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Revised descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990)
(Pl. 42f): GS1098, V21/f8490, one of the specimens collected by Marwick and Uttley in 1924 from "a sandy pocket of the clays not far below the [Nukumaruan] limestone at Maraekakaho, Ngaruroro River", central Hawke's Bay, Nukumaruan (TM5766, GNS)
Beu & Maxwell (1990): Chapter 15; p. 318; pl. 42 f.
Synonymy: Struthiolaria frazeri Hutton 1885b, p. 329
Description: Large for genus (65-90 mm high), with very tall spire for family (slightly taller than aperture), strongly shouldered whorls, and a normal round Struthiolaria aperture with heavily thickened, strongly sinuous outer lip, heavily thickened and relatively wide inner lip with wide parietal callus, and shallow anterior notch. Sculpture of very prominent, wide spiral cords of almost square section, 3 closely spaced on sutural ramp, 1 particularly prominent (bifid and weakly nodulous on most specimens) around shoulder angle, 4 widely spaced on whorl sides, and a further 6 or 7 decreasing in prominence down base. Protoconch not seen, but presumably as in S. papulosa (Pl. 47r).
Comparison: Struthiolaria frazeri is similar to the Mangapanian-Recent species S. papulosa (Pl. 47r) but differs in its much taller spire, very much more prominent spiral sculpture, and more heavily thickened aperture. An apparently ancestral, smaller, rather more weakly sculptured form is abundant in Mangapanian sandstone between the Napier-Taupo road and Mohaka River, northern Hawke's Bay and in early Nukumaruan sandstone near Sherenden, central Hawke's Bay. Beu (2009) interpreted this earlier but intergrading form as indicting anagenetic evolution of the extreme, late Nukumaruan form of S. frazeri from a form nearer to S. papulosa. S. frazeri is an extremely distinctive index species of Mangapanian and Nukumaruan age.
Distribution: Mangapanian-Nukumaruan; Kikowhero Stream, Matapiro Station, north side of Ngaruroro River, Hawke's Bay, Nukumaruan (type); common at very many localities of shallow-water, sandy facies (usually found as concentrated monospecific lenses) throughout the Nukumaruan rocks of central Hawke's Bay, and particularly abundant in a shellbed (the lower of two Struthiolaria-dominated shellbeds; the upper contains only S. papulosa) cropping out widely in road cuts on Kereru Road and in Okauawa and Whanakino Streams, inland central Hawke's Bay. Extensive collecting by many people over more than 100 years has produced only one or two specimens from Wanganui basin; we are aware of none from localities further south than the Kereru district, Hawke's Bay (the record from North Canterbury (Marwick 1924b, p. 182) has never been confirmed). Uncommon in Mangapanian and early Nukumaruan sandstone at a few localities in northern Hawke's Bay.
Cite this publication as: "A.G. Beu and J.I. Raine (2009). Revised
descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990). GNS
Science miscellaneous series no. 27."
© GNS Science, 2009
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The Sandefjordsfjord (Norwegian: Sandefjordsfjorden), sometimes also called the Sandefjord (Sandefjorden), is an approximately 9 km long fjord in the municipality of Sandefjord in Vestfold, Norway. It is located to the west of Vesterøya. The Sandefjordsfjord is the longest of the four fjords located in Sandefjord, Norway. It is a wide fjord which gradually shrinks northbound towards the city harbor. The name dates to Sverris saga from 1200 AD.
Its name derives from the name Sandar which, originally, was that of the farm just outside the present town centre, and which for hundreds of years was the vicarage of the parish of Sandeherred (Sandar), also known as Sande – hence the Sande-fjord. As the town came into existence, the name gradually came to be applied to it, and the need for an expression to allow references to the fjord, as opposed to the town, emerged. Sandefjordsfjord was the pleonastic result.
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Have you ever seen an entire mountain carved to resemble a colossal human “face” gazing skyward? As amazing as this sounds, it´s only “half” of the great unsolved riddle here at the prehistoric archaeological site of “Antequera” in southern Spain. The other half is the gigantic megalithic dolmen nearby, the “Dolmen de Menga,” whose entrance points directly toward this mountain face—and not by accident. The Menga dolmen, dating back to the Neolithic period, has been described by scholars as the oldest, largest, and most sophisticated of its kind in Europe. Archaeologists don’t know the meaning of this (dolmen / mountain) alignment; but they say it is the only dolmen linked to an anthropomorphic landscape feature. What were the builders up to here? What purpose did this ritual complex serve? And could this strange setup possibly hold clues that might help us decipher “all” of prehistoric Europe´s mysterious and unexplained megalithic monuments?
Photo of me inside the Neolithic Menga Dolmen´s main entrance showing how the dolmen’s portal was designed to point directly at the nearby “mountain face” of La Pena de los Enamorados, which overlooks the entire city of Antequera.
Dolmens, stone circles, barrows, menhirs. You probably already know that Europe´s Neolithic and Bronze Age peoples built thousands of extraordinary megalithic structures across the continent (in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and other countries / regions).
These ruins are still a deep unsolved mystery to archaeologists. Despite centuries of analysis, research, and investigation, it remains uncertain who built them, when they were built, how they were built, or why. The “Why?” question—inquiring as to the motives of the builders—is perhaps most perplexing of all.
Why expend Herculean efforts to design and create such complex megastructures that were intended to last for thousands of years?
This is one of the many questions on the minds of European archaeologists studying the extraordinary megalithic ruins just outside the ancient city of Antequera in the Andalusian region of Spain.
Photo of me standing inside the entrance portal of the Menga Dolmen in Antequera, Spain.
There are three main megalithic structures here, all within sight of one another:
(1) the “Dolmen de Menga”
(2) the “Dolmen de Viera”
(3) the “Tholos de Romeral”
Visitors seeing these ruins for the first time immediately realize something special about them, something that sets them apart, and something scholars have known for decades—they are among the most sophisticated examples of Neolithic architecture in all of Europe.
They´re so special, in fact, that in 2016 UNESCO added them to its World Heritage List, stating:
“These three tombs, buried beneath their original earth tumuli, are one of the most remarkable architectural works of European prehistory and one of the most important examples of European Megalithism.”
THE MENGA DOLMEN
Most interesting of the three is the Dolmen de Menga, which is the largest and most advanced. It offers a bonus attraction—a strange feature that makes it unlike any other European megalithic structure: its entrance portal is perfectly aligned toward a prominent nearby natural rock formation of great importance because its silhouette resembles a gigantic human face gazing skyward. The mountain lies only seven kilometers to the northeast of the dolmen, and it dominates the entire landscape.
It´s only when you walk inside the Menga dolmen and then turn around to see the mountain face precisely framed by the dolmen´s entrance door that you´re struck with a strange sense of magic and wonder, even foreboding.
The entrance of the prehistoric Menga Dolmen was designed to look straight out toward the mountain face of La Peña de los Enamorados.
Antequera´s dolmens are a popular tourist destination for ancient history buffs.
The mountain face of La Peña de los Enamorados dominates the view over the city of Antequera, Spain.
What´s the meaning behind this magnificent ancient alignment?
This is the million-dollar question. Evidently, the stone mountain held some kind of religious or ritual significance to the Menga dolmen’s Neolithic builders; but scholars aren´t sure exactly what that significance was.
The stone mountain is known today as “La Peña de los Enamorados” (“Lovers’ Rock”) and it´s been the stuff of legend for centuries. This mountain, 880 meters in height, has always held special significance to the people of Antequera, not unlike Italy´s Vesuvius to Neapolitans. In many ways, the mountain defines the city, just like Vesuvius defines Naples; like Vesuvius, La Peña has traditionally served as a landmark for terrestrial navigation, not only due to its commanding visual presence, but also because of its remarkable anthropomorphic silhouette.
The origins of the mountain´s name—”Lovers´ Rock”—may hold a hidden clue to its deeper, esoteric meaning. Some scholars believe the name comes from an old Romeo-and-Juliet-type legend handed down over time:
“The legend that gives the mountain its name very likely originated in the 15th century CE when the Castilian kingdom of Seville and the Nasrid kingdom of Granada fought for control of the region. According to this legend, of which there are various versions, a Muslim man and a Christian woman fell in love, a relationship not accepted by either of their families. After an unsuccessful escape, the lovers decided to take their lives, throwing themselves from the northern cliff of La Peña. It cannot be ruled out that, as so often happens in Iberian folklore, the medieval legend is rooted in much older “pagan” traditions related to La Peña’s strongly anthropomorphic silhouette, also portrayed locally as a dormant giant woman…”
—Journal of Archaeological Science, 2018
Artist depiction of the legend of La Peña de los Enamorados published in “Cosmographia Universalis” in Basel, 1610.
What does the mountain face symbolize?
Rumor has it that the face is that of a sleeping giant. Some say it depicts a woman, perhaps a powerful witch. Others think it´s an American Indian (hence its oft-used nickname “Montaña del Indio”). Scholars aren´t sure; they also don´t know if the face is natural or was artificially carved in the prehistoric past. If carved, it would be one of the most unprecedented achievements of the Neolithic era, even more impressive than the megalithic structures themselves. Most scholars, unprepared to explain how our ancient ancestors could have performed such a feat, believe it´s natural.
Rotated views of the mountain face of La Peña de los Enamorados.
The unusual and striking anthropomorphism of this mountain face is enough to pique anyone´s curiosity. But the added “dolmen/mountain alignment”—which has inextricably linked these two monuments together for at least the last six thousand years—adds an extra layer of majesty and mystery that has left Spanish archaeologists scratching their heads.
“Menga is the only dolmen in continental Europe that faces towards an anthropomorphic mountain such as La Peña de los Enamorados.”
Menga isn´t just the most mysterious dolmen in Spain, it´s also one of the oldest (and possibly the oldest in Spain and even Europe). This is extremely curious.
“Antequera Dolmens Site is an outstanding example of a megalithic monumental ensemble, comprised of the three megalithic monuments…that illustrate a significant stage of human history when the first large ceremonial monuments were built in Western Europe.”
Twilight view standing outside the Menga Dolmen looking in. (Photo courtesy of Javier Pérez González.)
Photo of the inside of the Menga dolmen from the entrance portal. Your back is facing La Peña de los Enamorados.
Stepping further into the Menga Dolmen walking deeper into the structure.
Inside Menga showing the gargantuan roof slabs, the largest of which weighs nearly 200 tons.
View facing the back of the Menga Dolmen, showing one of three remaining megalithic support columns.
No one knows for sure exactly when Menga was built. Scholars date its construction to the 4th millennium BC, based on their radiocarbon dating of organic matter—likely burned wood—found inside the dolmen:
“When was Menga built? There are currently three radiocarbon dates for this monument that fall within the late prehistoric period…all obtained from charred material…The dates were 3790–3690 BC and 3760–3530 BC…considered an early stage of megalith construction in southern Spain.”
—Luc Laporte and Chris Scarre, The Megalithic Architectures of Europe, 2015
It´s important to keep in mind that, by radiocarbon dating of organic matter found inside Menga, scholars have established a date for the organic matter—and not necessarily for the dolmen itself (since the megalithic stones themselves cannot be radiocarbon dated). This means Menga may be much older than the radiocarbon dated material. In fact, it´s surprising and a little disappointing that scholars have put a firm date on the dolmen based solely on this radiocarbon dated material, considering they know this material may date to a period long after the dolmen´s construction, when cultures subsequent to the builders inhabited Antequera and used the dolmen:
“As Menga seems to have been an “open” monument throughout its entire life history, the vestiges of its use during the Neolithic, the Chalcolithic, and the Bronze Age seem to have been almost completely erased by the actions of subsequent visitors and users.”
—Luc Laporte and Chris Scarre, The Megalithic Architectures of Europe, 2015
The construction methods used to build Menga are another mystery. In its entirety, the dolmen is constituted by thirty-two colossal stone blocks, some weighing almost 200 tons, all made of sandstone and assembled without mortar or cement. The use of these “mega-stones” is mind-boggling, especially considering that the largest blocks at Stonehenge weigh 50 tons each, considerably less.
“Menga stands out as an exceptional megalithic monument in both the scale of its construction and its design. It is basically the largest and heaviest megalithic monument on the Iberian Peninsula…”
—Luc Laporte and Dr. Chris Scarre, The Megalithic Architectures of Europe, 2015
The interior design and layout of the dolmen itself is also mysterious. Its single massive chamber is formed by fourteen gigantic orthostats, seven on each side, and a single backstone, creating an interior space roughly 16.5 meters long and 6 meters wide at its maximum width. The roof is formed by five massive capstones that rest atop the fourteen orthostats; these giant roof slabs are supported by three large columns axially aligned in the chamber; some scholars believe there may have been a fourth column, now missing. The entire structure is covered with soil forming a large tumulus roughly 50 meters in diameter. This hill can still be seen today.
Menga Dolmen ground plan showing how the three large upright pillars are aligned along the longitudinal axis of the chamber.
Exploring inside the Menga Dolmen.
View from inside the Menga Dolmen, facing the front of the structure.
Photo of the rear of the Menga Dolmen.
One of the most striking aspects of the Menga dolmen is its astronomical orientation. As mentioned, the entrance to the monument is oriented towards La Peña de los Enamorados in the northeast. There is another alignment at play here: when the sun rises on the morning of the Summer Solstice, its rays shine into the dolmen´s entrance corridor illuminating one of the two walls of orthostats inside. It should be emphasized that the sun doesn’t shine directly into the heart of the chamber; it illuminates only one side of the two interior megalithic walls. This is because the mean azimuth of the dolmen is 45 degrees, while the azimuth of the Summer Solstice is 60 degrees—not a perfect match.
The sun’s morning rays enter the Menga Dolmen one week before the Summer Solstice, illuminating one side of the interior megalithic walls. (Photo courtesy of Javier Pérez González.)
The sun’s morning rays enter the Menga Dolmen days before the Summer Solstice, illuminating one side of the interior megalithic walls. (Photo courtesy of Javier Pérez González.)
As shown here, the Menga Dolmen was oriented so that the sun’s morning rays on the Summer Solstice illuminate only part of the inside chamber.
Why set up the structure so the morning rays of the solstice sun illuminate only part of the inside chamber?
This question is difficult to answer, mostly because no one knows why so many of Europe´s Neolithic megalithic structures are aligned to the solstices and equinoxes in the first place. Archaeologists have known for some time that the Pagan cultures who built most of Europe´s megalithic monuments revered the solstices and equinoxes as high holidays. Here at Antequera it seems the builders wanted their dolmen to point to the La Peña mountain face and, at the same time, they also wanted at least some sunlight to shine into the dolmen on the morning of the Summer Solstice. In other words, they wanted to have their cake and eat it too—and they clearly got their wish.
“Menga was not oriented to sunrise, as is the case with 95% of the megalithic monuments in southern Iberia. Rather it is slightly to the north of the summer solstice (specifically at 45°), towards La Peña de los Enamorados, a mountain that stands out in the Antequera plain.”
—Luc Laporte and Dr. Chris Scarre, The Megalithic Architectures of Europe, 2015
Another mysterious and surprising architectural feature of the Menga dolmen can be found inside the structure. In the spring of 2005, a circular water well nearly 20 meters deep was discovered on the ground inside the chamber on the side opposite the entrance, between the third supporting pillar and the backstone.
In 2005, a circular water well nearly 20 meters deep was discovered on the ground inside the chamber on the side opposite the entrance.
Once fully excavated, it was found that the well´s circular shape is surprisingly symmetrical all the way down the sandstone bedrock into which it was carved, showing the unparalleled skill of the ancient builders. Scholars aren´t sure if the well was carved with stone, animal horns or metal tools. But they are sure that whoever carved it clearly possessed the confidence and ability to perform such an amazing feat. At the time this sensational discovery was made, there was no record of the existence of this exceptional hydraulic structure, nor was any previous reference to it known.
The well´s deep shaft is perfectly circular for the entire duration down its nearly 20-meter depth.
Metal bars have been installed to protect visitors, as a fall from this height would be deadly.
Photo of the well with water.
The perfect circularity of the well´s deep shaft shows that the goal of the builders was to create a specific aesthetic and visual effect that must have been meaningful to them; but exactly what that meaning was is unclear.
Chemical analysis has shown that the water inside the well is suitable for human consumption (according to current Spanish laws defining potable water). However, researchers don´t believe the well was dug solely for drinking water because, as some have pointed out, potable water can easily be got by digging just a few yards down in the dirt fields outside the dolmen.
Why did the builders saddle themselves with the incredibly laborious task of digging down 20 meters into the solid sandstone bedrock inside the dolmen? Clearly there was some unknown and mysterious reason for having a well inside the dolmen. The builders went out of their way to ensure this (assuming the well does not predate the dolmen). But exactly what that reason was remains unclear.
Perhaps a clue may lie in the faint engravings that have been found on some of Menga´s giant orthostats, notably on Pillars 1 and 2 near the entrance. Unfortunately, these engravings have deteriorated to the extent that they are now almost entirely unrecognizable. They seem to depict a mixture of “cruciform” and “circular” patterns, carved in a kind of low relief.
Faint engravings have been found on some of Menga´s giant orthostats.
Some archaeologists are on record saying they see anthropomorphic figures, with one perhaps holding a hatchet; they also say they believe these carvings date back to the era of the dolmen´s construction. Others say they see “Christianized” cross symbols—prehistoric designs that appear to have been “carved over” during the Christian era, making the original designs undeterminable.
It´s not just the inside of the Menga dolmen where we find prehistoric images. More designs have been found in a large, triangular-shaped natural cave located at the foot of La Peña de los Enamorados—a cave that scholars say is directly linked to the Menga dolmen; the dolmen´s central axis of symmetry and entrance point directly to it.
Known as the “Abrigo de Matacabras,” it contains several prehistoric paintings. Like the carvings inside Menga, these paintings are heavily eroded. Scholars believe that due to its strange link with Menga this small cave may have been a spiritual sanctuary of sorts, one that held symbolic and religious significance during the Neolithic period.
Left: View of Antequera from inside the cave “Abrigo de Matacabras” at the base of La Peña de los Enamorados. Right: Prehistoric anthropomorphic figure painted in red on a wall inside Matacabras cave. The figure´s arms are raised up, a pose that has baffled scholars.
In 2018, the ATLAS research group from the University of Seville published a study of the paintings saying:
“This small cave has a first-class visual and symbolic relationship with the Menga dolmen, establishing landscape relationships that are possibly unique in European prehistory.”
—Journal of Archaeological Science, 2018
Scholars have noted that the paintings depict a relatively wide range of schematic art motifs. Fourteen various depictions have been documented in all, mostly composed of: (a) plaques, (b) pectiniforms, (c) an anthropomorphic figure with arms raised, and (d) a double serpentiform. All of these are said to have parallels with various other prehistoric art motifs in southern Spain, with many examples found in and around the lands near Antequera.
One of the most interesting depictions inside the cave shows an anthropomorphic figure with upraised arms, painted in red (as shown in the photo above).
Could this be the image of an ancient shaman performing some kind of long-lost ritual? Or perhaps a spiritualist of some sort engaging in a meditational prayer that, for us, no longer holds any meaning? Was it an ancient magician steeped in some kind of strange magical ceremony? Or a soothsayer having a drug-induced mystical experience? Could it be a witch doctor preparing to offer a human sacrifice to some unknown god or gods revered by the builders?
These are the kinds of ideas many scholars favor, and they certainly seem viable considering the ritualistic and funerary nature of the three dolmens that constitute the archaeological site of Antequera.
THE VIERA DOLMEN
Just a couple of hundred feet southwest of Menga, there´s a second magnificent megalithic structure—the “Dolmen de Viera.” Though slightly smaller and less impressive than Menga, this prehistoric monument is grand and unique in its own right.
Aerial view showing the near proximity of the Menga and Viera dolmens. The yellow arrrows point to the entrances.
The dolmen is named after two brothers, José Viera Fuentes and Antonio Viera Fuentes, who are said to have discovered and excavated it between 1903 and 1905, although local knowledge of the dolmen´s existence has been traced back to the 16th century.
On the outside, the Viera dolmen resembles a giant burial mound, while inside it looks like a passage grave. The outside mound is described by scholars as a “tumulus” roughly 50 meters in diameter. The interior consists of a long corridor—accessible by an entrance on the periphery of the mound—that leads to a small rectangular chamber inside.
On the outside, the Viera dolmen resembles a giant burial mound, inside it looks like a passage grave.
Like Menga, it was built with a series of megalithic stone blocks placed standing upright, all put together without mortar or cement. The corridor is topped by a row of megalithic roof slabs, which also fit together without mortar or cement. The orthostats and roof slabs here, while impressive, are considerably smaller than those of Menga.
The orthostats that make up the interior corridor are twenty-seven in total, and at the end of the corridor there is a small chamber with a quadrangular plan, which is accessed through a perforated square door. Here, scholars believe ancient corpses were interred along with their grave goods (assuming this was a burial mound). No skeletons have been found inside, though some artifacts—including a ceramic bowl, a stone vase, a copper awl, several blades, small flint tools, and several polished stone axes—have been recovered. Unlike Menga, there is no link to La Peña de los Enamorados.
Plan and section of Viera, showing its long corridor leading to its single interior chamber.
Walking into the Viera dolmen via its long straight corridor.
The megalithic wall slabs and ceiling slabs inside the Viera dolmen’s corridor.
Inside the Viera dolmen, 2020. Guards are posted at the ruins to enforce the mask law.
In front of the square entrance carved in stone that leads into the Viera dolmen’s single chamber at the end of its corridor.
Peering into the small chamber at the end of the corridor, which is accessed through a perforated square door.
Scholars believe the Viera dolmen was built a few hundred years after the Menga dolmen. If this is true, then it may well have been constructed by the descendants of the builders of Menga—though this idea doesn´t seem to be popular among scholars. Viera is officially dated to the Copper Age, which in Spain lasted from approximately 3300 to 2500 BCE. (It is interesting to note that, as with many other ancient cultures, the more advanced monument predates the less advanced one. Examples of this “older = more advanced” pattern can be found in Egypt, Italy, China, Mexico, and Cambodia, as I´ve discussed in my books, lectures, articles, videos, and social media posts).
One of the most interesting features of the Viera dolmen is its archaeoastronomical orientation. As with most Iberian tombs, Viera´s interior chamber and the long corridor that leads to it are both oriented slightly south of east (96°). This means the builders constructed it precisely so that the sun´s first rays on the vernal and autumnal equinoxes (March 21 and September 21) shine directly into the corridor and illuminate the interior chamber.
The builders constructed the Viera dolmen precisely so that the rising sun´s first rays on the mornings of the vernal and autumnal equinoxes (March 21 and September 21) shine directly into the corridor and illuminate the interior chamber. (Photos courtesy of Javier Pérez González.)
The sun´s first rays on the morning of the vernal equinox shine directly into Viera´s megalithic corridor. (Photo courtesy of Salvador Salas.)
Dawn on the spring equinox. This photo was taken from inside the small chamber looking straight out through the long corridor and into the eastern sky. (Photo courtesy of Salvador Salas.)
There are many other megalithic ruins across the Iberian Peninsula—and all across Europe—that are archaeoastronomically aligned to the solstices and equinoxes, just like here at Antequera. Scholars have known about these alignments for decades, but they are at a loss to explain their meaning.
THE THOLOS OF EL ROMERAL
Situated about a mile northeast of the Menga and Viera dolmens—and located precisely along the axis that links the Menga dolmen and La Peña de los Enamorados—is the Tholos de El Romeral. This is described by archaeologists as one of the most important examples of Neolithic architecture in southern Europe. This megalithic monument, also known as “Cueva de Romeral” (Cave of Romeral) and “Dolmen de Romeral,” is the third major dolmen structure at Antequera.
Romeral is clearly visible from both the Menga and Viera dolmens. Scholars don´t know why it was built to stand perfectly in line between the Menga dolmen and La Peña de los Enamorados, but they do agree that the Romeral Tholos dates to an era long after the Menga and Viera dolmens were built. It is currently believed to have been constructed in the early 2nd millennium BCE (about 1800 BCE).
Aerial view of the circular mound known today as the Tholos de El Romeral.
The entrance into the Tholos de El Romeral is imposing and majestic.
The mound housing the Tholos de El Romeral on the left, with La Peña de los Enamorados on the right.
The Tholos de El Romeral, situated about a mile northeast of the Menga and Viera dolmens, lies along a straight axis that links the Menga dolmen and La Peña de los Enamorados.
The Tholos de Romeral is basically a chambered tomb covered by a large artificial mound, not unlike the Viera Dolmen. The mound has a diameter of about 75 meters with a total height of roughly 10 meters, making it the largest of Antequera´s three major megalithic structures.
Like Viera, the entrance corridor is accessed by a doorway located on the periphery of the mound. However, the walls of its long trapezoidal corridor are not constructed with large megalithic stone blocks like Menga and Viera; instead, it has drystone walls made of small stones, though its ceiling is made of megalithic stone slabs.
Photo depicting the design and plan of the Tholos de El Romeral. (Courtesy of Francisco Jose Romero Montilla.)
Walking into the single long straight corridor, which leads to two consecutive beehive-shaped chambers.
Beautiful megalithic roof slabs cover the length of the corridor.
A closer look at some of the megalithic roof slabs covering the corridor.
Megalithic portal at the end of the corridor that allows entrance into the two consecutive round beehive-like chambers.
At the end of the corridor, a megalithic portal allows entrance into two consecutive round beehive-like chambers. (In ancient Greek architecture, a circular building with a conical or vaulted roof is known as a “tholos,” hence the “Tholos de Romeral.”)
The first chamber is larger, with a diameter of roughly 4 meters. It has corbelled walls similar to the walls inside the corridor and the chamber is topped by a single megalithic capstone.
The second chamber, which is smaller and linked to the first by a short corridor, has a diameter of roughly 2 meters; it too has a beehive-like shape. Inside the second chamber there´s a small stone slab, resembling an altar. Access to this chamber is not permitted. Archaeologists report that bones and various grave goods were found inside the dolmen. This, they say, confirms that the monument was built to serve as a burial mound.
Inside the first beehive-shaped chamber at the end of the corridor.
The ceiling inside the first beehive-shaped chamber is sealed with a megalithic roof slab.
The second, smaller chamber, is inaccessible to visitors. A large circular mirror inside the chamber allows visitors to see the beehive-shaped ceiling and megalithic ceiling slab covering this rear chamber.
Because it faces an azimuth of 199 degrees (looking out to the south / southwest region of the horizon), the Tholos de Romeral is one of the few significant megalithic structures on the Iberian Peninsula that faces west (most face east).
As with Menga and Viera, the Tholos de Romeral was encoded with a significant archaeoastronomical alignment. At noon on the Winter Solstice, the sun´s rays penetrate down the long corridor through the first beehive-like chamber and straight into the second chamber, illuminating the interior of this prehistoric monument. Scholars are at a loss to explain why the builders set up the structure this way or what significance the hour of noon on the Winter Solstice may have held in the minds of the builders (and, possibly, in relation to the dead, supposing this was indeed a burial mound).
At noon on the Winter Solstice (December 21) sunlight travels through the corridor at El Romeral and lights up the interior chambers. (Photo courtesy of Javier Pérez González.)
Some researchers have noted that the Tholos de Romeral has an eastern Mediterranean feel to it, as it bears a striking resemblance to the tholos tombs built in Greece in Antiquity.
What are we to make of this amazing prehistoric dolmen complex at Antequera?
As mentioned at the outset of this article, Europe´s megalithic ruins are a deep unsolved mystery to archaeologists. It´s still unclear who built them, when they were built, how they were built, or why. Antequera is no exception.
Scholars have done a fine job analyzing Antequera´s three major ancient monuments. They have gathered invaluable data regarding the building materials, measurements, artwork, mythology, and archaeoastronomical alignments at play here. Yet they are still no closer to unraveling the intrinsic meaning of Antequera than scholars were a century ago.
Isn´t this…kind of odd?
Think about it. Scholars have gathered plenty of detailed data on Antequera´s dolmens—priceless information that, one would think, should help us better “understand” the purpose and intention of these structures. Yet, even with all this data, academia is still at a complete and utter loss to explain their basic meaning and functionality (if indeed these monuments had a functionality other than being burial tombs, and I suspect they did).
What are we missing here?
For more than 30 years, I´ve been traveling to, exploring, and documenting a variety of megalithic ruins left by many different ancient cultures around the world. I´ve studied megaliths in places like Peru, Egypt, Mexico, Bolivia, England, Cambodia, Italy, Greece, France, Spain and Cyprus. Since 2015, I´ve been living in Spain and exploring its megalithic ruins. Yet, for me, Antequera represents one of—if not “the”—greatest enigmas of them all. This place is just as important as the Giza plateau, in my humble opinion. Just as important as Angkor Wat. Or Stonehenge. Or Machu Pichu.
Actually, I believe Antequera is even more important. Why?
Because I´m convinced Antequera was designed and built by what I have often referred to as “spiritually superior” prehistoric peoples. And I believe it was these same spiritually superior perhistoric people that built hundreds of other enigmatic megalithic structures across the Iberian Peninsula (and across Europe) millennia before the Roman invasion. I believe these “primitive”people were far more sophisticated than our modern human culture today—not technologically, but metaphysically, spiritually. Hence the inability of scholars to decipher the purpose and meaning of their monuments.
This is a theory I explained in detail in my 2011 book, Written in Stone. I showed how our ancient ancestors around the world had parallel forms of art, architecture, symbolism and religion. I theorized that these parallels paint a picture of ancient cultures—particularly the pyramid cultures—as people who were not “technologically” superior but “spiritually” superior to modern man. I theorized that this spiritual superiority may explain the mysteriously advanced architectural structures they were able to design and build; structures they left behind that, today, leave so many modern tourists in awe.
In Written in Stone, I cited “pyramids” as an example of some of these advanced architectural structures. Yet, even before there were pyramids, many strange megalithic monuments were being constructed across Europe on a large scale, including dolmens, stone circles, passage graves, taulas, and stone rows. These megalithic structures predate most of the world´s ancient pyramids. And so, for me, this indicates that the cultures that constructed these strange European megalithic monuments may have been even more spiritually advanced than the cultures that built pyramids later in history.
In my upcoming book, I´ll continue to examine this idea. I´ll show how Europe´s prehistoric megalithic monuments are so advanced—built by people so much more spiritually sophisticated than us today—that they are completely unrecognizable to us. This explains why we simply don’t know what these monuments were designed, built and used for. I´m referring here specifically to megalithic structures like stone circles, dolmens, taulas, passage graves and stone rows. Look at the photos below and think about what I´m saying for a moment:
Why build T-shaped “taulas” like those found on Spain´s Balearic Islands?
Why build colossal “dolmens” with gigantic stone blocks?
What function could megalithic “passage graves” have been built to accomplish?
What possible purpose could megalithic “stone circles” have once served?
Why did the ancients build megalithic “stone rows” like Carnac in France?
“Taulas” are ancient T-shaped monuments found in ruins on the Spanish island of Menorca.
Megalithic dolmens were built in prehistoric times in almost all European countries.
Passage graves are a prehistoric remnant found common across much of Europe.
The intact ruins of megalithic stone circles are found in many European countries.
Prehistoric megalithic stone rows like Carnac in France are an unsolved mystery.
These structures make no sense to us—to our modern sensibilities, predispositions, and understandings. We simply can´t understand them; we can´t understand why they were built or what they may have been used for. It´s as if something is missing—as if some vital knowledge that the builders once had has now been forgotten.
I believe I may have found the answer, or at least part of the answer. That´s to say, I think I understand what many of these ancient megalithic structures were designed and used for. And, with this find, I may be able to help scholars answer the big “Why?” question regarding Europe’s ancient megaliths and the world’s prehistoric megaliths in general. The problem is, I´m not quite ready to proffer my findings with a substantial amount of supporting evidence.
(Note: For a couple of years now, I´ve been told by several of my scholarly friends—archaeologists, professors—that if written properly my research on megaliths would certainly be publishable in academic journals. And even some of my earlier work, if properly tweaked and more conservatively written, can and should be advanced academically. I believe this is worthwhile, and I´ve spent a considerable portion of 2020 researching European megaliths as well as converting some aspects of my earlier research into an academically acceptable format. It´s been much more challenging and time-consuming than I expected; but being challenged has dramatically improved the quality of my research, and so it´s been an extremely rewarding experience so far.)
So, with this in mind, rather than provide cursory information here regarding my theory on megalithic monuments, I´ll end this article on a cliffhanger; again, I´m still investigating and gathering supporting evidence and data. I have mountains of research I need to complete before I can even begin to think about writing and publishing, academically or otherwise. But I believe an incredibly important piece of the megalithic puzzle can be found here at Antequera, encoded in these enigmatic Neolithic ruins…dot, dot, dot…
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The application of motivational interviewing techniques for engaging "resistant" families
Marie Iannos, Greg Antcliff
Practitioners of intensive family support programs may frequently encounter parents who present as ambivalent and "resistant" to engaging with the service. Motivating parents to make the necessary changes required to increase safety and to provide an adequate standard of care for their children therefore poses a challenging task for workers. This paper explores the application of motivational interviewing principles (Miller & Rollnick, 2004) as a promising approach that family support workers may apply to engage, motivate and support parents to enhance the safety and wellbeing of their children.
The goal of intensive home-based support programs for vulnerable families is ensuring that children stay safe and remain within their family, and aim to reduce re-notification or re-substantiation risk, close the case without court involvement, prevent the removal of children into alternative care, or facilitate family reunification. These programs are usually of long-term duration (up to 12 months) and require frequent weekly worker contact with families.
Families referred to these intensive programs often have multiple and complex needs, and it is not uncommon for workers to face parents who are ambivalent about addressing their issues and resistant to engagement with services. This may be particularly so if the family has a history of negative experiences with child protection authorities and mistrust towards workers.
The application of motivational interviewing in child protection work
Motivational interviewing is a client-centred directive counselling approach that seeks to enhance an individual's capacity to change (Miller & Rollnick, 2004). Central to motivational interviewing is developing an empathic relationship with the client which seeks to resolve the ambivalence about the behaviours which are preventing change. Originally developed as an approach for problem drinkers, motivational interviewing has been shown to be particularly effective in facilitating change in the field of substance misuse and a variety of health-related behaviours, and the majority of its solid evidence base comes from these areas (e.g., Carroll, 2001; Lundahl, Kunz, Brownell, Tollefson, & Burke, 2010).
