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Healthy relationships don’t just happen; they take time, patience and two people who truly want to work together to create something meaningful.
What does it take to create and nurture a healthy relationship? That’s a question Angel and I get asked by readers and coaching clients on a daily basis. After a decade of coaching individuals and couples and researching how people build healthy, lasting relationships, we have learned a lot about what it takes.
Whether you’re working to improve your marriage, a dating relationship, or a friendship, there are lots of little things you can do to keep your relationship on track. And since we’ve recently covered some of these healthy relationship strategies here and here, today I want to take a look at the flipside – what people in healthy relationships don’t do:
- They don’t rush the present state of their relationships to get to better times ahead. – The thing about obsessing about a happy ending is that you forget to enjoy the journey along the way. Right now is life… don’t miss it! You need to enjoy the company you care to keep, today, while you’re still guaranteed a chance to do so.
- They don’t expect their relationships to solve all their problems. – While a healthy relationship can certainly bring joy, it’s not anyone else’s job to fill in your empty inner space. That’s your job and yours alone; and until you accept responsibility for your emptiness, pain, or boredom, problems will inevitably ensue and persist in the relationship.
- They don’t expect their relationships to be easy. – Long-tern relationships are amazing, but rarely easy. Resisting the hard times and seeing them as immediate evidence that something is wrong or that you’re with the wrong person only aggravates the difficulties. By contrast, finding the willingness to view the challenges as an opportunity to learn will give you the energy and strength you need to continue to move forward and grow your relationship to the next level.
- They don’t let fear overpower their love and trust. – You never lose by loving; you lose by holding back. No relationship is impossible until you refuse to give it a chance. Love means giving someone the chance to hurt you, but trusting them not to. Without this trust, a relationship cannot survive. You cannot just believe what you fear from others; you have to believe in the good faith of others. If you are ever going to have someone trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too. (Read The Mastery of Love.)
- They don’t keep secrets. – Trust is the foundation of a relationship, and when trust is broken it takes time and willingness on the part of both people involved to repair it and heal. All too often, I’ll hear a coaching client say something like, “I didn’t tell her but I didn’t lie about it, either.” This statement is a contradiction, as omissions are lies. If you’re covering up your tracks in any way, it’s only a matter of time before the truth is revealed and trust in the relationship is broken. Speak the truth, no matter what the consequences. Being honest is the only way to be at peace with yourself and others.
- They don’t fake their feelings. – Do not contrive to be a loving person: work to be a real person instead. Being real is being loving.
- They don’t hide who they are. – There’s nothing better for your happiness and your relationships than for you to be at your best, showing everyone in every way who you are and what you stand for.
- They don’t look to others for validation of their identity. – Never wait around for someone else to give you permission to be yourself. You don’t need anyone’s validation to be happy or to live a good life. That’s a state of mind only you can create, and then bring in to the relationship with you.
- They don’t hold hateful grudges. – It’s a good time, right now, for letting go. Let’s not drag angst into tomorrow. Let’s regroup, make amends where we can, and move on. Make peace with people as much as you are able. Even if forgiveness doesn’t equal reconciliation, lay down the sword and let it be. Life is too short.
- They don’t focus on the unchangeable past. – Sometimes happiness in relationships amounts to making peace with something that can’t be fixed. Sometimes you let it go, and sometimes you hold it broken. It amounts to forgiveness in any case.
- They don’t expect their loved ones to always be strong. – Sometimes people let us down because they can’t hold us up. “I can’t carry you” doesn’t mean, “I don’t love you.” It may simply mean, “I’m struggling too.”
- They don’t focus on people’s flaws. – Do your best to maintain sincere love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more good you will uncover in yourself.
- They don’t give out of obligation, or because they want to be paid back. – Do something special for someone you love, and for a stranger today. Do it because you can and because it makes the world a happier place. Always give more than you take. When you shift your attitude from “how can I gain” to “how can I give,” you’ll be amazed at the gifts you receive. Truth be told, the most successful people in the most successful relationships are looking for ways to help others. The most unsuccessful people are still asking, “What’s in it for me?”
- They don’t take their relationships for granted. – An incredible thing happens when you pay close attention. It’s by participating more in your relationships that you breathe life into them. So make time for those you care about. With our busy schedules we often forget to relax and enjoy the great company we have. In human relationships distance is not measured in miles, but in affection. Two people can be right next to each other, yet miles apart. So don’t ignore someone you care about, because lack of concern hurts more than angry words.
- They don’t just show up when times are good. – Be there through the good, bad, happy, and sad times… no matter what. Be willing to provide a listening ear, a hug, and emotional support in all circumstances. In a healthy relationship, both people can trust that they can count on each other, and are willing to be available not only when it’s convenient, but when they need each other the most.
- They don’t try to constantly “fix” the people they care about. – The art of caring for another is rooted in love and respect. It means listening to them wholeheartedly and letting them know by your complete presence that they are seen and valued. It’s not a space where you try to fix the other person. It’s about being witness to the totality of another human being. (Read The Gifts of Imperfection.)
- They don’t talk when they need to listen. – It takes some courage to stand up and speak; it takes even more courage to open your mind and listen. Pay attention and be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. The people in your life often need a listening ear more than they need a rambling voice. And don’t listen with the intent to reply; hear what is being said with the intent to understand. You are as beautiful as the love you give, and you are as wise as the silence you leave behind.
- They don’t take everything personally. – If you take everything personally, you will remain offended for the rest of your life. What other people do is because of them, not you. Never permit the behavior of other people to tell you how you feel.
- They don’t neglect their own self-awareness. – When two people meet, the prize always goes to the one with the most self-insight. He or she will be calmer, more confident, and more at ease with the other.
- They don’t say “yes” when they need to say “no.” – You can’t always be agreeable; that’s how people take advantage of you. Sometimes you have to set clear boundaries.
- They don’t let people hold them back indefinitely. – Give people lots of chances, but realize that you can’t grow by hanging out with people who refuse to grow themselves. Try to spend less time with those who are stubborn and stuck in their comfort zones. And if someone doesn’t want to let you grow, it might be time to let them go. Your relationships should help you in the long run, not hurt you.
- They don’t resist or interfere with other people’s growth. – Healthy relationships move in the direction of personal growth: for the relationship and for each individual. A desire to impede the growth of the other for one’s comfort is an expression of fear. Even when one is concerned that the relationship may dissolve, they accept that their paths may diverge for the benefit of both. Mutual growth is put before personal gain.
- They don’t rebound and rush into replacement relationships. – If you painfully lose a valuable friend or lover, do not rush out at once for a replacement. Such hurried action prevents you from examining your heartache and breaking free of it. (Angel and I discuss this in more detail in the “Self-Love” chapter of 1,000 Little Things Happy, Successful People Do Differently.)
- They don’t look at past relationships as failures. – Although not all relationships are meant to be, there are no failed relationships, because every person in your life has a lesson to teach. And the lessons you learn make future relationships that much stronger.
- They don’t let what’s behind them define them. – As long as you’re worried that you could replicate a hurtful relationship from the past, you won’t be free to create new, healthy bonds. Regardless of what fears you have, work to release them. Start by acknowledging that these fears are present, and then remind yourself that you’re not doomed to any particular fate. You’re the one running your life, and you have the power to create healthy relationships. If you find yourself veering off course, you can correct this. If you’ve made mistakes in your past, you can learn from them.
The floor is yours…
Which of these points resonate most with you? Which ones do you sometimes struggle with? And what else do people in healthy relationships NOT do? Leave a comment below and share your thoughts and insights.
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This groundbreaking book of literary detective work alters our understanding of T. S. Eliot’s poetic masterpiece, The Waste Land. Lawrence Rainey not only resolves longstanding mysteries surrounding the composition of the poem but also overturns traditional interpretations of the poem that have prevailed for more than eighty years. He shines new light on Eliot’s greatest achievement and on the poem’s place in the modern canon....
By Lawrence Rainey
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press; 1St Edition edition (May 16, 2007)
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Everybody mocks the 70s now, and no one does it better than Lawrence Rainey, the scholar who has finally put together the drafts of THE WASTE LAND and once and for all proved in what order the poem was written.But in the 1970s, when Valerie Eliot, T.
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As you have reported, the circumstances leading to the resignation of the European commissioner for health and consumer policy, John Dalli (pictured), remain murky (“Tobacco law in disarray after Dalli resignation”, 18-24 October). However, according to the Commission, its “decision-making process and the position of the services concerned have not been affected at all by the matters under [the OLAF, the EU anti-fraud office] report” on Dalli’s wrongdoing. If this is indeed the case, postponing the revision of the tobacco products directive (TPD), set to restrict the marketing of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco would not only be unjustifiable, but plainly undemocratic. Since 2007, the European Parliament, the European Council, and the 2010 public consultation on the TPD have repeatedly called for revision of the directive.
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By Julio P. Yap Jr.
Nueva Ecija contributes more than 50 percent of the country’s onion production, based on a report made by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), where majority of the municipalities and cities in the province are involved in the production of onions every planting season.
But for the period of April to June this year, the production of red onion decreased by 14.8 percent, from 44.62 thousand metric tons in the same quarter of 2017, to 38.02 thousand metric tons this year.
This can be attributed to the shifting of some areas in Central Luzon to palay production to alleviate the recurrence of armyworm infestation, and smaller bulbs harvested due to early harvesting in an effort to control the damage of army worms; lesser bulbs were also harvested in MIMAROPA also due to the effect of army worms.
Central Luzon, the top producer of red onion at 19.74 thousand metric tons accounted for 51.9 percent of the country’s total production. This was followed by MIMAROPA with 42.4 percent, and Ilocos Region, 2.6 percent.
However, the production of onion in Nueva Ecija, particularly in the municipality of Bongabon (the leading producer of onion in the Philippines and probably in Southeast Asia), is expected to increase, following the introduction of newer and pest-resistant varieties.
This came out following the conduct of a farm demo conducted recently by Allied Botanical Corporation in some areas of Bongabon, where the Super Max F1 Hybrid Red Onion was introduced.
The local farmers found out that the variety is ideal for long-term storage after harvesting. The bulbs have smaller necks, has higher marketable yield due to the bulb’s productivity and uniformity, and better tolerance to diseases like armyworms.
The variety is also ideal for early season planting, according to onion farmer Victor
Layug who tried to plant the crop in a portion of his farm in Barangay Togatog, Bongabon.
Layug claimed that he was able to more than double his harvest as compared to using the traditional varieties he has been cultivating before.
When asked as to how he was able to harvest such volume despite the infestation of armyworms (locally known as harabas) in his area, he claimed that he was able to prevent them by applying Nordox 75WG micronized fungicide regularly.
He also said that the crops of the other farmers near his farm were already being attacked by armyworms, but his onion plantation remained almost pest-free because of using Nordox,which is a micronized copper fungicide that provided protection to his plants.
According to Tacs Ong, the area sales manager of ABC in Central Luzon, the Super Max F1 Hybrid Red Onion variety is a new hybrid “Tinto” type red onion which is early maturing and highly recommended for the fresh market.
Among its distinguishable characteristics include its deep red bulb color and high tolerance to diseases.
With these characteristics, the farmers were able to witness a totally new concept of producing this crop in their area, which can draw the interests of the consumers, as well as the traders, and food processors in the locality.
However, the notion that the cultivation of onion can only be confined in Nueva Ecija may not be true anymore, after the farmers in other areas have also proven that the commodity can be prolifically grown in their locality.
It was learned that the variety was developed to grow well in the different geographic regions of the country, seasons, and climatic conditions, while keeping abreast of the ever-changing market demands and consumer preferences.
The seed of the said onion variety is distributed in the Philippines by ABC – a leading supplier, producer, and breeder of vegetable seeds in the country.
The said onion variety is also well adapted for production in the tropical regions, and designed for long storage and robust yields even in stress conditions.
During a harvest festival which was held in San Jose City, Occidental Mindoro, the farmers who tried the variety claimed that it also performed very well in the area, considering that onions were known to thrive only in northern Luzon.
With this development, it is possible that onion farming can also flourish in the different regions of the country, which can eventually address the intermittent onion shortage being experienced by the farmers and consumers from time to time.
For more information, visit the Allied Botanical Corporation.
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Florida manatee, Trichechus manatus latirostris, a subspecies of the West Indian manatee, endangered. Theo, my husband, is the snorkeler demonstranting "let the manatee come to you". Passive observation with one's hands to oneself is how to interact with this endearing and often "friendly" marine mammal. There is strong sunlight and blue spring water with schools of mangrove snapper (Lutjanus griseus) on a cool Florida day. Horizontal orientation and polite, passive observation. Three Sisters Springs, Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge, Kings Bay, Crystal River, Citrus County, Florida USA.
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As a rule, when you were first hired, you were covered automatically by Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Basic insurance. While you can decline that coverage, few employees do. Not only is it life insurance at group rates, the government pays a third of the cost if you are a non-postal employee, and the entire cost if you are a postal employee.
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Predictive state representations (PSRs) are a commonly used approach for agents to summarize the information from history generated during their interaction with a dynamical environment and the agents may use PSRs to predict the future observation. Existing works have shown the benefits of PSRs for modelling partially observable dynamical systems. One of the key issues in PSRs is to discover a set of tests for representing states, which is called core tests. However, there is no very efficient technique to find the core tests for a large and complex problem in practice. In this paper, we formulate the discovering of the set of core tests as an optimization problem and exploit a group sparsity of the decision-making matrix to solve the problem. Then the PSR parameters can be obtained simultaneously. Hence, the model of the underlying system can be built immediately. The new learning approach doesn’t require the specification of the number of core tests. Furthermore, the embedded optimization method for solving the considered group Lasso problem, called alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), can achieve a global convergence. We conduct experiments on three problem domains including one extremely large problem domain and show promising performances of the new approach. | <urn:uuid:11c376f5-eaad-472e-a0e3-eebb7250258d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/publications/group-sparse-optimization-for-learning-predictive-state-represent | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.934701 | 241 | 1.851563 | 2 |
JUDO IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
By: Jeff Beish, USJA Member
To my knowledge the history of organized Judo in the United States has never been officially published in a single volume. Any article of this history would necessarily be based on personal memories and articles scattered about the Martial Arts world. I will attempt to record the history of the United States Judo Association from my personal memories and papers. Bear in mind first and foremost this is based on my personal knowledge and is subject to human error. This is a work in progress.
My first contact with organized Judo came in 1960 when attending basic training in the U.S. Air Force (USAF). I had been practicing Judo on and off since 1952; however, had no knowledge of organized Judo except for the local dojo I attended. Our drill instructor at Lackland AFB, Texas was SSGT Linan, who was black belt in Kodokan Judo. Also I met a new friend, Masato Yamashita, another black belt in Judo. He and I were allowed to workout with the base Judo club.
After our basic training ended Yamashita and I were transferred to Chanute AFB, Illinois to attend technical school. We found that the Chanute Judo Club had 20 or 30 students and we had plenty of Judo activity for off duty times. Once an older Judoka came to visit our class and was introduced as SSgt. Rick Mertens who was active in the Air Force Judo Association (AFJA), so he recruited club members into the organization. We both joined the AFJA and I would remain a regular member until 1969 when I became a life member.
I remained in the USAF until early 1968 and participated in the Judo activities at each base within the JBBF and AFJA. After that I was unattached and remained with the JBBF until the AFJA split from them and formed the United States Judo Association (USJA). Except for just having fun practicing Judo I avoided Judo politics and have been a much happier camper for that. Here is an outline of the history as I remember it. This is a work in progress and suggestions are welcome.
JUDO IN THE STRATIGIC AIR COMMAND
It all began back in 1951 when USAF General Curtiss LeMay authorized a most innovative program to teach his Strategic Air Command (SAC) aircrews the art of "hand-to-hand combat." For a more officially sounding name, "combative measures" was coined by the Air Force. To accomplish this task, General LeMay directed the SAC Physical Conditioning units and Air Police units to select candidates for Martial Arts training at the Kodokan Judo Institute in Japan. The training sessions at the Kodokan would include Judo, jujitsu, karate, aikido, and other related forms that would eventually lead to certifying them to become “combative measures” instructors. As commander-in-chief of the USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC), General Curtis E. LeMay came to realize that in the time of the Cold War there was a great need to train his combat crews in survival techniques.
Gen. LeMay also recognized that a well organized Judo programs would not only help his airmen to increase physical fitness it would also teach aircrews to defend themselves if they were shot down into enemy territory. LeMay's first problem was finding enough qualified Judo instructors to carry out his program. He found the answer when he hired a former National wrestling champion and ranking Judo person Mr. Emilio ("Mel") Bruno (6th degree black belt) to organize and head up the SAC Judo and Physical Conditioning unit . So, in 1952 the SAC - ARDC Combatives Measures Program was born at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska .
Since there were only a hand full of qualified Judo instructors, SAC then decided to train its own instructors by sending airmen with prior Judo experience to Japan's Kodokan Judo Institute for advanced training by the world's foremost experts. These airmen returned to instruct SAC airmen at the various bases. SAC also secured the services of ten of the highest ranking Judo experts from the Kodokan to visit the United States and tour SAC bases to give advanced training to airmen in Judo, karate, and police methods.
Judo in Omaha began during the early 1950s. Mike Meriweather taught at the YMCA and Dr. Ashida (at 22 one of the youngest 5th-degree black belts) taught at the University in Lincoln. Also, a number of black belts practiced judo at Offutt Air Force Base. Among the better known military judoka were Sgt. Mann, Augie Hauso, Phil Porter, Carl Flood, and La Verne Raab. The first commercial judo school, the Omaha Judo Academy, was opened by La Verne Raab and Carl Flood after they left the military. Mel Bruno, who later became head of judo for SAC, taught judo at the Omaha YWCA and at the Omaha Athletic Club. In the Governance of U.S. Judo the development of a national governing body for U.S. judo started in 1952 through the efforts of Dr. Henry A. Stone, Major Draeger, and others. At that time there was no national authority to give guidance to local judo communities and insure the logical and orderly development of judo as a sport. Additional information on the Electronic Journals of Martial Arts and Sciences . [ EJMAS, 2010].
SAC JUDO SOCIETY AND THE AMERICAN JUDO ASSOCIATION
In 1953 the U.S. Air Force invited judo, karate, and aikido experts from Japan to give demonstrations at many Air Force Bases over the United States . One purpose of this tour was to train judo instructors and combat crews to give exhibitions on and off base. A demonstration was also setup at the White House marking a millstone in Judo development in America . The SAC Judo Society was created and became a chartered black belt organization under the Kodokan. The Amateur Judo Association (AJA) was also created for the purpose of bringing together the various judo organizations in the US under one roof. Also, during 1953, the first National AAU Judo tournament was held at San Jose State College and the SAC team was invited to participate.
The Amateur Judo Association was a first attempt at establishing a national governing structure. Dr. Stone served as the first president. Authority to grant the most coveted Kodokan judo rank was assumed by the national organization. High ranking individuals were no longer permitted to grant promotions independently. The growth of local judo organizations was encouraged, promotion privileges were granted to yudanshakai, and a national communications avenue was opened.
SAC JUDO SOCIETY AND THE JUDO BLACK BELT FEDERATION
In 1954, the first SAC Judo Tournament was held at Offutt AFB. The Grand Champion was Airman Morris Curtis. Two SAC judoists advanced to the last few rounds in the 1954 AAU National Championships at Kezar Stadium, San Francisco . The 12-man, SAC team won 29 rounds and lost 19 but was unable to place a man. Staff Sgt. Ed Maley, SAC, a member of the 1955 SAC Judo Team, placed in the 1955 AAU National championships-third in the 150-lb division. The Air Research and Development Command, USAD (ARDC), also entered a team in 1955, after only a year of competition, and A/1 C Vern Raab won an unofficial fourth place in the heavyweight division.
SAC sent 26 Air Police went to the Kodokan to study judo fourteen weeks. The curriculum consisted of police tactics, aikido, karate and judo. Also, that same years SAC brought S. Kotani and T. Otaki to the US to help conduct the first SAC tournament and to coach the SAC judo team. A 10-man, AAU-Air Force team visited six Japanese cities to compete in 16 contests. Five members of the team were Air Force, and the most successful member of the team was to be heard from many times in the future. This man, Staff Sgt. George Harris, won all of his 16 contests.
In 1955 the AJA changed its name to Judo Black Belt Federation (JBBF) to recognize its role as a national federation of local yudanshakai (black belt associations). During this time the JBBF controlled judo ranking and the Amateur Athletics Union (AAU) oversaw the amateur aspects of the sport. Then in 1963 the JBBF began using the name US Judo Federation for its business purposes.
Under the guidance of Gen. Power (ARDC Commander) the SAC Judo Society received recognition from the Kodokan in 1956. Emilio Bruno was elected president and the association was permitted to grant judo rank. This was the first and only Armed Forces judo association to be so recognized by the Kodokan. SAC and ARDC sent 280 Air Policemen for four-week classes at the Kodokan during 1956.
In 1957, after only five years in judo, Staff Sgt. George Harris won the Grand Championship in the National AAU Judo Championships in Hawaii . Harris was first in the heavyweight division; sweeping the division with him were A/1 C Lenwood Williams in second place and A/2C Ed Mede, third. The Air Force also took the National 5-Man Team Championship for the first time. Winners of the SAC and ARDC tournaments represented the Air Force in the AAU tournaments on April 13 and 14 in Chicago . Twelve Air Force judoists participated, with George Harris successfully defending his Grand Championship, and the Air Force team captured the National 5-Man Team Championship for the second year in a row. Due to the great power of southern California in the lower weight divisions, the Air Force was unable to win the overall team championship.
In 1957 the Second Air Force held its championship tournament in Austin, Texas and invited Roy H. (“Pop”) Moore to officiate the tournament. Pop decided to stay and the Austin Judo Club opened its doors; with the help of Col. Walthrop, Beverly Sheffieid, from the Austin Recreation Department and a young competitor, Jerry Reid, from Bergstrom Air Force Base.
Meanwhile the SAC Judo Society was also changing and developing. In 1958 the society became the Subsequently it was renamed the Strategic Air Command Judo Association (SACJA), then SAC-ARDC Judo Society and shortly there after to the SAC-ARDC Judo Society. Originally SACJA was created for service active-duty military personnel and their dependents. This also included civilian personnel who worked for the Air Force and eventually members who left the Air Force would remain as members.
The SAC Judo Team, consisting of L. Williams, E. Mede, G. Harris, J. Reid, R. Moxley, and M. O'Connor (trainer) was designated as the U.S. Pan-American Judo Team in 1958. Team members won first and fourth in the 3rd dan category (Harris and Williams), third in the 2nd dan (Reid), and second in the 1st dan (Mede). In the fall of 1958, George Harris and Ed Mede represented the U.S. in the 2nd World Tournament, held in Tokyo. Harris's three wins before losing to Sone, a Japanese 5th degree, placed him in a tie for fifth place along with the four other defeated quarter finalists. As a result of this fine record, George Harris was promoted to 4th degree in judo, the first Armed Forces man to be so honored. By then Judo was only loosely organized into groups within Air Force Commands. Soon these groups formed a larger body to encompass the entire U.S Air Force and looked for someone to command the associations.
With the addition of members such as Bill Nagase and Sam Numahiri in Fort Worth, Karl Geis and Rick Landers in Houston, and Rick Mertens in Shreveport , the Southwestern U.S. Judo Association came into being. The association annexed small areas out of several yudanshakais and covered the states of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico . In 1959 the Southwestern U.S. Championships were held in Austin, TX with over 300 competitors attending. In the late 1950s Bill Nagase and Gail Stolzenburg competed in the National AAU Senior Judo Championships.
In 1958 the name was again changed to the Air Force Judo Association (AFJA). The growth of judo and the AFJA was so rapid in the services that in 1961 the AFJA became the Armed Forces Judo Association (AFJA). This organization governed judo in all branches of the US military. However as the AFJA grew, problems between it and the JBBF developed when the JBBF would not give the association equal representation in the federation, even though at one time its membership was larger than the JBBF.
The military people did not get involved in civilian judo until about 1958. Around 1960, Darrell Darling, Phil Porter, Paul Own, Wally Barber, who was director of the local YMCA, and Mike Manly met at Dr. Ashida's house and decided to form a yudanshakai. They framed a constitution and made contacts with the yudanshakai officers in Chicago and Denver to implement the project. In the autumn of 1961 the yudanshakai, which covered the greater part of six states, was formed and became Armed Forces Judo Association (AFJA).
In 1962 the International Judo Federation was formed and became the governing body for judo internationally. The Air Forces Association, as the JBBF referred to the AFJA, in April 1962 expanded to include all branches of the services, i.e., the Navy/Marine Judo Association and the Army Judo Association and the name was changed to the Armed Forces Judo Association (AJFA). An eight-man Armed Forces Judo team from Kanto Base Command Tokyo won third place in the Tama Games in
THE UNITED STATES JUDO ASSOCIATION
The founding of the USJA was in 1968 by a group of experienced Judoists who met is a Chicago hotel room. Attending that meeting were George Bass, Robey Reed, Jim Bregman, Phil Porter, George Harris, Rick Mertens, and Karl Geis. In 1969 the differences and positions that had been fought out at the meetings finally culminated in one of the yudanshakai (the Armed Forces Judo Association) withdrawing from the U.S. Judo Federation to start a rival national organization. The Armed Forces Judo Association adopted a name similar to that of the parent organization, the United States Judo Association (USJA) . The association closely aligned itself with the philosophy and position of the Amateur Athletic Union. Eventually, as a result of a court case, the USJA was granted the same rights as USJF to award Judo ranks. The AAU was later replaced by the United States Judo Incorporated (USJI) as the governing body for Judo in the US, and both the USJF and USJA are equal organizational members.
Since its inception the USJA has become the leader for American judo. Phil Porter developed a ranking system that has become a model for American Judo. Jim Bregman and Ben Campbell [both 1964 US Olympians] pioneered the summer camp movement. During the early 70s, Camp Olympus was the technical center for American Judo.
In the United States, the USJI along with USJA and USJF are the governing bodies for judo. There are other organizations such as the Dai-Nippon Seibu-kan Budol Bugei-Kai, the American Society of Classical Judoka (ASCJ), and the Eastern Collegiate Judo Association.
Additional History: Some words of wisdom from the late Rick Mertens, former USJA Executive Secretary.
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World’s busiest – Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
Serving 43.8 million passengers yearly, China’s Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport is now the busiest airport in the world.
Hit by the pandemic, the air travel industry reconfigured the list of the world’s busiest airports. After 22 consecutive years, Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) lost its title as Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN) mounted to the top of the list and crowned itself the busiest airport in the world.
On January 25, 2021, Guangzhou airport announced it had carried 43.8 million passengers in 2020. In 2018, the airport carried 69.74 million and ranked 13th on the list of the busiest airports. In 2019, it climbed to 11th place with 73.39 million yearly passengers. In 2020, even experiencing a 40% drop of passenger traffic, Guangzhou airport outperformed Atlanta International Airport, which has seen a slower recovery from the pandemic.
In 2019, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was the busiest airport by passenger volume and served 110.5 million passengers. In the first quarter of 2020, passenger traffic dropped to 20.7 million passengers. On January 23, 2021, the Atlanta airport said its passenger numbers mounted to 42.9 million in 2020.
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We offer you a four days trekking surrounding the majestic Monte Perdido in the spectacular Ordesa National Park (Huesca) in the heart of the Pyrenean mountain range.
From de top of Ordesa Valley we will start the tour crossing Balcón de Pineta, Brecha de Tucarroya, Circo d’Estaube, Circo de Gavarnie, Brecha Roldán, Circo de Góriz and Faja de las Flores, and passing by the mountain huts of Goriz, Pineta, Espuguettes and Serradets.
The terrain varies from rough areas to grasslands and forest paths. The big rock snow-topped walls will accompany us during the walk.
It is a great getaway to enjoy some of the most famous point en the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park.
The Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park is located in the Huesca Pyrenees, Aragon (Spain). It occupies the municipalities of Bielsa, Fanlo, Puértolas, Tella-Sin, Torla and Broto and it receives over 600.000 visitors per year.
The Park cover 15.608 hectares and it has a peripheral protection zone of 19.679 hectares. The altitude ranges from 700 m. in Vellós River to 3.355 m. in the Monte Perdido summit.
Without doubt this Park is a jewel of nature, with a geomorphology created by the erosive glacial action, where you can find huge vertical walls, beech woods, waterfalls and a varied fauna.
Brecha de Rolando is a narrow col of 40 m wide and 100 m high, located at 2.804 meters high in the Monte Perdido massif. Legend has it that this gap was created by Rolando, Charlemagne’s nephew, while he was trying to destroy his sword hitting it against the rock after the battle of Roncesvalles.
Monte Perdido is the highest limestone massif in Europe with a summit of 3.355 meters high.
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When Florida State University music professor Kevin Fenton puts his mind to something, he thinks big and acts bigger.
Fenton is pursuing a unique mission to use the international language of music to help spread peace around the world. Now, a powerful new documentary spotlights his work to accomplish that goal.
The film, just released this month and available for viewing at avoice4peace.org/film, is sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi and directed by FSU graduate Bud Simpson.
The 44-minute movie focuses on Fenton’s trek across Kenya in fall 2016 for an effort called AVoice4Peace. He has worked over the past couple of years to help organize the ongoing project, which challenges choirs across the globe to dedicate one day a year to talk and sing about peace.
The documentary shows Fenton, professor of choral conducting at FSU’s College of Music, and Ken Wakia, director of the Nairobi Chamber Chorus, as they prepare to livestream a “peace concert” on Sept. 21, 2016 — the International Day of Peace.
In the film, which was recognized at the Madrid International Film Festival, Fenton said the time was right for the concert as war and suffering covered all corners of the earth.
“I think that right now people are ready for a response to the violence that’s out there,” Fenton said.
Wakia echoed those sentiments.
“If you see what’s going on around the world, you feel like we need music now more than ever before. I’ve never thought of a better way we can heal the world than through music,” Wakia said.
The film features the travels of Fenton, Wakia and singer Maureen Obadha, a Fulbright Scholar from Nairobi, in the days leading up to the concert. The film describes their mission as a “musical journey through Kenya in search of music and peace. Where they found one, they found the other.”
The camerawork offers a captivating glimpse of the African landscape — including its wild cheetahs, leopards, elephants and giraffes — as the trio travels across dusty terrain to remote villages in Kenya’s Maasi Mara National Reserve to join villagers performing traditional dances and songs.
The film offers an emotional glimpse of the Nairobi Chamber Chorus leading a performance of the traditional African hymn “Ukuthula,” which means “peace” in Zulu.
Children and adults in more than 60 choirs around the world including — Tallahassee’s Kate Sullivan Elementary School; Dublin; Seattle; Tokyo; Alpharetta, Georgia; Kakuma, Kenya; and Johnson, Vermont — joined the event through a livestream.
Fenton said the documentary highlights how the thousand decisions we all make every day can move us toward tension and conflict or toward release and peace.
“That’s why we’re pursuing this effort so assertively,” Fenton said. “We believe individual decisions are the key to finding peace.”
Fenton was in Kenya for the concert as a result of a five-week residency at the Conservatoire of Music in Nairobi funded by a Fulbright Specialist grant. During the residency, he taught choirs in Kenya, Uganda and South Africa.
Now, he’s planning a 2017 World Peace Day concert in Tallahassee on Sept. 21. He will conduct the College of Music’s University Singers and Chamber Choir in a performance featuring “Ukuthula.” The AVoice4Peace concert will be livestreamed so singers worldwide can join them. | <urn:uuid:c93f5d80-d89b-4019-abf3-bf4b1097b9ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.fsu.edu/news/arts-humanities/2017/06/15/new-film-spotlights-fsu-professors-pursuit-world-peace/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942194 | 779 | 2.328125 | 2 |
At a time when global development conversations are focused on the post-2015 development agenda, and with the perspectives of young people finally being recognised as a key consideration as we move beyond the Millennium Development Goals (United Nations, Global Thematic Consultation on Governance Report, 2015:9), it is an opportune moment to build on existing Pacific-led efforts that redefine what development could be and might involve. Guided by the Pacific Youth Council (PYC), this pilot study draws on the strengths, priorities and aspiration of a group of young people representing 10 organisations to explore and design development frameworks using strengths-based participatory processes. During a two-day workshop held on 22nd & 23rd September, 2015 participant co-researchers reflected on their development practice and developed a range of key themes and mechanisms to better integrate youth perspectives into existing development and organisational processes. All co-researchers are currently putting together a workshop summary document and planning a number of co-authored practitioner and academic publications.
