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In the midst of Tuesday's mad rush of election news from all 50 states, one contest was largely lost in the shuffle: Puerto Rico's referendum on statehood, which could potentially make the Caribbean island and U.S. territory the 51st state in the union. Now that the ballots have been tallied, it's clear that a majority of Puerto Ricans favor full statehood. What's the next step for Puerto Rico and the U.S. government? Could Puerto Rico really become the 51st state? Here's what you should know:
First off: What makes a U.S. territory different than a state?
There are a number of things, but essentially, though Puerto Ricans are considered U.S. citizens, they lack representation in the Electoral College. Indeed, the closest thing Puerto Rico has to representation in the federal government is a non-voting "Resident Commissioner" seat in the House of Representatives, which is currently held by Pedro Pierluisi (D) — a position "that has as much influence as a court jester," says David Minsky at the Miami New Times.
When did this arrangement begin?
In 1917, when Puerto Ricans were officially recognized as U.S. citizens, almost 20 years after the United States military acquired the Caribbean island in the Spanish-American War. Since then, three referendums have been held — in 1967, 1993, and 1998 — but statehood has remained elusive.
What exactly happened in Puerto Rico on Election Day?
A majority of Puerto Ricans voted in favor of becoming America's 51st state. In a two-part referendum, 53 percent of voters said they didn't want to continue Puerto Rico's current 114-year relationship with the United States. In the second part, which offered several alternatives to current U.S.-Puerto Rico ties, 65 percent of voters favored statehood, 31 percent favored sovereign free association, and 4 percent favored full independence.
Does that mean Puerto Rico is on its way to statehood?
Not necessarily. It's certainly a possible step in that direction — but "don't start trying to fit a 51st star onto the U.S. flag just yet," says Abby Ohlehieser at Slate. Both the Senate and the House of Representatives would need to approve Puerto Rico's statehood by a two-thirds majority, and though President Obama has said he would be open to the possibility of Puerto Rico joining the union, it's not clear if Tuesday's vote is enough to convince the White House to forcefully take up the issue.
Any other hurdles in the way?
Several. If the United States were to admit Puerto Rico into the union, the island would potentially be expected to embrace English as the universal language of understanding — a tall order for the reported 85 percent of Puerto Ricans who speak very little English. And Puerto Rico, which has been hit hard by the economic downturn, might be considered by politicians to be too much of a burden on the national treasury. Plus, Election Day offered a new challenge: Puerto Rico's pro-statehood governor Luis Fortuno appears to have lost his re-election bid to challenger Alejandro Garcia Padilla, an advocate of the island's current national status. | <urn:uuid:708dcc38-02d8-4987-b734-039427056482> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theweek.com/articles/470644/puerto-rico-verge-becoming-51st-state | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.973179 | 663 | 3.125 | 3 |
Australia’s government is giving $466,000 to researchers who are hoping to improve how parts of the cannabis plant used for pain relief are extracted, according to a Herald Sun report. The pilot program, which will also research which cannabis crops grow best in Australia, will be conducted by the University of Melbourne, who have partnered with Under The Three Biopharmaceuticals.
The researchers say the project could lead to the development of a local cannabis industry – which they estimate could be worth $150 million annually with yearly demand for more than 17,600 pounds – and prevent patients from obtaining their medicine and treatments from the illicit market.
Education Minister Simon Birmingham said partnerships between universities and businesses allow some of the “best minds…to come up with solutions to problems Australia faces.”
“We’re backing this project because we can see the clear benefits of having local medicinal cannabis production and a local supply chain for the many patients that stand to gain from the use of medicinal cannabis products,” Birmingham said in the report.
According to the Herald Sun, the Victorian government harvested its first medicinal crop this year, and last month medical cannabis was imported from Canada in order to provide immediate treatment to 29 children suffering from seizure disorders.
Last month, Cannoperations Pty Ltd. was the first company issued a license to grow and harvest medical cannabis in Australia.
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- No. of Players: 1 - 4
- Playing time: 2 hours
- Age: 12 +
Agricola - Rules Of Play says:
In Agricola, you're a farmer in a wooden shack with your spouse and little else. It's a hard life, but you have the chance to build a better one. Agricola lets you grow from humble beginnings and, from all the possibilities you'll find on a farm, you'll collect clay, wood, or stone; building fences and a home. You might think about having kids in order to get more work accomplished, but first you need to expand your house. And what are you going to feed all the little rugrats?
Agricola gives you the chance to succeed - just don't ask Rules Of Play to do any actual work!
Don't just take our word for it! Check out this review of Agricola.
Agricola has won the following awards:
- Golden Geek Board Game of the Year Winner, 2008
- Deutscher Spiele Preis Best Family/Adult Game Winner, 2008
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#HolyMischief: Because Kindness Matters.
Kindness matters because it is the one thing that can never be repaid. Proverbs 3:27 says, "Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to act." When you do an act of kindness as a result of the Holy Spirit, then you are engaging in #HolyMischief. Here are 10 easy acts of #HolyMischief you can do every day!
1. Give a compliment: A sincere compliment can brighten someone's day and let them know that you appreciate them.
2. Pay it forward: Buy the coffee for the person behind you in line, or hold the door open for someone.
3. Volunteer: Donating your time to a worthy cause is one of the most selfless things you can do.
4. Donate: Clean out your closet and donate clothes, books, or toys that you no longer need to a local charity.
5. Help a neighbor: Mow the lawn for an elderly neighbor, or shovel snow off of their sidewalk.
6. Smile: Something as simple as a smile can make someone's day.
7. Be patient: If you're in a hurry, it can be easy to get frustrated with someone who is taking their time. However, a little patience can go a long way.
8. Offer words of encouragement: Whether it's a friend who is going through a tough time, or a stranger who looks like they could use a pick-me-up, offering words of encouragement can make a world of difference.
9. Listen: Sometimes, all someone needs is for someone to lend a listening ear.
10. Say thank you: Show your appreciation to the people in your life with a simple "thank you."
What #HolyMischief is doing is sparking a kindness revolution. We’re challenging you to do something kind for someone else, every day, for the rest of the year. It can be anything from making them breakfast in bed to paying for their coffee. The more people who get involved, the more we can make this world a kinder place. Join us and let’s change the world together!
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How To Beat The Minimum Interest Charge Penalty And Earn More Cash On Your Bank Account
The term "Minimum Interest Charge" is used in conjunction with credit card fees. What exactly is a minimum interest charge? The term "minimum interest charge" is interchangeable with "minimum finance fee." The next section discusses what the minimum interest rate is.
A minimum interest charge is also called the minimum finance charge in the monthly fee for a credit card, but this isn't always the case. It is the amount of money that the consumer must pay on his credit card each month.
Most credit cards charge at least $1 for the first time you use them. In this case, the minimum finance charge only comes into play if the borrower has a very small amount of money left.
The smallest possible charge that a credit card user may be concerned about is the minimum interest rate. People who get credit have to pay a lot of fees, such as an annual fee, a late payment fee, a balance transfer fee, an overlimit fee, and many more.
As long as you pay the annual fee, the rest of the fees are charged as you use them, so there are no set fees. There are fees for the balance that needs to be paid on the card, but they aren't very high.
They range from 13.99 to 25.99 percent as of mid-2020.
If someone is a new customer, the interest rate they pay is based on their credit history, and it can be changed later for a lot of reasons.
If you merely pay the minimum each month, you'll wind up paying significantly more than the original total when you finally pay it off. In addition, if you merely pay the minimum, you'll be in debt for a longer period of time. Why? Minimum payments are applied only partially to the credit card's principal debt; the rest is used to pay interest and fees. You'll be stuck in debt for 257 months if you pay the minimum on your credit card with a 21% interest rate and a $4,000 amount. In addition, you'll pay an additional $6,374.64 in interest, taking your total outlay to far over $10,000.
You don't have to pay more than the minimum straight away to avoid accruing interest if you have a card that offers a promotional 0% APR period on purchases. If you pay the minimum monthly payment on time, you can use these cards to make purchases without collecting interest for a predetermined amount of time. Any remaining balance will be subject to interest charges if it is not paid in full before the promotional interest-free period expires.
The term "financing charge" refers to another term for an interest charge. Your credit card's annual percentage rate (APR) is the amount you pay each year on the money you owe after making purchases with your plastic.
The simplest approach to prevent paying interest on your credit card is to pay off the entire balance in full each month, including any late fees. As a bonus, this will help you avoid late costs.
Some credit card providers use a percentage of your card's total balance to calculate the minimum fee, which can range from 1% to 3% of the total balance.
In a credit card, the minimum charge is the charge that a credit card company makes from a customer each month on the balance that needs to be paid on the card. Most credit cards have a $1 fee as the minimum charge for each month of service.
Payment in full within the payment cycle is the best strategy to prevent paying interest on credit card purchases. You may reap the rewards of a credit card without incurring interest charges by doing so.
Monthly interest charges on the credit card debt must be paid by the credit card holder. The interest rate varies according to the credit card company, but the minimum charge is now $1. You can avoid paying interest on your credit card balance if you pay it off during the same billing period. This manner, you can use the credit card as needed without having to worry about the interest charges. Therefore, now that you understand what the minimum interest charge is and how to prevent it, you may use your credit card more prudently. | <urn:uuid:db5bd2eb-ec34-4436-8c44-4d9ebdbae032> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://washingtonindependent.com/minimum-interest-charge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966185 | 862 | 2.5625 | 3 |
I was read to in the cradle. By the time I was three, I had a stack of "Little Golden Books" as tall as myself; I remember Sambo and Hans Brinker and a host of international dolls on parade in those books. At six I read to the others in my kindergarten class and my first novel was "The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore", followed, at nine by "The Wizard of Oz".
I can't pick one that brought me to words, but the creation of my own words started, one night, in First grade. To that point, I had become proficient at the recognition of printed words and sounds, but hadn't really locked onto the most basic part of word formation.
That day, I had a list of spelling words as homework, one of which was L-O-O-K. Lying in bed, I sleepily mumbled to myself, "Look, L-O-O-K, look." Suddenly, it was a word; a word I had made, myself, from independent letters.
It opened a world of creativity for me and I've never stopped being amazed by it. My watch words could be "when in doubt, LOOK."
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On July 23, 2022, the Twitter account “Curiosity” (@Sciencenature14) posted a picture that allegedly showed an astronaut floating high above the earth outside of the International Space Station (ISS), along with the caption “best selfie ever!”
This is not a genuine selfie taken outside of the ISS but a composite of two or more images.
The portion of this image featuring the astronaut comes from a 2012 photograph that was taken by Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. NASA featured Hoshide’s selfie as their “Astronomy Picture of the Day” on Sept. 18, 2012, writing:
Is it art? Earlier this month, space station astronaut Aki Hoshide (Japan) recorded this striking image while helping to augment the capabilities of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS). Visible in this outworldly assemblage is the Sun, the Earth, two portions of a robotic arm, an astronaut’s spacesuit, the deep darkness of space, and the unusual camera taking the picture. This image joins other historic — and possibly artistic — self-portraits taken previously in space. The Expedition 32 mission ended yesterday when an attached capsule undocked with the ISS and returned some of the crew to Earth.
While Hoshide’s photograph can truly be described as a “selfie from the ISS,” the background of Hoshide’s photo does not match the one shown above. Here’s a look at the original photograph (left) and the composite image (right):
The fake ISS selfie has been circulating on the internet for years. It was created by digital artist Robert Jahns and shared to his Instagram account @Nois7 to commemorate Earth Day in 2014.
Jahns’ digital creations have fooled the internet several times over the years. Jahns’ artwork featuring a lake near Mt. Fuji, a waterslide over Dubai, and a whale in the Venice Canals have all circulated as if they were genuine photographs.
It’s also worth noting that the Curiosity Twitter account that helped this fake ISS selfie go viral in July 2022 has shared miscaptioned images in the past. A few days before sharing the ISS selfie picture, this account posted an image that supposedly showed a beach after being struck by lightning, but actually showed a man-made sand sculpture.
APOD: 2012 September 18 – Orbiting Astronaut Self Portrait. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120918.html. Accessed 27 July 2022.
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jannefi. “Space Selfie?” HoaxEye, 20 Dec. 2016, https://hoaxeye.com/2016/12/20/space-selfie/.
Pocklington, Rebecca. “Best Selfie Ever? Astronaut Becomes Viral Sensation with His Picture in Space.” Mirror, 18 Nov. 2013, http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/astronaut-becomes-viral-sensation-after-2804912. | <urn:uuid:24b4a9b3-f66b-4e1c-a0ef-e0293951ece6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/astronaut-selfie-from-the-iss/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.922718 | 722 | 2.75 | 3 |
Ford’s Modular engine, used in various Ford, Lincoln and Mercury products during the mid- to late-2000s, has been known to give techs a hard time during a spark plug replacement.
The problem lies with excessive carbon buildup on the plugs, especially on engines that have gone beyond an OEM-recommended replacement interval.
This can cause a plug to break in the chamber during its removal, creating stress on the tech and additional labor time to remove the damaged component.
Techs we talked to advised addressing the issue before it can become a problem — meaning replace the plugs prior to their recommended replacement interval. That, obviously, can be a hard sell to your Ford driving customers.
Some techs who have come across the broken plug problem recommend performing an engine flush the day prior to changing out the spark plugs and letting the vehicle sit overnight as a way to loosen up the carbon deposits, allowing for less of a chance for a plug to break.
This too, might not be an option, since there are many customers that expect a spark plug replacement job to be completed the same day.
Ford recognized the plug removal problem and issued a tech bulletin — TSB 08-7-6 — to address the problems associated with plug removal on various Ford vehicles. This article supersedes TSB 08-1-9.
According to Ford, some F-150s, Mark LTs, F-Super Dutys, Expeditions and Navigators with the 5.4L 3V engine; Mustangs, Explorers, Mountaineers and Explorer Sport Tracs with the 4.6L 3V engine and F-Super Dutys with the 6.8L 3V engine may experience difficulty with spark plug removal. This may cause damage to the spark plug and leave part of the spark plug in the cylinder head.
Affected engine build dates are as follows: 5.4L 3V and 6.8L 3V before Oct. 9, 2007, 4.6L 3V before Nov. 30, 2007. The engine build date can be read on the left-hand cam cover information sticker.
To remove the spark plugs on these engines without damage, it is necessary to adhere exactly to this procedure before removal is attempted.
Caution: Do not remove plugs when the engine is warm or hot. The engine must be at room temperature when performing spark plug service. Removing the spark plugs from a warm/hot engine increases the chance the threads could be damaged.
Spark Plug Removal Procedure
1. Remove the coil-on-plug assemblies and thoroughly blow out the spark plug wells and surrounding valve cover area with compressed air.
2. Back out the spark plugs no more than 1/8 to 1/4 of a turn. Using Motorcraft Carburetor Tune-Up Cleaner, fill the spark plug well just above where the jamb nut hex sits (1/2 – 3/4 teaspoon). A minimum period of 15 minutes of soak time is required. The cleaner will wick down to the ground electrode shield and soften the carbon deposits in this time. Do not work the spark plug back and forth at this point.
Caution: Excessive Motorcraft carburetor tune-up cleaner, or repeating the process several times with too much cleaner fluid, could introduce enough liquid volume to hydro-lock the engine.
3. Tighten, and then loosen the spark plug, working the plug back and forth. Some screeching and high effort may be noticed. The expected removal torque is about 33 lb.-ft. (45 Nm). Repeat the back and forth turning as needed until turning effort is reduced, and remove the spark plugs.
Ford says do not use power tools for the plug removal — spark plugs must be only be removed with hand tools.
Separated/Broken Spark Plug Removal
If the spark plug separates after following the Spark Plug Removal Procedure, it will fail in one of three modes. Refer to the appropriate removal procedure as required.
• Mode 1: The ground electrode shield is left behind as an empty shell. (See Figure 2.)
• Mode 2: The entire porcelain insulator and ground electrode shield remains in the cylinder head.
• Mode 3: The upper section of porcelain broke off with remaining porcelain left inside the ground shield.
Mode 1 Procedure:
Use Rotunda special service tool 303-1203 to remove an empty ground electrode shield from the cylinder head.
Note: This tool is only designed to work with an empty ground electrode shield. If porcelain remains, proceed to Mode 2 or 3 removal.
1. Modify vacuum cap to a 3/8′′ (10 mm) length for each ground electrode shield that needs to be removed.
2. Use the installation rod provided with service tool 303-1203 update to install the modified vacuum cap. Push the cap into the ground shield down to the electrode strap. This will plug and protect the combustion chamber from contamination.
3. Thread-tap the ground electrode shield using a 9.0 x 1.0 mm plug tap (tap profile is about 3-4 reduced diameter threads on the tip end).
a. Coat the end of the tap with general-purpose grease.
b. Turn the tap about three to four turns into the ground electrode shield. Back the tap up frequently to break chips and avoid cut material from coiling-up in the spark plug well. A tap socket adaptor is provided with service tool 303-1203 update to connect the tap to a 3/8′′ socket drive.
Caution: Do not attempt to remove the ground electrode shield with the tap and wrench. The tap may break if this is attempted.
4. Thread Rotunda special service tool 303-1203 into the ground electrode shield. See Figure 3.
a. Install the stepped end of the tool pilot bushing into the spark plug well ensuring it bottoms out.
b. Screw the center shank into the ground electrode shield. Do not over tighten the shank, to
prevent thread stripping.
c. Install the nylon washer and jack nut until finger tight.
d. Turn the jack nut until the ground electrode is freed from the cavity and withdraw the tool assembly.
Mode 2 Procedure:
1. Add an additional 1/2 teaspoon Motorcraft Carburetor Tune-Up Cleaner fluid into spark plug well and allow 15 minutes of soak time.
2. Using long-nose pliers, grasp and remove the porcelain with an up and down motion taking care not to fracture the porcelain.
3. Refer to Mode 1 Procedure to remove the remaining ground electrode shield from the cylinder head.
Mode 3 Procedure:
Caution: Do not drive porcelain down into the ground shield with a punch as fragments may enter the combustion chamber.
Note: Use Rotunda special service tool kit 303-1398 to remove porcelain broken inside the ground electrode shield.
Caution: The engine and the bonding adhesive must be room temperature of 70° F (21° C) or higher for proper cure and bond strength. Verify the expiration date of the adhesive.
Caution: Do not reuse pins from the tool kit. This ensures the correct surface characteristics for bonding.
1. Remove any remaining electrode material from broken porcelain with long-nose pliers.
2. Spray Motorcraft Metal Brake Parts Cleaner into the porcelain hole for two to four seconds using the straw nozzle supplied with the brake cleaner can.
3. Using the tool kit, insert a pin into the collet. Screw the collet onto the threaded rod. Install the assembled collet, pin and threaded rod into the steel tool pilot.
4. Retract the collet and pin into the steel tool pilot, protecting the pin.
Note: Pin tip damage or bent pins will prevent insertion into the porcelain.
5. Insert the completed assembly into the spark plug well and fully engage the pin into the porcelain. See Figure 4.
6. Spray Motorcraft Metal Brake Parts Cleaner two to four seconds between the spark plug well and steel tool pilot. The steel tool pilot must be lifted up approximately 1/2” to allow brake cleaner to flood the porcelain and pin.
7. Scrub the porcelain inside diameter by moving the threaded rod up and down vigorously. Take care making sure the pin does not disengage the porcelain.
8. Repeat steps 6 and 7.
9. Remove the tool assembly. Again flood the porcelain with Motorcraft Metal Brake Parts Cleaner for two to four seconds, then blow out the entire spark plug well and porcelain with dry compressed air.
Note: Clean and dry components are key to bonding the pin to the porcelain.
10. Repeat steps 1-9 to prepare remaining porcelain fragments as needed.
11. Disassemble the collet and pin from the threaded rod. Dry the tools thoroughly with dry compressed air.
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Pets are important animals because people love their goofiness and loyalty. Sometimes when you are in a bad mood, your pet may reach out for cuddles or lick you to cheer you up. As such, they are an indispensable part of the family. However, owning a pet is not just about companionship because taking care of these animals is a lot of responsibility. For instance, you must look after it to maintain its health and hygiene. [Read More]
Want To Buy A Conure Parrot? Information About This Bird So You Know For Sure
If you want to purchase a conure parrot, you need to make sure you want to before you purchase one. Below is information about this bird to help you make the right choice. They Live for Many Years If a conure parrot is kept in captivity and taken care of well, it will live for many years. This is one big reason you need to make sure you want this type of parrot. [Read More]
Purchase Outerwear For Your Pet
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What Is Tear Staining On Your Dog?
If you have a dog with light-colored fur, then you have likely noticed that sometimes it looks like your dog is crying. It's not that your dog is crying, it's that they are producing tears. Those tears are used to do things like moisturize their eyes, just like some tears that humans produce. Most times, those tears are not a problem, but they can be a sign of problems with your dog's eyes. [Read More] | <urn:uuid:3956b55a-26b2-4ddf-9382-05f37de6b237> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.dog-sitter-milano.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.968861 | 408 | 2.25 | 2 |
SDDP CARDIAC II: Influence Tree for the Road-map on inclusive HCI research and development priorities for WP3
This report has been developed in the context of the CARDIAC project (FP7 - Coordinating Action: Grant Agreement 248582). The goal of the project is to create a platform that can bring together the various stakeholders in the area of accessible and assistive ICT with a view to identifying Research & Development gaps and emerging trends and generating a research agenda roadmap. The Lead facilitator of the SDDSM, Dr. Yiannis Laouris, served as the person coordinating the process. Cogniscope3 operator was Mrs. Georgina Siitta Achilleos. There were 22 people participating in this SDDSM, one of whom participated through videophone. The workshop was facilitated by Yiannis Laouris (CNTI), Georgina Siitta Achilleos and Tatjana Taraszow (CNTI).
Following a two-month consultation with the stakeholders via the Cardiac Wikispace1, offered 74 responses to the triggering question utilizing the Wiki.
The Triggering Question (TQ) was
What type of research is missing that could facilitate development of inclusive HCI?
In response to the TQ, the 22 participants came up with 75 characteristics, which were categorized in the following clusters:
- Beyond HCI
- Cognitive Interaction
- Innovative User Interfaces
- Accessibility resource materials
- Adaptive User Interfaces
- Knowledge sharing
- Universal Remote Console
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Social Interaction
- Human Factors
- Research on adoption of accessibility
- User profiles
- Design Tools
After having clustered all their ideas, the participants cast votes for the five ideas that they each felt were most important. Out of the population of 75 proposed ideas, 50 received one or more votes. In order to enrich the results, i.e. identify the participants’ perceived degree of importance among the twenty ideas that received one vote each a second round of voting took place. Here, the participants cast votes for the five ideas that they each felt were most important of those ideas that received one vote during the first round.
The results of both voting procedures were used in order to select ideas for the following structural process. The participants were able to structure 33 out of the 50 ideas that received votes. This includes all ideas that received two and more votes (30 ideas) plus those ideas that initially received one vote and received the most votes during the second voting cast (3 ideas).
Tree of Influences
The resulting “Tree of Influences” demonstrates the most influential ideas, which have
the greatest impact. The tree is made up of 5 levels of influence, 33 ideas and 101 connections and it is presented below.
According to the participants of this workshop, the characteristics appear to be the most influential were:
- Characteristic #21, Consider not only the interface as it appears but the entire interaction dialogue
- Characteristic #29, Research methodologies that efficiently collect data about users including existing HCI quantitative tools (like needs, skills,interests, limitations)
- Characteristic #32, Support research that looks how to reduce the complexity of user interaction whilst retaining functionality
- Characteristic #41, Use reasoning (AI) techniques for personalization
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As the holiday season rolls around each year, it often carries a hefty price tag that can strain family budgets. In a survey of low-income taxpayers using volunteer tax preparation services, three-quarters of respondents listed December as a time of year when it’s hardest to make ends meet. But it’s not the only one. Low-income families go through a constant year-round balancing act of juggling bills, going without, asking family and friends for help, and taking on debt when they fall behind.
Many of these families benefit from the Earned Income Tax Credit, which supplements earnings for low-income workers. The EITC has proven to be one of the nation’s most effective anti-poverty programs, and for some families can represent up to 40 percent of their annual income. For the one in five American households that receive the EITC in their refunds, tax time gives them a chance to catch up financially as they start the New Year. But by summer, many recipients once again find themselves struggling paycheck to paycheck to shore up budget gaps, or scrambling to deal with unforeseen financial shocks, like a car breaking down or an unplanned medical expense.
Providing alternative payment options that deliver the credit outside of tax time would go a long way toward boosting economic stability year round for these families. In his new paper “Periodic payment of the Earned Income Tax Credit revisited,” Steve Holt explores the range of proposals that have emerged in recent years to provide more options for delivering the EITC during the year, and shares some lessons learned from early experiments to test those options.
Most notably, the Center for Economic Progress in Chicago recently completed a year-long pilot which offered 343 households the option of receiving half of their expected EITC in four payments in advance of tax time. The results of the pilot were overwhelmingly positive. Compared to EITC recipients in the control group, participants who received periodic payments missed fewer bills and racked up fewer late fees. They were less likely to resort to payday lenders or have to borrow money from family and friends. And they reported less food insecurity and decreased financial stress throughout the year. What’s more, after completing the pilot, 90 percent of the participants reported a preference for periodic payment over the standard lump sum.
More experimentation needs to be done to determine effective ways to replicate and expand on the advanced-payment pilot in Chicago. And future experimentation should also include pilots that test proposals for deferred savings mechanisms. These options, like CFED’s Rainy Day EITC proposal, would allow EITC filers to put a portion of their credit in a savings account and receive a bonus match as an incentive to save. Though structured differently than advanced payment options, the end goal of deferred savings proposals is the same: providing greater financial stability to low-income families outside of tax time.
A growing share of our economy’s jobs are in the low-wage industries and occupations in which many EITC-eligible taxpayers work (as illustrated by new national, state, and metro data from Brookings MetroTax model on characteristics of the EITC-eligible population). The EITC is an incredibly effective policy tool that helps bridge the gap between what the labor market provides and what it takes to support a family. But we can make the EITC work better for working families by offering alternative payment options that can help promote economic security year round. | <urn:uuid:41bcc171-e43f-4d6d-bf6a-757ebabfb17e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2015/12/21/new-eitc-payment-options-could-boost-family-economic-stability/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.961897 | 703 | 2.015625 | 2 |
This document outlines in detail the changes we wish to see in a modern and effective Mineral Resources Act (MRA).
As much as possible, in Section 1 of this document, we have offered recommendations in the order in which the Act is written, to make it easier for the review panel to understand how exactly the changes we are requesting could be inserted into the Act. Section 2 outlines our recommendations for addressing the legislative gap that currently exists for pits and quarries. In Section 3, we answer questions laid out in the discussion document produced by Mineral Resources Branch to initiate discussion (Mineral Resources Act Review: Improving Our Competitive Position Through Modern and Effective Legislation).
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The cells, a subset of immune-system B cells, make autoantibodies, which bind to and attack the body’s own tissue. The researchers report the journal Blood, that they found higher levels of these cells in elderly female mice, young and old mice prone to autoimmune disease, and humans with autoimmune diseases. National Jewish Health has applied for a patent for a method to treat autoimmune disease by depleting these cells.
“We believe these cells could be useful in the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune diseases, and may help us understand general mechanisms underlying autoimmunity,”said senior author Philippa Marrack, PhD, Professor of Immunology at National Jewish Health and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system begins attacking its own tissues rather than external pathogens. Several autoimmune diseases, including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, afflict women anywhere from two to 10 times as often as they do males. Although sex hormones are known to play a role in autoimmune disease, other factors are involved in these gender differences.
The research team came across the new cells when they were examining differential expression of X-chromosome genes in healthy male and female mice. They discovered a previously undescribed type of B cell, which expressed the cell-surface protein CD11c. The protein is an integrin, which helps cells attach to other cells or to an extracellular matrix. The researchers are not certain what role integrin might play in autoimmunity or if it is merely a marker for another mediator of autoimmunity.
These cells increase as healthy female mice age, but remain at constant low levels in healthy male mice. As a result, the researchers named the cells Age-associated B Cells or ABCs. The researchers also found higher levels of ABCs in young and old mice that are prone to autoimmune disease. They could detect the elevated ABC levels before any disease developed and even before autoantibodies appeared, suggesting a role for these cells in early detection of disease.
The researchers also found an almost identical type of cell in the blood of many human autoimmune patients. In women with rheumatoid arthritis the presence of these cells increased with age.
ABCs in mice produce antibodies against chromatin, the combination of proteins and DNA that make up chromosomes in the cell nucleus. When they depleted the ABCs in mice, autoantibody levels fell, suggesting a potential treatment for autoimmune diseases. National Jewish Health has applied for a patent on the method of depleting the cells to treat autoimmune disease.
The researchers also found that activation of these cells requires stimulation of TLR7, a cell-surface receptor involved in innate immune responses. The gene for TLR7 is located on the X chromosome. Women have two X chromosomes, men an X and a Y chromosome. Normally one copy of the X chromosome in women is silenced so that it does not produce excess protein. But the silencing is not always complete, and women commonly express elevated levels of some X-chromosome genes.
“Not only do these cells appear more frequently in females, their activation depends on a gene of which women have two copies and men only one,” said Anatoly V. Rubtsov, PhD, first author and postdoctoral fellow at National Jewish Health. “This could help us understand why women suffer many autoimmune diseases more often than men.”
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Mahatma Gandhi states that; “The position of women in the society is an index of its civilization. Train a man and you train an individual, Train a woman and you build a nation”. SHGs are the major resource of inspiration for new generation women’s welfare. In an attempt to uplifting the women, the government has initiated Women Welfare Programmes through development centers, rural agencies, banks, NABARD. In India, most of the SHGs are lead by woman with benefits of socio-economic homogeneity smaller size, functionality, participation, voluntary operating mode and non political women. The SHGs in India operating from April 1999, have entered into various fields like dairy farms, fisheries, ration shops, handlooms, farm cultivation, rain water harvesting etc.”
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The concept of SHGs moulds women as a responsible citizen of the country with social and economic status. It leads women to develop the habit of raising loans, form savings, inculcated with a sense of belongingness, habit of thrift and discipline among themselves. Groups actively take part in social welfare programmes focusing on dowry, AIDS awareness, nutrition, legal literacy, multiple roles of women and poverty alleviation programmes. The concept of self-monitoring has been introduced by the SHGs in a phased manner with the aim to make women totally own their movement and institutionalize its sustainability through networking. The women groups have taken the initiative to educate their own members with great enthusiasm. Women belonging to lowest strata of the society are getting habituated to savings and paved the way for decision making power in the family. Developing country like India, SHGs uplift the women who are mostly not involved in the social structure by entrusting self-confidence and self-reliance.
CONCEPTUALIZATION OF EMPOWERMENT
Women are an integral part of every economy and all-round development and harmonious growth of any nation would be possible only when women also considered as equal partners in progress with men. However, in most developing countries, women have a low socio and economic status. In such countries effective empowerment of women is essential to harness the women labor in the main stream of economic development.
Women empowerment is the process of enabling an individual to think, behave, take action and organize work in a self-governing way. It is the process by which one can gain control over one’s destiny and the circumstance of their lives. Empowerment can be viewed as means of creating a social environment in which one can make decisions and make choices either individually or collectively for social transformation.
