Well, what an amazing week again, I'm buzzing. Bees! I've never seen so many, and now that the Birdsfoot Trefoil, Red Clover and Yellow Rattle are all in bloom, our little buzzing friends are everywhere. Yellow rattle is really useful in a wildflower meadow because it is a hemi-parasite, taking nutrients away from grasses and stopping them thriving. Clover is a favourite with all kinds of invertebrates, a rich nectar source in the summer months.
Yellow Rattle Photo Credit : C.J.E.Farrell; Red Clover Photo Credit: Andy Hay (rspb-images.com); Birdsfoot Trefoil Photo Credit : Paul Turner (rspb-images.com)
After seeing all the huge queens earlier in the year, the tiny worker bees are a stark contrast. Bees of the Buff/White Tailed, Garden, Early, Red-Tailed and Common Carder bee species are all busy collecting nectar and delivering pollen. A perfect surprise down at the sand dunes was a Bilberry Bumble bee, my personal favourite with its range of coloured bands and huge red 'tail' stretching right up its body.
Flying from bees to moths, the warden, Rowena Flavelle's eagle eyes spotted a 6-Spot Burnet moth caterpillar amongst the ragged robin and birdsfoot trefoil. In the same patch was a chrysalis from the same moth species, tightly attached to the upright stem of the ragged robin. There is a rare form of this species that has yellow spot, If you see one of these you're very lucky!
6 - Spot Burnet chrysalis Photo Credit C.J.E.Farrell; 6-Spot Burnet caterpillar Photo Credit C.J.E.Farrell; 6-Spot Burnet adult Photo Credit Paul Radford
But what was your highlight of the week? I hear you cry. I'll tell you: searching for and counting (HA!) the gazillions (real number kids) of tadpoles in the Natterjack toad breeding pools. The whole thing's been a real worry. Will it rain? Is it too hot? Is it too cold? Is it too windy ? How deep's that pool now? Was that a carnivorous diving beetle I just saw eyeing up the tadpoles? So, seeing the numbers actually developing legs is fantastic. As they develop they get little white chins which are now becoming more and more obvious and some are now even developing their yellow dorsal stripe. Happy days! I think I'll just pop down to the pools to have a little check...
Little white-chinned Natterjack tadpole Photo Credit : C.J.E.Farrell
And the lapwings are ticking along nicely, lots of them are well grown and starting to try their maiden flights. Whilst surveying for chicks in the main lapwing fields, I was able to get up close and personal with lots of the gorgeous little fluffballs! Their parents call and call to keep them in check but they will insist on wandering off! The older ones now are starting to develop their characteristic feather colours but some of the younger ones still like to nestle down in the grass, their fluffy chests still visible.
Where do you think you're going? Photo credit : C.J.E. Farrell; Growing chick Photo Credit : C.J.E.Farrell; Fledgling Photo Credit : C.J.E.Farrell
My volunteer experience took an unusual turn last weekend with an 'exciting' couple of hours in The Roost. A local feathered resident, not happy with a ......hectare nature reserve to fly around in, decided that it wanted a room of its own! The ensuing chaos was a challenge, particularly due to the 'changes' that were made to the room during its escapade. Needless to say, that particular crow is firmly off my Christmas card list. The perils of living on amidst flocks of swooping, skimming, swirling, diving birds....
Poster credit : Sam Boothman
Thursday saw a team of staff from various reserves meeting at the Wood of Cree in order to remove the invasive Skunk Cabbage from an area of the site. Having had previous experience of this activity, I was prepared both mentally and physically! Having tried to save some clothing from then murky, boggy depths last time, I had quickly realised that there was no escape and abandoned all hope, returning to Mersehead a muddy mess. Gavin Chambers, warden, took the prize for the longest root and he was rightly smug! The whole process is strangely satisfying when the whole plant comes out in its entirity, unfortunately ones efforts are often met with a little popping sound as the roots snap after a long contest!
The team removing skunk cabbage!! Photo Credit : C.J.E.Farrell
The weekly moth trap survey was exciting again, with over 20 species being found this week. One of my favourites put in an appearance, the Map- winged Swift. It's so interesting to see all the species change month on month although if they stayed the same I'd have a better chance of identifying them! Even after more than 10 years of trapping I get confused each year as 'new' species appear, I just hope that one or two identification features stick each time! And the reedbed survey, apart from listening to all the delightful reed warblers, produced the first Golden-ringed dragonfly of the year for me. The size of these incredible creatures never ceases to amaze me, some females reaching 84mm in length!
Golden-ringed Dragonfly Photo Credit : C.J.E.Farrell
How many balls of mud does it take to build a House Martin nest? There are now at least four pairs of house martins that have built nests on the main house here at Mersehead. I've noticed that in the evening the birds tend to snuggle together in the nest, cute. Oooh...now I'm wondering if the birds actually line their nests, and if so what with? More research needed...that'll be one of the many questions I'll be trying to find the answer to over the weekend!
House Martin Nest Photo credit : C.J.E.Farrell
It's not all FUN! FUN! FUN! here.....it's also quite a lot of hard work as I found out when I was asked to remove the Ragwort. But I gathered my tools and set out to see what I could find. Thank goodness I wasn't asked to go to the 'skunk cabbage' work party!! Phew!
Me working hard Photo credit : C.J.E.Farrell
Claire J Farrell - Volunteer
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Friday 22nd July
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The maker of the 1,115-horsepower Agera R and slightly tamer Agera is hoping to attain a second smart airbag exemption from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration so that it can bring its latest supercar models to the U.S.
Koenigsegg, citing grounds of “substantial economic hardship,” is hoping to gain approval from the NHTSA and import its first Ageras by June, according to Car and Driver. However, with Pagani failing to attain the exemption, there’s a high chance that Koenigsegg will too.
According to documents filed with the Department of Transportation, Koenigsegg founder and CEO Christian Von Koenigsegg has tried to explain that drivers of his supercars rarely carry children on board, who smart airbags are designed to protect by detecting the height of the airbag’s trajectory based on the weight exerted on the seat by a passenger.
A decision on approval of another smart airbag exemption for Koenigsegg should be made in the coming months. The company hasn’t sold one of its supercars in the U.S. since 2008.
On a lighter note, Koenigsegg has also revealed that it will preview its 100th car at the Geneva Motor Show next month and is currently working on a new ‘camless’ engine design that it hopes will reduce the fuel consumption of its vehicles by up to 30 percent.
Utilizing technology from Formula 1, Koenigsegg’s camless engine would feature a pneumatic valvetrain that does away with a camshaft completely. The benefits are infinitely variable valve lift and duration, as well as cylinder deactivation. A pneumatic valvetrain also draws less energy from the engine than conventional cams but reliability, refinement, noise levels aren’t as refined and remain the biggest hurdle in the technology's advancement. | <urn:uuid:8f6f9a06-7c44-40cd-ac15-5293d9aa94d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1072810_koenigsegg-bringing-first-agera-to-u-s-in-june-hints-at-camless-engine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956916 | 400 | 1.570313 | 2 |
History a Record of Change.—History is a record of changing conditions. Nations rise into prominence and fall again; cities are built to be torn down by conquerors; even the face of the earth has changed since the days when the scions of the Aryan race began to leave their home in Central Asia. Arms of the sea have shrunk to rivers, rivers to shallow streams, the desert sands have encroached on the once fertile valleys, and choked the springs and brooks of the meadows. Geologists tell us that the great valleys were made by the alluvial deposit washed down from the hills and mountains by the streams. The Chinese followed the course of the great rivers that made toward the eastern seas, the Hindoos toward the southern ocean, and still another “swarm” followed the great rivers Euphrates and Tigris, which came from the mountains of Western Asia. The great valley lying between the desert and the mountains, a scene of waste and ruin as far back as the time of ancient Greece and Rome, was once a most important centre of population and wealth, the home for centuries of races that had reached a high degree of culture in the arts and sciences, and the seat of what may be considered the oldest of extinct civilizations. The valley was wonderfully fertile, was brought to a high degree of cultivation and supported an enormous population. As an instance of the physical changes that have taken place in this region, it may be mentioned that about 4000 B. C., the Tigris and the Euphrates entered the sea by different mouths, instead of joining as now and in the days of Abraham, the patriarch, who came from this region, and the town identified by modern scholars as “Ur of the Chaldees,” which is now 150 miles up the Euphrates, was an important seaport.
The Chaldeans.—When the Aryans came down into this valley they found already established there a people whose records are now being unearthed, called Akkads, belonging to the Mongolian family, who had reached a high degree of cultivation in art and science. The records found show that music was an important branch of study; at a very early date the harp, pipe and cymbals are mentioned, and we infer that the people were fond of singing, since many sacred hymns have been recorded in tablets. This race, joined to others, founded the Chaldean kingdom, the capital being Babylon. In the 12th century B. C., a king of Assyria, in the northern part of the Tigris valley, conquered Babylon and thus gained the ascendancy.
The Practice of Music Among the Babylonians.—In the great ruins now being excavated, tablets of clay have been found which give a vivid idea of the social and religious esteem in which music was held by the Babylonians. One of these tablets, said to date back more than three thousand years B. C., contains a representation of musicians. One strikes with a hammer upon a metal plate, another carries a reed pipe, a third plays upon a harp of eleven strings, while two others beat time or give the accent by clapping their hands. Especially rich in sculpture is the palace of Sennacherib. One of the relief decorations shows a festival procession in honor of the returning conqueror. In front walk five men, three with harps, a fourth with a kind of lyre, whose strings were struck with a plectrum; the fifth bears a double flute. Two of the harpers and the lyre player dance. Then follow six women, of whom four carry harps, one blows a double flute, while the last beats a sort of drum. Following the instrumentalists come six women and six children singing, who indicate the rhythm by clapping their hands. From the fact that in these sculptures a few soldiers indicate an army, we infer that the Babylonians made use of large bodies of players and singers in their great ceremonies. These tablets indicate that the Babylonians made much use of trumpets to give signals to the armies and when great masses of the people were gathered together. That musicians were highly esteemed we judge from the fact that on one occasion Sennacherib spared the lives of musicians among his captives, all others being put to death. Since the Chaldeans, especially, were famous as astronomers and mathematicians, it is thought that they, like the Egyptian sages, had knowledge of the mathematical relations of the various intervals.
Chaldean Instruments.—Two instruments seem to be especially noticeable: the Symphonia and Sambuca. The former was carried to Palestine by the Hebrews, at the end of their captivity, and, according to their accounts, seems to have been a sort of bagpipe, an instrument particularly suited to a pastoral people like the early Chaldeans. As to the Sambuca we have no authentic knowledge; it seems, however, to have been an instrument of the zither type, held horizontally and played with a plectrum. A stringed instrument, struck with a hammer, called the Santir is credited to the Assyrians.
Egyptian Music.—When the great Alexandrian Library of 495,000 works of Persian, Chaldean, Hebrew, Egyptian, Greek and Roman literature was partly destroyed during Julius Cæsar’s battles with the native Egyptians, in 47 B. C., and finally, A. D. 391, by Christian fanatics, history suffered an irreparable loss. Treasures of learning in all branches, the records of early civilizations perished, never to be replaced. Today we are dependent upon the discoveries of explorers in the ruins of the great Egyptian cities, temples, tombs and pyramids. The Egyptians believed that articles of necessity to the living being were necessary to the individual in a future existence. If certain things could not, in reality, be placed in the tomb, a pictorial representation would have almost equal value in the invisible world. In Egyptian tombs pipes or “flutes” have been found, and in one instance, in the tomb of a musician, the bronze cymbals he played when alive. In the various tombs and ruins that have been examined by explorers, pictorial representations of practically every phase of Egyptian life have been found. The sources for our knowledge, almost wholly inferential, are, then, the various pictorial and sculptured representations of the Egyptian musical instruments and the manner in which they were used, and a few fragments of their sacred books, which were forty-two in number, two being devoted to music, although but one fragment has been found. It must be noted, further, that the Egyptian Government, although nominally a monarchy, limited, not absolute, was in reality theocratic. The priestly caste had final power, and the rules and regulations drawn up by them prescribed the minutest detail of life, crushing all possibility of independent thought and freedom of action, a condition fatal to high artistic development. | <urn:uuid:782d71ce-ff59-4bbb-ab09-0e6da69c3ce3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aaron.cadenza.works/music-of-the-babylonians-egyptians-and-hebrews/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973587 | 1,424 | 3.375 | 3 |
What is the glory of God? What is the defining expression of that which transcends yet includes all things?
The glory of God is the shattering realization that everything is always perfect. The glory of God is the inherent perfection of all things at all times, in all places, through all circumstances. Even earthquakes, disease and bloody warfare–that’s all the glory of God too. The glory of God is the inherent perfection of all things as they are. You see, from an absolute perspective, the eye of the Self sees only God and makes no distinctions whatsoever. Heaven and hell, good and evil, everything known and unknown, seen and unseen are all recognized only to be different expressions of that one inconceivable mystery beyond name and form. Beyond all pairs of opposites, the glory of God is all there is–just absolute, incomparable perfection.
Before time and space, before the universe was born, there was nothing. Then suddenly from nothing came something. There was an explosion, and what we all are right now–including you and me–is that explosion in motion. That explosion in motion is one radiant being-conscious, whole and undivided.
Enlightenment is the direct recognition of one’s own true face as none other than that radiant being–conscious, whole and undivided. And it is the recognition of the utterly complete and always perfect nature of that true face that releases the sense of individuality from identification with the hypnotic grip of ego consciousness.
But there is more to enlightenment than the liberating discovery of the inherent perfection of the absolute or nondual nature of all things. And that is the emergence of a powerful imperative to evolve. When something came from nothing, and the explosion in motion that is all of life came into being, a perpetual state of becoming was born. In the spiritual revelation, that movement is experienced as an impersonal command from the Self to transcend, to evolve, to utterly transform this world so that it can become a dynamic, living expression of the perfection that it already is. This spiritually inspired passion, which arises from the Self, unleashes the fire of absolute love and ego-defying compassion into this world. It is always a force to be reckoned with. Its unceasing demand is evolution and its tangible expression is to create order out of disorder.
Indeed, the boundless creativity of this evolutionary impulse in action strives to manifest higher and higher expressions of miraculous wholeness and integration. This call for transcendence and evolution experienced in the spiritual revelation is the unrelenting scream of the Absolute beckoning all who have the ears to hear and the eyes to see to surrender wholeheartedly for the sake of that evolutionary imperative. This ceaseless imperative to evolve is also the glory of God. And the greatest paradox is that that glory is both the radiant, ever full and complete, always perfect ground of all that is and the very foundation and essence of that explosion in motion that strives to manifest higher and higher expressions of wholeness and integration.
Enlightenment, then, is the direct realization of the dual nature of the glory of God as the inherent perfection of all things and a ceaseless imperative to evolve. In that realization, there is not only the release from the hypnotic grip of ego consciousness but also the ecstatic movement of energy that occurs only through submission to the creative principle. What is so precious about human life is our sacred potential to experience this glory in our own hearts and minds and, by so doing, become a conscious instrument of it.
But the evolutionary journey is a perilous one, and the blossoming of the human spirit can go terribly wrong. When the ecstatic embrace of the evolutionary imperative is not firmly grounded in the profound knowledge of the inherent perfection of all things, the consequences can be disastrous. Why? Because the ego’s insidious and deadly investment in domination and control can easily be fueled by the tremendously empowering discovery of the evolutionary imperative unless one is first firmly grounded in the awakened knowledge of the inherent perfection of all things. Indeed, without that grounding, inspired passion easily becomes fertile ground for the ego to identify itself with that which is Absolute, thereby enabling our darkest impulses to masquerade as the greatest good.
The other great potential for confusion is when the glory of God is seen to be only the inherent perfection of all things devoid of any evolutionary imperative. Whenever this misrepresentation of the complete and paradoxical nature of the glory of God occurs, the unrestrained creative potential of the explosion in motion that is ourselves will be profoundly inhibited. Not only will it be profoundly inhibited, but in that partial perspective, the full glory of the Absolute principle is denied, depriving our own deepest Self, which is God, our unconditional participation in that glory.
Enlightenment–when it is deep and profound, vast, full and complete–always recognizes the glory of God as being simultaneously the inherent perfection of all things and the ceaseless imperative to evolve.
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Cockroaches are the most adaptable and hardiest insects on the planet. Fossils have placed the earliest evidence of cockroaches back to the cretaceous period, 300 million years ago. There are 3500 species of roaches around the world but only 4 species are considered pest species in Ontario. These are the German, American, Oriental and Brown-banded cockroaches. Cockroaches have three life stages: eggs, nymphs and adults. Their life span and cycle vary depending on their species.
German cockroaches are the most widely distributed pest in the world and the most common cockroach in houses, apartments, hotels, restaurants and other institutions. This is not only true in our area, but around the world. They are called German cockroaches everywhere in the world except in Germany where they are known as French cockroaches.
German cockroaches live up to a year. Females produce an egg case known as an ootheca that contains 40 eggs. They produce 8 of these cases in their lives and can lay 300-400 eggs in good conditions. They will feed on almost anything, can go up to a month without feeding and can sustain themselves on the glue from the back of a postage stamp.
They produce odorous secretions that affect the flavour of some foods and create the characteristic smell when there is a population of cockroaches present. They carry disease producing organisms on their legs that contaminate food as they crawl around on food and food preparation surfaces. In this way they spread different forms of gastroenteritis such as food poisoning, dysentery and diarrhea. They have also been linked to allergens and asthma.
Brown Banded Cockraoch
Brown Banded Cockraoch
Brown-banded cockroaches are distinguished by the two brown bands across their wings that give them their name. They are excellent flyers when disturbed. Brown-banded prefer warm, dry locations, preferring to hide in higher areas , closer to the ceiling and away from water. They like to feed on glue and paste made from animal sources and can damage items such as books, stamps, envelopes, drapes and wallpaper.
American cockroaches are the largest of the pest species at 4 cm long. They have the ability to fly, are the fastest running roaches and contaminate a lot more food than they actually consume by just moving around. They are the roaches most often used in the movies because of their comparably large size. | <urn:uuid:4525e173-83f4-4544-bee2-cb8e551730d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gtpestcontrol.ca/services/cackroaches/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952531 | 551 | 3.609375 | 4 |
How to Cut Unrippable Edges
In a perfect woodworking world, every board would have dead-flat edges. But, reality tells us otherwise. Whether you buy your lumber rough-sawn from a mill or surfaced on all faces and edges from the home center, wood doesn't always come to us with flat edges...or stay that way. Of course, all it takes is one flat edge to make a safe rip cut and flatten the other edge. If that first edge is only slightly warped, you can flatten it nicely on a jointer or with a hand plane. But, what do you do when both edges are twisting like a mountain road? Or, maybe one edge is warped and the other edge is waney. Jointing seems out of the question. In situations like these, here are some options to try.
Bring the Tool to the Wood
Long, heavy boards are difficult to maneuver over a jointer, even in the best circumstances — never mind when the edges are bad to begin with. In these instances, make a smaller saw your go-to tool. A handheld circular saw or jigsaw are both excellent options. Instead of attempting to rip a straight line freehand, guide the base of the saw against a straightedge to bring the board's first edge into conformity. Generally, you'll produce an edge that's flat enough to take straight to the table saw.
Use a Carrier Board
For shorter workpieces, here's another trick to try. Mark your workpiece with a pair of lines that indicate the two rip cuts you want to make. Attach the wood to a second carrier board that already has a straight edge. Here, we're using a piece of MDF shelving as the carrier. You can use short screws, a few brad nails or even a heavy bead of hot-melt glue to secure the workpiece to the carrier. Align the first edge you want to rip with the edge of the carrier board, driving the fasteners in the waste area opposite the first rip cut. Then run the carrier board's flat edge against the rip fence to cut the first edge of your stock. Detach the two, and you're all set to rip the workpiece's second edge flat the conventional way.
Some companies, such as General Tools & Instruments, offer edge clamps for the sole purpose of helping you rip those unrippable edges. The versions shown have two thumb screws each: one secures the clamp to a flat-edged guide board and the other screw holds the workpiece. You can make these sorts of clamps work with any length of stock you need to rip, provided the guide board is long enough to accommodate the board you're ripping. Clamp the stock to the guide board, and rip away! | <urn:uuid:6d252692-d92e-4ce3-b76f-170edcbd59cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rockler.com/learn/how-to-cut-unrippable-edges | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.940665 | 571 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Fifty Years of European Union
It is now approaching 11 years since the Berlin Wall cracked open; 10 years since East and West Germany rejoined; 50 years since the post-war dream of European Union was launched. Yet, is this dream of a united Europe a child of the 20th century, or are its roots entrenched in a far earlier era of European history?
That Europe has been the cradle of all that comprises the modern culture of the world’s Western democracies is undeniable. Yet, for 1700 years, a recurring theme perpetuates itself throughout European history. It is a theme which we see building into present-day reality, reaching out from Europe to impact the whole world.
At the heart of this recurring theme of European history is a dream—a dream of a Europe united in diversity. Some say it has its beginnings in the time of Charlemagne, or, as the Germans prefer to call him, Karl the Great. It was Charlemagne who consummated the alliance between the Roman papacy and the growing kingdom of the Franks, uniting a vast territory in Europe extending from the Atlantic to the Danube, from the Netherlands to Provence, France. This we know as the second resurrection of what history terms the Holy Roman Empire. Charlemagne ruled between a.d. 768 and 814.
But Charlemagne’s mighty empire grew out of an earlier resurrection of this Roman Empire, ruled by Emperor Justinian. It was he who codified the Roman law which was to become the bastion of civil jurisprudence in continental Europe. It is that same Roman law which forms the basis of the judgments brought down by the European court in the modern-day European Union. Justinian ruled from a.d. 527 to 565.
Yet neither Justinian’s rule, nor Charlemagne’s empire, would have enjoyed anywhere near the degree of unity that they did had it not been for Emperor Constantine.
It was Constantine the Great, imperial ruler of the Roman Empire from a.d. 306 to 337, who infused the glue that was to repeatedly bind together the subsequent six resurrections of the Holy Roman Empire and even now works to cement that mixture of iron and miry clay emerging via the European Union into its seventh and final resurrection (see Dan. 2:43).
Through his enactment of the Edict of Milan in 313, Emperor Constantine commenced the imposition of what the world has since come to view as the Christian religion across the continent of Europe.
This was an overtly political act by the emperor. He needed to bind together into a singular empire the varying ethnic, cultural, linguistic and commercial attributes of the nationalities which he and his predecessors had conquered. That glue, which was to cement together the various revivals of the Holy Roman Empire ever since, Constantine found in religion. He simply took the various heretical forms of what historian Gibbon described as “a pure and humble religion,” and bound them together through a compromise document agreed upon by the leading Christian heretics of the time, termed “the Nicene Creed.” He foisted this off as the charter for a state-
Thus Constantine’s imposition on Roman Europe of universal Christianity, or Roman Catholicism as we know it today, was a shameless political act. It was simply calculated to infuse into the minds of a polyglot European peoples a singular stream of spiritual thought. It worked!
That this universal state religion spread from Rome to engulf most of western Europe over the ensuing almost 1700 years is a fact of history. Though schism rent this Catholic religion through the Eastern Orthodox split in 1054 and the Protestant Reformation of 1530, the core religion of all three major divisions of what we call “Christianity” had its genesis in a.d. 325, when Emperor Constantine convened the first general council of the church at Nicaea in Asia Minor. From that point, as Norman Davies declares in his book Europe—a History, the seed of a profound historic notion was sown: “that the Christian religion was compatible with politics…. After Constantine, Christianity and high politics went hand in hand.”
Ever since that time, this religion has been the glue binding together two prime movers in the continuing resurrections of the Holy Roman dream of European unity—high politics and business.
Europe’s rise over the past 50 years, now threatening to overtake the greatest of the world’s political economies, is nothing short of startling. It is particularly startling given that it lay largely in ashes and rubble following the cataclysm of two world wars in the past century and considering the complexities of its ethnic, linguistic, cultural and economic mix.
Readers of this magazine know that we have long held to the forecast of the rise of European power, even to predicting that the European Union’s political economy will overtake that of the U.S. We have predicted that the EU will become the major global player in politics, in business and commerce and, ultimately, in military and security matters.
From its earliest beginnings in 1951, in the form of the European Coal and Steel Community (ecsc), incorporating France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, post-war unifying Europe was destined to become a federated world power. As the German Professor Walter Hallstein once remarked, “Anyone who does not believe in miracles in European affairs is not a realist.”
What many do not realize, as they begin to worry about the increased political clout of a German-dominated European Union espousing the desire to mount its own defense and security force, is that what is now emerging in Europe is the outcome of what that old Europhile Franz Joseph Strauss once termed a “Grand Design.”
The foundation of this grand design was laid by social-democratic Catholic leaders half a century ago. EU founding fathers in fact did originally envisage exactly what the European Union is proving to be in the 21st century—a federation of European states, with a combined economy, under a single currency, with its own security and defense force, wielding power on the world scene in direct competition with, and not necessarily in tandem with, Britain and the U.S. Today’s EU is indeed emerging as the fulfillment of their dream.
Robert Schuman, a Catholic and head of the French foreign ministry at the time, led a team that secretly developed and unveiled the ambitious Schuman Plan for European Union in May 1950. This plan called for far-reaching initiatives in European economic, military and political institutions. It proposed a European army. However, fears of historic German aggression and dominance in European affairs meant that the economic path was chosen as the means to unifying Europe. The military and political elements were carefully shelved for a future time when memories of the horrors of Nazi aggression in the last experiment in European unity had faded. Up to the end of the 1980s, European union powered ahead economically.
With the unification of Germany in 1990, politics came to the fore, the most overt initiative being German Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s ramrodding the launching of the single currency for Europe through to implementation by a majority of EU nations in 1992. The time had come, with memories of two world wars fading, for the EU to exercise its political power.
The Balkan wars of the 1990s gave the EU the opportunity to place defense and security higher on the agenda of the EU master plan. Kosovo was the turning point, with the Franco-German-dominated EU emerging from that pitiful war with a German general at the head of kfor, the Kosovo peacekeeping force, a German politician, Bodo Hombach, in charge of Balkan reconstruction, and a declared determination by EU leaders to develop their own security and defense arrangements separate from nato.
Currently, as the wily Eurocrats weave through the web of contradictory elements involved in developing the basic structures for a credible European defense force, they milk the U.S.-led nato for all it is worth to guarantee an umbrella of security from a reconstituting Russian empire and any other perceived exterior threat. The EU’s continued membership of nato is but a matter of expediency to give them time and space to build their own defense and security combine. The EU will eventually leave nato, forming its own alliance with Russia. It still treads warily as it quietly goes about planning the Euroforce, hiding behind big business as its catalyst for growth.
Overwhelmingly, it is European business and commerce which is still the driving force accelerating EU expansionism, and there appears to be no stopping it.
The Merchants of Europe
“…and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies” (Rev. 18:3). This prophecy is being fulfilled before our very eyes!
“The ‘old’ continent is embracing the ‘new’ economy. The European Union is pulling out all the stops to catch and overtake the United States in the race for leadership of the global, knowledge-based, Internet-driven economy,” wrote Bruce Barnard in the May edition of Europe magazine. This is known as e-commerce. The Europeans have a significant edge over the rest of the world in mobile telephones with firms such as Nokia and Ericsson, in media with German media giant Bertelsmann, and in e-commerce support with sap, the giant business software group.
In a recent interview, the EU commissioner for e-commerce forecast that Europe will become the world leader in the next generation of global marketing—mobile commerce. “By 2003… many of today’s PC-based information and e-commerce services will move to mobile terminals. And when the Internet goes mobile this will be the real opportunity for Europe,” he said.
Yet, it is not just in high-tech marketing that Europe is set to take over the lion’s share of global business.
In March the Financial Review reported, “German business is on a second wave of mega-mergers, turning its corporate giants into high-profile global players.” The ’90s saw a rash of mergers and takeovers by huge German corporations that shook the business world.
Throughout the period of two hot world wars and a 40-year-long cold war, German industrialists have been in the box seat. They have largely driven the collective European economy in time of peace and time of war. In World War ii they employed slave labor and profited greatly. One such firm, I.G. Faben, produced the gas which slaughtered millions in the Nazi death camps. Many of the executives of these companies became card-carrying Nazis under Hitler’s regime. Most survived, largely without condemnation, to revive their businesses with U.S. funds via the Marshall Plan in the post-war years. Their corporate empires are respected household names: Volkswagen, Siemens, Krupp, Thyssen, I.G. Faben, Daimler-Benz, Mannesman.
Mainly Germanic, such massive enterprises are now reaching out globally to dominate their chosen markets. Penetration into the U.S., Asia, Africa and the Pacific has been bold and aggressive.
The DaimlerChrysler merger at the close of the 1990s now joins with giant Japanese industrialist Mitsubishi, moving on to form alliances in South Korea. The German telecommunications enterprise Telekom eyes the U.S. market, with Quest Communications in its sights. The top utility groups in Europe, Germany’s Viag AG and Veba AG, seek to merge into a European power giant, giving them hold over much of the EU’s power supply. Pressaug of Germany picks off travel companies to become a global leader in that market segment. Siemens AG and Mannesman AG merge to lead the world in the supply of high-tech electronics systems for the automotive industry. Deutsche Post AG penetrates the U.S. market by purchasing Air Express International Corp.