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Georgia absentee ballot requests so far: 5 times more than 2016 totals
COVID-19 has pushed substantially more Georgia voters towards voting absentee this year than four years ago.
At the end of the day on Tuesday, 1,352,070 Georgians had requested an absentee ballot for the Nov. 3 general election. In 2016, only 241,519 absentee ballots were issued.
Of the ballots requested this year, 102,900 had been completed and returned by close of business Tuesday.
Like many facets of life after COVID, it was uncharted territory for Georgia. Following the twice-delayed June 9 primary, which garnered an overwhelming round of absentee ballot requests, the Secretary of State’s office has taken steps to make the absentee process more accessible and transparent, Communications Manager for Voter Education Walter Jones said.
Jones points towards Georgia’s new online absentee ballot request portal, which allows voters to get an absentee ballot by filling out a short form online.
“It takes about 30 seconds to do, and it helps the voter because it's so simple. You don't have to download the form, sign it and mail it in,” Jones said. “It also streamlines things for the counties, because the voter is entering the data directly into the voter registration system.”
Once those ballots are requested, voters can use the state’s new BallotTrax system, which sends text alerts when their absentee ballots are issued, received and accepted.
Since its launch around the end of August, the online portal has been used by 262,712 Georgia voters — more than the total absentee ballots issued in the 2016 general election.
In terms of receiving and processing the ballots, Georgia has made a few changes meant to make the process more smooth.
The state will not send out absentee ballot request forms to every registered active voter, as it did for the primary.
The state has extended the deadline for receiving absentee ballots by three days. Usually, mailed ballots have to be received by 7 p.m. on election day, but now, as long as it is postmarked before Nov. 3 and received before 7 p.m. on Nov. 6, the ballot will be counted.
Additionally, the ballots can now be processed by county elections boards as soon as Oct. 19 — a move meant to allow these boards to more quickly count the ballots on election night. Before now, processing began at 7 a.m. on election day.
In the June 9 primary, it took the Chatham County Board of Elections 10 days to certify the election, largely because of the time it took to count the record turnout of absentee ballots — by the time polls closed on June 9, nearly 31,000 Chatham County voters had voted absentee.
“While we understand the Georgia tradition of in-person voting and look forward to returning to normal in-person voting in future elections, the extra precautions necessary to preserve voter and poll worker health during the pandemic will result in long wait times and an increased health risk that could be avoided through absentee ballots for this election.” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said. | <urn:uuid:17e3969c-0bd8-42cf-b5b9-6efb0f34411b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/01/georgia-absentee-ballot-requests-so-far-5-times-more-than-2016-totals/43075535/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971317 | 645 | 1.515625 | 2 |
When you use a digital camera, you may have the option to save the photo you’ve taken as a raw+JPEG file. This is a quasi-standardized file format that bundles a JPEG with the unmodified sensor information that forms a raw file. The benefit of using raw+JPEG include the ability to quickly preview the file anywhere, while also still having access to the underlying data for carving out a version of the photo.
A lot of software (including Apple Photos) now supports importing and reading popular raw formats, so you can bypass changes imposed by cameras and photo apps for further editing without losing the original detail.
Reader Luke Hartman has imported raw+JPEG files, and has a question about managing those files.
There are several where I would like to keep only the JPG and would like to delete the raw file entirely. Is there a way to do this without exporting the .jpg file, deleting the pair, and re-importing it?
No, but it’s easier than you might have hoped. In years past, you’d have to use Aperture or Lightroom, make some settings changes, and monkey around to make it work. Now, you can just use Photos for macOS.
Photos identifies raw+JPEG images with a special marker: a J reversed out of a white box with a shadow box behind it. To split the file, it’s this simple:
Select one or more images.
Choose File > Export > Export Unmodified.
Choose a destination.
The raw file and JPEG are now saved separately. The raw file will have an extension appropriate to the type of raw format it’s in, like .dng. In Photos, you can now delete the original image and drag its extracted JPEG back in.
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Attorney General Balderas today joined a nationwide investigation into Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly known as Facebook, for providing and promoting its social media platform – Instagram – to children and young adults despite knowing that such use is associated with physical and mental health harms. Attorneys General across the country are examining whether the company violated state consumer protection laws and put the public at risk.
“On January 21, 2021, I filed a lawsuit against Facebook, and now have joined my colleagues in expanding this investigation to protect children in New Mexico,” said Attorney General Balderas. “Families are flooded with new applications from Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly Facebook, without proper protections for privacy and child safety.”
The investigation targets, among other things, the techniques utilized by Meta to increase the frequency and duration of engagement by young users and the resulting harms caused by such extended engagement. Today’s announcement follows recent reports revealing that Meta’s own internal research shows that using Instagram is associated with increased risks of physical and mental health harms on young people, including depression, eating disorders, and even suicide. AG Balderas has long been concerned about the negative impacts of social media platforms on New Mexico’s youngest residents.
In May, a bipartisan coalition of 44 attorneys general urged Facebook to abandon its plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13.
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The goal of OVC services in an effort to improve the general wellbeing of OVC. The objectives of the OVC Standard Service Delivery Guidelines include: To provide key OVC stakeholders with Standard Service Delivery Guidelines and an 1.
The National Plan of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) is a three-year plan subject to review and focuses on children who are the most vulnerable and at risk in Ghanaian society.
A large randomized trial in Malawi shows that schoolgirls whose families received monthly cash transfers had a significantly lower HIV infection rate than the control group.
The Government of Uganda (GOU) has focused attention on the problem of orphaned and other vulnerable children (OVC) through a number of policies, regulations, and initiatives.
The purpose of the study was to document, review and critically analyse literature on teenage pregnancy with a focus on school-going adolescents.
This report provides a summary of key findings from evaluations of four programs, two in Kenya and two in Tanzania, supporting orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC).
The Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS (JLICA) is an independent, time-limited alliance of researchers, implementers, activists, policy-makers, and people living with HIV.
Malawi has had a rising population of orphans and vulnerable children who are reported to lack care, food, educational opportunities and adult role models.
In an attempt to fill the knowledge gaps on the impact of care and support strategies for orphans and vulnerable children, MEASURE Evaluation is conducting targeted evaluations of five OVC programs in five unique settings, two in Kenya and three in Tanzania.
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The mobile application development industry is increasing with new trends and technologies. It can be challenging to keep up with the latest trends, but it’s essential to stay ahead of the curve to ensure your business is successful. Here are the top 10 web application development trends to look for in 2022:
- Increased focus on user experience: Today, web users expect great usability and intuitive interfaces from the websites they visit. As a result, web app development companies are placing increased emphasis on creating user-friendly designs that improve the overall experience for their customers.
- Artificial intelligence solutions: Artificial intelligence is rapidly gaining popularity as a tool for automating complex processes, improving decision-making capabilities, and more. Web app developers will continue to incorporate AI into their solutions to help businesses provide better customer service.
- Integration with other technologies and platforms: From chatbots to automated marketing tools, there are many different ways in which web apps can be integrated with other technologies and platforms today. Web app development services are taking advantage.
Helpful Chatbots and AI (Artificial intelligence)
Chatbots will also come with Artificial Intelligence (AI) so that they can be more helpful in the future.
Automated Marketing Tools
Another key trend that we are seeing in web application development is using automated marketing tools to better connect with customers and improve conversion rates. Web app developers use robust software solutions to automate marketing tasks, such as email campaigns and social media management, leading to improved results for businesses.
As these trends continue to emerge, businesses need to keep up with the latest developments in web application development to stay ahead of the competition. Whether you need help creating a cutting-edge website or optimizing your existing one, there are many web app development services available today that can help.
Motion UI is a great way to create smooth transitions between different web pages and screens. Web app developers are using this trend more often to improve the overall user experience for their customers, and it is likely to remain famous well into the future.
Blockchain is a distributed database that can be used to store data in a secure and decentralized way. This technology is becoming increasingly popular for web applications due to its security benefits. We will likely see more web app development services incorporating blockchain into their solutions in the coming years.
Video Content Backgrounds
The use of video content and backgrounds is another trend gaining popularity in web application development. This can be a great way to engage users and make your website more visually appealing.
Progressive Web Apps
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Triglyceride-glucose index variability and incident cardiovascular disease: a prospective cohort study
Cardiovascular Diabetology volume 21, Article number: 105 (2022)
Recent studies have suggested that triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index is an independent predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the impact of long-term visit-to-visit variability in TyG index on the risk of CVD is not known. We aimed to investigate the longitudinal association between baseline and mean TyG index as well as TyG index variability and incident CVD in a Chinese population.
We included 49,579 participants without previous history of CVD in the Kailuan study who underwent three health examinations (2006, 2008, and 2010) and were followed up for clinical events until 2019. TyG index was calculated as Ln [fasting triglyceride (mg/dL) × fasting glucose (mg/dL)/2]. We measured TyG index variability as the SD of the residuals obtained from a linear regression on the three TyG index measurements for each individual. Multivariate-adjusted Cox models were used to estimate the adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) with incident CVD.
During a median follow-up time of 9.0 years, 2404 developed CVD. The highest tertile (T3) of baseline and mean TyG index were each associated with higher CVD incidence as compared with the lowest tertile (T1): aHR, 1.25; 95% CI 1.11–1.42; and aHR 1.40; 95% CI 1.24–1.58, respectively. Tertile 3 of TyG index variability was associated with increased CVD incidence compared to T1 group (aHR, 1.12; 95% CI 1.01–1.24). Similar findings were observed in a series of sensitivity analyses.
Higher TyG index level and greater TyGindex variability were each independently associated with a higher incidence of CVD.
Insulin resistance has been identified as an important risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) , which is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in China and worldwide [2, 3]. A meta-analysis of cohort studies or nested case–control studies have shown a positive prospective relationship between insulin resistance and risk of CVD in non-diabetic adults . Furthermore, a Mendelian randomization analysis suggested a causal relationship between the insulin resistance and CVD . Therefore, the early identification of individuals with insulin resistance will be essential to reduce the disease burden of CVD.
In the clinical setting, measurement of insulin resistance can be challenging as there are limitations to the homeostasis model assessment for insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) and the gold standard of the euglycemic clamp is time-consuming and burdensome . The triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index, which is the logarithmized product of fasting triglyceride and glucose, has been shown to be a simple measure of insulin resistance . Previous studies have shown that TyG index is significantly related to an increased risk of cardiovascular events [8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]. Additionally, a recent meta-analysis of cohort studies that included 5,731,294 participants without CVD at baseline showed that highest TyG index category was associated with 1.61-fold increased risk of CVD . However, most of prior studies were based on a single baseline TyG index measurement [8,9,10,11,12], which may not reflect long-term exposure. Few studies have examined repeated TyG measurements to evaluate the impact of longitudinal TyG index on the risk of CVD. To our knowledge, only one study examined the association between change in TyG index at two time points and incident CVD . Additionally, three studies have reported on the association between time updated average TyG index and the number of visits with a high TyG index and CVD events [8, 9, 13]. Furthermore, although TyG index may change over time, to our knowledge, no study has examined the association between long-term TyG index visit-to-visit variability and CVD development.
Visit-to-visit variability in cardiovascular risk factors has been shown to predict the risk of adverse long-term cardiovascular outcomes and mortality, independent of baseline or average risk factors levels over . Recently, the association between visit-to-visit variability in various biological measures (e.g., blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose) and incident CVD have been examined [19,20,21]. Our previous study has also shown that high long-term glycemic variability, measured as intraindividual variability in fasting glucose over time was associated with cardiovascular outcomes, independently of mean glucose levels . Additionally, some studies found associations between greater variability in lipid measurements with cardiovascular outcomes [19,20,21, 23, 24]. Although TyG index is derived from fasting triglyceride and glucose, variability in TyG index is not uncommon. Whether visit-to-visit variability in TyG levels affect future cardiovascular outcomes in the general population is not known. Moreover, such studies can provide further evidence for future interventional trials that focus on reducing insulin resistance variability in addition to average insulin resistance levels.
Therefore, we conducted a large population-based study involving more than 49,000 Chinese adults who had repeated measurements in TyG index to investigate the longitudinal association between baseline TyG level, visit-to-visit variability in TyG index, and CVD incidence during a median 9.0-year follow-up in a general population. We hypothesized that higher TyG level as well as greater variability are both associated with increased risk of CVD.
Details of the Kailuan study cohort design, methods, and data collection have been published previously [8, 9, 14, 19]. In brief, the Kailuan study recruited 101,510 community-dwelling adults aged 18 years and over between June 2006 and October 2007 in the Kailuan community, Tangshan City, China. A standardized interview and health examinations were conducted at baseline and follow-up. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Kailuan General Hospital and Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, and it was conducted according to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. All participants provided written informed consent.
In this analysis, we included participants who underwent 3 health examinations between June 2006 and December 2010 (baseline and index year). Of 56,833 participants, we excluded those who had missing data on fasting blood glucose or triglycerides (n = 1034), those who had a previous diagnosis of stroke or myocardial infarction (n = 2874), and those who were on either lipid-lowering or antidiabetic drugs (n = 3346) during the 4-year exposure assessment period. Therefore, 49,579 eligible participants were included in the current study (Fig. 1). The study design was displayed in the Additional file 1: Fig. S1.
Data collection and definitions
Information on demographics, lifestyles, medical histories, anthropometric measurements, and laboratory tests were collected at baseline and follow-up surveys, as detailed elsewhere [8, 9, 14, 19]. In brief, information on age, sex, education level, average monthly income, smoking status, alcohol intake, physical activity, and past self-reported medical history (e.g., hypertension and diabetes) and medication use (e.g., hypoglycemic agents, antihypertensive agents, and lipid-lowering agents) was collected via a face-to-face validated questionnaire. Education level was categorized into two groups: low (illiteracy or primary school, or middle school), and high (high school or college/university). The low-income level was defined as participants’ average monthly income ≤ 1000 yuan. Participants who currently smoked were defined as current smokers, and those who currently drank were defined as current drinkers. Physical activity was assessed by questionnaire according to lifestyle behaviors that combined occupational and discretionary physical activities and divided into “physically inactive” and “physically active”. Trained physicians or nurses measured participants’ height, weight, systolic blood pressure (SBP), and diastolic blood pressure (DBP). Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as weight (kg)/height (m)2. Fasting blood samples were collected and were measured using the Hitachi 747 auto-analyzer (Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan). Serum total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), fasting blood glucose (FBG), creatinine, and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) were measured via a standardized protocol. Hypertension was defined as a self-reported history of hypertension, use of antihypertensive medications, SBP ≥ 140 mmHg, or DBP ≥ 90 mmHg. Diabetes was defined as self-reported history of diabetes or FBG ≥ 7.0 mmol/L. Hypercholesterolemia was defined as self-reported history of dyslipidemia, or TC ≥ 5.17 mmol/L. Estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was calculated using the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration creatinine equation . Chronic kidney disease was defined as an eGFR < 60 mL/min/1.73 m2. High hs-CRP was defined as a hs-CRP > 3 mg/dL .
Definition of baseline, mean and variability of TyG index
According to previous studies [8, 14], the TyG index was calculated as Ln[TG (mg/dL) × FBG (mg/dL)/2]. The baseline TyG index was calculated by using serum TG and FBG measured in 2010. Mean TyG index was defined as the average of TyG index measured in 2006, 2008, and 2010. The TyG index variability was defined as intraindividual variability in TyG levels measured on these three health examinations. As previously described [27, 28], we used residual SD, defined as visit-to-visit TyG index variability calculated as the root-mean-square error (RMSE) of the residuals (i.e., differences between observed TyG and predicted TyG) obtained from a simple linear regression analysis of the three TyG measurements of each participant.
Study outcome and follow-up
The study outcome was newly diagnosed CVD, which was defined as a composite of myocardial infarction and stroke. As previously described [14, 29], all participants were linked to the Municipal Social Insurance Institution and the Hospital Discharge Register for incidence of CVD, which cover all the Kailuan study participants. To further identify potential CVD cases, we reviewed the discharge lists from the 11 hospitals during 2006–2019 and asked for a history of CVD via a questionnaire during the biennial interview. For all suspected CVD events, three experienced physician adjudicators who were blinded to the study design reviewed the medical records. Myocardial infarction was defined as the recording of ICD-10 codes I21. Stroke was defined as the recording of ICD-10 codes I63, or I60 to I61. The vital status was obtained from Hebei Provincial Vital Statistics Offices or directly contacting the participants’ family members and reviewed by physicians.
Baseline characteristics of Kailuan study participants were described across TyG index variability tertiles. Continuous variables were summarized as mean ± SD or median (interquartile range) depending on variable distribution, and categorical variables as count (proportion). Continuous variables were compared using one-way ANOVA or the Kruskal–Wallis test, and categorical variables were compared using the χ2 test across tertiles of TyG index variability. Covariate balances were also examined using standardized mean differences (SMDs). We considered a SMDs > 0.1 as indicative of imbalance.
We analyzed risk of CVD according to the tertiles of baseline, mean, and variability of TyG index, and the combination of baseline TyG index tertiles and TyG index variability tertiles. Person-years of follow-up for each participant were calculated as the amount of time from the index date to the first of the following events: incident CVD, death, or December 31st, 2019. Incidence rate of CVD per 1000 person-years was calculated. Time to first CVD event was examined using Kaplan–Meier survival curves and compared using log-rank test. Multivariable-adjusted Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to estimate the adjusted hazard ratios (aHR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). The proportional hazards assumption was verified by inspecting the negative log–log survival plots and no violation was observed. Model 1 was adjusted for age and sex. Model 2 was adjusted for age, sex, education, income, current smoking status, current drinking status, physical activity, BMI, diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and hs-CRP. Model 3 was additionally adjusted for hypercholesterolemia, HDL-C, and LDL-C. Model 4 was additionally adjusted for baseline TyG index for analyses of TyG index variability. In the trend test, the categorical variable (i.e., TyG index variability tertile) was statistically examined as an ordinal variable (continuous variable) in Cox regression model.
The linearity of baseline TyG index, mean TyG index, and TyG index variability for CVD risk was assessed using a restricted cubic spline Cox model. The association between TyG index variability and risk of CVD were further examined when stratified by the baseline level of TyG index. Interactions between baseline TgG index and TyG index variabllity in relation to CVD risk were assessed by likelihood ratio test. In addition, optimal cut-off points for baseline TyG index, mean TyG index, and TyG index variability associated with incident CVD were determined using an outcome-oriented method to maximize log-rank statistics . Harrell’s C statistics and net reclassification improvement (NRI) for survival data were used to estimate the improvement in discrimination and reclassification after adding the baseline and TyG index variability to the clinical model . 95% CI for continuous NRI were estimated with 500 bootstrap replications.
To estimate the population impact of TyG index measures on CVD risk, we estimated the absolute risk difference between baseline, mean, and variability of TyG index and incident CVD. Predicted cumulative incidence and absolute risk differences were presented as per 1000 population over 10 years and were estimated using flexible parametric survival models on the cumulative hazard scale , similar to what has been done previously . We also plotted the adjusted cumulative incidence curves for CVD by extrapolating to 10 years using stpm2 and standsurv command in Stata, which were standardized to the baseline covariates.
Several sensitivity analyses were conducted as follows: (1) we also categorized TyG index variability into five groups: < 0.15, 0.15 to < 0.30, 0.30 to < 0.45, 0.45 to < 0.60, and ≥ 0.6, which was based on visual inspection of histograms showing the population distributions of TyG index variability (Additional file 1: Fig. S2); (2) to better capture the long-term direction of variation in TyG index, we also calculated the annual increase rate for TyG index over time [the slope of the simple linear regression model in which TyG index in 2006, 2008, and 2010 was the response variable and follow-up duration (years) was the independent variable]. We categorized the slope into decreasing (< −0.2/year), stable (−0.2 to 0.2/year), and increasing (> 0.2/year) groups based on visual inspection of histograms (Additional file 1: Fig. S3); (3) we excluded participants with FBG ≥ 7.0 mmol/L or TG ≥ 1.7 mmol/L at baseline; (4) Fine-Gray competing risk regression was used, which treated deaths as competing risk events ; (5) 2-y lag analysis was conducted, which excluded CVD events that occurred within 2 years of follow-up; (6) other variability measures including SD, coefficient of variation (CV), and independent of the mean (VIM) were calculated ; and (7) to assess the influence of unmeasured confounding, E-value, which is defined as the minimum strength of association, was calculated based on the estimated HR and 95% CI for CVD .
Statistical analyses were conducted using STATA MP, version 16.0 (StataCorp) and R software, version 4.1.3. All P-values were 2-sided and a P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant, unless otherwise stated.
Among the 49,579 participants, the mean age was 52.5 ± 11.8 years at baseline and 37,977 (76.6%) were male. The mean baseline TyG index level of the total study population was 8.7 ± 0.7, and the median TyG index variability was 0.2 (interquartile range 0.1–0.4). Table 1 shows the baseline characteristics of the study participants according to tertiles of TyG index variability. Participants in the highest tertile of TyG index variability were slightly younger, more frequently male, current smokers and alcohol drinker, and had lower rates of regular exercise, and lower education and income. They also had higher prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia, and had higher mean BMI, SBP, DBP, FBG, and TG.
Association of baseline, mean TyG index, and TyG index variability with incident CVD
During a median 9.0 years of follow-up (425,859.9 person-years) after the TyG index variability assessment period, 2404 (4.9%) participants developed CVD. The overall incidence rate of CVD was 5.6 per 1000 person-years.
Table 2 presents the association between baseline TyG index, mean TyG index, and TyG index variability with risk of CVD. In Model 3, which was adjusted for all covariates, the baseline and mean TyG index was positively associated with the risk of CVD. The aHR of CVD in the highest baseline TyG tertile was 1.25 (95% CI 1.11–1.42) compared to that in the lowest tertile of baseline TyG index (P for trend < 0.001). The CVD risk of highest tertile of mean TyG index level was higher (aHR, 1.40; 95% CI 1.24–1.58) than that of lowest tertile of mean TyG level (P for trend < 0.001). After adjusting for all covariates, including baseline TyG index (Model 4), participants in the highest tertile of TyG index variability showed an increased risk of CVD (aHR, 1.12; 95% CI 1.01–1.24) compared to those in the lowest tertile (P for trend = 0.03). We observed a linear relationship of baseline TyG index, mean TyG index, and TyG index variability with incident CVD using restricted cubic splines regression (Additional file 1: Fig. S4).
Using an outcome-oriented method to maximize log-rank statistics, the optimal cut-off points associated with incident CVD were ≥ 8.44 for baseline TyG index, ≥ 8.63 for mean TyG index, and ≥ 0.17 for TyG index variability (Fig. 2). The Kaplan–Meier survival curves show that the incidence of CVD risk increased with higher levels of baseline TyG index, mean TyG level, and TyG variability (Fig. 2).
Associations of TyG index variability with incident CVD according to baseline TyG index level
A significant interaction between TyG index variability and baseline TyG index was observed (P = 0.002). Figure 3 shows the associations of TyG index variability with incident CVD after stratifying participants by baseline TyG index level. Specifically, the groups with the highest incidence rate of CVD were in the highest tertile of both baseline TyG index and TyG index variability (7.29 per 1000 person-years).
Absolute risk difference for CVD by TyG index levels and variability
In terms of absolute risk difference, participants in the highest tertile of baseline TyG, mean TyG, and TyG index variability were associated with 25.3 (95% CI 12.0–38.6), 34.3 (95% CI 20.2–48.3), and 6.3 (95% CI 0.6–12.1) more cases of CVD per 1000 population over 10 years, respectively, compared with participants in Tertile 1 (Table 3). The standardized cumulative incidence curves for CVD by tertiles of baseline TyG, mean TyG and TyG index variability were displayed in the Fig. 4.
Predicting CVD risk by baseline TyG index level and TyG index variability
The addition of the baseline TyG index level and TyG index variability to a clinical model including age, sex, education, income, current smoking, current drinking, physical activity, body mass index, diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, hs-CRP, hypercholesterolaemia, LDL-C, and HDL-C increased the C-statistic from 73.56 to 73.70% (difference, 0.136%; P = 0.044); and there was a significant reclassification improvement (continuous NRI = 10.87%, 95% CI 6.89% to 15.27%) (Table 4).
The relationship between TyG index variability and CVD remained significant when using the alternative variability categories as sensitivity analysis (aHR 1.17, 95% CI 1.02–1.34 for TyG variability > 0.6 compared to < 0.15; P for trend = 0.047, Additional file 1: Fig. S5). Compared to those with stable TyG index over time, both decreasing (HR: 1.13, 95% CI 0.98–1.31) and increasing groups (HR: 1.18, 95% CI 1.03–1.35) had an increased risk of CVD in the age and sex adjusted model (Additional file 1: Table S1). We did not find an association between TyG index variability when measured by SD, CV, and VIM and CVD (Additional file 1: Fig. S6). Similar association patterns were observed after excluding individuals with FBG ≥ 7.0 mmol/L or TG ≥ 1.7 mmol/L at baseline, excluding CVD events that occurred during the first 2 years of follow-up, and adjusting for competing risk of morality (Additional file 1: Table S2). E-values were 1.61, 1.84, and 1.38 for the baseline TyG index, mean TyG index, and TyG index variability (Additional file 1: Fig. S7), respectively, which suggested the associations did not influence by the potential unmeasured confounding in our study.
Among 49,579 Chinese adults followed up for a median of 9 years, higher baseline TyG, mean TyG, and TyG index variability were each significantly associated with a higher risk of incident CVD, and these associations persisted even after adjustment for other established cardiovascular risk factors. Overall, our data suggest that TyG index variability is an independent marker of increased CVD risk among Chinese adults.
Several prior studies have evaluated the association between baseline TyG index and cardiovascular events in the general population [8,9,10,11,12, 15, 16]. The Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study, with 16 years of follow-up, showed that elevated baseline TyG index was associated with a 61% and 84% increased risk of CVD and coronary heart disease, respectively . In the 10-year follow-up VMCUN (Vascular Metabolic CUN) cohort, higher TyG index was associated with an increased risk of ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and peripheral arterial disease, and TyG index could provide additional predictive value to the Framingham risk score for new-onset CVD , which was in accordance with our results. Another recent study with 5,593,134 persons ≥ 40 years from the Korea National Health Information Database showed that TyG index is an independent predictor of myocardial infarction and stroke during 8.2 years of mean follow-up . Similar results were observed in our previous studies from the Kailuan cohort investigating the association between baseline TyG index and CVD [8, 9]. Consistent with previous studies, we confirmed that a higher TyG index at baseline was significantly associated with a 25% increased risk of future CVD.
To our knowledge, the present study is the first to investigate longitudinal associations between TyG index variability and risk of CVD in a prospective fashion. The associations we observed were independent of traditional cardiovascular risk factors as well as the baseline TyG index and thus had incremental value on CVD risk prediction. Our results indicate that participants with both high baseline and high variability in TyG index had the highest risk of CVD. This suggests the important effects of both the absolute value and the variability of TyG index in terms of the risk of CVD in the general population.
The present study demonstrated that fluctuation of TyG index level over time was also associated with incident CVD. The potential underlying mechanisms by which high TyG index variability may be associated with higher risk of CVD are still not known. We hypothesize some plausible mechanisms for why higher TyG index may associate with increased CVD risk include greater underlying metabolic dysfunction creating more dramatic changes in levels of these biomarkers (e.g., blood pressure, fasting glucose, and lipids) [20,21,22,23, 27, 36], altered lipid exchange and lipolysis , increased inflammatory response, endothelial dysfunction, and plaque instability [37,38,39]. Nevertheless, we considered that additional studies are needed to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the associations we observed between TyG index variability and increased risk of CVD. However, to date, there has been no consensus on a gold-standard approach to measure visit-to-visit variability. In terms of ways of assessing variability, our approach is consistent with other investigations examining visit-to-visit variability in blood pressure [27, 40], glycemia , and lipid levels with respect to risk of incident CVD. These studies suggest that variability itself is associated with increased risk of CVD, irrespective of the particular trends over time (e.g., increasing or decreasing). In terms of clinical applications, it may be possible for contemporary electronic medical records to automatically calculate TyG index variability, though more refined methods are needed to better risk stratify individuals based on their TyG index variability over time.
Our study has several key strengths. First, the present study is the first to demonstrate an association between TyG index variability and risk of CVD. This study provides the first evidence showing that high TyG and TyG index fluctuation was independent of traditional cardiovascular risk factors. Second, this study used longitudinally and repeatedly collected TyG data at the individual level before the incidence of CVD, which allowed us to directly evaluate the long-term effect of TyG variability on CVD risk. Third, we adjusted all available confounding factors and conducted several sensitivity analyses.
This study also has some limitations. First, owing to the observational nature of the study, we could not establish a causal association between the TyG index variability and the risk of CVD. Therefore, our findings need to be confirmed in future studies. Furthermore, although potential cardiac risk factors were adjusted for, we still cannot exclude the possibility of residual or unmeasured confounding given the observational study design of the present analysis. Second, selection of study population based on the number of health examinations could be subject to selection bias. Third, most of the participants in our study were male coal miners. Hence, the findings may not be directly generalizable to the general Chinese population.
In a prospective cohort of Chinese adults, we found that higher baseline TyG index, mean TyG index, as well as greater TyG variability, were each associated with higher risk of CVD. Future research is required to validate our findings and elucidate the exact mechanisms underlying the association between TyG variability and CVD.
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The datasets used for the present analysis may be made available upon reasonable request by contacting the corresponding author.
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We thank all study participants, their relatives, the members of the survey teams at the 11 regional hospitals of the Kailuan Medical Group, and the project development and management teams at the Beijing Tiantan Hospital and the Kailuan Group.
This study was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC1312400, 2018YFC1312402), Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals Incubating Program (PX2020021), Beijing Excellent Talents Training Program (2018000021469G234), National Natural Science Foundation of China (8210120410), and Golden Seed Program of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital (CYJZ202101).
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Figure S1. Study design. Figure S2. Distribution of TyG variability. Figure S3. Distribution of slope of TyG index. Figure S4. Restricted cubic spline regression for the association of baseline, mean, and variability of triglyceride-glucose index with risk of cardiovascular disease. Figure S5. Forest plot of adjusted hazard ratio for cardiovascular disease by TyG index variability categories. Figure S6. Forest plot of adjusted hazard ratio for cardiovascular disease by TyG variability according to RMSE (root-mean-square error), SD (standard deviation), CV (coefficient of variation), and VIM (independent of the mean). Figure S7. E-value for cardiovascular disease according to baseline, mean, and variability of TyG index. Table S1. Association between slope of TyG index and the incidence of cardiovascular disease. Table S2. Sensitivity analysis for the association between tertiles of baseline, mean, and variability of TyG index and the incidence of cardiovascular disease.
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NovaTears, the first and only water-free topical eye drop treatment developed to treat patients with DED, is now distributed in New Zealand and has received registrational approval for distribution in Australia. It is being distributed by AFT Pharmaceuticals.
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The Indiana State Dept. of Health today announced 523 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19, bringing to 43,655 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the new coronavirus, following corrections.
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The Dooars or Duars (in Bengali & Nepali) are the floodplains and foothills of the eastern Himalayas in North-East India around Bhutan. Duar means door in Nepali and Bengali languages, and the region forms the gateway to Bhutan from India. The Western Dooars is known as the Bengal Dooars and the Eastern Dooars as the Assam Dooars. The Dooars valley (also called Duars) stretching from River Teesta on the west to River Sankosh on the east, an area coving roughly 130 km by 40 km, the Dooars forms major part of the Jalpaiguri district.
Upon arrival at the railway station/airport, you are received and driven to your hotel/resort at Lataguri. This place is close to the Garumara National Park. We prefer to put up our guests in hotels/resorts which give you a feeling of being either in the forest or in a tea garden.
After breakfast, we take you for an excursion to Samsing & Sunthalekhola. Samsing is a tea estate in the Dooars and a small locality of about 100 houses surrounding the tea gardens. On the top of the hill there is a beautiful Guesthouse. The silence of the place is disturbed only by the noise of the gurgling river Murti, which flows about half a kilometer below. The drive to Samsing is through lush green tea gardens and the descending mist on the tea gardens during the monsoons is a sight to behold. It is a great spot to watch birds.
Today we would take you for an excursion to Murti, Jhalong and Bindu.Murti is a small village by the side of the Murti River. It is an ideal picnic spot where one can enjoy the scenic beauty. Lucky ones can even catch a glimpse of elephants and other animals by the side of Murti River when they come to drink water.Jhalong is situated on the bank of the river Jaldhaka on the Indo-Bhutan border. It lies at the foothills of the Himalayas, on the way to Bindu in Kalimpong sub-division. Jaldhaka Hydro Electricity Project on Jaldhaka River is a major attraction in this area. Bird lovers can enjoy a varied collection of hill birds as well as migratory water fowls here.