Women represent half of the world’s population and they are still the biggest group which is barred from the benefits of social and economic development. They women comprise strong labor force which needs to be mobilized and encouraged to make an effective contribution on the development process of the country. The work participation rate for women is less than half of men in India. Efforts made towards economic empowerment of women, still majority of active female population limits to micro, small scale enterprises and in unorganised sectors.
The 9th Five-year plan [1992-2002] guided the strategies of women’s component plan under which minimum 30 per cent of funds / benefits were earmarked for all the women- specific sector’s and women related programmes.
Tenth Five-year plan [2002-07] also initiated steps to further strengthening of SHGs and community based organizations towards the empowerment of women. Special awareness needs to be given to generating employment opportunities and useful resources of women through special financial intermediaries and thus building women’s empowerment and increasing economic benefits among women entrepreneurs.
Empowerment is a subjective concept expected to take control over lives becoming conscious of one’s own situation and position, setting agendas, creating space for themselves, gaining skills, building self-confidence, building linkages, solving problems, and developing self-reliance. I t is a social and political process intended to improve the overall development of the self. It is not only a process but an outcome too.
Tenth Five Year Plan places an important role on equitable distribution and growth with social justice of the society through adopting a three-pronged strategy as.
“Social empowerment” through removing all the existinginequalities,disparities, discriminations and otherproblems, besides providing,easy access to basicminimum services.
“Economic empowerment” through promotion ofemployment therebyincome generation activities and
“Social justice” through eliminating all types ofdiscrimination with the strength of legislative support, affirmative awareness generation and requisite change in the mindset of people.
IMPORTANCE OF ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
Poverty is the biggest challenge in India’s development efforts to bring about a perceptible change in the quality of life of the people. In India, a vast section of its population suffers from malnutrition, unemployment, and poor health care. This is particularly, true in the case of four main weaker sections of society namely, women, children, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. In rural India, the high rates of illiteracy and low economic status of women underlie the need for increasing their earning by providing income-generating assets. Provision of employment opportunities to rural women is one way to improve their nutrition, health, education and social status. In most of the developing countries greater emphasis is laid on the need for development of rural women and their active involvement in the main stream of development especially economic.
The SHGs consist of very poor people who do not have access to proper financial facilities. The SHGs enables the members to learn to cooperate and work in a group atmosphere. They act as the financial forum for their members to provide freedom and support to each other. SHGs provide investments mechanism, which also helps the needs of the members and also provides a cost effective mechanism for small credit to its members. The SHGs considerably contribute to the empowerment of poor women in India.
RISE OF SHGS
The success of SHG is because of its transparency. Every member of the group knows the details of the operation. The group’s savings will be deposited in an account with the bank besides the individual’s pass book in which the amount of each member will be noted. Books of accounts will be maintained and the details are made known to every member. All these generated considerable level of confidence in the local people, in addition to this, the members behave economically to save from their own incomes and expenditures.3 The members borrow money from their group savings thereby they gradually reduce their dependence on the local money lenders at exorbitant rates of interest. Generally they borrow money for the agricultural operations and to meet the emergencies. Some SHGs have direct link with banks to take up economic activities.
They develop personality by contact with government offices and outside world rather than being confined at home.
The overall benefits of the SHGs and their success were watched by the local people. The message of its success spread in every interior comer of the rural village. Women join the groups with hope and confidence. The positive environment initiated the sporadic growth of SHGs.
Table: Number of Self Help Groups in India, 1992-93 to 2000-01
No. of Groups
Cumulative No. of Groups
Source: The Compendium of circulars on SHGs Bank Linkage.
At all-India level, the number of SHGs formed has increased to 12.78 lakhs, out of these 1.08 lakhs have already taken up productive economic activities. The concept of SHGs has been propagated by the National Bank for Rural Development (NABARD). The NABARD has been interested in developing SHGs in order to empower the womenfolk’s economically since 1992-93. During the nine-year period ending 2000-01, 28590 SHGs were formed in Tamil Nadu. Bank loan disbursed was Rs.7992.90 lakhs and NABARD refinances were at Rs. 7935.52 lakhs.
an experiment in social engineering in the field of rural banking, byadopting a multi-pronged strategy on the part of the lending institutions.
Current scenario the “Macro credit” is seen as a powerful mechanism of social and economic change. It is defined as a stipulation of prudence, credit and other financial services and products or service of small amount to the poor in rural and urban areas for enabling them to raise their economic levels and enhance their living standards. Micro credit has emerged as a viable alternative credit channel to the poor in as much as the access to conventional credit channels are constrained by the requirement of collateral and high transaction cost. Micro-finance is routed through the SHGs. The crucial factor that is indispensable for the success of the SHGs is mutual understanding and reciprocal cooperation. It is incumbent upon the SHGs to find the gap in market and fill the gap with its product to be successful. To help the SHGs to realize this objective institutional support and facilitation is required. Even the corporate sector is playing its part in this aspect.
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Factors Motivated Women to Join SHGs
The important factors responsible for the motivation of women and their joining SHGs in large numbers are to 1.Borrow money at short notice to meet essential needs;2.Eliminatekandhuvatty; 3.Internal lending for their own savings. Women come to know-about a lot, which improve their awareness;4.More things can be achieved as a group.
In addition to these motivations, women have many expectations also. They include 1.To develop self-confidence; 2.To bring out capabilities in women; 3.Tobecome self-reliant; 4.To be respected by the family and community; 5.Gender equality; 6.To promote unity among women; 7.To abolish dowry; 8.To eradicate poverty; 9.To establish economically gainful activity; 10.To take soft loan; 11.To take part in political processes.
The Functioning of SHGs
Every SHG has an animator and representatives (I and II). The animator is the crucial person of a SHG, generally a young and educated lady because she has to maintain and register all accounts. If an educated lady does not take the leadership of the group, the group becomes weak and nonfunctional. In some cases, if the daughter of the animator is educated, she makes use of her service. Important functions of the animator includes: 1. Maintaining register and accounts; 2. Convening the weekly meetings; 3. Maintaining the account with the banks; 4. Representing the SHG to the outside world; 5. Representing the NGO in the group.
Usually there are two representatives who are educated. They should be better educated than other members of the group. They could also be elder to the animator, however, takes priority the age of the women for all the reasons. The representatives alternate with the animator go to the bank. They attend all the training programmes theanimator attends. They support the-activities of the animator. The responsibilities of the representatives include; 1. Alternate with the animator; 2.Supportive to the animator; 3.Go to the bank; 4. Represent the SHG to the outside world; 5. Representative of the NGO group.
There are a maximum of 20 members and a minimum of 12 members in the SHG. The maximum is fixed as 20; otherwise SHG has to be registered as a company. It can open an account in a bank and can function as an economic activity. The duties of the members include: 1. Attend the meetings; 2. Pay the savings and membership fees and 3. Repay the loans properly.
A SHG functions as successive group because of the equality of rights of members in the group. The animator of the group is never treated as a leader but as a facilitator, nevertheless he is the most responsible person in file group. The functioning of the SHG is more of a participatory style rather than in a hierarchical order.
SHG meeting is conducted every week on a particular day at a particular time. All members must attend every meeting. Absence may result in charging some fine. The weekly meetings are conducted in a common place or in the residence of the animator. Savings are collected in the meeting and deposited in the bank the next day. Money is also drawn from the bank and distributed to its members during the meetings andloans are collected back with interest. A special meeting will be conducted if any member requires loan urgently.
The most striking points of success of SHG are the volunteer-ship provided by the animator and representatives. It carries forward the group. There is also a core group of members around these animators and the representatives whose resoluteness has kept the group going. Their services towards the progress of the group are entirely voluntary.
Outcome Expected from SHG
The capabilities of women in the SHG generally enhance due to their participation in the group. 1. They conduct meetings and pass resolutions. 2. They learn to work as a group. 3. They maintain, register and record accounts. 4. They meet outsiders without shyness. 5. They speak boldly. 6. They attend the outside meetings with confidence. 7. They visit government offices without fear. 8. They explain the matter to officials and interact with them. 9. They petition all village issues.
The SHG solves family problems, especially against violence and wife beating.
Unite deserted wives and husbands.
Stop illicit production of alcohol, which is meant for the consumption of their male members.
Encourage sending children to schools and discourage child labour.
Take up issues related to drinking water, health, street lights, public sanitation, road issues and planting of trees.
Clean public places, celebrate important festivals.
Encourage Dowry abolition.
Within the Family
Command respect at home.
Men understand, cooperate and share their work.
After seeing the activities of SHGs, there is no opposition from the families to attend the meetings.
The savings are the first activity the SHGs take up. And every SHG proudly declares the amount it has saved; some animators state it as the total amount for the SHG. Savings have not been without problems and difficulties.Although it is voluntary in theory, each member must pay weekly, the amount that the group has decided on.Initially, the womenfound it difficult to pay as they paid It from their income. The first goal of an SHG is to save and generate a sizable savings amount quickly.
The interest charged by the SHGs varies for different purposes and between districts. The interest charged ranges from 24-36 per cent i.e., double or treble the rates charged by the regular bank. The justifications given by the SHGs are that (a) the interest comes to the group only andthis interest rate will make the borrowers return the loan to the bank by the group quickly.
Internal lending is that which the SHG lends to its members from tie amount saved and deposited by its members with the SHG. The lending commences after six months of saving. The saved amount is collected on a weekly basis from the members and is deposited the next day in an account opened by the group in a nationalized bank. The installment repayment of the loan along with interest is collected on a monthly basis and this is also deposited in the bank.
Use of Interest
The interest is used in different ways. Primarily, it is added to the savings and lent. The group’s unexpected expenses are paid from this amount. The amount is used to pay for the annual excursions the group undertakes annually. It pays for the uniforms for the group members. In respect of a few groups, the interest has been divided among the members according to the savings of the members. The activity of savingsand credit makes an SHG function as a mini-bank: There are more than hundred and twenty thousand mini banks in Tamil Nadu, and more are under formation every day.
The SHGs charge its members a membership fee. It is rupees two to rupees five for a month. It is collected along with one of the weekly savings payments. The expenses of the animators, the representatives and members, when they travel on official SHG work, are met from this membership fund. Only bus fare and tea costs can be claimed and also one lunch can be had with this amount.
The purposes for which expenses are claimed are for, going to:
The NGO office
The government offices
Attend PLF/BLCC meetings
Attending training programmes
Loans with Subsidy
The difference between the DCL and the loan with subsidy is that DCL is a loan without subsidy. Even when the bank sanctions the loan with subsidy, the bank keeps the subsidy amount with it until the SHG repays the entire loan amount and releases it to the SHG only after full repayment of the loan. Only some have been able to receive loans, both for it and for its members,with subsidy, to undertake economic activities. This involves preparing a loan file with various documents like caste, income certificates, rating, etc. After one year of existence, the further growth of an SHG depends entirely upon whether it has been able to mobilise a loan. An SHG receiving a loan depends entirely upon the bank manager. When this manager becomes indifferent, all the SHGs attached to this bank branch suffer.
SHG is a movement to empower women socially, economically and politically through capacity building of the poorest and the most disadvantaged. What sets the SHGs in Tamil Nadu apart from that elsewhere is that they undergo a well-conceived and well-structuredtraining through the specifically developed training modules.
SHG Members Training
For developing this training, the lessons learned from earlier training given to the grass root level animators have been incorporated. It is felt that training only the group leader is not sufficient. Hence it has been decided to impart training to all the SHG members under this project. Accordingly, ten modules of one day each were prepared, taking into account the subjects, which are essential for the empowerment of rural women. Recently, these ten modules have been combined and made into four concise modules covering all the subjects needed.
Animator and Representative Training
This training is considered to be very important since it has been feigned for all the leaders and the animators who lead the groups. Thishelps them convene the meetings, maintain accounts and the registers, be signatories of the bank accounts, represent the group at Block level committee meetings and the Panchayat level meetings. Hence the capacity building of these group leaders is very important especially in ‘Double entry’ Book-keeping, Leadership and Communication.
Micro Finance and SHGs
The trainers training is an ongoing process as the new NGOs entering the Self Help Movement need to have theirown trainers. These training programmes are entirely conducted with the help of NGO and the resource persons. A stringent selection process is followed during the selection of trainers. After completion of trainers training, the successful candidates are given certificates and allowed to conduct training programmes.
The micro finance service providers include apex institutions like National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), and, RashtriyaMahilaKosh (RMK). At the retail level, Commercial Banks, Regional Rural Banks, and, Cooperative banks provide micro finance services. Presently there are about 60,000 retail credit outlets of the formal banking sector in the rural areas comprising 12,000 branches of district level cooperative banks, over 14,000 branches of the Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) and over 30,000 rural and semi-urban branches of commercial banks besides almost 90,000 cooperatives credit societies at the village level.
NABARD launched a Pilot Project in 1991-92 in partnership with Non-govementalOrganisations (NGOs) for promoting and grooming self help groups (SHGs) of homogeneous members and making savings from existing banks and within the existing legal framework. Steady progress of the pilot project led to the mainstreaming of the SHG-Bank Linkage programme in 1996 as a normal banking activity of the banks with widespread acceptance.
The uniqueness of the micro finance through SHG is that it is a partoership-based approach and encouraged NGOs to undertake not only social engineering but also financial intermediation especially in areas where banking network was not satisfactory. The rapid progress achieved in SHG formation, which has now turned into an empowerment movement among women across the country, laid the foundation for emergence of MFIs in India.
There are a large number of NGOs that have undertaken the task of financial intermediation. A majority of these NGOs are registered as Trust or Society. Many NGOs have also helped SHGs to organise themselves into federations and these federations are registered as Trusts or Societies, Many of these federations are performing non-financial and financial functions like social and capacity building activities, facilitate training of SHGs, undertake internal audit, promote new groups, and some of these federations are engaged in financial intermediation. The NGOs and MFIs vary significantly in their size, philosophy and approach. Therefore, these
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Be careful with yourself and give in to the inner bastard
Even if everyone knows that regular exercise is healthy, it is still difficult for many to never get up to it. Experts always give tips on how to tackle the inner bastard, but does it really have to be? Not always; sometimes you have to give your body a break.
Regular exercise is good for your health
Sport is healthy. Regular exercise helps, among other things, to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure or heart attack. However, it is often difficult to motivate yourself and to complete the training session. It is often not so easy to defeat the inner bastard, get up from the sofa and start the planned jogging round. But that doesn't always have to be the case.
The inner bastard is lurking everywhere
"Whether in front of the filled refrigerator or on the comfortable sofa, the inner bastard is (unfortunately) lurking everywhere," writes Ramona Clemens from the State Sports Association of North Rhine-Westphalia in its current magazine "Wir im Sport".
But you just have to give yourself up and stay on the couch. Everyone should be aware of "what the inner bastards want to signal to us?" The day was possibly really exhausting, so the body rightly demands a break and some rest.
Live in harmony with yourself
In such moments, the body rightly demands a break and some rest, which should also be granted. "Of course it is very important to exercise regularly and eat healthy," says Clemens.
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Using Bundle Mode to Test Bundles
Bundle mode is a process that lets you enable asset loading to prioritize bundles over loose cache assets. After you build the seed lists for packaging your game, you can use bundle mode and the
sys_report_files_not_found_in_paks console variable to test your packaging rules. Bundle mode makes it easy for you to load and report on issues in all the bundles (game
.pak files) from a location that you specify without creating a release build.
Using bundle mode involves two key tasks:
- Turning on missing asset reporting for assets not in bundles. This enables “bundle mode”.
- Mounting and loading bundles for your game.
When reporting is enabled, the
sys_report_files_not_found_in_paks console variable reports when an asset loads that isn’t in any of your bundles. By selectively loading bundles and using the
sys_report_files_not_found_in_paks command, you can find assets that need to be included in your bundles.
To enable bundle mode, use the
sys_report_files_not_found_in_paks console variable and specify a value of
3. A value of
1 writes missing files as log entries without issuing warning messages.
The following list shows valid arguments for the
sys_report_files_not_found_in_paks console variable.
0 = Disabled 1 = Log 2 = Warning 3 = Error <Every other value> = Error
Missing files are logged with entries similar to the following:
Missing from bundle: @assets@\levels\milestone2\auto_resourcelist.txt
If you use the
sys_report_files_not_found_in_paks console variable with the launcher, the error messages are written to a log file.
Enabling the console variable before running the editor or launcher ensures that all missing assets are reported. To ensure that the console variable is always active when you run the editor or launcher, modify
autoexec.cfg in your project directory.
You can also enable the console variable at runtime by using the console (~) or remote console.
Bundle mode has two commands:
- loadbundles <bundle_directory>
- Loads all the bundles from the specified directory into the game. If no arguments are supplied, the directory defaults to
Bundlesand the extension to
- unloadbundles - Unload any bundle that was loaded through the
The following procedure shows how bundle mode works. In the example, game mode is entered when a bundle is missing.
To test bundle mode
In the console window, enter the following command:
1argument specifies that missing files are reported as log entries rather than warnings or errors.
Enter game mode. A list of Missing from bundle errors displays.
- Enter the command
loadbundlesto load bundles for the level.
There are fewer errors, but some assets are still missing. The Asset Validation Gem seed-related commands can help find the missing assets.
Use the Asset Validation gem
addseedpathcommand to add a likely missing bundle.
- Examine the output. In the following example, the output shows missing button assets.
In the case of the button assets, the bundle was packaged a while ago and must be repackaged. However, other assets are also still missing.
Add the missing assets to the seed list for the level.
Run the bundling commands for the level.
Drop the bundles into the
assetbundlerbatch assetlistscommand, as shown in the following example. Use the
assetbundlerbatch assetlists --addseed levels\milestone2\level.pak --addseed levels\milestone2\milestonecutscene.scriptevents --addseed levels\milestone2\hardcodedassetreference.luac --print
Verify that the output displays as expected.
assetbundlerbatch assetlistscommand again to bundle the assets, but this time without the
assetbundlerbatch assetlists --addseed levels\milestone2\level.pak --addseed levels\milestone2\milestonecutscene.scriptevents --addseed levels\milestone2\hardcodedassetreference.luac --platform pc --assetlistfile DemoLevelList.assetlist
Saving Asset List file to ( G:\P4\dev\DemoLevelList_pc.assetlist )... Save successful! ( G:\P4\dev\DemoLevelList_pc.assetlist )
assetbundlerbatch bundlescommand, as shown in the following example.
assetbundlerbatch bundles --assetlistfile DemoLevelList_pc.assetlist --platform pc --outputbundlepath G:\P4\dev\DemoProject\Bundles\milestone2.pak
Creating Bundle ( G:\P4\dev\DemoProject\Bundles\milestone2_pc.pak )... Bundle ( G:\P4\dev\DemoProject\Bundles\milestone2_pc.pak ) created successfully!
loadbundlescommand to reload the bundles, and then enter game mode.
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Heat & Sun Tolerant Perennials
If you live in a warm climate and have a yard that receives full sun for much of the day, you may worry that the plants in your garden will just wither and die. Multitudes of perennials can withstand full sun and hot temperatures, however, and still thrive to produce vibrantly colored flowers and plants. Choose drought-tolerant varieties that don't require a lot of water for the most success.
Dianthus, or pinks, are hardy plants that produce tiny pink blooms that range in hues from pale to bright. The flowers have a scent that is similar to cloves. The plant has silvery-blue foliage with spiky leaves. Dianthus plants produce blooms in early summer and will continue to bloom until late summer or early fall. Deadhead the plants to encourage even more blossoms. Dianthus thrives in most areas of your yard, including sunny slopes, containers, borders, rock gardens or any area that receives direct sunlight for much of the day.
There are more than 2,000 species of euphorbia and many of them are perennials that tolerate hot weather and sunny locations. Euphorbias bloom from early spring and throughout the summer, producing vivid color and green foliage, though they don't flower in the traditional sense. Instead, fused bracts surround a tiny flower, forming a cup around the bloom, giving it an interesting shape that will add flair to your sunny garden. Eurphorbia grows to heights between 12 and 18 inches. Plant it anywhere that receives several hours of direct sunlight during the day. Use caution planting euphorbia, however, if you have pets or children who play outside. The sap from the plants is poisonous if ingested and will also irritate skin and eyes.
Blanket flower, or Gaillardia x grandiflora, doesn't wilt when the temperatures begin to rise, but instead thrives to produce vivid yellow and red blooms that are similar in shape to daisies. The flowers reach heights between 12 and 36 inches. The perennials require little maintenance, but produce more flowers if you pinch off dead blooms. Don't fertilize blanket flowers because it will cause them to rot. Plant blanket flowers in a sunny spot that has well-draining soil.
Additional flowering perennials that grow well in sunny and hot locations include the California poppy, which reaches heights between 6 and 12 inches. Globe thistles thrive in full sun and can tolerate hot weather. They produce spiky purple balls that add interest to your flower garden. Purple coneflower, perennial foxglove, coral bells and scented geraniums are all flowering options that thrive in sunny and hot conditions as well. Perennial herbs such as sage, cat mint and oregano also thrive in hot, sunny spots.
- Taylor's 50 Best Perennials for Sun: Easy Plants for More Beautiful Gardens; Frances Tenenbaum
- University of California Sonoma County Master Gardeners: Perennials
- University of California Sonoma County Master Gardeners: Euphorbia
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Lean Canvas: The Perfect Business Picture
What truly drives a lean startup is the feedback loop or the build-measure-learn principle. And in startups, the most significant goal is finding a business model that can help in executing the product that will gain validated learning.
A business model or a lean canvas can be started by writing your hypotheses on your business model template and along the way, validate them against reality. This validation can help in identifying errors in the hypothesis, easily creating corrections.
But how can you document these hypotheses?
1 – Customize and categorize
Writing them down in worksheets may be easy. But customizing your worksheet and categorizing your hypotheses are truly a different matter.
There are different categories on how you can customize your worksheet. These are:
- Product Hypothesis
- Customer Hypothesis
- Channel/Pricing Hypothesis
- Demand Creation Hypothesis
- Market Type Hypothesis
- Competition Hypothesis
These categorizations will be used depending on your type of project. Since it’s categorized, it would be easier for you to think about questions that needs answers on the different aspects of your business, from the product to the market.
These hypotheses can also be simplified by outlining them. By identifying your problem (What), who are the customers or consumers that has the problem (Who) and how to solve the problem and reach the product to the market (how), it’s easier to get down to business.
2 – The Lean Canvas
A business model, compared to a business plan, is more accessible and readable. Since it only consists of a page, information is easily understandable, unlike business plans that usually have more than twenty pages. The business model, though brief and has a single diagram, this diagram depicts one’s business.
Different business models have been proposed but Alex Osterwalder’s approach to business model is simpler and easier to understand when it comes to having a lean startup. It’s called business model canvas. This canvas approach captures the vital components of a business model, emphasizing more on finding the problem and solution rather than focusing on customers and relationships. This kind of model is ideal for business that venture in applications.
This lean canvas is further tweaked to automatically track the evolution of one’s business. Created by Rob Fitzpatrick, this model captures the “4 steps of ephiphany” type of hypotheses. Although very useful, it didn’t include cost/revenue blocks that are vital in a business model.
There are different ways to go about these models, redesigning them can also be done to perfectly fit your venture. It is important that the model helps in identifying and focusing on helping your business. Different blocks can be added or removed on your lean canvas depending on your business. Here are a few of them:
- Focus on the problem (1) , will help you fully create a product that is unique and would address to this problem. This block helps in assessing what product is needed and what consumers want.
- Your lean canvas can also have a block on customer segments (1) , wherein you are able to assess who are your consumers. This can also possibly be further segmented to help you narrow down your market, creating a more unique product and a more committed market.
- The Unique Value Proposition (2) block answers the primary reason why your product is unique and why it is worth buying. It helps in assessing and validating your product.
- The Solution (3) block is where the minimum viable product (mvp) is defined and how it can demonstrate the uniqueness and worthiness of the product.
- The Channels (4) block is where you put down channels, free or nor, you can use to be able to reach the market.
- Cost structure (5) is the list of fix and variable costs. This will help in seeing how much expenditures or risks there are in this venture.
- Revenue streams (5) is the list of your incomes. This will help in seeing how you set your pricing and revenue model.
- A block on Key metrics (6) can also be considered. This is where you measure and describes actions users or consumers take to create revenue.
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"The Winningest Road Racer in History"
Adopted at birth, Anne overcame reconstructive surgery on both feet as a teenager and left home to become a champion athlete and a pioneer in women's sports.
First day of High School after having reconstructive surgery on both feet
Cross Country Race in Auckland, NZ
Elementary school teacher
- Qualified for Six Olympic Games –1972 to 1992 in every distance from 800m to marathon.
- Pioneered professionalism for female track and field competitors by accepting prize money at the first professional event in 1981 which resulted in a “temporary” lifetime ban from the sport.
- Set a World Record for 5000 meters, Auckland, New Zealand 1982.
- Honored by Queen Elizabeth II of England with a Member of the British Empire award in 1995.
- Inducted into the Running USA Hall of Fame, 2008. www.runningusa.org
- Inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, 2009. www.halloffame.co.nz
- Inducted into the RRCA Distance Running Hall of Fame, 2014.
- Founded the Idaho Women's Celebration 5K (1993) which now has evolved into www.FitOneBoise.org
1976 New Zealand
Denver, CO. USA
Cleveland 10K, USA
- Born 1955 in Auckland, New Zealand, with severe bone deformities of both feet. Adopted at birth.
- Did not walk correctly until re-constructive surgery at age 13.
- Three years later qualified for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in the 1500m.
- Graduated from Auckland Teachers College with honors (1975).
- Taught at the elementary level for 4 years before arriving in the USA to further her sporting career (March 1981).
- Won more USA road races (75) than any other male or female runner in the 1980’s.
- Won Gold (3000m) and Silver (10,000m) medals at the Commonwealth Games – Australia 1982, Scotland 1986.
- Founded the Anne Audain Charitable Trust (1991) to support “at risk” youth in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Became USA Citizen, 1995.
Bellin 10K, GreenBay, WI
NYC Womens 10K
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Friends of Terwilliger spearheaded work with PGE to cut down a number of large “invasive” black locust trees in the Bancroft Right-Of-Way (ROW). These trees were threatening the main power lines coming up Bancroft St. PGE was told to leave them in place on the ground for Urban Forestry to handle.
April 26th was the 200th anniversary of famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s birthday.
Various lectures, symposiums, and discussions have been going on in 2022 to celebrate and call attention to the Olmsted family’s prolific and groundbreaking work.His sons, John Charles and Frederick Law Jr., carried on his work and worked in Portland on various projects starting in 1903. Most notable was their parks master plan for the city that recommended a “South Hillside Parkway” that became Terwilliger Parkway. A proclamation issued by Mayor Wheeler and the Portland City Council perhaps sums up best the impact of the Olmsteds:
On behalf of Friends of Terwilliger, Earthwise Law Centerhas recently submitted two sets of formal comments to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regarding the proposed upgrades and improvements to Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC):
FOT is concerned that the inadequate Draft Environmental Assessment and the VA’s conclusion of “no significant impacts” to Terwilliger Parkway by their Washington, DC office, will prevent effective mitigation in the final designs and construction and cause real harm to the Parkway and environment.
Friends of Terwilliger (FOT) met with Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran on Thursday November 11, 2021 to brief her on the status of the Marquam Hill Connector, Southwest Corridor Light Rail Project and concerns that FOT has about these transportation projects and their potential to negatively impact Historic Terwilliger Parkway. We also met with our congressional representatives’ staff virtually.
The Marquam Hill Connector is part of the Southwest Corridor Light Rail Project (SWCLRP) proposed by TriMet to provide a connection from the proposed new MAX station at Gibbs Street to Marquam Hill. Marquam Hill has become a complex area as it is home to Oregon Health & Science University (OSHU), the Veterans Administration of Portland, the Shriners Hospital, residences and supporting businesses, and attracts over 18,000 employees, patients, students, and residents each day from all around the region.
It’s been a long time coming, but Terwilliger Parkway has finally been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1985 the Portland Park Bureau hired a consultant to prepare nominations to the National Historic Register for several older city parks. But then they never submitted them to the National Park Service for listing. Now FOT has completed the task!
September 13, 2019 as the “Harvest” full moon rose over Mt Hood, about 50 neighbors gathered at Eagle Point for a ice cream social viewing sponsored by Friends of Terwilliger and Homestead Neighborhood Association (HNA). In 2020 we sought to continue the tradition in a Covid-19 appropriate way.
Throughout Portland, developed public parks and playgrounds are closed to limit the rate spread of Covid-19, but Terwilliger Parkway footpath and bike lanes are still open for use We can continue to walk, jog, or cycle in Terwilliger Parkway enjoying the nature and its splendid views as spring bursts forth, but let’s protect and look out for one another by practicing a few simple rules:
The Portland Bureau of Transportation has largely completed the installation of new LED light fixtures on the light poles along Terwilliger Parkway between Duniway Park and Capitol Hwy. The change is notable!
A few months ago, a realtor’s “For Sale” sign in Terwilliger Parkway prompted concern from neighbors and Parkway supporters, fearful that a development might threaten the integrity of this linear park. This led to calls to both Friends of Terwilliger and the Portland Parks & Rec (PPR).
On November 26, 2019, Commissioner Nick Fish and PP&R Director Adena Long presented “A Sustainable Future” to the Portland City Council for discussion and guidance. This is the first step to determine funding options for PP&R.
Friends of Terwilliger (FOT) Board Members met with the new Portland Parks and Recreation (PP&R) Director Adena Long and PP&R City Nature Manager, Rachel Felice recently. The goals for the meeting were to provide Director Long with information about FOT and its mission of protecting and advocating for Terwilliger Parkway, to describe the challenges FOT sees for the Parkway today, and to review the partnerships FOT has established with PP&R over the past 30 years.
November’s restoration work party brought us back to the Norris “foundation” to remove tree and ground ivy as well as blackberries. This 2-acre site was once considered by the Portland chapter of the Rhododendron Society for its test garden before locating to its current site at Crystal Springs.
Thanks to everyone who attended Friends of Terwilliger’s 2019 Harvest Moon Social September 14th. The moon made a spectacular appearance but so did this Barred Owl. Eagle Point offered a wonderful vantage point to view this event.
Students from Lewis & Clark College, as part of their New Student Orientation (NSO) Service Day, helped Friends of Terwilliger “groom” Eagle Point in preparation for the upcoming Harvest Moon Social September 14th. Check out the before and after photos!
A trio of big development proposals with profound implications for Terwilliger Parkway are working their way through the public approval process. All three relate to OHSU and how people get there and are located on Terwilliger at Campus Drive. It’s early in the process for all three proposals and FOT is determined to be there every step of the way to advocate for the preservation and enhancement of the parkway. The involvement and support of you, our Friends, will be critical to whether or not these projects improve the parkway or alter it irreparably.
A Metro steering committee has decided that a new Southwest Portland light rail line will travel out Barbur Blvd. from downtown Portland to Tigard and Tualatin. A planned station at SW Gibbs St. (below the tram) is intended to serve OHSU and other Marquam Hill institutions that are located several hundred feet up a steep hillside with Terwilliger Parkway lying in between. TriMet and Metro have proposed a “Marquam Hill Connection” to get people up the hillside from the SW Barbur MAX station to OHSU. Three of the proposals involve a combination of above-ground elevator towers and bridges and ramps, most of which would be located in Terwilliger Parkway and will necessitate the removal of many trees and significant alterations to the park. A fourth proposal is to build a pedestrian tunnel under the hillside with an underground elevator to bring people up to OHSU.