In recent years, motivational interviewing has been touted as a promising approach for working with families with substantiated abuse or neglect (Morrison, 2010; Watson, 2011), and as a useful additional component to "standard" cognitive-behavioural and social learning based parenting therapies when these are not working (Scott & Dadds, 2009). Although at present motivational interviewing has not been used extensively in the child protection field, promising data are emerging demonstrating the effectiveness of such strategies with substance abusing pregnant mothers (May et al., 2008); in group therapy with abusive fathers (Crooks, Scott, Francis, Kelly, & Reid, 2006; Scourfield et al., 2012); and with non-offending mothers of children who have been sexually abused (Corcoran, 2002). Overall, motivational interviewing has been put forward as:
A possible strategy for enhancing parental motivation to engage with services and also an approach that could be used to help parents consider making changes in the way they care for their children. (Watson, 2011, p. 472)
Several studies have also shown benefits of training child protection workers in motivational interviewing techniques. In particular, workers developed a less confrontational and more empathic communication style, which resulted in less resistance from families (Forrester, Kershaw, Moss, & Hughes, 2007; Forrester, McCambridge, Waissbein, & Rollnick, 2008; Forrester, McCambridge, Waissbein, Emelyn-Jones, & Rollnick, 2008).
Principles of motivational interviewing
Motivation to change
Understanding the context, meaning, strength and flux of conflicting motivations is essential in engaging and assessing the protective motivations of parents (Morrison, 2010).
Morrison (2010) pointed out that "motivation" is a complex process that should be understood within a broader context, taking into account the interaction between a parent's core beliefs, values, feelings and behaviour, goals, and their personal resources, opportunities and constraints. He suggested that changing behaviour, especially if it is long-standing and embedded in underlying belief systems, is less likely to happen unless the worker has some appreciation of the underlying context and drivers of the behaviour. It may not be helpful to think of parents as being either motivated or unmotivated to change, but rather as continually dealing with motivational conflict between their desire to maintain the status quo and the desire for change. For example, a mother's desire to protect her child from a violent partner may be in conflict with her need to avoid loneliness. Understanding the meaning and strength of these conflicting motivations is essential to engaging and facilitating a parent's readiness to change.
Stages of change
Understand which stage of change parents are in, and tailor response accordingly.
Motivational interviewing is an approach which has often been used together with principles of the Stages of Change Model (DiClemente & Prochaska, 1998) which identified five elements of the change process: pre-contemplation, contemplation, determination, action, and maintenance. The model has been described as a useful framework to assist child protection practitioners conceptualise the processes of change in families with complex needs (Horwath & Morrison, 2001; Morrison, 2010). It is important for the worker to first recognise the stage the parent is at. In reality, the change process does not occur in a linear fashion, but rather parents may move forward and back between stages. Ideally, workers should aim to support parents move towards the action and determination stages to facilitate real change in their parenting practices.
How do workers identify which stage the parent is in and how do they facilitate and support the parent to make necessary changes to keep the children safe and in their care? The practical application of the model has been demonstrated in Bragg's (2003) manual for working with parents with substance disorders. However it is feasible that these could be applied to at-risk families in general. A description of the stages of change, and corresponding key tasks for child protection workers as illustrated by Bragg (2003) and further described by Morrison (2010) are described below and summarised in Table 1.
Families who are initially referred to involuntary statutory child protection services are frequently seen at this stage. Parents are in denial that there is a problem, and may minimise the concerns raised for their children's safety. They may feel fearful of losing their children and angry of the intrusion of external agencies, and therefore present as defensive and blaming, resistant to engage, or alternatively as passive and helpless to respond. The workers main task in this stage is to raise the parent's awareness that there are concerns about their children's safety and increase their understanding of their risky behaviours by providing information and feedback. Workers are advised to avoid a confrontational or "lecturing" style and giving prescriptive advice.
Workers may find that the majority of families referred to intensive family support programs find themselves in the contemplation stage. At this stage, parents acknowledge that a problem exists in their care of the children; they want to change, but at the same time do not want to, or believe that they can't. Parents may therefore present as ambivalent and appear "stuck". For some families, particularly where their child has been subject to multi-agency protection plan, this may be the beginning of a journey in recognising and coming to terms with the existence of a problem. This most challenging stage is characterised by parents thinking about how to prepare for change, and exploring how their situation will be better if change occurs and the negative consequences of not changing (e.g., child removed). The key task for workers is to address ambivalence by helping the parent "tip the balance" in favour change, so that they can "argue for" their own change.
At this stage, motivation for change has been identified. The parent has decided to change and wants to do something about the problem. This is an opportunity for real change to occur. Workers are encouraged to seize this opportunity. Their main task is to support the parent to identify the most appropriate actions they can take to facilitate change, no matter how small, and helping them develop a change plan which is realistic, acceptable and effective.
The parent takes action and makes steps to change. This may be related to specific goals they have set in particular areas of their change plan. The key task for the worker is to support and advocate for the parent to undertake the change behaviour. This could involve a number of interventions (e.g., parenting class, attending drug rehab). At this stage, care should be taken that families with multiple problems are not overwhelmed with too many tasks or appointments, and that the interventions are matched to the parent's readiness, willingness and capacity to change and the available resources to support them
At this stage, parents consolidate and sustain any the changes they have already made. New stresses however, can quickly overwhelm the parent's fledgling confidence and skills and increase their risk of relapse. Therefore the key task for workers is relapse prevention, aimed at anticipating stresses and triggers that may undermine the parents newly acquired coping skills. A significant component of relapse prevention involves supporting the parent to identify their triggers to relapse into problem behaviour patterns and to develop appropriate coping strategies.
|Parent's stage||Indicator||Key worker task|
Denial there is a problem. See no need to change.
Minimisation, blaming and resistance are most commonly present.
Raise parent's awareness of the problem and the possibility of change
Do not give prescriptive advice. Avoid confrontation.
Acknowledge a problem exists. Parent considers change, but also rejects it.
Parent is ambivalent and may often feel "stuck". Can argue for and against change.
Discuss reasons and benefits for change and the risks/consequences of not changing.
Help the parent tip the balance in favour of change.
Parent has decided to change and wants to do something about the problem.
There is now a window of opportunity for change.
Help the parent identify best actions to take for change. Support their motivation for change.
Help them find a change strategy that is realistic, acceptable, accessible, appropriate and effective.
Parent takes steps to change.
Parent engages in specific actions to bring about change.
Help parent implement a change strategy.
Support and be an advocate for the parent. Identify available sources of support.
Parent actively works on sustaining changes made.
Challenge during this stage is to prevent relapse.
Help parent identify the possibility of relapse.
Support parent to identify their triggers to relapse. Develop coping strategies to prevent relapse.
Adapted from Bragg (2003) and Morrison (2010).
Facilitation of change using motivational interviewing principles and skills
Focus on engagement before change. Use a strengths based collaborative approach.
Useful mnemonics to remember are REDS principles to work with ambivalence, OARS micro-skills, and questioning strategies to elicit change talk.
Motivational interviewing is "conducted in a collaborative spirit that motivates parents to engage in the change process which enables them to identify their strengths whilst feeling to take ownership of their difficulties" (Morrison, 2010, pp. 321-322). It is important for the worker to focus on engaging the family by developing trust and rapport before working towards change. This can occur by listening empathically and reflectively to understand the parent's issues from their point of view, and avoiding argumentation and conflict, which may serve to strengthen the parent's resistance and place the children at further risk.
Apply "REDS" principles
Given our understanding of the Stages of Change Model (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1998), how do workers achieve the tasks to support parents make changes? What skills are useful? The Motivational Interviewing website, describes four basic principles which can be remembered using the REDS acronym. These basic principles are described below, together with how they could be applied in relation to working with parents as suggested by Morrison (2010).
Roll with resistance
Resistance occurs when the client experiences a conflict between their view of the "problem" or the "solution" and that of the clinician, or when they experience their freedom or autonomy being impinged upon. These experiences are often based in the client's ambivalence about change. (Motivation Interviewing Resources [MIR], n.d., p. 3)
Try to sidestep resistance by avoiding confrontation and argument, lecturing or "righting" the parent. Instead, connect with the parent to move in the same direction.
Empathy involves seeing the world through the clients eyes ... This approach provides the basis for clients to be heard and understood, and in turn are more likely to honestly share their experiences in depth. (MIR, n.d., p. 3)
Express empathy in the face of resistance. Make a genuine effort to understand the parent's perspective and convey this understanding.
Motivation for change occurs when people perceive a mismatch between where they are and where they want to be ... a counsellor practicing Motivational Interviewing works to develop this by helping clients examine the discrepancies between their current circumstances/behavior, and their values and future goals. (MIR, n.d., p. 4)
Identify the parent's ambivalence by listening for and identifying the discrepancies between their core beliefs, values and behaviour. For example, the parent may express that it is important to them to be a responsible parent (values), but they are struggling with a heroin addiction and cannot attend to the children's needs when they are drug-affected (behaviour). The inner "discomfort" created by facing this discrepancy can create a shift to motivate the parent to reach their own realisation that something must change. The worker can then elicit change talk, which guides the parent to argue for (rather than against) their own change.
[Motivational interviewing] is a strengths-based approach that believes that clients have within themselves the capabilities to change successfully. A client's belief that change is possible (self-efficacy) is needed to instil hope about making those difficult changes. (MIR, n.d., p. 3)
Support the parent's hopefulness that change or improvement is possible by identifying and actively affirming their personal strengths and previous successes. Searching for exceptions to the problem gives the parent opportunities to demonstrate that the problem is not occurring the whole time, and the strengths in their parenting (e.g., "can you tell me what good days in your family look like?"). Explore also how they have successfully dealt with past problems and the resources they used which were helpful (e.g., social support networks, services). This will help to increase their level of self-efficacy and confidence and their readiness to change.
Motivational interviewing micro-skills: "OARS"
There are four micro-counselling skills and techniques which workers can apply to facilitate the REDS principles with parents. Four of these micro-skills - open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summarise - can be remembered using the acronym "OARS" (MIR, n.d., p. 4).
Open-ended questions are those not easily answered with a "yes/no" or short answer containing only specific information. Open-ended questions invite elaboration and thinking more deeply about an issue. (MIR, n.d., p. 4)
Open-ended questions encourage the parent's response to questions from his or her own perspective. In contrast, closed questions require a yes/no response and give the parent very little room to move. An example of an open ended question would be "what makes you think you should make a change?" whereas an example of a closed question is "don't you think you drink too much?".
Affirmations are statements that recognize the client's strengths. They assist in building rapport to help the client see themselves in a different, more positive light. (MIR, n.d., p. 4)
This suggests actively listening for the parent's strengths and values and reflecting these back in an affirming manner. For example, if the parent discusses their many previous efforts to change a particular behaviour from the position of feeling like they are a "failure" or hopeless, reframe what they have said from negative to positive. For example: "What I am hearing is that it is very important for you to change this behaviour. You have made numerous efforts over a long period of time. It seems that you have not yet found the way that works for you". This reframe accomplishes both affirmation of the parent's efforts and perseverance, and establishes a basis to finding a solution that will work for the parent.
Reflections bring to life the principle of expressing empathy as well as guiding and supporting the client towards change. By careful listening and reflective responses, the client comes to feel that the counsellor understands the issues from their perspective (MIR, n.d., p. 5).
Respond to what the parent is saying by using more reflective statements than questions. Reflections can be simply repeating, or more complex reflection of the parent's implicit meaning and feelings. Follow the parent's ideas making every effort to convey understanding. This process can help the parent discover what their behaviours or lack of action may be about. Facilitate the parents to focus on his or her knowledge and resources.
Summarising is a special type of reflection where the therapist recaps what has occurred in all or part of the session. Summaries communicate interest, understanding and call attention to important elements of the discussion. (MIR, n.d. p. 5)
It is a useful way to clarify what has been discussed so far, and can reinforce parents change talk, highlight realisations, identify themes, transitions or progress that may have occurred in the session.
Eliciting change talk
Further to the OARS skills, a key skill in motivational interviewing is questioning strategies to elicit change talk. Change talk can be defined as:
statements by the client revealing consideration of, motivation for, or commitment to change. In motivational interviewing, the therapist seeks to guide the client to expressions of change talk as the pathway to change. (MIR, n.d. p. 5)
A range of questioning strategies have been suggested to elicit change talk and a sense of readiness to make changes. Table 2 describes the key questioning strategies for evoking change talk and some examples of how they could be applied to discussions with at-risk parents.
|Ask evocative open questions: the answer to which is likely to be change talk.|
|Ask for elaboration/examples: when a change talk theme emerges, ask for more details. Ask the parent to give specific examples.|
|Explore decisional balance: ask for the pros and cons of both changing and staying the same.|
Parent may respond " if very little changes I will probably lose my children and end up in jail" or "if a good deal of change occurs I will have a good relationship with my children, and I will have a job".
|Looking back questions: ask about a time before the problem emerged. How were things better, different?|
|Looking forward questions: Ask what may happen if things continue as they are (status quo). Invite the parent to address their ambivalence and highlight the benefits of change and the negative consequences of not changing.|
|Query extremes: explore the advantages and disadvantages of not changing.|
|Use change rulers: to explore readiness to change|
|Explore goals and values: ask what the parent's guiding values are.|
Ask how this fits in with the parent's goals or values.
|Come alongside: explicitly side with the negative (status quo) side of ambivalence to invite the parent to argue for change.|
Adapted from "Strategies for Evoking Change Talk" (MIR, n.d. p. 6) available from the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Technology Transfer Center, Motivational Interviewing Website
Families with multiple complex needs referred to family support programs can often present as "resistant" and difficult to engage. When considering parent's motivation to change, it may be more helpful to think of parents as being neither "motivated" nor "unmotivated", but rather as continually dealing with motivational conflict between their desire to maintain the status quo, and the desire for change. Motivational interviewing is an approach which has shown promising applications to working with this resistant population of families. Morrison (2010) comprehensively described an application of this approach in families where children have been mistreated. The approach works alongside the Stages of Change Model (Prochaska & DiClemente, 1998), which encourages workers to identify the parent's stage of readiness to change and to explore the issues around the parent's ambivalence. Central to motivational interviewing is the importance of avoiding confrontation and working in a collaborative spirit, in a manner that can motivate parents to engage in the process and enable them to identify their strengths whilst feeling supported to take ownership of their difficulties. The REDS principles, OARS micro-skills and questioning strategies to evoke change talk may be useful. These emphasise the need for the worker to adopt an empathic style that supports the exploration of ambivalence and to elicit change talk, whilst at the same time building the parent's sense of self-efficacy and hope that change is possible. It is also important for workers to support parents who manage to make changes by helping them to prevent relapsing to unsafe parenting practices. Overall, motivational interviewing approaches may help families argue for their own change, so they can take the necessary steps to develop positive parenting and coping strategies to ultimately build safer stronger families.
Additional reading and resources
Further information can be found on the Motivational Interviewing website, hosted by Motivational Interviewing Resources, LLC and the Mid-Atlantic Addiction Technology Transfer Center.
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- Corcoran, J. (2002). The Transtheoretical Stages of Change Model and motivational interviewing or building maternal supportiveness in cases of sexual abuse. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 11(3), 1-17.
- Crooks, C. V., Scott, K. L., Francis, K. J., Kelly, T., & Reid, M. (2006). Eliciting change in maltreating fathers: Goals, processes, and desired outcomes. Cognitive and Behavioural Practice, 13, 71-81
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- May, P. A., Miller, J. H., Goodhart, K. A., Maetsas, O. R., Buckley, D., Trujillo. P. M., & Gossage, J. P. (2008). Enhanced case management to prevent fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in Northern Plains communities. Maternal Child Health Journal. 12(6), 747-59.
- Miller, W., & Rollnick, S. (2004). Talking oneself into change: Motivational interviewing, sages of change and therapeutic process. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly, 18,(4), 299-308.
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- Scott, S., & Dadds, M. R. (2009). Practitioner review: When parent training doesn't work. Theory driven clinical strategies. Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50(12), 1441-1450.
- Scourfield, J., Tolman, R., Maxwell, N., Holland, S., Bullock, A., & Sloan, L. (2012). Results of a training course on engaging fathers in child protection. Child and Youth Services Review (Accepted manuscript 28 March 2012)
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"This past summer, the "border kids"— tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras detained after crossing into the United States—became the country's latest immigration crisis. Aid...
"A sustained federal crackdown made 2011 a banner year for deportations. A
record 397,000 undocumented immigrants were sent packing. And while the
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"Pesident Obama's surprise request that Congress give him authority to quickly deport thousands of Central American children illegally crossing the border is likely to renew the on-again, off-again immigration reform debate that many Republicans...
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The Redbird trains are probably the most iconic New York subway cars in history, running on some of the numbered IRT lines (2, 4, 5, 6, and 7) for around 40 years. They were painted red to combat graffiti in the 1980s, and retired in the early 2000s in favor of more modern trains with electronic signage and automated announcements.
Nearly 1,300 of the now-obsolete cars found a second life as artificial reefs, sunk to the bottom of the ocean off the shores of Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Virginia.
But not all of the Redbirds ended up in a watery grave; a few found their way to collections like that of the New York Transit Museum. One particular car, R33 9075, ended up back in Queens across from the Borough Hall in the Kew Gardens neighborhood, to serve as a tourism center dispensing information on the culturally diverse borough’s assortment of attractions and eateries.
Unfortunately, being located a 40-minute subway ride from Manhattan means Kew Gardens doesn’t see many visitors, and the center was most frequented by confused locals who wandered in to see why there was a train sitting in the middle of the grass. With only 12 visitors on an average day, it was finally closed in 2015. The subway car remains on display, though, and curious onlookers can climb the platform and peer through the windows to see relics of a bygone time.
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Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT) is a type of Computer Adaptive Test to check skills of candidates such as aptitude skills, reasoning skills, technical skills and mental ability skills. Candidates may check AMCAT Exam 2022 Dates from here.
Candidates who are going to take part in Aspiring Minds’ Computer Adaptive Test 2022 must go through this page. Here we have provided AMCAT Registration, Fees, Pattern, Eligibility Criteria, selection process, exam pattern and other Details. Please have a look at the below segment.
Highlights of AMCAT Online Exam 2022:
- Conducting Body: Aspiring Minds’
- Exam Name: Aspiring Minds’ Computer Adaptive Test 2022
- Category: AMCAT Exam 2022
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AMCAT Exam 2022
A computer adaptive test is a type of computer-based test that adapts to an examinee’s ability. Essentially, such tests choose questions based on candidate’s performance in preceding questions.
AMCAT Exam Eligibility Criteria:
All those candidates who possess diploma or bachelors or masters or doctorate degree are eligible to apply for AMCAT 2021. There is now age limit to apply for AMCAT Exam.
There is no limit to the number of attempts that a candidate can take. However, a gap of at least 3 months is mandatory between two successive attempts.
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AMCAT Exam Fee:
- A candidate can choose between two types of subscriptions for AMCAT such as 1-year subscription and 2-year subscription.
- For one-year subscription, candidate will have to pay Rs. 990 (plus GST) and their score would be valid for one year.
- For two-year subscription, candidate shall pay another Rs. 900 (Plus GST) along with the base price of Rs. 990.
AMCAT Exam Date 2022:
- AMCAT is conducted every month in as many as 32 cities across India.
- The frequency of the conduction varies city to city.
- For Example, in a city like Bangalore where there are a lot of techies, the test is held on every 3rd day of the month.
AMCAT Exam Duration:
Pitambar Infovision, Mayapuri conducts exam in three shifts such as
- 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
- 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
- 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Today many industries have come under the purview of AMCAT with major MNC’s taking this examination into consideration. Following major industries are actively using this test for recruitment.
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AMCAT Registration Process:
- Initially all the aspirants need to visit to the official web portal that is www.myamcat.com for AMCAT Registration 2021.
- After reaching to home page of official website you need to press on “Register” tab visible at the top in right side.
- A new window will be displayed in front of your computer screen in an image form asking some details as shown in below given image for AMCAT Registration 2021.
- Fill AMCAT Online Application Form with asked details.
- Once you register with AMCAT, you will be provided with your login details via an email to the registered mail address.
- Now, you can log in to your AMCAT account through login details.
- Afterwards, complete your profile since it helps you showcase your skills and achievements.
- You can fill all the relevant options under the My Profile option for AMCAT Registration.
- After that if you think that you are ready to give a test then go to the Schedule Test button under the Test Schedule Details Window on the right sidebar.
- Now select the city in which you would like to appear for AMCAT.
- Various centres are available for AMCAT 2021; you can make your choice.
- After that, you have to select which date you want to appear for the exam.
- The dates are to be selected from a given list and each date has an AMCAT exam centre and a time slot associated with it.
- You can book slots 3 months in advance.
- Choose the date and the time slot in which you prefer to appear for the AMCAT exam for a selected city.
- After deciding timings, you can go ahead and hit Book.
- In Book section you can verify your personal details and proceed with the payment of the prescribed fee.
- The payment can be done for AMCAT Registration by using various means such as credit card, debit card, net banking, wallets, etc.
AMCAT consists of 3 types of modules:
- Language and Aptitude (Compulsory) – English Ability, Quantitative ability, Logical ability.
- Personality (Compulsory) – AMCAT Personality Inventory.
- Skill specific Modules (Optional) – Domain or interest related modules like Computer programming for CS/IT students. Electronics and Semiconductor for ECE students, Finance and Marketing for MBA students.
AMCAT Exam Pattern:
AMCAT shall be a 3-hour computer-adaptive test. The test comprises of 4 sections:
- English language test
- Logical Ability
- Quantitative Aptitude
- Two Optional subjects
- Maximum Marks: 900 Per Subject
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|AMCAT Personality Inventory||90||20 mins|
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Once the test has been taken by the candidate, he/she can download the scores using his official AMCAT account. And the candidate will soon start getting interview calls from the desired companies.
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The past few years have been a difficult time for everyone. The repercussions of the covid-19 pandemic will likely be felt by communities in the US for a very long time, even if it currently feels as though we are moving away from this time.
Currently, many of us are now working to create a ‘new normal,’ and this includes innovative ways to give back.
With many people still struggling and in need, being able to give back is more important now than ever before, but the restrictions make things difficult. This is why a lot of organizations, such as Give Back Cincinnati, are providing a socially distanced way to give back.
This is your guide to the Give Back Cincinnati initiative, ‘Quarenteering.’
What Is Give Back Cincinnati?
Give Back Cincinnati is a charity program that is focused on giving back to the community.
It was founded in 2000 by a small group of friends who were looking for innovative ways to support their community, and the scheme has now increased to an incredible 3,000 plus members since then. These members donate their time to the cause, volunteering in schemes and programs that can improve the greater Cincinnati area.
Give Back Cincinnati’s work includes hours of volunteering in cleaning trash from public spaces, painting neighborhoods, and creating community gardens to be enjoyed by all.
Eagle Dumpster Rental has been involved with the community scheme as a sponsor since 2019 and has continued to support the scheme in its new endeavors. Eagle Dumpster has provided a dumpster for the Give Back Cincinnati’s social distance cleaning project, known as Quarenteering in Winton Woods.
The Quarenteering Volunteer Scheme
Following closures across the country due to the covid-19 pandemic, many companies have begun to operate digitally. The same has occurred for Give Back Cincinnati which had been operating digitally since the beginning of the pandemic but has been looking to do more.
In September 2020, the team organized a new kind of volunteering event as a way to give more back to the community during these difficult times.
Give Back Cincinnati arranged three socially distanced cleanups in the area during this time as a way to get the community back together and help those in need.
Eagle Dumpsters is proud to have sponsored these cleanup events by offering a dumpster for the Winston Woods cleanup program, which took place on October 10th.
To ensure that the group was working in accordance with covid-19 guidelines, Give Back Cincinnati capped event attendance to prevent too many people from being in the same area, and when they arrived, volunteers were split into groups. Masks, gloves, and sanitizer were provided by the community-led group, as well as enforced social distancing between the volunteers.
Even with these restrictions in place, Give Back Cincinnati managed to do an excellent job where 100 bags of trash were collected from Winton Lake and the surrounding trails.
Feeling Inspired? How To Clean Your Neighborhood When Socially Distancing
If the efforts of Give Back Cincinnati have inspired you, then it is time to take action. Even though restrictions are still in place in many locations across the US, it is still possible to clean neighborhoods without breaking the rules.
It is possible to do an effective cleanup of your community when socially distancing, whether you are working alone or in a group. To make sure you do a good job while also staying safe, follow these seven tips:
- Choose a large area for your clean up efforts where social distancing is possible, ensuring there is room for at least six feet between each volunteer
- Consider how many people will be in the area when you are planning to do your clean up operation, and make sure to choose a time with the least amount of traffic
- Take care of your own safety by wearing safety gloves when picking up trash, and make sure to properly dispose of these when you have finished your work. Carefully take off the glove by grabbing the opening on the wrist then pulling the glove towards your fingers so it is removed inside out
- When picking up trash, make sure to wash your hands often and use hand sanitizer frequently in between washing
- Encourage the other members of your group to bring their own supplies, such as gloves, trash grabbers, and trash bags, so there is no cross-contamination from sharing things
- Avoid touching any surfaces when picking up trash, including railings, banisters, tables, and play equipment
- Make sure to sanitize all gear used in the cleanup effort before going home to prevent the germs from spreading. Ensure waste is safely disposed of before leaving the area
With these tips, it is possible to arrange a volunteer cleanup during covid-19 without increasing the risk in your area. Now is a great time to give back to the community, as many people continue to struggle, and you can do this safely with diligence.
Other Ways To Make A Difference In Your Community
If you are feeling inspired to make a difference in your community, now is a great time to make a difference, as a lot of people are still struggling to create their new normal.
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Teacher Hacks for Every Grade
Everyone loves time savers and new ideas to make life easier and more efficient. We teachers are no different and love to hear about how other teachers came up with great ideas that we can copy. So, here are some teacher hacks for every grade level.
- A plastic tablecloth from Dollar Tree makes a great bulletin board covering.
- Put colored paper in hanging file folders to keep it neat and fresh.
- The app Noise Down will sound when the noise level gets too high in the classroom. This is the signal to quiet down.
- If you are helping a group or busy with other students, choose one student to be the “Ask Me” person that the students go to with questions so you are not continually bothered.
- Shower board panels from a home store make wonderful small whiteboards to use with students during lessons.
- Priority mail boxes from the Post Office are free and make a convenient way for students to keep their things in order at tables or desks.
- Put extra assignments in a hanging file folder where the students can access them to pick up make-up assignments from days missed.
Middle School Hacks
- Store earbuds for students in a bead organizer box.
- Use TedEd lessons for added depth to concepts and lessons.
- The Teachlearnlead app is like Facebook but only for teachers to share ideas and strategies with each other.
- Make field trips and other activities that require consent forms form parents easier with the Classtree app, which allows you to attach the e-sign form right to the message.
- Motivate students with scratch-off cards for Classroom Lottery with free lunch, no homework, or small prize to reward for various things.
- Use the IKEA Rascog cart to organize the work for the day.
- The Avskild placemats from IKEA can be used to make individual bulletin boards for students to display work for the week.
High School Hacks
- Color code your PowerPoints or any other media to eliminate the “Do I need to copy this?” question.
- Scratch off Classroom lottery tickets as rewards work well for high school, too.
- When students are restless or not engaged, have a 30-second dance party or power stretch.
- Use the fun childhood game of “Heads up, Thumbs down” in many ways in the classroom, even for showing understanding of concepts.
- Increase attendance for Open House and other meetings by making it a secret game with points and prizes.
- Hand out tickets for an end of day candy (or whatever is motivational) raffle to keep the interest high during lessons.
- Assign each student a number on the first day of school. When they turn in papers, they must write their name and number on each paper so that once graded, it will be easy for you to see whose assignment is missing.
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Gredos Spanish Ibex
Gredos Ibexes are strong mountainous animals characterized by their large and flexible hooves and short legs. These physical adaptations allow them to be able to run and leap on bare, rocky and rough slopes. His body is strong and robust. This ibex has the darkest colour skin.
Males´ horns are big, ringed and with a wrinkle surface. The horns rise vertically and lean out and back in a lyre form with the top inwards. While this is the typical Gredos horn conformation, other horn shapes may be found in this region and even in the same herd.
The horns grow proportionately with age: one ring per year.
Central Spanish mountains:” Sierra de Gredos”.
Rocky mountains between 1500-2500m.
Lodging is provided in hotels very close to the hunting area.
Rutting period : October to November.
Hunting is arranged by stalking in National Reserves and in private game reserves.
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In 2014 Adidas obtained an EUTM for the sign reproduced below. The mark is identified as a figurative mark and corresponds the following description: ‘The mark consists of three parallel equidistant stripes of identical width, applied on the product in any direction.’ "three parallel equidistant stripes of identical width, applied on the product in any direction" (image: adidas.png) Shoe Branding Europe filed an application for a declaration of invalidity of the EUTM pursuant to what is n(link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32017R1001&from=ES text: ow Article 59(1)(a) EUTMR, in conjunction with Article 7(1)(b) therein). The EUIPO Cancellation Division held Adidas's EUTM invalid due to lack of distinctive character, both inherent and acquired through use. Adidas appealed the said decision based on the fact that its EUTM had acquired distinctiveness through use. The appeal was rejected, and Adidas brought the matter before the General Court. At this scenario, in the (link: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=215208&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=351803 text: decision of June, 19, 2019 in case T 307/17), the General Court studied the following grounds claimed by Adidas: *Misinterpretation of the mark at issue.* Adidas claimed that although the sign is registered as a figurative mark, it represents a ‘surface pattern’ that may be reproduced in different dimensions and proportions depending on the goods on which it is applied. The GC disagreed with the above and stated that the EUIPO can only consider what is set out in the application for registration. In this sense the GC recalled the well-known (link: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid=94E8C3B7AF28585DF19A5A3FA78FD781?text=&docid=47585&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=350651 text: Sieckmann decision), “it is for the trade mark applicant to file a graphic representation of the mark corresponding precisely to the subject matter of the protection he wishes to secure. Once a trade mark is registered, the proprietor is not entitled to a broader protection than that afforded by that graphic representation [...]”. Having said that the sing at issue is an ordinary figurative mark. *Misapplication of the “law of permissible variations”*. The General Court also finds that where a trade mark is extremely simple, even a slight difference could lead to a significant alteration to the characteristics of the mark as it had been registered. Additionally, in the evidence submitted the act of reversing the colour scheme, cannot be described as an insignificant variation as compared to the registered form of the mark at issue. In this sense the court dismissed some of the images submitted on the ground that they were related to signs other than the mark at issue. Consequently, no infringement of the ‘law of permissible variations’ had occurred. *Error of assessment regarding the acquisition of distinctive character through use*. According to the court, “in order to demonstrate that the mark at issue has acquired distinctive character, the applicant cannot rely on all of the evidence which shows a mark consisting of three parallel equidistant stripes. Indeed, it follows from the answer to the first part of the plea in law that the relevant evidence is only that which shows the mark at issue in its registered form or, failing that, in forms which are broadly equivalent, which excludes forms of use where the colour scheme is reversed or which fail to respect the other essential characteristics of the mark at issue”. In this case, the court considered that the only evidence which was relevant, were 5 market surveys completed in only 5 Member States. This was deemed insufficient to prove acquired distinctiveness throughout the EU. | <urn:uuid:7568a7bb-5eab-49bc-80cd-84bd2ef43eab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://baylos.com/en/blog/0000/adidas-pierde-una-de-sus-marcas-de-tres-rayas | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.944851 | 886 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Travel Coverage May Not Be All That Expensive
Travel is essentially the movement of individuals between various different geographical locations. Travel can either be one-way or round trip, and usually can be done with or without additional luggage, but can also be one-way or round trips using a variety of modes. Some forms of travel are generally regarded as “business travel,” while others such as honeymoon travel and even overnight travel may be considered other terms. Business travel usually involves meetings, interviews or seminars, while honeymoon travel is a one-time experience for the bride and groom. Round trips may also be referred to as cross-country travel.
Most people travel for business reasons, either for relocation to another location or to obtain new jobs. Business travelers use airfare, ground transportation or car rental to get from one place to another. People also travel for pleasure, visiting family members or going on an extended vacation. There are all manner of means by which people travel, whether it is for a single day, a week or even a whole vacation. People also choose to travel as a part of a work-related activity such as a retreat or internship.
The most frequent types of travel are long distance, or travel within the same country, as well as short-distance travel within another country. Long distance usually involves travel by road, either by land or sea, which can take several days or even weeks. Short distance is generally from one point in a country to another within the same country, which can often only last a few days. For those who love to explore new cultures, people travel for vacations.
Vacationers frequently visit new places, which make them want to return to see other sights. Some of these travelers also like to try new cuisines, so they go back on their trips with the purpose of trying new cuisines. The goal of a vacation for a single person is just the opposite of the goal of a couple who is taking a second trip together. In short, the goal of a vacation for single travelers is to spend time with one another, so that they may spend time together.
A great many people take trips that span multiple days. These trips occur when a traveler is simply looking for a short vacation. When these trips occur, they may result in spending a weekend at one place and a few days in another place, or even a few weeks at one place and a few weeks at another. These trips occur when a person simply has a limited amount of free time. In short, a family of five could have a weekend trip that involves only walking to a bus station and taking a bus to another place, or a college student could have a week long trip where he goes to multiple places, eats out at different restaurants, visits to amusement parks, and then rides his bicycle to another place.
Travel coverage may not be available for every type of trip. In addition, some providers have limits on the type of events that are covered and on the destinations that can be taken. Thus, the best way to obtain coverage is to contact different companies and to compare prices. Also, if a person travels frequently, he should certainly consider purchasing comprehensive coverage. There are many reasons to purchase this type of coverage. It may keep a traveler from incurring excessive expenses when he has to cancel a trip, it may allow the insured to use an expensive activity as a break, and it can give coverage in the event of a disaster or other catastrophic event. | <urn:uuid:3869d0d8-6c3f-4e74-bdab-9ec5413cac06> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://balltire-automotive.com/travel-coverage-may-not-be-all-that-expensive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972857 | 706 | 2.34375 | 2 |
As parents, you always want to do right by your kids. You want to do your best to nurture their talents and encourage any skills you believe they have a knack for. Sometimes, you may even discover that their skills and talents surpass the norm to the level of genius.