There are eight tigers in South Khayerbari rescue centre of which seven had been seized from different circus troupes and one was brought from Alipore Zoo. The South Khayerbari Animal Rescue Centre is also the home of 18 leopards. A leopard safari (Optional), the only one of its kind in India, can also be availed in South Khayerbari Eco Park.
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It’s that time of the year, folks! If you haven’t already, you will soon be decking the halls of your home with all of the colors of Christmas. While red and green are the traditional colors of Christmas there are many other colors that can be incorporated into your Christmas palette. We’ll explore some of those in a sec, but first, a condensed backstory on why red and green are the chosen colors of Christmas, and what brought that complementary duo into the now.
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Red and green were first linked to the winter solstice by the ancient Celtic people. They believed that holly plants brought beauty and good fortune in the middle of winter. They would decorate their homes with the holly plants to ensure a prosperous new year. Over time, decking the halls with red and green became a tradition, passed down all over the world.
Coca-Cola also played a big part in bringing red and green into our current Christmas décor as well. Red and green weren’t the favored colors of Christmas during the Victorian times. There were more red and blue, blue and white, and blue and green color combos going on. In 1931, Coca-Cola hired an artist to depict Santa Claus. Santa became this big bellied, super jolly, red-cheeked fella who wore white trimmed red robes. Coca-Cola used this model for their Christmas campaign. This ad was viewed all over the United States and from that point on we start to see red and green take the center stage in our festive trimmings.
Everyone has a favorite combination of Christmas colors they use year to year. I am a sucker for vivid red, varied shades of green, white, and gold for my Christmas décor. I am a white or red lights girl too. The blinky, intermittent, multi-color lights give me anxiety, ya’ll. I’m not a big fan of blue as a Christmas color either. I think it’s a spectacular winter color, but I just can’t get on board with blue bulbs and ornaments.
On the other hand, I love lots of color too and have friends who use all of the colors in their Christmas décor and it looks amazing. No matter what colors you use or prefer for the holidays, it’s all about the tradition, joy, and celebration that goes along with those colors. In my mind, there’s no better way to honor the colors of Christmas than to create a 12 Days of Christmas Color Palette. I hope you enjoy this palette and have an exquisitely colorful Christmas!! | <urn:uuid:7d5bb821-7f9e-4ae0-83b6-bad727fa7ec8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.designerkansascity.com/2021/12/01/unique-painting-kcs-12-days-of-christmas-colors-palette/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936156 | 549 | 1.835938 | 2 |
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School principals are constantly being pulled in different directions. How do you focus on the things that matter most? In this inspiring book from Danny Steele, creator of the popular Steele Thoughts blog, and Todd Whitaker, bestselling author and speaker, you'll learn how to center your leadership on your core values and the practices that have the biggest impact. The authors reveal essential truths that will make you a more effective principal in areas such as school culture, appreciating teachers, and empowering your staff. The strategies are presented in digestible chunks, perfect for book studies, professional development sessions, and other learning formats. With the inspiring anecdotes and insights in this book, you'll be reminded of your greater purpose – making a difference in students' lives. | <urn:uuid:acd69339-b96d-4c39-9316-d6ca3c33f498> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.overdrive.com/media/4573361/essential-truths-for-principals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.929489 | 189 | 2.25 | 2 |
TU's 4th Annual Paul Buck Memorial Lecture: "Plant Conservation in the 21st Century"
On this installment of our show, we speak by phone with Dr. Pamela Soltis, the curator of the Laboratory of Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. She'll present the fourth annual Paul Buck Memorial Lecture on the TU campus tomorrow night (Wednesday the 17th) in Helmerich Hall. Her lecture --- entitled "Plant Conservation in the 21st Century" --- is free and open to the public, and it begins at 7pm. The scholarly work of Dr. Soltis has focused on the use of molecular evidence to reconstruct the patterns of plant evolution. In particular, she has contributed significantly to our understanding of the evolution of flowering plants. Thus she is one of the principal investigators for the Floral Genome Project, which examines the origin, conservation, and diversification of those genes involved in floral development. A highly experienced and widely acknowledged leader in her academic field, Dr. Soltis has also served as president of the Botanical Society of America as well as the Society of Systematic Biologists. You can learn more about her upcoming appearance here at TU here. | <urn:uuid:c40c5ae4-8760-45da-8089-f7617e7ac9eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/studiotulsa/2013-04-16/tus-4th-annual-paul-buck-memorial-lecture-plant-conservation-in-the-21st-century | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953915 | 255 | 2 | 2 |
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Tooth Sensitivity: Causes and Treatments
NOTHING RUINS A COZY mug of hot cocoa faster than the jolt of pain from sensitive teeth. As many as one in eight people in the U.S. deal with tooth sensitivity, including kids! What causes it and what can we do to protect our teeth? Understanding Dental Anatomy In a healthy tooth, there is the protective […]Read more
What Are Dental Implants?
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YOU HEAR ALL THE TIME about the importance of brushing your teeth for two minutes twice a day, and you hear almost as often about the importance of daily flossing. What you probably don’t hear a lot is that, if we want to maintain good oral health and hygiene, it’s also important for us to clean […]Read more
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Substance abuse treatment takes place in a wide range of different treatment settings with a variety of different treatment approaches. For example, some substance abuse treatment can be performed on an outpatient basis, where the individual will typically attend treatment during the day but is allowed to return home daily. Other substance abuse treatment requires the person to stay in a hospital or residential facility during the entire course of treatment, which is especially helpful in handling more severe cases of addiction. Inpatient and residential substance abuse treatment can be done on a short term or long term basis, depending on unique circumstances which can be different for each person. Most substance abuse treatment will focus on getting the person physically rehabilitated, and then concentrate on the root psychological and emotional issues.
Detoxification is usually the very first step in getting off drugs. It makes it possible for a particular person to be in a supervised environment while they go through withdrawal symptoms for drugs and/or alcohol. There are diverse types of detoxification. Theyrange from drug-free to medically supervised. A widespread mistake that a lot of addicts make is to assume that detox is enough to kick their habit. This is seldom the case. All detox does is get a person through the withdrawal when they stop using. It is often recommended that detox be followed up with some type of treatment plan to learn the root of why somebody was using drugs in the first place.
Drug or alcohol treatment services which are delivered on an outpatient basis are readily available to addicted individuals who have circumstances which prevent them from being able to participate in an inpatient rehabilitation facility. An outpatient drug and alcohol treatment facility provides many of the same services as an inpatient program, but allows for flexibility as opposed to an inpatient drug rehabilitation facility where the person is expected to stay and reside at the rehab center until treatment has been fully completed. Outpatient drug treatment is also offered for individuals who have completed residential or inpatient treatment but require a thorough aftercare and relapse prevention program which will provide further support and treatment to help them remain clean and sober.
It is a disturbing fact that many adolescents in the United States become exposed to drugs and alcohol at a very young age, and some even become addicted and dependent to drugs and/or alcohol. For adolescents who do become addicted and dependent to drugs and alcohol, parents must be willing to do whatever it takes to help their child before it is too late. Any indication that drugs or alcohol are in the picture should be addressed right away, otherwise, addiction will lead down a path of total destruction for the adolescent and for the family. There are drug treatment facilities for adolescents available in every state, many of which cater only to adolescents and have treatment professionals and counselors on hand that are trained specifically in handling this age range.
Persons with co-occurring mental and substance abuse disorders must address both issues if there is any hope for them to recover completely. Some individuals take drugs to ease symptoms of mental health problems, and some individuals take drugs which then, in turn, creates symptoms which mimic mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety. Addiction rehabilitation professionals know how to differentiate between the two, and can work with clients to correctly treat real mental health disorders in tandem with any other substance abuse treatment that is done with the individual. This has proven to be effective in keeping individuals with mental health problems off of drugs and alcohol and mentally stable and productive.
It is not unusual for someone with HIV/AIDS to end up in a drug rehabilitation center in search of help for severe addiction issues. Often individuals who abuse drugs and alcohol are predisposed to such diseases because of certain circumstances which afflict the drug culture such as sharing dirty syringes to inject drugs or participating in risky sexual behavior because of lowered sexual inhibitions caused by drug use. Persons with HIV/AIDS should have effective rehabilitation just like any otherwise healthy addicted person. Drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs that accept and cater to persons with HIV/AIDS provide specialized care to address any health issues that may come up in the course of treatment. This way, any physical barriers to recovery are alleviated so that they can overcome their addiction and maintain a drug-free lifestyle.
Gays and Lesbians can sometimes have distinctive treatment needs when receiving substance abuse rehabilitation. A specialized curriculum and treatment setting which is conducive to the needs of gays and lesbians is obtainable at certain drug rehabilitation programs across the nation which recognize the unique needs and challenges which gays and lesbians will encounter during recovery. Gay and lesbians can achieve full rehabilitation and recovery just like any other person in treatment, however it can be beneficial for gays and lesbians to be in a supportive environment which doesn't judge them or alienate them because of their sexual preference.
Whether it is evident or not, seniors and older adults comprise a significant percentage of individuals in the United States who struggle with drug and/or alcohol abuse and addiction. As the baby boomer generation ages, this will become an even bigger problem with an even bigger need for drug rehab centers which are prepared to treat seniors and older adults who are in need of treatment for addiction problems. Seniors and older adults are faced with many physical challenges as a result of their age, which can affect treatment outcome if not addressed concurrently. It is beneficial for seniors and older adults to locate treatment before any long term consequences occur.
When pregnant/postpartum women need drug treatment there are several issues unique to their situation that must be addressed. This specific group of addicted persons faces not only the personal shame of their addiction but also the reality of what their unhealthy choices may have caused their children. Substance abuse rehabilitation for pregnant/postpartum women typically requires programs that are both individualized and flexible in their recovery plan. Although the program duration may vary depending on the woman's specific needs it is understood that the longer a person stays in treatment the better their chance of lasting sobriety. Many rehab facilities for pregnant/postpartum women can run long-term for six months or more.
Rehabilitation from drug addiction is a process that can be difficult and in manyways intimidating. This is why some women seeking help with addiction feel more comfortable in treatment centers designed specifically for women. Women who are addicted to drugs or alcohol typicallyhave personal issues that are considerably different than their male counter parts. In a drug or alcohol rehabilitation facility where all the clients are women, the recovering addict will feel more relaxed and will be able to work through her personal conflicts that led to her substance abuse and addiction problems. Statistics show that up to seventy percent of women with addiction problems report having some type of sexual or physical abuse in their past. These sensitive issues are easier to work through in the company of other women without fear of judgment or ridicule.
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs created specifically for men are emerging across the nation. While rehab programs that treat both men and women continue to be the standard for drug and alcohol rehabilitation, many facilities are developing programs designed to help a specific target group. These facilities are able to focus on what their client's particular needs are in a way that standard programs are not. While these specialized types of rehab programs may not be needed for all recovering addicts, many men are selecting men-only drug and alcohol rehab facilities. This rehabilitation option is ideal for those who feel more comfortable among others of the same sex when sharing private and often difficult memories from the past. Addiction recovery is a challenging process for every addict and finding comfort among one's peer group is a very good way of receiving the support needed to make the process that much more endurable.
DUI/DWI offenders are typically required to participate in a certain number of hours either in counseling, meetings or a drug or alcohol treatment program. Each state has its own requirements when it comes to sentencing for the DUI/DWI offender. Offenders who are deemed low to moderate DUI/DWI offenders will typically engage in some form of group counseling or therapy. These are sometimes referred to as "Level I & Level II Alcohol Classes". These meetings are usually held by a professional in the field of addiction recovery or a person with long-term sobriety involved in the Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous groups. DUI/DWI offenders deemed to be serious offenders will likely have to serve jail time at a minimum before beginning their assigned counseling or alcohol rehabilitation program.
Criminal justice clients typically need drug treatment due to problems with addiction. Due to the nature of the criminal justice system, there are specific steps and guidelines that must be adhered to in order to be accepted into a criminal justice drug rehabilitation program or recovery program. The initial step is to determine the criminal justice clients eligibility. This step is accomplished by a panel of officials who determine how much and what type of treatment is necessary. Sometimes, the criminal justice clients receive their substance abuse treatment while they are incarcerated. For the best possible results, they are encouraged, if not strictly directed, to continue their recovery process once they leave jail and enroll in sober living or a long-term residential transitional living program.
There increasing numbers of Spanish speaking clients walking into drug and alcohol rehab centers every day needing help. Because Spanish is such a common language in this country, many drug rehab facilities are prepared to deliver services to Spanish speaking people. Additionally, many counselors and therapists make it a point to learn the language so as to be able to provide the treatment and therapy needed for Spanish speaking individuals.
Self payment drug and alcohol treatment facilities are an excellent alternative to other types of rehab centers i.e. private medical insurance and state funded facilities. People who are capable of attending self payment programs pay for their entire rehabilitation process out of pocket. Keep in mind though, this does not mean that they will not have access to financial assistance if needed. It just means that self payment is their primary method of covering the cost of their drug or alcohol treatment program. To learn more about self payment at a specific program, contact a drug rehabilitation program and inquire as to their payment options. It is a good idea to contact several programs so that you have a comparison of your choices with regards to rehab options and payment methods.
Medicaid is a type of health insurance which is accessible to people in certain low-income tax brackets. Eligibility for Medicaid depends greatly on income and other factors including whether or not the person has dependents and if they receive any other financial assistance. Medicaid may even cover the costs associated with drug or alcohol treatment, and there are many drug rehabilitation programs throughout the country which are covered through Medicaid. Many drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs which are covered through Medicaid may only deliver a limited treatment curriculum and may only deliver such treatment on a short term basis, usually 30 days or less. Individuals who have Medicaid should research which programs cover the greatest amount of treatment for the most amount of time to acquire the full benefits of such a program.
Drug addiction and alcoholism affects many older Americans and seniors, and this issue is projected to only worsen in the coming years. Seniors who are covered by Medicare, an insurance plan funded through the federal government for Americans in this age bracket, can use their benefits to receive treatment services for addiction at a variety of drug treatment centers around the country. Medicare covers both inpatient and outpatient treatment facilities, and seniors who are in need of help can consult with their primary care physician to choose a treatment program covered by Medicare which would fit his or her particular needs.
Some individuals are covered through state financed insurance because they fail to qualify for Medicaid. Some states however offer affordable health insurance to those individuals who cannot afford private health insurance plans. State financed health insurance programs will in some cases cover the costs associated with substance abuse treatment at a wide variety of drug rehab programs around the country. State financed insurance other than Medicaid may cover both inpatient or outpatient drug rehabilitation services. To find out which rehabilitation programs will accept state financed insurance, speak with a drug treatment specialist.
Military health insurance generally pertains to TRICARE and is a normally accepted insurance for specific drug rehabilitation centers. A drug rehab that accepts military insurance will normally accept most other types of insurance as well. TRICARE generally covers detox, rehabilitation and outpatient treatment.
Paying for drug rehab can be a problem, because typically all resources have been exhausted because of their addiction. Many drug treatment programs understand this fact which is why many drug and alcohol rehab programs around the country offer payment options known as a sliding scale fee. There are several variables put into the equation of determining what the fee will be from person to person, and these factors are based on individual circumstances such as income, cash on hand, living circumstances, the size of one's family etc. Sliding scale fees have been in use for some time as most drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities would prefer to find a way to make it work financially so that those suffering with addiction can receive the help they need.
Many substance abuse treatment centers in the United States provide payment assistance to people struggling with drug or alcohol addiction and want to get help. The individual in need of rehabilitation can select a treatment facility which ideally fits their situation, meaning the treatment curriculum and design of the program would supply them the best results. The addicted person can then consult with one of the treatment professionals at the drug treatment facility to go over what kind of payment assistance options are available or that they qualify for. The financial department in most drug and alcohol treatment facilities are more than willing to work with potential clients to get them started by offering payment assistance, and if this is unavailable, treatment professionals will typically work with the individual to locate an equivalent or similar treatment program which is more affordable or that can offer workable financing options so that they can get the rehabilitation they so desperately need. | <urn:uuid:dfb6823f-44fa-43aa-b022-7a840fee3c63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drug-overdose.com/treatment_listing-NC-Raeford-Sandhills_Behavioral_Center_Inc.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964255 | 2,749 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Single women report that feminism has changed the dating game, according to a recent survey.
A study done by dating app OkCupid, which polled its users, found that in the past five years, there’s been a 600% increase in women’s profiles stating “looking for a feminist” or “feminists only” and a 5% increase in women responding “no” to the OkCupid matching question “Would you date someone who isn’t a feminist?”
Additionally, in Israel, 40% of women reported they would consider themselves to be activists.
“When it comes to making the first move, the 2020’s have been, so far, a decade of more assertive dating,” said Lee Tom Dotan, OkCupid’s Israeli Dating Expert. “Though this change applies to all genders and orientations, women seem to be at the forefront of this trend.”
The New York-based dating service reported that throughout the pandemic, women have been increasingly more likely to send likes and first messages – and this trend has continued into 2022. Women sent 10% more likes this January than they did in December, according to OKCupid.
Globally, the app reports, women are focused on fighting to close the gender wage gap, with 84% of female daters on OkCupid saying more needs to be done to do so (70% of men agree). In Israel, 87% of daters support the fight to close the gender wage gap.
Female daters have also become increasingly less likely to expect – or want – a match to support them financially. Notably, OkCupid reported that only 10% of women on the app say that money is very important when it comes to a match. For Israeli women, the numbers are similar, with only 11% of Israeli women agreeing.Additionally, very few women using the dating site say they do not keep track of their own finances - in Israel, for instance, almost half (49%) of women reported keeping a budget.
Globally, almost two-thirds (65%) of women on OkCupid who responded to the matching question “Would you rather have more money or more freedom?” said “freedom” (slightly ahead of 64% of men). Israeli women are even more concerned with their freedom, with more than three-fourths (77%) prioritizing it over money.
“Freedom means the right to choose what you want — and that comes to who you date, too,” said Lee.
“Today, more women understand that it’s not about choosing between a career and a relationship,” the Israeli dating expert said. “Women in 2022 want to succeed in both. COVID has taught us the importance of balancing work at home – and women and men are looking for similar partners who support this balanced approach.” | <urn:uuid:6c01420d-82fe-43de-8c6a-2664419b71bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-700824 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972862 | 612 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The increased prevalence of renal dysfunction and chronic kidney disease (CKD) and the high costs and poor outcomes of treatment are a significant health issue. The consequence of chronic high blood pressure is the increased prevalence of target organ end-stage renal disease, which has been proven to be a strong independent risk factor for adverse cardiovascular disease. A previous study showed that kefir products have anti-inflammatory and anti-hypertensive activities and immunological modulation functions. However, no data regarding the beneficial effects of kefir peptides (KPs) on salt-induced renal damage or related kidney diseases are available. In this study, KPs were orally administered to aged salt-induced stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive (SHRSP) rats, and the effects of KPs against inflammation and oxidative stress and their ability to protect against renal dysfunction were evaluated. Fifty-five-week-old SHRSP rats under induction with 1% NaCl in drinking water for 4 weeks showed multiple renal injuries with increased renal inflammation, fibrosis, oxidative stress, tubular atrophy, and glomerulosclerosis. In contrast, oral gavage with KPs reduced the urine protein to creatinine (UPC) ratio, the fractional excretion of electrolytes (FeNa and FeCl), extracellular matrix deposition, and the interstitial fibrotic α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) levels in salt-induced SHRSP rats. The renal infiltration of inflammatory cells; the release of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1), endothelin-1 (ET-1), and the cytokine nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain (NOD)-like receptor family pyrin domain containing 3 (NLRP3) and transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β); the reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels; and histopathological lesions were also decreased in salt-induced SHRSP rats. Furthermore, KP treatment significantly increased the renal superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and the glomerular filtration rate (GFR), which exerted potent protection against salt-induced chronic kidney disease in SHRSP rats. The results of this study suggest that KPs ameliorate salt-induced renal damage, tubular atrophy, and glomerular dysfunction through anti-inflammatory, antioxidative stress, and antifibrotic activities, and might be a promising protective agent against high salt-induced renovascular-related diseases.
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In January 2006, 30-year-old Olga Medvedtseva (formerly Pyleva) was treated by her doctor for an ankle injury. The Russian Olympian was a proven talent, having already won a gold and bronze in the biathlon at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. But a month later, after winning a silver medal at Torino, Medvedtseva tested positive for a banned stimulant known as carphedon—making her the first athlete caught doping at that year’s games.
The case was a simple one. Carphedon, which was synthesized in 1983 by Russian chemists to help astronauts stay mentally and physically alert in spaceflight, had been banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency since 2004. Despite insisting she was not guilty—the drug was apparently an ingredient in a medication her doctor had prescribed for her ankle—Medvedtseva was stripped over her medal and thrown out of the Games. "I am sorry that I shattered my reputation," she said.
That the Olympics has a longstanding drug problem is no secret. Ever since its inception in ancient Greece, athletes have turned to elixirs, stimulants and other workarounds to gain the slightest edge over the competition.
Since 2014, around 1,000 Olympic athletes have failed some sort of doping test using stimulants like carphedon, according to statistics from the World Anti-Doping Agency. Overall, stimulants make up about 20 percent of substances tested positive for in Olympic sports. (There have been thousands more infractions for other substance use including hormone therapy and anabolic steroids—but these are banned year-round, compared to stimulants, which are only banned in competition.) Last year, the International Olympic Committee banned Russia from the Pyeongchang Games after an investigation into state-sponsored doping.
But you may not know that many of these same drugs that get banned in the Games go on to lead rich online lives—as the preferred performance enhancers of regular folk.
Like carphedon, many of these drugs fall into a category known as Nootropics, a name that derives from the Greek word for “mind”; they're also known as smart drugs or cognitive enhancers. Some are sold as health supplements, thanks to a loophole in FDA regulations. Others use disclaimers to assure the authorities that they are for research purposes only. But one way or another, these drugs are circulating in the public sphere and often associated with the world of tech.
These drugs didn’t get their start in the Olympics—piracetam, a close cousin of carphedon that is considered the original mind-bending drug, was discovered in the 1960s—but many only made mainstream news after celebrated athletes were stripped of their medals after getting caught doing them.
We wanted to see what happens to these substances after they've had been booted from the Olympics, so we took to Reddit. By analyzing 150,000 Reddit comments, we found that these same stimulants are now openly discussed on forums about recreational drugs and tech, with people trading tips on where to buy them (usually on dubiously legal websites), their effects, and their traceability. We focused on piracetam, modafinil, and noopept, three Nootropics that are some of the most-talked-about on Reddit and are widely marketed in the U.S. | <urn:uuid:4ad8e937-1b39-4331-9848-f48b29b23c23> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/banned-olympic-drugs-reddit-180968121/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979984 | 694 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Some quick background: Regular computer users access the computer via a graphical user interface (GUI). This interface allows you to interact with the machine using a mouse and images on your screen to make the computer do what you want.
But you can also navigate and control your computer by using text-based commands on something called the command line. By firing up a program called Terminal (at least on Mac), you can enter text commands and navigate through your computer.
Noah Veltman, a 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellow at BBC News, led a session at MozFest called “Solve A Murder Mystery on the Command Line." The game involved a folder of .txt files with thousands of lines. To solve the murder mystery, we had to search through the files using the command line to pull out specific phrases.
After channeling my inner detective during the session, it occurred to me that I didn’t know how to use the command line until a couple months after I started programming. Once I started using the command line, I understood my machine much more and learned programming more quickly.
I talked to Noah after the session to gather a couple more ideas on why journalists should learn the command line.
It makes it easier to work with text data
When it comes to working with text data, especially large and messy files, command line tools are your best friends. Datasets might come to you as .csv files from a government agency, or as .txt files from local companies. To navigate through these files or to extract useful and interesting information the command line helps you do so quickly.
You might wonder, Why not just open Excel or Access to look at the data? While Excel works great with a 50MB file, the software isn't nearly as nimble with a 5GB file. By way of example, Illinois School Board School Scorecard files include more than 10,000 columns and precious little metadata to explain what’s contained in each one. The big and complicated files are very hard to comprehend and it turns out to be a challenge to analyze the data.
With the command line, a couple basic commands will help you analyze text data:
The cat command allows you to read the files. It opens a text file and prints the content in terminal. Type the word cat followed by a space and the name of the file.
grep option pattern filename
The grep command is used to search text for specific patterns. For example if I would like to search for the word “corgi” in a file called corgi.txt. I would enter the command:
grep “corgi” corgi.txt.
head option filename
The head command reads the first few lines of any files. For example if I would like to look at the first 20 lines of a file I would enter the command:
head -n 20 corgi.txt
It lets you use tools built just for journalists
Tons of tools built for journalists involve using the command line, if only during the installation phase. You’ll often hear that “software package X is exactly what you need" for a particular task, but then you wind up looking at a GitHub repo where you learn that installation of that software involves various command line operations.
csvkit, for example, converts files to .csv and helps you to clean up and standardize data. Using csvkit and the command line, you can filter a .csv down to a subset of columns, search and filter rows, join various .csv files, etc. These tasks are done by simple commands like
csvgrep, etc. As opposed to copying and pasting from one Excel file to another, these short commands allow you to clean and organize your data in a matter of seconds.
It’s a gateway to full scripting languages
Noah referred to command line tools as “a gateway drug” to actually learning a full scripting language like Python. Once you begin to feel comfortable with a few basic commands, you can begin to combine them in all sorts of ways to get what you need even if you cannot write a custom data processing script.
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It has been a year, and yet we are still living in a pandemic. Although vaccines are on the way, new strains of the virus have appeared. And it looks like we’ll be living in the pandemic much longer than we expected. But even if we are living in a pandemic, some things have to go on. Some people have no choice but to work to survive during these times. It’s up to us business owners to give these people a chance to make a living. But of course, we have to make our workplace a safe place for our employees and customers. To prepare your business to run under a pandemic. You need to do a couple of things to ensure that you run your business safely.
Assess the risks.
Before you open up your doors again, you have to conduct a proper risk assessment. What are the different scenarios that might increase the risk of getting COVID-19? Who are the most vulnerable to these risks? What are the possibilities that someone will get infected by the virus? After you’ve assessed all the risks, find a way to solve the problem and control the risks.
Find the best way to implement social distancing.
The rule of thumb is to keep employees and customers at least six feet away from each other. If you run a restaurant, you will need to put up a glass or plastic divider between customers. Tables must be spaced out far enough so that your establishment isn’t crowded. Any workplace is not supposed to be working at full capacity. You may have to adjust your employees’ work schedules to ensure their safety.
Ensure proper ventilation.
The virus spreads much easier in enclosed spaces without proper ventilation. It makes the possibility of airborne transmissions much higher. So make sure that your workplace has proper ventilation. If you have windows, doors, vents, or exhausts, keep them open. If possible, expand outdoors.
Prioritise hygiene and sanitation.
Proper hygiene and sanitation are of utmost importance. The workplace has to be sanitised before and after work hours. Hire a hygiene services contractor to ensure that your workplace is clean enough to run safely. Require employees and visitors to sanitise their hands before entering the workplace. Place a sanitiser dispenser by every entrance and exit. As well as sanitising mats for their shoes. Also, never forget to have a strict implementation of wearing PPE at work. That goes for both employees and customers. Create a no mask no entry rule and don’t let them take it off unless completely necessary.
Educate your employees.
Knowledge is power. The best way to keep your employees safe is to educate them. Tell them about the risks of the virus, the symptoms of the virus, how they can stay safe, and what you’re doing to keep them safe. If you want your employees to come to work, you need to ensure their safety. Don’t downplay the seriousness of the virus. You need to encourage honesty and open communication at the workplace. If you’re honest with your employees, they won’t be afraid of being honest with you. They are more likely to inform you if they have any symptoms if you encourage these values at work.
Let non-essential and vulnerable workers work remotely.
When we say non-essential, we mean employees who don’t necessarily have to go to the office to work. If you have employees that can do their job remotely, let them. If you have any vulnerable employees, such as senior citizens or those with health issues, let them work remotely. This is a great way to let your employees know that you care for them.
Create a plan.
Once you’ve put all the necessary policies and rules to keep your business running, keep in mind that you still need to create a back-up plan if someone in your workplace happens to catch the virus. Your best bet is to save an emergency fund for situations like this. Immediately close down your business, get employees who have been exposed to the infected person tested. And require everyone to quarantine for at least two weeks. If they test negative twice, you can go back to work.
Get help from the government.
If you need financial assistance, you can get help from the government. The Small Business Administration has different relief options for business owners during these times. Check out which loans you can apply for.
We are living in tough times. But things must go on. It might not be normal, but only those who learn to adapt will survive this pandemic. If you want to continue running your business during and after the pandemic, you need to accept the new normal. | <urn:uuid:def1a445-0fcd-49ff-8332-eeea2098dc58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theriverguild.com/what-you-need-to-run-a-business-safely-during-the-pandemic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960384 | 985 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Scale name: The Diet Self Efficacy Scale (DIET-SE)
Scale overview: The Diet Self-Efficacy Scale (DIET-SE) is an 11-item self-report measure. Respondents rate their degree of confidence in managing eating situations.
Authors: Stich et al. (see reference below)
Response Type: A 5-point Likert Type rating of confidence
0 = Not at all
1 = A little confident
2 = Moderately confident
3 = Quite confident
4 = Very confident
1. You are having dinner with your family and your favorite meal has been prepared. You finish the first helping and someone says, "Why don't you have some more?" How confident are you that you would turn down a second helping?
5. You are invited to someone's house for dinner and your host is an excellent cook. You often overeat because the food tastes so good. How confident are you that you would not overeat as a dinner guest?
Subscales = 3
Subscales = 3
HCF = HIGH CALORIC FOOD TEMPTATIONS
SIF = SOCIAL AND INTERNAL FACTORS
NEE = NEGATIVE EMOTIONAL EVENTS
Test-retest correlations for a 2- to 3-week interval were rtt = .83 for the full scale. Subscale results were: HCF .75, SIF .77, NEE .80
Internal consistency values ranged from alpha = .82 to .87 for the full measure and for the subscales, alpha values were HCF .70-.77; SIF .71-79; NEE .75-.79.
See the Stich et al. (2009) reference for details.
Construct validity was evaluated by factor analysis, which supported the three subscales. See the article for evidence of convergent and criterion-related validity.
The article can be found in various databases. See Table 1 for the items.
Permissions -- if identified
Reference for the scale
Stich, C., Knäuper, B., & Tint, A. (2009). A scenario-based measure of dieting self-efficacy: The DIET-SE. Assessment, 16, 16-30. See ResearchGate
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A business without a sustainability initiative is simply not planning for the inevitable in the future – sustainable eco-friendly practices are rapidly becoming the norm, so not adapting to such practices points to an unclear future, at best.
But just because a solid and seemingly well thought out sustainability initiative is in place, that does not mean to say that everything is fine and your business is set to reap the benefits.
The perils of a flawed sustainability initiative
Plenty of warnings have been given about how a flawed sustainability initiative can come back to bite your business where it hurts. And Hard. So what are some of potential hazards to look out for and what can be done to ensure that a sustainability initiative is water tight?
And although sustainability is more closely linked with companies operating in the natural and organic area, all that is now changing, as we see an increasing number of meaningful sustainability initiatives implemented by some of the biggest multinationals.
But getting sustainability right is all about planning for every eventuality. If you have sustainable packaging, but the formulation has a terrible ecological profile, then you can be guaranteed that the claims about the packaging will be undermined by a formulation that is potentially damaging to the environment.
Some one will catch you out.
Likewise, if you’re using a naturally sourced ingredients and they have the farmers harvesting the raw ingredients are deemed to be have been exploited, bang goes your credibility.
The four key areas to look out for
Last year, my colleague, Lucy Whitehouse, wrote an article outlining four key areas that are defining beauty sustainability today, which provides a fairly comprehensive map of the broad measures that both manufacturers and brands should be considering.
Attributed to Ecovia Intelligence, a market intelligence provider focused on the natural and sustainable beauty, the four key areas are:
- Eco Labeling – which encompasses natural and sustainable certification programs
- Green formulation – getting rid of contentious synthetic ingredients
- Packaging – with a focus on non-biodegradable plastics
- Metrics – systematically measuring
Focus on the metrics for a comprehensive plan
The metrics aspect is perhaps the most encompassing part of this process. The part that crosses all the t’s and dots all the i’s, ensuring that no stone is left unturned.