In our last newsletter, we announced receiving a Portland Parks Foundation grant to conduct a targeted social media campaign.The object of our campaign: to engage a new, younger, generation of volunteers to help preserve Terwilliger Parkway for the future.Looking to get the word out about Terwilliger Parkway, we hope to target audiences of younger adults.
One Saturday morning in July, Friends of Terwilliger(FOT) hosted a water/Gatorade table to engage with Parkway users. We wanted to know the who, what, and why stories behind people’s choice of Terwilliger Parkway as a place to exercise and enjoy day and night. We counted over 300 people exercising in the 4 hours we were there: half were runners and a third cyclists.Walkers, dogs with owners, strollers, and a skateboard were there too! Of the 300 active exercisers, we were able to engage with 200 asking them 3 questions:
Friends of Terwilliger has contacted the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) to express our concern for the Totem Pole in the Terwilliger Parkway. The Totem Pole has numerous holes inflicted by wood-boring woodpeckers and is in need of protective restoration, repainting, and care.
The RACC public art “Totem Pole” is located at the Elk Point Viewpoint in the Terwilliger Parkway and was carved by Chief Lelooska in 1959. It became a partof RACC’s Public Art Program in the late 1980’s.
Earlier this winter Friends of Terwilliger board member Wesley Risher wrote to the City of Portland’sUrban Forestry to find out how to replace the dead Douglas-fir tree (Pseudotsuga Menziesii) planted as part of BES’
Say Hello to Friends of Terwilliger’s dedicated president Anton Vetterlein. Anton has contributed hundreds of volunteer hours to benefit Terwilliger Parkway and Portland’s natural landscapes. A graduate of University of Oregon’s architectural school, he has an eye for design and the tenacity needed to keep the city adhering to the Terwilliger Parkway design guidelines.
It is this beautiful woodland native plant, Oregon Grape, Mahonia aquifolium, that can be found growing along Terwilliger Parkway and throughout most of the city. Oregon designated the Oregon grape blossom as the official state flower in 1899. The following description of this remarkable plant has been adapted from the Portland Nursery website (http://portlandnursery.com/plants/natives/mahonia.shtml).
Have you ever noticed the need for street repairs or clean-up as you run, walk or bike in Terwilliger Parkway; or anywhere in the city for that matter? PDX Reporter provides this easy connection with our city departments and employees.
Friends of Terwilliger volunteers have spent thousands of hours over the past 23 years removing invasive vegetation in Terwilliger Parkway.Perhaps chief among the bad-news invasives is English or Irish ivy.We all know what it looks like and that it is Bad—but what is it, really?
What does the Totem Pole at Elk Point, within the Terwilliger Parkway, have in common with the 1959 Oregon’s Centennial Celebration, Operation Deep Freeze, New Zealand, Antarctica, The Oregon Zoo and John F. Kennedy?
You’ve probably been hearing the term partnership more often lately. Especially here in Portland where collaborative spirit runs deep. Partnership is defined as an association of persons for business, companionship, or an alliance of persons for a common enterprise. Friends of Terwilliger (FOT) has been in existence over 30 years and find ourselves in the company of many like-minded and similarly focused organizations.Here’s the story of one of them.
What would you say is the most identifiable and “iconic” thing about Terwilliger Parkway? The views and lush natural vegetation may be what people most like about Terwilliger, but they don’t really signify the parkway itself. The roadway and adjoining path are the spine of the linear park and are the most significant piece of park infrastructure, but they aren’t very iconic. We think that the historic streetlights that line the roadway are its most identifiable feature.
English Ivy (Hedera Helix) was brought to Oregon in the mid-1800’s as a way to remind early settlers of home. What started out as an innocent plan has come to represent one of the toughest problems Portland’s natural areas face today. It now invades more and more of our parks and will ultimately destroy our cherished tree canopy unless we remove it now. By allowing ivy to grow unchecked it will climb trees where it will mature, produce seeds, and continue the “seeds of destruction” by being transported by non-native birds.
Friends of Terwilliger (FOT) continues to partner in restoration grants awarded in SW Portland. As a founding member of the West Willamette Restoration Partnership (WWRP), we help define the restoration parameters to measure and areas to target for invasive plant removals, as well as coordinating and doing restoration work. | <urn:uuid:b4c3afb2-d752-4174-9b32-ccac72927f22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://terwilligerfriends.org/news/category/news | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950793 | 2,539 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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Photographic material with integral processing invented by Polaroid and also developed by Kodak and Fuji. The paper holds chemicals on one border that are squeezed over the exposed surface to process the image. Original versions had the chemicals on the outside which were messy newer types have pouch that release the processing gunge on the inside so it's a dry process.
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Economic Value of Ocean Energy
Integrated Digital Framework for Comprehensive Maritime Data and Information Services
Seaforests for blue carbon - natural capital from nature-based solutions
Atlantic Sustainability Through Remote and In-situ Integrated Solutions
European Scalable Offshore Renewable Energy Sources.
Bolstering the joint operation of Hydrogen and Offshore wind.
Streamlining the assessment of environmental effects of wave energy.
In the SEASNAKE project, a new MV electric cable solution will be developed.
Joint action for the first systematic approach on the topic of underwater noise.
Development of a new class wave energy converter based on hydrodynamic lift forces.
Demonstration of an innovative mooring solution for floating solar systems.
The FLOAWER Innovative Training Network will provide 13 Early Stage Researchers with interdisciplinary training.
Twinning for an Offshore Wind Energy Partnership.
Pivotbuoy aims to reduce drastically the cost of energy of floating wind through the validation of an innovative single point mooring system.
Support of the development and testing of marine renewable technologies in 7 European test zones.
The GRRIP will incorporate RRI ("Responsible, Research and Innovation") sustainable practices into 5 marine research organizations.
Development, validation and optimization of structural health monitoring strategies for wind farms.
SISMAR aims to increase safety in inland waterway navigation.
Develop environmetal moonotoring around wavec energy converters in Southern Europe
Accelerate the deployment of ocean energy taking into account the optimization of the resources and benefits for society.
Development of a platform to support offshore aquaculture.
Developing design tools for ocean energy technologies, from the conception, to the development and deployment stages.
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Jadisi：What are the differences between led light strips and light troughs?
Led light strips and light troughs are very common decorations in life. Although they can all emit light and can adjust the indoor atmosphere, they also have many differences. Let's take a look at them together.
1. The composition of the led light strip and light trough is different
The light trough is a light or a group of lights; the led light strip is composed of multiple or more groups to form a light strip. The light strip refers to the LED light is welded on a copper wire or a ribbon-shaped flexible circuit board with special processing technology, and then connected to a power source to emit light. It is named after it is shaped like a light strip when it emits light.
2. Led light strips and light troughs have different functions
The light trough is a groove that hides the lamp and changes the direction of the light. Led light strips are used as decoration or lighting to add endless joy and festive atmosphere to various festivals, such as Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Easter, National Day, etc.
3. The application scenarios of LED light strips and light troughs are different
The lamp trough is mainly used in furniture decoration.
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AA and you can DHA is the fundamental omega-6 and you can omega-step three much time strings PUFA found in the mind
Omega-3 and you will omega-6 PUFA are essential efas, for example they must be provided by the food diet. West diet consists of continuously amounts of omega-6 PUFA compared to the omega-3 ultimately causing an imbalanced proportion between both of these efas which have aerobic and you may notice https://datingranking.net/tr/pink-cupid-inceleme/ fitness outcomes. Important omega-step three and omega-6 fatty acids are observed during the green vegetables, seeds and nuts even when from some other present with linolenic acid (Los angeles, 18:2 omega-6) used in extremely herbs, coconut and you can hand and you will ?-linolenic acid (ALA, 18:step three omega-3) in eco-friendly leafy produce, flax and crazy. Shortly after ate, La and ALA is actually metabolized for the arachidonic acid (AA, 20:cuatro omega-6) and you may docosahexaenoic acidic (DHA, 22:six omega-3), respectively.
Both long strings PUFA has pivotal opportunities in the mind structure given that it handle fundamental neurobiological process, specifically those involved in knowledge and you will mood. 58,59 AA and DHA was esterified into the phospholipid from neuronal and you can glial mobile membranes which have a complete mind phospholipid ratio out of around ten% for AA and 20% to possess DHA. Considering the restricted ability of your attention to help you synthesize a lot of time chain PUFA, preformed DHA are going to be provided by fat loss source of greasy fishes. And that, enhanced consumption of DHA-steeped factors results in a partial replacement out-of AA from the DHA inside the notice phone walls. 60 On the other hand, less omega-step 3 PUFA consumption leads to down attention levels of DHA that have improved AA account. Higher AA and you will DHA try advertised in women than the males, suggesting a sex difference in PUFA levels. 61 Such variations is linked to gender hormonal as they differentially influence PUFA metabolic rate with the hormone estrogen exciting, and you may testosterone inhibiting, the fresh new transformation out of both omega-step 3 and you may omega-six precursors to their respective much time chain metabolites. Yet not, whether these differences in PUFA features a role from inside the certain mind disease with a sex role might have been badly asked and requires after that investigation.
Since their knowledge during the early 20th millennium, considerable desire could have been paid down toward roles off PUFA inside the head characteristics
As a result of its lead application and you may/or metabolization on the liver, DHA are increased on the bloodstream and that is attending freely go into your mind due to the fact low-esterified greasy acidic. 58 More recently, Mfsd2a (biggest facilitator superfamily domain-that contains necessary protein 2a), which is shown of the mind endothelial cells and you may adiponectin receptor step one about retina, could have been revealed to be vital that you DHA use and you will maintenance. 62
Irregular omega-3 PUFA account was commonly discussed in the peripheral structures and in your head out-of patients having feeling disorders or intellectual refuse, causing several thousand RCTs setting-out at evaluating the latest features from enough time chain omega-3 PUFA fat loss supplements to your disposition and you will cognitive issues. 58,63 Full, the results is discordant, as a result of the heterogeneity out of methods used to gauge the depressive and/otherwise cognitive periods, the proper execution, dosage and you may duration of this new omega-step 3 PUFA supplements, the lack of evaluation out-of health intake and you can k-calorie burning from PUFA before you begin the supplements, and/or diminished testing out of genotype-associated exposure situations. 64 not, regardless of the discrepancies on the results, it is very important keep in mind that several RCTs did for the patients that have depressive disorders shown an extra aftereffect of enough time chain omega-3 PUFA supplements so you can antidepressant services. 65 Away from mention, research conducted recently describes you to definitely depressive customers to provide an advanced off inflammatory indicators be much more tuned in to long chain omega-step three PUFA supplements. 66 Which observation is extremely relevant because these PUFA is powerful authorities out of soreness 58 and you will soreness is actually a critical element of vibe issues. Towards intellectual decline, despite poor successes out-of PUFA dietary supplements when you look at the Alzheimer’s (AD) patients, RCTs using DHA supplementation inside victims carrying the newest apolipoprotein Elizabeth ?4 (APOE4) allele, a threat foundation for Ad, show an improvement out of pre-alzhiemer’s disease. 64 Full, inaccuracies in the clinical studies strongly hold the need for preclinical degree intended for portraying the fresh new systems from omega-3 PUFA on attention dysfunctions, that ought to assist to most readily useful address populations prone to cognitive and aura problems. Likewise, the fresh attention out-of omega-3 PUFA account inside the eating to cover physiological element these types of PUFA getting an optimum attention form try difficulty getting meals world. | <urn:uuid:781aaff9-643d-486e-b1c5-8e14ca2221d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bornaitco.com/slimming-down-omega-step-3-pufa-manage-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.922607 | 1,141 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Read: Titus 3:5-15
Memory Verse: Titus 3:8
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
There are many other medals besides those given for valor. There are “participation” awards. These are given for participating in a certain theater of operation or campaign. Achievement Awards are based on completing a task or a job well done. Commendation medals are awarded for meritorious or distinguished service.
The one that always amuses me is the “Good Conduct” medal or better known among the ranks as the “I didn’t mess up” medal. As long as you behave and don’t do anything bad you will receive a Good Conduct medal every three years.
In Titus 3:8 Paul admonishes us to “be careful to maintain good works”. God wants us to do more than just not being bad; He wants us to be good. We are not saved by our good works (Ephesians 2:8-9) but “we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” (vs. 10)
Good conduct should be expected of a Christian but it is something we have to learn how to do; Titus 3:14 – “And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.” It is not enough to just not be bad as a Christian, God wants to be good. Find out “what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:2) and do it!
One day you and I will “appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.” (2 Corinthians 5:10). Make sure you live your life in a way that you will be rewarded for your good behavior.
Meditation for the Day: What are the good works that I should be doing? How can I do better?
Assignment: Make a list of the “good works” that we will be judged for. Post the list as a set of goals to strive for.
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Other Common Forms of Criminal Harassment:
- Repeatedly following from place to place the other person or anyone known to them.
- Repeatedly communicating with, directly or indirectly, the other person or anyone known to them.
- Besetting or watching the dwelling-house, or place where the other person, or anyone known to them.
- Engaging in threatening conduct directed at the other person or any member of their family.
Since individuals’ property and possessions are often extensions of themselves. Victims of property crime often feel personally violated. They may experience a violation of their sense of privacy, security, and trust, along with a sense a shock and disbelief that this could have happened to them.
Victims may experience feelings of:
- Anger: at the offender for his/her actions Frustration: with the police and the court system if the offender is not apprehended or property is not returned
- Fear: that the home and property are not safe; that is they stay home the will encounter strangers in their home.
- Suspicion: of strangers in the neighbourhood or even of neighbours and other people they know.
- Guilt: that somehow they could have prevented this crime.
- Loss: they may grieve the loss of the property.
- Isolation: a sense that no one was there to help prevent this occurring.
- Financial Concerns: related to the repair and replacement of items that were stolen or destroyed; the cost of ‘making do’ in the meantime; how to pay for better security.
- Human Rights
- Family Services Immigration
- Internet Safety
- Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre
- Hate Crimes
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How To Chop and Slice An Onion: Knife Skills 101
Never cry over your onions again!
1. How To Thinly Slice Onions
Thin Onion Slices:
To chop and slice an onion, first you must slice off the top of the onion.
Next, trim off the root end
Stand the onion upright on one of the flat ends you just trimmed and slice it in half.
Peel both halves of the onion.
Lay the flat end of the halved onion on the cutting board. You'll be slicing root to top, so orient the onion for this (especially if you left the root end intact).
Angle your knife slightly inwards (toward the middle of the onion). Starting at one end of the onion, slice toward the middle--you don't need to go all the way through to the middle with the first few cuts. Gradually increase the angle as you move toward the middle.
Once you get to the center, stop, and rotate/tip the onion over (so the half that was the middle is now face down on the cutting board). Now you can slice the second half of the onion the way you sliced the first.
Check out this Youtube tutorial on how to slice an onion for expert details.
2. How To Dice Onions
Slice off the top end. Leave the stem end intact.
Place the onion on the flat, cut surface and slice it in half.
Peel the skin.
Place the large, flat surface to the board. Make horizontal slices, from the top end towards the root end. Do not slice through the root--keep this intact.
Turn the onion and make vertical slices, from the root end toward the top. Continue to keep the root intact.
Turn the onion again and make vertical slices again, this time perpendicular to the slices you just made.
Check out Serious Eats for step-by-step pictures and instructions.
3. How To Slice Onion Rings
Slice off the top end and peel off the outer skin.
Slice the thinnest sliver from one side of the onion. This will provide a stable base for slicing rings. Place the onion on the cutting board with this side facing down (the side that you cut the sliver from).
Slice the onion vertically to whatever thickness you desire (thicker is better for frying onion rings, thinner is better for salads and sandwiches).
Check out Simply Recipes for pictures and step-by-step instructions.
How To Thinly Slice Onions
How To Dice Onions
How To Slice Onion Rings
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(1) It is an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer, agent of an employer, employment agency, or labor organization to:
(a) fail to make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified employee, employment applicant, or union member with a disability; or
(b) deny equal employment opportunities to a person with a physical or mental disability because of the need to make a reasonable accommodation.
(2) A person with a physical or mental disability is qualified to hold an employment position if the person can perform the essential functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation for the person's physical or mental disability.
(3) "Reasonable accommodation" to a person with a physical or mental disability for the purposes of enabling the person to perform the essential functions of an employment position may include:
(a) making existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to and usable by individuals with physical or mental disabilities; and
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(4) An accommodation to a person with a physical or mental disability for the purpose of enabling the person to perform the essential functions of an employment position is reasonable unless it would impose an undue hardship upon the employer.
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Fibromyalgia is a condition in which you suffer from chronic pain in your muscles and connective tissue. This pain is often associated with stiffness, fatigue, sleep disorders. Mood swings. Your symptoms often change, which means that you've more symptoms one day than the next.
With fibromyalgia, there are no abnormalities in your muscles or connective tissue. There is also nothing else in your body that can explain the disorder. The cause is still unknown. Fibromyalgia is therefore very difficult to determine. There are no drugs to cure the disorder. However, your symptoms can be reduced with painkillers and a combination of movement and rest.
How Does Fibromyalgia Start?
It’s unclear what causes fibromyalgia. In people with fibromyalgia, there are no abnormalities in the muscles, connective tissue. Joints. However, there are theories that try to explain the cause of the disorder.
Controlled by the brain
There are indications that fibromyalgia may be related to the way the brain controls your muscles. Normally, the brain, along with certain hormonal glands, controls your muscles. In people with fibromyalgia, this cooperation would be disturbed. What'd cause this disruption is unknown. it's also not clear whether this disturbance is a consequence or a cause of fibromyalgia.
Another theory about fibromyalgia is that it's something to do with the mechanism by which stimuli from the outside world are filtered. In people with fibromyalgia, this filter wouldn't work properly.
Processing painful stimuli
It could also be that the processing of pain stimuli in people with fibromyalgia is different than in people without fibromyalgia.
What Are The Symptoms Of Fibromyalgia?
Common complaints in fibromyalgia are:
- Chronic fatigue
- pain: often in your back, neck, shoulders, sternum, side of your hips or on the inside of your knee.
- Stiffness: usually in the morning, so-called morning stiffness. you're also often stiff when you've been sitting or standing for a while.
- Loss of strength in your muscles: because of this you've more difficulty with certain actions, such as carrying bags when shopping or sitting down and getting up again.
- Sleep problems: sometimes you don’t get to sleep well. Sometimes you do sleep. You often wake up because of the pain.
- Mood complaints: complaints that occur regularly:
- depressive feelings
- concentration difficulties
- struggling to make decisions
- a heavy feeling in your arms or legs
- tingling in your arms or legs
- burning or diminished sensation in your skin
- intestinal cramps, abdominal pain
- swollen fingers
Some people have more complaints when the temperature changes or when it gets cold or humid outside. The climate itself has no influence on the development of fibromyalgia: it occurs in both hot and cold regions and anyone can get it. During the holidays, however, the complaints often diminish, perhaps because you get more rest and are more relaxed.
How Is Fibromyalgia Diagnosed?
There is no gold standard to confirm the diagnosis of fibromyalgia. A rheumatologist recognizes its symptoms and can usually rule out other causes of the symptoms. The fibromyalgia score offers help in this respect.
When's more testing required?
When your doctor has doubts about the diagnosis, he chooses for an additional examination. This can be. Example, an X-ray or a blood test. With fibromyalgia, additional tests such as blood tests or X-rays don’t show any abnormalities.
When does your doctor start thinking about fibromyalgia?
- you've chronic pain, in three or more places in your body.
- These places are both above and below the waist and both left and right in your body
- You suffer from pain and stiffness for more than 3 months
- You suffer from long-term complaints such as tiredness, problems with your concentration, changing moods. Not waking up rested
The fibromyalgia score
The fibromyalgia score is a sum of the pain score and the symptom score. The fibromyalgia score can range from 0 to 31, depending on the degree and intensity of your symptoms. In any case, fibromyalgia is mentioned if you score at least 12.
The pain score
By measuring the pain score, your doctor looks at which areas you've experienced pain in the past week. There are nineteen areas that participate in the score. Each painful area scores 1 point. If you've no pain anywhere then the pain score is 0, if you've pain everywhere then the pain score is 19.
The symptom score
The symptom score charts the following complaints:
- Wake up restless
- Difficulty thinking and concentrating
- Here, too, your doctor will look at your complaints from the past week together with you
The scoring here is as follows:
- 0 = absent
- 1 = slightly or mild, mostly or intermittently
- 2 = in moderate to a significant degree: frequently present and/or of considerable severity
- 3 = to a serious extent: drastic, continuously disruptive to life
Additional Score Symptoms
Your doctor will also look at what additional symptoms you've. This is done on the basis of a list of 42 physical symptoms. The score for this is:
- 0 = none of these symptoms
- 1 = few of these symptoms
- 2 = significant number of these symptoms
- 3 = many of these symptoms
The total symptom score is a sum between the severity of the 3 symptoms and the additional symptoms. The score is between 0 and 12.
How Does Fibromyalgia Progress?
Fibromyalgia is different for everyone. Symptoms vary greatly from person to person. Maybe your symptoms diminish after a while. They don’t always disappear altogether.
Which Treatments Can Help You?
There’s no treatment that cures fibromyalgia. However, you can do something about the symptoms. Example with physiotherapy, exercise. Painkillers. Good sleep is very important because it's known that pain symptoms get worse when you don’t get enough sleep. Guidance is also available so that you learn to deal with the symptoms better.
There are no drugs for fibromyalgia. Your doctor will prescribe medication for your symptoms if necessary.
Common medications are:
- Paracetamol (possibly with the addition of codeine or caffeine). Paracetamol is the most commonly used painkiller for fibromyalgia. If you use paracetamol with codeine you've a risk of constipation and reduced responsiveness.
- Tramadol belongs to the group of morphine-like painkillers (opioids). it's a strong analgesic effect. The most important side effects are drowsiness and constipation.
- Inflammatory painkillers (NSAIDs).
- Amitriptyline is originally a medication for depression. But doctors also prescribe it for pain caused by fibromyalgia. With fibromyalgia, you get a lower dosage than for the treatment of depression. Amitriptyline reduces the pain. It can sometimes take up to 2 to 4 weeks before it's effective. It also often helps against sleeping problems in patients. Side effects include dry mouth, constipation, confusion. Drowsiness.
- Drugs from the group of benzodiazepines, are sleep and sedatives. The drugs from this group work muscle relaxing, soothing. Make you drowsy. Use sleep-inducing medication and sedatives as short as possible. If you use the medication for a longer period of time, your body will get used to it too much. You become dependent on it. You may also suffer from side effects such as drowsiness, reduced responsiveness. A greater appetite.
If you want to buy medication without a prescription, always consult your doctor first.
To treat fibromyalgia, see your doctor. Sometimes people with fibromyalgia come to the rheumatologist to make or confirm the diagnosis.
If the symptoms are serious, you sometimes get a referral for a rehabilitation program. During such a program you'll have to deal with various health care providers who'll help you to deal with fibromyalgia more easily. For example, the physiotherapist, the rehabilitation doctor, the psychologist. A social worker.
There are many types of alternative treatments. Sometimes people with a rheumatic disorder notice a positive effect. Always consult your doctor before starting any alternative treatment because it may cause side effects or may interact with the medication you're taking.
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(Euchaetes Egle, Milkweed Tussock Moth)
The funny thing about nature is…the more you know, the more you understand how little you know.
What you might know:
Many butterflies rely on specific “host” plants to lay their eggs. Monarch butterflies, for instance, require milkweed plants as their host plant. Milkweed gets its name from the milky substance inside its stem and leaves that contain toxic chemicals. Those chemicals don’t hurt the monarch caterpillars, but they will hurt anything that eats them as larva or in their final adult butterfly forms. For instance: a bird will stumble on a monarch caterpillar or butterfly and decide to eat it despite its bright “warning” colors. The bird will get a very upset stomach, throw up, and learn to associate the colors of the monarch with an upset stomach, dissuading them from eating them again in the future.
(Danaus plexippus, Monarch Butterfly)
What you might not know:
Common Milkweed is also host plant to the milkweed tussock (or tiger) moth caterpillar (Euchaetes Egle). The chemicals inside of the milkweed plant protect this moth in almost the same way that it protects the butterflies. The difference is found in the dark…
Since tussock moth caterpillar is bright and showy, it is pretty easy for birds to pick out as a “don’t eat me” prey during the day. The Tussock moth, however, looks a whole lot like other ‘boring’ brown moths. So how do birds know not to eat it?
Well, they probably don’t.
It’s a moth, not a butterfly. Moths are active at night and so are their predators: bats. Bats don’t give a flap about the color of their food BUT they learn a different association (or dissuasion) for the toxins from the milkweed plants the tussock larva ate. The milkweed tussock moth evolved an organ that emits an ultrasonic signal easily detected by bats that is specific to them. The signal, and the association of that signal, warns bats that eating this moth will be rewarded with a noxious, vomit inducing meal.
Cool yeah? These guys will be in their larval stage at the end of August into early September and they’re known for living on the milkweed plants you can find at Latta Nature Preserve – come see them! In fact, if you want to be a hero to these little tigers and their endangered milkweed neighbors (the monarchs) plant some milkweed in your backyard!
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Facebook Plans to Hire People With National Security Clearances
Facebook is planning to fight possible election rigging with help from people with national security clearances, according to a new report.
The world’s largest social network is planning to hire people with national security clearances to prevent foreign governments from using its service to impact elections, Bloomberg is reporting, citing people who claim to have knowledge of its plans. Employees with national security clearances can access classified U.S. government information. Facebook would need to petition the U.S. for the employee to receive the information because clearances are deactivated after a person leaves the government’s employ, according to the report.
Facebook has been at the epicenter of a controversy that suggests Russians used social media services, including its own, to strategically impact public opinion and sway the electorate towards President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Facebook has acknowledged that its service was used by Russians and said last month that the Russian government bought $100,000 in ads during the election.
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For its part, Facebook (FB) has said that it will hire people to address the security of its service to prevent the possibility of governments targeting its users. Facebook also plans to collaborate with governments wherever possible to improve election integrity.
According to the Bloomberg report, Facebook believes hiring workers with security clearances can be integral to that effort. In its dealings with governments and intelligence agencies, Facebook could utilize those with security clearance to talk through problems and have greater insight into efforts aimed at impacting elections, according to the report.
It’s unclear from the report whether Facebook has already hired employees with security clearances and how many it wants to hire. The company could reveal some details about its plan on November 1, when it’s expected to testify before Congress on Russia’s activities during the election.
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The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds of Southern Quebec is the culmination of the largest ornithological project undertaken in Quebec for a quarter of a century. From 2010 to 2014, hundreds of birders spent more than 100,000 hours surveying the various habitats of southern Quebec. There they collected half a million nesting records.
The book presents the most up-to-date information on the distribution and abundance of the 253 bird species that breed in Quebec below 50.5 ° N latitude. Beautifully illustrated with nearly 500 photographs and more than 1000 color maps, this book incorporates the results of the first atlas (1984-1989), showing the changes that have occurred in bird populations for a quarter of a century.
The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds of Southern Quebec is intended for a wide audience. You will find it contains a vast amount of information. It is a well-documented work (more than 1000 references), essential for birders, students, researchers, conservation organizations, municipalities, consulting firms, promoters, etc. It is a valuable tool that will guide many of Quebec's bird conservation projects over the next few decades.
The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds of Southern Quebec is published jointly by the Regroupement QuébecOiseaux, the Canadian Wildlife Service (Environment and Climate Change Canada) and Bird Studies Canada.
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Periodontitis – Risk Factor for Severe COVID-19 Course
Results of a current study show a connection between the presence of periodontitis and a severe course of COVID-19. Accordingly, COVID-19 patients with periodontitis have a higher risk, including for admission to the intensive care unit, than periodontally healthy COVID-19 patients.
In doing so, this study underscores the importance of periodontal health in terms of prevention and possibly even management of COVID-19 complications.
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Robots in the wild, with Dr. Magnus Egerstedt
August 25 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Please join our conversation with Dr. Egerstedt as The Conservancy continues to broaden its conservation and restoration efforts within the park. We’ll discuss some of the challenges ahead and how people will be utilizing technology to help reverse climate change.
Tickets are currently available for members only. Please check your inbox for your link to purchase tickets. Availability for the general public begins Friday, August 5th. For updates on availability for this and future events, sign up for our newsletter (text THECOVE to 42828) or follow us on Instagram and Facebook.
When: Thursday, August 25th. Reception at 5:00PM. Program runs from 5:30 to 6:30PM.
Where: Crystal Cove Historic District, Cottage #34 deck, near Cottage check-in office at the top of the hill. Park in the Los Trancos Lot (Up to $15 day use fee applies). This is an outdoor event.
About our speaker: Dr. Magnus Egerstedt is Dean of Engineering at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dr. Egerstedt conducts research in robotics, with particular focus on how to model, control, and coordinate robot swarms. His robots have been deployed under water, on farm fields, in traffic, up amongst the tree canopies, and on performing arts stages. The list of his academic and professional achievements is so long that instead of putting it here, we recommend reading the Wikipedia entry on him, instead!
As technology advances, robots are leaving the carefully controlled environments we’re used to seeing them in and advancing into hospitals, homes, and farms. These robots must operate in constantly changing conditions and interact with living, growing plants, animals, and people.
In this talk, Dr. Egerstedt will be considering the question of “Robots in the Wild,” teams of robots that are deployed in natural environments for use by researchers. He’ll cover the technological and social forces behind this trend and showcase some of the efforts currently underway, including a discussion on the current state of robotics and AI. A detour into ecology, by way of studying animals with low-energy lifestyles, like the three-toed sloth, will help us understand how persistent environmental monitoring can be achieved.
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A few summers ago, my wife Jan and I were writing one of the books in our Pianoworks series – Pianoworks Popular Styles (Oxford University Press). This is a collection of new pieces composed by us, in a wide range of styles from the past 100 years, both popular and classical: they are designed to complement the other books in the Pianoworks series, at about Grade 2 to Grade 3 level.
We had a lot of fun writing this book and responding to the various styles of the relatively recent past with titles such as ‘Just one Day’, ‘Moonlight through Glass’, ‘Brighton Belle’, ‘Model T’, ‘Night Waves’, ‘Satin’ and many more, including ‘Azalea’, which I’ll come to in a moment.
Before I do that, I’ll just mention that I played a selection of these pieces in a concert the other day, when I had to suddenly deputise for a sick colleague with little time for me to practise: and although we never really thought of them as concert material, they did work in concert, and were appreciated by a large audience for their variety and colour. One of the pieces I played was ‘Azalea’ and although this piece is theoretically about a sort of rhododendron, it was actually written at the time when our granddaughter Azalea was born. (Her fourth birthday is this week, and she loves to hear me play it!)
This year also marks the tenth anniversary of the original Pianoworks Book 1, which has now been supplemented by eight other volumes.