To cap off this corporate blitzkrieg, EU antitrust regulators recently approved plans for the daddy of them all: the giant defense merger binding DaimlerChrysler’s aerospace wing dasa to France’s Aerospatiale Matra and Spain’s Construcciones Aeronauticas. Hardly was the ink dry on this deal when the new conglomerate, tagged eads (European Aeronautic, Defense and Space Co.) signed an agreement with Finmeccanica to create a joint venture company to manufacture military and civil aircraft. Add all this to the DaimlerChrysler-Mitsubishi merger and you have a mega-giant ready to lay the infrastructure to supply the forthcoming Eurodefense capability.
All this powerful business clout of the EU is now being used strategically against Britain to try to force that country into the European mold, to the obvious detriment of its economy (see accompanying article by Rodney Atkinson, p. 9).
As the International Herald Tribune reported last month, “A number of multinational companies took aim Tuesday at Britain’s ambivalent attitude toward Europe and the euro, warning that their continued investment in Britain was dependent on a decision to join the single currency…. ‘Future inward investment will soon dry up unless the government commits us to the euro,’ said Sir Richard Needham, vice chairman of nec Europe, whose call was echoed by Mitsubishi, Toyota and Nestlé executives” (July 5).
Implying that the strength of Britain’s currency would negatively affect business, Nissan’s president chimed in and “warned last week that the company might produce a new small car on the Continent rather than at its English plant in Sunderland in order to stem losses caused by the high pound, while Honda said it would turn to the Continent to get more parts for its English plant in Swindon” (ibid.).
Controlling Global Finance
Yet it is not only the German-dominated corporate sphere that is engulfing the world’s markets. Of particular concern are the aggressive moves of the German banking and finance sector to control the global financial scene. In a rash of penetrations into the international banking and finance sector, German interests have, during the first half of this year, obtained majority stake in First Latvian Commercial Bank, positioned German-led Europe at the forefront of the e-commerce world via the recently announced Pan European Telecommerce Bank venture, backed by Mannesman and Deutsche Bank, and concluded a deal with the London Stock Exchange which will inevitably lead to Frankfurt taking over from London as Europe’s financial hub.
When it comes to business, the days of tiptoeing through the tulips by post-war Germany are over. As our editor-in-chief headlined some years ago in this magazine, “The German Bully Is Back!”
In all of this banking and business blitzkrieg, little thought is given by German political and business leaders to the sensitivities engendered by the three European wars which they masterminded in 1817, 1914 and 1939. “Anti-German feeling is still strong in Poland and the DB takeover was resented the more so. Fears are still acute that the country will fall prey to the economic influence of its giant neighbor” (Central Europe Online, Feb. 15).
As Dominic Hobson recently observed in Britain’s Spectator magazine, the big German banks are putting their trust in technology as the fastest route to global domination. The extent of their penetration into London’s financial hub is reflected in the ownership of city-based financial enterprises—Deutsche Bank owns Morgan Grenfell, Dresdner Bank has bought Kleinwort Benson, Commerzbank owns Jupiter, and Hypo Vereinsbank now controls Foreign and Colonial. It is but a small leap from ownership of these flagship financiers of British origin to the transfer and consolidation of their holdings into Europe’s financial center, Frankfurt, home not only to Deutsche Bank, but also to the European Central Bank, keeper of the euro.
Then there is the intriguing interest by Germany in gold.
All That Glitters
“The Bundesbank suddenly acquired massive gold reserves, just as the euro was launched in the first quarter of 1999. The gold amassed, both in terms of its physical size and of its value (national valuation basis) is more than enough with which unilaterally to introduce a gold-backed ‘new Deutsche mark’—in contrast to the U.S. dollar, which is not backed by gold” (Economic Intelligence Review, March 2000).
Commentators have been intrigued by the continuous slump in the value of the European Union’s collective currency, the euro, since its launch in January 1999. Suddenly two facts explaining the EU’s tolerance of this phenomenon leap into focus.
“The euro has given German manufacturing the weak currency it needs to counter high labor costs, and has created a single capital market across 11 countries, in which the German banks are ideally placed to thrive” (Spectator, June 17). German banks have been very clever at obtaining share cross-holdings in the firms to which they lend.
Add these observations to the following analysis by Christopher Story, and a worrying picture of European financial skullduggery leaps into view. “The Germans may have been preparing their greatest coup in history: the sudden, overnight substitution of a ‘new Deutsche mark’ backed by gold, for the regrettably ‘failed’ EU collective currency…. In reality, the Bundesbank’s acquisition of colossal gold reserves coincident with the launch of the euro (which policymakers were never supposed to notice), and the convenience of the biggest competitive devaluation in history, betray the probable truth—that this represents the realization of the pan-German plan for a European collective currency elaborated by the Nazis, and was cunningly postulated from the outset. In other words, the euro’s steep depreciation is ‘not coincidental’” (ibid.).
Back in the heady European summer of 1990, when Germanic euphoria was high at the point of unification of East and West Germany, British politician Nicholas Ridley told the Spectator that “European Monetary Union, then being discussed seriously for the first time, was ‘a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe…. You might just as well give it to Adolf Hitler, frankly…. I’m not sure I wouldn’t rather have the [bomb] shelters and the chance to fight back, than simply being taken over by…economics’” (June 17, 2000).
Try as you might, the emerging vision of the dynamic European Union cannot be divorced from its main driving force—Germany. That has nothing to do with any anti-German feeling, any Deutsche-phobia! It’s plain fact! Just as is the plain, unadulterated truth that what is emerging in Europe is the revival of history, the revival of a dream held from the time Constantine first imposed thorough control on Europe by commencing the enforcement of one single state-endorsed religion, binding together the power of the merchants with that of the politicians. The continual revival of that Eurodream, which historians call the Holy Roman Empire, has always had a dark and murky, mystical core. Read the history!
The Glue that Binds
Thus, as we move into the final half of this year of the united Europe’s jubilee, the reality of the dream of European leaders, from Charlemagne to Hitler, from Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman to Jacques Chirac and Romano Prodi, emerges. The Germans have done it again—but this time it has been done by Deutsche marks, not Panzer divisions—so far!
The German-led penetration of global markets continues apace. Euro-business thrives, as it has for 50 years. Meanwhile the political nature of this Eurobeast is yet to show its true form. It still needs an overt binding force to keep its fractious nation-states together.
“In Europe, the uncertainty over the shape of the European Union…is coming to an end, but it is being replaced by uncertainty over the future international role of this strange new power…. The important change, however, lies less in what the EU does internally than in how it behaves externally. In trade and money, the union is already a global player. Before too long, it will be one in terms of geopolitics as well…. The EU will have to develop a strategy to match its reach, and this strategy could well be very different from that of the United States” (Foreign Policy, Summer 2000; emphasis mine).
Right now the Eurocrats seem bogged down in reams of red tape, trying to figure how to absorb the next wave of aspirant member countries by 2003. The European bureaucracy is a complex, turgid web of intrigue, corrupt at its core. How can it manage to absorb, control, energize and unite such a conglomerate, this emerging European empire which stands on feet of mixed iron and miry clay? (Dan. 2:41-43).
The answer is in Constantine’s glue—controlling people’s minds by imposing a state religion. “…the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication…. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast” (Rev. 17:1-2, 13).
As the strength of Pope John Paul ii wanes, waiting in the wings is a dynamic religious leader, a cardinal, who will some day fill John Paul’s shoes. Europe awaits this powerful religious head who will build upon the politico-religious foundation laid over the past 22 years of John Paul’s papacy. Such a leader is now needed to pour the glue which will cement business and high politics together for Europe’s final stand in the seventh resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire (Rev. 13:1-3).
The Trumpet is a news analysis and forecasting magazine. But we are a newsmagazine with a difference—our eye is on the future. We base our articles on the analysis of historical fact, contrasted with current reality, within the vision of prophetic inevitability.
Thus, in respect of the European Union, the historic evidence points to the outcome of this latest revival of the grand European dream—the same as that which has been its fate through its previous resurrections. All of them ended in conflict! The most immediate previous revival, during the fascist-Nazi period, ended in the greatest devastation that not only Europe, but the world has ever known.
The visionary illumination of Bible prophecy draws our focus out beyond today to reveal that this revival of the Holy Roman dream, underpinned by the merchants’ global penetration (Rev. 18:3, 23), will be the final attempt of the Holy Roman Empire to impose its domination over all nations of the world (Rev. 13:2, 6-7). Its end is foretold as being as inevitable and as sure as its final rise to brief power (Rev. 18:8-10).
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ACTON, Massachusetts — Lauren Corduck was in tears when she read the email from a young woman writing about how she was only 10 when her mother died of breast cancer.
Corduck, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer last January, could not help but think of her own 9-year-old daughter.
The woman, Jessica Axel, wrote Corduck after hearing about her new organization, Oneinforty. Its principal mission is to inform Ashkenazi Jews about their 1-in-40-chance of carrying a cancer linked mutation of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene. That’s at least 10 times the odds faced by the general population.
Axel’s great grandmother and two great aunts had died of cancer. Corduck’s grandmother had died of breast cancer and an aunt twice had cancer.
Today, Corduck’s cancer is in check and Axel has joined the team of Oneinforty volunteers. Both women learned last year that they carried the BRCA mutation.
Axel has undergone preventive surgery to reduce her cancer risk. By the time Corduck learned she had the mutation, it was too late. And it was her experience that spurred her to form Oneinforty.
Because of her family history of cancer, Corduck had undergone annual mammograms since she was in her 20s.
Last December, prodded by a friend, she received genetic counseling. She learned that because she was an Ashkenazi Jew – descended from central and Eastern European immigrants, as are most American Jews – she was at higher risk of cancer.
If Corduck had the mutation, her odds of eventually getting breast cancer would be as high as 85 percent and of ovarian cancer – for which there is no screening available − as high as 55%, according to the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center.
“My jaw just dropped. How did I get to be the age of 45 without knowing this?” she said. “I’m well-educated. I live in the epicenter of world-class medical care.”
Three weeks after being tested, the Acton, Massachusetts, mother of two received the news she had dreaded but expected: She had the mutation.
She scheduled a session for January to discuss her health options. But the day of the meeting, the agenda suddenly changed.
Coincidentally, at the same time she was waiting for her test results, Corduck was battling severe lower back pain, a condition that had flared up periodically since her daughter was born by caesarean section. In the past, chiropractic treatment had always provided relief. Not this time.
After several weeks in agony, she persuaded her doctor to order an MRI. The results showed an incidental finding of multiple mildly enlarged lymph nodes, a possible sign of lymphoma that required an appointment with an oncologist and further testing.
As she was driving to her January appointment, the oncologist called to say that Lauren’s lymphoma tumor marker was high normal, but her ovarian cancer tumor marker was quite elevated and of concern. Corduck went on to the meeting, where instead of discussing how she could ward off cancer, the urgent question was whether she already had ovarian cancer.
Within weeks, after more tests and a biopsy, Corduck discovered that indeed she did. The back pains were a symptom of ovarian cancer that had already spread beyond her abdomen to lymph nodes in her upper body.
Between January and May, she underwent six infusions of chemotherapy. Midway through, she had surgery to remove cancerous tissue and her reproductive system.
As Corduck recovered – her strength sapped by five-hour chemo sessions that left her feeling like she’d been flattened by a Mack truck and her emotions rocked by anxiety over whether she’d see her children grow up – she mapped plans for Oneinforty.
“I developed it in my head. It was incredibly therapeutic,” she said. “I just don’t want this to happen to another family.”
By summer, Corduck already had put up a website and assembled boards of advisors.
“I feel so fortunate to have the experience in nonprofit management,” she said, crediting as well the support of her genetic counselor and physicians.
“We really try to give people hope,” said Jill Stopfer, who counseled Corduck and is now on Oneinforty’s medical advisory board.
“We can push the odds now in their favor … reduce their chances of serious illness, reduce their chances of dying from cancer,” said Stopfer, who is associate director of genetic counseling at the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Oneinforty suggests that men and women who have at least one Ashkenazi Jewish grandparent seriously consider being tested for the BRCA gene mutations by age 25.
While the mutation slightly increases the risk of breast and prostate cancer in men, the most important reason they should be tested is for their children. A parent with the mutation has a 50-50 chance of passing it on. If both parents test negative, their children won’t have to worry about the mutation.
What’s next after a positive test depends on the individual. Women with a BRCA gene mutation are advised to begin a protocol at age 25 of having an annual mammogram followed six months later by a breast MRI, which can detect a tumor the size of the head of a pin.
Even with the mutation, women rarely develop ovarian cancer before the age of 40, according to Stopfer. But older women, she said, may want to consider prophylactic surgery.
Removal of the ovaries and fallopian tubes markedly reduces the risk of cancer in that area of the body, according to Dr. Whitfield Growdon, who is Corduck’s gynecologic oncologist at Massachusetts General’s Center for Gynecological Oncology.
The procedure, which does not require an overnight hospital stay, can be performed with laparoscopic surgery that involves three or four tiny incisions in the abdomen.
The BRCA mutation is present in an estimated 12% of women overall who develop ovarian cancer, said Growdon. Survivors with the mutation have a better than average prognosis, he added. Not only do they live longer, but they are particularly receptive to drugs for impeding recurrence that have been approved in just the last three years.
Unlike traditional chemotherapy, which is administered intravenously and affects the entire body, the new medication comes in pill form and targets just the cells that have the BRCA mutation.
“It’s like the tumor has an Achilles heel that other cells in the woman’s body don’t have,” Growdon said.
Corduck is currently undergoing chemotherapy again after testing revealed ovarian cancer in three lymph nodes in December.
“Fortunately, it was caught very early,” she said. If the chemo doesn’t eliminate the malignancy, the nodes will be removed by laparoscopic surgery. Once she is in remission, Corduck expects to be placed on one of the new pills, known as PARP inhibitors.
Meanwhile, Corduck is beginning to see the results of her awareness campaign. She just heard of a woman who after learning about Oneinforty underwent genetic testing, discovered she had the mutation and is now taking steps to reduce her odds of getting cancer.
Camila Gabriel, a genetic counselor and research fellow at Dana Faber Cancer Institute, said people typically gauge their risk of cancer based on their own family history. That can be misleading, she said, especially in the case of small families or those where the gene mutation is passed down through the males.
In her prior position in London, she helped conduct a study that found that asking people about their ethnic ancestry rather than just their family history increased the odds of discovering whether they carried the BRCA mutation by 50-60%.
Ashkenazi Jews are believed to be more susceptible to the mutation because their ancestors were confined in Tsarist Russia to the Pale of Settlement, reducing their gene pool.
In Boston, Gabriel is studying ways to enlist primary care physicians in counseling and testing for the BRCA mutation. As it stands now, she said, “GPs get very little genetics” in their training.
Axel was fortunate to have had a physician who prodded her about the mutation.
“My doctor had been telling for me a long time to get testing,” said the Arlington, Massachusetts, resident. “But I didn’t want to deal with it. I was afraid.”
That is until she turned 30 last year. When the test results came back positive, she talked with her family and decided to undergo a double mastectomy. She was able to combine the operation with reconstructive surgery, an option that hinges on each woman’s physical makeup.
“I went to sleep with breasts and woke up with breasts,” she said. “I tried to tell myself, it’s different, not bad.”
Since the odds of developing ovarian cancer are slim at her age, Axel decided to put off preventative surgery until she’s 35 or older.
“I’m not looking forward to it, but I’m even less looking forward to ovarian cancer,” she said.
Now, Axel, director of annual fund and digital engagement at Harvard University’s Hillel, is putting her professional skills to work voluntarily promoting Oneinforty.
Corduck has assembled a team of ambassadors to spread the message at synagogues, schools and community groups. She’s also working with MGH, Dana Farber, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and nonprofits such as Hadassah, the Jewish women’s group; FORCE (Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered); and Sharsheret, a Jewish breast cancer organization.
Oneinforty gathered a team of top Boston medical professionals for its first symposium in November. More than 120 people attended.
The website Oneinforty.org includes a video of Corduck recounting her story and resources about genetic testing and counseling, insurance coverage, cancer risks and obtaining emotional support. An alternative to the blood test is a home kit that uses saliva, such as those offered by genetic testing companies like Color Genomics, Counsyl and Pathway Genomics.
Oneinforty has four licensed clinical social workers who are in private practice and available to help families before, during and after testing. Corduck said they stand ready to field questions such as “Should I even get tested? I’m terrified,” how to discuss a positive diagnosis with family members, and what actions to take – an especially wrenching decision for women in their later child-bearing years.
During a two-hour interview, Corduck remained remarkably composed as she discussed her ordeal. But her voice broke when she was asked about the daunting task of reaching out to millions.
“It’s like I can hear the cancer forming in other people’s bodies as we speak,” she said. “We need help raising awareness.”
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But, unfortunately, those visions may be out of reach as 94 per cent of people have a dream holiday in mind which they are unable to go on.
The research of more than 200 residents in Scotland found that while affordability is the main stumbling block to jetting off (75 per cent), nearly a fifth (19 per cent) prioritise other holidays first and 17 per cent have responsibilities that prevent them from going away.
Despite this, the study conducted by TopCashback.co.uk, shows that people in Scotland still have a very clear idea of what their perfect escape is.
For the majority, a dream holiday means visiting places they have never been to before (73 per cent) and having new experiences (62 per cent).
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For half of people it means switching off from everyday life and a similar number (48 per cent) said spending time with loved ones summed up the ultimate getaway.
Two thirds (66 per cent) said they would want to see the local landscape, 65 per cent would want to eat local cuisine, 55 per cent said learn about the history and 55 per cent would want to see the wildlife.
With the majority of Scots not yet financially in a position to go on their dream vacation, more than two thirds (69 per cent) would need to save up to fund their trip. Only 13 per cent of people would be able save enough within a year whilst 44 per cent think it would take between one and two years. A fifth (23 per cent) said it would take them more than five years of saving.
Across the UK a key factor of what makes up a dream getaway for around a third (32 per cent) of Brits is the locality. The most common dream holiday spot amongst respondents was the USA (24 per cent) followed by Australia, the Maldives and the Caribbean (see chart).
Less common dream destinations included places much closer to home such as Scotland, London and Cornwall.
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Santa is coming to town, but many will not be overjoyed
By Barbara Pierce
Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! ‘Tis the season to be jolly!
Well, not for all of us.
With all the glitter and merry, many are in caves of gloom. This time of year can especially tough. Some of us would prefer to skip the holidays and just fast- forward to January.
Many things add to the stress and difficult emotions of this month. Some of the struggles we face:
• Relative time: Because the holidays are so stressful, tensions can arise even in the closest of families. Old grudges can surface. Just because you’re related to someone doesn’t mean that you get along or even like him or her.
“If seeing your family is stressful, set time limits,” said Deanna Brady, psychiatric nurse practitioner and owner of Present Tense Psychiatry in Clinton.
“Take the initiative to plan where you will get together with them. For example, if you’re more comfortable at your mom’s than at your sister’s, choose to go to your mom’s. Limit how long you’ll stay — just excuse yourself. Think ahead about various options until you come up with a scenario that makes you feel comfortable,” Brady advises. “Don’t isolate yourself during the holidays. Participate with others, but on your terms.”
Practice acceptance of others. When you have an issue with a family member, they won’t change — don’t expect that maybe this year will be better. Accepting others as they are, with their weaknesses, doesn’t mean being blind to their shortcomings. It just means you stop fighting it. You work around it.
• Loss and grief: “When you’re grieving a loved one’s death, the holidays can be especially painful,” said Melissa Kehler, facilitator of Grief Survivors at the Good News Center in Utica. Grief Survivors support groups meet weekly to help people who have had a loss.
“Honor your feelings of grief and loss during the holidays,” advised Kehler. “Feelings are neither good nor bad; they just are. It’s OK to be sad. It’s OK to cry.” Also, don’t feel guilty if you do find yourself having a good time during celebrations.
“Don’t be pressured by tradition,” added Kehler. “If you don’t feel like putting up a tree, don’t.”
And, the person who is grieving wants to hear the name of their loved one, but the family avoids talking about that person, she said. “The griever needs to be the one who brings it up. You might say: ‘Tell me about a time you were with Uncle Charlie.’ The griever sets the tone,” Kehler said.
Honor those who have passed
Finding a way to honor your loved one during the holiday celebrations can be especially meaningful. “Consider setting a place at the table for the one who died, and everyone puts a word of gratitude for that person on the plate, or says one thing about the person,” Kehler suggested.
Kehler invites those who are grieving to a “Surviving the Holidays” seminar set for 5:30 p.m. Dec. 12 at The Good News Center, 10475 Cosby Manor Road, Utica.
Call 315-735-6210 or visit www.thegoodnewscenter.org for more information.
The free seminar will help participants discover how to deal with emotions, what to do about traditions, tips for surviving social events and finding hope for the future.
“It’s a great success. Many people come and learn things that help them get through the holidays,” she said.
• Loneliness: For many people, the holidays emphasize their loneliness. Some live far from family and miss seeing their loved ones this time of year; others dread going to holiday parties without a partner and end up staying home.
If you know that you’ll be alone, plan ahead to do something new. Like a mini getaway or connect with an old friend. If you’re staying home, plan your day, perhaps a classic Christmas movie, a delicious meal, or a special book.
If you won’t be with loved ones, you may want to seek out other people in your situation. Do you know someone at work, school or your neighborhood that is also alone? Reach out and suggest an activity.
“We have a large population of seniors in this area who are isolated and lonely,” said Cindy Shepherd of Lutheran Care in Clinton. “We have a wonderful core of volunteers who provide a really valuable service. We’re filling a real need; they won’t get their needs met if we don’t do it.”
• Consider volunteering: There are isolated seniors who would love to see a friendly visitor through Your Neighbors in Clinton at 315-235-7149.
Or help care for animals at the Steven-Swan Humane Society in Utica (315-738-4357), or the Humane Society of Rome (315-336-7070), or in the peaceful setting of Spring Farms CARES Animal and Nature Sanctuary in Clinton (315-737-9339). | <urn:uuid:02da4d02-b4be-4432-b84e-bc8b963aa59d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mvhealthnews.com/features/you-better-not-cry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944835 | 1,158 | 1.976563 | 2 |
In our previous article we spoke about nightlatches, aka ‘top locks’ or ‘Yale locks’. The fundamental thing about them is that you can just pull the lock shut and the door will lock automatically.
Still, there’s much more to it than that. There are a few different types out there that are worth knowing about:
The standard Yale lock
The standard Yale nightlatch has no special features to it. You pull it shut and it stays shut. It’s not a very secure lock and can normally easily be ‘credit-carded’ open.
These ones are only really good for when you don’t need proper security, e.g. for your garden shed, where you just want to keep out the foxes.
(That said, if you double it up with a deadlock, you’ll be all right.)
The double-locking variety
Some Yale locks can be double-locked. Instead of just pulling the door shut behind you, you can turn the key to lock it. This effectively turns the Yale into a sort of deadlock.
There’s no way to credit-card a double-locked nightlatch, and also you can’t unlock it from the inside using the handle. This is an especially handy feature if you have a letterbox. Otherwise, someone might have put a tool through the letterbox to reach through to the handle.
The drawbacks of these ones are:
- They can be very confusing. If you want to get into your house and turn the key the wrong way, you accidentally lock yourself out. You try to turn the key the other way, and thereby undo the double-locking, but you still need to turn it again in order to actually open the door. A surprising amount of lock-outs happen this way.
- It’s not hugely fire-safe since there’s no way to unlock it from the inside if it has been double-locked.
The double-locking nightlatch allows you to use your Yale lock as a deadlock. This is quite a handy feature, but needs improvement. That’s where auto-deadlocking nightlatches come in. This format removes both of the drawbacks mentioned above.
There are a few versions of auto-deadlocking locks:
- Roller-bolt nightlatch: a primitive form of auto-deadlocking nightlatch where, instead of the standard triangular bolt, you have a square bolt with a roller on it to make it possible to slam the door shut. This lock can’t be slipped open.
- Ingersoll nightlatch: this is quite similar, because the bolt, here, too, is square, like a deadlock.
- Trigger-bolt-operated nightlatch: these look like normal Yale locks with a triangular bolt, but they have a trigger-bolt just underneath or above the triangular bolt. This gets depressed when the door is shut, triggering the auto-deadlocking function.
These locks aren’t invulnerable, but they go quite a long way further than the regular Yale lock. I’m honestly surprised insurance companies don’t force you to have these, and let people get away with having regular Yale locks on their doors…
Chunky, high-security nightlatches
Then you get the chunky, high-security nightlatches.
The Yale PBS1 high-security auto-deadlocking nightlatch.
Above you can see a Yale PBS1, a lovely nightlatch. It’s robust, bulky and auto-deadlocking. It has a key-hole on the inside, with which you can ‘lock’ the handle. Once locked, you can’t pull it down to release the lock.
It also has a chunky cylinder-pull on the outside. That’s quite some protection!
The mortice nightlatch
The final type of nightlatch is the mortice nightlatch. A mortice is a term from carpentry, which means a recess cut into wood. A mortice nightlatch is therefore a nightlatch that is recessed into a door, as opposed to being fitted onto the surface of the door like other Yale locks.
These are often found on fancy new apartment blocks and communal entrance doors. They come in auto-deadlocking versions, too.
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Traveling can be cheap and enjoyable at the same time if you venture out by train amid whistle blows
Since their invention in the 19th century, trains continue to impress travelers who love to explore the natural beauty of vast geography. Train journeys are an excellent opportunity for those who want to experience a modern adventure with a little bit of nostalgia and to explore the history of the regions.
Also, trains have increased in popularity even more in recent years thanks to social media. It is a brave new world, and traveling is easy. Yet, rather than traveling by plane, train journeys offer an authentic experience amid rail sounds and vast green-blue scenery.
Train journeys in Europe stand out with their routes that are worth seeing and are natural wonders. Beautiful in all seasons with its advanced rail transport, Europe’s routes offer a unique experience. Exploring the world is an adventure itself and so is the journey.
Here are 10 of the most beautiful train travel routes. This is the last call, hop on the train before it departs.
There is much to discover in Northern Ireland’s greenery and many things to see along the route. History, heritage and mesmerizing scenery await along the journey. Also with their good restaurants and shopping options, a day filled with fun is guaranteed.
Barcelona to Montserrat
Translating into “sew mountain” in Catalan, Spain’s Montserrat is an important place with its Benedictine monastery, including the Virgin of Montserrat. As a religious retreat for its visitors, the peak of Mountserrat is a unique place for hikers with stunning sunrise views.
Built over 41 kilometers (25 miles) of high mountains between 1848 and 1854 in Austria, the railway is one of the greatest examples of the transition from civil engineering to railway building. With tunnels and viaducts along the way amid spectacular mountain landscape, many leisure activities await visitors.
As the shortest railway route from central Europe to the Adriatic Sea yet the longest in Slovenia, the railway was built in 1904. As part of World War I heritage, the Bohinj Railway is among the tentative sites for the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The popular touristic railway Eastern Express of Turkey, which runs from the Turkish capital Ankara to the snow-covered east offers the opportunity for a sleigh ride on the frozen Lake Çıldır in Kars, a famous photo-op.
Nice to Ventimiglia
Italy’s route just across the border from the French Riviera is ideal, especially in the summer. A vibrant coastal city, Ventimiglia is a comfortable place to visit and just be.
Sarajevo to Mostar
Bosnia-Herzegovina’s pure natural beauty accompanies travelers along the way. Spanning to mountains and valleys, the route runs along mountainsides and high bridges. Also, visitors get to see the Neretva River, a beautiful turquoise river known for being one of the coldest rivers in the world thanks to its spring sources in the mountains.
West Highland Railway
The most scenic rail journey in the world, Scotland’s route delves into the country’s wild western coast. Also, Glenfinnan Viaduct promises to make you feel like you are on Hogwarts Express, the famous train depicted in the “Harry Potter” movie franchise. The route shows you a side of Scotland that can only be seen via a train journey.
Florence to Naples
A trip of fewer than three hours, Florence’s historic center Naples is full of scooters and bikes. Travelers may see picturesque views along the way too.
Lidkoping to Mariestad
Even though they sound like Ikea furniture names, Sweden’s route between Lidkoping and Mariestad takes you over beautiful green lakes and to the beach of Vanern, a cozy swimming area. As the route is considered the most mesmerizing train journey in Sweden, it truly appeals to all five senses. | <urn:uuid:35a2d5e7-6151-4e8a-bf5f-3e438d08322f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thefrontierpost.com/europes-10-most-beautiful-train-travel-routes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931051 | 871 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Good Morning. This is Dave Zinn with the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Forecast on Tuesday, March 10th at 7:00 a.m. Today’s forecast is sponsored by Your Montana Chevy Dealers and Montana State Parks. This advisory does not apply to operating ski areas.
In the last 24 hours, the Northern Madison and the Northern Gallatin Ranges and mountains around Cooke City received 8-10” of new snow and the other ranges received 2-4”. Winds were 10-20 mph from the west and mountain temperatures are in teens to low 20s F. Today skies will become clear with west winds 10-20 mph and temperatures warming into the low 30s F.
WET SNOW AVALANCHES
Since Saturday night the mountains have received 8-14" of new snow. This new snow will rapidly destabilize as it warms up today and natural wet avalanches sliding on this weekend's melt-freeze crust are possible. When it becomes easy to form a snowball with the new snow and you start seeing small pinwheels rolling down slopes, move to shadier aspects because the change from stable to unstable can happen rapidly. Watch Ian's video from Mount Ellis to learn more. Today, the wet snow avalanche danger will increase to CONSIDERABLE and human triggered avalanches are likely.