Cosmetics Design spoke with Gay Timmons of Oh Oh Organic, a leading distributor of organic ingredients based in the San Francisco area to find out about how a business can approach this area.
The bar is set highest for business like this, working in the organic area, so I asked her what had been the best tools to ensure that the sustainability profile of her business went beyond any potential scrutiny.
According to Timmons, getting the sustainability equation right is very difficult because there is such a lack of definition.
“Brands have to first define what they actually mean by the term sustainability, then they have to explain the short- and long-term goals. Then finally, they have to connect the dots concerning how they actually plan to achieve it,” said Timmons.
The B Corps Model is one viable alternative
Cluing in on the all-important metrics aspect of sustainability, Timmons chose to pursue the B Corps Model to build her business on sound and manageable sustainability principles.
The B Corp Model is a certification program established by London-based B Corps, which is targeting all aspects of sustainability, including social, environmental, transparency and legal accountability.
Timmons says that she is still working towards securing the certification, but feel this program is the most comprehensive for creating a truly sustainable business, but is also a good fit for her and her employees.
“While we have it licked in terms of the industry that we support and promote, I also needed to look at the human face: I decided that having a ‘sustainable’ business included ensuring that employees are on salaries and have medical coverage. And now we have an annual bocci ball tournament, because this kind of thing is really important.” | <urn:uuid:865d88d2-62d2-4981-8c50-ad7d0d9f5453> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cosmeticsdesign-asia.com/Article/2019/04/24/Get-sustainability-right-or-you-may-regret-it | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955259 | 819 | 2.3125 | 2 |
University of Missouri School of Music names choral hall after Sheryl Crow
The University of Missouri School of Music has named its choral hall after one of its most well-known songbirds.
The space where its choirs rehearse and perform is now called Sheryl Crow Hall, for the revered singer-songwriter, according to a Facebook post on Friday morning. Crow, a Kennett native, graduated from MU in 1984 with a degree in music education.
Crow provided a boost as the school raised money for its Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield Music Center, where her namesake hall is housed, the post noted.
"Her signature benefit concert in 2015 was a highlight of the campaign. We are so grateful to her for making this impactful performance possible, and for her ongoing advocacy for the MU School of Music," the Facebook post reads.
The nine-time Grammy winner returned to her college town last fall to headline the Roots N Blues festival. There, Crow was inducted into the Missouri Roots Songbook, the fest's equivalent to a hall of fame, which honors Missouri artists who have profoundly shaped roots music.
During Crow's Roots N Blues set, she testified to all the fun she had while a student in Columbia and dropped an "M-I-Z" or two at the end of her hit song "Soak Up the Sun."
The Sinquefield Center opened in 2020 and, among its many features, the 2,500-square-foot choral hall has 100-seat capacity and features a 7-foot Steinway grand piano, according to the School of Music's website. Equipped both for rehearsal as well as solo and chamber performances, it has "a wood floor and a large technical booth off the back wall in addition to changeable acoustical curtains and permanent tiered levels."
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Research Paper | Computer Science | India | Volume 11 Issue 2, February 2022
Virtual Tennis Coach using Pose Estimation
Taha Ali | Yashwant Yadav | Sunny Jayant | Jasraj Meena
Abstract: Tennis enjoys a considerable following in India, although it is limited to urban areas but still it is counted among the most popular sports in India. India has produced a number of tennis players, who have achieved international recognition. However, Coaching for this sport is expensive making it unaffordable for many. A method for creating virtual coaches is presented which uses tenser flow posenet algorithm. A database is developed which contains the images of top tennis players. After applying machine learning algorithms on it, the data is able to segregate good posture from the bad ones. The player is provided with an option to compare his game with the game of top ATA players and the end result is shown in visual format to make it more user friendly. The system works on real time data.
Keywords: tenser flow, pose net algorithm, machine learning, ATA players, virtual coach, tennis
Edition: Volume 11 Issue 2, February 2022,
Pages: 67 - 70
How to Cite this Article?
Taha Ali, Yashwant Yadav, Sunny Jayant, Jasraj Meena, "Virtual Tennis Coach using Pose Estimation", International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Volume 11 Issue 2, February 2022, pp. 67-70, https://www.ijsr.net/get_abstract.php?paper_id=SR22121145129
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With this compact PyPortal weather station on your desk or stuck to your fridge, you'll always know what mother nature is up to!
Using CircuitPython, this project queries the Open Weather Maps site API to find out the current weather for your location and displays it along with an informative icon.
3D printed case and magnetic backing allow you to mount it to your fridge or other ferrous metal surface.
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Resources Related to COVID-19 for the arts community.
Art Education Resources – Updated April 2020
Arts Education Online Lesson Plans
- Big Thought – www.bigthought.org
- Crayola, LLC – http://www.crayola.com/for-educators/resources-landing.aspx
- Young Audiences Arts for Learning Online Curriculum – http://www.arts4learning.org
- Brainy Child – http://www.brainy-child.com
- ARTSEDGE – http://www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org – Under Construction, but otherwise a great resource for lesson plans.
- Arts Ed Collaborative – https://artsedcollab.org/
- Aggregates all the COVID-19 arts ed resources they can find in one place. For webinars, virtual music lessons, online museum tours, and resources for artists, check back to their site. Pages are updated each weekday as new opportunities become available.
- State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE) – https://www.seadae.org/arts-instructional-resources
Family Guides, Curriculum, Parent Tool Kits
- Kansas State Department of Education – http://www.ksde.org
Most Comprehensive Resource for Art Education
- National Assembly of State Arts Agencies – http://www.nasaa-arts.org
March 2020, Reality of Digital Homework – Pew Research Center
Social Media Lesson Plans & Resource Links
- Music Educators Creating Online Learning
- Dancing Alone Together https://www.dancingalonetogether.org/?fbclid=IwAR1h_p489iuTy82c4huZsQLeZQzwnMpboAAI7fa0Ky_aaUybFdFyCo1fVrg
- Show Me Librarian
Arts Education Program Resources: including research, advocacy, international & national programs:
- Americans for the Arts – http://www.artsusa.org
- Arts Education Partnership – http://aep-arts.org
- Brain Rules by John Medina – http://www.brainrules.net
- Business Round Table – www.businessroundtable.org
- Center on Education Policy – www.cep-dc.org
- Creativity Matters – www.creativitymatters.com
- Education Week – http://www.edweek.org
- Educational Cyber Playground – http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/music/musicsmart2.html
- Future of Innovation – www.futureofinnovation.org
- International Society for Education through Art (INSEA) – http://www.insea.org
- International Society for Music Education (ISME) – http://www.isme.org
- Kansas Art Education Association – http://www.kaea.com/
- Kansas Music Educators Association – https://ksmea.org/
- Kansas Thespians – https://www.kansasthespians.com/
- Kirkpatrick Foundation, The – www.kirkpatrickfoundation.com
- National Art Education Association – https://www.arteducators.org/
- National Endowment for the Arts – https://www.arts.gov/
- National Education Association – www.nea.org
- National Association of Manufacturers – www.nam.org
- National Governors Association – www.nga.org
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills – https://www.battelleforkids.org/networks/p21
- 21st Century Skills Foundation – https://www.21stcenturyskillsfoundation.org/
- Task Force on the Future of American Innovation – www.futureofinnovation.org
- The Conference Board – www.conference-board.org
- U.S. Department of Education – https://www.ed.gov/
Advocacy, General Arts Education Info
- AFTA Arts Education Navigator Series, Getting Started
- AFTA Arts Education Navigator Series, Facts and Figures
- AFTA Arts Education Navigator Series, Making the Case
- AFTA YouthARTS for at-risk youth
Arts Education Publications – Americans for The Arts Website
Quick Things to Know About the Power of Arts Education
A sample of briefly stated findings from research on the impact of arts education on children and their learning.
Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development
This May 2002 report reviews 62 research studies that show compelling links between study in the arts and academic achievement and social/motivational development. Reading and mathematics achievement are Summary of findings and link to the full text of the report.
Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning
Executive Summary of seven studies and the detailed findings of all the studies showing benefits of arts education on student achievement, attitudes, and behavior.
Gaining the Arts Advantage: Lessons Learned from School Districts that Value Arts Education
Featuring more than 90 profiles and case studies of districts in 42 states, this report reveals success factors that lead to strong, district-wide arts education programs.
Learning and the Arts: Crossing Boundaries
Those who fund arts and education programs gathered in January 2000 to review the connection between learning in the arts and preparing for a new knowledge-based (less manual labor) economy, to review current research about the cognitive and behavioral assets arts education develops, and to distill the ways of thinking that the arts teach. Short articles by leaders in the field capture the prominent points.
Eloquent Evidence: Arts at the Core of Learning
This 1996 brochure summarizes research findings and offers quotes and other supportive language from leaders in the arts and education. The brochure reflects the growing consensus in support of arts education among parents and policymakers, the development of workplace skills through the study of the arts, and the role of the arts both as academic disciplines and as methods to help children learn better in non-arts disciplines.
Arts Education and School Improvement Resources for Local and State Leaders
This guide describes opportunities in U.S. Department of Education programs for securing funding for improving arts education and using the arts to improve overall student performance. This publication is intended to help local and state leaders and arts education practitioners learn about opportunities for federal general education funds to support arts education.
YouthARTS Development Project Brochure, Report, and Video
The YouthARTS Development Project is a national research and demonstration study in which arts programs for at-risk youth in three cities (Atlanta, Portland, and San Antonio) were evaluated for their effectiveness by researchers provided by the U.S. Department of Justice. Sponsored by Americans for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the U.S. Department of Justice, this controlled research study demonstrates that arts programs decrease youth’s involvement in delinquent behavior, increase academic achievement, and improve youth’s attitudes about themselves and their future.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress: Arts Assessment Report Card
An ongoing project of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) regularly tests different academic subjects. The periodic inclusion of the various arts disciplines in the “Nation’s Report Card” underscores the arts as academic material. Students were tested in their abilities to respond to, perform, and create in the arts disciplines.
Allies, Arguments and Actions: Making a Case for Arts Education Advocacy
(available through Americans for the Arts Monograph, Volume 3, Number 1, May 1999)
This primer includes ten advocacy tips, ideas about connecting arts education research with advocating for quality arts education, and successful models of local advocacy for arts education.
Making Advocacy a Habit
(available through Americans for the Arts Monograph, Volume 1, Number 2, February 1997)
This primer outlines, in step-by-step fashion, how to make your case in meetings, letters, phone calls, and other activities. It is oriented toward working with legislators but the insights are valuable and appropriate for approaching decision-makers in all contexts (principals, school board members, superintendents, etc.)
How the Arts Can Enhance Aftershool Programs
Concern for children’s safety and need for extended learning time in the afterschool hours has created an explosion in high quality afterschool programming. The U.S. Department of Education’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers program has grown to a billion dollar program in a few short years. Arts-based proposals have successfully competed for some of these funds and are resulting in powerful partnerships between schools and community cultural organizations. The U.S. Department of Education has also produced some documents that can help show you how to put the power of the arts to work afterschool.
Coming Up Taller
This report describes how local artists and educators help turn around the lives of young people and identifies the common characteristics of effective arts and humanities programs. Brief Program Profiles describe more than 200 afterschool, weekend, and summer programs around the country.
Involvement in the Arts and Success in Secondary School
(available through Americans for the Arts Monograph, Volume 1, Number 9, November 1997 )
This summary of research by Dr. James S. Catterall, UCLA Imagination Project, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, reveals how involvement in the arts is linked to higher academic performance, increased standardized test scores, more community service, and lower drop-out rates regardless of socio-economic status. Other more recent findings by Dr. Catterall are featured in Champions of Change (above).
Living the Arts Through Language and Learning: A Report on Community-Based Youth Organizations
(available through Americans for the Arts Monograph, Volume 2, Number 7, November 1998)
Researcher Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, reports that youth who participate at least nine hours a week in arts-based youth organizations have raised expectations and achievement in academics and community service. Her work is also featured in Champions of Change (above).
Congressional Findings in Support of Arts Education
On June 30, 1999, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) introduced a resolution to designate March as Arts Education Month. The Senate passed the resolution on March 2, 2000 that includes language supportive of arts education. The Congressional Record carried the text of the resolution.
The Arts Make the Education Difference at SPECTRA+, Hamilton, Ohio
A brief case study of an extraordinary arts integration program that enriches the standards-based curriculum and transforms teaching, learning, and the school environment. The pride of accomplishment runs through students, parents, teachers, and administrators.
Local and State Arts Programming in Kentucky
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JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — North Korea’s threat to detonate a hydrogen bomb above the Pacific Ocean is being treated as credible based on the regime’s past actions, U.S. officials here said.
That’s because in the past, North Korea has worked to manage global reactions to its nuclear tests and missile launches by announcing and socializing them publicly first, thus reducing the likelihood of any military reaction, they said.
“I would fully expect if he‘s telling us he’ll do it, he’s going to,” the officials said, who briefed reporters traveling with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joseph Dunford on the condition of anonymity.
The officials also provided a tour of the Hawaii base’s ability to detect launches and then relay responses to partners Japan and China on a missile’s potential trajectory. The last several months here have seen a near constant pace of launches and tests by North Korea, which has generated calls for both military options and an increased attempt to deliver a diplomatic solution.
For the regional military officials here, a diplomatic solution is the far preferred option. Even a limited and successful military campaign against North Korea could kill hundreds of thousands of Seoul residents, the Congressional Research Service estimated in a report released this week and provided to the Military Times.
The officials said even in a hypothetical, successful scenario, the risk was high that the U.S. would likely either be blamed for the deaths — either because of a perception the U.S. provoked North Korea or that it did not do enough to end Pyongyang’s nuclear program before conflict erupted.
Dunford, who has repeatedly emphasized that the military’s role is to help press a diplomatic option, said an above-ground hydrogen bomb test would be “particularly provocative.”
Dunford said any above ground test by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un would generate a very strong international response, and that they are taking this latest threat seriously.
“I have a tendency from a planning perspective to take their rhetoric seriously and make sure we are prepared to deal with it,” Dunford said. “We‘re listening carefully to what he is saying.”
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Irish Short Story Week Year Two
March 12 to May 1
April 1 to April 6
My Prior Posts for ISSW Year Two
Please consider joining us for Irish Short Story Week Year Two (yes it is a long week!). There are lots of ideas and links to stories in the resources page. All you are asked to do is to post on Irish Short Story (or a work related to this area such as a biography of one of the writers or a historical work with some good background information) and let me know about it. You are welcome to guest post on my blog if you like. If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, just let me know.
As I began to post consider posting on Irish short stories centering on priests, I previously posted on Daniel Crockery's very well done story, "The Priest" I did a Google news search on "Priests in Ireland". A picture of a priesthood in moral crisis quickly emerged with the many stories of sexual abuse of children by priests and cover ups by church officials. Of course this is only the small minority of priests but it seems to have made it harder for the priests in Ireland to be moral leaders.
I think if you surveyed readers of the genre and asked them who the best living short story writer was you would get close to a split vote between Alice Munro and William Trevor. Both are now in their eighties and both are very prolific writers. Trevor's collected short stories comes to over 1200 pages. His stories are normally shorter than Munro's. Munro's are set in Canada, Trevor's in Ireland. Both are very much cold weather writers.
William Trevor (1928, County Cork, Ireland) included "Death in Jerusalem" as his contribution to his collection of short stories, The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories. I hope we can take that as his endorsing it as a good representation of his work. I posted on two of his short stories during Irish Short Story Week Year One, "Men of Ireland" and "The Woman of the House". For sure Irish Short Story Week would not be complete without at least one post on William Trevor.
|"I can't wait for Gothic Week"|
"Death in Jerusalem" centers on a priest and his brother, both well into middle age and their mother. One of the themes found in as lot of the short stories I and others have posted on this year is the clash of moral obligations and the anxiety the inability to be a fully moral person causes. I will just briefly state the outlines of the plot here in order to illustrate what I mean. For sure this story fits Frank O'Connors conception of a short story that deals centrally with loneliness. The priest and his brother have been planning a joint trip to Jerusalem for a long time. They are conflicted when it comes time to go because there very elderly mother is very sick. They both really want to go and they know it may be now or never. (I am going to tell more of the plot now than I normally do.) Just as they arrive in Jerusalem the priest gets notified that their mother has passed away. He ponders what should he do, should he tell his brother who he knows will insist they go home at once. There is nothing, of course they can do for their mother, there are other family members perfectly able and willing to handle all the arrangements. I will stop here but you can see their is no "right decision" he can make.
Do you have a favorite Trevor story?
I have a small collection of his short stories, maybe 40, and will, I am hoping, post more on his stories during Irish Short Story Week Year Three in March 2013.
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Webfonts on BBC Arabic and BBC Persian
By now you must have heard about Webfonts and their usage in web design: Google WebFonts, Cufon, and services like Typekit. But none of these services have any typeface for languages that use Arabic script. Most Arabic and Persian websites still use the two unappealing fonts they used to use in 2001: Tahoma and Times New Roman. Among all the Webfont companies services Google has some support for the international users but their services is limited to a Slavic, Greek, and Khmer. Others don’t have any services for non-Latin scripts.
Recently BBC decided to redesign its BBC Arabic and BBC Persian websites. For the first time in the short history of the web these websites were equipped with an Arabic webfont. Unfortunately the webfont BBC uses, Nassim, is not available for the public. [The content of this blog post is updated in a new post about Arabic and Persian webfonts.]
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Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers
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Mini SPELT Conference
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SNOW DAY!! Woohoo…I took advantage and pushed out my Valentine's Day version of my popular roll, say and color activity!!
***Grab 2 dice, print the page of the target sound working on, and some crayons and you are ready! No laminating involved!
How to use this product:
-Students roll the two dice. One dice will tell them which row to look at. The second dice will tell them to count across to determine the target word to say! You can even make them say that word that many times!!!
-Once they say the target, they can color the winter themed picture!
-Keep rolling and practicing those target sounds until the entire page is colored! There are 36 opportunities to practice each target sound! Can send home the worksheet for review home practice!
-Target sounds included, in the initial and final positions:
/k, g, s, f, v, th, sh, ch, l, r, z/
Initial clusters included: /s/, /r/, and /l/
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Seed to Dust
Life, Nature, and a Country Garden
- ISBN: 9781771647687
- Tags: A Year in the Woods, Gift, How to Catch a Mole, Literary Non-Fiction, Marc Hamer, Nature & Environment,
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- Published On: 05/04/2021
- 312 Pages
For readers of Late Migrations and Vesper Flights
A stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, “that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere ... Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing.” —Shelf Awareness (STARRED Review)
With “chapters... [that] shimmer like lantern slides, lit with luminous imagery ... Seed to Dust is an invitation to read this world as Mr. Hamer does—with a close eye to what changes, and what does not.”—The Wall Street Journal
Marc Hamer has nurtured the same 12-acre garden in the Welsh countryside for over two decades. The garden is vast and intricate. It’s rarely visited, and only Hamer knows of its secrets. But it’s not his garden. It belongs to his wealthy and elegant employer, Miss Cashmere. But the garden does not really belong to her, either. As Hamer writes, “Like a book, a garden belongs to everyone who sees it.”
In Seed to Dust, Marc Hamer paints a beautiful portrait of the garden that “belongs to everyone.” He describes a year in his life as a country gardener, with each chapter named for the month he’s in. As he works, he muses on the unusual folklores of his beloved plants. He observes the creatures who scurry and hide from his blade or rake. And he reflects on his own life: living homeless as a young man, his loving relationship with his wife and children, and—now—feeling the effects of old age on body and mind.
As the seasons change, Hamer also reflects on the changes he has observed in Miss Cashmere’s life from afar: the death of her husband and the departure of her children from the stately home where she now lives alone. At the book’s end, Hamer’s connection to Miss Cashmere changes shape, and new insights into relationships and the beauty and brutality of nature emerge.
Just like all good books and gardens, Seed to Dust is filled with equal parts life and death, beauty and decay, and every reader will find something different to admire.
MARC HAMER was born in the North of England but has lived in Wales for more than thirty years. After spending a period of time homeless, then working on the railway, he returned to education and studied fine art. Hamer worked in art galleries and taught creative writing in prisons before becoming a gardener and mole catcher. He is the author of How to Catch a Mole. | <urn:uuid:8020607d-4edc-4f1e-b3ff-38018302ff31> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greystonebooks.com/collections/out-of-the-woods/products/seed-to-dust | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954374 | 620 | 2.078125 | 2 |
It is no question the role freestanding emergency rooms, otherwise known as freestanding ERs, played in administering COVID-19 tests during the pandemic. In Texas, freestanding ERs had the testing capability and resources to provide the COVID-19 testing patients were seeking when few tests were available during the pandemic. Patients who sought a COVID-19 test could easily access COVID-19 tests and receive their results within a few days.
The United States Congress passed legislation through the CARES Act and FFCRA to ensure that patients had access to testing and vaccines without shouldering the costs. Both the CARES Act and FFCRA mandated that insurance cover the cost of COVID-19 testing and the costs related to testing. In later guidance, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provided further clarification that insurance companies would be required to cover the costs of the administration of COVID-19 vaccines.
Freestanding ERs do not exist in most states, with Texas being one of the few that allow freestanding ERs. Freestanding ERs were one of the primary facilities where patients could access COVID-19 tests and vaccines. However, there have been some debates between freestanding ERs and insurance companies regarding the billed charges for COVID-19 tests and vaccine administration. Freestanding ERs are held to the same licensing standards as hospitals, and often can provide the same laboratory tests and exams as a hospital, unlike urgent care centers. Further, when patients suspected they had been exposed to or had COVID-19, they often went to the nearest freestanding ER. This led to complaints by insurance companies regarding the charges for COVID-19 tests and vaccines and the related costs charges to insurers.
The Texas Legislature passed SB 2038 to regulate what the legislature saw as overcharges by the freestanding ERs related to COVID-19 tests or vaccines. The legislature expressed the intent of the legislation was to regulate the pricing of COVID-19 tests and vaccines. Generally, SB 2038 is written in two sections. Section 1 of the Bill applies to freestanding ERs which are associated with hospitals, with some exceptions, and Section 2 of the bill applies to freestanding ERs. Provided below is a general summary of what SB 2038 entails:
- Certain Fees Prohibited. If a patient receives a COVID test or vaccine from their vehicle, then the facility cannot charge a facility or observation fee either to the patient or a third-party payor.
- Disclosure of certain prices and fees. The facilities are required to disclose to patients the prices the facility charges for the test or vaccine, facility fees, supply costs, or other costs associated with the test or vaccine.
- Unconscionable Costs. The legislation requires that during a state of disaster, facilities cannot charge an “unconscionable price” and caps the amount a facility can charge. In the Bill Analysis, both the Senate and House expressed concerns about price gouging of fees related to COVID tests and vaccines. “Unconscionable price” is defined as a price that is more than 200% of the average cost of a similar product or service in the same geographical area. A facility may not charge an individual an unconscionable price for a product or service provided at the facility or knowingly or intentionally charge a third-party payor a price higher than the price charged to an individual for the same product or service. However, the legislature built in an exception where a facility may still offer uninsured patients a cash discount for a particular product or service or accepting from a patient full payment for services if the patient is insured (i.e. if the patient does not want to submit a claim to their insurance).
- First violation: administrative penalty of $10,000
- Second violation: administrative penalty of $50,000 and suspension of person’s license for 30 days
- Third violation: permanent revocation of the person’s license.
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Most students in their free time take up hobby classes like cooking, arts, music, etc. But I wanted to make the most of my time by aligning a hobby with my career interests. I wanted to pursue design and felt equally inclined towards Architecture, Graphic Design and Fashion Design. As I was looking for more clarity, I came across the At Home Internship program by Univariety. The program has been very beneficial in terms of the amazing faculty I got to learn from. They were industry experts who guided me throughout. Now I know where to focus my interest and time.
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An internship is a way of building practical skills and experience while gaining exposure to the desired career. Most universities across the world today are giving importance to internships. Having an internship experience stands out on a student profile by reflecting how they have gainfully utilised their time and interest. Univariety’s internship programs are built to provide students with 21st-century career experiences from the comfort of their homes.
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Last Tuesday night, General Petraeus addressed 1500 people at the Fairmont Hotel Chicago. While most topics covered the what, when, how in Iraq and Afghanistan, the General also spoke on Strategic Leadership valid in any situation, from a man who knows the worst case scenarios cold.
While we may not do justice to the entirety of his speech, his key points, paraphrased, were these: 1) First, one has to have the right ideas — with out the right idea, all else is irrelevant. For Petraeus, this meant starting with the right inputs to get the right outputs. Makes sense. If one doesn’t have the right information, education, skills and team, one ends up with wrong output for the wrong job. 2) Second, one needs to communicate the right idea down the chain of command. For us in the private sector this mean communicating the ideas all the way through the organization so everyone has an understanding of what to do and its relative importance. 3) Once everyone’s on the same page, the next step is overseeing correct implementation without micro managing. Illustrating this point, he used what we’ll call the “Get down the road” management technique. He saw management’s responsibility as showing people the path, the direction, then drawing the right and left hand lines and telling the team to “get down the road”. Of course, if they go outside the lines, its managements’ job to help get the crew back on the right path, which is why the Army shares best practices (and worst practices, actually) for all of their initiatives. The last slide of the evening he showed us his Iraq ‘dashboard’: number of bombs found, attacks, and casualties since the beginning of the war. The US Military’s goal was to minimize the violence to peace time standards so that mundane activities could be conducted. What’s notable is the General could explain the weekly rise and fall of violence all along — at any moment, he can see how many acts of violence happened today, yesterday, this week or for any given period since the start of the Iraq and Afghan Wars. Scary, and sad, but effective, and, once in war, a smart, quant tool to have. As in all things, if one doesn’t have a metric, one has no sense of a goal. This commitment to strategic leadership has given him the ability to get the right ideas, implement them and adjust when necessary. Not a bad lesson in getting things done from a man who has to bring peace, defeat an insurgency and build a country while getting shot at all the time. Makes your job look easy, right? | <urn:uuid:f24cf139-72f5-4f8a-8ce7-5a56d28c7174> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bandwidthmktg.com/2010/05/24/general-ideas-on-strategic-leadership/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947889 | 552 | 2 | 2 |
Each one of us should accept the fact that we would be old someday. If not, we could end up in an accident and it will be harder for our family to cope up with the loss. That is life. It just comes and go. The young generation like the children needs caring. The teenagers need guidance. The young ones are learning. The middle-aged ones are using what they have learned. Old people thinks that they will die soon and the negativity comes in within them.Every person who age and becomes a senior citizen will really feel something a little different in their body. Even though you feel weak at first if you have bone illness don’t be depressed by the things that you can’t do anymore. At all times be positive and think of other things that you could think of that makes you want to live.There are various types of doctors that are there to help you if you have illness to heal or to do something about it.
The sports chiropractor castle hill that are experts for the bones can help when you go there and consult your concerns. The seniors are really the target of these kind of business. The people that have scoliosis can really use help in their physical therapies.When you need to know and ask medical people in the moment since you have and odd feeling then you could call for help. Look for the best that you could have the funds for and see if they have an available slot that you could book there for an appointment.Before long, everything will be alright. Stay positive and happy with the good things that happened in your life. No matter what take place, don’t give up on life. At all times keep in mind that God is with you no matter what. Even though, one doesn’t have faith in in him he still cares for them. He is always close to those who are heart broken.Do not be afraid for the future. Pay attention on your problems in the present day and be sure to respect other people. If you think they have been bad to you before. Forget it and just move on. You are the one who is feeling down anyway than that person for the reason that they may not know that you have hatred to them or you have a problem. Speak to them and make it clear. | <urn:uuid:d52c7972-7588-4e3f-b5d9-9b494379ebfc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://monavie-emv.net/age-is-nothing-but-an-enemy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.981787 | 465 | 1.96875 | 2 |
One of the most essential elements for a new home owner to address is the interior design of their new home. Whether they pay a professional to do a little consulting and help them shop for a few hours or they employ a designer to overhaul their entire dwelling, the designers expertise will help them take their home from nondescript to perfect. Interior designers have training that allows them to do research and analyze situations. They, then, take their findings to create beautiful spaces tailored to their clients desires.
A trained designer will understand how to integrate various design elements so that a home is both visually appealing and functional. An effective designer should understand a homeowners basic objectives regarding their home. The designer should know if their clients enjoy entertaining, crafting, or watching films so they can design with an eye toward those hobbies. Furthermore, their design elements should virtually reflect their clients neighborhood.
Regardless of whether a home is a ranch in Western South Dakota, a hip condo in North East Minneapolis, or a gem in the world of Chicago real estate, it is important that the designer has spent some time in that area. For instance, if a homeowner purchases a Chicago condo in Gold Coast, it would look out of place if their designer decorated their condo in completely modern themes. The interior design should reflect the classic and historic nature of that neighborhood. Most of the structures in the Gold Coast neighborhood were built after Chicagos great fire of 1871, and the beautiful Victorian features of these properties should be highlighted rather than subdued.
However, even within the same city, there are a wide variety of interior design elements. If a homeowner chooses to live in a Chicago home in Wrigleyville, their interior design may need to be completely different than what may have seemed right in Chicagos Gold Coast neighborhood. They may want to incorporate some of the themes that have been historically used in the pubs and restaurants in that area. Because that area hosts Wrigley field, many people like to use sports themes. However, employing a sport based theme is not essential as long as the interior design scheme is not fighting with the architecture of the area or of the condo itself.
However, even without hiring a professional designer, it is possible for homeowners to decorate their homes beautifully. They should fill their minds with as much inspiration as possible. If they spend time in the businesses and homes in their area, they can ascertain how these places deal with various architectural elements. Because the buildings in most neighborhoods were built during the same time period, they will see similar features as they move from one building to another. They should also read as many decorating books and magazines as they can find. Then, they simply need to browse shops until they find the perfect pieces to compliment their homes and lifestyles. | <urn:uuid:ff97fd1e-00f9-4edf-9a1f-61cadfb5f630> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.louisvuitton-sac.fr/new-home-owner-interior-design-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.97663 | 552 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The United States House of Representatives had approved the creation of a commission of inquiry to find out exactly what happened on January 6, when supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol.
252 delegates voted in favour on the night from Wednesday to Thursday, including 35 Republicans, and 175 voted against the establishment. The proposal has yet to be approved by the Senate.
On January 6, a mob stormed the parliament building, where the election results were being made official at the time. All members of the Senate and the House of Representatives had to flee. In the end, five people were killed.
A ten-member committee, half Democrat and half Republican must prepare a report with far-reaching powers on the events of the storm. For example, members must be able to sue people. The commission was set up on the model of a similar group that was to investigate the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Whether the proposal will also pass through the Senate is still uncertain. Under the so-called filibuster rule, at least 60 out of 100 senators must agree. In the current Senate, which is split half and half between Democrats and Republicans, that would mean it would require support from both parties.
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Welcome to iLUMA online. This is a literacy program designed to improve reading comprehension and listening skills through the use of keywords, which are colors. Open the link below to get to the online storyboard.
Below is the link to the online version of Microsoft Paint. You can complete the storyboard using Microsoft Paint. Simply click on the paint can in the left hand tool bar and select your color from the palette in the bottom left hand corner. Click inside the space that you want to color. You can erase by clicking control (ctrl) x or simply choose another color and you can paint over. When you have completed your story board, in the left hand tool bar select file then print and save as a pdf. Send the pdf file to email@example.com and include your name and group. | <urn:uuid:9f9a69ac-133a-4f5c-81ec-37da3da5f484> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sfcemusic.com/iluma-online/?month=jul&yr=2022 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.891947 | 166 | 2.125 | 2 |
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Rugelach is a Jewish pastry dish with raisins, walnuts, and sometimes chocolate.
Ingredients[edit | edit source]
- 2 cups (260g) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup (65g) plus 4 teaspoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup loosely packed golden raisins, chopped
- 1 1/4 cups walnuts (1/4 lb), finely chopped
- 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 8 oz. (220g) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup apricot jam or raspberry jam
- Milk to brush Rugelach
Procedure[edit | edit source]
- Whisk flour and salt in a medium bowl.
- Beat butter and cream cheese in a large bowl with a mixer until well combined.
- Stir in flour until the contents is the consistency of dough.
- Roll the dough into a ball and wrap in plastic; flatten into a 5x7 inch (12 x 17 cm) rectangle.
- Refrigerate for 12 to 24 hours.
- Line a large shallow baking pan with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350F.