You can see a YouTube recording of ‘Azalea’ here and you can see some sample pages and obtain the complete book here or from your usual music supplier. There are eighteen pieces and moods to explore…. | <urn:uuid:7f7191f7-9bef-4969-a3cc-0072df2efa7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alanbullard.co.uk/piece-week-azalea/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.979419 | 398 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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Discontinuation of antihypertensive drugs among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients in UK general practice
Journal of Hypertension , Volume 24 - Issue 6 p. 1193- 1200
Objectives: To evaluate antihypertensive drug discontinuation among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients. Methods: This was a population-based cohort study using the UK General Practice Research Database (GPRD). Patients newly diagnosed with hypertension between 1991 and 2001 and subsequently treated with antihypertensive drugs were included. Overall antihypertensive drug discontinuation was evaluated from a patient's first-ever antihypertensive prescription. Class-specific discontinuations were evaluated from a patient's first-ever prescriptions of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (ACE-I), alpha antagonists, angiotensin-2 antagonists (AIIA), β blockers, calcium-channel blockers (CCB), miscellaneous, potassium-sparing diuretics, and thiazides. Discontinuation occurred when no antihypertensive prescription was issued within 90 days following the most recent prescription expiration. Results: The study population comprised 109 454 patients, with 223 228 antihypertensive drug-class episodes contributing to the class-specific analysis. Overall antihypertensive drug discontinuation was 20.3% [95% confidence interval (CI): 20.0, 20.5%] at 6 months and 28.5% (95% CI: 28.2, 28.7%) at 1 year, with a median time to discontinuation of 3.07 years. The median time to antihypertensive class discontinuation was longest for AIIAs (2.90 years) followed by ACE-I (2.24), CCB (1.86), β blockers (1.50), thiazides (1.50), alpha antagonists (1.35), potassium-sparing diuretics (0.40), and miscellaneous (0.39). One-year discontinuation ranged from 29.4% (95% CI: 28.0, 30.7) for AIIAs to 64.1% (95% CI: 62.1, 66.3) for potassium-sparing diuretics. Forty-four percent who discontinue their first-ever antihypertensive drug class failed to switch to a different drug class within 90 days of discontinuation. Conclusion: It is important that general practitioners (GPs) monitor patients closely in the first year following antihypertensive drug initiation, due to the high early risk of discontinuation, and the low percentage of patients who switch to a different antihypertensive drug class after a drug-class discontinuation. AIIA, followed by ACE-I and CCB, had the lowest risk of discontinuation among antihypertensive drug classes.
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Burke, T.A, Sturkenboom, M.C.J.M, Lu, S.-E, Wentworth, C.E, Lin, Y, & Rhoads, G.G. (2006). Discontinuation of antihypertensive drugs among newly diagnosed hypertensive patients in UK general practice. Journal of Hypertension, 24(6), 1193–1200. doi:10.1097/01.hjh.0000226211.95936.f5 | <urn:uuid:540c8725-d24e-4e62-87d4-0720cc855e28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://repub.eur.nl/pub/63438 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.851841 | 784 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Is replacing your old boiler with a new condensing boiler worth the upgrade?
If you’re living with an older, non-condensing boiler, you might be wondering whether it’s worth your time and cash investment to upgrade to a new, efficient model.
After all, if your boiler is still working well, why would you want to change?
When you consider that around 55 per cent of what you spend on energy bills is down to your heating, it makes sense to look for ways to reduce this cost.
Things like insulating the house and using heating controls well can help, but if your boiler is failing to produce the heat efficiently you could be spending unnecessarily.
Here’s what you need to know about condensing boilers:
What is a condensing boiler?
Modern boilers are all classed as condensing, marking a step change in technology that had a massive influence on the ways we heat our homes.
Non-condensing boilers which are well maintained may still be working as efficiently as they can, but a certain portion of your heat is inevitably lost via the flue in the hot gasses. A condensing boiler stops this waste.
Using a heat exchanger, a condensing boiler traps these hot gasses and recovers the heat from them, reusing them to heat your home and water.
Sometimes they cool the flue gasses so well that the water vapour contained in the gas condenses out, which is why they are called ‘condensing’.
As a result, they are much more efficient than conventional boilers and can save you a packet on your energy bills.
Just how efficient are they?
Condensing boilers run at around 94 per cent efficiency.
This means that for every pound you spend on fuel, you’re getting out 94 pence worth of heat for your home.
In contrast, a non-condensing boiler runs at between 53 and 79 per cent efficiency, although poorly maintained and older models may be much less.
Pros of condensing boilers
If you do decide to invest in a new condensing boiler, you could unlock a whole raft of advantages, including:
- Increased energy efficiency: Up to 35 per cent increased efficiency means you’ll spend less to heat your home.
- Smaller carbon footprint: A condensing boiler could save up to 1,200kg of CO2 per year, reducing your carbon footprint as a household.
- Safer: In a condensing boiler, combustion happens at a lower temperature; around 55 degrees C compared to 180 degrees C in non-condensing models. They are also perfectly sealed to ensure heat insulation, which means there is no risk of toxic substances entering the home.
- Smaller: Condensing combi boilers are very compact, and can easily be stored in a kitchen cupboard.
It’s important to gain a balanced view on condensing boilers, so as well as all these advantages it is important to be aware of the drawbacks associated with changing over, such as:
- Require an external pipe: The need for an external pipe means these boilers must be fitted to an external wall. This could be a problem if, for instance, your old system is located in your airing cupboard.
As a general rule, changing to a condensing boiler is almost always the best option when thinking about how to heat your home. If your old boiler still works well and you’re happy with it, there’s no harm in using it until it begins to give you problems. However, the sooner you upgrade, the sooner you can enjoy cheaper energy bills.
How much could you save?
Depending on the age and condition of your existing boiler and your current fuel bill, you’ll be able to save of up to £425 per year on your fuel bills.
The smaller your home and the more efficient your old boiler is, the less these savings will be.
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If Hainan were to have a soundtrack it would consist of the contributions of eight different instruments.
As part of the local culture, the Traditional Music of Eight Instruments is ever present, in any major celebration.
Whether it’s a private wedding or a folklore event in Haikou, or in any other part of the island, you will certainly have the chance to enjoy the good vibes coming from the music played by some of the in-house artists.
Alongside the gongs(锣), drums (鼓) and cymbals（钹）, this traditional music includes different instruments that are part of the Hainanese musical landscape such as the Erhu(二胡), the Yehu（椰胡）, Yueqin（月琴）, Yangqin（扬琴）, Sanxian（三弦）, Di（笛）, Suona （唢呐） and Pipes（喉管）, among others. The melodies and the originality of these unique instruments provide plenty of photo opportunities and unforgettable memories for locals and tourists alike.
Due to the fact that it requires specific technical skills, based on family’s passing them down the generations and younger people are migrating from the countryside, the Traditional Music of Eight Instruments is threatened to be lost.
Authorities have increasingly supported this national intangible cultural heritage of Hainan in order to keep it alive. Don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy it whilst celebrating life in Hainan and supporting a beautiful sounding piece of history.
Perfect to be enjoyed in public spaces, the Traditional Music of Eight Instruments is open to different generations, keen to learn about and engage with Hainan’s culture.
If you are in Haikou you can head to the Haikou People's Park or to the Arcade Street, where you'll have the chance to see rehearsals and performances for free.
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Tantrums No More. (Really!)
By: Raun K. Kaufman
Does your child scream, hit, pinch, or throw objects when things don’t go his/her way (or sometimes for no reason you can fathom)?
Here’s what to do:
The First Half: I don’t understand tantrums.
1) ATTITUDE FIRST. It is absolutely crucial that you make your mission in life to remain calm, relaxed, and comfortable. This isn’t about ACTING comfortable. This is about BEING comfortable. If you need help with this, call us (413-229-2100). But here’s a starting hint: Don’t make what your child is doing mean anything about you.
2) DUMB YOURSELF DOWN. Be a confused person trying (but mostly failing) to be helpful. Make a confused face. Say something such as, “I’m not sure what you want when you hit/scream/cry.”
3) BE SLOW, QUIET, & MELLOW. Fumble around trying to figure out what your child wants for a few minutes. (But make sure you are being slow, quiet, and mellow.) Don’t keep doing this forever, though. If the crying or whatever continues, you can wander away (assuming the situation is safe).
4) NO VENGEFULNESS. Remember, attitude first. This is not about sticking it to your child or disciplining them. It’s about the fact that you don’t understand crying, hitting, or screaming.
The Second Half: I DO understand language & gentleness
1) FEED GENTLENESS. Find ANY excuse throughout the day to make a very big deal whenever your child does anything that can be construed as gentle – to you, to his/her sibling, or to anyone else. Cheer it. Jump up and down. Celebrate. Freak out a little.
2) TURBO BOOST YOUR RESPONSE TO LANGUAGE. Whenever your child uses language (in a non-crying, non-whiny way) – even if it is only an attempt at part of a word – SPRINT to go get it (and, yes, also cheer, jump up and down, celebrate, and freak out). Show your child how effective even trying to use language is! (If your child wants something you can’t get, hugely celebrate and offer an alternative.)
3) STAY CONSISTENT. Remember: You only understand language and gentleness. You do not understand (and are not agitated by) screaming, yelling, biting, hitting, etc. (And also remember that not understanding hitting does not mean that you have to stand there and let yourself get hit. But when you move away, stay calm and relaxed about it.) | <urn:uuid:ff33816f-9a3d-4468-8365-92ab94a06980> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.autismtreatmentcenter.org/2017/07/tantrums-no-more-really.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.905675 | 607 | 2.453125 | 2 |
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Johnstone, Collins Establish Overhanging Route on Middle Teton
Posted on: September 1, 2008
After a free ascent (nearly onsight) of Royal Robbins's Middle Teton aid route, Taylor, a year earlier, Hans Johnstone wanted to open another line on this steep north face. Lying between the North Ridge and the Middle Teton Glacier, this compact, overhanging wall provides a technically challenging climb without tremendous length but with all of the spice.
On August 18, after a false start to the right, Hans and I gained a slanting ramp by the first of eight very steep pitches, watching the Stetner Couloir crumble across the canyon (the giant chockstone created by the September, 2007 rockfall—documented here—roared, rattled and smashed to dust). At 6 p.m. we arrived at Pitch 4, the crux overhang. Here we rappelled down and camped the night.
The next morning we warmed up by making the first ascent of Red Alert (5.11c, 70m), a crimpy, soon-to-be classic route on the south face of the Red Sentinel. After making a quick ascent, we ran off to our main project on the Middle.
Unlike the previous day, the north fork of Garnet Canyon was relatively empty, though the Grand's south face continuously roared as the Stetner Coulior and the Underhill Ridge continued to separate from the Grand Teton.
After quickly free climbing to the previous day's high point, Hans stomped up an overhanging corner above the belay and hammered his way out a roofy corner with a blade, a beak and a smashed stopper in a rough, upside-down flake. From there we swapped leads, hammering and free climbing up steep corners and ramps to the top of the wall. We rappelled to descend. Though the North Wall (5.11 A2, 8 pitches) isn't as nice as the Taylor route, it's certainly a worthy addition to the face.
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So you are a first-time mom (or second-time mom, it doesn’t matter really, for mothers always get anxious when it is about their babies), looking online to find out if your little darling baby is doing all right, even though he/she does seem to be doing all right! And you are setting off a wide range of Google searches, but all you get in return is vague statements on every self-proclaimed, baby-care expert website.
How do you find out then, that your baby is actually registering a normal, healthy growth and is happy for real? We are here to help you figure out this dilemma. In this article, you are going to find a list of 10 signs that are sure-shot indicators of a healthy baby and that he/she is doing just fine. Do read on…
Table of Contents
- 1 1) Your baby is calmed by your presence
- 2 2) Your baby requires frequent breast-feeding
- 3 3) You change 4-6 wet diaper a day
- 4 4) Your baby seems to have become quiet and attentive
- 5 5) Your baby reaches appropriate height (and weight) level
- 6 6) Your baby responds to new sounds
- 7 7) Your baby recognizes patterns, colors and tracks movement
- 8 8) Your baby makes eye contact and smiles(!)
- 9 9) Your baby cries little and sleeps regularly now
- 10 10) Your baby can support her own weight
1) Your baby is calmed by your presence
You must realize that before he/she started breathing in this world, your baby spent 9 months in closed quarters and your voice was a big part of her existence back then. So if you find that your newborn pays attention to every time you talk to him/her, it means that he/she recognizes your voice and is a clear indication that your baby’s emotional growth is on track. This calming effect can also be observed when you try to calm your newborn with your voice, while he/she is crying. At that moment, you are simply mimicking the surroundings that your baby used to enjoy when he/she was in your womb, and that soothes him/her.
2) Your baby requires frequent breast-feeding
Babies are born with a built-in sucking reflex, which is triggered as soon as something is placed in their mouth. If your newborn sucks strongly and feeds frequently, it is a sign of a healthy appetite and normal digestive system development. If your baby makes a swallowing sound or action while feeding, it means that he/she is getting enough milk and is feeding normally. A healthy baby also appears quite content during and post-feeding and usually, falls asleep while feeding. This habit of falling asleep should happen less often though, as the baby grows.
3) You change 4-6 wet diaper a day
All healthy newborns, whether being breast fed or formula fed, should be wetting four to six diapers in a day. It is a sign that he/she is getting enough milk and is properly hydrated. Also, he/she must register continuous and visible weight gain during the first few weeks. A young baby who wets fewer diapers or does not show significant gains in his/her weight over time, might not be getting enough milk in her diet. A dark urine is also a sign of your baby being dehydrated (or underfed) and that his/her bowels are not moving well enough.
4) Your baby seems to have become quiet and attentive
Once your baby approaches the 1-month mark, he/she will appear to be more quiet and attentive to her surroundings (especially you). Contrary to the first few weeks where all he/she did was cry, feed and sleep, your baby slowly begins to quiet down and appear more alert when awake. This is the time when your baby has begun to gain control of her eye muscles and is learning to focus on a particular object (you mostly!).
5) Your baby reaches appropriate height (and weight) level
According to mayoclinic.org, babies grow 1/2 to 1 inch and gain 5 to 7 oz per week during the first 6 months of their life. In fact, a healthy baby should be almost doubling his/her weight every 5 months and by the time he/she reaches the 1-year mark, the weight should have tripled! Registering the suggested growth rate is a confident sign that your baby is getting good nutrition and is in good health.
6) Your baby responds to new sounds
Despite being able to hear right from the beginning, babies are only able to distinguish the meaningful sound from white noise much later during their growth period. At first, they will begin to find certain sounds to be more interesting (such as a hysterical laughter or a loud burp) than others (such as the dull noise of water flowing from a tap). Eventually, they will learn to appreciate the sound of music, whether it comes from a toy or a TV. When you can see your baby reacting to a sound and turning in its direction, you can be assured that his/her hearing system is developing fine and he/she is growing curious about what is happening around him/her!
7) Your baby recognizes patterns, colors and tracks movement
Believe or not, your baby lying still in your lap looking blankly at the rotating ceiling fan is also a sign of his/her progress! When born, they have a poor eyesight of about 20/100, which improves with growth. By the time they are two months old, babies can track movement in front of them and recognize various colours and patterns lying around. However, they do not possess depth perception or a perfect colour vision, which is why they tend to get more attracted to highly contrasting colours.
8) Your baby makes eye contact and smiles(!)
Usually, babies learn to maintain eye contact by the end of 1 month, they are able to smile by the second and by the time they are 4 months old, they can laugh out loud (lol!). All these interactions are mini milestones, that show that your baby is connecting with you and is becoming aware of his surroundings. Interestingly enough, by the time he/she reached 5 months of age, a baby will almost always smile back (whether or not he/she wants to) when someone smiles at him/her. And when you find that your baby has begun to make cooing sounds and babbles, it is him/her preparing to speak her first words!
9) Your baby cries little and sleeps regularly now
The first glimpses of a routine being developed in your baby’s life are actually the result of his/her nervous system maturing. Look out for the emergence of multiple naps during the day and stretches of four or more hours between feeding at night. Four months is the usual time babies take to reach this stage, but if your baby is older than that and is still showing no signs of settling into a habit, try making his day a bit more strictly scheduled.
10) Your baby can support her own weight
When they are a month old, a lot of babies (not all) are capable of lifting their heads up ever so briefly! By the 3-month stage, they are capable of doing it more often and easily and are also able to lie down on their tummy and push on their legs when placed on a flat surface. These are the signs of him/her learning to flex the growing muscles responsible for making movements. Six months old babies are known to be able to roll over both ways and sit up at times and by the end of the first year, expect them to crawl, pull him/herself to a stand and walk with support! However, some babies are known to show an ability to walk quite late (up to 2 years), even though they are perfectly fine health wise. A good, long duration of tummy time during the early months is key to preventing this delay. | <urn:uuid:71b4b903-b06c-44fa-8622-6bbe12d434d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smartbabyhq.com/advice/10-signs-of-a-healthy-baby/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.969162 | 1,637 | 1.9375 | 2 |
A new law allows Ohioans to legally discharge fireworks on certain holidays. Ohioans can legally discharge 1.4G consumer fireworks in Ohio on certain days unless the relevant political subdivision has chosen to ban their use. Under previous law, individuals could purchase consumer-grade fireworks in Ohio but had to transport them out of state within 48 hours. Here's a breakdown of what you can and can't do under the new law.
When can Ohioans discharge fireworks?
Beginning July 2022, unless limited by local laws, Ohioans can discharge consumer fireworks on the following dates and times:
July 3, 4, and 5, and the weekends immediately before and after (4 p.m.-11 p.m.)
Labor Day weekend (4 p.m.-11 p.m.)
Diwali (4 p.m.-11 p.m.)
New Year’s Eve (4 p.m.-11:59 p.m.)
New Year’s Day (12 a.m.-1 a.m.; 4 p.m.-11 p.m.)
Chinese New Year (4 p.m.-11 p.m.)
Cinco de Mayo (4 p.m.-11 p.m.)
Memorial Day weekend (4 p.m.-11 p.m.)
Juneteenth (4 p.m.-11 p.m.)
Where can fireworks be discharged?
Consumers can discharge fireworks on their own property or on another person’s property if the owner of that property has given express permission for fireworks to be discharged. Discharging fireworks in Springfield Township parks is strictly prohibited and can result in a citation.
Ohioans must discharge fireworks properly
Ohio Revised Code (R.C.) § 3743.45 (as effective July 1, 2022) and Ohio Fire Code (OFC) § 5626 (effective July 3, 2022) apply and can be read HERE. Relevant OFC provisions outline how 1.4G consumer fireworks must be used and stored by consumers. Some provisions in the rules include:
- No person under the age of 18 is permitted to handle or discharge fireworks.
- Persons under the age of 18 cannot be within 150 feet of the discharge point of aerial fireworks.
- No person can use fireworks while in possession or control of, or under the influence of, any intoxicating liquor, beer, or controlled substance. A person who violates this is guilty of a first-degree misdemeanor.
- Aerial devices cannot be discharged within 150 feet of spectators (this includes aerial shells, roman candles, cakes, and bottle rockets).
- Non-aerial devices cannot be discharged within 50 feet of spectators (this includes fountains, firecrackers, and ground effect devices).
Note: These separation distances – for both aerial and non-aerial devices – are increased for certain types of locations such as hospitals, schools, healthcare and residential facilities, apartment and multi-tenant buildings, military installations and railroads.
- No person can store in excess of 125 pounds (net weight of pyrotechnic composition) of fireworks unless they have additional safety measures and safeguards in place for such storage.
- Fireworks cannot be discharged indoors.
- Fireworks cannot be aimed at or discharged toward any person or object (such as buildings).
- Fireworks cannot be discharged on public property or private school property.
- Fireworks cannot be discharged if drought conditions exist or in an area where a red flag warning is in place or other weather hazard exists.
Where can Ohioans buy fireworks?
Only fireworks purchased in Ohio may be discharged in Ohio. Consumers may purchase fireworks from any of the licensed sales locations throughout the state.
When purchasing fireworks, the retailer must provide consumers with safety glasses (for free or at a nominal charge) and with a safety pamphlet.
Can local officials stop Ohioans from discharging fireworks?
As part of the new law, any political subdivision may opt-out of allowing the ability to discharge within their limits so discuss with your local officials the best course of action for your jurisdiction.
The State Fire Marshal provides rules to the public related to the new fireworks law. For a complete look at the new fireworks rules, visit the Division website.
The State Fire Marshal is part of the Ohio Department of Commerce, Ohio’s chief regulatory agency. The Department is focused on promoting prosperity and protecting what matters most to Ohioans.
How to Report Firework Complaints in Springfield Township
The Springfield Township Police Department is asking the entire community for their cooperation, courtesy and patience regarding fireworks, especially during the holidays. The laws are in place to protect safety. Complaints can be reported by calling the police department at (513) 729-1300. The call volume is expected to be heavy during the holiday and true emergencies will be the priority.
As a reminder, all Springfield Township parks close at dark. There should be no activity in the parks after dark. Fireworks are strictly prohibited in the parks. | <urn:uuid:6206668c-6f53-4771-99b2-1d2dc10683f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.springfieldtwp.org/460/Fireworks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.900708 | 1,029 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Any Car Rental community may be a multi-billion dollars marketplace within the INDIVIDUALS market. The american part within the community averages related to $18. 5 thousand during sales revenue each year. At this time, one can find اجاره خودرو something like 1. 9 thousand thousand accommodation cars and trucks the fact that provider the american part within the promote. What’s more, there’s lots of accommodation services apart from the community frontrunners the fact that subdivide the entire sales revenue, such as Dollars Thrifty, Resources together with Vanguard. Distinct from many other experienced provider business, any accommodation automotive community is certainly tremendously consolidated which unfortunately the natural way invests opportunity new comers on a cost-disadvantage simply skin huge advice rates utilizing minimized probability of financial systems for weighing machine. What is more, almost all return is certainly gained by just a couple providers together with Undertaking, Hertz together with Avis. To your economical year or so for 2004, Undertaking gained $7. 3 thousand as a whole sales revenue. Hertz originated during following job utilizing related to $5. a pair of thousand together with Avis utilizing $2. ninety-seven during sales revenue.
Volume of Integration
Any accommodation automotive community fronts a fully numerous conditions compared with it all managed your five a long time ago. As per Online business Holiday Current information, cars and trucks are usually now being hired before they need gained 20, 000 that will 33, 000 stretches before they’re just relegated into the car community unlike any turn-around gas mileage was initially 12, 000 that will 15, 000 stretches your five a long time ago. By reason of impede community growing together with slender return border, there isn’t forthcoming chance that will backward integration while in the community. In actual fact, among the many community competitors mainly Hertz is certainly vertically built in thru Honda.
Chance for Contest
There’s lots of things the fact that pattern any economical gardening within the Car Rental community. Contest is produced by several important suppliers all over the cycle. Over the holiday vacation consumer’s last part within the selection range, contest is certainly competitive don’t just because of the promote is certainly soaked together with good secured by just community standard Undertaking, however , competing firms use on a value pitfall alongside little promote conveys seeing that Undertaking has built a good networking for agents about 75 p . c any vacation part. Over the commercial part, then again, contest may be very good within the large airports seeing that the fact that part is certainly in firm administration by just Hertz. Because of the community experienced a large market slide these days, there is upgraded any weighing machine for contest throughout almost all agencies the fact that live through. Competitively discussing, any accommodation automotive community may be a war-zone as many accommodation services together with Undertaking, Hertz together with Avis among the many serious competitors stick to a good conflict within the fittest.
In the last your five yrs, the majority providers have already been being employed when it comes to improving upon your navy types together with rising the quality of earning. Undertaking currently the provider when using the most well known navy in the us alone has got put in seventy five, 000 cars and trucks that will a navy seeing that 2002 that assist expand a availablility of companies that will 170 within the large airports. Hertz, then again, has got put in 24, 000 cars and trucks together with widened a world appeal during a hundred and fifty counties compared with one hundred and forty during 2002. What’s more, Avis has got amplified a navy with 210, 000 during 2002 that will two hundred and twenty, 000 notwithstanding newly released market adversities. Gradually after the economic depression, whilst the majority agencies all over the community were definitely troubled, Undertaking among the many community frontrunners were raising slowly but surely. Including, gross annual sales and profits got to $6. 3 during 2001, $6. 5 during 2002, $6. 9 during 2003 together with $7. 3 thousand during 2004 which unfortunately translated suitable growing level for 7. a pair of p . c each year to your former five yrs. Seeing that 2002, the has got begun to get back to a ground during the marketplace mainly because complete sales and profits planted with $17. 9 thousand that will $18. a pair of thousand during 2003. As per community analysts, the more effective days or weeks within the accommodation automotive community own yet still to come back. During the period of the other a number of years, the is certainly likely to working experience fast growing evaluated for $20. fifth 89 thousand yearly adhering to 08 “which means a good CAGR for a pair of. 7 % [increase] during the 2003-2008 span. ”
In the last decade any accommodation automotive community has got constructed much success that will ease it all submitter systems. At this time, one can find something like nineteen, 000 accommodation sites containing related to 1. 9 thousand thousand accommodation passenger cars in the us alone. A result of extremely rich availablility of Car Rental sites in the us alone, tactical together with tactical ways happen to be taken into consideration in an effort to confirm adequate submitter all over the community. Submitter comes together throughout several interrelated pieces. Over the commercial promote, any passenger cars happen to be given away that will large airports together with accommodation surrounds. Over the vacation part, then again, passenger cars happen to be given away that will agent run companies that will be easily to be found throughout the majority serious driveways together with places.
In earlier times, leaders for accommodation automotive agencies useful to use gut-feelings or simply user-friendly guesses to build actions precisely how countless passenger cars of having from a selected navy or simply the employment point together with results principles for holding sure passenger cars of hospitality attire navy. The real key methods, it had become extremely hard not to lose a straight for stabilize which would suit end user request and also needed volume of earning. Any submitter progression is kind of effortless all over the community. At the start, leaders will need to find out numerous passenger cars that must definitely be regarding listing every single day. Web-site needs to be rather notable predicament originates anytime many or simply too little passenger cars can be bought, the majority Car Rental agencies together with Hertz, Undertaking together with Avis, try a “pool” the industry pair of 3rd party accommodation companies the fact that publish a good navy for cars and trucks. Quite simply, when using the costly ready, accommodation sites use more proficiently simply reduce the associated risk for decreased listing if you’re not reduce accommodation automotive shortages.
The majority agencies all over the cycle gain profits established for whatever passenger cars that will be hired. Any accommodation passenger cars happen to be defined towards market, streamlined, advanced, superior together with comfort. Among the many your five lists, any market marketplace assure just about the most return. Such as, any market part themselves accounts for 37. 7 p . c within the comprehensive promote sales revenue during 2004. What’s more, any streamlined part accounted meant for thirty-two. 3 p . c for complete sales revenue. All of those other many other lists contains the 30 percent to your INDIVIDUALS part.
Past Numbers of Earning
Complete earning within the Car Rental community has long been diminishing these days. In the last your five yrs, the has long been troubled like all of those other holiday community. In actual fact, amongst the yrs 2001 together with 2003 the american promote has got suffered a good slight lowering the quality of earning. Precisely, sales revenue was thrown off with $19. 3 thousand during 2000 that will $18. a pair of thousand during 2001. Then, complete community sales revenue eroded deeper that will $17. 9 thousand during 2002; a quantity that could be minimally on top of $17. 7 thousand which happens to be complete sales revenue to your year or so 1999. During 2003, the suffered a good less than notable expand which unfortunately helped bring return that will $18. a pair of thousand. From any economic depression these days, most of the little competitors this were tremendously impacted by any commercial airline community have inked much program realignments as a technique for making your agencies to face ultimate market adversities that can besieg the. To your year or so 2004, then again, any economy on most providers own bit by bit better all over the community seeing that the majority accommodation services own come back much better proceeds relative to any anterior yrs. Such as, Undertaking concluded earning potential for $7. 3 thousand; Hertz come back earning potential for $5. a pair of thousand together with Avis utilizing $2. 9 thousand during sales revenue to your economical year or so for 2004. As per community analysts, any accommodation automotive community is certainly likely to working experience dependable growing for a pair of. 6 p . c during sales revenue across the after that a number of years which unfortunately means a slight increase during return. | <urn:uuid:dd01f9f1-6a4a-425a-868a-7ba007ef936d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ahshousecall.com/2022/03/20/any-car-rental-community/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953808 | 1,889 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Today, there are 180 currencies globally recognized by the United Nations, from the US dollar to the European pound to the Japanese yen, and more.
We all know the thrill of collecting different cryptocurrencies but have you heard about the Stablecoins.
They are digital currencies that are used to transact on distributed ledgers called blockchains.
Stablecoin in cryptocurrency is a token whose value is related to the price of the national currency in order to counteract its instability.
There are several types of stablecoins and various alternatives and specific ventures that give the same basic idea of a cryptocurrency coin that has more stability than Bitcoin or altcoins.
Unlike other cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, which are highly volatile, stablecoins provide users with realistic, beneficial advantages of cryptocurrency without bothering about distressing price changes as they are rooted in the real world.
What are the basic principles of a cryptocurrency?
- Decentralized: With a Decentralised blockchain platform no single person or entity controls a cryptocurrency.
- Consensus-controlled supply: Decentralized implies that the supply of cryptocurrency is either decided by an agreement between users of cryptocurrency or by a predetermined set of rules on how new coins are promoted, such as mining.
- Price stability: Have a stable price to make them affordable to use in their daily lives and to reduce the risk associated with them. Scalability should help to reduce price volatility.
- Fast, limitless transactions: Cryptocurrency can be sent to anybody, anywhere and at any time, without using a third party such as a bank. It uses a decentralized Internet-based network at a minimum or zero cost.
- Transparency: The architecture and technical aspects of the cryptocurrency and blockchain that it runs are open to all, and all transactions are documented in the public account that all other users can access and check.
- Privacy & Scalability: While all transactions are registered, the identities of all users remain anonymous. Public keys are used by all parties involved in the transaction, with the sender and receiver known by the unique number of each and every public key.
What are the different types of stablecoins in the cryptocurrency market?
Cryptocurrencies are lauded for paving the way for decentralized, peer-to-peer tendering methods and blockchain-based currencies that promise to take electronic money to the next level.
Fiat-backed stablecoin coins are fully backed by fiat money. Fiat-backed stablecoins are backed by 1:1, meaning $1 of stablecoins is equal to $1 of fiat money.
The premise is that their stablecoin is’ backed’ by real fiat in real bank accounts, and this type of stablecoins is the simplest, but also the most centralized.
Fiat-collateralized stablecoins are the simplest structure that the stablecoin can have, and simplicity has great advantages. It’s easy for anyone new to cryptocurrencies to understand, which can make it easier for them to follow it more broadly.
Simple: The fiat-backed structure is easy to understand and transparent.
Stability: Fiat currencies are a reliable commodity because they are (legally) backed by the government and the economy of the country. It means that the underlying values do not fluctuate much.
Just as a fiat-collateralized stablecoin has a fiat tender as collateral, a crypto-collateralized stablecoin has cryptocurrencies locked up as collateral, such as Ethereum.
In order to compensate for the instability of the protected cryptocurrency, the stablecoin is required to make a protection commitment.
This means that the coin will not have a ratio of 1:1 to the collateral crypt; it will look more like a promise of $2 USD for every $1 USD of stablecoin released.
The cryptocurrency or digital currency basket is used to hold this sort of Stablecoins. The use of central depositories, such as banks, is excluded in this situation. This method also aims to maintain price stability for decentralized tokens.
And in this system, the stablecoin is overly secured by a pledge to absorb any price fluctuations of the cryptocurrency.