The mountains around Cooke City and the Northern Gallatin and Madison Ranges received 8-10” of new snow last night bringing the three-day total to 15-20” at upper elevations. West to northwest winds are depositing snow on slopes that could avalanche today. Look for thick drifts and shooting cracks coming from your ski tips or sled as these indicate unstable slopes. This weekend skiers released a slab in a 40-degree chute in Middle Basin (details and photos) and observed loose snow avalanches on the east face of Mount Blackmore on Sunday (details and photo). Today, similar avalanches are possible in steep terrain. Avalanches breaking deeper into the snowpack are unlikely today, but, as a cornice triggered slide in Hyalite Canyon indicates, they are still an outside possibility (photo, video and details). In a video from Beehive Basin on Sunday we outline these issues.
Today, avoid wind loaded slopes and assess snowpack stability prior to entering avalanche terrain. Human triggered avalanches are possible, and the dry snow danger is rated MODERATE.
The Bridger, Southern Madison, Southern Gallatin and Lionhead Ranges received 8-12” of new snow since Saturday night. On Sunday the new snow avalanched under the weight of skiers and riders on Saddle Peak piling debris 5-6’ deep (details). The new snow gained strength since Sunday and, yesterday, in the Taylor Fork I found that dry snow avalanches would be unlikely and if they occurred they would be limited to the new snow (Skyline Ridge video). Remember that low danger does not equal no danger and in steep technical terrain, a small avalanche can have large consequences.
Today, give cornices a wide berth as they may break far back from the edge, assess slope stability and follow safe travel protocols. The dry snow danger is rated LOW and human triggered avalanches are unlikely.
Upcoming Avalanche Education and Events
Our education calendar is full of awareness lectures and field courses. Check it out and plan to attend one or two: Events and Education Calendar.
March 13 and 14, Friday and Saturday, (last of the season) Snowpack Update and Rescue Training. Friday, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Soda Butte Lodge. Saturday anytime between 10-2 @ Round Lake.
March 26, GNFAC Forecaster Chat: Spring Travel and Wet Snow Avalanches, 6-8 p.m. at Uphill Pursuits.
March 12, 1-hr Avalanche Awareness, 6-7 p.m. at The Basecamp.
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As students of various disciplines within the stretches of social science, we locate the rule of law in the strict adherence to the separation of powers. The complex interaction between the three branches of the government-legislature, executive and the judiciary- is what stands as a test of time for codified principles of democracy. The judiciary acts as the watchdog and the ultimate force that ensures the practice of the rule of law. Hence, the way the court functions taking into consideration a host of intricacies and the manner in which case laws weigh in has its manifestations on the direction in which society thinks and mobilizes and which inturn shapes the role of judiciary in a polity.
Setting the context
The case at hand here pertains to the extent of power enjoyed by the executive in the monetary oversight of the financial autonomy enjoyed by a variety of organizations under the ambit of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010. These organisations are the ones which have a considerable influence on social and political life of the country and are involved in a wide array of democratic reforms which are both institutional and radical in nature. The case traces its origin to the decision of the Delhi High Court which had dismissed the petition of the appellant who had previously sought the interference of the Court in halting the unbridled power which is given to the Government to implement control over these organizations. The appellant, Indian Social Action Forum moved the Apex Court challenging certain provisions of the Act and its incidental rules as being unconstitutional on the same grounds of unreasonable and arbitrary. Article 14, 19 (1) (a), 19 (1) (c), 21 of the Constitution and Section 3 as well as 5 of the Act were delineated upon throughout the case.
Understanding the case
An organization named Indian Social Action Forum, which is a registered forum involved in defending ethos of democracy and combating ills like communalism and exploitative outcomes of globalization that the current gamut of democracy is fraught with, challenged certain provisions of the Act on the lines of they being manifestly arbitrary and ambiguous. The main issue which arose in this case was whether section 5 (1), (4) and its subsequent rules 3(i), 3(iv) and 3 (vi) of the act in question are in violation of the fundamental rights. Moreover, is it constitutionally tenable for the executive to proceed with curtailing the foreign funds to an organization which the state believes to be of ‘political nature.’ The other pertinent issue which was raised before the Court was whether an organization perhaps is entitled to invoke the fundamental rights under Part three of the Constitution. A concept repeatedly debated in courtrooms about the rights of a corporate personality to sue for rights, again resurfaced in this case.
Arguments against the Act in question
The argument advanced by the appellant about the operation of the Act is that under section 5 (1) no guidelines for the proper exercise of power by the government have been made which entails an organization being clipped off from financial resources. The broad landscape created by Section 5 leads to arbitrary use of power by the state which results in organizations that are genuinely invested in education and activism to be unnecessarily tainted as political thereby having stalled their funds from foreign entities. This discourse envisaged by this specific provision of the Act violates Article 19 (1) and © of the Constitution as it hits freedom of speech, expression and independence to mobilize as well as form association, to the hilt. Further there is no authority or body or machinery in place established by the executive which can adjudicate upon the plea of organizations deprived of finances by the Act.
The framework of the Act is such that Section 3 prohibits acceptance of foreign contribution by entities like candidates for election, journalist, judges, Government servant working in an establishment owned and controlled by State, member of any legislature, political party and organization of a political nature as may be specified under Sub-section 1 of Section 5 by the Central Government. Section 5 empowers the Government to specify an organization of a political nature not being a political party in tune with Section 3 (1) (f) which states that the ideology propagated by the organization or the association it undertakes with any political party plays a factor in the Government deciding whether the organization comes within the realm of Section 3. The pertinent threshold of the case is based on Rule 3 of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules, 2011 which expound guidelines for declaration of an organization to be of political nature though remaining not a political party. The scope of the Rule covers organizations working for social welfare, social advocacy, endeavoring to create space in the political discourse. These include trade unions, student unions, worker unions, several mass organizations whose memorandum of associations contain avowed political objectives which in reality do not have a direct connection with mainstream electoral politics. The argument advanced by the appellant was that such organizations are barred from keeping foreign contributions. As the procedure laid down under Section 5 proceeds upon a written order and an opportunity to submit a representation by the organization notified under the Act, it is the rationale of the Government operating around the blurred lines of the term activity, ideology and programme which forms the basis of the dispute. Rule 3 pursuant to the consonance of the provisions offer no clarity on words like political objectives, activities, interests and which ideology is considered to be anti-democratic. The phrase ‘avowed political objectives’ have been given unjustifiably wide amplitude in meaning within the Act.
The appellant emphasized that Rule 3 (i), 3 (iv) and 3 (vi) which expound about organizations having avowed political objectives in its Memorandum of Associations or by laws, mass organizations like student wings and any organization which routinely engages in methods of common political action respectively violate fundamental rights enshrined in Article 14, 19 (1) & © and Article 21 in unison. Hence, the petition sought the Act to be declared as unconstitutional on grounds of unreasonableness and manifest arbitrariness. It was argued that the operation of section 3, 5 and its subsequent rules in the Act is in contravention with the three fundamental rights which delves into equality before law, protecting freedom of speech and expression and guaranteeing paramountcy of liberty over arbitrary state control. It also stifles the financial autonomy of these organizations and disproportionately impacts entities which work for social welfare. It is tantamount to operating on unaccounted for whim and caprice which is detrimental to transparency and equality.
The legislative intent of the Act screams out that the sovereignty of a democratic polity rests on safeguarding economic independence of its institutions. The Court relied on the finding that there is a legislative necessity for “insulating sensitive areas of national life like journalism, judiciary and broad realm of politics from extraneous and doctored foreign influence through economic funding which is why Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1973 is crucial to clamp down on subversive activities”. Stemming from economic association is the transition to control over institutions on several fronts which degrade the values of a sovereign republic country.
A questionable defense
While the respondent argued on the lines of twin purposes served by the Act which is to regulate utilization of foreign funds by organizations and impinging into actions of the same organizations attributable to their source of funding. To begin with, the respondents challenged the locus standi of the appellants by trying to establish that organizations are not entitled to invoke fundamental rights by relying on several case laws. Then the argument stretched again upon two essential prerequisites to hold an Act as unconstitutional which is firstly legislative competence and secondly violation of fundamental rights. The present case does not warrant the two essentials that need to be fulfilled. The mere element of misuse cannot be the sole ground to declare an Act to be unconstitutional. The respondent’s side further supplemented their argument by citing a Doctrine in Administrative Law which states that subordinate legislation if being ultra vires of the main Act invites the wrath of constitutionality not on susceptibility to abuse of power. The respondents based their arguments that the right to receive foreign contributions is not protected under Article 19. The present Act in question with its safeguards against possible use of powers are in furtherance of the object and purpose of the legislation. They stressed upon adopting the principle of “reading down” into the impugned Rule 3.
The respondents relied on what the High Court had held that ideology propagated by an organization in nexus with activities of political nature though expansive but cannot be termed as uncertain or vague. Especially in the backdrop of sufficient guidance and specific grounds embedded within the Act. Foreign contributions making their way through voluntary organizations as named in Rule 3 potentially disrupting the values of a political society. This forms the whole logic behind Section 3 (1) (f) of the Act which pertains to regulating the financial attribute of the organization.
The Apex Court held that only those organizations which are not indulged in active politics as well as party politics do not fall within the purview of Rule 3 (vi) which implores about the means adopted by the organization which exemplifies the nature of work done by it.
The palpable vagueness arising out of the rules though remain unaddressed in a substantive manner. However the Court clarified that keeping a tab on the foreign funds with credible material to raise enough suspicion by political parties cannot escape the rigor of the Act mandating the Central Government to tread upon the rules and procedure as per the Act resulting in depriving such an organization or entity of the foreign contributions. It even noted that an organization which habitually employs democratic means of dissent and methods of political action like protests, call for ‘bandh’ to advance public causes fall within the purview of advocacy for a purpose and not an entity of a political nature. The court went ahead with the purposive construction of the Act hence precluding from adjudging upon its constitutionality.
The judgment can be perceived as a sublime one for it does not decide on the constitutionality of the Act per se but is instrumental in whittling down the powers of the executive. It rather shields the provision under attack as being pervasively unconstitutional by construing them in light of rationality. It is an enabling decision which lays down guidelines for the state to function in sync with the true mandate of the law.
Understanding the judgement
This case carries extreme value in terms of the patterns of mobilization in the society. It is not by the dictates that a particular organization seeks to operate itself. The relevance of the decision remains that it does not lay down any uniform threshold or filter as to what qualifies as political unlike the Act which attempts to define attributes of political imbuing within organizational patterns in a clandestine broad manner.
The case does manage to inch closer towards laying down the basis on which democratic activities ought to be distinguished from truly subversive activities. This distinction is deeply crucial to furnish the concrete tendencies on which the Central Government chooses to act upon. It also impacts the spectrum of political environment in which mobilization by way of organizations and the kind of activities it undertakes is considered an indicator of participative democracy. The importance of giving adequate and rational reasons to without having the grounds tested in a judicial inquiry is a strong element in assessing the reasonableness of the restrictions. Such a finding though objectively talks about autonomy of an individual to effectively engage in social change yet has a broader ramification on all those facets that enable such a mobilization to take place within a democratic society.
Hence the applicability of the Act would perhaps result in the way governments have perceived the means and methods by several organizations to achieve socio-political objectives, undergoing a significant change. Hence, the case law has filtered the discourse of power of government over social and political institutions. The sound finding of delinking social work done by organizations from avowed political affiliations, in the given case confers greater autonomy and freedom to institutions which seek to revitalize the society in the confines of their own ideology.
Litigating sovereignty and autonomy in a wider and liberal space has been made morally and legally to a reasonable extent easier owing to the precedent set forth by this decision. While it has been made abundantly clear by the decision of the Court in the present case which has woven the thread that mobilization organizationally or even ideologically cannot be by the dictates of State seeking to control financial prowess of an institution or body but by exercising choice available in a healthy democratic political society. The decision does fall short on the cardinal rule of assessing the efficacy of a legislation on the anvil of constitutionality when the restrictions by the state over the subject matter of the legislation is in excess and not proportionate to the objective sought to be achieved by such restrictions. The degree of choice of an organization and whether its activities comprise political components or not does suffer a chilling paralysis even if the court protects them from being caught in the fire of political wedges. It has been made clear by the Court that mere apprehension of abuse of power is not enough to declare a piece of legislation out rightly unconstitutional.
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Evidence-based planning is the key to successful program implementation. Thus, when the Visayas State University (VSU) presented in 2009 the Barangay Integrated Approach for Nutrition Improvement (BIDANI) Strategy, the Local Government Unit (LGU) of Baybay City adopted the BIDANI Strategy as part of the LGU Program. Accordingly, Resolution No. 132 was approved during the regular session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of the City of Baybay on July 6, 2009.
During that time, however, the City still does not have data for the conduct of the Sectoral Planning and the Barangay Integrated Development Plan (BIDP). Hence, a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the use of the Barangay Management Information System (BMIS) Software was signed between the City Government of Baybay, the Barangay Local Government Units, and the Visayas State University (VSU) on January 15, 2010. The survey questionnaires were reproduced by the city and the Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) conducted the survey in their respective barangays.
The Baybay City LGU then hired 15 Emergency Encoders to facilitate the encoding of the BMIS Questionnaire from the 92 barangays and in 2011, the Barangay City Management Information System Book for Calendar Year (CY) 2010 was printed and distributed to various national and local agencies. This was utilized during the conduct of the first Sectoral Planning and in the crafting of the first 3-year Barangay Integrated Development Plan (BIDP) of the 92 barangays of the City of Baybay, which was facilitated by the BIDANI Personnel of VSU. Since then, the City Planning and Development Office (CPDO) personnel has been conducting the sectoral planning and the BIDP every 3 years, with minimal supervision from the VSU-BIDANI Staff. However, starting in 2019, the Sectoral Planning and Assessment of the BIDP is conducted annually because Baybay City Mayor Hon. Jose Carlos L. Cari wants the Programs, Projects, and Activities (PPAs) of the city to be evidence-based.
The BMIS was also institutionalized thru City Ordinance No. 07, Series of 2014 entitled, “An Ordinance creating the City Management Information System (CMIS) of the City of Baybay and Requiring the Creation of Barangay Management Information System (BMIS) in all 92 Barangays of Baybay City,” thus, in 2015, 2016 & 2017, the CMIS & BMIS Books were printed and provided to the 92 barangays of the city.
The Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) attended the Regional Gender and Development Council (RGADC) meeting in 2018, held at the Lintaon Convention Center, and during that time, the PCW identified BMIS for possible certification and replication as Gender and Development (GAD) Notable Project of Baybay City. True enough, the City of Baybay was recognized as the First Local Learning Hub in Region 8 during the Celebration of the National Women’s Month last March 8, 2019. This was held at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Manila.
The BMIS also played a very important role in this time of pandemic as it was used as a tool for immediate and effective COVID-19 response, as follows: The BMIS data were used: 1) in identifying the Below Food Threshold families for the distribution of the relief goods; 2) in identifying the recipients for the Social Amelioration Program (SAP), and 3) in contract tracing (by identifying the household members of the COVID-19 patient for home quarantine).
Thus, to ensure the sustainability of the BMIS, the City of Baybay allocated funds for its implementation annually, from the 5% of its Gender and Development (GAD) Fund. The Local Chief Executive also issued Executive Order No. 14 creating the CMIS Team, the CMIS Ordinance was crafted, approved, and implemented; two (2) LGU employees were given regular positions to serve as BMIS in-charge, and the Baybay City LGU provides incentives to the barangays who are prompt in submitting their BMIS data.
Given this background about the BMIS, the City Mayor is hopeful that the enumerators will ensure that the data that they will submit to the CPDO are true and accurate because this is being used by the LGU in making huge decisions for the entire City of Baybay. | <urn:uuid:954f0978-3cea-4fa6-b824-f6dd1044f8a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://baybaycity.gov.ph/2022/07/bidani-strategy-lgus-legacy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953336 | 950 | 2.09375 | 2 |
by Kale Williams
As a child growing up in rural Oregon, Vanessa Grant Coats loved the outdoors. Exploring the wild areas of the state with her family — camping, hiking and fishing — are some of her favorite memories and led to dreams of becoming a marine biologist.
But as a Black kid romping around a mostly white state, she rarely saw people who looked like her enjoying the same outdoor activities.
“I didn’t always feel like I belonged,” Grant Coats told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “I never saw anyone who looked like me as a marine biologist. I never saw them kayaking or camping.”
Grant Coats never became a marine biologist, but a couple decades after her childhood experiences in the outdoors, she is working to fight stereotypes about Black people and nature as the program coordinator for The Blueprint Foundation, a Portland-based environmental nonprofit that provides mentoring, educational opportunities and peer counseling for Black youth.
The Blueprint Foundation is one of several environmental nonprofits in Oregon led by people of color who have charted a path different from other organizations. From preserving Indigenous oral histories to providing job training to transforming community members into their own advocates, these minority-led organizations are using their culture, both past and present, to create opportunities for marginalized communities.
“I’ve been a mentor for close to five years, so I’m seeing students who started with us as (high school) freshmen, and now they’re going into college looking to study environmental science,” Grant Coats said. “To see the spark in their eye, to see them so interested and engaged, I get emotional just talking about it.”
Blueprint is also one of about 70 environmental organizations from across the state partnering with Earth Day Oregon to help raise money around the holiday Friday.
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Science agrees that food can be a powerful tool for people dealing with depression and anxiety.
When Jane Green was 14 years old, she was walking offstage from a tap dance competition when she collapsed.
She couldn’t feel her arms, her legs, or her feet. She was hysterically crying, and her whole body was hot. She was gasping for breath. She blacked out for 10 minutes and when she came to, her mom was holding her. It took 30 minutes for her heart rate to calm down enough so she could breathe.
Green was having a panic attack — her first one, but not her last. Her parents took her to the doctor, who diagnosed her with anxiety and depression, and handed her a prescription for an antidepressant. more | <urn:uuid:28526b01-e021-479e-b9d9-356d3faf3719> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://insane100.com/2018/11/25/these-women-treated-their-anxiety-and-depression-with-food-heres-what-they-ate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.990979 | 156 | 2.28125 | 2 |
MuCEM, Marseille, France. The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations houses an important collection of the Mediterranean civilization. Besides its cultural significance, MuCEM is also an impressive structure, an architectural creation by Rudy Ricciotti.
The building is situated on the Old Port of Marseille and is overlooking another great building – the historic Fort Saint-Jean. Both buildings are connected with a bridge. The museum features garden and viewpoints, from where panoramic views to the city and sea open. Moreover, there are two restaurants run by chef Gérald Passédat.
Why to go there?
Great architecture, various cultural activities and venues, delicious food.
When to go there?
All year round. There is a permanent exhibition, as well as various events, that take place all through the year.
How to get there?
A few buses run there. Also it is a short walk from the Cathedral and the Old Port.
Read more or book: Hotels in Marseille
Lead photo by julien li
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Good Reasons To Choose Digital Communication System1. The digital communication system has high noise immunity. High noise immunity means the digital communication system is more immune to noise as compared to the analog communication system. In an analog communication system, the system has less noise immunity compared to a digital system. The noise produced in an analog communication system is very high compared to the digital communication system. Therefore, the digital communication system is preferred for better noise immunity.
2. It has many advantages in storing and processing various data and information. The data and information stored or retrieved in a digital communication system can be achieved in any format like audio or video, etc. But in an analog communication system, the information processed is hard to obtain in any desirable format. It can't achieve in the format demanded by the user. Therefore, the digital communication system is preferred for a better output format.
3. The digital communication system is best in the view of the economy point. For analog or digital communication system, the economic factor plays an important role in mass production. When installing any communication system whether analog or digital, economic factor plays a vital role.
The communication system is installed according to the economic budget. That is what type of system can be installed and is best in the invested budget.
Therefore, the digital communication system is cheap as compared to the analog communication system. As per economic view, the digital communication system is preferred rather than the analog communication system.
4. It has the advantage of signal regeneration. It means that various signals that are processed in a digital communication channel can be regenerated into the original input form as per a user's demand. But if you look in the case of an analog communication system you can't easily regenerate the required signal after it is processed.
Hence, the digital communication system is best in the case of the signal regeneration process.
5. Also, for security purposes, the digital communication system is used nowadays. It has better security options than an analog communication system. Nowadays, the security problem is a hot issue in the case of any communication system. One only chooses the communication system where better security is used. It is so to prevent signal theft, data loss, system hack, and many other important functions. Therefore, the digital communication system has a better advantage for security purposes. It is so because of the encryption and decryption algorithm used in the digital communication system.
Disadvantages of a digital communication systemIt has just a few disadvantages as compared to an analog communication system. In a digital communication system, the signals of high bandwidth are passed. Therefore, to pass such high bandwidth signals obviously the high bandwidth communication channel is used as compared to the analog communication channel. The high bandwidth communication channel is costly than the low bandwidth communication channel.
Also, there are many complex operations carried out in the digital communication channel as compared to analog one. The few examples of such complex operations are encoding and quantization of input signals. In other words, we can say that various quantization operations are carried out for the signals passed through the digital communication channel which is a little bit complex to deal with. | <urn:uuid:24398b42-d20f-464e-b53b-21d53703d9b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mannparyo.com/2017/01/digital-communication-advantages-disadvantages.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.922227 | 630 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Tsunamis are rare events but can be extremely deadly.
You need to know
If you feel an earthquake that is either longer than a minute OR strong enough that it’s hard to stand up, then get to high ground, out of all zones (past the blue line if there is one), as soon as the shaking stops!
This evacuation advice overrides any COVID-19 Alert Level requirements to stay at home. Stay 2 metres away from others if you can and if it is safe to do so. Wear a mask or face covering only if you can grab one quickly and it will not delay you leaving.
Don’t go down to the shore
- The first wave to arrive may not be the largest
- Waves may be separated by an hour or more
- Waves may keep coming for many hours
Work out how you can get to the edge of the zone, get past the Blue Lines if you have them.
See the online tsunami evacuation zones map
You can also find a pdf map that can be printed off and kept as part of your emergency plan.
- Kapiti Coast
- Wellington City
- Lower Hutt
- South Wairarapa
- Carterton District
- Masterton District
Know where your zones are for home, work, schools, sports grounds or other places where you may regularly be within the tsunami zone.
Practise walking out of the zone, work out the best routes. Make sure everyone in your home or workplace knows where they should go!
Tsunamis may be generated elsewhere in New Zealand or elsewhere in the Pacific and we may not feel the earthquake. If there is a tsunami threat a national warning will be issued and WREMO will provide alerts and information on areas, if any, that need to be evacuated.
Find out more about alerting
In addition, information will be provided on our website, and our Facebook and Twitter sites. Media outlets (radio, TV and websites) will also provide information.
Find out more about how to keep up to date in an emergency
What to do if you get an emergency alert from WREMO
Follow the advice from the alert and make sure you are safe. Then make sure your friends and family are safe by sharing the information on social media or text.
What is a tsunami
A tsunami is a series of sea waves or surges caused by a sudden event (such as earthquakes) beneath, or near the ocean causing the water column to move and a tsunami ‘wave’ to form. Tsunami waves travel rapidly through oceans, but as they reach shallower coastal waters the waves slow and grow in height. Onshore they may break, but more commonly cause a rapid rise in fast flowing water that can cause widespread damage, injuries and loss of life.
Tsunami form a series of waves that can be spread over a 12 hour time period, with waves arriving up to an hour apart. Tsunami travel much further inland than ordinary coastal waves and may also cause strong currents and fast rising tides.
WREMO position statements on
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Are African wars linked to supply chain?
Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring East African countries has sparked regulatory ripple effects for public companies in the U.S. -- including local auto suppliers.
A section of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, passed in July 2010, requires public companies to report direct and indirect sources of "conflict minerals" -- tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold -- in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission beginning in April 2012.
The U.S. government believes the African ore mines are funding violence in the region and that the disclosure law will expose companies running the mines to public pressure. Use of Congolese tantalum for electronics, including for vehicles, has been criticized in the past decade.
For metro Detroit's automotive industry, the rules mean enlisting purchasing and legal departments to identify metal sources through the supply chain in preparation for public reporting.
It's unclear to what extent, if any, local suppliers use metals from East Africa, but they now have to spend time identifying their sources regardless.
"This is a real issue," said Gary Silberg, head of the automotive practice for KPMG LLP in Chicago. "Businesses have been focused on recovery, and this is something that's just not a top priority, but it's something they are forced to grapple with."
Prosecutor putting out word on the tweet
There always comes a time when what was once cool is no longer.
If getting alerted that your grandmother is following you on Twitter isn't clue enough that Twitter had lost its sense of hipness, this might be: On Thursday, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced that fans could now follow it on Twitter @USAO_MIE.
"We hope that awareness of our prosecutions has a deterrent effect on crime," said U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade in a statement.
A deterrent for crooks checking their tweets, anyway.
Detroit groups aim for Guinness dodgeball record
Will dodgeball save Detroit?
Probably not -- but the biggest game of dodgeball ever played in Detroit could get the city a spot in the "Guinness Book of World Records."
The current record is held by a 3,500-player game.
ComePlayDetroit, a recreational sports league, is working with the Youth Connection and Detroit Harmonie to "bring thousands of children, parents, young professionals and civic leaders together for a record-breaking event," according to ComePlayDetroit's website.
"Dodgeball in the D" will be at 1 p.m. Aug. 20 at Belle Isle Park.
The free event will also feature informational booths and displays.
ComePlayDetroit is the project of Justin Jacobs, a 2011 Crain's 20 in their 20s honoree. The association organizes recreational sports leagues for games like kickball, dodgeball and basketball. See www.dodgeballinthed.com.
Lions among world's elite sports teams - in value
Despite a couple of generations' worth of on-field futility, the Detroit Lions is the 36th-most-valuable sports franchise in the world, according to a new top-50 ranking assembled by Forbes.com.
The financial news website listed the National Football League franchise as worth $817 million. Twenty-five other NFL teams were ranked ahead of the Lions.
No other Detroit franchises made the top 50.
Soccer's Manchester United of the English Premier League topped the list at $1.86 billion, followed closely by the Dallas Cowboys at $1.8 million.
Design festival seeks creators, places to create
Organizers of the Detroit Design Festival are looking for Detroit venues, artists, chefs and designers of all kinds: fashion, interior, event and industrial, to name a few.
The idea is to connect Detroit creatives to each other, new markets, consumers and global audiences.
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WHAT IS QuadAir Drone (QuadAir Drone survey)
QuadAir Drone is a lightweight quadcopter drone that is impeccably created for beginners, veteran and master photographic artists, and movie producers. The robot empowers you to catch ethereal view pictures and recordings impeccably. Its astounding cameras catch incredible pictures and recordings for you.
The Quadair robot's lightweight element is explicitly intended to empower it to move in the air easily. The one-contact regulator that controls its development makes moving it around such a simple assignment.
The QuadAir Drone is seemingly awesome for amateurs as the controls are moderately direct. It is a simpler assignment for a fledgling to figure out how to fly the QuadAir Drone around than different robots. You don't have to have had experience flying robots before serenely working the QuadAir Drone.
The robot's plan and model stick out and will draw in you while shopping in a robot store. It arrives in a smooth and exquisite look that makes it very tasteful above different robots in a similar value range. The QuadAir Drone has a standard component called the board-gyro that holds the height and lifts its solidness when it's in real life.
This exceptional element gives it a unique kick on the lookout. The robot's helped solidness empowers the administrator to perform mid-air, turning tricks and moves while at it having a good time as he isn't anxious about the robot tumbling down all over.
As prior expressed on this QuadAir Drone survey, this robot is amazingly lightweight and convenient. It is effortlessly collapsed up to fit in an insignificant space, and hence you can haul it around absent a lot of battle. This is not normal for other greater robots that occupy critical room and are distressing to move around with.
Specialized FACTS ABOUT QuadAir Drone?
In this QuadAir Drone survey, we will discuss the realities that made the QuadAir Drone famous in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, United States and different nations.
Simple to set up and use. Super conservative size and foldable plan – wonderful to heft around in the pocket. Instinctive and smooth controls make it simple to fly for everybody. 4k HD turning camera permits you to take great photographs and recordings from concealed points. 120° wide point focal point "expands your vision" High environmental strain permits you to precisely lock the tallness and area which makes shooting simple and advantageous. Flight following allows you to design the direction ahead of time. One key departure/landing and return Enormous limit lithium battery permits you to fly for up to 15-31 minutes Driven night light guarantees you'll never lose it in obscurity Wi-Fi association makes it simple to move your information progressively High/Low speed mode Headless mode permits you to alter bearing any time you need. Simple to control 360° rolling 4GHz controller for hostile to impedance. Strong yet lightweight plan makes QuadAir Drone dependable and trustful buddy whenever, anyplace.
HOW DOES A QuadAir Drone WORK?
The QuadAir Drone is custom-made to high usefulness and ease of use. It is appropriate for a very long time on photography and recording. It flaunts a smooth plan and an intense and sturdy packaging that supports its sturdiness. Be that as it may, the QuadAir Drone has a great flight time contrasted with different robots available. A completely energized battery keeps going you around 15-30 minutes in the air.
That could be sufficient time for you, contingent upon the idea of recording you are embraced. Nonetheless, the QuadAir Drone performs way better compared to different robots in its value range. The robot's battery is 500 mAH that quick charges to full limit in an hour and endures fifteen-thirty minutes of as yet recording.
Ideally, let's convey with you additional batteries when shooting for a more drawn out length so an unfilled battery doesn't pamper the good times. The spinner capacity and height hold include empower the Quadair robot to remain stable in cruel conditions making it truly reasonable for explicit climatic conditions.