- Cut the chilled dough into 4 even pieces, and return all but 1 to the fridge in plastic wrap. Roll the remaining piece into a 12x8 inch (30 x 19 cm) rectangle on a floured surface with a floured rolling pin (to prevent sticking).
- Put the flattened dough on parchment paper, and then return to the fridge to chill while you repeat the flattening process on all other dough quarters.
- After you are done flattening the dough, return the last piece to the fridge.
- Whisk the 1/2 cup sugar with cinnamon in a medium bowl.
- Take one dough quarter out of the fridge and spread 1/4 cup of the jam over the dough with a spatula. Over the dough, scatter 1/4 cup of raisins and then walnuts, finally 2 tablespoons of the whisked cinnamon sugar.
- Roll the dough quarter up into a tight cylinder. Place the dough cylinder seam-side down in the baking pan and close and tuck the ends.
- Repeat the same process with the other 3 dough rectangles.
- Finish the cylinders by brushing with milk, sprinkle each with a teaspoon of sugar. Using a large knife, score the dough cylinders with 3/4 inch (2cm) deep cuts, at one inch intervals.
- Bake at 350F (180°C) for 45-50 minutes.
- Take out of the oven, cool in the pan on a wire rack for 30 minutes. Transfer cylinders to a cutting board and cut slices from the cylinders to make rugelach.
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Answer: Pak-27 is a peroxide-based algaecide/bactericide. It’s packaged in a dry, granular formula. The trick with the application of Pak-27 is the exposure time. This product degrades into free carbon and oxygen very quickly, and once it has degraded, it is no longer effective as a bactericide. So the trick is getting it in the water column on the target and having that exposure right. The only way that we’ve found to be able to do this is through a slurry injection machine. And this machine injects it into the water column as a dry, and as it dissolves in the water column, it’s getting the effect of killing the e-coli. | <urn:uuid:4f7525f5-3286-47bc-bca2-843b369f5e4a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ponds.org/treatingpondsandlakewithpak27algaecide.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.954444 | 156 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Play is no less than the basics of humanity. By Friedrich Fröbel, one of the pioneers of play education, play is one of the most basic development factors of
human beings. “While playing a child learns the basic qualifications of social behaviour.” (1) said Lothar
Krappmann, founder of the interactionistic role theory. Through that he emphasizes the huge social potential of play. Albert Einstein on the other side points out the creative-innovative aspect
of play and states “Play is the highest form of research”.
From the perspective of the psychology of learning and also confirmed by latest results of neurobiological research, one-sided, merely cognitive intercession of knowledge has already proven to be insufficient in education. According to the “Commemorative Pyramid” by Felder, children remember only 10% of the content by using cognitive methods, whereas it is about 90% if using direct action oriented on the experimental learning process following a “learning by doing” concept. Consequently, sustainable learning requires an interactive learning process, which recognises the human being in its wholeness (body-mind-soul) as the famous educator Heinrich Pestalozzi would say.
The “New Games Play Movement”, developed in California/USA in the early 1970s and meanwhile spread around the world, rests upon four principles which ensure sustainable learning processes and facilitates a positive social interaction between human beings. 1.) “Everybody is it”: Every player is responsible for the game to succeed. 2.) “Power of Play”: The joy experienced together during a game is more important than winning or losing. 3.) “Spirit of Play”: The positive attitude for the fellow players is oriented towards the guidelines “play hard – play fair – nobody hurt” 4.) “Rules are flexible”: In the centre is the human being with its capabilities and needs. The rules of a game are always flexible.
Joseph Cornell’s “nature education” facilitates sustainable learning experiences within the context of human and nature, in particular for children and teenagers. An emotionally lasting “Flow-experience” develops in a serious pedagogically four-step model. Within this model the method of interactive games constitutes a substantial element. The steps are: 1. Show enthusiasm. 2.) Have direct experiences. 3.) Facilitate/Reflect your experience 4.) Exchange the impressions, “A joy shared is a joy doubled.”
If the method of interactive games is to succeed in the context of a sustainable perspective of humanity, the participants have to meet certain requirements. Among others “respect” is needed, meaning an appreciating positive attitude towards the fellow players and participants. Further a certain amount of “discipline” in following the agreed rules is required as well as. Finally and most important to play games well the participants need to have the capability of “being in this very moment” of the game here and now, where past and future remain secondary.
Succeeds the game the desired effects happen immediately and cause a “change of perspective” in our thinking and acting. In this way a holistic and sustainable intercession of knowledge is possible as well as innovative strategies of problem solving.
Up to a certain age children have a natural approach to play. In later stages of life it is necessary to find adequate activities and interactive methods according to the age group and capabilities. For grownups well-chosen games open up a new approach to the often concealed inner child and a sustainable and creative learning process is possible.
Everyday (providing guidance in everyday decision making)
Through play the intercession of knowledge can happen more easily and concretely through a hands-on approach. A meeting in Finland provided a good example: During the meeting we had an extraordinary day in the forest together with 10year old school kids and a forest-educator. The forest-educator began by asking the children what one should not do in the forest. Throwing away paper and rubbish the pupils answered. Sometime later after rewarding them with a candy for a well done game he asked them for their candy wrappers. Not a one of them had thrown it away, all of them had got it in their pockets. This is a simple but practical example for how you can transfer important knowledge about sustainable and ecological behaviour by play. The kids found the correct answer and implemented it directly in their everyday life. Is this just coincidence?
Impact (providing support in monitoring individual environmental impacts, e.g. via environmental footprint)
We see playing a game as a holistic educational approach. Our assumption is that playing games improves the chance to change things beyond cognitive knowing only.
It helps to translate experiences into action in our everyday life. But does it really help to change our behaviour? The above mentioned example (see chapter everyday) about the candy wrappers is only a brief example of what can happen. However, evaluating whether the new teaching method actually affects people’s lifestyle in a way that makes it more sustainable is hardly possible by monitoring their behaviour only. A quantification of the impact is necessary and going to be a challenging task! Therefore, aspects of life which are measurable have to be checked in order to evaluate the success of teaching through play. One example for such a measurable indicator of our ecological behaviour is the carbon footprint which demonstrates how our lifestyle influences the output of greenhouse gas
The shown result can also initiate a will to change behaviour. But as we know – it doesn´t work the way just to know the facts.
Playing games opens people’s eyes and shows them the meaning of sustainable living by real hands-on experiences. Nonetheless, this is only the first step. The key task is getting people enthusiastic about the topic in such a fashion that makes them want to educate themselves further. The concept of learning through play provides a large potential to facilitate that as playing makes people gather and brings them into contact. While playing a game, people interact and solve problems jointly what makes networking happen. While interacting, groups sharing common interests can form. Just like every other task, pursuing the goal of continuous learning becomes easy when being in a group of like-minded people.
Providing for forming interest groups is a big step towards the goal of continuous learning. Another key task is conveying softskills. Being open-minded supports the process of continuous learning as it makes people sensible to new ideas and viewpoints. Game-playing lets participants change perspective. It teaches them to project their thoughts into different situations and roles like the EcoCity role play in Portugal impressively demonstrated (Link: EcoCity). Doing so promotes developing empathy as well as a more open way of looking at things in general. Furthermore, playing together stimulates openness and curiosity towards new views. Getting people involved with each other makes learning fun and supports the learning success, consequently.
What we have to ask ourselves is whether a one-time training is sufficient to put an effect on people lasting enough to spark them to continue learning on their own. It is well possible that further trainings have to be offered in order to increase the share of people willing to continue on this topic. What we certainly do not want to happen is that people drop out just because of a lack of offers for further learning possibilities.
Bridge (bridging the gap between knowledge and action)
A playful approach opens the possibility to pass knowledge through practical action, it takes learning from an abstract level to a tangible level. Action and the experience of the consequences imparts knowledge and offers a new learning experience. Other than the traditional way of teaching which transfers theoretical knowledge the student is supposed to translated into actual action, playing interactive games allows a reverse learning experience: Through hands-on action and demonstration of its consequences the student gathers practical knowledge of cause and consequence with an immediate touch on his everyday life.
(1) Krappmann, Lothar (1975): Kommunikation und Interaktion im Spiel. In: Deutscher Bildungsrat (Hrsg.): Spielen und Gestalten. Primarbereich, Bd.2/1. Stuttgart: Klett, S.45. | <urn:uuid:688319ed-87b5-4509-83e8-2d4a50f642a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://archiv.starkmacher.eu/www.eco-navigation.eu/our-methods/role-play/text/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94568 | 1,716 | 3.84375 | 4 |
Climate, Weather, and Trees
Part A: Climate, Weather, and Plants in Your Region
It is time for a field trip! Let's start learning about climate, weather, and the biosphere by going outside and becoming familiar with the weather and plants just outside your own door. Before you go outside, download and print the linked recording sheet and cloud identification chart (below) to take along with you on your journey. To download a PDF file, right-click on the link and choose "Save File As" or "Save Link As..." or other similar command.
- Climate, Weather, and Plants Recording Sheet (Acrobat (PDF) 47kB Feb1 22)
- Cloud Identification Chart-large (Acrobat (PDF) 2.1MB Apr5 12)
- Cloud Identification Chart-small (Acrobat (PDF) 1024kB May10 12)
- Cloud chart and more information
Once outside, locate a tree, shrub, cactus, or other long-lived perennialperennial: a plant that is long-lived and remains in the same location for many years. Trees, shrubs, and cactus are all perennial plants. plant in your study area. Use the recording sheet to record observations about your plant and its surroundings. Consider the influences that the local weather and other physical conditions may have on the plant. Look around the area (in all directions) while considering the following questions:
- Is the plant near a parking lot or roadway?
- Is it in a protected area or exposed to the wind?
- Do large buildings or other trees shade it?
- How might these factors influence the growth of the plant?
If possible, take a picture or sketch your plant.
Next, take a few minutes to describe the weather that you are experiencing today on your recording sheet. Look at the sky; are there clouds? Look at the leaves on a tree or flags in the area; is it windy? Is there precipitation? Is it humid? What is the temperature? Use a camera or make a sketch of the scene and any clouds that are in your view. Use the cloud chart to identify the types of clouds that you see.
When you are done recording your observations, return to the classroom or find a quiet place to reflect on your observations. Answer the following Stop and Think questions. (Note: these questions are also on the Recording Sheet)
Stop and Think
- Write a paragraph describing how you predict the weather in your study area will change over the next day, week, month, and year.
- How will the plant that you are observing change in these same time periods? You may want to sketch your predictions for plant growth or change.
- If possible, identify the age, species, and climatic needs of your tree. There are many helpful websites with information about trees; several are linked here: | <urn:uuid:5a1e8749-7434-4b0b-b4b6-e24308429c7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://serc.carleton.edu/eslabs/weather/1a.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.930098 | 589 | 3.703125 | 4 |
This is a helpful portable dog agility course with all the obstacles you’d anticipate as well as a few handy extras. A substantial tunnel fifty eight.5in long does a great job of replicating the size you might expect from a real agility course. These obstacles are nice for canines that are simply getting began with agility.
- A secure dog agility tunnel stays stable on the bottom when in use.
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- Expert handlers have ways of preserving the connection with their dog whereas the canine is within the tunnel; this lets them run forward to the following obstacle while the canine is in the tunnel.
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- In addition, agility coaching helps to enhance your dog’s coordination and stability.
- You may also wish to consider warranties and return insurance policies just in case your pooch is a bit more keen about tunnel coaching than you are expecting.
These tunnels are normally 24-inches in diameter and 18-feet long. Your canine might be more competitive if they’ve been educated with considered one of these tunnels, but smaller dogs might discover this tunnel dimension too massive. If your canine is little, contemplate instructing agility using a smaller tunnel. But with so many agility training tunnels to pick from, finding the best one could be a challenge.
This 18-foot agility tunnel options 24-inch double-ended openings. This coiled, shape-shifting tube is ideal for small to mid-sized dogs. Plus, it’s lined with a professional-grade covering and boasts 600D woven Oxford Dacron, all of which makes this agility tunnel super durable.
What’s extra, its zinc-plated, 7-inch stakes are utterly rust-resistant. Plus, the downward angled tops of the stakes won’t protrude out of the ground if you prepare your canine.
Thus, you should ensure your buddy can practice this sport before introducing him to tunnel work. An open tunnel is a wonderful obstacle to introduce your dog to agility coaching as a outcome of it’s generally easy to grasp. Running at full velocity in an extended and broad tubular object shouldn’t be too troublesome for him. Dog agility is the final word sport to train your companion both physically and mentally. It consists of coaching him to undergo an impediment course, together with hurdles, weave poles, and TUNNELS. The Perfect Dog Agility Set – Made of ABS material, protected and non-toxic, Lightweight, sturdy that can be used for park, backyar.
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24 inch opening makes the tunnel suitable for small and huge dogs. Over time, you’ll gradually be in a position to lengthen the tunnel as they turn into used to working through it. And when this starts to become a little boring, you can start to put it in different shapes to present them with new challenges. If your dog is particularly nervous or anxious, it is prone to take time for them to build up confidence. When you begin a new pastime for the first time, it could easily appear intimidating and unimaginable to grasp. But there are many beginner’s classes on the market which can help you to improve your expertise.
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There also must be house for a lot of handlers with canine on leashes to maneuver freely around the rings with out crowding, and space for warming up, exercising, and pottying dogs. Adjacent to the site, parking should be out there for all opponents. At weekend or weeklong reveals that provide tenting, house must be supplied both for competitors’ caravans and tents, and for the small fenced enclosures or gardens that they arrange round them. In addition to the technical and academic coaching, bodily training should also be carried out. The dog have to be fit sufficient to run and bounce with out causing stress or damage to its physique. The handler also can benefit from being physically fit, however with some dealing with types it is not necessary to keep up with the dog .
The Real History of Agility Tunnel Refuted
However, smaller agility tunnels are a great choice for smaller dogs and if you need to use one to train your pooch in a brand new and fun way . If you’re handy, you can save a major sum of money with dog agility gear DIY projects. You should purchase canine agility tools kits which are cheaper than the skilled variations and require just some assembly on your half.
Set your canine up for success by beginning small and raising your expectations slowly. Some dogs might be ready to maneuver previous the fundamentals in a couple of weeks, but different canine need a more affected person approach. Whether you want to practice indoors or exterior, you can help your canine to get the hold of agility and see when you each enjoy the activity earlier than you spend more money for superior training. The bounce is completely adjustable so as to start out with your dog at a really low level as they acquire confidence after which adjust it to an appropriate top for the dimensions of your dog. Outward Hound makes one of the best dog agility programs for indoors. It’s a fantastic possibility if you’d like some wet day leisure on your dog or you’d like to train them to do agility without having to go outdoors.
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China's rocket falls back to Earth, leaving a trail of debris across India
What comes up must come down, such is the case with nature and with this latest story.
On Saturday, a Chinese rocket sent to space last year returned to Earth, leaving a trail of debris over India and initially spurring rumors that it may have been a comet.
Losing energy and altitude with each cycle around the earth
The rocket was the third stage of a (Chang Zheng) Long March 3B (CZ-3B). It was launched on February 4, 2021, from China’s Xichang satellite launch center and actually made it to orbit where it should have stayed for a long, long time.
However, after about a year it started losing altitude and energy every time it completed a cycle around the earth eventually leading back to its descent and reentry.
“Every time the rocket went through perigee it lost some energy due to drag from the atmosphere, and so it didn't go as high to apogee on the next loop: the apogee steadily decreases until you get reentry,” explained astronomer Jonathan McDowell on Twitter.
After launch in Feb 2021 the rocket stage was left in an elliptical orbit with a perigee of about 150 km and an apogee of 34440 km.— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) April 3, 2022
The perigee height, shown here vs time, doesn't change much until recently pic.twitter.com/d4tHh7CTK5
Video was captured of the event and showed blazing debris resembling a comet streaking through the skies over Maharashtra state in India. As such many assumed it may have indeed been a comet but further research revealed it was a defunct rocket.
Not the first time
This isn't the first time a Chinese rocket has returned to Warth. Early in April 2020, a Chinese rocket fell mid-launch while carrying an Indonesian communications satellite.
Then, a mere month later, a huge chunk of debris that was part of the Chinese Long March 5B rocket – which successfully launched into orbit on May 5, 2020 from Wenchang Space Center in South Hainan province, China – crashed back down to Earth in an uncontrolled manner, landing into the Atlantic Ocean off the North-West African coast.
These incidents have garnered criticism from the space community, including NASA chief Bill Nelson. "It is critical that China and all spacefaring nations and commercial entities act responsibly and transparently in space to ensure the safety, stability, security and long-term sustainability of outer space activities." Nelson wrote in a statement. | <urn:uuid:cec6bdd6-178e-4710-ac19-19fdb7eceafa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://interestingengineering.com/science/chinas-rocket-falls-back-to-earth-leaving-a-trail-of-debris-across-india | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959073 | 542 | 2.859375 | 3 |
'Overpopulation' and the environment: three ways to discuss it in a sensitive way
Should we give up having children to save the planet? Recent news articles and scientific papers have once again raised concerns about “overpopulation” and the environmental implications of having too many humans on Earth. Many people consider bringing fewer children into the world to be the logical solution. If you read the comments section of these articles, you’ll find out what anyone who’s been in a conversation about overpopulation knows: such exchanges are polarised, emotionally loaded and conflict ridden.
Regardless of whether you think that overpopulation is the defining issue of our time, don’t think it is a real problem, or lie somewhere in between, it’s absolutely crucial we can have these conversations without further polarising the debate. In a recent comment in Environmental Research Letters, we offer three tips for having conversations about overpopulation in a more ethical, thoughtful and sensitive way.
1) Recognise the limits of individual action at home
An individual person (or a couple) acting by themselves can only do so much. It can seem like the most impactful action one can take is to have fewer children, but our capacity to act collectively can have far greater impacts than any one (or two) people can alone.
Environmental problems are so large that they are hard for us to wrap our minds around. When people are encouraged to think about these problems as individuals, it can cause them to go into denial about how much impact they can genuinely have. But research has shown that highlighting a collective responsibility for addressing environmental issues actually leads to a greater desire to act.
Often recommendations for how to be more environmentally friendly are targeted at things you do in your personal life: recycle more, eat less meat, fly less, and so on. However, businesses, universities, hospitals, churches and charities all have big environmental footprints, too. In fact, these are usually much larger than any one individual’s footprint. Therefore, individuals acting professionally within these organisations can substantially reduce their environmental impact.
For example, the head of purchasing of a large organisation may be able to make bigger reductions in their organisation’s carbon emissions through changing purchasing guidelines than they could ever make by having fewer children. So organisations, or people working on behalf of organisations with big environmental footprints, are often much more strategic actors to target when striving towards larger-scale pro-environmental changes.
2) Acknowledge some humans consume more than others
When we’re talking about population as an environmental issue, it’s important to remember that it’s not the number of people per se but rather the consumption habits that lead to environmental degradation. Seven billion Americans using as much water, plastic, petrol and meat as they do now, would be a global disaster. In many countries, however, individuals use a fraction of the average American, and Eritrea has the smallest per capita ecological footprint of all.
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So few children are being born in most developed countries that without immigration, populations would be declining. For example, in Canada, the fertility rate was 1.6 children per woman in 2011 (well below the replacement rate of 2.1). So if you think about it, the real environmental impact here has to do with how much people are consuming – and this varies widely both between and within countries.
3) Be clear: is family planning a human right?
Suggestions to have fewer children are very closely linked to the idea of birth control. Birth control has an ugly history and its knock-on effects can still be seen in China and South Korea today. In these countries, birth control led to the abortion of many female embryos as families preferred to have boys for several cultural reasons. However, today these countries face the problem of having more men than women of childbearing age which is one reason behind the trafficking of young women from other countries, such as Vietnam.
Against this backdrop, in 2012, the United Nations Population Fund declared family planning a human right. But still about 12% of women aged 15–49 globally don’t have access to family planning. This is a modern-day human rights violation happening right now.
This is why, when the suggestion of addressing environmental issues by having fewer children comes up, the conversation often switches to overpopulation and becomes fraught. Overpopulation is usually seen as a problem that puts future generations at risk. Therefore when it is raised in conversations about family planning, it’s read as a value statement: my children’s rights being violated in future are more important than the rights of those being violated now. This may not be your intended message, so be clear: should women have the right to choose when and how many children they have?
An expanding human population is a collective challenge which incorporates values, emotions, different worldviews, and the alignment of different interests. So next time you find yourself wading into an exchange about overpopulation, be clear about your underlying assumptions. This is a conversation with many layers and we need to approach it with open minds, sensitivity, tact and compassion.
- Keele University helps councils take control of climate futures
- International student graduates after becoming integral part of Keele community
- NASA points the James Webb Space Telescope at an exoplanet discovered by Keele
- Kate graduates with first class honours after realising her potential at Keele
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Despite what you may have read in the comments, we here at Hackaday are not unaware that there’s something of a “Pi Fatigue” brewing. Similar to how “Arduino” was once a dirty word around these parts, projects that are built around the world’s most popular Linux SBC are occasionally getting dismissed as lazy. Hacker crams Raspberry Pi into an old electronic device, applies hot glue liberally, posts a gallery on Imgur, and boom! Lather, rinse, repeat.
We only mention this because the following project, despite featuring the Raspberry Pi Zero grafted into a vintage Polaroid camera, is anything but lazy. In the impeccably detailed and photographed write-up, [mitxela] explains how the Pi Zero and a thermal camera recreated the classic Polaroid experience of going from shutter button to physical picture in seconds. The workmanship and attention to detail on this build is simply phenomenal, and should quell any doubts our Dear Readers may have about Raspberry Pi projects. For now, anyway.
The video after the break will show you the modded camera in operation and goes over a few highlights of the build, but for this one you really should take the time to read the entire process start to finish. [mitxela] starts off by disassembling the Polaroid camera, complete with plenty of fantastic pictures that show how this legendary piece of consumer electronics was put together. If you’ve never seen the inside of one of these cameras, you might be surprised to see what kind of interesting hardware is lurking underneath that rather unassuming exterior. From the screw-less construction to the circuits with paper substrate, a lot of fascinating engineering went into getting this camera to a mass-market price. Frankly, the teardown alone is worth checking out.
But once the camera has been stripped down to the bare frame, the real fun begins. At the conceptual level, [mitxela] replaces the camera optics with a cheap webcam, the “brains” with a Raspberry Pi Zero, and the film mechanism with the type of thermal printer used for receipts. But how he got it all connected is why this project is so impressive. Nearly every decision made during the design and construction of this camera was for the purposes of reducing boot-time. Nobody wants a camera that takes 30, 15, or even 10 seconds to boot. It has to be available as soon as you need it.
Getting this Linux-powered camera boot up in as little as 2 seconds took a lot of clever software hacks that you’ll absolutely want to check out if you’ve ever considered building an embedded Linux device. You can’t just throw a stock Raspbian image on an SD card and hope for the best. [mitxela] used buildroot to craft a custom Linux image containing only what was needed for the camera to operate, plus a bunch of esoteric tweaks that the Junior Penguin Wrangler would likely never consider. Like shaving a full second off of the boot time by disabling dumping kernel messages to the serial port during startup.
[mitxela] brought his camera to show off at the recent Hackaday London meetup, but it was far from the first time we’ve come across his handiwork. From his servo-powered music box earlier this year to his penchant for tiny MIDI devices, he’s consistently impressed our cold robot hearts.
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Enjoy browsing the Orchids
Laelia anceps, a native of Mexico but also occurring more rarely in Guatemala and Honduras, is one of the most common, yet one of the most satisfying orchids to grow outdoors in San Diego. It's ease of care makes it an ideal plant for the beginner as well as the expert. Laelia anceps is one of the hardiest for cold tolerance of any of the Cattleya alliance, tolerating reported lows of 22ºF without any damage, and high temperatures over 100ºF rarely trouble it. It's blooming season is customarily November through January. It is grown in pots or mounted, and in subtropical areas is noted for being one of the best to naturalize on trees around the garden, where regular watering is usually adequate. Many trees (except pines) are well suited for L. anceps. Oaks are among the best of trees, and jacarada, palms, citrus, fiejoa, dracinias, and white birch are quite good. Plants should be tied or stapled to trunks and branches.
Light: This laelia likes medium to high light, about 2000-3500 foot-candles. Bright light to some sun must be given to the plants, but no direct sun in the middle of the day. Leaves should be a medium green color. Very low light is not adequate for successful blooming.
Temperature: Laelia anceps is one of the more temperature tolerant orchids in cultivation today, making it a natural for outdoor growing in southern California and comparable climates. It has been known to survive winter nights of down to 22ºF unharmed, higher day temperatures can be tolerated (up to 100 degrees F), if humidity, air circulation and shading are increased.
Water: Water frequently throughout the growing season, which is mostly April through November. Mounted plants may be watered daily during spring and summer. Water may be reduced in the winter dormant time. Washing off the flower buds by rain or hose is often needed to keep buds from sticking together.
Fertilizer: Regular feeding with a balanced fertilizer will enhance growth, particularly during the growing season of April to November.
Potting: Potting is necessary when 1) the rhizome of the plants protrudes over the edge of the pot, or 2) the potting medium starts to break down and drain poorly (usually after 2 to 3 years). It is best to repot 1) just before new roots sprout from the rhizome, 2) after flowering, or 3) in the spring time.
|LIGHT||Bright to very bright light|
|TEMPERATURE||range from moderate to warm
|HUMIDITY||Let the medium dry between waterings, moderate to high humidity
||November through January
A native of Mexico but also occurring more rarely in Guatemala and Honduras.
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The biggest aid in the intercultural immersion throughout the program is through the homestay experience. Each homestay is unique, having different interests, different socio-economic backgrounds and different people; however each homestay is eager/willing to help the student learn about language and culture throughout their stay. CIEE did a great job with matching people with similar interests, allowing for easy, engaging conversation.
My host family consists of a mother and her two children, her 24-year-old son and her 17-year-old daughter. The girl is about the same age as me, and have a lot in common. We are both dancers, we both enjoy architecture and are both entering our last year of high school. However, as we come from different backgrounds, we have different experiences and perspectives on life and our interests, leading to interesting conversation at the dinner table. Dinner is very important in France as it is the time that everyone in the household reconvenes and talks. Despite there being a language barrier, dinner takes at least an hour and a half and is always filled with immense conversation about how our day went, a comparison of our lifestyles and norms and things that I should do in Paris, from a local’s viewpoint. Also through the host family experience, I get to learn about daily french cuisine and ediquite. For example, everyone eats dinner late, something my body needed to adapt to and in my homestay, dinner is always followed with bread and cheese; I have grown to love that aspect of dinner however found it weird at first. In addition, after dinnertime we played a matching game called Dobble, which allowed me to learn a lot of new vocabulary in a fun way. Although I struggled at first and the game was slower paced, after a couple rounds I was able to get better and faster and even win a round. In general, my host family helped me improve my vocabulary and helped me gain confidence with the French language because they do not make me feel stressed when I stumble across a word and allow me to take my time. When speaking to me, they only speak French but don't mind repeating things more than once, and talking slower and enunciating when need be. They allow me to feel more comfortable when trying to understand everything, and have gone the extra mile to make me fel confident in my French speaking ability.
Sundays are reserved for family time, and they have been some of my favorite times spent in Paris. Since the girl and I are both classical dancers, my host family took me to go see the inside of the Palais Garnier, a famous opera house in Paris that is home to ballets and operas by Paris Opera Ballet company. The Palais Garnier is deeply historic and an architectural masterpiece. It contains statues and paintings of people I have learned about throughout my dance career and let me learn more about them. Being with my host sister, I was able to talk about the ballets we have seen and the dancers we know, allowing me to have a wider perspective of what dance is, and what dance looks like abroad.
The other weekend I spent with them, they took me to Musee d'Orsay. The museum is very large, and it is easy to get lost inside. However, being with people that have visited that museum several times, they were able to guide me and cater the visit to my interests. When inside, I was able to talk to them about the art and the history behind it. I think that going with my host family to the museum enriched my experience as they knew more about the history of the place and insider secrets. While taking me on a walk along the Seine afterwards, they pointed out buildings and cafes that although I have passed many times, I have never noticed or knew what they were.
Having a host family has really been one of the highlights of the trip since it made me feel like a local: connecting me to France through food, language and inside secretes. These connections and memories will stay with me for a lifetime, and have made me a more cultured person. | <urn:uuid:bd9b68c9-bb13-4822-9642-3c6a34801c36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ciee.org/go-abroad/high-school-study-abroad/summer/blog/student-spotlight-julia-solecki | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.984126 | 838 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Adding a Full-Width and Full-Height Fixed Border Around the Page
I wanted to add a thick orange border around this site when I working on a redesign of it. The idea is a that the border would act like a picture frame around the content that stays in place no matter where you scroll to.
“Easy,” I thought. But I actually struggled with it to the point of questioning my entire life’s work.
Turns out I was merely overlooking what was right under my nose.
So, say you wanted to do this yourself. We have two HTML elements we can use to select the entire document. (Well, there are technically more ways, but there’s no need to get super tricky here.)
Either of these are just fine — at least as far as I’m aware. Let’s go with the HTML element. It selects the entire document by default, whereas the body element relies on the amount of content in the document. That distinction doesn’t really matter but that makes it feel more “correct” to me. Whatever “correct” means in development these days.
The thing is that we can’t add the border directly to the element.
That does indeed put a border around the page like we want. However, any content that requires scrolling to will overlap the bottom border.
Oh! We have pseudo-elements we can use. Let’s put the border on the
:after pseudo-element instead. That was, we can use z-index to place the border over the content, right?
Great, that works! But whoa, nothing on the page is selectable anymore. And hey, I can’t click any links! Gah.
I reverted my changes and walked away for a couple of days because I didn’t feel like thinking about it anymore., I mean, it’s such a small design enhancement that it didn’t feel worthwhile to spend time on.
It was during one of those times when I was walking down the street to get coffee that I started thinking about the
pointer-events CSS property. I knew what it did, but never really never really reach for it because the use cases are so few and far between, at least in my experience.
But I knew it would work in this case. Using the
none value removes all cursor and clicking functionality on an element. That would make the
:after pseudo to stay on top of the content, but without hogging all the cursor and clicking stuff it was blocking before. In other words, it’s like punching a giant hole in the element as it covers the entire screen so that you can interact with elements beneath it.
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Climate and Culture
Our mission is that together, we will ignite each student’s passion for learning, preparing for a life of infinite possibilities. A positive school climate and culture is essential to realizing that mission. What are climate and culture? We think of climate and culture in terms of seven broad categories:
- Student Relationships: Do students have relationships and connections to their school and adults in their school?
- Learning Environment: Is the learning environment rigorous, but also supportive of each child according to need?
- Safety & Well-Being: Do students feel cared for and/or safe physically, socially, and emotionally?
- Physical Environments: Do physical environments support student learning and growth?
- Contracted Services: Do programs meet students' needs?
- Family Engagement: Are families engaged and connected partners in education?
- Overall District Quality: Does the district provide a quality educational program and effectively communicate and engage with families?
In order to understand perceptions of our schools’ and our district’s climate and culture, we invited MTSD parents and guardians to participate in a survey focusing on these seven categories. Schools and the district will use these results to enhance the educational experience for all students and families while monitoring progress toward strategic goals.
2021-22 Key Facts & Insights
- The Climate and Culture Survey was open for approximately two weeks.
- Families received two survey notifications via e-newsletters and direct email to encourage participation.
- 594 responses were submitted (up from 542 in 2020-21).
- 87 percent of respondents agreed that "The adults in my child's school care about my child's social and emotional well-being."
- 92 percent of respondents agreed that "My child's teachers are available and communicative when I have a question or concern."
- 91 percent of respondents agreed that "My child feels safe at school."
- 83 percent of respondents agreed that "My child's school is kept clean."
- 81 percent of respondents agreed that "The school's transportation service is reliable."
- 87 percent of respondents agreed that "Communication with families occurs in an open and respectful manner."
- 87 percent of respondents agreed with the statement "I feel well-informed of important updates from the Mequon-Thiensville School District."
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The sciatic nerve is the longest and largest nerve in the human body. Just like the spinal cord, it is approximately the width of a human finger. The sciatic nerve is made up of a combination of spinal nerves and forms on the right and left side of the lower lumbar spine.
Sciatica is the term used to describe pain or other symptoms including burning, pins and needles, numbness, tingling and weakness along the distribution of the sciatic nerve from the lower back to the foot.