In moments like this, you may find yourself trying to figure out the best approach to ensuring they have all the tools they need to be successful. However, we all know it’s very easy for kids to be distracted these days.
Between all the social media apps on the tablets and the subscription and cable services on the TV, it’s no wonder that we struggle to keep them productive and focused. Finding creative ways to keep them occupied, while nurturing their talents and skills, takes a deliberate effort, especially when you want to help them to become well-rounded people.
Developing rounded, balanced children involves focusing on more than just academics. It involves diving into their creativity as well, and striking a balance between both. Getting your child interested in both the arts and the sciences is an awesome way to mould their brilliant mind.
The Impact of the arts on young brains
Studies have shown that art has an impressive effect on the cognitive, emotional, and social development of the brains of children. Activities that involve music, drawing, and physical activity engages all the senses and positions the brain for successful learning. So, by nurturing and developing a desire for the arts in your child, not only are you helping them to become more creative, but you are also helping them to become more successful and learning.
Effects of nurturing science in kids
Similarly, developing an interest for the sciences in your children from a young age also has advantages. Research shows that nurturing a love for science in kids, especially at an early age, helps to foster their curiosity about the world around them and how things work.
Why it’s important to nurture both
The truth is, most children tend to lean toward or desire one or the other, but very rarely both at the same time. However, there is great benefit in combining and encouraging the interest in both the arts and the sciences. As parents, it is important that we help them to strike the balance, especially since they both work together.
Firstly, art and science are inseparable, and one cannot exist without the other. Combining both in a learning setting is the breeding ground for successful, intensive learning.
Secondly, by generating keen interest in both areas, you are setting the foundation for more options in the future. Being good at not just science, but the arts as well blows open the doors on career choices and overall opportunities.
Thirdly, it’s no secret that AI and machine learning technology are quickly gaining popularity in every sector. Flourishing in this tech-driven world depends on how well you will be able to balance both the arts and science.
How to combine art and science for kids
The key to developing both disciplines in your kids is by providing them with the necessary tools. If you are looking for a way to strike a balance between art and science, and helping your kids successfully become more rounded, CreativKits subscription kits are the answer.
Our Wonder Workshop is perfect for one child, while Clever Campus is great for two (2) or more kids. These subscription kits allow your kids to learn by doing and learning consistently, while helping you to maximise the time you spend with them. Help keep your kids ahead of the curve, subscribe today! | <urn:uuid:96addde7-0329-4d21-a213-be282e30a67d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://creativkits.com.au/blogs/special-kits/benefits-of-nurturing-art-and-science-in-kids | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964236 | 715 | 3.34375 | 3 |
The rich and colorful history of Pantone dates back to 1963 when the young Lawrence Herbert created the Pantone Matching System(PMS) after buying out a small commercial printing company in New Jersey, USA. By assigning a number to each color, anyone could achieve accurate and consistently repeatable color results, and this system catapulted Pantone into becoming the standard language for color communication for color-critical industries. While its roots are in the graphic arts community, Pantone expanded its system concept across a variety of industries and proved that ‘color’ can indeed become a brand. Turn the page and enter a world of kaleidoscopic colors in the 46th issue of B magazine.
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The Army is an efficient organization, and it maintains its own equipment and infrastructure. One of the enlisted careers that are very challenging is the US Army Petroleum Supply Specialist. Everything that moves in the Army arsenal has something that powers it, and most things run on some sort of petroleum fuel. Working as a Petroleum Supply specialist you will deal with the storage of and supply operations involved in petroleum-based fuels. Watercraft, aircraft, tanks, and all different kinds of wheeled vehicles operate on gas, oil, diesel and other specialty fuels. This equipment cannot run unless they have a supply of readily available fuel. The Army petroleum supply specialist deals with all different types of fuel and compressed gases. Each type of fuel deals with different storage needs, and different requirements to care for it.
The Army Petroleum Fuel specialist deals with supervising and managing the storage, reception and shipping of packaged and bulk petroleum based products. The Army Petroleum supply specialist deals with all types of fuels including compressed gases. Working as a Army petroleum enlisted supply specialist you will work with: Preparing shipping and storage records, connecting valves, hoses and pumps to load airplanes, tanker trucks railroad cars and ships, performing water and petroleum product accounting duties, dispensing bulk fuel and water from distribution and storage container sites. If you have an interest in working with heavy equipment and fueling machinery, can follow written and spoken instructions accurately then this may be an ideal job for you. This is a dangerous job but with the proper training then nearly anyone can deal with fuel safely and without harm. Boot camp will give you 9 weeks of training on how to be an Enlisted Army Servicemember. You will then progress to 8 additional weeks of training, learning about pipeline equipment and operations, tankers, operating pumps, handling dangerous materials, and the proper care and handling of different types of fuels. You will work to learn how to repair and maintain pipeline valves, systems, pumps and lines.
You will work with strict safety protocols in storage and moving with all different petroleum products. There are programs that offer apprenticeship training in this field to earn credit while on the job in your military duty. If you are a person that has an interest in shop mechanics then this can be a productive job specialty for you. | <urn:uuid:ced3a8f8-36f9-4365-bb0c-d064edb36f47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://usmilitary.com/petroleum-supply-us-army-careers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955174 | 453 | 1.773438 | 2 |
context: The Central Economic Work Conference placed weight on the ‘six protections’ and ‘six stabilities’. Potential degradation of people’s livelihoods due to domestic and global economic abnormalities was deemed the prime danger faced by state and Party.
NBS data show 10.76 million students will graduate from college in 2022, up 16,7000 y-o-y. However, surveyed unemployment rates for the 16-24 age cohort stood at 14.3 percentage points in Nov 2021, and surveyed unemployment for 20-24 year-old college degree holders is expected to be even higher, says NBS.
Youth unemployment is also confirmed by the research led by Li Yang 李扬 University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences faculty and National Institution for Finance and Development chairman. Moreover, Li found
- the marginal return of entrepreneurship for job creation is decreasing; in 2021, on average every 10 new firms can create only five jobs, down four compared to 2015
- labour market mismatch is deteriorating; heavy industries, extracurricular tutoring and real estate sales were three pivotal employment providers, but they now need far fewer employees
Subject to great uncertainty, college students have crowded out the public sector, seeking success in the civil servants entry exams. However, available jobs in the public sector are too few to make up mass layoffs in online industries and given small business closures, says Caixin. Systemic fiscal and monetary adjustments are necessary.
According to Qiushi, unemployment is at a manageable level because
- the urban surveyed unemployment rate is below the alert level (5.5 percentage points) set in early 2021
- 11.33 million new urban jobs were added between Jan and Oct 2021, hitting the annual target
Qiushi highlights three measures
- maintain economic growth
- fiscal and financial supports to SMEs, who are the main job providers in the market
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The CPTC Library has a large collection of currently-assigned textbooks (known as "Course Reserves") that are available for students to use within the Library building. While we aim to keep a large and updated collection, we cannot guarantee that any individual textbook will be available through our collection. Any textbooks requiring access codes will not be available through the library as the codes are single-use. Please refer to the CPTC bookstore for information on how to buy your required textbooks.
All of the required textbooks you see in this guide are available in the CPTC Library. Click on the subject areas to the left to see what is available. Each book is linked to a record in our library catalog or the Ebook database. If you don't see your course, please contact the library to see if it is available.
Print Course Reserve books must be used in the LRC; they cannot be borrowed and taken home. Please ask at the Circulation Desk if you wish to use these materials while you are at the LRC.
Occasionally, an additional copy of the book will be available. If the location is marked as "Circulating Reserves" (instead of "Reserves") it is available for checkout for one week.
Scans of textbook chapters within copyright limits may be made available to students who cannot come to campus. Please contact us at email@example.com or 253-589-5544 for more information.
Some course reserves items are available electronically through our main ebook provider, Ebook Central. To access one of these ebooks, you'll need to create an account and be logged in to gain access through the links provided in this guide. Once your account is created, you'll have unlimited remote access to your ebook.
In some cases, a textbook will be available through our health sciences ebook database, the R2 Digital Library, and a direct link to the ebook will be included when available. Please contact the CPTC Library for remote access information.
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Belgium is one of the wonderful places a person can visit in Europe. That is why it is no longer surprising why people choose to visit the place. However, since they are already used to the beauty and sites in Belgium, many residents here consider going to other places either to look for employment opportunities or visit the wonderful views found in other countries.
However, just like any other countries, Belgium government has some certain requirements before they let people out of the country. So, if you are one of those people who have the plan to go out of Belgium, knowing about the different Belgium passport picture requirements must be considered.
The following are the picture requirements when applying for a Belgium passport:
- Two (2) present pictures of the applicant are required. The photographs must measure exactly 3.5 cm x 4.5 cm.
- In addition to the measurement of the photos, they must also be in portrait-style. Furthermore, as a rule, the applicant should not be wearing nor having any headgear. Wearing of headgear might be allowed for medical or religious reasons as long as the face of the applicant is still fully visible.
- The cheeks, nose, chin, eyes and forehead must not be impeded by any means.
- Preferably, yet not necessarily, the ears and hair must also be seen.
- On the photographs, the applicant’s head must occupy at least around 2.5 cm and the maximum of 3.5 cm in space.
- The used background on the photographs must be uniform and light.
- The surname and the first name of the applicant must be clearly written on the photos’ back.
- The submitted photographs should be colored, as black and white ones will no longer be accepted.
The following are the picture requirements if you wish to apply for Belgium Identity Card:
- When applying for Identity Card in Belgium, two (2) passport photographs are required. They should be of high quality and recently taken.
- The measurement of the photo must be 35 mm x 45 mm.
- The length of the applicant’s face, including the hair, must not be longer than 35 mm or smaller than 25 mm.
- The photographs’ background must be in a single light color, either white, light yellow, light blue or light grey, and must be uniform.
- Photos with visible shadows or any color changes will not be accepted.
Complying with these requirements is very important, especially if you wish to qualify whether for Belgium passport or Belgium Identity Card. According to statistics, poor or bad photographs are often the most common basis for the denial of passport applications. That is why it is crucial that you get your photos done rightly so as to make sure that you qualify for the passport. With the right photo service provider, it will be easy to get your photos done properly and correctly. So, make sure to find the best and reliable one around. This passport provider will guarantee that you will be approved for your required Belgium passport. | <urn:uuid:b4957768-8380-43b8-80ac-9ca3cd0ede3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://passportphotosoftware.com/belgium-passport-photo-specifications/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94049 | 619 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The controversial Stellenbosch University Sports Science article published last year about cognitive functioning of “coloured” women, sparked a wave of criticism against racialised science in South Africa. Incensed by the social harm that resulted, civil society, students and academics welcomed both the speedy retraction and corrective action in the form of symposia and publications to create heightened awareness of the negative effect of poor science on communities. The publication of Fault Lines: a primer on Race, Science and Society is a pivotal outcome.
Against this backdrop, it was extremely disappointing, especially amid the unprecedented global support for the Black Lives Matter movement, to see that yet another article, based on poor science with undertones of racial prejudice and confirmation bias, had been published. This time, by the flagship journal of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
Once more, the title: Why are black South African students less likely to consider studying biological sciences? has generalised findings of a small, poorly designed study of UCT students, surveyed in their lunch breaks, to all black South African students. The title also deviates from what seems to be the research question that appears in the first paragraph: “Why do conservation biology, zoology and the other biological sciences subjects struggle to attract black South African students?”.
Although this is a reasonable research question, the design and methodology employed undermine the scientific integrity of the study. A well-designed, qualitative study, conducted with authentic engagement of a relevant community of students, could have provided a rich and contextualised answer to this question, provided it was published, as a full article, with sensitivity to risks of potential social harm.
The quantitative method chosen for such a sensitive topic was short-sighted, as Professor Jonathan Jansen has already highlighted in his piece: Want to write about black people? Make very sure of your facts. He went on to express concern about “a lesson that is not being learnt — that when white researchers embark on studies of black people’s behaviours it should be done with a healthy dose of self-awareness, intellectual humility and social caution”.
We are told that black South African students were interviewed together with “other” students — yet, from the article, it is unclear who “other” represents. And the study concludes that black South African students are less likely than “other” students to consider studying biological sciences based on materialist values (preferring more financially rewarding careers) and attitudes to local wildlife. That the South African Journal of Science (SAJS) took a considered decision to publish this research as a commentary is, in and of itself, concerning.
A cascade of abandoned responsibilities
Professor Nicoli Nattrass has attempted to defend herself in various ways. As a respected and seasoned academic from a prestigious university in South Africa, one would have expected more. Surely any accomplished researcher would have developed, by now, an understanding of the inextricably close relationship between science and ethics. Not only does this level of academic sensitivity form the basis of any research endeavour, it is foundational to any claim to academic freedom that carries with it immense responsibility.
Once again, equally concerning questions arise about the quality of the research ethics review. Research Ethics Committees (RECs) accept responsibility for protection of the rights of research participants and society. They try to establish, first and foremost, that the research proposed is scientifically valid, and if that criterion is not met, the study is already unethical. This is because scientific rigour is an ethical imperative.
Approving a study of this nature, brings not only social harm to individuals and possibly whole communities, but reputational risk to academic institutions. Clearly, the research ethics review of this study calls for institutional investigation to establish what queries were generated by the committee, how the researcher responded to these queries and to what extent the publication deviates from the protocol submitted for approval.
If the South African Journal of Science decides not to retract this piece to conceal their own error in accepting a scientifically flawed article for publication in the first place, it means that Nattrass gets cited for all the wrong reasons because the science of her preliminary research is clearly flawed. There should be no academic reward in the form of publication or citations for poor science and disregard for research ethics.
Not only does this undermine the entire process used to evaluate academics by institutions, research funders and science organisations such as the National Research Foundation, it — more importantly — sets a poor example to the undergraduate and postgraduate students whom we teach and evaluate and junior academic staff whom we guide and mentor.
Clearly many questions are raised about publication ethics and the extent to which editorial boards are capacitated to take this into account. In the case of the SAJS, their decisions reflect negatively not only on the journal but also on the Academy of Science of South Africa and its 572 members who, by association, share the reputational risk.
Doing the right thing
Research is precariously positioned at the intersection of science and ethics and requires academics to carefully consider their work from the moment a research question is formulated through to research design, implementation and dissemination of results. Ensuring that research participants and the communities they represent are not further marginalised or stigmatised by academic activities lies at the heart of responsible conduct of research and scientific integrity. This should be a prominent consideration of research ethics committees, reviewers of scientific articles, editors and most importantly, academics themselves.
When research falls short on scientific validity and hence ethics, it cannot be supported or promoted. Those who have erred in publishing flawed science ought to take responsibility and do the right thing. Failure to do so sets us on a slippery slope to poor standards in scientific research, scientific publishing and public mistrust in academia and science.
Professor Keymanthri Moodley is the director of the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law at the Department of Medicine at Stellenbosch University. Views expressed are her own. | <urn:uuid:f6d5328c-80b7-4066-984d-5f8d7819925e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mg.co.za/education/2020-06-19-nattrasss-article-should-be-retracted-rather-than-debated/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.949731 | 1,214 | 2.53125 | 3 |
1. Artful Response
Moroccan-born Essaydi watched the Arab Spring unfold from the United States. Moved to create, she embarked on a series of photographs. “Bullets is about that violence projected on women, specifically physical violence during gatherings in the squares…I was not there…The only thing I could do is put it in my work and show the world what women were subjected to,” the artist said.
2. Setting the Scene
To create the silver-and-gold-encrusted elements in works such as Bullets Revisited #3, Essaydi and her assistants gather buckets of assorted bullet casings from shooting ranges in the United States. Then, they sort the .22 caliber shells; use specialized machines to cut, bore, and polish them; and weave them together with wire.
3. Model Behavior
At the center of the glittering scene in Bullets Revisited #3 is a model whose skin and dress are covered in henna, which Essaydi applies using a syringe. The artist often works with family acquaintances and they discuss, agree on, and rehearse all aspects of the image before the shoot. The multi-hour process—eased by music and storytelling—requires patience and stillness from Essaydi’s collaborators.
4. Blurred Lines
Essaydi’s script combines the traditionally male art of calligraphy—which she taught herself—and the traditionally female art of henna painting. As she writes, Essaydi draws from her model’s experiences as well as her own, though the intentionally illegible final product keeps the details private.
5. Bigger Picture
Essaydi admires 19th-century Orientalist paintings for their beauty —but not their false narratives. To challenge these representations, she identified three main themes, “the harem, the veil, and the odalisque,” and adopted them throughout her work. Bullets Revisited #3 evokes the odalisque—a seductive female nude—but subverts the voyeuristic tradition with the segmented body and returned gaze. | <urn:uuid:7dc97922-86f8-46fd-88ca-a2d02571ecad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nmwa.org/blog/5-fast-facts/5-fast-facts-lalla-essaydi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954797 | 438 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Use Of Rfid In Inventory Management. Automation of inventory tracking and reporting. The labor cost involved in inventory management is reduced as fewer employees are required to do the job.
Inventory management is basically sourcing items, storing them, and then selling them at the right cost. 5 there are many of benefits to using rfid tags in inventory management. The role of industrial internet of things (iiot) in inventory management can be.
An Rfid Counting System Is So Simple Yet Powerful That It Has Many Possible Applications, Especially In Retail.
In an rfid counting system, rfid tags are attached to the. Rfid provides the ability to scan this inventory in bulk rather than having to individually scan each item one by one. It also allows for collection of data throughout traditional warehouse and distribution operations.
Not Only Objects It Can Be Used To Tracking The.
Platforms need to be able to offer environments that address all of the needs of a modern retailer and solve related. Retailers often use rfid inventory management systems to reduce their carrying costs by automatically collecting data, creating records and conducting calculations. Things need to be tracked to know how many units have been sold in a specific period during this process.
Retailers Use Rfid To Improve Stock Accuracy In Stores.
Today rfid enabled inventory management is reality in both retail and wholesale. How to use iot and rfid technology for inventory management industrial internet of things. A proper rfid inventory management system is required to precede the regular and planned course of production and stock of materials.
The Labor Cost Involved In Inventory Management Is Reduced As Fewer Employees Are Required To Do The Job.
Before you decide on investing in rfid for inventory management, you should consider the following: Place rfid readers in every doorways or portal. Also, the time spent reduces from days to hours.
Store Level Inventory Process Improvements.
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Meersburg New Palace
From 1750 until its resolution in 1803 the Meersburg New Palace was the residence of the prince-bishops of Constance. Even today the Palace still looks absolutely impressing with its monumental, based on drafts by Balthasar Neumann. The palaces' garden terrasse instead, offers an unrivalled panorama view, which allows you to get a glimpse of the Swiss shores of Lake Constance.
The prince-bishops rooms again shine in their full splendour. The museum shows not only the rooms but also tools for hunting and musical instruments, the "Prince-Bishops Naturalienkabinett" (a cabinet of curiosities), and explains the prince-bishops of Constance's dominion.
April 1 to October 31
Monday to Sunday: 9.30am to 6pm
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UNICEF reports that 97 percent of Caribbean and Latin American students (137 million children) have lost nearly 4 times the amount of schooling days than children in the rest of the world. Learning losses could cost the region up to $1.2 trillion in the lifetime earnings of children who are unable to access formal education. With 22 million people in the region who have already slid into poverty due to the pandemic, the stakes are high as ever to reach millions of vulnerable children.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Literacy Links have been on at the forefront of education disaster relief in the communities where they live and serve. Our agile programs continue to meet children, families, and educators where they are. Throughout the pandemic, these programs have helped bridge the gap for children who are stuck at home with limited access and resources.
Some of our most notable response activities include:
- Antigua Summer Literacy Programme (July 2021)
- Takeaway Books
- National Radio airings of Audio Read Alouds
- Video Read Alouds for At-Home learning
- Open Library Days (Dominica)
- Book Giveaways
- Mobile Books (Antigua)
Dear Hands Across the Sea: We received all the wonderful books from your organization, and my principal asked me to be the coordinator for our new library. I am happy to say that we got our Student Librarian team trained, we formed a library committee, and we timetabled a library period for all classes. Our school library was in full, wonderful swing.
But this year will go down in our history as a—now what were the words Queen Elizabeth used to describe a tough year that she once had? An annus horribilis.
First, one of our beloved teachers died. Then, Covid-19 hit. The lockdown was so sudden we did not even have time to get the borrowed library books returned. Class teachers like myself had to start from scratch to set up and teach online. Our school was turned upside down.
But our students are still reading. One called me just yesterday and read to me over the phone. He wanted to show me how much he had improved. He truly had! Another showed me over Zoom that he had started writing his own comic book after being locked in with one from our library.
The work you did for us this year and the impact of making new and interesting books available for our children is magical! Thanks to Hands we were able to see the light bulb go off in the heads of our students as they discovered the joy and wonder of reading. Yesterday yet another parent called to thank me for her child’s ‘improved reading appetite.’ Smile! That was music for my ears.
I must also express how impressed I have been with the work of the two Hands Literacy Link ladies, Vernest Mack and Hyacinth Barriero, from your organization. They helped us pack up the library and secure the books in case of a hurricane. They are inspirational. They truly go above and beyond.
So please keep up the great work you are doing. Let those who donate and sponsor know that they should not stop, because they are a part of life-changing work. We wish you all good health and safety in these turbulent times.
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in about 100 words or less
Soviet Union 80m, silent (B&W)
Director: Dziga Vertov; Cast: None
Man with a Movie Camera is a most interesting experiment in cinema which uses a dazzling number of special camera techniques and visual effects to portray daily life in the early 20th century. In modern visual terms, this film might best be compared to Godfrey Reggio’s 1982 ecologically minded film Koyaanisqatsi (1983). However, with the industrialized Soviet nation as its principal character, Man with a Movie Camera espouses the benefits of modern industrial life in the communist state and portrays the transformation of nature in a favorable light. Notwithstanding the underlying socialist message, and the obvious staged nature of some of the scenes, the film does accomplish what it set out to do: that is, “provide an authentically international absolute language of cinema” without the aid of theater or literature (Klaus Ming March 2009). | <urn:uuid:e7a9aa9e-1ee8-4594-878d-e4b1f3eb85b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://klausming.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/man-with-a-movie-camera-1929/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.893629 | 200 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The Bihar State Human Rights Commission issued notice to private hospitals and nursing homes and told the hospitals and nursing homes to reply to the notice soon, where uteruses of hundreds of poor women were removed to claim insurance money.
"The commission is likely to issue notice to the state government in this connection too," an official of the rights body said.
A house committee, which is probing the removal of uteruses of over 16,000 women living below poverty line, will start meeting the victims from September.
Most of the uteruses were removed to claim insurance money of Rs.30,000 per patient under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna, a central government scheme, an official said.
Private hospitals claimed up to Rs.10 crore under the scheme in one year in Begusarai and Rs.12 crore in Samastipur district.
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This data was last updated on 14 August 2020.
History: The story of the Justice Education Technology Political Advocacy Center, which goes by the sleek acronym Jetpac Inc., is intimately intertwined with the political career of Nadeem Mazen. Born and raised in the greater Boston area, a graduate of MIT, and a business entrepreneur, Mazen first ran for Cambridge City Councilor in 2013 and was elected by a narrow margin of 6 votes. His second time running in 2015, he won by a landslide. Mazen is the first Muslim to have been elected to office in Massachusetts. After becoming city councilor, Mazen and his former campaign manager Shaun Kennedy founded Jetpac in order to encourage and assist Muslims—and other minorities who are underrepresented in politics—in running for office. For the first two years, Jetpac focused on creating a strong foundation for the organization by building up a donor base, creating curricula, and putting together a grassroots network of political mentors. In January 2017, immediately following the first iteration of President Donald Trump’s immigration order limiting travel from six Muslim-majority countries, Mazen and Kennedy put out a nationwide call encouraging Muslims to run for office. Jetpac has since taken on one hundred Muslims interested in running for office. Jetpac has also trained many more Muslims and minorities to be community organizers. In early July 2017 Jetpac’s Facebook page was hit by a coordinated cyberattack. Hundreds of comments overtook Jetpac’s social media, espousing hateful messages to members of Jetpac and to Muslims more generally, including: “You should be shot for treason! Then hung upside down from a light post in the middle of town and gutted like a pig, just the way we saw on the streets during desert storm.” Kennedy turned around this outpouring of hate into an opportunity to increase awareness about anti-Muslim bigotry. He posted about the incident on Jetpac’s Facebook page and used the platform to raise $1,800.
Description: Embedded in Jetpac’s acronym is its tripartite mission. The first and most important part of Jetpac’s model is seeking “Justice” by helping minorities win better representation. As Mazen points out, American Muslims make up one per cent of the population of the United Sates, but they are barely represented in elected office. People who want to go through Jetpac’s training process contact the organization and submit a written application. Of the application process, Mazen says: “We accept 40% of applicants, vetting for altruism and basic positions like a commitment to service. We don’t vet for partisanship, we look for their seriousness and ability to divorce ego from the run.” Accepted applicants then go through a curriculum tutoring model and receive one-on-one training with Kennedy. The political candidates do not receive follow up services after their training, but they take with them the knowledge that they have gained from Jetpac and the contacts that they have made along the way, including valuable community activists and mentors.
According to Mazen, all Muslims who run for office should expect to be targeted on the basis of their faith. Mazen understands that there is a natural fear of being attacked, not just for one’s own reputation but also because it can then ward off potential donors and other collaborators who are afraid of the bad publicity. Jetpac helps Muslim candidates prepare for this eventuality by taking control of their narrative and acting as proactively as possible. Mazen believes that many Muslims who run for office do so out of a sense of duty, and are therefore willing to make the sacrifice of having their name slandered by the alt-right. Mazen personally draws strength from the Islamic concept of “fard kifayah,” which holds that when there is a community need that is not being fulfilled, it is incumbent on the individual to fulfill the duty. In addition to focusing on justice, Jetpac also seeks to innovate in education and technology. The education component of Jetpac’s model is an AP-accredited high school curricula that teaches about the history of political activism. Jetpac also seeks to educate through community engagement seminars and a variety of trainings. In terms of technology, Jetpac utilizes social media platforms to further its message and engage in community building. Jetpac hopes to use technology more in the future by creating short informative videos that are easily shareable, which will help to spread helpful information relevant to the organization’s mission on a variety of topics.
Looking Forward: Jetpac aims to continue to support grassroots efforts, while also exploring opportunities to influence the American political landscape on a larger scale. In the next few years, Jetpac plans to continue to recruit and train Muslims to run for political office. The group will also continue to collaborate with other Muslim civil advocacy groups such as CAIR to combat existing Islamophobia and to create more educational opportunities to mitigate Islamophobia in future generations. Jetpac also plans to start a Political Action Committee in order to fundraise money in larger amounts to support its efforts. According to Mazen, Jetpac’s biggest struggle is the same struggle that plagues all of America, and it is the need to fight against the following statement: “Politics is to blame and doesn’t work for people.” Mazen believes that, “Our own malaise is short-circuiting our ability to change the system,” and that electing new diverse, community-oriented faces to office can help to change America’s political landscape and pave the way towards a brighter future. | <urn:uuid:bca6f261-5759-470d-8233-418c54a6c36e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pluralism.org/justice-education-technology-political-advocacy-center-jetpac-inc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96239 | 1,155 | 1.976563 | 2 |
The DAISY Award® for Extraordinary Nurses
The DAISY (Diseases Attacking the Immune System) Award is an international recognition program that honors and celebrates the skillful, compassionate care nurses provide every day. The DAISY Foundation was established by the family of J. Patrick Barnes after he died from complications of the auto-immune disease ITP in 1999. During his hospitalization, they deeply appreciated the care and compassion shown to Patrick and his entire family. When he died, they felt compelled to say “thank you” to nurses in a very public way. Please say thank you by sharing your story of how a nurse made a difference you will never forget!
Cherie Gibson, RN
DAISY Award Honoree 2019
Two nurses will be selected to receive the DAISY Award each year. However, every nurse nominated for the DAISY Award will be recognized with an informal ceremony and celebration.
To qualify for a DAISY Award, nominees must be licensed nurses in good standing, have worked at Noyes for at least a year, and not have any current disciplinary actions on file.
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Protection of Civilians Week
27 May – 1 June 2020
In 1999, the UN Security Council added the protection of civilians in armed conflict (PoC) to its agenda, thereby formally recognizing PoC as a matter of international peace and security. Resolution 1265 – the Council’s first resolution on PoC – set the parameters of what remains today the building blocks of the PoC agenda:
- Enhancing compliance with applicable international law and relevant Council decisions in the conduct of hostilities
- Facilitating access to humanitarian assistance
- Protecting forcibly displaced persons, women and children
- Providing protection through UN peace operations
- Responding to violations through targeted measures and the promotion of accountability.
From 1999 to 2019, the Council adopted more than 100 thematic resolutions, many of which addressed PoC-related concerns, and reflected the importance of PoC to Member States and matters of the UN Security Council. As Lloyd Axworthy, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada and President of the Security Council during its first open debate on PoC in February 1999, said: “Promoting the protection of civilians in armed conflict is no sideshow to the Council’s mandate for ensuring international peace and security; it is central to it. The ultimate aim of the Council’s work is to safeguard the security of the world’s people, not just the States in which they live.”
Security Council’s Open High-Level Videoteleconference (VTC)
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
The Security Council’s Open High-Level VTC was presided over by the H.E. Mr. Sven Jürgenson, the Permanent Representative of Estonia to the United Nations. H.E. Ms. Kersti Kaljulaid, the President of the Republic of Estonia, delivered the statement for Estonia.
The following speakers briefed the Security Council:
H.E. Ms. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nobel Peace Laureate, member of the Elders
The Open VTC provided an opportunity for the Security Council and the wider UN membership to consider the annual report of the UN Secretary-General on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict (S/2020/366). It offered an opportunity for an exchange on the current state of the protection of civilians in armed conflict; on enhancing compliance with international humanitarian law and international human rights law and accountability for violations; and on concrete steps for the implementation of the protection of civilians agenda by the Member States, the UN system and civil society, including in the context of new challenges and developments, among them the COVID-19 pandemic.
The delivery of the statements of the briefers and Council members was webcast live and archived on UN Web TV.
List of Side Events
Thursday, 28 May 2020
9 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.
Persons with Disabilities in Armed Conflict: Inclusive protection perspectives: Poland, United Kingdom, UNMAS (Webinar via Microsoft Teams)
This virtual side event, which coincided with the UN Security Council Open Debate on the Protection of Civilians, focused on the disproportionate challenges facing persons with disabilities in humanitarian, conflict and post-conflict settings. Chaired by the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Ms. Catalina Devandas Aguilar, this discussion shared insights from speakers and panellists from the Governments of Poland and the United Kingdom, the European Union, UNMAS, Humanity & Inclusion (H.I.), the International Disability Alliance (IDA) and others.
11 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Safeguarding Civilians during a Pandemic: The repercussions of COVID-19 on the protection agenda: United Kingdom, OCHA, Canada, IPI, Estonia, Niger (Webinar via Zoom)
The online event provided an opportunity to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on civilians affected by conflict and humanitarian crisis, as well as the repercussions of the subsequent public health measures adopted to mitigate its propagation on protection activities and humanitarian assistance. Panellists analysed how COVID-19 and containment strategies have amplified existing vulnerabilities of civilian populations caught in conflict and humanitarian crises, and raised new protection challenges for humanitarian workers, peacekeepers and human rights defenders. Touching on specific country contexts, they discussed how protection activities have been adjusted in the field to continue fulfilling critical functions, respond to emerging needs and support public health efforts, including by taking into consideration the gender dimension of the crisis.
1.15 p.m. – 2.30 p.m.
Protecting Education from Attack: Scope, impact and response: GCPEA, Norway, Argentina, Nigeria, Qatar, Spain, Uruguay (Webinar via Zoom)
The Permanent Missions of Norway, Argentina, Nigeria, Qatar, Spain and Uruguay, together with the Global Coalition to Protection Education from Attack (GCPEA), had the honour to invite you to a virtual event to examine the latest data on attacks on education and to mark the Fifth Anniversary of the Safe Schools Declaration. The event highlighted the global scope and impact of attacks on education by presenting findings from the upcoming 2020 edition of GCPEA’s flagship report, Education under Attack.
Friday, 29 May 2020
8 a.m. – 9.30 a.m.
Key to Peace, Key to Protection: Women peacekeepers in action: Canada, Ghana, Zambia (Virtual Meeting via Zoom)
The Permanent Missions of Canada, Ghana and Zambia to the United Nations convened this virtual high-level event that pushed the conversation about women in peace operations forward. A dynamic panel highlighted the diverse roles and responsibilities that women peacekeepers play in missions, including at leadership levels. Panellists also highlighted how women peacekeepers contribute to the range of mandated objectives, including the protection of civilians, promotion of human rights, and community engagement. The panel discussion highlighted the diverse experiences and perspectives of the panellists, while focusing on the valuable contributions that women peacekeepers make while on mission.
1 p.m. – 2.30 p.m.
Protecting the Environment Is Protecting Civilians: PAX, UNEP, OCHA, Environmental Peacebuilding Association, Switzerland (Webinar via Zoom)
The panel and following interactive discussion presented an important opportunity for: (1) A discussion and exchange among global experts and policymakers on the linkages between PERAC and PoC, incorporating ongoing conflict monitoring and research conducted by civil society and academics to support a better understanding of the conflict-environment nexus, and promoting current political and operational work undertaken by Member States and the UN on this topic. (2) Participants further explored and identified opportunities for all relevant stakeholders to improve coordination in order to better prevent, minimize and mitigate environmental damage and associated civilian harm, both in military conduct, humanitarian response and post-conflict reconstruction.
3 p.m. – 4.30 p.m.