- There is no need to rely on a third party that provides collateral storage.
- A higher degree of decentralization
- Blockchain transactions make it possible to manage the supply of Stablecoins faster
- The higher level of liquidity than fiat stablecoins
Seigniorage Shares is a cryptocurrency concept that corresponds to a fiat that does not require collateral in other assets.
Non-collateralized stablecoins use the Seigniorage Shares scheme. Essentially, tokens depend on a mechanically-generated algorithm that is able to change the amount of supply if necessary in order to maintain the price of the token attached to the asset.
Non-collateralized stablecoins rely on smart contracts to sell tokens if the price falls below the peg or to exchange tokens if the value increases. In this way, the token will remain stable and keep its marker.
The commodity to which the stablecoin is attached could be fiat currency, such as the US dollar, or a real asset like gold.
- No need for collateral
- A higher degree of decentralization and freedom, since no fiat currency or crypto active assets, are binding.
What are the top stablecoins are present in the cryptocurrency market?
Here are some of the top StableCoin that have brought transformation to the world of cryptocurrency:-
Tether is a cryptocurrency with a value that represents the value of the US dollar. The idea was to create a secure cryptocurrency that could be used as digital dollars.
Coins that fulfill this function of being a stable dollar substitute are called “stable coins.” Tether is the most common stable coin and even serves as a dollar replacement for many major exchanges.
Tether is supposed to be backed by dollars which are kept in reserve at 1:1 ratio, ideally, this means that Tether trades at $1 on all exchanges and can be used instead of a dollar. In fact, however, costs tend to fluctuate somewhat.
The primary use of Tether is that it offers some stability to the otherwise volatile crypto area and provides liquidity to exchanges that can not deal in dollars and with banks
Dai is a decentralized cryptocurrency that is designed around Ethereum, a much larger cryptocurrency that focuses on smart contracts to make it stand out from other top cryptos including bitcoin.
Ethereum is used as leverage to support Dai’s interest. The Ethereum is a smart contract, which ensures that there is no need for a central authority to keep it on behalf of users.
However, Dai is not free from any problems. It may be decentralized, but the underlying asset that gives Dai its value is nowhere near as robust as the dollar’s fiat currencies.
Dai wins points for being decentralized, but the base on which it is founded – the thing that brings stability to this stablecoin – is not itself free from volatility.
His destiny is in the hands of Ethereum. The maker of Dai, MakerDAO, is also responsible for the cryptocurrency of Maker.
BaseCoin is a cryptocurrency whose tokens can be linked to specific assets of products while remaining absolutely decentralized. In response to changes in the exchange rate, their protocol algorithmically updates the supply of BaseCoin tokens.
The application of monetary policy is like the central banks around the world that have limited the supply of money by expansion.
BaseCoin is designed to create a scalable cryptocurrency that is decentralized and price-stable based on an algorithmic blockchain protocol.
It aims to implement an algorithmic central bank that ensures stable prices and supplies of BaseCoin tokens through its decentralized, protocol-enforced algorithm.
As we discussed, stablecoins provides an entrance toward a new financial system through this stable on-ramp into blockchain systems.
Decentralized stablecoin can maintain a fast and accurate exchange rate with its underlying asset without a third-party exchange of any kind, and although they are built to be stable, there are still some sectors that need to be improved through which they can manage heavy price fluctuations. | <urn:uuid:efaf2518-5f38-41da-9e45-07b5b5c2acb9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mobiloitte.com/blog/what-is-a-stablecoin-and-how-will-it-affect-the-cryptocurrency-world/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.937537 | 1,705 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Kazunari Hattori is an art director well known for advertisements for “Kewpie Half”. His favorite “analog cameras” are said to play a major role in his design works. Why did he get analog cameras? Hattori speaks about his favorites from instant to film cameras and the charm of analog cameras.
The world of photography leading up to design work
Introduction to analog cameras by senior workers from the photography department
–Please introduce your favorite items.
Kazunari Hattori (Hattori): These are analog cameras. They are not a specific model, but like “many different kinds of analog cameras”, ranging from instant cameras to film cameras.
–Do you like photography originally?
Hattori: I like taking pictures because photography is an act close to designing. When I was in college, I belonged to the photography club. It wasn’t that serious, though.
After graduating, I joined an advertising agency called Light Publicity, whose in-house photography department was well-known. In this company, designers and cameramen worked closely with each other. So while I was working, I became friends with the cameramans and had them take me to a used camera shops. At that time, there were many camera shops in Ginza. I went to the camera fair in Matsuya Ginza too. We went around the fair together and learned about this and that from them.
I bought “POLAROID LAND CAMERA MODEL 180” around that time.
–It’s an instant camera, right?
Hattori: That’s right. It’s an old camera that was already quite aged at the time I bought it, but you can adjust the exposure by turning the Dial and adjust the depth of focus too. You pull out the film after shooting to peel off the paper on the surface and wait for development.
In relation to film cameras, I obtained this “Canon A-1” immediately after joining the company. I got it from a person in the photography department. Or rather, he said, “I’ll lend you one. You don’t have to return it” (laugh). Attached is a 50mm macro lens. You can take pictures of flowers at a very close range.
The advertisement of “Kewpie Half” created with photos taken by Hattori himself
–Are these cameras used at work?
Hattori: When I was thinking about design, I used to take pictures like a trial shot, but of course I asked professional cameramen to do the actual shooting. However, advertising work for “Kewpie Half” created in 1998, I Copied instant films and tried using the photographic images I took as they were for the first time.
There are many staff involved in one project in advertising work, and the budget is plentiful. Of course, there are advantages in making works on such a large scale, but I rather felt like doing a kind of work with a sense of “I’ve done it just by myself” (laughs). At that time, I used “FUJIFILM INSTANT CAMERA FOTORAMA MX900 ACE”.
–Did you use images of an instant photo taken by yourself as an advertisement?
Hattori: That’s right. The image quality was not good, but it rather seemed interesting. Generally speaking, the viewfinder and actual frame of instant camera is out of alignment, but this Fuji Photorama is a single-lens reflex camera. It looks a little ugly (laughs), but I heard it is an excellent model that was used in medical settings at that time.
In this “Kewpie Half” advertisement, the photo had initially been featured in a small size, but in the following year, we used the enlarged photo of the cake floating in the blue sky. The image quality was poor, but it rather looked nice. The object depicted in the image was like a flying saucer, and that poor quality created the realistic atmosphere of it.
After that, I went to an overseas for shooting for the same advertising series, and what I bought for that was “PLAUBEL MAKINA 670”. I brought it to Iceland.
–This is also a film camera, right?
Hattori: Yes. It is a medium format film camera called Rokunana（6×7）.
Until then, I used to use instant photos, but this time I wanted to collage landscape photos. Collaging rough images would make the overall impression too rough, so I wanted something with a slightly better image quality. That’s why I bought it.
I went to a zoo in Iceland, but there was no giraffe because it’s too cold. I took a picture of this pig there. The shooting team consisted only of three people, me and an assistant and a local coordinator. If there were a lot of people involved, it might have been difficult for me to say, “I’ll take a picture of a pig” (laugh).
Inspiration from chance
The camera is one of the design tools
–What is the advantage of taking pictures with an analog camera?
Hattori: Unlike digital, analog doesn’t go as expected and can’t check it soon. Rather, sometimes things that I did not intend may be incorporated well. I do the design work by feeling something from such a coincidence. Since the image from analog camera is a little out of the range you can imagine, so I think it’s interesting to work on it while controlling it.
In 2004, there was an event called “Kitty Ex.”, an exhibition commemorating the 30th anniversary of Hello Kitty’s birth. For that event, I also used scanned photo taken with instant camera to create my own work.
— As with the case of “Kewpie Half”, and was around 2000 the time when you used analog cameras the most frequently?
Hattori: That’s right. At that time, the world of design was more and more digitalized. I think I had a strong desire to incorporate such things as analog photographs, which are not straightforward, and lines drawn by hand.
I’ve been a little far away from analog cameras these days, but I’m reminded that analog is interesting. Also, in terms of digital, I would like to try if there is a camera that can capture images with the texture I want. Besides, I want an instant camera, but with “Cheki”, the finished size is a little too small.
Each person has his/her own way of working on design. In my case, I seldom have a concrete idea of final form toward which I go ahead beforehand. Rather, I somehow start to move my hand based on some vague idea and repeat trial and error from that point. I think again that analog cameras are very effective tools in such a trial-and-error method. | <urn:uuid:bcfc4ff8-07eb-4caa-9d78-4945fa5f7b8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tokion.jp/en/2021/07/14/creators-masterpiece-vol1-kazunari-hattori/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977231 | 1,489 | 1.507813 | 2 |
“Whatever I know, I owe solely to my assiduous reading of the books of the ancients, to my desire to understand them and to appropriate this science; then I have added the observation and experience of my whole life.”
(Abul-Qasim Khalaf Ibn Abbas al Zahrawi)
(Abul-Qasim Khalaf Ibn Abbas al Zahrawi)
Qurtuba, Andalusia (Cordoba, Spain) 980CE
Rays of morning sunlight streamed over the rooftop canopy and struck an arched brown door embedded within a khaki stone wall. Standing in front, the master surgeon peeled an orange. He wore an ivory white thobe and matching turban and sported a neatly cropped black beard. Doctor Zahrawi grimaced as he swallowed the last sour orange segment.
Satisfied by the invisible benefits of the sun, he turned and faced the arched door to his medical clinic; the door creaked as he entered to start a new day.
“As Salamu ‘Alaykum Doctor.” Asad briefly stopped folding the white bed sheets to greet his teacher.
“Walaykum as Salaam,” he responded with a kind smile and walked to his desk and sat down.
Zahrawi treasured his free time like a coin collector who cherishes a rare coin; if he wasn’t visiting patients, they were visiting him. But on this day he took advantage of this rare gift and buried himself in Razi’s The Comprehensive; a rash of patients with bone fractures peaked his interest in Razi’s views.
The Patient Enters
Loud shouts and a commotion outside pulled the doctor out of his trance. He glanced outside his window; the orange tree shadow had shrunk to half its size since morning. “Where did the time go?” he thought to himself.
The door burst open. Two men entered carrying a third man between them. His thick arms hung limply over their shoulders.
Dropping the white bed sheets Asad grabbed the patient’s ankles and guided them to a bed in the center of the room. The man flopped onto the bed. Holding his gut he curled up into the fetal position and moaned.
Zahrawi watched the drama unfold without flinching. He thanked Allah for the few hours he had to himself, exhaled and casually rose to perform his duty.
As he approached the bed, Zahrawi recognized the man and smiled while crossing his arms. In a deep voice he said, “Salman, you honor me with your presence again. What can I do for you today?”
Salman was a short stocky man and his gut typically hung over his belt. His grizzly beard and balding head suggested a man older than his forty years. His ears were slightly misaligned; one was higher than the other. Salman was a bachelor, an unassuming man and simple in his way. Zahrawi pitied him and treated him free of charge. He had many problems related to his weight and Zahrawi assumed today would be no different.
Salman grabbed Zahrawi’s sleeve and pulled him closer. Whimpering he pleaded,
“I did everything you told me… I promise ….”
“Relax, Salman.” Zahrawi reassured him and patted his shoulder. “Just tell me what’s wrong.”
Grimacing in pain and turning red with embarrassment he whispered,
“I can’t pee… it won’t come out!”
To Cut, or Not to Cut, that is the Question
Salman lay on his back stripped from the waist down and his wrists strapped to the bed. Using his hands, Zahrawi pressed his patient’s abdomen probing the bladder for any abnormalities using his fingers as eyes. He turned to Salman and said “I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is you don’t have any stones in your bladder. The bad news is you have a stone stuck in your urethra.”
“Urethra… what’s a urethra?” Salman asked.
Zahrawi ignored the question but Salman’s companion whispered in his ear. His face lit up with a goofy smile and his eyes gleamed like a child watching a clown. “Why would he use that word to describe my private parts?” he said to his companion. His clogged drainage system put pressure on his bladder preventing him from roaring out in laughter; instead he let out a weak cough: “cough… cough.”
Asad placed a tray of surgical instruments beside Zahrawi’s chair and the doctor selected his instrument of choice; a nasty looking steel drill that can pierce a man’s chest if placed in the wrong hands. He called it al - Mishaab and had designed it specifically for the type of condition Salman suffered from.
|Illustration from al - Tasrif of a Steel drill (Mishaab) designed by al-Zahrawi to pierce urethral stones.|
Zahrawi placed the Mishaab back in the tray as Salman watched in silent horror; however, he trusted Zahrawi because he had performed medical miracles on him in the past.
Zahrawi said nonchalantly, “I have invented a new procedure. If it works, you won’t feel a thing. If it doesn’t work, I will have to cut.”
Alarmed, Salman struggled against his restraints. “Noooo! Unstrap my hands, get me out of here!”
Confused for a moment, Zahrawi realized Salman misunderstood “cut” to mean “amputate;” he meant incision.
“Simpleton!” he mumbled under his breath.
“Relax Salman, everything will be fine.”
“But you said….” Salman began in a shrill voice then trailed into silence; a steely eyed Zahrawi placed his index finger over his lips.
Salman lay on the bed shivering with fear and unsure of what to do. His companions stood frozen like rabbits ready to bolt. Asad held a candle behind his teacher’s shoulder, focusing on the Master’s hands.
Zahrawi picked up the Mishaab from the tray and examined it under the candle light; a sharp triangular tip, like an arrow head, attached to a stainless steel wire whose thickness was no bigger than a metal coat hanger. He blew at the fine tip and with the precision of a seamstress threading a needle he slowly slipped the Mishaab into Salman’s urethra.
Wide eyed, Salman gulped in a quick breath and held it. His muscles tensed and he dug his fingers deep into the mattress but no sound came out of his mouth.
Searching for the stone in his mind’s eye Zahrawi gently pushed the Mishaab further while staring at the back wall past Salman; he could not see but he knew what he was looking for. He kept pushing the Mishaab until he hit a wall.
He repositioned the Mishaab and poked. Satisfied, he started turning the Mishaab clockwise, effectively drilling a hole through the middle of the stone.
Hot wax dripped off the candle in Asad’s hand and hardened as it dribbled down the side. Tense minutes passed as Zahrawi kept turning the Mishaab while staring at the back wall. Finally he stopped and looked down. He felt no resistance when he pushed the Mishaab forward; the Mishaab had successfully drilled through the stone.
He pulled the Mishaab back from the perforated stone then, using his fingers, pinched the man’s penis where the stone was lodged. Its remnants crumpled easily. He slowly pulled the Mishaab out then released his fingers. A dam burst open and urine gushed out as Salman’s bladder deflated like a balloon passing the crushed stone pieces along with it.
A geyser shot up from the bed just as Zahrawi moved off to the side. Nodding proudly at his handy work a smug smile of satisfaction spread across his face.
Hunched over and dejected, Asad stared at the mess forming on his white bed sheet.
Staring at the ceiling, Salman exhaled in relief and savored the moment.
1000 years later, with some modifications, modern medicine will call this procedure lithotripsy.
Al - Zahrawi, A Brief Biography
Abul-Qasim Khalaf Ibn Abbas al Zahrawi was born in the city of Medina al Azahara situated on the outskirts of Qurtuba, Andalusia (Cordoba, Spain). Known to Europe as Albucasis, he was a 10th century doctor and a renowned surgeon considered to be the father of modern surgery.
Some of the treatments he writes about include:
- Over 200 sketches of medical instruments designed and constructed by him. With a little modification these same instruments will be used 1000 years later. His sketches are deemed an important innovation in the history of surgical literature.
- Performing a technique in plastic surgery which will not be replicated for 950 years.
- Notes on cauterizing and treating wounds, setting broken bones in both simple and compound fractures and pulling out an embedded projectile such as an arrow.
- Improvised procedures such as using animal entrails, wool and silk to create sutures, widening blocked urinary tracts and doing exploratory surgery.
- Innovated surgeries such as mastectomies for breast cancer, extraction of thyroid cysts and crushing bladder stones.
- Descriptions on how to amputate limbs without killing the patient
- How to perform dental surgery and some orthodontics.
- The first description in the world of hemophilia.
- 1st documentation of the pathology of hydrocephalus (water on the brain).
- First effective therapeutic for heart disease, constipation and cosmetic issues, diet and measurements of drug quantities.
- First record and promotion of a particular delivery position that will not be named after him. It is called the Walcher’s position after the 19th century German doctor.
This is just a fraction of his writings and treatments in al – Tasrif.
Al – Tasrif greatly influenced the progress of medicine and surgery in Europe after it was translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremonia (1114–1187). The book became a standard text in European universities, and in some cases displaced Avicenna’s The Cannon of Medicine.
In later centuries, almost all European surgeons would refer to al –Tasrif and view Zahrawi as the father of modern surgery.
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Tanto in Shirasaya
Signature : Tatsugoyama Junin Masahira
Heisei 8nenn 8gatsu hi (August, 1996)
The blade was polished.
Blade length : 27.0 cm or 10.62 inches.
Sori : cm or inches.
Mekugi : 1
Width at the hamachi : 2.6 cm or 1.02 inches.
Kasane : 0.59 cm or 0.23 inches.
Era : Modern period.
Shape : It is mitsumune style with bohi at both side of the blade.
Jitetsu : Itame hada well grained with jinie attached. The pattern in the hada could be well observed.
Hamon : Nie ground suguha with some koashi put. There are activities such as sunagashi and kinsuji seen.
Special feature : Tatsugoyama Junin Masahira, his real name Masahiro has been a pride of Fukushima prefecture
for his career as a sword smith. He has been studying under the human national treasure Miyairi Yukihira
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He has won the prize of effort, prize of excellence, encouragement award and the chairman prize.
This sword is thick and wide strong looking piece. It is incredible sword.
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Where has the Common Agricultural Policy left British farming? Charlotte Smith goes to Brussels to explore the successes and failures of the CAP and what happens after Brexit.
Charlotte Smith's investigation into British farming takes her to Brussels, where she asks what the Common Agricultural Policy has done for British farming. The Irish MEP Mairead McGuinness argues that it has held back the forces of large scale business and protected thousands of small farmers who preserve the character of the European countryside. True, says the respected commentator Professor Allan Buckwell, but that's a romantic idea and we need to ask how much longer we want to use public money to support unprofitable small farms.
Producer: Chris Ledgard.
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Objectives, Strategies & Activities
Objectives, strategies and activities
The main objectives during the year were:
- To ensure that every child enjoys the same high quality education in terms of resourcing, tuition and care.
- To raise the standard of educational attainment of all students.
- To continue to improve the effectiveness of the school by keeping the curriculum and organisational structure under continual review.
- To provide value for money for the funds expended.
- To comply with all appropriate statutory and curriculum requirements.
- To maintain close links with business, industry, commerce and higher and further education, and to conduct the School’s business in accordance with the highest standards of integrity, probity and openness.
Amongst other things, the Trust Board will agree to:
- Set the aims and objectives for the school.
- Set the policies for achieving those aims and objectives.
- Set the targets for achieving those aims and objectives.
- Monitor and evaluate the progress the school is making towards achievement of its aims and objectives.
- Be a source of challenge and support to the Principal.
- Promote high standards of educational achievement.
- Set the school's budget, including numbers of staff and their pay.
The schools’ main strategy is encompassed in its stated aim which is ‘to provide an excellent education for children from the local community in a safe, supportive learning environment, where people are valued and make positive contributions to the school, and where pupils go on to become responsible, independent members of society’.
Key objectives in the school development plan for 2022 - 2023 are:
Quality of Education
- Improve any disparities between outcomes at KS4 and KSS
- Improve attainment/progress of disadvantaged students (particularly high ability)
- Improve attainment/progress of high ability students
- Ensure that curriculum provision meets needs of all pupils (particularly EHCP and high risk) 2022/2023 and beyond
- Teaching and learning CPD in place to improve quality of education for all students
- New assessment/data/reporting system implemented and reviewed
- To develop the curriculum offer by identifying cross –curricular links (through the work of the leadership team) and put into place processes to support middle leaders to use these effectively. To put into place processes to support middle leaders to develop further highly effective curriculum sequencing within their subjects
- To evaluate the impact of curriculum structures and assessment strategies on the building up of knowledge/skills and longer term memory and retention
Behaviour & Attendance
- Close the PP/non-PP attendance gap further
- Reduce Exclusions (internal and external)
- Ensure The Bridge provides SEND pupils with strategies to improve behaviour in long term
- Clear programme in place to monitor the progress of pupils in terms of the enriched curriculum and personal development
- Careers programme which meets all Gatsby benchmark criteria in place for all years which meets needs of a range of aspirations post-16 and post-18
- Comprehensive range of experiences provided to develop pupils talents and cultural capital beyond the National Curriculum
Leadership and Management
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- Working with parents
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Disability is a global public health problem as people with disability, throughout the life course, face widespread barriers in accessing health and related services, such as rehabilitation, and has worse health outcomes than people without disability. Disability is any continuing condition that restricts everyday activities. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) defines disability as an umbrella term for impairments, activity limitations and participation restrictions. Impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations.
Disability is not just a health problem; it is the interaction between individuals with a health condition and personal and environmental factors (such as negative attitudes, inaccessible transportation and public buildings, and limited social supports). Overcoming the difficulties faced by people with disabilities requires interventions to remove environmental and social barriers.
Over 1 billion people, about 15% of the world's population have some form of disability. Of this number 110 million to 190 million people of 15 years and older have significant difficulties in functioning and 93 million people less than 15 years of age live with a moderate or severe disability.
In India according to the Census 2011, 2.2% of population had some form of disability. The prevalence of disability was found to be more in rural areas (2.24%) as compared to urban areas (2.17%) and more among males (2.4%) than among females (2%). The proportion of different types of disability among people with disability reported as: (i) seeing 18.8%, (ii) hearing 18.9% (iii) speech 7.5% (iv) movement 20.3% (v) mental retardation 7.6% (vi) mental illness 2.7%, (vii) multiple disabilities 7.9% (viii) Any other 18.4%.
In the coming years, prevalence of disability will continue to increase due to increase in ageing populations and with the global increase in chronic health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer and mental health disorders, injuries, car crashes, falls, violence.
All people with disabilities have the same general health care needs as everyone else; however they have greater unmet health care needs than people without disabilities. Evidence suggests that people with disabilities face barriers in accessing the health and rehabilitation services they need in many settings. According to World Health organization (WHO) estimates:
People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education levels, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disability. This is due to many obstacles they face in their everyday life and due to lack of services available to them.
Disability is now understood to be a human rights issue. People are disabled by society, not just by their bodies. These barriers can be overcome, if governments, nongovernmental organizations, professionals and people with disabilities and their families work together.
General symptoms for a disabled person according to type of disability-
i. Disability in seeing/ visual disability: A visually disabled person does not have any light perception (both eyes taken together) or has light perception but cannot count fingers of a hand (with spectacles/contact lenses if he/she uses spectacles/contact lenses) from a distance of 3 meters (or 10 feet) in good day light with both eyes open.
The visually disabled persons may be categorized into two broad groups:
Blindness: A person who does not have light perception and a person who has light perception but cannot count fingers at a distance of 1 meter even with spectacles are taken as blind.
Low vision: A person who has light perception but cannot count fingers up to a distance of 3 meters even with spectacles is taken as a person with Low Vision.
ii. Disability in speech/speech disability: A person is unable to speak like normal persons.
iii. Disability in hearing/hearing disability: A person may have problem in hearing day to day conversational speech when hearing aid is not used. A person may have the following degrees of hearing disability:
(A person who has problem only in one ear is not considered as having hearing disability).
iv. Disability in movement/ locomotor disability
(a) Loss or absence or inactivity of whole or part of hand or leg or both (due to amputation, paralysis, cerebral palsy, deformity or dysfunction of joints) which affects his/her “normal ability to move self or objects” and
(b) those with physical deformities in the body (other than limbs), such as, hunch back, deformed spine regardless of whether the same caused loss or lack of normal movement of body are considered as disable with locomotor disability. Thus, dwarfs and persons with stiff neck of permanent nature who generally do not have difficulty in the normal movement of body and limbs are also to be treated as disabled.
v. Mental disability A mentally disabled person has difficulty in understanding routine instructions or does not carry out his/ her activities like others of similar age or exhibited behaviours like talking to self, laughing/crying, staring, violence, fear and suspicion without reason. The mentally disabled are categorized into two groups viz. mentally retarded and mentally ill. If persons with mental disability manifests this behaviour since birth/ childhood but before 18 years of age and the person was late in talking, sitting, standing or walking, they are classified as ‘mentally retarded’. The remaining mentally disabled persons are classified as ‘mentally ill’
vi. Leprosy Cured Persons who have been cured of leprosy and are having extreme physical deformity as well as advanced age which prevents him from undertaking any gainful occupation.
Risk factors for the disabilities:
Communicable diseases (Infectious diseases) such as lymphatic filariasis, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases; neurological consequences of some diseases such as encephalitis, meningitis, and childhood cluster diseases (such as measles, mumps, and poliomyelitis) contribute to disability.
Non communicable diseases (NCDs)-
Injuries due to road traffic accidents, occupational injury, violence, conflicts, falls and landmines have long been recognized as contributors to disability.
Mental health problems- mental health retardation and mental illness are the causes of mental disability. In more than 50% cases mental retardation has been reported to be caused by serious illness or head injury in the childhood and birth defects. Mental retardation was observed mostly at birth or at very early ages of life while the problem of mental illness is more of an old age problem.
Those with lower education levels, lower incomes, and those who are unemployed were also more likely to suffer a disability.
There is higher risk of disability at older ages.
Diagnosis of particular disability may be done at health care centre with the help of a specialist. A concerned medical authority in Government hospital can issue a disability certificate*.
The disability certificate and/ or Identity card is the basic document that a person with any disability of more than 40 percent requires in order to avail any facilities, benefits or concessions under the available schemes.
Increasing evidence suggests that, as a group, people with disabilities experience poorer levels of health than the general population. By improving access to quality, affordable health care services, health outcomes for people with disabilities can be improved. Primary health-care services with the support of specialists can provide health services to people with disability. Health services should be focused for the following health conditions:
Primary health conditions: A primary health condition is the possible starting point for impairment can lead to a wide range of impairments, including mobility, sensory, mental, and communication impairments.
Secondary conditions: Secondary conditions occur in addition to (and are related to) a primary health condition, and are both predictable and therefore preventable; such as depression is a common secondary condition in people with disabilities, osteoporosis is common in people with a spinal cord injury or cerebral palsy.
Co-morbid conditions occur in addition to (and are unrelated to) a primary health condition associated with disability. One study indicated that adults with developmental disabilities had a similar or greater rate of chronic health conditions such as high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes (due to increased physical inactivity) than people without disabilities.
Age-related conditions: The ageing process for some groups of people with disabilities begins earlier than usual and they may experience age related health conditions (such as osteoporosis, loss of strength and balance) more frequently.
Risk behaviours: People with disabilities have higher rates of engaging in risky behaviours such as smoking, alcohol conumption, poor diet and physical inactivity as compare to general population.
Violence :People with disabilities are at greater risk of violence than those without disabilities.
Unintentional injury: People with disabilities are at higher risk of unintentional injury from road traffic crashes, burns, falls, and accidents related to assistive devices.
Assistive technologies and assistive devices such as crutches, prostheses, wheelchairs, and tricycles in mobility impairments; hearing aids and cochlear implants for hearing impairments; ocular devices, talking books, and software for screen magnification and reading for people with visual impairments may be advised according to the user and the user’s environment.
Rehabilitation: It is an important aspect of management for people with disability. It involves combined and coordinated use of medical, social, educational, and vocational measures for training or retraining the individual to the highest possible level of functional ability.
Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) was initiated by WHO to enhance the quality of life for people with disabilities and their families; meet their basic needs; and ensure their inclusion and participation. CBR is implemented through the combined efforts of people with disabilities, their families and communities, and relevant government and non-government health, education, vocational, social and other services.
Disability prevention includes all actions taken to reduce the occurrence of impairment (first level prevention) and its development into functional limitation (second level prevention), and to prevent the transition of functional limitation to disability (third level prevention)
Primary prevention is the actions to avoid or remove the cause of a health problem in an individual or a population before it arises. It includes health promotion measures designed to promote general health and well being and quality of life of the people; and specific protection by specific protective measures such as polio vaccination, intake of iodized salt. The concept is also now being applied to the prevention of chronic diseases (coronary heart disease, hypertension and cancer), based on elimination or modification of risk factors of the disease such as prevention of harmful lifestyle including eating pattern, lack of physical exercise, smoking.
Secondary prevention is the actions to detect a health problem at an early stage in an individual or a population, facilitating cure, or reducing or preventing spread, or reducing or preventing its long-term effects (for example, supporting women with intellectual disability to access breast cancer screening). In order to achieve it, proper diagnostic and treatment facilities should be uniformly available at all levels of health care.
Tertiary prevention includes actions to reduce the impact of an already established disease by restoring function and reducing disease related complications. When long term functional limitation has developed, measures instituted should aim at prevention of disability. Such measures should include medical and psycho-social care, with educational and vocational training. The environment may be changed to improve health conditions, prevent impairments, and improve outcomes for persons with disabilities such as accessible design of the built environment and transport, more opportunities for work and employment for persons with disabilities.
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MoSJE), Government of India has formulated several acts/legislations and rules/regulations* for providing support to people with diability (PwD). According to guidelines by MosJE, GOI, the minimum degree of disability should be 40% for an individual to be eligible for any concessions or benefits.
Rules and regulations:
National Institutes: The establishment of the seven National Institutes has contributed to the enhancement of specific research and interventions in the country. All these National Institutes have a broad mandate to undertake research to promote education, rehabilitation and empowerment of PwDs.
Accessible India Campaign (Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan) is a nation-wide flagship campaign for achieving universal accessibility that will enable persons with disabilities to gain access for equal opportunity and live independently and participate fully in all aspects of life in an inclusive society
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India has also formulated several health programmes for prevention and control of certain diseases such as blindness, polio, leprosy, tuberculosis, mental health (which result in disability), immunization and strengthening of physical medicine rehabilitation centers in medical colleges, involvement of Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) in awareness generation.
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Customer Success Story
Dutch Provider Cuts BGP Convergence Times from Minutes to Seconds
When A2B Internet’s network began to struggle under a burgeoning number of routing tables, the provider installed a virtual routing foundation to speed things up.
A2B Internet is a large, low-latency connectivity provider in the Netherlands that also provides IP address and routing management services. As customer traffic increased, the company sought a way to improve rerouting performance if a link were to fail.
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Asian Racing Conference - The Hong Kong Jockey Club
The Sustainability Challenge
Sustainable design is vital to the future of racecourses. It's about creating revenue streams, and long term viability as well as environmental stewardship, and eco-consciousness.
This challenge has several aspects. First, there is sustainability during construction and operation of a major venue. For example the London 2012 Olympics Stadium was billed as the 'main stadium for the Environmental Games'. Part of a successful strategy is selecting the right materials at the beginning of the process, considering how this impacts on the environment, particularly the amount of "embodied" energy used. Furthermore, innovative technology can be used to reduce the quantity of materials needed.
Beyond this the key to long term sustainability is all about maximising use. This means using as much of the building as possible, as frequently as possible, by as many people as possible and having them stay at the venue as long as possible. In order to maximise use there needs to be flexible design.