The dependability of the QuadAir Drone guarantees negligible or no contortion in the recordings and photographs and that they are striking and clear. The QuadAir Drone uses its 720-pixel camera to catch top quality recordings and pictures that are interesting to watch. (QuadAir Drone survey)
Particular OF QuadAir Drone REVIEW
Investigating the astonishing particulars of the Quad Air Drone Price will go quite far to causing you to comprehend the reason why this sturdy robot is moving in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and different nations.
Recurrence: 2.4G Gyro: 6 Axis lFPV range: Approx.30m R/C distance: 80-100m Battery life: High Flight time: High Drone battery:1 x 3.7V 500mAh Lipo (included) Controller battery: 3x 1.5AA batteries (excluded) Charging time: 60-70 minutes Running time: 15-31 minutes Features:360-degree wide-point 720P HD camera for HD pictures and 4k HD recordings. Capacities: Fly sideways, three speed modes, LED light, headless mode, Wi-Fi FPV work, take off/land, forward/in reverse, left/right. Doesn't have a "follow me" work!
WHAT FEATURES DOES QuadAir Drone POSSESS?
Indeed, essentially anything you can envision with regards to flying video! With a 3,000 foot range, a follow-me highlight, long flight time, and 4K HD video ability, the QuadAir Drone is additionally loaded with other valuable elements that settle on it the most ideal decision:
At last, we dismantled it to make our last thorough elements list
Intense: As we referenced, it's solid. The QuadAir Drone intense plastic packaging implies you can drop it or crash it without seriously impeding its usefulness. You can take it outside or on long excursions without stressing it will get crushed up in your sack. Conservative and Foldable: It just weighs about a pound, so it's light, little, and smaller. Basically overlay in the engines and pack it into your knapsack or sack any place you go. It will fit in any carryon pack without occupying a lot of room. Ideal for movement: If you're taking off on your first excursion, you'll be glad to realize drones are entirely fine to go with in light of the fact that they are viewed as a 'individual electronic gadget' like telephones, workstations, and different cameras. (Drone laws really do differ from one city to another, so make certain to see whether there are decides where you're exceeding all expectations confine flying robots!) Long Battery Life: This is one of the elements purchasers of robot look at for prior to making a buy. With a lengthy battery life, you get as long as an hour of flight time in which you can record some unimaginable film. 4K Full HD 5G WiFi 12 Megapixel Camera: With the 5G WiFi high velocity association you can see continuous film and shoot proficient quality 4K video from your absolute first flight. It takes perfectly clear 360-degree 4K HD recordings with its wide-point focal point. You're just restricted by your creative mind! You can catch a video of the delightful dawn on a mountain or a dusk on an ocean side regardless. What's more it's quick enough to film things like vehicles, sports, and pets as well. More than 3,000 Foot Range: With a reach over a large portion of a mile, not exclusively would you be able to take astounding photographs from points you never envisioned you could, your whole viewpoint of the world can change with the recordings you make. You can really see what its like from a '10,000 foot perspective'! Scene: With a wide flight way range and wide focal point, you can have 360-degree all encompassing chances. The QuadAir Drone makes shocking all encompassing shots from remarkable and otherworldly viewpoints and vantage focuses you have never seen. 6 Axis Self-Stabilization: With programmed self-adjustment innovation, it records smooth and fresh video film and decreases foggy pictures on each flight. Simple to Use: Simply associate it to your regulator and your robot is prepared to fly. The Quadair robots' controls and programming are not difficult to learn and follow as you investigate the world by drone. It is not difficult to dominate flying the robot and to know how to react to various circumstances you will be flying it in, like climate changes.
WHERE TO PURCHASE TO QuadAir Drone?
By and by, one can just purchase the robot from the authority item site. This is awesome and most secure here and there your request. It also offers one the affirmation and chance to settle on a decision from the accessible purchasing choices and to fit the bill for rewards and limits. The most open and without hitch method of working with a buy is by visiting the authority site of the organization. | <urn:uuid:9610cdc4-a29b-4e6e-be79-eeaea64c6552> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acuriousgeographer.com/forum/welcome-to-the-forum/what-is-quadair-drone | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.926251 | 1,847 | 1.820313 | 2 |
March 8, 2019
Burrack publishes two book chapters
Frederick Burrack, director of assessment, published two chapters, "The Development of Standards-Based Assessment in Music" and "Music Assessment in Higher Education," in Volume 1 of "The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education," edited by Timothy Brophy.
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There are 83 people in intensive care.
3,578 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed this evening.
It's the eighth consecutive day the figure has exceeded 3,000.
520 Covid patients are in hospital - the highest in over eight months - with 83 in intensive care, up five from yesterday.
Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health said:
“We have reported over 44,000 cases in the past 14 days. The volume of disease in the community is really very high and represents a significant risk to those who are most vulnerable in our society.
“We need to continue to use all of the tools available to us to protect ourselves and others. By layering all of the public health measures with which we are now so familiar, we can help to break the chains of transmission. Ensure that you are washing your hands regularly, wearing a mask on public transport and in other social settings, try to meet others outdoors and ensure that indoor spaces are well-ventilated. And of course it remains essential that anyone with symptoms isolates and gets tested. | <urn:uuid:54812012-ef0f-4481-832c-e281428d3c43> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.midlands103.com/news/midlands-news/coronavirus-over-3000-cases-reported-for-eighth-day-in-a-row/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96467 | 227 | 1.875 | 2 |
A part of Japanese species of the genus Thiotricha Meyrick, 1886 are reviewed. Three species described by Omelko (1984) in the genus Cnaphostola Meyrick, 1918 are placed in combination with Thiotricha; Thiotricha biformis, T. angustella comb. nov. and T. venustalis comb. nov. These species are redescribed, and two new species, T. elaeocarpiella Kyaw, Yagi & Hirowatari, sp. nov. and T. flavitermina Kyaw, Yagi & Hirowatari, sp. nov. are described based on external morphological characters of adults and genitalia of males and females. Thiotricha chujaensis (Park, 2016), comb. nov. described in Cnaphostola from Korea, is newly recorded in Japan feeding on Mallotus japonica (Euphorbiaceae). One of the new species, T. elaeocarpiella sp. nov. has been associated with two different plants, Elaeocarpus zollingeri (Elaeocarpaceae) and Rhaphi-olepis indica (Rosaceae). This paper presents the first comprehensive description of the morphology, pupal morphology and biology of species previously treated in the genus Cnaphostola and their relatives in Japan.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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Windows Server 2003 touts out-of-the-box security as one of its most important features. Since Windows operating systems have taken a highly-publicized beating at the hands of hackers and virus-writers in recent years, it has been a high priority for Microsoft to improve the security of Windows and other Microsoft software. The entire company has refocused in an attempt to create more secure products.
While there is no such thing as a 100 percent secure system, Windows Server 2003 has made significant strides in terms of the security of its default configuration (which is very important since many operating systems are simply installed in their default configuration).
In order to measure the security improvements of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft commissioned a study that was conducted by Ernst & Young LLP to helps quantify the relative “attackability” of various Windows operating systems, and most importantly Windows Server 2003. We’re going to take a look at the “Relative Attack Surface Quotient” (RASQ) that was used in this study and what it reveals about Windows Server 2003 security.
Relative Attack Surface Quotient (RASQ)
Microsoft has acknowledged that historically it has been difficult to measure a system’s security elements due to a variety of reasons, some of which Microsoft cites as lack of standards and lack of vendor support.
The “Relative Attack Surface Quotient,” or RASQ, is a mathematical method of assessing the attackability of an operating system. The RASQ attempts to mathematically assess systems through a well-defined process in which the system (in this case Windows Server 2003) can be compared to other systems to determine which is less attackable. Keep in mind that this assessment is aimed at the “surface” of the operating system, which can be defined as the points of attack or the potential weak spots (essentially, those portions of the operating system that are targetable by hackers). Good examples of a surface attack are attacks against services, or weakly secured file systems, open sockets, services running as “System,” etc.
At first glance, the mathematics behind this process can seem a bit confusing. In reality, it’s not as tough as you might think. By identifying the attackable portions of the operating system, assigning a likelihood of attack, and cumulatively adding them together you arrive at the RASQ of a system.
At a lower level, this is what happens: To determine a system’s RASQ you must identify the “Root Attack Vectors.” Root Attack Vectors are portions of the operating systems (i.e., features) that can positively or negatively affect the security of a system. Root Attack Vectors assist in determining the “Effective Attack Surface Value.”
To determine the Effective Attack Surface Value multiply the total number of attackable surfaces (things that can be targeted) within a given Root Attack Vector by the “Attack Bias.” An Attack Bias is a numerical value that helps determine the risk of compromise for a particular surface. Keep in mind that the Attack Bias is a completely subjective numbering system based on reasonable conclusions and likelihood of attack.
Finally, to determine the RASQ, simply add the Effective Attack Surface Values together. The result is the RASQ of a system. For those of you who are truly interested in mathematical details of RASQ, check out this PowerPoint presentation by Jeannette Wing.
So, which operating system is less attackable? Well, the answer to that question is actually surprising…well not really, if you stop and think about it. Windows NT 4.0 without IIS came in as the least attackable operating system. However, the relevancy of this finding is clear. Windows NT 4.0 Server is no longer a viable new purchase when it comes to server-level operating systems. Of the servers that were configured with IIS, Windows Server 2003 came in with the lowest score (lowest being a good thing). This is exactly what Microsoft has been trying to market. With security being touted as a key reason to move to Windows Server 2003, these types of results are indicative that this new version of the OS is indeed more secure in its default configuration (compared to other operating systems).
Which OS scored the worst? Windows 2000, configured with its out-of-the-box default settings (including IIS) scored a whopping 341 points! But that is no surprise. The significant improvements in areas like Directory Services were overshadowed by gaping security holes and what appeared to be major lapses in business acumen. That said, Microsoft has come around, assigning security a much higher priority in Windows Server 2003.
It is very interesting (and quite logical) to note that the addition of IIS to a system drastically affected the scores—making them higher. Translation: IIS makes your system much more attackable. Remember this measurement is not designed to determine how secure a system is in a locked down state, but instead how attackable it is in its default configuration.
As with other equations designed to provide measurement of IT variables, the RASQ is somewhat subjective in nature. However, Microsoft, realizing the importance of security, needed a way to compare Windows Server 2003 to other operating systems. By measuring all systems by the same barometer (subjective or not) Microsoft provides evidence to suggest that Windows Server 2003 is less attackable than other operating systems, and therefore one could infer that it is more secure in its default configuration.
More on RASQ
For more on the usefulness of RASQ, read this article from MCP Magazine columnist Roberta Bragg.
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DescripciónFilled with vibrant examples of painting, photography, sculpture, video, and other media, this book reveals how Iran's leading artists weave the country's past into the fabric of its contemporary art.;The past is a continuous and inescapable part of Iranian art and culture. This book beautifully demonstrates this notion with examples dating from the 1970s to the present-a time of turmoil and political upheaval. Featuring a dizzying variety of works-from paintings and photography to political cartoons and posters-this volume shows how contemporary artists appropriate and recontextualize myth and history to tell powerful new stories about life in Iran. This book also explores how pre-Modern artists first began to manipulate time by visually shifting the past into the present as demonstrated by Persian miniature painting, in particular illustrated versions of the Shahnama, or Book of Kings, the Iranian national epic. Statements from prominent contemporary artists consider the creative means by which they evoke the past to address present-day social and political concerns. Designed to promote fluid movement between historical and modern, this wideranging book offers a unique and important exploration of a country with a rich and complicated heritage.
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The properties and varieties of concrete additives for refractories, especially refractory castables, ramming materials, plastics and other amorphous refractories are different. The role of an concrete additive is also different due to the difference of the amount of concrete additive, the type of binder used, the ingredients and so on. In the production process of amorphous refractories, the concrete additives mainly used can be divided into the following twelve categories according to their uses:
Defoamer can quickly escape the bubbles produced by amorphous refractories during mixing or vibration molding. Defoamer is also a surface active substance, and its ability to reduce liquid surface tension is much stronger than that of foaming agent. The strength of the formed liquid film is greatly reduced, the foam loses its stability, and the spreading speed on the liquid surface is faster, the faster the spreading speed is, the stronger the defoaming effect is. The types of defoamers include alcohols, fatty acids and fatty acid salts, organosilicon compounds and so on.
10. Anti-shrinkage agent
Anti-shrinkage agent can reduce or prevent the shrinkage caused by heating and use of refractories after forming, also known as volume stabilizer or expansive agent. Its anti-shrinkage principle is:
The anti-shrinkage agent will be pyrolyzed after high temperature heating, and the molar volume of the product is larger than that of the original material before pyrolysis, thus compensating the sintering shrinkage of the material. Such as kyanite anti-shrinkage agent.
After high temperature chemical reaction, the molar volume of the new phase is larger than that of the original reaction phase, thus the sintering shrinkage can be compensated. If α-Al2O3 is added to magnesia castables as anti-shrinkage agent, the volume expansion effect can be produced by the formation of alumina-magnesia spinel by high temperature reaction. For example, the bonded clay or silica powder is added to the high alumina castable to compensate the sintering shrinkage by the volume expansion effect of mullite produced at high temperature.
The added anti-shrinkage agent can not only change the crystal form of expansion in the process of high temperature heating, but also compensate the shrinkage of sintering. For example, in aluminosilicate castable or plastic, an appropriate amount of silica powder is added to compensate the sintering shrinkage of the matrix with the help of the volume expansion when quartz is transformed into cristobalite or cristobalite.
11. Preservation agent
The preservation agent can keep the construction performance unchanged or unchanged after the amorphous refractories are stored for a certain period of time. For example, Al2O3-SiO2 series refractory plastics and ramming materials, which are usually combined with phosphoric acid or aluminum dihydrogen phosphate, will react with Al2O3 in the material to form insoluble aluminum orthophosphate, which makes the mixture dry prematurely and lose its workability. Therefore, it is necessary to add a concealer which can form a complex with Al3+ ion to inhibit the formation of insoluble aluminum orthophosphate and prolong the shelf life. The preservatives used for plastics and ramming materials combined with phosphoric acid or aluminum dihydrogen phosphate are oxalic acid, citric acid, tartaric acid and so on. Sulfonic salicylic acid and dextrin also have the role of preservative.
Inhibitors can inhibit the expansion caused by the reaction of iron and iron compounds in amorphous refractories with acidic chemical binders, so it is also called anti-expansion agent. When acidic chemical binders (such as phosphoric acid, aluminum dihydrogen phosphate, aluminum sulfate, aluminum chloride and polyaluminum chloride, etc.) are used as binders, the mixture generally needs to go through trapped materials. in order to make the acid binder fully react with the metal iron or ferrous compounds contained in the mixture to release hydrogen, otherwise it will produce expansion and make the material become loose and porous and the strength decreases. If it is used directly without trapping material, an inhibitor must be added. Inhibitor is a kind of complexing agent, which can react with metallic iron to form a complex, which can inhibit expansion. These inhibitors include CrO3, diacetone alcohol, ferric phosphate and so on.
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Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie begins with a man by the name of Saleem Aziz, born on August 15, 1947 the day India gained their independence from Britain. Saleem, who has just turned thirty one years old, feels as if he is about to die. With this thought lingering over him, he feels it is necessary to share his life story to his caretaker and wife, Padma. This novel is written in first person in the perspective of Saleem, but he does try to assure us that he is credible because is able to see in great detail his family’s life even though he has never been there. He takes us back to his grandfather’s life, Aadam Aziz, and continues to share the lives of his family and even his life as the novel continues from Book One. Saleem narrates the lives of his family to illustrate how their lives all intertwine with one another, but to also bring reference back to postcolonial India.
Rushdie creates Saleem to be this all knowing person, but also subjective when mentioning his thoughts towards his family members pasts. As he is telling us the story of his grandparents, we soon see that their once love inspiring marriage has turned sour and this is due to colonial views that Aadam, adapted to and wanted his country to adapt to it as well. He tried to bring this culture in first through his marriage with Naseem, and she took it offensively. He mentioned that she should be working more to please him in a sexual manner and:
“she has been weeping ever since he asked her, on their second night, to move a little. ‘Move where?’ she asked. ‘Move how?’ He became awkward and said, ‘Only move, I mean, like a woman…’ She shrieked in horror. ‘My God, what have I married? I know you Europe-returned men. You find terrible women and then you try to make us girls be like them! Listen, Doctor Sahib, husband or no husband, I am not any...bad word woman,” (Rushdie, 31).
Growing up in the west, she did not believe she had to become a slave to her husband and that sex was supposed to be a shared experience. It should not be all on the woman to make sure the man is satisfied and only he has the right to be satisfied. He fell in Europe’s trap, but Aadam was not the only one to fall under Europe’s tantalizing culture in India.
William Methwold is introduced as Saleem’s biological father, but Saleem never had the chance to experience the love of his biological father because Mary Pereira switched him and Shiva at birth to satisfy her “social justice.” She does eventually realize her mistake and dedicated her life to helping to raise Saleem. William Methwold is an Englishman who owned Methwold Estate who helped to colonize India. As he is working with the Indians, we notice:
“the Estate, Methwold’s Estate, is changing them. Every evening at six they are out in their gardens, celebrating the cocktail hour, and when William Methwold comes to call they slip effortlessly into their imitation Oxford drawls; and they are learning, about ceiling fans and gas cookers and the correct diet for budgerigars...Yes, that’s it. ‘Sabkuch ticktock hai,” mumbles Methwold. All is well,” (Rushdie, 109).
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Prednisone, given while up-titrating verapamil, was effective at reducing the frequency of cluster headache attacks.
Why does this matter?
Prednisone is often used for cluster headache, but its effectiveness hasn’t been proven in a RCT. Even one less cluster headache could impact quality of life. Does prednisone reduce cluster headache attacks?
Cluster bomb, cluster headache, cluster B…the only good cluster I know is a Goo Goo Cluster (…pecan is the best).
This was a multicenter, double blinded, placebo controlled RCT with 116 patients who received prednisone 100mg x 5 days, with a taper by 20mg every three days (17 days total) or placebo while up-titrating verapamil for prophylaxis (40mg tid up to 120mg tid over 19 days). Mean number of attacks in the first week were fewer in the prednisone group vs placebo: 7.1 vs 9.5, respectively (-2.4 headache attacks, 95%CI -4.8 to -0.03). Also, 35% of the prednisone group vs. 7% (p=0.0006) of placebo patients had complete cessation of attacks in the first 7 days. There was no increase in serious adverse events in the treatment arm. There were a number of exclusions you should be aware of and consider, such as diabetes, hypertension, gastric ulcers, along with many others. They had to stop the trial early because it was difficult to enroll patients, and they ran out of funding. Almost all patients enrolled were German, which may impact generalizability. Overall, this is an evidence based treatment that could help patients suffering with this awful condition.
Safety and efficacy of prednisone versus placebo in short-term prevention of episodic cluster headache: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial. Lancet Neurol. 2021 Jan;20(1):29-37. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30363-X. Epub 2020 Nov 24.
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How Russia's War in Ukraine will Accelerate U.S.-China Competition
Moscow’s disastrous adventurism will leave it a junior player in a conflict between authoritarianism and democracy.
Most discussions of “great power competition” have mentioned the three great powers themselves: the United States, China, and Russia. But the pitiful performance of Russia’s Potemkin military during its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has revealed Moscow as little more than a second-rate power. The demotion of one great power is more than semantics; it presages an accelerated competition between the remaining two.
While Russia possesses nuclear weapons, vast energy reserves, and a seat on the UN Security Council, Western-led sanctions are strangling its economy and Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s actions have cemented Russia’s status as a global pariah. The isolation Russia is facing within the international financial system leaves Moscow with few options and is certain to deepen its dependency on China. All this is likely to accelerate a trend that was already in progress: this shift toward a bipolar world, with the United States competing with China, each representing a starkly different model of world order.
Russia’s dependence on China is only likely to grow, making it similar in some ways to North Korea, with Moscow forced to accept its role as junior partner to Beijing. Other countries in this orbit include Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Myanmar, and Belarus—a rogue’s gallery of nations that will gravitate toward China, aligning against the U.S.-led West. Putin’s depraved war has put the Kremlin in a separate category, one that deliberately targets civilians, with evidence of war crimes in every Ukrainian city across the country. Russia’s continued disinformation and blatant lying in multilateral fora like the United Nations is beyond the pale, even for Moscow.
For all of Russia’s adventurism under Putin, which previously included attempts to spread influence in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, the weakness of its military has been exposed. Barely two weeks into the war, Moscow has been forced to rely on conscripts, mercenaries from the Wagner Group, and even ragtag Syrian militia members loyal to the brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad. There is growing concern that, like Assad, Putin may also resort to using chemical weapons against civilian populations.
Meanwhile, the invasion has reinvigorated NATO like no event since the 9/11 attacks. The alliance had been under various types of strain in recent years, from Donald Trump’s muttering about deadbeat allies to Emmanuel Macron’s vision of an EU-powered defense structure to Turkey’s decision to buy Russian missiles. But now Germany has pledged to spend an additional 100 billion Euros on defense; France and the United Kingdom have assumed a more vocal role; and even the alliance members on the more authoritarian end of the scale—Hungary, Turkey, and Poland—are (mostly) supporting Ukraine. And Finland and Sweden are once again debating the merits of seeking an invitation to join NATO.
But continued progress is far from inevitable. Countries like India, which still rely heavily on Russia for arms, acquiring as much as 60 percent of its military hardware from Moscow. In January, India abstained from a U.N. vote discussing the Russian threat to Ukraine. And recent reporting suggests that India is going to find a workaround to purchase Russian oil. So even though India, one of the most vocal supporters of non-alignment during the Cold War, has joined new configurations like the Quad, it is no fait accompli that New Delhi will fall lockstep with Western foreign policy objectives, even in cases as seemingly black and white as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The United States is also reassessing some of its current relationships, in light of the aggressive efforts to cut off Russian energy supplies. U.S. officials traveled to Venezuela recently to talk with strongman Nicolas Maduro about increasing oil exports to alleviate pressure on global markets. Similarly, there have apparently been conversations within the Biden administration about reaching out to Saudi Arabia, a swing producer and longstanding U.S. ally that has been kept at arm’s length due to the role that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman played in ordering the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
While many of the analogies of a new Cold War between the U.S. and China may be overwrought and somewhat hackneyed, in terms of the structure of the international system, there are obvious commonalities that are impossible to ignore. The U.S.-led alignment will primarily be democracies, but will also include non-democracies, including allies in the Middle East and Africa. So-called “middle countries,” those nations like Turkey and Indonesia that are neither great powers nor weak states, will be courted closely by Washington and Beijing. Some countries will be caught in the crossfire, but economic benefits and longstanding diplomatic arrangements, as well as a pledge from Beijing to ignore human rights violations in the name of “sovereignty” will attract fence sitters to the Chinese pole.
By attempting to recreate the glory of the former Soviet Union, Putin has precipitated Russia’s downfall, amplifying the Kremlin’s weaknesses and leading nation-states and multinational corporations to marginalize Moscow. China is Russia’s only legitimate lifeline, a role Beijing seems keen to play, eager to trade economic and military assistance for suzerainty in the authoritarian bloc. The implications for geopolitical realignment are significant.
Putin pursued war in Ukraine because he got greedy. After several prior Russian incursions—in Georgia in 2008, in Crimea in 2014, in Syria in 2015—Moscow escaped relatively unscathed. The net result was emboldening Putin to seek further conquests to recreate “Russky Mir,” or “Russian World,” in an attempt to expand Russia’s near abroad.
Putin gambled, assumed huge risk, and seems certain to lose. In the process, not only did Putin fail to achieve his goal, but in the end he hastened Russia’s demise and all but assured that Moscow is subsumed under Beijing’s hegemony, forming the backbone of a growing authoritarian pole in the international system, as the U.S. and the West seek to capitalize upon the momentum generated by the fighting spirit demonstrated by Ukraine and its brave citizens as they fight for Western values and the “new birth of freedom.”
Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D., is the Director of Research at The Soufan Group and a Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center.
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sweetness, genial indulgences, and practical wisdom. In the succeeding age our poets were but too gay; and though we forbear to speak of living authors, we know enough of them to say with confidence, that to be miserable or to be hated is not now, any more than heretofore, the common lot of those who excel.
Byron and his Poetry. NEVER had any writer so vast a command of the whole eloquence of scorn, misafithropy and despair. That Marah was never dry. No art could sweeten, no draughts could exhaust, its perennial waters of bitterness. Never was there such variety of monotony as that of Byron. From maniac laughter to piercing lamentation, there was not a single note of human anguish of which he was not master. Year after year, and month after month, he continued to repeat, that to be wretched is the destiny of all; that to be eminently wretched is the destiny of the eminent; that all the desires by which we are cursed, lead alike to misery; if they are not gratified, to the misery of disappointment; if they are gratified, to the misery of satiety. His principal heroes are men who have arrived by different roads at the same goal of despair, who are sick of life, who are at war with society, who are supported in their anguish, only by an unconquerable pride, resembling that of Prometheus on the rock, or of Satan in the burning marl; who can master their agonies by the force of their will, and who, to the last, defy the whole power of earth and heaven. He always describes himself as a man of the same kind with his favourite creations, as a man whose heart had been withered, whose capacity for happiness was gone, and could not be restored; but whose invincible spirit dared the worst that could befall him here or hereafter.
How much of this morbid feeling sprang from an original disease of mind, how much from real misfortune, how much from the nervousness of dissipation, how much of it was fanciful, how much of it was merely affected, it is impossible for us, and would probably have been impossible for the most intimate friends of Lord Byron, to decide. Whether there ever existed, or can ever exist, a person answering to the description which he gave of himself, may be doubted; but that he was not such a person is beyond all doubt. It is ridiculous to imagine that a man, whose mind was really imbued with scorn of his fellow-creatures, would have published three or four books every year to tell them so; or that a man, who could say with truth that he neither sought sympathy nor needed it, would have admitted all Europe to hear his farewell to his wife, and his blessings on his child. In the second canto of Childe Harold, he tells us that he is insensible to fame and obloquy;
“ Ill may such contest now the spirit move,
Which heeds nor keen reproof nor partial praise."
Yet we know, on the best evidence, that a day or two before he published these lines, he was greatly, nay indeed, childishly elated, by the compliments paid to his maiden speech in the House of Lords.
We are far, however, from thinking that his sadness was altogether feigned. He was naturally a man of great sensibility: he had been ill-educated; his feelings had been early exposed to sharp trials; he had been crossed in his boyish love; he had been mortified by the failure of his first literary efforts; he was straitened in pecuniary circumstances; he was unfortunate in his domestic relations; the public treated him with cruel injustice; his health and spirits suffered from his dissipated habits of life; he was, on the whole, an unhappy man. He early discovered that, , by parading his unhappiness before the multitude, he excited an unrivalled interest. The world gave him encouragement to talk about his mental sufferings. The effect which his first confessions produced, induced him to affect much that he did not feel : and the affectation probably reacted on his feelings. How far the character in which he exhibited himself was genuine, and how far theatrical, would probably have puzzled himself to say.
What our grandchildren may think of the character of Lord Byron, as exhibited in his poetry, we will not pretend to guess. It is certain, that the interest which he excited during his life, is without a parallel in literary history. The feeling with which young readers of poetry regarded him, can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. To people who are unacquainted with real calamity,“nothing is so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy." This faint image of sorrow has in all ages been considered by young gen
tlemen, as an agreeable excitement. Old gentlemen, and middle-aged gentlemen have so many real causes of sadness, that they are rarely inclined “ to be as sad as night, only for wantonness.” Indeed, they want the power, almost as much as the inclination. We know very few persons engaged in active life, who, even if they were to procure stools to be melancholy upon, and were to sit down with all the premeditation of Master Stephen, would be able to enjoy much of what somebody calls the “ecstasy of wo."
Among the large class of young persons, whose reading is almost entirely confined to works of imagination, the popularity of Lord Byron was unbounded. They bought pictures of him, they treasured up the smallest relics of him; they learned his poems by heart, and did their best to write like him, and to look like him. Many of them practised at the glass in the hope of catching the curl of the upper lip, and the scowl of the brow, which
in some of his portraits. A few discarded their neckcloths in imitation of their great leader. For some years, the Minerva press sent forth no novel without a mysterious, unhappy, Lara-like peer. The number of hopeful undergraduates, and medical students who became things of dark imaginings, on whom the freshness of the heart ceased to fall like dew, whose passions had consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many of these enthusiasts, a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power and moral depravity. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness.
This affectation has passed away; and a few more years will destroy whatever yet remains of that magical potency which once belonged to the name of Byron. To us he is still a man, young, noble, and unhappy. To our children he will be merely a writer ; and their impartial judgment will appoint his place among writers, without regard to his rank or to his private history. That his poetry will undergo a severé sifting ; that much of what has been admired by his contemporaries, will be rejected as worthless, we have little doubt. But we have as little doubt, that after the closest scrutiny, there will still remain much that can only perish with the English language.
BROUGH A M.