Pledging to Protect Civilians in Peacekeeping Operations: Lessons from the implementation of the Kigali Principles: Ireland, Rwanda, Uruguay, IPI (Webinar via Zoom)
The policy forum was part of Protection of Civilians (PoC) Week and was held virtually on the margins of the UN Security Council Open Debate on PoC. It provided an opportunity to discuss the impact of the Kigali principles since their adoption at the High-Level International Conference on PoC in Kigali five years ago. Panellists examined the extent to which troop- and police-contributing countries have incorporated the 18 principles into their efforts to enhance the delivery of PoC mandates. In particular, panellists presented on how these countries, in coordination with the UN, have adapted training, demonstrated enhanced operational readiness, strengthened PoC-related performance, and established accountability mechanisms to better protect civilians.
Monday, 1 June 2020
10 a.m. – 11.45 a.m.
Training for the Protection of Civilians: Assessing the challenges and best practices of contributions to UN peacekeeping training: PAX, Netherlands (Webinar via Zoom)
In an effort to encourage a frank and free-flowing exchange of ideas, the event was held under Chatham House Rules. The discussion was not recorded. The virtual panel and following interactive segment presented an important opportunity for discussion and exchange among training experts, practitioners and policymakers on current challenges in making PoC more practical in trainings, including: (1) Deepening understanding of realities in training and sharing best practices for how to improve the impact of training on the PoC capacities of UN peacekeeping operations at the national and international levels; (2) Exploring how comprehensive training packages can contribute to the combined impact of all peacekeepers (military, police and civilian) at the tactical level in UN peacekeeping operations; (3) Identifying opportunities and recommended actions on how to adjust comprehensive training packages to local realities; and (4) Developing an expanded network to assess and consult on how to better deal with challenges to training for PoC in peacekeeping. | <urn:uuid:e31cb9c2-d9b6-44da-98c2-c2e1f50986d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.unocha.org/protection-civilians-week | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.917691 | 1,872 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Remembering 20 Years Since 9/11
For those of us old enough to remember, it’s a day frozen in time. September 11, 2001.
It’s one of those days that leaves a mark on your soul. You remember what you were doing, where you were and who you were with at the time the news broke that our country was under attack. For all of us, the day was marked with fear, shock and sadness and forever changed the way we view the world.
9/11 Remembrance Display
Open to the public September 10-17.
This installation was created in solemn recognition of the 20-year anniversary of 9/11. The blue flags represent the 2,977 individuals, representing 77 countries, who tragically lost their lives:
- 246 passengers and crew aboard the four planes
- 2,606 people at the Twin Towers, including 441 New York City first responders
- 125 people at the Pentagon
The center of the star features four lights representing the four hijacked planes and their four locations of impact. An additional augmented reality feature is available via visitors’ smartphones, which projects a semi-translucent image of the Twin Towers inside the star.
LCCC’s 9/11 Memorial Event
September 10, 2021
Cleveland-Area Air Traffic Controller on 9/11 Shares his Story
On September 11, 2001, Robert Douglas was an air traffic controller responsible for airspace over Ohio and western Pennsylvania – which included the route flown by United Airlines Flight 93.
Douglas is the husband of LCCC’s Dean of Social Sciences and Human Services Denise Douglas.
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This study evaluated the effect of temporary cements with or without eugenol on the bond strength of a dual-cure resin cement to dentin. Etched, silanated Dicor buttons were bonded to dentin surfaces after pretreatment with the cements. The buttons were sheared in an Instron testing machine. The results showed that shear bond strength is not affected by the temporary cements, if the dentin is cleaned with pumice and treated with Prisma Universal Bond 3 dentin bonding system.
|Original language||English (US)|
|Number of pages||4|
|Journal||American journal of dentistry|
|State||Published - Jun 1 1992|
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In 2015, CBAN embarked on a major investigation of the impacts and risks of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) after twenty years in Canada. Our GMO Inquiry reports are all accompanied by summary pamphlets that you can also download. Find them below or visit the GMO Inquiry project website.
April 2022. Health Canada and the CFIA are proposing to remove government regulation for many new GMOs produced using the new genetic engineering techniques of genome editing (also called gene editing). If allowed to move forward, these changes would result in a profound lack of transparency on genetically engineered foods and seeds for Canadians.
Unintended effects caused by techniques of new genetic engineering create a new quality of hazards and risk
March 24, 2022. A report from Testbiotech (Germany) and the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) discusses the scientific literature that shows the basic differences between plant breeding and genetic engineering, and argues that these differences need to be considered in regulation.
November 30, 2021. This GMO Review is a snapshot of the most up-to-date information on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Canada. Follow the links on each page for more in-depth information on that topic and to take action.
December 2020. This report provides information to Canadians about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on the market and, in particular, the status of whole GM foods – fruits, vegetables, and fish – in Canada’s largest grocery chains. The report ranks Canada’s major grocery chains for their transparency about sales of genetically modified fruits and vegetables, and the GM salmon.
July 2020. The report provides an overview of the new genetic engineering techniques of genome editing that are being explored in agriculture, and the range of risks and potential unexpected consequences that can arise from them. The purpose of our report is to support public discussions about the possible implications of using genetic engineering in food and farming.
November 2019: This report is a comprehensive examination of “Golden Rice”, so named because it has been genetically modified to produce betacarotene, which the body can convert into vitamin A. Golden Rice is being promoted as a solution to the serious problem of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) in countries such as the Philippines and Bangladesh but it is not yet ready for farmers to grow or for people to eat, its beta carotene levels are low, it does not store well, and we still do not know whether it helps fight VAD. Golden Rice is expensive, unnecessary, and does not address the real problem.
GM Contamination in Canada: The failure to contain living modified organisms – Incidents and impacts
March 26, 2019. This report documents in one place, for the first time, GM escape and contamination incidents that have occurred in Canada. These experiences provide lessons that need to be evaluated and understood before any more genetically modified organisms are released.
This sixth and final report of our GMO Inquiry examines the question “Do we need GM crops to feed the world?” We conclude that, while the argument that this technology can solve the problem of world hunger, or be a tool towards ending hunger, is compelling, it is in fact false. The report includes information from the five other reports of the GMO Inquiry, published over the course of 2015. The research in this report begins to look ahead to understand what role – if any – GM crops and foods should play in the future of our food and farming systems.
This report examines how deeply untransparent Canada’s regulation of GMOs, even today. Despite twenty years of critique, Canada’s safety assessment of genetically modified (GM) foods, crops and animals is still a closed-door process that is based on information provided by industry – information that is kept confidential and not disclosed to the public or independent scientists.
This report in the GMO Inquiry investigates the impacts of genetically modified crops on farmers in Canada. Have GM crops benefited farmers? Have they increased yields and farm incomes? What are the costs of herbicide-resistant weeds and GM contamination for farmers?
This third report in the GMO Inquiry examines the question of benefits for the “consumer” and examines the state of the scientific literature on human health safety questions. The report also discusses the answer to the question Why aren’t they labeled? Genetically modified foods were allowed onto grocery store shelves in Canada without labels, without meaningful public debate, without government testing, and without long-term animal feeding studies.
In this second report of the GMO Inquiry 2015, we investigate the impacts and risks of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on our environment. Genetically modified crops have been a 20-year open-air experiment in Canada. What are the consequences?
In this first report of the GMO Inquiry 2015, we show what genetically modified (GM) crops are grown in Canada and around the world, where they are being grown, how much of each one is being grown, and where they end up in our food system. The Canadian government does not track this information, but we have investigated. Industry promotional materials commonly depict genetically modified crops being grown widely around the world, but this is not entirely true. In reality, four crops – corn, soy, cotton and canola – account for 99% of global GM acres.
The Canadian Seed Trade Association’s so-called “Coexistence Plan” is a gateway to GM alfalfa contamination
This 2013 Commentary and Technical Paper from CBAN and the National Farmers Union critiques the Canadian Seed Trade Association’s “coexistence plan,” designed to pave the way for Monsanto and Forage Genetics International to release genetically engineered alfalfa in Eastern Canada. The Eastern Plan as well as a Western Plan have since been finalized and very small amounts of GM alfalfa were planted in Eastern Canada in 2016 for the first time, but this analysis remains highly relevant.
This 2013 report from CBAN presents a detailed overview of the many potential means by which GM alfalfa will contaminate non-GM alfalfa and hay crops, if it is released in Ontario. The biological characteristics of alfalfa conspire to present a particularly potent risk of gene escape.
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By Dr. Mercola
Given their unflagging popularity, you have very likely heard of or applied a few old wives’ tales to matters of health, perhaps without checking to see if the advice was true or false. Based on two articles published in Reader’s Digest,1,2 I am highlighting eight tales that dispense some type of medical advice. Separating fact from fiction with respect to these timeless tales is just one more way you can take control of your health.
No. 1: An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Somewhat true. Although you’ll want to keep a close eye on your total daily fructose intake, and most certainly avoid an all-fruit diet, eating whole fruit like apples can be beneficial to your health. While there is no guarantee eating an apple a day will eliminate your need to see a doctor occasionally, a study published in the journal Nature suggests apples are good for you for the following reasons: 3,4,5
- Great source of antioxidants: Researchers from Cornell’s Food Science and Toxicology Department in Ithaca, New York, found the antioxidant properties of 100 grams (g) of fresh apple to be equal to 1,500 milligrams (mg) of vitamin C
- High in fiber: One medium apple boasts about 4.4 g of fiber; fiber-rich diets promote good digestion and help you maintain a healthy weight
- Natural cancer fighter: When treating cancer cells with 50 mg of apple skin extracts, the Cornell scientists noted a 43 percent decrease in the growth of colon cancer cells and a 57 percent reduction in liver cancer cell growth
The Cornell researchers suggest the bulk of an apple’s antioxidant and anticancer properties result from the phytochemicals, such as flavanoids and polyphenols, mainly found in its skin. Toward that end, you’ll want to eat the skin, which makes choosing organic apples important; apples are one of the most pesticide-contaminated fruits.
While the results of the Cornell study appear to be sound, it’s important to note the research was funded, in part, by the New York State Apple Research Development Program and the New York Apple Association, groups with a clear interest to promote any alleged health benefits of apples.
Underscoring the nutritional value of apples, while making a strong distinction between the value of whole apples and apple juice, registered dietitian Kathy McManus, director of the department of nutrition at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said:6
“There is good data to show the soluble fiber in apples can help prevent cholesterol from building up on artery walls. Apples contain a good amount of potassium, which can be beneficial for those who are watching their blood pressure. I strongly suggest you eat the whole apple. Juice does not have the fiber a whole apple does, and a good part of the beneficial nutrients are in the skin. Apple juice is not equal to a real apple.”
No. 2: Chicken Soup Will Cure Your Cold
Somewhat true. Since there is no cure for the common cold and the biological basis for chicken soup’s effects has never been fully realized, some believe its benefits are primarily psychosomatic. Colds, because they involve a virus, must run their course, and they do so based on the health of your immune system. That said, while chicken soup may not cure your cold, it can help soothe some of the unpleasant side effects.
In a study published in the journal Chest,7 a team of researchers from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, discovered both homemade and canned chicken soup possess anti-inflammatory properties that may help reduce cold-related side effects like congestion. About the outcomes, they said:
“The present study … suggests chicken soup may contain a number of substances with beneficial medicinal activity. A mild anti-inflammatory effect could be one mechanism by which the soup could result in the mitigation of symptomatic upper respiratory tract infections.”
In lieu of canned varieties, try one of my favorite recipes for homemade bone broth — a soup that will nourish you from the inside out. The next time you prepare a pot of this delicious chicken soup, make a larger batch and freeze the leftovers. In doing so, you will always have some on hand when it’s needed, especially during cold and flu season.
No. 3: Chocolate Helps Relieve Premenstrual Cramps
False. While some suggest women gravitate toward chocolate before and during their menstrual cycle due to either a calcium or magnesium deficiency, there is little scientific basis for those claims. After all, plenty of other foods — such as green leafy vegetables — are high in these nutrients and cause few, if any, menstrual-related cravings. A more likely explanation for this well-known wives’ tale is the reality many women eat chocolate as a comfort food and sometimes as a source of energy or a mood booster.
Unless you’re a fan of the dark variety with a hefty cacao percentage, most of the chocolate you’re used to eating gets its sweet taste chiefly from sugar and pasteurized milk. As you probably know, too much sugar in your system can lead to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. Pasteurization destroys most of the nutrients in milk and it may even contain toxins from cows raised in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Also, processed chocolate has very little healthy cacao content.
The reason dark chocolate is superior to other forms of chocolate lies in the cacao percentage. Dark chocolate contains a high percentage of cacao, which boasts nearly 400 varieties of polyphenols — micronutrients with health-boosting antioxidant activity. Polyphenols are the reason dark chocolate has a bitter flavor. The higher the polyphenol content, the more bitter the taste.
Instead of reaching for chocolate or over-the-counter pain medications, if you are consistently plagued by painful periods you may want to try an herbal remedy. Plants and herbs have been used for millennia to treat the bloating, cramps, pain and other symptoms associated with premenstrual syndrome (PMS). For more information, check out my article “15 Plants to Pacify PMS.”
No. 4: Cod Liver Oil Is Good for You
False. Prior to 2008, I recommended cod liver oil as a dietary supplement to support healthy vitamin A and D levels, as well as essential omega-3 fats. Based on subsequent research, however, I now caution against the use of cod liver oil, mainly because modern cod liver oil does not supply these vitamins in healthy ratios.
Many people living in developed countries are potentially undermining the health benefits they could receive from vitamin D because they are consuming excessive amounts of vitamin A in the form of multivitamins or cod liver oil. While vitamin A is essential for your immune system and a precursor to active hormones known to regulate the expression of your genes, similar to vitamin D, the two work in tandem.
Without vitamin D, vitamin A can be ineffective or even toxic. Likewise, if you’re deficient in vitamin A, vitamin D cannot function properly either. Too much or too little of either may create negative consequences. While the optimal ratio for these two vitamins has not yet been determined, in my opinion nearly all cod liver oil products supply these nutrients at less-than-ideal levels.
Keep in mind you’re likely getting sufficient vitamin A if you regularly consume foods high in this nutrient, such as cantaloupe, carrots, sweet potatoes and other colorful fruits and vegetables. Butter, especially when obtained from grass fed cows, is another excellent source of vitamin A.
You were designed to obtain vitamin D mainly from sensible sun exposure. If getting outdoors on a regular basis is not possible for you, take a high-quality vitamin D3 supplement and make sure to have your blood levels tested semiannually. Remember, the target range for vitamin D is 60 to 80 nanograms/milliliter. In addition, if you’re considering cod liver oil for the animal-based omega-3s, there are better, less perishable, sources, namely krill oil.
No. 5: Don’t Eat Spicy Food if You Are Prone to Ulcers
False. Although doctors used to recommend you avoid spicy foods if you had an ulcer, there is no research to support this old wives’ tale. If you’ve got stomach issues, rather than avoid spicy foods you actually may find hot chilies to be protective. Not only have chili peppers been shown to reduce your risk of stomach bleeding when taking nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin but eating them daily may also significantly reduce your risk of peptic ulcers. So, if you enjoy hot peppers, feel free to indulge.
With respect to patients unnecessarily avoiding hot peppers and other spicy foods as a means of addressing stomach issues, Toronto gastroenterologist Dr. Khursheed Jeejeebhoy says, “Whenever people have stomach problems, they’ll say, ‘I’ll completely avoid spicy foods in order to heal my stomach.’ There is no evidence they have to do that. Spices in moderation are to be enjoyed, and there is no evidence spicy food is bad for you.”8
The burning sensation you feel from hot food is the capsaicin — the ingredient that fuels their spicy flavor — stimulating your nerve endings. “It’s a bad feeling, but there’s no evidence it produces a cut or causes an ulceration or injury of any sort in the gastrointestinal tract,” states Jeejeebhoy.9 Over time, as you naturally build up a tolerance, the burning sensation diminishes. So, go ahead and enjoy spicy foods even if you’ve been diagnosed with a stomach ulcer.
No. 6: Eat a Tomato to Help Prevent Sunburn
True. Although you still need to approach sun exposure sensibly, there is truth to this old wives’ tale about tomatoes and sunburn, albeit somewhat indirect. The lycopene — a carotenoid pigment and phytochemical — found in tomatoes is a well-known antioxidant that helps protect your cells from pollution, premature aging and sun damage.
In one study,10 participants were asked to consume 16 mg of lycopene from tomato paste with olive oil daily for 10 weeks. By the end of the experiment, they concluded the tomato paste/lycopene method was able to reduce ultraviolet-induced sunburn by about 40 percent. Keep in mind it takes time to develop this type of skin protection.
Experts at Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan said, “Oral protection from sunburn is not instantaneous; maximum effects are not reached until these antioxidants have been used for about eight to 10 weeks.”11
While eating fresh tomatoes provides some health benefits, your health and skin will receive the biggest boost from ingesting lycopene through cooked tomatoes. That’s the case because research has shown cooking tomatoes dramatically increases the bioavailability of lycopene.12 Astaxanthin, another potent antioxidant, can also be used both internally and topically to protect your skin from the sun. Other helpful antioxidants to help you build an internal sunscreen include proanthocyanidins and resveratrol.
No. 7: Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever
Somewhat true. According to Scientific American,13 this old wives’ tale dates back to the later 1500s, having been cited in a dictionary that noted “fasting is a great remedy of fever.” Since then, the common thinking has been:
- Eating food may help your body generate warmth when you have a cold
- Avoiding food may help your body cool down when you have a fever
Modern science, however, supports the notion to feed both colds and fever. With respect to colds, while you may not feel particularly hungry, your body requires energy to fight illness. The best strategy is to eat when you feel hungry and to focus on healthy, whole foods in moderate amounts. This means avoiding processed, sugary foods that will only serve to further tax your body and your immunity. Also get plenty of sleep. For more tips, check out my article “Natural Cold Remedies: What Works, What Doesn’t.”
With respect to fever, it’s important to remember fever is part of your immune system’s response to fight illness. Fever raises your body temperature, which in turn increases your metabolism and calorie burn. In fact, your body’s energy demands increase with each degree of temperature rise, so you’ll need to continue eating to satisfy those energy needs. Again, get plenty of sleep and stick to healthy foods, taking care to avoid excessive caffeine, junk food and sweets.
Beyond eating, drinking is vitally important when you have a fever, mainly because fevers cause sweating, which can lead to dehydration. You need to continually replenish fluids to help your body not only fight infection but also keep mucus from hardening and clogging your sinuses and respiratory passages. Also, when colds and flu come around, as mentioned, remember to pull your chicken soup out of the freezer.
No. 8: Fish Is Brain Food
True. I’ll close by addressing the old wives’ tale about the effect fish consumption has on your brain. The reason some people call fish “brain food” is because fish is high in essential fatty acids. The most important one is omega-3 and it has been shown to have a positive effect on your brain (and heart). It may surprise you to know that 60 percent of your brain is made up of fat. On its own, docosahexanoic acid (DHA), a type of omega-3 fat, makes up about 15 percent to 20 percent of your brain’s cerebral cortex.
DHA is also found in high levels in your neurons — the cells of your central nervous system — where it provides structural support. When administered at high doses, omega-3s have been shown to be useful in addressing traumatic brain injury. Your best options for omega-3 oils are animal-based sources such as small fatty fish like anchovies or sardines or a krill oil supplement. Avoid farmed fish, fish oil due to its unstable nature and large fish like tuna that are contaminated with mercury and other neurotoxins.
Regardless of what the old wives say, when it comes to taking care of your body and your health, there is no substitute for eating well, exercising regularly and getting plenty of high-quality sleep. If you have let yourself go in one or more of these vital areas, take action today to get back on track. You won’t regret it. After all, abiding by timeless medical truths will always benefit you more than old wives’ tales.
About The Author:
Dr. Joseph Mercola is a physician and New York Times best-selling author.
He was voted the 2009 Ultimate Wellness Game Changer by the Huffington Post and has been featured in several national media outlets including Time magazine, LA Times, CNN, Fox News, ABC News, the Today Show and The Dr. Oz Show.
His mission is to transform the traditional medical paradigm in the United States into one in which the root cause of disease is treated, rather than the symptoms.
In addition, he aims to expose corporate and government fraud and mass media hype that often sends people down an unhealthy path.
Sources & References:
- 1 Reader’s Digest, 8 Popular Old Wives’ Tales that Are Totally False — and 3 You Should Pay Attention To
- 2 Reader’s Digest, 8 Old Wives’ Tales About Food That We’re Glad Are True(ish)
- 3 Nature June 22, 2000; 405: 903-904
- 4 WebMD, June 21, 2000
- 5 Cornell Chronicle June 21, 2000
- 6 Harvard Medical School April 2, 2015
- 7 Chest October 2000; 118(4):1150-1157
- 8, 9 Reader’s Digest, Best Health
- 10 The Journal of Nutrition May 2001; 131(5):1449-1451
- 11 Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan June 1, 2015
- 12 Critical Reviews in Biotechnology 2000; 20(4): 293-334
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BioInvent has developed a patented screening tool called F.I.R.S.T™, which is an important technical tool for internal drug development as well as for external development partners. The platform is patient-centred and facilitates the development of new antibody therapies, as new drug candidates can be produced without detailed knowledge of the antibodies’ target proteins. This unique method has the advantage of simultaneously identifying diseaseassociated targets and antibodies that bind to them.
The method makes it possible to simultaneously investigate antibody binding to both diseased and healthy tissue in order to select those antibodies and targets that are unique to diseased tissue in terms of binding and expression. Through functional, high-capacity screening, antibodies are then selected on the basis of, for example, their ability to induce cell death of primary cancer cells or improve the immune system’s capacity to eliminate tumor cells.
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BioInvent’s antibody library n-CoDeR® contains more than 30 billion human antibody genes stored within phages in test tubes. These act as production units for various antibodies, making it possible to search the library to identify precisely those antibodies that bind to a specific target protein. The n-CoDeR® library is searched using an established technology called phage display. To identify an optimal antibody, BioInvent has developed automated processes in which robots carry out the analysis on an industrial scale. The n-CoDeR® library consists of naturally occurring human antibody genes. Every component comes from nature, but the combinations are largely new, making it possible to build an antibody repertoire that is greater than nature’s own variability. BioInvent calls this “evolution beyond nature”.
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The health and social care white paper – some answers to big questions
30 March 2021
A new white paper has set out the Government’s intentions to improve health and social care for everyone by building on the remarkable collaborations we have seen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. It suggests a path of evolution rather than revolution, and it emphasises the duty to collaborate. However, there is much that it doesn’t explain – indeed it leaves some big questions unanswered.
We invited a cross-section of senior leaders from across the NHS to a roundtable event to reflect on the implications of the proposed legislation. These discussions highlighted concerns about how the system would work.
Two at the top... how to get the best from an unusual form of governance
Under the white paper’s proposals, each statutory integrated care system (ICS) will have at the heart of its governance, two boards - the NHS board and a Health and Care Partnership.
The NHS board will clearly be expected to drive the national ‘must be dones’ down the new, reinforced line of central control into the delivery system, while the Health and Care Partnership will enable partners, like local government and the wider voluntary sector, to set priorities and shape ICS allocations.
It’s an arrangement which covers all bases, but what if these boards disagree? It’s possible to imagine a clash of priorities and allocations emerging with one, for example, prioritising elective care recovery and the other wanting to focus on prevention and healthy early years.
Is there a hierarchy of boards? Is the independent ICS chair going to get a casting vote? It’s an interesting conundrum, and the white paper doesn’t give an answer.
Here are six ways ICS’s can get ahead of the white paper
Ensure all ICS board members understand and respect central Government’s right to set priorities (after all it spends and is accountable for over £140bn). But critically also ensure that they understand and respect the right of locally elected politicians to set local priorities based on their detailed knowledge and statutory duty to their populations. Balancing respect for these two dynamics will lead to an exciting and more effective set of priorities that can inspire huge achievements.
- Avoid baking in siloed thinking. Local authorities will play a role, for example, in helping to get elective care waiting times down through their social care services supporting independent living, and effectively managing discharges in order to impact on both the ‘stock’ and the ‘flow’ of patients. So, allow them to join the NHS board. NHS trusts make a huge contribution to local economies, so let them take part in the work of the Health and Care Partnership. Cross-over membership will also help avoid factional decision-making.
- Set out the major functions that the ICS will have to ensure are delivered - maintaining physical, social, and mental wellbeing; providing proactive and preventative care; providing reablement, residential, palliative, and rehabilitative care; providing urgent care; providing consistent elective care; and securing access to world-class specialised care - and then work out which of the two boards should lead on ensuring they are delivered.
- Invest in good quality leadership by having job descriptions and person specifications for members, and offer great board development, so that they can address any difference of opinion and resolve disputes in a rational and intelligent way.
- Encourage continuous public engagement to offer a route of arbitration based on public priorities, and avoid the lack of transparency and public engagement we saw in the early days of sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs).
- And finally, great shared data and intelligence that allows both boards to see the whole picture and make a shared evidence-based decision on priorities.
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I've discussed how one of the major flaws with antivirus is the fact it relies on blacklisting, or blocking known bad things. A recent study shows I'm not alone, but blacklisting isn't something to turn your back on just yet.
There are many blacklists available, but one of my favorites comes from the Emerging Threats project. Emerging Threats is an open source, community-based effort for producing bleeding-edge Snort IDS signatures and firewall rules. The project has an active mailing list where contributors share Snort signatures that they've just written based on a new malware sample, or on an attack they just analyzed.
One of the rule sets that Emerging Threats publishes is a list of known Russian Business Network (RBN) IP addresses. If you're unfamiliar with the RBN, take the time to read the Wikipedia RBN page to learn more. I think the best statement is the quote from VeriSign describing RBN as "the baddest of the bad."
If you were using the RBN rule set for blocking or simply detection, you would have prevented -- or at least have logged -- the malvertisement attack coming from the New York Times Website. This is because the IPs associated with the attack were in the RBN list (as mentioned in an e-mail to the Emerging Threats list this morning).
So while many will still say blacklists are not effective, they do help in cases like these. Would your IPS or AV have blocked the attack? If so, do you know if it did it because it identified the attack, or because it knew it was coming from an RBN IP?
John H. Sawyer is a senior security engineer on the IT Security Team at the University of Florida. The views and opinions expressed in this blog are his own and do not represent the views and opinions of the UF IT Security Team or the University of Florida. When John's not fighting flaming, malware-infested machines or performing autopsies on blitzed boxes, he can usually be found hanging with his family, bouncing a baby on one knee and balancing a laptop on the other. Special to Dark Reading. | <urn:uuid:e0be68d4-1cb7-462f-a50f-2e6471a4bf74> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.darkreading.com/risk/ny-times-website-infected-with-fake-antivirus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959785 | 439 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Landscape lighting can feel like an intimidating mix of art and science. However, the electronic nature of lights and the art of highlighting key yard features at night doesn’t have to be as hard as many assume.
Today we’ve gathered some of the best landscape lighting tips for those looking to brighten up their nights.
Tip #1: Have a Goal in Mind
This first tip might also be the most obvious. If you’ve decided you’re going to install some landscape lighting, you should also have a goal for that lighting in mind.
Is your lighting for security? For beautification? These aims are going to involve different positioning of your lights.
That said, there’s also nothing wrong with having a few goals in mind for a given project. If you have a few landscape lighting ideas, it’s probably going to be feasible to at least cover some of them in one project.
There are a wide variety of ways to light up a landscape. None of those ways are wrong (at least if you do them right). The trick is knowing what your goal is before you start buying equipment and digging holes.
Tip #2: Consider Your Blindspots
The odds are good that you don’t want to light up your entire yard with your new lighting project. It’d be hard to do, expensive, and, depending on where you live, there might be complaints.
Instead, you’re going to want to tastefully highlight key elements of your yard. You might also want to make sure certain areas are lit either on a timer or triggered by motion, for both security and convenience purposes.
One important element of lighting for both beautification and security is where you’re not going to have light.
From an artistic perspective, darkness will contrast with areas that are lit. This can be used to your advantage and in some cases can allow for some very striking parts of your landscape to be highlighted with no other visual distraction to draw the eye.
From a security perspective, darkness represents an opportunity for threats to hide. At the very least, key parts of the property like entrances and gates should be guarded by lights that either stay on or will be triggered should someone walk by.
Tip #3: Professionals Can Do Work You Can’t
Unless you’re an electrician and landscaper, the chances are good that your landscape lighting design chops aren’t quite as strong as your ability to imagine what you want.
Done right, there’s nothing wrong with DIY lighting projects. However, done wrong, they can be ugly or even dangerous. In the worst cases, they may represent a fire or electrocution hazard.
One of the best landscape lighting tips we can give in terms of safety is not to bite off more than you can chew. If a project seems like it may be big or complex, hire an outdoor lighting company.
Professionals can help you achieve the result you have in your head, rather than the result you’re capable of getting on your own. They can also offer design help and suggestions if you’re stuck or they notice an issue an amateur might miss.
Outdoor lighting companies can also be great if you know you want lights but aren’t quite sure how best to implement them. You can discuss areas you’d like highlighted and project goals, letting them take the reins on the hard stuff.
Tip #4: Careful Around Water
One of the biggest hazards when performing any kind of electrical work is water. If you’re not prepared, the work can be dangerous in a way not typical of a lot of other landscaping projects.
As you know, water conducts electricity. As you may not know, getting shocked can make it difficult to move, potentially leaving a person stuck in a dangerous situation. If you don’t want tragedy to strike, you need to be careful.
To be clear, this is serious enough that it’s often go-to advice that you should leave electrical lighting work around water to experts. If you’re going to tackle this stuff yourself, do a lot of research and don’t cut any corners.
Messing up, even a little, won’t just endanger the installer. It can also endanger anyone entering the water you’ve installed the lights by.
Tip #5: Brighter Isn’t Always Better
The final tip we’ll leave you with is that brighter is not always the way to go when it comes to choosing the lights you’re installing. While bright lights are good for security, lights for beautification can be all sorts of brightness levels.
If you intend to walk around an area at night, searing bright lights often aren’t what you want. They can hurt the eyes and make it difficult to see anything not in the lit area.
Often a warmer, softer light is a better choice for things like pathing and stair lights. It will make walking around a nicer experience while still providing enough light to see what one is doing.
This isn’t to say bright lights aren’t ever a good option. They can make for an excellent way to highlight flags, which can be difficult to see at night were to use a softer light on account of how high up they can be.
Those Were Our Stellar Landscape Lighting Tips
The benefits of exterior lighting are many; you just need to make sure you do it right! With our landscape lighting tips, we think you’ll be able to do just that.
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I think this is a really interesting question - because if we avoid using advanced vocabulary with children, then when are they supposed to learn it?
I think the answer is that it's a matter of quantity and proportion so the reader doesn't lose their flow or end up missing something important if they just keep reading, and also of giving the reader the chance to guess the meaning from context, so they have the opportunity to learn the word without having to look it up.
I remember reading a book when I was a child that introduced the word unanimous, though it did it in a very overt way, where the character was told the meaning of it, then used it to their great pride later in the story. There may have been places where they used it wrong to comedy effect, as well. I did not know the meaning of the word before, and I've never forgot it since.
Obviously that's a bit heavy handed for too many words, but you can often make the meaning clear through context, e.g.
"Three cowries?" she cried. "There's no way it's worth that much!"
Most people will understand that in this context 'cowries' means some form of currency.
If you can try to do this with advanced vocabulary in your writing for young people, there's a good chance you will be doing a great service to help them increase their vocabulary range.
Quantity / Proportion
However, even if you just drop in a handful of 'difficult' words throughout the novel without giving any hints, I don't think it would cause any great concern to children, who, in my experience, have a great skill in filtering out things they don't understand right now and carrying on with their day.
The problem will only come if there are so many words they don't know that they end up distanced, disengaged and bored.
In case you haven't come across them, I thought I'd mention that there are quite a few estalished readability formulas, where you can analyse your text for generally accepted readability levels for different ages.
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Advocate for the people of British Columbia and has offered a strong vision for the future of the province. He is ready to lead the BC NDP and he is ready to govern.
- A strong, dynamic economy where government works as a partner to produce the jobs and development we need to succeed. That includes a particular focus on rural economic development, recognizing that much of the province’s wealth has come from its natural resources. We need to continue to support our resource-based communities while making ongoing investments in the high-tech, green economies of the future.
- Restoring honesty and integrity to government. The public is increasingly disenchanted with government and our democratic institutions. We need to reverse that trend and it starts by rebuilding trust. That means saying what we mean, meaning what we say, and delivering what we promise.
- Protecting our province’s natural greatness. From both an economic and moral standpoint, we have a duty to protect and preserve the environment for future generations. That means making sustainability a key lens through which we examine public policy decisions.
- Tackling the big issues. From public safety and transportation to the environment and the long-term financial health of the province, British Columbia is confronted by big, and often complex, issues. It’s time to address these issues in a determined and pragmatic way that achieves real results and delivers the real change British Columbians want.
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Brick Pavers will always be the go-to favorite for any walkway, roads, private garden or patios for quite some time now - centuries in fact. They provide timeless and classic beauty that lasts for a very long time
What Are Brick Pavers?
The recipe for brick pavers isn’t a big secret. They are basically made from natural raw materials like clay and shale, molded into shape, then heat cured inside an oven. The place at which the clay soil came from greatly affects its color so manufacturers tend to source their materials from the same place.
In contrast to other paving materials like concrete which admittedly can be a tad bit more durable by a very small margin, classic clay bricks will last for a very long as well especially if its maintained and was installed properly. In terms of appearance though, concrete pavers can hardly match the elegance of clay bricks.
BRICK VS CONCRETE PAVERS
As mentioned above, concrete pavers can be a bit more durable but only by a small margin. Bricks are very tough in itself so harsh weather and heavy payload on top of it won’t be much of an issue. The main strong point of it is that it preserves its qualities better than concrete or other paving materials.
After a certain period of time, concrete pavers may become slippery on the surface and have a tendency to have its color stained by natural elements and dirt in particular. Clay bricks have their color ingrained into them which just gets tempered even more when heat cured. They have a natural rough texture too so they provide better friction for foot passengers. With their classic beauty, they tend to increase home values as well.
PROS AND CONS WHEN USING BRICK PAVERS
While being touted as one of the best materials, brick pavers have their own pros and cons too. The biggest obstacle is of course the cost because concrete pavers were essentially made in order to give consumers a more budget friendly solution. Here’s some of points to consider:
WHAT ARE THE BRICK PAVER DESIGNS THAT YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM?