Join the audience at the Hong Kong ARC to explore these issues and to learn what racing should do in answering the modern challenge of sustainability.
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Dating back to 6 June in Canada, a family of four was walking frivolously in the backyard and never expected that it’s the last time they are all together. A truck ran over each of them and wounded a 9-year-old boy who is recovering in a hospital in Ontario. The accused has been identified as Nathaniel Veltman and is charged with a total of 5 counts out of which, four are first-degree murders and the remaining one is a count of attempted murder. The accused man is 20 years old and relentlessly ran over an innocent “Muslim” family of 4 of which Canadian Police authorities believe is a case of hate crime and Islamophobia.
WHAT IS ISLAMOPHOBIA?
Any phobia is a prejudice, it is not backed by a concrete reason but a general belief that if one person of a community was recognized to be dangerous the others automatically become a significant part of it. Islamophobia can be characterised as basic prejudice and hate towards Islam as a community. The person not believing in prejudice feels HE/SHE is responsible for this awful crime whereas a person believing in prejudice feels THEY are responsible for the crime.
WHO ARE KILLED?
The records of those lost lives have been published which says the family included 5 members starting with the youngest, Salman, aged 9, Yuman Salman aged 15, Madiha Salman aged 44 was pursuing her doctorate from the reputed Western University, Salman Afzal aged 45 workings as a psychiatrist and the eldest one, a woman aged 74 whose identity remain unveiled.
To stand in solidarity with the Salman Family, A fundraising page was initiated which collected around 3,40,000 CAD. The page said donations will be used as “sadaqah-jariya” on grounds of the Salman family. The page described sadaqa-jariya as “an important concept within Islam — it is a gift that not only benefits others in this life but also benefits us and our loved ones in the next.”
WHERE DID THIS EXACTLY HAPPEN IN CANADA?
This act happened in one of the most popular destinations in Canada to be more specific in London city, in Ontario. It is located along a corridor between Quebec City and Windsor. The place is located southwest of Ontario.
Soon after the deadly incident, the Canadian Prime Minister tweeted stating he is maintaining contacts about the hateful attack that took place in London city. He also quoted Canadian administration will not leave any stone unturned to address the issue of islamophobia in the country and also mentioned he stands in solidarity with all those killed.
Canadian Muslims demand justice for a family out for an ordinary stroll: This is not the first time in a peaceful country like Canada hate crimes against the community are happening, in 2018 a man driving a van ran into pedestrians and killed 10 in North Toronto. In 2017, a 27-year-old shot 6 people at a mosque in Quebec City.
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You can now leave all your worries about your car being stolen. Just install the new remote key system that keeps your car safe from the intruders. If an invalid entry is detected, this advanced system arms the alarm and informs you as well.
Most of the recent models of vehicles are enabled with the advanced technology of remote key that offers great safety measures for your car. The keyless entry remote transmits radio signals to the vehicle seeking permission to perform various actions. There is a coding system in the chip that matches with the system installed in the car. The only person possessing the remote key will have access to the car. It comes as an added advantage because you do not have to worry about your car being hotwired. You can also upgrade your car with the advanced security features offered by the remote key system.
If your car is not enabled with such an advanced feature, you can secure your car by purchasing the remote key designed for the model of your car. You can even get replacement key blanks, if you have lost your already owned remote key. Key blanks can be used after they are laser cut to match your car's ignition switch. It is then programmed to be used by the owner of the car. Key blanks are available at hardware stores but should be purchased over the Internet for better quality. The chip key has become the most essential part of the security system of any car. The level of security offered by this key has eliminated the opportunities for thieves to drive off parked cars. The remote key helps a great deal in keeping your car safe from the intruders.
For the programming of your key, you can hire a locksmith to do that for you. If you choose to do it yourself, you must follow the simple instructions that are sent to you from the company. First and foremost, you will have to cut your key by a locksmith or at a hardware store. For the programming, you must have one working key of your vehicle which is required to start the engine. The new key that you receive for the vehicle must have a code stamped on the blade. If it is not there, you should immediately contact the company and get help to find the key you need.
The remote key also arms the car alarm as soon as you leave your vehicle. For the assurance of the arming of the alarm, the car flashes its lights and makes a unique sound. If anyone tries to hotwire the vehicle, the advanced system activates the alarm and informs you by sending the signals to the remote key. Other beneficial features of this key are that it allows you to lock / unlock your vehicle from a distance. If you have forgotten to lock your car, you can simply press the button and do it even from inside the building. You do not even have to worry if the vehicle is not locked because it will not start in the absence of the signals transmitted by the key. The coding in the key instruct the vehicle to open / close the main door or the trunk for you which is most beneficial when you have too many bags in your hands.
If you want to enable your car with the advanced system to keep it safe from the criminal, you can look up the web and find info about the remote key and companies offering such keys. No matter which model you own, your car is precious for you. Over the Internet, you can find companies offering Cadillac remote, Pontiac remote, Buick remote and Chevrolet remote. | <urn:uuid:ea5755b5-b3a1-4105-a7ab-79d2ed08a011> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://wpauto3.xyz.ms/archives/326 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.966933 | 694 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Support the idea of the Family Homesteads Settlements (FHS) in Europe and worldwide!
Family homesteads settlements - A new global Consciousness
The idea behind the Family homestead settlements is that each human can live a joyful life on Earth. They remember their free and joyful creation, a birthright they can share with the land on Mother Earth. It is suitable for people of all nationalities, all religions and it is able to be adopted for almost all areas of the globe.
We wish to further inform you of Family homesteads and its intention
More than 15 years ago, Russian families, and single people, started recalling their heritage and wishing to fulfil their desire to live freely in nature, on their own family land. We are part of a global movement, and are excited to introduce you to this idea.
The Family Homesteads settlements seeks the acceptance of individual family estates, with about 1 hectare of land (10,000 m 2). With this is mind, governments and public officials can create the framework, conditions and a legal basis for the implementation of this idea.
We invite you to support the vision of the Family homesteads settlements as a model of life with your signature on the petition!
"What I sow, I will harvest”
When individuals own their land, they bring their full love to stewarding the earth. The land, in turn, offers back in bountiful. This return of love assists humans to reach conscious levels of perfection.
The long term vision is when more and more people live and care for their own land, there is the means for deep healing of individuals, families, communities, with a gradual shift in integrated consciousness of the whole planet.
The goals of the Family homesteads settlements are:
1. Creation of a rural way of life for generations of human beings, which live independently and in pleasure on the earth.
2. To build independent settlements with a nature-loving cultural life – containing topics such as health, learning spaces (school) or spaces for the community.
3. Creation of a living environment, in which children, from conception on, receive wealth and abundance and fully develop their creative abilities.
4. Reintroduction of local original species of living flora and fauna and preserve the natural state of the land.
5. Establishment of a viable economic structure and the development of various areas of creation and learning within the settlement
Read more on our website www.terra-animam.eu (German and Hungarian)
The idea of the Family homesteads has its origin in Russia. It is described in the book-series about Anastasia - "The Ringing Cedars of Russia" by V. Megre.
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08 August 2022
Filling in the gaps: Teeth enamel reveals its secrets
Published online 14 September 2016
New enamel mapping reveals the exact composition of human teeth.
Dental caries is a universal problem. But findings from a new study may help scientists discover new ways to maintain healthy teeth or even restore decayed ones.
By illuminating the exact composition and structure of human dental enamel at an atomic level, the study also confirms the post-classical theory about how the hard shell that protects our teeth is formed.
Within the bundles of nano-crystalites that form teeth enamel lies more soluble nanolayers enriched in magnesium that are thought to play a role in caries formation.
The scientists examined six fine samples of a human permanent molar, using UV laser-assisted atom probe tomography (APT), an analysis technique used in acquiring 3D imagery of chemical compositions at an atomic level. In a first, they revealed the distribution of magnesium ions and organic materials in human dental enamel.
“This new knowledge has the potential to aid oral health hygiene and caries prevention by developing new treatments designed around protecting against the dissolution of the magnesium-rich nano-layers,” says Julie Cairney, corresponding author of the study, and professor of dentistry at the University of Sydney, Australia.
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Rehearsals are the key to execution: QMN029
Martial Mental Models: The Quartermaster, Tuesday, 4 June
(Today’s report is a 5 minute read)
BLUF: Green Berets link planning to execution by conducting rehearsals - defined as an exercise where the organization practices expected actions in order to improve performance during execution. It allows the team to better learn the plan, make changes based on insight, and provides leaders with assurance that the intent is understood. High functioning teams don't skip this critical step.
Brady here. After days of isolated planning, and then briefing the plan to higher headquarters and receiving approval to launch, you'd think that my Special Forces ODA would be relaxing before the long, high intensity mission began. Instead they were clearing a spot in the dirt for a 10x10 foot square. They were stacking up mounds of dirt and stringing yarn across the square to represent what they were seeing on a map of their objective. And once the terrain model was finished, they gathered around and spent over an hour walking through every phase of the operation with each team member explaining what he was going to do at each point. And then they did it all over again. Afterward they reviewed parts that needed to be changed in the plan. And then they rested before departing on the operation.
Business leaders often say that where they fail in their efforts to create change in companies isn't in planning or analysis, but in execution. In their book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan explain that many leaders know what to do, but over time they can't seem to translate their intentions into the results they seek. This isn't surprising - planning and analysis are usually tasks that happen at corporate headquarters among leaders and their staffs - and the change usually has to occur wherever the company does business- it could be anywhere around the world. Even more, those plans need to be carried out by those who didn't make those initial plans. It's an age old conundrum that's probably been around as long as the planners and the executors have been 2 different groups of people. How is this overcome?
Green Berets link planning and execution by conducting rehearsals. A rehearsal is defined as an exercise where the organization practices its actions in order to improve its performance during execution. A good rehearsal accomplishes some critical things on a few different levels:
The leader needs to know if each team member fully understands what he must do, and why. A rehearsal gives the leader an understanding of how well he communicated his intent for the operation, and how well it was received. If it becomes apparent that the intent has been misconstrued he can address it on the spot or formally revise the plan.
A rehearsal gives the people on the ground who will carry out the operation an ability to visualize and absorb the action about to take place in a much more engaging and effective way. Prior to a rehearsal these individuals likely have only read about their task and what's expected of them. A rehearsal can enable visual, verbal and even tactile learning.
A rehearsal often surfaces needs that weren't anticipated when the plan was written. Those carrying out the plan are usually the ones who find these gaps and can immediately reconcile them with leaders and revise the plan to be more effective. If a rehearsal is done in time, resources can be repositioned and logistics reworked.
Good rehearsals usually conclude with a backbrief to the commander - explaining what each member on the ground is doing and identify anything needed to execute appropriately.
It's also important to note that the more realistic the rehearsal, the better the understanding gained. Full dress rehearsals that replicate battlefield conditions are the most effective, but aren't always possible with constraints on time and resources. A good explanation of this can be found in Field Manual 6-0:
With extreme time constraints, even a rehearsal of key individuals over a map is better than none at all. But for best results, actually simulating the event as realistically as possible is preferred. One example of what appeared to be a very realistic rehearsal was captured in The Atlantic a few years ago - and we all know how successful that operations was.
Many leaders - both those trained to conduct good rehearsals and those who aren't - don't understand or appreciate their effectiveness and cut them out of planning considerations as superfluous. Their performance in execution is bound to suffer eventually- because humans simply need repetition and often immersion to learn something effectively and relatively quickly. Great leaders don't execute until they've rehearsed and backbriefed - ensuring everyone knows and is prepared to carry out the plan. (BJM)
LEAPS IN VISUALIZATION: NVIDIA's New AI Turns Crappy Sketches Into Photorealistic Masterworks (3 min) “The best description of how a GAN works we could find was provided by skymind.ai: "One neural network, called the generator, generates new data instances, while the other, the discriminator, evaluates them for authenticity; i.e. the discriminator decides whether each instance of data that it reviews belongs to the actual training dataset or not." In the case of GauGAN, it would seem that NVIDIA's GAN learned by creating images that were compared to real images by a discriminator network. As such, GauGAN "knows" what a field or forest would look like in whatever certain shape you provide. You make the sketch, tell GauGAN where everything should go, and then the program fills in all the details.” (KSA)
THE JUNIOR EXEC BY CPP: Institutional Capacity
Last week BJM talked about the NCO as an organizational tool for institutional knowledge, training, and execution. They are, in effect, the military’s middle management, considered ’the backbone of the Army’.
I think about the manager and NCOs I've liked throughout my career, and there’s a consistent theme: good managers don’t just solve problems, but they break down why it was a problem, how to fix it, and then why that fix works. They do this with the expectation you to be able to train and teach others.
It’s called institutional capacity.
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Recent weeks have brought good news about the criminal-justice system in this country. Despite hard times and dire predictions to the contrary, crime continues to decline. And the Pew Center for the States reports that the prison population has actually shrunk for the first time in more than a generation.
As is often the case, however, the closer one looks, the more complicated the picture becomes. Crime may be down in lots of places, but there are many urban, low-income neighborhoods that remain fundamentally unsafe. And while it's no longer on the rise, the U.S. incarceration rate still well exceeds that of most industrialized nations.
How are we to fix such deeply rooted problems? Simply maintaining the status quo isn't good enough. We must aggressively seek out new ideas.
Unfortunately, though, there is a major obstacle to innovation in the criminal-justice system: fear of failure. Many prosecutors, police chiefs, and court administrators don't feel they have the freedom to engage in trial and error. Unlike some other fields, criminal justice does not have a rich tradition of honest discussion of mistakes.
The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly used to hold "failure parties" to acknowledge outstanding scientific work even when it failed to lead to successful new products. Needless to say, there are no failure parties in criminal justice.
What would we learn if criminal-justice officials looked at their work with the probing, skeptical eye of a scientist? First, we would see that there are many different reasons why new programs fail.
Sometimes the problem is conceptual: Some ideas just aren't good. For example, research tells us that gun buyback programs, in which financial incentives are offered in exchange for surrendered guns, have done very little to stem gun violence.
Similarly, programs such as DARE, which send police officers into schools to counsel teens on the dangers of drugs, have had no discernible impact on substance abuse. Nor is there any evidence that "scared straight" programs, which give young people tours of prisons, reduce delinquency.
But bad ideas aren't usually the problem. More often, initiatives fail because of the details of their implementation. The criminal-justice system is an enormously complicated machine, and if reformers make one false move, it has a tendency to revert to form.
Drug courts are a case in point. In contrast to the vast majority of criminal-justice programs, there is solid evidence that drug courts - which link addicted offenders to monitored treatment instead of prison - actually make a difference, reducing both substance abuse and recidivism.
But this doesn't mean that every drug court is a success. Some have struggled mightily because of a variety of implementation errors, including failing to effectively market the program to decision-makers and to plan for transitions between judges.
Drug courts are just one example of how difficult it is to make categorical judgments about the success of a new initiative. Another comes from Harlem, where the Center for Court Innovation helped conceive and implement a reentry program providing enhanced services and supervision during the first six months of parole.
We were discouraged when a recent evaluation found that the increased supervision by a team of parole officers, social workers, and an administrative law judge actually had more participants going back to prison for technical parole violations - missing an appointment, breaking curfew, flunking a drug test. On the other hand, the program reduced crime, with participants 19 percent less likely to be re-convicted.
A scientist would see these results not as contradictory and confusing, but as a necessary step in the process. As David Shenk notes in The Genius in All of Us, the latest research on the brain suggests it takes thousands of hours of deliberate practice - and frequent failures - to achieve greatness at any task. Why should criminal-justice reform be different?
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Everything we do today is somehow digital-based. We often get news updates from the internet. We share photos on social media. Trending topics are discussed on Twitter. Bloggers opine and fill the minds of avid readers. Photographers publish their photographs online so the world can see their works of art. Teachers are even more keen on digitizing their learning content. There are flipped classrooms everywhere, students bring their own device, classrooms from across the globe connect with each other using webinars, and more. There of course goes, story-centric learning design. Teachers will oftentimes start delivering their lessons using stories as frameworks. They start crafting witty stories about a certain character, and make students relate to those stories, then share feedback and insights. Stories have always perked our minds and caught our interest, because they allow us to create an emotional connection. We always have that story that gives us an “aww” feeling, that story that makes us feel all sorts of emotions, whether they're positive or negative. Digital storytelling is another step in storytelling. The use of digital storytelling is widely adopted by most schools as a method of building a deeper engagement with students, as well as make them multimedia literates - a 21st century learning skill. Digital storytelling is similar to the traditional way - focusing on a specific topic. As the name implies, digital storytelling contains multimedia content - videos, recorded audio, images, etc. Digital stories pique student interest and capitalize on their creative talents as they maximize every resource to create rich and deep content they can use to create digital stories of their own. There are digital stories however, which aren’t constructed as compelling as what the author might have intended. Sure, an author might have invested time and resources to create the perfect digital story, but sometimes it just isn’t enough. There might be a few miscues here and there. It’s avoidable, of course, so read on to know how.
Connect and relate your audience to the message
Students, and people in general, remember from a story the feelings of the underlying message. Digital stories have to be relatable and make the students feel like they’re the character and that they’re part of the story. You can create characters which relate to real-life student experiences and you can expect the oohs and ahhs from students.
Avoid overwhelming designs
The modern design language emphasize minimalism and content over chrome. Apple, Google and Microsoft are all implementing minimalism on their user interfaces. As a digital storyteller, minimalism should also be used. Students oftentimes get distracted by design clutter which makes them focus less on the story. You also have to avoid clustering wherein there is too much content concentration in one area. Even-out content distribution to keep learners engaged. Remember that less is more.
Use a realistic dialogue
There are stories which use dialogues that are too corny, odd and out-of-place and that throws the audience out of the story. According to
amandalewan.com, pay attention to the in-story dialogue and quotes. Make it as realistic as possible, like relating it to an everyday conversation between two people.
Do the research
Crafting a story isn’t just for the sake of crafting one – you have to be an expert at what you’re trying to convey. Do enough research about the subject you’re authoring. This makes the story sound really convincing and grabs more attention.
Make sure your story has a good rhythm. Keep the story moving. Establish proper pacing for the story. Too slow and it’s boring. Too fast and the audience are left to play catch-up with the plot. For example, action-oriented stories normally have a fast-paced plot, while emotional ones have a slow pacing one. Also, know when to slow down or speed up the established pace to keep audience interest.
Craft dynamic and static characters
Let’s start with the dynamic character. This is a character who is changed by whatever’s happening in the plot, like a rags-to-riches kind of character, or a good-turned-bad person. The static character, meanwhile, doesn’t change despite conflicts and resolutions in the plot. The static character maintains the tone and makes things even for the plot.
Quality, not quantity
This mostly refers to the images used. There are students and teachers who, when they begin collecting and collating photos to accompany their story, are overtaken by emotions and tell stories with dozens of picture, and soon the story becomes a digital scrapbook. Of course this is not how it works. Limit your images to fifteen at most, depending on how long the story is. Choose the best photos to use with your story because they make stories even more engaging and convincing. It pretty much depends on your taste on how you craft your story, but the main thing is, digital stories don’t need to be straightforward. Inject the fun and keep the audience interest flowing. You can look up the internet for best examples of digital stories crafted by some of the best minds here and there. Do you have a digital story that you can share? Post them in the feedback section below!
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I’d like to introduce you to Jared Fink, who works for my firm as a Pharmacovigilance Specialist. What is a Pharmacovigilance Specialist, you ask? Well, every pharmaceutical company in the world has a team of folks who scour medical literature, the Internet, and other sources to look for signs that their drugs are causing harm. The men and women in those positions scour the medical literature and brief management on new and existing trends in product safety. They then prepare internal reports with candid assessments of whether they think a given study is important enough to merit further investigation. In other words, a Pharmacovigilance Specialist acts as the eyes and ears of a pharmaceutical company with respect to the medical community.
Jared does the same sort of work for us. He spends his days going through current and some not-so-current medical studies to determine what the risks are of drugs and medical devices on the market. If he believes that a drug or device is more dangerous than the manufacturer lets on, he lets us know and we investigate whether or not we want to file lawsuits against the manufacturer of the drug or device. And if we’re already sure we want to pursue a certain type of lawsuit, Jared helps us find the appropriate scientific evidence to back up our cases.
A big part of Jared’s job is summarizing lengthy and complicated scientific studies about drugs and medical devices. I don’t want all of his hard work to stay buried in our private network, so I have Jared blog about his findings. I think you’ll find that Dangerous Drugs has the most in-depth analysis of the science behind the lawsuits and most of that analysis comes from Jared. It’s important to me that Jared’s work is published on the open Internet because many of the studies he reviews are not published on the open Internet. Instead, they’re buried behind the pay walls of academic journals and are not accessible to the average citizen.
Jared Fink graduated with honors from The College of Wooster, where he received a Bachelor’s of Arts in Philosophy. In addition to his senior thesis project titled “Authenticity and Art,” which resulted in a 96-page thesis with oral defense, as an undergraduate Jared managed genetics research for Dr. Amy Jo Stavnezer of the Neurology Department at the College of Wooster. For five summers, Jared worked in psychiatric research at the University of Michigan under Dr. Israel Liberzon, where his research focused on the neurobiological and genetic foundations for a number of psychiatric conditions.
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Co. Contae na Mí →
Damhliag Uachtarach →
Cluain Ailbhe Paróiste Sibhialta →
Stamullin Electoral Division →
Tankardstown is in the Electoral Division of Stamullin, in Civil Parish of Cluain Ailbhe, in the Barony of Damhliag Uachtarach, in the County of Contae na Mí
Tankardstown is on Logainm.ie: Tankardstown.
It is located at 53° 35' 9" N, 6° 20' 58" W.
Tankardstown has an area of:
- 385746 m² / 38.57 hectares / 0.3857 km²
- 0.15 square miles
- 95.32 acres / 95 acra, 1 ceathrú-acra, 11 percheanna
Nationwide, it is the 51253ú largest townland that we know about
Within Co. Contae na Mí, it is the 1398ú largest townland
Tankardstown borders the following other townlands:
We don't know about any subtownlands in Tankardstown.
Genealogy / Ancestry / Records Search
Curious to see who lived in Tankardstown in the past? Maybe even seeing scans of their handwritten census returns?
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I think that "Yes, Russia's there" should also be accepted.
Reported again 22.12.17
What about 'yes, there is Russia'? Is it still correct?
yes it is still correct. This is what I put and it was correct (yes, Russia is there)
That sentence basically says "Russia exists" to me.
Two people standing in front of a map.
One, pointing at a certain area: "Yes, THERE is Russia" (instead of somewhere else.
So it should be accepted.
I put that and it was wrong.
I imagine someone telling me this from a Caucasus mountaintop in Georgia.
Why did I find this while learning "Questions" ?
Did anybody else get "там" highlighted in orange, like it is a new word, after seeing it a thousand times already? lol
Never happened to me. Not even when it was new.
Is there any way to distinguish "there" from "over there" like there is between "здесь" and "вот здесь"?
why is "yes, Russia is there"... incorrect ?
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It’s that magical time of year for children. Nope, not Christmas (yet) but the freedom of October half term AND Halloween hijinks. Usually a time for kicking up leaves, visiting family, picking out creepy costumes and of course enjoying lots and lots of sweets. Unfortunately this year it isn’t going to be quite the thriller Halloween week we wish it could be for our kids. But we know here at LovePotatoes that blustery UK weather and lockdown restrictions won’t have stopped you searching the cupboards and parent groups on social media for inspiration and Halloween activities. So we’re offering you a helping skeletal hand as we’ve rounded up some of our favourite spooktactular things to do with a spud. In true ’here’s one we made earlier’ style, all you need are some potatoes, googly eyes and a pinch of imagination.
Pumpkins and turnips might be the usual veg of choice for Jack o’Lanterns but we think potatoes make the cutest lil’ spooky faces. Use some other veg too and make a whole spooky family.
Make your own potato people
Decorate your potatoes with paints and felt-tips and make your own witches, vampires, werewolves or ghosts. Try adding googly eyes, wool for hair and sequins and glitter for some extra sparkle. Small yogurt pots make excellent top hats and strips of loo roll or bandages for mummy wraps!
Monster mashed potato mayhem
Use different food colouring to create colourful or gruesome mash potato and put hidden sweets or raisins inside to be found, dug out and devoured! Or add enough flour to your mash to create a clay-like consistency and you’ll be creating brilliant sculptures of monsters, wiggly worms and everything in-between.
Shrunken potato heads
Crispy, ghastly and just right for dunking these are super effective and easy Halloween snacks. Preheat the oven to 220°C, 200°C Fan, Gas Mark 7. Ideally use a potato that holds its shape well when cooked (eg, Charlotte). Carve the faces into the potatoes with a small, sharp knife. Pop on to a lined baking tray (faces upwards), drizzle with a little oil and roast for around 45 mins – 1 hour. Test they are ready by giving a gently squeeze (with an oven mitt) or a prod with a fork – it should be squidgy on the inside and crisp on the outside.
Stomping and stamping
Cut your potatoes in half and then use biscuit cutters to press into the flesh of each potato half. Cut away all the flesh around the outside of the cutter. Alternatively, you can use a pencil to draw your picture directly on the potato half and then cut around it. Dry the stamps on some kitchen roll first before the kids get dipping into the paint and stamp away! How about making some fangtasticly spooky cards, creepy Halloween posters for your windows or ghostly printed wrapping paper?
Grow your own!
Our friends over at Grow Your Own Potatoes have an excellent guide to growing your own potatoes. Ok, it might not be the typical time of year, but it easy super easy - all you need to start is a sprouting potato, a container and some soil. Aimed at primary school classes they also have lots of free downloadable activities. Take a peek at their creepy-crawly bug hotel! You can also let your class teachers know they can sign up for free potato growing kits (by 22nd January 2021).
Hubble bubble, boil and trouble…
Of course we can’t pass up an opportunity to mention probably the best activity of all – putting on the aprons and cooking up a storm in the kitchen. Got some budding witches and wizards wanting to brew up some potions? Give our yummy potato and pumpkin soup a try. How about pizza or chocolate potato cake? Browse through our spellbook for ideas…
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[ntp:questions] Number of Stratum 1 & Stratum 2 Peers
martin.burnicki at meinberg.de
Wed Dec 17 09:09:15 UTC 2014
Phil W Lee wrote:
> Martin Burnicki <martin.burnicki at meinberg.de> considered Tue, 16 Dec
> 2014 12:56:15 +0100 the perfect time to write:
>> William Unruh wrote:
>>> The importance of trades is usually a before/after. And UTC TAI, GPS all
>>> have exactly the same definition of before and after. Of course if one
>>> time was in UTC and the otehr in TAI, that could well be successfully
>> From a technical point I absolutely agree with you.
>> However, there have been discussions (IIRC on the TZ or leapsecs mailing
>> lists) where folks tried to explain that even though the difference
>> between TAI and UTC is just an integral number of seconds, TAI could not
>> even be used as a replacement for UTC without leap seconds, just due to
>> specific wordings in certain documents.
> Leap seconds seem to be a real mess in the IT world.
> It would be useful if the way of inserting a leap-second was set in a
> standard, in such a way that time continued at a set rate (maybe by
> slewing at a set percentage or PPM). If that could be achieved, it
> would remove many of the objections to leap-seconds.
> It might be difficult to thrash out in practice though.
> I know that officially at present there is an additional second
> between 23:59:60 and 00:00:00, but no time recording system that I
> know of has the ability to record times between 23:59:60 and 00:00:00
> correctly (despite such times existing since 1st Jan 1961, which must
> surely pre-date any software currently in use), which is a necessary
> requirement if the second is to be inserted exactly as currently
> specified and time continued forward (so that events are recorded in
> the correct order).
> Does anyone know of any software which will record times during that
> additional second accurately, e.g. as 23:59:60.789?
Yes, different software from Meinberg. ;-)
The main problem is that the underlying system time (often POSIX, which
just counts seconds since an epoch) has the *same* time stamp art the
beginning and end of the leap second.
In order to do the conversion correctly you need to know if the current
second is the leap second, or not, i.e. you need some status flag in
addition to the raw (e.g. POSIX) timestamp.
This is basically similar to what you have at the end of DST, where (in
local time) a whole hour is passed twice. You need to know the DST
status to determine unambiguously if it's the first or the second turn.
> Is there any realistic prospect of forcing software to comply with a
> time standard which includes times between 23:59:60 and 00:00:00?
> Now, you can either stipulate that all software including operation
> systems recognise times during that additional second - which would
> require re-writing the time functions of most of the worlds software
> to recognise and record times >23:59:60 < 00:00:00 (but only if a leap
> second has been legally notified), or you can agree to insert the
> additional second more gradually by clock slewing (but at what rate
> would have to be agreed).
> Clock slewing would require much more change to international
> agreements, but would require far less work on re-writing software,
> and would actually relate better to the real world, which is
> annoyingly both analogue AND irregular:-)
> Or the second itself could be redefined to take account of the actual
> speed the earth rotates - but that might be problematic for the
> scientists, as we'd likely have to keep doing it as the earth slows.
> I certainly think we need to deal with the problem better than we do
> at the moment.
A main reason for the problems with leap seconds is that POSIX has just
ignored them when they defined their standards on timekeeping.
There has been a proposal from David Mills many years ago where the time
during an inserted leap second increases only *very* slowly during the
leap second, so monotonicity of time stamps is kept.
However, most algorithms, or API calls returning a time stamp plus
consistent status information require longer execution time than just
returning a time stamp, e.g. just a 64 bit number. So the easy way is
often preferred over the accurate way.
I've collected some information on leap seconds in a paper which you can
"Technical Aspects of Leap Second Propagation and Evaluation"
This may not be complete but covers many aspects of leap second handling.
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Northeast American Diocese
Welcome to the official site of the Northeast American Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church!
The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, otherwise known as the Indian Orthodox Church, traces its apostolic roots to St. Thomas, the Disciple of Jesus Christ. St. Thomas preached the Gospel in the southeast Asian subcontinent of India, specifically in a state presently known as Kerala. It is there that St. Thomas established 7 Churches and 1 chapel. This Church grew from hundreds of converts to a present day of 3.5 million faithful. More than 2,500 families of those humble faithful live in the Northeast North American continent.
Canonically formed and established as a Diocese in 1979, the then known American Diocese, grew from Her humble beginning of a handful of congregations to more than 90 parishes and congregations scattered all across North America. In order to better minister to the faithful of this continent, the Holy Church divided the North American Church into two Dioceses, namely - the Northeast American Diocese and the Southwest American Diocese. The Northeast American Diocese has its headquarters in the quiet Long Island suburb of Muttontown, New York.
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We give little thought to death and dying when we’re young. Then as we grow older, sooner or later we’re confronted with the deaths of people we love – family and friends.
So how do we come to terms with the stigma and fears surrounding death and difficult end-of-life decisions?
Thanks to the growing popularity of Death Cafés, people are choosing to get together to discuss death . . . usually over tea and cake.What is a Death Café?
Death Cafes are not necessarily held in a café. They’re free discussion groups with no particular agenda, and are not a grief support group nor therapy session. The goal of a Death Cafe is to increase one’s awareness of death and dying with a view to helping make the most of the life you are living now.
And, tea and cake are served to create a nurturing and supportive environment.
These non-profit Cafes are held in a variety of places – homes, libraries, senior centers, community centers, restaurants, or other pop-up locations. Each gathering is respectful of different ideas, religious and spiritual beliefs.