Character of Washington. How grateful the relief which the friend of mankind, the lover of virtue, experiences, when, turning from the contemplation of such a character as Napoleon, his eye rests upon
the greatest man of our own or any age; —the only one upon whom an epithet so thoughtlessly lavished by men, to foster the crimes of their worst enemies, may be innocently and justly bestowed! In Washington we truly behold a marvellous contrast to almost every one of the endowments and the vices which we have been contemplating ; and which are so well fitted to excite a mingled admiration, and sorrow, and abhorrence. | <urn:uuid:c15d6a25-e405-4324-a08c-ded3c7d5c7bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.cz/books?id=RFcSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA354&vq=%22Read+not+to+contradict+and+confute,+nor+to+believe+and+take+for+granted,+nor+to+find+talk+and+discourse,+but%22&dq=editions:UOM39015003464305&lr=&as_brr=0&hl=cs&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.986836 | 1,671 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Violence was reported from various parts of West Bengal, as the polling for the single phase panchayat elections is underway on Monday. Within less than two hours after the polling began, the State Election Commission has received complains of violence from at least four districts from different parts the state and has asked the police to take action, SEC officials said.
As many as 20 people were injured in fresh clashes which broke out between two groups here in Cooch Behar.
The panchayat vote, which was in the news for prolonged court-battles and violence, are crucial for Mamata Banerjee’s ruling Trinamool Congress, rising force in the state BJP, erstwhile ruling parties CPI(M) and Congress ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.
Here's why Bengal panchayat elections is important and why is it turning violent:
* The key importance of this year's rural elections lies in the attempt by emerging political parties in the state to come into power. These parties include the BJP and also, if a less significant threat, is the Left which has decided on leaving itself open to working together with the Congress.
*Indeed the violence which the panchayat polls of 2018 have been marked by since the nomination stage is related, according to the BJP, due to the fear of opposition capturing power.
* "The violence in the state is unprecedented," Chandra Kumar Bose, BJP leader, told Outlook.
* The Left has reiterated that during the long three and a half decade rule, the state has not seen such violence. "The ruling party has declared the dangerous notion of Opposition-free Panchayat," CPIM leader Mohammaded Selim told Outlook. "And the bloodshed is the reflection of these," He further added.
* "Democracy is under threat in this state," Congress leader Om Prakash Mishra told Outlook.
The counting will take place on May 17. The three-tier polls are spread across over 58,000 seats most of which have been reportedly won by TMC without any contest. | <urn:uuid:df926c06-e3fc-460e-94db-9a82cb299d59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/west-bengal-panchayat-elections-2018/311930 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982446 | 426 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Down syndrome is the most common genetic cause of mental retardation. Active fragments of neurotrophic factors release by astrocyte under the stimulation of vasoactive intestinal peptide, NAPVSIPQ (NAP) and SALLRSIPA (SAL) respectively, have shown therapeutic potential for developmental delay and learning deficits. Previous work demonstrated that NAP+SAL prevent developmental delay and glial deficit in Ts65Dn that is a well-characterized mouse model for Down syndrome. The objective of this study is to evaluate if prenatal treatment with these peptides prevents the learning deficit in the Ts65Dn mice. Pregnant Ts65Dn female and control pregnant females were randomly treated (intraperitoneal injection) on pregnancy days 8 through 12 with saline (placebo) or peptides (NAP 20 μg +SAL 20 μg) daily. Learning was assessed in the offspring (8-10 months) using the Morris Watermaze, which measures the latency to find the hidden platform (decrease in latency denotes learning). The investigators were blinded to the prenatal treatment and genotype. Pups were genotyped as trisomic (Down syndrome) or euploid (control) after completion of all tests. Statistical analysis: two-way ANOVA followed by Neuman-Keuls test for multiple comparisons, P<0.05 was used to denote statistical significance. Trisomic mice who prenatally received placebo (Down syndrome -placebo; n = 11) did not demonstrate learning over the five day period. DS mice that were prenatally exposed to peptides (Down syndrome-peptides; n = 10) learned significantly better than Down syndrome -placebo (p<0.01), and similar to control-placebo (n = 33) and control-peptide (n = 30). In conclusion prenatal treatment with the neuroprotective peptides (NAP+SAL) prevented learning deficits in a Down syndrome model. These findings highlight a possibility for the prevention of sequelae in Down syndrome and suggest a potential pregnancy intervention that may improve outcome.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
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Understanding Parkinson’s through the Lens of Neuroscience
Written by Shreyan Mitra
With over ten million people worldwide estimated to be suffering from Parkinson’s disease (PD), sadly, all of us know someone whose life has been touched by PD. One in 100 people over 60 are diagnosed with Parkinson’s, and this does not even account for the tens of thousands of younger adults and children.
PD is a neurodegenerative disorder, meaning the symptoms we see are caused by the death of neurons in a part of the nervous system. In the case of PD, this area includes the substantia nigra, a section in the brain stem known for its darkened color caused by the presence of neurons that mainly produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter, and hormone known for giving a feeling of happiness, joy, and satisfaction.
In Parkinson’s, the degeneration of these nerve cells, in combination with those in the cerebellum, causes a variety of symptoms, including (but not limited to) shuffling gait, depression, hallucinations, tremors, and muscle stiffness. Though the disease begins in the brainstem and cerebellum, late-stage Parkinson’s has been shown to spread to the rest of the brain.
To learn more about this disease, we had the opportunity and honor to attend a seminar on August 9, 2020, featuring:
Dr. Leire Abalde-Atristain, Postdoctoral Fellow at Oregon Health & Science University (Vollum Inst), and
Dr. Aparna Shah, Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University (Neuroscience Dept)
After reviewing the functions of neurons and the effects and symptoms of PD, Dr. Abalde and Dr. Shah discussed the investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease. On the research front, scientists have used methods such as stem cell cultures and model organisms to explore the progression and possible treatment paths for PD. The diagnostic process is one of elimination, ruling out other diseases from observing symptoms and behavior through a neurological exam. Methods such as the use of biomarkers are being used to make the diagnostic process more effective. Treatment includes numerous therapies to address different symptoms, as well as ways to introduce cells cultured from the patient’s cells which have been modified.
The last part of the seminar was an activity where the attendees teamed up in pairs to read about different studies regarding Parkinson’s disease. These studies entailed inquiry into various fundamental elements of the disease, and how treatments could be made to prevent these root causes. We then shared out our findings and opinions on their contributions to finding a cure or prevention measure for PD.
Thank you to Dr. Abalde and Dr. Shah, for coming to teach us and answer our questions about Parkinson’s, Dr. Scheifele, for organizing this session, and everyone who came to learn and ask questions! | <urn:uuid:ffe15c8a-bee8-4ccf-819a-9441bcb9a991> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bugssonline.org/pastseminar/understanding-parkinsons-through-the-lens-of-neuroscience/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94264 | 587 | 3 | 3 |
3 Skills on Your CV that You Should Avoid Mentioning
There is a lot of confusion surrounding the question of what one should write in the skills section of a CV. In general terms, the rule of thumb says that you should list a few things that you excel at – skills that can make a positive difference in the company that you would like to work with.
The rule is quite straightforward but many people struggle with it nonetheless. If you are not sure whether the skills that you are listing are actually skills, then read on. Whatever you do, there are certain types of “skills” that recruiters do not like finding on your CV. You should avoid using them:
We regularly bump into CVs that list “Internet and E-mail” under the skills headline. If you’re aiming a for a top-tier profession in the digital sector, you can be reassured that listing this “skill” will grant you an instant rejection. Why?
Today, being able to surf the internet and being able to send an e-mail is equivalent to being literate. There is no need to state the obvious. Of course, you can surf the internet and send e-mails – it’s 2016, after all.
The “Unintentional Lie”
People tend to overestimate their abilities. They tend to regard themselves as more competent than they really are. It’s part of our human nature, something that we all share. In practice, this is an innate bias towards overestimating our abilities — scientists call it the “Dunning-Kruger effect” — and it leads people to list skills that they don’t really have .
People often claim to be “proficient in Word and Excel”, but in practice, they can’t create pivots of data-sets, use macros,or perform basic data analysis operations. Only a minority of them have up-to-date knowledge and practiced skills in Word and Excel. They list programming languages such as Python or Ruby, but can’t even construct a basic if-else statement. Unbeknownst to them, these sort of people turn into liars. And lies are not skills.
“Honesty”, “respect”, “cooperation”, “openness” and other personal values do not belong on your CV. Values are highly subjective and have no value on paper. It is through action and facts, through your professional and educational background, that you show recruiters your motivation!
We are not saying that you should not be honest and cooperative — what a grim world that would be if nobody was! What we are saying is that abstract values and principles cannot be measured.
Recruiters cannot prove that you are honest until you are granted a working contract. Until then, drop the values from your CV!
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A stairway lift is generally a mechanized mechanical device used for boosting people, normally those with wheelchair disabilities, up and down straight stairways. For exceptionally broad stairways, there is a rail installed on both sides of the stairways to which the lift is connected. In some cases a chair or various other training gadget is connected along the rail. Staircase lifts are regularly used by people in mobility devices or people recuperating from an injury. They are likewise utilized by individuals that have trouble strolling as a result of arthritis or muscular tissue weak point.
The actual device that raises a person is called the trolley system. The cart system has a chain or rack containing a number of wheels attached to a rail. When the person steps on the rail and also reaches his or her destination, the pull of the seat or the system starts to relocate the trolley ahead or back, relying on the power of the rail driver. In some staircase lifts, the pull of the seat or the platform also brakes the trolley to ensure that the stairway lift go back to a fixed setting. stair lift or chair lift
There are 2 types of staircase lifts: mechanized chairs and manually ran staircase lifts. For people with wheelchair impairments, motorized chairs are advised over manual chairs. The main reason for this is that individuals in such conditions are not able to control the direction of their chair while climbing stairs and also they are unable to flex their knee and also heel parallel as they would certainly have the ability to do if they had a hand-operated chair. The stair lift, if it is motorized, uses a device called the power-lift cylinder. The power-lift cyndrical tube includes a motor that transforms the force of gravity right into electrical energy that can be made use of to raise the person and also make him or her to rise or descend the stairs.
The major benefit of stair-climbing chairs is that they are much safer than making use of manually run chairs. This is since the cyclist does not have to be worried regarding clinching either one of the handholds (or both) of the stairlift and diving down the staircases or merely grabbing the seat belt to grab hold of the top railing. An individual in a motorized chair is less most likely to drop because the force of gravity can not take down one’s body at the same time that the force of energy is pulling down the chair. Consequently, it is much safer than sitting in a chair as well as doing nothing: the owner will certainly not diminish the chair as well as they will not grab anything hanging in the air while descending the stairways and also they will not obtain their hands as well as legs entangled up in any kind of loosened and hanging materials.
Stairlifts differ depending upon the products where they are made. There are motorized variations of straight stairs stair lifts, property stair lifts, workplace staircase lifts and commercial stairlifts. For straight staircases, a straight stair lift has a track attached to a pair of wheels at the bottom of the stairs and also the seat or the rear of the chair is placed on a system on top of the staircases, to make sure that the passenger has to guide the chair up the stairways by relocating the chair backward and forward on the track. The seat can be reclined also. Nonetheless, the straight staircases stairway lift can only go as far as the length of the stairs and also can only fluctuate at a single rate. Commercial stairlifts, as the name recommends, are used for business functions as well as are available in different designs and with various capacities.
As stated previously, stairlifts have a fringe benefit for customers called obstruction discovery. Blockage detection is an important safety function located in many however not all stairway raises. In a typical obstruction discovery system a device that produces an alarm system whenever any type of obstruction is discovered in the staircase lift. When this alarm system is activated, the stairway lift quits and also the user is assisted to the nearest opening to climb out. Sometimes this distance additionally implies that the customer needs to leave the staircase lift at the side of the blockage, in which situation the staircase lift needs to be meticulously created as well as mounted. ublin 12 stair lift
A bent staircase lift, which can fit into almost any kind of stairlift installment, can be a cost-effective and space-saving alternative to lifts. A bent stairway lift contains an arm, or riser, at the bottom of the stairs. The customer sits on the riser as well as, utilizing hand controls, raises as well as reduces the stairway lift. A curved stairway lift is particularly beneficial if your stairways are slim and you do not have much room to suit an elevator. In addition to saving space, it also saves on energy prices. You do not require an expensive electric supply to run your staircase lift, and also you do not need to worry about a costly expansion cable ranging from your home lift to your stairway lift.
Lots of staircase raises featured safety and security functions such as emergency quiting, and also these functions can be specifically helpful for elderly or handicapped individuals. Therefore, some stair lifts are made to be auxiliary lifts for elderly people. Stair raises that are independent serve for people that can not make use of stairway lifts to rise and also down the stairways because of physical handicaps. Independent stairway lifts are also suitable for individuals who are incapable or resistant to climb up stairways as well as use a chair lift.
A stairway lift is usually a hydraulic device for physically raising people, typically those with wheelchair specials needs, up and down staircases. For small stairs, there is generally a hand rails connected to the treads. Additionally, at the bottom of a staircase there is normally a handrail. A security flag may additionally be used. For stairways that are long and also high, a chair or light-weight lifting system affixed to the barrier is used. levator youtube stair lift
Staircase lifts are offered in different layouts, as well as depending on the requirements of the individual, they can be either manually operated or mechanized. In hand-operated staircase lifts, the occupant is by hand raised as well as down the stairs by a chair, walking stick or stair-climbing system. The system may be either an electrical motor powered by a battery or an air or hydraulic electric motor. One of the most common sorts of such lifts are: directly, bent, single/double, stair glides, as well as electrical powered. | <urn:uuid:63ff3a75-8521-4536-809f-a96a0fd43be6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.varesemagazine.com/2021/09/10/crucial-realities-that-you-should-know-about-stairway-lift/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968423 | 1,342 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Learn the latest skills
Realize you are entering in a period of radical innovation be ready to be surprise and surprise others with your explorations
Integrated curriculum – Teaching global skills welcomes your unique school experience contribution to collective learning, open mindset, joy of learning. Phenomenon-based or multidisciplinary replaces encyclopedic approach to learning. PISA 2018 measurement of global competences - above all, schools are a place for well-being, secure prosperous citizens and communities for the 21st century. Target group of this course are school managers, that intend to include in their curriculum programs aimed at developing global skills, educational policy experts and advisers, STEAM courses coordinators/teachers, teachers of different subjects from all levels from preschool to high school, student’ counselors, teachers trainers, careers officers, educational guides and counselors and educational consultants, teachers’ coach. Learn how to create Design based Learning model for integrated lesson (or Phenomena), how to teach critical thinking/resilience to students all ages (tools, models, best practices), how to foster wellbeing in your class/your school, support a culture of learning-based organization in your school, tools for starting with, planning, monitoring and evaluating cooperative learning/team teaching/PBL, for scaffold and permanent innovation in the process and much more.
Upskill your organization
Target group are the school management, teachers, special education teachers and all other non-teaching experts and staff working in school education, adult education and VET.
The course covers a wide range of topics that schools need to consider and tackle when introducing and securing innovation in their school:
- Connect learning & 21st century skills based education
- New ways of learning & environments ( new Finnish curriculum – how it works now as well)
- Education Innovation- integrating & scaffolding your process
- Design based Learning model for integrated lesson
- Tools, models and best practices for teaching critical thinking/resilience to students all ages
- Fostering wellbeing in the school culture
The course methodology sets sight on accelerating learning with multicultural/diversity of perspectives, Phenomena Based Learning and Integrating Curriculum/teaching kick off and relates to your most important and relevant objectives for teaching integrated knowledge and skills (21st century skills).
Earn a certificate
The course participants will get a Certificate of Active Attendance.
The competences acquired will be validated by the course organisers on the Europass mobility.
What makes Euneos the leading course provider in Europe?
Euneos consistently has regards to challenges and retaliates by offering multiple options for quality courses to its clients following the Quality Standards for courses under Key Action 1 as required by the European Commission.
The Integrated curriculum – Teaching global skills on-site courses take place in Helsinki, Finland. Integrated curriculum – Teaching global skills are 7 day courses that start on Sunday afternoon and end on Saturday at 13:00 o'clock.
> planned courses
- CONFIRMED 28 August – 3 September 2022, Helsinki, Finland FULL (ask for waiting list)
- 14 – 20 May 2023, Helsinki, Finland.
Special edition - Teaching global skills (How we teach STEAM)
- 27 August - 2 September 2023, Helsinki, Finland
Euneos has an international team of trainers who are the most experienced in the field of their expertise. Meet Euneos' trainers for the Integrated curriculum - Teaching Global Skills course:
Main organiser / trainer
- Certified ICF Coach& Team Coach,
- Certified Trainer,
- MBA in Public Governance MODUL University Vienna,
- MES Graz University,
She has an international experience in European projects for over 16 years. She has been an EUNEOS trainer since 2016, organizing the courses like Best Practices Benchmarking, Integrated Curriculum, Coaching Strategies for Schools and new courses like School Development together with Forum Schule Germany, Education Innovation- New Learning Environments and Leadership- Embodiment practices.
Guests: librarians – supporting reading skills in a digital era, the social innovation of libraries in Finland (top reading skills in PISA country).
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Proposed legislation will most likely include banning foreign state-owned companies, sovereign wealth funds and non-governmental organisations from purchasing farmland, while private projects would be approved on a case-by-case basis.
(Originally published in the Financial Times)
By Joe Leahy
When Simon Veldt’s father and his fellow Dutch immigrant farmers set up the Holambra II co-operative near Paranapanema in southeastern Brazil, the area was known as “Hunger Valley”.
The co-operative, launched in the 1960s, built irrigation systems, introduced agricultural techniques and invested in equipment, changing the face of a district that had been populated by poor farmers subsisting on a few cattle and some corn and beans.
“There was no electricity, there was nothing,” says Mr Veldt, president of the Holambra Agro-Industrial Co-operative, which features a faux Dutch windmill at its entrance. “Now this region is known as the grain elevator of the state of São Paulo.”
The co-operative is a small example of the part foreign farmers have played in Brazil’s emergence as an agricultural power, whether through migration over the past century or more recent investments by large funds.
But today billions of dollars of investment are on hold as Brazil’s politicians consider a proposal governing land purchases. Nearly two years ago, Brazil banned foreign investors from buying large tracts of land. Since then private sector investment – an unintentional victim of a lack of clarity surrounding the ban – has shuddered to a halt. It is unlikely to resume until a new law – stuck in Brazil’s legislature – is passed.
Brazil is the world’s second-biggest soyabean and third-largest corn exporter and, although it is home to some of the biggest agricultural companies, the sheer scale of its industry requires international resources to achieve its potential, analysts say.
If investment in Brazilian farming falls, prices could rise globally. “If there are not enough resources to develop Brazil’s agricultural sector and increase supply there are two possible outcomes: one is investment in other areas of the world and the other is that commodity prices will have to increase,” says André Pessoa of Agroconsult, a Brazilian consultancy.
Farmers echo this concern. “If you want to attract skills and capital to improve the overall scenario of dairy farming in this country, the first thing you have to do is address how foreign farmers can purchase land,” says Craig Bell, a New Zealander and a founder of Leite Verde, a foreign-owned dairy farm. It uses a highly productive European variety of dairy cattle to produce milk in the tropical savannah of Brazil’s Bahia state. Leite Verde, which translates from Portuguese as green milk, is one of the lucky ones, he says, since it already has sufficient land.
The initial ban was prompted by government alarm at Chinese interest in buying Brazilian farms to help secure its supply of soybeans. “You are effectively selling a territory within a country to another country,” Homero Pereira, the congressman in charge of formulating the new law, told the Financial Times.
The measures under consideration would most likely include banning foreign state-owned companies, sovereign wealth funds and non-governmental organisations from purchasing farmland, while private projects would be approved on a case-by-case basis, Mr Pereira said.
Some investors are trying to work around the ban. Rather than trying to purchase property, Chinese groups were proposing loans or investment in infrastructure to Brazilian farmers in return for a guaranteed supply of soy, says Kory Melby, a US farmer working in Brazil as a consultant. But it was unclear if Brazilian farmers would embrace such offers.
There was a “cultural disconnect” between the Brazilian family-owned farms and the Chinese, who often sent large delegations of bureaucrats from state-owned companies to negotiate grain and land deals. “All my friends say they want to do business with the Chinese but they are wondering: ‘Who the hell am I dealing with here?’” says Mr Melby.
Some foreign companies have taken minority stakes, such as a purchase last year of 107,000 hectares of forestry land by Brazilian paper producer Klabin and a Chilean partner, Celulosa Arauco. These were relatively rare, however, amid industry estimates that proposed investments worth between $6bn and $7bn are on hold in the pulp and paper industry alone.
“Few of the big foreign companies are going to do anything until the law is clear,” says James Sinclair, managing partner at CFS Partners, a boutique investment bank in São Paulo.
For Brazilian companies, meanwhile, the removal of foreign buyers means less competition for land. “We are in some way against this law because we think it might hinder a little the growth of the country. But for our company, in the short term, it is advantageous,” said Arlindo Moura, president of SLC, one of Brazil’s biggest farming companies.
Just when this law will be passed is anyone’s guess – Brazil’s legislative agenda is jammed. But there is a tangible sense of frustration among would-be foreign investors with the legal hiatus. “Really, all of us foreigners just want to follow laws and produce some food,” says Brian Willott, a US farmer and consultant in Brazil. | <urn:uuid:ed7a0dbe-20ba-424a-9b0c-b21558132c28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/20227 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96881 | 1,136 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Despite a Google Doodle in her honor last November, Hedy Lamarr is still mostly known as a Hollywood bombshell of the 1930s and 1940s. But she was also a tech genius who helped pioneer technology that now underlies the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and cell phone networks we use every day.
Yet Lamarr, who died 16 years ago, was buried in an unmarked grave in Vienna. She had received no compensation and little credit for the work she did with her neighbor George Anthiel in developing this very important technology.
Her grave site has since been commemorated but funding for that work was lacking. Now Fund Dreamer and Reframed Pictures, Susan Sarandon’s production company, are backing a campaign to pay for the memorial. In a statement, Sarandon noted:
This is the story of a Hollywood actress, defined by her appearance, who was secretly a brilliant inventor and helped change the course of history, Until recently, Hedy Lamarr has laid in an unmarked grave in the Vienna Central Cemetery.
The grave-side memorial incorporates 88 steel rods representing the 88 frequencies in Lamarr’s patented frequency hopping technology. Those rods, when viewed from the right angle, generate an illusion of Lamarr’s face.
If you use Wi-Fi, thank Hedy Lamarr. For more, watch:
Katherine Drew, who is producing a documentary on Lamarr, launched the campaign to help Lamarr’s son Anthony Loder pay for the memorial’s installation.
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Baptisia australis var minor
DWARF BLUE INDIGO
Baptisia australis var. minor gives spectacular, glowing colour, but on a more compact and shorter bush than it’s taller relatives.
And even better – the Dwarf Blue Indigo has even larger flowers, but on a smaller bush.
Intensely rich, deep, vivid blue pea blooms
Otherwise Baptisia australis var. minor has the same intensely rich, deep, vivid blue pea blooms in summer.
And cut stems make wonderful floral arrangements in a vase.
While the same blue-grey foliage makes such a lovely foil for it’s own vivid flowers as well as the colours of other neighbouring blooms.
A thicket of grey-green cloaked stems make a rounded bush. That you just cant miss because of the beautiful flower and foliage colours.
Tough & hardy perennial
Plant in a sunny position.
Baptisia australis var. minor is easy to grow, as it is a tough, hardy, perennial.
Good for bees & birds / bad for rabbits & deer
And gardeners all bless Baptisia.
Because rabbits find it unattractive and a last resort to eat.
While deer also find it unpalatable.
However our little flying friends the bees, pollinators and native honey-eating birds, just adore it and feast on the nectar. Bees love blue in the garden and so do I.
Good for gardeners with rationed water
So it is drought resistant once established, and will continue to give you that burst of marvellous deep blue colour year after year.
And it is considered an excellent water saving choice for gardeners with rationed water supply.
Frost hardy & easy
Happily it is also very frost hardy.
30-60cm. High in flower x 30-60cm. Wide approx, making a rounded thicket of flowering stems.
Baptisia australis is in no way invasive, as it has no runners.
But your clump will get fatter, denser and even more impressive each year.
SEED SOWING ADVICE:
Sow any time indoors in punnets / or scatter directly in garden in autumn, winter or early spring.
INDOORS: First scarify seeds by gently rubbing between sheets of fine sandpaper, as these seeds have a very hard coating, making it difficult for moisture to penetrate and commence germination. So roughing up the coating with a little rubbing speeds up germination.
Then soak seeds in warm water in a glass – leave for 24 hours to soften the hard outer coating.
So any seeds that float should be soaked for another 24 hours in a fresh batch warm water, but seeds that have settled on the bottom of the glass are softened and ready to sow.
Now sow the seeds on the surface of good quality seed raising mix.
And cover seeds with mix / vermiculate / fine grit to a depth the same as the diameter of the seeds – approx. 5mm.
Then place the moist, sown punnet in a well-lit position. (But not in direct sunlight).
Continue to keep the punnet moist.
Temperatures of 20-23C approx. are best for optimum and rapid germination.
Seedlings emerge in approx. 14-30 days.
Encouraging your seeds
However if your seeds are shy to germinate after 30 days –then cling wrap moist, sown punnet & place in fridge (not freezer) for 6 weeks.
This will break the seed’s natural dormancy (The seeds will think they have had a winter, and now it is spring and time to germinate).
After the 6 weeks chilling of “pretend winter” in the fridge, remove the punnet, unwrap, make sure it is moist by soaking in a water bath.
Then place it back into the well-lit position for germination.
Keep moist, at temperatures of approx. 20-23C.
SEED COUNT: 5 seeds per pack approx.
(These seeds are rarely available and we have limited supply).
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Purdue’s internationally recognized gifted education program attracts talented graduate students from across the country and from around the world. Through experiences such as research, teaching, and P-12 engagement, our graduates are well-prepared to enter research and teaching positions at universities, as well as leadership positions in local, state and federal agencies and schools.
You’ll receive intense mentoring from Purdue’s faculty scholars and have the chance to work with Purdue’s world-renowned GER2I program, which includes the country’s oldest and longest-running summer residential course for gifted, creative, and talented students.
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September 8, 2016
Join the Arnold School's Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies* for the 6th Conference on Immigration to the US South: "Immigrants Making an Impact: Challenges and Opportunities in the South and Nationwide." The three-day conference will be held October 13-15 at the Public Health Research Center (921 Assembly Street Columbia, S.C. 29201) on the University of South Carolina's main campus.
The meeting will showcase research, community-based programs, advocacy work, and art. There will be a plenary session during the conference to explore the possibility of establishing an Immigration Studies (or Migration Studies) Association.
One of the keynote speakers for the event will be Silvia Pedraza, a Professor of Sociology and American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Pedraza was born and raised in Cuba, from where she immigrated with her family at the age of 12. Her research interests include the sociology of immigration, race, and ethnicity in America, and the sociology of Cuba's revolution and exodus. She places particular stress on comparative studies, both historical and contemporary. Her work seeks to understand the causes and consequences of immigration as a historical process that forms and transforms persons and nations; as well as social revolutions’ rupture with the past and attempt to create a different present.
Pedraza holds a B. A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. She is the author of three books and numerous articles. A few of her publications include: Political Disaffection in Cuba's Revolution and Exodus (Cambridge University Press, 2007); “Assimilation or Transnationalism: Conceptual Models of the Immigrant Experience,” in The Cultural Psychology of Immigrants, edited by Ram Mahalingham (Lawrence Earlbaum, 2006); and “Women and Migration: the Social Consequences of Gender,” Annual Review of Sociology (1991).
Rosío Córdova-Plaza, professor of Anthropology from Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico, will also serve as a keynote speaker (more information coming soon). Córdova-Plaza holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology. She is a member of the Mexican National Researchers System in the highest ranking (Level III). She is a professor and senior researcher in the Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico-Sociales at Universidad Veracruzana.
Since 2002, she has worked on emergent migration from Veracruz to the Southeastern U.S., focusing on gender, family, household, and sexuality issues. In 1997, Córdova-Plaza received the Family and Emergent Social Phenomena Studies Award, in 2000 the Helen I. Safa award from the Latin American Studies Association, and in 2009 the Senate award on Bicentennial of Independence research. Her book about migration from central Veracruz to the U.S., written with Cristina Nuñez and David Skerritt, received the honorific mention of the Bernardino de Sahagún award. She has written three books and more than a hundred scientific articles and book chapters. Currently, she is the leader of an international research network that deals with violence and vulnerability in México and Spain.
The Consortium for Latino Immigration Studies at USC promotes and coordinates multi-disciplinary research related to Latinos in South Carolina and the Southeast. Through its various activities the Consortium fulfills the University's mission to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of all state residents.
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Grocery prices have increased significantly. Individuals and families are all having trouble keeping up with the high prices of food.
Below is a list of ways on how to save money on groceries at the grocery store which will have you saving money in no time.
This list is simple and will help you financially save money on food without sacrificing the foods you love.
Let’s look at ways on how to save money on groceries!
Buy Generic Brands to Save Money
Buying generic will save you money on groceries. Each store has their own generic name brand. For example, Great Value is sold at Walmart and Signature Select is sold at Albertsons Market.
You can find all types of food and paper goods in the generic brand names with the same great taste as name brands.
Consider buying unpackaged fruits and vegetables to save money. Carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, melons, apples, and more can be bought at a cheaper price without the wrapping.
Also think about purchasing snacks like crackers, raisins, cookies, and cheese in one box or package instead of individual packaging or snack packs.
Separate the snacks yourself to save money on the cost you are charged for the packing.
Consider Not Buying in Bulk
I know many sites talk about buying in bulk, but honestly I started saving money by not buying in bulk. Buying in bulk can be helpful when stocking up for lunches or large parties.
However, like I mentioned before you can buy foods and snacks in a large box or package and separate the food yourself. You can determine if you’re getting a deal by comparing the price per unit or ounces.