There are several design options for brick pavers although they might vary from one manufacturer to another especially if they source their materials from different areas. Bricks are almost always going to be more attractive paving surfaces compared to concrete pavers but the design options are more limited. During installation, the bricks can be arranged in different patterns to give a more unique look but the sizes are all rectangular, and the colors are limited to shades of browns and reds. Here’s some of the most common patterns:
Your local supplier may not have all of the shapes available from here are some of the most widely used brick paver shapes that are sold commercially:
HOW MUCH DO BRICK PAVERS COST?
Depending on the place that you live in, prices may vary but the typical price should be about $5 per square foot. You will be charged extra if you request for any customization so keep that in mind too. Professional installation will be around $15 to $30 per square foot although it can increase if you want fancier designs. These are just some rough estimates but it should be good enough for you to have an idea of the typical cost. Just to give you an idea, concrete pavers or poured concrete can be around $6 to $10 per square foot.
BRICK PAVER INSTALLATION
As with any other driveway materials, the basis of a good brick paver surface lies in the preparation that you do before and during installation. This is where a professional like the GetPro Contractors with their years of experience comes into play. Keep in mind that cars or other heavy payloads will be using the paver surface so don’t skimp out on proper installation.
Here’s a simplified version of the steps involved when laying down brick pavers:
- Ground Preparation – clean the area and make sure its rubble free and levelled out before tamping down firmly with a mechanical compactor. This will also make it easier for you to outline the area you intend to pave using layout strings as markers.
- Sand Spreading – this is usually done with two runner boards with notches or markers to indicate a uniform level for you to follow. Loosely spread sand over the entire paving area using the notch or mark on the running boards to give you a rough levelled surface before measuring carefully with spirit levels.
- Laying Pavers – with your specific design in mind, start laying pavers in the pattern that you want. Carefully place each paver onto the sand and gently tap it into place using a rubber mallet. Make sure there’s around 2mm of gap in between each brick.
- Compacting Process – after laying the pavers, use a plate compactor to level the surface. Keep in mind that there are specific frequencies and area coverage used when using a plate compactor so we reiterate that having a professional contractor is the best way to have this done.
- Joint Filling & Clean Up – after finishing the section use a soft brush to remove excess materials or debris for the surface. Sweep white washed dry sand into all joints until they are filled evenly. The sand will act as a sealant for the joints ensuring that each brick is sealed and locked tightly with each other.
- Edge Barrier Installation – this step is crucial especially on the outermost bricks that don’t push against a solid surface. Edge restraint barriers can be installed using pre-mixed concrete which should even extend under the brick and not just the sides to ensure that the individual bricks don’t spread up and separate from each other under heavy load.
We do not recommend doing it yourself to save on labor cost because it’s really not practical to have it re-done by a contractor if you messed up on just 1 brick along the way. Here’s a simple guide to show you how it’s done.
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Gauging Corn Growth Stage for Frost Risks
With a later than normal planting window and a summer growing season seemingly short on summer weather, some growers have been monitoring their corn growth stages and asking about gauging the risks associated with corn maturity and frost, particularly those who planted very late or have longer maturity hybrids. While there are still several weeks left to the growing season, a few things growers trying to gauge their crop stage for frost risk may want to consider include:
Clearly, the closer to maturity (black layer) the crop is, the less impact a frost event will have on the crop. For quick review:
The emergence of silks is the R1 stage. As a rough guideline, once pollination occurs, it takes about 60 more days for the crop to reach physiological maturity. Thus, silk timing can give a bit of an indication of when maturity of the corn crop may be expected – a crop that pollinated around July 25th may be expected to reach maturity or black layer sometime around September 25th. While there can be some small differences across hybrid maturities, hybrid maturity ratings have a much more significant impact on the length of time in vegetative stages than reproductive stages.
The R2 blister stage occurs following pollination when fertilized kernels are just beginning to develop, while the R3 milk stage occurs when kernels are turning yellow and are beginning to fill with an opaque milky fluid. Grain fill is rapid by the R3 stage, and maturity under normal conditions would be 5-6 weeks away.
The R4 dough stage occurs when the milk solution turns pasty as starch continues to form, with some kernels beginning to dent as dough begins to turn to hard starch at the dent ends of kernels. Under normal conditions, the dough stage may be generally 3-5 weeks from maturity.
The R5 dent stage occurs when the majority of kernels have dented, and the milk line, which separates the hard starch phase from the soft dough phase, progresses from the dent end towards the cob. The dent stage may last approximately 3 weeks.
The R6 maturity or black layer stage marks physiological maturity. This occurs when a small layer of cells at the base of the kernel near where the kernel connects to the cob die and turn black, which marks the end of grain fill from the cob into the developing kernel. Maximum dry matter accumulation has occurred, so any frost or stress event after this stage will have little impact on yield unless harvestability is compromised. Black layer normally forms once milk line has reach the base of the kernel, although significant stress events (extended period of very cool average temperatures, significant defoliation) can result in black layer formation before the milk line has reached the base of the kernel.
In regards to frost severity, a light frost (ie. 0°C) may damage or kill leaves, but not be cold enough, or last long enough to actually penetrate into the stem and kill the plant. While premature leaf death limits further grain fill from photosynthesis, a living stem can still translocate dry matter to the developing grain to continue to provide some grain fill after a light frost event.
In the event where temperatures are low enough (ie. -2°C), or last long enough to penetrate and kill the entire plant, there is no ability of the plant to continue filling grain, and yield at that point has been fixed.
Any frost event during the blister or milk stage would result in significant grain yield losses as significant grain fill is still yet to occur at these stages.
A light frost event at the dough stage may reduce yields by 35% while a killing frost may reduce yields by 55% (Lauer, 2004).
Yield loss in the dent stage depends on the relative time left to mature. A light frost at the beginning of dent stage may reduce yields by 25% while a killing frost may reduce yields by 40%. During the mid-dent stage, significant dry matter accumulation has occurred, and light and killing frosts may reduce yields around 5% and 10% respectively.
Estimating Time to Maturity
Time required to reach maturity can be estimated by knowing the approximate Crop Heat Units (CHU) required for each reproductive corn stage. A general approximation of CHU required to complete the various R growth stages in corn is presented in Table 1. Scouting corn for the crop stages described above and referring to Table 1 will give an indication of how many CHU are required for the corn crop to reach maturity.
Table 1. CHU Required to Complete Corn Reproductive Stages and Reach Maturity
|Stage||CHU To Complete Crop Stage||CHU to Maturity|
|R1 – Silking||340||1315|
|R2 – Blister||175||975|
|R3 – Milk||165||800|
|R4 – Dough||310||635|
|R5 – Dent||325||325|
|R6 – Maturity||0||0|
Source: OMAFRA Pub 811 Agronomy Guide for Field Crops
Comparing the estimated CHU required from Table 2 to an estimated number of CHU available until typical first frost date gives an idea of how much CHU would be available in an “average” year, and how close to maturity the crop may be for the average expected first frost date. Typical first killing frost dates based on 30 year climate normal across a selection of locations in the Province are presented in Table 2, while CHU values can be estimated through calculation tables in the Field Scouting chapter of Pub 811 Agronomy Guide for Field Crops, or through other weather information providers such as Farmzone.com or WeatherCentral.ca.
Table 2. Average long-term first killing frost dates at select locations in Ontario.
|Stage||Average First Killing Frost Date|
Lauer, J. 2004. Guidelines for Handling Corn Damaged by Frost Prior to Grain Maturity. University of Wisconsin. Accessed at http://corn.agronomy.wisc.edu/WCM/W156.aspx.
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Year 1 Introduce Weight and Mass Maths Challenge
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Play this Year 1 Introduce Weight and Mass Maths Challenge and put your knowledge of light and heavy objects to the ultimate test! Use the clues to help Helena work out which presents could be hers. How long will it take you to complete the challenge?
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This Year 1 Introduce Weight and Mass Maths Challenge checks pupils’ understanding of light and heavy objects within a problem solving context. Pupils identify the possible presents using the given clues.
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Mathematics Year 1: (1M1) Compare, describe and solve practical problems for: mass/weight [for example, heavy/light, heavier than, lighter than]
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Valve's PC game distribution platform Steam has been in the news lately for a lot of reasons, such as allowing (and the removing) paid mods from Skyrim, or for adding a slew of features such as an in-game frame rate counter. One of Steam's many useful features is Family Sharing. As the name suggests, with this feature you can share your library of Steam games with friends and family.
To do this, you'll need access to the computer on which your friends and/ or family play, and you will have to share your Steam account credentials (username and password) on their machine. From there, it's a relatively straightforward process.
- Enable Steam Guard
On your own computer, go to the Steam settings menu. Click on Account. Select Manage my account with Steam Guard security.
- Authorise the second computer
On your friend's (or family member's) PC, log in with your Steam account. Go to settings, click on Family. Choose Authorize this computer.
- Start sharing
On the same PC, after authorising it, log out of your Steam account. Let your friend/ family member now log into their own account. Now they can download and install games from your Steam library.
You can authorise up to 5 accounts and 10 computers to access your Steam gaming library.
You cannot play any games simultaneously. If someone is using games from your library, then you can't play at the same time. What this means is, if someone is playing Counter-Strike from your library, you cannot play Team Fortress 2 at the same time.
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The movements of the Russian and French armies during the campaign from Moscow back to the Niemen were like those in a game of Russian blindman’s buff, in which two players are blindfolded and one of them occasionally rings a little bell to inform the catcher of his whereabouts. First he rings his bell fearlessly, but when he gets into a tight place he runs away as quietly as he can, and often thinking to escape runs straight into his opponent’s arms.
At first while they were still moving along the Kalúga road, Napoleon’s armies made their presence known, but later when they reached the Smolénsk road they ran holding the clapper of their bell tight—and often thinking they were escaping ran right into the Russians.
Owing to the rapidity of the French flight and the Russian pursuit and the consequent exhaustion of the horses, the chief means of approximately ascertaining the enemy’s position—by cavalry scouting—was not available. Besides, as a result of the frequent and rapid change of position by each army, even what information was obtained could not be delivered in time. If news was received one day that the enemy had been in a certain position the day before, by the third day when something could have been done, that army was already two days’ march farther on and in quite another position.
One army fled and the other pursued. Beyond Smolénsk there were several different roads available for the French, and one would have thought that during their stay of four days they might have learned where the enemy was, might have arranged some more advantageous plan and undertaken something new. But after a four days’ halt the mob, with no maneuvers or plans, again began running along the beaten track, neither to the right nor to the left but along the old—the worst—road, through Krásnoe and Orshá.
Expecting the enemy from behind and not in front, the French separated in their flight and spread out over a distance of twenty-four hours. In front of them all fled the Emperor, then the kings, then the dukes. The Russian army, expecting Napoleon to take the road to the right beyond the Dnieper—which was the only reasonable thing for him to do—themselves turned to the right and came out onto the highroad at Krásnoe. And here as in a game of blindman’s buff the French ran into our vanguard. Seeing their enemy unexpectedly the French fell into confusion and stopped short from the sudden fright, but then they resumed their flight, abandoning their comrades who were farther behind. Then for three days separate portions of the French army—first Murat’s (the vice-king’s), then Davout’s, and then Ney’s—ran, as it were, the gauntlet of the Russian army. They abandoned one another, abandoned all their heavy baggage, their artillery, and half their men, and fled, getting past the Russians by night by making semicircles to the right.
Ney, who came last, had been busying himself blowing up the walls of Smolénsk which were in nobody’s way, because despite the unfortunate plight of the French or because of it, they wished to punish the floor against which they had hurt themselves. Ney, who had had a corps of ten thousand men, reached Napoleon at Orshá with only one thousand men left, having abandoned all the rest and all his cannon, and having crossed the Dnieper at night by stealth at a wooded spot.
From Orshá they fled farther along the road to Vílna, still playing at blindman’s buff with the pursuing army. At the Berëzina they again became disorganized, many were drowned and many surrendered, but those who got across the river fled farther. Their supreme chief donned a fur coat and, having seated himself in a sleigh, galloped on alone, abandoning his companions. The others who could do so drove away too, leaving those who could not to surrender or die.
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WWF introduces new PDF-like file format to stop you from printing
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says that an area of forest the size of Greece is cleared every year and that a significant proportion of that wood is pulped to make paper. In an effort to curb the needless printing of documents, the German branch of the organization has teamed up with Jung von Matt to introduce a new PDF-like digital file format that actually prevents a user from sending documents to the printer.
Even in these enlightened days of digital documents and in spite of various public, business and government efforts to reduce and recycle, trees are still being cut down to make paper. Ahead of next year being designated International Year of the Forests by the United Nations, WWF Germany has developed a new WWF file format to focus our attention on such issues every time we save a digital document.
Any document that doesn't need to be printed can be saved with a WWF file extension and when it's subsequently opened in a reader, the print option is blocked. WWF says that a WWF file can be viewed by most software that's able to read PDF documents – and I can confirm that this is certainly true of readers from Foxit and Adobe, although neither company has indicated official support for the development.
"We think the PDF ISO standard and Acrobat have tremendous potential to help customers with their efforts to go green," Adobe's Senior Director of Product Management for Acrobat Solutions told Gizmag. "Adobe Acrobat allows customers to create PDF with a range of security permissions, including the ability to disallow printing. The WWF format is based on the PDF standard and it is great to see WWF leveraging PDF in creative ways. At this point, we don't intend to support the .wwf file extension. We do participate with the ISO standards groups to further improve PDF and helping customers better leverage PDF for efficient and eco-friendly document sharing and printing is an important part of that effort."
Anyone wishing to support the new WWF document format will first need to download some free conversion software developed by the Jung von Matt advertising agency (currently compatible only with Mac OS X systems, a Windows version is on the way). Once installed, a new "Save As WWF" option will appear as an extra print option or be available via the application dock.
WWF Germany says that the campaign is meant to be viral and an extra page tagged onto each new format document will help introduce new users to the campaign and encourage awareness about how we use paper in our digital lives. If you don't want this extra page added to catalogs, official documents, CV's and so on then you'll need to choose another method of saving files and run the risk that such things may end up in a print queue somewhere.
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Spam is such a crazy thing. This year, spam messages are expected to overtake human-issued emails—that’s right, the average person will receive more corporate mailings than person-to-person emails in the year 2007. That’s pretty scary, especially since spam has become increasingly sophisticated. I find it more and more difficult to decipher between what is safe and what is not. I guess I have some decision rules that I live by — when the email is sent from someone with numbers in their name, I usually steer clear. But can I trust emails sent to me from online stores? How do I know who to trust?
Recently, spam volumes have been increasing faster than expected due to the use of image-based spam. Rather than using traditional written text, these emails contain large image files that include the spam advertisements. This means that most of these messages are able to bypass spam filters and end up in your personal inbox. By the end of the year, more than thirty-five percent of spam will be in the form of an image—and as of now, no one has been able to create a product that would universally block these messages from reaching your inbox.
Until now, the team at shoeboxed.com was just as frustrated as everyone else. So we made it a priority to find a solution. When shoeboxed.com launches, we will eliminate spam from your inbox for free. Image files, non-image files—our service will take care of it all. For the first time, you’ll have total control over your inbox.
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September is National Preparedness Month, and Kelly from the American Red Cross has information you need to know to be prepared in the case of an emergency.
Posted at 9:18 AM, Sep 11, 2013
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The North Face Borealis backpack is a well-liked option for those in search of a dependable and long-lasting bag. But people often ask one question: Is The North Face Borealis backpack waterproof? We’ll talk about the Borealis backpack’s features and how it can keep your belongings dry in this post. Stay tuned to learn more!
Is the North face Borealis backpack waterproof?
The answer is yes, the North Face Borealis backpack is a waterproof backpack that is perfect for those who want a backpack that will keep them dry in any weather. The Borealis features two water-resistant zippers and an adjustable suspension system to ensure a comfortable and stable fit. The backpack’s rain cover can be used to protect your belongings in the event of inclement weather.
Some of the features that make this backpack so waterproof
The North Face Borealis backpack is one of the most popular backpacks on the market today. Numerous design elements combine to make this a water-resistant backpack. To name just a few, they are as follows:
- A DWR coating on all the fabric helps keep water and dirt off of the bag.
- A 770-fill down feather insulation that helps keep your belongings warm in cold weather and cool in hot weather.
- A water-resistant build that allows you to hike, bike, or even take a swim with your belongings safely inside.
- A padded back panel helps distribute the pack’s weight evenly so that you don’t experience any pain in your back.
All of these features together make the North Face Borealis backpack one of the most water-resistant backpacks on the market. If you’re looking for a backpack that’ll keep your belongings dry and secure, look no further than this model.
5 Ways To Make Sure Your North Face Borealis Backpack Is Waterproof
The North Face Borealis backpack is a popular option for those looking for a durable and versatile backpack. However, like all backpacks, it is important to ensure waterproof if you expect to use it in rainy or wet conditions.
In order to ensure that your North Face Borealis backpack is watertight, here are five tips:
1. Choose the right size. When purchasing the North Face Borealis bag, make sure to select the one that is the right size for your body.
2. Get a rain cover. A rain cover can help protect your North Face Borealis backpack from water droplets that may fall from the sky during rain or snowstorms. It also prevents dirt and other debris from entering the bag and damaging its contents.
3. Double check zippers and seams for leaks. Zippers and seams can become leaky in wet or rainy conditions, so check them carefully before using the bag in adverse weather conditions. Make sure to fix any leaks right away with proper waterproofing methods.
4. Protect valuables with a sealant or water-resistant coating. Certain products can be applied to zippers, pockets, and other backpack areas to help keep items inside dry and protected from moisture.
5. Store the North Face Borealis backpack in a dry place. Not only will this help prevent water damage, but it will also keep the bag looking new for longer.
FAQ about Is the North face Borealis backpack waterproof
Can you wash a North Face Borealis Backpack?
The North Face Borealis Backpack is made with water-resistant and durable fabric so that it can be washed without any problems. However, the manufacturer recommends using a mild detergent and cool water when washing the backpack and air drying it afterward.
Which is better, Borealis or recon?
Because so many factors come into play, there is no one-size-fits-all answer here. There are a number of reasons why Borealis would be a better option than a lower-quality light source. In the end, recon is a better option if you are looking for something that is more cost-effective and can be reconfigured.
Is the Borealis backpack good for hiking?
The Borealis backpack is an excellent choice for hikers looking for a pack that is both comfortable and versatile. Suspension and various pockets and compartments make the backpack easy to carry heavy loads and organize your gear. An additional benefit of this bag is that it’s constructed with weather-resistant materials.
Can I put my North Face backpack in the washer?
This is a difficult question to answer as there are a few variables to consider. First, it is important to determine what fabric the backpack is made of, as different fabrics require different care instructions. Additionally, suppose the backpack has features like zippers, snaps, or Velcro. In that case, these should also be considered when deciding whether or not to put it in the washer.
Is The North Face Borealis good for school?
There are a few things to consider when answering this question. The North Face Borealis is a backpack designed for travel and outdoor activities, so it may not be the best option for carrying school materials. Students have different needs, so it’s important to consider what type of gear would be most useful for your specific academic pursuits. That said, the Borealis have several features that could be advantageous in a school setting.
In conclusion, The North Face Borealis backpack is waterproof and can be used in various weather conditions. It is a great option for students or professionals who need to carry many items. The backpack has many compartments and pockets that make organizing easy. Even when it’s full, it’s still comfortable to wear. | <urn:uuid:2da10366-cc9f-460c-8fac-16df79d2edba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://instrumenttravel.com/is-the-north-face-borealis-backpack-waterproof/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.929025 | 1,167 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Ceramic coatings are such a common topic among automotive fans (and others) that a lot of myths have arisen around it. Moreover, many of them are widely considered as valid. So in this article, we will shine some light on the whole topic. Let’s play ceramic coatings’ MythBusters.
1. Ceramic coating and quartz coating are two different things
This is one of the most common misconceptions in the detailing industry. The truth is, both of these terms refer to the same exact solution and the same procedure. The source of this myth comes from the very process of manufacturing ceramic coatings. One of the primary raw materials used in their production is silica (SiO₂), which is the basis of polymer resins. They are the fundamental ingredient of ceramic coatings.
Unfortunately, this myth was perpetuated by some detailing studios that offer quartz and ceramic coatings as two different services. That really doesn’t make much sense.
2. Ceramic coatings protect from scratches other mechanical damages
The myth about the almost bulletproof properties of ceramic coatings is quite common, but unlike the previous one, it is very far from the truth. The protective properties of ceramic coatings relate mainly to factors such as:
- UV rays
- loss of color (paint oxidation)
- strong detergents
- bird droppings, insects
- road salt
Many articles also mention “micro-scratch protection,” but, let’s agree, the term is very imprecise. Something that one considers a micro-scratch, someone else might call significant damage. In principle, ceramic coatings are not intended to protect against mechanical damage. However, it is true that the coatings reduce the formation of micro-scratches when washing and drying the car, thanks to the enhanced slippery effect and reduced friction.
There’s a lot of shoddy articles on the Internet and bad advertisements that keep this myth very alive. However, a positive signal is that the vast majority of detailers focus on facts and clearly communicate the properties of the coatings. You can read more about what the ceramic coating protects against (and what not) here.
And if you want to truly protect your car from scratches, you will need to apply PPF foil, and this procedure is much more expensive than applying a ceramic coating.
3. Thanks to the coating, the car doesn’t need to be washed
Believe us, we would very much like this myth to be true, but to be honest, it’s not entirely made up. The fact is that thanks to the water-repellent properties, ceramic coatings prevent water from sticking to the car body. So, effectively, all sorts of contaminants easily flow off with water drops instead of staying on the surface. But, of course, this physical property will only slow down the process of dirtying the car, not completely stop it.
The same features make washing and drying the car much more manageable. In the case of unprotected car paint, the drops dry on the surface, leaving stains. The difference is particularly noticeable when using touchless car washes. In the case of an unsecured car, it is much more difficult to avoid water spots.
4. Ceramic coatings can be applied regardless of the condition of the car body
First of all, the application of a ceramic coating requires thorough cleaning and polishing of the surface. Coatings can’t be used to fill in scratches. Incorrect preparation and leaving scratches on the varnish may make the ceramics emphasize them instead of hiding them. Therefore, it is essential to approach the preparation phase with the appropriate detail to enjoy the beautiful (and properly secured) car paint for years.
Because of it, the first step before even discussing coating application is the inspection of the car body. This process allows the detailer to evaluate what procedures should be performed before applying the ceramics. In some cases, it is even necessary to renovate the paintwork thoroughly, and in extreme cases, the application of ceramics may even be impossible. These are cases in which the car body has visible oxidation, rust, or other severe damage.
Interestingly, the preparation and polishing stage is usually necessary, even in the case of new cars. This is because the “new” cars, before they left the showroom, were not only used but also washed, and the latter process sometimes creates minor blemishes.
5. Ceramics’ durability depends only on the time of the application
The issue of the durability of ceramic coatings is very debatable and depends on many factors. Time is only one of those factors. Usually, when describing durability, we also refer to the number of kilometers (e.g., ~ 40,000 km) because, of course, the coating wears much more while driving. Therefore, the differences in consumption time can be pretty significant, depending on how intensively we use the car, whether we regularly garage it, and how often we wash it.
The type of the selected product also plays a role. On the example of Ultracoat ceramic coatings, it looks like this:
Good detailers always inform customers of the need to inspect the coating after a certain number of kilometers. During such inspection, the car is thoroughly washed, and the detailer checks the condition of the coating and its water-repellent properties. If necessary, a coating conditioner is applied, which refreshes and strengthens the coating.
6. Anyone can apply a ceramic coating in their garage
As for the coating application process itself, it’s fair to say that most people can do it. It does not require particular expertise, equipment, or specialist knowledge. With the help of YouTube guides, everyone should be able to do it. All you need is patience and precision.
The preparation phase, however, is where the task gets more complicated. As mentioned in the fourth point, you should not apply ceramic coatings to unpolished surfaces. It is the paint inspection and renovation that requires knowledge, experience, and equipment. Because it is an inherent element of coating application, it is difficult to say that everyone could apply the coating at home.
First of all – be cautious and aware
As you can see, there is no shortage of false information about ceramic coatings on the Internet, and of course, our beautiful vehicles fall victim to them.
Therefore, we recommend that you seek knowledge from trustworthy detailers, because as Albert Einstein used to say – “Not everything you read on the Internet is true.” 😉
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TAMPA, Fla. (CW44 News at 10am) – As of 9am Today, June 9, the intersection of W. Brorein Street and S. Parker Street will be closed to through traffic for emergency repairs for approximately two weeks.
According to reports, a preliminary investigation of a collapse at the intersection of W. Brorein Street and S. Parker Street has revealed that a 60-inch sewage main, which is 20 feet deep, may have been corroded.
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The emergency repair will be to excavate the site to determine the cause of the collapse.
The city of Tampa has put in place a diversion to divert drivers from Brorein south on Bayshore Blvd, west on W. Verne St and north on S. Plant Ave.
Notice boards will be installed on Ashley Drive and Brorein Street to help motorists find alternative routes at this time.
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Wastewater services in the area will remain uninterrupted.
The City of Tampa is advising drivers to avoid the area and use the detours and alternate routes to avoid traffic congestion.
In the city of Tampa, many of the water and wastewater pipes are between 70 and 100 years old. PIPES is a $2.9 billion financing plan for large-scale improvements to sewerage and water infrastructure that could help prevent situations like W. Brorein and S. Parker.
The Tampa City Council approved PIPES in September 2019. The funding plan, which is a key part of Mayor Jane Castor’s Transforming Tampa Tomorrow initiative, will enable the city to take a proactive approach to renew our infrastructure, prevent outages and provide long-term, permanent solutions to our water. and wastewater systems.
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Japan is a fascinating country; warm and welcoming but governed by societal rules some may find strict if they’re not used to them. Though the Japanese don’t expect everyone to know the etiquette inside out, a basic understanding before you go is just good manners.
From getting the angle of your bowing just right to ensuring your table manners are tip-top, the faux pas can be frequent to those not clued in. For this crash course in Japanese etiquette, we’ve compiled a list of the customs you’ll need to know for your trip to this vivid, vibrant part of the world.
Taking a bow
Bowing is the traditional greeting of Japan, with depth, duration and number of bows all taken into account depending on who you’re meeting. For a friend, a quick 30-degree bow will suffice, while someone in a position of authority, such as your boss, a slower, more drawn out 70-degree bow is the way to go.
Non-natives aren’t expected to know the ins and outs of bowing, and there’s no need to pack a protractor, so a simple nod of the head is fine. While the Japanese do shake hands, it’s wise to wait for the opposite party to offer their hand out first.
A quick tip on tipping
The Japanese don’t do tipping. In fact, trying to hand over some extra money after a meal or taxi ride is a bit insulting. They see no reason as to why you should have to pay more. In restaurants specifically, a service tax is usually included in the bill anyway. If you do try to leave a tip, your waiter will probably end up chasing you up to give it back to you.
It’s worth remembering that cash rules in Japan, they don’t tend to have card machines, so be sure to bring plenty of yen with you.
Mind your manners at the table
At the table, etiquette is very ritualistic. A good rule of thumb would be simply not to dive in like you might be used to. Dining is very much an event to the Japanese, so when in the company of locals, the following customs are worth sticking to.
When served with drinks, wait before raising the glass to your lips. After everyone’s been served, someone will make a speech, raise their drink and say kampai, the Japanese equivalent of “cheers!” Likewise, before you begin eating, it’s polite to say itadakimasu
At most Japanese restaurants, you’ll receive a small wet cloth to wash your hands with. It’s not to be used as a napkin or touch any part of your face. Also, don’t be put off by all the slurping you’ll hear – this means people are enjoying what they’re eating so by all means, join in!
Paying the bill
In the super polite restaurants, cafes, shops and bars of Japan, you’ll often notice a little silver tray on the counter when you come to pay. This is to transfer the cash to pay, and any change as well. When approaching the counter to pay, lay your cash out on the silver tray and the owner/waiter/operator will take payment from there.
If you’re due any change, it’ll be placed back in the tray for you to collect. Give a little bow and an ‘arigato’ and be on your way. Remember that tipping is quite offensive in Japan, so be sure to wait for your change, regardless of how small it is.
Escalators: pick a side
In the fast-paced hustle and bustle of Japan, avoid hold-ups on the escalators by using the correct side to stand on. In Tokyo, standing on the left side and passing on the right is the preferred arrangement. In Osaka, it’s the other way around. Wherever you are, be mindful of being in the way of anyone trying to manoeuvre around you.
There’s a big chance you’ll be required to use chopsticks while you’re dining, so it’s best to get some practice in before you go. However skilled you are with them, your efforts will be appreciated, but there are some traditions and customs to be upheld too.
Never leave them standing upright in a bowl of rice or on the table; lay them flat across your or leaning on the chopstick rest. Likewise, never pass food from chopstick to chopstick. Both of these errors are very similar to funeral rituals and are considered a sign of disrespect. Additionally, don’t play around with your chopsticks; anything like drumming on the table, making fake teeth or scratching an itch with them, for obvious reasons.
Standing out in public
As a Westerner, you tend to already be sticking out amongst the locals, so avoid the sore thumb look by sticking to how the Japanese conduct themselves in public. Blowing your nose in public is a big no-no, as is eating while you’re on the move and speaking on your phone on crowded trains or buses. If you do like to chat, keep the volume levels low, so other passengers aren’t disturbed.
If you see rows of shelves filled with footwear by a door, this means you’re required to remove your shoes before entering, whether it’s a private home, traditional accommodation or temple halls, even some restaurants require guests to de-shoe. There’s absolutely no room to manoeuvre here, so pack some new socks if you’re worried about the state of your current ones.
Although Japanese people might be enthusiastic to demonstrate their English, it’s not as widely spoken or understood as you might think, so never assume people will be able to help if you’re struggling with the native tongue.
On the other hand, some basic words and phrases in Japanese will serve you well, and locals will appreciate the effort, even if their language doesn’t exactly flow from your mouth. Keep the following handy phrases in mind when you visit:
Sumimasen: “Excuse me”
Arigato: “Thank you”
Ei-go ga ha-na-se-mas ka: “Do you speak English?”
Wa-ka-ri-ma-sen: “I don’t understand”
If you see people wearing surgical-style masks, then don’t be alarmed, it’s not another outbreak of SARS. Businessmen and women, office workers and municipal labourers all wear them to protect themselves from germs. Some people wear them when they have a cold or the flu to stop others from catching their maladies, while others wear them as a fashion statement.
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Education International stands in solidarity with the Yemen Teachers Syndicate (YTS), which continues its struggle to ensure that teachers’ human and trade human rights are respected. The YTS is also campaigning for teachers’ salaries to be paid by public authorities, so teachers can focus on delivering quality public education to all students.
The coup and ongoing conflict in Yemen have forced the YTS to take on a larger role and increase its efforts on behalf of educators, highlighted YTS spokesperson Yahya Al-Yanai.
“As the largest trade union federation in Yemen, representing 130,000 educators, our goal throughout these terrible years has been to protect education, teachers, and students from attacks, and to continue leading the way towards freedom, human rights, and quality education,” he said.
He was adamant that YTS members have strived to ensure the continuity of the education system, in order to promote a culture of peace.
“While the voices of the doctors, engineers, lawyers, and all the Yemeni union entities that represent them, were absent from the media and public opinion, the news related to teachers and education have continued to make the headlines in media channels and websites,” he noted.
Salaries cut off five years ago
Teachers in Yemen have been hoping their union could help them in relation to their income. Educators want their salaries, which were cut off five years ago, to be paid again at the end of each month without interruption.
“Efforts have succeeded in regard to the first batch of displaced teachers,” Al-Yanai said. “But, unfortunately, thousands of them have remained without salaries, despite the fact that the government and the international community urgently need to undermine the impact of the sudden interruption of salaries on the most important, largest functioning, and influential sector for present and future generations of Yemen.
“We strived for education to play an influential role in social recovery after the war, and for educational policies to not create more societal division. As a union, we continued to highlight the critical role of teachers in providing learning services, reopening schools despite the war, and creating safe learning environments to enable education continuity.”
He stressed that diverse teacher initiatives throughout the country focused on facilitating the return of students to school and reducing the risk of young people joining violent and armed groups.
Call for international support
“As the protection of education in Yemen can only be adequately achieved through a broad local, regional, and global support system,” YTS has repeatedly called on international community to stop ignoring Yemeni teachers’ issues and to speak about them publicly. YTS has also made its voice heard by the UN Security Council’s experts.
Al-Yanai also acknowledged Education International’s support to build communication and partnership mechanisms guaranteeing that Yemeni teachers are able to perform their jobs and ensure their right to decent working conditions . “With us, Education International has committed itself to defend the right to education in conflict zones and considers education as an essential building block for Yemen's recovery.”
Students recruited to fight in the war
He said it was regrettable that many schools in Sana’a and Aden are feeding sectarianism and regionalism that become the foundations for the demolition of equal society, civic and human values. “On the other side of the union and teachers’ struggle to protect education, it seems that some people are eager to make schools nurture ideological mindsets that support violence, using children and young people as a human reservoir used in war.”
The influence of religious and sectarian policies in education in Sana'a has grown with the curricular changes that take place every year. It was “as if these changes had been designed to serve military purposes; their effect was reflected in a high increase in the proportion of students recruited to fight,” he condemned.
“Today, we hope that the international community will support us to mitigate the effects of the war on millions of young people, and work with us as partners to provide adequate legal protection for education and teachers in Yemen, as a humanitarian duty and as part of humanitarian aid,” Al-Yanai concluded.
Education International demands urgent payment of salaries
Education International has voiced its support for educators in Yemen. In a letter to Yemeni Prime Minister, Dr. Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed on 19 July, Education International’s General Secretary, David Edwards, outlined that “Education International requests your government to find a solution, with the international community, to swiftly pay the full wages of the public school teachers who have not been paid for three consecutive years”.
He underlined that, in October 2020, an international alliance composed of the Global Partnership for Education, Education Cannot Wait, UNESCO, and UNICEF also called for “the resumption of salary payments for around half of the Yemeni teachers and school-based staff (estimated 160,000) who had not received regular salary payments since 2016”.