The first Death Café was held in John Underwood’s house in London in 2011. (He died in June 2017, but his mother and sister carry on his work.) The idea quickly became popular and more than 6,000 cafes have been offered in 56 countries since 2011.Experiencing a Death Café
On a recent Monday afternoon, I attended a Death Café held at a Senior Center near my home. The group was started close to three years ago by Andrea Deerheart, Ph.D., founder of The HeartWay, a nonprofit organization that helps guide people and families through end-of life transitions. The assistant facilitator for this group, Lori Osborn, explained this was going to be a smaller-than-usual turnout (due to it being a holiday week), as a total of nine women sat down in a circle of cozy chairs, when they usually average 20 people.What Surprised Me?
This isn’t just for older adults. Participants ranged from ages 28 to 95 years old.
Multigenerational families attend. A “regular,” Julianne, came with her 60+ year old daughter, Ava. Loraine arrived with her two adult granddaughters. Another woman commented on how special it is to share end-of-life discussions with family members.
Tea (and cold water) was served . . . but not cake! Instead, there were three types of chocolate candy treats, which no one complained about and suited the chocoholic in me just fine.
The discussions weren’t depressing nor morbid. There were moments of comfortable silence, too. No one was pressured to speak and the conversations grew organically from us and were not facilitator-led. There was even laughter when one woman ended her description of her life-after-death vision with the pronouncement, “You are going to be watched!”
What We Talked About
After we briefly introduced ourselves, the nonjudgmental 90-minute discussion began as one participant asked for an expert resource to get her “papers in order.”
That practical Q&A led into deeper topics:
The importance of leaving some type of legacy for our descendants of personal family stories whether captured in written, audio or video formats. Even one’s struggles in life should be recorded because there are lessons to be learned from those.
Fear of dying may intensify when you get close to the age at which your parents passed away, especially if they died at a younger age.
How our society overall keeps us away from death and dying. One woman commented she grew up on a farm with cattle, chickens and horses, and death was a normal part of life for her since childhood.
What happens after we die? We shared ideas about possible spiritual reunions, reincarnation, eternal life and if signs are received from loved ones who have passed, such as by seeing butterflies or birds at meaningful moments.
What it was like being present at the deaths of loved ones, such as parents or spouses. Do people “wait” to die for a time when they’re left alone?
Why Are Death Cafes Growing More Popular?
Licensed clinical psychologist Karyn Sandburg, Ph.D
, very much likes the idea of the Cafes because “there currently is not enough available to help people through loss.” Sandburg adds, “Older adults can feel isolated anyway. Often times they are losing multiple people in a short period of time. Not feeling alone and knowing others going through something similar can definitely help."
According to Deerheart, the movement is growing because:
The population is aging. Baby boomers are getting older, hit retirement age for the first time a couple of years ago, and realize they are in the second half of their lives. “If they’re having conversations with themselves about their life, their death and/or concerns, questions or ‘what-ifs,’ the Café is a perfect safe place for that,” Deerheart explains.
The major shift in health care systems around the world increase people’s exploration of end-of-life options. “The cost of spending the last 72 hours of one’s life in the ICU is often exorbitant. More elders now choose to die peacefully and leave money for their children to enjoy,” says Deerheart.
Older adults realize that gaining clarity about and expressing their end-of-life wishes is a gift to give children and grandchildren. “Elders have the opportunity to teach their children how to age and how to die, because no one is teaching that,” adds Deerheart, “Questions to ask yourself are, ‘What did your parents share with you about dying? What do you wish they had shared with you?’”
Boomers created the Death with Dignity Acts which stimulate even more conversations.
How to Decide If It’s for You
Sandburg recommends giving it a try. “One doesn’t know just through thought if something will work or not. Doing or trying it out is a more reliable source of information. When dealing with grief, we can often talk ourselves out of doing many things. Lots of small steps gets us somewhere new, while just thinking and waiting usually doesn’t. Going with a friend might make it more comfortable, at least the first time.”
A Death Café may not be for everyone. But, if you decide to go, arrive with the knowledge you will be heard, honored and respected for your point of view — and thanked for bringing your perspective to the group.
Deerheart sums it up, “The Death Café is a lovely vehicle for having those important conversations about end-of-life and a place where people have the opportunity to hear their voice as well as others. Every Café is unique, powerful and transformative. The conversation around death is really about life. Bottom line, it’s about love.”
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Quinoa (pronounced ‘Keenwah’) is a gluten-free pseudo cereal. Unlike rice and wheat, it is a complete source of protein and is rich in dietary fibre making it heart-healthy. It can be used for making Soups, Stir Fries, Pulavs and even Payasams. I have started enjoying the taste of Quinoa though my husband still hasn’t got a hang of it in Soups and Stir Fries. However, these Quinoa Patties are a winner. Hubby raved about it and I couldn’t believe that I was eating something so good without the greasiness of meat. I don’t think I will ever go back to those greasy Meat patties.
I am not sure if Quinoa is available in India. However it is becoming common in Western Countries. Quinoa is cooked by boiling it in water just like we cook rice. Once cooked, it becomes translucent and the germ separates from the seed. You can turn these Quinoa Carrot Patties into a burger with a bun and a few toppings, or you can enjoy it just like that with some yummy ketchup or chutney. These are perfect as appetizers or as snacks.
- Cooked Quinoa – 1 cup
- Shredded Parmesan/Mozarella Cheese – 3 tbsp
- Shredded Carrots – 1/2 cup
- Dried Parsley Flakes – 1 tsp
- Finely Chopped Spring Onions – 1/4 cup
- Red Chilly Powder – 1/2 tsp
- Garlic Powder – 1/4 tsp
- Salt – to taste
- Egg – 1
- Bread Crumbs – 1/2 cup (Use Whole Wheat for a healthier option)
- Oil – 2 to 3 tbsp
- In a bowl, combine all the ingredients listed from 1-8.
- Lightly beat the egg and add it to the quinoa mixture. Combine everything.
- Start adding breadcrumbs to the mixture, one tablespoon at a time.
- Using you hands, mix everything until it comes together. If the mixture is wet, you will need to add more breadcrumbs. You should be able to make balls with mixture.
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in a skillet. Scope out lemon sized balls of the quinoa mixture and shape it into patties of 1/2 to 3/4 ” thickness.
- Place the patties on the skillet and fry each side for 3-4 minutes or until browned.
- Press down the patties with a spatula as it gets cooked. Add more oil if needed.
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Today’s Wonder of the Day was inspired by Andrew. Andrew Wonders, “What was the industrial revolution?” Thanks for WONDERing with us, Andrew!
Picture it: you’re walking home on a fine fall day. The sky is clear, the air is fresh, and the creek near you is full of clear water. You were up before dawn to help on the farm. There’s more work ahead of you this afternoon. You’ll carry water from the well, churn butter, and sew a new shirt before bedtime. Tomorrow, you’ll do it all over again. Have we traveled to another universe? No, we’ve just gone back in time! This is what life was like before the Industrial Revolution.
The Industrial Revolution was a time of change. It started in Great Britain in the late 18th Century. Soon, the Industrial Revolution spread across Europe and the United States. For thousands of years before, most things had been made by hand. During the Industrial Revolution, people started using machines to make goods.
Several inventions made this possible. Technology like the spinning jenny sped up the production of clothing. The steam engine and automobile allowed people and goods to travel faster. The telegraph and radio made it easier for people to communicate. Suddenly, people could make goods at a faster rate than ever before.
This led to the rise of factories. Factory owners wanted to make as many goods as possible as quickly as they could. To do so, they hired workers of all ages. Soon, people moved from farms to cities to work in factories. Cities became crowded. Many people had trouble finding places to live. Still, new people arrived every day looking for jobs.
How would you like to do the same thing over and over for twelve hours? Does that sound boring? That’s what work was like for many during the Industrial Revolution. To make goods faster, factory owners divided up labor. That meant they gave each worker one task to do all day, like on an assembly line. This sped up the production of goods, which made more money for the owners.
However, factory owners did not share the wealth. Instead, they paid their workers very little. The pay was also unequal. Child workers got the worst of it. They were paid less than women, who were paid less than men. How would you like to work hard all day for less money than the person next to you?
Despite this, kids continued working in factories to help their families. The work was often dangerous. Children as young as five were badly hurt after being sent to work in factories. The work was also harmful to the environment. Factories used fossil fuels and caused pollution. Many of today’s environmental issues started during the Industrial Revolution.
In other ways, the Industrial Revolution brought positive change. The prices of many goods went down. Most people could find jobs easily. It was easier to make medical tools in factories than by hand. That helped the growth of medicine. In many ways, the Industrial Revolution improved people’s quality of life.
What would our world be like without the Industrial Revolution? What items might be more expensive or not available at all? Your clothes, your school supplies, and even your food were likely produced using machines. Look around you. Do you see anything that wasn’t made by a machine?
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What is a Primary Parcel?
A primary parcel is a basically a legally described portion of land.
100% of the country is covered with these parcels like a massive patchwork quilt. It might be an oversimplification but each parcel is defined by where it is (location and boundaries) and what is it for (intended purpose). Purposes include things like roading, rivers and crown land but the most common purpose relating to AddressFinder is Fee Simple.
Primary Parcels around Mt Taranaki; source: https://data.linz.govt.nz
What can I use the Primary Parcel ID for?
The ID by itself tells you nothing but when cross referenced with other datasets, made accessible by LINZ and local councils, it can prove very useful. Primary Parcel IDs can unlock information such as:
- Land area
- Property owners details
How do I collect this ID from AddressFinder?
If you are using the widget then all you need to do is include an extra line in the code which tells it to collect the primary_parcel_id at the same time as the selected address. Take a look at line 19 of this code example — https://codepen.io/addressfinder/pen/dyPpBBb
And if you are making use of the direct APIs then the data will already be included in the response so you will just need to pull it into your database.
Need help joining this ID with other datasets?
Setting up your system to collect this information is usually fairly straight forward but using these ID to pull other data through from related data sources can be difficult.
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Tunnel valley infill and genesis revealed by high-resolution 3-D seismic data
Landforms produced beneath former ice sheets offer insights into inaccessible subglacial processes and present analogues for how current ice masses may evolve in a warming climate. Large subglacial channels cut by meltwater erosion (tunnel valleys [TVs]) have the potential to provide valuable empirical constraints for numerical ice-sheet models concerning realistic melt rates, water routing, and the interplay between basal hydrology and ice dynamics. However, the information gleaned from these features has thus far been limited by an inability to adequately resolve their internal structures. We use high-resolution three-dimensional (HR3-D) seismic data (6.25 m bin size, ~4 m vertical resolution) to analyze the infill of buried TVs in the North Sea. The HR3-D seismic data represent a step-change in our ability to investigate the mechanisms and rates at which TVs are formed and filled. Over 40% of the TVs examined contain buried glacial landforms including eskers, crevasse-squeeze ridges, glacitectonic structures, and kettle holes. As most of these landforms had not previously been detected using conventional 3-D seismic reflection methods, the mechanisms that formed them are currently absent from models of TV genesis. The ability to observe such intricate internal structures opens the possibility of using TVs to reconstruct the hydrological regimes of former mid-latitude ice sheets as analogues for contemporary ones.
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Whether it is the discovery of the Higgs boson or the invention of the World Wide Web, CERN has left no stone unturned in its attempt to push the boundaries of human knowledge. To foster this spirit of scientific curiosity, CERN actively organises outreach and educational activities such as exhibitions, Open Days, Researchers’ Nights and S’Cool LAB workshops, to name but a few. Science Gateway is where many such existing opportunities will come together, along with a few new surprises.
“Science Gateway will take visitors on a unique and authentic journey into the Lab’s research and technology, drawing on CERN objects, CERN people and the proximity to CERN’s accelerators, detectors and facilities,” said Ana Godinho, head of Education, Communications and Outreach at CERN.
Nestling in the midst of a newly grown forest, the facility will strive to give visitors a whole experience beyond guided tours.
“If you compare it to today’s offer, Science Gateway will provide a richer experience to visitors, who may not experience a guided tour,” said François Briard, head of the Visitors and Local Engagement section. He added, “It will be accessible to the public easily, without having to register as a visitor.”
The project is making headway with its construction phase starting later this year and with its content development. The building will house exhibitions, education labs, an auditorium and public areas to cultivate ideas among scientists, artists and visitors. In addition to a variety of CERN’s internal events, Science Gateway’s auditorium will give a platform to public events such as conferences, workshops, science shows and artistic performances.
The Discover CERN, Our Universe and Quantum World exhibitions will recreate the CERN environments, share engaging stories and bring people close to CERN – sometimes quite literally. A working proton accelerator will be placed on the exhibition floor, becoming one of the major highlights at Science Gateway.
But what excites Emma Sanders, head of Exhibitions, the most is Science Gateway’s added potential to reach a new spectrum of the public, who may not already be science-inspired. In this way, the project hopes to inspire a diverse generation of future scientists.
Education labs at CERN are also contributing to the project by adding a twist to its hands-on activities. For instance, a DIY ping pong accelerator will use electrically charged ping pong balls in electric fields to help demonstrate the principles of linear particle accelerators at CERN. The synergy of ideas between physicists, artists and communication experts from all around the world has been crucial in bringing out the best of Science Gateway’s educational and outreach content. Close to 100 physicists and engineers have contributed ideas and advice through brainstorming sessions, workshops and discussions. The teams continue to be open to ideas for exciting activities for the project from all members of the CERN community.
“We want to enable interactions between learners of all ages and CERN’s scientific community, which is not just limited to particle physicists,” says Julia Woithe, Education Labs coordinator. “In particular, we want students to get to know authentic scientists also as ordinary people, and maybe as role models beyond Curie and Einstein, to convince them that science is for everyone.” | <urn:uuid:250e1b9e-2771-4182-a79b-dddf8ffbbded> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://home.cern/news/news/knowledge-sharing/peek-science-gateways-planned-content | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936822 | 689 | 2.1875 | 2 |
A plan to build a 90km underground rail loop connecting Melbourne’s western and eastern suburbs with the airport and all major train lines, has been unveiled by the Labor government of the state of Victoria.
The government said construction on the link would start in 2022.
Daniel Andrews, the prime minister of Victoria (pictured), announced the US$37bn scheme with a Facebook video. He said on the clip that the government has spent the past four years removing level crossings, building the metro tunnel and fixing roads, "now we’ll embark on the project we’ll need for tomorrow – the biggest public transformation in Victorian history".
The planned route of the Suburban Rail Loop (Government of Victoria)
The line, which is being described as the "Suburban Rail Loop" will run between Cheltenham and Werribee via Melbourne Airport, and will include 12 stations.
The scheme would provide a lateral connection between suburbs, avoiding the need to enter the city centre, and would link the city’s Monash, Deakin and La Trobe universities.
Some of the cost of the project will be met through capturing some of the uplift in property values brought by the rail link.
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PREMIER WELCOMED: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan participate at the welcoming ceremony in Abuja, Nigeria, on May 7 (LI XUEREN)
Referring to six areas of bilateral cooperation, he stressed, "Both China and Africa are at their respective crossroads of development in the new era. The six areas not only are of African countries' general concern of participating in economic globalization based on independence, but also reflect China's practical interests of accelerating its economic transformation."
He said that the core of the six key areas is cooperation in industry, while cooperation in the remaining five areas is meant to solve problems concerning financing, marketing, environmental protection, personnel and security.
Cooperation in the six areas is China's mid- and long-term strategic plan of boosting China-Africa cooperation.
Yang Lihua, a senior research fellow with the CASS, pointed out that the premier's speech showed the consistency of China's friendship with and its policy concerning Africa in the past 50 years. "During the last five decades, the China-Africa relationship has been bound by mutual respect and reciprocity. Our goal, approach and destination have been consistent in spite of changing circumstances," said Yang.
Based on the similar target of fighting imperialism to gain national independence, the Chinese and African peoples started to support each other in the mid-20th century.
On October 25, 1971, China resumed its legal status in the United Nations with support from the developing world, including many African countries. Late Chinese leader Mao Zedong emphasized, "It's our African brothers that have carried us into the UN."
The China-Africa relationship has entered a new phase since the beginning of the 21st century. In October 2000, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was launched. In 2006, China and Africa agreed to upgrade their relationship to a new type of strategic partnership featuring political equality and mutual trust, economic win-win cooperation and cultural exchanges.
Two wheels of cooperation
About 60 cooperation documents were signed during Premier Li's Africa tour, covering fields like economic, cultural, agricultural, health and personnel training cooperation. This great achievement is also closely linked to the six areas that he proposed.
Yang believed that the Chinese premier's proposal is very encouraging. According to the new 4-6-1 mode, China will expand the scope of industrial cooperation by including trade, investment and infrastructure construction, she said. "China is at a crucial stage of industrial restructuring and transformation of its economic growth pattern. This is a good way to closely match China's development with Africa's," said Yang.
Premier Li also laid out the blueprint for increasing China-Africa trade volume to $400 billion by 2020. Yang believed such a goal is relatively conservative. In 2013, China-Africa trade reached $210 billion, 2,000 times that of 1960. China has been Africa's biggest trading partner for the past five years; in addition, more than 2,500 Chinese companies are operating in Africa, creating over 100,000 jobs. According to a report by the International Monetary Fund, China-Africa cooperation has contributed to more than 20 percent of Africa's development. | <urn:uuid:903eed55-d959-430f-93ac-9bb39f809399> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.bjreview.com/print/txt/2014-05/12/content_618153_2.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958941 | 660 | 1.851563 | 2 |
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What could be better than diamond when it comes to a superhard material for electronics under extreme thermal and pressure conditions? Quite possibly BC5, a diamond-like material with an extremely high boron content that offers exceptional hardness and resistance to fracture, but unlike diamond, it is a superconductor rather than an insulator. A research team in China studying BC5 describes its potential in the Journal of Applied Physics, which is published by the American Institute of Physics.
"Our current study reveals a great possibility that BC5 may possess both superhard and superconducting properties that are beneficial to the creation of multifunctional devices under extreme conditions," says Professor Yanming Ma, who led the research team at Jilin University.
At the heart of their study is the proposal that the synthesized BC5 adopts the diamond- structure with special symmetry. Explains Ma, the BC5 structure has atomic packing of the form ABCABC . . . along the crystallographic direction of diamond. This makes the deep understanding of this superhard and superconducting species possible. Ma believes that the outstanding mechanical and electrical properties of BC5 can be adapted to design new superconducting nano-electromechanical systems and high-pressure devices.
Quan Li, the study's first author, expects their findings to stimulate further research into other B-C-N compounds with superhard and superconducting properties.
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As yachts slowly cruise into the blue crystal waters of Prince Rupert Bay, Dominica to an anchorage or mooring, the people on board can’t help but wonder what lies beneath the surface. What happens to the rugged mountainous slopes of the twin peaks of the Cabrits National Park below the calm waters of the bay?
Certified divers on charter yachts can just ask the captain to pick up the VHF and radio the local dive operator to set up a rendezvous double tank dive in these pristine waters.
But what if you have never tried diving before? The first option is a Discovery Dive, a half day experience program which allows you to try out diving without going through a full certification process.
A second possibility is waiting with a little advance planning if you already know that you want to “dive in” to diving, even if you are traveling from island to island.
PADI (the Professional Association of Dive Instructors), the world’s leading dive certification agency, offers two ways in which you can complete your open water certification in a short period of time—
either through the PADI elearning program (two days) or the PADI referral program (two morning dives).
With the PADI elearning program, you review all your theory on line at home before heading for your vacation; upon arrival you need to do your skills development and open water dives. With the PADI referral program, you would complete the theory and your skill development dives with a local PADI dive centre and then just do your four open water dives when you arrive at your destination.
Not staying more than one day at any location? No problem. With the PADI referral program, you can do two of your open water dives on one island and finish the course at the next! The cost of a Discovery Dive on Dominica is USD 95 for a one tank dive or USD 140 for two dives. The price of the open water course is from USD 275 – USD 350 depending on the certification option chosen.
Nervous about diving? No need. The reef of the Cabrits National Park gradually descends down from shallow moorings which makes diving in the North perfect for new divers while still allowing them to enjoy a delightful mixture of Caribbean marine life—including balloon fish, wrasse, cero, turtles, soldier fish, schooling chromis, spotted drums, angel fish, sand eels (as well as spotted, goldentail and sharptail eels), rays, turtles and spider crabs—and the incredible pristine reef for which Dominica is renown.
Recommended dive spots for the new diver include Douglas Bay Point, a fascinating group of dive sites mixing pristine sloping reef with large boulders to swim around, under and over; Toucari Caves, a fascinating dive with some of the best bio-diversity in the Caribbean and the high point of a beautiful coral archway to search out hidden crabs and lobsters; Sunshine Reef, like swimming through a sun-filled aquarium; and Pole to Pole, a favourite place to spot your first seahorse.
Note that all diving in Dominica must be through a Registered Dive Operator and yachts, dinghies and yacht tenders are not allowed to anchor in the park or use the dive site mooring buoys.
Once you have finished your leisurely dive, there is still plenty of daylight to go topside for lunch at one of the fabulous waterside restaurants. You can visit the Cabrits National Park, home to the historic, 18th Century Fort Shirley, or enjoy a slow afternoon row up the Indian River.
Prince Rupert Bay is a historic anchorage in the North of Dominica in the town of Portsmouth. Prince Rupert is protected on the North side by the Cabrits and to the East by Morne Diablotin and Morne Espagnol in the South.
This is a perfect natural harbour for yachts to anchor but recently the European Union have also funded 30 moorings for the area to help protect the sea bed. The choice of whether to drop anchor or moor is optional. The price of the mooring is USD 10 per night.
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Have you been wondering if the proposed Obama-Biden “plan to lower healthcare costs and ensure affordable, accessible, health coverage for all” would provide long-term skilled nursing home care for frail seniors? The short answer is…no!
The key features of the plan focus on providing access to healthcare to “over 45 million Americans—including over 8 million children” who lack health insurance. The Obama-Biden Plan has five main strategies:
- Invest in electronic health information technology system
- Improve access to prevention and proven disease management programs
- Ensure that health providers deliver quality care
- Lower drug and insurance costs
- Reduce insurance costs for catastrophic illness coverage
Here is the principal goal as highlighted on the Obama website: “Barack Obama and Joe Biden will guarantee affordable, accessible healthcare coverage for all Americans.” Despite the presence of the seemingly straightforward words “healthcare coverage” and “all” in the sentence above, it’s critical to understand the definition of those words. When it comes to healthcare and politics, even simple words may not have a common-sense meaning. “Healthcare coverage” means “payment for acute healthcare costs.” Acute care is the type of care given to recover from short-term diseases and accidents.
In the United States, public healthcare payers, such as Medicare and Tri-Care (for retired military) and the private healthcare insurers, reimburse healthcare providers only for acute care and acute illness rehabilitation. These payers specifically exclude long-term care in a skilled care nursing home. Care in a skilled care nursing home is defined as chronic care. Neither Medicare nor private health insurance pay for chronic care in assisted living facilities or nursing homes. Unfortunately, the bottom line for America’s frail seniors with a long-term illness is that the word “all” (as defined in the Obama-Biden Healthcare Plan) does not include them.
Sadly, this means that under our current healthcare program and the Obama proposals, the majority of America’s seniors have no alternative but to pay their own nursing home bills. If you have Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or another long-term illness—you are still on your own. Even if Obama-care is enacted, you will be required to pay your own tab for long-term healthcare until you are impoverished enough to qualify for Medicaid.
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This episode originally aired on May 13, 2011.
On January 8, 1835, all the big political names in Washington gathered to celebrate what President Andrew Jackson had just accomplished. A senator rose to make the big announcement: "Gentlemen ... the national debt ... is PAID." The huzzahs rose up around the halls of Congress, or something like that.
That was the one time in U.S. history when the country was debt free. We had actually paid it all off, which never happens. It lasted exactly one year. And we've been arguing about the debt ever since, issuing treasury bonds along the way. We're around $14 trillion now.
On today's Planet Money: A brief history of the national debt. Where the debt came from — at first, it seemed like a great idea, at least according to Alexander Hamilton — what happened the one time we paid it all off, and why Congress created the debt ceiling in the first place.
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I can't figure out how to get through this problem about UTF-8 conversion.
Francesco Mapelli last edited by Francesco Mapelli
I can’t figure out how to get through this problem about UTF-8 conversion.
Here’s the steps:
- Open a ANSI text file (.txt or .php)
- The text does not have any special or accented characters
- Convert text into UTF-8 without BOM
- close file
- re-open same file: it’s again ANSI
What should I do in order to write PHP encoded as UTF-8?
P.S.: If text does have special or accented characters, it correctly encodes into UTF-8.
Version of notepad++ is 7.2.2 32bit
Jim Dailey last edited by Jim Dailey
I don’t think you have a problem. I am fairly certain that if a file does not contain any special characters, then the ANSI and the UTF-8 without BOM versions are identical.
Under Settings->Preferences->New Document Encoding, select UTF-8 and also check the Apply to opened ANSI files box. Then when you open your “non-special” text file, NPP will tell you it is UTF-8. But, in reality, it is both UTF-8 and ANSI.
René W. last edited by
if you set the encoding to UTF-8 wihtout BOM, the file without any UTF-8 encoded chars will be physical the same like an ansi file. NPP will open the file in the default charset as there is nothing encoded in it.
Using UTF-8 with BOM will add 3 chars to the document that might apear in the page if you include files - maybe thats your reason to use without BOM.
i am adding following code in PHP:
<?php # UTF8 check: öäüßÖÄÜ にほんご
then save it as UTF-8 without BOM
NPP will identify the UTF-8 encoded japanese/german mix and recognise the document as UTF-8 without BOM.
please be aware that you need to mark the html-output as UTF-8 to avoid browsers to show rubbish.
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Large companies and homeowners alike enjoy the many benefits that only solar lighting can provide. Solar lights are ideal for areas that are off-the-grid, where energy is costly or if the company is looking to showcase their eco-friendly approach to energy. Installing solar lighting is considered one of the most cost effective projects to date as they do not require trenched grid power and the actual costs of installation are minimal. There are many ways to take advantage of solar lighting solutions. Some are as small or simple as a singular LED bulb or a solar lantern, while others are … Continue reading →
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MAKING A CABOCHON by John White
If you have ever looked in a jeweler’s window or looked at some of the cabochons displayed on eBay or Etzy you may have wondered how they were shaped and polished.
You may have thought it was difficult. It is not.
The machinery for making a cabochon need not be complicated, after all early man managed to shape stones with not much more than a flat stone and sand.
It must however have taken them a long time to produce a satisfactory result.
Today we have access to off the shelf combination machines which can be expensive, or with a modicum of practical ability a simple flat lap can be constructed powered by an ex washing machine motor.
Even without machinery it is possible to shape and polish stones using diamond pads, but it can take a long time to produce a satisfactory result.
FLAT LAP MACHINE
Having access to your chosen way of producing a cabochon your next step is to choose the stone you wish to cut.
It might be a found stone, a flint, an agate or a bought stone. Stones are not always flaw free and if there are cracks or cavities you may suddenly and unexpectedly find a piece falling off as you cut or polish.
Careful inspection will reveal any cracks or other imperfections which will need to be avoided.
I must also warn that some stones do not readily take a polish but you can usually only tell with experience.
Decide on the shape and size of the cabochon you want to make. Cut the stone so that you have a slice, or slab, that is slightly thicker than required for the finished stone.
If you intend to set the cabochon in an existing or bought mount the size will need to be accurately measured and marked on the stone using an aluminium pencil and a stencil.
If the slice is too large it will need to be reduced before finally grinding it down to the marked outline.
Much excess can often be cut off using a diamond saw, but on other occasions simply grinding away the surplus will be easier. Off cuts can sometimes be turned into ear rings.
Some material is both expensive and rare so small pieces can be worth saving.
TEMPLATE & SCRIBE
Do make sure that the face that is to become the dome is the most attractive before you start to cut. Patterns often do not travel through a stone and making the wrong choice can lead to disappointment. Having made your decision, and cut the stone to the desired shape the back should be ground flat and polished.
It is common practice to make a slight chamfer to the edge of the stone to aid setting.
The flat surface will aid adherence to the dop stick. A dop may be a piece of dowel or even a flat head nail if the size of the stone is small. The purpose of dopping is to ease the formation of the dome, whether a high dome or a low one.
I do not recommend holding the stone in your fingers as you are shaping it.
Laps and wheels can quickly cut fingernails.
Dopping is usually achieved by heating dopping wax and creating a base around the dop to which the stone is to be attached. An alternative method I use is Gorilla super glue. It is quicker and more reliable, but releasing the stone when finished can be difficult.
Assuming you are going to use wax, once the wax is on the dop and still pliable press it onto a cold flat metallic surface.
This will give maximum contact with the base of the stone. It is important to give the stone as much support as possible by making good wax shoulders.
Before dopping the stone needs to be gently heated to avoid cracking. This can be done on the top of the heater as it is turned on, but do check beforehand whether the stone is heat sensitive. If it is use super glue.
The stone must be fully supported by the dop wax shoulders.
With the stone attached let it cool slowly. When set the stone will take quite a lot of pressure, but be aware that stones can come unstuck and be damaged if they get too hot during the grinding process.
Ensure the stone is kept cool by having water dripping onto the grinding wheel or lap.
Take the stone away from the lap or wheel periodically to check progress, to cool, and to determine any corrective action required.
Remember if you grind too much off you cannot put it back!
ELECTRIC HEATER AND METHYLATED SPIRIT HEATER
WAX DOPPED STONES
There are several ways to shape a stone.
One is to use a flat lap with silicon carbide grit or, if affordable, a diamond sintered flat lap.
You should start by using a coarse grit on the plain flat lap.
You could also use a coarse grit grinding wheel, or a diamond sintered wheel.
Whilst quite expensive a diamond wheel will last a long time.
Shaping the dome is best done using a circular motion of the dop stick. You will need to check frequently that the stone is being cut to the required shape. As you near the desired shape you should change the lap or wheel to a finer grade.
You must make sure that the cabochon is free of any of the coarse grit to avoid contamination of the new lap or wheel.
As the dome is ground to shape keep a look out for flat spots. A preliminary light polish will highlight imperfections.
Once any imperfections have been removed final polishing can start.
It is very important that laps or wheels are not cross contaminated; otherwise subsequent stones may be cut or scratched and not polished properly.
Sometimes a stone will have varying densities within it and this can lead to undercutting.
You will have to decide whether to persist in trying to achieve a smooth finish or simply accept that no further improvement is possible.
Polishing can be done using a leather faced lap or a felt lap.
Where a felt or leather lap is to be used cerium oxide or tin oxide can be usually be used as polishing agents.
You will need to experiment to find which is best for particular stones.
Quite a lot of heat can be generated during polishing so care is needed to prevent the wax softening and the stone detaching, or sometimes cracking. Soft stones like opal crack very easily if they get too hot.
I normally have water dripping onto the lap to help keep the stone and wax cool.
Having polished the stone, remove it from the dop and you have finished.
It does however make good practice to keep your equipment clean after use.
Suggested Reading: Cabochon Cutting by Jack R. Frost
The Lapidary Manual by Herbert Scarfe
Videos: Several videos are available on YouTube.