If you are buying for your kid’s lunches or your own, you can easily purchase large containers, bags, or boxes of applesauce, chips, yogurt, and more. Use Rubbermaid TakeAlongs On the Go food storage and meal prep containers with multiple compartments to separate your foods.
Don’t Buy Just to Buy
Attempt to keep yourself from buying unneeded grocery items by not buying just to buy. Even if there are groceries on sale don’t buy if you don’t need them.
Remember the goal is the save money on groceries, you don’t want to overspend on groceries you won’t eat.
Grocery Shop Early or Late In the Day
When you shop early you can be the first to hit the marked down items on sale or clearance. When you shop late you can capture sales from the deli, bakery, and fresh food counter.
Grocery Shop On a Full Stomach
How many times do you walk into a grocery store on a full stomach? Do you notice how many more grocery items you buy when you are hungry?
Unfortunately, I’m the type who will browse and buy all of the unhealthy foods when I’m hungry. Your wallet will thank you for not walking into a grocery store hungry.
Make Shopping a Quick Trip
Go alone to the grocery store or with someone who will help you get the groceries you need and get out before getting distracted.
It is human nature for people to get enticed by the item’s stores put on display for marketing purposes.
Keep track of income and expenses by using my free Monthly Household Budget worksheet!
Order Curbside Pickup to Save Money on Groceries
If you are looking at ways to make your life easier by saving time and money then opt for the curbside pickup grocery order.
Some of the pros to ordering a curbside pickup are saving money, saving time, placing orders online, and adding a pickup time that works for you.
Some of the cons of ordering a curbside pickup are not always getting the freshest fruits and vegetables, unavailable food items, and wait times for pickup.
If the location you live in charges for bags then be sure to take your own. Many checkout stands have reusable bags you can buy so you can save money on your next trips to the grocery store.
In addition, save money on bags by using your reusable ones and save by only buying the right number of groceries to fit in the bags you take with you.
We all indulge in food from time to time especially during the holidays. Look for deals on those pumpkin pies, turkeys, and more.
In addition to holiday deals be sure to buy fresh fruits and vegetables during their peak season. You may want to consider buying frozen fruits and vegetables during the off seasons to save money.
Sign Up For Loyalty Programs
You can sign up for free loyalty programs with your local grocery store. Each store has its own rewards benefit or discount.
By signing up you don’t have to clip coupons and you save money on groceries. Some loyalty programs will offer a discount on their gas stations too.
Stick to a Grocery List
When you stick to a grocery list, you don’t sway from what you need. Remember your list tells you what you need and what you plan on eating.
Use Groceries You Already Have to Start Your Grocery List
Go through your pantry and figure out what you have that you can use in a meal. By using the groceries in your pantry, you can save money by not buying items for a full meal.
Use the Same Groceries on Multiple Meals
When you find great deals on food items, consider using the items in multiple meals to save money. One idea on how to use one food for multiple meals would be potatoes. Use potatoes in potato soup, with meat, with eggs, and more.
If you purchase breakfast type items consider eating breakfast for dinner so the food doesn’t go to waste.
There are lots of affordable food items you can use with various meals like rice, beans, eggs, noodles, and potatoes.
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Make sure to eat healthy when you can, buy things you know you will eat, and look for deals so you can save money on groceries.
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"During the time the party has existed, Sweden has been perhaps the most materialistic, individualistic and, well, yes, family-hostile country," party leader Göran Hägglund wrote in the Christian newspaper Dagen. "The debate climate is strongly marked by this and it's therefore not strange that we have often had to fight against the tide of opinion."
The text also looked back.
"In the sixties, Christianity was to be thrown out of the schools. Recently, we've had to put up a strong fight to have ceremonies at the end of the school year take place in church," Hägglund wrote.
"He looks back quite a lot," noted Magnus Hagevi, associate professor of political science at Linnaeus University. He felt Hägglund's attempt to tie the party's founding ideals to the work ahead was tenuous.
For example, Hägglund wrote about the need for politicians to make ever more complex moral decisions.
"We know that globalization will put great pressure on the welfare system, and therefore also social cohesion," Hägglund wrote. "Advances in science will make many things better, but will also demand political decisions about advanced moral questions."
The text did not address the party's well-documented internal tension.
"As a small party fighting for survival, the Christian Democrats has tried to broaden its appeal, but it has led to three strains in the party," Hagevi explained.
Those three, at times at-odds, factions are: The old-school evangelical church-goers; the more liberal members like Göran Hägglund himself who draws influence from a continental philosophy about Christianity's right to influence politics; and finally, the disgruntled conservative voters who have abandoned primarily the Moderate Party, but are more old-fashioned than they are religious.
Ideological in-fighting combined with the party's failure to find a core policy platform to stand on could mean it risks its presence in parliament and in government, Hagevi noted.
"They need to present more well-prepared proposals," said Hagevi, who noted that the most successful smaller parties were all associated with one key issue.
"The Sweden Democrats, immigration. The Greens, the environment. The Left Party, no privatization. The Liberals (Folkpartiet), education… well, so far… but the Christian Democrats and the Centre Party have failed to find their issues."
The two latter parties are also the ones that regularly sink below the four-percent barrier in opinion polls.
Hagevi said that the party had not capitalized on the weakness of the Social Democrats (which has strong support among first and second-generation immigrants) in the late 1990s to scoop up socially conservative but non-Christian voters. But he also understood why they hadn't put their back into it.
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Real photo • HMS Douglas - Torpedo Firing
Unused real photo postcard showing HMS Douglas torpedo firing, photo taken circa 1930.
HMS Douglas was a destroyer leader, built by Cammell Laird and launched in 1918. She saw service during WW2 and was finally sold for breaking in 1945
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Cyber-thieves have made at least $25m (£19m) from ransomware in the last two years, suggests research by Google.
The search giant created thousands of virtual victims of ransomware to expose the payment ecosystem surrounding the malware type.
Most of the money was made in 2016 as gangs realised how lucrative it was, revealed a talk at Black Hat.
Two types of ransomware made most of the money, it said, but other variants are starting to emerge.
Track and trace
“It’s become a very, very profitable market and is here to stay,” said Elie Bursztein from Google who, along with colleagues Kylie McRoberts and Luca Invernizzi, carried out the research.
Ransomware is malicious software that infects a machine and then encrypts or scrambles files so they can no longer be used or read. The files are only decrypted when a victim pays a ransom. Payments typically have to be made using the Bitcoin virtual currency.
Mr Bursztein said Google used several different methods to work out how much cash was flowing towards ransomware creators.
As well as drawing on reports from people who had paid a ransom, it sought out the files used to infect machines and then ran those on lots of virtual machines to generate “synthetic victims”, he said.
It then monitored the network traffic generated by these victims to work out to where money would be transferred. The data gathered in this stage was also used to find more variants of ransomware and the 300,000 files it found broke down into 34 of them, he said.
The most popular strains were the Locky and Cerber families, added Mr Bursztein.
Payment analysis of the Bitcoin blockchain, which logs all transactions made using the e-currency, revealed that those two strains also made the most money over the last year, he said, with Locky collecting about $7.8m (£5.9m) and Cerber $6.9m (£5.2m).
The research project also revealed where the cash flowed and accumulated in the Bitcoin network and where it was converted back into cash. More than 95% of Bitcoin payments for ransomware were cashed out via Russia’s BTC-e exchange, found Google.
On 26 July, one of the founders of BTC-e, Alexander Vinnik, was arrested by Greek police on money laundering charges. The police were acting on a US warrant and his extradition to America is being sought.
The gangs behind the ransomware explosion were not likely to stop soon, said Mr Bursztein, although established strains are facing competition from newer ones.
“Ransomware is a fast-moving market,” he said. “There’s aggressive competition coming from variants such as SamSam and Spora.”
Novel variants were expanding quickly and many were encouraging fast expansion by paying affiliates more if they placed the malware on to large numbers of machines. The ransomware as a service model was already proving popular, he warned.
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Conversations Worth Having
Recently I found myself in a social setting seated among a group of friends and associates when the people in the group began to discuss their perceptions of increased crime. I was troubled by some of their statements and so disappointed in the direction the conversation was going that I excused myself. I needed time to process what I’d just heard and do some reflection.
Years ago, I had a boss who was notorious for taking the floor and sharing stories of his childhood. Typically, the same stories over and over again. I didn’t mind it much when he hogged the spotlight because I enjoyed many of the stories. At times they were entertaining, insightful, and often had some life lesson rolled into the center of them.
My favorite was the story of his days living with his grandmother. He’d go out and play with neighborhood kids and return home to see her sweeping the sidewalk in front of their house and cleaning up around the yards of their immediate neighbors as well. According to him this was a near-daily routine for them. One of those days he came home and asked her why she insisted on cleaning up in front of their house and those of their neighbors. Her reply crystalized his view moving forward on how he’d approach the world.
His grandmother said that she cleaned in front of the other homes because while that singular home where they lived belonged to the two of them, the block belonged to everyone. Thus, there was an inherent responsibility for everyone to take pride and put effort toward a clean and safe community to benefit everyone.
Community isn’t built on the idea of just what you do and what you have for yourself, it is wrapped up in what we do and share with each other. Looking back, I should have recounted that story with the group I walked away from when they were talking about the problem of crime.
It is easy to sit and point out the problems that face us. It is more difficult to sit and talk about solutions—yet that is the challenge in this moment that we must all rise to, tackling the difficult conversations. I have grown leery and quite disheartened as of late, particularly when I hear people who claim to have progressive values talk about their desire for leaders to be tough on crime—but don’t express the same adamant desires for their leaders and institutions to double down on the programs, services, and resources needed in communities to act as interventions that would prevent crime and improve the lives of individuals, families, and the health of the whole community.
The next time I find myself as audience to a discussion where the participants want to solely point fingers at people—but not systemic policies—I am committing to elevate the conversation and try my best to take others on the journey with me to focus on both cause and effect, and not just problems, but solutions. We have to ground with truth, context, and nuance, and then elevate the discourse.
If someone in our community is disconnected from opportunity, we can’t just view it as their problem. We are a community, and we are better and stronger when we care for each other as such. We can’t expect to have a safe and healthy block, neighborhood, or nation when we only concentrate on sweeping in front of our own yard. Sometimes our neighbors to the right or to the left may need support and we should be there to offer it. And talking negatively about them—their yards, or current life circumstances—certainly doesn’t do any good.
Thoughtful dialogue with friends and family may not immediately change the world. But it can be an important step in shifting points of view which could influence how they see things, build empathy, and push them to do something big or small to be more of a light in darkness. ▼
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Parents ought to educate youngsters to see studying as exploration. It will help give them a sense of dedication, which they can manufacture into grit when the going gets tough. Researchers say the physical act of touching pen to paper creates a stronger cognitive link to the fabric than merely typing, which occurs far too rapidly for retention to take place.
Rather than learning something in one way, similar to reading, attempt listening to a podcast, or watching a video. Combining auditory and visual studying reinforces reminiscence higher than merely using one methodology. Across three research those that wrote out their notes by hand had a greater conceptual understanding of the material than those that took notes with their laptops. They had been additionally higher at integrating and making use of the material coated. The advantages of memory palaces donât just finish with learning and reminiscence.
You can join together fully unrelated concepts or objects. For example, when attempting to memorize the periodic desk, you’ll be able to connect parts, their atomic numbers, and symbols with something you understand very well. It can be virtually anything (names of favourite songs, colors, fruits, and so on.) with which you can make vivid associations. Thus, you possibly can create a system of such connections and recall them throughout exams or everytime you need them.
And if you asked them a day later to recall the identical words, they would fail miserably. Itâs good and easy, and it makes sense â information is out there in, and we store it safely in our mind till we have to recall it. âOh pricey, thatâs a small and weak wanting reminiscence â no wonder youâre forgetfulâ. As an expert reminiscence coach, people say to me all the time -„I have a terrible reminiscence.“ Are you discovering it more and more tough to concentrate on one task and to withstand the temptation of regularly glancing at your phone?
If you attempt to memorize things and examine onerous, you’re forcing your brain into learning and the effect is that you simply donât learn well. I am about to be taught a brand new approach for studying faster. But if you use the strategies I teach in that podcast to get a worldwide overview of the e-book you have to learn, youâll have a map. This map will set the stage for your expertise of the territory. When I created this Infographic and Podcast episode instructing you the means to realistically memorize a textbook, I had no concept individuals would find it so sensible and useful. One of the explanations some people find the educational https://writeoutcamp.org/about/ process so painful is that they donât ask a easy query.
For example, I even have a really strong âwhyâ behind why I want to learn Hebrew. My father’s from Israel and his household nonetheless lives there. Since he handed away, one of my desires is to travel to Israel and be succesful of communicate fluently together with his household, and then possibly one day converse to my dad in heaven.
This will reinforce every little thing you simply have simply realized by applying it experientially. To optimize your memorization session, pay close consideration to which setting you select. For most people, this implies choosing an space with few distractions, although some people do thrive off of studying in public areas. Figure out what is most conducive to your learning so as to get started.
Studies have proven that chewing gum will increase activity in the hippocampus, which is a vital area within the brain for reminiscence. This considerably is related to the fact that testing your self gives you more context into understanding what youâve learnt. It so generally done that lots of us can even kind quicker than we will write. A lot of people are inclined to take notes with their computed gadgets maybe their mobile phone, tablet, iPad, or their PC. Scientists say that energetic involvement, like this one, advantages studying and reminiscence.
When you canât clear up an issue with focused pondering and take a break, Eureka moments can happen. Every time you sit down there, your brain will know itâs game time. Research exhibits that eating berries may help stave off memory decline. The results began after simply three weeks and continued for the size of the examine. In a charming letter to his son Hans, Albert Einstein mentioned one of the only ways to be taught is to take pleasure in something to the purpose where you donât even discover the time passing. Harvard biologist/psychologist Steven Pinkerâs profession is a testament to the benefits of multidisciplinary thinking. | <urn:uuid:1659e238-11dc-45e3-a801-24ce4a7b4460> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fenster.koemmerling.com/tips-on-how-to-learn-quicker-and-retain-more-from-everything-you-read-efficiency/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957315 | 966 | 2.828125 | 3 |
The US government case against Charlie Shrem is full of legal contradictions.
1) Fincen did not issue guidance for bitcoin exchangers until March 18th 2013. http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.html
Charlie Shrem cannot be held responsible for any violations of vague or none existent rules before March 18th 2013. This is protected by the US constitution. Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3.
No definition of bitcoin as a currency or financial instrument existed under US legal code. Only vague guidance valid March 18th 2013. US AML and KYC laws were enacted when something like bitcoin did not exist. No updates to the law have been passed by congress.
Bit instant was working hard to become compliant with the new guidance as everyone remembers by their login and ID system.
2) Charlie Shrem was NOT engaged in money laundering.
Money laundering is the attempt to conceal an illegal source of funds. Charlie Shrem was not accepting funds from SR dealers and hiding their source and issueing them clean money. He was selling bitcoin. Where those bitcoin were sent or spent was totally independent and out of Shrem's control.
The HSBC precedent.
The HSBC case was the complete opposite. HSBC was actively working to conceal hundreds of billions of dollars worth of drug profits. CONCEAL THEIR SOURCE Nobody from HSBC was arrested or charged. HSBC paid a fine equivalent to 1/3rd of a percent of the funds and continues operating inside the United States.
3) Dubious Claims
The US government essentially guessed Charlie's processing at 1million over 10months+ How did they arrive at this figure? How did they know all of the bitcoins were being spent on drugs?
4) Evidence gathering against Charlie.
This brings up a few questions. How did the government access the email's? Was a warrant issued? Were other government agencies involved?
The Shrem case is a clear cut witch hunt made to scare and intimidate the crypto currency space. Its blatantly obvious at the double standards applied vs the HSBC case. The difference is one guy with 0 connections vs a major international bank(with debt contracts to US banks).
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The Bosnian War of 1992-1995 was one of the most brutal conflicts since WWII, and received widespread coverage in Western news media. But less attention has been paid to cultural representations of the war. In a new book...KEEP READING
Black Panther from a PD Perspective
Executive Director of the the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab Colin Maclay spoke with CPD Faculty Fellow Nicholas Cull in the podcast How Do You Like It So Far? to discuss the public diplomacy implications of movies like Black Panther and The Lion King.
In the words of Maclay, Black Panther represents an "homage to, not stealing from" both pan-African and individual cultures, while Cull elaborates on the new narrative propagated by the film.
"What is the meaning of the film when it's seen in China? What is the meaning of the film when it's seen in Latin America, where it starts to imagine other kinds of Africa being possible, other kinds of empowerment being possible?" asks Cull. "...It creates an imaginative space for Africa to be something other than everybody's victim."
Listen to "Episode 9: Nick Cull Talks Black Panther and Media's Rule in Public Diplomacy" of the podcast, which is co-hosted by Henry Jenkins and Colin Maclay, here.
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Nantahala National Forest
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, part of Nantahala National Forest
Nantahala National Forest is a 531,270-acre property in southwestern North Carolina, sandwiched between Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina. To the north is Great Smoky Mountains National Park, to the west Cherokee National Forest, to the south Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest and to the southeast Sumter National Forest. Pisgah National Forest is to the east and northeast.
The Forest covers mountains and valleys on the eastern slopes of the Appalachian Mountains with a high of 5,800 feet at Lone Bald and a low around 1,200 feet below the Appalachian Lake Dam on the Hiwasee River. The tree cover is composed primarily of eastern hardwoods with a generally thick understory. Among the wildlife are white-tailed deer, black bear, mountain lion, bobcat, coyote, river otter, beaver and porcupine.
- Ellicott Rock
- Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock
- Southern Nantahala
The first European to travel through the area was Hernando de Soto in 1540. Then came the push from the British Colonies in the 1700's. William Bartram, the botanist, spent the time from March 1773 to January 1777 traveling extensively in the region making observations, meeting the Native Americans and collecting botanical specimens.
The Appalachian National Scenic Trail bisects Nantahala National Forest north/south as it makes its way between Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. About 78 miles of the Bartram National Recreation Trail also traverse the forest. The Forest offers 13 developed campgrounds and miles of other trails, too. There are only 2 real OHV areas on the Forest, one at Upper Tellico, the other at Wayehutta.
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Regulation is accomplished through routine inspections of licensed facilities. The purpose of the inspections is to verify that establishments are following code requirements. This is both in the physical facility and processes and procedures. Inspectors observe practices, check to make sure that equipment is working properly, and check any available and applicable paperwork and records.
Viewing Inspection Reports
The Teton County Health Department Facility Inspection Reports website is part of Teton County Health Department's commitment to providing useful public information in a manner that is convenient to our citizens and visitors. Included in this website are routine and follow-up inspections starting January 1st, 2015. To see older inspections please visit our office at 460 East Pearl Avenue. If you have questions about our programs or this website please contact us at 307-732-8490. We hope that you will find this information helpful and easy to use.
Any problem that is found is written up as a violation and the manager is taught the correct procedure or method to fix the violation. There are two types of violations recorded on the inspection report:
"Critical violations," when not done properly, are most likely to lead illnesses or injury.
"Non-critical violations" are primarily maintenance and sanitation issues that are less likely to be the cause of illness or injury.
Whenever possible, violations found during the inspection are corrected immediately. Most critical items found during the inspection must be corrected immediately. If a critical violation cannot be corrected immediately, establishments are given ten days to correct the problem. In order to verify that the violation has been corrected, follow-up inspection(s) are completed by the department. | <urn:uuid:f7a914fb-acd1-49d9-be55-2baf8d56fff2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.jhfire-ems.org/1008/Public-Health-Facility-Inspection-Report | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963264 | 329 | 2.046875 | 2 |
A few weeks before her death, Megan Short logged onto Facebook and clicked on a story about emotional abuse. The article, titled “He didn’t hit me. It was still abuse,” resonated with her.
In it, author Leigh Stein described the peculiarities of surviving an abusive relationship that was profoundly painful, but lacked physical violence. Stein’s ex-boyfriend wielded an inexhaustible range of abusive tactics against her, she wrote, including isolating her from friends and family, manipulating her, controlling her every move, embarrassing her in public and gaslighting her.
But Stein didn’t realize that she was being abused. She had no broken bones. No police reports. No late-night trips to the emergency room. Her perception of domestic violence as purely physical blinded her from the reality of her own predicament.
“I didn’t know what to name what I couldn’t see,” she wrote.
For Short, reading the article, something clicked.
“It really does a number on your mental health for sure,” she wrote in a comment on the article, posted on her friend’s Facebook wall. Later, she added: “This is why I am leaving my marriage … 16 years.”
She never got the chance.
On the day she was planning to move out, police say her husband shot her, along with their three young children, before turning the gun on himself.
Short’s death offers a startling example of how emotional abuse ― often perceived as less serious than physical abuse ― can turn fatal.
Ruth Glenn, executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said it’s a common misperception that only relationships with physical violence turn deadly.
“Just because someone is being emotionally abusive and not necessarily physically abusive, doesn’t mean that the same dynamics don’t exist,” she said.
Abusers gain power and control through their abuse, she explained, regardless of whether they are using physical or psychological tactics. When a victim attempts to separate themselves from the relationship, it can become a potentially lethal situation ― even if the abuser has no history of physical violence.
Experts say it can be difficult for victims of emotional abuse to seek help from the criminal justice system. Women may struggle to meet the requirements of a protective order if they lack evidence of physical abuse, and police are limited in what they can do without evidence of injuries.
Ellen Kramer, deputy director for the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, urged victims of emotional abuse to seek free and confidential help from their local domestic violence organizations.
“Even though it may not be grounds for a criminal charge or grounds for a protective order, it’s always grounds for a victim to go to a local domestic violence service provider for help with safety planning and counseling,” she said. “Domestic violence is so much broader than actual physical injuries.”
Experts say the most dangerous time for victims is when they are attempting to leave the relationship.
Three weeks before Short’s murder, she reached out to the cops for the first and last time, calling 911 to report a domestic dispute at her house.
She told police that she was afraid of her husband. They advised her how to apply for a protective order and left. But, as Berks County District Attorney John Adamssaid during a press conference, there was little else they could do. There were no physical injuries and no evidence to bring charges.
The next day, her husband went out and bought a gun.
In the United Kingdom, there’s been an attempt to hold abusers accountable for non-physical types of domestic violence. In 2015, it passed a law making “coercive or controlling” domestic abuse a crime punishable by up to five years behind bars — even if there is no physical violence present in the relationship.
Evan Stark, a forensic social worker and professor emeritus at Rutgers University, popularized the term “coercive control” to encompass the pattern of behaviors that abusers use to intimidate victims.
Domestic violence is not about a single incident, he explained, but an abuser’s attempts to control a victim’s life by depriving them of resources, threatening them, isolating them and disabling their ability to effectively leave.
It’s those behaviors that put a victim at an extremely high risk of being killed, he said, even when there is no physical violence, or physical violence is minimal.
“Based on my research, if you rely on physical injury before you identify a case as serious, you miss 95 to 98 percent of all domestic violence,” he said. “Often the severe assault is the fatal assault. It comes as a culmination.”
After Leigh Stein’s article about emotional abuse was published in the Washington Post, she said she was flooded with comments about how she wasn’t a “real” victim of domestic violence.
“They were all about how I didn’t have it that bad, and I was just young and stupid,” she said. “It gives me chills to think about how badly it did turn out for this other woman who related to my story.”
Stein said she hopes her new book, Land of Enchantment, which examines her abusive relationship, can help others recognize the subtle warnings signs that she herself overlooked for years.
“There is no physical domestic violence without the psychological abuse,” she said. “That’s how it starts.”
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Most people that take these classes are either working, paying off debt, or have other obligations that prevent them from sitting in class for hours a day. They usually don’t have the time to learn anatomy, physiology, and laboratory techniques. This is where taking courses online can come in hand. Online courses will take biology courses from beginning, middle, and high school levels. Some of the courses you will find include microbiology, genetics, physiology, and botany to name a few. There are also courses in environmental science, government programs, and even accounting and business management.
The cost of taking online biology courses is very affordable and you can usually find an online program that suits your budget. Some colleges offer complete courses that you can complete on your own, and then get credit through an exam. You may have to get a certain number of hours online for these courses before you can take the exam to get credit. If you just want to get ahead in your biology class you can do extra courses.
If you’re a little behind on your work and need to catch up, there are many websites that offer tutoring services. These tutors will watch your video’s and work with you each week to make sure you understand the information. If you’re in high school, you can find tutors who work at night and early morning to help you out.
If you like taking classes in person and want to get more advanced, some schools offer this too. They offer classes in molecular biology and other courses. You can usually pick up these classes from the main campus or through a private online program. With this degree you will be able to take more classes and get more specialized education. This will make you work harder and get the most out of your education.
Biochemistry course work often involves genetics, anatomy, and physiology. It is usually necessary to learn about these various topics when you are getting ready to take an exam for a biology degree. You should take some classes to learn about them before you decide to pursue a course in this field. If you have to take tests to graduate, you may be able to get the test prep material and study materials from the school that offers coursework on the subject.
I often hear from people who have biochemistry coursework to do who don’t want to do it on their own. They will often pay someone to do it for them. This is obviously much cheaper than taking the class on your own. Plus, if you are taking the test while working, you will be able to devote a lot of your time to studying instead of putting it all together.
Of course, some people are paying more to do this than others. The people who command the highest salaries usually work in research. If you want to find out if you will be paying to do biochemistry coursework for me, search for job listings in your area. You will likely see jobs in the area with this type of title. If you can get a job like this, you will be able to afford to pay for your course, which should be no problem since it will be a great help towards earning your online degree. | <urn:uuid:1c93771f-ea7f-4bfc-9044-577b05247d73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://examcheckout.com/pay-someone-to-do-my-biochemistry-coursework-for-me/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966141 | 643 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Oftentimes I lay in bed thinking of how I’m jealous of my friends with hearing loss. Just a little bit. Just in certain circumstances. And mostly when it comes to sleep.
The first time I experienced how deep someone with hearing loss can sleep was during the Here to Hear Tour with D.J. Demers. As the tour manager, I was partially responsible for making sure D.J. was where he needed to be when he needed to be there, which included early morning interviews at local TV news stations.
If you’re not familiar with D.J., he’s a comedian who also happens to have severe to profound hearing loss. Without his Phonak hearing aids, which he takes out to sleep, he can barely hear anything. Now, this is amazing to me not only because his speech and communication skills are extraordinary, but also because as the manager of last year’s 30-day, cross-country comedy tour, I would pretty much always forget about his hearing loss – except when he slept.
“I would pretty much always forget about his hearing loss – except when he slept.”
D.J. actually has a few jokes about sleeping without his hearing aids. He calls it “going full deaf mode.” It’s funny, but it’s also sometimes scary. He would say this, as he literally begged each night of the tour for a hotel room that wasn’t on the ground floor. (Just in case someone broke in and tried to kidnap him. Just in case he wasn’t able to hear when someone creepy was knocking outside the window.)
Because D.J. sleeps so deeply and silently, he relies on a vibrating alarm clock (or partner sleeping next to him) to wake him up. But one morning, as Driver Mike, Justin the videographer, and I counted down the minutes to his scheduled live-television appearance, banging on his door and begging the hotel staff to let us into his room, he continued sleeping like a baby.
I admit it, the idea of not being able to hear all the things that go bump in the night is a bit scary. There’s a reason that, for most of us, our hearing still works while we sleep.
In fact, research has found that our ears are even more sensitive to noise when we sleep.
“During the day a hormone called brain-derived-neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is distributed into the ears,” according to researches at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. “This hormone protects the auditory nerves from damage. It provides a layer of insulation to protect the ears from harmful noises that are more likely during waking or day hours. Since nights are typically quieter it makes sense that your body wouldn’t work hard to produce a hormone that is not really needed.”
This “biological circadian clock” explains why we have different levels of noise sensitivity during different times, according to researchers, who also reported that being exposed to loud noise at night is more damaging to your hearing than the same noise during the day.
We all relish it, don’t we? Especially when we don’t get enough of it.
The US Health Association says that we should get around 8 hours of sleep a day, but recommendations are always changing, based on age, lifestyle, career.
My sister said she didn’t get more than four hours of straight sleep in the three years (!) after having her first child, but somehow she survived.
Whether it’s a crying baby, a rooster, or traffic noise outside your window, the world is loud. And personally, I’m finding it difficult to sleep.
My good friend Kirsten, on the other hand, has no trouble sleeping at my apartment, which is next to a bar in the city. After removing her hearing aids and placing them into the sleek charging case on the nightstand, she subsequently tunes out the high-pitched music with her mild-to-moderate hearing loss.
For those of us with “normal hearing,” noise isn’t just some pesky annoyance that keeps us awake. High noise levels have also been linked to hypertension, higher stress levels, and an aggravate to a weakened immune system, heart problems, anxiety, and depression.
The proven negative effects of noise on the human body have resulted in some regulations, such as the Noise Pollution and Abatement Act of 1972, but the world has since only gotten louder.
While it’s hard to say exactly how loud, but Phonak hEARo Angie recently went out and measured daily sounds in her life. All the noises she experienced through the day measured an average of 86dB – loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss.
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the maximum exposure time at 85 dBA is eight hours, so the daily noises in Angie’s life wouldn’t cause immediate loss. But if she were to be exposed to 110 dBA, it would only take one minute and 29 seconds for hearing damage to occur. (The loudest sound in Angie’s day was the traffic noise when she was the car with the windows open, which registered 99dB).
“But if she were to be exposed to 110 dBA, it would only take one minute and 29 seconds for hearing damage to occur.”