He went on insisting that, in July 2021, according to UNICEF, nearly three-quarters of public-school teachers in 11 governorates had not been paid for over two school years. This had disrupted the education of around 3.7 million children in these districts. “Understandably, unpaid teachers leave teaching to find other ways of providing for their families,” Edwards explained.
Authorities must act as educators suffer violent attacks and intimidation
Education International and the YTS are also extremely worried about the devastating impact of the ongoing conflict on teachers, students, and children. They note that teachers face violent attacks and intimidation. And they have urged that the Yemeni public authorities do their utmost so that those found responsible be held accountable and condemned for the killing, abductions, tortures, and displacement of Yemeni teachers.
They have also sought to ensure that the education curriculum is free from politicisation and keeps a focus that promotes peace and stability.
Education International will continue to monitor the situation in Yemen closely and will inform its network about developments affecting the education sector. “We look forward to an initiative to ensure respect for the fundamental human rights and freedoms of the people of Yemen, including the right to learn and the right to teach,” Edwards said.
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Results and outcomes from workplace changes are inextricably tied to individual employees doing their jobs differently. When you apply change management to projects and initiatives, you enable employees to adopt changes more effectively, which helps you realize the business objectives you set out to achieve. Change management is about helping the people at the heart of those changes, bridging the gaps between project solutions and results through our collective efforts as change leaders.
What does it mean to “manage the people side of change”? Why do we practice change management? How does change management lead to successful change? The answers to these and other common questions about change are found in five foundational tenets of change management, each of which builds upon the others. Together they form the context you need to clarify misconceptions and justify the importance of change management within your organization.
The five tenets of change management are:
As an anchor point for starting a discussion, we must agree that we change for a reason. As simple as this sounds, a key principle for managing change is that a different future state can be envisioned, and we are changing to that future state to achieve a specific and desired outcome. When we say we change for a reason, that does not mean the reason for every change is the same, only that there is a specific reason or objective for a given change. The reasons for change can vary greatly, such as revenue growth, improved customer satisfaction, reduced costs, better product or service quality, reduced risk exposure, improved quality of life, etc.
We do not undertake projects and initiatives because they are fun and exciting—we do so because there is an opportunity to seize, a problem to solve, or most importantly, a chance to improve performance in a meaningful way. A fundamental assumption about change is that something different is possible.
Change only occurs when individuals in the organization begin working in new ways: displaying new behaviors, using new tools, adhering to new processes, and adopting new values. Individual shifts in behavior are the cornerstone of such change. Taken together as a whole, numerous individual shifts like these enable the organization to achieve its desired future state. Organizational change results from people adopting new skills and demonstrating new capabilities. While this seems like common sense, we often wrongly assume that change at an individual level will just happen on its own.
The realization of any change, even large-scale organizational projects and initiatives, is an individual phenomenon at its core. In other words, the degree to which an organizational change produces results correlates directly with the degree of individual change that occurs.
Bringing a change to fruition and achieving specific outcomes is tied to people adopting new behaviors. Once you understand this, you can ask the right questions:
Because change is an individual phenomenon, these individual factors can drive or constrain the value a change creates.
Project managers and business leaders sometimes assume that ultimate utilization, speed of adoption, and proficiency—the human factors of change—will automatically reach 100% after being introduced. They fall into the common trap of believing that designing and implementing a business solution is enough to achieve intended results. But without engagement from each employee who must do their job differently, we will not achieve tangible benefits from change.
It is a mistake to view change management as simply a mechanism to reduce employee resistance or mitigate the risk of negative consequences to the organization during change. Change management is much more—it is a robust organizational framework that enables individuals to adopt new values, skills and behaviors, so we achieve business results from change.
As a practical matter, change management leverages the normal mechanisms within an organization to influence and develop employees. We accomplish this through activities such as communications, training and visible sponsorship. At the same time, change management facilitates action at the individual-employee level through coaching and resistance management.
Similarly, “change managers” are not just project team members or change management practitioners. Change managers include leaders, executives, managers, front-line supervisors and employees who equip and enable individuals in an organization to transition from their current state to a new future state.
All of these change management activities and roles comprise a discipline and field of study that fuel individual and organizational transitions.
This final tenet is an essential and distinguishing characteristic of change management. Unlike project management, which focuses on developing and implementing the technical solution, change management focuses on achieving desired outcomes from the technical change by managing people through their individual transitions. And Prosci’s Best Practices in Change Management benchmarking studies consistently show that projects applying effective change management are six times more likely to meet the project’s objectives.
Although training, communications, sponsorship, resistance management and employee coaching are critical elements of change management, they do not define it. We do not apply change management to enhance communications and training, or to implement employee recognition programs. Nor do we apply change management only to reduce risks to the organization during change, such as lower employee morale, productivity loss, undesired turnover, or negative impacts on customers. You can make a strong case for change management based on mitigating risks. But risk mitigation alone is not the primary objective. Change management’s most important objective is to increase the probability of realizing the desired future state and achieving the associated results from change.
Achieving results from projects and initiatives takes more than communications and training. When you help employees make their individual transitions, you realize more effective outcomes and do so more quickly. Higher adoption and usage, more satisfied employees, greater project ROI, and enhanced organizational agility can be yours. And it starts with understanding the five basic tenets of change management. | <urn:uuid:ed9ad5e7-a2cf-4d8f-b16c-c9ccf58f5458> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.prosci.com/resources/articles/5-tenets-of-change-management | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936464 | 1,131 | 2.28125 | 2 |
We need a lot of things at the movies we are not getting. What we do not need (or so I thought) is another West Side Story. For one thing, it is everywhere already. Even the local high school in the Connecticut town where I live just presented a perfectly decent production of the great but overworked musical by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. So why are we knocking ourselves out standing in line to see yet another one? And what is Steven Spielberg doing directing it? We need him elsewhere. The lavishly-praised 1961 movie version, co-directed by Robert Wise and legendary choreographer Jerome Robbins and winner of ten Academy Awards, is still wearing itself out on television and getting rereleased on the big screen simultaneously to compete with the Spielberg version, which may pose a box-office threat to the renowned director, who is putting all of his eggs in one big basket in time to cash in on the holiday traffic. Am I wrong?
WEST SIDE STORY ★★★★
Well, like George Washington with an axe in his hand, I cannot tell a lie. Mr. Spielberg did not waste his time—or ours. The new West Side Story is simply fabulous. Opening with an aerial shot of a housing development being leveled where Lincoln Center now stands, the movie is a testament to the need for social change, urban improvement and cultural diversity personified by two rival gangs—the white Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. The film script, a rare one by Broadway’s Tony Kushner, is careful not to choose sides. Fighting to control their turf comes naturally to urban dwellers who are losing their identities in a city that looks as if it is in the midst of a garbage strike. They walk to a beat; they sing with ferocity; they even rumble with rage in rhythm. Their only hope for survival is to join hands and hearts to realize they’re all in it together.
Using Shakespeare’s tragic Romeo and Juliet as a backdrop for urban decay and spiritual renewal, the majestic Bernstein music and the intelligent Sondheim lyrics have a passion that is powerful and timeless. The entire cast is perfection in motion, everyone scaling the heights without imitation or familiarity. The musical numbers sizzle and explode like they’re being offered for the first time. “America” is movie magic—you cannot take your eyes off the screen. The imaginative contemporary choreographer Justin Peck honors Jerome Robbins’ original dance moves with fresh, fiery energy, making the production numbers his very own.
The rousing “Dance at the Gym” where the Jets and Sharks challenge each other with frenzy and violence while the Jets’ Marlon Brando-styled Tony and lovely Maria (Rachel Zegler) fall in love, breaking all the neighborhood taboos and opening the door to trouble as Maria’s brother Bernardo (David Alvarez) declares war on her lover (Ansel Elgort, as handsome as a film star and with a singing voice soft, stunning and forceful—a real find, on his way to major stardom). Later, when Maria’s new friends compare their lives in New York with the world they left behind in San Juan, Ariana DeBose ignites the stage with defiant, palpitating energy as Bernardo’s girlfriend Anita (the role originated on Broadway in 1957 by Chita Rivera). In the classic 1961 film, Anita stopped the show again when played by Rita Moreno, who won an Oscar for her dynamics. I’m not sure I approve of the way Mr. Spielberg pays tribute to her this time, as the newly created owner of Doc’s drug store, where the teen gangs used to hang out while choosing the weapons for their street brawls. Ms. Moreno now appears as Doc’s widow Valentina, running the shop, dispensing advice and chewing gum, and providing the wisdom that shows the gangs the way to redemption. There’s no reason for this intrusion on Arthur Laurents’ original book, even less justification in giving her the show’s final ballad, but Ms. Moreno is always so good I refuse to quarrel. The person I miss most is the late Natalie Wood; she was miscast as Maria — but enchanting.
Under Mr. Spielberg’ impeccable direction, the actors are never allowed to copy or resurrect previous inhabitants of the roles. And he isn’t afraid to expand his camera’s view in the ensemble numbers by cutting away from the feet to show flailing arms and open lips, the way Bob Fosse did so annoyingly in Sweet Charity. The few liberties Tony Kushner takes only enhance the narrative and clarify the actors’ identities and motivations. “Anybody”, the token Jets girl, tomboy and mascot, is now transsexual, and Tony is now reluctant to join his old gang because he’s just spent a year in prison and wants to improve his life and never go back. The dramatic scenes are now as impactful as the musical segments. Even Rita Moreno in the newly invented role of the combined storekeeper and Greek chorus, which began as a gimmick, takes on vibrant new proportions.
This is a West Side Story for both the past and present, as pleasing as the best movie musicals used to be, and as relevant as today’s headlines. It makes you feel like you are actually on the turbulent streets of New York’s west side, not a sound stage.
While I join the applause, I sincerely believe the original creators of this masterpiece are somewhere, leading the cheers.
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In 1955 "Why Baby Why" becomes the first Country hit for George Jones.
In 1958 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" exceeds 3 million in U.S. sales. Previously, only Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" and Gene Autry's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" had achieved this.
In 1959 "El Paso" by Marty Robbins enters on the U.S. top 40 chart.
In 1959 "Heavenly" by Johnny Mathis hits #1 on the U.S. albums chart and stayed there for 5 weeks.
In 1961 Brian Epstein sees the Beatles perform for the first time in Liverpool at the Cavern Club. By the end of the month he becomes their manager.
In 1962 Roy Acuff is elected as the first living member of the CountryMusic Hall of Fame.
In 1962 Dion performs "Love Came To Me" on ABC-TV's "American Bandstand."
In 1963 "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen enters the U.S. top 40 chart.
In 1965 During a blackout, Bob Dylan and the band's Robbie Robertson jam with Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones in his suite at the Hilton in New York.
In 1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at a London's Indica Art Gallery.
In 1967 The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published with a complimentary roach clip.
In 1967 David Crosby is replaced by Gene Clark in the Byrds.
In 1968 "Hang 'Em High" by Booker T. & the MGs enters the U.S. top 40chart.
In 1969 The Association appear on the "Ed Sullivan Show."
In 1970 The Moody Blues' album "In Search Of A Lost Chord" goes gold.
In 1972 David Bowie appears on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
In 1972 "Saturday In The Park" by Chicago is certified gold.
In 1973 Cat Stevens makes his national TV debut on ABC's "In Concert."
In 1973 Jerry Lee Lewis hosts NBC-TV's "The Midnight Special" with guests Ike & Tina Turner and B.B. King.
In 1973 Billy Joel's "Piano Man" album is released.
In 1974 Ringo Starr arrives at Capitol Records in Hollywood in a flying saucer to promote his album "Goodnight Vienna."
In 1974 "Junior's Farm" by Paul McCartney enters the U.S. top 40 chart.
In 1974 "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive is #1 and "Jazzman" by Carole King is #2 on the U.S. top 40 chart.
In 1975 David Bowie appears on Cher's TV variety show and sings "Fame."
In 1977 "Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II" is certified platinum, while Carly Simon's single "Nobody Does It Better" goes gold.
In 1978 "Magnet & Steel" by Walter Eagan is certified gold.
In 1984 Huey Lewis' album "Sports" is certified multi-platinum (5).
In 1985 "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie and "That's What Friends AreFor" by Dionne Warwick both enter the U.S. top 40 chart.
In 1985 "Miami Vice Theme" by Jan Hammer is #1 on the U.S. top 40 chart.
In 1986 Frank Sinatra undergoes surgery for diverticulitis, a painful inflammation of the large intestine.
In 1987 Michael Jackson's album "Bad" is certified triple platinum.
In 1991 Richard Marx does five shows in five cities (New York, Washington, Chicago, Cleveland and Los Angeles) to promote his "Rush Street"CD.
In 1991 "Cream" by Prince & The N.P.G. hits #1 on the U.S. top 40 chart and stayed there for 2 weeks.
In 1993 The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in the "Pretty Woman" copyright infringement case against 2 Live Crew.
In 1993 Bryan Adams' album "So Far So Good" is released.
In 1995 The Red Hot Chili Peppers are forced to postpone several tour dates when drummer Chad Smith breaks his wrist.
In 1996 "Best Of Van Halen Volume 1" by Van Halen featuring two new tracks with former lead singer David Lee Roth debuts at #1 on the U.S. albums chart.
In 1996 "No Diggity" by Backstreet knocks "The Macarena" out of #1 after 14 weeks at the top of Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
In 1998 Keith Sweat's single "Come And Get With Me" is certified gold.
In 1999 Bonnie Raitt and actor-husband Michael O'Keefe announce they would divorce after eight years of marriage.
In 1999 Fiona Apple's album "When The Pawn..." and Faith Hill's CD "Breathe" are both released.
In 1999 Santana's single "Smooth" is certified platinum.
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Current HiMEd Lecturers
Current HiMEd Lecturers
The BSHM has appointed two HiMEd Lecturers for 2021–22: Michael Barany and Ciarán Mac an Bhaird.
Michael J. Barany grew up in a family of scientists in Minnesota, USA, where he learned to love both mathematics and its communities and cultures. This latter side eventually took precedence for his research and career, currently as a lecturer in the history of science at the University of Edinburgh, where he works on topics including globalization and communication in modern mathematics. He believes history of mathematics, like mathematics itself, is best when engaged with today’s society and culture: he regularly writes for public audiences and uses history to contribute to debates about algorithms in society, racism and sexism in the mathematics profession, and other topical challenges.
With the HiMEd Award, Barany plans to deliver workshops and resources on themes including:
- what the first English textbook lesson on long division tells us about algorithms, calculation, society, and our minds
- how historical debates about ‘the smallest thing’ show the connections between the most abstract mathematics and technology and society
- why blackboards became iconic in maths education and what this says about maths and education in the modern world
- how the question of ‘what time period are we in?’ can inform the goals and values of maths education.
These will be most suitable for middle-grade and secondary school student and teacher audiences. Please be in touch via firstname.lastname@example.org about these or any other ideas for engaging the history of mathematics in your school.
Ciarán Mac an Bhaird
Ciarán Mac an Bhaird grew up on a small farm in Co. Monaghan, close to the border with Northern Ireland. He completed his undergraduate degree in Nua-Ghaeilge (Irish) and Mathematics, and then his Masters and PhD in Mathematics at Maynooth University. He was appointed Manager, later Director, of the Mathematics Support Centre and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Maynooth University in 2007. He has lectured the History of Mathematics module since 2014. He has received multiple local, national and international awards in recognition of his teaching and support of students. He was a founding committee member of the Irish Mathematics Learning Support Network; he is a Council member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (BSHM) and Chair of the BSHM Neumann Prize Committee. Ciarán conducts research in algebraic number theory, mathematics education and the history of mathematics.
Ciarán is flexible about the mathematical topics he would cover. He usually discusses potential topics in advance with the class teacher, as he likes to get students involved in his classes. Thus, Ciarán adjusts the topic covered depending on students' mathematical level and skills.
To date Ciarán has given over 50 talks for students from ages approximately 10 to 19. In these talks he focusses on examples from the History of Mathematics and on getting students to do calculations, figure out patterns and make discoveries. Some examples that he has used include:
- Images of the Narmer Macehead from Ancient Egypt, where students figure out how to count using the Egyptian Simple Grouping System and then can read the numbers represented on the Macehead. This can lead to discussions on the influence and use (or misuse) of number in communications and publicity.
- Various discussions around the Golden Ratio. For example, students could measure certain lengths in their bodies, e.g. total arm length, arm length from elbow etc., and then calculate various ratios. We could discuss the idea of a ‘Golden Person’ (ratios being the Golden Ratio) and move on to the Fibonacci sequence, and an exploration of ratios. For more advanced students, we can explore limits, look at the intersection of a pentagon’s diagonals, and solving quadratics.
- Explorations in Geometric Algebra. For example, students prove the Pythagorean Theorem using four identical right-angled triangles (algebraic geometry). Similarly, students can consider how to prove the 'algebraic identity' called the difference of two squares, and then consider how to use this to speed up multiplication of 'large' numbers.
The list provided is not exhaustive, and Ciarán is happy to discuss other potential topics with teachers. Get in touch on email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:714fc731-4913-469e-bbab-b026d97697d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bshm.ac.uk/himed-current | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.941986 | 937 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1916.
Map. Color lithograph. 9" x 13". In very good condition.
A map to accompany the article "Linguistic Barriers in Europe: their boundaries and political significance" by Leon Dominian, published in the 1915 Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. The map illustrates the areas where French, Walloon, Flemish, Dutch, and German are spoken in the region, as well where French had expanded since the 13th Century.
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Cache policy for online traffic
How cache works among browser, CDN, and server
I'm working on let.sh load balancer recently, and in order to provide the best performance and reduce the costs for frontend and backend projects, I've dug a lot of documentation and materials to design the cache policy of let.sh for online traffic.
Take let.sh for an example(as shown in the image above). When you first visit the site hosted on let.sh, the browser will send a request to let.sh load balancer. Then let.sh route the request to the server to get the raw file(sure the file has been compressed) and bypass the browser through the load balancer.
If you dig into the details of the image, you can see let.sh server responds to the request with a header
cache-control: no-cache, which means the server is not allowing the load-balancer and browser to cache the response. The server is not allowing upstream to cache the response because this is a request for index.html, which might be changed in the future. Another reason is let.sh wants to provide an instant experience for developers when they publish their websites/apps online. One clicks to deploy and refresh to see the results.
So it seems not to cache anything, right? There are still 2 ways to cache the response: for files(like
/index.html) likely to be changed in the future, I will introduce
Etag header first. And then, I will introduce ' Cache-Control' header for the files not likely to be changed in the future.
Now the problem we are facing for the files like
/index.html is the file might be changed in the future, and the payload for the requests might be large. We can't reduce the requests because we have to let the browser check whether the file has been updated. So what about reducing the size of the payload?
Here it comes to the
Etag header. The
Etag (or entity tag) HTTP response header is an identifier for a specific resource version, like the unique id for each file. Once the file has been updated, the file will also be changed.
Here is how
- For the first time user access
/index.htmlthe server will response
index.htmlfile along with header
- The browser will store the
ETagin the cache.
- And then the next time the user access the same file, the browser will send a request to the server with the
- Once server rececived request through load balancer, server will compare the
ETagof the latest file, if the
ETagis the same, the server will return empty body with status code
304(Not Modified) and header
ETag mechanism supports both strong validation and weak validation. They are distinguished by the presence of an initial
"W/" in the
ETag identifier, as:
"4960408E160450EAE42D83507EB23730" – A strong ETag validator W/"4960408E160450EAE42D83507EB23730" – A weak ETag validator
A strongly validating
ETag match indicates that the content of the two resource representations is byte-for-byte identical and that all other entity fields (such as Content-Language) are also unchanged. Strong
ETags permit the caching and reassembly of partial responses, as with byte-range requests.
A weakly validating
ETag match only indicates that the two representations are semantically equivalent, meaning that for practical purposes, they are interchangeable and that cached copies can be used. However, the resource representations are not necessarily byte-for-byte identical, and thus weak
ETags are unsuitable for byte-range requests. Weak
ETags may be useful for cases in which strong
ETags are impractical for a Web server to generate, such as with dynamically generated content.
Source: MDN Cache-Control Docs
Cache Control can be configured in request & response, the table below show the supported directives for request and response.
Here are the supported directives for request & respond:
Cache-Control have different logic for browser and load balancer, here is a brief summary for different header
|resource can be cache anywhere(including shared for different users)||cache||cache|
|can be cached for single user||cache||no-cache|
|should revalidate each request to server(e.g. through ||cache(need-revalidate)||cache(need-revalidate)|
|store nothing neither browser or CDN can cache response||no-cache||no-cache|
|cache can be used in certain time range if revalidate request in the background||cache(refetch asynchronous)||cache(refetch asynchronous)|
|cache can reuse a cached response when the server responds with an error||cache(refetch when request error)||cache(refetch when request error)|
|cache can reuse a cached response, must revalidate request in the background once cache is outated||cache(refetch asynchronous)||cache(refetch asynchronous)|
|same as ||/||cache(refetch asynchronous)|
|resource will not change, will not revalidate the request||cache (will not request again)||cache|
Lets deep dive in few of them, first take
public for an example:
public means resources can be cached anywhere(including shared for different users). So as diagram shows above if two different browsers(users) access the same resource. As the first one access the resource with
public inside the
Cache-Control header, the resource will be cached in both load balancer and browser. Then as the second one access the resource, the load balancer will directly respond to the request with cached resource content(
index.html in this example), because
public means the resource can be cached anywhere, including shared cache for different browsers(users).
private means that all or part of the response message is intended for a single browser(user) and MUST NOT be cached by a shared cache, such as a proxy server. So in our example, if two different browsers(users) access the same resource, the load balancer will not cache the resource content. Still, the browser will cache the resource content(via Etag method).
As digram above, the main difference between
private is that
private will not cache the resource content inside load balancer(or cached for different browsers(users) rather than shared cache), but
public will cache the same resource for different browsers(users).
I'll only briefly introduce the service because the service workers are defined by the website developer rather than the hosting platform. And the service worker itself can not just control the cache policy for the web page. It also can control the web page's behavior (like receiving geolocation updates, background data synchronization, etc.).
As for cache, you can regard service worker implements a proxy for all of the requests inside your website. So the service worker can cache the resources and respond to the requests.
Route based cache policy
git ls-files | tree --fromfile . ├── asset-manifest.json ├── favicon.ico ├── index.html ├── logo192.png ├── logo512.png ├── manifest.json ├── precache-manifest.c0a7361b86cadc203094cedbf871e8b1.js ├── robots.txt ├── service-worker.js └── static ├── css │ ├── main.d1b05096.chunk.css │ └── main.d1b05096.chunk.css.map ├── js │ ├── 2.d9fa3a5e.chunk.js │ ├── 2.d9fa3a5e.chunk.js.LICENSE.txt │ ├── 2.d9fa3a5e.chunk.js.map │ ├── main.5d21aa1a.chunk.js │ ├── main.5d21aa1a.chunk.js.map │ ├── runtime-main.e9912549.js │ └── runtime-main.e9912549.js.map └── media └── logo.5d5d9eef.svg 4 directories, 19 files
File Type based cache policy
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Groundbreaking new approach to mathematical theory
Research from the University of Leicester introduces a new approach to higher categorical structures.
New research from Dr Simona Paoli from the University of Leicester’s Department of Mathematics introduces a new approach to higher categorical structures. The new research constitutes a foundational and groundbreaking contribution to the field.
Category theory is an area of pure mathematics that studies the way in which structures arising in different areas can be described with a common language. It was originally developed to transport ideas from one branch of mathematics to another, e.g. from topology to algebra.
This unifying approach is very powerful. It allows the transfer of methods and results between different areas of mathematics and helps to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of mathematical objects.
Although very abstract, category theory has important inter-disciplinary applications; for instance to theoretical computer science, to network theory and quantum computing. These links, in the long term, potentially impact real world industrial applications.
In the last two decades, a new branch of category theory has developed – higher category theory. This cutting-edge and very active area of research has penetrated diverse fields of science: from pure mathematics to mathematical physics and, more recently, logic and computer science.
In particular, homotopy type theory uses higher categorical structures to build ‘proof assistants’: these are tools that a mathematician or a programmer can use to verify the correctness of a mathematical proof or of a computer program. Automated software verification has considerable potential in applications.
Dr Paoli said: “This monograph introduces a new approach to higher categorical structures, yielding one of their simplest model. The results of this monograph pave the way to many applications and can be used to tackle long-standing open questions in category theory and beyond.
“The theory in this monograph is described in elementary terms. It is accessible to mathematicians from a wide range of disciplines. The exposition is enhanced by intuitive explanations, diagrammatic summaries and road maps.”
The monograph will be published in the prestigious Springer series ‘Algebra and Applications’. It is the result of several years of work by the author at the University of Leicester.
The work has been supported by an EU grant and by the Centre for Australian Category Theory at Macquarie University.
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Cherish is not her name but cherish her I do
As I head towards 50 I want to say some thank yous
School played a huge role in my life not only because of the education but the community it afforded. I was born in July which meant that by primary 6 (age 10) I would repeat a year. Someone decided the cut-off point for classes was the end of June and if you were born in July or August you would have to a repeat one of your primary school years.
It had the effect of putting me from being one of the youngest in the class to one of the oldest. You became aware of other ‘July & August babies’ who had the same experience. It was at this time that Ark went to a different class. This brought into focus someone who had also stayed with me since starting primary 1, Cherish. Cherish would remain and even on transfer to Junior High she would remain in my class and we would transfer again to the same Senior High.
Cherish was like a sister then and has remained a sister to this present day. In the story of Moses we are told when he was placed in a basket in the river Miriam, his sister, stayed close by to keep an eye on him. Cherish is my Miriam never too close to be interfering but not so far away to be available if required.
I remember on one occasion at Junior High I questioned what happened to the interest on the money we paid in for the annual school trip. The question quickly got to the teacher responsible and he saw it as a challenge. Feeling I was being backed into a corner I said, “ Cherish told me.” She then got questioned.
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LPMI plans to align the two trails units within University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester in order to increase the number of precision medicine trails available to patients in Leicestershire.
The Leicester Clinical Trials Unit functions as a partnership between the University and the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust in the delivery of clinical trials. It provides an infrastructure to bring together the expertise of many academic clinicians and other health service researchers in Leicester, the East Midlands, and beyond.
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Hope Against Cancer works in partnership with our local universities and hospitals to fund pioneering research to ensure that Leicestershire remains a hub of expertise in cancer research and treatment. Since we were set up in 2003, we have raised over £6 million and funded over 60 local research projects tackling many different forms of cancer. In 2012 we established and opened a dedicated clinical trials unit at Leicester Royal Infirmary to offer patients access to new medicines and therapies. We fund our very own Hope Nurse there who adds to the care and support trials patients receive.
Our focus is on providing funding that is aligned to the Leicester Cancer Research Centre strategy, helping to deliver research of the highest calibre and that results in clear patient benefit. We have been and are involved in supporting some exemplar projects within the LPMI, including directly funding Dr Sam Khan’s work regarding therapeutic interventions in colorectal cancers using curcumin. | <urn:uuid:12e8405f-8147-4ae1-aee2-fdd803b69e47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://le.ac.uk/lpmi/research-areas/clinical-trials | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.923684 | 295 | 1.617188 | 2 |
GOD GIVES LIFE
Lord, I believe You can do anything.
Read 2 KINGS 4:8–37
The Shunammite’s Son Restored to Life
8 One day Elisha went to Shunem. And a well-to-do woman was there, who urged him to stay for a meal. So whenever he came by, he stopped there to eat. 9 She said to her husband, “I know that this man who often comes our way is a holy man of God. 10 Let’s make a small room on the roof and put in it a bed and a table, a chair and a lamp for him. Then he can stay there whenever he comes to us.”
11 One day when Elisha came, he went up to his room and lay down there. 12 He said to his servant Gehazi, “Call the Shunammite.” So he called her, and she stood before him. 13 Elisha said to him, “Tell her, ‘You have gone to all this trouble for us. Now what can be done for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’”
She replied, “I have a home among my own people.”
14 “What can be done for her?” Elisha asked.
Gehazi said, “She has no son, and her husband is old.”
15 Then Elisha said, “Call her.” So he called her, and she stood in the doorway. 16 “About this time next year,” Elisha said, “you will hold a son in your arms.”
“No, my lord!” she objected. “Please, man of God, don’t mislead your servant!”
17 But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
18 The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers. 19 He said to his father, “My head! My head!”
His father told a servant, “Carry him to his mother.” 20 After the servant had lifted him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died. 21 She went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, then shut the door and went out.
22 She called her husband and said, “Please send me one of the servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and return.”
23 “Why go to him today?” he asked. “It’s not the New Moon or the Sabbath.”
“That’s all right,” she said.
24 She saddled the donkey and said to her servant, “Lead on; don’t slow down for me unless I tell you.” 25 So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel.
When he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to his servant Gehazi, “Look! There’s the Shunammite! 26 Run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’”
“Everything is all right,” she said.
27 When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone! She is in bitter distress, but the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me why.”
28 “Did I ask you for a son, my lord?” she said. “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t raise my hopes’?”
29 Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand and run. Don’t greet anyone you meet, and if anyone greets you, do not answer. Lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
30 But the child’s mother said, “As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So he got up and followed her.
31 Gehazi went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So Gehazi went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
32 When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his couch. 33 He went in, shut the door on the two of them and prayed to the Lord. 34 Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy’s body grew warm. 35 Elisha turned away and walked back and forth in the room and then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
36 Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite.” And he did. When she came, he said, “Take your son.” 37 She came in, fell at his feet and bowed to the ground. Then she took her son and went out.
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“Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even though they die’” (John 11:25).
Yesterday’s reading affirmed that God cares for his people, especially those threatened by abject poverty. Today’s incident addresses another need and one that, in a western context where childlessness is often a preferred choice, is much more hidden. In ancient Israel, like in traditional societies today, a woman’s role was to marry and have children. Sons were especially important to carry on the family line, inherit property, do the hard work, and provide the male input so essential in a patriarchal society. Beyond the emotional pain and inner sense of failure, there was also the social stigma attached to barrenness: God has withheld his blessing.
What is surprising is that this woman shows herself faithful to the Lord, despite God’s seeming abandonment of her. She recognizes the prophet’s need for a place to rest and goes out of her way to build a separate room and furnish it for his use, specifically because he is a man of God (9,10). Moreover, she does it without expecting anything in return. Indeed she is wealthy and, at first glance, needs nothing (8,13). Yet, there is a deeply buried yearning that bubbles to the surface when Elisha promises her a son (16). God sees our hidden needs and distress.
Years later due to a tragic medical event, the young son dies, yet she knows that her God can even raise the dead. Despite her distress (27), the Shunammite woman shows her faith by seeking out the prophet (22) and not letting go of him (30) until she gets her miracle. For Israel, as for us today, there is no guarantee of a happy ending. However, we are called to serve Jesus faithfully and never lose sight of the fact that in his resurrection we have ultimate hope of life (1 Cor. 15:16–26).
Lord, we thank You that when we feel abandoned and in distress we can look to You for hope and life.
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[vlc-devel] For better understanding git
son.minh.tran at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 09:49:40 CET 2008
My question seems not to be posted to a right place. But I don't want to ask
you the question for the pure usage of git. Just for understanding the
version of VLC.
-Recently I cloned the database from your git server. In the directory
.git/refs/tags I saw that I had the revision up to 0.9.4-rc2 in the cloned
repository. Two weeks later, I cloned again from your repository, this time
I had up to 0.9.5-rc1 (You are so serious in doing the developement : within
2 weeks there were a lot of modification :-) ). My problem is that for both
cloned repositions, if I compile / make win32-package their latest revision
in cygwin environment, I obtain apparently the same vlc-git.1.0.0. Also, if
I checkout explicitly (with command "git checkout 0.9.4") from the two
cloned repository the same revision 0.9.4, the sources seem not to be the
same. Is that possible?
-With cywin, I can compile vlc only with gcc 3.4.4. , your release version
for windows is always compiled with gcc.4.2.1-sjlj. I can not update the gcc
in cygwin. So the only one way to update it for my compiled vlc is to
compile it in msys enviroment?
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It remains unclear whether lawmakers will move forward with any of the four Turkey sanctions bills introduced over the last week, but Congress is much closer to passing another irritant between the troubled NATO allies into law.
Turkey, which occupies Northern Cyprus, has launched a last-ditch attempt to convince lawmakers to drop a provision in the annual defense authorization bill that would lift the United States’ three-decade arms embargo on Cyprus.
“The longstanding US policy has purposefully not taken sides among peoples of the island or guarantor states to avoid promoting an arms race that might lead to an undesired or unintended consequences,” Turkish Ambassador Serdar Kilic wrote in a pair of identical letters to the chairman and top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee: Reps. Adam Smith, D-Wash., and Mac Thornberry, R-Texas.
Kilic’s September letters urge Smith and Thornberry to drop the Cyprus language from the defense bill. The letters were distributed by Turkish lobbying firms Venable and Capitol Counsel.
The Senate version of the bill, which passed 86-8 in June, originally contained the provision. The language became part of the House defense bill after an amendment introduced by Reps. David Cicilline, D-R.I., and Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., passed 252-173 in July.
“The Republic of Cyprus has long been a key ally in the fight against terrorism and emerging threats in Europe, but for more than 25 years, this embargo has not reflected the strength and importance of that relationship,” Cicilline said after the House adapted his amendment.
Including the Cyprus provision in both bills significantly increases the likelihood that the United States will soon lift the 32-year-old arms embargo.
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Turkey recently expanded its drilling activities to areas where Cyprus has already awarded licenses for European companies to drill earlier this month, prompting the European Union to draw up sanctions earlier this week. Cyprus has also dispatched drones to surveil the Turkish drill ships.