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The book On Painting, written in 1435 by Leon Battista Alberti, established for the first time the rules for drawing an image of a three-dimensional scene on the two-dimensional plane of a panel or wall.
It had an immediate and profound effect upon Italian painting and relief work, giving rise to the correct, large, geometrically ordered space of the Renaissance perspectival style.
Alberti’s knowledge of optics was linked to the tradition handed down by the Kitab al-manazir (The Optics; De aspectibus) of the polyhedral Arab Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham, d. c. 1041), which was mediated by Franciscan optical laboratories of the perspectivae traditions of the 13th-century by scholars such as Roger Bacon, John Peckham and Witelo (similar influences can also be found in the third comment by Lorenzo Ghiberti, Commentario terzo).
In 1435, he begins his first important written work, “Della pittura” (On Painting), in which, inspired by the flourishing of pictorial art in Florence at the beginning of the 15th century, he analyzes the nature of painting and explores the elements of perspective, composition, and color.
He explains the theory of the accumulation of people, animals, and buildings, creating harmony between them, and “hold the eye of the educated and ignorant spectator for a long time with a certain sense of pleasure and emotion”.
In this work, painting is defined as a “projection of lines and colors onto a surface“, and insists that artists know poetry and rhetoric and more general to render their subjects appropriately.
In addition to his theoretical advice on how to paint and his explanation of perspective, this author also describes the criteria for evaluating a painting or other work of art.
Later perspective theorists, such as Piero della Francesca and Leonardo, elaborated on Alberti’s work, yet his principles remain as fundamental to the projective science of perspective as Euclid’s to plane geometry.
For Leon Battista mathematics was considered the common ground of art and the sciences.
“To make clear my exposition in writing this brief commentary on painting”.
He began his treatise: “I will take first from the mathematicians those things with which my subject is concerned”.
Giorgio Vasari, who believed that historical progress in art had been achieved with Michelangelo, underlined not so much the artistic talents as the conquest of Alberti: “He spent his time discovering the world and studying the proportions of antiquities; but above all, following his natural genius, he focused on writing rather than applied work”.
In fact, as a painter, or sculptor, he was an amateur. “In painting Alberti did not achieve anything of great importance or beauty”, wrote Vasari. His existing paintings are believed to be far from perfect as he devoted himself primarily to his studies rather than drawing.
In both Della pittura and De statua, Leon Battista stressed that “all steps of learning should be sought from nature”.
The ultimate aim of an artist is to imitate nature.
Painters and sculptors strive “through by different skills, for the same purpose, that is, that the work they have undertaken appears to the observer similar to the real objects of nature.”
De pictura aimed to describe systematically the figurative arts through “geometry“. Alberti divided the painting into three parts:
- Circumscriptio (Italian: disegno), consisting in outlining the bodies
- Compositio (commensuratio), including the tracing of the seam lines of the bodies
- Receptio luminum (color), taking into account colors and light.
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Eli Wiesel, one of the pillars of the Jewish world, who served as the “mouth” for millions of Holocaust victims and dedicated his life to commemorate the Holocaust in an attempt to prevent a second one, passed away.
As a talented writer, awarded countless laurels and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, his personal history is closely interwoven with the fate of the Jewish people. In 1944, when he was 15 years old, he was sent with his family to Auschwitz, where he lost his mother and one of his sisters. Later after the death march, his father died in Buchenwald. But Wiesel was lucky to witness the liberation of the camp by the Allied Forces.
Since then he invested all his energy to let the world know about the atrocities the Jews had undergone in those terrible years.
We met in New York for the first time when I was on a lecture tour in America. Against the backdrop of a global surge of anti-Semitism, I crossed the country from coast to coast to give a series of lectures and interviews. Then I was fortunate to get to know an exceptional personality. He was truly a noble man, an outstanding representative of his people. We quickly found a common language since we are both from families that survived the Holocaust.
Eli showed great knowledge in Jewish literature. Among other things he was familiar with the authentic wisdom of Kabbalah in which I engage. He was very worried about the growing anti-Semitic trend, and I shared my concern with him regarding the impending waves of anti-Semitism about which I have been writing all these years. He listened attentively.
During that conversation, I told him about the main message of the wisdom of Kabbalah, about the special role of the Jewish people in fulfilling the principle of unity, and that after we fulfill it between ourselves, we have to pass on the method of unity to all of humanity. Eli showed great interest in this view and we had a very fruitful conversation.
It is very hard to accept his death. Eli Wiesel was one of the giants of the Jewish spirit who championed the Jewish people, and the moral foundations and universal values of humanity.
We, the Jews living in the land of Israel, are indebted to this man. In the hour of farewell, we have to greatly honor his mission, which has been completed, but which has not ended. His mission has been passed on to us, and just like Eli Wiesel we are responsible for the future generations.
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Historic Sites of Manitoba: United Grain Growers Grain Elevator (Petrel Junction, Municipality of North Cypress-Langford)
A composite-style wooden grain elevator at the siding of Petrel Junction, on the CNR Rivers Subdivision in what is now the Municipality of North Cypress-Langford, was built in 1975 by United Grain Growers to replace older elevators at Fairview and Wellwood. On 19 April 1990, it was destroyed by fire caused by an overheated bearing at the top of the elevator.
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United Grain Growers Fonds, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Harold Tolton for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Eleanor Burch and Gordon Goldsborough.
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In the last edition of Everything Curriculum magazine, we provided stress management tips focused on the area of mindset. In this blog post, we will focus on talking and taking action.
It’s good to talk…
If you can, identify a group of people you can be honest and open with about your feelings. Partners, friends, or close colleagues will want to help, and mixing the group up means you can ask different people for different things.
If you’re feeling stressed or overwhelmed, speak to other people. Reach out and check in with each other, even if it is just a quick chat in the staffroom. When we hear peers reflect back on the same thoughts and feelings, it helps us to feel ‘it’s not just me’.
Build a sense of mutual support. And let people further up the chain at work know how you’re feeling too.
Find a confidant who you can trust to talk to, that won’t fuel your negative or stressed thoughts. It’s important to be able to share this in an open and constructive way and have someone to listen to you – even if they don’t offer any solutions or help.
Don’t bottle up anger and frustrations
Express and discuss your feelings. If it is impossible to talk it out, plan for some physical activity at the end of the working day to relieve tensions. Let go of grudges – they affect you and your state of mind more than the other person.
Remember to seek help and support when you need it
It’s ok to ask for professional help. If you feel that you’re struggling to manage on your own, then you can reach out. It’s important to know that you can get help as soon as possible, and that you deserve to get better.
The first person to approach is your family doctor. He or she should be able to give advice about treatment and may refer you to another local professional. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (this is a type of therapy that works by helping you to understand that your thoughts and actions can affect the way you feel) and mindfulness-based approaches are known to help reduce stress. There are also voluntary organisations which can help you to tackle the causes of stress and advise you about ways to get better. A side note to the gentlemen… You need to talk too; andysmanclub.co.uk is one of many meeting groups set up for men to talk.
Know your limits
It’s completely ok to say “No, thank you” when you’re feeling overwhelmed. Accepting extra tasks and volunteering for different projects can be exciting and refreshing, but it’s easy to become wrapped up in saying yes to every request. Take a step back and come to terms with the amount of time you truly have, then go from there, agreeing to only what you’d like to do. Burnout is common, so reducing teacher stress in the classroom by rationalising and understanding how valuable your time is could really help.
However, don’t forget about the importance of trying new and exciting experiences! This can help reduce stress, both inside and outside of work.
You can do anything, but not everything!
Saying yes all the time can leave you feeling tired, stressed, and overstretched which often causes you to become run down, leading you to be more susceptible to illness. Your immune system is your main defence system, and when you’re stressed, this negatively impacts how well you can fight off bacteria, germs, and viruses. This could, in turn, impact your prior commitments, possibly leading to you having to say no to much more important things. So, before getting anxious about having to say no to someone, remember the chain that saying yes to one more thing could cause.
Learn to say no
No is seen as such a negative word but it’s all about perception. Saying no can be seen as selfish, but often saying yes is actually the worse option. Saying yes and then not being able to give the best version of you, giving low-quality time or effort is much more upsetting than saying no.
Review your lifestyle
- Could you be taking on too much in or out of work?
- Are there things you are doing which could be handed over to someone else or could they help more at home?
- Can you do things in a more leisurely way?
To act on the answer to these questions, you may need to prioritise things you are trying to achieve and re-organise your life. This will help to release pressure that can come from trying to do everything at once.
Take time for self-care
Try to keep in touch with how you feel and what, if anything, is a particular issue for you. Try and find a distraction technique to get you through difficult times. It might be headphones on the way in, a podcast in the car, or just five minutes of peace at lunch or break to do a meditation track or fresh air.
Take a moment and think about all the feelings you had yesterday, from the time you got up in the morning, to the time you went to bed. What do you notice? Probably a roller-coaster of powerful, overwhelming feelings which can change dramatically in a second. You can be in the depths of despair one minute and then elated the next. Why is this? You were probably dealing with students all day who were experiencing wildly fluctuating emotions and trying to help everyone.
Teaching is about managing relationships in an intense, public arena all day. Some emotions will be overwhelming and difficult to manage. They will not be helpful for teaching and learning.
What are the triggers for the unhelpful feelings?
What were the triggers for those feelings which impeded teaching and learning? Some of the common causes are:
- We try to be perfect. Teachers tell their students that mistakes are good, we learn from them. And yet, many teachers strive for perfection in their own work and their own life. They get frustrated when a lesson plan doesn’t work perfectly and when pupils don’t understand enough. It is good for us to have high standards, but we must remember that the pursuit of perfection is dangerous. It does not model what we know about learning, that learning takes place when we make mistakes.
- We always want to try harder. Teachers are often very hard workers, always trying to do things better. If students don’t understand, you will spend longer planning lessons. If you can’t finish your to-do list, you stay up longer to get through it. Sometimes we spend a lot of time trying harder in the wrong direction. We find things which blatantly don’t work, such as staying up late into the night to plan a lesson, which we are then too tired to teach properly, and then we do more of what does not work.
- We always want to stay strong. Teachers hate to let people down, which often means you go to work when you’re sick, don’t admit you’re struggling with a class and push personal and family problems to the back of your mind. Again, this can be useful, you need to be reliable. However, when you insist on always being strong, you ignore your needs, and the pressures build up. That is why so many teachers get sick in the holidays. You need to know when to stop.
Take your time
Frenzied activities lead to errors, regrets, and stress. Create time to orient yourself to situations. If you feel rushed at work, kindly ask colleagues to wait until you have finished what you’re doing before starting another task. Plan ahead to arrive at appointments early, giving yourself enough time for unexpected hold-ups. Practice approaching situations ‘mindfully’.
This does sound obvious, however, eating healthily can reduce the risks of diet-related diseases. There is a growing amount of evidence showing how food affects our mood and how eating healthily can improve this.
You can protect your feelings of wellbeing by ensuring that your diet provides adequate amounts of brain nutrients such as essential vitamins and minerals, as well as water.
Be aware of smoking and drinking alcohol
Try to reduce the amount you smoke or drink alcohol. It’s so easy to get home from a long stressful day and reach into the fridge… “just for one glass of wine” … even though it may seem to reduce tension initially, this is misleading as it often makes problems worse.
Set aside time each day for time for you and exercise
Gentle repetitive exercises, such as walking, or cycling are good to relieve stress. Meditation, yoga, Pilates, and dance are also excellent. The trick is to find what suits you best. Hobbies that focus attention are also good stress relievers. Take up a new activity unrelated to your job; one that gives you a sense of achievement and satisfaction. Establish new friends in your newly found interest.
Take time out
- Take time to relax for yourself. Do things that give you respite from your stressful situations and help you recentre.
- Strike the balance between responsibility to others and responsibility to yourself, this can really reduce stress levels
- Tell yourself that it is okay to prioritise self care. Are you needing time out but saying ‘I just can’t take the time off’, if so, read more about how taking a break is important for good mental health.
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Local physical therapist: Neck, back problems arise from working at home
We’re all concerned with protecting ourselves from the coronavirus … but the irony is, we could be doing terrible damage to our health because of the way we’re social distancing.
Dr. Aysha Morgan, a physical therapist at Pacific Medical Center in Bothell, has been seeing a large uptick in back, neck, and shoulder issues over the last several months. The common thread? Nearly all of the patients work from home.
Morgan said there are two main problems people make when they work from home. One is not using the right kind of furniture to support their bodies, in the way that swivel chairs and desks at the office are designed to do. Without armrests or back cushioning, people sit hunched over in their DIY home office for eight or more hours a day, putting stress on their arms, shoulders, necks, and backs.
“They don’t have a chair that supports their lower back, their screen is not necessarily at the correct height, and they don’t think about it … you start to get a strain on your neck, your shoulders start to hurt,” Morgan said.
Even worse, she sees a lot of people who work not at a table or desk, but on the sofa or a bed. They make the mistake of thinking that because working while propped up against pillows and cushions is comfortable, it’s good for their bodies. But Morgan says this is similar to eating chocolate — pleasurable in the moment, but bad in the long run.
“It does feel good when you’re in there, but you are literally not actively contracting any of your postural fibers, so that in itself is leading to deconditioning, believe it or not,” she said. “You are actually getting unfit.”
Sitting in a chair, your torso’s muscles still have to work to keep you upright, she said. But lying in a bed, you don’t have any of that. When people who lie in bed due to illness, their muscles start to atrophy. In fact, according to one study Morgan read, people lose 2% of their overall fitness level each day that they spend lying in bed.
The other main problem is a lack of regular movement. People are not getting up for the kind of breaks that would happen naturally at the office — going over to a colleague’s desk, running out to the car to get something, or taking a quick walk around the block.
“People used to have to walk to the bus stop to go to work, walk around the office, go get some lunch,” Morgan said. But now, according to a study out of the U.K., “that energy expenditure is literally cut in half.”
People are also reporting to Morgan that with no clocking in and clocking out, they are working longer hours at home, putting their former commute time toward simply working more. Her solution is to instead use that commute time for exercise.
“Walk out your door and make a left. I want you to commute for 15 minutes, and then I want you to turn around and commute that 15 minutes back to your desk, and then you start working … You use that time that you had to sit in the car or be on the bus or whatever it was to get to your workplace, and you use it for physical activity,” she instructed.
The combination of working in the wrong position, and staying that way for eight, nine, or ten hours with no movement can create long-term problems for our bodies.
“It’s just too much strain on those postural muscles,” Morgan said. “Those fibers will weaken and will give you chronic tension headaches … even if you’re a fit person, our muscles weren’t meant to hold our bodies in a freeze frame for eight hours.”
Morgan recommends people frequently alter the way that they are sitting, and take breaks to move around for a few minutes. This change in position brings a change in the pressure, strain, and tension on your tissues. For example, standing at a counter for a little while while working can be a great way to get your muscles activated, she said.
“Right now the best position is the next position, so you should set a timer and change positions every 60 minutes,” she said.
She suggests that on break, people lean backwards over their counter as a way to counter-act the hunching over.
And if they can afford it, she wants people to invest in office furniture that will be supportive of the right areas.
“Make sure that your elbows and forearms are supported so that they’re not hanging at the side as you are typing, and forcing your upper back and your neck to constantly contract to hold them there,” she advised. “You don’t realize what the arms of your chair do to support you and why it’s important for them to be at a specific height — they keep the weight off of your shoulder girdle to allow your hands to type.”
“We lost last summer, because people didn’t want to go outdoors, they didn’t even want to walk past somebody,” she said.
She emphasized, however, that regular exercise is vital for not only keeping fit, but also helping with sleep, improving mental health during the stressful pandemic months, and boosting the immune system — a huge benefit when facing a dangerous virus. Exercise that is done in the open air can be done safely, she said.
“We realize now it’s really important to go outside and take a walk and keep your 6-feet distance and when you see a crowd, go around them,” she said.
Morgan suggested people who have been exercising less than pre-COVID ask themselves, “How does my body feel after this one year of staying inside? Do I feel more lethargic? Is it hard for me to get the momentum to get out and do the things that I used to?”
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Earlier today, the European Commission posted a statement of objections directed at a handful of video game publishers for their practices of geo-blocking games on digital distribution platforms. Among those named, Valve is the most high profile, though Bandai Namco, Capcom, Focus Home, Koch Media, and ZeniMax were also included. The statement comes after a lengthy investigation that began in 2013, with the Commission believing that each company has engaged in some version of antitrust violations by restricting the sale of certain games in the European Union.
The process of geo-blocking is exactly how it sounds: geographical blocking of products from another region than the buyer lives in. The end goal is to prevent people from wealthier countries from buying titles at reduced rates by shopping in different regions. This very practice can be found on a number of digital marketplaces where the cost of CDs/Blu-rays/video games can be lower based on local income.
The reason this is now coming up is because of new rules implemented by the EU in December 2018. The European Commission has a goal of ending unjust geo-blocking and wishes to establish a market similar to that of the United States where one price is maintained across the nation. Since these companies are doing business that runs counter to that, the European Commission is demanding the practice be stopped or a formal fine may be issued.
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Free Team Building Exercise Guide
TACT & DIPLOMACY
Our free team building exercise guide is available as an eBook, entitled Team Building At Work. Leaders must teach and coach their team members on a variety of professional topics. In this chapter we'll discuss the benefits of using tact and diplomacy in the workplace.
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Some people seem to be able to successfully navigate their way through the most difficult kinds of discussions imaginable. These folks understand that it's truly not what you say, but how you go about saying it, that gets that person to agree with what want.
They are especially skilled at finding ways to negotiate win-win
solutions that quickly diffuse a potentially difficult conversation.
Leaders who can listen closely will key in on the root cause of
frustration and quickly take ownership of how they can eliminate the
"spur" that is stuck in the person's proverbial saddle.
Leaders who use tact and diplomacy in their communications earn trust and credibility by their team, co-workers and supervisors. They become known as well polished and thoughtful leader.
"Leaders who are tactful and use diplomacy effectively are almost always very strong listeners."
Using tact and diplomacy means taking into consideration a persons feelings when communicating bad news.
For example, assume you have a team member who just finished making a presentation to an important customer. In your mind it was clear the presentation was not well prepared. As soon as the meeting is over your team member asks you how you think it went? The leader can respond a couple different ways:
- Without Tact: "I think it was clear that you did not prepare well for the meeting and I am disappointed in your presentation.
- With Tact: "I know you want to do a great job, and I think the presentation went well in several areas. There are a couple things that I would like to work with you on to fine-tune the presentation. However, before I give you specifics, how do you think you did, and in hindsight, what if anything would you have done differently?
While it's true that using tact can take a bit more time, the outcome pays much greater dividends than simply being harsh and running the risk of your people feeling demoralized. Use the following free team building exercises to teach people the art of using tact and diplomacy.
Try These Free Team Building Exercises
Power of Suggestion
Purpose: Using this free team building exercise, teach your team about the power
of suggestion and the importance of thoughtfully choosing the words they use.
Their words carry great influence on co-workers and their customers
so it is important they understand their responsibility of using
words that are tactful and diplomatic.
Explanation: Leaders can often underestimate the impact (both positive and negative) that their words can have on a group or an individual.
Share with your team the following excerpt that was originally
published in 1911 by Dr. Orison Swett Marden. This excerpt illustrates
the fact that our words can have significant influence on those we lead,
or those whom we come in contact with.
The Power of Suggestion
We little realize how much suggestion has to do with health. In
innumerable instances people have been made seriously ill, sometimes
fatally so, by others telling them how badly they looked, or suggesting
that they exhibit symptoms associated with a dreaded disease.
A prominent New York businessman recently told me of an experiment that the friends of a robust young man made upon him.
It was arranged that beginning in the morning, each one should tell
him when he came to work, that he was not looking well. They did this
subtly, in a way that would not make the man suspicious.
At one o'clock this vigorous young man had been so influenced by the
suggestion, he quit work and went home ill - thoroughly convinced he
must be sick.
To be sure, we are under the influence of suggestion every moment of
our waking lives. Everything we see, hear, feel, is a suggestion, which
produces a result corresponding to its own nature. Its subtle power
seems to reach and affect the very springs of life.
It is almost impossible for a patient to get well while people are constantly reminding him how ill he looks.
What people need is encouragement, uplift and hope!
Instead of telling a friend in trouble that you feel sorry for him,
try to pull him and help to restore his energy and reserves. Help the
friend picture his ideal image, his better self.
The suggestion that comes from an enthusiastic and optimistic person
can move mountains. Many a life has been stirred and inspired by only a
few moments of positive conversation.
Many men and women have made their place in history, largely because
their ambition was aroused by suggestion: some book or some individual
who gave them the first glimpse of their possibility and potential, and
enabled them to feel for the first time a thrill of the power within
As leaders, we can identify people throughout our careers that have helped us along our journey.
As this free team building exercise suggests, we need to take the
extra step each day to provide team members with words of encouragement
and support. If you have an employee who is still not quite producing to
the level you expect, recognize that employee for the effort they are
putting forth and for any incremental improvement, before pointing out any shortfall.
A balanced message and encouraging words can provide powerful motivation. Because your employees look to you for leadership. Understand that
your words have the potential to either inspire the heart or dash the
dreams of those who seek your approval.
Use the preceding excerpt to lead a discussion with your team about
how each team member is responsible for lifting the team up via their
choice of words in the workplace. This free team building exercise can
be of tremendous benefit for improving workplace moral.
Lead your team in creating a list of words that are not acceptable in your workplace. Words such as "can't" and "won't".
The final step in this free team building exercise is to have team members hold
one another accountable for spending each day approaching new tasks with
optimism versus doubt or fear.
"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere."
- Lee Iacocca
Are You Determined?
Purpose: To teach your team about how simply re-phrasing a question can gain an
entirely different response or reaction. Tact and diplomacy depends upon
your ability to choose quality questions.
Explanation: In business, the word commitment is often overused and has become somewhat of a cliche'.
In your next team meeting, instead of asking for every team member's commitment, ask "What are you determined to accomplish?"
Simply by re-phrasing an over-used question you can shake things up and arouse your team's curiosity.
Now that you have their attention, take your team through the following steps:
- Identify one key activity or end-result that each person is determined to accomplish. Be specific.
- Ask why this activity is important. What is the ultimate purpose?
- Ask if they are certain the task is achievable. Make sure the goal
is realistic. If their stated goal is too broad, help to break it down
into smaller tasks that can be effectively tracked and managed.
- Get clear on how their success will be measured. How will each team member know if their determination has paid off?
- Ensure that a time for completion is stated clearly. By end of week, end of month, etc.
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
- Mark Twain
Does the above process sound familiar? Hopefully it does - you have just walked your team through setting SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time Sensitive) goals.
The key point here is that you did this in a new and creative way that got your team thinking differently.
Instead of mindlessly stating their 'tried and true' weekly
commitment - they went a little deeper and considered more thoroughly
their plan for accomplishment.
Go ahead and pat yourself on the back. By adopting our free team building exercises, you're sharing valuable tools and leadership lessons with your team members.
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One of the most preferred as well as fascinating types of trivia is movie trivia. The fantastic thing about film is that every person has their very own sort of movies that they delight in. The background of film is a brief as well as condensed one, making it feasible for a motion picture aficionado to discover a good deal as well as come to be a near specialist on every one of the appropriate info about flicks from over the last century.
Any movie test will certainly begin at the beginning: with Louis Lumiere. It is essential to keep in mind that tools and also movies of a kind had actually been made prior to this, yet his was the first experiment that would certainly lead straight to the development of motion pictures as we understand them. The creation of Lumiere that would enable the movie industry to establish the way it has was the mobile motion picture camera. This was in 1895.
A motion picture quiz will reveal that every one of these original films were recorded in black and white. Nevertheless, the introduction of shade in the motion picture industry may have come a lot earlier than many individuals understand. The very first function length movie that was shot in color was made in 1914, the movie was called “The World, The Flesh, as well as the Evil one”. In spite of this, many pictures would continue to be fired in black and white over the following decades. The Technicolor development later would lead to more movies being shot in shade.
The next item of movie facts in the background of movie was the development of noise into the quiet pictures. While stars like Charlie Chaplain and Buster Keaton controlled the very early age of movie, the chatting image age would require new celebrities. The initial talking film was basically the Al Jolson photo, The Jazz Singer.
As soon as integrated audio as well as color were firmly in position, the motion picture industry as well as movies as a whole did not undergo lots of considerable modifications over the following several decades. The primary developments involved boosting movie supply and also electronic cameras, and far better unique effects.
The following major modification to the ways that motion pictures were made came with completion of the twentieth century when bigger and also bigger parts of movies began to be fired in electronic formats as opposed to on real movie. Since then, more and more movie companies have shot and also revealed entire films in the electronic layout, and numerous feel that this is where the future of the market is headed.
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A biographer’s job is to offer a person’s life in the most engaging means possible. To create an effective biography, students require to know what to consist of and how to arrange it. This overview will help trainees to make the procedure simpler. In this write-up, you’ll discover how to create a biography. There are also suggestions on just how to structure your bio, including just how to provide the bottom lines and also styles of the story.
When creating a bio, be sure to include background information such as the subject’s childhood and also family members. The writer’s tradition should be explored. Incorporating discussion as well as quotes can include color to the biography. Study your source product very carefully. You can find covert treasures that will certainly enrich your story. As you check out as well as evaluate resources, ask on your own inquiries that will certainly sustain your research as well as offer your biography an instructions. On top of that, attempt to check out motifs.
A bio needs to be objective. It should hold true, yet it might comprise truths as well as miss some important information. A good biographer ought to have the ability to clarify the topic’s life without making the visitor really feel uneasy. However, a good biographer needs to be able to portray the topic’s character without being subjective. Therefore, he or she may comprise events or miss important information. A biography is created from the writer’s perspective, class, gender, and also time. It is additionally composed from a subject’s viewpoint, and also the writer will certainly be influenced by this viewpoint.
A good bio needs to consist of personal details, such as childhood and family members information, and also legacy information. A biographer must include discussion and quotes, and also this ought to help them understand the subject much better. When investigating, students will certainly use print and on the internet sources. Some pupils will certainly use meetings with people who understood the subject directly. The majority of their research will certainly be done online, so make sure to assist them in the safety and security of the internet as well as examining the resource’s credibility.
While biographers intend to tell the truth, occasionally they miss out on some realities or compose the whole story. A biographer should be objective and also write in the first individual, however she or he ought to not be biased. The writer should be a reliable resource of details. They need to likewise be objective, however it is necessary to be objective. The very best biographer ought to have a strong understanding of the topic. When he or she knows the subject well, she or he will certainly have a clearer image of what the topic is about.
When writing a bio, pupils will certainly investigate utilizing print and also on-line sources. They will likewise speak with people who recognized the topic. In a biographer’s initial draft, they should include notes on their notes. After drafting their first draft, they will modify their writing. Once they’ve finished, educators should note the initial draft and also review how to improve it. It is very important to provide adequate room for pupils to ask questions as well as make notes.
When creating a biography, students must consist of the information of the subject’s life. For example, a biographer can define a person’s youth, his or her household, as well as his or her heritage. They ought to likewise consist of quotes as well as dialogue from individuals who knew the subject. Throughout the study procedure, the trainee ought to try to find a surprise treasure. By doing so, she or he can include a personal touch to the bio.
When creating a bio, students should consist of information from the topic’s childhood, household, as well as heritage. Throughout the research process, they should make notes and also take notes regarding the subject’s life. Throughout the composing procedure, they should also include information on the topic’s life. In addition, it is vital to include dialogues and quotes from sources that give insight into the person’s life. If you’re creating a bio, you ought to make use of all the resources available to you.
Styles are common to all biographies. The writer needs to recreate the subject’s globe as well as feature in it. The biographer ought to respond to all concerns regarding the subject’s life as well as the way she or he dealt with difficulty. In other words, he or she should supply a clear account of the person’s life. So, he or she should answer inquiries regarding the subject’s success as well as exactly how they impacted their culture.
As a rule, autobiographies are created by the person that wrote them. They are usually self-written and also cover their whole life. Saint Augustine, as an example, composed a memoir regarding his life around 400 ADVERTISEMENT. Many people are extra curious about autobiographies than they are in basic. In fact, some people write memoirs just for enjoyable. This is an excellent way to learn more about a person without reading their history.
In addition to the timeless form of biography, memoirs can likewise be created by teams of individuals. Saint Augustine composed a memoir in 400 AD. In contrast, a literary memoir focuses on the topic’s life. In this instance, the writer tries to recreate the topic’s setting, explain his/her function in it, and respond to concerns connected to the person’s life. It’s important to recognize the writer’s duty in a person’s life.
A biography is a publication of a real person’s life. It can be covered somebody living today, an individual that lived centuries ago, or a distinct group of people. A biography will consist of the facts of an individual’s life from birth to death. It usually stresses vital moments in the topic’s life. The writer commonly explains a kid’s birth as well as the coming-of-age occasions in the subject’s life. Additional info
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This video shows an easy, in-home training program that will strengthen your core, develop your flexibility, and develop the movement awareness that you need to properly move your torso in your skiing.
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*Where are the muscles that connect and support your torso on top of your legs
*How those muscles allow us to counterbalance and counteract
*How to strengthen those muscles and improve your flexibility and your movement awareness
Movement awareness, strength, and flexibility in your mid-body result in...
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*Have an indoor workout area that includes a full-size mirror, a slantboard, and resistance cords or bands
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Definition of Crosses:
very angry; in a bad mood
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Mobile UI design trends for the year 2020 will involve a greater emphasis on interactive elements and data visualization. This means a greater focus on data visualization and the use of interactivity on mobile devices. One such pattern is CRM templates.
The average consumer is expected to use their mobile device more often than any other form of technology. The next trend of which you should be aware of is the ability to look up and analyze multiple company information in real-time. This is a key point of study for future companies, especially those who have a large amount of data.
There are many instances of new and different forms of media appearing on mobile devices. These mobile applications and games are designed in a way that they work well with many screen sizes. Many times it can be hard to tell when the website is web-based or mobile.
With current trends of the web becoming a more popular choice, the website or application can now be developed in many new languages, such as Java and HTML. Most mobile UI design patterns can also be built using a combination of HTML and Java. For the industry to be successful, any new business must understand the importance of mobile UI design patterns and use them to improve their website’s usability and functionality.
With the launch of the iPhone applications, there are a variety of mobile device choices available today. Some of these devices are very high tech and have greater capabilities than other devices. It is important to note the different characteristics of each device so that the website or application can be optimized for each device’s needs.
For example, many smartphone devices have large displays that make them perfect for viewing and browsing websites but do not have the kind of memory needed to keep the data on the device. There are some models that may be too expensive or too complex to manage, so mobile users will often opt for the lower end, more affordable devices. Some mobiles even have expandable memory for expanding the device’s storage capacity.
A full-screen slide show is one of the main tools used in mobile UI design trends for the year 2020. This will most likely become a part of the web design trend. This allows the user to watch as the slide goes up, providing both a visual experience and a sense of immersion.
When a user finds themselves watching a video, they are more likely to click through to a webpage that was designed to enhance the mobile apps. This type of site will probably be web-based. The use of animated controls and skeuomorphism makes the mobile UI design trends of the future possible.
Another change in mobile UI design trends will be the use of software that is built on the top of the web platform. For example, many websites and applications will be designed to work on Android and iOS platforms. This will allow websites to reach customers on many different platforms without the need to update or change the code.
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