No wonder 1 in 5 American adults report some level of hearing loss – a number that only increases as we age. Buy the time we’re 65, that number increases to 1 in 3, and as we age 10 more years, hearing loss will affect nearly half of us, according to the NIH.
So, I guess, as I’m writing this at 5 a.m., sick from a hotel bed in Vietnam listening to a construction crew beginning their day, I’m am a bit jealous of my friends with hearing loss, but I guess I shouldn’t be too jealous. Inevitably, in this loud world, I’ll end up with it too. | <urn:uuid:8506c4c1-14ca-481b-a6f4-8ab0035df5d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hearinglikeme.com/why-im-jealous-of-my-friends-with-hearing-loss/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971952 | 1,285 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Nutrients can we obtain through fruits, vegetables and pulses. Those are important because they have vital effect on physical growth and development, maintenance of normal body function, physical activity and health. Also, The American Heart Association recommends 4 ½ cups of each per day or at least eat fruits and vegetables half of your plate.
Our body needs much amounts of carbohydrates, fats and proteins, which are macronutrients. Besides we need vitamins and minerals in small amounts, which are constitute the micro-nutrients. However, we need all of the nutrients because they contain much benefits. For the details, here are Nutritional Benefits of Fruits, Vegetables and Pulses:
- Reduce Bad Cholesterol
Fruits, vegetables and pulses contain small amounts of fat, sugar and salt which is very useful for diet. That also means it will help to reduce bad cholesterol and prevent some diseases.
In 2014, existing research with meta-analysis found that eating pulses will significantly reduce LDL-cholesterol levels if you consume it for at least three weeks. That can be other benefits to lower the risk of heart attack and stroke. Or you can read foods that lower cholesterol level.
- Reduce Diabetes
Fiber contains much in fruits, vegetables and pulses. This nutrient has its benefits to control blood sugar levels which cause diabetes. So, for you who are with diabetes, consuming fruits, vegetables and pulses are the best choice.
Moreover, much fiber not only can prevent the risk of diabetes, but also some diseases, for example cardiovascular disease. Because of its importance, you should consume it as recommend daily intake of fiber which is 38 g/day for men and 25 g/day for women. Or you can read list medicinal plants diabetes.
- Prevent Some Types of Cancer
Cancer has some types with all of the types can cause death and it may affect anyone. To reduce the risk of cancer, based on scientific research, you can try to consume lots of fruits, vegetables and pulses regularly.
Fruits and vegetables contain active substance that help you to prevent cancer called phytochemicals or plant chemicals. Not only cancer, it also prevents you from high blood pressure (hypertension) and stroke. Or you can read benefits of pomegranate for cancer.
- Prevent Heart Disease
The risks of coronary heart disease one of them will increase because of blood levels of homocysteine. Homocysteine will reduce by eating fruits, vegetables and pulses that also can reduce the risk of the heart disease. The reason is because in fruits, vegetables and pulses contain folic acid, nutrient that may reduce it.
Beside folic acid, they also contain vitamins A (beta-carotene), C, E, magnesium, zinc and phosphorus. Or you can read health benefits of aspirin for heart disease.
- Lower the Risk of Eye Disease
As we know that fruits, vegetables and pulses contain much of vitamin A that may prevent us from eye disease. For example, one vegetable that contains high of vitamin A is carrot. So, carrots will be suitable to be consumed by who are more likely to have night blindness.
For fruits, you can try to consume mango. It is scientifically proven can increase your vision. The other fruits are cantaloupe, watermelon and papaya. However, this vitamin A contains high in vegetables than fruits. Or you can read eyes health.
- Prolonged Energy Supply
Nutrient that has its benefit to supply energy in our body is carbohydrate. That is one of the reason why carbohydrate being one of the much amounts nutrient that our body need. It absorbs easily in our body which is make sure we have enough glucose or energy.
With consuming them, it can also avoid us from sudden glycaemia, which is level or presence glucose in blood. Fruits contain high of carbohydrate are banana, apple and grape. For vegetables there are potato, corn and squash. Or you can read health benefits taro.
How to Take The Best Fruits and Vegetables for Daily Consume?
Nutritional Benefits of Fruits, Vegetables and Pulses you can get with these tips you can take for daily consume:
- Eat melon, grape or other fruit.
- For your cereal in the morning you can add bananas, raisins or berries.
- Making a small glass of juice (6 ounce) from 100% fruits or vegetables without sugar or excess sodium then drink it with ice.
- If you are eating potatoes or eggs, you can add vegetables in it.
- You can make salad from fruits or vegetables.
- On your sandwich lunch, you can add some vegetables in it including cucumbers, sprouts, tomatoes, lettuces or avocados.
- Take or make a bowl of vegetable soup.
- Instead eat chips, you can choose to eat piece of raw vegetables or stick of fruits.
- Having dinner with vegetables or fruits salad.
- Take steamed or microwaved vegetables or you take fine with frozen vegetables.
- Put both sweet potato or yam in a whole potato for your meal when you cook it in oven.
- Use chopped vegetables like onions, garlic and celery for your soup.
- When you are making rice, in last three minutes you can add some frozen peas.
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The Carlsbad Municipal Water District recently received the 2019 Project of the Year award from the American Public Works Association, for its Advanced Metering Infrastructure project. Talk about innovative . . . this project allows the District’s service area to be monitored in real-time without human meter readers and will provide more efficient system maintenance, reduced water loss and increased water conservation.
Carlsbad Municipal Water District is one of the first agencies in the region to achieve 100 percent implementation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure. Thanks to the success of the project, staff can enhance agency capabilities by re-focusing on other critical operational and maintenance activities. This project exemplifies the power of public works professionals applying technology, operations expertise and community values to deliver high quality infrastructure that saves precious natural resources. | <urn:uuid:a52cb4ff-a0e6-4148-8449-ae5d516067d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.insidecarlsbad.com/post/carlsbad-municipal-water-district-receives-project-of-the-year-award | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.882651 | 156 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Ask the Sports Doc: Dehydration
Published 9:31 pm Wednesday, September 30, 2009
LD Asks: I am a 32-year-old avid runner. I have been training for a marathon that is coming up in two months. I have been training for a while for this run. How can I optimize my run and prevent dehydration during this long-distance endeavor?
Dr. Patel writes: Long-distance running can be accomplished only if the individual is well-hydrated. Our blood is comprised of cells, water, and electrolytes. When a person runs and sweats, they lose two main components from their body (water and electrolytes). Your body sweats to cool itself.
Dehydration can cause the body to shut off the sweating process which in turn can cause the core body temperature to increase. This can cause heat exhaustion and, in severe cases, heat stroke. Other signs of dehydration are headaches and decrease in urine output.
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My recommendation would be first to load up on carbohydrates the night before to have good reserves the day of the run. Also, avoid caffeine and carbonated drinks, both of which can increase the rate of dehydration.
Drinking water alone will not be enough to rehydrate the body. Electrolytes are needed to replenish the body. A good source of potassium is a banana. Other excellent sources are Pedia-lyte and Gatorade. Drink plenty of fluids and pace yourself. | <urn:uuid:310a93a1-55a3-4b13-b84c-71868025a17d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2009/09/30/ask-the-sports-doc-dehydration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.935577 | 300 | 2.828125 | 3 |
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There is now a service available known as Bark, where you can look for local professionals including accountants. They provide an easy to fill in that gives an overview of your requirements. In no time at all you will get messages from in the Combs area. There is for this service.
You could always try anif your needs are fairly simple. This may save time and be more cost-effective for in Combs. Choose a with a history of good service. The better ones can soon be singled out by carefully studying online.
At the end of the day you could alwaysand it will cost you nothing but time. To make life even easier there is some intuitive that you can use. Including ACCTAX, , Taxforward, Absolute Topup, , CalCal, TaxCalc, BTCSoftware, Keytime, Taxfiler, Ajaccts, Basetax, , 123 e-Filing, Capium, Andica, Forbes, Nomisma, Gbooks, GoSimple and Taxshield. You will get a penalty if isn't in on time.
An auditor is a person or company brought in to evaluate and verify the accuracy of financial accounts to ensure that businesses or organisations abide by tax laws. They offer businesses from fraud, find inconsistencies in accounting methods and, sometimes, work as consultants, helping organisations to spot solutions to increase operational efficiency. For anybody to become an auditor they need to have specific qualifications and be licensed by the regulatory body for auditing and accounting.
Forensic Accounting Combs
During your search for an experienced accountant in Combs there is a fair chance that you'll happen on the term "forensic accounting" and be wondering what that is, and how it differs from regular accounting. With the word 'forensic' literally meaning "denoting or relating to the application of scientific techniques and methods to the investigation of criminal activity", you should get a clue as to precisely what is involved. Occasionally also referred to as 'financial forensics' or 'forensic accountancy', it uses investigative skills, auditing and accounting to dig through financial accounts in order to identify fraud and criminal activity. There are several larger accountants firms throughout Suffolk who've got specialised departments for forensic accounting, dealing with personal injury claims, professional negligence, insolvency, insurance claims, bankruptcy, money laundering and tax fraud.
Small Business Accountants Combs
Doing the yearly accounts can be a fairly stressful experience for any owner of a small business in Combs. Using the services of a small business accountant in Combs will allow you to operate your business safe in the knowledge that your VAT, annual accounts and tax returns, amongst many other business tax requirements, are being fully met.
Helping you grow your business, and giving financial advice for your particular situation, are just two of the means by which a small business accountant in Combs can benefit you. An accountancy firm in Combs will provide you with an allocated small business accountant and adviser who will remove the haze that shrouds business taxation, so as to enhance your tax efficiences.
You also ought to be supplied with an assigned accountancy manager who understands your plans for the future, your company's situation and the structure of your business.
Payroll Services Combs
Dealing with staff payrolls can be a stressful area of running a business in Combs, no matter its size. Controlling staff payrolls demands that all legal requirements regarding their exactness, timing and transparency are observed in all cases.
A small business may not have the luxury of an in-house financial expert and the best way to work with employee payrolls is to use an external accounting firm in Combs. Your chosen payroll company will manage accurate BACS payments to your personnel, as well as working along with any pension schemes your business might have, and follow current HMRC legislation for NI contributions and tax deductions.
Following the current regulations, a dedicated payroll accountant in Combs will also provide each of your staff members with a P60 tax form after the end of each fiscal year. Upon the termination of a staff member's contract, the payroll accountant should also provide a current P45 outlining what tax has been paid during the previous financial period. (Tags: Payroll Services Combs, Payroll Accountant Combs, Payroll Administrator Combs).
Proper Money Management for Improving Your Business and Yourself
If you're a new business owner, you'll discover that managing your money properly is one of those things you will struggle with sooner or later. When you're managing your finances poorly, your confidence in yourself might go down, especially when your business isn't being as profitable as you'd hope. This could actually make you feel like giving up and returning to your old job. This is going to keep you from succeeding in your business. Below are a few tips that will help manage your business finances better.
Don't mix your business and personal expenses by having just one account. If you do, you run the risk of confusion. You're only going to make it hard on yourself if you insist on running everything through one account. For one thing, proving your income is much more difficult when you run your business expenses through a personal account. Moreover, come tax season, you'll be in for a tough time proving which expenses were business related and which ones were personal. It's better if you streamline your finances by separating your business expenses from your personal expenses.
Balance your books at least once a week. But if your business is one where you use registers or you receive multiple payments every day, it might be better if you balance your books at the end of the day every day. You need to keep track of all the payments you receive and payments you make out and make sure that the cash you have on hand or in your bank account matches with the numbers in your record. This way you won't have to track down a bunch of discrepancies at the end of the month (or quarter). Besides, you will only need to devote a few minutes of your time to balancing your books if you do it regularly as opposed to doing it once in a while, which could take hours.
If you deal with cash in any capacity, make sure that you deposit that cash every day, as keeping cash on hand is just too tempting. It could be that you need cash when you're out for lunch and you end up getting money from your register and telling yourself you'll return the money later. When you do this, however, it's very possible that you'll forget all about the money you took out and then when you're doing your books, you're going to wonder why you're short. So when you close up shop at the end of each day, it's best if you deposit your cash to the bank each time.
Proper money management is a skill that every adult needs to develop. When you know exactly what's happening with your money -- where you're spending it, how much is coming in, and so on -- it can be a big boost to your self-confidence and increases the chances of your business becoming profitable. So make sure you use the tips on proper money management that we mentioned in this article. When you take the time to learn how to properly manage money, you'll get the benefit of having a successful business and a higher confidence level.
Combs accountants will help with National Insurance numbers in Combs, accounting services for the construction sector Combs, litigation support, taxation accounting services, year end accounts, pension planning, bureau payroll services, , business support and planning, accounting support services, financial statements, , tax investigations, , business advisory services in Combs, payslips, partnership registrations in Combs, business start-ups, audit and auditing, cash flow, partnership accounts in Combs, consultancy and systems advice, Combs, management accounts in Combs, PAYE in Combs, charities, estate planning, HMRC submissions, business disposal and acquisition, payroll accounting in Combs, limited company accounting, self-employed registrations and other accounting related services in Combs, Suffolk. Listed are just some of the duties that are undertaken by local accountants. Combs providers will keep you informed about their full range of accounting services.
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ODVA’s networks — including EtherNet/IP™ and DeviceNet® among others — all are linked by one of industrial automation’s most versatile communication protocols: the Common Industrial Protocol, known as CIP™. CIP encompasses a comprehensive suite of messages and services for a broad array of industrial automation applications — including control, safety, energy, synchronization & motion, information and network management. CIP allows users to integrate these applications with enterprise-level Ethernet networks and the Internet. Supported by hundreds of vendors around the world and truly media-independent, CIP provides users with a unified communication architecture throughout the industrial enterprise. CIP allows users to benefit today from the many advantages of open networks and protects their existing automation investments, while providing an extensible and upgradable communication architecture for the future.
CIP is a media independent protocol using a producer-consumer communication model, and is a strictly object oriented protocol at the upper layers. Each CIP object has attributes (data), services (commands), connections, and behaviors (relationship between attribute values and services). CIP includes an extensive object library to support general purpose network communications, network services such as file transfer, and typical automation functions such as analog and digital input/output devices, HMI, motion control and position feedback.
To provide interoperability, the same object (or group of objects) implemented in two or more devices behaves identically from device to device. A grouping of objects used in a device is referred to as that device’s “Object Model.” The Object Model in CIP is based on the producer-consumer communication model, which can provide more efficient use of network resources than a source-destination model by allowing the exchange of application information between a sending device (e.g., the producer) and many receiving devices (e.g., the consumers) without requiring data to be transmitted multiple times by a single source to multiple destinations.
To provide further interoperability within CIP Networks that are made up of devices from multiple vendors, CIP defines a standard grouping of objects known as “Device Profiles.” In addition to the set of objects implemented in the device, Device Profiles specify configuration options and I/O data formats. Devices that implement one of the standard Device Profiles will respond to all the same commands and will have the same network behavior as the other devices that follow that same profile. CIP also can provide simple integration of Modbus, HART, and IO-Link devices through the use of native translation services.
CIP’s common application layer allows complete integration of control with information, multiple CIP Networks and Internet technologies. Built on a single, media-independent platform with a common application layer, CIP provides seamless communication from the plant floor to the enterprise with a scalable and coherent architecture. CIP allows companies to integrate I/O control, device configuration and data collection across multiple networks. This ultimately helps minimize engineering and installation time and costs while maximizing ROI via the following attributes:
- Comprehensive suite of messages and services for industrial automation provides the functionality needed for control, safety, energy, synchronization & motion, information and network management.
- Producer-consumer architecture allows efficient use of network bandwidth with an extensible network footprint.
- Seamless bridging and routing allows flexible topology schemes for network architectures without having to program or configure intermediate devices.
- Device profiles provide a common application interface.
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Giving the Breathing Space to deal with debts
People struggling with their debts are being given Breathing Space with the introduction of a Government-backed initiative.
Citizens Advice Caerphilly Blaenau Gwent (CACBG) has welcomed the launch of Breathing Space. The new scheme will help people in temporary financial difficulties recover from debt.
Debt Service Manager Keith Thorne explained that people who ask for help from a qualified debt adviser will benefit.
He said: “People must be working with a registered debt adviser, such as our team here at CACBG to access the help. During the 60 day Breathing Space, interest and enforcement action will be frozen to give advisers time to work with the individual in this time to help plan a way forward.”
The Breathing Space Impact Assessment estimates that the initiative will help around 700,000 people in the UK in one year. Of this, more than 25,000 people who are experiencing a mental health crisis are set to benefit.
“What we find is that the more they use credit and finance to try and juggle the debts,” said Keith. “The more debt they find themselves in and the more harm caused. Breathing Space is not a payment holiday. The scheme is being introduced, to help more people receive the debt advice that they need to access an appropriate solution for their debts and get back on track.“
Breathing Space aims to encourage people to ask for help. When they do, there are better protections in place to stop the debts from increasing as they start to cope again.
Keith said: “For those needing support and assistance with their debts, Breathing Space provides people with the time needed to access this without the additional pressure of creditor contact. This 60-day guarantee should offer those in debt the assurances they need to ask for support, rather than delay and let things spiral out of control. There is additional support available for those suffering a mental health crisis. Our Debt Advisers are ready to help guide you in the next step.”
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This post was written by Claudia Corona, 2010 Mono Lake Intern.
Have you ever seen a wild bird that looks like a cross between a chicken and a turkey? A churkey? A ticken? Well, I haven’t either … but I have seen Sage-Grouse! Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is the largest grouse in North America, where it is known as the Greater Sage-Grouse. Sage-Grouse are, in fact, related to chickens and turkeys because they belong to the same taxonomic order of “Galliformes.” They range in length from 31 centimeters (12 inches) to 95 cm (37 in), and tend to weigh from 0.3 kilograms (11 ounces) to 6.5 kg (14 pounds).
Adults have a long, pointed tail and feathers from their bodies to their toes. Adult males have a yellow patch over the eye, are greyish on top with a white breast, a dark brown throat and a black belly. Adult females are mottled grey-brown with a light brown throat and dark belly.
Young Sage-Grouse eat insects, as well as non-woody plants; like dandelions and other small flowering plants because they need the energy to grow into adult grouse. If you thought that no creature ate sagebrush, think again! Once Sage-Grouse have reached their adult age, they feed on sagebrush, as they are an obligate species, meaning they, by nature, eat sage brush.
Joel Tebbenkamp, graduate student at the University of Idaho, was in charge of the Sage-Grouse research team based at the Mono Basin Field Station this summer. When I asked him to describe the bird species he was studying in one word, he answered; “Charismatic.” He said that they are charismatic because they are by no means mega-fauna, but there is something about their unusual behavior that makes people want to study them.
As a part of his graduate research, Joel and his team conducted a study of Sage-Grouse from March 1 to August 5. During this five-month study, they trekked through sagebrush and meadows around Crowley Lake, Parker Lake, the Bodie Hills, Fales Hot Springs, and Long Valley in order to study Greater Sage-Grouse.
First, the team tracks the Greater Sage-Grouse during the day. However, in order to track the Sage-Grouse they must first trap them; this takes place at night. Trapping Sage-Grouse isn’t permanent (or easy), but it is made possible with giant nets. Joel and his team took blood samples and genetic samples (such as a feather) for further study in the lab. They also attached radio collars to all of the Sage-Grouse that they trapped. These radio collars would help tell them if the birds were moving successfully from area to area.
In short, Joel’s project investigates the demographics of the Greater Sage-Grouse, such as survival of Sage-Grouse eggs and nest success. Nest success is defined as what nest sites chosen were the most successful for egg and chick survival. For example, there was one Sage-Grouse who chose a nest underneath dead sagebrush. At first, it was thought that this site would be unsuccessful at nesting because the sagebrush would no longer be helpful in feeding the Sage-Grouse and the site was too close to the ground, where it would be easily accessible to predators. But interestingly enough, it turned out to be a nest success, which Joel says will help unearth nesting patterns of Sage-Grouse.
When I asked Joel, “If you could speak to the Sage-Grouse for ONE minute, what would you say?” He said he would ask the Sage-Grouse that had chosen to nest under the dead sagebrush, “Why are you nesting here versus there?” Since sientific research doesn’t really work that way, so Joel will have to wait for the results of his study later this year when he goes back to school and analyzes the blood and genetic samples and the nesting success data. All in all, when I asked Joel to describe his time here at Mono Lake and the Eastern Sierra, he admitted that he couldn’t believe the summer had gone by so quickly. Summer is a great time of the year, it lasts long enough to warm our hearts, brighten our souls, and to unearth new information about the species that make the Eastern Sierra so amazing. And then it draws you back for more the next year. | <urn:uuid:2c018f6b-096a-4c12-8fd2-c3763e004563> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.monolake.org/today/chirping-with-bird-researchers-sage-grouse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974945 | 964 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Since when did the average American worker go to a six-day workweek?
Does the question surprise you? Get this: According to recent research from Gallup, the average full-time employee in the U.S.A. now works just under 47 hours per week — almost a full day more than a five-day, eight-hour-a-day schedule.
Here’s how poll respondents answered the question, “In a typical week, how many hours do you work?”:
- 60+ hours — 18%
- 50 to 59 — 21%
- 41 to 49 — 11%
- 40 — 42%, and
- Less than 40 — 8%.
The average workweek: 46.7 hours. And by those percentages, almost four in 10 (39%) of workers put in between 50 and 60-plus hours each workweek.
Longest hours worked in more than a decade
That 46.7-hour average is the highest its been since 2001-2002, when it was 46.9.
For some workers, the number of hours worked may be an indicator of personal initiative — for others, it might be a function of their pay structure. Hourly workers can be restricted in the amount they work by employers who don’t need or can’t afford to pay overtime.
Here’s a breakdown of hourly vs. salaried workers schedules:
- 60+ hours — 25% salaried, 9% hourly
- 50 to 59 — 25%, 17%
- 41 to 49 — 9%, 12%
- 40 — 37%, 56%, and
- less than 40 — 3%, 8%.
Salaried workers generally don’t face any restrictions on how many hours they spend on the job. And, perhaps as a result, salaried employees work five hours more per week, on average, than full-time hourly workers (49 vs. 44, respectively), according to the 2014 Work and Education survey.
Another factor in lengthening Americans’ workweek is individuals taking on more than one job. According to past Gallup data, 86% of full-time workers have just one job, 12% have two, and 1% have three or more.
However, even by restricting the analysis to full-time workers who have only one job, the average number of hours worked is 46 — still well over 40.
Actually, the idea of many employees work what amounts to an extra day per week is old news — the number of hours that all U.S. full-time employees say they typically work each week has held fairly steady over the past 14 years, except for a slight dip to just under 45 hours in Gallup’s 2004-2005 two-year average.
Part-time workers have averaged about 20 hours per week less than full-timers, although the precise figure shifts more for part-timers. .
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CAD Partner are a regular supporter of Solid Edge University and this year will be exhibiting their new Smap3D “ScantoCAD” solution in addition to their well known Smap3D Plant Design software.
Smap3D ScanToCAD transfers high volumes of point cloud from 3D scans into Solid Edge easily and quickly . Smap3D ScanToCAD merges the various referenced scans or the individual scans into an overall project and transfers selected 3D geometry directly in Solid Edge.
CAD Partner will also present Smap3D Plant Design, a unique solution that allows you to bring P&ID data into Solid Edge for use in your design of process plant and equipment. If you want to use P&IDs, standard pipe specifications and isometric drawings in your Solid Edge design process, Smap3D Plant Design is a proven solution with several published case studies including from brewery equipment designer Kaspar Schulz.
Using the information from the P&ID to automatically generate pipes in Solid Edge significantly increases the speed and accuracy of the design process. Modifications to process plant design can be time consuming, but the integrated process chain provided by Smap3D allows implementation of all tasks in parallel. Best of all, changes can be made directly to parts and assemblies because Smap3D Plant Design automatically generates Solid Edge models. This allows the user to make changes at any time, to any part and assembly without the involvement of other software.
Benefits of Smap3D:
- After choosing the pipe specs and diameter and pressure, the pipeline is automatically created
- The completely integrated software then takes over the placement of curved pipes and bends
- T-pieces, flanges and gaskets are also created
- This reliable process reduces errors and saves significant time
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In the past, so many people regard Chromebook as a budget-friendly laptop that is incapable of performing many tasks. But that perception has changed when Chromebooks started having top performing features. Although there are some more sophisticated options for the everyday user, those looking for affordable options will also find some good quality ones with basic features. The Lenovo c340 and Acer Spin 11 Chromebook are perfect examples of budget-friendly Chromebooks that are packed with high-performing features. You can save money by going for any of these models and still enjoy a lot of performance benefits. However, when it comes to choosing between the two, which one will be ideal for you? That’s exactly what we will find out here. In the next section, we are going to compare both the Lenovo C340 and Acer Spin 11 Chromebook to find out their similarities and differences. In the end, you will be able to make the right call between the two laptops. Comparing Lenovo C340 vs Acer spin 11 The Lenovo c340 and Acer spin 11 have certain similarities as well as differences. As both of them are Chromebooks, you should expect them to have a longer battery life. And they did not disappoint in that aspect. Each of them boasts not less than 9 hours of battery strength. That should be enough for your office or school tasks until you get home to charge. The design of both Chromebooks looks similar, but on a close look, it seems Acer looks more stylish. If you love a convertible Chromebook you can use as a laptop as well as a tablet, the Acer Chromebook fits that description. It’s also a bit cheaper than the Lenovo model. These are some of the similarities and differences between the two Chromebooks. In the next section, we are going to provide a detailed description of the top differences between these two Chromebooks, with more emphasis on the design, performance, features, and built quality. Lenovo C340 Vs Acer Spin 11 - Design and Build When it comes to design, the Lenovo c340 and Acer spin 11 have some things in common and quite a lot of difference too. They have similar weight but Lenovo is a bit lighter at 2.6 lbs while Acer weighs about 2.76 lbs. Another clear similarity between the two Chromebooks is the fact that both of them are convertible laptops. The Acer Spin 11 can be used as a laptop as well as a tablet. It comes with hinges that easily flips to convert it to a tablet. That will be great for those looking for a convertible laptop. Acer Spin 11 does not offer much when it comes to frills or flair. The brand focused more on durability than anything else. It is designed with a matte finish, which makes it more durable than the Lenovo model. It can take up a lot of rough-handling and hits without cracking up. That is why it’s suited for those who are always on the move. On the other hand, the Lenovo model comes with a metal panel, and it is available in either platinum grey or Sand pink. It comes with a wedge-like shape, and both sides of the Chromebook are a bit tampered from the front edge towards the rear hinge. And just like the Acer Spin 11, this one comes with a sturdy hinge that rotates easily when converting to a tablet. Lenovo C340 vs Acer spin 11 - Keyboard and touchpad The Keyboard of both the Acer Spin 11 and Lenovo c340 is solidly designed and they offer good trackpad as well. However, the Acer spin has a chisel-style keyboard that stretches from edge to edge, which makes the most of the available space. This design significantly reduces errors as you type. There is a standard row of dedicated Chrome OS controls which is sitting above the main section. It allows you to easily move through apps and webpages. However, the Acer spin has no backlighting. Acer’s touchpad is more spacious than the Lenovo touchpad. It also responds better to multi-fingered gestures, taps, and swipes better than Lenovo touchpad. But the good thing about the Lenovo keyboard is the fact that it comes with backlighting, which is great when typing or working in the night. Lenovo C340 vs Acer spin 11 - Screen The display size of both the Acer Spin 111 Chromebook and the Lenovo c340 are the same at 11.6 inches. The difference is the brightness. When compared side-by-side, the Lenovo Chromebook is brighter than the Acer counterpart. It’s sharper and brighter, which will come in handy when watching darker scenes in a movie. However, the large button display at the bezel takes a lot of vertical space, which makes the display a bit smaller. This happens especially when you convert them to tablets. However, Acer Spin 11 is slightly better in that regard, because of the wider viewing space it leaves even when converted to a tablet. Both also offer 360-degree hinges, which allow you to turn the screen into a tablet screen and comfortably watch movies. Both also come with full HD resolution, giving them an edge over some other types of budget 2-in-1 Chromebooks in the market. It brings out the right resolution and brightness when watching Disney movies. Music lovers would love to have laptop speakers that are loud enough with excellent sound technology. But one thing about Chromebooks is the fact that they are not loud. Both of these Chromebooks did not buck that trend, as they are a bit lackluster in performance. However, the Lenovo c340 Chromebook speakers are far better in terms of volume and performance. This is because of the dual 2W stereo speakers that optimize the sound quality. Lenovo C340 vs Acer spin 11 - Ports and connections The Lenovo s340 comes with good connecting ports, which includes Kensington luck, microSD card slot, a headphone/mic jack, 2 USB type C ports, and 2 USB Type-A ports, and 802.11ac wireless compatibility for Wi-Fi. On the other hand, the Acer Spin 11 has a USB3.0 port and USB Type-C port on each side of the Chromebook. It also comes with headphone/microphone jack, as well as microSD card reader. It also has 802.11ac for Wi-Fi wireless connectivity. However, note that none of the two Chromebooks have HDMI connectivity, which is understandable considering their low cost. Lenovo C340 Vs Acer Spin 11 Performance In terms of performance, both the Acer and Lenovo Chromebooks are pretty basic. They would serve you if you need the laptop for general everyday tasks and for multitasking needs. However, their memory capacity and graphics feature may not provide enough power for hard-core gaming or graphics work. Let’s look at the performance feature each of them to have a clear picture of what you will be getting. The Acer Spin 11 is equipped with a dual-core processor from Intel Celeron. It comes with 32 GB of eMMC flash memory and 4GB RAM. These features will surely be enough for some heavy workloads and multitasking. You can open several apps and tabs without overbearing the system. Lenovo also comes with similar features with its 4GB RAM, 32 GB Intel processor, as well as a maximum of 1080 pixel resolution. The 1.1 GHz may not be enough in terms of speed for some heavy tasks, but it’s fast enough to handle most basic and moderate tasks. The battery life of both laptops is 10 hours each. If you are choosing a system based on its battery life, making your choice between these two is going to be a bit harder, unless you consider their costs. Both laptops share the same battery strength and their workloads are similar too. Overall, when comparing Lenovo c340 vs Acer Spin 11 laptops, there are slight differences between the two. They have so many things in common, including the design and performance level. But if you are looking for something more fashionable and a bit more durable, the Lenovo c340 should be the better choice. Of course, that means you have to spend more. Frequently Asked Questions The following are answers to the most common questions about Lenovo C340 vs Acer Spin 11 Chromebooks. | <urn:uuid:5392c1da-6e19-4207-b00c-60ccbb51c356> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.easypcmod.com/chromebook | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956712 | 1,648 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Nvidia Presents Its Vision Of The Metaverse
At its annual GPU Technology Conference, the chip giant fleshed out the future of its Omniverse platform, which lets users develop 3d worlds and collaborate within them. The company is pitching the software as a fundamental building block in the metaverse, the concept of an interconnected virtual realm touted by the likes of Microsoft and Meta (formerly Facebook).