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Why Did the Electron Cross the Road? A Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) Study of Molecular Conductance for the Physical Chemistry Lab
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A series of experiments employing scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) have been developed for the physical chemistry laboratory. These experiments are designed to engage students in cutting edge research techniques while introducing and reinforcing topics in physical chemistry, quantum mechanics, solid-state chemistry, and the electronic structure of molecules and materials. In the first of three experiments, students are introduced to the basics of STM operation while imaging and conducting spectroscopy on the highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surface. Images of the surface are used to determine the crystal structure of the material, and scanning tunneling spectroscopy is used to determine the electronic properties of the material and study the tunneling phenomenon. In the second experiment, the students image the Au(111) surface as well as a series of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of different chains lengths on the Au(111) surface. They examine the structural and electronic properties of the metal surface and the adlattice structure of the film. Finally, in the third experiment, the students examine the conductance of molecules adsorbed onto the Au(111) surface, including the alkanethiol SAMs and a thiol-tethered porphyrin molecule or a dimercaptostilbene embedded into the SAM matrix. By measuring the tunneling efficiency and spectroscopic characteristics of these molecules, the students can explore the relationship between chemical structure and charge transport efficiency. The experiments provide advanced chemistry students an opportunity to view and study materials at the atomic and molecular length scales and provide an opportunity to apply their understanding of quantum mechanical concepts to real systems. 2014 The American Chemical Society and Division of Chemical Education, Inc.
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It is fact that Indian agriculture is going through an unprecedented depression as ten thousand farmers are leaving their age old profession every passing day and there is corroborative government evidence to substantiate the fact.
If one goes through records of the Situation Assessment Survey (SAS) conducted by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) one would find that more than forty per cent of country’s farmers have said that they do not wish to continue with agriculture as their profession. The dissatisfied farmers include both the most vulnerable and the well-off farmers— the former due to low production, the latter due to higher aspirations.
Even today if we scan images of the agitating farmers in Madhya Pradesh, it was striking to see how many were youngsters dressed in jeans and shirts — they were clearly not all farmers, but also farmers’ sons, unhappy with jobless growth. The country is not only facing a farmers’ crisis today, but also a crisis of farming families, whose children want non-farm jobs.
The agrarian crisis in India is like a ticking time-bomb, and it’s crucial to rectify the mistakes which are contributing to it. Political decisions on agriculture need to be taken while keeping the farmers in mind. The time has come to scrutinize the impact of Privatization and so called market reforms on Indian agriculture and thus the economy as a whole.
If the government continues to put industrial greed before the farmers’ needs, matters are going to worsen a lot. Market interests are important but not at the expense of farmers. Also, the former can’t survive if the latter doesn’t. Farmers are the real providers of food security to everyone. Steps should be taken to remove the middlemen between the farmers and consumers. This would ensure price stability of the essential commodities and the burden of increasing price would be eased on both the farmers and consumers.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 2,195 marginal farmers reportedly committed suicide in 2015 of which 834 were in Maharashtra, while 3,618 “small farmers” undertook such drastic steps, with Maharashtra alone seeing 1,285. More curiously, a larger number of small farmers rather than marginal farmers reportedly committed suicide in States like Maharashtra, Telangana and Karnataka. Somehow, small farmers are also bedevilled by the agricultural crisis, and this is not the case in just the traditional drought-stricken States.
Agriculture in States like Punjab is typically a monoculture of wheat and paddy. When input costs associated with fertilizers, crop-protection chemicals and seeds rose, along with fixed costs associated with agricultural equipment such as tractors and submersible pumps, agriculture became economically unviable. Prices have risen — of arhar seeds and staple crops like paddy and sugarcane, of fertilizers and plain barley. The old days of farmers handing seeds as family heirlooms to their sons are long gone. While traditionally the blame is cast on the usurious local moneylender, NCRB data highlight that 2,474 of the 3,000 farmers who were reported to have committed suicide in 2015 had loans from local banks, while those who had loans from moneylenders were just 9.8 per cent of the total. Maharashtra reported 1,293 such suicides for indebtedness, while Karnataka had 946. Meanwhile, farmers in Punjab are estimated to have an outstanding debt of Rs. 69,355 crore. Somehow, the traditional moneylender is seemingly more “flexible” than local banks.
Solving this crisis requires an inclusive approach. Our policies should encourage integrated pest management, an approach that focuses on combining biological, chemical, mechanical and physical means to combat pests with a long-term emphasis on eliminating or significantly reducing the need for pesticides. In Vietnam, over 2 million of the Mekong Delta’s rice farmers adopted a “no spray early” rule, curbing insecticide applications within the first 40 days of rice planting. Predatory beetles that commonly prey on rice pests were sustained, encouraging the crop while cutting pesticide use by over 50 per cent.
The local fertilizer industry needs support — timely delivery of subsidies would improve working capital requirements, enabling them to manage costs through internal sources rather than external loans. Delayed payments can cause an interest outgo of Rs 3,500 crore for fertilizer firms annually. State seed policies should focus on encouraging contract farming, along with identification of new genotypes for treating pest and disease syndromes, as well as adverse weather conditions. Precision-farming techniques like Systematic Rice Intensification can help increase seed production in this regard.
The farm equipment policy needs to be retailored with a focus on manufacturing farming equipment and implements that are currently imported. Subsidies should be rerouted to ensure lower collateral requirements, longer moratoriums and payback periods for farmers seeking to buy equipment and entrepreneurs seeking to setup Custom Hiring Centres (CHC) for agricultural equipment. Companies with a corporate social responsibility focus on agriculture can be further encouraged to invest in capacity-building initiatives, skill development and the establishment of CHCs.
The government needs to ensure that institutional financing is available and accessible and benefit provision is simplified while disbursed funds are effectively monitored. States should seek to establish early warning signals, monitoring farmers who go past set limits and seek unsustainable loans.
The government must realize that unhappy farmers cannot be made happy through loan waivers. Sustainable agriculture cannot be promoted by subsidizing chemical fertilizers. The country need economically viable, not populist, policies for happier farmers, who would prefer to be in their fields rather than on the streets.
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On 01 Jul 2020 Namibia population was estimated as 2458830 people. On 01 Jul 2021 Namibia population will be 2513981 people.
It’s +2.22% (55151 people) compared with the population of Namibia on 01 Jul 2021.
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A colonoscopy is a procedure where a thin, flexible tube called an endoscope is used to look inside the rectum and colon (large intestine). It is often possible to also inspect the very end of the small intestine (Terminal Ileum) The endoscope has a light and a high definition video camera at the tip to allow inspection of the inner lining of the lower GI tract.
Colonoscopy is the most powerful tool for the prevention and diagnosis of bowel cancer. Bowel cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in Australia. It is used to help identify the cause of the passage of blood, abdominal pain, change in bowel habit and diarrhoea as well as assessment of inflammatory bowel disease (Crohns and Ulcerative Colitis). It is possible to remove tissue samples (biopsies) for analysis and remove pre-cancerous bowel polyps.
A colonoscopy generally takes between 20-40 minutes. It is usually performed under sedation administer by a specialist anaesthetist. You should be unaware of the procedure and experience no discomfort or pain. The aim is to examine the entire colon but rarely this is not possible.
Prior to the procedure, you will need to take a preparation to empty the bowel to allow visualisation of the lining of the bowel.
A colonoscopy is a very safe procedure, but like all medical procedures it does carry a risk of complications. Possible complications that can occur include:
- a reaction to the sedative, which can cause problems with your breathing, heart rate and blood pressure
- internal bleeding, usually controllable through the colonoscope at the time of the procedure but rarely after you have gone home
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Fuel Leaks are one of the main causes of engine fires. The original hose end injector design used by Volkswagen (and all other manufactures at the time) helped cause these fires. Lets go over the leak points using the original design vs switching to an injector using an o-ring to seal the connection between fuel rail and fuel injector. I decided to write this due to a conversation I saw on the samba forum. In the thread, our fuel rails were brought up. However, the moderator there decided to censor the topic. There was also another guy, who talked to a guy that works on VW’s who likes the original way better too. This makes our rails junk. That moderator praised the VW mechanic because he agreed with him. It appears his personal view is that of a few others as well: “VW spent millions on R&D so it must be the best”.
They are not wrong. However, VW spent millions to SAVE Ten’s of millions. Not to make the absolute best thing available. That is absolutely ridiculous to think otherwise. Volkswagen designed the rail around the fuel injectors being produced by Bosch at that point in time.
There is fear in the waters
I had someone show me one of the funniest things lately. It was a competitor that sells fuel injectors from the 90’s that are painted all pretty, at an incredible mark-up to $289 a set of 4. In the video they were hitting their fuel rail with a hammer. LOL. I can only assume this was in response to knowing we have something way better. Because of that, they need to try to convince people as to why people should stick with purchasing their injectors and using an outdated connection method.
The stock plastic rail
In this video, we see the stock rail being used as the example. Lets go through what this competitor said and did.
He took a ball peen hammer (that looks to be a 16oz size or less )and dropped it from a few inches above the plastic fuel rail. I should be impressed, because that was the intention of this video. However, around 5th or 6th grade I learned that bridges are build with arches because that allows the load to be spread vs absorbing the impact straight down. So I am not sure what this video actually proves besides why the original rail design was ROUND. I would be more impressed if the rail was held in place and the nipples the hoses attached to were put under stress or hit by a hammer. Even if that same 16oz (?) hammer were dropped directly on the nipples, that would have proven more of a point. Especially since so many of us know the feeling of tightening the hose on the rail only to snap it off or crack it.
There was a challenge in the video: “Show me another car you can whack the fuel injection rail with a hammer and it still runs”. As it turns out, I haven’t been able to find a car that doesn’t continue to run. Much of that has to do with the entire automotive industry moving away from hose-end injectors. I challenge back to go find a vehicle you couldn’t do this to.
It can only be assumed that the question “So, who needs injectors?” is because they feel they proved the rail is durable? Okay. But, durable and prone to leaking and engine fires are two different things. We have already gone over this several times and put videos together showing the spray pattern difference between the EV1 fuel injectors vs the EV14 fuel injectors in our Vanagon Fuel Rail Kit. In addition, if you want hose end still, we offer you a DIY kit to make the same modifications they do, at your garage.
Leaking points with upgraded aluminum fuel rail
Before the thread was scrubbed, the number of points of possible leaking was discussed on the samba. I completely disagree with the assessment from a few of the possible leak points. The statement was made there was a net zero difference because you are only trading an o-ring for a hose. This is simply not true. Lets take a look at an option of what has been accepted in the community as an upgrade over the OEM plastic rail.
The points where a leak can occur are marked with a drop.
Starting on the rail, each nipple has a thread where a leak can occur. (4 points)
More failure points can be found where each nipple is sealed with a clamp. (4 points)
Each hose itself connecting the rail to the fuel injector could be a point of failure. (2 points)
Injectors use a barb that connect to the hose, sealed with a clamp, which can leak. (2 points)
Bosch EV1 injectors have a metal body with a plastic molding for electrical connection. It is not uncommon for this to leak. Because of the ethanol content of fuels used today vs in the 70’s and 80’s, the material internally was not designed to withstand the same conditions. This is not anything new, it has been happening for years. This issue is partially why Bosch and other companies moved away from the EV1 metal body design.
There are 14 total possible points of failure where a leak can occur using the EV1 Hose end connection fuel injection system. If you were to eliminate the threaded nipple rail and swap it for a welded style, it saves 4 possible leak points.
Injector-Rehab fuel rail system possible leak points
Not taking in account the latest injectors being far superior to the technology available “back then”, lets talk about the benefits of the VW Vanagon fuel rail system we are bringing to market. How many points of failure are there? Lets take a look.
We are only replacing a portion of the system. Because of this, we are still going to have points of possible leaking. However, they are greatly reduced from the previous method.
Starting at the outer most and working towards the injectors, we have 2 barbed fittings to tie the system into the existing system’s feed and return lines. (2 points)
The next connection is an “AN fitting”. This stands for Army Navy as these two agencies agreed on this method as the standard back in WWII. Unlike hose end injectors, this method of joining 2 connections has stood the test of time and is still used today and is regulated under Aerospace Standards specification AS4842, AS4843, and AS4875. (2 Points)
Adapting the AN fitting to the anodized fuel rail is a tapered NPT (National Pipe Thread) as this type of thread provides rigidity and a pressure tight seal. (2 Points)
Last but not least, the injector o-rings. Again, the method the entire automotive industry (including VW) has used since the mid 80’s. (2 points)
This gives us 8 total points a fuel leak would be possible in your Volkswagen, Hans.
If my math is correct, this would be Six (6) less points than with using a threaded aluminum rail. Two less points than using a welded nipple rail. This is just by sheer number of points of possible leaking. However, it does not take into account the likelihood of the leaking because of the TYPE of connection or point of failure we are calculating.
Still want to use a hose-end as Hans originally designed?
Knock yourself out! The Chinese still use chopsticks even though they’ve seen a fork before. Who’s to stop you?!
The plastic OEM rail and hose end injectors are replaced with an anodized fuel rail which accepts injectors which seal in the system via an o-ring. Bosch, along with the rest of the automotive industry, moved to this method of fuel delivery shortly after electronic fuel injection was introduced. O-rings have been used for longer than hose-end injectors were in electronic FI’s infancy. And, o-rings have been used in the next phase of advancement in fuel injection technology in the GDI (Gasoline Direct Injection) applications. These systems run at 3000+ PSI. Pretty sure they will hold up in your VW system.
We get it though. The VW waterboxer is such an engineering marvel, you want to keep the hose-end style injectors. Do it!
Want to make your own like the other retailers do? Want to use the same “magic” injector? We’ve got you covered! Fully Cleaned and flow tested kits available that anyone with some wrenching capability and basic tools can make a set themselves.
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Safeguarding Children & Vulnerable Adults
The Charity Commission now requires all charities that may be involved with children or vulnerable adults to have a written policy to ensure that good practice is maintained.
Finzi Friends identifies that it would be involved insofar as the Society:
- May sometimes invite children under 16, or young people between the ages of 16 and 18 to participate in masterclass events. In such cases it is always a requirement for a responsible adult to accompany the child and take responsibility for their health and safety, and welfare beyond measures reasonably expected of any group promoting a public performance.
- May invite students aged 18 and over to participate in masterclass events. In such instances Trustees do not act in a position of trust, other than in maintaining a watching brief to safeguard the health and safety, and welfare of all participants. Their role is to facilitate participation in a public event.
In both cases Trustees will not provide personal or contact details for either participants or those giving the Masterclass to others involved.In giving Masterclasses professionals are expected to observe reasonable care in making physical contact with a young performer and ensure that the performer is comfortable with any that may be deemed necessary to illustrate a technical point.
The Society recognizes that a number of its members may be categorised as vulnerable adults because of infirmity or physical needs.
It is expected that members will be accompanied by another adult to assist in ensuring their health and safety, and welfare beyond measures reasonably expected of any group promoting a public performance. Where this is not possible the Trustees will take all necessary steps deemed reason able to safeguard their health and safety, and welfare which may exceed those measures reasonably expected of any group promoting a public performance. Trustees will take reasonable care in making physical contact with any vulnerable adult who requires assistance and ensure that they are comfortable with any that may be deemed necessary.
There is no need for a child or vulnerable adult to be alone with another adult at any time. However, we have to ensure that there are documented procedures so that we can show that this is controlled and not left to chance.
There are five principal requirements that the policy has to document. These are listed below, together with proposals for how we satisfy them.
a) We have to have a named person and deputy who has responsibility for child protection matters.
The Chairman is the named person and the Secretary is the deputy, unless there is a minuted Committee resolution specifying a change. In the event that a person other than the Chairman or Secretary is nominated as named person or deputy, and that person leaves the Society, the responsibility automatically reverts to the Chairman (as named person) or Secretary (as deputy).
b) How to record incidents should they occur, and how to ensure we retain the records securely
The Secretary will hold a record of incidents, and the Chairman will hold a duplicate of the record of incidents. The record and duplicate record must not be held in the same building as each other.
c) A code of behaviour related to safeguarding for Trustees
The Trustees will promote, publicize and exemplify our policy towards children and vulnerable adults, in particular as outlined above, and review progress annually at the Committee meeting prior to the AGM.
d) Procedures for checking eligibility of Trustees
Trustees will be required to sign the form approved by the Charity Commission confirming eligibility. There is no requirement to obtain Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, nor can we request it, given the nature of Trustees’ roles.
e) A complaints procedure regarding safeguarding children and vulnerable adults which is open and well publicised
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Coming out of one of the many lockdowns we have been through since early 2020, we have seen the impact that covid has had on young people all around Gloucestershire. We put our heads together and thought that the best way to help young people was to empower them, so they can see the impact they are able to have within their own communities. This led to the birth of our project Rise. This project has two main parts to it; Reach and the Youth Active Citizen Fund.
Reach is our name for street based youth work. This is an opportunity for us to go into communities to make connections by active based youth work or talking and playing ice breaker games to get to know one another and break down barriers. This provides room to build relationships and a consistent safe space for young people where they may not have any. There are moments in these sessions where we can really connect with young people and show them options that are available, that they might not have known they could do before.
Youth Active Citizen Fund
YACF is a very exciting part of this project in which we are in a position to be able to offer up to £500 for groups of at least two young people. This funding will be put towards any changes that they think is needed within their own community. We try to imbed ourselves in the communities we reach, however we will never know all the issues and the area as well as the young people who are growing up there, therefore it is only right that they apply for, and decide where their funding goes. Some examples of projects that young people have applied for already are; new goal posts to be put up, water fountain/tap at a local park, toilet at local park and events such as skate competition to raise money for floodlights. These are all fantastic and viable ideas that will be put to the Youth Board.
Youth BoardThe key element of this project is that we are empowering the voice of young people in their own communities, especially as it will be directly impacting their lives. This led to the idea of young people deciding which applicants for the YACF should be successful and what they believe will benefit their communities. So with this there is an opportunity for young people aged 10-25 to sit on our Youth Board to get together once a month and make these decisions themselves. | <urn:uuid:ebeeed24-2b19-4f6c-b924-bbede0b941a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.youngglos.org.uk/young-people/rise | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.98138 | 479 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The way we think about charity is dead wrong | Dan Pallotta
Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend -- not for what they get done. Instead of equating frugality with morality, he asks us to start rewarding charities for their big goals and big accomplishments (even if that comes with big expenses). In this bold talk, he says: Let's change the way we think about changing the world.
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In Tim Cook’s recent commencement speech at Tulane University, he shared the secret to dealing with your critics, intoning a refrain that will stick with me: “We don’t build monuments to trolls.”
Buried within that same speech from the Apple CEO was a story he related about Steve Jobs. It centered around how Jobs got him to quit the now-defunct (but booming at the time) computer maker Compaq to join a near-bankrupt Apple.
Here’s the story, as told by Cook:
“In 1998, Steve jobs convinced me to leave Compaq behind to join a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. They made computers. But at that moment at least, people weren’t interested in buying them.
Steve had a plan to change things, and I wanted to be a part of it. He wasn’t just about the i-Mac or the i-Pod or everything that came after.
He was about the values that brought these inventions to life: the idea that putting powerful tools in the hands of everyday people helps unleash creativity and moves humanity forward; that we can build things that help us imagine a better world, and then make it real.”
Tim Cook was drawn to the world-beating power of unleashing creativity. That singular, immeasurably powerful thought drew him from comfort to chaos.
As leaders, we all should be so equally drawn. Here are some ways to release that creativity in yourself and your colleagues:
Find a well-articulated, pressing problem to solve.
Nothing unleashes creativity like the motivation to solve a problem that matters. Being inspired to solve that problem is only half the battle. You also need a focused definition of the problem.
I spent many years in advertising, and I can tell you the best creative output I saw came when I provided my creative colleagues with clear, focused briefs that crisply described the problems to be solved. It sounds counterintuitive, but it’s true: Tight parameters give
Specifically, they give you freedom to focus. You won’t be distracted by a laundry list of things to be solved and the inevitable muddied output from multitasking.
Look for springboards.
A springboard is the quest to find things that are working but could definitely be improved–and finding ways to make them a notch or two better.
See your company’s website through new eyes and make it more user-friendly. Take a critical look at your packaging and find ways to make it easier to open or more relevant and informative. The key is to question the status quo and constantly ask what are the micro-issues that would bring beneficial incremental improvement versus the macro-issues that would bring wholesale change (both are worth effort and unlock creativity).
Take an experiential break.
In my book Find the Fire, Hollywood director and writer John Montgomery talked to me about the creative process:
“In Hollywood, too many writers spend preposterous hours in the writers’ room, searching internally for inspiration, when creativity is found in the world around them. Their approach is hard-wired for sameness.”
Drawing on my advertising experience again, I can tell you that ad agency creatives often do their best work when they’re “not working”–when they’re taking in a show, at a concert or museum, or strolling through a zoo.
As Todd Henry, author of The Accidental Creative, told me, “We tend to work in a massive echo-chamber.” So, get out and experience things to conjure creativity.
Reconnect with those who buy and use what you sell.
I spent many years innovating at Procter & Gamble. By far, my best new product and marketing ideas came from spending time with the people who bought or used what I was trying to sell.
Sometimes I’d just sit with the buyers or users in their homes–not looking for anything in particular, just talking about a particular product category. We’d chat about how they used it. We’d discuss how it fit into their lives.
The motivations of those who buy what you sell may be different than those who use what you sell. A mom might buy a deodorant because her husband likes it–and because she always has a coupon for it. Her husband might use it because it makes him feel sporty and athletic.
Different motivations unlock different veins of creativity.
Don’t talk about building it. Build it.
I once saw those seven words printed on a posterboard on Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, California. They’re about embracing a prototype mentality.
You’ve got an idea and you’re not sure it’ll work? Build a version, test it, and reiterate. Sometimes, to get creativity going, you’ve just got to get it going.
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Chuck Jaffee, a forty-year veteran financial journalist who regularly writes for the Wall Street Journal and is also a nationally syndicated financial columnist, discusses how money and investors’ attitude towards investing has changed over the last few decades.
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I’m worried my parents are getting ripped off by their financial advisor. What should I do?
My wife is trying to qualify for student loan forgiveness … but we might lose a bunch of tax benefits in the process. Is it worth the risk?
I’m enrolling in grad school, and I want to optimize how to pay for rent and groceries. Should I use money from a 529 plan?
Three callers. Three questions.
In today’s episode, former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy and I tackle these tough Q’s.
Do you have a question on business, money, trade-offs, financial independence strategies, travel, or investing? Leave it here and we’ll answer them in a future episode.
Briale opened a Variable Annuity inside a 403b at work when she was 23. She has 17 years to go before retirement. As an elementary school teacher, her pension will be $6,000 per month. Should she stop contributing to the annuity and contribute to a Roth IRA instead?
Debi has an extra $1,000 each month and isn’t sure where to save it. She also has $10,000 in a CD which will reach maturity in August 2021. Her goal is to buy a residence in the next five years. Should she save this all for a downpayment?
Dominique is concerned about her parents retirement portfolio. Their advisor charges a fee of 1.5 percent assets under management. Her parents are frugal and they don’t realize how much they’re paying. Should she talk to them, or drop the issue?
Sarah isn’t sure whether she should put more of her savings towards a Roth 401k or a 529 fund for her future kids. Which option is best if she wants financial flexibility?
Hunter put a credit freeze on his two children’s credit, which required sending each credit union documentation via mail. Experian and TransUnion confirmed the credit freeze, but Equifax didn’t. Upon calling, the representative gave Hunter a different mailing address for the documents. What should he do?
My friend and former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy joins me once again to tackle these questions. Enjoy!
Andrea’s parents have a seemingly salesly financial advisor. He tried to get them to purchase a second life insurance policy, among other potentially pushy moves. Are her parents better off without his advice?
Teresa can’t shake the feeling that the stock market is more of a gamble than an investment. Is there any advantage to holding funds for the long-run if the market drops and you lose your gains?
June is curious about the best college planning strategies for families who are working toward, or close to, financial independence. How can you help your children while securing your financial future?
Big Sister’s little sister rents a mobile home in an area she loves. The owner wants to sell, but her little sister might not obtain financing. Should Big Sister buy the property and sell it to her via seller financing?
Managing for Mom in Massachusetts has an investment strategy that he wants to run by us. Does it make sense to shift a 50/50 stocks and bonds portfolio to 100 percent stocks, and shift back to a 50/50 split after the market returns to pre-pandemic numbers?
My friend and former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy joins me to answer these questions. Enjoy!
Katelyn wants to fire her financial advisor and move her investments from mutual funds into Vanguard index funds. Should she do this during the pandemic? Or should she wait?
Marisa asks: can you invest in a Roth IRA if your income is inconsistent and might exceed the cap?
Anonymous “Flo” had a Simple IRA at her old job that she can no longer contribute to. She also can’t contribute to a 401k until she’s been at her new job for a year. Where should she put her money in the meantime?
Mary received an $80,000 grant of RSUs from her employer when she started. These RSUs began to vest after one year, and the price per share has increased 44 percent. What should she do with the shares?
Anonymous “Olivia” is interested in a Roth conversion ladder, but wants to know: does the pro-rata rule apply here as it does with a backdoor Roth conversion?
My friend and former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy and I tackle these questions in today’s episode. Enjoy!
Joe has a 24-year-old friend who won a $1 million settlement. How can she use this money to set herself up for financial independence?
Jay is 52 years old and wants to retire at 59.5. He began investing in individual stocks to achieve this goal, and has had excellent returns so far. Is this a sound plan for early retirement? Or should he work until age 62 for Social Security?
Steve is 54 years old. He plans to retire at 60, which is when he can collect 67 percent of his pension. A Vanguard advisor suggested that he direct some of his 403b contributions as Roth contributions, rather than pre-tax contributions. Should he act on this suggestion?
Brit wants to know: is it possible to invest in the S&P 500 Fossil Fuel Free Index through Vanguard?
Anonymous in New York City wants to invest their HSA contributions this year, but the expense ratios seem high. Can they move their HSA to a different provider? What fees are normal for HSAs?
My friend and former financial advisor, Joe Saul-Sehy, joins me on the show to answer these five questions. Enjoy!
Helen discovered that her mother fraudulently opened credit card accounts in her name. Eek! How can she protect herself? What will happen to these accounts once her mother passes away?
Amelia and her husband cannot fire their financial advisor. How can they minimize the damage and maximize the benefit they receive from him in the meantime?
Anonymous asks if she should live off an inheritance and max out her 401k contributions during her first year of working full-time. She wants to reduce her taxable income. Is this a good idea?
A different anonymous caller read a USA Today article claiming that “index funds are in a bubble.” How true is this? How can index funds be in a bubble?
Shawn is self-employed. He invests in a Solo 401k that features both a Roth and Traditional component. How should he manage this account?
Another anonymous listener is thinking about downshifting to part-time work. He holds around $278,000 in home equity. How can he capitalize on this?
Former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy and I answer these questions on today’s episode. Enjoy!
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Vanessa is curious about Fidelity and Vanguard. She asks: what are your thoughts on the no-fee Fidelity index funds? What are your opinions on Vanguard’s financial advisors?
Andy wants to know: should my wife and I continue maxing out our traditional 401k and backdoor Roth IRA, or should we start contributing to the Roth 401k my employer offers?
Kyle is wondering – how can he minimize his taxes when he earns $450,000/year?
Rob is self-employed and has been maxing out a Roth IRA, but recently discovered that he can open a self-employed IRA. Should he move his Roth IRA money over, or just open a new account and fund it from scratch?
Christina is torn. She and her husband have been saving to buy a house, but because they live in New York, their savings won’t go very far. Is it a good idea for them to continue renting, despite their dreams?
Mercedes is wondering how REITs compare to stocks and owning actual real estate. Additionally, she’d like to know more about Forex trading.
Craig has an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP). Since these tend to be risky, he’s wondering: is he better off moving the $25,000 that he puts towards the ESPP into mutual funds? Or is an ESPP a good way to diversify his funds?
Former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy and I answer these questions in today’s episode. Enjoy!
Anonymous wants to retire early and often. They’re going overseas, where they’ll make their annual salary within six months. Where should they put their extra income?
Anonymous also wants to know: how can they find a financial advisor they can actually trust?
Another anonymous listener wants to know – is it possible to spend more while minimizing taxes in early retirement?
JuanCarlos asks: is $20,000 too little to invest with a financial advisor?
Angela is wondering how to create a Roth IRA account for a teenager.
Rose is thinking about switching from mutual funds to index funds because it means encountering less fees, but her and her husband are in their 60s. Does this make sense?
Ari has $700,000 to invest in a taxable brokerage account. He wants to know if a 90 percent total stock market index and 10 percent bonds is a good asset allocation.
Dave and his wife want to use their defined benefit plans as their primary income stream in retirement, and supplement with Roth and 457 incomes. Where else should they be saving?
Myself and former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy answer these questions on today’s episode.
Is it ever a good idea to use your 401(k) as an emergency fund?
What’s the best way to break up with your financial advisor so that you can move all of your funds to Vanguard?
Should you put all of your Roth IRA money into index funds, or is there a better option for your money?
A listener has a job offer working less hours for more money, but without a retirement plan. Is this a good move?
When running a small business as a sole proprietor, are there tax advantages to incorporating or forming an LLC? If so, what should you consider?
What’s the best way to maximize the earnings on a large amount of savings while keeping the savings liquid? Can a robo-advisor help with this?
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The narrow groove analysis (NGA) as pioneered by Whipple is a two-scale formulation with an infinitesimal micro-scale. Its shortcomings include: ambiguity in minimum required number of grooves, implied assumption of local incompressibility, violation of end conditions and omission of local squeeze effect. Alternative numerical computation methods of the finite-element or finite-volume type to treat the problem with a finite number of grooves are at best very expensive because good designs tends to require a large number of grooves. In view that interest in inclined groove gas lubricated devices has intensified , a new two-scale formulation is presented here to consider a small but finite micro-scale. Cross-pattern profiles of pressure and induced transverse flux are presented for the entrance condition of a typical thrust bearing with eighteen spiral-grooves. | <urn:uuid:19959fb1-bfe6-4911-a143-28c9191526a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vivo.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n70193SE | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.90995 | 181 | 1.554688 | 2 |
- Gambling can be fun, but always do so legally and responsibly...
If you’re a Canadian punter, it’s critical to understand that your wagering winnings are subject to taxation. So, it’s essential to report your winnings as part of income on your tax returns. You’re obliged to report cash winnings from lotteries, casinos, etc.
All over the world, gambling has evolved and become one of the sources of taxation money. For example, in Canada, online gambling is a significant source of income for 19.3 million active gamblers. That makes Canada among the top 10 countries in the gambling industry.
It’s one of the major countries that lead in wagering, thanks to advancements in technology and the presence of smartphones. Canada has developed a significant New Zealand site, and the government has also tried this lucrative business.
Approximately 4 billion is invested in offshore casinos resulting in the gambling industry earning billions.
A brief history of gambling in Canada
Gambling in Canada has a long history. The first documentary evidence goes back to 1497. John Abbot discovered that the indigenous tribes were involved in games of chance. During those days, the games were pretty basic. Even when Canada was a British colony, there was some gambling.
In 1985 gambling was made legal in Canada, but it took years before the industry could start generating revenue. Also, the Casinos have made a tremendous change over the years.
The industry has evolved over the years to become a multi-dollar business. And gambling has become a popular pastime in Canada. Since it was based on physical locations, the industry has evolved into one of the leading online businesses.
This is a room where gambling games are played. They are near hotels and restaurants where they attract a variety of high spenders. Casinos are increasing due to the high number of gambling fans. Most of the casinos also accept crypto, bitcoin, and Ethereum. They also promote payments anonymously. In Canada, there are two types of casinos.
- Land-based casinos are called brick and mortar, which use a slot machines. In Canada, land-based casinos attract taxation upon winning. Hence the need for a financial advisor. The Canadian gamblers use the online casinos, which have higher earnings, unlike the land-based that have a low payout.
- Online casinos: gambling sites are available on the online platform. They feature a variety of games, from virtual cards to poker, where you play against the computer. Unlike the land-based casinos where you physically have to go, the online casinos allow players to wager from anywhere. Before the rise of online casinos, players used land-based casinos.
Types of gambling
- Sports betting sites: This is the most common type of betting. Through this technique, a gambler bets on any team that’s likely to win. If the team wins, the bettor gets a prize for their accurate prediction.
- Table games and poker: Table games refer to games of chance such as blackjack, craps, etc. They are played in casinos. While playing this game, some rules apply, but it’s a legal form of gambling. Poker is a game of cards that involves betting with chips. It is most common in casinos too.
Canadian gambling age difference
According to Canadian statistics, the popularity of gamblers in terms of age is between 30 to 50 years. However, there is an exception, especially for the slot machine, which is popular among both young and old.
In most Canadian provinces, you have to be 19 years to start gambling because gambling has become addictive. Some people commit suicide when they realize they have lost all their money. So betting in Canada is also regulated. Young players prefer to play online games. Gambling in Canada constitutes 57% of males and 43% of females.
Overview of casino laws and the value of gambling in Canada
According to statistics, Canada generated $2.64 billion in revenue in the year 2021; $1.2 billion was from online gambling.
To operate a casino in Canada, one needs a license from the local authority. Canadian law also doesn’t prohibit online betting through the internet, but it requires a service to be licensed. However, some unlicensed offshore accounts offer their services to Canadian citizens.
Who controls gambling in Canada?
When a field becomes popular, and many people want to participate in it, the government acts by coming up with laws to protect the citizens. So, in Canada, gambling the government regulates gambling.
In Section 207 of the Canadian criminal code, the provincial government is permitted to conduct gaming within their province. Although horse racing and betting, the local government are prohibited anywhere around the area.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) administers tax laws in Canada, including in the gambling industry. However, on online gambling, Canadians do not pay taxes. Online casinos are not taxable, although gambling winnings from casinos must be submitted as income in your tax return. For instance, if you win a large amount of money, you should consult a financial advisor on the right way to administer the tax.
According to the Canadian government, if you are a professional gambler and make a living from betting, you must submit tax returns. On the other hand, Canadian gambling for fun is not taxable. Here is a summary of what Canadian laws say about gambling taxation:
- Canadian punters and gamblers don’t pay tax for their gains
- Professional full-time gamblers must pay tax
- If you gamble and win when in countries like the US, you need to declare it.