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DETERMINATION OF SIGNIFICANT RELATIVE RISKS AND OPTIMAL SAMPLING PROCEDURES IN PROSPECTIVE AND RETROSPECTIVE COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF VARIOUS SIZES
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Methods are given for determining the relative risks which it is possible to demonstrate as statistically significant with given probability in prospective and retrospective studies of a particular size. Also considered is the ratio of the sample sizes in the two groups being compared which will provide the most precise estimate of relative risk for a given total sample size.
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The government has announced a 43-million euro plan to transform Athens’ 2004 Olympic Stadium into an “Olympic Park”, which will provide training facilities for athletes as well as serve as a recreational outlet for local residents.
Announcing the plans at a special event in the stadium on Tuesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said every visitor to the stadium Greeks should feel pride and nostalgia in remembering the 2004 Games.
However, the Games were followed by “disappointment that very important facilities were abandoned”, he added.
He said the 43-million euro budget to overhaul the complex would come from the EU-backed 2021-2026 Recovery and Resilience Facility.
“Our aim is to balance the budget in three years and for revenue to start coming in by the fifth year,” the premier noted.
The initial stages of the revamp will see the central stadium made more energy efficient and repairs made to the central roof. Also in line for renovation are the indoor gym, the velodrome, the tennis courts and stadium’s landscaping.
The new Olympic Park of Athens is expected to attract more of the 20,000 people that currently visit it weekends, Mitsotakis said.
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Aerial Mapping & Survey Service
Aerial Mapping & Survey Service
Highly Cost for A Conventional Ground Survey? Consider Aerial Mapping & Survey Instead!
With more than 12 years’ experience in surveying and mapping, we utilize distinctive skills and advance Geospatial Technology to provide clients a first-class aerial surveying and mapping experience. MySpatial endeavours to deliver greatest quality Aerial Mapping and Survey services with high resolution orthophotos, highly accurate topographic maps and centimetre-level accuracy at any given time compared to conventional methods. Paired and equipped with accurate ground survey methodology, high-end surveying Drones / Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and a team of experienced surveyors, we produce results faster, empowering our clients to make agile decisions much more promptly. We have completed large scale survey projects for clients using LiDAR, photogrammetry and multispectral data, to provide them with a complete picture of their desired area.
Aerial Mapping & Survey Benefits
Up to 40% versus conventional survey methods. Capturing topographic data with a Drone/UAV is up to five times faster than with land-based methods and requires less manpower.
Typical Drone data acquisition can take less than an hour for a 40-hectares site.
Aerial mapping and survey produces millions of points vs. a few thousand when compared to conventional surveys. Total stations only measure individual points. One Drone/UAV flight generates thousands of points and measurement, which can be signified in various formats (orthomosaic, point cloud, DTM, DSM, contour lines, etc) .
Aerial Mapping & Survey Deliverables
Aerial Mapping & Survey Capabilities
Our precision aerial mapping services help highway operator, Public Works Department (JKR), Local Authority (PBT) and civil engineering companies to create precise large area linear maps and surveys of highways, road and railroad quickly and accurately by implementing proven aerial imaging and post-processing models and delivering a range of precision data types that go well beyond conventional survey .
Defence / National Security
Aerial mapping and survey data are critical to Defence / National Security because it enables local, state, federal agencies, protect national interests and improve situational awareness via specialised topographic and thematic mapping, encroachment studies, 3D modelling and visualisation.
Land Management and Development
We produce the source information and analysis applications needed for land management from aerial mapping services such as planning and zoning tools, landuse, landcover, cadastre mapping, and change detection.
We provide the vital data from aerial mapping services to efficiently manage environment, forests, energy resources and strengthen sustainability.
Our aerial mapping services can assist ground teams via rapid 2D and 3D mapping of affected areas, provide actionable maps to guide relief efforts.
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Big handles for little hands mean even the youngest stampers can make an impression! This set features eight fun and engaging stamps with flat wooden handles that are easy for young kids to grip and maneuver. Stamps include a some of kids' favorite images, such as a rainbow, balloons, butterfly, cupcake, and more! Choose from two colors of washable ink (pink and purple) to create scenes. All materials store neatly in a wooden crate. These easy-to-grasp wooden stamps help kids three and older develop hand-eye coordination and encourage storytelling and imaginative play. | <urn:uuid:559c8799-bfee-4b30-bd21-16011aca7c58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.viewpointbooks.com/31902-my-first-wooden-stamp-set | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.893628 | 140 | 1.578125 | 2 |
STANDBY CUE 101: An Introduction to Calling Live Performances is a first-of-its-kind training film for students and early career stage managers. The film focuses on the role of the stage manager in technical rehearsals and performances. This 56-minute video draws upon interviews and survey results of over 600 American stage managers.
STANDBY CUE 101 is divided into three tutorials:
Act One: The Calling Script
- Cuing Techniques
- Promptbook Formatting
Act II: Headset Communications
- Multi-channel Coordination
- Cue Lights and Silent Calling Tools
Act III: Placing Cues
- Cue Triggers in Text and Blocking
- Calling Music Cues without a Score
STANDBY CUE 101 contains demonstrations and practical “Tricks of the Trade” from a veteran Production Stage Manager. Instructor notes, including sample comprehension quizzes, are included with the educational license. Contact Customer Service. | <urn:uuid:e2c3f4e2-050e-468e-a783-73e0bc62a924> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.artfilms-digital.com/item/standby-cue-101 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.853013 | 196 | 2.359375 | 2 |
For many Americans, taking a family vacation is an relatives across the state, friends across the country or even flying to some far-off region, more than two-thirds of Americans report that they plan to take a vacation this summer. And they’re budgeting $2,373 on average for their vacation travel. That’s a lot of money! Here are some tips to help you and your family save money on your vacation this summer.annual tradition. Whether it’s visiting
Generally speaking, the longer you give yourself to research different vacation destinations, the better chance you’ll have of finding a good deal. Many popular destinations fill up quickly during the summer months and if there is a particular attraction you want to visit, you’ll want to know if it’s likely to sell out. What’s more, by doing research online into different housing options (hotels or rental properties or even campgrounds) while they are all still available, you’ll have the opportunity to weigh the pros and cons of each of them and see if you have an opportunity to save money.
If you’re considering flying to your destination, research the general price range of flights., That will allow you enough lead time to monitor sales and find a ticket within your budget. Having your dates for the summer in advance also gives you the opportunity to set online price alerts and monitor airlines for any sales that airlines may have weeks or even months in advance of your travel dates.
But Have Some Flexibility
In addition to advance sales, there are many websites available that offer last-minute deals. This is a great option for people who ‘just want to get away’ but don’t necessarily have a destination in mind. If you and your travel companions are the spontaneous type, it might make sense to identify a block of dates that work and define some parameters for what you want in a vacation – perhaps you’d like to visit a city where you can watch a baseball game, or you’re looking to spend some time lounging by the pool in temperatures warmer (or cooler) than the weather at home. Once you’ve come up with dates and some general goals for your destination, begin searching for locations that meet your requirements and see what sort of deals may be available. In particular, the option of combining hotel and airfare through a travel website can often save hundreds of dollars if you’re not particular about the airline you fly or hotel chain you’re staying in. A word of caution, however - be sure to use only reputable, vetted websites. And with any travel purchase take the time to understand refund and cancellation policies before you make the purchase.
Use Those Points!
Travel rewards points – and points from credit and debit cards that can be converted to be used for travel – are a great option to save some money. Despite this fact, a survey from the American Institute of CPAs found that only seven percent of all Americans used reward points to pay for part of their last vacation.
This summer, you can change that! You’ve already gone through the process of spending your money to earn them, so getting a hotel room or flight for free or at a discount is your ‘reward.’ Many people don’t realize the true value of their points, but luckily there are multiple websites that specialize in this type of information.
No matter what your plans are this summer, before you book your travel you should have a plan in mind to pay off the costs without incurring interest charges. Vacations should be about getting away and having fun – and you should be left with photos and memories, not credit card debt.
Consult Your Local CPA
Every day, local CPAs offer clients expert advice on a wide variety of financial concerns, including making a major purchase or obtaining a loan. Whatever your financial questions, your CPA can help you find the answers.
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Earth Speak's music is infused & inspired by nature as well as by classic songs with a conscience. Musicians include flutist-vocalist Claudia Tulip, percussionist-vocalist Susannah Martin, harp-bass guitarist Bart Applewhite along with renowned harp-guitarist and luthier, William Eaton. Besides classic hits with a message, the band presents new music devoted to the human and more-than-human world and our relationship to the natural environment and the miracle of Earth’s planetary biosphere.
Songs include - Earth Speak, Desert Trees, What Would We Do Without Water?, The Universe is Awe, We’re Indigenous You and Me, Forever, along with classics like Dust in the Wind, Fields of Gold, The Word (Beatles), and Feelin’ Groovy.
About Earth Speak -
William Eaton has conjured his music and innovative stringed instruments from the Arizona desert now for over four decades. Beyond boundary and stillness, William’s music is rooted within an indigenous past, yet expressive of a contemporary, changing, sonic landscape. Eaton designs and builds innovative guitars and stringed instruments and is a founder and Director of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, in Phoenix, AZ. A recording artist for Canyon Records, Eaton has received four GRAMMY nominations. In 2015 he received the Arizona Governor’s Arts Award in the ‘artist’ category. William is also a founder and co-director of Old Town Center for the Arts.
Classically trained, jazz influenced and world music inspired, Claudia Tulip performs on silver and ethnic flutes, and panpipes. One reviewer commented, “Claudia’s sound is a beautiful blend of imagination, deft technique and soulful expression.” Claudia has enjoyed a successful solo career and has also been a member of the William Eaton Ensemble since 1988.
With an ability to sing in several different languages and to improvise fluidly, vocalist Susannah Martin brings worlds of experience in vocal styles. She wails on R&B or Rock tunes, delivers a touch of sultry jazz, vocalizes soothing ragas melodies, and can sing fluently in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Susannah also adds a groovy beat on cajón and hand percussion.
Bart Applewhite toured nationally with the band Congo Shock. He is a graduate, and now administrator, of the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery, in Phoenix, Arizona, where he designs and builds one-of-a-kind bass harp guitars and is perhaps the only builder and player of these hybrid instruments in the world. | <urn:uuid:6d29cec3-112a-4979-8c4f-b53d129270f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.susannahmartinmusic.com/earth-speak-band-page | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.940273 | 554 | 1.875 | 2 |
In our first Digital Retail Glossary post, we focused on product content—above the fold, below the fold, A+ content, and enhanced manufacturer content.
Here, we delve into an Amazon-specific term, the Buy Box, where Amazon highlights a merchant (or itself) as the default seller for a product.
When you win the Buy Box, shoppers who click the most prominent “Add to Cart” button on a product page will be buying from you. For brand manufacturers selling directly to Amazon, how often you win the Buy Box will determine how much of the demand for one of your products is captured directly by Amazon versus how much is captured by third-party merchants.
The Buy Box: An Introduction
The Buy Box is the box on a product page where customers add a product to their shopping carts with the simple quantity dropdown and “Add to Cart” button. It’s often accompanied by an option to join Amazon Prime or Amazon Mom for non-members.
When a shopper chooses the default “Add to Cart” option on a product page, they are choosing to buy a product from the seller Amazon has designated as the default for this product at this moment. For sellers, we call this “winning the Buy Box,” and it’s critical to first-party vendors selling directly to Amazon and third-party resellers alike.
The Buy Box winner is dynamic and changes frequently, which ensures competition between sellers and, ideally, the best possible deal for a shopper at any given time.
Anatomy of an Amazon Add-to-Cart Decision
Let’s review the ways Amazon shoppers can choose a seller for a product they’ve decided to purchase.
First, the default buy box option. For many Amazon shoppers, the selection of a seller begins and ends here—perhaps without even noticing that a seller has been chosen. The example below shows a third-party seller, Court House Supplies, who has temporarily won the Buy Box for a Crayola product.
Second, a shopper can look just below the default Buy Box for Amazon’s selection of other highlighted sellers.
Third, a shopper can browse the offer-listing page and choose any seller with inventory.
The Buy Box seller has a significant advantage here and will likely gather most of an item’s sales. Often, as in the example below, Amazon itself is the buy box winner:
For brands selling most of their products to Amazon directly, third-party sellers will still sell many of your products. The more Amazon wins the Buy Box, the more consumer demand you capture for yourself (and your Vendor Manager at Amazon), rather than third-party resellers.
You may find it helpful to benchmark how many third-party sellers are competing with Amazon for a given SKU. Our Amazon FastMovers reports benchmark the average number of 3P sellers in more than 10 categories and show detail for the top 100 products in a given month.
Factors Influencing the Buy Box Winner Selection—And What You Can Do
Although Amazon is tight-lipped about its exact formula for choosing Buy Box winners, a few factors clearly influence who wins:
Competitive Pricing: In line with Amazon’s customer-centric ethos, competitive pricing is the most important factor in selecting a Buy Box winner. Although first-party sellers don’t have direct control over Amazon’s algorithmic pricing, brand manufacturers need to sell to Amazon at as low prices as possible so that Amazon can remain competitive against aggressive third-party sellers. Working with our customers, we’ve seen third-party merchants undercutting Amazon by up to 40% to win the Buy Box. When you notice this pattern, we recommend bringing the data to your Amazon vendor manager to discuss strategies for putting Amazon back in the Buy Box.
In-Stock Inventory: A seller without in-stock inventory can’t win the Buy Box, and it’s possible that a history of erratic availability hurts a seller’s chances. Monitoring your product availability and implementing smarter inventory planning practices can help here.
Fulfillment by Amazonand Prime eligibility: Amazon favors its own fulfillment options. For brand manufacturers selling largely through Amazon directly, this is an advantage over third-party resellers, but many resellers do fulfill their products through Amazon.
Merchant ratings: For third-party merchants, a track record of a positive customer experience is key. Amazon won’t promote a merchant that has caused problems for customers.
How Often Are You Winning?
Do you know how often you (through Amazon) are winning the Buy Box for your products?
Profitero’s daily Buy Box analytics determine where you are losing the Buy Box to third-party resellers, how your pricing compares to theirs, and on which products you’re at greatest risk of losing the Buy Box.
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Which would you believe more when considering buying a new product: a sales pitch or a customer review?
Did you know that 81% of customers use Google reviews to judge local businesses, according to research?
Consumers read reviews and testimonies to decide whether to believe a product, service or even a vendor. Let's examine the reasons for the ways in which customer reviews affect clients and companies of all sizes.
What is a customer review?
A customer's experience with the products or services offered by your business is reflected in a review. Reviews can be found on websites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google Reviews.
Customers utilize customer reviews to learn how your product functions and whether it is pricey during the buying process.
Online reviews can be written by pretty much anyone, and they might mention your company favorably, unfavorably, or even make false claims about it.
Customers consider these reviews to be trustworthy sources of information as they are published on independent websites and come from real customers of your products. In fact, 49% of buyers say they trust internet evaluations just as much as personal recommendations since they are so useful.
What are the challenges faced by reviews?
The biggest challenge we run into is that the reviews placed on numerous websites like Google, Good Firms, and Trust pilot are not from our real consumers, with whom we do not communicate or threaten to withhold any money. Only satisfied customers who have used our products and services will post a clear reviews. These reviews include comprehensive profile information and thorough justifications of our products and services. False reviews are submitted by users who haven't actually used our products or services and who aren't very descriptive about their project descriptions.
The majority of our clients have gotten in touch with us directly, described their problems, and received prompt assistance from us. The major goal of the fake reviews is to bring down our business by harming its reputation, defaming its brand, and spreading false information about it. Therefore, as a result of these fake ratings, new users are considering working with us to launch a project. To prevent this confusion about negative reviews displaying in google, feel free to ask our team without any hesitation. We guide you launch your product and services.
How we handle that situation?
We firmly believe the below quotes- “A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work – he is the purpose of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to serve him.”
Our primary goal is to establish ourselves as a top-tier global provider of IT services by offering an exact end-to-end business solution for the essential industries employing emerging technologies.
What is meant by Customer Complaints?
Every business will inevitably receive complaints. customers are more informed than they ever were. A large portion of consumers is computer-literate and aware of the ways they might express their dissatisfaction. As a result, companies spend millions on providing services to customers. But no matter how hard you try, you can never completely satisfy every single consumer every single time. The way a company handles consumer complaints affects its reputation.
What are the different types and how does Osiz respond to them?
1) Complaints based on misconceptions:
Misunderstandings are the result of poor communication. Misunderstandings inevitably occur when dealing with other people. A customer might interpret or misunderstand what you say. They could occasionally become angry and accuse you of lying.
However, we won't lose our cool in this situation; instead, we'll consult the specialists and find a solution. Even when it is clear that the consumer has been misunderstood, we are instructed to treat them with respect.
2) Delivery-related grievance:
This is an example of a common customer complaint regarding a company. Customers are irritated and complain when deliveries arrive later than expected.
Such issues can be solved by discussing the problems with the team and all the specifics of the product delivery. if there is indeed a problem with the product's arrival so that it can be fixed.
3) Complaint of Time-Waiting:
These are typical consumer complaints that are regularly voiced during calls or when a product is delivered too slowly. Customers dislike long wait periods as they think the service is ineffective. Everyone values their time and wants services right away.
We confront customers who complain about delays and offer our apologies. But it's only a short-term solution. In order to allay worries about wait times, we will plan and implement various ways after consulting with our team and management.
4) A top-notch client grievance:
Customers who contribute the most money to the company are good customers, also known as loyal customers. A company cannot afford to lose
a good customer. In the past, you've had a lot of business from repeat customers who are generally happy with your services. However, there are times when these customers are also unsatisfied. Every company should give these customers' problems first priority.
By providing the proper resolution when they are unhappy with our services, we can keep these clients who previously interacted with us favorably. The customer support team will compile a list of consumers with the highest priority, according to the information the company gave us.
What are the complaints in business?
When someone complains, it shows that they are not happy with the products in their immediate environment. He might grimace at things or express displeasure with certain products or services. There is nothing wrong with making a complaint, but how it is expressed is very important.
Types of complaints:
Justified complaint: A complaint is deemed to be justified when the complainant has a solid reason for doing so.
Unjustified Complaint: A complaint that is unjustified is one that is unwarranted or that lacks a basis for resolution.
Steps to file complaints:
The procedures listed below are frequently used to file complaints:
Direct call: Calling has the advantage of allowing the complainant to quickly receive a response that can assist in resolving the situation.
Email: One advantage of using email is that it can serve as documentation that a complaint about the issue was made.
Writing a Letter: In this situation, the complainant must properly address the letter in order for it to get to the department inside the company that deals with complaints.
Consumer boards and consumer complaints boards:
What are Consumer boards and consumer complaints boards?
Every business's customers are its most essential part and require more customers to succeed more successfully. Hence, we have a consumer board on our website. Consumer boards are online discussion forums where customers can submit their thoughts on certain products, services, or brands.
Why is it necessary to manage consumer complaint boards?
It is essential to retain a positive reputation as so many customers rely on consumer forums for open feedback. One comment is all it takes to influence a customer's decision to purchase a product. We make certain that the statements they read are complimentary of your business.
Some advantages of having a complaint board for firms include the following:
Every feedback a company receives must be carefully considered since it provides illuminating facts that could indicate a significant advancement for the company.
By examining the underlying factors, we use customer feedback to better understand what motivates customer loyalty.
A company must create a successful action plan to resolve the issues once it is aware of the feedback findings.
It's critical to share feedback with the customer service and support team after receiving it in order to find answers.
We have searched the negative reviews about us and solved with the respective clients, so we can respond and take an action for negative reviews, But we have not to do any of much efforts for fake/scam reviews posted by competitors or anonymous users. Their actions seem to destroy our company brand reputation and makes our business down.
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The Legislative Branch, as outlined in the Constitution, has unique lawmaking power. In a simplified version, legislators suggest payments which, if handed favorably by both homes and accredited by the Governor, turn out to be law. The Black Lung Benefits Act offers month-to-month cash payments and medical advantages to coal miners completely disabled from pneumoconiosis (“black lung illness”) arising from their employment in the nation’s coal mines.
The invoice also permits voters to present different paperwork, such as utility bills or financial institution statements, if the ID introduced does not contain all required data. And, voters in particular categories corresponding to voters who stay in long-term care services, voters with disabilities, and military voters might present alternative forms of identification. In September 2018, the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals put the district court order on hold.
The act is administered by the Office of Labor-Management Standards. The U.S. Department of Labor administers and enforces greater than 180 federal laws. These mandates and the regulations that implement them cover many workplace activities for about a hundred and fifty million employees and 10 million workplaces.
The asylum system is a key site in which disputes over “sexuality” are contested. In refugee standing determinations, administrative our bodies are required to determine the actual or perceived sexuality of a claimant. This article attracts on eight semi-structured interviews with refugees who claimed […] Read extra. Free speech is the proper that is essential to defend all different rights. Student free speech is an important basis for societal free speech.
A voter could complete an affidavit in lieu of the private identification. The affidavit shall be on a form prescribed by the secretary of state and shall require the voter to provide the voter’s name and handle. Any one who knowingly offers false, erroneous or inaccurate info on such affidavit shall be guilty of a felony. In the event the voter doesn’t have proof of id with them, he or she shall signal an affidavit of affirmation that she or he is the particular person listed on the election district document.
A document or identification card may be presented in a digital format on an electronic gadget if it complies with other necessities and has been accredited or points by the united states, the state of Arkansas or an accredited post-secondary instructional Laws institution. In 2013 North Carolina passed a strict ID requirement, which was amended by the legislature in 2015 to fall into the non-strict class. Even so, the law was struck down by a federal courtroom in July 2016, and the us | <urn:uuid:5fc038bf-40ea-48e3-891a-ef28b223eab1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jazzclass.org/idaho-statutes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.94767 | 522 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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A specialized entity that is the basis for characters in a game.
An animation that can be attached to a base animation to extend its behavior.
An autonomous entity used in artificial intelligence (AI) that uses sensors to observe its environment and directs its activity towards achieving one or more goals.
Part of a collection of parametric-blended poses for making a character take aim at specified points in the game.
An extension of RGB color values for specifying the opacity of an object. A value of 0.0 indicates fully transparent while a value of 1.0 indicates fully opaque.
A special type of entity with linked instances. If a parameter of the archetype entity is changed, all other instances of that entity parameter are automatically updated.
Any art, texture, 3D model, sound effect, or other digital data that is presented to the user in the game.
A hierarchical object that is attached to characters, respond to real-world physics, and can be attached, detached, or replaced at runtime in the game. Character attachments include clothing, weapons, tools, or entire body parts such as heads or hands.
Performs and stores all calculations for a scene element so that the element does not need to be processed or rendered in real time in the game. Often used for lighting or physics. Also referred to as prebaked.
The behavior context reflects runtime code and makes it accessible to scripts by providing bindings to C++ classes, methods, properties, constants, and enums. The behavior context also provides bindings for O3DE’s EBus so you can dispatch and handle events through Script Canvas and Lua.
The pose that a character has when you bind the mesh (skin) to the skeleton. The skeleton determines the pose.
Method that stores a deformed version of a mesh as a series of vertex positions. In each keyframe of an animation, the vertices are interpolated between these stored positions. Also known as morph target animation or per-vertex animation.
Animation blending that is treated as geometry. A character’s kinematic, physical, and other high-level motion-related parameters are mapped onto corresponding features that are stored in animation clips. By storing such motion as parameters, controllable interactive animations are possible. Specifically, an animation is associated with a 1D, 2D, or 3D location in the blend space. Also known as a bspace.
Effect that reproduces an imaging artifact of real-world cameras. The effect appears as fringes or feathers of illumination bleeding from the border of a bright area in an image, which gives the illusion of a bright light overwhelming the camera.
Entities that mimic living animals and that have simulated group behavior and obstacle avoidance.
A simple 3D shape that is tied to an entity, and that provides a specific appearance. Brushes are used for static objects.
Refer to blend space .
A grayscale image that allows more realistic rendering of an object by introducing small displacements of its surface without changing its geometry. This is done by perturbing the surface normals of a rendered object during lighting. The amount of perturbation is specified by the values in the bump map.
A simplified geometric shape for approximating a more complex piece of geometry for purposes of a fast first-pass collision detection.
Pre-processing step that converts data such as mesh geometry into formats that PhysX can use. Cooking also prepares data structures and computes intermediate results that can be performed offline, which saves computation at runtime.
A set of six squares that represent reflections from the environment. The six squares form the faces of an imaginary cube that surrounds an object.
A noninteractive cinematic game sequence that is typically used to promote plot during gameplay.
The gradual reduction of movement, vibration, or intensity.
Digital content creation; related to a third-party product such as Autodesk 3ds Max or Autodesk Maya for creating digital assets.
A 2D texture placed on a piece of flat geometry.
An image for adding up-close surface details to an object.
An image for defining the base color and pattern of an object’s surface.
A type of heightmap that modifies the position of vertices of a surface by a specified amount.
Depth of field. The degree to which distant objects are in focus relative to closer ones.
A modular message dispatch system that enables components, entities, and other types of objects to communicate with one another with few or no interdependencies. Because Ebuses are decoupled from each other, you can more easily build high performing and modular game systems. Also known as event bus.
An entity that specifies the location from which particles are emitted.
A game object with one or more components that provide some behavior or functionality. An entity consists of a unique ID and a container.
A technique that uses cube maps to provide a game level or location with realistic ambient lighting.
A package that contains code and assets to provide a single feature or multiple tightly scoped functions.
An image that represents the microscale roughness of a surface. The gloss map is located in the alpha channel of the normal map.
A grayscale image used to modify vertex positions of a surface. O3DE uses heightmaps to store terrain surface height data. White areas represent the high areas while black areas represent the low areas of the terrain.
The process of converting the tonal values of an image from a high dynamic range (HDR) to a lower range.
Visual icons attached to objects in O3DE Editor that provide object-specific functionality.
Inverse kinematics. The use of kinematics equations to calculate the positions and orientations of joints of a character’s skeleton so that a specific part of the skeleton (the end effector) reaches a defined target point.
Image-based lighting. A rendering technique that involves capturing lighting information, storing it in an environment probe, and projecting it onto a scene.
Procedurally created 2D sprites that are rendered to look like 3D objects. In essence, imposters are 2.5D objects.
Refer to SDK engine .
Method for partitioning a set of data points into k separate groups. Each group has a mean calculated from the average of the points it contains and each point is assigned to a group based on which group mean the point is closest to. The method usually works iteratively, alternating between updating point assignments and updating mean values until a stable partition is reached.
An animation frame that specifies exact positions and orientations of geometry affected by the animation. Animation frames that exist between keyframes are interpolated based on animation curves.
A designation for O3DE tools that are no longer being advanced and will eventually be removed.
A world or map that represents the space or area available to the player during the course of completing a discrete game objective. Most games consist of multiple levels.
The Y vector of the character root joint quaternion, which is typically the direction in which the character is facing. The locomotion locator is needed for motions that translate in nonuniform ways, such as stop or start transitions that have changes in acceleration.
Level of detail. A technique for increasing performance and reducing draw calls by displaying progressively less-detailed objects the farther they are from the camera.
Part of a collection of parametric-blended poses for making a character look at specified points in the game.
A collection of vertices that define the surface of an object.
A miniature map placed at a screen corner in the game to aid players in orienting themselves in the world.
A precalculated, optimized sequence of textures, each of which is a progressively lower resolution representation of the same image. Used in conjunction with LOD processing.
A snapshot of vertex locations for a specific mesh that have been deformed in some way.
Refer to blend shape .
A navigation mesh, or navmesh, defines the areas of an environment in which a character can move freely without obstructions such as trees, lavas, or other environmental barriers.
Refers to either of the following Script Canvas concepts:
- A Script Canvas node created as the result of AzAutoGen processing.
- The mechanism by which a compiled Script Canvas graph can invoke C++ functions.
The vector that is orthogonal to a surface defined by a set of vertices.
An image whose pixel values are interpreted as the normal vectors for each point on the surface to which the image is mapped.
The character bone associated with a null or root object.
A technique that is used to create detail in a texture adding the illusion of depth. This depth perception changes based on perspective.
Physically based rendering. PBR uses real-world physical rules and properties to define how light interacts with the surface of objects. Used by the O3DE rendering system.
Refer to blend shape .
Parallax occlusion mapping. POM uses a displacement map to encode surface detail information in a texture. In this way self-occlusion and self-shadowing of an object is possible without changing the surface geometry.
Refer to baked .
Or “pre-built engine SDK”. Refer to SDK engine .
A game object template that stores an asset or a group of assets and all associated properties.
A designation for O3DE tools that may be missing key features but are still stable and usable. The user experience is high quality, functional, and consistent where it exists but may be unfinished. APIs are subject to change.
A technique used to automatically cover a large area of terrain with vegetation objects using texture layers.
The collection of levels, assets, and code that make up a game.
Mathematical notation that represents the orientation and rotation of objects in three dimensions.
Physical rules used to simulate the realistic movement of a skeletal character.
The process of building a skeleton hierarchy of bone joints for a character mesh.
Used for attaching cloth, hair, or ropes to a character so that the objects can dangle and move realistically against the character.
Applying animations that were created for one model to another.
Used for creating logic and behaviors for your game project. You can create scripts with one of the following:
- Script Canvas is a visual scripting tool that doesn’t require you to know how to code. You can use the Script Canvas Editor to create Script Canvas graphs. Script Canvas graphs have the file extension,
.scriptcanvas, such as
myscriptexample.scriptcanvas. You can add your Script Canvas graph to your game entities with the Script Canvas component.
- Lua is a lightweight and embeddable scripting language. You can use Lua to facilitate quick iteration of your game project. Lua scripts have the file extension
.luac, such as
myscriptexample.lua. You can add script functionality to your game entities with the Lua Script component and edit your scripts with the Lua Editor.
A redistributable build of O3DE where the core engine, Gem, and tool binaries are pre-built, ready to be used by any O3DE project. When building from source, use either the
INSTALL target to create this layout. Synonyms include “install layout,” “pre-built binaries,” “pre-built engine SDK,” and “pre-built SDK engine.” Compare with
The content generated from the Track View for cutscenes or other canned animation triggers.
A technique for controlling how shadows are added to a scene. You can use multiple, cascaded shadow maps to control how sun shadows look at varying distances.
The process of binding bone joints to a model’s mesh (skin).
A cube without the bottom side that contains the environment around a scene. Usually viewed from the inside of the cube.
Cascaded data management system for entities. Similar to the capability of prefabs, slices are reusable component entity templates that you can easily update.
A pivot point on a character where attachments are connected. Attachments dangle or move according to the properties of the socket.
The default method of building O3DE from source, where the core engine, Gem, and tool binaries are built with the project, in the same build directory as the project binaries. Compare with SDK engine .
An image that determines the shininess of each area of a surface.
Silhouette parallax occlusion mapping. SPOM is similar to POM , but affects the silhouette of a mesh similar to tessellation, without the object actually being tessellated.
A 2D bitmap image. Multiple sprites can be grouped into a single image known as a sprite sheet.
Screen Space Directional Occlusion is a method for approximating real time global illumination (GI).
Subsurface scattering index. SSS is used to simulate the diffusion and scattering of light transmitted through translucent objects.
The deformation of a surface using one or more geometric objects with no overlaps or gaps. Tessellation increases the geometry count of the mesh by subdividing polygons into smaller polygons before it gets displaced.
The application of an image to a surface.
The time of day in a level. TOD is used to simulate the changing lighting conditions as the sun crosses the sky.
The projection of texture coordinates onto a 3D surface.
A method for adding variety, depth, and color variations to an object surface.
Technology that replicates the gaming environment and simulates a user’s presence in it, allowing the player to feel as if they are in the game world as they interact with the environment, characters, and objects.
A volumetric point in a 3D space, similar to a pixel in a 2D space.
The reference value used to indicate true white in an image or level.
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Christmas is the time to indulge, celebrate and have fun – and as part of the family, our dogs will normally be enjoying some of the action too.
But the festive season also presents a world of hidden dangers to our four-legged friends, from toxic foods to dangerous seasonal plants.
To ensure your dog remains safe this Christmas, Blue Cross has teamed up with the Veterinary Poisons Information Service to ensure you’re in the know about what dangers to keep your dogs away from during the festive season.
Dangerous foods and drink
The chemical theobromine, which is a bit like caffeine, is found in chocolate and is toxic to dogs. Even small amounts can cause vomiting, diarrhea, hyperactivity, tremors, seizures, problems with the heart and even death in severe cases.
The darker the chocolate, the more potent levels of theobromine become – with baker’s chocolate the most dangerous. Chocolate should be avoided at all costs. Avoid putting any chocolate on or under the Christmas tree, as the temptation might be too great for our four-legged friends.