The underlying tech on which Omniverse develops its digital worlds is effectively established within the animation business: it’s Common Scene Description, a framework created by Pixar to let groups collaborate on creating high-end cg-animated scenes. Nvidia has described it as “the HTML of 3d worlds.”
On the convention, Nvidia additionally unveiled Omniverse Avatar, which permits digital characters to work together with people utilizing speech recognition, artificial speech, facial monitoring, and real-time animation. CEO Jensen Huang demonstrated the tech by presenting an animated toy model of himself, which fielded questions on scientific topics.
Those companies’ visions of the metaverse have so far emphasized social and workplace interactions, in environments that can be entirely fictional. But Nvidia is interested in creating precise digital replications of real objects and environments, which obey physical laws, for industrial purposes.
For example, Ericsson has worked with the company to model cities in order to work out where to place 5G antennas in real life. Omniverse can also be used to train the AI components of robots and self-driving vehicles, or to simulate and study forest fires.
Omniverse has been out there in beta mode since December 2020. The platform’s Enterprise model can now be licensed for $9,000/year.
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Photography plays a powerful role in the dark sky movement. A photograph of the naturally dark sky connects those who’ve never laid eyes on the naturally dark sky to a universe hidden behind the veil of skyglow. Similarly, images of wildlife and the night impacted by light pollution can spark conservation awareness and action. Photography has the power to transport us and inspire us to connect with and ultimately protect the night.
In celebration, the International Dark-Sky Association is hosting the second annual Capture the Dark Photography Contest! It is free to enter and open to entrants worldwide. Winners of each category will receive a prize package that includes a GoPro HERO9, Peak Design field pouch and camera strap, a PhotoPills license, a feature in our Nightscape publication, the IDA blog and social media, an IDA membership, and IDA swag.
The contest submission window opens on June 21, 2021, at 12 pm PDT, and closes on July 23, 2021, at 12 pm PDT.
One winner will be selected for each category. Limit one entry per category per person.
- Connecting to the Dark – Experiencing a natural night provides perspective, inspiration, and leads us to reflect on our humanity and place in the universe. Share a photo that illustrates our connection to the night.
- International Dark Sky Place – Over 170 protected lands and municipalities around the world have been certified by IDA as an International Dark Sky Place creating havens for astrophotographers. Share a photo taken in one of these locations.
- The Impact of Light Pollution – Light pollution can have significant impacts on the environment, human health, and our access to the night sky. Share a shot that demonstrates the impact of light pollution. This category also includes images of terrible lighting, glare bombs, etc.
- The Bright Side of Lighting – Light pollution can give artificial lighting a bad reputation, but lighting that follows IDA’s Principles for Responsible Outdoor Light can be beautiful, healthy, and functional. Share a shot of lighting that respects the dark.
- Creatures of the Night – Light pollution doesn’t only erase our view of the stars, scientific evidence suggests that artificial light at night has negative and deadly effects on wildlife including amphibians, birds, insects, and mammals. Share a photo of a creature that is impacted by light pollution.
- Deep Sky – For thousands of years, humans have looked to the night sky and wondered what is out there. Today, we can take photos of deep space objects from our own backyards. Share a photo of an object(s) such as nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters.
- The Mobile Photographer – No big camera? No problem! Share a shot from any of the above categories taken with a cell phone, tablet, or GoPro. No DSLR, mirrorless camera, or drone shots.
- Youth – Share a shot for any of the above categories taken by someone 17 years old or younger.
To judge submissions, IDA has coordinated a panel of astrophotographers from around the world:
- Fefo Bouvier |@fefobouvier | Uruguay
- Robyn Porteen | @skiesandcoffee | USA
- Trevor Jones | @astrobackyard | Canada
- Abdul Dremali | @advil | USA
- Mara Leite | @maralphoto | UK
- Kristine Richer | @kristinerosephotography | Canada
- Shreenivasan Manievannan | @shreeniclix | USA
- Jeff Dai | @jeffdaiphoto | China
Entrants will remain anonymous to the panel during the judging period.
We want to extend a special thank you to the sponsors of the 2021 Capture the Dark Photography Contest for their generous support.
- Be sure to carefully follow the submission instructions located here. Failure to do so may result in disqualification.
- You must include ALL of the required information in the caption section including camera settings (lens, shutter speed, ISO, aperture, etc.), technical category, and connection to the category. More information on what is required here.
- The contest is free to enter. There is no purchase necessary.
- One entry per category per person.
- The same photograph cannot be submitted to more than one category.
- Submissions must be received between June 21, 2021, at 12pm PDT and July 23, 2021, at 12pm PDT using the submission form.
- The photo must be in JPEG format.
- Entrants applying to the Youth category must be 17 years of age or younger at the time of submission.
- Entrants must be the sole and exclusive author and owner of the photograph and have the full and exclusive right, power, and authority to submit the photograph to IDA’s Capture the Dark contest.
- All photos should follow ethical dark sky and wildlife photography practices and be taken legally (see below).
- In order to keep the judging process blind, submitted photos cannot be watermarked or be otherwise marked.
Photo Entry Rules:
All photos should follow ethical night sky and wildlife photography practices. Images that inappropriately add artificial light at night (such as light painting, shining white light towards the sky, etc.) will not be considered. Images must be taken legally, adhering to local access regulations such as nighttime closures or restrictions. Do not go to closed areas to photograph for this contest.
On the entry submission form in the caption section, you must indicate how your photo was taken or created! You must provide the correct information in the caption section when submitting your photo of your photograph will be disqualified.
In the caption section please tell us ALL of the following:
- The camera settings you used for the photo (focal length, ISO, shutter speed, etc.) If submitting to the mobile category let us know what you used to take the photo. Be as detailed as you can.
- Which technical category your photo falls under (single exposure, blend, stacked, tracked, panorama). Select all that apply, more information on each can be found below.
- The connection your photo has to the contest category (less than 100 words)
- Any additional information you’d like to share about the photo
The following is adapted from Royce Bair’s Nightscaper group.
The following images are ALLOWED:
Single exposure: The image is a single exposure. In expression: the camera triggered only once to acquire the image. The image is a single light frame.
Blend: A digital combination of several images taken from the same tripod position, during the same night, with the same shooting direction and focal length.
- Foregrounds captured during the blue hour/with moonlight, combined with a sky captured during astronomical night/without the moon in the sky.
- Focus stacks for an increased depth of field
- Tracked skies, blended with untracked foregrounds. In this case, small movement of the tripod position (i.e. to the backside of a foreground feature, to avoid too much blur in the tracked sky image) is acceptable but must be stated.
Stacked: Noise reduction by stacking multiple images taken in immediate succession and with exactly the same settings, focal point, and length, field of view, and tripod position.
Tracked: A tracking mount was used to capture the sky. These devices rotate the camera to counter earth rotation and thus allow longer exposures without producing trailed stars. Tracked & Blended images are allowed if they were both taken using the same tripod position as stated above.
Panorama: Multiple images stitched to produce a larger field of view. The individual images must be taken during the same night, from the same tripod position, and at the same focal length.
The following images are NOT ALLOWED:
- Images merged together from different tripod positions/locations or with different viewing directions
- Images merged together taken during different nights*
- Images merged together with different focal lengths
- Images merged together with daylight foregrounds and night skies
*There is an exception to this rule for the Deep Sky category only.
Make a Submission:
The submission window for the 2021 Capture the Dark Photography Contest is now closed.
Help Spread the Word:
We have put together an outreach kit will all the tools you need to help us spread the word about IDA’s ‘Capture the Dark’ Photography Contest. Click here to get a copy.
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Employers are required to abide by existing affirmative action programs, which are enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). Affirmative action obligations are imposed upon businesses providing goods or services to the federal government or functioning as subcontractors for those providing goods or services directly to the federal government. These obligations are set forth in:
These laws not only prohibit discrimination by covered employers, but require them to make good-faith efforts to hire and advance minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans with disabilities and Vietnam Era veterans, as well as other classes of veterans. The OFCCP considers the failure to make good faith efforts to comply with the law to be a violation warranting the imposition of penalties. Penalties for noncompliance can include cancellation of contracts and prohibition from further government business. The OFCCP can also pursue covered employers for back pay and reinstatement for individuals whom it deems to be victims of discrimination.
As a general rule, federal contractors and subcontractors with contracts totaling $10,000 or more are required to comply with certain aspects of the affirmative action laws.
Federal contractors and subcontractors with 50 or more employees and contracts over $50,000 or who have government bills of lading that can be expected to total at least $50,000 over a one-year period are also required to develop and implement written affirmative action plans. Additionally, institutions with 50 employees that serve as a depository of federal funds or that issue or pay on U.S. savings bonds and notes, regardless of the amount, must also have written affirmative action plans.
The best-known affirmative action requirements are contained in Executive Order 11246. An employer’s obligations under the Order depend on whether it meets the $10,000 or $50,000 threshold. The first threshold primarily applies to employers holding a federal government contract in excess of $10,000 or multiple contracts in excess of $10,000 in the aggregate. An employer that supplies a service to a government agency and receives payment from the agency in excess of $10,000 is a contractor under the Order, even if the employer has not entered into any formal contract with the government.
Executive Order 11246 requires that employers meeting the $10,000 threshold refrain from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Such employers must also take affirmative action to ensure equal employment opportunities. This obligation to take affirmative action exists with regard to working conditions and facilities as well as to all employment decisions in the areas of hiring, terminations, training, promotions and compensation. All employees of a covered employer are protected regardless of whether they are actually working on a federal contract.
In addition to taking affirmative action in employment, each covered employer must take the following actions:
The Order’s most significant requirement applies only to contractors with 50 or more employees and with single contracts in excess of $50,000 and to institutions serving as depositories of federal funds or that issue or pay on U.S. savings bonds and notes and who have 50 or more employees. This higher threshold requires covered employers to develop and maintain written affirmative action plans.
Written affirmative action plans must be developed for each of the employer’s facilities regardless of whether each of the facilities has a direct federal contract. Each plan must assign responsibility and accountability for its implementation, identify problem areas relating to equal employment opportunity, provide for action-oriented programs to correct problem areas and develop and implement an auditing system to measure the plan’s effectiveness.
Plans also must include a number of quantitative analyses, including an organizational profile or workforce analysis (providing detailed information about the incumbent workforce), a job group analysis (whereby incumbent employees are broken down into job groups), an availability analysis (determining the statistical availability of minorities and females in each job group), an utilization analysis (comparing availability with the incumbent workforce) and the establishment of placement goals (where utilization in the workforce is significantly less than availability).
Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act prohibits employers with federal government contracts totaling $10,000 or more from discriminating against individuals with disabilities and further requires affirmative action to provide employment opportunities for such persons. Covered employers also must make a reasonable accommodation to the disabilities of individuals to the extent such actions do not cause an undue hardship or financial burden on the employer.
Employers required to have written affirmative action plans under the Executive Order are also required by this Act to prepare a written affirmative action program. The plan must include:
Unlike Executive Order 11246, the Rehabilitation Act does not require that contractors perform workforce analyses or that they set specific goals or timetables regarding the hiring or advancement of individuals with disabilities. However, plans must be reviewed and updated annually.
Contractors must post an equal employment opportunity policy statement informing all applicants and employees of their rights under the Rehabilitation Act. Each covered contractor must ensure that applicants with disabilities and employees are informed of the contents of the policy statement.
When an employee with a known disability is having significant difficulty performing a job and it is reasonable to conclude that the performance problem may be related to the known disability, contractors are now required to inquire whether the performance problem has any connection to the employee’s disability. A second inquiry regarding needed accommodations must be made when the employee, in response to the initial inquiry, indicates his or her performance problem is connected to his or her disability.
Contractors must extend invitations to applicants with disabilities and employees to “self-identify” so they can benefit under the contractor’s affirmative action program. Generally, this invitation can be extended only after an offer of employment has been made. The invitation must inform the individual that the request to benefit under the contractor’s affirmative action program may be made immediately or at any time in the future. Contractors must maintain a separate file on individuals who have self-identified and provide the file to the OFCCP upon request.
Coverage under the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) depends upon the date of the underlying federal contracts. For contracts entered into before December 1, 2003, if the contracts are $25,000 or more, then employers are required to take affirmative action as to the following:
For contracts entered into after December 1, 2003, if the contracts are $100,000 or more, then employers are required to take affirmative action as to the following:
Under the OFCCP’s regulations, employers required to establish written affirmative action plans under the Executive Order must also adopt written plans under this Act. Such plans are virtually identical to those required for individuals with disabilities under the Rehabilitation Act. Affirmative action plans covering veterans are not required to contain workforce analyses, nor must they include any goals, but the plans must be reviewed and updated annually.
In addition to the above, employers covered by the Veterans’ Act must report to the local employment service all suitable employment openings not involving management employees or temporary (three days) employees that exist or arise during the performance of their government contract or subcontract. Job openings that are to be filled from the contractor’s existing work force are not required to be listed. Covered employers are required to file an annual report with the Department of Labor on Form VETS-100. The report contains information concerning incumbent and newly hired employees in the protected categories listed above. The categories change depending upon the date on which the underlying contracts were entered.
The OFCCP reviews compliance with the three laws in two different ways:
The most common method is by an audit. OFCCP audits can range from the simple compliance check (where minimal records are reviewed) to the desk audit (where more comprehensive documentation is reviewed) to focused reviews (where specific areas are reviewed in detail) to the full audit (where OFCCP investigators review documents on-site and interview managers and employees). Generally, contractors and subcontractors are selected for these audits based on a statistical review of employment activity or representation of minorities and women in the workforce. Companies who indicate that they are federal contractors on their EEO-1 reports are subject to selection. In conducting audits, the OFCCP can review all phases of the employer’s employment practices to determine if the affirmative action requirements of each of the three laws have been met. If deficiencies are noted during an audit, the OFCCP will notify the employer and request corrective action. The employer may be asked to sign a conciliation agreement if a number of serious problems are discovered.
The second method of enforcement by the OFCCP is through the investigation of complaints filed with the agency. Complaints may raise individual or class claims of a violation and must be filed within 300 days of the suspected violation. The OFCCP will notify the employer of the complaint and provide it with a summary. If the complaint involves a possible Title VII violation, such as discrimination on the basis of sex, race or national origin, the OFCCP may refer the complaint to the EEOC.
The OFCCP’s investigation will usually consist of a request for relevant documentation and a statement of the employer’s position on the complaint, along with interviews of all relevant witnesses. Once it has reviewed the evidence, the OFCCP will issue a written determination stating whether or not cause exists to believe the complaint is true.
When the determination is in favor of the employer, the complainant may request reconsideration of the decision by the OFCCP Director within 30 days, which, if granted, can result in a reopening of the case. Usually, some specific error must be shown by the individual to warrant this action. If the determination goes against the employer, the OFCCP will usually offer a settlement. If refused by the employer, enforcement proceedings may be initiated.
Covered contractors must retain all personnel or employment records for at least two years from their date of making or the personal action involved, whichever is later. However, contractors with fewer than 150 employees or that do not have a contract of at least $150,000 must retain such records for only one year. For those contractors who were subject to the affirmative action requirements during the preceding year, they must retain copies of their plans for both the current year and the preceding year.
Covered employees must permit the OFCCP access to relevant books and records during normal business hours. The OFCCP may require the employer to maintain employment or other records and to furnish, within reasonable limits, other information for review and analysis. For employers subject to the written affirmative action plan requirements, additional recordkeeping burdens arise due to the OFCCP’s need to review the employer’s compliance. In order for officials to conduct reviews, records of workforce analyses for minorities and women must be maintained. The employer’s current EEO-1 report and records used in compiling that report should also be maintained for inspection, as well as information on the supply and identity of successful and unsuccessful applicants for employment, details on the number of individuals of each race and sex who were considered for promotion and who were selected and similar information relating to both voluntary and involuntary terminations. The personnel and employment records to be retained include:
Covered contractors and subcontractors must also retain records for at least one year that relate to complaints filed by veterans with disabilities and Vietnam veterans. Individuals may be advised to voluntarily identify themselves as individuals with disabilities for purposes of affirmative action programs. Collected medical information must be kept in files separate from other employee records. Failure to maintain complete and accurate records is a violation of the Act.
When the OFCCP determines that an employer is violating one of the affirmative action laws, it can recommend to the U.S. Solicitor of Labor that enforcement proceedings be initiated. These proceedings are usually administrative in nature. Violation of a conciliation agreement, refusal to adopt and implement an acceptable affirmative action plan, refusal to provide access to records and documentation or refusal to permit an on-site review, are types of violations that will be quickly handled. The OFCCP has put a priority on cases involving evidence of systemic discrimination that is generally based on statistical inferences.
After reviewing the evidence in an enforcement proceeding, the administrative law judge (ALJ) will issue a written opinion stating whether the employer has violated the law as charged. If the decision is against the employer, the judge will recommend appropriate penalties. The judge’s decision will become final unless appealed within 30 days. If an appeal is taken, the Secretary of Labor will review the record and issue a final order. When a violation is found the Secretary will order compliance and impose penalties. Failure to comply with the Secretary’s order will result in the suspension or termination of any existing federal contracts and may result in an official bar from federal contracts. The Secretary’s final order may be reviewed in federal court under the Administrative Procedure Act. The Court’s review will be limited to a consideration of whether the action taken by the Secretary was “arbitrary and capricious” or wrong under the law.
The penalties for violations of the affirmative action laws can be severe. They include:
If an employer is debarred or blacklisted, it can bring itself into compliance with the affirmative action laws and petition the Secretary for reinstatement as an eligible contractor.
When confronted with an audit or complaint investigation by the OFCCP, employers should keep in mind several points, including the following.
The U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is the federal agency responsible for enforcing these affirmative action laws. The requirements for affirmative action plans are set forth in regulations issued by the OFCCP.
Learn more about affirmative action requirements from a labor/employment attorney or at the Department of Labor’s website:
Policies and Forms
Federal contractors and affirmative action — Federal
Recruiting and hiring — Federal
Background checks — Federal
Immigration — Federal
Temporary and leased employees, interns and volunteers — Federal
Independent contractors — Federal
Restrictive covenants and trade secrets — Federal
Policies and procedures manuals — Federal
Wages and hours — Federal
Child labor — Federal
Discrimination — Federal
Disabilities and reasonable accommodations — Federal
Workplace harassment — Federal
Benefits — Federal
Health insurance reform — Federal
Family and medical leave — Federal
Military leave — Federal
Other types of leave — Federal
Performance evaluations — Federal
Personnel files — Federal
Workplace investigations — Federal
Discipline — Federal
Termination — Federal
Plant closings and mass layoffs — Federal
Health insurance continuation coverage — Federal
Whistleblower protections — Federal
Privacy rights — Federal
Health insurance portability and privacy — Federal
Employment in the Internet age — Federal
Social media — Federal
Safety and health — Federal
Workplace violence — Federal
Politics in the workplace — Federal
Celebrations in the workplace — Federal
Federal contractors and affirmative action — Federal
Public employers — Federal
Unions — Federal
Drugs and alcohol — Federal
Telecommuting — Federal
Diversity in the workplace — Federal
International employment law — Federal
Employment practices liability insurance — Federal
Disaster planning — Federal
Pandemic outbreaks — Federal
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Geoscientists explore the “Earth System” and decipher its historical development. Understanding the past, natural conditions and changes to this system without human influence forms an essential basis for assessing current environmental changes. Here you can find information about our minor subject training.
Information for prospective students
The minor subject training is aimed in particular at students of archeology, biology, geography, meteorology and physics. We offer the following modules:
FUNDAMENTALS OF EARTH SCIENCES I
In the lecture Introduction to Geology, the most important geological processes (endogenous and exogenous) are presented and a brief overview of the natural history of the earth is given. In the exercises on Petrography (course size max. 20 students) the most important types of rocks are presented, their formation is discussed and their description and identification are practiced.
FUNDAMENTALS OF EARTH SCIENCES II
In the Geological Working Methods exercises, the basics of independent geological field work are conveyed as well as the basics of the scientific presentation of the collected data. What is learned in the course is practiced in the form of assignments. In the Geological Field Exercises (3 days), findings from the field are recorded under supervision and placed in a regional geological framework. The documentation and evaluation of the findings are practiced with reports.
GEOLOGY OF THE CENOZOIC
The lecture Geology of the Tertiary deals with the most important global and regional events, which have significantly influenced the geological development of the earth in the course of the Tertiary. In the lecture Geology of the Quaternary, the history of the earth in the Quaternary (Ice Age) is presented. In addition, the most important natural archives and proxy data are explained, with which the climate and environmental history can be reconstructed. In the seminar Special Cenozoic Topics, students acquire detailed knowledge about selected aspects in the history of the Canozoic (Tertiary and Quaternary).
SEDIMENTS AND ENVIRONMENT I
In the lecture Fundamentals of Sedimentology, the different types of loose sediments and sedimentary rocks, their genesis depending on the environmental conditions and the methods of their processing are explained. In the Sedimentological-practical Training (course size maximum 20 students), basic sedimentological methods are learned from sampling and sediment description to sediment analysis and data presentation in the context of practical applications. In the seminar Special Sedimentology, students acquire detailed knowledge of selected aspects of sedimentology.
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Leveraging our strength as a manufacturer of motorcycles, automobiles, and power products, we will strive to be at the forefront in the area of the environment and energy technology by addressing the challenge of reducing CO2 emissions in a more comprehensive manner through further improvement in the fuel economy of existing products and also through the use of new technologies, such as solar cells and electromotive technologies, for each type of mobility product.
At this year's motor show, we designed our booth to propose Honda's vision for mobility of the near future. We are proposing the concept of "Hello!" representing the "Honda Electric mobility Loop" which attempts to comprehensively express our vision to provide both products that generate electricity and mobility products that run on electricity.
These are the products displayed at the "Hello!"zone.
The central Hello! product is the FCX Clarity fuel cell electric vehicle, which runs on electricity generated by hydrogen reacting with oxygen.
This compact city commuter is the EV-N, a battery electric vehicle for which Honda pursued a very simple design form.
The EV-Cub is an electric motorcycle offering the familiar design and outstanding convenience expected of a Super Cub.
The EV-Monpal is an electric personal mobility which helps to permit a life with greater peace of mind and comfort.
And this is our new mobility device, the U3-X, which uses technologies developed through the ASIMO bipedal humanoid program and was designed to co-exist in harmony with people.
All of these products run on clean energy -- either hydrogen or electricity -- produced from solar power.
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If you are here to find out if cannabis can help treat bipolar disorder, I have to disappoint you right away.
There is no scientific consensus on whether marijuana is effective in treating bipolar disorder.
Even the experiences of patients are divided, with some claiming that cannabis helps manage their symptoms and others who stay the hell away from it because it made their symptoms worse the first time they tried it.
I wanted to get to the bottom of this, so I went on a hunt for studies exploring this topic and searched for opinions of people that suffer from this horrible condition.
What is bipolar disorder?
Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder characterized by manic episodes with elevated or irritable mood which alternate with episodes of depression.
Bipolar can be an emotional rollercoaster, with exhausting ups and downs. Because its symptoms are similar to other conditions, and because the disorder is still not very well understood, it’s sometimes difficult to get a diagnosis.
During the extended depressed episode, which usually lasts for at least two weeks, patients experience sadness and hopelessness, overwhelmed with the feeling that they won’t get better.
Other symptoms of bipolar disorder are similar to depression, like a fluctuation in sleeping patterns (both sleeping too much or too little), major changes in appetite (gaining, as well as losing weight), suicidal thoughts, trouble staying focused, lethargy, feelings of worthlessness, guilt and self-loathing.
In severe cases, patients may have delusions and hallucinations which are symptoms of psychosis. Cannabis and psychosis don’t go along together at all, but we’ll get back to that later.
Manic periods are often characterized by elevated, irritated mood, increased energy, impulsive behavior, rapid speech and unsettled thoughts, short attention span and distraction.
The exact cause of this disorder is still unclear, but some genetic as well as environmental factors, such as trauma, stress and childhood abuse, have an impact on its development.
There are three different types of bipolar disorder:
- Bipolar I — having at least one prolonged manic episode, that lasts for at least a week. Patients diagnosed with this type also have depressed episodes, with dramatic mood changes.
- Bipolar II — having at least one depressive episode, without going to the full extremes of mania.
- Cyclothymia — sustained periods of hypomanic and depressive behaviors that don’t necessarily reach the heights of full manic or depressive episodes.
Treating bipolar disorder is a complex matter, and usually includes a combination of medications (mood stabilizers and antidepressants), psychotherapy, and a change in lifestyle (added exercise for example).
Bipolar medications often produce side-effects like dizziness, weight gain, nausea, diarrhea, blurred vision, rash and dry mouth.
Bipolar disorder can lead to substance abuse. Research has shown that 61% of bipolar I and 48% of bipolar II patients self-medicate with alcohol or marijuana. (1)
Is cannabis good or bad for bipolar disorder?
Unfortunately, there is no answer to this. Some patients find it useful for managing their symptoms, while others experience the complete opposite.
There have been a number of studies on the effect of cannabis on bipolar disorder. According to the research, it is unclear if marijuana can cause bipolar disorder, but in some people, marijuana can certainly worsen existing symptoms.
A 2009 study showed marijuana use can be a risk factor for developing psychotic symptoms. (2)
And this is important to remember: THC, the most prevalent cannabinoid in the plant, is a psychoactive compound.
Individuals already suffering from mood disorders should use cannabis with caution, since weed can cause anxiety and paranoia when taken in high amounts. Fortunately, when this happens it’s not a permanent condition — weed-induced anxiety goes away as soon as the effects of marijuana wear off.
However, these side-effects of cannabis can be similar to the symptoms of bipolar disorder. So if a person with bipolar disorder is currently experiencing feelings of increased anxiety, using cannabis is not a good idea.
On the other hand, there are studies which suggest that marijuana can be very effective in treating both depression and anxiety. Some bipolar patients can enjoy cannabis without experiencing undesirable side-effects, and they find it makes them feel more relaxed and calm.
Nonetheless, a 2012 research study found a link between cannabis use and decreased psychotic threshold. This means that marijuana can lower the point at which a person starts having active psychotic symptoms. (3)
Marijuana still remains one of the most abused substances among bipolar patients and 56% of bipolar patients have experienced a drug or alcohol addiction in their lifetime.
What bipolar patients have to say about their experience with cannabis?
While researching for this article, I bumped into this thread and I think it explained exactly what I was talking about. Here are just a few comments, but feel free to check it out yourself.
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- Ashton CH, Moore PB, Gallagher P, Young AH; Cannabinoids in bipolar affective disorder: a review and discussion of their therapeutic potential; Journal of Psychopharmacology; May 2005; 19(3): 293-300
- Khan MA, Akella S; Cannabis-Induced Bipolar Disorder with Psychotic Features: A Case Report; Psychiatry (Edgemont); December 2009; 6(12): 44–48
- Bhattacharyya S, Crippa JA, Allen P, Martin-Santos R, Borgwardt S, Fusar-Poli P, Rubia K, Kambeitz J, O’Carroll C, Seal ML, Giampietro V, Brammer M, Zuardi AW, Atakan Z, McGuire PK; Induction of psychosis by Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol reflects modulation of prefrontal and striatal function during attentional salience processing; Archives of General Psychiatry; January 2012; 69(1):27-36
- Lev-Ran S, Le Foll B, McKenzie K, George TP, Rehm J; Bipolar disorder and co-occurring cannabis use disorders: characteristics, co-morbidities and clinical correlates; Psychiatry Research; October 2013; 209(3):459-65
- Lagerberg TV, Kvitland LR, Aminoff SR, Aas M, Ringen PA, Andreassen OA, Melle I; Indications of a dose-response relationship between cannabis use and age at onset in bipolar disorder; Psychiatry Research; January 2014; 215(1):101-4 | <urn:uuid:c88d117a-c4b5-43ae-b49b-6f9acfc2cf68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greencamp.com/cannabis-for-bipolar-disorder/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.930583 | 1,386 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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