Now you know what the land requires regarding gambling in Canada! Gambling has become a popular industry in the country thanks to smartphones. The government only taxes punters who are full time in gambling. So, for those doing gambling for fun, you evade the government’s tax dragnet. Also, most of the government’s gambling taxation money comes from registration of casinos. When you register a casino company, you must pay tax to the government. As the industry keeps evolving, the government might create laws to control it further. | <urn:uuid:ba75de53-9961-4df5-9cb0-af418ffc8ea8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oddee.com/how-much-tax-money-does-canada-get-from-gambling-each-year-62946/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963027 | 1,278 | 1.75 | 2 |
Voters in Latin America appear to be tiring of its left wing leaders. In Argentina, the left-of-centre Victory Front coalition lost in 2015 against Let’s Change, a right-leaning alliance led by Mauricio Macri. In Brazil, the Workers’ Party was ousted from power in 2016 after 13 years following the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. In Bolivia, also in 2016, voters delivered a stinging defeat to President Evo Morales’ attempt to reform the constitution to run for a straight fourth term. In Venezuela, the PSUV lost the parliamentary elections and control of the National Assembly in 2015.
The April 2017 election in Ecuador, in which Lenin Moreno marginally secured the continuation of the “Citizen Revolution”, is the exception to the rule.
These results might appear to be a symptom of exhaustion with left leaning governments. Perhaps though, they are simply part of a cycle, in which leftist movements see a gradual slowing of support. Political scientist Sidney Tarrow used the phrase “cycle of contention” to identify a “phase of heightened conflict across the social system” which begins at a moment of disruption in society.
Key moments of disruption in South America which have sparked left wing movements are not hard to find. There were the violent “Caracazo riots” in Venezuela in 1989, against government market reforms resulting in higher oil prices. The “Cochabamba water wars” in Bolivia in 2000, involved a series of protests against the privatisation of the municipal water supply in the country’s third largest city. In December 2001 Argentina saw a nationwide revolt against deepening austerity policies in the context of a long economic recession. The “forajidos” (the outlaws) was the name given to a popular uprising in 2005 in Ecuador against president Gutiérrez (who was accused of betraying electoral campaigns of reform and alienating key political allies). These social protests represented a phase of heightened conflict that resulted in divided societies and polarised political representation.
From this point of view, the subsequent turns to the left represented a bottom-up movement of social upheaval rather than just populist leaders seeking power. The social unrest set the conditions for the left to take control and cement a new anti-neoliberal agenda in the region that lasted about 15 years. The novelty of the phenomenon was that unlike the left-wing projects of the 1970s, the left played by the rules of the democratic game and did it successfully – winning landslide elections.
But apart from in Ecuador (where since 2006 Rafael Correa won three presidential elections as leader of the Citizen’s Revolution), the left has since continued to lose control of governments in the region.
Yet while the political left is currently in a state of flux, a diverse and highly organised social activism remains active on the streets. A general strike was called in April in Brazil against Temer’s government and its reforms. The first of its kind in 20 years. In Argentina, thousands of teachers took to the streets of Buenos Aires demanding a wage increase.
In addition, indigenous peoples, women, beneficiaries of social programmes, industrial trade union workers and civil servants, have all been loudly voicing their opposition to the dismantling of key public policies, as well as raising new demands.
So it is not correct to identify an “end” of the left leaning cycle in Latin America. Instead it is more appropriate to speak of a transition from electoral dominance to a socio-political standoff. As a consequence, there is a greater degree of fortune deciding the result of an elections. The marginal results seen in the recent elections in Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador are proof of that.
This means that the popular sector remains active and has enough political power to stage large strikes and moments of direct action. However there is no new element of unity because there are so many demands which are, in turn, demanded by different organisations – and the links between these different organisations remain weak. It also means that only a minority of these social sectors feel politically represented by, for instance, the Workers’ Party in Brazil or Kirchnerismo in Argentina.
Having a right-leaning government tends to facilitate the reorganisation of the popular sector because the adversary is more clearly identifiable and common to all. This is why the left’s momentum has reached a moment of crisis – but has not yet been deactivated.
On the contrary, having a progressive government in power just makes the reorganisation of the popular sector more complex. So far, only Ecuador has been successful in bucking the regional trend. But it remains unclear if this contributes to the necessary reorganisation of the left – or to deepening its crisis. For the time being at least, the Latin American left is in check, but not yet checkmated. | <urn:uuid:8c1fa612-1690-435c-986d-961cdd645fce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theconversation.com/why-latin-america-has-not-yet-fallen-out-with-left-wing-politics-76200 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960136 | 986 | 2.078125 | 2 |
On 31 January 2018 EIT Climate-KIC Nordic will host the first Ideation Day of the year in our partner city of Helsinki, Finland. The Nordic EIT Climate-KIC community is invited to submit their most innovative ideas.
The purpose of Ideation Day is to develop and nurture the EIT Climate-KIC community, which is crucial to facilitating collaboration on innovative projects with significant potential climate impact.
Ideation Day provides an arena for participants to:
- Test their project and consortia ideas for climate innovation in a stimulating environment
- Meet new colleagues, work together and discuss ideas to begin forming consortia
- Pitch their ideas in front of a jury
- Potentially move their project forward with financial support
- Become part of a more informed and closely connected EIT Climate-KIC community
Sustainable Land Use: Forest Based Bio-Economy Track
EIT Climate-KIC Nordic will host a track dedicated to forest based bio-economy project proposals related to the priorities of the EIT Climate-KIC theme Sustainable Land Use (SLU). We are looking for innovative ideas within forestry and the wider use of raw materials, among others, wood in construction, and a focus on long-term substitution of materials such as concrete and fossil fuels. The aim is to achieve significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and increased social and economic value.
Please reach out to Business Developer Anne Zaff if you have questions regarding this track.
All project proposals, regardless of track, are to be submitted through the same link.
Each project awarded must be led by a EIT Climate-KIC partner. Non EIT Climate-KIC partners must agree on a funding split with a EIT Climate-KIC partner in order to secure funding.
Assessment of project ideas will be based on the following priorities:
- Cross-community collaboration in project team
- Feasibility of implementation
- Potential climate impact
- Demand identification
Conditions for funding
Only participants employed by EIT Climate-KIC partners are eligible to receive awards. Potential consortia can consist of both EIT Climate-KIC partners and non-EIT Climate-KIC partners.
In order for awards granted at the Ideation Day to become approved as projects, the project lead must after the event complete a EIT Climate-KIC Task Setup Sheet (TSS) and subsequently enter the relevant data into our project system CAPplan. Upon a review of that information, a Task Confirmation will be issued, which forms the legally binding contract for the project.
Awards ranging from €5,000 up to a maximum of €20,000 will be granted at the Ideation Day.
Activities based on the ideas awarded need to be carried out before 1 June 2018, pre-financed by the EIT Climate-KIC Partner and reported to EIT Climate-KIC by 2 July 2018 in order to be reimbursed. This aligns with standard EIT Climate-KIC procedure.
Activities for reimbursement are services from third parties related to the project, travel for team members, exhibitions, PR, consumables, coaching, software, labour, and so on. Do not hesitate to contact Henrik Søndergaard if you have additional questions.
Reporting of results
A short final report of the project’s achievements will be requested by the EIT Climate-KIC Nordic office by 2 July 2018.
09:00 – 17:00
09:00 – 09:15
Joint welcome and general introduction to the day by Susanne Pedersen
9:15 – 10:15
Introduction to thematic poster session by Lærke Ullerup. Preparing for pitch (including 1-minute teaser from each of the selected project promoters)
10:15 – 10:45
Posterwalk and feedback
11:00 – 12:45
Networking and pitch preparation
Guidance from CKIC to both individual projects and matchmaking in collaborative projects
11:30 – 12:45
Lunch buffet opens – working lunch and network
12:45 – 14:30
Split into two tracks with separate pitch sessions: SLU and Main
Introduction to pitching session by Lærke Ullerup (Main) and XXX (SLU)
Pitching of projects
Using posters as media
14:30 – 15:30
Audience voting and mingling facilitated by Lærke Ullerup – in plenum
15:30 – 16:15
Awards – presented by Susanne Pedersen – in plenum
16:15 – 17:00
Drinks and networking
Last updated 28 November 2017
Submit your idea
Participants are encouraged to submit project ideas in advance, by 14 January 23:59 CET at the latest. Ideas are submitted through this form and will be shared with the other participants prior to Ideation Day. Please do not hesitate to discuss any idea proposals with Nordic Innovation Pipeline Manager Henrik Søndergaard prior to submitting it.
Preselection of projects
EIT Climate-KIC Nordic will make a selection of the submitted projects considered to be most relevant and having the best potential for community development to participate in the Ideation Day. Owners of selected projects will be notified by 17 January and asked to design a poster illustrating their project no later than 24 January 2018.
Register for Ideation Day
Please note that signing up for and submitting ideas to the Ideation Day is not the same process.
For questions related to Ideation Day please get in touch with Nordic Innovation Pipeline Manager Henrik Nørby Søndergaard.
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The workshop will be conducted between 10 AM to 6 PM on all three days.
Why should you attend?
To learn the fundamentals of film making and cinematography for aspiring filmmakers.
Being a practice-based workshop, it’ll help the participants to learn about camera and lighting.
For students, filmmakers and young cinematographers to get a glimpse into the art of cinematography
Siddhartha Nuni is conducting a 3-day workshop on cinematography in Hyderabad on the 16th,17th and 18th April, 2021. The workshop is focussed on the fundamentals of cinematography, storytelling through the camera & film Lighting. This workshop is primarily for students, aspiring filmmakers, cinematographers, film enthusiasts, home video creators, YouTube and Instagram video creators. | <urn:uuid:d03028fa-4a0e-4663-9a13-7404a477580e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fests.info/workshops/3-day-cinematography-workshop-by-siddhartha-nuni.html/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.920156 | 164 | 1.6875 | 2 |
European large scale research infrastructures play a major role in pooling forces to address the main world research challenges also in the time of the pandemic.
The ERF-AISBL and its members have taken the chance of the Science in the City Festival at ESOF2020 to showcase to the wider public some of the research carried out at European research facilities, with an exhibition at Magazzino 28 in the old harbour (Porto Vecchio) in Trieste, from 2 to 6 September 2020.
The event consisted of videos, posters and interactive onsite and online live talks with expert scientists, on topics spanning renewable energy and cultural heritage, astronomy, environmental sciences and biomedical research, including recent advances in SARS-CoV2 antiviral therapies and vaccine.
Find out more about the schedule of the ERF live science talks and watch the recorded videos from the CERIC-ERIC youtube channel here.
The event was organized by the members of RICE, the ERF-AISBL PR working group, and namely by Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, CERIC-ERIC, the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO, Germany), Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialen und Energie (HZB, Germany), MAX IV Laboratory and European Spallation Source (Sweden), Heinz Maier-Leibinitz Zentrum (MLZ, Germany), Partnership For Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE, Belgium), Square Kilometre Array Organisation (SKA, UK). | <urn:uuid:12952007-441a-4b67-8c56-fcb6405f540f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://erf-aisbl.eu/connect-with-erfesof2020-european-research-in-the-time-of-the-pandemic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.857832 | 329 | 2 | 2 |
This rug by Barcelona designer Martín Azúa is woven like the soles of espadrille shoes.
Called Trepitjada, the mat was woven from grass by artisans in the Spanish region of Murcia.
Azúa's project was shortlisted for the Delta Awards for industrial design at FADfest in Barcelona - read more details and see the winning design, a bike that grows with your child, in our earlier story.
Here's some more information from the Delta Award organisers:
A carpet made of alpha or needle grass that reproduces footprints. The grass is a traditional material which is commonly used to manufacture the soles of espadrilles. The carpet is made by women artisans from the region of Murcia. Claiming this craft for a contemporary product offers a chance for survival of a traditional craft, highlighting local know-how. | <urn:uuid:a813301c-ef9c-47bb-af88-217779a0628e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dezeen.com/2012/07/07/trepitjada-by-martin-azua/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942434 | 178 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Are Banking Apps Safer?
Is it safer to do my online banking on my smartphone or computer?
This question was answered on September 7, 2018. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.
Compromised banking credentials are a hot property on the Dark Web, which serves as a marketplace for cyber thieves and finding new ways to trick users into giving up those credentials is ongoing.
Security is never about a single thing, so when it comes to the safety of your online banking transactions, it’s important to consider the device you’re using, how you’re connecting to the bank and whether you’re connecting to a large bank or a small regional bank.
Understanding the Risks
If you’re using your own connection at home, the risks are quite different from when you are using public Wi-Fi.
If you’re using a shared computer at home, especially with kids, your risks are quite different then using a smartphone that only you use.
If your using an app from a small regional bank, they may lack the resources or expertise that the large banks have when it comes to the continuous security battle.
Security Through Obscurity
In general, you can assume that the more popular a device or operating system is, the more malware that has been written to compromise users as it’s simply a numbers game for the bad guys.
Windows is the most popular OS in the world and is also the most targeted. The Android smartphone platform is not only the most popular mobile OS globally, it also allows users more flexibility, which can open up security holes.
A computer used by the entire family has a much higher chance of contracting some form of malware from any one of its users then one that is only used by a single person.
Since nothing is 100% secure, it’s best to evaluate the risks with each of your options and choose the one you feel has the fewest exposure points.
Web Browser vs Apps
Security experts will always find an opening to expose just about anything we’re using, but in my experience, the average user is more likely to be compromised through their computer simply because there are exponentially more threats targeting computers.
Most smartphone-based online banking compromises generally require that the user install a malicious banking app from a third-party. Using a web browser on your smartphone to access your bank has more potential exposure points than using the actual banking app as well.
For most people, using a banking app on their smarthphone via a cellular connection reduces the most exposure points.
Additional Security Tips
Whenever you’re out in public, it’s always best to avoid shared connections like Wi-Fi and stick to only using your carrier’s cellular connection, whether you are using a computer or a smartphone.
Only download banking apps from either Apple’s App Store or Google Play and be sure to activate any multi-factor authentication options your bank offers, including things like fingerprint recognition. Always avoid having your device save your password in case it ends up being lost or stolen.
If you’re in a household that shares a computer, consider using an alternative browser such as Opera (https://opera.com) for all your online banking and for nothing else.
It’s also important to keep your devices updated so that the security that’s built into your banks apps and web portals isn’t circumvented by security holes in your operating system.
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In recent history, no topic has created such a heated divide in the voting American public than that of illegal immigration and the ramifications associated with it. One camp calls for stricter border security and enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws, while the other favors an approach that grants citizenship pathways to any and all who happen have entered the country, legally or illegally. Families are split, the media has never had it better, and politics may never be the same again.
Now that the Democrats have regained control of the House, they hope to end President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration by any means necessary. Democratic lawmakers have announced that they plan to investigate the reasoning behind the president’s push to have only American citizens counted on the 2020 census.
Of course, the Democrats already know why Republicans wish to ask the citizenship question. So why bother investigating?
Investigating the Census Question
Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) told Reuters that he plans to investigate the Trump administration’s motivation behind putting the question of citizenship on the 2020 census. “There are certain things that mandate that we look at immediately,” he said. “One of them is the census because that’s right around the corner.”
Cummings went on to state that the House Oversight Committee – of which he is currently the ranking member – must “figure out why [the citizenship question] is there, because to be very frank with you, we have been told some untruths.” The Representative did not elaborate on these supposed untruths, but his words indicate that the Democrats in Congress have a strategy when it comes to opposing the president’s agenda.
While they will never admit it publicly, the Democratic Party’s stance on illegal immigration is not one borne of compassion for people from destitute countries who wish to find a home in the United States. Rather, it seems that they are motivated by political gain. As most know, the majority of illegal immigrants come from Central and South America. Hispanics are more likely to vote for Democratic political candidates over Republicans – and that’s the reason the left insist on providing citizenship for illegals already in the country.
Illegal immigration could also provide Democrats with other electoral advantages that may not be as apparent to the general public. The number of representatives in the House is based on state population. The greater the number of people, the more representatives they get. Leaving off the citizenship question on the census might allow states like California to gain more seats in the House of Representatives. Furthermore, it could skew presidential elections in favor of Democrats by increasing the number of electoral votes.
In an appearance on Breitbart News, Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) indicated that unlawful immigration has a tremendous effect on elections. “We’re probably in the neighborhood of about 15 million illegal aliens in America now,” he said, “15 million comes out to roughly 20 congressional seats and 20 electoral college votes.”
Conversely, if the citizenship question is put on the 2020 census, there is a decent chance that blue states could lose seats and electoral college votes. Brooks states that this is “likely to shift power away from coastal states harboring large illegal alien populations and towards middle America.”
The Democrats see Trump’s push as a dire threat to their political power at the federal level, and there can be no doubt that Cummings’ investigation is designed to derail the president’s decision. But how will they impede Trump’s objective?
The Democrats’ Plan
While nobody has a crystal ball or the power to read people’s minds, one can easily figure out how the Democrats will most likely use the investigation. Based on their typical modus operandi, it’s not a stretch to conclude that the Democrats will use the probe to manufacture baseless allegations of racism. Their leaders will wax eloquent about the apparent bigotry inherent in asking residents if they are American citizens.
Next, they will enlist the most left-wing court they can find and present their erroneous findings of racism. The judge will invariably rule against the White House, preventing them from including the citizenship question. Of course, the president – never one to back down from a political brawl – will fight back and the matter will likely go to the Supreme Court, where the Democrats may reap the fruits of their failure to prevent Judge Kavanaugh from being confirmed.
Needless to say, this is all just conjecture for now, but judging by the fact that the left managed to use the courts to stop Trump’s executive order on asylum seekers, as well as their approach to the travel ban, it would not be surprising if events played out similarly. Remember, the left-leaning court’s decision on the travel ban was not based upon its constitutionality; rather, it was based on what they perceived to be Trump’s bigoted motivation behind the executive order. But will the plan succeed? The nation will find out soon enough. | <urn:uuid:ca6264d2-abf6-4a80-a21b-f1dad6ee7ba6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.libertynation.com/democrat-plans-to-keep-the-illegal-alien-advantage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963095 | 1,034 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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The SDG ICT Playbook is an interactive PDF guides organizations in the development sector as they leverage the power of ICT to achieve these goals, providing the context for:
- Governments to build new, innovative, and sustainable ways to connect their populations to technology, thus enabling improved connection with their citizens, making processes more transparent, democratic andefficient, and improving the accessibility of government services.
- NGOs to utilize this new suite of tools to conduct better research, plan more effective initiatives, and analyze their impact.
- Entrepreneurs to enter into emerging markets with innovative products in an efficient, cost-effective mannerthat supports sustainable development.
In our work toward the SDGs, all actors should support policies, within organizations and on a national and international level, that make technology more accessible to the public.
We must create cross-sector partnerships to build the infrastructure that makes ICT possible and use those partnerships to enhance the efficacy of ICT solutions. From businesses, to governments, to organizations focused on agriculture, health, education, WASH & power, disaster relief, and environmental protection, we all stand to gain from it wouthe increased use and availability of ICT.
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Rig welders are the backbone of the oil industry. Working on the oil rigs, these welders guarantee the future of any oil industry. The main task of the rig welders is to weld the metal machinery used in the oil distillery.
The infrastructure of any oil industry contains heavy and sturdy metal components. So, skillful rig welders work to weld these metal components, vessels, tubes, and mechanical parts. Energy companies, oil distilleries, manufacturing units, etc., are the places where a professional rig welder can work.
These welders are in great demand by the corporates sectors for the maintenance of their infrastructure.
So, how to become a rig welder? In addition to academic knowledge, industrial and workplace experience matters a lot for getting the job of a rig welder. So, opt for doing an apprenticeship or internship in an oil-based or energy-based company. It will provide you a certification of professional experience in addition to providing you a hands-on experience.
Try to work in a competitive and goal-oriented environment to polish your skills. After getting experience of a year, come into the market as an entry-level rig welder. Later on, the greater you get experienced, the greater you will get the reward.
What is a rig welder?
A rig welder is a skillful personnel that works for the wedding and manufacturing of different components. Mostly rig welders are the professionals working in any oil-based company that may be land-based or offshore. Such peoples have the technical skillset and know-how to weld different parts and bond different metals. In this way, they create components of pieces of machinery.
What Does a Rig Welder Do?
A rig welder is an executive or a tycoon in the oil refining and processing industry. They are the professional people working on oil rigs.
Oil rigs are huge-sized platforms made in an erect or upright position to perform oil drilling. These rigs are also useable for the refinement and processing of crude oil or raw oil. The extract stream of these oil companies then goes for storage in the same oil rigs.
So, a professional rig welder works on these oil rigs and uses specialized and technical tools to process oil. These peoples also use some mechanical equipment for the welding of metals on the oil rig. Rig welders are crucial and key players in maintaining the infrastructure of any oil-based or natural gas-based company.
These rig welders work and weld all the heavy metals to make the components essential for extraction and processing of crude oil. In many cases, rig welders work for the distilling and separation of natural gases too. The fractionating columns of oil base companies are the fruit of the efforts of a rig welder.
Some other welding jobs performed by a rig welder are as follows:
- Constructing pipes,
- Welding and bonding metals for the creation of beams
- Manufacturing vessels
- Building combination pipes
- Ensure the proper use, care, and store welding equipment and tools well.
- Repairing of the old and worn-out parts of the machinery used in the welding.
How Do You Become a Rig Welder?
Some people find it very dirty to become an offshore rig welder because it is tiring work. But the better salary and beneficiary meals attract a lot of peoples towards this occupation. You can become a rig welder by fulfilling the required education. After completing professional mechanical training, you can join the field with an entry-level job. You can do an internship that might be paid or unpaid.
For getting an apprenticeship, you may need to move to an area having oil rigs. After completing your rig welder apprenticeship, join any electrician, mechanic, driller, or welder to get some onboard or hands-on experience. It will help you in understanding the difficulties of a practical job. Moreover, it will also polish your skills.
You can prepare yourself for the hard labor and the tiring work in this way. After getting experience, you will be to decide in a good way. Whether you want to pursue your carrier in rig welding or not. Now you can apply for land-based oil rigs. It will provide you a chance to get more experience.
Because the offshore companies usually appoint highly experienced and professional rig welders due to the complexity of tasks and operations performed there. So working as a rig welder in a land-based oil company will prepare you for the tiring environment of offshore rig welding.
- Oil rig welder education requirements:
Usually, the profession of rig welding does not demand any specific education. But one person who wants to pursue the carrier of a rig welder must have a vocational training certificate. To get a rig welding job, you need to have a high school degree from a certified and verified institute meant for vocational training. A high school degree is a definite for getting an offshore job.
Moreover, you must have a certification that verifies your apprenticeship in any industry because an internship proves that you have the passion for this career. It also validates your experience in a rig welding environment.
Different course certificates are also demandable by employers. You can join any organization or learning platform to get these Certificates.
Typical Oil Rig Welder Skill
Any typical and entry-level oil welder must have the following skills to accomplish his tasks in a good way:
- He must be efficient in reading the manuscripts and blueprints of all the models of machinery.
- Any oil rig welder must know to interpret the drawings of engineering.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills are also mandatory for an oil rig welder to understand the instructions assigned to him.
- He must know the proper way of manual welding. The information related to the operating of a manual welding machine is necessary for an oil rig welder.
- Similarly, mechanical welding skills are also mandatory.
- MIG welding and TIG welding are also the required skills for a welder.
- Similarly, torching, fabricating, and manufacturing the models must be known.
Further Requirements for Off-Shore Personnel
Offshore work becomes more difficult for the rig welders. So, there are certain conditions for working at a maritime place. If a rig welder fulfills these conditions, he can work on such a site. Some of the necessary data that personnel must have are as follows:
- A rig welder must pass a medical test. It is to ensure the health and wellness of a welder. In such a place, different prevailing conditions can be toxic or dreadful for a sick person. So, the welders must have a health certificate. In general, all the peoples pass the test. The persons having chronic ailments fail to pass the test.
- Helicopter underwater training is essential training for the rig welders. You can complete this training even if you don’t know how to swim. So, it is a compulsory certification but not too much tiring.
- You also need to pass the survival marine training program. It is a survival skill course that enables a person to survive in tropical and cold water regions.
- Another requirement to get a job as offshore personnel is that he must not have committed any crime. The name of the person must be free from illegal works like smuggling etc.
- Specific safety training is also mandatory for a new oceanic site welder to join the job. It is a definite point of jurisdiction that a welder must follow.
Pros and cons of becoming a rig welder
The job of rig welding has its different pros and cons. You can make handsome money, but the prevailing dangers and troubles are also harmful. Similarly, you can join the field in several ways. But the rig welding jobs demand a lot of traveling and relocating. Similarly, the weather changes can also affect your work as different oil-based companies do not provide tasks in the winter.
So, it can be difficult for a person to manage his lifestyle by adopting this job. But if you have a secure position in any industry, you will get a reasonable salary that will help you to raise your family.
Another benefit is the provision of beneficiary meals that often attracts the persons towards this profession. Peoples having a sturdy build can work in this profession without any trouble.
How much do rig welders make?
The latest survey made by a US-based rig welding company reveals that the yearly income of a rig welder is about 77,869 $. A simple salary calculator used by professional rig welders is to calculate the hourly earning.
You can make at least 39.45 dollars per hour. So, the weekly income of a rig welder must be 6494 dollars. However, different surveys made by companies in the United States show that the salaries of professional and experienced welders are about 137,685 dollars per year.
However, with a percentile of 25%, some people also earn 46,000 dollars annually.
What Are Different Types of Rig Welding Jobs?
Rig welders can work at different positions as well as different levels. They can join the field as an entry-level person, students, or an experienced person. Various rig welding jobs include:
- pipe welder
- Welders for natural gas or pipeline projects. These welders can work on government and private contacts and usually have remote jobs. Extensive traveling is mandatory for peoples working in the natural gas or pipeline welders. In addition to natural gas projects, such peoples can also sign a contract with a coal miner. There is plenty of possibilities for drilling oil or gas in such places.
- Fitters work for the welding and fitting of essential components used in oil rigs.
- Fitter welder has same or a little bit different job from the fitters.
- Hard benders.
- Oilfield welder also works to maintain the infrastructure of an oil-based company or distillery.
- Spot welder helps in the onboard welding projects.
- A combination pipe welder usually works for the assembly setting and distillery maintenance welding projects.
- And class A fitter/welder.
The primary responsibilities of these levels are the same. The employer can assign some additional tasks to these peoples. For example, a pipe welder works entirely on designing, building, and welding infrastructure pipes. On the other hand, a fitter welder can weld nearly all types of machinery parts in addition to a combination pipe.
Where Do Rig Welders Work?
Rig welders can get several rig welding jobs. They can work in land-based companies or offshore rig welding companies.
Land-based oil companies demand less skillful welders. But the tiring and troubling environment of on-shore companies requires a professional, and we’ll experience welder. So, shore welding companies are the most demanding and ultimate jobs for the rig welders due to their lucrative pay.
Rig welders also get work in different energy-based companies. They can work with the derrick welders, drillers, mechanics, and pumpers.
Some areas are rich in offshore rigs and have extensive jobs, while others don’t. So you may need to travel from one place to other to get suitable work.
In addition to oil-based welding rigs, you can also get an opportunity to work in manufacturing units where welding is mandatory. Similarly, marinas and piers are also the places where you can get a welding job. The environment and scenario of a rig welding job are very tiring and noisy. But it has enough salary that attracts the peoples towards this profession.
To summarize the whole discussion, I must say that a rig welding job can help a person pursue a beneficial carrier. Although, the rig welders work at a noisy and troublesome place. But the handsome amount of salary is sufficient to satisfy them.
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The Washington Times was in high dudgeon yesterday, lashing out at a series of federal programs aimed at promoting clean energy sources such as wind and solar power. What got lost in all the rhetorical thud and blunder was the enormous progress the U.S. wind power industry has made over the past decade in creating new American manufacturing jobs–many of which are currently at risk due to Congressional inaction on an extension of the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC)–and helping to bolster an uneven economy.
It's worth noting that, on the very same day that the Times was ripping wind power from inside the Beltway, in Colorado, where several thousand of those at-risk jobs are located, the state legislature passed a resolution recognizing wind energy's contribution to the Colorado economy and the Denver Post editorialized in favor of a PTC extension as well.
Some of the facts about wind's progress, ignored by the Times, deserve repeating:
The PTC has driven tremendous growth in wind equipment manufacturing. American wind power accounts for 75,000 American jobs today, and can grow to almost 100,000 jobs four years from now and support 500,000 American jobs less than 20 years from now, according to a Bush Administration study.
The U.S. now has over 400 facilities in 43 states involved in wind turbine manufacturing – 12-fold growth in domestic manufacturing over the last six years. As the non-partisan Congressional Research Service notes, “Wind turbine manufacturing is at the core of the multifaceted wind power industry. Because of the use of castings, forgings, and machining, turbine manufacturing is a significant contributor to U.S. heavy manufacturing.”
Remarkably in an age of job outsourcing, wind power is actually “insourcing” a whole new manufacturing sector. Sixty percent of a wind turbine's value is now produced here in America, compared to 25 percent prior to 2005.
Why is wind manufacturing growing in the U.S.? It’s simple economics. Wind components are so large – some wind turbine blades are approaching half the length of a football field – that it becomes much cheaper to build them close to where they will be deployed. That means factories in the windy heartland, states like Illinois, Ohio, Kansas and Iowa.
At the same time as wind has created a raft of new manufacturing jobs, its cost has been coming down.
For example, Alabama Power, a subsidiary of the Southern Company (a major electric utility), recently saved its customers money by signing a purchase agreement for wind power. In doing so, it stated: “The delivered price of energy from the wind facility is expected to be lower than the cost the Company would incur to produce that energy from its own resource (i.e. below the Company’s avoided costs), with the resulting energy savings flowing directly to the Company’s customers.”
And in Colorado, in a late-2011 order approving a wind power purchase by Xcel Energy, the state Public Utilities Commission stated that “the contract will save ratepayers $100 million on a net-present-value basis over its 25-year term under a base-case natural gas price scenario” while providing the opportunity to “lock in a price for 25 years.”
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HUMPHREY, LASH, MADDY, REDDING
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Date: 8/22/2009 at 18:55:47
Was resident of Harvey twenty-three years. In 1908 formed a partnership with G. W. Maddy in buying grain and other farm products. In 1909 began buying live stock and grain for R. W. Taylor & Co.; continued in the business until 1915, then he formed a partnership with J. W. Humphrey. In the sale of farm implements made by the well known Moline Plow Co. These goods are known throughout the west and the name "Moline" is an ample guarantee to the buyer. Later in the season he was contractor of the road work in Clay township, Marion county, which place he employ filled.
He will continue to buy grain and stock and pay the highest market price. He is now engaged in running a hay baler with gasoline equipments. You will find him ready to do your work on short order. He keeps at his barn, a fine Percheron stallion and if you are interested call and see him at any time.
It will be noticed that we omitted in the start to state the fact that he was engaged in the dray business from 1903 to 1907.
Mr. Redding was united in marriage with Maud Lash in 1902, and to them was born four girls of whom any parents might be proud of. The oldest, Lucille, is 11 years of age, Bernice is 10, Pauline is 9, and the youngest, a sweet and charming little Miss will be 2 years old in April. The three oldest are regular attendants at the Harvey grade school.
Source: Oskaloosa, Iowa Saturday Globe, 01 January 1916
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Researchers at Georgia Tech have created a real-time, interactive map to show Covid-19 risk in every county throughout all 50 states. Users can select an event size from 10+ people and click to see the risk of attending events of various sizes in different places.
For example, as of last Wednesday morning, if you were attending a Thanksgiving dinner with 10 people in Miami-Dade County, there’d be a 15% chance at least one person was COVID-19 positive, according to the tool.
But if you attended a 50-person gathering in Cook County, Illinois, there was an 82% chance at least one person was COVID-19 positive.
Reactions from experts, per The Washington Post:
“William Borden, a professor of medicine and health policy at George Washington University, called the map, which drills down to the county level, a ‘really powerful tool. It provides a really great practical way to take sort of complex data and make it understandable,’ said Borden, who was not involved in creating the tool.
Still, Borden and other experts urged people to be mindful of the data’s limitations. For instance, the Georgia Tech map doesn’t tell you your risk of actually contracting the virus at an event, Borden said.
‘That’s because your risk depends on a whole bunch of other factors, like is it outdoors or indoors? Are people wearing masks? Is there distancing? What’s the ventilation? Are people touching objects?” he said. “There are all these other factors that we have to really pay close attention to in order to reduce our risk of getting covid-19.’
Brian Garibaldi, medical director of the Biocontainment Unit at Johns Hopkins, said that the map also isn’t able to adjust for people’s unique behaviors, which may affect the risk of potential virus transmission.”
Other tools: Professors at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School released MyCovidRisk.app to estimate a person’s chances of getting the virus from specific activities and offering suggestions for reducing risk.
A Stanford University-led team has created a computer model using mobility data to accurately predict how Covid-19 spreads in cities and give decision makers the best possible information.
Restaurants, cafes, gyms, and “other crowded indoor places” were cited for eight out of 10 new coronavirus infections during the pandemic’s early months in a study newly published in the scientific journal “Nature.”
SafeGraph, a company that aggregates anonymized location data from mobile applications, used cell phone data to follow 98 million people in the 10 largest U.S. cities (in population order: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Houston, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia and San Francisco) to determine where they went, how long they stayed, and what the square footage of those locations was. “Footsteps” were followed through half a million different everyday establishments: restaurants, fitness centers, pet stores, hardware stores, grocery stores, schools, churches and car dealerships.
“Restaurants were by far the riskiest places, about four times riskier than gyms and coffee shops, followed by hotels,” — Jure Leskovec, a Stanford University computer scientist, and the study’s lead author.
By cross-referencing that data with local infection rates, researchers used “standard infectious disease assumptions” to determine which venues were the most high-risk and to track how the illness spread throughout those cities.
“In principle, anyone can use this model to understand the consequences of different stay-at-home and business closure policy decisions,” said Leskovec, whose team is now working to develop the model into a user-friendly tool for policymakers and public health officials.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-356) and index.
Book I: The mind and consciousness. Unlocking the mind ; Consciousness: a physicist's viewpoint -- Book II: Mind over matter. Telepathy: a penny for your thoughts ; Telekinesis: mind controlling matter ; Memories and thoughts made to order ; Einstein's brain and enhancing our intelligence -- Book III: Altered consciousness. In your dreams ; Can the mind be controlled? ; Altered states of consciousness ; The artificial mind and silicon consciousness ; Reverse engineering the brain ; The future: mind beyond matter ; The mind as pure energy ; The alien mind ; Concluding remarks.
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