But what do you do if your dog does eat chocolate? Find out more on our dogs and chocolate advice.
Christmas pudding and mince pies:
Grapes and dried vine fruits (currants, sultanas, raisins)
Grapes and their dried products (currants, sultanas and raisins) are toxic to dogs. Ingestion of even a small quantity can cause severe kidney failure. Don’t forget this will include food items that contain dried fruits such as Christmas pudding and mince pies. Be aware that chocolate-coated raisins run the additional risk of chocolate toxicity.
Onions (and garlic, leeks, shallots, and chives)
Onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, and chives all belong to the Allium species of plants and can cause toxicity, whether uncooked or cooked. Initially, there can be vomiting and diarrhea but the main effect is damage to red blood cells, resulting in anemia. This may not be apparent for several days after ingestion.
Alcohol can have a similar effect in dogs as it does in their owners when drunk in excess. They can become wobbly and drowsy and in severe cases, there is a risk of low body temperature, low blood sugar, and coma. Dogs may help themselves to any unattended alcohol left lying around over Christmas, so ensure it’s always out of their reach.
Macadamia nuts can cause lethargy, increased body temperature, tremors, lameness, and stiffness in dogs.
If there is any food leftover at Christmas, be careful to dispose of it well and keep it out of the reach of your four-legged friend. Not only may the food include ingredients toxic to dogs, but mold in leftovers (including yogurt, bread, and cheese) can also produce toxins that cause rapid onset convulsions in dogs.
A sugar-free sweetener called xylitol is often found in the sweets we consume over Christmas, as well as chewing gums, mouthwashes, toothpaste and supplements. It is poisonous to dogs and, although the amounts in different products vary, even one to two pieces of chewing gum can cause toxic effects in a small dog. It can induce the release of insulin in the body, resulting in low blood sugar and sometimes liver damage. Signs of poisoning can be rapid or delayed and include vomiting, lethargy, convulsions, and comas. The prognosis is good if the low blood sugar is treated quickly.
Which Christmas leftovers can I give my dog?
Providing your dog is healthy and is not allergic to the following foods, these are safe to give them a titbit of at Christmas:
- Turkey meat (no skin or bones)
- Salmon (fillets or cooked in spring water are preferable to smoked salmon)
- Lamb meat (no bones)
- Scrambled egg
- Green beans
- Brussel sprouts
- Mash potato (best without additional butter)
- New potatoes
- Sweet potatoes
- Yogurt (but check the ingredients and don’t feed if xylitol is listed as this is toxic to dogs)
Remember, giving your dog lots of new food can cause vomiting and diarrhea!
Although the toxicity of the poinsettia has often been exaggerated, it can cause irritation to the mouth and stomach with overproduction of saliva and sometimes vomiting.
The plant is considered to be of low toxicity, but ingestion of holly berries may result in a stomach upset.
Ingestion of European mistletoe berries may result in an upset stomach. The American species of the plant is far more dangerous.
A mild stomach upset can be caused if dogs eat pine needles, but the sharp tips can cause more damage internally.
The ivy that tends to be used in wreaths and decorations is Hedera helix (not Toxicodendron radicans, the American poison ivy). But the Hedera species can still cause a tummy upset when ingested. Where there is significant or prolonged skin contact, Hedera species can also cause both irritant and allergic contact dermatitis.
Silica gel comes in small sachets and is often found in the packaging of new shoes, handbags, cameras or electrical equipment which we unwrap over Christmas. Although it is labelled “Do not Eat” it is considered to be of low toxicity.
Decorations made of plastic, paper or foil are of low toxicity although may obstruct the stomach. Glass decorations could pose a risk if chewed or swallowed.
Wrapping or crepe paper
Ingestion may cause staining in the mouth which may look alarming, but the toxicity is considered to be low. But if your dog eats a large amount, it may cause an obstruction to the stomach.
Although candles, even scented ones, are considered to be of low toxicity, ingestion could potentially block the intestine or cause choking.
When eaten, potpourri can cause significant gastrointestinal effects in dogs. These may last several days even after the material has passed through the gut.
Nicotine is toxic to dogs, and cigarette butts are especially dangerous – so it’s important not to leave any ashtrays in reach of dogs over Christmas, or dropped on the floor where they may eat them. Nicotine replacement patches and e-cigarette refills can also pose a risk. Symptoms of poisoning include vomiting, excess saliva and hypertension.
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Paragraph parser is used to extract the essential data in recurring lines of text and place it into a tabular shape.
Paragraph parser can be used to convert variables across multiple sections of the raw text into a table data structure, so diagnosis against each row can be exacted.
To define a paragraph variable, you need three steps:
1.Define one or more ID Line Patterns, which will be used as the key to identify recurring paragraphs. The default and mandatory ID Line Pattern is labeled as ID Line A, which divides lines of text into paragraphs. And users have options to add more ID Line Patterns (B, C, D…) as filters to filter out unqualified paragraphs.
The parsed result of a paragraph parser is in a tabular shape. The variables defined in ID line patterns, variable line patterns, and parent line patterns (optional) will be formed as table columns.
Take the parsing of interface information for example. You can define a paragraph parser to parse interface information.
1.Retrieve sample text, for example:
ID Line FastEthernet0/0 is up, line protocol is up
Variable Line Full-duplex, 100Mb/s, 1000BaseTX/FX
Variable Line 0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
2.Select a parser type by clicking Add Paragraph, and click on the input box of the target ID Line.
3.Define ID Line Pattern: anchor the paragraph identifier to identify recurring paragraphs.
2)Define a string-type variable by replacing FastEthernet0/0 with $intf.
3)Define a multi-string variable by replacing up with $mstring:phy_state.
4)Define a multi-string variable by replacing up with $mstring:link_state.
4.Define Variable Line Pattern: parsing variables inside each recurring paragraph and sub-paragraph that has been identified by ID Line Pattern.
2)In the Variable Line 1 field, replace Full-duplex, 100Mb/s, 100BaseTX/FX with $duplex(Full-duplex|Auto-duplex), $speed(100Mb/s|Auto-speed).
4)In the Variable Line 2 field, replace 0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored with $input_errors input errors, $crc CRC, $frame frame, $overunn overrun, $ignored ignored.
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Later in the story, this causes a major situation, and these actions cannot be undone. All of the actions that happen towards Margot from the other kids, are caused by jealousy. With these actions, we can come to the conclusion that jealousy can get the best of people and it can surely cause problems. As mentioned before, the other kids see Margot as an outcast, and they all look at her sideways because she is constantly gloomy. “And then, of course, the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun and the way the sun was and the sky was when she was four in Ohio.
The short story All Summer in a Day is about children growing up on the planet Venus were it rains nonstop. The sun makes an appearance only once every 7 years. Majority of the kids living there don't even remember what the sun looked and
First of All Summer in a Day and Zero Hour there are poor decisions made due to their hunger for power, and things they did not have. One example of this is on page 2 of All Summer in a Day where it says, “‘It’s like a penny,’ she said once, eyes closed. ‘No it’s not!’ the children cried.’ The children would have listened to Margot and tried to understand instead of immediately shutting her down if they weren’t being manipulated by their lust for the sun they have heard about.
If Margot didn’t want to be bullied she should change and think about what will happen based on her choices. Instead of constantly being depressed she should loosen up and have a good time with the other children. “‘And this was because she would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city. If they tagged her and ran, she stood blinking.’” This is significant because it shows that the other students have the best intentions at first and try to be kind.
They called him Mr. Freeman and they all loved him! Until that day. Bailey ( her brother) and her mother weren’t home one day, leaving her and Mr. Freeman alone together. He made a bad decision, sexually abusing Maya. She was only seven, it frightened her so much!
This makes the reader realize that the children disliked Margot because they were envious. Another scene in this story that shows the children’s anger is when Bradbury writes “the biggest crime of all was that she had come here only five years ago from Earth, and she remembered the sun... and they, they had been on Venus all their lives...and had long since forgotten the color and heat of it…”
To describe Minnie Cooper’s loss of popularity, Faulkner writes, “She was the last to realize that she was losing ground… girls with whom she had grown up as they married and got homes and children, but no man ever called on her
Emily thought what the girl had done was wrong and she had the right to make her leave the home, it may be cruel but it doesn't deserve a punishment as severe as death. Thomas Rogers, on the other hand, does need that punishment because nothing has happened yet. ¨There was never a word against us. Not a word.¨(Christie, 56). This is completely outrageous, not a single thing mentioned about the fact that he
The children don’t trust Margot’s memory, because of jealousy and lack of respect. To conclude, the short story All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury, doesn’t support the claim that skepticism should be used at all times, and it tells to be a little more leaned
Calphurnia also states: “Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies, /Yet not they fright me. There is one within, (13-14). Here, Calphurnia is trying to say that she usually does not listen to these things but this one has her feeling fearful. But the reason she cannot persuade Caesar is because if her lack of valuable arguments. She only uses pathos and no other techniques to keep him from attending the senate.
CONTENT I will include this in my essay INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Introduce and summarize the story: “All Summer In a Day” A realistic fiction story by Ray Bradbury, about a young girl who moved from Earth to Venus with her family, on Venus it rains everyday and night constantly. The people on Venus built underground tunnels and homes and stay inside their all year round except for the one day every seven years when it is sunny, Margot, the main character of the story hates the rain. Margot loves the sun, and other kids bullied her for being obsessed with the sun. The kids end up locking Margot in a closet causing her to miss the sun.
In the book Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt and the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, people who take things too far can turn a crowd into a mob. Ray Bradbury develops this by the classmates hurting Margot and shoving her in a closet. On the other hand, Lynda Mullaly Hunt develops this by showing how Ally breaks down after she can’t take being bullied anymore. The short story “Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury there’s a character named Margot who usually feels alone because she never wants to play with the other kids in her school on Venus.
The author of ¨All Summer in a Day”, Ray Bradbury, effectively shows the true nature of envy and jealousy through an important passage that adds to the story's plot. The passage shows that longing can cause people to become desperate and end up impulsively lashing out, inflicting harm on others. The beginning of the passage depicts Margot, a nine year old girl living on Venus, as an outsider. ¨She was a very frail girl who looked as if she has been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair.”
At the beginning of the story Liliana Heker shows that sometimes in life we have things that we want so badly. Like how Rosaura wants to go to the party. ”I’ll die if I don’t go,” she whispered, almost without moving her lips.” Liliana Heker uses this to show how badly she wants to go. Rosaura feels like the party can change her life, and she cares about it very much.
Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year. In fact, about 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying. In Ray Bradbury’s All Summer in a Day, Margot, one of the protagonists, lives on Venus -- The planet of rain, where the sun shines only for a few hours every seven years. Unlike other children of her age on the planet, Margot moved to Venus, rather than being born on it, meaning she has seen the sun where the other children have not. | <urn:uuid:93bebb0c-6dc6-4e78-80a4-65d42b926526> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ipl.org/essay/Ignorance-In-Ray-Bradburys-All-Summer-In-PCDN5UFUYV | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.978911 | 1,497 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Beyond any doubt, emails constitute a reliable means for companies to deliver business communication to their target audience. But for it to happen in the true sense of the term, recipients must open and go through the information in business emails. Spammers can prevent it from happening by flagging suspicious emails as “spam emails”.
Besides, recipients can also mark an email as spam. Once marked spam, an email goes to the spam folder associated with a recipient’s email account. As a result, they do not get to know or read an email immediately upon receiving it. The only way they can read it is by navigating to the spam folder.
According to Statista, the number of spamming instances may have come down from 88.5% to 28.5% between 2017 and 2019. But it still exists, so companies need to find ways to bypass spam folders to successfully deliver marketing and business-related information to their customers.
And, email authentication offered by Ongage and other sources is the byword for it. Read on to know what email authentication is all about and why it matters. Also, get an insight into different forms of authentication standards.
What Is Email Authentication?
Technically, email authentication is the procedure to determine the source from which an email emerges before it reaches the email folder of a recipient. It enables internet service providers (ISPs) to better route an email.
According to the global data security risk report published by Varonis, only 5 out of 100 companies operate with secure or protected email folders. This explains why phishing scams and spoofing are on an all-time high these days.
The best way to secure the email folders is to identify the source of origination of an email before it enters into those folders. Equally important is to validate the data about it that appears on the surface. This is precisely where email authentication can make a difference. It plays a vital role in legitimizing the delivery of emails through technical solutions.
It helps a brand ensure that legitimate emails go to the inboxes of customers. In other words, it is also the way for businesses to make sure that no other entity sends emails on their names. Besides, there are also other reasons for which you should care about authenticating your emails.
Why Should You Care About Authentication?
Unlike how simple email authentication appears on the surface, it can be tricky to understand in practical terms. To gain a detailed insight into its significance, you need to get to the bottom of its role in email deliverability.
Lends Credence To A Brand
Mailbox service providers like Outlook and Gmail are very critical about spam emails. These providers adopt the best practices to prevent spam emails from entering into the inboxes of users.
Email authentication lends credence to the domain or the source from which an email originates. Thus, the spammers get the impression that the email list is less likely to involve bad email practices like concealment of the actual source.
Enhances Deliverability And Reputation
When an email comes from a trustworthy source, users are likely to open it and click the links in it. This way, mailboxes also get an impression that the emails coming from a specific source are safe for users. From a business standpoint, it promotes three aspects: reputation, deliverability, and customer engagement.
Secures The Reputation Of A Brand
Almost 8 out of 10 customers are worried to open an email under the impression that it could be a phishing email. Nothing assures a user as much as concerning the fact that an incoming email neither involves spam nor consists of any harmful software programs that can compromise the security of their data.
Email Authentication Standards You Need To Know About
Email authentication is an umbrella term for a wide range of authentication standards. The latter helps in solving distinct security and technical issues associated with enhanced email deliverability to the folders of recipients. Together, these authentication standards ensure three elements linked to an email: its security, trust factor, and legitimacy.
The common authentication standards include the following:
An acronym for Sender Policy Framework, it authenticates if an incoming email is delivered from a server or internet provider (IP) is permitted by the owner of a domain for this purpose. It looks for this feature in the “Mail From” field.
DKIM is the acronym for Domain Key Identified Mail. As the name suggests, it is a protocol that inserts a digital signature in every email. This way, it prevents the possibility of an email forgery or alteration when an email comes to a user’s folder.
Domain-based Message Authentication is an optional security policy, it serves as the mark of authentication regarding the protection of an email by DKIM/SPF security protocols.
Brand Indicators for Message Identification make senders showcase their brand-controlled logos in emails that are delivered to the inboxes of customers. It works in conjunction with a DMARC policy.
The implications of these security standards go deeper than their definition. Gaining a good understanding of these authentication standards will help you better route your marketing and business emails to your target audience. Ongage explains these security protocols associated with email authentication and their importance in detail.
To sum up, the concept of email authentication is centered on the convenience of both businesses and their customers. While it helps businesses bypass the possibility of a marketing or business email being marked as spam by a mailbox provider, it also protects the email folders of customers from phishing emails or spoofing.
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A person who is much smaller than average, with head, limbs, and trunk proportionate to each other in size
A small, often mischievous creature considered to have magical powers.
(Informal) A small or insignificant person
(Folklore) Any of a race of small, misshapen, dwarflike beings that dwell in the earth and guard its treasures
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Slow Speed Zone SE of NYC to Protect Right Whales
In Effect Through December 2
NOAA Fisheries is triggering a Slow Zone (voluntary vessel speed restriction zone), southeast of New York City.
This Slow Zone was triggered on November 17, 2020, when the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute acoustic monitoring buoy detected right whales in the New York Bight, New York.
Mariners, please go around this areas or go slow (10 knots or less) inside this area where right whales have been detected.
Southeast of New York City Slow Zone is in effect through December 2.
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In the United States, there is an estimated number of over 120 million homes with TVs in them. That’s a lot of screens!
But some of them may not be working correctly because owners don’t know how good or bad their TV reception might be. How does one figure that out?
It’s not as complicated as it may seem. In fact, with this simple guide, you can learn how to test your TV signal strength and make the right decisions about the next steps for your TV.
Let’s dive in.
First of all, you need a TV to test. Then, you need a coax cable and some kind of antenna.
To find these items you can do a quick home search because often the coax cable is plugged into your TV. If your TV doesn’t have an antenna, you can even make a fake antenna out of materials at home.
You can make your own antenna out of things like power extension cords, lamp extension cords, or coat hangers. But if you use a coat hanger, make sure that you scrape off any coating so that it can make good contact with the coax cable.
When it comes to the testing time, you’ll first need to plug the cable into the TV. There should be a cable or antenna option to plug into, and that’s what you’ll want.
Then make sure your TV is in antenna mode from your TV remote. Once it’s there, you’ll want to let your TV scan for channels in its menu options.
After, you’ll want to touch the end of the coax cable to another metal that is not plugged in (like the ends of a power cord). Again, make sure it’s not plugged in to avoid some dangerous electrocution.
So, if all is right, your TV should find some channels in the channel scan. This is good news because it means that your TV reception strength is strong and capable.
But, if you don’t find any channels, it doesn’t always mean you need a new TV or cable provider. In some cases, you might need an antenna amplifier to help you out.
If not, you can always go with the buying option, as long as you’re sure it’s the right step to be taking. If you’ve been wanting a new TV or to switch services, then no channels coming up is also good news!
Test Your TV Reception Strength Today
And just like that, you’ve got a quick and easy guide on how to test your TV reception strength. Did you know that finding your TV signal strength would be that easy?
So whether it’s to find an excuse to buy a new TV or to figure out how much juice your current one still has, now you know how to tell whether it’s working well or not.
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Since the last ten years, the agriculture and food industries have been in steady change, with different new technological breakthroughs in the industry contributing to improved crop productivity and nutritional quality of processed foods.
Furthermore, with the incremental growth of the global population and the resulting increase in worldwide demand for highly nutritious meals, the necessity to improve farming efficiency and food production using enhanced novel biological technology has become important.
As a result, countries in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Japan are increasingly turning to modern biological technologies such as gene editing and Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequencing to boost agricultural yields.
The agriculture and food industries are actively focusing on implementing newer technology to reduce operational costs to achieve sustainability. Synthetic biology encompasses the application of all such technologies to design microorganisms, allowing all stakeholders in the agriculture and food industries to increase crop output and enhance crop nutritional value.
Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a comprehensive field of study that aims to produce novel biological parts, gadgets, and systems, as well as redesign natural systems.
It is an area of science that incorporates a wide range of approaches from a variety of fields, including biotechnology, genetic engineering, molecular biology, and many more.
Synthetic Biology May Transform the Agriculture Industry for Good
Synthetic biology will be here to remain, and if given the opportunity, it will alter agriculture. Given the enormous obstacles that food, fuel, and chemical production confront, it’s critical to give synthetic biology a chance—despite the necessary transformations in mentality, training, and investments in infrastructure.
Synthetic biology is the use of engineering concepts to construct biological systems and living organisms. Synthetic biology incorporates parts of biology, genetics, chemistry, engineering, and computer science to develop completely functional biological systems.
Synthetic biology is a relatively new technology. Its usefulness to agriculture currently rests in the knowledge it generates about biological processes and the products and equipment that may be created employing that knowledge.
Synthetic biology’s ability to combine with existing technologies, such as nanotechnology and bioengineering, improves its revolutionary impact on agricultural production systems, food standards, and industrial resilience.
Synthetic biology is much more advanced than other biotechnologies like genetic engineering and gene editing, yet the information gained from synthetic biology can be employed in the development of appropriate tools and methodologies for application in conventional biotechnologies.
Synthetic biology and nanotechnology are linked because molecules, genes, and enzymes are modified and created at the nanoscale.
Synthetic biology gives a molecular-level comprehension of intricate living creatures, allowing scientists to construct or break down biological systems to their fundamental components. Synthetic biology has a wide spectrum of applications in the agricultural value chain, from crops to production systems and farm management to agricultural production.
Impact of Synthetic Biology on Agriculture
Synthetic biology’s impact on agriculture is far-reaching, extensive, and revolutionary. Due to advanced technologies, processes, species, and things that were unthinkable a decade ago are now possible.
Crops and animals acclimated to new growth circumstances and matching new market criteria will change the face of agriculture. Synthetic biology’s products and techniques will help farmers maintain agricultural productivity in a changing climatic condition marked by more harsh weather occurrences.
Synthetic biology can be used in a wide range of industries, including fuel, agriculture, food, manufacturing, cosmetics, and medical, as new technology.
Beyond food and fiber, synthetic biology will open new markets for farmers, such as the cultivation of crops that produce exceptionally high oil levels for industrial reasons. Agriculture, like other businesses, exposes food products and manufacturing settings to contamination.
Synthetic biology will increase scientific knowledge and understanding in ways that previous biotechnologies have not been able to. DNA, cells, organisms, and biological systems are all being studied in greater depth by this discipline.
Applications of Synthetic Biology in Agriculture
Synthetic biologists are currently at the vanguard of efforts to meet these urgent and rising demands. Synthetic biologists have established novel alternatives with the help of sophisticated engineering approaches and tapping into the massive resources of cellular machinery. These solutions have either already found their way into relevant sectors of the economy or are on the verge of moving from scientific experiments to commercialization.
“Cellular agriculture” and “biosensors” are two of the most important tools for ensuring the food and agriculture industries’ long-term viability.
Food with better and personalized nutritional or therapeutic value, food with extended shelf life, and food free of hazardous components such as allergens for populations at high risk can all be produced using cellular agriculture.
Biosensors will enhance food safety and management of natural resources by detecting toxins more precisely and quickly, imparting disease resistance, and improving the quality of animal or plant food products than current monitoring methods with the help of engineered microbes that act as biosensors to earth or feedstock.
These and many other innovative solutions are ushering in a new era of sustainable agriculture practices and the food industry, in which fewer resources are utilized to produce more nutritious food. Other possibilities encompass the establishment of carotenoid-enriched functional crops and oilseed crops with increased omega three fatty acid content, for instance, to improve the nutritional value of foods. | <urn:uuid:81457b52-1eac-4e7a-895e-20a8607f7dc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://geeksaroundworld.com/applications-of-synthetic-biology-and-its-impact-on-agriculture-industry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.91887 | 1,095 | 3.578125 | 4 |
4 - Scope of the Proposed Scottish Veterinary Service
4.1 During the 2020 review there was enthusiasm for a wider integration of animal health, public health, aquatic and bee health operational services into a single body (Option 3) resulting in Recommendation 2 - the transition to a separate SVS provides an opportunity to deliver efficiencies and enhanced service excellence through the formation of a bespoke delivery body with a wider range of functions than that currently delivered by APHA in Scotland. Additional areas for consideration could include, but not be limited to; meat hygiene inspection, animal feed controls, scanning surveillance, aquatic disease control, bee health as well as a greater clarity and responsibility for farmed animal health and welfare enforcement.
This was accepted by Ministers at the time.
4.2 The Programme for Government 2021-22, A fairer, greener Scotland, committed that "Alongside the highest environmental standards in our marine and rural economies, we will ensure the highest standards of animal health and welfare, including the creation of a new dedicated Scottish Veterinary Service within this Parliament, to ensure there are highly trained staff to provide Scotland with good animal health and food safety to meet all our needs across the public and private sector for animal health issues. This is not inconsistent with the recommendation above but demonstrates an evolution of the concept of an SVS to be a comprehensive operational delivery service.
4.3 This extension considers refinement of Option 3, a new bespoke SVS, to align with the manifesto commitment above.
4.4 Contributors to this extension work were broadly in agreement that Scotland would benefit from a fully integrated service which should include terrestrial and aquatic animal and public health and animal welfare. This would deliver a joined up and improved 'One health' approach. The current separation of responsibilities for farmed fish health and welfare was not considered to be helpful. Fish are not currently covered by the Veterinary Surgeons Act which was widely seen as a weakness that needed to be address when the Act was next updated.
4.5 The public health element should include meat inspection, shellfish monitoring and area closure management, and the oversight and delivery of export health certification. Consideration of the involvement of private veterinary practitioners as highlighted by the 2020 review should also be considered. Contributors thought that this would provide better coordination and efficiency as well as providing the opportunity for a much needed joined up IT system. Concern was expressed of the impact on morale with the consequential potential for staff losses and also the possibility of increased cost as functions not currently delivered are captured.
4.6 Some contributors expressed concern that the development of the SVS should not impact on the existing links between science, policy and operations. That there needs to be effective communications and IT and that care should be taken that areas that currently work well are not adversely impacted by the change. Naturally there was reluctance by some individuals to undergo change but the predominant view was that not only was this the right thing to do but the timing, in light of the significant impact of EU exit and COVID-19, was fortuitous.
4.7 The consensus was that food producing animal welfare enforcement would benefit by consolidation within the SVS, not least due to the impression that current arrangements lead to a post code lottery for enforcement. However, Local Authorities were reluctant to lose this function and concerned of the wider impact such a change might have on morale and the other animal health services that they deliver. This change would not impact on the scope of the SSPCA although clearly relationships would change.
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Bringing the tithe literally means giving a tenth of your income, bonuses, profit and increase to the House of God. However, the Bible says the tithe is not just 10%. Because all acts of obedience are married to faith God wants us to bring the tithe FIRST.
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From its inception, the World Food Programme, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020, changed the paradigm for international development. This post provides recollections on the paradigm shift by the late Canadian economist Frank Shefrin, one of the program’s founders. The post is authored by behavioural economist Hersh Shefrin, nephew of Frank Shefrin.
Recollections from when the World Food Programme, the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, changed the paradigm for international development.
Hunger, international development, and peace are interrelated phenomena. This is why on 10 December 2020, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). In announcing the award on October 9, the Nobel Committee stated that WFP would receive the prize “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.” The Committee also noted that WFP is “the world’s largest humanitarian organisation addressing hunger and promoting food security.”
I grew up in Canada, during the 1950s and 1960s, a time when the country was in the process of linking its identity and its foreign policy to the contributions it would make to international development. I watched this process first hand as my father’s oldest brother, Frank Shefrin, was an important member of the team that built WFP from the ground up.
Frank Shefrin was an agricultural economist with the Canadian government. Between 1951 and 1953, he worked in Rome at the FAO headquarters under its chief economist Mordecai Ezekiel, the architect of Franklin Roosevelt’s agricultural policy. In 1959, Frank Shefrin attended the FAO meeting at which Canada’s Minister of Agriculture, Douglas Harkness, first floated the idea of WFP as a trial balloon. After WFP became a reality, in the early 1960s, Frank Shefrin chaired Canada’s Interdepartmental Committee on WFP, working with political leaders such as Mitchell Sharp, Minister of Trade and Commerce. Frank Shefrin would also chair the WFP governing committee.
My uncle was a great influence on me during my formative years. As I grew up, he regularly sent me United Nations publications, told me about his work with WFP, and encouraged me to become an economist. When I was working on my Ph.D. at the LSE, he and my aunt visited my wife and me in London.
Frank Shefrin passed away in 1989. He would have been happy to see that LSE students had become involved with WFP. I am confident he would have been proud as punch about the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to the WFP, and suspect he would have tweeted congratulations to David Beasley, current WFP executive director.
#NobelPeacePrize2020 to #UNWorldFoodProgramme: Time to remember Frank Shefrin, among founders of WFP who called the WFP (with some of the pride of authorship) “the greatest success story in the United Nations system.”
— Hersh Shefrin (@HershShefrin) October 12, 2020
I paid a visit to my uncle when he retired from WFP, after 16 years, and we spoke about his career. He repeated much of what he said to me on that visit in an interview with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). The DFAIT interview appeared on a website that is now inactive. In the remainder of this post, I present Frank Shefrin’s reflections on WFP in his own words, taken from the DFAIT interview. To sharpen the focus of my uncle’s remarks, I have inserted questions and comments of my own into the text, thereby simulating the kind of conversation which he and I had.
Question to FS: Can you say something about the social goals, available data, and financial resources that defined the environment at the time WFP was conceived and established as a pilot program?
FS: Very soon after FAO was established, the search began for a means to ensure that nobody in the world went to bed hungry and that food surpluses were handled intelligently…
The FAO had done some excellent studies. Mordecai Ezekiel … wrote a top-notch report on using food aid for development. These provided a really good basis for our discussions…
The executive director of FAO came to Ottawa in December 1964, seeking a supplementary contribution … As soon as Addeke Boerma, the executive director, asked for an extra $2 million, Mitchell Sharp said, “I have no problems with that” … I was delighted, because here the political figures were moving really fast.
Question to FS: What do you think made the WFP unique?
FS: What made the WFP an exciting enterprise was that the use of food aid on a continuous basis for economic and social development was … new…. There were no established ground rules to guide the operations. Member governments, their delegates and the WFP secretariat had to make ad hoc decisions. As a result, we were involved all the time in experimentation, and in both rational and irrational debate at the sessions of the governing body of the WFP…
Question to FS: As a behavioural economist, I would be interested in the kinds of operational issues you faced at the beginning of WFP’s existence. What were the architectural challenges?
FS: We worked out rules and regulations… All these rules had to be acceptable to both donor and recipient countries. As you can imagine, the exercise called for a fine balancing act…
The delegates and WFP staff had also to agree on the types of food aid project[s] to support, and this took a good deal of discussion. Some delegations supported only the idea of emergency food aid. Others favoured projects of economic and social development, and there was some disagreement about the priority to be given to either…
I took [a] leave of absence from Agriculture Canada to prepare for the WFP an evaluation study on food aid … My conclusion was that, if they were well managed, these social programs were definitely beneficial in a developmental sense. On the whole, delegates reached a useful compromise and food aid was provided for all these categories…
Question to FS: How impactful was WFP on the structure of food aid?
FS: WFP … influenced changes in the whole structure of food aid. You see, for the first time … the governing body of WFP … brought together representatives from developed and developing countries (or donor and recipient countries) to help shape policies, approve projects and evaluate the results of food aid programs. At first, major donors were dominant in setting the ground rules and making decisions. But the balance shifted a good deal as developing countries became more articulate and assertive…
Comment to readers from me: As I was growing up I learned that whenever my uncle prefaced a remark with the phrase “you see”, he was about to make a key point.
Question to FS: Did WFP generate any controversies? For instance, my Ph.D. supervisor Lucien Foldes thoughtfully wondered whether dumping surpluses might help North American agriculture but undermine agriculture in poor countries. Moreover, is there not a concern that the priority of getting food to people sometimes leads to complicity with abusive governments?
FS: WFP has always aroused strong emotions, for and against, in many circles: among governments, academics, NGOs [Non-Governmental Organizations] and the media…
Not all countries were equally enthusiastic over a multilateral food aid program. Some countries [that] did not have surpluses felt that they should not be expected to help dispose of the surpluses of other countries.
Some projects have been poorly planned; delivery has been slow; food distribution has been badly done; supervision and follow-up has been unsatisfactory.
Other criticism has been based more on emotion than on substance, for example when they refer to WFP food aid as “handouts” and say it encourages laziness and corruption.
But it is fair to say that food aid does not always benefit the poor. Others get the benefit.
Delegates and the secretariat were aware of these weaknesses … At the same time, delegates have to remember that the bottom line in all WFP operations [is] the neediest people. Unfortunately, there has to be a constant reminder of this “bottom line”.
Comment to readers from me: Food aid controversies have only grown more complex since Frank Shefrin’s days with WFP. An academic literature has identified a series of problematic issues in which food aid associated with conflicts in Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Syria appear to have benefitted abusive governments and harmed the long run prospects of the poor in those countries. Some, if not all of these have involved WFP. I always found my uncle to be realistic about food aid, and he consistently told me that “food aid does not always benefit the poor”.
Question to FS: Looking back, how would you assess the value of the contribution which the WFP has made?
FS: When I retired in 1979, I felt qualified to judge the effectiveness of WFP… My experience with other international agencies gave me a broad perspective of United Nations activities. My general conclusion in 1979 was that I felt I could give the World Food Programme high marks… [It was] the greatest success story in the United Nations system.
Livestream of the Noble Prize ceremony available at https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel-week-live-streams-2020/.
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I have said on a number of occasions that one of the joys of visiting art galleries is when you suddenly come across one you did not know existed. It is always a pleasure to go to the large and famous galleries such as the Louvre, Prado, and London’s National Gallery to name just a few but I find it exhilarating when I come across, often by accident, the smaller, more hidden-away ones such as London’s Wallace Collection or the Musée Marmottan Monet Gallery in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. I had visited Birmingham before and visited the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery but a fortnight ago I decided to visit the city again and have a look at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts which is on the University of Birmingham campus. If I had not decided on that visit I would never have come across a divine portraiture work of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun which I enthused about in my last blog and which was part of their permanent collection. However the reason for me going to the gallery was to see an exhibition of the Norwegian painter Thomas Fearnley and today I want to talk a little about the life of this artist and look at one of the paintings which was in the exhibition.
Thomas Fearnley, although an English-sounding name, was Norwegian. He was a romantic painter who was born in 1802 in Frederikshald, Norway, a small town in the south east of the country, a few miles from the Norwegian-Swedish border. The town has since been renamed Halden. The Fearnley family maintained its custom of naming its eldest sons Thomas and so both his father and grandfather were named Thomas. His grandfather was an English timber merchant from Heckmondwike, a small mill town near Leeds, and who with his family moved to Norway in 1753 as a representative for a trading company based in the English seaport of Hull. Fearnley’s father Thomas was also a merchant and married Maren Sophie Paus, a woman from the important Norwegian Paus dynasty. Thomas was the eldest of their eight children.
Thomas Fearnley’s father owned a shop in Frederikshald and earned his money as an importer/exporter, importing woollen and cloth goods from England and exporting Norwegian lumber. At the age of five, young Thomas went to live with his maternal aunt, Karen and her husband, Georg Frederik Hagemann in Christiania, (now known as Oslo). The couple had no children of their own and were delighted to have Thomas live with them. When Thomas was twelve years old he was enrolled as a pupil in the cadet corps of the Military Academy. At the Academy, one of the subjects Thomas was taught was drawing. It was soon clear that he had a talent for drawing and excelled in these lessons. However he achieved less in his other subjects especially in the military training and he left the Academy in the spring of 1819.
As his father and his father’s father before him had all been merchants, it was expected that Thomas would follow suit and at the age of sixteen, for a while, he took on the role of a young merchant in his uncle’s business. However Thomas had not given up his love of drawing and every evening he would attend an elementary art class in Christiania, where he spent time copying still lifes and portraits painted by various artists.
To become an artist in Norway was quite difficult as there were no major art academies where aspiring artists could learn their trade. It could well be this factor, which forced Fearnley to travel extensively through Europe visiting major art institutions. In late 1821 he travelled to Copenhagen and enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. It was here that he came across Dutch landscape paintings of Nordic scenes by the likes of Jacob van Ruisdael. It was these seventeenth century works, which influenced Fearnley and it was these depictions of Nordic landscapes, which would play an important role in Norwegian art and Norwegian artists such as Thomas Fearnley.
In 1823, aged twenty-one, Fearnley left Copenhagen and went to live in Stockholm where he attended the Drawing Class at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts enrolling on a four-year course. During this period Thomas received a number of commissions for his landscape work including a three-painting commission from the country’s royal family. During his time at the Academy, he would take the opportunity, during summer breaks in the art course, to travel back to Norway to sketch the wild and rugged landscape of his homeland. It was at this juncture in his artistic career that he completed his first en plein air oil sketch. It was also during one of these visits to western Norway, in 1826, that he first encountered another artist on an art tour. He was Johan Christian Dahl, who would become the first great romantic painter in Norway, and one of the great European artists of all time. Dahl is now looked upon as the founder of the “golden age” of Norwegian painting.
Fearnley’s four-year art course at the Copenhagen Academy ended in 1829 and Fearnley continued with his European travels, this time going to Dresden. It was in this city that Fearnley again meets Dahl and they soon become friends and Thomas received some artistic tuition from him. One of Dahl’s other artistic friends and near neighbour was the German artist Casper David Friedrich. Fearnley spent time studying Friedrich’s work and one can see in a number of Fearnley’s landscape works a characteristic employed by Friedrich – figures in the paintings are seen from behind. Fearnley studied the different ways in which Dahl and Friedrich worked. J C Dahl used rapid brushstrokes in his paintings whilst Casper Friedrich was much slower and more methodical and his landscapes often had religious connotations. The study of these two great artists was to influence Fearnley’s art in the future.
From Dresden Fearnley travelled to Prague, Nuremberg and the lake district of Salzburg before finally settling in Munich in 1830. He was to remain in the Bavarian city for two years often travelling south to the foothills of the Bavarian Alps on painting trips. Following his two-year sojourn in Munich he and two other fellow artist Wihelm Bendz and Joseph Petzl set off on foot at the end of August 1832 on their 700 kilometre trek to Italy, passing through the Bavarian alpine village of Ramsau, which is the setting for my Daily Art Display’s featured painting today. The en plein air oil on paper, laid on canvas, sketch was completed by Thomas Fearnley within a week in 1832 and is simply entitled Ramsau. This was the first painting I came across when I entered the gallery of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, which was staging Thomas Fearnley’s exhibition In front of Nature. It was, by far, my favourite of all his works on show and was of great interest to me as I have visited the picturesque Alpine village of Ramsau on a number of occasions when I toured around Berchtesgadener Land in southern Bavaria.
The sketch is dated September 20th 1832 and diaries kept by Wilhelm Bendz record that it was the last day the intrepid trio stayed in the village before heading across the Alps to Italy. In the picture we can see the road winding and disappearing around a corner of the village before we catch a glimpse of it again as it heads off towards their destination, the snow-covered Alps. There is a beautiful stillness about this picture. In the left middle ground we see a solitary farmer collecting hay, which will be needed for the harsh and bitterly cold winter, which is fast approaching. In the background we see the majestic snow-capped mountain, Hoher Göll, which straddles the border between the German state of Bavaria and the Austrian city of Salzburg. This en plein air work would have taken Fearnley several sittings during the week-long stay, on each occasion adding another layer of colour.
It is interesting to note that whilst the intrepid trio were in Ramsau William Bendz also completed an en plein air oil sketch of the village from almost the same vantage point used by Fearnley. Bendz was principally a figure painter and this landscape work of his is a comparative rarity. You will see from Bendz’s picture that unlike the deliberate and carefully detailed picture painted by Fearnley over a seven-day period, the foreground and some other areas of Bendz’s work were hastily sketched in and the work would probably have been completed within a day or two. William Bendz’s work, which was dated September 1830, two years earlier than Fearnley’s sketch, and entitled The Church of Ramsau, Austria, can be found in Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum.
In my next blog I will conclude my look at the life of Thomas Fearnley and follow his journey through Europe visiting the Neapolitan and Amalfi Coasts as well as visiting England and travelling around the Lake District.
To end on a slightly sad note, Fearnley’s companion on his trek to Italy, which started in September 1832, Wilhelm Bendz, made it to Venice but soon after, in the November of that same year, on reaching Vincenza, he took ill and died from a lung infection. Bendz had noted in his diary that the road to Rome was hard, the weather conditions unfavourable and at times extremely harsh and the walking very strenuous and the exertion obviously took the ultimate toll of him. | <urn:uuid:d1032317-7e0a-4dac-9e7c-b0bb017b5e4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mydailyartdisplay.uk/category/adolph-menzel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.98831 | 2,014 | 2.109375 | 2 |
MOSCOW, February 25. Moscow nothing is known about the U.S. “plan B” on Syria. This was stated by Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Mikhail Bogdanov at the conference of the discussion club “Valdai”, “the middle East: from violence to safety.”
Joint statement of the Russian Federation and the United States: a ceasefire in Syria will begin on February 27
“The concern of the US about the existence of a “plan B”. To us nothing is known about him, – he stressed. – We are convinced that now we have to concentrate all efforts on the implementation of the agreements reached in the ceasefire”.
“There is reason for optimism: agreement on ceasefire in case of their implementation can become an example of joint actions by the international community,” the diplomat added.
“Now, we have approached the moment of truth – the ceasefire,” – said Deputy foreign Minister of the Russian Federation. He noted that the U.S. and Russia expressed readiness to share responsibility for the actions of the parties. According to Bogdanov, Russia “is doing all it can to Damascus and expects that will do the same USA with other parties to the conflict”.
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Most of us spend our lives firmly stuck in reality, but 19-year-old French photographer Vincent Bourilhon spends his focusing on the surreal aspects that so often escape our notice. 500px, a photo sharing website, describes his work as “…photography [that] erases the boundaries between reality and imaginary”, and we don’t disagree. His work invokes childhood nostalgia, reminding us of long-lost daydreams and backyard adventures. On his website, Bourilhon says he draws inspiration from his favorite “movies and tales”, which is why some photographs may look familiar.
Here are some more favorites:
Bourilhoun isn’t the only contemporary artist pulling from his imagination to create incredible, dreamlike photographs. Meet Laurent Chehere, another Frenchman, and his flying houses.
Chehere says that his two passions, travel and photography, as well as his interest in architecture, were the inspiration behind this whimsical series.
Fourteen year old Zev from Natick, Massachusets is an internet sensation, wowing viewers with skill and expertise that seems to surpass his age. He goes only by his first name, or by the nickname fiddle oak. With the help of his 17-year-old sister, fiddle oak creates surreal photographs that feature himself on a shrunken scale. You can check out his process and get a behind the scenes look on his blog: http://fiddleoak.wordpress.com/.
Typically these kinds of photographs are composites of multiple manipulated images and involve a lot of skill, patience, and vision. These three artists prove that inexperience and age do not hinder imagination and creative ideas. In today’s world, because of the internet and readily accessible software and technology, anyone can create their beautiful art and share it with the world. | <urn:uuid:add7b35c-14d6-4d0c-8858-41a3dbd67469> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.marstudio.com/blog/2013/06/surreal-photography-truly-captures-imagination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969946 | 385 | 1.890625 | 2 |
NPR, 25 MARCH 2017, FEAT. PROF. SETH STOUGHTON:
For three days last summer, many of us watched as TV and computer screens showed violence between police and civilians. Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were shot and killed by police. Then a gunman killed five police officers in Dallas.
That week made clear just how much these videos of police violence have become part of our lives.
The videos are not new, of course — the Rodney King beating by Los Angeles police was filmed in 1991. But from dashcams to body cameras to bystanders’ cellphones, more and more interactions between civilians and police are being captured on camera. | <urn:uuid:26970914-8910-4f59-863d-f431e1961fe1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thefineprint.scschooloflaw.org/police-videos-arent-going-away-how-can-we-learn-from-them/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973265 | 141 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Anyone who has been on the receiving end of an equine nip or bite will know only too well how painful it is. Probably less deadly than a kick, biting is nevertheless an unwelcome and dangerous habit. There are many ways to stop a horse biting but first we need to understand why a horse might bite or nip.
Why do horses bite?
If you observe horses at liberty in the field and even sometimes under saddle, they will often bite one another to defend themselves and to assert dominance in the pecking order. Squabbling over hay rations is a normal occasion to see some horsey teeth.
Horses will use their teeth gently when they mutually groom each other when at pasture. Sometimes this can get a little too vigorous with one horse inflicting a momentary nip on his companion but generally; this is horse interaction and is not intentional biting.
Other causes for biting will include aggression over and above the usual herd bickering. This might be caused by pent-up stress, or a horse confined to the stable for a long period of time due to an injury perhaps. The biting habit can be caused by current pain or discomfort or, maybe a response to a memory of such a situation. It can also arise from poor early handling techniques. The way to stop a horse biting is to understand the cause. Here are 7 ways to stop your horse biting in certain situations:
- Stop Feeding from Hand – Accidental biting can often happen if you treat feed from your hand. If you want to reward with food then feed on the floor or from a feed bucket. If you feed out of your hands then the horse will always be searching your hands for treats and can easily mistake your finger for a tasty snack
- Ensure tack is comfortable – Biting can often occur when tacking up as a reaction to discomfort or pain. All horses should be in a routine of regular saddle checks and back treatments to ensure there is no soreness or pain present. If you are happy with your tack then the horse is possibly remembering an occasion when the saddle did hurt or he had a sore back in the past. Soreness in the girth area can also be a sign of ulcers. Experiment with different types of saddle pad or use a comfort girth. Always tack up with care and girth up gradually to make it as comfortable as possible for any horse, biter or not. If you have ruled out the obvious but are convinced your horse is exhibiting pain when saddled up then ask your vet to check him over.
- Don’t give them the opportunity – Nipping a riders butt can be humorous to watch but is damn painful for the person on the receiving end of it. This is easy to resolve with an assistant holding the horse. If you are on your own then use a mounting block as you don’t have to turn your back to the horse’s head. Keep your reins shorter and flex the horse’s head to the outside as you get on.
- Don’t allow mutual grooming – you are not a horse and your horse needs to respect your superiority. Don’t allow your horse to groom you as sooner or later you will be on the receiving end of some sharp teeth
- Good management practices – make sure your horse has access to adequate forage if he is spending long periods of time in the stable. Horses are grazers and insufficient grass or forage will cause other problems as well as biting, such as gastric ulcers and stable vices like cribbing and wind sucking. Some horses just have more active minds and require extra stimulus so use stable toys to stop them getting bored Try leaving a radio on, stable the horse in a busy part of the yard so there are lots of activities to watch, invest in a mirror
- Good early handling – Often poor early handling can lead to nipping or biting. Over time this can become a habit. If this is the case perhaps the horse could benefit from a process like clicker training to re-educate them to focus on something else. Young horses explore everything with their mouths a bit like puppies and toddlers who put everything in their mouths. Early training is vital to stop them from exercising their teeth on humans
- Consistent handling practices are essential if you have a habitual biter who was not of your creation. Once horses have learned to bite then even if you remove the original causation – ill-fitting saddle, poor early handling, pain – the habit can still remain. You can improve this by offering the horse a totally consistent response when he does bite or nip. The horse has to respect you even if he did have a legitimate reason for starting to bite once upon a time. Ensure that you always top of the pecking order and that your horse respects you – there may be other undesirable behavioral traits in addition to biting. Don’t let him drift into your space when you are on the ground. Be as consistent with your ridden work as you are when dismounted
If your horse has never bitten and then starts to do so without warning then this can be an indicator of a health issue. Horses who are sick or uncomfortable may exhibit sudden changes in behavior which you should take seriously and investigate further. Horses don’t tend to bite for no reason although reasons do include entrenched behavior learned at an earlier point in time and an acquired bad habit.
If there is no clear indicator on the health front, then a physical examination by a vet and some routine blood tests can be a good starting point. These help you to rule out conditions and illnesses going on internally which you simply cannot see and which may have no obvious outward signs and symptoms. | <urn:uuid:d28b81a0-dae9-412d-b5e4-bbaa94960096> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://seriouslyequestrian.com/stop-horse-biting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.963214 | 1,153 | 2.953125 | 3 |
We use live-cell microscopy, nano-rheology, and synthetic biology to understand oocyte ageing, embryogenesis, and cancer onset.
Ooctye ageing and embryogenesis. Every animal begins its life as a dormant oocyte that experiences a dramatic reawakening upon fertilization. How does the oocyte stay dormant until fertilization? What happens to oocytes as they age, and how does this lead to infertility? How does fertilization activate organelle assembly and division?
We strive to understand the mechanisms of organelle assembly in the early embryo by studying the nematode C. elegans. We also use purified proteins to build minimal embryonic organelles like the centrosome.
Cancer onset and metastasis. The hallmarks of cancer are well established. But how does a normal cell become cancerous in the first place? Dysregulation of a membrane-less organelle called the centrosome can trigger tumor formation and metastasis.
We aim to understand the mechanisms that limit centrosome size, number, and activity in healthy cells.
Assembly and specificity of membrane-less organelles
Embryos build organelles to compartmentalize biochemical reactions. Classic organelles like the nucleus and the mitochondrion achieve this with a lipid membrane. However, many organelles are not bound by a membrane, like P granules, nucleoli, and centrosomes. Such "biomolecular condensates" comprise scaffolding proteins that phase separate to form liquid-like droplets or hydrogels, which attract specific client enzymes. How do these condensates assemble and how is specific client recruitment achieved?
We want to understand these "rules of attraction" using centrosomes as a model organelle. Centrosomes are of special interest to us, as their formation is triggered by fertilization and thus are defining features of early embryogenesis.
C. elegans embryo
Centrosome dysregulation in cancer
One pathway to tumorigenesis involves loss of centrosome regulation. Centrosomes are microtubule-nucleating organelles that are needed for chromosome segregation, membrane polarity establishment and cell migration. Cancer cells often display centrosome abnormalities, such as excessive number, size, or microtubule nucleation.
We use in vivo models in combination with our minimal in vitro centrosomes to dissect molecular mechanisms that regulate centrosome size and activity.
Material design principles of centrosomes
Centrosomes must strike the right balance between flexibility and rigidity. They need to be porous and malleable to allow microtubules that are nucleated in the interior to extend outward, but strong enough to resist microtubule pulling forces during spindle assembly and DNA segregation. Then, during mitotic exit, centrosomes dramatically weaken and are ripped apart by those same pulling forces. How is centrosome strength regulated? | <urn:uuid:98fac7e8-392f-403f-b0ba-822771142b72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jeffwoodrufflab.org/research | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.897043 | 615 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The Only Constant is Change – Mother’s Day – May 10, 2020
In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
Okay. Before you all start looking at me like I’ve lost track of time, I am fully aware that it is not December and we are not in the traditional season of celebrating Jesus’ birth. However, if I were to ask you who the most famous mother in the Bible is, who would you answer? (pause) Mary the mother of Jesus. And so, on this Mother’s Day, I thought, “what mother in scripture would be more appropriate to discuss than the mother of our Lord and Savior?”
Mary was a mere teenager when Gabriel appeared to her announcing her upcoming pregnancy. And most of us know the story. Mary and Joseph were betrothed to be married, basically meaning they were already married, but not living together. If either of them had wanted to call off the betrothal, a divorce would have been required. If Joseph had died during the yearlong betrothal period, Mary would have been considered a widow. We’re talking a serious commitment here.
And now, out of the clear blue, Gabriel decides to show up and tell Mary that she is going to have a son.
The closest that I can equate to this is the moment when a woman finds out that she is pregnant – either through one of those at-home pregnancy tests or at the doctor’s office. Reactions and emotions can range from deliriously joyful to distress to disappointment – all depending on the situation in life when the woman taking the test sees the results.
If a woman has been trying to become pregnant, then the reaction will probably be more on the joyful end of the spectrum. If the woman is in the midst of a bad relationship or in a position of financial struggle or has health issues of her own, the reaction will probably tend to be more in the distress area of the spectrum. And if the woman had no intent of becoming pregnant, the reaction will probably lie on the disappointment end of things.
Mary had no plans of becoming a mother at this point in her life. She and Joseph had not sat down together and decided that this was the perfect time to introduce a child into their relationship. They hadn’t picked out the cute crib bedding and the matching wall color for the nursery. This was as far from a planned pregnancy as one could possibly get. If we don’t know this from any other part of the story, we can deduce it from Mary’s reactions to Gabriel.
First, when Gabriel greets her, the scriptures tell us that she is “greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.” While I have not been able to directly ask Mary what her thoughts were at the exact moment that Gabriel introduced himself, I’m pretty certain that “greatly troubled” does NOT equate to “I was expecting you, my friend.”
Our second clue comes from her verbal response to Gabriel’s announcement, “How will this be since I am a virgin?” Since she did not know how she would become pregnant, I’d say it’s safe to bet that she had not planned to become a mother.
Now, I’m going to go one step further to say that Mary’s emotions at this point are probably somewhere around the “distress” area of the spectrum we discussed a few minutes ago. The scripture doesn’t say she jumped up in a “happy dance” so I’d say “deliriously joyful” is out and her response doesn’t lean itself to “disappointment.” But verse 29 does say “greatly troubled” and that she “wondered what kind of greeting this might be” – also known as a level of distress. And rightly so. Mary’s life changed forever in that precise moment.
Mothers – and fathers too – I want you to think back to that exact moment when you found out you were going to have a child. The very second you saw that plus sign on the test or the nurse walked in smiling. (pause) Your life forever changed. There are no words to precisely describe that moment, but it did – life changed in the blink of an eye. The world has not been the same since.
The first changes started with the mother’s body. Appetite increased. Energy decreased. New clothes had to be bought because areas of the body stretched in ways that flesh and muscle should not…and some parts have yet to return to their original positions.
Changes also occurred in the home. Cribs, strollers, and highchairs had to be acquired. Corners of countertops and tables suddenly appeared to transform overnight into deadly projectiles sticking out everywhere. And sleep…dear precious sleep…vacated the premises completely.
Then came the start of school. Supplies had to be bought…including the fifty packs of hand sanitizer that somehow vanished over the first week of school. A new backpack EVERY year with matching lunchbox. And the school clothes and shoes…which only last until Christmas break because the child is growing way too fast.
Before you know it, it’s time for a driver’s license, cell phone, and money for trips to Steak and Shake and Dairy Queen. Then comes the senior year…including the 1000 pictures that have to be taken including yearbook, prom, and cap and gown.
And just when you think you may get a break, enter the new child-in-law and grandchildren.
So, what is the constant through it all…change. But you’re saying…what about love? Love has remained constant too. Actually, no it hasn’t. Because if you ask any mother – and fathers too – love grew. Just when you thought you couldn’t love that little bundle of joy anymore, the next day would bring a moment when love grew. So, I say, the only constant is change.
Birth brings change. From being a child to college, careers, marriage, singleness, divorce, parenting…all of life brings change. Death brings change. A new way of living a “normal” life is always having to be found.
Life in the church is no different.
The church experiences birth, life, and death just as individuals and families do. Change is constantly occurring…as with life, the only constant in church is change. Yet most days, this word – change – is received with the same repulsive look that four-letter words receive. But why?
As humans, we tend to get comfortable with the way things are. We do that in all aspects of our lives – even as mothers and fathers. Just when we get into the regular routine of prepping bottles, it’s time to switch to sippy cups. Just when we reach the point that we’re glad we didn’t end their lives in middle school, they’re graduating high school and leaving us to go off to college. It’s a cycle that we seem to accept as “a part of life” in all areas except in the church.
But we know change must happen. We obviously do not have the same pastor and congregation members that started the church in 1879. We are not holding service this morning in the same structure that first served as the sanctuary. Change happened.
Is that to say that all things MUST or SHOULD change? No. We must continue to follow the traditions and commands set forth by Jesus – share the message of Christ, celebrate holy communion, baptize believers, love one another, and most importantly love the Lord your God. These traditions and commands remain the same. But we must be careful not to let MANMADE traditions lead to traditionalism out of a fear of change.
Thefreedictionary.com defines traditionalism as an “adherence to tradition, rather than to revelation, independent Bible study, or individual reasoning” …tradition becomes “the authority controlling religious knowledge and practice.”1 In other words, we let tradition become our authority instead of letting the Holy Spirit lead. We begin to follow our tradition before following Christ. We continue to do things the way they have always been done rather than look to God for direction. And this occurs because we don’t want to change. We are comfortable where we are, doing what we are doing, the way we are doing it.
Well, guess what? Mary was comfortable in life too waiting for her betrothal period to end with a move to Joseph’s house. She was comfortable where she was, doing what she was doing, the way she was doing it. And so was Joseph. But thank the good Lord that Joseph did not follow Old Testament tradition. If he had, our story would have a much different ending. | <urn:uuid:00576a0d-fe58-4e3d-b113-8664f79cc6e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.florafirstchristian.org/2020/05/13/the-only-constant-is-change-sermon-may-10-2020/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972409 | 2,083 | 1.898438 | 2 |
About Vaccine Immunology
The use of vaccination as a strategy to reduce the impact of disease on society has a long-standing history of success, particularly for viral and bacterial-mediated diseases. The demand for safe and effective vaccine products is increasing due to the potential use of biothreat agents, and the emergence and reemergence of various pathogens. The implementation and use of vaccines in immunologically naive recipients in outbreak settings places extraordinary demands on the timing of the onset of immunity in a relatively broad population base, including those populations which may not always be ideal for delivery of vaccines (e.g., neonates, pregnant women, and the elderly). Each of these populations has its own unique demands for the induction of protective immunity and safety. | <urn:uuid:6bfd8167-2688-4c38-a427-591792d61477> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scitechnol.com/scholarly/vaccine-immunology-journals-articles-ppts-list.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936876 | 156 | 2.9375 | 3 |
What to Do When Your Toilet Overflows at Work
Toilet overflow at a business is a Category 3 water loss, with damage sometimes reaching beyond the scope of the bathroom. This water is known as black water damage and is filled with contaminants from urine and fecal matter. It is vital to block off the area until it is cleaned professionally. Review the below steps to help reduce the time and money it will take to return your property to its pre loss condition. More damage will occur the longer that water is left sitting.
- Stop flushing, use a plunger.
If pipes are clogged, flushing again will increase issues and not alleviate them. Be aware of your surroundings and perform this in the safest manner possible.
- Turn off the water.
If water is overflowing already, spreading all over the floor, turn off the water to the toilet. The shut off valve is usually located on the wall near the base of the toilet, below the tank.
- Inspect the water damaged area.
Water travels, and depending on the extent of the leak, damage may not be isolated to the bathroom. Water travels farther than you think. You will need to call in a professional to ascertain the extent of damages.
- Close the Bathroom with Safety Signs.
Being safe is the most important. Safety signs hung up around the affected areas are a good way to notify others the bathroom is off limits. Provide signs to guide people to an alternate restroom until the issue at hand is resolved.
- Call your insurance company.
Reach out to your insurance agent about what options are available to you. Sometimes damage will go beyond the bathroom. Your insurance will assist greatly with the appropriate next steps.
- Call a water damage restoration company specializing in sewage backup cleanup services.
Hire a professional, certified remediation company to safely return your home to its preloss condition. Black water contains numerous pathogens which can carry bacteria, parasites, and viruses. Most of what is touched by this water remains unsalvageable. Cleanup doesn’t stop at waste and water; a professional restoration company will sanitize the area before conducting repairs. SERVPRO® of Simi Valley is here 24/7 - (805) 522-2945. | <urn:uuid:1d2ddeeb-515b-48cc-b621-ed40df7d9d78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.servprosimivalley.com/blog/post/351718/water-damage-restoration/what-to-do-when-your-toilet-overflows-at-work | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.935781 | 473 | 1.6875 | 2 |
At the moment, there is no-one who knows quite what the status of the relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union will be on the day after Brexit, 30 March 2019; if they do know, they are not saying. The British Prime Minister herself seems to have been taken by surprise when her 'Chequers deal' was ambushed by the EU 27 at Salzburg on 20 September. There is speculation about a rival, 'Canada+' free-trade agreement proposal
, but there is currently no indication from Government that this will be adopted. With Theresa May still insisting on Chequers, many political commentators now think that the choice is between two outcomes: a deal on a version of Chequers; or, a 'no-deal' arrangement on World Trade Organisation terms. If there is agreement in any form – at this stage this could only be the briefest of outlines of a future relationship – this will also bring with it a transition period according to the terms of the 'Withdrawal Agreement'.
This is one of three articles which examine what we know from UK Government and EU Commission documents about each of these outcomes and what they mean for the life sciences sector, in particular the authorisation of medicines and medical devices:
In this article, Paul England addresses the relevance of the transition (implementation) period:
Earlier in the year, on 29 March 2018, David Davis and Michel Barnier announced that, in principle, agreement had been reached between the UK and the remaining EU27 on a substantial number of the terms of the UK's withdrawal from the EU, together with the terms of transition for that withdrawal (the draft Withdrawal Agreement). In particular, a transition (or implementation) period was drawn up lasting from 29 March 2019 to 31 December 2020. The status of negotiations on this Agreement were updated on 19 June 2018. The draft Withdrawal Agreement is expected to be signed and become binding on the UK if there is also agreement, at least in outline, on the future relationship between the UK and the EU.
The Withdrawal Agreement states that unless otherwise provided, EU law will continue to apply to the United Kingdom during the transition period. There are also a number of provisions in this draft that affect life sciences sector industries during this period:
- Article 37: any good (including pharmaceuticals and medical devices) that is lawfully placed on the market of the EU27 or the UK before the end of the transition period may continue to circulate in and between those territories until it reaches its end user.
- Article 39(1) and (2): UK and EU market surveillance bodies must exchange any information between them and the Commission (and with the notified body that conducted the conformity assessment before the end of the transition period, in respect of medical devices) information concerning serious risks relating to the above goods;
- Article 40: the UK must transfer to the competent authority of a designated Member State all relevant files or documents relating to procedures, which include marketing authorisation applications under Directive 2001 /83 (the 'Medicinal Products Directive'), that are ongoing on the day before the entry into force of the draft Withdrawal Agreement;
- Article 41(1) and (2): upon a 'reasoned request' from a competent authority of a Member State or the EMA, the MHRA must transfer the marketing authorisation dossiers for products authorised before the end of the transition period, where they are necessary for the assessment of an abridged application under the Medicinal Products Directive. This obligation applies vice versa to reasoned requests made by the MHRA;
- Article 42: if requested by the certificate holder, information held by a conformity assessment body established in the UK in relation to its activities as a notified body before the end of the transition period must be made available to a notified body established in a Member State and vice versa.
- Article 56: Regulations 1610/96 and 469/2009 providing for supplementary protection certificates for plant protection products and medicinal products, respectively, or applications for the extension of the duration of these, will apply to applications made during the transition period that are ongoing at the end of the transition period. Resulting certificates that are granted must provide for the same level of protection as that provided for in those Regulations
It is notable, in particular, that the HMRA would be prohibited from acting as the lead authority for marketing authorisation applications and clinical trials during transition (Article 123(6)), apparently meaning that the UK will not be able to act as a reference member state for authorisations during this period. This would appear to be a backward step from the current role of the HMRA and that being proposed by the UK Government in its offer to the EU agreed at Chequers and set out in the White Paper, but it should be remembered that the terms of the draft Withdrawal Agreement are conditional on heads of terms on the future relationship being agreed – that is, agreement on the White Paper or something similar. The draft Withdrawal Agreement should therefore be viewed as a holding position on these issues in the meantime, which will be amended to conform to the future relationship when it is known.
On the EU principle that 'nothing is agreed until everything is agreed', if there is no negotiated agreement on the future relationship between the EU and the UK, at least in outline, – 'no deal' – then it is possible that the UK will exit the EU on 29 March without the Withdrawal Agreement and the transition measures described above.
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Language packs and language interface packs are available for Windows 10 Version .(Fixed) How to Download Windows 10/11 Display Language Pack
Windows 11Windows 10 Select Download from the Download language pack option. Choose a language from the Windows display language menu. Language packs and language interface language packs (LIPs) are available for devices that are running Windows 10 Version and can be installed by using.
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With that out of the way, here’s how to change language packs in Windows Here’s how: Press the Windows key on your computer or click on the Start Menu. From the menu options, click on Settings to go to your “My Microsoft account” page.
Click on Time and Language. Windows 10 Hindi language pack hi-in. Windows 10 Italian language pack it-it. Windows 10 Japanese language pack ja-jp. Windows 10 Korean language pack ko-kr. Windows 10 Dutch language pack nl-nl. Windows 10 Polish language pack pl-pl.
Windows 10 Portuguese Brazilian language pack pt-br. Windows 10 Russian language pack ru-ru. Windows 10 Swedish language pack sv-se. Windows 10 Thai language pack th-th. Windows 10 Turkish language pack tr-tr. Windows 10 Vietnamese language pack vi-vn. Now the language pack should be downloading, and you can set it as default display language as described above. You can also download language pack files aka. CAB files and install them manually.
Just make sure the language pack suits for your Windows 10 build. There is no direct link from Microsoft for end users to download the language packs. Besides, the language packs should be installed on the right build of Windows Therefore, if you failed to download language packs through Windows updates, then you need to search for the desired language files online.
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There is a chance that one’s business can skyrocket into a world of fame and fortune, but it is more likely for a business to remain small. Unfortunately, most businesses will fail. A majority of new businesses will fail, and that rate can be even higher for online businesses. The following article will give you some helpful marketing tips, so that you can avoid the pitfalls of starting a business on the Internet.
Internet marketers need to be at the cutting edge of the technology curve. A company that fails to take advantage of the newest technology and trends may not appear competent or credible in the eyes of prospective customers. If you stay on the front lines of technology and always have the next best thing available to your customers, then they will be more likely to be loyal to you.
Offer a short-term incentive or promotion to boost your site’s PageRank. You can buy a page ranking if you have a good enough deal. This functions the same way as loss leaders in retail stores.
Making sure to include captions in your images is a great tip to employ. Search engine algorithms look at the text of captions to judge the relevancy of your site to related keywords. When you have relevant captions on your images, your rankings are sure to rise.
Try to include a variety of specials available only to people who purchase when they are checking out. You could add about anything enticing here, from a buy-one, get-one deal to a certain percentage of savings on a bundle of items. This is excellent for getting rid of excess inventory and also to help boost sales, while letting your customers feel appreciated.
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